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Our course fee will be increasing to $34.95 as of December 15, 2005. While still affordable and jammed packed with information, resources and innovative Online Learner's Tools, if you want to order a S-HE course as a holiday gift for friends, loved ones or YOU, this your last chance to order it at the low price of $24.95. NOTE: With the new price increase will come 16 + bonus gifts, including e-books, downloadable material, audio visualizations, and other wonderful offers created by our amazing group of Content Providers. (The course fees cover the overhead for this site to exist. We thank you for your ongoing support!)  

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY.
Using your amazing power of creativity, choose from one of the three photos provided in the link to spark your creative juices.
Then write a short story (400 to 1000 words). We usually write about people, places and things. For this fall's writing contest,write about a place. What feelings are invoked when you look at your photo selection? Is it a familiar or new place? What would happen if you were to walk into the photo and into one of these places? Be wildly inventive; create characters, a plot line. Have fun creating an adventure... and take us along for the ride. Find more contest details in the link below.

Writing contest - Click here to enter.
Have fun!

Wild Woman Network:  The purpose is to connect the many interesting women and men who are doing wild and interesting things. Why not join the Wild Woman Network yahoo group?  You can interact with other members of the network and post your events and links.  Just send an email to the address below and become part of something exciting - WildWomanNetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

From Sandra Schubert: Finding Meaning

The Righteous Brothers had a song years ago about losing that loving feeling.  I have a lost a bit of the holiday spirit.  Halloween this year was a no candy, no costumes non-extravangza. Thanksgiving is next week and Christmas is not far behind. All the stress of the holidays has finally taken its toll and my enthusiasm has waned. I am not a scrooge or a lost cause but I am thinking about what the holidays truly mean.  This mad dash to create a lot of empty feelings with overdone holiday decorations doesn't really perk me up.  The original sense of wonder and awe that was part of each holiday has been lost in commercialism and this idea of perfection. It has hard to find meaning behind all the glitter.  If you find yourself more stressed then blessed this season take some time to rethink what it is you are celebrating.  What are the things that real meaning for you?  Do like decorations?  Great.  Spending time with family and friends?  Good.  Do the holidays have religious or spiritual significance?  Wonderful.  Look for the value among the wrappings and maybe next year we can all share a deeper meaning together. 

Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to reflect on what is good in your life.  Sharing time with family and friends can be a great joy.  If you are worried about overeating or what to do after you have eaten too much I offer up a short article on the magic of correct eating.  Enjoy the coming weeks, eat well and happily, be grateful and enjoy life as richly as you can.

Wild Woman Offering:

There is a Real Magic to Correct Eating - Troubling Maladies Can Be Healed With Food
 
By Dr. David M. Vitko
 
For many Americans, our health seems to be going haywire.
 
Illness, depression, anxiety, muscle aches, pains and little ouches are wearing us down. Many of us simply do not feel well . and we just do not have the energy to enjoy life fully. The most shocking thing about these ailments is: They are often caused by what we eat and the high cholesterol that ensues from unhealthy foods. The good news is we can turn it around and experience vibrant health.   
 
How Do You Create Vibrant Health? Let it flow.
This kind of health does not come in a vitamin, mineral, herb or pill. Exercise alone will not create it. I think we can also safely eliminate modern medicine as a source of "Incredible Health." They are obviously preoccupied with the creation of new miracle drugs that can be sold to us on an ongoing basis. These methods cannot support the high level of health I am describing here. Drugs, no matter how seemingly miraculous, only produce the illusion of health by altering individual chemical reactions in the body.
   
I studied hundreds of research abstracts while writing a book about cholesterol. My search results for "high cholesterol" in the National Library of Medicine turned up numerous studies on many of our most serious diseases. These included Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, arthritis, fibromyalgia, back pain, depression, cancer, osteoporosis, heart attack and stroke to name a few. Elevated cholesterol was a common trait in all of these diseases. There was definitely a pattern here!
 
Through further study I found that high cholesterol is one of the underlying causes of increased blood viscosity (resistance to flow). The primary job of blood is to deliver oxygen to all the cells of the body. It stands to reason that even slightly decreased blood flow resulting from high cholesterol or other blood components, would reduce oxygen delivery to those cells. Over an extended period of time affected cells would suffer from a decreased ability to function at full capacity.
    
According to prominent medical literature most of the diseases noted above have "unknown origins." Yet, in many studies I reviewed, researchers have postulated that long term tissue hypoxia in the brain might be responsible for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Other studies have also noted the origins of cancer and arthritis to be "oxygen deprived" and "acidic and inhospitable tissue environments."
 
The most exciting thing about this revelation is that it puts the answer to so many serious diseases squarely within our control! In my opinion the vast majority of chronic diseases plaguing developed nations today, are directly related to the long-term results of increased blood viscosity. The powerful answer is on our dinner plate.
 
The Solution to So Many Problems is in What We Eat
We have all read news stories describing the "protective benefits" of one kind of food or another. Tomatoes have lycopene, a key to fighting heart disease. Carrots have beta c arotene, which prevents cancer. Oatmeal reduces cholesterol. Most of these stories simply represent advertising disguised as news. Individually, no fruit, vegetable or other healthy food will solve your health problems. However, these stories hint at the real answer to all our health concerns.
 
Numerous studies demonstrate the extraordinary health benefits provided by a diet of primarily fruits and vegetables. For instance, it has been proved that a plant based diet can lower cholesterol just as quickly as many prescription drugs. The real benefit is that it does so without the damaging side effects that often accompany drug treatments. Lowering cholesterol is a key step in eliminating the risk of many of the debilitating diseases listed above.
 
A plant-based diet is rich in many important health-building nutrients like Vitamin C, Folate, Fiber, and Beta Carotene, to name a few. Individually these nutrients do nothing to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. (This explains why vitamin supplements do not lower cholesterol.) But, eaten together in their natural state, these foods become a powerful, almost magical health-building complex with no equal in medicine.
 
Why is a plant-based diet so very beneficial to our overall health? The simple answer is that these foods represent our natural diet. These are the foods we are designed to thrive upon!
   
Eating a plant based diet, while significantly decreasing the amount of processed and animal based foods can improve our circulation within days (read more about this at www.concretehealth.com). It does so naturally by thinning and lubricating the blood, facilitating dramatically more efficient delivery of oxygen to all the cells of the body. It's not possible to overemphasize the value of a diet composed of 90% fruits, nuts, vegetables, and limited grains and fish. If you are looking for truly astonishing improvement in your health, this is it.
 
Looking Forward to Vibrant Health
If you are one of those people who is suffering from the modern malady or is coming close to it . ask yourself.  Would you like to enjoy incredible health? Not just the absence of disease, but:
 
*Vibrant energy, the kind that makes you want to leap out of bed in the morning, full of enthusiasm for the new day. Really!
*Unbounded optimism, with the ability to automatically look past routine doom and gloom to the positive in any situation.
*Mental sharpness, setting you apart from the overwhelming numbers of people who "sleep-walk" through life.
*Physical stamina, not necessarily that of an athlete, but that which allows you to be as productive at midnight as you are in the morning and all points between.
*Unwavering self-confidence emanating from deep within, shining brightly as a beacon for others to follow.
*The knowledge that health is fully within our control and that our daily decisions determine the level of health we experience. 
 
You might be feeling so imbalanced that you have forgotten what it is like to just feel good. It may be challenging to change your diet, radical for some. But just imagine what it will feel like in the morning to awake refreshed, pain free, and excited about the day ahead! And to know you have many days of more joyful living ahead of you because of improved health.
 
Dr. David Vitko is a leading expert on alternative approaches to correcting high cholesterol, as well as many of today's most troubling maladies. A chiropractic physician based in Ohio, he is devoted to teaching others how simple it is to be incredibly healthy. He is author of Perfect Cholesterol in Just Three Weeks - Without Drugs (Rock Solid Health Solutions, 2005). Visit him at www.concretehealth.com/
 

Here are the Links to my current online articles.  I have no new publications for this issue.  Come back next month for my December column - Write A Way: Journey to Creativity, providing inspiration and some prompts to encourage you on your creative journey. Here is the link to past issues.
http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/newsletter_archive.shtml
 
Included is the November newsletter from Holistic Expressions.
http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/holistic_expressions_35.shtml
 

Soulfulliving is a wonderful site.  Each month or so it offers up tantalizing articles on a particular theme. http://www.soulfulliving.com/eye_of_storm.htm

Visit the Soulfulliving site to read the other wonderful articles.
Be Still http://www.soulfulliving.com/

If you are interested in the writing life and creating your life story you  will like my e-course for the amazing price of $24.95 until December! Take the course with a  friend and share your completed books with each other.  Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own
http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/scrapbooking.shtml
James W. Pennebaker, PhD author Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing
Emotions had this to say about the course: 
"Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own" is a creative and thoughtful   guide to self-understanding. In 20 lessons, she takes the students' hands and  leads them through a series of exercises that deal with family, spirituality,  health, the future and the past, and other topics central to human existence. This is a very nice journaling project that could be helpful for millions.

Wild Woman Tips: 

What Shall We Call This Business?   By Barbara Winter, author of Jumpstart Your  Entrepreneurial Spirit!

For years, it’s been a hobby of mine to study the names that people give their businesses and analyze which ones work and which don't. Most names, I've concluded, are serviceable and a few are showstoppers. Seldom are they as provocative as the one I noticed while passing by in a bus in Bath, England. The sign that grabbed my attention said, "Jolly’s Funeral Directors." I can only assume that Jolly is a family name and not the personality of the undertaker.

Before you commit to a name, start making lists of any possibilities that come to mind. Try out your ideas on trusted friends and see if there’s a consensus of opinion. Or if your friends are willing, gather them together for a Name My Business Party.  The more ideas you can generate, the better your chances of picking the name that suits your business perfectly.

Barbara Winter is a Minneapolis-based entrepreneur; writer and speaker who has
spent the past 17 years helping people discover their passions and turn them
into profitable businesses. She is the author of the best-selling book, Making
a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love (Bantam,
1993), and the publisher of Winning Ways, the newsletter for people living and
working with passion. http://www.barbarawinter.con/ 

Romantic tips by Laurie Sue Brockway

13 Steps For Making Your Romantic Dreams Come True:
"Always be ready - you can meet that special someone at the most unexpected times and places." --  Dr. Judy Kuriansky, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Dating
Welcome to Project Soul Mate.

These tips will help you to open your heart, your arms and your life to love in 2005 and beyond.  Forget about searching for the one who might be The One. First, clean up stuff you no longer need, get your life in order, and simultaneously, get ready for love. Here are just a few of my pearls of wisdom on the topic, culled from more than 25 years of work on the front line of the Relationship Revolution and many more than that out and about on Love's Battlefield.

#6. Honor your path, know when to change routes

The journey to soulful love is ongoing, in daily life. Lived with consciousness, each step will count for something. Even the difficult aspects of romantic evolution can be considered "time served" in preparation for true love. No relationship is bad or wrong, as long as lessons are being learned and no one is getting injured. It’s important to discern when one particular path has run its course. Many of us get our best training in relationship boot camp. We may beat our selves up for bad dates and time that seems wasted on Mr. or Ms Wrong, but in truth, they are an important, instructive part of the journey. The grand awakening to what soul mate love is comes by discovering first hand what it is not. Refusing to see the truth about nowhere relationships keep us stuck; insisting on continuing on a dead end path limits possibilities. It is difficult to let go of a relationship that offers companionship, sex, fun. But when you want a true soul mate, holding on to a relationship that is imitating love keeps us from the very thing we say we desire. Eventually, we figure it out. Many people take a break from searching or even swear off relationships for a while. Its at those times that many people report meeting the loves of their lives – when they least suspect it and when the aren’t "searching."

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© Copyright 2005 Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway. All Rights Reserved.
   
Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway regularly marries couples in love and has been cited as one of the New York's most creative and unique wedding officiants.  She is   also widely recognized as an expert in women’s empowerment, self-esteem and spirituality. She is a bridal stress expert, devoted to helping brides-to-be  tap into their inner power and poise.  She co-facilitates the nationally   acclaimed Bridal Survival Club for The New York Wedding Group and is author of   WEDDING GODDESS: A Divine Guide To Transforming Wedding Stress into Wedding Bliss (Perigee Books, May 2005). Visit her at www.WeddingGoddess.com.
 Amazon.com link:  

 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399530991/qid=1109955985/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9853850-6684113?v=glance&s=books&n=507846.

Abundance tips from Lucia Luna: Creating with Ease

Don't push and struggle to make things happen.  Make things much easier for yourself by going with the natural flow.  First, go with the inspirations you receive, ideas you have about things you like to do or accomplish.  Select from your list the three inspirations that have the most energy for you. Next, visualize the results you seek as final or completed in the real world. We are constantly visualizing: however, most of our visualizations are subconscious, and often are the exact opposite of what we really want.  Learn from athletes, entertainers, and successful people from all walks of life who have long used the power of consciously directed visualization to make things happen, Focus and se the picture, relax don't strain, pretend you are watching a movie, see all the details down to the dew in the grass, include yourself in the picture, and ad enjoy what you see.  Give thanks.  Let it go. Trust that it is done.

Lucia Luna, MSC, CHHC is an expert at empowering women to take their focus off perceived limitations and to use the power of the mind to move toward the fulfillment of their life purpose, visions, and goals. With over 30 years of business and professional experience, and over 20 years in the study and practice of meditation, nutrition, and deliberate creation, Lucia teaches “prosperity and health mastery” to groups and private clients.  For more information on Lucia, and upcoming
events, please visit www.lucialuna.com