Merry Battles

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Writer on the Spiritual Path, Energy Medicine, Massage Therapy, Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner and teacher of 2 introductory courses
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Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6
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Author, Speaker, Artist, Poet, Massage Therapist
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Jin Shin Jyutsu, Astara, Florida Continuing Education Provider for Massage Therapists, Palm Beach Community College Adjunct Professor
Merry C. Battles LMT, has worked in the Healing Arts since 1976. She began her career working in a salon in Los Angeles frequented by Hollywood Celebrities. Merry learned massage at Louise Long Studio. Louise Long was a Physical Therapist who developed the art of reshaping the body and smoothing out cellulite in the 1930's. Many of the old stars of Hollywood and the current stars receive these treatments.

Merry has always approached her work as a healing tool. She has practiced the Art of Massage, Cellulite Massage, Jin Shin Jyutsu® (ancient Japanese Acupressure), CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, and Foot Reflexology.

Merry is a Continuing Education Provider for Massage Therapists in the State of Florida. She teaches two introductory classes in Jin Shin Jyutsu. Her classes are open to all people. Merry has also been a frequent public speaker in the area for the past eight years.

She has published art, poetry, and writing in Sedona - journal of Emergence, Connecting Link, InnerSelf Publications, Natural Awakenings, among others. Merry was a Blogger and Guest Commentary writer for the UPI (United Press International ) website ReligionandSpirituality.com for ten months in 2006. Her Christmas book, written and illustrated by her,"Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6" is a compilation of her 26 year meditation journey with the 12 Holy Days of Christmas. The book can also be enjoyed all year long as we travel through each sign of the Zodiac.

Merry has been a student of the ancient mysteries for as many years. Her greatest joy in life, along with her grandchildren, is to learn about the spiritual. This is reflected in all of her work.

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2009 – what will the new year bring? It has been said that the new year and new numbers bring a different vibration. We need all the help we can get! These are trying times and the possibility of fear overtaking our lives. We must remember there is Divine Order in every action of this ...

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2012- Is it the end or the beginning? Our whole world is becoming a mirror. What you wish on someone else will be reflected back to you. Because our so-called “time” is speeding up in frequency your karma will come back faster. The evil you do will be facing you much sooner. There are people on this planet who wish to stay in their “power.” God permits these negative actions for a time and then the gig is up. We all are being tested. Our deepest fears are coming to smack us in the face. Are they real or just phantoms of thought?

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Who kidnapped Christmas last year? I say pay the ransom and bring Christmas back and extend the holiday! Participating in the 12 holy days does just that. “The story of the Sun God and the story of the son of God are one and the same.” Lyman E. Stowen According to the book "Mystery of the ...

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Woman will finally take her place, With equal stance to man. Standing together. Each a necessary part of the whole. God is Father Mother. We have forgotten the Mother. But Aquarius on wings of equality Knows the truth. And woman will stand with man An equal, not of like temperament rn(For each has its own place) But a worthy counterpart, The other half, that unites the whole. We women will finally be recognized For holding the power, Creation of man. Life forms in us and comes through us. We are Earth to the continuation of man.

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WAR IS OBSOLETE by Merry C. Battles What kind of games are you playingr You men with machines? Machines to blow up this Earth. How dare you toy with the existence of the human race. Once we lived with God. Now you speak of terror and destruction. Total destruction! How dare you play with our lives, Putting the world on the brink of disasterr While you play your deadly games. When peace rules, The killing will be over. And it will be the mighty hand of Godr That will measure our just reward. Pray for peace. And the glory of Godr To bring harmonyr Out of chaos.r

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Each holy day is assigned to a Disciple, sign of the Zodiac, spiritual attainment, spiritual part of the physical body and a passage from the Bible. As each day progresses see the spiritual center in your body in light. On the 12th night, January 6th, the whole body is lit up like the glorious Christmas tree. This day, “Little Christmas,” or Epiphany heralds the arrival of the three wise men.

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Our lives are interwoven with those who need our words and deeds. We are placed exactly where our highest learning is, right where it is needed. The truth is that God’s law of love is always working through us, no matter the appearance. Our egos take on “power plays” that are needed for our ...

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The soul is the record of all Earth and other planetary inca ations. It is our subconscious mind that is like the computer chip, recording all our experience. At each moment we have within all the necessary tools for enlightenment. For each task, a different quality is tested, a test of ...

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The life force body is fed by the universal energy called chi, ki, and prana. We receive chi in several ways. There is pre-natal chi which we receive from our mother and father before birth. There is post-natal chi that we receive mainly through our food, water, and breath after we are born. ...

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In 6th grade I knew I was reinca ated from ancient Greece. I knew I had lived in or near the Parthenon and lived the current myths about the Gods and Goddesses. Many years later I joined my first Metaphysical group and met with them once a week for two years.

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The New Age will bring a 1,000 years of peace and also the return of the Divine Feminine aspect of God. This has to be to help create harmony on our Earth.

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"What you are no longer dancing for we stop using for light from above." I woke up with these words in my mind from a dream. Light comes from our higher self, the God part of us. It is transported from our desires and passions and used to light the world. As we dream our dreams and hope to ...

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Merry Battles

"There are as many paths to God as there are people. Each in their own beautiful way." (MCB)

"Once you set your foot on the spiritual path, there is no turning back. It becomes your greatest desire to glimpse the truth of our existence and to understand even one minute part of how this miraculous universe works. The quest for knowledge becomes the focus of your life. This great giant puzzle and its pieces seem to begin to fit together."

from Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6 by Merry C. Battles

"Are we helpless pawns in a mass hysteria of delusion, or are we in fact powerful beings of light caught in material form? Have we not chosen to be here during the most exciting and frightening time of our Gaia-Earth? Hold on to your hats, it might be a bumpy ride. Chaos! Do we have to have all of it? Or is it just a shaking up, drowning out, firing up, spewing out, blowing apart, or freezing up of all that is dead, unkind, false, unrealistic, and trying?"

from Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6 by Merry C. Battles

"Transformation is levels of understanding." (MCB)

"Is God's will what's happening?" (MCB)

"Karma is no respector of persons. Karma Is." (MCB)

"Be at peace and know that no matter the appearance of calamity, disruption, and chaos, there is love behind every action of this world. There is a reason for suffering." (MCB)

"Kick me if I say it's boring because then all hell breaks loose. (MCB)

"God gives me the light and the dirt. I always get the dirt. (The dirt is the truth.) (MCB)

"We have our plans, and then there's God." (Margie Battles, my Mother)

"God likes variety." (Hallae, my daughter)

"Sometimes I go about pitying myself, when all the time I am being carried by great winds across the sky." (Ojibway Dream Song)

"For every 'Oh Lord' of thine are a thousand 'Here am I's'" (Sufi Prayer)

"Thinkest thyself a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?" (Sufi)

"God is a comedian with an audience whose afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

"All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop." (Kabir 1450-1518)

"Without a foe, a soldier never knows his strength."

(The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ)

"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!" (Swahilu Warrior Song)

Book Excerpts:

Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26-January 6

Written and Illustrated by Merry C. Battles

Each one of the holy days is assigned to a Disciple, sign of the Zodiac, spiritual center of the physical body, spiritual attainment, and a passage from the Bible.

My book can be used all year as the Earth travels through each sign of the Zodiac. For example, as we are in the sign of Taurus, read the meditations for the holy day of Taurus. The universal focus for that time is, "He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God." (John 4:16)

From the second holy day Taurus:

1997 “My dwelling place is love. Its home is the heart. It reaches to all corners of the universe and comes right back to live in you. It deems the impossible. It sanctifies the improbable. It performs the miraculous. It feeds all souls. My love encompasses every atom of space - it soars in between the atoms of quantum theory. It fuels all sources of energy. It lives in each breath. It creates anew at each second. My love forgives all weaknesses, all harmful ways. It understands the fall from Spirit with

compassion.

“My love knows no boundaries yet is in all the limits of time and space. It fills the entire cosmos and creates more love. This love can be yours, yours for the asking.

“It can fill your being at each moment of time. Like the eagle, it can lift up the most downtrodden heart. It can sing like the sweet birds in the morning welcoming the new sun’s light.

“The past is over. The future is what you make it. The now is when I love you, filling your spirit to encompass the whole world. This love is possible to create Heaven on Earth. Its life lives each moment in the creation of time. If I were to speak, there would be words of love…love…evolve. Love evolves into more love. All is in divine order with helping unseen hands. Every moment counts as My children grow into beings of light where love dwells, heals all, is all. Amen.”

2000 Every creation of God is wrapped in love. We are created and exist in this love. Every action of the universe contains the law and essence of Spirit. We understand our truths according to our development. It is time to accept every moment, every action, every minute wave of fire, air, earth, and water as directly from

the movement of the Creator’s love. All happens according to the divine plan with every experience necessary for our higher learning. We are here to express the Divine. That is our sole mission. The great “I AM,” the great “One,” moves and breathes and we have our life. The awareness of love in every breath will be known.

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There are no words in heaven.
But look what words do here.
They come to bless us, come to haunt us;
Come to love us and to damn us.

Words, some chosen with thought.
Others fly out with unexpected swiftness.
Words can calm the most tormented soul.
Words that one mind can touch with another.

Some words bring with them the joy of the morning.
Others close the day with darkness and foreboding.
Which ones will come out of my mouth?
Ones that come from the heart?

Ones that will become as blessings on wings;
that bring love and happiness
And, one day, wisdom.

©1994,2008 Merry C. Battles


Massage - The Touch of Divinity

by Merry C. Battles

©2006,2008 Merry C. Battles

I get to touch God every day.
In Her myriad faces and forms.
In Her glorious beauty and joy.
In Her dark secrets and hidden motives.
I get to stroke God everyday.
In His mighty power and will.
In His ability to be perfect and
Always on time.
I get to touch God everyday.
In His divine order in chaos.
In the hands of a small child.
In the withered hands of a wizened elder,
Who knows how to go with the flow,
And accept what's happening
As the way it should be.
I get to touch God every day
And wonder.
Wonder what comes next?
Imagine truth and beauty
As the answer to all problems.
I bow down to thee, to embrace the honor of union.
Touching God in the tiniest seed,
The most brilliant mind,
The sweet tender love of a child.

©2006,2008 Merry C. Battles


Contacting Merry Battles

My "Every Day of the Year is Christmas" Gift to You.

Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26-January 6

Written and illustrated by Merry C. Battles

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Merry Art

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Illustrations from my book:

Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6

Black and White Posters

Black and White Posters:

The Many Faces of God

The Seven Layered Heart

Love

Hands

Tree People

Light of the World

Jesus and Mary

(some of these have scripture)

POETRY WITH WATERCOLOR:

War is Obsolete

Two Suns

Aquarian Woman

Tall Tree

Rainbow Circle

Spirit Tree

Other highlights


Walking the Spiritual Path
by Merry C. Battles

Walking the Spiritual Path

©2006,2008 Merry C. Battles


Every day we have a choice, to be loving to all, and especially ourselves. It takes great fortitude to stay on the up and up – to stay on the Spiritual Path without faltering.


It’s not actually that we fall off of the Path. It is going into the valleys of the road, instead of climbing to the summit. When you officially step onto the Spiritual Path, ardent study and searching for the hidden meanings of life becomes your greatest joy. Every little step has meaning. Every step brings us closer to the Spirit within.


When you step onto the Path, you will know it. You are able to look at life from a different perspective. You are able to see the events in your life from a higher picture. There is a knowing that all has a divine purpose. Every action and reaction means something.


Walking the Spiritual Path is a literal and figurative way of life. It is actually a trail you commit to. It’s as if it is in the etheric realms, and you step onto it with dedication and a promise to see life with its deeper meanings...

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