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    <title>Gaia: Sacred Walk - Wonder and Awe - The Gift of the Blessing</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Gift of the Blessing</title>
      <author>http://jillianne.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      I was talking to a woman recently about meditation practise.&amp;nbsp; She had this AHA moment and she said &amp;quot;I get it.&amp;nbsp; You practise so that when you need it, it is second nature to you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liked that. &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Re: The Gift of the Blessing</title>
      <author>http://yhd52754.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>debyemm</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:48:37 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;p&gt;Jill,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in answer to your message sent privately.&amp;nbsp; In the technique taught on the CD, breathing deep, pushing out the belly in promise and lifting up the diaphram in giving is how the meditation begins.&amp;nbsp; I found myself using that breathing technique just this morning when an unexpected stress popped up because of our business.&amp;nbsp; I was able to release the anger, unattach myself from the outcome and allow the situation to develop for the highest good of all concerned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And oh, my pile - I just wish I had time to read it all - uh-oh, no I better be careful with that, don&amp;#39;t want to find myself &amp;quot;laid up&amp;quot; for an extended period of time.&amp;nbsp; I recently had a minor healing period last fall and I did enjoy the cocooning but my life needs me (as well as the kids, the husband, the in-laws, the business, the trees and the frogs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Re: The Gift of the Blessing</title>
      <author>http://jillianne.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      What a wonderful reflection of choice.&amp;nbsp; I like how you chose to spend your time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to look up this book.&amp;nbsp; I appreciate Braden, and am now interested.&amp;nbsp; (oh, you should see my pile!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome! &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>The Gift of the Blessing</title>
      <author>http://yhd52754.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>debyemm</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2007:Gaia-122374</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:50:23 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      I take a walk in our woods daily for exercise and to practice my spirituality.&amp;nbsp; I recently signed up at a Zaadzsters site&amp;nbsp;- &lt;a href="http://www.intentionproject.com/"&gt;http://www.intentionproject.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- to participate by adding a moment for global peace to my contemplations.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was the first day of Spring.&amp;nbsp; While walking, I listened to a CD called The Gift of the Blessing by Gregg Braden and experienced the most amazing release of emotional energy - sent to heal the situation in Iraq and sent to heal the failures to express perfect love in my small family.&amp;nbsp; Both times I wept in the process - much more in the global, less in the personal but in the personal I gained the most amazing insight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Gift of the Blessing - 3 aspects must be blessed - those who have suffered, those who have inflicted the suffering (without condoning their action) and those who witness the suffering.&amp;nbsp; On such a powerful day as the vernal equinox (an equal yin and yang of day and night), I am happy to have begun my moment of meditation for world peace in such a powerful way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I received the CD along with Gregg Braden&amp;#39;s book The Divine Matrix - Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief, which I ordered from One Spirit but have not started reading.&amp;nbsp; I believe the CD can be found at Sounds True and may be more closely related to another book of his - Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer - which I have not read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day for the global I sent blessings to Russia for 3 horrific events (a fire in a residential care facility, a mine accident and&amp;nbsp;a plane wreck) and one for a personal health concern.&amp;nbsp; Today, I sent energy for Dolphins turning up dead in TX and for my sister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah &lt;/p&gt;

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