Mirroring: Learning about Yourself

A couple months back I wrote a blog on The Art of Mirroring.  It is a great technique to look into the world of you and learn more about who you are, what behaviors and characteristics you have.  What’s the best way to learn that?   Relationships show us what we need to do to improve ourselves. You don’t need relationship advice. You need to look at how the people you have a relationship with pushes your buttons, then ask yourself why. They are mirroring for you what you don’t like about yourself! You cannot see in another what you yourself do not have. It’s how we recognize things. And that goes for the good, the bad and the ugly! read...

Memory of a Dog and A Black Butterfly

I wrote about a memory of a dog that I loved like my own child. In telling that story and reading the comments, I remembered another incredible incident concerning Ginger. Ginger was getting weaker and weaker. I walked her down to the backyard by taking her out the front and down to the back without stairs. As we neared the wooden gate, a black butterfly with gold fringe along the edges circled each of us. I instantly thought of my mother. I didn’t know until after my mom passed that she loved butterflies. This butterfly was dramatic looking and  that fit my mom.  It had big solid wings, all black with gold trim around the edges.  And mom loved gold necklaces, wearing two or more every day. She also wore sweaters trimmed in gold or silver trim. read...

Memory of a Dog: My Lady Ginger Lee

I went to Nia, a dance exercise class Saturday morning. Afterwards, as I neared the house, I saw a dove sitting in the street. I slowed giving it time to fly away. The dove triggered a memory regarding the passing of my sweet girl, Lady Ginger Lee. We took her to the veterinarian’s the day before our 26th wedding anniversary in July of 2007. We couldn’t let her suffer anymore. It was a painful time for us. I missed her terribly. She was my baby. I couldn’t talk to anyone because I would start crying. It was August and I was still crying. The latest Harry Potter came out and I was reading it so I wouldn’t cry anymore. It helped. read...

What is Energy Healing Therapy: What is it? Part 5

As I said, I was very frustrated in not moving forward as a energy healer with my first teacher. I had reviewed the  training several times but nothing new was being offered.  An opportunity to learn Reiki healing  appeared (turn 1).  I took it in exchange for working with cancer patients at the hospital. I got the Reiki attunement, the Initiation process for the Reiki energies. I enjoyed volunteering with cancer patients and I could do reiki on myself and long distance healing.  Reiki energies are not directed. Some of the techniques for the first energy modality were directed to specific issues, working on one item at a time. Another technique balanced your energy centers while another was similar to Reiki in that you did hands on but you let the energy direct where you should put your hands which you learn how to do in the training.  A few of the techniques allowed distance healing. read...

Energy Healing Therapy: What is it? Part 4

My personal healing  journey began before I began taking energy healing workshops. At this point, I had no idea I was heading down the path to becoming an energy healer. I didn’t have a clue what was ahead. My journey toward this started after the car accident. I had reached a healing plateau with Gail and the Chiropractor. Gail told me about a self help seminar that taught you a method of releasing emotions to which you are attached from your body. Hearing that it was in my head or heart from both of them, I had to find out if that was true so I decided to take the seminar. read...

Energy Healing Therapy: What are some Benefits? Part 3

I received energy healing modalities before I began taking the classes to become an energy healing practitioner. I worked on issues of long standing and on recent day to day things that occur in every life.  I worked on grief, love, loss, hate, feelings of not being lovable or loved, mothers, abuse, fears of all kinds, jealousy, envy, judgment, abandonment, anything and everything. As I worked on them, things began to change for me. Some of the big old issues began to lose their charge and the hurtful feelings began to lessen. read...

Energy Healing Therapy: What is it? Part 2

Continuing on  my series on Energy Healing Therapy.  If you haven’t read  the first blog I wrote on this topic, it might be helpful to do so. As I was saying in the first post, everything that happens to us gets stored in our energy field.  Now I am going to introduce another component to this.  I believe that we all have things to learn in this life and through those “teachings” or lessons, we grow and develop.  How we grow and develop depends on how we react to what we go through.  You have choices: become embittered, a victim, or you can accept what happened to you and look for the good in it.   I went the route of the victim, the poor me and probably embittered too. read...

Mindful of One family: Remembering a Life with Sadness

Funny how life’s reflections start when you learn a family member has passed.  Yesterday I learned that my cousin Joanne had passed.  You may say it’s just a cousin.  She was however also someone’s daughter and someone’s sister.  I spent a lot of time with her when we were kids.  At one point, when my mom and dad got a divorce, my mom,  sister and I moved in with Joanne’s family which included her mom and older sister, Loretta. Her father was my godfather who had passed before we moved in.  So for a few years we all lived as one family. We were childhood playmates and schoolmates. read...

The Gifts of Gratitude – Part 1

Many of us spend time judging each other.  Some of that time we spend comparing which is another form of judgment that usually leaves the comparer holding the short end of the stick.  Many don’t even think comparing is judging.  To have a comparison you have to judge each element, put them on some form of scale and then see who has the highest mark.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. If you are in a bad mood, you lose a lot. If you are feeling haughty or better than the rest of the world, then you might win more. What is it if it’s not judging? All we’d really need is a bench and judge gavel to make it complete.  And sometimes we judge ourselves against a generic, do we not? read...