~ Daria’s Wednesday Wisdom column ~

How do you begin your day? For most of my life, I jumped right into a task as soon as I walked in my office. I felt like I was getting more done that way! When that task was done, I zipped on to the next one. Then I took lots of little (or not so little) breaks because I was working so hard. (Well, it made sense at the time, lol!)

In dealing with my increasingly busy days now, however, I am reminded of a joke. It says that Ghandi meditated for one hour at the start of every day, without exception. Discussing a particularly demanding day that was coming up, he told his assistant that he would have to meditate for two hours to start that day.

When the joke is told properly (sorry), you expect Ghandi to skip his meditation to better jump into his busy day. The absolute last thing you would expect is to spend even MORE time meditating!

Yet meditation has been proven in studies to calm us, relax us, and improve our thinking and effectiveness. It also can benefit your physical health. If you can get more done in less time because of it, then you certainly have time for meditation.

Start today with just 5… no, how about streeeeeetching into 6, 8 or 10 minutes a day! All you have to do is sit comfortably and feel your body or watch your breath. As sounds, thoughts, and life’s craziness rise around you, notice it, name it (thinking about my meeting, noisy kids, big worry, ankle still hurts, truck in street…) and let it go. Breathe it out if you like.

Just for a few, blissful minutes. Close your door. Take the phone off the hook and enjoy having NO responsibilities for a few minutes. When does THAT ever get to happen?

The Secret about Meditating

Beginners are often relieved to hear that there is no way to answer, “What should meditation feel like when I get it?” It feels like you, sitting quietly, naming the craziness of life and over and over, returning to the calm center that IS inside you. The masters never get to a magical point where they “have it.” You probably aren’t doing it wrong. Meditation is a practice, like playing soccer or lifting weights. You just keep getting better and better at it.

The more you practice, the faster you return to calm after interruption. The more you meditate, the faster you can return to calm when you are not meditating, for instance when the baby is crying, your boss is phoning, the pasta is boiling over, and the doorbell rings.

How can you commit to living an easier life, right now, by starting your day with a few minutes of meditation? Put it in your calendar. Do this at home before you go to work, on the train or bus in the morning, or first thing when you get into your home office.

Try it out for just 10 days and let me know how it goes, and whether you have any questions. (Hint: Which days are more productive for you, the ones that start with meditation, or the days you forget or “don’t have time”? Yeah, me too.)

(c) 2012 Daria Boissonnas

Friends! The Sun moves into Aquarius today at 8:10 am pacific time. We leave the silence of Capricorn to rally our passionate troupes. Here’s the big question: Who do you want to be playing with this year? With whom do you feel most alive? Who inspires you, lifts you, awakens you? This month is the time to summon your allies.

Aquarius is the sign of the water bearer. Its phrase is “Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men.” Aquarius as the world server wants to pour forth its gift for all in need. But Aquarius is particularly interested in offering up this water of life with his true peers. This is the sign of group collaboration and nothing thrills an Aquarian more than the opportunity to build something together.

Cautionary note: It is easy to feel like the lone wolf in Aquarius as well. When we try to collaborate, all kinds of wretchedness can surface.

We might feel that there is no one that gets us, no one that sees as we do, no one as passionate about what we are passionate about. The moment we give into these inner monologues, we have begun to radically limit ourselves. We must dare to sound our most unique LEO note consistently, summoning those of like mind and heart. The response may begin with just one steadfast ally, but if our LEO song is true and generous and powerful and meant to “pour forth for thirsty men” then be patient and sing. Before you know it, you will have a whole “da-who-doray-Grinch-Who-Stole-Christmas” chorus of allies singing your song.

Carolyn Casey, one of my favorite astrological allies, suggests we speak this out into the world:

“Let the winds of change blow through my life, bringing the most radically enlivening thing that could possibly happen. I am hoisting my sails. Parasail me into the place where I can connect with my allies, and together we can do the most good.”

Here, she is writing about Uranus, one of the rulers of Aquarius. She speaks not only to the willingness to dance with change but to actually strongly invite change into our lives so that it can do its work without our resistance. Bring on the change! Bring on the allies!

And remember, Allies aren’t always our best friends. They may be someone like Carolyn Casey who whispers to me through her excellent writing and inspires me to forge ahead on my journey. And remember too the words of David Whyte as you begin to sound your call:

….anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

Aquarius is the final air sign and wants to distribute, circulate and gather. Stay open. Be curious. Talk to people. Join forces. Do it differently. Gather for salons and share your creative genius with your pals. SHARE. Come down from your mountain top and offer it up. Experiment. Improvise.

Be the lightening rod for your bolt out of the blue. Then speak that inspiration, share it, dance it, engage it, sing it. Take a breath and in that silent moment between inhale and exhale, listen for the sweet sound of your approaching allies.

Heidi Rose Robbins grew up learning the zodiac with her alphabet. As a practicing astrologer for over 15 years, Heidi takes a practical, sensitive, and inspiring approach to astrology. It is Heidi’s passion and commitment to speak to the depth of who we are and to help us grow into the next outrageous blossoming of our true selves. Her thriving worldwide practice includes transformative retreats for women twice a year in Ojai, California. GIA is pleased to offer Heidi as a regular guest columnist.

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A Poem for Aquarius

Everything is Waiting for You – David Whyte

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Have you gotten stuck writing a book, workshop, information product, or finishing a big creative project? Struggling to finish? Feeling guilty? Missing deadlines? Worried you aren’t ever going to finish? Can’t find the time?

I know what it’s like.  For three years I worked on writing a book, then this year, I started and finished a book in about 5 months. Let me help you by sharing the three biggest spiritual insights and actions that got me through the rough patches and helped me finish quickly and easily.

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“I choose the way which lies between the two great lines of force.”

The Sun moved into Libra today at 2:05 am Pacific time. The Fall is upon us. Libra is a cardinal sign which means it has a ton of initiative.  But unlike Aries which is a very solo, pioneering initiative, Libra uses its dynamism to create right equality and right relationship.

Libra is the mid-point of the zodiac. It is the cesura or resting point as we travel through the signs. The danger of Libra is that we hang out in the pause, that we don’t commit, that we weigh things endlessly, that we metaphorically SIT ON THE FENCE. It can be pleasant and relational and lovely, but can be hard to make choices that result in action.

So, how can we best welcome and use this beautiful Libran energy? Saturn is still in the sign of Libra for a few more months which puts extra pressure on all the relationships in our lives. This month in particular, we will be focused on RELATING. We choose those with whom we wish to relate. We build  partnerships. We ask if we could do something better — together. We marry. We unite. We hold hands. We try to live ‘the marriage in the heavens’ — which is in fact the marriage of the soul and the personality. Then too, we break up. We end relationships. We choose where to put our energy.

Libra also brings the qualities of fairness, justice, equality. It brings the Law. So, we could say we bring the Law to all our relationships. We weigh them. (But not forever). And then we commit whole-heartedly to those that speak most deeply to us.

The esoteric ruling planet of Libra is Uranus. Uranus is the planet that demands freedom and authenticity. It asks us to bring our whole selves and our soul selves to the relationships in our lives. It asks us to show up with the truth — not just pleasantries. It asks that those relationships that have been inequitable become more fair or balanced. It asks for radical relating — truth-telling, engaged self-expression and innovative collaboration.

The phrase for Libra is “I choose the Way which lies between the two great lines of force.” This is a razor’s edge. We find the Way only after oscillating for many many years. We swing in one direction fully and then the other with just as much commitment. We feel one way and then the other. We search for balance. The most important word here is CHOOSE. If a Libra is willing to choose with clarity and commitment ‘the noble middle path’, there will be tremendous support as he/she walks the Way. All manner of people and events will conspire to support the choice. The danger zone is in the endless oscillation between EXTREMES.

So, this month:

• Make decisions.
• Jump off the fence.
• Grab someone’s hand.
• Head down a noble path.
• Show up fully.
• Offer up your radical, full, authentic self.
• Again and again and again.

Heidi Rose Robbins grew up learning the zodiac with her alphabet, and has been a practicing astrologer for over 15 years. She has a practical, sensitive, and inspiring approach to astrology. It is Heidi’s passion and commitment to speak to the depth of who we are and to help us grow into the next outrageous blossoming of our true selves. Her thriving world-wide practice includes transformative retreats for women twice a year in Ojai, California. GIA is proud to have Heidi as a regular guest columnist and highly recommends her retreats and services.

A Poem for Libra:
Clarity Is Freedom by St. Teresa of Avila

I had tea yesterday with a great theologian,
and he asked me,

“What is your experience of God’s will?”

I liked that question –
for the distillation of thought hones thought in others.
Clarity, I know, is freedom.

What is my experience of God’s will?

Everyone is a traveler.  Most all need lodging, food,
and clothes.

I let enter my mouth what will enrich me.  I wear what
will make my eye content,
I sleep where I will
wake with the
strength to
deeply
love

all my mind can
hold.

What is God’s will for a wing?
Every bird knows
that.

St. Teresa of Avila

~ Daria’s Wednesday Wisdom column ~

The client called out of the blue. “You have to help me!” he said, “I’ve scheduled an important event and now my astrology says it’s a terrible day where everything will go wrong!”

While some people scoff at astrology, I find that as you step onto your spiritual path and further awaken your healing gifts, you actually become more sensitive to these background energies in the universe. In a sense, your readings can become increasingly accurate (especially with a good practitioner). At some point, you may become fearful of a negative prediction like Mercury retrograde, or a Saturn/Uranus alignment that makes you want to stay in bed all day and wait for next week to arrive.

Here are three key insights you are missing if you are afraid of the big bad astrologer, and how to resolve the problem.

1. As with all intuitive senses, much depends on interpretation.

Of course it helps to have a good reader who can tune into you and the meaning you need to hear in that moment. But even smashingly good intuitives and psychics often interpret the symbols they see through their own filters, and commonly make mistakes not in what they saw but in how they described it. That means there are many other valid interpretations of meaning, on many levels, whatever a reader or astrologer tells you.

This client was looking at a general chart of planetary energies and what they could, generally, mean. That means the astrologer did not customize the prediction to him. So we looked them over. Yes, I said, Saturn is the great teacher who brings lessons. When you are resisting his teachings, you might end up learning the hard way, ouch. Or, Saturn can mean that you will learn something wonderful and new from the event in question!

Uranus is an energy of great change and turnover–out with the old and in with the new. One way of interpreting that energy is that everything will go to heck in a hand basket. Another way is to say that transformation is coming. And I knew my client intended to create transformation with this event in question. He was relieved to hear these other, more specific interpretations, to say the least.

2. Events and forces in your personal spiritual journey may powerfully override astrological or other external forces.

I once had a dream where I was falling in love in a war zone. I was not fighting the war (was too young) and could hear it going on around me. Yet I was sappily, happily falling head over heels. In that moment, the environment of war was not affecting my spiritual journey with my beloved nearly as much as the forces of love and the hormones of youth.

Back to my client. Since I speak to bodies and higher selves, I asked his energy and received the message: “Yes yes yes, go go go! Having this event on that day ranks at a 10 out of 10 for him!” Something in his personal energy wanted that even then, no matter what was happening in the skies.

At this point in his life, the worrisome event represented a new, greater way of operating for him. He was stepping it up, moving forward. He would learn something new from this event and transform not only his own path but his students as well. His specific situation required a different interpretation from the negative general one.

3. There is ALWAYS something positive you can do in “negative” energy.

This is the greatest insight of them all. Don’t sit at home waiting for better energies to arrive next week! Whatever the prediction, there is some way you can turn it into something positive or at least something transformational. You are a natural born healer, and you have the gift to turn anything — anything — a positive way. That is the Gift of the Healer, which I discuss in detail in my book coming out this fall. We each have it.

If you must stay home, why not clean out the closet you’ve been meaning to? If you are going to postpone your event, how can you spin it to your advantage and do something extra with the time? Best of all, how can you stand firm in your intentions and move through the predicted negativity with aplomb and the eternal mind of a student? Even negative energies can have a purging effect when they take you through the darkness and out the other side.

There is ALWAYS something positive you can do in “negative” situations.

And it is your job as a healer to go find them. You can do this.

Avoid offering your services by your technique’s name(s) unless the vast majority of your clients seek your technique.

While this might work for doctors, acupuncturists and massage therapists, even those practitioners are still likely to get more clients if they also do the following.  (For healers who have learned more than three techniques, definitely do not advertise your services by your laundry list of techniques!  Read why here:  http://giawaken.com/2011/05/techniques1)

Instead, offer your services by the benefits they provide to clients. Most people do not wake up in the morning, smack their foreheads and say, “Gosh I really need a good Transmeridian Energy Clearing Heflapurple Nadissimo Intermatrix Quantum Extravaganza!”  Or whatever your technique is called.  Might as well be that, though — it doesn’t mean anything to new clients.

They are much more likely to wake up and say, “Gosh I’m tired of my pain and misery.”  Or, “I wish there was some way to minimize <my problem>.”

Offer Your Benefits

You offer services on your on your business card, brochure and website.  You want to convey your benefits to potential clients, plus make it easy for people to understand who to refer to you.

To be successful, your offer must immediately convey the benefits of what you do. Your specialty, your target market, and your healing gifts should be apparent. Consider these examples.  In each pair, which draws you in more?

1a. I’m a nutritionist and matrix energy healer.

1b. I help women ease into menopause and love their bodies by balancing their hormones naturally.

2a. I’m a chiropractor and I do Awakening Healing.

2b. I help people who have suffered major physical trauma, like an accident or surgery, to recover more quickly and completely.

3a. I’m a personal trainer.

3b. I help women love living in their bodies!

4a.  I’m an energy healer and spiritual mentor.

4b.  I help highly intuitive folks who are creative to make friends with their powerful gifts and find fulfillment following their calling to heal the world.

Surprisingly, being specific like this does not limit your clientele.  It usually has the opposite effect — it can expand it because people finally understand what you do!

Post your “before” and “after” offering in the comments and I’ll be happy to give you further pointers.

In the last month I have been in writing mode, focusing on finishing my first book under a tight deadline.  I’ve never done anything so intensively in my life.

Thursday, however, I wasted the whole day barely writing.  In fact, I’ve been struggling badly with productivity for the last two weeks, running circles rewriting or blanking out in the undone chapter.  I was at my wits end.

Finally, I applied my own intuitive Clear Wisdom process to the problem (a process I offer here at GIA).  I asked the Universe what time frame is most productive for me to write in during the day.  What a difference!

When Does Your Muse Strike?

You might know if you are a morning person or evening, but do you know exactly when your muse strikes? It may not even be every day.  The last time I did a productivity schedule for someone, it was a certain number of hours per day, three days a week, and it didn’t matter which days, his choice.

The answer for me and this book was 8 am – 11:30 and 1 pm – 2:30, seven days a week.  And WOW — today I stuck to those hours and got TONS of writing done!  Better, I remained enthusiastic about the writing the whole time.  If I start too late in the day, I can’t get the level of excitement I need to write decently.  (When it’s bad, it’s awful.)

Now I can see I’ve been losing productivity by starting way too late in the day, doing other tasks first.  Next, my three regular 8 am meetings each week have to GO!

With today’s busy schedule, it seems like a no-brainer to get the most out of the time you work.  Ready to hit your maximum creativity and productivity stride?  Sit in meditation for a few minutes and then ask yourself or the Universe what your ideal schedule is.

If you like, I would be happy to download a productivity schedule for you from your higher guidance.  Click here to purchase a Productivity Pop session with me.

Full Clear Wisdom sessions are available to members of the Global Institute for Awakening.  To join, visit http://GIAwaken.com/benefits.

Enjoy your creativity!  And go heal the world with it.

A few years ago at a health expo, a healer proudly showed me his brochure impressively listing over 25 healing techniques he learned.  Now that takes time and resources!

I smiled and asked if he used all 25 techniques in each session.  He changed the subject.

“Which ones do you use most often?” I asked.

He waved his hand noncommittally.

A Negative Message?

If you list techniques that you don’t use, are you in full integrity?  What energy are you putting into your business if you brag to impress and don’t deliver?

Healers take healing technique and related classes for many, many reasons.  Here are two expansive ones:

• You may learn a technique as a stepping stone to other techniques, practice it for a while and then move on.
• Sometimes you’ll take a class (like when a friend drags you along) and come to appreciate more deeply your current techniques.

If you don’t currently do it, don’t list it. If you’d like to list classes taken as background somewhere on your website, do so.  You might even explain how learning them broadened and deepened your understanding of healing, though you choose to use more powerful processes that speak to you more today.

I know, a long list seems impressive.  And I understand that certain techniques complement each other, like massage therapy and energy work, or hand analysis and coaching.

But a very long list also says you just didn’t get something after the first few classes. What were you searching for?  Why wasn’t 10 techniques enough to get results?  5?  1?  A long list can signal insecurity.

Techniques Don’t Sell

Most importantly: it’s not your technique that sells your services! It’s you and what you do for people.  If your business card and marketing materials described the benefits the client gets from working with you, you’re golden.  Most clients don’t understand techniques anyway.  They don’t care what you do — they just want to feel better.

Once in a while, someone will come to you seeking a specific technique.  You can register yourself with that technique’s practitioner referral directory to get those clients.

Or you may simply be a one-technique healer.  I love it!  Just remember you are never, ever merely a practitioner of a technique. That technique is expressed through you in a way unique from everyone else on the planet.  You are a healer. It doesn’t matter HOW you share your healing gifts as long as you ARE sharing them.

Many blessings on your journey!

Share your marketing blurb with us in the comments below and ask any questions.  I’m here for you.

This past weekend I had fun hosting GIA’s table at a 2-day Mind Body Spirit Expo.  Because it was oriented as a psychic fair (schedule a reading and get in the door free), I heard a lot from visitors to my table about their psychic readings.

What troubled me is that I heard about a lot of pain and suffering caused by their readings. Hang on, this is not what a psychic reading is about!

Over the last year, I’ve finally started using the word psychic to describe what I do as a business consultant.  It’s that simple: I see pictures, see new products in your potential, get timelined tasks to reach goals, and more.  Clients say the information is uncannily accurate and helpful.  So I’ve finally started calling it like it is — I’m a psychic.

Any psychic worth his or her salt would be horrified to discover their reading caused distress!  The whole purpose of a reading is to help you see and know capabilities you are ignoring, to see projects and gifts in your potential to easily develop, and heart-centered knowing that you are blocking out.  You might be blocked because of emotions, distress, stress, old habits, small thinking, or old conditioning and beliefs. 

It’s OK to get help moving through those blockages.  The point of a reading is to give you information from your own informaiton field to uplift you to your greatest possibilities, and help you align with your heart and inner knowing. 

Psychic Readings Are Healing Tools, Not Weapons

At our booth, one woman in particular told me a psychic said she was supposed to be an herbal healer.  But she was frustrated and angry.  She didn’t know where to begin, adding: “I don’t have the money for all those expensive fancy classes!”  Bottom line: she wasn’t feeling it, it wasn’t showing up, and she didn’t know what to do. 

What I saw:  she was beating herself up about NOT fulfilling a psychic reading.

Whoa. 

Freeze. 

Put your hands on your heart and back slowly away from that psychic reading!!

Psychic readings are NOT meant to be weapons with which you can beat yourself up.  They are meant to uplift, inspire and heal.  If you are using your reading to feel guilty, frustrated, insecure, or upset, you are using it wrong.

Psychic Readings Are Other People’s Interpretations of YOUR Information Field

It’s ONE opinion.  And it might be a good one or a poor one, who knows.  It’s not written in stone. Let me explain. 

As a psychic, I often see pictures.  As the woman was talking, I saw a beautiful garden unfolding before me.  A garden you could tinker in and get happy. 

But after the picture comes the interpretation.  This is where psychic readings can shift off course, and it’s one of the reasons I often check in with my client by asking, “How does that feel to you?”  I want to know if I’m interpreting correctly.

What if the woman’s original psychic saw the same garden I did but concluded “herbal healer”?  I saw the garden and felt the garden itself talking to me.  So here’s how I helped.

The first thing I shared with the frustrated woman was this Truth:  You have all you need at every moment to accomplish your dreams, your calling, and your healing.  If you can’t afford classes, there is another way.  Books, the public library, free online searches.  You can ALWAYS find another way, always.

Secondly, I asked if she enjoyed gardening.  Big smile and happy look on her face!  Gardens were important and magical to her as a child, etc.  She LOVES gardening.  Ding ding ding.

When I asked how people could heal through having a garden, she knew the answer right away.  I saw a potential business within her and I shared:  she could help people plan, find resources for, and implement gardens.  Brilliant classes, plenty of demand.  She went away happier.

Which Reading Was Right?

Now, which psychic was “right”?  Is this woman really supposed to teach people to build gardens like I said?  Is that how she can best express her inner healer? 

Or… one day after teaching gardening for a while, while she’s happily transplanting parsely, will the plant speak to her and begin instructing her in how to heal with its properties?  Did I give her the intermediary step to becoming an herbal healer?

The correct answer is: it doesn’t matter.  There is no such thing as “right”, there is only now.  All I know is she went away happier with herself, with a viable business idea, and further along the path of awakening her Inner Healer.

How can you use your psychic readings to inspire you, uplift you, and keep you going through the dark times?  THat’s what they are meant to do.  How can you use your own intuition and knowing to inspire you and help awaken YOUR Inner Healer?

You are a natural healer.  May you find your calling or the task that makes your heart sing, with or without the help of a psychic reading.  If you have one, feel your own truth within it, and extract the uplifting information and energies from it.

Today at the GIA booth at the Wellife Mind Body Spirit EXPO, I chatted with a vendor of water ionizing machines about why zipping water around in circles helps clean it up to be more usable by the body.  It seems to “erase the tape” and clean the water of negative energies.

Water is fascinating!  It is a liquid crystal — that means it can record memories and impressions just like a disk drive or those old magnetic cassette tapes.  Water picks up emotions, thoughts, intentions, and more from its environment, which includes you.

Here’s a highly enjoyable and inspiring movie that explores the nature of water.  It’s called “Water: The Great Mystery.” 

I must warn you however — this movie was made in Russia and translated into English.  It is not your typical American science-focused movie like What the Bleep!? or a Discovery Channel flick. 

That’s what makes it fascinating.  It incorporates insights from scientists, and it also interviews religious authorities plus surveys the folklore about water.  It mixes entertainment, mystery and science!

Does that diminish the science?  Not in my book.  It strengthens it when done well.  If the world works in a certain way, that information can be found across disciplines in science, in nature, in our religions and in our stories or folklore.

Click on the cover picture above to get yourself a copy at amazon, and let me know what you think!  (Comment below.)  Enjoy!

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

— Ansel Adams

I love this quote because it demonstrates Adams’ mastery. He durn well knows the standard rules of how to make a “good” photo.  And as a master, he knows how to break each one of them and still create a great photo.

Other masterful creatives have told me the same thing.  Last year a well-known makeup artist said she could tell me exactly what to wear to convey whatever message I had, and how to do my makeup.  But if I wore the wrong thing, she could adjust my makeup to “fix” any clothing faux pas.

Are you a master?  Remember that practicing specific methods or exercises only helps you develop skills. The method alone does not make you a master.  Practicing these skills with an open mind and good feedback leads to mastery.

In mastery you bypass other people’s rules and develop your own relationship with outcomes.  You find more ways to get there than you were ever taught.  In mastery, you don’t need your tools or methods or anything.

Eventually, we must let go of the ground to really fly.  For healers and creatives that means practicing until you internalize a method, and then creating the same results — or even better ones — your way.

This is the most powerful way to share the heart of your unique gifts and leave the world a better place.

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• Become who you really are, much more easily
• Reclaim your feeling of wonder and joy in life
• Build self-confidence, love and acceptance
• Accelerate your spiritual journey (ie. your happiness)
• Make the world a better place
• Create spiritual and material success, and
• Create the most permanent positive change (aka healing) in the world, starting with you. 

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          —Daria Boissonnas, GIAwaken.com founder

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What is “New Healing”?

There are three main types of healing on the planet right now.  All are valuable and compatible, and should be a part of any healthy lifestyle.  Here is roughly how they are different:

1. Physical/Mental Healing

Physical/mental healing looks at the body/mind as mechanical and logical.  It focuses on what you can observe and think about.  Physical/mental healing applies logical processes, mechanical devices and physical substances/chemicals to change the body’s mechanical or thinking behavior.  Often, the physical and mental sides are focused on separately.  Medical healing and its pharmaceuticals is a great example of physical/mental healing.

2. Energy Healing

Beyond the physical/mental and EMF energy, Energy Healing addresses the subtle energies of the body.  For instance it may use acupuncture meridians, chakras, subtle bodies, the aura, and more.  By maintaining and repairing the body’s energy system, Energy Healing enhances the body’s energy communication system.  This enhances healing and health, since loss of information carried in our energy systems eventually shows up physically and mentally as “disease”.  Ways to improve energetic function and structure include a range of energy manipulation techniques, energy toning, herbal energies, homeopathics, and much more.

3. New Healing

The body is our lowest and slowest type of energy.  The thinking mind is just one slice of the different types of consciousness we can access.  New Healing looks beyond all these to the core essence of each person.  What is your greatest gift?  What is your highest inner truth?  In what way are you a precious blessing for the world?  When you share your core essence (yes you) you creates health, healing, love, peace, wisdom, service, joy, meaning, fulfillment, bliss, and more — for yourself and others. 

We often call this stepping into your Higher Calling, sharing your Blessing, living your Life Purpose, etc.  How can your greatest Potential outcome unfold more easily and bless the world with its expression?  New Healing realigns your physical/mental/energetic life with your Calling or core energy pattern and potential.  The natural consequence is flow, grace and ease, healing and health, and permanent positive change.  You leave the world a better place.  

GIA founder Daria Boissonnas believes New Healing can be found in the Munay Ki rites, the work of the Trivedi Foundation, The Reconnection and Reconnective Healing, and now in Awakening Healing. 

Most people find the experience of Awakening Healing palpable and deeply relaxing.  We invite you to try a session today!

It’s been splashed across the news recently that the sun is no longer actually in your astrological sun sign — the one you look up in the newspaper — and hasn’t been for centuries, due to the tilting earth.  Moreover, Babylonian astrologers apparently removed a sign from the zodiac.  Should it be in there?  Should your sign really be where the sun is located, a different sign?  After all, that’s the definition of a sun sign.

Tune in today at noon Pacific/3pm Eastern as Daria Boissonnas, Founder of GIA, interviews professional astrologer and ordained minister Patricia Selmo.  They intend to answer these questions and more, spell out the different astrology systems clearly, and make it all so simple you could explain it to your dog.

Join us by making sure you’re on our email list an hour before the call.  Just sign up for the free offer at the top of this page (you don’t have to download it if you don’t want to.)

If you miss the call, we will send around a link to the audio for you to enjoy any time.

Date: 20 January 2011
Time: noon Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern US time
Register: sign up for our freebie at the top of this page at least one hour before the call to get call-in information

About Patricia Selmo

Patricia Selmo is a former Aerospace Engineer turned Interfaith Minister, Life Coach, Astrologer and Energy Healer.  She has over 20 years of experience facilitating, coaching and managing professionals in the corporate environment. She now uses a unique combination of Spiritual Counseling, Ancient Wisdom (or Astrology) and Modern Science (Quantum Physics) to help people who are stuck or wanting more out of life to align with their soul purpose, connect with their Source and live an abundant life – on their own terms!  You can find Patricia at  http://www.TheBlissfulSoul.com

About Daria Boissonnas

Daria Boissonnas has been obsessed with mysteries of the Universe since she a child.  One day in 1997, she heard the first inklings of her higher calling, left her job as a corporate marketing exec, and began investigating and practicing energy healing, much to her surprise.  As she walked her healing path, she discovered she had a gift for healing groups and for helping people awaken to their greatest potential:  to know and use their innate gifts and calling to create permanent positive change in the world.  Today she leads the Global Institute for Awakening which provides the practical steps and wisdom for their many members to fulfill their highest calling in a way that fully supports them.  Enjoy GIA’s free Trail Guide to Awakening goodies for you at http://GIawaken.com.

This month’s spiritual practice focus for members is being of service.  Asking that question:  “How can I be of most service?”  It shifts you out of suffering, ends the negative stories in your head, and focuses you on possibility and potential.  Better than that, this spiritual practice allows you to make a BIG meaningful difference wherever you go, with whatever you have, and however you are. 

Watch this video, where a man comes to understand the power of this spiritual practice, and then try it a few times today yourself.  Let us know what you think, and how practicing goes!

It’s here — Healing 101!

Have a few ideas about how to make the world a better place?  Empower yourself to do that by learning to think waaaaay beyond the box — that is, to think like a healer.

Discover how you already have the ability to do the “undoable,” change the “unchangeable” and make the “impossible” happen.

Register now to listen FREE to Healing 101 and learn:

1. What is healing?
(It’s so much more than physical repair of your body!)

2. Why is every person on the planet a natural healer?
(Just how are YOU a healer?)

3. What three main types or styles of healer are there?
(And which is yours?)

4. How can you awaken YOUR inner healer and tap into your own natural abilities to make a BIG meaningful difference?

5. Five things to listen for to benefit most from each call. Also download in our pdf Listener’s Guide on the listening page.

Once you register, we will send you a link to the listening page, including Healing 101 and our first four interviews.

Discover Our Groundbreaking “I Am A Healer” Series

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You have a tremendous power within you — right now — to make a meaningful positive difference in other people’s lives.  To move beyond problems to a place where they simply become irrelevant:  to heal.

Join us as we celebrate our goal of bringing more healing into the world with our groundbreaking FREE interview series — “I Am A Healer”: 100 Inspiring Stories from Ordinary People Who Are Changing the World and How YOU Can Too.  To listen, all you have to do is register.  Then mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 30th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern.

It doesn’t take much to awaken your natural Inner Healer.  Listen to this information-packed call led by Global Institute for Awakening Founder Daria Boissonnas, and expand your possibilities by learning:

1. What is healing?  (It’s so much more than physical repair of your body!)

2. Why is every person on the planet a natural healer?  (Just how are YOU a healer?)

3. What three main types or styles of healer are there?  (And which is yours?)

4. WHat you need to learn to awaken YOUR inner healer and tap into your own natural abilities to make a BIG meaningful difference

5. What to listen for on the calls. 

TO LISTEN TO THIS CALL, REGISTER FOR THE SERIES HERE:  http://GIAwaken.com/100healers

Register for this interview series right now, and listen to this introductory call with Daria Boissonnas, Founder of the Global Institute for Awakening.

I love love love healing!  As a mother and wife and busy person, I am so grateful to have options in my life for speeding healing that I can use to feel better quickly and to help my loved ones feel better too.  

There is NOT a rule that says you have to get sick.  What I’ve seen as a healer is that when we can’t fully process something emotionally or mentally, it drops down into the body to be processed in a visceral, vivid, physical way.  (Your body is an amazing healer and helper that way!) 

Me, I don’t listen to any of those ads commiserating about “cold and flu season”.  Baloney.  I know because I barely get sick any more (thank goodness), and my kids are rarely and barely sick as well.  Oh, I used to get one thing after another, plus asthma and allergies to boot.  Rip-roaring colds that lasted weeks (starting with a runny nose, then sore throat and down into my bronchials for a lingering cough).  Now I get much, much, MUCH milder versions.  I’ll spare you details, but I can tell I’m sick usually in the morning, then feel OK or have very mild symptoms during the day. 

As my symptoms have become milder over the last few years, I became much more aware of the underlying icky feelings and emotions that come with each illness.  For example, while what was typically a pounding headache is now a mild ache, I still feel foggy and want to lie down and not move.  (I LOVE that it’s so much less painful, whew.)

Now the universe is training me to back up even further.  Two weeks ago was a big wakeup call.  I was traveling at a business conference.  The morning of the day I was to be on stage in the afternoon, I woke up dizzy, weak, and nauseated.  Reviewing the prior two days, I saw the signs of mild dehydration move to significant dehydration, one after another, laid out clearly.  I had been traveling and preoccupied.  I had even missed the big red-flashing-light sign the night before.  So I guzzled water, did a little healing, went back to bed for a couple hours, got up and ate sea salt, and felt much better by lunch time (tho I look quite pale in the photos, what can ya do).

Yep, the signs had all been there, but I didn’t notice them.  Point taken, and thanks for the insight, Universe.  I’m paying attention!  Last night, I started to feel like I was getting sick — lungs less elastic, felt a touch weak & a little “off”.  It had come on gradually over the day. 

Remembering my lesson from earlier this month, I worked on it first thing this morning, did a little healing work, about 20 minutes’ worth.  Right now it’s about 12 hours later and I feel 100%!  My lungs feel completely free and unconstricted.  I am more than grateful.

What’s Your Mindset about Getting Sick?

Even Louis Pasteur, the father of vaccinations, said near the end of his life that it’s not germs that causes disease, but the terrain — the environment you provide in your life, your mindset, and your body.  Are you a likely breeding ground for problems, or are you taking care of yourself and detaching from cycles of illness?  Are you seeking health or are you a willing victim to “cough and cold season”? 

Here’s three things you can do right now to avoid getting sick in the first place:

1. Take care of yourself.  Clean up that terrain so no germs want to move in.    In my healing practice, I find most adults are deficient in sleep, rest, and play — not to mention many minerals and B vitamins.  Consider setting a goal to get 8 hours of sleep a night, or start taking a 15-minute lie-down empty-mind rest period in the middle of your day.  Consider renewing your nutritional supplement schedule and sticking with it.  Make ONE change right now, and stick with it.

2. Get yourself some healing tools and processes.  Take a healing class.  My favorite healing modalities are Awakening Healing and Health Kinesiology.  Learn about essential oils or homeopathics.  Learn to meditate.  Keep an open mind and explore possibility.  You are quite familiar with what you THINK you can’t do.  What CAN you do?  How healthy can you get?

3. Hang out here at the Global Institute for Awakening and learn to awaken the greatest possible outcome in every situation, including your health and spiritual well-being.  We help you get your inner work done easily and quickly, layer by layer, so you can achieve greater and greater levels of wealth, wellness and wisdom.  Then you can get out there and succeed brilliantly at whatever you choose!  To join us or check out our generous annual program, hop on over to http://GIAwaken.com/benefits.   We look forward to getting to know you.

Many blessings on your path to wellness and healing!

Listen any time to Spiritual RockStar host Dave Hannaman interviewing me about the Healer’s Spiritual Path!  I gave away SO much information!!  Discover:

~ How I got into healing as a devout skeptic.

~ What is healing?

~ What does a healer DO exactly to create healing?

~ What are the three main archetypes of a healer like and how do they create healing?

~ What is healing mastery?

~ How do we achieve mastery to create more healing in the world?

Listen here:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spiritualrockstar

Watch this. Take mental notes. Then put it out of your mind. From the University of Arizona medical college, here’s a new type of CPR that’s reported to be more effective than the traditional method you might have taken in a Red Cross training. 

What do you think of the method?

Here’s the Heart Association’s video, where they put chest compressions first, now, ahead of airway & breathing:

Nice article about panick symptoms vs. heart attack in women:

http://www.womensheart.org/content/HeartDisease/panic_attack_or_heart_attack.asp

Have you been guilt-tripping yourself about not having a spiritual practice?  The truth is, you already do have one.  Maybe you’re not meditating like a monk or levitating like a lama, but you do have a spiritual practice. 

The question is:  is your current practice doing for you what you need it to do?

This month’s focus in the Global Institute for Awakening’s Life Mastery ~ Healing Mastery Training Program is on building a spiritual practice.  In the training call, available to anyone who joins as a member, I discussed the two sides of every spiritual practice:  maintenance and moving you forward.  You must include both.

Your big assignment here on this blue planet – should you choose to accept it – is to genuinely express the gifts and blessings you already have within you.  Doing so makes the world a better place.  (And the Universe guarantees in spades that you have such gifts and dreams!!)

The purpose of your spiritual practice, then, is to train your body and mind to align with this wonderful Potential and gift within you, so you can easily share it.  Whether you’re just starting out or know exactly what your purpose is – your spiritual practice hones your skills so you are ready for the next leap in life.  And the next.  Spiritual practice helps you train, nourish, and utilize your body and mind so you can get out there doing what you came to the planet to do.  Your spiritual training ultimately helps you live an enjoyable life while you share your message for the world.

It does not have to be boring or difficult.

Anything in your life can be “spiritual”, and so your spiritual practice can be anything.  Maybe you go for regular walks to commune with nature.  This activity tones and resets your energy patterns and relaxes you.  Perhaps you choose to love your children unconditionally.  Perhaps you get body massages regularly or go to therapy to clear childhood issues.  Perhaps you take a moment to appreciate all you have at the end of the day.

If it helps you make the world a better place or improves your personal relationship with the Universe, it’s a spiritual practice.

Your main goal is to nourish and nurture your body and mind and heart and dreams, while you sharpen your skills to do even more good in the world.

How might you improve your daily spiritual practice, today? 

If you’d like some guidance, join as a member and listen to the September training call right now!