I’ve been sketching, which I haven’t done in months, letting the neurons reconnect, releasing my fave neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin, the feel good chemicals released in the brain as I get those synapses firing again.  I always have several projects going on at one time, always starting something new to keep my brain firing on all cylinders, so to speak. Lately, calculating math does that for me as well but sketching is so much more fun.

The brain, if kept in good shape, can continue to build pathways.  The trick is finding ways to keep brain connections in good condition and to grow more of them.  The brain is plastic and continues to change, not in getting bigger but allowing for greater complexity and deeper understanding.  One way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions we’ve have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should jiggle their synapses by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, doing new things and finding a variety of new ways to express themselves creatively.

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.   A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.   A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life. Whatever they fired up in you needed to be fired up, but then they needed to go.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

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Jade Wah’oo Grigori gave an excellent presentation tonight and he’ll be in town through next Wednesday.  Jade has a wealth of free information on his website, articles, audio including a shamanic drumming journey, video including earth renewing ceremony. Take a taste of Jade and then travel to Indialantic to see him while he’s here.  He is engaging and full of knowledge, his shamanic drumming tonight was truly transcendent.   Toy-ahn-ah-me’ is a song, ceremony and teaching. Our Spirit’s body is a large oval field, comprised of shimmering filaments that bundle together around the various Threads of Intent such as communication, sexuality, caring, abundance, creativity, trust etc. Thru emotional shock or trauma, through fear, threat and demeanment, the threads become entangled, preventing self-expression. We feel inept, unworthy, incapable in those respective areas of life. Toy-ahn-ah-me’ frees the threads, allowing and enabling them to reactivate in resonance with our Spirit’s Threads of Intent. We then find ourselves transformed, free, able to experience and express in those arenas of life’s endeavors that have been activated.

I had a real memorable dream once about trusting.  In the dream I was flying over the ocean.  At first I was just flying, then I looked down and saw the earth below me.  Then I got closer and saw the ocean, although I didn’t recognize a continent.  As I descended, I began to get afraid because it was the middle of the ocean and I’m not a strong swimmer.  In the dream, I could feel real fear in my chest.  As I descended and felt scared, I was standing upright suddenly and could feel small waves splash at my feet.  I quickly said a prayer “help me deal with whatever is gonna happen” and I lifted my feet and I looked all around to see if I could see land.  Suddenly I could see land, but waaaay off in the distance. Continue reading →

Spirit Release image from thespiritscience.net

Spirit releasement is among the most important work that a psychic medium can perform, helping direct earthbound entities into the Light.  This week several clients had almost identical issues: they wanted a Home Clearing, a Spirit Releasement, an Entity Detachment.  Not surprising to have three sessions in a row with the same issue, since I know I attract everything by virtue of my vibrational resonance. Even for callers who are scheduled months ahead, invariably several in a row will be on very similar issues, many of them also relevant to something going on in my own life.  This week was no different, but with a twist.  Last week, I built up some good momentum of cranky thoughts as folks kept bringing my attention to what a troublemaker was doing.  It was none of my business, I didn’t care and I didn’t need to know about it.   What does this have to do with spirit releasement?
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Last night being the New Moon, I went out to the firepit and made a small fire, throwing in two sweet potatoes and an ear of corn.  Half the fun of having a fire, and half the process for setting an intention of the fire, is the gathering of the kindling and the firewood.  I always have a lot of deadfall from the oaks and pines I live under, so the gathering goes quickly.  I brought out my teapot and set it on an upper stone ledge to keep it hot for my kava tea.  The night sky was dark and the scene was lit only by the glow of my small fire.  I love doing contemplation under the night sky, listening to the night sounds and watching the raccoons, the armadillo family, and the lone opossum make their way up and down the trail. I totally lost track of time, I love when that happens.  My intention for 2012 was to have new experiences and broaden my small world. Success! No regrets! Best year ever! For 2013, I will expand my inner and outer territories by making more play time. Who’s in?

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The Full Moon is a time of completion and celebration, when the Sun and the Moon are opposite. The full moon completes the cycle, representing death,  change, or tying up loose ends. It symbolizes the end chapter, shedding light on the things that we no longer need to hold on to.  Full Moon is an opportune time of  the month for purging rituals to take place. The light the full moon  offers illuminates those things that are interfering with our  spiritual advancements. Once we have become enlightened to ways that are blocking us, the easier to let go. The full moon ritual is for releasing or purging the things in our lives that no longer serve us such as addictions to food, drugs, or sex, relinquishing suffering involved in hurtful relationships, discharging physical and emotional pains, etc.   Continue reading →

As human beings, what would you say is our greatest addiction, and by far the most difficult of all to quit?  The answer will surprise you.   Give yourself a minute to think about it, because it *could* be thought of as a trick question.  Two hints have already been given, and you still can’t come up with the answer? Considering the themes of my posts, you might have guessed it…  the answer is: our habit of thinking!  It starts first thing in the morning, and doesn’t let up ’til we go back to sleep.  Now the question becomes, if one wanted to, can one will it to stop?   Can anyone will it to stop even if their life depended on it?  No need to answer this. we all really know the answer…and now we know it to be our biggest problem as a species! Why? The answer to this is intimated below.  After many years of diligent meditation, one might get lucky a few moments here and there. However, if they ever reach the point where they can stop it for about a minute and remain awake and aware, they will experience something FAR beyond anything experienced before, for, what they will experience is nothing less than divine bliss. The hindus call this samadhi; the buddhists nirvana; and the gnostic christians heaven.  Frank T. Maiello Continue reading →

Jeff Brown http://soulshaping.com

Jeff Brown:  I apologize for my inability to distinguish the benevolent warrior from the heartless warrior, a reflection of my own confusion dealing with the battlefields of yore. When I opened my heart too wide, I was vulnerable to attack from warring factions. I was conditioned to believe that I had to stay rigid, focused, prepared for any eventuality, in the desire to protect myself and others from attack. But I went too far, and closed too tight, and eradicated the bridge between our hearts. I am seeing this now and I am sorry. Continue reading →

In September 2011, I met someone with a very fundamental, Bible based viewpoint.  He was a spiritual seeker, unsatisfied with where he was.  I began sharing my experience of universal truths, we began going through my library and discussing authors and ideas that were all new to him.  He said he’d never met anyone like me, someone metaphysically minded.  I told him there was a whole lot of “us” out there, I just happened to be the first he met…  I shared with him breathing exercises, and spoke of meditation, creative visualization, kundalini awakening, tarot, astrology, totem symbolism, numerology and the chakra system.  I could tell the lights were going off as he soaked in more each day.  Finally – something that made sense, something he could use to reframe his life to understand why he’d gone through all he’d experienced and how it all led up to that moment.  In six short weeks, we met and had intense discussions about energy work, transparency, the fact that it’s all related and karmic implications.  With no advance notice to me, he was incarcerated out of state for 6 months, during which time he was captive audience for daily letters and articles, continuing our conversations.  We spoke on the phone every other day.  Every week I could see changes in his thinking as he told me of how he was using the teachings he’d learned to counsel his cellmates.  He wrote me dozens of poems and songs in daily letters. When he returned, he began posting online what he knew and how he had been able to help others with it.  The one who left was not the one who returned.  The first was bound and the second is free.  Early on he wrote me “How blessed I was to find you. Who so effortlessly showed me who I was and made me see through the lies I’d been told and began to believe myself. Thank you. Jeremy James Bonner”   Never doubt you have the power to change someone’s life.  It was my honor to help change his.

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Helping a friend in his unfolding