Magic, Miracle and the Art of Manifestation

There is nothing magical about being able to deliberately manifest a happy, productive, meaningful life.  Like learning any new skill, manifestation techniques require practice.  This "practice" consists of becoming aware of and working with energy.  What energy am I talking about? The energy of your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes and decisions.    The energy from all of these things work together to form the foundation of how you experience your physical life. 

Most people never examine their thoughts and attitudes.  They manifest their life from a space of unconsciousness, often seeing themselves as victims with unfortunate things just happening to them.  When you are unconscious, you do become a victim; a victim of the energy of other people's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes and decisions! 

Manifestation is not about getting rich, finding Mr. or Mrs. Right, and living happily-ever-after. It is the process of waking up to how you can consciously create your life. It starts with learning how to recognize your own energy from other people's energy in your personal space.  The second step is learning how to release this foreign energy out of your space.  The third step is developing your own clarity of what you really value, what you really feel, and who you are really.  This is a process of growing self-awareness which results in feeling more authentic, genuine, and self-confident.  You'll slap your forehead and say "Where have I been all my life?" 

It takes years of practice in order to master conscious manifestation.  It's when you've reached a mastery level that other people perceive and label you as magical because they don't see the work that you have put into it.  Just like an Olympic ice-skating performance seems effortless, magical and miraculous; with a lot of practice, so can your life.  

Dear Human

Hello!

 

Part of this quote came to me via email. So I Googled it and found what looks to be a possible source: http://synaestheticworld.tumblr.com/post/30599118189/dear-human-youve-got-it-all-wrong-you-didnt.   You can see att the bottom that it is attributed to Courtney A. Walsh. I am sharing it with you here without comment. It gives you plenty to mull over, all on its own.

Blue skies above!
Madeline

"Dear Human: You've got it all wrong.  You didn't come here to master unconditional love.  That is where you came from and where you'll return.  You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty love.  Crazy love. Messy love. Whole love.  Infused with divinity love. Lived through the grace of stumbling.  Demonstrated through the beauty of...messing up.  Often.  You didn't come here to be perfect.  You already are.  You came here to be gloriously human.  Flawed and fabulous.  And then to rise again into remembering.  But unconditional love? Stop telling that story.  Love, in truth, doesn't need any other adjectives.  It doesn't require modifiers.  It doesn't require the condition of perfection.  It only asks that you show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully.  That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as you.  It's enough. It's plenty."    ----Courtney A. Walsh

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

Entropy and Your Inner Space

When your house is a mess, it's difficult to focus and get anything done.  You trip over somebody's shoes, can't find the stuff that you need, and are distracted by old snail-mail cluttering the table top. Do you ever wonder why it is that your house gets messy so often, and so easily? Every time you turn around there piles of papers to sort, bathtubs to scrub and dust-bunnies  in the corners that need sweeping. It isn't the result of anything that you do deliberately to mess the place up. It just happens, no effort!  This is due to the second law of thermodynamics: Everything in the universe moves from order to disorder.

This phenomenon also happens in your personal space and your aura. Layers of other people's demands and expectations, words and feelings from conversations that you had earlier that day, residues of emotional crises that you have experienced, and bits and pieces of other people's energy that cling to your space, even if all you did was pass them in the street and they reminded you of someone you know. All this debris in your aura makes it hard for you to get in your body and focus.

To move back from the chaos to order, you have to put energy into the system. For your house, it's the energy required to get off your butt and get out the vacuum. For your personal space, there are two very effective ways of cleaning out: exercise and meditation. Exercise goes a long way for cleaning out your physical space. Jumping into a cold pool clears everyone out of you head instantly.  But exercise alone doesn't affect the all of the subtle energies of your space. It doesn't reach into your inner space where your spiritual abilities are found and where you can communicate with yourself. 

To clean out your inner space, you apply energy by meditation.  The meditation that I do is called running energy.  You visualize or feel that you are directing the flow of your energy through your energy channels and centers in a particular pattern. Running energy moves out energy blocks and then you can release the unwanted energy out of your space.  This creates the space for you to be there, in your own body, heal yourself and focus your attention on the things that are important to you.

Just like having to do the laundry and the vacuuming at least once a week, you have to exercise and meditate on a regular basis too. I recommend doing it every day, especially if you would like to maintain your sanity and health. You have a very busy, active life.  Everyday you suffer the energetic slings and arrows of interacting with others (surely you throw a few of those yourself!). This is all normal and good. But at the end of the day, it's a good idea to release everything that isn't yours' and to gather up all of your energy and replenish yourself.

Having your personal space in good-working order, and replenishing your energy is a tremendous healing.  That's when you'll be have clarity about who you are and what you need to do.  And guess what?  You'll feel motivated to easily and quickly clean up the house so that it reflects your inner space. As above, so below!

Finding Your Own Trump Card

I have a few spiritual desires in mind that I would like to accomplish.  I also have a few bad habits that suck up the time and energy that I could be directing into my desires.  My favorite rationalization for my time-wasting habits is: "Hey, I know I really am a hard-working, compassionate person, and I like myself.  My desires are just made-up fantasies.  Maybe I'm fooling myself, and there really isn't a "deeper" level of awareness to reach.  It's just my programming that I should always be trying to improve myself."  Fortunately, I have had many experiences of being in that deeper level of awareness, and I know that is where I want to be.  Life is so much more interesting and fun that way.  I know I could be in that space more often.  

The other day I had the thought, "Maybe I don't really want to be more spiritually aware, or I would do what I need to do to get there."  This  made me mad.  I realized that every time I indulged in the energy wasting activities that I was reinforcing them and making them more real than my true desires. In psychic jargon I was "giving up my seniority" to them.  This realization was the trump card I was looking for in order to get my power back from my bad habits.

I decided to use my clairvoyance and to look at what else might have been affecting my behavior.  I saw that it wasn't that I was lazy.  Rather, there was energy in my space that wasn't mine.  In spite of being a spiritual teacher myself, there was still some agreement that Spirit is not real, "working with energy" is woo-woo, and that "stepping into my personal power" was a laughable concept!  I also saw that there were a few people who were envious of my accomplishments as a psychic and a spiritual teacher.  I immediately decided to practice what I preach, and used my basic psychic tools to clear this energy out of my space.  Then I did a healing on my communication with Spirit.  Finally, I filled up my space with my an image of a golden sun filled to overflowing with own enthusiasm for taking the steps that I needed to take to manifest my desires.

Energy Exercise:  When you are feeling stuck in a rut or are indulging in behaviors that aren't serving you. Sit in a straight-backed chair, put your feet flat on the floor, close your eyes, visualize an energetic connection to the center of the earth and put your attention in the center of your head.  Use your own clairvoyance or ask your angels or guides to show you what energy may be the underlying causes of your issues.  Even if you don't get a clear picture, you can see or feel this energy flowing down your connection to the center of the earth.  Thank your angels and fill up your space with a golden sun.

About That Inferior Complex You Won't Admit To

When you perceive someone as being "inferior" to you, you may just be intuitively reading how they feel about themselves.  My jargon is that you are reading their "pictures." A clairvoyant sees the energy ("vibes") people send out as visual mental image pictures.  For example, when someone is feeling insecure, you might see an image in your mind's eye of them acting nervous as they try to explain something. For those who are not aware of their clairvoyance (ability to see pictures), they might feel the nervousness.

 It's important to learn how to read people's energy and pictures from a space of neutrality. You can read people without judgment or other emotional reactions. As soon as you move from neutrality to judgment, then you are projecting your own insecurities (or shall I say "inferiorities?") onto them.  Judgment comes in the form of feeling superior and making judgments that you are better than them.  Actually, this usually happens instantaneously and automatically.  We all have programming to be judgmental.  It's a defensive mechanism.  When you are judging someone, you are looking through your pictures of whom you think they are.  Once again, you are projecting your own insecurities onto them.  These are usually traits or feelings about yourself of which you are not aware.  "Who me? I'm not a weak person, I'm strong!"   Everyone has both strengths and weaknesses.  When you don't acknowledge your weaknesses, then you have to project them onto someone else.  When you acknowledge and own your weaknesses, then you see yourself as human; and you see other people as human.  You can see that each person is on a unique spiritual path, just like you!

When you find yourself begrudging someone's achievements, or wishing them ill, you are affecting your own reality more than you are affecting them.  (Jut remember the grade school chant: "Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!"). Begrudgment and ill-will  are expressions of your own limiting beliefs.  The energy you send out into the world comes back to (haunt) you.  It is a great opportunity for stepping back and looking inward at the underlying energy and programming in your space. 

People of whom you are judgmental are your teachers!  When you can catch yourself being judgmental, again you can take a step back and ask yourself why are you feeling defensive, and what is it that you are projecting.    This can work for other "funny little feelings" that are triggered in you by other people.  "Why does this person annoy me?"; "Does this person remind me of someone who controls me?"; "Am I in competition with this person?"  By pinpointing the energy underlying your emotional reactions to people, you learn about yourself, accomplish some spiritual growth, and let go of your inferiority complex for good.

Doo-Whacka-Doo-Whacka-Doo

Have you ever been arguing with someone and felt like he has punched you in the stomach even though he didn't physically touch you?  Perhaps someone you know has just given you the "cold shoulder," along with what feels like a bucket of ice water over your head?  Well, you have just been at the receiving end of an energy whack. 

Even people who don't believe in things that can't be seen have experienced and suffered the consequences being whacked!  How does a whack happen?  What exactly is it that the whacker is doing?  Most whacks originate out of a person's power center in the area of the solar plexus at the base of the breastbone.  This is the location of the third chakra, where energy is stored and from where it is distributed.  When a person becomes very angry, his anger energy comes barreling out of the third chakra towards whomever he is aiming it at.  I cannot describe the details of what happens physically because it does not happen on a physical level.  It happens on an energy, or psychic, level.  Even so, one can still certainly feel it on a physical level!

 An energy whack can be just as painful as a physical punch. Especially if you are open and sensitive. I've seen someone double up in pain after being whacked.  The energy of a whack can go into your aura, causing rips, tears and holes. It can permeate into your body disturbing your chakras and body functions.  Multiple whacks over a long time results in pain, disease, emotional distress or loss of creativity.

There is much more information about whacks (and "sliming" and "diddleling"), such as how to protect and heal yourself from them,  which will be presented in future posts.   In the meantime, you now have a word for this phenomena, and can be aware of the next time someone whacks you.  Just being aware of it is one way of mitigating it.  But even more important than being aware of when someone whacking you is to become more aware of when you are whacking someone else!