As bankruptcy looms, this Indigo child, 24 yr old man, faces the collapse of all his upstanding principles. He will have to think differently henceforth, a daunting perspective. The Osho Zen Tarot deck has some stunning insights. I came accros one that seemed appropos. I quote:
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth - everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you.
This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.Osho God is Dead: Now Zen is the Only Living Truth Chapter 1
INDIGO'S REPLY
I am going through some tough times, which I really don't want to be going through. I think my family still thinks I might be a little crazy because my brother called with some fancy labels for me and why I should go see a psychologist, I think they are concerned about the whole spiritual thing. I know by the Law of Attraction I must have attracted all these wrong things that are happening to me, yet by knowing that I feel even more worse because I don't understand why I have attracted all this to me. I really went through allot of hardships the last year, I thought after getting out of the hospital everything would be getting much better. I had a goal from a young age to be a self made millionaire by age 25, well my 25th birthday is July 1st and it looks like I will be celebrating my first bankruptcy. When it comes to business I am trying to get deals done, yet they all seem to be falling apart. I feel myself slipping back into a depression and I don't want to go there again. I want things to be better, I am just tired of my current situations.
WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE!
We've all been in that place of depression. That's because we're focused on the negative causes and thoughts that accompany depression. There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Take charge of your thinking and choose to think about something happy. Negative thinking gets you more depressed... it doesn't help. Positive thinking lets your mind breathe. You wouldn't make a 5 yr old stay in the punishment of constant negative thinking... low self worth, bad me, I'm wrong, I screwed up, I need to be punished. So don't do it to yourself!
MY ANSWER
Congratulations!!!! Your first bankruptcy. Now you are a man!!!
The only thing that is certain is change.... this means your stuck place right now will get unstuck. The depression will change into something else. You have no idea YET how freeing bankruptcy is. I know. we were both raised to honor our debts, etc, etc. Well... things change. Thank god/goddess. I feel if life had gone in the direction I was headed, I'd have missed the best parts....
You are sooooo young; just beginning... and you have an early chance to start over. If you think of this as a graduation from childhood, a rite of passage, you will see it in its truer perspective. Clear away the old cobwebs including self judgment.. that's a biggie. We both know you can. YOu are intelligent. Begin to acknowledge the good things.
You got a huge kick in the ass to move in a spiritual direction. Now you and the universe have cleared the playing field. It's all yours to begin to create what you want. YOu know the drill... what you focus on you get more of. Get through and past the bankruptcy. Go home to get new bearings, or not. Just start over like you were getting out of college. You're throwing off old shoes and clothes and parts of yourself that no longer serve your higher self that just came on line ... you're like the butterfly emerging out of its cocoon... Be tender with yourself, you're still a vulnerable infant in your new self.
Congratulations on your TRUE BIRTHDAY! Celebrate the way of Spirit!
Look at it as 'you had the party' (the visions in the hospital).
Now you have to do the work. (move thru changes of self and all that is and was you).
You are Indigo. Begin!
Love, light and joy to you on your having created a breath of fresh air and a restart to your life!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Indigo in Crisis
Here is another correspondence with the Indigo Kid of earlier blogs. He's frustrated with his personal and global view.
He writes:
Why is God doing everything he or she is doing? I try to look at all the positive in the world, yet all I see is things getting worse. I mean this from a natural aspect, everything seems to be falling apart. I felt awesome and unstoppable when I got out of the hospital, yet now I feel as if I am going into a depression and everything is falling apart, on a global level and a personal level.
My reply:
You are a facet of the Creator.
As a creator, you are doing all these things in concert with all the other Creator Gods.
Let go of needing to have a particular outcome.
Let go of all the shoulds and have tos.
Surrender, don't quit. Surrender and allow.
Say YES to it all.Both dark and light reflect God.
All this is happening because you are greatly loved and stand in the center of the storm of change.
You are a child of change. YOu came in to bear witness to the greatest change this universe has ever seen: the dimensional shift of an entire planet. You are here to help in that shift. Hanging on to your old way of living will not help you in this change. You are creating freedom.
Change your focus and change your life.
You are in charge, none other.
YOu get to choose what you focus on.
Begin focusing on what you prefer, even tho all seems to be crumbling around you. Let it crumble. Allow it to fall away. Let go.
This idea goes against all you have been taught. Let go of the need to rely on old teachings.
Allow yourself to stand and BE in the midst of chaos. Just observe and allow. Let it all fall away or change or disappear and allow the new to appear. It is part of the old paradigm. You will help create the new.
All that you / God are doing is being done FOR you, not TO you.
The pain you experience is not necessary. The pain is your fear as the old forms fall away all around you.
You can be negatively affected only to the degree to let yourself feel fear.
Love is letting go of fear. Let it go. Allow it all.
Begin by loving your fear.
He writes:
Why is God doing everything he or she is doing? I try to look at all the positive in the world, yet all I see is things getting worse. I mean this from a natural aspect, everything seems to be falling apart. I felt awesome and unstoppable when I got out of the hospital, yet now I feel as if I am going into a depression and everything is falling apart, on a global level and a personal level.
My reply:
You are a facet of the Creator.
As a creator, you are doing all these things in concert with all the other Creator Gods.
Let go of needing to have a particular outcome.
Let go of all the shoulds and have tos.
Surrender, don't quit. Surrender and allow.
Say YES to it all.Both dark and light reflect God.
All this is happening because you are greatly loved and stand in the center of the storm of change.
You are a child of change. YOu came in to bear witness to the greatest change this universe has ever seen: the dimensional shift of an entire planet. You are here to help in that shift. Hanging on to your old way of living will not help you in this change. You are creating freedom.
Change your focus and change your life.
You are in charge, none other.
YOu get to choose what you focus on.
Begin focusing on what you prefer, even tho all seems to be crumbling around you. Let it crumble. Allow it to fall away. Let go.
This idea goes against all you have been taught. Let go of the need to rely on old teachings.
Allow yourself to stand and BE in the midst of chaos. Just observe and allow. Let it all fall away or change or disappear and allow the new to appear. It is part of the old paradigm. You will help create the new.
All that you / God are doing is being done FOR you, not TO you.
The pain you experience is not necessary. The pain is your fear as the old forms fall away all around you.
You can be negatively affected only to the degree to let yourself feel fear.
Love is letting go of fear. Let it go. Allow it all.
Begin by loving your fear.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Having Fun
Yesterday my friend Janis and my sister Pat and I were at the Mall. We were having such fun. Everywhere we went men wanted to join in to our laughter. Waiting for my sister who was in a dressing room, Janis and I were being silly, joking around. A guy waiting for his wife who was in the dressing room too, said "Now you two learn how to play nice with each other!" Then he said "I’ve always wanted to say that!" We were all joking. He didn't like shopping. I told him about my ex-husband who used to love to go shopping with me. He'd install me in a dressing room and bring me clothes. The store would bring him espressos. He loved it. I loved it. Thinking out loud, the man said if he learned to love shopping, maybe his wife would learn to love tying fishing flys!!!
Then sitting at the Starbucks drinking coffee, we were laughing so hard, the solitary guy next to us says "You're having WAY too much fun"... I just knew he wanted to play too.
Then the two men at the shoe store wanted to join in the fun too, and we were all making jokes about different races, etc. One was Black, one Pakistani, and one was Japanese, Asian and something more. No one was insulted. It was obvious it was all in joy. It was such fun all day.
Many times I've found that when you're having fun, others want to join in. Sometimes in restaurants they stay longer, just to listen to the laughter and hang out in the fun energy. Try it some time. You can’t lose. You just end up laughing.
Then sitting at the Starbucks drinking coffee, we were laughing so hard, the solitary guy next to us says "You're having WAY too much fun"... I just knew he wanted to play too.
Then the two men at the shoe store wanted to join in the fun too, and we were all making jokes about different races, etc. One was Black, one Pakistani, and one was Japanese, Asian and something more. No one was insulted. It was obvious it was all in joy. It was such fun all day.
Many times I've found that when you're having fun, others want to join in. Sometimes in restaurants they stay longer, just to listen to the laughter and hang out in the fun energy. Try it some time. You can’t lose. You just end up laughing.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Spontaneous Visions by Ordinary People
My fantastic massage guy is having spontaneous visions. They scare him. His wife told him to talk with me about it. This is happening more and more nowdays. Ordinary people are 'seeing' beyond the veil of this seemingly solid, 3 dimensional world. They are having experiences they can't understand.
No Background
Relatively few people have a background that allows them to understand supernatural or paranormal events. Most go into fear instantly, thinking they are nuts. They are not.
The Visions
For him, the visions open up just like a dream, but he is wide awake, perhaps walking on a beach with family or in the middle of a massage. They come over him unbidden, spontaneously. Think of it like a memory that just surfaces. When we can relate to seemingly odd or new experiences in a way that shows us it is not all that wierd, we can more easily understand them and let go of our fears.
So, just like a memory, he experiences himself standing in a doorway of a large building. It's like a one story ancient temple with no doors, just doorways, huge tall ones with rounded tops, like the old Palladian windows in architecture. There is no glass, they are just openings. The floor is level, perhaps stone, terrazo or marble. There are 6 or so tall columns holding up the ceiling and they (after many queries and discussion with him) seem to be arranged in a hexagon; which is an ancient and sacred way of construction, allowing for a flow of spiritual energy in a way that assists awareness and consciousness.
There are many people in the building, coming and going, mostly young men, around 25 yrs old. They are all dressed in light flowing robes, tho not like Roman or Greek, just simple ones that fall from a t-shirt type neck to ankle length, with 3/4 sleeves. Interestingly they were not white garments, but were beautiful yellows, ochres, beige, gold, orange.. earth tones and Fall colors. One particular fellow in a lovely yellow flowing robe begins gesturing to him and speaking in a language that my friend called jibberish... He couldn't understand it at all. Upon further query, he realized he could intuitively, internally understand what the man was saying. He wanted my friend to come with him to see something. At that point, my friend was overwhelmed and broke off the vision, returning to this now time-space.
Frequency and Control
He has had this vision several times, going back into it. He always has the same feeling or sense prior to it's happening. Knowing it is about to occur, he can choose to stop it from happening.
Altered States
Just like a dream, much is going on that can be interpreted. And yet, more is happening. First, he is awake when this occurs, so he's experiencing a spontaneous altered state. Now don't go wierd, here... altered states happen many times during the day for everyone. When you're driving and you zone out and miss your exit! When you fall asleep. When you watch TV.. they've shown you can't really stay focused for more than 60 seconds and that during that time you've shifted into some altered state. In conversations when your mind wanders and goes into what you are going to say or what you'd like to say. So altered states are quite normal.
So What's Going On Here?
Many possibilities:
1. He's experiencing a parallel life. This is a life currently lived, but one he is unaware of. Years ago my friend and I were in a meditation type session (an altered state) and experience having a conversation with a woman in South America. That woman told us she was asleep in her hut dreaming she was having a conversation with two women in the US. Now that was trippy!!!!
2. He's folding time and space and experiencing a past/future life.
3. He's peering through to another dimension and experiencing it. We currently exist in at least 11 other dimensions tho our consicousness as humans usually limits our focus to this one dimension called Earth and Third Dimension. Didn't you ever wonder why it's called Third Dimension? Yes, cuz of height, width and length: 3 dimensions. But what about time as a 4th dimension, and many others we do not yet see, just like we don't see xray light or most of the light spectrum, there are many other dimensions we don't see either.
4. A master teacher/guide has managed to connect with him.
This all means that his vibrations have changed in those moments and he has shifted in some way. Now this is not scary. We are always in a state of changing... Heck, we lose billions of cells every day and we don't freak out about that. Change is our only certainty, for nothing remains the same. Today life is speeded up anyway. You've felt it.. everything seems to be happening faster. It is. EArth's vibration itself has speeded up. I know this sounds strange, but it is proven thru physics.
Summary
Enough blah blah for now... I just want you to know there are regular people out there experiencing more of what this universe has to offer. If you're having what you think are 'wierd' experiences, there are people out here that can give you a perspective. Just ask.
PS. There are people that are psychotic, mentally ill, or any other number of things, but for the most part, much of those illnesses were caused by unexplained experiences, abuse or physical illness. Having said that, please realize, many, many of you out there are going to be having these odd experiences and it DOESN'T mean you're crazy. Just get a spiritual explanation and direction first.
No Background
Relatively few people have a background that allows them to understand supernatural or paranormal events. Most go into fear instantly, thinking they are nuts. They are not.
The Visions
For him, the visions open up just like a dream, but he is wide awake, perhaps walking on a beach with family or in the middle of a massage. They come over him unbidden, spontaneously. Think of it like a memory that just surfaces. When we can relate to seemingly odd or new experiences in a way that shows us it is not all that wierd, we can more easily understand them and let go of our fears.
So, just like a memory, he experiences himself standing in a doorway of a large building. It's like a one story ancient temple with no doors, just doorways, huge tall ones with rounded tops, like the old Palladian windows in architecture. There is no glass, they are just openings. The floor is level, perhaps stone, terrazo or marble. There are 6 or so tall columns holding up the ceiling and they (after many queries and discussion with him) seem to be arranged in a hexagon; which is an ancient and sacred way of construction, allowing for a flow of spiritual energy in a way that assists awareness and consciousness.
There are many people in the building, coming and going, mostly young men, around 25 yrs old. They are all dressed in light flowing robes, tho not like Roman or Greek, just simple ones that fall from a t-shirt type neck to ankle length, with 3/4 sleeves. Interestingly they were not white garments, but were beautiful yellows, ochres, beige, gold, orange.. earth tones and Fall colors. One particular fellow in a lovely yellow flowing robe begins gesturing to him and speaking in a language that my friend called jibberish... He couldn't understand it at all. Upon further query, he realized he could intuitively, internally understand what the man was saying. He wanted my friend to come with him to see something. At that point, my friend was overwhelmed and broke off the vision, returning to this now time-space.
Frequency and Control
He has had this vision several times, going back into it. He always has the same feeling or sense prior to it's happening. Knowing it is about to occur, he can choose to stop it from happening.
Altered States
Just like a dream, much is going on that can be interpreted. And yet, more is happening. First, he is awake when this occurs, so he's experiencing a spontaneous altered state. Now don't go wierd, here... altered states happen many times during the day for everyone. When you're driving and you zone out and miss your exit! When you fall asleep. When you watch TV.. they've shown you can't really stay focused for more than 60 seconds and that during that time you've shifted into some altered state. In conversations when your mind wanders and goes into what you are going to say or what you'd like to say. So altered states are quite normal.
So What's Going On Here?
Many possibilities:
1. He's experiencing a parallel life. This is a life currently lived, but one he is unaware of. Years ago my friend and I were in a meditation type session (an altered state) and experience having a conversation with a woman in South America. That woman told us she was asleep in her hut dreaming she was having a conversation with two women in the US. Now that was trippy!!!!
2. He's folding time and space and experiencing a past/future life.
3. He's peering through to another dimension and experiencing it. We currently exist in at least 11 other dimensions tho our consicousness as humans usually limits our focus to this one dimension called Earth and Third Dimension. Didn't you ever wonder why it's called Third Dimension? Yes, cuz of height, width and length: 3 dimensions. But what about time as a 4th dimension, and many others we do not yet see, just like we don't see xray light or most of the light spectrum, there are many other dimensions we don't see either.
4. A master teacher/guide has managed to connect with him.
This all means that his vibrations have changed in those moments and he has shifted in some way. Now this is not scary. We are always in a state of changing... Heck, we lose billions of cells every day and we don't freak out about that. Change is our only certainty, for nothing remains the same. Today life is speeded up anyway. You've felt it.. everything seems to be happening faster. It is. EArth's vibration itself has speeded up. I know this sounds strange, but it is proven thru physics.
Summary
Enough blah blah for now... I just want you to know there are regular people out there experiencing more of what this universe has to offer. If you're having what you think are 'wierd' experiences, there are people out here that can give you a perspective. Just ask.
PS. There are people that are psychotic, mentally ill, or any other number of things, but for the most part, much of those illnesses were caused by unexplained experiences, abuse or physical illness. Having said that, please realize, many, many of you out there are going to be having these odd experiences and it DOESN'T mean you're crazy. Just get a spiritual explanation and direction first.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Disaster
Why is it easier to believe that a disaster will happen than not? My Indigo friend is struggling with an ancient question: Do you let your scientific mind (the left brained, thinking side) focus on how to survive in a potential, coming disaster? Or do you let your right brain (the feeling, allowing side) just go with the flow?
Your Focus Counts
We all know that what you focus on you will get more of. So if you focus on disaster and survival you will bring situations to you that require survival mode and will reflect disasters so you will validate your need for survival skills. Being an Indigo, his thoughts and consciousness are more attuned to the state of the universe. Indidgos came to this Earth to think bigger, to show us by example that the universe our thoughts affect is much bigger than our little personal worlds of job, home and family. Indigos remind me of a powerful scent that pervades a large area... like oranges for example. Walk into a lunchroom and you can smell the one orange that was just peeled. You don't smell the ham sandwich or the chocolate chip cookie. By their very nature, in this same way, Indigos affect more people.
The Answer to the Question
Fear is why it is easier to focus on negatives. Stop focusing on fear. Fear is a powerfull ally of those who want control: government and media are the biggest; but corporations, some friends maybe, those we are in relationship with and even ourselves. Fear is so easy to engender in someone. Start talking about disasters and voila! Fear appears instantly. Almost every ad on TV is fear based about getting sick with all the drug ads and about not being loved or included if you don't wear this perfume or brand of clothes.
The Challenge
The challenge is to remain calm in the middle of any storm, physical or mental. My Indigo friend asked "So what am I supposed to do, just hide my head in the sand like an ostrich?" Of course not. He loves to take things to extremes, an unfortunate mind game that makes him skip over the numerous potential solutions in between. I call it the Middle Path. He talks about moving somewhere 'safer' and having enough food stored, weapons for defense, etc. So I said "What if you do all that and while driving to your grocery store you are in a car accident and taken to hospital. THEN the feared 'disaster' happens and you are nowhere near your food or 'safety'. Besides, if you have a stash, it is simply a magnet for others to covet and attack. So now you are in the defense business.
What is the Worst that Can Happen?
You can die. Ok, next? We're all going to die. Big deal. Get over it. We've done it in many lifetimes already. Did you really think this was your first time here?
We are not our bodies. We are much, much more. We only put on this body for a short time, perhaps 100 yrs plus or minus. Our spiritual self that operates on multi-dimensions is totally aware of the investment of consciousness into this limited physical vessel called a body. When we die, the real self continues and does so with its full consciousness back in tact. There are way too many after death books nowdays to deny this. Ok, you can deny anything you want.
What is the Best that Can Happen?
You shift your consciousness and resonate with the highest frequency within you. You ascend within, as an internal process. You transcend your fears and feelings of limitation into a union with all consciousness on this palnet and in the galaxy and in the and all other universes. At-Onement and unconditional love. Heightened awareness. This is the crystal consciousness, the Christ-All consciousness. Personally I choose this option.
The Effect We Can Have
My Indigo friend keeps talking about the bad economy, an earthquake here, a bank failure there and every other thing to keep his very talented mind on the focus of 'need to prepare for disaster'. I suggest that if this is where your consciousness is, that you might want to change it. You can do nothing about the envisioned disaster. You have no control over a potential earth shift or any other grand scale disaster EXCEPT to not give it potential life by focusing on it! Your job is to choose what you prefer to have in your life and to focus on that!
So What can You Do?
You say "Yes" to it all. Yes to everything the universe and this planet and any level of awareness offers you. It is all creation. It is all illusion. It is all impermanent. It is all a part of God. It exists. So do you. Say yes to you, to your consciousness, to your choices, to your focus in each NOW moment. That is the real key. Only in the Now is there any power at all. The future doesn't exist, but your thoughts NOW help to create how YOUR future looks. Therein is the real power and in that there is nothing to fear. You are in total control. What you decide to focus on, to hold in your thoughts, will be the basis for your next now, your tomorrow and your future. So, monitor your thoughts and choose to actively, consciously focus on joy, love, health, abundance and the fullness of life. Let the rest go. This is enough on your plate to work with. It is the basis of the real 'future'. Each now is very powerful. Use it.
Your Focus Counts
We all know that what you focus on you will get more of. So if you focus on disaster and survival you will bring situations to you that require survival mode and will reflect disasters so you will validate your need for survival skills. Being an Indigo, his thoughts and consciousness are more attuned to the state of the universe. Indidgos came to this Earth to think bigger, to show us by example that the universe our thoughts affect is much bigger than our little personal worlds of job, home and family. Indigos remind me of a powerful scent that pervades a large area... like oranges for example. Walk into a lunchroom and you can smell the one orange that was just peeled. You don't smell the ham sandwich or the chocolate chip cookie. By their very nature, in this same way, Indigos affect more people.
The Answer to the Question
Fear is why it is easier to focus on negatives. Stop focusing on fear. Fear is a powerfull ally of those who want control: government and media are the biggest; but corporations, some friends maybe, those we are in relationship with and even ourselves. Fear is so easy to engender in someone. Start talking about disasters and voila! Fear appears instantly. Almost every ad on TV is fear based about getting sick with all the drug ads and about not being loved or included if you don't wear this perfume or brand of clothes.
The Challenge
The challenge is to remain calm in the middle of any storm, physical or mental. My Indigo friend asked "So what am I supposed to do, just hide my head in the sand like an ostrich?" Of course not. He loves to take things to extremes, an unfortunate mind game that makes him skip over the numerous potential solutions in between. I call it the Middle Path. He talks about moving somewhere 'safer' and having enough food stored, weapons for defense, etc. So I said "What if you do all that and while driving to your grocery store you are in a car accident and taken to hospital. THEN the feared 'disaster' happens and you are nowhere near your food or 'safety'. Besides, if you have a stash, it is simply a magnet for others to covet and attack. So now you are in the defense business.
What is the Worst that Can Happen?
You can die. Ok, next? We're all going to die. Big deal. Get over it. We've done it in many lifetimes already. Did you really think this was your first time here?
We are not our bodies. We are much, much more. We only put on this body for a short time, perhaps 100 yrs plus or minus. Our spiritual self that operates on multi-dimensions is totally aware of the investment of consciousness into this limited physical vessel called a body. When we die, the real self continues and does so with its full consciousness back in tact. There are way too many after death books nowdays to deny this. Ok, you can deny anything you want.
What is the Best that Can Happen?
You shift your consciousness and resonate with the highest frequency within you. You ascend within, as an internal process. You transcend your fears and feelings of limitation into a union with all consciousness on this palnet and in the galaxy and in the and all other universes. At-Onement and unconditional love. Heightened awareness. This is the crystal consciousness, the Christ-All consciousness. Personally I choose this option.
The Effect We Can Have
My Indigo friend keeps talking about the bad economy, an earthquake here, a bank failure there and every other thing to keep his very talented mind on the focus of 'need to prepare for disaster'. I suggest that if this is where your consciousness is, that you might want to change it. You can do nothing about the envisioned disaster. You have no control over a potential earth shift or any other grand scale disaster EXCEPT to not give it potential life by focusing on it! Your job is to choose what you prefer to have in your life and to focus on that!
So What can You Do?
You say "Yes" to it all. Yes to everything the universe and this planet and any level of awareness offers you. It is all creation. It is all illusion. It is all impermanent. It is all a part of God. It exists. So do you. Say yes to you, to your consciousness, to your choices, to your focus in each NOW moment. That is the real key. Only in the Now is there any power at all. The future doesn't exist, but your thoughts NOW help to create how YOUR future looks. Therein is the real power and in that there is nothing to fear. You are in total control. What you decide to focus on, to hold in your thoughts, will be the basis for your next now, your tomorrow and your future. So, monitor your thoughts and choose to actively, consciously focus on joy, love, health, abundance and the fullness of life. Let the rest go. This is enough on your plate to work with. It is the basis of the real 'future'. Each now is very powerful. Use it.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Instant Relief from Coughing... no meds!
My amazing sister, Patricia, is a Master in Jin Shin Jyutsu, a healing technique. It is defined by Wikipedia:
Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese technique for energy healing, using deep breathing and the placement of one's hands on specific areas of the body, called Safety Energy Locks (or SELs). It was rediscovered in Japan in the early 1900's by Master Jiro Murai. He taught the techniques to Mary Burmeister in the late 1940s, who brought it to the US.
Patricia knows all these easy hand placements for immediate healing. She was taught by Mary Burmeister. She's taught me a few of them which I use, but I always call her to get new ones. She can easily tell me by phone.
Like Magic
Recently I returned from Canada with a sinus thingy and a cough. Couldn't stop coughing. She did the Lung flow to clear my lungs; but I was still I was wracked with coughing. Then she did the sinus flow and within 2 seconds, no joke, 2 seconds, the 5 hour coughing bout stopped! Relief for my totally raw throat.
Since then, several people have told me they have gotten this ridiculous cough thingy (technical term!). So here's the easy method to stop. You can do this on yourself, your kids and anyone else. The cool thing is it's totally safe and there's no side effects like from meds.
Other Uses
Pat says it's also used for relief of:
Sinus congestion.
Coughing
Diabetes (also just hold your thumb. I know, weird, but it works)
Excessive Talking
Stomach problems
Allergies
Lips (dry cracked lips are a sign of stomach /sinus flow need)
bi polar disorders
and a bunch more things.
The Method
Touch fingers of Right hand to just below the left cheek bone. At same time, put fingers of Left hand just under the same side collarbone. Hold for one to twenty minutes, whatever is comfortable.
Then reverse and touch fingers of Left hand to just below the right cheek bone, and Right hand fingers to just below the right collarbone.
No pressure, just contact, completing a circuit. Sometimes you can feel the pulses.. when both are the same, voila! Open circuit, no longer stuck.
If you need to know more or want a session. Patricia is in Edmonds, WA, just north of Seattle. You can contact her at 360 259-5367 or email at gigglekwik1@comcast.net.
Best wishes to move through sinus, allergy and coughing and alot more, much, much more easily. It's like magic! And it's free when you do it for yourself!
Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese technique for energy healing, using deep breathing and the placement of one's hands on specific areas of the body, called Safety Energy Locks (or SELs). It was rediscovered in Japan in the early 1900's by Master Jiro Murai. He taught the techniques to Mary Burmeister in the late 1940s, who brought it to the US.
Patricia knows all these easy hand placements for immediate healing. She was taught by Mary Burmeister. She's taught me a few of them which I use, but I always call her to get new ones. She can easily tell me by phone.
Like Magic
Recently I returned from Canada with a sinus thingy and a cough. Couldn't stop coughing. She did the Lung flow to clear my lungs; but I was still I was wracked with coughing. Then she did the sinus flow and within 2 seconds, no joke, 2 seconds, the 5 hour coughing bout stopped! Relief for my totally raw throat.
Since then, several people have told me they have gotten this ridiculous cough thingy (technical term!). So here's the easy method to stop. You can do this on yourself, your kids and anyone else. The cool thing is it's totally safe and there's no side effects like from meds.
Other Uses
Pat says it's also used for relief of:
Sinus congestion.
Coughing
Diabetes (also just hold your thumb. I know, weird, but it works)
Excessive Talking
Stomach problems
Allergies
Lips (dry cracked lips are a sign of stomach /sinus flow need)
bi polar disorders
and a bunch more things.
The Method
Touch fingers of Right hand to just below the left cheek bone. At same time, put fingers of Left hand just under the same side collarbone. Hold for one to twenty minutes, whatever is comfortable.
Then reverse and touch fingers of Left hand to just below the right cheek bone, and Right hand fingers to just below the right collarbone.
No pressure, just contact, completing a circuit. Sometimes you can feel the pulses.. when both are the same, voila! Open circuit, no longer stuck.
If you need to know more or want a session. Patricia is in Edmonds, WA, just north of Seattle. You can contact her at 360 259-5367 or email at gigglekwik1@comcast.net.
Best wishes to move through sinus, allergy and coughing and alot more, much, much more easily. It's like magic! And it's free when you do it for yourself!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
I'm off to BE the Wizard!
I can't believe ... no, change that ... I CAN believe how fabulous my 'job' is. I love what I do. I can't really even call it a job. When I do psychic fairs I always think "I'm off to BE the wizard!" I don't take myself too seriously, as you can see. People come to me for psychic and spiritual readings. These are really consultations applying spiritual and personal growth teachings. Most I have learned from fabulous teachers and from reading hundreds of books. Other information comes to me through meditations or as a download of information in a whole package. It's as tho I tie into an extraordinary pool of knowledge and literally download an entire teaching in order to deliver it in that single moment to that one person in front of me that has triggered its access. I always tell people I am triggered by questions. I have a contract with the Universe to be able to access answers for questions I am asked. Sometimes it just blows me away.
But even with all that, the most incredible thing that happens in a reading is that I get to see the Divinity within the person sitting before me. It blows me away. It doesn't always happen, but it happened a lot on my recent trip to Canada. I believe it is a function of combined raised vibrations, mine and the client's, as well as the general uplifting of Planet Earth's vibrations. You must have felt it too. It seems like everywhere there are people talking about God, or creating their own reality or choosing and taking responsibility. I look at newstands and TV shows and there are so many now about talking to the dead, or living hundreds of years, or psychics.
A lot of Light
Several times during the weekend someone would come and ask an ordinary question, and I could see a light coming from within them, a huge light. I didn't see it with my external eyes, but with internal vision... I just knew. The light would become brighter as I focused on it and here I was speaking to this stranger witnessing their Divinity with this all encompassing light. Then tears begin to fall down my cheeks and I cannot talk without my voice breaking up. It is such an openness, so loving that it surpasses all words. These people are a gift to our planet. There are many of them here. Maybe you are one of them. Maybe you don't know yet.
Wierdness in a Restaurant
Recently while sitting in a restaurant with a friend, I swear I could 'see' a huge Golden angel standing nearby. My friend said she noticed something, like a shimmer, too. We agreed that it was 15 feet tall. Can it be that the proverbial veil is thinning so we can see light and consciousness in a new way? I think so. We only see one percent of the entire light spectrum, so according to the rest of the universe, we are blind. I think we are beginning to allow our eyes to be opened. Be prepared to be amazed. Love and Light have arrived right on time.
What a wonderful playground Earth is.
But even with all that, the most incredible thing that happens in a reading is that I get to see the Divinity within the person sitting before me. It blows me away. It doesn't always happen, but it happened a lot on my recent trip to Canada. I believe it is a function of combined raised vibrations, mine and the client's, as well as the general uplifting of Planet Earth's vibrations. You must have felt it too. It seems like everywhere there are people talking about God, or creating their own reality or choosing and taking responsibility. I look at newstands and TV shows and there are so many now about talking to the dead, or living hundreds of years, or psychics.
A lot of Light
Several times during the weekend someone would come and ask an ordinary question, and I could see a light coming from within them, a huge light. I didn't see it with my external eyes, but with internal vision... I just knew. The light would become brighter as I focused on it and here I was speaking to this stranger witnessing their Divinity with this all encompassing light. Then tears begin to fall down my cheeks and I cannot talk without my voice breaking up. It is such an openness, so loving that it surpasses all words. These people are a gift to our planet. There are many of them here. Maybe you are one of them. Maybe you don't know yet.
Wierdness in a Restaurant
Recently while sitting in a restaurant with a friend, I swear I could 'see' a huge Golden angel standing nearby. My friend said she noticed something, like a shimmer, too. We agreed that it was 15 feet tall. Can it be that the proverbial veil is thinning so we can see light and consciousness in a new way? I think so. We only see one percent of the entire light spectrum, so according to the rest of the universe, we are blind. I think we are beginning to allow our eyes to be opened. Be prepared to be amazed. Love and Light have arrived right on time.
What a wonderful playground Earth is.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Sultan's Tent Experience
My favorite restaurant is in Calgary. It's a fabulous Morroccan restaurant that like the phoenix, rose again from the ashes of a fire. They have relocated and it's as fabulous as ever. I've tried for 4 years to get back there. First it was totally booked due to the Calgary Stampede extravaganza, then it burned and was closed.
Tonite I had the most fabulous experience. Let me explain eating Morroccan. You eat with your hands. That's right, no utensils. They bring an ornate metal basin to your table and a matching water pitcher filled with lukewarm orange scented water. They pour the water over your hands and you wash them before eating; wiping them on the lovely big towel/napkin they provide each of you. The scent is delightful, not overpowering. You only eat the food with your right hand. This is traditional in most Eastern cultures.
They do provide a bread to pick up the bits of food by using your thumb to push the food into the bread and pinching it together and pop it into your mouth. Oh YUM.
The salad is actually four salads on one plate: beets, an incredible potato salad, a chopped tomato with herbs and a bean salad. They all were lightly oiled and spiced.
The soup was next... a delicious, full flavored tomato based vegetable soup with lentils, saffron and chickpeas and cardamom and cloves. It smelled as good as it tasted.
The next course was the most fabulous. It was an appetizer for two, b'stilla, a 'chicken pie'... a good name for it, but not your mother's pie. First the 'crust' is filo dough, that light flakey pastry dough. The pie was stuffed with crushed almonds, walnuts, pistaschios and many sweet spices, chicken from a roasted cornish game hen and it was about 6 inches around and cut into diamond shapes. Hot from the oven you didn't know whether or not to eat it or just smell the aroma for an hour or two.
The main course of tender, succulant lamb with sweet spices, cloves and saffron and plump apricots and prunes cooked into a delicious, tantalizing sauce with the consistency of honey.
During all this hedonistic extravagaza, I drank the lovely mint tea with just a hint of honey, poured into a glass cup with no handle. The pouring is dramatic, with the server raising the teapot four feet above the glass, showing her expertise in the art of tea.
Desert was similar to baklava, the mid-Eastern dessert, but not nearly as sweet, so it was lighter and drier... a lovely finish of crushed nuts, filo dough and orange essence.
My high esteem and my unmatchable memories of my many previous experiences at this amazing restaurant were totally exceeded again!
My hostess went there for her very first experience the day it reopened and loved it. You will too.
If you're ever in Calgary, Canada, give The Sultan's Tent a try.
You won't be disappointed!
I love Calgary!!!
Tonite I had the most fabulous experience. Let me explain eating Morroccan. You eat with your hands. That's right, no utensils. They bring an ornate metal basin to your table and a matching water pitcher filled with lukewarm orange scented water. They pour the water over your hands and you wash them before eating; wiping them on the lovely big towel/napkin they provide each of you. The scent is delightful, not overpowering. You only eat the food with your right hand. This is traditional in most Eastern cultures.
They do provide a bread to pick up the bits of food by using your thumb to push the food into the bread and pinching it together and pop it into your mouth. Oh YUM.
The salad is actually four salads on one plate: beets, an incredible potato salad, a chopped tomato with herbs and a bean salad. They all were lightly oiled and spiced.
The soup was next... a delicious, full flavored tomato based vegetable soup with lentils, saffron and chickpeas and cardamom and cloves. It smelled as good as it tasted.
The next course was the most fabulous. It was an appetizer for two, b'stilla, a 'chicken pie'... a good name for it, but not your mother's pie. First the 'crust' is filo dough, that light flakey pastry dough. The pie was stuffed with crushed almonds, walnuts, pistaschios and many sweet spices, chicken from a roasted cornish game hen and it was about 6 inches around and cut into diamond shapes. Hot from the oven you didn't know whether or not to eat it or just smell the aroma for an hour or two.
The main course of tender, succulant lamb with sweet spices, cloves and saffron and plump apricots and prunes cooked into a delicious, tantalizing sauce with the consistency of honey.
During all this hedonistic extravagaza, I drank the lovely mint tea with just a hint of honey, poured into a glass cup with no handle. The pouring is dramatic, with the server raising the teapot four feet above the glass, showing her expertise in the art of tea.
Desert was similar to baklava, the mid-Eastern dessert, but not nearly as sweet, so it was lighter and drier... a lovely finish of crushed nuts, filo dough and orange essence.
My high esteem and my unmatchable memories of my many previous experiences at this amazing restaurant were totally exceeded again!
My hostess went there for her very first experience the day it reopened and loved it. You will too.
If you're ever in Calgary, Canada, give The Sultan's Tent a try.
You won't be disappointed!
I love Calgary!!!
So What's Up With Chaos?
In March I did readings at two psychic fairs in the Seattle area, one in Kent and one at the Seattle Center. The odd thing about the Seattle Center one was that the Tarot Card reflecting the dramatic changes and shifts of Chaos, known as the Tower card, showed up in almost everyone's readings. Now when themes and streams of connections happen at Expos and events and in groups of readings, I know to pay attention. The Tower card means cataclysmic change that shakes one's belief systems and the foundations that one has built one's life upon. It can mean a physical health problem, tho in this case that didn't seem reasonable since most had the card show up. It can mean earth related disaster, earthquake, fire, flood, etc. My sense is that it MAY only PARTLY mean this. I do sense that we are talking earthquake here, tho with minimal property damage and little or no loss of life.
My real sense is that it means a HUGE shift in consciousness triggered by a spiritual event that cannot be ignored. So what would that look like? I'm sure some of you out there have had strange events or coincidences or inexplicable happenings occur. The movie, The Secret, shifted a lot of people's thinking to align with the idea that we can create our reality. Now, Oprah is interviewing Eckhart Tolle live on her internet broadcast and over 30 million have downloaded the interviews!!!! Now there's a shift in consciousness that's cataclysmic!!!!!
Long ago Nostradamus predicted disasters UNLESS WE SHIFTED OUR CONSCIOUSNESS and learned to create out of love, not fear. This is the time. We are shifting. I feel we are on the verge of awakening to an awareness in which we are all connected as we begin to love ourselves and then cannot help but love our neighbors. This is the beginning of Peace. Awakened consciousness that focuses on love will tear down the old systems of hate and control and war.... the huge 'earthquake'that shifts may just be in our heads and it's a marvelous wake up call!!! Each person will create very individual realities that reflect their state of mind: fear or love. We are truly moving into a time of being able to communicate by telepathy, to communicate with interplanetary wisdom and to be able to see in new ways. Remember we only see 1% of the spectrum of light, so the rest of the universe sees us as blind! What wondrous things await our growth into than next awareness!
Welcome to the world of Peace! Let the chaos of transformational change bring about new thinking that embraces wholeness and Love. Let's hear it for this kind of Chaos!
My real sense is that it means a HUGE shift in consciousness triggered by a spiritual event that cannot be ignored. So what would that look like? I'm sure some of you out there have had strange events or coincidences or inexplicable happenings occur. The movie, The Secret, shifted a lot of people's thinking to align with the idea that we can create our reality. Now, Oprah is interviewing Eckhart Tolle live on her internet broadcast and over 30 million have downloaded the interviews!!!! Now there's a shift in consciousness that's cataclysmic!!!!!
Long ago Nostradamus predicted disasters UNLESS WE SHIFTED OUR CONSCIOUSNESS and learned to create out of love, not fear. This is the time. We are shifting. I feel we are on the verge of awakening to an awareness in which we are all connected as we begin to love ourselves and then cannot help but love our neighbors. This is the beginning of Peace. Awakened consciousness that focuses on love will tear down the old systems of hate and control and war.... the huge 'earthquake'that shifts may just be in our heads and it's a marvelous wake up call!!! Each person will create very individual realities that reflect their state of mind: fear or love. We are truly moving into a time of being able to communicate by telepathy, to communicate with interplanetary wisdom and to be able to see in new ways. Remember we only see 1% of the spectrum of light, so the rest of the universe sees us as blind! What wondrous things await our growth into than next awareness!
Welcome to the world of Peace! Let the chaos of transformational change bring about new thinking that embraces wholeness and Love. Let's hear it for this kind of Chaos!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Gun and the Indigo Boy
Ok, so the 24 yr old Indigo Child I spoke of loves hunting… or should I say, used to love hunting. He had the urge to hunt recently on a vacation, back at his old stomping grounds. He walked into a gun store and picked up a weapon. He loved, and I mean loved, the feel of it. It was a Zen moment as he calls it. The feeling was so amazing that he no longer wanted to kill anything, but chose to shoot target practice in order to interact with the weapon.
Here’s the cool part. Such love for a weapon of destruction transmutes it. Many people get that supercharged testosterone “gotta kill something” feeling when hefting a weapon. This is an out of balance feeling or energy. It’s just one side of it.
This boy loved the weapon wholly. He loved the feel, the beauty, the knowing, the testosterone, the old paradigms of what it used to mean and all the possibilities it could be and thus loved it into wholeness and balance. He no longer wanted to kill. The energy of the consciousness surrounding killing instruments became changed.
Love changes everything. Love is powerful stuff. So this young, focused, powerful spiritual being shifts the concepts around the act of killing an enormous distance toward the laying down of weapons. By allowing all the thoughts and feelings to be present, it all changed forever for him and such love/ power has a direct effect on the entire consciousness surrounding lethal weapons of any kind.
You gotta love these new kids. They came here to bring more light and to create balance. This was pretty awesome!
Here’s the cool part. Such love for a weapon of destruction transmutes it. Many people get that supercharged testosterone “gotta kill something” feeling when hefting a weapon. This is an out of balance feeling or energy. It’s just one side of it.
This boy loved the weapon wholly. He loved the feel, the beauty, the knowing, the testosterone, the old paradigms of what it used to mean and all the possibilities it could be and thus loved it into wholeness and balance. He no longer wanted to kill. The energy of the consciousness surrounding killing instruments became changed.
Love changes everything. Love is powerful stuff. So this young, focused, powerful spiritual being shifts the concepts around the act of killing an enormous distance toward the laying down of weapons. By allowing all the thoughts and feelings to be present, it all changed forever for him and such love/ power has a direct effect on the entire consciousness surrounding lethal weapons of any kind.
You gotta love these new kids. They came here to bring more light and to create balance. This was pretty awesome!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Indigo Kids, the New Consciousness
In San Diego I met an Indigo kid who just woke up to the fact that he is an amazing spiritual being. He contracted the flu virus, became seriously ill and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Many tests later, doctors couldn’t find any reason for his body’s discoloration and his breathing problems, etc. However in the course of the hospitalization, he had three amazing out of body experiences/ dreams/ visitations… call them what you want. They were so transformational for him, he had to find out what was happening. Angels visited him and ancient Aztec gods and wonderful guides and teachers. The showed him things metaphorically, like in a dream, but much more vivid, lucid. He was forever changed by the experience.
He was compelled to learn what it all meant. So he came to our psychic expo in San Diego and we met. We spent a whole day together. I know it was like getting food for him, because I remember when I met my first teacher, it felt like I could finally get fed and devoured the information at an amazing rate. He, too, is supercharged in his passion for devouring information. He wants it all, now. However, we do have to crawl before walking!
The main focus
The main teaching is choose Love and you’ll let go of Fear. All is One; All is Now. We are all connected. There is really nothing outside of us. Time is an illusion. Everything is really happening, happened and will happen NOW. There are so many books on these topics: ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle, Mayan and Hopi Prophecy books; all the books by Dolores Cannon, who’s recorded 40 years of regression/ progression/ subconscious/ and higher consciousness interaction and information brought through in hypnosis. Email me I’ll tell you a gazillion more!
Ok, so what’s Indigo?
These ‘kids’, now in their twenties, are genetically and spiritually the new strain of humans. Eons from now, scientists will be wondering what was the missing link that happened in the beginning of the 21st century. Well these kids are it. And right behind them are Rainbow and Crystal kids. These are age newborn up to about 12, give or take.
Genetically their DNA is different. There are more switches turned on for these kids. These switches affect intelligence, ESP and the sixth sense, immunity and disease free living and aging. These kids are amazing! They were the first wave of new consciousness.
So what is this new consciousness?
Everything is vibration. Ultimately everything is a form of light. Think of the light spectrum, most of it we cannot see. We do not have the eye receptors or advanced sensors in the body to see those forms of light without assistance. Think ultraviolet or x-ray light. We can’t see them without special equipment. Well there’s an enormous amount of other band widths of light we can’t see either. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. But when a person begins to be able to interact or use these other band widths of light, they being to develop the new abilities that go with them.
Light
These abilities are associated with their holding more light in their bodies and thus vibrating at a different rate than the rest of us. In that higher vibration, they can help heal others, sense others and know information that is easy for them but not for most of us. They are not to be feared because of these unique abilities. They are however in great need of understanding. They don’t fit in. Many are diagnosed ADD, etc. Here’s a good link for you to check out Indigos. There are now many books, links etc.
http://www.indigochild.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children .
Books
Lee Carroll and Jan Tobler first wrote about Indigos. A lady who could see auras began seeing indigo colored auras for the first time ever in young children. More and more she saw it and then began realizing their abilities were unusual. Others have now written about them.
In China
They were written about in China in a book called Psychic Children. It’s not well written, but gets the point across.
Back to the young man in San Diego
He’s learning at a rapid rate, integrating knowledge. It’s a matter of focus and monitoring one’s thoughts. Because we are fast approaching the time of Think-Manifest. In other words, our thoughts will be created right in front of us, immediately, based on our focus and intention. We must be in a place of love not fear so those thoughts will be created lovingly. Hate your body and you will create illness. Love your body and you will create health. Fight with your neighbor and you will add to the energy of war on this planet. Allow, love, and recognize your own resistances and fears by looking at your neighbor’s and you will add to the sum of Love on this planet. We get to choose.
We are very powerful and he is just beginning to see it. Little things manifest all around him, parking spaces, lights turning green (or red if you’re angry and out of sync with your best vibrations) and happier people around him as he lets go of fear. It is an amazing time to be alive. I can't wait to see how he develops his abilities, focuses and applies them to his personal and business life. He and those like him will change this world for the better. We have been waiting for them for a very long time.
He was compelled to learn what it all meant. So he came to our psychic expo in San Diego and we met. We spent a whole day together. I know it was like getting food for him, because I remember when I met my first teacher, it felt like I could finally get fed and devoured the information at an amazing rate. He, too, is supercharged in his passion for devouring information. He wants it all, now. However, we do have to crawl before walking!
The main focus
The main teaching is choose Love and you’ll let go of Fear. All is One; All is Now. We are all connected. There is really nothing outside of us. Time is an illusion. Everything is really happening, happened and will happen NOW. There are so many books on these topics: ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle, Mayan and Hopi Prophecy books; all the books by Dolores Cannon, who’s recorded 40 years of regression/ progression/ subconscious/ and higher consciousness interaction and information brought through in hypnosis. Email me I’ll tell you a gazillion more!
Ok, so what’s Indigo?
These ‘kids’, now in their twenties, are genetically and spiritually the new strain of humans. Eons from now, scientists will be wondering what was the missing link that happened in the beginning of the 21st century. Well these kids are it. And right behind them are Rainbow and Crystal kids. These are age newborn up to about 12, give or take.
Genetically their DNA is different. There are more switches turned on for these kids. These switches affect intelligence, ESP and the sixth sense, immunity and disease free living and aging. These kids are amazing! They were the first wave of new consciousness.
So what is this new consciousness?
Everything is vibration. Ultimately everything is a form of light. Think of the light spectrum, most of it we cannot see. We do not have the eye receptors or advanced sensors in the body to see those forms of light without assistance. Think ultraviolet or x-ray light. We can’t see them without special equipment. Well there’s an enormous amount of other band widths of light we can’t see either. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. But when a person begins to be able to interact or use these other band widths of light, they being to develop the new abilities that go with them.
Light
These abilities are associated with their holding more light in their bodies and thus vibrating at a different rate than the rest of us. In that higher vibration, they can help heal others, sense others and know information that is easy for them but not for most of us. They are not to be feared because of these unique abilities. They are however in great need of understanding. They don’t fit in. Many are diagnosed ADD, etc. Here’s a good link for you to check out Indigos. There are now many books, links etc.
http://www.indigochild.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children .
Books
Lee Carroll and Jan Tobler first wrote about Indigos. A lady who could see auras began seeing indigo colored auras for the first time ever in young children. More and more she saw it and then began realizing their abilities were unusual. Others have now written about them.
In China
They were written about in China in a book called Psychic Children. It’s not well written, but gets the point across.
Back to the young man in San Diego
He’s learning at a rapid rate, integrating knowledge. It’s a matter of focus and monitoring one’s thoughts. Because we are fast approaching the time of Think-Manifest. In other words, our thoughts will be created right in front of us, immediately, based on our focus and intention. We must be in a place of love not fear so those thoughts will be created lovingly. Hate your body and you will create illness. Love your body and you will create health. Fight with your neighbor and you will add to the energy of war on this planet. Allow, love, and recognize your own resistances and fears by looking at your neighbor’s and you will add to the sum of Love on this planet. We get to choose.
We are very powerful and he is just beginning to see it. Little things manifest all around him, parking spaces, lights turning green (or red if you’re angry and out of sync with your best vibrations) and happier people around him as he lets go of fear. It is an amazing time to be alive. I can't wait to see how he develops his abilities, focuses and applies them to his personal and business life. He and those like him will change this world for the better. We have been waiting for them for a very long time.
Eating Ethopian in Chicago
How to find out about restaurants
You get the best leads for restaurants asking other travelers in the airport shuttle. This time the driver was a Hindu from India displaying Ganesh, a Hindu God that removes spiritual blocks, and Vishnu on his dashboard. It turns out he is also a cook and every morning cooks 300 samosas (a triangular stuffed small pastry filled with veggies or meat) for delivery to Indian restaurants. Then at 1PM he begins his taxi/ shuttle work.
One Other Passenger
The only other passenger, Cecelia, was an African American lady who works at Northwestern Universityi n Chi. She has a job I never even knew existed. She's the student behavior go-between for the criminal activities of students at NWestern. She deals with the parents, the legal system and the students for such crimes as arson, assault, rape, and all the normal ills of society. You have to think of this large Univ as a mini city with all the ills of a city. I was amazed.
Back to food!
She told me of a great Ethopian and the driver told me about a superb Indian restaurant, Mt Everest. The Hindu Driver heartily agreed that Addis Abeba (yes, that is how they spell it) was really good too. It turns out we pass the Addis Abeba and it's very close to my friend's house where I'll be staying. Leah and Russ have eaten there and it's really good they say. Now I'm really interested and we go there that evening.YUM YUM YUM!
The atmosphere is really kind of cool.. mud cloth fabrics are the tablecloths. How authentic is that! When I go to a new restaurant I want to try everything so I look for a combo type plate so I can get a taste of many things. Food is an adventure. Some people sky dive, I dive into food. So I ordered the 1 meat, 2 veggie combo.
Ordering Ethopian style
Now ordering is interesting. The waitress must take your order in your seating configuration. Why? Cuz when the food comes, it's all on one huge, round, pizza type pan. Everyone's order is on that pan, each person's order positioned right in front of them. Very clever! Oh one thing more. Thereare absolutely NO utensils of any kind used.
The Bread
They serve a kind of flatbread, crepe like, that is very spongy, called injera. You tear a piece ofit off and pinch some of the food on the big tray, and eat. Many culturesuse this method. Personally I love eating this way. And having it all as a big shared meal is very bonding for a group. I know in this day and age people freak out about germs. Well, then this style wouldn't be for you. But for the adventurers who are after the unusual, the flavorful and the fun, go there as soon as possible!
Main Courses
I had ordered a sort of shredded spiced lamb which was very tender and flavorful. The spices were sweet, like cardoman,and nutmeg, not hot, tho I could have gotten it very hot spicy. HOT spicy is not my style. One veggie dish was red lentils w/ cinnamon and cardoman.. that was divine. The other veggie was cabage and carrots... interesting, again, sweeter spices and all went together very well. This was very easy to eat and very easy to digest. My friends had split peas, one had spinach with similar sweet spices... I must say that was wonderful too. Each of us had a little lettuce salad with a simple dressing on it, right next to our food choices. I'd definitely go back for more.
You get the best leads for restaurants asking other travelers in the airport shuttle. This time the driver was a Hindu from India displaying Ganesh, a Hindu God that removes spiritual blocks, and Vishnu on his dashboard. It turns out he is also a cook and every morning cooks 300 samosas (a triangular stuffed small pastry filled with veggies or meat) for delivery to Indian restaurants. Then at 1PM he begins his taxi/ shuttle work.
One Other Passenger
The only other passenger, Cecelia, was an African American lady who works at Northwestern Universityi n Chi. She has a job I never even knew existed. She's the student behavior go-between for the criminal activities of students at NWestern. She deals with the parents, the legal system and the students for such crimes as arson, assault, rape, and all the normal ills of society. You have to think of this large Univ as a mini city with all the ills of a city. I was amazed.
Back to food!
She told me of a great Ethopian and the driver told me about a superb Indian restaurant, Mt Everest. The Hindu Driver heartily agreed that Addis Abeba (yes, that is how they spell it) was really good too. It turns out we pass the Addis Abeba and it's very close to my friend's house where I'll be staying. Leah and Russ have eaten there and it's really good they say. Now I'm really interested and we go there that evening.YUM YUM YUM!
The atmosphere is really kind of cool.. mud cloth fabrics are the tablecloths. How authentic is that! When I go to a new restaurant I want to try everything so I look for a combo type plate so I can get a taste of many things. Food is an adventure. Some people sky dive, I dive into food. So I ordered the 1 meat, 2 veggie combo.
Ordering Ethopian style
Now ordering is interesting. The waitress must take your order in your seating configuration. Why? Cuz when the food comes, it's all on one huge, round, pizza type pan. Everyone's order is on that pan, each person's order positioned right in front of them. Very clever! Oh one thing more. Thereare absolutely NO utensils of any kind used.
The Bread
They serve a kind of flatbread, crepe like, that is very spongy, called injera. You tear a piece ofit off and pinch some of the food on the big tray, and eat. Many culturesuse this method. Personally I love eating this way. And having it all as a big shared meal is very bonding for a group. I know in this day and age people freak out about germs. Well, then this style wouldn't be for you. But for the adventurers who are after the unusual, the flavorful and the fun, go there as soon as possible!
Main Courses
I had ordered a sort of shredded spiced lamb which was very tender and flavorful. The spices were sweet, like cardoman,and nutmeg, not hot, tho I could have gotten it very hot spicy. HOT spicy is not my style. One veggie dish was red lentils w/ cinnamon and cardoman.. that was divine. The other veggie was cabage and carrots... interesting, again, sweeter spices and all went together very well. This was very easy to eat and very easy to digest. My friends had split peas, one had spinach with similar sweet spices... I must say that was wonderful too. Each of us had a little lettuce salad with a simple dressing on it, right next to our food choices. I'd definitely go back for more.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Taking the El in Chicago
The Elevated train, commonly called the El, as all crossword puzzlers know, was lots of fun. My good friend Leah and her very sweet husband, Russ, and I all went down to the Handcock Building, one of the tallest buildings in Chicago. What a perfect day to go to the observation deck on the 93rd floor. It was sunny, clear and almost 60 degrees after a horrible cold spell here. The building is only 3 blocks from the El station, The Lake, and a lovely walk. We were all hungry and passed the Devon restaurant on a corner. The menu looked good: upscale seafoods done creatively. We ordered the Chipotle shrimp burrito. It was heavenly. A lovely little jicama cold slaw with it. The biggest surprise was the incredible, hot off the cookie sheet, homemade baking powder biscuits... oh my god... they were just like my grandmother made. They had a whipped butter with lemon rind bits and honey. I just had to have a 2nd one! They were spectacular. On my way out I ran into the manager and THE cook of those heavenly homemades. I raved... oh my oh my. I want to go back and I recommend it to anyone!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
San Diego Trip
Feb 14th in San Diego
Wierd stuff is happening. Flight was much delayed and sitting on tarmac for almost an hour. The ride was really bumpy 1/3 of entire way, makes it hard to get up and walk around. I like flying though, no matter what. You get to go somewhere and get to meet fascinating people. There was a nice guy next to me. He kept coughing. He was an overworked med student who just came off 30 hr shift... brilliant ... certainly teaches Dr's about stress! but in such an unhealthy way. He was going to his grandfather’s funeral.
I remember a flight once where in the middle of the night the man next to me was really sobbing. He was going to his best friend’s funeral. His death had been so sudden and he never got to say goodbye. He was so heartbroken. Our hearts are fragile things.
The luggage seemed to take extra long to arrive on carousels. I always figure I have two choices. I can get mad or not. I usually decide not. That way I'm not standing in my own way and I can connect with people, learn things interesting and new and have a few laughs.
The promised free hotel shuttle doesn’t run after 9PM. I wish they’d told me that since it’s now midnight and I’ll have to take a cab. An old gentleman, an elderly man named Bill, who works at the airport offers to help me get my luggage to the taxi stand and we chat. It’s a long walk to the cab, heavy luggage to pull. He is really sweet. We talk about his many long term jobs, over 20 yrs at the airport. Now his wife has breast cancer and she’s angry at it and at him. He just allows it all. I thought he was maybe 65 ish; turns out he’s 86!!!. We hugged at cab. He was quite the little Buddha master, calm, reflective, happy from the inside. Very cool guy.
The cab driver was amazing. Ethiopian man, only here 3 yrs. I can only imagine what it must be like, going to a foreign country, learning the language and how to get around enough to drive a cab there? They use GPS systems to find any place. How cool is that! You don’t have to know the area, just how to spell in a foreign language!!!
The hotel has put me in a handicapped room altho there are many rooms open. I wonder why. There is no tub in handicapped rooms and I really want to relax in a lovely tub of hot water.
The chatty lady at check in is very helpful and pleasant. We chat about her Mom, family. She tells me the handicapped room has a view and surely I would want it.
An older man who did hotel security, was drafted to help me with luggage and helps/escorts me to my room. He tells me he's been clean and sober for 10 yrs now. YIKES.. the things people have to deal with. I see 'view' from room. It turns out to be of the elevator and the hallway, that's all... she just lied. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she had forgotten.
I ask to change room. No problem, he comes back up w/ new keys and we change. I call her and change the room. Now it’s 1AM.
Hey there’s 2 free, small, water bottles in room.. frig.. micro,coffee...big room nice... windows open.. but they DON'T LOCK in any open position! Can't open them all nite so I have to use the air cond. Noisy and too cold and no drapes, just the huge wooden blinds w/ slats. But at least I have a way to stay cool all nite. Didn't get to bed til 1:45. But the bed and pillow are really comfortable and I sleep like a baby. There’s free internet connection in the room so I’m a happy camper.
Wierd stuff is happening. Flight was much delayed and sitting on tarmac for almost an hour. The ride was really bumpy 1/3 of entire way, makes it hard to get up and walk around. I like flying though, no matter what. You get to go somewhere and get to meet fascinating people. There was a nice guy next to me. He kept coughing. He was an overworked med student who just came off 30 hr shift... brilliant ... certainly teaches Dr's about stress! but in such an unhealthy way. He was going to his grandfather’s funeral.
I remember a flight once where in the middle of the night the man next to me was really sobbing. He was going to his best friend’s funeral. His death had been so sudden and he never got to say goodbye. He was so heartbroken. Our hearts are fragile things.
The luggage seemed to take extra long to arrive on carousels. I always figure I have two choices. I can get mad or not. I usually decide not. That way I'm not standing in my own way and I can connect with people, learn things interesting and new and have a few laughs.
The promised free hotel shuttle doesn’t run after 9PM. I wish they’d told me that since it’s now midnight and I’ll have to take a cab. An old gentleman, an elderly man named Bill, who works at the airport offers to help me get my luggage to the taxi stand and we chat. It’s a long walk to the cab, heavy luggage to pull. He is really sweet. We talk about his many long term jobs, over 20 yrs at the airport. Now his wife has breast cancer and she’s angry at it and at him. He just allows it all. I thought he was maybe 65 ish; turns out he’s 86!!!. We hugged at cab. He was quite the little Buddha master, calm, reflective, happy from the inside. Very cool guy.
The cab driver was amazing. Ethiopian man, only here 3 yrs. I can only imagine what it must be like, going to a foreign country, learning the language and how to get around enough to drive a cab there? They use GPS systems to find any place. How cool is that! You don’t have to know the area, just how to spell in a foreign language!!!
The hotel has put me in a handicapped room altho there are many rooms open. I wonder why. There is no tub in handicapped rooms and I really want to relax in a lovely tub of hot water.
The chatty lady at check in is very helpful and pleasant. We chat about her Mom, family. She tells me the handicapped room has a view and surely I would want it.
An older man who did hotel security, was drafted to help me with luggage and helps/escorts me to my room. He tells me he's been clean and sober for 10 yrs now. YIKES.. the things people have to deal with. I see 'view' from room. It turns out to be of the elevator and the hallway, that's all... she just lied. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she had forgotten.
I ask to change room. No problem, he comes back up w/ new keys and we change. I call her and change the room. Now it’s 1AM.
Hey there’s 2 free, small, water bottles in room.. frig.. micro,coffee...big room nice... windows open.. but they DON'T LOCK in any open position! Can't open them all nite so I have to use the air cond. Noisy and too cold and no drapes, just the huge wooden blinds w/ slats. But at least I have a way to stay cool all nite. Didn't get to bed til 1:45. But the bed and pillow are really comfortable and I sleep like a baby. There’s free internet connection in the room so I’m a happy camper.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Endless Joys of Summer
I think back to my childhood, riding a bike to the little store in the trailer park where luscious, rounded top, Fudgesicles were a nickel and a big, fat, pink, Bazooka bubble gum was a penny. We’d bike there, my sister and I, and dream of all the lovely things we could buy with our 10 cents. We were rich.
So what’s changed?
Trailer parks are full of low income people and shady characters. Life taught us to be judgmental and afraid of such people.
We shouldn’t eat sweets. They cause tooth decay and diabetes. Life taught us that too. I don’t’ care how good they taste, you should choose something healthy. Besides I should be on a diet.
You have to have a bike chain to prevent theft, a helmet per the law, and special biking clothes to be cool.
It's too much effort to just go biking. Besides didn’t you hear about the guy that got hit by a car riding his bike? Safety and fear have crept in. We call it wisdom.
Money shouldn’t be wasted on frivolous things. There’s not enough of it to go around and we have to be on a budget. Lack is always around the corner. We bought that belief system hook, line and sinker. Can we just let go of that fear?
Where is our joy? Isn’t all of this just perspective? Can you jump on your bike or walk to the nearest corner mart and spend your dollar on something yummy … like joy? Can you take that dollar and go in the store and just focus of what you CAN buy with it? Wealth is a state of mind. What state is your mind in? What tapes do you play? Put in some truly old tapes, from the days of innocence and see the abundance you DO have. It’s just a shift of focus.
If you can’t ride that bike anymore, go take a walk. Try nature. It hasn’t changed. It’s still full of spring buds and life pushing up and popping out all over. It’s free. Can you just shift your focus to that?
Every action is new and interesting if we give it our full attention. We encounter people daily. Can we ‘spend’ the wealth of time with them? Who would receive more, you or them? A minute of real connection, a compliment, a listening ear, an eye contact, a smile; these are free and we both end up wealthy. Be present.
Now it’s your turn. Recall a time of your own innocence. Copy that emotional energy and bring it into this very now moment. It’s still there just under the surface. Give up worrying; it adds nothing. Act as if the world is your oyster and it will be. It is. It’s all in perspective. The endless joy of summer childhood is an option.
So what’s changed?
Trailer parks are full of low income people and shady characters. Life taught us to be judgmental and afraid of such people.
We shouldn’t eat sweets. They cause tooth decay and diabetes. Life taught us that too. I don’t’ care how good they taste, you should choose something healthy. Besides I should be on a diet.
You have to have a bike chain to prevent theft, a helmet per the law, and special biking clothes to be cool.
It's too much effort to just go biking. Besides didn’t you hear about the guy that got hit by a car riding his bike? Safety and fear have crept in. We call it wisdom.
Money shouldn’t be wasted on frivolous things. There’s not enough of it to go around and we have to be on a budget. Lack is always around the corner. We bought that belief system hook, line and sinker. Can we just let go of that fear?
Where is our joy? Isn’t all of this just perspective? Can you jump on your bike or walk to the nearest corner mart and spend your dollar on something yummy … like joy? Can you take that dollar and go in the store and just focus of what you CAN buy with it? Wealth is a state of mind. What state is your mind in? What tapes do you play? Put in some truly old tapes, from the days of innocence and see the abundance you DO have. It’s just a shift of focus.
If you can’t ride that bike anymore, go take a walk. Try nature. It hasn’t changed. It’s still full of spring buds and life pushing up and popping out all over. It’s free. Can you just shift your focus to that?
Every action is new and interesting if we give it our full attention. We encounter people daily. Can we ‘spend’ the wealth of time with them? Who would receive more, you or them? A minute of real connection, a compliment, a listening ear, an eye contact, a smile; these are free and we both end up wealthy. Be present.
Now it’s your turn. Recall a time of your own innocence. Copy that emotional energy and bring it into this very now moment. It’s still there just under the surface. Give up worrying; it adds nothing. Act as if the world is your oyster and it will be. It is. It’s all in perspective. The endless joy of summer childhood is an option.
Off to Chicago soon
I’m off to Chicago soon. Should be a fun trip. I’m staying with my good friend Leah, and her family. Another friend told me I should go see the John Handcock building this time. Last time I went to the Field Museum and spent 8 hours all by myself.. if you can really be by yourself in a huge museum! It was great. The dinosaur display was impressive for its size. I had been to the famous Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum near Edmonton, Alberta a few months before and that was amazing. You walk on a see through floor so you can see the prehistoric sea life under your feet. That was cool.. but very weird to take that first step onto the ‘non-floor’ of thick plastic. This time in Chicago I’m thinking of going to the Planetarium and the Aquarium. I missed them last time… the Field Museum took all my time and was so worth it. Some of its displays were so static, rigid… rows of mannequins standing in costumes and huge glass ‘cages’ of taxidermy animals from all over the planet. A museum guide explained to me that when the museum was built, there were no TVs and the museum was basically phenomenal, equal to Discovery Channel and National Geo all rolled up in one. Duh.. why didn’t I think of that. It really is important to put myself in the shoes of others so I can see the real reasons for things and understand what's happening in a whole new way.
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