Following is a brief message from The Oracle:

We beckoned a group to Bali, the journey that Kris & Kalyn just took. We did this because we wanted people to connect with the essence of Bali, thus allowing them to tap into and experience a flow of well-being, nourishing them and we wanted them to connect with their Essential Selves. Your Essential Self is the aspect of you that resides between energy & form and navigates both in a harmonic Golden Flow.

If you have opportunity to go somewhere or do something that will tap you into such well-being that you feel content, pleased and fulfilled for days on end, we urge you to do so. This will help you connect with Who you truly are and with your Essential Self.

It is important to do so, especially as this is what you are here to do in this time, this time of alignment and connection to your Source Energy. It is here that you will live a life of heaven on earth, as you are meant to.

by Kalyn

To make a long story short,” I began, “we sawThe Town, ( movie) which was about a bank robber trapped in his own life. He wants to change, but he is being blackmailed into the next robbery. In the end, his three friends and partners are killed in a robbery and he loses his girlfriend because he has to flee from the FBI. He leaves his girlfriend a note saying that ‘even thought we may change our lives, we still have to pay for our mistakes.”

My girlfriend listened intently because she is also a client of mine and knew this was going to relate to her.

“My point is, you are like him, you are going to have to pay for your robberies; only with you it is about the mistakes you have made with your family, your friends and your money. Like Doug in the movie, you have to own your life now that it is catching up with you. He is ready to accept the consequences of his actions; he is embracing what has happened and you need to do the same.”

“I understand. I really have made some mistakes,” she responded solemnly to me. “But I’m scared of the consequences.”

“Why would you be scared of the consequences?” I asked.

“Because I’m afraid I’ll be punished.” She says, nodding her head.

“By who?”

“By God.” She answered, laughing a bit because she knew what I was about to respond.

“God doesn’t punish. Being with your consequences and embracing them will change your life. It will also empower you.”

“I can see that. If I am with my consequences, I’ll be with myself and that is empowering.”

I liked the movie The Town because Ben Affleck’s character, Doug, is empowered and he does accept the choices he has made in his life, choices which cost him dearly. It was a great reminder of the importance of owning our lives, even when we feel trapped, like Doug.

The movie did a great job of capturing that sense that we just don’t have a choice in life when we see Doug being blackmailed into the next job and the next; or when it shows that his family and his hole neighborhood know of no other way to live life. Even his efforts to get out and change his life are pointless until almost everyone around him is dead.

Dramatic? Yes, but this is how we all feel at one time or another. Our circumstances may be far less severe but the feeling that we are trapped and that life is offering nothing else is very real and very common.

Actually, this is why my girlfriend is tangled in her current circumstances. She perpetually felt that she had to take what she wanted in life and make things happen. By pushing the river out of a fear that life (or people in her life) would not provide for her, she has brusquely forced things to happen, often at the cost of those around her.

Now that things have caught up with her, like Doug in the movie, it is time for her to realize that she does have choice or alternatives in life. She is beginning to see that there is abundance in life and for her, when she allows it.

What does she need to do now to correct this? She simply needs to acknowledge the choices she has made and the way it has affected her, her life and the people she cares about. By doing this she will be embracing her past. This will enable her to deeply see her life differently so that she can begin to perceive life as giving to her, (as opposed to her current view that it will punish her or take things away from her). When she embraces this too then she will begin to feel differently about life and about herself; she will automatically make more love-based choices (instead of her old fear-based choices) and she will enter into a flow of harmony where her dreams will come true, without her forcing them. Like Doug, she will find freedom in a new way of living.

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Written by: Kalyn B Raphael
Kalyn is the Co-Founder of the Golden Flow™ System, is a Coach of Coaches, a Channel, Author, and a Spiritual Life Coach. She dedicates herself to helping others live in the flow of well-being by living their authenticity. Learn more about Kalyn at http://kalynraphael.com or subscribe to her women’s newsletter at http://golden-flow-system.com/joynews

Its October now!

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Taken from Kalyn’s Newsletter Flowing Towards Love & Joy for women. Subscribe at http://bit.ly/joynews

When you know yourself and you give yourself the time and space to know what you dream about, life becomes enchanted. Whether you are focused on your dreams, on improving your life or on making positive changes, one thing remains constant: you are listening to and empowering one of your guidance systems.

Sure some people are naturally more in touch with their guidance systems than others, but you can be one of the in touch people. The first key is to know yourself, including what you dream about. Once you allow your hopes, dreams, wishes, wants or desires to come forward then you need to allow yourself to live them.

Key #2: Owning Your Life

Part II: Owning Your Life

You are most strongly guided when you own our lives. Every day everyone makes choices and decisions. Our choices may seem small and insignificant most of the time, with only major choices being made occasionally, but they still are choices. When you recognize that you have made these choices and that you are the one, therefore, affecting your life then you empower yourself.

People who own their choices begin to realize that they begin to receive guidance through their choices. In addition to experiencing the results of their choices, they also begin to receive feedback and guidance about which choices are wise, which choices lead to better experiences and which do not.

Knowing yourself means that you know what you want to do with your life and in your life; owning the choices that you then make means that you are placing yourself in the driver’s seat, where you experience a vantage point that lets you see the road, see what is coming and automatically puts you in a far more empowered position.

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Article by Kalyn B Raphael taken from Flowing Into Joy & Love  Newsletter – to read other articles or to subscribe, please go to http://golden-flow-system.com/joynews

Part I: Miracles & Magic

Do you believe in miracles or magic? Should you? Should you not?

I must say that in today’s day and age it can be easy to fall into feeling like you better believe in miracles, because something has to save us from the economy. On the other hand, it is also easy to think you better not, because you must be real and rely on what will be reliable in these challenging times. Especially with 2012 coming our way.

Believing in something more, something beyond our physical realm is a very personal thing. Some people are religious or spiritual, others are agnostic.

Regardless of what you do or do not believe, you can know what is occurring. We all know that we are living though some challenging times. We also know that things are changing, such as the world’s climate. If you take note of world events, there are definitely shifts occurring.

The truth is that there are always shifts occurring: seasons are always changing and there is always something affecting humanity. For example, in the sixties there was a large movement toward breaking away from rigidity. Rebellion became popular and hippies introduced free love and peace.

There truly always is something occurring. So, the question is, what is occurring now and do we need a miracle?

From a Life Coach or a spiritual perspective, there is a shift toward becoming Who we truly are. What this means this year is that, miracles or not, dreams are coming true.

It may seem obvious, but not everyone knows what they dream of or what they would like their lives to be like. Our dreams are actually a key guidance system for us, nudging and prodding us in the direction we are meant to go and in the direction that will bring us fulfillment. Knowing what we prefer, how we would like to be and what we would like to experience is basic to some people, but unknown to others. This is the first key to keeping in the flow of the times:

Key #1: Know Yourself

Spiritual Cinema: Eat Pray Love

Imagine, spending a year seeking pleasure! In this movie, as you may know, the main character spends a year in three countries, finding the theme of her time in each to be the food she ate, learning to meditate and falling in love. Leaving her life and reoccurring problems behind, she takes a year to try to improve her life, deciding that waking up unhappy and unenthusiastic about life is not a way to live.

Now that is living a spiritual priority! Deciding that having a joyous life is more important than having a stable life or a relationship, or even your friends around is truly living your spiritual priority.

The truth is that many of us miss one of the key messages of the book/movie. In Italy she is told that Americans tend to busy themselves, missing the “dolce far niente” aspect of life, meaning the sweetness of doing nothing. This is because many of us have a deep-seeded belief or premise about life that promises that if we don’t work hard, which excludes enjoying some time to relax, we won’t have what we want or need in life. Unfortunately, this is completely false and often keeps us from what we most value and want.

It isn’t that hard work or dedicating ourselves to something is a bad thing- Actually taking actions is the only way to allow our dreams to come into our lives. Actions are meant to be a wonderful expression of our being. Doing things can be our part in allowing the energies that we prefer into our lives. For this though, we need to be certain to tap into the energies that we prefer, say joy.

We will never experience joy in our lives, however, when we are spending our time trying to do everything we can to make more money so that we can hire a housekeeper, giving us time to relax and feel some joy. Why not just take the time to relax and then take care of our responsibilities when we are feeling refreshed and joyful?

Even better still, why not take the “dolce far niente” time to relax, to enjoy our homes and to find out what our being prefers to experience? Then we can focus the same energy and actions towards what we prefer, as opposed to just working for the sake of having time off later. In this way, many of us tend to put the cart before the horse, always seeking what we desire when we could be enjoying it now.

Many of us blindly accept the belief that we must busy ourselves, even when it is unkind to ourselves. At the same time we also tend to believe that, regardless of our religious or spiritual beliefs, God is a benevolent being. The irony here is that we allow God to be loving and kind, but we are not necessarily this way with ourselves.

Many religions attribute life to God; and yet Christianity says that God rested on the seventh day. No doubt, enjoying the spiritual principal of “dolce far niente”, because life is meant to be enjoyed.

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Article by Kalyn B Raphael taken from Flowing Into Joy & Love  Newsletter – to read other articles or to subscribe, please go to http://golden-flow-system.com/joynews

Part Four:

Looking Back

So, today, on the day of the anniversary of my birth, I had gratitude. I talked with a friend and business partner who I’d been trying to catch on the phone for a couple weeks and who caught me during the only five minutes I was online all week, and I was grateful. I hugged my husband and my daughter and told my dad and his wife how grateful I am to be here traveling with them all. I bought a small gift for some girlfriends who I will see in a few weeks and I was grateful to have fun doing so. I loved my last morning in Mérida, where we had breakfast and then walked downtown. We found a new church whose energy was refreshing and revitalizing, and I prayed about my gratitude.

Now on the plane I am thinking about the many gifts and the whispered secrets life has generously given me; I think about the pelican, about the magical places I’ve seen, the new adventures that will come to me because of this trip and I’m grateful. I’m grateful that I know.

I’m grateful to be in my Golden Flow™ and to know that gratitude will keep me soaring in the wind and in my life. I know who I am, the person who allows and flows with life. I know what I want my life to be like and I know how to get there. And I know that my flow and my knowingness will continue to expand and unfold, brining me greater adventures, dreams and experiences in my life.

That is what knowingness can be like in the flow state.

I Know

Kris & I just recorded a video on don Miguel Ruiz’s Fith Agreement, so I thought I’d share more about one of the gifts that this agreement holds for me.

As old students of don Miguel’s, Kris and I used to hear him tell us all “don’t believe me, don’t believe anyone else and don’t believe your self”.  There are many aspects to this agreement, but don Miguel primarily meant that we shouldn’t hold beliefs because they can be limiting.

One significant point about beliefs for me is that they are not the same as something we know. In other words, we need to distinguish between what we believe and what we know.

When we know something, it isn’t a matter of information it is a matter of experience.

Knowing something does not come from the process of our mental bodies, or our minds, taking in information or even observing something, the way beliefs do. Knowingness instead comes from our experience. That encounter can come from within, like a meditation, or without, an experience. For example, people can describe freezing weather and water that freezes, turns white and comes down slowly, or snow. Even if you haven’t experienced snow you can still understand the idea of it and appreciate pictures of snow. You may even think that you’d like to make a snow man.

On the other hand, going and being in the cold, seeing the sights of the falling snow and feeling snow in your hands give you the actual experience. At that point, you know how you feel about the snow, you know what it is like and you know what this experience means to you.

We only know our own divinity and our own Golden Flow™ through experience. You may recall an experience similar to your first seeing snow or experiencing nature. For many people this can be a divine and spiritual experience.

This is because they are in that place of knowingness, as opposed to knowledge, beliefs or ideas. Be certain to allow yourself plenty of experiences, allowing yourself to know.

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Kristopher & Kalyn Raphael, or K2, have been spiritual life coaches for ten years. They work directly with people taking them on journeys, cruises, leading classes on the internet and coaching groups. They are both published authors and are the founders of The Golden Flow(TM)system of accelerated enlightenment and The Toltec Mystery School. Follow Kalyn’s blog by subscribing at KalynRaphael.com/blog

We have a saying in Spanish “No es para tanto”. It’s like saying it’s no big deal, but it literally means it’s not for so much meaning that the reaction is disproportionate to the experience. I love this saying because this is how life is, it’s not for so much.

Life brings us problems all of the time. Emergencies, difficulties, bothers, things to anger us, to worry us and so on. As I sit here in Starbucks in San Miguel de Allende there is a man at the next coffee table speaking with a young lady making a big to do about nothing. He’s American, but keeps saying things in English and then in Spanish, emphasizing how dramatic his story is by saying it twice. He is loud and boisterous, taking up a lot of energetic space and sound space, meaning that we can all hear him better than our own table’s conversations. Needless to say, he is going on and on about how “shocked” he was about how people have treated him. No doubt.

We all have problems and although some problems seem worse than others, we can’t really compare because we don’t know what energy another person has and what they are attracting to their lives. So, we all need to turn our problems into lemonade. After all, “no es para tanto.”

The gentleman at the next table is taking himself further and further out of his flow by going on and on about how it’s someone else’s fault; about how he was wronged. He is enhancing the energy of being wronged and, no doubt, in his life people will continue to wrong him (in his eyes).

To get into our flow we all need to truly have our experience. For example, the man I have used as an example would need to experience what he has called being wronged and truly be with that experience. By feeling what it feels like to be thus mistreated, he would allow his experience and flow it. This alone would change him and his life. It would change how he sees his own story so that he would begin to recognize that he has had a part in it all.

He has attracted and created this just as much as the person he feels wronged him. He would begin to see that throwing all the blame on another is irresponsible because it takes away his opportunity to change himself and make a correction in his life. Flowing is a process: we welcome what we are thinking, feeling and experiencing so that we are truly experiencing our lives. When we remember something or re-experience the same thing then we need to flow it again. As this man flows the memories when they return, he might even see how he actually imposes himself on other as well, doing to others what he is claiming has been done to him.

Life is short, though when we are continually focused on what makes us bitter then we often feel like the pain of life goes on forever. Life can be cruel, but only when we choose to remain in a painful place, like the place where we are victimized.

On the other hand, life can be sweet, like when we take responsibility for our lives and we allow our experience to be with us; when we feel the way we feel. Then life flows and even sadness or pain become transformed, yielding joy and a new day filled with new possibilities, new love and new happiness. At that point, our Golden Flow™ from our Source Energy turns our lives into lemonade!
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Learn more about getting into your flow & the Golden Flow™ system at www.golden-flow-system.com

Sitting on top of the Sun

Greetings!

I wanted to share some of my experiences over the last few weeks here, because they have been quite magical.

We held a workshop here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The workshop included a day trip to Teotihuacan and a New Moon ceremony with a shaman. The workshop went extremely well, undoubtedly the best ever. Everyone had a great process, truly worked in the world of energy and saw the energetic probability, or possibility, before them that they wanted to attract or manifest in their lives. Everything was magical, from the space that the men opened in the room we held the workshop in to the trip to Teotihuacan. It was fantastic! I was also very pleasantly surprised at all the secrets and information that Teotihuacan opened to us. As you can see in the photo above, we really were under a magical spell.

The journey was followed by a women’s gathering for the next 3 days, which was a very pleasant treat for us ladies. It gave us the opportunity to then focus on topics personal to ourselves and it also gave us the time to work on our the dream and probability we are focusing on even more.

The above pictures are from an experience we had at the Botanical Garden. I had the ladies get themselves some candy and a container to bless and to imbue with the energy of their dream, so that they may taste and eat from the sweetness of their desires every day, connecting them to their dreams. This was followed by a healing process. We opened to the energy of our Source and of the garden to allow healing love and light to come into our bodies, which I facilitated.

We then took the healing one step further the next day: each woman received a Shamanic Egg Cleansing and some healing work. Everyone commented on how nice it was to feel their bodies open, expand and receive healing to any aligments.

All in all, both the Journey and the Women’s Gathering were fulfilling to everyone. We all felt our hearts being opened by Teotihuacan and we all felt the energy coming in to us.

Every participant was a wonderful addition to our group and each person really has their own essence, their own gift and their own piece that they come to shift and refine on the journey. In this, they really are a part of a puzzle when we all come together and each piece is needed and appreciated. It is great to have a whole experience in this way.

Now I’m looking forward to our next journey at the end of May. Not only will we be taking on another pyramid in the Mayan Caribbean, but our we are then inviting journey participants, our family and friends to come to our vow renewals, a ceremony that will be held on the beach and performed by a Mayan shaman. This too is promising to be quite an event!

Love & Light,

Kalyn

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Kristopher & Kalyn Raphael, or K2, have been spiritual life coaches for ten years. They work directly with people taking them on journeys, cruises, leading classes on the internet and coaching groups. They are both published authors and are the founders of The Golden Flow(TM)system of accelerated enlightenment and The Toltec Mystery School.