I hope you enjoy this ​quieting the mind exercise on summoning your inner power to bring your dream to fruition. Whatever it is that you've longed to do, wherever that spark or inspiration lies..this is the place where the magic originates. Let's call upon your light and strength from within to manifest this vision into your reality!

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Join me for this illuminating interview with Parivash Rohani, who left her native country of Iran fleeing religious persecution due to her Baha'i Faith and now is an activist for social justice and freedom. Her words about the importance of standing up for what you believe in, working with other people and weaving humanity together in truth and love.

Parivash Rohani left Iran and fled to India in 1979 due to religious persecution. She arrived in the United States in 1986 as an immigrant. Currently she lives in Portland with her husband and children. Professionally, she is a ICU registered nurse. She has been involved with many humanitarian, environmental, and interfaith projects. Her involvement in MIPL and International human right campaign "Education Is Not A Crime" is due to her firm conviction that change happens organically at the grass roots level, and justice demands universal participation. Parivash believes it is our moral obligation to be involved in social action and participate in the prevalent discourse of society.

To Light a Candle (2014) is a film about the triumph of knowledge over intolerance. The Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious minority. They are persecuted because of their faith, and barred from teaching and studying at university. But Baha'is do teach, and do study. The Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) was established in 1987 to give young Baha’is a chance to pursue knowledge and receive a quality education The informal courses take place in people’s homes, via mail correspondence, and with online lectures. The Iranian government regularly raids BIHE classes and arrests its students and teachers. Hundreds of Baha’is have been jailed simply for teaching and studying at BIHE. Yet, many Muslim Iranians support the right of the Baha’is to higher education and fight for the full enjoyment of civil and human rights by all Baha’is. Maziar Bahari’s To Light a Candle is a hopeful story of the BIHE and Iran. In 2015 the film sparked the global Education Is Not A Crime campaign for universal access to higher education. The last Friday of every February will be celebrated as Education is not a Crime day. The campaign has been endorsed by a string of Nobel laureates and other prominent figures around the world. Official website is http://www.notacrime.me/ .

In the spirit of justice, freedom, and our shared humanity, please check out and spread the word about this important film and work of Education is Not a Crime!

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We all have spirit guides that can assist us in providing support, guidance and wisdom throughout our lives. We can learn to identify and communicate with them by tapping into our inner selves through this guided meditation to meet one of your guides.

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By opening to the energy field, the chakra system, that exists within and around our bodies, we can align, release and balance our energies and find renewed wellbeing and health. This quieting the mind exercise guides us into opening our chakras toward healing our bodies, minds and souls.

Take some time to continue to move the focus of your attention to the intuitive inner self, where your future vision lies, by focusing in silence on progressive relaxation of the body and on the breath.

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This exercise on getting to past limiting beliefs or fears really dives into the Inner Critic(s) that we all have. Bring what your subconscious generates into waking life with the tools you learn here. You can practice bringing about your desire, vision, yearning into your reality, and ask the limiting belief/Inner Critic to quiet down.

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I was lucky enough to borrow the time of Keith Dunlap, local poet, former attorney and owner of Black Cat Coffee in Portland, Maine. Join me for this rich conversation with Keith about his path to becoming a prolific and published poet, inspiration and facing rejection, and finding a home for poems that seem to arise from within.

Keith Dunlap’s first collection of poems, Storyland, will be published in June 2016 by Hip Pocket Press. His work has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Georgetown Review, Jabberwock Review, Poet Lore, Sou’wester, and The Tule Review among other places. He received his BA in English from Columbia College in 1987, his MPhil in Classical Literature and Philology from Columbia University in 1992, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in 2000, and his JD from Washington and Lee University in 2007. In the Eighties in NYC, he played drums in a series of bands and worked at rock clubs, (including CBGB’s,) and restaurants, while attending school. He was a member of the avant-garde theater company, The New York Art Theater Institute at the same time. He lives in Portland, Maine, where he and his wife, the novelist, Jenny Siler, own a coffee shop, Black Cat Coffee.

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I have been waiting for some time to interview this incredible woman, my former coach, who helped me change my life to do this work. Join me for this illuminating conversation with Lael Jepson of SheChanges about mustering courage, getting to the edge of fear, and riveting storytelling.

Lael Couper Jepson is the owner of SheChanges, a Portland-based business that supports women in more fully unleashing their power to be architects of change – for their lives, their business, or as leaders within organizations and communities.

As a certified professional coach with an extensive background in consulting and organizational change, Lael has worked with women nationally over the past ten years in her business, making a name for herself and her SheChanges community as the place where women take themselves, their visions, and their specific ideas for change seriously — but it in a way that deeply honors their own resourcefulness so women don’t wait to feel “ready” or “enough”. Instead they take inspired action, and trust they will figure it out as they go. And they do.

Lael is passionate about storytelling as a means for women to not feel so alone, and has held countless local events such as SheSpeaks, Homecoming, and Mustang Sallies to inspire women to share their stories more publicly as a means to ignite courageous action. Most recently, Lael wrote about her own story in her book, Unscripted: A Woman’s Living Prayer.

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Music by Chris Kemp White (www.chriskempwhite.com).

I am thrilled to share this interview on fear, courage, taking risks and experiencing both failure and success with Thomas McPherson. A real estate entrepreneur, base-jumper, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served in Iraq, Thomas is a visionary seeking to help heal the planet through sustainable development powered by 100% renewable energy. He is currently working on one of the first electric vehicle ride-sharing programs in the US, as well as a hydroponic edible landscape on a development project in Phoeniz, Arizona.

Thomas is Co-Founder and Director of Acquisitions and the overall investment strategy for Fenix Private Capital Group. He began his real estate career as a broker with Sperry Van Ness. After winning the National Sperry Van Ness Rookie of the Year award, Thomas was quickly recruited by Hendricks & Partners. While a broker, Thomas focused on the acquisition and disposition of distressed multifamily properties and non-performing loans in the Phoenix area.

During the recent economic downturn, Thomas formed several key partnerships to help capitalize on the numerous opportunities in the marketplace. Since 2009, Thomas has been an active principal in the purchase, repositioning, and sale of over 20 assets in Maricopa County. Prior to his real estate career, Thomas spent 5 years serving our country in the United State Navy, including multiple overseas deployments. Thomas is an outdoor enthusiast, spending his time rock climbing, skydiving, or hiking. He has been involved with numerous charities and volunteer work including Wounded Warriors, Boys Hope Girls Hope Arizona, and Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department.

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Join me for this meditation on noticing the present, not thinking about the past or worrying about the future.. just being aware of what we are experiencing in the present. It is through this quieting of the mind that we can develop the tools we need to listen to our intuitive voice in waking life, rather than the ego/Inner Critic voice that often holds us back from our true purpose!

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