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		<title>Exploring How We Heal&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Mom visited me over a two week period of time in which change was the name of the game the universe and I were playing with one another.  At the time that she arrived, we were making room for the addition of a puppy to our family and my husband was scheduled to leave [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_373" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 229px"><a href="http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2-24-to-3-10-09-paulas-1281.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-373" title="2-24-to-3-10-09-paulas-1281" src="http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2-24-to-3-10-09-paulas-1281-219x300.jpg" alt="My Mom Before the Healing" width="219" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My Mom Before the Healing</p></div>
<p>My Mom visited me over a two week period of time in which <strong><em>change</em></strong> was the name of the game the universe and I were playing with one another.  At the time that she arrived, we were making room for the addition of a puppy to our family and my husband was scheduled to leave 3 days later on a work related trip to remote parts of New Mexico.</p>
<div id="attachment_371" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/photo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-371" title="After" src="http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/photo-225x300.jpg" alt="My Mom After the healing" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My Mom After the Healing</p></div>
<p>I found my Mom&#8217;s presence to be grounding at a time when our family&#8217;s rhythms were being thrown off and I surrendered to the fact that everything else in my life would have to exist without me for a time.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, my business did not come crashing down on my head while I ignored it &#8211; in fact, my subscriber level really grew while I was busy with what life was bringing my way <img src='http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I also had the great opportunity to become very introspective.  Most likely it was the influence and close proximity of the energy that houses my oldest physical relationship in life (that of my mother).</p>
<p>I found doorways to explore and opportunities for healing that simply were not available to me before.  I transformed old thought patterns and born of that was one of the most impacting healings I&#8217;ve ever given.</p>
<p>My Mom&#8217;s health has not been the best over the past 10 or so years and lately she had been noticing her body going in a downward direction.  I invited her to come and visit, she worked out with us, went for walks and really worked on pushing the envelope of what she&#8217;s been able to do physically.</p>
<p>We worked spiritually on clearing negative influences and she made amazing progress in just a two week period of time.  Toward the end of the trip she wanted to get her hair done, however when we tried to make an appointment with the local stylists I use, no one was available.</p>
<p>Spirit prompted me, <strong><em>YOU cut her hair</em></strong>.  I&#8217;ve never been through any training &#8211; so this didn&#8217;t really make sense &#8211; however I knew I could do it, I understood the healing that would come, surrendered and became the channel for her transformation.</p>
<p>Where to cut, at what angle to cut, how to make the hair fall and at what levels was simply downloaded through spirit into my hands.  My mind was completely by-passed in this process as I meditated on only one thing &#8211; bringing the energy and vitality of my Mother&#8217;s Soul back to the surface of her physical being.</p>
<p>She came back to life right before my eyes like a giant inhale of love and I could tell from the way she closed her eyes during the cutting process that she was receiving Divine Love from Source.</p>
<p>There are many ways to heal energetically.  Hairstylists are healers, so are cooks, massage therapists, musicians, artists, teachers and many, many others.  We heal with our words, our thoughts, emotions, physical actions, ideas and our smiles.  There are hundreds of things you do each and every day that provide an opportunity or window to heal yourself and others and there are many, many, beautiful modalities and opportunities to gain contact with spirit that pass you by each and everyday.  Some of them you notice, others not.  Healers learn a healing modality to become acquainted with &#8211; the noticing.</p>
<p>In my next posts I will review the courses that I&#8217;ve learned for you so that you can get a feel for just how many methods for spiritual learning and healing there are.  I love to learn &#8211; and I intend to take many more trainings <img src='http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />    As I do, I will talk about them here.</p>
<p>Coming up are my reviews of NLP Coach training, NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner training, Soul Realignment Practitioner™ training, the Sedona Method, Financial Alchemy and Dancing with Source™ to name a few!</p>
<p>Until then keep exploring all the everyday ways we heal!</p>
<p>Angel Blessings,</p>
<p>PK</p>
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		<title>Are You Asking Spirit to Help or to Mind Read?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the Limitations and Expectations You Have Around Receiving Help Sometimes we are in obvious need of help but are completely unable to articulate it even to ourselves&#8230;these are usually the times when we just wait for someone else to notice our predicament and offer a hand. I call this looking for a mind reader. [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Understanding the Limitations and Expectations You Have Around Receiving Help</strong></p>
<p>Sometimes we are in obvious need of help but are completely unable to articulate it even to ourselves&#8230;these are usually the times when we just wait for someone else to notice our predicament and offer a hand.  I call this looking for a mind reader.</p>
<p>In situations when we find ourselves hoping for someone else to save us&#8230;we are usually doing so because within that moment we are actually not capable of seeking  assistance ourselves and here is the reason why this often happens.</p>
<p><strong>Option Lock </strong></p>
<p>Option lock is a form of tunnel vision that keeps us from seeing or experiencing the various things around us that we could be paying attention to.  A good way to visualize it is to imagine someone carrying an item that is too heavy for them down the stairs.  It seemed manageable when they began, but pretty soon they are out of breath and it takes every ounce of their concentration just to maintain balance and hold themselves and the item up.</p>
<p>At this point, with all of their attention focused on maintaining their current position they are in an <strong>option lock</strong>.  Unless they remove some of their attention away from maintaining this load&#8230;they will have no other course of action available and will literally allow the situation to play out in an unconscious way as they sit down, pinned underneath the items they are carrying until they can breath again.</p>
<p>The obvious course of action to the observing bystander would be to let go.  This is not as easy as it may sound (as anyone who has learned to water ski and has been drug face first through 20 or so feet of water while relentlessly hanging on the handles will tell you <img src='http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  ).  It requires consciousness to make another choice.</p>
<p>So what happens to consciousness in situations like these?  Where does it go?</p>
<p><strong>Losing Consciousness </strong></p>
<p>Anytime it takes so much of our concentration to just be with a situation it is difficult for us to direct our consciousness.  If you think of your attention like the small beam of light that is produced by a flashlight, then consciousness would be the hand holding the light that ultimately illuminates our surroundings.  When consciousness gets stuck, it&#8217;s no longer free to move and allow us to explore new options.</p>
<p>In situations that suck up all of our internal resources, we aren&#8217;t reserving enough energy to power our consciousness&#8230;or in other words to move the light.  We are now in a mode that is similar to Star Trek&#8217;s many auxiliary power scenarios in which only the areas vital to survival are given any juice.  This process is automatically switched on and controlled but just like in the science fiction version of this scene there is always a manual over ride.  With our light stuck in the last place we left it&#8230;it can be difficult to remember that there is a way out of being on autopilot.</p>
<p><strong>Regaining Consciousness</strong></p>
<p>The first step toward regaining consciousness is always breath.  If you breathe deeply for a few moments, you will have taken some of your attention back from whatever situation was absorbing it.  This automatically releases us from autopilot and we are essentially once again free to move about the cabin!</p>
<p><strong>Conscious Prayer: Making Well-Formed Requests</strong></p>
<p>It is often at the times when we are in option lock and we loose consciousness that we need prayer the most.  Spirit can&#8217;t answer unconscious prayers&#8230;it requires our consciousness to move the energy of our prayer requests throughout the spiritual realms.  This is largely because of a little thing called free-will.</p>
<p>So as stated previously, step one is to breathe.  The next step involves a high level of personal observation.  Ask yourself, what do I want help with?  What will having this help allow me to do or have or be that&#8217;s even more important (in other words, why does it matter or what are you trying to get for yourself by making this request)?  How will I know when I&#8217;ve gotten what I have asked for?</p>
<p><strong>Mind Reading: A Violation of Free Will</strong></p>
<p>When I was a little girl, I had such a special connection with my mom that I was absolutely certain that she knew everything I was thinking.  So certain was I of this, that I began to think I no longer needed to tell her anything about what I wanted.  One day, through a great disappointment I discovered that she could not, in fact, read my mind.  My wants and ideas had become too complicated for her to anticipate and I was going to have to learn to speak up and state what I wanted.</p>
<p>I think it works with spirit similarly.  When we are in the beginning stages, what we want is usually connected to our basic needs and spirit always takes care of us in this way.  As we grow beyond basic needs however&#8230;we&#8217;ve outgrown what spirit can automatically do for us and it is time for us to start directing the resources around us so that we get exactly what we want.</p>
<p>As much as we wish that spirit would sometimes just read our minds and take over our responsibility to govern ourselves within this universe, we must understand that spirit would never do anything to impede our gifts and/or power&#8230;that is why we have free-will.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been given consciousness for a reason&#8230;it is the power and responsibility inherited to us by our Creator Source&#8230;and it is our job, here in this earth experiment to learn to use this connection to create beauty, passion, purpose and joy within our lives <img src='http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So if you catch yourself looking for a mind reader, realize quickly that the better way lies in empowering yourself instead&#8230;spirit is right there&#8230;ready, willing and waiting to fulfill your conscious requests!</p>
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		<title>Free Spirit Guide Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month, I have been fully stepping into working as a professional intuitive. The evolution has been interesting as I&#8217;ve learned to meld this work into harmonious interaction with my NLP and coaching skills. Throughout the course of this synthesis, everything within me coalesced into a deep understanding of who I and and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the last month, I have been fully stepping into working as a professional intuitive.  The evolution has been interesting as I&#8217;ve learned to meld this work into harmonious interaction with my NLP and coaching skills.  Throughout the course of this synthesis, everything within me coalesced into a deep understanding of who I and and what I am here to do.</p>
<p>With this congruency I&#8217;ve walked forward and have received more than I could have asked for in every respect.</p>
<p>I have a highly conscious friend who is fond of saying that the people you interact with will teach you what they need from you&#8230;this absolutely true!</p>
<p>In working with people, one of the things that has consistently come up is the desire to have an in-person relationship with their Spirit Guides.  However, they have no idea where to begin.</p>
<p>This is what prompted me to create a free Spirit Guide Meditation.   I wanted to offer some support to the people who order readings and so I&#8217;m happy to announce and launch the recording, here&#8230;on the blog.  Just click the graphic below and fill out the form to be emailed the meditation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.journeyinpro.com/home-2/free">Click ME:</a></p>
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<p>This meditation is designed to clean your chakra system, achieve a place of connection and openness with your guides as well as travel with the information they share and fully integrate it from the highest spiritual levels into the environmental levels of your physical experience.</p>
<p>With deep love and appreciation, I offer this to my readers, clients and to anyone seeking assistance with connecting to their guides <img src='http://www.journeyinpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Be sure to drop me a line to let me know how it is going!</p>
<p>Love and light,</p>
<p>PK</p>
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