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Its
a pleasure to share with you the Winter Awakenings Newsletter
which features:
- Ho'oponopono - a little known but extremely
powerful self transformation and healing technique from Hawaii
- Yoga/Meditation Class Schedule
starting Jan 2010
- Yummy Recipe - Brownie Pudding Cake
- Inspiration
Have
a great holiday season and remember to question your thoughts...when the mind
changes, the world changes.
Ho'oponopono - Kim Ades
Imagine taking responsibility for everything in your life…
I don't just mean your health, your wealth, your family, your career, your
relationships, your well being and your overall happiness.
I mean EVERYTHING - Everything that crosses your path in any shape or form.
Every problem you see, hear, or witness in the world - poverty, racism,
illness, even a road accident across the street that you happen to witness
from your bedroom window. Everything.
You are probably thinking that the concept is insane. It's not humanly
possible to take on that kind of responsibility. Nobody's shoulders are that
big and some things are simply not in our realm of responsibility. It's just
not realistic.
For the longest time I was a proponent of the school of thought that those
who had the courage to take responsibility for themselves alone were way
ahead of the game. Those who were not impacted by others opinions of how to
live, how to work, or how to behave and did not let fear hold themselves back
were my heroes. They were people that really owned their lives; they were
people that I wanted to emulate.
Until I came across Ho'oponopono.
Ho'oponopono: 'To make right; to rectify, to correct' is a Hawaiian problem
solving methodology that suggests that in order to solve the problems around
us, we must focus on cleaning them out of our system first. So if there is a
person that we are not fond of because he is greedy or self centered, we must
look inside and clean ourselves of greed and self centeredness first. If we
look at the problems in our life, be it with our children, our colleagues,
our neighbors, our homes, our parents, etc... there is really one commonality
among all these problems - it is us. As such, in order to solve our
problems we must begin the process internally. And in order to solve the
problems that cross our path, even big ones, like world hunger, cancer and
terrorism, we must also begin with ourselves.
According to Ho'oponopono, our problems are a result of the memory of painful
past events, experiences and feelings that continue to be triggered and
recycled in our brains. In order to truly live from inspiration we must work
at cleaning out those memories to arrive at a place of no painful memory, or
point zero, and truly living in the present moment. How is this done?
Love and forgiveness. In fact, it's as simple as retiring negative feelings
by replacing them with energy and thoughts that are more useful.
Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len used this technique to help treat patients who were in
an institution for the criminally insane. These patients lived their lives
shackled in handcuffs to circumvent the danger they might inflict on the
doctors and other patients. Dr. Lew treated them without having any face to
face contact with them or even any interaction with them at all. He looked at
their medical/psychological files and studied their criminal records. As he
looked at each case and read about their criminal activity, he noticed his
reactions ranging in intensity from deep sadness to outrage and repulsion. He
began to work on himself and through meditation; he cleaned up these feelings
and replaced them with love and forgiveness. He repeated the following
mantra, 'I love you, I'm sorry, forgive me, thank you.' As he continued to do
this, the dangerous threat of the patients started to diminish to the point
at which many of them were unshackled and some were even released.
I know this sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus but my instincts tell me that
on a pretty deep level this has the possibility of having a profound impact
on our world. Imagine if each of us took the responsibility to clean
ourselves of the poison we ingest daily. Imagine if we worked at eradicating
the toxins of hate, resentment, jealousy, anger, despair and depression that
seep into our thinking and our general disposition on an ongoing basis.
Imagine if we understood that peace, true peace, begins internally. How
powerful would that be?
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Yoga/Meditation
Class Schedule starting Jan 2010
Pinner Synagogue Cecil Park Pinner HA5 5HJ
10 weeks
Wednesdays 13 Jan - 24 Mar '10
(excl. 17 Feb) 9.20 - 10.50am
Thursdays 14 Jan - 25 Mar '10
(excl. 18 Feb) 8.20 -
9.50pm
Cost - £100
Harrow and Wembley Synagogue Preston
Road HA3 0QH
12 weeks
Tuesdays 5 Jan - 23 Mar '10 7.45
- 9.15pm
Cost - £120
70 Carlton Ave Kenton Harrow HA3 8AY
10 weeks - Yoga For Teens
Mondays 11 Jan
- 22 Mar '10 (excl. 15 Feb) 7.45 -
8.45pm
Cost - £80
Meditation Group with Dr Yubraj Sharma
Fridays 8
Jan, 12 Feb
and 5 Mar '10 8.45 -
9.45pm
Cost - £10 per session
For
further details please click here
Brownie Pudding Cake
You can also add 1/2 cup of
chopped walnuts in step two.
1
cup of whole wheat or spelt flour
1/3 cup of honey
1/2 cup of buttermilk or other non-dairy milk
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 tablespoon raw apple cider vinegar or lemon juice (omit if using
buttermilk)
2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups of boiling water
1/3 cup of cocoa powder
dash of salt
1/3 cup of honey
- The night before combine the first 6 ingredients
and whisk to combine well (no lumps). If your honey is thick, melt
with the coconut oil. Leave out on the counter top overnight, for
12-24 hours, at room temperature.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350
degrees. Put the water on to boil. Then mix the baking powder, soda, vanilla
extract and salt in with what you put together the night before.
- In another bowl, combine the boiling water, cocoa
powder, dash of salt and honey. Mix until combined.
- Run some hot water over your 8×8x2 square pan (to
prepare it for the boiling water mixture), and pour the boiling water
mixture into it. Gently pour the other mixture on top of this.
- Baking for 40 minutes, then remove from oven. Let
rest at least ten minutes and up to 45 minutes before serving.
Enjoy......
Inspiration
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Autumn
slips into winter's sleep - Mary Hession
Time to go within now, And
emulate sweet earth
Time to rest and just be still,
Preparing for new birth
Time to ponder Self,
Release old outworn ways
To clutter clear and make
some space, For joy to fill your days
Time to be at peace now,
Let mind and body still
Time to slow reduce life's
pace, With Love your Being fill
Focus on your breathing,
Fill each breath with peace
Close your eyes relax now,
Let all distractions cease
Open up your heart now,
Abide in Love's pure glow
Feel the joy of Being, In
timelessness now flow
Your body's getting
lighter, You feel you have no bounds
Floating in pure harmony,
Of Cosmic sacred sounds
Your Spirit soars in joy
now, A feeling so sublime
To touch The Heart of All
That Is, Within pure sound and rhyme
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Love and
blessings always,
Mita
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