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How to Get Through An Extraordinary Life Challenge

2010-02-18T13:31:23-05:00

What If The Bottom Falls Out

What do you do when life is truly, hugely overwhelming and you really know, in your heart of hearts, you can't do anything that will make any kind of difference to well handle things? What do you do when you experience several major crises at once and it looks pretty clear that unless some major miracles occur, there will not be "light at the end of the tunnel" for awhile? What do you do when you feel even if there is some support, that you really have to deal with everything yourself, and that you are terribly worn down, scared and hurting; and it seems others take advantage of your precarious state, and compromise and damage you even more . . . and that what perhaps has been precarious in your world for a long time is crashing down in slow motion all around you?

Top Ten Tips to Deal with Extraordinary Life Challenges

1. Face everything and anything you can in an objectively manageable time frame - talk about it with a caring and equally objective person, who has good common sense and even helpful information and sound advice to offer you; and write about it as factually as you can, answering who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
2. Pray to your sense of the divine for strength, clarity of vision, higher guidance and HELP anywhere it can come, affirming you're open to receive it.
3. Take the time necessary to determine what are the necessary priorities to focus on and list as simply as possible, and include a time requirement that is realistic.
4. Stop during the duration doing anything that isn't necessary, and don't accept any new offers to do anything more!
5. Take basic care of yourself re: moderate regular exercise, decent nutrition - especially fluids (we become subtly and not-so subtly dehydrated in times of extreme crises) - and basically adequate rest.
6. Recognize you are in a precarious position and don't any more "push the envelope".
7. Set realistic daily, weekly and monthly goals for yourself; and write them down in a separate notebook. Ask your sense of the divine to strongly support your achieving these goals, affirming, as in #3, you'll accept help from anywhere it appears.
8. Consider on the spiritual front that you are in the center of major healing challenges. As soon as you can, schedule uninterrupted time for yourself to reflect and meditate on what these healing challenges might be. Journal about it, and refer back to your insights, viewing them as inner supports through this extraordinary time.
9. Think with as much clarity as you can about your need for protection, and provide it for yourself on an ongoing basis.
10. Affirm, whether it seems to happen in big or little ways, what is positive or good in the day-to-day; and every day, spend at least a few minutes asking yourself how you feel and unconditionally listening to your inner answers, at least some of the time briefly noting what happens inside you.

Profound change means you will be profoundly changed. Ask your sense of the divine to change you in an inviolate center of healing and development, affirming, like your endless, easy breath, simply letting be (acknowledging what is present and real) and letting go (asking what does not work to fall away, accepting this fully).

Blessings . . . Marjorie

Special, All-Day Retreat March 6, 2010

2010-01-29T17:22:00-05:00

Transformation Through Divine Grace

March 6, 2010 from 9:30am to 3:30pm

A Special All-Day Retreat

The universe is offering new solutions to even more highly and miraculously transform our lives and our worlds, with the realization that this is the only clear path to survival. The center and source of transformation through divine light is Divine Grace, which is the focus of a special all-day Centering® for Self-Healing and Development retreat on Saturday, March 6 at 9 Terrain Drive, Rochester, New York from 9:30-3:30pm.

In this small, nurturing, sharing group you will access the new, exciting source of divine grace as you:

Experience the new divine light that is streaming in to the earth plane for spiritual empowerment, higher purpose and multidimensional healing

Experience the new divine portal of letting go to dissolve blockages and complete higher forgiveness in a new universe of compassion

Experience a miraculous place to newly create prosperity and be of higher service from divinely offered discernment, clarity, core peace and freedom

You will know yourself at a higher, spiritually empowered level, and your life can drastically improve. Many exercises will be presented to align with greater guidance and expand higher power.

Fee of $90 includes Divine Grace retreat audio, continental breakfast, beverages, and snacks (bring your own bag lunch). Paypal/Mastercard/Visa accepted.

How to register:

Mail a check $90.00 payable to Marjorie Baker Price, to Centering, PO Box 68015 Rochester, NY 14618

Or phone/fax your complete Master/Visa credit card information to 585-244-6210

Or register online via PayPal (all you need is a valid credit card) by clicking the button below

See Marjorie's "Spiritual Entrepreneurship" presentation on 1/27/10

2010-01-20T12:25:32-05:00

Holistic Professionals Network presents Marjorie Baker Price's presentation on "Spiritual Entrepreneurship"

Date: January 27, 2010 from 7-9pm

Location: Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue, Roch. NY 14618

Go to http://www.holisticprofessionals.net/Calendar.html for more information

"Marjorie will share her twenty-two year multifaceted creative journey to establish and further develop her holistic spiritual practice. Many how-to's will be covered in this unique workshop with handouts and recommendations to immediately implement and adapt to your own unique purpose."

Projecting the Great Shift: 2012

2009-12-14T21:05:52-05:00

Great and Fundamental Global Shifts Offer Corresponding Results

The current blockbuster movie 2012 tells a well-predicted story going back to such ancient civilizations as the Mayans warning that the world will literally turn upside down in order to, like the myth of the Great Flood, cleanse and create new space for humans to “start again” from a caring and evolved state of aware spiritual consciousness. As we come to the end of 20o9 and are poised to enter the upcoming “double digit” decade that is a mere two years away from this cataclysmic prediction, we need to take stock of not only who we are as individuals and within the communities in which we live, but what is fundamentally changing in our world.

One doesn’t need to particularly believe or not believe in ancient predictions to acknowledge that the world continues to more and greatly and foundationally shift. Mounting global problems with threatened systems breakdowns involving economics, health care, and ecology, among others, with no “quick fixes” in sight presents like a universal cloud that both stops clarity and being able to draw upon what has worked before in this dawning New Age.

Finding Our Way In a New Time Toward a New Age

Is this the end of the world as we know it? Is this a new time of spiritual awakening and enlightenment of human response and awareness? How can we find our way in this amorphous cloud of not knowing on any level toward what seems to be a completely changed world?

There are ongoing givens that are crucial for us to draw upon in these both crumbling and opportune times which include the infinite power of love, choice and visioning. Dare to ask yourself, after entering a deeply reflective state, the following questions, holding your focus long enough to hear whatever responses come from your own sacred center:

These Questions Invite Your Own Transformational Shift

1. What does the word love mean to you?

2. How able are you to access your innate power to choose?

3. What are your heartfelt visions for the world?

4. What are your heartfelt visions for yourself?

5. Do those visions match? If not, why not, do you think?

6. How is it for you to accept the fact that you are meant to die?

7. How is it for you to accept the fact that you can never know what will happen, and still have the power to be fully present in the world?

The Next Step Towards Spiritual Completion

Seven is a mystical number in many cultures, from ancient to present times. It also happens to be the number of notes that make up the entire musical scale, from which all things are played. In numerology it is described as the number of spiritual completion through multidimensional creation and evolution.

Ask your inner sacred center to reveal to you its sense of what the “next step up” would be for the world in activating consciousness and creating accordingly. Consider if this is could also be the next step for you. Record your impressions.

Only One Caring Consciousness Survives Us All

In the movie 2012 the most critical theme comes not from the truly spectacular special effects showing the world being largely destroyed through the poles shifting, but from the key scientist telling the survivors of this global cataclysm that a true new world can only occur and permanently survive with a central humanitarian focus - “all for one and one for all”. This requires unconditionally and universally accepting that what happens to whoever is perceived by whatever standard is described as the “least” of us must be the same as whatever happens to whoever is perceived by whatever standard is described as the “greatest” of us.

Our real Great Shift involves a full recognition that in order to survive we must truly come together as one, and to trust that we really do have the capacity to stretch to correspondingly activate and live our lives accordingly. There are no “have’s” and “have not’s” – there are only all “have’s” or all “have-not’s” – meaning we really do sink or swim together, whether we like it or not. Remember we all, as our Declaration of Independence stated over over two hundred thirty years ago, have equal and inalienable rights – the same.

Find and Become the Divine Expression

It is interesting to note that when the word “Goddess” is pronounced we hear God-Us. Can we also, then, stretch enough in response to these fundamental global crises to come to a new level of thoughtful understanding and inspired direction to say unequivocally that we all equally carry and express within ourselves our own unique infinite capacity to be and extend in creating the divine consciousness?

It has been said this is the dawning age of Aquarius, the astrological sign associated with the full birth of humanitarian awareness and a correspondingly-experienced world. For us living in a violent, fragmented, diseased, impoverished, broken society where we can, in a moment, tear each other apart with the slightest of excuses, this represents a seemingly-impossible nirvana of enlightenment, peace, safety, freedom and ease.

Your Saving Grace

Do we dare hold fast to this vision, predicted by the Mayans, as the foundation and expression of the Great Shift? Do we courageously live our daily lives within our full capacity and scope seeking to learn and experiment with love, choice and vision as the transformational elements of survival and growth?

This double-digit year is fast upon us. Coming full circle to what is only stated in the briefest and most incomplete of terms from an ancient, lost culture may just inspire us to find our way to become, and therefore offer, our own best Saving Grace. So fire away – take your stock, so to speak, and run and create yourself and the world you live in as a new and fundamentally caring universe. We are none of us powerless, and can view these times as, through what is breaking down, offering genuine space to become who we really are.

A Thanksgiving Exercise

2009-11-23T11:57:23-05:00

Here's another exercise for you to do to let yourself unfold this Thanksgiving.

See what others are grateful for and what they sometimes forget to be grateful for

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t6uhxzQWOBlaNd4C2Zn9S9g&output=html

Thanksgiving Reflections: Gratitude and Abundance

2009-11-23T11:16:23-05:00

Thanksgiving is here again - I hope you're able to enjoy the best parts of this holiday while mitigating all the stress it can come with.

Admidst all of the business of this holiday, I hope you can lend a few minutes thinking about being grateful. Missing this opportunity the holiday affords us to identify what we're all so fortunate to have (and not have) can be spiritually and costly. But with all the practical aspects of the cooking, planning, shopping, and socializing, it's easy for us to forget how to isolate the basic idea behind Thanksgiving as a celebration of "being thankful." How can we take a step back and honor this, though?

There are many ways, but through my holistic practice and my own spirituality I start with the saying that "the universe may not be just, but it is exact." What do you think this means? Let's discuss together I think it means that the elements of a particular result have to balance (that is, equal out). If you can become aware of this through your own life, then it enables you to more readily identify what you should be grateful for. The more you able you are to pick out how two (seemingly) separate events equal out, the more abundant and rich your life will be.

Over thousands of years, the world's religious and spiritual developments have invoked this vision (or tried to) for so many people. To teach someone how to be compelled to give thanks for another or to another is one of the most basic pillars of the "good life" - one filled with opportunity and abundance.

Gratitude creates abundance

Why this formula? Gratitude is a heartfelt, self-initiated response of appreciation and acknowledgement. It occurs serendipitously through experiencing any situation for which one feels compelled to thank another.

This could be in the form of a higher power, an external environment, oneself, etc. To give, then, is to correspondingly receive. It is an act that produces expansion of the Self and the energetic space one occupies, thus allowing what wants to come in, in the loving, grateful spirit of the space that has been opened, to enter.

The "catch" is to have no agenda attached to the giving, or gratitude. It is enough to simply allow yourself to be grateful. Gratitude is one of the major purposes behind all prayer. It is prayer in the form of gratitude, then, that literally, at an energetic level, lifts us up to a higher level of being and correspondingly, a higher level of experience. Practical tips to start giving thanks Here's how you get started with giving thanks to create spiritual, emotional, and physical abundance: Every day spend a few minutes in a deeply meditative state focusing on what you are, in a most heartfelt way, truly grateful for.

Start with what you have experienced in that day that supports your survival, such as being safe, nurtured, supported, and sustained. Examples could be: being grateful for the food that you ate, the water that you drank, that you're free of acute or chronic diseases the bed you slept in, the kindness others showed you, and so forth. Other kinds of examples could include acknowledging what didn't happen. So you might be grateful for not being the target of spousal abuse, not being a victim of robbery not being a victim of bodily trauma from an accident While it's not pleasant to think about these things in many ways, it's also true that acknowledging that they did not happen in our past can go a long way towards being grateful.

How to Register Early for Chakra Clearing

2009-10-28T11:22:41-04:00

Everyone who registers for the upcoming Chakra Clearing workshop between Oct 27, 2009 and Nov. 3, 2009 will automatically be emailed a link to download their free MP3 of "Heal and Balance, Body, Mind and Spirit"
Remember, 585-244-6210 to register by phone anytime between now and Nov. 3, 2009
Calling is the fastest, surest way to register for the workshop and (if desired) to schedule your optional 30-min. individual sessions. Mastercard/Visa/accepted by phone
Once Marjorie gets your information to register for the Chakra Clearing workshop, you'll receive your download link in an email from us within 24 hours of registration
If you have any technical concern or problem, remember that you can always contact David M. Price for web/technical support or contact Marjorie.

Centering Tools newsletter

2009-10-27T07:21:38-04:00

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The Basics of Chakra Healing

2009-10-25T22:57:38-04:00

Chakras as the Foundation for Body-Mind Healing

Chakras are energetic centers located up and down the spine up through the top of the head. They are understood to be a foundation of Eastern spiritual healing, centering and development practices.

As holistic healing and wellness techniques, or energy medicine, have continued to be more and more sought after in the West, so has the inner exploration of the chakras as the basis for creating body-mind-spirit balance and alignment. Entering a meditative state is a primary way to explore the chakras.

The Placement and Meaning of Each of the Seven Chakras

Here is an overview of the placement and meaning associated with each chakra:

The first, or root chakra, is located at the base of the spine or correspondingly the base of the groin. It is said to be the foundation through which primary life force energy, understood to be the divine, or infinite Source – enters individuals, and is associated with the color red.
The second chakra is located in the center of the lower back or correspondingly the center of the lower abdomen. It is associated with sexual expression, procreation, creation, and ancestry, and with the color red-orange.
The third chakra is located just above the small of the back or correspondingly at the base of the diaphragm above the navel. It associates with free emotional expression and personal identity, and with the color yellow. It is commonly thought that for women, given millennia of patriarchal persecution, the overwhelming loss of personal identity “strips” this chakra, producing a central challenge to restore its whole function.
The fourth chakra is located in the heart, correspondingly the center of the upper back. It associates with unconditional love and the color green, and is understood to be the gateway to the soul.
The fifth chakra is located at in what is commonly called the “voice box”, or in the area of the thyroid, correspondingly in the central back of the neck. It is associated with integrity and “speaking your truth”, or what is called “higher truth”, and the color blue.
The sixth chakra is a tiny spot between the brows, also called the “third eye” at the pineal gland. It is associated with higher guidance, wisdom, and what is called “infinite intelligence”, understood to be the direct connection to Spirit, and the color indigo.
The seventh chakra, also called the “crown”, is located at the top of the head or even a little above. It is understood to be the center through which we are directly drawn into the realm of the infinite, the “bridge between physical and spiritual worlds”, and the color purple.

How to Connect with the Chakras for Centering and Healing: A Brief Meditative Exercise

Settle back comfortably, body open and aligned, eyes closed; and take several deep, easy, regular breaths. Imagine your breath as an endlessly flowing, rising and falling light wave of energy enveloping, nurturing, clearing, and uplifting every part of your body and mind.

For these next several breaths, each and every time you breathe in, say the word receive, and each and every time you breathe out, say the word release to yourself. Imagine your endless, flowing breath effortlessly moves you deeper and deeper within.

Now imagine there are, as well, endlessly flowing energy centers called chakras located at particular points from the base of your spine to the top of your head; and that your flowing breath begins to move you, as if in the wink of an eye, into each chakra in turn, from the first all the way up to the seventh. Simply imagine yourself going on this amazing inner journey through each chakra, rising higher and higher, ever so slowly as you are carried from one to the next.

Experiment for Body-Mind Healing

As you are carried into each chakra, say to yourself the sentence: Here I endlessly receive and release healing, several times. What happens?

However you picture or, inside your mind’s eye, experience these flowing energy centers, also imagine how easily you can observe your whole experience, noting how your feelings unfold, as well as any physical sensations which occur. You can lightly touch your sense of where each chakra is placed on your body as you sense you “come” to it through this unfolding inner journey.

When you have completed your exploration through the top, or crown, chakra, imagine how easily you simply allow your endlessly flowing breath to easily and naturally return you to full, waking consciousness, and when you’re ready, open your eyes. It can further enhance your exploration of the chakras to record and/or draw what happened.

You have just initiated and experienced energetic balancing, centering and healing through your chakras. Consider practicing this every day as an experiment, and see what happens to how you respond and be in all aspects of your life, especially to your innate sense of Self. Happy travels!

Regarding the US Commerce Association Awards

2009-10-01T13:19:00-04:00

We wanted everyone to know that we've taken down the links to the press releases referring to our "Best Of 2008" and "Best of 2009" awards from the so-called US Commerce Association. We were kindly notified that this company is fraudulent.

Unlike some businesses, we did not endorse and/or financially support this organization: we did not buy into the plaque that came along with the fake award that they were selling. We apologize sincerely for linking to the press releases that they manufactured with respect to these "awards" and want to let everyone know that this company is under investigation by the Better Business Bureau. We also found out that their Washington, DC address is false and does not exist. We are very lucky to have been contacted by concerned advocates of fair business practice.

Services that provide press releases do provide hyperlinks to the websites they solicit, but obviously we do not want to be associated with a known fraudulent service. If you'd like to read more about this scam, you may go to Virginia's Better Business Bureau website for detailed information.

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