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Your Life Wants to Get Your Attention

1/13/2017

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How do you know how to navigate through your life?

Is it by chance, fate, by sheer force of will? Do you make decisions from logic, intuition, or from faithful practice?

I tend to have weird/wonderful spiritual events that predict monumental changes in my life. They show up at the oddest times, in the most unconventional ways, but they are always a jaw-dropping experience.

Take, for instance, the moment my father died.

I knew it the minute it happened. We were driving to the airport en route to see him for his birthday; he'd been sick and wasn't expected to live much longer.

I was quietly contemplating life when I felt a whoooosh travel through the center of my body, as if steam was coming off of my torso. I turned to my husband and calmly, yet confidently, told him: "Dad just died."

After we'd landed hours later, it was confirmed that at the moment of my experience, my father had, indeed, passed away.

When I became pregnant with my third child, the other two were only 3 years and 14 months old, so I wasn't exactly excited about another pregnancy so soon...until I heard a statement so loud and clear in my head, I couldn't deny it:
"This baby is meant to be here because in two years your life will be drastically different."

I accepted the message as fact because it wasn't anything I'd made up. It also helped me relax about having another baby (miraculously, it did not send me into panic-mode about my future!).

And two years later--almost to the day--my husband's secret life was exposed, which threw our future into a new trajectory.

And my spiritual events only intensified.

For months I was in grief, but I also felt carried by something outside of me. I heard encouraging words whispered in my ear, and I felt tangible guidance lifting me out of bed and walking me down the hall when I had little strength to do so on my own.

I knew that I was being looked after by a Presence I couldn't see, but could feel and hear.

Years after moving to a new state, and months after ending another relationship, I began sensing male energy in my home. I knew "he" was safe, kind, and loving, but I had no idea who he was, or why he was becoming an almost permanent fixture in my life.

Four years later, the puzzle pieces came together when a man from my past shared his experiences of "being" in my home, even though he lived 3,000 miles away. He accurately described my house in full detail--a place he had never seen.

Why do these wild and crazy experiences happen, you ask? And why are they transmitted to me like this?

Your guess is as good as mine, because I can't make this shit up. And if I hadn't experienced it, I may not believe me, either. I understand if you're feeling a bit skeptical right now.

But I've learned to trust these unusual experiences because they have become a constant in my life. I am sensitive to this form of communication, which means I'm more apt to hear it.

The messages appear out of nowhere and everything in my body knows them to be true. I respond as if the messages are being delivered by a trusted friend, even when I'm baffled about the wild and goofy ways they got my attention.

They've taught me to trust a benevolent force, they've guided me toward necessary changes, and they've offered epiphanies and lessons about my life.

And I am once again reminded of how beautifully we are being looked after, guided, and loved.

I happen to believe that my experiences are all about communing with God, but you may have another name for it: the Universe, Mother Nature, aliens--whatever you believe to be at the center of this beautiful, crazy and vast world.

What is the language you hear or respond to best? In what ways is your life trying to get your attention?

Trust your intuition; believe that coincidences are meant to be gifts for your happiness and well-being; and know that you receive messages in the best way you can hear them.

So pay attention to those messages, no matter how whacky they seem, or in whatever form they appear.

They might just change your life. 



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MRI, Claustrophobia, and Coaching

12/7/2016

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Six months ago I had an MRI and my reaction to it surprised me, so when the need for a repeat MRI came up this week, I felt a bit apprehensive.

I didn't know that I was prone to feeling claustrophobic, unless, of course, I was completely bound up inside of something, feeling like I couldn't escape. As the youngest of eight kids, I was used to play that sometimes got out-of-hand, so feeling nervous about confined spaces was a no-brainer.

But an MRI machine? Naaaaah.

Especially since I am usually more intrigued by medical procedures than afraid of them (thank you, 26 years of Nursing!). Lying on a gurney while the technician strapped a plastic sheath over my abdomen was fascinating. But as the machine slowly guided me inside the tube, my heart began to beat wildly and my breathing followed suit.

So when the gurney stopped moving, I felt relieved. My head was under the opening of the machine from my nose to my forehead so I could easily look around me. I didn't feel confined at all so my breathing and heart returned to their normal rates.

But toward the end of the 16-minute procedure, the gurney lurched forward as I went further inside. My head was now completely enclosed by the machine and my heart and breathing went bananas again.

I felt tempted to squeeze the rubber ball they'd given me. It was the "panic button" that was meant to be compressed if I wanted out.

Yes, I wanted out, but I also wanted this procedure done, so I lay still as my heart, breath, and body continued its subtle display of panic. I almost started to cry.

Then it was over.

Safely outside of the machine, I was surprised that a mere few inches determined whether or not I felt claustrophobic. If my nose to my forehead was exposed, I felt okay, but once my entire head was enclosed, I no longer felt relaxed.

So as the date for the second MRI approached, I was quietly coming unglued. I imagined a repeat panic, the discomfort of my body, and coming close to tears.

But when I was strapped to the gurney for the repeat MRI--my breathing already starting to escalate--I decided to practice what I teach my clients.

I reminded myself that my thoughts of panic weren't necessarily true, even though my body had responded that way during the previous exam. This time, I could choose to feed a new reality.

Instead of remembering how uncomfortable I'd felt the previous time, I could imagine something better.

So I did. I hummed in tune with the Christmas music playing through the headphones they'd given me to drown out the clicking and clanking of the large magnetic machine, and imagined my upcoming week, complete with details about what I had to do each day.

Sixteen minutes sped by.

Then the machine stopped working. I was taken out of the tube, hopeful that I would be told to get dressed and go home, but ten minutes later, I was back in.

Again, I summoned my imagination. And again, I thought of good things, happy things, Christmas-y things. A few minutes later when the machine guided my head completely into the tube, my heart and breathing kept their steady pace.

And NO part of me began to panic.

I even opened my eyes (because I had to test my "experiment"!) and all I could see was the inside of the machine. I couldn't see any light, nor any part of the room--the same room I could look around just minutes before.

And I felt fine.

It reminded me that our thoughts always, always control our behaviors, and those behaviors control our actions. Had I continued to think dreadful thoughts about the exam, my heart and breathing would've "behaved" differently, and my actions would have led me to escape or cry (or maybe worse?).

Try this experiment, yourself:

The next time you feel your emotions rising--whether you're in an uncomfortable exam, a disagreement, or a long Christmas line full of impatient shoppers--remember to think about your situation with a more positive slant. Then watch how you behave (better, I hope!).

That behavior will prompt your actions, which will mostly likely take you to a much different outcome.

Try it, then let me know if you experienced a break-through--even just a small one.



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    After being raised in the mid-west, I migrated south for high school (with a year in Brazil) and college, and ventured west for a long marriage (and later, divorce)...and eventually landed in the northwest--my real home. Sigh. 

    I am a Teacher, Healer, Single Mother, Nurse, Coach, Columnist, Artist, Author, Traveler, Motivator...eager to share myself with you. 

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