L.A. Visit, Ripples of Gratitude Resource Fair & Soul Art Collage Workshop

I feel such profound love, appreciation and gratitude for everyone, for everything, for all that is my life! It is with infinite love and gratitude I express appreciation for Karen and Sherri’s encouragement and support of my Spiritual Art, Soul Art, Journal, and Collage Workshops and for shining their light in support of “Awakened Heart” and “Family ∞ Love, Together we make a difference.” We are all connected and to understand our link to water enables us to embrace life with the attitude of infinite love and gratitude. It is with great JOY I accepted the invitation to present my Soul Art Collage Workshop at the 7th Annual Best Practices “Ripples of Gratitude” Resource Fair.

Both Sherri Jaye and Jane Young connected with me via the World Wide Gratitude forum in 2006!!! What drew me to WWG was the desire to connect with others who choose to be positive in gratitude and live from the heart. WWG provided a space to cultivate habits of love, appreciation and gratitude shining light on our life experiences blessed us with wonderful opportunities to co-create, for individual inspiration and growth.

It was through my sharing of my life, my spiritual journey, art and my being one of Dr. Emoto’s Hado Instructors that Sherri connected with my “Awakened Heart” painting. Sherri felt its vibration resonated with the 2007 Resource Fair’s theme “Healing the Heart.” Karen and Sherri honored me and my vision of healing and peace by displaying the “Awakened Heart” framed prints and the “Awakened Heart” cards throughout the Resource Fair.

My presenting the Soul art Collage workshop at the 7th Annual Best Practices “Ripples of Gratitude” Resource Fair in Los Angeles February 11, 2008 also gifted me an opportunity to enjoy several days with my daughter, Heather. In this wonderful movie Jane Young entwines both beautifully. I felt guided to share Jane’s monthly inspirational movies with Sherri Jaye and imagine my delight in experiencing Jane’s breathtaking visual meditation inspired by Dr. Emoto’s work with “Messages from the Water” and “Love Thyself” play continuous throughout the morning!

In the 7th Annual Best Practices in Counseling Resource Fair’s theme, “Ripples of Gratitude,” Karen L. Timko, Coordinator of Primary Intervention Counseling Services and Elementary School Programs shares from the heart! “Ripples of Gratitude, has given me the opportunity to explore the role that gratitude plays in our work and our lives. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin root gratia meaning “grace,” “graciousness,” or “gratefulness” and is generally understood to be an appreciation that one has benefited from the efforts of another. Relatively new studies are revealing that there are practical applications that can yield very positive results for us and for the students and families we work with. According to the research project on gratitude and thankfulness conducted by Emmons and McCullough, simply keeping a gratitude journal led people to report that they exercised more, regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic about the upcoming week. Participants who kept gratitude lists were more likely to have made progress toward academic, interpersonal, and health-based goals. In another 21-day intervention, participants reported great levels of high energy, positive words, a greater sense of feeling connected to others and more optimistic rating of one’s life. There is also growing evidence that gratitude and related states may positively impact cardiovascular and immune responses as well.”

Sherri Jaye, MS, LMFT PIC/PSA Counselor and Resource Fair Chairperson shares from the heart! “While I was thinking about this, the theme “Ripples of Gratitude,” came to me. I believe that if I can share my happiness, my experiences, my deep and sincere feelings of gratitude with others, that they will feel my joy, peacefulness, gratitude and then feel better themselves, and thus spread this ripple effect to others.” Dr. Emoto says, “It’s only when you like who you are, feel grateful for your existence, and respect yourself that you’re able to have the same feelings toward other people. The nature of vibrations is such that negative resonates only with negative and positive resonates only with positive. No matter how much you say and think good things, you can’t give off good vibrations as long as you have a distorted image of your substance. When we shine and keep sending out positive vibrations, they reach the people and the water around us, and eventually they spread like ripples all over the world.”

Blessings of all things good always in all ways with infinite love and gratitude, Eveline Smith

Children's Soul Art Collage Workshops

“Sacred begins at the tip of your tongue. Be careful when speaking. You create the world around you with your words.” ~ (Navajo Elder Traditionalist; Two - Spirit People

“Miracle of Water Enters My Life” by Kathleen Little Leaf

My name is Kathleen Little Leaf, I am Native American from a Canadian Tribe part of the Pikuni Nation or the Blackfoot Nation. Blackfoot Nation consists of four clans of Blackfoot, the Blood Tribe (Standoff Alberta), Siksika Tribe (Cluny Alberta), Peigan Tribe (Brocket Alberta), and Blackfeet Tribe (Browning Montana), from the United States. And I was very happy to take part in Maria’s Soul Art.

My children; Jessica, Tabetha, Levi, Brendon, Imari and Sterling also participated where she volunteered and came to my home to share Soul Art teachings and Dr. Masaru Emoto’s Miracle of Water with my children as well as my friend, Renee LaPlant and her son Jhett.

The Miracle of Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto entered my life at a time where I needed rejuvenation of mind, heart, and body. My life’s journey has led me to the places where I need to be and I am grateful to be led with teachings of the power of water.

In Dr. Emoto’s research he has found how words affect water and the healing words of gratitude and love. I was taken quickly to Dr. Emoto’s work with water and crystals since I could relate his teachings to my cultural teachings especially through a book which I use daily for healing with my clients and self: The Red Road to Wellbriety In the Native American Way, White Bison Inc. This book addresses getting sober from substances through circle teachings in Native American culture. The White Bison teachings teach how it is possible to have a good mind, and good heart through change of thought, feeling, vision and the power of words. http://www.whitebison.org/home.html

The Native American Cultural teachings and The Miracle of Water interconnect, as they both show us the importance of understanding Nature and learning from Nature and understanding the Universe. It is important to implement good thought, feeling, vision and words in daily living and understand things come to us in a reciprocal through the Law of the Universe in the White Bison Teachings and power of words in the Miracle of Water. The negative or positive message one sends out is reciprocated back to its original messenger this is why it is important to understand the power of thought, words, feeling, and vision. And, that change is possible, healing can happen through individual, family, community, and nation. It is with understanding of both teachings; the Miracle of Water and the White Bison Circle that healing is possible creating a ripple effect to the rest of our world and it begins through us as individuals, who then can lead to good and prosperity for us all, Nature and Mother Earth.