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!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
A Prayer for Japan
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
tripping over yourself
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.
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.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Being Grounded
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!
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!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valentine's Day- A day for love
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.
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.
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Year of the Rabbit!
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.
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.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Patience is a Dirty Word
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
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
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