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Renee Lawrence, Fine Artist

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Renee Lawrence, Fine Artist

Life in black and white Fine Art By: Renee Lawrence

Renee Lawrence is an Oklahoma City artist who uses crow-quill pens dipped in ink or rapidograph pens on bristol board to create images in black and white. People, animals, architectural elements and landscapes are some of her favorite subjects.

Whenever possible, Renee likes to take her own photographs, which form the basis for many of her drawings. Because the ink once on the paper cannot be erased, she starts with a light pencil sketch of her subject to ensure the accuracy of the drawing. Sometimes the sketch is merely an outline; occasionally portionscan be highly detailed, depending upon what is being rendered.

Sometimes the pencil sketch and inking are evolving at the same time. Once an area has been inked, Renee will erase the pencil underdrawing. Delicate hatching, cross-hatching and occasionally stippling are techniques Renee uses to give the illusion of texture, tone and form.

E-mail her at renee@inktankart.com.

www.inktankart.com

Join Renee on her Facebook page where she offers free art giveaways as well as showing some of the sketches I’ve done from the local art guild’s figure drawing sessions

http://www.facebook.com/people/Renee-Lawrence/100001550207627

Tobin Blake Arthur of Everyday Meditation

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Tobin Blake

Tobin Blake Arthur of Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy

Guest on The Living Through Spirit Show: May 4ht at 3 pm est.

About Tobin Blake:

Tobin Blake is the author of Everyday M editation:100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief and Everyday Joy, and The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days, a One Spirit Book Club selection for readers. Tobin Blake short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, including Surfer Magazine. He has also contributed to The Holy Encounter, a magazine dedicated to the teachings of A Course in Miracles, a profound spiritual teaching that has impacted the lives of many thousands around the world. Tobin has been a student of the Course for eighteen years, and has been practicing meditation for nearly twenty.

Tobin Blake received his formal training in meditation through Self Realization Fellowship, which is an international organization with more than 500 temples and centers worldwide, founded by the great Paramhansa Yogananda. He was initiated in Kriya Yoga – SRF’s highest meditation technique – in 1995.

Since the publication of The Power of Stillness, Tobin Blake has appeared on television and radio talk shows nationwide, and he has developed a series of inspiring, life-changing workshops on contemporary meditation, spiritual relationships, A Course in Miracles, and conscious living. He is a member of Willamette Writers, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and is available to speak at private and public gatherings.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Tobin Blake now resides in Bend, Oregon. Tobin Blake has two daughters, and when he isn’t writing or reading he enjoys staying active, hiking, camping, film, and fine wine. Tobin Blake appreciates both the cities of the world as well as the unspoiled countryside.

Everyday Mediation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy

Millions have heard that meditation is the very best natural medicine for lowering stress and increasing wellbeing. It has no negative side effects, is free, and requires only a few minutes a day to receive extraordinary benefits. Yet, in our society that emphasizes busyness, competition, and external gratification, most people still find meditation to be foreign to their experience and have no idea how to begin or how to stick with it if they do.

Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy (New World Library, February 10, 2012) offers the guidance, encouragement, and structure both beginning and advanced meditation students need to either start a new practice or take an existing one to the next level. It does far more than just introduce the practice of meditation on a theoretical level. It is designed to get readers meditating from the get-go so they can experience its joys firsthand.

“During meditation, you switch your focus from the external world — with its complexity, constant stress, and sense of separation — toward the internal world, which is the opposite in every respect,” writes author and meditation teacher Tobin Blake. “Through this shift you may discover that just beyond our ordinary human awareness, life is a vast, interconnected network that exists in a state of peaceful union.”

Most meditation teachings primarily provide students with techniques, such as mantra, zazen, and visualization, while offering very little real help in overcoming the obstacles to deep meditative states. Everyday Meditation is different in that while it does teach the ABC’s and techniques of mediation, its primary focus is on the following three key points, which are essential to developing a successful, long-term practice:

 Daily practice — Tobin explains that we do actually have to meditate, and regularly, in order to benefit from it, which is why he included 100 days worth of original meditations designed to get readers meditating regularly.

 Uproot the blocks — In order to achieve deep meditation, we must uncover the things within us that interfere with our progress. The exercises Blake offers are set up to help meditators get to the root cause beyond their resistance to meditation, so they can go beyond it.

 Reprogram the waterfall — A constant waterfall of thoughts runs in the background of our minds forming an endless stream of words and images, which never cease. The meditations Tobin offers are designed to transform this often negative waterfall of thoughts into one based on gentleness, loving kindness, and forgiveness

Unplugging from our hectic lives to sit quietly for a pre-determined amount of time sounds like it should be simple enough. So why do so many face such resistance when they decide to give meditation a try? Why is it so challenging to integrate a regular meditation practice into our daily lives and what can we do about it?

The answers to these questions are at the heart of Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy (New World Library, February 10, 2012) where author and meditation teacher Tobin Blake offers motivating insights, easy-to-follow guidelines, and 100 original, daily meditations for beginning meditators, as well as those who already meditate but are seeking fresh ways to approach their practice.

Everyday Meditation begins with the basics, such as how to sit, how long to spend, and the various meditative techniques, including zazen, mantra, visualization, and heart, third-eye, and chakra meditations. It then goes beyond the mere forms of the practice to teach readers that the real obstacle to deep meditation is the waterfall of negative thoughts and emotions that runs continuously in the background of the mind, which keeps us from turning inward and going deeply into the stillness.

The 100 daily meditations that make up the backbone of the book are designed to help meditators develop a rich and vibrant practice, or to increase the depth of a current one. The meditations include specific instructions and are intended to be used one per day, once in the morning, and once at night, for as long as feels comfortable. The meditations during the first thirty days walk readers through a series of exercises for practicing regularly and discovering which techniques are most effective for them. The remaining meditations in the 100-day journey become increasingly concerned with the development of inner peace and reprogramming the waterfall of thought.

“Beyond committing to regular practicing, the most important thing is to regard meditative practice as an unfolding journey, which consists of coming to greater levels of peace with yourself,” writes Blake. “This is the most sacred journey any of us could embark upon. It’s a journey of healing, of coming to peace with the world, our relationships, and ultimately ourselves.”

www.TobinBlake.com

Everyday Meditation : By Tobin Blake

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Everyday Meditation : By Tobin Blake

Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy

Meditation: a daunting word that seems maybe overwhelming to some and out of reach for others. Where do I find the time? I have heard from many of my clients. How do I do it? I have heard from others. I myself having many questions regarding meditation and my struggles with wondering if I’m doing it right, is there a right or wrong way in meditating? Recently I came across Tobin Blake’s book: Everyday Meditation and I have loved it. Tobin breaks meditation down into every steps for you, to not only understand what meditation is and is not, but that anyone can incorporate it into their own life simply and effectively.

I wanted to share with you an article from Tobin Blake and his book that has helped me in my meditation practice and I hope will help you as well in yours.

Love and light for your meditation,

Tesa Michaels

One day when I was first learning meditation, I stood on the rear porch of my father’s home overlooking Oregon’s looping McKenzie River and watched as the sun faded over the mountains to the west. While I was growing up in Los Angeles, the city felt like a vast, hardened prison from which no escape seemed possible. Back then, my only moments of release came while gazing across the Pacific Ocean, where humans and their works ended, and nature and hers began — toward the freedom of the open horizon.

Likewise, here was the grand McKenzie River, carving its course with no mind for people, time, or obstacles of any type. Set a mountain in front of this river, and it would chew the mountain into a valley. I appreciate that spirit! At the time, I did not realize what enchanted my eye so, but now I know what it was. It was not the beauty of the land, the sweep of the river, or the sunset. It was the freedom of the moment that hooked me. For just one instant, I lost myself to life’s flow and experienced a peace unlike any I had felt before.

You have probably had moments like this too, when you have “lost yourself” and perhaps even felt touched by some mysterious, magnetic force that seemed to connect with your own life from somewhere deep within. For most people, these moments are like glimpses through a window that is ordinarily hidden but that serves to remind us that there is far more to life than what we can see, touch, or hear. They are mystical moments that, in a flash, infuse life with meaning and a renewed sense of purpose.

The practice of meditation is the practice of actively making yourself open to this experience and the far more compelling states that can follow, for this common, passing experience is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to inner space. Practiced actively, meditation can lead to states of sublime peace and profound joy that are so powerful, they defy description. Hindus, who have been meditating for thousands of years, refer to these ecstatic meditative states as samadhi. During meditation, you switch your focus from the external world — with its complexity, constant stress, and sense of separation — toward the internal world, which is the opposite in every respect. Through this shift you may discover that just beyond our ordinary human awareness, life is a vast, interconnected network that exists in a state of peaceful union. Essentially, through meditation you learn that you are not a physical being living a temporary life of separation from the rest of the world, but a spirit living an eternal life of union with every living creature in the universe. You are a part of them, and they are a part of you.

This realization is impossible to describe because there is no parallel experience in the world to compare it to, making it doubly difficult to understand intellectually. Deep meditation has been likened to orgasm, but I think this analogy is misleading. Rather, I would say it is akin to the instant immediately preceding the release of orgasm, except that it never ceases to build in intensity and depth, and the experience has a certain purity and innocence that sex does not. After twenty years of devoted meditation, I am still wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes. I am gradually coming to believe that to be in tune with Spirit is to be in tune with an ever-expanding creative impulse to forever let go, to forever give oneself away. As for the sensations this expansive impulse creates, if the mainstream populace suspected the kind of intense joy that meditation can trigger, people would be knocking down the doors of their local meditation center to learn its secrets. It’s no wonder that the practice has proved so effective at promoting health and healing. Happiness and peace boost the immune system naturally.

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Tobin Blake is the author of Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy. He has taught meditation and spiritual awakening at Unity centers, private schools, and colleges. Visit him online at www.TobinBlake.com.

ALL ABOUT MEDITATION :

Catch Tobin Blake Live on CBS New Sky Radio: The Living Through Spirit Show May 4th 2012 at 3 pm est

http://livingthroughspirit.net/radio

The Power of Healing Stones and Semi -Precious Stones

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The Power of Healing Stones and Semi -Precious Stones

Healing Stones Jewelry with Kathy Kaberline

Here at The Living Through Spirit Show I want to provide you with tips and techniques that can help you start to awakening to spirit and so you can begin to change your life, and start living your souls purpose. To begin to live a life Living Through Spirit.

Today on the show I want to talk to you about the power of healing or semi- precious stones. What they can do for you, how to use them and what the benefits you can get from them with your mind, body and spirit.

Stones such as amethyst, citrine, rose quartz. So many of us know what amethyst is, or what it looks like, but do you know the properties behind it or how it can enhance your life?

Semi-precious stones can help you in :

Healing

Chakra balancing

Meditation

Protection

Changing bad vibrations

And many other uses

Learn how many different stones will help you with anything you are dealing with, struggling with or to enhance your life or support you in many different ways.

So to help me clarify what the different properties of the stones are and how they can help you in your life, I wanted to invite Kathy Kaberline on the show today.

Kathy Kaberline

Kathy is a jewelry artist who owns Healing Stones Jewelry and works specifically with semi-precious stones. Healing Stones jewelry is a line that brings you love, light and healing through semi-precious stones.

Healing Stones Jewelry

You can find more of Kathys information at : stonestoheal.com

About Semi-Precious Stones:

Difference between semi-precious and precious stones:

The bottom line for jewelers and consumers alike is that there is no difference between precious and semi-precious gems when it comes to the value of the stones themselves. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission has considered banning the classification of gems under the terms precious and semi-precious on several occasions because of their ability to be misinterpreted by those outside of the professional community.

Diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds have traditionally been considered precious gems. Amethysts were once classified among their number; however, the discovery of generous deposits of the stone in Brazil and neighboring Uruguay made the amethyst more widely available to the public and changed its classification. Making the basic difference scarcity and or availability of the specific stone or even the grade of the stones themselves.

There are no true, scientific differences between precious and semi-precious stones. A low quality diamond is less valuable than high quality aquamarine, and an exquisitely designed lapis lazuli may sell for more than a rather uninspired ruby.

Since the first piece of jewelry was designed hundreds of years ago there have been over one hundred and thirty types of gems and minerals classified as semi-precious at one point or another

Authentic vs. died or man made synthetic:

Many gems are high quality synthetic and/or treated rather than completely natural and do not hold the same properties as the “real” or natural stones. In order for the vibration of the stones to have the mystical or healing properties they must be genuine stones.

Which is one thing to watch out for in buying your healing stones, many are died quartz or cheaper versions of stones, they may look pretty but they may not be what you are wanting or may not have the same us.

Properties of the healing stones; Using Amethyst as an example

Crystals can have extraordinary effects in the realms of the physic, metaphysical, spiritual, physical and emotional planes.

The energy field of different gemstones is influenced by geometrical form, color and subtle vibration. Each stone is made up of minute crystals which are in constant motion thus emitting an energy signature or frequency. The gemstone’s color also plays a dynamic role in the stone’s healing energy. The play of light and color can stimulate or calm; purify or heal.

Scientific Properties:

How hard they are, what family they fall in, where they come from, what they look like, or colors of the different varieties

Mystical Properties:

These are properties that have meaning on what specifically that stone are good for. For example everything has a frequency or energy behind them. Same with the stones, they have or hold different mystical properties.

For Example: Amethyst is a Stone of “Spirituality and Contentment” Amethysts have a soothing and relaxing effect on people.

Healing Properties:

How the stones can ad in healing the mind, body and soul

Magical Properties:
Energy: Receptive
Element: Water
Deities: Bacchus, Dionysus, Diana

For Example: Amethyst increases the activity in the right brain, cuts through illusion, and helps to develop the psychic abilities. It strengthens and develops intuition, inspiration, healing, and channeling as well as raising thoughts and aspirations to a higher spiritual level.

Zodiac:
Associations: Jupiter, Neptune

Traditional Birthstone for the Month of February.

Stone of Pisces, Virgo, Aquarius and Capricorn.

Amethyst brings clarity to the conscious and unconscious mind.

Chakra Classification:
Placed on the 7th, or Crown Chakra during meditation, amethyst increases concentration and confidence in life.

Amethyst is considered the other 7th, or Crown Chakra healing stone. It has many of the same qualities as clear quartz. Many people keep an Amethyst with their other stones to increase their effectiveness.

How do you use healing stones and how healing stones work:

A magical and symbiotic connection has always existed between human beings and gems. Evidence of gemstones used for healing has been found as far back as the fourth millennium before Christ. Ancient civilizations such as the Chinese, Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks, Romans, or Shamans and Medicine Men have used gemstones for healing in multiple ways

- made into powders or elixirs, worn, carried or placed on the body and in ceremonies or rituals

This ancient knowledge has been passed down to our day and with the emerging popularity of holistic health and healing the use of gemstones is again making its way into modern life.

They can be large or small and still have the same impact. They must be on you in order for you to feel their properties.

They can be polished or rough they properties remain the same.

HOW TO USE THEM:

They can be held
Laid on you
Carried with you in a pocket or purse
Warn as jewelry, As warn as jewelry the precious metals and colors used in the design will also enhance the stones power.
Placed in your bath
Placed under your pillow

Cleansing your Stones:

Most crystals and gemstones will pick up negative or unwanted energies over time. They are like sponges absorbing and reacting to the environment and working to heal even without our direction. The ones I know of that don’t absorb energies and thus never need clearing are citrine, kyanite, and Super Seven.

Crystals and stones that are used for crystal healing should be cleared and cleansed prior to any healing work. You will also find that clearing stones makes them more cheerful and positive to have around.

There are a number of methods that are commonly used to clear and cleanse crystals and stones to restore their bright, happy, vibrant energy. Some are more complex or take longer, others are extremely simple and quick. Use whichever suits you and your crystals best.

Salt Water: While this is a popular way to cleanse crystals, my suggestion would be to use salt water very carefully, if at all. You need to know about your crystals to be sure that they are not porous or soft, so they won’t be damaged by water. Salt water can get into the structure of some crystals and stones and cause them to break. Some stones that don’t do well in salt water are calcite, carnelian, halite, hematite, labradorite/spectrolite, lepidolite, lodestone (magnetite), mica, moldavite, opal, turquoise, ulexite, and there are surely more. When you do use salt water, do so cautiously and don’t leave your crystals in it longer than absolutely necessary.

Sea Salt: Crystals can be placed in coarse sea salt for up to 24 hours to clear them. They can also be stored in sea salt to keep them from picking up energies from their surroundings. In humid areas, using sea salt can sometimes cause the same problems as salt water. It can also get stuck in the crevices of clusters and eventually combine with water in the air and split the cluster.

Sunlight or Moonlight: The rays of the sun and moon are very clearing and cleansing. Placing your stones outside where they can soak up the sunlight or moonlight for a day/night to a week is very beneficial. Do be careful though, as some the colors of some stones may fade in the sun. A few of the stones that will fade in the sun are amethyst, celestite, opal, and turquoise. If you have any doubts at all, be sure to use only moonlight cleansing.

Earth Burial: As creepy as it may sound to those of us who grew up watching horror movies, burying crystals and stones is very cleansing and healing to them. You can bury them in the Earth for 3 days to a week, either in your yard or in a flower pot. Be sure that if you bury your crystals in the yard that you mark the spot. You don’t want to have to dig up half the yard to find your stones again.

Smudging: Smudging is one of my favorite methods of clearing crystals and stones of unwanted energy. It’s also a much quicker way to clear crystals than any of the above methods. To smudge them, pass your stone several times through the smoke of burning cedar, sage, sweetgrass, or incense. Commercial incenses with perfume smells may not clear as fully or as quickly as sage or a more basic incense like Nag Champa.

Tap Water: COOL Tap Water: For a quick cleansing, you can also run your stones under cool tap water. Hot or warm water is a no no because it can fracture some crystals and stones. Again, as with salt water, be sure that your crystals are not porous or soft, before putting them under the tap. Stone clusters and geodes are two types of stones that do not do well with water, as they may break apart and crumble. The stones mentioned as not doing well with salt water may also not do well with tap water.

Reiki-Seichim: Reiki-Seichim is another of my favorite methods of cleansing crystals. In a sense, it’s channeling the universal life force energy to heal the crystal of negativity and unwanted energies. As a Reiki or Seichim practitioner, just treat the stone as you would any other being that needs healing, and set your intent to heal the stone of any negativity or unwanted energies.

Stone Clearing: Some stones will clear the negative or unwanted energies from other stones. I am familiar with doing this with quartz crystal clusters, amethyst clusters, and selenite. Place the stone to be cleared on a the “clearing” stone, and leave for 24-48 hours.

Flower Water: You can also clear crystals and stones in flower water. Soak the stone or crystal in water with the petals of rose, honey suckle, orange blossoms, jasmine or others for 24 hours. Again, the same cautions apply regarding stones that don’t do well in water.

Ask: This is too simple for most peoples’ need for ritual, but it does work wonderfully. Simply ask God/Goddess/Universe or whatever your higher power is called to clear and cleans your crystal for you. You can also simply ask the crystal to clear itself.

Which ever method you choose, the exact length of time needed for clearing varies according to personal taste and the state of the crystal. Trust your intuition and higher self to lead you to the best methods and lengths of time for you and the stone, if you trust with an open heart you will not be misled.

http://www.shimmerlings.com/jewelry_healing/healing_cleansing.htm

Chakras

Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel, or vortex, and it refers to each of the seven energy centers of which our consciousness, our energy system, is composed.

These chakras, or energy centers, function as pumps or valves, regulating the flow of energy through our energy system. The functioning of the chakras reflects decisions we make concerning how we choose to respond to conditions in our life. We open and close these valves when we decide what to think, and what to feel, and through which perceptual filter we choose to experience the world around us.

CROWN CHAKRA – SEVENTH CHAKRA
Located above the head. This chakra links the individual with the universal.

Stones: Quartz Color: Clear

THIRD EYE CHAKRA – SIXTH CHAKRA
Located between the eyes. This is intelligence and psychic power.

Stones: Amethyst Color: Purple

THROAT CHAKRA – FIFTH CHAKRA
Located at the throat. This is the creativity, self-expression and the search for truth.

Stones: Turquoise Color: Blue

HEART CHAKRA – FOURTH CHAKRA
Located at the heart. This is the higher consciousness and love.

Stones: Jade or Rose Quartz Color: Green or Pink

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA – THIRD CHAKRA
Located at the solar plexus. This is the sense of identity.

Stones: Citrine Color: Yellow

SACRAL HARA CHAKRA – SECOND CHAKRA
Located at the genitals. This is the chakra that monitors sexuality and reproduction.

Stones: Carnelian Color: Orange

ROOT CHAKRA – FIRST CHAKRA
Located at the base of the spine and groin area. This is the animal or base nature.

Stones: Garnet or Coral Color: Red

Meanings of different stones: examples

AGATE: Many colors. Raises consciousness, acceptance, grounding, emotional and physical balance.

BLUE LACE: 5th Chakra. Offers tranquility, attunement to the senses.

BOTSWANA: Gray/Pink. Aids in artistic expression, sensuality and emotions.

CARNELIAN: Red/Orange – 2nd Chakra. Grounder of energies, manifester on the physical plane. Creates an emotional balance.

MOSS: Improves ego and self-esteem. Balances energy. Green signifies emotional – Red rules the physical realm

AMAZONITE: Blue/Green – 5th Chakra. Stabilizer to the nervous system. Aligns ethereal and mental bodies. Balancer of the emotions toward others.

AMBER: Golden. Absorbs negative energy, radiates heat and light. Powerful and practical healing stone. Calming, protection.

AQUAMARINE: Light blue – 5th Chakra. Gives a sense of serenity and peace. Mental clarity, spiritual inspiration, calming, enhances self expression.AZURITE: Blue – 6th Chakra. Will stimulate thoughts and visual images during meditation. Helps develop psychic talents.

BLOODSTONE: Green with Red – 1st Chakra. Cleanser of the physical body, aligns the centers, energy flow. Can give strength and self-confidence, healing.

CALCITE: Green. Orange. Energy amplifier, aids in astral projection. Healing, new growth, emotional balance.

CELESTITE: Light Blue – 5th Chakra. Calming, peaceful. Helps reduce stress. Aids in speaking inner truth.

CHRYSOCOLLA: Green, Green/Blue – 4th Chakra. Brings peace of mind and heart, emotional balancer. Helps balance thought and body.

CHRYSOPRASE: Green – 4th Chakra. Calming effect on the emotions. Helps to strengthen the workings of insight and the higher consciousness.

FLUORITE: Green, White, Gold, Purple. Manifests the highest aspect of the mind. Helps one see the reality behind illusion. Good conductor of energies. Green/growth, Gold/wisdom, Purple/spiritual, White/oneness.

GARNET: Red, Orange – 1st Chakra. Imparts power, energy, courage, depth of well being and love. Balances peace and solitude. A grounding stone.

GOLD: Brings positive/solar energy into the aura. Energize physical body. Magnifies your vibrations. A male aspect.

HEMATITE: Dark Silver. Focus energy patterns and emotions for better balance between the mind, body and spirit. Astral projection.

JADE: Many colors. Dispels negativity, stimulates wisdom and universal attunement. Cleansing, healing and comforting vibration.

JASPER: Aid to the emotional nature. Opens the mind to new modes of thinking. Healing vibrations.

KYNITE: Blue – 6th Chakra. Enhances creative expression. Opens way to astral travel and action on a higher plane

LAPIS LAZULI: Blue – 6th Chakra. Stimulates creativity. Cleanses and aligns ethereal, mental and spiritual bodies. Wisdom and universal insight.

MALACHITE: Green with Black – 4th Chakra. Represents hope and inner peace. Healing and protection. Assists one to see clearly and allows grounding of higher energies.

MOONSTONE: White, Tan, Gray. Helps to soothe and balance emotions. Brings happiness. Psychic ability, inner growth and strength.

OBSIDIAN: Black with white or brown – 1st Chakra. Opening up to unmanifested potential. Internal vision. Stabilizes erratic energies, wards off negativity.

OPAL: Multicolor. This is a powerful healing stone. Focuses on the needs of a person. Equalizing and balancing, it helps to open the third eye.

MOTHER OF PEARL: White Helps one focus one’s attention. Stabilizer and purifier of energies. Negative ion is the balancer for the body.

PERIDOT: Green – 4th Chakra. Balances energy centers, strengthens and regenerates the body. Assists in the healing of the spirit. Counteracts negative emotions.

PYRITE: Golden. Aids circulation and digestion. Allows one to emanate a more positive attitude.

NINE TYPES OF QUARTZ

1) AMETHYST: Purple – 7th Chakra. Spiritual love, healing and wisdom. Soothing and calming influence. Opening of the psychic centers.

2) CITRINE: Yellow, Orange, 3rd Chakra. Warming, comforting and energizing. Aids the intuition. Influences education and business matters. Cheerful.

3) CRYSTAL: Clear. Symbol for purity, patience and perseverance. All-around healing stone. Centers and focuses for meditation.

4) HERKIMER DIAMOND: Clear. Powerful transmitters of healing energies. Balances the body and the ethereal with a great force.

5) GREEN QUARTZ: 4th Chakra. Aid in manifesting prosperity. Good luck in love. Promotes independence and originality. Mental clarity and calming.

6) ROSE QUARTZ: 4th Chakra. Self-fulfillment/inner peace. Enlivens one’s imagination. Represents a younger/warmer love. Open to universal love.

7) RUTILATED QUARTZ: Breaks old patterns, erases depression. Gives facets of power and transmissions more intense than clear quartz.

SMOKY QUARTZ: Gray to Black – 1st Chakra. Will dissipate/purify negative energies. Grounding. Healing is limitless. Will help pick up thought forms.

9) STRAWBERRY QUARTZ: Pinkish White – 4th Chakra. Opens up feelings of love from the highest level. Compassion, stimulating energy, feelings of worth.

RHODOCHROSITE: Pink and White – 4th Chakra. Capacity to feel selfless love and compassion. Helps to raise your consciousness. Conducts healing energy.

RHODONITE: Black with Pink or Yellow. Balances the attitudes and promotes self-worth. Helps one achieve greatest potential. Wards off negativity.

SILVER: Gives clarity of mind. Balances emotions and reduces stress. Female aspect. It’s an energy conductor.

SODALITE: Blue and White – 6th Chakra. Promotes clear thinking, insight, courage and stimulates endurance. Healing on physical plane. Calming.

SUGILITE: Purple – 7th Chakra. Brings realization of connection between well-being of the body and the mind. Attracts healing power.

TIGER-EYE: Golden and Blue. Focusing of the mind and the power of the mind. Protection and good luck. Helps increase psychic ability. Stabilizer

TOPAZ: Many Colors – 3rd Chakra. Brings out individuality and creative power. Will calm the emotions. Vibration quality of light, of joy, of love.TOURMALINE: Great ability to balance polarity. Attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. There are four types of tourmaline:

BLACK: 1st Chakra. Deflects negative energy. Keeps one’s light shining.

GREEN: 4th Chakra. Attracts success, prosperity and abundance. Healer on all levels. Inspires creativity.

PINK: 4th Chakra. Gives a joy and enthusiasm for life. Will bring love and new friends.

WATERMELON: 4th Chakra. Will aid tranquility and peace of mind. Lightens one’s emotional load. See the humor in experiences.

TURQUOISE: 5th Chakra. Used to calm emotions and overstimulated minds. Induces wisdom and understanding. A stone of friendship and protection.

http://www.jeremysilman.com/astrology/use_precious_smprec_stones.html

http://www.shimmerlings.com/jewelry_healing/healing_choosing.htm

Common Issues and what stones can help:

Love/Relationship: Rose Quartz

Anger (releasing)	Peridot, Rose Quartz, Snowflake Obsidian, Sugilite
Balance (General)	Agate, Light & Dark Amber & Jet, Snowflake Obsidian, Tourmalinated Quartz
Balance (Emotional)	Ametrine, Bloodstone, Blue Topaz, Carnelian,
Calming (physical)	Agate, Celestite, Yellow Topaz, Blue Topaz
Calming (mind)	Agate, Smithsonite, Amethyst, Smithsonite, Blue Topaz
Creativity	Amethyst, Aventurine, Chalcedony, Howlite, Ruby. Red Jasper, Blue Aventurine, Blue Topaz
Depression (general)	Azurite, B

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Aventurine, Blue Aventurine, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Moonstone, Peach/Apricot Moonstone, Rainbow Moonstone, Silver Grey Moonstone, Snowflake Obsidian, Tourmalinated Quartz

Energy (general)	Aventurine, Blue Aventurine, Citrine, Tiger Eye, Tourmalinated Quartz, Turquoise, Amber, Blue Goldstone, Carnelian, Garnet, Green Amber, Red Tiger Eye
Energy (physical)	Petrified Wood
Fear (banishes)	Agate, Green calcite, Charoite, Diamond
Fear (overcoming)	Citrine, Smoky Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Black Tourmaline, Rose Quartz , Rhodonite, Amethyst, Azurite-Malachite, Black Onyx, Rose Quartz, Silver Grey Moonstone, Snowflake Obsidian
Prosperity	Green Aventurine , Peridot, Citrine, Obsidian Snowflake, Amber, Bloodstone, Charoite, Citrine, Green Amber, Jade, Jet, Malachite, Moss Agate, Pyrite/Marcasite, Silver, Tiger Eye, Turquoise
Wealth	Amber, Bloodstone, Charoite, Citrine, Peridot, Green Amber, Jade, Jet, Malachite, Moss Agate, Pyrite/Marcasite, Silver, Tiger Eye, Turquoise
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Roz Ayotte Photography

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Roz Ayotte Photography

Capturing Beauty as a lightworker: Roz Ayotte

Landscapes, flowers to portraits, Roz is a talented artist with an amazing eye for capturing the beauty of the moment on camera. I wanted to share her with you and have you see for yourself the magic she captures.

Contact her at: http://rozayotte.zenfolio.com

About Roz Ayotte:

Roz Ayotte’s formal training began with an education in the fine arts and culminated with the craft of photography. She currently shoots for stock and works on personal projects.

“My camera is truly a part of me. When I hold it in my hand I feel the solid connection of something that is so wonderful, enabling and exciting. The joy and curiosity I feel from the natural world around me is boundless and a constant marvel. This fuels my passion; the art of seeing and really looking. I am continually inspired by artists who have graced the world with beauty, sorrow, awe, change, the human condition and the myriad of other things that are created.”

See Roz Ayotte ‘s Photography at:

http://rozayotte.zenfolio.com

The Music of: Katie Glassman

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The Music of: Katie Glassman

A true Artist: Katie Glassman

I fell in love with Kaite as soon as I meet her and loved her music as soon as I heard it. Im not a musician my any means, but I was blown away with the combination of Katie Glassman ‘s voice, and her ability to play the violin. Her voice is so unique. Then to hear her play the violin, you will be blown away as well. I would encourage you to listen to her yourself and see what I mean.

Katie Glassman is a true gem, as a lightworker and as a musician. I hope you will enjoy her as much as I do.

About Katie Glassman:

Katie Glassman fell in love with the fiddle at age nine. Inspired by the world of Texas Oldtime music, she grew up in the culture of learning fiddle by ear and traveling to countless fiddle competitions throughout Colorado and the western states. In 1998, she won the National Junior Fiddle Championship in Weiser, Idaho. In 2000, she became the National Young Adult Fiddle Champion. In 2002, Katie Glassman placed 5th place in the National Grand Champion Division. In 2001 and 2010, she served as a certified judge for the National Oldtime Fiddle Competition. Katie is the current 2011 Colorado State Fiddle Champion after winning the competition at the National Western Stock Show.

Katie Glassman has traveled far and wide to study with legendary fiddle players such as Wes Wesmoreland, Jimmie Don Bates, Carl Hopkins, Tonya Hopkins, Paul Anastasio, Joey McKenzie and many other of her heroes. Being a part of an aural tradition so intricate, diverse and treasured has built a lifetime connection between Katie and her fiddle.

In 1994, Katie Glassman began the Fiddle Parlor Studio, her private teaching studio. She has continued teaching private lessons to inspired fiddlers of all ages. The studio is currently located in Denver, Colorado.

Katie Glassman studied jazz and classical violin at the University of Colorado under jazz pianist Chip Stephens and violinist Jennifer John. She played in the top CU jazz combo, was awarded the Outstanding Performer Award at the Abilene Jazz festival and was first runner up for the IAJE International Sisters of Jazz Group. In 2004, she graduated CU with a degree in music performance and became the first violinist to graduate from CU with a certificate in Jazz Studies.

In 2006, Katie traveled to France to study for one year in Dammarie-Les-Lys at Centre Musique Didier Lockwwod. This jazz school hosted 60 students per year. Katie became the second American ever to study there. In 2007 she was awarded a Certificate Avec Mention Bien from C.M.D.L.

In 2007, Katie Glassman returned to the music scene in Denver. She has played with the gypsy jazz group Impromptu, Gypsy Swing Revue, Charlie Provenza, Randall McKennan, The Quiet American (Aaron Keim), Sean McGowan, Andy Stein, Liz Masterson, Mike Music Band, Grant Gordy, Swing Chicks, David Williams, Justin Donovan, Pickin’ on the Porch, Pastor Mustard, Bill Nershe, Boulder Acoustic Society, Impromptu and the Bloomers.

Currently, Katie Glassman teaches and plays mainly with the Bloomers, Impromptu and the Katie Glassman Band.

Click Here to listen and purchase Katie Glassman ’s Album

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Healing Depression : Bach Flower Remedies

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HEALING DEPRESSION USING BACH FLOWER REMEDIES

With Dr. Eric Love

Bach Flower Remedies

How I became using Bach Flower Remedies : Many of us struggle with something; sometimes those things in our lives can be physical, mental and emotional. As we well know all aspects are connected and we must learn to balance them all in order to live a life I like to call “Living Through Spirit”, to flow with life and to have spirit flow through you.

In my opinion it is so important to address our emotional body in order to have that balance. The problem with that is that it is so hard to do when you are either going through a transitional time in your life, or when a time you find yourself depressed from something.

Recently I had Dr. Eric Love teach me about the power of the Bach Flower Remedies and how they can be used for many of the emotional aspects you maybe struggling with. He has taught me that they are safe and effective. I wanted to share this article with you for those who are going through a depressed time and I so hope the Bach Flower Remedies will help you in your time of need to further address and to support the emotional side of your healing and in your life.

Love and light to you all,

Tesa Michaels

The Living Through Spirit Show

“The Bach Flower Remedies are very helpful in healing depression. Mustard for example I use for ‘Clinical Depression’. And I find that it is very effective.. Clinical Depression is where a patient is depressed but doesn’t really know why.”

Bob Minone, M.D. made this statement to a class in Florida. Dr. Minone is a Wholistic Psychiatrist, straight A’s at Harvard Medical School, went to Yale and Princeton, and is now a board certified Psychiatrist working in Florida. He told the group that he uses the Bach Flower Remedies to treat depression and gets very good results. It was an honor to have him attend one of my classes and get to know him. He had been using the Bach Flower Remedies at that point for about five years.

He went on to tell the group that he had completely given up Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs because he got far better results with the Bach Flower Remedies.

Personally, I have seen many people use the Bach Flower Remedies for depression. I have had many people tell me of their dramatic healings.

In this article we’ll learn how the Bach Flower Remedies works with depression, and examine the five Bach Flower Remedies used for depression.

Star of Bethlehem, the first, is for sorrow, grief, sadness, and loss. The first rule about grief and sorrow is that you don’t want to suppress it in any way. You don’t want to just make it go away. You want to process it, instead. You want to resolve it, to rectify it. Then it will vaporize. It will dematerialize because you have dealt with it, handled it, resolved it… and healed it, instead of buried it.

“Suppression (suppressing symptoms) is what the medical profession generally does. It is like taking your car to a mechanic. You tell him, “My ‘check engine’ light is on”. So he disconnects the wires to the ‘check engine’ light. Then you tell him that there is a knock in the engine. So he gives you some earplugs.” – Loraine Day, M.D. drday.com

She was a professor of medicine for 22 years at the medical school in San Francisco, and was head of the emergency room at San Francisco General also for 22 years. All she does now is teach nature cure and natural medicine. Her DVD You Can’t Improve on God, is required study for all my students in the Homeopathic Certification Program. She is a wonderful and very high level teacher, and I can’t say enough about her and what she teaches.

LAW OF SUPPRESSION

Never suppress your pain, your depression Stay with your pain

Don’t ever suppress your pain…your Depression, or your anxiety, or whatever pain you may have. You need to learn to heal it. You need to learn how to heal yourself, not just wave a magic wand or a magic pill and make it go away.

You need to allow it to be in your face. Through your pain God is trying to teach you something. Suffering is a lesson it is your teacher.

From my book, The Art of Healing: A student of mine and dear friend told one of my classes the following, and these were her exact words:

“For me personally I’ve had some really difficult health challenges this year. and I’ve done a lot of work trying to heal a lot of traumas from my childhood. But when this disease happened I had to really take a look at what I was not addressing.

I began to embrace my disease as a teacher. I began to do SAF (which is a healing protocol and technique you learn as part of the Certification Program, along with nutrition, and Bach Flower Remedies, etc.) … and I began to go O.K., I’m welcoming you into my life. I know you’re here to teach me where I’m off target with myself, what’s my destiny, or what i came here to do. And i started working with the disease from that place and it was really remarkable.

Instead of like an enemy or something bad or awful or something wrong, to really take the Bach Flower Remedies on and some of the other really great teachers on the planet who say that ‘it’s just you’re out of alignment… you have to tweak some things, get underneath things and the disease will actually begin to shift.

And I had manifested some really serious conditions, and they started shifting really, really rapidly with the Bach Flower Remedies and the SAF. Between 50 to 90 days, I’d say, that 75% had gone.”

We have not yet learned the Will of God, and how that Will works entirely for our benefit. We do not know and understand that Grand Plan. – Sant Kirpal Singh, Prayer, It’s Nature and Technique, pp. 51 & 53

In other words we need to allow pain and suffering to be in our face, in order to heal it. If it is our teacher we need to embrace it instead of pushing it away.

When you suppress your pain, it certainly may seem to go away. But it is secretly still there, boiling, festering underneath the surface, like a witch’s caldron…right below the surface of your smile. When you mask the grief and cover up, swallow, buy, or try to outrun your pain…you will never be able to resolve it. Because you cannot heal what you cannot see.

Grief comes from Loss, or Trauma. Something bad has happened to you and you have been very hurt.

Or perhaps you feel grief because you were abused as a child and that abuse is now downloading, transmuting, displacing, and acting out onto your current time. The Higher Power is asking you to resolve some old grief…grief that you couldn’t work through when you were little. And now you’re older, it’s coming up in your face to process it and work it through. It’s a natural process, although people hate it, and would do anything to keep from having to face themselves and their pain, their issues, and their baggage. Most of us would do anything other than having to face the really Issues going on in the inside, of the inside of the inner self.

You really have only two choices. You can let the material eat you up on the inside of your self, or you can rectify and resolve the patterns and be done with it. With Grief, the Bach Flowers can certainly help. Star of Bethlehem is the Remedy that we use for the healing of the Sorrow and pain and hurt… Sadness, Grief, Sorrow and Loss.

So never try to outrun your pain. Pain is a teacher, a friend, a wake up call. It is telling you to handle it’s source. In healing, you learn how to resolve your Issues rather than run away from them. You learn how to put the cards on the table and handle the material that God is asking you to handle… to learn the lessons that our Soul is asking us to learn from the suffering.

So if you are going to handle it, then you must have it in front of you…in your face. You can’t have it tucked away in the garage, or in some old closet under boxes of books. You could never get to it, let alone process it. The Bach Flower Remedies will help you to process through your grief in a most wonderful way. I have seen many people who suffer terribly with grief and depression sometimes for years tell me that they have healed themselves, through using the Bach Flower Remedies .

Don’t mask your grief or depression with chemicals. Alcohol, pot, psychiatric drugs, even St. John’s Wort suppress emotions. It makes it harder to heal. However if you are on psychiatric drugs, if you just take the remedies for two or three months, you’ll probably get off them. A friend of mine who was very depressed took the remedies for three months. She walked into her psychiatrist. He took one look at her and said…”my God, if you feel as good as you look, I’m going to take you off the medication today.” And he did.

Another friend took herself off three psychiatric drugs, after she started herself on Bach Flower Remedies. A month later her psychiatrist asked her, “Why do you look so good? What did you do? How did you get yourself off the drugs? Why do you look so good?” she kept asking her. And she was very proud of her. She even wrote a note for the court telling the judge that she had taken herself off all of her medical drugs. (Her husband had put in the divorce papers that she was a drug addict. But he took those comments out.) The doctor was so proud. This woman was getting her life together and becoming healthier and whole. And it’s been over a month and a half, and no depression and no anxiety.

There is a reason for grief. It is a natural human reaction to loss. It needs to be processed through, to be worked through. And there’s a certain way to do it. But no one can show you how to do it. Only your Soul can reveal that to you… your own personal way to heal. And that’s why we use the Bach Flower Remedies, to stimulate you to begin to listen to the guidance of your own Soul for your own personal healing. That’s the action of the Bach Flower Remedies. That’s what they do. As Kathy Friend, M.D., psychiatrist says, “The action of the Remedies is to stimulate and catalyze you to go ahead and learn the lessons and process the material that you need to work through.”

My father told me, after the death of my precious Grandmother, his mother, “You have to grieve your losses.” But everyone these days just wants to take a pill and make it go away. People want to try to run away from their pain. The Bach, on the other hand, will help you to process your pain.

I had a friend who’s son committed suicide. She was in so much emotional pain and grief that she could not go out of the house. Her friends were overwhelmed by her sorrow. They all told her to take medication, (Prozac) for the pain. But she told them no. She wanted to work through it rather than suppress it. She told me that
“if she pushed it back down with drugs that it could stay there for years”. She used the Bach Flower Remedies instead and in time worked it through, and is much better for it. She is now in her power, and her strength, and very healthy at 65. She told me that she has resolved the death, this horrible suicide, of her son. She also told me of how much the Bach had helped her process it on through.

There is a reason for pain. It is for growth. Napoleon Hill, the great motivational writer, came up with his great Principle: “Every setback, has the seed of an equivalent benefit.”. One day, I heard him on tape talking about his principle. “People challenge me. They say what about death of a loved one, how could that have a benefit. But it does. When you go through and process the death of a loved one you grow immensely inside yourself. You get deeply in touch with your Spirituality. You grow and become more in touch with yourself. You even get more in touch with the meaning and purpose of life. It’s really sad to lose someone you love. But it is a chance for you to learn to grow and become a new and stronger person…a person with more wisdom and much more in touch with God.”

Suffering is a wake up call. Bach wrote, “Suffering is a corrective, to point out a lesson, which by other means we have failed to grasp.” My friend Jan Adams told me, “Cancer was my teacher.” This philosophy, however, demands that you actually process through the material and come out the other side…as opposed to suppressing everything, or trying to out run your pain. This is what the Bach Flower Remedies are for. “The Remedies stimulate and catalyze you to process through your issues,” Dr. Friend. “The Bach Flower Remedies help you to work through your pain.” I was honored to have Dr. Friend study with me last year and take the Homeopathic Certification Program. She is a brilliant psychiatrist, and a wonderful woman.

Star of Bethlehem Bach Flower Remedies is for sadness, sorrow, loss, and grief. If you feel grief, and it is a big issue on an everyday basis, then the Star will help you. Through the Remedy, the Higher Power will catalyze you to move through your grief and resolve it.

Mustard Bach Flower Remedies is for depression from an unknown cause. You are depressed, but you don’t know why. A person may say, “yes I get depressed, but there’s no reason for it. It just comes on it’s own and leaves on its own.” That’s why they say it’s from an unknown cause. You don’t know why it’s there. You seem to have no control over it.

Churchill had it. He called it his black dog. Lincoln had it. It tortured him severely. When it comes, all the light and joy of life is gone. You’re melancholy for no reason. It’s hard to be happy. There’s just this dark gloom, this black gloom.

When I first started using the Bach Flower Remedies I was amazed at how quickly this type of depression would resolve. Dr. Minone said “in my experience the Mustard type depression heals very quickly when a person starts taking Mustard.” He even told the class he attended in Florida, that the Bach Flower Remedies Mustard, fits the description of Clinical Depression, and that he uses it with his patients and gets good results. In fact, at the end of a psychiatric interview, he pulls out the Bach Flower Remedies and offers them to the patient. Most accept. And he never charges them. What a wonderful person.

And I should also add that he told me that he has “now given up Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture because he gets far better results with the Remedies.” How cool is that?

The next Bach Flower Remedies for depression is Gentian. The Gentian person has depression. But it is from a known cause. They suffer from setbacks, delays, hindrances, failures difficulties and reversals.

The Bach Flower Remedies Gentian person has discouragement and depression, from all these setbacks. They can get easily discouraged. Sometimes they have one discouraging event after another. Or maybe it’s a specific event that has dealt them a setback. They start having doubt, and lose their faith.

Success books tell us we need to have a positive mental attitude, and have faith in the future. The Gentian person doesn’t feel this way any more. They have lost their faith. They are discouraged and depressed.

I knew a young lady in Brentwood who lived next door in another condo. She had come to L.A. for a high paying fashion job, and when she got here and got her apartment, the job fell through. She was so upset. So I gave her Gentian, mixed in with some other Bach Flower Remedies. Within about three or four days she told me she was feeling better and was starting to lay out plans to move on with her life. She became my friend and we had fun together. I would go over and watch T.V. with her and we would laugh. And I never saw her depressed again. It was too cool for school.

So the Gentian is for discouragement, setbacks, delays and hindrances, when you feel that life is not working out. Gentian usually works quickly and a person experiences relief as they work through their setbacks and they learn once again how to develop a positive mode for their life.

Dr. Bach wrote: “Thus we have to face the fact that disease is entirely of our own making, and that the only cure is to correct our faults. All true healing aims at assisting the patient to put his Soul and mind and body in harmony.”

“As Hahnemann (the founder of Homeopathy) laid down, all healing which is not from within, is harmful, and apparent cure of the body, obtained through materialistic methods, obtained only through the action of others, without self-help, may certainly bring physical relief, but harm to our Higher Natures, for the lesson has remained unlearnt, and the fault has not been eradicated.”

“It is terrible today to think of the amount of artificial and superficial cures obtained through money and wrong methods in medicine, wrong methods because they merely suppress symptoms, give apparent relief, without removing the cause.”

“Healing must come from within ourselves, by acknowledging and correcting our faults, and harmonizing our being with the Divine Plan. And as the Creator, in His mercy, has placed certain Divinely enriched herbs to assist us to our victory, let us seek out these and use them to the best of our ability, to help us climb the mountain of our evolution, until the day when we shall reach the summit of perfection.”

“…in correct healing nothing must be used which relieves the patient of his own responsibility…but such means only must be adopted which help him to overcome his faults.”

- Edward Bach, M.D., The Original Writings of Dr.

Edward Bach, pp. 67 & 68

Next we have Gorse. Gorse Bach Flower Remedies is for hopelessness. Hopelessness is hard to understand if you have never felt it. Hopelessness means you feel that your life and situation is impossible, irremediable, irreparable, cureless. There is no way out. There is nothing you can do to make it better. You just have to live with it and accept it.

You have lost your faith and feel a deep futility about continuing any efforts to improve your situation. Your problems seem impossible to resolve. You no longer have within you any expectation of a favorable outcome. So you just become resigned and go into melancholia. There is no hope of recovery. You just give in to it. You just have to accept it and live with it.

My father’s favorite joke, he would tell you at least once a week, in such a painful tone… “What kind of a dog likes watermelon? The Melon Collie.” And at the risk of being silly, let me tell you one more. This guy goes to the doctor… (This is my only comment on the medical profession in this article…) This guy goes to the doctor, and the doctor tells him, ‘Sorry sir, you only have six months to live.’ Poor fellow. But the guy is broke, he doesn’t have enough money to pay the doctor…. So he goes ahead and gives him another six months.

So back to Gorse… I have had so many people tell me that Gorse had helped them resolve their hopelessness. Because the next time i saw them, their hopelessness had gone. It seems to move rather quickly. Sometimes though, one could expect it to take several months. If a person has been feeling hopeless for a long time, years and years, it would take longer.

At the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, in Portland Oregon, they teach that “with a Homeopathic remedy it takes one month of cure time for ever year that you have had the condition.” It means that if you have had hopelessness for two years, it would take about two months. I’ve seen this over and over, and it seems to be true.

Dr. Bach wrote: “But in the darkest hours, and when success seems well-nigh impossible. Let us ever remember that God’s children should never be afraid, that our Soul, only gives us such tasks as we are capable of accomplishing, and that with our own courage and faith in the Divinity within us, victory must come to all who continue to strive.”

Lastly we have Sweet Chestnut. Sweet Chestnut Bach Flower Remedies is for anguish. Anguish is hard to understand if you’ve never been there. It’s an agonizing, searing pain. The very foundations of your life have been torn away, and you’re left in extreme hopeless despair.

One night a friend walked into her home. She opened the door. There was her son, hanged. He had killed himself. It just destroyed her and sent her into a deathly anguish. Another woman told me of how she had discovered her husband was cheating on her, lying to her. It just killed her. Her marriage was everything to her. It tore her apart from the inside out. Such is the anguish of the Sweet Chestnut.

Sweet Chestnut is for agonizing suffering. A person is tormented by the pain, because they have been so devastated. “There is just nothing you can do”, a woman told me who’s child had been killed in an accident… “nothing to stand on, nothing to hold on to, just total devastation. I felt as though I could not endure any more…I had reached the limit. I couldn’t bear it anymore, but I had to go on.”

Another woman said, “The court took my kids. Taking my dreams away. I never want to go through that again. It was so absolutely unbearable.”

This is the state that the Sweet Chestnut is for. It is a very powerful Bach Flower Remedies and I have seen many, many people tell me of it’s healing effects.

Depression is a horrible, painful, situation if you don’t work it through and process it. When it stays and is not dealt with, when it’s stuck and doesn’t move, it can tear you to pieces. But when you resolve it, it’s gone. It’s just like the situation when you allow your tax papers and receipts to pile up year after year and refuse to deal with your taxes. It will torture you every time you walk by the pile. If you keep your records, go to the accountant and do the work, it will be handled. Same with depression. The Higher Power will work in your behalf … through the Remedy, to show you how to handle your pile of unresolved emotional junk, baggage and Issues. This is what Jan Adams calls “Handling the emotional component of your disease.”

The problem is that in the industrialized countries no body wants to work on themselves. We have an agreement, a contract: We don’t deal with any deep emotions, we don’t talk about our issues and we don’t process anything. We just go about looking like we’ve got our act together, looking good, “too busy being fabulous on the cell phone with our friends… surfing the net. We never have to go inside. Everybody’s talking to one another but nobody’s is spending time real time with one another.. really connecting…. or connecting with themselves. We certainly aren’t connecting with our own Inner Self these days. Professionals are just looking at all the credentials they have up on their walls…’I’m so fabulous, I’m so important’.” – Fonda Clayton ‘My ego’s so big it’s about to pop my shirt.’ ‘I’m about as cool as a person can get.’

We build up a big and grand life on the outside, in the outer world, but know little about the Inner Self in the inner world. We know little about our own Soul. And we know nothing about the underworld with our Shadow Side and Dark Energy, which is causing all our problems.

We need to make a paradigm shift, and start working on ourselves, dealing with our junk and garbage, our baggage and our Issues. Americans will do anything, anything, rather than deal with the inside of themselves. Americans don’t want to face their own pain. We need to learn to work on ourselves. We need to learn to heal the emotional component of our dis-ease and suffering.

Once we make a commitment to do the work, then we need good tools and technologies to heal ourselves…technologies that work. First, we need to break out of the mold and learn to process our issues and baggage. When you decide that you want to process your issues as opposed to suppressing them, then you’ve got to figure out how you’re going to do it. We need good technologies, advanced technologies… that trigger our healing and see us through that healing. This is where the Bach Flower Remedies comes in. Bach Flower Remedies will help to stimulate and catalyze you to work through your stuff. Through the Bach Flower Remedies , the Higher Power will help you, by leading you to the door and guiding you through the threshold. You’ll learn to work through your junk. Learning to use the Bach Flower Remedies, the way that I teach, is really True Deep Shadow work. It will help you to heal your Shadow Side, and move right on through the Issues that have been causing your blocks and holding you back, and of course creating the very dis-ease you suffer from.

Bach will assist you in dealing with the Emotional Component and the Spiritual Component of your suffering.

In the words of Bob Minone, M.D.: , “I use Bach Flower Remedies with almost all of my patients. I get wonderful results with depression.”

Dr. Bach told us: “Disease is the result of wrong thinking and wrong doing, and ceases when the act and thought are put in order. When the lesson of pain and suffering and distress is learnt, there is no further purpose in it’s presence, and it automatically disappears. It is a lesson to teach us to correct our ways, and harmonize our lives with the dictates of our Soul.”

“The action of these Bach Flower Remedies to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our Spiritual Self, to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault which is causing harm…to open up those channels to admit more of the light of the Soul, that the patient may be flooded with healing virtue. They are able like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our Souls…and by that very act to bring us peace and relieve our sufferings.”

- Edward Bach, M.D., The Original Writings of Dr. Edward Bach

Moon Energy

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Moon Energy

Understanding the Moon energy for more balance and flow in your life….

The moon energy emanates distinctly different moon energy during the full cycle from new moon to full moon. Each of the eight cycles facilitates the process of creation and manifestation.

The eight phases each have a duration of approximately 28 days.

Moon Energy Phases:

Day 1-3^1/2 New moon energy is for creating a vision. The New Moon is The beginning of a new cycle.

Keywords for the New phase are: beginning, birth, emergence, projection, clarity.

It is the time in a cycle that you are stimulated to take a new action. During this phase the new cycle is being seeded by your vision, inner and outer. Engage in physical activity. Spend time alone. VISUALIZE your goals for the 29.6-day cycle ahead.

The new moon is full of new energy, new possibilities, an open veil to spirit, and I like to look at it as a clean slate each month to what you what spirit to bring you and you manifest in your life.

The New Moon is to create a vision, to visualize your future.

The New Moon energy is a time to be an open channel to spirit with new and open creativity. This moon energy is a time to go with in and to connect to spirit.

The new moon phase is an optimal time for planning and seeding your intentions. Seedlings need a period of nurturing before they break through the soil and reach for the sunlight. This is also true for our ideas and our desires.

Identify what it is you want…..sounds simple, it is, but many of you dont really take the time to think about it.

You wing it, think about it, have good intentions to sit down and figure it out, but just dont stop enough to go within to figure out exactly what you want. Sometimes we also are affraid, to ask for what we truly want, not what others want of us, what WE truly want. With out the guilt or opinions of others. We need to close out the other negitive voices of our egos and of those around us hold us back and go within to figure out what it is we want in our lives.

During this moon energy this is a great time for a New Moon Ceremony:

Preparing for the Moon Energy Ceremony: You can use this for the New Moon and Full Moon Ceremony’s

1. I always light a candle. The flame is what spirit is drawn to. When lighting the candle all on all spirits to be there with you, your soul family, spirit guides, ascended masters and arch angels.

2. Have some ceremonial music in the back ground. Whatever is calming and spiritual for you.

3. I always like to have quartz or stones around me when Im writing. Clear or rose quzrtz is great. So is amethyst as well. Whatever you have and like.

4. I also like to have a sage smudge stick there, that helps clear the negative energy and open things to spirit

5. Have a pen and paper to write what it is you are wanting.

6. Have or do what is relaxing and comfortable for you, have a cup of tea, light a fire in the fireplace, be in nature if the weather is good is also so great. Do and bring what it is that is best for you into the ceremony to make it your own.

7. You can also do this alone or with others who are supportive

Day 3^1/2-6 Crescent moon energy is for organizing resources needed to accomplish the vision Crescent phase. Time for looking to others and around you to help you in what you are wanting to have manifest this month with what you have visualized.

Keywords for the Crescent phase are: expansion, growth, struggle, opportunity.

It is the time in a cycle that you gather the wisdom learned in the new phase and communicate your intention to move forward. Light a candle. Write or read an affirmation. LISTEN & ABSORB. Commit to your goal. Also a great time to observe around you and take notes on what it is you are wanting. Soak it up and all in at this time. Dont be afraid to ask for help from others who are willing to support you with your dreams and desired outcomes.

Now in this moon energy is the time to Have Faith that it will happen – Trust in Spirit, and in yourself that what it is that you are wanting in your life will manifest.

When we ask for something we need to then let it go and trust that it will work. We can not dwell on it, doubt it or be hesitant. Be strong and have a knowing that it will take place in your life. Trust also the timing and when spirit has it planned to happen in your life. Remember there is always a bigger picture we have a hard time seeing sometimes. We must learn to remain open to what comes in our lives.

When we doubt it or have a low self confidence we actually can push things back and away from us. We can not be contradictory towards what we are saying and what we are doing.

Day 6-9^1/2First quarter moon energy is using resources gathered to take action toward fulfilling the vision. This is also a great time for planing.

Keywords for the First Quarter phase are: action, expression, growth, breaking away.

It is the time in this moon energy for a cycle to take the initial action necessary to achieve your goal by expressing your needs and desires. FEEL & MOVE. Make phone calls.Write letters. Dance. Act now. Communicate with others who can help you or that you can share your visions with.

Day 10-13^1/2 Gibbous moon energy helps us fine tune our goals, gather opinions from others and make revisions to the plan. Time to reassess what it is you are visualizing and fine tune the plan of action and write out what it is you are needing to get or have in order to make things happen for you for your goals.

Keywords for the Gibbous phase are: analyze, prepare, trust.

It is the time in a moon energy cycle to process the results of the actions taken during the First Quarter. During this phase you are gathering information. Give up making judgments, it will only lead to worry. Your knowledge is incomplete. Laugh. Analyze and filter. LOOK WITHIN.

Develop a Plan: You can do this in many ways, one good way is to plan out how you are going to do. What steps need to be taken. Start small and break things down is the best way to start. The more you do that the less overwhelming it will be and the less likely you will be to quit. The more clarity you can bring to your action plan the better.

Plan it out daily, weekly and then for that month. Remember to be detailed as you can be with remembering that you also have to have faith in spirit to bring these things into your life as well.

Day 13^3/4-17^1/2 The light of the full moon brings about manifestation of, or progress toward our goals. We can see where we are in the process of realization of the plan.

Keywords for the Full phase are: fulfillment, illumination, realization, experience.

It is the time in a moon energy cycle that you are given a clear view so that you can make adjustments to put you back on track to manifesting the goals you set at the new phase. Go to a public place. Do something with a friend. LISTEN. Receive awareness. Understand others.

This is a great time in this moon energy to do a manifestation ceremony in order to manifest what it is you want in your life for this month. I do this every full moon.

Manifesting what you want: this is strong moon energy at this time to do this!

1. Choose Your State. Consciously decide how you want to feel emotionally and where you want to

direct your attention. Take consistent steps to regularly create a favorable emotional state.

Move on to setting your intention.

2. Set Your Intention. Sift through your preferences and possibilities to determine what you want to

experience in life. Make a decision to think and act in a way that will create the outcomes you

want. Then focus again on choosing your state to align yourself with that intention.

3. Take Inspired Action. From a place of calm and silence, ask yourself “what is my next best step?”

and act on it immediately with joy and energy. Once again, choose your state to provide momentum

for your inspired action and to prepare you to move onto your next intention.

Day 17^1/2-21 The disseminating or waning Gibbous moon energy helps us distribute and share what we have learned, or to have a clearer understanding of what to do next.

Keywords for the Disseminating phase are: demonstration, distribution, sharing and introspection.

It is the time of this moon energy in a cycle to further process your advancement toward your goal by looking at the results of your adjusting action taken at the Full phase. During this phase you gain clarity by sharing what you’ve learned through awareness. Demonstrate your power of abundance by giving back to your community. Visit friends. Distribute your knowledge. SHARE. Reach out and touch someone.

Take Action- After you have identified what it is you are wanting to manifest this month in the short term. You have accepted to take that in which you want and to let it go to spirit and trust that they will take care of you. You then know it is in your hands, you must now begin to take action in order to make it happen.

This is the most important step. You can not forget about this step. Sorry to say, you can not just think about it, or dream about it in order for it to manifest. nor can you sit on the couch and expect all things to come to you with out effort…..damn that rule…..

You must show spirit that you are serious. By putting your energy and effort to back up what you want. Spirit then comes and helps open those doors that help you obtain or achieve your goals. It then becomes a joint effort.

Day 21-24^1/2In the third quarter of the moon energy we are in a completion and review phase, or following up on and refining the resources we gathered during the crescent moon. Re-evaluation takes place during this time to determine what is needed as a next step to move forward with the goal.

Keywords for the Last Quarter phase are: realignment, revision, integration, cleansing.

It is the time in this moon energy cycle to take closing action, to follow-up and complete the activities begun at the New phase. During this phase you become aware of what is and is not working with respect to the achievement of your goal for the cycle. The movement is toward integration. Open to your success. MANIFEST YOUR GOAL. Be responsible.

Day 24^1/2-282Under the balsamic moon energy it is time to be alone, meditate, retreat, and release attachment to outcome. It is time to rest and be introspective. During this time vision clears and we are ready to begin again with the next new moon. The end of one cycle and the beginning of another.

Keywords for the Balsamic phase are: transition, release, transformation, renewal, purity.

It is the phase in this moon energy cycle when you must let go of everything you have been working on that does not deal with current cycle issues. During this phase you reflect on the passing cycle and prepare for the new. Trust in renewal. It is important to separate from others now so that you can clear the intellect of negativity. LET GO. Become still and meditate.

Things you can do for Balance during this moon energy:

Grounding – Outside in Nature

Meditation; calming your mind, bring more peace and clarity through to you by spirit. Being still, slowing down and releasing stress.

Kundalini Meditation which works with Shakti from Sanskrit shak - “to be able,” meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism.

Raki – Balancing the chakras

Yoga, qigong, thichi

Nurturing yourself- being alone: long bath, reading, watching a movie

Time Management

Releasing Exerciese- for healing and letting go of the negative energy that doesn’t serve you.

Celebrating the good

Alternative Medicine: acupuncture where working with your chi

Other Moon Energy s

Moon Void or VOID OF COURSE MOON Energy

It begins when the Moon in transit makes the last major aspect it will make before it changes from one sign of the zodiac to the next. It ends when the Moon enters the next sign.

The Moon goes void of course every two days or so, and this can last anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, which is the average time of the Moon’s passing through a sign. They last usually a couple of hours, the range being from a few minutes to even the entire two days and a half period, when the Moon makes no major aspects to other planets from its current astrological sign.

Some Moon signs are felt more acutely than others: In the sign of Aries, for instance, the energy is physical and sometimes angry, a dynamic force that can be used to tackle tasks and start projects; the Moon in Taurus is a more laid-back and sensual urge to enjoy fine dining and good music. As the Moon arrives in the sign of Gemini, the telephone starts ringing and the messages begin to pour in. There are, of course, other influences at work in the solar system, but the Moon is always playing “background music” that keeps us connected to the Earth and the stars.

There is a distinctive quality to the moon energy during a void-of-course Moon: Stores and restaurants are unusually quiet, judgment is impaired, and many people have a hard time making decisions. Business meetings can take a strange turn, and people find it difficult to work together as a group.

There is a time, however, when this connection is interrupted and we “float” between signs. This is the time to go inward, to be alone or to just BE. Not to worry about things and not to fight this energy when in the energy.
The Void of Course Moon indicates nothing to worry about or nothing will happen. If you begin a project during this time, it may not succeed or ever develop; decisions made may never be acted upon. Disturbing news heard at this time may not be worth worrying about. This is a good time to gather information while detaching from the outcome. The void period ends when the moon enters the next sign.

Decision making in this moon energy periods turns out later to be unrealistic. Creativity diverges into unpleasant directions, improvisations, false starts, error. Business moves fail to generate profits, or meet unexpected difficulties. If you buy any object it usually fails of its intended use. A Void period is a time when there is no developmental energy

Delay and frustration are commonly experienced while the Moon is Void of Course.

What not to do during this time

Do not start important or life-changing projects during the void-of-course Moon

The void of course Moon periods are most unfavorable to do anything that require a specific desired outcome, with a very wide range of actions that include sending emails or faxes, applying for a job or contest, asking for favors, getting married or going out to date someone for the first time, starting a lawsuit or a business, announcing anything, buying important items such as a car, a property, etc.

The basic rule in this moon energy is: when you want something to happen, if you want to be successful, avoid the void of course Moon periods, at all costs.

Benefits of this period

Everyone can benefit from this moments, the void of course Moon periods are truly great for taking a break from the common activities, for relaxing, for listening to music or reading literature, for catching up with house work or other routine activities that do not require much focus.

Mercury Retrograde - Crazy Moon Energy

The phenomenon known as Mercury Retrograde occurs three times each year when, for about three weeks.
While Mercury is retrograde, familiar channels of communications become tangled and confused. Expect delays and changes in plans. Use this time for researching and problem-solving.

In this moon energy it is a great time to rewrite and edit, rework an old project or successfully repeat a task. Reevaluate and reconsider, but hold final decisions and approvals until Mercury goes direct.

The tendency is to initialize or finalize projects prematurely. The contents of verbal or written contracts and plans made now may later seem inadequate or unclear. This is not a good time to buy on the spur of the moment without investigation.

This is also not a good time to purchase electronic equipment or cars. Major purchases may be reduced in price after the retrograde period and you can save money by waiting. Major repairs or surgery performed now may be incomplete or plagued by unexpected repercussions.

Double-check and reconfirm every detail. Typed or written errors are easily overlooked, paperwork mislaid, appointments forgotten. Let your sense of humor overcome the challenge of unexpected adjustments.

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References:

The International Center for Reiki Training http://reiki.org/reikinews/ReikiNewMoomMed.html

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase/

http://www.debbikemptonsmith.com/original%20void_of_course_moon_sheet.htm

http://www.lunarliving.org/moon/void_of_course.shtml

New Moon – Manifest your Vision!

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:09:23 +0000

NEW MOON- How to manifest your Future!

Visualization Exercise to Manifest your desires

The New Moon is time to manifest and visualize your desires and learning what steps to take in visualizing what you want is easier then you think and is more important than you think as well…..why …. because it works.

The New Moon is an exciting time to manifest what you are wanting. I do this exercise it every New Moon.

ABOUT THE NEW MOON:

The new moon is full of new energy, new possibilities, an open veil to spirit, and I like to look at it as a clean slate each month to what you what spirit to bring you and you manifest in your life.

The New Moon is to create a vision, to visualize your future and manifest what you want in your life.

The New Moon is a time to be an open channel to spirit with new and open creativity. A time to go with in and to connect to spirit.

The new moon phase is an optimal time for planning and seeding your intentions. Seedlings need a period of gestation before they break through the soil and reach for the sunlight. This is also true for our ideas and our desires.

New Moon Manifestation Ceremony:

Along with the vision board exercise which you will see below I do a ceremony on the new moon that helps me clarify what it is that Im wanting to manifest in my life. I take the time to identify what it is and the time to come with an plan of action. When it comes to setting goals or planning ahead for your future there is no better time to get started than during the new moon. Any intentions stated or written down carries power, so please take care in considering the things that you really want.

Always remember to write things in the now as if they are happening and be positive. Leave fears, doubts and hesitation out the window. Those are things that can be released and sent away, they do not serve you.

The moon has its phases and so do our individual wants and needs. This is why it is a good practice to rededicate your list of intentions each month when another new moon visits. So for now just consolidating on what your wanting for the next upcoming month. This also helps to stay focused and not get overwhelmed.

Preparing for the Ceremony:

1. I always light a candle. The flame is what spirit is drawn to. When lighting the candle all on all spirits to be there with you, your soul family, spirit guides, ascended masters and arch angels.

2. Have some ceremonial music in the back ground. What ever is calming and spiritual for you.

3. I always like to have quartz or stones around me when Im writing. Clear or rose quzrtz is great. So is amythist as well. What ever you have and like.

4. I also like to have a sage smudge stick there, that helps clear the negative energy and open things to spirit

5. Have a pen and paper to write what it is you are wanting.

7. You can also do this alone or with others who are supportive

Clarify what it is you are wanting:

Just get out your paper and take some time to list what it is you are wanting to manifest this month. This can be regular paper, however if you have a specific notebook that you write in that is great or if you want to get creative with it, GREAT do so. Just remember that the intent and words here are the most important.

On the top of the paper write: an affiliation that is meaningful to you or a theme that you would like to have. You could put: ”I accept these things into my life now or something better for my highest good and for the highest good of all concerned.”

You can also if you like break things down in to categories if you like: for example: relationship, career, financially, friends, family. Then list what you want under those categories.

The key it so focus on this next month and to let go, HAVE NO LIMITATIONS to what you write. Even if it seems out there or unobtainable. Write them anyway.

You can also write what you would like to have happen in someone else s life, a loved one or friend around you.

Also BE SPECIFIC! And the more detail the better!

You can do large or small things to manifest. Just make sure that they can be obtained during the month. (you can do other things for long term things later on)Manifesting smaller items on our lists actually creates a steady flow of energy to the list. These smaller manifestations create movement, allowing an ebb and flow of the tides. We are dealing here with the moon cycles after all.

How to Visualize what you want:

1st: We must look at this for the month. The New Moon is month to month, so what I do is on the new moon I take a look at what I want to happen and visualize those things for that month. This particular exercise I do monthly, or short term, I do not add things long term in this exercise. It also helps you to break things down so they are not so overwhelming for you. By doing this it keeps it simple and more obtainable in the now and not sometime in the future, which puts it out there to happen sometime and not NOW, which we are wanting these things to take place.

Keep it simple and creative.

2nd: you must Identify what it is you want…..sounds simple, it is, but many of you dont really take the time to think about it.

3rd: Have Faith that it will happen – Trust in Spirit, and in yourself that what it is that you are wanting in your life will manifest.

When we doubt it or have a low self confidence we actually can push things back and away from us. We can not be contradictory towards what we are saying and what we are doing.

4th: Take Action- After you have identified what it is you are wanting to manifest this month in the short term. You have accepted to take that in which you want and to let it go to spirit and trust that they will take care of you. You then know it is in your hands, you must now begin to take action in order to make it happen.

5th: Develop a Plan: You can do this in many ways, one good way is to plan out how you are going to do. What steps need to be taken. Start small and break things down is the best way to start. The more you do that the less overwhelming it will be and the less likely you will be to quit. The more clarity you can bring to your action plan the better.

Plan it out daily, weekly and then for that month. Remember to be detailed as you can be with remembering that you also have to have faith in spirit to bring these things into your life as well.

New Moon: A new energy for creating a new vision

Once you have established what is in your vision for the next month. This is a great time to get creative about it. After all you are visualizing what you are wanting, so lets get creative and more visual.

NEW MOON EXERCISE:

New Moon Vision Boards…..I know I know you may be thinking that you have done this before. It is not a new concept, your right, but I still think it is effective and it works, and has worked for me. So because they work, I do them. Here is why:

1. They work

2. It allows you to be creative

3. It allows you to visually see what it is that it is that is important to you

4. It then allows you to see what you should be concentrating in your life for that month

5. It shows spirit what it is you are wanting to incorporate in your life

6. It makes you look at things in a new perspective

When I first did my first New Moon vision board, I was so surprised when I got mine done for that month. When I cut out all the images and put it all together I was then able to take a look at it and realize what it was I really was suppose to be concentrating on.

For Example: I cut out all things that were nurturing, a bath tub, the beach, a picture of a spa, flowers, water, everything that was to heal and to nutture myself. I didnt realize at that time how much I was really needing those things, until I cut them all out and put them all together, I realized then that was what I really needed to do for myself that month.

Here is an example of the one I did for the New Moon:

NOTE: These vision boards are for the next month for things that you are wanting to manifest and or do, therefore they are simpler then a large vision board that may have alot of things or dimensions to them. The one I did had a lot of words and is simple. That is great.

Now all you need to do is do your own and HAVE FUN!

Each Month on the New Moon:

Each month at the new moon rededicate your intentions by renewing your list at a repeated ritual. Take out that same piece of paper or notebook and see what did manifest. You will be surprised what did in your life.

Then if it didnt, take a look to see what you can do to make it happen or what steps you need to do this next month and carry that over to this month. Remember that spirit has its own time frame and there is a greater good when things will happen. It may just need more time.

This is also a way to see if there is any patterns that may not be serving you if things are constantly happening in your life from preventing things to manifest. You then can identify them and see if there is something that is preventing you from them or what is not serving you and get rid of them.

Here is an example of a vision board I did for the New Year in 2012:

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CBS New Sky Radio: The Living Through Spirit Show – Balance of One Self

admin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:18:14 +0000

CBS New Sky Radio: The Living Through Spirit Show – Balance of One Self

Balance and embracing all aspects of your self….

Hello and welcome to The Living Through Spirit Show Im your host Tesa Michaels, I work with people who are at a critical point of transformation in their lives. I’m an Intuitive Consultant and a Spiritual Transformationist. I psychically channel spirit with my gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience to guide people through a time of transition. I here to provide you with the clarity and energy you need to stop suppressing your inner voice, to stop enduring life, to begin to open up to spirit and start living the life you have always dreamed of. I call this Living Through Spirit.

Today I wanted to talk about something that has been what I have been working on in the past few months that also many of my clients are going through or having a hard time with. That is embracing the negative side of things and yourself.

Some may call it your shadow side. Or the negative side of things and yourself, whatever you want to call it, I think that it is important to look at and not ignore. By recognizing that we all have many different sides and energies the more comfortable and balanced I feel I have been able to become in my own life.

I have found that when we are dealing with lifes many different energies, which are constantly all around us. It can become overwhelming to deal with them all. Yet it is our perception of those energies sometimes is how they can affect us. We must learn when what we call negative energy is around us that we learn to work with it and embrace it and not fight it or run from it.

If your having a hard time breaking old patterns in your life?

If you struggling with something that is hard or painful?

If you put too much pressure on yourself or on a particular situation?

Then this show is for you. I will be showing you how you can overcome these things by learning to embrace all aspects of who you are and tips to get you to balance your many sides of yourself.

I was like that and maybe you could relate to how I was for some time. I have read many self help books that talk about thinking positive, not to concentrate on the negative. Then if you do concentrate on the negative you can attract more of that. I was almost scared to look at anything negative that came my way. Then if it did, I would just push it aside, not wanting to deal with it and ignore it as if it didn’t exist.

I was not embracing y whole self, I learned that I was out of balance with not coming into all aspects of myself and embracing all that I was, good, bad and all in-between. I have learned to understand the negative side of myself, to love those things that I struggle with and learn from them.

Today I will show you how to do that and to incorporate that into your life as well in order to live more as a whole and to understand what maybe has been holding you back in life.

I also will be sharing with you how you can begin to break free from what you have been holding in, that is not serving you. Once we begin to identify with all aspects of our self is when we can truly begin “Living Through Spirit”.

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Step #1:

Understanding the Balance of Life

I think one of the most important things that you need to understand when looking at yourself in a whole is: balance.

I believe there is a polarity of forces that are intertwined in our life. One must understand both sides in order to personally establish a balance. Where there is day, there is night, when there is good there is the bad. This has been said to you many times, but I want you to have a better understanding of why.

It is a fact that you cannot remain 100% of the time on either side. Not many like to be on the dim side, or talk about it, wanting to remain positive. True, but in that darkness that is when we find the light.

Along with the darkness we also experience being stuck, stuck in the darkness or even in the slight dimness that life can throw our way.

I know some of you can relate to this. So how do we get out of it? What can we do to rise above our ego of fear and doubt?

The biggest Keys to this that I have found is: NOT TO FIGHT IT. To be present and embrace it. Accept where it is there and now. Do not judge it or yourself.

Yet why is it when we as lightworkers are one to raise the vibration of the planet. We are here to bring the light and love to this world and to humanity, to bring us together to show we are all connected as one. We are the light, we are one with the light and the light is within us. So why is it that we have these bad days, the funk, being stuck and the sad times? Well were still human after all and we still are on a path of enlightment. You have to go through the darkness to appreciate the light. The deep down low makes level feel so high; right?

I thought for the longest time that I was to avoid the darkness. Stay all positive, never be negative. You have seen countless books on the subject to think positive and positive will come back to you; The Law of Attraction. Yes, I do believe this is true; however there is a time and place for everything. The bad isn’t necessary bad…..woo most of you maybe saying. What do you mean?

The bad is what makes you grow. It is what teaches you your lessions spirit needs to show you in order to move up in a higher level of conciseness. It is the beginning of a transition, sometimes the bad arises when change is necessary. It can show you you’re on the wrong track.

The key is to be and remain open to it, to realize that the bad isn’t necessarily bad. It is a part of the balance of life. One must embrace it, learn from it and grow from it when it happens.

Know when you are in that moment that:

1. There are no coincidences on why thing are happening

2. That this is the time when we need to be open the most to what spirit is trying to teach us and to show us

3. This is a time for growth and good change waits for us on the other side, always it is the law of maya.

There is a polarity for it all; day and night, rise and fall, ebb and flow, evil and good, dark and light. Many scientific discoveries conforms this as well as many cultures, religions and many theories revolve around this. It is one of the laws of the universe. Newton’s Law of Motion is the law of maya.

“To every action there is always an equal contrary reaction; the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed.” Action and reaction are then exactly equal. “To have a single force is impossible. There must be, and always is, a pair of forces equal and opposite.” -Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramanhansa Yogananda

Chinese cultures describe it as Yin and Yang; Black and white, Male and female. ‘It is referred to as polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. Opposites thus only exist in relation to each other. Yin Yang are complementary opposites that interact within a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, but either of these aspects may manifest more strongly in particular objects, and may ebb or flow over time.’ Wikapedia.

Actual science cannot formulate laws and theories outside of maya. It is the structure of all creation. Nature itself is maya. Day and night, death and rebirth, summer and winter, fall and spring. This is continual and circular and if not eternal.

Step #2: Incorporating Balance and being aware of balance in your life.

Gaining Balance:

I like to think of it as if we are on a giant see saw. On one end we have Love on one end we have Ego. We have good we have bad. Our job is to keep thing in the middle. BALANCE! I like to think of the middle is a natural centered and calming place, it is like hearing the word Aum or Om; the cosmic creative vibration. The Aum vibration is what vibrates throughout the universe, the voice of God; resonating as the sound Aum, a calming vibration. The word Aum creates balance and to me brings in the essesnce of God, or balancing spiritual energy.

Aum is referred to as the holy ghost in Hindu scripture. The threefold Nature of Sat; God, Tat; Father and Aum; Holy Ghost.

In order to stay balanced we must first and foremost be conscious of this law. To remember there is not one better than the other and learn to embrace all areas of this motion. There is a time and place for everything under the sun. So when our see saw goes to one end or the other we say or hear the word Aum and it helps us bring us back to center; back into balance.

Exercise in Finding Balance:

Awakening and start to be aware and more conscious in your living and your choices on a everyday bases.

The term “balance” has come to refer to a balance of power between multiple opposing forces. Finding the middle ground.

Look at this list below and rate each one of them in order to determine if you are in balance of them. Use 1- 10 as your teeter totter. 1 being low, 5 being in the middle for balance and 10 being high or doing too much.

Look at each categories and see what you are doing or not doing in order to determine how balanced you are in that category.

_____Health & Well-Being (Body/Mind/Spirit)

____ Work – Career – Job

____ Professional Success and/Organizations, groups and clubs and or volunteer

____ Relationships with partner

____ Recreation & Fun Play

____ Material Things

____ Family

____ Developing Spirituality

____Friends and Social time – party’s

The Polarity of the Universe: Ego and Love

One way I think could help you begin today to live in a more balanced way is your actions. When ever you respond to your current situation: Ask youself are you living or responding out of love or our of the ego in fear?

Another polarity is Fear and Love. I think we do everything out of Ego/fear or Love.

“Love is the ultimate reality. It is the only. The all. The feeling of love is your experience with God. In the highest truth, love is all there is, all there was, and all there ever will be. When you move into the absolute you move into love. “ – Conversations with God book 1 Neal Donald Walsh

I believe in our lives every action and every thought is either done out of ego or out of love. The trick is finding that balance. I believe in us we have both, ego with is more living unconsciously and love or living consciously through spirit.

That is how I came up with the name “Living Through Spirit”, which is creating a balance of knowing when to use the ego, becoming one and to understand the ego and to live more consciously through spirit and the higher self. It is all about finding a balance, you cannot have one without the other, and they are both apart of who you are.

Deepak Chopra suggests that “Ego is out personal selves, it gives us our personal identity. Without any ego we would not be in our physical body, our ego is our self image opposed to our self. It is also our separate self, it is guarded and fearful and lacks self esteem actually. Sometimes it feels inferior and sometimes it feels ferior. Beyond the ego is the real self, the real self has two components; Geva and Ochman. Geva is the softer of our soul is it incarnated from our karmic and desire. The other is Ochman, the universal consciousness. Being the real self it is joyous and unpredictable. It is flowing, loving and it is compassionate. It constantly takes leaps of creativity. So the ego can cover it up. Yet a healthy ego is one that doesn’t dominate self. “ – Tools of Personal Transformation: The Role of the Ego, youtube.com by Deepak Chopra.

For Example:

When you have an argument, (first of all if you are then you are already acting out of ego) how you react will obviously affect the outcome of the situation. When you’re getting yelled at during a confrontation, you can react out of ego: feeling hurt you fear what that person is going to do and have rage and anger and try to hurt them as bad as they are hurting you. Or you can act out of love. If someone starts yelling at you, you can realize that there is a rooted problem that is causing them to yell at you that may not have anything to do with you, you stay calm and compassionate in order to listen to them, calm them down and react out of love. Remember the saying “Two wrongs don’t make a right”. Well two people coming out of hate no one wins, you will go around in circles. If you always act out of love you would not start a yelling contest in the first place and if you act out of love you will act from compassion and not hurt the other person.

In every situation, You have the option, you are the one who makes that choice not matter what. You always have free will to act and do what you want. You have the option to act and react out of love or out of ego.

One must always then remember that thoughts rooted out of ego will produce one kind of manifestation. Thoughts rooted in love will produce another. It is a universal law. Love will attract more love and there for the opposite is true. Ego will attract more things of ego.

“Whether you think you can or you cant, either way you are right” Henrey Ford.

If you think you can do something you act out of love that is what is going to happen, you’re outcome will be something great, whole and loving. If you act out of ego and bring fear and doubt into a situation, you will get back more of the same.

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Another example is I have a client that came to me and was lacking a relationship. She wanted that more than anything she said. She said she deserves that, and well yes we all do deserve to be loved. A few months went by and I got a email from her in a rude tone with a level of expectation that she was so upset that she saw family and friends around her happy and in relationships, and they don’t deserve it and they have it, I deserve it and they don’t she said. She spoke with an urning for these material things that she wanted; a nice home, a great job, a baby, a family etc. She had a tone of a arrogant expectation while went on and on how either jealous she was, how she hated what was happening in her life, how unhappy she was, how depressed she was. Then had a poor me attitude in why hasn’t this happened to her, she exclaimed. She blamed me, God and others for this outcome. She then went on to try to make me and God guilty from these things not happening.

Can you see how she is in a through pattern of ego. Her fears of never having what she wanted created doubting God in it ever happening, she allowed herself to then dwell on what she didn’t have; creating a circular motion of bad things happening. She also expected to sit and wait for it, a self righteous attitude that was getting her nowhere. She never made the thought patterns change, there for her actions never changed, she did nothing to make her situation better, and she expected me to do it, God to make it happen just because she wanted it. Then got mad at us when she still didn’t see the things she wanted happening.

The universe can be very literal. Read this sentence: Im so depressed, nothing is changing, nothing ever goes right, I give up! Just simple thoughts, right? Well lets look at it again: IM SO DEPRESSED—it states that you are depressed, you should say I m wanting to get out of this depression. Better yet I AM getting out of this depression. (we will discuss more on this in further chapters). Then take a look at the rest of the sentence: NOTIHING IS CHANGING—-you are stating that literally nothing is changing. Then the rest :NOTING EVER GOES RIGHT—stating that nothing is ever going to go right if you say that. You said you GIVE UP, if you do why should anyone or the universe help you.

Everyone gets down and it is when we are down the ego can come in and attack our emotions even more. Just be aware of consciously keeping the balance of saying, doing, talking, thinking out of love and not through ego. This is how we begin to live more through spirit, more consciously and begin to Live Through Spirit.

Breaking Patterns:

If you are someone that is seeing patterns in your life that are having a hard time breaking or realizing that those patterns are constantly occurring in your life.

First: Take a look at inside at what YOU need. What have you been ignoring? By first identifying with who you are and what you are needing and realized what needs of yours are not being meant is one of the firsts steps. While looking at this, do this where no judgments come into this, or the needs and wants of another person.

Sometimes when we are in a pattern that is not serving us we tend to do things for others. Sometimes out of love and with good intentions, however it is not for the greater good of our self we are doing things for others, their needs, while ours goes unmet.

Second: look at your insecurities and fears. When you identify with what it is that is stopping you or holding you back you can see that there are some things that you have avoided or resisted that has caused you to become stuck in a certain pattern or not moving forward.

This can happen in any area of your life.

Third: Is looking at the balance of your primary and disowned self that we talked about before. What parts of you are you suppressing and ignoring and why?

The more you can identify and get it out the better.

You can do this by just writing it out and looking at the patterns that emerge.

Exercise: To Balance and to break your patterns

Write out all the patterns that have not served you that you want to break. Then look back on the similarities that are in common. Look at your personalities, fears, emotions behind each one or subject.

Resistance:

One of the other things that I think is so very important to address is RESISTANCE. Resistance plays a huge roll in what can hold you back in life. It is apart of the ego or negative side. It is there for a reason, to block us and to stop us.

Yet the one thing you must remember about resistance is that IT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE>

It is up to us to stand up to it and rise above it.

This is especially true to us creative people and us lightworkers. You must remember that when we are resisting something, that is what we need to be doing.

There is not an easy way or easy way out. Most of the time, it is pushing through that resistance is exactly what we need to be doing.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between us stands resistance.

From Steven Pressfield from the Book: The War of Art

Exercise: to Balance the resistance

Take a look in your life: what are you resisting? What are you hesitant in doing? Or even being?

Make a list of those things that you have always thought of or wanted then look to see why or what you have been that cause of resistance.

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