Money Money Money....

We really do live in the land of opportunity but most of us live pay-check-to-pay-check. Why is that? Is it a lack of education? To some extent I think it is but that's not the real problem. For example: If you take a person who is always broke and give them a million dollars, would that person be broke again in a year to two years? I would say a resounding YES. Why is that?

Just looking at my own experience I can tell you that even though I got the big income and the financial education, money was still illusive. I tried very hard to follow the plan but I could never increase my streams of income on a consistent level. It was like there was a thermostat control that would return my income stream back to the level it was before, which was just making ends meet.

In 2003 I wrote a business plan that I KNEW was going to be successful. Part of the plan was to hire a mentor. How could I go wrong with a mentor supporting me every step along the way? Well, failed it did and miserably. I was so deep in debt that it really scared me. For the first time in my life I could not pay my bills. The funny thing was I really believed in this plan and could FEEL the success. This was it!!! This was the plan that was going to make my "ship come in."

All the while I was working my plan along with my mentor I was battling what seemed like a wall of resistance. I really wanted to do the work but I felt this incredible force holding me back. It was the weirdest feeling in the world and it wouldn't be until 2005 before I could find out what this mysterious barrier was.

I started a program in the Spring of 2005 called Self-mastery Program. This program was a definite eye-opener and cleared away the fog. You know, if you can't define the problem, you can't find a solution. Well the Self-mastery program taught me how to define the problem. I discovered the thing behind the thing, behind the thing, behind the thing that was causing the invisible barrier.

I have studied the many self improvement greats such as Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, and so on. There is much to be gained by following their teachings but it really did not provide me the tools and insight for uncovering my unconscious beliefs. Affirmations I found would only re-affirm the negative. I would affirm that I had more money than I needed while my mind affirmed that I really didn't have enough money. It's more than uncovering your money beliefs, though, because that's only part of the problem. Uncovering the fact that your parents made negative comments about money did and does affect you. But there's more to the equation than that.

When we are children we developed our beliefs based on what we believed we needed to do to be safe. If that belief said that you had to withdraw emotionally to be safe instead of express your emotions, then you may end up in close relationships where you do not believe you are safe to express your emotions. You're an adult now and don't have to protect yourself like you did when you were a child. Children are vulnerable because they are not powerful enough to stand up for themselves in defense of their boundaries.

I could go on forever but I'm going to stop for now. Anyone reading this who wants to know more can contact me.

Karuna Reiki

Curiousity got the best of me. I took a Karuna Reiki I class yesterday and thought I would share my thoughts. It is definitely different energy than Usui's traditional Reiki system. It swirls every where and it's really near impossible to direct. It is also very intense and by the time I got home, I was ready for a nap. Usui's system has never made me feel tired so I am very curious about this.

I will say that before the class started I did feel and see a large swirl of energy all around me and I heard a voice say, "We are here." I told the teacher and she explained that Karuna is a feminine energy and it swirls and that the Usui Reiki energy is masculine and is a direct flow.

The teacher said that Karuna is more expansive and is a bigger part of the Universal Life Force Energy but I don't think I agree with that. Perhaps my mind will change after I take the next two classes but right now I feel it is just a different part of the Universal Life Force energy.

I did connect with Merlin during the attunement process and I've never connected with him before. Merlin (St. Germain) is one of the ascended masters that interacts with Karuna Reiki. The others are Mother Mary, Jesus, Kuan Yin, the laughing Buddha, Archangel Gabriel and Michael along with other angels. She said the list was not limited to the above ascended masters and angels but those are the main ones.

Karuna Reiki is not meant to replace Usui's system but to enhance it. The symbols have a very wide variety of uses for each one and the uses for each aren't necessarily connected.

The four symbols I learned yesterday are to be done in sequence at the start of a session and then Usui's symbols are drawn after. She meantioned that there are times when the Karuna symbols can be used at other times and can be used independently of the others and not necessarily in order. Sounds very feminine to me with no hard and fast rules.

Anyway, that's my assessment so far.

Book Review - Journey of Souls

What a phenomenal book! The book is about what happens to us in between lives. It was written by a hypnotherapist that specialized in past life regression. Then one day he accidently regressed one of his clients into the place between lives. He continued to regress clients to this place and recorded his findings.

This book answered my question about soul mates. I often wondered if there was a special someone or if I should grow up and realize that we all are soul mates to each other. I suppose in the bigger picture we are all one and therefore soul mates are just a fantasy. But in this book we find that we often choose a soul to mate with while on this earth and that we are given triggers to remember so we can recognize each other. And there are other souls that we agree to meet with for the purpose of growth.

Another question I had was whether we chose our blood line and/or body. This book explains that we do look over different situations and bodies that we can be born into and make our decision based on what it is we intend to learn. We can arrange for certain bodily difficulties to challenge us in particular ways.

This really is a fascinating book that will answer a lot of questions but it also sparked a lot of questions as well. For one I have wondered what happens to animals when they die. I know they have souls because I have seen the spirit of my neighbor's cat moving about in my home. My own cats saw it as well. Perhaps the answer is in the authors second book, Destiny of Souls.

Happy reading!

The Dreamer Awakes

Those who research quantum physics realize that we are dreamers here creating the world we call reality. Is it really real or just imagined. This is only the beginning as the dreamer gets her bearings on how the dream works.