This video is a wonderful scientific peek at how Holy Water is unique!

Most cool to me is how, ok, well I will have to give a little prelude so that saying what I think coolest makes any sense.

In a shell… scientists took vibrational readings of water held by 4 different people. Each person’s water was imprinted with their personal vibrational imprint!

Then the scientists tested water with different kinds of flowers dunked in. Each type of flower made a different imprint, Daisies were different than Sweet William etc.

So water gets imprinted with information, and most fascinating to me is that we DRINK water filled with all manner of mysterious imprints unless we are intentional with our water!

AND the ocean is filled with gazillions of drops of water all imprinted with random bits of world wide vibrational information all mixed up!

Each water drop is unique! So Blue Solar water is imprinted by the light and our blessings for a miraculously high vibration!

Fascinating stuff….please leave me your thoughts!

Wooo Hoo!  The Tut Message for today was…

Young souls use pain to find out how things are.

Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be.

And old souls, Aimee, use pain to learn how else they might be.

T-s-s-s-s-s-s,
The Universe

So that is something to hold onto! That a reward for our consciousness (that at times has made blissful ignorance look very appealing) is…

Is what?

That we are at least 2/3rds of the way down the soul evolution continuum?

That this looking at every little thing that happens and shifting something 8 times out of 10 way of life means we have learned our lessons well and are knee deep in practical applications?

Ut oh now I’m thinking hard about why the idea of possibly being an old soul is so appealing?

Is there something here I need to shift?

Ha ha ha! And so it goes…

Do you know anyone who DOESN’T struggle with an over zealous sweet tooth?

What’s the deal with cravings beyond our conscious control anyway? Recently the relentlessly curious healer in me started digging for the core beliefs that CAUSE sweet tooths, sweet teeth…

I know you’re in there! You can run but you cannot hide O Gingerbread Man of the Core Beliefs! Gotcha! (It’s really late can you tell?)

But THAT in a nutshell is the key to Instant Healing, transforming the core issue.

So what IS the underlying emotional situation of cravings?

Because I can’t think of one situation I’ve EVER seen where handling a physical symptom only on the physical level has ever permanently cured ANYTHING? (Aside from broken bones and emergency issues and those still require delving into WHY you hurt or broke what you did.)

Underlying emotional issues just keep knocking on your mental and physical doors louder and louder until you take care of them.

So I asked the Universe, “Universe what is the cause of sugar cravings? And the Universe answered “they pacify your inner child.”

Then I thought about it and even if I wanted to get all physiological about it, evidence starts piling up for the pacifying a hurt inner child theory. 5HTP is known to help stop sugar cravings because it’s a precursor to serotonin, your brain’s happy chemical!

Chromium helps stabilize your blood sugar levels to prevent mood swings…L Glutamine straightens out your intestinal processing (your ability to process food that emotionally represents your ability to process life)…

I remember being on a road trip with the man touted as “the most evolved man in town.” I’d painstakingly packed enough organic food for us to make it to California without eating one molecule of junk food. HOWEVER, a few hours into our trip he was pulled over and given a ticket he was angrily unwilling to accept responsibility for.

Within a few minutes of hitting the road again post ticket, he pulled over at a gas station to get himself an ice cream drumstick and some little bags of MSG, food coloring, chemicals and preservatives! He said he NEEDED it.

Triggers and cravings is NOT rocket science. Our subconscious tells us we just need something to make it all feel better…

“Life is scary. I can’t trust life/the Universe/God/myself/people to keep me safe. I needed ____ and didn’t get it. Life hurts.”

If you feel reprimanded, rejected, unloved, dumped, incapable, fired, failure, abandoned, wronged etc. what do you reach for? Rocky road ice cream? Chocolates? Chips?

Why do we need Comfort Food? I have a theory…

That instead of knowing the difference between a baby’s different cries, parents most often just shove a bottle in their crying baby’s mouth. So most of us grow up A. without having our real need met and B. without any real skills for managing our emotions or self soothing.

We meet our need to feel better the only way we know how and train our babies how to distract themselves from their pain, because so few of us begin to know how to process emotions in a healthy way. Thank GOD for instant healings!

What do we know to be true about emotional pain and trauma? Does it magically disappear if we ignore it, or run away from it, or self medicate? NO.

It gets bigger and BIGGER, and more and more In Your Face until you take care of it!

No amount of alcohol, pot, doughnuts, exercise or shopping (you know who you are) can help you escape from your emotions. Not even dying. They SAY “you can’t take it with you when you go” but that is not the case with emotions. You TAKE THEM ALL, big baggage and small.

I’m excited to work on more people on ending their cravings and see what else is uncovered and how it transforms! Thus far the most prevalent cor belief is a betrayed trust in a feeling  safe in life seems to be the craving culprit.

If you have sugar craving challenges and are willing to explore this area deeper, I’m offering HALF PRICE sessions in exchange for a testimonial describing how amazing you feel being freed from your cravings! Mu wa ha ha! Call me for an appointment 575-770-3789.

And last but not least on a PHYSICAL level to support your body healing from years and years of over indulging, definitely take some Milk Thistle to help your liver process the waster and TONS of water to flush it out!

Other good physical support would be Grapefruit seed extract to kill yeast over growth and Jerusalem artichoke juice can help stop all manner of addictions. And of course pull out your Tiger Lilly for clearing on addictions.

Fun, fun, fun! Please leave me your thoughts!

Much Love,

Aimee

So my dog just narrowly escaped being sprayed by a skunk. I let her out for her midnight pee and she high tailed it off to into the trees barking like a small but piercing canine banshee at a white skunk as he sauntered away at his leisure… clearly in no hurry.

“A very loud thing is barking at me, how annoying” saunter saunter…

Jemma’s barking is soooooo much louder at night when all of the neighbor’s houses are dark.

So what do skunks MEAN? Animals Speaks-wise?

OH! I LOVE the message! Its Universal Law #1 Do No Harm.

“Defend yourself effectively but without further conflict.”

Weeeeell, skunks have a very powerful nonviolent defense mechanism. No one wants to mess with THAT! Words associated with skunks are defense, peace, prudence, protection, confidence, awareness, pacification, effectiveness, good judgement, patience, carefreeness.

Since no one in the rest of the animal kingdom wants to deal with the consequences of messing with a skunk (save for ignorant little suburban dogs with no sense of self preservation) they are gifted with having a carefree existence.

We would all do well to ask ourselves what is my powerfully stinky yet peaceful super power?

What wisdom does my inner Pepe Le Pew have for me? The spirit of the skunk is said to provide quality judgement for finding diplomatic ways out of stressful situations with people who really trigger you.

Oooo I like it! The skunk is for calming ourselves when we are on our last nerve and little kids who are beside themselves. Just remember to say thank you when calling upon the spirit of the skunk, its only polite.

I am so grateful to have this new appreciation for skunks rather than simply being grateful I’m not driving to the store right now to buy a bathtub full of tomato juice!

What Giant Party required jars of this size?!

Where are the ruins of the ginormous jar factory that made these jars?

The Jars are said to date to the Bronze age (3200 to 700 BC) . They are clearly very ancient and yet we don’t currently have the tools to make thousands of giant stone jars today?

THOUSANDS of megalithic jars are scattered around the landscape of the Xieng Khouang Plateau, Laos are s as though Giants had a party and did not clean up their mess!

There are steps that lead to the Plain of Jars; these were stair making folks.

How many dead people do you reckon they could fit in each jar?

The running theory on what these ginormous stone jars were for is that they must have been for prehistoric burials. Why then are the remains that have been found in nearby caves and OUTSIDE of the jars?

Thumbs down to prehistoric coffins idea.

Let’s use our God given logic for a minute. If ANYTHING about our perception of history is accurate then “prehistoric” folks had to fill their days with COLLECTING FOOD to survive. So who in the heck subsidized the artists who created these pots?

These people were salt traders. They are believed to have traveled by canoe on the Mekong river. They traveled far and wide, over the mountains and through this valleys.

These were Austro-Asiatic peoples, who are believed to have lived by hunting and gathering before the days of agriculture.

My inner potter thinks these look like enormous thrown pots. Like somehow the stone was malleable when they were made? Were the artists much larger than us (perhaps the giants mentioned in the bible?) How do you explain such symmetry on such a large scale?

Who was the lucky fella in charge of putting the lid on and off this?

So they were salt traders and made fish paste, fermented stuff that reminds me of Korean recipes stored in jars underground.

What is more logical? Well none of us was there so we are not likely to ever know, unless… save for this one word UNLESS…

To me these jars are another piece of evidence to prove we know NOTHING about the true history of this planet : ) Our current telling of history makes NO actual, logical sense.

It doesn’t account for the ancient runways that scar this planet, ancient nuclear war wreckage or the ancient buildings we don’t have the ability to construct today…

LOVE IT! Made a new category on here for Unexplained Mysteries!

Here’s a riddle for ya… “What is greater than God, poor people have it, rich people wish for it and if you eat it you will die?” Ponder that for a while and I will tell ya the answer at the end! This riddle was being passed down the buffet line at my dear friend Debbie’s 11-11-11 wedding Friday.

Then yesterday she and I listened to a woman speak about the subconscious programming/wounds/vows we have regarding money, care of our ancestors (cultural, religious, genetic, past life.)

For most of us, unspoken “tribal laws” or family customs, belief systems and operating systems become our unconscious programming while we are too young to have a conscious say in the creation of our belief system.

The woman, let me look up her name.. Margaret Lynch suggests holding a picture of your family in your hand or mind. Now drum up how money feels to your family. Is there anxiety or fear there? Feelings of lack, unfairness, bitterness, enslavement, complaining, exhaustion, hopelessness, betrayal, loss, tragedy, trauma, martyr, pessimism, pride, imbalance, abandonment? Is there a feeling of being capable of creating more than enough money? Is it possible to have more than enough money easily?

Here are some of the highlights from my notes to take into consideration when you are clearing on ancestors and money. This, for me, was as of yet a much neglected area.

Top 10 Possible Beliefs/Vows etc.

1. Family first. I vow to be loyal to my tribe. I vow to always support my tribe and live by the customs/laws of my tribe.

2. I must be UNlike and reject the ways and customs of my tribe at all costs.

3. I’m afraid that I will be rejected and cast out of my tribe for being different/more successful than them.

4. There is never enough.

5. Must work hard for money.

6. If I have and enjoy a lot of money I must balance out my joy with some other form of suffering; must punish myself with illness, weight gain, accident, loss or lack in another area.

7. My tribe has always put work before family. Money is more important than me.

8. My survival and value are based on the money I create.

9. I feel guilty for existing and making my parents have to work so hard to take care of me.

10. Personal safety, well being, happiness and love are not as important as marrying rich. I am pretty but not smart, so marrying rich is my only hope for survival.

Okay so there are some of the negative aspects of our ancestral financial heritage to clear on and replace with the positive opposites.

What other positive things do you and I want to resonate with…

Money LOVES me! Money is energy and flows easily to me! I am capable of mastering money.

I know and understand how to receive many and other wonderful things with grace and ease.

I enjoy who I am with money! I recognize and see my brilliance. It is possible to be well rewarded for joyful work.

Most importantly (to me) she emphasized that we came here specifically TO SURPASS our tribe! To evolve beyond their accomplishments into a better more improved version of them! It felt like being given freedom when she said that!

I love the radically simple and the answer to the riddle falls into that category…

The answer to the riddle is… NOTHING. Ha! Crazy huh? Nothing is greater than God! If you eat NOTHING you will die! Ha! Answers hidden in plain sight.

Okay, that is what I have to record here today in my collection of pretty shiny bits of clearing treasures!

Much Love,

Aimee

Wanting whatever unforgivable thing (as you see it) that happened to be different than it is or was obviously blocks forgiveness.

For those of us still chipping away at clearing forgiveness, accepting what happened AS IS can seem nigh impossible.

Which is precisely where you start digging and clearing… Why is it impossible to accept what happened AS IS? What would it mean if you forgave what happened? Who are you really still upset with? The other person? Yourself? God? Many people?

Your logical old brain knows holding onto your pain only hurts you more, so ask yourself why can’t you fully let it go? What is the worst
part of letting it go?

Here’s to holding onto that place of having already hit forgiveness critical mass!

Much Love,

Aimee

What would happen if the 78% of water that your brain is made up of and the estimated 60% of water that your body is made up of were made of Blue Solar, Miracle Attracting, Holy Water!?

For experimental purposes… I aim to find out! Since I bought some new blue bottles I have been drinking 3-27 ounce bottles of it a day! (It is said that one drop of Blue Solar Water restructures ALL of the regular water you pour it into, be it in your tub, a lake, a container, or your body)

So is drinking 3-27 oz bottles a day overkill we may wonder? Weeell more is better where I am at emotionally at the moment.

The days hydrated with Blue Solar Water HAVE actually been miracle filled! Energy that was very thick, incomprehensible, heavy and stuck is quickly m o v i n g again!

So far I have filled an 8 and 1/2 sheet of paper with the miracles I have been blessed with!

Listing my miracles on paper helps me to really grasp the quantity of miraculousness I am now experiencing or actually to be able to SEE the increase in miraculousness in my life.

So, its definitely working and I definitely don’t care if its just my absolute belief that it works that is making these miracles. Do you really care HOW your miracle is able to get to you? I don’t : )

I toast you miracles, with a glass of miracles, as I sit in a bath of miracles! I am grateful for all you have sent me and am open to more!

How are your miracles coming along? Please leave me comments. I love, love, LOVE the kind from you my beloved real humans rather than the customary spam generated “my SEO is better than your SEO” and “Click here to Buy Viagra from Canada” variety : )

Much love and many miracles,

Aimee

Good Morning!

The 5 Love Languages are… Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch.

Look what I found! Here’s a test to find out your love language! http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/love/

Listen to Love Languages as a book on tape; its a HUGE piece of the puzzle of understanding how and why the people around you operate the way they do! AND the man’s voice is great! He sounds like your beloved Grandfather so you aren’t expecting it when he discusses some of the more private moments of a marriage : )

What is a Love Language? It is your “primary way of expressing and interpreting love,” and for processing life really. Dr. Chapman, the author, discovered after counseling zillions of couples that we tend to be drawn to those who speak a different love language than we do. Herein lays the ENORMOUS lack of communication that makes this life so tricky to navigate!

You really gotta read the book. Let me see if I can go find a link …Got one! Click here

Because it is packed with soooo much good information on how to speak the languages to others! Lives are TRANSFORMED. Its like going from blindness to sight, its that radical. Understanding love languages allows you to SEE the love you were totally blind to before.

Which sense do you process love through?

Who from your past are you positive loved you? How do you know they loved you? There’s your answer! Is it because they spent so much time with you? Is it because they told you they love you so often? Is it because they gave you so much?

If you have only ONE tool in your love tool box let it be THIS ONE! Its truly remarkable.

There is another part to how we process life that give ENORMOUS insight into others and pairs nicely with this to fine tune your inner intrapersonal Sherlock Holmes that my next post will be about!

Much Love,

Aimee

For months blue glass bottles for making Solar water appeared impossible to find! (Mine broke)

FINALLY today I found some! At a store in TX called Spec’s they sell Saratoga water in 28 oz blue glass bottles and Tynant in little 11 oz bottles (Oooo 11 ounces magical!)

It’s just soooooo exciting after having been without for sooooo many months this feels like an enormous energetic victory! Being in the flow of goodness again. I have heard that Trader Joe’s sells their bottled water in blue bottles, a whole case for around 10 dollars!

My friend Jessie just walked in the kitchen and asked what was with all the blue bottles. After I explained she told me that rooting seedlings on a windowsill in a cobalt blue cup is supposed to be magical! So I’ll give it a try with a sweet potato and will let you know how it goes.

What else? Oh! Also I read on Twitter about a woman who practices ho’oponopono who uses a blue bowl clearing method. You can use the blue bowl in your mind to put your troubles in and then imagine throwing it into a volcano, or put slips of paper with your troubles on them in an actual blue bowl filled with water in the sun and let them dissolve.

Besides Mabel Katz and Dr. Len saying so, what is the other evidence for blue light creating holy water? I am going to go Google RIGHT NOW!

OK so there is a blue light miracle that happens in the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem (the holiest place on earth) where Christ was crucified, entombed and rose from the dead.

So, the Holy Fire (BLUE!) is the most renowned miracle in the Eastern Christian world. It has taken place at the same time, the same way, in the same place every year for centuries! But what does it do?

Blue fire whirls around the church; it sparkles, it flashes like lightning, it flies like a dove lighting up the unlit lamps and candles! The flame doesn’t burn you if you touch it; people wash themselves with it. Those who have candles lit by the miracle, or who see the blue light, leave Jerusalem changed. There is a differentiation between life “before and after” the Holy Fire!

Hmmm… According to this site  http://souledout.org/healing/bluedot/bluedot.html when you see blue light with your eyes closed you are seeing the “subtlest covering of your own soul!” Swami Muktananda says that that blue light may look small but it contains all the different planes of existence.

This website http://www.crystalinks.com/colors.html tells how Blue is a faster moving frequency than we experience in the physical and raises our frequency. It gets more energy moving in your cells. It’s the color of truth, serenity and harmony for calming the body and mind.

And this article, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100106193438.htm tells how scientists are using blue and yellow light to shut down the parts of people’s brains that cause things like epilepsy and parkinsons, very cool!

Ok I’m tired out for tonight but hope to stumble upon many more wonderful ideas about blue soon.

Sweet Dreams,

Aimee

Magical words about love have been hiding in one of my favorite herb books by Susun Weed! 20 years I’ve been referencing this book since college and before today I had never seen these words on love and then poof! Here they are!

Her words feel ho’oponopono-esque in their essence. She says the heart of the wise woman tradition is about your heart opening but not to the world, to your self; that we can only truly love once we radically love our self, have radically forgiven our self and have deep compassion for our human-ness.

Forgiveness collides with love! Her feeling is, everything begins here for women, with your own heart, but it feels this is true for everyone. Men write to me and let me know if I am wrong, but I think it is human to not be able to “forgive others until you’ve forgiven yourself completely; forgiven yourself for causing others to hurt you and have compassion for your very human suffering.”

Peace begins with you (that’s the ho’oponopono part) that once your heart is healed and nourished she says you will over flow with love! Your perspective would shift then? Be the change that you would like to see in the world said Ghandi…

I was going somewhere hologramish with that and got lost along the way, woops

Anyway in practical terms, how do you heal your heart and fill it up? Susun says unconditional love begins with receiving the endless unconditional love from the universe and unconditional love from yourself. Without being in the flow of these loves our attempts at unconditional love for others are really just strategies for extracting what we want from them cloaked as “love.”

And so, if you look into your heart and see an empty echoing bottomless well how do you keep from getting too overwhelmed to do anything?

By filling your heart with compassion for yourself and little acts of kindness for yourself in your Love Language. (A post on Love Languages will be next. Please write in with any suggestions you have for readers on processing love) The in a nutshell version of love languages is that if you experience love in your love language for a mere 20 minutes every other day or so, it FILLS your well up completely!

The upsides of a full well are that then you gush love naturally and the things other people do, or don’t do, won’t cause you pain so much. What is the saying? Its something like “hurt people hurt people.” So, what do you need to forgive yourself for?

Let’s see, the next posts need to be SELF forgiveness strategies and love languages. Seems like we are getting somewhere here though!

Please leave comments and suggestions for either Love and or Forgiveness. We will keep exploring and adding to the collection of strategies for being radiantly human : )

Much Love,

Aimee

Woops! A reader just asked me “hey how did your shrine turn out?” I thought this shrine follow up post was already posted! As you can see it ended up with holy standing room only in there!

It sits on our dining room table and we light the candle when we eat. I took it with me on a trip down south and the modeling clay people melted into a puddle : (

For your shrine building inspiration here’s a list of some of the blessed beings whose images are mod podged inside…

St. Nicholas, the Patron Saint of Children

Jesus and Mary Magdeleine. I like my Jesus and Mary to look accurate to their historical geographical region.

Flora of Cordoba for Abandoned people

St. Jude for hopeless Cases

St. Dominic for the falsely accused

St. Alouicious for youth and teens

Demeter Goddess of the Earth

Buddha, Joseph and Mary

Lao Tzu father of Taoism

Hestia Goddess of home and hearth, Demeter’s sister

Kuan Yin Goddess of powerful unconditional love likened to that of a mother for her child.

Arch Angel Michael and Milarepa

Ahhh there is something so comforting about saints and angels… It really does feel sacred. Lastly I’m looking for 3 or 4 more holy people for the ceiling, am thinking of staining or oiling the floor and painting the outside green.

If you decided to make a shrine please send photos and share any shrine info you may have. Now I’m on the hunt for the perfect milagro to go inside!

Happy Building and Much Love!

Aimee

Clearing your Love energy past, present and future is where I’d begin if you called for a clearing session. Time doesn’t exist for your soul/energy field, so everything that has ever happened, or will happen, is happening right now for it; which is why when you clear something in any “time” you feel relief in your now.

Over the eons that your soul has been toodling around the universe affecting energy, that affected energy has been building up- memories, beliefs, feelings etc. If high school physics are the least bit true (energy cannot be created or destroyed only changed) then all of the energy that you ever have, or ever will affect is out there still connected to you! Unfortunately it doesn’t just disappear when you die; its out there making your life difficult.

Love related fear and loathing, disappointment and regret, obsession and jealousy, betrayal and unrequited love agony energy from every moment of your entire personal journey eternally course through your veins, energy, DNA and the Universe at large. Between family love, friend love, romantic love, community love and God love that’s a lot of love energy to be responsible for!

Fortunately there are many ways to transmute all that energy back into pure white light! We have Ho’oponopono! The thing is, in order to create big change you have to reach critical mass with your clearing efforts. Most times all we can see of an issue is the tip of an enormous energetic iceberg. In my experience hitting critical mass requires working on yourself every day as your beliefs, miscreations and memories surface.

1. Turbo Charged Ho’oponopono Directions: Use this method to clear what you already know needs clearing and what #2 down there reveals hidden in your psyche!

I apologize if this is the 19th time I am saying this or something. I know for sure these directions are in one of my Clearing Cards but can’t remember if I already put them here on the  Healing Magpie? Since there are so many highly diluted versions of Ho’oponopono floating around internet land I just want to make sure I post this expanded version. It feels to me like I get more bang for my energetic buck with this one and I imagine it’s closer to its original kahuna form.

So say this:

“Divine creator, father, mother, son as one … If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness … Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light … And it is done.”

And do this:

Close your eyes, roll them upwards until it become bright. See yourself in your mind’s eye. See the energy of whatever you want to transmute leaving your energy from all corners of all universes and going up into the light to be transformed back into the pure white love energy of the creator of all that is. Then see fresh white light of love coming down through your crown chakra to fill in the empty space. When the new light enters your solar plexus see it expand out in all directions infinitely!

See in your mind anything that needs to be done, cords cut, your broken heart healed, soul parts returning through the light to you etc.

2. See Your True Points of Attraction: Write down 101 attributes you’d love to have in the partner of your dreams. Whether you have a beloved at the moment or not, this is a very valuable and transformational exercise. Plus it’s fun to have imagination carte blanche!

Define your desires in all of the major areas of life, love, sex, family, spirituality, health, money, career, lifestyle, looks, recreation etc. Think about what you adored about past loves and what was missing. Then item by item muscle test yourself for whether you possess these qualities or not, mark next each.

Do you desire someone who is wise, patient and fit? Are you? You are magnetic so you have to be who you desire. Do you desire someone kind, responsible, balanced and financially solvent? Are you? Clear yourself until your truth aligns with the vibration of the person you desire! This game is a subconscious rototiller for your blind spots. What you are blind to in yourself is precisely what we are after here.

So once you have the list of desires that you are not a vibrational match for use these Ho’oponopono directions to get in alignment. See the new true energy coming into you transforming you into what you desire, one quality at a time. Healing your emotional body heals your physical body and the symptoms of Love run amuck are no fun- allergies, angina, palpitations, high blood pressure, clogged arteries etc.

On the other hand also be as gentle with yourself as you can as you bravely heal your heart. I am thinking of you and Hop-ing for you of course!

Much Love,

Aimee

You are well aware I’m sure, that unfinished Love business, the ghosts of loves past,  can be some of the worst pain there is on Earth. What causes this excruciating pain? It is a recipe of some or all of the following ingredients; lingering past or present life memories, guilt, grief, unmet expectations, addictions, vendettas, trauma, vows, agreements, contracts, obligations, walls, debts, energetic cords, karma, cellular memory and curses to name a few of the possibilities.

If you have one or more of these ties it directly correlates to the level of ease or difficulty you experience with an emotionally clean break up. How can you move toward peace, resolution and creating a strong future Love foundation? Let’s break it down into the areas that need some work:

Clear You (of lingering past or present life memories, trauma, guilt, grief, vows, agreements, unmet expectations, vendettas, addictions, contracts, obligations, walls, debts, energetic cords, karma, cellular memory and curses.

Clean Up Your Subconscious Programming (Beliefs, Memories, Energy, Reconcile your past and extract the wisdom/blessings)

Re-Program You With Truth (how to have a healthy mature loving relationship, respect, discernment, boundaries, an open heart, excellent communication, how to naturally take personal responsibility, have healthy self esteem, feel deserving and worthy. Work on your conscious and subconscious definitions of love, marriage, relationships, commitment, fears etc.)

Work On Healing Your Heart Itself (fix a broken heart, energize a tired heart, fill a hopeless heart with love, check for soul damage, locate the source of your pain and heal it)

Find Forgiveness (Heart walls built of resentments, guilt and fear cause physical heart problems. Forgiveness is part of the cure for unrequited Love)

Refine Your Point of Attraction (compatibility, hope, possibility, discernment, let the past go, refine your request techniques)

Gain an Understanding of  Love Itself (how to thrive in love, replace mis-created Love beliefs with truth, unconditional/agape Love)

EQ Work (learn to manage your emotions in a mature healthy way? Learn why the professionals now believe that a person’s EQ is far more important than their IQ, codependence vs. true love, learn what healthy love looks like, how to attract it, recognize it and maintain it)

Feng Shui (learn to up the flow of universal and Earth energy in your living space, remove obvious bad Feng Shui)

Education (learn about the differences between male and female energy and operating systems, how to navigate them, learn how to recognize and work with love languages)

Find Out Your Underlying Personality (how to work WITH it rather than against it)

Astrology (find out what the cosmic influences on you are it can bring enormous peace and clarity)

Wow, just this list of categories is A LOT! Each one should be its own blog post I am now suspecting… So let’s start at the top, with Clearing You of all the things you don’t know that you don’t know that are tangling you up in emotional knots. I have to get on the road at the moment and drive 13 hours home so I will write the next post on the other side!

Much Love,

Aimee

The broken hearted have spoken…

of their very serious Love traumas, everything from the sudden unexpected loss of love to the long term unrequited. And so, since Love is such an absolutely enormous subject, we must begin this exploration of Love Clearing with providing relief for those in Love agony.

For the pain to go away, your vibration must up scale. (I know, ever feeling better seems like a pipe dream when you’re feeling shattered into a million emotional pieces)

1. Put on a CD that can shift your vibe for you.

Lay there in the dark listening to the vibe lifting cd of your choice (no Pink Floyd allowed) if you must. Patricia Cota Robles Violet Flame CD, is my favorite right now. Google her name to buy the instant download and put it on your Ipod. The cost to benefit ratio is radically worth it on this one. Keep your vibe lifting CD playing on a loop until you are radiantly you again whether your heart break is romantic, from a friend, or from a family member.

A Victoria Secret bag full of Abraham tapes was left next to the bed for me by a caring girl friend of mine that first time I had total heart annihilation. She found a boom box in my house and left me with a tape running. Day and night I listened to those tapes until my vibe was retrained and I was back onto my emotional feet again.

2. NPA is a powerful yet simple tool for transmuting emotions on the spot! Let’s use rejection for our example. Say each sentence of this twice one after the other. “This rejection. This pure energy of rejection. This pure energy of rejection is nothing personal. This pure energy of rejection is nothing personal and I agree to experience it.”

Poof emotions pass through you rather than get stuck in your emotional body!
IF LIFE MUST GO ON BECAUSE YOU HAVE WORK AND KIDS DEPENDING ON YOU WHEN YOU ARE IN HEART BREAK SHOCK…

1. Get that vibe lifting CD going on your Ipod and only put one ear bud in. Even if you aren’t “listening” to it, its still working on you. Keep listening until you feel shifted.

2. To get to the other side of your pain in 2 minutes or less… (when you have a free second, in the bathroom or in the parent pick up line at school) Feel Into The Heart of Your Pain. It WORKS. This one gives fast ENORMOUS relief. Do it and the worst of it will be over. I realize that the idea of feeling MORE of your pain seems counter intuitive to your survival and self preservation, but it’s the fastest way through the pain.

In a nutshell, make yourself feel the most pain you can, the most painful parts of your heartbreak. Then ask yourself if there are any other worse more painful parts? Feel as much pain as you can until you’re sure you’ll spontaneously combust! Facing the dragon is a powerful moment. What happens by facing your pain is that it has no where to hide out, bobbing and weaving around your energy field so it can last and last for days and weeks and months. (You unrequited love folks know what I am talking about.)

Facing the pain let’s the energy of the emotions build and build until finally it turns into what Rudolph Ballentine (Radical Healing) calls “liquid fire-a potent stream of powerful energy.” He says you will even feel hot while its building (its true). It bubbles and boils and must escape, do not let it escape while its telling you to eat chocolate, or drink alcohol, or go for a run etc. Breathe deeply until the pain bursts! The energy will go up!

Envision the energy as it goes up up up through the roof, through the clouds and stars and planets and planes all the way up to the pure white light of God to be transformed back into perfection. Then breathe in the perfect white light of God’s love, let it fill the space where the negative emotion was with love… Voila.

This is a good start! I really hope you find some peace with one of these remedies. Please leave me your thoughts and ideas for healing a broken heart.

More soon and much love to you,

Aimee

You and I Have Only 1/3 of 2011 Left to Manifest What We So Desire!

Quick build a SHRINE! Make a Vision Board! Make a Mind Map! Its time to reconnect to and refocus your desires, requirements, wishes, hopes and dreams for 2011!

Usually I do a vision board, instead I said yes to making my first SHRINE! Once I said yes to shrines the process totally took on a life of its own! What you see before you is that smashed up card board birthday box my friend CJ sent me extraordinary cookie cutters of gingerbread men doing karate in.

Here is how we went from smashed up package to WOW! Firstly I cut the box flaps off and the top and used A LOT of packing tape to make an arched ceiling.

Then we walked up the hill to the house my king of the hill landlord is building (with very Yertle the Turtle views of the whole valley) to get a piece of scrap wood. We walked back down the hill and sadly I had to measure about 8 times but I got it finally! Kevin was inspired to cut the bottom all rounded and fancy on front edge!  Below is him gluing but he nailed the cardboard to the wood base also, with cute little nails from our spare parts jar .

Then we realized we had no newspaper. So I started Googling and printing every patron, ascended master and holy person I could think of, while Sierra played God with some modeling clay and created Man, Woman and 5 children to go IN the shrine.

Last Sunday was the last day of summer break here in Taos, so when we were done with Saints and Creation (martyrdom, 7 days and batteries not required) we took Sierra for a hike down into the Rio Grande Gorge to the hot springs.

And on the way home we stopped at the always auspicious, Herb’s store in Hondo, for a newspaper, that we soon ripped to shreds!  Different size shred strips are handiest to have to choose from once your hands are all covered in paper mache, some long, some short, some one inch wide and some more like 2 inches wide.

The Recipe for Paper Mache is 1 cup of flour, a few generous squeezes of Elmer’s glue and water until it makes a lovely drippy paste to bathe your papers in. I said a prayer for the newspaper to clear its bad vibes. I wonder are paper mache, window washing and kitty litter boxes are really the only way newspapers can be turned into a blessing?

We covered the structure inside and out with a healthy amount of slime and paper. It took a couple of days to dry and looked like it was drying misshapen so I did this …

For  “arch support” and it worked like a charm! Now I am covering it with what I hope to be the final layer of paper and slime so I can get to the good part of gluing in my Saints!

I DID NOT try to make this look all tidy like a magazine How To article because you are going to make a big mess : )  Put down LOTS of newspaper!

And fellow shrine builders we are also pondering… cutting a hole in the base so we can light this thing up inside with one of those lights they use in Dept 56 Christmas houses…

Please leave me your thoughts and send me photos of your Shrine!

Much Love, Aimee

In the first 45 minutes of a 13 hour drive my car suddenly sounded like it had swallowed 35 screeching fan belt banshees! It was SO LOUD! As the car lost power I veered us toward the only driveway we’d seen in a long time on rural 518, a heavily forested mountain pass. And what do you think this driveway led to?

An Asian monastery for women who, in addition to not speaking English, had also taken a vow of silence! EXCELLENT! The noisiest car problem EVER at possibly the quietest place ever! We sat there chuckling about that irony (my fear of the BEWARE OF THE DOG signs posted about every 5 feet winning out over my extreme need to pee) as we waited for help to arrive.

THEN, a few days later we drove to Hooper Hot Springs by the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado to relax from… everything. After about an hour of floating like jelly in the warm water I looked up into the smiling face of, a monk!

SWIMMING MONKS! There were tons of them! Men this time. (Mind you, Hooper Hotsprings is a family fun, screaming kids everywhere sort of hot springs, NOT the meditative or romantic variety). The monk smiled and nodded his head. The urge to nod back was irresistible. I nodded and smiled and he swam away nodding and smiling.

A few days of work passed. (I work from home and rarely go to town.) But, as I was driving home from “Jack Wrap It” where I ship my orders, something caught my eye on the right hand side of the road…

SHOPPING MONKS!

Taos is FILLED with no end of “characters” passing through. This place is definitely on the modern American nomad migration path.

What caught my eye were two monks in deep red bowing at a statue in front of a shop. They weren’t bowing in unison. It was more of a one up, one down, one up, one down over and over and over.

In line at the grocery store a week later… there were the Lady monks again. When I pulled in at home my friend Nikki called to tell me all about what she’d just learned at a business seminar in NC. As she was recounting her tale she said “and then we ate at this great place called “THE THIRSTY MONK!”

As I was excitedly telling her all about MY monks Kevin arrived home from work. He began unloading his truck, half listening to me excitedly list monk sighting after monk sighting (this was the first he was hearing of it). Suddenly I realized HE was waving at me all excited! He pulled something out of the back of the truck.

Someone had given him a 6 pack during his work day (a thing which NEVER happens AND he doesn’t even drink). The beer was called…. MONK’S WIT!

It looks exactly like this! Made by THE BENEDICTINE ABBY OF CHRIST IN THE DESERT BREWING COMPANY.

So I have no clue yet what it all means, if anything. Please let it NOT be the Universal calling for me to start meditating. I am a student of the 3 Breath Meditation style. I am DONE after 3 deep breaths : )

13 monks and counting, veeeeery interesting though!

Aimee

WHAT IS FENG SHUI AND WHY DO YOU CARE?

Ha! That title sounds very Dr. Seuss’s Lorax! Feng Shui is pronounced Fung Shway and it means literally “wind and water”. Why do you care and why do I keep mentioning it all over the place? Feng Shui is the 5000-8000 year old Chinese science of how to work with the energy and magnetic lines of the Earth, nature and universe.

The Chinese call this energy “chi”. Chi flows through you and around you whether you believe in it, or like it, or not. These energies are scientifically measurable/quantifiable and are either working FOR you, or AGAINST you. (That is the part where you probably care) In regards to forces of nature this strong, ignorance is no defense and is generally NOT bliss either.

(Stay tuned for my very silly, but compelling Feng Shui true story

down there at the bottom)

IS FENG SHUI AN ANCIENT CHINESE SECRET? Yeeeeees! In much the same way that once upon a time Ho’oponopono was a secret only for the Kahunas, long ago Feng Shui was also a secret! An Imperial Chinese secret, hogged exclusively by the royal family. The lucky Emperor’s Family had a personal team of astronomers and scientists who managed the auspiciousness of their health, prosperity and well being.

(It appears the rest of the Chinese population were on their own, despite the wealth of an Emperor directly depending upon the prosperity of his people, duh.)

Confucious say… greed cancels out simple logic and common sense!

For a guy who went down in history for his superior wisdom, Confucious looks an awful lot like a bad ass Harley dude! Maybe he decided on this look for self preservation after getting picked on for being a geek in middle school?

HOW DO YOU “DO” FENG SHUI? Luckily the days of multiple, complicated, conflicting ways of doing Feng Shui, that required an expert, a compass and weird math, are bygone. The Ba gua map approach is average Joe and Josephine friendly. Stand at the entrance of your home with your map and see where your guas are by imagining the map laid on top of your floor plan. Now, start measuring and marking your home into 9 equal parts. Et Voila! (There’s a map in my last Feng Shui blog post)

Just as we must ALWAYS use a compass with complicated Feng Shui and never guess directions, we must ALWAYS use a tape measure to measure our home’s guas and not “eyeball” measurements.  Guessing can be further off than you might imagine and can screw all sorts of things up. Measuring is how I discovered, much to my surprise, that part of our Love gua is missing!

Taping little paper markers to the floor at the cross roads of the guas until you memorize where they all are is quite helpful.  70’s style knee deep shag carpeting will obviously require a different marking strategy!

FOR HELP WITH USING FENG SHUI TO CLEAR…

See my subject by subject blog posts about clearing specific things, FORGIVENESS, LOVE, PHYSICAL AILMENTS etc.

WHAT IS MY FAVORITE FENG SHUI GUIDEBOOK?

Move your Stuff Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter is the most fun and easy book I have used so far.

AND NOW FOR MY SILLY BUT COMPELLING FENG SHUI TRUE STORY!

Okay so, when I was 6 months pregnant with Hayden my 3rd son, my ex had a good job in the software industry. I was grateful that I wouldn’t have to be seriously stressed about money with this final baby. For Christmas we flew from Austin to Vermont to spend Christmas with my family. I was very excited to be bringing my sister a family heirloom she had always coveted, our great grandmother’s antique mirror!

On New Year’s Day, I kid you not, in my mom’s living room in Vermont; my ex got a call from his boss saying he had been laid off! And oh by the way… they had gotten rid our insurance in July! No responsible adult would EVER take a trip half way across the country with a baby on the way and the knowledge that their job would be extinct upon their return! We had been personally paying the midwife monthly and had missed the lack of insurance clue to our impending doom!

Months passed with nooooo jobs on the horizon, the stress level rose in direct proportion to our dwindling bank balance. The day it hit zero I got in the tub to ponder our predicament and ended up on the phone brainstorming with my life long dear friend Suzanne. I remember saying to her that I didn’t understand what the cosmic job hold up was? We had aaaaall the right Feng Shui going on in our money gua: the color red in the rocking chair cushions, gold coins under the seat, the mirror over the fireplace….  OH GOD! I gave my sister the mirror over the fireplace for Christmas!

I hung up with Suzanne and yelled down to my husband to QUICK come upstairs. (My enormity at the time was not conducive to speed or agility.) I excitedly reminded him of how we had given my sister our mirror for Christmas and now all of our money chi/opportunity was flying out the chimney! Honestly, he looked at me like “what ever you say crazy pregnant lady.”

(He is a self proclaimed, agnostic extremist, he “doesn’t believe in anything” unless as it turns out, he finds it profitable to pretend he does : )

However, desperation breeds reluctant cooperation! Pleeeease go out to the garage and cut a piece of plywood to cover the opening of the fireplace, I begged! (I abstain from power tools past 6 months pregnant) By the time I got out of the tub, dried off and waddled down stairs he had blocked up the fireplace without a fuss. I started cooking dinner and later while I was putting the kids to bed. The phone rang … This time with a job offer! GOD’S HONEST TRUTH! And actually, that is how, and when, we came to meet Joe Vitale.

IN CONCLUSION:

Feng Shu-ing y0ur house is a fun game, even if you must suspend your disbelief in order to play! Having fun moves your chi in most auspicious ways for those of us desperately seeking auspiciousness! kids think its fun to do all the weird little things, like paint 7 stones blue and bury them outside in the missing corner of the missing Wisdom gua! Kids usually LOVE helping to move furniture! Kids still have fast and free moving chi!

At any rate Feng Shui will make you clean things up and change things up in extraordinary ways you would never have thought of with out having to keep the rules of a particular gua in mind! Remember for specific rules to help boost your clearing see my posts on specific areas and that is …

Feng Shui in a Nutshell!

More information has been requested on how to use Feng Shui to boost  Forgiveness. So, I have attached a copy of the revolutionary, handy dandy, color coded and numbered cheat sheet Ba Gua map I made myself, so you can follow along with the following suggestions easier!

Hmmm how can I get you a really good quality image to print? Well try printing this and let me know how it goes. If it stinks I will figure something else out.

If you are going for Forgiveness regarding someone you are, or more likely were, in a relationship with here’s what I would do…

1. FORGIVENESS SANDWICH: Perfect, whether or not, setting eyes on the person requiring forgiveness is bad for your chi. Tape a business card size Raspberry Healing Painting to the back of the photo of the as of yet unforgiven person and tape that behind a Strawberry Healing Painting for Love. Park your Forgiveness Sandwich in your Love Gua.

2. If it is Family related Forgiveness, don’t put the Forgiveness sandwich in the Family gua. There is too much white on my Healing Paintings. You could, however, put it in a shiny silver box in your Angels and Helpful people corner. Angels love pretty shiny things! Or wrap it in tin foil, less pretty, but still shiny.

3. If it’s work related Forgiveness you desire, it is safe to hide your Forgiveness sandwich somewhere in your Career Gua. It can be as small of a sandwich as you need to hide it under something, Strawberry business card size love Healing Painting-photo of the unforgiven-Raspberry business card Healing Painting. (Mixed sets of business cards size Healing Paintings are here  http://www.healingpainting.com/?cat=14 for this very purpose!

4. In general, make sure there is nothing NONauspicious lurking in the gua you are working on. For instance, garbage cans, guns, broken things, dirt/dust/cobwebs/dark/dank, swords/weapons, dead animals and messes, drain good energy out of… well most of the guas, but definitely Love and Family. On the upside weapons and swords ARE auspicious in your Fame and Reputation gua!

5. Remember to put the appropriate number in each gua in some way, 2 of things in the Love gua, 7 blue rocks (or 7 something), or the number 7 written on something (or under something), in the Wisdom gua; 3 white crystals in the Creativity gua etc… The right number supercharges the area!

Enjoy and Much Love,

Aimee

We are a few days away from this year being 2/3rds OVER! Fraction epiphany! September 1st we will enter the final third of the year and will have 121 days left in 2011 to accomplish whatever it is that you and I so decadently and optimistically desired in January.

So I ask you, are you feeling blessed beyond your wildest imagination in all of the major categories of your life? Love, Family, Work, Life Purpose, Money, Living Space, Spirituality, Creativity, Inner Peace, Health, Life Journey? And what do you want to create in the next 121 days? Please God let FORGIVENESS arrive long before 2012 does!

Perhaps my sweetheart Kevin is right? He lovingly calls me his chronovore (she who devours time) and his chronoptimist : ) These are very technical terms from the Urban Dictionary that sits on top of the magazines in our bathroom. The word chronoptimist describes those of us who think we can do far more than is actually possible in any given amount of time.

In the spirit of chronrealisim you are invited to join me in remembering what you had wanted out of 2011. It’s time to reconnect to our goals and refine our desires in light of where we are now after 227 ass kicking days of 2011.

Oooh… I think I’m feeling another vision board coming on. HUGE fan of cutting and pasting, HUGE! There are as many way as there are people with crafts supplies to define your desires. If scissors and glue do not light your fire, there is an old Greek custom of writing a prayer about your desires and then burning the paper to send the message up to the God/s in the smoke. You know what? Why not just plain write a letter to God and SEND IT! Why the heck not?

Ever Mind Mapped? They may have started out in corporate America but us right brainers know a good thing when we see it. Those things can take you to places you didn’t even KNOW were in your psyche! I find them especially entertaining when I go all SARK on them and use the full rainbow of colorful smelly markers!

Noelle Oxenhandler describes her journey to even allowing herself to “enshrine her desires” in her book A Wishing Year. The idea is that by making a shrine you have created space for your desire; you have made it real to your eyes and to your mind; and your mind is where the magic is supposed to be hiding, just waiting for you to ask it to come out and play.

A birthday box came for me in the mail today! (Thank you so much for the very cool karate kicking gingerbread man cookie cutters CJ!) And now my inner little catholic girl is going to make her birthday box into a shrine! Remember making shoe box dioramas in elementary school? It’s THAT only with THIS you have permission to fill the shoe box with your desires rather than a book report on hermit crab habitats. Here is a great link to primitive dioramas http://www.squidoo.com/shoebox-diorama

At my last house I didn’t really have anywhere to put a shrine, so I made one that hung from the ceiling in the Feng Shui love corner of my house in the form of a crazy tree branch mobile. It was my hanging shrine to love! And it actually worked : )

I even made a song for one of my desires, but thus far it has not worked : ( It may have been TOO silly? I took the song Fluffy Cat from the show Friends and sang Bigger Boobs… you get the idea. A shrine! That is probably just the thing…

So anyway, that is how I organize and focus my goals. How do YOU manage your thoughts and “put it out there”? Does it require rubber cement, walnuts or tapioca? I am curious…

Much Love,

Aimee

Listen to THIS!

Brenda (who I mentioned in a recent post on Forgiveness) just texted me the most amazing way to inch closer to Forgiveness!

She said, “Forgive him completely. It creates the space for change. It doesn’t make him right, it releases you from his wrongs.”

She’s GOOD huh?

This is one for super powered Ho’oponopono, Mornah’s version of the prayer…

“Divine creator, father, mother, son as one … If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness … Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light … And it is done.”

Remember to visualize the negative energy turning back to the bright white perfect light of God’s love. What you don’t hear much is that the most powerful part of ho’oponopono is the visualizing.

Much Love,
Aimee

1. RASPBERRY HEALING PAINTINGS!

2. RASPBERRY FOODS and DRINKS

3. RASPBERRY SOAP, BUBBLES, LOTION, LIP BALM

4. BLUE SOLAR WATER (scroll down for directions) to drink and bathe in

5. FORGIVENESS FOCUSED GROUP ENERGY CLEARING

6. VIOLET FLAME CD, Patricia Cota Robles

7. Little Soul and The Sun, Neale Donald Walsh

8. CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIES

9. Radical Forgiveness, Colin Tipping (I haven’t read it but this book was emphatically recommended)

10. FORGIVENESS THE SONG from the movie Just Friends! HILARIOUS!

New! 11. Use RASPBERRIES and FENG SHUI to boost your Forgiveness energy (see the Feng Shui blog post for specifics) AND I love the book Move Your Stuff Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter.

New 12. RASPBERRY FLOWER ESSENCE

New 13. The best revenge (when done with a clear pure heart of course) is to THRIVE despite what has happened to you and to even LOOK FOR ANY BLESSINGS that have come from it. New inner strength? Taking a new direction in life? New sense of empathy? What else?

-Perhaps make a gratitude list of those who have helped you in your hard time and the things you still have to be thankful for even if it is as basic as free flowing drains, a paycheck, your health, a functioning car, roof over your head, not having malaria : )

New 14. FRENCH MARTINIS! They require CHAMBORD which is Raspberry liquor!

New 15.  RASPBERRY FRUIT SALSA! So very very dreamy.

Chop fine: Raspberries, Strawberries, Plums and a kiwi. Mix in a table spoon or two of pineapple preserves.

Make or buy cinnamon tortilla chips: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix 1 tbsp of cinnamon and 1/2 a cup of sugar. Spray small tortillas with buttery nonstick spray and cut across them with a pizza cutter until you have a bunch of triangles. Place them in a single layer buttery side down on a cookie Tray.

Sprinkle with the sugar mixture. Spray with buttery nonstick spray and bake them until they are crispy. Keep making them until you have a big bowl full for scooping your salsa!

New 16. SHIFT OUT OF THE PAIN by reprogramming your self to not keep telling yourself the story over and over and over… We are in luck! Mantras work best while doing Ho’oponopono.

-See yourself in your mind’s eye. If you are not that creative envision a cookie cutter shape that represents you.

-See your pain energy being pulled out of you and going up to God to be transformed into pure white love light again. Then imagine the white light of God filling the empty space where the yucky energy was with the wonderful energy of love, empowerment and healing.

-Repeating empowering thoughts is best done while you are exercising, bouncing on the trampoline, after most people are in bed or all three.

New 17. On really, really, really bad days, take something to keep from biologically being waaaay over stressed. Stress is bad for you.

-My favorite is Calmazon from Amazon Herb Company, zero side effects.

-Happy Camper is excellent but you can’t take it too many days in a row or its rough on your kidneys and liver.

-Rescue Remedy

-I have Gaia Herbs Healthy Mood at the moment and it’s very good at chilling out the fight or flight adrenaline, burning skin, freaked, out hopeless frustrated, feeling.

And THAT is 17 and still going! Some serious and luckily some NOT! Please email me with more suggestions!

Much Love and Light,

Aimee

Does your inner Clint Eastwood wrestle with reaching for Forgiveness verses the excruciating alternative of being held captive by your hurt?

My inner Clint started squirming the minute the Universe announced we would be painting Raspberries for Forgiveness rather than Chamomile for Inner Peace like my brain had thought we were going to.

It turns out that a lot of you out there are also reaching in various states of desperation for Forgiveness and so I am exploring it further here. I will make a Forgiveness category and then we can keep collecting ideas for boosting Forgiveness.

There is power in the group effort also, (suggestion for boosting your Forgiveness #1) like if the the 100th Monkey thing were not science fiction it would be like that : ) So those of you who make your way here in the search for Forgiveness know you are tapping into an increasingly powerful group dynamic! Let the mass Forgiveness hysteria begin!

So it was a combination of the email response that flooded in and my Googling that inspired me to further explore the concept of the healing painting this time. This one was so clearly aimed at me that as soon as the raspberry painting was finished and hot off the scanner I started Googling Forgiveness. That is when I ran into a horrific article entitled Sociopaths Make Sociopaths! What a buzz kill. Reality really does bite sometimes, that title is just such a startlingly clear way to say it, or look at it.

It appears that unwittingly wrongdoers, and quite calculatedly sociopaths, begin a battle for your soul when you get really upset about something they have done. The rottenest part is that if you stay in agony about what has happened it hurts you more and that is what they want anyway maximum pain. So the question is, for those of us recovering from a sociopath, what is there to do when you feel hopeless against such LARGE pain?

As things go, I betcha most of the time we feel hurt by something someone did the other party has NO IDEA about their participation in our pain. The vast majority of the time I do imagine that is the case; but for those of us who have been affected by a sociopath, they on the other hand are fully conscious and calculated in what they are doing.

I really never thought I would meet a true sociopath and then one horrifying day I realized I was married to one and that being a sociopath might actually be the least of his problems. So how does a sociopath make sociopaths out of others? Well, if you have been hurt by a sociopath there is a big chance that you will end up just wanting to see him get what he has coming to him and God willing it will be horrific. Ut oh.. see right there? That’s the gotcha moment : (

And after you have been manipulated (because sociopaths are damaged and have no moral responsibility or social conscience), exploited (because you are just an instrument and opportunity to be used up), lied to (because sociopaths cannot tell truth from the complex beliefs they create to justify their actions), stolen from (because sociopaths have a false sense of entitlement), dominated (covertly with their superficial charm and sophisticated mental exhaustion techniques), and been stripped of all hope because they took the only thing that mattered to you, who can blame you?

How do we return humanity to such a foul creature? Try reading the children’s book The Little Soul and The Sun by Neale Donald Walsh. It can be a bridge back. Maybe try it right at a bookstore and only buy it if it works? The theory is that

EVERY ELECTRON NO MATTER HOW NEGATIVELY MANIPULATED

STILL RETAINS ITS CORE OF PURITY!

For the sake of my children’s future I would really like to believe that, heard it in a meditation recently. The Patricia Cota Roble Violet Flame CD. The 2nd of my 3 recommendations this post for boosting your Forgiveness. Personally, I’m in love with her Violet Flame CD right now; it brings me peace in these days of desperately seeking peace.

Just where oh where am I going with this ridiculously personally divulging not very pleasant rant? Hang in there this blog post ends on a positive feel good note. However, for a quick existential moment I propose we explore some really big questions that my 2-part religious upbringing has been battling out lately in my psyche. The first half of my childhood I was raised Catholic. The second half, my parents found Eckankar, which by mainstream standards is probably the far side of woo woo.

As you can well imagine, THAT left me with a bazillion questions that I have since read a bazillion books trying to answer. At the moment a huge part of me is rooting for the Catholic heaven and hell theory to pan out so my ex can burn, burn, burn for what he is doing to my kids BUT the woo woo side of me is horrified that I just had a thought like that and is wondering if it killed the butterfly in Japan who is causing the hurricane down south?

The woo woo side would like for me to be so radically evolved and Forgiving that I can transcend this horrific pain he has “caused” me. I know clean clean clean. I am a cleaning machine! Day and night, more than once I have caught myself while dead asleep doing Ho’oponopos in a dream!

I’ve Feng shui-ed my world to boost Forgiveness, guzzeled gallons of raspberry tea, prayed to the Gods, Buddha, Mary, Angels, my dead relatives and anyone else out there who cares to listen.  And I beseech these wise, wonderful dead folks to please answer one or preferably all of the following questions:

How much of what we go through was preplanned before our birth for some kind of specific spiritual growth?

Is there really karma? Or dharma? I can’t even remember what dharma is, I forgot.

If its one of the various and sundry forms of Christianity turns out to be true then what IS the explanation for all the seemingly senseless suffering, violent crimes and inexplicable tragedies?

How much of what is happening, I hear it called “experiential contracts” can be renegotiated?

If life truly is a “free will zone” what if life goes radically different (and negatively) than the scenario we originally agreed to? Then what?

Since these questions are LARGE and not likely to be answered until I am dead, what’s a girl to do? What magical thing shall I pull out of my hat so we can end this blog post uplifted rather than more confused, disappointed and hopeless than ever? Especially since the full moon is tomorrow and we are supposed to think only of what we are grateful for and open our hearts to miracles.

Well what am I grateful for? My children of course, to be loved by the most extraordinary man EVER and to be blessed that Brenda is my friend. I absolutely idolize her pure goodness. In fact I think I will put her picture on my all inclusive, cover my ass, altar to everyone wise and wonderful! (Brenda you know who you are : )

Since no one can ever really know how someone else feels on the inside, the inner workings of Brenda’s heart are a mystery to me; but having seen how she has handled her life for the past 5 or more years since we became friends, she has appeared to me to have the gift of an endless supply of Forgiveness.

Mooowa ha ha! Bet you didn’t think there was any possible bridge to the positive here but there is! Gratitude and appreciation! I am grateful for Brenda and deeply appreciate the many, many amazing qualities she is gifted with- relentless Faith and endless Love. It is her ability to practice extreme Forgiveness, however, that I am astounded by and aspire to. Perhaps relentless Faith and endless Love are the ingredients for the recipe of Forgiveness?

I wish in my case that my pain was just about my heart being broken in a relationship (hearts heal and new loves come along) or about material things having been stolen (there is that but I don’t care about stuff, more stuff always manages to come along). I wish this was no brainer type Forgiveness; but I have been wronged in the most personal, Clint Eastwood, see your loved ones suffer and lose your entire family, sort of way possible.

And so on this full moon I invite you to open your heart to miracles with me and light a candle to someone truly wise and evolved. I have lit a candle for my beautiful friend Brenda and send out to the universe my deep desire to be able to Forgive in the extreme manner she has over and over.

The thing I REALLY wonder is if deep deep down a sociopath secretly wishes they weren’t damaged and that they had a heart? I almost banged into compassion there for a sec when I would rather shine a light on one and see whose squirming then!?

Okay time for dinner, the love of my life cooked me an incredible dinner and the moon is nearly full : )

Happy Forgiving and much love,

Aimee

In the epic battle for Forgiveness there is an upside! It gives us license to indulge in (my father’s favorite) Raspberry filled cookies, (my new favorite) Arizona Raspberry Ice Tea  and decadent baths in raspberry bubble bath! My taste buds have no idea the rest of me is gluten intolerant so they dream of warm buttery croissants with home made raspberry jam!

And on my 13 hour car ride home to Taos from Austin a couple of days ago my sweet dog Jemma was VERY ill for 6 and 1/2 of those 13 hours (that became more like 15 hours), BUT, in the first 6 and 1/2 hours BEFORE she got so sick and we had to stop every half hour… I had a lot of inspiration! And one of those inspirations was to make Blue Solar Water Raspberry Sun Tea!

SUPER CHARGED RASPBERRY FORGIVENESS POWER!

OH! And it just dawned on me that some of THAT could go in our bathwater! Dr. Len says it only takes one drop of solar water to do the trick! My blue bottle is small so I am grateful for that fact but there must be bigger ones we can get on the Internet? Lemmee go look…

hmmm… it appears there is not much out there in the large cobalt blue glass jar world. I found one place and a good price, scroll down to the cobalt blue cookie jar http://jmcutlery.com/cookiejarsglass.htm. Oh, the bottled water company Tynant sells their water in a cobalt blue bottle, some grocery and specialty stores care their brand.

Here are the BLUE SOLAR WATER DIRECTIONS for those who have gotten here who aren’t on my mailing list! Welcome new comers!

BLUE SOLAR WATER

Set water in the sun in a cobalt blue GLASS bottle or jar for at least one hour. While solarizing use a nonmetallic cover of any sort, just something to keep the bugs out- a cork, a small plate etc.

Dr. Len told me God puts everything into the solar water that you need and you should just use tap water. He says the solarized holy water then has the extraordinary gift of being able to erase your negative programs, false belief systems, subconscious beliefs and harmful memories.

Maybel Katz writes in her book that Blue Solar Water brings peace and that bathing in it creates the space for ENORMOUS miracles! When we are reaching for Forgiveness it can certainly feel like its gonna take a miracle, so this is perfect.

I am going to go pour some in my healing puppy’s water dish right now.

Uses for Holy Solarized water include but are not limited to: drinking it straight, giving to pets and unsuspecting friends and family, watering plants, bathing, cleaning, using in your car, drinking while working around EMF’s and of course water color painting : )

If you think of more applications please write in! If you have a miracle PLEASE for God’s sake write in! We want to hear about it! Just the hearing can help expand our open heartedness for possibility!

Have a lovely day and much love,

Aimee

The newest Healing Painting is of Raspberries!  When I sat down to paint I thought it was time for Chamomile for Inner Peace but realized there can be no Inner Peace without Forgiveness. After all, Forgiveness is the entire foundation of Ho’oponopono!

Energetically, Raspberry essence heals Forgiveness; a thing which feels largely impossible right now for not just me it turns out.  Many emails have poured in from others who are ready to move past something that feels painfully unforgivable.

You are invited to share with me, and those who read this blog, stories of your Forgiveness triumphs, inspirations, suggestions and miracles.

It takes a new perspective to find peace so let’s clean on Forgiveness and see what happens…

The newest Healing Painting is of Raspberries!  When I sat down to paint I thought it was time for Chamomile for Inner Peace but realized there can be no Inner Peace without Forgiveness. Forgiveness is the entire foundation of Ho’oponopono!

Energetically, Raspberry essence heals Forgiveness; a thing which feels largely impossible right now for not just me it turns out.  Many emails have poured in from others who are ready to move past something that feels painfully unforgivable.

You are invited to share with me, and those who read this blog, stories of your Forgiveness triumphs, inspirations, suggestions and miracles.

It takes a new perspective to find peace so let’s clean on Forgiveness and see what happens…

This morning I woke up thinking about this blog for the first time since LAST June( a truth the date of my last entry reveals). What is really interesting is that I got out of bed to come make a post about something that happened yesterday and in my Email inbox was a comment from a reader! It is my first comment in many years! Synchronicity…

Thank You Poppy Scott for the new stretch mark ideas! I ended up finding 40,000 iu vitamin E oil, wow! A dear friend’s construction battered hands inspired me to make a healing salve that has worked great on his hands and on all of my non-stretch mark scars. They are pretty well gone and I haven’t even been slathering it on the recommended 4 times a day that in all honesty.

We love things with wheels at our house, scooters, skateboards, bikes you name it. However, my great love of a cool breeze blowing through my hair as I roll somewhere has resulted in waaaay more than my fair share of scars over the years : ) It’s a relief to have them nearly gone. And I really appreciate your ideas on things for healing my stretch marks too!

So another amazing healing thing I just learned is that one of Basil’s gifts to us is its ability to heal muscle cramping! Last night I was making Pesto for dinner after a long very uncomfortable day. I don’t do well with medicine from the drugstore, so I can’t be popping Midols willy nilly, which meant last night I was toughing it out until I could go to bed with my heating pad : ) The thing is I noticed after I ate my pesto I felt better!

So I looked up Basil in some of my herb books and they all agree that it has a long history of relieving muscle cramping.  So ladies “when the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie” have yourself some homemade pesto!

As a wheat intolerant Italian food lover I use Tinka Yada brown rice pasta. It is the only one I have found that sufficiently fakes out and blisses out my taste buds : ) Here is my recipe:

Healing Pesto

3 packages of Live Basil or 3 cups of garden Basil
1/4 cup of Pine Nuts
(click http://www.healingpainting.com/?page_id=27) to read about the incredible amazingness of pine nuts)
2 Garlic Cloves (or three if you like it to burn a little : )
1/2 a tsp of incredible salt like Himalayan
and 1/2 cup of Olive Oil

Zoom all the ingredients in your blender, pull off the cover, stick your nose in the pitcher and breathe in deeply! Ahhhhhhhh! Bliss. Luckily only 1 out of 3 of my sons likes pesto so we get to split the whole pitcher! It is yummy to chop up a little vine ripened tomato and throw that in on top, enjoy!

xo Aimee

Suzanne Burns (Joe Vitale’s Assistant) and I have been friends since we were very little. Every time we talk on the phone she says “oh my God you have to blog about that!” Then I totally forget : ) But she’s right! I DO come across the coolest things! And she swears people would want to know so here I go. I will start with what I was gonna call her about today but you will need the over all gory details…

OK, so in the beginning of last summer I crashed head first into my Upper Limits! (Add that to the list of Healing Paintings! I need to paint) I was feeling this incredible gratitude for how amazing my life was. I get to paint for a living, I have three loving, healthy, amazing sons; I live in a sunny place, in a lovely home. Aside from constant chronic migraines, life was good!

A few minutes later while my 5 year old son Hayden and I were riding scooters, the front wheel of mine got caught in a gauge in the road and I was thrown over the handle bars! Baaaaad road rash. I deeply lost skin and flesh on my right shoulder, right knee, both wrists and parts of both feet. I just sat there like a little kid on the side of my tub while my brave wonderful son Ethan cleaned my wounds up!

A month later as I walked into Whole Foods an agave plant gutted my shin for lack of a better visual, a 10 inch long, deep cut, blood EVERYWHERE! Now a year later I still am pretty scarred up.

And finally, at a really fun “Hop Along dinner party” Saturday night! My friend Jessie, who receives my Clearing Cards complimented me on this week’s card, which is JOY. We started discussing our new deepening experience of Joy and the 101 ways in which our lives have become Joyful! I was gushing with gratitude at being so full of Joy about nothing in particular! Heads Up!

I got home at midnight. Ethan (12, wound dresser extraordinaire) rushed up to me very excited about the long board he had just made with a family friend while I was out! Still in my very pretty dres,s and now barefoot I said “let’s go give it a whirl! I just wanna try it for 2 seconds…”

I THOUGHT it was flat in front of my house but its NOT. The board was wobbly and not like the old skateboards I was used to. The speed was way too much and I went FLYING! I hit my head HARD on the pavement, took even MORE skin off my right shoulder this year and demolished my hand. THE ONE I PAINT WITH.

Once we got home and Ethan got my boo boos cleaned up AGAIN, I went to bed.  At 2 am the friend of mine that Ethan had texted before I fell asleep, arrived.  He had brought with him (Mister Always Prepared Himself) AMAZING vitamin E oil 40,000 IU’s! (Which is what I had called Suzi about)

This stuff is INCREDIBLE! It’s 40,000 iu’s of pure magic! Last year’s scooter and Whole Foods scars are going away! So I have great hope for this year’s scars!  It’s from Nature’s Plus. We Austin people can get it at Sun Harvest. My friend said he’s been using it for years on various scars and that his girlfriend was able to get rid of her OLD stretch marks from having FOUR children! That is impressive. We are only on Tuesday and my attack of the killer agave plant scar is half as dark as has been all year!

Ok so that whole story was about the amazing Vitamin E oil in case I was too off my convoluted rocker. And I am NOT selling it which must be refreshing : ) Just passing on the news that after trying EVEYRTHING for scars there truly is something that can make them go away.

And what is the remedy for crashing head long into your Upper Limits just when things are better than ever before??? I am HOPING to GOD that its this new book Conscious Loving that we are doing in my women’s book group Gay Hendricks says subconscious programming is responsible for our upper limits setting… sound familiar?

So carefully manifest the life of your dreams while also clearing out things like “If life gets too amazing I have to wreck it” and “Without pain I cannot learn my spiritual lessons.”  That flavor of beliefs is what makes our self sabotage so successful! Those and more are the latest sort of gnarly insights I have been clearing this week.  Its time to muscle test and find out what odd beliefs might keep you from being in intense Joy and clear what stands in your way before you bite it in some regretful way.

Email me if that sounds daunting and we can ponder together what your core issue might be.

Please leave me your thoughts and have a lovely night!

Much Love, Aimee

My apologies to everyone who has ordered a calendar for all of the unforeseen technical difficult that have made 2009 calendars such a challenge to produce!

They are THIS close to going in the mail. The art and layout were done in October! And I already had my great printer from last year so this was VERY unexpected.  Reprinting my very colorful watercolor paintings is extremely complicated. Color matching  is nearly impossible and so last year’s printer without warning decided to charge me more than double what he charged last year! I found a new printer, got into the project and then they announced they couldn’t have the calendars done for me for a long time as they are too busy with the holidays!

Finally I found a printer who could color match AND get them to me in a reasonable time. I love love love my new printer! His patience and color correcting skills are positively endless! : ) He told me we would print yesterday but the giant printer machine BROKE! I kid you not.

It has been like THIS! Unreal, I had to laugh. I mean it’s either that or cry, which cannot be ruled out until the last package has fallen into the big blue mailbox : )

Any spare prayers Hawaiian or not are VERY welcome. Cross your fingers and wish on a star, they will go out Monday!

Much Love and Many Apologies,

Aimee

Thanksgiving is ALMOST here!

How did that happen? I can’t believe that it’s already time to start thinking about how we’re going to decorate and celebrate!

A day designed around gratitude and eating feels like the perfect way to usher in the holidays!  I ADORE Thanksgiving and have very grand delusions of being possessed by the spirit of Martha Stewart once a year.

Remember the rule is that once your leftovers are gone, then you have to do your Christmas cards : ) I have 6 designs this year not including the Siberian Cedar Pine and encourage wanton mixing it up of orders! Just email me your wants, needs and desires. To choose cards cut and paste this URL into your browser. My favorite is the Christmas tree covered in all the little ornaments that are things from my other paintings!    http://www.healingpainting.com/?cat=7

And Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Much Love,

Aimee

A brand new book by Jennifer McClean comes out tomorrow November 11th 2008 called The Big Book of You and one of my Healing Paintings is in it!
 
You can click this link to take a look at it. The Big Book of You is Jennifer’s treasury of healing tools she has amassed on her spiritual journey. She describes in intimate detail strategies for clearing your blocks to health, wealth and happiness alongside gorgeous artwork. There are over 30 full color photographs and poems that explore the dark and celebrate the light of life!

Jennifer was able to capture enormous spiritual principals, often as stories, so big concepts become much easier to “get”. It is just so exciting to be a part of her book and to get to experience her powerful Teleseminar Series!

The Teleseminar Series begins Saturday November 15th! And when you buy her book you get the Teleseminar Series FREE! You would not believe who she has lined up for her calls – Joe Vitale! Meg Blackburn who wrote The Children of Now! Sonia Choquette! Gregg Braden! And Eric Pearl of the Reconnection!

Enjoy!

Much Love and Light,

Aimee Rousseau

Yes! There will be 2009 calendars! They are at the printer’s as we speak! It was SO nice having the whole year to work on it this year! Last year one afternoon in the middle of December a friend asked me if I was ever going to make a calendar of my art?

I loved the idea! Thought it would only take a few minutes, got busy on it before we had even hung up and was awake for the rest of December straight before it was done! LOL!

It was worth it though. Hope y’all like this year’s calendar as much as last year’s! It has recieved rave reviews so far! (From my friends and family who have no problem with being brutally honest God love em : ) 

The order page will be up on my site in the next few days!

Much Love,

Aimee

So stress is a choice. I just got it!  And am now ALL DONE with it.

Cause the reality is I will get there when I get there.

I will get it done when I get it done and what ever will happen will happen.

Me freaking out about it along the way does NOT make anything go better and is an enormous waste of my energy.

As long as a person is seriously using their highest quality effort then that is all there is to be done.

Heard it a million times over the years but today is the day all of the cells of my being deeply GOT it.

Let’s hope they can hold onto it!

Let’s have a Ho’oponopono for stress… cause tag you’re it! Now its on your radar : )

Muwah ha ha,

Aimee

“I’m a what?”

“A catalyst.” Perenna announced thru the phone. (The wise and wonderful Perenna Fleming)

“What’s that and since when?” My cell phone was threatening to fly out from between my ear and shoulder, and not losing either of my wandering sons as we “rushed” into the pediatrician’s office to have school forms filled out was not going well. Rushing is a ridiculous thing for a mother to even attempt. I am pretty sure it actually slows things down.

“Being a catalyst means that where ever you go people’s experiential pot gets stirred up. You make things HAPPEN. Not because of anything you say or do, but because of an energy frequency you emit. You tell me. Think about how far back you can remember this happening?”

My stomach turned over; my head felt dizzy; and I got goose bumps from head to toe.

Oh Good Lord. She was right. And from that moment on, in the doorway of Central Family Practice, that I first became conscious of what is now known as “The Aimee Effect” I felt that being a catalyst was a bad thing. And since we attract what we feel you can imagine how that went for me : ) Everywhere I went this energy brought up for people not the most pleasant stuff. EVENTUALLY what ever came up became a blessing, but at first it did not appear as such.

Friends would say things like how after spending the afternoon with me they suddenly felt the over whelming urge to call their EX who had caused them so much hurt and they spent 4 hours on the phone during which they resolved 20 years of marital pain they hadn’t wanted to deal with! A yucky at first miraculous blessing in disguise.

THEN I got the brilliant idea to strike up a deal with God. “Hey God, if I am meant to be a carrier of this Catalyst thing WHAT IF I could be a catalyst for beautiful things happening!?! Miraculous Things even? How about that God?” THAT would be a whole lot more fun I thought. God said, “all you had to do was ask, little lady.” He likes to do impersonations. I am not kidding. Obiwan Kenobi is a favorite. He spoke like Obiwan Kenobi ALL one summer. It keeps things interesting : )

And so this new phase of being a catalyst began! It’s still brand spankin new with the new year and is SO much fun I now know exactly what it means to be tickled pink!

My very first AMAZING CATALYST experience began at Dr. Phyllis Book’s Holiday Shopping Party where I had a table of my art for sale. I shared said table with a wonderful girl by the gorgeous name of Geneve Gil! We were meant to be, her and I; total soul sisters! The amount of synchronicites we experienced that night would asound you and take many many pages to describe. She is an incredibly talented girl. She paints and makes gorgeous beaded jewelry and sings ancient songs from India professionally. She had also been a poet but had been in dry spell for almost 2 years. Until the night we met… : )

I just recieved an email from her saying that it was meeting me and hearing me talk about my new blog Spiritual Magpie, and why a magpie, and what magpies are like, and how I am like one, and the whole vibration of that night, and all she experienced from me as a person. (I never mentioned the catalyst bit mind you.) She said that all of that is what inspired the incredible poems you see posted below!

She told me these Magpie poems just came sailing out, just tumbling out, fully-formed! AND its perfect cause she has been experiencing extraordinary bird mysticism for months very powerfully and perisistently! I was so thrilled to finally be a catalyst for something 100% wonderful I asked her if I could post her poems and she agreed! So enjoy!

Magpie Poem I
I hear a magpie cry
a haunting lullaby
appealing to me for a spark of beauty
to adorn the sky.

Magpie Poem II
I hear the magpie sigh,
her song of love
a warbling cry,
wingtips nestled deep into her breast, her beak
audacious high.

Wings
torn from the menu torn from
the heart.
call an angelfly, tell
her open, give me wings, they feel
to grow like potato spuds between
my shoulders and there’s aching there
where they should be
should I be free. open
wings of fine feather swan,
bead of a black hard eye upon my
shoulder cold and steady
am I ready?
can I sing? open
wings
of fire sweeping rush
waters over boulders wild
and screaming
can I breathe? open your mouth
let the lozenge burn your tongue
close your eyes and be surprised
it isn’t gone
rock
and rock
and cradle your aching breast
swing into rest
and swoon
am I too soon? open
wings of flame
a fiery breath of spirit, spit, blood
curdling cry
talons razor embers
scarring blindly outraged
in every way, globally, a sphere of
lightening white hot, bolting blinding
charring and unfolding
wings
of black to black
out the night
in flight.

Geneve Gil 2008

This morning Hayden, my 4 year old, woke up first. I opened my eyes, gave him a kiss and asked him what he wanted to do today since its a holiday.

“What holiday?” He asked.

“New Year’s Eve!” I replied.

“What’s that?”

Uhhhh… how do you explain New Years to someone who has no concept of time yet? And then it hit me how he would get it!

“It’s Life’s Birthday!” I told him. OH! His eyes lit up! By the age of 4 little suburban children have a firm grasp of the birthday concept. So at our house this year its Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday Everyone!

To celebrate the New Year (which happens to be one of my very FAVORITE holidays) becoming 2008, 8 being my favorite number, I created a calendar cram packed with my art for 2008!

It was a VERY last minute inspiration that turned out amazing!  So go check it out; the page for it is finally up on www.healingpainting.com! We put the design for each of the months up there instead of being all mysterious and only showing people the cover : ) OH and the wonderfully patient guy who printed the calendars up for me was able to get me not only holidays but moon phases too! Before this I was unaware that moon phases are NOT a calendar given. 

So enjoy! Cause as holidays go New Year’s Eve definitely has some of the cooler customs going for it.  You just can’t beat fireworks! Well at least here in texas where even the toddlers will be blowing things up : ) We do like our explosives here. Stands open christmas night! I’m not sure anyone even knows that the reason we blow things up on New Year’s Eve is because they were used to symbolize something unpleasant the lighter of the explosive had the intention of releasing into the light! Can’t think of a better way of releasing the negative than blowing things up into bouquets of lights in the night sky!  Things like this are what makes earth the soul destination that it is, fire works and kissing,  pyramids and chocolate, pizza and babies …

AND its the only day we actually have sort of designated for thinking for 5 seconds about what we’ve done with our lives over the past 12 months. Its the one day we wake ourselves up from the slumber of our overwhelm and take a conscious look around, make some new intentions, changes and decisions about what we want.  As a mom and a scrapbooker tho my favorite part of New Years is that its a moment meant for  swimming around in the extraordinary memories, feelings and experiences of 2007 that I am most grateful for!

I wish for YOU a 2008 that is an exquisite place to skinny dip in your awe inspiring experiences!  : )

Happy Birthday!

Love Aimee

Blogging is a brave thing to do. I didn’t realize it was going to require bravery until I sat down to write my first post. It’s just such a very naked thing of the enormous commitment variety, parking my words on the internet so publicly and permanently.  There’s all this pressure to be wise and interesting that makes me go blank : )I still haven’t embraced the modern technology of dishwashers and microwaves. I can just barely use a cell phone. So this whole Blog thing is a big old stretch and a half.  In the car I can think of 85 fascinating things to write about, but 6 lanes of Austin highway are are not a great place to take notes.

And lately all of my noteworthy moments feel like they are so elementary that they would best be followed up with a dramatic 4th grade style duuuuuuh anyway. I should NOT be feeling like just before my 16th and final meeting with my life coach. To realize I have had ZERO sales since I had seen her last week is shocking and horrifying! Final meeting-ZERO sales; not good. Her whole deal is about helping your life taking off! I’d had 16 sessions so HELLO?

Her whole deal is helping you ramp up your life by helping you find out what ”lights you up”. You are then meant to go off and do great things! LOTS of what ever it is that lights you up even if its eat chocolate and stand on your head. What ever it is, go do lots of it and the joy of it will get your chi flowing so that opportunity and abundance will pour into your life!

Ironically, since my first meeting with her most of my homework has been horrifically left brained stuff that keeps nice little clueless business owners from sharing a jail cell with Willy Nelson. One 12 month filing system and an eternity of Quick Books later I was down to zero sales. It didn’t seem fair. I had busted my ass for my business but had thoroughly killed my spirit in the process.  No lights what so ever, dark as midnight in the middle of nowhere. So I wrote a letter to my angels. (I have a mailbox for the angels.)  Angel mailboxes are a Feng Shui thing.

Angels look for their mail from you in the most rightest handedest corner of your house as you stand in the threshhold of your front door. Feng Shui wise that most southeastest of corners is your Angels and Helpful People corner. 8000 Years of Chinese science says so. The mailbox needs to be silver, BUT, they luckily aren’t fussy if it’s your kid’s latest shoe box lovingly wrapped in tinfoil. You can ask for help with 3 things that you need help with in the next 3 days to 3 weeks. The kicker is you have to write the notes as thank you notes for already having received what ever it is you’re asking for. It gets your mind basking in the gratitude of having whatever it is you want as you describe the depths of your gratitude and the ways in which it has made your life sooooooo wonderful!

So, all of my focusing on procedure manuals, organizing my office and data entry had left me literally lifeless.  I needed to ask the universe for a new way of doing things that would allow me to have inspiration back. Having no idea what my life would look, or how it could be possible for me to accomplish all of my left brained business requirements and still feel inspired with time to paint and be a mommy made writing a super descriptive thank you note to the universe full of gratitude and adjectives tricky, to say the least. Didn’t want to put any limits on the universe ya know.

We hear so often that God always wants more for us than we can conceive of. So, the trick was how to verbalize being open for what ever divinity had in mind. It went something like …“I am so grateful for how you have helped me to evolve to a place where I am open to amazing new opportunities to help all facets of my life, inspiration and business flow easily, abundantly and joyfully.” Vague yet specific, sorta : )Angel mail mailed, I headed off to meet my coach at Spider House.  We talked for 45 minutes and finally she said “wow no lights for you at all huh?”

I told her a few things I thought I wanted, but it turns out that the things your brain thinks you want generally aren’t the things that your heart and soul ACTUALLY desire. Sorry Charlie no lights for brain ideas and no lights-no chi. Brains are so over rated. I spent my whole life cramming as much into my brain as I could, as fast as I could, in an effort to prove my self worth; all to have it turn out that spiritually speaking  noisy, busy, brains overflowing with information are the #1 thing that keep us from hearing God and spiritually evolving, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

“Let’s talk about painting big originals,” she said… DING DING DING DING! Lights flickered. “And about having an Open House ZING! ZING! ZING! ZING!!! “Okay,” she said “so when can I expect to see an invitation to your open house in my mailbox?” Now we were getting somewhere. I FELT different! I hadn’t allowed myself to even imagine I could JUST paint and have someone else take care of the left brained stuff. I got all excited about designing a gorgeous invite and painting huge grapes and trying out acrylics for the first time!!! And then it was time to say good bye. We were standing outside about to head to our cars when I told her about the letter I had put in my angel mailbox before I left asking for new doors to open. I said it looked like this was my new door.

Just then a baby blue Volkswagen bug zipped behind Dana. I made a shocked face and she looked questioningly behind her. (LONG, long ago I set up with the universe that a baby blue beetle bug means YES and a black beetle bug means NO, as a way to communicate. You can set up anything you want with the universe pink elephants, hot air balloons… Told her what silver VW bugs meant and she got the chills. I went home and two sales had come in : ) Found something I had designed years ago that would make the perfect invite, people were calling and emailing with opportunities. Suddenly the chi was moving again! Opportunities in ALL areas of my life have poured in since Tuesday it’s AMAZING! The moral of the story is JOY. Take it, make it, fill your life with it! Let your heart be your compass like Captain Jack Sparrow’s compass in Pirate’s of the Caribbean.

Joy makes the chi flow and chi is life. Eat that Hershey Bar, wear your favorite outfit even if your kids think you look like a clown, swing really high, go somewhere you’ve never been before, paint giant grapes, manifest romance, stop talking yourself out of having what you really want and go get it. And then bask in your gratitude for the miracles that follow.

Mucho Grande Love a la Mode, Aimee

“Soooooo what would you like to name your blog? “ Nikki asked me the morning she began to build it. “Uhhhhhhhhhh.” I went completely blank. Sent her the image files she needed one after the other but could NOT come up with a name, not even a terrible one, just nothing. I tried all of my creativity stimulating tricks. I went for a drive, jumped on the trampoline, drank orange juice, asked my boys to brainstorm with me. BIG mistake

The day zoomed by and in the late afternoon an email popped up saying “check out what I have so far.” And there it was Spiritual Magpie! I LOVED it! It was SO perfect with my bird paintings and all. “I only meant it as a place holder,” she explained. But I had already clicked over to Google and was knee deep in the lore of magpies…

Turns out magpies are meant to be a heads up about oncoming crucial spiritual transitions. Ted Andrews wrote in Animals-Speak that when you see a magpie its time to ask yourself some serious spiritual questions. Like do you have spiritual knowledge that you aren’t using? And if you do have spiritual knowledge that you are using is it in a responsible and effective way? Magpies earned this reputation hundreds of years ago for building their nests in the forks of trees. The forks of trees have traditionally been seen as doorways to other realms, which is how magpies came to represent an imminent shift in consciousness.

HOW INSPIRED IS THAT?! She could have chosen ANY bird flamingo, blue footed booby. Instead she wrote magpie; the only creature who according to legend would not get IN Noah’s ark. The pair of magpies apparently rode on top. They are birds with a will of their own. They steal pretty shiny things and are very curious. EVERY single time I ask the universe where to find what ever it is I need I am given something more amazing than I ever could have come up with, or imagined myself.

So thank you Miss Nikki for spending too many hours to count building this gorgeous blog for me to babble in And for listening to the ZING of divine inspiration when it sent you the perfect name! May Spiritual Magpie live up to its namesake’s reputation for being a harbinger of significant advancements in our spiritual evolvement!