Showing posts with label On My Path. Show all posts
Showing posts with label On My Path. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2015

"I AM my Soul"

       In the spring I channeled high frequency "I AM" affirmations from Lord Melchizedek, along with their meanings printed in a guidebook, that he wished to be brought forth.  They were to be printed on business size cards, rather than the traditional size of an oracle card, so that people can choose "the card of the day" and take it with them to refer to throughout the day.  
       On the surface, this may seem like a straightforward project.  Little did I anticipate!  Challenges abounded.  At times, one right after the other, to even the point where my husband was shaking his head.  To my exclamations of, "I'm done!", "I am not doing this!", both my husband and my friend, Bridget, would remind me, "It's a learning experience!"  And then, my Indigo warrior would kick in and I'd go back to it, knowing full well my most recent "I AM's" were not of a high vibration for either me or the project.  Of course, this "going Indigo", as we've come to call it, was part of the process.
       It has been most definitely a learning experience, not only in the how to get it done, but the Spiritual lessons.  This has been huge.  Even to the point of receiving defective boxes in order to connect to the company representative somewhere in the country and hearing from my guides that I needed to send her a link to this blog. REALLY?!!  Yes, really.
       Lessons of patience and self-love.  To really feel in my very depths that "nothing matters, really", for truly, "I AM my Soul" stepping into the magnificence of who I AM as that Soul, and loving that Soul living in this not-so-perfect body.  Reverend Dan Chesbro said at our ordination into The Order of Melchizedek that the most important thing is to love yourself as much as God loves you.  To go about your day, living your life as the Light you really are.
       God, my Soul and my Spiritual team led me on a journey to live and learn from the wisdom and beauty of what I channeled so that I can gratefully bring it forward to anyone who seeks me out.  And so it is.

Friday, November 28, 2014

LESSONS

       I knew it had been some time since the last post, but I did not know just how long until I logged on Thanksgiving morning.  Ten months to the day. I am sure some have thought I abandoned the blog.  I only post when I am guided.  Plus, how does one top the last post?  It, basically, says it all!

         The last months have presented challenges to many.  There has been upheaval on personal and global levels.  I and my family are no exception. Throughout, I reminded myself that life happens FOR me, not TO me.  We are not victims and there is ever choice.  I often remembered a class with Rhys Thomas during the "Growing The Healer Within" program.  We were absorbing a point that had been made, followed by groaning about "are we ever going to get 'there'." Rhys asked us if we were still breathing. If you are, then you will have issues.  At the time, I thought it was a rather deterministic, pessimistic way of looking at things.  Now, I realize we are always learning, evolving, whether here on the earth plane or in spirit. How we approach these lessons while in school on earth determines how much peace and joy we create in our lives.  Sometimes we are our own "worst enemy". 

       In the spring I started hearing (I am clairaudient) "Melchizedek".  Lord Melchizedek brought in the energy of Third Phase Magnified Healing, so this did not surprise me.  I asked for clarity, as I did not initially understand. Ultimately, I was led to the website of Rev. Daniel Chesbro.  He is a graduate of three divinity schools, led a church and was led to form an Order of Melchizedek.  He wrote "The Order of Melchizedek".  After reading it, I knew I was being called to The Order.  In September, my husband and I were ordained into The Order of Melchizedek by Rev. Chesbro when he came to Kindred Spirits in Connecticut.  It is an Order for people in service to God.  

       The only teaching that is significant is to love yourself as much as God loves you.  Dan also refers to dying as graduating.  As the January post calls living on earth "school", this was awesome to hear.  The ordination does give me the legal authority to perform ceremonies as an officiant.  I am not sure if or how this component will unfold.  He said we will be shown if this is part of our commitment.


         In closing this post, know that it is your Divine mission to love yourself as much as God loves you.  We came from God's unconditional love, but we have forgotten what that feels like.  It is now time to make the effort to remember this.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Wisdom from My Illumined Guides

       My first post for 2014 is amazing to me as it is a surprise message I received from my illumined Spiritual team on January 13, 2014.  The wisdom and teachings are phenomenal and I have been "sitting" with the impact of it since then.  It is now time to share it and I write it here, except for two paragraphs that were personal.  I am sure that content was to get my attention and to serve as validation.  Otherwise, the following is as I received it:

       "We came here to experience.  We are one and came from Oneness.  We came from perfection and unconditional Love.  We came here knowing everything, and everything about our Soul purpose and Spiritual purpose.
       When we chose to come back to 'school', we brought with us that part of Source and Oneness that is me, that is you.  We only bring back the amount of energy we need for this incarnation and energy includes the issues of past lives - and only those lives - that impact on the lessons we chose to work on for this life.
       Our societal values say the negative things.  Our minds run with these messages of lower frequencies and we interpret that we are broken, in need of healing.
       Sometimes our 'highest and best' includes negative experience.
That is how we grow.  We interpret negative experience as punishment, and 'ease' as being in our highest and best.  We can experience ease, joy, flow, once our minds and egos truly accept that we came here to experience, to grow, and it is how we deal with the experience that make up the lesson.  And, we are ever at choice.
         Some lives are more karmic than others.  An easier life can be to experience and learn a specific issue, and only that issue.  Sometimes we volunteer to be an instrument to balance the karma for someone else.
      Truly, ease and earthly wealth and how, if you acquire it, is decided at the contract, with the proviso that your choices, and how you deal with both the good and the bad, changes things as you go along.
       The choices you make are never judged when you return.  Only you decide whether you achieve the growth and purpose of each incarnation.
       You have questions about getting in touch with the 'knowing'.  It truly is the practice of living.  It is also getting in touch with knowing we came here to experience and no experience is good or bad - it serves the purpose of your incarnation.  The more you interpret things that happen in your life as bad, the less joy and you will dwell in lower frequencies. As you heard, it's how we deal with the experience that you have labeled as negative.  As you realize its purpose and go with the flow of knowing that the experience has purpose, and growth, the easier it is to be in flow and experience joy.  Good experiences are growth, as well.
       Throughout your practice of living here at school, remember that you are one with Source, you are beautiful, you are Love, you are awesome, you have choice.  A positive choice is to remember this - to remember your God-given magnificence.  It is time for humanity to recognize this.  No one is to be treated less than the Divine you are.  Speak your truth with love for and of yourself, and with compassion for the other.  Compassion for the other does not mean enabling, does not mean allowing someone to mistreat or disrespect you, either as a human or that Divine being you are.  Stand tall.  Stand in the Love that surrounds you.  You truly do have a daily team of Spiritual Cheerleaders around you.  As you know, they change, depending on what is best for you.  Still know they are there.  Continue to ask for illumined beings of Light.  We will guide you to fulfill your contract, but only if you ask.  For choice is always the ruling factor of the human condition.
       You are being asked to share and teach this.  It is your choice whether you do it or not."

       With gratitude, I have chosen to share this.
              

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

A WINDING PATH



       It has been quite some time since my last post.  Usually, I get a nudge from Spirit to post, that there is something to channel, or I just know it is time to say something.  I am not quite sure how to bring this blog up-to-date, as I kid you not when I say the path has been a winding one.  A very unexpected one.

       Shortly after the last post, an unanticipated event hit me out of the blue.  I asked my angels and guides for help, guidance.  I heard, "you are being pulled, new direction."  OK.  I asked for additional signs and they came from unexpected sources, including a call from someone that I had not talked with in about three months and who had no idea what was going on.  Out of context she said something that I had to have her repeat.  Unwittingly, she had become my earth messenger, so I knew the next step to take.  Awesome.

       Shortly after that, my daughter, her three children, my husband and I all got sick within a few days of one another.  I went down for the count.  We heard from our medical teams that there was something going around that was taking a long time for people to recover from.  Again, I went to Spirit for guidance.  Heard that I had been "pulled" and it was time to "stop and be."  I had no choice but to stop and be.  Though it was not "fun" being sick, it provided a time to go inward, heal what needed attention and what was now the time to heal.  It was a time for messages, tying up loose ends, insight.  This took me by surprise as I thought Ed and I were suppose to bring Soul Entrainment(TM) forward.  We are, but in Divine timing as he also needed to go inward.  

       The media focused on the end of the Mayan calendar last year.  The real energetic work has been this year for many people.  There has been upheaval, turmoil, new directions, the end of some relationships and the start of new ones, etc. A time of deep learning and the releasing of what no longer serves us.  All of this as a way to prepare us to go forward in ways we could never have imagined. 

       One of the important lessons/messages is that there are many people who stay in their ego and are (to quote a dear friend) "chasing spirituality" rather than living it.  The way of man is limiting.  We must always remember we are a Soul having a human experience.  Our Soul came from a Source of unconditional love and we are returning to that unconditional love.  We must periodically remember who we really are.  We are not merely this body in this world.  This physical body is hosting the Soul.  This time of going inward and staying put gave me the time to do "The 40 Day Love Affair with Your Self" by Karen Paolino Correia.  Anyone who knows me, knows of my admiration and love for Karen.  She is an Earth Angel and I cherish her as a teacher. I highly recommend this.  It is done as an online program and it was perfect timing for me to do this during this time.  You will see a difference in yourself at the end of this.  Take your time with it and really go with the process.

       Linda being Linda, I had a go around with my doctor in mid October.  I was still getting a periodic low-grade temperature, and the physical stress of this caused a slight flare of lupus. I am not a good patient for traditional medicine.  It has often failed me, and my daughter.  It has been really important for my husband, but we still support him with supplements and energy work that is often frowned upon.  And the doctors marvel at how well he does!  At any rate, I am a member of the Rhode Island Holistic Healers Association and was part of the committee planning the Holistic Awareness Day that was held November 3rd at the Sheraton in Warwick, RI.  (It was fabulous!!!)  The co-founder of the association who heads it (Susanne Dillon)  works with therapeutic grade essential oils.  I started working with her and an oil I purchased from her finally ended the temperature.  The oils have a frequency and science is now looking at the benefit of the oils.  It is, really, another form of energy healing.  I have started working with a couple of others and, yesterday, my daughter embarked on a program for symptoms that have been resistant to traditional approaches.  I have started studying this.  It is important to use therapeutic grade oils for healing.  Looks like this is another tool in my tool box.  Love it.

       And so, the winding path continues.  And I welcome it, love it.  I would be bored otherwise!!! Guess Spirit knows this and uses this.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Be Open to Guidance

       We have been so busy with a variety of activities that I decided to just "be" for a couple of days to re-center.  My husband had a doctor appointment this morning.  Upon leaving, he suggested we go to a specific place.  I responded that I really was not prepared to do this and he noted that the idea "just popped into my head."  My response was "hmmmm". I am so glad I listened to what he had been guided to do.  I was "off duty" but he wasn't.  I always say I am in service to God/Spirit to help in any way I am guided, but I had decided to just be for a while and my listening antenna was not up as much as it usually is.  Not that there is anything wrong with this, as taking care of ourselves is so very important.  We cannot help another if we are not taking care of ourselves.
       So, I said, OK, let's go.  We proved to be quite a team as we were placed in a situation to help and teach.  God and Spirit have very interesting ways to tap into our willingness to use the gifts we have been given.  It turned out to be an awesome day in a very unexpected way. I feel blessed and ever so grateful.
       

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Listening to the Wisdom of Your Soul

The journey of facilitating Soul Entrainment(TM) has been
interesting and fascinating.  It is an awe inspiring experience to 
bear witness to the miracles of change and healing.
        Yesterday, we attended the Advanced Soul Entrainment (TM)
class taught by Karen Paolino Correia.  It included being certified
in Soul Mediumship.  Using the technique of Soul Entrainment, one can be guided to meeting an illumined being in Spirit.  We observed our volunteer client connect Soul to Soul with her mother, who had passed, to receive guidance and clarity.  This leads to a healing of unbelievable proportions which has a ripple effect that reaches out to others, raising the vibration of everyone involved, as well as Mother Earth.
                When I look back to the time of my injury, or cosmic boot, six years ago, I would never believe then that I would be where I am now.  The journey has exceeded all expectations from what I first thought at my first Reiki class.  Everything that I am, and all I have experienced, in this life and my previous lives, have led to this moment in time. I know that I shall never die, just change form.  I know that the energy channeled to us from God, has miraculous capability if the receiver is open to receive and heal.  I know that the wisdom of the Soul is infinite, since we are infinite, as we are souls having an Earthly experience to advance the evolution of 
our souls.  Our soul knows everything and the technique to access this has been given to a special Earth Angel who is now teaching it to others.
            I am also bearing witness to the impact of this training on my husband who is blossoming into the excitement of what this work entails and the impact it has on people, including the healing it has given him.  At our age, we feel very much alive and happy.
            I am so blessed and so grateful.  


Sunday, November 4, 2012

Who Am I?

                                          
        It has been a while since I have posted.  It has been an interesting time.  When I first started this blog I titled it saying I am a Reiki Master.  That I am, in both Usui and Karuna Reiki.  Recently I have had an identity "crisis".  
       Over the recent years I have dedicated myself to a "spiritual" path.  As time has progressed, I have embraced the gifts we are all capable of developing, that is, communicating with Spirit, listening to my spiritual guides.  For, example, your "gut feeling" is a way your guardian angels communicate with you.
       Guidance has led me to specific readings, classes.  I was guided to meet the magnificent Christina Cross and I learned how to access the Akashic Records.  Then Magnified Healing with the awesome Gladys Ellen.  Then Angel Messenger classes (basic and advanced) with Karen Paolino.  Add into this mix, table tipping and another physical mediumship class.  So, I began to say, What am I?  Who am I?  Am I a Reiki Master, an Angel Messenger?
         I am created by Divine Light and I am part of the beautiful energy of Source.  And that is all I need to know.  I am Divinely guided and I have dedicated the remaining years of my life to be in service to Spirit, mankind and to have a lot of fun in the process.
          Last spring I heard the word "trance".  I literally went, "HUH!"  ME!  My response was, "tell me again."  Time went by and I heard the word again.  I still said, "tell me again".  The third time came in a message from a trance medium who was a guest at the physical mediumship class my husband and I took.  Now, I could not ignore this.
          There definitely was concern about my ability to do this.  And feeling so overwhelmed with the enormity of this.  The word TRUST comes into play here.  I was not, and am not afraid, but there was the question of whether I would get this "right".  
           There is a beautiful soul, dynamite person at the First Spiritualist Church of Rhode Island with whom I am studying. (I  have the honor of being a trustee of the Church.)
                 Letting my path unfold and asking for continued guidance for my highest and best and the highest and best of everyone connected to me has led to beautiful, rewarding, fun experiences.
            I am a part of the Divine with skills to help the people who are sent to me.  And so it is.
            Love and Light.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Energy Shifts

       It is interesting to look back at my last post, the message from Mother Mary.  Feeling "not quite right" has been a frequent comment from many.  It has definitely been a time for  lightworkers to work on their personal vibration, myself included.  

       As much as I am living my passion to teach, deliver messages, do healing work, I have been feeling that doing this is interfering with time for me.  I cannot say that I have been meditating by the definition of meditation.  I have been "vegging".  A very strong need to sit by the water and just be, not thinking about anything.  Some very restless nights have left me feeling less than energetic.   I am definitely experiencing shifts.  

       It is so important to ground...open the door to your feet chakras and send roots down to the center of the earth.  I am acutely aware of maintaining a connection to Source, and to the Earth.  I do Magnified Healing(R) as part of my daily practice, and do not feel the day is right without doing it.  This helps me set the tone for the day.  I also set my intention to have a loving, harmonious day and ask for help in fulfilling both my soul and spiritual missions.  It is also helpful to say, "I am in balance" and to set the intention to release all known and unknown issues/energy which no longer serve me.

        As humans, we have the Law of Free Will.  Our angels and guides will not help unless we ask, as they will not interfere with free will.  Our thoughts create form and determine the quality of life and what we will attract through the Law of Attraction.  Saying affirmations is not a lame practice.  It changes our thought forms and changes the vibration of the day.  Saying positive things set intentions.  It is free will to decide which path to follow and what vibration we want to reside in.

        Maintaining boundaries is not selfish.  I now clearly know that I am not responsible for the decisions of another person.  If those decisions have the potential for a negative impact on my life, I have choices.  We always have choices.  Staying strong in this is a definite help when I give a message.  My "job" is to give the message, make sure it is clear and understood.  What happens then is clearly the choice of the person who received it.  I cannot interfere with anyone's lessons, including my husband's, my daughter's, those of my grandchildren, friends, clients.

        Till next time,
Love, Light, Blessings and Peace

Sunday, July 8, 2012

A Busy Time

       It's been a busy time since my last post.  Teaching Reiki I is a  rewarding experience.  It is so moving to see the reaction of the student after the attunement when the flow of Reiki is felt the first time.  It is such a blessing to be entrusted with the gift of helping someone start a healing path that can lead to changes way beyond what anyone can anticipate. Little did I think five years ago that I would be where I am now and doing what I love. 

      The angel readings never cease to amaze me.  Very often I channel information first and then the cards that the person has chosen, from oracle decks I have been guided to use, support the messages I have received.  The cards also are a springboard for additional discussion.  The messages are always loving in nature.  The angels are love.

       For those of you on Facebook, Doreen Virtue has posted on her fan page some powerful messages from the angels.  Her recent theme has been the changes lightworkers may be experiencing as a result of the shifts in energy and the adjustment to this energy that is taking place.  Some people are feeling hot or cold, nausea, tired, heart palpitations.  This is not coming from a place of fear, but from love in that the old is being released as we make way for the new way of being and living.  It is all good.

       The Holistic Cancer Circle at the First Spiritualist Church of RI is now two nights a month, the first and third Wednesday of the month.  Anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer is encouraged to attend. I am maintaining a list of names of those who cannot physically attend, either due to distance or illness.  I sit in the circle and read the names as healing is sent.  If anyone has a name, feel welcome to submit it to me at angelmessengerlindabowers@yahoo.com.  Someone may also come to sit in for another person or loved one.  For example, a mom comes to sit in for her son who is in California.  The Church meets at Positive New Beginnings in East Providence.  Spiritualistchurchri.com.

       My husband and I did a six-week physical mediumship course taught by Teresa Lally in Kingston, MA.  We absolutely loved it. We enjoy Teresa and, of course, everyone who was there was suppose to be there.  Physical mediumship demonstrates, without a doubt, that our loved ones, archangels, ascended masters, are never too far away.  Teresa has written two books on table tipping. 

Till next time, Love, Light and Blessings,
Linda

Thursday, August 25, 2011

New Learnings On My Path

     It has been an awesome summer.  It began with the opening of The First Spiritualist Church of RI and the speakers/teachers who have been guests there.  Ed and I were introduced to Table Tipping at a speaker's workshop.  This is a form of physical mediumship.  The works of a spirit artist, such as those by Rita Berkowitz, and table tipping present such physical and evidential experiences that we are ever surrounded by love from our loved ones who have passed, angels, archangels and ascended masters.  This experience led me to buying a book on table tipping and then an all day workshop led by the auther of the book, Teresa Lally.  The workshop was held at Karen Paolino's in Pembroke, MA.  Teresa will be there again.  I am pondering how, when and where I will incorporate this modality into my practice.
       Another delightful speaker was Gladys Alicea.  She is definitely a Light Worker and a gift to us.  I knew I would see her again.  Upon checking her website, I was introduced to Magnified Healing(R) and knew I had to learn it. The energy of this is beyond description.  The energy has been brought to us by Master Lady Kwan Yin, a Chinese Ascended Master.  It is a modality of loving, compassionate energy of a very high vibrational frequency. I am now a Master/Teacher of Magnified Healing(R), Usui and Karuna(R) Reiki.
       All of the people and authors I have met these past four years are here to deliver the message that we are to remember we are a Soul having a human experience and our Soul never dies. The closer we come to feeling this, more peace, love, compassion, knowingness, Guidance, enters our lives for healing. This allows Life to flow, thereby releasing the struggle we have clung to.


Love, Peace and Light,
Linda


       

Friday, May 20, 2011

An Affirmation: I Love Me, and all that that is, ever was, and ever will be

       The time has flown since my last post.  Christina Cross, who taught the Akashic Records certification, came back to New England in April.  I did three advanced classes with her and will attend another one this weekend.  Fascinating, informative, and opportunities for personal growth.  She is a very gifted, caring, special young woman.
       The global events of the past months have had an impact on those people who are energy sensitive.  The Japan earthquake was particularly difficult.  When so many souls leave the earth at one time, there is a dramatic shift in the energy and consciousness of the world.  Ed and I attended the second session that Roland Comtois held to send healing energy to Japan.  It was quite moving.  With his internet access, he has the ability to unite many people to all send energy at the same time.  His first session involved 45,000 people.
       Energy Medicine is becoming more main stream as so many more people are called to this.  Frustration with conventional medical modalities prompts people to seek alternative care.  Scientist Bruce Lipton notes that there are receptors on the cell membrane for energy.  There are micromagnetic fields at the cell level.  The science to support the phenomenon of energy healing is being discovered.  When the scientific community can present data to the medical clinicians, more of the doctors will get behind it.  Dr Oz's wife is a Reiki practitioner.  He has Reiki in the operating room and has found that the rejection rate for heart transplant is lower.  There recently was an article in the American Journal of Cardiology about Reiki helping to stabilize the heart rate in an ICU.
       Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is being put forth as an easy technique to learn, available even to children.  It involves tapping on the meridians and acupressure points to balance energy and aid in releasing the emotions behind situations and issues that are blocking us.  EFT and Reiki may prove to be powerful techniques that can be used concurrently, with EFT something that anyone not attuned to Reiki can do.  These are all tools in the Energy toolbox.  An exciting time.
       The path we take to facilitate the evolution of the soul is not always an easy one, as I have said many times.  And again,
being human, I fall into old patterns, but I am finding it does not happen as frequently as it used to.  And, when it does, I do not do it for long as I can now catch myself.  Reiki definitely helps.  Asking "What Would Love Do?" from Karen Paolino's journey is definitely a process.  I am about to start it a second time.
            I also received a very powerful affirmation from my Guides:
I LOVE ME, AND ALL THAT THAT IS, EVER WAS, AND EVER WILL BE.
         Think about it for a bit and you may realize the depth and importance of the statement.  These are all tools that help reduce resistance to positive change and raise one's personal vibration, which leads to knowing internal peace and joy on a more regular basis.  Peace, love and joy are our birthrights.  We knew this at birth, but forgot it as we grew with our physical body.

Friday, January 21, 2011

The Journey

      My first post of 2011 is a personal one about my journey.  I have been very busy the past few weeks spending time with my grandchildren to help my daughter with the move from an apartment to their own home.  There were many fits and starts, anxiety, unexpected problems etc, etc that complicated an otherwise exciting time.  We have new neighbors who have adversely affected our quality of life living here.  Security and survival have always been issues for me.  Being on a fixed income is scary.  Social Security does not make it, so we have been going into savings.  Plus, this is the worst time of the year with heat, car insurance, etc, etc.  I found myself getting into a snit, with fear and anxiety prevailing.  Do I take the angel certification class? Do I study shamanism? Do I try to start a practice reading the Akashic Records?  What am I suppose to do? Do I set an intention?  Other people manifest abundance, can I?
      The big difference is I now stop and ask for help from Guidance. I also look at how I have a granddaughter who makes me laugh at every visit.  I am very proud of my grandson, who put out his hand to shake the hand of the father of a young friend and introduced himself, of the little boy who came over to me and said, "Nonna, I am going to give you Reiki" as his little hands heated up and I felt the gift of his love and the gift of Reiki.  Fear and anxiety..Am I crazy? I have such joy and love in my life.  Even the beautiful 10 year old cat who came into our lives last year gives us moments of laughter and much love.
       I decided to ask for help to heal this and opened my Akashic Record.  I heard that I will not often hear many specifics as my lesson is to trust and let things unfold.  I also heard that this current round of anxiety is something I am imposing on myself, that I am obsessing on the "small" decisions for fear that I am not staying on my path.  If I do not do something, I am not necessarily missing an opportunity.  If I am truly suppose to do it, buy it, etc, another opportunity will present itself. "It's all in your highest good because it's all part of the journey.  Some choices are better than others.  The most important decision every moment of every day is to choose peace, love, joy, instead of fear and anxiety, and the rest will take care of itself. That's the only decision you really have to make. It is important to relax into the moment with joy, peace and just be. Put this on the blog."  The woman who taught the Akashic Record workshop wrote in her monthly email that she got sick, as she also got caught up with her own issues and that the illness forced her to stop and just be.
      And so it is.  I am a soul having an incarnate experience with all the foibles of being human.  I choose to continue to evolve, knowing I am surrounded by my "spiritual cheerleaders" who are my guides and I ask God for help and the grace to release my fears.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Reflecting on 2010

2010 has turned out to be an interesting year.  There were times when I felt like I was standing still, but how deceptive that feeling turned out to be.  While I thought I was quiet, I was learning.  Learning in ways I still cannot fully fathom.  I have always chosen to live a dynamic life, so I grouse when I think things are static.  How wrong I have been.

2010 started out with the birth of our very dynamic granddaughter.  Things are never static in Shaelyn's presence!  

In the spring, I felt I just had to learn Karuna(R)Reiki.  Lo and behold, William Lee Rand scheduled a workshop in New York, within driving distance and two Reiki friends were also planning to go.  Off we went.  Two Reiki workshops I taught in the spring manifested the money to do this and I learned from a man I honor and respect for his knowledge, wisdom, courage, and compassion.


Some significant people came back into my life with deep healing for all involved.  A blessing of Reiki.  

In November, I felt drawn to a workshop on the Akashic Records.  The Records hold a vibrational recording of every Soul and its journey.  I am now a certified practitioner in accessing the Records.  This experience is opening new pathways for me.  The possibilities for Reiki and the energy of Akasha are endless.


There are still Soul lessons, and always will be.  Trust, patience, Divine timing are still difficult for me, but not as difficult.  I catch myself now.  The benefit of this is that there are more moments of joy and peace, as I learn to focus on what is here and now.  Moments that, at one time, I would have missed, never to regain.  I recently heard someone say that there is always joy and peace in the chaos.  We must choose to see it.


Happy New Year to all.  I am sure 2011 will be an adventure as we all continue on our paths.


Peace, Love and Light.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

TRUST

Trusting to let things unfold is the hardest lesson for action-oriented people.  I am definitely talking about myself.  It involves letting go of control, having patience, not forcing things to happen.  It means really quieting the mind, not to think of what action to take as the pause in activity may mean there is something ahead that I cannot think of.  I, instead, need to be open to all possibilities, possibly something better than I could ever have imagined.  All the while, knowing that this is a lesson, part of being on my path.  Sigh.  No one ever said this would be easy.  As long as I can laugh, as long as there is a sky to enjoy, Shaelyn's smile, Jake's hug, there is joy and I am ok.  (And, the ten-year-old kitty we rescued chasing her tail!)

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Choosing to be Responsible for Ourselves

Tonight I went to the meeting of The Rhode Island Holistic Healers Association, of which I am a member.  The speaker, Yvonne Piette, emphasized personal responsibility and taking care of ourselves 
first.

She also noted the importance of moving from the thinking realm to that of feeling.  Thinking limits us to those things that we know.  Feeling allows us to let in the guidance of intuition which can present limitless possibilities. For her, responsibility is owning what comes at you knowing that it serves a purpose for growth and "to act, not react."

Some of what she said tonight reinforced for me the themes I have discussed in this blog.


Not putting ourselves first puts us at risk for enabling other people.  When we do that, we are interfering with the Soul growth of both ourselves and the person we think we are helping.  It is a tough lesson and a fine line, but one that is crucial to progressing on our path.  I am much better at choosing what, when to do for others and I feel better. This removes the feeling of being put upon and the risk for resentment.  We need to be of service to ourselves first before we can be of service to others.  This helps us to stay centered, builds self-esteem and maintains a sense of empowerment, another aspect of choosing to heal.



Thursday, October 14, 2010

Mind Chatter - Continued

      Just finished reading "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman.  It's an interesting blend of fact and fiction to present basic themes that many authors are talking about.  There are also those who have not yet put pen to paper who are getting the same messages.
       He addresses the mental chatter in a different way, by clarifying the difference between the brain and the mind.  The brain engages in activities that are current, real and now.  The mind is the home of everything else that pulls us away from focusing on now.  He thinks that having a mind is a design flaw in the human species.  At first, I agreed.  But now I posit that the mind is purposeful and the arena for all Soul/life lessons.
       Millman also talked about immortality, noting that we always were, are now, and ever will be, immortal.  Brian Weiss is a pioneer in past life regression.  When doing hypnosis on some of his clients, he found them talking about experiences of another time/life that were still impacting their lives.  "Same Soul, Many Bodies" is a great read, documenting the existence of prior lives.
       Michael Newton in "Destiny of Souls" goes to a different level with regressing people to the time spent in Spirit between lives.  It is a fascinating book, but not an easy read as he is presenting notions that are not easy to wrap one's head around.
       As hard as he tried, Newton met a stone wall in trying to elicit information clients would not reveal due to The Law of Silence.  Our need to know cannot be completely satisfied.  But, we have all been "there", so we "know".  Within us is that knowingness.  We need to trust that mystery of knowingness.
       Slowing down, quieting the chatter in the arena called the mind will allow us to tap into knowingness.  This involves taking responsibility to choose to engage in the process of not allowing the mind to steal the moment.
       Illness can occur when the mind steals the moments that could be devoted to laughter, enjoyment NOW.  However, illness can be turned into a positive passage to new awareness, a new path (such as with me).
       Reiki healing does help mind chatter and, when that happens, the possibilities from Reiki are endless, with the biggest one of all being a trust in our Soul Mission.  Let go and let God.  Trust and patience are issues for all of us.  The journey continues.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Mind Chatter

        Mind chatter is like static electricity that interferes with the moment.
       I never really stopped to realize that everyone does mind chatter, until I started on this path with Reiki.  That catastrophic thinking that has us formulating every plan possible to handle the what if.  The rehearsal in one's mind of the anticipated conversation, especially if it is of a confrontational tone or speaking your truth in an anxiety provoking situation, etc, etc, etc.  Anticipating and planning the future.  
       The conversation never goes as planned, the future never quite goes as anticipated or planned for.  I have been so guilty of all of this.  I always needed to maintain a sense of security by having Plan A and then Plan B if A did not work, and even Plan C if A and B bombed.  All of this is based on our fears, fear of not being safe, fear of looking stupid, fear of getting hurt, fear of failure and, for some, fear of success.
       All the time I wasted.  I still waste time, but not at all to the extent I used to do.  It is a process to learn to focus on the moment.  It really is stopping to smell the roses.
       It is a process of developing conscious awareness.  This is choosing to catch ourselves when the what ifs start, choosing to listen to our intuition, our gut, choosing to look around with a different eye to see what there is to enjoy.  Every choice we make affects the energy of our major chakras (energy centers).  When I realize I am so tired, I know I have shut my energy down.  There is a difference in this kind of tiredness and that from expending physical energy.  Every negative thought affects how our energy flows through us and around us.  Every cell has a magnetic field around it (per quantum physics) and the energy of our thinking affects these fields.
       Is this easy? NO, it is not easy.  Do we ever get there? No, not really, but it gets better.  During the Growing the Healer Within class with Rhys Thomas, we were all dealing with this notion of feeling we will never get there.  He asked us if we were still breathing.  As long as you are alive drawing breath, there will be issues.  But we still have free will to choose how miserable we will be in facing and learning our soul lessons.  
       It is a process, a practice.  We are human beings and we will not always practice perfectly.  We need to remember that God wants us to laugh and smile every day, to take care of ourselves, which is not selfish, as we have been taught.
       Peace and Light,
           Linda