I got the best letter the other day, the kind of letter I live for.  I’ve known a friend for a very long time and he is not into what he calls airy-fairy, new-age nonsense like meditation, visualization and affirmations. Forget about creating your own reality, he believes everything is pre-ordained.  Being brought up Baptist and raised Republican, he had a limited lens through which he viewed his world growing up. I’m not hatin’ just statin’ so you know his background.  When his business began failing, his wife left him.  When he began drinking, his health went downhill.  As a friend, I’ve given him pep talks throughout the years, but he made it clear that he did not want me to ever sneak and do any spiritual counseling or psychic readings or hypnosis on him.  Yes, that’s how his mind works, he’s been warned his whole life that people will try to sneak up and trick you.  He’s been told when someone asks him to keep an open mind, that means Satan is about to try to trick him.  He’s been told when you sit to meditate, you are inviting Satan to sit down with you.  I asked him what did he expect if he sat down with that thought? I told him he can choose to dial in to whatever channel he wants to hear, just as he does on the radio or the tv.  There’s not just one station in there.  Those were the words, he later told me, that were his awakening trigger. Continue reading →

Abraham-Hicks says “Stop looking for anything other than your mental and emotional state of being as answers to why you feel how you feel in your body. It is all Vibrational – no exception! And when you get that, then it doesn’t matter what diagnosis has been given to you—it doesn’t matter—it’s temporary.”  

If we got tested and screened to know what ailments moved in and out through our bodies every day, we would be stunned.  Most of them do not stay.  A diagnosis is just a snapshot in time.  Moments later that condition can have left us – but we think it’s still there so we continue to think it’s a problem. 

Our attention to it is what keeps it alive and animates it.  Why not instead think back and remember when every cell of your body was healthy and alive and strong.  Keep reminding yourself what that felt like.  Keep your focus and attention on how remarkable it is that the cells of your body renew themselves all the time, and that you can make sure the weaker cells are replaced by ever stronger cells, all by how you think about your body and your health.  Wow, that’s power.

A diagnosis is just a snapshot in time
When “thinking positive” doesn’t help
Get diagnosed or not?
Why Do Spiritual People Ever Get Sick?
Doing Experimental Creat-ive Visualizations
Do you really have this or that diagnosis? Keep talking about it and you will.
Remember that modern medicine is amazing, prayer works and miracles happen every day. This is how we change a thoughtform.

To begin living a different life, you need to CHANGE SOMETHING.  Anything.  Go somewhere new, see different sights so you can put different thoughts in your head.  The only thing that ever needs to change is my perception.  Sometimes I need to do and see new stuff for that to happen.  Sometimes my imagination is enough.  Saturday morning I awoke with the thought that I wanted to drive out and do something different.  I had an unexpected day off! I’m always glad when a client cancels because it means I have the choice to take a spontaneous goof off day – or fill the time with appointments that have been waiting months for a cancellation.  I checked the Horizons calendar of events, then signed on to Facebook to see what everyone in town was doing.  I was looking for something to peak my interest and draw me to it.  Nothing really did.  I thought of driving down to the boardwalk in Indialantic for a surf check, but when I stepped outside, I thought I should do some watering first while it was cool.  At 8:00am, it was 80 degrees and 90% humidity, with a light breeze, not bad.  I sprayed Avon’s Skin So Soft on my legs and arms for the misquitoes and headed outside. Continue reading →

It had been a few days since I had hummus or eggplant and I was jonesing, so last night’s dinner was oven fried eggplant wrapped in a pita with hummus, tahina sauce and mediterranean pickles.  Into the toaster oven for 10 minutes wrapped loosely in foil. Add lettuce and tomato before eating.  I had to make this blog post so I could find the recipe again.

Usually I saute the eggplant but I wanted to oven-fry it this time to give it a crispy crust.
1. Preheat a 425 degree oven
2. Cut eggplant into 1/2″ rounds
3. Dip in Eggbeaters
4. Coat with seasoned panko or Italian breadcrumbs
5. 15 minutes in a metal pan (sprayed with olive oil Pam) on a lower rack in the oven.
6. Then spray the tops with more Pam, turn and let brown another 10-15 minutes. I’m a 25 minute gal.

This was really good, it was the first time I’d done eggplant that way. It put like a fried chicken kinda crust on it, and the eggplant doesn’t get mooshy. This would also make a good sandwich on a sub roll with sauteed bell peppers and onions.  The eggplant takes on a meaty-ish texture when done like this.  If you don’t care about low fat, brush the eggplant rounds with olive oil as they bake.

I’ve also added 1 tsp each crushed coriander seeds and fennel seeds to the panko/breadcrumbs and it is delicious.  Buy the mediterranean pickles .

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