The Intuitive Garden Blog

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

Dreamin…..Dream, Dream, Dream, …..

Miki — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:27:08 +0000

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.

Dreams as defined in Wikipedia’s Encyclopedia have a long history. They have been a subject of controversy and disagreement. Throughout history, people have sought meaning in dreams or divination through dreams.

They have been described physiologically as a response to neural processes during sleep, psychologically as reflections of the subconscious, and spiritually as messages from gods or predictions of the future. Many cultures had practiced dream incubation, with the intention of cultivating dreams that were prophetic or contained messages from the divine.

Dreams have been a topic of study dating back to 4000 B.C. One may say that dreams have been around as long as the first civilization came to be and are just a normal part of human existence.

In our dreams, we can go anywhere, we can be anybody, and we can do anything. When we dream, we are like passengers on a moving train, (I speak from the truth ~ I just had a dream a few weeks ago of being on a moving train!) unable to control our actions and choose surroundings. Sometimes we let our mind take over, and there are those of us who have spent some time learning about our dreams and can actually ask for dreams to come, we can even ask for specific things to dream about.

Sometimes, dreams can be understood in the the context of repressed thoughts. Dreaming serves as an outlet for those thoughts and impulses we repress during the day. When we go to sleep at night and slip into our dream state, we feel liberated and behave and act in a manner that we do not allow ourselves to behave in our waking life.

They are those dreams that are considered to be precognitive dreams, dreams that can predict the future, or give insights to things that will be happening in the future. These dreams interest me the most, and scare me the most!

I had a dream, as I stated earlier, of being on a moving train. The train was moving quickly, through what felt like a mountain like area, with views of mountains, snow covered peaks of beauty. Suddenly, as I was looking out into the scenery, I saw a huge explosion. And then a mushroom cloud. I remember feeling terrified because my children were not with me, and I began to weep. I couldn’t get to them fast enough and my motherly instincts told me that I had to get to them quickly.

I woke up sobbing, my children all in there beds, still fast asleep. Thank goodness. I can’t put into words how real the dream felt. Is this just my mother-protector side showing its vulnerabilities or a precognitive dream (I’ve had many) that I should take as a warning of dangers to come.

It’s not in my personality to dwell on the negatives, because I believe that if you think about something and put enough energy into it, it will happen. So I will chalk this dream up to “1 for mother-over-protector, precognitive dream 0″

The veil is thinning, so I do believe the time has come to start paying attention to what our spirit is trying to tell us. I have read so many blogs from people really falling into the darkness of “what could be” instead of living in the light of what will be. Just be clear on the interpretations of what your messages are that you are receiving.

I guess my message would have to be “live your life through love not fear”, Namaste

Beyond thankful…

Miki — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:45:39 +0000

As a fan of Oprah and Eckarte Tolle and their “lessons” of living in the “NOW”, I made huge strides since reading the book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, written by Eckarte Tolle. For many varied reasons, I chose to change my behavior relating to how I acknowledge my appreciation for life, family, friends, material possessions, and life lessons. I changed being appreciative and thankful at each event or poiniant moment to being truly thankful each and everyday, every moment if I could. I’d have to say that I actually did ok with that, and I have continued, I have been honestly and truthfully thankful each day, giving thanks to my Creator and being “Extra” thankful for those special moments that are few and far between. Those moments such as births, marriages, etc. What I didn’t realize was that although I was appreciative and thankful, I hadn’t truly felt it with every inch of my being until I read the book, A New Earth…

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!

What will happen in 2012?

Miki — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:13:48 +0000

So I went to Borders today. I thought I’d browse, find a couple of good books to read, maybe find another beautiful tarot or oracle deck to add to my collection.

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!