SunAgape Wellness Newsletter April, 2007
What’s Inside:
Featured Class
What They Say
Law of Attraction Monthly Forum Topic
This Episode's Exercise

Featured Class
Power Up Your Goals: Building Treasure Maps
Put your dreams in your pocket and come see us on Sunday, April 22 for an afternoon of fun with scissors and glue!
Have you tried vision boards, dream boards, or other collages of this kind before only to feel like they just didn’t work for you? There’s a reason! Without a goal, a good, solid goal behind it, a collage is just a collage.

Power Up Your Goals: Building Treasure Maps will teach you what the components are to a well-formed goal, how to construct your Treasure Map to have the most impact, and other tips to help you achieve your dreams.

We will supply foam board, glue, pens, and some already cut out pictures and words. Start looking through your magazines now for pictures that feel like your goal, the ones that look right, and for words or sayings that speak to you. Also, bring some pix of you, with clear face images, that you can cut up to put on the board. In other words, make a copy of that gorgeous picture of you in the mountains. We will also supply light snacks and water.

What people have said about this class:

“I loved ‘Treasure Mapping.’ I wish I could take classes from Pam every week!” ~Anna W.

“Sun Agape's Treasure Map class was a fantastic way to start the new year. Learning to clarify my goals and to think of them in terms of visual images has made my dreams seem more real (and attainable!) then ever. Every time I look at my treasure map I feel inspired.” ~Diana K.

Power Up Your Goals: Building Treasure Maps will be held on
April 22, 2007
from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
University Baptist Church,
1219 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

The cost of the class is $60. To pre-register, please go to the registration page and send us an e-mail, or call 612-382-4374.

If you have previously taken this class you can take it again for $45. Bring your Map for tweaking, or create a new one.

What They Say…"You don't have to get it perfect - you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do." - Mark Victor Hansen

Law of Attraction Monthly Forum

We held our first Law of Attraction Monthly Forum (LoAMF) on February 1st in the Fireside Lounge at University Baptist Church in Dinkytown. We all had a great time. Rosie Bodin kept the conversation lively and on track, enlightened us with excellent stories, examples, and instruction, and helped us get our heads wrapped around this very important topic. Our next LoAMF will be on April 5th from 7-9 p.m. at the Fireside Lounge in the University Baptist Church. The focus this time will be on prosperity.

I had been working really diligently to get the monies together to attend an important workshop in Florida to no avail. I figured I’d better change what I was doing or I’d never get there. I used the skills and techniques I’ve learned to change my thoughts around the topic of the workshop. Later that day I went out to meet some friends for dinner. As I walked to the restaurant I noticed a funny looking leaf on the sidewalk. I bent down for a closer look and realized it was a little wad of cash.

When I got to the restaurant, I handed the bills to my friend and asked him to count it. He said that there was $400!

I spent the next month looking for the owner, without success. I had several friends who each said, quite independently of each other, “this is drug money – you need to turn it into healing money.” I did end up using the money I had found to help cover the expenses for the workshop, and telling the story made giving the bills to my teacher even more fun.
 
When I get out of my own way, the universe will provide – even to the extent of dropping cash on my head from the heavens!

Being aware, feeling gratitude, being clear with what we want, these are important pieces of living our wonderful lives. As important as understanding these tools is practicing them every chance you get. Knowing this stuff and not using it daily, then complaining that it doesn’t work is like having a car and not driving it. It won’t get you very far.

While there is always parking in the ‘hood, it can sometimes take a few times to find a spot. Be sure to leave a few minutes for parking. Also, the meters in Dinkytown operate until 10:00 p.m. and are $1.25 per hour, quarters only.

This Episode’s Exercise: Nothing is personal, everything is personal.

We often like to take things personally. Well, “like” might not be the right word, but we do a lot of taking things personally anyway.

Person A says, “So and so was looking at me in that meeting like he was so mad. I never did anything to him! Next time I see him, boy, he’d better watch it!”

So and so says, “Wow! When I was in that meeting I had the worst cramps ever. It was all I could do to sit there. I don’t even remember who was there.”

When we remember that everyone runs all of their experience through their own filters we don’t have to take anything personally. When we remember that we run all our experience through our own filters, we see that everything is personal.

The more we can recognize our own filters, the more freedom we have to really live our lives consciously.

Take some time this month in your journal to pay attention to your filters. Look at a situation you were in where you felt uncomfortable and ask yourself, “How else could I have responded to this situation.” Come up with at least three different responses and record them. Or pick a situation you see someone else in and play the same game in your journal, “How else could Darla have responded to Alfalfa in this situation?”

When we see that we have choice in how to respond, we see that we have freedom.

Let me know how it’s going for you. You can email me at pam@sunagape.com You know I’d love to hear from you!

SunAgape Wellness Newsletter February, 2007

What’s Inside:
Featured Class
What They Say
Law of Attraction Monthly Forum Topic
This Episode’s Exercise

Featured Class
Creative Questions, Creative Life
 
Join us Tuesday, February 13 at Magus Books in Dinkytown from 6:30 to 7:30 for this remarkable class.
 
You think tens of thousands of thoughts everyday. How many of those thoughts support and nurture you? If you’re like most of us, very few of your thoughts could be called supportive or nurturing. And yet science has shown us again and again that our thoughts do have a big impact on how we experience our lives.

Creative Questions is a powerful tool for changing your thoughts easily and quickly. When you learn to use Creative Questions you will discover that your life gets easier, you can have more fun, your relationships are more satisfying. It sounds too good to be true, but it works! The simple act of changing how you think will improve your life. This one-hour introduction to Creative Questions will give you some fundamental tools for creating change in your thoughts.

You will learn:
How to choose your words to support you
How to form a “good” question
How to know when you have an effective question

You will have the opportunity to receive a Creative Question created especially for you in the class and the situation of your choosing. Also, you will have a chance to play with the Question Cards deck, and all participant will receive 10% off the price of the cards.

Tuition is $40. You can register by contacting:
 
Magus Books
1309 1/2 SE 4th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-379-7669 or toll free at 1-800-99MAGUS



What They Say…

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning physicist



The Law of Attraction Monthly Forum February
 
We held our first Law of Attraction Monthly Forum (LoAMF) on February 1st in the Fireside Lounge at University Baptist Church in Dinkytown. We all had a great time. Rosie Bodin kept the conversation lively and on track, enlightened us with excellent stories, examples, and instruction, and helped us get our heads wrapped around this very important topic.

Our next LoA MF will be on Thursday, March 1st from 7-9 p.m. at the Fireside Lounge in the University Baptist Church. The focus this time will be on prosperity. Check out the web site under classes for more information.

I was riding the bus home the evening of the first forum and was talking to a pal of mine. I told him we were hosting the forum that night on the Law of Attraction. He wanted to know what the Law of Attraction was, so I told him that the Law says,"whatever you spend your time thinking about, that’s what you get."
 
“It doesn’t work,” he cried, “I think about money all the time!”

I said, “Are you thinking about how much money you have, or how much money you don’t have?”

He paused for several beats, then sheepishly said, “Oh. I guess it does work.”

Being aware, feeling grateful, being clear with what we want, these are important aspects of living our wonderful lives. As important as understanding these tools is practicing them every chance you get. Knowing this stuff and not using it daily, then complaining that it doesn’t work is like having a car and not driving it. It just won’t get you very far.



This Episode’s Exercise: The Gratitude Journal
 
Gratitude is one of our super powers. It can change the tone of your day in the blink of an eye. When you are grateful, it is impossible to feel whiny. When you are grateful, you are peaceful. When you go into your gratitude, real gratitude, things change right now.

Find a time in your day when you can have five or ten minutes to yourself. You’re going to be doing a little bit of writing, so you want a notebook, or if you are concerned about privacy, you can use your computer and password protect your document. 

Make yourself comfortable, take a few deep breathes, and let your mind go to something that makes you smile. Feel the smile, then notice where inside you are feeling grateful for that something. Bring your attention into your feeling of gratitude. Notice how you feel when you feel grateful. See if you can expand the feeling of gratitude in your body.

Keeping your awareness of the feeling of gratitude in your body, list in your gratitude journal a minimum of five things you are most grateful for right now. Keep your list short. You have plenty of time to acknowledge your gratitude as you continue with your journal. Make one entry a day for the next month.

Notice how you feel as you are working on your list. Do you come up with your five items quickly? Do you feel challenged to come up with any items? How easy is it for you to find your feeling of gratitude each day? Make a note of this with your journal entry, too. At the end of each month, go back over your entries and see if you notice any patterns. If you do, make a note of this in your journal.

Let me know how it’s going for you.
You can email me at pam@sunagape.com
You know I’d love to hear from you!