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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
Every night at bedtime say this prayer:
"God, help me to accept the truth about myself, no matter how magnificent it is. --- Rhonda Hull, Ph.D. Drive Yourself Happy
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Magnificent Truth I will always remember the first time I read the quote above by Rhonda Hull. Someone sent it to me in an email and somehow... I just didn't see that last line coming! But it still makes me smile deep inside. It's almost as if, every time I read this quotation, I am startled back into a joyful awareness of my own blessed beauty. So many times when we think about the "truth" about ourselves, we think only of the shadow parts, the parts we don’t like, the inner voices who badger us and hinder us in our daily lives. But Rhonda is asking us to pay attention to the truth about ourselves that involves beauty, expansiveness, gorgeousness, wonder, grace, light. Yes, sometimes I have a hard time accepting my own "magnificent" truth. But when I read these words, I am always led to ask myself this question: What if I didn't have a hard time accepting my own beautiful, magnificent self? What if I just opened right up and embraced myself right now, in this moment? Absolutely amazing things happen inside of me when I suggest this to myself. How about you?
May each day this week
find YOU fully in love with your own beautiful, wise, magnificent self  SoulCollage® ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week  If you practice SoulCollage®, make a card for your deck that represents your beautiful, wonderful, glorious, marvelous, splendid self. Here is mine and this is what she says: I am the one who knows I am beautiful and wonderful just as I am. I am the one who accepts my beauty and magnificence without reservation. I am the one with radiant rainbows at my core and I allow the radiance to flow out to the world. I am the one who is opening to all that was and is and will be. I am the one who goes with the flow of my mistakes. I am the one who knows who I truly am.
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Our Next Tele-Class SoulCollage® as Prayer, with Catherine Anderson SoulCollage® Facilitator in North Carolina.  In this tele-class, Catherine will guide you through simple exercises
that will enable you to hear and record the prayers you have already captured in visual form in some of your SoulCollage® cards. Using SoulCollage® cards you have already made, you will create prayers that allow you to become more aware of the blessings in your life as well as prayers asking for help from your Higher Power.
Catherine Anderson has been a SoulCollage® facilitator since June, 2004. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina where she teaches SoulCollage®, Creativity and Photography workshops. She is also a partner in the business Whole Brain Consulting, an organization whose mission is to bring creativity and intuition into the business world. More information is available on www.catherineandersonstudio.
Save the
date now.
All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording it and you can listen to it anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library. We will give you the phone number and access code to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures. Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: January 2010 - Awakening Your Muse, with Jill Badonsky, SoulCollage® Facilitator and author (among other things) in California. Wake up your New Year with this joyful, fun class! We will awaken, tap into, and cultivate the personas of creativity and imagination that can serve our resourcefulness s well as our ability to experience joy. Be ready with your journal and a favorite pen to be guided by a few of Jill Badonsky's The Nine Modern Day Muses 
along with the Creative Muse Archetype in this journey towards authenticity and creative confidence.
Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned!
MidWest SoulCollage® Facilitator Training April 23-25, 2010 in Jordan, Minnesota  Registration will open in November for Anne Marie Bennett’s next facilitator training, to be held at Maureen Carlson’s Center for Creative Arts in Jordan, Minnesota, about 20 miles southwest of the twin cities. This training will begin at 3 pm on Friday April 23 and end at 2 pm on Sunday April 25. Save the dates now! |
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, featuring Vanessa Redgrave. Hope as a positive and animating force that enables us to follow our dreams is the theme of this fascinating film. When Gabriel Angel, a buoyant young black woman from Grenada, sets sail for England on an ocean liner, she carries with her the blessings of family and friends. Her plan to become an aviator makes her spirit soar. All those who meet her aboard the ship- including an art forger, a doctor, a missionary, and an art history professor- are affected by her exuberance, ardor, and optimism.
---from Spiritual Rx, Prescriptions for Living a Meaningful Life, by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
, by Wendy Mass. I saw this beautiful novel’s cover on a shelf at the bookstore where I work, and it was calling my name even though it was in the young adult section. And then I read the first page and was completely drawn in. It’s about three teenagers who come together at a campground in the middle of the U.S. to view a total solar eclipse with a thousand other people. These three seem to be unlikely friends, but their stories intersect in a beautiful way. I was able to immediately relate to each of the main characters and many of the others. A lovely “plus” is the writing about the solar eclipse. I’ve never thought much about the stars or eclipses before, but now I’m inspired! The next total solar eclipse path in the United States is in 2017, so I’m going to start planning for that right now. I’m not kidding. Read this book and you’ll want to see the next one also! Plus, there’s a labyrinth, an art house, and a boy who can fly (with lucid dreaming).
, by Gregg Levoy. A beautiful and wise book that is all about listening to that still small (and sometimes very loud) voice that calls us onward on our journeys. Written with a groundedness and clarity that is rare. I think you will find this one helpful if you are seeking for the path that is yours and yours alone.
