The Wisdom of Grandmothers

The Grandmothers Wisdom Project is inspired by thirteen elder women known as the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We are committed to supporting all people reclaiming their relationship to Mother Earth, calling for a profound transformation in the heart, mind, and spirit.

Meet the 13 Grandmothers and their teachings at https://www.grandmotherswisdom.org/

Here are some beautiful thoughts for us to embrace. Deepest Gratitude to the Grandmothers for sharing their wisdom.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
revered elders offering essential wisdom and healing for you and our world~

“I had a vision the ancestors told us to heal the world.
When we heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers, and our children.
When we heal ourselves, we also heal mother earth.”
Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein

“The most important Journey we will ever take
is the 18 inches from our mind to our heart.”
Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim

“We are here to let the beauty, love and joy continue so when you walk through this journey, the earth is the better for it. We can give back love, generosity and forgiveness when we ’see’ rightly. Yesterday was history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is our gift! What part will you play today?!”

Grandmother Aama Bombo, Nepal

I converse with the wind. Everything is air. I call the wind as God. They sit with us and they sit on my tongue and they speak through me.”

Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim

“The Sundance is very sacred to our Oglala Lakota peoples. As you support the ceremony in a respectful way, something good will come to you and your people as well.”
Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance

“Every morning I get up and I pray for all sentient beings…humans, animals, even birds – they all need happiness.”
Grandmother Tsering Dolma Gyaltong

“Our people know that the land and the language are one. If we lose one or the other we are no longer who we say we are.” Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance

“My elders said, ‘Know where your water comes from. Know your fire. Know where you are going to find your food.’”
Grandmother Mona Polacca

“Everyone lightens. Each one of us is moving and vibrating as we become one as the light beings we are. All of us have been called. All of us feel the change and know the urgency of becoming One.”
Grandmother Flordemayo Guatemala

“Leadership is the highest spiritual calling, and as leaders, the starting point begins with you – managing your whole self – by utilizing the spirit that lies within your identity and the strength of your culture.” Grandmother Mona Polacca

Thank you Grandmothers for your dedication to all beings and for being leaders for us to make our world

a peaceful planet.

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW

Peaceful Way Meditation Blog

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

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Meditation, darkness into light

I remember when I first began to meditate over 50 years ago, as I sat quietly and closed my eyes, I only saw a black space in front of me. My mind was very busy and everyday thoughts filled that dark space. But as I practiced, I began to find comfort in the darkness. It was a place for me to relax and release my fears and anxieties. The dark space became warm and comforting, like my mother’s womb or a place to cocoon and to rest from my busy world. I was in a safe place.

Then, I started to see a small light in the distance. At first I didn’t move towards it, but one day I moved forward and moved into the light. It took me into a space of lightness. I cannot remember what I first saw but I knew I had found a place of love and tranquility. Just what I needed! The duality of darkness and light was helping me to learn and evolve.

Over the years my meditations have shown me wondrous things and I began to record the messages I heard that were full of new insights. I shared many of them in my book “In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation”.

Meditation…moving into the dark warm space and flowing into the light to a place of peace…a secret garden or chamber of love..is awesome. I have different names for this space, but really it can’t be described or named as I have an ‘experience’ that gifts me with feelings of love, peace and total wonder. I always feel a ‘presence’ and often see beings or people that seem familiar and often a ‘sage’. Each time is different and enlightening. Each time I know that life is a precious gift.

I learned how to meld with this light and how to increase its flow as it moved over and through my body. My cells responded to this light and helped my body to heal and energize. As my body ages, I still visualize golden light flowing down and through my body…connecting to the earth and flowing back up through my body and flowing out and around me. I learned more about ‘light energy’ when I studied and practiced USUI Reiki.

Every person I know, who has shared their meditation experiences with me, have found comfort in their meditations. Each finds their own wisdom and I have learned from them sharing with me. Each of our consciousness is filled with ‘spaces’ filled with images and discoveries for us to receive love, guidance and wisdom.

Life is indeed a mystery, an unknown…and our consciousness in meditation reveals more and more about how truly fascinating we are, how endless the universe, how everything is connected energetically through consciousness. My husband and I experience hearing what the other is thinking every day! That can be a little unnerving! But we laugh when it happens. We know how connected we are. We are evolving beings, energetic light beings…using our intuition…our imagination, our inner knowing, and moving into more awareness of our conscious Self.

We are creative beings, each of us in our own way. Hopefully, we will learn that healing and peace come from sharing love and compassion. It is this love that sustains us as we face these challenging days of Covid 19 and all the other daily news happenings that show us so many hardships and struggles.

We do have the strength, tools and paint brushes and talent to paint a new canvas…our Self mastery can be revealed in each moment. Meditation can guide us to new thoughts and creativity.

May our steps be full of light and our words be full of love, May we see the beauty,

Peacefully

Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown

A Peaceful Way

Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Author Name: Jane Rosalea Booth

USUI Reiki Master

Meaford, ON

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Welcome 2020! Happy New Year!

Welcome 2020 a new year and a new decade!

I am beginning to realize how quickly the years pass!  My husband and I reflected last evening on our past and remembered how our computers still worked on New Year’s day in 2000!  Now on this New Year’s Day we are feeling very blessed and looking forward with a sense of wonder to our future days!

So in the spirit of fresh beginnings that come with the first day of the year,  I am sharing an Indigenous prayer that I think fits with setting our intentions for the New Year.

Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind,my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body,the blessings of my spirit.

Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear, and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun. 

― American Indian Lakota Prayer  author unknown

I look forward to our Sacred Voyage gatherings beginning when good weather returns! My Reiki and Natural Sound Sessions begin January 13th in Meaford, ON.  I am available for private Peaceful Way Meditation and Self-mastery sessions.

Please e-mail goldenlightcentre@rogers.com for an appointment for Inner Peace Reiki: http://www.innerpeacereiki.wordpress.com

Happy New Year and may 2020 be full of light, love and peace,

Peacefully, Jane

A Peaceful Way

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW, USUI Reiki Master an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery.  Jane is a Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and IONS Conscious Aging Facilitator. She offers Sacred Voyage gatherings in Meaford, ON.

Jane is Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation.(Author name – Jane Rosalea Booth)

Inner Peace Reiki: http://www.innerpeacereiki.wordpress.com

 

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Our Spiritual Relationship

In Meaford, we have been gathering each week for Sacred Voyage where we have shared insights about the thresholds, initiations and passages of our life. We reflected on these moments to bring us into great presence and mindfulness of how we are living our everyday life and how we can deepen our spiritual connection.

Each of has our own thoughts on spirituality and religion. But whatever ‘way’ we follow, we seek a greater spiritual connection or a better knowing of our true self. These words from Brother Wayne Teasdale show the meaning of a deep spiritual connection…

“It is deeper than simply a matter of our own efforts at inner and outer change, regardless of how noble and heroic these are. Our transformation is based on the depth and quality of our relationship with the Great Spirit. It is this relationship that determines our elevation into higher awareness, compassionate being and loving presence. It is not the results of one’ own efforts but the result of the experience of oneness (unity) with the Source.

What transforms us in not what we do but our integration with what is. What we do in the way of our spiritual effort, our habits of prayer, meditation, compassion and the Source. That and that alone is what brings about inner change and carries us into the everlasting roots of our expanded identity in the divine.”

Quote from Brother Wayne Teasdale: The mystic Heart, Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions, 2001 New World Library

Enjoy the blessings of all your ‘relationships’! Each one has deep meaning and expands our knowing of who we are! During this holiday season that can be stressful…let go of the ‘doing’ and enjoy moments full of love and peace. Take time for yourself to meditate, read, listen to your favourite music, be in nature, play!

Sacred Voyage gatherings will resume in spring (or when the weather improves!)

I am available in January and February for private Peaceful Way sessions and Inner Peace Reiki and Natural Sound healing sessions by appointment.

My book “In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation” is available at http://www.amazon.ca  To order: see link below

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW, USUI Reiki Master an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery.  Jane is a Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and IONS Conscious Aging Facilitator.

Jane is Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation.(Author name – Jane Rosalea Booth)

Inner Peace Reiki: http://www.innerpeacereiki.wordpress.com

 

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Tell me your Secret!

Tell me your secret!

Secretly we spoke,

that wise one and me. I said,

Tell me the secrets of the world.

He said, Shhh

Let silence tell you

the secrets of the world

~ Rumi

Explore your inner knowing to discover the ‘secrets of the world’ through daily meditation.  You will be amazed by what is revealed to you when you relax, quiet your mind and listen to your heart.  A wise person once said to me that I already have all the tools…the canvas, the paint and the brushes…to create the world I want.

We also have all the ‘secrets’ within to allow our true being to evolve into a loving, creative and peaceful person.  The world needs each of us to make this transformation.  Allow the wisdom you hear, see or feel during your meditations to assist you in your daily life.

Bring your wisdom and light into the world…don’t keep is a ‘secret’ any longer. Tell me your secret!

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Booth

Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Jane Rosalea Brown, BA, CSW, USUI Reiki Master an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery.  Jane is a Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking, a Certified USUI Reiki Master

Jane is Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation.(Author name – Jane Rosalea Booth) Inner Peace Reiki: http://www.innerpeacereiki.wordpress.com

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Visionary Artist Francene Hart http://www.francenehart.com

As I was making preparations for Christmas, baking, shopping, decorating, wrapping gifts, I took a few minutes this morning for quiet reflection and meditation.  As part of my spiritual practice, I write what I have heard in my meditations.  My inner voice continues to speak to me after my meditations and I am always lifted by what I hear.  Our inner voice is the voice of our soul, our essence, our inner wisdom. We all have come into this life as wisdom carriers (listen to a 3 year old, you will know this is true) with much to share with one another if we take time in our relationships to listen…to our self…to others.  Taking time and trusting your inner wisdom brings peace even in our most difficult moments.

I was thinking about ‘gifts’ this morning and what gifts in my life do I truly value and what has heart and meaning in my life.  This is a conscious aging practice that I use to bring me into my core and truth.  I opened my binder where I had recorded these words from a meditation in last Dec. 26, 2015.

“The gift of your presence

Fills me with joy

Lifts my heart to see

What I Am

Light within light

Creation upon creation

Waiting to unfold

A step into timelessness

A dance in the moonlight

A beginning, an ending

Endless revolutions

Stillness of space.” Jane Rosalea Brown

This time of the year brings up lots of emotions for many people as Christmas has transformed into a commercial circus.  Take some time to see who in your life is a ‘gift of your presence’.  Take some time to connect with your inner presence and realize that you are a ‘gift’ to all who know you.  Stay in love with all around you…soak up the beauty of nature…the kindness of neighbours and family…create your own dance even if it is just in your imagination…feel the loving presence, the stillness of our inner space, that is always supporting and guiding us.

Christmas is about the birth of a miracle…a baby who went on to teach about love.  Each of us is a miracle.  May we all pass on that Christmas miracle of love in each moment.  However, you celebrate or pass this holy time of the year, I send you…

Season’s greetings, Happy Solstice and wishing all many miracles, joy and peace,

Merry Christmas, Love and Peace, Jane

About artist: Francene Hart is a wonderful visionary artist who connects deeply with spirit through nature and sacred geometry.  Please visit her website to see her amazing works.  She lives in Hawaii.

Jane Rosalea Brown,BA, CSW, USUI Reiki Master

Author ~ In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation, Jane Rosalea Booth (author name)

A Peaceful Way Gatherings and Retreats

Conscious Aging Workshops

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A few minutes a day…in Silence

“Still is your mind

Open is your heart

It is not anywhere, not anyone

It is lightness, love of Self

To radiate your love to others

To share your joy every moment

To be one in love

With All.”

Jane Rosalea Booth, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Meditation is the key to unlocking our inner wisdom that leads us to feeling peaceful and more aware of who we truly are.  Taking a few minutes, in silence, each day transforms your life dramatically.

During each meditation, breathe in and out to become relaxed and begin to let go of your daily stress and anxieties as your mind and body begins to relax.  Move your awareness to your heart and release your fears by asking spirit to dissolve them.   Fill your heart with the love that naturally flows inwards each time you mediate.  Open your heart to experience this love and soothe and relax in its warmth and beauty.  Feel yourself in a beautiful place, an inner sanctuary.  Enjoy this inner sanctuary within where there is only love, peace and stillness.  Stay there as long as you desire. Begin to experience an inner spiritual connection where you feel divinely loved in each moment.  Soak up all this loving energy and know that it is always presence to support you.  Feel deep gratitude for all your blessings.

Bring this loving energy back into your outer world…now share it with others…peace, love, compassion…

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Robertson, BA, CSW,  Authorized IONS Conscious Aging Workshop Facilitator, an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery.   Jane is Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation. (Author name – Jane Rosalea Booth)

http://www.consciousagingsite.wordpress.com

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You Are the Beauty

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How beautiful we feel in the presence of love.  Our spirits are lifted and the world becomes a gentler and more compassionate place.  The beauty of love is that not a word has to be spoken.  When it is present, all who are in a space where love is shared have the opportunity to embrace it and to fill their hearts with it.  Then the cycle of love occurs as love flows out from those hearts who have received it and a new space is created where love continues to flow, to heal, to bring joy in infinite ways. Create a loving space wherever you journey today!

Join me for Soul Collage Cards Workshops    

  Fun, Relaxing and Creative                  

 May 5^th and May 12^th Meaford Public Library 10:00 a.m. – noon

With Jane Booth Robertson Author, In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Enjoy giving vision and voice to your inner wisdom with Soul Collage, a fun, relaxing and insightful creative process of creating a deck of collaged cards for your personal use. Anyone one can do it! You do not have to be an artist to create soul collage cards that you will treasure for years. You will be amazed by what your cards reveal to you!

  Fee: $20.00 (Includes materials and 2 workshops) Location: Meaford Public Library, 2^nd floor Board Room 15 Trowbridge St. W. Meaford, ON Accessibility Notice:  Please be advised there is no elevator access to the Library board room or the Junior Library.

To Register: Call Meaford Public Library Ph.519-538-1060 x1123

E-mail: amy@meafordlibrary.on.ca

Peacefully, Jane

About Jane: Jane Rosalea Booth-Robertson, BA, CSW, an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery. Jane is Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation. (Author name – Jane Rosalea Booth) Jane is a Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking, a Certified USUI Reiki Master, and creator of Peaceful Path Women’s Workshops and Retreats.

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Soar, Soar, Soar

Wisdom of Eagle

Soar, soar, soar
To the highest mountain top and beyond
Soar, soar, soar
To height awareness with new perceptions
Soar, soar, soar
With the spirit and love of timelessness

Soar with Eagle to greater knowing of the Universe. Feel free in spirit to fly with ease.  Rise above and observe your world with clearness, sharpness, fearlessness.

From In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation by Jane Rosalea Booth

 

Jane Rosalea Booth, Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

Jane Rosalea Booth Robertson, BA, CSW, USUI Reiki Master an experienced holistic workshop facilitator, promotes seeing the connection of nature, art and heart centered spirituality for inner peace and spiritual self-mastery.  Jane is a Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking, a Certified USUI Reiki Master, and creator of Peaceful Path Women’s Workshops and Retreats

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In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

I invite you to my In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation page. Much gratitude for liking my page.https://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Silence-Discovering-Self-through-Meditation/124302724356074

On my In Silence Facebook page, I post quotes about meditation and thoughts and insights that I write about in my book.  Each day provides us with the opportunity to discover more about ourselves and others.  In Silence offers you tools of self-mastery and inner knowing.  It is time to reveal your true self.  Take a leap into new places, new perspectives and creativity.

In meditation, you receive gentle insights of awareness and change that transform your consciousness to new heights.  Learn how to tap into your inner and outer resources that contain wisdom and peace.

Hope you will ‘Like’ my Facebook page.  I look forward to your visit there!

Peacefully, Jane

Jane Rosalea Booth Robertson

A Peaceful Way – programs and retreats for Self Mastery and Creativity

Author of In Silence, Discovering Self through Meditation

USUI Reiki Master

http://www.goldenlightcentre.com

http://www.janebooth.wordpress.com

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