The women united can never be divided!

"I believe that living together in PEACE and in HARMONY is the end result of the next leap in our conscious evolution as a species...with women leading the way. Certainly the world has tried living together another way for hundreds and hundreds of years! As we now sit on the brink of destruction of our entire planet and our species, I believe we realize it is time to move forward in a new and powerful way that requires a massive shift in our way of BE-ING together and in our consciousness. In waking up, we are realizing that our Earth does not have an endless supply of resources and through our greed and insatiable hunger for more, we are being forced to come to terms with the reality that we will soon have way overextended our stay! We recognize that we are moving dangerously close to the edge...the depletion of our clean water, our clean air, our clean, uncontaminated food sources. All the valuable and precious natural resources necessary to sustain life here on Earth are now threatened. I believe that it will take the awakening of the collective consciousness of the women of the world uniting in our efforts for peace and respect for the sanctity of all life to make the shift and save our world. Once the WOMEN of the world are unified in our efforts, I believe men will join us and bring about the necessary balance that will make the shift easier, but I believe that it will first require the unified efforts of all the women in the world and I don't believe it REQUIRES more than our own collective effort to make it happen! We KNOW as the powerful life givers, the nurturing mothers, the loving daughters, sisters, wives, and aunts, that we are truly one family on this planet. We have ONE HEART and we must make it our highest priority to reach out to one another and gain the strength and momentum we need to move forward and STOP the madness of war and greed that is destroying our planet. Wars have robbed of us of our precious sons ,our husbands , our brothers ,and our fathers for centuries! They have taken the lives of innocent mothers and children and left many more devastated by grief and fear in the wake of war for hundreds of years. We know that it can not go on any longer.I believe the waking up of the feminine energy will be instrumental in bringing about the shift and this energy will awaken in the men on the planet as well as the women, however, like the Dala Lama recently said at the peace conference in Vancouver, women must lead the way.
We, as women, KNOW that our planet , our Earth, provides us a sacred home that must be replenished and nurtured and respected if she is going to keep on giving and supporting life, just as we ourselves require and deserve this understanding and respect! We must empower ourselves individually and in our circles and our communities, and then we must reach across the land and the oceans to our less-advantaged sisters in need and do whatever we can to empower and strengthen them so that we become so large in numbers that we will not be silenced and we will not be stopped in our efforts to bring an end to this mindless and heartless machine of war and the aggressive consumption of our Earth's precious gifts. I believe we can do it. We can transform this destructive energy into something that is positive and creative and life-affirming. We must nurture our own souls, our creativity, our passion, our love, and our faith by whatever means necessary! We must sing and dance and make art and write and dream and love and share our stories and trust that a powerful and creative solution will come! We must keep our spirit's alive inside our selves and NEVER give up! Never doubt for a moment that when we choose to honor our SELVES by discovering our passions and pathways for their creative expression, we are taking the first steps toward empowerment and the eventuality of peace on Earth.

We have to be strong to wage peace and to become strong and to remain strong, we must feed and honor the life source, the chi, the soul, the heart, the spirit within, every day in any way that we can. Let go of the idea that to nurture your SELF when others are suffering so is an act of selfishness or self-centered-ness! That is a very old paradigm and must be quickly disposed of if we are to move forward as empowered beings! Listen closely to your heart, I pray, and even if your pain is great and your spirit is waning, trust that there is a song, a rhythm, a dance, a dream, a story that is yours and yours alone that NO ONE can take away and that only YOU can keep alive! If we are to save this world, we must find a way to sing our song, play our rhythm, do our dance, dream our dreams and share our stories so that our collective voice will be heard and our world will return to sanity and a new world order that is based on deep wisdom , a shared identity, and a compassion that allows us to see the world through another person's eyes and feel their pain, their tears, their laughter and their joy as our own.

The road may be long and hard and we may be walking on a path that is mostly an uphill journey, but together we can reach the mountain top! I feel truly inspired on this dark and rainy morning out here in Briarcliff, and that is because I have so much faith in the wonder and beauty of all of you, my sisters! Thank-you for being in my life.

Much love and peace to all of you,
Axe! Axe!

Sherry



Dear Friends,
At the recent, sold-out Peace Summit in Vancouver, His Holiness the Dalai Lama made a proclamation that stunned the crowd: "The world will be saved by the western woman." Last year, Maria Shriver's Women's Conference sold an astounding 14,000 tickets in the first 20 minutes after registration opened. The theme: "Women, the Architects of Change". Something big is stirring among us women. More of us than ever before are feeling called to awaken to the fullness of our authentic power and become active, engaged agents of change. We're hungry to express our creativity and find our voice. We sense intuitively that we have a critical role to play in shaping the future of our world. a href="http://theshiftmovie.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=982804697e2f5d169e7c04c7b&id=7eff07eb59&e=01a80909a8">http://theshiftmovie.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=982804697e2f5d169e7c04c7b&id=7eff07eb59&e=01a80909a8> a href="http://theshiftmovie.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=982804697e2f5d169e7c04c7b&id=7eff07eb59&e=01a80909a8">http://theshiftmovie.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=982804697e2f5d169e7c04c7b&id=7eff07eb59&e=01a80909a8>

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What is the significance of our role as women in shaping the future of our world?
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How can we unleash the fullness of our creativity and our voice?
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Where should we give our energy and attention in order to have the greatest impact?
How can we best work together and support each other fully in this process?