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This is Part II of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

We are going to give you a very simple formula for health. It is this, to live thankfully. When a heart beats with thankfulness for its creation and for all life’s experiences a light shines from the very center of the being, which illumines the whole life. Life itself, the very zest of living and experiencing the simple gifts we enjoy through the five senses, should evoke an outpouring of thankfulness from the child of God.

This is Part II of an eight part blog.

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This is Part I of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

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As 2007 comes to an end and 2008 begins, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to all of you who read this blog. So, “Thank you!”

As well, I would like let you know that in 2008 I will be embarking on a major expansion of my work online. I will launch a new web site: www.InsideOutJourneys.com

1) On this site I will offer free and inexpensive Mini-Courses:

The HeArt of Listening
Awaken Your Intuition, Part I
Awaken Your Intuition, Part II
The HeArt of Intuition Mini-Course
Love is “Being Present.”
Create a New Vision for Yourself
And many more

2) A free 16 part Email Series:

Being a Master of Your Mind Makes You a Master of Yourself:
The Art of Really Listening to and Being Present with Yourself, Your Guides and God/Goddess

3) Live free and fee based Tele-Classes where you can interact with me and the other class members. The classes will be on Intuition and will begin in January. For more details see: http://www.freetelemessages.com/?tid=122

4) An extensive Online Audio Course entitled:

The HeArt of Intuition: Live From the Inside Out.

This course will be an in-depth study of Intuition. In the course you will learn how to “read” the energies of people and situations with ease. Therefore, you will be able to act and be empowered in all situations. As well, you will come to know yourself from the inside out. There will be over 8 hours of audio material, journal exercises and a dozen meditative exercises.

5) An inspirational Flash Movie entitled:

Living From the Inside Out

6) As well, I will launch my new book project co-authored with Susan Apollon entitled:

Intuition is Easy and Fun:
The Art and Practice of Developing Your Natural Born Gift of Intuition

This will also be available on CD; and there will be an in-depth online course based on the book, as well.

Also, we have created a free-Mini-Course and Email series based on the book. Lastly, we will be offering Tele-Classes on the book and course. We will launch this all in January.

So, I have a lot I will be sharing with you in this upcoming year to help you to live your life in an empowered and authentic way. Stay tuned!

May you have a very Healthy, Happy, Joyful, Empowered and Authentic New Year!

Next week, I’ll continue my practice of offering you insights and inspirations on all things spiritual! This week I am spending Christmas and New Years in Rome.

Blessings and Love!

Yanni

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As 2007 comes to an end and 2008 begins, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to all of you who read this blog. So, “Thank you!”

As well, I would like let you know that in 2008 I will be embarking on a major expansion of my work online. I will launch a new web site: www.InsideOutJourneys.com

1) On this site I will offer free and inexpensive Mini-Courses:

The HeArt of Listening
Awaken Your Intuition, Part I
Awaken Your Intuition, Part II
The HeArt of Intuition Mini-Course
Love is “Being Present.”
Create a New Vision for Yourself
And many more

2) A free 16 part Email Series:

Being a Master of Your Mind Makes You a Master of Yourself:
The Art of Really Listening to and Being Present with Yourself, Your Guides and God/Goddess

3) Live free and fee based Tele-Classes where you can interact with me and the other class members. The classes will be on Intuition and will begin in January. For more details see: http://www.freetelemessages.com/?tid=122

4) An extensive Online Audio Course entitled:

The HeArt of Intuition: Live From the Inside Out.

This course will be an in-depth study of Intuition. In the course you will learn how to “read” the energies of people and situations with ease. Therefore, you will be able to act and be empowered in all situations. As well, you will come to know yourself from the inside out. There will be over 8 hours of audio material, journal exercises and a dozen meditative exercises.

5) An inspirational Flash Movie entitled:

Living From the Inside Out

6) As well, I will launch my new book project co-authored with Susan Apollon entitled:

Intuition is Easy and Fun:
The Art and Practice of Developing Your Natural Born Gift of Intuition

This will also be available on CD; and there will be an in-depth online course based on the book, as well.

Also, we have created a free-Mini-Course and Email series based on the book. Lastly, we will be offering Tele-Classes on the book and course. We will launch this all in January.

So, I have a lot I will be sharing with you in this upcoming year to help you to live your life in an empowered and authentic way. Stay tuned!

May you have a very Healthy, Happy, Joyful, Empowered and Authentic New Year!

Next week, I’ll continue my practice of offering you insights and inspirations on all things spiritual! This week I am spending Christmas and New Years in Rome.

Blessings and Love!

Yanni

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Now, in terms of how you sit or what you do when you meditate, the most important thing is to make sure you are physically comfortable. If you have the flexibility to sit in the yoga half-lotus or full lotus position, then certainly do so. If you don’t have the flexibility, then I would not recommend you try. You can meditate very effectively sitting comfortably in straight backed chair. This is the way I do it all the time. Just sit up straight with you spine erect, but not rigid. It is best that your feet lie flat on the floor and are not crossed. Your hands are in your lap, palms up or down, whatever is most comfortable for you.

As we proceed with the meditations, if at any point you are physically uncomfortable, then shift your body. Move around a bit. If you need to cough, then do so. Don’t spend your time suppressing a cough or being physically uncomfortable and then at the end conclude that you can’t meditate.

Again, the most important thing to remember as you start is to make sure you are comfortable while you are in meditation. I might add, though, not so comfortable that you fall asleep. By the way, I do not recommend that you lie on the floor or on a bed or on a lounge chair when you meditate because you are very likely to fall asleep. Lie down only if you have a significant physical problem that necessitates lying down. So, again, the idea is to be as comfortable as possible, yet still alert and then you will really enjoy and get the most out of the experience.

Also, please note that not all of your meditations will be blissful and calm. Sometimes when you sit down to meditate your mind will be like a wild, untamed horse. But that’s ok and to be expected at times! When this happens just do your best to observe rather than get caught up in the content of your mind’s madness and it will gradually dissipate. Eventually you will learn how to calm down even this kind of an overly stimulated mind. Be patient and persistent and you will with practice reach your goal of being peaceful and calm.

Lastly, please note that at the end of each meditation, I will leave you with a little extra time with just the music playing. This will allow you to gradually and slowly come up and out of the meditation and then you can resume your normal activities.

So, happy meditating! Peace be with you!

This is Part II of a two part blog.

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For the next three weeks as we navigate through the stresses, challenges and joys of the Holiday season, I wanted to offer as a gift to all of you a series of guided meditations that will help you to relax and enjoy the season.

So, for the next three weeks my blog posts on Mondays and Wednesdays will consist of instructions on how to meditate and my podcasts on Fridays will be three different guided meditations from my Meditation CDs.

So, on my podcast on 12/14/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Abdominal Breathing Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Breath Away: Breathing Free Meditations.

And on my podcast on 12/21/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Breathing Compassion Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Thought Away: Mastery Meditations.

Lastly, on my podcast on 12/28/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “The Light Within and Without” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is an Image Away: Visualization Meditations.

If you are interested in finding out more about my Meditations CDs, please go to the following link: http://www.learnmastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

Below are instructions on how to meditate. These instructions are broken up into two parts and will be repeated each of the three weeks on my blog: 12/10, 12/17 and 12/24.

EnJoy and Relax!

The natural mind: non-extremist, un-dogmatic, sensitive mind-set is produced by meditation.

How to prepare to meditate?

Before you start to meditate, it is very important to settle yourself, to slow yourself down and to prepare an internal and external environment for relaxation. So, begin by creating a quiet, comfortable place for you to sit and meditate in. Dim the lights; close the door, and turn off the phones.

Also, it is preferable that every time you meditate it be at the same time and in the same place, but don’t be too rigid about this. It is more important that you actually meditate rather than that you adhere to a rigid schedule. But do know that by establishing a regular time and place for meditation, you are more likely to do it consistently because you are then creating a very clear new habit/pattern and intention that this is my time and my place to meditate.

As well, make sure that all significant others know that this is a quiet, private, undisturbed time just for you. This is your time to be with yourself, to meditate and to do nothing else. Also, pick a time that works for you, a time when you are usually not too busy. And, if the time you first choose doesn’t work for any reason, then change it and experiment until you do find a time and setting that works.

Please note, too, that it is most ideal to meditate every day, but don’t get too rigid about this either. Just start meditating as often as you can and then gradually build up to meditating every day. The more you meditate, the more you will want to, so let the frequency grow on its own.

Also, start off with whatever length of time you feel most comfortable with, even if it is only five minutes. Let the timeframe, as well, gradually become longer. It takes time, practice and patience to build up your meditation muscles. Don’t force any of this. But do be consistent and clear in your intentions.

If you have never meditated before and decide that you will now meditate for twenty minutes, two times a day, everyday, you are more than likely setting yourself up for failure, for self-sabotage. You will most likely go on overload and will quit in a few days. Just as you can’t run a marathon unless you have gradually built up your endurance, so, too, with meditation, let yourself gradually build up your endurance. So, go slow and get there fast!

Meditation is a life-long skill that you step by step integrate into your life. Don’t try to rush or push it! Let it all be easy and fun!

This is Part I of a two Part Blog

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Now, in terms of how you sit or what you do when you meditate, the most important thing is to make sure you are physically comfortable. If you have the flexibility to sit in the yoga half-lotus or full lotus position, then certainly do so. If you don’t have the flexibility, then I would not recommend you try. You can meditate very effectively sitting comfortably in straight backed chair. This is the way I do it all the time. Just sit up straight with you spine erect, but not rigid. It is best that your feet lie flat on the floor and are not crossed. Your hands are in your lap, palms up or down, whatever is most comfortable for you.

As we proceed with the meditations, if at any point you are physically uncomfortable, then shift your body. Move around a bit. If you need to cough, then do so. Don’t spend your time suppressing a cough or being physically uncomfortable and then at the end conclude that you can’t meditate.

Again, the most important thing to remember as you start is to make sure you are comfortable while you are in meditation. I might add, though, not so comfortable that you fall asleep. By the way, I do not recommend that you lie on the floor or on a bed or on a lounge chair when you meditate because you are very likely to fall asleep. Lie down only if you have a significant physical problem that necessitates lying down. So, again, the idea is to be as comfortable as possible, yet still alert and then you will really enjoy and get the most out of the experience.

Also, please note that not all of your meditations will be blissful and calm. Sometimes when you sit down to meditate your mind will be like a wild, untamed horse. But that’s ok and to be expected at times! When this happens just do your best to observe rather than get caught up in the content of your mind’s madness and it will gradually dissipate. Eventually you will learn how to calm down even this kind of an overly stimulated mind. Be patient and persistent and you will with practice reach your goal of being peaceful and calm.

Lastly, please note that at the end of each meditation, I will leave you with a little extra time with just the music playing. This will allow you to gradually and slowly come up and out of the meditation and then you can resume your normal activities.

So, happy meditating! Peace be with you!

This is Part II of a two part blog.

Posted by Yanni at 4:00 AM | Permalink

For the next three weeks as we navigate through the stresses, challenges and joys of the Holiday season, I wanted to offer as a gift to all of you a series of guided meditations that will help you to relax and enjoy the season.

So, for the next three weeks my blog posts on Mondays and Wednesdays will consist of instructions on how to meditate and my podcasts on Fridays will be three different guided meditations from my Meditation CDs.

So, on my podcast on 12/14/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Abdominal Breathing Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Breath Away: Breathing Free Meditations.

And on my podcast on 12/21/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Breathing Compassion Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Thought Away: Mastery Meditations.

Lastly, on my podcast on 12/28/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “The Light Within and Without” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is an Image Away: Visualization Meditations.

If you are interested in finding out more about my Meditations CDs, please go to the following link: http://www.learnmastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

Below are instructions on how to meditate. These instructions are broken up into two parts and will be repeated each of the three weeks on my blog: 12/10, 12/17 and 12/24.

EnJoy and Relax!

The natural mind: non-extremist, un-dogmatic, sensitive mind-set is produced by meditation.

How to prepare to meditate?

Before you start to meditate, it is very important to settle yourself, to slow yourself down and to prepare an internal and external environment for relaxation. So, begin by creating a quiet, comfortable place for you to sit and meditate in. Dim the lights; close the door, and turn off the phones.

Also, it is preferable that every time you meditate it be at the same time and in the same place, but don’t be too rigid about this. It is more important that you actually meditate rather than that you adhere to a rigid schedule. But do know that by establishing a regular time and place for meditation, you are more likely to do it consistently because you are then creating a very clear new habit/pattern and intention that this is my time and my place to meditate.

As well, make sure that all significant others know that this is a quiet, private, undisturbed time just for you. This is your time to be with yourself, to meditate and to do nothing else. Also, pick a time that works for you, a time when you are usually not too busy. And, if the time you first choose doesn’t work for any reason, then change it and experiment until you do find a time and setting that works.

Please note, too, that it is most ideal to meditate every day, but don’t get too rigid about this either. Just start meditating as often as you can and then gradually build up to meditating every day. The more you meditate, the more you will want to, so let the frequency grow on its own.

Also, start off with whatever length of time you feel most comfortable with, even if it is only five minutes. Let the timeframe, as well, gradually become longer. It takes time, practice and patience to build up your meditation muscles. Don’t force any of this. But do be consistent and clear in your intentions.

If you have never meditated before and decide that you will now meditate for twenty minutes, two times a day, everyday, you are more than likely setting yourself up for failure, for self-sabotage. You will most likely go on overload and will quit in a few days. Just as you can’t run a marathon unless you have gradually built up your endurance, so, too, with meditation, let yourself gradually build up your endurance. So, go slow and get there fast!

Meditation is a life-long skill that you step by step integrate into your life. Don’t try to rush or push it! Let it all be easy and fun!

This is Part I of a two Part Blog

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Now, in terms of how you sit or what you do when you meditate, the most important thing is to make sure you are physically comfortable. If you have the flexibility to sit in the yoga half-lotus or full lotus position, then certainly do so. If you don’t have the flexibility, then I would not recommend you try. You can meditate very effectively sitting comfortably in straight backed chair. This is the way I do it all the time. Just sit up straight with you spine erect, but not rigid. It is best that your feet lie flat on the floor and are not crossed. Your hands are in your lap, palms up or down, whatever is most comfortable for you.

As we proceed with the meditations, if at any point you are physically uncomfortable, then shift your body. Move around a bit. If you need to cough, then do so. Don’t spend your time suppressing a cough or being physically uncomfortable and then at the end conclude that you can’t meditate.

Again, the most important thing to remember as you start is to make sure you are comfortable while you are in meditation. I might add, though, not so comfortable that you fall asleep. By the way, I do not recommend that you lie on the floor or on a bed or on a lounge chair when you meditate because you are very likely to fall asleep. Lie down only if you have a significant physical problem that necessitates lying down. So, again, the idea is to be as comfortable as possible, yet still alert and then you will really enjoy and get the most out of the experience.

Also, please note that not all of your meditations will be blissful and calm. Sometimes when you sit down to meditate your mind will be like a wild, untamed horse. But that’s ok and to be expected at times! When this happens just do your best to observe rather than get caught up in the content of your mind’s madness and it will gradually dissipate. Eventually you will learn how to calm down even this kind of an overly stimulated mind. Be patient and persistent and you will with practice reach your goal of being peaceful and calm.

Lastly, please note that at the end of each meditation, I will leave you with a little extra time with just the music playing. This will allow you to gradually and slowly come up and out of the meditation and then you can resume your normal activities.

So, happy meditating! Peace be with you!

This is Part II of a two part blog.

Posted by Yanni at 4:00 AM | Permalink

For the next three weeks as we navigate through the stresses, challenges and joys of the Holiday season, I wanted to offer as a gift to all of you a series of guided meditations that will help you to relax and enjoy the season.

So, for the next three weeks my blog posts on Mondays and Wednesdays will consist of instructions on how to meditate and my podcasts on Fridays will be three different guided meditations from my Meditation CDs.

So, on my podcast on 12/14/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Abdominal Breathing Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Breath Away: Breathing Free Meditations.

And on my podcast on 12/21/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “Breathing Compassion Meditation” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is a Thought Away: Mastery Meditations.

Lastly, on my podcast on 12/28/07 you will be lead in a guided meditation entitled: “The Light Within and Without” from my Meditation CD entitled: Peace of Mind is an Image Away: Visualization Meditations.

If you are interested in finding out more about my Meditations CDs, please go to the following link: http://www.learnmastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

Below are instructions on how to meditate. These instructions are broken up into two parts and will be repeated each of the three weeks on my blog: 12/10, 12/17 and 12/24.

EnJoy and Relax!

The natural mind: non-extremist, un-dogmatic, sensitive mind-set is produced by meditation.

How to prepare to meditate?

Before you start to meditate, it is very important to settle yourself, to slow yourself down and to prepare an internal and external environment for relaxation. So, begin by creating a quiet, comfortable place for you to sit and meditate in. Dim the lights; close the door, and turn off the phones.

Also, it is preferable that every time you meditate it be at the same time and in the same place, but don’t be too rigid about this. It is more important that you actually meditate rather than that you adhere to a rigid schedule. But do know that by establishing a regular time and place for meditation, you are more likely to do it consistently because you are then creating a very clear new habit/pattern and intention that this is my time and my place to meditate.

As well, make sure that all significant others know that this is a quiet, private, undisturbed time just for you. This is your time to be with yourself, to meditate and to do nothing else. Also, pick a time that works for you, a time when you are usually not too busy. And, if the time you first choose doesn’t work for any reason, then change it and experiment until you do find a time and setting that works.

Please note, too, that it is most ideal to meditate every day, but don’t get too rigid about this either. Just start meditating as often as you can and then gradually build up to meditating every day. The more you meditate, the more you will want to, so let the frequency grow on its own.

Also, start off with whatever length of time you feel most comfortable with, even if it is only five minutes. Let the timeframe, as well, gradually become longer. It takes time, practice and patience to build up your meditation muscles. Don’t force any of this. But do be consistent and clear in your intentions.

If you have never meditated before and decide that you will now meditate for twenty minutes, two times a day, everyday, you are more than likely setting yourself up for failure, for self-sabotage. You will most likely go on overload and will quit in a few days. Just as you can’t run a marathon unless you have gradually built up your endurance, so, too, with meditation, let yourself gradually build up your endurance. So, go slow and get there fast!

Meditation is a life-long skill that you step by step integrate into your life. Don’t try to rush or push it! Let it all be easy and fun!

This is Part I of a two Part Blog

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This is Part II of a two part blog.

The key to “being present” for oneself is found in meditation. Because in meditation one gives oneself the opportunity to truly come to “Know Thy Self”—that is, to truly come to know who you ARE and why you ARE!

It is so hard for the ego mind to wrap itself around who you really ARE. The ego mind is only capable of remembering the conditioning which it has been fed since birth. It knows nothing about the Divine plan that you formulated before it came into being. It has no clue regarding your infinite potential; and it certainly has no idea about the incredible mysteries and majesty that lie within you.

So, why do we keep relying on the ego mind to help us get to know ourselves or to understand what our purpose is?

The ego mind is meant to be the servant of our Soul. It is not meant to be our master.

So, learn how to access your true purpose by quieting your ego mind and listening instead to your heart/Soul. Then you will discover who you ARE and why you ARE!

Meditation is the key to this because in meditation the ego mind is quieted and in that Silence one can then eavesdrop on the God/Goddess within. And there and then who you ARE and why you ARE becomes crystal clear.

So, take the time now to simply “be” with your Self--your “most significant other”--and discover the majesty and mystery of who you are.

Quiet your mind and open your heart and you will come to “know Thy Self!”

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What does it mean to love one self or to love another person? As I have journeyed through my life, I have come to the following understanding of what it means to truly love:

But what does it mean “to be present” for yourself?

As far as I am concerned, you are your most “significant other.” So, in order to love yourself, you must be fully present for yourself. You must be “listening” to your Self. You must be honoring yourself. You must be accepting and appreciating yourself unconditionally. This is love: “Being totally present for your self” with no judgments, no analysis, no preconceived beliefs, concepts or ideas of what you “should” be or do--just an acceptance and gratitude for who you are now.

Giving this kind of love and presence to yourself is the key to Self-Mastery and happiness; it is actually “the key” to Life. “Being present,” in this way, I believe, is the answer to the perennial question of “How do I truly love myself or another person?”

So, to be in an authentic relationship with yourself or with another person requires that you “be present” in the way I have described above. Otherwise, all you are doing is judging and analyzing yourself or another with your mind, but you are not “being present” with your heart.

The mind, through its judgments and analysis, creates duality and separation, the heart naturally seeks unity and oneness. The mind creates a sense of “being other than;” the heart, on the other hand, “becomes one with” its object of attention and “knows” by “identifying with” it. It knows from “the inside out.”

This is the key to mastering the art of love.

Carl Rogers, the noted psychologist wrote in this regard:

So, love is simply “being present” and listening with your heart and not judging with your head!

This is Part I of a two part blog.

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This is Part X of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

You are solely there as an instrument or as a mirror to reflect back to them some information that might be helpful to them. If they want to receive what you offer, fine. If they won’t want to receive it, that’s fine, too. But if you have as your intention that you want to make them well and want them to be better after the session, guess what, they will feel better, but you won’t. Your energy will have been used and drained.

So, as I do my work I have learned to not do it personally or to take it personally. I don’t care what a person thinks after a class or a session. My sole preparation and intention is to be connected at the heart level. That’s the only thing I care about.

If I speak from my heart, I have done my intention and my “job”. And that is all that matters. If I am concerned about how it went for you, then I really lose my energy to you. If I know that I am coming from my heart, then I have done my best and leave it at that; then I am OK.

For myself, when I started doing readings on a pay-for-basis around 20 years ago, I would literally spend an hour or so preparing before the reading, literally reading for the person without them here to make sure I had something to say when they got here. I did this because I felt that I had to make sure that they felt good when they left. And I would even give two hour readings for people simply to make sure they got enough. Doing this would totally exhaust me.

So, I finally stopped doing readings after a while because it was so darn draining. I finally had to “get”/understand this piece that I am sharing with you now. It is such that now I don’t care before a reading. [I’m not saying here that I do not care for the person. No, not at all, I do! What I don’t care about is listening to or paying any attention to my ego’s fears, insecurities and fantasies of omniscience.]

Actually, I don’t even prepare any more other than that I create a clear intention that I am going to, first, connect with “being present” and in a place of Embrace for myself and then once connected, speak what I feel and sense, unedited and not scripted by my mind.

In other words, I have learned to “speak before I think.” It has all been drummed into us that we must “think before we speak.” Yeah, but that does not get you anywhere in the world of intuition. In this work, you “speak before you think” because as you start to think you start to censor and alter what you are feeling and you get in your own way.

So, to get back to my main point, the essence of this work is Love based. Otherwise it isn’t worth very much. If you do it for ego purposes, it won’t work for you and, though it may serve others to a degree, it will only be to a small degree. All we are here to learn is how to best mirror back to another the good that is within them and to do it through the eyes and heart of our Souls.

This is Part X of a ten part blog.

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This is Part IX of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

It became crystal clear to me at that point that “the sound of one hand clapping” is the sound/feeling of total oneness with the object of your attention. This is the sound of oneness, of “one hand clapping.” And this is what intuition is all about

It is about becoming one with the object of your attention. No longer is there a sense of separation or duality, but there is now “a becoming one with” and, therefore, a “knowing.” No, it is not with you mind that you know, but with your heart! Actually the etymology of the word intuition is “to see or go within,”

So when you want to read or connect for someone or with something, you become one with them/it. When you want to connect or be with yourself, you become one with your Self. No, not you ego or mind self, but your Higher or God/Goddess Self. It is from there that you really know. It is from there that real connection occurs. This is the place of the Embrace, of Love.

Otherwise you are caught up in an emotion we call love, but please understand that Love is not an emotion. It is a state of being. Love is not a dependent state of being. It is an independent state of being. Love is not attached state of being. It is a detached state of being. Love is a state of being that comes from the Heart and not from the head. It is a state of being that comes from the Soul and not from the ego.

What in heaven’s name is he talking about? One of the biggest problems people have when they are working with others in a healing capacity or even just in a relationship with another is something called co-dependency. What is he mumbling about here?

If you want to intuitively read another person, you really have to be very careful about what you are doing and how and why you are doing it. When you are with another individual either in a relationship, in a healing setting or in a reading setting, be it whether they are asking for your feedback or whether you are just “tuning in” in order to sense what is going on, regardless, you must be there for them as an objective mirror and nothing else. You are not there to be their authority.

As well, you are not there to prove or validate yourself, that is, to prove ,b>to yourself or to them that you can “read”--that is purely ego “stuff.” And if you are doing it for this reason, be assured that you will have your energies sapped.

Also you are not there to heal them. They have to choose to heal. So often, when we do this kind of work, we want to heal the person. We not only want to prove to them that we are good, but, also, that we are a gifted healer. That is all ego! Let go of this way of thinking; it will get you nowhere. It will only drain you!

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This is Part VIII of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

But other things happened during this experience of the “Embrace.” I, also, made the determination and the clear intention at that time that this is what I am here not only to experience personally, but also to share with others. So, I made the resolve that that was what I would be doing with my life. So, as I said at the beginning of this class, “It is truly an honor and a privilege to have you here in this class. It is an honor and a privilege to have you here to share the possibility of the Embrace with you.”

So, the reason why I have shared this story with you is because I want to really give you a clear framework in this first class about what these classes are really about: and that is, that these classes are all about making that kind of a connection with the Embrace.

As I was saying at the beginning, if you want to connect for another, you need to be present with yourself. And to be present with yourself you must stand in this heart, in this Embrace, in this Love. If you want to “read” for someone, you read from a place of connection, of heart, of the Embrace.

I remember an experience when I was studying Shiatsu about 15 years ago. Shiatsu is the Oriental healing system where you apply acupressure to the acupuncture points with your fingers rather than with needles. When you do Shiatsu it is best, if you want to allow for the unimpeded flow of the energies, to always leave at least one hand on your client’s body during the entire treatment.

I remember one time when I was balancing a person’s energies; I was holding two different points on their body with each of my hands. Then all of a sudden I shifted energetically and made a really, really deep connection with the person. And the next thing I knew, it felt as if I just had one hand on the person and that he and I were one. As well, all was one in the room, all the people, all the objects, all was one. And then a voice drifted into my consciousness and said, “This is the sound of one hand clapping.” This phrase is the famous Zen koan: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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This is Part VII of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

So, I kept looking for meaning. For me initially, meaning/purpose to me meant finding a cognitive understanding of what life is all about. But, wisely I looked in spiritual directions, too. I started meditating at 16 years of age. I looked into all kinds of “stuff.” And I kept looking and looking and looking and yet still never felt right or felt a connection with myself or with others; still always feeling odd, always odd. I never fit into anything.

And it was not until 20 years ago, when I was sitting in class, similar to this one, with one of my teachers, Philip Burley, when I “got it.” Jaime, my wife and I, would travel three hours one-way to get to these classes because it was the only place we could find anything like it.

We were attending regularly for a year or so and then one night during a session somewhat similar to this, all of a sudden, this profound “Embrace” came over me. It was visceral. I felt it throughout my whole body. I was shaking, vibrating. And it was electric. And it was so embracing and so unitive and so totally transformative. I felt totally accepted and at one with myself. In the middle of it I thought, “Eureka, this is it. This is what I have been looking, but in all the wrong places” [This is a reference to the song “Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places”.]

But it was not that kind of love, that co-dependent love stuff that I was looking for. This was the Real Thing: a profound Embrace, a unitive oneness with my Self. And at that moment or during those moments (it was an experience outside of time and space) I said to myself, “One…this is it. And, two, I am not letting go of this one.” And I didn’t. I then began a practice of spending two hours a night in mediation looking for it. By the way, you don’t really have to sit in meditation for two hours a day to experience this.

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This is Part VI of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

So, I would like to now share with you why I teach these classes.

In this lifetime, the parenting that I received was such that neither of my parents had the experience of Love or of the Embrace so they were, therefore, incapable of sharing that with me. So as a child, what I basically heard, actually, all I ever heard, was what was wrong with me and what I was not doing right. Even on her deathbed, my mom could not say anything nice to me. That simply was just not possible for her; so bless her, bless her for that!

She wanted to be able to do so, but she couldn’t for whatever reasons; it does not really matter. And it was my choice to be with her and it was a gift. And my dad was not there either, sweet dear soul that he was, because he could not handle her so he was gone emotionally. And I did not have siblings.

And so the profound gift of all this was…and also given the way I was raised, they did not let me go out of their sight much; God forbid I would do something other than what they wanted me to do… I had a very rich interior life. I had no other choice. Either that or go crazy. Which some of you may think is the case. [Laughter.]

The richness of my interior life extended, as well, into my dream life. It is still a problem for me nowadays because I go to sleep and I am so active; it is ridiculous. There is so much going on; I often say to myself, “Give me a break already. Let me just go comatose for a while. Give me a drug. Give me anything.” FYI, I don’t take drugs, never have. But…it is a very active interior life that I have.

So through all this upbringing I was left with really poor self esteem and no real direction or purpose in my life. So, from a very young age I was desperately looking for meaning. My story, I realize, may parallel many of your stories, too. So, please understand that I am not claiming my story to be unique, nor in any way am I asking for sympathy. Nor, other than for teaching purposes, do I identify with it any more.

This is Part VI of a ten part blog.

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This is Part V of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

Caroline Myss writes in one of her books that during the time of Jesus, the band of light that humans could see was much narrower or smaller than we now see. They could not really see purple or indigo very well. They were not color blind, but they could not see the difference between purple and blue which now we easily see. So, if you can allow what I’ve just said to kind of settle in, it might give you a sense for what you are looking for as you begin to work with your intuitive sight.

Remember, you don’t “see” things with your eyes when you are doing intuitive work. Instead you just “feel”---it is a gut thing---this is just another way of saying you are using your 6th sense.

Where I want to go with all that I have just said is not anywhere near what I actually sat down and prepared to say today. I have learned, especially after doing so many intuitive development classes, not to get caught up in making sure I cover what I prepared for. I have also learned to transfer this same way of flowing with things that I am doing now in this class into most parts of my life, too.

My ego will script how it wants something to turn out and what it scripts is very limited compared to what my Soul is likely to have in mind for me. Also, if I tune in at the Soul level, I will sense and see a situation very differently from how my ego would see it.

So I have learned to let things flow instead of always trying to script them in my life; and I have learned to see them with the eyes and heart of my Soul and not from the myopia or narrow-mindedness of my ego. I choose to feel first and think later.

I have learned to see with my “first eye” and not my physical eyes. Why is it that we call intuitive sight the “third eye”? It really is the “first eye!” It is the first resource we want to use, if we really want to know something or someone.

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This is Part IV of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

Also, because of all the left brain training we have had in our culture, intuitive knowing is considered flakey or irrelevant. But it certainly is not! What I hope to help you to understand through this course is how to feel, sense, and “see” a whole new world that is right there before you.

To do so you must learn how to shift out of the rational, cognitive state and into an intuitive, feeling state. You do this by shifting into a meditative state and then you learn how to trust the impressions you are receiving as much as, if not even more than, the physical ones you receive.

The cognitive state is a very narrow band of reality. Very little information comes thru that state. The greater part of reality comes through to you by your picking up on vibrations, in other words, by feeling. As Carl Jung said, “most of Reality is not thinking.”

Also, “we are vibratory beings” and must understand the implications of that phrase. We can live, be or travel into any level, dimension, time, or space. All we have to do is change our vibration. We can time travel into the future or the past. We can, just by changing our vibration, go anywhere we want to go in the universe. What????????? You say!

You don’t have to believe what I have just said or understand it. You don’t even have to remember what I just said. But the fact is that all you have to do is to clearly and intentionally focus your vibration and you are “there;” and “there” can be any “where;” and you can be “there” as any “thing” and you can also be there in any “time! “

We live in such a narrow band of reality, for example, our ability to see. We see within the infra red and the ultra violet bands of light. It is within this band of vibrations that we are able to see visually with the naked eye. Yet there are an infinite number of bands of reality that exist beneath the infrared and beyond the ultraviolet.

These are the bands that the animals pick up on and are guided by. This is how earthquakes and other natural phenomena are sensed before they physically occur. The vibrations are picked up on. The point is the bands go infinitely below infrared and infinitely above ultra violet. And guess what? You are capable of tuning into any one of those bands and “seeing.” But you have been so myopically trained, so narrowly trained, to see only in this infrared to ultraviolet band that you may not be able to even imagine what I am talking about.

This is Part IV of a ten part blog.

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This is Part III of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

So the purpose of these classes is to help you go there, i.e., within. For it is there where your intuitive abilities reside. We are all energy beings, yes! You included! You are energy in motion, even though at times it might feel like you are moving very slowly. [Laughter]

Everything is energy. All that we ever do is interpret energy, receive energy, and “pick up” on energy. What we are not doing is hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, feeling or smelling. No, we are not!

We are vibrations of energy who pick up on other vibrations of energy. One of the problems with “reading” or seeing or sensing energies is that the human race for many millennia has been focused on the visual as the primary apparatus for sensing vibration. Over half of our brain is dedicated to this visual faculty simply because we have trained it that way; it has become our habitual way of interpreting/receiving vibration.

But, for instance, with regard to our cats, their whole thing is sniffing. You give them something, they sniff it. They cannot see color like we do. Their vision is more black and white than ours. That is actually why they can be more nocturnal. Their first way of receiving vibration is to smell it. As well, they have a greater hearing acuity than we do. They can hear a broader range of sound than we can. We consider them to be more primitive because they use a more primitive part of the brain, i.e., smelling. From my point of view, they are not more primitive, they simply have developed smelling as their primary way of sensing vibration.

Where so many people get tripped up with regard to developing their intuitive abilities is that they feel they cannot “see.” They assume that to be intuitive means that you “see” subtle energies as you would see them in the physical world. They believe that it should all be in Technicolor, that it should be as clear as day, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus when he encountered the resurrected Jesus.

But this is not the way most people “see.” Actually, all you are doing is “feeling” and not seeing. All you are doing is interpreting vibrations. You get caught up in expecting to “see” and then you miss what you are feeling or sensing and dismiss it all. Then you say you can’t do it or don’t get it, when, in fact, you are getting it. But you have been trained to believe that “seeing” is the only way to receive intuitive impressions.

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This is Part II of a ten part blog. Part I begins on 10/15/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous part.

Please know that we are all God Selves. We are all God in finite form. We are here to have the experience of being God in a finite form. Somehow, though, we have forgotten this simple fact. So, we give our authority away to others, be it to mentors, masters, guides, angels, teachers, teachings, relationships, corporations, causes, and all kinds of other things, and we then never find our own “God”ness for ourselves.

So, the purpose of these classes is to help you learn how to get in touch with that God/Goddess Self within and to be present with that Self and from that Presence be present for yourself and others. Otherwise you can not be present. Otherwise you are lost in your ego, lost in your illusions, lost in your fears, lost in your masks and in your veils, lost in your present personality and all of its limiting beliefs and fears.

Therefore, you are lost in who you think you are not who you really are. Who you think you are, is simply not who you are. If you want to look at it in a broader perspective, you have lived many, many, many lifetimes. How could you identify solely with this lifetime; this gender; this race; this culture you are in? It is ludicrous when you think about it because you are none of those identities at essence.

Be that as it may, go ahead and be a happy Dane [of Danish ancestry]. [Here I am talking to a student in the class of Danish ancestry.] Enjoy that experience. Get into your birth culture and really enjoy it.

I am not saying to forget that you have these roots in this lifetime. But when you think about this topic more deeply, you realize that your roots are the same as everyone else’s and that you are the same as everyone else. That is, you are a Divine being in human form taking on a finite experience for who knows what reason(s). But if you go within and honestly and lovingly look at yourself, you will find out what those reasons are and you will then know who you are and why you are.

Thus, whatever you are experiencing presently in your life is no longer seen as a problem. What you are experiencing no longer becomes your identity. You can go much deeper into knowing who you really are and into integrating, understanding and embracing your present experiences, both the “good” and the “bad.”

This is Part II of a ten part blog.

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This is Part I of a ten part blog.

We are all blessed with the gift of intuitive “in” sight or intuitive knowing. It is simply not the case that some of us have the “gene” for intuition and others do not. We all have the “genius” of intuition imbedded in us.

It’s just a matter of learning how to listen to that voice within. It is a matter of learning the “language” of intuition, that is, the language of the heart. For some people this “language” of intuition is a foreign tongue, one which they were not raised knowing. For others, they picked it up somewhere along the line and it all comes easy for them. But just as with any foreign language, you can learn it and you can become quite proficient in communicating with it. Actually, in time, it becomes totally natural and easy.

In this mini-blog course I will lead you on an adventure into the world of the intuitive muse. You will learn how to listen to the oracle within you.

It is fun and it is easy, easier than learning a foreign language actually. As well, I will help you to understand and experience the profound love that is the “ground” from which intuition arises. So, let us begin.

What follows below is the partial transcript of a live class in which I was first talking about the phenomenon of channeling and then I went on to discuss what intuitive development really is all about.

“There is a phenomenon called channeling that is quite misunderstood. Channeling is not about channeling this particular being or that one; it is simply a process of being in touch with your own God or Higher Self and letting that flow through you.

We all have guides, mentors, masters, angels, etc. that support us. Their purpose is to help us to make a deep, lasting connection to our Higher Selves directly and on our own. While we are still learning to make this connection, they help to transduce the higher energies and bring them into a vibratory level that we can receive and integrate. But ultimately we are meant to channel our own God Self.

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This is Part XII of a twelve part blog. Part I begins on 09/03/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

This whole process that I am describing to you is astounding in what it reveals to you about your “story.” As you begin to unravel your “story,” as you “inquire into” and “examine” what you believe and who you think you are, you will be amazed at what you uncover and recover.

As you do this process, you will no doubt, at some point, be hoodwinked into believing you have it all together, too. Don’t buy into that one either. We are all “works in progress” and we will never get it done! It is just an ongoing process of discovery and recovery and ascent into higher and higher levels of Self-Mastery and selfless-Love.

Where I would like to leave you now is to suggest to you that It, that is, Life, is all about learning how to love unconditionally, everyone and everything you experience. Actually, L I F E is an acronym for Love It For Ever!

Life is learning how to love, accept, embrace and appreciate all that we experience, no matter how it may seem.

Nothing is at it appears to be. What we think we are seeing is often just us “looking darkly” through the distorted lenses of our limiting beliefs.

We were made from Love and out of Love and we are being given the opportunity to “own” and embody the essence of who we are. By having all the experiences we have, both the “good” and the “bad,” we are given the opportunity to love it all. As we do, we come to appreciate and embody the heart and Love of God/Goddess. We then become like God/Goddess and see it all through the eyes and heart of Love.

As Saint Paul wrote: So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Go for it! You have nothing to lose and your Kingdom to gain! This is what the purpose and meaning of your Life is all about!

Don’t take my word for it, though! Only take yours!

Peace be with you!

This is Part XII of a twelve part blog.

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This is Part XI of a twelve part blog. Part I begins on 09/03/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.

From my point of view, as I wrote above, it all comes down to what Albert Einstein once wrote. Namely, that the most important question you can ask yourself is: “Is this a friendly Universe or not?”

Everything in your life is predicated on your core beliefs about the nature of this Universe and of Life itself. What kind of Universe do you believe you live in? What kind of Creator put this all together? Or, is there even a Creator? Is it all random? Is there meaning and purpose to it all?

Whatever you believe, you experience!

Whatever you are looking for, you get!

Whatever you ask for, you receive!

Whatever you are looking at, you see!

Whatever you believe, whether it is conscious or not, the Universe still is always responding in kind. “‘Like’ does in fact attract ‘like’.”