Oasis for the Soul

EMPOWERING HEALTH AS OUR NATURE...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:51:05 EST

Loving ourselves enough to take care of us is one of the most important things we can do. Our well-being determines how we live and what we accomplish. It is important to break the patterns of neglect and abuse of our bodies, and expecting doctors to fix us. Doctors cannot return your body to health, only you can.

We are self-healing beings who are in need of honor and love. We live in these bodies and we are the captain in charge. We can blame no one for us except us. Our time and effort are best spent discovering how to care for us, as the sacred trust that it is, and do it.

Each person is precious and deserving of a good life and health. It is important to treat us like a newborn babe who needs nurturing, nourishing and vigilant care, moment by moment for our entire lives. Our needs stay the same except we are now responsible to do it for ourselves. Lets stop the habits of breaking us down and poisoning us instead of supporting us.

With the way much of the culture lives, it is no surprise that our elder years are spent going to doctors, taking in more poisons in fear and medicines, and falling apart, body, mind and soul. Our time and money is better spent helping people live a full healthy, happy, life all along the way from birth on. The payoff will be a better world.

Break any patterns of taking you for granted and stay awake to all levels of your being and be a good caregiver to you. It is simple, when we take the time we have more time. When we don’t take the time, we run out of time.

People take better care of their cars than their bodies. We are an organic machine who takes the dirt, hurt, toxins, bad fuel, wear and tear into us and pollute us for the remainder of our lives, unless we stop destructive patterns and do deep healing and make major changes.

It is cheaper to take good care than to suffer the consequences in less; energy, focus, peace, clarity, success and health. It does matter what we take into our body, mind, emotions, spirit and soul. All is unseen and neglected for too long. Many still disrespect what is common sense everyday at their own peril. Chemical medicines do not replace what our bodies need to heal and balance and often create greater problems.

We do not have to be sick, depressed or in pain. Do not make excuses and stay stuck in patterns of illusion and pain, instead of responsibility and self-care. Everything we do, and do not do, has consequences and results. Our misplaced focus on disease instead of health, fitting in instead of being whole, and illusion over truth keeps us trapped.

OUR HEALTH IS OUR WEALTH

Are you living in your best interest? Do you wake up each day and take care of your needs first before you run off and do anything else?

Healthy food, thoughts and actions are common sense and vital to all of our lives in society. You reap what you sow. We are best to stay awake to what nurtures our body and life, and what interferes, and choose wisely.

Our bodies, minds and emotions are self-healing, the sooner you make positive changes the quicker your body responds. Begin a new focus on doing all you can to heal and live a happy vibrant life everyday. You are worth it.

Enjoy the journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Livine the Power of You!

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

AWAKEN YOUR LIMITLESS SELF...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:45:03 EST

The more I live and awaken, the more I see how every thought has power to limit or expand each one of us. Opportunity to grow, change and become is ongoing all of our lives. Limitations lurk behind every thought as well. Answer a question. If you could be given either $100, or $100,000, which would you choose? Tax free, no strings, a gift from the Universe into your hands. Of, course you would choose the $100,000.

Next thought, You are accepting $100 when you limit what you can experience or explore or receive every moment. Go for the $100,000 and pass through all objections and fears and receive the gold.

It is always amazing at how much we stop ourselves unknowingly. We all do it in varying amounts and ways, and it is good to know that we can change in a second and open up to being more. Practice expansion, possibilities and positive outcomes. See where you can go and grow every moment.

We each have many sets of beliefs, fears, agreements and thoughts that keep us committed to less. It is important to stop giving the limited mind power in our lives. You are perfect health when you are at peace and can allow the self-healing self to be. You are happiness even in the darkest night and deepest sorrow.

Stop empowering illusions and find the truth that sets you free. Beauty, wisdom and grace abound to light the way. The goal is perfection through daily correction. If you are not willing to see where you have room to grow, awaken and heal you are missing life and limiting who you are and what you can be and do.

Say yes to you and stay open to letting go of what limits you each moment. We are never totally free and yet the more we stay awake and watch, listen and respond the more energy, peace, health and prosperity we experience.

Catch you arguing for why you stop, negate, excuse or limit you, break through and allow the best to be everyday. No doubt, no fear, no blame, no judgment, no limits. Go for it.

Enjoy the journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

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

POWERFUL BEGINNINGS-MY FIRST UNUSUAL SHAMANIC RETREAT...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:47:03 EST

After decades of healing studies, I had never gone out of New Jersey for any teaching. One fateful day in 1994 I received a first catalogue from Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York. I flipped through the pages and one picture and write-up stopped me and kept drawing me back.

It was a week with Olympia Dukakis and three other actresses’ that summer, taking us on a journey to the underworld acting out one of the oldest myths on the planet, a Sumerian story of sisters Innana, the Goddess of Heaven and Ereshkigal, the Goddess of Death.

I had no idea what it would be, but I knew somehow I was to go. I did not know it then but this was one of the bravest things I ever did, and I have jumped off lots of cliffs in many ways. This circle of twenty some women would face their deepest experiences, fears, illusions and choices individually, in community all week. We would stand up and act out many parts of our life and Olympia and company would challenge us to go deeper and be true.

I never saw so many tissues used, even at funerals. We were saying good-bye to our stories and illusions, roles, rules, pain and loss and choices we made against us as we bravely rebirthed our truths. To say it was intense is an understatement.

This large community of women weeping all week cleansed our souls and the earth in many ways. I was so appreciative of this experience that I repeated it twice on weekends in Montclair New Jersey in a theatre that fall.

Olympia would have us stand in the middle of the circle and strongly with deep love not allow us to leave until we surrendered into truth and released our illusions completely. We would stand there alone as she encouraged and waited. I learned what putting your feet to the fire really was and experienced it through myself, and each woman one-by-one.

Hearts broke open as we shared our stories of love, rape, sacrifice and choice over and over. Cleansed in more ways that we could have ever imagined before, we held each other dearly every moment. We celebrated our bravery and the wisdom, love and truth of women, and all we are in the world and held each one of us as sacred.

This workshop awakened me first as a woman in the world and also to what deep inner work was. I was inspired to continue in as many ways as possible since. To go into the underworld stripped naked of all that we hold dear and face being stripped of everything you have known to be true and stay until we are bare bones and then come up into our lives again renewed was a powerful experience for me.

Since then I am grateful to face loss head on and keep discovering fears, illusions, ego, pain and blocks in order to transform them, no matter how hard it is at the time. The freedom is delicious afterward and gives me a firm foundation to move forward clearly and effortlessly with each healing experience.

It is not for everyone although many go through this automatically when they lose partners, parents, children, jobs, homes, health and so much more. I have been thrown into the fire and burned to a crispy critter only to emerge full of more passion, purpose and life energy than before over and over again since.

Shamanism is not only about drumming and journeying, healing is not only about taking pills to stop the pain while disease runs rampant through your body. Healing is about letting go of all that has interfered with your wholeness, truth and health, and healing is about reclaiming vibrant life free of illusions, disease and pain.

Sometimes it is nice and easy and sometimes we must fight through challenges. I have searched the world finding ways to heal more organically and easily as we go deep inside and clean out all that hurts us. Love is the balm and freedom is the path.

Don’t be afraid to let go and go deep through the fear, illusions and pain, because underneath all the supposed blocks, are the precious jewels and gifts of yours, awaiting you to claim them to live a better life.

Enjoy the journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

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

PS. Olympia and company did not claim themselves to be Shamans, and yet the brave strong work they did with us has been some of the deepest Shamanic healing and learning experience of my life. They stopped doing this work after that year. I was grateful to have had that initiation and deep love and tremendous devotion of those women. They continue to inspire me today.

A SNEAK PEAK AT PARTS OF A MEMOIR OF A PRACTICAL MYSTIC...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:21:36 EST

THE LIFE OF A PRACTICAL MYSTIC

No my life does not look like Harry Potter and Hogwarts School of Magic and yet my life is full of magic and mystery in a life of peaceful neutrality. Living the life of a suburban Spiritual Teacher and Shaman from many lineages offers many rewards. Living and working on many dimensions and levels of consciousness, I do not have to look or act strange to accomplish everyday magical, spiritual healing and living. We all have amazing abilities to share and awakening spirituality is being integrated into everyday life around the world.

As a child I lived in Middle America with all of the hopes and dreams of the time. I grew up in a fairly normal household in the nineteen fifties and sixties in New Jersey with parents of northern European ancestry. My dad was chronically critically ill and we never knew if he would survive the current illness-not normal there. My parents taught me very wise practical ways to live and be present in the world. My dad said that the world is illusion and that I needed to discern truth for myself. My mother was more of a skeptic who needed life to be proven to be true. My mother also taught me that everything was a choice and that there were no excuses, just do and be.

My father was the most unconditionally loving man who taught us to honor everyone equally. He and i often spoke about our concern about religion, politics and many aspects of the world being controlling and out of balance. My Mom taught me high spiiritual teachings as a part of my life from the beginning. I remembered them and did not accept what she brought me of the fears and control of everyday life, the world and religion.

Being the oldest child in a stress filled home I was privy to all of the challenges of adulthood and helped mom run the house and care for my younger siblings. I was also challenged with my health and had jobs from the time I was ten, and my after school activities were dancing, singing, girl scouts and gymnastics. Summers at the lake beach at the end of the block and visiting grandma at the farm in the Poconos my mother was born on, were my vacations. My dads family was from New Jersey cities so visiting relatives there gave us a different perspective from living in the more rural suburbs at the time.

I read veraciously since learning to read, and by fourth grade I had won a school contest being the first student to document reading 100 books, and gave the surprised principal a synopsis of each one. Curious and awake I looked at life in many ways and always wanted to know how things worked and why things were occurring.

My family was close and somewhat co-dependant with my father’s illness and yet I was always very independent and wanted my own life. I have always felt loving guiding presences with me that added a peaceful quality to my world. I never experienced them as separate and yet when I was young I knew they helped me navigate a tumultuous family life and outer life in the world. With dad disabled and retired in his early forties and being rushed to the hospital regularly, and mom working, and me helping out, and me navigating teen years and awakening sexuality, life was tough enough.

I have always had a sunny quality even in the darkest times, and was called Suzy Sunshine more than once. Not that i have not had plenty of sadness and pain but I do make the best of everything and choose to elevate emotions and thoughts to ways that will pull us up and out of any dark places. I am sure this has helped me maintain health, happiness and sanity in an insane at times, life. This is my nature and I have been resented more than once since I do not want to play the victim or complain, I just never saw taking the worst view, as fun or helpful.

I remember being six and feeling overwhelmed by knowing that everything affects everything and that we create our reality. I knew that all of our thoughts and actions on all levels created what was occurring now. Life was so out of control in many areas, and as a child, I felt helpless to change it. I had the awareness that all everyone needed to do was choose to be responsible for themselves. As a child I was subject to the whirlwind world and life around me and I kept to myself as much as I could. There was much to learn and work with as I grew up.

I remember learning not to lie. Lying is a way we are taught to protect ourselves from being judged or wrong or doing what we were not supposed to do. I would constantly get caught in lies as a child and remember loving presences telling me it was important to always know and tell the truth. So I learned the benefits of telling the truth and life was easier knowing what was occurring even when it was hard or I did not like it. Having been given the name StraightArrow at the age of fifty was no surprise. I knew that no matter how strange or unacceptable or painful, the truth always leads you through good and challenging situations and helps you find answers that work.

At twenty-five as a young nursing mother I heard an inner voice that said I was going to publish many books and speak around the world. Interesting, nice, but I was busy living a normal life of a young wife and mother. At twenty-eight I heard that I would begin some important work at age forty. All of that was nice and still I was practical and focused on my current reality.

At forty, I was a divorced mother of teens and a top Realtor in our area who worked and lived the spiritual principals that I knew were the way to live honesty, ethically and in great awareness and love to be successful in all areas of my life. I had been studying spiritual, holistic, conscious living for twenty-five years and innately new quite a bit. Being a rainbow bridge for people was one of my earliest memories about my life purpose.

I was interested in living it and showing people they could be happy and successful by living this way as well. Other Realtors were not interested, they copied some mundane parts of what I was doing, and missed the parts that actually made the difference. My clients appreciated my ability to listen, problem solve and support them in moving their families in an honoring, peaceful, efficient way. Selling homes with multiple contracts was done with high awareness and people were amazed at how often I accomplished this when so many homes were not even being shown. The first teaching I taught people was to always tell the truth. In business and life that is a foreign concept more than you may currently realize, even in your own life today.

It is in buying into the lies and illusions that you keep your awareness and intelligence and ability to manifest low. It does not matter what others think or know it is what you do that makes up your life. Truth and how to make life work in the most present, positive and productive ways always manifests.

At forty it was my Real Estate broker who introduced me to a Shaman who would change my life. One morning Angus came into the Real Estate office and said that I might be interested in meeting a man he met at breakfast that morning. He went on to say that since I was always reading books on healing and spirituality he thought I might like to meet this man who just moved into the area and could be a resource.

A Shaman, in New Jersey, this was intriguing and I felt compelled to finish all of my office work and calls and go to meet this medicine man. He had just set up shop in a small local town. It was filled with some familiar and many foreign things to me. What drew me was the Native American silver jewelry. It was of top quality being directly from the artists that he bought it from, and not the poor quality found in local stores. The other objects became more of interest later as I explored and studied Shamanism to discover my lineage and alignment

Growing up, I had some awareness of native americans and we lived in an area that honored some of its native heritage and many towns still had names from the early native inhabitants. My mother always told me she would send me back to the Indians when I was bad, and told me to walk a mile in someone else’s moccasins before judging someone. Local museums and schools had much to honor our native past.

When I walked in this shop he was speaking to two women in the back corner. I stayed at the opposite corner of the store to honor their privacy, as I could tell he was counseling them. When they finally left, I stayed focused on the jewelry and away from him until he walked over to me.

He was slight of build and about my height of five foot six inches, long dark hair tied back into a pony tail, faded blue jeans, native t-shirt and casual shoes. What struck me as I turned around was his piercing, yet doe like eyes. He looked into me with such love and neutrality and respect. Whew, what a feeling to be seen in such a way and to see and feel him and his total presence. He introduced himself Eagle Bear, I could see the Eagle eyes and the Bear like warmth immediately. I felt a connection and also that discernment that did me well all of my life. Who is this man and why is he here in New Jersey was one of the many questions on my mind.

What was more surprising was that he told me, that I was a Shaman too! Here I am in a red pinstriped business suit, short coiffed blond hair, soft make-up, gold jewelry, manicured nails with a big blue Mercedes that I bought myself outside and he tells me I am a Shaman-just like him.Reality check, Shaman, just like him? I don’t think so. And yet there was a ring of truth to it and I was curious and not convinced. My life unfolded as I stayed open to having the experience of life show me. My parent’s daughter, I lived with caution. I also had developed trust in myself no matter what others thought and live from my heart and my knowing without fear.

I had another spiritual mentor that I met ten years before who was an astrologer and a neighbor. With her I explored many spiritual realities and learned to understand metaphysics with discernment and high levels of information from different lineages. I explored many realities and loved the intrigue of new adventures in all levels of spirituality and life. My Real Estate and personal life were enhanced and not challenged by these studies and practice. I did not go off into never-never-land instead I was learning more practical realities that made sense of the one the world experiences.

Both of these teachers shared their understanding and experience. I enjoyed many hours with them sometimes each week. They were helpful in discussing all of the books I had been reading and brought so much more information, new studies and important practices to my attention to experience and explore.

I had been reading many advanced books available at the time that came my way and knew much of what was in them and had many questions and more to learn. Having these two people to discuss things with was a gift to cherish, they appreciated me as well, as I gave them new perspectives and excited revelations in our discussions. I did not believe everything they said and always took things under advisement of my inner self.

I was raising two daughters, selling Real Estate and living an unusual spiritual life. I will tell you now it was never boring and all complemented one another. years later after 15 tears of study and teaching others I did need to go off and live out of this traditional world to have more profound experiences for a period of time to deepen to find the deepest truth and my highest self. It was exciting, scary and both painful and the best of times to be immersed in the spiritual realities and not worry about the world.

Many years of exploration, travel and study since and I am still learning and helping others and healing me and finding new gifts and experiences. I am on the cusp of sixty years young, bringing back wisdoms and teachings from profound experience and knowing, loss and gain gathered over my life. My role to help people navigate all aspects of their life, relationships, healing and business as spiritual aware beings, living in harmony and grace with nature, the universe and their individual soul purpose is constantly evolving as we all are.

After experiencing some of the most devestating losses in a persons life-and learning to let go and live spiritual principals and realities through it, my worldy life is enhanced. I have learned patience, process and profound healing and living through experience, and appreciate every moment of it. I choose to learn when lessons come up because I know the next lesson will flatten me if I ignore it. There are many foibles and spiritual mystical experiences to share along with the wisdoms.

My inner guidance has never steered me wrong, alhough they have steered me into some deep dark lessons to challenge me to be able to find my way free to heal and learn and teach. Life is an adventure and one of the spiritual warrior when you learn to stay awake, accept and travel open to learn. there is no promise that it will be easy, we all have chosen some tough life lessons.

The gift of the most painful loss of the sudden death of my daughter in 2008 was to awaken my heart and soul and be more understanding of life on all dimensions. We are never done and always learning. Life is mystical, magical and real and great fun and also logical, simple and easy for all to work with as we live in alignment with the universe, nature and us.

The people I have traveled with as students and teachers of one another, no matter what our role has been, have been the greatest gifts of my life. It is an exciting time to be alive in a time when so many are awakening daily to the fullness and wholeness we all are living in each moment. It is a time of great change to embrace and enjoy. We are both material and spiritual beings and it is important to know and honor all aspects of the world and us in order to live the best life.

More of the story soon.

Enjoy the journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

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

Would you be interested in more of this story? What interests you most? What helps you most? Thank You. Blessings, Janet

WAKING UP IN 2012 - LIVING YOUR HIGHEST POTENTIAL...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:39:17 EST

What a perfect year to fully manifest who you are, and live in truth. What fun, to continue waking up more and more parts of you that have been sleeping and experience the fullness of your being. To go below the surface of our experience and dig deep into the well of our gifts and most profound perceptions is an opportunity for each one of us to employ.

No more accepting our supposed limitations, excuses and reasons and allow you to freely dive into deeper experience everyday. As humans we are all possibility in so many ways that we have not yet explored. It’s not about pushing you; it is about organically letting go and becoming more alive everyday.

The highest potential of us is to be who we are and experience life freely, fully in health, happiness, truth, beauty and light. We fully support us with no tolerance for what is not us. Finding out what this is, is the journey as we walk our walk.

We are perfect health, so for us to accept less than that is surrendering to disease, pain and depression. It is not okay to be sick and as soon as we accept that we reinforce our self-healing abilities and can act fully in that direction. The Universal forces and our body support the truth of who we are. It is for us to support us as well.

We are happiness, this is our nature, being unhappy is the result of living against us in many ways. When we buy into illusions of punishment, judgment, shame and blame, fear and doubt we become unhappy and hold us hostage. To experience life fully is to love you and all you are and release the bondage of the rest.

We are truth and truth does set us free. The journey is to continue to discover what truth is for us individually and collectively. We are born into a society of man made rules that interfere with Universal Laws that govern us. These man made rules have been designed to limit and control us and to make us fear instead of embrace life.

We are beauty and we live in a world that tries for beauty on the outside according to some commercial source. Beauty radiates from loving life force energy in everything and everyone. When you experience this beauty everyday you are tapped into the source of life.

We are light, vibrating energy and intelligence, vibrant health, enormous wealth and creativity every second. Anything that interferes with this light is not you. We are trained to speak for that which impedes light and keeps us fearful, feeling less than, and needing to live up to and put up with the interference as normal.

Our true wealth is our individual storehouse of energy that fuels the earth. That energy is us, our life source, and it is important to continue to build it as our most precious natural resource. Nothing outside can compare to what we have inside of each one of us.

We have the intelligence of the Universe in every cell of our body and we can access this every moment. No limiting belief or fear can keep us from tapping into who we are and always have been and what we hold as answers for everything.

Waking up to the unlimited you is worth breaking all of the illusion and hypnotism that keeps you from your most magnificent self. The energy radiated from your body can light up your county when you allow you to know and activate yourself everyday.

Instead we give our energy to forces that hold the earth, all humanity and us hostage. Negative beliefs, fears and actions that we participate in, feed our energy to that which hurts all of us. Some call it the Matrix. Whatever it is, it holds an alternate reality to our highest potential and uses our energy to keep us away from being free to create our highest reality. We can change the course of this one by one as we each break through the illusions and act in truth with every breath.

When we live the truth of who we are we ascend into the fullness of living love with every breath. Love heals and awakens, fuels and supports, empowers and enlightens the world and us. Love is our nature and a good way to check to see if you are on track. Ask you if what you do, say and think is a loving action. If not, change it immediately and align with love and truth.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Living the Power of You!

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

Living love in health, happiness, truth, beauty and light is the path to freedom. Be the Medicine awakens and empowers you to be who you are and live your truth, purpose and highest potential with love and grace.

Living love with confidence and peace and every breath is the reward. Each step is an adventure that opens up the secrets hidden just below the surface of you awaiting your discovery. As you learn to let go of what you thought was you and step into the truth of you all of life opens to your highest potential.

It is a beautiful journey and one worth taking. Call Janet and find out how to begin today. The journey is both very practical, immediate and useful and mystical in that you connect with all of the highest wisdom and resources to achieve your goals.

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MEDITATION AS MEDICINE-A BEGINNING...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:09:04 EST

The foundation of Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You! Is that we are the medicine, when we know how to access and live it.

Going inside to find the answers and the healing, is the most direct and simple way to live, heal and know, and you can have immediate results.

We have all the answers that we need inside, and if anything else is needed from the outside to support us we learn to access this information and know how to proceed.

We first learn to be quiet and be with our body and our breath to know who we are. Our lives are distracted all day and night; our body and being appreciates and quickly responds in positive ways to a much-needed focus, attention and rest.

Stop and close your eyes and breathe. It's wonderful to create a special space to do this, and yet you can take some moments at your desk, in nature or anywhere and find a sweet peace and connection.

This practice heals and balances the body, quiets the mind, soothes the emotions and connects you to your soul.

It is a practice like everything else and is never perfect and yet becomes easier and more fulfilling over time.

Allow the thoughts and challenges to come up and return to your breath. Feel your breath as it moves in and out your nose and as it flows through your body, waking it up and coming more into you with each breath.

Keep your mind focused on peace and love when it wants to stray, and continue to sit, breathe and deepen your commitment to you. Smile.

A good beginning. Keep going. For now find space to do this in the morning and throughout your day.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be the Medicine, Live the Power of You!

Join us in Morristown this Saturday January 7, for a powerful, peaceful and loving introduction and deepening of meditation, healing and you! The class will be focused on the needs of those who attend. Being meditation is the goal. more soon.

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

Online classes with Videos and Audio, teachings and practices coming soon for all to Be the Medicine, follow up on a class or for all everywhere to begin and progress on your journey to you!

LOVE FOR LOVE'S SAKE...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:03:35 EST

We are afraid of love, to love and to be loved because of all of the fear and misperceptions that have been built into our ideas of love. Love is unconditional and free so if you love another it is about you feeling love and not them.

Love is our natural state, which has been diluted, protected and based on conditions that make it nothing like love at all. If you feel love for someone it is a gift that they inspired in you. Loving feelings are awakened in many people and do not need to be taken to another place.

We are addicted to the feeling and want more and we forget that it is the lover that is loving, and not the other. So quickly we want to attach labels, desires, expectations and reasons when love just is, and does not need anything else.

People get confused and want others to love them back in the same way – family, friends, and others that inspire love in you. Love with conditions is not love. We do not own or owe others because of love.

If someone treats you in an unloving way it is about him or her and not you. Each one of us is loveable. Fear, wounding, pain and more keep people detached from their loving nature. Heal these in you to find your true self.

Looking for love outside will never fulfill you when you are not in touch with and experiencing love in and for you. Love is our natural state inspired by our divine connection.

To pretend love or force love is painful and will hurt. Those that you share love with reflect the love in your own heart. If you reflect other that love it is perceived.

We have been taught to focus outside of us for wisdom, knowledge and love as well as approval and value. No one can give any of these to you except you. It is a practice to find these and well worth the exploration and discovery.

A genuine loving being loves all and does not harm or discriminate. Love is not sex, neediness, ownership, or relationship. Love is always everywhere and never dies.

Leaving someone can be for love instead of needing to make it ugly. Loving each other enough to let go is strength and allows healing and love to continue in other ways.

When you are in love everything is brighter and you can experience the beauty and blessings in life. You are more open and free and have better boundaries.

To be love, we heal what is not love in our thoughts, words, actions and memories, and love is always there, to awaken and transform and love evermore.

It took a lot of healing, a lot of hurting and a lot more healing to understand and experience this. Be brave, kind and find love inside and share it.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

Join Janet in classes and sessions to awaken love, wisdom, happiness and health in you in many ways.

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

3 Profound Opportunities for You in January 2012 ...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:40:53 EST

SATURDAY JANUARY 7, NOON TO 4PM

MEDITATION INTENSIVE-FOR PRACTITIONERS OF ALL LEVELS,

At Be The Medicine, 18 Bank St, Morristown, NJ 07960 973-647-2500 Reserve your place today!

As we go into this New Year and season this is a perfect time to move into yourself and your connection with the divine and you! Throughout the afternoon we will meditate, write and learn with questions and answers.

Sitting in this profound energy of love you release boundaries and move deeply into meditation. Janet brings sacred Wisdoms from many traditions in simple clear ways for you to take into your everyday life. Join us for this life-changing afternoon.

$100. Includes recording of class and follow up call with Janet. Limited space

"My work in class with Janet StraightArrow was all about opening my mind, heart and soul. She created the space with her gentleness, insight and warmth to allow this opening to unfold naturally. I appreciate the way she could cull the wisdom from ancient practices and apply it to each student’s experience. "Chris, Energy Medicine Healer/Coach

BE THE MEDICINE CIRCLE-MEDITATION, HEALING LEARNING

THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 7-9:30PM

At www.BeTheMedicine.com, 18 Bank St, Morristown, NJ 973-647-2500

Living our soul’s truth is the new paradigm for our time. Come with an open heart and mind. Each circle is unique and moves with spirit. Each month you we will focus on something new and you can expect to receive profound healing, teaching and experience. Be ready for adventure and discovery and movement - Opportunities for everyone to share ask questions and receive deep healing. Each circle is relevant to the group and day. StraightArrow’s depth of knowledge will be shared each month teaching new tools from many traditions. $35 RSVP.

“Each time I arrive at Janet's, time stops and healing begins. It is always perfect, always unique and there is nothing like it.” Michaela, Healer, Teacher

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY JANUARY 14-15, 10 TO 5

SOUL SHAMANISM: JOURNEY TO YOU!

At www.BeTheMedicine.com, 18 Bank St, Morristown, NJ 07960 973-647-2500 Reserve your place. Discount until January 9.

Join Janet StraightArrow as she introduces you to a way to know who you are and live on profound levels. The practice of the Spirit Lake and Twin along with deep teachings and your experience awakens wisdom, knowledge and connection to you, for immediate healing and learning and everyday from now on. After this weekend you will never feel alone and continue to know who you are and progress with practice and experience.

“This weekend workshop with Janet StraightArrow is a weekend with your soul. With humor, wisdom, honesty and compassion she guides you back to your true self. It is an amazing experience that has to be felt! And I can tell you; you will never be the same. You will be changed on a deep level; you will open up to your gifts, your strengths, and to the exciting journey of discovery.” Mary Archambault

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Discount if full payment of $275 by January 9. $325 after. Price includes recording of teachings and follow up call with Janet.

UNCONDITIONAL SPIRITUALITY...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:55:20 EST

Love is freedom not loss, joy and not pain, always correct and never to blame. Love is unconditional so why are there so many people caught up in doing it right or being a certain way to be loved or spiritual?

Celebrating our exquisite gift of humanity brings us closer to any creator or creating force that could be called god.

Surrender is to be open to more love, light, peace, wisdom, clarity and joy! There is no need to be less or hurt you or others or sacrifice to the ideal of God or gods. No god force asks us to give up our lives or to kill any others. Proving mine is better than yours, and only we will be saved is far from a spiritual mentality.

The only truth is love. So when you rally for your cause, put it up to the test of love. If there is anything else in it, it is not truth, nor is it divine source.

To be spiritual is not to pray right; it is to live in love. Following anything that dishonors any of creation is a sacrilege. Unconditional is neutral and does not have to control or prove or have anyone agree.

Believe what you will, but honor all of life and support humanity, nature and the divine force. Be Love in all you think, say and do. Joyful voices raise our spirit and soul more than living any rules that punish or limit feeling wonderful about being us and being alive.

Be grateful for your life and the life of all. Let heaven and nature sing. Share love, peace, grace and wisdom. Receive love easily. Share love completely.

We are all one and not separate, each one of us reflects and supports one another. All sexes, shapes and sizes, cultures and countries are full of amazing people who make the world go round. Let go of judgment and fear of self and others and give peace and love your full embrace.

Dance, sing and celebrate life in all of its forms and you are honoring the divine with each step and breath wherever you are. Limitless love is spirituality in all forms and transforms everything to a higher plane.

Love is free…share it abundantly.

May all blessings be yours today and always.

Enjoy the Journey,

Janet StraightArrow

Be The Medicine, Live the Power of You!

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

BEGIN A NEW WAY TO AWAKEN INNER POSSIBILITIES NOW!...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:47:47 EST

Encouraging and reminding people to be who they are, is a very rewarding experience. People literally explode with renewed energy, purpose and appreciation for all of life and their own self and all that unfolds from there.

Exploring new ways to awaken, live and become who we are is a powerful, challenging journey for all of us. Freedom, abundance, joy and all possibilities are ours.

We begin by letting go of the thoughts about how bad, or wrong, or off we are. Realizing that negative thoughts in our head are not truly ours to believe, is a good start.

Whenever you are moving forward, you might suddenly stop and say, “A part of me does not …” As soon as you begin that course it takes you away from your truth.

We are not parts, we are whole beings. This part that moves in to be heard, is not and has never been, you. In that same blink of an eye we can stop and dismiss the parts that have been hitchhikers blocking our energy, clarity and action daily and reclaim our self, our direction and move forward.

We think they are a part of us because we hear them in our head. Our heads are receptors for all levels of information and not our self or pure truth. Things from your childhood, your family, your life and the world were taken in and now play these negative thoughts without your permission. It is time to stop listening, and escort the naysayers, doubters and fearful thoughts out now.

You would never hurt you on purpose, but by listening to these dissonant parts you are giving power to sadness, pain and disconnection from your true self. who is not those, and is quite positive, powerful, true and amazing.

Begin to notice when you begin to back peddle and say…a part of me… When you say this you are stopping forward movement in your life, and making excuses that take you off your course, unknowingly.

Stop listening to those parts and deepen your connection to your truth and live from your wholeness. Choose to empower you with conviction, clarity and courage to move forward in your life every moment.

No one is stopping you, except for your decision to listen to something that keeps you from living your life fully and freely. This is an unwelcome guest for you to escort out of your head and your life, and reclaim you and what you choose to live.

Stay awake and stop allowing old tapes of inner dialogue to play thoughts in your head and body that keep you from being happy, healthy, productive and whole.

Underneath those droning thoughts are the highest intelligence of you awaiting your attention. Discover this and realign to your highest vision and intention. All of you now shows up to be positive, present and loving, ready to take action in all areas of your life, in your best interest.

Empower thoughts of truth and what you know of the best of you and give it voice in order to move forward. Focus on what supports you and allow this to move you in the direction you desire to create and be. Let go of the need to be the devils advocate-it empowers the devil-not us.

Speak in the direction of the best of you, and manifest your destiny now…no waiting.

Enjoy the Journey,

JANET STRAIGHTARROW

BE THE MEDICINE, LIVE THE POWER OF YOU!

Join Janet is a session or a class focused on helping you be more you in all ways. Enjoy health, happiness, truth, clarity, love and light that are always yours to awaken, enjoy and live. Wisdom, intelligence, abundance, respect, joy and fun await.

Gift Certificates available.

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

“With humor, wisdom, honesty and compassion Janet StraightArrow guides you back to your true self. It is an amazing experience that has to be felt! And I can tell you; you will never be the same. You will be changed on a deep level; you will open up to your gifts, your strengths, and to the exciting journey of discovery. “ Mary Archambault