Houses of Healing

Insidious Depression

Depression is awful – in whatever form you may experience it. You would think that something that feels so bad would propel you to do anything to get rid of it. You know - like a noxious substance that we accidentally eat and then get violent spasms to vomit.

You’d think that if you are feeling depressed you would be hightailing it to engage in some of the known effective strategies for getting rid of depression. You might visit your doctor for an anti-depressant or your local therapist for cognitive behavioral therapy. You’d start exercising. You’d be getting out in the sunlight more. You’d change your diet. You’d learn to meditate and develop a mindful approach to life. You’d take some nutritional supplements like 5HTP or St. John’s Wort.

But when you are depressed most of the time you find yourself avoiding any and all of those things.

The insidious thing about depression (and for that matter most mood imbalances) is this – depression has inherent in itself a hidden pull to stay depressed. When you are depressed, there is a part of the depression that feels good because it is familiar- as illogical as that may sound. In some subtle way, there is a tendency to keep yourself feeling depressed.

Rationally you’d want to stop being depressed because it feels so bad. But anything that will help you move out of depression also comes with this heavy internal response “It’s just too hard” or some similar variation such as:
• I can’t do that.
• I tried that and it didn’t work.
• I don’t see how that would work.
• I can’t remember to do that.
• I’m too busy, tired, overwhelmed, etc to do that.
• That doesn’t seem like something that would work … something that would be fun or something I want to do, etc.

However you spin it, depression (and other mood imbalances, too) becomes a closed system that locks you within the system. Insidious, crazy, and perverse.

Here is a little bit of the physiology about that:

The thing about mood imbalances is that the biochemistry in your brain always seeks its current baseline - which means that it is designed to stay the way it is. Your brain chemistry always seeks its neurotransmitter baseline and this baseline is kept in place by certain enzymatic processes in the body. It can take 6 months or more of consistent, regular input to change those biochemical enzymatic processes and thus your neurotransmitter profile.

Your brain chemistry drives you to think and do things that will keep your brain chemistry just the way it is. Your current brain chemistry is driving you to avoid thinking or doing things that would shift your biochemistry and provide a physiological opportunity to shift your moods.

In order to find your way out of depression and other mood imbalances you have to reach deeply inside yourself and pull out a life spark of yourself – a piece of your inner spirit or your life essence -and take the first step away from imbalance. And every day you have to reach inside of yourself again and find that life spark again and take the next step toward balance again – and again, and again.

As each step fans that life spark, it also gradually and over time changes your physiology and shifts your
neurotransmitter baseline.

Changing your physiology is important because it loosens the grip of that perverse biochemical tendency to keep things the way they are. Changing your physiology opens up a whole new world of thoughts, emotions, actions, and perceptions that weren’t readily available at the old biochemical baseline.

Hand in hand life spark and physiology work together and nurture each other toward a new level of balance.

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." -- Leonardo Da Vinci

Symptoms of Peri-Menopause

Here is a quick checklist to find out if you might be peri-menopausal and need to take special care to manage your moods and retain your memory and learning skills.

"There is nothing particularly brilliant about denying your biology" -- Janet Kinosian

Do you have these symptoms?

Hot flashes, night sweats, perspiration and/ or chilly sensations

Sensations of numbness and/ or tingling of skin

Insomnia, sleeplessness, and/or restless, fragmented sleep

Fatigue, feeling of weariness of mind and body with desire for rest; disinclination to make further effort

Vaginal dryness

Irregular menstrual bleeding

Changes in frequency of menstrual cycle
Irritability, feelings of anxiety or apprehension

Feeling of depression, sadness, unhappiness and / or being miserable without any obvious reason

Pain affecting joints and/or muscles

Headaches of any kind

Dry skin

Urinary problems

Digestive problems

Sexual / desire changes

Quickening or acceleration of heartbeat or a fluttering/pounding heartbeat in a sitting or resting position

Sensation of "crawly skin"

Forgetful, scattered and/or suddenly disorganized

Clumsiness and /or uncoordination

Difficulty remembering past events and/or learning new material

Slow to recall a name or to find the right word

The more symptoms that you have experienced the more likely it is that you are entering peri-menopause. It may be time for you to take some steps to shift your health and self-care focus to provide adequately for your new hormonal and well-being needs.

At Evenstar, we are dedicated to helping you make your Perimenopause Passage the best time of your life. We offer Functional Health Tests, Personal Coaching and comprehensive Mood & Energy Wellness Programs that are specific to the Perimenopause Passage.

Find out more at www.evenstaronline.com/perimenopause.html

Things to know before you use your Microwave

Studies show that when people eat microwaved food that levels of hemoglobin and HDL cholesterol (the good one) decrease. Both going in the not so good direction.

White blood cell levels also decrease (not in a good way).

During microwaving, the actual structure of molecules is torn apart and forcefully deformed. Cell membranes are broken and the electrical potentials of the cell are neutralized. Doesn’t sound like a good thing to me.

Microwaving foods not only results in the destruction and deformation of molecules and but also the creation of new compounds known as radiolytic compounds – which have been previously unknown to man. Sounds tasty?

After eating microwaved foods, blood levels of erythrocyte, hemoglobin, hematocrit and leukocyte were at the "lower limits of normal". Wrong direction.

A study shows that microwaving human milk appears to destroy some of its disease fighting capabilities. Microwaving not only breaks down human milk’s antibodies to infectious agents, but also it’s lysozymes or bacteria-digesting enzymes. In case you didn’t guess – this is not advantageous.

Vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in microwaved foods are altered so that the human body has difficulty absorbing them - or absorbs their altered forms - and we don’t know what affects that has. But I am thinking it is probably not good.

It seems that minerals in microwaved foods are converted into cancerous free radicals. We know that is not good.

A steady diet of microwaved foods appears to:
• “Short out” electrical impulses in the brain - like some kind of brain damage
• Alter male and female hormone production – and not for the better
• Increase the number of cancerous cells and cancerous tumors in the human body.
• Alter lymph glands and blood serum negatively affecting the immune responses
• Be associated with loss of memory and concentration, mood swings and decreased intelligence.

Does any of this sound healthy to you?

Rhythms of Life

“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.”
--Chogyam Trungpa

Seasonal Rhythms

The dynamics of your body extends in an expanding range and your physiology is linked to the world and universe at large. Your body changes with the seasons, with the weather, with the atmospheric conditions. Many people can tell in their bones when a change in weather is coming. Human bodies are in synch with the gravitational forces, planetary shifts, the cold and heat, light and dark, humidity and all the other variations that the seasons bring. They respond and shift their functioning according to these natural dynamics. Your body increases and decreases certain functions in response to surrounding influences.

Biological and Geophysical Rhythms and Frequencies

All living organisms are composites of different rhythms and frequencies.

The heart beats approximately once per second but this rate speeds up in the morning and slows down at night; the electrical activity of the human brain cycles in fractions of a second; breathing occurs about sixteen times per minute; many hormones are released in pulses lasting several hours.

Across all species the natural daily rhythmic cycles run in twenty to twenty-eight hours for a natural day. The most conspicuous cycles in plants and animals are these daily rhythms (Circadian). They inter mesh with other cycles that are longer or shorter than a day.

Biological activities and processes are tied to lunar cycling as in monthly processes such as menstruation and also to the earth’s rotation around the sun as is seen in such yearly activities as hibernation, migration, and reproduction.

The seven day week has no obvious geophysical correlate but research suggests that this cultural convention may reflect deep biological rhythms. Seven day rhythms are seen in many illnesses, for example the common cold, and beard growth in men follows a seven day cycle.

Annual seasonal rhythms are less noticeable in humans than in other animals but they do exist. Secretion of the male hormone testosterone surges in the fall, sperm concentration and activity is highest in the winter, and rates of conception peak in the winter. More babies are born in August and September than in other months. Babies born in summer and fall tend to weigh slightly more than babies born in other seasons and they have a greater likelihood of survival. Miscarriages are greater in the fall.

Deaths also have a seasonal pattern. Fatal heart attacks are more common in winter. This is true even in climates that are mild such as Hawaii and also in the southern hemisphere where seasons are reversed. Winter months are the time of lower resistance to infections and of higher cholesterol levels.

Disorders and Seasonal Rhythms

It has been found that people who suffer from depression have skewed body rhythms and cycles. These may include the rhythms of sleep, body temperature, and hormone release. Seasonal rhythms have also come under scrutiny. Suicides peak in the spring usually in May. Admissions to mental hospital for depression also soar in the spring. There is another smaller surge in suicides and hospital admissions in the fall. An external environmental factor - the length of daylight -is believed to an influencing factor.

The Body Has a Master Clock

In the 1960’s researchers found the key generator of body rhythms. Injuring part of a tiny region at the center of the brain known as the hypothalamus caused the loss of many normal rhythms. The hypothalamus commands the sympathetic nervous system. It speeds up breathing and heart rate in moments of danger, regulates body temperature, stimulates appetite and reproduction and controls hormone secretion. Further research found that a critical area of the hypothalamus, the suprachiasmatic nucleus -SCN- a tiny cluster of nerve cells that sits on top of the optic chasm, is the body’s master clock. The SCN directs the body’s various rhythms to work together. The SCN uses daylight signals picked up by the eyes to direct each body rhythm to do its part at the appropriate time, day after day.

Seasonal Changes

Regardless of location, in traditional cultures, there was an awareness that they were continuously affected by the changing seasons. You may live longer and be more healthy if you adapt your health care to the natural rhythms of the earth. Learning to live within the seasonal fluctuations is believed to bring health, harmony and strength to the body. It also provides a natural timetable and rhythm for a good service check and health care program for maintenance and upkeep to prevent accumulated stress from degenerating body responses.

Many people get the flu in the shift from summer to fall. In the peak of winter many suffer from depressive moods. Some people find that if they drink fruit juices or eat a lot of fruit in the winter they will feel cold and damp and get a cold. When it is difficult to adjust from one season to the next our bodies may react through lowered immune responses that leave us more vulnerable to later illness.

Sometimes the body is a bit out of step with all the changes from one season to another. That’s why many people tend to get sick during those shifting times. Sometimes we fail to adapt our habits to be more compatible to our changing body functions in response to the seasonal changes. By being aware of some of these cyclical changes throughout the year we can support shifting body dynamics so as to assist the changes. We can also take advantage of these natural shifting points to expand those dynamics that are increasing/flowing and rest those that are decreasing/ebbing. Many traditional cultures have set up associations of food, drink, activities, energies, dress, organs of the body, and emotions that are related to and affected by the seasonal shifts.

Are You Connected With Your Natural Rhythms?

Your biological clock is set to cue you to certain kinds of activities during certain times of the day. Bodies have thousands of natural rhythms for every biological function. Your moods are regulated by your biological clock. Your brain energy is just like your other natural rhythms – high at certain times of the day and low at other times of the day. Your energy and vitality follow the same natural ebb and flow. When you try to push through those natural rhythms you lose the temporal harmony of your biological clock and desynchronization, malaise, dysfunction and poor performance set in. You will run but you will never be your best.

When all your biological patterns are ebbing and flowing according to their natural rhythms your body is synchronized and performs at its peak. You will have effortless energy and vitality when you live in accordance with your circadian, diurnal, and seasonal rhythms.

Are you aware of any energy cycles that you have? Do you pay attention to these cycles and adjust your activities as needed?

Are you able to go inward and rest when needed, or are you more likely to resist and keep going?

Are you aware of changes in alertness and your thinking abilities and do you use this awareness advantageously?

Do you have the energy and passion for projects that you want to do?

When you must perform at your best do you remain calm, focused and positively energized regardless of the situation?

Are you able to naturally meet the challenges of a situation? Or does it all seem to be too much for you and you just get by as best as you can?

Can you enter a state of calmness, alertness, focus and positive energy whenever you need to regardless of the situation?

If you are worried or feeling upset can you set aside these feelings and be fully engaged in what is happening for you in the moment?

Do you have the energy and motivation to be involved in interesting and challenging situations that call for you to be your best and operate creatively?

If you have answered “no” to any of the above contact me and let’s talk about what is happening for you.

How Far Can You Take The Law of Attraction?

You Can’t Just Sit Around Visualizing and Expect Things To Happen … Or Can You?

"Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So, if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that."  –Abraham-Hicks

What you mean I have to get off my couch and take action if I want a financial independence? A total fantasy! I don’t believe it.

I love the Law of Attraction – and have for years. There are many slants to the Law Attraction but all the permeations are grounded in the same principle – that we human beings have the capacity to create the life we want.

When I was younger, I had an inherent knowledge that I created the life I want. I didn’t have to work at believing it – I just knew it.

And in my youth, I had lots of energy. I am an Aries, I have fire signs all over my astrological chart, my Mayan chart is all about energy, etc. The point is I had an abundance of natural energy – and I still have lots of natural energy – and taking action has always been easy and natural for me and I love to do things.

I became obsessed with action and taking actions – the right actions at the right time became my mantra.

In manifesting my life, I used lots of energy (translate to “actions”) to do it. I am a big fan of action. I even wrote a 26 week e-course about how to get yourself to take appropriate and inspired actions – after all, you can’t just sit around visualizing something if you want it to really happen – or can you?

A strange phenomenon happened to me about 5 years ago - totally out of the blue. (I’m sure I had nothing to do with it. ) I went through a monumental “worldview” paradigm shift.

I was now in my 50s and I could see that there were about a million actions that I had not taken to get prepared for this stage of my life. That was when I had this shocking realization - that all my actions carried such a paltry bit of energy compared to the inertia of this gigantic world. Even my “inspired actions” didn’t seem significant next to the immensity of all that was happening in this universe. 

It was time for a new worldview - my old one wasn’t working that well for me anymore. This stuff is OK when you are younger and have lots of time in front of you but when you are older and have so many things you have to do before it’s “too late” this stuff doesn’t really fit the real world. What was I thinking all these years?

After many muddled confrontations with more mundane worldviews (e.g. Soon I’m going to get too old to work so I need a gigantic retirement fund; the mainstream does things a certain way for a reason - because it works - so I’d best get in line with mainstream), I ended up back in the Law of Attraction - but with what seemed to me to be an upgraded perception.

Do you ever notice that we always end up where we started but at a more conscious and aware level?

An aside about paradigms and THE TRUTH

A paradigm is a way of organizing an aspect of the world by applying certain logical principles to explain certain observations (think allopathic medicine vs. spiritual healing).

You can’t say that one paradigm is truer than another. For instance, Christianity vs. Goddess religion – which one is the representation of The Truth of reality?  But we often mistake the prevailing (or our favorite) paradigm as a representation of The Truth of reality.

There are no true paradigms.  A paradigm is just a viewpoint. No paradigm can lay claim to being “The Truth” while others are misguided - although proponents of particular paradigms try to do it all the time.

Do we really know what is The Truth?  Not really - it is more a matter of belief and faith than of Truth but we often mistake our belief and faith as The Truth.  Or we say that one paradigm is The Truth because it fits the facts better.  But we all know facts are changing day by day (remember, the world used to be flat and Pluto was a planet).

So, if it is not The Truth that makes a paradigm “worthy” of your attention what is it that makes a paradigm useful?

What makes a paradigm useful is the strength and integrity of its own internal logic system. Does its internal logic stand up under scrutiny – is its logic pure and consistent with its main conceptual principles?

Any paradigm is only as good as the integrity and consistency of its own internal logic.

In the end, the matter of useful (as opposed to truthful) comes down to: Does the paradigm answer my key questions in a way that seems more satisfying to me than other paradigms? 

Does this paradigm make more sense to me than other paradigms?

Does it jive more with what I think I know now?

Does it fit the facts that I think are true?

Does it have practical applications to my life as I want to live it?

The thing with paradigms is this: their logic is designed to work internally - within their own paradigm. You can ‘t take the logic from one paradigm and plop it down in another paradigm and expect to reach any logically consistent conclusions. (Applying the logic of the scientific paradigm to the paradigm of shamanic healing just doesn’t fit.) If you attempt to mix paradigm logic systems eventually it ends up as murky chaos or a blob of mediocrity.

Back to the Law of Attraction

After five years of paradigm busting and building, here I am with my upgraded understanding of the logic for the Law of Attraction and I keep bristling at these references to the necessity for taking action.

When you bring up the Law of Attraction, many people ready with a tirade about action being what it takes in this world to make things happen. If you want to be successful, you have to work your butt off and this whole Law of Attraction is a scam – or worse.

You may have noticed this in the fallout after The Secret was highlighted on the Oprah show.  There were all kinds of outraged rebuttals - some even going as far as saying how it was unethical to even suggest that visualizing something would make it happen. People were being misled and if they took the Law of Attraction seriously - they would all stop doing what really mattered – getting out there and taking those actions to make things work.

James Arthur Ray - spotlighted on Oprah as a Law of Attraction proponent - says if you just sit around on your couch all day visualizing being rich they will come and take your furniture away.

And awhile back, what I read from Aaron Potts (Today is the Day blog) is- “The belief that you can sit around visualizing millions of dollars, and then suddenly they will just show up for you is nothing less than a total fantasy.”

And Bill Harris over at the Blog that Ate Mind Chatter referred to (somewhere in his voluminous posts) the idea that you could make things happen in this world without taking action as bulls#!t. (paraphrased)

Something about all this need for action didn’t strike me as fully consistent with the Law of Attraction logic. I have to say that the whole idea of action being necessary within the paradigm of the Law of Attraction doesn’t make any sense to me.

I think it’s a case of trying to apply the logic of consensual reality to the logic of the Law of Attraction. 

“A total fantasy” – Maybe that’s going too far

The basic tenet of the Law of Attraction is simple – whatever you are in vibrational alignment with is what you see show up in your world. Your thoughts, feelings, body functioning, actions, beliefs, mental constructs, - and probably more - all contribute to your vibrational alignment.

This concept of vibrational alignment is the key. Vibrational alignment is beyond thinking positive, it is beyond feeling good, it is beyond taking actions/ inspired actions, it is beyond beliefs – it is a certain state of being wherein thoughts, feelings, actions, beliefs all become attuned to its resonant frequency or energetic coherence.

You probably shouldn’t want to go around taking actions that are in contradiction to what you truly want because this won’t be in tune with your vibrational alignment. But do you really have to take action to bring into your life what you do want?

What about shamanic healing?
What about long distance healing?
What about extra-sensory perceptions?
Telepathic experiences?

Just Sitting Home On Your Couch

If you are sitting home on your couch being in vibrational alignment with your desire for money to just come to your door there is nothing in the Law of Attraction’s basic paradigm logic that says that can’t happen.

There may be lots of things in other paradigms about how the world works that say that won’t happen.  But if you are in vibrational alignment (that is you believe it is possible, you believe you can do it, you feel good about doing it, you have not bought into any consensual reality beliefs that it’s a total fantasy to do it, etc.) with the desire to sit home on your couch and become rich  - the Law of Attraction says what you are in vibrational alignment with shows up in your life.

In our Western worldview, we have big energy concepts (e.g. beliefs, consensual agreement, morphogenetic fields) around going out there and working for what you want. Not to mention the Puritan Work Ethic - and there is a lot of agreement in the world for that.  And even in the arena of the Law of Attraction there are subgroups of people who are into the necessity for taking actions to create the life you want.

Why is it that there is such a lot of energy around the need for taking actions?

Scientists tell us that we seem to be programmed from birth to accept the idea of locality as reality. Loosely translated this means that if we want to make something happen we have to make direct contact with it. As humans, it seems that we find the ability to influence at a distance unnatural. “Research on babies has shown that they don’t accept action at a distance, believing that there needs to be contact between two objects to allow one to act on the other.”

Maybe this feeling and belief about the necessity for action is just an outgrowth of our apparently inherent consensual agreement that we have to act on and make direct contact with something to make it happen.

My current favorite Law of Attraction paradigm is provided by Abraham – Ester and Jerry Hicks. The Abraham logic about action is one I really resonate with and for me it provides me with the most joy and freedom in my manifestation process - and provides me with the most intriguing options for possibilities.

Action is not discouraged but neither is it deemed necessary.

“You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought. You are mostly physical-action Beings at this time because you do not yet understand the power of your thoughts. When you are better at applying your deliberate thought, there will not be so much action for you to tend to.” 

Just for a moment, allow it to be possible that we don’t have to take actions to create what we want. Just for a moment, imagine that you have managed to transcend the limiting belief in the need for locality. Just for a moment imagine that maybe actions are just for the thrill of it all – but not necessary.  The how is not important – but the allowing of the possibility is.

I once worked with a man who said that his fortune came to him through his fax machine. He had written a couple of books and mostly they sat on his bookshelf. Then one day some millionaire from Australia sent him a fax and said he wanted to buy the rights to his books. Somehow the books had gotten into the hands of this Australian millionaire and he was willing to pay a lot of money for the rights to them. Since then, I check my faxes carefully.

Sometimes what we think can’t be done is more a matter of having reached the limits of what we can imagine rather than a statement of truth. For instance, one of my current limiting imagination thoughts is that healing takes time and change is gradual. But I’m working on bringing a little bit of uncertainty to what I think I know so that it gives away to a wider field of possibilities.

Action fans are fond of saying - If you want to win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket. Do you?

Why couldn’t you sit home on your couch being in vibrational alignment with becoming rich without having to do anything and - have it happen?

What if you were sitting on your couch in your living room and between the pages of your favorite comic book you found a lottery ticket and it’s the winning ticket. Perhaps the wind blew there. Perhaps a bird picked it up and dropped it there. Perhaps an angel dropped it there … or whatever. You win the millions and you didn’t even have to leave the house. They will come and get your furniture  - when they bring you your new furniture.

Yes, I know you had to buy the comic, find the lottery ticket and check the winning numbers – and they are all actions. I’m not against action. For me action makes the whole process of manifestation more enjoyable. And I think taking action is a very helpful and easy way to shift your vibrational alignment – but is it really necessary for manifestation – for creating what you want in your life?

The point is this – let yourself imagine for a moment letting go of the need for action. Imagine stepping into a paradigm where it is your certain state of being - your vibrational alignment - that creates your life. Taking action is helpful and fun - but not necessary.

Push your mind to let go of the need for action and see what opens up – what possibilities appear. If you like the idea of action, it’s not prohibited – it is just a cool extra-added luxury item in the manifestation process. It’s an optional step. It just adds to your feelings of joy and bliss. If you are into action.

What is the harm of letting go of our attachment to action?

Don’t you think it’s better to embrace all the possibilities rather than be constrained by limits?

I believe that as humans we have the biological potential for allowing straight out thought manifestation.

Am I there yet?

No.

I find it paradoxical to hold this belief and still have to rely so much on action to bring about the results I want. For me at this point in my life I find that bringing about what I want to see in my life relies heavily on focused thought, creative positive emotions, and disciplined, inspired actions. I am still reaching for that pure thought manifestation.

If you can move yourself out of the predominant agreement that action is needed for manifestation to occur, if you can move yourself beyond the inherent human concept of locality, and you are happily sitting home on your couch attracting money to you – maybe I’ll come visit you and you can give me some tips. Then I will have more choices – sometimes I’ll sit on my couch too and sometimes I will get out and about in the world doing things.

"Everything you can imagine is real."   -Picasso

Too Much to Do

I am going along creating my life and have things all planned and mapped out and on schedule – and from “out of nowhere” other priorities get bumped up.

My husband and I have this ongoing project to remodel our very “unmodeled” front hallway. We started the project the end of last year. We were happily plugging away at moderate pace when we suddenly got a great opportunity to refinance our variable mortgage at a nice fixed rate - but the hallway had to be done (no exposed beams). We switched into high gear and put the hallway up to the front of the line in our projects.

My husband has been doing most of the work and has now become the chief contractor for the hallway - and now only the occasional visitor in Evenstar.

On top of that, he was offered some time sensitive lucrative projects from his retired career. He took the opportunities. The end result being sort of a hiatus from his position as the marketing and technical director here at Evenstar. 

The point of the long story is – this is why you have not heard from us this past month. Things are settling out now and our scheduling is taking hold so we are back on track with our outreach to you.

In this little hiatus from our usual activity, I made good use of the opportunity to pull back and observe where we were and what we were doing. I discovered that we had gotten caught up in doing so many things that we were actually getting frazzled trying to keep up. I also discovered that you don’t have to do a million things to get what you really want – solid vibrational alignment yields better results than frazzled action. It’s OK to let go of trying to do everything. Better all around to keep yourself feeling good and reaching for feeling even better.

While I was watching my new order of priorities take shape and taking my hiatus from business as usual – I was offered a long desired opportunity (that I had peacefully accepted that it wasn’t time for yet) - and I got my own Life Coaching column in a home town newspaper in Maryland and I will be writing their monthly Alternative Approaches articles!

You too have probably discovered that can’t take enough actions to keep up with all the things you want and desire. It’s easier and more effective to just let the energy behind those desires work its magic.