tracitomte
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My Tagline:
Life is a choice.
My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Angels, Afterlife, Interfaith issues, Charity, Origin of life debates, History, Music, Books, Education, Travel, Gardening, Crafts, Current events, Art, Environment, Holistic living, Yoga, Health, Depression, Recovery, Cancer, Weight loss, Sports, Fitness, Cooking, Caregiving, Family, Marriage, Money, Parenting, Dating, Pets, Dreams, Astrology, Art and Creativity is my passion. I will always fulfill my duties, but it's time to branch out into my passions and see where it leads.
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
The Secret of Letting Go by Guy Finley MY FAVORITE
Who Inspires Me:
My late maternal grandmother and grandfather, they were my rock in my youth and taught me unconditional love and acceptance, as well as what a truly wonderful marriage is. My late husband who helped me find my heart and know what love REALLY IS during a wonderful marriage.
My organizations and affiliations:
ASPCA, Environmental and Endangered Specie Protections, Helping the Needy, Oppressed, Depressed, Down Trodden, etc
My favorite spiritual activities:
Meditation (prayer) and gratitude of life's blessings and getting back to be "centered & grounded" with nature encompassing all my wants, needs and desires, hoping to share and interact with like minded individuals who are also open to one's true spirituality.
Who I'm praying for:
My family, my future, those who have gone before me and crossed over, and always the little animals along the road, as I doubt many pray over them - I always will pray for the forgotten and ending of sufferage of all sentient beings.
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Hopeful
What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.
About Me
I am a very special Lady, first and foremost. From being a "tomboy" to long legged elegance, intelligent, witty, and base my thinking on COMMON SENSE.
Self Educated, self-motivated, and know what I want from life... to create a new life for myself since my beloved husband's unexpected and untimely death a couple of years ago. It time to follow my dreams and create a new reality for myself. I am self employed in a small town on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, catering to physical and mental fitness for others (myself included!), and a diverse base of other services and talents I enjoy and wish to bring to the forefront. Phoenyx 8 Rysing (reborn from the ashes of my old life) should be opening in the month of August of 2008, serving Limon and surrounding communities. from 14 to 114 years young, I have a program that can be tailored just for you!
I believe there are only 4 parts to life that are eternal: Birth, taxes, change, and death. Somewhere in the between of birth and death is where LIFE really begins and faith can be borne. Faith in something more than what is visible to the naked eye, faith in yourself (w/o arrogance and egotism), and faith that life holds more than just duty, there is a happiness that CAN be obtained through your own spirituality, dedication, and participation in your own life. Don't just let life "happen" to you! Learn to participate in your own life, which will enhance not only yourself, but family and the other people that participate in your life.
I believe that all religions are different paths to the same "end". I believe in being inclusive and tolerant of everyone's rights and choices, being respectful of others' views of life. I am an absolute animal lover. I believe in justice, protection of children, animals, the environment, and the elderly. I believe in KINDNESS. I believe in communicating and listening. I am NO sheep, nor do I need a "flock leader". I believe the Government should NOT restrict or interfer with peoples' choices, speech, and property rights. I believe that animals are sentient beings and nature is a gift that should not be exploited in the name of greed or the almighty dollar.
I am an artist (every medium I can get my hands and mind wrapped around), an horticulturalist, a gardener (just call me "Janey-Appleseed), animal lover/rescuer/behavioralist, ***I've even been called a tree hugging dirt worshipper, and I see no derogatory connotation to that!
I revel, enjoy and protect all young life, with the wonderment at the newness in their eyes, which has made me truly appreciate that even though my beloved husband is no longer on this plain, I can still see the way he looked at life, "never too late to have a happy childhood!". I appreciate and protect the elderly, as there is much wisdom in their eyes and so much to be learned through their experiences and lives lived so long.
I never quit learning, I always enjoy new knowledge and how I can apply it to my world.
I have ventured for the last 35 years of my life into religions and beliefs that were out of the "mainstream" of how and where I grew up in Utah. One half of my family was Mormon (I am a great granddaughter of the original Utah pioneers) and one half (raised) Catholic. My best friends were Lakota/Nez Pierce and Navajo; which began this insatiable curiousity and my belief that we all are unique and here for our own soul's purpose. That is the reason I believe in tolerance, love and peace.
I loved the harmony I felt with the new knowledge of North America's Native Peoples and it grew from there. From mainstream Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, etc... to Eastern Religions and practices and just about (not quite done yet) everything in between.
I started making precious/semiprecious jewelry, drawing, painting, etching, sculpting, carving with a spiritual "bend" as I believe those talents were given as a very special gift just waiting to come to fruition, after "putting in my time in the legal field to live indoors"... only to make my living with those GIFTS now.
I take my family (parrots, dogs, cat and aquatic frogs/strange fish) on trips to the nursing care/assisted living facilities and to schools to teach about the care and needs of animals and our relationship with nature, as well as having pets (actually, my "kids" own me, not the other way around ;). I LOVE seeing children and the elderly light up like a Christmas display when my kids walk in the room with them! It fills my heart with gratitude and happiness. A VERY SMALL "SOMETHING" I can give back to my community; and the animals love it as well - so everyone comes out smiling. Everyone.
I WAS an EXTREMELY heavy girl/young woman/woman - "HUSKY" was the word used most, beside FAT. Loved my food and emotionally applied, I did quite well for getting large. After my husband's death, I found through meditation and prayer, I did not need the emotional eating; and began working out using nothing more that my own body resistence. I look forward to helping others find that within themselves, as well as helping them find out what their real purpose and passions are in their world.
I have been given many wonderful gifts, if fleeting one moment and lasting with others... But I do look forward to the rest of my life; and those who touch my life and I theirs. Life is full of wonders concealed as heartbreaks and obstacles, remember... change WILL always change that. Enjoy what you have for the moment, and what causes heartache... remember, that too will change.
I still miss my husband (how could I not?), but life is NOT so insurmountable these days, though there is still pain to go through. Once the pain has subsided, life will be different once more. I look forward to that.
Namaste,
TMarie/Wings
My Basics
Location: 1 hour East of Denver and Co Springs, CO, USA
Gender: Female
Occupation: Self Employed
Relationship Status: Widowed
Faiths:
Spiritual but not religious,
Faith Description: Buddhist, Catholic, Charismatic, Christian, Experimental, Hindu, Moderate, Moral, Multifaith, New Age, Pagan, Scientific, SpiritualA Higher Power, Angels, Astrology, Community, God, Heaven, Jesus Christ, Mother Nature, My Good Name, Myself, Power of Love, Prayer, Psychics, Reincarnation, Science, Service, The Golden Rule, Buddhist, Christian, Druid, Gnostic, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Native American, NewAge, Pagan, Roman Catholic, Shinto, Spiritualist, Taoist
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Journey Of The Senses.
Incense Meditation.
When we focus on incense sticks during meditation, we move into a mystical space that is both physical and spiritual at once. Like us, the incense stick is earthbound with an ember that burns for only a finite time, but the diaphanous spirit it releases is unbound by time or space. Rather than shutting down our senses to focus on an inner realm, incense involves our senses as we follow whirling smoke upward and outward while we take its scent into us, filling us as we breathe.
The journey starts with a flame, and then a glowing ember releases smoke to rise above us in an ethereal dance. Ashes fall below, purified by the fire. We can use this to imagine negative thoughts being changed from darkness into the beauty of warm gray snowflakes and a scented spun-silver plume, lighter than air. We can watch as our atmosphere is altered to become reminiscent of the heavens and lifts our thoughts: Embers become shooting stars, and the silver ribbon of smoke becomes unraveled clouds. Altered senses may guide our inspired thoughts to travel along new, perhaps undiscovered, pathways.
We can also imagine our physical selves being represented by the incense stick, our inner fire releasing magic into the world. That part of us emanates outward, expanding to mingle with the breath of those around us as we ride the wind to become part of everything. We can also see in the swirling smoke our life's path, not a straight line but a twirling, meandering ballet that moves us ever onward and upward. We may leave a bit of ourselves behind as we bounce off of our surroundings, working through them, but no matter what we do, we cannot avoid our final destination: oneness with all that is. As spiritual beings enjoying the physical experience of life, incense meditations can help us remember the beauty and wonder of our existence, where heaven and earth, body and spirit, are all available to us in every moment.
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/3483.html
Bounded By Wellness.
Send Healing To Yourself.
Most people, when given an opportunity to aid someone in need, are eager to do whatever they can to be of service. Those of us who have chosen to make healing the world a vocation are grateful for any occasion to send light and love to people in our immediate spheres of influence and beyond. As we apply our passion and our principles to this altruistic endeavor, we often forget to send ourselves the same bountiful gifts of wellness, though we ourselves may be in dire need of it. We overlook ourselves, not because we forget, but because we fear that focusing on the self is an indicator of selfishness. It is moreover much more difficult to heal oneself than to heal others because the seeds of uncertainty are more easily banished when we act on another's behalf. When we send healing light to ourselves, it is important that our intentions and our self-trust be stronger than ever to counteract doubt.
As we bless ourselves in this way, we serve as both an active channel and a passive destination. This should not change the way we interact with the valuable energy we wish to receive, however. Though we may be tempted to consciously direct or influence the manner in which light impacts our lives because we know ourselves most intimately, we should not try to control its path. When we draw the white light of protection and purity to our bodies, taking it into ourselves with each inhalation, our belief in the fact that it will naturally move toward areas of dysfunction will ensure that it flows through every muscle and organ. And when we fill our spaces with this light, our environments are cleared of all the negative energy that can sap our strength and our spirit. Surrounded inside and out with healing light, we feel safe and protected, healthy, relaxed, and content just as those who regularly receive such loving gifts from us do.
If you sincerely believe that there is a part of yourself that exists independently of upset and illness, the love and light you send yourself will help you connect with it. You will see the affirmative impact of this connection almost immediately when you include yourself in the recipients of your healing gifts, as life's frustrations become more tolerable and your bliss becomes ever more palpable.
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2007/10043.html
Phoenix Rising - August 17, 2008 - 07:00 AM