What Color Is My Aura?

"What color is my aura?" is often the first question people ask when they come for a reading.  However, if you line up three psychics to look at your aura, you'll probably get three different answers!  That is because each reader "sees" you from their own perspective.  The color is not what is important, it's the communication and information that you receive that is important.  Besides, you can change the colors in your aura anytime you want!

The colors in your aura reflect the energy level where you are vibrating.  So the colors change depending on your mood, your attitudes and your beliefs.  The color of frustration is distinctly different from the color of joy.  Having judgmental beliefs will show different colors than being open-minded.  If you've just slammed your fingers in the doors, your aura will instantly erupt in a barrage of hot colors!  Everyone's colors are different.  Whereas your aura might get very red when you are angry, your friend's anger might show up as green.

You can deliberately decide to vibrate at a particular color.  You would want to do this to shift your mood, heal yourself or appear very responsible when you have a job interview.  Consciously "setting your energy" is a very useful psychic tool.  If you have a very busy day ahead of you, you can choose to vibrate at a color that is very calming for you.  Check in with yourself several times during the day to see if you are still vibrating at that color.  This is the same thing as setting your intention to stay calm, but using a color will have definite effect, especially for those who are more visually oriented.

Everyone often does set their color and vibration without being aware of it.  Women do it every time they get all dressed up to impress a date.  By the time they are dressed, have their make-up on and spritzed with perfume, their auras are all sparkly too!  But you can also make your aura sparkly without having to change your clothes (just in case you run into "him"or "her" at the supermarket!).

It is easy to practice setting the color of your aura.  Sit in a straight-backed chair, with your feet flat on the floor. Close your eyes and take make sure you are breathing.  Ground your energy by sending a strong beam of energy down into the center of the earth.  Next, see or feel your chosen color running up your legs and down the ground cord. See or feel this color running from the top of your head, down your back to your tailbone, then up the front of your body and out the top of your head. See it like a fountain out the top of your head and flowing down to fill up your aura.  At your throat, see the color flowing down your shoulders, down your arms and out your hands.  Try changing the tone or the intensity of the color and notice if it changes how your feel.  Explore running different colors, or alternating them, as they run through your body and space. See the colors as layers around your body.  Notice how each color affects your feelings and your consciousness. Then spend the rest of the day vibrating at your favorite color.

Setting your colors and energy vibration helps you to step into your personal power. You get to decide how you want to be in the world. You get to own your personal space and reality. You get to heal yourself. In addition to all that, you'll have beautiful colors in your aura too.

Let me know how it goes for you!

Madeline

Psychic Tools: Not Merely a Visualization

There are people who come to Psychic Awakenings wanting to learn how to open up their psychic abilities; and there are people who come wanting to learn how to close down their abilities.  The former want to see, hear and feel more energy; and the latter already see, hear and feel energy too intensely. The funny thing is that the same psychic tools are used to help some people open up psychically, and others to close down psychically!

"What is a psychic tool?" you ask. A psychic tool is a visualization or intention used to consciously direct your energy. For example, when you are feeling scattered and unfocused, you can "ground" yourself by directing your energy down into the earth.  This is done by visualizing a grounding cord using an image of a tree trunk with roots that go down to the center of the earth.  At first it's just a visualization for most people.  Then they realize that they feel and act differently when they are grounded.  The next step is to use grounding in a more deliberate way to have more clarity or to change the energy of a situation. The real epiphanies happen when people realize that something that was "just a visualization" is now a powerful tool that they can use in their day to day life.

Grounding is the first of dozens of psychic tools that you can use to consciously create your life. If you have been feeling stuck in some area of your life or if you feel that life "just happens," psychic tools will help you to understand the power of your intention and attention.  You no longer have to be an unconscious victim to the vicissitudes of life.  

Whether you want to be more aware of psychic energies, or to not feel so bombarded by psychic energies, psychic tools will work for you!

The Universe blesses you every day!
Madeline

A Safe Haven for Sensitive Souls

Are you one of the many sensitive souls inhabiting planet earth these days: empaths, intuitives, healers, and other compassionate people?  Are you able to feel everyone else's emotional pain and suffering?  Do you have psychic experiences, seeing and hearing things that you don't understand? Do you receive information and you don't know what to do with it?  Most of you are not as bold as the Long-Island Medium who goes right up to people to tell them what she sees.  

Instead, most sensitive people are afraid to talk about what they are experiencing.  They are afraid that they'll scare people. They are afraid that they might actually be "crazy."  This can result in feeling misunderstood and isolated.  On the other side of the spectrum are the people who just closed it all down early in order not to feel overwhelmed. They are still sensitive, but may have only a hunch that they may have some psychic abilities.

All sensitive souls are welcome and invited in at Psychic Awakenings.  We teach dozens of energy techniques for feeling safe whether you are working to open up your psychic abilities or working to get your psychic energies under control. You will be encouraged to use the techniques in your everyday life.  You will learn how to know what is your "stuff" and how to release the stuff that doesn't belong to you.  Our safe haven for sensitive souls will provide you a warm community and a place for anchoring yourself as you expand and grow into the beautiful soul that is you.

May your day be blessed,
Madeline

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"Don't You Have to be Born Psychic?"

"Don't you have to be born psychic?" This is the question that I am asked the most often.  And the answer is: "You are born psychic!"  The human body is very sensitive.  Just as you can feel a tiny splinter as it slips into your skin, your body's extensive network of nerves can perceive and feel the thoughts and emotions from other people. The easiest emotion to feel is anger.  The next time that someone is angry at you, try to notice what that feels like to your body.  It might feel like an overall blast of energy, or it might feel like a punch to the stomach. Where the psychic part comes in is at those times when the person is not acting angry, but you can still feel their anger.  Many times people will suddenly feel angry but are not aware that they are picking up someone else's emotions.

Unfortunately many times when a child asks a parent "Why are you angry?"  the parent will douse the child with more anger energy while saying, "I am not angry, I don't know why you are saying that."  This denial and invalidation causes the child to mistrust their own feelings and to close down their psychic abilities.  This closing down also happens when children share their experiences of communicating with a spirit and then are told that it's just an imaginary playmate.

Your whole body is sensitive.  Just as every inch of your skin can feel a sharp pin prick, each part of your body can be affected by someone else's energy.  Do you sometimes have funny sensations, or sudden unexplained pain, around the top of your head? In your solar plexus? Down in your gut?  These sensations may be caused by other people sending a beam of energy into your body. Your family and friends may be cording you because they want something from you, or they want to control you in some way.  How do you know if the pain is real, or if you are being corded by someone?  You use your intuition.  You can practice using your intuition to the point where you'll just know what is really going on in your body.  Knowingness is another very powerful psychic skill that you are born with.  Just like developing any skill or innate talent that you are born with, you can practice and become more deeply aware of all your psychic abilities.

Blessings to All,
Madeline

Book II of Our Life Can Start Right NOW!

 By: Wendy R. Wolf, Assistant Director at Psychic Awakenings

 I had the privilege to meditate and heal-with someone today for the first time.

She has had a very challenging life, and an extremely difficult time on almost every level, for the last few years.

When I spoke with her physically, it was challenging to not go into sympathy… so much pain, so much hardship – how would she be able to find her way out?

But then when I worked with her spiritually, I saw how incredibly capable she is, what a beautiful spark of Life she is.

I could see how, now, at any moment, she could turn around from her current trajectory, backtrack a bit to where she got off-track and keep going on her beautiful, bright path.

I could see how useful it is to drop the past, all its hooks and attachments… and Pain.

The biggest thing I could see is – if she allows it, Book II of her life starts NOW. The future can be so bright – almost anything is possible, in delight, in service.

It is such a blessing to meditate & heal with folks, for many reasons – including because we all share so much in common.

For me, for you – our past doesn’t have to define us, our current pain need not stop us, we are each beautiful sparks of Light… and Book II of our lives can start right NOW.

All we have to do is say YES: yes to ourselves, yes to our unique path, yes to Life!

Reprinted with permission from Wendy R. Wolf. The original article can be found on her professional services site: Soul Evolution.

New Year's Evolutions: An Empowered Approach to an Old Tradition

By: Stephen Grose, Spiritual Teacher at Psychic Awakenings

If you’re like a lot of people, you may have made some New Year’s resolutions on January 1^st.  As we enter the second month of the year, the question is:  How is it going?  If you’ve given up already or noticed that you aren’t acting consistently on your quest for change, now is a great time to shift your approach.

A New Year, A New You
A New Year’s resolution has the connotation of an end result; something to be resolved. In this we set ourselves up for disappointment if the expected result is not met. Having a New Year’s Evolution is creating the intent that you will evolve yourself in some way without pigeonholing yourself into an evolutionary dead end (a finite goal which you might fall short of or might limit yourself from going even bigger with your intention).

Learning To Work in Conjunction with the Universe
Before we create our New Year’s Evolutions (an Evolutionary Idea) let’s talk about how our lives are created. We create our lives in conjunction with the Universe. We vibrate with thoughts and feelings that send out signals to the Universe. The Universe picks them up and responds back with more of the same, like an echo. “I want to lose weight.” is a nice thought about losing weight, but the emotional attachment is probably one of dissatisfaction, or unhappiness. If you are feeling ‘icky’ about your thought, it would behoove you to change it to something you can feel a positive emotion about (enthusiasm, joy, excitement, etc.). An emotional vibration of joy will echo back experiences that give you more joy, while sending out dissatisfied feelings the same vibration will come back to give you more of the same. Now that we are familiar with how the Universe responds to our emotional vibration and that we must be aware of our emotional reaction to our thoughts, we can start creating our Evolutionary Ideas.

Creating your New Year’s Evolutions
At first it starts with a thought similar to a resolution: “I want to lose weight” or “I want a raise at work.”
Let’s break these down into the most basic thoughts that don’t involve a goal and induce a positive or neutral emotion: “I want to feel confident with my body.” or “I want an increase in my monetary abundance.” 

You can use these two methods to bring your Evolutionary Idea to fruition:

1)       Phrase the Evolutionary Idea as a question with the intent of receiving guidance.

Examples: “How can I feel more confident with my body?” or “How can I increase my monetary abundance?”

When you are thinking about your Evolutionary Idea, put it into the form of a question with the intent of receiving an answer *but* let go of all attachment to what the answer ‘should’ be or how long it takes for the answer to come to you. The more you hold restrictions in your head about time frame and the “how’s” the more your slow down the speed of your manifestation.

2)       Sit down and center yourself with whatever techniques work for you (breath work, music, running, meditation, etc.). From here imagine yourself, in present time, experiencing your Evolutionary Idea.

Really imagine yourself feeling positive emotions about your Evolutionary Idea for at least 30 seconds. At the beginning this will be more abstract because the Universe hasn’t yet provided you with the details on how it will happen.

Example 1: Feeling more confident with your body. Imagine yourself sitting where you are (easy, right?!) and just feel confident. Channel the feeling of confidence in relation to your physical body. Just feel it and then when you have done so for at least 30 seconds just feel grateful and let it go and continue on with your day.

Example 2: Having more monetary abundance. This imagining can be a little more detailed. Imagine your life with more monetary abundance. You don’t have to focus on *how* the abundance of money will come into your life, just how your life looks with the extra cash flow. Imagine yourself feeling relief, confidently paying bills ahead of schedule. Taking vacations and staying at nice hotels, or buying that new gaming console you have your eye on. Feel the joy and excitement and relief you feel as you can easily spend your abundance of money. Do this for at least 30 seconds and then end it with feeling gratitude and continue on your merry way.

Focus on Each New Step and not the Destination
As you move through your daily life, alert for signs from the Universe, continue to take breaks in the day to vibrate emotionally as if you are already experiencing your Evolutionary Idea. When the signs come, be it articles and posts on your Newsfeed, or friends offering advice, or inspirations of spontaneity, roll with them. Test them out and see how you feel about them. If they are in alignment with your Evolutionary Idea and give you feelings of excitement, joy, relief, and/or happiness, keep going with it! Add this to your vibrational time outs. Add the activity into your imagining of your Evolutionary Idea. Keep this in your vibration and actions unless you stop feeling positive feelings about it. 

Suddenly You’ve Arrived
One day you will wake up and have your Evolutionary Idea. The path there may not have been clear at first, but looking back it made so much sense! From here you can start a new Evolutionary Idea for yourself! Evolve yourself and your life experience through joy and excitement; avoid negative feelings as much as possible while not beating yourself up about having negative feelings from time to time.

Reprinted with permission from Stephen Grose. The original article can be found on his professional services site: Healing Elements.

Receiving the Gift of You

Guest Blog by Susan Dumett

You are the most valuable gift there is.

No matter who you are, where you are or you current circumstances your presence on this planet matters. Your words have value. Your love, your laughter, your wisdom, your talents and your ideas are needed.

In fact, in this moment, your unique perspective, character, creativity, compassion, heart and intellect are absolutely essential to the fullness of life right here, right now, as we all know it.  The proof is simply that you exist. 

With every word, with every deed, you send out an energetic ripple that has both immediate and lasting effect. In every single moment, you radiate a unique and beautiful energetic presence. Whether intentional or unintentional, your energy immediately impacts whomever you happen to be engaged with, and is carried by and shared by that person with whomever they interact with, and so on. 

No matter your history, no matter your self-effacing stories or any pain you carry inside, you have touched more people in positive ways than you can ever know. That touch, your touch, is beautiful, unique and valuable because it comes from you—and whether you believe it or not, its reach can be infinite.  

Even in your darkest hours, your presence has value and meaning. In the darkness there is always something to take notice of, to explore, and gather information from. When we allow ourselves to be present to our shadows, we create space for calling forth something deeper in our selves and in others. 

We create space for transformation. It can be easy to think that asking others for help is a burden, but in actual fact, that too is part of the gift of you. It may offer an opportunity for someone to step forward and be of service, or return a favor, or recognize something in them selves. It might even give them an opportunity for them to exercise their right to say No, or Yes. 

The gift of you can deliver in ways you can’t even imagine. Behind every inspiration and every challenge there is deep wisdom and creativity, waiting to be mined and used to shift old paradigms and ways that no longer serve your highest and best good. This is when profound healing can occur. When you are present to that fact, and allow it to be true for you, you give a gift to yourself and to others. 

It can be hard to digest that our presence can make such a difference. There have been many times in may life when I 
felt too damaged or unworthy to matter much at all. Seeing and appreciating the gift of others is often quite easy. Seeing and appreciating the gift of who we really are can be incredibly challenging. But it doesn’t have to be.

The trick is letting go—of thoughts and behaviors that reflect and contribute to duality and separation. This means letting go of tendencies to focus on the negative and allow your self to see, feel, experience and enjoy the positive, in even the simplest of things. It means breaking habits that involve analyzing and criticizing your self and others, and letting things simply be, as they are, warts and all. It means letting go of the past, and not letting it define you. It means stopping worry about what may or may not happen  the future. and just being present to what actually IS, in this moment. 

In this moment, will you choose to dwell on a self-deprecating thought or look outside and notice the patterns and textures on a tree trunk or the wall of the building next door and remember that your eyes, or your ears, or your feet are beautiful miracles? All are miraculous gifts that embody the gift of you. Even the simple validation of listening to your own breathing can shift things. You are alive and because of that you are a miracle too. 

The only thing that matters in this moment is what you choose to do with it. While it can be helpful to understand the history behind why you do things that don’t serve your highest and best good, it’s not as important as your desire, intention and attention to transform these things into thoughts, behaviors and actions that better serve your self and the lives of others. 

Anything less is giving away your power. When you are able to say, enough is enough, I am ready to move beyond (what I’ve perceived) my limits (to be), you begin the metamorphosis—a journey to owning who you really are, and connecting with all that is. As Amma, or Mother, the Hindu spiritual leader known for her great hugs, selfless love and compassion toward all beings, wrote:

The common expression is 'I love you"

But instead of ‘I love you,’
it would be better to say, ‘I am love—
I am the embodiment of pure love.’

Remove the I and you,
and you will find that there is only love.

It is as if love is imprisoned between the I and you.
Remove the I and you,
for they are unreal;
they are self-imposed walls that don’t exist.

The gulf between I and you is the ego.
When the ego is removed
the distance disappears and
the I and you also disappear.

They merge to become one — and that is love.
You lend the I and you their reality.
Withdraw your support and they will disappear.

Then you will realize,
not that ‘I love you,’
but that ‘I am that all-embracing love.
 

In the end, coming to a place of love and acceptance of oneself is the key to everything. When we start to consider that we are a gift—that our lives are a gift and that we are love, we begin to awaken to the Truth.  So go on. Say it.

I am Love. I am Love. I am a valuable gift. My words have value. My love, my laughter, my wisdom, my talents and my ideas are needed right now on this planet.

Dolores Cannon in The Convoluted Universe Book One says, “The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.” 

The awakening is not always easy. When you shed old skin, the peeling away can be painful. But it is far less painful to move and grow and open, than to continue to live in the confines of  “not enough” or “not worthy” or “not valid”. Our intellect can entertain the idea that what comes next promises to be better, but our hearts and bodies can still feel fear, the fear of the unknown. We don’t want to leave the pain we’ve become accustomed to without knowing what we’re stepping in to. Fear becomes paralyzing when we resist it. Give up resistance. Ask for help. You many not love every step of the way—but with each step you will learn, grow and emerge. The load will become lighter, the connections more.

Do this because you not only deserve to be nurtured, supported, loved and cared for—you have a right to be. 

But, you have to get out of your own way. Others can help you, but no one can  pull you out of your own rough spot if you aren’t willing to help your self. When we own it and walk with it, walk through it, a shift occurs. We begin to see that we are both more powerful and loveable than we’ve been led to believe—and than we’ve allowed ourselves to be.

How does this all work exactly? At Psychic Awakenings we learn that we are all vibration, we are all energy—and energy can be shifted and changed. Even deep seeded, difficult beliefs and feelings, patterns of behavior (and their consequences) can be shifted: into something more positive, flexible, useful—into a higher vibration. But we have to choose it. We have to be vigilant and consciously change our words, our language, our thoughts and behaviors.

These thoughts and behaviors are usually based on lies and stories we picked up as children or through media and cultural practices and beliefs that don’t serve the highest and best good. They are not true, and they are certainly not true for you. Yet their potency can be paralyzing, if we allow it. We have a choice in this as well. You are, YOU are, more powerful that you know. To tap into this power, begin to do as Amma beckons. Remove the separation between “us”, and “them”, release the habits of judgment, and know that no matter your history, no matter your pain, no matter how many times you’ve f-ed things up, there is nothing wrong with you. 

One of my favorite quotes is by Paulo Coelho in his book Warrior of the Light: “I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.' ”

And so, if you know that something is holding you back, it is time to move beyond. When we talk about living in a higher vibration, it simply means connecting, really connecting to our highest and best heart and mind, our truth, our power. This is the place where you shine the brightest and help ignite and inspire light in others. Use your words, thoughts and actions as intentional expressions of love, kindness and compassion. 

With this as your motivation, there is no room for self-sabotage, self-deprecation or judgment of your self or others. Your heart begins to open with more ease and there is a profound realization that we are all on our own wild trip here, we are all doing our best to navigate both the chaos and beauty.  In choosing to come back to love again and again and again we see the innocent child in every person. 

There is no need to react to the negativity and judgment passed by others, because we understand where it comes from. We understand it is nothing personal. Criticism that comes from you or from others, is a red flag that there is something to heal within. It is a call to remember who you really are:  the most valuable gift.

I am Love. I am Love.

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Susan Dumett is a teacher at Psychic Awakenings, a Professional Energy Healer and Spiritual Coach for both individuals and organizations, and the Founder/Owner of Iosis Media, specializing in transformational business communications.