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Happy New Year Greetings
There's still some space available to attend Frannie's new workshop,“Break Free and Return Yourself to Love” on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at Serenity Gardens of Venice in Venice, Florida. Frannie will offer the experiential workshop again on Sunday, March 25 at Mystic See in Englewood, Florida. Saturday's workshop will feature the beautiful energy of Brigitte Hamm who will be live, in person, playing her crystal bowls.
For those of you familiar with Serenity Gardens, you probably already know that Pam Jellison, co-owner and a loving, supportive friend to healers and seekers everywhere, passed away on Tuesday, January 9th. Her passing has prompted two immediate actions:
1. We ask that everyone in the Venice, Florida vicinity show their gratitude and support of both Pam, and her partner Patti Yarranton by supporting the work and activities at Serenity Gardens. Stop by. Look around. See what speaks to your heart. Your gift to yourself will be returned many fold as you continue to receive from Venice’s oasis of love and peace.
2. We will be donating all profits from Frannie’s January 27 workshop to Patti as a token of our love and gratitude for all she has done for us personally and professionally. So come join Frannie at this new workshop where your work will help us all support our dear friend.
Frannie has been asked to join the group of presenters at In the Heart of the Awakened in Mt. Shasta, California. This year gathering, to be held July 12 – 15, is a 4-day conference featuring Dannion Brinkley, William Henry, Dr. Richard Boylan, our own Frannie Hoffman and many others. For more information visit www.ShalomarProductions.com.
Early registration is currently available at the discounted rate of just $275. Full-price registration -- $400 takes effect February 1st.
For our local subscribers, we invite you to join us in Frannie’s Circle of Light guided meditations. We’re at the I Am Healing Arts Center in Sarasota the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month (7:15pm, $10). The Circle is held at Frannie’s office in Bradenton the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays (7pm, $10 donation).
The Circle of Light guided meditations are available for purchase on CD. Call the office, 941-782-0770 to place your order. Downloadable meditations will be available soon through www.MyCircleofLight.org.
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New Eyes for a New Year
Those of you who have joined me for a Circle of Light guided meditation know that I have a kind of ritual I go through before I lend my voice to the energy that comes through me. It’s a recentering of myself as I move away from the chattering of my ego mind and the busyness of the day. When I get quiet within myself, I am able to open to the energy that’s inside and all around me. At the Circle of Light meditations, I receive this precious gift of loving energy not only for myself, but from and for all who join in the Circle.
For my daily meditative practice, the ritual is quite similar. Since there is no group, I sometimes journal instead of speaking out loud. I’d like to share a recent entry with you. I’m sharing the full experience – my human side, along with the wisdom of my heart. On this day, my heart spoke to me of new beginnings and the infinite opportunities life provides for us to see “what is” with new eyes…a perfect theme as we begin a new year…
I can’t believe it…here I am, visiting my son, Luke, who now lives in Studio City, California! I lived in Los Angeles once…can it really be 30 years ago?
My daughter, Lane, and I have come for a visit. This trip was supposed to have been taken last summer, but my father became seriously ill and his doctors said he only had days to live. Here it is, 7 months later and my dad is still with us and I am here sitting in Luke’s apartment, receiving the morning.
The call to go inward seems more powerful this morning, even though I feel distracted by the unfamiliar noises of an early morning here. Yet theses sounds – airplanes taking off and landing – help me to listen more deeply to a silent space inside.
I sense that I am journaling with something bigger than my little self – a presence that has something to express that will feed me, like the love I feel when I watch my children taking in their experiences of life now that they are young adults.
Again and again I observe myself, as my ego mind beckons me to take on the role of Mother. I watch myself with my son. I want to tell him what to do, how to eat, what choice to make to stop the busy merry-go-round that is presently his life. At the same time, I know that I am seeing him with the eyes of my past.
To me, sometimes, he is still that hyper little boy who went from one high experience to another; always inventing or preparing for some great event that was happening in his mind. And yet, to this day Luke continues to manifest these amazing experiences that enable him to grow in leaps and bounds.
He is a risk taker – uncontrolled, alive and full of passion. He loves to live life to its fullest … which brings up in me … FEAR.
BINGO – that’s it, that’s the lesson – Can I live life for myself without giving power to the thoughts and ideas that come from that place where I think I have it all mastered? My ego wants to show my kids that I know best, that I have all the answers. I am a work in progress, that’s for sure!
But when I touch that place, when I relinquish this behavioral pattern, I can step into a space inside of me that seems to emerge out of nowhere. It is like I become less to become more. Instead of losing myself to another, I am losing myself to find myself.
So now I enter inside this quiet place inside of me that is so still and I feel the spaciousness that brings me consciousness. It’s a timeless and formless place beyond thoughts and certainly does not house the ego.
The stillness fills the room this morning and without thoughts running in my mind, I become who I truly am. As I arrive here, more deeply myself, I feel less and less connected to form in any way. Being still, I can hear the beautiful language that only God speaks – Silence fills my whole entire being and I feel unconditional love.
This is where I begin again, another opportunity to connect with my inner purpose. Instead of being lost in my thinking, I choose to awaken to the awareness inside of me that is consciously connected to a universal intelligence which is beyond thought.
In this calmness I see with new eyes. These new eyes reveal a new story. A story that inspires and uplifts my children. This way of being provides another way to connect with my inner purpose and let it move into the world with my children.
I don’t have to stay addicted to and distracted by the old patterns of judging and controlling and fixing. I can make a conscious choice to be present. Here I realize that my children don’t need me to take care of them anymore. They have their own ideas and identification.
I am here to be present with them – connecting to the essence of my being. Here, I join them and allow this power of love to flow through all of us.
“Inner alignment with the present moment opens your consciousness and brings it into alignment with the whole, of which the present moment is an integral part. The whole, the totality of life, then acts through you.” —Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
There is so much energy here as I see myself as the connection to a bigger part of me that knows what each moment needs. From this place, I can allow the day to unfold as I listen to the stillness inside and stay present with my kids.
Here is where I want to live, so present that in every moment I remember to value my children and to see them for who they really are.
I embrace the day with an excitement to manifest more of what I am. I am connected to this life-giving energy that wants to flow through me and give life and inspiration to another.
 From this feeling, I have a knowing that all is exactly as it is supposed to be. I begin again to value life instead of taking the life out of the day by allowing my fearful self to control and conquer another. This truly is respect for all life, is it not?
As my prayer continues to be heard by my own heart, my heart is filled with song…
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as our Father, brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now.
With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
It is a new year, a new day, a new moment to begin again and allow your true self to join with this world. From the inside, we can make this place we live in like Heaven, a place where we live in love with all creation.
In every moment we live in our heart, a new thought is born that can unite us all in love, while the ego thoughts gently fade away, like the sunset at the end of the day.
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