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		<title>Mexico Wellness Retreat 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture, Health &#38; Healing: A Shamanic Journey to Wellness Cuernavaca, Mexico March 24-29, 2011 (20 – Continuing Education Units Offered) Casa Del Toro, in association with the Integral Health and Training Institute will lovingly and thoughtfully guide you through a 5-day transformative journey toward Health and Wellness in Cuervavaca, the City of Eternal Spring. This [...]]]></description>
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<h3><strong>Culture, Health &amp; Healing: A Shamanic Journey to Wellness</strong></h3>
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<h4>Cuernavaca, Mexico</h4>
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<h4>March 24-29, 2011</h4>
<p>(20 – Continuing Education Units Offered)
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<div><strong>Casa Del Toro</strong>, in association with the <strong><a title="Integral Expeditions" href="http://www.integralexpeditions.com/" target="_blank">Integral Health and Training Institute</a></strong> will lovingly and thoughtfully guide you through a 5-day transformative journey toward Health and Wellness in Cuervavaca, the City of Eternal Spring. This highly experiential workshop will integrate the mind, body, culture, and soul into an effective wellness program. The beautiful setting for this experiential workshop is the historic Hacienda of Santa Maria Del Trapiche, once owned by Benito Juarez.</div>
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<div>Author and Psychologist, Dr. Jorge Partida and Health and Wellness Master, Da’Mon Vann will present an evidenced based practice model designed to transform your life. This will include individual Health and Wellness assessments and will culminate in participants knowing how to design and implement individualized programs to care for the mind, body, and soul. Through the weaving together of Shamanic ritual, Traditional Psychology, Nutrition, Exercise, and Mindfulness practice, participants will learn how to realign their physical and emotional bodies to better attune to their own and their clients needs. Beginning with an opening ritual, we will take a journey into the mystery, power, and grace of transformative psychology and wellness. The curriculum will include daily meditation, experiential exercises, and group process.</div>
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<div>In addition, there will be a ritual day trip to Xochicalco, a legendary holy site known as “The Place of Flowers” and cultural excursions to the historic colonial silver mining city of Taxco and the lovely town center of Cuernavaca where participants can broaden and deepen their experience through cultural awareness. We hope you join us for an experience that will guide your journey long after the workshop is complete.</div>
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<div>DURING THIS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WILL:</div>
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<li>Apply evidenced based research and literature in the field of cultural competency and ethnomedicine to integrate cross cultural models of wellness (both physical and mental) and self care.</li>
<li>Discuss and apply principles of integrated health and wellness from native healing traditions to inform and enhance clinical practice with diverse populations as well as to improve personal health in clinical settings and daily living.</li>
<li>Discover and explore the mind body connection from both dominant and native cultural perspectives to demonstrate the physiological role of emotions and muscle function in integrative cultural healing rituals and practices.</li>
<li>Learn to identify and incorporate mind/body measures to create an integrated assessment and treatment plan to be used for care of both self and patients in clinical practice.</li>
<li>Explore the role of culture and ritual as ethnomedicine and cross-cultural healing practices. Various native healing principles will be discussed and practiced, including ancestral teachings emphasizing the importance of balance, harmony, mindfulness, and integration.</li>
<li>Compare and contrast ethnomedicine practicies with traditional psychotherapeutic tecniques and apply these components of healing in personal transformation and clinical work.</li>
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<div><strong>WORKSHOP FACILITATORS</strong></div>
<div><strong><a href="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Dr.-Jorge-Partida_Author-Headshot2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1935" title="Dr.-Jorge-Partida_Author-Headshot2" src="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Dr.-Jorge-Partida_Author-Headshot2-e1283284743768-125x150.jpg" alt="Dr. Jorge Partida Author Headshot2 e1283284743768 125x150 Mexico Wellness Retreat 2011" width="125" height="150" /></a>Dr. Jorge Partida</strong> is a Clinical Psychologist and author of “The Promise of the Fifth Sun: Ancestral Journey of Self Discovery”. He is a television and radio presenter appearing weekly with Univision Radio and Television. Dr. Jorge is the founder of J. Partida Consulting working internationally with faith-based, government and nonprofit organizations in the areas of health, education, social services and leadership. He has worked extensively in Africa, Europe, Latin- America, and the United States. As Co-Founder of Casa Del Toro Wellness, Dr. Jorge has incorporated the influences of culture, spirituality and native practices of healing to inform his practice and facilitates retreats which integrate shamanic healing practices and rituals with traditional psychology. <a title="Dr. Jorge.net" href="http://www.drjorge.net/" target="_blank"><strong>www.drjorge.net</strong></a></div>
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<div><strong><a href="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DVann0011.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1936" title="DVann001" src="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DVann0011-150x150.jpg" alt="DVann0011 150x150 Mexico Wellness Retreat 2011" width="150" height="150" /></a>Da’Mon Vann</strong>, M.S., RScP is a master fitness trainer and health promotor. He is the founder of A Fit Second Half offering exercise and wellness services exclusively for adults over 50. He is also Co-Founder of Casa Del Toro Wellness. Da’Mon was named one of the Bay Area’s Top Ten fitness trainers by the San Francisco Chronicle. With over 15 years experience in fitness and wellness, Da’Mon has guided hundreds of individuals and groups to improve health and quality of life. He specializes in working with older adults facing chronic illness including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and obesity. As a licensed spiritual counselor, Da’Mon teaches meditation, visioning and prayer.<a title="A Fit Second Half" href="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/" target="_blank"><strong>www.afitsecondhalf.com</strong></a></p>
<div>Integral Health and Training Institute meets the qualifications for up to 21 hours of continuing education for California Marriage Family Therapists (MFT’s) and/or Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW’s) as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences Provider #4692</div>
<div>NOTE: Mexico is a country rich in culture, history, and geography. We encourage participants to continue their exploration of this fascinating country upon completion of our Workshop. We are happy to provide recommendations and will also be putting together an extension, non CEU, trip that will be announced shortly.</div>
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<div><strong>COST INCLUDES:</strong></div>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1949" title="Mexico City - Congress Event 0909 106" src="http://www.afitsecondhalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Mexico-City-Congress-Event-0909-106-300x225.jpg" alt="Mexico City Congress Event 0909 106 300x225 Mexico Wellness Retreat 2011" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<div><strong>All workshops Accommodations at Hacienda of Santa Maria del Trapiche All meals at Hacienda Excursion to Cuernavaca and Xochicalco</strong></div>
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<div><strong>COST OF PROGRAM: $1450 DEPOSIT: $400 (non-refundable) </strong></div>
<div><strong>Balance: $1050 (due December 15, 2010) Single Supplement: $200</strong></div>
<div><strong>COST DOES NOT INCLUDE: </strong><strong>International airfare, Passport fees and travel insurance, Transport to and from Hacienda Excursion to Taxco Optional Tours</strong></div>
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<div>To Register:</div>
<div>Please send application and deposits to Integral Health and Training Institute 1700 Union Street San Francisco, CA 94123 | Or register online at <a title="Integral Expeditions" href="http://www.integralexpeditions.com/" target="_self">www.integralexpeditions.com</a>. Informational inquiries, please contact Lauren@integralexpeditions.com</div>
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<div><em>CANCELLATION FEES: 90-61 days before departure: 35% of trip cost 60-31 days: 50% of trip cost 30 or less: 100% of trip cost</em></div>
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		<title>We Must Stop Fighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world has grown tired and weary of fighting. Thousands of years of war and domination demonstrate the futility of violence. Despite these repetitive lessons, it seems we cannot stop for a moment and contemplate the collective and individual impact that such legacy leaves on our souls. We have become a society addicted to fear [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world has grown tired and weary of fighting.  Thousands of years of war and domination demonstrate the futility of violence.  Despite these repetitive lessons, it seems we cannot stop for a moment and contemplate the collective and individual impact that such legacy leaves on our souls.  </p>
<p>We have become a society addicted to fear and have developed a hypersensitivity to intimidation.  While we are able to see all the conflicts taking place around us, most of us don’t dare speak up.   “What’s the point?”  We convince ourselves that nothing we do or say is going to make a difference anyway.  No one is listening.  No one cares.  We have seen how our society has a habit of making martyrs of those that make a stand.  Throughout history, we have sat in fear as our heroes were wiped away.  We sit by the sidelines secretly feeling grateful that the systemic elimination didn’t happen to me.   Some people say nothing because they are aware of how they profit from violence.  Others are afraid of losing their job or status if they speak up, but most of us have come to believe that the government and related machines are too large for one voice to really feel heard.  Recently, a man was at a BP gas station filling up his car when someone drove next to him and asked him how it was that he was not boycotting BP for all they’ve done to our ocean.  The man filling up responded by saying, “it must be great to feel outrage”.  Like the man at the gas station, most of us are having trouble mustering the indignation for all that is taking place around us.  Sometimes, the world just seems to complicated and conflicted, besides, with the economy as bad as it is, most of us have enough troubles trying to focus on our own survival.  </p>
<p>While we may have difficulty harnessing outrage over the world’s violence, corruption, pollution, economy and all other evils, we seem fascinated by the petty grievances of reality television.  The Real Housewives are neither real nor are they really housewives, yet their hair pulling and silicone implants have us glued to the television, watching with great outrage.  Reality television has become a platform for competition, elimination, backstabbing and all other sorts of social corruption convincing us that these are the conflicts that really matter and perhaps we need not worry about anything else.    </p>
<p>The time has come for us to wipe away the cobwebs of apathy.  We must venture out again and explore the vast regions outside of our narrow comfort zone.  We must take responsibility and recognize once more that we are a vital part of all that happens in the world around us.  In order to do this, we must reconnect to the intuitive wisdom within and we must stop relying on paid mouthpieces that organize information and events into exclusive categories.  Ignorance does not own the world yet and there are friends and allies to be made in places that would surprise us all.  Consider a recent story from New York Associated Press.  The story read, “Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform-including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.”  The group is called the “Partnership for a New American-Economy” and seems to reframe immigration reform as the solution to our economic woes.  </p>
<p>These “new” partnerships work because they operate on reality and not fear.  Because we are all interconnected, our world cannot survive as long as we deny basic human rights to entire populations.  We must reclaim the lost art of listening to our intuition.  We must relearn the art of sitting still so that we may once again hear the wisdom of our own intuitive voice.  This wisdom underscores that our individual and collective progress is impossible if and when it is based on the oppression of others.  It is not too late to impact our world.  To do so, we must once again believe in the strength and conviction of our individual voice.  We must learn to tune out the noise and confusion fighting for our attention and dare to question the prepackaged messages of fear, intimidation and lack.  </p>
<p>We are awakening to a new age of self-realization.  Science and technology are teaching us that we are more powerful than we previously thought.  Each one of us has an ability to create the world around us.  Our thoughts become manifested as physical reality.  With this fact in mind, let us turn our thoughts away from fear and apathy and begin to reclaim the power we have to change our individual life and to impact the world.  </p>
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		<title>Ningún Ser Humano es Ilegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 19:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uno de los días de mi vida del cual estoy más orgulloso, fue el día que tome el juramento como un nuevo ciudadano de los Estados Unidos. Después de años de espera y perder decenas de miles de dólares a los delincuentes y las estafas, después de años de escondernos de todos en la sociedad, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uno de los días de mi vida del cual estoy más orgulloso, fue el día que tome el juramento como un nuevo ciudadano de los Estados Unidos. Después de años de espera y perder decenas de miles de dólares a los delincuentes y las estafas, después de años de escondernos de todos en la sociedad, mi familia pudo finalmente salir de la clandestinidad y poder ser reconocidos legalmente. Debemos una deuda de gratitud a gente como el Congresista Luis Gutierrez y la ley de amnistía de 1986. Como psicólogo, autor y defensor de la educación, estoy muy orgulloso de decir que yo soy un ciudadano de Estados Unidos legal y un ejemplo que si funciona la reforma  inmigratoria.</p>
<p>Nuevamente necesitamos una reforma de las leyes de inmigración para poder luchar contra las leyes racistas como las de Arizona.  Estas leyes hacen legal el poder detener a alguien que se &#8220;sospecha&#8221; es ilegal. ¿Cómo puede una persona saber que alguien es ilegal sin emplear perfiles raciales? El Republicano Bilbray dice que uno puede saber porque los indocumentados tienen, &#8220;otro tipo de vestimenta, hay otro tipo de …hasta los zapatos, hasta la ropa. Pero en su mayoría se les reconoce por comportamiento, es en su mayoría de comportamiento&#8221;. ¿Qué este comentario no demuestra el uso de perfiles raciales?</p>
<p>Yo llegué a este país ilegalmente cuando tenía nueve años después de ser separada de mis padres y hermanos durante dos años. A mediados de la década de los 1970, como muchos inmigrantes, mis padres vinieron a los Estados Unidos forzados a salir de su propio país por la sucia política económica, leyes internacionales de comercio que desplazan a los pobres y enriquecen a las  grandes corporaciones.  Durante muchos años, mi familia vivía en montón con otros indocumentados, en vivienda inadecuada que exponía a todos los niños a todo tipo de peligro, escondidos en las penumbras y viviendo con el constante temor a ser deportados. Mi infancia fue solitaria y difícil.  Mis padres trabajaban por irrazonablemente largas horas en fábricas sólo para poner comida en nuestra mesa. A mí se me tenía prohibido el hacer amigos por miedo a que alguien nos fuera a reportar con las autoridades.  Pronto aprendí la terrible realidad del racismo y la intolerancia. Ser etiquetado como ilegal, en veces ha creado en mí una sensación de minusvalía y de inferioridad la cual he luchado para superar toda mi vida.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, no me doy por vencido y sigo luchando por mi derecho a vivir el sueño Americano. Ahora puedo decir con orgullo que legalmente es mi sueño. Mis padres siempre me enseñaron que la educación era la mejor manera de trascender las limitaciones impuestas por la pobreza. En honor a sus enseñanzas, yo trabajé y estudie a tiempo completo, pagando por mis propios estudios, hasta obtener mi doctorado. He hecho todo lo posible para ser una fuente de orgullo para mi familia, mi México ancestral y mi nueva nación. Desde la infancia, he aprendido a creer y trabajar para el éxito, por poder celebrar los beneficios de la ciudadanía y vivir orgullosamente los ideales que forman la fundación de esta nación, libertad, justicia e igualdad.</p>
<p>Como yo, hay miles de profesionistas, orgullosos Mexicanos y México-Estadounidenses, que trabajan y sirven a nuestra nación para que pueda continuar siempre a ser ese faro de libertad y  oportunidad. Sin embargo, no podemos seguir sentados al margen tranquilamente siendo testigos del deterioro de nuestro gran país. Todos los que están orgullosos de llamarse ciudadanos estadounidenses deben sentirse obligados a reclamar. Por todas partes de  nuestro país, aproximadamente la mitad de nuestros jóvenes latinos son incapaces de graduarse de la escuela secundaria, mientras que los servicios sociales, atención de salud y el acceso a la educación superior continúan siendo reducidos y bloqueados.</p>
<p>Ahora, las odiosas y erróneas leyes de inmigración de Arizona han abierto las puertas a una mayor división nacional y aún más a la opresión de los ya más maltratados y deshumanizados.</p>
<p>Soy un ciudadano orgulloso de los EE.UU. y yo soy el sueño de una nueva nación que nació de las aspiraciones de todos los que vinieron antes que yo. Me siento igualmente orgulloso de haber nacido en México, la tierra de la hospitalidad que un día abrió sus puertas a inmigrantes europeos indocumentados quienes buscaban un hogar.  Como agradecimiento por su hospitalidad,  Mexico perdió más de la mitad de su nación a cambio. La esperanza y el anhelo a la libertad y la inclusión, son valores que arden en los corazones de todos los inmigrantes mexicanos.  Ese anhelo nunca puede ser denegado por ninguna ley ni circunstancia. Nunca debemos olvidar que nuestro país fue fundado de los sacrificios de inmigrantes de todos los países del mundo.  Estos inmigrantes contribuyeron de su cultura, su talento y conocimiento para engrandecer a esta  nación. Todos debemos recordar los indocumentados de Arizona son seres humanos, atrapados en medio de la retórica política de una nación dividida y que ningún gobernador o político en este país tiene el derecho a reescribir la historia.</p>
<p>En tiempos de necesidad, los Estados Unidos siempre se ha beneficiado de la mano de obra barata proporcionada por inmigrantes mexicanos.  Seguimos beneficiados hoy tanto como en  el pasado. Mientras que muchos jóvenes estadounidenses estaban luchando por la libertad durante la segunda guerra mundial y se encontraban lejos de sus hogares, mi abuelo legalmente cosechaba los campos de California poniendo frutas y verduras en las mesas de muchas familias estadounidenses. Hoy en día, yo soy un doctor en psicología quien habla de sus experiencias personales, mi camino hacia la ciudadanía estadounidense y mi lucha interminable para ser libre. Hoy pido su apoyo, su estímulo y su compromiso en declarar que todos hemos nacido para vivir libres y para poder soñar.</p>
<p>Desde niño, yo fui fuertemente influenciado por las enseñanzas ancestrales que me enseñó mí  abuela. En su núcleo, tales enseñanzas reconocen toda la humanidad como hijos del UNICO CREADOR.  A través de la larga historia, esta enseñanza básica ha sido distorsionada mientras se ha esclavizado a la tierra y su gente y mientras se han acumulado las riquezas y los tesoros que pertenecen a todos. Los pueblos nativos todavía se ven obligados a vagar por tierras extranjeras después de ser expulsados de su lugar de nacimiento. Nadie nunca debe considerarse ilegal cuando ha sido expulsado de sus tierras nativas. Un ladrón se convierte en el rico por lo que se roba. Después del tiempo, se olvida que una vez fue un criminal y se siente indignado con robusta injusticia defendiendo lo que se acumulo.</p>
<p>Cuando considero los muchos desafíos que he enfrentado en el pasado, no puedo recordar haber vivido un más descaradamente odioso e intolerante sentimiento hacia los inmigrantes que la realidad que vivimos hoy. Yo estoy profundamente preocupado por el impacto de división en  nuestra política nacional y las muestras, cada vez más flagrantes, de odio e intolerancia que hoy se puede ver por muchas partes del país.</p>
<p>Yo me preocupo por el efecto de estas leyes, no sólo en lo que impactan a los indocumentados, sino también en el impacto que estas leyes tienen en la vida de todos nosotros.  He sido testigo  de cómo estas leyes inhumanas están afectando la labor de trabajadores sociales, maestros, trabajadores de la salud, policías y otros que trabajan con la gente.  Como ejemplo, he trabajado en el estado de Washington, Carolina del Norte y otros Estados, ayudando a las comunidades a procesar el impacto tan debilitante que ocurre después de la deportación de cientos de padres. En el estado de Washington, autobuses llenos de personas fueron deportados mientras salían  de misa en domingo.  Los niños que fueron separados de sus padres se colocaron en hogares de crianza llenos de niños y en centros de detención.  De esta manera, a estos niños se les está negando un futuro mientras se le agregan millones de dólares a los presupuestos de las cárceles y las prisiones.</p>
<p>Por todo nuestro país se empieza a ver una derriba en aquellos que son encargados con el cuidado y educación de nuestros jóvenes. Ellos declaran sentir presión a causa del aumento del racismo y de una economía vacilante.  Temen que el sueño americano está prácticamente muerto. Pero nosotros no podemos renunciar. No podemos permitir que el sueño se termine. La nueva visión cósmica de esperanza nos dicta que debemos todos unirnos juntos como una sola nación, afirmando y defendiendo los ideales que nos hacen humanos. Más allá de la falsa noción de la opresión y de carencia, siempre existe el poder del amor. Como seres humanos, somos una manifestación de amor, consagrados con el fin de sanarnos mutuamente y curar el mundo. Recordemos siempre que la fuerza de la creación existe siempre más allá de cualquier enseñanza falsa de odio, de miedo, de falta y limitación. Somos ciudadanos del mundo y nacimos para contribuir y mejorar la vida mediante el uso de las lecciones que hemos acumulado a lo largo de la historia. Mientras que no se puede negar el impacto de la colonización y esclavitud en nuestra conciencia colectiva, tenemos que todos luchar como una sola familia para poder devolver el impacto que continúa manifestándose como odio legalizado.</p>
<p>El mundo ve y espera.</p>
<p>¿Qué legado declarará tu vida una vez que te haigas ido?</p>
<p>¿A qué lado del muro divisivo declararas tu contribución?  </p>
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		<title>No Person Is Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the proudest days of my life was the day I was sworn in as a new citizen of the United States.  After years of waiting and losing tens of thousands of dollars to crooks and scams, after years of hiding from everyone in society, my family was finally able to come out of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the proudest days of my life was the day I was sworn in as a new citizen of the United States.  After years of waiting and losing tens of thousands of dollars to crooks and scams, after years of hiding from everyone in society, my family was finally able to come out of hiding and be legally recognized.  We owe a debt of gratitude to people like Congressman Luis Gutierrez and the amnesty law of 1986.  As a psychologist, author and advocate of education, I am very proud to say I am a legal U.S. Citizen and an example that immigration reform works.</p>
<p>Immigration reform is needed again in order to combat Arizona immigration laws, which makes it legal to stop and arrest someone who is “suspected” of being illegal.  How can a person tell that someone is illegal without employing racial profiling?  Rep. Bilbray says that one can tell by the, “different type of attire, there&#8217;s different type of &#8230;right down to the shoes, right down to the clothes.  But mostly by behavior, it&#8217;s mostly behavior”.  Is that not racial profiling?</p>
<p>I came to this country illegally when I was nine years old after being separated from my parents and younger siblings for two years.  In the mid 1970’s like many immigrants, my parents came to the USA forced out of their country by international failed economic policies and corporate greed.   For many years, my family lived in crowded, substandard housing, exposed to every danger, hiding and living in constant fear of deportation.  My childhood was lonely and difficult as my parents worked unreasonably long hours in factories just to put food on our table.  I was forbidden to have friends for fear we would be reported.  I learned early on the terrible realities of racism and intolerance.  Being labeled as illegal created in me a sense of unworthiness and inferiority which I have fought to overcome my entire life.</p>
<p>Yet, I have not given up my right to live the American dream.  Now I can proudly say that it is legally my dream.  My parents always taught me that education was the best way to transcend the limitations imposed by poverty.  To honor their teachings, I worked full time and studied full time, paying for my own schooling until I obtained my doctorate.  I have made every effort to be a source of pride for my family, my ancestral Mexico and my new nation.  From childhood, I have learned to believe and work for success, so that I may one day celebrate the gifts of citizenship and proudly live the foundational ideals of freedom, justice and equality.</p>
<p>Like me, there are thousands of professionals, proud Mexican and Mexican-Americans who work and serve our nation so that it may continue to ever be the beacon of liberty and opportunity.  Yet, we cannot continue to sit by the sidelines quietly watching the deterioration of our great country.  All who are proud to call themselves American citizens must feel compelled to speak up.  Across our country, approximately half of our Latino youth are unable to graduate from high school, while social services, health-care and access to higher education continue to be reduced and blocked.<br />
Now, the hateful and misguided immigration laws of Arizona have opened the door for greater national division and further oppression of those already most abused and dehumanized.</p>
<p>I am a proud US citizen and I am the dream of a new nation born of the aspirations of all those that came before me.  I am equally proud to have been born in Mexico, the land of hospitality that one day opened its doors to undocumented European immigrants in search of a home only to have more than half of its nation taken in return.  That hope and longing for freedom and inclusion, which burns in the hearts of all Mexican immigrants, can never be denied by any law or circumstance.   Let us never forget that our country is founded by the sacrifices of immigrants from every country in the world who have contributed their culture, talent and knowledge in order to make this nation great. Let us all remember that the undocumented of Arizona are human beings caught in the political rhetoric of a divided nation and that no governor or politician in the nation has the right to rewrite history.</p>
<p>In times of need, the United States has consistently benefited from the cheap labor provided by Mexican immigrants and we continue to profit today as much as we did in the past. While many young Americans were fighting for freedom in World War II, far away from their homes, my grandfather was legally harvesting the fields of California putting fruits and vegetables on the tables of many American families.  Today, I am a psychologist, speaking of my personal experiences, my road to American citizenship and my never-ending struggle to be free.  I ask for your support, for your encouragement and for your commitment in declaring that we are all born to live free and to dream.</p>
<p>As a child, I was strongly influenced by the ancestral teachings taught to me by my grandmother.  At their core, such teachings recognize all of humanity as being children of the ONE CREATOR.  Across the span of history, this basic teaching has been distorted as we have enslaved the land and its people while hoarding the wealth and treasures that belong to all.  Native peoples are still forced to wander foreign lands, expelled from their place of birth. No one should ever be considered illegal when they have been pushed out from their native lands.  A thief becomes rich by what he steals.  In time, he forgets that he was once a criminal and feels robust, righteous indignation defending what is hoarded.</p>
<p>As I consider the many challenges that I have faced in the past, I cannot recall experiencing a more blatantly hateful and intolerant sentiment towards immigrants than the reality we are living today.  I am deeply troubled by the polarizing impact of our national political landscape and the increasingly blatant displays of hatred and intolerance throughout our nation.<br />
I am pained by the effect of these laws, not just on the undocumented, but on all of our lives.  I have witnessed how these inhumane laws are affecting the work of teachers, social and health workers, law enforcement, and others who must deal with the ramifications.  As an example, I have worked in Washington State, North Carolina and other states, helping communities process the devastation experienced after the deportation of hundreds of parents.  In the State of Washington, busloads of people were deported as they walked out of church.  Children who were separated from their parents were placed in over crowed foster homes and detention centers, thus denying children a future and adding millions of dollars to our overcrowded jails and prisons.</p>
<p>Across our nation, educated professionals are breaking down under the pressures of increased racism and a faltering economy, fearing that the American dream is all but dead.  But we cannot give up.  We cannot allow the dream to end.  The new cosmic vision of hope dictates that we must all come together as one nation, affirming and defending the ideals that make us human.  Beyond the notion of oppression and lack, there is always the <em>power of love</em>.  As human beings, we are a manifestation of love, embodied in order to heal the world and each other.  Let us always remember that the force of creation is always above and beyond any false teaching of hate, fear, lack and limitation.  We are citizens of the world, born to contribute and to improve life by using the lessons we’ve accumulated throughout history.  While the impact of colonization and slavery on our collective consciousness cannot be denied, we must all strive as one family to reverse the impact that continues to manifest as legalized hatred.</p>
<p>The world is watching.</p>
<p>What legacy will your individual life declare once you are gone?</p>
<p>On what side of the divisive wall will you make a stand?</p>
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		<title>Awakening to Greater Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of human existence is really the story and evolution of human consciousness.  As cultures evolve, so does their search for meaning and understanding.  All of our ancestors, across time and distance, across every culture, have looked up to the heavens contemplating the nature and power of creation.  What is this force behind creation?  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The story of human existence is really the story and evolution of human consciousness.  As cultures evolve, so does their search for meaning and understanding.  All of our ancestors, across time and distance, across every culture, have looked up to the heavens contemplating the nature and power of creation.  What is this force behind creation?  What is our relationship to the all powerful?  What is the purpose and source of our existence?  Because we, as humans, have self awareness, we can also contemplate the nature of our relationships to the Creator.  We have been created out of the same substance and nature that has created the stars and planets.  We are an integral part of the fabric of intelligence and self awareness.   We are part of the collective and the unifying reality we call humanity, which in turn is a reflection of the Creator.   In this experience of humanity, we are all related and connected by the same fabric.</p>
<p>In the case of our Toltec, Aztec and Mayan ancestors, we are able to trace history and human evolution some 25,000 years back.  During this period of history, our ancestors told myths stating that that the world as we know it has been destroyed and recreated on four previous occasions.  Let us call these separate worlds cycles of creation and leaps in evolution of awareness and consciousness.  Each cycle of creation is governed by a given sun or light.  We are currently living the fifth world, governed by the light of the fifth sun, or the fifth level of awareness.  We are completing the next cycle of human evolution and are evolving to the next phase of evolution which is AWAKENING.  The journey of AWAKENING is the greatest adventure humanity has ever contemplated because we are able to glance into the infinity and recognize that we are indivisible from the whole.</p>
<p>We awaken to the realization that there is no separation between ourselves and the force behind all creation.  Time, space and distance are human made concepts created by our limited minds to organize our perceptions in some predictable fashion.  The truth of our existence reaches beyond these constructs.  We are all members of the same family and as individual human beings, we are here to be witnesses to the collective experience we call “life”.  Hatred, fear, resentment, mistrust and suffering have a way to disconnect us from this realization of awakening.  This is the only meaning of sin.   In moments of darkness and doubt, we tend to forget who we are and where we come from.  In moments of despair and suffering, we isolate and feel as though we are the only person that has ever experienced whatever pain we are experiencing.  Separated from the source of power and creation we feel small, overwhelmed, ill, scared and depressed.  Yet, when we stop to listen to the voice and power within; when we reach out and attempt to reconnect to the source of creation, divine intelligence rushes to greet us.   Then and there we recognize that we could never be separate from our source, except when we choose to.</p>
<p>We possess self awareness and free choice and thus, we can choose to live our lives in accordance to our higher awareness or to see ourselves as separate and downtrodden.    Our thoughts are powerful and we are co-creators of our reality.  The experience of joy and power is equally valid to the experience of pain and failure.  Once we surrender to this AWAKENING, the depth and breadth of our awareness deepens and we are able to perceive beyond what we thought was humanly possible.  From this place of AWAKENING, greater joy is possible because we can see how everything is a part of the infinite whole.  The awakened awareness within us is poised and ready to orchestrate and create according to our level of belief.</p>
<p>Let us resoundingly declare that there is nothing to fear.  Let us welcome our joyful awakening.</p>
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		<title>Un Legado Ancestral</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vivelo Hoy, Chicago &#8211; Jorge Partida combina los conocimientos de mayas y aztecas con la sicología moderna - Por Mercedes Fernández &#8211; HOY March 5, 2010 Sus logros tanto académicos como en la sicología clínica y en la investigación de campo, respaldan el trabajo de Jorge Partida, autor de &#8220;La promesa del quinto sol: El [...]]]></description>
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<p>- Por Mercedes Fernández &#8211;                                                                                     HOY</p>
<p>March 5, 2010</p>
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<p>Sus logros tanto académicos como en la sicología clínica y en la investigación de campo, respaldan el trabajo de Jorge Partida, autor de &#8220;La promesa del quinto sol: El viaje hacia el autodescubrimiento&#8221;, en la que se amalgaman las tradiciones ancestrales con la ciencia, aplicadas al hombre de hoy.</p>
<p>En una era en que los mensajes sobre una elevación en la conciencia individual y colectiva, el conocimiento de sí mismo y la trascendencia del ser humano se transmiten a través de libros, películas, técnicas y terapias modernas, &#8220;La promesa del quinto sol&#8221; sobresale por incorporar el componente místico y mítico ancestral para devolver al mundo hispano los conocimientos perdidos en el tiempo, y del cual los actuales chamanes, visionarios y curanderos han contribuido a preservar.</p>
<p>Residente de Oswego, Partida, quien nació en Guadalajara, Jalisco, vivió la experiencia inmigrante en carne propia cuando a los 8 años vio partir a sus padres, con sus dos hermanos más pequeños, hacia Estados Unidos.</p>
<h2>La experiencia migrante</h2>
<p>A los 9 años emigró a Aurora, donde cursó la educación básica, después obtuvo su título de asociado en el Waubansee Community College, su licenciatura en la Universidad Loyola y el doctorado en sicología clínica en la Universidad Argosy.</p>
<p>Según Partida, &#8220;el libro representa una acumulación de mi jornada personal y profesional hacia una existencia más congruente&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Como muchos latinos, fui formado por las enseñanzas nativas de mis ancestros, particularmente por mi abuela, cuyo conocimiento de los factores curativos que se encuentran en la naturaleza y en el espíritu, revelan un mundo de sanación y poder, que representa la riqueza de nuestra herencia&#8221;, añadió.</p>
<p>En su libro, trata sobre las enseñanzas de los aztecas para vivir una vida balanceada, lo que implica encontrar el lugar del hombre en relación al universo y al creador.</p>
<p>Según el sicólogo, para las personas de diferente antecedente cultural, en particular los mexicoamericanos, la historia de la colonización y opresión resulta muchas veces en la percepción negativa de sí mismos.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nos forman con conceptos erróneos como la falsa humildad, la sumisión y la idea de un paraíso después de la muerte&#8221;, dijo Partida.</p>
<p>El libro rastrea los mitos e historias del pasado que sus ancestros legaron a la humanidad &#8220;y que nos dan la posibilidad de ver la vida, nuestra relación con nosotros mismos y con los demás, así como con el poder de la creación, de manera más balanceada e integral, para alcanzar todo nuestro potencial&#8221;.</p>
<p>Partida, quien fue presentador por más de ocho años de los segmentos &#8220;Entre nosotros&#8221; y &#8220;En confianza&#8221;, en la cadena Univision en Chicago y San Francisco, trabajó como director de Servicios Sociales para la Juventud Latina Inc.; director del Mental Health for Children&#8217;s Home and Aid Society Inc., así como en el Departamento de Salud del Comportamiento para el Hospital St. Elizabeth, y profesor de la Escuela de Sicología Profesional del Chicago.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:mefernandez@tribune.com">mefernandez@tribune.com</a></p>
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<p>LIBROS</p>
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		<title>Let It Be&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Native Ancestors kept and maintained detailed records of time and the entire history of creation, recorded as far back as human awareness was able to be recorded.   These Great Grandparents of ours carved twenty five thousand years of life and evolution on the face of the pyramids and stones. By examining the patterns of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Native Ancestors kept and maintained detailed records of time and the entire history of creation, recorded as far back as human awareness was able to be recorded.   These Great Grandparents of ours carved twenty five thousand years of life and evolution on the face of the pyramids and stones.</p>
<p>By examining the patterns of time and the movement of the planets, our Great Grandparents were able recognize that life moves in beautiful and predictable patterns.  These patterns can be measured and studied so that, we as humans, can move in sync with the dance of Creation.  To move with the rhythm of life, requires a certain knowledge and respect for the universal laws.  Yet, there is nothing that says that we HAVE to move with the rhythm of life.</p>
<p>The quality that most makes us human is our ability to exercise free will.  We can choose to move with the flow of these observable rhythms or we can move in opposite direction.  We can move in the direction of our happiness and bliss or we can move away, either consciously or subconsciously.  In the end, there is no judgment of sin.  No one gets expelled from paradise, much less burn in hell.  The lover may falter and fall, but the Ultimate Lover forgives all and will always set a seat at the head of the table for the fallen loved.   Do we receive our good?  Can we receive?  Are our arms and hearts open, or do we still find it difficult to leave the heart exposed, vulnerable for yet another fall.</p>
<p>In these cycles of life, the rhythm dictates the direction for creation and manifestation.  You can either dance in step or choose not to.  When you turn in the direction that is not of and for your good, you become separate and vulnerable.  During your chosen absence, you can punish yourself, you can indulge yourself, you can hurt yourself, and ultimately, you can also forgive yourself.  The digression away from your good can be long lived or it can last a mere second.  In the mind of the Creator, time is irrelevant anyway and you will forever be welcomed back home.</p>
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		<title>A Message of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all on a journey of self discovery.  We are born in time and in flesh and are here to live and breathe the experience necessary to find the path back to the Lover.  Finding our way back home, we recognize the source from where we came.  As guides in our journey, we have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are all on a journey of <a title="The Promise of the Fifth Sun" href="http://www.drjorge.net/?page_id=40" target="_blank">self discovery</a>.  We are born in time and in flesh and are here to live and breathe the experience necessary to find the path back to the Lover.  Finding our way back home, we recognize the source from where we came.  As guides in our journey, we have the experiences and the heritage that have been left to us by all that came before us.  The dreams and desires of our ancestors were guided by a profound love that revealed the very secrets of transcendence and the universal code of creation.</p>
<p>This infinite source of love guides every moment of our journey and watches over every step we take.  The greatest discovery is the discovery of the self.  By “self” I don’t mean the false self that we have created; with its infinite number of fears and insecurities, of lies and resentments.  No, I am speaking of the higher self that tries to whisper its truth when we are quiet and capable of hearing without sound.  In that quiet space, we come face to face with a spark of this divine source.  This spark flickers and burns brighter than the sun and it burns within my soul.</p>
<p>I am the pair of eyes,  sent to witness every possible expression of beauty and the heart created to hold the most tender of your creations.  Gazing in your eyes, I recognize the same source of all love and now I feel the glance of God himself resting pleasingly upon me.   The Lover is forever in your eye and the alchemical power of your touch transforms my soul.  In an embrace, Lover and Beloved become one.</p>
<p>Now, when I am most abandoned to my prayer I sense you there.  Alone, in the perfumed silence of my meditation I feel the warmth of your breath whispering in my ear and an ecstatic shiver makes my whole body quiver.   I know no other safety but the assurance of your presence.  I know no other home but the eternal warmth of your embrace.</p>
<p>-Dr. Jorge</p>
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		<title>Un Mensaje De Amor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celina Rodriguez de La Tremenda en San Francisco me hizo una serie de entrevistas sobre el amor.  Estas pláticas me han dejado muy pensativo. En la entrevista dije que el que busca el verdadero amor, debe antes encontrarlo dentro de sí mismo.  Pienso que frecuentemente, como buenos Latinos, esta respuesta nos puede ser difícil de [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Celina Rodriguez de La Tremenda en San Francisco me hizo una serie de entrevistas sobre el amor.  Estas pláticas me han dejado muy pensativo.</p>
<p>En la entrevista dije que el que busca el verdadero amor, debe antes encontrarlo dentro de sí mismo.  Pienso que frecuentemente, como buenos Latinos, esta respuesta nos puede ser difícil de incorporar.   ¡Nosotros  Latinos somos de familia, de grupo, de pasión y de entrega total!  ¿Cómo puede este doctorcito  decirnos   que debemos enfocarnos en nosotros mismos?</p>
<p>Enfocarnos en nosotros mismos se nos hace una cosa muy egoísta.  Nuestros ojos prefieren buscar la belleza y la verdad afuera, en el mundo material.  Pero el mundo material es tan engañoso y falso.  Es fácil ver la cara del divino en cada belleza joven que encontramos.  Empezamos a ver tal belleza como cualquier otra  posesión material.  ¡Ese es mío! ¡Esa es mía! Yo la mantengo, la trato como mi reina.  El me ama y me cuida como un tesoro. Yo sin ti no soy nadie.  Te quiero más que a mí mismo.  Estos son los mitos que nos contamos.  Muchas veces lo que realmente se quiere decir con estas palabras es que realmente no me quiero a mi mismo.  Pero si no te quieres a ti misma entonces es muy importante poder controlar el amor de tu pareja.  ¿A dónde vas?  ¿Con quien hablabas?  ¿A quién estas mirando?  ¿Cuántas  inseguridades nos dominan?  El control se convierte en tantas cosas feas y convierte al amante en poco más que un trofeo.  Lo que crees que es amor, es entonces  solo el  miedo que expresas cuando crees que la fuente de tu amor te podría abandonar y dejar solo y triste.  ¿Si la persona  que significa toda tu felicidad se va, con que te deja?  Esa inseguridad se expresa como celos.  Se manifiesta como sentimientos de inferioridad y resentimiento expresado contra la persona que decías amar.  Con el tiempo, reconocemos que casi no conocemos a la persona con quien nos casamos.  Quizás nos damos cuenta que  nos casamos sin amor.  Aceptamos que el amor se volvió rutina.  Que la pasión no aguanto la realidad de la intimidad.  Al fin podemos terminar solos y amargados,  llenos de resentimiento contra la persona con quien vivimos.</p>
<p>El que se ama a sí mismo no pide, pero agradece todo lo que se le ofrece.  Tarde o temprano, de una manera o de otra y después del tiempo,  llegamos a la misma conclusión.  El que no se ama a sí mismo, no puede amar al prójimo, porque no puede saber de verdad lo que es el amor.</p>
<p>El amor no es lo mismo que la pasión, aunque el amor a veces se exprese con pasión.  Cuando el  enfoque de nuestra pasión es físico, rápido se terminara porque lo material se acaba.  Cuando nuestra pasión es más profunda y es parte de la esencia de nuestras almas, el amor no cambia.  Amamos porque recordamos.  Recordamos porque nos aferramos a  la memoria de la primera vez que sentimos ese calor que ahora llamamos amor.  Recordamos lo bonito que se siente ser amado.  Este es un calor de seguridad y de pertenecer.  Sabemos con este amor, que somos más grandes de lo que nos imaginábamos.  Somos parte esencial de lo infinito.  Si sabemos esto, podemos comenzar a sentir amor por esa esencia interna que nos permite soñar y sentir.  Conocemos esa esencia porque la reconocemos dentro de nuestros más sagrados pensamientos.   Cuando digo, “me quiero”, hablo de querer a la fuerza que me levanta cada día y a la entidad que me regresa la mirada cuando me veo en el espejo.   Si reconozco que esta esencia existe dentro de mí, entonces la puedo apreciar más todavía cuando la veo reflejada en tus lindos ojos.  Te amo, porque reconozco el poder divino que se expresa como tu persona.  Te veo y tu mirada me deja saber que tú también me conoces de verdad, más allá de lo que yo he construido como mi persona.  Te amo sin condición porque mi amor no depende de ti.  Te amo porque conozco tu esencia hasta cuando tú mismo no la puedes ver.  Porque sé quién eres de verdad puedo ignorar tus limitaciones.  El amor no pide nada, porque al momento que pide y espera, se vuelve material y manipulador.   El amor verdadero me empuja a darlo todo y  no esperar nada, nunca.  Me pide que mantenga mi corazón abierto aun cuando me puedan herir y lastimar.  El amor me pide que sea tranparente aun cuando esto signifique mi vulnerabilidad.  ¿Con tanto requisito y con tanta exigencia que ser valiente se aventaría de cabeza al abismo del amor?   ¿Tú puedes amar sin condición?  Sin embargo, el que no ama con entrega total, no puede conocer la verdadera esencia del gran poder divino que nos quema el pecho y transforma  el corazón que late eternamente.</p>
<p>Feliz Día Del Amor.  Ama y déjate amar.</p>
<p>-Dr. Jorge</p>
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		<title>Every Detail Has Been Accounted For</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What loving mind, what infinite wisdom, what creative force could account for every detail that I perceive?  What loving heart could look back with warmth and say, “you are forever loved and forever forgiven”.  There is a joy that beats in my heart and makes my soul sing a melody I never heard before. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What loving mind, what infinite wisdom, what creative force could account for every detail that I perceive?  What loving heart could look back with warmth and say, “you are forever loved and forever forgiven”.  There is a joy that beats in my heart and makes my soul sing a melody I never heard before.</p>
<p>The web of life weaves a complex net that brings into <strong>focus</strong> every person and situation I perceive.  I must wonder then, what mind, what heart, what force could care  so much for me,  that it would lovingly  and carefully craft every detail for the sole purpose of helping me heal my wounded past.   Thank you Grand Father/Mother Creator for caring so deeply.  You have deemed me worthy to receive and worthy to give.  As your gentle presence flows through me, I manifest in my very hands the evidence of your existence.  You are the fire in my breath and my last exhale after an exhausted night.   You are my home.</p>
<p>I recognize you and I no longer fear you.  I wonder why I ever did.  Your warmth is my home.  Your glow is my guiding light.  You have given me an unimaginable wealth, a treasure of infinite price.  You have taught me all I know as truth and you have gently held me ever moment of my life.</p>
<p>I am Home. I am complete.</p>
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