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Kathy's Blog Fall Newsletter
Kathy's Blog Fall Newsletter
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| Tuesday, 16 September 2008 | |
 Happy Fall everyone!What an amazing and magical time of year! There is such a flurry of activity in all aspects of our lives as we prepare to change with the seasons. It’s a time to change or be changed, a time where our efforts of sowing and nurturing have come to a head that we can now harvest and store for the long winter of renewal. It’s a season of releasing, of letting go of the familiar in order to make room in our lives for change. The dark winter season allows us time to rest and to get in touch with our inner wisdom…to tap into the teachings of the universe so we are fully prepared to emerge with full vitality and inspiration in the spring! Autumnal EquinoxThis year the Fall Equinox is September 22nd, and is traditionally celebrated as the final harvest of the season. This holiday was pivotal in ancient times, since a good final harvest was crucial to surviving the winter months ahead. This is the time of year where we truly reap what we have sown and we prepare for the long winter that lays before us. The day and night are again equal in time, reminding us to seek balance in our lives.If you would like to join in celebrating the harvest time on the equinox, simply plan your  own private ritual, or have a harvest party! Here are some idea starters: Select the best of each vegetable, herb, fruit, nut, and other food you have harvested or purchased and give it back to Mother Earth with prayers of thanksgiving. Hang dried ears of corn around your home in appreciation of the harvest season. Do meditations or offer spoken gratitude as you store away food for the Winter. Do a thanksgiving circle, offering thanks as you face each direction -- for home, finances, and physical health (North); for gifts of knowledge (East); for accomplishments in career and hobbies (South); for relationships (West); and for spiritual insights and messages (Center).Feeling and expressing gratitude is the best way to bring a steady flow of abundance into your life - it's the law of attraction at work! Speaking of IntentionThere are many inspiring projects utilizing the power of intention and coherence happening right now! These communities are coming together to bring the possibilities of vital change to the earth and all of her inhabitants. The power of this unity is simply awesome, and it all starts with each one of us choosing to create a new and better life for ourselves and for all others. Here are my favorites: International Day of Peace, September 21The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly. The first Peace Day was celebrated in September 1982. In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace. By creating the International Day of Peace, the UN devoted itself to worldwide peace and encouraged all of mankind to work in cooperation for this goal. During the discussion of the U.N. Resolution that established the International Day of Peace, it was suggested that: "Peace Day should be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples...This day will serve as a reminder to all peoples that our organization, with all its limitations, is a living instrument in the service of peace and should serve all of us here within the organization as a constantly pealing bell reminding us that our permanent commitment, above all interests or differences of any kind, is to peace." Since its inception, Peace Day has marked our personal and planetary progress toward peace. It has grown to include millions of people in all parts of the world, and each year events are organized to commemorate and celebrate this day. Events range in scale from private gatherings to public concerts and forums where hundreds of thousands of people participate. Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Or it can involve getting your co-workers, organization, community or government engaged in a large event. The impact if millions of people in all parts of the world, coming together for one day of peace, is immense. International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire - personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind. The Global Coherence Project  The Global Coherence Project is a science-based initiative uniting millions of people in heart-focused care and intention, to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace. This project has been launched by the Institute of HeartMath®, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), a recognized global leader in researching emotional physiology, heart-brain interactions and the physiology of optimal health and performance. The Global Coherence Project is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change. Together we will: * Increase personal coherence for the benefit of ourselves and the planet * Help shift the planetary consciousness baseline from self-centeredness to wholeness care * Increase connection and social harmony * Empower our ability to navigate through global changes with less stress and more ease * Empower environmental responsibility and stewardship of the planet The Global Coherence Project will include an important scientific measurement component. Advanced sensing technology, now being developed at the Institute of HeartMath, will allow us to observe changes in the earth's magnetic field and test the hypothesis that the earth's field is affected by mass human emotion, positive or negative. The Global Coherence Monitoring System (GCMS) will consist of approximately 100 sensors strategically located around the world. This system will enable a new level of scientific inquiry into the relationship between the earth's magnetic field, collective human emotions and behaviors, and planetary changes. The GCMS will allow us to test the hypotheses that: * Strong collective human emotions are reflected in the earth's field. * Groups of people in heart coherence can affect the earth's field. * Changes in the earth's field predict earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and similar planetary scale events, in order to give people advance warning. Our long-term goal is to correlate the following: coherence-level data collected from the GCP community with changes in the earth's magnetic field, along with changes in various social, environmental and health outcomes. "The Global Coherence Project is perhaps the greatest experiment in the history of the world."
-Jack Canfield, Co-Creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® Series
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Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
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