Nothing has created more of a stir in my weekly newsletter announcements in recent months than the telecall repatterning I hosted November 3rd for the Nun Karma Release.   It was a topic that hit a chord for anyone struggling with what seemed to be a karmic relationship to solemn vows taken in a previous life and invisibly operating this life – inappropriately holding individuals back. 

“SOLEMN VOWS
A spiritual consecration in which one is irrevocably set apart through a state of absolute surrender of self to a higher authority. All right to ownership of goods or property is relinquished. For many people, especially men, this commitment is taken to heart at a deep and irreversible level. Until now.” 

For those that know of resonance repatterning inner work, it was a topic that also hit a chord with the usual repatterning practitioners excitement and exuberance for not only clearing the pattern but replacing it with a more highly energized pattern of our choosing.  

The Nun Karma Repatterning - an initiative organized by Gail Glanville, with colleagues  Carol Cannon, Kathie Joblin, Nancy Martin, Helene Zahn-Chilberg  and myself earlier this fall is now available as a free download  e-book.  We have written this for anyone to read and do work on themselvs.  Resonance Repatterning practitioners may find it particularily useful to add to their repatterning protocals.   Be sure to sign up for the free E-Book version AND get updates on upcoming events using this repatterning at http://www.NunKarma.com .  Also let us know how this repatterning is working for you. Comments welcomed!

With light and love,

Carolyn Winter

Quick! Name 3 good things that happened for you in the last 30 minutes.

- 3 good things that happened for you in the last week.
- 3 good things that happened for you in the last 30 days.
- 3 good things that happened for you since September 1st.
- 3 good things that happened for you since last January 1st
- 3 good things that happened for you  in the last 3 years
- 3 good things that happened for you in the last 3 decades

Take in the energy of the good things you appreciate and notice how you feel.  You have just repatterned yourself!
Write out your list of good things that happened for you and print a copy.  Glance at your good things list when you need to remember life is good or you need an energy boost.  It may be easier to name the good things in your life you think as you have been repatterned with the daily mini repatterning called ENERGIZE!

Here are mine

30 minutes ago, – wonderful visit with my Practitioner colleague Kathie Joblin here from north of the city, being recipient of a repatterning for getting ‘on’ for social media, and having tea (Prince of Wales tea) and dessert (not fair to say) before she had to leave.

- 3 good things that happened for you in the last week. – friends put me in charge of planning the pot luck dinner menu,  the upcoming gathering, finished 3 more quilt blocks that are now getting to look like something.
- 3 good things that happened for you in the last 30 days. – Won a bag of Intelligista Coffee on Twitter from @grindercoffee (okay now I know what the fuss is all about), figuring out how to connect on Twitter, discovering how information is now moving through the internet as a result of reading tweets and blogs. Oaky it’s all making sense to me – even though I have a ways to go to figure out how to use a blog!  
- 3 good things that happened for you since September 1st. – learning about the evolutionary impulse, Craig Hamilton’s class, the book – Integral Consciousness by Steven MacIntosh
- 3 good things that happened for you since last January 1st – my previously loved car, attending an integral style wedding for the son of dear friends, finishing 2 quilts as gifts for friends.
- 3 good things that happened for you  in the last 3 years – Kathie inspiring me to quilt (has it been 3 years!), learning how to install a login program, use session variables and customize my online resonance repatterning sessions with huge gratitude to the web guys at Thomas Brunts http://www.Outfront.net and the mystery guy called SPOOKY.  I am still not a web developer but feel like i could be!  My road trip in Las Vegas with Elaine and Rick still feels like yesterday and left me with the inclination to not always drive with map. Now I am inclined to say “let’s get lost in the part of town for a while and see what its like”

- 3 good things that happened for you in the last 3 decades – 2 great learnings…Resonance repatterning and Integral Consciousness, finding work that aligns totally with who I am using the first 2, the opportunities to serve others and make a difference every day.

Okay it’s your turn!

With love and light,

Carolyn

November 3rd – This afternoon we did a pilot resonance repatterning session for Nun/Monk Karmic release http://aweber.com/b/1t-lI . It is certainly a topic that spoke to quite a large group. My thanks to all who participated. The recording will come soon so you can listen to it again or retro-intend if you missed it altogether. Your feedback is appreciated as we continue to develop the repatterning. The feedback at the end of the call was certainly awesome.

Later that day….

Here is the the audio link and mp3 if you missed the session.

Just a few notes to give a context to everyone’s comments, many of the vows taken in past life roles such as being a nun, monk, martyr, servant, or starving artist, etc, were taken in an expanded enlightened state of consciousness before God or source depending on your spiritual view point. While the vows perhaps fit the evolved state of consciousness for that lifetime, in this lifetime, they may well hold us back from living an abundant life of purpose and happiness. But a vow is a vow, frequently accompanied by an oath of maintaining the vow even in death and beyond. So where does that vow of poverty, celibacy, martyrdom, renunciation get us today?

In centuries gone by I can well understand how these type of vows were the only options that could be understood by someone following a spiritual path seeking enlightenment. It would take a lifetime of meditation and prayer or contemplation to understand what it meant to reach a state of self or God realization, or non dual state of awareness. The mental neuronet just wasn’t there for most of the populations and for even most of the enlightened leaders of the times. The simple answer was vows such as renunciation of all worldly goods and to embrace poverty.

To update our inherited or past life karma residing as invisible viruses in our unconscious awareness is necessary in the context of the current times. I see the ultimate evolution of a spiritual path as one where we are ‘over our ego’ , being in the present moment free of unclaimed baggage and an exalted state of oneness and awareness of our place in the universe. In that state of spiritual enlightenment, we are detached from worldly goods, ego driven concerns and the trappings of having more stuff. But unlike the past life experience we can be in this exalted state and ‘be the change’. We apparently have the mental gears to get there at this point in our evolution, but few of us may do much about it. I think its because past vows are getting in our way of being effective spiritual beings. It’s hard to lead a cause to save the planet if our vow of poverty won’t support us with paying the costs of a public awareness campaign. Spirit is not too concerned with paying our bills. Floating between a worldly state and spiritually enlightened state effectively, (in my opinion) requires that we recognize the abundance of the universe within ourselves.

Our repatterning released the vows that no longer serve us and updates us with vows or newer versions in keeping with our evolutionary path of enlightenment.

What are your views on karmic vows?

Participants,…did you feel that shift? Comments welcomed! How did you like the scribbling exercise?

Much appreciation for everyone’s involvement and to my colleague Gail Glanville who initiated the collaboration.

With love and light,

Carolyn

Energize Focus for the Week:  ”Appreciate 3 good things that happened for you today”  Energetically, we are in the season of appreciation. In the 5 Element and meridian system of energy on which acupuncture is based, Metal element is associated with the season of autumn, and the quality of appreciation. To be in synch with the energy cycles of nature puts our own system in energetic order and while there may be thousands of things we can do, I find the simplest is just the straightforward act of appreciation and /or gratitude.

A principle from quantum physics is closely linked with this spiritual quality – all probabilities are equally probably. What manifests is what we focus on. Appreciation does that in subtle ways that can build over time if we make it a habit. Appreciating traffic going well – notice how it always flows well for you. Appreciating your family for pitching in and getting the chores done – notice how often it starts getting done with asking. Praising your child for their completed homework and lovingly asking what they will work on next -notice how homework becomes the first thing they want to do. (Works in the workplace as well!) The choice to appreciate something over time activates a secondary quality of the Metal Element cycle – that of building a reserve of energy. If we want reserves of health, money, vitality, energy, good humor etc. – this is the season to start filling the tank.
This week fill your energy tank by selecting 2-3 areas of your life where you will appreciate outcomes regularily.

Do some of the recommended positive actions now posted at the Energize program web. See if it helps you establish a pattern of appreciation. http://lighttravels.org/energize/actions.asp . Appreciating 3 good things that happens for you may be easier to do than you think as you have been repatterned with the mini repatterning called ENERGIZE!

Inspired by all of the great samplings at the September Savor Stratford event, I did something I haven’t done for  years and made applebutter.  It’s so easy I wonder why I don’t make this more often. Plus you can control the amount of sugar you put into it.  I know my recent batch, must have had a good number of people in our apartment block, scurrying to make apple anything homemade. 

Make it yourself and you may drive everyone in the apartment block/household wondering “who IS that fabulous cook?”  Think of all the positive vibes you’ll attract!

Here is my version of applebutter:

Into a large roasting pan with lid place:
3-4 pounds of apples. Use what you have but I tried 2 or 3 of every kind at the green grocers about 2 dozen in all.   Quarter them and remove seeds and stems but don’t peel.

1 large lemon cut in half and squeeze out the juice into pan; remove seeds and cut lemon into quarters for the pot.

A  2″ piece of peeled fresh ginger chopped fine and added to the pot
2 whole cloves + 1 cinnamon stick + 2-3 all spice pods

1 cup of dark brown sugar.

Put the lid on pan and place in an oven at 200 degrees and slow cook for a few hours. I left mine in the oven overnight.  (Note:- I haven’t tried this but I imagine a large slow cooker will also do the trick)

Remove from oven when everything is mushy and kinda dark brown, with little liquid on top. Cool and then whiz with a hand processor or blender.

Pour in pint jars and refrigerate. Of course giving some away to the neighbors, is also a good thing to do!

Enjoy.

Carolyn Winter

Can our thoughts really change our outward reality? Can we really just intend away some of the harsh realities of our existence? One of my favorite books iluuminating my interior world and that gives me hope for the future is “The Intention Experiment” by Lynne McTaggart. Actually, anything written by Lynne McTaggart is on my favorites list as she is first and foremost a professional journalist who goes after the facts, and in a logical step by step analysis of those facts brings me to the place I started out based on faith and intuition.  The science and probablity of intentions that Lynne writes about has now been part of the inspiration and muse in Dan Brown’s latest book The Lost Symbol.

The idea that our thoughts can change our lives has always held promise for me that things beyond my control are very much within my abilities to change. When outward action doesn’t seem to do it – like hopelessly complaining to Bell Canada, I think well – perhaps I can change things with my thoughts.  While I am still trying to work this magic on Bell Canada (unreasonably hoping that they have the capacity to serve customers and carriers with integrity), I experienced far more instantaneous relief with yesterday’s World Peace Hologram resonance repatterning session with Ardis Ozborn.   In a 1 hour telecall session we  repatterned the vast deep topic of Eradicating Child Poverty.

Operating on the principle that the sum is contained in all of the parts, The World Peace Hologram sessions aim at repatterning topics that simoutaneously address our local personal issues that are also frequency patterns playing out on a larger stage of the world and contribute to peace.  Peace inside and out is one of the mantras.  Over 1000 participants are included energetically in the session  with a handful taking the time to submit their issues and intentions for repatterning. My role in this event was to stand in as the proxy for the group giving a voice to the various patterns that practitioner and veteran teacher Ardis Ozborn surfaced throughout the session. She set the stage with an overview of the vastness of child poverty and the tradegy that there are more than enough resources world wide to prevent this.  Every day children’s lives are slipping away without a murrmur due to our collective resonace of despair feeding the bigger pattern of blocked distribution.

Typical of the subtle energy nature of resonance repatterning, during the session, I could physically feel the weight of despair, from our collective involvement in the topic and went through many waves of emotions.  Equally powerful was the sensation of shifting to higher ground, and a sense that no matter how vast the topic, my going forward with just one small positive action in my world will contribute to a wave of shifts – an expanded world hologram of peace where child poverty is eradicated.   I feel more hopeful and optimistic about taking any action and thank Ardis Ozborn for the privilege  of  serving as proxy in the session.

The session is recorded and posted along with detailed session notes, and a place to retro-intend your particiaption (read The Intention Experiment to understand that concept) in a session that happened yesterday.  If you are signed up here is the direct link http://worldpeacehologram.org/Program/Notes2009/October.asp

If not, just get a u/p – its really easy.

Did the session make a difference? Is there a little less child poverty in the world today? I am sure that until The Intention Experiments gains further recognition and reaches deeper, journalists will not be picking up this story. The answer is in my awareness, the news that I am noticing, tweeting, and paying attention to.  Today, I am reading the twitter feed, and newspapers looking for the signs that something has changed.  Perhaps even Bell Canada will do the right thing in my world today. I will let you know!

In the meantime, I invite you to tune in, and join a coherent wave for world peace.  It may be the one thing that changes your day and in doing so saves one child’s life from the despair of poverty.

With light and love

 Carolyn Winter

PS-  Have you been noticing new efforts to eliminate child poverty? Please comment with links if you have them! Every comment extends the session and expands the hologram!

Last weekend I attended a local Ontario food festival called Savor Stratford – a wonderful opportunity to sample exquisite food pairings between local growers and restaurants and their chefs. Each restaurant chef had created a signature dish to provide as a sample at the festival. WOW. It was a terrific example of coherent community energy at work with local farms being supported and cross promoted by local restaurants with a festival that basically benefitted the whole town. Most coherent was that the food was mostly (perhaps all) organic and grown locally in Perth County. This distinction of course supports the environment by saving us the transportation costs and environmental impact of lugging food from far away. However, I think it also adds to the tremendous flavor of the food. All of the samples, were quite memorable and I kept whipping out my notebook to make recipe notes. Most memorable of all was the overall taste of things. I had to sit with my Summer Savory Herbal tea for several minutes before I realized what was so remarkable – every morsel had the undeniable flavor of being REAL FOOD!!!! Not processed, not boosted with unknown chemicals, not tarted up colors not natural to the food but just plain real food. Could it be my imagination – but I actually felt better. I suppose you could do a taste test for yourself and bring home some meal items from a bistro specializing in locally grown food and some regular commercial made versions of the same thing. Which one tastes better or creates more energy for you? The more in tune you are with your energy field the more you will begin to notice the subtle differences.

Wish I had the precense of mind to take pictures of the food.  Above is a late afternoon snap with the festival winding down.

Quilts at the Temple

Last Tuesday mother nature’s clock ticked on over to the cycle of metal energy as the Fall Equinox arrives.   In the Chinese system of energy known as the 5 Elements which govern the 12 meridian maps of Acupuncture each season is associated with an element and its related qualities.

Metal Element is active this fall and includes the qualities of :

• Values
• Qualities
• Clear Intellect
• Inspiration
• Respect
• Fathering
• Perfection
• Purity
• Connection
• Letting Go
• Breath
• Divine Purpose
• Money, Reserves & Abundance
• Appreciation and Acknowledgement
• Truth

How are these qualities showing up in your life? Where do you need more of them? Where does there need to be more balance?  When our metal element energy is out of synch, our money issues will be related to non-coherent and often unconscious beliefs that money is bad or tarnished, we lose faith, have issues with our fathers, and can feel at a spiritually low ebb.  When we have received sufficient Earth element energy to nurture the cycle our Metal element blossoms with coherence.  We are able to let go of what we no longer need, connect with our own inner source or the divine within us,  access our incisive intellect, enjoy respect, act from pure values, have a sense of ideals and be inspired.  

Any number of life issues can block the smooth flow of our energy.  Making a commitment to personal growth over a life time, will contribute to a continually renewing and transforming field of energy that uplifts us.   An easy way to feed that commitment is by staying attuned to the seasons and aligning our energy with its natural flow.

In the repatterning for the fall equinox session the shared group patterns that are collectively blocking us are identified and cleared so that we all experience more flow of the metal energy qualities above and are supported for our overall intention:  “My plans and goals yield delightful and unexpected sources of abundance. I reap the harvest of my experiences.”

Energize subscribers are automatically included in this online group proxy session but can customize their slice of the hologram by making submissions at: http://www.lighttravels.org/Energize/autumn.asp

New to the program?  Whether you are visiting this page  before the session or trying out the cutting edge quantum tool of retro-intending after the fact  get more details and sign up for the program here http://www.lighttravels.org/repatterninginvite.htm - I would love to have you join us.

Sending you light and love

Carolyn

SEPTEMBER 28th UPDATE – The Session Notes are In. Participants- how did the session work out for you?  Please share your stories, comments and questions -

Thanks so much – carolyn

Energetically we are now in the in-between season of Earth Element energy. Over the years I have tuned into mother nature’s signal of the changing seasons and recognize this in-between seasonal state when the final days wrap up at the CNE here in Toronto and the popcorn and candy floss vendors disappear.  (Does anyone still eat that stuff?).  The days can be quite warm and this year much warmer than most of our soggy summer, but night drops down to a very cool breeze.  My balcony is not giving up the harvest of vegetables I envisioned last spring after reading Michael Pollan’s book on “IN Defense of FOod”.  But I am cherishing the 7 tiny tomatoes I was able to grow on my own just the same.

‘Back to school’ energy is in the wind and even if your school days are long over  you may find yourself yearning for a pack of new crayons, a new lunch box or to sign up for something.  By the way if you didn’t catch my earlier ReTweet from Zen Habits check out this link for inspiration on things to do that I think will nicely fill in that hole created by the “back to school” yearning invoked at this time of year. http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/do-interesting-things/

Earth element energy will soon segway us into Autumn and Metal Element energy but until then be in synch with mother nature’s energy by being aware of the coherent aspects of these qualities within yourself:

• Mothering
• Self-Nurturing
• Supportiveness
• Care
• Sympathy
• Groundedness
• Home
• Digestion
• Repating the Harvest
• Security
• Imagination
• Natural Cycles and Transitions

When we are in synch with nature and its cycles our lives are more energized and things work out a little easier for us.

If these Earth element qualities are missing for you at this time, join my long distance healing group called ENERGIZE (if you haven’t already) and tell me what issues you are grabbling with.  They will be repatterned in the next full session that I do online.  The next session is September 21 when I do Repatterning for the Fall Equinox.  Your field of energy will also be included in the daily mini session that boosts 7 life intentions I work with in the Energize program.   Here is the info link to learn more: http://www.lighttravels.org/energize.htm

To get into the energy of the season and be in flow I am creating my own “Night at the Proms” day on September 12th and perhaps playing anything I can get from the library by Elgar.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_of_the_Proms#Last_Night_of_the_Proms   while finishing up a long standing quilt project called ‘Arboretum’.   The colors are the frequency of the season as is the sound of Elgars music. 

How are you celebrating the end of summer and beginning of fall?  What rituals do you keep? What helps you bring closure to summer?