What does your reflection say to you?

I can’t believe what happened today.  I was going about my business, running errands, grocery shopping, the usual weekly “to-do’s”.  After an hour and a half a Costco I was feeling a pit parched as I packed my car with boxes of food and miles of papertowels and toilet paper.  On my way home, I felt an urge to swing by a local deli/market and grab a water. 

As I approached the store, I saw man sitting at an outdoor table. One table, one chair, he wasn’t sitting in towards the table but had postioned himself with his back against the wall with the front of his body facing every individual that had decided to venture into the tiny store.  As lunch hour was in full roar, there were quite a few people coming in and out.  Most walking in with arms empty and walking out with arms full of sandwiches and drinks.  As I parked my car in the front of the store I was aware that he was asking each person that walked into the store if they had money to give.  Or atleast thats what it sounded like. 

The man was wearing an old brown canvas jacket and what looked like black sweats or jeans, he was covered in dirt, and his hair looked as though it hadn’t been washed or brushed in months.  He sat with one leg resting over the other leg, with the leg pulled up on the knee of the other leg,  he was picking at what appeared to be a pretty nasty sore on his ankle.  His socks were tinged gray and brown with only a small fold of what appeared to be white - cotton socks.  This man was down on his luck in my opinion.  I immediately began to feel empathy for him and thought that if he did ask me for something on my way into the store I would kindly offer him a sandwich or juice of his choice, he had a look of hunger, or atleast a yearning for something….

I grabbed my bag and keys and got out of my car. As I got closer the pungent foul smell of body odor whiffed past me.  I had to hold my breath for few seconds, actually I didn’t have a choice because it took my breath away.  I could not help but feel bad for this person.  I started to have thoughts – different viewpoints - quickly arguing back and forth inside my own head….”He needs help, no he’s probably gotten himself to this place by some choice of his, Nobody chooses to let themselves go like that, do they? He doesn’t seem to care about himself, he’s lost all sense of pride, he’s beyond help…Oh I could help him…Maybe I could give him food…”  Yes these honestly were thoughts that were racing around my head, there were more, some positive thougths, negative thoughts, judgements, empathetic pain, sadness for this man.  I’ve been in situations were I have been around folks who have been down on their luck, helping out at the soup kitchen, helping out families gathering food for those in need of food…collecting jackets for those who need them, sending coffee to our troops in Iraq. You get the idea, but don’t recall seeing those folks in their situations with thoughts of them being “wounded”. 

I have recently been working very hard on remaining in the now, releasing negative emotions and thoughts, keeping positive and trying to be and stay in a place of awareness but without judgement, basically staying in a ”good place” as often as posible, so when I saw this particular man it clearly struck a nerve I wasn’t aware I still hadn’t touched yet.

So whats the point you ask…Well, as I walked up to the storefront, this (will call him the ‘transient man’ ) transient man asked me if I could spare 85 cents.  I truly did not have any change or cash on me, only my debit card, I was apologetic and explained to him that I truly didn’t have any money on my body but I’d love to get him (purchase him) a soda or sandwhich.  I asked him if he was hungry and then asked him if he would like something to eat, a sandwhich or chips, whatever,  I would get it for him.  Without hesitation he looked up at me with the most amazing crystal ice blue eyes and an incredibly cranky tone and told me in no uncertain terms (from what I could understand from his mumbling) that he didn’t want food!  He didn’t want a soda! And lastly he said, “Look lady, I don’t want what you think I should have, I want 85 cents so I can have enough money to by me my pint of whiskey!”

I stood there for a second or two absolutely dumbfounded.  I was no longer in a place of observance, I was no longer judging him, but I was in a state of disbelief that I found myself a bit attached to an outcome, I was so sure that I was doing the right thing. Was I? I actually began to ask myself  “Should I go buy him his pint?”  Of course not, but who am I to decide what it was that he needed?

I walked into the store, grabbed what I wanted, paid the clerk, and as I was walking out of the door a tall, good looking man walked in and smiled toward me, he said “Apparently your soda wasnt’ good enough!”

So I have finally come to a place (several hours later) where I feel I can take the event or events of today and surrender them, letting them go…Some how the words “LET GO” are resonating with me and I’m commited to bringing my awarenessof todays events to a place called ”surrender”, a sense of detachment for in this lesson there is truth, there is spirit and there is love.  In a strange way I received a message from spirit, reminding me to let go, there was no need for me to become attached to this situation or its outcome…

Where does your ego lie?

Brightest Blessings

Wishing you a day filled with love, light and laughter…..and beauty!

Namaste!

Validation

I’m an Intuitive and an Empath.  Let me start off by saying that being a mother of three children I can relate to many different circumstances of feeling like someone has hit you upside the head with a “Negative” baseball bat.  Based on all of my education and experiences I learned straightaway how important it is to protect yourself from negative energies or entities particularly those given to us from friends or family.  And let me state that almost all of these so called gifts can come through as an intuitive hit or empathically making you feel like the negativity you suddenly seem to be carrying in your gut is your responsibility to work through.  So before you banish the dark clouds of energy, particularly if you feel that it is something that you have gained from a close friend or relative you may want to take a second or two to take a peak into this energy.   And here is why…

As a mother we are given special intuitive gifts, (also known as Mother’s Instinct), and some of those mothers maybe even be lucky enough to be the recipient of the gift known as Empathy.  What is intuition?  Intuition is the ability to feel, to know, two see and/or  to hear information from a source that some people may call spirit, higher-self, the creator or the “Gut”.  What is “Empathy”, “Empath” or “Empathic”?  Well it’s basically the ability to feel what somebody else is feeling , whether it be emotionally and physically and mentally or even spiritually.  We are given these abilities so that we mothers may tune into our children to get a sense of what is going on with them on a deeper level, when they are babies this intuition helps us to know whether our babies are hungry, tired or not feeling well, and as they get older this intuition alerts us when something is wrong with them physically or emotionally, or other.  We should feel blessed for this ability, even if it does make us crazy at times.  And if you’re a mom who can do both these things I think You should pat yourself on the back for being a mom that is able to relate to her children on such a deep level! 

When dealing with outside energies (Those energies that do not belong to you) and your abilities, before you dismiss them be sure that the information you are receiving (Even though you don’t like it) isn’t possibly information that you are being given to guide them, give them advice, or even stop them from doing something they shouldn’t or keeping them from a problem before They get into too deep of trouble.  To sum it up ~ To help your child from doing some thing stupid that may cause them or someone else  feet deep sense of pain.

How to protect yourself from negative energies or entities:  Start off Each morning with a quick prayer to Archangel Michael or whom ever you pray to or ask for help, to protect you from negative energies throughout your day.  And a quick prayer before you go to bed at night asking him to cut any cords that may have attached themselves to you during the day.

Wearing crystals such as Black Tourmaline, black obsidian, Amethyst, or Smokey quartz helps by naturally creating a vibrational change in your energy field by  which it  cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. Use Black Tourmaline to help with electromagnetic smog (i.e. cell phones) and increase physical vitality. Black Tourmaline is a fantastic stone for grounding and protection, and aids in opening up the Root Chakra. Physically, Black Tourmaline is a purifying and detoxifying stone, helpful in cleansing the body. Smokey quartz is a great choice because it is self cleansing and absorbs negative energies while dispelling them, also know as self-preserving or self-cleansing so the only work with the crystal you have to do is to program it, which you should remember to do with all of your other crystals as well.  Programming the crystal infuses is it  with your intent (to heal, to purify, to be used only for positive intentions, etc. that you want to be applied to the crystal.  

A tried and true remedy is too take a bath in sea salt or Epsom salt with a few drops and lavender to clean away any negative energies.  You can add different  types of oils to the water depending upon what it is you are trying to accomplish (ie. Calming, invigorating, peace, waxing, waning, sleep, increase energy, etc.)  This can be done daily as needed.

The last and best solution that I can recommend for helping with almost any situation is to change your breathing.  Begin a series of three or four  diaphragmatic breaths, with each breath as you inhale bring in the intention ” healing, positive, love” and on the exhale, to the count of three, release the words “Negative Be-Gone!”  When you concentrate on breathing your mind, body or soul is unable to focus on anything else.  Try it and see for yourself!  A lot of people realize with this lesson that part of their problem all along has been that they have not been breathing properly hence creating a sensation of stress or an overall feeling of negativity throughout the body.  Controlling your breathing is another way of controlling your emotions.

If you need any further help with your situation feel free to e-mail me with your question at Michaele@healingintuitivegarden.com and I can send you an e-mail with information or  send you different links regarding information that will help for your particular issue, need or question.

 Wishing you a day filled with light , love and laughter !

Namaste

Take time to appreciate the little things

January 19, 2010

I know that there are days that happen to each and everyone of us that can only be explained as “unbelievable!”, and I don’t mean that in a positive tone.

I have learned a couple of things in life though, regardless of how bad our day has been, if we can keep our minds and our emotions on a calm, balanced level, things that can be construde as “bad hair days” can actually turn around.  If we can take a bad moment, the kind of moment that happens when the only word that wants to come out of your mouth is “bleep *^$$&* bleep ^*%##% bleep” (use your imagination to fill in the jumble and bleeps!) stop yourself and try to evaluate the situation.  I try rating on a level from 1 to 10, 1 being a fabulous terrific day can’t get much better kind of day and 10 being the worst day you can imagine…sorry don’t want to go there for fear of the Law of Attraction taking over….lol.

If you can rate it below a 6, you can probably turn it around, maybe not the event or situation but how youre looking at it.

My mother always used to say “Everything happens for a reason whether we want it to or not”.  She was right, but what she didn’t tell me that I have learned is that when things feel crappy, call upon your Archangels, your healing angels, your spirits guides or spirit friends to help you out, usually they will.  If there is a lesson in it for you to learn, great! But that doesn’t mean you have to suffer to learn it. 

The only lessons in life that I believe we have to go through for the only fact that we are human, is grief, losing something or someone.  Regardless of the level of pain, no matter how much it may hurt, no matter how long it may take you to get through it, before you begin to feel human again, the end result is a lesson that we have learned not just about grief, but also about love.  Generally it’s hard to grief for something or someone that you don’t care about.  It doesn’t touch your heart.  But with grief, when you lose someone you love by death, divorce, seperation or whatever reason it touches your heart and hurts in such a way that truly the only thing that can make it feel better is your decision to feel better, to heal, and to move on,,,time,,,it just takes time.  We can’t determine how much time it will take, for only our heart knows when it has truly healed.

So when things seem dark and your feeling down and out…try to see the positive, try to look at the good things that you do have, friends or family, a dog or cat, a good job or a nice car, or maybe something about yourself, it could be great hair or a beautiful smile…so look at what you have been blessed with, look at what you have completed and what is being done ….

Try to see yourself and your situation as clearly as possible for just a few moments without the emotional part of it, and see if it will shed some light on what may be making you feel so dark…

Wishing you a week filled with love, light and laughter!

Mich

BBall anyone?

January 17th, 2010

So, I’m doing pretty good I’m blogging ~ Day 3!

Today felt pretty non-eventful, getting up early to take my daughter Faith to her basketball practice.  And of course, we were 15 minutes late.  And I’m sad to say that in the moment my thought was “your lucky that we’re here at all!“

Honestly, after I thought it I felt bad about it.  Bless her heart, her coach, Stacy, has more tenacity in her pinkie than I probably have in my whole entire body.  I know that I would not be able to get up that early, be that energetic, and teach basketball to eight second graders while smiling.  So my thanks go out to her for taking such great care of my daughter and her friends!

So after practice I decided to take Faith to our local toy store, pretty relaxing as we cruised through the store until a very precocious salesclerk began to hover over us, I got the feeling she wasn’t being friendly but was making sure we weren’t stealing anything.  And have a feeling that she thought my daughter and I were trying to tag team her.  I had to laugh!

My husband arrived home from work the same time we arrived, I realized that I let out a loud sigh when I realized my Saturday afternoon plan of relaxing was now shot.

My husband enjoys hunting, since it’s been bird season, he has been gone every weekend for the past five weeks.  The first weekend was kind of strange getting used to the quiet, and no ESPN on the TV.  But I soon became accustomed to the relaxed energy of our home and the loss of pressure I felt of having to be productive every minute of every hour.  I know he doesn’t mean to put that energy out there for all of us to soak in, but I do believe it’s what he knows because that’s how he was brought up, that’s how his parents raised him.  And we all know that some habits are hard to break.  I too was raised this way, and after 10 years of psychotherapy and about $15,000 I’m almost free from it…  (insert giggle here!)

So it’s pretty late that’s about 1:30 AM, and it’s time for me to go to bed.  I have every intention of sleeping in until about 11:00 AM, taken a shower and going to my daughter’s basketball game!  They’re so much fun I’m actually looking forward to it!

Sweet dreams~

Wishing light, love and laughter to all!

Mich

What makes your heart grow!

January 16th, 2010

Just a quick blog, I promised myself I would start blogging everyday starting with the new year,,,ok, I know I started late, and I’m  two weeks and a day late…but I’m actually on “blog #2″  WoooooooHoooooooooooo!!!!!!!

So here is my New Year’s resolution in a more detailed fashion, actually more like a defined promise to myself, to blog, aka journal, my daily life each and every day. This as part of my growing/learning experience as I challenge myself to change for the better, to maintain a positive attitude to prove that the Law of Attraction Exists, to prove that asking your angels for help exists and to prove that there is something larger than us in this big beautiful world.

So my list of things to talk about…

• Experiences with Angels
• Experiences with Spirit Guides
• Law of Attraction ~ Does it really Exist? Yes!!!
• Changing for the Better, being a better person
• Something bigger than the both of us
  
• marriage is a big one
• how much my marriage has changed and evolved over the past 8 years.
• How my relationships around my marriage have changed, including those relationships with my children,,, that  ought to be a good one so stay tuned….
• My intuitive life, how far I’ve come, and what my future aspirations are surrounding that subject,
• My pets, the loss of two of beautiful fur babies, the grief is crushing and sometimes feels as if it is never ending.
• Meditation – What does it really look like for the average girl like me…
• Being a psychic medium, being intuitive, empathic
• Metaphysics
• My journey, starting back to school  to earn my PhD – Yeah for me! and AaaGggHhhh I’m scared!
• Music ~ what rocks your world, what rocks mine?
• Spirituality  ~ A mind set or a religion?

And it’s now 3:37 am in the morning and my husband is complaining about it and the fact that I’m a night owl and not a day person….

So goodnight for now….Love to all

Blessings, with light love and laughter to you this day and always.

Micha’ele

Dreaming

Dreams are our minds way of dealing with our issues subconsciously, those things that are psyche can’t deal with in our waking hours.

Figure out what your subconscious is telling  you.  You hold the key to your life, dreams are our bodies way of working out problems that our conscious mind may be too “cluttered” to tell us.

Dreaming in color ~

Pay attention to the colors that appear in your dreams, like our own energy chakra’s, each having it’s own color, each color representing a vital piece of information into our spirit, personalities and lives.

For instance, Red can mean passion, love, vital energy and can also mean anger and frustration.

Not everyone dreams in color, but if you do, take note because each color has it’s own meaning, and this may possibly give you  important information into a matter that symbols cannot provide.

My daughter and I were in a car accident a coupe of months ago. Amazingly, we’re all right.  Physically, we were thrown around, as my car (it felt like) drove over the car that pulled out in front of us, the front end of our car totaled, the tire being bend sideways like a bendy-straw, the car landing on the remaining three tires to be hit by another car head on.  It was terrifying to say the least, but the worst was seeing my six year old daughter being jossled in the seat like a rag doll, her body remained still in the seat, but her legs and arms were jossled. 

My truth about this accident, is that it created several different situations that have proven to be incredible life lessons for me. First, I am thankful because we walked away from it, stiff and sore, to be expected, but in one piece, unbelievable. 

I have never cried so much in my life.  For a good month I couldn’t seem to get the image out of my head, it felt as though the car was moving in slow motion, and that image just kept repeating itself. I kept seeing this car pull in front of me, I keep trying to slam the brakes but the car just wouldn’t stop, and the car that pulled in front of me just kept coming towards us.

  So heres the “wow” moment that I also can’t get out of my head ~ The feeling of hands as large as life holding us in our seats, the air bags didn’t go off, but the feeling of being held in a position as if to protect us from hitting any part of the interior of the car. A feeling I can’t shake either – Being so thankful for my family, my healthy children, my husband, our home, our lives. 

Two days after the car accident, I am painfully reminded again of how precious life is as the news begins to broadcast the unfortunate event of four police officers being shot in the city of Oakland, only 35 minutes away.  Three were gone, with the fourth being on life support so that his body could bless and save four other individuals, save their lives, only a short while later. I have prayed for their families and friends and wish them love and healing through this difficult time.

About a week later, my son, a junior at high school at the time, told me the story of the experience he had at school that day.  They, the high school, had what’s called  “Every 15 minutes” .  As he choked back what I thought to be tears, he told me of the woman who spoke that day.  She was a judge, I believe he said she worked in the traffic division of the courts. She told the story of a little girl, her little sister and mom and dad. They were driving home from dinner one night when their car was hit by a drunk driver. The mother, the father and the little sister were all lost in that accident. The only survivor was the six year old little girl. She said that she had lost so much that day, because not only did she lose her family and become an orphan, but she admitted that this story was hers. She was the little girl that survived. This was why she chose to become a judge in the traffic division of the court system. She spoke about how this affected her life. What it was like getting married and not having her parents their, not having a dad to walk her down the isle, no grandparents for her own children, or great grandparents for their children. I cried like a baby while he told me this story, as I am write now writing about it.

So what’s the moral of this blog…Be thankful, feel blessed and appreciate the life you have today! It may change in a minute, it may be different tomorrow. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I can’t wait to tell my grandchildren how much they are valued (when the time comes), I’ve all ready told my children!

Have a blessed and wonderful day!

However, today I didn’t find either. What I did find was a huge addition of new books with a new subject added to the usual section of books that I normally look at. Each book referenced the year 2012.

Some books depicted the year 2012 as being the end of the earth as we know it, some referenced it as a new time of love and spirituality unveiled, with the statement that those of us sensitives will and are currently preparing ourselves for the day when the veil is lifted and our intuitive and healing abilities will become the norm, giving an emphasis to those who may now be struggling to take this time to learn, open up and allow themselves to be vulnerable to the new wave of spiritual air.

I’m curious what people think about this. I’m trying not to sit in fear of the world ending, as my intuitive gut tells me that it is more about the veil lifting and those of us who are intuitives will be able to feel “normal” due to the changes that will come.

Things in our world are all ready in such a state, with our United States being at war, and for what? That is a subject for a different day and a different blog! Our economic state is frightening, our schools are rated the worst compared to most of the schools around the world. Our children clearly have different ideas than we did as children. Our ozone layer is disappearing leaving us vulnerable to the sun’s damaging rays. As we struggle to win our own war with our government and the everyday people that the time is now to be green!!! Global warming isn’t going to happen, it has happened, we are only just now beginning to see changes and damage that it has in store for us if we don’t do something drastic, and not sooner, more like yesterday!

If you would like to respond please do, I would love to hear other folks opinions on these subjects, most importantly the 2012 theory!

Wishing you all love, light and laughter!

- Author unknown

Approximately a year and a half ago, I woke up one morning to hearing three names. My spirit guides kept repeating them, the names will be changed to protect the innocent-lol) Carol, Howard and Jean. I began asking everyone I ran across that morning if they were related to Carol, Howard and Jean. Nope, Nope, Nope, so by the time I got to work I thought maybe I was just trying to drive myself nuts and just obsessing. Anyway, I walked into my shop, and “Pat” was at the front desk smiling away, wishing me a warm hello. Hello I said, and couldn’t help myself, in fact, it came out like word vomit. “Pat? Do you know a Carol, Howard and a Jean?” “Yes” Pat said. “Carol is my mother-in-law, Tom’s mom.” I said “Ok fine? And Howard and Jean have passed away right?”

“No” Pat said. “Howard is still alive, but Jean has passed” I couldn’t help myself, because the message I got that morning was very clear! Not to mention, I had no idea who these folks were! Carol was the daughter and Howard and Jean were her parents, and my message was that they were both passed and they were saying hello to Carol. I didn’t know what to say to Pat. All I knew is that the message I got and the information Pat gave me were different. I didn’t know what to say. I suddenly knew it, but I couldn’t say it. Jean was coming through not just to say Hi, but to help Howard cross over, it was his time, my message was a bit confused, I thought they were both passed, but Jean was on the other side waiting for her soul mate, Harold to cross over to her so that they could be together.

I asked Pat “Are you sure?” She looked at me like I was nuts! She didn’t really believe in all my “witchy-woo” stuff, but I knew what was about to happen, thank goodness the phone rang to distract us both from the conversation that neither one of us was comfortable with at that point.

Pat came to work the following day to tell me that Howard had crossed over the night before at dinner. The family was having there evening meal, and Howard took a breath and leant over his plate, yes, he was gone. Pat began to cry a bit as she shared the news with me, I felt choked up and all I could say to her was “I’m sorry”, but inside I felt almost a sense of relief, I knew it was going to happen.

“Remember yesterday morning when I asked you about Carol, Howard and Jean…?” She looked at me with a blank stare and suddenly looked as though she was about to pass out. Spirit doesn’t always give you exact details, times or what exactly will or did happen, but trust what you get, write it down, it could be hours, days, months, years,,,or even minutes in my case, but at some point it will all make senseto you, you (or I) will be validated. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten information and had no idea what to do with, who to give it to, or what the signs were for, because maybe I hadn’t been shown yet. Trust me when I say when I give a reading, it’s interactive. I just need to say that it’s not up to me to figure out the puzzle, they give me the pieces that will fit for you!

So bless you and your spirit guides, and may they help guide you along your path, may you be open to listen and to be open to their love.

Bright blessings to you.