LITTLE ACORNS

Welcome to Dancing Light News. This month’s issue is about how the simple beauties we find in our day to day routine are resources for healing and transforming life’s challenges. As we head into the peak of the fall season, there is much beauty found in the colors of nature. October begins a period of receiving the fruits of our labor and expressing gratitude for what we have. It is in shifting our focus onto the blessings of life that we also experience the joy and pleasure that create a healthy vibration in our whole being.
I wish you all a fall season filled with the colorful joys and simple pleasures of Mother Nature.

In Peace and Light,

Jean
Jean Bromage, Reiki Master
Dancing Light Candles
www.dancinglightcandles.net
646-522-6100

LITTLE ACORNS

A couple of years ago, right around this time when the sun starts fading earlier in the day, I was at the laundry mat when a small but quite beautiful gift was given to me. Having just added my clothes to the washer, I watched the machine fill with soapy water and turn with increasing speed as my mind simultaneously filled with the waters of disappointment over something that had happened earlier in the week. I decided to step outside and let the cool autumn air clear my head before I started drowning in these discontented thoughts.

Just as I turned to leave, there were three young children who had managed to create a blockade of carts along the aisle leading to the door so no one could pass. I could see that annoyed look on the faces of the nearby adults. It’s that look of disapproval so tightly contained that it seeps out the sides, spilling out everywhere. No one was saying anything and yet it was obvious people wanted their parents to come over and tell them to settle down. As I walked toward the chaos, I initially imagined I would find a way to politely tip toe around everything by squeezing past the carts. However, just as I arrived at the cluster of children and carts, the girl was standing there staring at me. Suddenly my inner child popped out instead and made a funny face at her. I heard myself asking, “Can I squeeeeeeeeeeeze past you?” She replied with a look of sheer delight that an adult was actually communicating with her on her level. She giggled and said that before I could pass, she wanted to paint my fingernails. She pulled out the tiniest bottle of nail polish I’d ever seen and proceeded to paint my pinky. It took four dips into the bottle before the one nail was completely painted.

Her little brother and cousin came over to see what we were doing. One of them pulled a handful of acorns out of his pocket and all three children began telling me about their day in the park. They were so enchanted by these little acorns they’d found on the ground that you would have thought they had traveled through some magical forest in a fairy tail instead of Central Park. They told me all about the castle they had seen, the squirrels that were running around and the rocks they had climbed which to them seemed like mountains. As I listened and smiled, I noticed the blockade of carts had disappeared and no one seemed terribly annoyed with the children anymore. After about 20 minutes had passed, the girl looked at me and exclaimed, “You don’t have any acorns!” And with that, she pulled out as many acorns as her little hand could hold and gave them to me. As I held the acorns, a gentle blanket of warmth wrapped around me and my whole being felt a joy and oneness with the world. I thanked her for the present and promised I would keep the acorns in a special place.

As I went home that day with my bag of clean laundry and pocketful of magical acorns, I realized the disappointment I experienced earlier that week had been replaced with a great sense of gratitude for the simple joys and beauty in life.

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LATEST REIKI NEWS

New Rate
My rate as of September 1st is $90 per hour session. 5 and 10 session cards are still available at a discount.

Offer for New Clients
For first time clients, I am offering 3 one hour Reiki healing sessions for the price of 2. Anyone interested in this offer will need to schedule their 2nd and 3rd sessions within 4 months after their first session. The first 2 sessions will need to be paid in full before the free 3rd session can be scheduled. This offer does not apply to RAC students who are looking to fulfill a requirement for their Reiki studies.

For more information feel free to call Jean at 212-496-5287, email reiki_essence@yahoo.com or go to www.dancinglightcandles.net/reiki.html.

Magnified Healing Workshop, October 12 and
The Crystal Intensive Working the Magic through Crystals, October 13 & 14
Led by MIKA
All Classes at
Nurture's Path Healing Arts
1133 Broadway, Second Fl, Conference Rm "B"
New York, NY
Registration: Contact MIKA at 954-309-0193 or 501-620-4419 or wne1313@aol.com
For more information go to www.AcademyForHealingArts.com

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LATEST NEWS AT DANCING LIGHT CANDLES

Fall is the kick off for candle season as the days grow cooler and shorter. Check out this year’s harvest and Halloween Candles. Dancing Light Candles will be at the Green Flea Market at W77th and Columbus every Sunday until Christmas. For more information, go to www.dancinglightcandles.net.