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 By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
I hope you and your family have had a wonderful start to the New Year!
The New Year is an ideal time to reflect on the previous year and to set goals for the year ahead. With the nightly news overflowing with chaotic stories, it’s all the more important that we take care of ourselves so that we’re better able to play a positive role in creating a world that works for all.
Self-care starts with supercharging your WHOLE being... body, mind, and soul. So I’m glad to announce that our annual Winter of Wellness program will run from January 16–20. This special event is an unparalleled health, healing, and wellness series offering leading-edge solutions to many of today's personal health objectives.
Winter of Wellness features more than 40 top wellness experts ready to share their practical wisdom with you at no cost. Speakers include Donna Eden, David Crow, Arjun Das, Gregg Braden, Dawson Church, and David Wolfe. And a big thank you to Dr. Robyn Benson for creating such a powerful summit! To register for free, click here.
As we begin 2018, let’s make sure we take care of ourselves and our families — and prepare to stay engaged in meaningful action as we move forward together.
Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to residents of Puerto Rico, where Hurricane Maria made landfall September 20 and knocked out power to 3.4 million people. A Puerto Rican named Teresa, who was taking a Shift Network course from plant medicine expert David Crow at the time, wrote this to us:
“During this emergency crisis, hospitals and doctors’ offices were and are difficult to visit, so we have used essential oils and medicinal plants to keep healthy here at home. We have remembered David Crow's advice and are using frankincense, lavender, eucalyptus, and others to keep us from getting sick. Thank God we have not gotten sick. Therefore, a huge THANK YOU to David Crow for his advice. He is a very special and unique instructor, and I really love his lessons and topics.”
Thank you, Teresa, for your inspiring message. We are following the situation in Puerto Rico closely and hope that conditions improve daily.
Finally, we would love to hear your answer to the question, How do you plan to improve your health in 2018? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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Awaken Your Capacity for Self-healing, Super-perception, and a Longer Life!
(with 9-minute video from human potential pioneer Gregg Braden)
 Can you imagine gaining access to the seemingly superhuman powers that have been traditionally relegated to mystics, yogis, and shamans living in secluded locations through the ages?
What if you could stimulate an enhanced immune response… activate longevity enzymes... and move into the gamma state to access deep levels of perception… on demand?
To read more, click here.
Gregg Braden’s hour-long virtual event, The New Human Story: Awakening Your Evolutionary Potential for Self-healing, Longevity & Super-perception, is on Wednesday, January 10. Click here to register for this free video call. |
Inclusion Revolution: Together with Love
Sister Jenna and JoRob Create Spiritual Hip-Hop Meditation
By McKenna Rose of LAYOGA.com
 When a yogi and a hip-hop artist decide to join forces and help counteract the craziness that’s going in our world, wonderful things happen….like the new album, Inclusion Revolution: Together with Love. It’s an amazing example of a spiritual hip-hop meditation combination.
Sister Jenna is the founder of the Meditation Museum in Washington D.C. and host of a popular online syndicated radio show, America Meditating. She and hip-hop artist JoRob (Waldron) have come together to provide a soothing, soulful musical meditation experience.
To read more, click here.
The Neurophysiology of Spiritual Guidance
TED Talk by Stephanie Mines
 In this 17-minute talk at Findhorn in Scotland, Stephanie shares her personal investigations and clinical research into how the brain networks experiences of spiritual guidance alongside her understanding of the neurophysiology of receiving and transmitting it. Clear guidance is differentiated from intuition or occasional psychic hunches. It is an integrated, holistic neuro-chemical phenomenon that forever transforms the individual who experiences it, recalibrating their nervous system.
Stephanie is the founder of the TARA Approach for the Resolution of Shock and Trauma, and the convener and vision holder for the April 2019 conference, “Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth.”
To watch the video, click here.
Transform Your Thoughts Through Affirmations
Book excerpt from Through God’s Eyes by Phil Bolsta
 Your thoughts are a powerful, creative force that set the course and tone of your life. We all think thousands of thoughts per day, the vast majority of which are repetitive. Over time, this relentless self-chatter—too often negative and self-limiting—forms the patterns of our thinking.
Affirmations help you tame the chaotic rumblings on the edge of your consciousness and replace your negative thought patterns with positive ones. Affirmations are an easy and effective way to reshape the way you look at the world. Train yourself to think more positive, loving thoughts and you will live a more positive, loving life.
To read more — and to see 60 spiritual affirmations — click here.
 Global Shift Meditation —
Free Event on the First of Every Month
Join The Shift Network, The Gaiafield Project and people around the world for Global Shift Meditations on the first of each month. On January 1, founder David Nicol led a Global Peace Meditation as part of the “7 Days of Rest” global event. Click here to listen to the free recording and to register to receive future free recordings.
 Your Voice
We want to know: How do you plan to improve your health in 2018? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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Anxiety: Your Doorway to Spiritual Growth
By Wendy De Rosa
 Spiritual growth has numerous doorways. Surprising to most, anxiety is one such threshold. As an intuitive healer, I have worked with clients for nearly 20 on an array of issues ranging from physical symptoms to life path questions, from life transitions to the deeper desire to heal blocks and grow spiritually.
Yet, anxiety commonly presents in clients who feel a calling in their heart for spiritual growth. Here are 3 spiritual reasons for anxiety…
To read more, click here.
The encore of Wendy’s free virtual event, Intuitive Healing Through Your Crown Chakra, is on Tuesday, January 9. Click here to register for the call. |
Evolving Into Sustainable Healthcare
By Stephanie Mines, PhD
 My early childhood was a test of my will to be. During some of the most challenging periods, such as when sexual abuse was occurring, I would have preferred not to continue to live. But that option, tempting as it was, was not one I could ever thoroughly embrace although I often came close. Through this crucible I learned to be self-sufficient. I could not count on the people around me to nurture my spirit so I had to find ways to do that independently, even as a small child.
I found my own creativity and a relationship with Spirit that evolved out of my inner quest to make sense of the senseless. I found joy and encouragement in the inner world I developed; it kept me alive.
To read more, click here.
Ode to Lavender
By David Crow
 Like serpentine waves of color undulating across the continents, the lilac hues of lavender farms weave together all that is good about us humans. For love of beauty, people flock to the cascading purple terraces of Provence, New Zealand, Himachal Pradesh, and California, drawn like the bees climbing through their miniature labyrinthine worlds of ultraviolet scent.
Because there still lives, somewhere in our heart and soul where the artificialities of modernity are not allowed, an innate indescribable love for nature’s tender expressions, the soft voice of lavender’s gentle spirit is universally understood.
To read more, click here.
There’s still time to reserve your spot in David’s new course, Medicinal Plants for Protecting Your Body, Mind & Spirit. Enroll today, and you’ll receive immediate access to the course, community page, and full audio recording of Session One — and be all set to experience Session Two on Wednesday, January 10. Click here for all the details. |
Love In the Time of Chaos: Dealing with Fear and Anxiety
By Teachers in Ram Dass’ "Be Here Now Network"
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There’s really no escaping fear, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it? Jack Kornfield, host of the Heart Wisdom Podcast, has a pretty radical solution. He suggests we acknowledge our fear, and perhaps even become friends with it:
“The first thing to understand is that we don’t want to take the anxiety of the culture, the terror and fear that the political world is fermenting, into our hearts. Part of the way that politics works is to scare the populace so that they will vote for you. The kind of messages of fear and terror that are out there, on all sides, can easily colonize our nervous system and take over our heart.”
To read more, click here.
Ram Dass’ hour-long virtual event, Freedom From Anger, Fear & Separateness: How to Transform Suffering & Befriend Your Difficult Emotions, is on Wednesday, January 17.
Click here to register for this free video call. |
The Hour of the Bully — The Century of the Visionary
By James O’Dea
 The Bully is quintessentially short-sighted... will punish if not appeased... will always self-justify...
The Visionary looks ahead to the highest goal that will serve the greatest number and do the greatest good... is not concerned with winning personal adulation or approval...
To read more, click here.
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International Yoga Festival — Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, India
 Join us for the world famous annual International Yoga Festival in 2018 — uniting yogis of every culture, color, and creed together in a one-world yogic family, expanding global consciousness and bringing healing to the planet, one person at a time!
In this 7-day immersion and celebration, you have the opportunity to embrace every major style of yoga and learn from enlightened Spiritual Leaders, Master Yoga Teachers, Evolutionary Thought Leaders, and Wellness Specialists from around the world.
Awaken to the best version of yourself and ignite your inner light through this not-to-be-missed event at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, the largest ashram in Rishikesh and one of the largest interfaith yoga institutions in India.
Click here to watch a 40-second video invitation. Click here to visit the International Yoga Festival website.
Peace Leadership Conference in Rishkesh, India
 The second annual Peace Leadership Conference will be held February 22–25 in Rishkesh, India, prior to the March 1 start of the International Yoga Festival. Philip Hellmich, Director of Peace with The Shift Network, is a featured speaker.
The Peace Leadership Conference is designed to bring together global peace practitioners, academicians, educators, and others in the broad area of peace leadership; to experience fellowship, collaboration, and connection as we examine the nexus of peace and leadership. The agenda will start with a focus on Peace Leadership From The Inside and then flow into Peace Leadership From The Outside. Click here for more information.
“White Like Me” — Multi-location Film Screening and Networked Online Dialogue
Sponsored by Association for Global New Thought on February 25
 Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of AGNT's Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence. If you are a minister or member of a church, we invite you to screen the film in your sanctuary, followed by a national online dialogue. If you want to attend as an individual, we'll notify you of a screening near you. Click here to register as a host or participant.
To Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement was part of a broader “revolution of values” that was “forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws.” As he put it, what we need is nothing less than “a restructuring of the very architecture of American society.”
Plus, a monthly free “online salon” called “New Thought on the News” begins this month. We discuss hot topics in the news through the evolutionary lens of New Thought spiritual principles. On January 25, Dr. David Alexander of Centers for Spiritual Living and Jim Kenney, author of Thriving in the Crosscurrent: Clarity and Hope in a Time of Cultural Sea Change, will offer radically new interpretations of the stories we’re being told by the mainstream media. Tune in for live dialogue on conscious responses to the social and political challenges we face.
Expanding Your Heart: Four Stages of a Spiritual Opening
By Wendy De Rosa
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Transform the chaos and pain of personal struggle into a deeper connection to the Divine and your truest self. In Expanding Your Heart, Wendy introduces the Four Stages of a Spiritual Opening to guide readers to work through life challenges as a way to open and expand the heart.
To order your copy, click here. |
For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.
The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.
 Through God’s Eyes: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Troubled World by Phil Bolsta of The Shift Network. Through God’s Eyes is a road map for living a more peaceful, beautiful life. It’s the only book that shows you how dozens of spiritual principles interact, how to weave them together into a cohesive worldview, and how to practically apply this spiritual wisdom to bring joy and vitality to your daily life. One reviewer called it “the owner’s manual God should give you when you’re born.” To order your copy, click here. To request a sample chapter from the author, email Phil at GodsEyes@me.com.
Book by Stephen Dinan: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.
 World Peace Library. Designed for the layperson and professional peacebuilder alike, the World Peace Library has over 425 audio and video interviews with some of the most remarkable, inspiring peacebuilders in the world available to you at NO COST. You’ll find hundreds of hours of inspirational, peacebuilding, compassion-spreading talks and trainings at your fingertips with this FREE global resource. There’s no way you can’t come away from the World Peace Library deeply inspired, transformed — and part of the solution. Click here to find out how to take peace to the next level — and help co-create a global culture of peace that leaves a legacy of good for our children, our children’s children and all of humanity and life on earth.
If you would like to submit something to The Catalyst, please see the submission guidelines: click here.
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Write down your wellness goals for 2018, then post them in your home, carry them in your wallet, upload them to your computer screen, and/or place them anywhere else you are likely to see them.
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 The New Human Story: Awakening Your Evolutionary Potential for Self-healing, Longevity & Super-perception — A Free Virtual Event With Bestselling Author and Human Potential Pioneer Gregg Braden. Discover the surprising new science about our human origin… and techniques to awaken your deep intuition, precognition, and advanced states of self-healing. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 5:30pm Pacific
 Discovering the Zodiac in You: Trickster’s Zodiacal Guide to Navigating the Wild Ride Rising Tide of 2018 — A Free Video Event With Renowned Visionary Activist Astrologer Caroline Casey. Harness the power of Myth, Magic, and Play to navigate Uncertainty, bring forth your Gifts & transform our world. Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific
 Liberate the Voice of Your Soul: Discover Your Sound Awareness, Creative Expression & Unique Resonance — A Free Virtual Event With International Singer, Educator & Author Chloë Goodchild. Clear old patterns that block your natural expression & release your soul’s voice to feel freer, self-empowered & more creative. Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific
 Freedom From Anger, Fear & Separateness: How to Transform Suffering & Befriend Your Difficult Emotions — A Free Virtual Event With Bestselling Author and Spiritual Icon Ram Dass. Discover how to transform your experience of suffering so you can find freedom in the midst of your deepest challenges. Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 5:30pm Pacific
The Essentials of Energy Medicine: 12 Keys to Unlock Your Inner Life Force for Health, Joy & Vitality — With Energy Medicine Pioneers Donna Eden & David Feinstein, PhD. Tap your inner reserves of life energy for healing, radiant health, and wellbeing to restore and revitalize yourself naturally.
New 12-week Video Training Starts Thursday, January 11, 2018
More Upcoming Events: (all subject to change)
January
• Suzanne Scurlock-Durana 21-week course
• Wendy De Rosa 16-week course
• Caroline Casey 12-week course
• Ram Dass 4-week course
February
• Chloe Goodchild 16-week course
• Jean Shinoda Bolen 7-week course
• Tamara Wolfson 7-week course
• Rhys Thomas 7-week course
• Margaret Paul 14-week course
• Anodea Judith 7-week course
March
• Holly Bellebuono 7-week course
• Robert Moss 7-week course
• Mingtong Gu 7-week course
• Mark Matousek 7-week course
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Girl Up Initiative Uganda
This book project will feature a collection of 20 stories written by Ugandan girls who aren’t letting poverty and inequality hold them back from creating a better future. In a world that has silenced girls for way too long and still views them as second-class citizens, these stories are needed more than ever. When girls have the opportunity to share their stories, they learn they are valuable; they discover they really do have something to say and get to play an essential role in economic development and eradicating poverty. Let's support Ugandan girls daring to dream!
Click here for more information and to donate to this fundraising campaign.
Kickstarter Campaign: Project Peace Documentary
This groundbreaking short documentary film will take you into the world of inner freedom and peace. We access that realm through rediscovering our connection to the spiritual dimension of the Earth, the spirit, and the world of the ancestors. Only a small number of indigenous tribes and rare individuals around the planet have retained their connection to this essential dimension.
The Avenya team has spent two years researching the effects of reawakening the human connection to the spiritual dimension of the Earth, and to the world of the ancestors. We have discovered that experiencing this world within us has a tremendous impact on our inner peace, health, sense of belonging, freedom, and fulfillment. It supports the development of the soul, and the contribution we are able to make in our communities as a result.
We very much look forward to sharing our important discoveries and tools with people around the world through this short documentary film. We feel this is the most important work that we can be engaged in at this moment in humanity’s development.
Click here for more information and to make a donation.
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Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids fights childhood obesity, undernourishment, and physical inactivity by helping schools become healthier places so kids can live healthier lives. We partner with a legion of dedicated volunteers — teachers, students, moms, dads, school wellness experts, and more — from within the ranks of our 120,000+ network to create healthful school changes.
Our grassroots efforts are supported by a collaboration of more than 75 organizations, corporations, and government agencies. Working together, we’re giving kids the keys to health and academic success by meeting them where they are — in the classroom, in the cafeteria, and on the playground — with fun physical activity and nutrition lessons that make it possible for them to eat nutritiously and play actively every day.
Click here for more information. Click here to donate.
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Yael illah
I Am That I Am
Yael illah is a devotional musician based in Northern California who creates healing hymns to soothe the soul. She sings and prays in multiple spiritual lineages and offers intuitive sound healing. She also crafts drums and leads drum-birthing ceremonies.
Her debut album, I Am That I Am, is a collection of 12 heartful, simple, and beautiful prayers — sung in Hebrew, Spanish, English, and Portuguese — that evoke a remembrance of the ancient ways, faith, love, joy, and justice. Listen to the album here.
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