Remembering and Honoring the People of Norway

Last Saturday evening I was on my way home from a day of healing and decided to stop at an attractive space in nature. It was cooling off here in the desert; and I had something to reflect on in the beauty of nature. I happened to spot a beautiful grove of palm trees in front of a synagogue on Glendale Ave.; it was the front garden of the Beth El Congregation of Phoenix. Later, I walked to the back of the synagogue and found a powerful monument there -- a hand of God reminding us not to forget those who died in the Holocaust. I felt moved, got my dilemma solved, and went home feeling like I'd been touched by the hand of God.

The next morning, Sunday, before heading to Quaker Meeting, the people of Norway came to mind in a powerful, moving way. I do not have a TV and have chosen not to watch or read much of anything around the tragedy that happened in Oslo on Friday. However, the people of Norway -- and in particular the families of all those young people who were killed -- have been powerfully on my mind from time to time. And I've been reflecting how those young people on some level must have agreed (on the Hi Self level) to have their lives sacrificed for the sake of the Whole, at this time when the world is in Great Transition/Transformation to raise our consciousness.

And the song I've chosen to sing for the people and families of Norway is the following new Soul Song that Master Zhi Gang Sha has introduced to us -- tweaked slightly for the people of Norway:

Divine Treasures,

Tao Treasures,

Heal me,

Rejuvenate me.

Heal my loved ones;

Rejuvenate my loved ones.

Heal humanity;

Rejuvenate humanity.

Heal Mother Earth;

Rejuvenate Mother Earth.

Heal all souls in Norway.

Rejuvenate all souls in Norway.

Bring love peace and harmony;

Bring love peace & harmony.

Bring love peace & harmony;

Bring Love Peace & Harmony!

To all the people of Norway, our thoughts and prayers are with you! May we all be able to hold Love Peace & Harmony in our hearts, no matter what's happening on this fragile planet during these days, Dancing heart~~~~

Access Consciousness and running The Bars could categorically shift your life

I've just written my 2nd article on Access Consciousness and invite you to read the two articles at my Examiner.com site: http://tinyurl.com/msv6aw.

If any of you are interested in having your Bars run, please know that I'd be delighted to do this for you -- in person or virtually! Contact me via email or phone (see my website contact info at: http://www.changewithcourage.com/contact.htm

Blessings of Peace and Abundance, Dancing Heart~~~~~

You're Invited to Check Out My New E-book!

I wanted to let you know that the book I published last year about this time is now out as an e-book, at Kindle and Nook. I'd be delighted if you'd purchase a copy of The Most Important Day of Your Life? It would be even better if you could write a review on it!

Below is a bit of a description about this book:

In Buddhist thought, the day you die is considered the most important day of your life. The moment of your death is the culmination of your entire life; and you want to be at the highest vibration possible in that moment so that you can move on to the highest vibration possible on the other side.

Crazy Horse, a holy man of the Lakota people, became well known for the phrase “Today is a good day to die.” His words epitomized the Native American philosophy that understands that our lives are cyclical. Life on Mother Earth is a circle just as the stars; the moon and the sun are circles. We are born, we live, and we die. Crazy Horse and the holy men and women of the many tribes of what is now North and South America were truly great prophets who helped point the way to the truth.

The Most Important Day of Your Life: Are You Ready? will help you go deeper spiritually and develop a relationship with "the end of life" in your own way. You will read about some of the ways Maria Dancing Heart was expanded spiritually through her journey with hospice. You will learn some best kept secrets of hospice. You will learn how expansive your life is and how lovingly, creatively, graciously, and even magically you might live it. And who knows? You just might decide – as the Celtic way suggests – to die before you die, so that when you finally let go of your earthly life, you’ll know that there's no such thing as death (the end)! There is no end to life, only transformation.

Here is an outline of the book with chapter titles:

Chapter 1. Life and Death Go Hand in Hand – Bringing Death Back to Life

Chapter 2. Hospice Work – Like Having a Gradual Near Death Experience

Chapter 3. The Simple Power of Being a Loving Witness

Chapter 4. Maintaining Attentive Ears with an Open Heart

Chapter 5. There Is So Much More than Meets the Eye

Chapter 6. Developing Flexibility

Chapter 7. Growing Our Intuition

Chapter 8. Holding a Grateful Heart and a Non-judgmental Attitude

Chapter 9. Being Open to the Mystery and Unpredictability of Life

Chapter 10. We Are All Profoundly Inter-connected: Tuning into the Synchronicity of Life

Chapter 11: Healing Tools for Self-care and Relaxation

Conclusion: A Vision of Peace

Suggestions for Death Care Reform in America

20 Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Ask a Hospice Counselor © May, 2010

Some of the benefits you’ll experience by reading The Most Important Day in Your Life: Are You Ready?

1. Bring more joy into your life.
2. Allow you to live more fully in the present (moment).
3. Assist you to go deeper spiritually.
4. Help you become a better partner and friend.
5. Move you to delve into the mystery and magic of life.
6. Help you to become a better caregiver.
7. Challenge you to know "who you really are!"
8. Allow you to move through life transitions with more grace and ease.
9. Help you to help your parents and elders face the aging process.
10. Show you some of the best kept secret treasures of hospice.
11. Allow you to discover what comes after life.
12. Show you how to prepare to "start the conversation" with someone you love.

For more, see my Change with Courage website.

Namaste, Dancing heart~~~~

Arizona: A Pretty Amazing Place to Be for Me!

So much has happened since I moved to Arizona, I don't know where to begin! (This is probably why I've waited so long to blog since moving here....) I left Seattle one rainy night -- on Friday March 4th, to be exact -- and arrived in Phoenix the night of March 11th. It was a very special trip: I first stopped with my dear friend Cathy Tinker in Portland, then in Ashland with an old friend Diane Nichols. My third night I made it to a place called Santa Nella, near Bakersfield. I drove a few hours more each day and built my driving stamina as I went. I had some lovely synchronicities along wth way which made the journey quite magical.

Some of the highlights were: Meeting Cathy's dear friend Sally in Portland, finding Starfeather on the phone in Ashland and being able to contact and reunite with Diane Nichols and her family, discover a man named Brent Phillips who teaches a form of Theta Healing online through a public radio station while driving through L.A.

I've had many adventures since arriving in Phoenix: Kathy Erickson, who I met through Don Burrows, very generously put me up for 10+ days while I got my bearings and found a simple place to rent until I get grounded here. The Big Japan Quake happened only four days after I arrived, catching me completely off guard. I spent some time and energy reeling from it, and found it particularly meaningful to share "words of Healing and Comfort" at a gathering at the beautiful Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix only three days after arriving back in Phoenix, this time by air with my cat.

What has particularly amazed me about Phoenix is the variety of people who live here, and how I've had the privilege of meeting so many already. I've met some very special healers through the Master Zhi Gang Sha and the metaphysical community, also some ET related people through a birthday party I got to attend unexpectedly. (I'm discovering that this is a very active area in terms of ETs and "the ships".) I've met very generous healers who've offered to do healing sessions for me. As I'm intent on healing myself from the inside out, I'm also learning to graciously receive and accept most of these offers.

I've also been working on developing a new energy healing business as part of my New Life here. Please have a look at my new site where I describe the three healing modalities I'm currently using: Heart Wall Healings, Matrix Energetics, and Dr. Sha's Divine Healing Hands.

Some of you have asked me how I'm doing with the hot weather here. For the most part, I'm thoroughly enjoying it, especially the fact that I can count on the sun being out just about every single day (It only rains about one day a month here ;)! We've had much more summer here already than we ever have in Seattle -- the temperature has already reached about 100 degrees several days during May; and I'm getting prepared to have a "sweat lodge" of a summer. My system will "dry out" for sure!

This past week, I've had the treat of my daughter visiting me from Glasgow, Scotland! What a pleasant surprise this has been. Heather got a paid internship for later this summer, so she was able to take the time and money to come and visit my new home here. We will be going to Sedona in a couple of days -- one of our my places. I'll keep you posted about our adventures there. Meanwhile, much Love & Light to you all in these continuing interesting times!

Your fellow traveler, Dancing heart~~~~

p.s. The above photo of me was taken just a couple of days ago by my daughter, at the Japanese Friendship Garden here in Phoenix.

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The Grace & Grit of the Japanese: May We Learn from their Shining Example

I have been in some kind of deep shock since March 11th. In the midst of my own transition -- moving from "the rainforest" of Seattle to the desert of Arizona -- my homeland Japan was rocked by an earthquake of tremendous strength; and then there was the tsunami that reeked havoc on the people, their land, and the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This catastrophe has made me reflect a lot about the Japanese people and their history. It's made me wonder why the Japanese of all people are having to experience yet another nuclear disaster. I have grieved for them and even been angry at God/dess on their behalf.

The best conclusion I've come up as I grapple with the situation is that this is happening to a unique and special people (Remember the book The Japanese and the Jews by Isaiah Ben-dasan?) at this time so that they can be an example to the world. As many have pointed out, the Japanese experience after this catastrophe has been remarkable: There has been calm, poise, kindness, grace, order, sacrifice, even tenderness and restraint in the midst of tremendous suffering and potential chaos. I believe that the aftermath of this earth change in Japan is expressing something new and different so that the world can learn from the long-suffering Japanese.

Even growing up in Japan as a missionary kid I remember learning a great deal from the Japanese people and their public school system, too. They were always a polite and gentle people, forgiving and very giving -- selfless, even. They would go out of their way to give directions, sometimes even taking you physically to the place you were seeking. They may not have been passionately "religious" people (who attend church every Sunday, for example), but they were taught doutoku, or "ethics" in their classrooms, and they seemed to always have a conscience -- a good sense of what the "right thing" to do was at any given time.

At this time, my hope and prayer is that the world will continue to give thanks for, honor, and stand with the Japanese for what they are enduring, yet again, in this sometimes very unfair world. The forces of this planet have somehow come together to cause this trauma; and Japan and her people are rising to the occasion. May the world learn from the Japanese how this wave of suffering can be ridden, and may we all we blessed by it. We can continue to pray for -- and send positive energy to -- this small, vulnerable nation that is contributing to the rise of consciousness on the planet in a gentle, gracious, and very quiet yet powerful way.

May Peace prevail in Japan. May peace prevail on Earth! May peace be in our homes and communities. May our missions be accomplished. We thank thee, guardian spirits and guardian divinities. Byakko (White Light)!

In Deep Gratitude and sending Hope and Light to the Japanese and all who are helping with the transformation of this magnificent planet, Dancing heart~~~~

p.s. May we continue to keep the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and all those working with the leaking radiation in our hearts and minds, too -- We can pray for the water!

The above photos were taken by Bob Rink at the Remembrance for Japan ceremony at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phonix, AZ on March 26, 2011.