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.

If your big creative project is part of your Divine Purpose, we want to help you finish it!

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With Daria Boissonnas, Founder & CEO, Global Institute for Awakening

Completing a book or BIG creative project is a spiritual journey, and it begins in this call! Learn the three secrets that can make the difference between continuing to struggle (or be stuck) and allowing your book to practically finish itself. We will begin to implement on the call, and you will have even more steps to take when you hang up.

Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2011

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~ 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.

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

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Discover how you express your innate Inner Healer and understand what form that takes — which healer archetype you express.  Learn how those with your archetype tend to get stuck — and how to get unstuck.  Discover how to focus your efforts to most easily create powerful results in anything you do.  Drop the distractions that are taking power away from you doing what you were born to do. Bring more healing to a world that needs your help!

• Discover your type of healer — Creative, Wounded or Trickster.
• Understand how you facilitate healing.
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Have you ever felt frustrated that people aren’t hearing your message?  Maybe, like the members and fans of the Global Institute for Awakening, you tend to be creative, visionary, or intuitive.  You may work as a consultant, coach, teacher, or healer.  You can easily see a higher-potential way of doing things…  but the people you work with don’t always get it.  Ugh.

From time to time it can be hair-tearingly frustrating to be out in front of the crowd, seeing what they don’t see… yet. It’s a wonderful gift to have the vision to solve problems, but sometimes it feels like a burden.  Then again, you can’t give up.  You can feel your motivation and mission bubbling up inside you, and you know you’ll be miserable if you don’t listen to it.

Instead of tearing your hair out, what can you do when you get frustrated — before you burn out?  The #1 concept we teach here is that you can change the world by changing yourself.  This is great news because truly you CAN ONLY change yourself.  Here’s one way you can shift out of the frustration:  retreat back to your favorite recharging place and contemplate your raison d’etre — your reason for doing what you do.

Knowing your vision, your message, your mission, and most importantly, your WHY, can carry you through your down moments.  Knowing these four items will help you move FAR in life, and quickly.  It will make it easier for you to help heal the world.

For a great example of this, I highly recommend you read the brand new book, “Smart Women Know Their WHY: The Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change In the World and… Make Big Profits!” by Sheri McConnell, my wonderful business coach this year.   I chose her because she’s one of us:  super-creative, intuitive and has a message about business and taking action to change the world that few people are saying.  Get your copy on Amazon with the book link above. 

Know Your Vision, Message, Mission and WHY

Here’s the core truth of this situation, and the key to solving it:  when people you are working with don’t get it, some part of YOU actually doesn’t get it.  Remembering your vision, message, mission and why helps YOU to “get it” again.  It helps you remember why you are doing what you are doing.  It pulls you out of the details and frustration and realigns you with the highest Potential of the situation.

If you don’t have these important points written out for your life, your family-raising, or your business, take a stab at them right now.  Answer these questions:

Raise Your Sights:  Your Healing Vision
What positive potential do you see that precious few others can see?  What change are you inspired and driven to make in the world?  How can you see people as empowered in the future?  What problem do you know you can solve?  (As an example, I see people as powerful healers of themselves and others, and as having MUCH more ability to change their lives for the better than they think!)

Speak Your Truth:  Your Healing Message
What information do you want to share with people?  If you could make people understand one thing, what would it be?  (My message: “You are a powerful healer, and to change the world, all you must do is awaken to your potential.”)

Make It Happen:  Your Healing Mission
How are you carrying this out in the world?  Are you a painter?  A journalist?  A consultant?  A mother?  What do you do everyday to make your vision come true and communicate your message?  (I’m clearly running a community of people who want to awaken their inner healer and change the world!  I also have a private practice working 1:1 with powerful creatives who can heal the world.)

Motivate Yourself:  Your Healing WHY
At the core of all these things is WHY you do them.  It’s easy to step out of your ego and get going again when you think of the people you are here to help and the pain you can help them move past.  It’s common to have different motivation in different areas of your life.

For instance, you may simply have been born with a gift or talent or insight that you love to share with others out of pure joy.  If so, you are a Creative Healer, creating healing out of nothing.

Perhaps a difficult experience in your early life motivates you to help others solve a problem that you once had.  If so, you may be a Wounded Healer, transforming your pain into so much more positive change.

Perhaps you are having fun mocking the establishment and helping people see the old, stuck ways are not what they thought they were.  If so, you may be a Trickster Healer.

For me, I do this because I can feel it bubbling up inside me.  I know this is what I was born to do, and I feel a divine obligation and joy in fulfilling that mission and glorifying Potential in the Universe by reaching beyond my comfort zone for my highest Potential.  My private practice comes from wounded healing — helping other high-level creatives, intuitives and healers deal with their gifts and successfully fulfill their big life missions.

I know you are a healer, full of solutions.  Sometimes others can’t see them.  Take a moment to step out of your ego and recharge yourself with your divine vision, message, mission, and reason why. Be sure to check out Sheri’s book while you’re at it!!

Q:  Who is a healer and how can you tell?  Are healers chosen by God, or is there just something an average person starts to do one day that makes them a healer?  Do healers have certain gifts other people don't have?

Most of all, how do I know if I myself really am… a healer, and what do I do about it?

Further Resources:  Sign up for our emailing list (upper right corner on this page, free ebook offer) for announcements about our upcoming book and teleclass series, Awakening Your Inner Healer.  Learn two basic archetypes of healers (the wounded healer and the creative healer).  Hear about the nine attributes of healers, how these natural gifts work, and how to avoid letting them trip you up.  Finally, commit to five steps that will take you fully onto the path of the master healer.

You just made a decision that reflects a new level of commitment to being who you are–congratulations!!  Perhaps you decided to sign up for a class in another city, hire a mentor, or end a relationship that isn't right any more.  It may have been hard, but you've finally broken through a barrier, upshifted your life and your understanding of how the world works!  You're operating on a new level now!

But then something happens….  Your payment is rejected, you lose the mentor's phone number, or you find a memento of when your relationship was really loving.

What's going ON?  Is it a sign that you made a mistake?  

Or is it a test, to make sure you really meant to upshift?

Too many healers disempower themselves by reading the easy message into what happened: oh, the new thing "wasn't meant to happen".  But do you really believe that, do you feel it in your heart?  Or are you just scared, so you use this adverse event as an excuse, as evidence that God, the angels or the Universe said it was better the old way? Things happen, but it's how you interpret them that's important.  Life's meaning can only truly be found through your heart, not your head.  Listen to your heart.

Not the Old Way  

The taiji or yin/yang symbol and other spiritual teachings show us that nothing in the world is absolute.  Within the essence of something is also its opposite.  In fact, that's actually how you first define the new thing, as NOT the old thing. 

How do you know you are living at a new level?  Because you are not at your old level.  You are NOT passing the class by, NOT avoiding getting help, NOT holding onto a harmful relationship any more. When you get used to the new level, you will eventually discover its positive attributes and find out what it really means;  but at first, you're just NOT-the-way-it-was.

So when you have just arrived at a better way of being and something from that old way pops up… what do you do?

People don't evolve spiritually all at once.  Parts of you reach a new level (not the old level) while the rest of you still feels scared.  This is a "good" kind of scared if you're going in the right direction, but that still-scared part of you can manifest all kinds of trouble… 

Leap Those Hurdles

So here's a spiritual heads-up for you, healer:  when you reach a new level in life, watch out, because things will come your way that will feel like tests, sometimes right away.

The still-scared part of you will try to backslide, to take it as a sign to give up.  But you don't have to let it.  If you can feel in your heart that this new level is where you really should be, please consider viewing these challenging events not as signs that the old way was better, but as just a few more hurdles to leap to fully be on your new level.  Perhaps think of them as pop quizzes from the Universe.  And you know the answer.  With a really free mindset, you can even enjoy solving these issues as your new, more powerful self!

As you become more comfy at your new level, it should become easier and easier to leap the hurdles. The parts of you that seem to be resisting will eventually join the party too.

Sometimes we do go in the wrong direction, and realize it later when something contrary happens.  If you aren't sure if your upshifting decision was right nor not, talk it out with a trusted friend, counselor, or spiritual mentor, or write out all the reasons for and against on paper.  I know you can do this!

Hello, Healers!  As we finish our tax returns here, this has been a powerful time for me to reflect on the many past money mistakes I've made in my healing practice.  For too many years to admit, I mismanaged and misunderstood my income and expenses.  I had no money management systems for figuring out what was working and what wasn't, or even for dealing with money.  Today, I give you three stress-busting tips to heal your money systems.

Money is a flow of energy and information, and like all other energy, money loves to be loved.  Take a look: how do YOU love money in your practice?  Here are a few practical tips I've implemented over the years that really helped me:

(1)  Welcome money with an attractive, organized way to collect receipts.  If you hand a shoebox of receipts off to an accountant, decorate that shoebox!  If you have a tray or bowl for new, unprocessed receipts, make it beautiful.  Some traditions suggest red and gold to build money, others like green.  What is the color of abundance and wealth to you? 

I now keep my receipts in a golden 3-ring binder covered with glittery holographic stars, separated by 12 monthly tabs you can buy anywhere.  Bank statements have bank recepts paperclipped on.  Small cash receipts for the month get taped by date to yellow sheets of 3-hole-punched paper.  Receipts for trips get taped to and notated on blue sheets of paper.  When I collect all the receipts on a statement, I staple them and remove the paperclip.

(2)  Welcome money with an Income Received sheet.  When my practice was small and growing, I struggled to remember what went into my deposits.  Then one year a chiropractor showed me her Income Received sheet.  Every check or credit card charge she received was jotted on the sheet, and the month tallied.  I bracket the items I deposit together and date it.  My form had these column titles:

Date  -  Amount  -  Check/Cash/CC  -  Services Rendered  -  Notes (Client Name)  -  Deposited

Don't forget to print your sheets on a pleasant color and use your favorite font.  Make it fun.  Enjoy writing down the income you receive!  Fill it out after each client appointment if you can, or else the end of the day.  What a great system to give incoming money the attention and gratitude it deserves.  You can even jot a prayer or heartfelt thank you at the bottom of the sheet. 

(3)  Welcome money with an organized way of processing your bookkeeping and receipt-organizing.  Put bookkeeping time in your schedule every week — and I mean SCHEDULE IT and treat it like a client appointment, healer!  Keeping this appointment is a key to your accounting freedom.  Sit with your receipts each week and organize them, catalog your car mileage, and/or enter everything in Quickbooks or your spreadsheet.  After two insane years of leaving 100% of my bookkeeping to do at the end of the year, I now do these tasks weekly.  It's amazing how little time is needed to keep on top of everything!

Want a really good reason to systematize like this?  It will save you money and time.  You will write down income and expenses you would have forgotten if you'd put it off.  You will save on your accountant's hourly charges if you are more organized.  And you will have SO much more peace of financial mind. 

Systems like this make your practice run smoothly.  Try it out and let me know what you think.

Do you have any other money systems that have really worked for you?  Please share with us in the comments!  And let me know if you have any more questions about healing your money mind. 

After much debate, I just signed up for a development program for my healer's group.  It was an issue of expense and progress vs. slow and steady by myself.  Finally I pushed the button, after checking for that "yes, yes, yes" feeling again.  It was still there. 

In the numbers on the receipt, I found meaning.  First, my email receipt came back with the time "10:31 pm", my birthday, and as I mentioned in the last post, always a "go Daria!" message from the Universe for me.  After stressing over the decision, I had a good chuckle over that one. 

Then the receipt itself listed the time as March (3) 22, 23:31:13.  (Must be on Eastern US time.)  I have to say, 322233113  is a pretty fun number!  Looking at the digits themselves, another layer of meaning says a new opportunity is opening, recently planted efforts are beginning to sprout and manifest in a huge way, and all the help I need is around me, cheering me on.

What messages are out there for you? 

Question:  Daria, do you know what seeing double numbers all the time means?  I see 22,33,44,55 on clocks every time I look, this after seeing "11" for years.

Daria's Answer:   Isn't it fun?  I sometimes see 10:31 a few times a week.  We could spend hours looking up the meaning of these numbers from many sources, and analyzing when you saw them and what message they could be sending you at that moment, but I approach patterns like this differently.  (Daria different? No surprise there…)

Know this:  Nothing in your life is without meaning.  Nothing is random.  Nothing.  When something catches your conscious attention, it is resonating with an issue that's moving within you, or you wouldn't notice it.  Something that is growing, rising to your attention in other ways, shifting.  Coming or sometimes going.  Double numbers are noticeable.  Pairs all the time are really noticeable.

My question to you in a Healer to Healer™ coaching session would be:  what does it mean to YOU?  What do you think it means, even if you are so uncertain about your answer that you wanted to ask me?  I don't care what anyone else says those numbers mean.  Numerological or dream or animal dictionaries are great places to start learning meaning, but everything also has a unique meaning for you.  For instance, 1+0+3+1 = 5, which means life changes according to Doreen Virtue, but to me 10:31 is my birthday and feels like a little celebration of me from a higher place every time I see it.  So I pause to enjoy and appreciate that.

Your meaning may be similar or completely different from archetypal or symbolic meanings, and that's fine.  Ask yourself this:  What does seeing these numbers really mean to me?  Intuitively, I feel that it's a lovely message for you that you're someone special who can connect with the unseen, the other side.  When you see those double numbers, say "hello" back!  Perhaps sit for a moment and see if you can feel a guide or other beneficent being around you, or hear or feel words.  At any rate, smile and feel the meaning of the message for you.  Let me know how it goes!  db

Do you have another answer for this question?  Please share your thoughts in the comments.