Energy Update "Balancing Activity & Rest"

I must confess my writing time has been channeled into a project. I am amiss to come up with the fancy articles I was before! If you're new to my email list, go visit my blog to see past posts. If you're hungry for knowledge and like what I teach, you'll find good, free information there. I am seeing the universal patterns changing and becoming less obvious. So I reach to you dear readers. What do you want to know? Please email me with general questions about intuition, reading, universal energy and relational situations as a construct for better understanding (Pseudo scenarios). Please no personal questions you want read for you though. Lets keep it something for everyone! However, in saying that, I am happy to answer to scenarios where you can’t see the contrast in the situation, keeping the names changed, etc. This weekend past I was in Duluth and I stayed with some friends. One of them said, "Amy you should start a website called, ASK AMY." Well, it is not a website but here it is! That was quick (zero point manifestation, check that out!) Now down to business. If there is a theme its about finding the balance in activity and rest. Some odd weeks ago I wrote about it being a choice to meet a situation with stress or letting go and flowing with it. An example of this could be looking for your car keys. If you get stressed about where they are it may delay you more. If you start looking for them knowing you are going to find them you create way less stress for your body. How many times have you not found your keys? Likely, not too many times. The same idea works with the theme of activity and rest. Allow yourself to feel good about both the times you are getting activity and rest. It is a skill to let go of labels such as if I rest I am "Lazy", "I better keep going so I get it all done." Trusting and believing there is room for both rest and activity is a big piece in this puzzle! Tuning in to how you feel is another. Practice this and see time free up for some, I'm certain, much needed rest! On the other side if you are having trouble activating, you have fear. What do you want in life? What are you letting stop you? Fear and resistance go hand in hand. Honor your feelings but keep moving through the fear to go into the activation of what you really want in life! Small steps and challenging the Universe to show you, bring you information, support you. These are tools that are new to our tool belt but if you start using them, in time you'll feel like you've got the world by the tail!

Energy Update Empowering

Many of us are coming out of experiencing a deeply rooted, long-time fear. While it may not have been our biggest fear it was an old one. We fleshed out parts of it last month. If there were some drama filled experiences, which bubbled up last month they were to help you quickly shift in life. Remember your objective at this juncture is to nourish, nurture, accept and love yourself. Easier said than done? I get it! We are each to tune into our needs, our desires and act from there. This means if people are asking you to do something for them, tune in and see if it is yours to do. Don’t judge it! If you start saying to yourself, “Nobody else will help them do “X” I’d better help them, etc. that’s you judging it! You need to focus on feeling if it’s for you through your heart (discernment). You in fact are not the only one who can help. Saying you are the only one is you indeed being self focused in the wrong way. If it is for you to do, do it, be it and don’t be afraid of it. If it is not, have the courage to be honest and share how you can and cannot help. If you’ve helped this person or situation in the past and gotten burned, say no! That is how to keep a pure stream of love for oneself and others too!

Energy Update "From a Child's Eyes"

I believe and have taught my kids when a person is saying something mean about you TO YOU, what they are actually doing is projecting their own fears onto you. My daughter mentioned to her brother that she does not agree with my statement. A few weeks later I spoke to her about this. She entertained that she understands what I am saying through an example I shared. However, she still feels it is not ALWAYS the case. I took the always away with me because truth is not about always or never, truth is fulfilled on the premise things are ever changing. Later that evening I could see the difference in what I am saying and what my daughter could see. When somebody approaches us through a low emotional state: reactive, bullying, disagreeable, etc. They are projecting their shadow onto us. However, when somebody makes an observation, “Amy, you are speaking too negatively, lets change the topic.” This is what Jane could see as they are not projecting onto us but instead holding a boundary. So when you feel a social cue of somebody moving away from you to support their boundary, look at yourself too to see what energy they are naturally responding to within you. But if they are blaming you, “putting something on you (scape goating) “you were this or that”, remember it comes from them, its not yours but theirs. Listen to children they have ample points to make. I find when I meet my kids in what they have to offer, our relationship foundation is then based on mutual respect and that is a win/win for this altruistic heart!

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.