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Writing Yourself a New Life Story

"You only have one chance to make a first impression." "Don't blow it, great opportunities don't grow on trees." These are ideas that I have heard, but have never really believed. These one liner guidelines create stories about what life reality is supposed to be. We all have stories. I am not just referring to a recounting of our past experiences. I am referring to the meaning we give to what has happened to us in life and how we explain why it happened to us. These ideas we hold may very well lead us to what we expect may happen in our future. The idea that our past creates our future is but only one possibility of many. The dilemma though, is that most of us don't recognize that it's all just a story. Stories are written every day. The problem is that we turn story to fact and think it's all true.

Neuroscientists now have greater insight into how pliable and changeable memory is. What we "know" to be true, rarely is. We view our relationships, our communities and cultures; rarely recognizing the prevailing filters that exist. We believe that what we see and how we see it, is just the way it is. Our stories of how things are, exist on a personal as well as planetary basis. Sometimes, we are fortunate to have a glimpse of ourselves viewing our universe from a unique perspective which can awaken us to our biases and give us the opportunity to re-write our story.

Traveling to different nations is a doorway that often gives us the chance to see our prevalent unconscious perspectives. Recently, I went beyond other nations and was able to go on an interplanetary journey inside the Whidbey Geodome,- an amazing project that Lynnaea Lumbard's non-profit organization, NewStories, sponsors. To picture it, think of a transportable, inflatable, IMAX-like planetarium. 3D images of our galaxy and beyond fill the ceiling-to-wall screens in such a way that it is the closest I will ever get to experience the outer reaches of the universe as we know it. As I travelled above and beyond Ursa major and the Pleides and saw a completely new perspective, I realized that for all my years of looking up at the stars, I had viewed the constellations as if they existed on a flat screen, unaware that I had seen these grouping of stars not with depth or three dimensions, but as a two dimensional sky ceiling. It was an "aha" moment that made me wonder just how many other worldviews I owned that I did not even know I had.

Having the opportunity to work in the healing field with such powerful techniques such as EFT, Matrix ReImprinting, Remote Viewing and others has offered me another insight of witnessing individuals as they "time travel" backwards and forwards in their stories, having the opportunity to see painful past events with new perspective and allowing them to write new scripts for traumatic events that they survived. I think there is nothing more powerful than when a person makes a conscious decision to choose their life differently than the way it has been before. The conscious and willful act of re-writing the story of one's life is a powerful act of living. That is living life with sovereignty. Choosing to become aware, acknowledge, forgive, heal and surrender are the building blocks of the greatest courage that exists.

My prayer for each of us is that we have the courage to look at our own stories and choose to decide whether we like how the story is unfolding. The question to ask yourself is whether you have the willingness to honestly look, the courage to risk forsaking the known for the unknown and the heart to take a stand for our lives and put pen to paper and write a new chapter in your book of life.

Great Transition Stories for Our Times; A Dialogue with Lynnaea Lumbard, PhD

Stories shape us. They shape our thoughts, our perceptions and our responses to the world. They hold our history and guide our actions in difficult times. They define us to ourselves and to each other and reveal our place in the order of things.

Most of us are aware that we are in an unprecedented time of change. We know that the systems around us are collapsing and that new ones are not yet in place. How do we understand the overarching story we are in now and how does that impact what we think and see and how we act? What happens when the old stories no longer work for our current difficult times? Where are new stories arising that give a sense of purpose and meaning to what we are experiencing from the larger perspective of humanity as a whole?

This evening's talk will focus on Great Transition Stories for our times drawn from the leading edges of biology, cosmology and what we know of the stages of our own human development. These new stories, and sometimes newly discovered intrinsic universal patterns, help us find our place, guide our action and give direction for where we are going.

Lynnaea Lumbard, Ph.D., is a transformational psychologist, Interfaith Minister, Wilderness Guide, community weaver, sacred activist and strategic philanthropist, funding key projects for a whole systems paradigm shift towards a compassionate, collaborative, creative future. She is President of New Stories, a Whidbey-based non-profit educational organization dedicated to offering transformational resources for an emergent evolutionary culture. New Stories sponsors leading-edge social ventures including the Whidbey GeoDome Project, Thriving Communities, Resilient Japan and the Great Transition Stories Wiki.

For many years Lynnaea was a seminar leader in the field of spiritual psychology, co-founding and directing Temenos Associates, a national workshop company offering a wide range of consciousness trainings in the Bay Area, New England, New York and Washington, D.C. She has served on the boards of All Season's Chalice in Boulder, CO, Threshold Foundation, Tipping Point Network and Opus Archives and Research Center at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.

Artist Opening Night Gala
Displaying the newest works of Christopher Baldwin

Recent Paintings by Christopher Baldwin.

Refreshments will be served and the artist will be meeting and speaking with guests.

Christopher Baldwin is a local Whidbey Island painter, illustrator and designer. His paintings are mostly acrylic on canvas or hard board. He likes to explore and experiment with stylized figures, bold colors and abstract forms.

Christopher is inspired by the beauty and natural rhythms of island living. To see more of his work, please visit www.christopherbaldwin.com and www.islandraven.com.

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