The Pinocchio Effect
February 18, 2010 by mary
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I’ve come to realize that, however well intentioned, for the most part human beings are not particularly honest.
People lie for all kinds of reasons. We might BLUFF to win at cards or tell the infamous FISH TALE. Who could it hurt? Some use WHITE LIES to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. I’m guilty! We could tell an EMERGENCY LIE when the guy next door is in a rage about his wife’s affair. I know I don’t want to get involved! There’s the LIE OF OMMISSION, when we don’t tell the whole truth because some things are better left unsaid or when we’ve been asked to keep a secret. BARE-FACED LIES and LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH are those lies that are so obvious, you walk away shaking your head. Then there is the damaging CONTEXTUAL LIE, which leaves someone with a false impression because the truth is taken out of context. And FABRICATION; in my opinion the most dangerous to both the teller and the listener because it is an outright statement told as truth when we make assumptions or when we have no valid proof.
We’ve all lied at one time or another and we started young! As children we learned from experience that not telling the truth would avoid punishment, so by the time we reached about four and a half years old we were able to tell a convincing lie. Apparently lying isn’t exclusive to humans either. I remember reading a story about an ape who had been taught American Sign language. He pulled a sink from a wall in an angry rage, and when asked who did it he blamed his pet kitten! So what is the message we are sending to those who learn from our example?
A lie is a low-level energy source floating around out there in the cosmos. When told there can only be two outcomes. It could be uncovered or remain undiscovered. In order to keep the original lie neatly buried, more and more negative energy gets piled onto it. With every new lie told this negative force gains size and momentum and eventually, BOOM! It’s out there for the world to see. Just think of all the mighty politicians who’ve gone to great lengths heaping lie on top of lie to avoid falling from lofty perches, only to have the naked truth revealed in shame.
We are highly critical of those great big lies from public figures, but have we stopped to examine how the lies in our own lives are affecting the energy around us? I’ve recently witnessed a close friend in turmoil over discovering his partner has been a high functioning, undercover alcoholic for most of their thirty years together. This lie has made him question if anything in their relationship has ever really been true. Then there is my business associate who is experiencing financial hardship. She was offered assistance from several people she trusted, only to find out from another source that her integrity is now in question by all of them. Most distraught, she is now questioning all of her relationships, because she no longer knows whom to trust.
As the ultimate believer in the law of attraction ~ not so much in the way the Secret depicts it, but from a Feng Shui perspective in that everything is energy and that we attract situations to us that vibrate at the same high or low rate as we do ~ my first questions are “What secret are you keeping? How honest are you being with yourself and others? What are you doing that attracted this dishonesty to you?” We are all the makers or breakers of our own circumstances so we draw to ourselves every single thing that happens, the good or not so great.
Honesty doesn’t mean telling everyone every thought that runs through our head in a day, however deception of any kind is a different matter. It breaks down confidence and creates distrust. Lies erodes our integrity and our relationships with others. More so, it obscures our relationship to ourselves and our Spirit, as our Divinity is only revealed through love.
So here’s a challenge. Are you up for making a sincere effort to be honest with all your words and actions for one full week? Please let me know how you do!
~ Go with the Flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Honouring Our Emotions
February 3, 2010 by mary
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Incredibly generous people surround many of us. We’re so very fortunate to have loving friends and family members, who give of themselves heart and soul, putting their own needs on the back burner to make sure everyone else is satisfied first. I’m truly grateful to have these wonderful givers in my life, but have you noticed that the biggest-hearted people ~ those who give endlessly of their time, the caretakers, the volunteers, the non-stop doers ~ are very often those who wind up seriously ill?
Now, the immediate reaction might be, “Of course they get sick. They never, ever stop!” This is an obvious conclusion, but with no critical intention I would like to offer a different perspective on all this giving and doing. First, I’m not a doctor. I have no health care credentials, but from observation, my understanding of energy from a Feng Shui perspective, and confirmation from several energy healers, I believe in my heart of hearts that illness begins in our energetic body first and eventually manifests in our physical body and that we unconsciously allow it to occur.
Here’s how it happens. The majority of us were programmed from birth to “grin and bare it” regardless of our feelings. As kids our tears, no matter the tragedy behind them, were “jollied” away, or we were bluntly told to “stop crying and buck up”. Our physical size, shape or complexion often met with heartless teasing, our broken hearts with lack of compassion, and the loss of beloved pets or even a parent, were swept conveniently under the rug. As a result we’ve learned to suppress our anguish and without our knowing, this endless stream of neglected emotion continues to create havoc in our physical bodies as long as we remain convinced it’s better to push them down.
Discounted, overlooked, rejected or brushed off emotions are the energies that illness is made of. I know it works this way as I’ve experienced it first hand. I literally dealt with headaches every single day from childhood until ten years ago. When the pain decided my head wasn’t enough territory and eventually travelled indiscriminately around my entire body, I decided enough was enough. By uncovering, acknowledging and releasing those bottled-up emotions I set myself and my Spirit free.
You see emotion is part of our Spiritual selves. It is the energy that gets us from thought to feeling and it flows around and through our bodies. Not many of us can see it, but we can certainly feel it. When we receive good news, joyful energy runs rapidly through us. No stops. No blocks. Just free flowing elation. When we’re in that moment, we feel no aches or pains, just a jubilant high that comes with the energy rush. However when the opposite occurs, sad, upsetting, heavy or depressing energy tugs at our bellies, sticks in our muscles and pounds in our heads like a jackhammer, breaking us down and creating the perfectly weakened environment for disease.
So many of the wonderful givers in our society fall prey to illness and disease, not because they do too much, but because the allow themselves to feel too little. Their endless doing keeps their mind and body engaged with events outside themselves, so they’ve never gotten close enough to their own hearts to acknowledge their emotions. Worse yet, that old programming has them innocently denying their own trauma and downplaying their own pain by saying how much worse someone else has it, because they’ve never learned the value of releasing their emotional baggage.
Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t advocate selfishness. It’s important to share our time and what we have freely with others, however if we’re tired and hungry, we’re certainly not at our best, so how could we possibly give our best to somebody else? The same approach applies to our emotional state.
Taking time to honour our emotional and Spiritual selves by being instead of doing, listening for Divine Wisdom in meditation, rather than doing the all the talking in prayer, frees us from emotional bondage. When we allow ourselves to release past energies that no longer serve us, we ease our physical pain and encourage healing. Freedom from pain and illness, creates space for joyful emotion allowing us to truly connect to our Spiritual Source and our giving becomes an effortless task that no longer drains our physical being. Honouring our Self first allows us to truly honour another and that is the essence of Love.
~ Go with the Flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Whose Truth?
For a few weeks now, I’ve been engaged in an online conversation about TRUTH with a person I know to be wonderful loving Spirit. A Christian theist who believes mind, body and Soul in following what many believe is the only TRUTH, that of the Bible and I honour his choice.
However, what I know for sure is that facts are merely observations from one point of view. Ask any witness what happened at the scene of an accident and you will get several different interpretations, each completely accurate in the mind of the observer, so I’ve come to see TRUTH as being a very subjective thing. What many refer to as Personal TRUTH.
According to my friend, “TRUTH is absolute. Take for instance a simple truth in mathematics. 2+2=4. That is true for everyone.” He went on to say, “…when Jesus makes the claim that “I am the way and the TRUTH and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”, either this is true or it is not, not both. One must decide whether or not to accept the TRUTH… Are you absolutely certain there is no such thing as absolute TRUTH?!!”
Well, when it comes to knowing the unknowable, yes I am.
I’m thankful that my Catholic roots instilled my belief that there is much more to us than flesh and bone and that we wouldn’t exist without our Spirit, however most of what I was taught just never rang true. I’ve always seen the Bible as a series of stories, which helped us from going too far astray. We were not there to actually hear the spoken words, so how could any one be absolutely certain they are true? Even when I was a church-going Catholic I couldn’t see taking the Bible as “Bible” when there was one text for us and a variety of different versions for the multitude of other Christian faiths! It all comes down to what we believe and belief is subjective. Taking us back to the formulation of Personal TRUTH. So here goes.
My best understanding of the Divine comes through my own heartfelt experience. My God is everybody’s God, completely accessible with all communication lines open 24/7 and no need for a go between. She is a perfect egoless Being requiring no worship. Why would a perfect egoless Being require worship? My God would never turn away His creations based on their Personal TRUTH. I just can’t imagine a line up of beautiful loving Muslim or Jewish Spirits floating around aimlessly in the universe because of their beliefs. I don’t need a doctrine to tell me this is true. It just doesn’t make any sense to my heart. Devote Christians can quote all the Bible verses they’d like. As I don’t put the same faith in those words that they do, they don’t hold the same meaning for me.
I do not accept that we are separate Spirits searching for God outside ourselves. However, I do believe that Jesus was God in the flesh, but I also think we are ALL sparks of the Divine, which in our humanness, with our inflated egos, over rationalizing and excessive thinking, we’ve pushed down the knowing until our Divinity has become unrecognizable to most of us. I believe that Jesus, like the Buddha and others before and after Them were enlightened beings ~ wide-awake, while many of us are still in various stages of fitful sleep. And I believe our current physical form is one of hundreds, perhaps thousands we experience before reaching our own enlightenment.
I experience my God as my Highest Self, my Higher Power, the Best part of me. I’ve stopped searching outside myself and found everything I need inside, as that’s where I feel at peace and where I receive the Best answers. This is not narcissistic, as my Spirituality connects all of us together. This isn’t about thinking I’m God. It’s about knowing we are ALL God, one Spirit with a longing for ALL of us to stop thinking we are separate from God.
I have not come to my beliefs without thorough investigation through mind, heart and Spirit. I’ve formulated them based on endless discussions, like the one with my friend, as well as reading the texts and the interpretations of many Religious and Spiritual sects from Catholic, to Aboriginal and Buddhist, to the teachings of a man whom I believe to be the most recent incarnation of the Christ Spirit ~ Meher Baba, who lived in India and dropped his body in the ‘60’s, to the wisdom of many of the Spiritual teachers of today.
I take great joy in exploring the unlimited realm of possibilities our Divinity holds, however I also believe that even when we transition from this physical state, complete knowing is not possible until we’ve reached our own enlightenment.
So here’s another thing I know for sure. As a Spiritual seeker, my Personal TRUTH is ever evolving.
~ Go with the Flow!
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greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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No More Lame Excuses
When we’re about to start a brand new adventure, to learn a new skill or to take on something we’ve never done before, acknowledging our limited know how is an ideal strategy because it allows us to start from an uncomplicated position and we are wide open to receive new information. Once we’ve spent time practicing a task for period of time we acquire more knowledge and eventually develop some expertise and our confidence grows, right? Well, I’ve been paying attention to a particular human behaviour, especially prominent in women and it’s become apparent that too many of us continually make nonsensical excuses for our performance and aptitude.
When attending a series of meetings I witnessed the dynamic, inspiring, intelligent, witty and outgoing woman running the event, tell the group at every meeting how very shy she really is. This may have been the case at some point in her life, but from where I was sitting, nothing seemed to be further from the truth.
Then there is my accomplished and vibrant friend who has been insisting since I helped her purchase a laptop about five years ago, that she’s completely out of her league when it comes to anything to do with computers or technology. I wish she would acknowledge how far she’s come and that this statement totally discounts the hours and hours she’s committed to improving her skills.
Until just recently my favourite personal excuse when I didn’t understand something immediately had always been “It takes me a long time to grasp a new concept”, then I backed it up with facts from a test I took a zillion years ago, which determined that I use my right brain and left brain, as well as my visual and auditory learning skills equally that in turn did a bunch of other blah blah blah and supposedly proved without a shadow of a doubt I wasn’t as stupid as I felt when sitting somewhere with vacant look on my face. Didn’t it?
Consciously or unconsciously, we often pretend we’re far less competent than we truly are by wearing our illusory deficiencies like an armour of pre-formulated justification in case something goes amiss. In an effort to protect our precious egos, we send out a disclaimer to camouflage our perceived imperfections so we can’t be blamed if we make a mistake or so we won’t look dumb for not understanding or for doing something else we think could make us look foolish if our performance isn’t up to some self-imposed expectation.
Excuses are negative low-level energies damaging to our abilities and ourselves. When these energies become locked into our consciousness we see them to as truth. This belief then alters our brain chemistry making our misconceptions about our capabilities a reality. (See Dr. Joe Dispenza’s: Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind.) When we hide behind our excuses we lie to others, but even more harmful is that we lie to ourselves and when we allow ourselves to believe that we are not capable, we deny our infinite Spirit.
Our Spirit allow us to be and do ANYTHING we can imagine and at eighty-three my mother proved it this past holiday season. Mom has trouble lifting her feet and is dependant on a walker to get around even on the flattest surface, so for a few years now, due to the sixteen-steps leading up to our front door, she’s believed she was unable to visit our home anymore. Well, this year fate intervened and determined that if Mom wanted to spend the holidays with the rest of us, she was going to have to put aside the excuses and muster everything she had to make the climb. Our entire family shared a wonderful Christmas at the top of those stairs. Mom’s triumphant climb is a tribute to our truly unlimited Spirit.
Energize this New Year with Love!
~ Go with the Flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Heaven Sent
On a chilly November day in the Gatineau Hills, a dainty little ladybug sat in patient anticipation, watching intently from her perch on an exquisitely polished stone. The appointed day had arrived and now as she waited she reflected on the melancholy afternoon when she accepted this assignment.
That day had seemed perfect to her in many ways. A warm glow from the late August sun held the chill from an early approaching autumn at bay. Small chattering groups were gathering near her home on the hillside and excitement was rising in the flamboyant little beetle. She so loved to be surrounded by people, but as she gracefully flitted through leaves and around neatly arranged bouquets of fragrant blossoms it seemed rather odd to her that despite her brilliant scarlet and black ensemble, she went virtually unnoticed.
As the crowd quieted, the lovely little lady looked on. She noticed deep shadows falling despite a cloudless blue sky and as she paid closer attention she heard a lone saxophone lamenting in a rhythm meant to soothe broken hearts. One woman in particular seemed unbearably distraught. The ladybug had never felt this feeling before and wanted so much to escape until she heard a gentle voice on the breeze whispering through the nearby forest grove. “Please wait for her,” it pleaded. “She’ll return before the snow flies.”
The little ladybug had heard about ‘the Voice’ before. Her elders told elaborate stories of the glory days when Ladybugs earned their time-honoured name. It was said that in the Middle Ages insects were destroying the crops and when the farmers prayed for help, Mary the Mother of Jesus called in the red and black ones to answer their prayers. In gratitude the farmers named these helpers, “The Beetles of Our Lady”. Eventually ‘Ladybug’ was the name that stuck and now she had heard the call herself.
It was early afternoon when a car pulled tentatively into the hillside parking lot. The leaves were gone now and the spiky grey branches on barren trees made the place feel so desolate. As the driver opened the door, she pulled her coat tightly around herself. It wasn’t the chill in the air so much, as the fact that she was there to see her husband’s tombstone for the first time. When she walked this pathway before, she was surrounded by loved ones. This time she took the journey alone with only a camera in her pocket, so she could send a photo to loved ones who lived on the other side of the country. She lingered a while with her face to the wind, allowing it to dry the salty tears that trickled down both cheeks and when her eyes cleared, she turned to admire the stone. “Everything he deserves,” she thought as she snapped a photo and hurried away much quicker than when she arrived.
She couldn’t face downloading the photos immediately. It was just a bit too much to bear for one day, but her courage returned early the next morning and with a few clicks of her mouse there it was, an elegant tribute to the man she loved so dearly. Everything that happened in the past year came rushing back to her and she was flooded with emotion. She just couldn’t stop missing him and longing for something to reconnect her to everything they shared, she sat staring into her computer screen, focusing more closely on the details of the stone. There seemed to be an odd marking beside the date. As she zoomed in closer and closer, the tiny little ladybug revealed herself.
“Are ladybugs good luck?” she Googled frantically. In an online article by Angel Therapist, Dr. Doreen Virtue Ph.D. she received her answer. “You can be sure that heaven’s sending you a loving message whenever you find ladybugs in unusual locations…The angels say, ‘Ladybugs, like hearts with wings, are our love-letter carriers from Heaven above.’”
We are energetically connected to all of Nature and cultures worldwide consider animals and insects messengers, bearing news from the etheric realms. If we take the time to watch and listen, Nature Spirits are always ready to deliver exactly what we need to hear and through them the Divine will provide guidance and reveal the wisdom of life’s mysteries. (Ted Andrew’s book Animal Speak is a wonderful reference for what Nature’s wonders are telling us when they show up in our lives.)
Through the days and months since his passing everything in me knew that her husband, who had a true connection with Spirit, would reach across all barriers to communicate with her in some way. She, a more ‘practical person’ (her words) wasn’t so sure. The day she revealed his Heaven sent gift, her joy was undeniable.
Wishing you Joy, Love and Peace for a Blessed Christmas, Happy Holidays and an Energized New Year!
~ Go with the Flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on thegreater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Heart Listening
A few weeks back, my sister ~ one of the wisest women I know ~ revealed something very inspiring. “I’ve entered this listening phase,” she said. “I’ve come to a point where I just want to sit back and listen for a while.”
Everyone wants to be heard and listening to others is something most of us don’t do nearly enough of. Instead we spend time in our own minds during a conversation, formulating the next clever or witty response and not taking in the breadth and depth of the message being delivered. We often speak over each other in an effort to be included or inject our personal opinions, approvals or dissatisfaction at any pause, leaving no room for silence, so we don’t connect with our hearts and absorb what another person is telling us.
The quality of the attention we receive often affects the comfort of our relationships and attentive listening occurs when we our engage emotions. Listening to spoken words is very different than hearing the deeper meaning and a sincere connection is only possible when we are totally present in our conversations. When we listen with our hearts, being considerate, attentive and concerned we allow ourselves to hear the feelings behind the thoughts and opinions of others so we truly understand their point of view.
We also hear our own true Essence though heart listening. Our conflicted thoughts are very often a product of ego, while our wisdom reflects the clarity of our Divinity and distinguishing between the two often requires the same attention and consideration required as when we listen to others. By filtering our thoughts through our hearts we come to recognize that nattering voice in our head and the joyful voice of our Spirit as two distinctly different things. Once we’re able to hear that voice, we’ve discovered our own personal guru and we stop searching outside ourselves for answers.
Heart listening promotes a peaceful existence and you’ll find your energies and the energy of everything around you shifts in the most positive way when you choose to really hear your external and internal worlds. I suggest we all work on talking less and listening more. It is a tremendous gift to others and ourselves that promotes elevated and heartfelt understanding. I’ll be quiet now…
~ Go with the Flow!
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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So, What IS Feng Shui For Your Spirit?
I knew when I started my practise a few years back that most people had only a vague idea of what Feng Shui is all about, but it wasn’t until my teenage nephew totally cracked me up by asking his mom if she was using “Aunt Mary’s Hippie Magic again!” that I realized just how shrouded in superstition Feng Shui really is.
Well, there’s truly nothing magical about it! In very simple terms: Feng Shui is an ancient science based on the movement of energy. It has roots in China dating back about 5,000 years, as well as in other cultures worldwide that have also been studying the art of balancing and harmonizing energy flow. Additionally, modern science has proved that everything from rocks to animals, to our human bodies and Spirits is made up of energy and that all things vibrate in sync with the universal energy that surrounds them. (Check out the film or book What the Bleep do we Know?)
The purpose of contemporary Feng Shui is to find the best environmental arrangement for people to live and work up to their fullest potential, physically, mentally, emotionally and Spiritually, so positive intention ~ an energetic thought form ~ is also part of the energy or life force Feng Shui works with, because everything in our universe is energetically connected.
Too many people still think the chaos they experience is created by external energetic forces, so they come to me looking for quick Feng Shui fix hoping a well placed mirror and a new colour on the front door will make all the difference to their troubled existence. Although adjustments to our surrounding help make us feel better in the short term, I have proven to myself time and again that our thoughts are the energies that create our reality, so in order to apply effective and long lasting Feng Shui enhancements to our environment, clear, heartfelt thinking is imperative first.
When confusing, hectic or disordered thoughts haunt us, achieving this clarity is much easier when using what I refer to Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, which assists in moving energy from our heads to our hearts so we can stop thinking chaotic stuff and start acknowledging how we feel about things instead!
Feng Shui For Your Spirit© incorporates the Bagua Map traditionally used for mapping our homes, in a unique way. I use it as a Soul-searching guide to discover where we’re losing our positively charged life force. The Bagua Map is divided into eight areas (surrounding a grounding centre section), which relate to all aspects of our physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual existence:
WEALTH ~ ABUNDANCE ~ PROSPERITY
FAME ~ REPUTATION
RELATIONSHIPS ~ LOVE ~ MARRIAGE
CREATIVITY ~ CHILDREN
SPIRIT ~ HELPFUL PEOPLE ~ TRAVEL
CAREER EDUCATION ~ KNOWLEDGE ~ SELF CULTIVATION
HEALTH ~ FAMILY
ALL sides of life deserve equal attention and respect, which in turn create balance and harmony, so by creating a personal Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Bagua Map and exploring the positive and negative feelings we hold about each area, we can easily recognize our blessings as well as issues that require the attention of loving energy.
To support Feng Shui For Your Spirit© growth I’ve also developed a card system to be used in conjunction with the Bagua Map or on it’s own. Addressing our inner work allows us a more complete understanding of what we feel in every situation. Meditating on these or other heartfelt concepts found in the Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Card Deck for a few minutes everyday will allow divinely guided energies to create flow in your life.
Accept that this moment is all you ever have.
A peaceful, loving world starts with you.
Generosity is good for your soul.
Trust your inner wisdom.
Stay present.
Loving energy heals all.
Disengage from heartache.
Live free from negative thought.
Gratitude is the only prayer you really need.
Your own ego is the only thing that leads you astray.
Combining these two simple Feng Shui For Your Spirit© techniques makes it much easier to recognize and implement the enhancements we need in our internal and external environments, which help maintain inner peace and create a stress free life!
~ Go with the flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
Mary Giuffre ~ Specializing in Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Mentoring
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deClutter Fairy Dreams!
I’ve spoken with too many people lately who are concerned about lack of motivation and creativity, slow progress in life and love or dwindling to nonexistent business. If this applies to you stop reading and look around you ~ I’ll wait ~ My guess is there are lots of things directly within your eye line that are cluttering your space, right? Well, I truly believe despite what we hear about the state of our economy, that we create our own reality, so by examining our own surroundings we’ll see the first blocks to the flow of prosperity and the energy of abundance!
I’m sure many of us have deClutter Fairy Dreams. Just think with one swoop of her wand all your junk would POOF! disappear. Well good luck with that! Although it may be overwhelming at first, the deCluttering process can be a truly Spiritual experience and it is probably the fastest way to transform your life, because getting rid of what you no longer need, makes way for brand new and exciting opportunities to flow in!
So we’re clear, clutter is all the junk you don’t need or use that’s piled up around your house or office. It’s too many shoes in a heap up at your front door. It’s those empty jars on dressers or countertops and the pile of un-filed documents on your desk. It’s that bunch of magazines you never get around to reading and it’s also the basket of laundry that never seems to make it to the drawer before you wear it again.
Just because you can’t see clutter doesn’t mean it won’t affect you. Junk that gets stuffed into closets and drawers and into our basements and attics is also a dangerous offender. Dirt sticks to clutter and causes energy to get stuck. Stagnating energy makes us feel tired, unbalanced, & depressed. It also promotes confusion, procrastination, disorganization and failing health. Clutter causes physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual fatigue that hampers your inspiration, muddies your thought process, makes you edgy, tired, disconnected from Source and it can literally block business from coming through your door.
Where your clutter resides says a lot about the unresolved issues in your life. For example OVERHEAD CLUTTER ~ cluttered attics or high shelves can cause headaches because it suppresses higher aspirations. Ask yourself this. Is there something in the future you’re afraid of?
If you tend to have TABLE-TOP CLUTTER ~ stuff that accumulates at about hip level, like on desks or counter tops, you could experience fertility or digestive problems. Tabletop clutter is about what’s problematic in the present. So, is there something disturbing going on right now that’s keeping you stuck?
FLOOR-LEVEL CLUTTER or basement clutter can cause foot or ankle problems and it almost always means you have unresolved past issues that are preventing you from moving forward. You’ll need to get over them before you can truly reach your future goals.
And so the deClutter-Soul-Search begins.
I’m sure there are plenty of items in your attics or basements that others could use. Empty your closets and give those fabulous clothes you’ve dieted out of to someone in need. File that stack invoices. Either dust those desk trinkets or get rid of them. Have someone edit your too wordy website ~ yes unnecessary words are clutter too ~ and watch your energy, prosperity and Spirit soar!
~ Go with the flow!
Featured Contributor
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the
greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
Mary Giuffre ~ Specializing in Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Sign up for my SoulWater Wisdom Newsletter at www.SoulWaterEnergyWorks.com & www.ActsOfJoy.com
Executive TV Producer/Partner ~ inspirtainment inc.
www.inspirtainment.com
Co-Creator/Partner ~ W.A.V.E. Web Design & Marketing www.WeAreVirtuallyEverywhere.com
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Breaking N.E.W.S.
The formal exchange of information has been part of human culture since messengers ran from city to city in ancient times and the town criers of early North American settlements clanged their bells on street corners. The word NEWS is an acronym for North East West South and the purpose of NEWS agencies is to report factual information from all four corners of the globe, which specifically answer the W-Five questions ~ WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? My personal experience however, has provided a distinctly different perspective.
I started my television career over thirty years ago spending a great deal of time in newsrooms, waiting on tender hooks for the final word on a lead story so I could scurry to an editing room and string together shiny bits of hype that would draw audiences to nightly broadcasts.
In the summer of 1990, when the Gulf War broke out I was recognized as an expert NEWS promoter and was immediately drafted by the Never Ending War Stories department for an extended tour of duty. When I finally escaped nine months later, somewhat shell shocked, battle worn and totally disillusioned from watching facts being spun into dramatic stories which damage the Human Spirit, I promised myself that Negligently Eroding World Sanity was not how I wanted to make my living and ever since I’ve been an expert NEWS avoider.
When NEWS is turned on in my environment I immediately tune out because in my opinion there are No Ethical Words Spoken. Here’s how it really works: As regular people and events are far from NEWSWORTHY, reporters manipulate information with Narrow-minded or Exaggerated Words, Separating the haves from the have nots, the popular from the ordinary, as well as countries, cultures, and communities in order to exalt the outrageous. I believe NEWS reporting has degenerated into a divisive medium, which distorts human expectations and emotions through sensationalized spectacles. In other words they produce Nothing Ever Worth Sharing.
Emotions are conductors of energy and energy gathers momentum relative to the frequency of the emotion feeding it. When we see something disturbing we are either compelled to take action ~ which enhances positive energy ~ or in most cases we just get upset or depressed over our inability to do anything about it ~ which rapidly adds to a pre-existing vortex of doom. Allowing ourselves to absorb a constant barrage of Negative Energy Waves, Suppresses our Spiritual connection by creating a fearful and anxious environment, which is the polar opposite of our Divine nature.
Love is what we are. One of our greatest gifts is thoughtful compassion, which originates from our Source. I find it so unfortunate that most of society has been programmed to seek outside of Self, continually waiting for some external authority to provide or affirm our opinions. If people would at very least turn off the sound on their TVs they could formulate their views with their hearts, based on what they see going on around them, rather than allowing some all knowing broadcast authority to tell them how they should feel and how to respond to current events. Better yet if you can’t make a positive energetic contribution, it’s best not to take in the NEWS at all.
I do realize that Not Everyone Wants Sensationalism, but it is apparent from the ratings of NEWS broadcasts that we are truly in the minority. It’s time for more of us to speak out against this Needlessly Exploitive World Sabotage. Any takers?
~ Go with the flow!
Featured Contributor
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
Mary Giuffre ~ Specializing in Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Sign up for my SoulWater Wisdom Newsletter at www.SoulWaterEnergyWorks.com & www.ActsOfJoy.com
Executive TV Producer/Partner ~ inspirtainment inc. www.inspirtainment.com
Co-Creator/Partner ~ W.A.V.E. Web Design & Marketing www.WeAreVirtuallyEverywhere.com
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Superwoman & The A-Ha Moment
“It’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.”
This anonymous line from an e-mail packed with insightful gems sums up exactly what I’ve been feeling lately.
Years ago while attending a Pow Wow, I was privileged to sit in an Aboriginal healing circle. As individuals shared their grief for the benefit of healing, although I revealed nothing from my own life, I wept non-stop for over two-hours. When I asked the Shaman leading this circle the reason for my reaction she explained, “You are a channel. It’s a gift from the Great Spirit. You cry the tears others cannot.”
For over twenty years now I’ve gratefully used this gift with pride, spontaneously assisting individuals with the expression of their heartache, so when I opted to write this column, I believed myself to be Spiritually mature, well poised to provide streams of wisdom to the masses and confident in my ability to ride any Spiritual wave with balanced energy fit for stormy seas.
Now, you may remember from my last few articles that there have been some very unsettling events swelling up around me. Each incident has left me a bit more off balance, but because of the nature of my gift and even though this most disturbing sinking feeling was never part of the experience before, I allowed myself to believe what was pulling me under was the unintentional channelling other people’s grief. I could see no other possible explanation so I intended to weather the storm.
I knew I was in trouble because as I started working on this week’s piece, I did so with rolling trepidation. Staring into an immense white void, I wondered if my inspiration had dried up completely, until I received this loving comment online:
“I believe this (article) is a gentle reminder from Spirit to me…I am definitely a work in progress my friend…a spiritual being having a human experience…you are the instrument that Spirit is using, to help get these messages out to the universe.” ~ Deborah
In one humbling A-Ha Moment I realized I’d unconsciously been indulging my ego’s need for SuperWoman Spiritual Elite status! I had myself completely convinced that this dis-ease I felt belonged to someone else. It couldn’t possibly be mine ~ I had a much better understanding than this! It had also seemed sensible to assume my gift of flow-through-channelling instantly transformed into a sponge, soaking up all the grief of friends and family. This was certainly more acceptable than facing my own pain directly in the eye ~ wasn’t it?! But now it was so obvious. With my ego clearly in charge, I’d been smearing my own emotional state on their circumstances as a way of avoiding personal heartbreak and that sinking feeling was clearly my own sorrow screaming for liberation.
As is the nature of our Divine universe, I was provided with several enlightened insights because of Deborah’s note. Through her I received the clarity to recognize how easily we can be fooled by our humanness. I’ve been reminded that Spiritual growth has everything to do with our experiences, and what we allow ourselves to feel from them; that Spiritual maturity is shaped by wisdom, not pride and that messages channelled from Spirit will never pull you under. Most importantly is that this gift of channelling is not exclusive. Through Deborah I received exactly what I needed, because we are ALL one with the Divine and we are all share equally in these gifts.
Yes, it IS definitely taking me a long time to be the person I want to be and this is why I am so very grateful for the comments I receive from you, our VividLife readers. They help take me one step further and remind me of how truly blessed we all are.
~ Go with the flow!
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the
greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
Featured Contributor
Mary Giuffre ~ Specializing in Feng Shui For Your Spirit© www.SoulWaterEnergyWorks.com, www.ActsOfJoy.com
Executive TV Producer/Partner ~ inspirtainment inc.
www.inspirtainment.com
Co-Creator/Partner ~ W.A.V.E. Web Design & Marketing www.WeAreVirtuallyEverywhere.com
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