Hello friend,

November Continuum 2011

I've been resting up, since touring Australia with Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine. And what an amazing and fun time we had! Thank you to everyone who attended and who helped make it happen. A special THANK YOU to my shining partner Alan, whose love ensured a dream envisioned! Camille's 2012 Meditation Secrets for Women on-line course is now open. Look out for my new BLOG - 'THE RUNAWAY NUN' & NEW STORE in early 2012!

FREE MP3 SPOT MEDITATION 
Take action, relax regularly into your day and listen to our two minute MP3 - 'The Tension Destroyer'.

PRIVATE MEDITATION COACHING WITH ARIAN
To meditate successfully it helps to have PRIVATE COACHING right from the start, that way you know exactly what works for you. Learn how your own individual approach matters and why; your health & happiness depend on it!

6,000 STUDIES ON MEDITATION ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Institute of Noetic Sciences has launched the most comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography of published scientific studies on meditation in the world. Originally co-founded & edited by Michael Murphy, co-founder of Esalen Institute, it has over 6,000 citations & growing. As well as religious, the work includes research on the physiological, behavioural & subjective themes of meditation. Read

50 YEARS OF BUDDHISM IN THE WEST
What have we learned? During the 60s disaffected, educated Westerners travelled to Asia with a spiritual hunger so huge that Asian teachers came in droves. How has Buddhism defined your life? How has your teacher's social, political and cultural ways shaped your sense of self and how you view intimacy, desire, the world? Who would think to openly question some of the very practices taught as a vehicle to happiness? Read an article by Lewis Richmond.

MONKEYS MEDITATE FOR MARSHMALLOWS
According to the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, in New Scientist, monkeys changed their brain activity and consciously changed their mood or state of mind, when given a marshmallow. Read

EARTH TIME LAPSE VIEW FROM SPACE
Watch an extraordinary time lapse sequence of photographs taken by the crew on board the International Space Station, from August to October, 2011...spellbounding, entrancing!

REFLECTION
Several years after giving back my monastic vows as a nun, I began Jungian Analysis. It was 1994 and I was given the following poem by Robert Bly (below). I was not in relationship, but I could appreciate my yearning for one and I kept it close to my heart. Now that I am in relationship after many practice runs in attempted unions, and for as long as I can remember, the words held  promise; a constant reminder in which I felt this poem walked me towards my future and stayed as my home. I've often found poetry an anchor, especially in times of uncertainty, great poetry does that, stripping the veils of pretense and revealing a recognition of universal experience. I lovingly dedicate this poem to my husband Alan; my marriage is my sutra, my guru, my path; I am blessed beyond belief!

THE THIRD BODY
By Robert Bly

'A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long
At this moment to be older, or younger, or born
In any other nation, or any other time, or any other place.
They are content to be where they are, talking or not talking.
Their breaths together feed someone whom we do not know.
The man sees the way his fingers move;
He sees her hands close around a book she hands to him.
They obey a third body that they share in common.
They have promised to love that body.

Age may come; parting may come; death will come!
A man and a woman sit near each other;
As they breathe they feed someone we do not know,
Someone we know of, whom we have never seen.'

Until next time in love
Be the enlightenment you are seeking,

arian@arianyoung.com.au
www.arianyoung.com.au

The Intrinsic Group

Phone 1300 020 030

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