Hello and Welcome

This is our second newsletter, quite some time in the making and yet just one more step on what will continue to be a most interesting and enjoyable adventure for many years to come.  

Wellness Goods was founded and first appeared on the Internet over four years ago and has continued to become a very popular and preferred Web Resource Center for Conscious Living. It is our commitment to you that the high quality of information you find within our vast and diverse articles libraries will always be offered freely in an effort to share with you what otherwise might be unavailable.  

We have spent many months in the development, reorganization and expansion of our site. We have greatly expanded our information knowledge base and now have vast offerings throughout our site, something for everyone, from our diverse and intensive article libraries, to our expanded selection of free informational eZines, as well as our ultra secure and exciting Marketplace where you will find a rich, unique, hand selected and diverse offering of services and merchandise, intended to inspire, nurture and refresh your mind, body and your soul.   

THE NEXT STEPS

Wellness Goods is not a large corporation, in fact we are less than a handful of happily dedicated and zealous individuals, down to earth real people, who began this quest with a broad yet simple vision. We, along with you, have endured the hardships we have faced and come to know and understand. Developing an ever-deepening awareness and intent of our purpose, to live our lives according to natural law. Each day awakening more fully to this grand mystery that is our life.

Many quality websites on the Internet are now or have recently become, available only by paid subscription. We understand the monetary reasoning behind these situations, yet we still firmly believe that information, which will assist you in realizing and maintaining your own vision of wholeness, (whatever that may be), must be freely available to any one and everyone who is motivated to seek it. We believe that information must be regarded as a global right, not a privilege.

The Freedom of Speech, which is becoming an increasingly valuable yet, diminishing asset on our planet, has no essential value if no one can hear you, nor afford to pay for what they perceive as valuable and useful information.

Wellness Goods will never resort to becoming yet another paid Internet subscription site. All of the articles within our ever-expanding web site will continue to be available at no cost to you, including the availability to email each of our ever popular articles to your friends, and subscribe to our free eZines, all without any advertising, annoying pop up windows, obtrusive banners or outside input, commercial support or intrusions of any kind.

In order to continue in this important pursuit, we would like your support. As you enjoy and find Wellness Goods' free online libraries to be a valuable service, your support is greatly appreciated. Your supporting our Marketplace helps to offset the costs of developing and maintaining these valuable resources and enables us to continue to offer you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art for many years to come.

THE JOURNEY NEVER ENDS

So much has happened on our planet, and washed over us so quickly during the last several months, we have hardly had time to let it all sink in. In the wake of what has been a turbulent sea of both personal and global events we often find ourselves feeling the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual exhaustion of too much too fast.

As we do find rare moments to reconnect with our selves and begin to grasp the changing attitudes swirling around us, we often find that confusion warps and usurps both ours, and others understanding of the new perceptions we have gained.

When we do finally begin to find the words to wrap around our newly formed perceptions, all of us have once again come face to face with the issue of free speech. We seem continually uncertain about what we can and cannot say, incessantly aware that when the creative and uninhibited expression of our opinions, feelings and observations are squelched, the silence will become deafening. The frustration and confusion engulfs us once again.

It is often difficult to discern the acts, masks and costumes of the many dramas and players that are continually reflected to us in this now burgeoning landscape. Often leaving us with a feeling of confusion, not knowing who we are, who we have become and almost certainly confused about where we are going and why.

Mass consciousness creates and drives dramas in order to present different issues. The dramas that are created act like a mirror reflecting back to people what they need to learn. We are deep in the choppy waters of a potentially transformative global evolution. It seems that we will either accept the self-responsibility to learn from the mass reflections that are upon us or stay stuck on the endless wheel of suffering. That choice is always ours, you are free, if you choose.

We have downloaded enormous amounts of information during these past many months, whether we wanted to or not, and we often lack the means to transform that data into a simple and practical wisdom capable of transforming our blindness, deafness, ignorance and pain.  

Perhaps all that we do need to realize and remember is that every one of our stories begins and ends with us. We either create consciously or unconsciously, every thing and every situation we ever find our selves in, and no amount of mind gymnastics will ever change that. You are either aware of what you are doing or you are not. You can never change anything as long as your eyes are closed to the negative stories you have and continue to create.

It is possible to have a knowing arise in your mind without thinking, this is awareness and it comes from allowing the reflections all around you to become your own. Many people are not conscious of their unconscious thoughts. Most never get that far. Many people continue with their stories, their dramas, their own unconscious projecting .The essence of Compassion is in understanding just that. Only through understanding and compassion can change happen. You already are the understanding and compassion you are looking for. Becoming conscious, aware, is not really so much about what you learn. It is simply about unlearning what you have thought you were in or what you have thought that you are.

What if you began to see that the way you see or treat another is a reflection of the way you feel about your self. How would you feel and what would you change. What if, for just one day, you chose to exercise this practice consciously ? Catching your self each time your awareness slips into who you thought you were. Become patient with your self, your loved ones, and your fellow travelers. Begin to accept and allow each other wherever you or they may happen to be on this Journey. This acceptance and compassion may just simply be what will ultimately bring us the peace we seek, an island oasis in what we find are often tumultuous and choppy waters.

" Despite the hunger we cannot possess more than this:

Peace in a garden of our own."

 ~Alice Walker from Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

We are grateful for your continuing interest and support .

We are very pleased to present many exciting new developments as well as several important and timely new articles to you. You will find them all detailed below. We believe they will be of great interest and value to you on your Journey. Enjoy !

Your comments, suggestions, insight, perceptions and reflections are always welcomed. Please do let us know what is on your mind, in your heart, captivating your imagination or how ever we may be of further assistance. We would also love to hear what you think of this issue of The Journey Newsletter.  

Please feel free to send us an e-mail. We enjoy hearing from you.

Until next time, remember . . .

Laughter is the shortest distance

   
Wellness Goods 

  THE WELLNESS GOODS MARKETPLACE

  NEW ARTICLE LIBRARIES

  ARTICLES

  FOR THE CHILDREN

  THE ELDERS

  THE LIVING EARTH

  GLOBAL NETWORK

  RESOURCES

  WATER

  MEDITATION

  LEGALESE

  WELLNESS GOODS NEWSLETTERS

Take Good Care of Your Self ™

We are very pleased to announce the opening of our Marketplace.

We did in fact keep our programmers and ourselves up late for many, many months developing a state of the art system that you will find safe, practical and most easy to use. We have done everything imaginable to become one of your most favorite and trusted places to shop.

We will continue to stock the shelves with things that are both good for you and that naturally make you feel good...a very special and interesting variety of hand selected items that will support, soothe and delight all of your senses...and every part of your life. We offer only the finest merchandise available, many products, which are exclusively available only to Wellness Goods.

We will be stocking the shelves with new merchandise on a continual basis. If you do not find what you are looking for, please let us know.

Wellness Goods takes the Privacy and Security of its customers very seriously. Our state of the art proprietary software and security processes insure the safety and privacy of everyone that visits and transacts business within our web site.

Please see our Privacy and Security Policy for all of the details.

The Wellness Goods Marketplace

Take Good Care of Your Self ™

  Water Products

  Personal Care Products

  Art Gallery

  Music and Sound

  Gardening 

  For Your Home

  The Great Outdoors

  Books

  Professional Services

We have expanded our information knowledge base and now have vast offerings throughout our site, something for everyone. Our diverse and intensive article libraries offer a rich, unique and diverse selection of articles intended to inspire, nurture and refresh your mind, body and your soul.

We seek only to ignite, enhance and empower your own vision of wholeness, whatever that may be, and to assist you in remembering who you already are but may have forgotten. 

Your support of our Marketplace will enable us to continue bringing you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art.

  FOR THE CHILDREN

 THE ELDERS

 THE LIVING EARTH

RESOURCES

We have published many important and timely new articles. We invite you to sit back, relax and allow yourself to experience the wisdom of these authors who share their most interesting insights, along with many others which you will find in the vast Articles section of our website.

Your support of our Marketplace will enable us to continue bringing you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art.

Wellness Goods Articles

  More Miraculous Messages from Water

      The Continuing Visionary Research of Masaru Emoto

  Harmonic Sound in Nature

- by Sundhara

  Sound Insights

- by Jeff Volk  

  Why I am Opposed to War
- by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Civil Disobedience
- by Henry David Thoreau

  Steps Toward Inner Peace
- by Peace Pilgrim

  Opening the Gate : A Metaphor for Life
- by Debra Uhls . Uhls Metal Art Studio

  Metaphysical Music
- by Nairobi Sailcat

  Exploring the Sounds of Inner Space
- An Interview with Nairobi Sailcat

  Inner Peace for Busy People
- by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

  They're Playing Your Song
- by Alan Cohen

  A Sacred Space : Home
- by Sarah Susanka

  In The Service of Life
- by Rachel Naomi Remen

  Planetary Healing Sounds
- by Jonathan Goldman

  Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
- by Osho

  Dancing Away the Menopause Blues
- by Patricia Older

  Boundaries
- by don Miguel Ruiz

If you have authored an article or created art which you believe resonates with our website and wish to present it for our review and consideration for publication please :

As the Innocent's express their hopes and dreams for the future, we must listen very closely and express our selves with the respect and equality they deserve, helping to raise their spirits, empower and reinforce their outlook and joy for life. To help secure our children's future we must teach them how to live from their deeper core values, values that are of the heart, such as love, respect, appreciation, tolerance, and compassion for others, remembering always that we are the models which they will follow.

We will be publishing many articles and art by children . . . for other children and their caregivers very soon.

Your support of our Marketplace will enable us to continue bringing you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art.  

  A World Fit For Us

-Statement from the Children's Forum to the United Nations

  Singing Children, Happier Children

-by Mary Thienes-Schunemann

  Empowering Language for Children                     

-by Iris K. Barratt

  The Re-Enchantment of Childhood

-by Fran Greenfield

  Sleep, Children, Sleep

-by Mary Thienes-Schunemann

  Lullabies are Love Songs

-by Michaela Glockler, M.D.

  Giant Pick Up Sticks

-by Bernie De Koven

  Tyranny of Toys

-by Ziauddin Sardar

The importance of our wisdom-base stems from conscious growth and culminates to the highest intensity as we age. Respect for the wisdom tradition is most visible in those cultures that hold the idea of age and aging in the highest esteem.

Conscious Aging is a "new" idea in the 21st Century that embraces the thought that one can develop, grow and become more conscious at the later stages of living one’s life and within holistic parameters. We wish to honor our Spiritual Elders as those who prepare, through focused and diligent work and many years of life's experiences, to mentor and nurture all upcoming generations, bringing vision and healing to families, communities, countries and our beloved Planet.

Your support of our Marketplace will enable us to continue bringing you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art.  

The Elders Articles

  Remembering the Greatest Ancient Secret to Life
- by Iris K. Barratt

  Aging as Grace for the Soul : An Interview with Ram Dass
- by Wynn Free

  Be a Soul : Interview with Ram Dass
- by Peter Moore

  Conscious Aging : A New Level of Growth in Later Life
- by H.R. Moody

  Conscious Aging : Nurturing a New Vision of Longevity
- by Robert C. Atchley

  Dancing Away the Menopause Blues
- by Patricia Older

This Living Earth that we all inhabit is the most precious resource we possess. By learning to see our present and continuing planetary crisis from an evolutionary perspective, we can, as Conscious Co-Creators, weave together a shared vision and purpose of planetary health and wholeness. We have the power to destroy our world, this Living Earth, or create a future, of immeasurable possibilities, one day at a time, starting Now. The choice is ours. 

Being inseparable from the natural world, everyone on this Living Earth is empowered to make a difference; how, what, where and when is entirely up to you. In our world it is the one voice, the common collective choice that will make a difference forever. We must be the change we wish to see. First, we must relearn how to envision magic ; then we can wield it. We must do it Now.

Your support of our Marketplace will enable us to continue bringing you many exceptional sources of leading edge information and art.

  Healing Silence: The Architecture of Peace
- by Christopher Day

a world where effective collaboration, integration, synergy and sharing are commonplace. Where the spirit of cooperation and genuinely caring about one another guides all of humanity's well - being.

Granted, it's an idealistic vision. Yet ideals are our source of inspiration and drive us to actualize what may otherwise be lost or forgotten. They keep us ever reaching for a goal we believe is possible. And while our dreams may well be as high as the sky, our feet are firmly planted on this ground. For it is here that the work must be done.

Wellness Goods, as a Global Resource Center for Conscious Living, 

is embarking upon the development and realization of this worthwhile endeavor. Our dedicated efforts will now focus on building the next steps of a sturdy and realistic platform.