SCHIZOPHRENIA

I worked in group homes and day programs with individuals with an assortment of problems. Autism, schizophrenia, brain damage, cerebral palsy, developmental delays were a few represented. So many were wonderful people and I am grateful for the experience.

Some of the people who were diagnosed with schizophrenia had used drugs when they were younger. Many had never used drugs, but some family dynamics were strange.
The one common theme for me was that the voices these people heard always told them terrible things about themselves or others.

One client, Rose came from a family with one parent. Her father died when she was young. Rose’s mother was extremely controlling and although Rose had a good education, she really doubted herself and was guilt ridden. Her voices always told her she was in trouble, people were talking about her and jail was imminent. No matter that none of these dire (to Rose anyway) predictions came true, Rose still listened.
When the voices would be strong, I noticed a big brown, elongated shape hovering well over her head. When I told Rose that the voices lied and never told the truth, the hovering thing poured over her head towards me. It looked like something from a horror movie.
Other schizophrenics I was around had dark shapes and brown things around them.
The voices are real despite what the doctors tell these poor souls.
When I showed my clients how to surround themselves with love, the voices disappeared for awhile. If I burned sweetgrass or sage, the voices would disappear for about 24 hours.

Several years ago, I attended a special lecture on Death and Dying at the University of Guelph. The teacher was a man called Ian Currie. Ian went on to tell about the case of a client at a mental hospital. It seems that a woman, Joan had been hearing voices for some time. She told her family that a man was bothering her, always talking to her and constantly harassing her. No one else could see this man. Eventually Joan’s family took her to a psychiatrist and she was committed to an institution. Of course, Joan was on meds to silence the voices. She withdrew even more. Then Joan cut her hair really short and changed her clothing to look more like a man. She walked like a man and sat like a man, unlike her former self. The psychiatrist had Joan come in for an appointment and she sat there answering question with aggressiveness and hostility. The psychiatrist asked what happened to Joan and while questioning ‘Joan’, the doctor sent Joan white light and love. ‘Joan’ became agitated and said he didn’t want to stay in the body anyway because the woman (whose body it was) never left him alone. With that the male entity left and Joan returned.
A psychic, Helen Main told me that she died for several minutes and during that time, an angelic guide took her to a few places. One of them was a bar. She could see all the patrons of the bar drinking and hovering around the drinkers were dark spirits. When the drinkers became overcome with alcohol, the negative entities would swoop into the bodies. Then arguments and sometimes fighting followed. Heavy drinkers are often not themselves. The refrain that so many people over the years have repeatedly stated, ‘He’s a nice guy when he’s not drinking is a rather true comment.
I call these negative takeover entities ‘hitchhikers’.
Since I have also been around drug users and alcoholics, I have seen hitchhikers. My own daughter, C, told me a story about such an experience. It seems that my daughter was visiting a friend of hers who was trying to stay off drugs. My daughter had been through a drug stage and knew how dangerous crystal meth could be. C’s friend decided to call up someone to deliver what she (Kate) was trying to avoid. The dealer arrived looking scuzzy. He was the first love of my daughter’s. C was shocked to see how bad he looked and Nathan was surprised to see her there. Now C’s friend Kate and Nathan both tried to get her to do crystal meth. C decided to go to the washroom to try to clear her head and decide what to do. After she splashed cold water on her face, C looked in the mirror and saw a terrible looking apparition hanging over her head maliciously staring at her. She gasped, dried her face and hurried out of the apartment.

There needs to be a different way we deal with mental illness. All the meds in the world may block the voices for awhile, if they are lucky. Have you ever seen pictures of people who have been on meds for a few years? You’d swear they were on street drugs. Those drugs do age them. Anyway, I can’t imagine hearing voices and discovering that no one believed me. Schizophrenics are told over and over again that there are no voices, it is their imagination. I don’t think that will ever speed recovery.

This is the angelic take on schizophrenia.
Those souls who have attachments despite what ‘modern medicine’ likes to believe, are caught. This is a result of karmic control from other lives. Controlling and manipulating another through one life can cause the manipulator to be controlled by another, eventually. Most upon the earth do not give any credence to what is not seen or felt (by them). They are definitely blocked not to accept that there are things that go bump in the night.
Those diagnosed with schizophrenia suffer from having one foot in this world and one in the other. However, not all is bad because being around this balancing act helps those who are fearful, scared to realize (sometimes a small amount) that their fears are baseless. Not wanting to be in the same shoes as a schizophrenic can be an eye-opener.
All the medications in the world don’t really help because on one hand, meds can dull the voices but on the other hand, the meds can increase how much the person can hear. Just like street drugs can attract lower entities, medications can entice these same entities to stay around.

The voices are very destructive and it’s very hard not to listen when the voices are there constantly. Meds, drugs are not the answer. Perhaps, something better for the soul would be the answer. Love does indeed work. Those hangers-on operate on fear, guilt, shame and lies. Love is foreign, positive and can banish these lower entities. You must use good after bad. That is why anger does not work. Only love can clear up anger, change the energy.

Pluto

Holy Cow! Pluto has shaken up the establishment too. The secrets of the government, agencies working for the government have all found themselves naked, hiding in a towel. If what is presented on the outside is not the real deal, heads will fall and have they ever!

Remember the H1N1 fiasco? During this whole world wide sweep of fear, a former state minister from Finland stated that the vaccination was a sham. The plan from the drug companies manufactured the flu and then produced a vaccine to prevent what they unleashed. This minister clearly said that the drug companies wanted to make more money and this plan was formulated to make more. She warned that it was unsafe for young children and pregnant women.

As recently as last week, a European health organization announced an investigation into H1N1. The study will involve the collaboration between the World Health organization and the drug companies to make more money for their coffers.
There must be a fair amount of panic in the ranks.

Since Pluto rules secrets and secret organizations and Capricorn rules big businesses, this was bound to come out. The drug companies and their allies used terrorist tactics (Pluto) and are being exposed to the world. Capricorn also rules reputations, great reputations that have not been honestly earned are due for a shake-up.

Pluto in Capricorn can affect physical ailments involving sex and the spine. Issues which concern those body parts can be the tip off for you to straighten up and come clean. What is bothering you that you must talk the talk? It is a time for integrity. Judgements about others will bring in judgements about you..
In a relationship you better be the honest one, because secrets will come out. Whatever has been hidden, will be exposed. Sexual secrets will come under closer scrutiny. The only ethical way to act is from the heart.

Now Pluto is square Saturn. Saturn is the ruler of Capricorn, so it’s like a double whammy. Expect the unexpected. You must find a balance in your life by going against rules which do not agree with your heart’s reaction. Look for the good in people, especially your family. Be as honest as possible without any abrasiveness.

When the car, Saturn came out, I thought, ”Oh great! Having a Saturn in the driveway should bring in all those responsibilities to roost.” How many problems became magnified? Such a car is like having someone over your shoulder telling you to do what you need to do. Obligations involving family, marriage and work have a tendency to blossom uncomfortably. I did not want such a car.
On the negative side, Pluto represents war and endless suspicion and Saturn represents lack of love. Put the two together and they will do anything to get what they want.

As an individual being influenced by the planets, I must believe in myself which in turn allows me to believe in others. The energies of Saturn and Pluto will have a positive effect, even though I may have to try and balance duties with what is best for me. It is not as though I will escape, but following my heart is the best way to go.

The big companies and governments (Capricorn) around the world have taught anyone who works for them that the bottom line is money. No one is given a break, there is a lack of compassion in the prescribed rules. This is the time for the heartless big guys to pay the piper. As a worker in such organizations, why won’t you be the first to work with your heart? There are times in all our lives when we need a hand. Be in the moment and you will make the best decision for your future and maybe someone else’s.

When I went through my Saturn return, I decided to return to school, university to be specific. I hardly even felt the Saturn return because I was doing what I needed to do. One side effect was that I was pretty broke but happy. Check Saturn in your own chart and check transiting Saturn or do a solar return for Saturn’s placement.

PLUTO & ANGELS

Here is a reading I did for the angelic view of Pluto

We are here, yes indeed!!
The age old question of Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Libra:
One of these by itself does affect the energy of the earth and its inhabitants. However, the two of them side by side in conflict with each other produces openings and possibilities for change.

Pluto gets to the deepest part of you and roots out those things which need to be looked at. In this case, traditional ideas, beliefs and ways of doing things, if only traditional with no real use or no practical use are no good for the soul.
Saturn goes in and challenges your beliefs through day to day operations. Operating blindly and just doing what you have always been doing (blindly) will not work any more. Your passion, your heart and your soul must believe that what you are doing is good, responsible, terrific and the best you can do.

If not, problems abound. Be prepared to face challenges, as you wake up to what you are doing. Doing as a robot does is no longer useful to you or good for your soul. Actually it never was! You just allowed yourself to drift.
Rules which close you off to the real you will be exposed as the rule makers get caught breaking their own rules.

Pay attention. Be in the moment. Are you doing the best for you? If not, change it. Live, really live. These tow squared off aspects will force you to take a look at what you are doing. If you are deceiving yourself and rationalizing your behaviour, even though it is not really good for you--- be prepared to be challenged.
What is stopping you from being you? Beliefs, situations (work, relationships) etc will be easily seen as flawed. Do you do the best for you (in your heart, not ego)? Or will you carry on as before?

You decide. Things will begin to get even rockier if you don’t look at why the upset or why is this happening?

We love you. Face the challenges. Be the authentic you, in the now. Listen to your heart and act on it.

Thank you angels

Reiki

I am not a reiki master, but when of my friends, Gloria was. She did what she could to get me to learn how to reiki. Gloria arranged for me to take reiki in Edmonton for a special deal. Reiki is rather expensive to learn. So I was able to do a swap, a bunch of astrology charts for the reiki teacher. I cast charts for her whole family.

The main thing is that when I put my hands on someone for the purpose of reiki, I must keep my fingers closed. The second thing I must do is during my whole session is keep at least one hand on the person I am reiking. When I re-position my hands, this is important to remember. The last thing I do is to white light myself and picture energy pouring in through my head down into my arms. Then I concentrate on saying (in my mind) “I am reiking so and so.”

This is a simple version. I can’t wear anything warm because I’ll soon be peeling off a sweater or hoodie. I get so hot and even the person I work on will say that my hands feel hot. I have taught my children to reiki as well as the children of friends.

A few years ago, my sister was visiting. It was early Saturday morning and I was up with my younger children and my sister’s son who was about 7 years of age. My sister was still asleep. After breakfast, little Jared was quite sick. After I cleaned him up, I sat on the couch while we watched ‘Nightmare before Christmas.’ I held him and reikied him for at least 45 minutes. By the time my sister woke up a few hours later, Jared was completely better and back to his old self.

Not convinced, try this one on for size. Several years ago, an ex client of mine almost lost her child. My client, Leila and her two little girls went to Leila’s girl friend’s for the night. Leila lived with her dad and probably needed a break. Anyway the weather was bitterly cold, being the middle of February and about -30C. Leila was sleeping on the couch but woke up in the middle of the night to discover that 1year old Erica was not sleeping next to her. Leila ran around looking for the toddler and discovered the kitchen door was ajar. Panicking, she opened the door and stepped outside. There was a path in the deep snow to the back yard. Erika was lying in the yard.

Leila picked the cold baby up, sobbing as she hurried back into the house. She wrapped a blanket around Erica as she cried and rocked the frozen baby. The ambulance came and took mother and child to Sick Children’s Hospital. Erica had been dead about two hours but somehow came back to life.

Now I rarely read a newspaper or watch the news because the concentration on the negative is too much for me, It took three days for me to hear about little Erica.
Anyway, I went to the hospital and there was Leila at the front door using a pay phone. We went up to Erica’s room where she was asleep in a crib. Erica’s legs were bandaged from the tips of her toes to her knees. Even her arms and hands were completely covered with bandages as well.

Leila asked if I minded staying while she and her friend went down for a bite to eat.

The doctors were convinced that Erica would probably lose a foot or hand, at the very least some fingers and toes. This is what Leila stated.

I spent 45 minutes reiking the sleeping baby’s legs, feet, arms and hands. When Leila returned she told me about a phone call her father received from a Reiki group in the U.S. This group asked if it was alright if they used long distance healing on Erica. Leila said she did not see a problem with that.

Within a week of Erica’s ordeal, a child in Saskatchewan wandered outside in the middle of the night. This little child was several years older than Erica but ended up having some amputations due to the extreme cold. Erica lost nothing. She remained completely intact.

ELECTRICITY

We all have electrical current running through our bodies, but being exposed to too much can be a bad thing.
One of my sons is an electrician who was a little Tom Sawyer when he was a child. He was the only one of my children who repeatedly put knives in the sockets, despite getting a shock. When he told me what he wanted to do for a living, I was worried. My son had a great apprenticeship set up to work with high power lines in Calgary. At the last minute, he backed out.
He told me that he had heard so many horror stories about other electricians getting fried or at the very least hurt. Knowing that his attention often wandered, my boy did the best thing for himself, he decided to go the business and residential route to become an electrician, not the high power line route.
Since then, my electrician son has returned to school to get a diploma in instrumentation. What convinced him, among other things, was how electrical power was affecting him. There were times when he had to go to sub stations. Those little cement buildings surrounded by chain fences with barbed wire at the top. Anyway, when my son would get out of his vehicle at these stations, he could feel the hair on his head stand on end as well as all the hair on his arms and legs. I quote him now, “I felt as though my DNA was changing.”

There are a couple of subdivisions that I drive through every day that have huge electrical triangular towers positioned in a long strung out line. These towers are close to some of the houses and I wonder how the nearby residents will be affected.

I grew up in Toronto. One of my best friends lived in a new subdivision (at that time) called Bridlewood. Across from her house was an open field with a long line of these towers. The towers ran through the middle of Bridlewood. A few years back, a study was done and it was discovered that the residents of Bridlewood had the highest incidence of leukemia in Canada.

My son, the electrician will not even consider buying a house near power lines. Just recently, an Alberta power company managed to push through their agenda for these same towers to be built close to a large residential area. The government backed the power company despite tremendous protests from the residents. How do these people sleep at night?

Angel Reading- Haiti

Yesterday, I woke up feeling depressed, sad and isolated. These are not my usual feelings, so I did a meditation to clarify my little state of mind. The following is part of what the angels told me.

“We are here. The heaviness you feel today is the grief from the survivors of the Haiti earthquakes. Send love to them and to every student you see today……………..

Love is all there is, joking, laughing and loving are the best antidotes for problems….
Attitudes need to be changed for a situation to change. LOVE needs to be infused into a situation for a positive change or reaction. Negative brings negative. Stay in love and laughter.”

All day yesterday, I thought about the fact that I was feeling some sense of despair in the morning. Sending love stopped me from feeling negatively overwhelmed. So this morning, I decided to do another reading on how we affect each other.

We are here. Yes indeed because we are all one, sharing one energy, yet encased in separate outer shells---energy is shared!
An outpouring of grief or love can affect a passerby. But a shared outpouring of grief of thousands and thousands of souls affects other thousands and thousands of souls.
This is a great example of why love is needed so badly. The love you give or send to one not only gets passed on but affects someone not even remotely near you. An outpouring of grief half a world away touches you (and millions of others). An outpouring of love half a world away can do the same.

The way the tsunami affected lives in Indonesia, also touched lives living no where near. The outpouring of love to that area and the victims changed the state of the world if even for a short time. Love is what this planet needs. Love is what Haiti is receiving. So many from so far are touched by the Haitian plight.

You must be more than aware in daily life. Being positive, being receptive and being loving towards another affects much more than you and one other. Send love to Haiti—to your neighbour, to that stranger, to that person in the next car etc. You are all connected. The wind, the rain, the snow are all connected to the energy you all share. Be grateful, cut back on anger. Don’t add to someone else’s anger far away or near.
Love is really what connects each of you. Love is what counts. Love is what heals.
Love, send it, be it.

Thank you angels

Angel Reading - Love and Laughter

Love and laughter are good things to include in your day, good things to concentrate on. We love you and wish to encourage you to continue in this way. See the good. See the funny each and every day, because everything else will still be there and magnified by the media and those who are in fear.
But don’t you magnify the unhealthy! Whatever you concentrate on, you magnify and draw closer. The fear mongers who run things know this truth. Most people blindly follow without much thought running with fear, carrying it with them daily, hourly and by the minute.

Think love and laughter. Life should be lived and enjoyed, not feared and hidden.
Notice suspicious people end up alone, as though their paranoia is contagious. It is. Eventually, so many choose to avoid the very suspicious.
Now notice those who are happy. They are surrounded by souls who enjoy the energy. They would not phrase it that way, but it is true.

Misery loves company but no one likes miserable company. Laugh and you will increase the company you keep. Humans gravitate to those who are positive and joyful--------for good reason!! Their spirits are uplifted and the feeling gets passed on,

Which are you? We love you. Keep up the good energy. Laugh and you will never be alone. Enjoy life and you will have opportunities to share with others. Appreciate the gifts that come along and you will be rich.

A rich person is one who is loved, not wealthy with money, wealthy with love. Love is the best, the best antidote for what ails you!
Live, love, laugh!

How I Stop My Cold

A cold or infection is a sign to slow down. In this age, we are so very busy, with work, children, activities, relationships and of course technology. We need time to think and realize out priorities for ourselves. A slight illness forces us to think of little else than how we feel. The focus becomes the cold. With this can come epiphanies about different parts of our lives, if we listen.
I had a very bad respiratory infection a few years ago when I realized that I resented the way I was allowing myself to be treated. This illness with all my coughing and laboured breathing forced me to look at why I was having trouble breathing. Some of my close relationships were robbing me of breath. I was so used to dealing with negative and controlling individuals that I just did. Did I need this? Of course not, so I changed what I did not like. I certainly don’t attract as many any more which is great. I promised myself not to be controlling, the fallout is not positive.

During this time I had had a conversation with my herbalist sister who told me how to cut down on the coughing. I was coughing so hard, that I had to run to the washroom each time so as not to pee my pants.
Turn off the heat and let sit for a few minutes. Place the sliced onion on your upper chest, over your lungs. Wrap a towel around you to hold the onions in place and keep them on for an hour. I also reikied
myself over the onions to speed my recovery. The hard coughing stopped that day and no more running to the bathroom!!! I still coughed, but it was milder.

If I feel a cold coming on, I will drink lots and lots of water, at least 2 litres immediately and 4 or 5 through the day. The water helps me breathe. I hate to go to bed at night and discover that as soon as I lie down, my nose is clogged. The water is a godsend.

In yoga, shoulder stands really help to keep the head clear.
Also this great little yoga breathing exercise will clear the nose.
Put your finger against the right side of your nose and breathe deeply through the left. Exhale through the left side only. Do this three times.
Repeat with your finger against the left side of your nose and breathe through only the right side. Exhale through the right and repeat three times.
Even if you don’t have a cold this can really clear the head.

Reiki is also a terrific way of healing yourself and others. I used reiki on a woman who had terrible pain in her jaw from having some wisdom teeth removed.
Another time, I was in a bar with my friends when one of them said she had a bad headache. The bar was loud and the band had begun to play. I stood up and reikied my friend’s head until she said it was gone. By the way water works really well on headaches. Don’t just drink one glass, but at least 5 or 6 right away. A headache is often a sign of dehydration.
I have used reiki on my children when they were sick with very quick results.

A mustard bath is really a great way to go too. Pour two large tablespoons of dry mustard into a bath. This will help increase your circulation which in turn will help your immune system.

Garlic is great to boost your immune system. Eat one clove of garlic with a piece of bread. Dab the bread into some sour cream. Take a bite of garlic and a bite of bread. Try to make it organic if possible, that garlic is really full of nutrients.

Using liquid echinecea, squeeze about 7 drops under your tongue every half hour. Again, try to buy organic if possible. A friend of mine noticed his great dane was getting sick. Bruce put echinecea in his water. The next day, the dog was noticeably better. It took two days for the dog to be himself again.

To do the right thing or not?

Several years ago, I was working as a support worker with an agency in Edmonton. I had clients, mothers, families with addiction, abuse, parenting, relationship problems. My job was to stabilize the family as much as possible. One client had been reunited with her children and was doing her best to stay sober despite some negative relationship difficulties. Joan had done really well, staying sober, returning to school, and taking care of her 4 children. We had been working together for about 4 months. Some of those close to her did not have her best interests at heart and wished to see her fail.
There was an episode where I had visited her when she had been drinking. This was the first time in 4 months.
Her sister was terribly drunk and had brought the alcohol to my Joan’s house. I looked after everything and I struggled with telling the social worker. However, I did. The worker Teresa, by name wanted to apprehend the children but wanted to cover her ass first. Two weeks with Teresa calling me, my supervisor, having meetings with her supervisor until finally it culminated with a conference with my client’s therapist.
The therapist watched me, I knew she was choosing her words carefully, but I could feel that she really wasn’t as supportive as my client thought. A day later, my supervisor paged me to say my client’s children would be taken. What the therapist had told Teresa without me had sealed the deal. I then called Teresa , the social worker, and discovered she was now operating without a heart. She was absolutely going to grab the children.

I spent all afternoon going over what I needed to do. I waited outside my client’s house until she returned from school. I told her what could be done to help her. Everything was set up for her and her mother to go to court the following morning.
The following day, her mother applied for a guardianship order and received it. When the social worker arrived with the police that day to take the children from my client, they were not there. My client’s mother had them at her house. Nothing could be done to remove the children now.
The social worker must have been angry because I was pulled from working with that client and a new worker was sent in. I didn’t care, in fact, I remember laughing when I was told by my supervisor. A year or two later, my supervisor ran into that client who expressed her gratitude for not losing her children.
I had lots of clients and I spent a great deal of time advocating for them. However, there were a few clients that I knew were incapable of looking after their children, due to being FAS, abusive or addictive or both. I always tried to follow my heart and do what my heart felt needed to be done.
When I acted heartlessly, I regretted my actions. When I operated from my heart and broke the rules, it became easier the next time to repeat my actions and not regret them.
When I was going through this, deciding to help my client, I was excited and scared because I thought I was going to get fired. That was the worst that could happen. I would not be hung or shot or burned at the stake. Why was I so afraid to do the right thing? I was afraid of the disapproval. Why did I care what other people thought? This was hard to do, but I was compelled. I was so excited that I could NOT do anything else but help Joan. I still waited with bated breath to hear what else would happen. Believe me though I felt nervous. Today, I am so glad that I did what I did.

Angel Reading

We are here
Love is the key. Send it constantly, just love.

Being yourself requires courage, courage to go against the ideas and rules of others. Common sense rules are not a problem. The rules that most corporations have in place, put the employees in a position of closing their hearts.

Big business often renders the employees heartless. Look at the government offices, everywhere, in many countries, staff are trained to be cold and heartless. Talk to a representative on the phone of a gas, oil or water company, the reps are very black and white.\
If you, as a person, does not give another a chance, you will lack opportunities and find yourself dealing with cold fish. People are not robots, yet large companies and those who wish to be large are told not to give, but to get the most out of a client and not to give in. There’s never a mention about being human.
Large firms have decided and have set a course for their employees who wish to get ahead, they must display heartlessness. Of course, logical words are used to explain the behaviour expected. A missing body-part-person is not fun to deal with.
Someone who acts heartless day in and day out will soon find himself needing a real heart. Those heartless actions render the physical heart in-operative and hence useless.

The rule of thumb would be to follow your intuition, but listen to your heart and do the right thing. Doing the right thing may require great courage, but will leave you free from guilt and shame. Guilt and shame get buried in the body to cause physical problems such as cancer.
If you know a certain action will cause you to help another who needs the help, but you could get into a serious situation due to rules at your work, (that’s usually what it is, work rules), the result can be an upheaval in your life, disapproval. Your choice, go with your heart or your heartless head. Get the two to agree, heart and head. If you can’t, the best choice for you would be to with your heart., despite initial repercussions.

So much training for so, so long that humans have been scared to be human. When another is given an opportunity, he will always remember how the rules were broken for him and pass it on.

Fearless, that word covered T-shirts, many T-shirts. It doesn’t mean physical courage, but emotional courage. So many people have become isolated in their own world with phones, computers and i-pods. This isolation allows for much more coldness between souls. It’s easy to become hurtful and rude if you don’t have to face the person.

Be conscious of kindness. It never hurts to be kind. The world would be a better place with more kindness, more thoughtfulness and more love (of course).
Think about being you. Not the trained you, the REAL you. You know what your duties as an employee are, now put the real heart you into your daily activities. Send love when unsure about what to do. Feel how you feel. Would you like a chance or a break if you were in that someone’s shoes? Or would you like the door slammed in your face?

Love, kindness, humour and thoughtfulness are wonderful ways to deal with each other. Take love and kindness out of whatever role you are in and trouble will follow. You may rationalize and say to yourself. “but I am only following the rules”.
Do the rules feel right to you or true to you? Some rules are meant to be broken, relationships and people count. Food for thought!!!!!!!!

We love you all so much for all your courage in this place.

Judgements

We are here and happy to be here, all ways, always. Be in the moment as much as possible. Negative judgements rarely manifest when in the moment. Racing ahead or allowing the past to spring forward can bring on a judgemental attitude, difficult not to have with some souls. Other souls who have limited their attitudes and platitudes to that of a judgemental nature grew those very attitudes from others towards themselves. What is given out is returned ( not always from the same source).
So the attitude of judgement is so strong that others around get drawn in to judge. This is hard to avoid. It is necessary to be in the moment to get the best of the moment.
Life can be fun, boring, exciting , harsh; name any adjective, noun or verb. It’s what you think it is and what you believe it is that will come to pass.
So, negative views become reinforced just as positive views do. Which view do you want? What are you going to project? A fun, cheerful, positive, shine on life or a hostile negative take on life. Negative people attract each other. After all that’s what they expect, other people to be bitter, hostile or cynical.
Positive people are often seen as flaky, scattered rather than positive. Of course, guess who judges that? Whatever your view is, becomes reinforced. What you believe is thrown back at you.

Do you believe that people are good, kind, thoughtful or helpful? Then your experiences will draw you to those very people. As you hand out kindness, thoughtfulness and openness, it returns to you.
Or do you believe that most people have little if any redeeming qualities? Expect the worst and get it returned! Ooh! This is not a great way to live, not really living, maybe just existing.
Also those less fortunate should not be there for derisive comments and judgements. They are there to increase your compassion and open heartedness. ( The homeless popped into my head.)

Judgements do not allow for compassion. Judgements are assumptions that are restrictive. Do not expect a change (for the good) in a relationship with judgements or a judgemental attitude. How can things change when judgements from the past interfere with the present?
See each moment as a gift, an opportunity, the possibility for growth, love, kindness and humour. It is never too late to give another a chance. Everyone needs an opportunity, a chance to bring out the best.

We love you all so Much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judgements

Whew! I got it! I just finished the angel reading on judgements, had a shower and began my yoga, when I recognized me in the reading. Judgements attract judgements, intolerance attracts more intolerance.
I discovered that the people I was judgemental about were very judgemental people and I was judgemental about their intolerance and judgements. Most people I run into are kind, nice people and I have a hard time with attitudes of others who see people as miserable and not nice. I need to watch my own judgements and be more compassionate if I have an opportunity to be around such souls.
I also see that being judgemental with a few causes a few to really be judgemental with me and I’m talking about people close to me. Whew!!! It all comes back to me, all the kindnesses and unkindnesses. Whoever I give it out to, doesn’t necessarily give it back to me. BUT I do get it back. What I say to anyone may not make a difference, but how I say it can stay for a long time.
A few years ago, my son, his children, wife and her mother came to Canada, from England. There was a family reunion in Osoyoos, British Columbia where my mother lives. Some of my children were there, a sister and a brother and many nieces and nephews. There were about thirty of us. My sister had planned a secret birthday celebration, not just a family get together. We stayed in motels on the beach, sea-dooed, swam, did some boating and tubing. We included my mother and she would be brought from her home to join us. We ate together, drank together and talked and laughed a whole lot. It was great fun and terribly thoughtful of my sister to do this and I was thrilled and flattered.
In all of this, I remember looking up to see Anne’s eyes staring at me. Anne was my son’s mother-in-law. On the beach, at the picnic table, anywhere I was, there was Anne staring. She never smiled, just stared. I attempted to talk to her a few times, but she only made small tight comments. If other people were around, she was much more animated.

When the gathering broke up, my son decided that we should travel to as many hot springs as possible for his English wife and mother. My daughter and I travelled in our van while my son, children, wife and mother-in-law drove with him in his rented van.
We stayed at motels in the mountains and sat in pools of springs in the mountains. One hot spring included the caves from which the hot water poured into a man made pool. My daughter and I walked and pushed our way through waist deep water into the caves while the water grew hotter and hotter. Sitting in all these natural and man made pools, the views were beautiful. Mountains and rivers and forests, they took my breath away.
Through all this, I could feel the tension and Anne’s eyes boring into me. Finally, we were a day or two from Edmonton and we found a gorgeous lake in the mountains bordered on all sides with mountains. Anne and I were left on the beach while the rest of the gang went in the water. We sat on a bench and Anne turned to me and ranted about bad psychic things were. No one should believe in anything like that, for you would only be let down. Anne worked herself into such a state that little bits of spit had gathered on her bottom lip. Was she angry! Holy! I didn’t say much except that when people are being helped, there is no bad.
After that moment, I really avoided Anne. I left the bench and sat on a tree stump and watched my children and grandchildren play. At this point, we had been together for just over a week. Edmonton was a short time away, when Anne would be staying in my house for three more weeks.
When my son and daughter left for any errand, Anne would snap at me. In front of them, she was a little friendly but still stared. When the children needed attention, she took over. If the baby was left and cried , I would offer to take her. Anne would snap at me, ‘No I’ll take of her. I’ve had three children.”
She said that a few times, meanwhile I had six children. One time
, it took Anne at least 20 minutes to stop the baby from crying, The baby fell asleep for about 20 minutes, woke up and cried for a good half hour. I offered to help and made suggestions but the crying went on and on. My help was refused with a sneer but when my son and daughter-in-law came home, Anne cornered her daughter away from my son and me. Poor Michelle stood there while her mother vented about how much she had to do.
Anyway three weeks of this, some racism thrown in and my ex-husband had a surprise party for me at a restaurant. When my son and his party showed up for dinner, they had already eaten. The rest of the party was festive as Anne stared and stared.
I should have realized how wounded she was and I do think I would handle it differently now. I don’t think poor Anne is well-liked in her own family. I think she would like to be liked and definitely loved. Hostility does not make friends. All I was doing was trying to avoid an argument so that my son and his wife would stay. I should have been more proactive, more compassionate. I need to be less judgemental and more tolerant, otherwise all I become is the person I dislike. There’s that old saying,’ if you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.’
This reading poked my eyes open. I just need to be what I believe.

Opportunities

Opportunities are everywhere --- every time---every minute!!! You just have to look to see. Relationships can teach much to you about yourself. Do you want the best to come out of each relationship or the worst? Your choice. If you are choosing those who bring out the worst in you, ask why? Do you still need those experiences or do you get it?
You must be love. Talk with love in all that you do to get the best out of each relationship. There are moments of tenderness when the façade comes down. Talking from the heart is the deal and you could start. When two people talk from their hearts and say how they feel, moments happen. Good stuff is really important to concentrate on.

Most concentrate on what is wrong with the life or the other person. See what is good. Speak openly with the heart. You will never regret being honest, heart honest.

Sometimes honesty is really a cover for rudeness or cruelty. If you speak from your heart---this is the real honest. There will be nothing cruel about this. Women fall in love in relationships with the male exposing his heart. That is what attracts. If the male closes off, eventually the female will too. However, that goes with all relationships. Life is not really lived and rarely experienced as joyful without the heart being opened.

How can your life change for the good? Talk from the heart. It doesn’t all have to be serious, just heart honest. Enjoy the moments. Don’t race ahead. See the good in another. Do something kind and often, even for total strangers. That helps open the heart. Pay attention to your children. They are open until they feel compelled to close themselves off.
Children who have so-called disabilities rarely have closed hearts. They are just themselves and don’t care if anyone sees them dancing, laughing or just being joyful. They are there to remind you to be yourself and to appreciate life.
Be glad you are alive. The heart is the soul of your being. Speak from your heart, your life will change forever and what a life you will have!!!! What a life?!!!!