Note:  I originally wrote this in May, 2010, and hadn't posted it on Copperstrings.  Since I wrote another post on a similar subject, I went back and decided to add this one to my Journals. Today I learned that Hollis Burns, a guy I knew in high school who was sixty-three years old died yesterday.  He had apparently played golf Sunday afternoon and gone home, and was found sitting in a chair holding a newspaper.  This guy looked healthy the last time I saw him.  He was only a year older than I.  It made me think about how little control we actually have over our lives.  We think we control things, we think we make things happen.  But do we really? How much of what we experience is beyond our influence?  Did Hollis have a fear of d...

I've been thinking about dying lately.  People in Japan are facing death as I write this.  One woman talked about her father being employed at a nuclear power plant, and he was staying to try to minimize the damage because he already knew he wasn't going to get out of there alive. Ten years ago, people in the towers in New York faced death with no recourse, and from all accounts, they bravely did everything they could. And I have clients come to me so depressed, so distraught with how things are going in their lives that they wish they could just die. I've felt that way myself.  A couple of years ago, facing my worst financial disaster, part of me just wanted to die so I wouldn't have to feel so much shame and pain. And we watch ...

I woke up this morning with an image in my head of people all around me playing a game of "Peek a boo", only they never reached the final phrase and phase of the game, which is "I see You!". They just kept covering and uncovering their eyes and saying "peek a boo."  As I thought more about it, it hit me in a profound way that most people go throughout their lives playing this form of "peek a boo". They uncover their eyes just long enough for others to have a peek at them, but then they quickly cover them up again. The eyes being the windows to the soul or the windows to who is really inside that human figure are revealed for anyone to see, but only for a moment. They are covered again before anyone can really get a good long look or be...

In a discussion with my yoga teacher yesterday, we got onto the subject of habits and how when we get too deeply ingrained in them, we lose presence. I never really thought about it that way before. In fact, as a person who trains in martial arts, we always teach about developing automatic physical responses to threats in self-defense situations. We talk a lot about self-control becoming self-mastery when you no longer have to force yourself to react in a certain way--it just comes naturally. But as I talked with my teacher yesterday, he brought up an interesting point of how many people go throughout the whole day in that state of automatic reaction. We drive to work and cannot really even recall the act of driving there--it occurred...

There is a literal race that we seem to be involved in against one another. It is the comparing, competing, contending, and striving that we do with each other on an individual and collective basis. We use personalities, actions, appearances, geographic locations, education, vocation, material goods, etc. to divide, measure, and place ourselves ahead or behind our fellow humans. It isn't the healthy competition that pushes everyone to be their best. It is the type of race that holds us back from the lives we were meant to live-both individually and collectively. We decide how successful we are, how happy we are, and even WHO we are based on the race instead of truth. Many have and will say that the race is just the way life g...

(As sent out to Kimberley Jones' LIGHT CIRCLE network  -  Visit www.lightcoaching.co.uk to join) Dear Light friends, I am happy to report that my recent trip to Cuba was ultimately an enjoyable one. I arrived in Cuba at the tail end of Hurricane Ike which was quite an experience. Once the dramatic storms left the coast of Cuba I was able to track the path of the hurricane on CNN as it tore its way through the global epicentre of the petrochemical industry in Southern Texas. As major American financial institutions collapsed by the hour it was very clear that change was upon us all.     So here we are in the middle of what the media is terming 'financial crisis' & the 'credit crunch'. It is undeniable that some ...

As an energy sensitive or 'clairsentient' you could say my life is one big energy food fight! I am bombarded by a finger buffet of energies every day. Not only do I sense the energies of person & place but I regularly receive subtle energy downloads from our collective consciousness & unconsciousness as well as finer, higher divine/cosmic downloads about life, the Universe & everything. This serves me well in my work as a healer, consciousness coach & spiritual guide as you can imagine. What this also means is that I am regularly contacted by people who think I may be interested in the latest channelled materials, newest healing modality, emerging guru, new energies or the latest intergalactic portal that has opened up. I am gratef...