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'Tis the season for dandelions! This is the world's best dandelion digger: Hound Dog Products HDP1-6 Weed Hound. You retract the prongs, put it over the plant and step on it, which pushes the prongs into the ground. Then pull up to lift dandelion and most or all of the root.
We have three, and go out with the kids and have a dandelion party, pulling them up before they go to seed. This device often gets the whole root, or at least a big chunk of it. The hole it leaves fills in pretty fast, nice aeration anyway.
Check out this nice WSJ video about a reporter having acupuncture sessions for neck & shoulder pain and sleeping/digestive trouble. It's a nice overview and example of an acupuncture session. (Woo, LI4s and LI11s!)
Must admit I'm disappointed in the journalism... all she could say after a few sessions was that she's feeling "better"? Either share your results so we can compare details to what the acupuncturist said, or send a reporter who's not so shy about her physical issues. Ah, well, good try.
My four-year-old took me out for a walk today. She rode her scooter (no brakes--what were they thinking?!) I kept up on foot.
After finding my MP3 player in my jacket pocket, I popped in an earbud and pushed play blindly. Ah, Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Work Week, a book that straightens out all your bad ideas about working for work's sake and letting your job walk all over you. I'd had it on "fast". Matched my pace.
Nothing is not spiritual. We all walk the same spiritual journey, though we choose different words to describe ourselves and what we find. Whether your approach to life is random, religious or atheistic, it's the same journey, same experiences, same tasks, same discoveries.
Chapter 15 of Ferriss's book is quite spiritual. After he spends most of the book curing you of your job and a lot of limited, passive thinking, he is then almost obligated to help you answer to one of the hardest, scariest questions on the planet:
"If you had all the time and money in the world, what would you DO all day?"
Think about it. (Oh c'mon, could you really do that for more than a month without getting bored?) Where would you live and how and with whom? What would you do to make a difference? What's your favorite issue or personal mission? This book is full of resources to help you really do that.
If you've made enough spiritual progress to get a sense of yourself and what you were made or meant to do, then check out this book for laughs if not for perspective. It's a fun read. Get a copy here through my amazon affiliate link (thank you muchly):
-- 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.)
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.
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. You retract the prongs, put it over the plant and step on it, which pushes the prongs into the ground. Then pull up to lift dandelion and most or all of the root. 
