Healer To Healer™

A new level of spiritual practice invites itself over

It started as a noticeable little nudge about a month ago, like I felt I needed more meditation.  How very odd.  Like I was hungry for something, really had a taste for... meditation?  Sure, sure, after I finish my 2009 bookkeeping and write my new web copy and launch my new site... I'll get to it, been meaning to be more formal about that for a while now...

Nudge again.  Realization a few days ago that when I wake up in the morning and spend a long while with my eyes closed, it is essentially a meditation already, collecting remnants of dreams and interpreting them, allowing priorities for the day to show themselves, saying the morning thank you prayers.  Hmm, it might be nice to do that sitting up, official-like.

A few days later (yesterday), a book about Buddhism is in my hands unexpectedly.  I open "randomly" to a prayer I've essentially been saying in different words for a while now.  It is my core theme this year: how can I help the most people the most, how can I make the difference?  On the spur of the moment I sit outside in the weak spring sunshine on an unusually warm Wisconsin day to read the whole book.

Gulp.  Haven't read about Buddhism in a long while.  I'm shocked to realize I'm like a Buddhist who believes in God.  Except Buddhists meditate.  Regularly.

This beautlful silly baby beginner gift book talks about meditation in just the right way, and I know.  It is time.  For me to shift my spiritual practice more formally.  To commit to a new level of communion with the world, or I won't be able to move where I can feel my life going. 

Oh, I could point to gentle signs going back about 6 months.  Then today my coach and husband both suggest the exact same kind of meditation to me, completley independently.  OK.  Got it!  Listening!!

I know it's up to me, it's a choice.  I teach this: your spiritual calling is an invitation, and you can refuse or accept at any time, without judgment.  If you put it off, it will patiently wait for you.  The hints may progressively get more noticeable -- just in case you missed the invite.  Like in the first Harry Potter movie when zillions of envelopes pour down the chimney after he doesn't respond to a few invitations.  Hard to miss.  "More noticeable" means more frequently, more unusually... or more painfully, depending on what you react to.

All I can say is I'm delighted and grateful to have gotten this message so easily, without getting sick, without getting into a state (eg., of injury) where all I could do is meditate.  And I have a cool new Buddhist prayer on my vision board as a bonus.

It's time to let my new practice bubble up from where it already exists, hidden within me.  I have a sense of what it has to be.  I'll ask and find out details.  And then I'll figure out how to incorporate it into an already seemingly full life.  The difference is that now it's not a "should".  I really WANT to.

How is your spiritual practice going?  Does it fully feed you and support not just where you are but where you are going?  If you'd like help to discover your ideal spiritual practice, I can read you and tap your higher wisdom for an answer (to anything in life or biz, it's fun and fascinating).  Or you can sit in stillness and let it bubble up from that place where your Full Potential already is.  All that you need is already within you: you just have to find it.

I love you.  Go heal.

"Rise", a song and message from the mountains

This morning I was driving north in Tucson (I'm on a biz trip here), which takes you straight at the south face of the Santa Catalina mountains, an east-west wall of rock that rises suddenly from the city flats.  Layers of rosy raw granite cut across its face at angles steeper than 45 degrees, giving the range a peachy blush.  From closer up, you see it's dotted with midnight blue pockets of deep shadow from the striking crags and rock towers decorating the steep sides.  A dark green dusting of conifers on top gives way to a sparse sprinkling of lighter green cacti where they can catch, condensing suddently into a narrow, bright green ribbon at the very base, where civilization has staked its territory with automatic sprinkler systems.

How does a wall of rock rise so sharply like that, with the layers pointing up and to the east, I wondered. I mused my way thru imagining plates of rock pushing against each other to lift this massive wall.  Before long, I decided to ask the Universe my real question:  why are these mountains so grabbing my attention?  After hiking in the foothill canyons earlier this week, they seemed impossibly tall.  Impossibly high.

In my mind's eye, I saw/felt the flat Tucson plain.  Then these mountains rose up before me as if pulled up out of the flats on strings.  (No, this is not geologically accurate, but spiritually meaningful: read on.)  "Rise!" I heard.  "Rise to the glory of God!"  The feeling was electric and expansive.  I played with the phrase and it became a rhythmic song.  Rise, 2, 3, 4, Rise (1) to the (2 and) glory of (3-and-a/triplet) God (4).  After a few verses, "I choose to" popped in on the 2-3-4, and it grew into a song.

Can you feel it?  ...Rise. 

Raise yourself up. 

Raise yourself up to glorify your potential, to glorify the divine, Source, the source of your limitless potential.  How else can you fully honor all you can do and be?

Rise towards your potential. Rise, like a seedling naturally reaches to the sun.  Not just for the fun of it (though it should be lots of fun).  Not just for the money of it (though it should be plenty abundant), but simply because reaching to express your potential is how you can honor the divine and say, "Yes!"  "Yes, I can!"  "Yes, thank you for this glorious potential within me!"  "Yes!"

For me right now, as I journey to the desert southwest, my practice and business are hanging in a beautiful stillpoint.  I have a unique opportunity to significantly expand my ability to help healers, intuitives, and creatives with a huge connection to Source (a connection that can really knock you around if you don't know how to manage and honor it) so you can know and love who you are and do what you came here to do -- really well and easily.  Moving forward from this stillpoint feels really scary!  Though I also sense it is totally possible and appropriate.  This morning's insight from the mountains gives me an inspiring reason to leap forward, regardless of my fears and worries about logistics and expenses.  It gives me the healing gift of taking me beyond my choices so I can feel as if I already have expanded and upraised myself. My earlier concerns and worries feel like silly trifles before the glorious, skyward reach of the Santa Catalinas and the inspired feeling of potential they give me.

What expansive step are you afraid of right now?  You know your mind can think of the most brilliant reasons why not, but you don't have to believe those fear-based thoughts.  What does your heart say?  And would it glorify your Potential for you to step forward right now?  If so, then how can you do that?  What is the first step? 

I challenge you to do one thing today to move forward, to rise into your potential, toward the full glory of the divine within you and the full being that you are.  Rise like the mountains!

Who are you, and how do you know?

This message channeled its way through me into a client's healing session this morning, and she graciously gave me permission to share it.  

It is posed as a question but came in clearly as an assignment, not a rhetorical wondering or an interesting thought. While I know the question was for her, the tone of it demanded the two of us each in our own way each find our own answer to it.  This is the gift of true channeling:  it applies to whoever hears it, exactly at the time you hear it. 

Here, now, is your assignment-in-a-question too:

"If you are not in conflict, how can you feel and know who you are?"

Conflict gives us the tension and power to change our identities and our lives.  It is through the mirror of the opposite side of conflict that we begin to see who we are: "rebel", "activist", "purist", "on the good or right or holy side, and therefore good or right or holy".

Without conflict, then, how do you achieve knowing who you are?  

I can't say I've got my own full answer on this assignment yet, but here's an even better question I would ask as a spiritual mentor:  How can you do more of whatever that is going forward?

That's a big assignment.  How are you doing?

What's behind the creative... I mean HEALING process?

In a vivid dream in high school, I read an article I'd written (in the dream) from a newspaper.  It was a great article, on a topic I didn't know much about.  Where did that complete, amazing and well-written article come from in my dream? What magical source produced a great article in an instant, when I had to struggle for a week to write something like that?

I tend to collect clients who are wonderful creative types: writers, painters, fiber artists, musicians, crafty types.  And they are very much healers, too.  They use their creative gifts in healing others as well as themselves.  Me too.  My art is writing.  In the creative process, I find my best writing, speaking, and healing work with clients feels like it comes, not from me, but through me.  I know in my heart that the book I am writing about the healer's path came from somewhere else, but through me.  I could feel the energy of it when I started.  It was my job to put the physical words on top of that energy, like icing a cake. 

Call the Source of creativity what you like -- Universal Mind, Source, God, Spirit, my Muse -- by any other name, I know it still.  It comes through a connection, which I can sometimes even palpably feel in my body, in my heart area or head or throat.  It is a connection to something indescribable, and when it happens I can feel the information flowing in.  What comes in I know I didn't "think up".  The shapes, feelings and colors of these ideas are soooo delicious, so brilliant and clear, wonderful and satisfying.  Peaceful and grounding.  I can't get enough.  It's divine!

This is the creative process, a connection to the pool of all potential ideas.  As you practice establishing your connection to this Source for creative or healing purposes, you can bring more harmony and order into your life.  When this magic connection happens, there is little hard work involved and the results are brilliant. 

We all crave this connection to Divinity.  I believe this is why we crave art and beauty.  When others perceive this connection in your work, they will feel drawn to read your book, go to your art show, listen to your song over and over, or ask you to work with them to heal.  They want this connection, too.  And this is why there will always, always be plenty of work for artists, intuitives, creatives and healers.

This same process happens in healing.  When you connect to that part of you that is divine and eternal, which happens to be whole, healed, and perfect all the time, then you can "remember" or connect more fully to who you truly are, and healing happens.  Repeatedly making that connection happen is a lifelong practice for any healer -- in fact, that's why our businesses are called "practices".

Whether you believe you are are creative or not, I wanted to make sure you'd seen this brilliant talk from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray Love, about the creative process.  Listen as an artist or writer, and then listen as a healer, replacing her words "writing" and "writer" with "healing" and "healer".  I think you will recognize something deep, something familiar... and she explains it so wonderfully!  Let me know what you think.

A season for love-making too

Do you give yourself recharging time or rest time on purpose?  How about play time -- or are you one of the majority of adults who are deficient in play?  Did you know that spontaneous play actually recharges and regenerates the body and significantly contributes to your quality of life? 

I'm thinking about this question after this amusing reminder channeling yesterday with new guides who said:

"We are here to help you should you feel stuck, but we are not here to do it for you.  You can contact us every day in the morning first thing if you like and check in with your focus of the day.  In this way you can work most efficiently, provided that you listen to us.  Sometimes we will tell you to take a break and you will not listen, but things will go more smoothly if you do listen.  There is a season for everything, including love-making.  You are all that you need."

Like many, I was raised to believe that idleness was the devil's playground.  But it's not idle to rest, recuperate, repair, and knit up that raveled sleeve of care.  As a healer I've seen how vulnerable to damage people become when they don't have enough play/fun time or rest time.  They are two different things, and we need both to live well and easily.

How can you honor the natural cycles of life, which include quiet times of regathering, and schedule such time into your day, week, month and year?  Saving it all up for a vacation doesn't really work... or had you noticed?  So far I've changed my Mondays to studying and resting days instead of "oh no the week is starting and I have so much to do" days.  I'm thrilled because I have a thing with Mondays anyway, and am challenged to be very productive.  I also have a 3-year-old at home.  Studying to me means no results necessary.  Play with my daughter, listen to talks, read books, nap.  I can feel the relief already!

By the way, the MOST crucial part of scheduling play or rest time is going into it with a 100% intention to play or rest.  No sneaking work or even thinking about it!  You must let go completely, or it truly won't be play or rest, and you'll need more without understanding why.

How about you?  Let me know what you come up with.  I wish you all the blessings of a happy, well rested life.

Eagle says: "It is this easy"

Have you ever received exactly the right words at the right time from a guide or other loving being?  In a wonderful meditation this summer, at a time when I was stressing about getting huge projects done on time, a giant eagle came.  It picked me up and flew around holding me and showing me things.  Eagles are deeply meaningful to me.  Among other reasons, I was born under the sign of the eagle and the ant. 

I paid attention.

Imagine feeling 110% safe and loved while receiving the gift of flight and lightness as well as seeing things from a new perspective.  At the end, Eagle said:

"This is how you must be. 
Free like the eagle, bound to no one. 
Bound to your own ideas and whims. 
Bound to truth, justice and healing. 
Bound to joy, love and happiness. 
It feels light, like air. 
It is delightful…
It  is  this  easy. 
You just lift off."

Healer, I wish nothing less for you than for you to step forward right now, to open and connect to your natural healing gifts in the unique way you express them, and for you to just... lift... off! 

Reread the poem a few times.  I know you can do this.

In freedom, you heal

Healer to healer, soul to soul, from my channeling this morning:

You are.  Thou art.  You are so great a being, and you know it, too, on some level that may feel faraway to you now.  Your mind is uncomfortable with this idea of complete freedom.  You want to keep yourself small.

But of freedom you are and to freedom you shall return. 

In freedom we share, we be whole and be wholly our true selves.  In freedom, we can shift this planet into balance in a shorter time than you can imagine.  Freedom is within.  Onl y the shadows of our internal denial of freedom can be seen in the world around us.  Freedom flows [from our eternal selves] into a state of mind.  It is here and now, within and around you.  Choose to see it.  Focus on nothing else.  Allow, allow, allow.  For in freedom, you heal.

Channeling spirit guides: "Be, without condition"

Wanted to share a little channeling session I had about two weeks ago.  Channeling is a fascinating exercise where you can get into a state of connection with your higher self, which I call your Full-Potential Multidimensional Self, and listen to the messages that come from the deep wisdom in that space.  Sometimes the words fly out of my fingers on the keyboard "by themselves".  Sometimes I can hear a voice with a certain timbre.  It's a lot of fun.  I'm not always sure who I'm channeling at the time.  Sometimes my full-potential self, a guide, a certain benign loving entity.  I get good advice and fascinating insights, and sometimes what comes out is just beautiful.

Many healers worry about contacting the "dark side" while channeling, but that is not possible any more with me.  :)  As part of my practice, I provide a service that forever severs you from "evil", which helps you remember how full of light you are, and all darkness has no choice but to fall away.  Entities avoid you, and you stay in the light.  (It's wonderful!  In 10 years of energy healing I've never seen anything like it!)

I'll write more about learning to channel later.  Here's the very short message I wanted to share because of its beauty and simplicity, and because I felt it spoke to other healers and spiritual seekers.  I heard:

Be. 
Be,  without condition.
Be, without reservation.
Be the light of the world.
Be the light of the hoop.
Breathe.
You have the whole world in you.

Aaaaahhhh...  Stop looking outside of you; you have all the resources you could ever want within you.  Namaste. Love and Blessings, Daria