I am excerpting from a friend’s book for the August Horizons Magazine. The file was sent in a way that caused the formatting to change, leaving extra spaces in between the characters of words.  Upon closer inspection,  I notice that the extra space that appears in the middle of the words is always after a lower case i.   That tells me that anytime I am in my smaller self, my lower case i, I need to take an extra moment, for extra space, before I speak.   I love finding life lessons in every thing I do.

Habitual liars get caught in their own web and come to believe what they say. It’s part of the disease. “Help others be accountable. When people who tend to deceive themselves spend too much time with others who tolerate it, their destructive habits won’t be challenged or corrected. Where lying is causing someone serious damage, it helps to be a particularly truth-conscious friend and lend support as well as a gentle, watchful eye.” The Truth About Lying This article tells why particular lies are told, what it sounds like and how to avoid it. Example: blame shifting can signal difficulty with accepting responsibility for your actions. Maybe you were criticized for making mistakes as a child and so now you’re afraid to own up because of what other people may think of you. Once you realize this is a behavior that can be changed, however, you can start to regain the power you may feel you don’t have.

I’m sure she’s just mistaken and isn’t lying on purpose
The lies are simply hitting the snooze button, not ready for awakening
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As a painter, my challenge has always been to replicate the fiery colors I see in my mind’s eye using the pigments made of ground earth.

It’s because you are over stimulated by where you’re placing your attention.  You’re measuring where you are now relative to another place and time.  Making your body lethargic is your soul’s way of telling you to slow down and turn your focus within.  You’re unfolding more now in a spiritual sense than in a material sense. A journey within will be very fruitful now.  Sleep as much as you need to.  My experience is, when you’re on the Path, you begin going through a series of sleeper’s classes.  If you’re awakened, hit the meditation mat. As you follow your breath, you’re giving your unconscious mind time and space to integrate what it’s just learned. You can be half asleep, when you doze, your head falling will awaken you to follow your breath again. Give them 20 minutes and go back to bed. Then watch everything in your life begin to all come together.

Change doesn’t happen without rocking the boat and you don’t make a difference keeping your mouth shut.  Better to be disliked for who you are than liked for who you are not. Robin Siebold

That awkward moment when texts cross, and one is a love poem and the other is a dinner menu…

I love it that a person I know to be an excellent healer and teacher has never once referred to himself as a healer or teacher. To me, that’s the sign of a true healer and teacher. This isn’t to say he isn’t aware of his own power.  He just doesn’t try to convince anyone of it.

Life begins to get real when you turn away from fighting others and turn to face each other.  Just that.  No audience.  No spotlight. Just the two of you.  On your own.  Daily life, working, paying bills, attending to family and pets, sharing responsibilities.  Do that for 12 months, THEN tell me all about it. If you start now you’ve only got, well, 12 months to go. Until then, don’t stand on the sidelines on someone else’s dollar and tell those in the trenches how to do the work.

I had a good example the other day. A psychic friend and I were talking about the spidey sense and what is it that we pick up from our clients. I had a thought that she snapped a photo. She did not really take my pic, but she intended to and THOUGHT she did. That was a good example because she did NOT, however she thought she did, so I thought she did. This was an example of reading the person’s knowledge and not reading the event itself.  Just because the reader gets info doesn’t mean it’s absolutely correct, but it does mean someone thinks it is.

I can’t be sorry for your suffering and happy for your lesson at the same time. When you are going through something, it’s because you’re awakening to your True Self! So while I see you cry, thrashing about, I see a beautiful butterfly coming from the cocoon. I celebrate, knowing that your freedom awaits You! To be sorry is to miss MY lesson… to see the truth in ALL events. I’ll hold your hand while you walk and I’ll let you cry into my body… but I’m happy for your awakening, my Love.  Lisa J. Trevino