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Back to the Source with Guided Remembrance by Mark Silver (Editor's Note: I have known Mark for a long time and I have taken part in several of his courses. Mark typifies the New Business of our Age, one with not just Heart but Soul as well. It gives me great pleasure to offer this small jewel of his wisdom to you all. You can find out more about Mark and his work on his site www.heartofbusiness.com)
 
This time of year is often full of extreme busy-ness. Either the crazy busy that comes with trying to tie up all the loose ends from the year, or the anxiousness that swells from trying to get a head start on the next year. Or both.
 
At the same time, it seems as if something else is calling to our hearts. Spaciousness. Integration. Silence. Connection.
 
Instead of an article, here are two guided Remembrances. Remembrance is an ancient Sufi practice of connecting to your heart, which is fully explained in Getting to the Core of Your Business. It might be helpful to read it first if you haven't.
Dan Brule's Winter NewsConsciousness is eternal. Awareness knows no death. Only unawareness dies. To be conscious is to be alive. To be alive is to be conscious. To remain unconscious is to choose death. If we want to get free of the wheel of birth and death, we need to be completely awake. ! Ultimate liberation comes only when waking up and staying awake is our primary focus and our main passion. We were born to reach higher and higher into consciousness… All the way to enlightenment! All the way to ascension!
 
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to the Winter 2009 Breath and Breathing Report.
Please note the following dates, and make plans to visit Los Cabos for at least one or two of them. Life skills/healing arts practitioners, breathwork teachers and students, and natural science experts and enthusiasts from all over the world will be gathering here at Baja Bio Sana during these new and full moon times. There will be programs lifestyle re-education, spiritual development, nutrition, yoga, organic farming and permaculture, the creative and performing arts, and more.

Mid-Winter Solstice - Astrology 2009 by Marcus MasonMars turns retrograde for Winter Solstice 

On December 20th Mars turns retrograde until 10th January 2010. Just when we thought we could steam ahead with our plans, there is hesitation, delay and obstruction. It is important not to feel frustrated by this, nor to simply carry on regardless – the frustrations and delays are there to ensure that we act from our innermost heart, not from our ego. It is time to take stock and wait for the moment of Right Action to occur naturally and spontaneously, which it will when the time is right. Retrograde Mars is “priming” us to act with clarity and pure intent, when the Chiron - Neptune conjunction on 16th February accelerates us towards the Big Shift in 2012. 
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Mid-Winter Solstice - The Stable BowThe Sun is now at its southern most point in the Northern hemisphere and gives the North its longets night and shortest day. In the southern hemisphere it is the converse, this is the longest day and the shortest night. Here we can see and feel the balance of the hemispheres at one the Mid-Winter Solstice and the other the Mid-Summer Solstice. Within the symmetry of this graceful elegance is a hint as to the key of the Solstices for us mere mortals, balance and equanimity. Whilst held in the arms of the Solstices is the dance of Yin and Yang, the balance of the year strib=ving to show us that even in extremes there is harmony and right purpose, and, right relationship.

So here we stand at the longest darkness of the year, being rightly told that the light is about to return and that it is in the true nature of things that the integral tension of balanced seemingly opposites are an example of right relationship.
How We Can Help Alleviate World Poverty in Three Easy Steps by Goodlife ZenEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen.
 
Alleviate world poverty? Isn’t that impossible?

There is so much grinding poverty in the world – how could just one of us possibly make a difference? The reason it seems so impossible is that we tend to focus on the immense number of people suffering from poverty – and on how little we can do individually. So we give up trying.

But there are two points to remember when we think about global problems:

1. Every action counts;

2. We are not alone.
Drawing people into conversations that go beyond the surface is one of my favorite pastimes, regardless of where I am. I usually begin such conversations by sharing something personal about myself, while leaving the door open for others to do the same. In my Tokyo neighborhood I'm well known for this, and people seem to look forward to the opportunity of sharing time with me.

Recently I was sitting at the counter of a small Japanese eating-drinking "shop" talking to my long time friend Tabata-san. He's a few years older than me, and has always shown me a lot of kindness.

Somehow we got into talking about "being a man" and here's what Tabata-san had to say.
Pampering myself by Charlie BadenhopAs my relationship with Okada-san and Ishida-san progressed, I began to have lunch with them once or twice a month. Usually we go to the same restaurant, and spend at least an hour together. The more I get to know them, the more I'm touched by their heartfelt expression of life.

"I'm so happy to get this off my chest after such a long time." Ishida-san said to me with a twinkle in her eye.
"I don't really know anything about the Catholic religion, but I think I must feel like a Catholic person feels when they go to confession and talk to a priest."

"As I said before, I did a lot of sitting at home waiting, and once my kids grew up I got really bored, and more than a little resentful."
Marriage and Xenophobia by Paulo CoelhoSome time ago, I took a straw poll among my blog readers regarding a few issues. Here are their opinions on marriage and xenophobia (fear or hatred of anything strange or foreign):
 
Marriage
Stella: I am condemned to love you, and that is my salvation. I shall have to live for ever in the shadow of your eyes, accept the fact that everything your hand touches arouses the best in me. All that I know is your love, nothing else interests me.
The Healing Potential of Breathwork - 07 Birth Before and after by Gunnel MinettGunnel continues her course about the healing potential of breathwork by looking at the development of the brain before, during and after gestation of the child, and then explains the importance of this for the breathworker and the breathwork process.
The Healing Potential of Breathwork - 06 The Brain's Development by Gunnel MinettIn this the sixth part of Gunnel's course on the healing potential of breathwork, she looks in more detail at the development of the brain and the relevance this has to the practice of breathwork.