Guest Post

I’m at a Retreat!

Hello Everyone!

I’m so excited to share with you this week that I’m at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York for a Visionary Painting intensive seminar with the wonderful Alex and Allyson Grey! I’ll have a full recap of my experience for you all when I return. In the mean time, I’m posting an excerpt from my book – an exercise in being trusting and open! I hope you enjoy; let me know what you think!

Exercise: Being Trusting and Open

The practice of this exercise will be ongoing. You’ve witnessed me in this state throughout this book; that doesn’t mea it isn’t challenging every time.

Your first job is to simplify your life somewhat, for these synchronicities will have no place to enter if you’re always booked. Secondly, it means you have to give up control. If I was bound and determined to go directly to Florida, instead of through Chicago, I would have foiled the universe. Third, open up your thinking to acceptance, accepting the impossible, listening carefully so you’re hearing the details and can connect the dots. Give up texting, or always being on the internet, so you have open time to flow and be present in the moment. This is how the universe can and will connect with you.

I’m sure this is all happening to me because I have some much to learn. But I also think it is happening because I am very accepting and very willing! Stay open – consider the absurd! Be courageous and admit your fears, your questions and what you accept! Do it over and over again and you’ll get really good at knowing what deserves your sacred attention. Practice unitl it is truly a piece of cake.

So to recap:

• Simplify your life
• Give up control
• Open up your mind to acceptance
• Make time to be present in your life
• Be accepting and willing to learn
• Stay open and consider the absurd!
• Be courageous and admit your fears
•  Be bold and question things
• Don’t accept things that don’t fit your heart
•  Do all of these things consistently

I would LOVE for you to share what you’re discovering!

An Astonishing and Unusual Tribute

Can you believe this?  It’s true!  It’s what I so desperately want to get across in my book MESSAGES.  They hear us!  They love us!  We can work with and learn from them! Yes, all of the species, entities, earth-beings on the planet!

The following story about Lawrence Anthony is a gift to all of us.  Reality is bigger than we imagine/perceive/fathom.  If we come to understand even a part of it, we will expand beyond what we ever imagined just by the knowing – even more by the moving into that paradigm.

Enough said, I will let the rest of this blog speak for itself!  I’m going off to my Sacred place to pray and give thanks. And first I will weep for joy for the life and love of Lawrence Anthony!

Lawrence Anthony, a legend in South Africa and author of three books including the bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, bravely rescued wildlife and rehabilitated elephants all over the globe from human atrocities, including the courageous rescue of Baghdad Zoo animals during the US invasion in 2003.

On March 7, 2012 Lawrence Anthony died.  He is remembered and missed by his wife, two sons, two grandsons and numerous elephants.

Two days after his passing, a remarkable thing happened!  The wild elephants showed up at his home led by two large matriarchs. Separate wild herds arrived in droves to say ‘goodbye’ to their beloved man-friend.  A total of twenty elephants had patiently walked over 12 miles to get to his South African house.

Witnessing this spectacle, many people were obviously in awe, not only because of the supreme intelligence and precise timing that these elephants sensed about Lawrence’s passing, but also because of the profound memory and emotion that the beloved animals evoked in such an organized way:  walking slowly – for days – making their way in a solemn one-by-one queue from their habitat to his house.

Lawrence’s wife, Francoise, was especially touched, knowing that the elephants had not been to his house prior to that day for well over a year, yet they knew where they were going! The elephants obviously wanted to pay their deep respects, honoring their friend who’d saved their lives – so much respect that they stayed for two days and two nights.  Then one morning, they left, making their long journey back home.

*The preceding story was taken from a series of emails. It’s authenticity and original author are yet to be identified/determined.