Spotlight On — Accelerated Consciousness
Slowing Down Long Enough to be Found!
A new era in human evolution is already upon us. The frameworks for our humanity that have been shaped by 17th century thinking are rapidly and relentlessly being peeled away by the insights and discoveries from a quantum awakening. We are not the puny beings we have been taught to believe we are. We are giants of potential and possibility! All we need is to find that new place to stand and from which to launch ourselves into the lives we choose rather than stay stuck in the limitations of the lives we have lived.
Over more than two decades of working with people who are in search of a more meaningful life, it has occurred to me that acceleration of consciousness offers an interesting paradox for consideration. As much as the notion of 'acceleration' implies going faster, experience has shown that 'acceleration of consciousness' requires that we, in fact, slow down and allow our awareness to fill the body and spread out around and beyond us. Not quite what we might have expected.
The pursuit of 'acceleration of consciousness' will not yield the results we
seek. It would appear that when we slow down and allow ourselves to be found,
a more awakened and expansive consciousness can find us... infect us... and
infuse our perception with a keen sense of itself and all that if offers up
for the adventure of discovery. In that moment, we become more authentically
who we are, ready for the next wave of our own unfolding.
Our awakened, meaningful lives await us. From the edges of our awareness of what might be, what could be, we are being beckoned into living fuller, richer lives. The choice to engage - or not - is always our own. And as in all things, our discovery will not be limited by the thoughts we think but by the frameworks for the thinking of those thoughts. It is not the thoughts we think that keep us tethered; it is how we engage thought itself.
Think about it...
Discover new frameworks for thinking at
the Awakening
the Quantum Biological Human conference
May 28-29. Join Louise LeBrun,
Dr. Bruce Lipton and others as they collectively explore who else we might
discover ourselves to be - and how else we might choose to live our lives.
Reserve your place now! The full 2 Day conference fee is $695 plus GST.
For detailed information the conference and to register, go to: www.WEL-Systems.com/Awakening
Contact us if you have any questions. Take the leap and treat yourself to an unforgettable two days!
Today's Thought
"He realized that he had some of the first laboratory proof that our bodies unconsciously anticipate and act out our own future emotional states. It also suggested that the "nervous systems is not just 'reacting' to a future shock, but is also working out the emotional meaning of it."
Lynne McTaggart - author of 'The Field: The Quest for the Secret
Force of the Universe'
Coming Attractions!
We are pleased to offer you the following seminars, workshops and
programs. Each one designed to provide thought-provoking and life altering
experiences for your on-going personal and professional development.
WEL-Systems Experiences: May to August
Creativity for Living
a weekend journey into your creative potential |
May 13 - 15 |
Awakening Body, Mind and Spirit
a WELness Experience |
May 14 - 15
Saint John, NB |
Awakening the Quantum Biological Human
a 2 Day conference |
May 28 - 29
Toronto, ON |
Awakening Body, Mind and Spirit
a WELness Experience |
June 11 - 12
Bolton, ON |
Éveil du Soi physique, mental et spirituel
Une introduction aux modèles WEL-Systems |
June 18 - 19 |
Awakening Body, Mind and Spirit
a WELness Experience |
June 25 - 26
Windsor, ON |
Resourcefulness in Action
WEL-Systems Coaching Practicum |
July 14 - 22 |
Igniting the Self
WEL-Systems:NLP Practitioner Certification |
July 16 -
22 |
Influencing with Intention
WEL-Systems Master Facilitator Certification |
July 25- 31 |
DeCoding Pain
new conversations - new perspectives |
Aug 12 - 15
Bolton, ON |
The listing above only shows the first scheduled date for Ottawa Ontario. For more details and the complete program schedule, see
www.WEL-Systems.com/schedule.htm
Quick Updates
Registration Closing: Awakening the Quantum
Biological Human Conference
We're finalizing registrations for the May 28 & 29th conference at the
Valhalla Inn in Toronto.
Pre-registration is required
and payment cannot be accepted at the door.
If you have special requirements, be sure to indicate
this by sending us an email or contacting the office of the WEL-Systems
Institute. For more detailed info, refer to the conference registration
page at: www.WEL-Systems.com/Awakening/register.htm
Creativity for Living
Last call ...if you're looking for a way to step into summer with a sense of all that you have to offer to the world and a whole new way of experiencing the world! Creativity for Living is scheduled for May 13, 14 and 15, perfect timing for you to explore the creative genius that you are ...even if you've not yet made the connection for yourself.
Creativity for Living is an invitation for you to reconnect,
through painting, with all the many ways you are creative in your life.
Even if you've never picked up a paintbrush in your life, you'll be amazed
at the discoveries you'll make and the art you'll create. All you need
is an interest in exploring ...a curiosity to discover the creative spark
that has been hidden, buried or dismissed ...a willingness to let yourself
be a kid again, to laugh and play for a few delightful hours. We supply
all the materials. All you need is your enthusiasm, your curiosity and
some old clothes that you don't mind getting mucky.
And you get to have a weekend too. Sessions are scheduled for Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Plenty of time to surprise yourself with what you can create in short bursts of artistic flowering and still have plenty of time to enjoy the spring weather. More information about
Creativity
for Living is available at www.TidePoolResources.com/programs/Creativity.htm.
Or call Gwen at 254-7218 to chat about what might be possible for you.
WEL-Systems Catalyst Honoured
Celine Levasseur Burlock, a certified WEL-Systems Catalyst and CODE Model Coach™ was recently honored for her outstanding contribution to community development in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Celine is the facilitator of a large 4C's Foundation fine arts project designed to explore and interpret the rich Acadian Heritage of West Chezzetcook. The awards ceremony was attended by The Honourable John Hamm, Premier of Nova Scotia; The Honourable Myra Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia; and The Honourable Jamie Muir Minister of Education.
Congratulations, Celine!
Huna Retreat ~ October 14th to 16th - Oceanstone
Sometimes, we need to stop… take a long, slow, deep breath…
allow ourselves the time to explore our inner depths… to be pampered…
Mark your calendar and prepare to experience being part of an adventure of the
Spirit! Join your Huna 'ohana' (family) for another three days of discovering
in yourSelf what has long been known by the ancient Hawaiians. Registration
now open, for up to a maximum of 25 participants. Confirm your place now and
don't be disappointed. For more info, please refer to www.TidePoolResources.com/poster/HunaRetreat10.htm for
both the retreat and the magical space of Oceanstone, in Nova Scotia.
New Certification Experience: DeCoding Pain ~ August 12th to
15th - Bolton, ON
Join other skilled and qualified healthcare practitioners in DeCoding
Pain,
a four-day certification program experience offering deep personal insights
into your own potential and creating the ability to guide others to discover
theirs! Explore the isolation of pain, how it affects people as individuals
and the impact it has on their families and society at large - and what to
do about it that works. Discover the power of thought and its relationship
to our experience in our real lives, in real time.
DeCoding Pain, provides you an experience of the WEL-Systems® approach
to change - a non-allopathic, non-therapy model that turns insights into a
capacity for action. Successful completion of this program provides certification
as a CODE Model Guide™ from
the WEL-Systems Institute.
Offered from August 12th to 15th, in association with Albion
Hills Physiotherapy, this experience is being held in the
inviting and open facilities located
in Bolton, Ontario These
intensive 4 days are of particular interest to: Physiotherapists, Chiropractors,
Nurses, Doctors, Psychologists, Counsellors, Coaches, etc. For more info,
please visit: www.TidePoolResources.com/programs/decodepain.htm
Awakening Body Mind and Spirit - English and in French ~
Éveil du Soi
We're pleased to be able to offer access to this powerful two-day program in both English and French and in different cities. If it's time for you to engage your world differently, this two-day experiential process is for you!
Thought Waves
Salt and Energy
by Don Henderson
WEL-Systems Master Facilitator
A Metaphor for Life
It started as a Christmas present for family and friends. It started with five pounds of sea salt that was lying around and my interest in smoking foods. Smoked Sea Salt was the result. From a simple idea, it has become an expression of self that, through the business I am building, carries my energy to others.
Salt is essential for activating cells in all plant and animal life. Although
salt may seem ubiquitous today, control of the supply once animated whole civilizations
including where to settle, the need to conquer or be conquered. Salt, then,
is a powerful metaphor for life that runs through all of history. That metaphor
is powerful within me, resonating at all levels of my being. I am using the
seven energy centres of the body (sometimes called Chakras), as a framework
to explore this metaphor.
Root
Salt is of the Earth and the Earth provides the
sustaining elements that allow us physical beings to interact with each other
and the world around us. But it also provided us with our initial spark that
grows into that which we are and that which we can become. Salt is essential
to physical life, technically because, in solution it allows the flow of electrical
impulses through the body. It is also essential to our metaphysical life, enabling
the flow of energy that allows our connectedness to the universe.
Water
It is true that my product is made with Sea Salt from the great oceans
of the world. But that too is a great metaphor. The salt in the ocean is the
result of the endless cycle of evaporation and condensation. Water evaporates
from the oceans, falls as rain on the land and the streams and rivers carry
the salt of the Earth back to the sea. We call this climate, I call it the
deep breaths of Gaia that form part of the great energy flow of the universe
that is mirrored in each of us when we take a mindful breath.
Pure water is life giving, salt water is not, at least not directly. But few
things can match the delight of stepping into the warm waters of a tropical
sea, moving with ease and grace that its buoyancy gives you. The salt in my
life mixes with my energy and creates a buoyancy that literally “Floats my
Boat”.
Power
I add fire to my salt. I do it in two ways. First I infuse the crystals with
smoke made from the smoldering embers of wood chips. It is a slow process. The
smoldering power in each of us needs to move in mindful and productive ways or
it may explode in rage and resentment. The second fire in me is passion for what
I do. For much of my life the fire in me lacked a creative outlet. Without a
place to move I became a walking bomb exploding in ways that frightened me and
those around me. But a simple act of adding sea salt to a smoker became a metaphor
for how I can move through life mindfully and productively. What simple act awaits
you.
Heart
In our heart we hold the beliefs, values and attitudes that carry us through
life. They are the sum total of all that we have acquired from family, school,
church and the culture that we live in. I sell my salt at a market where I can
directly interact with the people that stroll by. Many of these people have hypertension,
or have overweight as a self image. I do not engage in the pro-salt/anti-salt
debate, nor would I ever encourage someone to contravene their doctor’s advice.
However I invite you to consider that these manifestations may themselves be
a metaphor for the power within that cannot move mindfully and productively because
of the burden of accumulated beliefs, values and attitudes. What simple act awaits
them.
Throat
The throat gives us voice, the mouth gives us taste and the nose gives us smell.
I love the aroma of the smoke, I love the taste that salt can give to some of
my favourite foods. I get high on the notion that my product can add to the joy
of eating. My salt has allowed me to engage the world with mindfulness that makes
me shout that I am, The Salty Don!
3rd Eye
Each of us at some time or another asks the question who am I, who is the real me. Am I the son, am I the father, am I the husband, am I the boss/worker/slave. There is the person that the world expects/tells us to be and there is that spark that speaks for the authentic self, that invites new possibilities undreamt of.
Hold a jar of my sea salt in your hand. Do you hear that very low hum, mantra-like,
resonating within the salt. That is me. And I know now that I can bring that
resonance to all aspects of my life. Do I know the full beauty of my authentic
self. No, but I now know that the possibilities are endless.
Crown
There is a little bit of me in every grain of salt. That is my physical connection
to you. But I hope the connection is beyond the physical and that The Salty
Don is a metaphor for your one simple act that will transform your life and
open your magnificence to all its possibilities.
Don is the Founder of The Salty Don (www.TheSaltyDon.com), purveyor of gourmet salt and pepper to enhance any meal.
|
