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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020
MINDFUL SOUL CENTER bi-monthly magazine
DEJA DREWIT'S SELF-CARE CORNER
IMPOSTER SYNDROME NAMASTE
CHASING T H E
S U N
THE ART OF BEING ECLIPSES SPIRITUAL BYPASSING THE YOGA DIARIES
SUNLIGHT HEALING ENERGY FINDING ETERNAL LIFE IN THE TEMPORAL
CONTENTS NOV/DEC 2020 Volume 1, Issue 6
THE SUN, ENERGY&FLOW 21-23 Sandhya takes us on a journey as her words flow telling us about the Sun's energy, healing power and flow.
THE ART OF BEING
11-14
Charles Shahar looks at why we need to create more space in our lives to simply be.
SELF-CARE CORNER
21-23
Artist Deja Osbourne shares her monthly selfcare and personal power deck picks with us.
WHAT IS THAT? SPIRITUAL BYPASS Our regular feature detailing some unusual 52&55 terms, concepts and ideas yogic or otherwise.
IS THIS HOLDING YOU BACK? Helen Sanchez joins us and walks us through imposter syndrome and gives us practical tips 30-32 to help us address it and stand in our power.
NAMASTE IN A PANDEMIC 19-20 The perfect greeting in a pandemic. THE YOGA DIARIES
27-28
Three Breaths of Gratitude, Christine Boyd Miller, PhD shares her experience with us.
FINDING ETERNAL LIFE IN THE TEMPORAL
43-48
Solar and lunar symbology and lessons from Joseph Campbell on eternity
RING OUT WILD BELLS
9
This month's poem
SOLAR ENERGY & THE ECLIPSE
40-42
Learn about the Full Solar Eclipse on Dec 14th
CHASING THE SUN
37-39
The Majesty of the Solar Eclipse
FOUNDATION 04 Masthead 03 Editor's Letter - Holiday Greetings
BECOMING FEARLESS
05 Contributors 17 Learn where you can find our free meditations
Embracing fear and making friends with your ego.
24-25 Giving: Fundraising Effort for Dogs
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includes
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Anywhere is the center of the world. Quote: Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux 10
THE ART OF SIMPLY BEING WHY WE NEED TO CREATE MORE SPACE IN OUR LIVES. BY CHARLES SHAHAR What
do
we
mean
by
creating
more
space
in
our
lives?
We
can
look
at
this
question from two perspectives - in terms of what we do and in terms of how we think. The former has to do with our non-stop lifestyle and how we have forgotten how to simply be. The issue of creating more space in one’s mind is less obvious, so I will deal with it later.
Let’s begin by considering "more space" as a pause in one’s life. By a pause, I am talking more about a quiet interlude, a time in our lives when we stop striving or struggling and experience a state of calmness. As I will point out, this is different from sleeping because such interludes involve not only a state of calmness but awareness as well.
People are so used to being active that they usually have little time in their lives to experience tranquillity. In fact, they are so used to filling their time that any gap of quietude might make them feel like they are missing out on life or that their time is not being spent productively, or they may simply find it boring.
There are three reasons why such interludes make us uncomfortable. The first has to do with the pace of modern living. How many of us have gotten impatient when the driver in front of us has taken more than a couple of seconds to react to a green light, when a website has not downloaded quickly enough or when a cashier at the local supermarket starts to chat with the customers in front of us?
These types of pauses can make us feel agitated, nervous or frustrated. They may lead us to behave in uncharacteristic ways.
We
may
give
a
person
a
dirty
look,
make
a
snide remark, or even lose our temper. Even the
gentlest
people
can
get
frustrated
and
have negative thoughts about the slow driver ahead of them.
In
the
last
few
decades,
just
about
every
aspect of our waking lives has sped up: the way we communicate, the way we eat, and the way we work. Just stand on a busy downtown street and witness the harried looks of people who
walk
middle
of
by,
step
the
into
day,
or
a
busy
watch
office
in
people
the
in
a
department store on the weekend. It all seems quite frenetic.
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PERSONAL POWER
I AM LOVABLE Personal Power Deck
THE MESSAGE I didn’t always believe I was lovable. It took many years of acceptance to finally realize that I am lovable just the way I am. I only learned this after being loved by someone else, but I wish I had learned this on my own. There are still many women out there who, after many failed relationships have given up on love or blamed themselves. They lost hope. But we are all lovable exactly the way we are, with all our flaws, especially because of our flaws! Your flaws are what make us unique.
When we feel unlovable or too needy for love, we might attract the wrong people or even settle for the wrong relationships because we don’t you
think
feel
we
you
can
need
find to
someone
change
better.
things
If
about
yourself for someone to like or love you, that
JOURNAL PROMPTS When have you felt unlovable? What makes you feel loved? Which parts of you can you accept, love, and appreciate?
should be a warning.
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Is this holding you back? BY HELEN SANCHEZ Allow me to introduce you to James Chartrand. James is a very successful writer who founded Men with Pens in
2006,
early
a
full-service
stages
of
James'
website career,
company. the
story
But
in
was
the
quite
different. Success seemed to elude James. James was on the verge of having to apply for social welfare and wanted to find a way to secure a fair wage to support the family. James registered for internet writing work and
found
the
compensation
was
barely
livable.
However, once James found there were better-paying jobs available, James targeted them. James applied but was not receiving offers for these better-paying jobs.
So
after
carefully
assessing
the
market
and
checking to see if the pay rate was hitting a plateau turns out it was not - James decided to try something entirely eluded
different. James
Everything
were
easier
to
changed. claim,
and
Jobs
that
eventually,
James found success. What changed? We'll get back to James' story in a minute. But first, let's take a look at men's
view
of
themselves
in
the
marketplace
as
compared to women.
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SUNLIGHT, HEALING, & ENERGY FLOW By Sandhya S. , Bharat Land of Gods Existence is the effect, as life on Earth, with sunlight as the cause. Sunlight is electromagnetic radiation given to us by the Sun, it includes infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. Earth is enveloped by sunlight in
the
day
and
moonlight
or
its
energies
by
night, even on the new moon (Amavasya.) They are
filtered
through
the
atmosphere
and
we
are able to perceive them with the naked eye.
Light
energy
used
as
from
the
chemical
Sun
is
energy
converted to
and
synthesise
carbohydrates as fuel. Photochemical reactions from
sunlight
ozone
layer.
Vitamin
D
exposure.
lead
Our
is
to
the
skin
created
They
make
production
synthesises by the
the
skin
muscles
of
the
vitamin from and
D.
sun
bones
strong.
Plants use the energy of sunlight and combined with carbon dioxide and water produce simple sugars.
This
photosynthesis. building
blocks
process These that
is
known
sugars
allow
are
as
used
organisms
as
to
Terms used in this article:
live Amāvásyā - is the lunar phase of the New moon in
and
grow.
Existence
is
the
effect,
as
life
on
Earth, with sunlight as the cause.
Sanskrit. Advaitam or Advaita - non-duality Agni - Fire
The Sun is the source of life and
Chandra - the Moon Deva - means "heavenly, divine, anything of
energy on Earth for our solar
excellence"
system.
Dharma - right way of living (duty, purpose, laws) Karma - action, word or deed, cause & effect
The
Sun
is
the
source
of
Earth for our solar system.
life
and
energy
on
All forms of energy
Moksha - spiritual liberation Sankalpa - an intention to focus and harmonize the
from the Sun - its light and heat energy - are
mind and body
expressed
Santana Dharma (see previous page)
Chandra
through (Moon)
three and
devas:Surya Agni
(Sun),
(Fire).
The
maintenance of our circadian rhythm with time as
an
energy
synthesis
of
keeping
melatonin
machine
are
key
and
the
factors
that
Shakti - energy Icha Shakti - freewill/choice Jnana Shakti - knowledge Kriya Shakti - thinking/acting Surya - the Sun
keep balance in the body-mind-spirit-energy.
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