Got To LOVE Instant Feedback!

The body really IS an amazing thing. And so are our Guides! The Mind-Body-Spirit connection…also quite fabulous. We should all be listening to it at all times!

I’ve been in a bit of a funk as of late. I’ve recently finished a year long, rather intensive, retreat based leadership program, and am now in a space of “just being” for a bit of time. My soul loves to connect and play, so my “just being” needs a tad of adjustment so that I’m more fully honoring the connection/play piece of me. I know this to be true, because in addition to feelings of mild isolation, my unbalanced state is showing up in my body in the form of inflammation and achiness which can be tied to nothing else.

A friend of mine (and Mentor) had suggested to me that I should check out a program called InterPlay. She’s been suggesting this for almost a year. She says that based on my personality and soul type, I would LOVE it. I have neglected her suggestions until today.

So here is what I find interesting. I went online to check out the program, found that there is a bi-weekly class about an hour from me, and checked my schedule to see what I’d have to move around to make this happen. Yep I can do this. I will make the call tomorrow. I then head upstairs to my office to wait for a client, and notice that as I am heading up the stairs….my body feels really good. Light. Effortless movement. VERY DIFFERENT then I’ve been feeling for the past few weeks! Is it my imagination?

As I step into my office, still thinking about how good I felt physically (all of a sudden and seemingly out of nowhere) I get an urge to pick up a deck of my oracle cards and start shuffling. As I shuffle and start asking my guides for whatever info they have for me today….a card flies out of the deck and lands face up on the floor. And what do you suppose it said? ….. “INSTANT FEEDBACK” Ta Da! I started laughing, looked up and said “NO SHIT!” (My guides do not care if I swear) I stood there laughing, now with complete knowledge and trust, that this class is something that will enhance my life in ways I have yet to discover. Can’t wait to go.

LOVE the Mind-Body-Spirit connection! LOVE my Guides! And love Instant Feedback! Are you listening to YOURS?

PS: So, just as I go to post this, I had the urge to grab the deck to make SURE the wording was in fact “Instant Feedback”. I had intended to look through the deck one by one to find THAT card again since it had been shuffled back in…..and in my haste, a group of cards fell to the floor face down. I picked them up and turned them over…..and I’ll let YOU guess what words I stood there looking at. YEP…AGAIN! “Instant Feedback”! My JOY Guides Rock.

Peace Train

My dear friend Linda from Wisconsin sent me this YouTube clip. It contains a performance of a song that most of us Baby Boomers (and hopefully everyone) will recognize. The words…..speak wonderfully to what the mission of The Smile Tribe is about! For any of you following who don’t know what The Smile Tribe is….get with the program! LOL… Just kidding…and DO check it out: http://www.thesmiletribe.com

Here is the clip, ENJOY!

I’ve Been “Blacklisted”!

So…I get about a gazillion emails a day, many of which are marketing pitches. Ok, not really a gazillion, yet quite a few. I know I am not alone…you are likely getting them too.    :)

I got one today from a company that I know I have “unsubscribed” from before. So, today I quickly checked them out, confirmed for myself that I am not currently interested in their services and proceeded to follow their un-subscribe procedure.  During the procedure I was asked to give a reason for my action. So I did. I wrote the following in the box:

“It’s really nothing personal. I am not even sure who you are and do not recall signing up for your mailings. It may be that I did, yet I do not remember. In any case, I am cleaning out the email clutter and wish to be removed. ”  (or something very close to this)

Here is what I got back from them as a confirmation. I think it’s actully set into their auto-responder…

You have been unsubscribed from our newsletters and all contact lists.

 

  This is the last email you will receive from us. We have added you to our “blacklist”, which means that our system will refuse to send you any other email, without manual intervention by our administrator.

 

 

I am sitting here laughing. So, here is a company who is trying to build a bunch of loyal customers (who will REFER people to them), and when you ask to be removed from a list that you never signed up for in the 1st place…they “BLACKLIST” you!   WOW….what fabulous people skills!  I’ll be sure to remember them when I AM ready for their line of services. And what really amazes me here…is that the 3 guys who have created and run this business are, according to their bio’s,…all top business and marketing executives/ consultants.   LOL

The kind hearted person in me wants to point out to them that their choice of words in this procedure is…well,  just a tad less then customer service friendly. And yet, I’ve already expended enough energy in their direction. This was my chuckle for the day.

Off to Smile at Strangers now…..

Much Love & Laughter to anyone who reads this.

L

 

The HIGH of Being On Purpose!

You know you are on purpose when your whole body is a buzzing….and you want to hop out of your chair and jump for joy….and you have the urge to emerge  ….full of potential to make a difference in the world in which we live. Full of life, and full of love, and full of precious energy to gift into the world….when you want to dance, and sing, and PLAY and fly free with joy and wild abandon…..and radiate your love and compassion to every soul you can possibly touch.You know you are on purpose……when you feel as though you live…..to make a difference. WHEW! That is how I am feeling this morning. Smiling at Strangers…..has me feel high. Smiling at YOU…..has me feel Love.

A “Visit” For Christie N.

November 26, 2008

(Post from OLD blog) 

Well I started this blog quite awhile ago, then got busy with my life and neglected to come and start documenting my psychic happenings and experiences. I had one occur a few days ago while talking with a client of mine, Christie N. I’ve known Christie for a number of years now, although I do not know much about her life prior to the last few years. We are engaged in conversation, up in my office (which is also my “scared space” in a small apartment on the second level of my home) ….when the letter “A” appears to me. When I say it “appears”, I am talking about an internal viewing…somewhat peripheral. I ask her who’s name starts with A…she is confused, but then says “well, my mothers name was Anya, but she’s been gone for many years.”  I didnt say anything else and we proceeded into a conversation about her mother. While she was talking, the name “Anna Maria” came flying into my internal vision, initially from the right….up and over….zooming into that inner peripheral vision space. ( this is the best way to describe it…I wish I could articulate this better).  I said “who is Anna Maria?”

She looks at me….and says, “well, my mother’s mother was Ida Maria.”  Bingo!  As soon as she said that, I “saw” (in the upper right internal peripheral vision area) a rolling pin. Yes…a rolling pin. I asked her, “who was the baker?” She said “Well, neither one professionally however I just bought a loaf of Cardamom bread because I used to bake it with my grandmother. I sometimes find it sold around here, but it is never as good as the bread she made!”

We dropped the topic after that and proceeded to discuss other things. About 20 minutes later, we got up to leave, opened the door to the hallway and BOTH of us at once said “who’s baking bread?” as we were totally overcome with the most delicious smell of  freshly baking bread that I have ever smelled!   We came downstairs to where I live….opened the door to my apartment, and NOTHING.  There was NOT A THING in the oven, and no smells of any kind.

It was Ida Maria and Anya upstairs in my office….there to tell Christie they were with her.  I LOVE when this happens!

I will add….that Christie is a VERY funny woman, and when I told her that I felt her mother and grandmother were there with her, she immediately looks up toward the ceiling and said ” I swear mom, I don’t really LIKE  Sex! He makes me do those things!’  I laughed so hard I damn near peed my pants. Gotta love our funny friends, both incarnate and in spirit….. all are such a treasure.

“Stop…Look…Listen” Protection At Its Finest!

Orig date of this writing, October 08:

One morning back in September, as I awoke…I heard the words “stop, look, listen!”  Knowing that whatever it is I am “thinking” as I wake up from a deep sleep is quite often a message (I refer to this as “streaming vibes”)…I wondered to myself just what it was that I was supposed to pay attention to”? As I flipped the blankets back and swung my legs out of bed, I notice a bright red oval spot on my shin. It was odd. Not itching or swollen, but hot. Normally I would just blow something like this off yet I had just gotten the message to pay attention, and I was due to leave for a week long retreat in just a couple of days, so I followed my intuition to have it checked out 1st thing that morning.

The Dr. indicated that it seemed to be a mystery. Completely inconclusive. However, since I was about to travel he decided to treat it as if it were perhaps Lyme Disease from a tick bite and wrote me a prescription for 3 weeks of some mystery antibiotic. Well, about 3 hours later…I had developed a HUGE bulls eye rash and I was swollen from above my knee to down into my ankle. I went back to the Dr at lunchtime so he could see the progression, and was I glad that I did. He then noticed that in that 3 hour span, in addition to the shocking swelling, there was also a red streak traveling down my shin and pooling at my ankle. He then declared it a mysterious and venomous bite, perhaps a Brown Recluse and it must have just happened that morning. Long story short (er). Because I got the message to “stop and look”….I sought medical attention prior to the full onset of symptoms and had the meds in my body ASAP. This prevented me from having the disfiguring, long term, open gaping wound that is associated with the flesh killing bite. While I felt achy and arthritic for a couple of weeks, today, I have only an odd discoloration where the initial red spot was. I am so grateful that I listened to my guides as they were surely protecting me that morning.

OH, and I searched high and low for the damn spider….ripped apart my entire bed…and never found that dang thing. That’s when my husband said “how many spiders do they say the average person eats each year in their sleep?”  Bastard!  

Coming Out of The Woo Woo Closet

I had begun posting Intuitive stuff in a different blog (privately) last year. I have decided that I just want ONE blog for now…and will have an “Intuitive” topic here on my main blog. Here is the 1st post from that other blog. It is from February o8.

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I have officially stepped out of the closet with my Woo Woo. And, it’s both exciting and  scary.

Just what IS my Woo Woo? Well, its NOT a naughty body part like it sounds. (lol) I am referring to my Intuitive Abilities. I am ready now to own them fully and it has taken me over 40 years to get to this point in my life.

It feels good to be out.

My earliest recollection was at about 5 or 6 years old when I saw a face in my bedroom window on a pretty regular basis. Not a face looking IN the window…but a face that seemed to my 5 year old brain as what I imagined the man in the moon to look like. Sometimes I would look at it and wonder “is that real?” and when I would wonder that, the shade would snap itself up and, quite frankly, SCARE the HELL out of me! I would then yank the covers up over my head and not look out again. It was only last year, 41 years later, that my sister, (one year older then me), started to tell me about a face she would see in our bedroom in the SAME place I saw it…the light bulb went off…that WAS real after all!

There are so many things that have happened to me over the years, that I did already believe what I had seen was real…but when she shared HER story with me, it certainly erased ANY doubt.

Over the years I have read many books on the topic of intuition and all things psychic. My favorite author/teacher is Sonia Choquette. And through her and her guidance and teachings, I have finally decided to step on out of the closet and embrace this gift FULLY. I am currently a student of Sonia’s, having earned a Level 2 Six Sensory Practitioner Certification, and plan to continue studying with her to deepen my awareness and abilities.

The purpose of this blog (now this section in my MAIN blog) is twofold. One, I feel it will help me to embrace it more fully, by being able to document many past and present experiences. Documenting them, for me, makes them more solid. Getting them out of my head and out into the world, is a form of manifestation as well. I also hope to inspire anyone else who is out there, sitting on the “Woo Woo” fence….to hop off with me! I want to encourage people to embrace this gift within themselves in order to live a more joyful and satisfying life, guided at the very least, by your own higher knower. For ME, intuition itself is a big piece of my purpose, as I am “a connector”. This is a message that has been given to me in my dreams on multiple occasions. I used to think that this had to do with my love of people in general, and that it meant I was supposed to do work which would bring people together in both a fun and life-developmental way. (I am always ALL about having fun & human connectedness) I am coach, and was headed in the direction of creating a series of fun, interactive workshops…..and now I am having a realization that the message about being a “connector”….was not about connecting people together with other people (although I am pretty good at that) …it is actually about the connection between people and their higher support systems, their guides etc. So, in my work, the coaching I do with my clients, I am now more fully accessing this info for people, and it has been incredibly helpful as I coach people on their journeys to finding joy and purpose in their lives.

Well….this is the beginning. I will be using this (section of my) blog to record and share various psychic moments, and learnings, in my life over the years. Some obvious, some more subtle….but my hope is that as you the reader takes this in, it may inspire a memory or two for you as well….and encourage you to Embrace YOUR Intuition more fully!

With Love & Woo Woo to all!

Never Let Kitty Eat Easter Basket Grass!

OK, I must post this…it’s too funny not to.

So last year one of my cats must have gotten into my daughter’s Easter basket for some goodies.  I never saw him do this….very sneaky he was!  SO how did I find out? Well, Spaz (yes it’s an appropriate name) came hopping over me on the couch….looking behind himself as if he were being chased by someone. Then he lept off the couch and started running around the room….looking back…running some more….looking back….running some more….etc. I could NOT figure out what his problem was, it just appeared as if he were loosing his mind!

THEN….I noticed it! ….. The strand of green easter basket grass…..complete with a little chocolate egg-like attachment…..dangling from kitty’s back end!

I ran to the kitchen for paper towels….THE END.

Now…you may be thinking to yourself, what are the chances of THAT happening, right? Well they are better than you’d imagine.  Because the same cat had another incident like this a few years ago, except instead of it being a strand of Easter basket grass….it was the elastic string that held together the store roasted chicken that we’d had for dinner the night before. Imagine my surprise, AND the CAT’s surprise, as I went to grab it…..pulled (not knowing what it was yet) and it snapping back to hit Kitty in the a**!?

I promise to do my very best to keep stringy things away from kitty…from this day forward!

Love & Laughter to you….

Breaking My FaceBook Addiction

Well well well. So you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! What trick? Well FaceBook of course!

I resisted for many a day…then, I caved. I joined FaceBook. Not only did I join…but I got every one of my friends (in my age bracket) that I could, to join with me! It was FUN! What a great way to stay connected! I am a connector by nature so FaceBook felt VERY Intoxicating!

Then….it happened. I started getting friend requests from friends of friends of friends of friends of friends! What a delight!  Or so I thought. You see, I was not ON FaceBook to market any gizmo or gadget or e-book or anything. My motivation truly WAS to connect.  And now….I am being marketed to death by a slew of people that I do not know. “Come to my e-seminar….buy my e-book….be one of the 1st 10 to respond or you’ll miss out on this or that”…etc. WHEW, I am exhausted! I am feeling a bit like I have a FaceBook hang-over! Shame on me for being such a friend-slut I suppose.  I got caught up in all of the connections and fun and I turned a blind eye to the lurking reality that for MANY MANY people, FB is a HUGE marketing machine.  I am not against the concept of this and I truly hope that those who are using it for this are hugely successful, however, this is not why I joined.  I don’t mind at all being solicited by peeps who’s groups I’ve joined…. that is not the problem. The problem is with all of the people who are soliciting me who I only agreed to be their friend.  Silly me, I was so naive!

My heart has now led me to start “un-friending” all of those people who do NOT wish to get to know me, and only hope to sell me something.

For me, FaceBook is a way to stay connected to my real friends. And, I will openly admit….that I have MADE some real friends there too. I just know now not to leave myself too unbuttoned….lest I should encounter a FaceBook Marketing Molestation.

Know that I DO love facebook, I love my FB friends….AND that I no longer friend any Tom, Dick or Harry…or Tina, Dara or Henrietta that comes along.

Love & Laughter to you!

Advice From Dad. Still Telling Me What to do From The Other Side!

I lost my father in April 05. A friend of mine suggested that I go see a medium that she had been to, who can give you messages from your deceased loved ones….for guidance in your life and for your future. I wasn’t completely sure about this, yet I’d been aware of “the other side” from things that had been happening to ME all of my life. I decided to go. I had nothing to loose and I was very curious about what this woman would tell me, even though I had no real pressing life issues that I needed advice on.

For a week or so before my appointment, I “talked” to my dad. I said things to him like “Dad, I am going to a woman next week who can hear you, and tell me anything you want me to know. I want you to come with me. Please come with me.” I did this MANY times….including on the way to my appointment. “Dad, are you with me?”

The woman was lovely. She was NOT weird. She was not a “gypsy” kind of woman. Perfectly normal. Just like me. With amazing accuracy, she stated sharing with me all kinds of things from my maternal and paternal grandmothers, many others, and finally….MY DAD came through! She was able to describe his last moments of life for me…(again with complete accuracy) which was very interesting since I had not told her that he was deceased. It was comforting. Actually, the whole conversation became like a “normal” conversation to me. “They” were talking to me, through her about things going on in my life. It was very interesting.

Then..she says “They want to know what’s going on with your work?”

I said…”Nothing, why?”

She said “They say you are not happy and that you will be making a change in about 2 years. Do you know what they are talking about?” 

ME: “No, but I AM starting to feel like it’s time to sell my business and move on yet I have no idea what I want to do.”

SHE: “They tell me you will become a life coach.” 

ME: “What’s a life coach?”

SHE: “I don’t really know, but they are telling me that you will become one and that you’ll be very good at it and very successful. Actually, your father is telling me that you’re already doing it.”

ME: “I have NO idea what he is talking about, and I do not have ANY idea what a life coach is, or even what they do.”

SHE: “Well, they are being very persistent with this message, so would you make them a promise?”

ME: “Ok”.

SHE: “At least go research life coaching?”.

ME: “OK”

Fast forward 3 1/2 years. I kept that promise. And, when I researched Life Coaching, I knew right away and instinctively really, that becoming a certified life coach was exactly what I wanted to do. I remember reading about it out loud to my husband, and he looks at me and says “you already DO that with people.” Well, I enrolled and spent the next couple of years in school, sold my old business, passed my exams and now do work that I LOVE.

Couple my coaching practice with my own intuitive abilities, and my career is getting more interesting by the minute.

I still listen for clues. I get guidance in many ways. And just like the old saying about the shoe-makers kids who go without shoes…I cannot always “read” in complete depth for myself.  (this would be because my intellect sometimes wants things to be a certain way and so tries to over-ride my intuition)  So, on occasion, I head out for a reading….