From the December 2009 Natural Awakenings magazine article, "Arkansas Readers On...How to Keep the Holiday Spirit Alive All Year", by Linda Sechrist, page 9.

LumenEssence owner and Attunement practitioner Pamela Mosley says the true question for her is how to keep the holiday spirit from ever dying out:

“It is our nature to be loving, generous, compassionate, kind – all the things we are present to at the holidays – but we get caught up in the busyness of our everyday lives and forget who we really are. The Holy Days, or holidays are for that – we get permission to express from a deeper place. And it feels good because that’s what is natural to us."

“I have found that slowing down, taking some time out, removing myself from that which causes me stress is helpful in remembering who I am at the deepest level. And fun! Fun and play help to fuel my own desire to create something, to keep that spirit alive.”

This interview was posted on Neo Ueda's wonderful blog, GreenAR by the Day, http://greenarbytheday.wordpress.com - check it out!


Meet Local Green Peeps!
February 11, 2009


Chances are, if you are reading this blog, you support green causes. You go to meetings, you visit local farmers’ markets, and soon you start running into familiar faces. You know their names, but have you ever wondered what they do to be GreenAR? Well, Meet Local Green Peeps! hopes to satisfy your curiosity about area green people and what they do to be GreenAR in the Natural State. So, without further ado, let’s get started!

Vital Statistics (Name & Location):

Pamela Mosley
1260 Hunter Street
Conway, AR 72032
(501)450-9097 (501)450-9097
www.truetothelightwithin.com
www.ournaturalstate.com
www.fcssc.net

What Do You Do? I co-create with the flow of Life! I hold a vision, nurture seeds, encourage, empower, help people remember who they are, and help see a new era into being. I do that as an Attunement practitioner and sustainability activist.

Steps Taken to be GreenAR:

Spending time outside relating to my natural environment, like walking and biking around town (my bike has 4 baskets now, so I can even grocery shop), hanging clothes to dry, tending to the growing things (I’m a new raised-bed gardener!), watching nature happen.

I generally buy thrift, local, recycled, organic, fair-trade, nontoxic, or long-lasting, high quality. Or I don’t buy at all. I’ve found our county library to be very receptive to new book suggestions, the local resale shops and “free” listings in the classifieds are great, and we love supporting our local farmers through Conway Locally Grown and the Conway Basket-a-Month program. We’ve found great used building materials, including stained-glass doors for my backyard Sanctuary!

At home, we’re always finding more ways to be energy efficient. When we needed a new roof, we vented it, and when we needed a new refrigerator, we found one with a high energy-star rating. We replaced our ancient water heater with an on-demand model that heats water in a small tank as it’s needed. We’ve been experimenting with a new (used) wood-burning stove, and, with the federal subsidy help, we’ve got 5 solar panels tied in to Conway Corp’s energy grid. We watch the thermostat, heat and cool rooms as needed, use electric powerstrips and low-energy lights, and wash laundry cold.

We consolidate errands that need a car-trip and share the ride to glass-recycling in Maumelle with a neighbor. (Fortunately, Conway offers curb-side recycling pick-up for most everything else, which now also including styrofoam, #1-7 plastics and even old clothes.) I’ve been eating less meat and not ordering meat at restaurants that don’t buy organic. We compost our leaves and kitchen scraps in our backyard compost bin and keep re-usable bags handy for groceries.

In the last year or so, I’ve chosen to travel by bus and have made trips to Iowa, Minnesota, and Virginia on the Jefferson and Greyhound lines. I look forward to continued improvements in the bus system and/or when megabus.com makes it to Arkansas!

I support events like Arkansas Earth Day and the Faulkner County Sustainability Forums, publications like Natural Awakenings and YES! Magazine, and networking opportunities like Conway Green Drinks and SustainAR.org. I’ve been communicating with my elected officials about things like the proposed coal-burning power plant, “Green for All” ideas, and the sale of raw milk.

And I’m getting better at not “shoulding” on myself and others! So beyond the 3 R’s of reduce, reuse and recycle, I enjoy retreat, relinquish, re-envision, reconnect, restore, relax, and reclaim!

Hard-to-Take Steps:

I enjoy engaging in a multitude of creative endeavors and can be challenged to do that at a level and pace that remains energizing! I would do well to have computer-free days, more art time, and Clean and Repair Parties.

I’ve been intending to take reusable containers to restaurants for carry-out and haven’t remembered yet.

I love very full, very hot baths, even in a drought.

I gave up on ink cartridge refills for my computer because of some messy trials a few years ago. Maybe it’s time to try that again.

I’d like to be a better steward of summertime vegetables and learn to “put food by”, but I’ve been saying that for many years now.

Email is great AND I still like to actually send things in the mail, sometimes big things… sometimes just for fun.

Future Steps to be GreenAR:

I’m so interested in a water catchment system at our house and have started gathering information about that. We’re slowly turning our front yard into a front garden space, and I plan to keep replacing grass with natives and edibles with curb appeal.

When it comes time to replace our ’91 Toyota, we’ll be on the lookout for a hybrid or electric. And maybe we can share a vehicle with another household.

In fact, I’m envisioning some type of co-housing arrangement where we can share meals, resources, and lives. I want to support a storefront food co-op in Conway, maybe also serving as a community meeting/sharing/learning space that will help us discover and communicate about more harmonious ways of living. I wonder about a community barter system and/or a local currency.

And I want to try cooking and baking in a solar oven.

Favorite AR Produce, Businesses & Groups:

We love anything that Sue and Rusty Nuffer grow, and we love that we can order it easily through http://conway.locallygrown.net. Favorite chickens and eggs are from Falling Sky Farm. We like the fun and healthy surprises in our All Arkansas baskets. Our own dear pecan trees were so wonderful to us and to the neighborhood squirrels this year. And sourdough spelt bread from a wood-fired oven at Serenity Farm is an all-time favorite.

Penny Rudder’s Clean Plate Club has been a great service. She’s in Little Rock, and every week she emails recipes and meal ideas for the local foods in season. She’s at www.naturalfoodscooking.com.

Liz’s Health Market on Oak Street in Conway has been so receptive to special ordering items not in stock, making it easier for me to shop local.

Companions Thrift Store on Washington Street in Conway seems to always have quality goods at great prices, and with all the proceeds going to the Humane Society, I can imagine my shopping as community service!

I’ve met some great people through Arkansas Earth Institute’s discussion courses and look forward to taking more.

If You Can Do One Thing to Make the Natural State Even More Natural, What Would You Do? I would give everyone the opportunity to slow down and deeply experience the absolute awe of the amazing, beautiful and interconnected web of life. Then, our choices might shift from the present artificial, conventional, unsustainable ways toward brand new choices in accordance with nature and with what is natural to each of us and the unfolding of life.

I was honored to be named one of “Ten Women to Watch in 2010” in the September 2009 issue of Women’s Inc.magazine! With thanks to whomever may have nominated me, here is an excerpt from the resulting article.

www.womensinc.net/node/289

Pamela Mosley

Contribution to Profession
In Pamela’s line of work, her intent is to live ever more “in tune” and in harmony with the deepest truth she can access. She offers personal Attunement sessions in a sanctuary space that caters to discovering harmony. According to Pamela, in these sessions, life force energy is radiated into the world and contributes to peace on all levels.
Recently, her essay titled, “Who Do You Think You Are?” was published in the anthology, Conscious Choices: An Evolutionary Woman’s Guide to Life, a further contribution to the field of Attunement. Check out www.evolutionarywomen.org for more information about the guide.

Public and Community Service
Two years ago, Pamela committed to hosting the internationally known global awareness author and speaker, David Korten. Desiring to serve the community and share Korten’s “Great Turning” vision, $2000 was raised and over 100 people got involved. The original group later became the Faulkner County Supporters of Sustainable Communities (FCSSC). Now over 400 people are part of the group and plans are underway for their third Sustainability Forum this fall.

Creation and Implementation of unique initiative in the workplace or community
In 2009, Pamela has been part of a co-creative team to offer a new eco-spiritual initiative in central Arkansas. The initiative is called Our Natural State. The team organizes “seasonal outings and sacred sojourns to help participants experience a reconnection with the power and beauty of the divine nature within and all around us.”

Mentoring others
Pamela encourages creative expression and believes her encouragement will effect future generations. She is also involved in mentoring others, including:
• Raising her two sons
• Introducing “earth listening” to area preschoolers
• Offering grade-school summer activities for Young Leaders
• Being a guest presenter at college religion classes and encouraging FCSSC leadership
• Founded a high school organization in Austin, Texas, 10 years ago that recently received national attention for its successful presence in Austin high schools. The organization encourages students to discover and trust their own inner direction to offer their gifts into the world.
Pamela is an Attunement Practitioner and the only one practicing it in Arkansas.. She describes what she does by saying, “It’s a particular way of working with life force energy to bring balance and harmony to body, mind, and heart for myself and my clients.” Although her sessions are one-on-one, she involves herself with the community to encourage and empower whole-self participation as a harmonious way of life on the planet. Next year she will be involved with Humanity Unites Brilliance (HUB) and is hoping to increase local participation in the organization. Pamela also said she is going to explore ideas about bartering and local currency, freely rest as needed, and dance with the changes! She reminds herself often, “Life can be trusted.” Put simply, “I live by this process of letting go and being awed by the infinite creativity of life.”

Conscious Choices: An Evolutionary Woman’s Guide to Life is a light-filled book! A collaborative outworking of women telling their stories of personal awakening and empowerment. I've loved being a participant in the international group “Evolutionary Women” and the story I wrote, “Who Do You Think You Are?” was one of many that emerged in our co-creative process of sisters sharing from the heart to produce this 2008 release.

Each account is a personal story of a woman awakening to embody new and fuller aspects of herself. Together the stories reveal how wide-ranging life experiences can become doorways into new modes of living and relating that ripple out beyond one’s immediate life and have an effect on our collective planetary experience.


From the back cover:
Every choice you make has an impact; an impact that ripples beyond your immediate life and has an effect on the world. Conscious Choices shares the inspirational stories of 44 Evolutionary Women who realize the impact of their choices, and have leveraged their life experience (both tragic and triumphant) to make choices that contribute to the creation of a world that works for everyone.

You may be asking, What is an Evolutionary Woman? An Evolutionary Woman is you. They are mothers and teachers, bank presidents and artists, entrepreneurs and healers, and so much more. According to Barbara Marx Hubbard, President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, an Evolutionary Woman is: One who is connected through the heart to the whole of life, attuned to the deeper intelligence of nature, called forth irresistibly by spirit to creatively express her gifts in the evolution of the self and the World.

The stories revealed by evolutionary women in this book will make you laugh, cry, believe, pray, relate, heal and feel a part of something much larger than yourself. Inside this book, you'll: Discover the power and resilience inside every woman, including you; Feel supported through the ups and downs of your journey through life; Gain insight on how to make conscious choices everyday; Discover how to make a difference in the world simply by living your life to the fullest - And much more!

www.evolutionarywomen.org- Copies of the book are available through me for $15 + postage as well as through this website. I hope you enjoy the book!