ARE YOU PSYCHIC?
Submitted by admin on January 12, 2012 - 11:33 pm
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10 SECRETS TO HEALTHY RECEIVING
Submitted by admin on July 10, 2011 - 1:41 pm
| Growing up naturally intuitive and sensitive, I was very unaware of how much I received, and it got me in trouble! Besides, I got the programming that being feminine meant receiving whatever came my way, and stuffing my feelings if it didn’t feel good.
So receiving did not feel safe, and then I spent years guarded and missing out on so much– love, money, friendships, and the opportunity to share my gifts– all because I didn’t know how to do things differently. Can you relate? One of the questions I hear most is “How can I be receptive/ feminine/ intuitive in a healthy way? So here are some tips: 1). Make a list of things you love, and things you hate. I know, hating may not seem polite or spiritual and that’s exactly the point. By simply allowing yourself to acknowledge what you don’t want, you’ll have the discernment and trust in yourself that allows you to OPEN to what you do want. You won’t be so afraid once you do this exercise. Trust me. It’s powerful. 2). Ground yourself. If you don’t know how, listen here to a 4-minute free sample grounding meditation. 3).If you’re stuck trying to solve a problem or process an emotion and it’s not resolving, know this: It’s NOT yours. Our own problems feel like creative challenges, not hopeless mazes. Our own emotions release after a good cry or laugh or scream. So if that’s not happening, let them go. Imagine a magic soap bubble out in front of you with a magnet in it, and imagine the emotions or problem get pulled out of you into the bubble. Then see it float off as far as you can imagine and poof! Explode it. Those people will get their emotions or problems back and they’ll get the gift of finally being able to resolve them! 4). Look at your programming and role models around receiving. Did you learn to block and shield, or to take on other’s burdens, or that being open all the time was more feminine or spiritual? Once we can see our patterns, we are most of the way there to releasing them! This is why intuitive readings can help as well, since someone outside our world can often see it more clearly than we can. 5). Once you see your patterns, act them out. I mean it. Get silly! You can grab a friend for this one, exaggerate your “issues” with your partner, or do it by yourself in the mirror until you laugh. Then see if you that pattern has any hold on you again! 6). If there is something you want to know and you find yourself obsessing and wishing you had a crystal ball… stop, sit down and ground. Then close your eyes and imagine a movie screen a few feet out in front of you. See it blank, then ask your question in your mind and imagine that you “see” the answer on the screen. Be open to symbols, colors, or vague information as well as full-on movies. Trust you will be shown what will most benefit you today. When you’ve had enough, turn it off, open your eyes and enjoy being consciously receptive! 7). Ask yourself, “Where am I right now?” Of course, you know where your body is but where are YOU? Where is your attention? Simply by noticing when you are not “home,” you have the opportunity to come back to your body. When you’re present, you’re much less likely to absorb things that don’t feel good. 8). Feel your own feelings. Often when we are habitually “not home”, we are trying to escape pain. If you have physical pain, if you don’t see a spark of light in your own eyes, or if you feel numb– these are signs that you’re not feeling fully. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to feel but the only way out is through! Once we breathe into the edge of our discomfort, it begins to dissolve. Breathe and feel! 9). Fill yourself up by enjoying your life– no waiting. It may sound paradoxical to fill yourself up when you want to receive– but when you are living a full life and radiating creativity, joy and bliss– you are a magnet for more of the same. Like attracts like. 10). Know this secret. Receiving is a CHOICE. Receiving does not just happen to you, and you can choose how to receive. I learned this in the martial art of Aikido. I could take being thrown hard, because I knew how to use the energy to twirl into a somersault and come up standing. It was exhilarating. You may not be doing martial arts, but make it a game… Decide that every judgment thrown your way turns into a hundred dollar bill. Decide that every lustful stare makes you more attractive and beckons your soulmate. Choose your version and have fun! |
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BABY BEINGS ~ ARE THEY AROUND YOU?
Submitted by admin on February 24, 2011 - 10:05 am
It all starts with a twitchy eye… Well, that’s what we were taught in psychic school– that twitchy eyes meant baby spirits and sneezing indicated “sex pictures”. You can imagine somebody sneezing in the middle of meditation class and all of us breaking out giggling!
Have you ever sensed the presence of baby spirits? Here are some ways to tell if they’re around:
- dreaming or seeing visions of children
- seeing or hearing a certain name pop up everywhere
- stronger than usual sex drive or moodiness, especially at certain times of the month!
- increase in creative or kundalini energy
- desire to pull in and nest
Baby spirits are crafty! They have been known to break condoms, arrange promotions and raises for their soon-to-be parents, and even bring partners together. One woman I know had a twitchy eye every time she logged onto an online dating site!
If you have baby spirits around, know this– you still get to choose how and if you relate with them. Probably, if they’re nearby you have a psychic agreement of some sort, and these can be reviewed and re-negotiated at any time.
You can learn to “read” these agreements, update them, and communicate with your potential children! This is part of what we are going to do in the Calling in Your Baby class.
We will be asking questions like “What is your name?,” “Why did you choose me?” and “What are you coming to learn and to share?”
Honing your skills of communication with your prospective child can help in two ways: 1). You will understand how to best support your incoming child, and 2). You’ll have a head’s up about what you’re in for 
- so that you can approach this new relationship in a way that also best supports YOU.
Babies come with miracle energy! And miracles come out of the greatest love there is… love between partners, love between parents and incoming children, and the childrens’ pure love– the love we all are and that most of us have to some degree forgotten.
So when baby spirits are near, they bring a sense of infinite possibility. They bring money, abundance, and set up the circumstances to have what they need in life.
Prospective mothers, you can learn to relax and tap into this miracle energy! Your female creative energy is the greatest force on earth and you can learn to best use it for the good of all. Sound like fun?
If so, you can learn more about “Calling In Your Baby” here. Take advantage of the early bird special until 2/26, or set up 3 easy payments if you’d like to spread it out! It starts next Thursday 3/3.
If this is not for you, I appreciate your sharing this with any women who might enjoy it. I am envisioning a world full of blissful mothers and deeply supported children!
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From Independence to Wholeness
Submitted by admin on August 1, 2009 - 1:38 am
When I was a singer/ songwriter, I loved driving around the country on my own. I used to compose songs into my tape recorder as I drove (the same one I use now to record readings and often had spiritual revelations driving through mile after mile of open space, mountains and wilderness.
That was a great creative period in my life. What I didn’t really see at the time was how much protection I had around me, and how much my identity was build around my distorted concepts of being “independent” and strong.
Sometimes we can get a great healing by revisiting the past. Whether it’s visiting family, an old home or an ex-lover, returning can help us see how we’ve grown as well as helping us call back parts of ourselves we may have forgotten.
Increasingly over the past few months, I have been going through a creative rebirth. I’m thrilled to say that even though I have devoted my life to my creative pursuits in the past, I think my creative energy is higher now than ever before in my life! And it feels like I’m just getting started…
So what has changed in these last few years? Of course, years bring wisdom and for me one of the key shifts has been around updating my concepts of protection and letting go of walls around my heart.
Now, I am discovering a simple alignment with my innate strength, my passion for sharing and the worth of my path, and then opening my heart to co-creation. Truly, there is so much more creative energy available to us individually when we let the Universe dance with us rather than trying to maintain our separateness.
This opening I’m experiencing is even more profound because of all my years of meditation, intuitive training and really “landing” in my body. Before learning how to honor and manage my sensitivity, I wasn’t present enough in my body to have a healthy sense of self, so I think the walls had a purpose. Now, Hallelujah, they don’t! And the party begins.
Because I’m clear on what I’m here for and what I agree to, protection is effortless because I can simply say yes to what aligns with that and “no, thank you” to what doesn’t—whether that means relationships, opportunities, psychic agreements, or daily habits.
Growing up, and certainly before this lifetime, I received a lot of messages that said it wasn’t safe to be feminine, creative, or to shine my light too brightly. I had lifetimes of being controlled, tortured, or burnt at the stake.
This time around, my mother was teased by her brother and controlled by her father, and learned from her mother to say “Yes, dear” and have dinner on the table at 5 o’clock. That may have worked in the ‘40s and ‘50s, but decades later, when she was raising me, women were wanting more yet there were no role models of how to have it.
At that point women went to work and started demanding all the same rights as men. Many women, like my mother, “matched” the male energy of that time to varying degrees, because that seemed like where the power or safety was.
My father grew up poor and had to work hard for what he had, so while he is very creative he felt unable to spend his time that way, nor did he know how to handle his intuitive abilities. Little did he know what he was getting into in having me!
As a bright and shiny little girl I came to him with my paintings and stories and got the message, “Not now, dear, I have work to do.” While he was trying to support us, what I heard was, “Turn down the volume if you want love,” and so I did.
And, we had frequent fire drills and lessons about where to kick a man if he attached me. Again, the intention was to protect but what I got was to be on guard and expect danger… not quite the way I now experience or prefer to be protected, but times are changing!
The night before I left for Colorado I was looking for my maps, and ended up finding old photos from my 9 years of living there. Looking at the photos, I could see so clearly the protection around my body and my energy field, and how it lightened as the years went on.
I had no idea at the time! I kept begging God (or cursing, depending on the day), pleading for love and success but had little idea how I was pushing it away.
Through those nine years I healed myself a lot through singing, dancing and performing. Just to do it and not get burnt at the stake was huge!
That night before I left I also found a home recording of songs I’d written. It was so much fun to listen to that as I drove on this recent trip! I “called back” that creative juice as well as let go of old emotions and attitudes that I heard in the music, or that I remembered as I repeated an old action (taking a road trip). Much of this “calling back” and “letting go” I had already done in spirit, but reviewing the songs, the images, the experience of driving and the geographic terrain really made it REAL for me and has readied me for my next steps.
Since that time in my life I have gotten brighter and shinier and more feminine, so it was almost startling to be out there alone again and see that while according to the old paradigm I might seem like more of a “target,” in fact I had a whole new experience where I felt most free and most powerful—actually SAFER– when I remained shiny and radiant and heart-connected to everyone I met.
Even at the gas station with the bullet holes in the glass in Gallup, NM. Even at the Super-Walmart where families were just getting off work and stocking up on gallons of milk at 11 pm. Even climbing mountains in wilderness with no one in sight.
I recently read an interview with Alberto Villoldo about 2012 in an issue of Awareness Magazine, and was fascinated with these words: “One of the interesting things the Inka say is that there’s “no place in the world” where we’ll be safe. Absolutely no place. But there will be safe people. You can become a safe person.”
I so love and resonate with this, and I am thrilled at having the experience of it. To me it is a feeling of inner wholeness which, on the surface is just a shade away from “independence,” but truly is a world apart.
I know that as more of us find our inner wholeness, and that inherent safety that comes with shining our brightest lights and respecting our worth, the more the world is becoming BEYOND safe… It’s becoming a creative playground and Divine love-fest!
Sometimes it helps to have someone cheer you on. And energy tools such as meditation are indispensable at this time!
If you aren’t sure why you’re here, if your thoughts and feelings merge with other people’s so you’re not sure whose is whose, or if you feel surrounded by negativity and are having trouble keeping your energy up, I have been there and I can support you. It can be scary or the mind can come up with all sorts of excuses why we don’t need help, but what I’ve learned is that the longer you wait the worse it gets and the more it costs- financially, spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Give yourself the support you deserve today!
To your radiance!
Ann
copyright 2009 Ann O’Brien- All Rights Reserved.
Feeling Off? What To Do.
Submitted by admin on October 1, 2006 - 1:10 am
Sometimes when you’re feeling off, it’s easy to ask, “What’s wrong with me?” That question is an old habit and only brings more frustration, because you get no answer. That is because nothing is wrong with you. Ever.
Try this instead:
- When you’re feeling off, sit down in a quiet space with your feet flat on the floor.
- Imagine/ intend that you are sitting behind your eyes, in the center of your head.
- Envision a big tree trunk, beam of light, or waterfall between the base of your spine (first chakra) and the center of the earth. Let this be your drainpipe, to let go of any burdens you don’t need to be carrying.
That should help already. Now see if you can imagine a new question. Instead of “What’s wrong with me, ask, “What is going on with me right now?”
With your eyes closed, picture a rose about 1-2 feet in front of your forehead. Let this represent the answer to your question. Is the rose big, small? What color is it? Is it in good shape or frayed? Closed-in tight or overly scattered? A fresh new bud or a dying bloom? Is it thorny? Do you see dark spots? Do you see pictures of people you know, places you go, or images that mean anything to you? What do its colors, shapes and qualities mean to you?
Whatever you see, perhaps this will bring relief, clarity and insight to help you feel “on” again. Sometimes we just need to know what the situation is. Then, we know what is ours to do, & find permission to let go of all the problems we don’t actually have.
copyright 2006 Ann O’Brien- All Rights Reserved.
Abundance and Havingness
Submitted by admin on June 1, 2006 - 1:01 am
UP YOUR HAVINGNESS!
How much of what life has to offer are you willing to have? Lots of people come to me wanting greater abundance, better relationships, or to find their calling– and even though they are totally equipped and worthy, and solutions are possible, they just can’t have what they ask for. So how do you change this?
Let’s look at some examples of lack of havingness. Consider that some people:
* can have being rich, but they would be totally ashamed and hate themselves if they were poor
* can have being poor, but have judgments, victim mentality, or desires to fit in, which do not allow them to be rich
* can have a compliment, but argue or cry at even constructive criticism
* willingly accept criticism, but cannot take a compliment
* can have a relationship with that fascinating person across the country, but ignore all the attractive, available locals
* are “comfortable” in a boring job just getting by, but are “too busy” to pursue better opportunities that seem to fall in their lap
You get the picture? If you are not getting the money, love, recognition, progress, or things that you want, or if you’re feeling stuck in any way, ask yourself—
Considering all that is possible in life, how much can you have? Imagine a gauge from 0 to 100 percent that reflects your “havingness”—what # do you get?
If you notice that you can’t have all that is possible, and you’d like to have more, here are a few tips:
Start with your breath. Without trying to change anything, notice how you are breathing now? Is your “normal” breath shallow, quick, barely perceptible, or deep and full? Is it throat deep, chest deep, belly deep?
Now, let your next inhale become a deep, slow breath into your belly. Push your belly out as you inhale, then let the breath rise up to expand and fill your heart, your upper chest, and even your side ribs and back. Exhale out slowly. Is this different from your “normal” breath?
The breath is free. We can choose to receive fully, or we can receive only a fraction of what is available. You choose. Just as in life. Practice receiving more breath and see if you begin receiving more in life!
We often get stuck on not getting what we want. I often meet clients who say, “Help me, I don’t have a relationship.” They don’t realize the truth in what they are saying. Actually, there is no one, no thing, to whom they are NOT in relationship! But, as they say themselves, they are not “having” it. They are stuck in wanting, which is repellent to having, so they continue to be single.
People, especially here in Los Angeles, can get so caught up in competition. But when I look at who gets what they want in life– and more importantly who is happy– and it is NOT whoever is the best looking, most talented, or even the most connected. It is whoever can HAVE it.
Someone close to me has seen how my spiritual path has expanded and transformed my life in wonderful, joyous ways since childhood. When we are alone, she tells me of how she is uncertain about her purpose in life and asks my help. So, I invite her to come to any of my seminars for free. Does she come? Almost never. She knows very well the power of energy work and meditation, but she cannot have it. It is obviously not about the money for her.
Some people hear I do yoga, and say they’d love to try, but it’s too expensive. An unlimited yoga membership is around $125 a month. These people are desperate for stress relief, but choose to self-medicate with alcohol, cigarettes, or by going shopping. Let’s see—a pack of cigarettes a day costs around $150 a month. A bottle of wine every night might cost $200 a month. And you could easily spend $200 on just one pair of shoes! At best, cigarettes, wine, and shoes are only temporary “solutions” to our problems, and often create many new problems. But, some people can have these things much more easily than the incredible benefits of yoga. Why?
The truth is, most people are more afraid of change than they are of getting what they say they want.
Last summer I did a reading for a client at an Expo. She would ask me a question, listen to about half a sentence of my reply, and then cut me off and start ranting about her boyfriend, her doctor, and all the problems she was having. After a few minutes of this I inquired, “Do you want to hear what I see?” and then she caught herself. “Oh, yes,” she said. I think I got a full sentence in that time. She was obviously suffering, but so much of her problem was not her boyfriend or her doctor—it was her own inability to receive help, even the help she ASKED for and PAID for.
So, ask yourself: Can you up your havingness for what you want? No matter what it is that you want, watch the stories you tell yourself about why you cannot have it. See if those are really true. If possible, just for fun, see if you can consider that there may be ways to have whatever you want anyway.
Sometimes people say, “Should I do this or do that, buy this or buy that…” Often I look at them and say, “How about both?” and they go, “Really? I can do that?” YES. And all their “problems” are over.
Here’s another tip. If you want to be rich, it is much easier to achieve if you can have being poor. If you want to find your soul mate, it is much easier to succeed if you are happy alone. That doesn’t mean you choose being poor or alone. What it means is that your energy can flow freely towards what you want, because there is nothing you have to spend energy avoiding, hating or fighting off.
The more you can have, the more choice you have. If you would like to see where you are stuck and increase your havingness for something in your life, consider a reading as a gift to yourself. Namaste.
copyright 2006 Ann O’Brien- All Rights Reserved.
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