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We are delighted to be going to Soul of Yoga in Encinitas for an exciting weekend event on February 9th.  Tom and Trisha Kelly own a wonderful, well-rounded yoga studio with an emphasis on health, fitness, meditation and spiritual growth.  Trisha is a student at Spiritual Arts Institute, so we are looking forward to an uplifting spiritual synergy.  The workshop will be on the heart chakra, how it’s connected to your soul and the activities of your life.  We will explore how the aura is the energetic nucleus of your personal affairs such as finances, relationships and career.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

The Hermetic Center or heart chakra is an incredibly important part of our spiritual anatomy. Located in the middle of the chest, it is the seat of the soul. This means the soul is registering the experiences of life through this center. That’s saying a lot.

It is essential to keep our Hermetic Center moving strong. If the spiritual energy of this center is weak, it is difficult for the activities in our life to move in a positive way. From the point of view of the aura, the Hermetic Center is the energetic nucleus of our personal affairs. You might call it our action center. We need to constantly impress the Divine Light upon this center to keep it vital. One of the most important energies to have strong in this center is the emerald green ray, as this brings in balance and stability to all that we are doing. Another essential ray is the bright orange. This ray brings in motivation and enthusiasm. If I see this ray in the Hermetic Center, it means that the person is active in life, not sitting on the fence, and is pursing the things that need to be accomplished.

Let us know your experiences in working with the Hermetic Center!

A most essential part of metaphysical work is protection. We all know how we must protect ourselves physically, but we also need to protect ourselves spiritually. We live in a sea of spiritual energy and it is very easy to get caught in energies of a low vibration without intending to. Spiritual protection keeps us in our own sphere of divine power. It lets in the uplifting energies while refusing the destructive vibrations.

Gold is the strongest energy of protection. Envisioning yourself in a golden bubble of light is very effective in building a protective spiritual shield around you. Your aura automatically has a protective quality to it, but adding the spiritual protection gives you even more power to maintain your spiritual equilibrium. And as you consistently work with the golden light, your protection continues to build.

I recommend reinforcing the golden bubble of protection when you wake up in the morning, before you go to work, before you go to sleep at night, before going to a party or meeting. If you got upset or something disturbed you, take a moment to reinforce the golden light. Think of the gold as your spiritual bodyguard. Working with the white light for protection is excellent as well. The white light brings in the divine essence and purity which automatically has an uplifting quality and helps you to disconnect any negative energy. The two together are unstoppable.

We would love to hear about your experiences of working with divine protection.

The subconscious is an amazing part of our mental apparatus. It’s far more encompassing and powerful than most people imagine. The subconscious is the seat of memory.  It is a vast storehouse of thoughts, information, and experiences. If the brain is like a computer, then the subconscious is like the hard drive that stores all the information the computer has.

The subconscious records everything you say, think, feel, do verbatim and forgets nothing. You need the subconscious mind.  You could simply not retain all that information in your conscious mind. The subconscious mind allows you to automatically perform everyday activities such as driving a car, brushing your teeth, eating, etc. It is said that 95% of bodily functions are regulated by the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is essential in other areas such as building a healthy and dynamic character. The positive things we do are impressed upon the subconscious and form a positive pattern of behavior.

Problems come when negative experiences or destructive patterns of behavior are impressed upon the subconscious. Those negative thoughts or patterns are retrieved later to the conscious mind and this can wreak havoc in our lives. For example, if we are a smoker, we have generated not only a physical addiction, but we have programmed that behavior into our subconscious, which make the habit even harder to break.

By itself, the subconscious mind cannot change anything you send into it.  It does not have free will as does the conscious mind.  This is why you must be very careful how you program the subconscious mind.

The Divine Light is one of the most effective tools to help cleanse the subconscious mind of disturbing thoughts and mental patterns. Spiritual energy can also help rebuild and strengthen the subconscious with new spiritual power. What many people do not realize is that when a thought is impressed upon the subconscious, there is a spiritual energy associated with that thought that is impressed as well. This is why remembering an old, painful experience can be so disturbing. In retrieving the memory, you are also retrieving the destructive energy associated with that memory. By working with Divine Light, you can release that negative energy diffusing its power and disturbing effect. The thought itself is not erased, just the adverse effect.

In order to have success in your life, you must expect and nurture success. Then and only then can success manifest. It takes effort to turn around conditions like depression, sadness, frustration that have seeped into the subconscious mind. Those patterns were not generated overnight and it will take your dedicated attention to turn them around. The point is you can and are meant to turn them around. By working the spiritual energy, you can quicken the process of strengthen your subconscious mind.

With your subconscious as your ally, you can accomplish great things. You have unlocked a tremendous positive power in your life. On a daily basis, take time to cultivate positive patterns in your subconscious and nourish it with God’s light, and you will see your life blossom.

In Divine Light and love,

Barbara Y. Martin

We hope your New Year 2008 is getting off to a great start! We are particularly excited about the program of classes we have to offer this year. Our aim is always to keep the institute’s teachings fresh, inspiring and accurate. Barbara Martin has been teaching metaphysics for forty years, and she has a proven track record of offering the highest quality spiritual instruction. This year feels particularly inspiring with the knowledge we are incorporating into our programs. Our foundation course, Change Your Aura, Change Your Life,  begins February 20th!  This program is the key to all the training offered at the institute.

We want to thank everyone who helped make the November 2007 retreat such a success. In past years, we have held the retreat at Ojai, Apple Valley, Lake Arrowhead and The Center of the Open Rose. This year we hosted the event at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. Students from all over the country attended. It was a joy to work many wonderful brothers and sisters in light. A special thanks to Victoria Jennings, Mara Cantelo and Joanne Flory for making us feel right at home!

I hope you will join us for Barbara’s first workshop of 2008, Unlocking the Power of Your Subconscious Mind. The event will be offered at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in Los Angeles on January 27, and at Many Paths Bookstore in North Hollywood on February 17.

Our first out of town event will be an exciting exploration of the aura and our personal affairs, The Spiritual Keys of Living, hosted by Soul of Yoga in Encinitas, CA. We will be returning to Infinity Foundation in the Chicago area for a full day workshop, Enlightening the Mind, and at New Renaissance Bookstore in Portland, OR for The Healing Power of Your Aura workshop, as well as other locations we will announce soon.

Join us for an uplifting year of spiritual enrichment!

Warmest Wishes,

Dimitri Moraitis

Executive Director