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By Anne Marie Bennett

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SoulCollage® Suits

Noelle- Community Suit

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This is the week that I will lead my very first (and hopefully not
last!) SoulCollage® Facilitator Training in western Massachusetts.  So I am choosing to share this particular card with y’all this week because it represents the SoulCollage® Community to me in a very real and vivid way.

This is a very special card in my deck. It honors Noelle Remington, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Seattle, Washington. Noelle is the one who facilitated the very first SoulCollage® workshop I ever took.  I have fond memories of Noelle and the 20 or so women squeezed into a trailer behind the hotel where the Art and Soul Retreat was being held in February of 2005.

After I returned to New England from that workshop, I hired Noelle as my Creative Coach for six months and she was a gentle, nurturing presence for me as I began my own SoulCollage® practice and business.

Also, towards the center of the card I placed a photo of Noelle sitting with Seena Frost, which signifies to me the passing from one kindred soul to another, the blessed torch that is SoulCollage.  From Seena…to Noelle… to me… and then to countless others.

Who are you? I am the one who asks the right questions, who listens fully and completely.  I am the one who encourages your dreams. I am the one who shows you how to grow, to expand, to become who you are. I am the one who gives you wings to fly, who gently pushes you to realize that you are free, that you can soar. I am the one who first introduced you to SoulCollage®. I am the one who holds your hand as you cross the bridge of transformation, who cheers you on past the voices of doom and gloom when there is “trouble at the border.”

What do you give me? I give you the gift of SoulCollage®. I give you a knowing that anything and everything is possible.  I give you the value of taking care of yourself as a priority.  I give you validation of your dreams and desires.

What do you want from me? I want you to know that you can ASK YOURSELF the questions that need to be asked.  I want you to listen to yourself carefully for you have much to say and your inner wisdom is precious and powerful.

NOTES FROM DAILY READINGS:

May 2006- What I say to you today is this: You are a powerful, strong, creative and awesome woman.  Remember that!  Remember to use SoulCollage® as a tool.  Remember to write down your insights and priorities and creative ideas.  Remember that you are on a journey and that there is abundance help for the journey.

July 2007- I am the one with a passion for SoulCollage.  I am the one who passed that passion on to you.  What I say to you today is this: There is power and transformation available to you daily through the process of SoulCollage.  Ask your own questions and listen for the answers as they are sent to you from the Spirit World, and from within.  Remember to give yourself the stillness, from which the ripples flow.

Worthy- Committee Suit

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Who are you? I am the one who is touched by the juicy water of life.  I am the one who is totally into being who I am. I am the one who receives deep joy from my own existence. I am the one who deserves EVERYTHING just because I exist.  I am the one dancing in the fullness of life and its beauty.  I am the one who is open to all that life holds, to all that life has to give me.  I am the one who receives, who holds the colorful wonders of life’s goodness.  I am the one who knows that I deserve all good things simply because I was born.  I am the one who is nourished by my own joy.

What do you have to give me? I give you the deep knowing, the belief that you are worthy, that you are deserving.  I give you freedom from guilt an the weight of impossibility.  I give you joy and a wholeness that you didn’t know existed.

What do you want from me? I want you to drink from the bowls of life, to drink from the bowl that life is offering you RIGHT now.  I want you to accept the irrefutable fact that you are worthy.  I want you to delight in your very existence.  I want you to leave behind doubt, guilt, and impossibility, for they have no place in a full, juicy, glorious life.

Reader- Committee Suit

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Who are you? I am the one who loves to read. I am the one who reads for hours and hours and doesn’t pay attention to the passing of time.  I am the one who finds solace in words, who seeks information and comfort in the words of others.  I am the one who loves stories, who finds myself in stories and novels and good books. I am the one who loves the feel of a good book in my hands, who escapes into other worlds through the arms of a good book.

What do you have to give me? I give you pleasure, enjoyment, comfort, and I stimulate your imagination. I give you knowledge of other worlds, both within you and outside of you.

What do you want from me? I want you to make reading an integral part of your life- not just something you save for “after” your work is done.  I want you to remember that you derive a deep sense of pleasure from reading fiction.

NOTES FROM DAILY READINGS:

August 2006- I am the one who loves to read!  I am the one whose most favorite form of entertainment is reading.  I am the one who is at peace when I read.  I act out my frustration when you DON’T read regularly… by EATING!  If you find yourself eating too much, stop for a moment and ask me if what I’m really hungry for is words, books, stories.

August 2007- I am the one who has always loved books of all kinds, sizes, shapes and colors.  I am the one who needs to read like I need to breathe.  My message for you today is this: I don’t EVER need to EAT when I am reading.  A part of you eats when I am reading in order to distract you from the pure pleasure I feel when I am reading.  The next time you read, try just sipping a cup of tea instead, or just BREATHING.  I would like that much better. And thank you for listening!

Mindfulness- Committee Suit

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Who are you? I am the one who is walking the labyrinth, oblivious to the harried rush of Time around me.  I am the one who moves slowly and calmly through this labyrinth, and through my own life’s path. I am the one who exists only in this moment, right now.

What do you have to give me? I give you a centering peace. I give you awareness of the central moment only. I give you disregard for time, for the past, for the future. I give you the blessing and grace that is yours in the moment alone.  I give you a centered steady pace through your life.

What do you want from me? I want you to walk slowly, mindfully.  I want you to claim this moment in time only.  Past and future exist, but not in this moment, which is all that you are given.  Allow the past and the future to become a gentle blur.  The reality is right here, right now.  Time is irrelevant.  What matters only is what is happening right here, right now, inside of you.

Powerful- Committee Suit

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I made this card spontaneously (intuitively) at the first SoulCollage® Retreat I ever led in 2006.  It seemed to come together quite naturally and easily.  It’s really just a couple of images, and I loved how I felt when I looked at it or held it in my hands.

Up until the time I made this card, I had not even remotely thought of myself as powerful.  This card certainly had something to say about that!

Who are you? I am the one who is powerful and strong.  I am the one who holds the world in the palm of my hand.  I am the one with power in my body and mind, who can balance the weight of the world on my shoulders and know that it won’t destroy me.  I am the one who is powerful enough that time doesn’t overwhelm me.  I am the one who is being given all the time in the world as a gift and who balances that gift with the powerful stance of my body, mind and spirit.

What do you have to give me? I give you strength and power to balance this new world you’ve been given.  I give you a posture which contains the power to receive and to balance.

What do you want from me? I want you to know that you are inherently powerful and strong.  I want you to stand tall and strong and gorgeously balanced.  I want you to receive this gift of all the time in the world—- with joy and unabashed strength!