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28 April 2010

Marianne Anderson wrote :

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

This past Sunday here in Scottsdale I had the privilege to be at a "meet and greet" of BHW community and potential community members.

I was witness to the results the removal of shrouds and "bushels" from so many personal LIGHTS.

The brightness of eyes, the changes in carriage, the weight losses, THE SMILES, the personal energy auras bubbling in the room.......of those seeking to use their inner light to the maximum and they choose to use BHW as the tool.
There were pre- and post- RELEASE attendees at the meet and greet..
The levels of hope and joy between the two were indiscernable.

I, too, am having fantabulous days tending my light and letting it shine to max!

TRY IT , YOU'LL LIKE IT!
Katesmiles

Dec. 20, 2009

I am in danger of losing my life!..or am I?

Feelings are rife.

Heartbeat is so fast.

Something of a light panting breath is starting..

Sounds are magnified.

I am warm.

I am cold.

I am startled by bright.

Am I sweating now?

Is my mouth drying?

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Oh....

It's CHANGE!


Hello BraveHeart Sisters..how many of you have been experiencing , any or all of the above 'symptoms'?

Fantastic!

No change, no growth, no life.

Isn't it interesting how many of the above noted body sensations can fit into many different scenes?

To name a few - fear, terror,anticipation,sex, joy,birth.
How can such common sensations have such polar "applications" ?

I guess that is the human condition.
Under it all we do have choice,
our greatest gift.
We can interpret a life occurrence as fear and go still and silent or we can don reality glasses and see it as the change it is and use the body's energy and the hormones produced to move through it gracefully to our new level.

So if you are packing and wrapping things for storage and forward address unknown instead of wrapping seasonal gifts and baking cookies or you are attending the funeral of a loved one or you don't have your old job to go to in January 2010, or you are getting married-look at it for what is : CHANGE.

Take as many deep vagus breaths as you need, set a new plan, stick to the plan and SMILE, after all you don't want to go to your future without any endorphins!

It is a seaon of joy and renewal no matter what is going on in your own life.
Make it good for you!
Utilize all the BraveHeart tools. If you are not a Core member yet, please consider giving yourself a gift. Listen to all the recorded calls, do the exercises in them, listen to Ellie's affirmations both morning and evening. Your mindset WILL change! Then you are better equipped to handle any change!

A joyous Christmas season to all who read this and all those you love.

Kate Koehne aka katesmiles

7 Dec 2009

Let us each take a moment sometime today to honor the memory of all those who died on this day in 1941.

While many of us were not born yet, all of us are progeny of those who were embroiled in that 'war to end all wars' , in one way or another.

We are children or grandchildren of men and women who gave us the America we know today.

We owe a debt much larger than the nation's current deficit to each person who served in any capacity and that includes the generation left to "keep the home fires burning."

Without every single one of those BRAVEHEART-ers, we would not experience even the simple pleasure and honor of choosing to go on to this website at will, nor to fly to any RISE or RELEASE function.

Those of us not physically born in the USA, yet are here today, by choice, proudly carry on a tradition and a way of life, that honors those deaths.

Please fill your heart with gratitude for all our fallen heroes and those who were there and are still with us.

God Bless America!

In gratitude for being able to write this post.
Kate Koehne aka katesmiles

SMILE and CHARGE UP YOUR ENDORPHINS !
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Dec. 07, 2009 Blog #7, day 14

Thank you to BHW sister in smiles, Rijuta for her post today and for stimulating my mind about "SMILE STUFF"
Thank you to Drs. Ellie andSugar for their continuing Prosperity Hormone (PH) Calls/Seminars.
Thank you to Dr Radha for her smile and permission to use this picture I took at RISE '09 and thank you to our RISE ever-smiling guest star, Rolonda Watts.



SMILE!




Serotonin Smiles

[We know about serotonin through the PH calls]

Smiling has been found to boost levels of the neurotransmitter, Serotonin. It is a vital part of regulating our moods, sleep, sexuality and appetite.
There is an obvious biological connection to elements of happiness in the production of Serotonin. It goes both ways and producing a good mood, getting good sleep, good sex and good food will ensure the smiles and Serotonin keep pumping.

REASONS to SMILE:

-1- A deep inner smile spreads like a relaxing elixir making us receptive to transform negative energy into positive.
Conversely, a scowl suppresses our immune system by increasing stress, contracting channels and blocking energy.

Research by French physiologist Dr Israel Waynbaum indicates that facial muscles used to express emotion, trigger specific brain neurotransmitters.

-2- Smiling signals happy healing hormones such as ecstatic endorphins and immune boosting killer T-cells.

-3- Smile therapy actually lowers the stress hormones cortisol, adrenalin and noradrenaline and produces hormones which stabilise blood pressure, relax muscles, improve respiration, reduce pain, accelerate healing and stabilise mood.

REASONS to KEEP SMILING.....

-1- A scowl suppresses our immune system by increasing stress, contracting channels and blocking energy.

-2- If you're feeling down the stress hormones secreted with a scowl may increase
-i- increase blood pressure,
-ii- weaken the immune system,
-iii- increase susceptibility to infections,
-iv- exacerbate depression and anxiety.

-3- Frowning triggers the secretion of stress hormones.
[I think a frown is a vigorous scowl]

Endorphins are part of those mystical "humoral factors" alluded to in verrry old medical texts.
Endorphins are released in the brain and and flow through the body to produce the phenomenon of "the runner's high".

We can smile and get the same "rush" that calms. Personally, I love that, as running is a non-favorite exercise of mine.

Lastly, a dash of personal philosphy..if you ever doubted that wo/mankind 'just happened' , think about the thought that went behind putting a brain together that has some 22 tiny smile facial muscles being connected by the nervous system to the, oh so few, itsy-weenie cells in the brain that make our endorphins and the 47 frowning muscles are not!

Til our next batch of SMILE! YOU'RE ON BHW !

I remain in gratitude to you each for being YOU !

Kate Koehne aka katesmiles


References:
URL: http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1457988
Hodgkinson L. (1994) Smile Therapy,
Optima.Klein A. (1989) The Healing Power of Humour, GP Putnam and Sons.
Ornstein A. Sobel D. (1987) The Healing Brain,
Simon and Schuster

before

after


[images copyrighted CK]


Dec. 05, 2009 Blog #6, Day 15

Hello fellow Brave-Hearters, Bloggers and Blog Readers-

I so admire the tireless efforts of all of you who are blogging regularly. It definitely is not simple.

I did not expect to feel 'undone' by the simple act of 'speaking my truth' . Mind you, 'undone' is metaphoric. It's more like being naked with clothes on that you did not know you owned.
[yes, a conundrum !]

It became very scary to see the number of views and comments and separate emails with praise. There were only 5 simple thoughts that were verbalized in text. All positively accepted..... I simply could not process this, nor could I place it anywhere in my 'armamentarium' [my tools for social functioning- not the true definition].

Ellie says in one of her affirmations.: "I am, that I am." I guess this is all an effect of RELEASE..'cause that is really how it feels and I am not even trying to rationalize how that quoted statement feels GOOD! ..and THAT feels even more 'undoing'.

I had so much fun with writing these previous blogs, that I had an unguarded brief uncomfortable glimpse of me doing something in the future that has nothing to do with anything I know or have learned or can do. I was having a blast!
That is an unravelling feeling!

Could it be I am discovering a passion?

So I promptly did something about all those 'growth issues"...I shut down. I stopped listening to the affirmations, I stopped writing all with 'excuses' at every turn...

Guess WHAT?
It was more UNcomfortable not speaking/being my truth, than it was to burrow in and hold still as I always have done

Also, I did not count on hearing Ellie's voice murmuring parts of varying affirmations at times,as I kept recalling a line from Lord Byron's poem , "The Waltz" -

"Thy breast if bare enough, requires no shield."

Above in my two photos is a 'before' and a 'during' of my journey in 'speaking my truth with clarity'.

If any of this resonates with you on what your next direction or choice is..I reccomend keep working if you are post-RELEASE, or P L E A S E Make the choice to attend a RELEASE Event as soon as you humanly can!

In Gratitude to this forum, Ellie Drake, and all BraveHearters living your day.
Kate Koehne aka katesmiles
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Nov.30, 2009

Day 7, Blog # 5 -

Thought for the day is 'speaking your truth'.
Again?...yes.

All day , my thoughts are revolving intensely about all the beauties involved in learning to, actually speaking, and eventually hearing yourself speaking your own truth.

What do you think happens to your energies and their associated colors, in this growing process?

What is the color of your truth?

Look carefully at my photo above--
Do you realize you can see the sky through the dragonfly's
wings? [by the by, how many dragonflys in the photo?]

I believe the dragonfly is speaking its' truth by the simple act of being what it is.

CLARITY after commitment......; )

Aren't we fortunate to be mastering 'speaking our indivdual truths'?

If you would like to start mastering speaking your truth,please consider attending a RELEASE Event and soon!

Thank you for coming by again,
In Gratitude to all in BHW.
Kate Koehne
aka katesmiles

BLOG entry #4, Day 6

No Blog entry 11-28-09

Pauline Lewinson's Blog [Transform]
inspired my blog entry today. Thank you, Pauline.

Pauline made many good statements about 'truth'.

The moral perogative to tell the truth, in daily life is always a growth based decision point.
We learn about 'truth' and its' various aspects from early life.
We are expected to speak common truths.

Why do we as a culture not value the value of
"speaking your own truth"?
Why is it not taught in school and sunday school or at the dinnertable or in after-school programs?

To not 'speak our own truth" is to deny ourselves, ourself.

As adults,we seek forums to join ,such as we have, e.g., BHW, to be able to connect to 'our own truth' and connect to the passion and purpose in our own life. [Whether we knew it or not.]

I predict that these actions: each of us speaking and acting inspirationally our own truth, will foster avenues that do not exist now to meet this elemental need at an earlier stage of development in life for all future humans.

Attending the RELEASE Event, is a magnificent tool to empower yourself to "Step Up to Yourself", to be emboldened to learn your own truth, own it, and speak it.

We are part of a sweeping social change that will change the ways all lives are lived in the future. You may not know it or feel it yet. But know it is happening, everytime you speak and act your own truth daily.

Even though I do not have physical children in this lifetime, I know I am part of giving birth to new ways for children to be in their lives, and all the lives they will touch.
It is happening now through all of you in the BHW community who do have children and through those of who do not, by the way we now interact in our own life with ourselves, and consequently anyone ourside ourselves !

Can you feel the JOY at this thought and these actions?

Do you see the blossom above, dressed in dawn's colors?
It is speaking its' Truth? How do you know?

Please tell me in any comments!

Lastly, please look at your agendas, make attending the next available RELEASE Event a priority... ASAP!

My gratitude to you and for you, for taking the time to share your time with me at my BLOG.
Looking for to hearing your thoughts on this very powerful subject matter.

Kate Koehne
aka katesmiles

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Day 4,Blog 3. Nov.27, 2009
[no blog on Thanksgiving Day]

Hello All my Fellow Bravehearters-

I hope your Thanksgiving Day was what you wanted it to be. Mine was a day of peace reflection and good food.

I spent some of the afternoon reading the very many blogs on the BH site. It was enchanting and enhancing.

My niece, in Florida, who is learning to re-balance and how to make growth-promoting choices, dropped a note ...
"Hi Aunt Kate, miss you this Thanksgiving. Hope you are spending it with someone you love."

My instant mental flash thought was - "I am, ..me!"
It is 2 weeks post the RELEASE Event. I honestly could not have said that 2 weeks and 1 day ago.

So what happened to change my view on my life?

Do you see the picts above?

The little seeds found their way to the dirt under the gravel of a very busy driveway. The dirt in summer is often cement like. None-the-less these elegant waltzing blossoms managed to get enough water, and in the pitch black, HARD dirt, broke the seed pod enough to reach through the earth's surface to produce not only leaves, multiple stems, but also an equisite blossom.

So what is the difference between a
CASKET and a POD?

The Perception of the interred....

ARE YOU "PODDING?

With Gratitude to this forum and all my fellow BHW !
Kate Koehne aka katesmiles

Post #2 of x to xy power.....

This is a quote from a note about the Law of Attraction:

"Manifestations come on the heels of what
you've conjured in thought."

Although my happy "Turkey-Lurkey" in the front and fan-tail views, above, [front view says "Happy Thanksgiving!"
and fan-tail view says "Ain't I purdee?"]
started out as pretty colors on a flat bolt of cloth, I knew it was to be a 3-D soft sculpture.

I applied gifts I had been given, having been taught to sew, actually loving to sew,being able to buy this cloth and all the threads, having the physical capacity to sew, and the desire to make this little creature in cloth.
I believe he is at least 10 years old now.

He graces my home from 1st to the 30th of November each year.

All because,
"Manifestations come on the heels of what
you've conjured in thought."

Positvely Thanksgiving!

with Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Eat Well and Digest Well tomorrow!
Kate Koehne aka katesmiles

24 November 2009

Good Morning all my BraveHeart Sisters:

My cousin in Australia sent me the following this morning.
It is so perfect for this week, in particular, and as well as the rest of our lives.
Here is the item:

The Mayonnaise Jar

When things in your life seem, almost too much to handle,
When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class
And had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students, if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.
He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things -
family, children, health, Friends, and Favorite passions –
Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, Your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' He continued,
'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play With your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

'Take care of the golf balls first --
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.
'I'm glad you asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

Please share this with other "Golf Balls"
I just did.......
May each and everyone of you enjoy this Thanksgiving
with as many beloved ""Golf Balls" as is possible!

With Gratitude for you and to you.
Kate Koehne
aka katesmiles