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.
Each one of us is so unique and different that it is no wonder that our diets vary so greatly. Some of us seem to do better with casseroles, while others among us feel weighted down with cooked foods and prefer salads and fruits. However, we humans are very adaptable and we can survive quite well and even thrive on any number of foods, even when it is the same food day in and day out. The Inuit, the indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions, eat primarily meat and fish. Nordic peoples, who have traditionally followed the herds, drink milk and eat yogurt and cheese. Asians tend toward rice and vegetables, with a very little bit of meat used as a seasoning. For thousands of years, the indigenous people of Central Coastal California, ate a diet of nearly 80% acorn. They had it every morning as porridge and often again for lunch and dinner. This is something that hardly anyone thinks of eating today, but acorn flour is not only delicious, it is also very nutritious. And it served the people who lived here very well for millennia. This is just one more example of how versatile our diets can be. One of my cousins has had a very interesting realization with her two children. While she was pregnant with her eldest, she was a vegetarian and ate lots of pasta, bread and cheese with her veggies. She also had a sweet tooth and enjoyed her deserts and fruits. Then, when she became pregnant with her second child, she developed gestational onset diabetes and had to radically change her diet in order to keep her blood sugars low. So, for the duration of that pregnancy, out went the sweets and she began to eat meat and had that with her vegetables for almost every meal. The diabetes went away and she eats that way to this day. Now, a decade later, guess what her children eat? You got it. Her eldest won't touch meat, loves the carbs, dairy and fruit, while her youngest only wants animal protein. He will eat his vegetables, but he doesn't care much for sweets or fruit. Isn't that interesting? To me, all of this says that all bets are off. What feels right, might just be what is familiar. And more likely, just about anything that keeps us fueled and feeling healthy will do.
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.
Over the last two weeks on this Blog/Video Log, I've shared with you how I've been blessed by spirit reaching out to help and protect me during some of the more challenging moments in my life. This week, I'd like to share with you one more story where a gentleman who had recently passed away was protecting his wife by reaching across the veil between life and death. This particular event took place when my husband, Frank and I were traveling in New Zealand in 2005. We had always longed to go there knowing how truly beautiful it is in so many ways. For our accommodations we preferred farm stays and home stays as this
gave us the opportunity to make friends and have more personal
interactions. New Zealand's people are bright, intelligent, creative and kind. The landscape is spectacular. And for me, as a working psychic, I was amazed and delighted to discover that my clairvoyant function was extremely heightened every day that we were there. I was able to avert danger, interact with nature and sense the presence of spirit at a much more profound level.
The story, that I'd like to share with you now, took place after we had crossed from one "island" to the next. At the ferry station we decided to take a taxi van with several other travelers to our separate destinations in the area. I helped the driver load our luggage into his enclosed trailer. Then off we went. After dropping off most of the other tourists, but with still a few to go, we arrived at our destination, the home of a woman whom we had contacted a day or two before. Frank jumped out to go to her door and be sure that we had arrived at the correct address and I got into the trailer with the cabby to sort out our bags and began placing them on the curb. Frank came and got a load of our cases and took them in. Then an older gentleman, presumably the husband of our hostess arrived on the curb full of appreciative and welcoming softly murmured comments. After a quick little exchange of smiles, I resumed my activity in the trailer and emerged a few moments later with the last of our bags. From the curb, I saw the elder gentleman enter the front door of the home and I then followed after him.
Once inside, I met our hostess, who was just showing Frank to our room, right near the entrance. I went on into the room to freshen up while she invited Frank to come upstairs and see the kitchen. After showing Frank around, she then went up to the third level to resume watching a very exciting tennis match on the telly, and invited us to join her, if we'd like, once we had settled in. After looking around, Frank returned downstairs and I asked how he liked meeting her husband. Frank was nonplussed by this and said that her husband and her two teen-aged children had all died the previous year in an automobile accident. Our hostess had shown him a photo of them. She also said that she was looking for a little more income and that we were her first home stay guests. It was right after that that she had excused herself to go upstairs to finish watching the game.
Hearing this I followed Frank up to the kitchen area to see the picture and there, in a photo, with two beautiful youngsters and our hostess beside him, was the older gentleman who had greeted me with smiles of welcome out in front of their home. Apparently the husband, unbeknownst to our hostess, had reached across the veil to greet us at the curb to see if wee would be suitable guests in their home. Evidently we passed his approval and received his welcome. I am touched to know that our loved ones can help us not only in life, but also in death. They watch over us, whether we are aware of it or not, just making sure that all is well.
Spirit is love and those on the other side can sometimes help us by reaching across the veil between life and death. Please join me in this little video as I share three remarkable ghost stories at this time of Halloween. These show how we can be helped by those who have died and who continue to give their love and protection to us while we are alive.
As we make our transition into death, we move into a limitless state of being, full of neutral compassion. Our awareness broadens and we become one with everything. Please enjoy this short video featuring a beautiful story of a lovely near death experience.
As difficult as death is, there can be beauty int the experience as well. Close brushes with death teach us to live our lives more fully. And the time we spend transitioning in and out of spirit is like coming home again. Join Josephine as she brings this topic to life for half and hour.
One of my favorite types of meditation is the Guided Imagery Mediation. This type of meditation engages our image center or our imagination. It stimulates our clairvoyant function by activating our third eye. Meditations of this nature guide us through an idea or an image. When we do a guided imagery meditation, we can either listen to a prerecorded meditation or we can guide ourselves through the process using our own thoughts. My first exposure to guided imagery meditation was with a prerecorded forgiveness meditation. This was on an audio tape that was made by Louise Hay, who wrote You Can Heal Your Life. I listened to this almost every night on my little tape player while I was healing from a painful and long term injury. Louise's gentle, loving voice, playing through my ear-buds, helped me to more easily manage the pain and often lulled me into sleep. In this meditation, she asked her listeners to imagine our parents as little children, to see them as innocent, to forgive them, to pick them up, hold them lovingly, and then place them right into my heart. Another great teacher of this type of meditation is Shakti Gawain. She headed me down the path of guided imagery meditations with her remarkable book, Creative Visualization. I welcome you to discover for yourself this little book and the life changing wisdom within it for yourself. One of her readers said that it was like being led by the hand into a beautiful garden and being given a single flower, one after another, to marvel at and enjoy. I'd like to share with you today a few of my favorite guided imagery meditations. The first one is the pink bubble technique. Take a minute to imagine a pink bubble, with your eyes either opened or closed. Place into the bubble any worrying thoughts you may have. Close the door on that bubble if there was one, and see the bubble lift off and start to float away. Let it float over the distant horizon, perhaps even over a mountain, and know that it has gone to its next, most highest placement in the universe for its transformation. A dear friend of mine who has since moved to the east coast taught me about the healing modality of Regenesis. This is a technique where the practitioner imagines a beautiful blue light entering into each and every cell of the client's body. This is the light of regeneration. I have taken this idea and altered it slightly to create a wonderful guided imagery meditation for myself that I do every day. In it, I imagine the blue light of Divinity entering in through the crown of my head and igniting all of my cells, one by one. In just a few moment's time it fills my whole body with the loving light of my higher self. This guided imagery meditation is part of what I do when I clear myself before I do my clairvoyant healing work for a client. Another beautiful guided imagery mediation is to imagine a golden disk or a golden halo over the top of your head. Let this halo be a filter. Your thoughts can come and go, but all the thoughts of others are naturally sifted away. This lets us really focus on being who we are in accordance with our original blueprint, our natural being, our true self. I'll leave you with these few meditations to enjoy this week. May they serve you as well as they have served me.
Throughout spiritual literature we find the phrase, "We are all one." I am sometimes asked, how do we find oneness when we all feel so separate? I love what Aldous Huxley said about the brain. He said the brain is like a reducer valve, mitigating all of the information from the universe. A reducer valve is something that makes the flow of information or material smaller. For instance, the water out at the street flows through a four inch pipe. We've all seen a fire hydrant blow, it's a tremendous geyser. If that amount of water pressure came out of our kitchen sink it would blow the sink right off the wall. So instead, there are reducer valves to manage the amount of water that flows from the street into our homes. Our brains are the same way. If we had access to all the information of the universe, all the time, it would short our circuits, much like that exploding kitchen faucet. However, we can access our little part of that entire creation by simply stepping into the right side of our brains. Here, in our right brains, we find the present moment, the eternal now, the quiet mind, psychic perception, limitless possibilities, and new insightful solutions. Here we are the observer, where everything is perfect, whole, and complete. This is the place where we are connected to everything. There is an innocent openness, a rich sense of abundance, and euphoria. One of my favorite analogies is that of the drop of water and the ocean. A drop of water is a part of all water, however it is differentiated into a single drop. It is no more separate from the rest of water than my baby finger is separate from me. My finger is not separate, but it is different from the rest of me. Similarly, our consciousness is a unique part of divinity. Not separate, but different, with access to all being a part of the whole. When we look at the world and ourselves this way we see the illusion of separation for what it is: merely an illusion. This idea of separation can be very dangerous. It is the source, after all, of war. It causes the them vs. us mentality. When instead we see everyone and everything as a part of the same whole, but delightfully and interestingly different, then the whole world becomes our family. And we are in love with everyone and everything. In closing, I'll leave you with a little guidance for how to step into the right brain. My favorite is to spend some time out in nature. Nature opens us to an expansiveness and a clarity that allows us to receive inspiration, which always comes right out of the right brain. Another great way is to spend time with a dog. Dogs are loving, in the present moment, accepting of everything. They are perfect expressions of God, which is dog spelled backwards. Perhaps my favorite way of accessing the right brain is to take a moment to listen for just a second to that birdsong that just sounded right outside the window. Try it right now, see if you can catch it ... did you notice, that for right then you didn't have any thoughts? You were open and receptive. Enter there.
Sometimes I get asked how we can tell which thoughts are our own and which are thoughts, images, or feelings from others. And it's true, we do pick up on other people's thoughts and ideas. The trick is how to clear all that static out. Written in stone over the ancient city gates of Delphi were the words, "Know thyself." When we know who we are, we can better recognize our own thoughts. We are naturally influenced by lots of early subconscious programming. This is how we become socialized into our culture. Unless we change them, these thought patterns will be with us throughout our lives. Years ago I saw a film where a newly married couple was in bed wearing their pajamas. As the camera panned further back you could see that beside the husband was his mother and then his father, and beside the wife was her father and then her mother. This was a wonderful graphic image showing how we all have other people's ideas present with us even in the most intimate of times. There's a simple exercise that I like which children instinctively do several times a day. For this exercise you just sit by yourself, and simply be who you are. This has a very unique, signature feeling to it. It is the, "I am." This exercise helps us recognize who we are and identify our own thoughts as distinct from the thoughts of others. At 4 am there are very few thoughts in the air because most people are asleep. This feels different from a busy street corner in the middle of the afternoon. Perhaps you would like to practice seeing what it's like to observe the thoughts of others whizzing around and compare that to the quiet night air. Another exercise that I like to do is to imagine a clear, bright, white light right in the center of my head. I let that bright white light begin to expand until it fills my entire cranium, moving just a little bit beyond. As it does, I let it push out all the thoughts of others, leaving only room for my own thoughts inside my head. One of my mentors, Jana Massy, taught me a lovely sound healing exercise for eliminating other people's thoughts from our aura. We do this by clearing the psychic collar. This is the space below the jaw and above the third rib. Make the sound of a bee. Part your lips and place your teeth lightly together and BZZZZZZZZ. This light vibration dusts off any thoughts that may be lingering. And so does a nice hot shower. That's part of why they feel so good. One more thing you can do is to imagine a golden disk or a golden halo over the top of your head. Let this halo be a filter. Your thoughts can come and go, but all the thoughts of others are naturally sifted away. This lets us really focus on being who we are in accordance with our original blueprint, our natural self.
I'll leave you with these few exercises to enjoy this week. They have
served me well in learning how to distinguish which thoughts in my head are my own and which thoughts belong to others.
I wish you all insight,
wisdom, and magic as you pursue the journey of inner knowing.
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