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November 2006
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Welcome!

As the Holiday Season comes upon us we are filled with gratitude for the year we have had. We want to thank each and every one of you for the support you have shown us by coming to our seminars and continuing to seek Mary’s wisdom in private sessions. We wouldn’t be able to do it with out you and we love and honor each of you for the journey you have chosen to take.

2006 started with a trip to Costa Rica where we were joined by our hosts Steve & Maggie Jacobus of Activated Life Experience and 16 other amazing creators to present our first international workshop. That week in Costa Rica, which ended with a very special hot tub session with Mary, was a life changing event for everyone. I have no doubt we changed the lives of all those people we met along our way across that beautiful country as well. Stay tuned for details on our next trip to this tropical paradise scheduled for June 2007.

Throughout the year we became clearer and more practiced in our ability to create our own reality. With incredible tools like the movie The Secret (which I have watched about ten times), teachers like Mike Dooley, James Ray and of course Mary we have stepped fully into living the life of our dreams.

Mary wrapped up our 12 month series Attracting Abundance in Brookfield, WI with a grand finally that personally touched each one of us in such profound ways we’re still wondering what hit us. We are starting a new series in Brookfield, WI called Experiencing Ourselves as Creators this Saturday November 18. We will meet at the YogAsylum every 3rd Saturday of the month with Mary to move even more fully into knowing ourselves as the powerful creators we are.

On December 2nd in Madison, WI we continue our half day seminar series Stirred Awakenings. Madison is one of the first places we held workshops and continues to be one of our favorites.

We’ll also be back in the Chicago area soon so check back for details. And in February we will be heading to Southern California for our first west coast workshop. More details on this full day with Mary coming soon.

We hope to see you soon.
Peace,
Don & Jacque

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We love a good creation story. Witnessing how the Universe always works in our favor is one of our greatest joys. Which leads me to this story:

About 2 weeks ago Jacque and I were expressing to each other and the Universe that we want to share Mary in other parts of the country with more expansive people who are willing and excited about consciously creating their lives. Less than a week later I get an emailfrom Alex Teklak. Alex who lives in California, hasdeveloped a line of Energy Enhanced Natural Spring Water called Aquamantra and she was very interested in the fun we are having with Mary. After a few email exchanges I decided to ask Alex if she would like to host a full day seminar in California and she excitedly said yes! So thanks to Alex we are presenting our first full day workshop in southern California February 8, 2007 How fun is that! Stay tuned for more details.

Since first talking to Alex we have had the opportunity to taste her Aquamantra water. The water not only taste fabulous but I find myself more conscious about how I create my day as I read the mantra on my bottle throughout my day. For now you can order Aquamantra water or the Labels on the website. I have a label on my nalgene and it really does get me to "think before I drink".

I also encourage you to go to the Aquamantra web site and join the free members section. There is a ton of information on tips for how to create your day and resources to help remind us of the powerful creators we are.

You can also listen to Alex's entire private (or not so private now : ) ), session with Mary on her web site in the members section or follow this link.

Way back when, The Inner Vortex was a retail store in our living room. We ran it out of our house for a couple years then decided our true passion was with our work with Mary. About a week after we made the decision to let the store go our good friend Trish Cocoma let us know that she wanted to open a store similar to ours and that she would like to buy our inventory.

I love the way the universe works! We make a choice and the hows are taken care of.
Well that was about three years ago and Cusco Jack's is still going strong and now in a brand new building/location with a selection of goodies far greater than what could fit in our living room.

In celebration of their new location at 6957 Old Creek Rd. Rockford, IL 61114 Cusco Jack's is having a grand opening/open house December 2 from 1-5PM. Along with chair massages, book signings by local authors, and a new exhibit of amazing photography by Thom Rouse you can find beautiful one of a kind jewelry, stones, crystals, singing bowls, incense and far more than I can type. So please check out this amazing store if you can.

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Our new cards are off the press!!!
The card to the left is one of nine beautiful designs now available at our workshops, by giving us a call or by emailing us. So far this new line of cards that we created with Bill & Mandy Edmunson of WAZOOO Inc. has had great reviews and people are ordering full sets! Each card has a carefully selected quote from Mary on the inside and amazing images on the outside. We'll have the full line at our seminars if you would like to see them in person.

MORE JOY! YES?
We now have MORE JOY! bumper stickers and magnets in several fun colors. If you have been to one of our recent workshops you may have heard (not that you could miss it) a loud chant of "MORE JOY!" We have watched as that mantra has brought huge smiles to the faces in the groups, so we decided to offer a way to give yourself a little reminder to live with MORE JOY!

The bumper stickers are a great way to share the message with the world and you can give yourself the gift of MORE JOY! by putting a magnet on your refrigerator. Check out all The Inner Vortex merchandise at our Store and give the gift of Mary!

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Warmest Greetings Dear Friends ~

We would like to offer our words on Transformation, that which occurs when you make a decision to change a circumstance or a way of being in your life.

We were just having a lovely conversation with our good friend Donald about how humans use their filters and how the defense filters cause roadblocks in creating toward that which is desired by the individual. Where your current use of these defense filters takes you in a conversation or experience may offer you much inspiration for making changes in how you are creating your life. What belief or thought process or way of being that you currently practice would you like to transform? Perhaps you frequently utilize your filter of resistance or doubt or lack or threatened. How do you suppose these filters impact your creation? Filters are created by your beliefs, beliefs are created by your practiced thoughts, practiced thoughts are created by your decisions. For instance, perhaps you have decided that other people will most likely mistreat or dishonor you. “Why would I make a decision like that?” you may ask. Perhaps it is because when you were growing up there were others who in varying degrees didn’t believe in you or treated you harshly or neglected to value you or any other number of “missteps”. So, based on this decision you consciously or unconsciously practice thoughts of mistrust in others in general even when they are people whom you love and/or respect. Thoughts like: People aren’t consistent. People are out for themselves and I need to protect myself from being hurt by them. People are not always who they appear to be. People do not always have my best interest in mind. And so on. (By the way, you can also get these thoughts by osmosis from a parent who treated you in a loving way but practiced these thoughts out loud when they were raising you. Example: The parent who tells their child, “I love you and will always care for you. When I was growing up I didn’t have loving parents. I thought the world was rather harsh and people couldn’t be trusted. Don’t you worry though because I will protect you from mean people.”) These practiced thoughts create beliefs that match and support them. These beliefs create the filters through which you create your life experiences.

So how do you get from utilizing filters of defense to utilizing filters of trust? It requires you to make life transforming decisions. Sounds BIG doesn’t it - and yet all it takes is for you to decide to practice new thoughts that suit who you are now and the life you are desiring to create now. What decision can you make now about how you approach life that will align itself with your current desire? Whatever you decide, that decision will create thoughts to practice and those thoughts practiced will create beliefs and those beliefs will create your new filters. This process will transform your experience of yourself and the world around you.

And remember to be playful about it all, that is if you enjoy being playful.

Only Love,
Mary

Thanks so much for all you bring to us and to Mary! We hope to see you soon.

With much Love,

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Don, Jacque, & Mary at The Inner Vortex
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