The Temple Magazine (19) May 2018

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Connect, transform & grow through Love, Soul & Spirit

May 2018 ISSUE 19

Adventure Articles PLUS monthly Tarot, Affirmations & Actions & much more

About The Temple The Temple Magazine was created by Leanne, The Barefoot Medium an International Medium & Channel, Intuitive Twin Flame, Love & Relationship & Business Coach as well as Author who is originally from Brisbane, Australia and lives in Colombia, South America. The Temple magazine is published each month to provide readers with wisdom, guidance, tips, tools, and interviews with experts, conscious practitioners, advocates & leaders in their field to support readers in their journey of connection, transformation and growth through Love, Soul and Spirit.

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Adventure in Love

BY LEANNE, THE BAREFOOT MEDIUM

Sit back, relax, take off your shoes and let’s take an adventure around love, relationships and intimacy. Intimate relationships are the greatest gifts and biggest challenges that we can experience in this journey called life as they teach us how to surrender, let go, open up, create healthy boundaries, acceptance of self, unconditional love as well as to experience romance, sensuality, sex and so much more!

As I connection with the Universal consciousness and the Divine, I am aware that many of you are being called at this time to reflect on their relationships, to release and shift through patterns of fear and clear blockages from the past which may be interfering with your current experience as they are no longer true for you or needed as you move forward in this adventure called life.

Spirit is asking me to share with you some insights about what they refer to as the five (5) Golden Threads that must be present to create strong, healthy and sustainable relationships between two individuals. These threads include:

1. Connection: This thread must be strong in four ways: a) Physically which includes chemistry, passion, excitement, playfulness, flirting, fun, meaningful closeness, intimacy and affection b) Mentally which involves shared visions, dreams and goals, effective communication, continually inspiring and sparking each other’s interest and curiosity as well as learning new things c) Emotionally which includes a shared willingness to heal and be vulnerable, understanding, compassion, empathy, heartfelt nurturing and affection and d) Spiritually which includes shared values and visions, to ability to witness each other’s experiences, support and help each other grow, see and recognise each other’s higher self and to be a spiritual companion 2. Communication: For this thread to be strong, healthy and to thrive you must have open and honest communication where you are able to be vulnerable (giving voice to thoughts and emotions) and totally transparent about everything going on, even if you do not feel it affects the other because

it may very well do – this requires you to have the courage to be authentic with each other 3. Trust: It is important for this thread to be strong and unbreakable in your connection with each other, that you remain in integrity with your values and each other, are able to be honest with your feelings, thoughts and actions 4. Honour & Respect: This thread askes that you honour and respect your own rights, desires, choices, wishes and needs within your connection by having the courage to acknowledge, accept and express what you want while letting go of control and expectations so you allow your partner the independence and freedom to also choose if they are able and/or willing to fulfil them – you also honour and respect your partners desires, needs and choices at the same time.

5. Love – This is the essential thread that connects you not only to your partner, to yourself and the Universe and source itself. For this thread to be healthy, give and receive from each other in balance, it cannot be measured and must be pure, authentic, free-flowing, joyful and unconditional.

• Where do I/we flow with connection, communication, trust, honour, respect and love?

• What is it that makes me/us happy, connected, loving and aligned?

• Is there a thread where I/we are experiencing a lack of flow or where I/we are not aligned?

• Is there a thread which contains junk, congestion, blockages, resistance or where I/we are holding back?

If you become aware of junk, congestion, blockages or resistance in any of your Golden Threads, whether experienced as fear, abandonment or betrayal, disrespect, humiliation, disappointment, dissatisfaction, hurt, unfulfillment, impatience, lack of trust, pressure, expectations, compromising or settling for less, illusions, judgements, conflict, insecurities, failure, shame, blame or simply not believing that all is possible, it is essential that you allow these to come to the surface so that you can release them and they no longer impact your connection in negative ways. By taking responsibility for clearing what is within and healing your own thoughts, emotions and patterns, you create the freedom and space you need to be able to transform your relationship and connection into that which you desire.

Once you have been able to clear, In any relationship, whether you have just met or have been together for some release, transform and shift through any time, it is essential to pause, take time to junk, congestion or resistance, you have reflect, on whether your Golden Threads an opportunity to refocus your energy and attention on growing what is are aligned and flowing in the same flowing, what is working, what is direction or if they are a mismatch, contain junk, are congested or blocked. aligned and in turn your connection will To do this, simply take some time to ask be lighter, loving and joyful as a result. yourself, individually or as a couple, the Some really easy ways to focus on growing what you desire include: following:

• Being consciously aware and in the moment • Acceptance • Meditation • Journaling • Play and fun • Sensuality • Dance • Sex • Vulnerability • Personal responsibility By allowing these to come up and into your conscious awareness so you can release them and create the freedom you desire to manifest and create the connections and relationships you desire.

So, how are you flowing with your adventure around love, relationships and intimacy? Are you in the gift or the challenge side of the path? What is it teaching you and do you need help and support to be able to create the healthy, fulfilling and loving relationship your soul desires? Reach out and take an adventure to Shift your Sh*t so you can start achieving your dreams around love, relationships and intimacy.

Leanne, The Barefoot Medium is an International Medium, Intuitive Twin Flame, Love, Relationship & Business Coach & Author www.thebarefootmedium.com.au

Adventure: Through Eyes of Joy!

BY PHOEBE AND PAUL HOOGENDYK We were thinking about this word and what it might conjure up in people’s minds so thought a dictionary definition might be appropriate. Then we began to look at the origin of the word itself.

In Latin it meant “to arrive.” In old French it meant "chance, accident, occurrence, event, happening.” It then went through many evolutions of adding the ad to taking it away and the meaning changed from “risky and dangerous to “a wonder, a miracle, an account of marvellous things.”

adventure! To be honest we arrived here many moons ago and it wasn’t an easy journey for a lot of the time.

Yet it is a journey we would do all over again to be where we are today on all levels of our being.

Helen Keller once wrote: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring So somewhere in amongst all those adventure or nothing. To keep our meanings the word adventure means faces toward change and behave like what to you? free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

For us, our whole lives are an adventure. Meaning not only have If adventure for you is too risky and you we been on marvellous, risky, would prefer to not venture out then dangerous adventures but we have please feel free to do just that. What is also told our accounts in story form of that saying? “Nothing ventured, these wondrous travels. All filled with nothing gained.” In the very least events, happenings, miracles and moving out of your perceived security awesome occurrences …. and finally will widen your comfort zone to where we feel we have at last “arrived” at a you never imagined it could go. point in our lives where each day Eventually even the thoughts that holds the promise of an amazing come into your head will be an

adventure within itself.

Life is for the living and for living, no matter your challenges in this time and at this time, be they mental, emotional, spiritual or physical….you can always in some way, be it little or small move beyond where you are right now, if you want to.

If we had decided that the task spirit had set out for us was going to be too risky, we would have missed out on so much. The whole world opened up to us not only on the seen level but on the unseen levels as well.

Are we saying that you should do things that would put you physically at risk…no we are not! Simply looking at life through eyes of joy opens your life up to new adventures.

Step up, step out, be bold, be brave, be afraid and do it anyway!

“Follow Your Hearts and Live Your Dreams”

By Phoebe and Paul Hoogendyk of Ancient Pathways a company dedicated to personal and spiritual development through Ancient wisdom.

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Adventure for Growth

BY MEAGAN LEIGH COHN All spirits embodied on Earth have a desire, craving & unquenchable thirst for growth, expansion, contribution and connection. The many opportunities in life that offer us this, usually involve us going beyond our comfort zones, overcoming fear and doubt and having the courage to embrace the adventure of life.

on different personality types. For some, it will light them up with intrigue, curiosity and stimulate their appetite for new experience. For others it will feel overwhelming, they’ll want to shy away from the unpredictability and lack of control over what may be to follow.

Whichever personality type you are, our spirits all crave expansion, growth, contribution and Googles definition of Adventure is “an unusual connection, as I mentioned before. Oftentimes and exciting or daring experience.” this involves doing something daring and unusual. Out of the norm and going beyond Can our whole lives become an adventure? Or are they already an adventure, regardless of how our comfort zone. This can be an enticing, true adventure but also a source of fear and anxiety we live them, simply by experiencing the because you’re venturing into the unknown. unavoidable unpredictability of life (No matter But to live a life that is fulfilling, we must follow how well one tries to map it all out.)? that still small voice inside that’s whispering to It reminds me of the saying attributed to Pierre us to follow your true heart’s desire.

Teilhard de Chardin “You are not a human being The difference between your life being an in search of a spiritual experience. You are a overwhelming, fear producing experience and spiritual being immersed in a human being an exciting, expansive adventure is your experience.” outlook. Plus, your ability to let go, release And if that’s not an adventure, I don’t know control and surrender to what is. Even if ‘what what is! is’, is not how you planned. Three ways to help you do this, is; The word adventure can mean anything from

travelling the globe to exploring the inner worlds of your consciousness and spirituality.

The word adventure will have different effects

Regular Meditation- Meditation is a powerful and simple (but not always easy) way to cultivate equanimity, peace and acceptance with what is and to find true peace and joy within, no matter the outward circumstances.

Prayer – Prayer has been used throughout human history. It’s provided people with a sense of connection to something greater than themselves, empowerment, peace and comfort.

Prayer can help us ride the waves of life, feeling safer and protected.

Contemplation- Contemplate how it might feel if you just let go and allowed things to happen rather than trying to make them happen. Might it feel like freedom & ease compared to having a death grip on life and trying to control everything?

Like Abraham-Hicks says, let go of the oars and let the current carry you downstream.

Because nothing that you want is upstream.

Einstein said, “The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” If you choose to believe we are in a friendly universe, that perception can shape your reality to reflect exactly this sentiment back to you. Its neuroscience & the art of spirituality!

This allows you to enjoy any and all adventures that life has to offer. Be it your outward journey’s around the world or our inward journeys of continuous selfdiscovery and acceptance.

Meagan has 17 years’ experience as an energetic healing & meditation facilitator and holistic skincare therapist. Her passion, purpose and mission is to help others along their path of healing, transformation and deep relaxation on every level.

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Adventure is constant

BY HIDALGO VILLAMIL ESCORCIA

Hidalgo is International Relations & Marketing Manager & Coach as well as a Cultural Guide for Cosmo Dorado (Cultural & Spiritual Tours & Retreats in Colombia, South America) Website: www.cosmodorado.com

The adventure begins from the moment in which the sperm joins with the ovule and forms a new being, being that in the first weeks of gestation it is a small microorganism, after a few weeks it begins to have shape and meaning. At this moment a link is formed with the mother that is much higher.

When we enter into the love of a couple for the first time we think that it will be eternal, we enter a world of happiness and we imagine that it will never end until the moment of separation arrives and we think that the world ends.

All these events of life turn you into an adventurer I mention love because for I talk about the beginning of life because this stage of life this feeling plays an many people see life in a complicated important role in the emotional way, but it is really simple from the development of people. A child or beginning, it is only to have the courage young person lacking love and with bad and the will to live to face it. relationships within their family nucleus will have difficulties for their personal After the birth a new adventure begins for development. the parents and the baby, where daily caring becomes a beautiful adventure in Many times when you are young you which everyone will have an important want to come of age and become role and must contribute enough to independent to have freedom, freedom create their personality and instill their that is often confused with debauchery, values, but only this is apart of the it is at this time when the reality of your beginning of life. actions can result in difficulties to face life from a point of coherent view, some Now let's talk about a real adventure, become irrational and not very selfwhen we reach adolescence and we evaluative, they only want to live the begin to have a number of sensations and moment without being able to take into emotions due to the Hormonal change, account the mistakes made. However, here everything gets complicated and we all these stages are part of life making it fall into a state of existential crisis, any a world with a sense to live and find a event that happens in our lives will be at way to live, the important thing of all that time very important.

this is not to follow the same mistakes and look for changes that can improve the environment to be able to continue in the adventure.

It is clearer when you reach the adult stage because you should know what you really want, but in some cases it is when you face the real adventure, because you are supposed to be independent at that moment. Â When human beings become more dependent , dependent on a couple, money and all those material things that can give emotional stability, economic aspects and quality of life, but forget what really provides you with tranquility, I mean the spiritual life.

Because the moment you get to know your soul and the true feelings of selflove and love for others, is when the universe provides you with all those things you need to live in abundance.

Obviously, every human being must be aware of their life and their actions, because if mistakes are made and actions are not taken to correct them when you identify them, surely your adventure will be subject to stagnation and suffering. Then you must take the pertinent actions to make your lives a CONSTANT ADVENTURE and fun, because adventure only begins in this world .

Imagination and Adventure

BY LAUREN SIETZEMA

Adventure is to explore the unknown, making new discoveries within the world or even within us. Adventure is treating new things like exciting opportunities to grow & be pushed in ways we never thought possible.

world, travel, go skydiving and try new activities, all of which are great adventures. But what about the fact that we are on a journey right now, an adventure that really we don’t know what can happen next and a journey we However, we may have blocks surrounding our are completely in control of. Who knows the ability to have adventures & feel that true people we will meet, the conversations we can adventure is only reserved for the rich, young, have, or the opportunities we can take to love, capable or fearless. When so much fear laugh and feel joy. surrounds things that we view as new or risky, we lose our sense of adventure. At some point If we start to look at our life as one big while we matured we may have lost our opportunity for exploration and adventure, life enthusiasm; for ourselves & our lives and resign will indeed seem adventurous. If our very life is to the idea that life is supposed to be mundane an adventure then you can’t use excuses like & repetitive because ‘that’s just how life is lack of time or money to find adventure, right?’ because you are already there and adventure This belief system becomes so engrained in our psyche that we forget how to dream, create or even use our imagination. Imagination is also believed to be childish and a waste of time, when it is actually a valuable tool. I am a firm believer that our thoughts & beliefs form our perceptions of reality, therefore are the catalysts for creating your life. If you can’t imagine or dream it then how can you expect to see it?

What I ask is that you change your perception of your reality to one that views it as an adventure within itself. We can explore the

finds you.

Making a conscious decision to experience more adventure in life will enrich your overall happiness & health. It will free you from invisible walls, restrictions or distractions that are keeping you from experiencing the full joy of what your life has to offer you.

To help you live a more adventurous life, I ask that you develop your imagination as you would any skill or muscle. Take time everyday to dream of wonderful fantastic things that bring you joy. Your energy will begin to vibrate and become aligned with the experience of

adventure & ultimately invites it into your world to manifest in the physical. Imagination has no boundaries so why not indulge within it. Read more books, make art, learn or teach others by making an effort to discuss interesting subjects, the possibilities are endless.

To be adventurous is not to be weighed down; this is a state of mind not a physical state of being

Lauren is a psychic medium living in Brisbane who brings through messages from spirit, guides and loved ones.

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Magic is All Around

BY JULYE-AMBER RZOSKA From the moment you are born there is a world full of possibilities ahead of you. A world of surprises, a world of everyday things and also a world filled with extraordinary beauty.

There will be twists and turns, opportunities, losses and lots of other things that will cross your path and it is how you look at it, your perspective that will make all the difference. You have a choice, you can look at the brighter side or the darker side of things, you can choose to participate or not, you can choose to see opportunities or see blockages.

It doesn’t matter where you are in your life or who you are, the choices you make in life is where your power resides.

When you decide that life is for living, and not just for putting one foot in front of the other; that change in attitude will open your eyes to the possibilities of what is and what life could be.

Life is an adventure when you choose to make it so. When you decide to live it your way, things will begin to change. You will begin to see things differently, your life will open up to the possibilities you didn’t see before and before you know it, you will be doing things you didn’t previously think were possible.

Ask yourself, what can I do today for a better tomorrow? What can I do

differently to bring me closer to what I desire?

It’s about enjoying life, appreciating and enjoying the moments and being grateful for the little things in life. It’s about exploring your world around you with fresh eyes. Be like a tourist and see all the amazing things around you that you may have taken for granted. Try new things, explore, learn, take a chance and get out of your comfort zone every now and again.

Remember that what adventure means for you will be different to someone else. It is your life and your desires.

It’s up to you to lift your head up from what you think you know. To open your eyes and heart to see the wondrous opportunities that are around you and grab them with both hands. Live your life and celebrate who you are.

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DIVINE FEMININE BY LEANNE, THE BAREFOOT MEDIUM The card that the Universal consciousness is bringing forward for the Divine Feminine for the month of May is all about abundance, finances, wealth as well as opportunities around connection with your partner and others in your life. This card asks you to remain solidly focused on love, visualizing what it is that you want and desire as you move forward and to flow with what comes your way. When you are clear and know exactly what it is that you desire, send it out to the Universe, whether in writing or verbally, and surrender control to the Divine to bring it to you at the exact right timing. This is what being in the flow is about, surrendering, trusting and knowing 100% that what it is you are asking for is already done! All you need to do is relax, stay open and be in the energy of joy, fun and love so that it flows to you with ease and grace.

DIVINE MASCULINE BY HIDALGO VILLAMIL ESCORCIA Clinging to the past can sometimes be counter productive, you are a beautiful being full of qualities and skills that you can use daily to get what you want. In May you can open your heart to find love and leave behind the things that have made you unhappy, since the person who did not love you lost a wonderful human being who will surely find love.

More than love you will find tranquility and abundance that your life needs, being in contact with nature and quiet places will do much good for your mood, believing in you will be of great help to externalise the beauty of your soul, reflecting your true feelings. Because in this month you can show the romanticism that lives in you.

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