by Heidi Hoke, PhD., ND., MSHom, CHt. OM

The destination of a journey traveled is not the final place of cessation, but the transition into a new beginning, yet another journey to be sustained.

~Dr. Heidi Hoke

I believe that it is when one is in that deep, peaceful, state of unconsciousness, that we can experience acute awareness of our authentic Self and the truth of our divine destination. Furthermore, it seems to be the time when we are far closer to our own resolution, than when we are in our familiar conscious state.

It is a day in October of 2001 that I awaken to a transformative detonation of a personal kind, with my body limp, strapped to a hospital gurney, blinded by bright surgical lights glaring down from above. Misaligned needle punctures sting my arms as the IV tubes connect the dots to the maze of multiple bags that throb the veins of my hand.  My head spins in a web of confusion and the inflammation in my brain reels my skull into a volatile response of explosive pain. I lay in damp sheets of my own sweat, cold, limp, thirsty, unable to focus, as nausea overtakes my gut and a faint taste of blood seeps in my mouth. With no emotion left to be felt, I cry. Today, this is my life.

It took forty-three years to get in to this state of illness, but I ask myself, can I afford forty-three years to get myself out of it. The sudden realization of the call to healing that I have been tasked with both overwhelms and excites me. What an adventure, what a curse. This was my insight and my awakening. This is how it all began. My seizures first occurred in 1970, at the age of thirteen, without noticeable consistency. My severe stuttering problem and body jerks since the age of three had reinforced medical treatment with sedatives and anti-depressants.

At the age of thirty, my condition had remained the same, with a growing predictable pattern… body pain, migraines, seizures, stuttering, mood swings, tics…repeat. Fleeting memory of past experiences similar to this began to enter my mind. It was during this time that I had one sudden seizure one evening, as I rocked my baby son. Through unexplainable circumstances, as I fell back in the rocker I hit my head on the edge of a solid, wooden window sill. Bleeding and confused, my husband found me, as I was still clinging to my little son, babe still in arms, both of us crying. He was fine and so was I. Life went on and we never would predict the delayed effects of that accident that would soon develop. It was a few weeks later that the seizures began to escalate both in frequency and severity. 911 was called on many more occasions.

I’ll never really be able to prove what happened one night soon thereafter. I have concluded that explaining the phenomenon of the experience itself weighs far less than the effect it had on me. You see…the miracle was more in the result than the incident itself, for that night changed me. The person I was then would never return again. It may have been a seizure, a near death experience, other-worldly visit, or it may have been a spiritual awakening of a different kind. It could have been some combination of all four.

In that early morning hour, my spirit rose out of my physical body. For some reason, the exact time was to be known, as I watched the old, 80’s flip clock clicks over to 3:10 am. As my husband lay sleeping beside me, I felt fatigued, sick and dizzy. Frequently experiencing seizures when tired, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and peacefully, yet consciously drifted into the journey. I was lifted up beyond my body to a height that exceeded that of the ceiling, as if it did not exist. I drifted into each of my two young children’s bedrooms, as they peacefully lay sleeping. Spiritually and telepathically, I expressed to them my deepest unconditional love and a brief ‘goodbye’. I felt he deepest love that a mother could ever feel.

I returned to view my own body which seemed still, peaceful, and empty. In that instant, a small bright hole appeared before me in the distance of my view, engulfed by black infinity. As the tunnel of light became larger and larger, I felt the sense of being propelled forward beyond my control, faster and faster as the light became brighter and brighter. The combined speed of propulsion and brightness of the light became so intense, I felt as if I was self-destructing. In an instant, I abruptly stopped.  I was at peace, feeling no limitation of my body, which now did not exist. I was surrounded by nothing. It was a gray, vast oblivion in another special plane, which I had never known of before. I had the ability to absorb immeasurable knowledge, guidance and instruction by means of telepathic intuition. Language was obsolete and I had shed my physical limitations in order to receive the messages to be collected.  I knew this was a temporary passage and that my immediate and undivided attention was required.

I was then joined by those who were there to give guidance and instruction. They were The Counsel of Seven, as they referred to themselves. They were the messengers for which information was to be given, and received. The telepathically communicated download-information that I was to receive would be remembered only on an ‘as-needed’ basis upon my departure back. I understood that I was on a necessary journey to receive information essential for the successful fulfillment of my mission within the physical realm. It was clearly explained and understood that tools (both tangible and intangible) would be provided also, on an ‘as-needed’ basis, in various forms including that of spiritual and religious guidance, education, intuition, humanitarian direction, books, financial exchange, and all ‘others’ that I would meet along the way to assist me. As these others assisted, I would also be placed for equal exchange of service to them, in their mission.  Continuing messages revealed to me, that the circumstances of my life and physical challenges thus far, had not been in vain, but were with great purpose and design. However, I was also to be made aware that these present circumstances of my physical life would become much more difficult in the near future, as this too was necessary and in ‘plan of order’. The messages continued…I need not be concerned about the severity of these circumstances, but simply to be present, honor and obey direction, committing to my purpose, as it would be later revealed. It was confirmed that I was not to be in this place for long, as it was merely a meeting place to gather the ‘instruction-of-task’. All information was to be ‘forgotten’ upon my physical re-entry, as full memory would cause bias in my actions in the physical plane and as with the tools, this memory and information input would only be accessible as needed. This was necessary to allow responses to be experienced by spontaneous intuition in the present, rather than the bias of prior knowledge of the future.

I then was briskly dismissed and returned the same way I arrived. In reverse, being hurled backward at an astonishing speed through an unknown oblivion of darkness, until the light of the tunnel became smaller and smaller, dimmer and dimmer. I opened my eyes, my head on the pillow, my body limp. I knew for certainty that this had not been a dream. I looked at the clock. At 3:10 am, time had halted and my physical body had been immobilized. I must now sleep, for I had much to do. Radical change was imminent. The prophecy that my condition would degenerate much further was correct.

Thirty years later as an adult, I was still unable to speak fluently and my unsuccessful attempt to hide and disguise my tics and stuttering only reinforced the life-long sense of low self-esteem I carried. I had experienced an extended period of traumatic stress, marital abuse, and personal struggle in both my private and professional life, as my seizures became increasingly frequent and severe, never being properly diagnosed or treated. Additionally, I began to experience constant, chronic pain in my joints and muscles accompanied by severe, painful, open lesions down my arms. I was then diagnosed with fibromyalgia, but the wounds on my arms could not be diagnosed nor successfully treated by neither neurologists nor dermatologists. I was struggling as a single mother of three children, working in technical publishing. My job fit me well. I could quietly work in a private, back corner cubical, consumed in detail without the demands of speaking or answering a phone. I could also discretely hide the seizures I often experienced, without discovery or unwanted intervention. That day was different. The seizures that struck me at work that particular morning was far from discrete, with 911 being immediately summoned by my supervisor. Twelve grand mal seizures occurred before I could reach the ER by ambulance. This was the sacred gift that was later to be unwrapped with both wonder and reverence. My hospital stay was brief, without further incidence or explanation, as usual.

Two weeks later, ten more seizures occurred while in the waiting room to see my neurologist with a follow-up appointment. My condition had become resistant to the various medications then available. The incident that day resulted in a long-term bed-ridden state with multiple seizures daily. Most often in this vegetative state, having an estimated 30,000-50,000 such seizures of six various types, over a thirty-seven-year period. The medical treatment I had received had been thirty-five years of unsuccessful attempts with over fifteen various drug therapies, under the care of eight neurologists, two epileptologists and two neuro-psychiatrists in four renowned medical university hospitals.

I had lost everything; my independence, the ability to care for my three children, my career, medical insurance, and the skill to drive a car. The home I had worked so hard to own for myself and my three children was now listed for sale. In that present moment of uncontrolled, constant seizures I found myself in a raw, reality total, submissive defeat. With the noise of Jerry Springer blaring in the background, I realized that this was the only stimulation that was keeping me conscious. I was not able to lift my arm to swallow the pills which offered no relief. If this was my life, I didn’t want to live it anymore. I had contemplated suicide for many months, had given my belongings away, and had no business left to complete. With three full bottles of anti-convulsant medications at my bedside, I imagined myself feverishly struggling to swallow them all at once. How peaceful it would be to end this now. I tried to lift my arm out from under the sheets to reach for the bottles, but it would move. I was too weak. I continued to struggle with the other arm with no better success.

It was now that the information download began. Sometimes we will do for others what we will not do for ourselves. I may not have wanted to live for me, but I must live for those who loved me. I loved those others enough to give them that. I then remembered the night when my Spirit drifted into the rooms of my two young children, expressing my pure, unconditional, motherly love to them. With that love went the promise and commitment not to abandon them in my own selfish cowardice and self-pity. I slept. I awoke with a breath of elusive vigor. I looked over at the bottles beside my bed, gained the tool of strength needed to grab them, crawled to the bathroom only a few feet away, and pour them in the toilet, as they quickly began to dissolve. I crawled back to bed and slept, waiting for the next order, falling back into a state of nothingness.

Going in and out of consciousness that day, I was given insight and it occurred to me that this experience was my covenant with God. While I felt alone with no options from the outside-in, I realized that this provided an excellent opportunity for limitless workings from inside-out, having no outside resistance, argument, or conflict. I realized that as it was no one else’s responsibility to heal me, that healing lied within my personal empowerment.

Healing was my own responsibility and with that thought, I decided at that moment to heal.  Spirit was the one I knew who could assist me. Spirit and I made a pact in that moment and joined together with the greatest of force. With that, I fell into another deep sleep, waking up many hours later with the insight that would lead me to victory.

On awaking, it occurred to me to try to resume some sort of self-study in nutrition, and structure my own program of natural medicine and healing. I had experienced some improvement years before, when I had briefly undergone nutritional and herbal support with a naturopathic practitioner, but had not continued the treatment to fruition. Nutrition had always been an interest of mine, even as a nine-year-old child, when I read books by Adele Davis in the 1960’s.

Later, in that process of working all my healing options in parallel with conventional drug therapy, I was finally correctly diagnosed with treatment-resistant epilepsy, bi-polar disorder, and Tourette’s syndrome, the bi-polar believed to be a secondary complication of the severe. The many doctors of the multiple teaching medical centers I had gone to just didn’t know why or how.

Being armed with at least some sort of diagnoses to begin my own research led me to a self-prescribed program of recovery. Beginning with intuitive self-hypnosis, visualization, and imagery, I began to slowly rehabilitate my physiology, with greater control over movement and balance extending the time between seizures. With a swift revamping of my diet, unprocessed food choices expanded into experimentation with ketogenic diet variations that seemed to make sense to me.  The incorporation of high levels of essential fatty acid therapy into the ketogenic diet plan was successful which then allowed the addition of various herbs, supplements and amino acids. For the next four years I experienced steady improvement, to the extent that I was now fully functional. The seizures had decreased to only very few within in a month. For me…that was victory.

Consistently progressing, as I continued my own natural healing program, I withdrew from conventional medicine in 2007. I began work as a temporary employee in the medical device industry to allow myself time to become comfortable in the corporate workplace once again. Later becoming the primary regulatory technical writer for a major spinal implant company.  In an effort to further educate myself in my quest for my own full recovery, I started online classes in 2007 to advance my own understanding in natural medicine. The entry-level Nutritional Consultant Certification program I began with blossomed into an educational bouquet which led me to successful completion of certification in herbal mastery, a Bachelor of Science Degree of Holistic Health, a Master’s of Science Degree in Homeopathy, certification in Hypnotherapy, and dual degrees, Doctorate of Philosophy in Holistic Health and Doctorate of Naturopathy.

I am now fully functional, with seizures controlled, symptom-free of both the bi-polar disorder and Tourette’s, with my speech fluent, all without synthetic medication. The chronic pain of fibromyalgia has gone into remission and my arms fully healed. For me, as with so many others, natural medicine was a last resort. Now, it is my first resort. I consider my healing to be a divine gift, for it was God’s medical tools that have always been within my reach. It was my responsibility to use them.

In the many years of study, research and careful consideration of the evidence at hand, I have concluded an explanation of my chronic health condition. In one word, Excitotoxicity. Being a baby of the 1950’s born into a family ridden with juvenile diabetes, I had been exposed to high amounts of excitotoxins, in the form of MSG, saccharine, aspartame, processes food preservatives, and early immunizations. As it was well described by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. in his book, Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Excitotoxicity has been responsible for the greater incidences of severe degenerative neurological function for the past sixty years. The early symptoms of stuttering, leg aches, seizures, facial and body tics, compromised reading skills, cognitive disorders, and memory lapses that I experienced as a young child, predictably developed into the classic symptoms of fibromyalgia, bi-polar, epilepsy and Tourette’s syndrome as an adult.

The task which was revealed to me in my past journey, now continues in the destination of present. As promised, all is being provided; spiritual and religious guidance, education, intuition, humanitarian direction, books, financial exchange, and the most valued ‘all others’. I continue my commitment to show up and follow. After having this experience, I commit my life to practice the neuro-science and art of natural health, educating and promoting organic, unprocessed food with the natural intervention of botanical medicines. I offer the hope and mechanisms of healing. This is my profession, ministry, and passion, sharing support and self-empowerment to those who seek help, with the steadfast commitment and determination to the life of natural health practices.

To learn more visit her website:  https://heidihoke.com/

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by Cathy Hazel Adams

In our transformational energy healing sessions, we always start by “dropping down” out of our heads and into the field of the heart. We do this because in order to be able to access the infinite possibilities that are open to us, we must leave our left brain’s busy, anxious and controlling linear thought process and go to a place of peace, relaxation and inner awareness – one in which we’re still present and aware in the physical, but also more open and accepting of inner information (a more right brain focus). I often explain the field of the heart in terms of the Christian Cross: the horizontal axis represents the physical realm, and the vertical axis represents the inner, spiritual realm. When you stand at the intersection, you stand in both areas and can see down all roads.

The field of the heart is our human point of access to the Unified Field, which is the Universal or Divine consciousness. This Universal Mind, or unified field, by definition holds within it ALL possible realities and experiences, and ALL individually aware points of consciousness (including you and me). It is the All. So when we open up our connection to the All, we’re aware of ourselves as individualized personalities, with our personal life situations and experiences, but we’re also aware of ourselves as something greater – as existing beyond and containing the lives that we know.

Being there puts us in a state of neutrality (the non-attachment of the Hindus and Buddhists). This is not a cold, uncaring, apathetic state, but is instead a warm, flexible, deeply loving and expansive place. In it we’re no longer pushed and pulled by the circumstances and emotions of the moment, but are instead deeply grounded in an inner serenity and peace. People throughout the ages have attained this state through meditation, but the good news is, a few quiet moments and a conscious desire to drop down to the field of the heart will get you there very quickly. Dr. Bartlett tells a story of running into some Buddhist monks in the elevator after they’d attended one of his seminars, and how they were laughing and saying: Here we’ve spent all this time meditating to attain this state when all we had to do was come to your seminar and learn to drop down to the field of the heart!

From this expanded, more serene perspective, we become less vulnerable to the traumas and dramas in our lives. We feel less stressed, less fearful; we start perceiving that we have available to us many other possible experiences and outcomes. And because we are identifying with the All, we feel more connected to others and the world, and can see them (and their actions) with less fear, anger and judgment, and more compassion, calm and insight. This does not mean we become blind, complacent, and acquiescent: We actually become more keenly aware, have more understanding of situations and motivations, and are smarter about how to handle them. As one of the scientists with the Heart Math Institute says in the documentary film I Am: When we get angry and fearful we get “stupid.” We are at our best when we operate from the field of the heart.

My own spiritual teacher, Seth (the Jane Roberts books), refers to this state as “psychological time,” and says it’s a great way to become calmer and less stressed because you’re aware of yourself outside of the space-time structure: you create psychological elbowroom, a “Spacious Present” – breathing space between and around the constraints of physical time. He says also that it’s the state to start from if you want to increase intuitive abilities or explore expanded states of consciousness.

How To Get There

First, start with the physiology: Relax. Loosen and drop your shoulders and arms, take a nice big breath in and out. Smile if you want to.

– Balloons and bricks: One of my favorite methods, Dr. Bartlett (creator of the Matrix Energetics® healing modality) taught this one at a seminar. Imagine helium balloons latching on to busy, negative, confusing thoughts and pulling them up and out of your head. Then imagine bricks latching onto the feelings and emotions in your solar plexus, and pulling them down and out through your feet and into the earth. You will feel a lovely, clear, open space in the middle. That’s You, in the Heart.

– Eyeballs on a slide: A Richard Bartlett suggestion. He imagines placing his eyeballs on a sliding board and letting them splash down into a pool of water in front of his chest.

– Little Hands Opening Shutters: Mine. I discovered this one before I even knew about Matrix Energetics®, and my clients love it.  Simply imagine a set of closed window shutters over your chest, then imagine little arms and hands coming out of your armpits, and reaching around and opening them up wide.

– Where am I in relation to the field of the heart? Taught at Matrix Energetics® seminars, the question is its own answer, i.e., is self-fulfilling. I often add the words “of Creation” to the end of the question, because it helps unstick me from personal association with heart and love, and takes me right into the Source area of creation: the Loving Unified Field of All Consciousness.

– The simple request and intention: “I’d like to drop now into the field of the heart.”  Then allow it to happen. You can’t make it happen, you agree to it – it’s a surrender.

Getting to and staying in the heart field, like most things, gets better with practice.  If you keep doing it, the Heart will become your automatic “go-to” in every situation, and eventually, you’ll live there all day, every day.

Cathy Hazel Adams is a practitioner of quantum, multidimensional energetic transformation and healing, and a Matrix Energetics® Certified Practitioner. Find this and other articles, as well as her 4-hr “Download For Home Study,” Living From The Heart: The Key To Peace, Freedom & Creative Empowerment

 For more information, visit: www.cathyhazeladams.com

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By Deb Pietruszka

Have you ever felt as though you previously lived here on Earth?  Are you open to the possibility of reincarnation, where the soul returns to live here multiple times, to enhance soul growth through lessons learned?

I remember at the age of 16, I began to encounter books about reincarnation.  Naturally, this at first seemed foreign to me. As I continued to read about this concept and lives of people who believed they were reincarnations of a former self, I found this to be intriguing.   In my own life, I found myself drawn to particular historical time periods that were interesting and that I especially enjoyed reading about.  I also found myself, when traveling to new and different places, occasionally having flashbacks of myself as another person in that setting and I seemed to “remember” different aspects of that place. Frequently, I often met people for the first time who seemed familiar and I experienced a significant attraction to them as a kindred spirit or I felt repelled and mistrusting of them.  For me, the most logical explanation of this was a past life connection.

In 2002, I finally had the opportunity to study past life regression hypnotherapy and was thrilled to learn a viable technique to better understand past lives.  This enabled me to better visualize past lives my clients connected with in such  way that I felt I was there.  In subsequent years, I also gained the skill of connecting with the Akashic Records, often known as the Book of Life, which contains information regarding all thoughts, words, and deeds of Earth’s inhabitants. I also became adept at communicating  with angels and guides.  They have  been very helpful in providing information during the past life readings.

Being human, I recognized several blockages which had been plaguing me. I experimented by doing past life readings on myself with blending my abilities in these areas to identify past lives which were connected to current life blockages.  The information I gained from this was so extremely helpful that I was able to move through these blockages into a life that sparkles with freedom, joy, and wonderful experiences.  I was elated with this success and consequently am passionate about helping others who are seeking the answers to blockages in various areas of relationships, careers, finances,  health, fears and phobias.

In the past 10 years, I have performed past life readings for hundreds of people who have gained increased insight and understanding into patterns in their past lives which directly “connect the dots” to issues and blockages in this current life.  With additional techniques I am trained in, I have been able to partner with them to release them from this “baggage” they have been energetically holding in their cellular memory connected with these past lives.  They, too, were thrilled to move forward into the lives they desire.

If you feel stuck in any area of your life and have attempted multiple techniques to break through with minimal success, consider a past life reading.  These readings can be done in person or long distance over the phone.

Set up an appointment TODAY to embrace your new life of freedom!

CONTACT:  Deb Pietruszka  OTR/L; CHTP; C.Ht.; CCA

484-632-9300

Visit my website https://serendipitymeadows.com/

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by Donna Joyce
Lift Your Spirit Healing

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by Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic

What wonderful movies us humans come up with to humanize animals.   All the cartoons that show animal friends talking and thinking like humans, acting like humans and reasoning like humans.   They’re fun to watch but they aren’t how the real animal world thinks or functions.

Many countries around the world have domesticated animals and with this domestication, we forget where animals came from or what’s been bred into them for thousands of years.   We forget they have their own DNA that makes up much of what they are and how they act and react to situations.

We also forget there are humans in the outback of Australia, in the jungles of Africa, South America, who are living in the most basic animal survival mode with these animals.  These humans don’t see animals as human at all and as a matter of fact these humans understand animals and the way they think probably better than most animal communicators.

These people are in survival because they don’t have refrigerators to keep their food in.  They don’t have phones for emergencies.  They don’t have money, a computer, running water, electricity, or any of the basic things many of us take for granted.   But what they do have is the understanding of animals and how they think.

If animals thought like humans, they’d be human!

In my line of work I see too many animal communicators humanizing animals.  When I was at psychic school, we learned to back away from our thoughts and judgments and to let the messages come in as they did.  We didn’t put our own life experiences on them.

Every animal communicator experiences and receives their messages in a different way.  Then they have to translate those messages into human terms because animals don’t think like we do.

So in my experience, an animal won’t tell me their teeth hurt because they don’t know what teeth are.  But they’ll show me a picture of their mouth and I know to look into their teeth.

Animals live in a different world than we do.  They need to know their surroundings are safe and balanced.  Animals live in a world of survival first.  Wild animals are in survival 98% of the time while domesticated animals are less but still live by their DNA.

Humans have survival DNA too but because we are mostly “tame” humans, at least the ones reading this, rather than a person living in the jungles or outback, we don’t live in survival as much.  If we had our survival skills more on the surface, many of us wouldn’t get mugged or robbed.  We could sense danger better than we do now or at least listen to our inner voice more when we feel something isn’t right.

Studies are showing DNA can determine the range of behaviors in each species.  Animal behaviorists are starting to study animals outside of their natural environment. They help us to understand if and how bred-in and learned behavior can be modified through training and changes in a pet’s diet or environment.
Modifying a pet’s behavior can be a challenging task because of their DNA or bred-in instincts.  Wild animals have certain instincts and no matter if they are born in the wild or in captivity, some of these innate instincts will surface.   Although pet owners have the responsibility for teaching their pets, they often do not have any formal training in how to do this.  Too many humans get animals for the wrong reason with no basic idea or information on what the animal needs to survival and be healthy.

Unfortunately, this is why many animals end up in shelters or are abused because owners misunderstand the cause of their pet’s behavior.  I always tell people – you have to think like an animal to understand an animal.  And because animals sense and feel things to a greater degree than humans, we can hardly understand it all.

Their sense of smell is about 2000 times greater than ours, their hearing is at least 100 times greater and their instinctive survival skills are with them since birth.  We should learn to watch and listen to animals more to help us learn the world they live in.  With these evolved senses, they can smell something that may scare them or put them in a survival mode and we haven’t a clue what that is.
Understanding why pets sometimes “misbehave” requires careful understanding of their bred in traits and their ability to learn.

The disposition of a particular pet and the circumstances surrounding their behavior are also factors.  We need to look at where they were born and how they were raised to understand many personalities.

Even though one group or species may have the same DNA, each individual animal is different.  This includes looking to see if they had enough food, water and how they were socialized.   Were they beaten up in the litter or did their mother die when they were too young to learn everything from her.

It’s just like all humans have the same basic DNA, but with some changes for skin color, eye color, etc.   It works the same way in the animal world.  All zebras will have the same basic DNA but every zebra has a different striped pattern on its’ body to mark its individualism.

We have to look at the species and understand that every species have their own traits and instincts, but realizing survival is the first thing on an animals mind.

The animal world is a world of day-to-day survival that many of us in the “tame” world can’t understand and probably don’t want to see or face, but it’s real.  If we can just acknowledge that it exists, we can start to understand many animals’ behaviors, instincts, actions and reactions and honor them instead of condemning them.

So please remember this saying, “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.  But if it walks like a human and thinks like a human, it’s a human.”

Animals don’t know what world peace is, they just want peace in their world.

Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic

To learn more visit www.shirley-scott.com

@2018

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by Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic

When you’re just starting to work with an animal or pet, there are many things to take into account before you start any training program.  The first thing you need to find out is whether the pet you have chosen can actually learn to do what you think they should do.   I mean a wiener dog won’t be able to round up cattle like a cow-dog.   And a Great Dane can’t dance on its hind legs like a small poodle.

So before you try something out on your pet, take the time to think about the way their body is shaped, their weight, their intelligence level and their personality.  Just because you want them to do something doesn’t mean they’ll be able to do it.

And there’s something else to look at; not all animals will be good at all tricks.  Not all of us humans are good at bowling, ice-skating or other activities and neither are all animals.   Just because your friends’ dog can do something don’t expect your dog to do it or even like to do it.

So when choosing an animal for a certain task, make sure you have the right breed, body style and personality.  Just because we have a preconceived idea about what a certain breed is supposed to be good at, doesn’t mean anything.   The point here every thoroughbred is a winner and not every mutt’s a loser.

Another thing you should ask yourself is “If I was this pet, would I do this trick or action?”

If you know it’s going to hurt the animal or put the fear of God in them, then it’s not a trick to be done.  If you wouldn’t do it, don’t expect your pet to do it either.  It’s very important we use our brains in training animals and that’s where common sense and telepathic communication come in.  If you don’t have any common sense, don’t try training an animal because they’ll out smart you every time.

Learning to watch, listen and communicate with your pet is a big step to helping you train him better.  The more you get to know them and understand their likes and dislikes, the easier it will be to train them.   The more you communicate on their level with them, the more you will understand their intelligence level, their tolerance level and many other aspects of their character and personality.

When you get to know your pet on all these levels, you’ll know what they are capable of learning.  Here’s just one example.   I had a client that was into extreme horseback riding and down hill racing.   This kind of riding takes a very good horse, a very good rider and lots and lots of work for both of them.  He picked a good-looking Arabian that was very fit and supposed to be from a long bloodline of excellent horses.

However after just a few short weeks of training, he realized  the horse was too nervous and scared to really become good at the down hill racing.  He saw and understood that this horse could get into a panic if pushed to race down hill and that would be dangerous for both himself and the horse.   But the horse was very sure-footed and became a great trail horse.

He could have beaten the horse into submission but the results would still been very dangerous in the long run.   He gave the horse to someone who used him for trail riding and both the horse and the new owner where happy.

I want everyone to take just a second and think about how you’d feel if someone was trying to teach you something and every time you didn’t do it right they hit you.   Wouldn’t you get mad want to strike back?   This is how your animal feels when you hit or yell at them.  If your pet looks at you with fear or confusion in his eyes, honor that and take an extra minute to reassure him everything is okay.  Remember if you’re going to train an animal with fear and pain, you’ll end up with a fearful and hateful animal.

There’s an old saying I use with animals and with people.   It goes like this, “You get more bees with honey than with vinegar.”   It simply means if you’re nice to animals and people, they in turn will be nice to you.   If you learn to train an animal with love, patience and respect, they in turn will give you love, patience and respect back.

Training an animal means they’re learning something from you. If you are overly rough on them, they’ll be afraid.  If you’re too easy, they’ll walk all over you.   There’s a balance when you’re training an animal.    And that balance extends to you.  You need to be balanced and calm when you’re training a pet.

You should never start a training session if you aren’t in a positive mood or feeling well.   The animal will pick up on this right away and the session will be over before it begins.  Your pet will not want to do anything because of the energy they are feeling.   There’s no blame on you or your pet if this happens, it’s just that training isn’t going to work that day.  So put it off until you and your pets are in better moods.   Remember, if you feel unbalanced or out-of-sorts, stop!

And there’ll be days that no matter what you do or say, your pet just doesn’t want to do anything.   So step back, stop trying so hard and try it again tomorrow.  If it still doesn’t work the next day, then maybe it’s not supposed too and you need to look at why it’s not working.

Here’s an example of what might be going on with you and your pet.   You walk up them and say something with a sweet, soft voice but your stomach is tight with anger from work or a fight with someone.   Your pet will feel the tightness in your energy and back away.  In other words you are sending him one kind of energy with your voice but another kind of energy with your body.   You now look unbalanced to your pet and looking unbalanced is a threat to him.   He doesn’t know what to expect from you.

He’d rather you walk up to him and say, “okay, I’ve had a hard day at work and I’m not feeling too good, but if you’ll work with me I’ll try to relax.”    This they understand.

Animals react to your energy or the energies they pick up in the air, just like electrical currents.  They can feel the change in the wind and know it means rain.  They can feel the calm before and after a storm.  They can feel an earthquake before we do.   .

So please be aware of what you’re feeling and thinking before you walk up to any animal.  They’ll feel your emotions and react accordingly.  When you start thinking before you act out, you’ll find that you and your pet are coming together in a new way.   Both of you are merging your energies and thoughts.

As you grow and learn these techniques, you’ll find that one day your dog will “sit” just by you thinking it at him.  Your cat will actually pay attention when you talk to her.  And when you get on a horse, you’ll be a rider WITH the horse – not a rider AND a horse.  You’ll be feeling and communicating on a different, yet deeper level.  This is true communication.

So before you start any training program, pick your animal well and get to know them first.  Write down in detail what you want to teach them, how you’re going to teach it to them and why you want them to learn it.  If there’s NO reason you can think for them to learn it except it would be fun for you, then don’t even bother.   There should be a point to learning something.   If you want them to sit and stay it’s usually because you want them to calm down or be good.   So think of what you want to teach them and think about why.

And always, always, always have this thought is the back of your mind.  “If one way doesn’t work, don’t get mad.  Try teaching them in a different way.”   Not all humans learn in the same way and not all pets learn in the same way either.

The truth is if you do something the same way all the time, you are going to get the same results all the time.   And if the results aren’t want you want, then change the way you are doing something.  If how you are training them isn’t working or you’re not getting the results you want, stop it and try it a different way.

Be enough of a person to admit that you might not be communicating well with your pet.   Maybe someone else could help you.  There’s no shame in this.   It’s just like asking for directions when you’re lost.   You could stay lost and get frustrated or you could ask for help and move on your way.  It really boils down to having some common sense about things.

Not all of us can understand or even learn from the same teacher, no matter how smart we are or how good the teacher is.  Maybe we just can’t learn from them.  How often has someone told you something you just didn’t understand, but another person comes along and says the same thing to you in different way and you get it?  This can happen with an animal in training as well.   Just be a big enough person to realize your pet isn’t learning from you and ask for help or try something different.

Keep in mind that your pet may also have a very different idea of what he wants to learn or do.  Animals have thoughts and emotions too.  They might not be just like ours, but they feel pain, happiness, fear, cold and heat, attachment, hate and love.  We seem to think they are just stupid animals.  But many of these stupid animals have more brains and make wiser choices than we do.

I hope this helps you begin a training process that will be happy, healthy and rewarding for both you and your pet.

Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic

To learn more visit www.shirley-scott.com

@2018

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by Rev. Dr. Elena Skyhawk, Msc.D

In the Metaphysical world one hears about Gratitude quite often as a way to raise one’s vibration and shift energy. So what exactly does that mean? How can being grateful about anything raise your vibration.

The definition of gratitude is: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation and to return kindness.

Ok so if we are thankful, we get a good, warm fuzzy feeling inside of us, we start to feel good about ourselves and the Universe we live in and we get more good, warm fuzzy feelings, and our vibration goes up. So where do we start. Start where you feel comfortable. Sometimes we must begin with being grateful for the bed we sleep in, or the breath that is moving in and out of our bodies, or even the food we have to eat. Being thankful for the job you go to everyday that pays for the roof over your head.

There are many things in your life to be grateful for, just look around and pay attention. There is a saying “But for the Grace of God go I.” When you look around and see the homeless, the starving, say a prayer to the Universe to show your appreciation for what you do have and if possible show kindness to those less fortunate. For each act of kindness, the Universe/Source/ Creator notices and in turn more kindness, and appreciation is shown to you.

The object is to keep your energy high and to keep it there. When you are in a state of Love and Gratitude nothing else can enter your field. Anger, fear, and hatred can’t be in a person at the same time as love and gratitude. If you feel your energy dropping, then settle your energy and then tap back into the energy of gratitude.

There are a few ways to help you with shifting your energy:

1.Be grateful for whatever comes into your mind. See how long you can keep the flow going. Do a meditation for 10-15 minutes a day and quiet the mind and tap into the energy of Gratitude around you and see it in your mind’s eye and you will see it in the physical. What you put out to the Universe you will get back tenfold.
2.Create a gratitude notebook – start with being grateful for what you already have. As you write down any positive aspects or gratitude for someone or something you will raise yourself to a higher vibration and be in the position to experience and attract more.
Ex:your health…list all the ways your body works for you.
3.Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness. It consists of 4 short sentences and they pack a punch when said consistently. The four sentences are: I’m sorry; please forgive me; thank you; and I love you. These saying’s alone when said with intent will help raise your vibration and remove negative energy from your auric field.

Other than Love, Gratitude is the most powerful energy on the planet. When you are grateful for what you have your energy radiates this out to the Universe, and by the Law of Attraction, you can only receive the same kind of energy in return.

Our thoughts, words and actions determine what we manifest in our lives by sending out this vibration of our consciousness, which attracts to us the people and events who share the same vibration. Keep being thankful for these people and events and reap the benefits of a grateful mind.

As an example from my own life, my temporary assignment that I was on ended and I asked the agency to make sure they got another assignment for me for the next week. I didn’t hear back from them, so I called and the recruiter pretended this was the first that she heard my assignment was over. This created much anger in me and I ranted and trash talked the agency to no end to anyone who would listen.

Did it get me an assignment – NO, if fact just the opposite has happened – they have refused to call me for an assignment and they won’t return my calls. Yes, karma will head their direction, but the point was a lesson from Spirit to me, a test if you will, to see how far I had come in my learning and training. It took a couple of days to “see” what Spirit was teaching me and once I did I immediately sent out Love and Gratitude for the 12 ½ yrs. that I worked for them, and then cut the cords so that I could move on to bigger and better things. I did Ho’oponopono for 2 days to help me regain my balance and get back to a state of Gratitude and Love for myself.

In hind sight the Universe gave me what I had been asking for, the time to work on my books and to get some of my articles written. I send the Universe much Love and Gratitude for the lesson and the opportunity.

So before creating an issue where there might not be one, check in with yourself and see if there is something you have been asking from the Universe. The answer doesn’t always come to us in a way we might think. Spirit always takes every opportunity to help us learn our lessons, if we will just step out of our own way so that we may grow with ease and grace, love and gratitude.

So to the Universe I say thank you, I love you, I’m sorry, Please forgive me. Next time I’ll do a better job of being in a state of gratitude for the roof over my head, the money in the bank, the food I have to eat, the clothes on my back and my car. Simple things that lead to a higher vibration, appreciation for life, kindness to me, and for my friends who were there to listen and not judge. Will it happen again? Probably, hopefully not, but I am human after all. I pray that if there is a next time, the lesson will be learned much faster and it won’t take so long to raise the vibration of the body back to that of Love and Gratitude.

Remember to always Walk in Beauty.

Rev. Dr. Elena Skyhawk, Msc.D. is a metaphysical minister and doctor specializing in Transformational Healing, Workshops, and Soul Retrieval. She can be reached at elenaskyhawk@yahoo.com, or 605/858-1931, or through her website: www.spiritual-shaman.com,

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Procrastination – Is it really worth the effort

By Rev. Dr. Elena Skyhawk, Msc.D.

Let’s first look at the definition of the word procrastination, according to the dictionary it means: the action of delaying or postponing something. Ok, so that doesn’t seem like such a bad thing right?  You might want to think again.

Procrastination is a complex psychological behavior that affects everyone to some degree or another. With some it can be a minor problem; with others it is a source of considerable stress and anxiety.

Example

The procrastinator is often remarkably optimistic about their ability to complete a task on a tight deadline; this is usually accompanied by expressions of reassurance that everything is under control.  For example, they may estimate that a project will take only five days to complete; they have fifteen days; there is plenty of time; no need to start now.  Lulled by a false sense of security, time passes. At some point, they cross over any imaginary starting time and suddenly realizes, “Oh no! – I am not in control!  There isn’t enough time!”

At this point, considerable effort is directed towards completing the task, and work progresses.  This sudden spurt of energy is the source of the erroneous feeling that “I only work well under pressure.” Actually, at this point you are making progress only because you haven’t any choice.  Your back is against the wall and there are no alternatives.  Progress is being made, but you have lost your freedom.

Barely completed in time, the project may actually pass inspection; whereupon one experiences mixed feelings:  pride of accomplishment (sort-of), scorn for the boss who cannot recognize substandard work, and guilt for getting undeserved praise.  But the net result is reinforcement:  the procrastinator is rewarded positively for their poor behavior.  As a result, the counterproductive behavior is repeated over and over again.

Positive reinforcement for delay is a principle contributor to continued procrastination.

So what really makes a person procrastinate?  In order to write this article I had to find someone who was a master procrastinator.  I had to look no farther than my mirror.  I’m very good at what I do, so what I asked myself, “makes me put off until tomorrow or the next day or the next week, doing what I know I should be doing to move forward.”

In my case I’ve been working on a couple of projects: 1) my biography and 2) my healing books.  I’ve been working on them for a few years now.  Most of the information is downloaded by Spirit and other stuff I’ve learned through reading or taking classes and workshops.  I spend countless hours typing diligently on my computer, but nothing ever really seems to materialize.

I find myself playing games on the computer, reading novels, playing more games on the computer…are you getting the picture yet?  I know what has to be done, yet I keep coming up with excuses on why I can’t seem to get to it.  The cats need attention, the dishes need to be washed and put away, laundry needs to be done, I’m just too tired and the list goes on and on and on.

My guides and angels are getting pretty fed up with me, but they can’t make you do something that you are not yet ready for.

So, now it comes to really looking at why one would procrastinate, if what they are being asked to do would bring them clients, customers and students for their programs and put money in the bank and just make you feel good that you’re helping people.  So what’s a person to do – take a good hard look in the mirror and have a talk with the sub-conscious and find out what’s really going on inside.

Possibly the procrastination is coming from a fear of success, fear of being powerful – like oh boy if I do what I’m supposed to people will start to notice me and that might not be such a good thing!  I must hide at all cost.  So you give your power away, again and again and again.

You curse to the Universe, why haven’t YOU listened to me and given me what I’ve asked for… and the Universe smiles and says, “Ah my child, I have listened and given you what you asked for, I can only give back to you what you put out, so if you put nothing out to help yourself that is what I’m giving back to you.” Darn that Law of Attraction anyway.

Procrastination is a sneaky and insidious master.  You think you are in control, but you’re not.  Unless you are brave enough and strong enough to break the bonds that have been holding you back you will stay stuck and a slave to that master.  As human beings we are meant to live life to the fullest, which also means we are here to clear our energy, of past hurts and programs.  Most of these programs come from our childhood, and some come from past lives that we have lived.  Once the program has been identified then and only then can it be healed.  This is part of what I work on with students and clients.  It is easy to see where the issue lies with them, because I’m not emotionally or mentally connected to their programs.  It’s a much different story when it’s your own programs, blocks and beliefs that you are working to heal.

Spirit had been telling me for weeks (ok months) to delete the game off of my phone and I just couldn’t do it (ok didn’t really want to), until this past full moon, which was all about clarity and truth, and I’ll be darned if on Monday morning I didn’t delete that silly game off of my phone (it actually started working much better) and started to write again.  You see I finally got to my starting line and crossed over it and realized if the books are to get done then me and only me would or could be the one to write them.  It is my story to tell and no one else’s.

So sometimes it takes a boulder being dropped on our heads to wake us up, sometimes a kick in the pants, and sometimes you just get tired of things not moving forward and you start to take responsibility for things not happening in your life the way you believe they should, and you take the bull by the horns and say enough is enough and you just DO IT!!  Thank you Universe for the ever so silent nudge and the BIG whisper to get it done and quit the whining.

Rev. Dr. Elena Skyhawk, Msc.D. is a metaphysical minister and doctor specializing in Transformational Healing, Workshops, and Soul Retrieval.

She can be reached through her website: www.spiritual-shaman.com, or elenaskyhawk@yahoo.com, or 605-858-1931

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by Joan Angarano 

There is a vast amount of information throughout the Internet claiming to be the TRUTH about Reality, Life – its meaning and purpose. Understanding all of this information is daunting enough, but we also must decipher the truth within it.

The dictionary states that TRUTH: “… Can have a variety of meanings, ..from the state of being the case, being in accord with a particular fact or reality. … The term has no single definition about which philosophers and scholars agree.”

And so, during these changing times, how does one navigate through and to the truth of things? Who do we believe when truth is not black or white, but a perception formulated from a particular frame of reference?

The Mayans, an ancient civilization, and their calendar have had as many interpretations as interpreters; Jesus Christ is seen as everything from the Savior, a great prophet, to never having really existed. These are just a few of the bigger disparities on the road to TRUTH. There is just so much information to navigate through!

Having been a seeker of TRUTH for all of my Life, I would often get frustrated when I would read something that sounded true to me only to read something else that countered the first. When each of them held equal intellectual merit in my curious mind perspective, yet were very different in original platform, in their TRUTH, I would find myself sitting back in contemplation of which one was true.

It was here that I began to understand that the TRUTH is not a black/white dynamic, but an ever-changing concept based on a particular frame of reference. In order for me to understand the TRUTH of what I was reading, I would have to know the frame of reference in which it was written. College later proved that to be true to me, when in a science class, my professor’s first words on the first day were, “All studies and subsequent scientific theories come from an original bias”. Funny, it’s one of the few things I remember from college, and the only thing I recall from that class.

So how DO we navigate the massive amounts of information, each proclaiming to know and be the TRUTH?

Discernment is the answer. For the TRUTH is not a fixed or finite reality frame but instead is based on experience and a perception of that experience. Each one of us must determine what is truth for ourselves, something society and education does not teach us how to do. And yet, it is the solution to navigating through the mountains of thought and theory claiming to know and be the truth.

Discernment partners sensation with thinking, creating a more complete vehicle for gleaning the truth from the theories and philosophies and studies we are inundated with each day. It begins to connect each one of us to the truth of our beingness, that place inside where we not only know our unique truth of all things, but where we can connect to the Absolute Truth of Divine Mind – God or the Source of all things.

The hope of the World and Her people relies on each one of us moving out from under the cloak of established truth – that which someone else tells us is true – and into the power of discerning what is true for ourselves. It is the only way to change the world for ourselves and everyone else living on this planet today.

The truth keeps changing based on the many facets of Life and our perceptions of them. But, until each one of us arrives at the Absolute Truth – that we are all children from the same Source – God, each one of us lives in less than we deserve.

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