awe·some

[aw-suhm] –adjective

1. inspiring awe: an awesome sight.

2. showing or characterized by awe.

3. Slang . very impressive: That new white convertible is totally awesome.

awe

[aw] -noun

1. an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: in awe of god.

Remember the Awesomeness of Everything

I recently did a reading for friend I knew from a “non-spiritual” context.  Another friend of ours had told her I do readings, and she decided to try one out.  In her journey, I came up with some very specific objects.  I described one of the objects in her journey very specifically, down to the pattern, colors, age, condition and type.  When she found this object the other day in her three dimensional life, she was flabbergasted.  She couldn’t believe it.  She couldn’t believe I could have described to her the exact object that she found.  Her reaction was amazement and awe.

And her reaction was a total gift to me.  It was a giant mirror held up for me.  Her reaction helped me remember the awesomeness of one of the skills I have been given.

Her reaction was such a genuine reaction of joy and delight, it brought me back to my own place of joy and delight.  It shook me out of my stupor of jadedness.  I helped me remember that journeys really are everyday miracles.  Journeys are amazing gifts from the Divine, like so many other amazing things we are given that we forget to notice after awhile.

Performing journey readings are one of my favourite things.  When I first started doing them I was often dumbstruck by the things I came back with.  My logical mind struggled with believing it was possible.  It took my mind time to adjust to the fact that I was given access to things that there is no “logical” way I could possibly know.  It also took my ego awhile for me to accept that lowly me, could be so lucky to be chosen for this gift.  For a long time, I was filled with a total euphoria that I was such a lucky person.

After awhile however, I got more used to doing them. While I still love doing journeys, and I’m still frequently amazed by them, I have accepted then as an everyday thing. Unfortunately this means I probably don’t marvel quite as much as I used to.

There are other amazing things I take for granted too.

I have the evidence of two kids in front of me every day.  But it is often hard to remember that these two were created from a Divine spark, which my body fashioned into new human beings. And yet there were days in my life when I could not believe that this miracle was not shouted from the rooftops.

I live in a place of natural beauty, beautiful trees surrounding me, and a stream nearby, yet I often don’t “see” them. And yet they were one of the main reasons I wanted to live in this house.

My point is my world is filled with thousands of tiny gifts, every day.  Many of these things are everyday miracles.  But after awhile we become used to them, and we can take them for granted.

Your world is also full of these Divine gifts, even if some of them may be hard to see.  Let this post be a mirror for you today. Look around yourself and remember what is fantastic all around you.  Go out and take off your blinders.

Look what YOU have!

Refresh your consciousness.  Remember those things you once thought.  Or truly look at for the first time, how much you really have: “OMG, I forgot how overjoyed I was when I had these beautiful children! “I can’t believe I don’t notice how astoundingly gorgeous that tree is!” “I’m so lucky that I live somewhere in the world where I have rights, food, shelter, money!”

And don’t forget what a gift you are to yourself and the world. “Wow, I forgot how good I am at what I do!” “I forgot how many amazing things my body does for me every day!” “It is sublime being able to smell the leaves on the breeze and the grass on my feet!””I love being able to love other people, and have them love m!”

I’m also going to spend today remembering the awesomeness of everything.  Care to tell me of any awesome things you discovered or remembered today?

Kara

Wanna know some awesome stuff that your guides want to tell you about?  Get a reading with me – email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com.

P.S. Apologies to those survivors of the eighties for the gratuitous use of the word “awesome”, even though I have used it in its formal context…except for that once.

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Reassess the Present – Mercury Retrograde

I was considering Eckhart Tolle’s ideas on beginning to find one’s life’s purpose.  He says that by fully inhabiting each moment, you access the Divine. By being in touch with the Divine in each moment, and inhabiting everything you do you’re your full self, you will begin to find your life’s purpose.

I decided to add another energetic wrinkle to this thought.  One that brings this thought right back to today, August 29, 2010, right now.

In addition to fully concentrating on being present in each moment today, I’m suggesting you also work with the prevailing planetary energetic influences.

Mercury retrograde is an astrological phenomenon, that started August 20, and lasts until September 12, 2010.  You can read more about this phenomenon on astrological sites like http://www.astrogrrl.com/mercury-retrograde-aug-20-to-sep-12.html.

In a nutshell what generally happens during Mercury retrograde, is an interruption to mental processes, communication, commerce, electronics and travels, since Mercury rules these things. So anything which involves several of these, say commerce mostly conducted through electronic communication (ie. my day job) can be interrupted severely.

Mercury retrogrades are often feared because of their disrupting influences.  But these periods really do have gifts for you to take advantage of. Slade Roberson has written an excellent post about this at http://sladeroberson.com/astrology/what-to-do-during-mercury-retrograde.html.

So what does this mean for you, who is fully present here, and taking advantage of the planetary energies of the present moment, today?

Re, Re, Re….

This means during Mercury’s retrograde, work with the energies of the “re”. Re-consider, re-member, re-align, re-purpose, re-do, re-cycle…both your inner work, and your outer work.

I find this time is particularly good for finishing projects at work that were too large to accomplish all at one time, or too stiflingly boring to get through the first time I took a crack at them. While starting new projects during this time, feels to me like fighting through thick mental mud, it is much easier to get old, unfinished things done.

It is almost as though old projects are infused with a more interesting energy at this time.  It is more likely that I am able to see issues from a different perspective, and therefore they hold my interest more. Alternative approaches to old problems also seem to arise more easily at this time, also enabling me to see new solutions to old problems.

I have been deleting old emails, cleaning out old files, and generally doing all the things I usually neglect from day to day.  Because I’m working with the energies of the planets, it feels like I am getting an extra boost.  It really seems like it these tasks are going much faster for me than they normally do.  Not only that, it seems like I get satisfaction from doing these things, the things which I normally avoid.

Working with the energy of the planets is so much easier than working against them.  It makes your life so much easier.  It took me several years to realize this.  Now I always try and take full advantage of the energies of Mercury retrograde periods.  They are very useful.

Revisit Your Inner Work

While it is an excellent time to finish up old outer work, it is also an amazing time to fully maximize accomplishing your inner work.  It is a great time to get rid of your old emotional clutter!

Now is an excellent time to go deep within yourself, and re-examine what it is you really want to be doing with your life.  The planetary energies now favour your re-thinking and re-consideration.

Be present with where you are at now in your life.  Appreciate what you are and what you have.  Take the time you need to reassess what is it that you like about “here”, and what things you might wish to change.  Realign yourself with what you believe, and where you wish your inner work to take you.  Reconsider how you might get there.

When you spend this inner time with yourself, new and different solutions to old emotional and spiritual problems may arise more easily.  Different perspectives on tiring old issues, can open up new paths for you to consider.

This ideal period for reassessing your life, also makes now an excellent time to get a journey reading with me.  Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com.  We can explore what old stuff is there, and different ways to get to the new stuff!

Happy internal de-cluttering!

Kara

*Note: I find it funny and ironic that since my server was down for several days, I haven’t been able to post this blog post about Mercury Retrograde.  Apparently it wasn’t supposed to be read until today.  Universe’s sense of humour never fails to be amusing eventually…even if it doesn’t seem amusing at the time.  Gave me an opportunity to re-evaluate my reactions to situations that are out of my hands. 

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh but mama that’s where the fun is…

-Blinded By the Light – Bruce Springsteen

I Take My Fun Seriously

As stupid as it sounds, from the writer of Conduit of Joy!, I think I am finally beginning to get that the authentic enjoyment of our own lives is the reason that we are on Earth.  Of course, I’ve heard the theory, but I feel like I am really getting it now.

Our lives, our existences are supposed to be filled with joy and fun.  That is in fact, the whole point.  We are supposed to embrace and experience everything in front of us as fully as we can.  Why bother inhabiting these fabulously sensory-rich bodies if we don’t  use them to experience the delights of the world fully?  Why else would we have been put here with lips to kiss, eyes to see, skins to feel, noses to smell with?  See an Lisa’s article at (http://practicallyintuitive.com/do-not-let-this-universe-regret-you), which encourages you to live life in your body to the max!

It’s All About Me

Ever since I decided that I didn’t really care what people think of me anymore, I’ve been liberated.  I made a conscious decision to have more what I considered fun, not what anyone else considers fun.  Since I made this decision I really have had more what I consider fun in my life.

Last year I decided I finally wanted to have a birthday party for myself, that really reflected what I truly desired in a birthday party.  I didn’t care what other people wanted for me, it was ALL ABOUT ME. It was my vision of what “my best party ever” would be.  For me, this included a hall, mandatory costumes for guests, a male belly dancer, a tarot reader, a DJ, circus food, drinking, and lots of dancing.

I thought of a theme that would epitomize all the fun that I hoped to have.  I decided the theme would be “Bohemian Circus”.  “What the hell does that mean” you ask? Exactly.  There is no definition of “Bohemian Circus” except for whatever definition you make up yourself.

On the invitation, I insisted that all guests arrive in costume. I even warned that those that did not arrive in costume would be costumed at the door.  I lived up to my threats too.  I placed a box of hats, boas, scarves and other Bohemian Circus accoutrements at the door.

This caused great anxiety amongst some potential party guests.  They didn’t know how to conform to this idea.  I told anyone who asked that the Bohemian Circus theme was up to them.  In other words, whatever they thought it meant, that’s how they should costume themselves.

Shed Your Skin, Let the Fun Begin

My whole point was that I wanted guests to come somewhere where they were forced to shed their usual identities and create a new one, just for the evening.  In being a party fascist, I was forcing people to go out of their comfort zones and experiment with a new or normally unexplored part of their personalities.

Also, I was weeding out the duds amongst party guests.  After all, why punish those who were actually willing to experiment with a different persona by allowing those who really wouldn’t relinquish any of their “real world” personas at all to attend?  I didn’t want any judging going on.  Just fun.

To my delight people I didn’t expect to, actually came in costumes.  They were willing to go out on a limb, just for me.  To me this was the biggest gift they could have given me!  They stretched themselves to make me happy.  Some not only came in costume, they  came in outrageous costumes.  Thanks again adventurous souls!

Those in the outrageous costumes had the most fun. They both became someone else, and delighted others in becoming that other person.  This was apparent in their own laughter at themselves, and in the delighted laughter of others with them.

It was easier to break down social boundaries than at other parties.  No one “knew” who or what you were in real life, so they weren’t reacting to your real life persona.  All they had to go on was the persona you were identifying by your costume.  This meant people could allow parts of their personas to come out and play, that normally they did not allow to do so.

That was the serious part of all this fun. By breaking down normal inhibitions, the guests allowed themselves to be open to new things. New and novel is where the fun is.

Fun Is At Your Edges

Fun is at the edges of your comfort zones, wherever those are.  Fun happens when we allow our serious personas to come off for a moment, or shift them over.  Fun happens when we just allow ourselves to experience the moment fully, without caring who is watching.

Fun is at your edges of your inhibitions and expectations. Even if you don’t think costumes are “fun”, like I do, there are things that you – and only you – find “fun”.

Kids have fun 24/7 because they do whatever makes them feel best in each and every moment, damn the consequences.  They don’t yet have seriously rigid personas, they aren’t hemmed in by social expectations or limits, so they don’t let their personas get in the way of their fun yet.

Things were “fun” because you were there in the moment, fully experiencing whatever it is you were doing.  It didn’t matter how mundane a thing it was.  Your mind, body, and soul were dedicated to whatever captured your attention in that moment.

Sometimes we get so married to our identities, and the seriousness of “who we are” that we can’t even remember how to have fun.  This is a sad state, because it is indicating to you, that you can’t remember who you are anymore. You now have your persona confused with who you REALLY are. If you doubt this, look at a human with no persona yet.  There is no such thing as a baby who doesn’t know how to have “fun”.

Sometimes we are so tightly locked into our mask of inhibitions that to pry it off causes us pain. If we experience pain in taking off this mask, shedding inhibitions, when our natural state would be fun, this means we have to slowly bring ourselves back to this natural state of enjoying life.

One way to practice this, is to take babysteps.  Pick one small experience, that you and only you consider to be fun.  This one thing is not what anyone else thinks is fun, but only what you as an individual thinks is fun. That might just mean “allowing” yourself to watch a TV show only you think is fun, that delights you. But the important part is that you are ALLOWING YOUR REAL SELF OUT, EVEN FOR A MOMENT.

The more you practice, the more you will find that once your “serious” mask is cracked, the fun leaks in! Once your restrictive inhibitions come off, the real YOU is revealed again.  You can feel you fun-seeking kid inside yourself come out again.

Once your mask is off, you are able to truly feel again, like when you were a child.  You can experience life like you did when your only reward for doing something was the enjoyment you got out of doing it.  Nothing else.  Just the fun you felt doing it.

And fun is the whole point of being alive, right here, right now on this planet. What you experience as “fun”, your own unique individual experience of that feeling, is where the true authenticity of you as a person rests. The most authentic you is the one that experiences fun.

So take your fun seriously.  It is who you really are.

Kara

a.k.a. Fun Fascist

Need help getting to F.U.N.?  I can help with a journey reading.  Email me at conduitofjoy.com. In honor of the fun of summer, the first three people who email will get an intermediate journey (with a complimentary ticket to their own personal “Funland”) for only $50.

Come one, come all, email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com.

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Showgirls and Scorpions

Showgirls encouraging you to have fun?  Scorpions as advisors on unpredictable defense mechanisms?  How about Swan showing you how to calmly glide through the unpredictability in your life?  Read about them all here in  Zola’s journey below.

I journeyed on the question “How can Zola find well-being now, and what actions can be take to resolve her situation?”.

As I kicked off to enter non-ordinary reality, I saw “myself” dressed as a Vegas-style showgirl.  (Note: As usual, the “me” that appears in the journey, represents the person I am doing the journey for.)  I was wearing a bright pink headdress made out of pink feather and rhinestones and a pink bra and panties covered in rhinestones, with pink high heels. I was smoking.  When I asked if there was anything Zola should know in relation to my outfit, “I” said “Go to Vegas baby!”. Then I crushed out my cigarette with my shoe, and took off for the Upper World.

I exited the Upper World, via bus doors. I could hear the hiss of the bus brakes as I stepped out of the bus.  I asked for messages for Zola.

The first thing I saw was a scorpion.  I had to keep concentrating on the scorpion to get all the messages it was bringing for Zola.  (Note: It is unusual to get this type of poisoning insect in the Upper World, and having one in a journey usually indicates there is much nastiness afoot.  Generally when journeying you must be very wary of the poisonous insects.)

The scorpion’s messages for Zola were important. They were also somewhat unusual.

The scorpion’s first indication to Zola, was to “lay low”. Like the scorpion who is so low to the ground it is essentially flat, Zola was told to maintain a low profile in the events occurring in her life.  However, like the zig-zagging scorpion, Zola was instructed to also  stay unpredictable in what she does. Whoever she was dealing with, Zola was advised that her best strategy is to pretend to some extent that she is bumbling and uncertain of herself.  At the same time, she was advised to occasionally remind those causing her problems, that in subtle ways she is very powerful, in that she could poison them and kill them at any moment you chose to.  Scorpions message to Zola was that even though she may feel powerless in her situation, she still has “unofficial” power over those causing her problems, like going to the media, etc. Even if seems Zola is powerless, she does have some forms of power over them that aren’t at all obvious, and she shouldn’t forget that.

Zola was instructed to be very deliberate and slow in whatever movements she was to take.  Zola was instructed to take as much time as she needs, and “feel” her way through things.  It is important to the way events unfold that Zola take as much time as she needs to satisfy herself that things are proceeding as they should.

The second thing I saw after the scorpion left is that the toes of my shoes, grew and grew.  The message here for Zola was “Don’t trip over your own feet” in your effort to get out of the situation she is in now.  Again, she must be very deliberate and slow in her actions, ie. “Walk very slowly”.

The message for wellness indicated in the Upper World was the image of Zola holding many, many kittens.  I assumed that this meant that the comfort of holding and petting real kittens would make Zola feel better.  (In our conversation later, Zola confirmed that she did in fact come in contact with a lot of kittens as volunteer for a cat rescue organization!)

The bus pulled up again, and I was supposed to get back on the bus.  I told the driver that I needed to go where there was wisdom for Zola.  The driver turned around, and appeared to be a demon. The demon leered at me and said nastily “I bet you’d like that”.  (Note: the fact that there was a demon appearing in this journey as well, indicates that there is an abnormally high level of nastiness in Zola’s life at the moment.)

I was overcome with anger that the demon would speak about Zola that way.  I screamed at the demon “You can’t treat Zola that way!”  The energy I sent to protect Zola transformed the demon into a swan.

The swan was Zola, being in the driver’s seat of her own life right now.  The message to Zola was that she can be the driver in the bus of her own destiny.  But like the swan, Zola will have to be calm and serene. Zola was instructed to call on Swan for the calmness required to “drive her own bus” carefully and deliberately choose her own path.  Zola was shown to me to appear as the swan – calm and serene on the service, even though she may be paddling like crazy underneath the surface.

The swan drove the bus slowly and carefully to the Lower World. I got off the bus, and the lower world was strangely silent, except for a “ribbit” I heard.  I saw and heard the frog several more times, as it was trying to get my attention and indicate to me that it was Zola’s power animal.

Zola’s power animal, Frog, is a beautiful leaf-green.  It has beautiful skin (this indicated that Zola probably does too, which she did confirm for me later).  Frog’s skin is smooth and shiny, and Frog’s gorgeous skin is a big key to its beauty and power.  As Frog has very porous skin, it absorbs a lot of information through it’s skin. This indicated that Zola probably also absorbs a lot of things around her without even trying (information, emotions of those around you, etc.) Zola confirmed in our later conversation that this was true.

Zola’s Frog had a very agile mind, along with the agile body.  He could leap from plant to plant in the pond as quickly as he wanted. To me this indicates that Zola’s mind can grasp very complicated arguments and information very easily.

Frog is very straightforward, what you see is what you get. This indicated that Zola is not into mind games or deceit.  I also understood that Zola may often be underestimated, like the frog’s place in nature is often underestimated.

The message for Zola about wellness in her time of crisis, was that she would benefit greatly from anything that drowns out the chatter of her mind, which is uses repetitive movements.  Swimming (which will also connect her more with Frog) was definitely recommended.  But anything mind-quieting and repetitive was also indicated as being beneficial for Zola.

I was also told the stillness of a quiet pond, with only nature sounds would benefit Zola’s mental and spiritual health at the moment.

I asked for any additional messages Zola should know.  I heard “Tell her it will be over soon.”  The image was of Zola leaving a hot, humid, sticky and poisonous place.  Once Zola has made it through this situation it will be like breaking through a membrane. Once the situation is resolved, the membrane will pop and Zola will be flooded with fresh air.  She will be able to breathe deeply again and relax.

Analysis

Talking with Zola about this journey and how it applied to her life was very interesting.  Zola is in the middle of a painful transition in her life, mostly caused by others, and largely out of her direct control.

Scorpion came to help Zola out with navigating this particular situation in her life.  Scorpion had some very interesting wisdom for her in her particular situation.  His message was largely about the hidden powers of the powerless.  Since scorpion also represents death and rebirth, the transmutation of poison and the reflecting dark and negative energy back to its sender, he is an ideal animal for her to call on at this time in her life.

Swan was also appearing for Zola to call upon for strength with this particular issue in her life.  As Swan, in addition to helping Zola appear calm in the face of great stress, also represents awakening the power of self, understanding spiritual evolution and developing intuitive abilities, I also think Swan’s wisdom will help her grow spiritually and intuitively.

Zola was shown to me to have a huge natural intuitive ability, which will help her in this transition, as will her closer connection with her power animal Frog.  Since Frog represents transformation, rebirth and cleansing, I have no doubt that as Zola “feels” her way through this tricky transition, she will not only triumph over the situation, but gifts will be revealed to her as a result of her personal growth, even though it may be stressful.

Zola thought the showgirl was there to remind her to have more fun in her life.  Reminding ourselves to have what we consider “fun” is something which many of us could probably use a reminder of!  Fun is a serious business.  Fun is what lets you be your authentic self. I’m sure I’ll be writing more about the deep need for fun!

Thanks very much to Zola for agreeing to share this journey reading!  Thanks to the Creator for allowing me to deliver this journey reading to Zola!

Kara

Need to bring out your inner showgirl?  or help to navigate through a tricky situation in your own life?  Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com, to book an appointment.

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Thanks to Loftus Land for his showgirl photo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/loftusland/2236305312/

Healing Journey for Leal the Dog

While working on my own issues, I have continued to do journey readings for others.  What follows is a “healing journey” I did for a friend’s dog.  I received very specific instructions for real world actions to take in the healing of this dog.

Healing journeys are relatively new for me, and it is exciting to be able to do them. If you know of an animal (or even a person!) who can use some healing, email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com for my next available appointment.

Here’s a comment from Leal’s owner after she performed the journey instructions:

“Leal’s journey you did was a big turning point in his healing.  He had gone for acupuncture and a chiropractic adjustment that at first seemed to make things worse but then was slowly was getting better.  After I did the cornmeal offering the next day he seemed noticeably better and from that point forward was no longer slipping on the floors (symptom of the disease he has).  He finally seemed back to normal after all of the pain and stress.  He is doing really great.  I think it’s so amazing that some simple instructions in a journey could help so much, thanks Kara for your amazing gifts!

F. Crandall, Edmonton, Alberta                                             www.fearlessfaith.ca

Update on Leal as of July 21, 2010:

“Wow Kara, we went camping this past weekend and he was just like a normal dog, ran around the entire time. Here’s a picture of him enjoying our trip! It was so nice to see!”

Healing Instructions for Leal

Below is the journey that I did for Leal.

“When I journeyed for Leal, I asked “What can be done for Leal for his highest good?”

In my journeying place “I” appeared in a beautiful outfit, made of tawny, tan and brown feathers.  I had a feather Mohawk-type headdress.  I also had an ocelot beside me on a chain.  The ocelot was not upset about being on a chain, and we were both relaxed and waiting for the journey to begin.  I asked and was informed that the ocelot is Leal’s power animal.  My “costume” indicated that Leal had a connection to Mayan times (and I did as well).

I journeyed to the Upper World.  I felt the presence of Quetzecoatl, but I don’t think he appeared to me.  I asked for help for Leal.  A Mayan square-headed corn god, came out dancing a sacred dance, but didn’t speak or communicate in words with me.  He just danced and gave me the instructions.

The instructions he gave me were that his owner was to offer corn meal to the Earth on behalf of Leal, for his healing.  (It was recommended that she sprinkle some around her back yard, or wherever outside Leal likes to go.  She was told to offer thanks to the Earth for Leal’s health, and for all the Earth’s abundance to her always, while you are doing the sprinkling.)  The corn god’s instructions are that she should rub her spit along Leal’s body, from his ribs down into his hindquarters.  She should make sure she covers him with her spit all the way around, back and stomach.  Her spit is an offering of the “water of life”, and she is sharing hers with Leal.

The journey showed that Leal needed someone to do energy work on his 1^st and 2^nd chakras.  In the journey, I could see him standing up and his spine appeared to be clear, but starting right under his spine and continuing down his backside there was blockage. The blockage was cloudy and ran down his backside (bum, genitals) and all in his upper legs, hind quarters, and was blocking the connection to his hind feet.  (Nothing was indicated in his front legs, it seemed to be all in his back legs.)  These blockages should be cleared by someone doing energy work to clear his chakras for him.

I went to the Lower World, first into water and then into lava.  I went down a lava tube into the deep oceans (this is where the deep, deep wisdom of the Earth is).  I was given wisdom there by the lava tube worms.  (The lava tube worm’s wisdom was related to 2^nd chakra issues (ruling the genitals).

They instructed that Leal’s owner should find black mud.  She was instructed to get enough black mud to coat Leal all the way around from his lower ribs, halfway down his back legs. She was instructed to cover his butt and genitals fully with black mud so they are coated.  Then she was instructed to keep him very warm with a blanket (maybe even electric blanket on top?).  She was to take him into a dark, dark room and sleep with him there for one night.  She was instructed to be very close to him while you sleep, preferably holding him in your arms, if possible.  No light should be in the room.

Before Leal’s owner goes to sleep, I was told she should call on her power animals to meet his ocelot. Her power animals and his power animal were supposed to meet.  Once that is done, she was told not to do any more energy work on Leal during his night of healing, only send him her love.

The message was that while both owner and dog were sleeping in the room Leal will decide if he will recover or not.  The decision is his, and once the treatment was followed, the dog was not supposed to be interfered with energetically, while he is deciding. His owner was told to send him only love.

The next morning, I believe Leal will either be much better or much worse.  That will be his choice.

I also worked on Leal energetically in the journey.  I was able to remove a bunch of stuff, but there was still a tiny piece on his left heel which I could not remove.  Leal appeared to be hanging onto it for some reason.  The stuff I removed was like “fatty cobwebs” and I could only melt it with very hot water, so it’s probably important to keep him warm during the night.”

Final Gifts of the Journey

After doing the journey, I did further research into the Mayan cosmology.  There were more fascinating deeper meanings tied to 1^st and 2^nd chakra issues, and how and why the Mayan energy was to be used to heal.  There were healing connections to the earth, and basic security issues.

Another amazing gift of this journey – a gift for me – was healing that also took place for me.  From this same information, I got insight for my own 1^st and 2^nd chakra issues.  It really is awe inspiring how we are all connected in this Web that we call life.

Thanks always to the Creator and all the Guides for the healing.  Thanks also to Leal for allowing me to work on him, and Fia for allowing me to share this.  I wish Leal continued healing.

Kara

Only one more journey appointment left this week.  Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com, to book an appointment.

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

“…As within, so without…”

attributed to Hermes Trismegistus

As Within, So Without

I have been dealing with lots of transition.  So many new changes in my life were leaving me uncentred, and totally overwhelmed.  I couldn’t understand how I could possibly manage all the competing demands of my life.

I’d always known self-care was a “good idea”, but I didn’t really GET why it is essential to our well-being.  The chaos in my life helped the penny drop for me.  When I stopped and looked at my life, I finally understood WHY self-care needs to be my highest priority.

The chaos of my outer world was just reflecting back to me the chaos of my inner world.

I needed to bring calm to my inner life before I would see the calm in the external events in my life.  When I stopped and reflected on what was going on, I realized that with so many things to do my daily self-care had dropped to the bottom of my to-do list.  The stuff I tell other people to do, I wasn’t doing myself.

Inner Peace – It’s Not Just a Good Idea…

The whole point of self-care is so that we can preserve the inner calm and peace that is our natural state.  Our inner calm, I am realizing, is pretty much the most important thing in our lives. It is the most important thing, because it is the only thing we can truly have full control over.

It is already daunting enough to realize that we really don’t control anything.  While we may have influence within it, the Universe is ultimately in control of all that happens.  There are deaths, accidents, natural disasters.  Sometimes it is hard not to fee insignificant and lost when the fears of these enormous things face us.

However, our most powerful resource in dealing with our lives is the one thing we do have control over.  Ourselves.  Our reactions, our emotions, our physical state.

We must control our inner state by taking good care of ourselves spiritually, emotionally, and physically.  When we lose our inner focus, our precious connection to our own Higher Power gets choked off.  Without this calm, we react to things that happen to us from our protective instincts, rather from than a peaceful place.

These instincts that protect us are often anger and fear.  While anger and fear help our bodies survive a threat, they don’t actually help us move forward in our lives in dealing with what we need to do, to get moving towards our goals.   They choke off our connection with Source, making it harder for us to use reason and intuition to solve the problems facing us.

My most recent teacher has been my job.  I was not taking care of myself, so when mountains of work came my way, I was resentful and angry because I didn’t have the physical or emotional resources to cope with it, or to function well intellectually.  This made the work harder than it would have been if I was physically well and emotionally balanced.

I’m A Priority In My Own Life

I started to again make my personal wellness a priority, and chose to make time for myself first thing every morning to consciously connect with Source.  This made a great difference to my ability to deal with external turmoil.

Every morning I connect to my abundance by giving thanks for all I have, I ask for Universal wisdom, I ask for help from my guides, and I put in place personal protections to preserve my energy and ask that it be used in the best way possible for all concerned.  Then I visualize how my day will unfold in the best possible way.

This does not take me more than 15 minutes, but it has an amazing effect on my day. While this sounds very simple (and it is), it signals to the Universe as well, that my highest priority of the day is my own connection to Source, and my intention to serve Source in my highest possible way.

This also means that my work, and everything I do in my day is given my best effort, given my physical and emotional state on each particular day.  This is also honoring the Source with my own talents, to the best of my ability. We are not perfect, so some days we do better than others, but if we try our best no matter what, that is the important part.  Our intent counts for a lot.

I believe doing our best every day, is the best way to thank God for giving us life.  To do all the things in our lives, the best way we as individuals can, with our individual talents.  It is the celebration of our individual lives on Earth.  This is why Source put us here – to help others as best we can.

Control Yourself, Control Your Life

We are not in control of Universal events.  We can co-create and envision outcomes, but the Universe always takes care of HOW things happen.  But if we have peace inside, then we see that translate to our external events, and at the very least in how we deal with them.

The only thing you are in control of is yourself.  You can only really control your reactions to what is happening in your life. If you lose your inner focus, if you lose control over the only thing that your are in control of.  If you don’t have a personal sense of peace and calm, then the descent is into chaos.

As has been said in many law of attraction materials, your outer life reflects your inner life.  If you are peaceful and calm on the inside, it does not really matter what happens on the outside. With your peaceful interior, you are able to deal with external events in a calm way.  And quite soon, chaotic external events will come to reflect the peaceful inside of you.

It’s working for me so far.  It seems since I’ve taken care of myself and detached from the results, that things are moving along much more smoothly, with much less effort required on my part.

Peace and love to you.  Namaste.

Kara

Need help confirming what is standing in the way of your inner calm? As always I am available to perform journeys for you.  Email at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com, to book an appointment.

Thanks so much to alicepopkorn for another of her amazing shots.  This one can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/3753118062/

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Claim Your Power!

Lately I discovered that I was unconsciously giving my personal power away.  I noticed alot of fear coming up around what people’s perceptions of me were , in my day job and as an intuitive.  When I checked in with my third chakra, it appeared to be wide-open, leaking out my personal power.  Even when I tried to staunch this flow, my third chakra would be empty again by the next day.

Knowing this likely indicated a deep fear was holding me hostage, I took a closer look.  I realized I was deeply afraid of how I will appear to the world.   I am going through a transition with who I really am, and I am working through how I can integrate all the parts of myself.  This triggered fears about if people will judge me, and if they would accept or reject this new person I am becoming. 

Death By A Thousand Cuts

When I was working through releasing the fear, an image was shown to me of my body covered in a thousand microscopic cuts.  These tiny cuts were allowing my personal power to leak out every day.  I was unconscious of these leaks, and every day my power would seep out of them until I was totally drained.

This inability to not claim who I really am by not being my authentic self, was draining the life force out of me.  By not integrating all of my parts to show the world “who I really am”, it was siphoning off my energy and self-confidence.

I was able to work through this fear and ultimately release it.  I use Fia Crandall’s “Heal Your Hidden Fears” to release fear.  I have used her processes for the last two years, and highly recommend them. Fia is offering a $97 special on this process which you can use forever.  Click here to get it <http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?af=1214250>.

Use whatever technique you want to release your fear, the important thing is to release it.

Then I visualized sealing up all these tiny cuts to shore up my personal power, and my body was restored to normal.  Once I was whole again I realized that I had to take control of the gifts that I already had.

I’m Powerful Already

My release of this fear made me realize that before I go forward in my life into something new with new challenges, I have to appreciate the power I currently have.  I couldn’t be powered up and ready to go into my future, if I wasn’t powered up right now.

I realized this meant I have to claim my personal power right now.  I have to step into who I am fully at the moment, and inhabit it all.  I have to feel all of it.  I have to fully experience the power of who I am right now.

I was undervaluing and not appreciating all the talents, skills, training, and abundance that I already have.  What a waste!  If I didn’t care about what I already had, why would the Universe give me more?

I couldn’t make the leap to the next thing, if I wasn’t appreciating and using all the gifts I am have been given by the Universe at this very moment. 

So I started work on claiming my own power.  I did a journey reading for myself to see if there was anything I could do to help myself.

I was shown the process below to help me claim my power.  I’m very excited about sharing this process, as it has helped me already.

Grounding – Wear a Sod Poncho!

An important part of standing in your power is GROUNDING.  If you are not grounded when you are holding your power, it will not work. 

Grounding is particularly important before you do spiritual work.  Being “in your head”, and involved with the higher realms, tends to unmoor you from this beautiful Earth.  In order to keep yourself fully connected, you need to have the power flowing both ways, from the bottom to the top, and the top to the bottom!

You will be of no use to yourself or anyone else if you are not solidly rooted in the reality of this material world. Grounding allows you to balance your energy properly when you connect to the energies of your Higher Self/Spirit.  Just like an eletrical appliance needs grounding, so that it doesn’t shock you with excess electricity, your body needs a ground too.  You may have met spiritual people who are “not quite there”, which often means that they are not fully grounded.

I was shown a great way for me to ground, which is to visualize wearing a poncho made out of sod.  If you’ve ever picked up a piece of grass sod you know how incredibly heavy it is.  Since the sod contains not only grass but the roots of the grass, and the soil connected to it, it is great for grounding.  Visualizing this sod poncho connects me solidly with the Earth, and keeps me solidly connecting with Source.

This grounding visualization can also be used any other time you need to feel more grounded.  You can ground yourself in any way that connects you with your body or the earth (eating, exercising, being in Nature, visualizing a grounding exercise). 

Rejecting Power Drains

The first step to claiming my power was to take back the power I was giving away. 

I was given the following words to say to myself, along with images to picture in my mind while speaking:

“I reject those things to which I give my power away.  I reject:

a) my need for false comfort (breaking candy in half),

b) my need for external confirmers (ripping up Tarot cards)

c) my need to diminish myself in relationships (tearing an energy cord in two).”

Note: I have no problem with candy, Tarot cards or energy cords.  They all have their purposes.  But I give away my power to these things.  So I must make the conscious choice not to give my power away to these things.  These items are visual shorthand for me to remind myself of need to not give away my power to these things.

Gathering Back My Power

Then I was shown an image of my body turning into a great magnet.  The purpose of this magnet is to collect all the power I had given away the previous day.  The bits of power I gave away to other things or people are represented by tiny gold bits.  (Yellow is the color of the third chakra which relates to personal power.)

“I now call back all of the power which I have given away”.

I picture myself attracting all these little bits of power and pulling them back into my body, where they re-integrate into my solar plexus.  Once they all return, my third chakra is then whole again.  My personal power is restored.

I spread my arms wide to my side, palms open, then I bring them in again to meet palms down over my solar plexus.  This symbolizes all my personal power being returned to my third chakra.

Consolidating My Power

The next step in the “claiming the power” process is the consolidation of my personal power. I say the following:

“I step into my power.”

I picture pulling a fine golden mesh cloak around me.  I feel it closing around my whole body and my head.  My feet are still on the ground, grounding me.  The fine gold mesh allows me to still connect with the Spirit in everything, but does not allow my power to escape.

“I recognize all the gifts given to me by the Creator.

I honor the Creator by walking in the unlimited power of the Creator’s creation.

I honor the Creator by walking in my beauty.

I shine in the radiance of that beauty.”

Note: “Beauty” in this sense is the beauty of all the Creator’s creations.  It is not necessarily my physical appearance, but the beauty that is inherent in everything the Creator has given me, all my talents, skills – everything that makes up me as a human.

From my palms crossed position over my solar plexus, I open my arms wide again, palms open to reflect my power shining into the world.

 Gratitude

I then finish off the process by bowing my head and thanking the Creator/Universe:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Your Authentic “Power”

The personal power I am referring to is not the power of the ego.  It is your true power.  It is the power of the authentic you. 

You will know the difference between your authentic power and your ego, as this power is quiet and subtle, and not necessarily visible on the surface to others.  It is the calmness inside when you confront situations that used to rattle you.  It is the relief of knowing that you don’t have to be full of fear.

I do this process every morning now, and I have seen it play out in my life already.  It is mostly subtle, but I can see it and feel it.  I feel it rippling beneath the surface in my life, particularly when I encounter situations where previously I would have made a different choice. 

For instance, I became conscious of a relationship where previously I would diminish myself without even being aware of it.  In a negotiation with this person, after claiming my power, I had more bargaining power.  Where I would have felt “ripped off” in a negotiation before, I now felt like I got what I needed.  Claiming my power hadn’t changed me into a completely different person, but I could now quietly stand up for myself, in a way that respected my needs.

All We Control Is Ourselves

It is important to realize that the only thing we are truly in control of is ourselves.  If we have control of ourselves, of our emotions which cause how we react and deal with events in our lives, then we have mastered the most important thing.  If we have peace inside ourselves, then we will see that peacefulness reflected on the outside world.

Please share your personal power successes or challenges in the comments!

Kara

Need help to figure out why you are giving your personal power away? 

**I can help you identify your power drains, and help you design a personalized process for you to restore and re-claim your personal power.**  I only have two spots left this month for assisting with this process, then I’ll be on holidays.

Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com if you are interested.

Thanks to Unitopia for the use of this gorgeous photo, oozing the energy of yellow!  http://www.flickr.com/photos/unitopia/3249963401/

I’ve been going through a lot of transitions lately that have been draining me and producing a lot of fear. Perhaps these transitions have also been making my blog posts rather dreary.

But fear not!  While I have been freaking out, stomach-achingly tense, and feeling totally wound up, I have also been learning.  There has been a reason for all this nuttiness.

The reason was to test the strength of my container. 

What “container” you say?  Why, the container that is “you” and “me”. Your container contains the essence of who you are and what you stand for. 

Your container is what holds you together.  It is your personal strength, your character, your will.  But it is also more.  Your container is also your ability to love yourself enough to wait until exactly the best solution for you at the right time comes along.  The self-love to not “settle” in your life.  Your container is made up of what is most authentically you.

No one ever really appreciates the strength of our containers until the rough patches in life. 

The most important job your container does, is to contain all the chaotic elements in your life.  Sometimes when you are faced with uncertain times, and difficult choices it is easy to pick something – anything – so that the turmoil and uncertainty within you resolves.  It is only if your container is strong that you can hold all the swirling elements around you until the cloudy bits fall to the bottom.  It is only when the chaos is ready to subside that you become clear.  Once the chaos within you naturally subsides, your choices are clear.

Your container is made up of experiences, skills, self-discipline, and self-love.  All of these things make it strong.  As you grow, mature and learn your life lessons your container gets stronger.

But without any challenges your container never strengthens.  It is like a pot that needs to be fired in a kiln to get stronger.  Only the fire strengthens the clay.

Firing a Pot

Simple clay transforms into a super strong material through the process of firing.

This is an excerpt from “How Temperature Changes Clay”, by Beth Peterson at About.com. 

“As a kiln is firing up and cooling down, the changes in temperature make some profound changes in the clay. The clay goes from this soft, totally fragile substance to one which is rock-hard, impervious to water, wind, and time. The change is nearly mystical in its complete metamorphosis, and might be deemed so if it were not so common.

As the clay is slowly heated, this water evaporates out from the clay. If the clay is heated too quickly, the water will turn to steam right inside the clay body, expanding with explosive effect on the pot.”

In the fourth stage of firing, the quartz crystalline structure of the clay actually changes. 

In the fifth stage of firing, called sintering, clay actually vitrifies.  This means the clay compacts and strengthens, as clay particles begin to fuse with each other. In the sixth stage of firing, the needle-like crystals in the clay knit and strengthen the clay body even further.

Transforming Your Clay

Like the clay pot being fired, our experiences transform us from a weak lump of clay, not only into something stronger, but sometimes into a completely different material.  This material is so much more than the original clay.

Like the clay pot, if we keep strengthening our containers, we may transform into something so strong, that we actually take on a different chemical structure. We become much more unbreakable.

Personal work is the firing that makes our container strong.  Like sintering a pot, getting to know who we are and our strengths and weaknesses is necessary so that we can hold together when times get tough.  We can find the discipline in ourselves to wait until only the best things arise for us.

We all know that life is not always easy.  Shit happens.  But if our containers are strong enough, the fires of our turmoils strengthen us.

Life acts as our kiln.  Sometimes, if we crack, we are forced to repair our containers.  In fact, it is usually because of our cracks, that the most extreme growth of our soul occurs. 

Healing ourselves and self-exploration are all necessary for us to repair our containers, to go forward.

But as we grow and experience and put ourselves back together again, time after time, we finally find the right combinations of skills, self-knowledge and self-love to make our containers super-strong.

We burn off our fears and old patterns in the kiln of our lives.  This burning off process strengthens our containers.

Our containers get stronger as we grow.  What doesn’t kill us makes our containers stronger.

Keeping Up My Strength

So while the turmoil in my life is not over yet, and while my employment situation hasn’t yet landed where I would like it to, I must be patient.  I must love myself to realize that strengthening myself is the most important thing to be done at the moment. 

Focusing on my inner peace, and knowing myself to the best of my ability, keeps my container strong.  Strengthening my container right now is the most important thing I can do to deal with my current life, and help me prepare for my future.

All the experiences I’m going through at the moment are making my container stronger and stronger.  As I get stronger, I’m able to face experiences that require an even stronger container. 

The strength of my container will attract opportunities that need a strong container.

So I’m building my skills, and getting myself ready, so when my opportunities arise, I can take them.

Kara

I have extended the offer of $50 for in-depth journeys until the end of June.  Book yours today!

I’m here to assist you in making the Connection with your Higher Wisdom.  Messages are waiting for you right now! Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com to book your journey.

Photo by Dani Sardà i Lizaran.  His flickr page is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/danisarda/.

Copyright 2010 : : Kara Thompson : : Conduit of Joy

Although I don’t usually promote things on this blog, I am happy to shamelessly promote my good friend Lisa, over at www.PracticallyIntuitive.com.  As her blog name suggests, Lisa does intuitive readings in a very practical way.  While her blog is relatively new, her psychic talent is well-developed.

In the readings she gave me, I got totally down to earth advice.  The advice was very easy to understand, so I could implement it immediately.  She can tell what your guides recommend as the most helpful things for you at this moment.  You will be so relieved because you’ll be able to do it right away!  I found it most interesting that in the advice she gave me, my guides used the same obscure words that I use in my own speech.  This made me even more sure that she was actually talking to my guides.

I am bowled over by the hugeness of her connection to Source.  You can ask her as many questions as you want in the reading time allotted, and she asks your own guides and receives an instant response.  Her readings are a great deal!

Lisa is having a drawing for a free reading for anyone who signs up for her site, which ends on June 30.  You still have a few days to enter, but you should probably go now…. : ) www.practicallyintuitive.com.

During the month of June, all those who have signed up for her newsletter will be entered in the drawing for a FREE READING from her (by email or phone, your choice) – up to a $90 value!

I’m happy to promote Lisa, because I know that in a short time we will all be able to say “I knew here when she had just launched her site…”  So go NOW and sign up for her newsletter, and book a reading (www.practicallyintuitive.com).

When the rest of the world finds out about her talent, you may not have the chance!

Don’t forget you can still book your journeys with me! All subscribers automatically get 30% off their first journeys.  Email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com for yours today. I’ve got two spots left this week!

Kara

-Kara,

Email me if you need a reading this week at conduitofjoy@hotmail. I’m offering my most detailed reading for the first three people to email me for only $50. 

There are crazy things afoot, I’m here to connect you to Higher guidance!

UNCERTAINTY AND TRANSITION

Be you ever so wise, confident, and “enlightened,” you will nonetheless find yourself at times uncertain: uncertain about what actions to take, uncertain about your life, uncertain about your place or purpose in this life. At such times, we tend to think of ourselves as confused or lost. And consequently, we may feel fearful, “unsupported” in the larger sense, or even powerless.

We must appreciate, however, that in order to grow, we will necessarily move from certainty to uncertainty. Uncertainty is actually a valid and essential phase of our learning. And in order to move through this phase, we must be able to recognize it as such and resist the inclination to fear it and judge ourselves for it.

OUTGROWING OUR CERTAINTY …

Why is uncertainty necessary for our growth? The first reason is simply that as we grow as individuals – as we reach for new levels of freedom and as our power and self-awareness expands – our wisdom must also grow to keep pace. As our lives and our vistas open, we will simply outgrow our certainty.

The important distinction being that this is a temporary state. We have not “lost” our clarity. Nor have we lost our power to choose. We’ve simply “graduated” to a level where we must discover a deeper clarity and a new confidence in ourselves and our power.

The “academic” arena illustrates this well. If we cast ourselves back to our school days, at the end of the seventh grade (or so), we may remember how, by the end of the school year, we finally made sense of “geometry.” And we felt some security and accomplishment in this knowledge. Entering the eighth-grade, however, confronted by “trigonometry,” we suddenly felt ourselves again somewhat lost and mystified. And we probably felt discouraged, a bit fearful, and our overall confidence somewhat shaken.

Graduating from one school-grade to the next and from basic to more advanced subjects, it’s easy to appreciate the inevitability of these “uncertain” periods. And we can more easily appreciate these periods of uncertainty as transitional. We need to practice the same kind of understanding with the more complex progress of our life-learning. We need to recognize that these “uncertain” periods, these times when nothing seems clear or firm to us, are in fact preludes to a new level of clarity and a new, stronger foundation.

WHY WE CAN’T SEE …

The challenge, of course, is that, unlike our academic learning, our life-learning does not advance in clear, even steps. At least not from where we’re sitting. And this leads to the second and more profound role of uncertainty.

We will enter a time of uncertainty when from where we are at the moment, we are simply “unable” to see where we need to go next. That is, most of our path from uncertainty to certainty is the process of moving us into a “position” where we can see the answers we need … where we can open to what is next for us. Perhaps as much as 80% of our learning process is actually about the “expansion” necessary for us to see clearly. And this expansion process is a mysterious one: a process that, if it is to be successful, we simply cannot be “in on.”

One of the reasons we cannot see and direct this expansion “phase” is that often we do not expand – beyond our fears, beyond our comfort, beyond our current knowing – unless or until we are compelled to do so. Often we don’t even realize that our current view – or our current view of ourselves – is too narrow to see ahead. We (and our fears) are in our own way.

So these periods of uncertainty are in effect the “empty space” into which we will eventually expand. We are, in effect, separated from our certainty so that we ourselves must grow out to bridge the gap.

NOT SEEING, WE MAY BECOME FEARFUL. BE EXPANSIVE INSTEAD. …

Because we cannot see ahead during this transitional phase, our initial reaction may be fear. The mind (at least, our more primitive mind) associates “safety” with control and familiarity. So when we come to this mysterious “in between” phase, we may be tempted to “contract” or even revert to old familiar patterns. Returning to our academic metaphor, this is like saying: “Well, I don’t understand trigonometry, so I’ll just stick with geometry.”

Unfortunately, because this phase is trying to move us forward, contracting and pulling back will only prolong this transition and make it more uncomfortable for us. Indeed, this phase can become quite prolonged when we are outgrowing fears and “limiting” patterns that run very deep in us. When we are outgrowing these old stubborn patterns, our lives can resemble a “tug of war” where we move back and forth … until we create enough momentum to finally “shake” us free of our fears. (This, by the way, is why we often feel most confused and in greatest turmoil just before we find our clarity.)

OPENING TO WHAT’S AHEAD …

Having said all this then, the more flexible and open we can be during these phases, the shorter and easier they will be for us. Again, our first instinct when we lose or move from something familiar, is to panic. Our fears will naturally be aroused. We must expect this, and instead try to remain patient with ourselves and open to what is ahead.

It will help to recognize that this phase is not an invalidation of ourselves or our lives. Far from it. It is in fact a very powerful, transformational point on our path. And, yes, a mysterious one. If we can’t absolutely trust or surrender to this mysterious process, we must at least try not to fight it or judge it.

Again, because it is we who are transforming, we cannot really hope to have “control” and clarity during this phase. We are moving beyond ourselves, beyond our fears. And because the goal is our expansion, our best strategy is to be light and patient and expansive as we look ahead.

IN CONCLUSION …

The difference between doubt and uncertainty is that doubt is a product of fear. As we learn to practice patience and openness during our phases of uncertainty and transition, the phase itself will grow more familiar to us and less threatening. And, after a number of these cycles, as we observe how our path “moves” us mysteriously from uncertainty to certainty – from who we were to who we are – we’ll begin to marvel at the beautiful wisdom that guides, understands, and supports us in this life.

Copyright 2010 Planetwide Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

Thanks very much Rob!  (Rob is such a nice guy he also gave me a free downloaded meditation on “Releasing Fear” which I’m going to try out tomorrow.

Thanks for this photo “metamorphosis”  by h.koppdelaney at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3680999587/