Calling All Grand Mothers by Alice Walker

Calling All Grand Mothers
We have to live
differently or we
will die
in the same old ways.
Therefore I call on all Grand Mothers
everywhere on the planet
to rise and take your place
in the leadership of the world
Come out of the kitchen
out of the fields
out of the beauty parlors
out of the television
Step forward & assume
the role for which you were created:
To lead humanity to health, happiness & sanity.
I call on all the Grand Mothers of Earth
& every person who possesses
the Grand Mother spirit
of respect for life &
protection of the young
to rise & lead.
The life of our species depends on it.
& I call on all men of Earth to gracefully
and gratefully stand aside
& let them(let us)do so.

Massage Works For Me

The Benefits Of Massage
What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

* Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
* Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
* Ease medication dependence.
* Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
* Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
* Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
* Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
* Increase joint flexibility.
* Lessen depression and anxiety.
* Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
* Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
* Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
* Reduce spasms and cramping.
* Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
* Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
* Relieve migraine pain.

A Powerful Ally
There’s no denying the power of bodywork. Regardless of the adjectives we assign to it (pampering, rejuvenating, therapeutic) or the reasons we seek it out (a luxurious treat, stress relief, pain management), massage therapy can be a powerful ally in your healthcare regimen.

Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. While eliminating anxiety and pressure altogether in this fast-paced world may be idealistic, massage can, without a doubt, help manage stress. This translates into:

* Decreased anxiety.
* Enhanced sleep quality.
* Greater energy.
* Improved concentration.
* Increased circulation.
* Reduced fatigue.

Furthermore, clients often report a sense of perspective and clarity after receiving a massage. The emotional balance bodywork provides can often be just as vital and valuable as the more tangible physical benefits.

Profound Effects
In response to massage, specific physiological and chemical changes cascade throughout the body, with profound effects. Research shows that with massage:

* Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain.
* Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow.
* Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety.
* High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress hormones.
* Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping.
* Preterm infants have improved weight gain.

Research continues to show the enormous benefits of touch—which range from treating chronic diseases, neurological disorders, and injuries, to alleviating the tensions of modern lifestyles. Consequently, the medical community is actively embracing bodywork, and massage is becoming an integral part of hospice care and neonatal intensive care units. Many hospitals are also incorporating on-site massage practitioners and even spas to treat postsurgery or pain patients as part of the recovery process.

Increase the Benefits with Frequent Visits
Getting a massage can do you a world of good. And getting massage frequently can do even more. This is the beauty of bodywork. Taking part in this form of regularly scheduled self-care can play a huge part in how healthy you’ll be and how youthful you’ll remain with each passing year. Budgeting time and money for bodywork at consistent intervals is truly an investment in your health. And remember: just because massage feels like a pampering treat doesn’t mean it is any less therapeutic. Consider massage appointments a necessary piece of your health and wellness plan, and work with your practitioner to establish a treatment schedule that best meets your needs.

Review the clinical research studies examining the benefits of massage.

Review massage information from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

Intutive Living Workshop for Spring Cleaning Your Soul

On Saturday, March 20th, the Spring Equinox, I'll be leading a workshop for Spring cleaning Aura's and Chakras @ The Chakra Shack in Idyllwild, California. I'm so excited to be returning to the hill on this special day. I hope you can join us from 10 to 2pm to learn the mechanics of clearing out the energies that dim the radiant light of our souls. At only $39 spaces are filling quickly. This mountain resort town is a wonderful place to spend the first day of Spring and return home, renewed, rejuvenated and with the tools for changing your vibration in an instant.
If you have any questions you can call me at 310 849-9617 See you there!

She Let Go

She Let Go

She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go
of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go
of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the
'right' reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry,
she just let go.

She didn't ask anyone for advice. She didn't read a book on how to
let go. She didn't search the scriptures. She just let go. She let
go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of
the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the
planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.

She didn't promise to let go. She didn't journal about it.
She didn't write the projected date in her Day-Timer. She
made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She
didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.

She didn't analyze whether she should let go. She didn't call
her friends to discuss the matter. She didn't do a five-step
Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn't call the prayer line. She
didn't utter one word. She just let go.

No one was around when it happened. There was no applause
or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one
noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just
let go.

There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn't good and it
wasn't bad. It was what it was, and it is just that.

In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came
over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the
moon shone forevermore.
~Ernest Holmes

Six Blind Men and The Elephant

My first spiritual teacher, Royce Morales, shared a story one night in the class she taught in her living room in Hollywood, California. It is an old story that has it's roots in India, yet many versions exist in other cultures and religions. It is the story of the "Six Blind Men and an Elephant." It goes something like this:

Six blind men were asked to describe an elephant. In order to do so, they had to feel the elephant. One man felt the elephant's trunk. The next one felt the elephant's tail. Another man felt the elephants ear, another the elephants side, one felt it's leg and the last one, the elephant's tusk.

The first man said, "An elephant is like a giant snake". The next one said, "No. You are wrong. An elephant is like a rope". The man who had felt the elephants side said, "No you are both wrong. It is like a rough wall." The one who had felt the elephant's leg said, "An elephant is like a tree trunk." The man who felt the tusk said, "You're all wrong. It's like a spear." they were in complete disagreement.

The story is used to indicate that reality may be viewed differently depending upon one's perspective, suggesting that what seems an absolute truth may be relative due to the deceptive nature of half-truths. They were each correct according to their piece of the elephant, yet all so wrong about the whole or holistic point of view.

Goal Setting

What do you want? Where do you want to be in twelve months? Two years? Five years? Ten years? How do you want to feel? What do you want your state of health to be like? What kind of work would you like to be doing? What will your social life be like? How do you want your personal relationships to look?
Without a destination in mind, how will you plan your journey?

In the beginning.....

In mid 1980, when I decided to become a healer, there was a great deal of trepidation about announcing that decision. Society at large was not exactly open to psychic work or Reiki, Feng Shui or mindful practices. Certainly the seeds for expanded consciousness in had been planted in the 60s with the LSD movement and the introduction of Transcendental Meditation to America, but much of the momentum for enlightened living was derailed in the 70s when the un-enlightened misused and misunderstood the purpose of mind expanding experiences.

Today, there are psychic shows on every channel and "Channels" on thousands of websites. Some are phonies, of course, but many more are attuned to receive intuitive guidance and wisdom. Lightworkers are everywhere. We have organized groups, a Holistic Chamber of Commerce, Lightworkers.org, Yoga masters teaching in local high schools and Centers for Spiritual Living popping up in the most unexpected places. Times have changed, indeed.

In the beginning we kept our gifts and talents a secret, even from ourselves. We hid in a closet of our own making. In 2010, we are coming out of those closets and giving birth to a new awareness of who we really are. Are you ready to "Know thyself"? Are you feeling a desire to live a more enlightened purposeful life? If you are, you are being called to awaken from your unconscious living. There are many Ascended Masters, Angels, Archangels, Guides and Teachers here because the veil between this 3rd dimension reality and the 4th and 5th dimensions has thinned. We are not alone on our journey through this Global Consciousness Shift. In the 60s we called it the New Age, the Age of Aquarius. It has arrived.

Healing the Wounds That Bind.

We are bound by our resistance to feel that which we judge uncomfortable or painful. Who wants to feel pain and grief? Who wants to experience anger and fear? We resist those emotions through denial, judgment and mind numbing habits whenever possible. Most of us would rather watch mind numbing television than feel our pain. We drink to avoid them, shop to avoid them, have sex to avoid them and eat to suppress them. However, it is not the experience of the emotions we're resisting that causes the pain and suffering. It is the resistance itself that is the cause of our inner turmoil. It is the resistance to feeling that keeps us stuck, unable to move forward to our desired experiences.

Healing the wounds of the heart and soul requires courage, the same courage needed to jump out of a plane or ride your first roller coaster. The fear is primal, it feels like our survival is at stake. The ego jumps in to rescues us with lots of excuses and ideas to squander our time with projects or addictions. I say we cannot move forward until we look back and unbind the ties of resistance to that which we perceive to be "negative" emotions because, in truth, there are no "bad" emotions. Emotions are simply energy in motion. Not good, not bad, just energy.


According to the Chinese Zodiac, this is the Year of the Golden Tiger, which symbolizes courage. It requires courage to allow all of our feelings to come to the surface for full expression in order for the energy to be transmuted. Feeling them, without resistance is the work of the Spiritual Warrior.

2010

Wow! What an amazing year 2009 was. I must admit to celebrating its ending. It was a challenging year in many ways and I need not go into it because that was then, and this is now.

My family and I greeted the New Year in San Diego, California with a visit to Sea World and my wonderful daughter inspired me to do something I've never done before. Not ever in my life have I imagined I would do it. I rode a roller coaster. I know it sounds silly but I've been afraid of them since I was a little girl. My sister told me a terrible story about the roller coaster in Santa Monica at Pacific Ocean Park. We called it Pee-Oh-Pee and the roller coaster was called the Sea Serpent. The story was that one of the cars flew off of the tracks and landed in the ocean killing the occupants. That was all I needed to hear to forgo any roller coaster, ever. Well, I'm happy to say I overcame my fear and had an exhilarating ride under a full moon, and a blue moon to boot.

Traditionally I spend December 31st reviewing the previous year, forgiving what needs forgiving and setting new intentions for the coming year. Well, 2010 started out with a bang, not unlike the gun shot you hear at the beginning of a race. I have been as busy as I have ever been with work, family, remodeling, organizing and launching my new class. I've been editing the new workbook and recording my guided meditations and I'm preparing for a new care-giver for my 90 year-old mother. She needs nearly full-time attention these days and I can no longer provide her the care she needs and still do my work. So, I've remodeled the master suite to accommodate her needs and make room for help. It's all coming together so I can be free to travel about the country presenting workshops and group readings and programs for companies to align their message with their higher purpose.

Writing a Tale of Our Future

I believe the future is not yet written. We are writing it now, in the present moment. We write it with our conscious intentions and with our subconscious thoughts and beliefs. We activate our future with the focused attention of our awareness. We launch it into manifestation with our emotional vibration. Each belief has a vibration. We feel it in our bodies. Yes or No?....on or off?.....truth or lie? As more and more of us take spiritual responsibility for our beliefs and experiences we will transmute the energy of our lower-self patterns. The collective, creative mind will always respond according to our vibration. Collectively, each and every one of us is writing the future. I believe we are co creators.
What do you believe?

BTW

I started a new blog: "It Really Galls Me" dedicated to my journey from disease to radiant health. It's been fascinating in just the first three weeks. Come check it out: http://fromdiseasetoease.blogspot.com/

Ghost Busting

I'm a full service psychic medium with a service I'm rarely called out to do. Maddie called last week to ask if I could help a friend of hers who is living in a house where some very strange things are going on. Lights, radios and microwaves are turning on all by themselves. Things are flying off of shelves and the room where her 2 year old sleeps is always cold. Woo-hoo! Ghost Busting! This is always a fun little aspect of my work.

I arrived before noon and read the energy lines around the house. I came in and took a tour around their home as they told me about all of the incidences. As it turned out, the old man died in the house he'd lived in for many years. His house was sold but he never left. After the walk around, he and I had a chat. I cleared the little girls room and returned to talk to the adults. As I began to tell them what I had learned about their "visitor" the pictures on the wall across from me flipped up off of the wall. Ooooooh. It's a good thing Halloween is over. I saged the house and we did a prayer treatment. I got an email today from the family thanking me....the house is warm and quiet now. This right here is the good stuff. Heck, it's all good stuff.

Update on Jan

I was in Phoenix last week and drove over to the beautiful care facility Jan is in. She was in a terrible car accident a year ago and has suffered severe brain damage. She is in a semi vegetative state. I was asked to work with her two months ago and her improvement is substantial. Her body is beginning to relax with the work being done at her new home. She communicates with her eyes and facial expressions. I, however, communicate telepathically with her. She was adamant when she said, "Leave me alone!" She was in the middle of physical therapy which is often painful for her. Her muscles are constricted still so stretching requires her full attention. I worked with Jan and her therapist using guided visualization to relax her muscles and it worked very well. She's obviously hearing me and responding. I had hoped to see more improvement in her ability to speak but all she said was, "Ouch". I will continue Reiki with her and hope to see her at Christmas.

Chief Arvol

As Keeper of our Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, I am concerned for the 2 deaths and illnesses of the many people that participated in a sweat lodge in Sedona, Arizona that brought our sacred rite under fire in the news. I would like to clarify that this lodge and many others, are not our ceremonial way of life, because of the way they are being conducted. My prayers go out for their families and loved ones for their loss.

Our ceremonies are about life and healing, from the time this ancient ceremonial rite was given to our people, never has death been a part of our inikag¹a (life within) when conducted properly. Today the rite is interpreted as a sweat lodge, it is much more than that. So the term does not fit our real meaning of purification.

Inikag¹a is the oldest ceremony brought to us by Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit). 19 generations ago, the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Oyate (people), were given seven sacred rites of healing by a Spirit Woman Pte San Win (White Buffalo Calf Woman). She brought these rites along with our sacred C¹anupa (pipe) to our People, when our ancestors were suffering from a difficult time. It was also brought for the future to help us for much more difficult times to come. They were brought to help us stay connected to who we are as a traditional cultural People. The values of conduct are very strict in any of these ceremonies, because we work with spirit. The way the Creator, Wakan Tanka told us; that if we stay humble and sincere, we will keep
that connection with the inyan oyate (the stone people), who we call the grandfathers, to be able to heal our selves and loved ones. We have a ³gift² of prayer and healing and have to stay humble with our Unc¹i Maka (Grandmother Earth) and with one another. The inikag¹a is used in all of the seven sacred rites to prepare and finish the ceremonies, along with the sacred eagle feather. The feather represents the sacred knowledge of our ancestors.

Our First Nations People have to earn the right to pour the mini wic¹oni (water of life) upon the inyan oyate (the stone people) in creating Inikag¹a - by going on the vision quest for four years and four years Sundance. Then you are put through a ceremony to be painted - to recognize that you have now earned that right to take care of someone¹s life through purification. They should also be able to understand our sacred language, to be able to understand the messages from the Grandfathers, because they are ancient, they are our spirit ancestors. They walk and teach the values of our culture; in being humble, wise, caring and compassionate.

What has happened in the news with the make shift sauna called the sweat lodge is not our ceremonial way of life!

When you do ceremony - you can not have money on your mind. We deal with the pure sincere energy to create healing that comes from everyone in that circle of ceremony. The heart and mind must be connected. When you involve money, it changes the energy of healing. The person wants to get what they paid for; the Spirit Grandfathers will not be there, our way of life is now being exploited! You do more damage then good. No² mention² of monetary energy should exist in healing, not even with a can of love donations. When that energy exists, they will not even come. Only Œafter¹ the ceremony, between the person that is being healed and the Intercessor who has helped connect with the Great Spirit, the energy of money can be given out of
appreciation. That exchange of energy is from the heart; it is private and does not involve the Grandfathers! Whatever gift of appreciation the person who received the help, can now give the Intercessor what ever they feel their healing is worth.

In our Prophesy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, she told us that she would return and stand upon the earth when we are having a hard time. In 1994 this began to happen with the birth of the white buffalo, not only their nation, but many animal nations began to show their sacred color, which is white. She predicted that at this time there would be many changes upon Grandmother Earth. There would be things that we never experienced or heard of before; climate changes, earth changes, diseases, disrespect for life and one another would be shocking and there would be also many false prophets!

My Grandmother that passed the bundle to me said I would be the last Keeper if the Oyate (people) do not straighten up. The assaults upon Grandmother Earth are horrendous, the assaults toward one another was not in our culture, the assaults against our People (Oyate) have been termed as genocide, and now we are experiencing spiritual genocide!

Because of the problems that began to arise with our rebirth of being able to do our ceremonies in the open since the Freedom of Religion Act of 1978, our Elders began talking to me about the abuses they seen in our ceremonial way of life, which was once very strict. After many years of witnessing their warnings, we held a meeting to address this very issue of lack of protocol in our ceremonies. After reaching an agreement of addressing the misconduct of our ceremonies and reminding of the proper protocols, a statement was made in March 2003. Every effort was made to insure our
way of life of who we are as traditional cultural People was made, because these ways are for our future and all life upon the Grandmother Earth (Mitakuye Oyasin All my relations), so that they may have good health. Because these atrocities are being mocked and practiced all over the world, there was even a film we made called
³Spirits for Sale².

The non-native people have a right to seek help from our ³First Nation Intercessors² for good health and well-being, it is up to that Intercessor. That is a privilege for all People that we gift for being able to have good health and understand that their protocol is to have respect and appreciate what we have to share. The First Nations Intercessor has to earn that right to our ceremonial way of life in the ways I have explained.

At this time, I would like to ask all Nations upon Grandmother Earth to please respect our sacred ceremonial way of life and stop the exploitation of our Tunka Oyate (Spiritual Grandfathers).

In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no ending and no beginning!

Namah¹u yo (hear my words),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White
Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle.

We live in a multi-dimensional, holographic universe thus we have within us, all the parts of the whole. We are, by nature, holistic. Not simply, mind, body and spirit, but universal particles of light that create the all that is.....

Like a piece of apple pie has all the ingredients of the whole pie.....

When our brains seek a memory, it tunes into the memory that resides in the holographic field. The memory doesn't exist in the cells of the brain, the brain is like a radio receiver and tunes into the memory. When our brain gets knocked around our tuner can be damaged and unable to tune itself the frequency needed to receive information. Isn't that fascinating? Latest brain research is amazing.

Jan

Since we began working with Reiki and psychic energy to assist Jan, asking her questions and listening to her communicate her spiritual desires, she has been moved to a new facility. She now is clearly stating that she is willing to participate in her recovery. Her body is unfolding and she seems to be awakening. I continue with regular distant healing and I've been to her new home for hands on work.

We are remarkable healers each of us.

Jan

Jan, a 51 year old female, was in a tragic car accident last year and she suffered a sever brain injury and she's been unable to communicate since that day and her body has contracted. Her family contacted me a few weeks ago when her doctors informed them that the insurance company will no longer pay for her hospital stay. The doctors suggested, strongly, to send her to a hospice facility in order to let her go, which would mean stop feeding her or giving her liquids. Within a few days she would be gone. Her family wanted to know if I could contact her spirit and ask her if she wanted to stay or was she ready to leave her body for her next journey.

On my first distant visit with Jan she turned her back on me. She didn't want to communicate at all. She had a field of energy around her that was keeping her in a state of being that was neither here nor there. The intuitive messages I got about her were clear that she could go either way but she just hadn't made up her mind. If she decided to return fully to this here and now, physical reality, fully present and connected to all of her senses, she absolutely could. This, of course, was good news to her family, however, Jan still had to decide.

We made an agreement. I told her I would assist her with Reiki energy work to help her return if she should decide to but the decision was finally hers. I offered her a vision of what her future here would look like if she should choose to return which simply offered up a bit of inspiration.

Many questions were asked and we worked on deleting some of the emotional baggage that she was holding onto from her previous life before the "accident". She was holding a great deal of anger and resentment from her past. We worked on forgiveness and healing her heart.

It seemed important to do some hands-on work with Jan so I flew to her city and met her face to face. Our sessions in the hospital made it very clear to me that she was ready to make a decision. After four sessions she made great improvements. She made eye contact with me, and when we worked on forgiveness she wept.

It's clear to me that Jan is ready to participate in her recovery. I'll keep you posted.

9/12/09

For months I've been getting information about 9/12 being a significant date. I didn't know if something was going to happen that would create a huge wave of media attention or if it would be a simple blip barely registering a change in our awareness. Not 9/11 and not 9/09 but 9/12.

I reveived dozens of emials about 9/09/09 being a day to meditate for world peace and emails remembering that terrible day, 9/11/01, but nothing about the 12th. But everytime I looked through my intuitive window, there it was, September 12th. So, what happened yesterday that so important? I don't think it was anything about Mercury in retrograde, or Macy's sale. I've scoured the news websites for anything that would mark the date but,...nothing...except....the economic downturn has stabalized. The first good news about the economy...things are turning around. Woo-hoo.

Kids are doing great!

I'm heading to Phoenix in the morning on business and hope to see the kids while I'm there. They're both doing great!

Where In The Universe Are We?

The answer to that is, "right here."

In a galaxy of billions of stars, planets and moons, Earth circles the Milky Way every 250,000 years. It is spinning around the Solar System every 365 days, rotating on its axis every 24 hours, moving above and below the galactic equator every 150,000 years, with the precision of which can be timed and measured down to the second. Ages and ages of Earth's and mankind's evolution are documented by geologists, archaeologists and astronomers, and predicted by sages and prophets. And here we are, as predicted, closing in on the year 2010, hundreds of thousands of years since our first appearance on this globe, sitting on the edge of an evolutionary leap in consciousness.

Where are we? What are we learning? When will we awaken? How will it look when we do? Who will lead us out of our old paradigm of 'self'ish thinking and into 'self'less thinking before our planet begins another cycle?

We see, everyday, on the news, the greed and selfish thinking that took us to the brink of an economic collapse. The 'me, mine, and my' perspective drives the denial of health care reform and the resistance to idea that we are all ONE. 'Me, mine and my' thoughts drive the scandalous and criminal behavior of govenors, senators and our own brothers and sisters. Addictions and dysfunctions govern the fearful. This old thinking has nearly depleted Earhts resources so we fight wars and kill each other for the last drops of oil and water.

We are here. We are here in this soup of fear and anger, judgment and blame, unkowingly creating more of the same.

My healers class always begins with, "A healer must meet people in the reality they believe in." We are here, flying through the Universe on a planet that can no longer sustain our mindlessness and believing we have the right to continue the same thinking and action that led us to this critical moment. We think our reality is the only reality.

The air that we breathe, the food that we eat, the water that we drink comes from the seasons, cycles and rhythms of Mother Earth and that governs our lives yet, we continue to think its all about our personal experience of survival. Now is the time to awaken from that old way of being before our planet kicks us off, like the parasites we have become.

What we learn, when we learn it and how our lives will look when we do may not be a choice. But, how we manage our lives and our emotions, is.

The timing of Earths rotation and cycles matters to our timing because of how energy effects our ability to change. We are affected by her seasons and her relative movements through space through a system of bioenergetics. Energies strengthen and weaken in cycles and we are influenced by the energies of other planets and stars. These changes occur regularly and we can predict them. Cosmic forces effect sub-atomic activity and vice verse.

Here we sit, on the edge of a great shift as we complete the galactic cycle. How will it look when we get to the other side depends on you and how you manage your energy. It depends on me and how I manage mine. It depends on US. We are not without power to use this time to shift the fear, anger and blame and the "me, mine, and my" mentality to the "We, Us and Ours" perspective. Only then can we hope to move into the next cycle with Light, Love and Compassion.