The video below is so inspiring! Does it take the children to wake us up? If so, I say YES! This gentle child is 13 yrs old.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
A different Kind of Gratitude
What if you gave gratitude for what you didn't have to do today. Just imagine it! Scan through your day in your mind, take a moment to breathe and see all the things you didn't have to do today. What a blessing . . . I pray for you
l'Shana Tova to all my Jewish friends - Happy new year
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Flying
Here is a video of a different kind of falling. Human flying. Wow, if I knew this in 1997 my life would've been completely different!!!!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Being Brave
It is a brave soul who is willing to meet his own.
What is it that we have to do to brave our life? It seems that there is so much we are facing right now that what there is to do is overwhelming, too much. Keep track of this and that, do this and that, talk to this person and that person, make sure to follow up on this and that. And, stay well on top of that, have enough energy to perform all these tasks and many more, keep juggling income and paying bills, children, parents and on and on and on.
When is it our turn to receive? I say it's time to let go of the energy that is running all this we have to do. Our internal pressure is what is running the engine for this body of ours. What we don't consider though, is that the engine that is running is also running our adrenal glands, the glands that keep the harmonal balance within our body even, or not. When we are running alot of worry or concern energy within, our adrenal glands begin working overtime to make sure our body's system keep running smoothly. Without proper rest, our adrenals keep working overtime and eventually we can have to slow down, because the body begins to show us by giving us low energy symptoms, like a cold or needing a nap, or other physical symptoms.
Now we have a bigger problem than we started with. Now we must pay attention to the symptoms, take care of them. When enough rest is had the problems disappear, like magic. When the symptoms get ignored the body keeps fighting itself for relief. At some point, you, the one taking care of your body, gets to realize it's time to slow down and rest. Rest is one of the most important missing pieces of our society today.
When you are getting enough rest, meditation, water and balanced meals, you are giving yourself life affirming healing energy. This will also allow you a chance to slow down enough to evaluate how your worries will not solve your problems. Being your own champion, being brave and holding yourself in honor of what there is to do, the time alotted to do it and the time alotted to take care of yourself, if all in balance, will keep you healthy and brave. Learning to say 'yes' and 'no' appropriately will bring you into balance. Therefore, your body will take good care of itself and you will continue to have all the energy you need to do your day.
Peace and be brave enough to rest and be sweet to yourself, here is a video to see it in action.
What is it that we have to do to brave our life? It seems that there is so much we are facing right now that what there is to do is overwhelming, too much. Keep track of this and that, do this and that, talk to this person and that person, make sure to follow up on this and that. And, stay well on top of that, have enough energy to perform all these tasks and many more, keep juggling income and paying bills, children, parents and on and on and on.
When is it our turn to receive? I say it's time to let go of the energy that is running all this we have to do. Our internal pressure is what is running the engine for this body of ours. What we don't consider though, is that the engine that is running is also running our adrenal glands, the glands that keep the harmonal balance within our body even, or not. When we are running alot of worry or concern energy within, our adrenal glands begin working overtime to make sure our body's system keep running smoothly. Without proper rest, our adrenals keep working overtime and eventually we can have to slow down, because the body begins to show us by giving us low energy symptoms, like a cold or needing a nap, or other physical symptoms.
Now we have a bigger problem than we started with. Now we must pay attention to the symptoms, take care of them. When enough rest is had the problems disappear, like magic. When the symptoms get ignored the body keeps fighting itself for relief. At some point, you, the one taking care of your body, gets to realize it's time to slow down and rest. Rest is one of the most important missing pieces of our society today.
When you are getting enough rest, meditation, water and balanced meals, you are giving yourself life affirming healing energy. This will also allow you a chance to slow down enough to evaluate how your worries will not solve your problems. Being your own champion, being brave and holding yourself in honor of what there is to do, the time alotted to do it and the time alotted to take care of yourself, if all in balance, will keep you healthy and brave. Learning to say 'yes' and 'no' appropriately will bring you into balance. Therefore, your body will take good care of itself and you will continue to have all the energy you need to do your day.
Peace and be brave enough to rest and be sweet to yourself, here is a video to see it in action.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Consciousness?
What is unconscious cannot be known until you slow down enough to listen. It is the unconscious that is ruling your life, it doesn’t matter if you know it or not. What you have is what you want. This is not good news. The good news is that if you give yourself a chance to slow down you can listen to what bubbles up into the consciousness and then allow yourself the beautiful grace to make a new choice about what you heard. This is really good news.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Trusting in Source. . .Who/What is your source?
Trusting in Source. . .Who/What is your source?
In strange times like these, people forget. ‘Forget what’ you might be wondering? Forget who we are. How long have you been on your spiritual path? How many hours have you put into ‘knowing who you are’. And when times get strange, do you remember all that you have learned?
In between these two eclipses in July 09 (7th and 22nd) and the third coming up in early August, we are challenged to bring our awareness to the darkness that has shadowed our light and remember who we are. When the sun comes out and you stand and look up at it, what is behind you? Your shadow. So the more light you carry, the more you raise your frequency, the more you trust that life is a blessing no matter what happens – that is shining light on your shadow. The shadow will always be there to help you remember. There is no one out there to remind you.
However, right now what I’m experiencing is my clients dropping out, losing the commitment to themselves in favor of their cash flow. I’m experiencing people wanting and needing to help themselves and unless it’s a trade they won’t do it, for themselves. The quality of my life does not depend upon my clients choices. The flow of cash in my life looks very much like it depends upon what my clients choices are. When I get to a place where I’m thinking I must work harder, market more, talk to more people, accept anything, it’s all to keep me in action from my free will that is stuck in the belief that I’m in charge of my life. My practices over the years have taught me different, yet in this moment, my own desperation begins to motivate me to doing more. Then, I realize what I’m doing. And stop, breathe and rest into my center.
And then I remember that my prayer since January of this year has been to raise my hands to the heavens and open my heart, then with deep invitational prayer I say “In . . .Come” and it feels good. I surrender yet again, my thoughts, my free will, my old beliefs and give them all deep reverence. For if these thoughts and patterns were not there I may not be on the spiritual path, thank the Goddess. If these thoughts and patterns were not there I may not have ever learned to trust that God knows way better than I what is coming and how to use my energy the best.
So are people your source? I ask myself how is it that I drop into a place of fear after all I’ve learned and experienced in Grace. Well, it’s just that kind of time. The heavens are working, all in our favor, and we feel deeply that it’s us, yet again. Not really, it’s us to stay consciously aware of what arises, then do what we know to do, practice and trust that this too is a blessing. Source then, is right in that moment, not outside of us at all, ever.
I invite us all to breathe a bit more during this time and remember.
In strange times like these, people forget. ‘Forget what’ you might be wondering? Forget who we are. How long have you been on your spiritual path? How many hours have you put into ‘knowing who you are’. And when times get strange, do you remember all that you have learned?
In between these two eclipses in July 09 (7th and 22nd) and the third coming up in early August, we are challenged to bring our awareness to the darkness that has shadowed our light and remember who we are. When the sun comes out and you stand and look up at it, what is behind you? Your shadow. So the more light you carry, the more you raise your frequency, the more you trust that life is a blessing no matter what happens – that is shining light on your shadow. The shadow will always be there to help you remember. There is no one out there to remind you.
However, right now what I’m experiencing is my clients dropping out, losing the commitment to themselves in favor of their cash flow. I’m experiencing people wanting and needing to help themselves and unless it’s a trade they won’t do it, for themselves. The quality of my life does not depend upon my clients choices. The flow of cash in my life looks very much like it depends upon what my clients choices are. When I get to a place where I’m thinking I must work harder, market more, talk to more people, accept anything, it’s all to keep me in action from my free will that is stuck in the belief that I’m in charge of my life. My practices over the years have taught me different, yet in this moment, my own desperation begins to motivate me to doing more. Then, I realize what I’m doing. And stop, breathe and rest into my center.
And then I remember that my prayer since January of this year has been to raise my hands to the heavens and open my heart, then with deep invitational prayer I say “In . . .Come” and it feels good. I surrender yet again, my thoughts, my free will, my old beliefs and give them all deep reverence. For if these thoughts and patterns were not there I may not be on the spiritual path, thank the Goddess. If these thoughts and patterns were not there I may not have ever learned to trust that God knows way better than I what is coming and how to use my energy the best.
So are people your source? I ask myself how is it that I drop into a place of fear after all I’ve learned and experienced in Grace. Well, it’s just that kind of time. The heavens are working, all in our favor, and we feel deeply that it’s us, yet again. Not really, it’s us to stay consciously aware of what arises, then do what we know to do, practice and trust that this too is a blessing. Source then, is right in that moment, not outside of us at all, ever.
I invite us all to breathe a bit more during this time and remember.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
We are ALL learning
I've been thinking about sharing what it's like to be a facilitator of spiritual healing. It's been on my mind and often I wait until I get a clear signal before I move into action on my own ideas. Tonight, or shall I say this morning, it's after one am here in Ashland, Oregon, it's time.
The road to getting to see the light shine in someone's eyes is long, filled with challenges and breakthroughs, musings and personal healing, long before I get to sit with a client and assist them to move through the morass they call life, I am dealing with my own (and in between clients).
Most of us, the people who are in service to others, in either a healing or helping capacity, are on the road to our own self-healing. You've heard the phrase "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear"? Well for holistic practitioners and people in service to others, it's more like the world is your reflection and whatever is in your own consciousness will out-picture, so be ready to do your own work or don't put yourself in front of others who really need help because it can tear your heart apart to watch people's suffering. Or, teacher is student, student is teacher.
In my world, no one is the leader. When I sit in front of someone, we are equals. I'm learning by the questions they are asking of me. It's humbling, real, raw and very transparent, except when it's not. Some people want so much to be out of pain, yet when they get close to that moment of seeing the true responsibility they have to themselves, they resist, get into fear and bow out of it's way, while I'm holding space and silently cheering them on into their next layer that I know will offer them the relief they are so welcoming.
How do I know this? I've been there so many times, I think I've done at least a million sessions on myself. I think I've visited the same issue at least a hundred thousand times only to finally realize that 'abandonment' is my life issue and no matter how many times I feel sad when someone leaves my life, I may feel that sadness every time, because it's my life issue to heal and when I die, I'll know I got it done. Until then, I've learned to be ok with touching it again and again because each time I do, I get stronger in a different way and the stinger gets softer.
Like this last weekend, I got stronger in standing up for myself. It was a surprise but I did it and it was the easiest one yet. Not only was I surprised that I could stay in the moment, be present to how I felt, communicate it without any blame, but then I asked my friend what was learned from the situation and once that was communicated, I said I love you and now I'm ready to move on, how about you? It was the cleanest upset I've ever been involved in and only took about 10 mins! That is healing. Being able to be in the experience of what bothers you, telling the truth about it, loving the other person while you are upset and meaning it and then having it resolve because there is nothing else to do, but love and move on.
We are such grand beings. I am very committed to people and their growth and health. That statement has motivated me through many very difficult and sometimes bad situations. And, each of those situations taught me greatly, each one brought me a new awareness or choice to stay motivated to the Truth. It isn't easy, but it's worth every tear, every word, every drippy drooly wet kleenex to see the light shine in someone's eyes.
This chapter will continue . . .
The road to getting to see the light shine in someone's eyes is long, filled with challenges and breakthroughs, musings and personal healing, long before I get to sit with a client and assist them to move through the morass they call life, I am dealing with my own (and in between clients).
Most of us, the people who are in service to others, in either a healing or helping capacity, are on the road to our own self-healing. You've heard the phrase "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear"? Well for holistic practitioners and people in service to others, it's more like the world is your reflection and whatever is in your own consciousness will out-picture, so be ready to do your own work or don't put yourself in front of others who really need help because it can tear your heart apart to watch people's suffering. Or, teacher is student, student is teacher.
In my world, no one is the leader. When I sit in front of someone, we are equals. I'm learning by the questions they are asking of me. It's humbling, real, raw and very transparent, except when it's not. Some people want so much to be out of pain, yet when they get close to that moment of seeing the true responsibility they have to themselves, they resist, get into fear and bow out of it's way, while I'm holding space and silently cheering them on into their next layer that I know will offer them the relief they are so welcoming.
How do I know this? I've been there so many times, I think I've done at least a million sessions on myself. I think I've visited the same issue at least a hundred thousand times only to finally realize that 'abandonment' is my life issue and no matter how many times I feel sad when someone leaves my life, I may feel that sadness every time, because it's my life issue to heal and when I die, I'll know I got it done. Until then, I've learned to be ok with touching it again and again because each time I do, I get stronger in a different way and the stinger gets softer.
Like this last weekend, I got stronger in standing up for myself. It was a surprise but I did it and it was the easiest one yet. Not only was I surprised that I could stay in the moment, be present to how I felt, communicate it without any blame, but then I asked my friend what was learned from the situation and once that was communicated, I said I love you and now I'm ready to move on, how about you? It was the cleanest upset I've ever been involved in and only took about 10 mins! That is healing. Being able to be in the experience of what bothers you, telling the truth about it, loving the other person while you are upset and meaning it and then having it resolve because there is nothing else to do, but love and move on.
We are such grand beings. I am very committed to people and their growth and health. That statement has motivated me through many very difficult and sometimes bad situations. And, each of those situations taught me greatly, each one brought me a new awareness or choice to stay motivated to the Truth. It isn't easy, but it's worth every tear, every word, every drippy drooly wet kleenex to see the light shine in someone's eyes.
This chapter will continue . . .
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