THIS IS IT!!!

Well folks, this is it!!!!!!! This is the day when I will be tested on everything that I have learned in BodyTalk in the past 2 1/2 years. I used to freak out with finals in collage which analyzed if I'd learned anything in the past 4 1/2 MONTHS. But you know what? I'm not freaked out one bit. BodyTalk is so incredible that I have used the skills I learned to bring peace to my being and I am ready to go. The Lord even gave me a poem just now that I think is pretty neat. It's short but sweet and I just HAVE to share it with you now.

I'm all clean,

My clothes are neatly pressed,

I feel GREAT,

So put me to the test.

Is that cool or what? Like I'd have time to think of poetry at a time like this so you know that one is strictly from the Lord! :)

Elizabeth called last night to say that she had done a performance session on me and I know that Ellen also was doing on on me last night. I spent my day reviewing yesterday and doing as many Active Memories as I could. I wish that I could use the new procedure that Melanie taught us this weekend but everything today is "Strictly by the book."

I covet your prayers and I can truly say that I have felt them coming through as I have prepared. I'd feel panicky one moment and then calm down as I pondered all of the love that is coming through to me right now. THANKS A MILLION!!!

As a love gift in return, I have decided to share a precious gem that the Lord gave me a few years ago. I pray that it will wet your appetite to ponder what wonderful things that the Lord wants to do with YOUR life as it has done for me. This wasn't originally written from the Christian perspective so I took the liberties to rewrite a few sentences to bring it in line with what the Bible teaches. I would encourage you to learn to sift through things searching for the truth and leave the rest behind. Here goes.

OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS NOT THAT WE ARE INADEQUATE. OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE ARE POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE. IT IS OUR LIGHT, NOT OUR DARKNESS, THAT MOST FRIGHTENS US. WE ASK OURSELVES, "WHO AM I TO BE BRILLIANT, GORGEOUS, TALENTED, FABULOUS, OR BEAUTIFUL?" ACTUALLY, WHO ARE YOU NOT TO BE? YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD! YOUR PLAYING SMALL DOESN'T SERVE THE WORLD. THERE'S NOTHING ENLIGHTENED ABOUT SHRINKING SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE WON'T FEEL INSECURE AROUND YOU! WE ARE ALL MEANT TO SHINE, AS CHILDREN DO. WE WERE BORN TO MAKE MANIFEST THE GLORY OF GOD THAT HE PUT IN EACH OF US. IT'S NOT JUST IN SOME OF US--IT'S IN EVERYONE. AND AS WE LET OUR OWN LIGHT SHINE, WE UNCONSCIOUSLY GIVE OTHER PEOPLE PERMISSION TO DO THE SAME. AS WE'RE LIBERATED FROM OUR OWN FEAR, OUR PRESENCE AUTOMATICALLY LIBERATES OTHERS FROM THEIRS.

by Marrianne Williamson--Adapted by Dawn Bornemann

I pray that you will come to realize, like I have, that you are on this planet for a specific reason. It's up to you to pray and ponder as to what that reason, or reasons, are. For me, I know that I am here to help people find their way to God through healing on all levels. This is what BodyTalk does and so I am taking this big step today and going to visit Melanie for a few hours.

I covet all of your prayers and I'll write tonight and tell you the good news. If I don't pass, it may be awhile until I write again. :)

Just a reminder, today is the last day to qualify for a free BodyTalk session from me. All you have to do to qualify is go to my post HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY TO ME and leave a comment. Also the other offer that I made, "Buy 1 session and get one free" is also good through today. This offer will not be repeated unless, of course, I ever get to the point where I feel ready to test for the ADVANCED BodyTalk label. That will be a looooooooooong ways off, though, so please feel free to send me an email at: savedbybodytalk@gmail.com and say, "Hey Dawn, I'd like to take advantage of your great offer!"

I'm off. Jacob is taking his driver's test at 8:00; then I'm taking him to stay with some friends while I test; then I'm going to pass my CBP exam; then Jacob and I are going to see Dr. Faye Johnson for cranio-sacral sessions; then I'm seeing a client at my office at 5:00; then I'm going to drive home; then I'm going to milk my cow; then I'm going to crawl in bed exhausted. How's that for a full, rich, and exciting day? Oh yes, I get to see Elizabeth today too as she is coming down to Bismarck to coordinate for Melanie again this weekend.

I could not close this post without honoring the God who saved my life to give me a hope and a purpose on earth which is bigger than I could ever have imagined. God called me to be a healer and today I embrace that calling in a new and exciting way. I'm so excited that me knees are going to shake for the next 5 hours. :) Oh well, it's better than being dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lessons learned during Module 3

I just completed my very first upper level module in BodyTalk which was held this weekend at the Doublewood Inn in Bismarck. It's called (drum roll.............) Module 3. TALK ABOUT A SPIRITUALLY UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!! I learned so many more techniques to help my clients with, but the spiritual lessons were even more profound. I'll share one of them at the end of this post and as they come to the surface in the weeks ahead.

The class was held in Room #114. As all of our classes have been held either in Room # 106 or Room #114 at the Doublewood, these places are like chapels to me. So many times God has met me there as I struggled to grasp something deeper than I could imagine. Then, when I gave up, He shone through with the light and my life was enriched again. This has happened over and over in BodyTalk--both during my training and during my sessions. As I desire to understand God even more, He reaches out and takes me in His arms and opens my mind to the wonders of His creation and His creatures. PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Here we're getting the room set up. Everyone brought their massage tables and covered them with a clean sheet; a blanket; and a pillow. The tables were also our desks where we put our books on so they served a dual purpose. I was happy that I'd set mine up in the front of the room as it was the table that got used throughout the weekend for our instructor to do her demonstration sessions on. As you get into working with energy healing, you realize that energies are everywhere. Either they're good or they're bad and I prefer to have lots of good energies around me constantly. Although things aren't living, and therefore don't have energy of their own, MY memories of the class healing sessions taking place on my table will serve to bring positive memories to me every time I use my table from now on. Thanks, Lord, for that added blessing!

In this first picture you can see my BT practitioner, Elizabeth Hanson, in the green blouse at the front of the room. She was the coordinator for the class and took care of the arrangements for the weekend. If it weren't for her willingness to coordinate for us, the class just wouldn't take place. THANKS AGAIN ELIZABETH!

There were 15 ladies taking the class. Adding in Elizabeth and Dr. Shields who taught the class, there were 17 of us in that room for 2 and a half days. I hope that every one of you will get to experience such an event sometime as it is truly incredible what can happen when 17 people get in the same room with the desire to let God help them become all that they are meant to be on this earth. Masks fall off and true friendships develop that last a lifetime. These are "MY" people--meaning that they've taken the steps necessary to let God heal them of their "Rights" one by one. You may know which rights I'm referring to--the right to stay sick; the right to be a grump; the right to push people away from you; the right to be selfish--that sort of thing. We all do have those rights, because God will not force His healing on anyone, but I have to ask myself, "Why would I want to insist upon such rights?"

We usually only have a big class like this once a year in Bismarck. Being we come from all over the state, this may be the only time that we see each other in the year. Old friends start their weekend together in a warm embrace. The good news is that the BodyTalk family is growing so maybe we'll be able to have more of the upper modules in Bismarck as time goes on.


Dr. Mary Shields was our instructor for the weekend.

Here Elizabeth is writing out the formulas. In BodyTalk we link up things that have become disconnected due to stress--it's that simple. Well, when we're learning new things, it helps to see the links on paper so somebody was writing up the sessions all weekend. I might add that BodyTalk is so precise that there are collage level classes in BT. I have a looooong way to go.


Here Dr. Shields is working on Donna Berger, my aunt who first brought BT to North Dakota.

Sunday morning, the ladies met in the lobby as Dr. Shields was working on a client and we found ourselves locked out of the room. No matter, we've had lots of good memories in the lobby too as we often hold our once a month practice sessions in the lobby when Elizabeth is in town. Ava, Donna, & Marilyn visiting in front of the fireplace--soon they'll have fires going in it!

Here are 2 of my favorite people in the whole world. My adopted sister, Ellen, and my friend of 20 years, Bell, visiting before class on Sunday morning. Bell and I are both going to test next month when Melanie is back in town. Ellen got certified when Melanie was here in July. She said that she'd be happy to help Bell and I study. That sounded soooooooooo good.

Marilyn, Cheryl, and Dee in the back of the room. Whenever it got hot or stuffy in the room, these ladies opened that back window until they got chilled out. I thought a few times, I should be sitting back there as I had forgotten to take my Vitex (for the hot flashes) and was roasting. I prefer to sit up front, though, so that I don't have to wear my glasses all of the time. It's just so much easier to see the sessions too.

Here is what we looked like after frying our brains for 3 days together. Not bad, huh? The reason for that is that we are continually getting sessions from each other throughout the class period. We all got one session from the instructor too. Everyone in the front row (except the second from the right) is one of my partners at the North Dakota BodyTalk center. Ellen is the 5th one of us and is behind Bell at the foot of the stairs. It is absolutely amazing to go through this kind of experience with my partners in business--super bonding.

Well, I always let the Lord lead my posts and it is interesting to me too how he brings in different resources. While we were doing dishes just now, we were talking about our plans for our family to work up an Andy Griffeth show this Winter. I'd be Aunt Bee, of course. Well, we were discussing which one we'd like to produce when somebody said, "How about, MAN IN A HURRY?

From there we got to talking about Gomer Pyle, who played in that episode, and everyone was laughing at him. I asked my children, "But have you ever heard him sing for real?" Nobody had and I said that they should look it up on U tube sometime. We were almost done with dishes when I heard that Robert had brought up some of Jim Nabor's songs from the past. When he played TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM, I just knew that I needed to include that song in this post.

PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO LISTEN TO THIS INCREDIBLE SONG AND THIS INCREDIBLE MAN. We have kept the children from watching the re-runs from the Gomer Pyle show because I can't stand how cruelly he is treated by his boss. I actually can't stand his boss but, if you watch carefully you can see that they show the old grump start to smile as he listened to Gomer's singing. Isn't it amazing how powerful a song can be? Well, that's how powerful and life-changing a BodyTalk session can be too!!!

As I ponder this connection between BT and this song, I see that the dream that I have is that everyone that I love will open up their mind to having BodyTalk sessions--from someone else if not from me. So much healing is available and God would have everyone healed, but people close their minds to it because they have grown so accustomed to wearing their masks of "Tough," "Independent", and "Better."

In class this weekend, Dr. Shields shared an incredible illustration which helped me to see how I have been harmed by wearing these and many other masks throughout my life. I'll share it with you now with a prayer that my words will be as clear as Mary's were so that you all can be blessed as I was.

There was a hand and there was a glove. The hand put on the glove and went out to work. As the day began, the glove stopped a nosebleed for a child and suddenly it wasn't clean anymore. The blood that remained on the glove bothered the glove, but the hand didn't seem to notice.

Later on in the day, the hand helped a man by the side of the road whose car had stopped. The glove got some grease on it but the hand didn't seem to notice that it upset the glove to be "Dirty" and it just went along helping people.

At rush hour, the hand helped a little, old lady cross the road because it had just rained and the street was slippery. Just as the Grannie reached the safety of the other side, the glove accidentally slid off the hand and fell in the mud.

This really irritated the glove but when the hand went into the glove again, peace came over it as it knew that it really had been doing a whole lot of good that day. After all, a glove can do nothing without a hand anyway. :)

Mary said, "God is the hand and we are the glove. God decides what we are to do every day and what we are to be in our lives. God is the one in charge and, as long as we let Him, He can use us every day to accomplish His purposes of doing good upon the earth. " Isn't that beautiful?

I pray that you will ponder this illustration and rejoice, as I am while I write this, to be a glove on the hand of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Amen? Only on the hand of the King, will I ever be the godly woman that I dream of being to EVERYONE that I meet.

Will you dream with me? If you're not sure even now, I propose that you listen to Jim Nabor's rendition of TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM that I've included here!!!!!!!! It's not up to us to decide what we'll be folks, it's up to God! He is more than willing to let His love flow through us to the hurting world all around us every day. Will you let Him put His hand into your life today?

I'm off to do a session on my newest client. His name is Colton and he's 9 years old. Colton has been sick all of his life and, Praise God, he found his way to BodyTalk. I'll have to see how many new links come up from what I learned this weekend. Can you tell that I just LOVE doing BodyTalk and being a part of the BodyTalk family?

Hugs,

Dawn