Energy Update "Crossroad"

“Crossroads” Heck, sometimes life can just seem like it takes a form all its own. We may feel things are chaotic, out of control. For many of us this ends up with us experiencing anxiety or the attachment to outcome. Right now many of us feel this is a place to make change and create some new patterns through choices & decisions to create a catalyst in our lives, but how? The chaos rages inside. The duties, commitments and relationships we connect to have needs that want to be met. We are good to others but perhaps we don’t get the same in return or this is how it seems. Let all this go for a minute. Now free, how would you choose to feel inside? Feel that for a moment. Smile if this feeling pleases you, yes, make your co-workers jealous! This feeling? Keep that in your pocket all of the time, or in your heart. You can do it! This feeling is you constantly, at each turn choosing you over choosing to please. It opens you with no effort to manifestation because when we have no resistance in us? Things come easily. This is where we are supposed to stay, not through force and pretending it is so but intending it is so. The difference with intending is we are allowing. I believe choosing what we want at this juncture it is about choosing how we long term want to feel, then staying in the moment to achieve the long-term effect. We hear a lot about staying present. A big part of staying present is allowing ourselves to see the perfection in what we have, where we are and who we are now. See, if we were supposed to learn it all at once we would. A mantra I’ve carried for many years but find especially helpful now is “You can have it all, just not all at once.” We are incubating many of us, the ideas, attitudes of who we really are so we become it. This practice takes quiet and patience. It takes us (like my article several weeks ago) putting ourselves first and then seeing where, in truth, others fit into our lives. We then allow people around us to realign and that is a gift from us, not something mean we are doing to another. We are now consciously choosing to empower others in place of enabling them. This is our divine nature as I see it. When we believe in others enough for them to care for and love themselves we can let go and allow this to fully bloom in them, for them. The impact it has on us is also a win. So at this crossroads, find your footing in the moment.

Energy Update "Putting Self First"

“Putting Self First” This topic has come up a lot lately! How do we put ourselves first? Our society says its wrong to put you first. I think our hearts know what’s right, when and how, so the first step is tuning into how you feel. If we choose only to listen to society we will stay in a blocked relationship with self, OUR SELF. Feeling indebted to others such as “You have to go or do or be” or beating yourself up for not going is another way to play into this definition by society. Instead decide in the moment what is right for you, act on it and stay with the decision. Don’t go back and beat yourself up later, staying with the decision means you will never go back and judge it. Instead grow from it, you can always make a different choice next time (this concept connects to abundance). This also is you learning how to hold your power for the “inside job”…..to please and fill you. If you find your current circumstances unpleasing, maybe you don’t have enough people around you who understand you right now, there is no support or you feel alone. We all feel this at points. It really is you getting happy with where you are right now that opens the BIGGEST door to staying present, which in turn fills you with peace. You don’t have to trick yourself but shift your perception. If this is hard, set up a reading so you have more tools to work with it. Focus for you on “what is”. A way to think about this is getting to an event and realizing you are not really ‘able’ to be there. Choose how to manage your energy while you’re there. You may choose to rise up and be the life of the party, then choose to have a quiet afternoon the next day. It’s about displacing our energy at points but there is NO MORE PUSHING! It’s about tuning in at each turn to keep the body, soul and mind operating on the same page. Make sure you are present for YOU in each situation you choose. We need to only be doing one task at a time. Be present in the task and you’ll find it more enjoyable for sure!

We Choose our Feelings

A friend of mine reminded me in a conversation a few weeks ago of the importance of remembering, “we choose our feelings”. I’ve always taken this to mean, if you feel low, law of attract or in some cases, trick yourself into feeling good. However, her approach defined it in a new way. Right after talking to this friend I had a situation that brought up big disappointment. I had a choice in the moment and decided at first to react, so naturally, I blamed my kids. I did this because in this moment I didn’t have the freedom to meet the situation to avoid disappointment. I then blamed myself for missing the timing of this event based on it being in another time zone. I gnashed around for a moment and then applied the idea that I can choose my feelings. I changed my feelings to “This situation will come around again, it’s not missed but delayed until it is in perfect alignment for me.” When I said this in my head I felt a little sick. I felt this because I didn’t believe what I was saying. However, I sat a second and stayed with it. What came next surprised me. I had appreciation for my kids. I was here now to do what I was doing and I could see the grander scheme, I could feel it too! I could feel how my kids bring so much to my life, how I need their influence to teach and guide me as much as they need mine. Wow! The next thing, which came up were feelings about me making a mistake. For some of us, including me, it feels when a new mistake comes to our attention all of the mistakes we’ve ever made resurface too. I realized this moment is where I was supposed to be, nowhere else. I had a sense of freedom I had not felt in years! Simple but I find weeks later, I need the reminder in this article to keep approaching each situation this way to regain it as a reflex for life. Lastly, when we choose our feelings and look at them from an objective viewpoint, the more we dismantle the story and replace those feelings with understanding, which creates peace and ultimately love.

Energy Update “The difference between Boasting and Sharing”

“The difference between Boasting and Sharing” School is starting! For all parents, teachers and grandparents sometimes, subtle teachings for the children we love go a long way! I believe I’ve shared this before but my intuition says to share it again. Several years ago I was with some kids. When we met up one of the kids started intensely telling us about what they were doing later that day. They went into great detail, however something bothered me as they spoke. I couldn’t put my finger on it but inside I felt like they were telling everybody listening they are better than everybody. What were they doing? They were boasting. It took me a few hours to see what the other side of boasting. When I did it became a lesson I taught my children and I hope to teach you. What’s wrong with boasting? We separate people. We are telling others (based on our insecurity) that we get to do something and they do not. Doing it makes us feel ‘better’ than others. While this is a temporary fix, it won’t sustain us. If we feel good about ourselves we don’t need to do this. What’s the opposite of boasting? Sharing! Sharing is simply showing gratitude and expectancy with it. “You guys! I feel super excited. I am going to this place, etc. When the child describes what they’ve been told they’ll experience and their attitude is in expectancy (excitement with no attachment to outcome) and gratitude they are in the right place. Statements like “I feel really excited about this!” “I can’t wait to report back on what I learn.” These are inclusive statements. Help your child to see the difference. I also explain this to my kids in an opposite example. A friend playing at our house once said, “I should have been in that higher math class, yada, yada.” That night at the dinner table I talked to my kids about what that friend could have said instead. We came up with this “I am going to work harder next year so I can pass that test to get into the higher math class. I like math and want to do well in it.” This child was speaking to lack, if he has no purpose to be in the high math class other than status, he has nothing! However, if he has goals he’ll likely attain them.

Energy Update "Emerging"

I’ve had messages about Emerging. While I am to understand this is a subtle part of our personal expression and perhaps dimensionality shifting into a higher, more powerful gear, it appears to be an important piece to the puzzle. As I write this I am laughing at the fact that we create our reality and what I am writing about seems a little gossipy to me! The messaging has been we are rising up as though emerging from the depth of a pool of water. I did catch a snippet written by another intuitive, I am so sorry, I cannot remember which source, however there was mention about ascending. This action has been cited in many texts about the energy shifts surrounding 2012. The energy cycle is to culminate in 2016 and this emergence is just a part of the process but is an achievement and plateau on which to rest on some clarity for a moment and feel our power more fully. I’ve read about this and its impact on us as a society. I’ve read dramatic accounts about flashes of light and personal wrestle. Please remember there are many perspectives on many things written in books. I am writing this to remind you, the best way to emerge from water is not to try but to let go and you will rise or float up. It’s in the wrestling where we pull ourselves down.

Energy Update & "Gentle"

“Gentle” I saw this energy pattern in July but want to share it now. There is some evidence I see about refinement in energetic relationships with others and ultimately with oneself. With this wave of energy, I highly encourage you to be gentle with yourself while working through it. It seems we are able to hold a more solid level of peace while experiencing minor or more intense upheaval, which in the past may have distressed us. It is as though the situations that are coming forward on some levels are allowing us to see under the veil, to see the role the other is playing for us so the story from our position is cracking apart and being revealed. When dealing with this with another person, ask them gently, in their own time to rise to a higher place of communication. They may never have been able to put voice to their feelings before but when doing it this time they are guarded. The next part is a choice, you can return with defense or coach them to come the direction you feel is better for all involved. You may sit there with no emotional charge from these dealings. This is good. Ask for clarity on the things to say that take this unfolding to its highest level now Change patterns, remember you choose your feelings. (I’ll have a more in depth article about this in two weeks) If you find yourself in the same feelings playing like a broken record, change the pattern. Apply the things you’ve learned, maybe some of these concepts have come from these very articles. Hold boundaries, ask the universe/guides/angels for support, ask and listen moment by moment to what you want and need, then follow it! Address your feelings as they come up to see them in this apocalyptic way, or under the veil. The reminder is be easy on yourself. Make mistakes and recover through laughing at the abundance in your life to keep bringing you situations from which to learn and grow. Once you feel you’ve got it laugh even harder! This is an affirmation of your power to come back to YOU…..to fully awaken into the true you! The other important process that runs alongside being gentle is stop when you feel confused or overwhelmed. Turn off your mind and take a break. When you’re ready start to feel through what you want to see in your life in the coming months. Allow those feelings to infuse into your cells and through you fully. For me this means feeling great joy around my desires, acknowledging them through my power as these experiences and feelings already exist!

Energy Update....Articulate

"Articulate" I wrote this article three years ago for an art organization's newsletter. I reread it from my art blog and felt it is a great post for this week. .....And a great reminder for me, ehem, I mean all of us! I feel a bit derailed from this place I was three years ago but hope to be self inspired and felt finding this article was of course, no accident! Also, I did not edit the article for this post even thought I now may, say these things a little differently. Enjoy! "Your Inner Art Career Search Engine" This may sound a bit funny to you but I waited anxiously for my art career to come. I'm not sure, but I think many artists are no strangers to anxiety, which I define as the attachment to outcome. I showed my art extensively, hoping to get a sale, hoping I'd be discovered! You know what? This all could have worked but my attitude stood in the way. I was positive but didn't have the key to knowing how to let things really take hold. I didn't know what I really wanted. I was lacking confidence. If you meet me, I'm a go-getter, dynamic and fun. The one key I lacked was BELIEF. Unlike 'faith', belief is a personal rule. We set it for ourselves. Only we know our rules, which are formed by our desires. When we find excuses, blame and negativity seeping into our day, it's time to shift gears and ask yourself what you want to experience in your life? My advice? Live life expectant, responsive and know your belief to be true for you. Looking at everything as an opportunity creates excitement each day. I was at a conference in New York. My feet had blisters and I needed two band-aids. A few minutes later I walked out to the lobby and right there in front of me were two band-aids on the floor. Stunned I walked past them. Then as I got a little further I realized those two band-aids were for me. Now, you don't need to think this through too hard to realize that I asked and I got what I needed. While I was busy judging this situation, a concept came to me and gave me a new way to look at things and at 'mistakes' too. Somebody lost their band-aids. However, if we look at this from a different angle, maybe this person needed to ask for band-aids to learn how to ask for help or maybe they needed to learn about disappointment. They make the choice. They decide if they blame or get angry or choose to step beyond the fear and ask for help. I've seen my son learn about disappointment and what a gift for him to now be able to recognize disappointment without attachment, shift and ask for what he wants or needs. I wish this for my mystery band-aid person too. See, when we fill in our strengths with other's weakness we can actually be doing them a disservice. When we allow in place of enabling....coach people through their weakness, now we are being responsive and expectant of their assured success. Or in some cases allow them to fall on their own devices to rise up and roar! Writing down what you want your life experience to be is powerful. Once you've done that, stick to your rule that "you get what you want and need." When you find your thoughts to be negative, turn them to affirming what you DO want. My personal shift was as simple as this: For 5 years I said to others, "My art career is coming". April 2011 I started saying "My art career is here now." I had nothing more than I did before but I kept believing, it was here, feeling it inside, taking small actions each day to see it was true. Since then opportunity has come & the more I say "My art career is here now", the more I notice my confidence soar and people stand up and take notice! What's the difference? The first phrase, "My art career is coming" comes from a place of shame filled with "shoulds." It should come soon, I should make money, I promise, I'll sell something soon, etc. Unknowingly, I was draining myself of worth each time I said it! Get noticed for your infectious, confident self! Starting today, write down what you want your life experiences to be and what you need to do to make your art be its fullest. Keep reminding yourself its here now, feel it and live it. You'll see a change in how others receive you. You know what? This is what we want. We want to be connected to and inspire others, because all of us know, that brings everything else we want. Have fun setting your life up just the way you want it and don't judge the how. Think of my band-aids!