Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween... The Day of the Dead

Today and this weekend, it is important for us all to honor our ancestors and to honor the people we know who have passed on through the veils of the worlds, or in other words, the people we know who have died. How do we honor the dead? We can think of alll of the people in our lives who have influenced us who have died and send them love and gratitude for who they were here in this world to us and also who they still are to us in our hearts and in our lives.

I think of my grandparents and friends who have died and each of them had a special influence for me. I would not be the same if I had not known them. I willl spend a little time this weekend “talking” to them, thinking of them individually, and sending them gratitude for what they brought to my life. Each person taught me so much of what to be and what not to be in this life and all of the teaching I carry with me and share with the world. No one ever truly leaves us. They all live on in our hearts and in our actions and in our words. When we sit with each individual in gratitude, we might hear their voice and feel their presence. Some even show us a physical sign that they are with us- a feather, a song, a penny; some give us a felt sense of their presence; some are silent. All connections are beautiful and divine.

If we want to, we don’t have to only connect during Halloween. We can check in with our friends and family who have died any time we want, all we need to do is sit and listen and be willing to open to hear, feel, see, or know their presence.

Enjoy your weekend and your connections with the dead. Make sure you connect with the living as well.:) Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Intuition

I have been meaning to write a blog on intuition for awhile, so here it is. We are all intuitive. We all have an intuitive voice. To me, that intuitive voice is a part of the vast brain that God, Goddess, the Divine gave us. Some people are naturally more intuitively intelligent, some people are naturally more intellectually intelligent, and some people are balanced in both. In school, we are taught to expand our intellect, but how do we expand our intuition?

The biggest and best way to expand our intuition is to learn to stop and listen to our intuitive voice. Our intuitive voice can be softer and more subtle than our ego mind and our intellect and it requires us to take a moment to hear it. Once we have paid attention to our intuitive voice and we have heard what it sounds like within us, we can “turn up the volume” of it so we can hear it moment to moment in our day. So, stop… Bring into your mind something that you want a deeper understanding of in your life. Ask for help. “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit help me to hear my intuition. Help me to feel what to do in this situation in my life. ” Sit and feel for awhile. You might have a word pop into your mind, you may feel a “felt sense” in your body, you may see an image. Everyone receives information a little differently. At first, you might not get much information, but the more that you stop and listen, the more trained you will become to hear and feel and know an intuitive response. The more you take action on that intuitive information that you receive, the more you will trust the information you get in the future.

Good luck with this first step and report back to me how it all goes. Blessings, Liz

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

New York, New York

I just got back from a visit to New York City. It was an awesome time and the thing that I learned most from the New Yorkers was to be open about my emotions. It seemed like everyone there was very emotionally open. If they were happy, they showed it; if they were mad, they let it out; if they were sad, they cried. It was very refreshing. It reminds me that if we really let our emotions move through us, then they are just emotions not some internal monster that we are repressing. So here is to expressing our emotions in a clear way so that they never own us and so they never destroy us. Amen to that. Happy fall everyone!