Wordless Wednesday

A Beautiful Sunrise. Leave us a message regarding your best sunrise!

A Happy Ending

A Happy ending to a sad New Year's beginning.
Last month, while riding in a New York City taxi, a young woman named Erika Gunderson found a $500 Canon digital camera that the cab's previous occupant had left behind.

She, her boyfriend, and his mom decided to create a happing ending. After much searching found the rightful owner.

Murphy, an insurance underwriter, had been devastated to lose the pictures from a trip he had planned for years. It was Jan. 10 _ his 34th birthday _ when he heard he would be getting the photos back. "I was over the moon," he says now. "Best present ever."

"I owe you one," he wrote to Ascher. "It's good to know there are some honest people left in the world."

Such a heart warming up lifting story. Great to acknowledge that we do have wonderful honest people who go the extra mile and give their best. Kudos to this family for their determination.

Do you have experiences where you have received or given a gift like this to someone you don't know or have never met? Just met a new blogger over at Spa Clientele check out her post on Zen and Simplicity--great post.

Wordless Wednesday--Couple Reunited After 60 Years

Who wrote this script--Choosing Love

In yesterday's blog entry, you read about a couple who were separated for sixty years. They had given up all hope of reuniting again. Through deep determination, they learned to release their deep hurt and pain and move on with their life. There are many great lessons to learn from their amazing love story.

First, if you close your heart you will deny yourself love. In order to give and receive love you must keep your heart open.

Second, a person who's heart is closed pushes opportunities for success in money and life away. In order to succeed in life and love you must learn to trust life, and love, and keep your heart open. Research suggests that our heart is our emotional brain read on.

Resent research suggests that the heart is our emotional brain. Molecular biologists have discovered that the heart is the body's most important endocrine gland. In response to our experience of the world, it produces and releases a major hormone, ANF -- which stands for Atriol Neuriatic Factor -- that profoundly effects every operation in the limbic structure, or what we refer to as the "emotional brain."

This includes the hippocampal area where memory and learning take place, and also the control centers for the entire hormonal system. And neurocardiologist have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of the heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously believed. They are identical to the neural cells in the brain, operating through the same connecting links called ganglia, with the same axonal anddendritic connections that take place in the brain, as well as through the very same kinds of neurotransmitters found in the brain.

Quite literally, in other words, there is a "brain" in the heart, whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions. About half of the heart's neural cells are involved in translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working as one harmonious whole.

And the other half make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue between the heart and the brain that we are not even aware of.

The heart and our emotions are important not only to our physical health but we also need an open heart to find true love and success. EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique and Love's Secret offers tools to open your heart to love. Were you aware that your emotional brain is in your heart??

This article was excerpted from

Nurturing Heart-Brain Development Starting With Infants

1999 Interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce

by Chris Mercogliano and Kim Debus

Journal of Family Life, Volume 5, No.1, 1999

Writer's Strike--Turn Off the TV and Find Your Way back to Love!

Do you push love away in the name of being right? Do you like being right more than being in love and giving love? Write a new script to create the love you want and deserve by giving up your need to be right. Learn to fight fair and air your differences and find a compromise.

If you use all the dirty tricks you know when you fight you might feel like you won. But if you close your heart and push love and your mate away--nobody wins. Switch channels and quit playing the wrong and right game. Create a new playing field where everyone wins and you deepen your love connection! Share with me ways that you have learned to reach a compromise and stay connected to your heart, love, passion, and your mate.

Look at what Kahlil Gibran has to say about love and fighting. " Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship - the sharing of real interests-
the ability to fight out ideas together and understand each other’s thoughts and dreams. "
-Kahlil Gibran

Eat, Pray, Love and Love's Secret

Spiritual connections are the basis for relationships in both Eat, Pray, Love and award winning book Love's Secret Live Your Life In Love. Throughout Love's Secret you will connect with heart warming stories that present aspects of your relationship and teach you new skills of resolution and communication with your mate. Each chapter empowers you with skills to leave drama and pain behind and create love, romance and passion.

Start your new year in love by booking a retreat with your mate now http://www.retreatandheal.com/retreats.html. In my next post learn how to release the old and prepare for 2008 to be your best year yet!