Your Star Power
June 26, 2009
We are human beings, ever in process, changing over time – sometimes profoundly. We are human becomings, capable of great change and adaptability – sometimes quite rapidly. We are alchemists and wizards, capable of shifting our perspective in the blink of an eye – and changing the world.
A Place For Us and Embrace Your Magic extend an invitation to you to evolve – transform – calibrate to the realms of divine mystery and the music of the spheres so that you can dance with your soul in the sacred gathering spaces of the light and channel a new sound, a new light frequency.
Today is a magical day:
• Catapult yourself out of “business as usual” and life’s inertia and celebrate yourself as holy grail on a quest of adventure to the higher realms and the enchanted realms of ease, grace and a divine matrix of wonder.
• Live CONSCIOUSLY and change your conception of who you are and who you thought you had to be
• “Go for the gold” that is inside you and honor your uniqueness
• Discover the magic of the arts, nature, transformational energy work – and – life as you know it
Shift your perceptions of yourself, the world, and yourself in the world sometimes by gazing at art, wearing art, or sometimes by making art, performing it, or being in the process of creativity, and sometimes by receiving a nurturing so profound that you are forever transformed, awakened and fulfilled.
With Melanie and her colleagues at Embrace Your Magic, you will discover, examine and play with the assumptions that drive your life and how these perspectives may shift to transform you and all you are.
And if this and anything on here at aplaceforus–thesite.com helps you – as adults – imagine how it might help young people who are just beginning to learn about self-nurturing and positive mental attitudes, and about how music, movement, and sacred touch principles such as Reiki can support them in life.
See from a place of the possible, from the place of love that is your birthright.
Gaze and breathe deep and slow at any ART on this site. Allow yourself to move with your breath slowly and easily – discovering what your body needs.
Wander, explore, find and choose links, music, and reading material that call to you and listen to the whisperings of divine guidance.
We ask to calibrate you to your highest best good now.
In love and light,
Melanie A. Stinson, LMT
Weaver of Yarns, Crystal-Sylph & POFFF Master
Reiki Master & Advanced Crystalline Consciousness Practitioner
A New Way of Living
May 5, 2009
It is possible. We are on our way. We’ve been here a long time and the enchantment of our lives calls to us every moment.
Listen, seek your own song, your own music, find your laughing place and celebrate–dance to the music. Any way is okay. Any old… any new way.
Many blessings.
CCT-Crystalline Consciousness Technique
April 12, 2009
CCT or Crystalline Consciousness Technique™ is a new system of spiritual and human potential that works with the human energy field and the energy component of an individual or group for healing and change. It is a modality used for spiritual growth, awakening, healing, transformation and bringing into form.
How does CCT work?
Encasing all the levels of our being (physical, spiritual, mental, emotional) is our energetic being.
CCT
, by focusing on the energetic part of ourselves, affects all other levels of ourselves. This happens because this energy travels fast, and via the crystalline network of grids inside and outside the body, it can fly.
Conscious awareness is typically only 4-5% of our entire being, a tiny portion of an iceberg barely visible above the ocean surface. As mental beings, we want to know what’s happening. We want to get it. But that mental desire in traditional formats had us attempting to change an entire iceberg based on the tip that was visible above the water.
Using CCT, as a sort of JEDI Master program for ourselves, we can address the whole iceberg, the part we can see and the part below the surface. Then the tip, or our conscious awareness, easily changes to reflect the energetic shift. Our minds are actually slower than our energy selves, but eventually we do get what’s going on. Our biology, emotions and psychology shift as well.
I am fairly certain that I was drawn to study CCT after having become a Reiki Master and massage therapist and studying Rosen Method Bodywork and Movement, a psycho-spiritual modality developed by physical therapist Marion Rosen.
I had been taught about surrounding myself with white light and doing clearings, but for me, none of those worked to protect me from taking on other people’s energies. At the time before CCT helped me become aware, I didn’t know that I took in other people’s energies to help heal them. CCT was the first system that supported me to protect myself effectively, although I have had to add other modalities as I grew in awareness as to what was happening, some of those being the Seven Gateways and Journeywork of Aleya Dao, and working with highly evolved gemstones and crystals such as Selenite.
I now combine CCT with Reiki and any modalities needed in a session, which varies by individual and group. After an extended experiment with Reiki Masters in England, I discovered from their feedback something I was already experiencing through my own spiritual and self-healing practice. Using CCT with Reiki, amped up the healing. The Reiki Masters in the experiment, to whom I sent Reiki in several ways, reported a rolling power. Some connected with information. Some saw colors. One felt healing and transformation on several levels over many days. One of them decided on the spot to study CCT.
Now, I know many highly evolved Reiki Masters who have chosen not to train in CCT. They have told me that they already use chambers. I’m not sure what kind. I use chambers of Reiki symbols, but these are not the healing chambers of CCT, which are sacred geometry that those who see energy see and/or sense in colors and energetic vibration.
To me, CCT seems to be a form that evolved out of Reiki as it was brought in by two Reiki Masters together in much the way that some alternate symbols or Karuna Reiki came in. It seems to me that CCT evolves our consciousness in a way similar to Reiki and yet in some way it is more streamlined and can more easily affect more levels. I know I am more protected from outside influences when I set energy fields within the crystalline system and when I do Reiki in a CCT session.
CCT is like adding a new operating system to a computer, one that is sacred, benevolent, and here to bring us into a place of form unparalleled on earth before. It empowers growth. It fosters well-being and integrity and creativity. It even fosters synchrony and co-creation. It can be used by individuals or groups and through the power of intention can set new directions for cohesiveness, balance and forward movement.
I hope I have intrigued you enough so you will try it today in mini-session form or full session form, locally on a massage table or relaxing treatment chair, or anywhere on the globe in a distance session you set up by e-mail and receive by phone.
Tags: CCT, crystalline, consciousness, evolution, spiritual, Reiki, energy healing, metaphysics, evolution, awareness
Best WordPress Design Award
March 17, 2009
Up for a quest? This one is to look for (and award) the best looking WordPress websites. You have until March 22, 2009 to enter. Read more HERE
Helping Kids Do Better in School
February 24, 2009
When children no longer want to go to school, they don’t do well. They may develop all sorts of weird symptoms and start getting sick in order to miss school and avoid whatever traumatic situation is at the root of their distress.
EFT has been shown to help adults and young people with test anxiety. Reiki is a genuinely powerful relaxation and stress relief technique being used around the globe today, often in places that serve families. It is advocated by licensed medical professionals.
Metaphor and language can help reframe a child’s experience. The adult world is not a young person’s world no matter how much we might think that it is. Children want love. We all do. We just don’t know how to ask for it or know what to do if we aren’t able to experience it in acceptable ways wherever we may be.
Meditation helps with focus. If a child is distracted, relaxing and then learning to focus may feel extremely empowering. This can allow a child to feel safer and more able to cope with whatever is troubling them.
Movement is a part of every child’s life. When we ask young people to sit still, we are doing great damage. The brain works better when we move. Probably no one knows this better than athletes, dancers, performers, musicians, and great orators, who may have felt repressed in school until they came to some aspect or class that allowed them to express themselves while standing, using their limbs, and moving about the room. Recess is not sufficient for this, although it invigorates the brain and being with fresh air and sometimes an encounter with nature. Physical education, valuable as it is, is not concerned with that which is being addressed in this article.
Educators have a great responsibility toward those they teach, because everything they do and say has a lifelong impact upon their students. For this reason, it is very important that homeschooled and public school children and youth be empowered by allowing them to make their own decisions, within a set structure, and teaching them how to best deal with the outcomes of their decisions. It is important for young people to be encouraged to develop a close relationship with their inner selves, their sense of themselves that they carry inside, and to become aware of reactions and feelings each may have in a group, especially in school.
APlace4Us is committed to helping children through a variety of means. In addition to the above types of activities, APlace4Us has links to other options. Melanie A. Stinson, the web master of this site, has developed art and writing designed to work with young people. She uses children’s imaginations and an attitude of play to enable children to discover what works best for them in addressing their symptoms and concerns. Children may talk, share, write, draw or investigate through nature, working with stones, plants, or images, and learning the language that they speak but may have been unable to articulate to other “grown ups” and authority figures.
e greatly evolved, children can still sense a stigma with regard to seeing a therapist or school counselor, or even speaking to their teacher, especially if those around them hold a sense of unease or disrespect for the techniques used by these professionals.
Melanie is looking to connect to those people and organizations who can best help her reach young people in need of the services she offers. If you or your child could benefit, please contact Melanie. She works with children individually, and her services are geared to your resources. She will speak to you clearly about the situation that she encounters.
An Ohioan, Melanie is available for school visits in northwest Ohio and in New York City (when she is there visiting or arrangements have been made for her to be in the area). She loves to compare notes with teachers about what they notice in the classroom and can often help teachers reach new solutions for the situations that may have arisen.
Through a special long distance technique that can be set up via e-mail or phone, Melanie can work with children who are not in the same location as she is. She has worked with a sick baby in Jakarta and a teen in Virginia who was later diagnosed as having ADHD.
Melanie is hoping to adapt some of her methods as podcasts, DVDs or Internet videos. More information about those will be available in the future.
Please visit The POFFF for some free options young people may enjoy in privacy as they encounter the world of global connection.
INSIGHTS INTO LIVING
February 23, 2009
Intentions: inspiration, grace, joy, and blessings via Reiki and Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT).
Links to many sites offering free meditations, mini-sessions, the science of energy, sound experiences and other divine opportunities. All art images on this site © 2009 M.A. Stinson.
Insights into us
February 8, 2009
CHOOSE JOY!
Play the game!
Click on words images links
BREATHE SLOWLY, DEEPLY
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La Sylphide – A Dialogue through Poetry from M.A. Stinson’s Symphony in C Dance Spirit Poems
February 2, 2009
~A GRAIL QUEST~
The New Parable: LA SYLPHIDE FOR VOICE
Voice 1: James
“You who dance before my eyes,
Most ethereal beauty, diaphanous nymph,
I would have you, hold you, I must, I must!
I shatter upon seeing you, leaving and being with you,
I lie at your feet, consumed with the need of you,
my heart is dust!
To hold you to me always–I would cast a spell–with this silken scarf,
with this tenuous veil.”
Voice 2: the sylph
“And if you do so, most gentle James,
the opposite will come to pass:
Possess me and I will die.
Hold me motionless and silent, and I will forever elude you.
Grow with me
Ease into me
And what new birth might come to pass
You can not have me; you can not own what you can not touch.
I do not belong to your world the way you would have me be.
Dear James, let me be free,
and we shall dance here together, you and I, forever.
Walk beside me, serenade me, don’t you see?
Our spirits meet and merge.
We are bonded by a power most will never know,
And it can not be severed by distance or by death.
Come, be my lover on this plane, where spirit kindles spirit.
Let go, my friend, let go–of the veil, the scarf,
the slender thread of owning–
Do not hold me here to wait for death.
In reverence and celebration, today join your hand with mine.
In this space, this gathering place,
in this circle of Infinity,
Ah here, shall we truly be.“
Poem updated 2009 © 2005-2009 Melanie A. Stinson
There is an Epilogue to this poem, an ending/beginning. To read it, you will have to purchase the book, Symphony in C Dance Spirit Poems. Perhaps someday, there will be a new edition of the book with an ISBN number. Currently, it does not have one, and is available for purchase only through the link on the title of the book above. This book is currently rare and valuable. Such are Chalice vessels, and Grail and Avalon stone
Glasswing: symbol of transformation
Cinderella’s Slipper
Do you wear one today?
La Sylphide: a story who’s time has come
February 1, 2009
In a Washington Post article today, a man left a comment ridiculing ballet. I am all for the history of the classics being preserved in ballet, which is why it is included in my screenplay of La Sylphide. But I can understand why some people can’t get involved with the classics today (and might enjoy Balanchine or Robbins or some ultra contemporary pieces), and find little that is viable in the presentation of classical ballet that refers only to history and rigid tradition.
What such people, and the Washington Post commentator need, are a little dose of story telling relevant for today, and I mean a new version that comes winging in on the successes of Dancing with the Stars and Superstars of Dance, and, in a whole new realm of story telling adventure: films like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Batman Returns, Spiderman, and other quest epics.
Retelling fairy tales and ballet stories is something I enjoy and new experiences with them help to enlighten us about what we may be doing on this planet. These tales, as volunteers at New York City Ballet can attest, also allow us to entertain a new outlook on life. They enable those struggling with crises in their lives or seeking clues to life’s mystery, to find in make-believe, imagination, and the Soul/Sylphide not merely flights of fancy presented here, or in fantasy literature, but anchors of hope and divined destiny.
In ballet, these meditations and experiences are presented not in words but through symbol, and in the best cases in a sort of kinesthetic response via an engaging of the senses so profound that it is akin to a spiritual awakening, a restorative, or at best, to being transported as though by aliens to another planet, where the language of dance is telepathically conveyed.
Ballet is. As an “isness” vehicle, it can take us to the next incarnation of Indiana Jones, and in case you don’t realize it, that’s you and I cubed, or empowered by the mastery of story telling.
Conveying this dramatic and emotional “isness” is a challenge to be posed to our newest league of dance wizards: Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Melissa Barak, Benjamin Millepied, Edward Liang, Marie Chouinard, and others who are picking up their magic wands (a form of baton) from current wizarding teachers such as William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, Pina Bausch and others.
La Sylphide can be called many things:
- a quest
- a saga
- a soap opera
- a fairy tale
- a JEDI Master tale in which the Force is with and inside each participant in the experience and must be felt and connected with inside in order to move in a way most resonant with eliciting a response from opponents, allies, and participants in the story.
It is also about a near-death experience, with which the ballet in most incarnations, ends. In the Romantic Era, the hero, James Reuben, grieves and suffers, his “soul” dying with the sylph. In some versions, James dies himself. If viewers (kinesthetic participants) go backward from that end to review the entire story, what will each discover?
Ballet is an allegorical medium. It speaks in metaphor as the Bible and many sacred books speak. As Jesus spoke. This allows for interpretation by many kinds of people from diverse backgrounds. It also allows for spiritual renewal, divining, sanctuary, and hope.
Someday soon I will reveal how this ballet is a personal legend or metaphor for me, legend as described by a wise king who speaks about it in Paul Coehlo’s book, The Alchemist. As my personal legend, La Sylphide is also a quest. I personally resonate with viewing literature and life as quests. If you love ballet, a quest’s story that traditional and abstract ballets present may well be a way for you to “crack the code” to your life.
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The following online game has been adapted from THE BOOK OF RUNE CARDS, Sacred Play for Self-Discovery, published by of all things, Oracle Books/St. Martin’s Press, with commentary by Ralph Blum.
A time of reflection. A time when the body leaves earth destined to return to earth (as in burial). A time when the soul or spirit is separated from the body. Does consciousness go on?
To play this game with La Sylphide and yourself, consider:
- the way you have lived your life thus far
- What has been most difficult for you–how is it like James’, Mage, the sylphide’s, Gurn’s or Effie’s journey?
- What do you do best? How is this like what any of the characters in La Sylphide do best?
- What or whom do you love most? Again, reflect on the story line of La Sylphide. Without judgment, who does James love most? Who does the sylph love most?
- Does either character take a wrong turn? As in, do they move away in some fashion from who they love most?
- If they do not take a wrong turn in your mind, what is gained by their pursuing the one they love?
- Is something lost in this pursuit?
- Who is/are your enemy(ies)? Are there enemies in La Sylphide? If you see enemies in this story, how do you define enemies for yourself? How does the choreographer of the particular version(s) you have seen define them?
If you have followed this far, you may wish to receive entry into the fairy realms where the sylphs abide and where in the classic version, James temporarily gains entry. How is this realm evoked on earth in this ballet? (if you think woods, glades, water, nature, sacred beings you’re on the right track.) What are metaphors or symbols for this realm in your life?
I tend to update my blogs on Sundays, Mondays, and Fridays. If you have enjoyed reading and playing today, please stop back, subscribe to the RSS feed, or e-mail me to gain entry to the Field of Dreams via my entertainment channel. You can also follow me on Facebook or Twitter.
While I believe I will continue to write about La Sylphide here, I may be led astray by an alchemist like Madge, and find myself writing about The Grail, Avalon, the standing stones, or how we internalize a “havingness quotient.*”
–inscribed virtually today by The Crystal-Sylph, Weaver of Yarns & POFFF Master
http://melaniestinson.com – about the blogger from several perspectives.
Bringing in the dance of the sylphs: the sacred feminine
*Quote from this book by Diane Stein: Women in Flight to Joy
Reiki lets the sun rise again. Or else it allows us to allow ourselves to see that the sun rises and sets and there is day as a part of it.
Consider the uses of adversity and know that they are timely.
2 quotes from somewhere mixed in with the blues.
Color them neon.
Shock them white.
And when you’re through releasing that…
Go fly a kite…
one with an icicle tail exhaling its mother
another, lousy at stringing someone along.
Hanalei. Choose Paper less. Choose Simplicity.
This is my song.
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