BEING SOLUTIONAIRES BNL Community Newsletter - Issue #36

Aug 27, 2024 8:02 pm

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BEING SOLUTIONAIRES!!


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Welcome to our Community Sharings!

We invite you to help it grow from the inside out!

We are once again celebrating the amazing creative talent that we have within our community. If you have any poems, songs, photography, art work, or any other words or images that depict your particular creative genius, reply to this email at bravenewlifecommunity@protonmail.com & we will happily include your work in a future issue..

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LINKS FOR THE SUN/MON & THE THURS. CIRCLES We welcome you to join us!

SUN/MON CIRCLE 9:00 PM EDT

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86057771599?pwd=azdTNTVtV1ViOGVjTG9oZWNyVXdvUT09

Meeting ID 860 5777 1599

Passcode  472438

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THURSDAY MORNING CIRCLE

 10:00 AM EST

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82874074192?pwd=DHjaEmzyedTgRCWJKnv9Z2OXpJQAWv.1

Meeting ID: 828 7407 4192

Passcode: 174733

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GREAT VIDEO - PLEASE WATCH & SHARE!!!


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9clY4CFd3cQ

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To Our Community

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THANKS!!!

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Uplifting Music:

WE SHALL BE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY WE KEEP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xhQcgyoLk&list=RDD75010fQY-0&index=9

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Brave New Life Community started with Souvereign’s understanding of the deep need for feeling based relating during epic transformational times commonly known as "Covid". Together with Imani, they seeded the intentional circles for relating, witnessing and heart based sharing which magnetized so many people to BNL.


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Souvereign is back in Bali & making plans for some extra special offerings of his wisdom & experience in the very near future.


https://souvereign.substack.com/


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HEALING/PEACE MEDITATION  

2:00 pm EST, Sundays. Self Guided - every Sunday, at this time

world wide, people are meditating for Healing & Peace.

Please join us!

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WORLD PEACE VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1zQ2oj5MM

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Ascension is an inner activation that is controlled by your soul. It is not about rules.

Your awakening is a very private and personal experience that takes place on a soul level.

Once ascension begins, you will not go back, you will not do anything wrong. You will not screw it up, you will not do things that will thwart your progress, despite what many popular spiritual mentors may suggest.

This experience is between you and the Creator and was decided before this lifetime.

OracleofYourSoul~The Solutionary Way: A Practical Way To Better The Future

BY ZOE WEIL Syndicated from goodness-exchange.com, Jun 27, 2024

5 minute read

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WITH LOVE, PRIDE & GRATITUDE to Vonn

Recently I was discussing the value of my energy with a friend. I stated that I am not very frugal with money, but I am extremely frugal with my energy. What I mean by that is that I will only spend my energy giving attention to or investing in where I feel it will uplift, enrich or expand my experience of life. Knowing that I am creation in motion, I will not give any energy to fear, negative supposition, or judgement utilising right or wrong as a standard of measurement. I find myself becoming more and more an observer of all that is passing through my physical reality without opinion or interaction unless my soul calls me to do so.

People will ask me, but don’t you want to know what is going on in the world or how will you manage if there is no food, or no money etc. As a conscious creator, I decide what is going on in my world and it is filled with love, beauty, abundance, joy and constant miracles of delight, because that is where I spend my energy. I can see other people’s worlds and I have compassion for their experience if it is not what they wish it to be, but I know when I do not have what I desire it is because I missed a turn somewhere and got on the wrong road and need to make changes and correction to return to the world of my choice. Not easy and I remember life when I was still trapped in the hoping, wishing, right, wrong, blame, shame, struggle, suffering, a reality of complete powerlessness and I never want to go there again. I also know how much work it has taken and continues to take to be where I am today, as I accept full accountability and response-ability knowing that where my attention goes will grow. How carefully are you spending your energy? Love is the driver. ❀ ❀

https://www.facebook.com/yvonneteohbource

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HEARTFELT THANKS!!

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 SPECIAL SONG:

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE, SWEET LOVE!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfqND7qROQQ

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What Role Will You Play in Bringing About a Better World?

Some years ago, well before the pandemic and the escalating rates of youth anxiety and depression, I was invited to speak to 5th and 6th graders at a school in Connecticut. I asked them what they thought were the biggest problems in the world, and I wrote down what they said on a whiteboard until the board was full. Then, I asked them to raise their hands if they thought we could solve the problems they listed. Of the forty-five children, only five raised their hands.

This was the most sobering moment in my then almost thirty-year career as a humane educatorβ€”someone who teaches about the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental sustainability, and animal protection. I thought to myself: If these children can’t even imagine us solving the problems they named, what will motivate them to try to make a difference?

I knew I had to do something to restore their hope, so I asked the students to close their eyes and imagine themselves sitting on a park bench on a beautiful day at the end of a long and well-lived life. I painted a picture of the scene: The air and waterways around them were clean. Species were recovering from the brink of extinction. There hadn’t been a war in years. No one went to bed hungry. We had learned to treat each other and other animals with respect and compassion.

Then, I asked them to imagine a child coming up to them and joining them on the park bench. I told them that the child had been studying history in school and had been learning about darker times, and the child had all sorts of questions about how things had gotten so much better. Then I asked them to imagine the child asking this final question:

"What role did you play in helping to bring about this better world?"

I let them respond to the child in their mind before asking them β€” with their eyes still closed β€” to raise their hands if now they could imagine us solving the problems they listed on the whiteboard. This time, forty hands went up in the air. Envisioning a peaceful, healthy world and knowing that they and the other children in the room would have a role in creating such a future was enough to restore their hope.

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Nearer to the earth’s heart,

Deeper within its silence:

Animals know this world

In a way we never will.

We who are ever

Distanced and distracted

By the parade of bright

Windows thought opens:

Their seamless presence

Is not fractured thus.

Stranded between time

Gone and time emerging,

We manage seldom

To be where we are:

Whereas they are always

Looking out from

The here and now.

May we learn to return

And rest in the beauty

Of animal being,

Learn to lean low,

Leave our locked minds,

And with freed senses

Feel the earth

Breathing with us.

May we enter

Into lightness of spirit,

And slip frequently into

The feel of the wild.

Let the clear silence

Of our animal being

Cleanse our hearts

Of corrosive words.

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May we learn to walk

Upon the earth

With all their confidence

And clear-eyed stillness

So that our minds

Might be baptized

In the name of the wind

And the light and the rain.

  - John O'Donohue

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 A few years later, when I was in Guadalajara, Mexico, to speak at a conference, I was invited to talk to some of the fifth graders at the school hosting the event. Remembering the time I’d spoken to the students in Connecticut, I asked these children to raise their hands if they thought we could solve the problems in the world. This time, every hand flew up in the air.

What was different? Their teacher had been teaching themβ€”in age-appropriate waysβ€”about what was happening on our planet, specifically to our environment, and had been engaging themβ€”also in age-appropriate waysβ€”in solving environmental problems. Their school had installed solar panels, created a composting system for their food waste, and utilized large water jugs to refill reusable containers instead of using single-use water bottles. They knew problems could be solved because they had been solving them. They were learning to be solutionaries. 

How we all can become solutionaries!

It’s not just kids in schools who should learn to be solutionaries. We all need to learn how to identify unjust, unsustainable, and inhumane systems and transform them so that they do the most good and least harm to people, animals, and the ecosystems that sustain life. To be clear, solutionaries are not the same as problem-solvers (which is why the word can be helpful). Engineers can solve the problem of blowing up a mountain for coal removal, but that does not make them solutionaries. Embedded in the definition of solutionary is the imperative to consider the impacts of our solutions on all life and to strive to avoid causing unintended harm. Solutionaries are also not the same as humanitarians. Humanitarians relieve suffering and work to mitigate harm, which is a deeply worthy endeavor. Solutionaries take humanitarianism a step further by addressing the causes of suffering and harm so they do not persist. 

Solutionaries begin with the mindset that a better world is possible, and through collaboration, even across seemingly intractable divides, we can solve the problems we face. They then employ a process of: 

1. Identifying the specific problem they wish to address 

2. Investigating its root and systemic causes

3. Innovating a solution that has the fewest (or no) unintended negative consequences to people, animals, and ecosystems

4. Implementing their solution and evaluating it to make improvements

This four-phase process sounds simple and straightforward, but it demands deep research; the cultivation of critical, systems, strategic, and creative thinking; a commitment to learning from a range of stakeholders and considering multiple perspectives; and humility so that solutions can become ever-more solutionary over time. 

Because it begins with the premise that problems can be solved, a solutionary mindset can be an antidote to binary thinking that would pit us against each other. Too often we are presented with β€œopposing” views on issues. Conflict is amplified in the media and by politicians, and the underlying problems, about which most of us can find some, if not many, points of agreement, become obscured by arguments that steer us away from identifying and addressing the root and/or systemic causes of problems. 

Side-taking comes easily and perhaps naturally to us, but by cultivating solutionary thinking we discover that bridges are not so hard to build. And as we embark on this effort to collaboratively address the challenges we face, we’ll understand β€” as those fifth graders in Mexico understood β€” that our problems are eminently solvable with the right mindset, skills, dedication, and ethical foundation.

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VIKKI IS MOTHERING SOME FANTASTIC SEMINARS incorporating Music & Magic!!!

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Here's her great book, entertaining & enlightening

FALLING AWAKE, A HEROINE'S JOURNEYhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=falling+awake+a+heroines+journey+victoria+smisek&crid=1RE30OSK1F9FW&sprefix=falling+awake+a+heroines+journey+victoria+smisek%2Caps%2C540&ref=nb_sb_noss

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A 100-acre site of former farmland has been re-planted with wild flowers that have attracted thousands of insects. Having been a farmer for 65 years, Alan Ellis decided to diversify in retirement, and now the acres he owns near Ivybridge, Devon, are full of cornflowers, poppies and daisies.

β€œI very often wonder what other farmers must think of me - they must think I’ve gone mad, which I probably have,” says Alan. 


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Spread the Love Share a Hug





In appreciation, Shirley Ann

The Wish Game Facilitator; Journey To The Heart of Your Wish; Share A Hug; Self-Love Coach; Guiding You Home To Love;

NEWCASTLE NSW Australia +61 (0) 410 345 118

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Sending prayers to all those who are standing up for our rights!!

Constantly Neutron-LOVE-Bombing us all with Quantum Love & Compassion!!

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Reminder from Shirley Ann & EG:

Spread the Love * Share a Hug

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- now more than ever!

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We continue to give a BIG shoutout to all of you who send us the fabulous memes, not only here in the Brave New Life newsletter but on the Brave New Life emails! These shares are great ways to give us wisdom &/or refocus! These Bright Spirits continue to be true personifications of COMMUNITY, especially the Brave New Life Community!!!

Remember, send your pics, writings, & events to bravenewlifecommunity@protonmail.net

& we'll happily include your work in a future issue

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Circles ...

Just a few of the circles offered in the Brave New Life Community:

THURSDAY & SUNDAY/MONDAY CIRCLES ARE DESCRIBED ABOVE.

Bodacious Serendipity Coffee Haus - Friday evenings 7PM EST.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99351417386?pwd=WmpFVXBVYkk1dUlqWFcybzVQckhWUT09

Elder Flowers - the last THURSDAY in the month.. LInk same as Thursday call.

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THANKS, NEVA!


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If you have any ideas for OUR VOICES, OUR STORIES, OUR COMMUNITY, please let us know!

We honor the courage it takes to share our hearts within our community, whether by writing, or sharing art work or photography, or by speaking, or being a sacred witness... this empowers us ALL. Let's all keep stepping into & reveling in our Brave New Lives...& sharing that wisdom with the rest of us! ecstaticgoddess@protonmail.com



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WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR WORLD PEACE & HEALING, OR SOMETHING EVEN MORE QUANTUM NOW MANIFESTS,

IN YOUR NAME WE PRAY,

THY WILL BE DONE.

AHO!


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