Compassion: The Double Edged Sword
The phrase, “Don’t charge hell with a squirt gun,” quickly took on new meaning for me in my beginner days of energy-healing. My lack of experience was quickly exposed, as I eagerly attempted to remove pain and suffering from others.
As a result, I not only got ill, but experienced the most intense drain of my own energy.
How could this be happening? After all, isn’t helping another person favorable in the eyes of the Divine? I was sensitive and compassionate to the suffering of others. I wanted to save the world.
Many well-intended practitioners of Eastern and Western medicine have experienced this drain. My practice is filled with allopathic doctors, nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists that are absorbing energies from their patients and have no idea why. It’s possible to absorb outside energies in any lifestyle without knowing how or why.
Most natural-health practitioners are familiar with the effects of energy on our physical bodies. They, too, can be overwhelmed by outside energies if they don’t take it seriously, upheaval that can be experienced both physically and emotionally.
This is exactly what happened to me until my self-awareness and personal growth reached a level of deeper understanding. In my experience, the drain was intense, nothing like I’d ever experienced.
I started out in holistic medicine studying the chakras and how blocked energy can affect physical health. My eagerness to help others only forced me back to working on myself, which is “lesson one” in energy-healing. My first experience with energy drain was none other than getting too close to the double-edged sword called compassion.
My heart was pulled in every direction, and I felt that it was my duty to save my husband, Howard, who at the time was a new love interest in my life. We had just started dating.
He was suffering with headaches and back pain, and was going through a very difficult family crisis. Emotionally he was suffering from a broken heart.
Suddenly, as I held him, I could feel his emotions passing through me. I felt a strong punch to my chest that took my breath away.
Immediately, Howard was pain-free and color came back to his face.
I was feeling as though a large boulder had hit me. I was literally ill for two weeks. Not everyone will experience energy absorption this way, but it’s important to understand that it’s possible.
To understand this, you need to understand energy, which radiates from all living things. Energy (our thoughts) moves matter (our physical bodies). Our thoughts are energy that becomes our reality if we act on those thoughts.
Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist, describes in his book, The Biology of Belief, how energy affects us on a cellular level. His groundbreaking discoveries proved in a petrie dish how our thoughts, emotions, and our environment can affect our health. He exposed cells to negative energy such as anger, aggressive music, etc., and the cells became unhealthy. He then exposed the same cells to positive, healthy energy such as laughter, joy and calm music and the cells responded by reproducing healthy cells.
Scientific research states that health is directly linked to your state of happiness. People that are truly happy are living healthier lives with less illness and disease, while depressed and unhappy people tend to have more physical pain and chronic illness.
This suggests that our environment, positive or negative, will affect our health, and that it’s a personal choice as to how healthy we want to be. Our personal boundaries are important to protect our environment from what we may absorb, such as someone else’s anger or negative energies.
I discovered a spiritual connection to the movement of negative energy. This is where compassion was a double-edged sword for me. I lost perspective on what was mine to process and what was another’s. My boundaries were now compromised. What I thought was compassion for another, was consumption of Howard’s energy. I attempted to live and process his personal journey, and avoided my own.
I had plenty of time to reflect and learn from the experience while recovering from the onset of illness after the transference of energy occurred. Why did I get sick when I was trying to help another?
After several days of prayer and meditation, asking and listening for answers, insight made its way to my heart, in a soul lesson.
This was not about me doing anything. Energy-healing is ignited from within the individual’s soul, where the spark of God lives, and where miracles do happen. It wasn’t intended for me to absorb Howard’s energy, but to be a vessel for Divine healing, connecting this inner spark to the seat of his soul. This was about what he needed at that exact moment and not interfering with the Divine. My heart awakened and I saw that true healing lies in the faith to completely surrender to the Divine for both the healer and recipient.
The events that I experienced were the catalyst to launch me into my work as a healer. The lesson I had to learn was to completely trust and allow God to move through me and release not just Howard, but me, as well from all the energy of pain and suffering. In other words, “To let go, and let God.”
It took several years of learning for me to understand the power of energy-healing and the miracles involved, learn to observe and keep my ego in check, and allow the full surrender to the Divine.
Science is currently researching the effects of energy more than ever. For me, the answer lies in a spiritual faith that cannot be seen, heard, or proven in a lab. To this day, I still learn and grow on my own personal journey as I help others find their way. I’ve learned that to help others, you must always help yourself, first, for you can only give others what you have in your heart.
Your soul will take you to realms you never thought possible, and this is where my experiences prove to me that true healing comes from within the soul, the part of us that is truly where the spark of God resides.
BIO: Dr. Jennette Royster, D.DIV., is an intuitive energy and spiritual healer, teacher and writer. Her focus is healing from within and guiding others to find their true path and happiness in life. She is currently a contributing author for Vividlife.me, maintains a Natural Health and Spirituality Blog, and reviews upcoming books releases for Hay House, Inc. on her blog.
She is the founding owner of The BodyZone Natural Wellness Center in Virginia Beach, VA. and offers her specialties to clients by private appointment in The BodyZone office or by telephone. Jennette’s clients span across the United States from coast to coast. Beginning in Spring 2010, Jennette will be begin offering group tele-classes on energy healing and self care through Motivational Whisperers.
“We are all connected, yet we are unique expressions, with gifts to share with the world.” -Jenn Royster
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Rediscovering Spirituality in Religion
March 3, 2010 by admin
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“I’m spiritual, not religious.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard this, I could personally pay off the Canadian and American national debts and have enough left over for a lifetime supply of Chai Tea Lattes (my insanely expensive Starbucks addiction). Hyperbole aside, the revival of interest in “spirituality” in recent years has been accompanied by distrust for and disinterest in “organized religion,” especially among disenchanted Christians. People have discovered the transformative power of spirituality: the power to realize their highest goals and ideals, the power to overcome negativity, and the power to forgive. But what does it mean to be “spiritual, not religious”?
On the one hand, it reflects indifference and discontent with organized religion. People doubt religion’s ability to provide answers to our questions in today’s world. Also, they see how organized religion has contributed to global conflict and local abuses. On the other hand, it reflects a renewed interest in the ancient wisdom of sages from various religious traditions, re-tooled to suit modern sensibilities. But what would it mean to be “spiritual” without being “religious”? Let’s explore some problems and prospects.
Promisingly, interest in spirituality cultivates inner growth and self-realization, often leading to social and personal betterment. It helps us find “true north” on our ethical compass when we’ve lost our moral bearings. Moreover, it recommends openness to many different religious traditions and promotes tolerance. Problematically, however, it disconnects spirituality from its source, resulting in an arbitrary process of combining aspects of spirituality from different religions (or no religion). When we remove spirituality from its religious context, we lose its source of power. Individualistic spirituality, devoid of community, responsibility, and accountability, comes up empty.
We should embrace spirituality and tap into the renewed interest in spiritual awakening. It will enrich our lives and rejuvenate a world longing for deeper meaning. We should realize, however, that spirituality apart from religion will not yield lasting fruit. Once severed from its fountain source, the wells of wisdom will eventually run dry. Vibrant, lasting, and sustainable spirituality is grounded in a particular religious tradition and community. We rediscover spirituality not by turning away from religion, but turning toward it, probing more deeply for fresh theological resources. Christianity, for instance, has a rich and deep reservoir of approaches to spirituality that remain largely unknown and untapped by the modern skeptic and searcher. We would do well to rediscover these, since spirituality devoid of religion makes for shallow ground to cultivate our souls.
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Dude, Where’s My Car
February 18, 2010 by Chris Oldcorn
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“Dude, Where’s My Car” was an Ashton Kutcher movie about two guys who lose their car after a night of hard partying. I know that I am the guy who tells you to go try stuff to make your life better however I am not suggesting you try to emulate this movie. This is not one of those situations but does provide a funny opening. Here are some of the beginning lines from the movie (not Oscar material):
“Dude, where’s my car?”
“I don’t know, dude?”
“Ok, let’s think. It was here.”
“Dude, your right. But, where is it now?”
“I don’t know? Dude”
Ok, so I think you get the gist of the movie not exactly Shakespearean dialogue. It would never be an Oscar contender but does provide a good 90 minutes of laughs at two of the dumbest people ever conceived in movie history.
Now, to the point of this column. My school has been under construction with several new buildings that took over two parking lots. The school did not create any new parking spaces elsewhere on campus to make up for the lack of parking. This has created parking chaos. People are actually parking on the grass and getting ticketed by the school for doing so even though there is nowhere to put their cars.
Originally, my attitude was that I would drive around forever looking for a parking spot. My reality was my attitude. I was one of the lucky ones to get parked on the grass and ticketed (I went in to the parking office and got them to rip up the ticket as I have a prepaid parking pass which is supposed to guarantee me a spot). After weeks of complaining and being bitter about parking, it was beginning to make me resent school and anything to do with it due to all of my difficulties with parking. I have to drive to school because I don’t live near a bus route.
I decided to take my own advice. I woke up and said, “Someone is holding my parking spot until I get there.” Sure enough, I went to school and someone backed out of a spot near the door and I pulled right in.
Day One = Success
Since that change in my mindset, I have parked so close everyday that my friends are starting to notice and think I am “lucky.” I don’t think it is “luck” and more of my mindset towards the parking issue. Luck favours the prepared mind. My mind is prepared to be programmed for the life that I want including good parking spots.
Each morning, we get up and have a choice. Do we view the world as ready to help us or hurts us? If we expect it to hurt us, we see every situation as negative. Whether, it is the coffee barista making our latte wrong or being passed over for a promotion at work. If we expect the world to help us, we see the positive in each situation we encounter throughout the day. For example, last week when I arrived at school a guy pointed to where he was parked so I could have his spot. That is a helping world.
So, here is the million dollar question: Do you live in a helping world or a hurting world? The answer to this question affects how your life will proceed from here. The choice is yours.
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Peace is Within
Nothing on the outside can affect your peace. This is a statement that had a profound affect on my life and it could have that same affect with you. It is something that you need to experience for yourself though. I know that I did.
Personally, I read a very simple book that shared this sentiment with me. It stated that no matter what someone said to me, no matter what someone did, no matter what happened on the outside – it did not have to affect my peace. This was a big statement for me to hear since at the time I was experiencing the opposite. I thought that everything was happening to me. I felt that I had no control over my own experience. And worst of all, I had lost the hope that there was more in life.
I read the entire book in one night. As I read this book, something clicked in me. Some major perspective shifted and for the next two months I experienced this principle fully. All of the situations at work that used to stress me out disappeared. In each moment I was simply aware that they could not affect my peace. I was able to deal with any of the “problems” that occurred by simply doing whatever felt right to do or was necessary at the time. There were meetings that I was a part of in which people were upset and sometimes even yelling. I remember simply observing this behaviour and observing any reaction within myself. Some part of me knew that everything was okay and none of it disturbed my peace. I was blissed out!
This was a beautiful experience that I had, especially since it followed over 10 years of depression. Interestingly enough, this perspective did not last and I lost the experience. I re-read the book over and over but I couldn’t quite experience it again. And that was the beginning of my spiritual journey. At that point, I knew that it was possible to experience eternal peace. If it happened to me, I knew that it was possible for anyone, including you! Reading books never brought me back to this experience although they did help. What most of the spiritual books did teach me is that meditation is a tool to experience peace within.
The beautiful thing with meditation is that it is not about reading about other people’s experiences. It is not about trying to figure something out. It is simply about experiencing life fully right now, experiencing the peace and silence within. All of the peace, joy and happiness that you’ve ever been searching for are already within you. None of it is found on the outside. Meditation can be a simple, effortless way to experience the saying “nothing on the outside can affect my peace.”
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Agni
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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.
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Good Opinion of Yourself
January 20, 2010 by Chris Oldcorn
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“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too”
Thomas Fuller
Everyday, we come across people who are miserable and negative about themselves. We think about how much of a downer it is to be around them whether they are co-workers, classmates, friends, or family. Sometimes, I feel like telling people to just snap out of it and look at all the positives in their life. They have a job, friends, family, and nice possessions. I live in North America so the poorest people in my country are staggeringly rich in other countries. However, do we ever stop and ask ourselves if we are one of these people? We acknowledge everything wrong but don’t see their blessings all around us.
Most people don’t realize how negative they are everyday. How do we recognize if we are one of the negatives? Our thought lives and body language. If we think defeating thoughts then we act defeated. If we carry ourselves defeated then we act defeated. The key issue here is acknowledging that we suffer from defeatism and need to move toward positivism. Most people are too hard on themselves. One small mistake and they ruin the rest of their day if not week or longer. No one expects you to be perfect so don’t be a perfectionist. Only seeing what you do wrong and not what you do right is a horrible way to live. It is hell on earth. Spending your time on thinking about how too fat, too tall, or not smart enough is a waste of time. You need to love yourself before you can love someone else. This was probably the hardest lesson I have learned in my life. Without self-acceptance, there is no opportunity to accept someone else.
The opinion that you have of yourself is the most determinant factor of how others perceive you. If you constantly send out unworthy messages, you will receive unworthy responses. You will miss great relationships because they can never really become great without you having a great relationship with yourself. If you cannot have a great relationship with yourself, you do not truly understand how to have a great relationship with others. Being your own best friend is the key to being a best friend to others. If you honour and favour yourself, you can do the same to other people. Compliment yourself just as you would complement those around you.
What really matters? How you feel on the inside is more important than what you look like on the outside. Hold your head up high and shake off your failures. Start your day thinking about your successes and not your failures. Think to yourself, “So far, so good.” Find the good that you do. Say to yourself, “I am strong, healthy, and victorious! There is nothing I cannot accomplish if I put my mind towards it.” Dwell on your good qualities and not your bad. You are empowered and have all the talents necessary to fulfill your destiny.
“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become”
Zig Ziglar
Action Exercise:
Don’t say anything negative about yourself for a day. You will see how much better you will feel about yourself. When you are at a mirror say, “I am awesome and I will let others know by how I act today.”
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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!
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Believe to Receive
January 6, 2010 by Chris Oldcorn
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“You must believe before you can receive” Chris Oldcorn
Each of us has a special power inside that is waiting to be let out. It is creative, empowering, and filled with unlimited potential. Changing the way you think about your situations, talents, abilities, and relationships is just the beginning of your best year yet! The source that we all originate from has empowered you with unlimited ability to live a greater life than those who came before you.
A great example of this power is from the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham came home one day and told Sarah that they were going to have a baby. Both of them were past their prime baby years. They were approximately one hundred years old and this was before any medical technology that could assist them in getting Sarah pregnant. They had to do it the natural way. Sarah did not believe she could become pregnant so she sends Abraham to sleep with one of their maids and have a baby. They raised that child for twenty years while Abraham kept trying to make Sarah believe she could have a child. Eventually, Sarah began to believe that it was possible at the ripe young age of one hundred and twenty to have her first child.
Maybe you have spent your whole life being told that you would never amount to anything, you are as dumb as a rock, or no one will want to marry you because you are ugly. People around you have made you buy into a negative self-image. Today is the day that you will walk away from that negative self-image and believe that you are special. Throw away the coat of negativity and step into your new future filled with unlimited potential.
Your New Year’s resolution should be to perform at a higher level in every area of your life. Change your thinking and hope for a better future in the coming year. No one will believe in you until you believe in yourself. It is not being conceited but having a positive self-image and a healthy feeling of self-worth. You get what you expect whether you like it or not. You cannot receive if you do not believe.
This is the year you become financially secure. The love of your life will cross paths with you. The unlimited potential will rise up and match you with the career you have been waiting for your whole life.
“Rise above the rest and be your best”
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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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Wish Fulfillment
December 16, 2009 by Chris Oldcorn
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“I wish………………”
How many times a day do we wish for something to be different in our lives? Ten times? Twenty times? Even more? We want better relationships with our partners, family, and friends. Maybe we wish for more of them or less. Friends are god’s way of apologizing for our families.
We live in a society that is obsessed with numbers. I have over 1200 people following me on Twitter and about 1400 friends on Facebook. I don’t know most of these people but they read my columns, blog posts, and other media. They feel a stronger connection if they can digitally connect. I am starting to see what it is like to be in the public eye. I could wish for more privacy but I don’t. The way to help as many people as possible is to be connected to them through various social networking sites.
Wishing is a healthy action. Wishing doesn’t mean that our present life is unacceptable but wishing is adding something to our life that would increase our joy and satisfaction. It requires not only a new thought but also a new attitude.
First, you must think that you are worthy of something added to your life. You cannot attract something if your attraction is turned off. So get turned on!
Second, you have to mentally picture what you want in your life.
Thrid, go and find what you want. Touch it, hold it, and sit in it if you can. You need to have the object in front of you. If it is a situation and not an object, feel how you would feel in that situation. If you want to be loved, you must love yourself first before others can love you.
Finally, always be grateful for what comes your way.
Action Exercise:
Pick an object or situation. Something simple to start. Maybe a good parking spot or green lights all the way to work tomorrow. Once you can see how this works with basic stuff. You can WISH BIGGER. Think of it this way, you have to go on a first date before you get married.
I WISH YOU THE BEST (now you have a head start)!!!
Chris Oldcorn
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