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E-Light Newsletter
E-Light News is from the Heart and Soul of Spirit
Saturday, October 05, 2019 edition
"The Discomfort of Change"
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Sunday, October 06, 2019
Rev. Maryum Morse
gives the talk: "The Discomfort of Change" this Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 10:30am. Rev will discuss how change challenges us to move beyond our preconceptions about ourselves and life, drawing from her personal experiences and wisdom teachings of Ernest Holmes and other spiritual examples. Douglas Howard, RScP will be on pulpit.
Eje Lynn-Jacobs & George Friedenthal
provide the music to frame this service beautifully.
Come out and join in this powerful gathering which sets the tone for your week by strengthening your faith and connection with other truth-seekers in your community!
Stay after service and have a bite to eat with us and make friends too.
We look forward to your presence here with us!
You Are Welcome here
This week's quote:
"Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence." - Thich Nhat Hanh
This Week's Affirmation
I embrace the changes in my life with curiosity and gratitude.
Reverend Maryum's Weekly Prayer
I Am Free to Choose My Good
There is One Creative Intelligence at the core of all things, seen and unseen. This Presence and Power fill my life, knowing I am one with God.
I boldly step into a higher level of awareness of the infinite number of ways my good now demonstrates. Each new idea becomes an even greater expression of abundance as I set my creativity in motion. I am truly prosperous in all ways and thankful for my blessings. I joyfully accept all the gifts of the Divine. I say yes to Spirit as I allow these gifts to fill my experience. Oh how good it is!
I am grateful for every opportunity to immerse myself in the creative love of God. With sincere feelings of joy, grace, and peace, I release my word to the Law. It is done. And so it is. Amen.
Rev. Maryum Morse
Center of the Heart Mantra
Miracles follow miracles;
Wonders always increase;
I give thanks for this amazing day!
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Upcoming Events not to be missed!
Rev. Maryum's "Prayer Power Hour"
Mondays @ 5:00pm!
Relieve yourself of worry and stress through the power of one-on-one prayer with Rev. Maryum!
Saturday, October 05, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Medicine Wheel / Sacred Circle Ceremony
with Abby Haydon
We are setting up a sacred circle and medicine wheel on the northernmost area of our property to do ceremonies in to help heal the land as well as ground and center us in the energies of our Earth.
Abby has collected fire cleansed stones from the Montecito fire and needs our communities' assistance to set up this sacred gathering space. For more info, please email us at
info@centeroftheheart.com
or call (805) 964-4861. Abby's number is 928-451-0890
Tao Calligraphy
Writing Class
Thursdays Oct 3,10,17,24
with Lilan Smyth
Certified Tao calligraphy teacher
Tao Calligraphy can help anyone heal and tr
ansform, including health, relationships and finances. It can also advance ones spiritual development, finding an internal stillness and peace that enhances every aspect of life.
at door $25.00 per class
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Overcome Your Fear of Change in 7 Steps
By Lucio Giovannini
1. Life is change and change means life
The belief that most of us have adopted is that "Change is not a good thing, it's uncomfortable and potentially painful". Without a doubt most of us naturally seek to avoid it. When we were born we naturally have been separated physically from out mother's body. The first big change that we face when we come into this world is often unconsciously associated with separation and breaking away. It is for that reason that most people rather than go through the pain and suffering of breaking away prefer to remain gripped to a situation that they know even if these are dysfunctional: a job a relationship or a habit. Life is change and change is life. Don't live change as a punishment, but as an opportunity to grow, improve and to learn new things. Whatever lesson life is teaching you at this moment, ask yourself: What is perfect here in this? What is happening for me?
2. Accept the situation, but don't resign yourself to it!
Acceptance of the situation that we currently find ourselves in is the first step to embracing change. To accept doesn't mean to resign ourselves to the way things are, that is we don't have to passively accept things and behave like a victim of circumstances. Acceptance requires courage, determination and honesty. It means accepting the fact that life is working for us and our good, even if at the moment we don't realise that. And it means having become aware of those parts of us that we are more uncomfortable with - those we don't want to face but that we would like to change.
3. See failure as something positive
Perhaps the greatest fear associated with change is the fear of failure. The only way to avoid that is not to do anything, not take any action and live as a spectator rather than as a protagonist. Making mistakes is part of the learning curve. When we make mistakes we learn from these, making corrections and improving ourselves. When we learned to walk, we made thousands of attempts and failed a similar number of times. But this didn't stop us from trying again falling and learning how to get up again. No-one judged us when we weren't able to walk neither us nor others. Why not keep the same acceptance when faced with times we "fall" in life? It is the judgment and fear of that that paralyses us and falsifies our interpretation of events stopping us from moving forward. When we free ourselves from the emotional baggage transformation is made possible. Remember that the people who manage to achieve their dreams against all odds of success are those who worry less about failure. It is the people convinced that however things might go they will have learned something new along the way. In this way they enjoy the journey as much as getting to the destination itself.
4. Celebrate every little success
We are often quick to notice things that are not working or things we are not able to do and this can limit our progress. By celebrating even small victories each day we can keep our motivation levels high. Try this exercise: write in your diary at least one thing each day that you consider a small or great success (of any kind, not only things related to your career/work). You may have cooked something delicious, helped a stranger, and listened to a friend... After having written your success give yourself a round of applause and find a way to celebrate it. Be creative!
5. Be responsible
We cannot change what happens in life or how others might behave towards us, but we can change our behaviour in response to that, and it is this that makes the difference and moves us along the road of personal evolution. We all have a "power zone", those areas in which we do have the responsibility to act. To be responsible means to take back your ability to respond to events. It means using our ability to change and to give the most functional responses to life's problems that may come up from day to day.
6. Be patient
Sometimes we have to repeat a lesson again and again to pass the exam that life is setting us and to do that we need to have patience. Impatience is a reaction. Patience is a response. Growth (and change) is about evolution, not revolution. Yet when we are governed by impatience we tend to choose revolution. Revolution, however, creates turbulence, agitation and therefore tends to destroy rather than integrate. Patience is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day. How would things change if we transformed life's red traffic lights into signals for reflection, presence and appreciation of what we already have
7. Step outside your comfort zone
The "comfort zone" is that mental space where we take refuge, where we have the illusion of feeling protected and safe. So why do we feel so unhappy? To step out of our comfort zone and enter our zone of freedom and let go of fear does not require radical changes. We can start with small symbolic gestures, those that have the ability to disconnect our internal auto-pilot mechanism. Change the route you take to get to work, change where you usually sit at the dinner table, learn a new language, become vegetarian for a month or cultivate new hobbies. These are just a few ideas of things that we can do to break our usual habits and automated responses. Bit by bit, we implement these, we expand the outer dimensions of our comfort zone, discovering new passions, new abilities and new ways of living.
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Center of the Heart
487 N. Turnpike Road, Santa Barbara, California 93111
(805) 964-4861
Office Hours : Tues - Thurs 2:30pm - 6:00pm
email: info@centeroftheheart.com
Meditation Serice @ 10:00am
Celebration Service @ 10:30am
Center of the Heart is a Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Barbara California. Lead by Spiritual Leader & Senior Minister Reverend Maryum Morse for over ten years. Our Center is non-denominational, non-judgmental, where we give total acceptance, allowing for spiritual growth and healing of your emotions so that you can become happier, experience more joy, miracles and release fears. You will find a healing spiritual community to embrace your creativity, celebrate your individuality, learn laws of prosperity and abundance and the tools to deepen your connection with Spirit
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