Catch the Dream Express Ezine

Hi beautiful sisters and brothers,

We are coming down from the Holiday Highs. Christmas,  New Year and the other holidays are over and so is Valentine Day. Your New Year Resolutions have already been tested. At this point, some of you will be feeling mysteriously sad, heavy or drained. You may be experiencing what I call the Family Blues, also known as Post-Holiday Blues. Others may be frustrated because some hidden force is pulling you back from the goals, resolutions or dreams you are trying to manifest. This issue has answers, inspiration and guidance for those Post-holiday Blues and manifestation blocks. It answers your question: What is holding me back?

This issue, and my special subscribers-only offer, helps you to Tap into the Secret Power of the Family Blues to address issues of love, wealth and health. The information here comes from my new ebook set, created to address the question I received from one of the subscribers and that I answer in the LifeBytes Section. The powerful question posted by Marie addresses key issues in breaking free from learned limitations. For this reason, I am also devoting the feature article to help you discover how your Family Karma may be holding you back.

I feature Corazón Tierra's story, a real-life success story of a woman who broke free from the past to become her dream.

And don't forget to read my blessing for you today before leaving this issue.

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Tap into the Secret Power

in the Family Blues

Heal Issues of Love, Wealth and Health

If you are running into obstacles you can't figure out, chances are that the invisible fence you are facing is made of learned beliefs and emotions that are embedded in your subconscious. These patterns were learned in childhood and lie hidden, but ACTIVE, in your subconscious, directing more than 95% of your responses to life. They even determine what you are able to SEE and HEAR!

I have created an ebook set to help you track down and release the subconscious energy patterns, emotions and beliefs that hold you back.

The storybook

In the storybook, I share my own true-life story of a family encounter where I  tracked down some of the invisible forces that were operating undercover to sabotage me.

The workbook

Then in the workbook, I share exercises and meditations  to explore and release the issues. These are powerful exercises that flush out subconscious emotions and beliefs!

The workbook also includes affirmations, self-assessment tools and alchemical arts and crafts projects that make it fun to change and bring the knowledge into your body and senses. You can use journal writing, poetry, drawing, movement and even film-directing projects to flush out the hidden fences that block your path to the life of your dreams! I give you all the instructions, so that it's easy and fun to do these projects.
 

I have also added beautiful meditations that create deep, instant shifts in your inherited patterns effortlessly. (I am now preparing the audios with the meditations, so you can relax and hear these meditations in my voice.)

PLUS, you get access to my personal Healing Journal, so you can witness my own process for many of the exercises!

For gals and guys!

As always, this is designed for the way you learn as a woman; through storytelling, empathy, creativity and real life exploration. However, this ebook set is equally powerful for men, so this product is co-ed. We have a group of male subscribers, so this is good news for you guys!

SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY LIMITED TIME OFFER!

When you purchase the ebook set TODAY,* you get the following:

TODAY means the day in which I send the newsletter. As some of you will open it later, I have extended this offer for the week of February 22 to February 28. That's it. It's gone by the end of February, so act now.

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Live Chat with Maria Mar!

I've added live chat to my website! Come visit me at Catch the Dream Express. You can ask me a question about anything in the website. If you would like to know what product or service will work for you, just chat live with me! If I happen to be busy or offline, you can send an email with your question, and I'll get back to you.  I am always looking for ways to create real connection and to bring us together in the healing power of our life presence. I hope this does just that.

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What you are saying about...

Tap the Secret Power in the Family Blues:

Heal Issues of Love, Wealth and Health

LifeByte #3

What is my life purpose?

I am unable to help my loved ones!

Problem:

I would like to know what my true life purpose is! I am surrounded by my loved ones, who seem to struggle enormously with everyday life. I am unable to help them.

Thank you,
Marie

Solution:

At first sight, Marie, your question appears to be two different questions, but I understand the deep― and sometimes painful― connection between our sense of unique purpose and our desire to help our loved ones. It often seems to us that we must somehow be failing  because we cannot help those we love with their struggles. There is a name for that family struggle. It is the Family Karmic Prison (a.k.a. Family Karma). This prison is made of perceptions and energy patterns. It is created and constantly recreated by inherited beliefs, old emotional patterns and a worldview that limits our expectations and our ability to see new possibilities. As long as you are inside that Family Karmic Prison, you cannot open the door for anyone else. You need to break free from your attachment to your family’s struggle. Following your desires and intuitive search leads to discovering your life's purpose. Opening your mind and heart to the guidance all around you, shows you the way. Once outside the prison, you can invite your loved ones to step out of their inherited limits and into new possibilities. Your own act of liberation, your own health, joy, success or fulfillment will be the best invitation. Even then, however, you must honor each person's choice. You may invite them to walk out, but you cannot walk out FOR them and you cannot MAKE them walk out. Freedom is a personal choice.

Extended Lesson: read the Feature Article.

For tools to address this problem, click here.

Walk out of your Family Karma

and Step into your Dream

When love is unconditional, it is the greatest ally to our dreams. It gives us the power to move mountains.

Unfortunately, for many of us born to fly, love is the chain around our talon and the weight crushing our wings. Many of us hold back from our true potential for fear of being rejected by those we love. Even more of us are held back from our dreams by the false beliefs and negative patterns secretly inherited from those we love.

Love vs. Fear
Love moves the world, but only when it is unconditional. Unfortunately, few of us practice unconditional love. There is secret war going on in many families right now. It is a war between freedom and love. To fly, love needs freedom. It is the air under your wings.

Fear, however creates a sickness that attaches to love, making it possessive and limiting. In the name of love and home, we try to control the destiny of our children, to twist and bend their natures and desires so that they fit our inherited worldview. In the name of love, we demand that our beloved sacrifice her or his dream ―even his or her very nature― to fit our learned scripts of what love or family should be. We see this as protecting them. Yet, we stifle them and ourselves, crippling not only the individuals, but the entire family.

Fear is the opposite of love. When fear creeps into the family, it creates stagnation and contraction, instead of growth and evolution. Fear is not the enemy, however. The enemy of love, as well as freedom is learned fear. This crippling disease keeps families imprisoned and clips the wings of their members.

But we all have choices, don’t we? We don’t stay under our elders’ grip forever.

You grow up, leave your home of origin and create the life you want. Or so you think. But unbeknownst to you, the old family beliefs pass on from your great-grandmother to your grandmother to your mother and to you. These patterns are still intact, alive and kicking in your subconscious.

Your Double Inheritance
When these beliefs are healthy, relevant to the present and effectively moving you towards your dreams, they are the Ancestors’ Gifts. They are the air under your wing.

But when they are obsolete, based on a negative worldview and embedded in a life-or-death pattern drenched in fear, these old beliefs are your Shadow Inheritance.

This inheritance holds you back. It is an invisible shackle solidly built in your subconscious. The links of that chain are made of expectations, assumptions, learned defensive patterns and a cast-iron worldview. It has nothing to do with what you consciously believe. It may hold you back against your own conscious, chosen values, beliefs and dreams. The subconscious runs about 95% percent of your life, so that is a BIG chain. That heavy chain keeps you a prisoner of the past.

As long as you are carrying the weight of your Shadow Inheritance, you are going to find it difficult to soar into your dreams, because the old beliefs are weighting you down.

In my new ebook set, Tap into the Secret Power in the Family Blues: Heal Issues of Love, Wealth and Health, I help you take a good look at the way in which your Shadow Inheritance holds you back. I share with you a personal experience in the storybook A Bitter-sweet Holiday Family Story. Then in the workbook, I offer you powerful tools to flush out from your subconscious those old beliefs, so that you can fly free.

I know how frustrating and heart-breaking it can be to work hard for your dreams and bump against an invisible wall. But I know what this wall is made of and I know how to demolish it! And if I have done it, so can you.

You can make the invisible cause of your mistakes, self-sabotage and repetitive failures VISIBLE. You can track it down and learn its origin. And when you do, you can RELEASE it. You can be free from the past!

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To find out how your Family Karma can hold you down and how to break free, continue reading here.
 

Self-love Tools

Self-mothering
Tools

Healthy

Body Esteem Tools

The Power of Commitment

The story of Corazón Tierra

Corazón's dream since early childhood was to be a writer and an actress. She wanted to express her artistic passion. But she was brought up in an environment in which art was seen as "not bringing home the bacon," plus she knew no artists during her childhood.

These circumstances may be interpreted by many as the "real" problem, a girl born in a poor neighborhood with little references and no role model for success. Yet, when Corazon Tierra looks back into her youth, she defines the real obstacle in this way:

"I felt that the art I held in my heart was not enough for the world. It had no value. My family was focused on doing the chores of an ordinary life and my creativity was invisible."

During her youth, dance became part of her dream.  Unknown to everyone, however, Corazon had become anorexic. She was afraid to be visible in her body, and dance required that she exposed her soul expressing it through her body. She began to make herself invisible by contracting her body. Corazón speaks of her healing journey to break free from her Family Karma and to create her DreamLife.

Corazon is now an author, editor, dance-theatre performer and a bailaora (Flamenco dancer). She helps women to occupy their space of power in the world, starting with self-love and a healthy body esteem.

Corazon has written a poetry and fiction book entitled "CuerpOdiosa: Rescate poético del cuerpo de una mujer" (Goddess/Dam Body: A poetic rescue of a woman's body), scheduled to be published by ShamansDance Publishing & Productions for Fall 2010.

Corazón is the creator of No te hagas pequeña, the first National Healthy Body Esteem Campaign for Hispanic Women in the USA.

For more information visit these sites:

English:

http://www.belovedbodysoul.com

Spanish:

http://cuerpoadentro.wordpress.com
http://www.notehagaspequena.com

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Is my Family Dysfunctional?

Find out at:

Common Traits of a Dysfunctional Family

By Celeste Steward
 

This article shares some basic information about the characteristics of a healthy and a dysfunctional family, how they handle stress and some things you can do about it.

READ IT HERE

Lifescripts.com is also a great resource for women seeking a healthier lifestyle.

This is my blessing for you today:

May love lift you up as high as you want to rise.

May it be the air under your wings.

May it support you when you want to rest and nest.

May it grow strong roots in your heart.

May it be the safety net that allows you to leap

into your infinite possibilities.

Maria Mar is an author, speaker and ceremonialist poet. She is also a spiritual teacher and an internationally known shaman who inspires women to manifest the life of their dreams. She offers books, digital products and coaching, art that heals and transforms as well as performances, speaking engagements and other live and online events to help you become the protagonist of your life and the creator of your destiny. Find out more at http://www.catchthedreamexpress.com

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