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		<title>Your Inner Delight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What brings you inner delight?&#8230; What makes your heart sing?&#8230;  And what is keeping you from embodying this 24/7 right now? With all the talk about October 28th and 2012, it occurred to me that perhaps these dates have put us on hold to experience unity consciousness now, as if waiting for permission to release [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=266&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>And what is keeping you from embodying this 24/7 right now?</p>
<p>With all the talk about October 28th and 2012, it occurred to me that perhaps these dates have put us on hold to experience unity consciousness now, as if waiting for permission to release the limiting perspectives of our past conditioning and programming, the stories we have identified with which are based on lack, limitation and the likes of such.</p>
<p>What if you gave yourself permission right now to choose to let all of that density go and to choose joy instead?</p>
<p>What would you create in your life?&#8230;</p>
<p>I was talking with Nalini MacNab, from <a title="http://beheartspace.com" href="http://beheartspace.com" target="_blank">http://beheartspace.com</a>, the other day and she referred to our inner operating systems being upgraded at the moment and being in that space in between, before the new operating system is fully functional.</p>
<p>This rang a bell for me&#8230; it&#8217;s as if we have been operating on a mental processor, defined by linear thinking and rationalizing everything&#8230; and now we are upgrading to the heart processor, which the old mental processor cannot keep up with.</p>
<p>If attempting to hold on to stories which identified who you were, or probably more correctly said, which you perceived yourself to be in this life up until now&#8230; then you may find your system crashing;)</p>
<p>The new heart processor simply doesn&#8217;t run the old programs! So updates are required for optimal performance.</p>
<p>Surrendering the old software to the Divine, to Source, to be transformed and optimized for your new heart processor;) Acknowledge whatever arises, surrender it to the Divine and allow yourself to receive the optimal downloads for your heart&#8217;s software&#8230;</p>
<p>So, when you imagine your life infused with the presence of grace, where daily miracles are the norm, and where you can dream into being absolutely anything which delights you&#8230; what would that be like?</p>
<p>And what or whom are you waiting for to live this reality right now?</p>
<p>I invite you to give yourself permission right this very moment to embody your Soul, your Divinity, your essence&#8230; so that you may experience heaven on earth&#8230; and be a beacon of light for those you connect with that this is possible right now;)</p>
<p>I would love to know how you are experiencing this so please share your comments for all of us!</p>
<p>Thank you and&#8230;</p>
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<p>Joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shine and Crash Syndrome&#8230; Most of us have had the experience of shining our light and having immediate setbacks, issues come up, feeling blocked, or having something happen that invalidates what we feel we have to offer to the world. There is a foundational program in the egoic structure that polarizes the mind&#8217;s greatest [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=262&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Shine and Crash Syndrome&#8230;</p>
<p>Most of us have had the experience of shining our light and having immediate setbacks, issues come up, feeling blocked, or having something happen that invalidates what we feel we have to offer to the world. There is a foundational program in the egoic structure that polarizes the mind&#8217;s greatest desire as a &#8216;worst fear&#8217;. This happens unconsciously, so we react by sabotaging ourselves with doubt and/or fear.</p>
<p>Join us for the gift of this webinar as we hold sacred space around this issue and offer it up for transformation!<br />
Set aside the next 90 minutes&#8230; get yourself comfortable and allow the energy around this issue to shift for you as well.</p>
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<p>There were more questions than we had time to answer this time!<br />
We invite you to share your insights, comments and questions on Facebook on the Whispering Energy page, <a href="http://facebook.com/WECollaborate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/​WECollaborate</a>.</p>
<p>It is so important to allow ourselves to be supported in community.<br />
Be gentle with yourself as you allow the healing to integrate and remember that the Divine is here to support<br />
us with the transformation&#8230; as we get used to being held&#8230;and receiving&#8230;</p>
<p>Until the next time&#8230;</p>
<p>You can also connect with:<br />
Nalini on FB page <a href="http://facebook.com/BeHeartspace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/​BeHeartspace</a> and <a href="http://beheartspace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beheartspace.com</a><br />
Cok on FB page <a href="http://facebook.com/CokvanderLee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/​CokvanderLee</a> and <a href="http://angelconnection.nl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">angelconnection.nl</a><br />
Tina on Fb page <a href="http://facebook.com/iamtinavanleuven" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/​iamtinavanleuven</a> and <a href="http://innerdelight.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">innerdelight.com</a></p>
<p>Many joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina, Nalini and Cok<br />
and Whispering Energy and Sacred Ground</p>
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		<title>Revolution 4 Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please Join me September 9 – October 28 for the ‘Revolution4Evolution’. An EPIC and Life Changing 50 day Program of Action with myself and many of the world’s most dedicated and thought provoking ‘Sacred Activists’ who are on the leading edge of consciousness and human evolution.  For more information or to Register please visit: http://bit.ly/Revolution4Evolution<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=251&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Please Join me September 9 – October 28 for the ‘Revolution4Evolution’. An EPIC and Life Changing 50 day Program of Action with myself and many of the world’s most dedicated and thought provoking ‘Sacred Activists’ who are on the leading edge of consciousness and human evolution.  For more information or to Register please visit: <a href="http://bit.ly/Revolution4Evolution">http://bit.ly/Revolution4Evolution</a></p>
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		<title>Personal Transformation through Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does social media have to do with personal transformation?&#8230; Since discovering Heart Centered Networking as a way to connect with others naturally, social media has played a big part in my life. The freedom and space to express yourself can bring up quite a few opportunities to discover and release your deepest fears, though&#8230; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=243&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does social media have to do with personal transformation?&#8230; Since discovering Heart Centered Networking as a way to connect with others naturally, social media has played a big part in my life. The freedom and space to express yourself can bring up quite a few opportunities to discover and release your deepest fears, though&#8230;</p>
<p>I wonder if public speaking is still the #1 fear amongst many&#8230;<br />
Letting yourself be seen on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Youtube suddenly opens the world for you to be seen and heard by millions, outside your comfort zone of familiar faces and places! And THAT, my friend,  is where the power is.</p>
<p>Marianne Williamson&#8217;s poem &#8216;Our Deepest Fear&#8217;  sums it all up brilliantly:</p>
<h3><span style="color:#800080;">“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.<br />
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. </span><br />
<span style="color:#800080;">We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.</span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#800080;">Your playing small doesn&#8217;t serve the world. There&#8217;s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won&#8217;t feel insecure around you. </span></h3>
<h3><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-244 alignright" title="OrionBelt stars" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/orionbelt-stars.jpg?w=108&#038;h=86" alt="We were born to SHINE, like stars in the sky!" width="108" height="86" /></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#800080;">We are all meant to shine, as children do. </span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#800080;">We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It&#8217;s not just in some of us, it&#8217;s in everyone.<br />
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.<br />
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”</span></h3>
<p>Letting yourself be seen, letting your light shine, calls you to be liberated from your fear. Social media offers you a fast track opportunity to become aware of where you may be shrinking yourself so that others won&#8217;t feel insecure around you!</p>
<p>To test this for yourself, try out a few of the following and simply be aware of what it brings up for you:</p>
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<li>write a note in Facebook about something your friends may not know about you but that is very dear to your heart&#8230; and tag them in the note ( this way it will show up on all their walls, if their settings allow being tagged)&#8230; and/or tweet about it&#8230;</li>
<li>if you have a business, product or passion about something, create a Facebook fanpage and invite everyone to come and like your page&#8230; and then ask your friends to help you spread the word with their friends&#8230;</li>
<li>join the fanpages of people you admire, who inspire you&#8230; and start letting yourself be seen on their pages by sharing what makes your heart sing&#8230; interacting with others and sharing your thoughts and feelings about posts&#8230;</li>
<li>record a video message about something that excites you, lights your fire, makes your heart sing&#8230; upload it in YouTube and share your video on Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else you may visit regularly&#8230;</li>
<li>share your expertise  and/or passion about any topic, noticing how you feel about everyone in your network and beyond seeing this&#8230;</li>
<li>find people or pages in Facebook whose message resonates with you and introduce them to each other&#8230; a great way to do this is to tag their names/pages in your messages ( while typing your text, include the @ sign, followed by their name or page and click on the one you want from the drop-down menu to tag them in your message)&#8230; sharing what you love about them&#8230;</li>
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<p>I have noticed myself holding back from sharing or tagging certain people as it brought up the &#8216;Who am I to think&#8230;&#8217; part of Marianne&#8217;s poem&#8230;</p>
<p>Other times I have held back when I noticed the fear of being judged, ridiculed, attacked or abandoned come up! Just to mention a few&#8230; and oh yes, the fear of not being good enough&#8230;</p>
<p>The first time I noticed these responses while posting on Facebook and sharing on Twitter, I was flabbergasted, to say the least.<br />
I  did some releasing, updated the inner programs and then took a deep breath as I hit the &#8216;Share&#8217; or &#8216;Send&#8217; button!<br />
At first I kept this to myself as I thought it was just me experiencing these inner gremlins.<br />
Then it happened to come up in a conversation during a webinar and wow&#8230; I was amazed to see a common theme emerge.</p>
<p>The more I was letting my light shine by letting myself be seen, the more intense these feelings would show up! Lots of deep breathing while feeling the fear and sharing anyway&#8230;<br />
<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-245" title="Having a rest" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/dsc00665.jpg?w=150&#038;h=84" alt="" width="150" height="84" />  Sometimes I would put things on hold for a bit and retreat into myself or nature before coming back and<br />
sharing. Talk about putting my shadow into the light&#8230; and then just when I thought this must be the<br />
last of it&#8230; bang&#8230; another layer emerges! Hence my thoughts about social media being an amazing<br />
platform to speed up your personal transformation;)</p>
<p>So&#8230; can you relate to any of this?&#8230;</p>
<p>I invite you to share your comments, insights and wisdom. I invite you to let yourself be seen&#8230;</p>
<p>Come and visit my page to share and celebrate your magnificence <a title="http://facebook.com/iamtinavanleuven" href="http://facebook.com/iamtinavanleuven" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/iamtinavanleuven </a></p>
<p>Many joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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		<title>Journey To The Self  with TAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed by Natalie Kimbrough from www.healingisis.com and it was such a joyful sharing about TAT and my recent Camino experience, that I am sharing it here with you: interview on Journey to the Self radio Enjoy the audio and discover how I was introduced to TAT, how it helped me transition from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=238&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was recently interviewed by Natalie Kimbrough from <a title="www.healingisis.com" href="http://www.healingisis.com" target="_blank">www.healingisis.com</a> and it was such a joyful sharing about TAT and my recent Camino experience, that I am sharing it here with you:<a href="http://webtalkradio.net/2011/04/18/journey-to-the-self-%E2%80%93-tat-%E2%80%93-energy-healing-with-tina-van-leuven/" target="_blank"> interview on Journey to the Self radio</a></p>
<p>Enjoy the audio and discover how I was introduced to TAT,<br />
how it helped me transition from a 15 year flying career to my coaching and healing fulltime,<br />
staying true to our own rhythm,<br />
releasing fear of being judged and rejected,<br />
the many magical moments on the Camino, including<br />
how I experienced being completely free from doubt and fear&#8230; and more;)</p>
<p>Joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Love holds no grievances&#8221;&#8230; a line from A Course in Miracles. I have this posted as a reminder to surrender to the Divine whatever I am still holding onto, aware or not&#8230; What if I forgive myself for holding onto these contents?&#8230; Even, or perhaps especially, when I haven&#8217;t been aware of the contents&#8230; During [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=234&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-235" title="peace prayer Ghandi" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/peace-prayer-ghandi.jpg?w=210&#038;h=300" alt="" width="210" height="300" /> &#8220;Love holds no grievances&#8221;&#8230; a line from A Course in Miracles. I have this posted as a reminder to surrender to the Divine whatever I am still holding onto, aware or not&#8230;<br />
What if I forgive myself for holding onto these contents?&#8230; Even, or perhaps especially, when I haven&#8217;t been aware of the contents&#8230;</p>
<p>During my recent Camino experience to Santiago de Compostela and Finisterre I took a list of &#8216;issues&#8217; with me to be surrendered to the Divine. These were things in my own life and things others had given to me. As I walked and put my attention on the list, I noticed how it made me feel and THAT is what I surrendered.</p>
<p>I forgave myself for identifying with these feelings and thoughts&#8230; and especially for the way I had judged myself for this. And phew&#8230; did I have plenty of opportunities to continue forgiving myself for judging&#8230;<br />
Whether the object of my judgment was someone else, myself, my body, shoes, the weather&#8230; the give-away was that I caught myself wanting things to be different and that created tension.</p>
<p>Then I would feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed&#8230; an eternal cycle! However&#8230; the moment I was aware of this cycle and would forgive myself and surrender it all to the Divine, these huge intense waves of love would rush through me. And whomever or whatever had triggered this response in me suddenly appeared in a new light;) Pain disappeared, the sun would appear from behind the clouds, conversations took a different turn&#8230; I felt a deeper connection with life everywhere.</p>
<p>So&#8230; for centuries people have been speaking of wanting world peace. As long as there is an internal war going on, it will be impossible to have world peace. It&#8217;s an inside job&#8230; many of us know that&#8230; and still&#8230;</p>
<p>As long as we hold onto grudges or grievances there is no love.<br />
Where are you holding onto judgments?&#8230; Whom or what do you want to change so you might feel better?&#8230;<br />
These are questions I regularly ask myself as I continue to hand it all over to the Divine.<br />
I continue practicing forgiving myself for identifying with thoughts and feelings which disconnect me from love and the more I do this, the more I am aware of love.</p>
<p>So are you ready to let go of your grievances? Of those who did you wrong? Of yourself? And to forgive yourself for holding on to this up until now?&#8230;</p>
<p>As Ghandi&#8217;s prayer so beautifully says: &#8220;My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.&#8221;</p>
<p>joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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		<title>Be your glorious Self</title>
		<link>http://innerdelight.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/be-your-glorious-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Mike Dooley&#8217;s messages from the Universe (http://www.tut.com) and today&#8217;s brought a smile to my heart yet again: &#8220;Your secret blessing, tina, is that no matter where you go in time and space, you only ever have to be yourself &#8211; as courageous, vulnerable, bold, or afraid as you may feel &#8211; to find [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=231&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Mike Dooley&#8217;s messages from the Universe (<a title="www.tut.com" href="http://www.tut.com" target="_blank">http://www.tut.com</a>) and today&#8217;s brought a smile to my heart yet again:</p>
<p>&#8220;Your secret blessing, tina, is that no matter where you go in time and space, you only ever have to be yourself &#8211; as courageous, vulnerable, bold, or afraid as you may feel &#8211; to find yourself amongst friends.<br />
So loved,<br />
The Universe&#8221;</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-200" title="gratitude" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/gratitude2.jpg?w=99&#038;h=150" alt="" width="99" height="150" /> Now isn&#8217;t that the quest of our lives?&#8230; To be ourselves&#8230; Discovering who that really is and then having the  courage to BE&#8230;<br />
It definitely helps when letting go of judgments: of ourselves, others and everything!</p>
<p>I find it fascinating to be aware of the many ways I find myself judging. The more aware I am, the easier it is to surrender those judgments and forgive myself for having them in the first place. This then fills me with a great rush of love;) And life takes on a whole new glow. Well, perhaps it was always there and with my windows washed I can see more clearly;)</p>
<p>How about you? Can you relate to this?&#8230;<br />
How do you deal with this?&#8230;</p>
<p>joyful blessings,<br />
Tina</p>
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		<title>TAT teleclasses ~ Bring yourself into Alignment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yippee, tomorrow I start a 4 week teleclass series to teach a TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) basics course. The magic of modern technology enables us to call in from anywhere AND be able to see one another in our video cafe. There is still time to join us so if you would like some support [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=224&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yippee, tomorrow I start a 4 week teleclass series to teach a TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) basics course. The magic of modern technology enables us to call in from anywhere AND be able to see one another in our video cafe.</p>
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<p>There is still time to join us so if you would like some support in bringing yourself into alignment with the energies of these times&#8230; then this may be just what you were waiting for.</p>
<p>The classes are spread out over 4 Saturdays. You will have time in between the classes to practice    &#8230;and to bring your questions to the next session.</p>
<p>We will meet from 9am- 1215pm pacific time ( 12noon-315pm EST) ( 18:00-21:15 mainland Europe)</p>
<p>Repeats every week until Sat Apr 23 2011 .<br />
Sat, 04/02/2011 &#8211; 09:00 &#8211; 12:15<br />
Sat, 04/09/2011 &#8211; 09:00 &#8211; 12:15<br />
Sat, 04/16/2011 &#8211; 09:00 &#8211; 12:15<br />
Sat, 04/23/2011 &#8211; 09:00 &#8211; 12:15</p>
<p>The  basics workshop is one of the requirements for becoming a TAT  professional and you will have to attend all 4 sessions to receive your  credit for this workshop.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-227" title="Water Ripple" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/reflection-ripple1.jpg?w=150&#038;h=105" alt="" width="150" height="105" />We will have a lot of fun together as we explore the many ways TAT can be used.<br />
Whether  you are interested in pursuing this training for personal use or to  share it with others&#8230; the beauty is that it always benefits your own  growth.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">You will discover how to use TAT for absolutely anything.</span><br />
We  will play with the short version, the longer version and ways to deal  with those nagging inner critic voices ( you know the ones&#8230; they tell  you it will never work etc).<br />
You&#8217;ll find out how to bundle issues.<br />
We will use a variety of options for step 1.</p>
<p>By  the end of this workshop you will know how to use this wonderful  technique for yourself and be ready to start practicing with others.<br />
I will share the steps of becoming a professional and the options available to you on this journey.</p>
<p>Since  I started using TAT and then began teaching it, I have seen people</p>
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<li> release old traumas</li>
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<li>overcome their fear of flying</li>
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<li>discover what makes  them really happy</li>
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<li>make career transitions</li>
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<li>shed weight</li>
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<li>transform their  relationship with money,love and power</li>
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<li>experience inner peace&#8230; and  most of all&#8230;</li>
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<li>letting go of the obstacles to loving themselves</li>
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<p>Love is the answer&#8230; regardless of the question.<br />
<span style="color:#ff6600;">Whatever  happened&#8230; it happened. That can&#8217;t be undone&#8230;however&#8230; we do have  the power to change how we respond to what happened.</span><br />
By changing your perspective, your experience of what happened will transform.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">If something or someone has been bugging you&#8230; bring it to these classes and be ready to experience some miracles;)</span><br />
As Tapas Fleming says: &#8220;TAT opens a portal of Grace&#8221;.</p>
<p>I invite you to come and join me for this transformational journey and experience this Grace for yourself.<br />
If you have any questions or when you are ready to register then you can email me at: tina@innerdelight.com</p>
<p>I  will send you a paypal invoice and upon receipt of payment you will  receive the call in details for our classes a few days before the start  date.<br />
This 4 week series is $300,00<br />
For payment plan option, please contact me.</p>
<p>Many joyful blessings and I look forward to sharing TAT with you!</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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		<title>My Camino Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina van Leuven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that when St James calls you that you start walking to Santiago de Compostela&#8230; He must have been whispering to me for a while and turned up the volume the end of February;) I first read about the Camino in Shirley MacLaine&#8217;s book about her experience many years ago. It seemed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=210&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-211" title="Caminho de Santiago" src="http://innerdelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_0170.jpg?w=112&#038;h=150" alt="" width="112" height="150" /> It has been said that when St James calls you that you start walking to Santiago de Compostela&#8230; He must have been whispering to me for a while and turned up the volume the end of February;)</p>
<p>I first read about the Camino in Shirley MacLaine&#8217;s book about her experience many years ago. It seemed like a wonderful thing to do&#8230;one day.<br />
That day arrived rather unexpectedly.</p>
<p>Mid February my friend Deborah asked me if I wanted to go walking with her for a few weeks. She had walked the Camino from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela in 2009 and was starting to feel the calling to walk again.</p>
<p>The thought of being out in nature for several weeks and just walking was appealing to me so when she asked me again I said YES.<br />
I had no idea what it would call for really&#8230; the only other times I have gone walking with a backpack was in South Africa but that was only for 4 and 5 days.<br />
This was going to be 16 days&#8230;</p>
<p>Initially she had thought of going to Cathar country in France. Just as we were getting ready to book a ticket to get there the plans changed. We were at a book presentation about the Camino and both feeling excited about going walking the following week, even if it wasn&#8217;t to Santiago.<br />
That evening I received a text message from her that the plans had changed&#8230; Her father had mentioned that it might still be rather cold in the Pyrenees so why didn&#8217;t we go on the Porto route to Santiago?&#8230;</p>
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<p>I started to feel a fluttering in my belly and the excitement about going somewhere new was delicious.<br />
I didn&#8217;t have a backpack so I was able to borrow one from my friend&#8217;s mum. I just had to get new shoes since my old ones had fallen apart last year in France.</p>
<p>So over the next 6 days I took my new shoes for a walk on the beach once and figured I would be fine.<br />
They felt super comfortable. Just in case, I did stock up on some of those fabulous Compeed plasters for blisters.<br />
Besides the basics for clothing, I took a cozy fleece blanket and several of my essential oils, Aura Soma bottles and muscle gel for nurturing myself.</p>
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<p>This called for many laughs along the way as we stopped somewhere and out came the oils as I massaged my feet and put my legs in the air to recharge or just stopped somewhere to lean back:)</p>
<p>Trust me, having those oils with me when arriving in a hostel was a delight to our senses, especially when there were more pilgrims and their shoes were breathing&#8230;</p>
<p>We flew out to Porto in Portugal on Monday March 7th, the starting point of our Camino.<br />
During the days prior to leaving I received many messages from others to take with me on my walk. When I told Mary Nalini McNab about going to Santiago she offered me a few questions to take with me. I had said that I felt as if I was going on a walk with grace, like a walking meditation to update my inner software.</p>
<p>The questions were: <span style="color:#ff6600;">What is the grace here? How do I hold onto grace? What is here that I can let go of? How can I put this directly in the Divine&#8217;s hands to be let go of?</span></p>
<p>These questions accompanied me during my walk and really helped to remind me to surrender whatever came up to the Divine, to be optimized. This sometimes had me laughing while tears were streaming down my face&#8230;</p>
<p>When we arrived in Porto the first opportunity to start asking these questions appeared! Waiting for our backpacks to arrive&#8230;<br />
you guessed it&#8230; no luggage. The connection time in Madrid had been very tight so everyone from there was gathering in the baggage office.<br />
We didn&#8217;t know yet where we would be staying that evening so had to ask if they could phone us when the bags had arrived.<br />
The next and last flight was coming in at 730pm and I asked the angels to ensure our bags were on that flight so we could start walking the next morning, otherwise we would have to wait until noon.</p>
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<p>Well&#8230; the grace in this was that we were now able to go into Porto without luggage and make it to the Cathedral on time to get our &#8216;credencial&#8217; to stay in pilgrim hostels along the route. When we made it to the cathedral there was nobody to be seen so we returned to the tourist office to ask where we might get our credencial. They said it was in the cathedral and it closed in 10 minutes so to hurry back.<br />
Aha&#8230; the grace of our backpacks not arriving with us&#8230; now we could easily run back before closing time! They were just about to close the door and telling us to come back in the morning. Deborah said we had been there before but that there was nobody by the desk half an hour ago&#8230; must have been on coffee break or something! We got our passes;)</p>
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<p>Here we are after 250 km&#8230; in Santiago&#8230;still smiling.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t always like that&#8230;</p>
<p>Our bags arrived late that evening, just as we had found a hostel. The following morning we set out early and discovered it had been Carnivale&#8230; everywhere we walked we ran into people still celebrating and the cafe&#8217;s were filled.</p>
<p>As we reached the river to walk towards the beach we stopped at a little cafe to use the toilet and then strapped up again. Just as I wanted to close the chest strap&#8230;snap&#8230; it broke off! Mmm&#8230; adjusting the backpack somewhat it didn&#8217;t seem to matter so I walked on.</p>
<p>Over the course of the weeks the hipbuckle snapped and then on the last day one of the shoulderstraps as well! Wow, anything else and I would have had to carry the bag another way;) Every time I had to adjust it was amazing how much gratitude I felt when it somehow worked again&#8230;</p>
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<p>We made a bit of a detour the first day and that ended up creating a stretch of well over 30 km.<br />
Everything was going fine and I was just thinking how easy this was&#8230; then suddenly my left buttock<br />
started to contract and after a while I could hardly walk! We were just at a junction where we had to<br />
choose to walk on or call it a night. Deborah was walking at super speed and could have kept going.</p>
<p>This was my first opportunity to honor my own rhythm and listen to my body&#8230;<br />
I told D. that if she wanted to keep going then to please do so and not let me hold her back from her<br />
rhythm. Amazing what this brought to the surface for me&#8230;</p>
<p>My &#8216;old&#8217; way would have been to keep going and to overstep my own boundaries because I would not have wanted to hold anyone else back&#8230; Now there was no way I could keep going so what kind of response would this elicit from others?.. From myself?&#8230;</p>
<p>We walked ( well, I hobbled) to a hostel mentioned in our directions and wow&#8230;was I glad to have a shower! Out came the blisters and muscle gel and oils&#8230; and my cocktail of magnesium! It was still pretty early but I was worn out.<br />
D. kept reminding me that my body would recover during the night and that I would be amazed at its restorative healing power&#8230;</p>
<p>Before going away I had started to write down what I wanted to surrender and update during this journey. I also invited others to share anything they might want me to take on the walk with me so that I could clear it on their behalf.<br />
It was really beautiful to receive the requests and to see how these were resonating with me in some way. Sometimes I thought I was &#8216;done&#8217; with them&#8230;hahaha&#8230; the walk gave me the space to really clear things up.</p>
<p>So during the day I was taking what was on my list ( whether my own things or from others) and asking the Divine to take this from me to be optimized with every step.<br />
I also kept on repeating the Ho&#8217;oponopono mantra: I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you.<br />
I would notice my response to what was on the list and keep on repeating the mantra until I felt waves of love and light in me. When the topic was someone else&#8217;s then I felt these waves of love and light flowing into and through them as well. It moved me to tears many times to feel so much love and to experience how connected we all are&#8230;</p>
<p>In the evening I would often do a TAT ( Tapas Acupressure Technique) session to clear up whatever had accumulated and to support my body&#8217;s healing.</p>
<p>The first 9 days I walked and cleared&#8230; while being ever so aware of each step, the impact it had on my body and allowing the energy channels in my body to fully open.<br />
The aches and pains were moving around, having started with my left buttock, moving to the right side and when that had balanced I had a few hours of bliss from walking without pain.</p>
<p>It felt as if the places in me where I had not fully taken up residence with my Soul were now being cleared and opened&#8230;<br />
Walking was so very grounding for me and this was precisely what I had resisted for so many years&#8230;</p>
<p>Once those channels were open,though, the freedom I experienced awakened a whole new level of joy in me. Touching my legs and feet with such gratitude and appreciation&#8230;</p>
<p>It was on day 5 that I had a very profound experience. My right achilles tendon had been cramping and it was very painful to walk. I had adjusted my shoes, put on bandages, however, nothing eased the discomfort.<br />
While walking I asked my tendon what was stored in there that was ready to be handed over the the Divine to be optimized&#8230; what was causing this pain&#8230;</p>
<p>I got a flash of a time long ago when I shut down my full power. I had experienced physical pain easing over the last few days while calling for help from my guides and angels, however, this was becoming so excruciatingly painful that I could hardly walk.<br />
We happened to be on the most physically intense day of the walk, which was also the most beautiful as far as being in nature goes&#8230;</p>
<p>I remember talking with my tendon and saying that I was willing to heal whatever was there and then I suddenly saw one of my guides walking next to me! As clearly as I saw my friend&#8230;<br />
He said he could show me what to do to release the pain and embrace my power again.</p>
<p>Mmmm&#8230; was I hallucinating?</p>
<p>I agreed and said that if this REALLY worked then I would never doubt again. Oh my&#8230; how stubborn can I be?!<br />
But&#8230; this was such a crippling pain that it seemed I would need some super natural experience;)</p>
<p>My friend was way ahead of me and here I was limping along and accompanied by my guide.<br />
He then started to tell me what to do and within 15 minutes the pain was completely gone.<br />
I moved my foot around and tried all kinds of things to &#8216;test&#8217; if it was really gone! Yep, a persistent part of me!</p>
<p>IT WAS GONE! Wow&#8230; for the rest of that day&#8217;s journey he walked beside me and reminded me of many things I had forgotten and answered many of my questions. He said he would be with me throughout this journey and then gave me an assignment for the next few days to anchor this new frequency in my body and energy field.</p>
<p>Then I reached the top of the steep climb and&#8230; actually ran down the hill!!! Just a short while ago I was limping&#8230;now I was running and feeling light as a feather.</p>
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<p>Over the next few days I did as I had been instructed and I felt the energy shift and healing occur as I walked and sometimes while I was resting.<br />
When I woke up on day 10 I knew the clearing was done. Now it was time to walk and &#8216;simply&#8217; enjoy the rest of the walk. Free from aches and pains, light in my soul and heart&#8230;</p>
<p>That day I sang : &#8216;I am love, I am beauty, I am bliss!&#8217; the whole way and it felt sooooo good!</p>
<p>Something deep within me had shifted&#8230; I wondered what everyone on my list had been experiencing these last few days.<br />
I would sometimes catch myself thinking in the past that I was too small to make a difference when it came to contributing love to events elsewhere in the world&#8230;</p>
<p>When I heard about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan I spent the entire day holding everyone there in my heart and repeating the Ho&#8217;oponopono mantra. Asking for forgiveness if any part of me had contributed to this in any way&#8230; apologizing for the grief and chaos&#8230;. seeing huge waves of love pouring from my heart to everyone there&#8230; and thanking them for bringing this into my awareness so whatever was there to be optimized by the Divine could now be completed.</p>
<p>I felt deeply connected to everyone and had a deep sensation of the difference I was making by what I was doing.<br />
Never again will I doubt that I do affect the whole.</p>
<p>Arriving in Santiago was quite an experience as well&#8230;  about 2 km out I really needed a rest so we lay down in a grassy field to enjoy the sunshine and put my feet up. My lower right quad had been playing up for a while and made it a bit of a challenge when walking down any hill. So&#8230; I called on my guides and asked for a healing. They arrived and infused so much love into me that it felt as if I had just been plugged into an electrical socket and had a love surge!<br />
When I got up the pain was gone&#8230; and we walked the last few km to arrive at the Cathedral. I have never seen anything like it&#8230; maybe I will write about it another time.</p>
<p>We had a day off in Santiago to enjoy the city and then had just enough time to go to Finisterre, another 90km, to the final stop of the Camino. Where they used to think the earth ended.</p>
<p>For me this was the most beautiful part of the walk, maybe also because of the contrast of the city to being completely in nature again for the entire walk.<br />
When we reached the 0 km signpost it dawned on me that this Camino had been like a retracing of the steps I had taken in my life, the choices I had made which had gotten me to where I was now&#8230; and having cleared the energy of this that I now had the chance to start again.</p>
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<p>I walked to the place where many pilgrims before me have burned something from their walk and I shredded the release list and released it to the wind&#8230; FREE!</p>
<p>Time to create a new story&#8230;</p>
<p>The seeds have been planted&#8230; taking the Camino into my &#8216;normal&#8217; life&#8230; I had no idea yet what it would be like to be back home again. Walking had become such a way of living these past few weeks that I can imagine doing this again but then for even longer&#8230;</p>
<p>Arriving back at Schiphol I was greeted by the radiant smile of my dear friend Carla as she waited for me in the arrivals hall! Oh, how it made me smile inside and out to see her again. And Paul was waiting for us outside. Reunion time with my dearest friends;)</p>
<p>Over dinner we shared our experiences of the past few weeks and then they took me home. So weird to walk into my home again and being able to sleep in my own bed&#8230; Heavenly&#8230;<br />
To be flying that day and then to be in a car after walking all those miles felt odd&#8230; my body wanted to move&#8230;<br />
The Camino insights are settling into my life now and I feel they will continue to integrate for a while.</p>
<p>Walking is an amazing metaphor for life&#8230; unless we take a step then we don&#8217;t go anywhere.. and where we go depends on the choices we make. Mmm&#8230;. to be continued!</p>
<p>joyful blessings,<br />
Tina</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video the other day and it speaks to me in many ways&#8230;  This is the year of waking up to the realization that we are the creators of our lives in all ways&#8230;so&#8230; let&#8217;s ENJOY the journey;) Taking time to explore what makes your heart sing and then clearing the objections to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=innerdelight.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14120005&#038;post=205&#038;subd=innerdelight&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw this video the other day and it speaks to me in many ways&#8230;  This is the year of waking up to the realization that we are the creators of our lives in all ways&#8230;so&#8230; let&#8217;s ENJOY the journey;)</p>
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<p>Taking time to explore what makes your heart sing and then clearing the objections to following that path for yourself&#8230; this is being the change we wish to see in the world. Every time one of us honors our inner calling, despite the apparent outer obstacles, we add to the collective field for others to surf on and follow their heart&#8217;s path.</p>
<p>Where are you holding on to supposed security in your life rather than living on the edge?&#8230;</p>
<p>Which dreams have been calling you and keep returning?&#8230;</p>
<p>What would it take for you to go for it?&#8230;</p>
<p>On December 1st last year dear friends of mine were involved in a buscrash in Peru while they were on a group journey together. Eight people died and many were seriously injured.<br />
When they were returned to the Netherlands and Belgium over the following weeks the healing journeys began.</p>
<p>One of my friends had to spend a few weeks in hospital and when she was released a few days before Christmas it just so happened that my calendar was completely blank for the next few weeks. This had never happened before&#8230; I mean, it has been quiet but <em>completely</em> blank?&#8230;</p>
<p>Taking a look at what was going to be involved taking care of her and for her husband to also recuperate, I immediately offered to stay with them for however long they needed/wanted me to be of support for them in whatever way I could. With one shoulder broken, the other arm&#8217;s wrist broken, a broken vertebrae and many more fractures, getting out of bed by herself and going to the bathroom etc were all temporarily on hold&#8230; and required support.<br />
So for the next month I slept on the couch so that I could be there for her when she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. This way her husband could have his night&#8217;s sleep and for me it felt as if I was back in my flying days, except there was no jetlag nor dry air;)</p>
<p>Right at the beginning of this phase there was a very brief moment where my old voices of anxiety screeched: How are you going to make ends meet with your business on hold?!</p>
<p>I took a deep breath and with every ounce of strength declared to the universe that I was going to be with my friends for however long it would take and that I expected to be taken care of! Thank you very much!<br />
I then added in a thank you to Source for meeting all my needs and for allowing me this opportunity to be of service;)</p>
<p>The time we spent together has been such a Divine blessing&#8230; as if we were all receiving spiritual upgrades as well as physically being updated, simply by being together.<br />
The insights from this time have given birth to a new project&#8230; stay tuned to find out more about it;)</p>
<p>Miraculously, the moment I re-emerged into the world and checked my emails after a few weeks, the requests for appointments were rushing in and a whole new caliber of people have come into my life&#8230; surrender?&#8230;</p>
<p>So the conclusion for me has been to trust the calling of my heart and know that when I honor that inner voice that everything is taken care of, always! It may not seem so at times yet it always is&#8230;</p>
<p>Letting go of the fear, anxiety, doubts&#8230; and let LOVE guide you on your way;) Miracles abound&#8230;<br />
Can you relate to this? I&#8217;d love to read about your experiences and miracles!</p>
<p>joyful blessings,</p>
<p>Tina</p>
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