visualization techniques

Mar 16 2017

What I Learned as a Door to Door Environmentalist- VIDEO

Knocking on doors asking for money taught me so much about the importance of my energy and how I broadcast it. Since this experience, I’ve learned meditation techniques to help me notice my blind spots when it came to my energy “broadcast”. These have been hugely empowering and have brought me much better results in love, money, work– and in just feeling good.

I’d love to share what I learned with you. Watch the video for a taste and to get more, join the Psychic Self Care class starting March 22! Learn more and sign up.

Jan 31 2017

Transform Your Sensitivity Instantly- VIDEO

Are you sensitive to other people’s attention? Whether that attention is “good” or “bad,” this attention can be challenging for us intuitive, empathic and sensitive types.

This video is a personal story of a recent trip to a New Mexico hot springs, where I felt some unwelcome attention coming my way– and transformed it in seconds. Enjoy the crisp blue skies, far out rocks and universal message in this story!

Jul 13 2015

Colors- Their Meanings and Uses

Clairvoyance means “to see clearly,” or to see things that are not visible to the physical senses. While many people assume this is a special talent for the few, everyone is clairvoyant and it starts with our ability to imagine.

Even after over 15 years of using my clairvoyance, I start every reading by simply noticing the colors that pop into my awareness when my client says his or her name. Then, I say what the colors mean to me.

Often the person says,”Wow, that pretty much sums up how I’m feeling right now” or “You just answered my question and I haven’t even asked it yet.”

It’s not magic and you can do it too! Consider one person close to you, close your eyes and ask yourself what color comes to mind when you think of them. In this moment, how does that color make you feel? Do you see pictures or get messages to go with it? If you were to make it up, what would this suggest to you about the person?

Learning to read energy can be that easy. The biggest thing most of us need to learn is to trust ourselves. That takes practice, and so does having the guts to tell someone or act on what you see. Start with small things to build your confidence. Your skills will get refined over time, and your abilities will grow the more you use them and receive positive feedback.

People often ask me what individual colors mean. While this is subjective and I encourage you to listen to your own wisdom case-by-base, here are some examples from my experience:

Red– anger, passion, rage, energy, assertiveness, strong life force, the physical or practical world

Orange– playfulness, creativity, sexuality, nurturing, strength

Yellow– mental activity, creativity, sociability, centeredness or scattered energy, joy/ light/ sunshine

Green– healing, growth, prosperity, new beginnings, the heart

Blue– calm, control, order, sadness, peace, expansiveness, the throat and communication/expression

Purple– spirituality, depth, faith, royal/ regal energy

Pink– love, feminine energy, receptivity, the heart

White– transcendence, oneness, expansiveness (beyond the physical body), unconsciousness

Black– nothingness, foreign energy (energy that does not belong to the person), energy that denies life, stuck energy (life force that is not moving)

Besides using colors to read another person’s energy (or the energy of a situation, place or event), you can also use colors to attract certain experiences to you and to project certain qualities. For example, if you desire love, you might surround yourself with a pink bubble. If you desire money or growth, try green. My favorite is the “law-abiding citizen blue” I use around my car every time I see a cop car. To this day I have never gotten pulled over while using it!

There are actual studies showing that cops pull over certain colored cars more than others, and that men feel more attracted towards women wearing certain colors. So why not play with it by projecting mental image pictures?

You aren’t putting the colors or pictures into anyone else’s mind specifically, this is about YOU choosing the qualities you desire to experience in any given moment. You are infinite, so why not tap into different aspects of yourself? 🙂

One of my favorite meditations we do in the Awaken Your Clairvoyance Program takes you through the rainbow. I guide you in a specific process of visualizing each color one by one as a way to clear and balance your own energy. Would you like to try it? I recorded a 20-minute sample for you and you can listen here:

Let me know what you think, and feel free to post any questions below.

Like this meditation? There’s more where this came from! Check out the Awaken Your Clairvoyance and Meditation 101 programs starting 7/21.

I’m happy to hop on the phone with you if you’re considering and have questions; just let me know. Also, consider that I’ll credit you back $100 each for you and a friend new to my classes, when you register for the Clairvoyance program together. 🙂

Jan 06 2015

CREATING A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE

Here we are at the start of 2015!

As I’ve been standing in my own new year’s threshold, and teaching the “Create Your 2015” workshop, I’m looking at 2 seeming opposite truths:

We don’t always get everything we want.
We can manifest anything. Ask and you shall receive!

So how can these both be true?

Maybe it’s having a 2 year old and realizing the last 2 years were not about “me.” Maybe it’s just getting older and seeing the cycles in my life so far, or working with thousands of people who were usually disappointed with some area of their lives.

One of my yoga teachers described it beautifully a few months back. She said her life was like a puzzle– some parts fully formed, some parts half formed, and some parts still unknown. While so many of us “spiritual” folks talk about “having it all,” she realized that would actually be boring, with nothing left to do. Like, “Ok, now what?”

I believe we are here in the body, on earth so that we can learn and grow. I believe we are each a pure, infinite spirit, and that we consciously choose limitations so we can evolve.

Just sitting in meditation, we bliss out– but we don’t learn much about relationships or money or raising kids, for example. In-between lifetimes, we can see from a bigger perspective. But we need our bodies and our challenges to move from knowing and being to full mastery. Having them does not mean we’re flawed; it means we’re blessed to be awakening and growing.

Of course, we can call in our lessons with as much grace as possible, and we can learn to respond with more amusement and less resistance. But if it still gets hard, I remind myself and others that we are never given anything we cannot handle.

Sometimes, we don’t get what we want because we really don’t know what’s best. We think we do, but our infinite souls and the loving Universe often laugh in our faces and throw us curveballs. Eventually we love and appreciate them, but at first sometimes we kick and scream, whine and complain or in any case, throw up our arms in bewilderment.

As for our ability to manifest anything…

As I’ve gotten older, I am also aware of why some of my past dreams did not happen. Besides the times where my soul had a better plan, there were plenty of times where I just wasn’t fully behind my own creation.

I was too wimpy about it. I was afraid it wouldn’t happen and my fear spoke louder than my desire. I lacked trust in my own ability or I devalued my own heart or truth.

I’ve learned that no amount of affirmations or visualizations will work if my emotions aren’t aligned with my success. I’ve also learned the importance of taking inspired, consistent ACTION.

In the past, I visualized and affirmed and thought it would show up at my door. It didn’t. Well, my now-husband actually DID show up at my house… but that was after I had already taken plenty of action in that arena… another story. 🙂

There is a difference between actions taken from a sense of pressure to achieve something, and actions we feel moved to take. In my experience, once I align my emotions, I feel an overflowing sense of joy about taking actions. Occasionally, I also feel uncomfortable or stretched, but it still comes from a feeling of being moved from within rather than feeling like it’s just me trying to push the world around.

I received an energy reading and healing many summers ago, right before I started to take psychic development classes myself. At the time, I was just out of grad school and I was thinking of traveling to Europe. I was also wondering what to do for work.

The reader was very practical. I felt I couldn’t look for a job because of this possible trip, and she pointed out otherwise. She reminded me that I could go talk to potential employers about setting up something for the fall. At the time, I didn’t have enough life experience to realize things take time. I was all in my head– or above my head– about it!

When I told her about the trip she said, “put a grounding cord on it, and decide it’s going to happen.” That was an a-ha. I hadn’t realized I could decide.

Somehow I had been waiting for a “sign” about whether I “should” go… even thinking she would give me the sign. Well, she did, and it was an empowering lesson that has stuck with me since.

I ended up teaching kids creativity classes and Aikido (martial arts). Talk about needing my grounding! When I went in with my class outline, I often didn’t look at it and improvised, but the fact that I had it seemed to change something and the kids and I were all calm. When I didn’t have it, thinking I usually improvised anyway, kids were absent or late or all over the place!

In addition to taking action and aligning our emotions, there is a way to energetically ground an event or desire, which I teach in the upcoming “Awaken Your Healing Energy” Program. I’d like to share it as my gift to you…

TRY THIS

Pick something you’d like to see manifest in your life– for example a job, relationship, home, or new state of health.
Sit with your feet on the floor and your eyes closed, and notice your body and breath. Soften on the exhale and sit a little taller on the inhale.
Visualize a bright, clear and shiny bubble a few feet out in front of you.
Allow a picture of your desired goal to show up in the bubble. See yourself in the scene, and feel it as if it’s happening now. Feel your joy, your excitement, your peace, your vitality, or whatever it is.
Now, connect the bubble to the very center of the earth by creating a tree trunk, waterfall, beam of light, or other “grounding cord”. Anchor your vision and decide that it’s happening now, in perfect timing.
Enjoy this feeling as long as you’d like, then let your bubble dissolve in a burst of light and open your eyes.

If you like this meditation or these ideas, check out the “Create Your 2015” Workshop Saturday in LA, or the “Meditation 101” and “Awaken Your Healing Energy” Teleclasses– these you can join from anywhere in the world.

May your 2015 be magical and Divine!

Dec 17 2014

7 Manifesting Myths

The new year is right around the corner! Refresh your creative and spiritual power as you consider your goals for 2015. Here are my top 7 Manifesting Myths and Tips:

1. You should only be “positive” if you want to manifest. Yes and no. If you are someone who’s always negative and complaining, that won’t work. But if you have been looking on the bright side, trying to be “spiritual,” or holding strong and pushing forward no matter how you feel, listen up.

Many years ago, I was upset one day– I don’t even remember why. I was alone one afternoon and I cried and pounded on the bed to let it out. In the middle of my “tantrum”, a yoga studio called offering me a job.

Another story: My now husband, who broke up with me 4 times in the first 4 months of our relationship, said yes and stepped all the way in after I got really angry with him. When we stuff our feelings, we also stuff our creative life force, and we can’t manifest much. Find a healthy way to let them move.

2. All you need to do is visualize or affirm your desire, and there it is. That can work if you already feel it as so. What happens a lot, though, is we consciously manifest something that our subconscious doesn’t agree with. And no matter what we see or speak or think, our feelings always win.

This can be tricky to discover, but if you’ve been manifesting something for some time without results, it’s probably going on. One simple way to tell is to affirm your desire while looking into the mirror. For example, look in your own eyes and say “I am a millionaire” (or whatever you’d like to manifest). If you don’t see the conviction in your eyes, if you don’t believe yourself, there is some part of you that doesn’t agree with your statement.

3. You can manifest anything and everything you want. Again, yes and no. As spirit we are infinite. The Universe is infinite. But ask yourself: Do you want to manifest in spirit or in 3-D?

If you just want to have juicy dreams at night or blissful meditations, go ahead and manifest anything. Doing so can certainly be useful for it’s expansive powers.

But in the body, there are limits. Most of us find that success comes incrementally, step by step. It certainly CAN happen that you go from living on welfare to living with millions, but if you constantly shoot for far-away goals, it can also set you up for disappointment.

Most of the time when we do this, we are subconsciously sabotaging ourselves. I recommend setting goals that, while they stretch you, feel attainable. Achieving them brings a feeling of success that will make your next step much easier. Before you know it, those bigger goals will feel real too.

4. You should always talk about what you are manifesting as if it is so. Yes, do this on your own, and perhaps with trusted loved ones who know you are manifesting– people who can get playful with you. There is great power in speaking affirmative statements in present time.

With most others, I recommend keeping more quiet about it, for 2 reasons: First, talking too much before something has “birthed” can leak energy from what you are creating. Second, if it’s not actually true yet, people may perceive you as lying and lose trust in you. This can pose challenges in relationships, as well as attract some un-helpful energetic projections your way.

There is also a Universal law that when you consistently speak the truth, your words become true. I encourage you to explore this for yourself.

5. Sex is bad or not spiritual. Your sexual energy and your creative life force are one and the same. Sex is how life gets created!

And so, if you’re blocking your sexual energy, you’re also limiting what you can manifest. By nature, sex is innocent and natural and unfortunately it’s been distorted a lot, causing many people understandably to fear or repress it.

Besides it’s connection with our creative power, sex in it’s loving expression brings incredible pleasure. And pleasure is what most of us need to get into our bodies! Otherwise, the limitations of our bodies can be a drag, and it can be more fun to float above our heads in la-la land, watching our lives go by while other people manifest.

Some mornings, I remember that there’s chocolate in the kitchen and this gets me out of bed. It’s ok. So find a healthy way to feel your body’s capacity for pleasure–whatever that is for you– and see what changes in your world.

6. You can manifest for other people. Yes, if they are also manifesting for themselves and ASK you to support them. Otherwise, this is both inethical and impossible.

People sometimes think that I, as a healer, have the power to make something go away or make something happen. Sometimes when you’re ready for change, it does take a healer to hold your hand through it, or to hold space for your release. But do it for you? No.

In my personal life, I often manifest things I’d like to experience in my relationships. But when I do so, I focus on how I’d like to feel, and I leave out people’s names.

For example, “I feel so cherished by my partner” works better than, “Arthur brings me flowers every Friday night.” Not only does it honor his free will, it also leaves room for my feeling cherished in ways I couldn’t have thought of!

7. All you need is your personal will. I talked earlier about the pitfalls of being “too spiritual.” We can also get stuck if we get too logical or isolate ourselves.

Taking action and focusing your intentions are important. But think about it– if you alone knew how to get out of your current problems, you would have already done so.

Besides receiving support from other people, at certain times we need to surrender to a larger intelligence or Divine will. Some of my long-time clients are pretty good at manifesting, but at a certain point have hit a wall and not known how to get to their next breakthrough.

In each case, they’ve had to step into a space of humility, admitting: “I need x, y and z, and I have no idea how to get there. Dear God, please show me. I’m done struggling.” If you don’t like the word God, you can use something else… perhaps “Universe”, or ask your angels and guides.

This approach brings us into our hearts and it expands us beyond where we were. That alone is helpful! So valuable, in fact, that many of us create pain in our lives to force us to go here. Not needed! I invite you to just get on your knees before you fall.

Enjoy your new years’ manifesting! If you’d like more support, consider one of the “Create Your 2015” workshops or the “New Year, New You” package.