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Dear %$firstname$%,
Today I have to start with some congratulations to an amazing composer. There's a bit of a story here, so if you just want to get on with the new (and Wonderful!) blog, you can skip these first few paragraphs. I first heard the music of Bruce Mitchell more than 20 years ago. It immediately became my favorite music in the world. When my husband and I got married, we used it for our wedding video. When we opened up a supplement mail order business we used it for our on-hold music. When we opened up a vitamin store we used it for our ambient music. Over the years I wondered whether Bruce Mitchell had put out more albums, but didn't pursue it, until one day in January 2009 I saw his name appear on a networking site. I immediately sent him a note telling him how much I loved his music, and mentioned I am an artist. He wrote back wondering if I might be interested in painting the cover for his upcoming album, New Earth Goddess. Thus began a dear friendship and an amazing front-row seat on the composing and polishing of the best music I have ever heard in my life. Not to mention the blessing of creating the cover art for this divine magnum opus! I am so proud to say that Bruce's album has now won the 2009 Zone Music Reporter Music Award for Best Neo-Classical Album. Congratulations, Bruce, that award is supremely well-deserved! Not to mention, Bruce's other current album, Celtic Compilation, has been holding its own at number two on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart for the second month in a row. You can hear the New Earth Goddess album and more of Bruce's music for FREE on Bruce's site at www.newearthgoddess.net 
Back to today's I Listen to Spirit Blog: "Being Okay as We Are." Dear Guides, How can we learn to stop trying to prove ourselves, to prove our worth? How can we really get it, that we are divine, okay just the way we are? Click to the blog. Our question was a simple one. But the answer went deep into the heart of all that we do in our lives on earth - our purpose as individuals. Here is a little more from the longer, five-page "Dear Guides" Journal version of the I Listen to Spirit blog, channeled by Minda Bernstein. It was hard to pick an excerpt, as each paragraph was better than the last. 
"Remember that your own focus needs to be clearly upon your own path. Whatever you can share to help others is not as central as the fact that you are choosing the events and circumstances and arenas and dimensions that attract you, that intrigue you, that will fulfill you on a moment-by-moment basis. "To consider that these moments you choose could "prove" to others how wonderful your choices and actions are or even how wonderful your being is, becomes a moot point. Know that they will never care as much as you, and they are relatively unaffected by your choices. Above all, the choices are yours, to "prove" to yourself that you are fully in the moment and engaged."
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