Welcome to my blog. Here you will find whatever is bringing me joy right now.
Please join me in this spiritual agreement, from my mentor and friend, Jana Massey:
"Together we agree that everything that we think, that we say and that we do at this time will be of the highest good. And together we ask for truth, the understanding of that truth and the wisdom to use it in our lives."
Thank you.
Please enjoy this little video and learn how to help yourself to beautiful vision using tried and true relaxation techniques and eye exercises. With these natural healing methods, we can all begin to restore or maintain our great eyesight, well into older age, simply by taking good care of our eyes. This eight minute long video demonstrates how you can begin to make a daily habit of great eye care, naturally.
As a Clairvoyant Healer, Spiritual Counselor and Intuition Instructor, I share many tips for leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Please be advised that I am not a doctor. Nor am I licensed in any healing modality. However, I have had years of experience in alternative and complementary health and healing. All healing programs, including standard western medical protocols in addition to natural therapies, can cause harm rather than the benefit that you may be searching for. After all some people can have a strong reaction to something as seemingly innocent as peanuts or strawberries. Therefore, anything that I may recommend in these blogs and videos could be dangerous for you to try. So, it is important that you Ask Your Doctor First before trying any natural healing protocol. However, most medical doctors have little experience regarding natural healing programs and herbal medicine. So please understand if your doctor is unfamiliar with these ideas.
Take a vacation. You don't have to go far. You don't even have to leave home. The idea is to get a fresh perspective. And that's what we sometimes need to do, to look at our lives from a different point of view.
My cousin recently invited me to meet with her and her family in Sedona. I don't often travel, but I went. And it was great. We all had fun exploring the vortexes found there. It is said that all of Sedona is abundant with these swirling energies and that they can move and might be felt almost anywhere. However there are four main vortexes that people tend to visit and we did. We found ourselves feeling uplifted in the 'Yang' ones, up on the buttes. Then, down by the rivers and in the deeper areas of the canyons, in the 'Yin' vortexes, though we still felt quite playful, we were spontaneously a little more introspective. Some of us even had the experience of receiving direction for our lives. The energy there in Sedona, especially in the Vortex areas, whether it was yin or yang was wonderful. My ten year old cousin (twice removed) summed it up as we were leaving the Airport Vortex when he exclaimed, "I just don't want to leave." And that is how we all felt, we just didn't want to leave, even when our week together was done. It was so much fun. Not only was the beautiful red rock spectacle of nature which is found there amazing, but it was also very refreshing and interesting to see how those around me, my extended family members, organized their lives. It gave me an opportunity to take stock and to see my own life anew. Though I am quite technically able, with my website and podcast, and all, I was nowhere near close to the capability of my cousins who were all masters of the electronic modern age. We still had fun in the usual family way, watching movies, drawing, playing charades and other games, but their skill levels with Smartphones, tablets, TVs and even the airports left me in the dust by comparison.
For this trip, I flew, which dinged my carbon footprint for the year with a mighty blow. But to have a vacation, a real vacation, we certainly don't always need to travel far. I've had similarly transformational experiences by simply going a mere twelve to twenty miles away from home. Because it is the doing of things differently that opens up the doors of possibility and helps us to see with new eyes.
With a 'Staycation,' we do need to change up our routines to some extent, otherwise it is just like hanging out at home. We need to seek out the company of folks we are not so familiar with or go on lots of little day trips, visiting sites and local attractions that we have not yet seen in our home town or area. Though travelogues and books about far away places can in no way be considered vacations, it is good to know that we can also gain some insight by engaging our imagination in this way. We can live a little vicariously through the experiences of others. This is why we like to see pictures of our friends trips and hear the stories and tales of the far away places that they bring home. But these are just tiny peeks into new ideas and ways of being, and are nowhere near as all encompassing as time spent away on vacation, immersing ourselves in something completely new. When we take a vacation, especially when we travel far, we see how other people live and for some of us, the experience of having everything be so different, even if we are still within our own culture, is quite irresistible. It holds no equal for bringing a fresh perspective. It informs us and refreshes our outlook. And that is what some say is a miracle, a change in perception or a new perspective. So take a vacation if you can. It is a wonderful way to brighten one's way of being in the world.
We are all already psychic. It's part of our natural human birthright.
Just as we can learn how to drive a car, we can all learn how to
develop our psychic skills. As our psychic skills increase, we gain
appreciation, love and respect for ourselves and for the world around
us.
This hour long talk was presented to members of The Institute of Noetic
Sciences both in Alaska and more recently in Los Angeles. It gives
numerous tools, tips and techniques that will help you to develop your
psychic abilities.
Three events of late have left me feeling that we are all going to make it into the next step of our cultural evolution.
The first is the movie RBG about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Working within the confines of the law, Ruth has devoted her life to opening the eyes of the patriarchy. Here in America, she has carefully and methodically helped the governing white men of the last sixty plus years to see the injustices that women have suffered for millennia. And she has created the environment where even they wish to see those situations change. The cases that she brought before and won within our legal system have substantially freed women to stand with equal status beside men. Thousands of years of legal oppression were lifted by a single, well-loved and well supported woman within the span of her career. It is an amazing film. If you haven't yet seen it, do. And bless you Ruth! And thank you! Because until we all stand together, each of equal value, we can not reach our full human potential.
The second source of inspiration for me is a Netflix special by the very talented communicator and lesbian comedian Hannah Gadsby in her show, "Nanette." Using humor, standing alongside well justified and profound outrage and anger, she eloquently enlightens her audience and viewers to some of the little known realities typical of our misguided cultural mindset. Hannah shows us how our cultural lack of acceptance, our blind cruelty, and the use of shame toward anyone who is outside of what is considered "normal" is completely dysfunctional. And this is great because until we all treat each other with mutual acceptance and love, we can not be truly connected.
Ask any biologist, the people who study life, and they will tell you that diversity is the foundation of all life. It is essential. It allows for the interweaving of everything together. This brings stability. By culturally debasing diversity among humans, through our discrimination against anyone who doesn't fit the established or presumably cherished ideal, we as a society have not only been weakening our potential, but we have also been creating tremendous pain for too many people, for way too long.
For millennia now, we westerners, have used the pain of shame to debilitate others. Be it toward an Irish man, working on the New York docks, in the 1850's, or toward a lesbian woman, in a bible belt, anywhere, in the 1990's, we habitually use shame as a tool to undermine diversity. This is an outmoded mindset which is very destructive to life itself. However, slowly but surely, I think that we are starting to grow beyond this. People like Hannah, who have been labeled "different" or "unacceptable," are managing to find their own worth and rebuild themselves. Throughout the many decades, those who have been shamed have been sharing their stories and they are awakening our understanding, our compassion and our humanity. And this is great because, as they rise up, sometimes stronger than a tempest, they help us all to awaken, so that we can start to stand together, in equal value, and begin to reach our full human potential.
Awakenings like these are sometimes messy, but they are absolutely necessary, because it is becoming clearer and clearer that our western patriarchal societal model, of top down rule, and notions of superiority, doesn't work for anyone, not for women, not for children, not even for the men. It doesn't work for animals, forests, water or the birds in the sky. When we refuse to value even the smallest voice, we have lop-sided decisions being made.
Years ago in one of his lectures, Joseph Campbell said that when it comes to making decisions about what is important, in general, men are concerned with the ideas of acquisition and protection. This is a more individual perspective. It often involves competition, getting ahead of the other guy. Whereas, he said that his female students, at Sara Lawrence College, persistently taught him that women are generally concerned with the more holistic perspective, the far reaching implications that our decisions have on all of life itself. This viewpoint is more about cooperation, helping each other to learn and grow, supporting each other, together.
When we only have the masculine view of what is right and good, which is the case in a patriarchal culture like ours, we leave out that broader perspective, and wind up serving the few instead of all. Rainforests disappear. Young men are commonly seen as expendable and are sent off to prison or to war. Too often women are undervalued or left broken and destitute. Children can be born drug addicted and unloved. As the beautiful feminist Sonja Johnson once said, "I don't like the way men do worlds." And you know what? Neither do I. Because it takes two halves to make a whole and until we all stand together, each of equal value, side by side, we will continue to lack our full humanity and we can not be truly connected.
So, the time has come for all of us to change, and changing we are. We women are rising up with our voices and finally being heard. We are no longer being forced to stand in silence as our daughters are raped and our foods are being poisoned or produced in factory farms. We are speaking our truth and putting our dollars and our buying power where it reflects our core values. We are purchasing organic and pasture-raised, fair-trade, re-purposed and sweat-shop free. We are voting for women who are true to women's ideals. And we are starting to stand up for everyone who has suffered at the hands of our deluded and horribly disconnected cultural mindset.
This brings me to my third inspiration. Recent election trends show that a fairly large percentage of women are running for office and I hope every one of them gets in. Because it is only when women are represented equally, in regards to the number of women to men, that they stop upholding male values and stand for the ones that women naturally support.
Those of us, who have not been fully indoctrinated into the currently predominating ethic, of "them versus us," tend to open our hearts more readily to everyone: big, little, pink or purple. Studies have shown that when the going gets tough, rather than the typical "fight or flight," that is commonly held from the masculine point of view, the feminine perspective is to "tend and befriend." 'His-story' has been told by the victors. And everyone who lost those battles has been seen as lesser than or different, and has been shamed for it. But in 'Her-story,' despite the potential for individual delinquencies, all are welcomed into the true heart of love.
The time is coming, and coming soon, where we are finally going to be able to let go of personal gain and shame as our societal directives and instead embrace our interconnectedness and our humanity, with love. As women step more fully to the forefront of our cultural objectives, we will begin to choose values that move us beyond war and destruction and celebrate instead the stability of our diversity. We will embrace the great big colorful and highly varied whole, valuing all of it, every bit of life, with love and caring. So I say, "Hooray!" for women rising. And may we all be inspired to act and speak the truth of our lives. And may the world rise up to meet us there, as it has done for both Hannah and for Ruth and for the many other hard working men and women who have fought for our equality all the world round.
These four practices, of meditation, dream work, sanctuary and prayer, when firmly placed on a solid foundation of self-love, will not only help you to develop your psychic ability, they will also let you claim your own true purpose while deepening your individual spirituality. Please enjoy this hour long talk that was given to an enthusiastic audience in July of 2018.
Before she retired, my all time favorite acupuncturist used to sometimes say to me, "Josephine, House too hot!" What she meant by this is that inflammation was running high in my body. And I've heard it said that inflammation is at the root cause of all of our diseases. When a house is too hot for too long, it can be in danger of catching fire. Inflammation is a natural body response and generally it is a good thing. It is our way of protecting ourselves against injury or infection. Our immune system kicks into high gear and floods the area of concern with white blood cells to help heal whatever has gone wrong. But when inflammation gets out of control, as it can when our blood sugar levels are consistently higher than normal, it can become a real problem. As we round the bend into older age, it is especially important to keep
inflammation down in the body. This is because recent journals of
medicine have cited continual high blood glucose levels as being a
primary cause behind Alzheimer's disease, gradually causing our brains
to loose
their good function. Having our C-reactive protein levels tested in our blood is a good way for us to keep track of our inflammation levels, so that we know whether they are getting too high or not. Many health care professionals feel that cardio vascular disease, swollen or painful joints, skin rashes, increased fatigue and even cancer can be the result of chronically high levels of inflammation. My mother used to say that cancer was the result of any constant irritation in the body. And we know that constant irritations can cause hot spots. So, what to do about it? Cooling herbs and well placed acupuncture needles can certainly help. But I, along with many others, find that watching our diet is the surest way to quickly cool our systems down. This is because a diet high in carbohydrates contributes mightily to rising levels of inflammation. In general, I find that fruits are wonderfully wholesome and good foods
to eat. The same is true for whole grains and carbohydrate-rich
vegetables like potatoes, yams, beets, beans, winter squash, turnips and
rutabagas. We need carbohydrates in our diets. They give our endocrine system the energy needed for quick bursts of movement and exertion when hormones like adrenaline come into play. Diets rich in healthy carbohydrates can be wonderful if inflammation is not a problem. But if there are rising levels of C-reactive proteins causing conditions like itchy
skin or cranky joints, a carbohydrate-rich diet will contribute
to higher blood sugar levels and can be like tossing kindling onto to those flames. So, when I really need to cool my internal chemistry down fast, I go on a green juice feast. In such a scenario, I'll often drink two pints or more of fresh raw organic green juice a day. The fuice from cucumbers, celery, zucchini, kale and collards along with a few herbs like parsley or cilantro will not only cleanse and cool my body, but they also pump my tissues full of good nutrition, rich in vitamins and minerals. Bieler Broth is another beautiful way to cool down inflammation. This is a soup that was recommended by Henry G. Bieler, M.D. back in the 1950's, in his book, Food Is Your Best Medicine. He used it for helping diabetics to stabilize their blood sugars. It is made from equal parts of fresh organic zucchini, parsley leaves, celery and green beans. To make it, you cover the vegetables with water, cook them until they are soft, cool it all down and blend it. It can be stored in glass jars in the refrigerator for up to four days. It is nice taken either warm or cold. Having just Bieler Broth and good clean water for a few days, while mostly resting, can cool down many a house that has become too hot. Another strategy that helps to lower inflammation is exercise. Burning lots of calories helps us to use up all those carbohydrate fuels before they start to smolder. A healthy lifestyle of consciously chosen foods and lots of exercise can be the golden road to keeping inflammation levels low in our bodies while giving us plenty of steady energy to burn all day long.
As a Clairvoyant Healer, Spiritual Counselor and Intuition Instructor, I share many tips for leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Please be advised that I am not a doctor. Nor am I licensed in any healing modality. However, I have had years of experience in alternative and complementary health and healing. All healing programs, including standard western medical protocols in addition to natural therapies, can cause harm rather than the benefit that you may be searching for. After all some people can have a strong reaction to something as seemingly innocent as peanuts or strawberries. Therefore, anything that I may recommend in these blogs and videos could be dangerous for you to try. So, it is important that you Ask Your Doctor First before trying any natural healing protocol. However, most medical doctors have little experience regarding natural healing programs and herbal medicine. So please understand if your doctor is unfamiliar with these ideas.
Chia seeds are widely available and have tremendous anti-inflammatory qualities. Being rich in Omega 3 fatty acids they help with arthritis, joint pain and ulcerative colitis and as well they lower the C-reactive protein levels in the body. Chia seeds also help to stabilize blood sugars and reduce blood pressure. They don't go rancid and have no pests, so they can be grown with out the use of any poisons. Why not try this delightfully easy, delicious and nutritious, refined-sugar-free recipe today? Have some fun quenching your thirst today!
We sleep and then we rise. We take naps or have quiet times amidst the flow of our busy days. The tides run high and then they run low. We always have this pattern of increased energy and then a time of rest or less and it is natural and normal and good. Here it is, now spring again, coming up out of the cold and slowed growth of winter. The grasses and plants are reaching for the sun once more. The warming days are resulting in an abundance of photosynthesis and growth is abounding everywhere. Later in the fall, the annual plants will shrivel, fade and die; along with the leaves from the trees, they will fall, returning to the ground from whence they came. Similar patterns can be seen in the movements of the
moon through the various constellations in the heavens above, or the
larger patterns of the sun and other planets dancing more slowly across the sky full of
stars. They arise, pass on by and then later they return again.
Like the sine and cosine waves, curving up and then rounding down, we have the natural cycles of our daily body clocks. These underlie the larger intervals
of our bio-rhythms rising and then fading every few days or so In the grander scheme, birth and childhood give rise to puberty which rises up further into adulthood rounding into maturity and followed by old age and death.
Similarly, the monthly cycles of women begin with the quiet clearing of the womb progressing into an interest in a more social time as the egg matures. This can be followed by conception and a rising up into the cycle of new life or it can move once more into quieter times as the body prepares for and then begins it's cleansing time again.
Patterns like these don't usually stop. After menopause, if we pay attention to our body's subtle cues, we can notice our own etheric period. This is not a twenty-eight day cycle like a woman experiences for forty years or so after her menarche. The etheric period is more like a three month cycle, slowly coming up out of a more quiet time for a few weeks, then moving into a companionable way of being, followed by a further rising up into a gregarious way of being for several weeks and then rounding the curve into a month or so spent going deeper and deeper within. And though it is not commonly acknowledged in our culture, men have these same sorts of cycles as well. Male menopause is increasingly being accepted as a real phenomenon. And it is all good. So, let's stop resisting and start giving ourselves over to these natural rhythms and cycles. We are not meant to continuously crank out productive hours like machines, day after day, year after year, in some sort of corporate ideal. We are naturally much less efficient then that. Isn't it time we let ourselves be who we truly are and stop riding ourselves so hard, cranking up the caffeine, trying so desperately to stay afloat? How about if we let ourselves admit that we'd really rather go out and play, or take a nap, depending on the time of day or month or year? Doesn't that sound like a refreshing change? We are the ones who are creating these sorts of work-a-day patterns after all. So, perhaps the time has come for us to try on the idea of joining the rest of nature and freeing ourselves to stand up for who were designed to be.
Hello everyone. I've just created this little video with my dear friend Einar Berg. In it you will learn several great tips and techniques on how to help your body clear and heal your upper sinuses. It is only 8 minutes long. Enjoy.
As a Clairvoyant Healer, Spiritual Counselor and Intuition Instructor, I share many tips for leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Please be advised that I am not a doctor. Nor am I licensed in any healing modality. However, I have had years of experience in alternative and complementary health and healing. All healing programs, including standard western medical protocols in addition to natural therapies, can cause harm rather than the benefit that you may be searching for. After all some people can have a strong reaction to something as seemingly innocent as peanuts or strawberries. Therefore, anything that I may recommend in these blogs and videos could be dangerous for you to try. So, it is important that you Ask Your Doctor First before trying any natural healing protocol. However, most medical doctors have little experience regarding natural healing programs and herbal medicine. So please understand if your doctor is unfamiliar with these ideas.
"Let's put our hands together..." is an expression we use when we want to share our appreciation of someone's accomplishments. We give them our applause. Clapping is also a way that we can gain the attention of another. We clap loudly in the kitchen to scare the dog away from the cat's food. In this day and age, we can clap to turn on or off a light. I sometimes use the sound of a good sharp clap above my head to align the main chakras or energy centers in my body. It brings them abruptly into balance and coherence. Aside from the seven main chakras of the body, there are numerous chakras in our hands and feet. There is a tiny little chakra at every knuckle, one at either end of every bone in our skeleton. And since our hands have so many bones, nearly thirty in the hand and wrist, this results in lots of potent energy centers all giving to and receiving from the world. Some of you may have seen the graphic depicting the sensory receptivity of our bodies. This shows a little person with big eyes, lips and tongue, extending out from his body are gigantic hands. It helps us to understand just how much of our perception of the world around us is generated through our hands. The Chinese meridian system of the body shows how energy travels through our bodies. Meridians are shown as pathways of energy running from top to toe and passing through an organ like the liver, the lungs or the kidneys. Each of these meridian lines has a number of points along the way. For example, K-27 is the 27th point on the kidney meridian. Several of these meridians begin or end at our fingertips. When we place our finger tips together, either in thought, or in prayer, it feels good. It connects some of the circuits of our meridians. Something that I have enjoyed doing since childhood is to hold my finger tips up to the full force of the water coming from the shower head while bathing. I also do this with my toes and with my lips and gums and
the teeth in my mouth. This stimulates the nerve endings there, activating the meridians that travel up and down, revitalizing my whole body and many of my organ systems. And quite often the
other end of a meridian, either coming up from or going to the
mouth and toes, is located in the fingertips. We 'drum' our fingers when we are thinking. We sit at our desks and fold our hands to quiet and center ourselves. We snap our fingers to keep time with a beat in the music. We put our hand on a freshly skinned knee. It brings the intention and the healing power of our whole body quickly there. We shake hands in greeting and to show the other that we mean no harm.
We touch our loved ones lightly to make contact with our finger tips. Hoofed animals use their noses for this, but we use our fingers to convey our love. With a hand on someone's shoulder, or holding hands with another, we put the love in. Our hands and arms extend out from the area of our hearts and express our love. We give hugs, pulling our loved ones in close, so our hearts can touch. Our fingers and hands are beautiful tactile extensions of our love. And then in solitude, while in meditation or in personal ceremony or prayer, we connect our fingertips together or cup our hands, one resting inside the other, or press our palms lightly together, connecting the circuits of our own heart's energy, feeling the love. So, let's put our hands together for just a moment now and feel the flow of this love within. As we enter into the last month of the first quarter of this new year, I give my love to you all with best wishes for a joyous, love-filled and blessed rest of this year.
Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without
the need for conscious reasoning. This is a natural human trait, but
for some of us, it is not so easy to access. Outside influences can be
mistaken for our own inner perceptions. Memories and old patterns can
masquerade as guidance. Please enjoy this hour long talk on how to
learn how to listen to, cultivate and trust your own intuition.
We are all one. Or so say the majority of the spiritual teachers who have walked this planet. But, what does this really mean? If we are all one, how come we feel so separate from each other? I think the answer to this question lies in several areas: First, we have been acculturated to dwell predominately in the left hemisphere of our brains with our thought processes. Here we are analytical and separate, we base our assumptions on information from the past and speculations about the future. This is the area of our thinking that is constantly trying to evaluate who we are, what we have done and what we should do next. It is a place of separation and individuation.
Second, we have been conditioned to be less aware of the thought processes that are common to the right hemisphere of our brains. This is the seat of our oneness, our commonality, our unity consciousness. And though we are less aware on the surface of this aspect of ourselves, it is clearly at the core of who we are. When
someone calls for help, we don't run away, we run toward them and try to help. At the
deepest level of our beings, we understand that to let the other suffer or die would be to let a part of ourselves suffer or die.
Third, when we all saw that image of earth, taken from space in the 1960's, we opened our eyes as if for the first time and began to see that there were no dividing lines for nations or governments. Instead we began to see ourselves as very lucky to be alive, all of us, thriving together, on this little blue green marble, floating in the vastness of outer space. From this perspective, we began to see the earth as one organism, miraculously supporting us all.
And while it is true that we are
each unique and different, we now see that we are a part of the whole. Just like our nose is different from our eyes, we understand that both are a
part of our face. As my mentor Peace Pilgrim puts it, "We are all cells in the body of humanity." We may each be different, but we are not separate. And it is our oneness that is
at the core of who we are.
But why
stop there? If our individual selves are a part of humanity, and if
humanity is a part of life on earth, why not go even further and try on
the thought of all of life, either on earth or beyond, as being a part of the vast consciousness that
pervades the Universe.
So now, with this thought in mind. How do you think each aspect of life, or awareness, would like to be treated? How would your nose like to be cared for? Certainly not as separate. That would leave it hanging out there all on it's lonesome. The same can be said for one another. How would each of us like to be treated?
Ah, in steps The Golden Rule. 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' There is some version of this teaching found in every major religion on the planet.
But what about beyond? As we move our attention on out into the galaxy, it doesn't take too much more looking for us to begin to see the Universe as a whole? Awareness
arises, dances in one form or another, passes back into compost or
spinning galaxies and arises again. As we start to appreciate the depth of the beauty that we find there, we begin to learn how to embrace the one thing there is. We find that we can celebrate not only our individuality, but also our unity consciousness, living, loving, caring for and embracing each and every aspect of the whole.
