Divine Inspiration

Holding the Space for a New Year

2011-12-27T10:08:00.000-08:00

One thing about intuition that is super important to remember is that it takes time sitting and being to find it. I know I have said this time and time again, but you can't expect yourself to hear your inner voice when you are always busy and on the go. Yes, some people have magic intuitive powers that exist without time and energy focused on them, but for the rest of us, it take time and cultivating and nurturing to hear our inner voice.

So, I know this time of year we are all thinking about the year that we are leaving and the awesome new year that we are opening to and we make resolutions or commitments to ourselves for the upcoming year. In this year, especially the year 2012 with the Mayan calendar coming to an end and the new energy and world emerging, it seems timely to commit to spending time with your inner voice so that you can hear your intuition and lead your life from it. (By the way, those of you in LA, I am teaching a class called Awakening your Divine Voice on January 14th, 2012 in Pasadena.)

A basic "how to" would be to sit with pen and paper and just be. Observe your thoughts. If your thoughts are wandering all over creation, listen to the themes of the thoughts that you are hearing. Write down the themes. This is not a time for heavy journaling, just a time to reflect on the areas that your mind is focusing on. Let's say you're worried about your weight, your kids, your money or lack of it, your health. Whatever the themes are, put them down. Write down, weight, kids, money, health. At the end of 5 or ten minutes of sitting with your thoughts, ask for divine light to embrace the areas that you are struggling with. "Divine light embrace my fears and help me to release them so that I feel clear and healthy and whole."

As you do this exercise consistently in your life, your divine voice will naturally start giving you direction and guidance on how to heal the areas that you are concerned about. Let's say you're concerned about health, perhaps a doctor will come into your head to talk with or a acupuncturist or a book that you could read that will help. If anything comes to your brain, write it down.

The biggest thing to remember is that you are not trying to search for the answer when you sit with yourself. You are spending time being and the answer will naturally come. If you sit and try to figure out what is going on with your health, your brain will be too active and the solution that you are coming up with is from your mind, not from your inner voice. Sometimes the mind comes up with good solutions, but your divine voice is infinitely more connected to the world around you and therefore, infinitely more intelligent than your mental mind. It will naturally come up with better and more complete solutions.

Again, the key to this exercise is not to do it to find answers initially. Do it to hear yourself and nurture yourself. To spend time with your concerns and to ask for divine assistance with those concerns. The divine voice will naturally awaken when you are honoring yourself and spending time being.

Many blessings to you all for this powerful new year.

Seeing Energy

2011-12-14T11:57:00.000-08:00

Today, I thought I'd talk about training yourself to see energy. I went to a friend of mine's Channeling group the other night and could see the energy dancing over the head of a guy who did a bit of channeling and it was fun to see. (Channeling is connecting with the divinity within ourselves and expressing from that divine place.) Seeing energy is not necessary in the process of being intuitive, but it is fun and it gives us further experience and, therefore, further internal proof that there is more than meets the eye to life as we know it.

So, how to see energy. Some of you will be better at this than others. Seeing energy always reminds me of those posters that they used to sell where all you see is an abstract design, but then when you look at it a certain way an image pops out. Do you remember those? I always sucked at seeing the picture within the picture on those posters, so some of you just won't be able to see energy. Don't get frustrated with yourselves, because you might be better at seeing energy internally, or feeling energy, or hearing divine messages. This really is just for fun.

Go to a place where there is not a lot of energetic noise. For instance, if you go to a store like Target to see energy, it will be hard to see because there is so much energy bouncing around. The place I used to go to get my eyes in tune with energy was up in the mountains where there were trees. Trees or plants are easier to see energy on because they don't move around like animals or humans and because their energy is more dynamic than an inanimate object like a rock.

Pick a tree that seems healthy and vibrant. Let yourself sit and stare at the tree without focusing really hard to see the details of the tree. Be far enough away from the tree so you are not seeing the details of the leaves or the bark of the tree. Sit and be willing to see without trying or forcing yourself to see the energy of the tree. You'll have to sit for awhile, so be patient. The first time I saw energy on a plant, it looked like the plant was swarmed with bugs, but on closer observation there was nothing on the plant.You may see energy this way, or you may have a unique way of seeing the energy.

Once you start seeing energy on trees and you have practiced for awhile, try going out in public and observing energy on people and animals.

It's a lot of fun to see energy, so try it. As I say, some of you will be able to see energy and some of you won't. Don't beat yourself up if you can't. You have other talents, and those talents will reveal themselves over time.

Affirmations vs. Lying

2011-12-08T10:15:00.001-08:00

How's everyone doing with "lying" and feeling into the energy of the lies? Hope well.

I have had some comments that sometimes affirmations feel like lies because if we affirm that we have limitless money and limitless resources and on a physical level we don't, that affirmation feels the same as lying. That is interesting to me as well.

I live on the assumption that we are all limitless abundance of all that is divine. We are limitless health, limitless wealth, limitless joy, peace, love, wisdom, balance, passion, clarity, and truth. This assumption comes from the internal feeling and experience that I get through meditation and hanging out with the divine nature of who I am over the years. (Meditation takes many forms for me and isn't always just sitting. I love to spend time with the divine while walking in the mountains, doing yoga, dancing, driving and all kinds of other "meditations.")

Many people have talked to me about affirmations and how the affirmations feel like a lie if they aren't experiencing what they are affirming. Again, let's use the example of someone who has very little money and who I might encourage to do an affirmation such as, "I am limitless abundance, I am limitless wealth." Doesn't that seem similar to the lying that we were playing with in our last exercise?

There is actually a small but very important distinction. With lying, we are saying we have something on the surface that we don't have or we are someone who we are not. For instance, if we lie and say that we have jets at our disposal and we are famous and we are naturally shy and like to live a simple life, this is a lie that would never resonate in our soul. We could never create this life.

When we affirm the essence of who we are, we are affirming a deep internal truth that our body and being resonates with. We may have belief systems that we have gathered over time that say that the deep internal truth is wrong, but those belief systems are aspects of us that we can heal over time. Say, for instance, we grew up during the depression and we grew up in poverty. Our mind structured itself around a time that there was very little money in the world around us, so we would naturally feel like there was not limitless wealth. Quite the opposite, our mind would believe that money and resources were hard to come by. We have to retrain our mind to find the deep internal truth of wealth. I would suggest adding to the initial affirmation, "I am limitless abundance, I am limitless wealth and I ask for divine assistance in healing anything that stands in my way of abundance and wealth." This addition activates a deep internal shift that over time will heal what stands in your way of abundance.

An affirmation is something that a person who is working on financial issues within themselves needs in order to heal a belief in lack. Ultimately, limitless abundance is the truth of all of our beings, so we can bring ourselves to the feeling of limitless abundance and then eventually to the physical experience of limitless abundance. The hard part always is that the physical healing takes the longest and it's hard to have patience and to keep affirming when we don't see the results. Most of us in the Western world have been taught, "you have to see it to believe it."

So, our next assignment is to play with essence words like love, joy, peace, health, abundance, wealth, wisdom, and truth. Affirm that you are that essence word. "I am love, I am joy, I am peace, I am health, I am abundance, I am wealth, I am wisdom, I am truth." If you are not able to feel the truth of the affirmation, focus on the area that feels lacking and investigate it. If you don't feel peaceful, focus on peace and ask for divine assistance in healing what stands in your way of peace. Do this daily until you feel the affirmation in your heart and soul and then you will start seeing more peace in your life. Focus on one essence word at a time until you feel the essence of all the divine words in your heart and start to see the truth of your divinity in your life. This is an assignment over time. Love yourself along the way.

Lying!

2011-11-21T09:45:00.001-08:00

OK, so my first exercise that seemed fun to play around with is lying... This is to get yourself in tune with feeling the energy of something that isn't true. Some of you will feel it in your mind and feel the "offness" of the lie that you're telling yourself mentally and some of you will feel it in your actual body- a gut or heart feeling. If you haven't done much when it comes to playing with the energy of life, some of you won't feel anything at all but keep practicing. We all have an intuitive mind whether we have used it or not. Some of our intuitive minds have been slumbering for a big part of our lives. The key is to wake it up so that you feel more engaged in life.

So, get to the exercise, right? Think of an extreme lie about yourself. Like, assuming you're not a movie star like Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, say to yourself "I am incredibly famous with personal jets at my disposal." Or on the opposite end of life, again assuming this is not true about you, lie to yourself and say "I am homeless. I sleep on the streets in the freezing cold and I don't have enough to eat and I'm starving." Sit with the lie for a minute and feel your reaction to it. Where in your body do you feel different when you tell the lie? How does your mind react to the lie? Does your mind like the lie or is it repelled by the lie? Which extreme lie feels better or more familiar to you? Don't assume the obvious answer to that.

Play with other lies. Say, for instance, that you are in a really challenging relationship. Lie and say my relationship is the worst relationship in the world, and then lie and say that it is the best and most amazing relationship in the world. Feel the lie, feel in your body and/or in your mind where you experience the lack of truth.

The key is then to bring the lie closer and closer to the truth that you experience in your life until you feel what it is like to say the truth.

So, in the example of the money lie. Let's say you work as an accountant and you make a healthy living. Bring the homeless lie to a lie that says, "I barely make enough to survive. I live in a basic apartment that I don't love and I eat Ramen noodles." Ask the same questions that we asked about the more extreme lie. Then say another lie that is even closer to the truth, "I have a decent job, I just break even in a month." Again, ask the questions. Then, tell the truth and investigate how that feels in your body.

So, this exercise is an excellent first foray into the unknown territory of intuition, but if you are already a practicing intuitive it's also a great way to hone your skills. Plus, you learn a lot about yourself through the lies that you tell. We all lie to ourselves a bit throughout the day, and some of us lie quite a lot. Some of us lie and think our lives are better than they are, some of us lie and think our lives are much worse than they are. This exercise can help us identify our lies and start to access the truth of who we are. This will bring us closer to being at peace with who we are and where we are in life.

Have fun lying everyone and report in on how it goes! I always love your emails.

Ghost Tour in New Mexico

2011-11-14T15:02:00.001-08:00

I went on a ghost tour of Old Town in Albuquerque, NM this past Saturday night. It was an interesting tour, not because we saw ghosts, but because it pointed something out that was very important for me to realize.

This was a "scientific" tour of the ghosts in Albuquerque and they used equipment that was supposed to prove whether ghosts were there or not. The science part to me was very inconclusive, but the cool thing that was revealing was that it seemed like all the equipment used to identify ghosts were very sensitive to people who had a connection to spirit. I am not a detail person, as you all well know by now, so I won't get into the details, but the ghost tour people and I spiked the instruments, while the other people on the tour did not set them off very much.

To me that means that the more actively you connect to spirit, the more charged your energy is. Is this a good or a bad thing? I'll let you be the judge, but to me it seems like a good thing. It seems like that those of us who are working with the subtle world might be working with a different part of the brain that is active throughout the body.

So, the bottom line- get to the bottom line, right?- is that I got inspired even more to work with expanding my intuition and anyone out there who wants to join me. I am going to do weekly exercises and blogs talking about expanding intuition.

Here's to feeling more and more alive! (Funny that the inspiration to feel alive came from the dead on a ghost tour!)

Connecting with your Intuition

2011-09-29T15:01:00.000-07:00

Check out Gilden and my new podcast about connecting with your intuition. http://intuitiveliz.com/podcast.html She and I have having a great time with this new endeavor. In this session together we talk about what intuition is and we give some simple ways of beginning to connect with your intuition more.

To me, intuition is a felt sense that utilizes our mind and our senses to feel into life. When we feel into life more, we are able to get a deeper understanding of the evolution that we are in. We can see if certain relationships are good for us when let ourselves pause and see how they make us feel. We can see if different circumstances serve us if we feel into whether we feel uplifted by them or downtrodden by them.

Tune into the podcast for more details on how to connect with your intuition and get some examples on how our intuition can serve us in our lives.

Podcast with Gilden

2011-09-18T08:22:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the first podcast Gilden and I did... This podcast gives a background on Gilden and I. It was a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy it. We will be posting podcasts every 2 weeks, and I will post a link here on my blog when a new one is posted. If anyone has topics that they would like us to talk about, feel free to let me know.

http://intuitiveliz.com/podcast.html

(By the way, we will be working on the sound quality! It'll be better next time.)

Firsts

2011-09-16T13:50:00.000-07:00

I bought this card at Trader Joe's with picture of a car on an open road that says, "when was the last time you did something for the first time?" I put it on my refrigerator and have been contemplating the thought for awhile. It's always a good thing to mix things up in life and to try new things and to stretch our imaginations, otherwise we get bored.

This past week has been a fun week of new things for me, and I wanted to share the inspiration with all of you.

I was the officiant of a wedding for the first time this past Saturday. (Congratulations, Lynn and Lon!) It was such a joyful experience to be a part of such a sacred ceremony. We have so few rituals left as a culture and weddings are such a deep awakening of the heart for all who get the honor to be a part of them. Weddings are there to bond the couple, but they also inspire us all to love even more in the relationships that we have. I re-realized (Those of you who know me know that I like to make up words.:)) how deep and solid soul love is, and how precious it is to find someone to share that love. This was a great first experience and one I hope to do again.

My other first this week was to do a podcast with Gilden Tunador, our first podcast together. It will be posted here soon. It was so fun to explore ideas about intuition and divinity and energy with Gilden and I am very much looking forward to doing more. She has great insight and an innate intuitive ability in her own right. I hope you all will listen and I hope you enjoy it as much as she and I enjoyed doing it.

So, if I can inspire you all to get out there and do something for the first time, even if it's hard or even scary. It's so worthwhile to expand life beyond the limits of what we know. Report back to me what you wind up trying.

Love and Light, Liz

Opening Prayer and Message from Group Reading this Summer

2011-08-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!

Here is a link to a recording from a group I did in July... This is just the opening prayer and message. The Q&A recording is available to those of you who were on the call if you'd like it.

Lots of Love and Light, Liz

http://intuitiveliz.com/groupmp3.html

Stop looking and God will give you what you want

2011-08-12T13:45:00.000-07:00

I keep getting the message today as I have been working and settling in, "Stop looking and God will give you what you want," so I wanted to sit down and blog about that very thought for a moment. I feel like looking or seeking outwardly naturally can come from a place or feeling of lack. For instance, if I feel like I lack money, I am going to seek money in the world... The problem when my search for money comes from a feeling of lack, or "not enough," I keep getting money, but I never get enough to really get ahead. If, instead, I looked at whatever inside of me that felt lacking in wealth and asked divine light to heal that feeling of lack, I would naturally start creating situations that brought me money. I would not stop taking actions in the world that would bring me money, I would just be coming from a place of peace and divinity instead of lack.

The same goes for all kinds of searches. I search for peace, but I can't find it... I search for love, but I can't find it. Instead, asking for divine assistance to feel peace or to feel love, I naturally heal what stands in my way of that peace and love. Then I naturally, without seeking, create situations that create peace and love. (Or, in other words, God, Goddess, Divine light brings to me what I want.)

Thanks for listening... The divine kept tapping me on the shoulder about this one and I hope it helps everyone out there reading. Love and Light, Liz

Cleansing and Clearing

2011-07-31T20:21:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone! How has your summer been going? Have you missed me?

This has been a powerful summer for me that centers around cleansing a clearing and healing and getting super present in the moment.

My house was the symbol of all of this as I had multiple house repairs all summer long. It's finally coming to a sane level. I couldn't sleep in my bedroom for 3 months because of mold and I feel like I got to cleanse the mold out of my brain and my soul and get centered on the present moment and find ways to ground myself.

For those of you who know me well, you know that I am an Aquarius, which in simplistic terms means that I am a bit of an airhead. It helps me when it comes to doing readings and seeing and feeling and experiencing energy, but it doesn't always help me be present in physical life and living.

Having to be super present with my house and house repairs got me really present in my body. I got to hammer and paint and even tile! It was fun and so grounding, even though it took me away from business and blogging and work sometimes.

While I was cleansing the mold from my bedroom, I visualized all the aspects of my mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies getting cleansed and cleared as well. I realized how much patience it takes to really be thorough when it comes to healing something. (If it takes a couple of months to heal a room, then lifetimes of unhealthy patterns definitely take longer than that.) We get so hard on ourselves sometimes when things don't heal as fast as we want them to, but it makes sense that we have to heal, then sit and wait and make sure all the "mold" is out and then heal some more if we find more. I see a lot of people give up on themselves too soon and think that they've failed in a healing process when they are about to break through and out of an age-old pattern. It's easy to do, but be gentle with yourselves and you will heal. A light breaks through and you get to see the clear state of self.

I guess I learned patience a bit more this summer as well.

Much love and light to you on your journey. I am in the process of developing a podcast- coming soon!

A Podcast I did with Betsy Coffman

2011-05-19T12:16:00.000-07:00

Hope you all enjoy this! Love and Light, LIz

http://webtalkradio.net/2011/05/16/learn-to-channel-–-from-young-tv-producer-to-successful-professional-channel-–-one-woman’s-story/

Disappearance

2011-05-11T15:11:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone! I know, I disappeared for a month or so... Thanks to those who have emailed me and said you missed me. :) I got caught up in life and have so much to share.

The thing rolling around in my brain in this moment is a quote from a song that a friend sent me that Sinead O'Connor sings ( I don't know if she wrote it.) "I have a universe inside me." (I just looked the song up and it's called "The Healing Room.") The expansive energy of life inside every cell of our beings is so large and beautiful that it cannot be contained. As we access the universe inside us, we naturally feel our limitlessness and we share that limitlessness with the world.

Ahh, it's nice to be back with you all. I have been dealing with multiple shifts and changes in my life. The year anniversary of my dog Gracie's death, the death of a client, a mold problem in my bedroom that has disrupted my house and caused the dogs I have now to be a bit crazy, wind wind and more wind with the New Mexico spring, the chaotic and somewhat neurotic energy of Mercury going in and out of retrograde, relationships shifting and changing and growing- all in the course of a month. I have learned more about the preciousness of being human. There is something so divine about our personalities processing different changes in life and going through the thoughts and emotions of life. I am grateful to be human, even though humanness has its challenges.

I am sending prayers to those of you who are going through chaos, either internally or externally in your lives. I would guess that everyone is going through some form of major change at this moment as the earth opens to more and more love and as humanity heals at the core essence of who we are. We need to be here to support each other through the changes and to find the universe inside us and share it with the world.

Blessings, and more soon! Love and light, Liz

Fighting Back Days

2011-04-06T16:11:00.000-07:00

I may not have mentioned a great friend of mine named Emily who lived to be 95 and had a great spirit of life that I miss seeing in person. She's still with me in my heart, of course, and I want to dedicate this blog to her. She had the expression "fighting back days" for when life is frustrating and when it feels like it is fighting you back and I have always loved that expression. You would use it when everything in a day goes against what you had planned for that day. Like you get up and you can't get your hair to look right, your toothbrush breaks, you have a fight with your husband, you get frustrated with yourself, the car won't start, and this is all before 9 am. This would be a fighting back kind of day.

It seems like life is fighting back a little for a lot of people right now, and I thought I would take a moment to talk about why life would fight us back. It's not to torture us or to make us feel bad about ourselves or about life. Fighting back days are there to remind us to take a moment and breath. This life right now, with all of the planetary changes and shifts that are happening, requires quite a bit focus on grounding and setting clear intentions. If we don't give ourselves time to be present in the day, to consciously ground our divinity in our bodies, we can easily get overwhelmed and feel like life is fighting us back.

How, you might ask, when you are frustrated and irritated can you possibly ground yourself and set clear intentions? All you want to do is scream! Well, first definitely scream- warn those around you, of course. After you scream and let out some of your frustration, ask for divine support to fill you with light and help you to heal your imbalances. "Dear God, help," is a good simple prayer when you are in the midst of a fighting back day. (God knows you can't get beyond a simple thought when you encounter a day like that.) Once you let go of the energy inside of you that feels like it is about to explode, then you can either get on with your day if you're busy, or you can sit and look deeper into what is going on with you. What feels imbalanced? What needs to heal? If you can't find any answers, don't worry. You will along the way. Maybe this day just needs to be filled with whatever is easiest so you can reset the fighting back energy and get back to the flow.

Good luck to you all! Lots of love, Liz

Intuitive vs Psychic

2011-03-28T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone, sorry to have disappeared last week. I was in Seattle and wound up staying a couple of extra days to spend some time with my little niece who turned one year old. She's such a joy- filled with love and light and a bright smile on her face. I'm definitely a proud Auntie.

I was watching a show on Edgar Cayce today and it brought to mind something that I have been wanting to talk about here on my blog for awhile. "What is the difference between a psychic and an intuitive?" I guess the question could be "Is there a difference between a psychic and an intuitive?" Some would argue with me that there is no difference, but I would argue them back. :) It may be slight semantics, but the distinction feels important in my eyes. I feel like we are all intuitive, we all have intuitive abilities, and we use our intuition every day. Just like I would say that we all have some knowledge about the human bodies but we are not all brain surgeons, we are not, however, all psychic unless we have natural abilities or unless we develop ourselves to be psychic.

When I looked up the words "psychic" and "intuitive" on the online dictionaries, here's what I got.
Psychic means:
sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural forces and influences : marked by extraordinary or mysterious sensitivity, perception, or understanding. (Merriam-Webster online)
Intuition (Which is what an Intuitive would use for answers.) means:
the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. (Merriam-Webster online)

In the very definition, there is mystery with the word psychic. I think of Edgar Cayce who was able to diagnose people's health issues by being put into a hypnotic trance. He would definitely be seen as a psychic- someone with a mysterious sensitivity that even he could not explain.

We all, however, have an intuitive aspect to our minds. To me, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, it is actually a part of our mind that is in tune with the world around us. There is a part of all of us that tells us to call a person on a day they really need to hear our voice. This is our intuition. We have attained direct knowledge- I call it an intuitive "hit"- without any kind of reasoning behind that knowledge. We live by a combination of our intuitive mind and our intellectual mind. Our intuitive minds have often times in our society not been developed because our society doesn't value that part of our mind as much, but we use it every day none-the-less.

Some of us, like me, have a strength in our intuition and practice and training to contact our intuitive mind. We can utilize our intuitive voice to help confirm other people's intuitive feelings about their lives. Some people come to me and are told that I am a psychic. I think this can confuse people because they want me to see something extraordinary, instead of help them confirm what they already know in their heart. This is my work, this is what I do. I help you to find your truth, a truth that you already know. Sometimes we get blocked from that truth through our own fears and attachments. An intuitive like me will help you to see clearly through those fears and attachment and helps you to find answers. The future is not set in stone. Energy shifts and changes as we shift and change, that is why it is important to check in with yourself consistently so that you can feel if something that we have talked about in a reading has shifted course. Trust yourself and your inner voice the most and get coaching when you need feedback and guidance.

I love discussions about intuitive and psychic work. There are so many people out there doing amazing work in both fields. Gratitude and blessings to all of you!

A Prayer for Japan

2011-03-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

I can't even imagine what it would be like to be in Japan with all that is going on over there. I know a couple of my clients are living over there right now and I want you to know that your whole country is in our prayers and in our hearts.

Here is a prayer that we can all say for Japan as well as this whole planet as it is shifting and changing.

"Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I ask for legions of angels and pure divine light to embrace Japan helping to heal it's tender spirit and restore the country to a state of health. Help everyone in Japan to feel embraced in light and love as the country grieves and as the world grieves for them. Help them to embrace their fears and find faith and divinity inside them and around them. Help the world to bond together in support for this divine island and help us to find the strength inside of us to hold steady so that balance can be restored for Japan. We envision a steady return to a pure state of health. Let the nuclear reactor be surrounded in light and health and healing. Let everyone be fed. Let everyone's trauma be experienced fully so that it can be transformed. Let everyone be held and embraced by their neighbors. Let us bond together as human beings and, in oneness, support each other with courage and strength.

I envision this planet as healthy and whole, filled with light and love and grace. As I hold this vision, the world around me is infused by this vision and it is healed. I see healthy water, healthy land, healthy plants, healthy animals, healthy and conscious humans, healthy air, and a healthy atmosphere. I am divinely healthy and whole and I share that wholeness with the world. Divinely one, as I embrace wholeness, the world comes into balance and wholeness again.

I honor this life, I honor this planet, I honor the world around me in a state of pure harmony, balance, and health. Bless Japan, bless this world, bless this life, bless this existence. And so it is, Amen."

Much love to you in Japan and to everyone holding love and light and strength for Japan and the rest of this planet. As we near 2012, we will find a lot of need for courage and strength and we will find it by bonding together in a state of divinity and love.

tripping over yourself

2011-03-08T16:41:00.000-08:00

On my Monday night call a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how easy it is to trip over yourself once you have a failure in life. You can get caught up in the failure instead of learning from it and moving on. We have all heard that people who are the most successful are the people who learn from their mistakes. So, how can we become one of those people?

I compare it to learning to ski, which I did about a month ago. I learned the bunny hill, I did the beginner hill, and then I decided to try a more advanced hill. First of all, I bit off more than I could chew, which as far as learning from your mistakes is a big no, no. When you way over-shoot your knowledge, you're bound to fail rather largely and the potential for you to get frozen in your failure is huge. Once I was up to the top of a mountain in Santa Fe, I was committed. I started out ok, but then I faced a turn that I wasn't able to make and I started falling. I lost faith in my abilities at that point and then I just kept falling. I had totally psyched myself out.

This kind of failure can happen in any kind of situation. Let's say you start a business that you are really excited about. You present that business to the world and someone tells you it's stupid. You start tripping over yourself. Some other people are excited about you launching your business, but you just can't get the person who told you the business was a stupid idea out of your head.

With the skiing, I wound up taking off my skis and walking down the mountain. I admitted my inabilities to myself and then enjoyed the walk down. I figured it was better than winding up wrapped around a tree! I got down, took a break, then took a deep breath and went back to the beginner hill, which is what I knew I could do. I stopped falling and was no longer tripping over myself or psyching myself out. Next time I know I will be able to get to a point of going down a bigger mountain.

With the example of a business that you are tripping over, take a deep breath and go back and look at your strengths. Do you have enough knowledge to get started? Do you have the passion to move through people who are telling you the business is stupid? If so, square your shoulders and go back to the business plan and move through the naysayers in your mind and in your life. Ask for divine assistance in healing what stands in your way of success.

Tripping over yourself is bound to happen. It's important to recognize when it is happening and stop for a moment. Acknowledge the things that started you tripping in the first place, whether it was a failure, a naysayer, or just a lack of ability. Ask for divine assistance in learning from what has been presented to you. With divine support, you will heal what is tripping you and release it so that you can open to success.

Being Grounded

2011-02-22T19:42:00.000-08:00

I talk a lot about being grounded in your body. It's one of those terms that a lot of us use, but do we really know what that means? When your spirit is fully activated in your body, you are grounded. The more your spirit is activated in your body, the more alive you feel and the more you are in connection to your divine source, which is limitless in joy and peace and love and health. Knowing that, I am sure some of you are still perplexed.

It's funny, I googled "being grounded" just to get some feedback for writing this blog and all these kids were writing about being grounded by their parents. I had forgotten that the term being grounded has some negative connotations for us as a society. Being grounded really meant for us as children not being able to go out and have fun.

This makes a lot of sense to me, because when I tell clients that it would be useful for them to get grounded, a lot of people look at me like I'm telling them to eat their veggies. It's no fun to hear that you need to be grounded and some of us think of it almost as a punishment.

The other thing that came up in my google search was an entry in Wikepedia about grounding in an electrical circuit, which actually made a lot of sense when I look at the idea metaphorically. The direct quote from Wikepedia : "a "ground" is usually idealized as an infinite source or sink for charge, which can absorb an unlimited amount of current without changing its potential." When a circuit is not grounded, my understanding is that the electricity is on the loose and can scatter and cause shock.

The more grounded we are in our bodies, the more divine energy we can let in without being overwhelmed by that energy. Just like with an electrical circuit, when our spirit is grounded in our bodies we can absorb an unlimited amount of divine "current" which means we are more able channel and therefore manifest all that is divine. So, not only is grounding not a boring and a bad thing, it is one of the most useful and powerful tools to physically create divinity in our lives and in the lives of those around us.

When we are ungrounded, our energy scatters and becomes less affective. It can create mixed signals to the people in our lives and also mixed signals to the divine when it comes to manifesting. We basically become less effective and in extreme cases self-destructive.

We ground ourselves by consciously asking to be. "Divine light move through me and activate every cell of my body and being to live brightly and be inspired by the divinity that is my truth," would be a good affirmation. Getting out in nature is grounding for us, cold water is grounding, rubbing our feet is grounding, holding a rock is grounding. Anything that wakes us up in our bodies and helps us to know that we are here on this earth awake and alive is grounding.

Let's get grounded so we can experience limitless joy, love, peace, health, abundance, wealth, passion, wisdom, and bliss and share that limitlessness with the world around us!

Valentine's Day- A day for love

2011-02-15T10:03:00.000-08:00

I promised everyone a blog on what it means to be grounded, but I thought I would save that for next week since it was just Valentine's Day and it feels worthy to talk about love.

I know it is a cliche to say that you can't love anyone until you love yourself, but I really feel it is true, and I also feel like we can't receive love if we don't know how to love ourselves. Of course, loving and honoring ourselves is a path and not something that is instantaneous, so loving and honoring the people in our lives and being loved and honored by the people in our lives are equally a paths that we deepen along the journey of life.

So, we talk about loving ourselves and what does that mean? We all know people who love themselves in an ego sort of way, openly loving their bodies and their personality in a way that is obnoxious and uncomfortable to be around. This is not the self-love that I am talking about. This is ego self-love. Ego self love is easy to identify. If you love yourself and think you are better than someone else, that is ego self-love.

Divine self love is loving and honoring yourself to be beautiful and brilliant knowing that everyone else's beauty and brilliance is equal to your own. "I am divine love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. All of the world around me, all of the people around me, are also love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. We are divinely one." As we affirm our divinity and love ourselves for it, we naturally enhance the divinity of those around us. This is Divine Self-love. We do not tell people around us that they are smaller or less than the beauty that we see in ourselves.

A lot of my clients fear loving themselves because they have been taught not to be self-centered and taught that is it selfish to love themselves. Being egocentric is what we truly were taught not to be, and this is a good lesson. When we are egocentric we either feel less than the world around us or more than the world around us and we will be very unhappy. We will compare ourselves to everyone else in our lives and judge ourselves and we will find little joy.

When we are divinely self-centered and in a state of divine self-love, we can access our divine truth in every moment. We know that we are love itself, and we know that everyone around us is also love itself and we find joy within us and joy around us. We love and honor our personalities, but we don't get lost in thinking that our personalities are the whole truth of who we are. We love and honor our strengths and our weaknesses and are constantly open to grow, but we don't judge ourselves. When we don't judge ourselves, we naturally don't judge the people around us and we find harmony.

It is a natural act to love ourselves, or to be love itself, and let the love from within us overflow into our lives and into the lives of everyone that we touch. When we affirm the love that is our truth, then naturally we see love, give love, and receive love in a circle of light. We naturally bring love into our lives in multiple forms and we naturally know how to love and be loved.

When we affirm, "I am love itself," we affirm this for ourselves and for the world around us. Practice this affirmation and report back to me how it changes your life.

Blessings and Happy Valentine's Week.

The Year of the Rabbit!

2011-02-07T20:23:00.000-08:00

I know nothing about Chinese astrology, but I do have to say that this year feels so much softer than last year. Last year had an aggressive and rather explosive feel to it, which is a great energy to move through issues and transform them but it's not a great energy to find inner peace. The contrast of last year, the year of the tiger, and this year, the year of the rabbit, is pretty gigantic and well needed for us all. The key is not to feel bored by this new energy, but relaxed and nurtured. There might now be fireworks, but rabbits definitely have energy and verve and great creative powers.

So, here's to a new year everyone. I have always felt that the Chinese new year has more of a feeling of a new year than our western new year. February is a great time for launching all that we want to create. Blessings to you all.

Patience is a Dirty Word

2011-02-02T15:16:00.000-08:00

Would you rather have someone swear at you, or would you rather have someone tell you to be patient? I'm sure neither sounds appealing, but I am willing to bet that most people would rather have someone tell them almost anything other than to be patient.

I have often said to clients that I don't feel like patience is innate to human beings. Or, if it is, our culture programs patience out of us so early on that whatever patience we innately have is lost. Practicing patience takes patience, so how do we even begin?!

Patience comes down to trust and faith. We do everything that we physically can to line up what we want to create in our lives. Let's say we are trying to find a relationship. We go out to places that we love, we go on internet dating sites, we get counseling to get through any hang ups we have in our mental or emotional bodies, we practice loving ourselves, and still there is no one in our lives.

At this point, we either give up and say there is no one out there for us, OR we practice patience. We practice trust and faith that all of life happens in divine timing. We are doing nothing wrong in looking for that divine soul mate, we just need to continue on in our lives and have patience that we are creating that relationship in divine timing. We continue on with all that we feel the need to do physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and we practice patience. Patience has a natural receptive energy to it as a word and as a practice. People who are more patient than others are in general more open to life unfolding and are more content with where life is.

So, again you ask how do I practice patience?

"I surrender to divine timing in life. I surrender to trust in myself and trust in the divine. I surrender to deep patience with the unfolding of all that I am creating." This is a great mantra to plug into your daily practice. It will help you get out of your head's version on timing, which is always "I want it, and I want it now" or even "I want it and I want it yesterday" and get into the flow of divine timing. If you are seeking a soul mate and no matter what you do you can't find him or her, then know there is a divine reason. Your mind will want to know the reason, but I find that mystery is one of the most profound gifts that we get in this life.

The example of creating a soul mate can be transferred to anything- creating money, a new job, a healthy relationship in the relationship that we already have, a harmonious work environment, a new home, the list goes on and on. Learning patience in all aspect of our lives brings us great peace and it gives the universe the space to create something even better than we could ever imagine.

Blessings to you all, Liz

Life begins at 40 :)

2011-01-18T12:01:00.000-08:00

I am turning 40 this week and it inspires me to really be present in my age. Certain years stand out and we can really stop and take notice where we are and where we have been. It seems like decade birthdays are those kind of years.

While I was pondering 40 in my heart and mind, it was interesting to me how I compared 40 to being faced with death. It somehow makes me want to do things that I have been putting off. I am in no way close to death, unless God has a different plan for me that I don't know about, but when I become more present in the moment I am in, I just naturally want to feel inspired by the actions I take. Some of you will chuckle to yourself and think, "mid-life crisis". Maybe it is, but if this is a crisis I sure like it. I feel more inspired and energized than I have for awhile and more present for life's ups and downs and all arounds.

I would love to carry this feeling into every new year and even new day of my life. Feeling filled with where I have been, open to where I am going, and present where I am is a great place to be. I send you all this feeling and lots of love and light and gratitude for who you are in my life.

Blessings, Liz

A new year's prayer

2010-12-30T13:24:00.000-08:00

I just wanted everyone to have easy access to the New Year's prayer that I recorded this week. It's at http://intuitiveliz.com/weeklyprayer.html. It's a prayer you can listen to to release the old year and open yourself to the new year. I always do the prayers in first person so that it will fully activate the prayer for you. Lots of love and light to you all for the new year. Blessings, Liz

Solstice, Lunar Eclipse, and all the other crazy energy!

2010-12-26T16:08:00.000-08:00

How is everyone out there doing with all the energy shifts we are all going through? Wow, is all I can say, it has been intense. You might say, when is it not intense? I might agree. :) Holidays can be overwhelming without all this crazy energy going on at the same time.

When I read the global energy that is affecting us personally, it feels like the world is turning around and making us focus on what is truly important to us on our own unique paths. We cannot get away with avoiding who we are. This might be true always to some extent, but it is doubly true at this moment in our soul's history. I can literally feel the pull energetically saying "turn within and face your Self. Do not back away from who you are."

What is kind of cool about this whole process is that we actually function better when we are not avoiding who we are. Imagine that!

I had a great hike today with my crazy dogs and I got off trail randomly. It made me have to focus completely so that I didn't fall on my face. My mind could not wander, and I had to be fully present with who I was in that moment. The world dropped away and I felt very fluid and at peace. (And slightly clumsy at times as well, but very present as I was clumsy.:)) As I saw my strengths and weaknesses with the process of getting down the mountain, I let my mind watch my experience without judging it. It was a perfect moment of being.

So, if you want to find some sanity over this holiday season, make sure you spend time listening to who you are. If that time comes from meditation, awesome, if it comes from hiking in the mountains, awesome as well. Part of listening to who you are is finding what you love to do and doing it in a fully present and focused way.

Many Blessings to you all, Liz

Taking time to be Present

2010-12-16T08:30:00.000-08:00

As I was preparing to teach my class on intuition a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking of simple ways to become more focused on the present moment. The more present we are, the more we naturally awaken our intuitive voice. One thing that occurred to me was to really focus on our food when we are eating. A lot of us eat and talk or eat and watch TV, but it is very simple just to take time to consciously eat. Sometimes finding time to meditate is hard, but we eat every day right? (Unless we are fasting.:))

So, as a new practice, try eating one meal a day consciously focusing on the flavors and sensations of your meal. This will immediately bring you to the present moment and you might find some awesome insights along the way. As you take time in a day to be present, the mind has time to find focus and you become more conscious of what is bothering you and you also become more conscious of the solutions.

Blessings to you all in this holiday season,
Liz

The Holiday Season

2010-12-08T10:45:00.000-08:00

Life can be overwhelming during the holiday season. We can easily get caught up in worldly life and forget our divinity for awhile. It is so important to re-center ourselves in the divine light that is our truth so that we can stay grounded and centered with all the craziness.

I know that this season is about giving, and we could look at that as giving physical gifts, but we could also look at the divine act of giving as well; giving kindness, giving time, giving presence, giving generosity. Some people go and volunteer this time of year, and this is great, but sometimes it is the small act of giving that is equally well received. Being present with the waiter at a restaurant, connecting and smiling with the cashier at Target, being kind to your neighbor's dog, really listening to your family and friends, all are forms of giving that can make a deep impact in someone's lives. When we really connect with people, the world shifts and we deepen our connection to the divine.

Many Blessings to you all in this holiday season!
Liz

Awakening your Intuitive Voice

2010-12-01T16:02:00.000-08:00

I am teaching a class this weekend called "Awakening your Intuitive Voice". Why would we want to be more intuitive? When we connect with our intuition, we connect with the voice of our heart and our divinity and we learn our lessons with more grace.

We can imagine living our life with the voice of our mind as our guide and our director. Our minds are limited to what we know and what we have seen. We as human beings have only had a limited amount of experiences in our lives and, even if we are triple Phds, we have only gathered a limited amount of knowledge. Our minds try and tell us that our experiences and knowledge are the truth of our being and that our experiences and knowledge define who we are and what we are here on this earth. When we live from the voice of our mind, we can only move through life from what we as individuals have learned and what we as individuals know.

When we awaken our intuitive voice in life, we connect to a vast ocean of knowledge because we are connecting with the divinity inside us and around us. This divinity has a limitless wealth of information and wisdom that we can tap into that leads us on a gentler path in life. We are all divine and we all have a divine voice that I call intuition. Imagine if we can see into the easiest and clearest solution to the issues that we have in our lives. Imagine if we can see the purpose for the challenges we have in our lives. Our mind, our personality, our humanity has no ability to connect with this consciousness on its own. It can only connect when we awaken our intuitive voice. The louder that intuitive voice becomes, the more we learn to trust the information that we receive and the more fluid our lives become.

So, here's to awakening our intuitive voices more strongly in our lives. Here's to recognizing the divinity in all aspects of our lives. Here's to finding simple and deeply wise solutions to challenging problems!

Come join me if you are here in Albuquerque this Sunday from 1-4 for a class that will help you awaken your intuitive voice. Email me for more information. innerhealth@yahoo.com.

Blessings, Liz

Thanksgiving

2010-11-22T10:42:00.000-08:00

This is probably my favorite holiday and one that I live by day to day. Giving thanks is the cornerstone to life and is a deep part of being divine in this world as a human. When we forget to be grateful, life becomes tedious and mundane. When we open our minds and our hearts to gratitude for what we have before us, the world opens up and becomes inspiring and limitless.

Right now, I am looking out my window at the gorgeous New Mexico sky and watching the clouds roll by as a storm is blowing through. There is an intense wind blowing the fall leaves off a tree. The air is crisp and clear and my heart feels full. There is deep gratitude in my heart for the forces of nature and the beauty that those forces bring. My body feels strong and I am grateful for my health and the state of peace that I feel.

Why am I talking about all of this? I am trying to convey that we experience gratitude without being conscious of that experience all the time. We don't have to be consciously grateful to be experiencing deep satisfaction with the life that we are in, but when we consciously give thanks in our mind and in our hearts, our energy lifts. Just writing what I was grateful for in this moment helped to lift my spirit and helped me to feel more open and more willing to let in more goodness and more divine experiences.

Practicing conscious thanks giving can inspire our lives and inspire the lives of those around us. When we are thanked by those around us for our strengths, we are filled with energy and we are inspired to practice our strengths even more. When we thank people around us for their strengths, we inspire them to pass those strengths on and we feel full from giving support and love to someone in our lives.

So, our practice is to give thanks daily for what we are experiencing. Even consciously giving thanks for simple things can lift our spirits and open our hearts to more and more experiences to be grateful for in our lives. When you feel down and low, look and see if you have given yourself a conscious dose of gratitude that day. If you haven't, pick some aspects of your life that are easy to be grateful for. If all you can see to be grateful for is the sky above you and the ground below your feet, start with gratitude for that and let the rest open up around you.

We open our hearts to the divine truth of our being when we let ourselves experience gratitude and when we share that gratitude with the world through conscious experience and expression. The heaviness of the world lifts and we can feel divine purpose and divine plan. We start to focus on all the goodness that exists in our lives and let go of our focus on what we don't have. Life becomes expansive. Go out there and experience and express gratitude. I am deeply grateful for all that you are and all that you are not. Even if I have never met you, I know that you are a part of the divine balance in this life that I lead. Let others be grateful for you as well.

Blessings and Happy Thanksgiving, Liz

Kryptonite

2010-11-15T11:04:00.000-08:00

I woke up thinking about Kryptonite this morning from the Superman movies and comics. It is the only substance that weakens Superman's powers and can kill him. Why, you might ask am I bringing this up? Well, I was realizing that we all have forms of Kryptonite in our lives. Unlike Superman (who is super-human after all) we mere mortals have more than one form of Kryptonite that weaken our energy and hold us back from our true nature and strength. Each of us have our own unique forms of Kryptonite and when we identify what weakens us, we can grow stronger and healthier.

We all have Kryptonic (I realize that is not a word, but it is now. :)) relationships. Some of those relationships are with people, some of the relationships are within ourselves, some are with food, some with activities or addictions. The key is to find what is unhealthy and either change the dynamic we have with the relationship or get rid of it all together.

I recently had a date with a guy who had all the right elements and interests and "should" have been a perfect match for me. When I got home that night, I felt drained beyond reason and felt that way for a few days afterward. He was Kryptonite for me. Why? On paper he was perfect and he was a really nice guy. Was it past life energy? Was it an imbalance between us? Was he an energy vampire? Does it really matter? I was energetically sick from the interaction. That doesn't mean he was a bad person, it just means his energy was bad for me. Identifying a feeling and a drain of energy is the first step toward choosing healthy, energizing relationships and creating a balanced life. What seems perfect might not be perfect for you. Broccoli might be toxic for you. You might be very happy that broccoli is toxic for you. :) It's up to you to pay attention to what feeds you and to what brings you down.

So, pay attention to your energy. When you enter into a relationship with someone or something, does it make you feel neutral, does it lift your spirits, or does it bring you down? If it brings you down, is there something that needs to be said or done that can open the relationship to health? Ask for divine support to feel or know if there is an action that can create health.

If the "Kryptonic" relationship in question is with a person, talk more openly, express more freely and see if the relationship is restored. If it isn't, be willing to either leave the relationship or change the dynamic. If the "Kryptonic" relationship in question is with a food that doesn't sit well with you, look at what you ate it with and try a different combination next time. Look at the time of day you ate it, pay attention and change the dynamic and if it still doesn't sit well, either take the food out of your diet or lessen your intake of it. If the "Kryptonic" relationship is with an activity that is necessary like cleaning, look at how to approach it differently and make it more fun.

There are most likely few truly "Kryptonic" relationships in our lives, meaning things that truly will drain us to the point of death like poor Superman; things that no matter what we change still make us sick. True Kyptonite is more evident immediately and we feel it in the depths of our soul. Some of us might have days where our children feel like Kryptonite, our husbands or wives, our food, or our daily activities, but the days pass and we are back to a state of health. Again, the key is to pay attention and to feel and acknowledge what feeds us and what brings us down and to be willing to have the strength to let something go that is truly toxic for us.

While I'm writing this, I also realize that relationships can change over time, especially relationships with people because we are all dynamic energy that is constantly growing. What was once great and powerful can sometimes turn to Kryptonite over time. That can be tricky for all of us to acknowledge. Be willing to see and feel and know what feeds you and drains you and be willing to recognize a change of dynamic over time and you will be strong and healthy throughout your life.

Many Blessings, Liz

Juggling

2010-11-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

We all have moments in our lives when we feel like we are juggling too many things. Whether it be too many thoughts, too many activities, or too many emotions, most of us are juggling all the time. This is also true of the divine. As we grow and shift, the divine works with our growth to find the best possible energy that serves us in the moment we are in. Are we meant to be challenged in the moment so that we can have some form of breakthrough? Are we meant to be nurtured so that we can heal? Are we meant to have nothing going on so that we can have a breather? Our divinity within us and around us is constantly adjusting to find balance that is most perfect for our growth. Unlike us, the divine is an expert juggler that feels no stress and no judgement if another ball is thrown in or thrown out of our lives.

How can we work best with our divinity so that we are juggling together in perfect harmony? Most of you already have answered this if you have worked with me before. Sit and connect with the divinity within you and around you. Give your being time to catch up with itself every day. Give a few minutes of time to your connection to the divine life force that is working within you and around you to create positive growth and inspiration in your life. This will not only help the divine juggling to feel more gentle and smooth, but it will also help you to consciously work as a team with the divine. You will be able to prioritize in your heart and mind so that your personal juggling is more smooth.

When we sit with the divine and let ourselves catch up with the moment we are living in, we let go of resistance to living the life we are living. The less we resist what we have in front of us in our lives and the more we accept who we are and where we are, the fewer balls we will drop and the more fun we will have juggling all the aspects of our lives.

So, sit with the divine light that is your truth. Ask to be inspired in every action that you take on this earth. Surrender to the divine assistance that is always there for us to feel and know. Then, get out there and juggle with a wide open heart and mind.

The Day of the Dead

2010-11-01T11:26:00.000-07:00

Today is a day to honor those who have passed to spirit. The veils between the worlds are thinner and we can connect and communicate with our divine friends and loved ones more clearly today. It is good to spend time with those that have passed, honoring in our minds and hearts who they were when they were here on earth, and honoring who they are in spirit.

I spent some time yesterday honoring a friend who passed on October 31st a few years ago. His name was Evan and he was an amazing person here when he was in his body. He was very sensitive to life and very troubled in his mind. He had an engaging smile and a unique perspective on life. He explored all kinds of alternative healing and all kinds of ways to heal his mind, but he wound up taking his life on October 31st, 2004.

Since Evan died, I have connected with his energy quite a bit. He has found peace in spirit and is now an amazing angel/guide. When I connect with him, I see who he was here on earth, and then also see what I would call his light body. His energy is powerfully clear and open and expansive. He has released all that he was healing on this planet and now is assisting in the healing and transformation that the world is going through.

I tell this story to demonstrate that when we connect with the spirit and soul of someone, it's important to realize that they are in a new and divine place. The essence of who they were here on earth is there, but they have continued to grow and learn and expand. If they were unhappy in life, they might have learned and shifted and grown past that unhappiness and found divine peace and joy.

Send love and peace to the spirit of those that have passed. Ask for any divine message they might want you to hear or feel. Be open. You may feel peace and joy or you may get a message of love. You may not quite be ready to feel or hear anything, but just giving a moment of time can help you be ready the next time you connect. If, in anyway you feel disturbance when you try to connect, ask for angels and divine light to surround you and the soul that you are connecting with so that you both can find peace. The disturbance could be your own process of healing grief, or it could be the soul that you are connecting with trying to open to the light. Either way, the divine will take care of both of you in your healing.

Many Blessings to you all on this sacred and divine day,

Liz

The Art of Love

2010-10-25T13:51:00.000-07:00

Some of you know of my new adventures in being a doggie mom, but I wanted to share a little bit with you all. I went from having the perfect dog- my dog Gracie who was an angel in disguise as a dog- to having dogs that are flawed. Gasp! :) Through the process of loving these two rascals, I feel like a better person, so I thought I would share a little bit of the adventure. What it has truly come down to is love. Learning how to share love with animals who have been abused can only help me love my clients and all of human kind a little better. There is an art to love. I have had to be creative in how to share love, how to approach with love, and how to see love being returned to me in odd ways. I know that we have all applied our creativity to loving someone, whether it be a child who is pushing our boundaries, whether it be a person that we are deeply connected to who has blocks and barriers to love, whether it be an animal who pulls at our heartstrings, or whether it is something about ourselves that we wish we could change, we all have worked to perfect our art of love. For me, lately, my art has led me on a path to love through my new dogs.

I'll start with Cosette, who is now 2 years old. She came to me through the pound when she was 3 months old. She actually called to me from the heavens and I knew I needed to go to the pound and then she screamed and squealed at me through the bars until I brought her home. People gave me pitying looks as I went to get her. She is high strung, to say the least, and yet she was immediately accepted by Gracie, so I knew she had to stay. Holy crap, though, she was tough. Chewed her way and bit her way through the first year, running and playing like a maniac until she would pass out and then running an playing some more. Slowly, she let me in to her wild and wacky world.She would sit at my feet and give me what I can only describe as a shit eating grin. Are there laws to swearing in blog land? I hope not. I could feel that she felt like the little orphan Annie winding up in some kind of doggie heaven. She let me love on her in fits and starts, and tried to block love through her hyper behavior. Her behavior gradually settled as she could see that she was accepted by the pack and that she was staying. Now, I would still describe her as high strung, but she loves to be loved on and will sit and be petted for as long as you can pet her.

Crazy dog #2 came in the form of Bella, who entered my life a couple of months after Gracie died. Cosette mourned Gracie so deeply, I felt like I owed it to her to find a friend. I was called in a deep way to search for a companion for Cosette, and "randomly" found Bella on the internet. Her little cute face made me drive across town to bring her home. Here is where the true adventure to love begins.

When I brought Bella home, I felt very drawn to her, but I was not convinced she was my forever dog. I felt like I was meant to love on her, but I might need to find her a new home. This was continually confirmed by Cosette, who loved Bella at the Humane Society, but who immediately took a dislike to her when I brought her home. I could feel Cosette mourning Gracie and taking it out on Bella by playing really rough with her. I was a constant referee. Bella was protective of her food, water, toys, and bones and growled quite a bit. She was a bully with Cosette. Bitchiness abounded at my house. It was stressful, but I just kept setting boundaries and loving on both dogs. I could tell Bella had been really abused and starved, but I didn't want to have Cosette lose her place or be bullied. I was just thinking of finding Bella a home when she came down with the non-contagious form of the mange. I needed to get her healthy and love on her some more. Then, she sprained her knee from her weakness with the mange. She was a mess, and it really opened my heart to her and her plight. Abused, bad-assed, and sick, I felt like she needed love more than most. Cosette softened to her as she healed we have found a balance for now. Bella really helped Cosette and I mourn Gracie and open our hearts to a new dog friend. She makes it hard to love her sometimes still, but she is softening and losing her bullying front.

Through this whole process, I have had to be creative with love. I continue to learn when to apply tough love, when to be soft, when to love at a distance, and when to be extra present. It has been a journey and continues to be a journey. We all must find ways to be creative with love and to find the balance of love within ourselves and around us. How do we love ourselves on days that are challenging? Do we get tough with ourselves, or do we need softness and nurturing? How do we love our children when they are pushing our buttons? Do they need boundaries, or do they just need to assert themselves for a moment? How do we love our partner when he makes us mad? Do we need him to understand us, or do we need to listen to his needs? The art of love comes into our lives multiple times a day and if we keep our hearts open and aware we can be masters in this art form. Many blessing to you all.

Living in Divine Truth

2010-10-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

The affirmation, "I am Divine truth," is on my mind today. What exactly does that mean? Here's what it means for me. When I spend time and sit with my divinity, I feel a vast ocean of wisdom and support within me and surrounding me. There is a feeling of deep peace and tranquility and my mind stops whirling around all of the issues that I am facing in my life. I call this true surrender; I am surrendering to what is always there within me and around me. I can sit and find this truth no matter what is going on in my life. If there are more challenging circumstances in my life, it might be harder for me to access this ocean, it might be harder for me to still my mind, but the ocean is always there. This is divine truth.

I realize that I am lucky that I can still my mind and find this space relatively easily, although it took a lot of practice and focused intention to get to this place. I was actually a very intensely mental person in my earlier life and I never could get out of my head. I knew there was divinity in there, I just had a hard time accessing it. For me, the breakthrough that really got me into a deep space of divinity was learning yoga. Though I don't practice it much any more, it really helped me get out of my head.

A lot of people that I work with find challenges getting in touch with the divine within as well. It takes practice and it also takes finding what works for you. I recommend finding an activity that helps you "lose your mind." For some people that would be running or biking or walking or yoga, for some people it would be knitting or cooking or cleaning (if it is cleaning you are welcome to come over to my house!), for some it would be drawing or painting or playing the guitar; we all have different way of getting out of our focused thinking. Practice whatever activity helps you get out of your head daily and ask for divine assistance in feeling and experiencing and knowing divine truth. You will start to connect more with your inner divinity and the truth will be revealed over time. The more you practice surrender, the more surrender will be natural to you.

Many blessings on your path to consciously living in divine truth. You will love being able to access a vast ocean of divinity more and more in your life. When you connect with divine truth, you will find life to be more fluid and gentle and more meaningful.

If you need help on this path, let me know. Love and Light, Liz

10-10-10- Divine Balance

2010-10-10T14:25:00.000-07:00

I love direct symbols of divine balance, and today being 10/10/10 is one of those days. I love numbers, though I know very little about numerology and I especially love when numbers are in balance. Today and every day we can honor divine balance within us and around us. Many blessings to everyone on this beautifully balanced day!

Empowering our Divine Self

2010-10-05T14:35:00.000-07:00

I was reading through an old journal of mine from years ago and I wrote that I thought the biggest challenge in life is identifying who we truly are and then living from that true self regardless of what other people might think of us for doing so. After years of practicing intuitive life coaching, I would still agree with this. We all have "quirks" or differences on how we perceive life.These differences are the divine's way of balancing life by allowing us all to be unique. Often, instead of embracing these quirks, we try to conform to how we think other people perceive life or how we have been taught we "should" perceive life. We have been conforming every year we have been here on the planet. Sometimes the conforming is small, and sometimes it is big, but each time we conform we lose a piece of ourselves.

What would happen if we all loved and honored who we are and embraced and honored everyone for who they are? Some might say there would be complete chaos in the world. To me, it feels like it would create a perfect balance.

Now for the big question... Drum roll, please. How do we navigate our way back to our perfect self, our true identity?

Know that our whole being is driven by our true self, so returning to that self is not a process of creation, but a process of surrender. We don't have to create our identity, we were born with it. It is actually harder to be someone that we are not than to be who we are. We have just forgotten how to relax into our truth. It's like we have been carrying around a heavy backpack that we forgot we were carrying. We need to find a way to take it off.

Start with intention. "I set a deep intention to find, know, love, and honor myself. I open to easily and gently heal and release all the fear that surrounds me in this process." Spend some time with yourself doing things that you love doing. Spend some quiet time with yourself listening to your mind. First, your mind might just chatter, but underneath the chatter is your true voice that given time can be heard. "I surrender to my true self, my true voice."

Returning to your divine self takes time. It took time to get where you are and it will take time to relax into who you truly are. Love yourself through it all and you will find this journey back to yourself joyful and inspiring.

Blessings, Liz

P.S. I am now doing a weekly audio prayer on my website. http://intuitiveliz.com/weeklyprayer.html

Creativity and Healing

2010-09-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

I just read today in a horoscope that creativity cannot exist without healing. This is is an interesting concept to me. I think the writer was talking about creativity in terms of life, meaning as we create what we desire in our life, we are naturally healing what stands in our way of that desire. Makes sense to me. So, in order to create we must heal, in order to heal, we must create. I have always seen that with the law of attraction. When we start to bring in our intentions, naturally the blocks that we have in the way of those intentions come to the forefront of our lives.

Let's say we want to create a romantic relationship in our lives. What is it that stands in our way of that relationship? For some of us it is lack of self worth, or lack of self love, or a fear of intimacy, or fear of trusting, and for some it is all of the above. So when we bring the energy of a romantic relationship closer to us, we also bring healing into our lives. We might create people who are close to what we want, but not quite right so we can work out our issues for the right person. We might work out intimacy issues with our close friends. We start to hear and feel our insecurities louder in our mind. All of this is a sign that we are on the right track, although it can appear to be the opposite. It is a tendency for us to get close to our desires and to give up because we see all the problems that we might have with the desire at hand. Instead, know that the closer you are to your desire, the more heightened your issues will be. This could be called a "healing crisis". Ask for divine assistance in moving through your issues and healing them so that you can deeply create in your life.

I love the simple thought that as we create, we heal. It can help our mind find peace in the midst of intense healing processes.

Much Love, Liz

Ascension

2010-09-21T16:35:00.000-07:00

It has occurred to me that the transformation that we are all going through is what some people call "ascension", or moving into a multi-dimensional self. What this means for us is that we will be able to perceive life in a fuller and more fluid way than we have in the past; we will be able to see and feel and experience ourselves as more than just physical beings; we will know our divinity more consciously and more tangibly. This is an exciting time on the planet. When we feel into the world around us, we can know oneness and the interconnection between us and the world around us. Ahhh, how brilliant and how challenging.

All of our egos are taking a bruising at this time in our evolution because in order to ascend, our egos need to take a back seat to our divinity. Our egos have been so taught to lead, that they are kicking and screaming as we are evolving. We need to honor our ego and talk to it. Give it love and send it gently to it's place. Our ego's true job is to serve our divinity, we have culturally just taught it to lead us. When it is leading, we get caught up in the physical world and forget to see the deeper and broader picture. We create dramas in our lives and in our minds. When the ego is in it's divine place, the drama drops away. The ego settles into it's role of serving the divine within and the divine around us. We take inspired actions that serve us and the greater whole. We find peace.

A prayer to help would be, "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to ascend to a multi-dimensional self. Help my ego to find it's place in an easy and gentle way. Embrace my ego with divine love and light as it struggles and help me to honor it's place without giving it too much power. I open to the limitless nature of the divine wisdom within me that will help me to experience life in a richer way. I allow this wisdom to guide me in my life and I ask that my ego learn to follow it. In gratitude and thanks, Amen."

Much love and light to you all, Liz

Transformation

2010-09-16T12:12:00.000-07:00

There seems to be an intense energy of transformation for all of us this year. We all have the opportunity to transform core beliefs that do not serve us anymore so that we can enter into a more joyful and blissful life. Transformation in the short run can be deeply troubling because the rug is being pulled out from under us over and over again. We can lose a sense of identity and sometimes even forget our purpose. In the long run, however transformation is a good thing and can lead us to deeper, richer lives.

How do we handle transformation in as graceful a manner as we possibly can?

Make sure that you use grounding techniques. Get out into the sunshine and let it clear and cleanse you. Cold water splashed on your face and hands can immediately wake you up and get you present. Deep breaths can ground and center you. If you just feel completely overwhelmed all the time, holding a rock can be useful. All of this helps you to connect to your body and connect to the earth. We are all rooted here on this planet at this time, and our connection to the earth can soothe and comfort us in deep and powerful ways.

Remember that the transformation that you are in at this time is going to lead you home to a divine center. Surrender to this transformation and ground yourself in the midst of it and you will find a place of peace.

Many Blessings,
Liz

Clearing your mind

2010-09-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

There is so much buzz around the concept that our thoughts are powerful and have the ability to create our reality. If we believe that, then it is vital to spend time daily clearing our thoughts and finding deep and pure intentions in our lives. We spend time brushing our teeth, cleaning our houses, showering, but very little if any time clearing our energy and our minds. It makes sense that life could get a bit muddy. If we never cleaned our house, what would it look like? If we never brushed our teeth, what would we smell like? :)

How, you might ask- how do we clear our thoughts? Spend time with them. Do some form of meditation. Some people meditate well seated with their eyes closed and emptying their minds. This form of meditation doesn't work well for most of us, so find a form that does. Take a walk in the fresh air, do yoga, ride an exercise bike, run, journal, draw, paint. Do something where you can focus on your thoughts and let them clear out. Do a daily prayer, "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to cleanse and clear my thoughts and my body, mind, heart, and spirit. Help me to set healthy intentions in my life. Help me to create a beautiful and inspired life, through beautiful and inspired thoughts and actions." Give yourself a daily clearing and report back to me on how it has changed your life. Lots of Love, Liz

Happy End of Summer- I am back!

2010-08-31T16:33:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! It has been a whirlwind of a summer for me, and it's nice to be back in the swing of things again. I'm back to blogging!

I wanted to fill people in with what I have been up to, for those who are interested, and also what I am planning for this fall.

This summer, I got to travel all over the place. I started in the beginning of June with a trip to Spain and Italy and I got to experience the intense energy that Europe is going through at the moment. I could really feel the pressure that the world's economic challenges are creating over there. There was an underlying tension in the air that I am not used to in traveling to Europe. There still is such a sweetness to Europe and the ancient cultures are always rich, and I loved getting over there.

I got to travel with family a couple of times this summer, and landed up in the Pacific Northwest for awhile. It's such a beautiful part of our country and I spent time with my nephew and little baby niece. There's nothing like baby time to rejuvenate and find your center. I loved it.

My final trip was to New York City. I am always impressed by the diversity of the city and I felt an especially strong and profound kindness to the people there this time. (With a mix of straight-forwardness that New York is famous for.) It was beautiful.

In the midst of all my travels, I have been connecting with all of you and witnessing your journeys. I feel very blessed to be able to do the work that I do and to see people's growth and profound realizations. I am excited for this fall and for the depth of transformation that is happening on the planet at this time. We are truly evolving as a species, and opening to lead from our heart center. We are healing what stands in our way of deep soulful heart connection with ourselves and with the world. There is an intensity in the air, but we have the capacity to move through this time with grace and health.

I work Monday-Friday 10-5 MST doing readings and Reiki. I will be doing phone groups the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 Mountain Time, and groups at my house the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at 5. I am also planning some classes on the west coast, so please let me know if you're interested and I will get you my schedule.

Lots of Love to you all and you will be hearing from me again soon!

Liz Vance

A Prayer for the gulf from Dr Masaru Emoto

2010-06-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

I got this in my email and wanted to paste it here to further affirm a healthy healing for the gulf. Many blessing to everyone. I will begin blogging again soon. I got back from Sicily and Spain recently and have been slowly returning my brain to New Mexico. Blessings everyone, Liz

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf
Focusing our energies in response to the Gulf tragedy and for healing the waters and its inhabitants -

Today at our church we read a letter from Dr. Masaru Emoto who many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water. Among other things, his research revealed that water physically responds to emotions.
Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms, if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr Emoto, himself, has proposed.

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.
To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, planktons, corals, algae, and all living creatures. I am sorry. Please forgive me.

Thank you.

I love you. "

I am passing this request to people who I believe might be willing to participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are not powerless. We are powerful. Our united energy, speaking this prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of destruction that is happening.

We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.

Please join me in oft repeating this healing prayer of Dr. Emoto's.
And feel free to copy and paste this to send it around the planet.
Let's take charge, and do our own clean up!

Finding Calm in the Storm

2010-05-21T12:46:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of chaotic energy swirling around this planet. We see this in our news and we hear it from the great and intense shifts people are making in their lives. It is vital for us all to find our center, to find the eye of the storm. How do we do this? Taking deep breaths and affirming our divinity can be centering and clearing. "I am divinely grounded here on this planet as the world is shifting around me. I am filled with light and love and I ask the divine to stand with me so that I can experience and know that the growth of this planet is ultimately beautiful and good."

We all have the ability to find a place of peace, no matter what is going on around us. Keep doing prayers for centering so that you can feel healthy and whole in the midst of rapid change and growth.

Love and Light,
Liz

Affriming Divine Abundance

2010-05-14T11:00:00.000-07:00

The Divine moves through you in everything that you do. You are divine light, you are divine truth, you are divinity itself. A powerful aspect of your divinity is limitless abundance. Every cell of your being knows how to be abundance. You have an internal and innate ability to contact divine abundance within you and to activate that abundance by affirming it. Your divine wisdom and intelligence will then work with the world within you and around you to create that abundance in ways that beyond your imagination. "I am divine abundance," is a great affirmation for everyone to utilize daily to open to more and more abundance of love, joy, peace, passion, health, wealth, and wisdom. Your mind does not create the abundance, but it helps to train and activate you at a cellular level to align with your divinity. Then, in turn, your mind is inspired by your divinity to take action on abundant thoughts. Have fun, be abundant! :) Blessings, Liz

Healing when disaster strikes- Gulf of Mexico Prayer

2010-05-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

It is easy to feel helpless when a disaster strikes. I am thinking of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico right now, but there are so many disasters that occur across the planet, within our own lives, and within the lives of our friends and family. How can we support the situation if we can't physically be there to help?

I will use the Gulf of Mexico as an example, but you could use this prayer and meditation for anything from a personal "disaster" to a global one. (I put the word disaster in quotes, because ultimately everything has a divine purpose. We learn from deep challenges, but there are definitely things in life that feel like disasters at the time.)

Visualize the Gulf of Mexico in the healthiest possible state. Clear water, healthy fish and animals, clean air, and perfect balance. Ask for divine light to surround the area and to divinely inspire everyone who is working with the issue to find solutions that are easy and gentle on the environment and on every living thing. Imagine a legion of angels embracing the situation as a whole and know that the divine is infinitely intelligent and can heal all that is out of balance. A simple prayer that you could say throughout the day when you think of the Gulf would be, "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, please surround the Gulf of Mexico in divine light and healing and help it to find deep and divine health and balance."

We can be of amazing assistance if we hold all that is out of balance in balance in our minds and in our hearts. Focusing on a positive outcome helps us support the earth and everyone around us.

Many blessings, Liz

Spirit of Grace

2010-05-04T12:53:00.000-07:00

I wanted to give an update on my experience with Gracie since she died... It has been an amazing journey and her spirit is very strong.

Last week it had been 3 weeks since Gracie died, and my other dog Cosette woke me up in the middle of the night with a mournful loud cry. It startled me from a deep sleep. I could feel Gracie's presence really strong, and I had the thought that Gracie was going through her dying process in her life review. Every time I would start to fall back asleep, I could hear the sound of a dog throwing up- that's how Gracie died- and I would look up and Cosette was fine. I finally got up and prayed and sent Gracie light and love and gratitude. Eventually, I felt a sense of peace and freedom.

The next day, I had a morning client and then a break. All of a sudden, I had this orb of light cover my vision. It was clear and fringed with a kaleidescope of light that was blinking. I could see it equally well with my eyes closed or open. It lasted for about a half an hour and then I had a splitting headache for about an hour. I knew it was Gracie saying hi in her formless form, now free of her life review and open to a new life in spirit as a guide and friend. I can feel her more tangibly now and she has very expansive and healing energy as always.

I will report more along the way. Hope you all are enjoying the spring!

Grace

2010-04-15T16:52:00.000-07:00

This is a blog about my sweet dog Gracie who passed away Easter Sunday- 4/4/2010...

I had a vision before I met Gracie that I would have a dog who would help me with my treatments and who was a true healer. When I met her, she was a scrappy wild dog from the reservation, with giant bat ears and vim and vigor and independence. I had no idea that this was the dog that I had envisioned. She and I bonded immediately, though, and she would wrap her legs around me and hold on like she was hugging me and not let go. She was a treat.

Little did I know that that little scrappy Gracie was an angel in disguise as a dog. She came to me magically on April Fools day, and left me gracefully 14 years later on the 4th of April. I had her almost exactly 14 years.

Her life was filled with light and inspiration and a calmness that felt so soothing and balancing to me and to everyone she met. As she grew up, she turned into that dog I had seen. Wisdom and grace were apparent immediately and she truly lived up to her name.

She was such a gift to my readings and to my Reiki treatments. Sometimes she would get so insistent with me to help someone and she would bark when energy was shifting and healing and she would sit on people where they hurt to give them comfort and energy. In groups, she would always go over to the person who needed her and love on them.She was everyone's best friend and taught everyone the meaning of true compassion.

Grace shared pure love with everyone she met. She wouldn't let me pass another dog or person without saying hello to them and giving them a kiss. She had cat friends that she adored. (Maybe more than they adored her.) She loved all of my clients with a pure heart, even the one's who weren't dog people and didn't like her just because she was a dog. She didn't judge, she just loved.

Gracie overcame so many obstacles and taught me so much about being present in the moment and how not to fear life but to jump right in and live. She got bit by a rattlesnake when she was 2 years old. I was living up in Placitas and she chased something off our front porch. When she came back, she acted super weird and had a mark above her eye. We lived near a horse stable, and I thought she had gotten kicked by a horse. I started giving her Reiki and I got super nauseous and passed out. I woke up a half an hour later and her face had puffed up like a balloon. She helped me to see how powerful Reiki was, because it helped her to live through the snake bite. We got to the hospital and they gave her the anti-venom and she lived.

At 6 years old, Gracie got Addison's Disease, which is a very hard disease to diagnose. It is an auto-immune disease where the adrenal glands don't function. She would shiver and shake for seemingly no reason and had symptoms that resembled a bladder infection. I was taking her to an alternative vet, and then had to rush her into the hospital on New Years Eve because she had turned green- literally green. Divinely, I went to a vet that specialized in Addison's Disease and they were able to diagnose her and save her life. I am sure she had only a couple of hours to live. In maintaining her Addison's, we used a combination of Eastern and Western Medicine and it really helped me appreciate and know the strengths and weakness of both kinds of treatments. She had Addison's Disease all of her life and needed monthly shots, but she never acted lost or upset with her illness. She had bad days, and scary moments, but never showed any signs of giving up on life or giving up on any adventure she could find.

At 8, Gracie and I were hiking in the mountains and I had her off-leash. (I know, I know. :)) It was a snowy day, and we always liked going out to the quiet and solitude of snow. I was hiking an arroyo and I turned around and saw her chasing a coyote and a very large coyote was chasing her. I screamed at her to come to me, which usually didn't work, but she must have felt the panic in my voice and the coyote on her tail. She turned, and I prayed that big coyote would leave her, but he didn't and he kept chasing her down the arroyo. I started running towards them, knowing it might be stupid, but also knowing I would never forgive myself if I didn't try and save her. I had to face my fear, even though her life and my own were running through my mind. The coyote took out her back legs and she tumbled down the arroyo at my feet. I yelled "Get Back!" to the coyote and magically it did- not far, but enough for me to pull Gracie to me. I made myself look big by puffing up my jacket and then the whole pack started howling- they were surrounding us and I hadn't known! I almost peed my pants! I dragged Gracie out, still making myself look big and we made it out alive. She only had a tear in her leg where the coyote had taken her down. Whew! Gracie trusted me to get her out of that situation and didn't get aggressive or challenge those coyotes in any way. She gave me pure love and respect.

As Gracie got older, the adventures became more tame and more internal. Her Addison's Disease challenged her and I stayed in tune with her body and her signals when she needed new medicine and adjustments to her treatment. We talked naturally without talking and we knew each other's needs.

When it was time for Gracie to go to spirit, she handled it with as much grace as a dog who loved life could. I could tell she would fight to the last breath, and I needed to help her to go. She was throwing up and was in pain and she was dying. A dog has to suffer a little at the end- enough to let us know that it is time, but I told the divine- "I get it, you don't need to show me by having her suffer anymore, I will help her to pass." As soon as I said this out loud, her throwing up stopped and she rested. I would have a moment where I would think- "oh, she's ok," and she would start to get urp-y and uncomfortable again. I would say, "I get it," and she would be peaceful again. I got a true message that it was time, and all doubt was gone.
Her favorite and amazing vets who were like family to her came to the house on Easter morning, which they wouldn't have done for any other dog, I'm sure, and helped me to help her go to spirit. She got the royal treatment that she deserved and went peacefully. At first, I could feel her spirit adjusting to it's new formless form, but once her body was cremated I felt her with me larger than life and filled with the same grace that she always had.

There is a surrealness and a sadness with the fact that I have lost her body and her physical presence, but her spirit is so amazing and we are so connected that I feel her with me always. My heart feels more open and receptive to life than it ever has. I have Gracie with me once again telling me to live- to be open to life and to face my fears and to live. I know her message in life and in spirit is to live fully, to love unconditionally for all that we are and all that we are not, to be present and open to every moment, and to be a true friend. She lived her life this way and was and is a true healer to all of us.

This was written in honor of and in gratitude to my best friend Gracie with much love to all of you for your prayers, love, and support for both of us.

I am in the process of creating a doggie blog in honor of Gracie for all of us to share fun/funny and inspirational dog stories and pictures. If anyone wants to participate, let me know.

Blessings,
Liz

Crazy energy in the air

2010-04-01T20:34:00.000-07:00

I don't know if any of you have noticed, but there is some crazy energy in the air, energy that scrambles the mind and the senses. We all need to focus on being grounded as this energy moves across the planet. "I am grounded, body, mind, heart, and spirit," is a good affirmation right now.

This crazy energy is the winds of change. Huge transformation is entering in more and more every day. We feel it in our own lives and we see it in the news from around the world. Will this change be positive? Of course, ultimately the world will naturally come into divine balance and open to more love and more peace. The key is to stay focused on love and peace within ourselves and not to get lost in the craziness of this healing planet. "I am love, I am peace," would be a good simple mantra to keep on your mind.

Many blessings to you all! Love and Light, Liz

New Baby

2010-03-25T09:11:00.001-07:00

I have a new baby niece- Abigail Rose, born today- March 25th at 7:15am. I am off to see her tomorrow. Thanks for everyone's good wishes- lots of love, Liz

Sir Isaac Newton and finding common ground

2010-03-24T18:32:00.000-07:00

I was thinking about life and how many oppositions we face. We see Democrats vs Republicans, Eastern Medicine vs Western Medicine, intellect vs intuition, the list goes on and on. In Sir Isaac Newton's 3rd Law of Motion, he says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It makes me ponder how we can somehow tone our activism accordingly. Instead of creating opposition by being adamantly against something, couldn't we look instead for common ground? By looking for common ground and not opposing forcefully, the reaction against what we believe in would become smaller and we would have more peace within ourselves and more peace in the world around us.

I recognize this is easier said than done. We all have strong beliefs that we live from and it can be hard to find compassion for those who have strong opposing beliefs, especially when those beliefs cause others pain and suffering. Finding the common ground feels like the way to peace, though, so it feels worthwhile for us to try.

Here's a prayer to work with: "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I honor everything that I believe in and I ask for help in opening my heart and my mind to those who believe differently than me. Please help me to find compassion in my heart for those who oppose me and for those who oppose my beliefs. Help me to honor our differences and to find and focus on what we have in common. I ask for divine light to fill me and to fill the world so that we can find peace in who we are, and so it is, Amen."

Birth

2010-03-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

It seemed only fitting after my last blog about death to talk a moment about birth. My brother and sister-in-law are about to have a baby and I get to go this coming week and be there with them to welcome in their new little girl. There is something very amazing and sacred about witnessing the beginning of a new life.

When a soul or a spirit comes into form, their energy is the closest that we can come to experiencing the essence or energy of god or the divine. Their little bodies are awkward, yet their energy is powerful and pure.

I will report back to everyone on my experience.

By the way, Gracie is hanging in there and has bright eyes and a bright spirit still. Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers.

Death and New Beginnings

2010-03-11T09:32:00.000-08:00

My dog Gracie is now 14 and she is slowing down. I can feel in her a preparation to move into spirit, and she has had some episodes lately than confirm that. It is a sad time because I will miss her body and her grace- she was named appropriately- but it is also a fascinating time. I can feel that her spirit is less attached to her body and therefore I can connect with her in a way that is very comforting and very strong. Since her body is slowly shutting down, her spirit is slowly moving out of her body, and I can tangibly feel the process. She has been a great teacher for me along the way in her life, but affirming for me once again that there is so much more to us than our bodies is a precious gift. She and I are in an ending of our lives together in this form, but it is truly a new beginning for us to connect in an even deeper way than we have with her here in her beautiful body.

I know that all of you have experienced pets or humans that you have lost. We can all connect anytime with those who have passed. Some of those connections are stronger than others; some souls have a lot to process when they die and it's hard to feel their presence, some are more tangibly present with us. All we need to do to connect is to send them light and love and to realize that they are now in a new form, a larger more divine and free form. We don't want to hold them to the form that they had when they were here, but we can still connect with the divine essence of who they are.

"Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to connect with the essence of my friend who has passed. Please send light and love to them in their process and their movement into spirit. Whatever is the most divine connection with this soul, I ask to open to that connection. I honor the place that my friend had in my life and the place that they have in my heart and I set them free to fly with the angels. If they can connect with me in a healthy way for me and for them, I ask to feel and experience and know that connection. In deep gratitude, I honor this space of connection, and so it is, amen."

Prayer

2010-03-02T17:44:00.000-08:00

Quite a few clients have wanted my to write out the prayer that I do at the beginning of every session. This is a transcription that is a little more useful when you use this prayer for yourself. Hope you enjoy! Love and Light, Liz

Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I give thanks to my beauty, to my light, to my truth. At this time, I allow myself to fully and completely surrender to my divine state of light, to my divine state of truth. As I surrender to my divine state of truth, I recognize and know in every cell of my being that I am love itself. I am light. I am health; body, mind, heart, and spirit. I am abundance. I am joy. I am peace. I am bliss. Anything and everything that stands in my way of recognizing and knowing my divinity easily and gently heals, lifts, shifts and transforms so that every cell of my being and every aspect of my life aligns with a divine state of light, to a divine state of truth. I honor myself in this life, and I bless this life in a state of pure and divine love and light, and so it is, Amen

(copyright Liz Vance)

Daily Practice

2010-02-22T10:42:00.000-08:00

Great group at my house last night. It was fun to see you all!

I was contemplating what to write today and when I sat with it, the words "daily practice" came to me. In the Gratitude CD that I just created, I talk quite a bit about a daily practice of gratitude. When you wake up in the morning, think of what you are grateful for and you will affirm with yourself and with the divine what you love in your life. When you affirm what you love, you naturally create more of it in your life. When you go to sleep, again give thanks to the day, and you will sleep soundly and feel more content when you wake up in the morning.

A gratitude practice is vital, but I also want to cover the full picture of what a daily practice of connecting with the divine within yourself looks like. Here are some important elements to include.

1. Morning gratitude prayer. Sitting for an moment before you get up and and being consciously grateful.
2. Set an intention to do something that you love to do for yourself at least once a day. This can be dancing around your living room to your favorite song, this can be taking a hot bath, this can be reading a chapter of a good book, or this can be anything that brings you joy. This is your own moment, whatever your own moment looks like for you, so live it fully. For those of you who are caretakers and love to help others, you can help others as much as you want in a day, but the moment I'm talking about here is totally for you. Give to yourself as well.
3. Affirming daily that you are divine, body, mind, heart, and spirit. No matter what your mind says about who you are, you are divine.
4. Daily movement- whatever movement that is possible. Consciously feeling your body and knowing that you are alive.We see the miracle of life when we know we are here. Even if our body is sick, even if it hurts, we are here and we are alive in this moment and that is a miracle.

Make sure you have some form of daily practice that honors your divine self. Without honoring the divinity within you and around you, life can be mundane or overwhelming. The more that you connect with the divine point of it all, the more you will feel inspired in life.

Many Blessings to you all,
Liz

Love

2010-02-16T17:22:00.000-08:00

Happy belated Valentine's Day everyone! I find that Valentine's Day is a great day to reflect on love. There's so much focused on the commercialism and the romantic element on Valentine's Day that it can be a slightly depressing holiday unless we remember truly what love is. Love is the essence of who we are. We can't escape it, nor would we want to since it is so good to feel the experience of the truth of our being. We can be in and out of love in relationship, but we can't be in and out of love as the truth of our being.

We "fall in love" because we are able to open our hearts and experience and express the truth of our being with someone. All of us have someone that we love, even if it's a plant :), even if it is the planet, or if it is with a friend or a pet or a romantic partner. The more we open our hearts in a state of love for whoever or whatever we love in this world, the more we experience the truth of our being, which is love itself.

So, as a Valentine's exercise, picture something or someone that you love. Take a deep breath and ask for a full and complete experience of deep and unconditional love. Take another deep breath and affirm, "I am love itself. The love I feel in this moment expands into my entire being so that I feel not only love for this person or thing, but that I feel love for myself and for all that is. Love is all around me, love is within me, love is me."

Blessings and deep love to you all.

Liz

The Volcano

2010-02-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

The Wednesday night group (http://intuitiveliz.com/groupreadings.html) had some interference again and when we looked into why we discovered that there is a grand energy of transformation going on on the planet right now. This transformation is deeply cleansing and it is an intense healing, not a gentle one. I would compare it to a volcano erupting within each of us. All of us are healing at a deep level, body, mind, heart and spirit. When a energetic volcano erupts, there is a healing ash that comes out of our energy field and if we are all healing at the some time with the same amount of intensity then the world feels a little "ashy". Make sure you cleanse and clear throughout the day so that you don't get bogged down by this energy.

The good news is that this "volcanic" time is a powerful time for us all to reflect on what we most want to release. Do you want to heal feeling of a lack of abundance? Do you want to deepen a state of love and joy and transform what stands in your way of your divine truth? Do you want to heal your body? Now is the time to throw anything you want to heal into the fire and let it transform. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you are healing core belief systems and so is everyone around you. The more conscious you are of intentionally healing, the better you will feel in this moment. Be gentle with yourself, and be patient with your loved ones. We are all in this together.

Here's a prayer... "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to heal and transform at the core of my being anything that stands in my way of feeling, experiencing, and knowing my divinity. I am divine abundance, divine love, divine joy, divine power, divine passion, divine peace, divine bliss. I ask for a cleansing and clearing, body, mind, heart, and spirit, as I heal so that I can feel clear and centered and grounded as this transformation happens. I ask for a waterfall of light to pour through me and to clean out my energy and the energy that surrounds me. I send light to the world and gratitude for this healing, and so it is, Amen."

Divine Will versus Personal Will

2010-01-28T11:58:00.000-08:00

When we read into various situations in our lives and we get a divine answer about the situations but then that divine answer turns out "wrong", what has happened? There are many different reasons for this, but one big reason is the difference between divine will, which is what we read when we go within and listen, and personal free will, which is what every person has the ability to take action from. Let's say, you tune into a relationship that you would really love to create in your life. You like this guy and you're wondering if he likes you. When you tune into it, he is a perfect match for you and you feel a deep soul connection. Does this guarantee that he and you will enter into a relationship? Unfortunately, no. He might have too many issues that stand in his way of being open to a relationship with you. He might think someone else is hot and doesn't care if there's a soul connection with you. Basically, his person will might interfere with the divine will that says you'd be perfect for each other.

This can happen in many different situations in life. Let's say you have a house you want to buy and it feels perfect for you, and you sit with the energy of the situation and it deeply feels right that you will move into this house. Then, suddenly, the owners decide not to sell. Their personal will blocked you from moving into the house of your dreams.

Again, I want to mention, that a lot of times there are other reasons for you to be blocked from relationships or situations that in your mind might feel to be divine. Maybe the guy of your dreams is really a jerk and the house of your dreams is a money pit. What I am talking about here is when you really tune into something and it really feels right and all the energy feels like it's behind something that you are entering into with another person and the rug gets pulled out from under you. That's when personal will has gotten in the way. We've all been there in different situations in our life and it can be deeply frustrating. Just know that when something like this happens, we will later open to an even better outcome.

Here's to living more clearly from divine will in our lives!

The New Awakening

2010-01-18T09:51:00.000-08:00

This planet is going through a new awakening, an awakening to love. Humanity is shifting so that we begin our days, our lives with the intention to love. In this awakening, the planet is healing and all of us are learning at a deep level to re-prioritize. If you find yourself in dilemmas, the best way to find a solution is to ask yourself, "how can I lead from love?" This question is a deep and powerful one and will take some practice. I want to clarify the question and remind everyone that leading from love is not always leading from being "nice", but is leading from being deeply truthful and honest and coming from a divine place of love. Tough love can be forgotten sometimes and is equally important as nice and sweet love.

Looking at this awakening, many people have asked me why so many beautiful souls are choosing to pass to spirit lately. This planet is shifting at such a fast pace that a lot of souls have chosen to be in spirit to help the transformation happen. These souls are high vibrational master souls that are needed to hold the light for the planet. Know that your loved ones who have died or who are dying have great purpose and will lead a powerful life in spirit. This is true always, but it is especially amplified lately with the powerful shift happening on this planet. This is a vital time here on earth and some souls who's body or mind are worn out are more useful in spirit than they are in form. We who are left behind have the divine purpose of grounding the energy of love on the earth. Working together with those who have passed can be deeply healing for us in the mourning process and can also ground more completely the energy of love. Feeling love from our friends in spirit opens our earth bound hearts and helps us to open to divine love more completely. We heal ourselves and this planet when we experience this divine connection. Sit with the love that you have for and from your friends and family in spirit and you will know with deep certainty that the heart connections that you have are eternal.

I am working on a book about love that will help us focus on love more deeply here on earth. Any questions people have about love would enhance my book, so please send them my way. Blessings to you all, and a special legion of angels to Haiti, Love, Liz

The New Year of Gratitude...

2010-01-08T13:44:00.000-08:00

This year I am setting an intention to go deeper into a state of gratitude for every aspect of my life, every aspect of my body, mind, heart, and spirit. Anyone who would like to join me in this deepening of gratitude, please do. What I have recognized by setting this intention is that there are different levels of gratitude. We can say we are grateful, but when we really sit with gratitude and bring in different areas of our lives that we feel unsettled with and allow ourselves to really feel gratitude, we can change our lives. When we feel grateful and begin our days from a state of gratitude for everything that we are and everything that we are not, a state of peace and joy enters into every cell of our beings. This is bliss.

Here's a prayer to do... "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I am grateful beyond measure for my life. I ask for divine assistance to feel the energy of gratitude and I release all resistance to deeply feeling and knowing gratitude. I know that every step that I walk here on this earth is divine. I ask for my body, mind, heart, and spirit to embrace the divine light in every every aspect of my life. I open my heart in deep gratitude and release all that stands in my way of a fully grateful life. And so it is, Amen."

In the spirit of gratitude, I am creating a new cd this month called- get this- "Gratitude" :) This is a part of the "Begin Within" CD series that I have been working on. My website has the other CDs posted, http://www.intuitiveliz/products2.html. Please let me know if you would like a FREE copy of the CD "Gratitude." I am offering this free to my readers and clients in gratitude for all of your love and support. Many blessings and much love and light, Liz

Holidays

2009-12-22T15:14:00.000-08:00

What wild energy there is in the holiday season! Chaos is in the air and it's time to ground and center in our divinity before we all float away. Here's a prayer to say... "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to find my divine center. Help me to remember to be present in a state of gratitude with every step that I take here on this earth. Surround me and my family and friends with extra angels to guide me on an easy and gentle path through this season and though all seasons of my life. Thank you God Goddess, Divine Spirit, Amen."

More from me soon. I have a lot to say about all the recent people and animals leaving this planet. There's so much preparation happening for the shift that earth is going through that will be complete in 2012. A lot of souls are joining the divine forces in spirit to help with the transition. We are truly returning to and centering into a state of love on this planet, and whether our soul is here physically on earth or has died and gone into spirit, we are all a part of this return to love. Many blessings to everyone for a joyful holiday season. Don't forget the Wednesday night group at 7:30 Mountain time if you need a little extra support. Love and Light, Liz

Deep Honesty

2009-12-09T15:17:00.000-08:00

Most people if you ask them would say they believe honesty is a good thing to live by. The degrees of honesty can be so vastly different, though, that we might all be talking about different things when we say we believe in honesty.

Does honesty mean telling what happened in a day?
Does honesty mean expressing your emotions even if they are challenging to find within yourself?
Does honesty mean calling to attention thoughts that are going on in your head?
Does honesty mean getting real with yourself and others and would that look the same to you as it would to someone else?

I am going to challenge us all on the level of being deeply honest with yourself. Look at the areas of your life that aren't working and get real with yourself. What are your thought patterns surrounding these areas of challenge? What is your emotional response? What patterns are you re-living? How can you love and nurture yourself as well as challenge yourself to grow?

I will look at the area of financial abundance, for example. Let us say that you want financial abundance in your life, but it is not manifesting. Are you affirming abundance in your life? Are you asking for divine assistance to release what stands in your way of abundance? Are you doing this daily, and if necessary, multiple times daily? If the answer is yes and you're still stuck, are you getting help from a counselor to work out the emotions and mental patterns you have around abundance? If the answer is still yes, are you giving yourself and the divine patience for the patterns to heal?

It can be a challenging process to stay centered with all that we want to shift and grow into in life. Being focused on what we want to create and being deeply honest with ourselves when it comes to what stands in our way can make giant shifts in our relationship with life.

A prayer for honesty would be, "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to find a deep state of honesty in my life. Let me be honest with myself so that I can find honesty in all of my relationships in my life. Help me to find strength in honesty and help me to express this honesty in the world, and so it is, Amen

Wednesday night call, Thanksgiving and Gratitude

2009-11-27T08:58:00.000-08:00

For those of you who were on the Wednesday night call- wow! Definitely a night for me to be grateful to all of you for your patience, love, and support. What a night of technical difficulties. I think anything that could have gone wrong technically did. So, thank you all for your joy and love in spite of it all.

This leads me into the spirit of Thanksgiving, a day of gratitude, a day of giving thanks. Gratitude is the foundation of life. Without gratitude for where we are and what we are experiencing, life can feel very empty and we can feel lost. If we can stop daily for a moment and feel grateful for everything that we are experiencing, the good, the bad, and the ugly, knowing that what we are experiencing is divine, then we can feel peace. From this peace, we can open to shifting and healing the bad and the ugly, and we can open to expanding the good. (Truly, there is no good, bad, or ugly- everything is divine, but some things feel better than others.)

So, stop for a moment. Sit and feel gratitude. If you want to feel gratitude and you can't, ask for divine assistance to help you experience the energy of gratitude. "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to feel gratitude in a deep and powerful way. Help me to release what stands in my way of that gratitude. With gratitude, everything is possible and I open to that gratitude now. Thank you God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, Amen."

Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone and here is to letting every day be a day of gratitude.

The Bends

2009-11-20T14:24:00.000-08:00

I have a friend who has been plagued by dark energy. She opened her energy in a session with me and opened too fast. This can happen sometimes, but is very rare. I compare it to the bends, a problem divers have if they try to come to the surface of the ocean too fast. The change in pressure is so quick that a diver can die. Now, with an expansion of energy we cannot die, but we can feel sick or ungrounded if the expansion is fast. Our energy is wide open and we can be open to every kind of energy- the light as well as the darker, denser energies. If this person has psychic abilities, it can be very disorienting. The key, if this were ever to happen to any of you is to make sure you get an energy balancing from a professional healer as soon as possible. It's important to ground yourself and to cleanse and clear you energy and to rest as much as you need. If you know of anyone who is experiencing this, encourage them to get help. The sooner the help is received, the easier the healing. It is important to talk to the healer that you chose and make sure they are there to focus you and align you in the light. If they talk too much about the dark forces and the negative energies they might enhance the experience you are having with these energies and might pull you away from the light. A healing needs to be focused single-mindedly on the light. Now, just a slight case of the bends as your energy expands and as you open to the light is much more common. You might feel tired as you connect more with the divine within yourself. If this is the case, a daily prayer is useful. "Dear God, Goddess, Divine help my body, mind, heart, and spirit align with the light that I am opening to. Help me to feel at peace in every cell of my being. Help me to feel grounded and centered in the divine light that is my truth. Help the healing that I am going through to be gentle and easy and help me release all that stands in my way of feeling and knowing myself to be divine. I affirm that I will stay focused on the light within me as I heal, and so it is, Amen."

Co-Creating with the Divine

2009-11-10T19:44:00.001-08:00

Often we assume that the Divine works through us, which is true, but we forget that we are the Divine. Ultimately, the Divine works through us, with us, and as us. We are not separate entities. When we remember that, we empower ourselves to be co-creators with the Divine. We need to set intentions with the Divine within us and around us and the wheels of the Universe will start to fall into place to create those intentions. Let's say we set an intention to experience love. When we set that intention, we start immediately to heal what stands in our way of love, and we start to have mirrored in our lives any patterns that we have within us that hold us back from or block us from love. When we continue to hold with the Divine the intention of experiencing love, and as we heal our patterns and belief systems, the veils that have hidden us from love starts lifting and we see that love is all around. We are co-creators with the divine. The trick is always patience and holding the intentions even-or especially- when we are see our blocks and patterns healing in front of us. Go out there and co-create with the Divine everyone. The word will be a much brighter place!

Halloween... The Day of the Dead

2009-10-31T13:20:00.000-07:00

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!

Intuition

2009-10-22T12:06:00.000-07:00

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

New York, New York

2009-10-06T18:26:00.001-07:00

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!

When it all goes "wrong"...

2009-09-24T17:13:00.000-07:00

(A funny thing happened while posting this... The whole blog disappeared, completely unposted... A joke from the divine to show that this mercury retrograde deal continues. Thank goodness I had already copied what I wrote! :))

I have been having a mercury retrograde festival of meltdowns, where everything that is potentially challenging moves from potentially to actually challenging. (Basically whatever could go wrong is going wrong.) Now, how do I turn it all around in my mind and heart and look at it as all divine? Ahh, the eternal question. Here's what I do...

I stop and I sit and I listen to the lessons... One of the multiple things that has "gone wrong" in my life right now is a roof that is leaking. So here I am sitting with you listening to the divine energy around why my roof is leaking. I am getting a funny message around that. First I get that it's old and it needs fixing and that houses just need repair. A simple and yet very practical answer. Now I ask, is there anything deeper that I need to learn from my roof leaking? I get a two-fold answer. One is that I need to trust that money and time will always be there for me and I need to learn that lesson in a big way. (This means to me that the price tag on my roof leak might be big and take some time to fix, but that I will create the money easily and the time will be well spent.) Another is that I am a part of a bigger picture and that I need to participate in the flow of cash. What I give out will come back to me, but I need to give out right now.

So the big thing "when it all goes wrong" is to remember to stop and listen and hear the lessons that we need to learn from whatever it is that is going wrong. Going wrong is always divine even if it's hard to get in touch with the divinity. I know a roof leak is small compared to health problems and world hunger, but the basic stop and listen still works for the harder stuff.

The final step is to pray. "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit I open to the divine lesson and the divine plan that is challenging to see at the moment. I ask for help and assistance in healing whatever stands in my way of feeling peace and joy with the situation that is going on in my life. I open to learn my lessons in a gentle and fluid way. Thank you God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, Amen."

Patience...

2009-09-14T20:14:00.001-07:00

I am convinced that it is not innate for us humans to have patience. Even the more evolved souls have to practice patience, which the "practice" part of that equation means to me that it is not natural for us. I am sure there will be a lot of people who argue me on this point, and I would love to hear the arguments and experiences.

I just got through a rather intense mercury retrograde experience with travelling where pretty much anything that could be delayed or challenging was delayed or challenged. I am writing this on a total of three hours sleep, and I love to sleep. I mean, really, I love my sleep. :)

So, in this travel experience, I practiced patience and won. My friend and I actually had an adventure and laughed through the unhappy people and the multiple mishaps. It was fun, but it definitely was "practice." I had to keep my mind focused on allowing life to unfold and allowing the challenges to either melt away or to teach me patience in a deep way.

For those of you who have a challenge with patience, which I am going to assume is most, if not all of you, let's do a prayer. "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me open to a full and deep experience of patience. Help me to release any discord that is going on in my body, mind, heart or spirit so that I can feel at peace and feel in balance. As I feel balance and peace, my patience for life deepens. Help me to know a sense of gratitude for every step that I take on this earth. As I feel gratitude, my patience deepens and I know that every step that I take on this earth is divine. Thank you God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, Amen."

Mercury Retrograde- Help! :)

2009-09-06T14:26:00.000-07:00

For those of you who follow astrology as well as for those of you that don't, mercury is on its way into retrograde as of tomorrow. Whoo hoo! :) What does this mean for all of us. For the little I know, because I am no astrologer, it means we all need to have a lot of patience. Mercury is the planet that controls communications and electronics and travel and when a planet goes into retorgrade it means that everything in it's domain moves backwards in some way in our lives. Personally, for me it usually means clients show up on the wrong day, my computer acts a bit "wiggy", and I have a few challenging conversations with friends or family where I wonder if they are really hearing and understanding me and where they wonder if I am really hearing or understanding them. For those of you who don't believe in astrology, I would bet you $50 that you could guess when mercury was in retograde in your lives. I won't place the bet, however, because nay sayers love to remain nay sayers, in my experience.

Anyway, hang in there everyone. We are about to enter into another Mercury Retrograde, starting the 7th of September and lasting to the end of the month. Have patience if things in your life don't work perfectly and try to laugh through this. If laughing doesn't work for you and if your patience is running thin, I suggest this simple prayer. "Dear God, help!" It is a simple and effective way of manuvering through life's craziness. Good luck, and I would love to hear your stories so we can laugh through this together.

A deep sense of truth...

2009-08-20T12:45:00.000-07:00

There is a crispness to the air at night that indicates fall. I love fall, it's one of my favorite seasons and it is so nice to have the feeling of coolness. Ahhh. Fall feels like a time to be social before the introversion of winter and to get out and tell people you love them. My assignment to everyone is to tell someone you love how much you care about them. Really open up and speak a deep sense of truth to the people that you love. If you have a hard time sharing your feelings, here is a good prayer for healing.

"Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to open my heart and share my soul with the people that I care about in my life. Help me to heal and release everything that stands in my way of a purely open heart in my life. Surround me in light and help me to feel safe to share my feelings. Thank you, Amen"

riding the waves

2009-07-31T11:08:00.000-07:00

I just finished jury duty- hooray- and I realized how important it is in life to ride the waves that life throws you instead of being bowled over by them. It can be easy and tempting just to let the waves plow you over. While on jury duty, my best buddy and roommate moved out of my house and I was working with clients. I felt a bit overwhelmed at times and it was hard to find my center. I kept praying for clarity and groundedness and, amazingly, it really helped. I sometimes forget how truly powerful prayer is.

So, if you are in the midst of multiple large waves of life that are crashing in on you, here is a good prayer to help you to ride the wave instead of getting tossed by them. "Dear God, Help me to feel and experience and know the presense of the divine in everything that I do. Help me to feel centered in the midst of everything that is going on in my life. I ask for a deep state of groundedness to enter into my life and fill me with a sense of peace and security. I am grateful for all the lessons that I'm learning and I open to fluidly learn these lessons and to deepen my understanding of life. Thank you God, Amen."

Good luck with your waves!
Peace, Liz

Inspirations

2009-07-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

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From my upcoming CD- Bliss: Bliss Prayer
Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I ask that we surrender to a state of pure divine bliss. As we surrender to divine bliss, we open to a state of love beyond measure, abundance beyond measure, peace beyond measure. We enter into an open space that feels and experiences and knows divinity. Anything that stands in our way of fully experiencing bliss easily and gently heals and transforms into light. Our minds empty of everything except love, our hearts are filled with joy, our bodies are filled with balance and health. The energy of the divine is activated in every cell of our beings and we feel filled with the divine and embraced by the divine at the same time. This is bliss, we are bliss. Bliss is always present and we are always able to access it if we affirm it and surrender to it. We open our hearts in gratitude, and so it is, amen.

Divine Place
I am sitting here at jury duty writing this blog… Embracing this process has been a little bit challenging for me. As I was driving here this morning I recognized that I was feeling a deep sense of peace. When I tuned into that feeling of peace, I recognized that there is a divine purpose and a divine plan for me to be here. What a relief to have this realization, and of course this is true of all aspects of our lives. When we are challenged in life and we drop our minds out of the equation and let ourselves just “be” for a moment, we can find a sense of peace. Peace of purpose. A prayer to help find this feeling would be, “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I open to feel, experience, and know peace in this situation in my life. I open to recognize divine purpose, even if my mind doesn’t know what that purpose is. I open my heart in gratitude for the lessons and the teaching in this and all situations in my life, and so it is, Amen.”

Ocean Oneness
I am headed to Hawaii to celebrate my mom’s 70th birthday and I am looking forward to being surrounded by the ocean and being in the midst of the pure, raw energy of creation that volcanic islands have. There is something humbling when you are able to witness the earth in action. It makes me feel small, and yet so much a part of all that is. So, in honor of the ocean, I wanted to do a guided meditation around finding oneness with all that is and with the peace that comes from the experience of oneness.

“Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I am deeply grateful for this earth and for all the living beings on this planet. I open and surrender to the experience of oneness with all that is divine on this planet and in this vast universe and I recognize myself as perfectly in tune with the water, the land, the plants, the animals, and all the other beings on this planet. I am in complete harmony with the oneness of all that is. As I experience that oneness, I feel completely at peace and as I experience deep peace, that peace fills this planet. A vast ocean of love fills my heart and fills the planet. For the moment, there is stillness and I experience everything within me and around me as divine. Thank you God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, and so it is, Amen.”
Have a great couple of weeks, and I will send Hawaii energy to you all, Blessings, Liz

Guided Meditation~ Opening to Joy
Here is a guided meditation from my CD “Finding your Joy” that will help you to fully embrace, at a cellular level, pure joy.

Take a deep breath into your heart and into every cell of your being, breathing into the energy of pure, divine joy. As we breathe into the energy of joy, we affirm “I am pure, divine joy. Every cell of my being recognizes joy, and every cell of my being opens to a state of joy. Even when my mind cannot fully understand or comprehend how to achieve joy in my life, I can still activate that joy in every cell of my being. I am pure divine joy.

“I ask for divine assistance to help me to open at a cellular level to joy, assisting me in releasing anything and everything that stands in my way of living a life of joy. In this moment, I activate joy and live it in my life so that I may BE joy, so that I may share joy, so that I may receive joy in my life. I ask for the healing around joy in my life to be as easy and gentle as it possibly can be.
“I also recognize that whatever I need to heal that stands in my way of joy may be challenging, but I am ready for the journey. I ask for divine support in being ready and willing to heal anything that stands in my way of fully saying yes to joy. I ask for divine assistance so that I can in this moment say yes to joy. Yes, I live a life of joy. Yes, I allow healing to happen so that I can live a life of joy. Yes, I will bring joy into my life. Yes, I will share that joy with the world around me. Yes, I will open to receive joy from the world around me. I truly am joy, and I open my heart to know that joy and to live from it.

“I honor this space, I honor this presence of light that is always within me to experience and know. I honor the presence of light that always surrounds me, the energy of divinity itself, which is a part of every step that I take. I can always surrender to that divine light so that I can receive assistance from the divinity around me and the divinity within me. I am joy. I am pure, divine joy.”

Take a deep breath into your heart, into every cell of your being, breathing into the energy of joy itself letting it wash over you and bathe you in beautiful light. I honor this space and I thank you all for truly opening your hearts to joy in your lives. Do this meditation often and you will find your life opening up to a state of bliss. Many blessings, thank you.

Finding the Silver Lining
Sometimes we look at different aspects of who we are as “bad”. “I’m sensitive and that’s bad”, I’m shy and that’s bad”, and so on… We look at our attributes as weaknesses and we beat ourselve up for those weaknesses over and over. What if we could look at the silver lining and turn our weaknesses into our strengths? Sensitivity is usually within people so that they can have empathy and compassion for the people around them. Shyness can be a willingness to let others around you shine. There is always a silver lining within personality traits that might at first glance be a weakness. The more we embrace who we are, the more our weaknesses can turn into strengths in our minds. Bring a personality trait that you have that is challenging for you to embrace into your mind and do this simple prayer. “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, I ask for assistance in seeing the positive in this personality trait. I open to release self judgement and to embrace and love all aspects of who I am. And so it is, Amen.”

Getting Along
I got to be an extra this week on a Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant movie and it pointed out such interesting human dynamics that I wanted to write about it. I met some awesome people and I also met some people who felt challenging to me. It is amazing to me with all of the different people in the world that we can find a way to come to a place of inner peace and balance and unconditional love. When we interact with all kinds of clashing personalities, how do we do it?! There’s a form of chaos that we encounter internally when we come into contact with people who approach life so differently and it can feel like we have entered into a tornado, so how do we find the eye of the storm?

We have to remember our inner strength and also remember that we are all different. Our differences don’t have to feel opposing as long as we embrace them. Sometimes they are hard to embrace when they are thrown in our face over and over again, though. Breathing helps. :) If we can talk ourselves through the fact that people aren’t thrown in front of us to torture us, they are thrown there to help us learn compassion and patience. If we can remember that people are not there to personally affront us, they just might see life differently and if we open up our minds we might learn something from someone who might initially drive us nuts. We might not agree with them in the long run, but we might learn something. Some people won’t let up and then we just need to learn to love them from a distance and take our space from them. Why stay in a place of constant resistance?

A prayer would be, “I open to find a state of peace wherever I am, knowing that it is all divine. I open to embrace the differences in the world around me instead of fighting those differences so that I can find the eye of the storm and enjoy each moment of life more fully. I ask for divine help and assistance every step of the way so that I can know balance and compassion and peace. And so it is, Amen.”

(By the way, Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are both even more awesome in person as they are on screen. Very generous and kind from what I saw-and Hugh Grant is very cute… Sarah Jessica Parker is too, I’m just partial to the boys. :) It was fun to be a part of the movie. For those of you in New Mexico who are jealous and would like to be an extra sometime, I highly recommend http://www.filmsavage.com, a great company to work for.)

Peace in the midst of Change
There is a great energy in the air of change. We all might be feeling like we are moving at the speed of light or that the world around us is moving at the speed of light. This is an important time to ground ourselves in the divine so that we can find peace in the midst of change. Daily, sit for a couple of minutes, take a deep breath and ask for the Divine to be with you. “Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, flow through me and cleanse and clear me with light. Help me feel grounded and centered in my divine light and my divine purpose.” Take a few more deep breaths and then move on with your day. You will feel lighter and more centered for the shifts and changes that are going on around you. Love and Light, Liz

Hello world!Today, I would like to just offer some inspiration. Wherever you are in your life is perfect and divine. Whatever you might be doing to fight the moment, stop, take a deep breath and affirm, “it is all divine.” This will help life to continue to unfold. It will help you to learn the lessons you are meant to learn in the moment and it will help you to open to an even better life than you have now. If you are fighting the lesson that is happening in your life right now because you don’t like what it looks like, you are prolonging whatever you are trying to move through. An affirmation would be: “I surrender to this moment in my life so that I may see the lessons that I’m meant to learn. I ask for divine assistance and healing with all of my lessons so that I may open to an even greater life than I am living in this moment. I let go of resistance and I am willing to heal and grow and expand in my life. Amen”

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