Have fun. Laugh a lot. And feel young and free again!

Some of us take adulthood very seriously. In fact, we are dead serious about being serious. Actually in all seriousness, being serious isn’t as serious as it’s made out to be. Being silly and having fun, now that's serious business. Last night I spent time on Church Street toasting marshmallows, and eating s’mores, drinking hot chocolate  and singing carols with the Salvation Army Man. I was about the business of having fun and I made contacts for my business in the process.

In the midst of all the joy, like the Grinch, there was a pinch then a moment that began to turn the tide. While standing in the freezing cold, with Popsicle fingers instead of Popsicle toes (nod to my mom and Micheal Franks) handing out “free pyramid sessions”, that people refused (That’s a whole other article about how we say no and don’t even know what we are saying no to, you know ….lol) ooh where was I …. Oh yea, During that sixty second period of time that felt like a very long while, I came upon a feeling that was like Pinocchio’s nose, it began to grow. For one reason or another I felt that I was missing potential customers and in that moment, felt anxious. Now just as fast as you please that anxiousness was starting to take over like an unwanted virus with an express card with carte blanc. What is a girl to do to get off the Reading Railroad and onto Park Place? I took a breath, dropped into the moment, let go of expectations and just like that I was back in CandyLand.

So this holiday season while still making deadlines, grading papers and stirring the pots and tossing the pans, stay in the moment. When circumstances and even people try and get you to play the game of sadness, madness and joyless-ness,
take a clue from fireman and STOP, DROP and ROLL.

Stop: Take a breath
Drop: Into the moment, into your heart, onto your knees……just drop cause you can’t put the fire out any other way, and…….
Roll: With what is going on, no resistance, releasing expectations and fully accepting what is.

And before you know it you’ll be back in Kansas with the click of your ruby slipper so you can Have fun. Laugh a lot. And feel young and free again!

Becoming a Happy Camper

Step powerfully into the shift and changes this Fall season by becoming a happy camper. If you’ve ever gone camping you know it’s not all sunshine and roses. In fact camping can be very difficult. It can challenge the ego because we are so used to our creature comforts and abilities. Camping challenges our minds to step outside of the ordinary way we see things and challenges us to step into seeing with other senses that aren’t connected to the physical and to find the joy in doing so. 

When I went camping for the first time about 5 years ago it was an immersion trip. I went in hardcore. I tented and bathed in the cold stream. My only creature comfort was the air mattress that I bought with me. Literally that was like my landing pad. If you’ve ever slept on an air mattress then you know it’s no bed and so even that became my opportunity to heal and reveal a greater truth; Happiness doesn't depend on the circumstances. 

During the night the temperatures dropped to below 40 and I was only partially prepared for it. In the night sometimes it rained and the water puddled up in the corners of my tent, while the sides were wet with dew and dripped if I touched it. We woke early in the morning to the beating of the drum in preparation to enter the sweat lodge. Four thirty the drummer made her rounds led by the moon light and a small lantern. This camping trip was no regular camping trip it was a Spiritual adventure. 

We are Souls, Spiritual Beings having a human experience and this human experience is our spiritual adventure.  Just like my camping trip sometimes getting up early in the middle of what feels like the night in the freezing cold is a part of the program. Maybe your freezing cold is the office, maybe your middle of the night is the relatives arriving for Thanksgiving dinner and you are the host. Perhaps your cold splash in the stream is the daily activities that you must preform in order to make things work in your life. Whatever it is, when we stop complaining and start expressing gratitude we can experience a shift in consciousness, a shift in the way we experience our life. 

If Earth is our campground and the Spirit is our natural home, how many ways do we expect the creature comforts of home in this three dimensional world? While camping on the earth we can become happy regardless of whether we are camping in a tent or a trailer. Our happiness doesn’t depend on circumstances. We carry this happiness within us. We cultivate it like I did in the sweat lodge. We develop a daily spiritual practice starting with an attitude of gratitude, we connect with community and we do our part to advance the whole. 

What we think of things becomes internal to how we experience them and what we focus on plants the seeds of what will grow. Learning to become a happy camper is about setting up your tent in the garden of gratitude and bathing in the stream of love. Every day make it your duty, your honor and your privilege to find and focus on the GoOD. Train your mind to do what you want and not the habits that it hold. Happy camping!

Love,

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Healing the Inner Child

As the time gets nearer for my retreat “Return to your Radiance” Healing the inner child before the holidays, I feel myself really connecting with my inner child. This awareness is showing me the many ways I have yet to grow up. It is bringing clarity to behavioral patterns that are in place that do not support what I say I want. It is showing me the incongruences that keep me from having the life I want. It is showing me how I unconsciously sabotage myself . What does it look like and how to address? 

It shows up as 

• a desire to create more than execute
• A want to get my own way more than make a way
• procrastination
• An increase in eating sugary foods
• lack of focus
• resistance to planning

How it shows up in each of our lives will be different. The point is she/he is there slowing eroding relationships and poisoning our ability to stand fully in our power. How do you change these behaviors? There are three essential keys to changing them and when practiced you will see amazing results. 

1. First Key Awareness

• You can’t become aware if you’re not willing to pay attention to yourself.
• Connect to yourself hold your left hand on your heart and your right hand on the hara-point just below the belly button then ask yourself  “what do I really need, desire and feel?” and then get quiet. 

    2. Second Key Acceptance 

• You have to accept full responsibility for your life and all that has happened, all that is present in order to create a future you and a future unlike the present state of affairs. 
• Holding your right hand on your heart and your left hand onto of it repeat 3 X’s out loud and 3X’s silently “I deeply and unconditionally, Love, appreciate and accept myself exactly as I am.” Sit quietly in that space focusing on your heart. Breathe into your heart and out of the hara-point ,the space just below your belly button but above the sacral chakra. (If you don’t know the chakras please google or request a chakra chart from me)

     3. Third Key Acknowledgement

• You have to acknowledge the behavior in the moment that it is happening or in the very least take an assessment of yourself daily to acknowledge whether your life is moving in the direction you desire or not. 
• Journal nightly and ask yourself the following 10 questions before you lay you down to sleep. 

1. How loving was I to myself today?
2. Did I keep my commitments to myself?
3. Did I follow or deviate from  plans I laid out for myself?
4. Did what I did today bring me closer to my dreams?
5. Have I exhibited this behavior before? 
6. Which of my choices supported what I said I want?
7. Which of my choices not support what I said I want?
8. How did I blame others for my choices today?
9. How did I take full responsibility for my choices?
10. What choices can I make tomorrow or now that will show self Love and are free of blame, shame and attack?

End this process using the second key. Doing this process nightly you will see amazing results!

These first three keys lay the foundation to support you in taking the next most appropriate step in creating an action plan for your desires. It helps clear the slate so that when you begin you are starting from a place of calm, self-love and inner cooperation. You are going to want to create a schedule, regimen, or system that allows for creativity and structure carved out in the way you can fully enjoy both aspect of yourself, the adult you and the inner child you. The inner child isn’t something we want to lock away, destroy or get ride of. They are a valuable and necessary aspect of our being that keeps us young, lively and joyful just because we are alive. Working together with our inner child we can live full abundant lives filled with joy and laughter.

Angels a Gift From Spirit

Each of us has been given an amazing gift by God. We each have a personal angel (several actually) that help us throughout our day. This being of Light does not interfere with our affairs without our permission (unless it's a life and death situation). Our Guardian Angel has been specifically sent by God to aid and assist us whenever we are in need. To begin communicating with your Angel, simply ask. Ask for a sign from your Angel. During meditation, ask for a name or ask to feel the energy of your Angel flowing to you. These steps are the doorways that foster the beginning of  communication. I have asked my Angel to help me with many things, some as simple as to help me find my keys. For our guardian Angel, no task is too big or too small. Although it is not their job to give us the winning lotto numbers, you can ask to be guided to Divine opportunities to create more wealth. It only takes a moment to cultivate a friendship that has been with you your whole like. Delve into the connection of Gods gift!

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Abundant Living!

Sometimes I get scared on this journey I’ve undertaken. I forget that I AM following the gentle promptings of my heart; the voice of Spirit to lead my way. Today I was thinking of what I said yes to. The reality that I left my job of 26 years to follow My Bliss. The thought of “will I be able to make it?” WELL! Every time I ask a question, I get an answer. 

I was minding my own business, happily talking with new and old friends and without provocation I was gifted a bushel of Organic locally farmed fruits and vegetables. This bushel was an abundance of Life Source Energy in physical form. Life Force Energy is Money in its RAW form. Money, “M”y “O”wn “N”atural “E”nergy “Y”ields. What I was given was an abundant source of RAW Natural Energy which would have cost at minimum $100 dollars or more in stores like Whole Foods. This picture is all of it pared across my kitchen table!!! WOW! Can you believe it? How Awesome is that? To live in the Abundant Ever Present Flow of GoOD! 

Money in the Raw 

The kicker which made this event even more profound for me was that earlier in the day, I’d refused service to a perspective client. This is an important piece of information as an entrepreneur. Often times we sacrifice our standards and self for the “need” of money, with the “the customer is always right” attitude, or the “suck it up and do it “ attitude. Well I didn’t. I truly felt that this person would be more trouble that it was worth just through our short interaction. I was learning the lesson between judgement and discernment. I  didn’t dwell on the fact that I didn’t have any clients scheduled for the day or yesterday. 

In the process, I spent time elevating my energy by listening to the Teachings of Abraham. Abraham suggests that you seek to see the best in every situation by creating positive aspects. So yesterday I expressed gratitude for the free time I now had to clear out clutter and make space for new in my life. New thoughts, new ideas, new experiences and opportunities of wealth. Today when I would have been seeing the client I had refused service to, instead  I spent it doing business in a very leisurely way, by making connections. This day turned into a day of many synchronicities. I came across many people who enriched my life just by knowing them, including the woman who gifted me the bushel of fruits and vegetables. Some of them will perhaps be business connections. Abundance also comes in the form of ideas to create more wealth. During this synchronous day, I  had an idea that I consider to be pure Spirit which will generate future income. Today I made three times more than I would have had I seen that one client. Today was a very abundant day indeed. 

The key to abundance is vibration. The ability to become a resonance of what it is you desire. This Resonance is without effort. You don’t “try” to “BE” you just “BE.” That BE”Ing is in the way you move in the world. Living in the present, which is the gift of limitless possibilities and acknowledging the gifts moment by moment in a quietly accepting way.

To help create the shift, whenever you feel down, sad or disheartened, relax into what you are feeling without judgement. Allow yourself to feel it like being on an elevator ride, passing through the floors without getting stuck on either one of them. I did just that yesterday. I allowed what i was feeling to come an I decided to listen to  something that would shift my state of BE”Ing. I listened to hours upon hours of “The Law of Attraction” I listened to Abraham through  Ester and let the words sink in without “trying” to get “it”. In that way I became it. 

Need help creating the shift?  Contact me.

Of Wonderment & AWE!

Every day alive is an opportunity to experience a life of wonderment and awe. Yesterday I was complaining that the time I had set aside was now taken to do other things. I let it go and went with the flow. I allowed myself to be ok with what was instead of being annoyed with what wasn't. As I went along with the flow other signs started to show up. I had in my possession a cell phone, an iPad and a computer. All showed signs of low battery. I took this as a message to unplug from the vortex and let myself relax. I gave myself permission to enjoy the day free from the constraints of a schedule. The next day I was gifted with the time I had complained that I didn't have the day before. It showed up by way of a canceled flight. This, what looked like more delays, became an opportunity to do all that I hadn't done the day before, and to write this blog, which is a blessed bonus.

What lesson does this hold for me that might also be a gift to you? The message was that whatever shows up is a gift waiting to be unwrapped the moment we unwrap ourselves out of the bondage of illusion. The illusion of things appearing as they seem. What appears as a problem then becomes a gift. What appears as a challenge then become an opportunity. What appears as a fear then become fodder for the Strength of Faith.

My lesson; Everything is ALWAYS ALL RIGHT! I AM IN THE DIVINE FLOW OF GoOD! Every step is accounted for and leads me beside the still waters of Perfect Trust and Perfect Peace I AM THAT I AM.

Affirmation:

By Divine Decree 

and in the Name of 

My Great GodPressence within and Above me Back of ALL THINGS

I AM Divinely Guided and Directed

My Path is Cleared 

My Way is Straight

My Choices Lead me to the Highest Pass

I AM Faith Filled I AM FREE


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I AM EVOLUTION IN ACTION

I have often claimed I am a work in progress. I said this with much pride and as the saying goes when you know better you do better. Today I recognize what that means for me. It meant I was broken and working on myself. It meant something was “wrong” with me and I needed to “fix” it. It implied that I wasn’t good enough just as I am. That is not accurate. That is no longer “my story” Today I create a new story from a new awareness. I AM Evolution in Action! I am not broken. I don’t “need” to be fixed by me or anyone else nor can I “fix” you because there is absolutely “nothing” wrong with you.

Does this mean I am perfect? NO! Far from the truth I make mistakes. Plenty of them, however, I AM evolving into a being of God’s perfection. That journey starts where I am in each moment, NOW! I AM EVOLUTION IN ACTION!

Ah Ha moment of the day!

Ah Ha moment of the day!

I keep waiting for this moment when I will "BE" enlightened! I keep waiting for something to “HAPPEN” that will let me know that I have arrived. I board the daily journey of my life in route to enlightenment not really living just single mindedly focused on my destination. I haven’t “really” been enjoying the journey. I have had moments on the journey of joy yet focused on attaining a goal I thought outside of myself and alas I have arrived at the moment! I saw it. It was indescribable, profound and wordless and now I go about my day today doing the same things I did yesterday, slightly different. I have had a chop wood carry water ah ha enlightenment, moment and now I chop wood again and carry water until the next moment. It is a constant unfolding of my being. I realize today it can never be a destination because that would imply an ending and I AM infinite so I will always BE therefore Enlightened I AM moment by moment, in my being, in my inaction and essence of who and Who’s I AM I AM Arrived.

Today I’m chopping wood and carrying water the way my Ancestor did. I sing with the joy of being alive. I sing with a message to let the others know which way the road is clear to freedom. I sing to remind myself that working in the field of my consciousness is my only way. I sign to let others know I  AM coming, I AM becoming, I AM. I sing to remind myself of my home land in the Grace of God. I sing to remember my way. I sing to call to others to get on board. I sing to let others know I need you.  This journey of a thousand miles of enlightened moments has begun with the first step….. BEING!