tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928870241357003272024-03-05T14:53:46.013-08:00Body Beloved/SherryTuegelSharing my journey of love and awakening as I stumble on rejoicing. Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-28781635953361126362024-02-20T13:27:00.000-08:002024-02-20T13:27:24.157-08:00<p><br /></p><table align="" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813full yiv2140940813spacer yiv2140940813spacer-top" id="yiv2140940813" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="" id="yiv2140940813" style="line-height: 30px; margin: 0px auto; min-height: 30px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLzy71yCZLsDuCcXNq0sbKKP4ze2jqX05k9mK4N6ORd8VG2tEhrk61YwCCN2qeroVdiNPhGxr1eCYv0wJJVJZ_aZGX92brzyMATaNuA7B4dKKAmGZp7rnFUzPaqo07ddBw-o97A5Q-eaWkpGD7OPwsJ3Uw3z9VtnfwFYaikFGPCwGun4SlWMVuyQnSgqPW/s875/BBLogo_forweb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv2140940813module yiv2140940813text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv2140940813module-1 yiv2140940813text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy Valentine's Day, Beloveds<em style="outline: none !important;"></em>!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813full yiv2140940813combo-left yiv2140940813table-2 yiv2140940813middle" id="yiv2140940813" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv2140940813" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv2140940813module yiv2140940813combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 336.016px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv2140940813combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 316.016px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv2140940813image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="20240213 163815" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4580%2F6807%2Foriginal%2F20240213_163815.jpg%3F1707860680&t=1708462662&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c4d-66000a01fb00&sig=dpS.q4gzzvkzesT2Cbsopw--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 316.016px;" width="316" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv2140940813module-2 yiv2140940813text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I was gifted today with a beautiful bouquet of exotic flowers for a belated Birthday and Valentine's Day. Thank you Beloved Elise! What a sweet surprise! I needed the delight and brightening of my home after a not so sweet surprise. On Saturday, February 3rd, I woke up to my heat not working. I called a big company thinking they could fix it quickly. Nope. It was dead. Apparently it was over 20 years old and it had exceeded its lifetime. They wanted $14,000 to install and new HVAC on Monday. Luckily my dear friend Loren Duffey (If you need a great Realtor call him at 443-794-6140!) referred me to a good reliable guy. $7,900 later I have a new HVAC unit. Luckily I had room on a credit card but I'm not looking forward to the larger payments. I'm looking for a housemate again to help cover the expense. If you know anyone who you think might be a good fit please let me know. Give them my email and phone number and have them call me. Best times are between 11am and 7pm. (sherrytuegel@verizon.net or 410-598-1010)<br style="outline: none !important;" />Here is the link with all the info on Craigslist: baltimore.craigslist.org/roo/d/pikesville-share-my-beautiful-home/7716367174.html.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I spent a lot of time in overwhelm and fear since February 3rd. It has been quite the tailspin but I'm finally settling down as I make plans to manage the increased debt. Thomas Mooneagle, my dear gifted Shamanic and Matrix Energetics + friend did a healing for me. One image he got was me being the ball in a pinball machine bouncing off of all those flippers and such. His work really helped me shift from the fear. Other friends have been praying and sending Reiki. I feel very well loved and cared for! What an experience! I'm praying all will fall into place and I will have a wonderful housemate here soon and a manageable debt load!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Things have been slow with clients which has added to my concern so I'm offering a $20 discount on all my sessions through March to inspire some interest. If you decide to come in, please mention this newsletter offer to get the discount. If you care to send donations my way you may send them to PayPal with the above email or use Zelle with the above phone number. It feels odd to be asking for donations but I could really use the support if you have a little to give.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">So that's my story right now. I love Pema Chodron's book <strong style="outline: none !important;">Comfortable with Uncertainty</strong>. I can tell you I have not been comfortable. Humbled and chagrinned once again! Have I mentioned my middle name is Chagrin? I mentioned it in my upcoming memoir. The book is still in editing. I hope to be able to get it out soon. Fingers crossed!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813full yiv2140940813text yiv2140940813table-3 yiv2140940813middle" id="yiv2140940813" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="left" id="yiv2140940813" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv2140940813module yiv2140940813text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv2140940813module-3 yiv2140940813text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Upcoming Classes</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I would love for you to join me on Thursday, February 15th for another heart opening All Love Zoom. We begin at 8pm and end at 10pm EST. The fee is $20 and you can send me payment through Zelle with my phone number 410-598-1010 (preferred) or through PayPal at sherrytuegel@verison.net. Email me for the link. The March All Love Zoom will be on March 21st at the same times. Come dive in to the Love!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813full yiv2140940813combo-right yiv2140940813table-4 yiv2140940813middle" id="yiv2140940813" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv2140940813" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv2140940813module yiv2140940813combo-right" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 265px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv2140940813combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 245px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv2140940813image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="Rumi return to the root" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4580%2F8598%2Foriginal%2FRumi_return_to_the_root.jpg%3F1707865612&t=1708462662&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c4d-66000a01fb00&sig=YDTyBeKMV_Hhv9eArlJDwg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 245px;" width="245" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv2140940813module-4 yiv2140940813text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I love Rumi's wisdom. As I struggled with my fear and overwhelm I worked to remember my "root". The animal I am went into full alert fight or flight mode swinging between the two so quickly it made my head spin. I was actually trembling in fear off and on for a few days. My mind was in overdrive trying to figure a way out of my situation. It was indeed humbling! As I come back to my 'root' I am lifted up with Love. A calm inner Self reappears after being 'upregulated' as my dear friend Kathy says. Prayers and love are welcome as I continue on this new journey. I hold the frightened and uncertain part of me to my heart and tell her I love her and that it will be okay. That has been soothing along with the love from each of you over the years! As my friend June has taught me, 'It's an adventure!' Onward and upward! Sending love and gratitude to you all!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Sweet Blessings,<br style="outline: none !important;" />Sherry</p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv2140940813full yiv2140940813text yiv2140940813table-5 yiv2140940813last" id="yiv2140940813" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="left" id="yiv2140940813" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv2140940813module yiv2140940813text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv2140940813module-5 yiv2140940813text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">Sherry Tuegel</strong><br style="outline: none !important;" /><strong style="outline: none !important;">www.body-beloved.com</strong><br style="outline: none !important;" /><strong style="outline: none !important;">410-598-1010</strong></p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-37390051828236466302024-01-20T13:01:00.000-08:002024-01-20T13:01:36.319-08:00<p> </p>Enjoy my January 2024 Newsletter, Beloveds!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_QRDj_ZJvwwHNsrwNQHQ2gTgYhd11B9A58dSsGtQEUpQywUsLEinDsye7q4P78SBWfU_6wEPPjdlTjvC2zM-KP4LGLcNPqIz36WPEzH4ceXILv1Ygy9aH1v2m5EFY40jKlDe2LzCixSHHfvsUcgcZw_3nO1SmT67Gj0PcRqQIEAJj_wz37LMOQccZXkk/s1280/BB%20Jannuary%202024%20Header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_QRDj_ZJvwwHNsrwNQHQ2gTgYhd11B9A58dSsGtQEUpQywUsLEinDsye7q4P78SBWfU_6wEPPjdlTjvC2zM-KP4LGLcNPqIz36WPEzH4ceXILv1Ygy9aH1v2m5EFY40jKlDe2LzCixSHHfvsUcgcZw_3nO1SmT67Gj0PcRqQIEAJj_wz37LMOQccZXkk/w619-h348/BB%20Jannuary%202024%20Header.jpg" width="619" /></a></div><div><br /><table align="" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full spacer spacer-top" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" id="" style="height: 30px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 30px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-1 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-1 text-container"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy 2024 Beloveds!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-2 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 276.016px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 256.016px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="20240119 165417" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4509/2800/original/20240119_165417.jpg?1705701422" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 256.016px;" width="256" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-2 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope you're enjoying the snow!<br />I am!<br />Happily, I get someone else to clean up my walk and driveway. I'm sitting here in my cozy warm house (see left) looking out at the snow through my lace curtains, surrounded by my remaining Christmas decorations as I type this to you. The tree had to go earlier for pick up and I was going to take the rest down today but the snow encouraged me to wait a little while longer. I'm pretending I'm still having a white Christmas.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">On the first night after the snow I took the picture below. I have sweet memories of my Dad putting those big old fashioned colored outdoor lights on our bushes in Winchester. They weren't old fashioned then, of course. When the snow covered them they would glow beneath it, slowly melting a pocket around each light. I always try to capture my Christmas twinkle lights in the snow as a tribute to Dad. He was an amazing man and a gifted crafter. He once took a 4'X8' sheet of plywood, cut and painted it to look like a ribboned Christmas package that said "Merry Christmas from the Fraulas'. He put it in our yard with a spotlight on it to be sure it was viewable from Route 522 at night. (I try to use my best southern accent when I tell people I grew up on the corner of Apple Pie Ridge and Pughtown Pike (522).</p></span><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-3 middle" id="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 498.984px;"><tbody><tr><td class="single" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 498.984px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="January 2024 Snow with christmas lights" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4509/2564/original/January_2024_Snow_with_christmas_lights.jpg?1705701138" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 498.984px;" width="499" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Upcoming Classes</h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-3 middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">As some of you may know, I canceled the January in-person class due to the increased illnesses in the area along with low enrollment. Johns Hopkins has reinstated using masks in all their facilities due to a jump in hospitalizations. Zooms are still on and we just had a beautiful heart opening All Love Zoom last night, the 18th. I plan to wait to put together another in-person class for a bit.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I decided to add something new to my All Love Zoom last night. With everyone's permission I offered a Matrix Energetics module for healing. It was well received and I will likely offer it again in the future. The February All Love Zoom will be on Thursday the 15th from 8pm to 10pm. I hope you can join me. Email me at sherrytuegel@verizon.net for the link. The fee is $20 and paid with my phone number, 410-598-1010 on Zelle (preferred) or on PayPal using the above email. Stay well out there!</p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-4 middle" id="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"></p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-5 middle" id="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 274px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 254px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="You can borrow my belief in you FB" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4509/5401/original/You_can_borrow_my_belief_in_you_FB.jpg?1705705453" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 254px;" width="254" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-3 middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-5 middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-5 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I've recently had some bouts of loneliness come up over the Holidays. After my Birthday on January 2nd I had my "the party's over syndrome" kick in. One friend aptly called it ennui. After living in a state of contentment for the last 5 months, this knocked me for a loop. I was disappointed in myself and felt a bit at a loss. My spiritual ego was very disappointed in me. Part of me is still living in that disappointment and fear. Luckily I pulled a card from Osho's Zen Tarot deck that gave me some guidance. It was called Success:<br />"Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both - don't get addicted to one. Don't say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible - not in the nature of things. Then what to do?</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-4 middle" id="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Enjoy the peak while it lasts and enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement."<br />~Osho</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I had lost faith in myself for a while and occasionally am still faulting. A few dear friends have held the space for me while I struggled. Thank you Beloveds! (See the photo above.)<br />If you lose your way please remember to reach out to someone you trust to hold the space for you as you move through the valley. I'm here for you too, even as I struggle. Sometimes I come together more supporting others. It helps me remember mySelf.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I pray that your days be full of love and joy with the valleys few. Remember to allow yourself rest in the valley when it comes. Do reach out and let me know how your life is going in this new year. I love to hear from you! Sending you much love and many sweet blessings!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love Always,<br />Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-5 middle" id="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><br /></h1><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-3 middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody></tbody></table></h1></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-38383145099185210022023-12-14T07:50:00.000-08:002023-12-14T07:50:48.473-08:00December 2023 Newsletter<p> </p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-1 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-1 text-container"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy Holidays, Beloveds!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-2 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 200.016px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 180.016px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rumi Don t hide from the thorns" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4352/2264/original/Rumi_Don_t_hide_from_the_thorns.jpg?1701899538" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 180.016px;" width="180" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-2 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">"If you could get rid<br />of yourself just once,<br />the secret of secrets<br />would open to you.<br />The face of the unknown,<br />hidden beyond the universe,<br />would appear on the mirror<br />of your perception.”<br />~ Rumi</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Rumi captured my heart years ago. His words remind me to be still and look within for what I'm searching for as I embrace whatever is in this moment. So grateful for Rumi and grateful for you in my life! I hope you're having a wonderful Holiday season full of love and delight.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm emersed in decorating the house for the season. Have I mentioned I was raised by Christmas elves? I'm happy to report that the work of carrying everything up from the basement and placing it around the house is easier this year after my weekly swims and workouts in the water. As I approach my 73rd Birthday it's a gift to have more strength! A gift I have finally given myself!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Below is the beginning of the process. I bought the tree yesterday, December12th, and put the lights and one decoration on tonight. This is the tallest and skinniest tree I've ever bought. I had to get the 6-foot ladder out to put the angel and lights on top. Likely will need it again as I decorate the top of the tree. I think I've learned my lesson! No more 8-foot trees!!!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-3 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td class="single" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Christmas 2023 Prep" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4377/1257/original/Christmas_2023_Prep.jpg?1702519600" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-4 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 142.984px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 122.984px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Brazil with Patrick" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/2519/8346/original/All_Love_Brazil_with_Patrick.jpg?1623255537" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 122.984px;" width="123" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-4 text-container"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Upcoming Classes</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">This Saturday, December 16th, I'm offering an in-person All Love class at 7pm to 10pm here at my home in Pikesville. The fee is $40. I hope you can join me!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">On Thursday, December 21st, I will offer the All Love Zoom class from 8pm to 10pm. The fee is $20. Email me if you would like the link.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2024 classes will be on Thursday, January 18th, for the All Love Zoom and Saturday, January 20th for the in-person All Love class. Same times and fees as above.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Would love to see you at one of these heart opening classes!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-5 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td class="single" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Class in Person December 16 2023" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4377/4771/original/All_Love_Class_in_Person_December_16_2023.jpg?1702526625" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-6 middle" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-6 text-container"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">As we all go into this Holiday season, my heart is heavy amid my decorating distractions with the wars and violence in our world. I also have intimate friends and family facing illnesses and struggles. May we each find ways to serve those near and far that are facing these challenges. I believe in the power of prayer and right action. We can listen to our hearts to find out what we can do to bring more love, peace and healing into this troubled world. As we sit with our own sweet hearts in quiet, we can find the strength to be of service and open to the Goodness that lives in each of us.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">In the midst of all the challenges, may we see not only the harsh realities, but also the tender loving sweetness that is a part of being human. I pray your Holiday fills with peace, love and joy!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love You Always,<br />Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-7 last" id="" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-7 text-container"><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Sherry Tuegel</strong><br /><strong>www.body-beloved.com</strong><br /><strong>410-598-1010</strong></p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-66573838916846737612023-11-09T06:48:00.003-08:002023-11-09T06:48:43.615-08:00November 2023 Newsletter<p> </p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218text yiv6130184218table-1 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="left" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv6130184218module-1 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy November, Beloveds!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218combo-left yiv6130184218table-2 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 243px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv6130184218combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 223px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv6130184218image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="20231108 084123" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4256%2F4789%2Foriginal%2F20231108_084123.jpg%3F1699455830&t=1699541237&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cb5-4f000c016800&sig=LJZQFb2_mFRN4IZNtFWdmg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 223px;" width="223" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv6130184218module-2 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope you all are enjoying these beautiful Fall days! The morning sun is beautiful coming in my front windows today. I've actually been up early recently to enjoy the morning light streaming in. So not my usual thing! Maybe I'll suddenly become a morning person. Unlikely but maybe. I do get more sunlight in if I get up early this time of year. That's a plus.</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218combo-right yiv6130184218table-3 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218combo-right" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218module-3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 200.016px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv6130184218combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 180.016px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv6130184218image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="20231027 142130" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4256%2F4975%2Foriginal%2F20231027_142130.jpg%3F1699456209&t=1699541237&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cb5-4f000c016800&sig=WEjTUvOoU0KGKy2l3U_WFQ--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 180.016px;" width="180" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv6130184218module-3 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm delighted to report that the ceiling damage in the basement is repaired along with the floor in the kitchen from my dishwasher leak. Yeah! Stan Hearn did a great job for a good price. I'll be starting up in-person classes again in December. I do love teaching here and am grateful to have this comfortable space. Curiously the Fall weather has had me thinking of selling. We shall see what the future holds. I do love to renovate houses. Maybe I got the bug during my repair project. In my first house I lived in one bedroom room while the rest of the house was in total chaos while I slowly renovated it. The only way to flush the toilet was to pour a bucket of water down it. Those were the days. But seriously, I'm not up for that level of challenge anymore!</p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218combo-left yiv6130184218table-4 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218caption yiv6130184218combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 380px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv6130184218combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 360px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv6130184218image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="Stripped Naked Cover 6" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4077%2F2236%2Foriginal%2FStripped_Naked_Cover_6.jpg%3F1694368221&t=1699541237&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cb5-4f000c016800&sig=H3Cy.ur88FRN7cDGjzF5Gg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 360px;" width="360" /><p align="left" style="clear: both; color: #3a352a; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; outline: none !important; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">My book cover mockup</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv6130184218module-4 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm delighted that my editor is making progress on my book. I'd love to have it on Amazon by early next year. We shall see. It still is odd not having that project as the daily center of my life. Last month I was squirrelly without it. Happily that has passed.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Here's another snippet from my book under the section titled <strong style="outline: none !important;">Stumbling Forward</strong>:</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">"<strong style="outline: none !important;">On a Mission</strong></p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">February was a time of integration back into my day-to-day life. I watched many of my old patterns of fear and desire for more of whatever (fill in the blank) re-emerge. As I have read over my many journals, I am both amused and frustrated at the cycles of bliss and doom that rolled through me. I did have better and better ways of dealing with those patterns but they still took me for a ride all too often. I had the delight in March 2008 of visiting with my teacher/friend Saryu Dalal. She told me she could see the transformation and joy in me. "You're not looking for someone to heal or fix you like before. You just are, take it or leave it! You are radiating joy!" she said. I wrote this after her quote in my journal:</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The 10,000 idiots that I want to believe have left town or died, they are still here...just not in as much control...and some actually have left town or died.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Or so I hoped. I had just read 10,000 Idiots by Hafiz:</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is always a danger<br style="outline: none !important;" />to aspirants on the Path<br style="outline: none !important;" />When they begin to believe and act<br style="outline: none !important;" />As if the ten thousand idiots<br style="outline: none !important;" />Who so long ruled and lived inside<br style="outline: none !important;" />Have all packed their bags<br style="outline: none !important;" />And skipped town<br style="outline: none !important;" />Or<br style="outline: none !important;" />Died”</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I continue to be humbled when again and again those idiots inside make themselves known to this day!"</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">And of course, I still am.</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218combo-right yiv6130184218table-5 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218combo-right" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 170.016px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv6130184218combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 150.016px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv6130184218image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Brazil with Patrick" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F2519%2F8346%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Brazil_with_Patrick.jpg%3F1623255537&t=1699541237&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cb5-4f000c016800&sig=d7rkiySpqDSSXWZ90LTxKg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 150.016px;" width="150" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv6130184218module-5 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Upcoming Classes</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope you can join us this Thursday, November 16th for another All Love Zoom from 8pm to 10pm. Dive in and open your heart to feel the love that you are!<br style="outline: none !important;" />The fee is $20, and you can use Zelle via my phone number 410-598-1010 (shows my name as Sharon) or PayPal via sherrytuegel@verizon.net. Email me for the link.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">There will be no All Love in-person class this month but I will have one December 16th. The December All Love Zoom will be on December 21st. It's usually the third Thursday of each month. Would love to see you and share our hearts energy online or in person!</p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFF4D5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218full yiv6130184218combo-left yiv6130184218table-6 yiv6130184218middle" id="yiv6130184218" style="background-color: #fff4d5; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv6130184218" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv6130184218module yiv6130184218combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6130184218module-6" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 281px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv6130184218combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 261px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv6130184218image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="Now is where Love breaths Rumi" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4256%2F6220%2Foriginal%2FNow_is_where_Love_breaths_Rumi.jpg%3F1699458621&t=1699541237&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cb5-4f000c016800&sig=aWlTzB8gkClZc7RSCcuGCg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 261px;" width="261" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv6130184218module-6 yiv6130184218text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I always love to hear from you to find out how your life is going and/or hear any reaction to what I have shared with you. Do drop me an email and share about your sweet life.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hold you in my heart sending you love, healing prayers and peace. May you and your loved ones be deeply blessed.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love and Many Sweet Blessing,<br style="outline: none !important;" />Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-91565981468771181212023-10-17T14:13:00.004-07:002023-10-17T14:21:54.460-07:00<p><span style="font-size: large;">After much silence I'm sharing my August, September and October 2023 Newsletters here. Hoping to share more soon. </span>💞</p><p><br /></p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847text yiv1307397847table-1 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="left" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv1307397847module-1 yiv1307397847text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy August, Beloveds!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847combo-left yiv1307397847table-2 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 243px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv1307397847combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 223px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv1307397847image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Fairfax 2023" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4028%2F1549%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Fairfax_2023.jpg%3F1692128994&t=1697577383&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b0032018800&sig=MmDjlzZBRH2XRfgbCqRA0w--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 223px;" width="223" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv1307397847module-2 yiv1307397847text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Hard to believe we are already halfway through August! I hope you've been enjoying your summer delights and vacations! No major vacations for me this year but I did get away for a 4-day class in Fairfax, Virigina with Patrick Zeigler, staying in Leesburg with the Sweidels. Thank you, Monica and Marty!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm still integrating the work I did in Patrick's All Love class. As always, it was humbling to watch the transformations and openings around me. I walked into the class with such a sense of ease and contentment. That got shaken up by the end of the morning of the third day. Patrick pushed me hard. I spent lunch in tears feeling my heart torn open. That opened a door for me and by the end of the day, I went into Samadhi. My mind went totally silent and still, the deepest waking silence I have ever experienced.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is the definition of Samadhi from www.ananda.org: "Perfect union of the individualized soul with infinite spirit. (1) A state of oneness; complete absorption. (2) Samadhi, which literally means “to direct together,” is the state in which the yogi perceives the identity of his soul as spirit. (3) It is an experience of divine ecstasy as well as of superconscious perception; the soul perceives the entire universe. (4) In other words, human consciousness becomes one with cosmic consciousness. (5) The soul realizes that it is much more than the conditioned body. (6) Christian saints have previously described this experience as “mystical marriage,” in which the soul merges into God and becomes one with Him. (7)"</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">There are a lot of words above for the wordless state I experienced. I've tasted moments of it before. On July 30th I stayed in that deep silence until my classmates and Patrick started dancing over me to bring me back. The class was ending for the day and they needed me to 'come back'.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I would best describe the experience as perfect emptiness. Now to move into it again and again until I can live there and be awake and functioning here at the same time! I was not the first or the last to experience this state in this class. Thank you, Patrick, for opening the way for me and many others!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Om Namah Shivah!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847text yiv1307397847table-3 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="left" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv1307397847module-3 yiv1307397847text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Coming Soon ... I Hope!</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Having never published a book before, I may be exaggerating by saying it will be out soon. I'm in the editing phase and believe I've finally completed my memoir. I started writing it in 2010 and hope by the end of 2023 I'll have it self-published on Amazon. We shall see. The memoir concentrates mostly on my life between 2008 and 2015. The title, <em style="outline: none !important;">Stripped Naked and Other Songs of Love</em>, came to me in New Zealand in 2008 on my All Love/Tantra Retreat with Patrick and Natalie Zeigler. Patrick wants me to make it clear, which I believe I have in the book and now here, that he is not teaching or offering Tantra. That was Natalie's gift. I'm considering adding a subtitle: <em style="outline: none !important;">Birth of a Sacred Intimate</em>. We shall see. The first quote under the title at the very beginning of the book is from Osho:</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“Before he can come to know himself, a man has to become naked; he has to drop all his clothes. We not only wear clothes on the outside, we also wear clothes on the inside, in the mind.” ~ Osho</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I share intimate details of my life and healing journey as well as my Tantric practice; so this book will not be for everyone. In the introduction I say: "Throughout these pages I've shared many intimate sexual details. If you’re uncomfortable with explicit sexual content, much of this book is not for you. My sexual journey played a powerful role in my heart's evolution. I hope to encourage readers to let go of making sex wrong and use that powerful energy to propel you into ecstasy and the truth of your being. It's all part of the joy of being alive in this precious body!"</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I've had several people ask me over the years, 'who is your audience?' I finally can answer that question. It's people who will love the book. Maybe you will love it, maybe not. You'll have to let me know. Having finally gotten to the editing stage I have a song from YouTube I want to share to celebrate the journey! Enjoy!<br style="outline: none !important;" /><a href="https://email.cloud2.secureclick.net/c/1292?id=3368.70.1.da6555ee319398661b045c97f0ab8b83" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #597bb7; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Happy</a></p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847image yiv1307397847table-4 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847large-image-container yiv1307397847image" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important;"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv1307397847single" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv1307397847image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Class in Person September 16 2023" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4028%2F3331%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Class_in_Person_September_16_2023.jpg%3F1692133387&t=1697577383&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b0032018800&sig=U6s4aCpqzyoFV1MuzcxiGg--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847combo-right yiv1307397847table-5 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847combo-right" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 170.016px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv1307397847combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 150.016px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv1307397847image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Brazil with Patrick" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F2519%2F8346%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Brazil_with_Patrick.jpg%3F1623255537&t=1697577383&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b0032018800&sig=SUcIVjs4vk44RxJDGfJwoA--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 150.016px;" width="150" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="outline: none !important;"><span class="yiv1307397847module-5 yiv1307397847text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope you can join us this Thursday, August 17th for another All Love Zoom from 8pm to 10pm. Dive in and open your heart to feel the love that you are!<br style="outline: none !important;" />The fee is $20, and you can use Zelle via my phone number 410-598-1010 (shows my name as Sharon) or PayPal via sherrytuegel@verizon.net. Email me for the link.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">There will be no All Love in-person class this month due to vacation schedules, but I will have one on September 16th. See above. The September All Love Zoom will be on September 14th. It's usually the third Thursday of each month. Hope to see soon!</p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847full yiv1307397847combo-left yiv1307397847table-6 yiv1307397847middle" id="yiv1307397847" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none !important; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td align="center" id="yiv1307397847" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv1307397847module yiv1307397847combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1307397847module-6" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 281px;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv1307397847combo-image" style="outline: none !important; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 261px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv1307397847image-container" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><img alt="RUMI rose petals" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F3188%2F1329%2Foriginal%2FRUMI_rose_petals.jpg%3F1653430666&t=1697577383&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b0032018800&sig=sruyb.Ht.oD7drkTit1HuA--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none !important; text-indent: -9999px; width: 261px;" width="261" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv1307397847module-6 yiv1307397847text-container" style="outline: none !important;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I always love to hear from you to find out how your life is going and/or hear any reaction to what I have shared with you. Drop me an email if you have the time!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hold you in my heart sending you love, healing prayers and peace. May you and your loved ones be deeply blessed.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love and Many Sweet Blessing,<br style="outline: none !important;" />Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936spacer yiv4686960936spacer-top" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="" id="yiv4686960936" style="line-height: 30px; margin: 0px auto; min-height: 30px; outline: none; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936text yiv4686960936table-1 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="left" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span class="yiv4686960936module-1 yiv4686960936text-container" style="outline: none;"><h1 align="center" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy September, Beloveds!</h1></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936text yiv4686960936table-2 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="left" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span class="yiv4686960936module-2 yiv4686960936text-container" style="outline: none;"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I know it still is Summer out, but I wanted to share a little of the coming Fall colors above! Fall Equinox is about eleven days away on Thursday the 21st. I hope you're enjoying the longer nights and occasional cooler weather as we head into Fall. I know am!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">It has been an interesting time for me having finally finished the book and sent it to my editor. I'm adjusting to not having writing as the center of my day. Instead, I keep going over the book to see what I need to change, remove or reword. I may drive my editor crazy with my updates. Luckily, she hasn't started editing the book yet.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I enjoyed making a mockup of the book cover (sans the spine) on PowerPoint using Susan Singer's painting of me called "The Bliss of It All". Here's what I have so far. The block with the title needs to be changed using something softer. I'd love to have my book published on Amazon by the end of the year. We shall see. Let me know what you think of my cover mockup. I hope the description and cover art are enticing!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936image yiv4686960936table-3 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936large-image-container yiv4686960936image" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936module-3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv4686960936single" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv4686960936image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="Stripped Naked Cover 6" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4077%2F2236%2Foriginal%2FStripped_Naked_Cover_6.jpg%3F1694368221&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=DDFs8QOKNtZhgY4s1fOiiw--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936combo-left yiv4686960936table-4 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 142.984px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv4686960936combo-image" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 122.984px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv4686960936image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Brazil with Patrick" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F5389%2F1716%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Brazil_with_Patrick.jpg%3F1529523733&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=wAdlYV93af6gPcUr_Yjq6Q--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 122.984px;" width="123" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv4686960936module-4 yiv4686960936text-container" style="outline: none;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Upcoming Classes</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Last month I sent out the wrong date for the in-person All Love class. It's the 23rd of September not the 16th. See below. I've settled on the third Thursdays of the month for the All Love Zooms. Join me online on Thursday, September 21st at 8pm to 10pm. Here is the link:</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Zoom Meeting<br style="outline: none;" />https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184110786?pwd=SFVOSVV0d1cvUGEwTFlUeWJsdmJSQT09</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Meeting ID: 891 8411 0786<br style="outline: none;" />Passcode: 475930</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The fee is $20 and you can pay me via Zelle using my phone number, 410-598-1010 (Preferred - name shows as Sharon Tuegel) or on PayPal via my email address: sherrytuegel@verizon.net. I'd love to know ahead of time if you plan to attend. Hope to see you online or here at Sturgis! These gatherings continue to delight and amaze me!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936image yiv4686960936table-5 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936large-image-container yiv4686960936image" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv4686960936single" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv4686960936image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Class in Person September 23 2023" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4077%2F2435%2Foriginal%2FAll_Love_Class_in_Person_September_23_2023.jpg%3F1694368820&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=YvXJelomTYKk3soRcFqfEQ--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv4686960936full yiv4686960936text yiv4686960936table-6 yiv4686960936middle" id="yiv4686960936" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="left" id="yiv4686960936" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv4686960936module yiv4686960936text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span class="yiv4686960936module-6 yiv4686960936text-container" style="outline: none;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope your days are filled with love and joy as you embrace whatever challenges life brings. May you tenderly hold the part of you that sometimes suffers letting go of whatever must or needs to go. Each day I spend time remembering the eternal soul that I am. That gives me deep peace and connects me with love and a renewed strength to face the moments of my day.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I've felt a bit tired and challenged recently. I had two nights I dreamt of my brakes failing. I thought it was my anxiety over finally putting the book out, or that my brakes needed fixing, maybe both. I took the car to the mechanic, just in case, and the front brakes were completely gone. Glad I listened to my dreams!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hear the 'energies' are improving out there. I feel lighter these last few days, happily. I hope you are feeling good too! As always, I love to hear from you and what is happening in your life! Sending you my love and many sweet blessings!</p><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love Always,</p><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Sherry</p><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355full yiv8135629355text yiv8135629355table-1 yiv8135629355middle" id="yiv8135629355" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="left" id="yiv8135629355" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv8135629355module yiv8135629355text" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span class="yiv8135629355module-1 yiv8135629355text-container" style="outline: none;"><h1 align="center" style="color: #333333; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Happy October, Beloveds!</h1><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope you are enjoying the beginning of Fall with its variable weather and the days getting shorter! (More on that shortly.) I'm excited to report that my editor will be starting on my book very soon! Yeah! Will let you know as things progress. Speaking of exciting, last week friends and I found a leak in my basement from my dishwasher. Thank you, Kathy and Loren, for helping me clean up the mess! I had to cancel my September in-person All Love gathering and will hopefully start up again in November (October All Love Zoom will still be on the third Thursday 8pm to 10pm).</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm not sure when the basement work will be competed but hopefully by the end of this month. We shall see. My dehumidifier continues to be taking 2 gallons of water out of the room in less than 24 hours and has been doing so for over a week. Wow! Praying things will all go smoothly as the work gets going!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355full yiv8135629355image yiv8135629355table-2 yiv8135629355middle" id="yiv8135629355" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv8135629355" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px; word-break: normal;"><div class="yiv8135629355module yiv8135629355large-image-container yiv8135629355image" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355module-2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 530px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv8135629355single" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 530px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv8135629355image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="Basement photo from 9 25 2023" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4139%2F7822%2Foriginal%2FBasement_photo_from_9_25_2023.jpg%3F1696263128&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=ptVjNTMtSbv5mPz0j64dig--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 530px;" width="530" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355full yiv8135629355combo-right yiv8135629355table-3 yiv8135629355middle" id="yiv8135629355" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv8135629355" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv8135629355module yiv8135629355combo-right" dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355module-3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 319px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv8135629355combo-image" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 299px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv8135629355image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="Acorn hat Buddha with squirrel" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4140%2F7481%2Foriginal%2FAcorn_hat_Buddha_with_squirrel.jpg%3F1696277654&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=Bdg393vk9llNKIQOTbJ7BQ--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 299px;" width="299" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="outline: none;"><span class="yiv8135629355module-3 yiv8135629355text-container" style="outline: none;"><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The darker days and cooler weather coupled with my house damage made me a little squirrely recently. Today's (10/2/23) sunny warmth was a welcome change, but I must confess that I feel like a failure when my mood drops down. Apparently, I am still fully human and full of ego reactions and needs. Who knew?!? Hah!</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm longing for the feeling of complete contentment and ease I tasted recently in Patrick Zeigler's July class, along with the breakthrough into Samadhi. I keep saying I came here for the contrast, to quote Abraham-Hicks. When my contrast includes depression and fear, I begin to wonder about the ride I'm on. I start looking for an escape. My dear friend Kathy is studying Buddhism, and her example has me re-reading "When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times" by Pema Chodron. Chapter One is 'Intimacy with Fear.' Here is a quote from that chapter:</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold onto. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. - If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape."</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">And yet I keep looking for escape. So very human and fallible, I am. As I have said before, Beloveds, I'm a continuing work in progress. Completing the book has been a mixture of delight and 'what do I do now?' The book was a constant companion and ongoing purpose for over 13 years. I'm working on embracing this shift of focus with curiosity and wonder, when I'm not running from the discomfort of it. Interestingly, sharing this with you has helped smooth my ruffled feathers. (Wink Wink)</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I'd be curious to know how you are navigating the inevitable changes in your life. Drop me a note and let me know.</p></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355full yiv8135629355combo-left yiv8135629355table-4 yiv8135629355middle" id="yiv8135629355" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; outline: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td align="center" id="yiv8135629355" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 30px 20px; word-break: normal;"><div align="left" class="yiv8135629355module yiv8135629355combo-left" dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8135629355module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 278.984px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv8135629355combo-image" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 258.984px; word-break: normal;"><div align="center" class="yiv8135629355image-container" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><img alt="Rumi Invisible Joy" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.gem.godaddy.com%2Fpromotion_images%2F4140%2F8757%2Foriginal%2FRumi_Invisible_Joy.jpg%3F1696281743&t=1697576939&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cf7-4b002b018800&sig=Gqh4oPWgeQVsv5velPuwDA--~D" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 258.984px;" width="259" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="yiv8135629355module-4 yiv8135629355text-container" style="outline: none;"><h1 align="left" style="color: #333333; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Please contact me at this email, sherrytuegel@verizon.net, if you'd like the link to my October 19th All Love Zoom class. Last month was a wonderful loving gathering! Thanks everyone who joined me! The fee is $20.</p><p align="left" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">May your Fall be full of joy, visible and/or invisible, as each moment unfolds. Sending much Love and Many Blessings,</p><p align="center" style="color: #555555; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-91673826691835496142021-10-14T13:42:00.012-07:002021-10-14T13:48:49.066-07:00Beyond Breast Cancer<p>Greetings Beloveds! </p><p>It's been a while since I posted. Confronting breast cancer is one of many reasons why. On September 2nd, 2021 I had the cancer removed from my left breast. I'm lucky that it was small (6mm), slow growing and "well-behaved" and that all was removed with no questions remaining. I was one in every 8 women that get breast cancer in the US. Shocking statistics! This all has been, at times, overwhelming. I was out of it from the anesthesia for several days after my out patient 'Twilight Sleep' surgery. My incision healed well but has left me with a 3 to 4 inch scar to remind me of the day. I no longer match my early nude photos here. Lots of changes before that too, as age will do. The 'cancer medical machine' helped me and was also part of what overwhelmed me. Happily I've been lifted up by friends and loving healers that lead me to decide not to continue any treatment. None of those friends or healers told me what to do. I chose. The well-behaved nature of my cancer makes me comfortable with my decision. I know I am very lucky in the type of cancer that showed up and for that I'm deeply grateful! </p><p>This has been a pivotal experience that's made me look at my life and make a few new choices. Here's part of my October newsletter to share some of my process. Sending you love as you move through your days!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Z-L0T0c06xBm_k9Gnx0oConJbquIw21uis43DmyJjMuR6DoSrvqQTuBFMHXs6QbRfUIoqI6d_RuYfTFdjfEKs00_1miTqfcUa-Tjrxm36odlT65ginfFUGCPyiCVi9I1fKUc8-O8qo3z/s2048/IMG_1798.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Z-L0T0c06xBm_k9Gnx0oConJbquIw21uis43DmyJjMuR6DoSrvqQTuBFMHXs6QbRfUIoqI6d_RuYfTFdjfEKs00_1miTqfcUa-Tjrxm36odlT65ginfFUGCPyiCVi9I1fKUc8-O8qo3z/s320/IMG_1798.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Saying goodbye to Sofie</p><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-3 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-3 text-container"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">The Noble Victim aka Holier Than Thou</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">So I have another confession. I’ve been holding on to my victim. I really wasn’t aware of it till after my breast cancer surgery. I just thought it normal to continue grieving over my many losses and, in part, it absolutely is but there was a subtler undertone of victim lurking about in the natural grief. I’d thought that I had confronted the victim in me and let it go years ago. I was apparently deluding myself. Close friends will tell you happily that that is not unusual for me.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">After my lumpectomy, while I confronted having cancer, I realized I really don’t want to be alone. Sitting alone in the days prior to my surgery, I grieved the loss of Margie who was a wonderful constant companion. I wanted a companion, a friend and more than Margie, a partner/lover. I know now that I don’t “have to have it” but I do honestly want that special someone in my life. My litany of doubts and fears flooded out of me. I was afraid to want someone again. I didn’t know if I could handle another loss that intimate. I didn’t know if I could watch another become ill and slowly or not so slowly die. I wasn’t sure it was worth it to risk the loss. This is the complete reversal of my earlier “got to have it” drive that filled my life with longing whenever I was out of relationship and, truthfully, sometimes when I was in one. I’m relieved and proud of myself that I no longer long for someone to complete me. But somewhere along the way I may have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. My fear of loss created a barrier. My victim from those losses is keeping away any potential lover-companion.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The day of my surgery I asked my gifted friend Kathy if there was a lover in my future. She felt a prickliness inside me that was keeping away any possible connection. When I looked at what it was, I quickly recognized my victim energy. Why was I holding onto this energy? Then I remembered that when my second husband left me, I used that victimization as a moral high ground. I was somehow the noble victim. I had a self-righteous indignation and it felt good or at least I was quite comfortable using my position to get whatever needs I had filled. Not an attractive look on me, for sure. It’s hard to admit how my ‘holier than thou’ played out.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s not easy looking at this and to confess it here. Of all the losses where I ended up feeling victim to the experience, there is only one loss that causes me embarrassment or a sense of shame. That’s the loss where I feel victim to my own inadequacy. I blame myself for the loss of my beautiful home in Towson. I grieve it still but have no noble victim energy around that loss. Instead, there is the tinge of shame. I never became the millionaire I tried to attract into my life. I failed at my ‘law of attraction’. Well, I’ve failed so far. LOL!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The ‘noble victim’ does raise its head around the many deaths of loved ones over recent years. That's where most of that prickly energy resides, putting a full stop to any potential intimate partnership. Happily, my heart is still open to loving friendships. I do admit that even as those friendships deepen there is a bit of fear in the me. I watch it and let it go.</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I like to think of myself as a well-balanced openhearted individual. I’ve recently discovered, once again, that ‘it ain’t necessarily so’. My shadow is still in need of the light of consciousness. I’m choosing to, once again, let go of my victim. I love her and honor her for all that she has done trying to protect me as I enfold her in my arms and I let her go. She is a part of me that can step back now as I unlock the hidden doors in my heart. Doors I thought were open. I’m willing to suffer a great loss again. I am willing to open my heart fully, partner or no partner. And so it is.</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-left table-4 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: left !important; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 238.969px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 20px 18px 0px; width: 218.969px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="255324 328861467204585 534554630 n" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/2748/2345/original/255324_328861467204585_534554630_n.jpg?1632944222" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 218.969px;" width="219" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-4 text-container"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">A Little Osho Wisdom</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">All these waves of emotion and my recent wants and fears have once again shown how discontent I am. My busy mind is very good at finding ways to be miserable. I thought I'd share some Osho wisdom that kicked my ass:<br />"People are constantly living in discontent about everything. It is a habit. It is not that if they have more money and a better house and a better wife or a better son or a better job they will be contented - it is not that.<br />Whatsoever they have they will remain discontented. Poor, they will be discontented; rich, they will be discontented. Discontent is a habit of the mind. Mind can never be contented.<br />Once you understand this, a miracle happens; then you can put the mind aside because it is never going to give you contentment. That is not in its nature, so you are asking for the impossible. And what cannot happen, cannot happen - it is futile.<br />This has been the experience of the whole of humanity for centuries. Still, everybody tries, hoping that he is an exception - nobody is an exception. And discontentment creates misery. If you understand why you are discontented, if you don't find any excuses on the outside and you see that it is the functioning of the mind, then the functioning can be dropped.<br />The question is to see it. Don't believe it because I say it is so - you have to see it.<br />Watch your mind.<br />Look at the past. Many times you thought if you could get a certain thing you would be happy, and you got it and you were not happy. This has happened so many times but you don't learn the lesson, nobody learns the lesson. People go on landing in the same pitfalls again and again.<br />Learn that your mind is the cause of all discontentment and then there is misery and then there is hell. Drop the mind and with it all misery and all hell disappears and suddenly a revelation happens to you - your innermost core is full of bliss.<br />So, watch the mind and all its tricks that it goes on playing upon you. To have a transformation nothing else is required, only watchfulness of the mechanism of mind. And, through that understanding, things start happening of their own accord, effortlessly, quietly."<br />~Osho</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-5 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"><table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-5" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 528.984px;"><tbody><tr><td class="single" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px; width: 528.984px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="All Love Zoom Gathering Mondays" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/2519/8679/original/All_Love_Zoom_Gathering_Mondays.jpg?1623256510" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 528.984px;" width="529" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-6 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-6 text-container"><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday evenings are precious to me since beginning my All Love Zoom. The gatherings open my heart and fill me with deep peace. The sweet connection between those who gather makes my week! I hope you will join us. Drop me an email at sherrytuegel@verizon.net for the link!</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-7 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px;"><div align="left" class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-7" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; float: right !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 208.969px;"><tbody><tr><td class="combo-image" style="padding: 0px 0px 18px 20px; width: 188.969px;"><div align="center" class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="NzYzMzc3QTYyRkJCQzVGQkVGNUQ6ZDJlNDRlNjBkZjk5YWQ0MWUzOWU1MWFhMzJmYjI5NmI6Ojo6" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1220/2648/original/NzYzMzc3QTYyRkJCQzVGQkVGNUQ6ZDJlNDRlNjBkZjk5YWQ0MWUzOWU1MWFhMzJmYjI5NmI6Ojo6.?1474669504" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; width: 188.969px;" width="189" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-7 text-container"><h1 align="left" style="color: #e98715; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">In Closing</h1><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I love Abraham Hicks's question, "Are you enjoying your contrasts?" I have been riding through a bunch recently. Life is all about contrast. I'm still working with being with what is as I restart my 'meditation practice'. I have spent the last years stopping briefly and becoming present tasting momentary stillness and peace with only occasional long meditations. I intend to begin my daily sitting again to stop my "monkey mind" from its amazingly creative dramas. It amazes me how I still run away from the very thing that brings me Bliss. WTF?</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">On the embodied front, I begin a medication soon to keep cancer from returning. I'm very lucky to not have to do radiation or Chemo. I wanted to just believe it was gone for good after surgery but that isn't how cancer works, apparently. This has been hard for me to accept. Hopefully this new medication will be healthy for my body. Prayers welcome, Beloveds!</p><p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for reading my newsletter to the end and riding along with me in my ups and downs recently. I'd love to hear from you about your journeys and if any of my confessions and realizations ring a bell for you. Have a wonderful October and remember to be kind to yourself!</p><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Love and Blessings Always,<br />Sherry</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-8 last" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-8 text-container"><p align="center" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>410-598-1010</strong><br /><strong>www.body-beloved.com</strong></p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full" id="footer_wrapper" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#D71F19" class="footer" style="background-color: #d71f19; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 15px 30px; text-align: center; width: 530px;"><p align="center" style="margin: 10px 0px; unicode-bidi: embed;">©2021 Body Beloved | sherrytuegel@verizon.net</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-86331865639468787452021-07-07T12:41:00.004-07:002021-07-07T16:21:04.615-07:00Ego Egat Egolly<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Self Consumed - </span></b> July 7, 2021</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I’ve spent my life self-consumed, I’m sad to say. I never
was very interested in service or volunteer work. In the 1970s a friend said to
me that the ‘yoke’ had walked away. She was referring to the women who had gone
to work and no longer volunteered their services. These women had been the yoke
that held society together through their volunteer service. After that conversation
I frowned upon offering work for free, even though I seldom volunteered prior
to that conversation. I wanted to be valued as men were valued and paid for
their work. It made me suspicious of organizations that expected volunteerism. Most
were run by men who benefited financially and emotionally from the care of
their volunteers who were, indeed, mostly women.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Now, late in life, I’ve begun to value service. As I look
back on my life, I’m seeing a selfish self-absorbed individual. I’m part amused
and part ashamed of the values I carried in my younger years. I was fully enmeshed
in the consumer culture and bought into the ideas of winning by making a lot of
money. From the part of me that felt inferior I had an “I’ll show them” attitude.
I never did. I thought I was definitely out to win and at the same time I was a
lazy maverick, quite comfortable with B and C grades. It was more important for
me to have fun then to study and work hard. I have a big lazy streak along with
a deep desire for pleasure. Food and sex rank high on my list but above all
friendship and good conversation. </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";">I was </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">raised</span><span data-offset-key="b2qto-2-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"> by a proper Southern woman. You were to dress and act in a polite socially acceptable manner. Wearing overalls and no bra in front of my grandparents was not acceptable but, of course, in the 70s I did. Part of me has totally accepted the cultural conditioning I was raised in. I have a very functional super ego. The other part of me, the maverick, disdains my conditioning. My super ego wasn't embedded with much drive for volunteerism, however. I don’t remember my parents encouraging me to volunteer other than once or twice for our Quaker Meeting’s yard sale. Maybe it just fell on deaf ears.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Now, at this late age, I hope to be of better service and
be less self-absorbed. As always, I’m a work in progress. It’s not that I haven’t
offered support and assistance of some kind over the years. I just wish I had
been more aware of what I could have offered and had not been so busy trying to
mimicking Martha Stewart. For example, in the early 1990s I had a beautiful
wedding and have the pictures to prove it. I loved being fussed over by my
bridesmaids before the service. It may have been my favorite part of the
wedding. I did my best to make Martha Stewart proud that day. During the event my
father had to wear a wool tuxedo. He did so even though he was terribly
allergic to wool. I glimpsed the suffering on his face when he asked to change
before the pictures were taken. Add to that my mother’s Alzheimer’s kept my
family on high alert, making sure she was okay. I look back at the selfishness
of that day now and sometimes weep. “I’m
so sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.” </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It’s as if I have lived many lives and most of the time I’ve
sung the “me me me” song. Sometime in the early 80s I wrote this little poem
that I recite to myself on occasion:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Ego…Egat…Egolly,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’m stuck on a self-possessed
trolley.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’d get off the train,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">but it feels such a strain,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">and leaving seems such a great
folly. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><p>I think I’m ready to get off the train! Please let me know if you see me taking
another ride. I'm sure I will.</p>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-54559841046733968482021-06-24T13:50:00.000-07:002021-06-24T13:50:07.894-07:00<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Greetings Beloveds after many moons have passed!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In my recent newsletter I made a confession and wanted to share it here. <span style="background-color: white; color: #3a352a;">I was talking recently to a beloved friend who was very worried about her ailing dad. I encouraged her to let the worry go even though I’ve spent most of my life worrying. Yes, I’m a champion worrier and came by it honest, following in the footsteps of my grandmother and mom. As someone said, ‘my life is full of tragedies that never happened’. I’m tired of the ghosts of possible tragedies stealing the light of my present moment. The lead character in the movie 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' tells his friend not to worry as they confront one of the Beasts. His friend asks if there is any danger as he is being donned with protective gear. The lead replies, 'yes there's danger, but why suffer twice? So I’m turning over a new leaf and working on worrying less. When I catch myself feeling anxious about what might happen, I stop and remember that I’m imagining and fearing an illusion. I breathe deeply into the now and let it go. My life has a lot more peace and ease these days.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #3a352a; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Speaking of worry and danger, Osho, the amazing rascal guru, has a book called <strong>Courage, The Joy of Living Dangerously</strong>. He says the more we try to be safe the more we're trying to be dead. Life is unsafe, only death is safe since then the fear of pain and death is gone. It's a radical but honest view. Somehow I believed that worry would make me safer. It didn't. It only made me more miserable. So, wish me well on my new 'leaf' and if you catch me worrying point it out so I can let it go!</span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #3a352a; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Love to you! </span></p>Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-85419341169323578572018-04-26T13:06:00.000-07:002018-04-26T13:07:03.739-07:00The Gift of a Glance<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I could give you anything I'd give you love so deep
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in peace and joy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This love and freedom does
not require anything of you, nor do I need to give it to you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It remains hidden in all of us waiting for a
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love you,
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Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-47920177215908363582018-03-25T10:32:00.000-07:002018-04-26T13:07:40.612-07:00Holding My Shadow Gently<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Holding
My Shadow Gently</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I'm
holding my shadow gently as I birth into each new moment. Watching
gratitude rise up as victim quiets. Each day calls me to its
newness. The habits of my life recreate sameness; some comforting, some not.
I'm a creature of comfort and habit looking for something new and
exciting. That paradox is not missed here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yesterday
was my first All Love class since before Margi died in early December. It
was a very small gathering of beautiful souls, just 3 of us, but it was deep
and full of Love. I'm so grateful for this amazing gift of All
Love. Thankful to its founder, my rascally friend and teacher Patrick
Zeigler for gifting me with this energy to share! I thank him for his
dear friendship and his playful poignant jabs at my delusions and mind
games. He's less available to me these days as he becomes so busy
teaching around the world. That sucks! And there's that unhappy
victim again. Oh well. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Life/Spirit
seems to be giving me challenges with the theme of lost loved ones. This
earth life is all about that kind of challenge. Close intimate
friendships and love have always been central to my well being and joy of
living. Aging inevitably brings this challenge forward. And that
just sucks! There's my less than mature response. It's an honest
but guarded and somewhat flippant response as I hide the broken heart residing
here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">So I'm
rebuilding my life again without my constant companion friend Margi. We
spent so much time together and had so many wonderful comforting (not always
healthy) habits we shared. I'm angry and I'm also excited about what will
open in my life through this change. I missed my chance to reconnect with
my Quaker community today, something I didn't even consider before Margi's
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more quiet Sundays with Margi waking
up on my couch and getting up to bring me my cup of coffee I brewed for
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no more Sunday lunches out
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was our constant weekend
ritual filled with laughter and movie watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing like a friend who loves to make you laugh! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The quiet
in my life is astounding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great
opportunity for re-establishing my sitting meditation practice that has fallen to
brief moments of presence throughout my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As my heart longs for the comfort of loved ones lost I'm curious at what
rises in my life now and look forward to what life/Spirit will bring in next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming back to now as I write this, now as I
watch the words appear on the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
only have now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the now that dances
in my mind with dear memories of the past or joyful plans of building my future
with love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is my journey for now
Beloveds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is rising up in your
beautiful life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sending love to you as
we all stumble or dance onward into the ever present now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you! </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grief and Failure
Musings - March 19, 2018</b></div>
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I am tired of my grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tired of my failures.</div>
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Tired of my stories of loss!</div>
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I long for love that lifts me up and soothes the broken
pieces of me.</div>
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I'm lost in my foolishness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Embarrassed at my inadequacy and not being good enough.</div>
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Enough!</div>
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Not enough!</div>
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Tired of believing I'm not good enough!</div>
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Enough!</div>
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That's enough!</div>
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And so it is!</div>
Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-18191706799788728042018-02-19T15:46:00.000-08:002018-03-25T08:57:51.533-07:00Greetings Beloveds,<br />
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Many things have transpired since I last posted here. I plan to be more present on this blog soon but for now here are links to several of my newsletters to update you on recent happenings in my life. <br />
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<a href="https://gem.godaddy.com/p/160ebb">https://gem.godaddy.com/p/160ebb</a><br />
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Decided to update and include the most of the above newsletter here:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Coming out from
under the bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>February 19, 2018
Newsletter</b></div>
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Greetings Beloveds!</div>
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I'm finally emerging from hiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've been in a state of overwhelm with the
recent changes in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Margi's
death took time to fully impact me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the beginning I was in a state of shock and grace all at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt her intimately close to me in spirit
for the first few weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was with me
even closer than before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can still
connect with her but she is not so powerfully close now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I so miss her gentle easy presence in my
daily life and her way of seeing situations from so many angles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She credited that talent to her Piscean
nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss you and love you Margi!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rock on in spirit!</div>
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I've been avoiding teaching All Love classes for the last
couple months because of all the feelings inside me needing to get out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The classes allow participants to open to
their hidden or pushed down feelings in a safe and supportive environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They open us to healing and releasing whatever
arises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that I would go into a
healing if I was to try to lead the class and that's not my role as
teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I hid "under the
bed" for a while letting my grief process unfold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So many times I found myself in a painful and
uncomfortable state through the grief and the fear accompanying it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's a part of me that doesn't fear death
but sees it as a delicious release from limitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do fear being incapacitated and
becoming a burden to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death
of someone close brings all these things to the forefront.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I felt the pain and fears I tried to
run from them, unsuccessfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to
remember what I teach my clients and students; to embrace the feelings no
matter how uncomfortable they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treat
them like your crying children and embrace them with love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The quicker I did this practice the quicker
the feeling would ease and let go into the next moment of experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It really is true that what we resist persists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Embracing the feelings is an act of self
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding a safe space to fully feel
and even safely act out the feelings is life changing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key is safe and supportive space either alone
or with someone that can hold you and witness with love without taking anything
personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've had the grace of
having healers and friends that could hold me and guide me to the center of my
pain and fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much was released and
so much light began to shine through afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was told to look in the mirror after a
session and I could see the lightness shining in my own eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I hope my sharing is helpful for your journey. These sad
and challenging times call on us to respond to the world and ourselves with
love and compassion, not fear and malice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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rage and fear along to others is crux of our problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feelings come and go quickly unless our
minds begin to obsess over them or we are chemically imbalanced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've been though both obsession and
imbalance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm an on-going work in
process as I let go, embrace myself lovingly and let the 'peace of being' arise
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm happy to say I've
done enough work that I'm ready to teach again now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'll be offering an All Love class on
Saturday afternoon, March 10th from 3pm to 6pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hopefully we will have weather that doesn't interfere by then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost is $35 and I offer discounts to
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From my heart to your heart, much love and many sweet blessings
to you!</div>
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Sherry</div>
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We're facing very challenging times in the world these days and our personal lives continue to present many challenges too. I hope you are navigating these times with love and compassion.<br />
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SherrySherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-9657039725082480212017-06-08T15:30:00.001-07:002017-06-08T15:45:16.694-07:00Happy June 2017 BelovedsHappy June 2017 Beloveds!<br />
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Much has happened in the many months since I posted my last newsletter. I'm now living happily in Pikesville, MD where I've begun to build my own small forest out back. I do miss my amazing trees at Cowpens Avenue and the fabulous garden and trees out back at my rental in Timonium. I'm getting used to having houses all around me here. The spring has hidden a few, happily, and in a few years my new Green Giant Arborvitae will block the view of the house and road out back.<br />
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Here's a photo of me from this past December on the day I purchased the house.<br />
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After many months renovation and a long moving in period I do feel settled now. I'm enjoying teaching All Love classes regularly and seeing my many wonderful clients here. Patrick Zeigler, the Founder of All Love, will be in the area this June and July again. I always enjoy reconnecting with him and diving deep in his classes. Check out my newsletter below for dates and more musings. <a href="https://gem.godaddy.com/s/7f104a" style="color: #0000ee;" target=""><b><span style="font-size: 24px;">https://gem.godaddy.com/s/7f104a</span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have a delightful and full June into July planned and the challenge of knee replacement to look forward to soon! I suppose most of us don't look forward to surgery and I'm no different. Prayers are welcome. Getting older certainly is a challenge especially for a big bodied woman. The more aging happens to this body, the more challenge I have in accepting my body with love. Recently I blurted out to a friend: "Body Beloved my fat saggy old ass!" Oops! I was laughing and kidding and not kidding at all. Challenged by my own teaching and feeling like a fraud adds a nice twist to this story. I find it a bit amusing when I'm not grousing about the reality of it all. Not just the reality of aging but more my rejection and lack of love for myself in this body. I do know better. The old 'do what I say and not what I do' approach has flown up in my face. Ugh!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The inside job for me now is to come back to the love that needs no outside reinforcement to exist, love of myself and this body unconditionally. I want to love all parts of me, even the part that wants to reject me in this body. I need to let loving kindness arise for myself and for everyone else too. Especially these days!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">So have you ever had your own methodologies and teachings fly in your face? How have you handled those embarrassing moments? I could just not tell you about them and keep them secret but if you know me well, you know that doesn't work for me. I may fool myself sometimes and create fiction in my head about what is going on. I'll tell you those stories when I believe them but I'll tell you when they fall down too. My middle name has often been 'Chagrin'. ;)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of my favorite quotes I got from my dear friend June: "Stumble on rejoicing." So here I go again! I have to add, 'stumble on rejoicing or bitching as the case may be.' For a while the truth of all this wasn't funny and sometimes I still lose my sense of humor about aging. Today I feel at peace with it, even as I limp to the bathroom hoping I'll make it in time. LOL! On that hopefully funny but truthful note I will close. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">I love you! 💕</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I love me too, fat saggy old ass and all! 😉 💗</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rose of Sharon nearby as a few red roses decorate the bush by my
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">glittering like diamonds. Breathing in this beautiful moment! I hope
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the end of August. He was one of my Tantra teachers, a Tantric lover and a dear
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gifted soul he was. His epilepsy took his life as he had often feared it </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Krishna taught me to savor life, to slow down and really enjoy
each precious moment in all its splendor. He taught me how to be present with
the energy of our bodies and the energy of the foods we put in them. I learned
how to eat a blueberry properly. How you may ask? Well, you first select the
perfect washed berry. Then gaze at it in your hand, smell it, feel it's
texture. You gently put it on your tongue or, better yet, have your lover
place it in on your tongue. Feel it inside your mouth with your eyes closed.
Begin to roll it around gently feeling the shape and texture of the berry's
skin against your tongue and mouth. After the berry is warmed and softened
you slowly press it with your tongue until the berry splits and the sweet
juice pours out. Play with the texture of the split berry a bit before you
begin to chew it slowly. Savor each change of the fruit as you are nourished
by its offering to you. If there is a seed, bite down on it and see if you
can feel the energy of the seed explode in your mouth. That's how to eat a
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">One of my favorite memories of Krishna is from a dinner out at
an area restaurant. He consciously poured over the menu, finally selecting a
Cobb salad. Here's the photo of him deliberating over the menu.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">When the meal came he savored each bite as he combined
different flavors together and then, beaming and grinning, fed me each of his
delicious creations. Thank you, Beloved, for coming into my life. It is
indeed much richer filled with memories of your deep silence, ecstatic
chanting and sacred Tantric gifts. You will live in my heart forever. I look
forward to your visits from spirit!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">So many changes move through our lives! Fall is a great reminder of letting go with
change. I work to fully feel each changing moment while letting them go. Our
emotions well up to be embraced and felt fully. If we do fully feel them and
can be present with their depth they usually subside like a wave in the
water. See them as your children and hold them, comfort them, receive them.
You'll be amazed how quickly they transition into peace or even joy when you
do this. Our minds can become the trickster in the mix. It puts things on
replay, often because we push away or rejected the truth of what is or has
happened. See what happens when you embrace 'what is' like you would embrace
a crying child needing your comfort. Let me know what happens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a352a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">I'm sending much love
and many blessings your way as you and I move through the many changes
here now and ahead of us.<br />
I love you!
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Sherry </span></div>
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Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-68257157644208210362016-08-13T12:14:00.000-07:002016-08-13T13:15:29.926-07:00My Shadow Story<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My Shadow Story</span></b></div>
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Wrestling with my shadow...my failures, my laziness, my
resistance to change and the truth of now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trying to buy a new place and realizing my limitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angry and resentful at my circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Victim is rising up big time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angry victim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hello Beloved Ego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here you are
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you!</div>
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Sometimes it's the smallest things that trigger me and
sometimes it's about taxes. (LOL!) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've
resisted doing 2015 taxes for the usual "I don't wanna" reasons to
the underlying pain of not doing them in my beautiful old dining room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grief rises up and I'm angry at myself for
not still living there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angry victim
still visiting today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forgot where the
2014 tax papers were and looked in the wrong spot were all the other taxes are
stored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked spirit to help and immediately
remembered where I put them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a
lovely gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More of that help seems to
be showing up these days! </div>
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Then I watched myself angrily respond to a Facebook Papaji
message about dropping the illusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>FUCK illusion!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shit is
real!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My angry child is feeling cornered
and terrified. </div>
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"You want to kill me off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You hate me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hate you too!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>says my
ego.</div>
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I respond;.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I'm so sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
forgive me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure if that helped.</div>
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Oh my!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd like to
have less misery and still enjoy my emotions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still enjoy all of this human ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's been a challenging and miserable one recently.</div>
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I've watched myself be angry about toilet paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repeatedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such an important topic, toilet paper, to be upset about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they think we don't notice that the rolls
are not as wide and the center hole is wider?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss gallons of ice
cream too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OY!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These important issues I'm upset about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LOL!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It does distract me from the ugly election and rising shadow of racism
in this country, not to mention the horrifying violence in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I prefer to be upset about toilet
paper.</div>
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It's been a long time since I posted on this blog so let
me catch you up on the many changes in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sold my beautiful big home on Cowpens and rented a little Timonium
rancher. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me begin with the shadow
side of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm still grieving
the loss of that beautiful home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
feels like so many losses in the last year and a half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Losing Beloved Malcolm, letting go of my
house and losing the trust in a good friend all beat me down and bit me in the
ass. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most recently <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a month long flu weaken me greatly and added
to the physical limitation of this body. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ego field day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Misery central. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Letting go of the
comfort of that home has taken a part of my pride away. It was just the way I
liked it and had created it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It showed
off the prosperity and heritage that I had come from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gone
now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, how the mighty Sherry has
fallen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt Kahn told me humility was my life's
theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seems I'm getting some big
lessons in humility right now if I can stay out of the pity victim party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may not seem so arrogant on the outside (I
hope) but inside my head I'm an arrogant bitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I catch myself and just roll my eyes; "Really Sherry?!?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I'm always thinking I know when the real truth is I know
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I congratulate myself on the
wisdom of not knowing, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LOL!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still I have this underlying
sense I really know, that I've lived so many lives and am this wise old soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My thinking I know so
much has been a great opening for naive gullibility. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've started to catch myself and ask if I
really know that is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you
Byron Katie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This lesson in humility has brought shadow feelings to
the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've told myself many
stories of disaster and ending. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm
such a failure. I've failed at everything." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"My life is over and I've failed." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm not good enough to teach."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"What the fuck do I know."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh,
that's right, nothing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Part of me wants to run and hide or hide this from you as
I write it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This big shadow journey has really sucked! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to also give myself some credit for
surviving all these changes and watching the rise and fall of thoughts and emotions
around all of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a ride!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, hopefully, things are turning around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably wouldn't be writing if they
weren't turning around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm finally over
the long lasting virus and getting back to swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body already feels stronger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've
started to teach again and that feels great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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There are other stories of triumph though the last months
that I've left out because I've been in the half empty glass story here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact I did successfully move after 18
years all my possessions from one place to another and weed out so many is a
big success story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My many loving
friends helped me and supported me through the move and I am incredibly
grateful for all they did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm so very
blessed! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although not entirely out of debt I am in a
much better place and living more affordably now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Losing Malcolm has opened me for another intimate
love to come into my life as I let myself grieve, cry, let go and then laugh
and move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The loss of trust in my
friend made me take more responsibility and stand up more on my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When things have been very dark I've
remembered "this too shall pass" and found support and love when
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So my life is not over and I'm not such a failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I've failed for sure and will again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I have also succeeded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've had so many loving friends and students
remind me that I am worthy and good enough. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've received <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautiful praise from many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arrogant one in me is looking down on me
for needing that recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Fuck off,
oh great arrogant one.' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful,
very grateful for the love and support of the Beloved Other!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This move gave me permission to stop for a while and
assess what I'm doing with this life of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good news/bad news obviously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm
happy to be coming into the half (or more)full feeling now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've started teaching again and will be
posting upcoming classes on my Meetup <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Body-Beloved-A-Tantric-Journey/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">www.meetup.com/Body-Beloved-A-Tantric-Journey/</i></a>and
on my newly redesigned website: <a href="http://www.body-beloved.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">www.body-beloved.com</i></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would love to hear what you think of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feedback is welcome!</div>
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I am interested in how your shadow is treating you these
days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you sitting with the darkness
and having a contemplative cup of tea or running and hiding from it with Ben
and Jerry's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little of both like
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you open your arms to the
discomfort and love that shadow part of you even though it is stinky and bad
mannered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you figured out a way to
cast out the shadow?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it come back
anyway?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mine usually does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I send deep love to you and to your shadow as we grow and
learn how to live these challenging lives!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-12854198670530871162015-04-03T15:18:00.000-07:002015-04-03T15:20:45.103-07:00As I heal through this grief and open to a state of more ease, Rumi speaks well of how I'm unfolding or enfolding...<br />
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<i>Learn
the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles
you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar
comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags
of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That
undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness
that comes after grief.</i><br />
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<i> The hurt you embrace becomes joy. Call it
to your arms where it can change. A silkworm eating leaves makes a
cocoon. Each of us weaves a chamber of leaves and sticks. Silkworms
begin to truly exist as they disappear inside that room. Without legs we
fly. When I stop speaking, this poem will close and open its silent
wings. </i> ~ Rumi<br />
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Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-80667458301250572642015-03-22T18:48:00.000-07:002015-04-14T14:04:24.863-07:00Grieving Malcolm 3/18/2015<br />
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Voicing my grief, from sighs to moaning to crying and howling. Letting it all out.<br />
Why did you have to leave us Beloved?<br />
Never to touch that beautiful laughing face again..<br />
the warmth of your skin against mine..<br />
the irresistible erotic fire that exploded between us<br />
the power of you thrusting body<br />
such sexual ecstasy and laughter in bed... 'Ssssmith'<br />
Howl!<br />
You were suppose to come back!!! Damn you! I don't really mean that...you were damned enough here.<br />
I wish I could have recorded some of the passionate things you said to me. They took my breath away and slipped from memory almost immediately...<br />
but the impact of the passion inside the words remains.<br />
EROS<br />
How could Thanatos win?<br />
It always does sooner or later...why not much later?!<br />
I would have run from the dysfunction again. The drugs and the meanness that rose up in our last round together. I feared the erotic draw would pull me back into the consuming drama of your addictions. <br />
No worries now.<br />
Just grief.<br />
I love you.<br />
I miss you!<br />
I miss the vessel that held your amazing soul!<br />
Howl!<br />
Yes...I know the spirit is near me<br />
you're safe to be near me now.<br />
tears to laughter<br />
oh..my head hurts now.<br />
LOL<br />
My Immortal Pan is dead...how can that be!?!<br />
How can that be?<br />
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3/18/15<br />
In a text responding to 'hang on to the good memories Sherry and try to let go of the sadness' I wrote back:<br />
I'm one of those 'embrace it all' kinda girls...rollin with all of it but workin on clinging to none...one moment at a time! What a ride!!!<br />
Malcolm left me with lots of good and a number of bad memories. I learned from all of it. His loss is the last teaching...unless he has some to share from spirit...likely!<br />
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I told Malcolm back in 2011 that I had come back only after deciding that I could watch him die. It was a choice to be involved in the drama of his damaged and creative life. I do not regret it at all. <br />
I love you, my Beloved Malcolm!Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-82726015687250973752015-02-26T13:26:00.000-08:002015-04-14T14:03:01.750-07:00Nude Photos, Oh My!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wrote this post about a week before I got a message from Blogger that they had changed policies and any nude photo they felt was not artistic would shut down my blog. They said my blog was targeted as a possible violator of their new policy. I had one nude of myself in a recent post. Instead of fighting about its artistic value I removed it. Timing is interesting. Now it may be time to find another blog host that is more liberal with their policies.</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suggestions are welcome!</span></span></i><br />
<b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just an update...shortly after I posted this Blogger changed their minds. So I now have included one of my favorite nudes for you. </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hurray! </span></span></i></b></div>
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Having gone from my 20's Hippie nudist freedom, to in my early 50's being afraid to put a picture of my face on a real estate business card, to now having nude pictures of myself on my website, I've run the gamut of responses to exposure or nudity. Growing up in the 1950s I still catch myself judging people who want to be nude. New students often ask me if my Tantra classes are in the nude. I hear fear in the women's voices and desire in the men's voices. I immediately assume the men that ask are 'up to no good.' Why? I'm programmed that way. Sex and bodies have been made wrong for so long we have strange perverted reactions to it. I interpret the men's desire to being nude as a desire to leer or grope nude women. I'm troubled by men's erotic desire that only involves their genitals and not their hearts, normal and even healthy as that may be. Certainly some of this discomfort is appropriate in a society that has such a high degree of sexual assault and abuse. What would our world look like if we had never made consenting sex wrong? I can't even imagine. Meanwhile I continue to be challenged by some of the nudity questions about my class offerings. This could be because the first thing you see on my website is a beautiful nude painting of your truly by Susan Singer. Yeah...that could do it. LOL! Check out Susan's amazing work at susansinger.com. See if you can find all 4 paintings of me. ;)<br />
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I've mostly gotten positive responses about my nude painting and photos on my site but occasionally I get a rather nasty response. Why am I putting myself out there nude, you may wonder. I'm a very large older woman and have been shamed about my size since I was normal sized in my teens. Twiggy was 'in' then. I've felt shamed by Hollywood stereotypes to spiritual teachers; all making me wrong that I have this large body. Now I feel at home, loving and fully accepting of this body even in the face of some attempts to shame me. I'd still like to be smaller for health reasons but having put myself out there nude at the age of 58 (I'm now 64) I've healed a part of myself. Both women and men who struggle with being large have told me my example has helped them as well. The beautiful large painting of me at the top of my website called 'The Bliss of It All' was on display in Susan's show 'Sacred Flesh' in a downtown Richmond, Virgina gallery. The owner of the gallery told me a large woman had come in and burst into tears seeing the painting. She'd never seen such a beautiful representation of a large woman before. She was overwhelmed with gratitude. This story is one reason why my business is named Body Beloved. Teaching others to accept all of who you are in this precious temporary vessel is a joy of mine. I want to pass on the love, comfort and awareness I've finally found.<br />
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So what is your reaction to seeing aging sagging nude bodies and/or large obese ones? With me you can combine those two things. It's rare to have a sexual response to those nude bodies...or so I thought until I posted my photos. I was surprised by the positive and erotic reactions they received. I confess I did post the less wrinkly ones! It seems many folks have an aversion to such a sight. Maybe they fear their own aging and mortality or fear weight gain when seeing the realities of large and/or aging nudes. God knows you'll likely be shamed by some friend, family member, or doctor if you do gain weight. Just watch an average evening of TV, like one of my favorite programs, The Big Bang Theory. Think of all the jokes around aging and large bodies. Welcome to social programming 101!<br />
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This programming makes us unkind and unaccepting of our aging or large bodies. Aging is inevitable even with plastic surgery attempting to hide it and obesity is more and more prevalent here in the US. I'm not a proponent of gaining or holding excess weight! I do challenge what the definition of excess is. Healthy weight is different for all of us. I'm nowhere near a healthy weight as I continue to struggle with letting go of things like processed sugars and white flour products. I feel the consequences of holding this much weight in an aging body and they are not pleasant. Yet in the midst of that challenge and failure I continue to love myself. I spend more and more time at ease and in joy just as I am. Hallelujah! <br />
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Learning to unconditionally love yourself as you are now is the first step to health and well being. Self loathing only deepens whatever disease or dis - ease you have. Love yourself and take the next loving healthy step. If you fail, love the one that failed and begin again. The love you give yourself and allow in from the Divine will lift you up to the place you've always wanted. It's the place you thought you could only achieve through something outside of yourself. Nothing outside is necessary. You truly are that which you are seeking. Find some quiet and stillness and see for yourself. You are the love and joy you seek. Such a curious species we are, playing hide and go seek with ourselves! What will we think of next? Oh my! <br />
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Thanks for spending time with me reading my blog. I'd love to hear your feeling and thoughts! Sending you my love! <br />
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Greetings Beloveds.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I submitted this article for the on-line magazine</span> <b><u>On the Path</u></b> <u><b>Holiday Edition</b></u>'s </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">November/December 2014 Sex and Sensuality Column. See it on line here at: </span></span>http://joom.ag/LjAb</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the past 6 years I've learned practices to
ignite and enliven my life through my study of Tantra. Tantra is an ancient
spiritual practice embracing all of life as Divine unfolding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It teaches that each element of our lives can
be used to awaken to our True Nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There seem to be many Tantric paths and traditions stemming from Hindu
and Buddhist origins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All have the
primary practice of White Tantra, the meditation practices, as well as Red
Tantra, sexual practices, to help us awaken. In both Red and White Tantra conscious
breathing and breath practices are central. Many associate Tantra primarily
with sexuality due to Hollywood references and some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Neo-Tantra</i> traditions developed through a teacher named Osho in the
last 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red Tantra practices
deepen and extend the sexual experience as it raises you into Bliss, opening
the door to Enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike most
spiritual traditions, Tantra fully embraces our sexual natures and uses them to
open our bodies and minds to Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While Red Tantra practices are just one very small
part of the huge body of Tantra, they are often over emphasized<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>due to our curiosity and preoccupation with
sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This preoccupation is the result of
centuries of societies and religions making sex wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was part of the sexual revolution of the 1960s/70s
and it's refreshing to have a spiritual practice fully embrace sexuality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blending my sexual and spiritual nature has
been truly liberating for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
the rituals and practices offered in Tantra transform sex into worship infusing
the experience with the sacred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also
brings consciousness to our erotic and wild animal nature. Most if not all Red
Tantra practices can be done solo through self pleasure and/or energy meditations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Focusing on the 5th Chakra for this issue, I want to
share some Tantric practices related to the voice and throat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self expression, communication and creativity
are linked to this chakra and all of these qualities relate to a healthy
sensual/sexual expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding and
speaking your truth is key to a healthy 5th Chakra and a healthy sex life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to unmask and become vulnerable to
experience real intimacy and deep sexual pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through speaking the truth of what we need
and desire sensually and sexually we not only free ourselves, we free our
lovers to do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So much shame has been built around our sensual and
sexual natures that you may need to practice speaking your needs out loud alone
first and then share them with your lover(s).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I realized I was so afraid to hear 'no' to my sexual needs that I just never
asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously my needs never got met.
I robbed myself and my partners the opportunity to please me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After an event where we practiced saying and
hearing both 'yes' and 'no' to requests, I was willing and able to ask for what
I wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was not afraid to hear
no...or yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intimate Communication is
key to a deep and successful sexual life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Learning to ask for what you want and describe in detail the kind of touch
you like will add to your intimate interaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm someone who loves my sexual connection to just flow without words
but adding clarity through direct, kind and clear communication has deepened my
delight and certainly increased my pleasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here's something you can try that's very healing and
enlivening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tantric practices use sound
to stimulate vibration in the body and open the body/mind to deeper
consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toning and vocalizing
your pleasure adds spice and delight to your sexual connection. Experiment with
different sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One practice is to
tone directly into your partner's Chakras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Experiment and find out what tone awakens and arouses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do try the tone associated with each Chakra.
They are, from the 1st to the 7th: Lam, Vam, Ram, Yam, Ham, Sham, Om.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They're pronounced Lum, Vum, Rum, Yum, Hum,
Sham, OM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YouTube has several examples
you can listen to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have some fun trying
new things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they say, 'if you always
do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always gotten.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With all of these practices, using conscious
breathing will deepen your presence in the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experiment with the way you breathe through
your intimate encounters and throughout your everyday routines. These Tantric
practices are life changing and can lead you to Bliss!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May you enjoy deepening your intimate
communion with them. If you intend it, your experiment may open the doors to your
True Self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much Love to you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Namaste!</span></div>
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<br />Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-72460645116237605772014-09-20T10:13:00.000-07:002014-09-20T17:31:24.577-07:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Birth of Body Beloved</span></b><br />
What happens when you fully love and accept yourself just as you are, no change necessary? I believe it's the birth of real happiness. You begin to fall in love with yourself and open a door to unconditional love for yourself and others. To really love others without co-dependent need we have to learn to love ourselves unconditionally first. This doesn't mean you never make healthy changes. It doesn't mean you don't evolve. You just love all of you just as you are now, fully accepting your amazing evolving imperfect self. What has this to do with sex and sensuality? Everything!<br />
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Let me share my own story as the example. I've gone from defining myself as an overweight, over the hill, lonely divorcee to seeing myself as a large beautiful sexy 63 year old Goddess. Up until 6 years ago I had believed all the social programming that I was too fat to be attractive. My size 12 body in high school wasn't perfect enough to match Barbie or the 1960's icon Twiggy. I was surrounded by popular beauty queen/cheer leaders in my family that added to my belief that I and my body were 'not good enough'. I also believed I was 'nothing without a man' and spent many years desperately and unsuccessfully seeking a partner to fill the 'not enough' emptiness in me. After my 2nd divorce at the age of 52, I weighed over 270 pounds and believed no one would ever love me or want me again. Luckily I was wrong, very very wrong!<br />
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Had I continued to believe I wasn't good enough and needed a man I'd likely have made that negative belief true. Happily, that got turned around. I'd begun a serious healing journey after a deep depression set in the year after both my parents died. That reignited my spiritual path and led me to the teachings that changed my life. I learned about Tantra. Tantra is a spiritual path that sees all of manifestation as the Divine unfolding. It teaches you to drop shame, let go of right and wrong judgments and accept what is. It teaches you to question everything and find out for yourself what is truth instead of accepting what you're told. It's based in the loving heart, the path I've been drawn to all my life. I found wonderful teachers and healers that helped me love myself, love my own heart and drop the stories that kept me from seeing what a sexy sensual woman I am. Tantra helped me fully embrace all of me, the light and the dark. It welcomed my sensual sexual side as natural and taught me it is one doorway into Divine Awakening. Most religions and governments have made most sex wrong stealing away our most natural form of pleasure and happiness. Tantra embraces and uses this pleasure to access the Divine that dwells within us. <br />
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So I stopped making myself wrong. I embraced all of me and this turned my desperate loneliness into enjoyable alone time. I've drawn amazing, delightful and challenging relationships to me as I allowed my sensuality and sexuality be free to express itself. I've been told by one young (cougar alert) very sexy Tantric lover that my laughter and lack of pretense makes me a great lover. It's been such a delight to be able to fully awaken my 'original' loving self; the self that existed before outside judgment imposed stories of limitation. I've even learned to accept and hold my dark unloving side, my deep and real imperfections. <br />
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Loving and enjoying who you are is one of the sexist things you can do. It can create a magnetic draw to you. Once you love yourself and enjoy your own company you turn loneliness into enjoyable aloneness. When you're no longer desperate for "the other" you start to attract more loving and interesting people into your life. The amazing thing about becoming desirable to partners was the simplicity of the change. It only took my dropping the story to change everything. No matter what age you are you can learn to let go of shame and judgment and begin a journey to open your heart to yourself. You can choose to embrace and love your body in whatever shape it's in. I even recommend talking to your body as a loving partner, make friends with it! That open heart and embrace of 'what is' will call in your natural sensual sexual self and, if I am any example, will become a magnet to call in the relationship(s) you long for, the best of which is the one with yourself! <br />
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I hope you go ahead and open this door of delight, the delight of being in and accepting your body just as it is. Sending love to you as you enjoy the journey! <br />
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Published in September/October <b>On the Path Magazine</b><br />
http://www.pathways-belair.com/On-The-Path-Magazine.htmlSherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-68738852150796556262014-09-18T10:10:00.000-07:002014-09-18T10:10:25.261-07:00Sharing my Matt Kahn Retreat experience here as I posted on the True Divine Nature Community Facebook page: <br />
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My Beloved True Divine Nature Community,<br />I have a confession, Beloveds. I had a very hard time at the retreat. Wednesday night, the first night, I was livid after the "no experience" teaching. As I drove back to the Hotel with 3 others, who were raving about the teaching, I said from the back seat that if they wanted to hear a dissenting voice I was a F*ck No! What I heard Matt say again and again was "I felt nothing". I was furious. I come into body to feel and to experience. I have eternities to be dead and out of body. I feel my place there and have been there so many times. I remember it and connect with it when I get lost here in the pain and confusion. Here I want my cake and eat it too. I want my 'no experience' and I want my wild passionate painful and confusing experience. I want it all!<br /> Then the next day Matt taught about feeling more deeply and embracing it all. He was singing my song. I was frustrated and confused. I was also a bit angry that he called 'no experience' a new teaching. This is a comment he made to me before the evening began. It's ancient. Maybe he was referring to something else but this is how it all went for me. I wanted to have a knock down drag out fight with Matt. LOL!!! Beloveds! This is the last thing I expected!!! I actually found it all funny as I watched my anger. I've been raving about Matt for months and months and have felt the precious transmissions of energy and awakening he delivers. I have felt the immediate elimination of obstacles and penetrating love during personal sessions. He truly has Ganesha energy! Oddly when I was near Matt and interacting with him directly I felt great distance, "Emptiness" but no love. There was certainly an impact from his emptiness but I so wanted to feel and experience the love. <br />I hear you in my projections of you( from this 'universe' /My Story)referring to my ego or feeling sorry for me and my little angry girl. Oh yes, Beloveds. The ego judging mind serves and hinders me. It also is of God...all creation is. I liked when Matt said, watch what people do, not what they say. This is the good judging mind. I watched Matt be so playful and seemingly intimate with some and so distant with others. This ego sees an ego alive and well in Matt as well as a deep penetrating connection with empty consciousness. HW Poonjaji, another favorite teacher of mine from the Ramana Maharshi lineage, said he had an ego and she served him well. Being a Tantrica I wish to embrace it all, the dual and non dual. So curious. I'm sure one of the challenges for me is the hierarchy I saw encouraged in the class. I have always been uncomfortable with the 'raised above us/ more advanced than us' space but I also understand that hierarchy exists in our world. I understand needing a teacher and a way shower. I struggle with this having seem so many powerful empty beings fall into disgrace from what appear ego antics and abuses. And yet I know I would fall on my knees before Ramana Maharshi and be enslaved by his love and awakened state. Go figure.<br />So I am struggling and at rest at the same time. A few of you know this but I wanted to come clean to this amazing community of souls. In doing so I hope love prevails and there is room to embrace my crazy and amazing experience.<br />So here is the good news. Even with my anger, my illness that happily gave me a break on Thursday from what I felt was an uncomfortable workshop, I have returned with a deeper silence and much more access to dropping the crazy monkey mind. What a ride! Thank you Matt and Julie for this amazing uncomfortable and life changing experience. Thank you for reading this post. Please forgive me if I misjudged or misunderstood as I stumble on rejoicing and/or bitching as the case may be. Again, what a ride! <br />I love you! I love you! I love you! Truly I do!<br />Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-82032276900106153942014-09-16T19:47:00.002-07:002022-05-14T14:36:44.684-07:00This morning... <br />
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Thank you for this moment, Beloved...with the sounds of change breaking the morning quiet, a warm little (Spike) dog on my lap and the tinge of fear hiding deep in my belly. I love you! I love this one that smells the lavender brought back from Italy by my Beloved June.<br />
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Lavender, crashing sounds of construction, sweet chants to awaken by, the door open to the sun and slight breeze on this perfect late late summer, almost fall, day. My hands tingle from carpal tunnel or shoulder issues as I write.<br />
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This moment is precious...fear and all. I am more accepting of the changes. They are, so why fight? The crashing construction can be sacred drummers - the tingling numbness in my hands - kisses and sparks from God. I am here now. These things are mine to feel, see, hear. Sweet Spike keeps me company as I muse. Thanks you for this richness!<br />
September 16, 2014Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-30616499853853902962014-08-26T08:08:00.000-07:002015-02-23T14:14:46.805-08:00<b>Book Beginnings... </b><br />
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My sweetness longs for You<br />
She waits impatient and aroused<br />
Pulling her up inside me I feel the warm honey of Her Essence<br />
Beloved Shakti<br />
Exploding with joy and celebration<br />
Passion’s breath moving<br />
Sounding <br />
Ah<br />
Om<br />
All Love <br />
All Love<br />
All Love<br />
Sun crowns head to heart <br />
Feet soaked in liquid golden mercury<br />
Rising through my legs <br />
Enveloped <br />
Embodied<br />
I am the golden snake<br />
I am the Beloved <br />
I AM <br />
Ecstasy!<br />
All Love <br />
All Love <br />
All Love<br />
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<b>Our Original Sexual Self</b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>'Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br />with your one wild and precious life?'</i><br /> From <u>The Summer Day</u> by Mary Oliver</span><br />
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Where is our original sensual sexual wild child? The one that laughs and cries without remorse or thought of consequence? The one that is unafraid of those sexy erotic feelings that rise up finding it all so curious, who hasn't learned to condemn. Where has he or she gone and why did they disappear? Most live in exile, imprisoned, with some, sadly, acting out violently in rebellion. It's true, you will be punished if you let him/her out all the time. Society demands a game be played, but can you see the game and drop the pretense to become real again? Consider the price of keeping the masks. What will happen if you expose your authentic vulnerable and wild natural self? <br />
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I pray you find a safe haven for this essential part of you even if only in your alone time. Much of the 'so called' perverse sexual appetites come from the suppression of our wild sexual natures. Some is born from our amazing creativity but I believe that much of the dark exploitive sex comes from the loss of our natural innocent sensual sexual selves.<br />
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So consider taking a dip. Stick your toe into being natural, unleashed, vulnerable. You can go back to hiding. I've done this off and on for years. Oddly, at some point, a kind of vulnerability starts to feel at home, safe. It seems it would be the opposite or an oxymoron but it's true for me. You learn where the boundaries are and when and where to let your true nature flow. Yes, I do still fear being "tarred and feathered", the ugly rejection. But instead I keep finding more love, more embrace and more joy. I've allowed myself to fully live instead of just exist. What a ride! I'd be lying if I told you it was all fun and easy. That would be a whooper of a lie! I can tell you it's all been worth it. Even in the dark times I felt real, authentic. The more I choose to be real, the more it becomes just who I am. What about you?Sherry Tuegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873940794874249006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892887024135700327.post-56907795161344291132014-08-06T10:12:00.001-07:002014-08-06T10:12:15.792-07:00<br />I've noticed that some of my desires for success in the world as a
teacher and 'healer' have begun to feel heavy....like a burden. When
Matt Kahn told me to drop my spiritual ego and get a job that has
nothing to do with my spiritual path I felt a great sense of relief. I
had no idea that my own desire for success created the weight I was
feeling until I let it go. Wow! I still love teaching and sharing this
loving journey but my own desire to be a well know or world tea<span class="text_exposed_show">cher
and have success through that work became a burden. So I let it go! I
continue to follow my heart and offer what is right and timely for me
to offer but I let go of my 'big plan'. I remember the wisdom of this
quote: 'How do you make God laugh? You tell Her your plans!' LOL!
Has anyone else experienced this? Also...still looking for the right
job...part time preferably. Sending blessings to you as I continue this
amazing journey! I love you!!!</span><br />
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