Today I finally got a big piece of the puzzle that I have been trying to put together for some time.  I realize that the biggest challenge to stepping fully into our authentic selves is dispelling the forces of darkness in our lives.  Darkness truly is a force and it works through people.  The more unconscious one is the more they are channels for the dark energies.  Of course we often go between consciousness and unconsciousness.  We can all have moments of unconsciousness.  We can have moments where we take some action that is out of integrity or out of character for who we are striving to be.  These are times where we can recognize just how easy it is to allow the forces of darkness to take root.

If I could live by one rule; one spiritual law in my life it would be the Golden Rule; “Treat Others As You Want To Be Treated!”  If I find myself treating someone with less respect, less love, less compassion or less kindness than I would want in a particular situation than I am not fully living my truth.  The other side of the coin is “Expect Others to Treat You as You Would Treat Them!”  This means that we also pay attention to how we are being treated by others.

As we begin to rise up in our lives, have true success, and become more visible we can easily become targets for those who feel jealous, threatened or intimidated by us.  When one embodies these feelings he or she can lash out in attack in attempt to control us, to interfere with our success, and bring us down.  I know for myself I have had lots of lessons in dealing with these forces of darkness.  The more I dare to peak my head out, to use my voice and speak my truth the more I find myself in confronted by someone else s efforts to devalue, diminish or control me in some way. Read the rest of this entry »

When I first arrived in Sedona, I  got a massage, laid on a crystal bed and used the Edgar Cayce Castor Oil pack on my belly attempting to soothe the pain for eating something that didn’t agree with me.  Being that I’ve been on raw food for over a month I was thinking I might have eaten something that wasn’t raw without realizing it.  The next day instead of feeling better I felt worse.  So I stayed in the Condo and rested.  It felt that my trip was getting off to a poor start but when I conducted my weekly support group Wednesday night I found myself suggesting to one of the women that she be willing to be right where she was.  I knew that meant me!  I needed to be willing to put aside my agenda, my plans and just be still.

I took a client into the red rocks for a session that was a little out of the ordinary from what I normally do, yet very powerful.  We talked about the issues while hiking several miles in and then found a place to sit and go a little deeper into the issues.  I found myself guided to have her throwing rocks off the cliff edge we were perched over and shouting “ENOUGH” from the top of her lungs.  When we reach that point where we are really fed up with our life the way it is and ready for a change, we have to be willing to declare that we’ve had enough of whatever is plaguing us.  The word “Enough” was a big part of Bradley Falks work, whom I recently interviewed on the radio.  The act of throwing something symbolic like a rock into the canyon and listening to our voices echo off the canyon wall was pretty powerful.  We moved a lot of energy up there above that canyon.  We also did a chord cutting and soul retrieval process.  The session itself lasted about two and a half hours altogether and I really enjoyed this longer process.  I wished I could take all of my clients deep into the forest like this; deep into nature where I could bring them in touch with that part of themselves that was truly ready to let go and move forward.  Nature is such a powerful facilitator.  It reminds us who we are! Read the rest of this entry »

True love can only be found within ourselves.  If we have not taken the journey into the darkness where we meet our own soul, we can never truly know another.  It is when all distractions are pushed aside and there is nothing left but the experience of our own existance that we descend into the dark realm of the unconscious or psyche.

It is our desire for unity and oneness that causes us to merge with another and form a bond of love that becomes our relationship.  We are under the illusion that love is something we can only find outside of ourselves.  The problem is that when we seek love on the outside we give our power to an outside entity to complete us and make us whole.  We romanticize our potential mates and project onto them our “ideal.” I can’t help think of the popular phrase in the movie “Jerry McQuire”  where Tom Cruise’s character says “You complete me!”  It is so romantic because it appeals to our belief that a romantic partner has the power to make us whole.  But this is a farce.  We give someone outside of ourselves the power to make us whole we also give him or her the power to cut us in half. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m on the plane to Sedona, Arizona listening to five of the songs I’m working on for the new Emergence CD.  It’s good traveling music; kind of a ethereal realm meets technology.  I suppose it is a marriage between the two.

Sometimes marriage can bring together two things from opposite ends of the spectrum and blend quite nicely.  When it is two people trying to get along the difference can be what break the couple apart.  But when you marry two different sounds, schools of thought or even fashion statements it can really work well.  Perhaps if in our personal relations we would do better to appreciate the differences in our mate rather than searching for a clone of ourselves.  If we had another self we would likely be very bored, because there would be nothing to spark new ideas or challenge us to try new things.

However I realize how much I do like my own company.  When we get to this place where we really love to be with ourselves I think we have arrived.  We have come to a place of self actualization.  I love all those creative ideas always flowing through my mind, the music that comes through my soul and the crazy idealistic lifestyle I strive for.  I love that I am always working to be better and better in everything I do.  I love that I don’t believe in getting old, or fundamentalist religions.  I love that I try to eat only what grows naturally and in its natural form.  I love that I can talk to my son about pot and sex without it being any big deal for either one of us.  I love that I have pursued my ideas and made a life for myself that allows me to travel and embark on these awesome spiritual journey’s.  I love that I love!  And because of this I love myself!  Because of this I love others so much easier.  And I can accept the differences in others with interest and curiosity. Read the rest of this entry »

When the movie “The Secret” came out it spread like wildfire across the Internet and the cat was out of the bag about the Law of Attraction.  Ever since we’ve been seeing all kinds of expansion on the topic, such as “The Secret Behind The Secret” and “What The Secret Didn’t Tell You!”  And also there is the angle that “There Is No Secret!  We’ve Know This Stuff for Ages!”

“The Secret” was based on the “Law of Attraction” which launched into a new awareness once that movie was released.  The Law of Attraction is a universal law that says “You attract into your reality everything that shows up.”  This means what you think about comes about or what you focus on you create.  It also means how you feel on an emotional level will attract into your reality a similar vibration, meaning if you are feeling low and depressed you will attract depressive people and circumstances into your reality. Read the rest of this entry »