What's New

Enjoy where we are right now. A new season is about to start for us. For us up in the north it's summer into fall. It's so easy to jump forward and feel the cold that is coming and not enjoy the warmth that is here right now. So let's do ourselves a favor and live in the present moment and enjoy everything that is right here and right now. :)

ENERGIES ARE CALLING NOW
Make that change. Shift the energy. Do something different today. Allow a new energy to come in. Change is ever constant anyway. Take a different route to work. Go out to eat instead of eating in, etc. Change it up. Feel the shifts. If you are feeling drawn to do something different, do it! Don't resist the flow. Go with it. The energies are speaking to you now. They are asking for you to shift inside of yourself and by allowing something new to flow through you, you allow for the shifts to take place in your life. As you do something different you see a new perspective and feeling of lightness can overcome you.

By changing your pattern and doing something different or choosing not to do something you *always* do, you allow yourself to room and space to become more conscious. As you do something differently, or you change it or you don't do it at all, you allow presence to be born! Something shifts. You suddenly are more aware of what you are doing because you are doing it differently or not doing it at all. You may have gotten so used to those patterns, that you may have grown unconscious while you were doing them, over and over again. So changing it allows shifts to occur and a new state of stillness and presence is born. Becoming more conscious all the time gets one step easier.

For some this can be very challenging, especially if they are very set in their ways and their patterns. But we are here today to rid ourselves of these limiting beliefs and patterns. Try it! :) We only have right now. I'll leave you with one quote that I read today and love: "You only have one life to do whatever you want with. In 100 years nobody will remember the stupid mistakes you made so make a fool of yourself while you still have the chance because if you spend all your life trying to be the coolest kid around you will never be happy with yourself." ~ Author unknown

CHECK IT OUT!
Song "Fragile Day" (www.fragileday.com) by Wilderland (co-written by Scot Blum of the Daily Om and Kat Sanchez). Free listen and watch the video. Donate to the oil spill by buying the song online if you can.

WEBSITE TESTIMONIAL
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Please check back here for monthly updates and as always you can see past newsletters in the archives. Also, go here to check out the newest articles I've added to date! Here's to a magical blissful year to us all!

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On the Air with All We Are

Mark the Date

All We Are radio has been on the air now for over two years. And we usually do a few less shows in the summer. This time we are changing it up a bit. All We Are radio is on Sabatical for a couple of months. We hope to have a new schedule line-up for you by October 2010. We are in the midst of major change and shifts. We are also moving again. We are going with the flow. But as always you can check out our archived shows and listen at your leisure by clicking here (www.blogtalkradio.com/AllWeAre).

Please do keep us posted on shows or guests you'd like us to have on our show and we get it done! :) Namaste.

Your Comments:

"Thank you for such an amazing opportunity to "let it rip!" I would love to do another show with you. The energy transference between us was on another order of magnitude as we chatted." ~ Dr. Janie Talty, guest January 16, 2009

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Yoga Pose for August

Eagle Pose
Sanskrit: Garudasana
Image courtesy of my Husband, Don Anderson.
Taken in the beautiful WWI Park in Plainville, MA.

Eagle pose is great for opening up the back, working with the shoulders and really strengthening the legs, knees and ankles. Can relieve cramps of the legs. Many benefits are held in this balance pose. As you hold you feel your strength. Find peace and quiet the mind. Everything is inside and your power is expanded upon while you maintain this pose.

Directions on how to come into the pose:
Stand in the powerful Mountain Pose. Feet walking distance apart. Straight, activated arms and legs, good posture. From here begin to bend your left knee and bring your right thigh over right left knee. From here you can keep it modified as you sit back and place your foot on the floor or you can bind your right foot around the lower left calf as you see here in the image to the right. Balancing on the left foot. Then while sitting back in this position, you can wrap your right arm under the left arm and bind your wrists so palms are touching. If binding is a challenge and for those with wrist issues you may simple allow your forearms to come together with palms facing each other. Now from here take your bound arms and allow the elbows to stretch out away from your body and lift up. Shoulders are over your hips here. Hold here and breathe. Challenge yourself by sitting lower. Challenge yourself even more by coming into a bound foward fold, nice and slow and gracefully rising back up in this position. Another challenge is to simply close eyes and maintain good balance. Come out and switch sides after a few breaths. Do this a few times on each side. The more you practice this you will be able to maintain good balance in this pose for a good few minutes or longer. :)

When not to do this pose or to modify/Contraindications:
Those with knee issues may find this pose challenging. To start use the modification I've offered above. The more you practice this and other yoga poses you will strengthen your knees again and be able to eventually come into this full pose. Don't rush yourself. Just honor the wisdom of your body always.

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Inspirations
The messages from Maggie are channeled to her via her Higher Self, Guides and Angels. Maggie receives these inspirations while in a higher state of awareness. The Angels contribute greatly to channeling these messages, as well as Maggie's Higher Self and Guides; thus from the Oneness of All That Is.

Come As You Are

Forget everything. Come as you are.

"The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself." ~Osho

Reading the above quote gets me raw and real and allows me to relax into myself. I can take a deep cleansing breath. There is no out there. There is only in here. In here is where the "out there" comes from. All our thoughts, decisions, beliefs, limiting beliefs, etc. are from the inside first and then as we choose to think them or believe in them, we resonate that vibration out to the world and that attracts to us our circumstances and experiences. It's time to let go of it all. Let go and surrender to just coming to the table as you are.

Forget everything. Come as you are. In yoga, there is a saying that yoga meets you where you are. Wherever you are at, there you are. Even in yoga one will strive too far in the future for something that their body is not ready for or reach too far in the past for something they regretfully gave up or experienced and limit themselves in a pose where they can strive to evolve. But we always come back to the present. In yoga it is about living now, breathing now and Being now. Come as you are. All the other stuff in your life is just that. Stuff. A blip on the manifesting radar and then it's gone. But your divine essence is still there, always there, never changing or leaving. It is your true self.

Sit back and listen. Your still small voice within, that essence is always ready to expand out to you. Dive into yourself and hear the blissful peace. Nothing that has even happened to you or that may ever happen to you will ever take this away from you. Because it IS you. Just know and breathe.

So as in yoga, it is in life. Life takes you as you are. Wherever you are on your path that is what you bring. You bring your true essence to everything. So let's do our best to not allow our ego and limiting beliefs dictate our truest selves anymore. Let's do our best not to be fake anymore with people. Let's do our best to be our authentic selves. We can be loud about our authenticity and we can also be graceful in its intensity or soft soothing way. We are complex and yet very simple beings. We exist and therefore we are expressing the divine through us. Allow what IS to come out. We do not need to stuff down our authentic beautiful selves anymore. It's time to simply come as we are, say what we say and be whatever we be. Relax.

Eckhart Tolle quotes a Zen master in his July 2010 newsletter as saying, “'Don’t seek for the truth – just cease cherishing opinions'. And that’s enough."

As you relax into yourself you will rejuvenate your soul. The air is easier to breathe. Your body will feel the surrender into yourself. Your life will feel more blessed because it is. You will transform who you have always been. Allow yourself to be you. Come as you are.

Enjoy, live, laugh and love always!

Blessings to you on your path,
~Spiritual Cheerleader

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Dear Maggie

QUESTION

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Inspire Buddy (Ibby) Award

Websites that show the willingness to share with others to raise their vibrations in a positive way! Please submit your recommendations as well and it will be considered! :)

Fragile Day by Wilderland
"Fragile Day" by Wilderland as written by Scot Blume of the Daily Om and Kat Sanchez. I placed this link above in my What's New column but am drawn to place it here as well. It is a beautiful song and purchasing it goes towards a good cause. A double wammy of good karma. :)

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Favorite Books, photos and/or Videos of the Month:
I've embraced video land and had to face facts that most of my time is spend on you tube and watching little video clips online. So with that said, I must include a favorite video from time to time sometimes in place of books. Enjoy!

Try me next month when I've had time to read! :)

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Favorite Spiritual Movie of the Month:

Enlighten Up!
Check out this movie if you'd like to see yoga from a newbie's point of view. It's comical is a number of areas and introspective at other times. Although the ending could be much better. And in my opinion made better by the interviewer coming more fully into her own and filming her own thoughts, ideas and experiences on the subject rather than looking outside herself. But it's a great movie and you get to meet a number of masters along the way! I think it leaves you to ponder what *you* want from a path such as yoga and what enlightenment may mean to you.

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