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	<title>Everyday Ecstasy &#187; adventure</title>
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		<title>Global Shift &#8211; Its Playtime! Join us &amp; the Dolphins this Sept, Oct &amp; Nov!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Noonan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World is changing &#38; Humanity is Waking Up! Now more than ever, its time to Live in Joy! There is so much to be Joyful about! Celebrate your many blessings! (I&#8217;m alive, I can breath, I have a computer I have internet I can see I can read I am self-aware etc etc etc) [...]]]></description>
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</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The World is changing &amp; Humanity is Waking Up!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Now more than ever, its time to Live in Joy!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>There is so much to be Joyful about! Celebrate your many blessings!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>(I&#8217;m alive, I can breath, I have a computer I have internet I can see I can read I am self-aware etc etc etc)</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had an amazing stay here in Amsterdam. Its been a beautiful adventure; I&#8217;ve written a lot, started a new website (www.DolphinWhisperer.org &#8211; still under construction) and gotten inspired to live even simpler and more joyfully! How? By letting my heart lead the way, and the heart always leads with joy&#8230;</p>
<p>Seriously! Joy is the path of Tao, life, flow!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m headed back to Florida tomorrow, then over to beloved Bimini. I&#8217;ve got three upcoming opportunities for you to CELEBRATE This Most AMAZING TIME In HUMAN HISTORY!</p>
<p>(And activate your Joy &amp; Exuberance to new heights!)</p>
<p>These trips are beachfront adventures swimming with the wild dolphins of Bimini, Bahamas. They are for fun-loving individuals, couples and families. Are you ready to bring your Joy to Life?</p>
<p><a href="http://dolphinwhisperer.org/meditation-kundalini-yoga-wild-dolphins-sept-23-27-2011/" target="_blank">Sept 23 &#8211; 27 &#8211; Yoga, Bliss &amp; Dolphins!</a></p>
<p>Oct 2 &#8211; 5th &#8211; 3 days of Wild Dolphins! (email me for details)</p>
<p><a href="http://dolphinwhisperer.org/celebrate-111111-with-wild-dolphins/" target="_blank">Nov 9 &#8211; 13th &#8211; Celebrating 11:11:11 in the Ocean with the Dolphins!</a></p>
<p>Join us as we celebrate life with the dolphins!</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>Joe</p>
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	<p class="wp-caption-text">Beth &amp; Spiral during our seaweed tag game last month!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Check out the new website! <a href="http://dolphinwhisperer.org/" target="_blank">www.DolphinWhisperer.org</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Joe Noonan </strong>is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide, Joe leads retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.</p>
<p>A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us. That harmony is inevitable and that innately we all just love each other and sometimes we forget — he is here to help us remember.</p>
<p><strong>Planetary Partners</strong> advocates, educates and celebrates conscious co-creation on an individual, local and global level. We offer workshops, meditations, events and trips that awaken our divine connection with Nature.</p>
<p><strong><em>“Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God” Tielhard de Chardin</em></strong></p>
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		<title>The Secret to having WAY TOO MUCH FUN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Noonan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a LOT of fun in India&#8230; WAAAY out of my comfort zone, so far out that its just not worth doing anything about it, just keep going&#8230; Riding a motorcycle around South India&#8230; (and getting run off the road by a bus&#8230;) Hiking up a sacred mountain as the sun sets and the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I&#8217;m having a LOT of fun in India&#8230; WAAAY out of my comfort zone, so far out that its just not worth doing anything about it, just keep going&#8230;</p>
<p>Riding a motorcycle around South India&#8230;</p>
<p>(and getting run off the road by a bus&#8230;)</p>
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<p>Hiking up a sacred mountain as the sun sets and the thunderstorm approaches&#8230;</p>
<p>Body surfing in filthy ocean water and NOT swallowing&#8230;</p>
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<p>Giving teambuilding training to a group of awakened beings&#8230;</p>
<p>Riding on the local train where EVERYONE is staring at me (the only white person in the entire train&#8230; the entire train station)&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always loved adventure, but this, this is <em>off the charts!</em></p>
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	<p class="wp-caption-text">Ramana Maharshi&#39;s beloved mountain Arunachala, the physical embodiment of Lord Shiva!</p>
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<p>All these amazing opportunities keep presenting themselves,</p>
<p>and I keep saying &#8216;Yes!&#8217;</p>
<p>This mind is doing all kinds of calibrations to catch up&#8230;</p>
<p>and it may never catch up&#8230;</p>
<p>and &#8216;I&#8217; am totally ok with that!</p>
<p>The more I say YES, the greater the flow!</p>
<p>(Really, that&#8217;s the trick &#8211; keep saying <em><strong>YES!</strong></em></p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Loving you!</p>
<p>Joe</p>
<p>PS: Did I mention that the Secret to having WAY TOO MUCH FUN is to keep saying <em><strong>YES</strong></em> to what you love???</p>
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<p>Join our email list for upcoming trips, workshops &amp; events –<a title="http://PlanetaryPartners.com" href="http://planetarypartners.com/" target="_blank">http://PlanetaryPartners.com</a></p>
<p><a title="http://PlanetaryPartners.com" href="http://planetarypartners.com/" target="_blank"></a><br />
<strong>Joe Noonan, Founder, Planetary Partners</strong><br />
An author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide, Joe leads retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.<br />
A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us. That harmony is inevitable and that innately we all just love each other and sometimes we forget — he is here to help us remember.</p>
<p><strong>Planetary Partners</strong> advocates, educates and celebrates conscious co-creation on an individual, local and global level. We offer workshops, meditations, events and trips that awaken our divine connection with Nature.</p>
<p>Wild Dolphin Trips – <a title="http://PlanetaryPartners.com/Dolphins.htm" href="http://planetarypartners.com/Dolphins.htm" target="_blank">http://PlanetaryPartners.com/Dolphins…</a><br />
Self Awareness Programs – <a title="http://PlanetaryPartners.com" href="http://planetarypartners.com/" target="_blank">http://PlanetaryPartners.com</a><br />
Corporate Leadership Seminars – <a title="http://QuantumLeadershipProject.com" href="http://quantumleadershipproject.com/" target="_blank">http://QuantumLeadershipProject.com</a><br />
Join Joe on Facebook – <a title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Noonan/173068003565" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Noonan/173068003565" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Noo…</a></p>
<p><strong><em>“Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God” Tielhard de Chardin</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Disappeared in the ocean&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ajoyfulnature.com/579/dissapeared-in-the-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Noonan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, its been two weeks since I posted anything&#8230; My apologies! I&#8217;ve a commitment to sharing beauty with you. There&#8217;s something magical that happens when I talk or write or video about what I love&#8230; it starts as an instant replay, (which is in itself pretty cool) then it goes from reliving a memory to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Wow, its been two weeks since I posted anything&#8230;</p>
<p>My apologies! I&#8217;ve a commitment to sharing beauty with you. There&#8217;s something magical that happens when I talk or write or video about what I love&#8230; it starts as an instant replay, (which is in itself pretty cool) then it goes from reliving a memory to actually being there, actually living it&#8230;</p>
<p>I get to live it again as I share with you&#8230;</p>
<p>I spent two weeks in Bimini, the Bahamas, with my sweetie Jen and The Greenbergs and the Benedicts and the ocean and dolphins and hammerheads and a sailfish&#8230; THAT&#8217;S why I haven&#8217;t written&#8230;. I, like Jonah, was swallowed whole&#8230;</p>
<p>And, like Will Ferrell in &#8220;Land of the Lost&#8221;, I came out the other end intact! (and smelling quie a bit rosier)</p>
<p>The photos and videos will follow&#8230; in the interim, I love and appreciate being on this adventure with you!</p>
<p>Namaste!</p>
<p>Joe</p>
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		<title>Power of Synchronicities!</title>
		<link>http://www.ajoyfulnature.com/559/power-of-synchronicities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Noonan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in my YouTube gmail account catching up on a lot of emails and I had a couple of amazing synchronicities&#8230; I made a video about it, then my logical brain kicked in&#8230; so I put it on hold. Then there was another synchronicity that built on the first two&#8230;! So I followed Spirit&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I was in my YouTube gmail account catching up on a lot of emails and I had a couple of amazing synchronicities&#8230; I made a video about it, then my logical brain kicked in&#8230; so I put it on hold.</p>
<p>Then there was another synchronicity that built on the first two&#8230;!</p>
<p>So I followed Spirit&#8217;s guidance, taped the story again and this time posted it!</p>
<p>I trust that watching this video will provide something for you. (including making you more aware of the synchronicities that are taking place in YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW! ;)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajoyfulnature.com/559/power-of-synchronicities/" target="_blank">(If you cannot see the video, click here)</a></p>
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		<title>Sweet (Potato) Adventures!</title>
		<link>http://www.ajoyfulnature.com/149/sweet-potato-adventures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Noonan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling with my Sweetie (Potato) I am convinced that we have an instinctual, hereditary and spiritual connection to food. It shows up for me in the craziest of ways. Today, in how I feel about the sweet potato that’s sitting beside me. I’m on a plane. With my sweetie, sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are supposed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.ca/joenoonan33/TravelingWithMySweetiePotato#"><img class="aligncenter" title="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aOCuYvSPLHs/SrHJuxCSvVI/AAAAAAAACG4/TmeYuGE-Z7w/1%20P2240684.JPG" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aOCuYvSPLHs/SrHJuxCSvVI/AAAAAAAACG4/TmeYuGE-Z7w/1%20P2240684.JPG" alt="" width="640" height="480" /></a>Traveling with my Sweetie (Potato)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I am convinced that we have an instinctual, hereditary and spiritual connection to food.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">It shows up for me in the craziest of ways. Today, in how I feel about the sweet potato that’s sitting beside me. I’m on a plane. With my sweetie, sweet potato.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Sweet potatoes are supposed to be one of Nature’s perfect foods (Aren’t all foods perfect?). I love them, and when I see a nice batch at the store, I buy a bunch. (a bundle a peck a bushel?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I bought a bunch awhile ago, and after over-sating my love of them, had a leftover tuber that sat on my counter for weeks. Went to the Bahamas and back, there it sat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">It started growing; bright green and purple shoots, straight out from the top and side. A cluster of shoots, all at one end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The first time I had a sweet potato go bush wild on me, I fell in love with it. I still have a picture of it on my windowsill from several years ago in Bimini, verdant green shoots reaching skyward… that potato and its photo resonates something within me; a perennial senses of youthfulness and vitality… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The second time this happened, (another ‘gone wild’ potato several months ago),I half-buried it in a pot in my yard. It grew fast, its long green trailers drape over the backyard table as I write…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">This current trip, I plan to be gone awhile. I actually am not sure when I’ll be back (I love this kinda traveling!), so I wanted to do something with this sweetie… and I pondered exactly what to do with it this morning…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Do I cook it? I didn’t have a sweet tooth for it. Do I plant it? One’s enough. Do I break off the shoots and stick it into the fridge, or give it to one of my neighbors?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">This sweetie is alive. Its awake, and a part of me feels like a cheapskate or a jype to knock off its offspring and stick it away. And my neighbors, well, they’re already getting some overripe bananas and a freshly cooked lobster tail (Not enough time to eat it!). I doubt if they’d fully appreciate the gift of this potato, certainly not as much as I. No, none of these options feel good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Am I in love with this potato? I’m beginning to wonder… I definitely have respect for it’s life and the journey its on. So what do I do???</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">At times like these, without a clear answer, I’ve found that the highest course of action is to just wait; follow my instincts and the best course of action will be revealed…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">And it did. It showed up in the form of a crazy thought… Why not take the potato with me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What?</span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Yeah, take the potato with me. I can eat it raw on the plane, just like the raw celery and carrots I sometimes bring.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hmmmm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Or even, have fun taking it with me, have fun sharing the journey with others (which we are, yes? Is it sweet for you yet?), even blog about it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The thought brought two reactions; an instant smile, immediately followed by a ‘that would look stupid!” (and yes, I feel a little stupid with my sweetie sticking out of my pocket!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Update: after two connecting flights and dinner with friends, I’m now in my hotel room writing about my adventures. I learned that traveling with a sprouting potato in your shirt pocket is a great way to initiate conversation, LOTS of conversation!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Didi in Houston asked me about it, we had a great talk about our relationship with food. A friendly Southwest stewardess asked me if my potato needed a drink. (I love Southwest Airlines). My neighbor on the flight from Houston to Dallas got an earful in response to his question, my whole manifesto in 15 minutes!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Then Cliffy, a marathon runner from Midland, asked me the same question and we had a great talk about the power of blessing our food. We talked about how our bodies have their own innate knowing, just like she knew she was pregnant with each of her four kids.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">My friends Allison and Coleman picked me up at the airport, asked about the potato and howled with laughter hearing the story. I’m here to lead a mission and visioning retreat for Allison and her dental team, and shared with her how the potato story is a perfect example of the power of not knowing. (I didn’t know what to do with this potato, and rather than decide from the only choices I was aware of, waited… from which the inspiration for this whole adventure has sprung!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">We picked up Daniel and Lexi and the five of us went out to dinner. Coleman ordered (gasp), sweet potato fries! (they were delicious)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The receptionist here at the hotel was happy to have her picture taken with my sweetie, and now its time for bed. The retreat starts tomorrow, and this potato, unbenounced to all of us, has become part of the agenda.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">More sweet adventures to come! (Photos from today below)</span></p>
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	<p class="wp-caption-text">Cliffy shared her relationship with food as a marathon runner and momAllison, Coleman &amp; Daniel with Sweetie in Midland, TX</p>
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