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Love helps orient you to what is life energizing and healing. This is true in communication between cells of your body, between family members, partners, and international communication. Whether it is love for a friend, family member, intimate partner, group or community, life is an interconnecting web of connection based on needs. It is important to acknowledge that we each have needs for connection and harmony in our lives, and the process of identifying and healing these needs start at the personal level.

Your ability to love is equal to your ability to tell the truth about your feelings and needs. Love and bonding depends on how coherently your life needs were met at the start of life. Ray Castellino and Dr. William Emerson suggest that everything that happens to you pre-natally, during your birth process, and your first years contribute to how you respond to life's challenges. It is the blueprint for your relationships. Being seen and heard for who you are, being allowed to explore and return to safety of your caretakers impacts how you perceive life and relationship. If life needs are not met in a coherent way early on, your ability to resonate with understanding, appreciation, forgiveness and love for self and others diminishes. You can only see and experience the wholeness of another to the degree we can see and feel the wholeness of ourselves. Healing our internal conflict brings peace to our body mind system, expands our capacity for loving relationships and contributes to creating empathy for humanity and the planet.

'Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.' Marshall Rosenberg

When there is a coherent flow of energy between people in a relationship, there is motivation, capacity to build on differences, a process and expression of loving and healthy boundaries and a drive to return to union or stability. How you observed your parents moving through conflict creates an imprint of what conflict means to you, and how and if conflict can be resolved. Your conflict style may, in fact, be a response or reaction to what you observed in your early experience of life. When there is non coherent energy flow in a relationship you are experiencing and unresolved conflict, this can lead to a feeling of inadequacy, of blaming another for your feelings and pain, or a diminishment in the ability to accept the other for who and where they are. Arguments, negative habits, and behaviors deplete each person and the relationship. These are clues that unmet life needs are speaking. This can result in anger, depression, guilt or shame. These feelings are messengers that help you listen to what is needing your attention in your life. A loving relationship is not about being free of stress or resistance. It is about growing wings to reach greater compassionate understanding of self and other. Places where personal life needs have not been resolved are opportunities for expanded awareness and healing.

'The fruit of self-understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self love. The fruit of self love is love for the world. The fruit of love for the world is service to the world. The fruit of service to the world is peace.' Russell Rowe

Love is the universal energy of life. Empathy is an expression of love. When you can connect and truly listen to another there is greater capacity for contentment, peace of mind and understanding. It empowers you and others to reach for the best possible inside. When you appreciate what you have learned, it helps you integrate new awareness and solutions into your life so you can apply and grow from the experience. Empathy leads to greater relaxation, pleasure and bonding, and helps to support meeting challenges in your life with greater enthusiasm, success and joy. When we recognize that every human being has the same basic life needs, we have greater respect for our common humanity.

MODALITY: The first step is awareness. As a practice, start by listening more deeply to your inner needs. Write down the BASIC LIFE NEED List on a piece of paper. Check in with yourself to see if any of these are not currently in your life. Use the list to help connect your feelings and needs.

BASIC LIFE NEEDS: Bonding-Closeness-Harmony-Nurturing-Security-Trust-Sleep-Protection-Boundaries-Positive Touch-Appreciation-Respect-Being Understood-Space-Light-Play-Laughter

Carry this list with you as you go through the day. These are messengers for you that will make a difference in the quality of your wellness and sense of well-being. When you are feeling some form of stress or come to a standstill in a conflict that's producing feelings of anger, shame, guilt or shame, look at your list. Is there something on the list that stands out for you? What need is speaking most?

Example: You are feeling overwhelmed by deadlines, too many tasks and not enough downtime. You feel angry because it feels as if there is no end to the amount you have to do, and the list continues to get bigger. You are blaming your boss, partner, family. You check your list. Are needing SPACE, SLEEP or RESPECT? Is there something you need to express? Do you need to set loving boundaries? Is there a new awareness in regards to a need that you haven't seen before? For instance, are you multi tasking to get appreciation, yet it is not showing up? Is you multi tasking creating an avoidance or keeping you from resolution of an inner conflict? How does this awareness make you feel? What actions are you drawn to take?

And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net

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The TKF Foundation is a private grant making foundation whose purpose is to create 'Open Spaces, Sacred Places.' It partners with organizations to create sacred places which increase a sense of community and contribute to a deepening of human connections. These sacred places foster the development of human spirituality and are open and accessible to people of all beliefs, faiths and cultures. The essential components to each space are a firesoul, a bench, and a journal.

Behind each sacred space is a firesoul, a word TKF uses to describe the people who are the sparks behind the creation of sacred spaces. The firesouls' passion and vision are the driving forces behind nurturing the sacred spaces from idea to reality. Their energy, enthusiasm, patience and persistence inspire communities to come together around the creation and use of public greenspaces.

Benches create a place for rest and reflection and are natural destination points within a space. As part of the partnership between TKF and Maryland Correctional Enterprises, TKF benches are built by inmates at the Western Correctional Institution in Lavale, MD who are learning fine carpentry skills to help them secure profitable and rewarding employment upon release. The benches are made from 100+ year old, reclaimed pickle barrel wood, and along with the journal included with every bench, are an integral part of the sacred spaces that TKF has helped create.

Accompanying each TKF bench is a waterproof journal. The journal provides visitors the opportunity to share their thoughts and connect with other visitors and is a cathartic tool for those who simply need to unload their burdens by writing them down. These journals are filled with inspiring thoughts, reflections and personal stories left by people using the spaces, confirming that people want, need, and are replenished by reflective opportunities in nature. The journals are collected and read by TKF and then shared in an email,Connections, which features a different thought provoking, inspirational entry each week.

For more information on the TKF Foundation, please visit www.tkffdn.org

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Wise Traditions UK 2010

Festival for Traditional Nutrition
London - March 21st
The Camden Centre, Bidborough St, London WC1H 9AU

Doors open: 9 Event: 10 to 6

GBP 40 advance, GBP 50 at door (Concessions Available)

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World Renowned Speakers

The Weston A Price Foundation campaigns for wise traditions in food, farming & the healing arts, challenging politically correct nutrition & the diet dictocrats.

Sally Fallon Morell, MA, president and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, author of the bestselling cookbook Nourishing Traditions and an internationally acclaimed nutrition educator.

Sir Julian Rose, pioneering organic farmer, and renowned countryside and raw milk campaigner. Julian is chairing the event. Julian will discuss campaign issues in Britain and across Europe with Jadwiga Lopata, Poland's top countryside campaigner. Jadwiga and Julian have campaigned successfully for, amongst other things, GMO-free Poland.

Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, founder of the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic, and author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), her revolutionary nutrition program for mental and digestive wellness and the treatment of depression, autism, ADD, ADHD, and schizophrenia.

Barry Groves, PhD, author of Trick and Treat, the explosive book on why conventional 'healthy diets' are ruining people's lives and making food manufacturers and healthcare providers rich.

Stalls with information & books.

Bar: Raw Jersey cow, goat and buffalo milk, milkshakes and real ale.

For more information, contact Philip Ridley on PhilRidley@hotmail.com or 02076821093

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Maybe it is the amount of financial problems I have accumulated or maybe its everyone on TV talking about what's going on in the government, lately though I can't stop thinking. I turn on Little House on the Prairie and long for the simpler days when kids behaved and parents prayed. So in my quest for simpleness my life got very complicated. I have made many mistakes and I have learned from them. Coming to White County may as well have been China.

Even though i was raised in a small town passing by farms was all I ever saw of one. My family was very cold and uninvolved with each other. I had no grandparents to teach me how to sew or cook, or even grow a simple tomato. In essence I am a victim of the 20th century. If there are no trucks to deliver to Ingles or Walmart I might be one of the millions of clueless people to starve from lack of simple basic knowledge due to easy convenience of boxed, frozen or canned products. My quest for the simple life and a wholesome place to raise my kids brought me from the city in Florida to Cleveland GA.

Immediately I began to make plans for my new home. We took down and acre of trees and made pasture, we built a barn and erected fencing, I made a garden outside my kitchen. I researched goat breeds and paid a ghastly amount for purebred saanens. Well things aren't as simple as i imagined at all. My kids do not like goats milk, and since I do not have enough pasture it cost more to feed them than i got in profit from selling the goats.

We built our barn in the middle of the field and we can't keep the horse out for nothin! and after spending hundreds on a garden all I got was 3 tomatoes. I have not given up and I prayed for a mentor. This Kool Aid kid ain't giving up! I pray for simplicity, life should not be this hard. There must be a way to work with the land, not against it.

My gut tells me our future here on this earth is in jeopardy and without sustainability we must rely on the energy infrastructure. Have you ever wondered how a tomato ends up at the grocery store? Have you ever wondered why a peach is shipped to GA from California wasting valuable gas when peaches are grown right here in GA? or why your milk came from new york when there is a dairy right here in Cleveland? why is local food not being sold in local stores? where does Cleveland's food go? I never see anything grown or raised in white county sold local (except Nadine's Chicken salad at IGA).

One day at the check out counter at the store the young lady ringing up my organic produce says to me "oh my mom is into this stuff " and tells me about her mom's farm and that I can talk to her if i need to learn more. Well she takes my email and i promptly get a farm newsletter and I realise this farm is less than one mile from my house. Organic Rose from Logan Berry Heritage farm has has taught me more in 1 hour than I have learned from books in 10 years! An answer to prayer she is.

She showed me how to make marinara sauce from tomatoes fresh picked and then can them. I would like to say that after spending an hour picking tomatoes and then making sauce all afternoon that i have enough cans to last me the winter. But I don't. I invited friends over for dinner and sent each home with a can of sauce after they said it was the best they ever had. Good food shared with friends.

Consider buying your food local. Purchasing from local farmers. Since I have a freezer full of local beef naturally raised, all I need now is a source of local natural chicken. Eventually I would like to raise or grow everything my family eats. I need a new property though, maybe seven acres of pasture to graze cattle. But for now I shall gaze upon the barn in the middle of my field and laugh at my mistakes.

Cyndi Rosenthal
397 Spotted Fawn Lane
Cleveland GA 30528
706-219-4631

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We want to use waste land or old dump sites and love the land back to life with the help of volunteers and community members.

We are in the process of creating a start up company to create Eco retail villages firstly in Australia, then throughout the world. We are after business partners and sponsors who can see the merit of our vision and want to make a difference to the wellbeing of people and our planet.

We are seeking the right mix of business people to drive our vision forward and gain the necessary funding. We require people with passion and a senior accountant with exceptional skills and experience in start up companies, franchising and an ability to help us gain the best option to finance this.

As you know environmental, health and wellbeing markets are experiencing rapid growth, helped by the implementation of Government initiatives for sustainable living and community wellbeing as well as the increasing demand from consumers for superior customer experiences.

By creating large community retail 'Eco' Villages we will create platforms for tenants to offer outstanding technologically advanced and environmentally friendly products and services. With the implementation of an innovative Business model we will create sustainable wellbeing connections between businesses, consumers and the environment, both locally and globally. We will create the physical infrastructures for our tenants to become leading contenders in industries that support environmental sustainable living practices, wellbeing and education.

Our newly created company will focus on providing outstanding infrastructures to help the efficient running of tenanted and affiliated businesses. By offering first class facilities that incorporate state of the art sustainable building practices, integrated automated technology systems, and strong business support, we will give our clients a huge competitive edge to run successful profitable businesses.

Written and published by Debbie Adams - Bohemian Soul...

For further details of this project - CLICK HERE...

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The world's first green boob survey is now live on line at daisygreenmagazine.co.uk following a high energy London launch on 21January.

The Big Green Boob Survey will give women everywhere the chance to tell all about their best assets and how they want to dress them. This should lead to the creation of the 'best ever' ethical bra.

Although individual survey replies will be kept in the strictest confidence, the combined results will be used to challenge a manufacturer to make the bra and ensure it is as close as possible to the ideal for women of all shapes. Thousands of women are expected to complete the survey.

The bra is likely to be fairly made from eco friendly fabric, and available to buy on the high street at a sensible price. Proceeds should also raise money for charity.

To take part in the survey, simply visit www.daisygreenmagazine.co.uk and click on the link on the home page. It takes just two minutes to complete. Everyone who does the survey will be entered into a draw to win GBP 50 worth of ethical lingerie (not including a bra!).

The availability of ethically produced bras is currently limited and restricted to smaller sizes, sparking the Daisy Green team's passion for their own Daisy bra to be created.

Nicola Alexander, Founder of daisygreenmagazine.co.uk, said, 'There's now a fantastic range of ethical fashion available and we'd like to see this extended to bras that real women really want to wear'.

'We hope the survey will pave the way for a wider range of ethical bras including larger sized, sexier and underwired items.'

Women are being asked about their preferences for fabric, designs, price point and attitudes towards fairly traded garments and sustainable fabrics.

The bra's journey began at a launch featured Times journalist, author and pant maker extraordinaire, John Paul Flintoff, who in the space of an hour created a stunning, unique dress out of second hand bras.

Guests were also treated to stunning ethical lingerie on the catwalk choreographed by top stylist Lupe Castro. The underwear was showcased by Models of Diversity - gorgeous women of all shapes, sizes, nationalities and ages.

A clothes swapping extravaganza followed with 'The Big Swish', including a charity auction featuring Lady Gaga's D&G dress , Russell Brand's trousers and a dress donated by Jodie Kidd.

The results of the Big Green Boob Survey will be announced in the spring.

The Big Green Boob Survey sponsors are: Green People, Bourgeois Boheme, Fashion Conscience, Cred, Simple Shoes, Peruvian Knitwear and Bobelle.

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I was wandering amidst the highest plains of a remote verdant plateau, with a sense of quest and expansive awareness, treading over gentle slopes and hillocks, and all around was a pleasant feeling of light and clarity.

I was not alone, I had a companion to share this adventure, this journey. As I reached the highest part of the plateau, the ground had become cleft and exposed, as though due to some rending of earth forces, not jagged and raw, but softly exposed, in gentle acceptance of the eternal dynamic of movement.

Then, as I began to clamber a little, and leap from point to point, overleaping the exposed gashes in the earth, I became aware of some strange rock like appearances, but rocks of an unusual formation - wave like, almost living - cresting and flowing, unlike any rock formation that could possibly exist.

This large exposed natural sculpture was maybe 50 metres across, and I began to explore with sense of wonder and anticipation.

Upon locating an inner aspect of this outcrop, it began to dawn upon me that these forms were familiar, they were that of a living organism, a tree.

My heart leaped as this thought flashed through my mind, and rapidly I understood that this was not rock, it was the base, the ancient stump of what might have been the world's largest tree - a tree of primeval dimensions, force and power, ancient as time, maybe the tree of life. The tree that represented all of nature on Earth, combining the earth with the air - as above, so below.

I recognised the structures so well now, and to me, in my wonderment it occurred to me that this most ancient and magnificent of trees was a Plane Tree.

Amidst the magical wonderment, and exploration of this long lost territory I called back to my companion to come and join me as began to roam, at first ankle deep, then knee high, and then waist deep into the exposed canyon that had once carried nourishment and sustenance up into the canopy of this, the world's most magnificent tree.

And here I passed, in immediate awareness, realising that though what had once reached a mile into the sky had long ceased and vanished back into the richly nourished earth around, there was still remaining, below, in the ground, the vast network of root and channel, still functioning in a manner of osmosis - the life force, though no longer required for trunk, branch, leaf and flower, did still continue to flow upwards.

I slipped my body into a suitably snug and comfortable cleft within the structure and opened by body, my mind and my experience to that which might still flow from deep within Mother Earth, and pass into me.

This brought the most astonishing energising and cleansing power into me. It arose from the deepest elemental essence of earth, drawn up by the immemorial magnificence of life and power.

And within this ecstasy was a vitality, a vitality of transformation, renewal and regeneration - that same life force that enabled the mightiest of all trees to have risen and flourished, was now surging within me.

Invisibly flowing in etheric waves, now connected, now finding purpose within me - healing, empowering and increasing. I found in that moment, the dormant source of life and growth, that which had been inhibited and dormant within me, now activated, now connected, now empowering.

For no surge of light, energy and power had I ever encountered, this so new, this so ecstatic, this so renewing.

As the bliss manifested at my heart, I knew this experience had begun a profound shift within my life, a profound point of change had been passes, and I had been carried forward toward my future destiny, one of self-realisation, healing, communication and connection....

Written, Dreamed and Published by Mark Golding - THE ORGANIC HOME