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Homeless/Transient Man has High Expectations…

Miki — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:04:18 +0000

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!

Your “Gut” Feeling ~ mother’s listen closely…

Miki — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:04:25 +0000

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

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Fear, what is it?

Miki — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:40:59 +0000

Fear is an incredibly wasteful use of our very precious time.

Believe in Yourself

Finding Your Starting Point and Using Your Gifts!

Miki — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:27:47 +0000

The early bird catches the sunrise!

Based on all of the messages I’ve received since the New Year, I thought that I would write about something that seems to be on the minds of quite a few people.

There seems to be quite a few of us that know we have “gifts’, in fact we probably have known that we have had these gifts since we were little ones. But because we either didn’t have parents who were open to it, or we were just too afraid to talk about it, we took our experiences (seeing spirits, hearing spirits, having prophetic dreams, knowing things about family or friends that we had no way of knowing) and did our very best to forget them, hide them never to be seen or heard from again. But luckily for many of us, our Creator doesn’t want that to be the case because the truth is we are all better people for having realized our gifts and used them to help ourselves and others.

So what to do about the “fear”…. First I want to say that you are not alone in this feeling.

There comes a point in our life’s, in our experience that we realize that our gifts are special and are no longer meant to be feared. But with that there also comes confusion ~ where to start, who to talk to, what books to read, what modalities to consider, what gifts do we nurture vs. what gifts we shut out.

Some people who have been blessed with gifts (such as clairvoyance, prophetic dreams, empathic ability, communication with spirit, etc.) are actually told early on or later in life what they are supposed to do with their gifts, or even what their path is and how they should go about following their “life’s journey” ~ They hear “a voice” telling them what to do, there is an unmistakable knowing. But there are more of us then not that are supposed to find it out on our own, because that is part of our lesson, our journey.

I can give you a “starting point”, as it has been given to me by spirit, but I can’t tell you exactly what you should do or what decision to make as that is up to you. Most people have more than one “gift”, and I want to ask everyone, that if you know healing to be one of those gifts, that it should be one of the modalities that we should all consider adding to genre of modalities that we are capable of doing. Why? You ask, because what a wonderful place our earth will be if everyone who had some type of healing ability could nurture it and use it to help heal others and the world…well you get the picture, what a beautiful world this would be!

OK ~ so let’s start ~ the beginning is always the best place to begin, it is incredibly helpful for you to write down a list of all the things, gifts, you have the ability to hold in your heart. So if healing is one of them start there – write it down. Can you speak to spirit? Can you see auras? Next, what type of healing are you interested in? Do you feel a calling to any one thing in particular? Reiki Therapy, Light Energy Healing, Aura Reading, etc…. what other types of modalities are you interested in? Mediumship, Psychic Healing, Intuitive Counseling? I hope I’m making sense here. There is so much power in writing it down. Then when you are done making a list of those abilities, write down a list of what types of healing or modalities you may be interested in learning about. There are over 1500 holistic modalities in the world, so I would write down maybe the top ten to twenty that you have interest in, and then start narrowing down that by what ignites your passion. What is it that makes you feel warm and fuzzy? Once you have the top 5 or 6 things, start looking into them, look for classes or books that interest you which can give you tips or information about where to start learning about that “gift”.

I have to admit, when I realized that sharing my gifts and using them to help others besides just myself, was what made me feel “warm and fuzzy”, I must have read over 50 books in two weeks. That wasn’t my goal, I was just being “called” to read them. There was so much clarity in the information I was receiving. I know that I was being guided, intuitively to read certain books and to watch certain videos, take certain classes, etc. There are ways to do this so that you are not being charged an arm and a leg too; the best place to begin is the internet. Amazon.com is a great resource, I found hundreds of books that were used and were in great condition, some as low as $1.00. If you have ITunes, they have some great podcasts that are free to download and fun to listen to. Hay House Publishing, www.hayhouse.com is probably the greatest resource for alternative therapies….they have books, videos, on demand workshops, they are the best, but they charge for most of their materials. Prices range from FREE to a couple hundred dollars, they have cruises and trips that focus on groups interested in similar subjects, with authors and speakers who are absolutely fantastic! There is also audible.com, this is a great place to go if you like listening to books while driving or cleaning house, they have a decent selection of audio books to listen to, but there are many books that will probably take years before they are out on audio.

One of the common situations that people keep discussing with me also, is that they were in fear of their gifts and when they were little, they asked God to “take it all away”. Some of it is pretty scary when you’re a small child, and it doesn’t help when your parents tell you that it’s just your imagination. My advice ~ ask God, our Creator to help you learn how to “get back” your gifts and to help you desolve your fears around them.

The place that I started was meditation, I feel it is the best place to begin. Meditation isn’t always about sitting in silence. It’s a place I use to communicate with spirit, my spirit guides, my angels and Creator.

We have all been blessed with at least one spirit guide, some people have many. Set your intention in meditation to meet your guides or your angels, talk with them, ask them to help guide you and what you should do, they will answer you! It takes commitment and you have to show up! You have to trust and listen. The voice you hear first, as the messages from spirit and the angelic realm come quickly, is the voice you should trust. Anything after that, let go of, because chances are that it is our ego stepping in trying to control the situation. The more you trust in your gifts and abilities and the more you trust in the relationships that await you with your guides and angels the faster things will happen for you. I know this sounds too easy, Right? Well, it is that easy! I swear!

I know it sounds silly, but when I finally decided to “Trust”, things happened so quickly for me and it felt so awesome! It felt like I got to open a beautifully wrapped present every day, whenever my finances began to stress me out, I would pull my head out of it and re-align my heart and head again to trusting…I’m not kidding when I say this either, but if I needed $100 for my kids for school, I would ask my angels for help and the next day there would be a check in the mailbox for $100…a refund from a doctor’s office saying I overpaid…I don’t remember ever paying them a dime….This is just an example, but what I am trying to say is that magical things happen everyday for me because of my desire and my trust in them and myself.

I’m not saying that there aren’t days where I am in a bad mood or something crappy happens, but I am honestly at a place in my life now where if I say “Ok, I know that what is happening is for a reason, but it is not because bad things happen to me, it is because things just happen, it is part of life.” I can turn it around.

In fact, I don’t look at things anymore as being “a bad thing”, it is the choice that we make to say “ok this thing just happened, I will figure out a way to overcome it or fix it and with that I will find a positive thing or beautiful lesson in it….” It is how we choose to feel about things that creates our good or bad circumstances, how we look back on our lives, and how we choose to move forward. There are folks out there that choose to not move at all and choose to stay stagnant in their lives. The Creator doesn’t do that to us, the Creator wants to co-create with us!!! There is movement and flow to that, co-creating is not stagnant!!!

One other thing, I feel that this is actually really important ~ be sure that before you begin working on clients (or even helping out your friends), make sure that your “house” is in order, that you are aware of your “issues”. I’m not saying your life needs to be perfect, or that all of your life’s lesson have to be positive and full of bright pretty lights, but be sure that if you have something in your life that is affecting you that you make a conscious effort to not let is transfer to your client (or friend) or affect your client (or friend) in any way! If your issue is “transferring” energy to your client (or friend), chances are it is going to create an atmosphere of confusion in addition to what your client (or friend) is all ready dealing with. It’s not fair to you or your client (or your friend).

Bright Blessings to all!

Seeing the Positive…

Miki — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:32:02 +0000

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

The Journey….

Miki — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:20:13 +0000

You’ll get where you’re going — just as soon as you decide where that really is.

Feeling kinda sassy and a bit cranky….

Miki — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:48:25 +0000

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

Day to Day

Miki — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:33:19 +0000

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

Happy New Year ~ Ok, so I’m a little late…

Miki — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:16:40 +0000

A light to guide me through the darkness of night

January 15, 20010

Which seems to be a problem for me lately. My New Year’s resolution to myself was to try to be more consistent, to do things with heart and love, and to be conscientious of the small and large things in my life. For some reason, whether it be that I’ve always got my head and heart in the spirit realm, or that I tend to be less grounded due to other issues that I am working on, or if its because I seem to let all the little things that surround my life influence me and distract me from my “now” or if its just a really bad habit that I’ve acquired, but I’m always 5 to 10 minutes late to EVERYTHING! It drives me nuts more than it does others…but I’m working on it.

So better late than not at all with this one…..I promised myself that as part of my life lessons and ongoing learning about myself and life….I want to blog everyday, even if it is only a paragraph…

So one down and 364 to go. Minus 15 days that I couldn’t get my crap together….I’ll be starting two weeks and a day or two late.

It is with spirits blessing and my hearts commitment that with these blogs, I will use them to learn or address one thing each day that I feel my spirit can learn from…

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

Mich