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Happy (early) Thanksgiving (just around the corner now!) and welcome to The November Connection Newsletter!!! :) If you have a topic you'd like me to dicuss, please do let me know! :) You, also, have the opportunity to submit to my "Dear Maggie" column below and get your questions answered! Thanksgiving is upon us and this gives us the perfect opportunity to awaken to all around us that we are grateful for. Take notice and give a quiet or loud 'Thank You' to the Universe! :) I am very grateful to be able to visit my family in Upstate NY this year for Thanksgiving! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)

Traveling Reiki Attunements!! I can come to you in your home or office and give Reiki Certifications. All levels. Please see my Reiki Classes page for more information and contact me if you are interested or want to know more! Also, Gift certificates are available upon request! What a lovely Christmas or Birthday present to give to your loved ones. Send them to one of my classes, or give them a reiki treatment or reading! Or leave it open and let them choose what they would like to do from your Gift Certificate to them. Enjoy! Email me or fill out my contact form for details!

This year Mars moves Retrograde November 15, 2007 in the sign of Cancer which is water, and much more about emotions and how we feel than any other sign. Mars in Cancer is a time to care for home, family, safety, security and a time of reconnection to our roots. To find out more, go to this superb website and entire article by Carol Barbeau and hear all about what wonderful things to come after Mars moves direct January 30th, 2008!! Let's do the work and make our life how we desire it to be.

Please check back here for monthly updates and as always you can see past newsletters in the archives. Also, I have updated my Reflections: Law of attraction and Ascension article. And go here to check out the newest articles I've added to date!

Stepping Stones: Energy Healing
(Reiki, Ho'oponopono, etc.)

Is Energy Healing right for you? You may or may not know if certain types of energy healing is the direction or you. (i.e. Reiki) You will know and feel it if it is. For me, I received my Reiki I attunement and then waited 2 years before my Reiki II attunement. I wasn't sure I resonated with Reiki I, but there were lessons I needed to go through as well after having taken my Reiki I. Once I received my Reiki II Attunement I quickly accelerated in my attunement process, as I felt I was ready. Love it! In Reiki there are hand positions for when you send healing to someone. For me, I felt that I didn't necessarily need to have *exact* hand placement position to send healing energy. I go with how I am guided and what feels comfortable and right with my hands if doing local healing. You will do Reiki or any Energy Healing as you feel it through your soul. Your intuition guides you.

First a little about Reiki
Reiki is (hands on) energy healing. What I feel occurs is, we as the Reiki practitioner align with the Universal Life Force energy and act as a conduit for this energy to pass through to the person(s) we are healing. This energy enters the recipient and goes to where the recipient needs it most for their highest and best, good either physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. A lovely example of how reiki works is: With your Reiki I attunement it is like the power of a 50 watt bulb opening up and going through your Crown Chakra. Reiki II is like a 500 watt bulb. And Reiki III/Master is like a 5000 watt bulb in intensity through your Crown Chakra. And with each there seems to be a level of lessons (you progress into) for the majority who get attuned. For Reiki I it seems to be lessons in the physical realm that will be brought up in intensity to be released. (i.e. car issues, etc.) What I've also noticed is that this may even start just BEFORE your actual attunement. Like in preparation. For Reiki II the lessons seem to be focused more in the emotional/mental realm. Issues will be brought up that you have buried or have not dealt with yet. You will see them more clearly and release them once and for all before moving on to the next level. Reiki III/Master brings up Karmic-type lessons and any left over excess that has not been worked on in previous attempts.

The quicker you realize these lessons, wake up to them, work on them and release them, the quicker you can move on to wonderful new horizons. But remember a couple things. One, don't go too fast. If you move too quickly you will be bombarded with confusion and chaos. This may hinder your growth rather than taking it one step at a time. Also, most importantly just enjoy the ride. That's what we're here for. More on what Reiki is to me can be read here.

All types
There are other types of reiki (i.e. Karuna, Rainbow, etc.) and those are valid as well. I am a Usui & Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher. I also have attunements in Akamai, Color Spectrum & ArchAngels, etc. What each attunement in any source of healing that you resonate with does is brings you closer to knowing yourself and source. You raise your vibrations every time. I have also received an array of healings in other modalities, such as Sound healing. Sound (vibrational) healing is a most wonderful way to give or receive a healing. This gets to the core of your vibration in a most assuredly strong and vital way. Sound healing is done in a variety of ways as well. By using your voice in different tones, Tom Kenyon is an excellent example! Another excellent source is Jonathan Goldman has a wonderful site with articles, information and more in the Sound arena that may peek your curiosity. There is Sound healing through instruments, such as Drums (the Heart of the Drum is so Powerful!), Tuning forks, meditative music and music of ALL kinds. What about healing through movements, such as yoga and dance. Moving your body is so healing and freeing. I'm a big fan of Trance Dance Yoga. A lot of fun too! You find the way that works best for you. Although I am attached to a few ways that resonate most with me, I find that a mixture of ALL of these ways are what raise us to new vibrations!!

For many, we first receive attunements or knowledge-base in new Healing Ways to help heal ourselves. First and foremost that is what we all need to do anyway! We can only help the world by first helping and loving ourselves. Some will follow a path of healing in the mainstream and even turn it into their main source of income. Others may never touch the healing abilities learned ever again. However, IT has touched THEM. They are forever changed in a positive directly just for reaching out and receiving the attunements, or new ways or working with others. This is one stepping stone to raising your vibration, open up your psychic channels even more and just have a great awareness for the All that is. There can be a subtle shift in vibration and awareness or a strong one depending on the individual and what they planned for themselves prior to incarnating. But you may not even notice the strong changes in your being until years later and then as you put the pieces to the puzzle together, look at yourself now compared to back then and realize something amazing took place.

The many modalities like: Sound Healing, Ho'oponopono, Switchwords, The Law of Attraction & Allowing, The Sedona Method, Power of Positive thinking, etc., are all types of working with the Universe and your energies. We are energy beings and what we put out there comes back to us 1000%! We attract everything that comes into our lives. Ho'oponopono offers a simple yet powerful way of releasing/healing. Please see my Ho'oponopono article for a more in-depth peek. Switchwords also offers a unique yet simple way. Kind of like affirmations. Recently, I've experienced wonderful results just by utilizing the magic if Switchwords. A wonderful yahoo group for this is found here. Here you will receive a free ebook about Switchwords to get you started. Enjoy! And with everything there is the underlying current of the Law of Attraction and Allowing. We truly attract everything into our lives, good or bad. So focus on what you would like for good and ALLOW it into your life. You DESERVE it!

Now some have asked what's the sense of using Intentions and Vision Boards for manifesting your desires when there are Ways like Ho'oponopono. Is there a know-all-end-all method? We each follow our path uniquely. So for some just following Ho'oponopono strictly is enough. For others it's a start and they integrate it with other ideas & methods. Maybe those people will eventually only work with Ho'oponopono and maybe they won't. I also feel there are stepping stones. Some will start with learning about the Law of Attraction. It's all new and we all need to start somewhere to come into our own unique 'Knowing'. Creating Vision Boards, using Intentions, etc. are ways of putting your energy out there for a want or a goal. These people are needing to learn through this way first. Then they progress to feel that healing and forgiveness are next. They may go into Reiki to learn of healing or any number of other healing modalities. In Forgiveness some may take up Therapy or realize there is a higher level that needs to be explored and fall into the wonderful realm of Ho'oponopono that heals, forgives and transmutes to pure light. Some stop there and raise their vibrations all the while Ho'oponopono'ing happily. Some may integrate their Ho'oponopono, Law of Attraction, Healing ways into something more advanced that works for them. It doesn't matter, as long as you are being true to yourself and having a blast doing it!

You must follow your path as it feels right. It all comes down to LOVE. The Power of LOVE energy is the actual vibration that heals us and lifts us up. All of these modalities have the benefit of reaching the ultimate state of Love. Be open to Love and the possibilities are endless! We are all connected by Love. Whatever it is that excites you and brings you joy is what you are meant to do. In following your passion you share your LOVE with the world. This is where the doors fly open for you as an individual. Divine inspiration will come and all you have to do is follow! You are each unique with unique talents and gifts that you must share with the world in your way. If you want it, then there is a need for it, and what you want wants you! So start those tiny or huge steps in that direction and see the magic flow in your life.

Remember, there are many ways and all lead to the same. Enjoy the Way. For your enjoyment, here is a wonderful movie on drumming your heart out!

~Spiritual Cheerleader

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Message from My Seven Angels

A theme I've been made aware of is that many recently are feeling lost right now. They don't know which way is up or which direction they are going. That's the beautiful thing! It's up to US now! We must decide what makes US feel good and we MUST do it. Following that divine intuition is what makes us feel GOOD! Peaceful! Happy! Many are looking for what their true purpose is here on this planet finally. However, the more we go in the opposite direction of what feels good to us (i.e. what is true to our soul), the more depression happens, health problems start to come up, negative experiences happen till you wake up and realize--*not* that you veered off the path, but--that you must now make a new turn. The Angels and the Universe are letting you (and wanting you) to follow your hearts desire. NOT later. NOW!

Start dreaming and relishing in that dream in the MOST feel good "fantasy" you can muster up and then suddenly the Universe brings forth a set of events that gets you there faster than you ever thought possible! Have a meditation and really feel happy, peaceful, content and loving what you are doing in this fantasy life! :)

Restructuring
You'll notice lot's of restructuring going, if not metaphorically in your life, then it could be manifested physically in your life: like remodeling your kitchen or an actual move to entirely different house. Or following and pursuing a new path entirely! These kinds of things happen often in restructuring. Releasing the old will aid you in being in alignment with this restructuring. You may start to notice even prior to this date that you are in the mood to clean and throw out the old. So roll with it and get your home free of clutter and old energies! Feng shui will come in handy with this! More on this in a future newsletter. This restructuring is making way for our rebirth into a new!

Rebirth
Resurrection. Things are coming up but for most (that have been consciously doing their inner work) it isn't as "bad" as it used to be. We are being shown our mirror on OURSELVES. Everything in our lives we create, so when we realize this we suddenly realize all the work lay within ourselves. Some will ignore this until faced with no other option than to work on themselves once and for all. Others will take small steps in the direction of balanced healing. Some will heal dramatically. We each heal in our own ways, in our own time. But NOW is the time for us all to start. If we don't, we will soon be shown experience after experience that shows us we need to start a positive path in our own healing and Rebirth. It is a time of Rebirth into our whole and complete wonderful selves! Rejoice!

Don't waste time on negative situations worrying about them. Don't worry or fear. It is more fun to follow our dreams. Live in our fantasy and be happy doing what makes us happy now. Let whatever is going on fall away and it will resolve itself while you are in a more positive, uplifting, higher vibrational self.

The Angels are with you. They send you lots and lots of love every day!

~Spiritual Cheerleader

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Dear Maggie

QUESTION

Dear Maggie,

How can I identify what it is I am truly passionate about? Is there some sort of process that you can recommend. I want to develop a career/business around my passion and/or passions. I am having a difficult time with this, because the things I am truly passionate about seem so far fetched for lack of a better way to put it. How do I really know if I should pursue these passions, or if they are just wishes?

~ Nancy

Answer:

Dear Nancy,

We all have a talent or gift we are called to do. This is not only to service our Souls but to service the world. Whatever it may be, it is worth pursuing. As I state in the article this month, the more we follow our true passions and be in a state of Allowing, the more those wonderful doors will open.

What excites you? You'll know because you'll feel it inside. When you have something in mind that you like doing or would like to do, you feel happy, free and excited! This is your higher self sending you and your body a signal to say that you are right on track. This is it! Follow this path and you *will* be 100% fully supported.

You said what you are truly passionate about seems far fetched. What part of you is making you feel this way. Is there an embed, even subconscious, belief that may have even come from childhood? These are some great questions to become more aware of and ask yourself. What part of you must believe that this is far fetched? Is is possibly a way to hold you back through a fear from your ego? Here is where we need to decipher between our Divine guidance and our Ego. Your ego has a purpose and that's usually to protect you. However, it gets off the wall a LOT! If you hear a thought and it doesn't feel good to you, more than likely it's your ego trying to instill a base fear in you to keep you from expanding i.e., for fear that you won't succeed, fear that you won't be supported, fear that you even will succeed, etc.

In the hypnosis training I received we were taught techniques in getting the participant to their core belief. This recently (synchronistically) came up again in a class I am taking. We all have core beliefs that we received either in past lives or in this life, say as a child. You can look back at your childhood, your parents and wonder about their dynamic and see how that ties in to you thinking that your passion is far fetched or beyond your reach. There may be some insights that come to you. When you have a base fear, just ask yourself what part of you makes you have this fear. Then when you have that answer, ask again, what part of you believes this and why. Take the *first* answer that comes each time and eventually you find something that rings true from within. Then work on transmuting that core belief. Just start to become aware that if it isn't something on the surface that is easy to crush like a bug, it could be a more embedded belief that you will pull from the archives of your brain and re-program yourself to think and feel positive about your new ventures.

Something to remember, just by wondering and asking about your passion, you are manifesting it. And just by becoming more awake and aware of any fears that hinder the growth into those passions, you shine a light on them and start to transmute them into pure light. In essence, you squash them like a bug. :) Your core belief will decide what you bring into your life. The Universe sends us exactly what we request. So what you see is what you are asking for, what your vibration matches. The good and the not-so-good. Change your core belief into a positive and believe you deserve all your desire. Then you start to emanate that frequency and receive more positive results, a better way.

Remember: "Your strongest fear is your strongest belief!" ~ Bashar <-- so change your fear (your core belief) and become a new higher vibration and attract more of positive higher vibrational experiences. I am repeating myself, but only because it's true and the more we hear something the more it embeds itself in our brains for our subconscious to listen.

Law of Attraction and allowing
When you've decided you know what it is you'd like to pursue as your passion, you must start putting it out there. The Universe answers EVERYTHING we think and FEEL about. There is no question that we are 100% responsible for all things that come to us. So start to FEEL good about your passion. Start to visualize yourself doing your passion. Feel how good you will---ARE feeling living your passion NOW. As you FEEL it as if it's RIGHT NOW, then it truly happens RIGHT NOW. There is a 17 second gauge of feeling to practice. Feel & visualize this for 17 seconds. All you need to do is 17 seconds of feeling something without an opposite feeling whatsoever and you've then manifested it!!! And if you can do it for that long, do it for another 17 seconds and another. If you get up to 68 seconds, you have done what's equal to 2000 "normal" 3D waking life working hours!!! That's a FULL years work in a straight 68 seconds. This is explained in much more depth in an article by Abraham-hicks at abraham-hicks.com. AWESOME! Try it. Again, all you need to do is 17 seconds of feeling something without an opposite feeling whatsoever and you've then manifested it!!! Remember that even after your 17 seconds are up, NOT to feel the opposite or you bring THAT to you instead. If you notice negative feelings come up, CHANGE them. Think positive and BE the new passion you desire.

Another thing that just popped in is that you can draw what you desire. Draw it and use it as a Vision/Dream board. This can be a drawing or cut-outs from a magazine, etc. Whatever way draws in the energy to you the most is the best way for you to do it. We are all unique and must do it the way we resonate with. Some of us are visual, some tactile, some a little of both, etc. Put this on a board and hang it up in your office or place where you will see it often. Every time you see this visual think happy about it and FEEL it as if you are living it. You are a manifesting machine! :)

Now start asking yourself: What Does It Feel Like? Continue asking yourself that question and get yourself to the feeling of it and you're there. Stay there and if you lose that feeling, keep asking. What does it feel like to do (such and such) _________. Feel it, live it, BE it. Enjoy! One avenue for you to do what you love now is if there is a way that you can volunteer yourself in some fashion (at least to begin with), this will align you with those energies. You will start to match your vibration to what drives you and your excitement. Your passion. You will attract more of those situations to you the more you expose yourself to what you would like to do. The more you do this, the more you will believe it's possible for you to do that. Then you will attract people and experiences that tell you just that and you will be presented by the Universe with ways you can pursue your passion for the long-term. It's amazing how energy works!

Please also go to my Reflections: Law of Attraction & Ascension article for more tips!

Now, each of us are unique in our process to our passions. Some of us may have a couple of core things we'd like to do on a consistent basis and some of us have just one. We each will do it in our own time. Some will take on their passion part-time and keep a full time job. Some will start part-time and then go full time thereafter. No way is wrong. All are right. Some make a huge leep into their passion and take off. Some take the route of a slow progression. It's all in how you feel is best for you. There are stepping stones you can take that will get you there in a wonderful divinely timed way. Maybe there is schooling needed for certain talents or gifts that is required before starting or required while you follow that passion. Either way, as long as you are doing even one thing towards your goal you will start to feel more and more fulfilled deep in your soul. You are always 100% supported. So I say go for it! Another website that might intrigue you is What's Up On Planet Earth? Karen is wonderful at explaining how she feels the energies are right now and what that means for our careers. Check out some of the archives on her Energy Alerts. They explain much! There is so much I want to say on this subject but can only fit so much in one column! :)

Reminder: See the full 17 Second game article by Abraham here. I couldn't find it on Abraham-hicks.com in time, but have it posted here in my yahoo group. It's a good read! Happy reading! Also, listen to this wisdom: The Strangest Secret for wonderful tips from Earl Nightingale.

"It usually takes about 30 days to change a habit. Not because you need 30 days. You could do it in 68 seconds if you could once you did it hold your vibration there, but you have to consciously make that decision. …...The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you’re offering is because of something you’re observing or something you’re remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it. And every part of the Universe including the cells of your body begin to respond to that vibration." ~Abraham

Enjoy your bliss! It's meant to be after all. :)

Follow your Bliss, I'm sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you, POI and EWOP,
Maggie | Spiritual Cheerleader

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Inspire Buddy (Ibby) Award

Websites that show the willingness to share with others to raise their vibrations in a positive way! Please submit your recommendations as well and it will be considered! :)

Kajama
Free weekly articles, column, etc.
I can't say enough good things about Kajama.com. And I can't count the numerous times I have sent someone to Kajama.com for the utmost in Spiritual Articles, Dear Julia Column, Double-Vision Column, Amazing True Stories! The synchronicities come alive every week I open up a new set of articles and messages for the reader! There is so much that is offered in a wide variety of knowledge as they pool together articles from many authors. This one definitely has to go in your favorites! :)

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Favorite Book of the Month:

The G-String Theory
by Ilana Marks
Ilana's book is humorous and spiritual! The title gives that away. A superb writer that is able to have her experiences leap off the pages and have me laughing out loud! Ilana's experiences in India are truly enlightening to the reader! Giving you a true glimpse at what it's like to go to an Ashram, specifically Sai Baba's Ashram. Her insights have moved me to this day. I was lucky enough to also meet Ilana and receive one of the most 100% accurate Readings I have ever received (going 7 years in the future)! This tells me her connection to blue prints and the soul are true and deep. Enjoy this wonderful and spiritually awakening book!

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Favorite Spiritual Movie of the Month:

Charmed
This month I wanted to find a movie that held the theme of healing. I couldn't think of one this month that had this in mind. So I went with what came to mind. One of my favorite TV series that lasted a full 9 seasons. Love it! Many wonderful stars most with magical powers. Slaying demons, living the good life, connecting with family and friends. The main reason for picking this as the item to watch this month is because of the component of healing. In Charmed there is a standing character, Leo, who is a "White Lighter". Or maybe even an Angel in some views. He is the Power of Three's Guide. He has the ability to heal physically wounded individuals. There is a particular episode that I am thinking of. I can't remember if it's the very first season or the second season. Leo has been hit by a Dark Lighters wand and is dying. (In my reality, Angels never "die", so there are discrepancies, but they wanted to make the story.) So Piper, his love interest, is deeply saddened and feels there may be no more hope. She has held off telling him her true feelings of love for him till this very moment. In her sadness she finally admits out loud that she loves Leo. Truly emanating this love. Then we see her hand light up gold as she intuitively places them on Leo and he is then healed. She asks him why he never told her that Love heals. Love is the healing agent that he heals them with. Love is ultimate. I felt that this particular moment emanates this month's article quiet well. :)

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