Some of you have been asking about the retreat I just returned from. Here is an excerpt from my latest newsletter.

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Well, here we are. 

Just a few weeks left in 2009! Amidst the hustle and bustle of your holiday activity, I encourage you to take the time to bring forth awareness & presence. Otherwise, it’s just hustle and bustle.

Speaking of awareness & presence, as an on-purpose alive woman, I recently identified & prioritized my “incomplete’s” for 2009 (something I do with my Be Alive group every year) and I realized there was something I still needed to do.

So, here I am (above picture last Friday), on the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island ready to complete something I intented to do this year. (Check out full photo album.)

The details of what I was working on in this 3 1/2 day solo in the woods will be revealed in 2010 (YIPEEEE!).

What I’ll share with you now is that I experienced a deepening in my own peace through acceptance.

I went into the retreat with expectations and after the first day I realized they were causing me strife. When I reliquished “how it was supposed to be”, I surrendered to the process. I was able to see the endings I needed to honor. So I released. And I intentionally created endings in out-dated beliefs, endings in my ties to unsupportive thoughts, and endings through forgiveness of people that I had pain about. As a result, I felt free & was able to unleash my creative force.

Don’t get me wrong, expectations are great. In fact, I encourage you to have HIGH expectations of what life can be. But when you are too attached to them, as I was, the natural flow is pinched and life feels hard.

So, dream big, take the time for you, create with the flow, and release where needed.

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Peace is your natural state. Let it be so.
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Peace to you & all beings.

More to come….