Being or Doing?

We are human BEINGS some say. All that doing and running around gets you nowhere fast.

All that being and knowing who you are is pointless: you need to TAKE ACTION.

When is a girl to meditate and when is she to take action with all this conflicting advice?

I think both are right. The question is not about Being Versus Doing, it is about

ALIGNING
purpose
being
intuition/guidance
effective doing

When all these are aligned, everything falls into place. You can easily follow your own rhythm of being, meditating, dreaming, creating in the mind, overcoming fear and doing/taking action. Meditation in action. Mindfulness in movement.

• The being becomes sweeter because it is guilt free.
• The notion of 'hard' work disappears as more peace permeates your life.
• The doing becomes more effective because when it is aligned to your soul/core purpose, it becomes more targeted and you need to do much less for much better/more effective/greater results/rewards

That's when manifesting becomes fun! En-JOY!

Trust Meditation

Just had a wonderful meditation where I was imagining my path showing up in front of me just as I need to find it to take my next step.

Some fear arose. I asked what it was and realized that I was scared that if I trusted completely, the Divine would lead me to the edge of a metaphorical cliff and push me over the edge to show me that I could fly. I could see myself being ABLE to fly but really not enjoying the feeling.

Then the message came loud and clear: "We would never ask yo to do that"
"Why not I asked?"
"Because we know you don't like flying sensations. We will get yo where you need to go in a way that is comfortable for you"

I cried with joy.

Even now I still forget how much the Divine loves me. Loves all of us. I forget how much tenderness and support is available!

Flow

There are people in this beautiful world of ours who only feel satisfied when they can control everyone around them. Even is that means destroying someone else's happiness or joy in order to gain control over them while they are sad, depressed, ill, miserable or feeling victimized. Because when the 'victim' are undermined and cannot do for themselves, they suddenly need support, right? So guess who is suddenly available to swoop in and help/support/rescue them? Yes: the 'destroyer' themselves.

My mother was one of those people whose low self esteem only allowed her to be happy when we were unhappy and needed her. So I learned at a VERY young age (definitely before I was 2) that it was DANGEROUS to be happy, to look free, to laugh, to express happiness in front of her because it would TRIGGER her anger and resentment and set her into destructive action. I learned that it was easier for me to repress creativity, flow and happiness rather than let it arise and watch her destroy it. THAT pain I could not take.

So I nearly died as an infant, by the time I was 2 I was scarily 'well behaved' and by the time I was 7 I was chronically depressive. My unconscious programming was set to 'no fun, no happiness, no flow, no creativity coz they're dangerous'. Wow! What a legacy!

I started therapy at 20, meditation at 27, developed awareness and over the years I allowed myself to be happy and joyful again. But I would still get STUCK on a regular basis. Physical pain. Lack of cash FLOW on a boringly regular basis. Stop-start artistic flow/inspiration: sometimes I could paint sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I was fun to be with and a lot of the time until recently I definitely was not.

I got over a lot of that in my 20s. Then in my 30s I had children and unconsciously associated having kids with 'being stuck', because that is how my mother felt about motherhood so it started all over again when I became a mother. That also started me on my journey as a conscious healer because I was determined to heal myself and change my children's legacy! I became a Reiki Master, a Kinesiologist, a Quantum Healer. I do energy work for myself and my family all day, every day! That is just how we live now. I know a lot about energy by now, I am an expert!

The word FLOW came to me in a meditation recently. The remedy was to take ACTION that encouraged flow in my life. It's working: this morning I was laughing out loud playing ball with the dog then dancing to Flamenco music!
My kids wish I could have been more fun when they were little. They have all articulated that wish to me. I was not and it's ok because for the most part I looked the other way when they were playing and having fun or doing arts so I would not interrupt their creative flow. It's worked and now they are older, THEY are teaching me how to be me, how to have fun and how to flow.

I feel like I am finally coming into balance and loving life all that much more! TOGETHER, we learn.

PS: Of course, on a soul level, I know I chose my family and created the experience to become the healer that I am now. But in THIS lifetime and in THIS body, I still had to understand and release the 'repressed joy' pattern to crawl away from under that rock and into the sunshine!

A Healing Valentine

A Healing Valentine

I am sure you have all noticed that Valentine's day is upon us. Hard to avoid, right?

I really like these portal days where the collective puts its attention onto a specific aspect of life. I find it makes it a lot easier to do energy work around that issue and to personally move forward with it.

If you are in a couple, well, it's easy: you enjoy the day with your loved one, soak up the attention, enjoy loving, practice receiving. Bask in desire.

Desire and love are at the core of life force after all.

If you are happily single, you have the same opportunity to concentrate your energy on desire and love. Your desire for life and love for self.

And if being single is uncomfortable or downright painful, it's ok, you can tell me: I've been there! If you are still hurting, still feeling the heartache of previous relationships, Valentine's Day is as good as an anniversary to work on removing some of the past hurts and to think about what it is that you do want.

I love days when old pain and confusion are so raw and obvious that it is really easy to catch and heal them.

Whatever your situation, if you want to free yourself from a heartache issue and from the shadow of the past, call me, book a session and use this universal day of Love to your advantage: heal and move forward lovingly! Click Here To Send Me An Email or 413-884-2543

Happy Valentine's Day!

Second Sunday with Sunday

It so happens that Second Sunday with Sophie falls on Valentine's Day this year. Which is very fortunate since my spiritual and healing practice is all about bringing more love in my life and yours!

This month the meditation will be about bringing more Divine Love into your life and finding the connection between that and every day love, including romantic love.

And in the second part of the call, my guest is Kelvin Ringold, "Mr. Positive," sharing with you how he learned to be positive EVERY DAY and how that helps him in every relationship in his life. He is a dynamo of realistic, focused positive energy!

I invite you to join us this Sunday, February 14th on Second Sunday with Sophie.

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Second Sunday With Sophie Sept. 13th

On Sunday Sept 13 we will come together for
September's "Second Sunday with Sophie".
This month: Tools to Be Aligned to your Personal Purpose.

Many of us are struggling as the energies are intense and pushing us to shift so fast. There is an increasing need to share balancing and transformational tools.

At times the change is blissful and at times it is very confusing. It is still physically tiring for many of us and our hormones are still being really affected, which impacts our mood, our relationships, our jobs and every aspect of our daily lives.

We need to learn tools and support each other to walk through all the energy portals that keep opening. Today (9.9.9) is one such portal. The Equinox on September 22, 2009 will be another. 11.11.2009 will be one as well.

There are effective ways to:

• stay in balance
• work through fear so you learn from it
• align your personal purpose with the planetary awakening

I have been studying, creating and practicing balance in a fast changing spiritual environment for 11 years (well, for centuries, really). In various countries, with kids, with and without money, with and without a partner. I have this down to a fine art!

Also, I know and understand what is happening at this moment of our planet's awakening. I am in constant contact with angels, guides and the Divine. Which is why so many are connecting with me.

As a result of this, I am at the point in my practice where I cannot speak personally with every person who wants to connect with me every week. I think this information is comforting to many and I want it to be available, in person. When I find a healer or a teacher I resonate with, I always want to hear their voice and I want to be in their vibration. I invite you to share the experience with me.


1- Every SECOND Sunday at 2PM EST I will be on the phone and available.

On the call I will:

• teach one of my meditations
• discuss a healing topic
• answer questions at the end of the call so be sure to ask your question on the teleseminar call detail page you will receive after signing up for the class
  

2- On the other Sundays of the month I will meditate at 2PM EST and invite you to join me in meditation and prayer for Peace and Oneness.

There is power in numbers, you know that. Together we can create a beautiful vibration of Oneness, Love and Joy. So join me every Sunday at 2pm EST, I will be meditating for Oneness with you. You can tune in energetically from wherever you are in the world.


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So invite your friends who would benefit from this learning! All are warmly welcome.

The planned schedule is:

• Sunday Sept 13, 2009 ~ Tools to Be Aligned to your Personal Purpose
  
• Sunday October 11, 2009 ~ Staying Balanced and Breathing
• Sunday November 8, 2009 ~ Kundalini Reiki
• Sunday December 13, 2009 ~ December Solstice
• Sunday January 10, 2010 ~ What Kind of Healer Are You?
  
• Sunday February 14, 2010 ~ Becoming the Positive Person You'd Love to Date
  

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Friday Flow of Abundance

Today is Friday so it really is the day to think about flow!

Flow of life, flow of love, cash flow: they are all one and the same thing!

Today's best meditation is to go to the River. Find a stream, flowing water.

Dance with the river, let her flow love into your life. Meditate on the quality of the river:

how it always appears to be the same but the water is forever changing
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."Heraclitus

how water always finds a way: the easiest way and the point of least resistance


how the water is always DANCING on the rocks like a whirling dervish dancing into the Heart of God


how the light is always dancing on the water like passion in your lover's eyes

how the water reflects the light in a million diamonds like so many facets of the creation

Ask for life to flow

Ask for the flow of life to bring you abundance.

BE THE FLOW!

BE THE ABUNDANCE!

Give and receive

Remember to RECEIVE so you can carry on giving!


So, how are YOU going to flow today? What is life going to bring into YOUR life?
How much of the Friday Flow are you willing to receive?

Planetary Awakening

The veil between our physical 3D reality and what is often referred to as 'the other world' has been thinning fast for over a century. It is part of our planetary awakening.

Around the 1900s we learned to converse with the deceased more easily and a substantial number of seekers became aware of the fact that we never really die. Instead, the soul survives and is able to communicate with the 'living' after the death of its body. This was confirmed more recently by a substantial number of people reporting their 'near death experiences'.
For me the significance of near death experiences is not to establish whether the individual actually died or actually saw God or only had a normal, boring, physical reaction caused by oxygen deprivation or by a change in body chemistry.
What I think is significant with a near death experience is that the individual invariably comes back emotionally, psychologically and spiritually transformed. Calmer, more confident, more joyful, free of fear, wanting to have a life of service and full of love for others, aware of the common good, selfless.
The other significant fact is the similarity in the transformation regardless of the patients' age, sex, educational or religious background.
Thirdly it seems that people who were NOT religious prior to the near death experience come back describing an experience that many spiritual and religious individuals have in the course of their practice without having to come close to death. We call it prayer, meditation, spiritual ecstasy, enlightenment. With the publicity given to those experiences, more and more people are coming forward and openly discussing what is to them a very real experience of communicating with their deceased loved ones or with angels and other benign or helpful entities.

For most healers and psychics it is now very common place to communicate with disembodied souls and with angels in the course of their work. The information is usually accurate, often helpful and always reassuring.

After WWI easier travel allowed westerners to come into contact with Eastern philosophies. After WWII we started really learning from Eastern Masters and experiencing their meditation and exercise techniques. We learned how to be aware of the subtle energies in our body. Acupuncture has now been scientifically proven. As have the effects of meditation on brain function and heart health. While observing the physical effects of such energy manipulation techniques on our physical body and on our emotions, Western science still treated the more metaphysical aspect of the meditative or spiritual experience as poetic nonsense, a mere flight of fancy. Caused this time, not by oxygen deprivation but by over-oxygenation. Yes, I am smiling!

And now suddenly, quantum physics describes a world very similar to the visions of the mystics of all times: the infinitely small is the same as the infinitely large; there is no beginning and no end to the universe; there is a consciousness, an intelligence, that organizes matter at will; light becomes matter and matter is really made up of nothingness at its core. In spiritual language: the world is born of the void, matter is the void at its core and when we merge with the void we become one with it and are suddenly part of everything at once. The goal of Eastern practice was called "enlightenment" before quantum physics popped into our consciousness and ...guess what? it turns out we are all made out of light that becomes particles of matter when they change frequency. So en-LIGHT-enment was a pretty accurate description to start with!

Thousands of us now meditate daily, practice qi-gong, acupuncture and Reiki or modify our brain frequency at will. All these practitioners live in a world where subtle energies are experienced, seen and felt as strongly and accurately as the physical. It took dedicated, focused training. We worked at this for years, practiced intensively. Often starved ourselves of food, social contact or sexual intimacy for extended periods of times to alter our perception, to make ourselves 'lighter' (there's that light again!). That is because we were born with an old style body and were trying to remember the Light, our true nature. In the process we developed psychic and healing abilities, compassion and forgiveness. We learned to let go and to let God. We became generally nicer, less aggressive people. But Boy! oh Boy! did we earn all this!

What we see now are adults being spontaneously activated and suddenly becoming aware of increased intuition or healing powers. Most of them did not particularly ask for this, they really are not sure what to do with it or how to use it. They have not been trained on how to focus this newly found energy or ability and it often makes a mess of their lives. Either because they try to repress it and become physically ill or because they try to use it without guidance or protocol and end up with TMI (Too Much Information).

For the past 20 years we have also had and increasing number of children being born with psychic and healing powers. They are natural healers. When they escape ADD medication and are supported at home, they work deeper, faster and more efficiently than any trained adult healer I know. We call them the Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children. When their generation is in charge, they will make the world a very different place!

So if you have been changing recently, finding it easier to meditate, to manifest, to be clairaudient or clairvoyant, to use your intuition, to communicate with Spirit or spirits, be assured that you are one of many. You are part of the planetary awakening that is taking place with the thinning of the veil.

What part are YOU playing in our planetary awakening?
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