We spend so much of our time being swept up with other peoples ideas of what we should or should not be doing. Everywhere we turn, someone or something is willing to offer us their opinions and ways of doing things. When we are asleep we simply act and follow, like sheep.
When we begin to wake up, we see that it may not be that those should or should nots are offered up as a way to hurt us, but it is simply an act of unconsciousness that needs to be seen for what it is..unawareness. When we reclaim who we truly are, higher consciousness, and we begin to align our lives with our true callings, then we begin to tire of those who say you should or shouldn't do something. I call them, a case of the shoulds.
What does it mean to have a case of The Shoulds? It means that either you are telling someone what they should or shouldn't do, or you are allowing someone to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. How do you cure this disease of unconscious thought? By turning within. By feeling your body and your connection to yourself. By knowing yourself so deeply that you can discern what is right or not right for yourself.
Sometimes in life we need advice or guidance. Not all advice or guidance is infected with the shoulds...how do you tell the difference? When you are given the freedom to choose, and to choose freely, with whatever choice you make being honored, vs. judgement and negativity.
It is never our place to tell others what to do. We can guide lovingly, but be sure you are not attached to what is chosen. Love regardless...openly...and without judgement to someones choice.
We are shielded from childhood from the never ending bombardment of what is right or wrong, what to do or not to do, a parent seems to download the software program that sets into motion a dynamic set of systems that make us automatic should people. We look to older more 'wiser' adults to guide us on what is acceptable and what isn't and we move on from there.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with following the seasoned guidance of those who have come before us...I certainly encourage one to seek out their wisdom...but wisdom doesn't come with you should, or you shouldn't. Wisdom comes from a place of all acceptance, non judgement, and love.
Be your own person. Design yourself. Discern what calls to you and what doesn't. Pick and choose your own life, and let others do the same. If you're a parent, embrace your perceived shortcomings, and remember to laugh at yourself and your children and put your arms around them at all times...give them and yourself the space to explore who you are at the core...
Teaching acceptance seems to be a great teaching of our time...we think we have walked free from racism, judgement, and other separating maladies of our world...but there is much work to do, because people are still suffering, still feeling pain, and still hurting themselves and others.
Lessons are learned yes, and some would say how would one become wise without suffering?
Perhaps...But perhaps it's time to step things up a notch, and move towards more acceptance of each other...and that starts with excepting yourself first.
Do what calls you...heal what is hurt...choose the colors of your life..and express them uniquely.
Until next time...Live well.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
A Blank Slate
OK. We are all getting the fact that your beliefs make up your experiences. Between all the best selling books out there, teachers and authors touring the world talking about it, documentary after documentary....the world is changing because we are changing. As one begins to see that they are in fact Co-creators of their lives, and what they think they become, and as the emotions rise, we are learning to understand the opportunities for growth they bring with them.
As we sit back and manifest the life we want, we re-vamp our relationships, our homes, our jobs, our dreams...we draw to us exactly what we choose, it then brings us to a very powerful crossroads. Since we have a contract with Spirit, God, The Universe, that we are indeed here to learn and live a human life as a soul, to propel us towards higher levels of consciousness, and its obviously not 'up' yet because we are still in physical form...what happens next?
We are getting the information on HOW to change our lives, HOW to draw what we want, how to become better people...so what happens when we have done all that. We've written our experiences, perhaps in a book, shared our stories, become successful on levels we never thought possible...what then?
You see, there is another round waiting. We now have the secret to manifesting, to know and understand who you are, where you come from, what do you do then? What if you knew all there is too know about enlightenment. Mastery becomes the next taskmaster as your slate is wiped clean.
You are no longer being controlled by outdated belief systems, past pains, mindsets and emotional bondage. You are free.
You stand on the crossroads of light and dark. What do you do with power once you have it?
Someone once said to me, if you really want to know the essence, or core, energy of a persons soul, give them power and see what they do.
With leadership changes coming quickly in this country, with our current administrations past track record, its very easy to see how someone can take power and use it against the good of all.
I don't usually take political stands/sides...but I cant help but wonder why things are happening the way they are? We just sit back and say, OK I will just keep paying $5.00 a gallon for gas. OK, I will just go ahead and do what I'm told. Since when have we become so lethargic?
I remember growing up and seeing picket signs, and protests...I don't see any now. They know eventually if we see something long enough, we will just succumb to it. And we have.
Power is a big topic. There are many levels of power...and there is dark power and light power. And when we have the keys to open doors to other levels, dimensions, and obtain access to the secrets of manifesting...we soon will have to make a choice.
Author Karon Korp, a guest on my radio show, said it is like being a baby again..born again into the realms of life where we learn new things, new experiences.
Being enlightened is about returning to the child, the innocence of discovery and belief. No longer clouded by doubt, seasoned conditioning, old pain and wounds...
In her book, Remembering Our Spiritual Journey Home: The 12 Keys for Awakening Who You Are and Why You Are Here, she talks about what it was like to remember believing in Santa Claus when we were little, or the Tooth Fairy, or Easter bunny...take your pick. Recall the magic it brought to your experience. When we discover that isn't true, there is a shift. We change, our worlds change, it may go unnoticed at first, or we dismiss it quickly and 'grow up', but we all can relate to how that felt when we believed in something, anything as a child and it was real for us. Then the illusion faded away. Our worlds changed.
As we prepare for a shift in consciousness on a global level, we are up against a very large collective painbody, a collective ego filled with fear, hate, and negativity. As long as there are countries full of suffering, death, murder....it is clear that what we are facing is like a huge teeth- bearing monster ready to consume us and take our souls with it. That aspect is within us as well. Our shadow sides are ugly, and filled with the same energetic that contributes to the collective consciousness whenever we connect to our own within. We have all created it together. Every one of us is responsible for what is happening in the world today. How do we fix it? We heal our own lives. We learn the secrets on how to create, we dive deep into our emotions and learn more about ourselves. We can only change what we understand. We cannot change what we do not acknowledge.
Go inward and be honest with yourself about your own shadow self. How do you manipulate in your life, what do you seek to control? How do you express your negativity, your hatred?
Seek its source. You have to conquer the inner monsters before you can take on the collective. A funny thing happens when you take on your own first, you help to shift the collective just by making the decision to do so. The very act, or decision, to do so, begins the change.
Why am I writing about this? Because when we finally heal, when we do all the work, when we learn how to create magic in our lives, we are re-connecting with our own innocence, beauty, Spirit and we are re-creating that lost sense of belief in something greater than ourselves, yet we are as great. An eternal paradox.
It doesn't end there. It then becomes long roads of mastering our path, our intentions will constantly be tested. We will have to choose over and over, again and again, light or dark.
Fear, control and manipulation, or life giving beauty.
Too take and destroy, or give and create. Even in itself that is a natural life cycle, we become one with it. Another eternal paradox.
So learn the skills that are everywhere now. Apply them to your life. And when you feel power coming to you, sit with it. Look it in the eye and declare your intentions.
The big question is:
What are you going to do with it?
Until next time..
Hillary
As we sit back and manifest the life we want, we re-vamp our relationships, our homes, our jobs, our dreams...we draw to us exactly what we choose, it then brings us to a very powerful crossroads. Since we have a contract with Spirit, God, The Universe, that we are indeed here to learn and live a human life as a soul, to propel us towards higher levels of consciousness, and its obviously not 'up' yet because we are still in physical form...what happens next?
We are getting the information on HOW to change our lives, HOW to draw what we want, how to become better people...so what happens when we have done all that. We've written our experiences, perhaps in a book, shared our stories, become successful on levels we never thought possible...what then?
You see, there is another round waiting. We now have the secret to manifesting, to know and understand who you are, where you come from, what do you do then? What if you knew all there is too know about enlightenment. Mastery becomes the next taskmaster as your slate is wiped clean.
You are no longer being controlled by outdated belief systems, past pains, mindsets and emotional bondage. You are free.
You stand on the crossroads of light and dark. What do you do with power once you have it?
Someone once said to me, if you really want to know the essence, or core, energy of a persons soul, give them power and see what they do.
With leadership changes coming quickly in this country, with our current administrations past track record, its very easy to see how someone can take power and use it against the good of all.
I don't usually take political stands/sides...but I cant help but wonder why things are happening the way they are? We just sit back and say, OK I will just keep paying $5.00 a gallon for gas. OK, I will just go ahead and do what I'm told. Since when have we become so lethargic?
I remember growing up and seeing picket signs, and protests...I don't see any now. They know eventually if we see something long enough, we will just succumb to it. And we have.
Power is a big topic. There are many levels of power...and there is dark power and light power. And when we have the keys to open doors to other levels, dimensions, and obtain access to the secrets of manifesting...we soon will have to make a choice.
Author Karon Korp, a guest on my radio show, said it is like being a baby again..born again into the realms of life where we learn new things, new experiences.
Being enlightened is about returning to the child, the innocence of discovery and belief. No longer clouded by doubt, seasoned conditioning, old pain and wounds...
In her book, Remembering Our Spiritual Journey Home: The 12 Keys for Awakening Who You Are and Why You Are Here, she talks about what it was like to remember believing in Santa Claus when we were little, or the Tooth Fairy, or Easter bunny...take your pick. Recall the magic it brought to your experience. When we discover that isn't true, there is a shift. We change, our worlds change, it may go unnoticed at first, or we dismiss it quickly and 'grow up', but we all can relate to how that felt when we believed in something, anything as a child and it was real for us. Then the illusion faded away. Our worlds changed.
As we prepare for a shift in consciousness on a global level, we are up against a very large collective painbody, a collective ego filled with fear, hate, and negativity. As long as there are countries full of suffering, death, murder....it is clear that what we are facing is like a huge teeth- bearing monster ready to consume us and take our souls with it. That aspect is within us as well. Our shadow sides are ugly, and filled with the same energetic that contributes to the collective consciousness whenever we connect to our own within. We have all created it together. Every one of us is responsible for what is happening in the world today. How do we fix it? We heal our own lives. We learn the secrets on how to create, we dive deep into our emotions and learn more about ourselves. We can only change what we understand. We cannot change what we do not acknowledge.
Go inward and be honest with yourself about your own shadow self. How do you manipulate in your life, what do you seek to control? How do you express your negativity, your hatred?
Seek its source. You have to conquer the inner monsters before you can take on the collective. A funny thing happens when you take on your own first, you help to shift the collective just by making the decision to do so. The very act, or decision, to do so, begins the change.
Why am I writing about this? Because when we finally heal, when we do all the work, when we learn how to create magic in our lives, we are re-connecting with our own innocence, beauty, Spirit and we are re-creating that lost sense of belief in something greater than ourselves, yet we are as great. An eternal paradox.
It doesn't end there. It then becomes long roads of mastering our path, our intentions will constantly be tested. We will have to choose over and over, again and again, light or dark.
Fear, control and manipulation, or life giving beauty.
Too take and destroy, or give and create. Even in itself that is a natural life cycle, we become one with it. Another eternal paradox.
So learn the skills that are everywhere now. Apply them to your life. And when you feel power coming to you, sit with it. Look it in the eye and declare your intentions.
The big question is:
What are you going to do with it?
Until next time..
Hillary
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Appreciation
Of Self first....
I would like to say a special thank you to all of my listener's worldwide, thank you for being you and for your courage to live your dreams and believe you are worth it! You are all truly part of the changing consciousness at work in the world today. It is my hope and dream to inspire all I come across in life to step further out into the world towards living an authentic, meaningful, and deeply connected life.
To let go of fear and control, and surrender to spirit, so that the mysteries of life can nurture you and support you the way they were meant too. Everyday is a miracle. Every person you cross paths with is a chance to carry on the spark. Love and compassion in all things, personal, spiritual, even business related, creates a bridge to the ever abundant dimension of higher consciousness.
Seeking your own inner teachers, wise ones, and guides and learning to trust their voices, is really about trusting your own. Let go of sabotage in your lives, on all levels, seek the present moment always and heal your relationship with it. It takes great courage, heart, surrender, and a letting go of manipulation and control, and the egoic images of how things should be for one to do so.
Be a valley instead of a mountain! Giving up the need to stand tall and do, in order to let go and be, allows the flow of universal abundance.
The collective consciousness has a very heavy painbody. A reflection of our own on many levels, and we all contribute to it when we let negativity and fear run our lives. It overcomes us when we least expect it, taking precious lifeforce along the way. When we live in the past and worry about our future, we forget about the present moment, it ceases to exist in our experience. Yet it never ceases to exist because it is all there truly ever is. So embrace it!
One of my dear teachers, Lynn Andrews, always said to me that allowing our vibrations to fall into grief, despair, anger and hatred, matches the vibration of death. And not to linger there for long because it can takes us, like a strong North wind.
Remember laughter, and never take yourself too seriously, practice random acts of kindness, bring integrity and honor into all areas of your life. Share your story with others from a stance of healing and lessons learned vs. from a victim stance. See and observe how that changes your experience of life.
What do you have to lose?
There are so many wonderful practitioners and teachers in the world today doing their part to assist in the healing of the planet on a collective level. We are ultimately responsible and accountable for our own lives, our own healing, and when we except that, we too will add to that assistance.We have the power to change the world. But it starts with us....and healing what lies within first.
Until next time...
Live Well,
Hillary
I would like to say a special thank you to all of my listener's worldwide, thank you for being you and for your courage to live your dreams and believe you are worth it! You are all truly part of the changing consciousness at work in the world today. It is my hope and dream to inspire all I come across in life to step further out into the world towards living an authentic, meaningful, and deeply connected life.
To let go of fear and control, and surrender to spirit, so that the mysteries of life can nurture you and support you the way they were meant too. Everyday is a miracle. Every person you cross paths with is a chance to carry on the spark. Love and compassion in all things, personal, spiritual, even business related, creates a bridge to the ever abundant dimension of higher consciousness.
Seeking your own inner teachers, wise ones, and guides and learning to trust their voices, is really about trusting your own. Let go of sabotage in your lives, on all levels, seek the present moment always and heal your relationship with it. It takes great courage, heart, surrender, and a letting go of manipulation and control, and the egoic images of how things should be for one to do so.
Be a valley instead of a mountain! Giving up the need to stand tall and do, in order to let go and be, allows the flow of universal abundance.
The collective consciousness has a very heavy painbody. A reflection of our own on many levels, and we all contribute to it when we let negativity and fear run our lives. It overcomes us when we least expect it, taking precious lifeforce along the way. When we live in the past and worry about our future, we forget about the present moment, it ceases to exist in our experience. Yet it never ceases to exist because it is all there truly ever is. So embrace it!
One of my dear teachers, Lynn Andrews, always said to me that allowing our vibrations to fall into grief, despair, anger and hatred, matches the vibration of death. And not to linger there for long because it can takes us, like a strong North wind.
Remember laughter, and never take yourself too seriously, practice random acts of kindness, bring integrity and honor into all areas of your life. Share your story with others from a stance of healing and lessons learned vs. from a victim stance. See and observe how that changes your experience of life.
What do you have to lose?
There are so many wonderful practitioners and teachers in the world today doing their part to assist in the healing of the planet on a collective level. We are ultimately responsible and accountable for our own lives, our own healing, and when we except that, we too will add to that assistance.We have the power to change the world. But it starts with us....and healing what lies within first.
Until next time...
Live Well,
Hillary
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Pieces of the Puzzle
I had coffee with Victoria Moran the other day. An incredible author and inspirational speaker who has spent her life guiding others to live bigger and better lives. Two time guest on Oprah, Victoria is a personal inspiration to me.
Her eyes sparkle with deep knowing, and light emanates from her like a star. When she walked into the Starbucks, there was a moment of recognition on another level...
I wondered at our chance meeting here. She had asked if I could meet her for coffee...and of course I said yes. I sat in complete presence. Staying centered. Wondering at the chances the two of us were sitting across from each other in Starbucks. My mind wondered at what this was for? wow..I'm having coffee with Victoria Moran. I had to stay focused. I knew there was an important piece of the puzzle here for me. I had to be open to receive it. There are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.
So why on earth would Victoria Moran ask me to coffee! I was so excited. There had to be a reason in the grand scheme of life. The mysteries are always at work.
She walked in, I recognized her from researching her work, as she will be a guest on my show come Fall. She reminded me of an artist, a seasoned new yorker....she carried a sense and feel of exotic places, world traveler, her energy was a delight to be around, and I was intrigued the minute she sat down. I knew I was in the presence of a beautiful soul.
So I simply let go. I sat back and said OK...I am paying attention!
Our conversation got into a groove once she had her coffee and we were settled. We talked about her work..which is simply brilliant!, and eventually our conversation turned to things spiritual. As they often do nowadays. I shared some of my story, something I have vowed to do from now on, and the conversation turned intimate..it was like talking to an old friend.
I shared my first past life regression which was with my grandfather when I was five years old. I wanted to write a book about it when he was still alive, but we never got to do it. I was too young, and I had no idea where to start, who would be interested? I had no idea what I was doing back then. Even now, approaching a 'real' publisher is clueless for me. I have self published because I needed to manifest my books...I needed to see them in form, not for vanity purposes..but because everything I had done up until then had pretty much started but never finished. It was the first real act of power I saw through from beginning to end. So choosing to self publish was because I needed too at that time in my life, and I wasn't ready on many levels for the rejection notices of big publishing houses. I had been through enough rejection in my life to last a lifetime. Now would be different, because I have healed a tremendous amount of those wounds...maybe someday.
As I sat across Victoria...I thought maybe I could do it, write a big book and approach a publisher. I filed that away in the back of my mind to mull on later.
I shared with her the story of being 5 and having my grandfather led me through a past life regression. It was a remarkable experience, and still very vivid in my mind even today. I met my parents from a past life, they were simple farmers...rolling green hills in the background...I felt an instant connection to England..and I have always had a fascination with that part of the world and will be traveling there for the first time next year with Dr. Chet Snow on a research tour of the crop circles. So perhaps when I go next year, more of this will be revealed for me.
Anyway, I shared with her my experiences of last years health issues with facing life threatening blood clots that had gone to my lungs and put me in the ICU for over a week. I almost died from them. She stopped me and said she was picking up on a connection between the lungs and my past life in England...I feel I died as a child in that life, and she said it seemed the lung thing I faced last year, had to do with what I died from in my last life. I sat back and it slowly seeped through and felt very very right to me. I had healed something from a past life. I had made the conscious connection between that area of my body here and now, and back then. Instantly, in the middle of Starbucks, sitting across from Victoria. It was as if I was transplanted from ordinary reality and I found myself sitting on the edge of another place and time. It was all very surreal.
For the two hours we sat and talked...it became very clear to me that it is time to start sharing my story..starting with John's show, and now sitting here with Victoria..hearing the same message I know this is a part of it all. To really begin to work my own mystical experiences into everything. Ive always used them as reference in my work, my readings, my work with clients and students, but Ive always kept them to myself and a few select friends.
I have had an AHA moment that has been linked to some very recent AHA moments for me. You see when we start to align with our true purpose in life, something happens and things begin to move. You begin to feel a push and you stop resisting that push and start trusting it is for a reason ...always.
Think about your own life. What is it about you that makes you unique? What is it about your journey, your life, that is vastly different from everyone else? Find your gift...find your voice and begin to sing to the world from a place of light and healing. Someone will listen. Connecting with others in a healing and positive way is really all there is. Everything else in life is an illusion and it passes with time. Crumbling like ruins of an old building..all things fade into transition. We think everything around us is solid, permanent..we try to find ways to make things last and hold on forever to the thoughts of what we think makes us who we are. For a long time my story was a sad one filled with much pain and suffering. Now all of it is truly a gift, and everything was perfectly and divinely placed so that I could live it, feel it, understand it so when I work with someone I can truly know what it feels like. I can read the energy, and I can understand that there is a way out of it.
Everyday you wake up....look at where you are and ask yourself why are you there?
Write about your life so that one day you can share it with others. You never know who you will inspire to move forward, to love, to live life instead of hate and fear it.
Thank God for all of you..and all your gifts for the world.
Thank you Victoria for helping me move forward on my path a bit more...it was a pleasure.
From one star soul to another..
Hillary
Her eyes sparkle with deep knowing, and light emanates from her like a star. When she walked into the Starbucks, there was a moment of recognition on another level...
I wondered at our chance meeting here. She had asked if I could meet her for coffee...and of course I said yes. I sat in complete presence. Staying centered. Wondering at the chances the two of us were sitting across from each other in Starbucks. My mind wondered at what this was for? wow..I'm having coffee with Victoria Moran. I had to stay focused. I knew there was an important piece of the puzzle here for me. I had to be open to receive it. There are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.
So why on earth would Victoria Moran ask me to coffee! I was so excited. There had to be a reason in the grand scheme of life. The mysteries are always at work.
She walked in, I recognized her from researching her work, as she will be a guest on my show come Fall. She reminded me of an artist, a seasoned new yorker....she carried a sense and feel of exotic places, world traveler, her energy was a delight to be around, and I was intrigued the minute she sat down. I knew I was in the presence of a beautiful soul.
So I simply let go. I sat back and said OK...I am paying attention!
Our conversation got into a groove once she had her coffee and we were settled. We talked about her work..which is simply brilliant!, and eventually our conversation turned to things spiritual. As they often do nowadays. I shared some of my story, something I have vowed to do from now on, and the conversation turned intimate..it was like talking to an old friend.
I shared my first past life regression which was with my grandfather when I was five years old. I wanted to write a book about it when he was still alive, but we never got to do it. I was too young, and I had no idea where to start, who would be interested? I had no idea what I was doing back then. Even now, approaching a 'real' publisher is clueless for me. I have self published because I needed to manifest my books...I needed to see them in form, not for vanity purposes..but because everything I had done up until then had pretty much started but never finished. It was the first real act of power I saw through from beginning to end. So choosing to self publish was because I needed too at that time in my life, and I wasn't ready on many levels for the rejection notices of big publishing houses. I had been through enough rejection in my life to last a lifetime. Now would be different, because I have healed a tremendous amount of those wounds...maybe someday.
As I sat across Victoria...I thought maybe I could do it, write a big book and approach a publisher. I filed that away in the back of my mind to mull on later.
I shared with her the story of being 5 and having my grandfather led me through a past life regression. It was a remarkable experience, and still very vivid in my mind even today. I met my parents from a past life, they were simple farmers...rolling green hills in the background...I felt an instant connection to England..and I have always had a fascination with that part of the world and will be traveling there for the first time next year with Dr. Chet Snow on a research tour of the crop circles. So perhaps when I go next year, more of this will be revealed for me.
Anyway, I shared with her my experiences of last years health issues with facing life threatening blood clots that had gone to my lungs and put me in the ICU for over a week. I almost died from them. She stopped me and said she was picking up on a connection between the lungs and my past life in England...I feel I died as a child in that life, and she said it seemed the lung thing I faced last year, had to do with what I died from in my last life. I sat back and it slowly seeped through and felt very very right to me. I had healed something from a past life. I had made the conscious connection between that area of my body here and now, and back then. Instantly, in the middle of Starbucks, sitting across from Victoria. It was as if I was transplanted from ordinary reality and I found myself sitting on the edge of another place and time. It was all very surreal.
For the two hours we sat and talked...it became very clear to me that it is time to start sharing my story..starting with John's show, and now sitting here with Victoria..hearing the same message I know this is a part of it all. To really begin to work my own mystical experiences into everything. Ive always used them as reference in my work, my readings, my work with clients and students, but Ive always kept them to myself and a few select friends.
I have had an AHA moment that has been linked to some very recent AHA moments for me. You see when we start to align with our true purpose in life, something happens and things begin to move. You begin to feel a push and you stop resisting that push and start trusting it is for a reason ...always.
Think about your own life. What is it about you that makes you unique? What is it about your journey, your life, that is vastly different from everyone else? Find your gift...find your voice and begin to sing to the world from a place of light and healing. Someone will listen. Connecting with others in a healing and positive way is really all there is. Everything else in life is an illusion and it passes with time. Crumbling like ruins of an old building..all things fade into transition. We think everything around us is solid, permanent..we try to find ways to make things last and hold on forever to the thoughts of what we think makes us who we are. For a long time my story was a sad one filled with much pain and suffering. Now all of it is truly a gift, and everything was perfectly and divinely placed so that I could live it, feel it, understand it so when I work with someone I can truly know what it feels like. I can read the energy, and I can understand that there is a way out of it.
Everyday you wake up....look at where you are and ask yourself why are you there?
Write about your life so that one day you can share it with others. You never know who you will inspire to move forward, to love, to live life instead of hate and fear it.
Thank God for all of you..and all your gifts for the world.
Thank you Victoria for helping me move forward on my path a bit more...it was a pleasure.
From one star soul to another..
Hillary
Friday, June 13, 2008
Endless Possibilites
Are everywhere...
You know, I have to say that these days I find myself walking forward at all costs. Sometimes that is easier said than done. It seems everyone is going through life changes on some level that is asking, no demanding, that they look into parts of there life that are desperately in need of healing and empowerment. Our weaknesses are in our face now more than ever. But that's a good thing!
One of my beloved teachers always said to me, those that upset you the most are your greatest teachers. They have the most to gift you with. Your healing and evolution lies in what they mirror back to you, in what they trigger inside of you. So many think its about avoiding people that don't think or act or do as you do...if someone is toxic or overly negative in your life, you may need to rethink how that is a mirror for your own negativity and your own toxicity. You have attracted it for some reason. Look deeply into it and then when you have got it! It will move on...
Painbodies are triggered by other painbodies. When someone carries around a tremendous amount of negative energy, remember that our energy bodies extend outward around us some four to five feet, like a cocoon. So when we walk into the room, our energy bodies are mixing with others, communicating on levels our conscious mind does not understand, that's why we may feel attracted too or repelled from people in that room we do not even know. Our energy bodies are talking to each other...reading each other and so on.
Our energy bodies will feel out the compatibility before our minds do. When someone comes to me for a reading about a relationships I spend a lot of time discussing this aspect of life. Because in understanding how our energy bodies work, and how our painbody is effected, there is a pattern that develops and cycles form, small eddies of swirling energy that gets caught in one place that simply cant move forward because of the strong energetic current that is focused on it.
Which brings me to my latest guest on my show Peter Guare....wonderful energy he has!
Our conversation was intriguing. His story captivating. His accomplishments impressive.
While we were talking I had an aha moment, where it became even clearer how many endless and infinite possibilities surround us at all times.
It was the part were we talked about being in a crowded room and suddenly you pick up on a conversation clear across the room, and if you hear your name, how suddenly you can hear that whole conversation, were as before, you couldn't. How when your brain filters in on picking up that information...it can.
Think for a moment how many filters we use everyday..from an energetic perspective. We are bombarded with streams of information constantly, stimulated constantly with endless information for our brain to process..partly necessary to discern what we need to. However, how interesting that when we CHOOSE to change the filter, we can pick up on sounds clear across a crowed room. What massive implications this has. Its nothing new...its something everyone has at one time or another done or experienced...but now apply that concept to the rest of your life.
Change your filters.
We do it on our water systems, in our cars, our air conditioners...why not in our minds!
Try it for today...become aware of your filters and when you use them. It may seem elusive at first, but try it. See if you can get a sense of how you filter your beliefs, your experiences, your relationships, your kids, your job, your drive home!
Change your filters. Just for today..try something new. Allow something new to come into your life. Get rid of the clogged, dirty filter, filled with outdated mindsets, beliefs, dreams, and thoughts.
You see, changing our filters consciously, allows those energetic stagnant energies that were caught in eddies of swirling currents, a chance to drain out towards new places...to move on, clean house and move forward.
Thanks Peter for a great show! Good luck with your Iraq War Project...I support you 100%.
Until next time everyone.....live well.
Hillary
You know, I have to say that these days I find myself walking forward at all costs. Sometimes that is easier said than done. It seems everyone is going through life changes on some level that is asking, no demanding, that they look into parts of there life that are desperately in need of healing and empowerment. Our weaknesses are in our face now more than ever. But that's a good thing!
One of my beloved teachers always said to me, those that upset you the most are your greatest teachers. They have the most to gift you with. Your healing and evolution lies in what they mirror back to you, in what they trigger inside of you. So many think its about avoiding people that don't think or act or do as you do...if someone is toxic or overly negative in your life, you may need to rethink how that is a mirror for your own negativity and your own toxicity. You have attracted it for some reason. Look deeply into it and then when you have got it! It will move on...
Painbodies are triggered by other painbodies. When someone carries around a tremendous amount of negative energy, remember that our energy bodies extend outward around us some four to five feet, like a cocoon. So when we walk into the room, our energy bodies are mixing with others, communicating on levels our conscious mind does not understand, that's why we may feel attracted too or repelled from people in that room we do not even know. Our energy bodies are talking to each other...reading each other and so on.
Our energy bodies will feel out the compatibility before our minds do. When someone comes to me for a reading about a relationships I spend a lot of time discussing this aspect of life. Because in understanding how our energy bodies work, and how our painbody is effected, there is a pattern that develops and cycles form, small eddies of swirling energy that gets caught in one place that simply cant move forward because of the strong energetic current that is focused on it.
Which brings me to my latest guest on my show Peter Guare....wonderful energy he has!
Our conversation was intriguing. His story captivating. His accomplishments impressive.
While we were talking I had an aha moment, where it became even clearer how many endless and infinite possibilities surround us at all times.
It was the part were we talked about being in a crowded room and suddenly you pick up on a conversation clear across the room, and if you hear your name, how suddenly you can hear that whole conversation, were as before, you couldn't. How when your brain filters in on picking up that information...it can.
Think for a moment how many filters we use everyday..from an energetic perspective. We are bombarded with streams of information constantly, stimulated constantly with endless information for our brain to process..partly necessary to discern what we need to. However, how interesting that when we CHOOSE to change the filter, we can pick up on sounds clear across a crowed room. What massive implications this has. Its nothing new...its something everyone has at one time or another done or experienced...but now apply that concept to the rest of your life.
Change your filters.
We do it on our water systems, in our cars, our air conditioners...why not in our minds!
Try it for today...become aware of your filters and when you use them. It may seem elusive at first, but try it. See if you can get a sense of how you filter your beliefs, your experiences, your relationships, your kids, your job, your drive home!
Change your filters. Just for today..try something new. Allow something new to come into your life. Get rid of the clogged, dirty filter, filled with outdated mindsets, beliefs, dreams, and thoughts.
You see, changing our filters consciously, allows those energetic stagnant energies that were caught in eddies of swirling currents, a chance to drain out towards new places...to move on, clean house and move forward.
Thanks Peter for a great show! Good luck with your Iraq War Project...I support you 100%.
Until next time everyone.....live well.
Hillary
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Fuzzy Moments
I sit back today and look out my window. Thinking about where my life has taken me. I wonder at the chances, the blind leaps, the failures, all the mixtures of moments I have made in my life up until now. The choices I have made, the things I regret, all of the moments I have had up until now to rethink, explore and hold in my mind like a photo of times now past.
I look around and wonder how I got here. What is 'here' and where does it officially stand anyway. I began a radio show a few weeks ago, and as I bring a guest on and have a conversation with each of them, I realize how different all the shows sound. The energy of the shows change with every guest. Each one brings a nugget of gold into my life and very carefully I have lined up in front of me each nugget and am now looking at them one by one.
Now what?
Where am I going with it? What am I supposed to do? I have a completely booked show for the rest of the year, I have two more networks airing my program...is anyone even listening?
I laugh at the thought, because every show I wonder..is anyone really out there?.
Recently I interviewed my own hero, John St. Augustine, radio talk show extraordinaire...and I was so nervous, I completely botched his intro, which was re-recorded thanks to my gifted producer Bill. I was so taken by being in his presence. When I read his story ' Living an Uncommon Life', there were so many sentences that jumped off the page at me. So many similar thoughts have traveled through my mind these last few weeks as I navigate this new world of talk radio. I keep thinking about something he said to me on the air...
"You're doing what everyone else is doing"
Of course the context was in relation to what we were talking about...but that sentence keeps coming back to me over and over. Like a loudspeaker in my head.
As I sat today, working in my office, multi-tasking...I desperately need to hire a personal assistant! It hit me. I need to be my OWN unique gift to the world. Yes I'm trained in this and that. Yes I do things similar to others...there are a ton of people out there in the holistic community doing what I do...everyone is talking about empowerment, changing your beliefs, creating a new life. I thought about John's sentence, his voice echoed endlessly in my head, our conversation was staying with me, at first I thought it was because I so admire him. I look up to him and his story completely, especially so now that I'm in the radio world.
Now that radio has entered my life I LOVE what I do. I love talking to my guests and with each conversation...something is said that may help someone, may ignite light somewhere. Even if its just that one person listening...maybe it has been of service.
I can only hope that is the case.
I think about all the times in my life I have failed. Business ventures, careers, relationships, even myself to a certain extent. I think about my own experiences. My own story because that is what is unique. My story isn't like everyone's, and everyone's isn't like anyone's. That is our gift!
The question then becomes...then what! You know your story, you've lived it. Now what? Who cares? What is it all for?
They say, the enlightened masters in the world out there, that everything happens for a reason. If that's true..then everything we have experienced has been for a reason. All of it. Everything that has happened in my life has a purpose. Yours too!
There are times when it is very clear. I can see it, touch it and I know without a doubt I am meant to do what I do. My whole life has lead up to this. Helping others heal. Because I have had to heal from so much in my life, that's all I really know. Is healing. Pain was the main theme of my life for so long, I became so tired of hurting inside...so filled with sadness and hurt from an abusive childhood, dysfunctional adolescence, and a fast paced lost young adulthood...I knew if I didn't start dealing with what I had been through, it would overcome me, and I would give in to the pain, and lose my battle with life.
As I began to move out into the world as a teacher, teaching Reiki, and other holistic modalities...I realized I could read peoples energy fields like a book. I had spent so many years learning about my own with various teachers, in various settings, that when I worked with someone, or was teaching...I could feel much more than I expected.
I fought it, doubted it, wished it away...denied it the best I could. Explained it away as a imaginary wish. But it was all very real and very true.
John's words came back to me and I thought about what he said. You're doing what everyone else is doing...and of course he was talking about the beautiful movement in the world today that has to do with raising consciousness and awareness. That is causing us to take responsibility for our lives and our healing...the main theme of my talk show. The very reason why I created it.
But for me it has had much more of an impact. We talked about words..voices..finding our own song. And it hit me again...what is my song? and what makes it unique? If all the birds in the world sang the same tune..we would never look up to see what kind of bird was making that sound...or wonder what colors their feathers were. Would we even stop to listen?
Again..there is that question..is anyone out there listening? As a talk radio host..a newbie..someone with not one ounce of broadcasting experience behind them, that thought goes through my mind all the time now.
Yet my producers believe in me...my show is successfully booked with some of the most amazing guests..I'm honored to be able to speak with them..each hour is an incredible gift. Ive syndicated to two new networks..after only 6 shows.
Why is there this feeling inside me still that says I am still missing something. A piece of the puzzle. There is something just out of reach, just beyond my grasp that I cant quite figure out.
So I sit. And wait. Open to what it all means. Spirit has never failed me. I may have failed spirit occasionally by doubting myself, wanting to quit when times got tough. But like the moon shining overhead each night...like a faithful companion..spirit has always delivered a meaning eventually.
Many of you have asked me why radio...I have a successful Reiki practice, I love what I do..I travel the world..I have a beautiful family..my answer is this. I do it because it was explained very clearly to me by spirit that I had too. That it was part of the plan. Whatever that is. Because at times it is like driving down a dark road...you are pushed forward by an engine of sorts, your headlights only illuminate roughly five feet in front of you, you trust that the road is there and it leads somewhere...even if you cant see it yet. So that's what radio is for me right now. I have no idea what this is all for. I have no idea if anyone is listening? I have no idea if I'm doing it right or not....
I'm just being myself.
I know there is a key lying in John's words for me. I have to figure out what makes me different. As we all do. All of us have to figure out what our uniqueness is and put it out there to the world.
A funny thought came to me the other day while I was watching my sons baseball game. It was extremely hot, and there was this tree that was releasing all these white fuzzes..and because I have no idea what kind of tree it was...they are called fuzzy trees for now.
Each fuzzy had a seed. It looked like it was snowing in June. As I sat on the bleacher..I watched the air filled with seeds. Each one floating towards their destination..wherever that may be. Each one held the promise of life and creation. Each one carried the exact same potential as the other, but all of them took different paths. Maybe some landed in soil where it could grow..maybe others landed where it was impossible to grow..unless the wind blew it elsewhere.
I held my hand out and one landed on my hand. The seed hung there like a precious white nothing. A blank page. Powerful and potent. The mother tree was a huge tree..very old and beautiful. The fuzzes were everywhere....so many seeds. So many possibilities. So many chances. They all had the same genetic code..to become a fuzzy generating tree. To reach their fullest potential..to reach high into the sky and spread potential. Carrying on the gift of life and hope.
Each seed however, had something unique. Each seed had something that made them special. Their journey. We are all a seed seeking our fullest potential. We are all on a journey. All of us come from a source that is the essence of our highest potential and we each carry the codes to reach just that. But the only thing that makes us truly unique..is our own experiences. Our journey.
When I first moved out into the public eye, I carefully censored what part of my life was made public. I didn't want my journey to be part of it. I shared pieces here and there..but selectively and carefully. Discretion is important...but what I have realized, thanks to John's words...is that in order to make myself unique, I need to work my own story into my work and with what I do.
It needs to be part of my message...my song.
So thank you John. I see the reason why I crossed paths with you...it was a much needed ingredient for the bigger picture. Not to be afraid of sharing my own story into the work that I do. That is what makes me unique...like one of those fuzzes.
When the fuzzy landed in my hand I watched it and then blew it out beyond the bleachers and watched it as it landed into the grass. Without crossing paths with me, it may not have gotten that push of wind to be floated elsewhere. So John...you were that wind for me..
I have always said to you all...you never know how your interaction with someone will change someone. It always changes you. Good, bad or indifferent...any interaction between life and life changes things forever.
So this blog entry is dedicated to John St. Augustine. Whose conversation as my guest on my show, was the catalyst I needed to figure out another piece of the never ending mysterious puzzle of self.
When our conversation was over and we closed the show..I felt blessed by his presence. By his words and how much they guide me to see life differently, to keep trying, to move forward always towards what you believe in and trust that it is all ultimately for something.
Until next time everyone...
Hillary
I look around and wonder how I got here. What is 'here' and where does it officially stand anyway. I began a radio show a few weeks ago, and as I bring a guest on and have a conversation with each of them, I realize how different all the shows sound. The energy of the shows change with every guest. Each one brings a nugget of gold into my life and very carefully I have lined up in front of me each nugget and am now looking at them one by one.
Now what?
Where am I going with it? What am I supposed to do? I have a completely booked show for the rest of the year, I have two more networks airing my program...is anyone even listening?
I laugh at the thought, because every show I wonder..is anyone really out there?.
Recently I interviewed my own hero, John St. Augustine, radio talk show extraordinaire...and I was so nervous, I completely botched his intro, which was re-recorded thanks to my gifted producer Bill. I was so taken by being in his presence. When I read his story ' Living an Uncommon Life', there were so many sentences that jumped off the page at me. So many similar thoughts have traveled through my mind these last few weeks as I navigate this new world of talk radio. I keep thinking about something he said to me on the air...
"You're doing what everyone else is doing"
Of course the context was in relation to what we were talking about...but that sentence keeps coming back to me over and over. Like a loudspeaker in my head.
As I sat today, working in my office, multi-tasking...I desperately need to hire a personal assistant! It hit me. I need to be my OWN unique gift to the world. Yes I'm trained in this and that. Yes I do things similar to others...there are a ton of people out there in the holistic community doing what I do...everyone is talking about empowerment, changing your beliefs, creating a new life. I thought about John's sentence, his voice echoed endlessly in my head, our conversation was staying with me, at first I thought it was because I so admire him. I look up to him and his story completely, especially so now that I'm in the radio world.
Now that radio has entered my life I LOVE what I do. I love talking to my guests and with each conversation...something is said that may help someone, may ignite light somewhere. Even if its just that one person listening...maybe it has been of service.
I can only hope that is the case.
I think about all the times in my life I have failed. Business ventures, careers, relationships, even myself to a certain extent. I think about my own experiences. My own story because that is what is unique. My story isn't like everyone's, and everyone's isn't like anyone's. That is our gift!
The question then becomes...then what! You know your story, you've lived it. Now what? Who cares? What is it all for?
They say, the enlightened masters in the world out there, that everything happens for a reason. If that's true..then everything we have experienced has been for a reason. All of it. Everything that has happened in my life has a purpose. Yours too!
There are times when it is very clear. I can see it, touch it and I know without a doubt I am meant to do what I do. My whole life has lead up to this. Helping others heal. Because I have had to heal from so much in my life, that's all I really know. Is healing. Pain was the main theme of my life for so long, I became so tired of hurting inside...so filled with sadness and hurt from an abusive childhood, dysfunctional adolescence, and a fast paced lost young adulthood...I knew if I didn't start dealing with what I had been through, it would overcome me, and I would give in to the pain, and lose my battle with life.
As I began to move out into the world as a teacher, teaching Reiki, and other holistic modalities...I realized I could read peoples energy fields like a book. I had spent so many years learning about my own with various teachers, in various settings, that when I worked with someone, or was teaching...I could feel much more than I expected.
I fought it, doubted it, wished it away...denied it the best I could. Explained it away as a imaginary wish. But it was all very real and very true.
John's words came back to me and I thought about what he said. You're doing what everyone else is doing...and of course he was talking about the beautiful movement in the world today that has to do with raising consciousness and awareness. That is causing us to take responsibility for our lives and our healing...the main theme of my talk show. The very reason why I created it.
But for me it has had much more of an impact. We talked about words..voices..finding our own song. And it hit me again...what is my song? and what makes it unique? If all the birds in the world sang the same tune..we would never look up to see what kind of bird was making that sound...or wonder what colors their feathers were. Would we even stop to listen?
Again..there is that question..is anyone out there listening? As a talk radio host..a newbie..someone with not one ounce of broadcasting experience behind them, that thought goes through my mind all the time now.
Yet my producers believe in me...my show is successfully booked with some of the most amazing guests..I'm honored to be able to speak with them..each hour is an incredible gift. Ive syndicated to two new networks..after only 6 shows.
Why is there this feeling inside me still that says I am still missing something. A piece of the puzzle. There is something just out of reach, just beyond my grasp that I cant quite figure out.
So I sit. And wait. Open to what it all means. Spirit has never failed me. I may have failed spirit occasionally by doubting myself, wanting to quit when times got tough. But like the moon shining overhead each night...like a faithful companion..spirit has always delivered a meaning eventually.
Many of you have asked me why radio...I have a successful Reiki practice, I love what I do..I travel the world..I have a beautiful family..my answer is this. I do it because it was explained very clearly to me by spirit that I had too. That it was part of the plan. Whatever that is. Because at times it is like driving down a dark road...you are pushed forward by an engine of sorts, your headlights only illuminate roughly five feet in front of you, you trust that the road is there and it leads somewhere...even if you cant see it yet. So that's what radio is for me right now. I have no idea what this is all for. I have no idea if anyone is listening? I have no idea if I'm doing it right or not....
I'm just being myself.
I know there is a key lying in John's words for me. I have to figure out what makes me different. As we all do. All of us have to figure out what our uniqueness is and put it out there to the world.
A funny thought came to me the other day while I was watching my sons baseball game. It was extremely hot, and there was this tree that was releasing all these white fuzzes..and because I have no idea what kind of tree it was...they are called fuzzy trees for now.
Each fuzzy had a seed. It looked like it was snowing in June. As I sat on the bleacher..I watched the air filled with seeds. Each one floating towards their destination..wherever that may be. Each one held the promise of life and creation. Each one carried the exact same potential as the other, but all of them took different paths. Maybe some landed in soil where it could grow..maybe others landed where it was impossible to grow..unless the wind blew it elsewhere.
I held my hand out and one landed on my hand. The seed hung there like a precious white nothing. A blank page. Powerful and potent. The mother tree was a huge tree..very old and beautiful. The fuzzes were everywhere....so many seeds. So many possibilities. So many chances. They all had the same genetic code..to become a fuzzy generating tree. To reach their fullest potential..to reach high into the sky and spread potential. Carrying on the gift of life and hope.
Each seed however, had something unique. Each seed had something that made them special. Their journey. We are all a seed seeking our fullest potential. We are all on a journey. All of us come from a source that is the essence of our highest potential and we each carry the codes to reach just that. But the only thing that makes us truly unique..is our own experiences. Our journey.
When I first moved out into the public eye, I carefully censored what part of my life was made public. I didn't want my journey to be part of it. I shared pieces here and there..but selectively and carefully. Discretion is important...but what I have realized, thanks to John's words...is that in order to make myself unique, I need to work my own story into my work and with what I do.
It needs to be part of my message...my song.
So thank you John. I see the reason why I crossed paths with you...it was a much needed ingredient for the bigger picture. Not to be afraid of sharing my own story into the work that I do. That is what makes me unique...like one of those fuzzes.
When the fuzzy landed in my hand I watched it and then blew it out beyond the bleachers and watched it as it landed into the grass. Without crossing paths with me, it may not have gotten that push of wind to be floated elsewhere. So John...you were that wind for me..
I have always said to you all...you never know how your interaction with someone will change someone. It always changes you. Good, bad or indifferent...any interaction between life and life changes things forever.
So this blog entry is dedicated to John St. Augustine. Whose conversation as my guest on my show, was the catalyst I needed to figure out another piece of the never ending mysterious puzzle of self.
When our conversation was over and we closed the show..I felt blessed by his presence. By his words and how much they guide me to see life differently, to keep trying, to move forward always towards what you believe in and trust that it is all ultimately for something.
Until next time everyone...
Hillary
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Closure for Mind, Body & Spirit
Closure for Mind, Body & Spirit
with Hillary Raimo author of Matters for Mind, Body & Spirit
The hustle of the holidays are over, and the snow is silently falling. There is a quiet slowing down of energy as we enter the hibernation of winter. We look back over the year and take stock of what we have learned. Moments, memories, and reminiscences of all that has happened. The New Year is a great time to sit back and reflect what we have done or not done over the last year.
Did you accomplish what you hoped too this year? Did you move in the direction you had thought would be best? Or did Spirit have something else in mind and your life course took an alternative route.
I have spent a lot of time talking about abundance, money and manifesting this year. As I sit back and reflect on what I have done, I also see that taking time to rest, dream and rejuvenate is equally important for peace of mind.
Recapitulation of your life is an important aspect of healing. Looking back on your past so you can understand your present and ultimately change course for the future, is a profound act of will power and step towards healing.
Understanding what makes you tick, and knowing who you are at the core of your being gives you a kind of freedom not often found these days. Owning yourself and taking responsibility for your own dream is a hard task, and requires a kind of commitment that takes much courage and a strong will to achieve.
As I reflect back on the holidays, I realized how much of ourselves we give up for others. How often do you find yourself doing for everyone else and how little you get back. Perhaps it is the expectations of what you will get that actually lets you down. When we give without expectations, then there isn't really anything to let down. How often do you find yourself exhausting yourself to provide an atmosphere for others and then face the pile of holiday dinner dishes by yourself while everyone else sits back and kicks their feet up?
Living our lives for others diminishes our personal power, our energy and ultimately our lives. Believing in your OWN dreams, and being sure to give to those dreams as well as to others, and keeping it balanced and healthy will create a much more balanced energy exchange between you and others. When we martyer ourselves and do everything for others, we create a very negative energy exchange and it can quickly make us ill. When we 'be the bigger person' and let things go without voicing our thoughts and feelings, that too creates a negative energy exchange and can very quickly cause an imbalance in your energy body and system.
It is about giving to yourself as much as it is about giving to others. I'm not referring to material things here, I'm referring to not doing for others as much as you do for others. What do I mean by that? I mean making sure you allow others the chance to do for themselves. When you constantly do for others you take away their power to do for themselves, and create a dependant energy system that feeds on your energy and counts on your energy to feed it.
When others EXPECT you to do for them all the time, they fall asleep and forget how to do it for themselves, always looking for someone to do it for them. You in a way, take away there personal power.
It is very easy to fall into the archetype pattens. To be the damsel in distress, and always wait for your knight in shining armor to save you. Or to down play your needs and wants so others don't worry. I say, say what you need. Say what you mean. and allow things to come to you. I say be conscious of what you give and what you take, and be mindful at all times what your energetic imprint is in any given situation.
As we complete a calendar cycle, reflect back on how this last year went for you. Were you happy? Did you work hard for your own dreams or did you work hard for someone elses dreams? Do you know the difference?
Winter is a great time to begin to dream a new dream for yourself. To redefine and recreate who you are in the world. The magic of that is, that all possibilities exist within you! You can truly be whoever you want and create whatever it is you want in this lifetime. You are here for a blink in time, and you leave a mark on the world whether you know it or not.
So why not leave a mark that counts.
I reflect on my life at this time of the year, the good and the bad, the situations that brought me happiness and pain. I lick my wounds, and put tubs of healing salve on the ones that are deep. I look at the relationships I have and those in my life and re-evaluate what they mean to me and how to approach them next year, if even at all.
Its OK to let go and move on. Its OK to be mad and express your anger, to protect your boundaries and your dreams from others who try to take them away. Does a mother bear think twice about killing a threat to her cubs? Does she feel bad about it afterwards? Does she go off into the woods always regretting killing that intruder? Or does she simply act on instinct and move on.
Never giving it a second thought.
Interesting how when our boundaries are threatened, we ponder how to feel, whether we should act of not, being indecisive about what to do, then acting on that energy and then walking around wondering if we did the right thing and going on and on to whoever will listen!
Such humans we are!
Always looking for validation that we are special, loved and right. Indeed wars have been fought over that.
Own yourself. Own who you are, all of what makes you YOU. You're good, you're ugly and everything in between. Love everything that makes you human, and know that its OK to feel, to express and to BE. You don't have to DO all the time, you don't have to impress all the time, and you certainly don't have to hurt all the time.
Welcome the season to give to yourself. To give yourself the gift of being OK with who you are at all levels. Let compassion into your life and forgive those who have hurt you and most importantly forgive yourself for hurting others too. It can happen in the most subtle and obvious ways.
At night call back to you the lost fragments of self that you have let someone take or that you have willingly given away throughout your day.
Let your emotions be expressed, love deeply, and treat yourself as good as you treat others.
Winter is a beautiful time to dream. Choose beautiful dreams vs. nightmares, they will come true either way. Your mind and thoughts create you everyday, so choose carefully what you think and how you feel. Ground yourself fully in the present moment and get to know YOU fully.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Hillary
with Hillary Raimo author of Matters for Mind, Body & Spirit
The hustle of the holidays are over, and the snow is silently falling. There is a quiet slowing down of energy as we enter the hibernation of winter. We look back over the year and take stock of what we have learned. Moments, memories, and reminiscences of all that has happened. The New Year is a great time to sit back and reflect what we have done or not done over the last year.
Did you accomplish what you hoped too this year? Did you move in the direction you had thought would be best? Or did Spirit have something else in mind and your life course took an alternative route.
I have spent a lot of time talking about abundance, money and manifesting this year. As I sit back and reflect on what I have done, I also see that taking time to rest, dream and rejuvenate is equally important for peace of mind.
Recapitulation of your life is an important aspect of healing. Looking back on your past so you can understand your present and ultimately change course for the future, is a profound act of will power and step towards healing.
Understanding what makes you tick, and knowing who you are at the core of your being gives you a kind of freedom not often found these days. Owning yourself and taking responsibility for your own dream is a hard task, and requires a kind of commitment that takes much courage and a strong will to achieve.
As I reflect back on the holidays, I realized how much of ourselves we give up for others. How often do you find yourself doing for everyone else and how little you get back. Perhaps it is the expectations of what you will get that actually lets you down. When we give without expectations, then there isn't really anything to let down. How often do you find yourself exhausting yourself to provide an atmosphere for others and then face the pile of holiday dinner dishes by yourself while everyone else sits back and kicks their feet up?
Living our lives for others diminishes our personal power, our energy and ultimately our lives. Believing in your OWN dreams, and being sure to give to those dreams as well as to others, and keeping it balanced and healthy will create a much more balanced energy exchange between you and others. When we martyer ourselves and do everything for others, we create a very negative energy exchange and it can quickly make us ill. When we 'be the bigger person' and let things go without voicing our thoughts and feelings, that too creates a negative energy exchange and can very quickly cause an imbalance in your energy body and system.
It is about giving to yourself as much as it is about giving to others. I'm not referring to material things here, I'm referring to not doing for others as much as you do for others. What do I mean by that? I mean making sure you allow others the chance to do for themselves. When you constantly do for others you take away their power to do for themselves, and create a dependant energy system that feeds on your energy and counts on your energy to feed it.
When others EXPECT you to do for them all the time, they fall asleep and forget how to do it for themselves, always looking for someone to do it for them. You in a way, take away there personal power.
It is very easy to fall into the archetype pattens. To be the damsel in distress, and always wait for your knight in shining armor to save you. Or to down play your needs and wants so others don't worry. I say, say what you need. Say what you mean. and allow things to come to you. I say be conscious of what you give and what you take, and be mindful at all times what your energetic imprint is in any given situation.
As we complete a calendar cycle, reflect back on how this last year went for you. Were you happy? Did you work hard for your own dreams or did you work hard for someone elses dreams? Do you know the difference?
Winter is a great time to begin to dream a new dream for yourself. To redefine and recreate who you are in the world. The magic of that is, that all possibilities exist within you! You can truly be whoever you want and create whatever it is you want in this lifetime. You are here for a blink in time, and you leave a mark on the world whether you know it or not.
So why not leave a mark that counts.
I reflect on my life at this time of the year, the good and the bad, the situations that brought me happiness and pain. I lick my wounds, and put tubs of healing salve on the ones that are deep. I look at the relationships I have and those in my life and re-evaluate what they mean to me and how to approach them next year, if even at all.
Its OK to let go and move on. Its OK to be mad and express your anger, to protect your boundaries and your dreams from others who try to take them away. Does a mother bear think twice about killing a threat to her cubs? Does she feel bad about it afterwards? Does she go off into the woods always regretting killing that intruder? Or does she simply act on instinct and move on.
Never giving it a second thought.
Interesting how when our boundaries are threatened, we ponder how to feel, whether we should act of not, being indecisive about what to do, then acting on that energy and then walking around wondering if we did the right thing and going on and on to whoever will listen!
Such humans we are!
Always looking for validation that we are special, loved and right. Indeed wars have been fought over that.
Own yourself. Own who you are, all of what makes you YOU. You're good, you're ugly and everything in between. Love everything that makes you human, and know that its OK to feel, to express and to BE. You don't have to DO all the time, you don't have to impress all the time, and you certainly don't have to hurt all the time.
Welcome the season to give to yourself. To give yourself the gift of being OK with who you are at all levels. Let compassion into your life and forgive those who have hurt you and most importantly forgive yourself for hurting others too. It can happen in the most subtle and obvious ways.
At night call back to you the lost fragments of self that you have let someone take or that you have willingly given away throughout your day.
Let your emotions be expressed, love deeply, and treat yourself as good as you treat others.
Winter is a beautiful time to dream. Choose beautiful dreams vs. nightmares, they will come true either way. Your mind and thoughts create you everyday, so choose carefully what you think and how you feel. Ground yourself fully in the present moment and get to know YOU fully.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Hillary
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