Happy Thanksgiving to all of you Life Art Healing fans out there! Thanksgiving is here and families and friends across the country are celebrating around tables modest and extravagant. From single apartments, to cavernous mansions and every dwelling in between. Speaking of dwellings, all of us who have a place to call home can be thankful for that! I have lived everything from a tiny single apartment with a $3 round table that had been sawed in half, literally the only table that could fit in the miniscule kitchen, to a well over 1/2 million dollar house. I am currently living in a lovely apartment with my husband, daughter, and 2 kitties and am so thankful to have a warm cozy home for us to live in.

I think of all the homeless people I have encountered in my life, the years I lived in Boston and Los Angeles I met the most. Some of them were crazy, some of them were addicts, some of them just found themselves there through circumstance. When I stopped to think and see and hear the stories of the individuals, my heart was opened. Each of these people, singled out because they don’t have a dwelling, has a story with a beginning, a baby that became a child, that became an adolescent, that became and adult whether they were ready for it or not. All the years of experience brought them to that place. In each of them is that precious baby, that amazing soul. I am so thankful to have a roof over my head, and I have to say that some of my smallest most humble roofs have been my favorites! I am also grateful that I can see that every person on this planet has an extraordinary story.

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As technology has raced forward, people have spent less time being present, less time connecting face to face and more time isolated from family, friends, and nature.  When school children are asked where an apple comes from, many of them answer “The grocery store.” A century ago, 80 percent of the U.S. population was involved in farming. Today, the number is less than 2 percent. So, that hands-on involvement with harvesting crops with family and the communtiy has diminished extremely.  Hence, so has the human to human, human to nature bond.

Yet, the yin and the yang of technology exists and so there have been amazing strides in connecting people…facebook anyone? Dare I say the good old internet? You are reading this now because of the advantages of technology. The amount of information we have access to is so incredibly abundant! Everything under, over, and beyond the sun exists in cyberspace. Just as we can picture anything with our imagination. Our imagination is key to creating the life we want. Just like we can enter any keyword into a search engine and get related results, so we can focus our thoughts on what we want and attract like results. Ever notice when you have a big change in your life, like a pregnancy, suddenly you notice pregnant women and babies everywhere? There aren’t more of them all of a sudden, it’s the power of focusing your attention on something!

So, speaking of apples and focusing your thoughts to what you want, guess what? Through the miracle of technology ( which is just ideas people imagined, believed in, and took action on), there is an App for that! I love the Money and Law of Attraction Cards App now available for your iPhone ( or in my case, my husband’s iPhone, which my daughter and I borrow!). The “cards” are beautifully illustrated and have positive affirmations and insights to help you get your thoughts going in the direction of your desires!-Amy Roemer November 9, 2009

For the Money and Law of Attraction App, go to:

http://appshopper.com/finance/money-and-the-law-of-attraction-cards-esther-and-jerry-hicks

For the good old fashioned deck of Money and the Law of Attraction Cards go to:

http://www.abraham-hickslawofattraction.com/lawofattractionstore/product/CRD-MLOA.html

I have practiced the bulk of my yoga outside in the past 8 months.  Today is a sunny fall day here in the Midwest and I walked one of my favorite trails to the prairie, full of tall grasses that have lost their green and when the sun shines on them, it truly creates a field of gold (cues Sting’s song Fields of Gold)!  So, I began my sun salutation ( a series of asanas, poses) and as I bent down into triangle pose, I took in the bare trees, the last brown leaves blowing in the wind, the world’s breath. Breath, said to be the most important part of yoga.

In fact, when preparing for a Healing Art Workshop, I researched yoga for the disabled and found that disabled yoga students had profound changes in their lives just by focusing on their breath. Research shows that shallow breathing can cause 50-70% of medical complaints. So, I began to focus on the effects the wind  has on the trees, the grass, the clouds, the lakes, the world!  Wind scatters seeds, pushes sailing ships across the oceans, creates hurricanes, can blow down buildings, and in the form of a tornado can destroy an entire town!

Now back to the tree, standing bare. I became aware that the tree was doing it’s own asanas. Each pose so slow in human terms, yet the results are powerful. Imagine the tree setting up it’s series of poses for the year….Spring Buds, Growing Leaves, Open Flowers, Petals Fall, Fruit Begins, Fruit Ripens, Fruit Falls, Leaves Turn, Leaves Fall, Bare Winter. All the while, the tree supports the life of birds, animals, insects, microbes, humans! Then does the amazing job of being beautiful!

So, yoga and nature seem infinitely intertwined.  Three part breathing can help you focus on your breath (see link below for directions). Next time you are outside, do a few poses, focus on the world around you, the yoga happening in every moment. -Amy Roemer November 2009

To learn how to do Three Part Breathing for better health go to http://yoga.about.com/od/breathing/a/threepartbreath.htm

To view Sting’s music Video of Fields of Gold go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppX6vP3c4g&feature=related