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 Diamonds are Forever - February, 2010
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pearls & forbidden fruit
Feb 21st Sunday Retreat
Orchid Children
Baffled Queen excerpt
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Angela Hryniuk
58 Hayward Ave.
Cashmere, QLD 4500
Australia
Bookings: 3367 1950
Info: 0416 563 663
 
#309-402 West Pender St.
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1T6
Canada
604 321 2670
 
Skype: angela.hryniuk
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Special thanks goes out to Liz at Sowelu Clinic for coming to house sit and take care of my cat while I'm away in Canada. Also to Roechelle Williams, Ananda Mahony and Karen Anderson who continue to be great sources of inspiration and from whom I am learning daily! 
 
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Dear Angela,
February is a transition month for me. At the end of it I'll be travelling back to Vancouver to work there until early May.
 
January whooshed by with intensity and we saw the end of the stalling and dragging Mercury Retrograde. Retrogrades are when the planet actually travels backwards... and in the case of the planet Mercury electronic equipment (computers, TVs, dishwashers) break down, communications get very confused with messages not being received, appointments cancel and people mis-interpret each other. One is encouraged NEVER to begin something new in this 3 week period, rather just finish old projects.
 
January has been a wonderful month filled with spiritual counselling at Sowelu, in Brisbane as well as making Tax Appointments for Vancouver. I'll be returning to Canada February 26th, and be back in the office March 1st. If you haven't booked your appointment yet, call me on the Toll Free number from Canada on 604.321.2670 to set something up!

The Second of the Sunday Retreats/Workshops: Overcoming Addictions: Learning to be Human will happen February 21st in Cashmere. Did you know that only 4% of the population is in active recovery? Are you part of that 4%? Because it's Valentine's month I've made a special two-for-one offer if you bring a friend! Only $99 for two of you if you book before this Monday, February 15th.

You'll notice in this newsletter a web address for my new Blog,http://diamondthought.blogspot.com/  as well as new short Video I created earlier this month. I'm slowly upgrading all my tools to reach and hopefully benefit more people in more places at once.
 
Lastly, in my Meditation Class last night at Sowelu a number of students requested that I clone myself when I return to Canada so that someone could continue teaching them while I'm gone. Roechelle Williams, the Director of Sowelu Clinic, awhile back had put a bug in my ear to begin Teleconferencing my Classes so as to broadcast much further afield than one city. So now it will come to pass. My Brisbane class is willing to be my guinea pigs with this experiement. I will send out the link, cost and times for the continuation of Guided Meditation Class when everything gets organized. I don't want too much of a break; next Wednesday is our last gathering, so look forward in March to my first ever Cyber-Class.
 
I'm including a link to an article entitled "Orchid Children" I think a lot of you would find quite fascinating from the December issue of Atlantic Monthly. We've all heard of Indigo kids, let me introduce you to Orchid Children. Those of us who possibly have a particular gene on our DNA strand that make us more sensitive to our environments, (hence orchid) and will thrive, in optimal conditions. I'm simplyfying this intriguing article. Have a read.
 
A newsletter I like and that I subscribe to that sends out Channelled messages from time to time which I feel are authentic and valid you can find through http://www.u-r-light.com/html/sample_newsletter.html. Check it out if it interests you.
 
So I'm wishing love and equanimity during this Valentine's month to you all. And may we come to understand the true nature of love, as a state of complete unity, beyond the simplified concept of romance and good feelings.
 
In peace,
Angela HryniukAngela arms crossed
pearls & forbidden fruit, (2008)  $12.95 (usually $18.95)
 
30% Savings!
 
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The PEEEEERFECT GIFT for Valentine's Day! A book of sensuous, beautiful and erotically illustrated love poetry written by moi, and illustrated by Argentinian artist Norah Patrich.

Contact me directly at ahryniuk@telus.net
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Sunday Group Retreat  
 
February 21st
Overcoming Addictions:  
Learning to be Human
 
Come learn tools to alleviate anxiety & bring more joy in your life!
In this retreat/workshop we will explore what addiction is, then look at both the light and dark sides of it- the escape and adrenaline rush contrasted with the shame and self-hatred.  Discussion, meditations, sharings, information, swimming and a whole lot more.
 
$99 before Feb.15th
 $125/day after
Bring a friend along for FREE!
 
9:00a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Venue: 58 Hayward Ave.
Cashmere, 4500
Bookings: 3367 1950
or 0416 563 663 (Brisbane) 

More information: ahryniuk@telus.net
 
 
 
Orchid Children
 
Taken from The Atlantic Monthly (December issue),
by David Dobbs
 
Most 
of us have genes that make us hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankinds' phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success.  
Book Excerpt
 
The Hallway

 

    There are rooms of the mansion yet to be discovered. There are ornate staircases that need to be described. Closets to be cleaned. Rooms and windows to be opened.  This fine, majestic house that we are, was created by a divine architect, that both contemporary and ancient saints and sages all have come to live in comfortably. It's pretty radical to think and to experience the fact that there is only love, and all else is conditioning and a learned program. Radical. Yet true.

   We are finding out who the real master is, and how we need to serve. We need to learn about the process, ourselves; everything else must wait. Service to self is service to others. We may question how can we be of service simply by writing, painting, singing, experiencing these feelings and thoughts. I beg you to Stay in the question. Make no conclusions.  We are serving the grandest version of the greatest vision of who we really are. 

 

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  This truly is a mystery. We are living a mystery for which we have few answers. Each day is a like a treasure hunt or a novel and we are the prize at the end of the chase, or the character in the story. We search for clues in what people say, watch carefully to what is offered to us or simply appears in front of us.  As each of us raises our personal level of consciousness so do we raise the energetic (playing) field for the world. That is a given. It's not always so clearly seen or understood but we live in an energetic field or soup where everyone and everything is interconnected. Even in this self expression, through these words, there is a higher purpose.  

 
Two exceprts from The Baffled Queen , a book of non-fiction exploring conscious change, yet to find a publisher.
 
 
 
Once again thank you all in Brisbane and Canada who support the work and growth of Diamond Thought.
 
XX Angela