February YouTube on Energies

Reverb - Friendship

Today's Reverb10 Prompt: Friendship. How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?  (Author: Martha Mihalick)

My goodness these prompt for Reverb sure to get me thinking about the Divine Order of things!  Like so many prompts, this one is so timely and just nails one of the biggest aspects of my year.

I would have never predicted or hoped for what happened with my friendships this year.  And I no longer have any concern about being honest about it, since I need to speak my truth and honestly, I don't give a damn about what others might think any more. 

I lost a few friends this year.  Not by choice, by any means.  It was the unfortunate (but not really, now I see it as very fortunate) side effect of moving out of my office one year ago.  Things happened, things didn't happen, there really is no reason for details.  It was a slow descent that happened over time.  And while for many months I dearly missed those friends whom I'd come to know and feel were truly my soulsisters, they weren't meant to stay in my life.  They taught me a lot.  We had many amazing fun times.  It was all divine, of course.

Our parting wasn't easy, even though others claimed it was done in Love and we'd keep our friendship intact.  Luckily, by the grace of God, I grew from this shitty experience, as it forced me to really look at who I was, to know within myself that I am NOT the bad person they made me out to be, and to know they truly were mirrors for me in both light and dark.  I don't blame anyone, I don't see them as less than Divine, I accepted my responsibility in it all and did what I could to the best of my ability, and I truly hope that their lives become whole and rich and aligned with Love.

Within the muck and pain and confusion, however, came a tiny ray of hope.  An unlikely friendship formed.  An acquaintance from this group of friends and I decided to meet for coffee one day.  It was divinely timed and I was so surprised to find out she wasn't really what the others had made her out to be and what even I thought her to be.  There was big caution, of course, considering what I'd just experienced.  Slowly, I came to know this beautiful person who opened my eyes to many new things, and I call her Friend.  We're alike in so many ways, yet have differences.  And it works. 

We grew together over this past year, sharing our different though similar experiences.  We've both supported and encouraged each other through big transformations and shifts, we know how to be friends to each other, and it's a mutual respect for who we are.  I honestly do not know how I would have "recovered" from the past year without her friendship.  Others might not see it or understand the unlikely friendship.  But it is one of most rewarding and I will never be able to tell her how grateful I am for her presence in my life.  I am so so soooo blessed.

And my mom likes her.

Reverb - 5 minutes

Today's Reverb10 Prompt: 5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.  (Author: Patti Digh)

Summer bliss stars twinkly lights laughing Flora fairies garden flowers Kai Kaedon cancer shit hospitals clinics appointments driving crying being blessing asking helping being helped healing friends friends friends loss shifting every single day going within confirmations soul connections change swearing crying confusion pain stupidassmotherf**ker ignorance ego manipulation darkness hiding boundaries no boundaries loss alone letting go releasing surrendering love love love joy grilling farmers markets Michael Franti party hugs music dancing moonlight walking river water talking being beading creating experiencing life feeling God St Germaine Quan Yin transformation knowing sensing following intuition aligning with the flow being the flow time bringing in new energy out of whack discombobluated crying Grand Marais North Shore Lake Superior Atlanta Savannah Tybee Island Dubuque Rochester Eau Claire Park Rapids travelling parallel soul opening freedom Love Love Love.

biz stuff

Hey kiddo's!

I AM  s l o w l y  working on an email with updates about Crystalline Light business stuff.  It's been a long year of not really focusing on it, so I kind of feel like I am needing to re-launch, which is a *great* thing!  There are so many shifts in how I do my work and what I am offering.  But some quick notes I wanted to get out to you:

*Wednesday, September 15, I am in St Cloud at the fantastic Mind Body & Spirit offering Amethyst BioMat and Energy Healing sessions from 2:30 - 6:30 pm.  Call them for appointments.  www.mindbodyspirit-online.com

*Saturday, September 25, is the Hudson Holistic & Psychic Fair.  Come see me and Karen (plus Diana & Frank of Wind Water Harmony & Grateful Dowsing, as well as other great vendors & friends), pick up some new mists or crystals, experience an energy healing or reading, and just have fun!  www.bodylabusa.com

*I am in the midst of creating some new travel size mists, new essences, new jewelry, plus offering new services of custom essence or mist blends, social media consulting, website designing, etc etc (some of this I have already offered, but not made it as public as I am being pushed to now!).

*Even though I don't have a regular office location at the moment, you can still SHOP ANY time at my home office in St Paul.

*My classes are now going to be offered on a REQUEST basis.  Yep, you have to step up and actually VOICE what you'd like to learn or experience.  ;)  I'll still schedule a few things as nudged, however, including a new Social Media & Marketing for Holistic Practitioners and Spiritual Empowerment classes.  Contact me for details or to request!  Thanks~

FULL details about all this will be on my email newsletter SOON!  (Like Monday!)  If you haven't signed up for it yet, you can do so HERE.

Thanks all!!  Blessings!

more on being human

I am so grateful to be able to share my spontaneous thoughts with you via video (see previous post), but aaalllllll day long something kept nudging at me about clarification about being human and spiritual.  Hopefully it won't make it more confusing. ;)

We are multi-dimensional beings.  We live simultaneously in many dimensions and realms at once, AND we are in the process of moving into a fifth dimensional world (and beyond).  The human bodies we are given are a HUGE gift. 

Every. other. dimension. and. realm. is looking to US, the little teeeeeeny tiny humans, to learn and experience and to see if we can actually pull it off this time.  We are in the process of NOT blowing up the world.  By shifting out vibration higher, to more light and LOVE, we are consciously choosing to alter a 26,000 year cycle that in eons past, we had decided to blow up our existence and start over.

We are not starting over this time.

We are still going. 


On purpose.

THIS little fact is important because these human bodies we have are unique.  NO ONE ELSE in the universe has them.  And no one else gets to EXPERIENCE life in all its joys and sorrows and rollercoasters and LOVEliness. Why would you not want to experience everything, all the goodness as well as the sucks and hurts and it makes you cry moments?  There is so much MORE goodness and light and FUN and joy and giggling and true pure freedom that makes it all worthwhile.

So to be able to be in our human bodies while ALSO allowing for our deep connection to God/Source/ethers/Universe whatever you want to name it for yourself, is a rare thing.  We can stay connected in all those other levels, and I really ENCOURAGE you to, because it is a GRAND journey to be aware and connected.  Our lessons will stay the same no matter where we operate from.  I can kinda maybe guarantee that when you are grounded in your physical body, however, the lessons won't be as hard, because we have the tools to deal with them.  There is not any less awareness or connection when we are grounded in our bodies, nor is there any judgment for being too spiritual or not human enough.  We can allow ourselves to be both.

It really doesn't have to be hard to be human.

We have choice to make each moment easy or sucky.

But to be able to have the choice while also connected to our spiritual selves and the Divine realm of possibility makes it all so much easier and FLOWY and GOOD.  Even if our choice is sucky, we can stay connected, learn what we need to learn, and get on with it so much quicker than if we choose to ignore the spiritual aspects of ourselves.

The intuitive divine flow of creation is there waiting for us to tap into it.  Even while we are still in our bodies.

So why not jump in?!  The water is fine!

And do keep breathing.  Deeply.  And often.  Well, don't stop, actually.

Connect within yourself, feel your connection to God, feel the connection to the earth, and boom shake it like a true multi-dimensional human!


You will rock it!

Ciao for now!

clearing clutter

I have been attempting to clear clutter from my bedroom and office for a few weeks.  It's not horrible, just piles of papers, rocks, beads, etc, that are taking up room.  This morning I cleared off one bookshelf that had all this little stuff piled up.  Just put it all in a box and will divvy it up this afternoon to its various homes or recycling.

Wouldn't ya know it, within about a half hour, I felt better?

The past few days have been a challenge of emotions and really tuning within myself to clear some old beliefs that I don't want to hang to any longer.  It's all good, but the process is not always fun.  Looking at yourself and really truly changing is a hard thing, but in the "end" (though there really is no ending), we are always "rewarded" or bumped up to another level of being that is much more supportive and "light".

Clutter can hold us up from moving forward.  And clutter can take many forms, whether physical, emotional, mental, etc.  My own emotional clutter had me stymied.  As has been said numerous times over the recent years and months and weeks, anything that is not enhancing or serving our life in a positive way simply WILL NOT remain in our life.  As much as we may want it to or *think* that a belief or person or couch is really for our highest good, the Universe will make it VERY clear if it is not supposed to remain in your life.  What we resist, persists.  When we move into the flow of the Divine, the Divine will rearrange itself to bring us to where we need to be always.

Our ego's are really good at the games of keeping us at comfortable levels of being, what we know to be easy and comfortable is always going to be such unless we release the hold on our mind and what we THINK we know to be true.  When we look within ourselves or our hearts for the answers, we will really truly find the heart of what space we are meant to occupy.

So once we stop resisting and just surrender to the flow of the Universe, we will be guided and supported in ways we cannot even imagine at this point.  There is so much more available to us than we can comprehend, and I think it is purposely designed that way, so that we don't freak out.  We need to just believe and KNOW that we are supported in ALL ways.  When we ALLOW ourselves to accept our own innate Divinity as whole and perfect, everything else falls into place.

The times right now are SO supportive of clearing out physical possessions, relationships, thought patterns, beliefs, old pots and pans, clothes that don't fit, etc.  MOST of my friends and clients are in this process right now whether they want to be or not.  I certainly don't like to be here, but when it is in my face that it has to CHANGE, why fight it?  It just gets harder and harder if we ignore it.

Movement WILL and does happen when the clutter is cleared.  On so many levels.  Trusting in the process is HUGE.

~*On a side note: this post has taken me ALL day, okay well more like 4 hours, to write.  As I started writing I found myself distracted by many other things -- CLUTTER -- as well as my own belief about being able to say the "right" words.  Now that I can accept within myself that it's not possible to say the wrong words and I can just say whatever the hell I need to, it is flowing much easier. :-D

Soooo don't know if this all makes sense, but that's all.

blessings!

getting clear

Soooo, that stuff I wrote earlier about my passion returning....

Yeah.

Didn't last long.

    But it was great while it did.

It's just the name of the game these days.

Nothing lasts forever.

There is a whole new slew of stuff that is "up" for people right now, and even though we say stuff like


"this is the time for clearing what you don't need any more"
and
"the energies right now are a doozy" (and it's 11:11 on my clock right now, just FYI)
and
"it's just an intense time!"

It's all TRUE in every moment it is stated, but I am learning that it is NEVER the LAST time it'll be said.

We will be processing, clearing, releasing, balancing, blahblahblah until we are dead.

     Get used to it.

I know it sounds brutal, but really, think about it, we're human.  Not only do we have this lifetime of emotional attachments, issues, beliefs, thoughts, to clear that are not beneficial to our life, but we are also clearing MANY MANY other lifetimes -- OODLES of them -- RIGHT NOW IN THIS LIFETIME.

Crap!

That's hard!

BUT ....

that does NOT mean we won't get to a place of JOYFUL, HAPPY, BALANCED, CALM, PEACEFUL, BLISSFUL lives.

We WILL.

We HAVE to!

    (Right?)

I personally HAVE felt it, even if for brief moments or weeks.  But it was THERE, and I can hang on to that feeling of amazing freedom and LOVE with all my will to keep me going.

AND ... I have amazing friends who keep me filled with peptalks and Love.  Thank freakin' god.

That, and True Blood.

Really keeps me sane.

The emotional sideswipes can be a challenge, but if we remember to just keep breathing, stay centered in Love and not go into fear, and then really go WITHIN ourselves - not outside of ourselves to our guides or higher self or teacher/healer/intuitive reader - for answers and support, it gets easier.  The inner emotional work isn't easy, we really have to look closely at why this sideswipe/issue/emotional outburst is staring us in the face, follow the thread back to where it came from, and then clear it ourselves through surrounding it with love, seeing it as a gift that has served us at one point in our lives, and releasing it's physical/emotional/mental/spiritual hold on us.  We don't need beliefs or thoughts that hold us back from our True Self, which is always gloriously Divine, Whole, Perfect, and Love.  The hardest work we can do is clear our "stuff", but it IS also the most rewarding knowing we did it and can move on.

All that being said (and it was so not planned to write all that, apparently it needed to be said!) ... we are in Mercury Retrograde right now.  The typical view of this is that all communications go wonky, computer and phone issues act up, etc etc.  True.  But not the whole story.

This is a FANtastic time to GO WITHIN.  

(Oh, hmmmm, wasn't I just reading about that somewhere??)

It is time to retreat, rest, reevaluate, etc, as Evolutions so eloquently states (LOVE her blog).  Clear up any projects that are holding you up, get your ducks in a row, be diligent about making room for new things, EVEN if you have NO freakin' clue what that is yet!  Believe me, I am so taking this one to heart and really looking at where I have to clear things up - as the Universe so totally smacked me upside the head with it a few days ago in a way that was shocking and can't be ignored - and as hard as it's going to be, I feel like the past few months have really prepared me to step up and deal with it without being a total freak out.  (Okay, I might freak a little bit, but not as much.)  Some day, there really is a BOOK coming out of this year's events and upheavals, I know there is, or maybe it's just my ego wanting some stroking after all the sh*t of 2010 that I had to endure.

Oh wait.  Not endure.  That I CREATED.

   Right.

Stupid stupid me.


I want to see the contract I signed long ago, I am pretty sure it is FORGED by some other soul that thought she'd play a pretty good joke this lifetime.  

Ha.

So not laughing.

But I digress.  On SOME level, I really am grateful for this time, and I wouldn't have it any other way.  The stuff I am learning and being is amazing.  Despite all the crap, there are HUGE gifts.

My reminder to you right now is to hold the faith, hold the light, meditate within as often as you can, breathe in Love, and be true to your heart.

And then go do a big silly dance in your front yard at noon.

Okay, or 2 am, your choice.

I did.

Crystals for Transformation webcast

My apologies for last night's webcast technical difficulties! I could record but not broadcast, so the webcast about crystals and stones to use for transformation and expansion now available at www.crystallinelight.com/media.html. Thanks for watching!

Enjoy your weekend!