“My favorite reply to a parent scolding their child in public for “something they’ve been told not to do” is to remind them that their prefrontal cortex isn’t fully formed yet which means they don’t have the executive functioning for self control. Instead what they are doing is encoding a traumatic response pattern in their child’s limbic system and in their actual body. Which will not help them later in life at all.”  David Jacques

I did a reading last night for a friend with a lot of health problems.  ”I try to think positively” he said, “but it’s hard to think positively when I can hear my bones pop and crunch with every step. I am depressed because I’m in pain all the time.  All I can think about is how much it hurts and that I will have to deal with this the rest of my life. So don’t tell me to think positive.”  The problem  is that he’s not yet learned how to phrase a positive thought.  It’s like people who say that affirmations don’t work.  If your self talk isn’t working for you, you just need to know how to phrase  it the right way.  Repeating the wrong thing to yourself all the time won’t help.  Reminding yourself of the right things can help you begin to move out of your current situation.  And to remember the right things, you need to say the right words and they need to be true and they need to have meaning for you.   Continue reading →

In a session with a friend last nite I was asked a typical question: “Where will the money for a new house come from?” This question is always asked from the standpoint of a certain level of understanding. The good news is our understanding is always upgraded with every new bit of knowledge. FIRST, discard the idea of what you can and cannot make money doing and discard the idea that you need to know WHERE the money is going to come from. It’ll come from wherever it is right now. Don’t wrack your brain tryna figure out how or from where. 

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Many spam calls lately have been offering to collect my debts from clients who haven’t paid. I don’t do business like that. If they pay, they get service. If not, they don’t.  That way I don’t contribute to them going into debt.

BIG FAT BIZNESS SECRET:

If you make people pay, they will pay. Those who don’t will go elsewhere and make room for those who do pay. They really will.

Andrea de Michaelis

Hello and welcome to the SEPT 2021 issue of Horizons Magazine. This time last year I was pouring over seed catalogs and deciding what to plant in October when it cools off. Tomatoes, collards, kale and peppers for vegetables; Thai, lemon and holy basils, rosemary and parsley for herbs and I began dozens of sunflowers. My entire back porch turned into a greenhouse for seedlings and garden supplies and I was out there all hours.

By July this year, 8 months later, the tomatoes and peppers were almost done, the herbs and collards still going strong. It was a rewarding project but a lot of work. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have begun a vegetable garden at the same time I was transplanting dozens of tree saplings to my west yard for privacy from the new home built next door. But it paid off because now, just one year later, there’s a line of trees and bushes giving us privacy between our properties, and my west yard is lush and green again. 

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There’s a storm out there.  During times like this, it’s important to remember that if you’re in the path of it, prepare as well as you can, then know that it can pass right over you and NOT leave you devastated.  Your home can be left standing when all around it may not. Remember that is a possibility and it’s tied to your belief and expectation.  It’s possible for every one of us to experience the storm fully, yet be unharmed and un-inconvenienced by it. Knowing that and believing that helps.

BE A VISION KEEPER FOR LOVED ONES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM

If we’re NOT in the path of the storm but have loved ones who are, we can help them right where we are, sitting in bed in our pajamas. When The Weather Channel  shows the storm front moving closer and closer, we can watch the storm image on the screen with the sound muted, take it into our meditation and do some Vision Keeper work.   Continue reading →

Image by Alex Knight

When I got to my desk this morning, I saw Tuxedo Sam had walked across my keyboard overnight and typed a bunch of gobbledy gook. But it seemed like a whole lotta typing for a walk across and seemed to have a rhythm to the number keys. As I’m looking at the letters on the screen and looking at the keys, I almost think I see a word but then it’s gone.  When I’m lazy I sometimes typo a 3 instead of an e. When I shifted my attention from the 3 on the keyboard to the line below where the e is, suddenly I began to see words. Kinda. Then I saw them clearly.

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Discover what people are asking about at www.answerthepublic.com. You enter 1-2 keywords and it creates a wheel for you with clickable links to search result answers that were given when people typed those words into search engines.  AnswerThePublic listens into autocomplete data from search engines like Google then quickly cranks out every useful phrase and question people are asking around your keyword. Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Discover an untapped goldmine of ideas and insights.

Here I did one with the words “life mission.”
Here I did one with the words “make money.”

Some pals were irked I’m still using links to Doreen Virtue’s Clearing and Balancing the Chakras from Doreen Virtue’s “The Lightworker’s Way” since she denounced new age stuff. Helpful work speaks for itself. It doesn’t matter if she now denounces her previous work as “unbiblical” and “of the devil.” That’s just where she is in her journey right now. Being unbiblical is not a bad thing since “the bible” was written by man so it tells how  our religious ancestors saw things, and it has been edited and revised by political rulers for thousands of years. What may have begun as what someone interpreted as “the word of God” has gone thru so many translations (think: telephone game) and revisions that it’s hard to find the word of God in it. So when someone’s defense is “it’s in the Bible,” that just means the speaker believes that is the final word of God. Just know where they’re coming from.

The Bible is a human product. It tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things. Marcus Borg

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I believe everything I experience comes to me somehow in corelation to the sum of my thoughts, my overall thought pattern. When I focus on making life happy, I find happiness. When I begin focusing on a problem, life gets hectic, aches and pains appear. It’s easy to ignore aggravating Facebook posts and steer clear of personality conflicts, but some things CAN’T be ignored, like a leaky roof or a water pump going out. Some things I’ve gotta focus on long enough to resolve. I’ve learned that how easily I let myself resolve it will determine how everything else gets resolved as well. The past 2 years I’ve been kinda tripping with having sprained first one hand/wrist then the other, but also tending to necessary house repairs. I know if I can stay off them for 6 weeks, it’ll be good as new. But about week 4 when it begins feeling better, I start using them again and re-injure. And hafta start over, again and again, blah blah blah. My own fault. My mom had hand and wrist problems and I began to wonder if it was hereditary or just that we both typed for a living. As usual, Abraham-Hicks gave great clarity on the question.

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