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Wed, 16 May 2012 05:47:50 EDT

SHAMANISM WORKSHOP IN MORRISTOWN, NJ-DEEPEN YOUR JOURNEY

SHAMANS ARE MASTERS IN ENERGY MEDICINE AND HEALING ON ALL LEVELS.

JUNE 9-10, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 10AM TO 5PM

Shamanic Initiations, drumming, journeying and working with nature and the divine offers tools, teachings and wisdom to live a more meaningful life. Shamanism is a path of learning, healing and service. Skills developed will empower healing with others as well and open your gifts of perception and knowing, life purpose and profound healing. Meet your guides and guardians, and learn to work with them safely and in joy! Join Shaman Janet StraightArrow for the adventure. $325 Bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

Great class for healers and all to awaken deeper connections, gifts and energy for healing and living a spiritual awake life.

SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY WITH JANET STRAIGHTARROW

THURSDAY JUNE 21, 7-9:30PM AT BE THE MEDICINE-MORRISTOWN

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE COMING OF THE SUMMER SEASON IN COMMUNITY. Each season marks new beginnings to honor in each one of us and on the earth. This is a potent summer full of change and movement to honor the halfway mark of 2012. Drum, Journey, Dance, Chant and deepen your connection to self-earth and community. A deep Shamanic experience for all. No experience needed-leave renewed, refreshed and inspired. RSVP 973-647-2500 Bethemedicine.com. $40

REIKI 1 INTENSIVE FOR EVERYONE

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY JUNE 23-24, 10 AM TO 5 PM

Complete USUI Reiki 1 Class, Attunements, and Certificate blended with Be The Medicine Teachings offers you the opportunity to take the experience into deep healing, understanding and use immediately. Janet StraightArrow’s 45 years of study, practice in mind/body/soul/spirit medicine from around the world, and her 16 years as a Reiki Master Teacher-Healer, brings you a deep learning experience. Perfect for people who want to heal themselves, as well as for people who are ready to help others. $325 for the weekend includes a recording of the class. Call 973-647-2500 to reserve your place. Bethemedicine.com

Great class for those struggling with health issues or for healers training to help others. Mothers and healthcare providers will increased their abaility to help those in their care and learn to deeply care for themselves too.

Apprenticeship level teaching for Reiki Practitioners and Masters who would like advanced healing and learning.

HUDSON VALLEY VISION QUEST WITH SHAMAN JANET STRAIGHTARROW

SATURDAY JULY 22 TO SATURDAY JULY 28

2012 is the perfect year to go inside and experience a vision for your life and to honor all of the recent changes and passages you have experienced and to welcome your own new clear loving beginnings. Quieting the mind and opening your heart helps you release ego and attachments and find truth and love inside your beautiful self. With nothing to distract you, you will have the opportunity to have an enlightened experience. If you would like to quest during the day and sleep in camp at night a special program will be arranged. More information on website Bethemedicine.com. StraightArrow has lived her Shamanic calling since 1992. Preparation begins immediately. 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

ENJOY DEEP CONNECTION TO SELF AND LIFE PURPOSE AND COME BACK RENEWED AND READY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES - THESE CLASSES ARE NOT OFFERED OFTEN - CALL TODAY - BLESSINGS, JANET

DIS-EASE-A MAIN CAUSE OF DISEASE - HEALING SOLUTIONS...

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:40:52 EDT

I will never forget being a young mother of two daughters having leg pain above my right knee and going to the doctor-an osteopath-to find out what was wrong.

I was a runner and exercised over two hours a day before the girls woke up. Without examining me-he told me I was holding onto emotions that were causing the pain.

I never had a doctor speak like that and it made sense. I went inside myself to see what I was holding on to, dealt with the problem and my leg pain of months disappeared.

As a Medical Intuitive Energy Healer with years of mind-body-spirit healing training, I find that our body holds onto memories, emotions and thoughts from our entire life, genetics and lifetimes of experience that are the bottom line cause for many of our diseases, pain, depression and dysfunction, in myriad ways.

Debilitating problems that do not respond or heal with many different treatments are healed quickly when uncovering the hidden cause and subsequent solution.

I have watched people come in for a healing session with lifetime issues or short- term issues that they have gone to various doctors and practitioners with, and leave free of these problems forever. Miracle?

No, it is the result of tracking, knowledge, and listening to the body/being and what messages and subsequent energy it is carrying, and knowing how to release the cause.

I have facilitated permanent healing of things from chronic pain from a twenty-year car accident, lung disease, heart disease, digestive difficulties, chronic behaviors, fears and depression, sinus problems, hearing problems, phobias, relationship and career difficulties, and many more.

Every body/person is unique and requires attention and openness to discover the specific needs of the person.

I also assist the client in learning to change perspective, beliefs and fears that created the dis-ease and make appropriate changes in thought and action.

After decades of practice and training I go straight to the source of the dis-ease and use whichever appropriate method to help each client release the cause and create solutions.

Some are pretty hidden and my neutral Intuitive knowing is important in discovering how, where and when the problem took hold and how to release it.

I discovered that all simple and complex problems have voices and hurts, energy and beliefs that are the underlying causes to physical, mental and emotional imbalances and problems.

I would love to work in tandem with medical doctors to help them with patients, and train them in this deeper-direct way of healing.

Do you have dis-ease, pain or problems in any area of your life that have been resistant to other treatments? Would like direct results in healing? Do you know someone who has been struggling with pain and unsolvable problems?

Call today for a session by phone or in person, or for training to enhance your life or healthcare practice. 973-647-2500 Janet StraightArrow www.bethemedicine.com

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HEALTHY DIVORCE, MENDING THE FAMILY AND YOU!...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:16:24 EDT

By Janet StraightArrow – Updated reprint from magazines in 2001.

The time has come for us to see the healing of divorce. Wonderful things can happen when two people love each other enough to let go and go forward separately in their lives. Children can have two parents who love them enough not to subject them to a relationship that creates more pain than unity. My mantra is love you and everyone through everything. Be a best friend and not an enemy to anyone, especially you!

All people are not meant to stay married. Somehow both partners are no longer on the same track. Did they make a mistake? Maybe. Were they together for the time that they were meant to and moved on? Possibly. If both parties are not willing to be together in love than it is a mercy to allow the separation to occur. When fifty percent of marriages end in divorce it is time to focus on the healing and not the sin. Divorce is obviously a rite of passage for some people. It can be a healing instead of a harming time.

A marriage seems to have to get really ugly in order for us to allow ourselves to leave someone we love. Blame, shame and incredible pain gets so bad that you think you are crazy. People leave when it is harder to stay than to go. The partner, who gathers the strength to say enough, is not always the one that leaves. Oftentimes, the other partner left emotionally a long time ago, creating an intolerable situation for all parties.

Having compassion for each other is important. No matter how bad things became in order to make the split happen, there was an underlying love that once was. When you divorce, disconnect from the ugliness. Continuous frustration, anger and pain will make you unhappy and sick and life can be worse and not better if you do not stop negative focus.

Forgive yourself and your ex-partner for this lost dream of family and forever. No matter how bad your ex-partner or you act, you can heal yourself by letting go of pain and blame. In order to leave, it seems that you have to focus on the bad parts. To heal and truly let go is to be grateful for the love and the lessons of growth. Is this easy? Not usually. Is it necessary to happiness and healing? Always.

Taking responsibility for your part in the relationship and the breakup is paramount. It takes two to marry and two to divorce. Most romantic relationships are built on illusion. When the honeymoon is over, reality moves in. Were you clear in communicating who you were and what you expected from the marriage? Did you try to match your partners’ illusion during the courting phase, instead of being yourself? Did you communicate when your feelings began to deteriorate, or when you were feeling hurt? What usually causes us pain is not getting what we want from people and our dreams. Judgment keeps us from loving, trusting and sharing. Did you attack or blame each other instead of trying to understand each other or work things out?

Can divorce be avoided? Sometimes it can. To marry successfully is to make choices by knowing who you are and who your partner is. Oftentimes we grow up after the marriage and find our differences are too much to make a happy union. To take the chance to stay in a marriage is to allow each other time to explore and learn and heal, if it is not beyond hope. I highly recommend that people try to work out their illusions and pains to see if there is a chance to rebuild a new relationship together, before they divorce.

Many people did not know who they were when they married. You also need to know your expectations and needs and family patterns. Is this partner another person with qualities of the parent that caused you pain? Many people marry the parent that hurt them or they did not learn the lessons they needed and choose someone who will challenge them to grow.

Successive divorces means that you did not take the time to truly heal you from your childhood or your first marriage. Heal yourself either way. Life is a journey of loving and learning, not failure and blame.

New Beginnings and Intimacy

It is sad to see how many people avoid personal growth in favor of finding another mate when they are newly single. New relationships can be built on strong foundations of friendship, love and respect, not loneliness and lack of self worth. Take your time to heal and get to know yourself, enjoy friends and family, and build new networks of support, and date when you are ready. Be careful not to rush into a relationship. People who subject themselves and their children to new people, especially staying overnight or moving in quickly are harming all parties.

Wait before you rush to allow someone physical intimacy before you develop true personal intimacy. When a new relationship does not work out, the band-aid of forced intimacy falls off and the wound is still underneath, and may be infected with even deeper pain and disappointment. Or due to fear of loneliness and fear of failure you might also be worse off by hanging onto this new partner who is less compatible than your ex was.

Fall in love with yourself before you open yourself to another partner. Divorce can be your opportunity for new life and a happiness that you would not have experienced if you stayed in your marriage. Here is your time to become an adult by discovering your lost child and inner beauty. In adolescence rediscovered through this new single life, you could be the kid playing and exploring life with the wisdom of the adult.

Don’t be so hard on yourself if you find the wisdom lacking and the kid in you takes over for a spell. This is also a part of what you might need to experience before you come into balance. Like an adolescent, you hope that you make choices that are safe. Unfortunately the feeling of invulnerability of adolescence is an illusion too. Taking up smoking, alcohol and drugs to buffer the pain is a sign to get help. Sexual promiscuity is also a dangerous stage. Venereal disease and pregnancy can and often do occur, along with lower self-esteem.

Take time to go beyond the stages of adolescence and discovery before you focus on selecting a new mate. Sometimes we need to date and be alone a lot to find out who we are and what we want from life and a partner, or even if we really want another partner. Serial monogamy may be a good thing, not to be judged. People who seem to go through many people are probably learning about themselves and all of the possibilities in partners, preparing for the right one. Serial marriages can be a problem caused by not taking the time to wait before making a commitment.

By facing your life alone you can dig deep into your personal resources and strengths. Life is full of options and opportunities. It is time for you to open up to what you want for your life and work. Children and money can seem to be a stumbling block with survival as your focus. They can also be the force that drives you forward. You can thrive, by healing and releasing your past and attending to the now and looking towards an unknown yet viable future.

LEGALLY AWAKE

Choose a good, fair family lawyer who is not looking for your divorce to buy themselves a new BMW or pay for their children’s college. Male and female lawyers are fair and helpful or play you against one another. Choose one who will fight for you but also for your family when you are having ego battles with your spouse.

When you can work out your own fair settlement without fighting, the family wins. When you have to battle it out in the courts, all of the money is spread around making others rich and you and your family lose. Leaving it up to a judge is a crapshoot and even the best case can go the other way so it is worth mediating, being fair and taking care of each other and your family.

It sounds difficult to do since you could not get along married. Taking your time to do it correctly will save you time, money and heartache later. Too many spouses give everything away just to get out and regret it later, especially women. Do not let guilt or fear fuel your divorce. Get counseling and heal you and everyone will benefit.

WORKING AS A TEAM WITH AND WITHOUT CHILDREN

Children can be your strength too. Some of us might go off the deep end if we did not have children to attend to. Having to be responsible for kids can keep you grounded and focused. Is it easy to be the parents or the children in divorce? No, but you can make life heaven or hell for all of you. What is your choice? There is a part of divorce that is never over when you share custody of the children. This is another important reason to heal yourself and have compassion for your ex-mate. As co-parents you will always be bonded.

Loving yourself and your family for who they are, and not who you think they should be, is the best place to begin. Working from truth not illusion will heal your relationships with everyone. You do not have to like everyone, but working with who they are, brings opportunities for the best for all. You need to know your limits and your strengths. You also need to know the limits and strengths of your ex-spouse in order to work with him or her. Judging and blaming is not helpful. Now it is time for you to be a grown up and be positive and healing.

Children need both parents. Kids want to love both parents; no matter how much pain they caused them. Their life is full of illusion too. Yet when you share unconditional love and truth, they have a strong foundation for their life and healthy relationships. So as you work through your issues, you are helping them too. Be careful not to burden children with your frustrations or disappointments, or berate your ex to your children. Do encourage them to love the other parent unconditionally, warts and all. Also keep them safe from harm.

True love is unconditional and if the child goes to the other parent without your baggage or unrealistic expectations of their own, they just might find a wonderful relationship with both of you. You may also find a friend in your ex. A much easier life waits when you treat her/him and yourself with respect. It is also important to allow space and responsibility to develop in his/her own relationship with your joint children apart from you.

Letting go of control and ego issues is very important in this process. Children are better off when their parents stick together in parenting instead of empowering them to work you against each other and ultimately themselves with family as a battleground instead of a safe haven.

I understand that all parties may not be able to be adults for all or part of the process. It is for you to show up and grow up and love yourself and all of you enough to be loving and kind and stand up for correct behavior and action instead of two wounded siblings trying to get your own way.

Can you have happily ever after divorce? Absolutely! I encourage you to love yourself enough to find it. It takes intention and action. Go for it. You can only heal yourself; so do not wait for your ex to change. The worst that can happen is that it can be a simpler, easier life within yourself and the others who travel with you.

SINGLE AGAIN AND DIVORCE WITHOUT CHILDREN

Going through grief and loss alone can be scary and difficult. Your bond with your spouse defined you and now you are one. Find support in community and in close friends. Sometimes friends and family are threatened by your new status. They may be afraid for you or they may see you in them and run away or attack. Divorce can show us how intertwined we are with many people and how our life affects the world around us.

Divorce is a death and much more pain and suffering and loss than you realize until you go through it. Everyone is different and needs respect and not judgment.

You may need to find new friends immediately who can relate to you and support you, as you are likely to support them. You are changing social status and will find a new tribe as you may also keep some of your old one. Being alone gives you the opportunity to be all one as you put all of the pieces of you together and find a new life of peace and love inside.

Be gentle and kind with you. You are not a bad person or a failure. Grief can be extreme and thoughts of death may creep in. Let go of those and find new life and appreciation in each moment to help you survive and thrive.

You are going through a death process and need abundant time and love to heal. One moment at a time. Stay positive and loving to you and it will be easier to be compassionate and balanced through all of the stages.

It takes years and not months, so settle in and allow the process.

The best that can happen is that you are a happier, healthier person.

In-Joy and Love, Janet StraightArrow

Janet has raised two wonderful grown daughters who were 5 and 7 when they separated and moved, and has an ex-husband who were all grateful that Janet kept the family together with wisdom, strength and love. She has counseled many families through difficult family transitions and assisted in helping family members of all ages and traditions heal and embrace a new life. Her success rate in helping marriages find a new ground in love is also high.

The key is honoring the truth and loving you and all through life-changing events and beyond. Twenty-four years later in 2008 at the tender age of 29, the family lost their youngest daughter suddenly and become closer which would not have occurred without deep love and support of each other as family all along.

Janet StraightArrow is a Woman of Medicine in Modern and Ancient Traditions. She has studied healing and happy successful living and walked it consciously for forty-five years through tremendous loss, careers and relationships and coached people and professionals for thirty years.

As StraightArrow her grounded professionalism and deep love and appreciation and compassion for everyone has allowed her success in her former career in Real Estate and current career in Coaching, Teaching and Healing and Life.

Janet holds two degrees in Nutrition and Psychology and a variety of certificates, trainings and apprenticeships in many modalities from around the world in mind-body-spirit medicine. You can see her listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and Who’s Who in the World.

Her ground breaking work BE THE MEDICINE is focused on you being the best you can be as the solution in all areas of health and life. Books and programs evolving.

Janet@bethemedicine.com973-647-2500 See www.bethemedicine.com

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A BIG SURPRISE � AGAIN....

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:18 EDT

If you had told me that I would be making a pot of beans and another one of rice with a squash in the oven on a Monday morning while I was cooking my oatmeal for breakfast I would have given you the same reaction I did when a Shaman told me I am a Shaman…right!

To eat mostly carbohydrate foods and feel energized, clearer and lose weight, as my food is digesting and metabolizing easily has been the greatest surprise and joy. I was a vegetarian and vegan years ago several years at a time and could never sustain it. The reason I now realize is that I had to eliminate more foods to allow the veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds and grains and beans to work together.

My daughters have memories of growing up in a huge old farmhouse with the country kitchen filled with sprouts of all kinds growing on our windows and counters. Fresh veggies and fruits and foods without sugars and salt were the norm. They never knew butter was put on vegetables or sugar on cereal until they slept over friends houses.

Teaching whole foods cooking in that kitchen to mothers who wanted healthy families and better moods and attention for their ADD children was my first healing business. I studied foods and health for over twenty years before that and had just completed a degree in college and a couple of years studying with Annemarie Colbin of the Natural Gourmet Cooking School and a few others in the “Alternative” nutrition field which is all the rage now thirty years later.

I love vegetarian cooking. It is so creative and tasty and fun for me to enjoy. My problem at that time was I could not digest the beans. So I eventually went back over and over again to eating meat and fish. I never enjoyed cooking meat and usually would buy meat cooked out when I lived on my own.

What changed was I have been focused on finding just the right foods for me to return to a healthy weight and nourish my body easily. What began with that intention was foods to eliminate. I had to be ready and willing to make those changes and it took me nine months to accomplish that.

Like many I said I loved my coffee. I knew that coffee was a trigger for me to eat carbohydrate foods like breads. I also knew milk of any kind including nut milks were not best for me. Sugar is a long known no no, and yet breads even whole grains turn to sugar quickly in the body.

I did deeper work on healing trauma that was keeping the weight on as I was finding the best way to eat for me. Trauma and stress helps us keep weight on and can be comfort food for the emotions and stop us for eating the best for us and losing weight no matter how hard we try.

Working out, yoga, and daily walking increased as I was eliminating foods. I did not want to try, I was doing my best to make it organic and natural just like the other healing work I do with people.

I decided to give up indulging in habits of coffee and eating out first. Within a short period of time I automatically began to eliminate my desire for other foods that were not working for my body.

One day I woke up and felt my next step was to be vegetarian and then within two weeks vegan. Here I am ten weeks later, fifteen pounds lighter and with more energy and clarity than I have had in a long time, and I have a lot of energy.

My body is in heaven and digesting everything so quickly that I have to eat more not less. I do not over eat just satisfying small meals more often. I returned to my old patterns of enjoying creative veggie cooking and eating, and the beans toot no more-thank goodness.

The main thing I eliminated after the coffee was healthy bread even sprouted or gluten free does not serve me. I baked new breads every week when I was veggie before and I still had milks and eggs. Eggs and bread went together and now whole grain cereal and other foods replace them.

So what do I eat, a variety of foods, flavors and textures that are plant based whole foods. I use little to no processed foods like tofu-all whole foods cooked or raw. Being a gourmet who loves to eat and travel I had lost my appreciation for most foods in recent years and now I feel reborn.

The good news is that restaurants prepare platters for me if they do not have anything on the menu now without blinking. I prefer my own home cooking and pack it up easily for the office or when I travel.

This is not for everyone and I will stay attentive to if and when my body wants to make more changes. So far I am appreciating the abundance and variety of fruits, veggies and grains, beans and seeds that are available now.

Low carbohydrate diets did not make sense to me, as our body needs good carbs in a form that the body uses easily. I am enjoying a high level of nutrition that also detoxes while it nourishes so I am healing and cleaning naturally.

PS. I checked on all of the foods I am eating and I have plenty of protein and vitamin B12 that most people fear in this way of eating. I am a very educated person in this area so I could jump right in.

Listening to my body is a continual practice. I needed to get some foods out of the way to hear it clearly. Now, back to the stove to put things away for the week ahead and go to meet with my first client.

Investing in healing your body with food as medicine is a worthwhile journey. I am nearing my sixtieth birthday and realize the importance of the little things and how big they are in maintaining good health.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

Healing, training and coaching in health, wellness and a happy life available. Retreats, classes, phone or in person sessions. Medical intuitive energy healer, Shaman, spiritual and health coach. See website for more. Blessings.

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 janet@bethemedicine.com

WALKING AND TALKING WISDOM IN 2012...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:49:07 EDT

After four and a half decades of reclaiming health and happiness against all odds I come to find myself surprised that I am about to celebrate my sixtieth birthday. How fast the years go. Every year has been rich with adventure and experience. I feel better than I ever have in many ways.

Ancient traditional cultures saw sixty as the peak of life. Good nutrition and health practices were common. Nature was your partner in life and appreciated for all of the gifts. You were only halfway through your life at sixty and knew how to live. A sixty year old was expected to win the marathon according to Deepak Chopra.

Modern people take themselves for granted and destroy their health from the beginning and are surprised when health fails. Eating too much food that is not food. Taking pills that kill, instead of care of self. Not exercising or honoring the precious mind, body and spirit that we are each day has devastating effects. Ignoring the precious gift of body causes the body to fail and then some wonder why it has failed them.

My parent’s generation saw two world wars, the great depression, and the world became one through airplane flight, electricity, automation, television and the Internet. From a small simple life everything changed drastically in the last hundred years. Traveling to keep ahead in careers, credit so that even if you make little money you can have it all - and struggle to live each day, plastic food and life making things seem real but so far from nature and reality that we lost our humanity.

Nature is precious and nurturing and reflects our own nature and keeps us in touch with humanity and realities of life. Instead we pave it over, cut it down, live in man made boxes in our life and mind, and lose touch with what is our source.

Humans have become separated from their wisdom, logic and common sense. Religions that create fear and control and act against what they taught are breaking apart along with corporations and governments and people who are focused on greed instead of serving purpose.

Living in truth instead of illusion is more important than ever in a world that does not know the difference. People have replaced truth with fear of being judged or exposed. Lies are always exposed and you are best knowing and living the truth to be safe and free.

Three decades ago I was laughed at blending nutrition and psychology degrees in college. I was surprised. The mind and the body and spirit have been so separated that people forgot that we are one whole person. Everything counts and affects one another. We are all one.

I see people run scared to the doctor with things that are normal reactions of the body that need attention in a healthy way. I watch them take pills and get surgeries they do not need that are horribly expensive and devastating that can ruin health and break down a person when a simple self-care solution could have occurred for a few dollars and some wisdom and attention.

A big topic today is the runaway expense of health care when it is really disease care. Focused on disease and fear instead of health and common sense keeps everyone sick. Natural health is all the rage but in some ways it is just another business run the same way as medicine. We must change our thinking in order to change our life. Choosing health is a daily focus and you must support this choice by action. Free of fear and blame and hurt we can break through dis-ease and create a healthy, happy life free.

Today the world and every area of our lives are falling apart and it is time to wake up. We cannot take anything for granted any more. No one is going to take care of us but us. Angels and divine guidance are here not to save us but to help us save ourselves. We have to learn to work together as people to turn this world around person by person.

Staying awake and out of fear is key. There are volumes of information to creating a happy healthy world. Leave your attachments and ego controls at the door and dive into a better, simpler, happy and healthy life.

I have been inspired by wisdom teachings since I was a child. At first I was confused by how adults then and now how many educated people could spout some of these but live so differently. The world has been dyslexic and its time to walk the talk of wisdom, courage and love. This is where the solutions are.

Lets stop talking and keep walking and discovering our deep inner wisdom and knowledge and find our way home to a real new age aligned with nature and the divine sources and our nature as powerful beautiful humans who were given stewardship of the earth. Lets clean it up and let go of fear and find natural ways to live and heal and Be The Medicine for all of us.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

Powerful classes, retreats and session by phone or in person are available to support your journey and precious life.

2012 NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES AND EASE OF BECOMING MORE LIGHT...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:54:30 EDT

AWAKENING, HEALING AND BECOMING

As we travel this worldly life of illusion and confusion we choose to stay asleep; or to awaken, learn and become. 2012 has been a wonder to behold, as have the years leading up to this moment.

Change and movement, awareness and clarity, truth and love are more apparent each day. At times you may feel disoriented and wonder why you are here. Sometimes you may feel clarity and surety of being. And others you may feel bliss.

Do not be afraid when you go through periods of confusion. You and the world are going through a big cleansing and sorting period. Stay focused on new life and allow the process steady as she goes.

We are transforming and it is an uncomfortable process. Being a spiritual teacher of wholeness and health for several decades it is rewarding to witness and support so many people from all walks of life ready to wake up, stay the course and be the magnificence of who they are.

Every day things are moving faster. Some people are staying in what is called the third dimensional reality of material and struggling not to change and playing their life the same way they have been all along. Others are moving through tremendous changes on all levels and experiencing a higher reality and bliss.

The key is to let go of what is hurting you – body, mind, emotions, spirit and soul. Rules, roles and attachments to the way things were, or supposed to be, are like lead weights that keep you stuck. Understanding, compassion, forgiveness and easier possibilities give you freedom to soar and make life simpler, easier and more real.

All have been hurt but mainly it is our perceptions that have been skewed feeling old pain and sorrow and victim. When your focus is on light, love and happiness all of your past burdens can dissolve and you can find new ways to live in love, peace and grace.

We are all experiencing these changes some more stronly than others. Do not judge self or others focus on your experience and embrace the opportunity to evolve. It may be a scary, unsettling ride and worth staying the course. Past generations have held patterns of fighting change. As the decades have passed, each one has been changing more quickly, like it or not. This year does feel like the pinnacle.

We are coming back to our true nature and wholeness on the planet. It is the old worn ways of fear, control and illusion that are falling apart. Wherever you are carrying those, life will cause you to shake them off. If you do not volunteer to release them as they arise the light infused on the planet will keep moving you to let go.

It has never been easier to let go and be free. Let more light in as you keep letting go of dark thoughts, emotions and actions. Allow the unfolding, rather than doing things to make it happen, it is a whole new co-creative experience. All is in process naturally; it is for you to learn, surrender and enjoy the ride.

It has never been more important to take care of your physical body. All of this light being infused on the planet is moving and transforming you more each day. Your dense body is becoming lighter and will act out in pain, emotions, thoughts and illness to throw off what does not belong on its journey of purification.

Eat more natural whole foods free of chemicals, preservatives and pesticides.

Be conscious of this process and work with it. Be more love, aware and cooperative with the changes. Healing and purifying the mind and all of its attachments and illusions allows more light in to support you.

Releasing fear is important. Fear is not your friend and is not needed as company on this journey. Discernment, wisdom and the desire to live love, peace and purpose are better guides and companions. Fear is a stumbling block and can be released. On the other side of fear is freedom to be the amazing humans we are having a spiritual experience on earth day by day.

Meditation, prayer and positive loving focus will help you move mountains easily now. Healthy foods, attitude and movement nurture and assist. Staying the course and living the process each day is the adventure for all of us. There is no end just new beginnings.

As you live your life consciously you begin to follow the still small voice of your soul-self that is all wise, knowing and sure. Trust you, even when it does not make sense from where you traveled in the past. The new walk is steady and clear when you feel the truth of it inside and move from here each day.

Do your best and…

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Rainbow Bridge, Practical Mystic, Spiritual Guide, Teacher, Healer, Shaman, Transformation Agent and Lover of Life.

All of our work at Oasis For The Soul – Be The Medicine is to support you on your journey and assist you in your process of becoming the best you and living your purpose in your everyday life. Our classes, sessions and retreats offer you deep experience to navigate, heal and find your way home to you. Love, grace and joy lead the way to freedom - step-by-step.

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

Email questions or for appointments. If you would like a helpful chart of ways to heal and lighten up your body send me an email and I will send it by return email. Blessings to all!

YOUR SOUL IS ALWAYS WHOLE - HOW TO LIVE IT!...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:23:22 EDT

As a Shaman I have engaged in the practice of soul retrieval for seventeen years. Retrieving a missing perfect piece of someone and myself after traumas has been very powerful.

My recent discovery after recovering from severe loss and traumas has been that my true soul is always whole. It is the soul who holds us and is calling our self-essence home. Without that whole soul we would not be able to heal or retrieve the lost parts.

My experience these past ten years with the Spirit Twin and Spirit Lake from Siberia has given me a direct experience of both soul and self. Teaching and working with many others with this practice has taught me more through the experience of hundreds of students and clients of all ages and walks of life. Every person finds their deepest truth and wisdom and ability to live whole happy, healthy lives and find out who they truly are.

The Spirit Twin is our animated soul-self and holds us each dear. This soul is you and helps you find your way home to you in the most profound simple way with continued learning and practice.

We feel and experience separation from our soul when we live in separation and not in our purity and highest truth and take on wounds and misaligned thoughts and behaviors from living our life.

I have been guided to expand this practice and add Be The Medicine and high spiritual teachings to assist people to get the most out of this practice and recover their wholeness. Results are that people are secure with them and find their gifts and live their best self easily.

In this practice I have discovered many gifts of being me and for us to be one with soul and self and all. Sacred teachings from all traditions make sense and immediate ways to heal and learn practical, real and sacred ways to live are available with the Spirit Twin-Lake practice.

Helping people come into wholeness is the greatest gift. Watching people wake up to their greatest potential and offer a support in their becoming is likened to a midwife helping a woman birth a child. In this practice you are birthing you.

Learning to live your souls journey consciously is a bonus. Releasing doubts and fear you understand and come back to you more each time you connect with your Spirit Twin and Lake essence.

Your life begins anew as you are more comfortable in your own skin. You learn to navigate your own healing and awakening from a core place. You are responsible for showing up and co-creating your experience and life. The teachings I share help you know how.

Our next class initiating you into this practice is on April 14-15 in Morristown NJ. We have a Boston area group and I am open to offering this to your group. If you are at a distant location I recommend a four or five day class to incorporate the entire foundation for your group and each person to work with. Follow up is available online, by phone or in person. More classes follow the beginning levels for deeper work. Please contact me with any questions or interest.

This weekend I am teaching a class of students who learned the practice in January and have practiced it for two months. Now we are going into deeper layers of understanding and practice and they are experiencing the wholeness of their being.

We are never separate from our source-soul, we are just disconnected in some ways, which is a part of our experience in being human on this planet. Having lived in separation it is comforting and powerful to live in our wholeness more each day. Even in my most shattered times I knew that inside of me was the greatest resource of all and I just had to keep coming back to me.

From this place of wholeness I teach and initatiate people into deeper Shamanic journey practices safely. When you are one with you everything is aligned with truth and you can soar.

To feel that we are broken as a soul is a scary experience. To know that we are always whole, and just have to come back to us, aligns with the most sacred ancient teachings about humanity.

We are one. We are sacred. We are whole.

Take the journey to remember who you are and live in wholeness each day. I have studied traditions around the world and incorporate many of their wisdoms to help people get the most out of this practice and in all of the work that I share.

Call or email me today to assist you in reclaiming your whole self and living your best life.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

LETS HEAL TODAY...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:57:04 EDT

Healing is always possible and needed by all. Healing is self-correcting, nourishing, nurturing, releasing what is causing pain and disease, creating new supportive habits, living truth, loving your life, making it work for you, letting go of thoughts, people and things that hurt.

Sickness, pain and suffering seem to be a focus for too much of the world. What you focus on, talk and think about you create. To create a healthy body and world we need to focus on that. No complaining, just curiosity, conviction and decision to find and live a new way.

We are not subject to hospitals, doctors, medicines and surgeries except in emergencies when we take back our life and health. The huge expenditure in the medical system can be reduced immediately.

Common sense and logic is in play here. Let go of sick painful thinking, fear, avoidance, habits that hurt, judgment, anger, righteousness, victim and blame. Make room for balance, alignment, good choices, forgiveness, love, healthy food, positive thoughts, a meaningful life and joy in the journey of discovery and new life.

We are all energy so energy healing is helpful. It is the mind, emotional and spiritual body and blueprints that also need to be addressed and changed in order for any healing modality to work. We are whole beings. Holistic has holes in it when not fully addressing all aspects of the human. Each practitioner has pieces it is up to you to put you together and choose wholeness.

There are many things to address and change if you want to be happy and healthy and free. Stay awake and choose each moment how your life plays out. Be patient and kind as you wake up to more of you and exciting possibilities in beautiful ways, which is the natural result of vibrant health.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

Call today for a consultation to see what the next best step is for you to be happy, healthy and free.

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

WHEN AT LAST FREEDOM COMES - BE FREE...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:26:55 EST

No matter the experience, whether it is the end of a life stage, a move, a job, a relationship or spiritual awakening into infinity, the first reaction may be to curl up like a mouse out of fear of the sudden awareness of the grand expansion of limitless possibilities open to us.

We have just woken up and broken out of a box of beliefs about life that we have been living in, and suddenly all of our true possibilities open, and we may become frightened. We are so used to this box, which is just as much illusion as the rope is to the Elephant who is convinced of the power of his rope, which holds him not.

It is our thoughts, beliefs and ego structure that have given us the feeling of reality and safety in the box of life we live in, and we accept it as true. We hang on to great limitations wherever we are, when they are always of our own making.

We are limitless beings who have accepted and co-created limits with each breath, thought and belief. So as we move out of the boxes of our creation, we then are likely to create another box quickly, and often a worse one, if it is created out of fear, without staying open to greater possibilities.

The most relevant example for everyone is when relationships end by death or divorce or letting go in some way. It is important to heal first before rushing headlong in making another outside connection. Self-reflection and inner healing helps us through the breaking of patterns and pains and misaligned beliefs of self and other so that we pick a better match for who we are now.

When we do not take the time to heal and deepen our connection to self and inner, true security, we will go and pick someone or a new situation that will give us lessons and challenges worse than the last one. I have witnessed this over and over again. Doing anything in fear brings more pain and suffering.

When breaking out of old places in and outside of you, it is the perfect opportunity to grow and allow new and better pathways and people to come to you.

As we move into this time of awakening for everyone, it is important to notice when you have finally broken free of something that has been limiting you. Face the fear that appears real and stay awake and open to the magnificent reality of greater, happier, healthy, loving possibility.

Even if the last relationship was good, you still need healing of the self and being free to find out who you are on your own. this is not a two by two world it is a world of one by one who can choose to be together. This self-discovery on your own is a precious gift of amazing beauty, purpose and joy. Learning to take that journey of healing and becoming is the greatest trip on earth.

Stop, slow down and do not try to fill in blanks that beg for a new reality. Open to breathing free for a while and be curious like a child to smell the flowers and see the sun and feel the gentle breezes of change and possibility that are here for you now.

Expand into you and all that is beautiful and true.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

StraightArrow helps you navigate the new journeys you are on with wisdom and grace. Supporting, guiding and teaching you ways to stay awake, positive, open and live free. Call her for appointments by phone or in person.

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

LIVE MASTERY IN EVERYDAY LIFE....

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:58:41 EST

2012 brings in visions of many things. For me it is awakening human conscious to their divine nature and learning to live it here on earth. The goal is to live love, truth and wisdom to make our earth life work and for each one to live fully, freely and at our highest level as best we can to help the planet and us individually.

Research and living awake each day has brought a deep level of comfort and peace, health and loving into each day of my life. Helping others all along has taken me deeper and opened the journey in profound ways.

Everything makes sense and you can know how to navigate life on many levels of awareness and existence. By you embracing and being in grounded truth in zero tolerance of teachings and beliefs of fear, judgment and illusion-allows love, peace, compassion and movement in your life.

By living divine and natural laws, and rejecting fear or evil disguised as truth, we can find our way to an incredible life and freedom.

DISCERNMENT

Health is our nature and not illusive when we remove the causes and the problems and live the solutions. The hypnotism of taking a pill that is poison instead of going inside to change whatever is empowering the disease, pain or depression is not logic or wisdom. Paying attention to who we are and what is occurring is scientific and important to awaken in all of us.

Corporations and people are making money off of human misery and pain and it is for each person to stop it, beginning with taking responsibility for us. Magic and miraculous healing comes from knowing the nature and truth of what is occurring on many levels. Solutions are easy when you know and transform and reject what is causing the challenges and problems to occur.

“Ask and it shall be given,”

First we need to question and know that life as many live it does make sense, and instead we have a natural flow of health and happiness and answers to all problems. Confusion and complexity is a sign of missing pieces and focusing on the places that interfere with life instead of the ones that help. Whatever we need is here for us within reach of each one of each human, in every moment. There is a divine plan that we can draw on when we know how.

"Truth sets us free, Illusion keeps us in confusion."

Distraction is a huge problem as well as wanting a quick fix without looking to the wisdom of cause and effect. Avoiding pain takes us farther off course and creates more problems and pain. Going the straight path gives us all that we need to live peace, love, health and solutions easily.

How is this spiritual mastery?

I have been called to explore and blend of spiritual and human truth on earth and in heaven, studying people, cultures, beliefs, rules and religions. The magical blend of all of the elements of all is what makes life, health, peace and everything work. The call to mastery is what makes the difference for everyone. We are spiritual beings in a material world. We do not control spiritual or material by will and human doing. It is from the spiritual wisdom, knowledge and living it that the material follows. You can reject lies and illusions in all areas of your life and discover and live truth. Mastery is the natural result.

For thousands of years the world has separated and rejected our higher knowledge and being and created fear of the very elements that are truth. Man made teachings and separate religions laced with control and fear are exactly the opposite of divine truth and love.

BACK TO OUR DIVINE NATURE

Unconditional love supports everyone. Wars are religious, financial, greedy, fear based excuses to conquer and control. Unconditional love of the divine would never hurt or shame anyone for being who they are.

Our planet living the laws of the original teachings of all religions and cultures on earth would not have any wars at all. People would live in love all the time. Co-dependence based on misplaced loyalty and lies are replaced with positive loving answers and living.

THE SECRET OF HEALTH

Disease, pain and suffering are all caused by a misalignment with truth on some levels of the nature of life and the individual. Healing these, co-creates health and freedom. Everything has a purpose and lessons to bring us back to our original perfection.

This is the evolving process of returning to our original human nature of living in love instead of fear. Every human has much to repair and heal in his or her body and soul; it is the nature of our existence. The experiences and journey for each person are to be lived with awareness, and self-love and let go of patterns of judgment.

Sacred and ancient wisdom texts of masters and are found in all traditions for many thousands of years and offer insight and teachings into our divine nature and how to live it. Our separation from self and division from divine truth for thousands of years is coming to an end.

No focus on one religion or tradition offers all of the answers, the truth lies in pieces of each one. By bridging the pieces together in a practical neutral way removes beliefs in separate Gods or practices.

When focused on the divine natural truth all illusions and problems can be released and healed and life can be lived in balance-this is aligning with mastery of being you and co-creating life in its best possible form.

THE SECRET IS IN LIVING IN ALIGNMENT OF OUR TRUE NATURE

Our nature is love, truth, health, happiness, beauty and light. Anything that speaks against these or takes our power as magnificent humans is not from any divine source. The path of living love and health, and spiritual and human mastery, is also an unlearning and dismissing of elements and beliefs that hurts us all.

Be The Medicine is an unfolding path of awakening and healing. Foundational pieces are very important as they give you a new framework and perspective to build on. Students find that their lives become simple and clear with each day.

Soul Shamanism is a direct way of connecting to self on a soul-spirit level giving you deep connection, inner wisdom and clarity on all aspects of healing and living your life divine.

Your purpose, passion and core self awakens in each experience of both pathways separate and best together, bring you home to you and living a life divine here now.

Awaken to your many possibilities and release limitations. Begin today.

Enjoy your own life’s journey,

Blessings,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

Stay connected to the website and newsletters and blogs and my pages on Facebook for quotes, teachings, coming books and classes. Believe nothing. Be open to discover everything. Finding your own way with these is suggested and necessary.

Anyone around the world can schedule a session with me and work on many levels to assist you in walking your own walk effortlessly.

www.bethemedicine.com 973-647-2500 Janet@bethemedicine.com

In each quote I put on Facebook and in other writings, there is deep truth revealed to explore and awaken in you. Instead of saying yes quickly, sit with these words and find the deeper meaning and truth for you to explore and live.