Greetings Thrive Tribe.

February Newsletter 2015
 
And so the year is off to a very busy start and we have had the first event for the year with the Circle of Love children’s programme doing its first four day workshop during the last week of the school holidays.
 
It was a fabulous gathering and the kids all appeared to have a great time exploring the concepts of the hero’s quest within their own nature – even the very little ones lol – and the film of their endeavours – currently being edited by Michael – while I write the narrative for it – will be available for a screening and take home copy in a few weeks all being well.
 
This is a programme we hope to see a lot more of and I am contemplating running it during the school holidays, also in a monthly format and ultimately into other forums of experience in mental health and juvenile justice forums. We shall see where it takes us.
 
While sitting here on Australia day, listening to the Pythonesque grotesqueness of our bobble headed pommy pretender to the throne in this country [abbott for the unitiated lol] grovelling to phil the greek – that misogynist, racist, nutter married to the other pretender to the throne in another country [you know the one who changed their name to Windsor cause they figured even the brits may not cop their staunchly german credentials] – you know phil the greek – who said he wanted to be reincarnated as a virus starting in Africa so he could wipe out the dregs of humanity – and our pommy nutter also gave it to another pom – for chasing missing planes lol – and in the meantime our own governor – sir something or other – is – on our nationalistic, jingoistic, bogan flag waving day – over in another country attending the funeral of another pig prince who oversees a country in which women are not allowed to drive cars, leave the house without a male relatives permission [you know – like her ten year old son for example lmao] and executes dozens of their own citizens every year for crimes like converting to christianity – that’s where our leader ought to be on our national day alright bahahahahaha and no I am not making any of this up!!
 
The best shot in the arm to the Republican Movement seen in years lol.
 
What is it about the whole national day thing anyway – it was always a non event day off when we were growing up – was not until howard [john hunt was, is and always shall be a coward lol] turned it into the media circus it has become – all in the name of flag waving jingoistic paternalism designed to keep bogans inflamed about the alien other – that nasty little man put a wedge into this country that will take generations to sort out. There is something seriously mentally disturbed about the liberal party and their attempts to take us back to the stone age of imperialism and party favours lol.
 
Join the republican movement peeps – the time is ripe for the plucking for this nation to perhaps take some real steps towards maturity lol.
 
Our fabulous Feng Fest 2015 was a roaring success with 30 or so of us in the room learning about all kinds of good tricks to weave the flying stars in our favour for health, wealth and happiness - then releasing our wind horse balloons into the atmosphere at the end - great fun had by all and there will be some tips for you to do at home to help maximise the good juju for you all this year - under the Cosmic Connections section below. 


The next mad festival coming up for February is Valentines day and what a crock of doo doo that one is! I feel soooooo sorry for those blighted young and old men who have to run around buying shit and flowers and chocolates to demonstrate to some insecure princess that the only way she has any worth is if some one does that for her – leaving countless thousands of both men and women even more alienated from each other and the world because what ever they do – they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t!!
 
If you love someone then show them that in the little ways everyday – don’t do it to enforce and waste your precious resources propping up some bloated corporate spend fest created just to steal more money from you lol.
 
The Conscious Parenting programme was due to start later this month however will now kick off in March and details will be posted re links etc shortly. The programme is being rewritten to add some things, take out some things and generally sharpen it up a bit. Really looking forward to offering this again and also looking this year to get it out to teachers and child care workers – who have been raised like everyone else – unconsciously – and hand that on in the child care centre and classroom in the same way we do it at home.
 
The Women’s Initiation will run again in April at the New Moon in Aries and again this programme evolves each year we run it absorbing the current energies to ramp it up lol. A remarkable journey deep into the psyche – to encounter the shadow – to embrace it and integrate it – for great power resides here – and we cannot evolve until we do it – it really is that simple. Check out this video to be moved to engage in the process of your own awakening :
 
The mad festive season unfolds here in Adelaide with the Fringe, the Festival and Womad all set to delight the summer months – well worth a visit if you are from interstate.
 
The Meditations with the Masters have started and so I am now meditating with a chequerboard cloth and candles and a mirror each morning, producing some interesting results lol.

Also meditating now Monday evenings with the travellers [every other] , Tuesday mornings with the Masters, Tuesday evenings with the Travellers [ I will explain who all these folk are one day – it is all being recorded and written down], Wednesday morning with the Masters [ who have not taught here for 2500 years to the best I can understand lol] and several conversations most days with one or two or 5 of these most amazing energies who are explaining pretty well everything I need to know or think to ask.

I count my self extraordinarily blessed to be in this house – despite its occasional frissons – and I get very clearly that this is part of what I signed up for on coming to this planet – I have a job to do and they are helping enormously – and I have no idea where this will end and nor does it matter – for there is not destination really – but the ride is about to get very interesting for all of us and decisions will be made as to which way we jump and it is all perfect anyway. So for however long this aspect of my journey lasts - i am soaking it up to the full. 
 
Consciousness – the vast extraordinary reaches of consciousness and how powerfully we limit ourselves with tedious questions of the hard or easy nature of it, in trying to “prove” what it is and from where it rises lol – thank you – for what ever in my mad journey of existence [and from what I have learned about that journey ffs] has brought me to this level of unfolding and peace.
 
On March 20^th – the night of the Solar Eclipse next month – smack in the middle of the series of blood moons predicted oh so long ago lol – we may as well use these energies now – The Diamond Heart Academy will present a public gathering and introduction to one of these amazing entities.
 
 They are genderless and nameless where they are from however they acquiese to our incessant need to label everything in ever smaller circles lol – that “he” is known as St Germaine. 
 
This remarkable being will hold a meditation that those attending may experience the energies and this will be followed by a talk with the following title “So you think you are ready to become God?” 
 
This is a very rare opportunity to experience this wonderful energy and there will be time at the end for questions and answers so think about what you might want to know about consciousness, the universe and what is going on right now and follow the link to register. More info in Coming Up below.
 
 The Fabulous healer Yvette will be in town next week and as well as seeing clients for one on one she will be holding a Circle for Women on the evening of the 13^th

More details in Coming Up but having experienced her work I assure you this is not one to miss.  We shall dance with the Cacao Goddess of Chocolate this evening dear ladies - sooooo not one to be missed lol. 


 "The Diamond Heart Academy" has arrived with the Circle of Love - and the purpose of this vehicle is to initiate programmes that work in very specific ways. We will be launching a new web site for this in March, full of wonderful information for the metaphysically, esoterically and spiritually inclined. 

The Diamond Heart Academy will offer, over time, and present, many tried and true, valued and trusted ancient systems of learning for training and education for the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well being and evolution of all who attend.

The purpose of the Academy is to bring that which has been hidden but maintained, in terms of education and training, over countless centuries into the 21^st century.

Whilst under an umbrella of very real sacred and practical exercises that have been proven to bring forth the connected best of all who participate, there will unfold a series of exacting and methodical fields of study that will approach the human in its care from every level.

The correct approach to this will facilitate an academy of learning that will not only bring out the best in the students that attend – it will also facilitate these same students in moving beyond the teachings into their own creative endeavours that will in turn feed back into the hermeneutic of the perfect unfolding spiral of human genesis in and of the mirror of the Dharmakaya.

As the foundation is created in the mold of what is possible in perfection within the diamond consciousness and mind - what can unfold is a vehicle of transformation and transmutation in which all desires and passions of the human egoic state can be forged and directed into a gestalt that is much larger than the sum of its parts.

This will incorporate real magic and alchemical tools from the ancient blood rites and proven masteries of energetic reality to enhance all education, training and work that will flow from the academy.

The philosophy and mission of this Academy flows from a committed and motivated desire for a better world for ourselves, our children and grandchildren and for all life that dwells on this planet and beyond.

The workings of the Academy will be to move beyond the current outmoded forms of education that are filled with blockages to the energetic systems in order to hold an empire in place, into a new free flowing energetic system in which there are no limitations to what can be manifested - outside of the limitations of our own imaginations.

The duality of this consciousness and its judgments about what is good or bad or right or wrong will be superseded within the Academy, to facilitate a free flowing of energetic reality beyond such mundane concerns; and the denial of powerful energy such judgments create within each individual attempting to grow and evolve. As this is achieved for each student then the chaotic turbulence of thwarted energetic fields may begin to flow in a coherent fashion as a powerful river that will facilitate much that is beyond visibility at this point.

Every step of this foundation and building of the Academy will be guided by meditations within the Vajrasattva principles of existence to ensure that all builders and facilitators may not get lost within their own egoic desires and thus can continue to work for the group mind for the betterment of all that lives.

This will be critical due to the countless incarnations of all of us in the individual need and greed training that has beset this planet during the last Yuga that is critical to overcome.

The alchemical education and training provided by the Academy in its wisdom and potential - will indeed bring the real magical and mystical path into being - in which we are all connected to the diamond light and power within the inner planes of our existence – this then being the blue print for what we bring forth into the world.
What can be harvested or brought into fruition from this is indeed magical and will result in things at this point beyond comprehension.

As we gather with one thinking heart and one feeling mind so then shall we open the doors to other realms and dimensions, through which will come profound teachings and guidance facilitating a loving and compassionate form to arise.

The SambhogaKaya and the NirmhaKaya – the perfecting Yoga reality shall unfold, bringing into being an academy built on impeccable integrity and trust.

Built on the Elemental considerations of Alchemy and its practice, this will incorporate an innate insight and understanding and training -



In the principles of Earth – in which the extension of form is through which a being occupies space.



Through the principle of Water – which is the cohesion or the glue which holds it all together.



Through the principle of Fire – the dharma of energy exchange – a combustion in which the full range of temperatures facilitates different realities.



Through the principle of Air – which through the process of vibrating the periodic cycling facilitates movement of all things.
And this all falls into space and cosmos which includes relativity and spatial relationships.

The principles that will be brought to light and life through the Academy apply and are found in all life, in all forms - and it is for the betterment of all that lives that the Academy will be formed and maintained. 

While it is early days yet and we are still receiving, downloading and cncoding the lessons from the Vajra Universes and many other helpers besides - it begins this year - and the first programmes on offer are the "Meditation with the Masters" and the "Circle of Love" for the children - both starting this month and the details of which are in the Whats Coming Up section below.  It will also be behind the "Conscious Parenting" webinar series on offer soon. 

 Simone Douglas at Social Media AOK has created a video for us in a single morning and we plan to do a lot more of this over the summer as part of bringing our work to an on line audience.
  
Prue speaking on what makes Thrive by Design's approach different - 

The Conscious Parenting Webinar Programme will recommence in March at this stage and there will be details about that in next months newsletter - the programme is being fully revamped to make it more interactive and to facilitate more activity based learning for children from all areas of life - especially the new kids on the block who society as a whole seems to struggle with - so imaging what it is like from their end as they choose not to be put in the same little box as the rest of us lol.

This will continue as a webinar programme as again we realise the very busy lives young parents lead and the difficulty in getting child care to come to a class - this way it can be done from home over one evening a week and all attending get to keep a permanent copy of the course for their own future review etc.

This Programme will also in future be run through the Diamond Heart Academy due to many of the changes unfolding within it. 

The Diamond Heart Academy and Thrive by Design are delighted to present :

The Circle of Love

What - A powerful programme designed to help the new kids on the block know themselves in unique and creative ways and much more besides.

Where - Magill - South Australia

When - A monthly programme is being prepared currently following our very successful opening week in January 

Cost - $25 per session 

What's in it for my Children - A way to understand what they are responsible for and what they are not, to develop energetic and cognitive skills to deal with the stresses of their life and to have a fabulous creative experience of exploring their values and ideals and where they want to point themselves in this life!!
 
This is an activity based programme for children and young adults between the ages of 5 to 17 - that is designed to facilitate these amazing young humans [plus lol] that are currently arriving on this planet - to remember who they really are!

Those who attend will be taken through a series of exersises and process, arts and explorations,  that will help them understand who they are and who they are not, what they are responsible for and what they are not, how to powerfully walk in the world without taking on other peoples pain as their own and real cognitive skills to deal with difficult situations in their lives.

They will also learn energetic techniques for staying grounded, to shed other peoples energies that they pick up [these new kids on the block are amazing empaths and it causes them lots of problems until they work out how to recognise what is theirs and what is not and what to do about it lol] and to let go of emotional pain and angst in their own systems.

If you or anyone you know has small people that might be interested in this wicked event please contact Prue on 0419819089 or at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.comc.au to register and places are limited so get in early! xx

Eve-Olution - A Women's Initiation - A Journey home to Self 

This year we will engage the sacred power of the rising feminine who is coming home after an absence of aeons – and who is ready to make some serious changes – in all of us!

There exists, hundreds of thousands of years of rich tradition of the wise woman. she who feels the currents of embodiment in nature and communion and celebrates it, with healing rituals and knowing ways of connecting.



She holds a wisdom – one that does not worship merely the sun and its shining brightness but finds in the depths of the organic dark and the moon – ways of being linked in relationship. A deep and personal psychology for empowering women unfolds in these spiritual gifts.

A wisdom that puts care above power, nurturing above self righteousness, that re-weaves the fragments with concern and midwives the unsung connectedness that sustains us all.

This whole century ahead of us is about reclaiming the sacred feminine and we have been so far removed from it for so long we are not even aware that it is hidden from us.

How does a woman in the modern world become herself in this busy, mad world, where so much depends upon her ability to shoulder the burden of family and tribe?

Why would anyone do this?
It is a legitimate question to ask.

Here we all are, busy and accomplished women, mothers, grandmothers, business operators, volunteers and helpers in our schools, communities, hospitals and with our extended families!!


When you make a decision to come to an event like Eve-Olution – a Women’s Initiation – something profound occurs simply in making the decision.
 
All that you are – and it is vast – that rarely gets to see the light of day, beyond the masks we wear for our partners, children, parents, employers and friends – is suddenly made aware that you are ready!
And it is suddenly very excited!!

It is becoming sooooooo apparent that what is rising – is the power of the feminine in both women and men.

It is quite disturbing to some people – both to those to whom it is happening and those who are the friends and family of those to whom it is happening.

What I see in people is a new kind of truth and an increasing inability to tolerate the old ways of playing dormouse or what ever else has been needed to be, in order to stay safe. A pranic healing begins as the kundalini arises.

There is a strange kind of detachment that goes with this – in other words it does not matter what other people think about it [and they are thinking some very dark things I can assure you lol] this is who I am and take it or leave it – that is just how it is now.

There is also a weird kind of body awareness that is coming with this as well, a deep and personal awareness of the physiotherapy for the body needed for release,  a new level of sensitivity to the environment, a new awareness of sensuality and emotional reality, and an awareness of oceans of grief and spiritual rage at what has been done to women for countless thousands of generations.

It is very powerful and is motivating women to move in different ways.
 
The Eve-Olution – a Women’s Initiation –   will focus very powerfully on this. Even though the journey will, as always, be into the deep aspects of self for awakening and restoration – we will be working powerfully this year to awaken this new aspect of the feminine rising and accessing the gifts she brings – so we may return them to the world where they belong.



To be held this time in April 2015 - held at the time of the New Moon in Aires - a time of profound new beginnings – there will be an event brite link up shortly to register:

For an age now the emphasis has been on power and subjugation of nature rather than having a relationship with it and the return of the Sacred Feminine – with all of its mysteries – is now returning this awareness of connectedness to our conscious awareness.

The power and numinosity of the Divine Feminine is emerging to provide a new vision for the new future – wholeness and balance are what is on offer and a movement away from the concept of a human born flawed and sinful, separate from divine consciousness – to a recognition that we are the divine in human form – with all the grace and radiance imbued in that.
 
Remember that the serpent, snake or dragon – long symbols of the primal feminine – is the traditional guardian of the ‘treasure’ – the mysteries of the ‘all knowing’.

The journey of the serpent goddess - the dragon – the Kundalini – from the base of the spine to the radiant expansion at the crown – symbolizes powerfully the transformation of the life energy from unconsciousness to the connection with the divine essence that illuminates all.

It is the restoration of the feminine within, that we look to in this new aquarian age with hope and longing as the symbols of the last masculine age crumble and fall around us.

The difference is profound for in the old world there is a god head that rules the world with commandments and eternal cruelty and damnation for failing, whereas in the new world the Goddess and the divine feminine does not rule the world – She is the world!!
 
And so at the Eve-Olution – a Women’s Initiation this year – we seek to recognize the goddess in all – as the salvation from what we have sunk to.
In this reality the divine feminine is nature and fertility – responsible for both the creation and destruction of life.

She who is immanent in nature – acknowledging the sacredness of all living things and in which the model that acknowledges the wheel of her turning – from birth, life, death, transformation and rebirth – can truly be seen as an acknowledgement of its ecology – a flourishing for all things within nature.
 
At this weekend we invoke the Goddess of the divine feminine - in both her aspects - light and dark - for we cannot go forward until we embrace them both - and to do this is to awaken the Goddess within – to truly become that which we invoke – for the healing of all, the awakening of the feeling mind and thinking heart, the merging of spirit with the soul within and the raising of the planetary consciousness!
 


To become “the Woman cloaked with the Sun, with the Moon under her feet and the crown of 12 stars on her head”…as spoken of in the mysteries. 
 
With this return of the power of the feminine so shall we see many things returned to the natural reflection in nature – the natural time of the cycles of the seasonal 13 moon calendar as apposed to the 12 month erratic Gregorian calendar based on time equals money.
 
This is the period of incubation, of the seed murmuring under the soil and at this years Women’s weekend we shall bring it forth into life!
 

A Shamanic Journey of Transformation and Renewal

This shamanic journey into womanhood is a celebration of life and transition, which draws upon thousands of years of feminine wisdom, taking place in both community and solitude, in the Adelaide hills.
 
This is the ritual that allows us to leave the things of childhood behind, a ritual that allows us to stand fully in the power of that which we truly are.

Utilising myth, ritual and ceremony, writing, art and clay work,sound and movement, nature in all its beauty and connection to that which is greater than our selves, this face to face gathering of mutual concern, love, understanding, fellowship and sisterhood facilitates a deep personal connection with the power within all women
– the Goddess.

What comes out of someone else’s mouth is not about you.

People do not see each other – they see a projection of the other – all the things they are yet to resolve or understand within themselves, are projected out onto the other and disliked, rejected, hated or fought about there.

We are of course all in active acts of creation and co-creation with self and others so it can be useful to hear what is being said with honour – however take out of it only what is of use to you and let the rest fall on the ground without reaction or even comment if needed. Some times we teach best by saying nothing at all remember.

When someone is pointing the finger at you and saying “You……….” – simply change the word ‘you’ to the name of the person doing the speaking and you are quite close to what is actually being said at this point lol. Remember when one finger points out – three fingers point back – that is where the truth lies. For the person doing the talking and pointing. This applies to us as well as them – when you catch yourself doing this – stop and own it work it out for yourself and once the emotion is dissipated and the communication is open – there may not be much left to say at all lol.

How do you know when you are in a projection? If you are having an emotional reaction to what ever is going on and the communication lines have broken down – it’s that simple peeps – if either of that is going on then you are caught in your own pain – step back and sort it.

Stay in the Moment – dwell there.

This is difficult but absolutely necessary. Most people live in the past or the future. In the past anguishing about what went wrong or caught in a sub conscious wound that simply wont let go. When we do that it is a powerful entrapment for we are living and behaving as if that ancient process were still going on and if we do that – it may as well be. Patterns of wounding and pain will give you clues to when you are doing this – ‘not this shit again’ – type of thing. We all have them and we all recognise them however without help we are often struggling to free ourselves from them. There are many powerful tools that can immediately help with this, however as a first regard – stop and witness it. Here I am in this rubbish again!

When ever we do this we are using the past to recreate painful aspects of it, again and again in the present and we will keep doing it until it is resolved - for each of the wounds in our subconscious must heal and will continually recreate themselves in the current moment in an effort to bring them selves to conscious awareness. However each time it appears it is as painful now as when it was created and we push it away again – it is how we end up in patterns of the same shit, different day, different people, same shit. The wound constantly recreating itself and us constantly pushing it away.

Or we are dwelling in the future in the fear it is going to happen again. The ‘what if……” questions [always foretelling the worst possible outcome by the way] and the predicting of negative outcomes and worrying about it all. In other words using the past to recreate the future built on unresolved or inherited wounds while bypassing the present [the only reality we have] altogether – no wonder the world is in such a mess lol.

The Voice in your Head is Not Yours.

The voice in your head – you know the one – the nasty little fucker who constantly tells you that you are hopeless, useless, incompetent or guilty – and you may as well just do the world a favour and top yourself. We all have it. We have been listening to it all our lives. The Hold Fast Tyrant! The Super Ego or the Voice of Conscience are some of its names.

It is not you – it is the voices of your parents, your siblings, care givers, teachers [ a lot of whom should never be allowed near children in my opinion] and your society and culture about what you “should” or “Should not” be doing or being in order to maintain the status quo of the power brokers in your world.

It is just that you have been listening to it for so long you think it is real and if you think that? Guess what – it may as well be as you are a creator god and you create your reality absolutely with your thoughts.

And of the 50.000 thoughts you had yesterday – 49,999 you had yesterday and the day before ad nauseum and they are not your thoughts – they were put there by other well meaning, well intentioned people who had the same thing done to them when they were small children – all completely ritualised and stupid and all completely unconscious.

The single most destructive thing you do in your life is listen to that crap and the most useful thing you can do first up is learn to delete it. There are powerful healing processes that eliminate that driver from the system however in the first place stop listening to the rubbish. There is not a word of truth in it!! Think of all the terrible things it has told you over the years – not a single one of them has come true however you have been running around your whole life as though all of it is true having a pretty miserable time of it – stop it

Just because you are Feeling something – does not mean it is Real.

Your emotional body has a conditioned response to certain stimuli – as outlined above as well as other ways – a bit like Pavlov’s dog really. [google it if you don’t know] So every time your partner, child, sibling, co-worker or employee behaves in a certain way and you are having a very predictable patterned reaction to that – remember what is outlined above. Most people when they feel something – usually painful, negative or overwhelming – simply believe it must be true and therefore I have to react to it – no you don’t. stop – own the feeling – this is mine – breathe – ask the question – what is this about - really. Breathe it up – let yourself feel it deeply and then simply go to the terrified child within you [the one that is caught in the unresolved wound] that is feeling this and simply reassure them that a] this is not happening any more and b] you are there to ensure it never happens again.

While you are in the world of pain and observing it you can acknowledge the emotional body for a moment – put it outside of yourself for a bit and say to yourself – “well that is what my emotional body is feeling about this situation now – what does the rest of me want to do. Step back and breathe – look at your projections or unresolved pain and do something about it – unless you want to take this garbage to the grave – and worse – into the next life or ten lol.

It is not what Happens to You that causes Pain – It is How you Perceive it. 

Most of the events in our lives that cause pain and ongoing suffering in our current existence, are perceived through the eyes of fear and pain and so when ever we get any kind of tweak that reminds us of that event [consciously or unconsciously] so does the pain and fear get tweaked along with it.

This will continue absolutely until the fear and pain are resolved and that can happen permanently in the space of one hour. Yes it can. There are simple and powerful tools to move the pain and allow for a shift of perception from fear to love.

There are only two emotions – love and fear.

Fear comes in many disguises – hate, greed, envy, jealousy etc however it is all fear. However there are only two emotions and each of these has a magnetic pull to them. [the work of Buckminster Fuller and Dan Winter is interesting to look at – sacred geometry and heart math]

We are indeed creator god’s who create with our thoughts and most people are constantly preoccupied by what is not working for them – so guess what they are constantly creating over and over again – more of that which is not working for them – magnetically drawing it in until we learn not to be afraid of it for that is how the universe teaches us that some of our patterns are not useful – when the boredom with the pain outweighs the pain itself the situation will resolve.

When we look at the situations we are in through the eyes of fear that is the reality we create for ourselves. When we look at the situations of our lives through the eyes of love – that is the reality we create for ourselves – your choice – each moment – what will you choose – love or fear.

You are never given anything that you cannot handle.

This is despite every thing the lunatic in your head will tell you to the contrary – remember we discussed aspects of the voices before. The conscious mind is a seriously disturbed unit. It was given far too much responsibility in the west, where we made it god king – a job it simply is not equipped for.

The whole being must make decisions really – however we are cut off from our emotions so they don’t get a look in, we despise our physical bodies predominately as too old, too fat, too ugly, too skinny or whatever else the mind tells us is wrong so we don’t listen to it – despite the fact that every atom in your body was once a star and remembers everything it has every done or been – they are connected to everything and know what the weather in Africa is doing but we have so learned not to listen to it either.

And as for the soul’s musings – start listening to that and the main stream medical model wants to medicate it into submission. We must reconnect with the whole – allow the feeling mind to be guided by the thinking heart – allow the whole being to move us and then we know absolutely that what ever challenge we have created or co-created in our lives – that all answers to that challenge lie within the challenge itself – that is what it is to be human.

But when we let the mind rule – to attempt a job it is not equipped for – then it becomes paranoid and over zealous and becomes a poisoned chalice – filling us with fear and dismay. All suffering comes from the mind. Take charge of it – stop listening to its insane mutterings and get rid of the distortions and lies and let it go back to what it was created for – logic and reason – to guide and support the souls journey. The four bodies – emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual must all work in unison for us to move in the direction of our responsibility – the ability to respond to what makes our heart sing.

You Always Have Been, Are and always Will Be – Enough.

The great terror in all of us is that who we are is not enough – a message that has been reinforced to you throughout your childhood by constraints and script messages placed on you that tell you not to be you – to be what your parents and society need you to be in order for all of them to feel good enough as parents and to maintain control.

This has become so seriously screwed up now that we are carrying generations of fear, war, horror and what ever else your genetic line is carrying and that you will willingly unconsciously shoulder, out of a deep love for your tribe – and that will stalk you throughout your days as you attempt to wrestle your way through the nightmare.

Each infant is born perfectly into a world that is ready for it, into the arms of the person contracted to bring them into the world – however the pain is so great that is being carried around that the mother and father feel inadequate, overwhelmed and unable to instinctively do what they are born to do because of all this garbage – it is then fed into the next generation obliging them to do the same.

Each generation of children is the most advanced of the species – this is logical as each infant takes all of its’ mothers’ blood line knowledge and all of its’ fathers’ blood line of knowledge and takes them forward – however we are so busy controlling and containing children – putting them into the same little box that we were put into as children that we rarely stop and receive the wisdom on offer. Why do you think old people and kids get along so well? Because old people are remembering and working out what they knew instinctively when they were children – before it was pummelled out of them.

Remember who you are – get up off your knees and unshackle yourself – anything less is unworthy of the great soul that you are.

There are wonderful techniques now available for pregnant mothers that allow this to happen in utero – where the mother loses her fear of childbirth [a race memory carried by all women understandably] and releases the baby in the womb of all the inherited fear in the process.

No one ‘Makes’ you Feel Anything

We live in a world that is so dysfunctional emotionally we are literally drowning in misperception about what is real. It is quite simple really – if you are feeling something it is because it is internally generated. No one makes you feel anything – ever. You may be programmed or conditioned to have certain emotional responses in certain situations however they are still your responses and your responsibility to deal with them.

The minute you say to some one “You make me angry” – you have just given all your power to them for if they are doing it to you then they are the only ones who can change it. Much better to say “When you do that – I feel angry” for then you are feeling it, it is in your control and you can change it when you are ready.

Conversely the opposite is true. Do not let other people load you up with the responsibility for their emotions in the same way. When some one says to you “You make me angry” – simply say to them – “Actually I am not that powerful – if you are feeling angry at anything I am doing that is your choice and your responsibility and you need to deal with it because I have enough shit of my own to deal with thank you very much”

It does not mean things cannot be discussed – it just means things can be discussed without projection and hooks being brought into the process.

These programmed emotional responses by the way can be removed very easily and it really does make day to day communications with your nearest and dearest much easier to manage and facilitates peace.

You can Trust the Love of a Human however you Cannot trust their Pain.

The love that exists in humans is very powerful and very real and it will stand by and support you in all things. What you cannot trust in your parents, your partner, your work colleagues or others is their pain.

That pain will sacrifice the very life of a child in order to protect itself and that says a great deal about the pain in the other and nothing at all about you. People really do terrible things to each other to protect the internal wounds – it is sometimes impossible to imagine the kind of pain that is going on in someone that would have them be cruel to an animal or a child – and your inability to imagine what kind of pain could do that, gives you some insight into just how huge that pain might be.

This is not to offer excuses for such things – only understanding. As the great Philosopher Terrence said, “Let nothing that is human be foreign to me” – meaning there but for the grace of god go anyone of us for each of us is fighting the same great battle between the polarities inside. And if we were raised in a different family with different outcomes we would be as capable of anyone else of horrific things – don’t kid your self to the contrary. Every time you are judging something in some one else – taking the moral high ground or looking down your nose at someone – it is just the story you were given as a child about what you were or were not allowed to be and so you bury that deep inside – reject it, project it and judge it as less than – in the other. Beware of such hubris dear ones for it is always – without fail – followed by nemesis.
 

Love is the only thing that is Real

Coming back to the two emotions – it is true that the only one of them that is real is love. Everything else in the universe – even death – is an illusion created for the experience of it – for the sake of compassion. Each is a step back to the source from which we came and the only way home is through love. Letting go of our minds determined beliefs, its ability to pick the scabs and ruminate over past injustices, future fears – seems so real that we live it as though it is and while we are believing it – it is. That simple really.

However when you begin to see that there are parallel streams running with you all the time with different possibilities, different beliefs and different outcomes – then you are free to manifest a different reality, built in love and not fear.

Unpacking some of the pain can be a life time journey because of all the successive lifetimes and genetic lines of wounding – however it can be done and it behoves you to move in that direction for that is what you are here for.

Do not doubt the perfectness of your being here – no matter how wretched it may seem. Remember you are a spiritual being having a human experience and only humans judge – we create the gods in our own image – not the other way around and when you perceive that – suddenly a lot of the mad gods we have created begin to make sense. We made the devil in same way – we are not yet grown up enough to own our own divinity or own our self created demons so we build a god and a devil and make them responsible – see how pervasive it all is?

If you are going to be free then that requires you to take responsibility for all that you have been in, done, think, feel, say and do and the only way you can do that is by developing self love and self compassion for all that you are – which is a divine note in a divine symphony that would not be the same without you. You matter a great deal more than you realise.

There are billions of entities lined up to be here at the moment – why else do you think there are so many humans currently – more than at any other time in human history [which goes back a damn sight longer than you are currently told lol] – they are all here to experience the evolutionary shift – not a physical shift but a shift in consciousness.

You made it to this planet – many will not – so trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be doing exactly what you are meant to be doing – otherwise you would be somewhere else doing something else – trust me.

So if you wish to experience counselling - therapy of a different kind, steeped in a back ground of 30 years in mental health, deep immersion in transpersonal techniques and shamanic practice, art therapy and energetic paradigms then contact Prue and begin the journey towards authenticity.

Whole Being Healing - [Harmonic Convergent Vibrational Healing]




There is a technique for healing that is beyond transpersonal counseling, beyond psychotherapy, beyond mindfulness and cognitive change, beyond behavioral challenges. This has flowed from experiments with sound in the recent past but also many years of gently playing with this that in a way is all now coming together.

We all carry things that have accumulated within us both genetically and over life times. Things that erupt in our lives in patterns of familiarity ( not this again!!) and in patterns of pain. As the veil is thinning and we are evolving more and more of this is ‘bleeding’ through into our current existence for healing.

Anxiety, guilt, shame, inadequacy, powerlessness, frustration, rage, resentment, loss, grief and despair.......

Utilising deep emotional release, personal connection with your own Higher Self, body mapping, hands on balancing of the fields around you and harmonic sound – this process reaches you deeply at the heart, mind, body and soul aspects of your reality in a profoundly healing way!

This work has grown out of many years of work in psychiatry and mental health, Psychodynamic and Lomi Lomi bodywork, Harmonic Overtones, Shamanic Practice, Transpersonal Counseling and Art Therapy – amongst many things in my life time of learning and unfolding.

This process follows the pattern of pain around the body, then takes it to the core emotion of that pain and using joint toning, ancient instruments of vibrational healing, ancient words of harmonic power, intent and symbology – a process is set up of a vibrational movement in which nothing that is disharmonious to the system can reside within.

Testimonials


 

“it felt as though layers of light and healing were being built up around me – I was in my body but also not and I felt hollow and yet incredibly grounded”

“I feel amazingly light and my whole body seemed to be vibrating – there were places that got hot or heavy and then it would just melt away”

“I had a vision of many lives as a healer, and paying a price for those lives and of of that falling away as I existed under this bell of light and vibration and none of it mattered any more”

 "It was a series of amazing "aha" moments - from my very first breath I could see how this pain was created and then repeated over and again - it was very powerful - and very healing"



"There was a powerful sense of a whole tribe of ancient women filling me up and lifting me up and I was flowing with them”

“I feel lighter – my head is empty – I was told that I can trust my life!”

” A very intense feeling in my chest and throat – amazing as it melted away and then at the end my third eye seemed to explode as I disappeared and then it all regathered, coming back in slivers and rejoined with new information for me”

“I went back to the beginning of time and picked up the clay that I was made with and I remade my self and then found myself standing outside my body while you worked with my [deceased] mother watching you – so peaceful”

Contact me at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.com.au or via http://www.facebook.com/thrivebydesign to come and experience this remarkable process.




Shamanic Healing - what is it and why would I...

Shamanic healing is a very ancient form of working with a client and these practitioners have been around in recorded history for over 60,000 years - from the Tungus in Siberia, from the rock art deep in the mountains of Europe, to the living art of the first people of Oz - in fact they are recorded in all cultures that have occupied this planet through the rituals and ceremonies handed down through the ages.

This profound and powerful way of release and renewal is based upon the principle that what ever is occurring in your current life - break down, break up, illness, grief and loss, guilt and shame, addiction, anxiety and terror, inadequacy and feelings of lack of worth or value - what ever pain or life circumstances you are currently dealing with - it is all based on a disturbance of equilibrium within you.

Something is out of balance. And if it is manifesting in external or internal symptoms to point this out to you, it is doing so that you may do what ever is required to restore balance.

This presupposes a very deep truth. That you are never a victim. That what ever is occurring for you is being co-created by you - with others or with your own physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual reality in order for you to heal [not cure] yourself of the imbalance and allow your life to return to equilibrium.

And you have the power to do this - absolutely. The placebo effect is a classic observation of this ability.

We are taught in the west that an illness is beyond your control and must be medicated or cut in order to subdue it, control or eliminate it and the same with your emotional and psychological world - that it is like a Newtonian clock in that when it breaks - replace the broken bit and all will be well.

Again let us drug the heart and mind into submission. And as for spirituality - well we actually don't get much of that on the planet currently - we have religion instead which is all about giving your power to the priest and they will get you to "god" lol. Crowd control really.

From the moment of your birth unto the moment of your death everything is connected to the web of life - of all creation and your life is a rhythm of ebb and flow, waxing and waning and we are forever experiencing the 'little deaths' of life's changes, release and renewal.

But we are also taught in the west that we can only flow - forward - forcefully - and that change is to be resisted at all costs and the only movement allowed is expansion - there is no room for letting go, for the cycles of life, the seasons, we are death deniers and terrified of our own mortality and this whole process creates an immense imbalance that leads absolutely to the pain and heartache that has become the given norm of the world we currently dwell in.

When a client comes to a Shamanic practitioner for a healing - all of this is understood and woven into the experience. Where the client is - in the long journey between life and death - in the fabric of their social world, included or excluded, valued or not - in the balance of their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual bodies - is all taken into account as they present - willing to change.

A Shamanic healer will have already done a divination for the client before they present for the treatment - to see what is there in the landscape of the soul's journey.
And when the client arrives and the process begins - the healer enters this landscape to see what is there - they meet the client as their medicine - their connection with spirit nature - bird, animal, a creature that may swim or crawl - and if that creature is bound or trapped or wounded in that landscape - that deep and primordial landscape - then that is resolved in that world in the service of the client.

The are the earliest navigators of consciousness, skillful to a high degree in journeying and bringing back the resources needed to aid the client in the ‘here and now’ process of their lives.
They have many resources and skills at their disposal to ascertain what has led to the client’s symptoms – as they present to them. No matter what the problem, while addressing those symptoms and restoring balance to the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual realms of the client – they are always at heart observing the flight of the soul and where the client is in the journey of their life between birth and death.

The Shaman is a healer, a priest or priestess, a medium and story teller, an actor or entertainer, a trickster and prophet, a world builder and sorcerer, a mage and magician and many possibilities besides. There is a great deal of misinformation out there but in truth it is a lens through which the world can be viewed in new and visionary ways and is the oldest medicine ways practiced in human society.

This profound and deep healing will then flow out into the external world of the client - over the next hours, days, weeks, months and years and it continues to flow into the river of their life.

There may things that the client needs to do after the treatment - what is there is there and instructions are given as required however the balance is restored in a deep and powerful way that then allows other things of imbalance in the clients life to fall back into place.

If you wish to experience this unique and powerful way to discover the depths of your being and journey to that which awaits you - contact Prue on 0419819089 or at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.com.au to set up an appointment x

Testimonials

" I do not know really what happened however there is a great cloud lifted from my life - i am more present in the moment and more aware of being here - quite remarkable"

" I have been wrestling with this issue for many years now and have tried many approaches over the years - I cannot believe the difference this has made and I am very surprised and grateful for what happened"



 

 
 We began the month with the Sun blazing in Aquarius – the water bearer – symbolising the collective unconscious and race mind – poured into us – the fish in the collective waters underneath lol.
 
Apposing Jupiter in Leo – the great beneficence feeding both creativity and self absorbed narcissism – the sun can allow us to rise above and see which parts of our creations are for the greater good and focus there.


 
The whole Uranus square Pluto paradigm shifting reality still feeds the energies of all that unfolds this month and the whole confluence points to cycles and time lines all coming to a point of existence in which many things are brought to a head for change – busting out and busting open. On valentines day with the conjunction of Pluto and Ceres – natural disasters are again in the picture as part of the upheaval of earth birth changes.
 
Venus spends the month in Pisces until the 20^th and its alignment with Neptune here will have the veil very thin for all peeps – bleed throughs from past lives and karmic urgency will be the norm under this transit and under the Aquarian Sun – pushing on the collective for evolution and expansion of self – and it is not apposed to revolution for us to grow.


 
With Mercury retro until the 11^th this also leads us to introspection and evaluation of the previous cycles – seeing where we need to cut the dead wood and reach for the stars of our own awakening. Matter meets Spirit and Spirit meets matter here – the inner, outer and secret, the masculine, feminine and magical child.
 
This will help us steer true to our own ideals with effortless effort during the tumultuous times coming in March and beyond.

As it goes properly direct back in Aquarius on the 19^th we will more easily be in tune and communicating from the wise heart informing the monkey mind in our dealings with others. We have the opportunity to be more in tune with our selves at this time and therefore more tolerant and kind – even when we draw clear boundaries about what is in our best interests and more importantly what is not.
 


The Full Moon in Leo on the 4^th is the day to first roll your oranges into the house from the front door – the unofficial start to the year of the wood sheep – a symbol of welcoming abundance into your life – and repeat the exercise on the 19^th – the official start and the second new moon in Aquarius.
 
The Moon’s alignment with Ursa Major [the bear] indicates destructive and savage behaviour can erupt in the world – barbarism of a very public kind and display the ineptness of world leaders to confront such things.

However it is also a moon of abundance and plenty with the Leo and Jupiter aspects – the undisciplined can become the wildly creative – thinking outside the box to come up with new and innovative solutions.

The full moon is always a powerful time – like the new moon where we plant seeds – the full moon lets us gaze upon our efforts and see them grow and as the light shines we can see where the weeds are and what needs pruning, cleansing and casting on the fires.
 
This moon forms an harmonious trine with Chiron and Uranus – allowing us the courage to recognise that we can trust ourselves and move forward in our ideas – even if these are challenged by others who don’t want to upset the status quo and certainly don’t want us to – remember that is about them and not you and it is not your job to fix it. Leave them to be inspired by you instead and go about your business. Shake of the vampires, debug your system of viruses and vitriolic belief systems – boost your immune system and rise up.
 
As we move steadily towards the autumn equinox through the last direct hit of the Uranus – Pluto and the Solar Eclipse smack on the equinox – it behoves us to find the still point within us – the place of calm abiding in the troubled times ahead.


 
Then as the Sun enters the mutable watery sign of Pisces we are immersed in the depths of the element that always finds the deepest places within us washing free the detritus from deep within the psyche – loosening it up for clearing and freedom.
 
This energy also allows us to become very empathic – even allowing us to confuse what others are feeling with our own feelings – taking responsibility for them if we are not careful and it is important again to be clear about where we start and the other stops. Remember nothing is broken – it is not your job to fix the world – simply to move towards birthing the best possible version of yourself – that is all that is required.  And make sure you plan for some down time on your own during this time – you will benefit greatly from this.
 
A few hours after the Sun moves here we experience the second new moon in Aquarius – it has been this way with the last few new moons – and this is the last of these – with a lunar cycle shift occurring that will have the Full Moons arising in their sign before the New Moon until the Blue Moon in June 2016.
 
The day before the new moon here we have Mars entering Aries – its natural home – and the beginning of a cycle of push forward into new and exciting aspects of our lives! It will facilitate a go get em mentality as you can see clearly the path ahead from a place of integrity within yourself and in alignment for the greater good. You will have energy to burn for this quest and may be a bit feisty as well so be mindful to engage your heart before you let your monkey mind babble on.
 


Venus enters Aries here also on the 20^th – the day of the new moon – and as she joins her counter part Mars here – this Yin energy marries the Yang energy and forges a powerful urge to see what you want and go after it – expect to meet a lot of assertive women this month who know what they want and know how to get it lol.
 
Trining Saturn in Sagittarius on the 24^th these two get a huge boost and then they form a triple conjunction with Uranus in Aries from the 5^th to 121th of March – the cosmology of all of which facilitates expansion and growth and faith in what is unfolding – no matter how turbulent the process of that unfolding might be. You will meet resistance but seize the day and trust the signposts along the way.
 
 
Feng Shui tips for the year ahead

 On february 19th stand at the front door of your house and roll a bag of oranges into the house - getting anyone who lives with you to participate. 

In the west [bad juju stars this year - especially front doors] hang lots of metal and a 6 point hollow wind chime and put a 5 element pagoda here [or at least a picture of one] 

Symbols of double happiness in the north, 3 sheep on a mountain in the north east, a light burning for 3 hours a day, 6 glass marbles in a bowl [ all for wealth] 

Blue elephant and blue rhinocerous in the south for robbery, woo loo and medicine buddha in the north east for protection against ill health. 

I will go into it in more detail when i find my notes for next month lol and in the meantime contact Julie Machel on 450168108 or Carolyn Mounce on 0419804214 and these ladies can come and do you whole house so that the year has the best possibility of shining. 

Have a great month peeps xxxx