Quarterly Newsletter

A New Beginning

Volume 1 - March 2007

In this issue

Welome - Diana Nieves

Hu Note - Hu Dalconzo

HLC's L.I.F.E. Seminars Holds Train the Trainer Workshop - Karen Amato

Letting Go of the Old, Stepping into the New: My Experiences with HLC - Avalaura Gaither Beharry

What is Self-Parenting - Eeshan Inamorato

The Magic's In You! - Tina Provenzano

Spiritual Cuisine - Entertainment to Satiate your Spiritual Palette

HLC Certified Life Coach/ L.I.F.E. Seminar Leaders' Spotlight

Quote of the Season

New Student Offer

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Welcome to HLC’s Newsletter –

By Diana Nieves, Director of Service Education

Welcome, Soul Friend, to the Spring 2007 edition of Holistic Learning Center’s Self-Mastery Newsletter.

Happy Spring! Our hemisphere has begun to warm significantly, and the universe is now gifted with the opportunity to create and spring forth. It is a chance for the earth to change and begin anew, similar to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar. The caterpillar's purpose in life is to live and evolve through its cocoon, which does not shield it or hide it from the world forever, but rather provides a form of self-protection so the caterpillar can feel safe and secure while it emerges as another being. With substantial amount of courage, belief and action, the caterpillar breaks free from its old barrier that was once an appropriate shield. It will use its powers to transform and spread its wings as a butterfly.

It is a perfect time for you to shift your life like the caterpillar. Sooner or later you will

have to choose who and what you want to be. Be the truth of who you are right now.

You can inspire yourself to be happy and make a life that is as good as only you desire

it to be. I encourage you to choose to create new opportunities that celebrate and honor

you. Make a fresh start and transform your life.

This newsletter is dedicated to the souls who gathered at the Kirkridge Retreat Center for

the L.I.F.E. Train the Trainers workshop. Their emotional courage and spiritual strength

motivated me to break free from my cocoon and consciously create my world.

You too can choose a new beginning!

Click here to learn more about HLC .

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Hu Note Hu Dalconzo, Founder of HLC Spiritual training methods are like rivers, and all rivers lead to the ocean of God's bliss. The key is to find a method that feels right, and then commit to keep on keeping on until you can reach down deep within your Self and find the Truth that dwells within you!

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HLC's L.I.F.E. Seminars Holds Train the Trainer Workshop

By Karen Amato, Certified Spiritual Life Coach

On a beautiful mountaintop at Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, PA, 17 like-minded souls took another step forward on their self-mastery journey by participating in HLC’s L.I.F.E. Seminars Train the Trainer workshop. L.I.F.E. Seminars is the public training division of HLC and offers powerful, interactive, self-empowering workshops and classes. The weekend event took place January 26- 28, 2007 and was praised by all as a multi-level self- empowerment experience. Each of the participants presented lectures on Self- mastery topics, such as; Relationship Mastery, Weight Mastery and Self Parenting, to hone their presentation

skills and received constructive feedback. The group also participated in powerful L.I.F.E.

experiential processes and exercises and experienced firsthand the healing power of a L.I.F.E.

Seminar in action. The weekend was a true journey of the spirit for all.

The team left Kirkridge energized and enthusiastic, looking forward to completing their training

and becoming Certified Life Mastery Seminar facilitators. This certification along with their

Spiritual L.I.F.E. Coach certification from HLC will enable them to share these powerful teachings in a public forum leading us all one step closer to helping us humans save ourselves!

Here are what the participants had to say about their experience:

I learned that I was able to give myself permission to allow myself to

experience healing awareness through the processes. Everyone in a seminar

or group gives themselves permission to do the same. I am so appreciative for

that opportunity and transformation. Namaste’ ~ N.G.

My personal experience regarding the interactive exercises is that they

assisted me in anchoring the things that I am working on inside of myself. The

exercises forced me to put into practice what I am learning, which is key for me

to achieve permanent behavioral change. It is clear that walking the talk is what my

inner work is all about. For me, working with another human being is a true testing

ground and having the opportunity, in a safe space, to be my self with another

and allowing that person into my feelings is an experience that is helpful for my

inner growth in many ways. ~ E.I.

Click here to learn more about L.I.F.E. Seminars .

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Letting Go of the Old, Stepping into the New: My Experiences with HLC

By Avalaura Gaither Beharry, MSW, LGSW, Certified Spiritual Life Coach 

I’ve always stepped into shoes that are too big for me by becoming involved in experiences and situations that are bigger than I initially realize. This was no different when I enrolled in Holistic Learning Centers (HLC) Spiritual Life Coaching Program. My desire was simple or so I thought; to acquire a new skill to add to my holistic healing practice. I had already completed graduate school and received my Masters in Social Work and worked professionally as a counselor. I had already completed training in numerous areas of the healing arts including Reiki, Hypnotherapy, Aromatherapy, Cord Cutting and more. I thought these trainings coupled with my life experiences qualified me to be an excellent counselor. I simply wanted to add life coaching to my healing tool kit.

But Holistic Learning Center would have much more in store for me. My Ego was not quite

ready to handle the demands of this training, making this journey an unpleasant one at

times. However, a year and a half later, I had successfully pushed it aside long enough

to complete one of the most important courses of my life. Not only did I gain excellent

new coaching skills, but I also healed painful areas of my life, learned to forgive, and

dis-created old thoughts and habits.

I’m certain that my training at HLC has been integral to my success as a healer, counselor

and spiritual teacher. I am able to be much more compassionate and understanding with my

clients. I know how it feels to peel the layers of the emotional onion, digging deep into painful

experiences to allow the healing to occur. I know how if feels to go temporarily unconscious

and let my Ego get the best of me. I also know how it feels to catch the Ego in its act and

allow the unconscious to become conscious.

Additionally, I know how it feels to feel my feelings instead of thinking I’m feeling my feelings.

I learned all of this during my time with HLC and so much more. I was already aware that the

true essence of my identity was as God having a human experience. However, now I know how

to be more like God in my human experiences. No, I am not perfect, but now I am no longer

trying to be.

Thanks to HLC, I fully embrace my life and choose to be a better wife, daughter, teacher,

student, healer, counselor and God-like being. Now I have outgrown my old shoes, happily

trading them in for even bigger ones.

Congratulations to Avalaura for her successful completion of the Spiritual Life

Coaching Certification Course! ~ From the HLC Staff

Click here to learn more about HLC's Life Coaching Certification Courses.

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What is Self-Parenting

By Eeshan Inamorato, Spiritual Life Coach in Training

Self-parenting is about building the inner emotional strength needed to allow who you really are behind all of your programming and defenses to shine through. Self-parenting is about becoming conscious of the fact that you may have unconsciously idealized your parents. Because of this you may have taken on many of the beliefs, fears and ways of being of your parents; their programming. It may be that you have unconsciously identified with and have been conditioned by the behavioral patterns of your parents.

This would mean that you are enmeshed with them, that you are them not you! It is

like living in a bubble of un-reality. This would further mean that you do not have a

developed individual and separate sense of who you are. This sounds strange and

impossible yet it is all too common an occurrence. To awaken to this fact can be

both terrifying and liberating. To actually contemplate that you are not “you” is one

of the most terrifying things imaginable.

It sounds like an episode straight out of the twilight zone. Especially when you begin

to realize that a good deal of your makeup is comprised of a whole host of limiting and

irrational beliefs and fears as well as the pain and suffering of your parents! Wow.

Time to take a deep breath... This can also be tremendously liberating. Knowledge is

power when applied. This realization can help to bring you out of this nightmare if the

shock it provides is strong enough to lead you to choose to make an honest effort at it.

How did this happen? Well, as a child you were naturally dependent on your parents for

everything. You were especially dependent on your parents for physical survival needs

and maybe even more importantly, for emotional needs. Human beings are feeling creatures.

The situation described above can occur when your emotional dependency needs of love

and acceptance, intimacy, nurturing and boundary protection were not fulfilled. If these

things would have been provided they would have served to fulfill your emotional dependency

needs allowing your to naturally feel safe, sane and secure in the world. When you have

this as a base then you are able to be an emotionally mature highly functional adult, feeling

ok enough with yourself to be able to live, support your own life, relate to the world and

others, have healthy relationships and a sense of meaning and purpose in your life.

When your emotional dependency needs were not met as a child, you set up ego defenses

to protect and shield yourself from the world and others as well as from seeing and feeling

your own state of being. You then began to live in a world that is not real. It is a world

perceived according to how your ego defenses want to see it, so that you feel safe. Then,

the rest of your life the grown up child spends searching for your own completeness and

sense of self that you never arrived at as a natural stage of human development. You

unconsciously search for a sense of wholeness or completeness in food, sex, drugs, money,

fame, a job, a partner, in all that you do. Yet you are never aware that what you are really

searching for is yourself!

Self-parenting work attempts to help you to become conscious of this drama as it has

unfolded in your own life. Self-parenting assists you to take hold of your adult powers of

intelligence, rationality, physical strength, inner strength and worldly capacity to take the

hand of this lost, hurt and unfulfilled part of yourself that never developed and to consciously

fulfill the emotional dependency needs of this “little one.” Self- parenting is about learning to

love yourself, stand up for yourself, and to be able to fulfill your own emotional dependency

needs so that you can become a truly independent person, a uniquely individual being.

Click here to learn more about HLC's Self-Parenting Mastery Program.

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The Magic's in YOU!

By Tina Provenzano, Spiritual Life Coach in Training

In my childhood the pattern was set and the fairytale I fully believed. I thought, yes, this is it I know it can happen This is what I want to achieve! Then I spent my years, immersed in the dream and trying to carry it out As time marched on, and wounds came about, my hopes were replaced with doubt. I thought to myself, what went wrong? And where did my fairytale falter? So I worked even harder for other’s approval hoping this would lead to the altar.

I spent so much time so much of my life
searching in others hoping to find
A sense of self worth the love and respect that I knew wasn’t that far behind.

Is it possible that through loving another,
my value could be fully revealed?
What’s wrong with this picture?
I know it’s not right, in my heart this I could feel.

I’m viewing this wrong
I know that I AM in others my worth can’t be found
My EGO mind tells me to stay the old course
because this will keep us sound.

But my SOUL persists with a deeper message
one I feel in my heart is right
It says loud and clear, the love you seek can be won
Just change the aim of your sight!

Look inside of yourself, I know you can see it,
if you focus it will come into view.
The fairytale and the love you desire
I’m here to tell you The Magic’s in YOU!

Click here to learn more about HLC's Self-Mastery Program .

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Spiritual Cuisine - Entertainment to Satiate your Spiritual Palette

Books

The Four Agreements - A Practical Guide for Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

In the Meantime - Finding Yourself and the Love You Want by Iyanla Vanzant

Music

Sign of Life by LeAnn Rimes

Music for Energy and Rejuvenation by Ginseng

Movies/Short Films

Eternal Glaze Written and Directed by Sam Chen

Hearing Things Written and Directed by Claire Ingham

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HLC Certified Life Coach/ L.I.F.E. Seminar Leaders' Spotlight

Linda McCarrin, BA, Certified Holistic & Spiritual Life Coach will present the

following workshops:

"Life Balance 101" - this seminar will focus on how to get our own lives back on

track after a loved one has entered an assisted living community...going from full-time caregiver to a visiting one.

Date: May 16, 2007

Time: 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Location: Arden Courts Assisted Living, 3701 West 183rd Street, Hazel Crest, Il. 60429

Price: Free

Call: 708-799-7099 to R.S.V.P.

"Holistic Mom" - this seminar will focus on finding the underlying reasons for the way we parent...

Are our "ways of parenting" working for us?

Date: July 16, 2007

Time: 7-8:30 p.m.

Location: Homer Township Town Hall, 16057 Cedar Road, Homer Glen, Il. 60491

Price: Free

Call: Linda to R.S.V.P. at 708-253-5600

Karen Amato, Certified Holistic & Spiritual Life Coach will present a 1/2 day workshop at the Well Being Center in New Jersey. The focus will be on the beliefs that create your reality. Date, Time, Location, Price and Contact Information to be announced.

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Quote of the Season

Take A Leap! It Will Transform Your Life. ~ Jack Canfield

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