No Posts Week of July 4

There won't be any blog posts here next week - enjoy your holiday! Next post will be July 10.

Heal Yourself Safely & Easily

I've experienced a lot of healing techniques but on Sunday I experienced things that showed direct & dramatic results that day & the next, something entirely new to me. On Sunday I experienced EFT Meridian Tapping for the first time & it was awesome. It's also something you can easily learn to do on yourself & the only physical aspect of it is tapping on parts of your upper body like you would tap your fingers on a desk. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Therapy & besides the tapping it involves identifying core "negative" feelings & allowing yourself to release them.

One of my dear friends took me to a spiritual service & instead of the regular message there were guests that day. One does vibrational sound therapy (Gray Jeffrey), which was also amazing, & the other does EFT (Victoria Bliss). I was so impressed that I wanted to go to the 2 hour session later that day, & did. During the 2 hour session, Victoria took us through a very healing exercise where we visualized ourselves as 5 year olds. She had us hug ourselves & validate the 5 year old us, give love, etc. Then she had our 5 year old mother join us! Embracing her was very hard for me & at first I was resistant, but I did it. Then we were to picture both 5 year olds playing together. Then our 5 year old father joined in, then her parents, then his. The point was that our parents who hurt us were hurt themselves as children.

Not everyone had hurtful parents. Not everyone can take the notion that their beloved grandparents messed up a parent. But I understand & know how it started with both sets of grandparents, & I was deeply hurt as a result by both my parents. And I happen to know I'm an arrested 5 year old. I was able to identify that long ago. So she could have been speaking just to me, it was so effective. It was exactly what I've been needing. I'm sure the vibrational therapy helped also. I especially resonated with one of the gongs used, could feel it working deeply. The gongs were used briefly before & during, then for a prolonged period afterwards. But when I really felt the most happening was during that part with the 5 year olds. I felt an immediate release & healing! It was profound. Then I felt great peace & lightness of being that stayed with me for hours.

Last Tuesday (not this past one) I had a heavy load of fear based energy descend on me & it lingered all week, making me physically ill through Friday. I did what I could to clear it of course & had a lot of success Friday night. I worked harder with my angels & guides & a lot of prayer & work on clearing. What lingered was a fear of scarcity & lack that set on me whenever I sat down to eat & I experienced that Sunday after the brief session at the spiritual center. After the 2 hour session it was nearly gone but I still noticed a little when I ate my meal. Then I remembered that Victoria told us to take a bath in epsom salts that night. So I used my special bath salt blend to release negative energy - epsom salt, dead sea salt, & specially selected essential oils. The next day all the fear based energy was gone & it hasn't returned! My appetite is back & I'm enjoying my meals again. That's the first time I experienced dramatic results from that bath salt blend but it's also the first time I was overloaded with negative energy. Of course I was overjoyed to confirm the effectiveness of my blending abilities in such a dramatic way, & to be finally clear of the load I'd carried.

I'm not going to try to teach you anything about EFT Tapping here. It works much the same as acupuncture does as far as clearing energy paths within your body but is totally non-invasive & is something you can easily do on yourself. Unlike acupuncture, it uses verbal exercises to clear specific emotional issues. The website for the practitioners I experienced is samanayo.com. It contains their contact information & Gray sells a CD of his vibrational therapy that I want to order because it so resonated with me & was so powerful. I'd like to have it to play when I do the tapping on myself. The friend who took me to the events told me that it's easy to find the EFT tapping positions & scripts on the internet so I looked them up before writing this. While doing it I found something on Matrix Reimprinting, something I'd never heard of before. I was very interested & will be researching that further with self treatment in mind. And I'm certainly going to continue tapping! I first saw Matrix Reimprinting on this site - tapintoeft.com, & they have some scripts. Perhaps the best site I found was theenergytherapycentre.co.uk/tapping-points.htm. And I found a really great free ebook at thetappingsolution.com/EFT_Tapping, which I've downloaded & am in the process of reading.

How to Get What You Need

Today's tut.com message finally helped me settle in on today's topic. "For all things and non-things that you may ever want, Jenny Lea, understand that sometimes the fastest way to get them is to forget them, and to focus instead on just being the most amazing human being you can be. At which point all of your heart's desires, spoken or unspoken, will be drawn to you more powerfully than a magnet is drawn to steel."

Some more Good Housekeeping articles contributed to this theme. One was about one woman's year long happiness project to put more happiness in her life. Each month she concentrated on a different area of her life. The one she talks most about is her relationships with her husband, kids, & friends. The way she increased her happiness was by concentrating on increasing theirs. She did this by giving more hugs, attention, kindness, & doing lots of little things for them. She paid attention to her behaviors toward them & figured out things she did or didn't do that she could improve on. She concentrated on making them feel more loved, & like they truly matter. In turn, she received more love & attention.

Another article was from a woman who loves praise. She wrote an article specific on how to give praise, which is what she did with her need. She gave to get. She also let go of some of her need for praise by realizing that being taken for granted is a form of praise in itself. And she evaluated how often she gave praise to others, how often others praise others, & put her needs & the amount she receives into perspective.

The common theme is that you need to give whatever it is you need & want in life. If you need more love or attention, give it. What you give out does truly come back to you. If you want honesty you have to be honest. And if you want others to care about or to care for you, you actually first need to look at how you care about & for yourself. That one's a little different. There are actually 2 keys to getting what you want & need in life. One is to give it to others. The other is to give it to yourself.

Some people just want other people to take care of them & won't do it for themselves. This tends to include physical, spiritual, mental, & emotional. Some don't want to even think for themselves. Many don't want to do any of the work to take charge of their own happiness, wellbeing or needs. They want others to make them happy, make them feel good. They often want someone else to make them feel good about themselves. People can make us feel bad about ourselves fairly easily. We all know of abusive situations people get locked into as adults or are stuck in as children. In these we're torn down verbally (or worse, non-verbal, which is much more difficult to recognize, fight, & work through). However, we still have a choice in this, whether to accept what is being said to us as who we are & what we deserve. But that's another topic. So yes, in a way someone else can make you feel bad about yourself but that doesn't have to be your permanent state of being. And no one but you can truly make yourself feel good about yourself, or feel happy, or even feel loved. All they can do for you is temporary & surface. It all has to come from within. Many have been in situations where they've been torn down & they've been left not loving themselves, not happy. The only way to change this is to do your work to reprogram your beliefs & feelings about yourself. There are so many different ways to do this & depending on how deep the conditioning, it takes a whole variety of things to make these changes. That too is for another time, but I've covered this in many other blogs. Some techniques are reciting positive "I Am" statements daily, specifically written to counterbalance any residual negative beliefs & feelings within you. That's one of my favorites. As I was discussing with a friend the other night, it's re-brain washing yourself with a purpose. This is our way of taking control of the messages sinking in.

Taking control is the ultimate key to getting what you need in life, & we can only ever control ourselves. We need to first be giving ourselves all we can that we need. I try to love me more than anyone on earth ever has. I try to know my rhythms & needs & be true to myself. A friend once said that it's very difficult to hug yourself when she felt that what she really needed was to be held. She had someone specific in mind who wasn't meeting her needs. I don't have anyone who regularly meets any of my needs so it was interesting to hear her say that to me! I feel like I'm one of those fish who swims along filtering what it needs to eat. I draw it in from my environment as I'm in the flow. I take it all in & use it to feed my needs. I give hugs so I get them, among my friends. I pet & cuddle my cats, talk with them & give them all my love. I reach out to friends daily via phone or Facebook & in person opportunities. I don't reach out to get usually, but as a giver. I touch base regularly to care for the needs of significant others like my daughter & closest friends, & those who have been brought to me for help. I make the most of all the love & care that comes my way as a result of these things, & there's such an abundance of love & praise that comes from them. As a giver, I'm also finally learning to really be kind & gentle with myself. I'm setting a few boundaries so I'm able to meet my own needs for rest, sleep, relaxation, etc. I'm starting to take self care more seriously thanks to last week, where I was disturbingly physically unwell most of the week (dizzy spells).

Long ago I took control of my own emotional recovery from years of abuse, & that continues. That's why I'm so able to love myself. However, I've continued to put the needs of others before my own & that's out of balance. So I am finally learning, after feeling in crisis last week, to change that. For me, this is still one of the hardest things but I'm finally learning. Change takes time, & first you have to realize what needs changing. If you truly pay attention to it & want to change, then you usually have to get to the point that you're really mentally equipped & ready to change. Then you use everything at your disposal to make the changes happen, & you have to stick with it. This process is how you take control of yourself, your life & your own happiness & needs. And the only way to get what you need is to identify why you aren't & make the needed changes within yourself.

Crisis Survival Techniques

There's a great & long article in October 2011 Good Housekeeping magazine that outlines the strategies you need in crisis situations. I've been covering these things lately but they've been scattered through many blogs so I wanted to condense them here. So many are finding themselves in states of transition these days with jobs & relationships ending, & it's very stressful. It's a little known fact that even really good things can cause excessive stress. An article many years ago in Readers Digest turned me on to that. It was great because it even rated stressful situations. Some great ones that cause excess stress, for example, are getting married, starting a new job, moving, the birth of a baby. Many also don't know that excessive &/or long-term stress can cause all kinds of problems in our bodies, because of chemical reactions to stress. So the better we can manage our stresses the healthier we'll be.

The October 2011 article outlines a plan for handling excessively stressful times. The first step is to allow the bad news to sink in, not to pretend to yourself or others that it's all ok & you're fine. That allows the problem to get the upper hand & dominate our lives & thinking. It's a lot of what can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is much more common outside the military (as well as within) than was previously known. This doesn't mean that you continuously dwell on the problem, however. And you need to monitor the words you use (with others & yourself) surrounding the problem. Please avoid absolutes like "always" & "never" because they limit your ability to resolve issues. Instead, acknowledge your feelings (validating yourself & your right to them) but the authors recommend you schedule appointments with yourself to worry, then problem-solve. This gives you a strategy to postpone the feelings when they hit most often, after you acknowledge them. So many of us are pros at positive thinking that we don't address or acknowledge the feelings we need to. We don't want to be putting negatives out there. But we all have them as humans. When we validate ourselves & our feelings but postpone dealing with them to a specific, structured time we take control of them without the unhealthy habit of stuffing them. In that time they suggest crying & journaling.

The next suggestion is that you accept what you can't change, acknowledge that you may not be able to control the situation. They say this helps you sidestep denial (which includes avoidance & stuffing). In the above paragraph please not that I'm not telling you to go into avoidance mode. I'm giving you a strategy to simply postpone for a set time when the feelings come in. They also say that this all helps you realize that it's ok not to be ok. You aren't crazy when you experience stress reactions like insomnia or racing thoughts. Another important point is that it's ok to feel diverse feelings like joy in the midst of crisis. It's really ok to have moments of joy when someone brings you flowers to brighten your mood, or you step out into a beautiful day & hear the birds singing. People grieving death especially experience guilt when those feelings of pleasure first come around after their loss. But humans are capable of feeling & holding many different emotions & it's normal to have good moments or even days. For perspective they suggest reprogramming the voice in your head that says you're never going to survive this. Instead, try "I'm having the thought that I'll never survive this." That acknowledges but slightly changes the thought pattern & opens the door to the idea that things can change. Again, they suggest journaling as a strategy to help. They say writing helps you hear yourself think, which is what I always find. They suggest writing down 3 words that describe what you're currently feeling, then journaling what you need for 5 minutes using the questions, "What will help me?" & "What do I need to remember?" Then you write down 3 words that describe your new state of mind.

They also suggest you activate your body's ability to heal & calm itself. As a Reiki practitioner I truly know the value of that, & highly recommend Reiki sessions for that purpose. Something you can easily do any time, anywhere is called 4 Square Breathing. You slowly take a deep breath from the bottom of your lungs to the count of 4, hold for the count of 4, release through your mouth to the count of 4, wait for the count of 4, & do it again 2 more times. They suggest self talk during this like, "Relax" or "I'm handling this." This breathing fills your bloodstream with needed oxygen to counterbalance the chemical stress reactions in your body & energize you. They also highly recommend meditation & exercise. Finally, they recommend focusing on faith, including your higher power & yourself. They emphasize the importance of realizing that good can come from any situation & that things happen for a meaning & purpose. I won't go into that further here because that's what many of my blogs are about. I always find it validating when I read the things I teach in popular magazines, & being espoused by experts!

Are You Focused? What is Your Focus?

New day, new over-riding theme that covers the themes for the week. My normal focus is improving my self & my life every way possible & helping others do the same. Each day I focus on a different aspect of these things & respond to the messages, the over-riding theme of the day. I also respond to the needs of others as they arise each day. I am a regular caretaker for myself, 3 women, my cats, & whomever else is brought before me each day. I respond to these priorities each day. This is what I've chosen for my life to be about.

Lately I see around me those who are not in touch with their focus or who are simply not focused. Two of the women I care for are focused on the men in the their lives & the situations are causing them great difficulty. They are out of balance & experiencing many ups & downs because of it. But they've been unable thus far to shift their focus. I'd so love to shift it for them! This was my fear of a romantic relationship - that I would lose myself in it, lose my focus on what truly matters to me. In September 2010 I chose my current life focus & worked on freeing myself from all that wasn't working in my life, all that didn't fit that focus. Life as I thought I knew it was over & I made a choice about what I was going to do with that opportunity. It truly was a wonderful opportunity (even though it was a very scary & painful release process) & it helps that I recognized it as such, set my intent, made the most of it. As I've said recently, endings are also beginnings. I know so many experiencing endings in their lives right now & my wish for them too is that they make conscious choices on where they go from here. And I'm very proud of those I know who are recognizing their ends as opportunities & are working to make conscious choices, make it all work them. It takes great courage & will to do this.

One person I help regularly is entirely unfocused. He has great trouble with that because of the way his mind works. He gets bogged down in every tiny detail & therefore doesn't get the important things done. I'd so love to teach him that production is more important than exact content in the long run. One thing needed for him & all others like this is entirely letting go of perfectionism. Perfectionism is totally limiting, & true perfection is impossible for humans. When you are locked in perfectionism, you spend too much time on one thing to the exclusion of the things that really matter. Another aspect of this is the "all or nothing" mentality. It usually leads to just about nothing & never leads to the "all" that's desired. And it's so easy to get into that mentality without realizing it. I'm going to use housecleaning as an example of both. I tended to think in terms of getting all the vacuuming on one level done at one time. That was too daunting so I didn't do any of it. When I figured out that it didn't have to be all or nothing, that I could do 1 or 2 rooms at a time & keep that up each week, I transformed the situation & was able to get it all done within a couple of days. It didn't all get done in one day but it got done. I did a thorough job but didn't obsess, wasn't locked into perfectionism with it. You never get up every single speck & next time you go through a room, there are more specks on the carpet. I'd never have progressed from room to room if I'd kept going back to make sure the first one was perfect. I'll catch the accumulated specks when I do the rooms next week.

When you have no focus or are too narrowly focused, including as in perfectionism or the "all or nothing" mentality, you don't accomplish what truly needs to be done & fall behind. Then you're forever playing catch up & that's very difficult. It then takes radical action & change, something that could have been avoided with focus. When you aren't in charge of your focus, aren't focused or are too narrowly focused, you allow anything & everything to distract you from the truly important things until they reach the crisis point & you're forced. No one thrives in those situations. They greatly contribute to the "if I can just get through..." mentality. Some people move from one situation like that to another because they've failed to choose to focus & stick with it. Now I'm not saying that maintaining or even choosing our focus is always easy. And the more time you have on your hands & the more options you have, the more difficult that is. But it's one of the most vital life choices we make.

With focus, you're able to weed through the choices we each end up making moment to moment each day. With focus you take charge of these choices & exercise control in your life. I look back to one of the times I felt so out of control of my life. I unconsciously tried to control my kids because I had such an unrecognized need for control in my life. Without focus we make so many unfortunate unconscious choices!

I now use many tools to help me focus with intent & I highly recommend them. One is my written life mission statement, written last year on the recommendation of a great metaphysical teacher I'm so privileged to know & learn from. Just focusing & writing it grounded me & I've actually only had to go back & read it once but it's there when I need it. In it I set my intent for how I would conduct my life & it's the basis for my choices. Another was recommended by an adult friend with ADHD (especially difficult for these people to focus), & is a daily planner I've talked about before. I was a list maker who had lists all over, half done & oppressive. I also constantly had a list in my head that bogged down my thinking & my ability to sleep & rest. More than a year ago, this planner changed my life. It helps me focus on what truly needs to be done each week & each day. It frees my brain because if it's in my head it goes down in the planner & I can release it. I know my brain doesn't have to hold it & remind me. And I no longer have to find those little lists or carry them over. The planner has carry-over capacity, can be used effectively for current & future priorities, help manage priorities. I also use my journal to help me focus in on what I'm feeling & needing. I could so easily get lost in my head like my friend does. My mind multi-tasks constantly, runs on many tracks at once & my conscious & subconscious seem to constantly stream. This is something else ADHD people face, by the way. My journal helps me focus in on the most pressing tracks & capture them. It's a great tool. Often I'm not aware of what my subconscious is streaming. When I journal it kicks in & I'm able to tap into that stream. Often I start out writing about what's in my conscious thoughts, usually pretty trivial & not worth writing. Those who don't journal often use that as a reason. But what I find is that once I clear out that stuff, what really matters right now, the subconscious stream, comes forth. Once I'm able to pay attention to it, my brain quiets for a bit & I find some peace. I also use baskets to keep me organized but you can use any gathering tool. I used to be famous for going into a room & forgetting what I went for, having to go back over & over. I used to get so distracted from my little purpose, do something else I saw needed to be done when I got to that room instead of what I went in there for. Once I developed the reliance on a basket to carry with me, I solved a lot of that. I carry a mental list & put things in the basket & take them out & put them away as I go. That basket has become my anchor point & calls me to action, has become a fixed reminder of what I wanted to do. It's become a working symbol I can fix on. These symbols & tools are very important for becoming organized. I can look at my basket as a focus point & retrieve my intent. My intent becomes fixed on that symbolic object. My final tool is my daily devotions. I use prayer, "I Am" statements, manifestation statements & angel work to renew my focus daily & ground me. It reminds me & powerfully energizes my intent & focus.

Getting Through Life

If I can just get through the next few minutes (hours, days, weeks, months)... When I went to bed last night I found myself thinking that if I could just get through the next few days... It isn't really a matter of if. I will get through. It's a matter of how difficult it will be & that's where this kind of thinking comes in. It's "survival mode" & I believe we spend most of our lives in it. We move from one circumstance to another that we have to work our way through. Most people live in "if only." "If only he loved me the way I love him." "If only my boss recognized my efforts." "If only my kids..." "If only this (or that) were different." "If only this (or that) would happen."

I just realized last night how much I do that. Last week I was trying to get through the minutes until my dizziness passed. This week I'm trying to get through the heat & humidity but still get things done. I've come to realize I live this way but I've been trying to work out of getting into these kinds of situations. I just haven't thought of it as such.

I'm not sure that I have any clear answers for you but there are strategies I use. When I was trying to get that dizziness to pass I prayed almost constantly. I reassured myself that I was safe - I was at urgent care where they knew what they were doing. I did all the things you need to do to overcome dizziness - drank lots of water, bathed my face & neck & wrist pulse points, stayed flat on the table until I could move. Each situation has it's own survival strategy & I used all I knew & was offered. With the heat I'm running fans, working downstairs where it's cooler, only doing any heavy or outdoor work after the sun goes down, & staying hydrated. Going back to "know thyself," I know I don't take the heat as well as some so I have plenty of ice, ice packs, & cold water in the refrigerator. I have a thought-out action plan. I touched on that yesterday - in the worst, best, & middle case scenarios. Further, in knowing myself & always working on discovery & self improvement, I've been working toward eliminating as many survival circumstances as I can. Some of them are a natural part of life that can't be avoided but some we bring on ourselves. If we don't resolve relationship issues with family, friends, partners, bosses or co-workers, for example, they keep coming back up until we learn whatever we needed to know & change. I've seen that in each area above in my own life. Until we learn from & resolve our inner conflicts or issues we repeat mistakes.

The great new is that once you do the work you're free! If you truly pay attention to the issues that arise & analyze them you usually find the theme you need to work on. Often realization is all that's needed, along with some intent. And if you set intent regularly to grow & improve your life & self, the issues do become readily apparent in most cases. I'll be frank here. Depending on how deep the problem, it can take years. Deep issues are like an onion with layer after layer to get through. I actually mean for this news to be more encouraging than daunting. If you've been working through things & different aspects of it keep popping up, you're truly making progress. After you get through all the onion layers, there's a core - you've reached the root of the issue & can finish with it. But as with an onion, each layer you peel away makes the onion that much smaller, brings you closer to the core. And you truly feel better & your life improves with every layer you face & discard. It's not like you're in intense pain or conflict now & only years later will there be any resolution & relief. When you do the real work, life gets better all the time. Remember as I say this that I've had some very deep & traumatic life issues to work out.

It's a process & if you set your intent & face whatever issues come up, it's ongoing. One thing, sign, or message leads to another & another until the issue is apparent. Today I had a very powerful Reiki treatment & special work was done on my root chakra. I'd thought I'd worked out the emotional issues associated with the problem but ended up bringing forth & releasing so much that had been somewhat hidden. I had a series of quick flashbacks to what still needed to be released. The flashbacks were blessedly deep but brief, one after another revealing deep-seated issues connected to my recent ex husband. And the final ones released the core cause of my fear of being able to provide a continuous home for the cats, which I mentioned yesterday. It's the root cause of much of any fear-based energy that comes from within me.

Use everything at your disposal, the help around you, & whatever personal power you know how to tap. Think of Tom Hanks in the movie, "Cast Away." He even used a basketball to create the companion he needed. No one person on earth can do it all or be it all. We all need lots of help. It truly does take a village. You have to be willing to reach out, & to accept help when offered from a variety of sources. God uses people on earth, angels, guides, & messages to help us out. The angels are just waiting to help us with anything & everything as long as it's not against others or taking away from them. But you have to ask. You don't have to specifically know who to ask for what, contrary to what I've been told or read. That's a nicety. Just go for it - just ask. It's even in the Bible - "Ask & ye shall receive, knock & it will be opened to you." (Ok, I just mixed translations there but hey.) And then be prepared to receive, be open to where the help or answers come from, be listening, & again I say, be open. More on this tomorrow, unless some bigger issue arises. These days, the messages are coming in fast, with quick resolutions.

Grounding & Release

This is not the blog I was going to write today but this is the one that needs to be done. I've spent most of my day in fear based energy today! It hit me first thing & I haven't been really in fear based energy in a few months now, as far as I can remember. So I wonder if any of my other friends are experiencing this today. I haven't had time to ask - I've just been coping.

Today is the new moon & tomorrow is the Summer Solstice. I'm new to paying attention to such things so I'm not sure if the pairing is rare but I'm sure it's responsible for my energy problems today. I've also been having dizzy spells this afternoon, one after another so I know I need to ground & hydrate. I've been working on both.

Today has felt like a struggle for survival. I knew I needed to conquer the fear based energy. Then when the dizziness started & the heat was bothering me, I knew I also needed to take special care of my physical body. New moon is a special opportunity for release & release is one of the major themes of this year, one of the biggest things we're each supposed to accomplish. So I felt desperate to figure out what all I need to release today, felt the importance. Again, desperation is not something I usually cope with. Now that I'm a bit calmer, one of the things I realize I need to release is my fear of dizziness!

Two things really helped me today - God, & carrying through with my daily devotions. I had a phone message first thing today that set off my fear based energy. Before I could return the call & deal with the issue, God provided the help I needed for the situation! So I was able to return the call with a solution at hand. That & following through with my devotions - prayer for myself & others, greeting my angels & guides, my "I Am" & manifestation statements, my angel work - helped me get more grounded.

Often God puts people in our lives ahead of time to help, to step in when we need them. One of these sweet angels in my life helped me identify & think through the dizziness fear this past Friday. I related to her that I'd had to fight a dizzy spell for more than an hour when I got the stitches out of my fingers. Because of many low sugar episodes from misjudging the amount of insulin to take, I've had some real scares. The one last year was the worst because I was alone at the time & it was severe. Because of this I have a fear of passing out alone. In my mind, passing out alone equals death because there's no one to administer what I need to bring my sugar level up. She asked if I was afraid of death & I'm not - my fear was what would happen to the cats! She helped me see that they'd be taken care of, & that's what I needed. But I see today that I still have the fear so I need to address & release all the issues involved here. I need to release the wellbeing of the cats to God. I need to address the fear & really face it down the whole way. I've already got protections in place for them, & I need to let that entirely sink in. I've already put in place all the physical protections I need - sugar supplies where I can get to them if needed. Part of conquering fear is to face the possible scenarios & come up with an action plan. I usually face 3 scenarios - worst case, best, middle. I figure out how I'd survive the worst case first. Looking your fears in the face & fully identifying them, then finding a way to work with them diffuses them. When needed, you remind yourself of your plan "if" until you conquer the fear. That's my current stage with the dizziness. And honestly, what usually truly happens once you have a plan is the best case scenarios, fortunately. But you know you have a plan if the worst happens, & there's reassurance in that. I handled each dizzy spell wisely & didn't get upset or panic so I'm really getting there.

In a visit with a friend today we talked about release, the new moon, & this year. She recently heard that paper is something we need to release & that was message #3 for me so I need to pay attention. I have a friend who can barely walk into his home office or function because of the amount of papers he keeps. He's so afraid he'll need something that he's drowning in papers, but couldn't find one if he did need it. That was #1. Last week I identified that papers weigh me down, sap my energy & cause me to feel tired & overwhelmed & that was #2. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this information because I'm one with many papers but I've gotten the message. I realize that it's part of the release I need to make this year, as well as belongings. Despite the fact that I just moved, & cleared out so much stuff including some of my own, I have way too much. Things as well as papers bog us down & tie us down as we try to maintain & care for & clean around them. I realize it's truly time to take a good look at all that's in my life & simplify in every way I can. I also realize it's been an ongoing message to me, & that I have most of the answer to what I need to be releasing at this time. I've been feeling the need for release for months now but it's been vague, I couldn't identify what needed to be released until now. But releasing things seems to be the biggest thing at this point for me. I've been working on release on the spiritual & emotional level, & that was the first step. Now I'm to release things & papers, & old habits. So I've gotten my answer to the release needed at this stage. We're about half way through this year of release, & I hope that you're working on your own. Whatever we don't release ties us, distracts our attention & intent. I don't want to be earth-bound - I want to soar!