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Workshop Newsletter
November
2000
By
Bruce Moen
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New Workshop Date Available Near Pensacola, Florida
November
11-12 in
Denver, Colorado. Contact Bruce Moen at
BAMoen@msn.com for details and to sign
up. We have room for several more
participants for this workshop and if you’re interested in attending I’d love
to have you here.
November
18-19 in
the Boston area, contact Grace at dimauro@shore.net This workshop has about 14 people who have sent in their deposit
to register and there is room for perhaps a couple more.
December
2-3 in
Toronto, contact Loretta and/or Susan; email: sumari@trigger.net; Mesg centre tel:
416-259-2829; fax: 416-259-2128. Quite
a number of people have expressed interest in attending this workshop, but few
have sent in their refundable $50 deposit to confirm they will be attending. We need to get a count of those actually
planning to attend as soon as we can so, if you’re planning to attend please
contact Loretta and/or Susan to let them know.
December
9-10 in
Lillian, AL, (near Pensacola, FL) contact Cam at: livinginthenow@hotmail.com for
details and to sign up. We would very
much appreciate it if those of you planning to attend would contact Cam
regarding your refundable deposit.
Cam says” We
are located minutes from the gulf coast on beautiful Perdido Bay about 15 min.
W of Pensacola, 45 min. E of Mobile, AL and about 4 hrs. E of New Orleans and 8
hrs from Central FL and 5 hrs from Atlanta, GA... If you are interested please
respond via e-mail we have camping cabins and RV/Tent spaces available on site
and motels close by prices are in the range of $50.00 per night
The Seattle Workshop is Completed
October
21-22 in
Seattle, Washington, Joe Meboe at joe@meboe.com
hosted my workshop in Seattle. The new
“retrieval of a part of self” exercise was debuted in this workshop with
incredible, evolving results. One of
this month’s Workshop Participant stories is the story of one participant’s
retrieval of a part of self. I have one
other retrieval of a part of self participant experience to share, perhaps in
the next Newsletter.
What’s in a Workshop?
To let you know some of the things participants learn in my workshop
I’ve added this section to this newsletter.
Each month I’ll talk a little about what’s in a workshop. We can use more than our rational, thinking
mind to explore beyond physical reality.
This month my topic is:
Heart Intelligence
We are all probably familiar with using our mental capacity, our
logical, rational, thinking “brain”, but some of us are not use to using the
intelligence of our heart. Yet,
experience has shown that we can ask questions and receive answers while
focusing our attention on our heart.
This month’s second participant experience story is one like this.
By first learning to sense when the attention is focused at the heart
or elsewhere, participants experience holding their attention at the
heart. They learn to use the power of
Love to bring answers to questions they’ve been holding inside themselves for a
long time.
While Heart Intelligence can be used for any question, the answers can
come in ways different than logic.
Images, feelings, impressions, holographic learning experiences, and
many other ways can be used by Heart Intelligence to bring the answers to
conscious awareness. The experience of
a woman I’ll call “CO” illustrates graphically what I mean. Her story is below
after Erika’s.
Seattle Workshop Participant Experiences
Erika's
Power, A Retrieving Part of Self Experience
A new
Retrieving Part of Self exercise was debuted in my recent workshop. In a previous workshop a participant
spontaneously experienced a retrieval and reintegration of a part of herself
that she described as having "walled off" many years ago. The results had such a powerful, healing
effect on her that I decided to try to create an exercise in the workshop that
might guide others to a similar experience.
This
retrieval exercise relies heavily on the assistance of nonphysical
Helpers. In fact, it's an exercise in
which some people will encounter things in their experience which may lead to a
big time belief system crash. Others
may describe their experience during this exercise as a non-experience. Either is a good outcome in my opinion. It's my feeling that our Helpers and
Guidance only lead us to conscious perception of only as much of a belief
system crash as we can handle. For
those who would say they had a non-experience during this exercise, perhaps the
retrieval of a part of self is done at a subconscious level. Perhaps the contact of that experience will
be released into conscious awareness in small doses. Perhaps it was just an exercise in which nothing happened, I have
no way of knowing and that's okay.
As I said
before, this exercise relies heavily on Guidance and perhaps direct input from our
Higher Self, Disk or I/There. Without
such guidance for the participant during the experience I'm not certain how
else it could be easily accomplished.
The part of self to be retrieved in this exercise could be anything from
one stuck after death in a previous lifetime, to an aspect of self created
during the present lifetime. During my
most recent workshop three people out of a total of nine participants
experienced a retrieval of an aspect of themselves. Erika's experience in this workshop demonstrates the both the
healing potential, and potential for turmoil that can result from such an
experience. She has graciously allowed
me to retell her story here, and as she continues to progress through this
process of reintegration she may be willing to share more. This is such a personal and private
experience I'm feeling it is a great privilege for us that she is willing to
share any of it. Here's Erika's story
so far. I'll add to this story in
future posts and articles in the Workshop Newsletter for as long as she's
willing to share it.
At the beginning of the retrieval exercise
Erika asked for a Helper to come. She
then heard a voice say, "I am here" coming from insider her. This voice seemed to be a part of her that
wanted to help her. She didn't feel
comfortable with the Helper's voice coming from inside her and expressed this
to the Helper. The voice then said that
two more Helpers could there with her.
According to Erika, "That is when the light beings came. I remember feeling very connected to them
from the beginning. It wasn't like when
the other helpers (who) came during the other retrievals."
These two
very bright Light Beings Erika described as feeling neither male nor female,
just Light. The Light Beings stood
slightly behind and on either side of Erika, and with them there she felt a
sense of security. When she asked these
Helpers to guide her to a part of self needing retrieval, at first she felt
like she was going somewhere, but could only see blackness surrounding
her. As a scene came into view she
found herself standing in a field, looking at a big, heavy door that had been
slid open to reveal the opening to a cave.
Erika and the Helpers approached the opening and entered the cave.
She
described that it was red inside the cave and she could see jewels piled high
on the floor of it. Most of these
jewels were red and there were some gold ones also. The cave opening led to a tunnel and she began walking through
the tunnel with the Light Beings moving along behind her. As she proceeded she continued to pass large
piles of the red and gold jewels. At
the end of the tunnel Erika walked into a big room with more of the jewels
piled high on the floor of the room.
She then saw a throne in front of her and a
King, wearing a crown and dressed in royal robes appeared, sitting on the
throne. Another throne appeared, and
then a Queen, also wearing a crown and dressed in royal robes appeared, sitting
on this second throne. As she looked at
them she realized that the King and Queen were her "Power." She remembered creating them during her
present lifetime when she was between the ages 2 and 4 years old. She
remembered that it had been too hard to keep her own Power at that age and deal
with the rest of her life. So she had
created the King and Queen to hold it for her and sealed them in the cave. After this realization she knew it was time
for she and the King and Queen, her Power, to be reunited. The King and Queen stood up from their
thrones and walked to where Erika was standing. They kissed her cheeks and then one by one each put their crown
upon her head. They removed their royal
robes, put them around Erika, and then "just kind of came into"
her.
Erika then
saw that there was now only one throne and she walked to it and sat down. Sitting there, her first thought was,
"what am I going to do with all these jewels?" A whirlwind suddenly began and she, both
Light Being Helpers, an all the jewels were picked up. The two Light Being Helpers then assisted
Erika in sprinkling the jewels over all the people in her life and every
situation that had occurred since she had created the King and Queen as a
child. When they were done she turned
to her Light Being Helpers feeling overpowering love for them. She hugged both Light Being Helpers feeling
great love and deep gratitude. Before
she parted from the Helpers they said, "Now, don't be a stranger,"
and then she returned to the workshop and opened her eyes.
When I
contacted Erika via email two days after the workshop she reported that things
were pretty chaotic the first day after the workshop, and she was working at
"pulling herself together."
She realized these feelings were probably a result of her workshop
experience and expressed confidence she would be able to pull herself
together. Her choice of words were for
me a graphic description of the process of reintegrating her identity after the
experience of retrieving her "Own Power."
In an email
one week after the workshop Erika said it is hard to describe how she is doing. "I feel depressed, yet still have a lot
of hope without expectations about how things are going to be
different." She went no to say, "Here's something interesting that I've
noticed: Up until last week I had been
putting things that I wanted to get rid of in a pile in our garage. A few days ago I knew it was the time to
really get rid of the pile. So
yesterday and today I have been collecting all the other items out of our house
that I don't want anymore and adding them to the pile until the donation truck
picks it up. I can't help but think
that what I am doing in my house is a mirror image of what is going on inside
me. I do feel like I am discharging
something, and that the process is not yet over."
Erika's
understanding of the mirroring of her physical life events and the
reintegration of her power speaks volumes about the process. She continued describing things in her life
now that may be part of this reintegration process:
"Another
interesting thing is that some old health problems came back this week. Maybe they are also reappearing until I
discharge them properly or deal with them in a better way. Probably one of the most soothing things I
did this week was going out to an organic farm with (my two young sons). We picked a wheelbarrow full of fresh and
free vegetables plus pumpkins for carving. I am anxious to see what the next
month will be like.
Gathering
"fresh and free vegetables plus pumpkins for caving" and the soothing
quality, to me points to part of the process of getting to know this part of
self that she retrieved. In some ways I
reminds me of the Biblical passages that speak about the need to be born again.
Erika ended
her latest email by saying, "feel free to put it (her experience) on your
website and in your newsletter. I hope
that it is helpful to someone who reads it.
I want to
thank Erika for her willingness to share such a personal and powerful
experience with the rest of us.
Perhaps through sharing her experience others will recognize something
in their own life experience. Perhaps
it may help trigger such experiences for some of you who read this story of
Erika regaining her Power.
“CO’s” Heart Intelligence Experience
CO’s son died unexpectedly
in a car crash around the beginning of this year. As we began the Heart Intelligence exercise I asked each
participant to be prepared to ask a question that has been with them for a long
time. During the debriefing after the
exercise CO described what happened.
As she focused her attention
on her heart there was a question she wanted to ask so desperately, but she was
almost too afraid to ask it. She wanted
to know where her son was and if he was all right. As we approached the point in the guided meditation she would ask
her question she gathered her courage and asked the question that was in her
heart.
She described that when she
asked where her son was and how he was doing he suddenly appeared to her. He looked bright and healthy and like he was
doing very well. There was evidently a
short period of lost time during her experience, probably due to a click
out. She said that she is certain what
she saw was not just a memory of her son, but that it was actually contact with
him. She could feel his presence in a
way that told her this contact with him was absolutely real.
This Heart Intelligence
exercise took place within the first two hours of the workshop. CO said that for her the experience of
contacting her son was enough that she felt that every penny she spent on
coming to the workshop was worth it for that one experience. And that if nothing else happened for the
rest of the workshop she felt she’d already gotten her money’s worth.
It made me happy to see
where CO’s experience went from that point through the rest of the
workshop. It is my wish that others
could feel the certainty of CO’s contact with her son in their own experience
just by reading this.
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Hosting
Workshops
If you’re interest in hosting a workshop in
your area I’d like to do whatever I can to help you do that. One possibility is for me to put you in
touch with others in your area who’ve expressed interest in attending a
workshop. If you can facilitate putting
on a workshop for between ten and twenty people you attend for free and share
in any profit. If you’re interested
please email me and I’ll help in whatever way I can to bring my workshop to
your area.
That’s
the November Workshop Newsletter. I
hope to hear from those of you interested in hosting a workshop and look
forward to meeting some of you in person in Denver, Boston, Toronto and in
Lillian, Alabama.
Love,
Bruce