Healer To Healer™

You are the one butterfly

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ You are the one butterfly who can change the world. Are you flapping your wings today?

 

Chaos theory tells us that the smallest effort on your part can snowball and change the world.  What small action can you take today to live a better life?  How can you connect with someone to improve their life?

 

P.S. When the butterfly is resting, you can only see the camoflauge side of the wings, and it blends into its background. It has to FLY for everyone to see the unique colorful side!  :)

 

Inspirational Quote: Donna Karan

My mission in life is to access God’s gift of creativity to inspire, to touch people's minds, bodies and spirits with love and compassion — to make a difference in this world.

— Donna Karan, Fashion Designer

 

Have you written out your life's mission statement?  Every person on the planet (including you) has a mission (which is ultimately healing) and a healing message.  Notice that Donna Karan's is not to make lots of money or live in a big house or make cool clothes for celebrities.  Those are only some of the things that happen as she implements her life's mission.  Your mission is bigger than what you do and even bigger than the results you get.  It's that thing you're meant to do, what makes your heart sing.

How can you take a few minutes today to start writing and honing your mission in life?  If you're stuck, start with hers: it's beautifully specific and general.  Edit it to fit your life.  Also jot down how you dream of fulfilling your mission.  Your "how" will evolve through your life, but your mission will stay fairly steady.  (Of course you will get increasing clarity on it.)  We'd love to hear your mission in the comments! 

Inspirational Quote: Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."

--Emily Dickinson, American Poet (1830-1886)

I've loved this poem since I discovered and collected it into a notebook in high school.  I know many of my healer/creative/intuitive clients would agree with its sentiment!

From Wikipedia about Emily Dickinson: "Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published, all anonymously and some perhaps without her knowledge."  Don't let a lack of recognition from others slow you down.  Stay true to what you know in your heart and get your creations out there -- the clients will come sooner or later.  Either way, you will have helped.

Inspirational Quote: Rae Atira-Soncea

"To me it's like living and breathing: when I don't make art I'm not happy.  And philosophically, I believe that the process of making is what holds the earth together, whether it's making love or making bread or making babies or making art.  It's part of the process that maintains the world.  We should never discourage anyone from making or creating or engaging the body-mind in that dance or that flower arrangement because it does two things.  It makes the person sane, and it keeps the world going."

-- Rae Atira-Soncea, artist, died 1 March 2009 

Visit her memorial blog and see her art at  http://hedgecroft.net/blogs

Inspirational Quote: Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer.  For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

---Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the difference between your life, a dance or a work of art in progress, and your giving back to the world?  Not much that I can see. 

Live and work as if you are a lump of clay with the finest, most exquisite form within.  Observe yourself, your world, and your results.  Experiment as you seek to release the unending magnum opus already within you.  It is simply awaiting your notice. 

Know that ultimately, you cannot fail.

When you can enjoy your life like a dance, through its highs and lows, you've mastered the spiritual journey.  If you need help, hang out here.  Read some more articles, sign up for our free report.  Let us know how we can help you.

Inspirational Quote: Sheri McConnell

"The only way to fail at anything is to quit."

-- Sheri McConnell, my business coach/mentor for 2010

Sheri has been empowering women for over 10 years.  She is a powerful Wounded Healer and a highly realized business teacher/coach, especially if you are forming a group or association.  I've had such amazing results already coaching with her that I highly recommend her products and services!  (And just wait 'til I roll out what we've been working on!)  Find her website here at:  http://www.profcs.com/app/?af=1074655   (That's my affiliate link: I will benefit if you purchase anything, thank you.)

Inspirational Quote: Masaru Emoto

"Among all medicines, there are none with the healing powers of love.  Since I came to this realization, I have continued to tell people that immunity is love.  What could be more effective at overcoming negative powers and returning vitality to the body?

However, I have recently felt the need to change my terminology.  I now know that it is not love alone that forms immunity, but love and gratitude."

-- Masaru Emoto

Source: p. 78 in The Hidden Messages in Water, Atria Books, NY, 2005, ISBN 07432-89803.

Joke: The Secret of Life

A student visits the old Master and asks him "Do you know the Secret of Life?"

"Oh yes," he says, "I know what that is."

Incredulous, the student exclaims, "You DO know the greatest Secret ever!?"

"Of course!" the Master replies, nonplussed.

"Well then please tell me, Master, what IS the Secret of Life?"

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you that."

"Why not?"

"Because it's a secret!"

Comment:  In truth, there are no secrets.  Be a spiritual detective: seek Truth, and you will find as much as you are willing to see.  Share your gifts freely, empower and inspire others, appreciate yourself and your life, explore Potential, and observe the results carefully with an open mind... And you, too, will master the so-called Secret of Life.

"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!

Do you KNOW there's something more?

"I used to think that people fell into one of three groups: those who don't believe in anything beyond their basic five senses, those who are open to the possibility that there might be something beyond those senses, and those who definitely believe there's something more.  Yet suddenly I find myself in a fourth, smaller group:  those who know there's something more."

   — Eric Pearl in The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself (my #1 recommended book for healers)

Fame or integrity: which is more important?

I'm feeling cryptic today, a fine time for a dose of Tao... 

        Fame or integrity: which is more important?
        Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
        Success or failure: which is more destructive?

        If you look to others for fulfillment,
           you will never truly be fulfilled.
        If your happiness depends on money,
           you will never be happy with yourself.

        Be content with what you have;
        rejoice in the way things are.
        When you realize that nothing is lacking,
        the whole world belongs to you!
                          --Lao Tzu

When you reach the knowing, usually by tough experiences, that you have everything you need within you and that you are already truly a master at what you do, then you will be able to make all you need appear in your life, too. 

If this is too cryptic, think of a time in your life when you utterly gave up or thought you had nothing, but then realized you had exactly what you needed all along.  Everything can be found even in nothing.  Don't give up -- keep showing up, hold your faith, and your dreams will come true.  ;)

"Oh, I believe in coincidences. I've just never seen one."

-- Dannion Brinkley, (yes, somewhat sarcastically) at the Reconnection Mastery Conference in Los Angeles, September 2008

This week has been a deeply magical journey of coincidence after coincidence for me personally.  Last year, I could feel that this year would be really, really big.  And it's definitely more expansive than last year.  Then this morning, I could hardly contain my excitement coming into my office, though I couldn't figure out why, just a regular Thursday planned.

Well, I've had big spiritual insight after wow spiritual insight today, finally seeing my client niche clearly, as well as the value I bring to it.  I'm super good at helping people see who they really are, in the good sense, and empowering them to surpass the extraordinary potential I see.  No more effort to create new products, just love what I do and the rest will follow.  Watch out world, because I know that's a marketing formula for expanded success ahead.

Are you aware when YOU receive gifts and messages from the Universe that come bundled in seemingly mundane comments you hear or emails you almost don't read--except when you do, they hit you like a ton of happy-bricks?  Keep your senses peeled.  Help is available to you all the time, healer.  Remember to ask for it, and to watch for the answer.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for more news...  ;-)

"To finish first, first you must finish."

                    --Terri O'Connell, NASCAR driver

So often when we are afraid, we sabotage our own efforts so we can stay "safe"... in the failure zone.  It can get mighty comfy here, but there is an element of pain, too, because we are not being ourselves, particularly if we are avoiding our own calling to heal and help others.  C'mon healer.  If you are drawn to it with your heart, you can do it.  That's a promise.  It's your calling.  Exactly the task that you and only you can handle so well.  By definition.

What are you putting off?  Practice completion by choosing a small unfinished project that will enrich your spiritual life or move you closer to being the healer you are.  Finish it today, or take another huge step towards completion.  Think of that last portion as a small, easier project in itself.  Report back here and let me know what you did.

And don't forget: we teach best what we're here to learn.  ;)  I'll do this too.

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.

Share your gifts to reclaim yourself

Healer to healer, thanks so much for your patience at my absence here while I finish up my book draft.  Meanwhile, I've also been creating a program for healers to express their true purpose, to really do what they came here to do!  FIrst we identify your natural gifts, story, and unique message for the world, then use that to create an abundant healing business that flows easily from the soul!  I can't wait to share it.

To get you started, here's an inspiring quote from Dannion Brinkley's upcoming book Secrets of the Light: Lessons from Heaven, due out November 25, 2008:

"I believe every soul is born into this world with a talent and a task, a memory and a mission; everyone arrives with a gift and a goal. These talents and tasks are Spirit-given... Some of us are born to be scientists while others may be inventors or even healers... 

One vital aspect of our physical journey is to consciously search for and fully develop these spiritually granted gifts and talents for the purpose of manifesting the greatest possible potential for the good of all.  Today I can tell you, with total confidence, within this particular Truth there lies the greatest of power.  Its power is easily accessible for your spiritual evolution.  Comprehension and conscientious implementation of this Truth literally put you in control of your life and destiny.  They will also ensure that you reclaim yourself (through personal reinforcement of your gifts creating ample validation) as a mighty and powerful spiritual being.  After years of contemplation, I have figured out ... that in using [our gifts and talents], not only do we find true happiness and meaning in living, but we also authentically help others."

(p. 144-146 in the old version I have from 2004, now a collector's item.  Give yourself the gift of the new version, however.  In it, Dannion shares seven simple guidlines to live by, that he learned on the other side after dying 3.5 times.  I love opening up this book "randomly" and reading 1-5 pages for a quick lift-me-up!  Highly recommend!)  --DB

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.

"Stay strong and be of good cheer"

Inspirational words to live by, from a healer who is here to tell you there is no such thing as death.  Dannion Brinkley was one of the amazing collection of speakers and scientists at The Reconnection Mastery Conference in LA, from which I just returned and which I HIGHLY, highly recommend to any healer, regardless of technique!!  Go next year and learn that science can support and explain our healing experiences.  Be inspired to do what you came here to do in abundance! I will report further in other posts.

These words come from the newsletter on Dannion's website, www.Dannion.com:

"So, all in all, the times they are a changing. I happen to know that we chose and were chosen to be here at this auspicious time in human history. Only the most heroic of all souls were gutsy enough to show up during this galactic extravaganza! We are about to witness things never seen by humans before. Yet, as these times unfold in all their glory, the chance for personal growth and evolution is equally as unprecedented. We are great, powerful and mighty spiritual beings with dignity, direction and purpose. We need fear nothing, for in the eternal reality, we are invincible. No force can come against us and triumph. No dark wave can cause us to seriously falter just as long as we remember who we are and who we serve.

"Stay strong, and be of good cheer; that way we shall prevail over all the bad news, and each and every one discouraging global change now making it self known. We have all gathered on Earth at this time in history to prove that the Light ultimately vanquishes the dark, no matter how bleak our chances at victory appear. It would fortify our spirits to commit to memory the words from The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf proclaims in the presence of the Balrog (darkness), “Return to the shadows…you shall not pass!” No matter how overwhelming the darkness (our times of uncertainty and economic recession) appears to us today, if we persevere in righteousness and faithfulness to the cause, it shall not triumph."

I love you.  Go heal.

Daria

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."
     -- David Searls

(Healer to healer, we often know there is more to life that what we see.  So think big!)

Bibliomancy is the practice of opening a book to any page and reading what your eyes land on.  This morning I found:

"'Remember,' the voice said. 'Remember that you are always loved.  You are always protected, and you are never alone... You also are a being of light, of wisdom, of love.  And you can never be forgotten.  You can never be overlooked or ignored.  You are not your body;  you are not your brain, not even your mind.  You are spirit.  All you have to do is to reawaken to the memory, to remember.  Spirit has no limits, not the limit of the physical body nor of the reaches of the intellect or the mind.'"

-- p.62, Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited, Brian Weiss, MD