Healer To Healer™

Our blog is now at the Global Institute for Awakening!

To go there right now, click:  http://www.GIAwaken.com/blog

After two years of hard work, I've built an organization that serve all exploring healing and professional healers seeking excellence.  

It is:

• A place where healers and those interested in genuine healing can connect with healing experts. 

• A place to get practical guidance about how to be a better healer, and fulfill your spiritual mission of healing.

• A place of inspiration and proven practices to better connect with your Source of Inspiration and inner guidance.  And more!

It's called... (drumroll PLEASE!)  The Global Institute for Awakening:

 
 
If you want to change the world by healing, check out our powerful membership benefits package! Learn to help your clients, family, and business better awaken their Potential, too! 

Grab our new FREE Spiritual Journey Wake-Up Kit at GIAwaken.com right now, with no further obligation at all.  Understand the components of your spiritual journey with this free ebook, audio and map.  Help your clients and others understand their path, too.

Check it out, and catch all my NEW blog posts since May 1, 2010, at:  GIAwaken.com/blog

I will still be right here, helping healers one-on-one, but catch my free calls and cost-effective classes over at the Institute, too.  Thanks!

 

Founder, Global Institute for Awakening

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The world's best dandelion digger

'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. 

You can grab one at amazon right here:

Enjoy!  Let me know how you like it.

Can you answer the hardest question on the planet?

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):

BOOK:  The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content (Hardcover), by Timothy Ferriss.

CD/Audio: The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated (CD Audio), by Timothy Ferriss.

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Feeling weird that I just had FUN ordering vitamins and supplements...

...at iHerb.com.  That's the ultimate buying experience: buying something I "need" or "have to", and having FUN!  I'm impressed. How did they do it? 

1. It was easy to find the brands I already use, so no hard searching and deciding.  No stress.  My kids have antioxidants and greens again!

2. The ease and fun of discovering good values.  I found things at great prices I never see on sale at the coop!  (Bach flower remedies for $11, Emergen-C for $9!) 

3. The fun of pricing levels that earn you bonuses.  Free shipping over $40.  Quantity discounts for 4 or more products.  An extra 5% discount over $60, and 10% over $120 for return customers.  Also, the cart calculates the average discount, so I played around with quantities to get the highest percent off, heh.

4. I discovered the fun of giving you $5 OFF your first order!  Now I totally sound like an ad, but enter coupon code NAS875 and get $5 off while I get a small credit towards my next order.  If you like them, you too can sign up for their referral program and earn credits referring friends and family.  (I love word-of-mouth advertising!)

5. Amazing customer service.  I grabbed the wrong credit card, but called an hour later and they switched it over.  No question, no tsk-tsk, just happy to help and is there anything else we can do for you?  Customer service is key to strengthening customer loyalty.  I love iHerb now!

How about your business or practice?  How can you use these ideas in your own biz or practice -- without ever discounting your services of course... vitamins are common: YOU are NOT.  ;)   How can your clients have FUN coming to see you for help, even if they "have to"? 

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.)

Create your best year ever in 2010

Happy new year!  What are your goals and hopes for 2010?  We at IIPGH wish for the best and happiest for you and your spiritual journey in the new year, and we would like to share a powerful exercise for spiritual acceleration.

We've put together a short list of bullet points to help you in each of the seven tasks of the spiritual journey.  (Learn more here.)  You can either use this list as an intention-focusing, life-flow device or as a prayer.  Or go through it as a prayer first, then as a life-flow/manifestation/attraction exercise. 

One pass through took us less than 3 minutes.  To make a hugely positive impact on your year, mark your calendar to do this twice a day for two days in a row, or once a day for five days in a row.

1. As a prayer, begin with your favorite opening, or consider:  "Dear God/dess, please open me to receive your divine grace and guidance right now, this year, and always. Forgive me my attachments and self-limitations, and please..." Then use the bullet points, beginning each with "help me to..."  

2. As a life-flow or manifestation exercise, watch your breath for a minute, relax and then begin each line with "I choose to..."

• lose all attachments to past events or things
• forgive all judgments of me, by me and by others, and to lose all attachments to those judgments
• lose fearing criticism or harm from others in the future
• lose the benefits I gain from carrying my past troubles around with me, and [please help me to/I choose to] find those benefits elsewhere
• lose all doubt, lose doubting myself, lose doubting my mission, lose doubting my guidance, lose doubting my abilities, lose doubting my power, and lose doubting God
• lose expecting and requiring the world go the way I think or want it to
• lose all fears that limit my healing effect on the world

• know myself wholly, as I am divinely known 
• fully love and support myself, as I am divinely loved and supported
• know, trust, and step more fully into my spiritual journey
• fulfill my greatest potential for bringing genuine healing to the world and to myself
• build faith and knowingness in my innate ability to perfectly fulfill my spiritual mission
• appreciate the past and carry only its beneficent gifts with me
• surrender to my healing mission and allow it to guide me forward

"I give thanks knowing this is done. Amen."

May these and other blessings come your way in 2010.

Further Resources
To learn more about your spiritual journey, where it leads, and what steps you must take to walk your spiritual path well, connect with your favorite spiritual advisor, or join us for our Awakening Your Inner Healer program from Jan 19-Feb 23, 2010.  The first class is FREE, register here.

My healing journey with dyslexia (2)

What an interesting dose of reality to actually write for only the second time in public about my "reading issue," which I've spent my whole life ignoring, coping with, and making excuses for. It's been extremely humbling. Extremely.

So Wednesday I drove with my teenage son for 2 hours up to Wausau, WI, to chat with Anne Mataczynski, a practitioner of the Davis Learning Program. She assessed us and explained how she can train me to read easily and train both of us to still our ADHD-type minds so we can focus for extended periods (like more than 30 seconds) when we need to. She was fabulous, and it was a great day overall. 

But starting Tuesday night, I felt very subdued and quiet inside, avoiding doing anything, having a hard time mustering my natural enthusiasm. The feeling continued through Friday, even after the day with Anne. The subdued feeling felt like a small child cowering within, feeling like she was going to get in trouble for something she'd been hiding a long time, and also feeling sad and afraid at the ending of something. 

So I had a chat with her on the way up.  I explained that I loved her and that she wasn't "in trouble". I said her mind is simply wired to think in pictures and that it's actually a gift.  She can think very fast, be extremely creative and put together things in new ways.  (Einstiein thought this way for pete's sake: he saw the theory of relativity in a daydream, in just a minute or two, and it's taken zillions of books and conversations since then to parse it out.) 

No More Excuses... Will Life Change?

So I told this inner sliver of me that she's perfectly loveable but has simply had a hard time focusing on squiggles that represent sounds that represent meaning. No biggie, we've coped fine. But she knew that now I will lose my excuses for not reading books, mail, and other things... Another part of her didn't want to change, was resisting, thinks of reading as a waste of time, which I think is just leftover frustrations and sour grapes. She was also afraid that life would be very different being able to read well, that we'd lose something. I assured her that with training, we could only gain the ability to read well and wouldn't lose anything. Training wouldn't change us. (Of course, she is me, and I was talking to myself.) 

It's funny, though. I find many folks who are aggresively uninterested in alternative healing are actually at their core (and not always consciously) afraid that the healing would CHANGE them, change who they are, make them into a different person, and that the change would be strange. And here, within me, was a fragment of myself afraid that I would be changed by being able to read well -- how ironic. And how human.

But deeper than that was my core fear, which it took me another day or two after meeting Anne to identify...  If I can read, then I can finish editing my books, and I'll have to "get out there". I've been playing small for a long time, hiding out, and dyslexia may be one of the tools I've used to keep myself small... what will happen when I reveal my gifts? Part of me is terrified.  

Have you ever been afraid of stepping into your potential?

Dyslexia Is a Gift

Dyslexia is a gift, a way of staying in "right-brain", outside-the-box thinking, without being bogged down by linear thinking. For dyslexics, however, the important question is: how can you use this fast and powerful way of thinking to improve life on our planet, instead of simply spending all your energy coping, or avoiding reality?

One of the biggest gifts I've received is that I haven't read many other people's books and ideas about how the world works. Instead of reading their inspired thoughts and "downloads" from the Universe, I was driven to tune into the same station they are listening to, and get my own downloads. I LOVE this connection. And I LOVE sharing the amazing understandings I get for the individuals I work with, as well as insights about the healer's spiritual journey in general. 

This connection will not end with dyslexia training.  Perhaps it's simply time to be able to also glean information from humans via the written word, or to get my own ideas out. Though this fall is densely scheduled and it's hard to take time away from our four kids, I'd like to do this week-long program... I'll keep you posted.

Resources
~ Click on this link to order Ron Davis's amazing book "The Gift of Dyslexia" from amazon.com. I also highly recommend "The Gift of Learning", where he describes clearly and simply what's happening in the mind with ADD / ADHD and other learning issues, and how to help.

~ Visit  dyslexia.com for details, a practitioner listing, and learning materials.  Anne's website is: GemLearningCenter.com. 

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)

Why are you a healer?

Healers, why are you in business?  What motivates you?  Why do you practice your healing techniques and processes?  Why do you do what you do?

I don't mean why are you a healer...  For most of us, healing is what we can't not do.  We know we are here to help and uplift, to inspire others to reach for their potential (and to work on a few of our own blocks to potential too).  Healing just happens around us, and when we love ourselves and open to it, even more happens.  Healers are just who we are.  I love the way my teacher Terry Cole-Whittaker put it to me last week: "You're a child of God.  You're just in the family business."  (Find her at http://www.TerryColeWhittaker.com)

So what I mean is: what is your vision?  What keeps you looking ahead, keeps you climbing that mountain in joy, carrying the light for the rest of us?  What is your vision that makes you jump out of bed every morning, eager to get into your office because you know you're making a difference, in body, mind and soul?  What is your personal "mission" statement?

Take five minutes to take a stab at it right now.  Write it out.  Put it on your vision board.  Put it on the bathroom mirror, the refrigerator.  Revise it and hone it as you are inspired to, until you LOVE it and you're sure it's why you're here.  Read it aloud to begin your day.  Make sure everything you do in your healing practice is in harmony with this statement, and that this statement is in harmony with the authentic you. 

And get ready to love your life!  Life doesn't get better than living your healing vision.

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

"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

Resource: "How to Channel Spirit Guides by Automatic Writing"

Why rewrite the wheel on this one?  Here is a no-nonsense article from one Bob Macransky on how to channel your spirit guides (or anyone who has passed on) by doing automatic writing.  The only thing I might add is that I like to spend a minute or two clearing my mind before I begin.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-to-channel-spirit-guides-by-automatic-writing.html

Have fun, and feel free to comment with any questions you'd like me to answer or clarify.

P.S. Check out the description of this author -- I love it!  Systems analyst and professional astrologer, shaman and head of the blueberry growers assn.

Healing / Coaching / Creating can be done abundantly

The Secret To Success for Healers  (from March 2008 Newsletter)
Are you doing what you are meant to do... and thriving?  Are you thrilled with every aspect of your career, office, family, and romantic situation? 

If you are called to healing or another form of service at this time in history, you are meant to be able to do it from a place of abundance and joy!   Not from a place of stress and wondering how to pay the bills, no.

If you are called to healing, coaching or creating, there is a way for you to succeed while serving your Life Purpose and loving it.  You are so needed on the planet right now!  And yes, there is plenty of money and clients to go around for everyone.

But so many of you are still hiding, enduring a job that doesn't feed you, thinking you have to be certified or take more classes before you start, assuming you aren't good enough, dealing with illness and family issues, etc.  Oh, I could fill pages with the insecurities and challenges of healer types! Healing is about empowering, and long story short --- many of us still need a little healing ourselves.

Know the hard truth: What is holding you back are the stories your mind has created to cover your fears of expressing the brilliant healer you are inside.  But there is no need to be afraid.  And your past or current challenges are your ticket to helping others.  If this is your path then you can do it!

How do I know?  I am a healer, channel and business mentor who works with healers, creatives and those who empower others.  I help you see and express your brilliance, who you are.  I am living my Healer to Healers™ Life Purpose.  And I've never been happier!  Please join me!

Before this, I had every insecurity and made every mistake in the healing book.  These experiences turned out to be gems---now, based on my mistakes and successes, I have to put together fabulous practical, proven energy tools and business strategies to get healers where you are meant to be -- healing, helping, serving and loving!

Did I mention I used to be a fancy marketing and finance exec, too?  That was the job I secretly hated.  Even a fat paycheck couldn't hide my misery.  But this background and my spiritual, healing experience, means I have a unique offering you can't find anywhere else!

I understand what you do.  I understand your calling.  I am the Healer to Healers™.  How can I help you?

Walk or Suffer
If your Spiritual Path is healing, then you must walk it!  If you don't, you suffer from blocking your natural gifts --- the energy still comes out, but backwards in money worries, loneliness, lack of joy in life, insecurities, blocked communications, bad client experiences or other trauma drama, the feeling of brick walls around you, sadness, and more.

These penalties are hints that you are not doing what you came here to do! I know they are unpleasant, I suffered most of them for a long time.  Then I figured out who I was and what I was here to do, and things really started changing for me.

Revel in the luxury and satisfaction that comes from aligning with your Spiritual Path the way you were meant to!  Bliss and abundance will follow.  I can help.

~  One-on-one personal mentoring (a unique combination of intuitive reading, channeling, coaching and consulting), where I read your life purpose and where you are blocked, show you how to overcome your blocks, and build your business while making sure you are nurtured, too.

~  And of course, I do healing and intuitive readings called Clear Wisdom sessions, which you can add in to any package. 

Are you tired of the runaround, or do you want your work to be your play, and feel like a gleeful child again?  Try my free 15-minute consultation to see what you need and how I could help.  Until then!