Conscious Living

Week 4: Love on Hand – A Month of Love Tailored to YOU

Step Three is ‘Feeling With‘. This last step requires ‘radical compassion’ as Tara Brach defines it. Have you ever seen a wounded animal turn on the very people trying to help it? That is what we can become in our darkest traumatized Earth Heart. And it’s in everyone, a little, or a lot. But the Universe is abundant and wants you to know this when you are wounded. Because if we don’t understand, we bite the hand that feeds us.

This step retrains your brain to let in the things that are right for you. You get to decide what you say yes to and when you open up. That’s a very important thing to remember. Opening up to outside help doesn’t mean you lose your power to decide what feels right for you. That happened in childhood but it’s not true now.

Instead, when you ‘Feel With’ you to take quality time to realize you are hurt. Anger, fear, almost all the difficult emotions, arise out of pain avoidance. Until you sit with the wound yourself, you won’t know who and what to trust to help you. Rather, you isolate yourself or drive off the very balm your wound needs.

That’s why Earth Heart’s nickname is the Hermit. You pull back to avoid pain. Once you get these three steps, you will be able to handle the pain in life that goes with getting more love. To love is to risk pain. But to go without love is a deeper more damaging pain by far. Time to trade in suffering alone to safely shared love and manageable pain.

Feeling With requires physical action on your part. Put your left hand on your heart and your right hand on your belly even as you do the first two steps outlined in recent posts. If you don’t have your hands there by Step 3, time to put them there. Don’t get caught up in getting it right. The important thing is to be the adult present and ‘Feeling With’ the child within you.

With your hands on your heart and belly, feel those feelings that come up. Breathe into them. Ask yourself what those feelings need to hear. Reassure yourself that you won’t ever abandon you. Tell yourself that what you feel matters and you want to know. Be curious, listen deeply, hold yourself and stay present for your emotions. If your mind switches back to a story about what caused these feelings, bring them back to what you feel. It’s a sneaky form of self-abandonment to focus on ‘them’.

You are what matters. What you need to hear, what you feel, what needs to be heard and said by YOU. Hear yourself say out loud, “I’m with you, I’ll never leave you”. Listening to your own needs and feeling them heals you. Take time to show up for all of you, just as if you are sitting with that frightened four-year-old you once were.

The Neuroscience Of It All

The crazy part is when you do these three simple steps outlined, you rewire your brain. Your hands reflect this over time. Soothing yourself with your own attention, deep interest and compassion for what hurts, without acting on it yet activates dopamine. You get waves of it running through your body to feel better and counteract the triggers that set you down a reaction spiral.

The key is to offer the wounded child in you support as the strong adult you are now. You learn feelings won’t drown or overwhelm you when you feel what comes up and ask yourself, as often as you need, ‘what does this feeling need to hear from me’. Then say it to yourself. You may need to act on it by rocking or a hot bath. Stay in soothing mode, not protection mode. Self-care like this IS the best protection.

Remember we all drop back to our Earth Heart in trauma. Understand you’ve been taught what you should and shouldn’t express. When you lovingly sit with those places and spaces, without an agenda or time clock, healing happens. Know that you may want to do this the rest of your life. Why not? It’s free, legal and portable. You can do it anywhere.

When the results are more love who loses by practicing this? Certainly not you. For this month of love, give yourself the most precious gift of all, quality loving time with you. As if by magic, or should I say magnet, others will join the flow.

For more help with this, check out Lisa’s Expand Love Capacity Authentically Experience where you actually see the change of mind changes those lines.

Author: Lisa Greenfield https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/lisa-greenfield

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Your Heart Line is the top line on your hand for a reason. It reveals how big the electromagnetic field is around you. We all have it, some just magnetize in more than others. You see the heart has 100 times the electric charge of our brain and 5,000 times the magnetic power. The bigger your heart line, the more magnetic you are. Let’s explore how you can start with heart to dial up your magnetism, just by being more You for the month of Love! We are on Step 2 of the three step action plan in place to dial up your magnetic factor for more abundant options to play with in manifesting. Fear prefers a limited and familiar path, which is why we slowly add a few key things to ease into space in a less frightening way. Check the last two weeks here if you missed them.

Step Two is ‘Listening to More Than Words’. This builds on last week’s Step One – being deeply interested in what you are feeling rather than just your thoughts is a potent shift. Often times, my Earth Hearts are so powerful they trigger those around them and, in fear, others try to block or limit the Earth Heart. When you listen to more than words, first for yourself, then for others, you get rich layers of information that is clay in your hands to shape a better outcome. It’s also a way to signal to the frightened, four year old, fear brain that your feelings matter to you. Give yourself attention and then really listen to what you feel before you rush to action, it does change your life. The very act of giving yourself quality attention soothes the fear brain and allows for facts that didn’t support your first reaction to pop into view. This is important, hear it all without judging yourself. Judgement is just another trick of the fear brain to get you back into reaction mode instead of creation. Know when it happens you are in pain. Go to the pain source, don’t stay stuck in judgement.

Each time you listen with deep interest, you teach yourself that your feelings matter, that your heart and your body are heard. Be curious, listen to understand all those feelings. Give them the light of day without a lot of “shoulds” on them. Make room for all of them to come out of the basement where they’ve festered for years unattended. Whew, does it feel better to add in a range of emotions like colors in the crayola box? Of course it can be shocking or unnerving to find out how much you feel. It lessens as those locked spaces are freed. That means you are more present for others, without that stored pain between you. But that’s where the next step comes into play next week.

For now, breathe slowly and deeply as you listen first to all your heart, body and Spirit want to add to your minds chatter. The mind would love to take up 90% of the space, but work on a more level playing field. Give them each time for feedback. You can even mentally dress up your heart, body, mind and Spirit and let them each have equal time. If you are anything like me, the Mind has a habit of interrupting the others. With practice it gets more civil and patient. Next week will wrap up with the third step and the neuroscience behind what we are doing. If you want more help, do check out Lisa’s Expand Love Capacity Authentically Experience for ongoing support. You can actually see the change of mind will change the lines.

Author: Lisa Greenfield

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Love
On Hand – A Month of Love Tailored to YOU

The Plan to expand with Heart – Continued from last Week. Read Week One here: #

Time to get the three step action
plan in place to dial up your magnetic factor for more abundant options to play
with in manifesting. Fear prefers a
limited and familiar path, which is why we slowly add a few key things to ease
into space in a less frightening way.
Let’s take on
Step One this week.

Step One is called Deep
Interest. This
is the place that wasn’t
possible in your childhood. When
feelings came up, there was no empathetic adult around to help you feel and
shape them in a way that was uniquely yours.
It’s likely
you were told not to feel it or told how you should feel. ‘Shoulds’ are often the secret gatekeeper in
an Earth Heart’s mind. In time you can
live in a ‘no shoulding on yourself’ zone.
It just takes practicing these three steps.

When something or somebody triggers you and anxiety or fear come up, take a deep interest in what frightens you. Fear casts a long shadow. Deep interest and investigation turns on the overhead light and the shadow shrinks. Add compassion for the frozen four year old in your brain who wasn’t taught it was safe to be afraid. Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn are normal reactions. You likely modeled a similar response to one of your parents, which is the current limit to all that power within you. These steps can change that.

Just that kind and loving thought for the part of you reacting is a wonderful response. We will get to more of that in Step Three. For now stay curious about you. To help I am going to share a very important secret your fear brain doesn’t want you to know. You are underestimating yourself and overestimating any threat. This way you are always over prepared for danger.

But your fear brain lies to you. You are a formidable match for any challenge. After all, you are the manifesting magician! When you stop the automatic response and get curious about what the original fear is behind the reaction, a rich vault of power swings open. Once you do that, it’s impossible to keep the truth hidden. Holes appear in your story about what’s happening. I’ll lay you serious odds your assessment of any threats was more appropriate at four years old than it is now.

When other people are angry, upset,
or demanding, my Earth Hearts tend to shut down and withdraw. That solitary line in the center of your
hand is like an anemone when touched. It
closes up fast. You don’t do conflict
easily or feel like you do it well because you feel outmatched. That’s just your fear brain underestimating
you and overestimating the threat. You
see others as the enemy. All of your
unexpressed emotion goes into the story about what’s happening to you.

If you catch yourself doing that, get curious. I’ve seen impressive results with a little practice, once your Earth Heart know how to take care of themselves. They are unbeatable in conflict and a real benefit to those around them once they learn a few tips like these. Time to doubt your doubts, push back on them underestimating you. Really dig into that story that has you triggered by what someone does or says.

Where else in the past did you feel
this way when you get triggered? What’s
the earliest memory of it? Past events may be lumped into the present potential
threat, like dominos tipping forward.
Breathe, and be deeply interested in all of the feelings and thoughts
that go into your story. Take it apart and soothe yourself while you do. Good.
Practice quality attention on all the layers you feel.

We will dive into what to do with
what you find next week. For this week,
stay curious and be deeply interested in YOU.

Next Week Step Two – Listening to
Hear gives you a new way of interacting with your fear brain to retrain it one
difficult moment at a time.

Want more support, check out what’s available here.

Live & Love On Purpose – Expand Your Love Capacity Authentically

Author: Lisa Greenfield https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/lisa-greenfield

February 10, 2020govindsharma3101@gmail.com No commentsBest Psychics, Blog, Clairvoyant Readings, Conscious Living, Free, General, Health And Wellness, Life Coaching, Motivation, Psychic, Psychic Reader, Spirituality, Tips and Tricks

Your Heart Line is the top line on your hand for a reason. It reveals how big the electromagnetic field is around you. We all have it, some just magnetize in more than others. You see the heart has 100 times the electric charge of our brain and 5,000 times the magnetic power. So the bigger your heart line, the more magnetic you are. Let’s explore how you can start with heart to dial up your magnetism, just by being more You for the month of Love!

Free To Love Me – Earth Heart & Love In Action

We begin our exploration of Heart Lines with the Earth Heart, those who manifest love best with the body. It’s the one place we all share. All the other heart lines extend out of this placement. When you’ve been through trauma, the blood flow pulls back to your core and Heart Lines actually fade out in the other three placements. Your Heart Line temporarily appears the darkest in the Earth Heart region. It is the place where we all meet – our bodies.

Now for that starting point for each of us, the Earth Heart Line. Those shorter, straighter lines end under the middle finger Saturn for a reason. Saturn loves to teach us how to take limits, restrictions and outside authority and use them like clay. Time to become the sculptor. You use imagination to give things form and function. Earth Hearts are love in action!

But here’s the sneaky part. Our fear brain goes to work limiting our greatest strengths. It’s because strength expands us into the unknown and the fear brain likes to survive. If it isn’t sure how to survive, it limits your superpowers. Fear likes status quo plus about an inch of new territory at a time. Even then it prefers the inch that has clearly identified results.

When you know you are a crack manifestor and you also know your fear brain likes to keep you in safe space, how then do you magnetize in more love? Great question, let’s find out.

What’s key to understand is that Earth Heart Lines had the least sense of safety when it comes to your emotions. That isn’t to blame your parents or any caretakers, sometimes circumstances themselves weren’t ideal. I see this in the children of military personnel or parents who had to struggle to survive. Emotional needs took a back seat to survival needs.

Once you know this then you can adjust how you operate now and, over time, the line will show you how well you do. We are going to keep it simple. This way it’s easier to maintain and do consistently. Because once your Earth Hearts get into a rhythm you are almost unstoppable.

So let’s get the three step action plan in place these next three weeks to dial up your magnetic factor for more abundant options to play with in manifesting. Fear prefers a limited and familiar path, which is why we slowly add a few key things to ease into space in a less frightening way.

The Plan to Expand with Heart

Week 2 – Step One – How to practice Deep Interest to give your fear brain much needed healing space. It’s free, legal and you can do it anywhere.

Week 3 Step Two – Listening to Hear gives you a new way of interacting with your fear brain to retrain it one difficult moment at a time.

Week 4 Step Three – Feeling With – gives you the way to build new intimacy skills right where you are at now. You can practice all the time and break old limits to love like a superhero.

Join a Gift Call with Lisa Greenfield 2/10 and watch her on Metaphysical Minds on 2/5 at 12:00 Noon EST for more insight into how you can dial up your love attractor factor this month. Make sure you tap into all the love you have available to you while you magnetize in more!

Author: Lisa Greenfield https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/lisa-greenfield

February 3, 2020govindsharma3101@gmail.com No commentsBest Psychics, Blog, Clairvoyant Readings, Conscious Living, Free, General, Life Coaching, Motivation, Psychic, Psychic Reader, Spirituality, Tips and Tricksfebruary | Lisa Greenfield | Love | palmistry

2020 Psychic of the Year Award Winner

Shay Parker’s Best American Psychics proudly announces Marc Lainhart as our 2020 Psychic of the Year Award winner! Marc joined our team in 2014 and has grown every year since. We feel he takes his work seriously and truly desires to make the difference in the world that we look for from our lightworkers. In 2015, we saw the effort that Marc invests, and awarded him with our Awesome Accolades Award. He has since delved deeply into much, much more training and development. Marc has grown his business, his spiritual following, and his radio show in that time period. His clients are very satisfied with the services they receive from Marc and his gifts and skill set.

Marc has proven himself in the psychic community as a true professional and has shown support and assistance to his fellow lightworkers and BAP. When asked, he participates in events, shows, and specials whenever he can make it work with his busy schedule. His schedule is full of offerings for the public and students. Marc offers mediumship events, forest hikes, spiritual prospecting, radio shows, a very active Facebook group, and more! He has also been generous in donating to charitable causes for our company.

We feel Marc exhibits a special exuberance and dedication to this work. It takes a concentrated effort to show up every week for shows and events. He has proven that he doesn’t want to let his following down, by airing from wherever he finds himself in travel for training, events, or even recreation. His clients feel strongly about this as well, as you can see from this recent review:

Marc is an incredible psychic, medium and person, who is easy to work with. He can connect with you over the phone or through video. I had two readings with Marc. He was very empathetic, and very positive about having me seeing bad events in a new, positive light. He provided me with real examples/evidence that could not be made up, including specific names that could not be searched for online. We also talked through my thoughts that I was experiencing which I’ve shared with no one. In many ways, Marc is a spiritual “therapist” that can help guide you through challenging times you are experiencing or will face. He provided me with suggestions for things I should be doing in my day-to-day life as well as helpful books/articles that I should read for my situation. I worked with Marc twice, and both times, he went over on time, free of charge, because of how our conversation went. This shows me that he is not just monetizing this business, and he truly cares about the well-beings of those who he helps. Most importantly, he doesn’t provide you with information to prove that he’s trying to “get it right” but he helps you to “help you” based on what energy he is connecting with. He has strong integrity for this work, and it shows. I believe I am in a healthier mindset because of Marc and I wholeheartedly refer him to you. Five stars for sure. – Maari F

As the above review hints, Marc reads for clients from around the world. He is a Spiritual Psychic-Medium, Metaphysical Teacher, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Thought Leader, Certified Healthcare Provider, Writer, and Radio Show Host. He reads on the Immediate Readings page BestAmericanPsychics.com/immediate-readings or you can also book a session with him through his profile page on our site.

Our company is excited to offer this award to Marc Lainhart, who always “Dares to Dream, Dares to Explore, Dares to LIVE!” – The Intuitive Prospector

Links for Marc: https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/marc-lainhart

https://www.MarcLainhart.com

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2020 BAP Social Activism Award Winner

Shay Parker’s Best American Psychics’ 2020 Social Activism Award winner is Nancy Smith. Nancy is an accomplished psychic medium, teacher, akashic record reader and spirit artist. Nancy is a Featured Blogger for BAP and has been a regular guest on Metaphysical Minds. She also volunteered her time and expertise to our 10^th Anniversary event. She gives this time of herself free of charge. In addition, Nancy helps others that are exploring their gifts and seeking training in this field by offering classes and practice at a very discounted rate. She has her own internet radio show (Angelscapes with Nancy Smith) where she offers her expertise on topics with the bonus of free readings to the public.

Nancy has joined forces with other members of the BAP team to promote this work and demonstrate the continuity of life. She is a generous team player and all-around lovely individual.

Her mediumship brings a great sense of healing to her clients. In particular, her spirit artist gifts are an added bonus and just another form of evidence for those struggling with loss. Sometimes it is difficult for us to believe that there is a true connection to the other side and that our loved ones are still with us. Nancy’s drawings help this process along, and therefore bring closure and healing to those stuck in grief.

Her skills as a writer also help with healing and spreading the light.

Nancy has been with BAP since 2015 and earned the respect of her clients and colleagues. She has been awarded both our Psychic of the Week and Psychic of the Month honors.

We feel she gives of herself on a regular basis in the name of this work. She is committed to educating others and helping them heal. She schedules many events and works hard at bringing her gifts to the public. It is for these reasons we feel she deserves this award and are proud to call her a Best American Psychic.

You can find Nancy on our Immediate Readings page, on her radio program, and you can book a session with her through her profile page on the site. All her links are below.

Links for Nancy Smith: https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/nancy-smith

https://angelscapes.net/

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2020 Paradigm Shift

As we embark on this journey into 2020 and beyond, we have collectively come through a major paradigm shift for humanity. We may not see the effects of this shift concretely as of yet. However, those events will all begin to unfold on not only the world stage, but in our individual lives as well. We will all start to notice that both internal and external transformations are occurring on a huge level, as outdated beliefs, past conditioning, old patterns and oppressive and limiting structures disintegrate and fall apart. The significant conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn that we have been feeling and experiencing through 2019, was exact on January 12, 2020. This will eventually cause us all to look at our lives from a different viewpoint. It will become very clear, if it has not already, what is no longer working for us. Those things which no longer bring us joy or that are not for our highest evolution of spirit will fall away. If we don’t allow them to fall away with grace, the Universe will step in and crush them. Because what was, no longer is, and can no longer be in this energy.

This also has an impact on a global scale, specifically with the old order, the patriarchal system that no longer works for humanity, and Mother Earth. The time has come for us to be responsible for our planet. This will begin to take the forefront and in the coming months and years and will change the way we coexist with each other and Mother Nature. The old way of doing things and existing on Earth can no longer exist in the higher vibrations that we as a planet are entering.

If this paradigm shift has not become completely clear to you already, look at your life and the elements, people, situations, locations, and ask yourself: How do all of these things make me feel on a soul level? If there are things that still exist in your world that not only don’t bring you joy, but make you feel depleted or less than, then it is clearly time to move away from those elements. This can sometimes feel like loss, but in the biggest picture there is no other way. The greatest loss would occur if we stayed in the same old patterns and dynamics that no longer work in this new energy field. If we try to force the old to remain, we will surely experience a much greater loss than embracing the newer high vibrational experiences that we all came here for in this lifetime.

As I mentioned in my last BLOG post, this energy is also ripe for manifestation. This Saturn and Pluto conjunction heightens karmic attraction. So, whatever we have been focusing on and putting out to the Universe, is going to be returned in great magnitude. So, it is critical to focus on what is positive, healing and of the highest vibration in this new energy. Those that have already embraced this dynamic shift will see their lives abound with blessings and an ability to manifest all the abundance we can imagine. Therefore, welcome this transformational energy with an open heart, with courage and an understanding in faith that it is all for the highest good of not only humanity but for each and every one of us on this planet.

Author: Goddess Gillian https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/goddess-gillian

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2020 Laser Vision

As we sit on the threshold of not only a new year, but a new decade, and more importantly, a paradigm shift for humanity, we must consider how we will maneuver in this new world dynamic. What do we want to contribute to humanity, and what do we want to manifest over the next several decades?

My name is Goddess Gillian and I have been a clairvoyant and clairaudient for most of my life. In addition, I have been actively focused on expanding my consciousness and my psychic abilities intensely over the last decade or more.

The last decade, and the last several years specifically, have been challenging in some aspect for every human on the planet. This global intensity helped me focus on training my mind to stay positive, in a state of gratitude and manifestation, even in the face of massive challenges. The lessons have been profound. During this time, it became clear to me that the reason that life on Earth has been so challenging and intense is because the planet and its inhabitants have been experiencing the growing pains that happen just prior to a paradigm shift.

What I’ve been seeing and feeling in my meditations, and readings, is that a massive energetic transformation is imminent for the entire human population. The last two years have been beyond what most humans have experienced in their lifetimes in terms of challenges and feeling thwarted. I’ve seen this across-the-board with my clients and have experienced it myself. But psychically, what I’m seeing now when looking at 2020 and beyond, is what appears to be a beautiful golden landscape that’s ripe for Manifestation! The energy of 2020 is like having laser vision after being in the dark for a very long time.

Validating this is the fact that the planet has actually moved into a place in the galaxy that has much more light. The light waves hitting the planet now are more than the human race has experienced in tens of thousands of years. This is causing shifts in the planet as a whole energetically and we, as its inhabitants, are transforming our DNA, and coming into a state of expansion of consciousness and spiritual growth and awareness.

2020 is a significant demarcation of this new energy hitting the planet and the vibrational change that it will bring. So, as you embark on this new year, new decade, and new type of energy, think about what you want to manifest Your life and the lives of your children and your children’s children. This is a turning point for humankind.

In this beautiful golden landscape of 2020 that is ripe for manifesting, are you going to throw out seeds of abundance, joy, financial success, amazing health, true love…Or are you or are you going to throw out seeds of fear, anxiety, and longing?? In this new energetic landscape, the seeds you throw out with your thoughts, words, and actions, will manifest faster and more expansive than anything you’ve ever experienced in your lifetime.

People that have really been wallowing in self-pity, blame, and playing the victim role will likely suffer exponentially in this new energy, as they will manifest more of the same on a grand scale. Therefore, it’s critical to focus on what is positive, and what is abundant, and what brings you joy. Those things will manifest into the most abundant time that you’ve ever experienced in your life and will trickle down to generations to come!

Knowing this, all light workers are being called forth at this time to focus on positivity in order to assist in the ascension of humanity into this higher vibration and frequency. The laser beam energy of 2020 will allow us to focus our minds to beam out positivity to the collective. This will help humanity take a quantum leap into our highest manifestation as Light Beings.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ~ NEW DECADE ~ NEW ENERGY!

Author: Goddess Gillian https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/goddess-gillian

January 6, 2020govindsharma3101@gmail.com No commentsBest Psychics, Blog, Clairvoyant Readings, Conscious Living, Free, General, Motivation, Psychic Reader, Spirituality, Tips and Tricks, Wellness2020 | Goddess Gillian | laser vision | Shift

There is something called the collective consciousness. Wikipedia defines it thus: Collective consciousness, collective conscience, or collective conscious (French: conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.^[1] In general, it does not refer to the specifically moral conscience, but to a shared understanding of social norms.

When the holidays roll around, it can be very difficult to follow our individual hearts and minds when it comes to how we really feel we want to be and act vs the almost overwhelming pull to join the bandwagon “just because…” Just because…what exactly? Tradition? Our upbringing? Expectation? Or the collective consciousness? For people who are grieving loss, dealing with a depression perhaps, ill, exhausted, or just simply wanting a break from the demand of the winter holiday season and all that seems to automatically go along with it, it can be downright dreadful.

I know for me personally, with one child launched in the world, and the other on the precipice this year, and most of our parents passed, Christmas (our holiday) and New Year and all that comes with it feels very different for our family now. I also, by my nature, can wax very nostalgic and sentimental, so I could really go down a rabbit hole grieving what was, and is no more etc. Then the thought of all the decorating, hosting of friends, shopping, rushing around makes me want to dive under the covers until January 2! Sound familiar? But…. then there’s the part of me, the child within who adores the lights, the wonderment, the heart expanding feeling in the air of the spirit of the season; kindness, thoughtfulness, merriment, and music. So, here’s what I am suggesting for those who are relating to this article so far…do what FEELS RIGHT FOR YOU! Decorate or don’t. Give gifts, or don’t. Make special plans, prepare certain foods, entertain, OR DON’T. I encourage you to be aware of what feels real and true in your heart. What feels right in your body, your energy level. Then stop, and really ask yourself, why am I doing this? Or not doing that? Do I feel I am SUPPOSED to because it’s what we do in December and January? (The collective consciousness) …or because other people are expecting me to? What would it feel like to not decorate? Or perhaps just a whisper of decoration this time? What is true, and authentic in my motivation this holiday season? I am offering the idea of giving yourself PERMISSON to pause, reflect, and then decide to act or not, or any shade between the two! You are not lazy, wrong, weird, selfish, lost or my favorite; a Scrooge if you a). don’t partake, or b). partake somewhat in the holiday traditions. When you are authentic and connected with yourself, and not on auto pilot, you may find you wish to do small warm and lovely things for yourself, your home and others. Light a candle and weep for your missed loved ones. Soothe your soul with a piece of music you love and hot bath. Call a friend you genuinely want to connect with. GO out into the cold crisp wintry air and breathe in deeply, perhaps with gratitude for the small easy things of life. Simplify.

Give yourself the gift of truth this year. Your own truth. And see how brightly your own inner light can shine.

Author: Katherine Glass https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/katherine-glass

A Different Kind of Holiday

My family celebrates Christmas, meaning the traditional exchanging of gifts on December 25^th. I found an article written about a family that was foregoing all the purchasing, wrapping and exchanging of more STUFF. It really resonated with me. So, I reached out to my family; two grown boys and my husband, suggesting that we try this. I got a very enthusiastic yes! I’m just tired. Tired of the holidays bringing so much unnecessary stress and exhaustion. The race against time to overspend, grab stuff for people that they don’t need just because I can’t leave them off my gift list. I may sound like a scrooge but stay with me for a moment.

When I sent my thoughts to my older son, his response was this:

“I think one thing that makes our Christmas time so special is the moment of waking up, coming downstairs and expecting a surprise. Then, focusing one by one on each of us as we individually open gifts. These moments of attention towards each one of us is so special! How often do we sit in a room and pay full attention to the actions of one single person as they indulge in an act of joy (opening a gift)? I think it’s possible to create this similar experience in ways which eliminate store-bought, unethical/unsustainable gifts, but include the surprise, attention and presence. The gift of your time, digital goods (online classes for example), tickets for experiences (like music, travel, etc.) are some ideas.”

After I had made this suggestion to my family, I started to panic and backpedal a bit for fear it wouldn’t “feel” like Christmas. I read again my son’s ideas and perspective and I began to feel excited. The point is not to NOT give a gift to your loved one at the holidays, but more to be true to what’s real for you. For me, I don’t need any more stuff that’s for sure. I think many of us could admit that every year we go through scramble and stress to hurry and buy something we think that person would want. I believe the relationships and the gesture of thought behind the gift giving is far more valuable and meaningful. Consider spending time with someone as your gift. Write a heartfelt card to them. Offer to help a loved one who may need some of your time with a project that they may fear to ask for.

The world is changing, and not all of it is for the better. The environment needs our awareness now more than ever before. We are busy and distracted by the electronic cyber world that is now the fabric of our daily lives. The holiday season is an opportunity to make connection with the people we have and care about in our lives. Consider a gift that will help the person your giving to feel more connected with you, and with themselves. Slow down to be conscious of the person your giving to, and what you want to convey to them by giving them a gift. I believe if we all do this, our light will shine brighter because we are happy, relaxed and present with our presents.

Author: Katherine Glass https://bestamericanpsychics.com/listing/katherine-glass