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 As you probably know, I often channel information and answers from my clients’ angels and guides in a process I call “taking cosmic dictation”. I also channel a general message each month for members of my SPARKLE Club. (Not a member yet? Click here for info. You can also find out more about Mystic Mail channeled readings here.)
The message that I received for the SPARKLE Club this month begged for a wider audience. One of my members emailed me with this response: “Why didn’t you just write my name across the message? It’s probably written on my forehead. Haha!” So I knew–this was good. Good for you, good for me. Let’s read it:
Oh, pooh. We know sometimes you feel this way. You feel like you are not where you want to be and you really have no idea how to get there. Well, you know those accursed “hows”! They’re really not up to you. If you will let that be the case. You struggle because you hold on so tight to what MUST happen to feel good and make you happy. Your outcome has to be just so, and so you keep other good outcomes from happening, because you are holding on so tight. Loosen your grip, honey! Let go of the “MUST-BEs”. Become the designer, not the engineer. This means you decide what you want it to look like and smell like and what you want it to do for you, and the Universe engineers HOW that will come into being. Have you ever looked at a situation and said, “I should have been more specific”? Well, that’s what we mean. That situation reflects that you were holding on too tight to what it MUST BE. Instead, focus on the feelings you want to experience, and let the Universe be your engineer. We love you always.
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 My grandfather just turned 100 years old. (Isn’t he cute?)
This past December found me and many of my relatives traveling to East Texas–a beautiful drive even on that cloudy day–to celebrate his One Century of Life!
I called Granddaddy on his actual birthday and he told me, “I don’t feel like I’m 100. Of course, I don’t know what it feels like to be 100, so maybe it feels like this!” And maybe it does.
Do you ever wonder about longevity? Do you WANT to live for a long time? I think we can all agree that living a long time is great if you are healthy and happy. My granddaddy is both, even though he has slowed down a lot, but only in the last couple of years. He was getting out of his car a couple of years ago and fell and broke his leg. This was a good opportunity for the family to help him quit driving. Yes, folks, he was still driving at 98!
How has he done it? Well, I guarantee you he doesn’t know a thing about the Law of Attraction–at least, not in so many words. But he has lived his life with three things:
- A great attitude
- A solid work ethic
- A lot of love
I’ve never known anyone as positive and hard-working as Granddaddy. He not only worked his butt off as a butcher, but he always had other projects going, as well, such as working on cars, building an old Model A Ford from the ground-up, running his own meat market, and making violins. He kept his hands and his mind busy all the time. And all along the way, he completely adored my grandmother. They were married longer than 70 years until her death in 2009.
You might think that, coming from a family of 12 children, dirt poor, and having few opportunities, my granddaddy might find that a good attitude would be hard to come by. Some of his siblings had harder lives, divorces, addictions, struggles, etc. But he has something special, and his attitude has always been as strong as his giant, hard-working hands.
When I think about his life, I don’t think he has missed much. He never had the opportunity to go to college, even though he had the smarts. He was always grateful for any opportunity he got, and he made the most of them. When World War II started, he wasn’t eligible for the service, so he moved his family to Ft. Worth, where he worked in an airplane factory, building planes for the war effort. While there, his superiors discovered his natural aptitude for drafting, so he designed airplane parts and taught others how to do the same.
I wish you could hear him tell the stories I have heard. What a remarkable man!
Did he miss anything? I couldn’t say for sure, but I know he has never said a word to me about any regrets. Maybe that’s where I got my no-regret policy for my own life. Guilt and regret are wastes of my precious energy, and I’m grateful for a grandfather who, by his bold example, taught me that.
Now, I’m guessing that most people reading this have not reached such a ripe old age as Granddaddy. But take a moment to think about getting close to the end of this life – would you have regrets? Would you have missed anything? Could you claim a great attitude, a solid work ethic, and a lot of love? If not, what changes can you make right now, so that when you look back, you’ll see a life of no regrets?
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 I just noticed something – a few weeks ago, I’m not sure when exactly, I stopped dreaming. And I don’t mean the dreams I have at night while I’m asleep. Those actually increased when I stopped dreaming during my waking time.
I’ve always had a pretty active fantasy life. And since I learned about the Law of Attraction a number of years ago, I have been even more intent on dreaming effectively.
What do I dream about? Oh, probably similar things to what you dream about: fun things to do, travel, a great marriage, happy friendships, and, of course, shopping. And maybe winning the “World’s Greatest Psychic” award.
But a few weeks ago, somewhere around Thanksgiving, I got distracted from dreaming and started being all–well, for lack of a better word, serious. There were many serious things I had to attend to, and I focused on them and not on my “silly fantasies.”
And do you know what happened? Nothing. I mean, nothing bad happened, but my life stopped moving forward. Things came to a standstill. Oh, sure, life went on, Thanksgiving was enjoyed, my daughter’s wedding was definitely wonderful, Christmas was a pretty good one, considering my daughter and her new husband were still on their honeymoon. But nothing new came along. In fact, things seemed to sort of–contract.
That’s it. Things contracted. They stopped expanding and growing and changing and morphing and creating. I stopped creating.
Fortunately, I discovered this problem after only a few weeks! I’ve started dreaming again, bigger than ever, and now the wheels are starting to turn forward again. I can feel it. And I can feel the world changing faster.
Have you stopped dreaming? How long has it been? Could that be the reason you’re not moving forward?
Next time you see that corny motivational poster that says, “Dare to dream”, do.
Can you believe it is already 2012? I have some thoughts on the New Year–and the old one.
First, though, I loved the holidays, just as I always do every year, and I hope yours were at least pleasant or even extraordinary! For me personally, besides marrying off my older daughter and enjoying the rest of my family for Christmas, while she and her new husband were off on their honeymoon, I had a couple of big stresses.
The worst one was getting a computer virus right before Christmas. As I write this, it is still not completely back together. The computer is working great, but all my data have yet to be restored. I have faith that they will be (i.e., I EXPECT it–expectation = faith = manifestation), so I’m not really all that jumpy about it. In fact, the whole situation has shown me that I am generally pretty relaxed and easy-going. My sister even said that about me at Christmas. She was telling me how anxious she gets over things and I started singing that Bobby McFerrin song, “Don’t worry… Be happy.” She said, “That’s what you do! I wish I could do that!” And I hope that I can help impart that to others. From my lips to God’s ears!
Anyway, here’s my thought about 2011. You may recall my whining about 2010 here, even though I was spinning it all in a positive direction. It was a pretty bad year; in fact, I still hold that it was the worst year of my life, and that includes the year my husband died! (How? Because his death was not the WHOLE YEAR.) So there was almost no way that 2011 could be any worse, and it was bound to be better. And it was! Thank goodness!
However… Here’s a story that helps illustrate how 2011 was better but still not what I wanted. Several years ago, a friend’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was one of the most curable versions of the disease and her treatment was relatively easy. RELATIVELY. That means, compared with many patients, she got off easy. Later, my friend said, “We were so busy being grateful that it wasn’t worse, we forgot it was still horrible!”
And that’s kind of how I feel about 2011. No, it wasn’t horrible. It was MUCH MUCH better than 2010, which is all I could hope for last year! But I want 2012 to be so wonderful that it makes me forget 2010 altogether! Want to join me? Let’s start expecting now!
 I often find myself teaching clients about giving and receiving.
Many people are caught up in guilt and a lack of divine value, and they (we) have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. This leads to an experience of lack in many, if not all, areas of one’s life.
That’s why I teach that it is equal to give as to receive, and you can’t have one without the other. This then leads me to instruct my clients to practice giving to and receiving from themselves, accomplishing four things:
- Show the Universe that you are ready to receive, so that other receiving opportunities will start showing up in your experience.
- Get accustomed to receiving.
- Develop your sense of divine value.
- Learn that giving and receiving are equal.
How do you give to yourself?
- Start small–give a compliment to yourself in the mirror and accept it with thanks, grace, and no excuses.
- Think of a chore as something that you give to yourself because you are worthy. For example, think, “I’m washing these clothes, because I am special enough to have clean and presentable clothes to wear.”
- Make a special meal just for yourself, and enjoy it without television or other distractions. Focus on the food and the gift you have prepared for yourself.
- Give gifts to yourself, such as new shoes, a massage, a facial, a book, or a concert. Include another if you like, and thank yourself profusely, honoring the gift and the receipt.
Try this for yourself, and feel free to share it with your friends too. I am all for everyone becoming good receivers!
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You may recall that I featured Dr. Robert Anthony in this blog post not long ago. Dr. Anthony recently sent an email that really got me thinking, and I thought it might be helpful to you too. See what you think:
 “If you want your reality to be different from ‘what is’, then you might as well try to teach your cat to bark. You can try and try and in the end the cat will look up at you and say ‘Meow’. Wanting your reality to be different from what it is in this moment is just as stupid. You can spend the rest of your life trying to teach your cat to bark, but you will never succeed.
“And yet if you pay attention, you’ll notice that you think thoughts like this dozens of times every day. People should be… My neighbors should be… My husband should… My wife should… I should…
“These thoughts are ways of wanting reality to be different from the way it is. Here is my point – all the stress you feel in your life at this moment is caused by arguing with ‘what is’.
“People say to me, ‘But if I simply accept reality then I will become passive and nothing will change.’ I answer them with this question. ‘Which of these statements makes more sense? “I wish I hadn’t lost all that money.” or “What can I do now to create more income?”‘
“Accepting ‘what is’ doesn’t mean you condone or approve of the way things are, it just means you give up all the resistance and inner struggle by wishing it were different. No one wants to lose their money, have their children get sick or be in a car accident.
“However, when these things happen it can it be helpful not to mentally argue with them. We know better than to do that, yet we do it because it is a HABITUAL PATTERN.
“I am a lover of ‘what is’, not because it is the ‘right’ thing to do, but because it hurts when I argue with reality, and when I do, I ALWAYS lose.”
What do you think? How does it make you feel? Does this get your mind’s gears turning? It certainly gave me plenty to think about! Please share your comments below with me and other readers.
“Well, let me look at that,” I told my client. “What I’m seeing is that, at about age 32, you’re going to have a break-through. And it’s yellow, so that means it has to do with your intelligence and self-esteem, like you’ll be using your smarts to do your job, and you’ll feel great about it.”
As you may know, when I work, I often “see” things in my mind’s eye. I get images of people who have passed away, as well as pictures of what’s going on with the client and what will go on in the future.
One of the most useful things I see in this way is time. Yes, I see time. It doesn’t look like a calendar, but it does follow a pattern. And it has colors associated with it too. Each day has its own color and so does each month. If I “look” at your “lifeline”, which is what I call the time of your life from birth to death*, I’ll see certain ages pop out with regard to what I am looking for.
This “crossover” of senses is called synesthesia. Some people smell colors. Some people see music. Others can feel words or get a taste in their mouth when they think of a word.
The root words of synesthesia mean “same senses”. (Just as anesthesia refers to “no senses.”) When a person is using one sense in the regular way, such as hearing music, he might also react with another sense, such as seeing a color or tasting a taste.
Synesthesia is not terribly rare, but it’s not common either. My type of synesthesia, which I can remember having all my life, is the most common kind.
So what about you? Now that you know what it is, are you a synesthete?
(*I generally do not see a person’s actual death, and if I were to get an age of death, I would never reveal it to the client. This is not information that anyone needs.)
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We all know what it takes to break a habit, right? You just have to have the willpower to do it!
It takes willpower to quit smoking, lose weight, or get that Starbucks monkey off your back! If you don’t have the willpower, you’re told that you are “weak” or “weak-willed”. And you pray for the willpower to make something happen.
Well, what if, instead of trying to “will” yourself to do something good for you, you just had the desire to do it?
What if you just woke up one morning and said, “I am so excited to go to the gym!”? And you really felt excited to go work out? Or you just had NO DESIRE for another cigarette. Wow.
One of my friends quit smoking years ago, and after about 5 years, I asked her, “Do you ever want a cigarette?” She said, “Every day.”
By using willpower, she didn’t smoke, but she still WANTED to smoke.
I myself am a former smoker. Yes, it’s true. And you know there is nothing more sanctimonious than an ex-smoker! I actually quit 5 times before it took. And the reason? I quit because I had the DESIRE. The first 4 times, I only used willpower. And I eventually failed.
You see, when you feel the desire to do something, there is no need for willpower. You don’t have to think about it. You just do what you have the desire to do. You don’t have to will yourself to go to the gym or not to smoke. You don’t have to make yourself go to a job you hate or not to go to Starbucks. (I admit I’m a Starbucks junkie with no DESIRE to quit!)
So where do you get this fabulous thing called desire? Ask.
That’s it. You just ask for it. And you tell Mr. Will Power good-bye, because you don’t need him anymore. Miss Dee Zire has taken over and she feels good!
For more about asking for the desire, see “3-D: Three Easy Steps to Getting What You Want.”
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 It keeps coming up again and again. Clients asking about money. Or complaining about money, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
As we discussed in part at the 2012 panel I served last weekend in Denver, everything is changing in our world, and that includes money and how we get it and use it. As just one pointed example, the 2008 stock market crash–that was just the beginning of a highly mercurial time in the market. I said BACK THEN that it was one of the old systems that were starting to break down–not to end prosperity, but to give way to new methods that will give most or all of the world greater prosperity. The stock market will still be around for those who want to work/play that way, but it will come to the point that it is no longer the main basis of the world economy. (I also discussed how talking about recession will bring recession on, here.)
And as always, the less you resist coming changes, the easier it will be for you.
I’ve been working on editing the readings I’ve done on Phacebook Phenom the last six months, and I ran across this:
“Relief from financial straits will come sooner and easier if you work on YOU, spiritually, inside-out, working on learning what it’s really all about and how you create successfully.”
Of course, you and I do that all that time, right? But maybe this will help. Recently, I noticed what I had managed to do and realized that I was actually doing it! I was actually meeting some of my short-term goals, and this was proof enough to convince myself that I WAS IN full-on receive mode. Not long after, I got the message that it needs to be give-and-receive mode, because the two are equal parts of a whole. And that had been coming to me before that as “reward”, like “You will be rewarded.” And that’s what I am focusing on philosophically at the moment.
Also, I want to respond to what a client said about “the Universe was about to take care of us.” Remember that what comes to you comes from you. The Universe doesn’t care what you want or how you put it out there; it can only say “yes”. So if you’re putting out there that you are not being taken care of, that’s what comes back to you. Casting your bread upon the waters, as it were. Start putting it out there (and lying to me, yourself and others, if you must) that you are fully provided for.
The thing about lying is that it’s very uncomfortable for me, and I’m bad at it. I’m sure like you, I was raised to be truthful. But according to Abraham, you should tell your story the way you want it to be, and screw the “facts”. And that’s what I just said above, pretty much.
I know it’s hard not to be fearful in a difficult situation. I have definitely born my share of fear! And I still do! And I’m the brilliant one! But it is the most counter-productive thing you can do, to indulge fear. (To consider creating with fear, see this blog post.)
You know what I always say, “The only devil is fear, and the only sin is neglecting your own happiness.”
 This isn’t the first time I’ve gotten a question like this: “How does your Reading in Writing work? How can you read my aura via the email?”
Variations on this question include, how can I read for you over the phone or how can I tell you about someone else in your life if I’ve never met them?
Here’s what I answered this time:
“You know, it’s amazing to me too, but it’s actually almost better for me to read for you without being with you. Everything is energy, so I just focus my energy on yours and the information comes in. Sometimes, when I am giving a BEST Psychic Reading by phone, I will close my eyes while the client is saying something and I get much more information when I am not talking or looking at anything!
“If you wanted me to hold something, such as your watch or keys or wedding ring (a process called chiromancy), obviously, we would have to be in the same room—or at least I would have to have that object. And I can do that; I’ve found I can ‘read’ almost anything, regular playing cards, tea leaves, whatever you put in front of me. Because the information is not in the object and not in the person—it’s all around us, and I just have to focus on your energy.
“Even if we were face-to-face, I would probably close my eyes for at least part of the reading. If you see me at a Suzi-Q & A LIVE, you’ll see that I often look down or close my eyes, so that I can ‘see’ what’s in my mind’s eye.”
I hope that helps you to understand how my gifts work for you. And if you want to know more, you know where to find me! (And yes, this client did get a reading.)
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As you probably know, I often channel information and answers from my clients’ angels and guides in a process I call “taking cosmic dictation”. I also channel a general message each month for members of my SPARKLE Club. (Not a member yet? Click here for info. You can also find out more about Mystic Mail channeled readings here.)