This article is provided by Ann’s husband, Paul.
My family lived in Ft. Sill Oklahoma during the years when I was in kindergarten into the middle of the third grade. We lived in post housing right next to the golf course and a really cool woodsy area with a fairly good sized creek. During that time, there was a toad that lived behind the house. I would catch him (or her?) every summer and keep him for a pet for awhile before letting him go again. I knew it was the same toad because the underside of his chin was blue. Or maybe it was purple, I dunno. I can’t tell the difference because I’m colorblind.
One summer I had put the toad in a tennis ball can, and left the can on the washing machine in the utility room off the kitchen, and forgotten about him. A little later, my mother was doing laundry, and noticed the tennis ball can. She picked it up and noticed there was something inside.
I can just imagine what was going through that toad’s mind when my mother took the lid off that can: “Free at last, Free at last, Free at last!” — and leapt out of the can. At the same time, here’s my mother taking the lid off the can to look inside and see what’s there. Out jumps the toad, probably right in her face — surprise! She screamed!
Now it so happens that the Postman was delivering mail to our house at that very moment. The mailbox for the house was a little chute through the brick that dropped into the kitchen, so as he’s opening the little flap door to insert the mail, out comes my mother’s terrified scream! I suppose a cartoonist would show his hair being blown back from the sound of the scream coming out of the mail chute. He came running into the house to see what was the matter, only to find my mother holding the tennis ball can and a toad hopping around, and probably mad as a wet hen.
I guess it’s no wonder I wasn’t my mother’s favorite child.
Last October I bought a bracelet that was made of Citrine and green Aventurine. The Citrine (also known as the merchant’s stone) opens the Solar Plexus Chakra and releases joy and brings spiritual powers into the everyday world. Aventurine works on the Heart Chakra. Since I am into healing energy work I felt this bracelet with these stones and their properties would be useful to me.
I have used stones before. When I was experiencing panic attacks, I often felt like I was not all here and I was less panicky if I could pull myself together. I was told to carry Hematite to help me stay grounded. So for years I carried hematite with me until I finally used the EFT to get over my panic attacks.
Everything and every emotion is made of energy and so has a vibration. Each type of stone and crystal has their own unique vibration that can help create a certain vibration in the person who wears or carries the stone/crystal. This vibration can help create healing, or some other emotional change in the person.
I have been so impressed with the use of crystals and stones that I wanted to offer some form of jewelry on my website. I was even looking at creating some myself (but I am no jeweler and really did not want to go there). While attending a metaphysical fair, I found some one who could provide the jewelry and do one step better. She communicates with your Spirit Guides to find what crystal or stone would be of best benefit for the wearer! I talk to my guides and my client’s guides all the time but I had not considered that angle to the jewelry.
I ordered a necklace for myself, both as a proof of concept, and as a bit of a “test”. After I’d ordered my necklace, I spoke to my Spirit Guides. I told them I really wanted something blue in my necklace — maybe Turquoise because I like Turquoise, but it didn’t have to be Turquoise if they felt a different blue stone with different properties would be better. When the necklace came, guess what? It had Turquoise, about every 8th stone. The other stones are Amethyst. I then talked with Karen, the artist, about the necklace. She mentioned that there had been a bit of a “discussion” amongst the Guides about whether to use Turquoise or Lapis Lazuli (another blue stone). They finally decided on Turquoise!
I just had to sign her up in a joint venture right away. So now –Ta Da – I am offering something new on my website: “Spirit Guided” Jewelry.
Go to www.naturallyresilient.com/cicada/ and read more about how to get your own or as a unique personal gift for a special person in your life!
Ok, this is getting weird. Some people would say I am weird as it is, but this is even weird by my standards.
Saturday morning I woke and looked at the clock, it read 7:55. On a whim I looked up the numbers in Doreen Virtue’s bookHealing With The Angels
Over the last 6 months every once in a while I would wake at 5:55. This happened enough to grab my curiosity and I looked the numbers up in Doreen’s book in the chapter on “Number Sequences from the Angels”. The sequence 555 says “Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being “positive” or “negative,” since all change is but a natural part of life’s flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace”.
I have been questioning my guides about my direction in life and if I needed to make some changes so you might say I have been listening attentively. I have also been questioning this ‘change’ in my life as I have not seen any major change yet.
When I saw the clock on Saturday morning, I decided to look the numbers up. Doreen’s book only deals with sequences such as the same number in the row or a series of two different numbers such as the 755. The book states that 7’s and 5’s such as 775 or 755 means “This is a validation that you are ‘on target’ with an impending change that will enrich you either physically, emotionally, or intellectually – or a combination of all three. Stay on course and you will soon see the evidence of how the changes add to your own life, and to that of those around you.” So I thought this was interesting considering what I have been questioning in my life lately.
Then this morning while meditating, I felt I should look at the clock and it said 8:58. I thought it was odd that I looked at the clock right then, especially since I try not to look at the clock until I am through with my meditations. So I brought the book back out. This time the book states that for sequences which includes 8s and 5s “This number sequence signifies that you are at the 11th hour, right before the change. Do not fear this change, as you will be supported and loved throughout this change, which is now imminent.”
No, all the number sequences in this book do not talk about change. Some are just reassurance that you are not alone, or that the ascended masters are being attentive, or that if you don’t like what you are getting change your attitude before you get more of it. So it has been interesting that all my sequences are pointing toward a major life change. I wonder what it is. I will let you know when I figure it out.
The Power of Now
This is a book my husband said I had to read. I like reading books after he has because he has already underlined and made notes and I get to see what he thought was important. We tend to underline different things. I also love the deep conversations we have when discussing such a book and this book lends itself to deep conversations.
Tolle delves into the life force, energies, moving beyond your self, the observer, manifesting, the ego and many more esoteric areas. It is presented in a question and answer format where an “average” person is asking questions, some of which I could relate to, others I had already moved past but I was still interested in Tolle’s answers. The author brings depth and understanding with examples and also practical meditations and other practices to use to raise your vibration and energy awareness.
After reading this book, my husband discovered another book by Eckhart Tolle and immediately bought it and is reading it. This is another one he says I must read.
Comment from Ann’s husband, Paul:
I was introduced to Eckhart Tolle through a video that was included on one of the DVD’s we received through a subscription to The Spiritual Cinema Circle. The video was “Living Luminaries (On the Serious Business of Happiness)”. I had heard of Eckhart Tolle’s book “The Power of Now”, but didn’t know much about him or his book. I was totally amazed and impressed with Eckhart Tolle in the video, and immediately bought and read “The Power of Now”. I consider the book to be a pivotal work, a “Required Reading”. The “Living Luminaries” video is available on its own, see the link at right. Recently his new book “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)
Which is Better – A Rubber Band or EFT?
Posted by: Ann
May 1st, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Life, Meridian Tapping
Yesterday I talked about the placebo affect and how the placebo often gets better results than the actual medication. This just shows how powerful our minds really are.
You have seen people with the same disease or same circumstances. One will wilt and get worse and worse while the other will be upbeat with a positive attitude. The more upbeat person will be the one with the best chance of overcoming the problem. I think we all know this at some level. But if we know it, how come we don’t practice it. We know we will be better off and may even improve our lot in life but we stay in the depressed, down, woe-is-me syndrome.
What is required is a shift in attitude, but that is often easier said than done.
Years ago I had panic attacks. I did not like them. It limited what I could do. Even going grocery shopping was very difficult for me. But how do you shift your mind?
I read that wearing a rubber band on your wrist and snapping it when ever you started to feel the anxiety would bring you back to the present. The premise is that the panic occurs because you are trying to live in the future. Well the rubber band helped … for about 3 seconds then the panic would be back. I flicked that rubber band so much I did not feel it any more.
I went to a workshop a couple years ago where they had us all put rubber bands on our wrist and then pull them back and snap them on our wrist. I don’t remember what the reason was for doing this at the workshop, but here we all were with rubber bands. The group I was standing with fidgeted and no one could get up enough nerve to snap their band. So right in front of them I pulled mine back a foot and let go. It made a big snap and every one was impressed. But the years of doing this for my anxiety had toughened me to that rubber band snap.
So how do you make changes to your attitude? How do you get past the fear and the anger? What did I finally do to get over my panic attacks? I used EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). If you want help with your issue go to www.naturallyresilient.com.
Placebo Effect
Posted by: Ann
April 30th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Spirituality
Wow! It looks like the changes in the world are occurring!
What changes you may ask? The changes the holistic community and light workers are expecting soon. These involve the ability to manifest easier, a realization that there is much more out here than the physical world and the ability to heal ourselves.
Dr. Mercola recently had a report from Wired Magazine (August 24, 2009) that stated: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo. Despite historic levels of industry investment in R&D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills.”
To me this is saying that we are making headway with changes in our spiritual beings.
The article continues with: “Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late ’90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them.
Isn’t this wild! Even the older drugs when retested are not beating the sugar pills!
It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.
Maybe we are finally realizing we do have more control than we thought.
The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis.”
I guess the drug companies would get pretty nervous about this report and will probably try and debunk it. I think it is great and gives me more hope for the future of mankind.
Manifesting Your Bank Account
Posted by: Ann
April 29th, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Physical/Material
I believe in the symbolism of life, everything around us including our aches and pains are there to represent something in our life. Often it is there to mirror how we feel about ourselves, or it maybe to reflect some other emotional state. With this in mind, I have an interesting idea. What does your bank account symbolize? Could it be a symbol of your perceived value of yourself? The numbers on your bank statement are just numbers, you give them meaning. These numbers are reflecting back to you your perceived value.
If this is true, you could change you bank account by changing your self value! If you struggle with money, you may be undervaluing yourself. But you may say, “This doesn’t apply to me. I think I am a great or at least good person with value to offer.” Let me counter that. Often symbolism shows up when we will not acknowledge an emotion, or a problem that we are having. Our ego tries to protect us by hiding our true emotions from ourselves, it doesn’t help that our culture has tried to teach us to smother our emotions. The physical manifestation appears to try and show us what is going on in our emotional life.
Our emotions drive so much of our life. It is our strong emotions that manifest things in our life. The law of attraction relies on emotions. The more intense the emotion the faster it will manifest.
So now that you realize that you have a low bank account and want more in it, what do you do? One method that can help change your emotional outlook is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or one of the other meridian tapping techniques. If you would like help uncovering the emotions behind what is going on in your life, go to www.naturallyresilient.com and sign up for a session. We can get to the bottom of it and make a change for the better.
I went to the grocery store early one morning. I pulled into my driveway as usual and started taking my load into the house. It was while walking down the sidewalk between the driveway and the front door when I spied it. Right in the middle of the walkway was a toad, but one thing was wrong, its head was missing!
We had several cats and I assumed that one decided to see what toad tasted like. Hey I have had frog legs before (taste like rubbery chicken) so I thought the cat was going to try some but got the wrong end. I have heard that toads will let off a terrible tasting secretion from their mouth when attacked. The cat must have got hold of that and left the rest of the toad alone but not before decapitating it.
I decided to toss the remains into the bar ditch to get it away from the house and off the sidewalk. As I reached down and touched the toad, IT MOVED! I jumped back and ran into the house. All day long I would take peaks out the window and every once in a while I would see it in a different position! I have since heard that frogs don’t need much of a brain.
It was freaking me out. I did not go outside all day.
When my husband came home, I asked him if he had seen the toad. He said he had and he had tossed it into the ditch. I told him my story and said to him “didn’t it move on you?” My husband replied “Well, no. It was pretty dried out.”
I have never been able to look at a toad or a frog the same way since.
This is getting toward the end of the month and I am staring at next month’s bills wondering how to shuffle money to pay for them.
I woke up a little after 4:00 am this morning in my bill paying panic mode. I was laying there experiencing my monthly fears, doing a little mental EFT so I would not wake my husband. I started thinking how I have had fears all my life; they have just shifted in what I was afraid of through my life. Then I started thinking about the past lives I knew about and how they had a lot of fear in them. That was when I decided I had had enough fear and it was time to release it.
I then felt a calm come over me. It started in my legs and then crept all over me. I felt at peace and could not feel the fear. I was laying there amazed, then for some reason I was curious about the time. I looked at the clock and there was 5:55 on it. I have this recurring theme lately about waking and seeing 5:55 on the clock. This has been going on off and on for about 5 months. I have a book by Doreen Virtue called Healing with the Angels that list number sequences that are messages from the angels. Since this number sequence occurred with a shift in emotions I decided to reread it and pay closer attention to what it said.
The book says for the sequence 555 “Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being ‘positive’ or ‘negative,’ since all change is but a natural part of life’s flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace.” This time the last sentence had a lot of meaning to me, so I will continue to be hopeful and will enjoy the sense of peace I woke to this morning.
Playing With Life
Posted by: Ann
April 27th, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Vibration
There has been an idea coming to me over the last two years. I have always heard that if something comes to you three times you better take notice. Well this has been coming at me multiple times! The last one was Sunday when we were reviewing Ecclesiastes. This is a book in the Bible that is rather cynical as one of my classmates put it. We all agreed that it sounded like a teenager blogging their deep thoughts and questions, trying to make sense out of life. There was a kernel that jumped out at me. Ecclesiastes 3:22 states “So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why they are here!…” This was just another version of what I have been confronted with over the last 2 years.
“Have fun”, “Play with it”, “Enjoy life” this is what I have been hearing over and over again. Am I that dull of a person that I have to keep being told to enjoy being here? My life has had some hard and rough patches or stretches over the last 18 years so maybe some one is trying to wake me up and tell me that it is ok to have fun again. It is hard to stop stressing about life when you have done it for so long. I am working with the various energy techniques I know such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Meridian flushing and tracing, other meridian tapping techniques and of course “Law of Attraction” work.
I see playing with life, playing with energy flow, as being positive qualities that according to the “Law of Attraction” will bring more good and positive things into my life. I want to play with life and have fun!
Last year I did an experiment where I noted how I was doing emotionally and what happened in my life soon after my emotions changed. I noted that when I was feeling up and positive good things happened and life went smoothly. When I was feeling down, depressed and scared soon my life started attracting reasons to feel that way. The feelings always came first!
This year I am trying to stay positive, trying to play with life. I never thought of myself as a negative person but it has been a struggle. Writing positive words on me has helped; also shifting to anticipating good in the future is helping me stay positive. I can often feel the energy flowing and I will often stop and play with it, raising its vibration. I will keep you informed about how the “law of attraction” goes with the positive thinking.