SEASONED, SENSUAL & SPIRITUAL FOR 2012

I've been getting feedback on the title for my book... For those who have been offering ideas, I am very grateful!

Based on some ideas floating around, I've crafted a title for a series of late-summer workshops which may very well be closer to the message of my book, and perhaps a title that would strike a resonant chord with more people. Tell me what you think:

"SEASONED, SENSUAL & SPIRITUAL: Co-Creating Our New Humanity Beyond 2012"

Here's the message: as we enter our 50's, 60's and 70's, we have been "saged" and "seasoned" by our life's experiences. Often, however, we have also turned off some of the burners of our sensuality; for some, active sexual activity has either slowed or stopped. In the "seasoned" stages of our lives, we often lose touch with being fully engaged with all of our senses. When that happens, we are not in an optimum energetic position to be fully awake, aware, and conscious. In order to take full advantage of our being "seasoned" and "sages" at the later decades of our lives, we owe it to ourselves to re-engage (or engage fully for the first time in our lives) with our sensual selves. That engagement could be ignited by inviting sexual passion into our lives; that sexual energy is an essential part of who we are and it is important that we acknowledge that energy and choose to channel it in productive and creative ways. By being in touch with each of our senses, we begin to expand our consciousnessness, level by level, step by step. By being fully alive as sensual beings, we then become engaged and evolving spiritual beings.

As I approach my seventh decade, I can tell you from experience that being a "sage" and a "seasoned woman" has enhanced my vitality and self-confidence. There is so much I have experienced and in which I am experienced; I have entered a phase of life which many call the "age of mastery". It goes with the territory.

Along the way, however, I had turned off some of my sensual channels: I had locked up my sexual energies for many years. It was only after my beloved husband's death that I decided to invite passion back into my life. Having a sweet lover for the first time in many years ignited by sexual and sensual sensitivities in ways I really had not remembered ever feeling them in earlier years. It became a revelation to me that a woman in her 60's could feel such passion and sensuality. And with that re-engagement with my sensuality, I began to experience my ability to also connect with my spiritual self in ever-deepening ways, as well.

Tara Marino talks about the SEVEN senses, as she explores the nature of our Sensuality. It is the sixth and seventh senses which are especially central for accessing our spirituality: these are the senses of intuition and the sense of receiving. What I have learned is that until I can access my intuitive sensitivity, I cannot stretch even further in developing my awareness and consciousness. In order to be the fully-engaged mind-body-spirit human being which I am, I have the opportunity to open my energetic and intentional channels to receiving all that there is.

In James Redfield's newest book, "The Twelfth Insight", he talks about "anticipating synchronicity" and remaining open to having "conscious conversations". This is all about being open to receiving all that is already there. It is about keeping our intuitive channels open to receiving the intuitive messages that others have for us, about receiving the awareness that comes to us when we are poised and "anticipating synchronicity". It is about being ready to allow the gifts and opportunities to come to us.

You and I are living in mind-blowing extraordinary times: we are hearing everywhere about how this is the time for human consciousness evolution -- a form of "evolution" of awareness and consciousness which has never before in human history been possible. We are at a cross-roads of human development, looking at opportunities for extreme longevity which call into question a deeper question: "why would we want to live longer lives?" Many people, when asked about living into their hundreds and beyond, may laugh and dismiss that possibility as a pipe dream. But scientists are telling us it is not a pipe dream. It is not science fiction. It is real. You and I could very well live way beyond 100. And with vitality and vigor and full function.

To accomplish what you and I are each here in this body at this time in history to accomplish, we have choices: how to take care of ourselves, how to engage with our senses, and how to develop and grow our consciousness.

Let's look at the "what is so": we are living in a body. This body is a tool. You are not your body, but you have a body. You are not your mind, but you have a mind. You are not your brain, but you have a brain. The question is, HOW do we use our tools? To me, the answer is: fully. Use all of whatever is right in front of our faces; whatever is in our repertoire of tools. Basic to our tools is our Sensual self. Also basic to our tools is our "saging" self: we are wise and experienced in our lives. We are masters ready to use our mastery in the service of the next step.

As sages and seasoned masters, our challenge is to engage all of our senses: the five basic ones of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting; plus our intuitive sense; finally, our seventh sense of receiving. Receiving the "knowing" that comes through our intuitive channels and reaches way beyond into realms of consciousness the Quantum physicists call "parallel universes". Way out? Yes... And it's all here for us to receive...

To be continued...

Blessings and hugs,
Sheila

SEXY & SPIRITUAL

When you have shut down your sensuality and denied your sexuality, you cannot be fully alive and present to yourself and who you are. When you have shut down any part of your sensual self, you cannot be fully conscious or awake to life or yourself.

Tara Marino has presented a fascinating perspective on what it means to be in touch with your Sensuality. While our sexuality is not the same thing as being sensuous, they are connected and related. Being in touch with our Sensuality, as Tara describes it, involves our keeping our channels open to all SEVEN senses -- yes, all SEVEN.

You are perhaps counting...."I know about the five senses...the things we see, touch, taste, smell and hear..." Then...you might have remembered that our intuition is our "sixth sense". Right? So what is the "seventh sense"? Mystics like the Kabbalists have talked about this sense for centuries: it is the "sense" of "receiving". Hmmm....you might wonder. "Receiving"...what is that about?

If we think as sex as a metaphor, it is the woman or feminine energy that "receives" his or her lover into their body, into the open arms of the receiving vessel. To give may be wonderful, but the capacity to receive is what lifts us to the realms of our higher selves, to the divine within each of us. It is not about "taking" -- it is about opening up to and allowing the gifts which are already there to be received by the beloved.

In order to be fully conscious, fully alive, we are invited to engage with all of our senses: it is not possible to be totally awake or conscious when we are "drugged" by substances such as alcohol nor numbed by shutting down any channels to our feeling states.

For many years, I had shut down my channels to my sexual impulses and needs; I had the illusion that if I didn't think about it or admit to having desires which were sexual, I could effectively push them aside and nonetheless live a passionate and creative life. After years of being shut down, I invited passion back into my life. I allowed the channels of my own sensuous and sexual energies to become reactivated and re-ignited. By doing so, I also engaged with my entire sensual self, feeling more vital and awake than ever before in my earlier years.

Since I have acknowleged my own sensuality and sexuality -- having nothing to do with whether or not I am sexually active with a partner -- I am also more equipped to energetically open myself to my intuitive wisdom and allow myself to continue to expand my awareness, to evolve my own consciousness.

When you see yourself as "sexy", choosing to engage with all of life with passionate intention and energy, you can also move yourself forward in your spiritual growth, feeling more alive and fully engaged on all burners.

Being sexy is an important part of being your delicious spiritual self!

Blessings and hugs,
Sheila

BIRTH 2012: Be an Evolutionary NOW!

Today is "Evolutionary" DAY: Tonight is a call called "BIRTH 2012" with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, and others about why today is significant. June 22, 2011 begins a critical 18-month countdown to the turning point, according to the Mayan Calendar, in human evolutionary history. In the next few short months, we have an opportunity to wake up. Yes...wake up!

We are being invited to wake up to what being human has always been about: evolving our consciousness. With the advent of Quantum Physics, not even science can deny that we are each spiritual beings here in a body having a human experience. It is not the other way around.

Your physical body invites you to experience all the layers of life: the feelings, the emotions, the sensations and the sensitivities of being alive. Our Sensuality -- our SEVEN senses (no, not just the five...and not just the sixth added...but SEVEN) allow us to access our "sense" of life itself. When we can integrate all of our senses, and add the SEVENTH, which is the sensitivity of "RECEIVING"...then...we have engaged all of the tools of creation so that we can fire the engines of our own evolution. When we are fully engaged with life, fully awake with all of our senses, when we have set aside our addictions and allow ourselves to feel absolutely everything, then we can open ourselves to an ever-evolving consciousness we are wired to create.

I will be sharing with you why I believe that being SEXY and being SPIRITUAL go together like peanut butter and jelly...

Click on the link to my primary link for a fuller article on what is happening for me today...and possibly....it's about you too:

www.LifeCoachSheila.com


Blessings and smiles,
Sheila

Plan B for Being the Next Top Author

There are many ways you can look at WINNING... Nope. I didn't "win" the "Next Top Author" book contest. Was I disappointed? Of course! I travelled to Chicago to attend the "Celebrate Your Life" conference, hoping that when the winner of the "Next Top Author" contest was announced, the name I would hear would be mine. I did not hear my name...

I had been feeling that strong "knowing" for weeks that I had won the contest. Yes! It would be my name they would announce. I could see it. I could feel it. I was there...accepting my prize.

Alas, the outcome was not what I wanted. It was not what I was "sure" it would be.

Unless...

Unless we agree that "winning" takes many forms.

Could it be that winning this contest is more about how I now respond to the disappointment, how I now put the pressure on myself to complete the book without the external pressure impossed by the deadline of the contest and terms of the contract? Ah! Is it possible this is my opportunity to experience what "winning" is really about: persisting when it is hard, completing the job when there is no guarantee of the outcome.

Stay tuned... I will be posting portions of the book for you to share, on this exciting journey.

You and I are indeed AGELESS & SEXY!

I have some stories to tell you....

Tomorrow...

Gnite and sweet dreams,
Sheila