I believe that when we ask, we are always answered; that is the law of attraction.  Law of attraction says that all your thoughts, all images in your mind, and all the feelings connected to your thoughts will later manifest as your reality and your reality is your perceived reality or what your perceived truths are. In other words; everything you have in your life - now - has been attracted to you thru your mind and what you believe is true. That is the circle of life; a connection of give and receive and we are all connected to it and each other. We never know the effects of our actions as explained through the butterfly effect, karma, Cause and Effect etc. What I want all of us to know is we are connected even though we do not know the how and why of how we are. The truth is: we can only know our effect by knowing ourselves and where we give from. It starts with one. It starts within.

I called my friend and asked for forgiveness. I had acted unkind to my friend because I had been unkind to myself. I allowed myself to harm someone I loved because I did not feel worthy of love. I would never have said what I did if I first did not believe it about myself. I was extending out from where I was and it was not a good place to be and give from.

5^th Epiphany: Stopping the abuse we do to ourselves is the key to peace. You have to have faith in your ability to create from a place of feeling good. When you do not love yourself,

you do not see others as worthy because you do not feel worthy. You extend that feeling of unworthiness out and create more feelings of unworthiness. Peace starts with me and I now know that. I made a promise to myself:  I will honor myself and others by knowing where I am coming from. I will use loving words and ask for forgiveness when I forget and let go of the mistakes created by others ignorance and inability to see their power as I have asked them to forgive mine. I will forgive myself and know I am holding on to the pain which creates anger that does not serve me and holds me in bondage. Words are powerful and I will respect this gift of love and give it away and when I forget, I will ask forgiveness and forgive myself as I learn about honoring me. I will know my power so others can know theirs. I will love me so others can love who they are and I will honor me so others can honor who they are. Words are my choice spoken and my choice is powerful when given consciously with love by first knowing, loving and honoring me.

Plates with words are the tools I was inspired to give to others. I know why I am here. I am a simple girl, playing with mud and believing in the power to save this world one plate at a time because it starts with this simple fact: it starts with me. What am I willing to give? I am the vessel I receive into and if it is unstable I do not allow good to be received.  I also give from that instability and can affect from that place. I am my function and dysfunction.

Every great teacher or program has taught us to go within. There are some great programs out there but we all have big walls based on years and generations of unconscious thinking. Nothing can do what I cannot or will not be for me. My truths and my perceptions which make up my reality are mine and yours are yours. While our realities and experiences can be different our need to know, love and honor good is the same. We all seek peace and it is within.

I needed to get behind my walls and receive what I needed from my higher consciousness to cure the issue of fear and replace with faith. There are so many unknowns and I have to find my peace within the great unknown and you have to find yours. It is about relationship and it is personal because you will see this world differently through the synchronistic events that will help you on your path as I have on mine. This book is filled with my stories of inspiration, the synchronicities that touched my soul and moved me further into a relationship with something greater. I also include stories and quotes from great teachers that taught me to see the truth in more than one way to be. My intention is to awaken anyone to their gifts so they will open to their truths and learn to drive from knowing, loving and honoring their gifts to do so and will be available and open to view their own synchronistic events. To know what cannot be known by following the signs along the way that have meaning to us. We need to be open to them and know that we are loved.

I built my walls and only I can dismantle them and only you can tear down yours. I will fix my walls so you can fix yours and share my journey with you and all that I learned along the way.  I am doing for me and you by giving these words I am inspired to write and creating tools to be used and honored to inspire you to know, love and honor your truth.  I believe we are all here together with all our differing beliefs and together we can all make a difference and save our souls by getting us out of the hell of not knowing love and feeling good and safe within our own selves.

 I am reminded of how lost we are, when I connect to the collective consciousness by watching the news or reading a newspaper. I know how it feels to be at the mercy of some ones choices and I fight the desire to resist it and fall within it and start the horrible cycle of judgment. I feel that horrible and wasted sensation of fear and close down my feelings by pointing at others to protect myself from the feeling of being out of control and unconsciously start a cycle of self abuse. This creates a subconscious fear of me and I go to great lengths to avoid what I cannot run from…me. I do not think I am alone and I want us all to know:

1.      You are not alone.

2.      Your desire for peace within yourself is very evident…We are all searching.

3.      We are reacting to the views of others…We all feel powerless.

4.      Breaking old emotional habits require attention to our intention… We all need tools.

5.      Learning how to co-create requires a faith in oneself as well as in the powers of the unseen world…We lack faith.

I am still calling this I Love ME Diet. Finally, diet is a perfect word.  I cannot even begin to tell you the many times I have started something and never finished, to start again and only accomplish feeling like a failure. I was searching for the right fit, the right something to teach me and know my worth. The truth is: no one or nothing can tell you your worth without your permission. This is what I found and so will you: I am worth more than even I know. Diet is actually perfect for the beginning of a journey- A journey to you and the old you, your debilitating fears and your old habits are going to die off so a new you can be all you can possibly be.  You will be different but the same. You will awaken to your power and journey within to discover your purpose: to be all that you can choose to be and embrace a world of possibilities. You are the beginning and the foundation that everything will be built upon. I am my beginning and my foundation that all can build upon and together we can move mountains.

We have always possessed everything we will ever need. We are perfectly created and our whole purpose in life is the process of getting to know, love and honor who we are. We all need and desire a relationship with ourselves first. We cannot avoid ourselves. Heaven knows we have tried. So…the old way of thinking must die. That is why you are here. You are searching. You will search forever until you find you. The truth is you have never been lost; just not known, loved and honored by you.

The truth is: there is a greater love in you and all around you. It is in every one of us and it never leaves us just wants to be known, loved and honored. It is the vibration of this world of possibility and greatness. That is the need, the thirst that you feel, to be one with that vibration, the one you were born into. This is a spiritual journey, not a physiological journey to be managed by something outside of us. You are a spiritual being having a human experience and nothing can define you but you and you were given a great opportunity to allow this greatness to be one with you. That is what I learned and what you know too. It starts from within. It starts with you… everything starts with you and your choice. We are searching for the authentic us. Our purpose has always been to know our spirit and have our spirit know us and when we do that, we allow all the good we know to become known. You are the key. I am the key…we are all… the answer and the solution and we are in this together.

What I learned was I was afraid of my own creation, I was afraid of my power... I want to give it away so I am not responsible but when I fall back to old patterns I now knew me and I cannot ignore the ways I limit myself.  I have no one to blame but me. It is up to me to decide that I am worthy.  That is my choice in action not my unconsciousness in reaction. I am my will known loved and honored and I now have to get back on track because I am pushing me and when I fall I have to accept responsibility. I have learned about loving me, to be kind to myself, forgive my shortcomings and learn that I was created to be spectacular and I have a lot to give that this world needs and so do you. This is all about our willingness, our choice. It is not our job to jump our thoughts into the future or past and judge that we are unworthy. Our job is to start with what we are willing to do today and trust in something greater. It is called faith and doing something about what you can do. Who knows maybe one of you reading will have a cure for cancer, feeding the hungry or saving this planet. Better yet, you will save yourself from years of torment and will be the light for others and the world will be better because you are better. We are saving the world one soul at a time and it starts within.

 I believe we have answers to all the Worlds problems behind our walls and we are in the way of the gifts we have for others.  We are all connected and we all want peace and it really does start within. We are born with love and knowing we need each other for our growth to be all that we can be, but we get caught up in what others do, instead of what we can do.  The thing is, we are not in this alone but it does start with what I am willing to do and seeing myself by going there first.

The problem was, I was playing small and I did not think I was enough. I lost sight of just being what I can be and had to remember my truth, my path home. Everything I have learned shows how important it is to know the way within so I can give from a place I can be. I am opening to be a teacher but I am also a student and I know I can learn from others and I know I need them.

Whether we want to recognize or not, we are all teachers and students. We learn through experiencing what we create and teach others from what we created. If you will not be that, you will teach others to not be that and if you can be that, we all can be that.  We are the teacher and the student always.  Finding yourself will give you experience and directions so others may learn through your personal road map. No one will ever know this if I do not know it first. I am at my center and you are at yours and we are connected one and all.  This is what every great spiritual teacher taught us over and over. The aim of every great teacher since the beginning of time was to awaken us to the fact that we create our own reality and that we are responsible for everything that happens in our lives.

I know what you are thinking…I had a hard time with this concept too. I was a victim of a violent crime. That monster used his choice against me and almost broke my spirit and if I accepted this knowledge of creating my reality than I am responsible for that. Needless to say, I fought this concept until I realized: Because free will exists there will be those who abuse others will and just because it is does not make it right. I learned something through that experience; I learned to respect choice and know the evil of inflicting your choice on others. It took me a long time to come to this and as I tell my story I hope you can learn how important it is to let go of being a victim and reclaiming your spirit.  Your will is free even if it was taken for a moment.

My spirit is alive and wants to be known, loved and honored and it feels great. I see possibilities where I saw failure and I am open to miracles of faith and manifesting my life. I am not allowing my life to create me if I am not in the driver seat. You know you create and only you can fix what you created that will not fit within your highest choice for you. You must choose what is good for you and reacting from fear and loss is not you conscious. It sure was not me conscious it was me running and hiding. Fear is a reaction from a past experience that we have brought forward and are still living. Fear keeps us in bondage.

I learned the price and experience of fear in 1989. As I told you, I was a victim of a violent crime. To this day, I hate that word but I did not feel like a survivor. I was so angry and lost. My Mom watching her daughter drowning in anger grief and despair got this great ideal. She came home with plates for me to break, anything to get life back into her daughter and rid me of the anger that was eating me alive. She did this with all her heart…

I will admit that it felt good to scream and cry as I threw those plates but as I stood amongst the chaos that I created, I realized that it represented me more than anyone will know. I felt like my life had been broken, my hope and faith had been shattered by cruelty. I lost hope because I could not see the good anymore and did not know how to get it back. I now knew that evil truly did exist and I had experienced true fear to the depth of my soul. I sobbed as I fell into my despair and did not crawl out for many years. I became the walking wounded, Alive but not living, living but not alive. I lost over 20 years of my life to just existing because I was living with fear.

We have all felt that feeling of loss. Sometimes by our own indirect choices, by the hands of the universe through illness and disease and unfortunately, by the things we do to each other when we inflict our will on others. It does not matter what dropped us to our knees. The list is long and we have all suffered. What matters is that we believe in goodness again and fall in love with faith and hope while we learn to drive our own spirit within.

Life is a journey and it will take you many places but it starts with you. You will not be able to hear the voice of inspiration and soul purpose until you trust yourself first and know this…You are loved, known and honored  now let yourself experience what you need: A relationship with love and an empowered you.

In addition to my story and journey to find peace I have created beautiful plates to keep you on path. In addition, I will provide more tools to help you with your internal journey. They are powerful tools necessary to breakthrough your subconscious belief systems and bring you to an awareness of you. Just like everything in life you can choose what does work for you but do not be afraid of discovering you. Who else is better equipped to do this but you? Truth is…No one can know you but you. Tools are meant to be used. Try to build a house without tools and you will see how important they are. You will still get the house but you will have built the house to be a fortress in better time and with less frustration. You are the foundation of your fortress and the foundation must be built on your strength, the love you have within. Trust me, use the tools. Any journey in to the unknown will make you feel uncomfortable, you are going to great places but anything not known can be hard. Only you are equipped to journey into your soul. If you did not feel uncomfortable sometimes you would not be growing. You will be shining light into the darkness of your soul so you can shine from the inside out. You have been waiting to know, love and honor you for a long time it is why you are here.

These are the gifts I was given as I searched to understand me and I give them to you. These are my truths but I do not claim them as yours, only you can do that. I am the type who needs to know as much as I can so I can reason my way through and know when I need to let go of reason and have faith. I will explain my reasoning and I will speak to you as I try to explain and provide my whys. I will also try to explain how I came through my reasoning mind to know there were many things I cannot know too, and I opened to viewing synchronistic events in my life and will include them. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently casually unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life to help you evolve to higher consciousness or to place emphasis on something going on in your life. The more consciously aware you become of how your soul manifests, the higher your frequency becomes and the faster you manifest positively and is why you are here. It is how our reality works and synchronistic events are like road maps designed only for you and they will sometimes bring you to your knees. The truth is: To know peace you need to find peace in the mystery of letting go of reason and learning faith.

Even though I am writing directly to you, everything came from within and I am learning to embrace the teacher within. I never thought of myself as a teacher but that is a byproduct of learning to give. Take what you will and you will learn to give too. My journey is mine and yours is yours. My reality may not be yours and only you can decide your reality always ask your higher consciousness if this is really true for you. Welcome to my journey within.

There are two voices inside your head. One that talks through your fears and one that talks through your soul. One is reactive and the other is proactive or creative. Unfortunately, we spend a great deal of time reacting to our fears and feeding that voice with the power of you, your creative design. Observe, without judgment what you see on TV and you will see how the world speaks and develops your fears. Advertisers know this, in fact they spend a great deal of time and money trying to tell you what is good for you and how to react like Pavlov’s Dogs. You were raised with someone telling you what is good for you. Your parents told you…Your teachers told you…Your friends told you and some religions told you.

You were not given this gift and then told how to use it. There is no judgment or agenda. This is freedom and the greatest example of love. You are loved that much. Your choice to come to know love or your greatest potential is yours and does not change the power of love. It is a recipe and it starts with understanding your power of choice and respecting others for theirs, even though it may not agree with your choice. We all have this power, every single one of us…NO EXCEPTIONS. You are all free to choose and every thought is a choice whether done consciously or subconsciously.

The recipe is simply: You are born with this power to create your destiny by making choices. Your greatest potential and your lowest are a product of the choices you have made and since we interact with each other the choices of others can affect ours but only if we choose to allow it. This is your ability to choose how you want to affect this world. We all have things to learn to know what we can or will give to others. Choice is given to know who we are in this great big plan. The truth is: We are all in this together whether we are conscious of it or not. Our limited human minds have no capacity to understand the true nature of the power and potential that is within so we need to have an omnipotent and omniscient ideal to understand freedom of choice and its unlimited potential. For me: as I stated, I choose to refer to the greatest potential as God. You use what you choose. The list of names or ideas to reference is so long that I could fill this book with it. There is a greater potential of all that is and always will be, like an all encompassing energy that affects flow and is the flow of all things that are.  Learning to make choices that are in the greatest good of all is learning to be in relationship with this greatness and how to flow with the flow not against it. The first step is accepting myself and becoming aware of my choices. If I do not accept myself I am in resistance to the flow of good and it does not feel good. I believe to acknowledge and know the beauty and love of this great gift is to freely choose to have a relationship with your greatest desire and potential so you can be the best that you can be. You are alive and living requires you to make choices. All choices come with an action, inaction is indecision and indecision is no choice taken, which is still your choice. All action comes from love or wanting love and all choices have a good or bad consequence of knowing or feeling love. Your spirit is your willingness to do something and your spirit is directly connected to its desire for good or love and we all learn this together in relationship and how we relate.

adj. omnipotent all-powerful
adj. omniscient all-knowing

Unfortunately, we run into a few problems. Because some have learned from fear instead of love in this dysfunctional world, our choices have become reactive rather than creative and we have forgotten about the freedom to choose your greatest potential and how to get it and got lost in knowing we need each other. We got lost in our illusion of love and let our choice be influenced by the world around us instead of internalizing by knowing us and our choice and extending it out. Instead, we give our choice to others, even though they cannot possibly choose for us and then internalize the experience of it and then let that experience affect our next choice. Thus starting a cycle of insanity of doing the same thing and expecting a different result arguing to ourselves it’s not the same; the players are different, never seeing you and your choice as the constant.  You were given a great gift. You have the freedom to choose what you will do.  Only you can choose for you. You are the constant in your process of creation.

 The problem is, we extend our choices to others and they have neither the ability nor capacity to choose for anyone but themselves.  Why do we do the insane? We know no better way and have done the same thing in differing ways with minimal success hoping for more and get caught in the trap of exterior motives affecting the interior being. Your ultimate power is your choice but you give it away to those who have no power over it but what you give them. Your choice is yours and it is the core of your being and your greatest gift.

Power and love are so misunderstood because those who believe they hold it want to keep it by attempting to control the choices of others. They are living in their own illusion of power. Power is knowledge of your freedom to choose. Knowing that you do have choices and choosing the highest choice for all, knowing we are all connected is the power of love.  Feeling good and knowing Love is the true power that motivates us all. Feeling good feels good and we all want to feel good and we only truly know this in relationship. The problem is we lost sight of what love really is and re-membered (power of words) that we need each other to know ourselves.  We are in power struggles that we have developed from generation to generation of loss and denial. We give away what we cannot give and creating a world in chaos. We do so much damage to each other when we give up this power to choose or take it from someone else. We attack each other but most of all…we attack ourselves and the minute we are not accepting of ourselves, we are in resistance to the world around us and the flow of good is diverted and cannot come through. We get what we allow to know. We fight against those who try to control our power. It feels icky when someone takes it from us. Worse is that it feels good when we get it from someone else but it never lasts. The power high dies and we seek more and more. We constantly need more, always, always wanting more… Sound familiar?  And we create by Judging…judging… we are always judging when we can never truly know anyone but ourselves. The truth is: we can never know any persons true motivation because we are not them and their choices and decisions are theirs and were created by them. We can only know ourselves and it is up to us to know what we will give from that. This is the power within your will.

We take from others what we do not want taken from us and go against each others will, fighting against the current and loose power. We are now empty searching to feed the hunger for more. This is the thirst we talked about earlier. All this need creates a hole in your soul. This is the reason why we are so thirsty.  We do not know our greatest potential by not knowing that it first must be known, loved and then honored. Through dysfunctional feelings of love and extending our choice, we have created our fear. Fear is nothing more than not feeling and knowing love and love has never left you. Your greatest potential is within wanting to be known. The Power of Love, your freedom of choice- no one else’s but yours and it cannot be given away.

When you know you have the power to create your destiny and create through knowing you first, you will feel and know the love that is all around. This is your greatest gift and once you know this gift, you will want others to know their gift.  You will not kill another as you see this as a great injustice to stop the choice of others. You will see that we all can be different and we all will not want the same thing because you have learned the power of deciding for you. No one can decide your choice without you deciding they can. If you give someone the ability to possess your beliefs about you, you will feel it and realize when you give your power away. This is the power of you and what we are so afraid of but it is what we must know. When we stand as one, we stand for all. You are the foundation that all others can build upon through inspiration and you become you through your experiences and choices, which have always been yours and only yours. This is your greatest gift, the freedom to choose and create from those choices. It all starts within.

 Everything you do is designed through a system of: thoughts, feelings and actions. You act a certain way based on what you feel about something which is derived by your thoughts and vice a versa. Backwards, forwards they all relate and they can be managed by you if you are in the driver’s seat, making your choices consciously in the present moment. Your thoughts feeling and actions are your way of determining if you are in alignment with your desires. Feelings are your emotional guidance center. If you feel good your thoughts and actions are in alignment.

The problem is you do not create from your power to think from knowing your capacity to do so you create from a place of avoiding pain. This is the subconscious mind and you must feel your way through it.

 Every choice requires thoughts, feeling and actions and they should be in alignment. If this process is not done consciously it is being done subconsciously through reactions to emotions or thoughts.  All experiences require your brain to process your choices. Your brain/mind processes everything but it does not do so without the use of your body and your spirit. The trick is, whether the experience or stimuli from your 5 senses (See, hear, taste, touch, smell) are processed within your conscious mind or subconscious mind. Your consciousness defines your choice and is the power of your mind to create. Within your conscious mind you can either accept or reject. Your subconscious is your emotional mind and you must accept the reaction. Your subconscious mind was created by you from years of programming.  Your emotions are indicators of how well you are managing the process.  If you feel good, thoughts, feelings and actions are in alignment. Feel bad and they are out of alignment. 

The problem is created when what you want consciously is out of alignment with your hidden fears and belief systems located in your subconscious mind. Years of programming your subconscious mind to avoid feeling further pain has created your current situation and we start breaking down emotionally and not paying attention to our emotions. Fear has taken over when dealing with human emotions and we shut down emotionally but the process still continues. We have become reactive to the world outside instead of creating from within and we take others on our journey through judgment and manipulation so we can start feeling good again and attempting to save ourselves from further pain. This cycle creates a lot of fear: fears of rejection, criticism, looking foolish, feelings of failure, fear and intimidation, all fears related to physical appearance such as a fear of obesity, aging, fears that others will discover our secrets, trust, responsibility for making decisions and care of oneself and others.   Truth is: you destroy yourself and others until you know your power to create your destiny by choosing to do so and aligning with the desire of your spirit to know the feelings of good or love, not fear. This is only achieved by consciously choosing to do so by knowing how you think, honestly becoming aware of programmed belief systems that no longer serve you and feeling your way through it. 

If you are not feeling, you are not living so stop the insanity. Your spirit does not like fighting with you over what you have chosen unconsciously or have chosen from a pure animal state of fight or flight. The funny thing is animals do not destroy each other the way humans destroy each other nor do they attack themselves through self loathing and self hate. This is a human quality and we think we are at the head of the pack. It is our natural state to want to feel good, to feel love and that is what starts the addictive cycle.  We find something that makes us feel good and we want more of it but forget that everything outside is illusive, it never lasts.  Within you and your choices lies immense power and you are barely using your own capacity to know what your abilities are. You are your power. Know why you choose by being conscious of it and using your thoughts and feelings to create. Being proactive is your purpose and design and your God given right.

Before we look at the power of your choice and how we choose through knowing us, let us look at your power central, the human brain and how choice is defined within the anatomy of you. What you think does become your reality and you are always thinking. Your mind is a very powerful tool and is the key to your entire being. You have tried unconsciousness and we see ourselves drowning in the powerless nature of it. Choose to be powerful and utilize your human potential.

 (This is the basics. I am not claiming to be an expert. This information is included to explain the science of the brain and how the brain is the center of the central nervous system and affects every aspect of you and how you act consciously and subconsciously is the power of the mind and the body and they are all connected)

What you think becomes your reality and you are always thinking. I am always wondering if my reality is more in my thoughts and beliefs. I was always told that it is your genetics but if we can now test for genetic anomalies and know the play of genetics we can no longer ignore that it may be more about what you were taught through experiences that are the issue. We know we are taught our behaviors and habits. If we really look at it we cannot avoid the truth. You are your thoughts feelings and actions conscious or subconscious and it starts in the mind.

Take a few deep breaths…

• ­It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
• It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (seeing, hearing tasting, smelling, touching, etc).
• It handles physical motion when walking, talking, standing or sitting.
• It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions.

Your brain is essential to your entire being and there is a vast amount of study being done to understand the brain. The scientific study of the brain and nervous system is called neuroscience or neurobiology. Neuroscience is the study of all aspects of nerves and the nervous system, in health and in disease. It includes the anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of nerve cells; the behavioral and psychological features that depend on the function of the nervous system; and the clinical disciplines that deal with them, such as neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. Neurophysiology is the study of the chemical and physical changes which take place in the nervous system. (Your brain is really important to who you are.)

• Brain stem - The brain stem consists of the medulla (an enlarged portion of the upper spinal cord), pons and midbrain (lower animals have only a medulla). The brain stem controls the reflexes and automatic functions:  breathing and circulation (heart rate, blood pressure) etc., limb movements and visceral functions (digestion, urination).
• Cerebellum - The cerebellum integrates information from the vestibular system that indicates position and movement and uses this information to coordinate limb movements.
• Hypothalamus and pituitary gland - These control visceral functions, body temperature and behavioral responses such as feeding, drinking, sexual response, aggression and pleasure.
• Cerebrum (also called the cerebral cortex or just the cortex) - The cerebrum consists of the cortex, large fiber tracts (corpus callosum) and some deeper structures (basal ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus). It integrates information from all of the sense organs, initiates motor functions, controls emotions and holds memory and thought processes (emotional expression and thinking are more prevalent in higher mammals).

• Amygdala: Involved in signaling the cortex of motivationally significant stimuli such as those related to reward and fear in addition to social functions such as mating.
• Hippocampus: Required for the formation of long-term memories and implicated in maintenance of cognitive maps for navigation.
• Parahippocampal gyrus: Plays a role in the formation of spatial memory
• Cingulate gyrus: Autonomic functions regulating heart rate, blood pressure and cognitive and attentional processing.
• Fornix: carries signals from the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies and septal nuclei
• Hypothalamus:  Regulates the autonomic nervous system via hormone production and release. Affects and regulates blood pressure, heart rate, hunger, thirst, sexual arousal and the sleep/wake cycle.
• Thalamus: The "relay station" to the cerebral cortex.

• Mammillary body: Important for the formation of memory
• Pituitary gland: secretes hormones regulating homeostasis.
• Dentate gyrus: thought to contribute to new memories and to regulate happiness.
• Entorhinal cortex: Important memory and associative components.
• Piriform cortex: The function of which relates to the olfactory system.
• Fornicate gyrus: Region encompassing the cingulate, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus
•  Olfactory bulb: Olfactory sensory input
• Nucleus accumbens: Involved in reward, pleasure and addiction
• Orbital frontal cortex: Required for decision making.

 You need to know there is no separation; everything is relative within your belief system. We are still learning so much on what the mind, body and spirit can do. Everything you do is based on thoughts, feelings and actions and when those are in alignment, you can move mountains. There are things that science cannot explain and our rational and reasoning brain needs answers so we must embrace a concept of a greater consciousness to close the gap.

 We still know so little about human capacity. Can the power within the individual be the difference, their higher consciousness?  I saw it over in over when I worked with chronic patients and how some healed. There are miracles that Science cannot explain and it opened my eyes to faith.   The questions are: Do you know your spirit/soul or higher consciousness? Does your will know you?  How many times have you said something and never fallen through and then beaten yourself up consciously or subconsciously? You have been creating your programming through self abuse and your soul is protecting you from you because you have confused it. Your subconscious mind is overriding your conscious mind and you are not getting what you desire now because you are holding on to old fears at a subconscious level. Your brain manages your entire being and your emotional being and behavior are connected. Your awareness of what is programmed into your subconscious belief system is your emotional guidance getting in the way of your greater potential. The truth is: we are only tapping a small portion of what the human brain can do. I love the notion that there is a great deal of room left for improvement, new experience and greater possibilities, which are endless. Imagine what we can do if we learn about us and unite our conscious mind and subconscious mind as one. Imagine the peace when you are no longer fighting with yourself. The only limits you have are those you put before you and as Spiderman said “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Albert Einstein defined energy and changed the way we view the universe. He was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientist of all time. His theories of relativity expanded our knowledge of universal power and his words speak truth even today. There is no separation of science and religion. There is no separation of mind, body and spirit. Everything is relative. You are an energetic being and your ability to define your capacity for this world is only limited by you. There is no separation of anything. We are all interrelated. All science, All knowledge, All beings. Please tap into the universal knowledge of higher consciousness for your good and mans good.

Years of living with limitations and mismanaging your choice have given you really big walls you have constructed that keep you from you. Those are walls of denial and disempowerment and you will have to bounce over or through them, you decide.  Choice requires knowing your beliefs and ideas and then taking action by understanding how you are reacting. Your choices require thoughts, feelings and action. This is best done proactively and learning to reprogram yourself from your desire to feel good, instead of reacting from past programming based on fears.

You have work to do and only you can do it. Either way the walls are coming down because you now realize yourself in the equation and you are important. That is what I learned. Once that box of consciousness was opened I could not go back to my old belief systems and behaviors without knowing I was the one in front of me. Let me tell you, you do not want to view what is behind the wall when it jumps out at you. It is better to take down the wall by looking inside who created it and knowing your power and what you control. The only control you have is your reaction to any given situation and you do this through knowing what you are thinking and how you are feeling. Your soul/ spirit/ Higher Self, the power that is your greatest potential, wants to be known and you have danced with it for a long time. Your soul has a desire to know itself and it is tired of being powerless.  Your power wants to be realized and you will face yourself over and over.  This is the concept of self-esteem and is the underlying issue of all problems facing this world and how we react to each other. It is within and only you can go there.  Through inspiration or desperation you will be introduced to yourself. You cannot run…you cannot hide forever. You know that. That is why you are here. Imagine what you can do, what you can accomplish by tapping into the power of your highest potential. That is what consciousness is about and it is the reason why you are here on this planet. Why we all are here. Start using your gifts. They are going to waste and you feel it.

I know for some, these tools and visualizations will feel strange but they are designed to get you to feel yourself consciously and visualizations are very effective. Sometimes you need to perceive your experiences differently so you can connect to them emotionally and visualizations create a way to connect. They are lessons in consciousness and knowing yourself as an energetic spiritual being in your physical body. You need to feel your way through your conscious choices and visualizations allow for this. It is why all great books use stories.

When I was learning to meditate a great teacher taught me a really good visualization to focus your attention and stabilize your energy to the Now. I was having a hard time quieting my mind and she taught me of the importance of grounding my thoughts in the Now and connecting to something greater. I use it every time I feel my thoughts and emotions running crazy.

(P.S. this is my trick to getting into meditative state and is essential for making you feel grounded and stop your thoughts from flying. I use visualizations to allow creative energy to be known in the Now and use feelings. If you are not comfortable with visual, create something that is comfortable for you. Envision yourself as I mighty oak needing light and roots.)

You can only create from the position of Now. Ask where are your thoughts are they in the future or the past. Bring them to the Now. By questioning where your thoughts are, you will be brought to the Now. Be conscious of your mind without judgment just awareness. Ask: Where are my thoughts and observe… if not, your awareness will bring them to the Now.

Always seek to know the truth about any situation in which you are involved. Look behind your present belief system and ask your Higher Self "What is the truth about this?" Your Higher Self will always reveal the truth to you. When you act upon that truth, you are being true to you or simply being yourself. And when you are yourself; which means you are allowing your Higher Self to reveal the truth, every situation you are involved in will resolve itself perfectly.  Everything is about you and your reality and reality is your perception of the truth so always ask if your thinking is true. Do not take others opinions until you have filtered it through your higher self. Is this true for me?

Breathing is as fundamental to life as food yet we so often go through our day without being aware of our life giving breath.

 Notice that during times of great stress and pain you’re not breathing deep. Your breath becomes shallow, your fears take over and your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Shallow breathing is when you are in subconscious mind only and can trigger the protective state of fight or flight. 

Every pain management program will teach breathing exercises to pull you into conscious thoughts and access to the greatest chemical- The potential of your mind…  Now…Take control and center yourself by taking a few deep breathes. Breathe in…Breathe out…Know you are OK.

Your breathing is primarily controlled by your subconscious brain. Your subconscious brain sits in the background and manages your body functions and your programmed belief systems. Your subconscious mind is the storage room of all experiences, memories and belief systems that are not currently being used by your conscious mind. Think of your brain like a computer. Your subconscious mind is the hard drive of your brain and motherboard, while your conscious mind is like the Random Access Memory (RAM). You are only conscious of what you are using but there is a lot of stuff going on in the background.

We are going to be learning to program our own minds and the first step in doing that is by conscious breathing. We are basically reprogramming our mind to listen and respond to us consciously by taking over something done subconsciously.

When you feel anxious about something, pause and take a few deep breaths. Think about nothing other than those breaths. Keep taking deep breaths until you feel calm and peaceful. Now ask consciously if your feelings are in the present moment or reactionary from old wounds that may still be raw and similar emotions are triggering it.  Try this any time you feel out of sorts and when you feel anxiety. Take a few deep breaths when you need to think clearly. Several deep breaths will reboot your system and bring you back to center. Connect Body mind and spirit by deepening your breath and connecting to the world around you.

All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who the one in charge was.

“I should be in charge,” said the brain, “Because I run all the body’s systems, so without me nothing would happen.”

“I should be in charge,” said the blood, “Because I circulate oxygen and nutrients all over so without me you’d all waste away.”

“I should be in charge,” said the stomach, “Because I process food and give you all energy.”

“I should be in charge,’ said the rectum, “Because I am responsible for waste removal.”

All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down.

Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache and could barely think, the stomach was bloated and felt sick and the blood was toxic.

They all decide that the rectum should be the boss.

Moral of the story…If you do not release what you no longer need…everything is affected and you no longer feel good.

Cleansing and removing your past is necessary to open to the future. What you have done is in the past, it cannot be changed and if it no longer serves your highest potential, do not take it to the future. You desire and need to be open and available to this message. We will be examining fears and feelings of unworthiness that are just old injuries and have become defeating illusions that get in the way of your growth and potential. When you access subconscious memories and perceptions they will feel real. Emotions do not care about time, so you need some powerful tools to cleanse yourself to remove what you hold onto that no longer serves you. You have lost sight of the power of you. You are not lost you never have been you NEVER will be. You are so worthy and whenever you start feeling unworthy or afraid come back to this practice and the other tools I am providing and live now. This and everything you do is about conscious practices to be in the present moment. I utilize real daily rituals such as a shower as my daily ritual of letting go and connecting with myself. I utilize other visualizations during the day, so I can let go of illusions when dealing with others who are asleep. Forgive them they know not what they do. Do not let their choices affect you. Let it go and if you find yourself replaying an event use the visualizations and/or rituals. This is a practice of release and beginning anew.

This visualization and practice is giving the burden of souls that are not mine to carry to something greater.  I love, simply and truly it is who I am and in loving so deeply I sometimes get lost and lose sight. I want to fix and I know I can only fix what is in my control and I truly only have control of me. Love can be my greatest opportunity and my greatest obstacle if I do not see through the power of free will. My choice is my greatest gift and when I know that I will give it to others.