Expansion Encounters - with Dusty
"Dreams come true in 2002!"

Thank you to all of you who continue to support Life Now and our ventures!

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Influence of Color

Color influence can affect attitudes and emotions. Encircling myself with preferred colors brings a delightful study.

Influence is different for each person, depending on memory. Red might be a delightful, energetic color to some. Others see it as anger or radiating other hostile influences. We can alter influences if we are willing to find the goodness in each color.

Experiencing the feeling of colors is done unto us, despite our awareness, in the work place, in advertising, in many consumer establishments. There is an effect that lulls us into a desired attitude. Understanding our attitudes with different colors can offer conscious choice of our actions.

A fun experiment is to get quiet, close your eyes and have a friend hand you a piece of fabric that is one color. Without looking, sense the impressions you receive from its color.

Another meditative exercise is to take a color through the body. Take it through the right side and then the left.

The right side is masculine, ruled by the left side of the brain. It is important to blend the masculine (thought) with the feminine (feeling) to experience fulfillment.

I have found personal meanings for colors. Yours may be different but this gives a starting point for discovering the beauty of color within.

BROWN - is ordinarily a feminine earth color, indicating a strong connection with the physical plane.

GREEN - is a growth color that can symbolize a healthy expansion or change in attitudes and beliefs.

BLUE - is the color of creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Like the sea and sky, it indicates the feminine side of a masculine nature. Pilot light blue, visualized in healing work, erases trauma and pain. Blue can also indicate positive self-expression and confidence.

YELLOW - is the color of intellect. It represents the process of changing the unconscious to conscious awareness.

ORANGE - is a healing color. It represents cell regeneration. It indicates the masculine side of a feminine nature. It indicates the process of reorganizing priorities physically or emotionally.

PINK - is a color of intuition as an aspect of love.

RED - is the color of warming to life. It represents influential emotions such as anger, vitality, or ecstasy. Dark red is likely to suggest repression, troubled emotions, while a bright, clean red signifies intensity and passion.

PURPLE - is the color of holiness and devotion.

VIOLET - and lavender indicate personalized feelings of spirituality.

GOLD - is the color of pure intuition and self-knowledge. Mystics and others in states of bliss are often seen sporting radiant golden halos. Gold is a masculine color, often represented by the sun. In healing work gold is a cleansing and used to clear congestion.

SILVER - the feminine color of the moon is similar in meaning to gold though seen less often. Silver in the aura usually means a feeling of power.

WHITE - is the color of the highest spiritual attainment, purification, and enlightenment. Awareness may be through prayers of others and strong personal affirmations.

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SHORT CUTS TO AWARENESS - Cleansing

As the year progresses, we continue to include a series of personal reminders and suggestions for relaxation exercises and methods for uniting in communication with others.

Discovery is everywhere.

May these personal reminders give you the joy of discovery and enlightenment.

Each Short Cut best finds its enchantment if the exercises are performed in a quiet, relaxing space.

There are no "short cuts" if the path of awareness has not already been traveled. Each person's path is unique.

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Find a quiet space where you can close your eyes for healthy imaging.

Visualize a silhouetted outline form of your body. Think of aspects of your personality. Begin as if washing a window, washing across it with golden light. Stack each "window pane" after they are washed, and see them blend as golden light.

PURPOSE: To offer a quick, soothing rejuvenation.

HINT: Some areas may have some dark areas that may need a bit more rubbing.

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Facets of Light - Magestic Promise

When I observe the sparkles in artificial light, they are not as bright and do not reflect the shards of various colors. It is only in sunlight that I see the chartreuse, turquoise, amber, emerald and endless array of brilliance.

Artificial light does not work. It takes the real thing - the true source of light to reveal the majesty the diamond has to offer.

Amongst the brilliant shards, spears of golden light stream out to the marigolds as they complete their autumn display.

Once out in the sunlight, the emerald, lime, and bold fluorescents spike out in many directions, carrying a message of beauty into the essence of nature surrounding.

What a glorious array of colors to reveal the promise of autumn in all of its beauty!

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I wrote the following when we lived on the California desert from memories of my homeland, where we are once again living.

Today - A Memory

Desert life can be boring. Or, it can be tolerable. Or, it might be stimulating.

I discovered shortly after we moved here that I held the first mentioned philosophy. After seven years, I stepped into the second category.

Several friends think the desert is one of the finer things in life. They enjoy the excitement of climbing over rocky hills to find an opal field. Or, they want to observe abandoned mine shafts. They especially appreciate becoming one with the expansive area of fresh air, peace and quiet. They are from the city.

Maybe being from the farmland of eastern Nebraska dissipates my appreciation for this arid land. Do you know what it is like to sit under the stars on a warm, July night and listen to the corn grow? Yes, you can hear it, if you know how to listen. The absolute quietness sets the table. The appetizer is the squeak of the corn leaves rubbing against each other. The main dish is the magnificence of it all. Dessert is total serenity.

It is difficult to find cornfields here but I thank God for good memories. They have carried me through the discontent of other times in my life. I can now go on with more important matters at hand. I am grateful for my life experiences, which have given wisdom for today. Tomorrow, today will be a memory. Will it be of something worthwhile? I will begin now to make it so.

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Pleasure of Autumn

Pleasant is what the eye beholds
looking across a field of corn
already harvested;
Getting a glimpse of wildlife
making the stubble their home;
Seeing the painting
Mr. Frost has provided
with bright orange, red and yellow;
Bringing back the memories
of the pleasures of autumn.

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Here are a few sites I find very worthwhile. I will be including those of subscribers so, if you have a site and think I might not be aware of it, let me know!

Centre for the Soul's Journey Into Light

Crappy to Happy (you've gotta check this out!)

Norma Cowie's World

BioGems - Saving Endangered Wild Places

Choosing Forgiveness

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Enjoy every moment to the fullest! - Dusty

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