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.
Here we
all are at the start of another New Year. And, as always, there is much in
the world that we can not control. But, blessedly, what we can take
hold of and be responsible for is our own happiness and peace of mind. We've all heard that 'Peace begins within.' And this is true,
because when we increase the peace and love within our own hearts and
minds, we increase the total amount of peace and love that is present the world.
New Year's Day is often a time for all of us to begin again, to get back to basics, to check in with ourselves about what really matters. It is a time to tend to self-care. Too often the unsettled state of events in the world around us can unsettle us within. So here in this first week of the New Year, let us remember how to calm ourselves.
We can start by accepting whatever is going on. The resistance alone can cause our bodies to tighten with stress and our minds to spin off on negative scenarios involving a lack of love, not only toward others, but also for ourselves.
It has also been said, 'As within, so without.' Freeing our self, in our minds, frees the world around us. Remembering to breathe, consciously, or getting some exercise can be of great benefit because these activities open us up to the more right brained focus of the present moment and begin to let us sense our commonalities. They help us to let go our left brain's near constant analytical tendencies and bring us closer to accepting the world and to self-acceptance. Our left brain's focus is a beautiful part of ourselves, but it doesn't have to dominate the scene all of the time. We can respect it, be grateful for it and we can also give it a rest. We can let that ever-evaluating, constantly-calculating, past and future-focused inner-critic of both our selves and the world around us take a little time off. When we do, we gain more self-respect for the totality of who we are. Because, we are not just our little separate selves, alone. We are also expansive, energetic beings completely interconnected within the family of consciousness that comprises the entire universe, perfect, whole, beautiful and present, right here and right now. These are some of the ideas and ways, which we can embrace, that help us to love ourselves more fully. As we cultivate self-care with self-acceptance and self-respect we open the doors to greater levels of self-love. With all of this in mind, I'll leave you with three little walking and breathing meditations, which I enjoy regularly. They each help me to calm myself and cultivate more love for myself and for all. They are from three of my favorite spiritual teachers. The first is from Thich Nhat Hanh, the second from Ram Dass, and the third from Peace Pilgrim.
I enjoy reciting these to my self, either silently or aloud while I'm moving through my day. The imagery and the action brings me to the present moment and to a sense of oneness with everything. They are great ways for me to care for myself and they open my heart to respect and allowance for myself and the world, while they shift my being into a state of peace and love. I hope that they serve you as well as they have served me. Blessings to you all, with a Very Happy New Year!
1. ) "Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile."
2.) "May all beings be happy. May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be free."
3.) "Peace, be still, and know that you are God. Peace, be still, and know. Peace, be still. Peace, be. Peace."
P.S. For this New Year, one of the gifts of self-care, self-acceptance, self-respect and self-love that I am giving to myself is a slightly lighter schedule. So, instead of offering my blog weekly as I have done for the last two and a half years, I will now be posting monthly. May you also find a way to give to yourself the blessings of inner peace and calmness in this fresh New Year as well. My love to you all. Enjoy.
Please enjoy this short video on how I healed a cavity in my tooth, naturally, with no drilling, just using a simple and easily available herbal formula.
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.
Throughout much of the modern world, we have historically had three great taboos: sex, death and finances. In recent decades these have been coming up for healing. It is always best if we deny nothing. We can push things away for a time, but in the end they will be made known. Such is the case with taboos.
When I was a girl, back in the
1960’s we collectively faced our sexual taboo. It was so amazing for me to watch as 'The Summer of Love' raised itself up, with it's pinnacle at The Haight, in San Francisco, in my home state of California. As this change swept over our nation, women’s liberation and gay rights were soon free to be born. The
environmental movement and AIM followed suit as the feminine principle
began to rise.
Then in
the 1990’s the taboo of death began to be addressed. My father was
wholly unable to face the reality of his inevitable death and he, like
many others of his generation, could neither speak nor think of his death. Death was
the enemy to be avoided at all costs and the standard western medical
model of healing was the savior.
Then, the need to release that
outmoded ideology began to surface. Culturally, we could no longer deny the reality of death. Exercises addressing the prospect of death and dying began to enter our collective minds. These have grown in acceptance and in popularity as the years have progressed. Now, with the Hospice Movement, death has re-entered the home and our loved ones and their time to go is embraced with dignity and allowance.
But, our third great taboo, financial transparency has still not yet been culturally addressed. We have great disparity of wealth, not only among our friends and family members, in our neighborhoods and nation-wide, but also, and grossly so, around the world. This has resulted in untold amounts of personal suffering along with a separation from the love and oneness that we know we all share. And that is the key here, we only need to learn how to share.
Even among my closest friends, I have little idea about their financial situations. People can get fired from their jobs in this country if they even so much as discuss their income figures with their co-workers. This is still the great and firmly entrenched taboo of the western world. So, the other morning, I found myself up early, before the day was fully awake, sitting in the softest light of the soon-to-be rising sun. I had been asking myself over the last few weeks what this new situation at the pinnacle of our nation’s government was about. Knowing that Divine Creator has a hand in everything, I was hoping for an insight, and then one came. Without a thing on my mind, in that still sleepy morning light, it dropped in to my awareness, and I heard the words, “Financial Transparency.” Instantaneously I knew that this was the answer to my question. The time has come upon us now for this last, final great taboo to rise up for its healing. May we all be blessed in this Holiday Season with equality and love.
In this short five minute video, I give my tips for procuring, storing and creating a healthful and nutritious green juice which will help you to detoxify your body while it boosts your energy and vitality.
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.
We Americans use a lot of the world's resources. I've heard it said that it would take five planet earths if we were to provide all of humanity with the same amount of resources that Americans use. That is a pretty huge footprint. And it reminds me of the gluttonous way that a caterpillar ravages a garden just before it embarks on its transformation. As a little tiny baby caterpillar hatches out from its egg case, it eats progressively more and more plant material. As the days and weeks pass by, it begins to consume many times its own weight per day. This leaves the plants it has been feasting on devastated. And the caterpillar begins to succumb to the need for a deep sleep. It prepares it's bower, camouflaged and hanging down from the boughs of the plants that have sustained its massive appetite. Protected in this dormant state, its outer shell hardens and the caterpillar becomes a chrysalis. Now, this is where things get really interesting. The immune system of the caterpillar begins to be called into play. Rogue cells that have been lying dormant in the body of the caterpillar start arising. These are stem cells and they have an entirely different genetic makeup. The immune system of the caterpillar repeatedly kills these cells, but more and more of them keep arising. Soon the immune system of the caterpillar is overcome. Meanwhile, the stem cells, known as "Imaginal Cells," continue forming. As these imaginal cells proliferate, they begin to create a brand new animal, the butterfly. Slowly but surely the genes of the butterfly, which were there all along, replace those of the caterpillar and the metamorphosis is complete. Those of us who have embarked on a journey of self discovery soon realize that change is the only constant in the Universe. Everything comes and goes. We see similar patterns of transformation throughout nature and the world. Infants become adults, frogs emerge from plump little tadpoles, mountains become hills, lakes become meadows and volcanoes arise from the molten depths of the earth. We learn to accept these changes and to move with them, rather than fight against them. Sometimes we may have to tuck in for a long dark night of the soul, something rather like a chrysalis stage, in between our various metamorphoses. I find it helps to remember that Divine Creator has a hand in everything. We wouldn't want to kill a caterpillar, because then we wouldn't have the butterfly. So, here in the Northern Hemisphere, during the longest nights of the year, it might be worthwhile to ask ourselves, “What have we been overindulging in? What are we resisting? What might we imagine?” Who have we been and who are we changing into? How is this occurring on both a personal level, and a global level? What kind of normal development would we collectively like to see after our embryonic stage is complete? These might be some nice questions for all of us to meditate on. Who knows what beauty might soon begin to arise from the depths of our beings.
Please enjoy this delightful and short little video on how you can help yourself keep healthy. This simple technique lets you avoid catching colds. It also prevents bacterial and viral infections. Using a little warm water and some good quality sea salt, you will learn a quick way to clean your sinuses.
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.
I was thirteen when I bought my four year old mustang mare. I had saved up my babysitting money for two years and then by the grace of an incorrect address, I found the first love of my life. She was a golden buckskin with a black mane and tail. Sure footed and strong, she brought balance, inspiration and riches beyond belief to my young life. My mother was ill and took to her bed for most of the years of my teens. The pressures of school and working in our family business left me in need of just what my horse could provide: freedom, joy, a sense of personal power and a deep heart connection. Whenever I could, I would head for the hills with my beautiful mare. I'd pocket a few morsels to share with her and there we would be, together, in nature, all day long, dwelling in the eternal moment of now. Since she was an adult and I was just a kid when we got started together, I figured she knew better than me in most situations. Plus, my meager purchase price left the saddle, bridle and the show ring out of the question, so we never developed the, "Teach the horse who's boss," type of relationship. Instead, we made most of our decisions together, by consensus, and that didn't really change much as I grew older. With her superior sensory abilities and well developed intuition, she had many times over proven herself to be the wiser one. And that held true for the almost four decades that we shared together. A relationship of this sort is truly extraordinary, and I feel Divinely blessed to have found my way into it. But then again, almost all deep relationships with horses are just as remarkable as mine. Be it the humble milkman with his wise equine helper who knows just where to stop and how long to wait, or the sturdy little neighborhood pony who teaches all the children not only how to ride, but solid principles of respect and good manners as well. Horses can be beautiful, inside and out, and given half a chance, they shine brighter than gold.
Research in recent years has shown the contribution to our relaxation and healing that animals can provide. They calm our hearts and lower our blood pressure. Animal-assisted therapies, especially those involving horses, have long been known to bring improvement to the psychological lives of humans. In taming wild mustangs, rough inner-city teens find that they have tamed themselves.
A month or two ago, I came across a piece of research that shed a little more light on the ability that horses have to enrich our lives. Horses have very large hearts, not only emotionally, but physically as well. And their hearts are oscillators. Anything that holds a steady beat or impulse sends it's rhythm out into it's immediate environment. This rhythm is picked up by smaller oscillators in the area. And smaller oscillators generally tend to align themselves with the larger oscillators. In this study, owners sat with their horses while both wore electrodes. The results showed that calm and happy horses definitely do positively impact our hearts and thus our lives. By calming our hearts and minds, they bring us a sense of deep inner peace. And peace within is the first step to peace all around.
So, if you get a chance, give yourself the gift of spending a little time around horses. Let their big hearts put your little heart at ease. Allow yourself to find the love that is ever so sweetly and patiently waiting there for you.
