READ: Cosmic Cheerleaders by Edie Wienstein
February 1, 2012 by Edie Weinstein
Filed under •-Headline, Angels, Insights, Intuition, Law of Attraction, Law of Attraction, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Psychic Advice, Purpose, Spiritual Guidance
Candy Danzis refers to herself as “The Mainstream Mystic” and that she is, as she bridges the worlds of the mainstream and metaphysical. For most of her career, she worked in the world of finance, making sense of dollars and cents. Now she works with senses of a different type….clairaudience (the sense of clear hearing), clairsentience (the sense of clear feeling), clairvoyance (the sense of clear seeing), and claircognizance (the sense of clear knowing). In front of a room, she radiates warmth and humor, ‘rock star’ microphone on her ear, perfectly coiffed blond hair across shoulders usually draped with a vivid color; today it was ‘hot mama’ raspberry pink. Her husband Brian Danzis is, as she refers to him “The brains” (the techno-dude who makes sure that the sound system works) behind this one woman road show that on this day, brought them from their home near Hershey, PA to my interfaith community called Circle of Miracles, outside of Philadelphia. He is also known as “Mr. Candy” and as someone else joked today “The Candy Man”.
Besides being a savvy business woman and angel communicator, she is also a cancer survivor. Healthy for most of her life, this stealth condition took her by complete surprise and brought with it a chance for huge emotional and spiritual growth. In 2008, as she was planning the annual Claim Your Power Conference, she received the diagnosis, which put the event on hold. At first, she viewed the treatment she was to receive as toxic. Then a friend suggested that she shift her perception so that she saw the chemotherapy as being divinely inspired. In the many months that followed, not once did she feel ill from side effects. Today, she stood before us in in radiant good health.
Her message was clear and simple, and that is that each of us has a guardian angel assigned to us at birth whose job it is to guide us. They, along with a host of various Divine messengers are just waiting to be asked to help. In fact, she stated that by our acceptance of their assistance, we are doing them a favor. As she shared those words, which I have heard many times before, tears sprung up and I really got it. I had this image of a row of cosmic cheerleaders with pom poms waving, kicking up their heels as they rooted for my transcendent touchdown.
She spoke of the grand opportunities she sees in 2012 which flies in the face of the mainstream media view of the cataclysmic end of the world
Candy sees it as a chance to experience positive shifts with dynamic outcomes. She invited us to engage in five specific practices that would enhance our lives.
- Practice Joy, making it our ‘new normal’. What if you could truly live in joy, immersing yourself in its bubbling over essence? Joy attracts more joy, pleasure, more pleasure. It is contagious and draws into our experience, other people who live in that juicy way as well. I’m all for that!
- Accept what is. The past is over and unless we can invent a time machine to return to it, it serves no valuable purpose except as a teacher of what to continue doing that worked and what never worked in the first place and we ought not to do THAT again. Once you take stock of where you are, consider whether you want to stay put, or move ahead.
- Raise your vibration. Her statement that “the planet is moving to a higher vibration”, calls for us to join in and amp ours up as well. She talks about “feeding our spirit” with loving thoughts, positive people, meditation, energy work, affirmations, exercise, being in nature and restorative sleep. Like attracts like, once again.
- Trust you Gift of Creation. Candy invited us to move beyond the gloom and doom mass consciousness mentality and into conscious creativity of what it is that we do want, rather than what we may fear.
- Take Guided Action. She sees this as a beyond expectation time to manifest from our heart’s desires. Calling on the angels, our spiritual tools and this transformative statement: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”, coined by Emile Coue’ When used through the day, she shared, that it made a huge difference in the way she felt.
I felt a hardy YES! resonating through me as she reinforced “Everybody and everything is conspiring for my Highest Good. How about them apples?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvz8AMvZKGo There’s A New World Coming by Mama Cass Elliot
Rev. Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW is a Renaissance Woman and Bliss Mistress who delights in inviting people to live rich, full, juicy lives. Edie is an internationally recognized, sought after, colorfully creative journalist, interviewer and author, a dynamic and inspiring speaker, licensed social worker, interfaith minister, offering uniquely designed spiritual rituals. In addition, she is a PR Goddess, promoting events and transformational teachers, healers, writers and artists. She speaks on the subjects of wellness, spirituality, sexuality, creativity, time management, recovery, body image, mindfulness, self esteem, stress management, re-creating yourself, caring for the caregiver, loss and grief. She is a frequent guest on radio and TV. Edie is currently writing her first best selling book entitled The Bliss Mistress Guide To Transforming the Ordinary Into The Extraordinary and is offering a workshop for women who want to re-create their lives, based on those concepts. A 20 year old journalistic vision came to pass in July of 2008 when she interviewed His Holiness The Dalai Lama. It was a potent reminder to never, ever, ever give up on our dreams. Over the years, Edie has written for mainstream and transformational publications. She has interviewed hundred of notables in the transformational fields, including Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Debbie Ford, Leonard Peltier, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Beckwith, Jonathan Goldman, Gregg Braden, Neale Donald Walsch, Mary Manin Morrissey, Dan Millman, Alan Cohen, Ram Dass, Jack Canfield, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Patch Adams, Ben and Jerry, Donna DeLory, James Twyman, Elizabeth Lesser, Michael Franti and Jean Houston. Her website is http://www.liveinjoy.org
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READ: A Season of Spirit by Gina Sendef
December 10, 2011 by Gina
Filed under •-Headline, Angels, Peace, Spirituality
‘Tis the season to be? This time of year is a special one for many reasons; be they religious, personal, familial, celebratory. Whatever the case, the holiday season is different from the rest of the year. For many, it is a happy time, for some it is a lucrative time and for lots it is a stressful time. Whatever this time of year has meant to you in the past; this year, let it also be a season of spirit.
Take the opportunity to form a deeper connection with our Creator and the angels. In the story of Jesus’ birth, angels played a vital role as the messengers of his arrival. Today, they are still trying to reach us, sending messages of love. Let this be the season that you allow yourself to receive those messages and feel the loving presence of the Divine.
We are not alone; we are all surrounded by love every moment of every day. It is there if you choose to see and feel it. Often, we are filled with anger, resentment, sadness, irritation and other distractions that block our ability to sense this Universal love. There is a way back to it if you choose to follow it. Living in gratitude will align you with your higher self who only knows love.
Find at least one thing for which to be grateful every waking hour of every day this holiday season. Keep a List of Thanks and write down your gratitude discoveries. Soon, you will raise your vibration and begin to see and feel the Divine love of the Universe and your angels. When you embrace a season of spirit, yours will surely begin to shine!
Gina Sendef is a independent Spiritual Self-Help Author and Angel Intuitive. Writing is her life long passion. Her soon to be self-published first book, “Truth Works, Divine Life Lessons for Kids of all Ages”, is a self-help book geared towards reading age children, teens and young adults. The premise for Truth Works is to undo harmful affects that exisit when our children are taught traditional life lessons like “life is not fair” or “money is the root of all evil”. The goal of the book is to undo this programming at a young age, ensuring the subconscious belief system for our children is optimistic, safe and secure. When we address these destructive beliefs in childhood and expose their false nature, they cannot reside in our subconscious minds for a lifetime as the basis for our beliefs. We are left with the pure, positive and absolute spiritual TRUTH. She created Angel Works as a means to work with the positive and loving energy of the angels to provide people with guidance that will improve their health, uncover their life’s purpose, enrich their relationships and enhance their lives. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Truth-Works-by-Gina-Sendef/179796375389186
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READ: Who Are Our Spiritual Helpers? by Sunny Dawn Johnston
December 7, 2011 by Sunny Dawn Johnston
Filed under •-Headline, Angels, Deities, spirits, and mythic beings, Spirituality
Everything created is energy, and energy vibrates at different levels. Just as a singer has a vocal range that moves from lowest to highest, so do human beings have a vibrational range. In other words, you move up and down a vibrational scale. The more you work on loving yourself, the higher your vibration rises and the easier it is to connect with the higher vibrational beings that I refer to as Spiritual Helpers. These helpers are also known as deceased loved ones, Spirit Guides, Ascended Masters, Angels, and Archangels. Everyone is born with a different vibrational scale, but everyone possesses the ability to reach the highest level through appreciation, forgiveness, joy, meditation, and love. If you wish to connect to higher vibrational beings, then you simply raise your own personal vibration.
You might be wondering why you need to raise your vibration. The universal Law of Attraction states that like energy attracts like energy; and because the beings in the spiritual realm will not lower their vibration, you must raise yours to connect with them. The more you stay in a higher, lighter, clearer vibration, the more you will connect with the spiritual realm. I have included a diagram of the energetic vibrational scale below. This will give you an idea of the vibrational ranges of Spiritual Helpers as I have come to experience and understand them. Each level is not good or bad, it just simply is. I have defined the energy of each vibration in my own terms, so you can better understand my chart.
Physical beings are you and me and everyone you see with a body and a heartbeat.
Deceased loved ones are family, friends, co-workers, and loved ones who have passed away, transitioned, kicked the bucket, died, dropped their body, and so on. They have released the dense energy of their physical bodies and have automatically moved up the vibrational scale. Deceased loved ones can raise their vibration even higher now and can become Spirit Guides, if so desired and chosen. In my experience, there is often an amount of divine time, not measured time, where they “prepare” for this, as it is not typically instantaneous.
Spirit Guides, who once inhabited a physical form, had the same journey or purpose as the physical beings they are now guiding. Upon leaving their physical bodies, Spirit Guides choose to become teachers or guides to those of us still in the physical realm. They offer guidance, comfort, and, at times, warnings and protection. Spirit Guides are often the spiritual essence of deceased loved ones.
The Ascended Masters are Divine Beings that lived earthly lives as great teachers, healers, or way-showers of ascension. They released all their fears and grew and raised their vibrations in order to ascend. Ascended Masters come from all cultures, modern and ancient civilizations, and are often spoken of and remembered in religious context, such as Buddha and Jesus. The Ascended Masters bring light and love to everyone regardless of their religious beliefs or feelings of worthiness. The Ascended Masters know and teach that we are all worthy of love and guidance.
Angels, Guardian Angels, and Archangels are higher vibrational beings who exist only in the spiritual realm and do not incarnate into physical form as humans and animals do. Angels help, guide, comfort, and assist us in our earthly journey by uplifting and protecting us. Each physical being is supported by one Guardian Angel throughout his/her entire physical life, from birth to death. A Guardian Angel’s job is to unconditionally love and protect us. Archangels are the powerful overseers of the angelic realm. Call on the Archangels any time for anything, and they will be there immediately.
Throughout my life, angelic beings have presented them¬selves in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and forms. Their appearance was often determined by what I was feeling, seeing, or knowing in the moment. Over time though, their forms have changed and evolved as I’ve grown spiritually. Therefore, the definition or visual representation of Angels can be as different as seashells on a beach. Each individual will experience Angels based upon his or her own perceptions. I believe that all impressions of the angelic realm are valid. Angels show themselves in a way that you are able to perceive and under¬stand and are often gentle and comforting in their approach.
The Divine is the God of your understanding. My under¬standing of God does not come from religious beliefs or scripture but from my own journey inward. When I reached a point in my life where I recognized I had to take responsibility for myself and that I had no control over anything or anyone but myself, I came to understand that God was in everyone and everything. I realized that God is Love. I am God, you are God, we are God. As are the wind, the trees, the ocean, the animals, the clouds, the rainbows, and the sun. The God of my understanding is everywhere, in every¬thing, and is simply Love.
Excerpt from Invoking the Archangels – a Nine-Step Process to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Soul by Sunny Dawn Johnston www.invokingthearchangels.com or www.sunnydawnjohnston.com
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READ: A Real Angel by Edie Weinstein
December 3, 2011 by Edie Weinstein
Filed under •-Headline, Angels, Purpose, Reflection
Life’s mysteries are endlessly fascinating to me and involve Divine timing, since I never know when one will show up to teach me something I may not have learned otherwise. Such was the case tonight, during a book signing for The Bliss Mistress Guide To Transforming the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary. I walked into a store called A Special Gift, little knowing at the time what I gift I was about to receive. The owner, Jeff saw that I had purple, red and black faerie wings that I was going to wear and he offered me an alternative, saying with a twinkle in his eye that he had angel wings that a real angel had left there and that I really should wear them. Who am I to argue with logic like that? So, I donned them and went about doing readings from the book and talking with the customers with the wings on my back.
An hour or so later, I walked outside the store to the small town bustle of a First Friday event. A baby faced man approached me and asked, wide-eyed “Are you a real angel? I could use one now. Could you find me a place to live?” Gulp. Part of my work is as a social worker, so my rolo-desk brain got down to biz as I asked him questions about his situation and his needs. He was going to be put up in a motel for tonight, by a local support agency. The next night he would be on his own, with the prospect of sleeping in his van. I gave him the number for a local shelter. We spoke about options among his family and friends and it seemed that he had burned bridges with them as a result of mental health challenges. He then asked a heart rending question: “If people adopt animals who are homeless, why don’t they adopt people who are homeless?” Good question. He then asked what would happen if he were to knock on people’s doors and ask if he could stay there. I told him that they would likely call the police. He couldn’t comprehend my answer and further queried “Why? I wouldn’t hurt anyone.” At that point, he wandered back to the street.
It left me reeling with amazement. This man showed up to reveal to me that innocence is not lost and that we can all make a difference in each others’ lives. So, I wonder, who really was the angel here?
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READ: Are you Spiritually Stuck?
November 29, 2011 by Janice Chrysler
Filed under •-Feature, Angels, Conceptions of God, Deities, spirits, and mythic beings, Intuition, Meditation, Meditation, Purpose, Reflection, Spirituality, Vision
As you know, each one of us has psychic and healing abilities. Like all other endeavors in our lives, if we choose not to use them we will forget how to use them. Perhaps there has been a time in your life when you were very intuitive but it frightened you and you wanted to shut it off. You would still receive messages, have a feeling but now instead of paying attention to it you likely brushed it aside, allowing your ego to convince you it was all your imagination. You may have wanted to open up more but refused to follow the lead that God, your angels and guides were showing you so now you feel as though they are not doing anything around you when in fact, it is you who have tuned them out.
Remember that we are not always given things in the manner we think they should come. You may be expecting to “see” things at will but instead you sense or just know things but ignore these messages, as it isn’t what you want. That would be your ego getting in the way again! A good friend of mine told me a story about her own attempt to change a guide’s message. When asking what she should do in a particular situation she received a very clear answer at the end of her meditation. Not really liking that answer, she decided to ignore it and meditate again the next day on the same question. That night she had a dream and the same message came through very clearly in her dream. Upon awakening she decided that she likely just dreamt that because it had been on her mind from early that day. Twice more she meditated and twice more the same reply was given to her. Through out the week she would receive signs that verified the message until she admitted that must be the direction she needed to take. She laughs about it now but said had she listened to her guides the first time she would not have wasted a whole week trying to change the message and gotten on with things! How often have you asked for help or guidance but then refused it when it came?
Another thing you may find that happens when on a spiritual journey is a feeling of being stuck. Again, you need to ask yourself if you are truly being open or are you putting off moving ahead? If you have ever played a video game you know that when you complete one level you will just sit there until you agree to move to the next level. You don’t go back unless you want to start the game all over again. Perhaps you have been instructed that you should be a healer, teacher, take a class or share with others your story but instead you have sat down and not moved…you haven’t agreed to move to the next level. As in other areas of your life, it is possible to decide to remain in your spiritual comfort zone. Ask yourself if you are afraid of moving ahead for whatever reasons then face the fears and proceed. Are you increasing your form of spiritual practice – for example do you have a meditation time each day, read articles or books on the subject? Begin increasing your mind and your spirit will follow. You may not be as stuck as you think but actually in a position where things are going to shift.
Often this shift comes in a new form of “sensing” things. If you were very visual, you may now sense, know, be sensitive to scents or hear things but see very little. It is just another way you are opening up. Accept and welcome these new avenues and soon you will discover where you fit the best. When I first started doing healings, I would see colours and feel the energies around myself and the client via temperature changes and a sense of heaviness or lightness. The more familiar I became with this, then visual began and I soon realized that I was receiving messages for my client and that it didn’t happen for every client either. The more I accepted what I saw as coming from Spirit and not my ego, I would receive a knowing along with a visual or sometimes on its own. I then began to ask questions on what I was sensing before relaying these messages to my clients and found I would receive even more information. I understand now that I needed to take baby steps and I was given things at the right time and when I was most willing to accept them. I also believe as I continue to open up more completely I will increase my awareness even more. Also, I have come to understand that in order to move ahead I have needed to let go of some things that seemed so important to me….and they were, at that particular moment in time. Putting the ego aside is the biggest challenge. You are the one who put the limits around yourself so you have to put them to one side and allow your Higher Self to come through.
No matter where you are in your journey, there will be times of “dark side of the soul”. This will sometimes sweep over you and resemble a form of depression. Remember, this is the time you need to meditate more fervently, listen more intently and give thanks from the heart and soul. You are not forgotten, cut off or unloved. We are all children of God and like children, often require our alone time. Even though we may feel alone, the Divine and all the angels are silently looking on, ready to help us when we ask. We wouldn’t have learned to walk, talk or do things on our own if our parents had not let go of our hands, trusted us as some point to make our own decisions and let us leave the nest. So it is with the spiritual family. We are here at this boarding school to learn lessons but our real family is never far away. Perhaps the dark side of the soul is more of a feeling of homesickness than anything else. Maybe its time you wrote a letter home??
This week’s assignment:
Take time to meditate, journal AND write a letter to God, your angels and guides. If your life here is a trip away from home, what do you write about? What would you ask? Are there feelings you would like to express? Questions, acknowledgments, gratitude, forgiveness that need to be included?
When you are done with your letter you may wish to keep it so you can add to it any message, future questions and answers. You can perform your own ritual of burning the paper as a sign you are sending the letter to the heavens via the smoke.
Most importantly, remember to include a forwarding address! Set up a time to meet (next time you will be meditating) and keep the date. No one likes to be stood up. Often by writing out how we feel, our frustrations and desires, will act as a form of cleansing.
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