Catch the Dream Express Ezine

Hi beautiful sisters,

This month we celebrate our Herstory, our history as women. We've come a long way. But how far, really? How do you measure your success? We often measure our success by external results. This is a mistake. Why? because if you have yet to see those results, you will feel a failure! Success is built from the inside out. My goal in this newsletter, the feature article and the events I have created for you to celebrate the closure of the Women's History Month is to help you build success from the inside out, so that it is always there, no matter what is happening around you, because YOU are the success!

You've made a mole hill out of a mountain!

Click my drawing to see the mountain you've overcome.

In this issue, I offer you a Women's Month Extraordinary Special Offer as my solidarity gift.

Bring your girlfriends and celebrate Women's History Month with this special women-only FREE live online webinar. I will be revealing how to break the fences in your mind, so you can tap into hidden possibilities.

In this issue's  LifeByte I answer the question "How do you release limited beliefs?"  And in the inspiring stories I feature a great woman artist who embodies the power of vision.

If you missed the video-greeting, click here to see it.

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

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During this Women's History Month, you owe it to yourself to break free from the remnants of personal history and gender oppression that hold you back from being the magnificent, healthy, prosperous and radiant woman you truly are.

Your heart is carrying a heavy load of pent-up, toxic emotions and learned limited beliefs stored in your subconscious. You often don't see or hear these embedded energy patterns, but they direct more than 95% of your actions in the world, in spite your conscious choice. These patterns are the reason why you hold back. Why you sabotage yourself. Why you don't take that next step. Why you do more and more, but  feel that you are never doing enough. Free yourself from that baggage, sister!

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Join and bring a friend to celebrate Women's History Month by breaking the fences in your mind that limit your possibilities.

I am presenting a beautiful Women's History Month free webinar  and Q&A about what the Fences in your Mind are, how they are formed, how they keep you from seeing the possibilities in front of your nose, and how to break these fences.

This is No. 1 of a series of 3 online presentations called Break Free from What Holds you Back!

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This is what you've overcome, sister:

A mountain of neglect, inequality, invisibility, discrimination, condescendence, sexual violence, physical violence and on and on.

Congratulations!

You are awesome.

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LifeByte #4

How did you release

your limiting self beliefs?

Question:

How did you release your limiting self beliefs?

asked by: Dalla
 

Answer:

“Power is hard work.”

Those were the words of my spiritual guides when they invited me into the Path of Freedom. This path has lead to my freedom from hundreds of past Limiting Beliefs and has freed my vast creative potential. By me walking this path, I am able to break things down for you, making it easier and faster.

I know you just want the answers, what to do. We all want easy, quick formulas that we can do to make things happen. But this is not how it works. In order to break free from Limiting Beliefs you need to understand the power of Internal Actions and the connection between your mind and your circumstances. Here’s the short version.

When you are a child, you face an unknown world and absorb this new reality by absorbing everything that adults do and say, from their explanations and beliefs to their actions and emotions. This information becomes embedded in your psyche as what I call Reality Maps. They serve as blueprints by which you measure any new activity you encounter.

Limiting Beliefs are lies that at one point were sold to you (or you bought) as true. They may have been assumptions, habits or false beliefs carried through generations in your family. They may have been Secret Conclusions you reached as a child or youth when you met the influence of the media or culture. The problem with Limiting Beliefs is that they create Fences in the Mind. These fences are raised through Negative Building Blocks, such as trauma, shame, guilt, fear, conditional love, rejection and other fear-based emotions and processes that FENCE-IN the Limited Belief. Imagine your mind as an Inscape, a mental inner landscape. Limited Beliefs have a fence around them that disconnects them from other parts of the vast Inscapes of your mind.

Later in life, when you meet anything that resembles this belief, you immediately and subconsciously dump the new  experience inside that Fenced-in Reality Map ~and you go back to that time and space. You now find yourself in the past. Your perception cannot reach for new possibilities or interpretations because it bumps against that Fence in the Mind that surrounds the Limited Belief. As the Fence is highly charged with fear-based emotions, every time you try to go beyond the fence, you get a shock that sends you back. You cannot leave your habitual interpretations. This traps you in your past. You re-interpret your present based on this false beliefs.

How do you break the Fences in your Mind? You need to stop focusing outwards, in the external circumstances. Stop blaming. Stop judging. Stop running. Stop doing. External Actions are only as effective as your Reality Maps allow. You need to generate the Internal Actions that transform the Inscapes of your Mind.

There are two stages of Internal Actions that you need to activate in order to go from a Fenced-in Mind to an Expansive Mind that can see and connect to all available possibilities. Do these Internal Actions consistently, and you will break the Fences in your Mind.

As you can see I've already gone beyond the usual length of my LifeBytes, and there is still so much for me to share. I've created a tool and an event to share the rest.

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Sister, What holds you Back?
Break free from the past!
 

What holds you back?

We often don't know the answer to this question. We usually believe that  some external circumstance is blocking the path to our dream, success, goals or simply to our wellbeing and happiness.

In reality, we are the source of the obstacle. But the inner source of the impediment is hidden from our own eyes. To know what is holding you back, take this quick self-assessment test.

Part 1: Look at the above photo for about 1 minute. Put yourself in the place of the woman looking out the window. Be aware of your feelings.

Part 2: Now answer the few questions below. There are two sets of questions, and they may seem disconnected to you.  Don't worry, sister. You will soon find out how these two pieces fit!

ARE YOU...

DO YOU...
 

If you answered YES to even one question in each of the sections above, keep reading to find out why and what you can do.

Look again at this photo.

The light filtering through the window is your free choice. Your desires, resolutions, dreams and goals. It represents the life you want to live because it reflects your Essence. This is the stuff you are trying to manifest, as accessed by the first set of questions.
 

What are you trying to manifest? What does your soul need to be in place in your life?  

The black curtain that frames the woman, engulfing her in darkness represents the hidden messages, old emotional patterns and learned beliefs that are embedded in your subconscious.

These are invisible energy patterns that block your free choice, sabotaging your progress. They are the training you received from your family, culture, media, society and teachers during your childhood, plus the conclusions and assumptions you made as a child and youth. This dark pull is very powerful precisely because you've forgotten about all the thoughts, emotions and beliefs it contains. They have become unconscious and invisible.

The woman in the photo is full of light, but she is also full of longing, because she cannot reach the very quality of life that reflects her True Self. She feels the longing of her soul. She knows that her rightful place is "there" --in that place where her dreams summon her. Yet, she is "here" --on the other side, in the darkness, in a place of "lack."

The woman is looking through the window to a far away place. She, like many of us, like you may be doing now, sees that light of her DreamLife as distant. The window lets the light through, but it is also a shield separating the Self from the Dream.

We see and feel that "window" as a solid barrier. This barrier may be an external circumstance, a lack of resources or abilities or any other situation that we project as "the problem."

What do you think is holding you back right now?

What have you done about this obstacle?

We often blame circumstances or lack of resources --like money-- for our inability to achieve the progress or manifest the life we desire. Next we blame ourselves and believe that we don't have what it takes. Finally, we blame destiny, and even God, believing that it's not in the cards for us.

I am here to tell you that what you see as the problem may be the result, not the cause of your inability to manifest.

The window is NOT the barrier. The light is NOT faraway. The problem is the darkness in which you stand.

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The Power of Vision

The story of Séraphine de Senlis

I have been deeply touched by the story of Séraphine de Senlis, a French artist who worked as a domestic servant most of her life. With almost no exposure to art or artistic circles, Séraphine de Senlis became a great artist whose work has been exhibited in the great museums of the world.

I just saw the film Séraphine, by Martin Provost. Yolande Moreau, a mature actress with a mature figure, portrait Séraphine. Moreau won the Cesar for best actress with this great work.

The life and work of Séraphine de Senlis moved me deeply, as I saw the raw, spiritual process of creation evolving in this lonely woman, who had no formal education. She began to paint because an Angel appear to her and told her to do it. She painted the natural world around her, using pigments she created from natural elements, such as mud, flowers, wine and other available elements. She developed a secret formula that made her colors so vibrant that they are still striking even among modern masterpieces.

The only reason we know about Séraphine de Senlis is because the well-known critic and art collector Wilhelm Uhde went to stay at her town and saw one of her paintings. This man, also a visionary, had discovered Picasso and Henri Rousseau and he instantly saw the genius in Séraphine de Senlis. Eventually, he was able to introduce her to the art world.

Unfortunately, her visions became so strong that she acted in ways strange for the townspeople and she ended up on an asylum, which of course, aggravated her fragile condition. Sadly, this visionary genius died in a mental asylum. Yet, for me, she is a heroine because she lived following her passion, her creativity and her vision and rose above menial labor to create masterpieces of true genius. For me this is the power of self-loyalty and uniqueness.

Séraphine de Senlis reminds me to create and live my purpose, not focused on obtaining approval or rewards from others, but in order to express my own amazing grace to its fullness.

For more information visit these sites:

Read her biography

Blog with information about her

See her art work (Google search page showing pages with her art.)

More about the movie (2008. Available in DVD now.)

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This is my blessing for you today:

May you know the light you shed.

May you value the gifts you bring.

May you love the Essence you are. 

May you see the footprints you leave.

May you enjoy the life you create.

Maria Mar is an author, performer and spiritual teacher who inspires and guides women to be all that they want to be. A PBS-featured performer and visual artist, Maria transformed her life from finding herself homeless to being the CEO of her own company, where she gathered all her gifts and talents into a unique design. Maria marries her artistry and imagination with her wisdom and energy tools as a shaman to offer powerful tools for self-transformation and manifestation. Enjoy ceremonies that quicken the Law of Attraction, audios that take you into a healing journey and art that shifts your consciousness.

Maria is available as a speaker and ceremonialist poet. 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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