hey puppy, I see you

Adopted a puppy. Australian Shepherd/Poodle mix. Adorable. Tumbly. Love her!

The adoption experience was interesting. 15 year decision. Glad I had my son and sweetheart there.

I wasn't digging it when we got to the puppies. At all. Not vibing. Overwhelmed with all the crazy puppies. I said something about just not digging it, not being there. I can't feel it. (There was no bad vibe. Just off.)

My son said, "Mom. What if instead of investigating them you just love them. Then see."

Wow. What a difference! I was totally in my head. Analyzing. Would this be okay?!?  Are you the right match for us? Are you submissive? Are you smart? Are you healthy? Would you love our other dog and vice versa? Are you the right level of energy match (uh...translation...you are insanely energetic...can I keep up with your pace?)

I took a breath. And just noticed them. "Hi, you. I see you." Love is automatic then. No need to love, love happens. And I knew I can love and not adopt. The choice was still to be made. But I could feel the choice now. My mind was spinning in many directions and I couldn't get to my wisdom. I was taking in a lot of energy, too, not just mind thoughts...but was analyzing the energetic data rather experiencing it.

Then my wise sweetheart said, "You're taking in a lot of stimulus right now." He understood. There was a lot of energetic data. I was overwhelmed, actually, with.... the bundles of high energy craziness of all the puppies tearing around...the decision from my perspective..my boyfriend's perspective..my son's perspective...the the dog's perspective..my current dog's perspective...the dog owner...all the older dogs outside barking....the other puppy I fell in love with the day before...I was spinning energetically and analytically. For sure, getting frustrated with myself for being overwhelmed was a useless waste of energy. 'Wanting to know' was a waste of energy. It separated me from the experience itself.

These wise men in my life very lovingly, very gently, without pressure, without judgment, just made simple statements. And I dropped into my soul space, under all the energetic data and all the analytical noise. And I could feel the vibe of my own soul's wisdom. I'm so grateful for the simple and loving way they spoke to me. No pressure. Trusting me. I appreciate that they understand that it isn't that I'm not intuitive, or too sensitive, or not listening, or not caring. They knew I was taking in a lot of information. I listen really deeply. And sometimes this is quick, and sometimes it takes time. And I had gotten stuck in the interpreting it rather than simply experiencing it. They gave me the time I needed. Rebooting and reconnecting is so quick now.

And we adopted a tumbly sweetness with fur and drove home.

And she opens my heart more each moment.

Pics and video of her tumbling on facebook  .  She's hilarious!

Oh...any ideas for names?

9 reasons to adore nakedness, i mean tarot

1. Nakedness. Seriously. Naked women, naked truth, transparency. You pick the order.
2. Singing. Your inner wisdom doesn't just speak to you with cards, it SINGS to you! A raw, sweet, in your face song. Every song is different, but an endless possibility of songs, a complex range of notes. Velvety and grinding. Yum.
   
3. Makes the unseen seen. Whether it's your emotions, your thoughts, how energy is flowing, possibilities, emptiness, consciousness...you can see and experience vibrations happening in a more concrete way.
4. Helps the overly heady. Holistic patterns, rhythms. Helps bring right brain thinking, not just linear thinking. Also, drops you into your body by activating your hands touching the cards. For someone who can be overly analytical, I find it helps balance me and get me into heart-mind.
5. Symbol heaven. Objects, Colors, Directions, Planets, Signs, Animals, Numbers. Lightness, Darkness....so many gateways to get your attention and connect with meaningful insight. A thorough collection and range of consciousness to draw upon.
   
6. Storytelling. Rather than just a word or vibe, a story lays out before you. A pattern. A pathway that draws you deeper into you, deeper into truth, deeper into creation...if you listen to the whispers of the story, and the characters, and the theme...beautiful.
   
7. Answers, nice. Learning to question, priceless. Layouts teach you to ask, analyze, organize. And then when there are no cards, your ability to examine complex relationships is right there, in a layout/spread in your mind. Insights even come to a particular location in a 'frame' in my mind...on the right are possibilities, on the left are motivations. Below, what is hidden, above are actions. I don't need cards to have insights or visions show up in certain places within my mind. Organizing clarity.
   
8. Appearing friends. The cards just show up in my mind sometimes. They are friends. Honest friends, tricky friends, mischievous friends, sweet as honey friends....And just like different friends meet different needs, the cards just dance right up into my consciousness and say hello, here is what you seek....look closely at this part of me.
9. Nakedness. Seriously. Strip down and see the truth, baby...it's staring right at you.

Tools are just tools. I see naked, someone else sees whatever they see. The tool bearer is where the insight lays. Cardsl can really help people who are visual or clairvoyant. Can also help someone who is claircognizant (I just know!  This is my primary sense.) to learn to identify intuitions. I've never taught a class specifically on using cards, but this tool was instrumental in helping me trust and be accurate. Maybe someday.

Do you use or like Tarot? Or what helps you gain insight?

is this my emotion or yours?

What is mine and what is yours! I get so connected and tuned in with an intimate partner that I can mix up our emotions. Happen to you, too?

That's not a good thing.

It's better to perceive/observe the emotion. With clients and friends, no problem. But once I become intimate with someone, I keep blurring it. Blur, tangle, blur. I think I'm feeling heavy but the other person is, not me. Blurry.

The good thing is, I'm catching it quicker when it happens and can sort through it faster.

incredibly astute whose-emotion method that will shock & awe you....

"Is this mine?" Seriously. I ask myself that.
(When things are challenging, go to what is simple. Simple truths always work.)
----
YES
Yes is a more expansive, open, light, forward-moving vibe.
If yes:
I simply contemplate the emotion and originating thought and work with it.
----
NO
No is a more retracted, closed, dense, downward or backward moving vibe.
If no:
1. acknowledge. In my mind, "got it. okay. thanks, hon, this is yours."
2. let go. I express gratitude for knowing intimately the feeling then separate from it and let go of it. I want the knowledge, not the on-going experience. I usually then send love.
3. choose a response. Given knowledge of this particular emotion, and the fact that I personally feel it so intensely, I then choose what to do with it. When I feel anything really strongly, then I have an attachment to it. Sometimes I do the practice of Chod with it.
------
MIXED
If mixed: I do both. :)

Note: my son also suggests feeling the side of the body (left if it is other, right if it is mine). This also works for me.

minimizing tangling in the first place

• Space helps: I need personal space and meditative time, especially when in frequent intense emotion. Keeps me clear.
• Movement helps: walking, dancing.
• Singing helps: opens my heart and expression.
• Intention helps: I know this tangling happens to me, so my intent is to be 1) clear about what is mine and more importantly 2) notice and not absorb.

happy untangling....

why people turn to psychics in this economy

(tips for not picking up negative energy)

CBS aired a snippet on one particular business seeing a boom in this uncertain economy....psychics.

Not surprising really. People have questions about their finances, career, job. People want guidance.

But there's another factor, I believe. An actual psychic factor.

Many people who engage in psychic readings are themselves highly sensitive and in tune to psychic energy. Many individuals are highly empathic. As such, many of my clients are actually picking up on the vibe around them; energy of worry, fear, anxiousness as neighbors lose jobs and homes and media broadcasts negative news.

It isn't just thoughts my clients are having, but sensations around them they are also experiencing. So there is a mix of looking for certainty in uncertain times and dealing with uncertainty around us.

For sure there are some psychics out there that prey on fear and even breed fear. Just like there are lawyers, priests, doctors, etc that are unethical. But for sure a good psychic can definitely help, by helping you stay in your own skin, focus on your own purpose and see insightfully into your own blind spots. A good psychic can also help those of you who are highly empathic to not pick up other people's negativity. Here are a few tips I've discovered.

Tips for not picking up other people's negative/uncertain energy:

1. Get grounded. If you are really connected to the earth and your own body, you are less in your head or energy around you. Walk. Dance. Yoga. Be barefoot. Rub your hands together.


2. Shake off. If you know you are empathic or pickup on other people's emotions easily, then assume you may be carrying other people's stuff. Assume it. Make it part of your daily routine, like brushing your teeth, to shake off other people's energy. Literally, shake it off. Or stomp your feet (great one for when kids get home from school, too).


3. Shout or sing it off. If you're bottling up other people's feelings, or your own, loud vocalization is fantastic for clearing. Give a big shout. Or 5 shouts. Say "HA!" Even pound your chest. You'll feel the release. One teacher I know says to do this and shout, "everybody else outta the pool." We are constantly exchanging energy with others. When we know it, we can deal with it.


4. Send off. Put your hand on your belly and say, "If this is not mine, leave. If it is someone else's, gently go back to them. If it is no longer needed, mulch back into the earth." This may sound a bit hokey, but try it. You'll be lighter. It is all intention.


5. Check in and feed. Intentionally focus on any negativity sense you are experiencing. Then notice what you feel in your own body. Feel where it is. Notice its temperature, texture, density. Ask it what it wants and needs. Then place your hand on your heart and provide an answer outloud. You can even ask if the negativity is yours and see what happens. Either way, you can send love to the negativity to help resolve it. See Feeding Your Demons for details.


6. Stay in your own skin. Don't get overly involved in someone else's emotional problems. You can help best when you are objective, neutral. You can be compassionate and still help. Or you can compassionately choose not to help.


7. Do what you love. Doing what you love puts you in heart space. When you are in your own heart and joy it is harder to pickup negativity.


8. Be creative. As a creative being, your mind needs to be creatively engaged. If it isn't, you just get all jumbled up in your head. Even organizing the closet is creative. It keeps you in your own space, too.


9. Work with a psychic. Get guidance on your questions. Get another view of your own blind spots. As you have clarity and get other perspectives on the energy going on, you can move forward more easily and release blocked energy. Often a good psychic will help you validate and refine your perceptions. This all clears negativity, too. I also offer energy work or will sometimes do a short energy tune-up at the beginning or end of a session just to help someone feel clear, more fully themselves.

My son says it is possible to notice whether you are sensing something on the right side of the body (yours) or left side of the body (someone else's). It works.
See: a 12 year old explains how to disconnect.

I wonder how others stay clear of negativity. Always open to new ideas.

follow that glow

When I'm around certain people, and one particular person as of late, I see so much energy.

Interestingly, it isn't actually the other person glowing. It's as if I'm seeing my own energy field tune in and turn on. My hands buzz. I'm seeing all this wavy energy around myself, almost like heat off a highway.

Okay, I hear you. He turns me on or heats me up. Right on. But this only happens in certain moments, with certain people, and as sensual as I can be they are simply just not all turning me on. LOL. It's a signal to me to pay attention because there's something in me digging this or that can learn from this person. It's a pay attention signal, a 'hello' from myself, 'notice this now.' It's quite beautiful having such a physical signal.

By the way, this started back when I first learned Reiki. I love teaching energy work to others. Seeing the wonder on someone's face when they first feel the energy in their hands. Awesome. Anyway....

When I see myself glow, I follow the signal. And isn't it sweet to seriously say, "I just glow when i'm around him" ?

I've heard from others that they get physical sensations that signal them. Feel free to share yours.

you feel better now, momma, right?

After lugging heavy boxes up the stairs, I sat on the end of the couch stretching my back out a bit. My 5 year old son scootches over on the couch and puts his hands against my lower back. With all his concentration he focuses his energy on his hands. “What are you doing?” I asked.

He says matter of factly, “You feel better now, don’t you.” Amazingly, I did. My back was warm and soothed. I had no more pain there. This was before I knew of energy healing. And certainly before he could have learned about it anywhere else. I thought it was sweet he wanted to help. And wondered if maybe he’d be a doctor some day. Now I know he just naturally knew he could send energy to heal. Amazing.

move your energy a little to the left, would ya?

During Aikido practice, we were practicing a touch point at people’s necks where you can hold a person in such a way to move them away from you so you are safe. We had to stand next to a partner and keep moving the neck until we found the spot. My partner was so uncomfortable and stiff. It was a bit hard to find the spot. I could feel her energy squirming and pushing me away. Then she said aloud that she hates this stuff because it invades her space.

I pictured moving all of my energy to my side, withdrawing it completely away from her. She immediately relaxed and then I found the spot. “Yeah, I know what you mean.” That was cool. Glad it helped. Then I sent her love. There are all kinds of uses for this sixth sense day-to-day. Who knew.

the son feels his chakras, so mom will believe

Is all this energy stuff really true, I wondered. Chakras. Auras. I don’t see them. But there are pictures from thousands of years ago of it in different cultures. All these disciplines with meridians. Curious. How can you possibly know. I was telling my son, who was about 6 at the time, what I was learning. “Some say we are all made up of energy, everything is made up of this same energy and it vibrates. And in the body, it centers in certain areas called chakras, so some say. And some people can see this energy around the body and they call it an aura. And some people can even see and feel the chakras. I can’t. Maybe you can.”

He lays back on the bed and says, “Let’s see. Here’s one,” as his touches his head. Then he proceeds to scan his hand 3 inches above his body, stopping at each point where he felt a chakra. And guess what. It’s exactly what the book said.

I laughed. “Um. I guess it is real.” What a teacher he is to me. I opened up after that. Now I feel and see them, too.