Gentle Reminder in Spirit Crossing

As one year comes to a close and the promise of a new one awaits, be sure to take a moment to visit the Newsletter inspired by Bruce Lipton - Spirit Crossing – offering food for the soul!  

In addition to offerings by Bruce, Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra, you’ll find Louise’s contribution in a gentle reminder to consider Huna: Simplicity and Wisdom for a Busy Life.  You don’t need to go to Hawaii when you can bring the magic of Huna, the grace of ‘aloha’ and the spirit of the Hawaiian people, into  your life.  

Let 2009 be your time to come to know the power of aloha… of  ’invite and allow’…  in your life!

New CD for ‘Empty Nesters’

If you’ve reached that place in your life – that moment when your children are children no more and it’s time for them to go – then this is the conversation for you!  

For many people, letting go of our all-grown-up children is not always easy, particularly for those of us who have shaped our lives around being their parent/s.  In this extensive conversation with Louise, Marie Smith speaks to her own experience of letting go of her son and rediscovering herself… not necessarily in that order. With candor, humour, compassion and a deep love for her son, Marie speaks to her own journey of redirecting her attention to herself in her effort to ensure that ALL of them – mother, father and son – could live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. 

Order your copy today! And while you’re there, consider giving the gift of an expanded life and order one for someone you care about.

Catalytic Conversations – CODE Model Coaches™ Speak Out!

CODE Model Coaches are amazing people!  Their extensive and accelerated journey of personal evolution is fueled by their passion for discovery.  Although some may seek ‘transformation’ when faced with a specific problem (i.e. the marriage isn’t working, the kids are acting out, job stress has popped over the line, etc.), these amazing women and men seek to engage their lives through open, clear, honest and direct communication – with themselves and with you.  Their motivation is simple:  to discover the power of living a meaningful life. 

On the Catalytic Conversations CDs, you can hear these compelling and provocative thinkers in conversation with Louise, as they explore what they’re passionate about.  Not only will you gain insight into a variety of fields of interest, you’ll get to know each of them in ways that allow you to know what authenticity sounds like.  You don’t just get to learn, you get to experience and discover.  Count on having your own interests awakened and propelled forward!

A new, 6 topic collection of Catalytic Conversations can be the catalyst for your own accelerated evolution! Each topic spans 2-CD’s bringing you:  

• Physiotherapy and Accelerated Healing:  with Anita Allen.  A physiotherapist with years of experience and ownership of two private clinics, Anita’s insights from her own personal journey of discovery merge to offer a unique perspective on the healing potential that we all carry.  
• Sports Coaching and Unexpressed Potential:  with Susan Bremner.  National StarSkate Coach with a background in social work, Susan has devoted herself to engaging with youth to evoke their untapped potential.   Susan knows the complexities- and the possibilities! – of coaching for personal evolution, on or off the ice!  
• Women and Leadership : with Cathy Carmody.    Cathy is the creator of the Finding Your Voice program intensive and works extensively with women seeking to express leadership in their lives.  
• Counseling, Coaching and Mediation : with Pat Donihee, Ph.D.  With more than 35 years of real-life, real-time experience, Pat is a Canadian Certified Counselor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified WEL-Systems:NLP Master Practitioner and Advanced Week Instructor – Reality Therapy/Glasser Institute.
• Redefining Addiction : with Ray Landry.  Ray has more than 20 years of hands-on, front-line experience in social services and addictions. He is an experienced and respected professional in the field of addiction recovery and has incorporated a WEL-Systems perspective in his work and life.
•  Self-Recovery from MS : with Eva Marsh.  With a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and BSc in Physics, Eva brings a unique viewpoint to the history of MS and to Neuroscience research.  In addition, she brings her personal journey of self-healing from MS as well as discoveries from her work with others in private coaching and international workshops.  

Order yours now!  If purchased separately, these 6 topics are sold for $120  This special 12 CD collection of Catalytic Conversations is now only $75.00 (plus taxes, shipping/handling).  Organized in an attractive, zippered CD case for convenience and safe storage, this collection is easy to take with you and keep handy. 

The next time you take that long drive, don’t travel alone!  Take these courageous (and often outrageous!) professionals with you.  Let your own thinking be challenged, your potential explored and your willingness and ability awakened to designing a meaningful life for yourself.  This is one journey you’ll remember for a long time to come!  

Order your set today! 

Spotlight On… Celebration of Life!

It’s amazing how quickly time passes! In one breath, the year begins and in the long, slow exhalation that is our lives, it is coming to an end. Soon, the cycle will begin anew, welcoming a gateway to a new and more powerful way of being in our lives and in our world… if we so choose.

As essential as breathing is to our very existence, it is also a metaphor for living. We inhale, discover, grow, expand. We exhale, and as we do, we live what we’ve become, and in doing so acquire the wisdom that only living can bring. We inhale again and this time, we bring into ourselves all that we have already learned from living… mingling with our dreams and intentions and insights… and once again, we are invited to live differently, live more fully and allow ourselves to embrace the joy of being who we are.  And on and on it goes….

Not only is breathing essential to our very being, its metaphor is equally essential to our evolution. If we do not evolve, we will not become who we are destined to be.

The notion of celebration comes to mind as I write these thoughts. Celebrating life! Celebrating the very act of breathing in and breathing out, knowing that without breathing, we cease to be. It causes me to wonder: where else in my life am I not noticing all that there is for me to celebrate? Where else in my life am I steeped in what I don’t have rather than luxuriating in what I do? Where else in my life have I overlooked the magnificence of ‘being’ and become entangled in the demands of ‘doing’?

I wrote this piece on Celebration in 2007. I was drawn back to it as I considered these thoughts and determined this piece to be timeless; and one that offers a gentle reminder at this very busy time of year.

I invite you to take a moment… to let yourself sit back and take a few long, slow and deep breaths… and allow yourself to remember all that brings meaning into your life. You might be surprised to discover how much ‘cheese’ there is in your life and that in truth, the holes don’t matter much.

Have a wonderful, safe and magical Holiday Season!

Thoughts on – Celebration
by: Louise LeBrun

This particular topic has required more attention from me than usual. More effort. More ’struggle’. When I am faced with such an experience, I find myself becoming more and more curious. It has been a long time since I’ve let go of the need for struggle so when it reappears, my instincts tell me that there is an opportunity here for a rediscovery….or reclamation….or a revelation.

To appease my logical need for data, I turned to the dictionary and discovered the Latin celebrare means ‘to frequent’ or ‘fill’. (No matter how hard we try, we can never seem to get by without the ancient sounds that formed the platform for our communication. Perhaps there is more wisdom here than we realize.) Surprised, I found myself pondering what would likely be the ’standard’ thoughts that one would associate with the word ‘celebration’. Thoughts of parties, people, laughter, music, food and, usually, more food! Perhaps even applause and awards. Dressing up. Sleeping too little and eating/drinking too much! Images of people engaged in conversations with other people….in pairs and in small groups….or even bearing witness to a stage performance as one seated among the many.

The next thoughts that streamed were images of a small group … a family … seated around a table, about to enjoy the fruits of the fall harvest. Smells of turkey and pumpkin pie wafting through the air. Or perhaps visions of gently falling snow and the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree. Excited children straining to sit quietly – even if for a moment – as the unwrapped toys await the return of their attention.

Or perhaps a couple, standing side by side at the front of the church, bold in their intentions and yet reaching out to gently touch one hand to another. Filled with the excitement – and trepidation – of a life once journeyed alone and about to be harnessed as two. Long white dress. Crisp pleats in dark suit pants. White shirts and ties and boutonnieres. And in the soft candle light of the church, friends and family bear witness to the coming together of one of the greatest forces in the world: the flow of two, standing as one, to create the many. And life goes on….

Small children at play. Four candles on a cake, with one small breath about to make its mark. Boxes in brightly colored paper…with bows and ribbons…piled high, each precariously perched, awaiting the attention of its new owner. And who can forget ‘Pin the Tail on the Donkey’ and the strange places to which the pin would make its way. Stand back! Or you may become the Donkey.

Or perhaps that very first birthday. One high chair, one chocolate cake … and two small hands, delighting in the feel of gliding through frosting … and its amazing ability to stick one thing to another. Eyes wide, hands pulling and tugging…and – miracle that it is – the expert guiding of such a large chunk of cake into such a small mouth! Even NASA would marvel at such an exquisite display of docking expertise. Flashes of light from the camera that so lovingly captures the moment…to be celebrated over and over again.

That magical day of arrival. The birth of the first child…or the second… or the fifth. Even with repetition, the magic never fades. Each the beginning of a wondrous journey that will bear the unique mark of its creator. Timeless. Even the memory takes your breath away. It seems like only months ago … and look at them now.

Celebrations all. Each unique in its form, its structure, its offerings and its intentions. Each calling forth a hope, a dream, a moment of gratitude. And yet, what is often overlooked in the small silence of its expression is that moment – or those series of moments – that fill us from the inside and happen frequently, from one day to the next.

Like a fine mist, easily overlooked unless you’re watching for it. The smile from the gas station attendant. The concerned and thoughtful questions of the pharmacist. The patience of the traveler behind us as we return from our daydream long after the light has changed. The waitress in the coffee shop who remembers how you like your bagels. The receptionist in the dentist’s office who takes a moment to explain to you that your dentist will be late, and offers you a magazine. The stranger in the hospital waiting room who entertains your energetic and restless youngster while you await the results. The pedestrian who stops and makes it possible for you to dart through, just ahead of the endless line of cars.

These too are celebrations. Frequently occurring moments that – if we pay attention to them and honor them – fill our hearts and touch our souls. Moments in which whatever we’re wearing, whoever we’re with, is just perfect for the occasion. Moments that invite us to feel what it is to be one human being, in our ordinary-ness, in the presence of another equally ordinary human being, in the creation of a magical moment. If this is not cause for celebration, I don’t know what is!

Huna Retreat at Oceanstone

Discovering Your Own Magic: The Art & Science of Huna offers a life-altering experience to transform your way of being and to awaken your potential to shape your world.  Including a Higher Self connection and initiation into Huna symbology for use with yourself and others – plus so much more! – don’t miss this opportunity to enrich and enliven your way of being.  

Sheila Winter Wallace, Certified CODE Model Coach™ and Full Initiator in Ancient Hawaiian Huna, will be your guide at this powerful retreat at Oceanstone, NS. Give yourself the gift of awakening and register now to reserve your place!

Tarot Weekend in Kanata

We are born sacred. We are born divine. You might know that intellectually – perhaps, someone told you so – but do you ever really know this inside you, where you live? Reclaiming YourSelf in Tarot’s Ancient Space is a 2-day open-forum about you manifesting you. Given that you are creating your life in every moment, awake or asleep, what is it that YOU want to create? This conversation will provoke you and awaken you to become the more that you already are!

Your  flourishing self-reverence as revealed in Tarot’s Major Arcana will vibrate within the context of WEL-Systems®, the Quantum Biological Human™, and the CODE Model™.  Join Sheila Winter Wallace on this powerful journey of discovery, January 24 and 25 at the WEL-Systems® Institute in Kanata, Ontario. Register now to reserve your place.

Parenting for Potential – new CD with Amy McNaughton

Imagine a conversation about parenting that focuses on the adults.  Imagine a conversation that is directed at taking the time to reflect on things like:  Would I want to be parented by me?  Do I ever pay attention to the sound of my own voice as I engage with my children?  Does my capacity for patience exceed my children’s curiosity?  

In Parenting for Potential, Louise and Amy sit down to explore the implications of a WEL-Systems® perspective and its impact on who she has become as a parent.  Candid and fully willing to engage, Amy shares her insights into herself as a mother and the impact on her marriage of her change in approach.  If you’re curious about how else you might engage with your children, this is the conversation for you. 

Now available at our online Store, order your copy today!  While you’re there, be sure to check out the full range of topics covered in the ‘Thoughts On… ‘ series, as well as the Living WELness series.  A bigger life is just a new thought away!

New CD : Depression and Beyond

In today’s reality, few are untouched by the experience of depression. If not ourselves, someone we know or work with – and possibly someone we love! – is affected by this potentially devastating and life-altering experience. Depression is a journey through a private hell from which we can only free ourselves.

Ray Landry knows first hand what depression brings. In this conversation, Ray speaks candidly and openly of his own experience of depression : when it started, where it came from, the toll it exacted in his life – and how he moved on to live a rich and gratifying life! Ray’s story is one of courage, inspiration and hope. It is also one of curiosity and the great willingness to let go of who he was that he might become who he is today!

A Certified CODE Model Coach™, Ray’s traditional educational background in Social Services as well as his years of working with others in the field of Addiction Recovery are enhanced by his WEL-Systems® experiences and credentials. In this conversation about depression, you’ll get to explore both worlds and decide for yourself what calls to you to explore….discover… and engage!

Order your copy today!

Spirituality: Invite and Allow

Be sure to visit Louise’s article on Huna:  Simplicity and Wisdom for a Busy Life, in the December 6th issue of OmPlace/AltWire  ezine for conscious living.  

It’s a busy time of year – and about to get busier!  Quiet moments, making room for us to reconnect to ourselves, are often the small pause that reminds us just how magnificent our lives really are!  Take a moment to receive… allowing the thoughts to flow through you and around you and swirl around inside you.  Then, take a moment to give… forwarding this article, sharing this breath of self-consideration with someone you care about, inviting them to consider and allowing whatever choice they make.  

For more of Louise’s inspirational and motivational work, visit the Personal Growth section of the extensive Free Articles  at www.LouiseLeBrun.com.