The human experience is quite the ride, especially now, is it not? The absurdities, the divisiveness, the negative biased news, the constant searching for the next shock or laugh that has folks reaching for their devises, is amplified right now like no other time. We may want to hold our hands over our ears and scream STOP!

How much are you letting what is happening in the outer world effect your inner world? They are actually related. As within, so without. So the saying goes. It is like the researcher bias or searching the internet. You get what you are looking for. Your thoughts, intention and attention (focus) influence your experience. Don’t believe me? Think about when you confidently “knew” how something was going to go, often badly as our minds are biased toward danger and warnings to keep us “safe”, that went exactly like predicted.  And when you were a little less convinced of an outcome and went in with good intentions or an open mind and heart, and things went better than you dared to hope? 

Our energy effects the world around us. The world acts as a mirror to us. If we are having a good day, often nice people and good things seem to pop up. When we have decided it is a bad day, we get that reinforcement as everything that goes wrong “proves” it is a bad day. 

As an experiment, for one week set an intention as you start your day. It can be specific if you want, but I find it is best to focus on the big picture and overall feeling of the day rather than specific details happening or not happening. And you should always set your intention in the positive present tense. So rather than, “I want nothing to go wrong today” Or “I don’t want my boss to get angry with me over this late project”  You would state “I wish to see the beauty and good in each moment today” or “I intend a pleasurable connection with my boss and co-workers today.” 

You can write it down or say it out loud. I often add it to my todo list to see throughout the day. I don’t get out of bed for the day until I have written in my gratitude journal - either an appreciation (maybe for a good rest or bright morning) or setting an intention for the day. At the end of the week, reflect on each day to see if you can see where your intention came to be. 

This is because like attracts like. A musical note of B can’t resonate with any other note besides another B. If you vibrate with negativity and pessimism you will resonate with that in others and get more of that in your life. This is not to negate all lower energies we experience, as they are all beneficial. We just don’t want to linger too long in the lower ones. We want to feel them enough so they continue moving through and out and we find a more enjoyable feeling or vibration.

You can ask “how would it feel in my body if I kept my focus on the bigger picture, with love, of all that is occurring in my day/the world”. Allow your mind to notice and take in what it feels like to have that be true. Then return to that same feeling in your body (rather than just the thinking mind) throughout the day. 

Can you think of examples of when you got exactly what you were expecting and felt justified but disappointed at the same time? Sometime I think we want people to behave poorly because we want to reinforce our “rightness” about someone or something. Like Dr. Phil used to say, do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?  Choose happy more of the time and see what happens!

We are all creative beings Even those of us, like myself, that originally didn't consider ourselves particularly creative. There are many ways to be creative. Even how we shop or which route we choose to drive to our destination can be creative!

I hope you will join me in person to practice some powerful techniques that help us tune into our inherent creative wisdom for a more joyous life experience! Whether your creativity lies in music, art, literature or like me, how you set a table or put a meal together, decorate your house or pull together a family gathering, expanding our abilities to celebrate our unique creativity brings more joy in our every day lives. And this impacts those around us as well!

​ I hope to see you in early April!

Deep longings or desires will try their darnedest to manifest! 

I wanted a playhouse quite badly as a child. I was always making forts and “homes” - under tables, in the woods, in the yard.  My stepdad made an effort to build one for my sister and I. He bought an old rustic wooden truck canopy off somebody. His idea was to build some walls to set it onto to create a playhouse. However, in an attempt to lift it up to the right height, it fell over and broke. He never got around to doing more with it. My sister and I would crawl under it in the grass, but it was too low to even sit up in so needless to say, it didn’t fulfill the desire. But I continued to create little homes in the woods around us, at the neighbors house, on the beach etc. I loved making “home”!

In my adulthood I had visions of creating a little private camping compound, each small cabin with its own theme, shared space in the center, where people could come for a little get away or an entire group for a retreat or reunion.

When empty nesting happened, and the house we lived in seemed dark and lonely, I had a very strong desire to build or buy, a smaller home where I could see more sky. But why would we leave our nice family home? And my husband worked way too much to even think about tackling a construction project. There was around 20 acres for sale not far from where we lived that I had visions of building a variety of small and hopefully affordable houses on. While I did look into it, I also did a lot of “who am I to think I have the knowledge or tools to do this!?” and so I didn’t pursue it and the acreage sold. 

I also really enjoyed the idea of building an adult tree house on our property. At the time the price tag for such a “frivolous” thing was not something that I could consider discussing with my partner for more than a minute. I also feared it might be my way of wanting to escape or hide from the troubles in our relationship. 

Fast forward several years, instigated by an impending divorce and coupled with a housing crisis and inability to get a mortgage, I bought undeveloped land and purchased a tiny house and moved into that as a stepping stone along the path to building a new home with cashed out investment funds. I really loved living tiny and even at the time considered it the playhouse I never got as a kid! In my 30’s I had been collecting magazine articles and images of pre-fabricated homes I liked, as that type of building process seemed really neat to me. But then kind of forgot about it. Add to this the strong desire and knowing that I needed some more light (not living quite so deep in the woods) and here I currently sit in my new pre-fab built house, with a ton of windows and expansive vistas of sky! My desire was stronger than my hesitancy and fear and it found a way to arrive. It was not easy, nor always pleasant. But I am here. It seems it was going to happen one way or another. 

Another fun fact, when exploring builders, it was suggested I contact a pre-fab builder in OR, which turned out to have been the founder of Method Homes - the builder of several of the homes that I had saved the articles about all those years ago!

The journey is part of the learning and we are here to experience things. I am not suggesting that taking the shortest route to everything we desire is always best. However, I wonder how it would have transpired differently had I felt more empowered to explore those desires and knowings earlier? I will never know, but I can remember that my desires are important and deserve attention. Perhaps my marriage would have been less of a struggle not more, like I feared, if I had been more adamant about those desires. After all that, we are together again, with our love stronger than ever. Could that painful chapter been less so?
I didn’t really consider myself creative, yet looking back, I was creative in my home making. I am a Cancer, and family and home are of ultimate importance for Cancers’. I underestimated the gift I had to offer to my family and myself. Creating a safe, loving, comfortable and beautiful home is not trivial! Funny how I discounted it all those years. 

Other dreams I have had include a family or friends compound - where we share gardens, support and even meals at times, but have our own space as well. This is not a new concept or anything, I just love the idea. It would be wise of me to not ignore this desire if it persists. If I don’t act on it, I now see that life will transpire to get that created, in some form or another. And I would rather it not be unpleasant circumstances that get me to finally do it! Maybe it wont be a family compound, maybe it will be little rental cabins, or even treehouses! 

What are some of your reoccurring desires, longings, ideas, wishes? Those that continue, maybe with a variety of options, to come up in your mind. Pay attention to them. What about those are the most appealing? What might they be calling you toward? What does that desire feel like in your body? Can you narrow down the desire more? It is less about the physical manifestation and more about the feeling in your heart that it creates. What childhood desires can you see manifested in your adult life? Share yours with me or a friend! Write in your journal or open yourself to deeper understanding inside a meditation.

Don’t let your fear slow those strong desires down. They want to come to fruition and the more you can open to possibilities and the less you ignore them, the smoother the path toward the inevitable. After all you are here to create a life you wanted when you decided to come into this physical body. Diminish the minds resistance of the creative flow that you already are in order to facilitate a smoother more enjoyable life for yourself, your family and all the lives you will touch. I thank you in advance! 

It’s imperative that you do what resonates with you - what brings you true joy. What lights you up. Why? Because it heals. You and humanity. Don’t put it off. We need your light, NOW!

If you were to watch an episode of the Netflix show “The Home Edit”, notice the genuine and authentic joy that the two hosts (Clea and Joanna) can’t contain when their client walks into the transformed space. They literally jump and squeal with joy. Those two LOVE what they do (I can totally relate!) What if everyone loved their work THAT much!?  I want to live in that world!

If you want to help create a better world, start with yourself. You can only really control or change you.  Your responsibility toward this desire is to find what brings you joy.  When you can truly be happy (not just putting on a happy face) you increase happiness in the world. Be yourself, shine your light and share joy with humanity. Joy, like a pebble tossed in a pond, ripples out and out and out.

It is also healing. Joyful people are less likely to get sick. Being joyful and feeling good, means less stress, better self care and a more robust immune system. When we are healthy we are then more available and have more energy for our families, friends and community. This is why it is not selfish at all to do what lights you up.

Our bodies try to tell us things, but we don’t always listen. An ailment points to a belief, conscious or unconscious, that is needing attention. When you chose YOU, through joy and happiness, you are more fully embodying your true essence, which can “magically” heal a physical issue. Check out this short but wonderful interview on “The HEAL podcast” with Reverend Micheal Beckwith which gives a wonderful example of this. (link below) 

I ask… What lights you up? What makes you smile so big it is contagious? Do more of that!
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDz9L0jg_o

It’s my dad’s 81st birthday today. Or it would have been. He died last December. My Father-in-law passed away yesterday. He almost made it to 80 - about 3 weeks away. Both were dear to me. They were full of life and fun. Being men however, they didn’t take the best care of themselves. They were both surprised to live as long as they did. Yet I can’t help thinking, they could have lived longer if they had had better tools to care for their mental, emotional and physical health.

The Energy Codes offers better tools. These are not necessarily new tools. But we lost the real healing arts to modern medicine. Not that modern medicine hasn’t saved countless lives. It has. But it ignores critical pieces. All in the name of “science”. Yet quantum science is proving that energy medicine is just as, if not more, important and powerful. (think placebo effect)

The soul speaks to the body and the body speaks to the mind. But the mind is often not listening. When you can tune into your body and your feelings don’t scare you, wonderful things open up. We can re-gain these important missing pieces of our whole self, our whole experience, and improve our health. 
By embodying our experiences, living from our entire system not just the mind, we can move energies through our bodies in a healthy way. Everything is energy. Including you. And when energies get stuck, they can cause inflammation, disease, pain and ultimately suffering. When pushed away, feelings get stuck. They don’t just disappear. We all know this. Yet we were not really taught to properly deal with them, most certainly not to process them at the time they come up. We can gain back ground by learning some simple practices. 
I teach these practices in my work. You can also read the book “The Energy Codes” by Dr. Sue Morter. The audio book is especially great. These practices are doable for anyone. They involve the breath and tuning into your body. Some people live outside their body, so much so that they consider it as simply a way to move their head around. Kind of like a car, no? The body is so much more. And has much wisdom to share.  Gut feelings are a thing. Feeling love in the chest area or a broken heart is not just a concept. We have all experienced this to some degree.
I respect that all beings have a unique life journey. But I came to serve humanity. One of the ways I am doing that is through my work, and the rest is by just being me. Offering me and my light to the world. Being more and more my true self, without apology. In love and joy, not as an excuse for poor or disrespectful behavior. I don’t want to apologize for being me any more. Sometimes we learn quickly and sometimes what is needed is gradually embraced after countless exposure where it was resisted. When will you decide to listen? Is that time now?

There are many ways to get to a better sense of self, health and freedom from suffering. Find a path that resonates with you. But don’t keep putting it off. Eventually it might be too late. This life is all an adventure. It is not meant to be a trudge through the mud. We have been fooled. Find a better path that you enjoy more. And another even better one might present itself after that. 
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With light, love and abundance, I wish you and all of humanity a joyous revised path!