Saturday, December 27, 2008

Shamanic Saturdays Continues 2009

Jan we will have two classes:
Jan 3rd 11-4
Jan 17th 11-4

Do register with me in advance as we only have room for 8 and the last was full and wait listed. Open to any/all previous shamanic students.

These are separate classes, 5 hours long. We will be covering different techniques, giving and receiving transmissions and initiations, and journeying. Bring all your shamanic gear! Class information will vary, and is not meant to be continuous.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Shamanic Saturdays

Starting in Dec, we will be having a once a month Shamanic class.
The vote has been to have it on a weekend day instead of weekday evenings. SInce it's cold and dark I'm all for that myself!
Do sign up and plan to attend. We will introduce a new process each month, work in our mesas and of course, journey. I will also offer one of the shamanic initiations each month that we call the "munay ki", which are transmissions and intiations that are grounding, protecting and empowering. We will be learning how to work with them as well!

I will offer it twice, so if you can't make one date, you have another option.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Advanced ThetaHealing Class Coming Up!

The Last Advanced Thetahealing class for the year will be Dec 5-7
Do consider getting this fine work under your belt-it will change your life!

Hours are:
Fri evening 6-9:30pm
Sat and Sun 11-4pm each day.

Location: slc Gonpa at 740 S 300 W

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

World Peace Meditation

World Peace Meditation

Oct 29, 4:30pm mst join the world in a peace meditation. For more information, click on the link above.

Generation WE-VOTES



Take a look at this short video about our children, our future, and what we are leaving our children. This is well done, and inspiring.

Are you, are your children, part of this movement? Are you registered to VOTE?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Optimism for the Future

Shamans view this time as a time of opportunity. Realize, now is the time to release your fears, your shadow and the genetic drama that has stalked your family. What do I mean by this?

Ask yourself, what is the story of your birthright? What story have you inherited? What story has been passed down, father to son, mother to daughter, generation after generation? What do you know of the collective familial map that has been stored in the fibers of your basal ganglia, in the mitochondrial DNA?

What are the generational belief patterns that form the map of your heritage? How does your family walk in the world, and what are YOU HERE NOW to change so that it doesn't move into your children and your children's children?

Now is the time to hold to your personal light and grow it. Now is the time to face the crisis before you, and see it as the greatest opportunity you have ever faced. Now is the time to make a difference.

Can you perceive beauty in the midst of what others perceive as chaos? Can you create beauty? That is the beauty way. That is the way of the shaman. You must find and hold the peace within you, and so hold to creating and manifesting peace in the world.

You aren't just clearing yourself. You are clearing the collective fear of generations upon generations, woven into the DNA fabric within the cells of your physical body. Your spirit, your soul, has been born into this particular body, and this particular lineage precisely TO be the change point.

Will you change this? Will you choose to change it? Will you step forward and face your greatest fears? The shaman knows that it is always the fear that stands between us and our greatest potential. And now, is the time, for the world to step into it's...OUR...greatest collective potential!

Aren't these amazing times then? Aren't these then the greatest of blessings? For we have the opportunity to finally slay the dragons, face the fires and vanquish within the DNA of our beings-that which has plagued mankind since the beginning. Now is an opportunity to hold and grow and become the LIGHT!

Nov 11, 2008-the beginning of the sixth initiation, the sixth kingdom, the "Sixth day".
Now we are challenged to heal and purify our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and to face our challenges. What no longer serves us, and what serves us better?

This is a time of dismemberment, of undoing, but that is always a great time for we become our best through this process. Embrace what is changing, and walk in peace and integrity through the world from now on. We are losing the "false gods", those things we thought were important and that we find are not.

We will grow from such richness. We will flower. Choose to face whatever fear stalks you, and become stronger for it. The Qero call these times the great reweaving for we have an opportunity to walk a new walk...one that has never been seen before on this planet. Will we change it? Will you?

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Orgasmic Birth

Orgasmic Birth Documentary

Watch this, and really allow yourself to examine how you might have been brought into the world, and how you brought your children in. Was it a joy filled, ecstatic experience? The thought that it COULD BE, is mind blowing. To sign your child into this life, instead of scream? What if this is the ultimate trauma resolution-generally? Could having an ecstatic birth wipe out the cellular genetic trauma of generations? Just a thought!

What does this do to our concept of child bearing? Even that term connotes that we must 'bear' childbirth and child rearing-survive it.

This documentary reminds me of Diamant's "The Red Tent" and again, how we have lost the sacred rites of women. Child birth is a challenge, to be sure, but watching this clip challenges us, truly, to understand what an amazing experience childbirth is, and that we can embrace it to us as an initiation, and not as something to dread.

I remember riding the contractions in a sort of blissful trance, pushing and feeling like I had gone beyond the need to breathe. I DID have an epidermal though so it was without pain. What if we all hit that place with or without medication?

In this work, I have taken people back through the TRAUMA of their own birth, the fear, the pain, the isolation and separation. So many core beliefs are coded into the cells of the physical body during this time of transition. What if we could truly make this a kinesthetic celebration? What if birthing joyously were the beginning of living joyous on this planet? Might this be a way to truly make the next 2000 years peaceful? Isn't this really about a peaceful birth? Would a peaceful birth mean a peaceful life?

And what about the other end when we exit? What if a peaceful birth echos into a peaceful exit too? Wouldn't that be amazing to follow this all the way through, see how these kids progress? And the fathers appear so involved and connected to the whole experience. I can't wait for this to be screened.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Following Our Bliss

Joseph Campbell says to follow our Bliss. Do you know what your bliss is? What does bliss feel like?

I looked up the definition of bliss: and the online dictionary says:
extreme happiness, ecstasy, spiritual joy try this one:
the joy of heaven and even serene joy

Now, can you remember feeling bliss in this lifetime?
Close your eyes and go back to a time when you remember bliss, feeling it, in every cell in your body. Is it there?

Maybe living joy!us is about finding our way to Bliss? I've always said that joy is a life-given right. We should all be joyful. Joy full. Full up with joy. Joy should be in every cell, that GOD meant for us to be in a state of original joy, and joy is life and so it is in Greek.

When we strip away all the doings of our lives, all the have tos and shoulds, all the obligations and committments, when we strip all that away, we get to a bare bones state. Now, when we are clear and clean, we hear a song and that song is the sound of our birth into matter. That tone we hear in our bones is our soul singing out. Every cell in our body carries a sound, because that sound is a frequency, and every frequency begins to cause a vibration that causes a movement into form, pattern, constellation.

That constellation of matter becomes us! And what if we could hear that sound? Do you think that that sound would be bliss?
Are we in bliss by being alive? And is the rest an illusion? When you get still and quiet and listen to the inside of you-is that bliss?

Maybe finding joy is finding bliss, and maybe it's about finding our way inside ourselves? That's what meditation is about, and meditation leads us to serenity. Is bliss, serene or is it ecstatic, or are they really the same?

When I was nine, I had a lucid dream in which I found myself walking with a robed and sandaled, bearded man with beautiful eyes. We floated above fields of flowers and he told me of many things. When I awoke from the dream, I was in bliss! I knew we were not alone, and I knew that I was loved. I felt it deeply inside, and I was ecstatic. And serene. If I follow that dream it takes me into my heart, and back in time.

Now, how do I follow that bliss? How do I not! It's a compulsion to find my way back that has haunted me for 40 years.

Peter Russell-From Science to God



This is a selection from Peter Russell's DVD - From Science to God

Thursday, September 11, 2008

African Shaman-Levitating!



when we begin to change our beliefs about what is possible, we open to even more experience. This african shaman levitates. They are in the middle of the jungle-no pullys, no machines, no trick, no wires...and yet he rises with a big grin on his face!

THE SHIFT


THE SHIFT Movie Trailer from The Shift on Vimeo.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Some Addictions Begin With the Best of Intentions

We were discussing the things we hold on to, some people and I.

It was an interesting conversation, all about when to let go, what to let go of, what we want to hold on to. Sometimes it's not a conscious decision that makes sense. Mostly, it's not. (so you know). Our somatic self, our feeling body, that younger us that is our emotional self and connected and governed by our limbic brain and enteric nervous system, that part of us determines the unconscious comforts that can too often fall into addictions.

My son was getting ready to go off to College. All through High School he has been the nonsmoker among his friends. He never liked his father smoking, he didn't like the smell, the taste, and had had no attraction to it. He had criticized his father and over the years, begged him to quit. To his credit, his Dad has been 'quitting' smoking, and was down to taking a few puffs now and then outside, but this was a sneak. You know? None of us were really supposed to know.

This particular evening, I was in bed, and Dad went out on the deck to light one up. As he gazed around, his eyes went up to the roof, and there our son sitting with a lit cigarette in his hand. Both yelled at the other. Caught. There they were, both outraged at the other!

When my son came down to breakfast, he was mostly curious about his own behavior-why had he finally decided to try one? Why now? He knew he'd always had the opportunity, and he didn't get himself. He hadn't liked it, but somehow it had felt right. "Mom, why now? I could have smoked anytime. I've never wanted to. Didn't even like it. Why now?"

That was easy to explain. Unconscious comfort. I started scrambling the eggs as we talked. Kitchens are great for talks, aren't they?

"You're about to leave home for the first time. The smell of your Dad's cigarette smoke means home and safety and comfort. This is how it starts sometimes. We have an association. If you aren't careful you'll light up a cigarette every time your miss us, as an unconscious attempt to bring us closer." He nodded as I explained it.

"Your father didn't start to smoke until he left his home at twenty. His father had smoked, but your Dad had never smoked when he was home, only after he left. You're getting ready to leave, and your father smokes. It's a way of taking something of him with you, something familiar." He nodded. He got it.

I said, "Do what I did. I took a bottle of Old Spice with me when I left home and I put it in the medicine chest so I could see it every day. When I felt lonely or lost, I would go into the bathroom and smell it and remember my father's strength and love." He smiled. Smart kid, I only had to explain it once.

I kept thinking about it though. It's why I would particularly eat Fig Newtons when I was sad; my favorite Grandfather's treat. It brought him closer to me. I think it's why my husband's smoking has never really bother me, even though I don't like cigarette smoke.

My grandfather always smoked a pipe! I would see the smoke curling around his head as he watched tv and know that I was safe, anchored to that smell and the sight of the smoke in the air. His fingers would smell of tobacco, and my limbic brain had anchored smoking to comfort, home and safety. Why would I object? The smell of a pipe brings a smile to me. It means home.

Smells go straight to the limbic brain, straight to the amygdala, the somatic memory center of the brain. I think taste goes there too-joined hand in hand to smell, anchoring memories and experiences, but no one has proven that yet that I can tell. That smell of a pipe transports me back in time.

Time is a funny thing. It's elastic, isn't it? One whiff and we're back. Sometimes what later becomes an addiction, like smoking, starts out with the best of intentions. If we hadn't talked that morning over scrambling eggs, he might have continued trying to anchor home to a cigarette...as it is, he's never bothered to light one up again.

He's relieved actually, that he doesn't 'have to' start smoking to be 'home'. Me too!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Eleven Ways to Get Happy!

We are being bombarded from all sides with dire news. The economy, the war, the stock market, the falling dollar, the changing weather patterns-it's enough to make a happy person crazy, but what about the person that isn't baseline happy already?

What do they do? What do you do? Changing our mood isn't always as easy as 1-2-3. Changing your mind, changing your focus can be easier said than done. But it can be done. What I'm noticing though, is as a country we are becoming habitually UNhappy. And UNhappy is becoming the norm, and we are learning to live with it. NO NO NO!

One of the things about our brain is that it focuses on whatever we tell it to. It collects information from the world around us, based on what we have DECIDED is important to pay attention to. Some people MUST watch the news. My husband is like that. He watches the news every night before he goes to bed, and he gets upset about the world every night.

"Do you really want to fill yourself with gloom right before bedtime?" I've asked him, and he scowls and says,

"You have to know what's going on."

I shrug and wonder if we really do? What does it matter whether I know about the price of rice in Afghanistan? I'm joking, kinda, but you know, does it matter to the world if I don't know what's going on? He would say "I have to know what the weather is going to be like."

I think, "Why? If it rains, it rains. Knowing about it doesn't change a thing." He isn't going to change his behavior because of the rain. We aren't farmers. What does it matter if they say it will be hot or cold tomorrow? When I go outside, I'll figure it out!
But in order to get the weather news, I have to listen to a lot of really negative, primarily negative, other stuff.

1. Change your habitual negative influences Do you have habits that bring you down? My husband loves to watch the news, and I watch him get more and more angry and depressed AS he's watching it! Not me boy. I go in the other room and watch something funny. If you have negative friends, give them some distance. Stop reading the obituaries.

2.Listen to your internal talk. Do you self talk yourself down? Talk nice to yourself! "I'm never going to..." "It's so bad..." Learn to listen to that background voice because it tends to be the one that holds the unconscious beliefs. "I'm always late" "This is never going to work". We don't talk nice to ourselves, have you noticed. I've heard people say "I'm so stupid!" Come on, would we say that to someone else? Why say it to ourselves? Change that voice!

3.Give yourself some slack. Be gentle on yourself!Can you be your own best friend? If you are running late, the world will not fall apart. It's ok. Most of us are really little kids inside, and it's the child that doesn't want to get in trouble that feels bad. The feeling body is younger than our chronological age. Be nice to the child inside. Somehow in our world we've come to believe that we have to be hard on ourselves, and that it's better for us. Throw that one out, would ya?

4. Daydream more! Play in your head! Be creative, have fun! Most of us got in trouble for daydreaming, but it's your most creative state. I say, daydream more! Give yourself dream time! Set it aside. Let it be ok. What would the world look like if you were the one creating it? We have to be able to dream it to make it real, and this is a very real step in manifesting. DREAM MORE. It makes you happy! All of the classes, whether it's theta or shamanism or psychism or even trauma resolution, is about using your creative dream state.

5.Count Your Blessings Even if you have to prime the pump with "I'm grateful I'm breathing" to get yourself going, start that gratitude journal. It works. Why? Because, look back at the beginning-you are teaching your brain what to focus on! Focus on the good things. It makes you happier. My son's computer just fried in a puff of smoke and green light. WHAM. But, when we took it down, it's under warranty and he walked out with a newer computer that's even better than what he had. BLESSINGS! Count em and they multiply. Truly. Focus on the good, and more good shows up.

By the same token, focus on what's wrong, and you start a snowball of wrongness.

6.Let it GOAgain, it works. You've heard this. Don't sweat the small stuff. Get it in perspective. When you count your blessings, getting a dent in the car is small compared to no one got hurt. My husband says I'm a Pollyanna, but you know what, I am a happier person! Yes, my cup is always half full! I always know the sun will come out. I know there are rainbows even when I can't see them. Sue me.

7.Stop comparing.This is a big one. We are trained to be competitive. If you realize there is no race, then you will stop feeling like you are about to lose. No one really cares what you are doing, or how well you are doing it-they are too worried about themselves! By the same token, no one is holding out that blue ribbon either. Most of us are still trying to get mommy and daddy's approval. From our boss, from our spouse, from our friends. Become true to yourself, and back to #3, be a friend to that wounded child inside that is still seeking approval. Be the approval you always wanted. There is always going to be someone ahead. Try holding out a hand to those behind you and realize we are all going to the same place anyway.

8.Treat Yourself!Buy yourself flowers instead of complaining that no one buys you flowers. I started to do this. I buy myself a bunch of flowers and arrange them in a vase because it makes ME happy to see them! I listen to music I like and I have learned to sing outloud again. I don't have much of a voice, so overcoming my own limiting voice (see #2) that said not to sing, was a biggie. Singing makes us happy! Oh wait-that should be #9.

9. SING out loud!Sing in the car, sing in the shower, sing whenever your can. There is something truly freeing about vocalizing in a positive way, and singing is positive! It's definitely few of us can do angry, unless we are in opera. So free yourself to sing out! And don't be timid! Let it rip!

10. Get out into the SUN! This is biochemical as well as emotional and energetic. Vitamin D is a hormone, and we get it from sunshine on our skin. Yep. Being in the sun definitely does make us feel better and it's been proven! Hah! It is not our imagination. A day in the sun helps. Get out on your lunch hour, sit outside, turn your face up. Don't be afraid of the sun, it literally feeds us. Open that sunroof, put your arm out the window, get it on your skin! Feel it as it feeds you! SUN glorious SUN!

11.Look up! This sounds strangely simple, but it works. When you are in a negative state, you will tend to look down, slow your breathing and slump. You are internally replaying the negative talk, the negative experience, the negative feeling. Look up! Raise your eyes up and you will begin to feel better. I swear. Try it! Look up! You will take a breath, fill your lungs, and lighten up. Honest. You may not even remember what you were just thinking. But if you look back down again, you can find that feeling. So look up! Stay up! What's that old saying? "Raise your eyes towards Heaven." Well why not if it works! Don't knock it until you try it.

Looking up, going up is what Theta is all about, isn't it?
BE happy!

NLP-Can You Catch a Liar?

I started in NLP. Neural Linguistic Programming. Brain Language-understanding how the brain codifies language into beliefs that then moderate our behaviors, thoughts, feelings and reality. Pretty fascinating actually.

My Grandfather used to say "A liar is worse than a thief. You can never catch a liar." But can you? How do you know if someone is lying to you? Wouldn't that be a useful skill to have?

Short of reading their mind, which we can teach you to do in the classes, you can really pick up a lot of information through non-verbal clues. 90% of communication is non-verbal anyway! Learning what to pay attention to is half the task.

Police officers, Interrogators, Speech writers, Advertisers, Lawyers are trained in NLP. And they are intuitive. I'm amazed at how many men dismiss psychism, and yet use it all the time. They call it a hunch, a gut feeling, but for them it's not woo-woo stuff, it's experience. Why are we so reluctant to admit our own extra-sensory abilities? We all have them? Ah but wait now. I'm getting up on my soapbox, so let me climb down, wipe off my hands, and start again.

Parents needs this. Hey, if you are in a relationship, it would pay to have this ability. Right? Remember the old "SOAP" sitcom? For some reason when I think of consummate liars, I think of the husband in that show, Chester (played by Robert Mandan), married to Jessica (played so beautifully by Katherine Helmund).

1. Catch 'em in the inconsistencies. Liars often trip themselves up because they can't keep their stories straight, but they may miss basic human reactions to things. But more important, what is their usual behavior, and are they consistent or inconsistent with that? Sometimes extreme emotion can cause us to behave differently than we would normally.

2. Ask unexpected questions that they have to think about. If they are making it up, listen to the tone of their voice and the length of the pause.

3. Watch their eyes when you ask it too. In NLP we know eye accessing cues-and most people's eyes go UP and to their RIGHT (your left as you look at them) when they are in what we call "visual construct." That means-they are making it up as they go. If you want to see, ask them a visual question about something you know they know (like what they wore), and watch their eyes. They will go up and to their LEFT (your right) to see the remembered picture.

4. Are their emotions genuine? Can you tell this? Well most people aren't as good at acting as they think, and what trips them up is being calm when they should be upset, and being agitated when they should be calm. Acting a part that they haven't really experienced.

5. But you can calibrate even closer. Watch their eyes-the pupil dilation when you ask them a question, and it's less about what it means as it does to just notice a reaction. Watch if they start to sweat. Physical reactions that they can't control.

6. Watch their breathing. Are they holding their breath, or breathing rapid. Are they shallow breathing? Something else might be going on.

7. The old "they won't meet my eyes" doesn't always work. Some people get so upset they can't look at you. That doesn't mean they are lying. It could be habit from childhood. But is it consistent or inconsistent with their baseline normal? Watch for the eyes that dart and move though-there is a hidden agitation to notice. They might not be lying exactly, but they could be hiding something! Refer to #1!

8. In NLP we call these micro calibrations. Pore size on the skin, watching their nostrils, pupil dilation. You can also watch micro emotional expressions. Flashes of uncontrolled emotion that reveals what's going on deeper.

9. Watch and listen for mismatches. These are unconscious. "Yes of course I was there" while they are slightly shaking their head 'no'. Watch the hands, watch the feet! People that are trying hard to lie might inadvertantly hold their body very rigid-an inconsistency with their normal behavior? Refer to #1! Just notice!

10. When people create a story to cover themselves they often make up too many details, trying to cover too many bases! A good alibi isn't necessarily a perfect one. Too many details may be the clue you need.

But really, we want to trust people, we need to trust people, and it's important to give them the benefit of the doubt. And lying may have a positive intention. FInd out why they are trying to lie. I tell parents all the time, it's good to be aware, but don't be suspicious of everything. Let your children know you trust them, and lead with being honest yourself. Kids model what you do, not what you say.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Website is Being ReConstructed



Thanks for your patience: the website is being redone and will be revealed soon! A new look, new classes and new work.
It's takes time to break out of the cocoon, as we've talked about. That cocoon is a complicated weaving of old beliefs, thoughts, fears. It is literally what wraps us into the density field we call real.

We'll be drying our wings and trying them out shortly. Meanwhile, the fall classes are posted to the right. Please take a look, and remember to sign up by going to the University Site: continue.utah.edu

And click the subscribe button to the right to stay connected. Thanks much!

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Andean Music



Reminds me of Peru. Enjoy!

For more information on our Peruvian based shamanic training, visit the website: Livingjoyus.com

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Metamorphosis



Sound familiar? I've been saying just this for about 7 years now! About time the world caught up!

Friday, February 29, 2008

THE WAVE



We talk about how prevalent beliefs are-and how easy it is to influence a group of people. We are group thinkers-most of us are dogs-we go along with the pack. This is an actual true experiment that was done...

He decided to do an experiment and it all started with a 'special wave' that the teacher gave to a group of 'special' students. And so it began.

What do you believe and why?

For more information on our ThetaHealing classes which are all about ways to identify and change your beliefs, visit the website: Livingjoyus.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Seth Speaks About Beliefs



If you haven't heard of Jane Roberts, or Seth, check it out. The information is challenging, intellectual and timely. Jane trance channeled Seth back in the 1970s-long before Ramtha or Abraham or Kyron. Jane was channeling the Seth Material back when it wasn't vogue, and no one knew what was happening.

The books have never been out of publication, and the information has always been available. If you haven't heard of Seth, this might be something you are ready for.

For more information on our classes, visit the website: Livingjoyus.com

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Light Of Healing Blog

If you are trained as a distance healer-meaning reiki, thetahealing, shamanism, pranic healing, soma pi, or any number of other healing modalities, please consider joining us in both sending and requesting healings.

The Light Of Healing Blogspot is our fledgling blog to post those that need healing.

Let me know if you want to join and Ii will put you in the google alert group email list and post you on the blog. Send requests to me. Name, age, location, brief description.

You can go on the blog and send energy and post your comments about what you see, feel, hear for everyone that is currently on the list. You just need to do a free google registration and set up a name and password.

I go through and add updates and modify the list from time to time. Once a week when we are busy. It's a great place to practice and feel like you are doing some good for others too.