How did my Manifesting go?

Well, I can honestly say that for the last few weeks my traffic nightmare has changed to ordinary traffic, with less distracted drivers and fewer red lights.  Now, I know what you are thinking “How do you know that your attitude didn’t change or something?”

Well the answer to that is maybe my attitude did change. I expected to have better traffic, so I had better traffic.  There is a lot of truth in that, though it appeared to me that there were less traffic violations and more green lights.  I did not change my driving start times or route, I travelled the way I normally travel to and from work. This is not to say that every commute was fantastic, a few were crowded and full of red lights; but for the most part it has been much better. So for me, this manifestation been proving a success. With the better traffic I feel much better by the time I get to either work or home.  Though I am still manifesting even better traffic, so we won’t call this one complete.  I will let you know my traffic experience improves even more.

So that was a fairly straight forward manifestation.  What should I manifest next? Well I could really use a new pair of boots, actually.  It was raining here in the desert today and by the third puddle I walked through, I realized it was time to get a pair of boots.  My tastes run to expensive footwear and my budget it tight.   My next blog entry will be about manifesting a new pair of expensive boots for a minimal amount of money.

Stay tuned….  (do you hear “These Boots are made for Walking” in the background)…

Manifesting my way. Or, can I manifest things in 10 minutes a day)

As stated in a previous blog entry, I am starting this series of posts about Manifestation. Some of you might have watched the movie “the Secret” or may have read one of the numerous books about the Law of Attraction or Manifestation.  I have seen the movie and read a couple of books on the subject. The basic premise of manifestation is that you:

1. Ask for what you want
2. Believe that you will get what you want
3. Receive what you want

I have met a number of people that say, “Hey I did all of that and I got zip, nada the big zero”.  Other people have told me, “It takes too much time to do that stuff”, “I’m not going to stand in front of a mirror and say affirmations every day”.  So I thought well let’s see if we can come up with a 10 minute a day plan to do some basic manifestation.

There are numerous tools for manifestation: vision boards, affirmations, writing your desire daily, etc. These are a number of wonderful tools and suggestions and they all work.  We will experiment with some of these tools in later posts; for this one, we are going to stick to the basics.

So here goes, the first thing I am going to manifest is something that will make my day more enjoyable and less stressful….. Yes, you have guessed it – BETTER TRAFFIC!!!!   I could rant for days on the traffic here in Vegas, but I have touched on that in a previous blog post so check them out (oooh, that was blatant self promotion – way to go, JL).

So step one. Ask for what you want. Now as I have read a few books on the subject, the idea is to be very specific about what it is you are asking for.  So here is what I am asking for.  ”I want to experience green lights, mostly courteous drivers, and good traffic flow on my way to and from work”.

Step two.  Believe what you are asking for will occur. Now here is where it actually gets tricky.  This is why I put in my desire  ”mostly courteous drivers”, because for me, it is not believable that every driver will be courteous, follow most of the traffic laws, etc.  However, I can believe that most of the drivers I will be fairly decent and just want to get where they are going, like I do.

Step three. Receive your result. Yes, good traffic and a nice peaceful commute.  I will let you know how it goes.

Now here is my ACTION plan.  I believe that for the manifestation process you have to take action sometimes.  So for this week my action will be as follows.  Prior to getting in the car I will believe that I have good traffic all the way to/from work.  That is it.  Less then 10 minutes a day really.  I will faithfully report the results.

Then we will move on to bigger and better things, though, I have to say a week of good traffic will go a long way towards making my days seem lighter.  I know that was lame, but I will try other things, a free lunch? new Cartier panther sunglasses? more money? I will try as many of the different techniques as I can and let everyone know what works for and what didn’t.  I figure with all of the options, somethings probably work better for me then others.

Here’s to a peaceful traffic week.

Back to posting

I am going to be doing a series about manifestation.  i.e. the Law of Attraction.  You may have heard of it from the movie “the Secret” or from reading various books by Esther and Jerry Hicks or any number of wonderful authors out there.

There are a number of people who have applied the process and have had great success, according to the books.  So… hang on to your knickers, I am going to do a series of posting about the process of manifesting, as I have come to understand it.

Every week I will post blurb about the process, as I understand it.  How I applied it and whether I am noticing any results or lack of results.  So stay tuned.

Vibrations, Vibes, just a weird feeling

One of the things about being psychic is learning about vibrational energy.  You know vibes.  We’ve all felt them, commented on them, hell the Beach Boys even wrote a song about them (Good Vibrations).

We have all felt the vibes of a place.  You know, come on admit it.  You go to your favorite watering hole, coffee shop, beach, park, you name it because you like it better then some other watering hole, coffee shop, beach, park, etc. Why? Well our preferences just feel better (“we just like it better”).  Two places can be amazingly similar, offer the same product (say coffee) with the myriad of drink combinations (who knew?); but more then likely if you hang out in one on a regular basis, it is because it just feels better to you when you walk in that one over a different one. Now if your spouse, friend, lover, whatever likes the other shop better, what do you do?  I have no clue; I am psychic not a relationship expert, hence my single status.  We all resonate with different places differently from the next person.  So what does that have to do with being psychic? Read on.

Well, now that I am embracing being psychic, I am sure noticing them a lot more then I used to notice them.  I always felt the vibrations of others  and would often become uncomfortable in large groups of people.  Now originally I passed this off as just being shy and therefore being nervous around people to begin with.  Now though I realize that I am just more sensitive to the mood of the room then the average person.

These vibes indicate to me whether a person is agitated, happy, angry, sick or even alive. Yes the vibrations from the dead feel different to me then people who are alive. Plus there is the tell tale sign that if they are alive you probably can see them, though you may not want to. Wink, wink. I am sure most people reading this (I think there might be 3 or 4 readers) have known whether it was a good crowd or not by walking into a club, meeting, or just lunch.

This is just one of the things I have had to learn to work with.  When practicing reading people, I have to make sure that my vibe doesn’t interfere with their vibe so that I can do the most accurate reading possible.  What makes this possible is meditation.

Ah, see there I go I slipped it into the conversation again. I am sneaky that way. Yes meditation, I have to center myself and make sure that if I am feeling any anxiety, anger, frustration, joy, bliss that I know exactly what it is.  Otherwise, it can effect my reading of the situation, whether I am trying to read my own personal situation or someone else’s.

OK, so what does all of that have to do with the price of tea in China?  Well nothing really. I was just acting on a vibe to write about vibes.

Now What? Meditation

So, from the last entry you know I am studying how to utilize my psychic abilities and to some extent my ability as a medium.   I have absolutely no idea where this will take me, only that I know it is what I have to do. So great, I have the knowledge that this is what I am supposed to do, so what now?

While I have known that I was supposed to be a psychic/medium for a while, I have been avoiding it because of the reasons stated in my prior blog post.  Still feeling a little strange about the whole thing, but I have accepted that this is who I am.  So great, exactly how to do I go about this, I thought.  Well the first thing I had to learn was……. how to meditate.

That’s right meditation, that was the very first thing I learned.  Now, as someone who cannot sit still for 5 minutes let alone a half hour or more, this has been no easy task.  For me this has been the hardest part of the process.  After all, you have to sit still, breathe and empty your mind and pay attention to your breathing, it is just not as easy as it sounds. As far as emptying your mind goes, it is amazing how many little thoughts flow through your head when you begin to meditate.

Example:  Relax, breathe  and “did I take the recycle out tonight”, “wish I had been able to fix that problem at work”, “wonder where the cat is?”, “Hmm, is there any sorbet left?”, “Have I made the car payment?”,  ”hmm, I am thirsty – maybe I need some water”. Oh, the list is endless and just about as mind numbing as that.

Once past that, then for me….the fidgeting begins.  This is another stall tactic when I am having problems meditating,  I just cannot sit still.  I will sit still for a few minutes, then my foot, leg, head, arm, back or nose will itch. This will be followed by moving around to get comfortable, sitting (in a chair, on the floor or on the bed), feet on the floor, cross legged, legs out straight.  When that doesn’t work as a last resort, I will lie down.  I don’t like to meditate lying down.  Why, because that will bring about ….. sleep for sure.  Once I am horizontal for about 10 minutes and I am totally into the process I get relaxed, too relaxed and then …. snooze.

Yes, some days it is a little comedy routine I have going here.  Once I get past all of that and am sitting and really getting into the breathing and letting go of the thoughts as soon as they roll through my head, meditation is really great.  It is at this point, that you can get in touch with your inner self, your spirit, your guides, etc.

Initially there is a lot of inner work going on here.  Every issue that you have been carrying since you were…well born.. is sure to come up while doing some of the meditation work.  It is better then therapy.  Well for me it is my therapy.  After doing this for going on 6 or 7 months now, I can honestly say that I am a lot calmer about things in general.  Things that used to get me torqued on a regular basis (for me the number 1 thing that can get me irritated is traffic),  almost never get a rise out of me.

The process of meditation forces you to slow down and just be for the 15 minutes to 1 hour and just be really who you are.  It is probably the best way to get to know yourself and gain a different perspective on your day to day life.  For this reason, I highly recommend meditation to everyone.  Whether you are trying to discover yourself or not, it is just a good way of relaxing and reducing the stressed out feeling we all get in our day to day lives.

Anyway, I am a much more peaceful person these days.  Make no mistake though I still have issues that come up during meditation that can sometimes take me quite a while to work through. It can take days and weeks to sort through why certain emotions, memories, feelings arise during a meditation session.  For instance, this whole owning up to being a psychic/medium and feeling fear, dread, uncertainty, and great now people will think I am more weird, has taken me about 3 weeks to work through.

At no point during those 3 weeks did I think about giving up.  Oh, I thought about it, but never really seriously. I think sometimes you get these challenges to see how dedicated you are to following your true calling.  Meditating during those weeks was especially hard, because my subconscious was OK with the status quo. I understood my place in the world, it was comfortable.  Not great, not bad but not great either.  Changing the way you think about things and even yourself is never an easy process.  For me it took three weeks and I am looking forward to great appearing in my future.  Actually, I feel pretty great now.

Right now though, I am enjoying the whole process and embracing each challenge as an adventure to experience and learn from.  So give meditation a try, you just might like it. No you don’t have to say OM during your meditation, unless you really want to. I keep silent myself.  Which reminds me, it is now time for me to go meditate.  OM….LOL

Learning about myself

You may wonder, how can she not know who she is?  Well, all I can say is that for a long time I identified myself by who my friends were, where I worked, what I did for work, who I dated or who I chose not to date. Being the shy person that I was at the time (you can read about that in an earlier blog posting), I tried to fit into whatever crowd I was around, even if I didn’t really want to be there.  Basically, you could say that I was acting my way through my life, rather then just living my life in an authentic way.

By now you are probably thinking, if I was acting my way through life wasn’t I by definition living a life?  The answer to that question is yes. Since I defined who I was by all of these outside influences, I just got further and further away from a big part of who I really am, which is a psychic and medium.

I had my first psychic or really medium experience when I was a kid running through the woods and seeing an old man on a horse watch out for me.  I knew he and the horse were ghosts, but oddly I wasn’t afraid.  I just knew that I would always find my way home.  I learned later on by looking at an old family album that the man was my great-grandfather.  How totally cool was that?  Also, as a child, I would just know things or I would know things were going to happen.  I used to experience deja vu almost every day.  I would see something on the news and thought that it was being repeated from weeks before or thinking that I must have heard that story from a friend or family member prior to them actually telling me.  As I got older and farther away from myself, these experiences lessened but never went away completely.

I would know which way I should go when making decisions, but very often I took the exact opposite approach.  Why?  Oh, who knows.  I just felt that I couldn’t trust my gut as the saying goes.  So as I got further away from this part of myself, I stopped receiving information (not like I was listening anyway) and just went through life.  The one thing I never could turn off was feeling other people’s emotions even when from outwardly appearance and actions you couldn’t tell what that person was feeling. This would have been handy if I had really paid attention to it, but again I ignored this part of me, listening to what friends and family would say.  Every so often I would abide by this emotional information I was picking up on, but more often then not I ignored it.

So why am I talking about this now?  Well it is a blog and I have to write about something, LOL.  Seriously, last summer I had an experience where I was basically downloading a whole bunch of psychic energy from different people – quite unexpectedly – and feeling like I was about ready to jump out of my skin.  Being the ever resourceful person, I searched the internet and found some information about psychic energy.  Reading this explained what happened and as I read various articles, I came to understand that I have been feeling energies all of my life. From there I was drawn to a meditation class that explored psychic or intuitive discovery and this was the beginning of my transformation from a shy, pitifully so, to a more confident person who is not afraid to admit that she is a psychic/medium.

Why was I afraid?  Well, I had a notion of how I would be perceived as a psychic/medium and to my mind it wasn’t necessarily good.  Which is weird, even for me, because I have always been drawn to those people and have never found them to be anything but nice and accepting.  Once, I realized this I did some meditative work to help with that and part of it (at the suggestion of my fabulous coach) is to own up to my psychic/medium abilities to people that I meet. This is the reason for this post.  It used to be scary for me to just write this blog, now I love writing it, so what the Hell I am a psychic/medium world so you will have to deal with it. LOL

The process is just that a process, every day I learn more things about myself and what drove me in the past to make the choices I made.  Again, I take ownership of all of the choices I have made both the ones that could be considered good and the ones the generated painful learning experiences. It is amazing how the whole shyness part of me has effected my life and indeed has proven to be some of the hardest thoughts/feelings/energies to remove.  It is a little like going through some self therapy, you work on one issue at a time as it comes up and move on to bigger and better things. I am grateful for the experience though, because I know that I am emotionally, spiritually, mentally in a much better space that allows me to grow and explore.

Hence, the reason that the writer’s block that used to have has been eliminated.  Oh sure there are still times when I don’t feel like writing, but it is no longer a paralyzing thing where I just couldn’t get anything written.  Now, I can’t wait to get some writing done, though sometimes I must admit that following friends on FaceBook or reading a book or playing a computer game does win out over writing.  So there you have it.  This is just the beginning though, I know the journey is going to take to different and unexpected experiences and I look forward to them all.

Adventures in Travel

My travel ramblings about avoiding crowds, sometimes later is better and sometimes the universe it just on your side.  Why do I say that?  Well it is not because I have been to exotic places like the Taj Mahal or the Pyramids or a photo safari. It is because I have seen the most incredible things traveling when I least expect it or when I have had limited time at a tourist spot.

First let me say, I am not a big fan of group travel because of the time organization.  I am just too loose for that.  I like to get somewhere and see what moves me when I get there.  Also, I like to avoid crowds as much as possible. So that means climbing stairs, it is a little known secret that a majority of tourists will not go see something if there are more then two flights of stairs to climb.  It is both a way of keeping fit while traveling as well as seeing things from a vantage point that few other tourists will see.  Truly amazing.

Paris, I would like to say that while the view from the Eiffel tower is amazing, it is alas, crowded.  Yes, I saw Paris from the tower with about 50 of my closest teenage German friends (nah, I didn’t really know them and I am sure if they knew that I understood a good portion of what they were saying…they wouldn’t have cared – after all they were teenagers), they were almost as entertaining as the view from the tower.  However, I think that the view from the Arc de Triomphe  was better, because there were about 12 of us up there at the time.  It was a gorgeous day, but only a few people are willing to climb the tightly enclosed spiral stairs to get to that view (if you are claustrophobic it is not for you). The climb was totally worth it, the view of all of Paris was fantastic and I highly recommend it.

Also in Paris the Louvre, now I know everyone says that you need days to view everything in the Louvre and I cannot disagree with that.  Actually, you probably really need weeks to view everything.  But to see the highlights? Well certainly you would expect that to take a whole day.  Well, my sister and I saw some of the most viewed items there without even trying and did it in about 2  - 3 hours.  How?  Completely by accident, that is where the universe comes in and can amaze you with what you see when you stop following the crowd.

It was about 2:00 or so when we arrived at the Louvre, yes I know rather late in the day.  However that was probably the reason why we were able to see so many wonderful things in 2 hours.  My sister and I ate lunch (a jambon (ham sandwich).  Anyway, being the Geography graduate, I found where the Mona Lisa was and off we went. It was totally worth the effort, because even though it is behind glass you can really see why it has an aura about it.  Well we looked at some other Renaissance artists works and then realized that we had to meet our brother and sister-in-law at about 5:00 at the entrance.  So off we went, following the exit signs we started the bonus adventure of the day.  We turned the corner, went down the stairs and there was the Winged Victory, it was amazing, truly amazing.  After a pause to take that in, off we went down some stairs around the corner and there was the Venus de Milo.  Again well worth seeing.  Next we saw Michelangelo’s the Dying Slave, good preparation for seeing the statue of David later in Florence.  Then there was the Egyptian room, we took a bit of time here because the displays were so good, could have easily spent a whole day there.  The battlements, we must remember that the Louvre started out as a Royal residence and judging by the size, “It was good to be the king”.  All of that we saw in less then 2 hours it was a miracle really, because I don’t think if we had tried to find all of those things, that we would have seen them.  Every turn of the corner brought an amazing piece of art and history that I had only read about.

Avoiding lines. One of the things I dislike most while traveling is standing in lines.  Not that you can totally avoid lines while traveling, but standing in line especially to a really popular site can just kill a a good portion your day.  What I have discovered though is that after 2:00 is a really good time to go to see St. Mark’s cathedral in Venice. The cathedral is so beautiful inside with a very byzantine look about it, it looks like something I would expect to see in Istanbul (have never been there, so forgive me if it is not totally accurate).  This look is due to the fact that the Venetians traded for centuries with the Middle East and incorporated their art and architecture into the building the Cathedral.  It has a truly impressive amount of gold mosaics everywhere and for us, there was absolutely no line to get in.  Same was true for the Palazzo Ducale, I think what surprised me the most about the Palazzo was the number of times there was references to the Astrological signs inside. Maybe if it was a good day to be an Aries you didn’t get thrown in the dungeon? FYI, I would never have wanted to be housed in their dungeons, though they are clean now it is kind of a creepy place.  Because we went in the afternoon, there were very few people in either of these places, so you really had time to take everything in.  Vaporetto travel is a must in Venice, you see everything that way and being it is a boat you eventually get back to where you started if you miss your stop.  It is an excellent way to see Venice by water.  As you wind around the islands that make up Venice, you see the police boats, garbage boats, construction boats, and all kinds of other boats that allow the Venetians to go about their daily lives.

Now in Florence at the Duomo is another one of those places where taking the stairs paid off  there were only a few people and an absolutely fantastic view of Brunelleschi’s dome and all of Florence.  Now they do make you pay a couple of bucks to climb the stairs, but it is well worth the 400 and some steps to get to the top of the bell tower.  Take it slow, stop and rest along the way if you need.  There were about 3 people up there when we arrived at the top.  We stayed for quite a while, sometimes the climb down is worse then the climb up.  The view was fantastic and the weather was beautiful.  For our endeavor that day, we rewarded ourselves with some fantastic pizza and a glass of wine and a sidewalk cafe. It was a perfect end to a perfect day.

I have many more travel adventures where by going at different times and taking a different path, you have a great adventure.  I can’t wait for my next trip.