Yesterday I was reminded again how much I love intuition.  It has become an unbelievably helpful tool in my daily life that has shown up in surprising and rewarding ways…

 In March we are headed back to Costa Rica to celebrate my Birthday.  We’ve got the villa set, but unfortunately the plane tickets have seemed very expensive.  Several weeks ago I mentally decided the price and times that were fair and worked best for me.  I have been waiting for prices to drop accordingly.  Every day I checked kayak.com and specific airlines waiting for the sale I was sure was coming…

 On Monday Frontier’s prices dropped, but the dates weren’t right.  I woke up yesterday slightly panicked thinking, ok, switch the dates around Kelly, you’ve got to buy today!  As I am in the process of buying the tickets, the prices drop again and the right dates lined up – I’m golden.  The tickets were bought, and this morning when I checked the same flights - they had gone up $1700.  Joy of all joy!  Not only am I keenly aware of the benefit of listening to that little voice, but my pocketbook is oh so happy too!

 Are you listening to that little voice?  Need help unlocking your intuition?  Contact me. 

Listen to a discussion about animal guides for 2010 and if you have not already identified your guide for this year, I hope you’ll join me for a little guided meditation at the end of the podcast.  The meditation will not only relax you but connect you to your own divine support – you’ll receive real and tangible images to help guide you to your best year…

My intention this year is to not only see the divine in all things, but to be more grateful – out loud.  I am blessed, ridiculously so and although I am grateful – I can do more.  I know there is a craving within many hearts for the divine, an ache, maybe even an emptiness with questions of purpose and loss… 

 My intention this year is to answer that call – to set out more beacons and guide others to the shore.  Besides new blog posts, podcasts and private sessions, in the coming months I will offer a weekly free Meditation Circle through skype and a new step-by-step workbook for you to unlock your own abundant life and discover the divine within…For it has been waiting all along, the divine has just waiting for you to open and receive the peace, the abundance…

 I hope you join me on this journey, Happy New Year.

Today we are going to try a technique I call active meditation.  This technique guides you into total relaxation as we unlock your own unique gifts.  Discover real answers and support on your path to peace.  Come, let’s begin our journey… 

Feeling stuck?  Nothing is going your way? 

 Remember: it is only from the ashes that Phoenix rise again…

These past months I feel a bit like I’m in the boat, sails up yet no rudder – the wind is sporadic.  Sometimes I seem to be spinning in the same circles around and around.  Other times – I feel dead in the water yet still other days, I find myself zooming off into directions unknown.  Interestingly I know I am not alone.

 I hear it over and over from my friends, from people I haven’t spoken to in months and from many of my clients – I just don’t know which way to turn, but something’s gotta give.  I’ve questioned myself - is this how it has always been?  Are we always on the edge in some way or is this something bigger?

 I am relentlessly optimistic.  I always, always, always believe there is a brighter day.  The darkest part of the night only emboldens me to hold on tighter and wait for dawn, as I know it comes.  Unfortunately it doesn’t always come in my timing however…Gratefully one of the gifts in being almost forty years old is I’ve known miracles.  I have seen amazing things come to pass out of nowhere, hence I know dawn comes…eventually. 

 I have learned that sometimes wandering the desert or in a rudderless boat can carry you to places unexpected and magical.  Somehow I had forgotten this – I had become one of the adults in The Little Prince…

 A few weeks ago, I decided to enjoy the boat again, even if the rudder seems to be missing for awhile.  I know my compass is true, the people I love are abroad and the adventure is now…

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 is the Vernal Equinox, also known as Mabon, Harvest Home, Second Harvest, and Cornucopia.  Equinoxes are times when daylight and darkness use the same number of hours in a day and are a good time to contemplate balance in our lives.

 It is time to bring in the harvest—Mother Earth gives her children nourishment and abundance to help them prepare for the winter and darkness. During this time we give thanks for the abundance that the long days and sunlight have given, we also take this moment to balance, to rest, to simply be, and prepare ourselves for winter’s slumber. 

 Maybe you are struggling to discern what abundance has come into your life.  Maybe you, like many others, have had a difficult year thus far and are not feeling very abundant.  I encourage you to look again with a different idea of abundance – abundance is not just about material rewards.  It also encompasses your emotional, spiritual and physical self. 

 Have you discovered an inner strength that has carried you through difficult days?  Are there new people in your life that have made things better?  Have you learned any new skills or attitudes that can help in the future? 

 Years ago I had a friend who hated the fall equinox.  For her it was the death of summer.  It triggered fears of ‘not enough’ and dark, dark days ahead.  As much as I sympathized with her feelings, I adore the fall.  Sweaters come back and fires are lit again.

 The shedding leaves remind me of gold falling from the sky – for me and everyone.  I love the idea of nature slipping into slumber again – to be restored and rejuvenated.  It is a time when we each can re-discover quiet hobbies again, like reading, knitting, baking, playing cards and games…

 My new podcast of a Harvest Meditation can help you discover new abundance and gifts maybe you have overlooked.  May it help you to connect to your own abundance here and now.  For long nights are coming and peace is waiting for you to step into… 

Are you having difficulty communicating?  Computers crashing?  Dropped phone calls?  Guess what?  It’s Mercury Retrograde!  Mercury went retrograde either September 6^th or 7^th depending on your time zone.  Mercury will be retrograde until September 29^th (Thank God the end is in sight!) 

I like this combination of rehashing and rebirth.  The stars are truly aligning for your most abundant life, but can you accept it?  Do you dare to resolve and let go of the issues that have bound you to a less-then life?  The door is opening, I invite you to step through…Come, your dreams are waiting for you to step in…

There is a huge difference between thinking about what’s really going on and speaking about it.  Each of us can “think” our way through anything – a job, a relationship, broken bone, a challenge, whatever.  In our minds we can examine every option or consequence in a vain attempt to fool ourselves with the illusion of control.  If I think about it enough, I can control it, feel safe, discover the correct answer…but can you?  Unfortunately no.

 Here’s the thing, ‘thinking’ avoids ‘feeling.’  As long as you keep your thoughts to yourself and locked exclusively in your mind, you block much of how you feel.  However as soon as the words are spoken – all bets are off and the feelings come flooding in – both good and bad. 

 Let me give you an example, I live in Colorado.  We’ve lived here for over nine years and I’ve been saying I want to move for the past five years.  The timing has just not been right.  Of course, I see the benefits, the gifts received from being here but it doesn’t matter anymore – I need to go.  I can’t think/reason my way through this any longer.

 This past summer we visited Switzerland and I felt full again.  You see, here in Colorado, we live in the high desert – brown, little water, fierce sunlight and stunning, masculine mountains.  In Switzerland it’s lush, green, wet and the beauty is balanced – stunning peaks nestled against gentle green, rounded mountains and lakes.  It’s like being next to the ocean, I felt fed by my environment instead of starved. 

 Now this isn’t a thinking thing, this is a feeling, an energetic experience.  As much as I may like to – I can’t think my way out of this.  Being here in Colorado is now becoming more intolerable and it’s not because of a person or a thing, but how I feel. 

 Once you connect to the truth of how you feel about anything – the truth becomes annoying loud – vibrating in your mind over and over.  Hence impassioned difficult conversations begin happening with the important players in your life, unexpected tears flow and more surprising feelings unfold.  And best of all, grace finds you.   

For when you are living from your heart, magic is not far off.  It is close.  The heart operates from a place of light.  In this light, all can be illuminated, if you are courageous, if you are willing to live fully and dare to live your most abundant life.  So Be It! What are thinking about instead of feeling????

I slept with an alligator last night, my six year old son.  I was kicked in the ribs, elbows to the head, covers – gone.  My son said to me in the morning, with a big grin mind you, and mouth gaping, “Did I take over the bed?”

 “Yes, in fact, you did,” I reply with a begrudging smile.  For the past couple weeks every other night, one the kids will wander in saying he/she has had bad dreams.  I’m not surprised because I know what’s really going on – stress. 

 One of the best indicators of what is going on with you, is to examine what is going on with yours kids or your partner.  If they are acting out of the ordinary, guess what?  I’m betting you are too! 

 Lots of things are shifting in our home right now - new doors opening and a move is on the horizon.  As exciting as that is, it’s stressful too.  That’s how the unknown tends to be.  Yet somehow, slipping into bed with Mom and Dad seems to make it a little bit better…And surprisingly, it is.

 Are the loved ones in your home acting out of the ordinary?  What are they be reflecting back to you????