Who makes the decisions about what you can or cannot have? Who’s in charge of your life? Our first, conscious, answer to that question is usually a resounding, “Me!” That’s what we want to believe. Teachers and sages have told us that our life is up to us. Spirit has told me that what we declare true is true…. if we believe it. Ah, that’s the catch. We have to believe we’re in charge of our lives in order to experience it as true.I have subscribed to that belief, but not experienced it as my ... Read Full Story

Have you asked yourself that question? Do you know who you are? Most of us have been trained to think we are something far less than what we really are. None of us were created as helpless, hopeless, sinful victims. We are the physical vehicle through which Spirit expresses and experiences life. We are in charge of our lives, imbued with the power to create them as we choose. Spirit infuses us with the power to do so and inspires our hearts to create. As we create, we experience, and the expe... Read Full Story

Are you willing to love? I don’t mean accept, tolerate, or even appreciate, but really love. It’s more than getting along with others or being kind. Its even more than wishing goodness and happiness for others. Loving requires an open heart, an unguarded heart. Love demands that we release judgment and fear, allowing ourselves to be open and vulnerable.I must confess that I’m not very good at loving. I know how to be loving towards people. I know how to do the things that love does, but my he... Read Full Story

What we don’t identify cannot be cleared or released. There are numerous clearing and releasing techniques out there and most are potentially very effective. Here’s the catch; you can only clear and release that which you have identified.Let’s take the belief in lack for example. It’s a common one that most people can relate to. We can choose and intend to clear it. We can do techniques and rituals and affirm that we are clearing it, but if we haven’t looked right at it we will still have the... Read Full Story

Forgiveness can be a tough issue, especially for those who have suffered some kind of abuse, but if we don’t forgive, we don’t heal. It’s that simple. Forgiveness is absolutely essential to our own healing, and peace.Like many people, I made the choice to forgive but didn’t really feels the effects of it. I still had resentments and anger. I used different prayers, wrote intentions, and affirmed that I was forgiving everyone. Then I discovered what was preventing what I really wanted to achie... Read Full Story

One thing I’ve learned about myself is that I need to know why. When my parents told me to do something, I wanted to know why I should do it. It wasn’t enough that they said so, I needed to know the purpose for doing something, what the goal was. Once I knew the reason, I could decide if it was something I wanted to do or not.The same thing applies when I examine my beliefs. It took a long time to be willing to look deeply into them, but I’m glad I did. All the affirmations in the world could... Read Full Story

Here are some sure-fire ways to block the manifestation of our intentions.Thinking I have to give something up to get something I want. Thinking someone else has to give me permission to have what I want. Thinking someone else has to approve what I want. Thinking someone else has to give me permission to be in charge of my life. Thinking someone else makes the decisions about my life. Thinking I have to awaken, evolve, grow, or change before I can have what I want. Thinking I have to be good ... Read Full Story

I’ve discovered a deep unconscious belief that I deserve to be punished, like a “bad” child. That was disturbing enough, but then I uncovered the way that I punish myself. As a parent, the first punishment for my kids is taking away or denying something they really want. It could be a toy, going to a friend’s house, or a privilege of some kind. My own parents have been gone for a long time, but their conditioning is alive and well in my subconscious, and in my behavior. Deep down, I still bel... Read Full Story

My name is Jacqueline. That’s how I introduce myself, sign things, and expect to be referred to. For years, I would get absolutely irate, and insulted, when someone called me Jackie. It’s not like that any more, but I still don’t like it. It makes me feel very uncomfortable, diminished.When I was a kid, everyone called me Jackie. It was when I divorced my first husband that I decided that I wanted to be called by my full name. It made me feel more grown up, and I was sick of being treated lik... Read Full Story

I’ve been working for some time to discover the root cause of the feelings I have toward my daughter, that I really don’t want to have. I realized that when my daughter is mean to my son or belittles him, it activates in me the emotional reaction from all the years of my older sister and both of my brothers being mean, cruel, and insulting to me. My daughter is not nearly as rude or mean to my son as my siblings were to me, but what I react to is not what she’s doing; it’s what my siblings di... Read Full Story