A Blog Writer asks: What is Personal Success?

This question has come up for me recently. I thought I’d ask all of you!  I know I want to make a difference.  Exactly how I don’t fully know yet. I do know that I (to paraphase Ralph Waldo Emerson) want to know that one life has breathed easier because I have lived. So what is the measurement of success? Is it money, having a business that is well known? Is it having influence in the business world? Is it having a big house? What about being mentioned in business magazines?  How often must it happen?  Is it having more than your neighbors, or acquaintances or family members? Is it having more houses, more toys, more cars, more clothes? Is it having employees and prestige? Is having a title important to you? read...

Mindfulness Meditation with the Wind

I went out on the deck to take a picture of the deep dark blue ocean this morning. As I passed our navel orange tree, I looked down and spotted this orange! Guess the birds think we have sweet oranges too! I realized how warm it was so I went in, got a cup of coffee and went back to sit on the deck. I sat there, at times, closing my eyes to engage the other senses. The Santa Ana winds were blowing. Santa Anas don’t blow non-stop. They blow in gusts of various strengths. They can be cold winds or warm to hot winds. These were the warm winds. I sat very still paying attention. Soon I noticed the winds had stopped. read...

Relationship Advice: Give Up the Need to be Right

How many arguments have occurred with your spouse or significant other because each of you wanted to be right? If neither of you gave relented, how did it end? You didn’t speak to each other? You thought the other was an idiot or stubborn or just plain wrong? Did you ever wonder what in the world you saw in them in the first place? That maybe you made a big mistake here? Think I’ve experienced any of that? You bet I have. I fought tooth and nail and got really mad. You see, I had to be right. For me, it was a matter of life and death. If I was wrong, I would die. In my warped thinking, I would have been devalued in my own eyes and I believed that my husband would think less of me as well. I could not chance that. read...

Foodie Vacation – Always!

I’m a foodie.  Seems like I’ve been one forever so maybe I came out of the chute that way.   I know I bugged my working single mom to teach me to cook and soon I was making home cooked meals at age 11 or 12. I never stopped cooking. My love of food continued and grew. So it’s no surprise to anyone who knows me that any vacation is going to include great food, preferably gourmet food.  Luckily my husband loves food too.  He’d have to love food or I wouldn’t have married him.  I stopped dating a guy because he didn’t eat onions! read...

Pacific Grove California

My husband and I took off for the first time in years this Thanksgiving. We took a break from our daily routine and visited a favorite spot for us, Pacific Grove, California. With that rugged coastline along the bay, Monterey, Carmel, Cannery Row and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, there was plenty to see, savor both in taste and for the eyes, and take tons of pictures. And I did take pictures with my Nikon, my Lumix and my cell phone. The Lumix was amazing to use inside the aquarium. The early morning hours were the best for picture taking along the coast. There weren’t many people about either, just the very hearty joggers and bikers. read...

Healing Frequencies Bringing Light, Information and Healings

I’ve had an overriding thought for several days. Some of you may know I’m one of hundreds of Reconnective Healing practitioners. And a few of you also  know how powerful this work is even though you may not understand how it works. I have some news for you. Many of us who do this work including Dr. Eric Pearl and the scientists who study this work can’t fully explain it. One of the things we are taught in the training is to learn to say “I don’t know”. read...

Reconnective Energy healing: What happens during a session?

I’ve explained about Reconnective Healing in another video log.  In that video I explained that I open the door for your healing. And it is up to your higher self to walk through the door.  I also explained that healing occurs in the emotional, spiritual, mental and physical areas based on what is appropriate for the client. So what can happen during a session? Each session is different.  I’ve seen some amazing things happen. I’ve also just seen a client lie there and go very deep.  It will look  to me like nothing occurred until the client later shares some pretty wonderful and sometimes mind blowing things that they experienced in the session.  Of course, I love hearing about what everyone experiences. read...

What is Energy Healing?

What is energy healing?  Healing is the cessation of dis-ease. To the alliopathic world, it’s the cessation of illness. Healing can occur on many levels: emotionally, spiritually, mentally and physically.  And they can occur separately or combined. Let’s consider a cut on your arm or your hand. When it has stopped bleeding, andthe gash slowly disappears or leaves a small scar, many consider it healed.  For all intents and purposes that is true.  Sometimes, that gash, depending on how it happened, can leave some unseen hurts or wounds that don’t always heal when the gash does.  This is definitely true with some large traumas. read...