Spiritual Growth Happens in Your Physical Body

When you are a serious energy reader and worker, you have to take very good care of your body. Learning how use your clairvoyance and other psychic abilities puts your body through many spiritual growth periods as it adjusts to your rising energy levels. Our psychic students learn that they can pass through the growth periods gracefully, or not so gracefully. The difference lies in how well they treat their bodies.

When you do not take good care of your body, working with energy can be overwhelming. If your body is not getting its needs met, fear can become a major block to developing your psychic abilities.  Many people have told me that they do not mess around with anything psychic because they are afraid. Afraid of what they might find out, or afraid that something bad will happen to them.  This is the body's fear. The body is a concrete object and identifies with other concrete objects. Anything it cannot see or hear is foreign, unreal and scary for many bodies. 

You have to take care of your body for it to trust you. You have to give it what it needs to feel healthy, grounded and safe. For those of you who are on the other side of the spectrum, too sensitive and hoping to close down, it is especially crucial to take care of your physical body. It becomes unbearable for the body to constantly feel bombarded by other people's energy.

Here's a list of what your body needs to feel safe while you are opening up psychically:

1) Food, water, oxygen and sleep: No need to say more.

2) Personal space:  Clearly defined boundaries are necessary for protection from foreign energies.

3) Movement: Bodies need to move and pump the blood throughout the body for optimal health.

4) Sex: Survival of the species is a very deep body instinct that cannot be ignored by adults.  

5) Human touch: Physical touch provides connection with others. It also validates the body that it exists and has a right to be here.  Isolation results in mental illness.

You are here on this planet to learn how to bring your spiritual awareness into your physical body.You have to take responsibility for your body so that it can handle your spiritual energy vibration. If you want to be comfortable in your body, be nice to it and nurture it. You will not go anywhere without it.

Be happy, be kind, be grounded.
Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Accelerate Your Spiritual Growth: Always Choose Love

The most important thing you can do to accelerate your spiritual growth is to always choose love.  This was brought home to me quite by accident recently. I was in the midst of the usual, minor bickering with my husband when I felt a quick flash of love for him. I remember thinking, "Quick though it was, that felt better than the bickering does."  So I immediately and deliberately evoked my love for my husband. I responded to everything he said in a loving way. The energy quickly changed (surprise! surprise!) and we both walked away feeling better. I don't think he noticed the difference, but I certainly did.

I have a big bug-a-boo around writing about my personal, internal experiences, but I have to admit that I know that I am now a different person. There are so many times during the day that I now remind myself to choose love: when I react critically to someone; when I start criticizing myself; when I feel unhappy about a situation; when I feel that I playing out old behaviors that don't serve me; when I feel that life isn't fair; when I just feel blah. In all of these cases I choose love, and it feels better.

By choosing love, you too can remember that others too are on a spiritual path,just like you. It will feel like you have a new mastery over your unconscious emotional and analytical reactions to situations. Choosing love gives you more choices about how to respond, instead of just reacting. Choosing love is empowering. Choosing love gives you, the Spirit, seniority over your body's analyzer and emotions.  Choosing love will give you expanded awareness of your spiritual abilities to create and to change anything and everything about your life.

Well, here is the WORLD ACCORDING TO ME: Choosing love is the meaning of life. We are playing on this planet to learn how to bring our spiritual awareness and gifts into the physical body. To use an old cliché, it's by choosing love that we get to experience heaven on earth!

Happy Winter Solstice!
Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Time to Release All the Debris in Your Aura

When I look at someone's aura, it often reminds me of the Peanuts character Pigpen. He walks around amid a cloud of swirling debris, which leaves a trail behind him. What is all this stuff that everyone is unknowingly carrying around with them? In most cases, it's the energy of other people's intentions for you, their feelings about you, and sometimes their problems that you have take upon yourself to fix.

Just as a balloon will stick to you because of static electricity, so does the very subtle energies that everyone sends out in the form of thoughts and emotions. One can clairvoyantly "see" this energy with their sixth chakra. As I said above, it often looks like swirling debris, with clumps of it stuck in various chakras. This debris is clutter and as such, it can get in you r way when you are trying to create something for yourself. When you are doubting yourself or invalidating yourself, it is usually other people's thoughts in your space. There are several different psychic tools for clearing this flotsam out of your space. Here is one of my favorites.

Energy Exercise:

Sit in a comfortable chair with a straight back, put your feet flat on the floor, and take a deep breath. Imagine that you can see the debris swirling around you. If you would like to know where it came from, just grab a piece and look on the back for a name. It's probably someone you know, but not always. Next, imagine that there is a giant vacuum down at the center of the earth, and the hose extends all the way up to you so that you can use it. Turn the vacuum on and let it suction the debris out of your space. You can also use the nook and cranny attachment to get in-between the layers of your aura. There is also the soft brush attachment for the days when you need a gentle cleaning.

Just four days til Xmas!

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

The Simplest Way to Learn How to Do Psychic Readings

A simple, no-effort way to do a psychic reading is to use symbols. The very first thing we teach in the clairvoyant program is how to use a symbol of a rose to look at a client's spiritual path. The readers allow an image of a rose to appear while the readee says their name out loud. The different parts of the rose have pre-assigned general meanings.  For example, the openness of the rose represents where the readee is in their current cycle of spiritual growth. A new rose bud represents a new growth challenge (or opportunity) is just starting. A rose that is half way open indicates that the readee is thick in the middle of the growth period.  A rose that appears wide open shows that he or she is finally resolving the issue.

The representations of some of other parts of the rose reading are as follows:
Rose hip = body-spirit communication
Stem length = the length of time that the readee has been reincarnating
Leaves = agreements to have children or take care of other people
Colored rings around the stem = specific past lives the person has had

Using this basic format gives the new students a place to start looking.  Otherwise, they would just sit there and think, "I don't see anything. What the heck am I supposed to be seeing?"  Once they build up some certainty, the readers can use the format for going into some deeper aspects of reading. In going deeper, the readers have to just allow the information to come them. "The rose I see is a tired shade of orange, and I get the feeling that the energy is draining out of it." The client then offers feedback saying whether they've been tired lately, or not. The feedback helps the students to hone their reading skills.

Using this method of reading is the simplest way to start learning how to do a psychic reading. Having a list of elements to look for provides a structure the students can build upon. But learning how to read energy is just the beginning.  The real lesson learned is about spiritual communication. It's about taking the information that is gleaned from reading and presenting it to the readee in a way that validates them and helps them along their spiritual path. The blessings are two-fold. In helping another along the way, the readers soar on their own spiritual paths as well!

Whether you are interested in receiving a Rose Reading, or learning how to do a Rose Reading, all the info is up on our website: www.PsychicAwakenings.com.

Yours in Spirit,
Madeline

Madeline@PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com

Manifestation: Is it Magic? No....and Yes!

Adults don't believe in magic.  So when I share stories about how I have manifested something I desired, some people look at me with a very funny look on their face.  It's a combination of disbelief, wanting to believe that it is possible in some way and knowing that I wouldn't be lying to them.

Manifestation is not about getting rich, finding Mr. or Mrs. Right, and living happily-ever-after. Instead, it is the process of examining your ingrained thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. As you may already know, it is impossible to change these things just by analytically deciding that you want to change.  But you can learn some very real energy tools that may help you to shift the core of some of your programming (i.e., beliefs you accepted at face value without question). 

Beginning students are amazed at themselves as their first attempts at manifesting work for them.  It takes only a few minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. It's when you've reached a mastery level that other people perceive and label you as magical because they don't see all the work that you have put into accomplishing it. Just like an Olympic ice-skating performance seems effortless, magical and miraculous; with some practice, so can your life.

If you are interested in learning a few psychic manifestation tools yourself to experiment with, feel free to contact me.  You can make some profound changes, create some miracles for yourself, and leave other people wondering if it's magic!

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Your Personal Space is Your Sacred Space

Sacred, as define by  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary:
1a: dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity
1b: devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose)
2a: worthy of religious venerations: holy
2b: entitled to reverence and respect
3a: unassailable, inviolable
3b: highly valued and important

The first point of the Merriam-Webster definition above is "dedicated or set apart fro the service or worship of a deity." Your life-force energy which animates your body is your divinity, a part of God, Goddess, All-There-Is, Cosmic Consciousness.  You, the Spirit who resides in your body, are divine.

So is your personal space sacred to you? Do you use it in service of yourself?  This means keeping your aura and your body clear so that you can communicate with yourself and know yourself.  It means having a well-define boundary that is "unassailable and inviolable." In addition, it is necessary to keep yourself healthy and whole (i.e., holy).  Doing these things is what connects you into your personal power.  As a Spirit, you can be, do and have everything you desire.  One of the games on this planet is to bring your spiritual information into your body and learn how to be, do and have in the physical world.

To truly know yourself and your own truth, opinions and values, it is necessary to release everyone else's truths, opinions and values out of your space.  The first time that you do this, you may feel empty and lonely. This happened to me during a break-up of my first relationship. I walked for hours thinking over and over, "I have to start thinking for myself. I don't know what to think, but I have to start thinking for myself."

Your personal space is the sacred center of your own universe. You create and interpret your reality from your personal space. It is your birthright to set the rules of your space: who gets to enter and who is denied access.  Many people are unconscious of this and allow their space to be invaded by other people.  They also allow their energy to be scattered or siphoned off.

There are several things you can do to make your space sacred. Meditation, introspection, care of the body, self-nurturing, and learning tools for making energetic separations. Use these activities to fulfill your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. Making these activities into meaningful rituals can help you through your spiritual growth as you turn your personal space into your sacred space.

Divinely yours,                                                        

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Your Aura is a Reflection of Your Personal Space

Do you know someone whose presence fills up a room as soon as they enter?  These people have very large, open auras!  Expanding their aura to "own" the room is their way of being in control.  The auras of these people are quite dense and vibrant. This is also known as stage presence. It is a kind of energy that commands your attention.  In general these people thrive on attention and interaction.

It is also possible to have an open aura that is weak and just spread too thinly. You can tell when someone has an aura like this because he or she appears airy, spaced-out or incapable of focusing.  Their space is vulnerable to being invaded by other people and beings without bodies.  They have difficulty setting boundaries or even knowing themselves very well.  

People who are very private or guarded generally hold their auras in close to their bodies.  They may be uncomfortable opening up and sharing space with others.  They can be quite unnoticeable, either consciously or unconsciously.  

The degree to which one's aura is open or closed does not mean that he or she is more or less sensitive, psychic or spiritual.  Everyone has feelings and is sensitive in their own way. However, the health of your aura can correlate to your physical health.  People who are spacey and have weak auras with no clear boundaries generally have trouble focusing enough attention on taking care of themselves.  When their energy leaks out, then they will not have enough life force energy to maintain the body. 

Usually, your aura opens and closes automatically depending on the situation.  When you are around people with whom you are comfortable, your aura opens up.  In new or uncomfortable situations, it closes down.  But you can also deliberately decide how large or small you would like your aura.  The size of your aura also affects your emotional state and your awareness.  Here's an exercise for playing with your aura to find the most comfortable level for you.

Sit in a straight-back chair with both feet on the ground.  Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Send down a beam of energy to the center of the earth to ground yourself.  Use your intuition to see or feel the size of your aura around you.  Does it have any colors or textures?  Now envision, imagine or just intend that you are expanding your aura to be as large as the room.  Does your body or head feel different in any way?  Slowly keep expanding your aura until it is about one mile in diameter.  Do you feel more comfortable or uncomfortable as you do this?  What else do you notice about your energy as you do this?  

Now bring your aura in to be only about two or three inches out from your body.  What does this do to your awareness?  Do you feel more crowded or more focused?  Which size feels the most "natural" to you?  

Even though you may have no desire to be in control of a whole room of people, you can at least be in control of your own aura and personal space.  Practice opening and closing it in different situations and see what happens.  Let me know what you discover!

Warm wishes,

Madeline

One Hot Miracle

"A Book of Miracles," 1987, edited by Susan Hull Bostwick of the Deja Vue Book Company, is a collection of some of the psychic experiences of the students of the Berkeley Psychic Institute.  Here is  one of the amazing stories I would like to share with you from this book. 

--Madeline

"I was at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, sitting and running my energy when I had a premonition and heard a very tiny noise from one of the back rooms.  I looked up and saw a reflection of a man in the glass door.  I moved quickly, but not quickly enough, and so I didn't catch up with him until he reached the end of the driveway.  I yelled after him, "I hope you don't have anything that doesn't belong to you."  He turned and said, "No, man.  Check me if you want to, man, go ahead."  Although I kept seeing a picture of my wallet in my head, I didn't see any odd bulges when I looked at his body, and , being a small, blond woman, the thought of frisking such a large man didn't exactly appeal to me.

I went back inside and immediately checked my purse.  My wallet was gone.  This made me very angry.  So I say down, grounded my wallet, and filled it up with my gold energy and my ownership.  I saw that the wallet was growing very hot in his hands, and he was moving it from hand to hand as if it were burning him.  It made me laugh because I realized why stolen things are called "hot" -- it's because of all the owner's anger.  Now he was looking at the wallet very strangely, like "Oh-oh, what have I done?"  So I grounded him and communicated to his as a spirit.  I told him he could have the money but that he'd better give me back the wallet, identification, checks and credit cards.  I also saw in his aura that he had some fear pictures about voodoo.  I let him know that I knew all about voodoo and how to use it [I was from Trinidad].

When I told him to get my wallet back to me somehow, I thought perhaps he'd drop it in a bush, and that someone would find it and mail it to me.  So imagine my surprise when five minutes later I heard a very timid knock on the front door.  I opened it and there he was towering over me.

As he handed me my wallet I noticed his hands were shaking.  What a miracle!  A thief bringing back what he had stolen!  There really is no such thing as a victim!"   ---P.C.

Tarot the Intuitive Way

The seventy-eight cards of the tarot are very rich in symbology and can provide deep insights to your inner world. You may think that it would be a daunting task to memorize the meanings of the cards, and how the meanings are influenced by the cards that surround them in a spread. But you can learn how to read the cards without having to do a lot of memorization!  Just memorizing the cards results in stilted, impersonal readings. Instead, you can discover what each card means to you; and you will learn how to use your intuition to read them.  By combining personal relevance and your inner intuition, the readings you do will be more intimate and personal. 

The best way to derive meanings from the cards is to read several books by different authors.  Each author has a different philosophy about tarot in general, and a different perspective of each card.  There are several methodologies that have been used to derive meanings from the cards: numerology, Jewish mysticism (kabalah), astrology and the tale of the hero's journey.  You can decide which of these methods resonates the most.  By using some elements from each of these methods, you'll be able to provide deeper readings.  It's like "priming the pump."  You absorb the information about the cards, and when it comes time to read, you just relax, clear the communication lines between you and your client, and then use your intuition to give him or her the information that they are seeking. 

For a beginner, reading tarot cards can be easier than reading the aura. The "pictures" are right there in front of you so there shouldn't be any doubt as there might be doing an aura readings.  Just any three cards displayed together can tell twenty different stories. A ten-card tarot spread can tell a thousand different stories. How do you know which story is the right story?  If you have taken the time to ground your psychic space and clear your  spiritual connection with the client, then the right story will just come to you.  

There is no power in memorizing the card meanings. The power is not in the cards. The power is in you and your intention to be of service.

For more help in learning how to read the cards, or to receive a tarot card reading, please email me.

Take good care,

Madeline

Madeline@PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com

Spinning the Great Mandala

"Take your place on the Great Mandala

As it moves through your brief moment of time
Win or lose now you must choose now

And if you lose you’ve only wasted your life."

                                         Peter, Paul and Mary

 
One of the biggest tricks that life plays on us is having us experience being young before experiencing being old.  Especially in our current society of ever-increasing value on youthfulness, we grow up with intense programming to loathe "old people."  The focus is on old age frailties and infirmities. Elders are portrayed on TV and in other media as inept. 

We realized that we've been "tricked" when the years go by, we find ourselves "old."  At first, you experience shock and you wonder "what the hell has happened to me?"  After a few years you realize that you aren't the first person to grow old.  Your parents experienced the exact same thing before you, and their parents before them, and their parent before them.  You find a little bit of consolation in thinking that the younger people of today will experience it also, and their children after them, etc.

In intellectual terms, maturity comes from accepting your age, loving yourself and making the decision to do the best with the "time you have left."  By doing these things, you find freedom from self-loathing.

However, there is even greater freedom in realizing and knowing that you are not just your body, but you are a spirit with a body.  This lifetime is just one of the many you have had and will have.  You have seniority over the body.  This means that the body is yours to own.  You can come into your body and own the reality you have created thus far.  If you have been unconscious and just followed the programming to become decrepit, it is still not too late to own your body, love it and do some healing work. 

There are a few spiritual lessons we can learn from aging. You can become aware of your genetic agreements that you made with your family about aging, and release your karma with them.  You can accept that "growing old" is part of the human experience. You can become more aware of how the limitations you experience in your "old age" are reflections of your beliefs, attitudes and programming.  You can realize that every moment of experiencing human life (in whatever form it takes) is precious. This is why we get to do it again and again. We get to learn from our "mistakes!" 

Best of all, and at the very least, you can decide to bring even more of your spiritual awareness into your body next lifetime.  You can get a good head start on enjoying and mastering your life as a human being.  See you next time around!

 

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Seniority and Your Creations

A really interesting person came in for a clairvoyant reading earlier this week. I looked at her aura and I could clearly see her work responsibilities, the books she was reading, her husband and kids, her bathroom remodel, the cookies she made for her son's classroom and the family cat who was overdue for its shots. There was one thing that I couldn't see and that was she, the spirit whose body it was. She was nowhere near her body. She was gone and her creations and responsibilities were running her life.

Actually, most of us have all got it real bad now- too much to do. Too much to keep up with. Too many commitments. Too many interests. Too much responsibility. Of course the one thing we don't have enough of is time. I catch myself thinking, "I've just got to finish this one thing, then I have to start project "X", and if I can at least start with project "Y" today, I'll feel like I'll be at a good stopping point for the day." We all know that feeling of never feeling caught up. The problem isn't that you don't have enough time. The real problem is that you have lost your space. Your aura and psychic space is filled up with your projects and your creations. On a body level, you feel smothered and overwhelmed. On a spiritual level, there's no room for you so you leave and it's like abandoning ship. Where do you go? Some people go into future time to deal with what is to come. Some people go into past time, trying to solve old problems. When you are not in your own space to take charge, then your creations run your life. You become busy with the next required action, or worse: putting out fires. The pressure to get things done causes one to turn down the feelings and go into "let's just get it done" mode. In psychic jargon, this is called "losing your seniority." Everything that you are doing has become more important than You.

When you are senior in your own space, your are the one making conscious decisions for how you want to expend your energy, time and other resources. Even if everything that you are doing are things that you want to be doing, sometimes it gets to the point where the costs exceed the benefits, or where you feel you have no choice in the matter but to carry on. This is stressful and always takes a toll. Of course, there are some long term goals that are worth the effort and stress. But when there is stress with no end or goal in sight, then any character-building benefits of long term hard work become lost under punishment. You, the Spirit, can release the stress, change your energy, and be present.

It isn't easy for the mind to let go of things into which you have put much of your time and energy. So if you aren't ready to take any physical actions to change the situation, here is an exercise to start to shift the energy and get your seniority back:

Sit in a straight-back chair, with your feet flat on the ground. Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Create, or imagine, a strong grounding cord of energy from your hips down into the center of the earth. Visualize, or just be aware of your aura around you. Let the energy all of your projects light up like little stars. Now create, imagine or visualize a cabinet with several drawers of various sized out in front of you. Allow the stars to be pulled out of your aura and be organized in the drawers. You can even put labels on the drawers. Keep your attention in your head, you don't have to follow the energy into a drawer! Now fill in the spaces where the stars were with your own Spiritual energy in the form of your favorite color. Stand up and stretch into your new space.

Enjoy Your Day,

Madeline http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Hindrances to Developing Your Psychic Abilites

Many people have a stereotypical image of what being a psychic is like. They think that all psychics can see visions of everything you've ever done, know what you're thinking, communicate clearly with dead people and angels, predict the future and move objects without touching them. Having all of these skills would be a very tall order! Everyone (including you) has their own psychic strengths and weaknesses. Each of these skills involves some way of perceiving the energy around you in your aura. Some people can "see clearly" (clairvoyance), some people can "hear clearly" (clairaudience), and other people can "feel clearly" (clairsentience). Other psychic skills include precognition, healing, telekenesis and trancemediumship. Everyone is born with various psychic abilities and it is possible to more fully develop each of these skills, though some will feel more natural to you than others.

The biggest hindrance to becoming more psychic is the belief that you're not! Who told you you weren't psychic? Actually it was more likely that you just weren't validated for your skills as you were growing up. Maybe you were hushed up when you tried to ask about things that you weren't supposed to know (kids are very perceptive!). Maybe you had an "imaginary" friend and people told you that there was no such thing. We learned how to close it all down, especially those of us who may have been punished for these things.

A second hindrance to developing your psychic abilities is having the stereotypical image of psychics described above. Psychics do not necessarily see in wide-screen, IMax, 3-D vision, nor hear in HD, high-tech stereo. Rather their perceptions of the subtle energy they are looking at is just that - subtle. Good readers are calm and quiet. They have to turn down all the noise and clutter in order to read/perceive/tune into subtle energy. Your first psychic hits might just be a faint image or a single word or a very slight feeling around your heart.

The stereotypical image of a psychic usually doesn't include the most important psychic skill that you can develop. This is the skill of communicating on a spiritual level. When you are receiving important or sensitive information about someone, how do you describe it to them in a caring and respectful way so they can understand and use it? When you can see that someone isn't acting in their own best interest, can you stay out of judgement? How do you communicate in a way that validates them and helps them to move along their path? This is what turns a "psychic reading" into a space of spiritual growth and connection. If you would like to experience this kind of reading, please give us a call!

Exercise Releasing Hindrances to Developing Your Psychic Abilities: Sit in a straight back chair, put your feet on flat on the ground, and take a deep breath. Send down a beam of energy from your hips deep into the center of the earth. See yourself sitting in a bubble of your own energy. Visualize a "time line" out in front of you with one end originating at your birth, and the other end representing where you are right now. Create an image of a rose at the end with your birth. Move the rose along the time-line to the other end. Watch it as it picks up any and all energy that other people put into your space that invalidates your own psychic abilities. Also sop up any energy that defines a psychic as something you are not! You can run the rose along the time-line as many times as you want. When you are done, visualize the rose exploding and releasing all of the invalidation energy out of your space. Now put your attention right behind your eyes, say Hello to yourself using your first name, and also say "Yes, I have the makings for being a very fine psychic!"

Pray for Peace,
Madeline
http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Sacred Space, Sacred Time

If you really want to feel some powerful energy, skip the vortexes in Sedona and go straight to any old, stone cathedral in Europe! With their soaring ribbed vaults, pointed arches, flying buttresses and stained glass windows, they truly awe, inspire and humble us. The men who built them were expressing their relationship to Spirit and God. Each cathedral took decades to be completed. Can you imagine how much energy was expended in terms of time, money, physical labor and human lives to gather the materials and construct these monuments, many of which have withstood the forces of time and weather? After construction was finished, these cathedrals were consecrated as holy places of worship and service. When I have entered several old cathedrals, I have deeply felt all of this powerful energy of the sacredness of being in communication with spirit. Sometimes I meditate on evoking this energy within me. It is amazing to sit in such a space of communion with one's self and with one's God-of-Your-Own-Heart. It is a space of total presence and certainty.

Most of us spend very little time in Sacred Space. That's because no one ever told us that it even exists, much less how to create it. We rush through our busy lives distracting ourselves from finding the real meaning of life, while wondering if we will ever stumble upon it. Well, you get there a lot faster when you consciously create it. For me, "It," the meaning of life, is being in spiritual communication with yourself, with others, and with our Divine Essence, the life force energy that animates us, that makes us be alive.

If you are reading this, you probably already have some kind of spiritual practice. Do you need to bring it into present time and renew your enthusiasm for it? Have you done a consecration ritual asking Spirit to bless your sacred space? Also ask the Forces-That-Be to bless and make sacred the time that you spend in your sacred space. Write times your datebook for your spiritual practice and let no one intrude on it, or take it away from you. If you have an artistic nature that needs to be expressed, furnish the room to your liking. If you have an ascetic nature, all you need is a chair and your body. Some people take a walk out in nature, or visit cathedrals, temples and other holy places. Aim for those deeper feelings of aliveness and remembering who you are while on this physical plane. If these deeper feelings sometimes seem elusive, remember that it is a human process of experimentation and discovery. The thirty to sixty minutes you spend in deep connection with yourself is what gives meaning to the other twenty-three hours.

Exercise for discovering creating sacred space: Make a list of the places of worship for several religious denominations in the city where you live, or a nearby large, metropolitan area. Try to find those with sanctuaries that are over one hundred years old (both large and small). (Hint: Look in a phone directory and you will find some unique and interesting spiritual centers, as well as the dominant ones.) Visit these places at a time when the main sanctuary is empty. Many places of worship welcome people to enter the sanctuary during the day. Feel into the energy of each of them and notice how your body feels. Does it feel like the people who worship there come out of love, or out of obligation? Can you feel if a particular place offers its congregants a rigid or flexible dogma of how to communicate with spirit? Which of them have a feeling of holiness about them? After visiting a variety of spiritual centers, churches, temples and mosques, stop by a bookstore or library for books on creating space with rituals, decorations, music and feng shui. Go home and create your own sacred space. Let me know what you find there.

Blessings for a Joyous and Peaceful Holiday Season.
Madeline

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From Wishful Thinking to Manifestation

There is a very well established school of thought supporting the idea that you can manifest anything and everything you desire and bring it into your life. Another corollary of this is that one can always be happy, and that happiness should be your ultimate goal. In seemingly equal force are the critics and nay-sayers of this kind of thinking. They say that we believers are naïve and narcissistic, refusing to see the limits of the physical laws that govern physical life. We need to grow up and stop being so self-centered.

So are we being self-centered and juvenile with our wishful thinking? On a spiritual level, this isn’t an issue of “he who dies with the most toys wins.” It’s about learning that what you have in life is a result of how and where you direct your attention and intention. On a deeper level, it’s about growing from a space where you create things to satisfy your shallow ego needs to a space of creating with authenticity and meaning.

This shift happens when you receive validation. You need validation for being a spirit in order to feel real. In fact, it’s the only thing you need. If you are not getting this need met, it is reflected in your ego becoming needy. You (your ego) will need attention and things. But things will never resolve your neediness. When you receive the right kind of attention in the form of recognition and connection, then you mature psychologically and spiritually. You learn how to validate yourself. Life is no longer about creating things to make you happy. You realize that “unhappiness” is just another fleeting emotion that’s part of the growth process, usually indicating the layer of the onion that you get to work on next.

Mastering being able to manifest your desires is a life-long process (actually extending through several lives!). Part of the process is in not getting everything you think you want, and figuring out what that means to you. Another part of the process is increasing your awareness of how your creations affect the well-being of other people around you and the whole planet. You realize that mastery and responsibility are intertwined.

I would like to leave you with one of my favorite little ditties that I remember from childhood: May you live as long as you Wish, and have all you Wish as long as you live.
Manifestation Exercise:Sit in a straight-backed chair at a table, with paper and a pen. Put your feet flat on the floor and close your eyes. Send a beam of energy down into the center of the earth, and take a deep breath. Feel deep into your heart and pick one thing you would really, really like to bring into your life. Write a very clear, detailed description of your chosen item. Think about color, size, function and the feelings having this thing will give you. Draw a picture of it. While you are doing this, feel yourself enthusiastically really, really, really wanting the item. When you are done, you can do one of several things with the paper: burn it, sleep with it under your pillow, put it in a family bible, tear it into tiny bits and scatter them in the wind, or bury them in your garden. You can even make copies of the paper and do all of the above! Now here is the key part: Be sure to let go of all the feelings you were generating and your attachment to having the item. Totally forget all about it. Then when it appears in your life, you can be delighted and amazed.

Peace Begins With Each of Us,

Madeline

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