Archive for February, 2007

The Raffle

The Raffle

By Paula Kawal • on February 27, 2007

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An Obsession with Star Wars My six year old son Sebastian has developed an obsession with Star Wars toys. Many times while in a store he would go to the toy section and come find me with an arm load of

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Meeting Needs Without Repeating Patterns

Meeting Needs Without Repeating Patterns

By Paula Kawal • on February 25, 2007

Familiar Ground So you find yourself sitting alone wondering how in the world this has happened to you again. You were just going along as usual when something came up that got you into behavior you yourself don’t even like…yet you still engage in it because it meets some unconscious need

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Conversations with the Crone

Conversations with the Crone

By Paula Kawal • on February 24, 2007

An Unusual Guest While in trance I often experience visits from people I have tranced with before…familiar characters if you will, but sometimes someone will enter that I’ve never talked to before. In this post I wanted to explore my conversations with the Crone. The Crone is the old woman

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The Benefits of Conscious Trance

The Benefits of Conscious Trance

By Paula Kawal • on February 22, 2007

What is a Trance? A trance state is a form of expanded awareness; a window to the underlying energy currents that shape the universe. In Balinese the word for trance means ‘to become’. It is a place where you can view and become one with the energy that is surrounding you. This energy

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Abundance Meditation - Realizing Enough

Abundance Meditation - Realizing Enough

By Paula Kawal • on February 21, 2007

Stealing? Insidiously strange notion…do I carry guilt for success? Do I somehow think I’m using it all up? If I think that…how can I really believe in the abundance of the universe? I pull open the slider to let the dog out. It appears to be raining pretty hard that is nothing

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The Transformative Power of Feelings

The Transformative Power of Feelings

By Paula Kawal • on February 20, 2007

The Emotional Guidance System Many of us carry around strong ideas about our emotions and how we feel. These ideas were created in part by the reactions of those around us while we were experiencing them, by the ideology of the society in which we grew to maturity and by our own experience of and with

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Regeneration Meditation

Regeneration Meditation

By Paula Kawal • on February 19, 2007

A Profound Tree Walking in the forest I came across this tree. There was an energy about it that had captured my attention so I stopped and spent some time with it. As I took the circular path around the trunk I realized I was actually looking at the remnant stump of an extremely old redwood tree

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Finders Seekers

Finders Seekers

By Paula Kawal • on February 17, 2007

Looking for Answers I have felt for some time that the purpose of my life is to answer the call of the great mystery; which is the seeking of a first hand experience with, and a living knowledge of, the divine. I wish to know where I came from…I want to commune through what feels like a separation

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The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest

By Paula Kawal • on February 15, 2007

A Magic Door I looked outside…it was pouring down rain. My hope that it might let up by the time I had finished the housework waned. Oh well, I said to myself as I rushed downstairs to dress my three year old for the hike, that’s what boots are for! We take our hikes on a network of biking

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Spring Dawning Meditation

Spring Dawning Meditation

By Paula Kawal • on February 14, 2007

Growing Light The days become visibly longer and the sleeping seeds of the earth stir within their dark slumber. As the strengthening sun initiates spring, our own internal light grows with it and we feel the seeds of change stir within us…reflecting the coming season of growth. Our inspirations

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