Research has shown that 90% of the thoughts you have today are the same thoughts that you had yesterday. That does not mean, however, that you can’t have a greater percentage of positive thoughts. It is possible to rewire your brain for happiness.

Being happy is sought after in all cultures and has even generated college courses in “Positive Psychology.”  These “happiness” psychologists believe you can be happier if you live in the present moment, have gratitude for all the positives in your life and are able to recognize the beauty of nature.

Staying in the present moment involves refusing to believe every thought you have.  Many of your thoughts may be based on the past or false expectations appearing real (also known as FEAR).  Do not allow these types of thoughts to inhibit the present moment.  Choose how you react from your heart.

Staying present also involves focusing on who you are in terms of your character strengths, goals, and what gives meaning to your life. Know who you are.  Define yourself by making a list of your character strengths, perhaps with assistance from your closest friends, and what you believe your values to be.   Are you kind, fair, supportive, loyal?

Give yourself credit for living up to those character traits.  Negative judgments are conditioning from parents, family, friends and culture. Place your attention on the good in you and be happy with who you are.  Love yourself so that you do not lose your boundaries or become codependent .

Choose how you will view setbacks and tragedies and adjust to new circumstances.  You can choose to focus your attention on happier, more positive thoughts.   Remember, the idea of who you are is not dependent on your circumstances.  Focus on what your strengths are and work to use your strength and abilities to move you forward.

If you tend to compare yourself to others, choose how much and with whom you compare yourself and about what.  If income and material goods are your measure of comparison on the happiness scale, know that an increased standard of living does not bring happiness. Once your basic needs are met, any additional income will not increase your happiness with life.

Develop an attitude of gratitude that focuses on noticing all the positive things in your life, including the small ones.  What did you think, see, feel, taste, hear or smell that brought you pleasure, joy, or feeling good about who you are?  Studies have shown that those who take time daily to write down the positive things from the day are happier.

Take time to “smell the roses.”  In other words, spend time in nature.  Nothing is more grounding than being like a child, barefoot in the grass.  When you are grounded, you are able to run off your stress and look at life more objectively and less emotionally.

Every day you have many opportunities to focus on the present, the beauty around you, and

the good in your life.  Don’t wait to be happy in the future, for the future is now.

You have psychic ability, whether it is intuition or extra-sensory perception, but you may not be cognizant of your ability all of the time.  In some these abilities are stronger than they are in others. To help you recognize your gifts, I put together a list of the various ways that you can receive information.

Many we speak of psychic communication, we are talking about the “Clairs.” The word claire is French for clear or light, thus the “clairs” are a clear communication from your angels or guides and it can be a direct connection to your deepest inner knowledge and wisdom. The clairs relate to the senses of hearing, smelling, knowing, tasting, feeling and seeing.

Clairaudience- being  clairaudient – clear hearing

Clairalience - being clairalient - clear smelling

Claircognizance – being claircognizant – clear knowing

Clairgustance – being clairgustant clear – tasting

Clairsentience – being clairsentient – clear feeling

Clairvoyance – being clairvoyant – clear seeing

Have you ever sworn that you heard someone call your name or that the doorbell rang or the phone rang and found that no one was there? These are some soft and gentle signals that you have a communication coming and to use your clairaudience or extra-sensory hearing abilities. Just sit quietly and see where your thinking takes you.

When I first started doing healing, while working on a young man, I suddenly heard the word “sepsis”. This was my clairaudience giving me information. I instinctively knew it was related to the blood, but had to look it up to discover that it was a blood infection.

Maybe you have smelled something that has no visible source, like the smell of flowers, your mother’s favorite perfume, or your father’s cigar. This is a sign of being clairalient.

When I took a healing class, I unexpectedly smelled roses very strongly. Since everyone was busy watching a video, there was no possibility that someone had brought roses into the room. Surprisingly after smelling the roses, I was inspired to create the logo that I now use for my business. It’s patterned after the Flower of Life design.

The next psychic communication is an inner knowing that many parents have when their children are in trouble or are lying. You just seem to know what is going on. Sometime knowing comes when you have been asking for guidance to solve a problem. This is claircognizance that lets you know what is going on when you need to know it.

For me this was very obvious when I was traveling and stopped to buy postcards to send to family members. Somehow, I just knew that I did not have to buy a card for my Great- Grandmother. When questioned about why I hadn’t picked out a card for her, I simply replied that she had passed. How could I know that while traveling overseas without phone, mail or email communication with family? I was using my claircognizant ability.

Have you ever had a desire for a food so badly that you could taste it even without having anything in your mouth? Maybe this ability ofclairgustance is just your body’s way of telling you what you need to be eating or helping bring to mind an event or feeling related to the last time that you consumed this food.

Perhaps you have met someone and just had a gut feeling that you didn’t like them or maybe you entered a place and instantly felt uncomfortable. Gut feelings in the solar plexus area are part of clairsentience. These gut feelings are often ones that the police recommend that you not ignore for your own safety.

Clairsentience can be a lot more powerful when you are a sensitive empath. Then you may pick up on the physical pain or emotions of others, so you are in effect sharing their joys and sorrows. This can be both a blessing and a curse, a blessing because you know where people are truly coming from and a curse if you are unaware of what you have picked up or don’t know how to get rid of other people’s stuff. (Call me for help with this.)

Clairsentience helps healers, like myself,  to know where physical problems are, have been, or will be in the body. It also helps to pinpoint the emotional issues that the individual needs to deal with or release in order to feel better.

Are you able to sense where to find things? Do you ever feel the need to alter your route only to hear later that you avoided an accident scene or big traffic jam? Have you ever thought of a friend just before they call?  You are using your clairvoyant abilities.

Clairvoyants can perceive or “see” things with their mind’s eye that others are unable to see. They may see auras, spirits, colors, pictures, shapes, organs and glands in the body. The image seen is often related to a specific memory or connection that you or the client have to the particular image. For example a cake may remind you of someone’s recent or upcoming birthday. Many times these images briefly pop into your mind as a movie or snapshot that can show you the past, present or future events.  You can always ask for clarification to be sure of the correct interpretation of what you are seeing.

Many psychics use clairvoyance to predict the future or see the past. Healers use it to identify what may have happened to cause an unresolved issue in the client or to show where a physical problem is in the body. When a person comes to me for a healing, I use all of the clairs to gain information.

The first time that I “saw” an organ in the body it was of a young lady who appeared to have a spot of a sticky, black substance in her lung. This was residue from smoking marijuana. With her, I also felt that she had something on her left knee. When I went down to scan her knee, I saw an elf-like man sitting on her knee. He was a nature creature who wanted me to know that this girl was very connected to the earth.

Speaking of connection to the earth, being grounded and clearing your lower chakras is important if you want to develop your clairs.  “As above, so below” is a spiritual law that applies to understanding that those who wish to develop their upper (third eye) chakra need to work on the lower chakras first. In addition, being cognizant of how you receive information, and trusting the information you begin to expand your psychic abilities.

Which are you: Clairaudient, Clairalient, Claircognizant, Clairgustant, Clairsentient or Clairvoyant? Maybe you have a combination of psychic abilities. If you pay attention, you will begin to realize that you are receiving a lot more information than you ever dreamed possible.

If you would like some chakra clearing or assistance with opening to your psychic abilities call now for an Intuitive Energy Healing Session or Spiritual Counseling

Thoughts to Ponder

“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.” ~ Ovid

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” ~ Jonas Salk

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” ~ Albert Einstein

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~ William Wordsworth

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~ Alan Alda

What has led to this sudden return to calm?  It was not some magical power that I possess nor the sound of my voice.  What led to the calm was the clearing, grounding and brain balancing that we did together.

Clearing is done to create an energetically clear space.  Many of us are empathic, to a small degree, and in our sympathy and compassion for others, we get triggered by what may not even be our own energies.  When you have picked up a lot of other people’s energies you could be reacting to their stuff and not yours.

Grounding is THE best exercise to do for your body on a daily basis.  When you are grounded, your energy is connected to the earth, which helps you to run your stress off into the ground.  At the same time, grounding also brings healthy, supportive energies into your body.

Brain balancing helps you to access both sides of the brain simultaneously.  A balanced brain gives you the benefit of processing information from a more balanced perspective or viewpoint.

When you are cleared, grounded and brain balanced you are making decisions free from overwhelming emotion.

Say the following clearing prayer daily and whenever you are feeling stressed or panicked. CLEARING PRAYER – My Holy, Holy Spirit, clear me, the beings and auras of all those within 500 feet and this building itself of all intrusive energies; Block, disintegrate and transmute them, clearing our entire existence of their presence.

To learn how to do grounding and brain balancing, follow the instructions on my videos. http://www.youtube.com/alterra1

If you want to know more about Grounding and Brain Balancing purchase my e-book called “Tools for Living Easy – Proven strategies to help you see you life more objectively and less emotionally.” The e-book is available for purchase on the “home” page or “Services and Fees” page on my website: www.healinggateway.com

Healing Power Tools

Many of you know guys who love their power tools.  I have power tools that assist me with healing and the release of negative energies.  I love my healing tools as much as the guys love their power tools.

A while ago, I incorporated tuning forks into my healing sessions.   I love the way that they assist with grounding and brain balancing.  The Om tuning forks, which match the vibration of the planet, help with grounding.  The high and low C’s tuning forks assist with brain balancing.  Within the past year, I have used tuning forks at several health fairs to assist hundreds of people with the releasing of stress that comes from being grounded and brain balanced.

I have used tuning forks in many intuitive energy healing sessions whether it is a hands-on or a distance session.  Since each note relates to a different chakra, I have noticed that they seem to do a deeper clearing of the chakras   Used individually, the tuning forks can shift the energy in a problem area.

I love the portability of the tuning forks as I can easily take them to events, to a friend’s house, or on vacation.  It is fun and simple to work on your own chakras with the tuning forks. On bad days, I pull them out for self-healing.

Recently I discovered a fabulous healing tool known as Orgone/Orgonite.  For those unfamiliar with it, Orgonite is man-made and consists of crystals and metal shavings suspended in a resin with little or no color added and formed into shapes with various molds.  Orgonite come is the shape of a hearts, cones, roses, cupcakes and pyramids.

Many claims have been made for Orgnite. It is said that it turns negative energy into positive energy, improves the weather; improves plant growth, eliminates chemtrails, and mitigates the harmful effects of EMF/EMR radiation.  I can’t say that I know first-hand about these claims but I can share with you what I have found using it for healing.

I purchased a set of Orgonite from a former nun who was led to make organite.  She uses her intuitive gifts to guide her in the energies and prayers which need to be incorporate into each piece.

Shortly after receiving the orgonite, I had a client with problems with her feet which felt stiff as a board.   Spirit led me to pick up the purple heart-shaped orgonite and put it on the bottom of each foot in turn.  Surprisingly, within just a minute or two her feet softened up, and she no longer had a problem with her feet.

My next client had recently received knee surgery. A hot spot had appeared on her leg that she suspected was an infection.  I was again led to the purple heart-shaped orgonite and placed it on the hot spot.  She said that her leg began to feel as if she had an ice pack sitting on the spot.  Within five minutes, the hot spot was completely gone.

Next I used the orgonite on another client who had knee surgery.  On the top of the knee cap area wherever I place the orgonite, it felt warm inside her knee and then returned to normal temperature.  However, when the orgonite was moved to the tight muscles in her calf and thigh area, she felt cold within her leg. The heart itself never changed temperature. The tight muscles relaxed for the client.  She did a lot of emotional releasing and had a much greater range of motion in her legs afterwards.

I have a set of orgonite designed for use on the chakras.  I place a specially colored piece on each of the chakras.  In addition, I have been guided to use the tuning forks with the orgonite to magnify the healing experience.  My client, who has had life-long depression problems, experienced greater emotional centering and balancing and the effects are still ongoing.

I have since acquired a variety of pieces of orgonite and continue to learn new ways to work with them.   When using the orgonite as a healing tool, I delight in the profound emotional and physical shifts each of my clients experiences. In addition, many who come for healing feel the amazing energy difference in my home and office especially since I started working with orgonite.

If you have not had a chance to experience a healing session which incorporates these healing power tools, call to schedule a session.  If you are interested in acquiring some orgonite or some tuning forks, contact me and I will lead you to my amazing sources for these healing power tools.

Thoughts to Ponder

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred others away. – Chinese Proverb

It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you use that makes a difference.-  Zig Ziglar

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. – Don Williams Jr.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.- Max DuPree

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece! – Unknown

Whatever our hands touch…

We leave fingerprints!

On walls, on furniture

On doorknobs, dishes, books.

There’s no escape.

As we touch, we leave our identity.

Oh God, wherever I go today

Help me leave heartprints!

Heartprints of compassion

Of understanding and love.

Heartprints of kindness

And genuine concern.

May my heart touch a lonely neighbor

Or a runaway daughter

Or an anxious mother

Or perhaps an aged grandfather.

Lord, send me out today

To leave heartprints.

And if someone should say,

“I felt your touch,”

May that one sense YOUR LOVE

Touching through ME.

– Author Unknown

May you receive all the heartprints you need

to feel happy and loved

and

May you find ways you can add to the heartprints

you leave behind in others.

Crew, I hopw we can all work together to take care of this spaceship called ‘Earth’.

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This past month I was fortunate to make a lovely Spiritual Journey with friends.

Our original plan was just to attend the James Tyberonn 9-9-9 event for Earth-Keeper Crystal Awakening and then to visit Sedona, Arizona.  Later we added a visit to the Hopi Lands in Northern Arizona and a few other special places.  http://www.earth-keeper.com/

What a delight to gather with 300 like-minded individuals at Mt. Magazine State Park, located up in the mountains a few hours from Little Rock.  The view is magnificent and the energy is very high.  The place is a great setting for a spiritual gathering since the Emerald Crystal of healing was activating right beneath us.  Yes, this qualifies for being called an energy vortex area.

http://www.mountmagazinestatepark.com/

My friends and I stayed at Hazel’s Cabins, 8 miles down from the Park.  (Tammie has delightful rooms there with all amenities.)  These cabins were so nice they defied the name “cabins.”  They really were a great get-away. Each day on our drive up the mountain we could feel the increase in the energy.  http://www.arkansas.com/attractions/attr_detail/id/93004/t/l/r/River+Valley/city/Paris

On the actual day, 9-9-09,  of the Crystal Activation Ceremony, all 300 participants gathered on the lawn  to experience the activation and anchoring of the Emerald Crystal.  The energy was so great that it was felt as far away as Little Rock.

Someone overheard, a couple in the hallways mentioning that they had felt a very powerful energy in Little Rock  On their drive to Mt. Magazine they stopped for gas and were amazed to hear people commenting that they had felt an energy shift for the the better.

The evening after the activation the weather man reported that it was raining on Mt. Magazine and that the entire mountain was “covered in a green haze.”  Do you think maybe it was green from the Emerald Crystal?!

The Emerald Crystal is said to assist with balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain, to assist healers to become better healers, and to aid wisdom seekers to gain greater insight.  The Emerald Crystal makes it easier to understand your soul path and the priorities in your life.  What we refer to as “Unconditional Love” will be closer to reality for all those on a spiritual path.

We enjoyed many speakers and musicians who shared their time with us on Mt. Magazine.  Fred Mitchim shared his calm meditation music of flute and percussion instruments with us.     It was a very soothing and meditative way to start each session.   http://www.fredmitchim.com/

Auralia and Al Taylor delighted us with their Crystal Bowl Toning.  (There is one crystal bowl note for each of the chakras and played in multiples they have a powerful effect) http://www.thecreativelivingcenter.com/teachersassociates.html

Joshua Shapiro, known as the Crystal Skull Explorer, spoke on the mystery of the crystal skulls and how to work with them.  As many of you know, I have had experiences with crystal skulls in the past when I spent time with “Max,” cared for by Joann Parks and later in Mexico with “Mash,” cared for by Kayoon.     http://www.crystalskullexplorers.com/

I had been guided to take my charged skulls with me on this trip, so I was able to share their energies with many of the attendees who had stone skulls.  In addition, I had the rare opportunity to place my skulls with those of Joshua to receive additional energy charging.  NOTE:  My stone skulls often lend their energy for your healing sessions.

We were fortunate to have two Hopi tribal members with us to share information about the Hopi culture and to perform a Water Blessing Ceremony in full tribal regalia. Ruben Saufkie, a Hopi of the Water Clan, organizes a H2opi Run from N. Arizona to Mexico to raise awareness of our Mother Earth and the water she has given us.

Bwaun Equa, a Native American elder and grandmother, spoke about achieving personal power in the divine feminine. http://www.bwaunequa.com/  Nina Brown shared information about her work recoding the crystalline DNA.

I have saved the best things for last.  Jim Self shared tools for a spirited life.  I was very impressed with his presentations and his down-to-earth approaches for grounding, clearing your energy field and others techniques.

I am currently working my way through Jim Self’s Mastering Alchemy introduction class CDs  for “Creating the Personal Power Field.”  I look forward to sharing some of his information when you come for your next healing session.  http://www.masteringalchemy.com/

I thoroughly enjoyed spending a few hours at the Ron Coleman Crystal Mines in Hot Springs, AR.
If you can imagine we had about 75 people digging in piles of dirt/mud to find quartz crystals.

Actually I didn’t need to do much digging.  Since there had rained very hard that morning, many of the crystals were just sitting on top of the dirt sparkling in the sunlight seeming to say,  “Take me home.”  It was exciting, nonetheless, to pick them up and be able to take home all I could carry for a $10 dig fee.

I did have to mail them home, since I managed to gather more than 10 pounds of crystals!  Thank you USPS for the one price for whatever you can put in the box.

About 60 people took an additional side trip to the Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park in AR.
The site covers 100 acres with the 2 tallest mounds 49 feet and 39 feet high.  The energy just inside the   entrance was so strong that it felt dizzying.  www.ArkansasStateParks.com

Now, we found the best way to end a day was at the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa.  There several of us decided to go for “The Works” which for $60 included a thermal mineral bath, sauna, wrap in hot towels and then a 20 minute massage.  I wouldn’t mind if they were right next door so I could indulge often.

I seem to have rambled on quite a bit, so I will save my discussion of Sedona and the Hopi lands for another newsletter.  That part of the trip was equally delightful.

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What you surround yourself with, even what you have stored away, has an impact on you at the energetic level.  Some of the things you surround yourself with are Baggage, some are History, and some are Diamonds.  These terms reflect the relative impact the objects have on your happiness and peace of mind.

Baggage represents items that have negative energy or negative memories attached to them.  History items have neutral energy and are often items that are functional and that you picked up to fulfill a need.  Diamonds are objects that awe or inspire you by their beauty or just bring a smile and/or a happy memory.

Let’s start with the most energetically neutral items – the ones I call History.  These are the functional items that you acquired to fill a need as you go through your life.  You needed a dresser or a book case so you bought one.  It may not be the exact style you would have liked at the time but you can always replace it later with something that suits you.

On the other hand, Baggage items trigger negative memories or have some sort of emotional strings attached.  They may have great monetary value or they may be junk.

Maybe you inherited it from Aunt Harriet but you don’t like it.  You may hold onto it out of a sense of obligation or just because you feel it is too valuable to part with.

Maybe your ex-mother-in-law gave something to you, and it brings up negative thoughts of your ex-husband.  The more you revisit the negative in your life, the deeper the pathway is created in the brain until it becomes a trench that is hard to move your thoughts out of.

In addition, negative or down thoughts often lead you to subconsciously seek out things that make you feel better like eating sweets. Do you really want to revisit those negative thoughts?

Maybe you have an unfinished project that you just can’t get yourself to complete.   You need to make a decision to complete it or to let it go.  The knowledge that the project is perhaps even buried away in a closet impacts your sense of worth and happiness.

Let’s look at the Diamonds around you.  These are the items that radiate positive energy. When you see them, they thrill your heart with their beauty or craftsmanship.  They bring a smile or a happy memory.  They just feel right to have around, because they reflect your wants, needs, desires, and happy times.

We have a tradition in my house of purchasing an ornament for each family member that reflects something in their life from the past year. In this way the chore of decorating the Christmas tree becomes a pleasure as each ornament reflects a happy part of life.  The tree then becomes a joy to behold and radiates positive energy.

What I want to encourage you to do today and from now on is to remove the Baggage, the negative energy items in your surroundings and increase the Diamonds, the positive energy items.  You can donate the Baggage item, sell it or give it away secure in the knowledge that you are increasing the amount of positive energy in your life.

If you wish to bring more joy into your life and have your surroundings reflect the Source within you, then you deserve to be surrounded with more Diamonds and NO Baggage.  Spend time only with items that make you think about how wonderful each moment is.

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When I began to study energy healing I was amazed to find out that there was a connection between misalignment in the spine and problems with the organs and glands in the body.  Even more fascinating was the variety of emotional issues that are stored away in the spine and in the organs and glands.  Clearing the emotional baggage and realigning the musculoskeletal system leads to a healthier you.

In the age-old question of “which came first, the chicken or the egg?”  Most people realize the connection that exists between the chicken and the egg.  However, in the case of the body, many don’t know the connection between:

· misalignment issues and the emotions.

· the vertebrae and organs and glands;

· the vertebrae and/or sacrum with knee problems..

For example, most people with knee problems may not only have a knee joint out of alignment, but can also have problems with their lumbar vertebrae (roughly waist height and below) and, their sacral area can be locked up. This could be related to problems with the intestines, colon, bladder and genitals.

Examining the cervical vertebrae (in the neck), we may find people who are misaligned can have problems with the head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands and fingers.  If this area is out of alignment, then there may be problems with the ears, eyes, sinus, throat, or thyroid.

A chiropractor will tell you that a body that is in proper alignment is healthier and has greater self-healing abilities. He/she would tell you that in the question of misalignment or disease, the misalignment came first.  In addition, he/she would say that misalignment interferes with the nervous system and is a primary underlying risk factor for almost any disease.

I agree, and would add that if there is a painful area in the body, then you are getting a message that something may be wrong mentally, emotionally and/or physically.

Perhaps some of you have heard the expression:  “The issue is in the tissue.”  Simply put, you may be holding emotional issues in your body.  With a musculoskeletal adjustment or realignment, some emotional issues may be released. With energy healing combined with Energy Alignment, a deeper release of the emotional issues is possible.

I have not found that every person with problems in a certain area has a specific emotional issue.  Nonetheless, I know that we do pile up emotional issues in our bodies.   Individuals possess a unique ability to store their emotional baggage in the location that has the most meaning for them.  Clearing out the baggage often eliminates future problems.

In healing we have another expression,  “As Above, So Below.”  What that means is that if there is a problem in either below or above the opposite area will have a problem as the body tries to overcompensate for the misalignment.   Thus you can have two areas of the body with problems.

There are many more connections between misalignment and other areas in the body and organs and glands.  If you want to assure that your body is healthier and capable of self-healing then having a regular Energy Alignment session would be of great benefit for you.  Only with Energy Alignment is the emotional base cleared along with a musculoskeletal adjustment.

Energy Alignment can be performed separately OR as part of an Intuitive Energy Healing Session.  The nice thing is that you do not need to leave your home to experience a session.  Since most of the Energy Alignment is done hands free, you don’t need a

hands-on session and can achieve the same results with a distance healing session.

Remember that your pets can be out of alignment too and they are unable to tell you of their pains.  Schedule regular sessions for an Energy Alignment for your pets too and you just may find that they have a greater range of motion as they age.