Billy Pacholski

I had a great time last night on my podcast, “Unexpectedly Psychic” with my pal and colleague, Kirstin Travers Smith. The conversation we had, and the readings I participated in, lit something up in my space that has been working its way to the surface. And today, as I was walking to get some lunch, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

You can spend your life searching for magic, for something magical, for amazement, for wonder. Something to give your life, our lives, this existance, meaning. But the more we explore space, and all its inhospitableness, the fact that human beings have somehow managed to survive – thrive even – on this rock spinning in the middle of a vast universe, is really magic enough. So, today – eat well. Laugh. Love. Hug someone. The magic is that none of this should exist at all. It’s all an incredible gift.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which you would not be able to live. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions. You will gradually, without noticing it, live some distant day into your answers.” — Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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This special four week class is a journey meant to jumpstart the change you’re looking to create in your life. This class will give you tools, techniques, and will look at concepts that are core to manifesting abundance energy in whatever way is attractive to you. Just in time for St. Patricks Day, this 4 week journey will focus on the energy of luck. Where to find it, how to harness it, and how to have more of it in your life! Why do some people seem so lucky, and others don’t?

This is a psychic energy class. Everyone is “psychic”, and has the ability to sense or perceive energy. it’s part of being human. Our bodies are built to react to energy – and what a true psychic does is not strange, or weird, or “super-human.” To be psychic is to be aware of energy on a fundamental level; your own, and everyone else’s. In that awareness, you can learn to examine, shift and re-create energy that enables you to live the life that you want for yourself.

Most of the class will take place in guided meditation, using imagery and symbolism to create change in the energy of your body, your space, and the world around you. Come get a little taste of the magic that you can create for yourself every day!

Here’s what one student from my 2009 Abundance Class had to say about the experience:
“I enjoyed this class so much. I had listened to CDs, read books, but never really “gone anywhere” with my personal practice. It’s hard to put the experience of the meditations into words…but Billy takes you on the most vivid, colorful, and palpable tour of your inner being. In a sense, it is an overwhelming amount of emotion and revelation, but that’s the point, right!?”
Rebecca (Attracting Abundance, September 2009)

If you participated in the September 2009 class, there will be new and additional material covered in this class. It’ll also be a great refresher and bump if you’re ready to take another step! A special rate is offered to returning students.

Class is on Tuesday nights from 8pm-10pm, March 9, 16, 23 & 30th, at The Awakening Center, 3523 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657. You do not need to present at all classes to participate, and special payment arrangements are possible. Email me at billy@billypacholski.com for more information or with questions.

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As we grow older, an inevitable part of that process is that we stop dreaming as a child dreams. We become practical creatures, instead relying on the way things are to create a sense of safety and security in our lives. But what we miss out on is our ability to create a new world for ourselves to inhabit and grow into. Children know this intimately; they dream of fantasy worlds, of out of reach occupations (what child says, I want to be a banker?) and of new, innovative inventions.

We become experts at underestimating ourselves, and in that, underestimating others, and this negative energy can influence the entire space around you, wether at work, at home or with friends. You’ve seen people like this in your life – just a simple look at a person running this energy, and you know they’ve stopped dreaming. You know that they are stuck.

Likewise, you can adjust your energy and become a beacon of light within that dark energy. People will look at you differently. People will know – empathically – that you are a person with a dream. A person who still has access to that part of yourself. It’s a very attractive energy to be in – but it will also make you stand out in a crowded room. That can be a little uncomfortable at first!

Reconnecting to that part of you that dreams, that has an ability to create a new dream for yourself and create change to get there, can be an amazing healing for your spirit AND your body. It puts you back on a path of growing, changing, and learning that satisfies an inherent need in the human lifetime. It will stimulate all the agreements and energies that would prefer you remain unchanging, and this can be painful and difficult. But it will create opportunity not only for you, but for everyone around you to evolve and grow closer towards their own dreams.

We are born in supreme fragility, and we die in supreme fragility. Why are we so frightened of what is in between, seeking to keep things the same, to plateau and remain “safe”? Life is the adventure. It’s the time to take risks. It’s the time to create new world for yourself, and for others. To gamble it all for what your heart is drawn to. As you create resolutions for this new year, the beginning of a new decade, why not look towards the bigger picture? Reconnect to that part of you that is still a creative, imaginary child; yearning for something bigger in your life. Create a healing for yourself – and in that, a healing for others, and a healing for the whole world.

As 2009 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on where things are ending in my life, and also where things are beginning – like seedlings poking through the ground at the first sign of spring.

In order to create something new, space must be created for it by releasing energy that has been invested in the old or outdated thing. Sometimes its people, places or things – but sometimes it’s letting go of simply an idea or a picture of what you used to want. Are your current desires in present time? Do they adequately reflect who you are today, as opposed to who you used to be?

How have you changed over the past year? What did you learn about yourself and about the world? Are you allowing this new information, knowledge and experience to influence and flavor your life in positive, growth inspiring ways?

Changing your goals or desires can be interpreted by some as failure; but it can also be seen as allowing yourself to evolve, grow and change. From an energetic perspective, there’s no failure in adjusting the picture of your future or your life. In fact, if you allow yourself freedom to do this, it can be very liberating!

Most people are heavily invested in keeping things the same. In fact, whole lives can be constructed around keeping the status quo, not rocking the boat, and making everyone around them comfortable by not shaking things up. But often times, this is the exact thing that leaves us feeling so unfulfilled and unsatisfied with our own lives. We yearn for something more, long for something new, and want fresh influence and energy in our lives and dreams.

Maybe it’s time to consider in your own life where you’re ready to move on, end things that are based on old dreams or old self-image pictures, and create something new. Maybe that’s a new job, maybe a new home, maybe even a new city. Or maybe it’s something more internal – a new way of seeing yourself, a fresh look at who you are in present time and what you want for your own future. What are the things that you’d like to experience?

Creating change will no doubt shake things up, and people in your life will react in various ways; excited to see you achieving your goals, but also scared and nervous at how that might change their relationship with you. Some people may even react negatively – if you begin to create growth and change, it might begin to show them where they are stuck too! But if you’re finding yourself increasingly unsatisfied, it might be time to rock the boat a little and adjust your course. After all, it’s your lifetime – and it’s all about what experiences, opportunities, and relationships you want to create for yourself. Give yourself the freedom of clarity and movement this new year!

Recently, I read a woman who was having trouble with some anger in her life. She just felt angry all the time. At people, at events, at her child, even at her pet. Here’s the kicker – she had no idea why she was so angry. Everything in her life was fine. But she had tried everything, and she just couldn’t make her anger go away.

In the reading, I found an energy picture that went something like this: She was a kid at Christmas, and in front of her was a mound of presents. Each one was fine. They were nice gifts. She was happy with them. But there were other kids all around her opening up their gifts, and their gifts were awesome! New, high tech toys. Fancy Barbie dream houses. All sorts of things that seemed magical and exciting. In this picture, she was angry and pouty and sad. She wanted what everyone else was getting! She wanted magic!

Upon a deeper look, it became clear that in this picture (and therefor her life) she had given up her right to ask for what she wanted. In fact, she had deferred to her parents to decide “what she was going to get for christmas” for her. And it’s not that the things she’d been given – or the life they had picked for her – was bad, or wrong. In fact it was quite nice. But it wasn’t what she would have picked for herself. She wanted something different; something more.

You see, her parents wanted her to be safe, and to be happy. They had the best of intention. They chose some nice toys for her. It was the best way they knew how to provide those things for her life. And it’s not that they were wrong or cruel or wanted to take advantage of her – but as she grew into the woman she is today, those things have become less relevant. They have become less of what she would pick for herself.  She felt guilty for wanting something different or more when what she had been given – what was decided she should have – was so nice. Who was she to ask for more or different when so many people had so little? Who was she to say no to her parents ideas of what her life should be like? This was the genesis of the anger that had been afflicting her. Guilt of being unhappy, and for wanting more control on her “Christmas gift list.”

When I asked her what in her life she would change if she had the freedom to do so, without consideration for what anyone else would think or say to her, she quickly replied – “everything.”

I told her she’s got a lot of work to do, then.

A little bit about the history of Halloween.
(from wikipedia)

Halloween has origins in the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. This was a Gaelic festival celebrated mainly in Ireland and Scotland. However, similar festivals were held by other Celts – for example the festival of Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf) which was held by the ancient Britons.

The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family’s ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practise was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name Halloween and many present-day traditions, derive from the Old English era.

In the 800s, the Catholic Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were once celebrated on the same day.

Last night I went to see the movie, “Paranormal Activity”, which has been all the rage on blogs and social media. It was great! Shot entirely with a handheld camera in a documentary style, it was sort of a modern day Blair-witch for people who are really into all those cable ghost-hunter shows. It had all the stuff you’d expect – creaking doors, phantom footsteps, heavy breathing coming from the walls. It had some other suprises too, that I won’t ruin here.

When I left the theater – scared out of my pants – I felt exhilarated. My heart was pounding, my adrenaline was rushing, I felt really alive. And it got me to thinking about the energy of fear, and how it affects us.

Fear stimulates in the body an energy that brings your attention into the present moment in a very attentive, urgent way. This is the body’s response to whatever creates the reaction – sometimes you’ll hear this called “fight or flight.” It brings you into the present moment so you can make life or death decisions in survival situations.

Fortunately for most of us, life is not about survival anymore. We don’t have to fight over the latest kill with waring tribes, we don’t have to be on the lookout for wild animals around every tree who might pounce and kill us.

So what role does fear play in our world today?

Some people can become addicted to fear – well, more exactly, this body level response to it. You know these people – always looking for the next high, the next mountain to jump off of, the next daring adventure. For some people this, is very fulfilling, and they get a great deal of satisfaction from putting themselves, continually, in this state.

But some people become addicted to fear without realizing. They are constantly in “fight or flight” – always responding to some unseen impetus to run or attack. Always on the lookout for the hidden danger. Their bodies have been conditioned by energies outside of themselves to be constantly in a state of fear. This can be exhausting to your body, creating (instead of exhilaration) lethargy, un-focus, and confusion. It can also make it incredibly hard to create an intimate relationship – with yourself.

When I left the movie theater last night, I was aware at how stimulated my body was. But using the energy tools that I work with, I was careful and conscious of clearing the energy of fear out of my space so that I didn’t remain in the energy of fear for the rest of the night. Who wants to be on a roller coaster that never ends?

In some ways, I think FDR was absolutely right. Since there’s so little to actually be “afraid” of nowadays, the biggest fear we have is fear itself. Being conditioned into it against our will, where it hijacks all our senses and our lives become trapped in fight or flight.

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Where are you living in fear? If you’re finding it hard to overcome energy blocks around being afraid, a reading may help you find clarity. A healing may help you move the energy effortlessly. An energy coaching session may help give you tools to manage and shift the energy on your own.

www.billypacholski.com

I’ve recently been named one of Chicago’s Top 10 Psychics!

This is not a recognition I applied for, paid for, or was even aware I was in the running for!

Check out the list – I’m in with some great company. Wow! What an honor.

Thank you to all my clients, colleagues and friends who continue to promote me, my work, and are testament to the work I’m doing.