Life is Medicine

Yes I realize it has been almost two weeks since my last blog.  No the Angels did not take a vacation. I have actually been very busy receiving some messages and information for the next step. I am very excited for the things which are to come, both personally and collectively.

The major message I had gotten at the beginning of the year to guide me through this year was that this year was to be a year of great change. Those who study numerology know that this year is a 5 year, 5 being the number of change, movement, and surprises. In a five year things often happen unexpectedly, which, as you well know, can be good and it can be not so good. My personal numbers correspond with the universal numbers, so I have been expecting some changes as well. I made up my mind at the beginning of the year that the changes were going to be good ones, and I believe we have the power over our own lives to make those decisions. Even if things happen unexpectedly to knock us off balance or surprise us, nothing happens by accident. Even challenges can lead to positive outcomes. Sometimes you could experience a challenge and say, " this is not a positive change. How can you say that you just decided that the changes were going to be positive?"  I say that life is all about change, and growth, and what is around the corner. Yes, sometimes change is painful, but it is all good.

Recently I have been learning about the Native American concept of the medicine wheel. The theory is that everything that happens in our lives happens in a particular order, or cycle. Sometimes we would like to circumvent some of the necessary steps in that cycle, and skip over the more painful or challenging aspects of the cycle of life, but that is not to be. We all have to be willing to move through each part of our lives, and fully experience all the aspects of our lives so we can come to the end of our lives and say... "I get it." This is actually a position on the medicine wheel of life. Some of us will go around the cycle only once in our entire life, and some of us will go around several times. Each time we go over a cycle we learn something new. Sometimes when we don't learn it we have to experience it again, as some of us can attest that we seem to go through the same difficulties over and over. We may have relationships that are eerily similar. We may go through bankruptcy or job changes, or health challenges over and over, and it seems we are on a treadmill, always moving but never going anywhere.

Of course what the ideal situation would be is if we would come to a place where we embrace each step we take on the medicine wheel of life. If we are going through a challenge, let us ask ourselves, "what is the lesson here?" We can also look back on the seemingly dark times and realize that the darkest of moments led us to a place of total surrender, where we had no choice but to move out of the darkness into the light. After that, we could honestly say, "I get it. I understand the lesson."

Let us embrace wherever we are on the medicine wheel of life. Medicine is that remedy we take to make us feel better. In Native American terms, life is medicine. Sometimes the medicine is bitter, and sometimes pleasant, but it is all for our benefit. It is possible to stuck somewhere on that wheel and not move forward. We can become despondent. We can decide that things we want have to happen in a specific way or according to a specific plan that we have made out for ourselves. Let me tell you that it doesn't work that way. Let us be open to all the Universal Life Force has for us. As we embrace life and all it has to offer, every day becomes an adventure.

I am looking forward to anything life has to offer me, and I am expecting that all change is going to be positive. I am looking forward to moving forward and my statement to the Universe is that whatever is best for me and all those who I love around me is what I want to happen. It doesn't have to happen exactly the way I expected that it would. Life is medicine. And it is all good.

Where Is That Coming From?

I was kind of looking forward to taking a couple days off from messages but this one came to me loud and clear yesterday and so I had to share.

Last weekend I was listening to a recording of some manifesting techniques and the woman doing the broadcast suggested that in order to clear ourselves of negative thinking, which is a big obstacle if you are trying to manifest something, that whenever a negative thought comes through your mind, you disown the thought by saying, " I wonder who that thought belongs to?" Well, I will have to say that most of the time I am a very positive person, but yesterday it happened to me twice, with surprising results.

I was at work at the Post Office. It was a slow day. I was standing out in the lobby, just standing there, really, and there were just a couple of people milling around. The thought crossed my mind that someone there didn't like me. Immediately I disowned the thought, thinking to myself, "I wonder who that thought belongs to?" My next customer came up to me, and after I waited on her, I suggested she go into the office and see if a supervisor could help her with her issue. Imagine my surprise when she went into the office and complained to my supervisor that I was rude to her, and that I was rude to her every time she came into the Post Office!! Now I will admit that sometimes I am not always full of love and light, but I honestly do not remember this woman or ever being rude to her. However, the synchronicity of the event was not lost to me. I had just had the thought that someone there didn't like me, and immediately after asking the question "I wonder who that thought belongs to" I was given the answer to the question.

Second event. It is about half past midnight. I am half awake, half asleep, and I wake up in a panic. On occasion I awake in the night and feel panicky as if there is someone in the house. I get up, take a quick walk through the house. There is no one in the house. I say to myself, "I wonder who that thought belonged to?" It was more of an emotion, really, not a thought, but immediately I felt the presence of a woman. She told me that she had drowned in a pond of some kind in Front Royal. She showed me the road where the body of water is, which is a road which is directly beside another road, both of them gravel or maybe dirt roads. The road to the left is a public road, possibly a park or a something like that. There is a white SUV and a pickup truck. She wants me to find her body. I told her that she needed to cross into the light. I am assuming this just happened recently but it is possible it happened a long time ago and she just found me. She said no, she was not ready to cross. She is in a dark place. I send her love and light. She has dark brown hair and maybe from Israel? I don't know. I just heard Israel. I also heard Alice. I am not sure if that is her name but that is the name that came to my mind. Anyway, if anyone reading this is familiar with any missing persons in Front Royal that this sounds familiar with, this is what I got. Maybe one day I will get my husband to drive with me to Front Royal and look for the road I saw. It could be anywhere but I know it is near Front Royal.

If you have empathic tendencies, it is easy to mistake random thoughts for your own. By disowning these thoughts, you realize that we are more connected than we think. I am sending love and light to both women in my story, both the one who is alive and the one who has passed. I hope that both of them find peace. Thanks to Spirit, who has taught me this little sentence to use to distinguish my own thoughts from those of others around me.

Peace to all who read this.

Message Number Thirty

If you have been reading my blogs, you know that back in December the Angels told me that I was to write a message a day for thirty days the month of January. I didn't listen at first. I was worried. Worried that no one would read them every day. (my husband says to me, "not everyone lives in Joy's world.") Worried that I would not have enough time every day to get still and get a message (I did miss a day here and there.) Worried that maybe I would not get a message or that if I did it may be misunderstood or unappreciated. Worry worry. So anyway, two weeks into January my Angels brought the subject up again. Okay, so better late than never. I listened to them,  got still and wrote a message a day. It was a lesson in trust. At first I was trying to receive more than one message at a time, just in case one day I didn't have time or maybe the Angels forgot or maybe I was not tuned in properly and did not get a message one day.

Now that today is the last day of the thirty days of messages, I am happy to have accomplished my goal and I hope the messages have spoken to those of you who kept up with them. I will go back to my previous habit of writing a message one or two days a week, whenever the Angels give them to me. I have received some additional instructions for the next step in this journey with the Angels, which I will announce when the time is right. In the meantime, here is the message the Angels wanted me to give you today.

The Angels wanted me to explain to you what I mean when I claim to receive messages from the Angels. Who are they? Do they have names? Are they really Angels?

I use the term Angels when I refer to receiving messages because it is just easier than saying .. well today the message is from Gabriel or so and so. They don't always tell me their names. When I was active in the church I felt that the messages were from the Holy Spirit. The place from which I heard the messages then is the same place I hear them from now. When I ask Them who they are they just tell me that they are Beings of Love and Light. When I am with them I feel love. I feel lighter. They cannot be from a bad place, which is a question I also sometimes receive. Those in some religious circles claim that if I am not in relationship with a particular religion then the voices I hear have to be from the Devil. Well, clearly, the Devil, if he even exists, could not possibly come up with messages that make people feel good, and why would he want to? I say, don't live in such a small box. God is big. The Universe is big. Yes, I talk to Jesus regularly.. But He does not mind when I talk to other Ascended Masters as well. Actually, I regularly meet with a group of five ascended masters and they talk to me about many things.

I guess the message for today is that the truth will always make you feel good and lighter and lies will make you feel bad. I will talk more about that at a later date but if you are hearing messages from Spirit and you are afraid because of your religious upbringing that they are coming from the dark side, ask yourself how do you feel when you are connecting to them? Do you feel light and happy or do you feel heavy or fearful or sad? If you feel fearful is the fear coming from the religious teachings that have made you worry about connecting with dark angels that claim to be of the light? Some time I will talk about the years of religious exposure I had that left me feeling fearful and sad all the time. Let me ask you this. When you turn on a light bulb, does it pretend to be dark? Does the dark pretend to be light? How absurd!! Does the dark say, don't turn that light on. Does the light say, watch out for the darkness? No. You turn on the light and the dark goes away, completely on its own. End of story.

If you are afraid of the dark, Turn on the light. Let go of all you think you know about good and bad, right and wrong. Listen to your heart.

Message Number Twenty Nine

The message the Angels have given me for today is a big one. Yesterday I had the opportunity to share this with three different people just as I went through my day so I felt like my message number twenty eight in my daily message from the Angels was fulfilled, it just got fulfilled in person instead of via my blog. This is a Huge message.

The message is... who do you think you are?

Scenario number one... a woman has left her husband but is feeling guilty. She was not happy. The husband was not meeting her needs. He was not showing her affection or attention. My response. Do you think you deserve to be treated like a queen or do you deserve to be treated poorly? Who are you? How do you feel about yourself? When you come to the place that you feel so good about yourself that you know that you are special, you are wonderful, you deserve to be happy, then you will do whatever is necessary to make sure you are treated well. People around you can only treat you as well as you feel about yourself.

Scenario number two.. a man wants to be an entrepreneur. He has done the research. He has talked to investors. He has formulated the dream in his head. All he needs is the money. My answer. Do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Who do you think you are? Do you see this happening way in the future or do you see it, feel it taste it, as if it is happening now? Where are you in those visions in your head? Are you the observer or are you right in the midst of it, feeling it, tasting it, smelling it?

Scenario number three... similar story. A woman struggles with always feeling that she never measures up. She says she felt it from her mother and now she repeats it all through out her subsequent relationships. I said to her.. others cannot feel about you any differently than you feel about yourself. Who do you think you are? Do you see yourself as someone who never measures up? Then you never will. Change how you see yourself and you change how others see you.

Do this ... finish this sentence.....I am......?

What or who are you? Are you wealthy or are you poor? Are you healthy or are you sick? Are you happy or are you depressed? How do you see yourself? How do you finish the sentence?

Years ago I went to a psychic and she said to me.. You are a healer. Why are you not using your gift? And I said, how am I supposed to do that? I just work at the Post Office. And she said to me... Never say that again. From now on when someone asks you .. what do you do? You say... I am a healer. I just happen to work at the Post Office. The Post Office is not who you are.

Now all these years later I just figured it out. I have been trying to attain to the title of healer. I have been studying and writing and working with clients and yet I always saw it as something to attain to, something that had not yet happened. I just realized that as long as I am looking to the future for something to happen, it never will. I just got it. I am a healer. I am an intuitive. I talk to the dead. I talk to the Angels. I write books. That is who I am.

Who are you?

Message Number Twenty Eight -Part One

I was asking my Angels to give me a message today about love. Well the day is still early, but so far I have not gotten my thoughts together on which angle to pursue. However, I was reading my friend Hali's blog for today and I decided I couldn't have said it better myself. So here is a link to her blog about love. Of course I maintain my right to my own message if it comes.

http://labyrinthgal.blogspot.com/2012/02/better-than.html

Message Twenty Seven

Last night I had a dream. I dreamed of two houses. The first house was very large and ornate. There were many rooms with expensive decorations and exquisite furnishings. However, in every room, there was what appeared to be pandemonium. It appeared that a large party had occurred the night before and there were empty bottles and trash everywhere. In the bathroom there were two people asleep in a tub full of water. In the dream I was trying to solicit help from the other people in the dream to clean up the mess. It appeared that the house belonged to me but it was not one that I recognized in real life. I also did not recognize any of the people in the dream. I would think at first that I recognized someone but then when I addressed them it was not who I thought it was. Then I had a second dream or the second part of the same dream. I am not sure. In the next dream I had just purchased a small cottage. It was quaint and appeared to be a New England style beach house. It had just appeared on the market and in the dream I had snatched it up when it had barely hit the market. It was in pristine condition. As I walked up the sidewalk I noticed an ornate cherry jewelry box sitting by the front steps. I recognized it in the dream as something that belonged to me that I loved. I went inside and noticed it was completely empty, but clean. On the wall was a wooden box that contained locks to all the rooms. The rooms were all locked but I held in my hands the keys to all the rooms. When I got to that point in the dream I remember wondering why all the rooms were locked. I also remember hearing a message that this house was empty and I was to fill it only with things that I loved. Then I woke up.

It seems to me that we all have choices. Houses in dreams often represent our souls or our lives. Very often we fill up our lives with many things that we think will bring us happiness, but along with those things come pandemonium and destruction. We often spend much of our time cleaning up messes that we probably didn't make ourselves but allowed to happen. The second house represents a choice. The choice to clear my soul of things (in my case limiting beliefs or perhaps vows) that do not serve me. I have been writing about vows but it could represent other things in our lives that clutter our "house" and cause disasters. (I still am not sure about the men sleeping in the tub). In any case, I have chosen a different house. It is empty and clean and Spirit was telling me to only fill it with things that I love. The rooms in my house are locked but I have the keys to open the doors.

This message is personal to me but also speaks of choices to clear out cluttering thoughts and beliefs and start new. Whenever we become aware of things in our lives that are clutter to us then it is our choice and our responsibility to clean up the mess. Spirit will help us. It may be that we will "move" into a smaller and emptier house but it is our responsibility to fill our house, our our soul, with things and people that we love. In my case the clutter was thoughts and beliefs about who I am and why I am here.

The message in this is that this year is a year of universal change. There will be some upheaval in our lives but it is for our ultimate good. We are learning who we are and what has been holding us back from fulfilling our dreams for all these years. As we clear out the pandemonium, sometimes we may stay in the same place but many times we will move to a different place in the evolution of our lives. In any case we will all be better for the changes, no matter how much we have become accustomed to the clutter. In the end the changes will be peaceful and it will be up to us to fill our lives with things and people we love. Let us welcome the changes. We hold the keys in our hands to unlock the doors to our souls that previously have been locked up for such a time as this.

Message Twenty Six

In my last message I talked about vows and I said that in a future message we would be talking about how to break a harmful vow.

First of all, how do you know if a vow you have made is in your best interests or the best interests of the other person with whom you may have made it, if the vow was made with another person? Think of a vow you have made. Let us take my previous example in the vow I made that I would never quit the Post Office. When I made that vow, the reason I made that vow was because previously to that I had been a waitress in a restaurant/bar atmosphere. My daughter was three years old. My husband was a self employed carpenter, which meant that sometimes he made really good money but he was frequently out of work and we were perpetually late on our bills. The Post Office was my chance at a steady income and benefits for the first time in my life. The vow was made in reaction to the reality I was living at the time. So even though I was having a hard time working at the Post Office, I vowed I would never quit because of the other factors in my life that were worse than a hard job. So the vow was not made with any degree of higher intention. The vow was made in reaction to a hard life situation. It was not a healthy vow. So did the vow make me feel good? No. Your emotions should be the guide to let you know whether a vow is healthy or not. A vow that makes you feel good when you make it will not necessarily mean that it will always make you feel good. The vow I am referring to in my own life should have showed me that I had created a pretty dim life. After years and years of working at the Post Office, I forgot about the vow. Until recently. I realized that if I wanted to create a life where I was not bound to the financial woes of the Post Office, which we know is not good at this time, then I would have to break that vow.

There are a couple of ways to do this. The important thing is the intention with which you break a vow. Always have the best interests of all parties involved when you break a vow. Now in the previously mentioned vow, I am sure the Post Office does not care one way or the other if I made a vow or if I plan to keep it. But this is not always the case. So I could just say, out loud, " I say now to myself and the Universe that I break this vow I made to never quit the Post Office. I release any invisible cords that tie me to working there. I release any beliefs I may have that the Post Office is the best job that I could have or that I will never be able to make a decent living doing anything else. I now open myself up to receiving income from other sources. I now proclaim that my income is not tied to the Post Office. I thank the Universe for bringing me lots of income from many sources."

There is another ritual that I have done in the past to release a vow. I have written the vow on a piece of paper and then burned it in a candle ritual, basically saying the same words or similar words out loud to the Universe. I thank the fire for burning out any remaining ties that would connect me to the vow and thank the smoke for releasing the vow to the Universe. I bless any people who may have been connected to the vow and release them to their own good in the Universe. It is important to bless any people who may be connected to the vow and ask your Higher Powers to facilitate the breaking of the vow for the good of everyone concerned. I release all of the perceptions of right and wrong, good and bad, that everyone concerned may benefit from the breaking of the vow.

If you feel uncomfortable burning the piece of paper, you can also bury it in the earth and ask the Mother Earth to transform the vow into fertilizer for the earth. Or you can flush the vow down the toilet, with the intention that the vow is being flushed out of your life. As I said, intention is everything. I have heard of people putting similar things on pieces of paper and putting them in the freezer, essentially freezing away their power. However, this seems to me to be impermanent. They are always still there, even though maybe not actively effective in your life. This may work if there is something you want to temporarily free yourself from, to give time for reevaluation.

Now seems to be a time in the Spirit realm for addressing things in our lives that remain unaddressed. We need to be free from anything that ties us down or holds us back so that we can enter into the next phase of our spiritual evolution. If you need closure or release from any situation, try these rituals.