Today is Today!
I have decided that my spring action statement is to “Challenge perceptions and expectations of what it is to be psychic and to work with energy.” It’s really my goal to make psychic energy work something less “new-agey” (we’ve all seen THOSE websites) and for the people just outside the mainstream and to bring it to people who want to incorporate a hightened awareness of reality and consciousness in their daily lives.
It’s pretty exciting to be at the forefront of such a strong and timely movement in human history. As science and physics unlock the secrets of the cosmos and of the quantum, it’s moving closer towards the ancient wisdom that has been encoded inside of humanity since time began. It’s bringing us closer to a stronger understanding of who we are, where we are, and how we are.
Connecting to this deeper part of yourself, wether by meditation, getting a clairvoyant aura or past life reading, or simply by focusing on your intentions and your engagement with present time, you are becoming part of the movement that will change the face of our world and our place on/with it.
Being psychic is not about predicting the future, or about winning the lottery. It’s about a deeper awareness and the ability to see and sense the truth behind the chatter of the mind and of the energy that is present in our lives and in the world. It’s about facilitating a connection to their higher self and the higher purpose that is inside each one of us.
At its heart, truly being psychic is being a link to humanity’s ancient shamanic past, where ritual, cleansing, change, and growth were at the core of the human experience.
What is your action statement for this year? What are you doing on your path to achieving it? What are your blocks?I’m excited for the year ahead, and everything that I will get to see, experience, and do. Are you?
### UPDATE 1:49pm
And right on the heels of my post, this CNN.COM article that discusses the potential of hundreds of earth-like planets in our galaxy. Could you imagine how our perspectives would shift if we shifted to be a planetary culture rather than continental ones? It would change everything!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/02/25/galaxy.planets.kepler/index.html
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Why Meditation?
Meditation is an amazing tool that allows you to receive deeper wisdom from within, and insight into your personal truth. The style of meditation that I practice and teach is not about looking to the group mind, or the infinite to find your answers – it is all about looking deeper within yourself to get in touch with who you truly are. It is about repairing the permissions to live the life you dream of. It is all about having more of your unique energy in every moment of your day, in your relationships, and in the things you create. It is not about ridding or destroying the ego, it is about finding who you really are, and being it!
The great thing about meditation is that our philosophical or religious beliefs are not important. Meditation is process of moving past the structures of our current reality in a very neutral, affirming way. The mental habits of the mind become increasingly transparent and their power over us diminishes. We can use meditation to dive deep into our own hearts to gain access to our spirit – our unique truth. Therefore, mediation can (and is ) practiced by people of different religions or no religion.
Many people like the idea of meditation, but feel they don’t have enough time, or that they don’t quite know how to start. You sit and close your eyes – and then what? While meditation does requires an investment of time, making this time and clearing energy can make the the rest of the day more productive. Nothing is more important than the relationship with you have with yourself, and the act of meditation is like a date with you. Most of our energy is spent running around chasing our lives and our relationship with ourselves (and subsequently others) becomes superficial. What is the point in being tremendously busy but unable to enjoy it and unhappy?
Meditation is not about retreating from the world; it is a journey of self exploration and discovery. It’s about clearing energy and creating space for the things you ultimately want to have. To create the life you dream of. It can help to work in a group setting, to learn specific tools and concepts that can assist you in creating and building your own medtitation practice. The style of meditation I work with is very active, using specific tools to work with and clear energy.
Unfortunately, our mind is often addicted to complication and drama and it takes time to really get inside your truth. Often the beginners experience of meditation is full of the chatter of the mind, which is really everybody else’s energy caught in your space, everything and everyone that wants and craves your attention and consideration. This can be very uncomfortable. We habitually identify this chatter, this foreign energy, as ‘who’ we are. Confronting this ‘who’ we are when we sit for meditation can be an unpleasant shock. Discovering your personal truth behind this energy is the reward and the path of meditation. It can provide you with a sense of clarity and purpose that may have been missing. With time, practicing meditation will reveal that you are not your thoughts, and it will open you up to the sense of magic and wonder that is beyond everyday appearance and form.
Anyone can reap these spiritual benefits of meditation, which include greater self-awareness and understanding, a deepening sense of being present in the here and now. From self awareness develops self acceptance and in time, compassion. A deeper sense of intimacy with yourself allows deeper relationships with others.
My next group meditation workshops are:
Communication Energy Workshop
Thursday, March 25th, 6:30-9pm
Flourish Studios, 3020 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Cost: $50, or free for highly visible bloggers, journalists and social media users.*
There is so much demand for each of us to be “in communication” with the world these days – via email, cell phone, smart phone, twitter, blogs, facebook and all this “virtual life.”
With each profile, avatar, screen name, email address, we expend a bit of our unique life force to create it. With each dating profile, we put a little bit of our energy on it, in hopes of attracting the right person. With each communication we send out, we expend just a little bit of “who we are” as we hope the communication “goes through.”
In this workshop, we’ll work with meditation as a tool to gather up all the energy you’ve sent out, and then renew and replenish communication space. We’ll clear out the old, and work on manifesting new projects, new connections, and new communication.
This workshop is ideal for journalists, bloggers, social media types and writers. Also people in PR, Media, Advertising and other communication related industries. Heck even people who date online!
Cost: $50*
Space is limited to 15; please sign up in advance.
*If you are a highly visible blogger, journalist or other social-media type, you qualify for free admission to this event if you agree to blog or write about your experience. Contact me for details.
Meditation Immersive Weekend
Saturday, April 4th and Sunday, April 5th, 10am-12:30pm
Flourish Studios, 3020 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Cost: $50 each or $75 for both!
(Classes described below.)
April 4th – Meditation Fundamentals: Attract the life you want to live!
Meditation is a powerful tool to begin accessing your own unique energy and learn how to attract the things you want in your life, and to begin living your dreams – in a completely effortless way! This introductory workshop will teach you fundamental meditation tools to access your own information, energy and power.
The class will be active, and filled with mostly guided meditations. Concepts we’ll look at include:
• Creating safety and grounding yourself by meditating
• Releasing old energy or blocks and replenishing your unique life force
• Protect and clear your aura and energetic anatomy
• Attract the experiences you want to your life in an effortless way
April 5th – Meditation II – Being more present in your life
You’ve experienced the fundamentals, now take another step forward with additional techniques to become more present and centered in your life, which is where the magic happens. Learn about new parts of your energetic anatomy, and the role and function they play in your life. Things we’ll explore include:
• The 7 chakras and their abilities
• Unlocking your creative energy
• Being in command of your energetic space
• Creating abundance in any area of your life
Talking about yourself.
As a small business owner and a freelancer, I have to talk about myself a lot. All these social media tools – Facebook, Twitter, this blog – rely on you to leverage who you are, what you know, what you’re interested in – to attract attention, attract interest and ultimately to attract clients. It’s awfully tiresome. 
This week I’ve given three aura readings, produced my spring newsletter, put together a design proposal for a freelance client’s re-branding, did some project work for a software development company that I work for on occasion, did some public policy work with a local chamber of commerce, attended a couple of “twit-ups”, watched a lot of Frasier and spent almost every waking minute talking about – myself. The things I’m into. The things I like.
I bring this up because when you spend this much time talking about yourself, you have to really know who that is. That’s a pretty big deal – especially when you’re working in a realm of spirituality that few people allow themselves to truly access. It takes guts, and it takes a certain amount of fearlessness. I don’t necessarily claim to have this part down; I’m still learning. For instance, just yesterday I was getting out of the shower on my way to a client to give a reading, and I started to freak out a little bit. What the hell was I doing? Who the hell am I to be claiming to be giving psychic readings? What if she laughed at me? What if I screwed it all up? Yep, even psychics deal with the energy of imminent failure.
Living your truth is the most powerful thing you can do to live the life you want. A lot of times, my clients don’t feel like they know what their truth is. That’s just other energy getting in the way. Last night, when I was doubting myself and my gift, I chose to walk through it and went to the reading. I set up the way I usually do, and when it was time to do the reading, I just went for it. It’s my truth. I’ve spent very disciplined years getting in touch with my truth, and I had to “just do it”. You might say – in the face of all that doubt, even though I couldn’t *feel* my truth, I knew it was there somewhere. In a way, I faked it.
The woman I read was amazing. A gifted healer herself, she had an amazing capacity to work from her “knowingness” (meaning, her intuition or ability to know) but where her energy was stuck was in bringing this “knowing” into the vision she had for her life. I saw this as represented by a gray film separating the 7th layer (ability to know your truth) and the 6th layer (ability to have vision for your life) of her aura. Where she was working, as a spirit, was on bringing the infinite and limitless knowledge that she had accumulated over many lives into present time, into this lifetime. We looked a little deeper at this gray film, and within it there was a picture of very personal grief that was keeping some of her life force trapped in a loop. By clearing the grief, and healing her pain in this picture, she will now be able to bring some of that amazing, capable knowing down into her physical life and affect the changes she’s looking to make. The client was moved to tears, as was I.
Often times, as a psychic, I am engaged in the energy of a reading hours or days before it actually occurs. This woman’s struggle – that of bringing her knowing into the vision for her life, was similar to the energy I was handling just before the reading while I was in the shower. It’s such a gift to see these struggles, this invalidation as simply energy; it can be shifted, re-created and forgiven. It can be moved out of the way.
The reading was a great success, and of course afterwards I thought it silly that I had ever doubted myself or the gift. However, it did highlight to me how fortunate I am to truly know myself (and let me tell you – 5 years ago, I had NO idea who I was!) and to be able to share my gift in a way that helps people better understand themselves.
Want to know more about who YOU are in spirit? Have a good idea, but just want confirmation? Book a reading.
Read More...Sunday mornings
I love Sunday mornings. They are absolutely my favorite time of the week. To me, Sundays are best spent with football on the tv (even tho I don’t really watch it, the sounds of foorball just scream Sunday morning, don’t they?) brunch, the newspaper and blogging on the couch.
This week I’m housesitting for my friend’s Leah and Jason in Lakeview; it’s nice to be back in the ‘hood. I’ve been staying in Bucktown with my friend Emily, and while I love it over there, nothing feels quite the same as Lakeview, which is where I’ve lived most of my time in Chicago.
Yesterday was a crazy busy day for me; in the morning I gave a reading to Byl, and I think he had a really great experience. I don’t know that he expected the reading to be about deep, personal stuff. I love how it can catch people off guard that way. Generally, when I start a reading, I ask if people have ever had one before. They often answer with, “well, I’ve had my palm read a time or two…” and I’m like, “this is going to be very different.” and it is.
After that, I skidattled over to the Life Force Arts Center, where I participated in their Valentine’s Psychic Fair. It was the first time I’d participated in a multi-reader event like that. The set-up was pretty great; I bought a table for a set fee and then the readees paid me directly. I charged $1 a minute, in blocks of 20, 30 or 60. There were 6 readers all together, everyone practicing different reading and healing modalities. It was interesting to talk to the other readers and see where they are working from. Everyone was really nice and it was a pleasure to share space with each one of them.
The afternoon got off to a slow start, but by 3 o’clock I had a waiting list. I read from 3-7pm solid, which was amazing, but exhausting. I’ve done three readings in one day before, but never that many people in such short blocks. By far, most people purchased a 20 minute reading, tho I did a few 30 minutes. I was so thrilled that people chose me for their readings. Lots of people commented that they just got a “good vibe” from my name and how I described my readings on the form in the lobby. One woman even said that she picked me because I had “rock-star hair.” 
The experience of the fair really made me appreciate the gift that I have to “see” people’s true spirits – I read a woman struggling with some serious abuse issues, a young woman with cerebal palsy looking for love, a father worried to death about his college aged children, an artist who works in every modality possible, and another woman just ending a marriage. Each of these people needed urgent communication about the energies in their life, and the messages that spirit had for them. It is a gift to be the messenger of these messages.
After that, I needed to blow off some steam! I met up with my friend Sean for a beer, and then we went to Sidetrack. After that, I rolled in to go dancing at my favorite chicago club, Berlin. It’s dark and seedy and oh so much fun. Even psychics need to blow off some steam, and yes, even psychics need a drink now and then.
Today: watching movies on Leah & Jason’s ridiculously large HDTV, having dinner on the couch with this guy I’ve been seeing a little bit of, and sllllllleeeeeeping. Sounds like a Sunday morning to me.
Read More...Success!
Human Beings have mastered – and I mean *mastered* the art of failure. We know how to handle the energy of failure, how to be failures, how to anticipate failure. We are, in some ways, programmed to accept failure as the status quo. In a way, nobody needs to help you to understand or move through failure. You’ve got it down. Your whole life timeline might be a construct of points of failure. That might be the way you see yourself.
But what happens when we succeed? There are few templates for what to do when things *actually* work. Often times, even when success does come our way, we focus on the negative, or on imagined failures contained within the success, simply as a way to avoid handling the energy of success in our lives. Will other people be jealous? Will they judge us? Will they expect more of us? Will they want us to share our success with them in ways that we aren’t willing to? It can seem like if we are a success, we will be an insult to those around us. We will be different than our family, our friends. That can be scary.
With all these considerations, doesn’t it seem like it might be easier to just fail?
Yesterday, I taught a meditation workshop that was a huge milestone for me. It was the first time I rented a space all on my own, marketed the workshop, taught it. Two and a half hours of nothing but me, talking to a group of people in a room about meditation, energy work and spirituality. You know what? I succeeded. I accomplished my goals, everyone got information and was able to really take a step forward towards living the life they want to live. I think we had a little fun too. I spoke clearly, answered questions thoroughly. My guided meditations were right on target, and everyone had a good time.
Sure, there were things I could have done better, and afterwards, while talking to a friend of mine about the workshop, I naturally wanted to focus on those things. Next time I would do this. Next time, I would do that.
But I forced myself to stop and realize that by being in present-time, the here and now, (and not focusing on the next mountain to climb too soon) if I looked out from the peak I was standing on – that the vista was amazing. I had accomplished something that other people would be terrified of. I had taken a step on my path as a teacher, as a reader, as a psychic, and I was a success. Would i have made it this far if I hadn’t forged my own way, bucking other people’s advice, taking fewer chances and considering the well being of everyone else around me?
Clearing everyone else’s energy off of the things we want to achieve can have startling implications on your life. When you stop considering what effect success will have on those around you, it can make it all the easier for you to have your dreams in reality. Truly, the only thing stopping you from manifesting all the things you want to have or achieve is energy – yours or someone else’s. Do you know where you’re blocked?
Thank you to everyone who participated in the workshop to help me get to this peak. The view from here is amazing, and the future looks so bright – I might have to buy some shades!
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