Psychic Lois

2011, YEAR OF MASTERY!

2012-01-16T05:17:00.000-08:00

2011, Year of Mastery? I can almost hear you say, “Are you crazy? It was the worst year I can remember. First there were a series of disasters in the world and then at least three or more in my personal life. What kind of ‘mastery’ is that??!!

O.K. I know many of us have seen our dreams dissolve or at least take a startling side track. I realize globally it has been a year of distressing weather. Hundreds of souls left the planet to “go home”. Many of the institutions we had counted on, depended on, simply failed.

On Sunday January 1, 2012 in an attempt to sooth our lives and emotions, perhaps improve our upcoming experiences, many churches and other groups held “burning bowl” ceremonies. The very personal situations that individuals wanted to release from 2011 were written on slips of paper and burned. That is fine but I just have a different point of view.

For me 2011 was a year when magnificent changes in perspective began to appear. People began to accept more responsibility for their own lives. Suddenly it became clear that each of is the architect of our own personal future.

In fact with meditation and perseverance many of us diligently searched and began to find our own answers. We began listening to our own spirits and higher selves. We no longer depended on governments or corporate institutions to think for us. That is what I see as the beginnings of Self Mastery!

Yes, for me 2011 was a beautiful time. I found wonderful new friends. I expanded my healing-teaching practice in ways I had not considered previously. New practical tools for teaching intuitive development came to me. I earned my Clinical Hypnotist certification.

I will always see 2011 as a time of great personal progress. It was a time when I assimilated new ideas, new ways of living. Even in the difficult and “prickly” times, and there were many, I understood the advantages of change no matter how sudden, dramatic and startling.

I do not wish to “burn” any of 2011. Instead I intend to carry the lessons learned and the knowledge acquired into 2012 to be analyzed, understood, incorporated and used in my new year to the best of my ability.

While I am eagerly anticipating what the new year may bring, I remain steadfastly grateful for every one of my experiences of the year just past. At least from my point of view 2011 was indeed a “Master Year”.

WHAT ARE WE CREATING?

2011-09-05T13:31:00.000-07:00

What are we creating through our habitual thoughts and emotions? Is it what we are intending to create? When we say we long for peace, peace between neighbors, peace between communities, countries, religions or races, let us be sure to look at where our attention is actually placed.

It seems obvious that we cannot manifest peace on any level if in our desire to do so our words and thoughts seem to “celebrate” and emotionally relive past discords. If we use our energy to rehearse and amplify all of the old disharmonies including various true atrocities that are part of our human history, thereby refusing to release the past, what are we really expecting to gain?

When we hope to enjoy a much advanced level of living in our future, where love and peace prevail, we must carefully choose today what we affirm by our thoughts, our words and particularly our emotions.

Whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, we are all part of the one energy of life. What you and I project through our actions inevitably affects the whole. If we are willing to send forth the Light of Spirit, the Love that we are made of, that activity becomes a powerful affirmation and force which lifts others while changing our personal experiences.

Adversely, looking for peace, cooperation and love while continuing to live in judgment, refusing to forgive, offers a predictably unpleasant result.

Let us agree to release the fears, worries and disasters of the past. All of the lessons of yesterday have brought us to the wisdom of new desires and new actions.

Come along with me to see the worth in all life right here, right now. For it remains true that at the very core and heart of each of us is the Spark of the Holy and the Divine.

Reverend Lois Cheney
RevLois@gmail.com

AFFIRMATIONS/GOALS/PRIORITIES

2011-07-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

Last night seemed the perfect time to take a look at my list of intentions, the desires I have for my future. I like to keep everything in that written list fresh and current. Reason being I tend to design potentially powerful affirmations concerning those situations I want to create in my life. Naturally those affirmations need to be kept up to date and as lively as possible.

Funny thing, as I went down that list I discovered my priorities had changed. Those all-important number one items had slipped to number five or were completely out! I shouldn’t have been surprised. I am not the same woman I was a few months ago or perhaps even a few weeks ago.

We all change as we go through life learning, getting a slap or two and hopefully awakening to our Spirit focus with more clarity. It only makes sense that those desires we embraced yesterday or last week or last year as our all-important goals lose their luster. Thankfully over time as our goals change they have a tendency to become more inspiration driven than ego demanded. Yes, we begin to access our inner silence where all power resides and start listening with our hearts.

Perhaps it would be helpful if I explained what caused me so much introspection yesterday. For some reason I felt compelled to spend some time sorting through my clothes closet. It seemed over full. I tried on this, that and the other dress and suit becoming more and more dissatisfied. Finally I hit on the reason for rejecting nearly all the “going out” clothes.

Why? It was not that the hot weather of Tucson demanded different attire. It was not that any of those items were worn out or even unfashionable. No, the reason was that the clothing I had saved and preserved so carefully just was not “me” anymore. They physically fit just fine. The problem was they no longer spiritually fit. I changed. The outfits had not. They represented the old me not the new and improved version.

My first thought was to send all of the “stuff”, no matter how presentably clean and neat, to the thrift store. I probably should have done just that but I am a little too conservative. However, I immediately gathered up three of the most unsuitable and took them to the nearby store. They will all go there eventually, probably one or two pieces at a time as I feel able to let go of the past “me” they represent.

Change is sometimes daunting even when it involves a few pieces of clothing. I am grateful to be able to understand what I was feeling yesterday. Simply understanding gives me a path to move forward with surer, clearer, more obvious and apparent steps. I love my life. I love my work. And I want to be completely able to accept and embrace all the changes as they come.

I hope all your changes and adjustments are easy ones. But, if they are not, be grateful for the newness they bring to your life and smile anyway! It really helps.

Reverend Lois Cheney
RevLois@gmail.com

CAGES?

2011-07-07T12:31:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately it seems to me that we are all living in a world of cages. Holding tight to our lives we are trapped by our own ideas of right and wrong, up and down, in and out. I believe we have created individual steel-walled, reinforced mental cages. As esoteric, enlightened or spiritual as we may feel we are, for many of us it is still only occasionally that we take a chance to peek out and get a glimpse of, or a feel for, the world that others occupy.

Having taken the brief opportunity to weigh and judge the ideas and lives of others, we quickly dart back into the mental prison of our own making. Is it fear that makes us act this way? Perhaps we are fearful that our concepts are not as perfect as we perceive them. Are we fearful of the possible contamination of our minds by other points of view? Or could it possibly be that we are simply more comfortable with what we “know” than the unknown and un-experienced?

Consider this: we do know that our physical world is not at all as solid as it appears to be. Even our bodies are more air and space than anything else. Quantum physics tells us we are the ultimate in “spaciousness”. All those molecules and atoms we see as the real and solid “us” are in constant motion: grouping, regrouping, changing. So much movement happening continually that in theory any one of us could be displaying physical sickness in one nanosecond and through a focused intention on our part be well and healthy in the next instant. Change is that much a part of our reality. We and our world are malleable.

So if we acknowledge that our personal bodies are very much nonsolid and ultimately highly changeable, perhaps our ideas cannot be, should not be, solid as well. Maybe we should approach our thinking with the possibility of infinitely ranging, ever changing, and flexible thoughts rather than finite.

If we take a closer look at some of our lively nighttime dream adventures, it becomes obvious there is utterly no restriction of ideas or thoughts within that world of ours. Creativity reigns in those productions. Perhaps we might look at that level of fluidness as something to acquire or at least experiment with in daytime thought.

On a scientific level, the only way advances have occurred is through the efforts of those curious souls who were freely exploring and embracing the principle of “what if?” I believe the time has come that we must begin to see our world and our lives that way. I encourage you to bring “what if?” to your everyday method of thinking. It will not hamper your decision making. It will simply enlarge your possibilities.
For instance, what if there other ways to live, share and enjoy? What if I can accept and love others more while judging less? What if my ideas and beliefs could benefit from a good old fashioned expansion and new direction? What if I could help mother earth in a hundred different ways? What if I could see others from a higher point of view? What if I can acknowledge that Today is as Wonderful, Useful and Beautiful as Tomorrow?

Always remember when those new ideas come, write them down. Keep a journal. The simple act of writing your ideas in detail allows you to access growth-filled power and energy for the expansion of their innate concepts.
As you are reading this, know that I wish you, your family, your friends and your loved ones the dual blessings of great wisdom and all pervasive love.
RevLois@gmail.com

THE FIRST RULE OF LOVE

2011-06-27T13:40:00.000-07:00

What is the First Rule of Love? It is to listen, to be fully present and to intently listen. Listening is a skill that very few of us have taken the time to fully practice.

What makes the act of listening a rule of love or perhaps an example of love in action? It is simply this: when we take the time to thoughtfully listen to others, being completely aware of, and in the “now” moment, we are truly accessing our own ability to offer unconditional love and acceptance.

As most of us are aware the unconditional kind of love that Spirit asks of us comes only when we allow and accept others to be just as they are without judging. When we take the time to thoughtfully listen to the ideas, thoughts, desires and fears of others (without formulating our own response before they are finished) we are acknowledging that “you” are as important and valuable as “me”!

Being willing to give attention to others requires effort and more than a little discipline. No matter how spiritual we feel we are, there is that little voice, mostly ego, which says we and our ideas are somehow “right”. However there are rewards in making that extra effort to give an opportunity to others to be heard.

If you have ever worked in a business situation you are aware of the value of knowing the feelings of employees as well as employers. Information and new ideas allow improvement in the workplace. Certainly in everyday life gathering fresh ideas can lead to broader understanding and the possibility of real wisdom.

But there is one aspect of listening that is perhaps the most important of all. That listening can only happen in the depths of the silence of meditation where Spirit, your High Self and Soul dwell.

If you want to truly know and experience the expansion of your personal life path, enter into that sacred silence and listen with your mind and your heart. All the direction and help you will ever need are waiting for you there. Now is the time. It is never too late. YOU CAN LIVE YOUR PURPOSE!

When we are willing to become still and earnestly desire guidance there is yet one more tool that will help. That tool is gratitude. Express your gratitude for all that is in your life whether it is health or sickness, friends or enemies, every experience in the past or present because all of that has made you who you are today. Through it all you have been taught and you have learned!

I firmly believe that gratitude and love are inseparable. In the most deeply felt thankfulness we cannot help but love all of life. Gratitude brings us into the awareness of how holy and magnificent a gift this life is.

www.TucsonPsychicMedium
RevLois@gmail.com

IS TODAY THE DAY?

2011-05-19T08:58:00.000-07:00

Is today the day I finally let go of my beliefs about the past? Is today the day I stop replaying my childhood experiences and live the woman I can be in the now? Yes, is true that my earlier years were filled with emotional pain, a kind of deprivation. Is that a good reason to cling to those memories?

The event that brought all these thoughts to the surface for me in last night’s dreams was the anniversary of my Mother’s birth. Even though she has been on the other side for more than 15 years I realize I am still dealing with the old feelings. I am still blaming her!

Because I received very sparse or no affection as a child, there are thoughts that I was not loved and perhaps not lovable. There are still ideas nudging me that if I cannot please someone, some material thing, some privilege, will be taken away.

It is now obvious to me why I entered a difficult marriage when I was so young. In my hopeful escape of childhood it was highly predictable that the marriage would turn out to be yet another voyage lacking outward affection. If I needed further convincing that I was unworthy of loving affection, that union provided it.

All of this must seem extremely foolish meanderings for someone of my age and yet my problem is there, quite real, and needs to be dealt with. In fact all those fear filled ideas are giving my ego the control over my life it wants and needs for its survival.

I have many times rationalized mother’s behavior. She and I were abandoned by my father before I was two years old. Why wouldn’t she feel unloved? Why wouldn’t she turn become wary of expressing any love to others? Somehow all of the rationality I can summon does not fix the problem. It falls back on me to begin the process of forgiving her and forgiving myself.

All the mental knowledge I have does not remove the emotional pain.

So how to begin? I know that we “hand pick” the situation of our birth and our family long before our arrival here on earth. I know that the reasons of our family situations are solely for the purpose of our soul growth. We come here to learn the lessons the earth offers. I know that many times those lessons are pain filled.

At this late date it is of no great importance now for me to know if I was working out some karmic debt. What matters is what growth I allow myself. Will I set about making amends to myself with love and compassion for the past and the present?

In reality there is nothing for which to forgive my mother. Her destined part in our mutual lives was planned long ago. She played her soul’s role well. Yet I must forgive her because I have blamed her for so much.

It is my promise to myself that I will begin reaching out to my mother’s soul with understanding and love. I want to free her from any negativity that I have foolishly placed on her. My desire is for each of us to be free to access as much soul growth as we wish.

In order for me to be the complete ”grownup” I wish to be, I must heal that little child who still cries within. If any of you can resonate with my hurt and feel your personal inner child is still a little lost, consider taking some remedial action. When your personal child is happy, comfortable with life and loved, your adult actions all become easier and clearer. You can begin seeing life with a much broader perspective.

It is easy to see that actively judging and blaming myself or others does affect my life but not in any positive way. On the other hand I have found that when I love and forgive myself, I am much more allowing and accepting of the sometimes surprising or unusual actions of others! It is a double win.

Take an open-hearted look at your life yesterday and today. If you find something that needs extra love and forgiveness, do not wait. Love, love, love! Rest assured that the love you send out will multiply and come back to you. Begin now. Times a wasting!

JUST A LITTLE “EXTRA”

2011-04-24T07:37:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I made a decision. I decided that every client who came to me for a reading, a chakra clearing, intuitive development or any other of my services should receive “extra”. Although I have always given my best, I felt every one of them deserved even more channeled energy, more information and more personal attention to their needs and desires.

While it is true that I never have set a “timer” on my services, this was going the next step. I wanted everyone I served to feel that they were receiving the best available without any reservations, absolutely no holding back on my part. I wanted them to receive my undivided attention and feel that they were the focus of all my efforts for the entire time we were together.

It seemed like a simple enough decision on the surface. Certainly I didn’t want any complacency to creep into my work. What happened next was anything but simple.

That one decision seemed to put all of my personal guides and teachers on high alert. An intense flow of information began coming to me whenever I was working with someone. Startling new insights and personal revelations were forthcoming.

The result of all the higher level guidance which poured through me into others was a series of astounding breakthroughs not only for me but for many of my clients. Many times I found myself in complete awe of the changes that happened to individuals in any one session. The bright colors and intense sounds that arrived were of a new wave length. There was a feeling that people became alive in a way they never had been before.

I am not aware of all the reasons that I decided to inculcate the policy of “extra” but I will always be grateful that I made it a permanent and important part of my work. Giving more has not only brought greater satisfaction to me as I view the dynamic results, it has brought a higher level of spirit realization to my clients.

As I think about it, perhaps giving the “extra” is in essence a result of my basic decision that everyone deserves the very best. It is simply my way of being certain that every soul I serve receives my unconditional love and acceptance.

Whatever work you do, whatever employment or job you perform, I can highly recommend giving it your highest and best, your personal “extra”. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Thank you angels, guides, masters and teachers. You are always with me and I am grateful.

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RevLois@gmail.com

QUITTING IS EASY!

2011-04-04T10:25:00.000-07:00

Yes, quitting is easy, so simple to succumb to the depressing hopelessly negative energies that seem to surround us today and just give up. All too easy to let go, embracing defeat, when we see financial institutions failing, countries torn apart by war and devastating weather phenomenon striking over and over again.

But why should we let any of this drive us down? What we need to acknowledge and fully embrace is this fact: through all of this we continue to be individually capable of designing the success of our own lives. Do not give up! The truth remains we are not now and never have been at the mercy of any of the bad news.

How can we be successful as well as happy when we are faced with all of the negatives? The answer is simple. Our paths always are controlled and shaped by our own personal thoughts, beliefs and emotions. By changing our attitudes and feelings we change our experiences of the world and our lives.

It remains true that nothing, no circumstance, no person, can have control over us unless we allow it, unless we unquestioningly accept beliefs other than our own. Certainly we can accept things as they appear on the surface or we can deny their reality in our lives. We absolutely are capable of moving forward with our own most positive intentions.

Undeniably at this time in earth’s history, we may find it necessary to rethink much of what we have depended upon, much of our usual support system. It might be that we would find it important to create a new career, change our usual way of creating financial freedom. Perhaps one or more of us might see the need to change geographic location for comfort or even safety.

A wise astrologer friend of mine told me a long time ago (no matter the situation, or the challenge) “You are never stuck!” Not stuck in a relationship, not stuck in a location, not stuck in an occupation. Fortunately I believed my friend. As a result I am a lot more flexible than I was only a few years ago.

My hope for all of you is that you find yourself more adaptable and more incredibly flexible than ever before. I intend for you that you keep strongly moving through life’s changes with purposeful understanding and an open heart. You are the master of your destiny. Your life is incredibly important.

Allow as many opportunities in your life as you can think, dream or imagine. The possibilities are truly endless!

“WHEREVER YOU GO…”

2011-03-20T12:38:00.000-07:00

“Wherever you go, there you are.” Yes it is true to some degree. Whether you are moving to or away from, you absolutely do carry your “self,” your life path focus and goals, with you. Happy or unhappy, open minded or closed, peaceful or warring, giving or taking, your “self” is virtually unchanging unless you make the considerable effort to institute measurable change.

“Running away” may not solve anything but it might also be important to consider that different locations, different groups of people tend to bring out varied aspects of the “self”, either better or worse. Perhaps “running to” might create positive change.

Think about this: Do you feel or speak in the same way with a small group of peaceful spiritually advanced people as you do with two or three antagonistic, hostile folks?

I realize that presents an extreme comparison but when you consider that like attracts like, could it be that those of a certain mindset might gather together for mutual support and comfort whether they are aware of it or not?

If you found yourself surrounded by people whose values were completely opposite of yours, so completely opposite that they made you uncomfortable, would you physically step away from them?

Going even further, what if those of any similar beliefs and actions also preferred a particular geographic area? If that might be true, then would one physical housing location be more amenable to you than another?

We know that some of you feel at home only in the mountains. Others obtain inspiration and comfort by being near the ocean or a stream of water. Some feel the need for the open plains.

So if you are interested in portraying, utilizing the best part of you, your most creative, dynamic self, where would you live? Who or what would you be near? Would you start a totally new job? How would you organize your day to day life?

I ask these questions particularly today because there is a greater feeling of unrest in the world, a need to keep moving, than many of us have ever experienced before. I believe part of that unrest stems from the fact that we seek assurance that we are doing the best for ourselves and our world.

In other words we are beginning to realize our responsibility not only to ourselves but to humanity in general. We feel an urgency to use our highest abilities. We are willing to make any changes that will help us to do so.

To accomplish this outcome of productivity, as you go through your day, take note of your emotions. What makes you restless? What gives you a feeling of accomplishment filled with deep joy? Are you dealing effectively with you surroundings? Could some small or large changes of location or relationships improve your personal effectiveness?

I believe that each one of you incarnated on earth at this very special time to use your creativity, your unique abilities to aid in the ascension of all humanity. It seems important to institute whatever changes will allow you to be your most loving and productive best.

Keep moving forward. Know that I see this as an important and blessed time for you and the earth.

www.SedonaPsychicReader.com
RevLois@gmail.com

TOMATOES AND BANANAS MUST NOT MIX?

2011-02-22T07:44:00.000-08:00

Doing some miscellaneous reading the other day, I happened on to a passage that said “while tomatoes are a fruit (scientifically) we mustn’t put them in a fruit salad!”

It set me to thinking. Why not? What awful thing would happen if the two were to meet in a fruit salad? Would their various components attack each other? Have we ever actually tried the two together? Or is it simply that we have learned that this combination is unacceptable practice or incorrect for some other reason?

Now I do not suggest that we must all try this different form of fruit salad! No, what I am suggesting is that just maybe each of us might have some other suspect ideas in our life beliefs.

Could it be that we are individually or collectively holding on to ideas that have no legitimate basis? Our lives might benefit by presenting some of those ideas concerning “correct and not correct,” “good and bad” with a little closer analysis.

As you may have guessed the look at our personal beliefs could span an enormous number of subjects. After all it was all too easy to accept those ideas about right and wrong, national origin, religious faiths, and modes of dress that we felt or heard as children. We might have learned not to speak unless spoken to or offer our own feelings or thoughts at any given time!

All I am suggesting is that whenever we turn away from a new idea, a new relationship, a new thought, we ask ourselves WHY? What is the deeper reason for rejecting this? Is the rejection based on known facts or an automatic deeply engrained habit? Perhaps it is a totally legitimate action or reaction but it is healthier to determine the reasons behind the reasons.

When we allow ourselves to be open to the new things of life trying different tastes and adventures, we become more “spacious”. We begin to completely actualize our lives. We live a fuller more beautiful experience of our life path. We can see the way to enlightenment perhaps even to our own ascension.

Plus, once in a while you might just find that you actually like a splash of “tomatoes with your bananas” even on a crispy lettuce leaf!

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RevLois@gmail.com

WORRY: SELF REPLICATING EMOTION!

2011-02-13T11:33:00.000-08:00

What is worry? Nothing at all but the entertaining of unfounded fear. Perhaps we fear that the current seemingly negative situation is much more threatening to us than it actually is or that it is becoming worse. Or we believe our imagination which continually hammers at us telling us that something awful that has not happened, will happen. In any case through worry we allow our fear to control us.

When fear is left on its own, not dealt with, it grows larger and begins to spread. What originally was about one possible problem suddenly becomes numerous possible problems. The emotion of worry continually feeds itself and manifests in unexpected, unpleasant ways as our life experience.

If we acknowledge that emotion of any kind is a powerful creative fuel, it makes sense that we would want to feed our emotions with more positive thoughts and words.

Instead of continual worry expressed through our ideas, our spoken words or even worse in our written letters, we might begin making a difference in our emotional lives by being alert to the influence of worry and then erasing it when it occurs. So what should we do, what action should we take, when worry raises its ugly head?

There is nothing like physical exercise to bring in fresh energy and ideas. Go for a walk, head for the gym. It is difficult if not impossible to worry while you’re breathing hard from a workout. Another sure fire cure and a way to change your focus is to do something for somebody else. You can always find someone who needs a cheerful word or a helping hand.

Take time in the morning to write a comprehensive list of all the things and people you are thankful for. Don’t forget to include the fact that your earth life offers you an ongoing opportunity for soul growth. If worry still creeps in you also can escort it out of your way by sending peaceful, confidence filled thoughts to your own heart and mind.

When we make a firm decision to truly love and appreciate ourselves for our efforts (regardless of all our apparent foibles and occasional confusion) our self confidence will allow us to make our way through all kinds of intruding worries and challenges with personal esteem intact.

Thoughts, emotions, words, written ideas are all energy-carrying powerful creators. The test, before you send any energy into the world, is to consider what it is capable of manifesting in your world. Is the result what you want? Will you create more problems or more solutions with the ideas you are presenting?

It is tempting to tell friends, relatives, perhaps even strangers about your problems. The fact is no one really enjoys listening to your fears or difficulties. The result of amplifying your fearful challenges is not a pleasant nor happy anticipation for others.

On a personal note there are many mornings when I need to tell myself with enthusiasm that I am “young, strong and healthy. My body knows it and my body shows it!” Why would I feed myself those thoughts? Simply because there are times when I would rather stay in bed and wallow! Occasionally I also might throw in something like “I have plenty of energy to share and to spare!”

Remember that your words, thoughts and feelings can be self-fulfilling prophecy! Be aware of your prophecies! May all your manifestations bring you overflowing Joy!

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RevLois@gmail.com

Every Thought, Every Word, Every Emotion

2011-02-02T09:03:00.000-08:00

Yes, every thought, word or emotion that you have ever expressed or entertained is responsible to a greater or lesser degree for the quality of your life now and the situations that you encounter today and tomorrow.

If you are currently enjoying a “sunny skies” quality of life with good personal relationships, plenty of money, a beautifully designed home in your dream location, I would have to surmise that your thought patterns, along with your words to yourself and others, lean heavily toward the most positive energy. I would go further and say you have drawn all these pleasurable circumstances to you.

Because you and I are virtual magnets attracting everything to ourselves in accordance with the energy we exude, we also are obviously capable of changing our experiences by changing our attitudes. Nothing attracts more quickly than a repeated statement or thought accompanied by the hot fuel of strong emotion!

Anytime there is an opportunity to praise a person or situation, do it! Anytime you can offer a positive suggestion with love or offer a helping hand, do it! Need I say that good deeds and good words draw a world of good to you?

But remember too to be very gentle with yourself. We all make what we see as mistakes from time to time, but do not be harsh in judging yourself. Make a correction with an interior smile. Know that next time you will do better. Forgiving yourself, not condemning yourself, loving yourself always, allows you to be forgiving and loving toward others.

Admittedly we all have unpleasant ideas from time to time that hopefully we banish as soon as we recognize them. However, it is the oft repeated thoughts mixed with heavy emotion that form themselves in our experiences.

Even worse are the hurtful thoughts that we write. Placing negative ideas on paper, amplifying them by writing them down, gives them increased energy, a longer “life” and multiplies the possibility of drawing more and more similar negativity into our lives.

What would you like to experience tomorrow and the days thereafter? What do you deeply desire in your heart of hearts? Write it out! Put your beautiful flowing ideas on paper. Read them. Reread them. Adjust them as you feel led to do. Give them the happy living energy that creates.

For myself I manifest most easily if I repeatedly hear my own intended good. In other words, I am impressed by my own spoken word. My method to accomplish this is to record my ideas in the present tense as if they were already fully formed and in my life today. Then I play that cassette on my tape recorder at least once a day to imbed the ideas in my subconscious mind.

In other words I might record something like “I am so pleased that my new business is not only up and running but the income from it doubles every month!” Or if my concern was with a physical body situation I could say “How wonderful it is that I am more flexible and energized than when I was in high school! It is great that I have arrived at my perfect weight xxx lbs.” If friendships are the challenge perhaps something like “Being surrounded by so many happy and supportive friends makes my life complete.”

Whatever area of your life you wish to improve just be sure to frame those words to yourself as if they were already a fact. Also only speak or write words that you are able to believe and accept. Going too “far out” with your intentions can defeat you by infusing your mind with doubts. I must also emphasize that I do all of this work in absolute privacy and secrecy. It is all too easy to allow your intentions to be destroyed if you carelessly share them with others thereby soliciting opposing opinions.

How wonderful that the subconscious is an obedient and trustworthy servant. It never asks whether the information you repeat to it is true. No, it simply reaches out to the universe to create your desire in the form you wish.

As you begin programming positive changes in your life and experiences, remember that it is not a matter of making no effort. As you fill your subconscious with the new pictures of your life you will begin to receive ideas of actions that you need to take to move things along. You might get a feeling of joining a particular club, making a change in your work place or eating different foods. Be sure to act on the ideas that resonate with your intuition.

If ever you find yourself getting far too tense and wound up over something, look for a little humor in the situation. If you will adjust your focus, I believe you can find something to laugh about in anything. Although, so as not to offend, you might have to restrain a giggle till you are out of ear shot. As a tonic and healing elixir laughter will bring relaxation to your mind and body, and hopefully a better perspective on any challenge.

One last thought: watch where and on what you are placing your powerful emotions. Love, passion, wonder, excitement and pervasive curiosity are just some of the emotions that can be used for positive creating. But allowing yourself to be angry over events you cannot control is only inviting more negativity. Instead turn to a daily practice of seeking out the highest and best in everything and everyone.

Remember emotion properly applied is the catalyst, the real fuel that will help you to manifest surely and quickly the good you desire! I wish each one of you Happy Creating.

www.SedonaPsychicReader.com
RevLois@gmail.com

ENERGY LIVES!

2011-01-12T08:04:00.000-08:00

The Love and Light you give forth never dies. In fact, nothing positive is ever wasted. When you send loving light and healing from the depths of your soul, it may be rejected by the person or situation where it is sent. Do not let that discourage you from sending healing and enlightenment to others. The target of your energy projection may refuse to accept. Nevertheless believe me when I say that your loving intent and the energy you provided will be picked up and used by someone. Energy does not die.

It was many years ago that my late husband was called to use his remarkable healing ability with a young father who was dying of cancer. The whole family was present in the home. My husband took the gentleman to another room for privacy. About an hour later my husband and his patient emerged. The young man was free of pain for the first time in many weeks.

As my husband Jim and I prepared to leave, Jim walked up to an older man in the room and touched him on the chest and said “You need to stop smoking.” With that we went home.

Unfortunately the father with cancer was not receptive to any of the suggestions my husband had given him. He refused to make any changes. He would not accept any of the healing energy other than pain relief. Apparently in his depression he had already made the decision to leave the earth plane. In fact, adamantly resisting the love offered from his family and friends, he died only a few days later, well in advance of his doctor’s prediction.

Here though is the remarkably interesting part of the story. It was probably two years afterward that we encountered the older man to whom my husband had spoken and touched. When he recognized us he said, “You probably don’t remember me but you touched me on the chest one night long ago. You said I needed to quit smoking. At the time I was going through three packs of cigarettes a day. I stopped that night and have never smoked since. There were absolutely no symptoms of ‘with drawl’. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and my wife thanks you as well.”

It is my belief that the healing energy which the young father rejected was given directly to the older man through the conduit of my husband’s hand. Because the gentleman was receptive he received the healing. Energy lives. It is never wasted.
Let me recount another healing energy event. My husband and I dearly loved my mother. We knew that she was very ill and earnestly hoped she would accept a healing. Because we lived many miles away, we meditated and energized ourselves late one evening preparing to send her distant healing. We worked with sending our healing projections until we felt we had sent enough energy to help her. We decided it was time to sleep.

In what seemed like only an instant after preparing for bed, all of the energy we sent to her rushed right back to us. It was obvious that Mother had subconsciously decided that her time had arrived and very effectively blocked all our efforts. As a result we were so completely filled with the energy which we had intended for her use that there was no sleeping possible for either of us. We worked with other projects long into the night.
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nergy does not die. Energy is never wasted. Even when you see no results, keep using your Love and Light for the best you can envision. It may be picked up and used by a total stranger but I guarantee you someone somewhere will be thanking you for your gift.

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WRITING IS POWERFUL AND CREATIVE

2011-01-01T08:43:00.000-08:00

It has arrived! It is the first day of the first month of the new year 2011, 1-1-11. In many places around the world people are making heartfelt resolutions to personally improve their coming months and some are already breaking the resolutions they made. All of us earnestly long to have some better life experiences whether in relationships, health, finances or some aspect of personal growth. We want to see good changes in our lives!

Positive resolutions are good. Writing them down is even better. Anytime we focus our thoughts sufficiently to reduce them to written words we have created a reminder of our intended direction but even more important we have added extra energy to the ideas.

A decision or idea left floating on the wings of mind and imagination has a more difficult time making a successful landing. There is the strong possibility it will dissipate and be lost. Grounding a purpose filled direction by writing it in as great a detail as possible will give it momentum. Writing adds life energy!
At this time of new beginnings there is another writing exercise that can add to the success of our goals. In fact it is so effective that I would suggest it might be the first writing that should be done. That priority is a written inventory of everything in our current experience for which we are thankful.

No item or situation is too small or insignificant for the gratitude list. If it adds to your life, it should be on the list! No matter how many time this past year may have seemed grim there were bright spots for each us. Today we will acknowledge those things and people who are currently adding to our lives. This exercise will show each of us how much we truly have of value!

It is no secret that a daily practice of gratitude will bring to each of us even more things for which to be grateful. Thankfulness for the present can clear the way for more friends, a better home, satisfying employment and a multitude of other pleasures. The truth is that living in gratitude is so powerful a force that it can even sweep away depression and physical illness.

There is a deep joy that immerges from our hearts as we are truly thankful for all of our life experiences. That joy ushers out any negative judgments and instead allows us to fill with unconditional love for ourselves and others.
It is my feeling that as we write our “gratitudes” we are paving and polishing the roadway for our successful new year. May your new year be filled with happiness, new adventure and all the satisfying accomplishments you can envision.

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CLEANING THE ENERGY “ENVELOPE”

2010-12-25T09:10:00.000-08:00

In the past week or perhaps ten days I have been bombarded by memory vignettes or little “mental movies” from many of my life experiences long since passed and presumably forgotten. Those movies were not beautiful stories of happy Christmases and had nothing to do with the holidays. Instead they were events and feelings involving the not-so-agreeable me with other people and situations. The pictures and emotions frequently marched in just as I was waking in the morning. Startling and uncomfortable to say the least.

As I discussed these ongoing dream-like experiences with a number of my metaphysical friends, I discovered that my unusual and very crowded memory presentations were also occurring to others in regard to their personal memories. On closer examination of the time we are living in, the reason became clear.
This special time in which you and I chose to incarnate is calling for, no, forcefully demanding the MOST THOROUGH CLEARING AND CLEANING of our energy bodies that has ever been required of our souls.

We are all familiar with the devastating effects of recent weather events; the tornadoes, the earth quakes, the floods. In this cycle we have all been confronted with happenings that were not easy to watch or understand. There is much talk about the possibility of going forward into the fifth dimension. Many believe that those sweeping and damaging effects are one of the ways the earth has of clearing herself to prepare for her own evolution and eventual ascension.

Fortunately in our human experience we have less destructive or violent ways of preparing ourselves to evolve and ascend. Knowing this we need to begin our own method of clearing now. When you begin working with your own issues I suggest as troublesome memories surface there likely will be a number of them that seem to be unimportant or even trivial. The rational tendency would be to ignore those. Let your intuition do the decision making instead. Your deeper wisdom will tell you that any memory that carries enough energy to confront you is neither unimportant nor trivial! All of these memories need to be addressed and resolved.

Years ago I remember enjoying a professional massage when a particularly “silly” picture of the past came to mind. It was then I realized how much information we apparently hide or store not only in our many energy bodies or “envelope” but in our muscles and joints. Surprising to me that such a memory could settle there for an extended period of time. However, it impressed me with the fact that before we act we need to look carefully at our motivations and desires, deciding always to come completely from the energy of the highest Light. And when we fail to do that, which we will from time to time, we must forgive ourselves and immediately release the seeming error.

Now is the time to use a daily practice of forgiveness for ourselves and our actions as well as for others and their actions. Today and every day we must love and forgive, casting out hurtful judgments, until we are returned to our originally intended state of purity, that state of all encompassing Light and Love. Yes, ascension can be more than a goal. Ascension can be our reality!
My wish for you is that perfect Light and Love pour from your mind and heart in such unending vibrant waves that all those whom you encounter are blessed and healed.

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HOW "NEW" WILL YOUR NEW YEAR BE?

2010-12-12T07:43:00.000-08:00

As we prepare to birth yet another new year, our thoughts may be on the year now past. Perhaps we feel many things could have been better. We see loss in various human arenas: finance, institutions, relationships, and more. We may have regrets over some of our personal actions or inactions, those things we did or failed to do. We may feel abused, even victimized, by the actions of others.

We need to ask ourselves if we want a rehash of 2010 or if we are willing to make the effort to create situations and events in and around us that are truly new. If we want our personal new year to be different than this past year, we must begin to think, act and feel differently about ourselves and our experiences.

At this special time of new beginnings I offer some ideas to bring you confidence that 2011 will be completely and pleasingly new! First, forget the so called “failures” of the twelve months past. Those losses along with the days that produced them are over. Whip out a sheet of paper and begin to write everything you ever did that was a “win”.

Call your list RIGHT ACTIONS. Documenting your “wins” as a list will be the first step toward your intended new journey. It will imbue you with the knowledge and deep seated belief that you are a successful Spirit filled human.

On your “Right Actions” list write every successful, generous, loving thing you have ever done. For instance, “providing extra food for others to brighten their holidays made me feel good,” Or “I decided to finish the college course which led to my being accepted as a …” Or perhaps, “buying that first little house set me on a good road to identifying winning investments.” Or, “I made a special effort to make my mother comfortable in our final weeks together.”

Whatever you did at any time that brought you a good feeling about yourself, your motives and your abilities write it on your list! The act of writing anything gives it special enlivening energy.

The reason for this exercise is not to encourage living in the past but rather to take you back there long enough to remember those special positive power filled times of yesterday. By reacquainting yourself with your successes of the past you are simply reminding yourself that the power you used then is the power you can elect to use now and in the future.

What name do you give your power? What channel are you tuned to? What is your motivator? Do you think of it as the energy of intuition, Spirit, God, I Am that I Am, High Self, Light or Love? Whatever name you give to it that power is forever yours to use in any way you can think, dream or imagine.

By making the “Right Actions” list you will begin to remember many successful ventures for which you may not have given yourself credit. The point of creating the list is for you to visualize and magnify a winning, successful image of you. When you see yourself as a creative winner you will access even more wonderful productive ideas. You will have more success with anything you do.

Did you know that your powerful subconscious will always carry out your orders? Every repetitious thought and emotion you feed to it will be saved, worked with and brought to manifestation. It is a 24-hour-a-day worker. It never becomes tired and it never grows old.

Even more than manifesting your power filled ideas, your subconscious keeps a bank of pure “information” that you did not empower. Ask it for some solutions and ideas and it will do the research. Or ask its associate your personal dream maker for answers. You have truly unlimited resources waiting your call.

When you access your own “feel good” emotion you have accessed your personally powerful fuel and igniter fluid for constructive manifestation. You can focus that energy to build the life you have dreamed of. You have always known what you desire and now you have the way to ignite those desires.

By your concentration on your personal successes you are throwing out all your preconceived limits. When you throw out limiting ideas and concepts you are free to engage fully with your personal light filled future.

It is no secret that most of us can tell you what didn’t work in our lives or what isn’t working. Why fritter away our dynamic energy resources on such a wasteful pastime? Let us speak instead of how much we love today and invest our energy here. Let us speak of the bright future that stretches out in front of us. Make our words work for us rather than against us.

Creating a new “new year” for ourselves does not happen by chance. It takes a desire on the part of each one of us to let go of the actions and ideas that did not work and focus on the ones that did!

A particularly good idea at this time of year is to clean house in any way you can. In other words, if you have not used a particular item in the last 12 months, get rid of it. Give it away to someone who could use it. Recycle it! If you are falling over unused possessions and storing some under your bed it is time to make some decisions about where you are using your energy. Everything you own literally owns you.

The other part of house cleaning is a little different. When a particular personal habit is a stumbling block, it not only has to be removed but it has to be replaced! It is good to remember that anytime you create a vacuum by removing an idea or emotion, you need to replace it with something more positive. Otherwise that hole that is left in your life experience will be filled with the “first available”, in other words, the luck of the draw.

Keep adding to your right actions success list whenever you remember one of your personal winning accomplishments. Adding to your list will build your confidence. It will impress upon you that you are worthwhile and capable of great deeds. Each one of you has special talents and enormous creativity. Believing in yourself will reveal more of your abilities.

Through this list making exercise you will find other new and sometimes startling inventive ideas floating to the surface. Do not ignore your new ideas. Keep a second list of POSSIBILITIES.

Allow the ideas to approach you exactly as they are without placing immediate judgment on them. In other words, just because a particular idea seems beyond your abilities at the moment, too much like “pie in the sky” write it down anyway. Remember that tomorrow everything can change. What seems impossible today may be exactly the action that will work for you next week.

Do not throw away any of your inspired thoughts. WHEN IN DOUBT…WRITE IT DOWN!

Be aware that some of your best most workable ideas may come to you in dreamtime. Write them down the very minute you wake. Even if you cannot understand the metaphor or unusual language of a dream, write it down. Do not let any of these special inspirations escape into forgetfulness.

Pay attention to your colorful daydreams as well. Daydreams can carry wonderful inspirations that are worthy of your notice. Daydreaming is a way of trying out ideas and seeing the probable results. Let no idea wither for lack of your investigation.

The importance of written lists is that we are able to see things in a more concrete form. When ideas are standing side by side on paper we can evaluate much more directly. Clarity of thought is more likely.

Make this new year of yours shine with the ultimate in newness. Make it your best new year yet.

I would like to repeat an excerpt from an e-mail I received from the “Intenders” group:

“You are called, now, to give birth to a new way of life for yourself and for all those who walk this world with you. You stand poised at the threshold of great expansion in your perceptions, your possibilities, and your consciousness.

Now is not the time to settle for less or to think small. You are here to rise up and out of the prevailing paradigm of beliefs by shining your light and sharing your joy.

May all who seek comfort enjoy it. May all who want abundance experience it. May all who intend peace create it. May all who give love receive it. And may all who shine light live in it.”

My love and blessings to all of you for a magnificent new year, Reverend Lois Cheney.

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CHANGE: FRIEND? ENEMY?

2010-11-11T09:59:00.000-08:00

How do you personally react to unexpected, unplanned for change? Is a small or large change exciting, perhaps energizing? On the other hand is it unsettling? Is it frightening?

Does your reaction and emotion depend solely on how large or pervasive the change is? Does your feeling about any particular change depend on whether or not it opposes your intended plans?

I feel all of us can readily acknowledge that change is an ongoing and unavoidable part of life! If we know how to use change to fuel our personal progression, allowing it to open our view of life’s ongoing flow, it can then introduce us to new more productive ideas. The first rule is RESIST NOT!

If each of us would be more accepting of the inevitability of change perhaps we could be more accepting of the changes themselves as they occur. In fact we could let go of any tendency of immediate resistance which then would allow us to halt any rush to negative judgments about a particular change of direction or new happening. Whether you realize it or not, every change can be a beautiful gift.

It appears that most of us at this particular time in earth’s evolution are earnestly seeking the evolution and ascension of our own souls. It seems you and I desire to move up higher to ascend to an understanding of our oneness with all life and our greater purpose. We truly aspire to honor the divinity of all but from time to time find ourselves lapsing into the old ways of judgment. We dig in and declare we want our way. We feel everyone else should see how “right” we are and conform.

For each of us individually and jointly to reach a higher view of ourselves, our world and others, we must let go of many of the labels and judgments we have previously used. In that quest it seems especially important first to accept all manner of changes as they occur and then to use those changes as stepping stones to elevated accomplishments. In other words, when we insist on our plans working to our specific specifications, we many times block what could have been much improved outcomes!

On the matter of accepting and allowing it could be that when we find ourselves mired in the sameness of everyday life, it might serve us to deliberately introduce change. When there is no “fresh breeze” flowing through our lives we can stagnate. Ideas are few and far between. That is the time to consider the benefits of INTENTIONAL CHANGE.

What sort of change might be beneficial? Large changes or even tiny ones can gift you with a different point of view, a new focus. Take the class or workshop you thought about but never made the effort. Get a haircut and a massage. Look for an apartment with a view. Give some of your time to a cause that you believe in. Become a Big Brother or Sister. Make an innovation of any sort that appeals to you and see what happens!

I personally am good at making detailed plans for most any event but I am also good at winging it! I had a friend tell me that I am the only person he knows who can pick up and move across town or across the world without a second thought or fear. Why can I do that? Because I trust myself and my intuition.

I know that each one of you who are reading this have the same ability to feel your own best actions and options. Your intuition is just waiting for you to fearlessly acknowledge your own perceptions and take appropriate action. If you are mired in too much sameness, do something about it. Pick a direction and take it!

If your new effort works to your satisfaction, great! If not try again. Everything you do, every result you encounter provides feedback with an opportunity to learn. Enjoy every experience. Embrace the gift of change. Know with every change you are moving forward to new heights.

As I write this article I am sitting in my new Cottonwood, Arizona home. I have been here nearly two weeks and I love it. The desert began to call me a couple of months ago from Sarasota Florida where I had been living and working. I am very glad I listened!

If I can help you with any of your life questions and challenges, contact me by phone or e-mail. All appointments are strictly confidential. E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com or Phone: (928) 300-2030.

GROUNDED? BALANCED? ENLIGHTENED?

2010-09-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

Are you grounded, balanced and enlightened?

Keeping a healthy physical body, mind and emotions for the important purpose of comfortably welcoming and housing your spirit self is a full time job. The living results that you achieve depend on your personal awareness, watchfulness and many times your willingness to innovate. Flexibility of thinking and action is necessary.

Being in the “now” moment, fully present, is a good thing but by itself, it is not enough. In addition you have to be willing to see your own needs and evaluate your experiences. You have to be willing to make changes or adjustments that are not always so easy.

Most of you would agree that the day to day challenges of earth life are taxing enough without having to spend considerable thought and energy to accommodate the continual desires for spiritual growth that issue from your soul. Life path and direction can become a continually perplexing issue.

So what is this “grounded” business? If you have taken any intuitive development or healing classes and workshops you have probably been told the necessity of being and staying grounded. You may have been given various grounding techniques, tools or exercises. All of those methods are intended to lend stability to your inner plane channeling, insure the accuracy of your work and give you the confidence of knowing you are working with a high level of energy.

As a psychic medium I immediately relate grounding to a first chakra issue. The first or “root chakra” as it is sometimes called is an energy wheel within your aura field. It is located approximately at the base of your spine. That chakra contains your first experiences with this earthly incarnation. It holds your emotional feelings regarding family, relationships, financial security and also contains any “fight or flight” response.

Obviously to be grounded requires an acknowledgment and acceptance of your human experience in all its variety. The act of grounding engenders a feeling of solid understanding attachment to mother earth and the nature of your earth life in particular.

Think about grounding as it relates to wiring and electricity; you know that the grounding wire has a very important function. Without grounding, any electrical connection, instead of fulfilling the intended pattern of a light or other electric appliance, might send sparks flying out “willy-nilly” in all kinds of potentially harmful directions.

I remember one of my metaphysical instructors some years ago saying that if you ever became too “airy-fairy” with your psychic experiences and high spirituality, if you ignored the needs of your more earthly existence, your humanness and began living “ungrounded”, there was a quick solution. You should simply have a bite of steak tarter and glass of whiskey! Yes I am sure that will bring you down to earth! Not at all what I would recommend but I understand the idea.

All of which brings us to the subject of being balanced. What does the balanced life mean to you? For me balance is giving attention to many facets of life without leaning too far in any one direction. Every day I want to enjoy a time for work, play and meditation.

I set aside time to just think and review my priorities. I make sure to laugh when ever the opportunity presents itself and smile often. Accessing my joy and thankfulness each day gives me not only that feeling of balance but assures me that I am able to handle the unexpected.

You and I receive 24 hours every day. What are you doing with yours? Have you strived for balance? What might you do to bring more balanced living into your days? Just as there will always be dark times, there are always ways to turn on the light.

For shining the light on dark day experiences I personally have always turned to thankfulness. I encourage you to be thankful for the big things as well as the little ones. Give thanks for the people who aggravate you and the ones that bless you. Both kinds bring gifts. Thankfulness always brings me joy, peace and balance. I believe looking with gratitude at our life experiences can help initiate the balance that we crave.

Now tell me; are you “enlightened”? When I say “enlightened” what kind of picture does it draw to mind? Can you perhaps become enlightened? Or is enlightenment only for special people? Must you cast aside your humanness to experience enlightenment? Perhaps you need to become monk-like and ignore your earthly relationships and desires? Hardly!

You have incarnated on earth to have an earthly experience while still respecting and honoring the truth of your nature which is Spirit. Your earth life is a time for understanding some very basic concepts. It is a time that offers you physical resonance while gaining soul wisdom.

To be fully enlightened in this life does have its requirements however. Listening to the quiet voice of your indwelling spirit is the beginning of all understanding. It is necessary to spend regular time in meditation and contemplation. Asking for and receiving the help of your own guides, masters and teachers will bring amazing guidance to you.

Perhaps the most taxing of the enlightenment requirements is the casting aside of a nearly automatic judgment of people and circumstances.

Judgment of yourself, judgment of others can cripple or delay your journey to enlightenment. Admittedly it can be a strain to pull back from an all too human habit of labeling every action good or bad. It is undeniably difficult to call your own actions or lack of action just more “experience” instead of something hurtfully critical.

What can be even more of a challenge is resisting the urge to label the actions of family members, friends and even strangers according to your own concepts of right and wrong. To ever assume that any one of us knows with certainty what is good or bad for others is not appropriate. We cannot know the needs of another’s life path.

The good news is that a completely enlightened person will never have anything to forgive! Why? Because they have never taken offence. They have never been offended by their own actions or the actions of others.

When you access your personal enlightenment you become powerfully aware that every action you take affects the whole of life. When you are happy you automatically “infect” your fellow beings. Your joy is even more “contagious”. Your own light and the way your project that light will touch others. In other words as uniquely individual as you are, your heart reveals with unwavering certainty that you are part of the ONE LIFE, the ONE SPIRIT, the ONE CREATION. There is no separation. As an enlightened being you will take most seriously your obligation to be the very best “you” that you can be.

So, are you grounded? Are you living the balanced life? Are you pursuing your own enlightenment? Only you know for sure.

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PRACTICING UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!

2010-09-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

Isn’t it funny how a book that you haven’t thought of or read in years suddenly becomes the very one you need today, this minute? It was that way for me the other day. The book? “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff”. Richard Carlson authored that book in 1961. It is crammed full of usable ideas for today and every day. The book is a primer for de-stressing one’s life.

You see I had set aside two full hours for one of my clients. I noted in my calendar that she was due at 10 am on Saturday. She did not call, she did not e-mail and she did not show. I smiled a rather stiff forced smile and went to the computer to write this very thing.

But back to the book! Richard Carlson’s idea is that we each create completely unnecessary stress on a daily basis. We create it through insisting and expecting all our plans to work out to the letter or smallest detail. We create our stress by expecting everyone in our life to follow our ideals. We create it by asking way too much from ourselves. Not to mention that we tend to continually cry that we don’t have enough time. We worry, we fret, we anticipate. Will it? Will they? Can I? What if?

The one idea that caught my attention on that particular Saturday when his book came to mind was Dr. Carlson’s suggested method of de-stressing by what he termed “cultivating unconditional love”.

It is no secret that from time to time we all struggle with the idea that we should love unconditionally and many times fall short of the ideal. On more occasions than we probably care to admit, we even dislike ourselves and wish everyone would just go away and leave us in peace.

Regularly people or circumstances refuse to follow our personal rigidly held guidelines of right and wrong. What we wanted to happen did not. Our family and other associates acted in ways that were contrary to our expectations. It is then that we begin to nitpick and find fault with ourselves or someone else.

Sometimes we press so hard to have things and people work our way that we leave no room at all for the smallest variance. We become highly stressed. So here is Dr. Carlson’s suggestion. If we will practice unconditional love and its resultant flexibility with life’s varied situations, stress will come much less often.

It sounds straight forward and simple but at the same time it definitely does not sound easy. So where should we start this practice? It seems that babies are fairly easy to love unconditionally. Let’s start with babies. But what if they wake us in the middle of the night? They do need clean diapers. They will cry for no obvious reason. Oh, oh! Obstacles to our unconditionally loving them! Best not start our practice with babies.

O.K., then what about pets, puppies or kitties? They love us endlessly with absolutely no conditions; however, new puppies or old dogs will have accidents on our best clean carpet. We don’t appreciate them so much then. Sometimes they chew through our house slippers. Not so lovable when we view that mess.

What about those kittens, either young or old, who want to use our dining room table for a scratching post? That behavior is sure to cause some angst. Looks like it might be a bad idea to start with cats or kittens. My, my, who or what could we love without conditions?

At first Dr. Carlson’s idea for beginning this practice of unconditional love may seem rather radical but I suggest we give it a chance. His suggestion? Begin your personal unconditional loving practice with a PLANT. Yes a regular potted house plant; a vine, a cactus, an African violet.

Place your plant in a location where you pass frequently. Each time you pass it tell it how much you love and appreciate it. Whether it flowers or fails to flower, tell it how beautiful it is, how well it is growing, how deep its color is. Speak to it. Tell it how it adds to your enjoyment every day.

Even when your plant eventually withers and dies, which it will, acknowledge the joy it added to your life. Wish it well wherever its basic energy ultimately rests. Now that is unconditional love at its most elemental.

You are asking nothing of the plant. You realistically expect nothing, but you are none the less grateful for its company, its very existence in your home, your space. Whatever the plant does or doesn’t do you love it and appreciate it. And when it ultimately deserts you, it is still o.k. with your heart.

Do you see how this practice could prepare you to be more open and flexible when it comes to the other people and situations in your life? Admittedly it amounts to just a beginning step but it is a potentially powerful one. It creates a habit or roadway for accessing and giving your love without reservations.

In my mind it points the way to better acceptance of day to day outcomes. It leaves me more amenable to the fact that not everyone will take the actions, or be the perfect person I expect them to be but I can be o.k. with that.

Hopefully it allows each one of us to realize that everyone and everything eventually leaves the place we thought they should be. They abandon that position placement and behavior action that we created for them in our minds. Why would they do that? Each of them is unique as we are. We each follow our own path. Many times the path that others take is contrary to our expectations for them.

So when we have mastered unconditional love of our special plant I believe you and I will be ready to “graduate” to more evolved life forms. Perhaps you might begin work on yourself concerning your reactions to your overly noisy next door neighbor! Or my personal challenge might be a member of my own family who tends to grate my nerves. Whoever or whatever situation it is, we will all make a focused effort to maintain more “understanding” and definitely more “allowing”.

The point of all this is we do not need to continually create unnecessary stress in our lives through our own expectations of perfection. Life will not be perfect. Let it be imperfect. Instead of worrying about this and that, let your ability to love take hold of you. The sooner we agree to become more adaptable, utilize ongoing flexibility, the quicker we will find ourselves living in peaceful harmony with ourselves and each other.

You remember my client who missed her appointment Saturday at 10? She arrived at my door at 2pm that day. Fortunately my schedule was open. I said I was surprised since I had expected her earlier. She apologized for her apparent mistake. The two of us went right to work on her concerns. After she left I went back to the old e-mail where we first agreed on the time. It was 2pm. Oh, well! Then I apologized.

FOREVER GRATEFUL

2010-08-22T12:09:00.000-07:00

I am enormously grateful for all the events of my life: past, present and future! I am thankful for every person, every situation, every roadblock as well as every win. The twists and turns of my life deserve my unending thanks.

Why would I love it all? Why would I appreciate the rough spots as well as the high flying successes? Why would I praise the slaps of life as well as the kisses?

Was my life in the past and is my life in the present so easy, so enjoyable, that I am able to simply overlook anything unpleasant? Could it be that everything I tried turned out exactly as I planned? Are those the reasons perhaps I might be looking forward to the future knowing it will be a “breeze”, an easy “walk in the park”? Hardly!

I am quite sure that the future will hold challenges and as many ups and downs for my path as any human can expect. I certainly realize that my future will have problems as well as solutions. So why would I be so completely thankful for all of it?

My not so perfect life started with my father abandoning mother and me when I was a little over a year old. Not exactly a stellar beginning. I was raised by an elderly grandmother and a cold and very unemotional mother, who worked most of the time. As a child I felt completely abandoned and unloved.

My self-image along with my ability to love myself was severely stunted. As a result I was incapable of loving or even acknowledging others. In those early years as a child I spent most of the time looking down at my feet and hardly ever smiling.

As I look back at my childhood, what a study in human relations it was! I can smile about it because undeniably it gave me a foundation for the work I do today. I am able to understand so much of the “acting out” some of us experience as adults. Many of our attitudes about life originate in our inability to love and accept ourselves. When we are unable to love and value ourselves, offering open hearted love to others is not possible.

Given my background it is not surprising that, still looking for love, I married young, barely out of school. Within a couple of years my two children were born. I continued to work in an office. With any free time I could find I pursued my spiritual growth with books, classes and meditation. Unfortunately my husband was not interested in such matters. That fact was the source of much contention and resentment. It was not an ideal life for several unhappy years.

During that rather lackluster time I was able to find some relief by taking voice lessons on Saturday mornings. Immersing myself in the music gave me a feeling of exhilaration and usefulness. I also helped as much as I could with my Unity church book store and the choir. Working for the church in various programs instilled a desire to do the counseling and lecturing I enjoy today.

What those years impressed on me, the gift they offered, was the importance of, really the necessity of, acknowledging and expressing my own feelings. I had allowed my own needs to be suppressed to the extent that in the confines of the marriage I became “invisible”.

My harsh emotional experiences in that early marriage revealed to me that my own life mattered and should not be set aside. I realized that I was valuable. I vowed never to ignore my dreams again.

Time went by, the marriage ended and I moved to Florida. I worked in Florida as a real estate broker-salesperson for some years while doing my metaphysical psychic work part time. Working with buyers and sellers in real estate sales was a not-so-easy education in human motivations and character. Intuitively it was obvious to me that people didn’t always know what they really wanted or needed.

Ultimately, Sarasota is where I met and married my late husband. From the first life with him was much different from my earlier experience. He was outgoing and talented with all the abilities that fit with my counseling work. He was a hypnotist, hands-on healer and psychic reader.

Together we taught and counseled clients for 19 years. The more we worked in our chosen metaphysical field, the more our abilities grew. While offering our psychic services, we also traveled buying, remodeling and selling homes. Our real estate activities took us to many different locations in the states.

Even with our obvious compatibility, my husband and I had just as many problems as any couple or perhaps more. Unfortunately my husband had a tendency of teetering between total positivity and complete depression. His down cycles got deeper and deeper until one day while recovering from a serious operation he took his own life.

A personal event of that magnitude might have caused me to give up on everything and everyone. After all, I was left with far too many properties to handle by myself; homes, cars and boats. There were endless legalities to resolve. Surprising though when the shock of his quite unexpected leaving wore off, instead of feeling abandon or giving up on myself and on life, I threw myself into my work with greater enthusiasm. I began to find new ways of counseling and teaching.

To my amazement clients started finding me who also had been affected by a suicide in their families. As a result of my own experience I was better able to help them. I continued to search for methods that were of the greatest benefit to all my clients. Once again I began to feel more alive and valuable.

I have to say that I am deeply thankful for every experience of my life. Every one of the people, every one of the situations the good and the bad, those with and without drama, every one of them has provided valuable learning and more understanding. Hopefully all of it has left me a wiser soul.

Given the opportunity there is nothing about my life experiences that I would change. It was all wonder-filled. I see it as a succession of lessons and more than a few miracles. It was all perfect.

MORE THAN JUST A FLOWER

2010-08-10T05:51:00.000-07:00

Have you ever really seen a flower? Have you looked at a flower in depth? I think we all appreciate the beauty of a flower. All flowers are pretty whether it is a daisy on the lawn or a bouquet from the florist. But have you seen more than just petals and stem? Have you seen all of it both within and without? Have you sought to know a flower’s life force?

A flower is a microcosm of all life. It begins as an idea or pattern held by the mother plant. That pattern creates the bud. From a tightly closed bud it moves on to full flowering. Ultimately, while seeming to wither, instead it forms a vibrant living seed.

From that seed begins the next cycle. When given the right soil that seed births a new mother plant. Every action is purposeful. Every phase of that plant based life cycle is meaningful and important.

I encourage you to begin seeing any flower from chrysanthemum to tulip with different eyes. See not just a single color but a collage of shades of color. Look at its powder dusted center. Feel the soft consistency found there. Smell the fragrance and let it take you back to memories that it stirs within you. Feel any sensations and emotions that are triggered by the colors and the scent.

In your imagination see yourself touch the petals of your favorite flower from the center to the outer edges. As a child perhaps you loved dandelions. Reacquaint yourself with all the texture of those dandelions or any of your favorite blooms. Enjoy looking at the variety existing within the smooth surfaces; ridges, curves, diagonal lines. When you are satisfied that you truly know the flower, go within its heart where its true essence lies. Find the life flow that is its truth. Feel the vibration, the activity that is occurring within it. Discover the energy, the life force that pulses there.

That motivating creative energy that propels itself from the plant into its outpouring as a flower is the same energy that is within you. Yes it manifests itself differently but it is still the magnificent energy that underlies all life. Whether that energy forms a person, a mountain or a sea, it is the one energy of Light or Spirit.

It is our tendency as busy humans to take much of life for granted. We hurry through our days with hardly any sense of the miracles that surround us. If you will spend just a few moments every day opening your senses of sight, hearing, touch and smell to a greater depth, your appreciation of the gift of life itself will enlarge.

Walk outside in the early morning. Listen to all the varied sounds. Feel the moisture in the air. Note the color of the sky, the shapes of the clouds. Watch the birds, the squirrels, the way the breeze moves the leaves on the trees. If you will take the time to enjoy nature in that way you will find yourself in an eyes-open walking meditation. Your willingness to relax and lose yourself in nature, to still the chatter of your mind, brings an excellent opportunity to hear the voice of Spirit. Ask questions of your guides and your angels. Then just listen.

When you are completely open and aware, truly thankful for all that is, the cosmos herself will open to you in unexpected and gratifying ways. Each day reveals itself as a gift to treasure. Those sometimes harsh aspects of day to day work fade into mere background noise, just shadows on the wall.

Your own thankfulness triggers more and more reasons to be joyful. Each new moment shows itself as a blessing. Decide today to label every day “good” from morning through night because every day is good. Every day is a beautiful gift. Exercise your imagination to expect wonderful rich surprises.

As we begin to know life’s many miracles we cannot help but radiate a deeper form of love to all those we touch. Appreciation for people, animals and the entire natural world comes easily. Love and loving become our way of life. Those events we used to label “irritations” or worse become merely “curiosities” that lead us to greater understanding of ourselves and others.

No life is without challenges. Perhaps you may have encountered relationship problems, money woes, physical discomforts of various kinds. All of these experiences seem real enough but what is important is where we put our attention, where we decide to spend our energy and what we amplify.

It is our intention and attention that form the fabric of our life experiences. Belief in the basic goodness of life is a wonderful tool for positive creating. Speak words of affirmation for your life and the lives of other. See yourself moving forward implementing your plans with ease and grace.

Giving center stage and great applause to what we don’t want makes no sense. Why not decide to acknowledge all the goodness and beauty both within and without? Go within. Activate that magnificent energy that you can form in any way you choose. You are able to access your personal ability to bring all of your experiences and manifestations to a higher level.

Decide to believe that everything you sense around you has at its core, as its base material and construction, Love and Light. Everything, everyone, every creation has as at its origin, its center, Love and Light. No matter the outer appearance it can be no other way.

To be completely and fully alive, we need to sharpen our senses. We need to be inquisitive about all life and embrace the variety we encounter with courage.

But where to start? First begin by sensing the qualities and attributes of your world. Investigate Mother Earth’s natural laws, her plants, her animals and her human inhabitants with all their varied actions and motivations.

Then decide to accept and allow all that “is” exactly as it is in this moment, even if at first you must do it from a distance. Taking those beginning steps of exploration and analysis, looking squarely at how things are now, will reveal much to you about your own life path.

I elect to call this day including all its ups and downs, all its ins and outs, not only good but “PERFECT”. Yes I see it as totally and absolutely perfect. I am certain it is perfect because, as always, it has brought me new experiences and new understanding. And when tomorrow arrives, bringing its multiple discoveries and gifts, I will label it “PERFECT” as well!

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YOUR NEW BEGINNING

2010-07-19T15:14:00.000-07:00

In my work as a counselor I have found that anyone over the age of 18 is quite likely to be carrying some amount or degree of regret; regret for what he or she did do or what he or she did not do. Occasionally that regret takes the form of all too heavy guilt. But be it regret or guilt it is still just another version of fear. We fear that because we were not “perfect” in some past action, we are always in danger of repeating some aspect of our own imperfection.

What if your judgment is flawed? What if you cannot access the right information? What if your timing is off? What if you already missed all the best opportunities and they are over and gone? Believe me when I say the “what if’s” are endless. Let’s turn them around. What if you are right? What if the best time is now? What if all the energy in the world is ready to support your decision? What if the universe has been waiting for you to act and you do take action? What if your idea is perfect? WHAT IF YOU WIN?

Although you may not be consciously aware of it, if you are personally suffering with any of that emotional/mental heaviness called fear, it may have come from your acceptance of what others have told you was “wrong” or “bad”. Those ideas may have been pushed on you years ago from friends, spouses, parents, employers or others but the origin is not important. What is important is your reaction to that useless injurious acquired guilt, your decision to carry it on forever or to drop it and let it go. Each of us must take charge of our beliefs and those accompanying attitudes.

Whether we call it regret, guilt or fear it definitely has the effect of “dampening down” the Spirit. It causes one to live way too much in past hurtful events. When we live in past unhappiness we create present time unhappiness. In the extreme example, through our heavy thoughts and feelings, we recreate the past by manifesting similarly depressing situations in our future. Certainly not the reality we would wish to lay on ourselves and to experience yet one more time.

If we spend time over analyzing, reevaluating and in essence amplifying our past failures or mistakes, it leaves us with no time, impetus or desire for moving ahead. What is urgently needed is our own permission to start from where we are and begin again creating our most positive heartfelt desires.

If we look honestly at what we want from our lives it becomes obvious that we need to impress upon ourselves, upon our thoughts, our feelings, that not only are new beginnings possible and available, those new beginnings are standing in the wings waiting for us to acknowledge them. All the possibilities are there eagerly anticipating some sign from us that we are willing to take personal action on our own behalf to move ourselves forward.

There are a lot of avenues or ways in which we become fearful, stuck or lost. When a close loved one or friend leaves us through death or simply moves away, it can leave us with a damaged sense of self. Perhaps we feel somehow we caused the leaving, we were guilty of not doing this or that for their sake. Again we may feel we used inappropriate action or words. Whether or not we were overly dependent on the other person, nevertheless their leaving seems to leave a temporary hole in our lives.

It is natural to experience a period of grieving over any loss but after a reasonable time it is important then to move ahead with life. There comes a time when we must again see the love and beauty around us and within us. We need to acknowledge the wonder of our lives. We simply do not have the right to let the life God gave us to wither away unused and unfulfilled. We need to once again access our life path with the help of our heart and soul inspired dreams.

Sometimes a similar period of fear and grieving may assail us when for a reason or reasons that may be altogether unexpected and possibly quite unclear we lose our employment or other valuable financial assets. We worry we cannot even try something new. We feel the loss was caused by something we did wrong. The thought of having to forge ahead to a new more joyful way of living and earning leaves us feeling weak or incapable. What we should acknowledge is the possibility that with this apparent loss there is the arrival of a good chance, a genuine opportunity to try a new path. There is every reason to believe that better things lay ahead of any loss if we will agree to become positive explorers looking to the Light.

Whatever you may have heard, whatever you may have been told, you are neither too old nor too young to start again. And no, you are not too tall, too short, too fat, too thin or too inexperienced.

So you say you did not go to this college or that school? Where is your passion; in other words, what subject draws you in and will not let you go? What do you wish to learn? Find the teacher. Find the course. TEACH YOUR SELF! You have full ability to take action today. Whatever your goal one little step a day will bring you there. Just start.

You don’t have the money? You don’t have the social standing? You need better clothes? You don’t have the right friends? You feel you are all alone. No one to help you. We can all find excuses. Let’s decide not to. Instead let’s take action. Talk to your guides. Talk to your angels. Talk to your high self. All of your helpers are your loving allies. They simply stand by, waiting for your call.

Begin with what you have. Begin right where you are. You are valuable. Don’t waste yourself and your time. Keep your efforts going till you accomplish your goals. There is always more than one way up the hill. If you sincerely want to find your road and are willing to begin by putting your energy into the hunt, you will find it. You will keep on keeping on till you find yourself at the top.

Select a personal journal and begin today writing in it. Fill it full of your optimistic ideas, your positive faith-filled dreams. Even if they seem impossible or improbable, write them down anyway. What looks impossible today may very well be the perfect idea tomorrow.

This is your private book. In privacy read your ideas out loud to yourself again and again. Adjust them as you feel led until you are certain they are whole. You may have that perfect idea or desire that is capable of drawing in all manner of assistance perhaps even entrepreneurial help and financing if that is what is needed. You may have an idea that will change your whole life or change the world.

Suppose your dream has always been to travel. Get a scrapbook started with all kinds of routes and pictures. Cut out itineraries. Put energy into your choices. I remember reading of the success of a single lady who wore a colorful dress printed with pictures from various foreign countries. She wore her “creation dress” at every opportunity. Somehow her programmed trips just seemed to find her.

If you are looking for a new life partner, what sort of person would fit with your personality and lifestyle? Don’t be afraid to put the details down in writing in your journal. Get down to the specifics and then decide if you might need to make some adjustments to yourself. Perhaps taking part in some more outgoing social events might be in order. It is hard to meet people if you are hiding out at home. Maybe your smile has been under utilized lately. You can fix that!

Whatever you wish to create try to see it as a whole picture, the completed manifestation. Imprint it on your mind. Really feel the feelings it would give you. How would the satisfying results affect you? What results would you see? Then start believing you have those results right now. You and your imagination have limitless power. Create your new beginning in any form and in any way you wish! Not even the sky is the limit.

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AFFIRM YOUR LIFE

2010-07-08T10:41:00.000-07:00

I know that nothing in this world is “incurable”. I know that everything in this world can be changed for the better! Through faith-filled intention all situations can be adjusted and moved into their highest and best outcomes.

I have read the book the Master Key System quite a number of times. In fact I have even listened to it on CD’s. Isn’t it funny how you believe you have absorbed everything contained in a particular writing and then one day something apparently “new” grabs you attention?

In his book the Master Key System, originally published in 1912, author Charles Haanel offers this affirmation: “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.” I cannot say how many times I have read or heard his words before, but this particular time it seemed to be so much more important for all of us.

You have to understand that in his own words at the age of 13 he was “a twisted, cripple going about on my hands and knees.” He credits the change from that pitiful state to a strong healthy man with his continual use and belief in that one affirmation.

He said it all day long. He said it before sleeping, upon waking and in the middle of the night. One step at a time he simply convinced himself of the words until he was completely well. “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.”

Not all of us are suffering from some life threatening physical disability. However, if you really hear and feel those words you will understand the many positive results that are possible through their use. “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.”

When you are truly WHOLE you are using not just your intellect but your wonderful emotional yardstick to guide and direct your physical actions and direction. You are listening to your emotions and their intuitive guidance to tell you what is good for you and what is not.

In fact when you are WHOLE, you have fully integrated your spirit within your physical body. You are operating as your spirit and your soul but using your healthy physical body as your vehicle.

Are you “PERFECT”? Of course you are! You were born with all the right talents, the perfect attributes, to learn, dream, design and manifest your personal contributions to this earth. How much more perfect could you be?

Are you STRONG? Absolutely! You have at your disposal all the magnificent energy and strength of the cosmos. How much more strength could you possibly use? Call out for what you need and it is there. You have incredible strength for your use day and night. Part of that strength reveals itself as your faith filled belief in your own abilities.

POWERFUL? Certainly, for through right use of your thoughts and emotions you can make sweeping changes in your experience. You are a power filled manifestor, a marvelous creator! Not only do you have the ability to heal yourself but you can help others to access their own healing. That is astounding miracle working power.

LOVING? You were formed from love. It is your true nature. You have the use of love’s thoughtful and giving nature each day. Give more of it to yourself. Give it to others and you will find it coming back to you in even greater amounts. You are born to express your love, acknowledge it, offer it as your transforming gift to the earth and all her people.

HARMONIOUS? Your harmony pours forth as you allow and accept your world as it is now. It may not be easy but when you are able to access your ability to allow others to be as they are with all their pluses and minuses, you have created harmony.

Accept others and yourself with all your positives and negatives. Each one of you has at your core the spark of the Divine. Thank goodness that those sometimes startling opposites compose the personality and many times reveal one’s true life purpose.

Are you HAPPY? I certainly hope that you are not only happy but joyous. You have bushel basketfuls of possibilities that offer themselves to you every single day. Nothing is beyond your reach or imagination. Embrace choice! It is there for you.

Your ability to create your own idea of perfection should make you jump with joy and anticipation. What a wonderful opportunity to stretch your abilities and talents, expressing yourself to the maximum.

Charles Haanel suggests you not only use this strong affirmation for yourself but send it in energy to anyone who might benefit from it. I say be generous with it and your love.

It seems to me that just repeating that affirmation makes you more aware of the beauty and flow in your own life experience. As you put your faith in yourself and your abilities you begin to see the promise in all life.

Somehow the flowers smell sweeter, the birds are more musical and you sense the possibilities in all your brothers and sisters. It is a wonderful life.
I encourage you to live it to the fullest. Why? Because YOU ARE WHOLE, PERFECT, STRONG, POWERFUL, LOVING, HARMONIOUS AND HAPPY!

There is just one word I would add to all of those positive words: GENEROUS. Always be generous with yourself and others. Be generous with your light filled positive words and thoughts, your kindness, your time and your love. Life is simply too short not to be.

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YOUR LIFE: THE ADVENTURE!

2010-06-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite stories that I heard a long time ago: A husband is watching his wife preparing to put a beef roast in the oven for the family’s Sunday dinner. She cuts a piece off the small end of the roast, throws that piece in the garbage and puts the roast in the pan and into the oven.

Her husband says, “Honey, why did you throw the end of the roast away?” She thinks for a minute and says, “Well, that’s what mother always did.”

But now his wife starts to wonder. She picks up the phone and dials mother. “Mother when you fixed a beef roast for Sunday dinner, you always cut the small end off and threw that part away. Why did you do that?” There is silence as Mother thinks for a second or two and then she says, “Oh, I guess because my mother always did it that way.”

This is getting a bit strange so now his wife calls grandma. “Grandma can you tell me something please.” “Of course, what is it honey?” “Mother said that when you fixed a beef roast for Sunday dinner, you always cut part of the small end off and threw that piece away before you put the rest in the pan. Why did you do that?”

Now Grandma is laughing so hard she can hardly speak. When she finally catches her breath she says: “I cut the small end of the roast off and threw it away because I had a very little pan.”

Every once in a while when you catch yourself in a repetitive action or a repeated thought, in an habitual way or method of performing daily or weekly chores or simply making assumptions about what is the “right” way, perhaps it is a good idea to ask yourself that one big important question: “Why?” You may discover that what used to make sense yesterday or last year or when you were a child, may not make any sense now in your grownup world.

How are you doing? How is your life moving? Are you flowing along with each new now moment, moving joyously, freely into your future, making whatever changes seem called for? Or could it be that you are stuck just a little bit, held back by the tentacles of the past, some ideas that have out grown their usefulness?

Life is meant to be an adventure. We are all lifelong explorers. We always have the choice and the ability to make each successive moment brand new or a well worn repeat of the last one.

When I was growing up I lived with my mother and grandmother. Mother worked a five day week, while my grandmother took care of the household chores. One morning when I was a teenager, my grandmother was complaining loudly about how much clothes washing she had to do for the family every Monday morning. It was a valid complaint especially since she was using an old fashioned wringer washer and two rinse tubs.

Feeling that I knew how to fix any problem I just suggested she wash clothes more than once a week, maybe on Wednesday as well as every Monday. That rather flippantly offered solution from the teenage me did not set well. Her response? A very terse,“I will think about that at the first of next month.” Which, of course, she never did.

You have to understand that I loved my Grandmother but I tell the story because I think that is the same sort of tensely fixed attitude all of us hold from time to time. We do not like to have to change our habitual behavior, our accustomed patterns, even when such a change might be beneficial. Somehow we feel it just isn’t worth the effort. We don’t want to bother with setting a different course, thinking a new thought.

My mother on the other hand was concerned about keeping her mind and imagination active. One of her methods to obtain the flexibility she desired was to find and use as many different driving routes to work as she could. She would be the first to tell you that she was “just a secretary” from the time she was 16 years old. Yet after her retirement from the business world, she was instrumental in creating the very first library for a small town in central Florida.

Far exceeding any of her past work experience she organized fund raisers for the land and the building. She wrote a grant and received approval for still more funding. Library science was all new to her but through studying and much preparation she became that small town library’s first head librarian after her 70th birthday.

I know each one of you can do anything you can imagine or believe. Do not let your life become boring or humdrum. Your life is much too valuable to allow it to drift from one day to the next. Take your dreams down off the shelf. Those exciting dreams were not meant to gather dust. Acknowledge the fact that you and I came into this incarnation to seek, to learn and to create.

In order to fulfill the mission of our life we need to embrace as much flexibility as we can. Because each one of us is full of our own unique creativity, nothing should be off limits as far as investigating, examining and understanding.

Those of us who are adults and still studying instructional courses on any subject have the right idea. It is also equally valid to look for additional information and wisdom through various kinds of meditation which offer access to our personal guides, teachers and masters plus our own intuitive skills.

Any educational pursuit that provides a step up to learning and understanding yourself and your world is important and valuable. Begin today to keep a journal of your precious ideas, record your dreams and their imbedded messages. Writing gives even more energy to your desires. Be proactive!

The more we allow our thirst for knowledge to take hold of us, the more benefit we can be to our world and each other. It is when we become satisfied with keeping the status quo that stagnation sets in. We begin the move backward allowing that downhill slide. Decide right now to release any ideas of your past lack or failure so that the positive future can arrive clean and vibrant.

Keep your desires, your heart filled dreams alive. Just because you are this age or that, just because you do not think you have the right education, push forward anyway. It is never too late or too soon to begin living you dream. Start now. Pursue it with all your energy. Tweak it, adjust it for today and then love it, believe in it. That dream should be nurtured like your own beloved child.

The more you work toward your goal, the more help you will attract. People will come forward with suggestions, financial support, creative solutions. Merely taking one small step at a time every day will light up your path, move you in the direction of more and more success. Action always magnetizes help and ideas.

Working at any activity that comes from your heart will propel you into a state of nearly continuous joy. Yes, there will be challenges, problems, an occasional set back, but when you love what you are working toward, when your goal excites you, joy will activate every part of your life.

Joy is an amazing tonic. Without any warning your physical health will be greater than ever. Your intuition becomes clear as a bell. Your life will be filled with sincere friends. When you live in a state of continuing joy everything begins to flow and glow with love and light.

All the success that will rush to meet you is because you have been brave enough to fully actuate your life by developing your special inborn talents and gifts. With a loving heart you have offered your creations to the world. I believe in you. I know you were born with tremendous ability and power.

Once you decide to trust your instincts and move forward on your inner guidance, all the energy in heaven and earth will be there to support you.

It would be my joy to help you with your own intuitive development. I offer individual, private lessons, a series of four one hour-sessions over a period of four weeks. The lessons are created specifically for your desired accomplishments. The results you experience can be quite phenomenal!

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OUR PRECIOUS MOTHER EARTH

2010-06-20T07:55:00.000-07:00

Fathers’ Day is here. I never knew my birth father. My fantastic, loving step father entered my life when I already had children of my own. He was the most generous of men, a loving father and a gentle grandfather. Even today I miss him and wish he could be with me. Love you Dad!

Today however I want to talk not about dads but about one extremely important Mother. That is our own precious and giving Mother Earth.

The news media is having a field day. Our television channels, our internet are both jammed as we receive almost minute by minute updates on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak…speeches, congressional inquiries, scientific opinions, on and on. There are multiple projections of how horrible this disaster will be. It is frightening, daunting and all too real.

In the midst of all this I cannot help but wonder if we would be paying a quarter of the attention to this disaster if it were happening in another ocean far away from our Florida shores on the other side of the globe. For our own comfort many times we turn a deaf ear if a particular problem does not affect us personally.

Human caused earth disasters are nothing new. I am reminded of the video images of polar bears as they lost their islands of ice at the pole. We see photos of the dense smog in China caused by industrial pollution.

Sometimes we do not admit our part in the damage that we as citizens of earth are doing day to day. We demand and use more and more energy to satisfy our desires.

If you have internet access you doubtless have received e-mails from friends suggesting various prayers and affirmations to assuage the damage in the Gulf and on the shores. All of those suggestions have merit and if used with intent and conviction any or all of them may be of some help.

There is a great noise being made over the guilt of the particular oil company whose well leaked, its C.E.O. and all the companies it hired. The incessant blame is heard loud and clear, repeated over and over again. There has been agreement about the large sum of money that will be earmarked to alleviate the suffering this spill has caused and its ongoing effects on the people and the environment.

The real problem is this: all the anger,blame and retributions in the world do not address the underlying cause. We, you and I, are asking our sacred mother earth to give more than she possibly can and to do it faster!

It is not this company or that company. It is us, individually and collectively. We are raping our own home. If we want to continue enjoying life on this beautiful planet we must make some changes.

What can we do one individual at a time? I am sure I do not have all the answers but I know we can make a start. Energy conservation is a pretty broad term so let’s break it down to some small solutions.

Do you have a bicycle gathering dust in your garage, hidden by the car? Would a little exercise help eliminate that extra weight around your middle? Or how about walking? Is the grocery less than six blocks away? Too far?

O.K., think about this: could you and your neighbor share the car trip to the grocery or the church or the library? It could be fun catching up on each other’s lives. That might also be a gallon or two of gasoline you don’t need to buy or burn.

Do you realize that all your plastic water bottles are made from petroleum as well? That suggests to me that recycling or reuse is important. At the same time I must confess I am absolutely the worst when it comes to remembering to take my canvass bag into the grocery instead of receiving still another round of petroleum-birthed plastic bags.

Planting a landscape that requires daily watering is a waste of another one of our valuable resources. It is no secret that the better way is to use native plants that are able to thrive without constant attention no matter what the weather.

Yes, I admit all of these ideas appear to be small stuff. So I want you to consider these things: the citizens of Atlantis eons ago used much different energy to accomplish their transportation needs; the builders of the pyramids moved boulders weighing tons without gasoline powered vehicles.

The huge rocks weighing many tons that are a part of the Coral Castle in Homestead Florida were moved into place at night using unusual, and as of yet undefined, energy. That energy to move such giant rocks may have been electricity or magnetism but that power was not provided by a coal burning electric plant or a gasoline powered generator.

Whether we believe it or not, we have access to the same energies used in all of these examples. Perhaps this is the time to claim our abilities on a higher level. Think for a minute what we are doing when we channel hands-on-healing to another person. Are we not using invisible energy?

Perhaps it is a different form of energy when we send healing, but knowing that is possible, could we not channel another kind of powerful energy? The possibilities involved certainly deserve our attention. One of you may be that particular person to bring forward one of those ancient energy sources.

A good beginning in our efforts to be kinder to Mother Earth would be to encourage our current day scientists to build their energy inventions by you and I monetarily supporting their ideas. Let us be willing to step up and fund the best energy saving ideas, those that give rather than take.

Let us support our best scientists and their innovative ideas and put those inventions into general use right now. We do not need to create one more gasoline powered engine. This effort of seeking workable, affordable alternatives and utilizing them could signal the start of a new era.

We need to begin today to love Mother Earth. Give her your gratitude by showing kindness and respect for her abilities. She is busy providing for all your basic needs. Thank her today.

Many of you are familiar with the work of Dr. Emoto concerning the effect of words, thoughts and emotions on water. This is what his website had to say on the issues with the Gulf:

Dr. Emoto's Healing Gulf Prayer

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures
in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings. To the whales, dolphins, pelicans,
fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . .

I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you."

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WHATEVER THE QUESTION, LOVE IS THE ANSWER!

2010-06-10T05:06:00.000-07:00

LOVE….LOVE….LOVE.

What do you feel or imagine when you hear the word love? What does it say to you when you read “Love”? Does it bring a particular picture to your mind? Does it fire up your heart?

Does the word itself set you on a journey of imagination remembering a particular person, a special place or experience from your past? Is there a warm and happy glow or is the feeling tinged with sadness?

Perhaps you agree with the poet “It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all.”

Our experiences with being loved and loving are as varied and individual as we are; however, certain easily recognized results occur when true love is present. In fact those specific results seem to be common to all of us as humans when we are giving and receiving love.

When we live in love’s vibration, resonating to the giving and receiving of love, HARMONY graces our interactions with others, our PHYSICAL HEALTH improves, our MENTAL OUTLOOK takes on a sunny optimistic quality and our CREATIVITY SOARS!

Considering such effects we can agree that having and giving love is a positive thing. So why don’t we simply create more of it in our lives? Perhaps the one real difficulty with experiencing more love and bringing additional love into our lives begins when we look for love in the wrong place, expecting it from the wrong source.

We seem to think that someone else should be responsible for bringing that love to us. Apparently we forget that all of the capability for love and loving was placed in us as our birthright. We are absolutely made of love.

All we really need to do is begin with loving and accepting ourselves. Those actions on our part will cause us to become a virtual LOVE ENERGY MAGNET!

When we live the love we truly are by accepting and loving ourselves just as we are, and accepting and loving others as they are, we become irresistible to even more love!

We have been told for our spiritual development, to rise higher, we need to love others “unconditionally”. The unfortunate truth is we stumble at loving ourselves unconditionally, not to mention the problems we encounter when we try to love others without reservations or judgments. Yes, we find loving unconditionally to be quite difficult if not absolutely impossible.

As humans we seem to be stuck in a constant state of judging our own behavior and the behavior of others. That judging tells us that many of us, and many of those around us, are doing and saying things that we find completely unlovable and perhaps unforgiveable.

Perhaps it would help if we were to do a little redefining of this “unconditional love”. What if instead of calling it unconditional love, we name it the “ultimate respect for the divine spark” that is at the heart and soul of each one of us? Loving unconditionally will flow in a natural way if we are able to acknowledge the divinity of each person as a unique creation and give his or her divine origin our respect.

To become the shining essence of love we were meant to be, to radiate that love continuously, we must also practice forgiveness. When we react to someone else’s words or actions by being emotionally hurt or by striking out at them, we must try to remember that the attitude they are presenting to us comes from within them and not us. Forgiving them, forgiving ourselves for our own reactions is healing.

Offering the gift of unconditional love in all situations makes more sense when we are willing to realize that any person always does the one thing which at the time they believe will make things better, or set things right.

Yes, it can be that they did not understand all the facts. They may have acted far too quickly without realizing the hurt that could result. Perhaps they were so desperately trying to find any solution that they simply acted on a misguided impulse. Nonetheless we can be sure that the person only took the action they felt would put things in order in their own little world.

It is not only important to love others, it is supremely important to love and respect ourselves, to forgive ourselves. When we judge ourselves, when we call ourselves “slow” or “thoughtless” or even “mean”, we hurt and impede the physical, mental and emotional flow of our bodies. Believe me when I tell you that your body hears your every word, thought and emotion.

Be kind to yourself. Be assured that the results of any repeated self condemnation will appear. It may start as a little headache, a tightness in the neck, or an uneasy feeling in the stomach but it can grow to be much worse.

Failing to forgive ourselves, failing to forgive others, keeps us stuck in the past. It can be just five minutes past or five years past or five lifetimes past, but we need, in fact, we must, forgive and let go for the sake of our personal health and spiritual progress.

The good news is as we let go of past errors or hurts, we retrieve our energy. We bring it out of the past and into the now where we can make beautiful advances on our life path, wonderful changes. Our inner vision clears. We are no longer fragmented. Once again we are whole!

Living in the present moment, we are stronger: our ideas are more vibrant, more creative. We are able to use all of our capabilities, all of our talents. With each passing day our energies become brighter and lighter as we choose and elect to live in the high vibration of unconditional love.

To step out of judgment, to find deep joy and peace, to progress to living a higher spiritual life, we must embrace love. However, to live in a continual state of love and light requires a daily practice of forgiveness. In a perfect world, we would never take offense at our own actions or the actions of others, but as long as we continue to take things personally, we must become experts in the art of forgiveness.

To forgive is to acknowledge that each one of us is simply a work in progress. We experiment with this method and that always striving for our personal idea of perfection. And, yes, sometimes our outcomes fall far short of the intended goal! Yet it becomes easier to forgive the seemingly unforgivable if we are willing to understand that no two life paths are the same, that no two people are learning their life lessons in the same way and that OUR WAY is definitely not the ONLY WAY.

Unconditional love is a universal antidote for so many of the ills and imbalances that we experience in our lives and in our world. When we come to the realization that it isn’t our job to change anyone but ourselves, and we are willing to allow others to be exactly as they are, we will enjoy a deep inner tranquility.

Living a life of unconditional love is productive, rewarding and yet oh so very peaceful.

I am always ready to offer you Spirit channeled help with any of your life questions and challenges. All appointments are completely confidential and are cassette recorded to take with you to review at your leisure.

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IS IT PAIN OR MERELY PAINFUL MEMORIES?

2010-05-15T11:37:00.000-07:00

If you are willing to analyze what is happening in and to your mental, emotional and physical bodies at this time, you may well be surprised. Will you find vibrant health in all those areas? What ideas and feelings reside there? Sense those areas of you. Are they comfortable?

How is your overall temperament? Yes, you will most likely find embedded memories of past good times but many of you also hold tightly to memories of past events that hurt you emotionally, perhaps even caused you physical or mental pain. You also may hold those memories, consciously or unconsciously, in one or all of your bodies in ways that are not so easy to see or recognize.

Where do we hide and hold these unhappy memories? What effects do they have? A negative memory stored in mind can cause ongoing reactions to those situations which we judge to be the same as before but are not!

Through holding such a memory we create drama where there needs to be none. In other words, we play out an old out dated scenario engaging in needless and hurtful repetition. It is a destructive life template that cries out to be replaced with something more positive.

What is it that triggers a particularly strong emotional response in us? Often I believe it is nothing more than an apparent similarity to unpleasantness from the past. Because it gives the appearance of being the same, we “boil over” just as we did before. In other words we pour forth emotion in anticipation of something that may or may not be true, may or may not happen. The event is not at all as we see it. We jump to a quick and possibly erroneous judgment.

Unfortunately every time we “warehouse” an unhappy past trauma we tend to give it more strength and ongoing life. Worst of all we store it in our physical body. From that storing of the event, we experience literal pain. If that trauma is mentally and emotionally fed over and over, it eventually manifests not only as physical discomfort, aches and pains, but as some sort of more serious disease.

Doesn’t the creation of those uncomfortable effects present reason enough to look carefully at what we refuse to forgive and let go, regardless of whether the incident is caused by ourselves or others?

If we are brave enough to look honestly at our automatic, moment to moment, reactions, we can make seemingly miraculous changes in our daily life experience! If we can catch ourselves in mid “knee-jerk outburst” and decide to stop and rethink, we will be faced with limitless POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES.

We can literally rewrite our own mental and emotional guidelines, changing those sometimes hidden ingrained pathways. We can access our own ability to allow and accept life’s surprises without regret or condemnation! By changing ourselves, changing our attitudes, we change our experiences. We begin to attract what we truly desire instead of settling for painful repetition and unhappiness.

Of course, ideally we would let go of any pain filled incident the moment it happened. Usually we do not. In fact many times we “rehearse” it, review it, endlessly.
So what can each of us do to extricate harmful energies that reside in any of our bodies, emotional, mental or physical? The good news is it appears there are endless numbers of possible therapies designed for just that purpose.

You might consider deep tissue massage, healing or hands-on touch, sound and color therapy to clear and align your chakras, crystal layouts, hypnosis, guided meditation, past life regression, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping), cranial sacral work, Tai Chi, intuitive counseling and so many more diverse possibilities.

Your personality and any challenges you may face would be the determining factor in the method you choose. Certainly there are benefits to each of them but one or perhaps two will be more to your personal liking.

A true “clearing”, of your bodies, letting go of refuse or garbage and any miss-qualified energies, requires your intention and focus. It calls forth your most determined efforts as well as the desire to keep with the process. It is not an “overnight” job but one that holds the promise of enormous life-path benefits. It can be done!

I am always happy to answer any questions you may have regarding my work. If I can help you with your life challenges or needs for healing, please call for your private appointment. All counseling sessions are recorded for your later review.

For more information regarding my work please see my website: www.Sarasota-Psychic-Medium.com or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

TAKE CHARGE!

2010-04-27T07:29:00.000-07:00

You are powerful. You have the right and the power to be completely in charge of your own life. You have all the options. You and only you have the right to decide what emotions you will feel, what thoughts you will think. YOU ARE THE DETERMINING ENERGY FOR YOUR LIFE.

Let’s talk about habits for a minute. Habits can be very helpful. For instance you don’t bother to think where the light switch is in the bathroom because you have turned it on hundreds of times. You can find a spoon for your coffee almost without looking. Perhaps you wake in the morning without an alarm clock. Well worn habit pathways make life easier but I am sure you know not all habits are beneficial.

Returning to our topic of emotions and thoughts: If I asked how you regulate your emotional barometer, how diligently you are controlling your emotions, you might tell me for instance “My emotions just happen.” “I have no control over my automatic emotions.” “I can’t change them.”

Ah, but perhaps your emotions “just happen” because of the well worn habit pathways you have created. Perhaps they “just happen” because long ago, albeit unconsciously, you decided which way to react to certain similar situations and that reaction pathway became habit.

On the matter of thoughts, I grant you that many times they simply seem to fly unbidden in and out of our heads. Nonetheless, you can decide which ones you will allow to live in your mind, which ones you will house. You have the power to send away those ideas and images that are not for your best good.

Let me say this: you can decide today, this very minute, to keep or abandon any old emotional reaction as well as any old thought. If the patterns you made long ago do not please you today, erase them, discard them. You can decide to begin right now to feel and think in an entirely different way, forge a new path. You are a virtual master of those positive changes if you wish to be.

Yet, many of us continue to give away our power to others. We react to seemingly negative comments or actions of a friend, spouse, or family member. Perhaps we bring our temper to bear either silently or aloud on the actions and words of an unhappy clerk in the store. We keep mentally rehearsing a hurtful incident minutes perhaps hours long past.

How do I know this? I have caught myself more than once mentally piling up what I considered to be wrong actions taken, wrong words spoken, by my daughter. Fortunately when my personal outward emotional explosion happened the other day, the result of an incident which for me was “one last straw,” my daughter was at work and not physically present.

In order to encounter a “last straw” you have to be collecting a lot of straws! I am working on myself to let go of things when they happen or even as they are happening rather than putting them in an emotionally charged shoebox for later use.

When you or I react negatively to another person’s ideas and actions we hurt ourselves! Even worse than just the effect of a heavy emotional reaction on the very cells of our physical body and mind is the fact that through experiencing and giving space in our hearts to that emotion, we GIVE AWAY OUR ENERGY to the offending situation or person. Is that what we really want to do?

Over and over again we amplify the very thing we do not want to see manifest in our lives. How foolish is that? We use our ability to create the exact opposite of our heartfelt desires.

Living your personal truth is challenge enough without giving attention to every other word, thought, advice or direction that is offered to you. It is not bad to be sensitive to what is happening around you. Go ahead, be aware. You can listen. You can listen to everything. Just monitor your reactions carefully. What are you storing in your body and mind?

There are people who will tell you it is “flu season”. “Everybody is getting it.” Decide if you wish to accept that belief. Someone may say to you that because your whole family has a history of this or that malady, you most certainly will succumb. Is that what you want? “They” may tell you that because of current financial situations your new business has to fail. Do you want to quit before you start? Be selective in those ideas that you internalize because positive or negative they will manifest.

It is always good to pick up helpful ideas from others; however, it is most assuredly detrimental to your life progress to accept every seemingly offensive word or action that on the surface appears to be aimed at you. Take only that advice which resonates with your innermost guide. Let the rest go. Let that which is not for your best good float away on the breeze.

No matter how much effort you make, how wonderful your social skills, how loving you are, not everybody is going to like you. Not everybody is going to applaud your way of doing things…not your family, not your friends, not your lover. The most important skill you can learn is to allow criticism to slide right off of you. Knowing who you are, what your goals are, and taking some action every day to achieve those goals, that is what is important.

Recognizing that every individual who is present today has different lessons, different life direction is a big boost to finding your personal tolerance, your ability to honestly smile and allow. As long as you are not receiving any physical harm simply allow others to think and do as they would. It certainly is not up to you or me to decide what is right or wrong for another’s life.

This attitude of allowing and accepting would seem to be the most difficult for us in the case of friends and family. For whatever reason we all seem to be particularly talented in recognizing the faults of others. My advice? Send the Light and Love to all, see the Light and Love, be the Light and Love. It is always appropriate. In many cases it is the best you can do. Whether it is accepted or not, it is always absolutely correct.

Know that other folk’s “mistakes” maybe exactly what they need to learn and grow. Don’t take away their lessons. It is not for their best good. Offer advice only when seriously asked. Many times that apparent call for help is not for you to fix anything but rather is really only a call for you to be a good listener.

You and I have chosen to live in this world of opposites. Yes, it was our decision. I believe our most valuable learning comes from observing the interplay of the positive and negative. If we will rise to our personal challenges, if we dare to be that which our innermost self would have us be, we will have lived the best of lives. Live from your heart and soul. Spirit’s wisdom will knock on your door every day sometimes in pleasing attire and sometimes in rags.

I believe in differences. I believe in your personal uniqueness. I encourage you to explore all your gifts, all your talents. Throw away any inhibitions or fears that you have collected along the way. I know each one of you is unique in all this earth. You are special, valuable and important. Claim your personal power. This is your chance for the best life ever. Use it to the fullest. TAKE CHARGE OF YOU!

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WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS?

2010-04-14T04:47:00.000-07:00

Where is your focus? What impressions are you weaving into your life? Are you surrounding yourself with the ideas and emotions you wish to see manifest?

I have experienced so many ‘miracles’ in my own life. Yet the miraculous quality of each of them should have been no surprise. Why? Because the truth is this: whatever thoughts and feelings we store in our minds, whatever we observe every day and accept as normal or possible, that situation, event or thing is going to make an appearance in our experience.

It is certainly not news to any of you that the thoughts and visions of violence as portrayed in movies and television tend to breed violence, whereas love images and actions create more love. But perhaps you have never given serious thought to something as simple as the decoration in your living space or office attracting the kind of energy that those decorations portray and exude.

Take a thoughtful look at the pictures, paintings or prints that hang on your walls. You see them every day. Look at those items of decoration that have been with you for some time. Do they speak of pleasant experiences, beautiful vistas or loneliness and isolation? Do they bring feelings of a new and wonderful day?

Frankly, I never paid much attention to my pictures as long as they were a good color, reasonably attractive and the right price, but I have changed my attitude. I have had to acknowledge that my own wall decoration is an amplified “treasure map” to my destiny!

Let me explain why. Many of you may have used treasure mapping. It is simply a process of selecting symbols that are of the things, people, and places you wish to experience in your life. There is usually some religious symbol in the center of a poster board surrounded by examples of family life, recreation, finances etc. The idea being that if you continually see the map you will eventually attract those things you desire.

Here is the point. For a number of months there were two pictures on my bedroom wall, both of them quite large. I appreciated each of them for their beauty but did not credit them with anything further. One print was of a lovely beach scene complete with a lighthouse and a tall lady with a flowing gown.

The other picture was of a tropical entry way to an unseen home. The entry was framed by large white marble pillars. Just behind the pillars were two black wrought iron gates opening inward. There was the impression of water and a magnificent home beyond the gates. It seemed to say ‘welcome’.

Now here is where it gets interesting. Prior to a trip that I had scheduled for the east coast of Florida I was reading in my bedroom. I happened to look up to the corner of the room and realized that the huge ‘entry way’ picture was being reflected in my equally large mirror hanging 45 degrees opposite it.

The two formed a right angle to each other in the corner. The illusion was that the mirror offered a three dimensional access to an unseen elegant home beyond the gates. In other words it appeared to be a way to walk right into the scene.

Just the appearance seemed to make me breathless. I called to my daughter in the other room so that she could see it too. We were both in awe. Neither of us understood the symbolism at that time but it seemed important.

Apparently those two pictures had been seeping into my life each day with energy. Upon my arrival at the scheduled time on the coast, I had a surprise waiting. I will tell you it is not unusual for me to be asked to psychically, spiritually and energetically clear homes and offices. It is a matter of removing inappropriate energies and replacing them with some that are more positive. But this time, by virtue of its’ size, the request that greeted me was huge.

I was employed to change the energies in a 22,000 square foot home! I was delighted to accept the opportunity although the scope of the project was rather daunting. The process took several hours over two days. And yes, as you may have already guessed, the home sported the entry way I had been seeing on my bedroom wall for several months.

Finally I could literally ‘walk right into the scene’. Just as impressive was the fact that the mansion was built upon more than an acre with open access to, and view of, the Atlantic Ocean. Two pictures, one beautiful outcome.

If you would like to experience more joy, contentment and forward motion on your life path, phone or e-mail for your private consultation. Reverend Lois Cheney, E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com or phone (941)961-2783

WHEN THINGS GO "WRONG" BUT TURN OUT RIGHT!

2010-03-26T06:01:00.001-07:00

WHEN THINGS GO “WRONG” BUT TURN OUT RIGHT!

We all make plans from time to time. Sometimes we get so intense that you might say we not only plan but we plot! But you and I know the Universe occasionally steps in and initiates something quite different, a left turn as it were.

My story begins about two months ago. I was planning and looking forward to a second visit to a large city on the east coast of Florida. The first time I served one of the metaphysical centers there, the minister had provided lodging in her own home. This time, while serving that same center, I was invited to stay with a new acquaintance in a separate suite of her condominium.

As usual with these trips I was completely prepared with two workshops, a lecture and a meditation. In addition I was offering private psychic counseling. On the surface it was much the same as any of my working trips.

About three weeks before I was scheduled, things starting going a bit odd. First the center’s website balked and refused to allow access. That was a bit scary to me because my income depended on those people on the center’s e-mail list knowing I was on my way, understanding what I would teach and the times of the lectures.

When the website finally opened up, the dates and times were wrong. One of my workshops was totally deleted. I was concerned but on the other hand my last visit had been so perfect, I assumed everything would straighten out in time! Plus I had learned one special attitude from a friend of mine. It always fixed any negative attitude I might be prone to use. On occasions like this I just said: “Oh, well!”

Then another glitch! The advertisement that was to appear in the local new age magazine had the wrong date and didn’t mention my other workshop. Oh, oh! This called for phrases one and two: “Oh, well… So what!”

Upon arrival at the metaphysical center it was obvious that nothing was going to happen according to plan. Now it was time for: “Oh, well…So what…Next time!” Oddly enough I felt really upbeat, not at all concerned. As it turns out there was an excellent reason for my optimism.

I was only in the city a day or so when, thanks to my new friend, I was called on to spiritually clear and clean a gorgeous bay side home of over 20,000 square feet. It was the first time I had worked with a living space of that size and I welcomed the opportunity. My new friend came with me and helped carry all my psychic “tools”.

I divided the huge house into sections for the clearing and subsequent replacing with the appropriate energy. There were three different levels to the home and so many hallways. To be certain that it was as clean as it should be, I allowed myself two days for the intense work.

The remainder of the week I was busy doing counseling sessions and chakra clearings for several friends of the home’s owners. Believe me when I say I never gave a second thought to the week that didn’t turn out “right”.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Universe, Cosmos, Spirit, One Source, I Am that I Am.

Whatever your need is today: counseling on life path matters, clearing of old patterns or contacting loved ones on the other side, call or e-mail. I am here to help in my Sarasota,Florida studio or by telephone.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, telephone (941)961-2783, E-Mail:RevLois@gmail.com.

IS YOUR LOVE ON HOLD?

2010-03-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

I have been taking inventory again! No, not an inventory of the clothes in my overstuffed closet or my packs of Doreen Virtue’s angel cards or my well stocked refrigerator and pantry of quick meals. The inventory involves something much more important.

I believe that in theory all of us would agree that a huge part of our job here on earth is to express the love that we are. We probably would also agree that in order to express that love we, as humans, need to be able to continually forgive the large and small “offenses” committed by ourselves and others. However, it seems that what we believe to be correct and what we do, what action we take, often times are quite different.

In our humanness it seems much easier to judge and keep score. So here is where my personal inventory comes to the surface. I had a dream last night where I was (for the umpteenth dream time) taking the wrong turn back home in Illinois where I was born. That irritating dream has been mine for too many years.

Suddenly I got it! I knew exactly what that repetitive dream was about. The challenge was what to do about a grudge I had been “enjoying” for years. I had to take action. We all know that those miserable thoughts can lodge in our physical bodies and cause all sorts of discomfort not to mention disease. In this case love and forgiveness were both called for but how???

When you or I ask our guides, high self or angels we always get an answer! I asked. I listened. All I needed to begin the process of releasing my hurt and anger was so simple. My main guide, Red Feather, pointed out what I already knew but had not implemented.

I did know how to approach the situation but I had ignored it way too long. So I began seeing the troublesome man, who was the center of my misery, as an innocent infant, the way he came into this world. I rescued an old photo I had saved showing him as a child of around two years of age. I realized that then, as now, he was just trying to take the actions that would make him feel warm, comfortable, cared for, and yes, important. It no longer mattered what I thought was the “right” thing. He did then and continues to do today exactly what seems to him to be the best, the most successful for him.

With this simple approach I finally had accessed my soul wisdom. I promised myself from this day forward whenever I thought of his past interactions with me I would let him be “young and seeking”. I know he is looking to love and be loved. Never again would I engage in blaming him for what he obviously believed was his own right action.

My heart and body felt so much lighter. The long standing hurt was gone. Was this finally the end of all my judgments? I wish I could say so but I know the “grudge inventory” of my life will be an ongoing process for awhile. At least I admit to my imperfections and hopefully get some forgiveness momentum going from my heart for my negative and very earthly thoughts.

I remind you and myself that we need to continually forgive not only the other people and situations we encounter but we need to forgive ourselves.

We will keep making what we see as “mistakes” and need to see those seeming errors in judgment as the learning lessons which they are. Those mistakes can sometimes turn out to be our greatest blessings if we can acknowledge and use the gifts they offer us.

BLESS ALL OF US WHO ARE WALKING THIS PATH OF SPIRIT. LET THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF OUR LIVES BE LOVE!

The joy of my life is helping others work through the challenges of their path. If I can be of service to you by answering troubling questions or revealing some avenues of discovery, please call or write for your personal ,completely confidential, counseling session.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, Metaphysical/Spiritualist Minister.
E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com or Telephone (941)961-2783

YOU ARE A RAINBOW!

2010-03-10T16:57:00.000-08:00

Have you considered the range of colors present in your personal chakras? Certainly you are shining in every color of the rainbow. Those powerful energy vortices funnel into you the necessary life giving power of the one Great Source. They are the mechanism that allows you to exist as a Spirit living in a physical body.

Your chakras as a group contain all the colors of the rainbow in many varying shades while each individual vortex may be vibrating with only one color. Your overall aura or etheric body with its ever changing hues can contain myriad colors as well.

Chakra centers channel energy to you from the front, back and through your body. They bring in pure energy and are centers of consciousness. Are you aware that your chakras or these “wheels of light” as they are sometimes called, can store physical and soul memories even those of past or parallel lives? Consider the phrase “clearing karma”. Where might that karma be?

In my work with clearing and activating chakras I use three tools: crystals, tuning forks and color breathing. The crystal layout is for amplifying energy. The tuning forks are to achieve the desired vibration and speed of each vortex. Why color breathing? When a specific chakra is low in its appropriate color, it functions at a lesser level causing the adjoining chakras to be dampened or held back from their peak operating ability.

When all chakras are fully functional, clean and energized, there is an entrainment that happens between them resulting in a boost to your personal power.

A chakra that is clean and operating at optimum level is never muddy in color. The color should be light but luminous to reflect a healthy state. If I encounter a muddy appearance in any chakra while I am working with a client, I ask intuitively for the cause. If appropriate I can then offer some advice to them or adjust my work to correct the problem.

To enjoy a smooth physical and metaphysical/spiritual functioning, I ask my clients to use their imagination to breath colors into each chakra, one chakra at a time. I start with the base chakra and a clear red color, moving through the chain of chakras; using orange for the creative center, yellow for the emotions, green merging into pink for the heart and high heart, blue for communication, indigo for third eye, violet for the crown and finally white/gold/silver for the highest chakras which are above the physical body.

It has been my experience that even though I believe the colors to be correct, each person will vary those colors according to their own inner guide. In other words, if for you the sunshine yellow of your solar plexus or emotional chakra is more a pale lemon color, you should use that color. Whatever color or shade resonates with your intuitive understanding is the one you should employ.

It very well may be true that as we progress in our spiritual understanding or we move into higher levels of living and expressing, the colors we once used for our chakras may not be appropriate under the present circumstances. Going from 3rd or 4th dimensional living up to 5th is bound to cause some changes in our energy needs.

Additionally I have found that some of my clients who are spending a good percentage of their time working in the higher realms of Spirit may need to be reminded from time to time to care for the three so called “lower” chakras. Those three can become quite depleted.

As long as we are living from a physical vehicle we need to be balanced and grounded utilizing the energies of the first or base chakra. The creative or sexual chakra plays an important role in our physical life and deserves attention. It is also especially important to be able to rely on our yardstick of emotions as provided by our solar plexus or third chakra.

What other methods can we employ to keep our chakras full of color? I suggest that we give particular attention to the color of our clothing. That is we can intuitively select the colors of the clothing we wear on any particular day or evening to ramp up our aura or to better fill a particular chakra.

In other words if you feel less than grounded or your self esteem and confidence are flagging, you might choose a red shirt or sweater. Feeling unloved? Bring out the green or pink. Need to fully or forcefully express your thoughts? Try blue to aqua.

Another method of selecting appropriate “refill” colors might be to use a pendulum to dowse some colored cards to get a “hit” on the color that is needed. You could also use the pendulum by asking “is my base chakra red enough?” or “does it need more energy or speed?” You could continue to take an inventory of the basic chakras in that way asking yes or no questions.

One of my friends in Tucson always suggests that you can draw a rainbow with color crayons. The idea is that as you draw and you feel your mouth want to water or salivate that is the color you need today! You may be perfectly balanced in colors or you may find one or more than one color is needed.

Whatever way you use to care for your chakras be sure to give them the attention they deserve. You will feel much more capable in so many areas of your life just because you spend a little extra time on this physical and spiritual health exercise.

I would like to help you with any of your life challenges. I can counsel with you in my Sarasota Florida studio or over the telephone. All appointments are completely confidential. I provide a cassette recording of your session for your later review.

Schedule your appointment today. I am Reverend Lois Cheney, (941)961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

PERMISSION?...GRANTED!

2010-02-26T12:08:00.000-08:00

Today I am giving you a very special gift. I am printing for you the personal permission slip you were given when you entered this lifetime. It says: “In this moment and now and forever you are granted the unending right to be and express that very special, unique, unusual individual you were born to be.” Now I must ask you: Are you willing to use that right?

Just as no two snowflakes are alike, you are not like any other person on this earth or possibly any other life form in the cosmos. It is your own individuality that is your gift. You are special and important. I applaud all your differences.

Somewhere deep inside you lives a power filled urging to carve your own path, to pull away from whatever anyone else thinks you should or ought to do. Your soul pushes you to express your uniqueness, to take chances by acting on your wildest ideas.

Oh, yes, you may have goals and objectives that are similar to the ideas of others, but your way of accomplishment will never be the same. Your methods will not be identical to those of anyone else. You were born to shine in your own way. None of you are clones.

Why is this so important? Because by acknowledging your unique desires and abilities you are shedding the inhibiting guidelines you have absorbed or inherited from family, friends or coworkers. This letting go of past instructions will allow you to finally fully actuate the life that your soul intended from your birth. By projecting the truth of who you are into your life, you may lose a friend or two but I promise you will attract others who see and appreciate the light and love that you are.

Going along with mass thought, following the majority or the crowd will not make you happy. It is not only O.K. to use the road less traveled, the belief system less used, it is necessary. Each of you must carve your own path by following the urging of your heart. When you feel joy pour over you like a warm shower you are pursuing exactly what you need to do regardless of anyone else’s opinion or reaction.

Because you are individual, one of a kind, there is no single plan, no one way for gaining those experiences and that education for which you came to earth, for which you incarnated to be here at this particular time in the planet’s evolution. “One size” does not now and never will “fit all”.

Do you have day dreams or night visions that tug at your heart, dreams that beg you to follow them? Do not let them get away for lack of your attention. Write down your desires. Maybe you feel they are impossible or impractical but do not let them get away.

If your dreams are important enough to stir your soul, imagination and emotion, they are important enough to keep. Those dreams can be Spirit’s way of giving you directions, allowing you to attain resonance with your soul. What does not work today may well work tomorrow. Just acknowledging the desires of your heart can magnetize your personal energy to draw others to help you. Writing those heartfelt desires in a journal brings them energy and life.

As a psychic, I offer Dream Work as well as Intuitive
Development classes from time to time. I design all of those classes to be as much fun and games as possible simply because people seem to learn much faster in that kind of format. Why study dreams? Why push toward intuitive development? Because if you become more aware of the inner essence or truth of what is happening within you and around you, you can make more life affirming choices.

I believe too many of us go through life holding back our words and thoughts for fear of offending someone with our beliefs or saying something too “far out.” Much to my daughter’s embarrassment, I have a habit of striking up a conversation about anything most anywhere. One night when we were entertaining I asked our guests “Have any of you ever seen a U.F.O.?” I could almost feel my daughter sink into the carpet. But that question started a very lively and interesting conversation.

Let me tell you about my trip to Walmart the other day. This story has nothing to do with guides, angels and masters or even the meaning of life but here it is anyway. I had just walked in the back door of Walmart when I noticed this little curly haired older lady with an empty shopping cart. She was leaning just a bit on a small cane. Without meaning to I began to laugh so hard I nearly turned inside out.

Naturally she turned to look at me. I touched her lightly on one shoulder and said “I just can’t help it. I got the funniest idea in my mind that I was going to grab your cart and run down the aisle with you chasing me. I would never do such a thing and I can’t imagine why I even thought it! I must be tired to get so silly.” By that time we were both laughing till people began to stare. She said, “Worse than that, I wouldn’t have been able to catch you!”

I like to think that both of us felt a little lighter after all that fun. I smile every time I think about it. We tend to take everything in life so seriously that once in a while we just need a little comic relief.

To some degree all of us are the product of those “rights and wrongs” we learned in childhood. Our parents with their beliefs and understanding did the best they could to guide us but as adults we need to look carefully at those early rules and judgments that may no longer serve us. We need to acknowledge something as basic as it is alright to talk to strangers.

In still another realm of influence we may be tempted to “fall in line” with our friends or co-workers ideas of what is right for us when what we really need is to learn to listen to our soul’s directions.

To illustrate our tendency to do the so called right or expected thing, let me tell you about my cat Festus. I had just moved with my adopted alley cat, Festus, to a new home in Austin, Texas. I was worried that he would become disoriented in the neighborhood so I bought a little harness and attached him with a chain on the patio under the shade of the roof. I intended to keep him tied for maybe three days until he could understand that this was his new home.

All went well for a couple of days. I kept him fed, watered and shaded. Then on day number three I came out to pet him and there was no Festus, just a harness and a chain. I immediately started searching the neighborhood and spotted him a few blocks down the street. When I called to him he ran the opposite direction. I thought that was the end of that.

However, when I got back to the house there he was, sitting right beside his harness and chain pretending he was still attached. How smart are animals? I have to wonder though if his behavior wasn’t akin to something we do. We break away from some of the old learned behaviors that no longer fit and then, out of comfort or familiarity, we go right back.

Perhaps unconsciously, we feel the need to conform to the patterns that our family or friends have created for us. Most folks have a tendency to resist change. Those people we are close to may be more content with their perceptions of us if we are willing to be predictable. They may be happier if what they have decided to be true about us remains static. In many cases, they prefer it if we will stay in the little identity box they have created for us.

Is it any wonder that we tend to have communication challenges with our relationships when we understand things so differently? Working with your own intuition, sharpening your inner awareness can be a communication tool and blessing. Strengthened intuition absolutely will improve your understanding of others in your life, but equally important, it will help you to understand your own actions and motivations.

I am reminded of one of the Carlos Castaneda books. In it his mentor and teacher, Don Juan, tells Carlos, “You must lose your personal history.” Carlos says he can’t do that. He has earned this degree, he has had this experience. But Don Juan insists, telling him he has to be who he is today, this minute.

I believe that is what each of us must do. Yes, our past has brought us to this day, our current level of understanding, but we cannot live from or in the past. We need to be the new “this minute” us, this “now” us with all our new ideas, understanding and concepts. It is definitely o.k. to be different! It is right that you and only you should select your current path and ideas.

Embrace change. Welcome it in your life. It is only through change that you can move forward. Look at your own life from a different point of view. Ask yourself questions! Who or what is center stage in your life today? Is there reciprocity in this situation or are you bleeding away all your energy. Does this activity or relationship fill you with joy or emptiness?

Sometimes that which was on center stage in your life needs to be loved from a distance or moved to the curb!
Each of you has a soul that is always prompting you to move forward, to accomplish. It urges you from your heart to be as much as you can be, to use your special gifts and talents.

Listen to that warm, urging heart emotion. If you are able to perceive that heart and soul wisdom with greater understanding and give it your full attention, you will find the way to access a more fulfilling joy and flow in your life.

How can you know if you are on your LIFE PATH? I have the question so many times in my work as a counselor. Fortunately, you have been given the measuring stick or tool to use for just such a question. When the path your are on, the work you are doing is so much a part of you that minutes and hours spent in that endeavor mean nothing, you have found it. When you never bother to look at a clock because you are doing what you love, you are on your path. When your heart sings and your spirit soars, you have found IT!

Being your authentic self, finding your way to your special destination may not happen in an instant. No matter how long it takes, your dedication to the journey will be an inspiration to others. Each step along the way is a learning experience.

Develop the gifts and the talents that you have. Work with those occupations or goals that draw you in and will not let you go. No one person can decide for you what your life is about. Not your closest friend, not your parents, not your spouse can ever know the intimate details of what makes you special.

Be proud of your individuality and make the best use of it. You are important to this earth and all of her inhabitants. No one can make the contribution you came here to make. Believe in yourself and step forward with confidence.

I am always ready to help you with any of your life challenges and questions. Call today for your private counseling appointment. I welcome you to my Sarasota, Florida studio or to a telephone session. In either case I will give you a cassette tape of your reading for your later review. Be sure to ask about chakra clearings with sound, color and crystals and private intuitive development lessons.

Reverend Lois Cheney, (941)961-2783 or RevLois@gmail.com

YOUR DREAMS AND MINE

2010-02-05T06:25:00.000-08:00

Let me be straight forward about this subject: I believe in dreams, I believe in dream interpretation, I am enormously thankful for my dreams, but sometimes…

Lately I have had numerous requests to teach my dream workshop in various locations, various cities. Because I want to do my very best for these presentations my mind has been focused on continually improving what I offer.

The result of that intention to be at the “top of my game” manifested many, many restless nights when I felt it necessary to wake up and record yet another dream…just in case!

Those of you who have kept a dream journal for any length of time know how I felt. Dream work becomes a bit of a compulsion if you allow it. That is why I always tell my students that following their dreams needs to be a joy not a job.

With all that dreaming and writing, many are the mornings I would start my day feeling as if I had been trenching through a war zone. I finally decided I needed better continuous sleep. After all I did have my counseling and other matters requiring my attention.

I found a solution! I simply had a serious talk with my dream-maker. “If you only wake me when a dream involves new ways of service, one that uses me and my own storehouse of unconditional love and light, I promise to write down all the details.”

Thank goodness that worked. I had to repeat that talk a couple of nights in a row just to make the impression, indicate my seriousness, but yes it worked. “Wake up, wake up” dreams kept coming but not by the bushel basketful.

Perhaps I just needed to convince myself that my workshops did not have to be “perfect”. No, I haven’t stopped dreaming, but I do get a lot more sleep. Bless my subconscious mind! It does take direction well. Plus it never sleeps because “she” never needs it!

I am wishing all of you the happiest and most productive of dreams even if some of them come to you as nightmares just to get your attention.

If I may help you with dream interpretation or any Spirit channeled information, call today for your private appointment. I am always happy to help you with a reading or a complete chakra clearing utilizing sound, color and crystals.

Reverend Lois Cheney, E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com or Telephone: (941)961-2783.
For information: www.Sarasota-Psychic-Medium.com

OPENING TO LOVE

2010-01-26T06:15:00.000-08:00

Yes, here comes February with all its’ valentine hearts, flowers, chocolates and cupids arrows! No one will deny the rush of pleasure that comes with “falling in love”. We seem to crave that lighter than air feeling, being lifted above the ordinary. However love has much greater scope and dimension than mere romance. Love has unsurpassed range and grandeur! Love used in its purest form is incredibly powerful, capable of transcending all difficulties and truly far reaching and infinite.

Thankfully inside each one of you is an enormous, limitless supply of miracle producing, unconditional, open-hearted love. Unfortunately the truth is that many of us seem to have locked love away through fear of loss or perhaps because of various very personal disappointments of the past. The good news is that love is still there within each one of you, available, vital and ready to go to work in your life.

As a clairvoyant psychic, when I work with clients to clear and activate their chakras, I see that marvelous love energy swirling in the area of the heart chakra as well as in that area that is sometimes referred to as the “high heart” chakra or thymus chakra. The “high heart” chakra is the energy wheel located between the physical heart and the throat.

The love in those two spinning energy centers may be sluggish or partial dormant but it is still there and fully capable of going to work for you in your life. I suggest you start activating that energy with your mind and thoughts.

If you are a visual person I would ask you to see your love’s energy blooming and shining forth lotus-like in luminous green blending upward into a soft pink. If you prefer to understand the heart chakras as a sound vibration it would be the musical tone “F”.

Acknowledge your vast capability of loving and continue to amplify that energy at the chakra level. When you feel as full of love as you can imagine, how should you use that energy? Use it by beginning at once to love yourself exactly as you are right now with all your bumps and bruises of personality and seeming imperfections of body.

See your love energy touching every nerve and cell in your physical body. Remember also not to use any critical words against yourself---“if only I had said nothing…” or “I shouldn’t have…” or “I am just so silly and stupid”!

Instead of hurtful thoughts try some self love complements like these ---“I do my very best every day,” “I am thankful for all my creative ideas”, and of course: “Wow! I did that just right.” Your body, mind and emotions will thank you for this love bath offered from your heart.

I promise you that your love will come forward with zest each time you are nonjudgmental and compassionate with yourself and others. It shines when you gift a stranger on the street with your smile. Your love blooms when you help a friend who is temporarily lost on his path. Just a beautiful positive thought sent out to someone who is troubled is love in action. No love thought or deed is ever wasted. Be assured the more love you use, the more you will have.

Whatever thought or daydream that you entertain be certain it comes from your heart and your love. There is always time to rationalize or work exclusively from the mental realm but no better time than now to come from a platform of love. Communication never seems to be simple but if you take the extra step to be sure that every word you write or speak comes from your heart, you will always be clearly understood.

Why concern yourself with opening to love? Quite simply because love is life’s most positive and powerful force. Most of you would welcome some sort of change or improvement in your life experiences. So if there is any situation in your life today that causes you unhappiness or distress, try love. Give your personal love and the love you draw from Spirit a chance to prove itself Love will heal any emotional, mental and physical discomfort. Love activates the natural healing ability of anyone who will accept its’ energy.

Perhaps you have been told or read: “Live by the wisdom of Love.” “Speak from the heart.” “Be kind.” “Do no harm.” “Step aside from the negativity of all judgment.” “Hear yourself and others, not with your mind, but with love from your heart.” “Be the radiant energy of pure Love.” “Forgive, forgive, forgive.”

All of these suggestions are good ones, but where are the directions to attain this life lived by Love? How can we open our hearts to that great an extent? Where should we begin? How can we become that pure heart essence and still live and work every day in a sometimes harsh human environment with all its conflicting demands?

If you will begin by putting aside judgment, you will lose all the unnecessary and exhausting dramas of life. In other words, simply allow other people and situations to be as they are without the need to comment or “fix” them.

Through this simple act of allowing, the triggers that might have sent you into conflict will no longer engage you. They will not affect you. Instead, you will be led to use genuine loving communication from your heart. The high Spirit will speak from your heart and soul.

The time to begin any change, large or small, is always now. Today is the day to express love. Today is the day to forgive yourself and others. Today is the day to start with a clean slate and a new more loving heart.

Listening to the unadulterated true spirit of your heart is a life long journey of love exploration. It is a commitment to enormous and fulfilling change. When anyone dares to live by love, beautiful changes are inevitable. New relationships, new careers, creative ideas arrive just for the accepting.

We are here in human form on this earth for the purpose of growth, growth of mind, emotion and spirit. The most direct route to accessing our own potential is the embracing and expressing of our personal love nature. We must open our hearts to our true divine self and the true divine self of others.

Every thought we think, every emotion we feel, every word we speak creates a ripple of energy. When those thoughts, emotions and words issue from pure love we become the light for ourselves, for others and for the planet.

I encourage you today to make a pact with yourself to express as much as you can of your true love nature, your personal heart wisdom, in every situation you encounter. By simply being heart aware, you will know love’s solutions, love’s answers.

Whether you are alone with your thoughts, speaking with friends, working with others or meeting strangers, BE THE LOVE YOU WERE BORN TO BE! I assure you, there is nothing more satisfying than expressing your own heart’s spirit of love and wisdom.

Using your love’s radiant energy will bring great abundance in all its many forms into your life. Love when combined with gratitude will literally magnetize your personal energy to attract every good situation into your life.

If it is a relationship you think, dream or imagine for yourself, it will be there. If it is money or a better home or transportation you envision and intend, those will come. Just keep loving, never stop and never doubt its’ power.

By using your love moment to moment you will be transformed spiritually and physically enlivened. You will become the best gift this earth could ever want.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney a spiritualist and metaphysical minister, healing channel, psychic/trance medium and intuitive workshop leader. Check out my website: www.Sarasota-Psychic-Medium.com. E-mail me for a private or phone appointment:RevLois@gmail.com or telephone: (941)961-2783.

SEEKING LIFE PATH

2010-01-19T07:26:00.000-08:00

Those of us who daily feel the reality of our innate spiritual nature most likely are also yearning to fulfill the destiny we chose before we arrived in physical body. Our soul continually seems to push us to discover our unique way of moving through this life. It urges us to develop our special talents to their fullest dimension and share those abilities and our selfless love with the world.

Of all the questions that are asked of me as a psychic counselor some of the most frequent are; “Am I on my spiritual path?” “Is the action I am pursuing keeping me on my life path or am I taking a wrong turn?” “What is my life path?”

If you are a person who desires to “stay on the path” I offer you some ways of determining your course. The first is certainly the easiest and most direct. As you move through your day check in with your emotions. Are you working at something that gives you so much joy that you completely ignore the clock? Time is meaningless? Then most definitely you are on your path fulfilling your purpose.

If on the other hand, you are bored, feeling stuck or lacking any drive or ambition, it is time to take a little personal inventory. When was the last time you felt the joyful exhilaration of something you accomplished? What was the nature of that effort? Could it be built, expanded into some larger and greater work?

Reach as far back in time as you need to but do find something that gave you great satisfaction and purpose. Looking for a situation of your own creation that brought you joyful excitement will open your thinking to which of your many talents needs to be explored and utilized.

If there is some particular activity that has always spoken to you, made you curious, but you were hesitant to try it, do it now. Did you always want to try painting with watercolors? Did you feel you could be helpful in one of the many volunteer opportunities? Does guitar music call you?

When you daydream what do you see yourself doing? Should you begin taking steps to make that daydream a reality? No matter your age, no matter your education, it is never too late to try something “out of your comfort zone” that sparks your imagination.

I do not exaggerate when I state that everyone reading this article has numerous talents! Not one of you arrived empty handed.

There is a related effort that you can make to bring your life path into focus. It may not make sense to you at first but I suggest you try it.

The truth is that more than one of us are hitting a bit of a brick wall life path wise because we will not forgive and let go. In other words you may still be angry with yourself for missing an opportunity that you feel would have put you in a much more progressive place in your life. You may still resent someone else who caused you distress or economic loss.

When you hold on to a situation of any unhappy distressful kind it places clouds in your thinking. That attitude will hold you back, keep you from seeing and trying your finest ideas. Worse yet lack of forgiveness can manifest itself as physical or even emotional illness.

Let go of memories of any personal “failure”. Anything you ever did or saw was simply a learning experience. Release unhappiness and move into this possibility filled day with renewed zest. Every single day is a new 24 hour opportunity! Do not waste a minute of that gift in regret.

When you are angry with your own actions you hurt yourself. When you are angry with someone else you hurt yourself.
If you feel that you have failed yourself in anyway, forgive! If you feel that someone else has injured you, forgive! You will be amazed at how light and good that forgiveness will feel.

As you seek your personal and very important life path remember that your emotions are a wonderful sensing device. When joy floods your soul, you are on target! When your solar plexus feels like it is filled with lead, do try something different!

Many of us on earth today are experiencing what feels like an acceleration of time. We just become accustomed to one event or appearance when everything changes again. Therefore it is all the more important to be center and grounded in our own lives.
When you can affirm and sense that you are doing what you came here to do, you are centered, you are grounded!

My intention is that you find and enjoy all the blessings of your life. My joy is found in helping others with their life challenges. I am Reverend Lois Cheney, telephone (941) 961-2783, E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com. , www.Sarasota-Psychic-medium.com.

DREAMS, VISITATIONS AND ASTRAL TRAVEL

2010-01-08T05:57:00.000-08:00

It is a valuable gift. You receive it every night as you sleep. No exact monetary value can be placed on it. Yet without this gift your mental and emotional stability would suffer. In fact, scientifically we are told that we need our sleeping dreams to recharge and rebalance.

In fact the average person spends one third of their lives sleeping and dreaming. If he or she lives to the age of 75 that is 25 years asleep but subconsciously awake in the world of dreams. Would any of us really want to waste that many years through our own inattention to the information that is offered there?

Since the sights, sounds and emotions that are offered to us as we sleep are a highly valuable commodity, why do we give them so little of our time and notice?

In other civilizations and societies such as those of the Romans, the Greeks and various American Indian tribes, dreams were honored. Great attention was given to their interpretation. Those who could interpret dreams were honored. Dreams and the messages offered by spirit visitations were recorded in journals for future reference. Nothing was thrown away or disregarded.

Those of you who are familiar with biblical passages will recall numerous instances when dreams were credited with imparting life saving information. Consider the dream that came to Mary and Joseph that caused them to flee with the baby Jesus. Without their attention to that dream would Christianity have come into being?

I will acknowledge that many of the dreams we experience are not the simplest to interpret. They come in metaphors and symbols that seem at first glance far removed from our daily lives. Why take the extra time and effort to make sense of them?

Once you or I are able to open the knowledge of those mystical scenarios we are likely to find wisdom that goes far in smoothing our life paths. Why? Because our personal dream maker has access to information on many levels and many locations that would otherwise escape us.

Some of you may already be doing remote viewing or astral travel as you sleep. You may not be aware of it but still it is a fairly common occurrence.

If you have an interest in something that is quite a distance from home, it is quite possible to send yourself as astral energy to that location. For instance, if there is a friend or relative across the country who is experiencing illness or other difficulty, you might “check in” with your astral body.

Do you realize that before you fall asleep you can request answers from your night dreams to questions on any subject? Not only can you request that service, you can invite healing energies to present their vibrations and suggestions to you as you sleep and dream for your health of mind, body or emotions.

In my workshops when I teach the value and use of “dreamtime” I always suggest that it is important to impress your dream maker with the fact that you are interested, that you will see and listen to those night time presentations. Emphatically announcing your intention to record and interpret your dreams and doing so will bring more vivid, detailed memory and understanding of their content.

If you already value your waking intuitive abilities consider using your night time ones as well. In depth observations concerning your life, your challenges, your talents are waiting to help and advise you in any way that you are willing to accept.

Each one of you has been born with the deep heartfelt desire to fully actuate your chosen life path. I can help with my 4-part personalized private intuitive development course.

I will gladly answer questions regarding the course or schedule a private counseling session in my Sarasota Florida studio or over the telephone. To schedule an appointment call Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783 or E-mail RevLois@gmail.com.
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CHAKRA CLEARING AND ACTIVATION THERAPY

2009-12-07T10:58:00.001-08:00

At this time I am thrilled to announce the implementation of a powerful new addition to my Spirit-channeled healing work. I am pleased to offer this therapy to you.

With this treatment the doorway to healing of mind, body and emotions is opened through chakra cleansing and increased activation of each chakra. Both sound vibration and color immersion are used in this therapy.

The chakras are reenergized and entrained with each other. In other words the energy of each chakra is amplified and harmonized with the energies of the other chakras to flow and connect smoothly for the highest good of the overall health and wellbeing of the client.

This technique has the effect of engaging the individual’s natural healing abilities. Many times, during the process of clearing, certain blockages will arise and reveal their mental or emotional causes. At that time the difficulties can be addressed and intuitively analyzed in conjunction with the overall treatment. The typical session requires a one hour appointment and is strictly private.

Many of my clients report feeling lighter and yet very connected with their world following their treatment. Still others seem to regain their sense of balance or grounding. Always there is a feeling of deep relaxation combined with increased inner awareness.

Some report accessing more confidence in their own ability to follow their heart/soul direction. The overall effect many times is a powerful magnified personal aura which allows the individual greater access to his personal intuitive abilities.

For your private appointment contact Reverend Lois Cheney,
Phone: (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com
Be sure to visit the website: www.Sarasota-Psychic-Medium.com

HOW NEW WILL YOUR NEW YEAR BE?

2009-11-27T13:21:00.000-08:00

As we prepare to birth the new year, our thoughts may be on the year now past. Perhaps we feel many things could have been better. We see loss in various human arenas…finance, institutions, relationships, and more. We may have regrets over some of our personal actions or inactions, those things we did or failed to do. We may feel abused, even victimized, by the actions of others.

We need to ask ourselves if we want a rehash of 2009 or if we are willing to make the effort to create situations and events in and around us that are truly new. If we want our new year to be different than this past year, we must begin to think, act and feel differently about ourselves and our experiences.

At this special time of new beginnings I offer some ideas to bring you confidence that the new year will be completely and pleasingly new! First, forget the so called “failures” of the twelve months past. Those losses along with the days that produced them are over. Whip out a sheet of paper and begin to write everything you ever did that was a “win”.

Call your list RIGHT ACTIONS. Documenting your “wins” as a list will be the first step toward your intended new journey. It will imbue you with the knowledge and deep seated belief that you are a successful Spirit filled human.

On your “Right Actions” list write every successful, generous, loving thing you have ever done. For instance, “providing extra food for others to brighten their holidays made me feel good,” Or “I decided to finish the college course which led to my being accepted as a …” Or perhaps, “buying that first little house set me on a good road to identifying winning investments.” Or, “I made a special effort to make my mother comfortable in our final weeks together.”

Whatever you did at any time that brought you a good feeling about yourself, your motives and your abilities write it on your list! The act of writing anything gives it special enlivening energy.

The reason for this exercise is not to encourage living in the past but rather to take you back there long enough to remember those special positive power filled times of yesterday. By reacquainting yourself with your successes of the past you are simply reminding yourself that the power you used then is the power you can elect to use now and in the future.

What name do you give your power? What channel are you tuned to? Do you think of it as the energy of intuition, Spirit, God, I Am that I Am, high self, Light or Love? Whatever name you give to it that power is yours to use in any way you can think, dream or imagine.

By making the “Right Actions” list you will begin to remember many successful ventures for which you may not have given yourself credit. The point of creating the list is for you to visualize and magnify a winning, successful image of you. When you see yourself as a creative winner you will engage more wonderful productive ideas. You will have more success with anything you do.

Did you know that your powerful subconscious will always carry out your orders? Every repetitious thought and emotion you feed to it will be saved, worked with and brought to manifestation. It is a 24-hour-a-day worker. It never becomes tired and it never grows old.

Even more than manifesting your power filled ideas, your subconscious keeps a bank of information that you did not impower. Ask it for some solutions and ideas and it will do the research. Or ask its associate your personal dream maker for answers. You have truly unlimited resources waiting your call.

When you access your own “feel good” emotion you have accessed your personally powerful fuel and igniter fluid for constructive manifestation. You can focus that energy to build the life you have dreamed of. You have always known what you desire and now you have the way to ignite those desires.

By your concentration on your personal successes you are throwing out all your preconceived limits. When you throw out limiting ideas and concepts you are free to engage fully with your personal light filled future.

It is no secret that most of us can tell you what didn’t work in our lives or what isn’t working. Why fritter away our dynamic energy resources on such a wasteful pastime? Let us speak instead of how much we love today and invest our energy here. Let us speak of the bright future that stretches out in front of us. Make our words work for us rather than against us.

Creating a new “new year” for ourselves does not happen by chance. It takes a desire on the part of each one of us to let go of the actions and ideas that did not work and focus on the ones that did!

A particularly good idea at this time of year is to clean house in any way you can. In other words, if you have not used a particular item in the last 12 months, get rid of it. Give it away to someone who could use it. Recycle it! If you are falling over unused possessions and storing some under your bed it is time to make some decisions about where you are using your energy.

The other part of house cleaning is a little different. When a particular personal habit is a stumbling block, it not only has to be removed but it has to be replaced! It is good to remember that anytime you create a vacuum by removing an idea or emotion, you need to replace it with something more positive. Otherwise that hole that is left in your life experience will be filled with the “first available”, in other words, the luck of the draw.

Keep adding to your success list whenever you remember one of your personal winning actions. Adding to your list will build your confidence. It will impress upon you that you are worthwhile and capable of great deeds. Each one of you has special talents and enormous creativity. Believing in yourself will reveal more of your abilities.

Through this list making exercise you will find other new and sometimes startling inventive ideas floating to the surface. Do not ignore your new ideas. Keep a second list of POSSIBILITIES.

Allow the ideas to approach you as they are without placing immediate judgment on them. In other words, just because a particular idea seems beyond your abilities at the moment, too much like “pie in the sky” write it down anyway. Remember that tomorrow everything can change. What seems impossible today may be exactly the action that will work for you next week.

Do not throw away any of your inspired thoughts. WHEN IN DOUBT…WRITE IT DOWN!

Be aware that some of your best most workable ideas may come to you in dreamtime. Write them down the very minute you wake. Even if you cannot understand the metaphor or unusual language of a dream, write it down. Do not let any of these special inspirations escape into forgetfulness.

Pay attention to your colorful daydreams as well. Daydreams can carry wonderful inspirations that are worthy of your notice. Daydreaming is a way of trying out ideas and seeing the probable results. Let no idea wither for lack of your investigation.

The importance of written lists is that we are able to see things in a more concrete form. When ideas are standing side by side on paper we can evaluate much more directly. Clarity of thought is more likely.

Make this new year of yours shine with the ultimate in newness. Make it your best new year yet.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, psychic medium. If I can assist you in any way with a Spirit filled reading call me at (941)961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

IS JOY YOUR BIRTHRIGHT?

2009-11-13T06:44:00.001-08:00

It was just two weeks ago this coming Sunday through an unexpected invitation I found myself teaching one of my favorite workshops on the east coast of Florida. That workshop that I offer from time to time is my introduction to extra sensory development, just a taste of the way or path to psychic development.

As usual I brought boxes of “tools” with me that I use to keep the focus of attendees. I set up my easel and flip chart. All was going according to plan as we worked our way through the exercises both mental and physical. I spoke of my own early and sometimes laughable experiences with spirits and apparitions.

Then something unusual happened. I flipped to the next illustration on the chart. It was a simple outline of a heart. In the center of the heart in rose colored crayon was the word JOY. One woman jumped up from her chair and said “I like that!

I do love effusive people. Her energy was a real boost to most everyone. Hers was certainly a positive exclamation but not the end of the reactions to the drawing of the heart and “Joy” from the rest of the class.

No one else commented aloud regarding the particular drawing but it was the varied energies the others were emitting that surprised me. There were a few nods of agreement and then…

With some of the students there seemed to be a distrust of the word itself as if it contained some sort of threat perhaps could not be accepted or counted on to be positive. One of the participants actually recoiled as if in fear. Is it possible that someone could be afraid of going beyond being surface happy, of accessing joy in depth? If that were so what could be the reason?

To figure out this puzzle I began considering where joy comes from, where it originates. Certainly joy is more than mere pleasure. It has a depth beyond pleasure. The deep upwelling emotion of joy resonates throughout the body and mind. I dare say true joy is a soul promoted emotion.

Perhaps it comes and goes quickly or only occasionally as we move through our lives. But to truly live joy each day every day one would have to have a deep sense of gratitude not only for his own life but for every person and situation in his life.

How could that thankfulness or gratitude be brought forward? Can we create it at will?

It is certain that life is full of changes and surprises, some pleasant, some not so pleasant. Could it be that you and I are capable of making a conscious decision to be thankful for all our varied situations, people and events? Could we suspend ego-led judgment long enough to be thankful for all our experiences whether filled with tears or laughter? And if we stuck by that mental decision to be grateful in all things could we perhaps invite more joy into our hearts and lives?

At that point in my analyzing I began to realize that Joy and Unconditional Love were inseparable. They are two halves of one thing. If Joy were accessed one would have to be at least at that moment in a state of loving and accepting everything and everyone just as they are. That state of being in unconditional love and acceptance might be all too brief but it would seem that it naturally coexists at the moment when Joy is flooding the heart.

To go a step further is it possible then that the only healing tool we would ever need is found in being unconditionally loving and accepting of ourselves and others? Could love filled joy be the one medicine that would take away any of our distress or disease?

That idea brought me right back to the person in my class that appeared to be literally afraid of Joy. Now I know from experience that some people will cling to their illnesses because that particular disease or condition is providing some sort of benefit in their lives.

The discomfort may be giving them the attention they crave from another person. Holding on to that distress may be their reason for not attempting some task that they do not want to pursue. Whatever the reason for not accepting their own healing, they continuing to hold on to that ailment because it provides what they, on some level of consciousness, believe is necessary in their lives.

Following that reasoning, if Joy were to be a part of their daily living, the disease that has been their rock, their saving grace, their focal point might be taken away. Loosing that kind of stability, however questionable the logic, would certainly be reason enough to fear the dynamic healing arrival of Joy coupled with the unconditional love of self and others.

There is of course another possibility. Perhaps the real fear is that the beautiful flooding of Joy into and from the heart is all too temporary. Perhaps the fear is that when that Joy is not present or seems inaccessible the emotions and stability will go into free fall.

From time to time we all suffer through the ups and downs of emotion but we do not live in fear of a total downward spiral just because life does not conform to our idea of perfect. Most of us have learned the real benefits of keep our “sunny side up”. Good thoughts, good emotions, bring good results.

My response to the thought that Joy is too temporary is to suggest that each of us begin at once to carve a reliable path to Joy. I suggest we find a way to access or create Joy in our lives. For instance, we all need the feeling and knowledge that our lives are supported by Spirit. Because that is true let us begin to reassure ourselves daily that we are made of the divine Light and Love of Spirit. Reinforce our own worthiness throughout the day.

Cause yourself to become aware, to feel that Light and Love lifting you, guiding you from one moment to the next. Remind yourself daily that you are Light, you are Love. Do this and thankfulness, love and all pervasive Joy will become your way of life.

The original question I asked myself was “Is Joy your birthright?” I can now say I believe that it is but like any gift or talent or ability Joy has to be accepted, appreciated and above all used. Joy is that state of expanding love and acceptance. Accessing the Joy that is naturally yours will change your life and the lives of all those whom you touch.

My personal joy is found in helping others to fully actuate their lives. My pleasure comes from seeing my clients successfully pursue the life path of their design. If I can help you with any life questions or directions call or e-mail me, Reverend Lois Cheney for your private clairvoyant reading.

I now offer individually designed and personalized one-on-one intuitive development lessons. All work is completely confidential and you will have a cassette recording of your counseling session for your later review.

Reverend Lois Cheney Telephone: (941) 961-2783 or
E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

THE PENDULUM ANSWERS

2009-11-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

My daughter came to me the other day to report that her pendulum was not working! I asked her what she meant. She said she had asked it whether she should keep her current job or look for another one. I admit I had to laugh.

“Dear daughter, you didn’t ask one question you asked two. Your pendulum couldn’t give you a yes or no answer.” She knows whenever we use a pendulum we must ask very specific questions to get very specific answers.

I could have gone further with my questions to her. I wanted to ask her what sort of mood and energy she was working with when she used the pendulum. I decided I had asked quite enough for a mere mother.

Here is what would have worked for her: “Should I keep my current job for the remainder of this year to gain the best experience in my field of work?” Or possibly this: “Is there a job available locally in my field at this time for which I am qualified that would pay me an extra $50 per week? How about: “Have I received all the promotions at this company that the employers are willing to give to me within the next six months?”

Each of the above alternative questions could be answered with a definite yes or no. Any one of them would have provided at least part of the information she desired.

Pendulums when correctly used to dowse for information are great tools. There are a few caveats however. First it is important that you are personally balanced and grounded before using the pendulum. There are numerous personal clearing and grounding techniques that work well and take only moments to use.

For clearing and grounding I like to imagine that I am pulling some of the beautiful golden energy of the central sun of our cosmos through my crown chakra. I allow that energy to spread throughout my physical body including all the nerves, cells and muscles. I then send that energy into the very center of the earth to be cleaned or recycled. I pull the renewed energy back up through my body once more.

If I still feel less than grounded or a little scattered, I am inclined to repeat the exercise for a total of three times. Assuming that you are grounded, cleared and balanced, your personality and ego opinions will be safely out of the way! The road will be clear for the arrival of Truth.

Second it is advisable to ask whether the current moment is appropriate for gaining the information you seek. The timing may or may not be right. The energies around the subject may be such that the information would not be accurate.

Third, if you are going to offer information to another person on their behalf, it is also good to ask whether you should! It is not always for someone’s higher good.

Fourth, ask for the highest and best source energy to guide your pendulum. That energy that you believe to be the most pure, positive and reliable whether you call it the White Light, the Cosmic I AM or God or identify it by some other name.

Following the above steps will assure you of the best results. You are then ready to ask that very definite and specific question!

Have fun with your pendulum. Use it often. When the steps for getting prepared become second nature to you, your pendulum or any other dowsing or divining device you use will work even better.

Your life path decisions are very important. When answers are difficult to find call me, Reverend Lois Cheney, for your personal, completely confidential, clairvoyant reading. I will counsel with you in my Sarasota, Florida studio or by telephone. All readings are preserved on a cassette tape for your later review.

I channel the most accurate information available from your own guides, masters and teachers. I am also able to bring spirit messages from your departed loved ones. If past life experiences are important to your current situations, they can be explored as well.

Call or E-Mail: Reverend Lois Cheney
(941)961-2783
RevLois@gmail.com

PERSONAL INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT SERIES

2009-10-22T05:41:00.000-07:00

Every day life flows much more smoothly when you are able to access your personal intuition for big and small decisions alike. Knowing what will work to resolve a challenge and what will result in an unpleasant stumbling block makes all the difference.

Each one of us is born with the ability to “tune in” to situations and people. The difference is that some of us have brought that ability forward, worked with it and encouraged its growth.

If you are reading this I believe you are a person who is motivated to fully actualize your own life. In fact you most likely sense that you have a particular life path that is uniquely your own.

I encourage you to contact me for an individually designed four-part series of Personalized Intuitive Development. I bring my 30+ years of experience in psychic counseling, teaching and investigation to serve your needs and goals.

The four sessions are given by me, one lesson each week, over the period of a month in my Sarasota Florida studio. The instruction is completely private and confidential. Each lesson is constructed to meet your personal desires and talents.

Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 961-2783
www.Sarasota-Psychic-Medium.com E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

EVERY ‘LITTLE’ THING YOU DO!

2009-10-08T06:49:00.000-07:00

Yes, every ‘little’ activity you engage in, every ‘little’ thing you do you have the power to expand with energy and intent to serve ‘double duty’.

Suppose it is time for exercise. For your body’s sake you go outdoors for a walk or jog. Instead of plugging your ears with your earphones to listen to your personal music mix, try hearing all the various sounds and seeing all the diverse sights of nature.

Immerse yourself in the life essence of birds, trees and flowers. Hear the crickets; see the dew on the leaves. Do you sense a misty aura of life around all things? Bring yourself to focus on the now moment. Mother Earth gladly sends you healing of mind, body and spirit if you care to absorb it.

Being at peace in nature can allow you to access your highest creativity. New ideas and better ways of living begin to flow in with ease. Inspiration is everywhere. As action is called for it takes on a new grace and purpose.

Do you prepare meals for yourself or friends? In the midst of all that chopping, cooking and arranging where are your thoughts? Are you adding special life enhancing energies to the food and the kitchen? If not, why not?

You have access to all the energy you could ever need. Use that ability of yours to channel energy into the most positive vibrations for yourself and others. The rewards may very well surprise you.

A simple thing like taking a morning or evening shower or tub bath can be much more than physical cleaning. Bless the water. Put your mind on the power of the water. See it refreshing your total energy.

Think of the water as removing all miss-qualified energies of your own or those unwanted attachments that you might have accumulated. Know that as that water leaves you, winding its way down the drain and making its way back to the earth, it will be recycled and refreshed.

I recall a dear friend of mine, a Unity Minister in Illinois, used this principle of ‘double duty’ very well! It was back in the days when as housewives we actually ironed husbands’ shirts. I think now everything is wash and wear.

Anyhow, when my friend Dona would iron her husband’s shirts (a job she really did not like) she would see his back, shoulders and arms filled with fresh energy and healing to carry him through the day. What a gift to someone she loved.

If you begin really paying attention to each activity through your day I am certain you will come upon a number of new ideas to turn ‘little’ things into meaningful adventures in Spirit.

You want to live your life fully following your personal path. Because that is true you may have questions about some of your life challenges. My work is bringing answers from your personal guides, teachers and angels to help you actualize your life in depth.

Call today for your personal and confidential psychic reading appointment. I will help you in my Florida studio or by telephone. Do inquire about my 4-part private intuitive lessons. I am Reverend Lois Cheney, RevLois@gmail.com or (941)961-2783

ACCESSING LIFE AT DEPTH

2009-09-28T15:59:00.000-07:00

Nothing in life is as little or insignificant as it may sometimes seem. Every little thing has more to it. Every “thing” is alive with energy and has depth far beyond its surface. If you wish to amplify your intuition for any purpose, if you wish to cull any wisdom from surface knowledge, then you must decide to never discard any visual or auditory or sense perception of any kind. In other words pay attention to all your sensory input.

Extra sensory perception has such a wide range of benefits. It can be used to determine appropriate answers to your personal health questions. It has great value in understanding relationships. Intuition can keep you from taking actions with upsetting consequences and guide you instead to better choices.

Training your intuition is not as difficult as it might appear. This effort at extra sensory perception begins by being fully present in the exact moment you find yourself. Step out of any mental day dream and be here now.

What does this entail? Why don’t we try something? Using this approach, while you read these words, the pink rose you are receiving from me just now as a mental projection is not just colored pink.

Use your imagination. Look closely. The rose is a mottling of many colors. Is there a touch of white? Perhaps just a whisper of a deeper red hue at its center is showing itself.

Immerse yourself in the life and quality of the rose. Hold the rose in your hand. Yes it is soft but feel the texture of each petal. Can you feel its frequency, its vibration touching your palm, your fingers?

Your special rose does not just smell sweet. It combines a range of fragrances. Fragrance is a vibration. Is it possible that you could hear this fragrance in addition to smelling it? In this moment the rose is performing its special life dance just for you. Appreciate its special contribution to this moment in time.

Each one of us possess special sensing capabilities. Each excel more in one method of discovery than another. As you work with your own abilities you might discover that hearing is your most accurate and acute sense. Others might find that their inner “knowing” is always available and gives reliable information. And still others will gain much through their hands and sense of touch.

Whatever way gives you the best result, use it. At the same time, try working with other aspects of your intuition. You may find it quite easy to incorporate several of your sensing talents for even better results.

Keep a written record of your own experiments with perception to encourage yourself as you move forward. You will gain confidence and precision with just a little practice. Don’t forget to give yourself a big pat on the back when you get it right!

This Saturday, October 3rd, I will be offering “Psychic Play” a workshop. It is an interactive experience with a lot of smiles, giggles and laughs. I offer you an assortment of easy to use tools for intuitive development. I know that whether you have a lot of experience with the paranormal or none you will benefit!

The workshop will be held at the Church of the Angels, 2269 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice, FL from 1 to 4pm this Saturday, October 3rd. You are invited to participate. The cost is only $35.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, clairvoyant and trance medium. I invite you to bring any question and as many questions as you wish. All readings are cassette recorded for your later review. Each appointment is strictly private and confidential. I will read for you in my Sarasota Florida studio or by telephone. Call today: (941)961-2783 E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

LIVE NOW!

2009-09-22T08:09:00.000-07:00

You and I are living in a time of sweeping changes. At times here on earth the economy, world governments, everything and everyone seems to be in flux. On a more personal level many of us have been aghast as we watched our finances tank. Some of us watched our relationships crash and burn. A few of us felt helpless as our physical health begin teetering on the brink.

There is good news however. You do not need to identify yourself by your current but passing experiences.

You do not need to call yourself “broke” because you are temporarily without the funds you would like to have.

You do not have to feel “loveless” or “deserted” just because one or two friends or even a spouse walked away.

You do not need to label yourself “sick” because your body is hurting here or there. Why make it worse by announcing to everyone you meet that you are feeling bad?

What you need to do is quite the opposite. With as much enthusiasm as you can muster you need to begin seeing yourself as a wonderful positive creator and manifestor of each of your now moments and your future destiny.

You know that you are made of Light. You are made of Love. You can do or be anything you choose.

You need to begin seeing yourself with all the abundance you could ever need or want. Know that you have more than enough money to spare and to share. Affirm that you are rich. Declare that each one of your financial desires or needs is instantly met.

Furthermore, today you must acknowledge that you are not only loved but loving. The very earth embraces you. Be grateful and appreciate the wonder of love that you are. Daily with gratitude and thankfulness you need to send that love forward to others from the depths of your being. That love you send out will rush back to you magnified a thousand times.

Believe that every nerve and cell in the body is continually healthy and regenerating because in truth it is. Appreciate the gift of overflowing health. Be grateful for it. Send that appreciation and gratefulness to each and every one of your physical organs. Send loving thankfulness to your heart, your lungs, your skin. They are alive. They will hear and respond with increased health.

Possessing your own personal human body is a wonderful gift from Spirit. Why? Because if you will really look at your human body and the life you are leading with that body you can see the results of your emotional and mental handiwork. You will have visual proof of what you believe, what you think about and what you feel.

This body of yours, this life you are experiencing, is your canvas. You paint on it day by day, hour by hour. You make it drab or colorful. You make it happy or sad. It is your lessons, your workbook and your test.

There is no need for you to mirror the past. Whether the past is five minutes past or fifteen years past, let it go. Manifest what you have always dreamed of now, today. Your soul is standing by ready to help.

Habitual thoughts, habitual emotions, habitual attitudes and habitual actions can be your finest friends or your most terrifying and destructive enemies. If any habit of yours is bringing unhappiness and grief into your life experience change that habit today.

When you become aware of a dark and gloomy daydream making its home in your mind do this: say to that thought “This is not my story!” Say it again. “This is not my story.” Push that thought form away from you.

Of course, you realize that anytime you create an empty spot, a mental vacuum, you must fill it. So go directly to the beautiful happy picture you want. Play your wonderful heartfelt dream over and over until there is no room for the gloom. Play it with sound, color, fragrance any additives you can think or imagine but make it real.

In all aspects you have the power to be brand new today. For instance, we know for certain that each day many of the cells of your body are replaced, made new. Why not allow those new cells to be truly new instead of mere replications of yesterday?

You have the power to change your experience and your body by replacing any habitual negative thinking with positive, growth filled thinking!

If you feel it would help, try falling back on what has worked for you before: the affirmations, the prayers, any positive literature. Begin to wipe your slate clean of any miss qualified energies. Then fill those newly empty spaces with the thoughts and feelings of your soul’s heartfelt desires.

Let the negative mental pathways go. See and feel with positive intent only. In other words, begin to carve new mental and emotional roadways to your personal success.

You have the power and you are in charge. Decide to open your energy receptors to the most enlightened thinking you can create. Throw away any self limits. You do not need limitations of any kind. Tell yourself that you are open to all good things.

What others think or believe about you need not affect you in the slightest. BE AWARE THAT THOSE ENERGIES THAT WILL ALWAYS AFFECT YOU ARE YOUR OWN. The seeds you plant moment to moment are shaping your life. Fear, gratitude, love, resistance all of these are seeds, emotional and mental seeds that will grow and become visible manifestations in your life.

If there is any appearance in your life that you do not like decide to change the attitude, thought or feeling that brought it to you. Truly look at what you are sending out on a daily basis. You are your words and thoughts. Replace your beliefs and you will replace the effects.

A few days ago I read about Meagan Bilodeau. Meagan is an 8 year old girl who put a message in a bottle while her family was enjoying a vacation on a cruise ship near Bermuda. She wrote a note including her phone number asking whoever found the bottle to “please, please, please” let her know. Doesn’t that sound like an 8 year old?

Her father told her to toss the bottle over the side of the cruise ship into the Atlantic Ocean. He believed that her message would probably drift on the currents to Europe and hopefully be found there.

That was not what happened. Meagan was delighted when she received a phone call from another little girl, 10 years old, who found the bottle only 15 miles from Meagan’s home in Falmouth Massachusetts. In other words instead of following the natural ocean currents the bottle with her note seemingly followed the strong energy of Meagan’s “please, please, please” desire.

There is a great deal of TRUTH hiding in that result. Everything we do, everything we say, think or feel always “follows us home.” For that reason alone it pays each of us to be aware of what we are giving to the current of life.

The energy each of us emits tends to grow or amplify and return in a strong recognizable form. Where the results of our lives are concerned there simply are no secret thoughts or hidden agendas.

The good news is that we each contain the ability to change. We can redirect the most negative and ingrained energy to new more positive paths. Nothing is incurable. Every so called personal flaw can be brought to the Light.

You have at your disposal today all the energy you will ever need to create the life you were born to express and enjoy. You have no limits! Take charge of your thinking and your emotions. You have the right and the ability to bring about your own idea of perfection whatever it may be and---WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE, YOU ARE RIGHT!

I am Reverend Lois Cheney wishing for you the most beautiful life you can dream or imagine. My joy is helping clients to attain their goals by providing accurate and detailed information for overcoming challenges and amplifying the quality of their lives.

I welcome you to contact me for your personal reading appointment. In your private session your guides, angels and I will address any area of your life that concerns you. Bring all your questions! You will receive a complete cassette recording of your reading for your later review.

Reverend Lois Cheney, (941) 961-2783, RevLois@gmail.com

ENERGY CALLING

2009-09-10T05:26:00.000-07:00

Do you have one or two books that are your favorites, books that through the years have become like old friends? If you do you will understand how I feel about one particular book in my library.

In years past I have read my special book cover to cover. Now from time to time I pick it up and simply open it to any random page or chapter to see how those words and ideas might apply to my life today.

The book I am referencing is “Living in Balance” by Joel and Michelle Levey. I do not remember how it came into my hands about six or seven years ago. All I know for sure is that I treasure it. It is dog eared and well underlined not by me but by the previous reader. Nearly every page has hand drawn stars and notes in the margin placed there by an unknown reader.

I decided a week or so ago that considering the condition of the book perhaps I should buy a new copy for my book collection and give the old one to someone who might appreciate it as I have. I ordered a fresh copy from Amazon and soon it arrived at my door.

Although the new book was a hardback book rather than paper, in every other way it was identical. It contained the same number of pages, the same words, sentences and chapters, even the publication date was the same 1998. The only apparent difference was that it was free of notes, stars and underlining.

The new book did not attract me. I wasn’t drawn to it. Since other than being in pristine condition this new book was the same collection of words and ideas, why did I refuse to pick it up and read it? It took me awhile to realize the underlying difference.

The former book owner or reader, whoever he or she was, had filled that first copy of mine with loving appreciative energy. It was as if I had not only owned a book full of wisdom but a true treasure filled with a second confirming opinion.

The new book simply had not been imbued with that same intensely warm energy. It felt like a poor copy rather than an original.

Why am I telling you this little story? The reason is that I have observed many times you and I can be motivated by strong energies that we are not consciously aware of. We don’t recognize the source of the energies and mistakenly assume they are ours.

As we move through our days mindfulness or a deeper awareness of the moment can help us to act upon and inculcate only the personally appropriate energies.
My thought is this: All of us can benefit greatly by accessing and amplifying our natural intuitive abilities. If we care enough to work with our own extra sensory perceptions, we will make wiser choices.

If we will take the time to look below the surface of any relationship or occurrence we can become users of more appropriate action as opposed to users of automatic and sometimes erroneous reaction. You know that when we quickly and spontaneously react we are usually allowing someone or some situation to control us.

I believe that most people who seriously approach the amplification of their own intuitive or psychic abilities are looking for a surer pathway to access the wisdom of their own high self, guides and teachers. The pursuit of your own God given perceptions can only lead you to a smoother more accomplished flow of life.

Do not limit yourself by using only the rational approach to daily living. Why should you take such a limited way when all the highest information is available to you? Your guides, your teachers and your angels are continually standing by awaiting your call.

I urge you to contact your guides, masters, teachers and angels. Contact them often with your concerns, your questions, your plans. Above all contact them with gratitude, with genuine thankfulness. That inner energy of gratitude is not for their benefit but for yours.

When you approach anything with an attitude of thankfulness for everything in your life all doors swing wide for you. Your good comes rushing in to meet you.

When you seek the bigger picture, the deeper understanding, your life path will widen and expand.When you are grateful for every life experience the Light comes on and brightens both metaphorically and energetically. Your own unique way of spiritual growth and service unfolds.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney your Sarasota Florida Psychic Medium. I encourage you to call for your private counseling appointment. All your questions are important and can be answered with the help of your personal guides and teachers. If you would like messages from departed loved ones, as a medium I will be happy to bring those to you.

All readings are completely confidential. You will be given a cassette recording of your session for later review. You can come to my Florida studio or your reading is available and equally accurate by telephone.

Call today. Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783

MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION

2009-08-17T10:16:00.000-07:00

Saturday evening, August 15th, I was volunteering for the Make A Wish Foundation at the Lido Beach Resort in Sarasota, Florida. The foundation was raising funds for their many sponsorships of the wishes of critically ill children. The event was called a “Bridal Bash”.

There were so many wonderful members of the community freely offering their time and talents for this charitable organization. What an evening: music, food, fashion models, coiffures and makeup services, jewelry displays…it was all so beautiful and lively.

For my contribution I offered 5 to 10 minute psychic readings and gave numerous personal messages. The guests kept me very busy answering all kinds of questions! Everyone had a great time!

Thank you Make A Wish. I was honored to be asked to give to your generous group.

My vocation is helping others with their personal life challenges. I am available for private counseling sessions in my Sarasota Florida studio or by telephone. I encourage clients to come with all their questions.

Many times those questions may cover life path direction, relationship difficulties, employment, desirable home locations or much more esoteric needs.

As a medium I can channel messages and answers from your deceased loved ones. I can contact your personal guides and teachers. If you have past life concerns, that too can be examined and understood.

As a healing channel I am often asked to do personal energy clearing and chakra alignment as well as home energy clearing to create a more hospitable living space.

The first week in October I will offer my intuitive development workshop called “Psychic Play” It contains a number of really fun tools for accessing your personal extra sensory perception. Working toward intuitive understanding with a group builds strong energy for your individual progress!

For more information about my work, for your personal confidential reading or other energy applications call:

Reverend Lois Cheney, 941-961-2783 or e-mail RevLois@gmail.com. (All readings are tape recorded for your later review at home.)
I am your Sarasota Florida psychic.

HOW VALUABLE IS YOUR INTUITION?

2009-08-14T10:22:00.001-07:00

HOW VALUABLE IS YOUR INTUITION?

Those flashes of insight that we all have, are you using yours? Exactly when and how can extra sensory perception be trusted?

How can you determine the origin of those sudden impulses that urge a change in your plans or direction? What is the source of the information? Can you rely on it?

Do you want more in depth understanding of your world? Would intuitive development be of use to you in your day-to-day living? If the best information was always available to you, would you be willing to use it?

Understandably many of my students push to amplify their native intuitive abilities in order to gain a closer rapport with their guides and teachers. If you can clearly hear the advice offered by your personal masters, high self and angels, life path decisions become not only obvious but increasingly accurate as well.

Following such high level wisdom is sure to put you on an upward soul activating path. That wise direction can assist you to circumnavigate many of the usual earth bound pitfalls.

As your reception of Spirit transmissions increases in clarity you have the opportunity to ask for and receive increasing help for all your activities. Help is close by and continuously available.

When you or I plot a course of action using only our ego or rationale as a guide, there is no guarantee of the desired results. If instead, we seek a higher level of wisdom, the odds of success are greatly magnified. Why not choose to improve the quality of our lives by using all of our inner plane friends and abilities?

When I teach workshops aimed at psychic activation I find that each student has slightly different reasons for pursuing inner development. Nevertheless the vast majority simply want to be able to see below the surface of their experiences and interactions with others. In other words they feel that if they can understand the motivations that are present in their relationships, there is a greater possibility of harmony.

Some of those troublesome relationships that need investigating or smoothing may occur in the work place. It may be the need to feel what is really being conveyed between boss and employee. It may be the desire to understand what would please a buyer/consumer as opposed to what he or she is verbalizing.

When I sold real estate years ago I found that many times that buyers would tell me what they believed they wanted or needed but would buy something completely different. They did not consciously set out to lie, they simply were not fully aware of the kind of property that would truly satisfy some particular inner need or longing. My ability to see below the surface of their needs helped me to make sales I would have lost otherwise.

Often where friction is being encountered in personal relationships the point of disagreement has little to do with the real problem. Dealing with nothing more than the surface conflict, just the obvious appearance, is doomed to failure.

In any argument or difference of opinion, much of the source of discord many times lies well below the surface. Intuitive listening can be the best approach to uncovering the truth and finding the true origins of the discord.

I remind you that there is no reward for going it alone in life. In fact, it seems that just the opposite is true. If through mistaken pride we fail to call for and access the help that is always available to us, we many times miss the mark.

I urge you to contact your guides, masters, teachers and angels. Contact them often with your concerns, your questions, your plans. They are happy to help but they wait for your request.

From time to time I present a fun workshop offering a number of easily learned tools for developing personal psychic abilities. I give so many different methods for pursuing you own intuition that I can safely promise that there is something for each of you to use effectively. The workshop spans three hours and is planned to allow each of the participants their own unique experience of extra sensory perception.

The use of your own intuitive abilities is completely unlimited. That talent can help you find your soul mate as well as lead you to a better way of making money! Intuition can find you the best healing modality for any disease. It can boost your self confidence. It can plan a vacation that does not leave you stranded in a snowed-in airport!

On Saturday, October 3rd I will be offering my “Psychic Play, A Workshop”. I will be teaching from 1 to 4pm that afternoon at Angel Ministries, 2269 South Tamiami Trail, Venice, Florida 34293.

Whether you are an experienced intuitive or just a little curious or even skeptical, I cordially invited you to reserve a spot for this fun learning opportunity. You were born psychic; you just need to find the path.

For reservations for the Psychic Play workshop the first week in October, call me, Reverend Lois Cheney at (941)961-2783 or e-mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

I want to help you find answers to all your questions and challenges. To schedule a counseling session in person at my Sarasota studio or by phone you can reach me by telephone or e-mail.

Please know that all psychic readings and appointments are strictly confidential and are accompanied by a complete cassette recording of your session for your later review.

MEMORY ADJUSTMENT!

2009-07-20T10:29:00.000-07:00

Using the past as a benchmark for your creation of today’s situations and the future is using a flawed yardstick! If your memories of your yesterdays are glowing and positive that is fine but all too often negative memories of the past can cause somewhat irrational reactions in the now.

If your memories of past situations are causing you to react in ways that are uncomfortable or even harmful to you, to those around you and to your current life experiences, it is time to take action.

I am not suggesting that you forget the past or bury it. What I am offering you may seem a bit unusual at first glance but it does work. I am suggesting that you make some subtle but important changes in the way you remember certain troubling aspects from the past.

It is not at all unusual for us to take a past trauma and rehearse it over and over again. We make the memory strong, harsher and more energized until it is vastly different than the original happening. Hashing and rehashing an unhappy past will not create anything positive.

The method I am going to detail for you will not affect anyone in those memories but it can be a world of help to you. For instance, if you have endured emotional or physical abuse in any relationship begin right now to see yourself responding in a different way.

If someone has lowered or crushed your self esteem with heavy words, see yourself saying something mild and just walking away head held high. “I understand your feelings. I am sorry you feel that way.” Then in your imagination you leave the room and let the words roll off. This takes some memory practice but you can do it. Every time the memory comes to your mind practice it in its new form.

If the suffered abuse was a physical one, construct with your imagination a scenario where a concerned and loving person arrives to intercede on your behalf, someone who takes you out of harm’s way. This memory adjustment will not take hold immediately but eventually with your repetition it will replace the original version. Your harsh emotions will soften and subside. The change will free you to trust life more fully.

The tremendous benefit of restructuring memories of the hurtful past is that you can stop the patterns! You do not need to project that “hurt me” energy over and over again. You can stop manifesting similar situations today and tomorrow.

Once you have pulled the plug on the negative aspects of memories you are back in control. You can create the kind of future you truly want. Remember that the past only exists for you as a series of memories. Because this is so, it only makes sense to put as much peace and joyous living into those memories as your imagination will allow.

On a slightly different aspect of the same principle, anytime today you encounter a happening that is not to your liking, a seeming negative, you have a wonderful choice. Why do you have a choice? Because you are the one in charge of labeling and categorizing any situation you find confronting you.

I remember my first time of taking shorthand notes some years ago. I was working for the director of an Illinois research facility. It was a meeting of the 12 department heads and I was writing as fast as I could to keep up with all the input.

After the meeting, when I was busy typing my notes, the director called me to his office. He said, “Now we will decide what happened at the meeting.” In other words he was using the opportunity to label and categorize the results according to his point of view.

Decide to put some sincere thought into how you label things. In other words if nothing comes together the way you had planned, decide to think that this is an opportunity to find a better plan. Label it, “Opportunity Calling” or just tell yourself that this presents an excellent chance to practice that patience skill you have been wanting.

There is no occurrence that can resist your positive identifying spin no matter how dark it may seem on first look. Deciding that every negative is hiding a good opportunity is the best thing you can do for yourself. It opens your mind to unconsidered or previously ignored chances to learn and grow.

Every one of us have had tragedy touch our lives at some time Let me describe to you how I dealt with one of my own most difficult times.

It was ten years ago this past January. My husband Jim and I had been married for 19 years. We taught classes together. He had his own hypnosis clients. My Jim was recovering nicely from an extensive heart surgery two or three months previously. By all appearances he was as well as I had ever seen him. Then with no warning one sunny Arkansas day he shot and killed himself.

I was presented with a huge choice. Of course I mourned. The choice was whether I should also blame myself. Should I feel guilty that somehow I should have seen his mental/emotional state? Should I have known he needed help? Should I have anticipated the tragedy? Was I obliged to shoulder a heavy load of guilt?

This was my decision and no one else could make it for me. I deliberately elected to tell myself that he had my best interests at heart. I felt that because of his age he was most likely concerned that his health would continue to decline and that decline would make him a burden to me. He loved me enough to not allow that to happen.

Was my view of the situation and its cause pure rationalization on my part? Perhaps, but that attitude allowed me to move forward in a life affirming way. That concept freed me from what could have been years of self recrimination and stagnation.

Whatever “the truth” may have been at the time, I believe that he made a loving sacrifice which has allowed me to give myself fully to the work I am meant to do.

I have no doubt that many of you have moved through equally difficult situations. From my clients, I hear all sorts of problems and traumas that they encountered as children and later as adults in relationships.

The truth is that as long as we continue to rehearse the fears, doubts and worries from the past, we will continue to meet similar troubling situations in the present and the future.

A little time invested in giving those troublesome memories a more positive spin is worth the effort involved. There is no reason to let a heavily charged negative memory ruin your life today.

You want to act within each new situation in a positively appropriate new way. What you do not need or want is to react from the past, from a negative memory trigger which spoils the now moment.

The highest good you can extract from the past is the wisdom you have gained---the knowledge and understanding that has brought you to this moment.

Why improve your hurtful memories? Because general we do exactly the opposite. We amplify the hurts beyond all reason and certainly beyond the truth of the past. This amplification through the continual focus of our energy brings most unwelcome results.

You deserve the very best, happiest, most productive life. You can have exactly that. You are strong, powerful, capable and talented. I believe in your right and ability to choose.

DON’T WAIT!

2009-06-17T13:39:00.001-07:00

I woke this morning with tears rolling down by cheeks. No, it was not sadness. It was all because of one highly emotional and powerful idea. Here it is: Don’t wait! Don’t wait until you are perfect. Don’t wait for the best time. Don’t wait until you know exactly how you should begin. Just start.

Just shower forth all the Light you have today, this minute. Save this idea of being “perfect” for later. For today, just give your personal light, love, compassion, and understanding in the best way you can.

Everyone on earth today, every animal, every living thing can use more light, more love, more understanding. If you have been locking the best of yourself away until you were sure you had it “right”, until you had refined all your thoughts, all your methods, stop. Begin this minute to pour yourself into your personal idea of Spirit service.

Make a strong definite decision to begin sending this uplifting energy to all life that you contact. Once you have made that purely mental decision, move away from the realm of mind and thought, begin to act only from the your heart and soul.

The pure energy coming from love’s wisdom emanating from the depths of your heart and soul offers the greatest healing stream. It is a vibration that balances, enlivens and challenges.

When you project your personal love and light you become a magnet that draws even more love and light to you. You find yourself in the company of those of similar intent, those who are working from their own highest ideals.

WITH ONE HEARTFELT ACTION AT A TIME, GIVE YOUR LIGHT, YOUR LOVE, YOUR SPIRIT TO THE EARTH AND ALL HER PEOPLE.

You and I arrived on earth at this particular time to express our God given light and love for the purpose of evolving all life. It is our responsibility to hold and send forth as much of this precious Spirit energy as we can.

Waiting until you know the exact “right” way to do this sending of pure light and love, makes no sense. The only way you can perfect your transmission is to begin transmitting. Now is the time to start. Know that you were born with the ability and creativity you need to make a difference.

Years ago I attended a concert at the University of Illinois that continues to live in my memory. Karen Carpenter was singing: “Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear just sing, sing a song.” I encourage you, begin your song today. “Sing it loud, sing it clear”

It is your song and only you know the right words and music.

Life does not get better with hesitation and fear. Life has to be lived to the fullest or it will be pale and lack any demonstrable meaning.

The more you throw yourself into the business of living from your creativity, your Spirit lead ideas, the more wonderful ideas you will have. The more you act on those ideas the greater your benefit to yourself and those around you. You become a powerful energized example of light.

In this time that seems to offer only disruption and chaos, there is also the most dynamic and progressive of possibilities. Wherever you see change that seems so upsetting, know that something better is on its way. You are in the enviable position of welcoming this positive “repositioning” of life as we have known it.

At this particular time in earth’s history we are each asked to step forward to contribute our very best. We are called upon to evolve ourselves to the point that we create and welcome our own ascension and offer the ascension process to all life.

Know that each of you is a powerful being. Individually and together you have access to all the wisdom and energy that you could possibly use. Believe in yourselves and your potential.

Today you together with all the other light bearers are creating mankind’s future and earth’s future. You are truly that powerful. You are that important.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney your Sarasota Psychic. If I can help you in any way with your life challenges, do call for your private counseling session. I can meet with you in my Florida studio or speak with you by telephone.

Be assured that all appointments are strictly confidential. I offer you a recording of your particular reading for your later review in the privacy of your home.

For those of you who wish to develop your own intuitive abilities, I will be offering one-on-one instruction for psychic development (in increments of three lessons) beginning the first of August.

Call Reverend Lois Cheney at (941) 961-2783 or e-mail RevLois@gmail.com.

PUSH BACK THE WALLS

2009-05-25T11:21:00.000-07:00

Do not let anything stand in the way of your spiritual progress. If you have built personal walls of limitation take them down! Push them away. Blow them up. See them crumble.

You have all the talent, the creativity and the energy you need to turn any of your personally manifested limitations into teaching tools pointing the way to the higher more evolved you. The energies emanating from your heart and soul long for your personal success but they stand back waiting to help you, wanting you to ask.

Ask for Love’s wisdom from the depths of your heart. Ask your soul for your next step. Let them know you are eager to listen. Call to your angels. Ask for your personal guides and teachers to help.

When you have asked then it is up to you to be aware of the sign posts that appear in your everyday life. These happenings are your answers. If you visit the library or the bookstore, know that you can call for that particular book or journal to attract you. When your energy is high and calling, that special book can literally fall off the shelf into your hands.

Sharpen your awareness of your surroundings. Just a word or a sentence that you overhear at the lunch counter maybe the answer you have prayed for. Listen to your hunches, your intuition. Spirit whispers, she doesn’t shout.

One of the most valuable ways to clear and clean your own path is to fully invest yourself in a daily practice of gratitude. Don’t spend a minute telling yourself what you don’t have. Instead be gentle with yourself. Tell yourself how blessed you are. Tell yourself what you do have. Tell yourself what you intend for your life. Thank yourself for your inner awareness.

THANK YOURSELF FOR RECOGNIZING AND USING YOUR OWN GOD GIVEN ABILITIES.

Be thankful for every dear and generous friend. Be particularly grateful for every prickly acquaintance or stranger that grates on your nerves. They are all valuable! Be grateful that both kinds of people cause you to look at your own attitudes and ideas.

Learn from every situation you encounter. Bless the times you missed the mark as well as the times you were on target. If you are willing to express your gratitude for the lessons learned, I cannot promise you that the lessons will get easier. I can promise you however that you will experience greater and more far reaching success in all your efforts.

It is said we learn from our mistakes. I take issue with that. I firmly believe we learn from our successes. We learn from the times we got it right and gave ourselves the proverbial gold star.

When your energy falls, when you need confidence, self assurance in your abilities, it is the winning times you need to remember and amplify. Each of you can succeed. You have the creativity and the talent to fulfill your life’s path. With the help of your indwelling "I AM" you can go far beyond your limited human ideas of success.
No one moves through this earth experience alone. Today see everything, every situation, every person with new eyes. Begin to earnestly strive for non-judgment and compassion for others and for yourself. Understand that all life is working to evolve to rise higher. The paths to that evolution may differ but the goal is the same.

I received a wonderful thank-you gift in my e-mail the other day. It was from a long time client of mine. He sent me an entry in his journal detailing his long awaited success with direct channeling of Spirit. I was so excited for him. I thanked him for thinking of me. I thanked him for being so persistent in his efforts.

He was personally so grateful to make one more step forward. I feel that his success, combined with his loving attitude will lift the energies of everyone he touches.

Do give yourself the love that you wish from others. If you see yourself being harshly critical of your own efforts, stop. As you become more loving and gentle with yourself and simply make corrections to your so-called mistakes, you will experience more love and generosity in your life from others. You will be a magnet for happier more loving experiences.

Know that your thankfulness for your life, your feelings of love and appreciation create a ripple effect wherever you go whomever you touch. Knowing that, begin to thank those people who bless you and your family. In your times of stillness thank yourself for speaking the words of Soul and Spirit in all your relationships.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney your Sarasota Florida Psychic. I find much happiness in helping others work through their personal challenges. I will bring you answers to any of your life questions by directly contacting your guides, angels and teachers. In light trance I am able to bring communications from your departed loved ones.

I will read for you in my Florida studio or over the telephone if it is more convenient for you. In either instance I will provide you with a complete cassette recording of your personal session for your later review.

Call or e-mail today for your private appointment time. Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 961-2783 or RevLois@gmail.com.

EXPECTATIONS

2009-05-13T12:09:00.000-07:00

You want to manifest your highest desires. Spirit is longing to express itself through you. You invite your heart and soul wisdom for input. You earnestly try to send the right kind and amount of energy. You expect results. All of that is a good thing.

The one difficulty with expectations is that you sometimes become very fixed in what you insist upon for an outcome. In being so exacting in the form of your intentions and their timing, you can block a much better, more satisfying result.

Spirit knows the most beneficial form of your creation and the optimum timing of its arrival. When you do not allow flexibility in either form or timing you may lose the best result.

Nothing that any of us plan to do, no action that we take, can be accomplished in a vacuum. In other words every action we initiate has a ripple effect. Each result we create with our intentions and our energy touches others in some way.

If you can be more open to variations in your desired creation, you will allow the highest and best not only for yourself but for those people who will be blessed by your manifestation as well.

As separate as each of us may feel from time to time, the truth is we are not alone. We are irrevocably joined with the earth and all life. This joining is the reason we need to ask always for “this or something better to bless all those concerned.” Or as the Buddhists might say “intend no harm”.

You have incarnated here on earth at a highly energized time. It is a time of great volatility but also great progress. Your life path is vitally important as you work with all other light workers to energize this period of ascension. You like all of us deeply desire to fulfill your personal purpose as well as your cosmic one.

If I can help you in any way to access your life goals through the channeling of your personal guides and teachers, call for your private appointment. All reading sessions are completely confidential and will be recorded for you. I will meet with you either in my Florida studio or by telephone.

Ordained by Angel Ministries, I am Reverend Lois Cheney, psychic, clairvoyant and lecturer. (941) 961-2783 or E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

THE BOOSTER SHOT

2009-05-10T17:54:00.000-07:00

(Try this affirmation when your self confidence could use a little extra lift!)

“With full intent and total commitment, I now affirm that I have the right, the power and the ability to create a more positive flow in my own life.

Because this is true, I now call on the creative force within me. I focus this divine spark to magnetize my many energy bodies to draw to me now:

*Those Particular People,
*Perfect Places,
*Receptive Circumstances
*and Dynamic Creative Ideas that thrust me forward into the fulfillment of the divine plan for my life today.”

I wish you the highest and best on your life path with Spirit. If I can help you by channeling life answers from your guides and teachers, call me for your private appointment.

I can work with you in my Florida studio or over the telephone. In either case I will provide you with a complete cassette recording of your personal reading.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, your Sarasota Florida Psychic. Phone (941) 961-2783 or E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com

THE SAME OLD SPIRIT?

2009-05-06T06:58:00.000-07:00

The same old Spirit? Yes and no. The same Spirit but seemingly completely new when viewed through the eyes of over 100 windows of sparkling Light.

Those windows of Light I am referencing were the fantastic souls in attendance at the 24th Dowsing and Healing Conference held for five days at the end of April in Fayetteville Arkansas. It has taken me two weeks to really digest all of the inspiration I received there.

It never fails to amaze me that after 30 some years of teaching, lecturing and counseling I always find a new thought and a new way. Even one of my “usual workshops” takes on a new energy and direction as I lecture to different groups.

What surprised me the most at the convention was to find an extraordinary number of my personal soul group among the attendees. It makes me wonder: How far ahead of time did we collaborate in the silence to make this meeting happen?

I am extraordinarily grateful to the Ozark Research Institute founders, Gladys and Harold McCoy, and their many helpers for the year long effort it requires to sponsor the convention.

On the surface each presenter at the convention came from a completely different point of view. The truth is they were all simply pointing their own unique way of accessing the Light of Spirit and soul path for which we continually yearn.

Individual channeling of Spirit energy was the thrust of every presentation. Regardless of whether the class concerned the “72 Names of God”, “Spoon Bending”, “Treasure Mapping”, “Dreams”, “Energetic Healing” or “Life Path”, the focus remained on accessing and using Spirit-Soul guidance and energy.

I am grateful for every client who sought my private counseling while I was in Fayetteville. I feel blessed to be allowed to help each of them. Every reading I offer amplifies my own abilities to uplift and enlighten others.

It is always amazing to me how many roads there are to the same destination--- creation of the soul’s learning and progress! I think at this particular time in earth’s evolution we are all feeling a greater pressure to actuate our lives to the fullest. Our overriding desire is to fully encompass our Spirit in this human body. We want to know with certainty that we are doing the work we came here to do.

Every “clue” that we can gather to point us in the direction of our greatest life fulfillment is valuable. We are each endowed with an abundance of personal talent and creativity. It is up to each of us to bring our uniqueness forward in a way that will bless not only ourselves and the people we touch but our living earth as well.

Where does your personal road lead? Are you here to work with the plant or animal kingdom? Did you come to teach other Light Bearers through your personal gifts and understanding? Is offering peace and non-judgment your path? What is your unique way to bring the Light of Spirit, the I Am Presence to the earth and her people at this time?

I am here in my Florida studio to help you with any of your life challenges. I offer you a confidential reading appointment in my Florida counseling room or by telephone. In either case, I will give you a tape recording of your session for your later review in the privacy of your home.

It is my joy to help by channeling the guidance of your personal guides and masters. The messages of recurring dreams can be deciphered for you. In addition, I am able to bring you information from your loved ones in spirit if you desire.

I am your Sarasota Florida Psychic, Reverend Lois Cheney, (941)961-2783 or E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com

WORDS OR MEANING?

2009-04-29T18:23:00.000-07:00

Words are wonderful tools. Words create pictures and feelings for us whether they are written or spoken. But there is a significant problem with offering words: each of us understands their meanings in a slightly different way.

Don’t get me wrong I love words, language. I am particularly enamored with any sort of dictionary or encyclopedia. However, just lately I have begun to realize how vastly different individual interpretation and understanding of words can be.

In my recent workshop for the Ozark Research Institute, I handed out envelopes to each of the 30 plus participants. These particular envelopes contained no words at all just similar photographs. The pictures of various flowers which I placed in the envelopes were truly beautiful ones taken by my daughter.

The students were advised just to hold the envelopes for a period of time without opening them. Later each told the class what vibrations they had felt or sensed from the envelopes.

Even though the contents of those envelopes were similar, each one of the students felt something different. No one was wrong even though no one expressed the word “flower”. It was obvious even with a highly detailed photograph and no written words as a distraction, individual impressions are different.

Each member of the class came from a somewhat different background, had encountered different experiences and consequently each was impressed with a completely different aspect of their personal envelope.

Some felt earth or dirt. One who had the photo of the parrot tulips quite accurately saw a deep purple color. Another simply felt water. One detected pulsing life. And one of the students who had the picture of white lilies saw the color red which I believe was simply the life energy of the flowers.

But I can honestly say no one was wrong. They simply understood things in a different way, were attracted to realities of the photos from their own unique perspective.

In my work as a counselor a great percentage of the problems that clients bring to me are those which exist in their relationships. These difficulties are apparently very similar in nature whether the relationships with which they are involved are intimate, spousal, family, friendship or workforce related.

These problems all have a major component of either misunderstanding or total lack of accurate communication.

If our goal is to communicate with each other from the wisdom of our indwelling Spirit, then that communication has to carry more depth than mere words. We need to begin speaking or writing from our intuitive vibration. We need to choose our words as well as our accompanying emotional wave length with great care.

The most ignored principle of good communication is the first one. If we want to be heard we must first listen to the other person and we must listen with love. When we can hear with our hearts, there is a much better opportunity to gain understanding and make an appropriate reply.

Unfortunately, many times we are so busy framing a response to someone’s ideas that we really are not hearing them at all. We have heard this or that similar situation before and think we have the right answer. Often we do not if simply because their situation is not exactly the same as any other problem or challenge.

If you can bring the energy of love’s wisdom, the deep understanding that exists in your heart and soul to all your interactions with others, you will begin to evolve any relationship.

Whether you are speaking to loved ones, friends or strangers, learning to use your highest spirit-inspired words will enable you to move forward with grace. You will lift and inspire all those around you.

My Buddhist friend tells me that it is an affront to Spirit to ever take offense at another’s words or actions. Why? Because if we are offended, we have judged. We believe that the words were an attack against our ego, our self image. We have taken the position that we are entitled to say that the person was “wrong”. We have decided that we have the right to be “hurt”.

We have all heard: “don’t take anything personally” “It’s not about you, it’s them.” Sometimes that is not so easy. If we practice taking the high road in our associations with others, allowing others to be who they are, as they are, life becomes much more pleasant. We can begin to learn instead of suffering.

I am not suggesting that we toss out our ability to intelligently discriminate in our relationships. We need to know when we are moving down a path that will not be for our best good.

If we have exhausted all our best ideas of verbal interaction with anyone and find ourselves at an impasse, it may be necessary to love someone from a distance. It may be necessary to move that person off the center stage of our life up to the balcony or even out to the curb.

We cannot force all relationships to work the way we wish. The most we can do is to give more inner attention to the way we speak and write. If we will do that we will encounter less resistance to our communication with others.

The 30 plus students who attended my Life Path workshop at the recent convention in Arkansas brought me great joy with their enthusiasm. I had the opportunity to counsel with many of them regarding their life desires and challenges. If I can be of help to you with a private reading and counseling sessions call me at my Florida home.

I can help you with any questions on any subject. Your guides will be with me to show the way. I can meet with you in my Florida studio or work with you by telephone. In either case I will give you a complete recording of your personal reading.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783, E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

SPIRIT vs. SHOES

2009-04-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

I talk to myself a lot these days. It seems to be my way of figuring things out. I feel the need to analyze my actions and my motives. So when I noticed a personal peculiarity the other day, I had to understand it.

You see I spend a lot of time at the beach. I am usually there twice a day weather permitting. I love the early morning walk in the damp sand. I particularly enjoy the sunsets. If I have time I will enjoy a quick swim.

Many times I will just stand with my feet and ankles in the water doing a visualization exercise. I imagine and intend that I am releasing into the Gulf of Mexico any attitude, idea or emotion that no longer serves me. I see those concepts and feelings being “recycled” and brought back to my body as clean fresh energy.

Being near the water or in it always brings me a sense of peace and expansiveness. I feel part of the large scheme of life. I simply feel more capable of anything I might need to accomplish.

So what is this about shoes? I like to walk barefoot in the sand. I sense the closeness with Spirit, with Soul. The odd thing is that as soon as I walk away from those sandals I begin to worry that I will lose them. You have to understand they are only cheap plastic. It certainly is not the expense.

So what is this fear about? I always try to put the shoes where I will remember and can see them easily. Yet I worry. I think perhaps I should put some red ribbons on the toes of the shoes but I don’t. Maybe I ought to bring a bright colored towel to lay the sandals on but I don’t.

What is this rather unreasonable fear? If I lost them the worst that could happen is I would drive the half mile home barefoot. Could the shoes somehow represent my ability to move forward? Am I concerned that I may not be able to “keep pace” with my plans and ambitions?

Even further could I be afraid metaphorically of “losing my balance” with all the projects that are active in my life now. In my eagerness to do it all could I be worried about stumbling over my own feet? Could the shoes represent my need for stability?

I have not reached any mind blowing conclusion. I am just trying to keep my sense of humor in all this cogitating. After all it is said that those people born under a Pisces sign (which I am) either have impossibly big hands and feet or small ones. In that lottery I drew long feet that are difficult to fit. Perhaps I just dread having to go shopping again!

One thing remains true. Our outward actions as well as our emotions will tell us how we view our lives. They will clearly point out our belief or lack of belief in our own abilities. Emotions can be enormously helpful in showing us where we need to do some personal work or restructuring of our self judgments.

Each one of us arrived on this earth with special abilities, talents and innate desires for their fulfillment. In further developing what you already possess, you will access the passion and joy that come from following your personal life path.
Allow yourself a mistake or two. Do it better the next time!

Praise yourself when you get it right. Be grateful for every breakthrough large or small. You are special, important and valuable. By your example you are a gift to this earth and all her people.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney. My joy is in helping my clients access their highest potential through channeled counseling and teaching. If you would like, I will be happy to assist you with answers to any of your life questions and challenges.

I will schedule an appointment for you in my studio in Florida or by telephone. In either case you will receive a cassette recording of your reading for your later review.

Call today Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783 or e-mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

ENERGY? WHAT ENERGY?

2009-04-08T06:48:00.000-07:00

You know that you are so much more than just your physical body and intellect. You are a dynamo of divine energy. Point the energy that is you in a specific direction through your thoughts, your words, your imagination and stand back! Until you begin working with the energy that is you, you simply will not believe the “miracles” you can create.

Let me explain. I believe in affirmations, those positive statements that we make as if they were true this minute. Let me offer my experience with the benefits of affirming. In the 1970’s when I had completed three courses offered by Silva Mind Control, I decided I would attend their convention held in Laredo, Texas.

I was not familiar with Laredo or the Mind Control conventions but I had a strong feeling that the convention would be important for me. Naturally I wanted to get the very most I could from the experience.

To accomplish that goal I recorded my voice on cassette tape telling me something along these lines: “In the first week in October I will attend the Silva Mind Control Convention in Laredo. I will have a tremendously powerful experience and gain much useful knowledge. My intuitive abilities will expand….”

I listened to that 10 minute tape of my voice on my earphones three times every day, morning, noon and night all through the month of September. I followed the listening with a short silent meditation. In other words, I invested 45 minutes every day for a whole month to be sure of success! Was that “over kill”? Maybe!

What were the results? Yes, I had a super learning experience at the Convention. Every time I encountered a glitch, I reminded myself that I was having a “tremendously powerful experience.” So what, the room reservations were confused. So what! I received a better, larger room that offered an unlimited view of miles!

My time with the hundreds of other attendees in workshop after workshop was totally comfortable as well as exciting. I met some beautifully evolved people. On the plane ride back, I felt I could fly just on my own enthusiasm. I came home with loads of new ideas.

However that which was the most interesting result of all that intense programming was yet to come. Every first week in October from that year to this, I have enjoyed a usually unexpected but enlightening experience. It has become my October gift like a second birthday.

I now look forward to October every year knowing that something wonderful is on the horizon for me. It is as if that energy keeps on working for me and just will not go away. Who could have guessed that those times of affirming and meditating could produce such an ongoing result?

If you will look at the way you are spending or using your own minutes, hours and days, you might decide to invest some of that time in the creation of a “miracle” for yourself! My desire for you is that you manifest the most fulfilling life for yourself that you can think, dream, or imagine! I know you have the power.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, your Sarasota, Florida Psychic. I am ready to answer any of your questions or life challenges. Call me today for your private reading in my studio or by telephone. I will provide a cassette tape of your full reading for your later study.

Telephone Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

SOUL GROUP

2009-04-06T06:21:00.000-07:00

Did you ever wonder why you are attracted to one person and not another? Or did you ever puzzle over why you feel you know someone, while you realize full well that you do not?

There can be many surface reasons for that sort of attraction. That person could simply dress in a way that is familiar and pleasing to you. Perhaps something in their demeanor or general appearance reminds you of someone of your acquaintances. That woman or man, girl or boy, could simply have a winning smile.

Every once in a while I get what amounts to almost a compulsion to speak to a stranger in a store or on the beach. It is not as if I have anything really important to say but rather I want that momentary connection no matter how temporary. In other words our energies call to each other and I feel the need to respond.

“Beautiful weather.” “What a lovely little dog. How old is he?” “Is there a sandwich shop nearby?” You get the general idea. It is just casual chatter but it feels right.

What is that energy draw? Why does it happen? One explanation is your past life associations. This individual may seem familiar because you have shared past life relationships. Especially those times that were tumultuous or unhappy in the past can exude an exceptionally strong pull.

That pull can present an underlying desire for completion or perhaps to “do it better” this time around. Again, it can be just the need to say “Hello again. I recognize you.” After all, most of us have had multiple lives and many times multiple lives with the same cooperating soul of another.

The need to touch someone energetically with your words can also come from the heartfelt knowledge that they are a member of your own soul group. Each of us was born of a particular soul group. Those spirit family connections are difficult to ignore. We always feel those “family ties”.

My feeling is this: whatever the reason, when you feel a desire to initiate a conversation with anyone, go for it! It is impossible to say which “sidewalk friendship” or grocery store exchange of words with a stranger could be the one to give you an unanticipated benefit.

Imagine, from that chance encounter there could be just a word, a thought, or a whole concept that would propel you forward. It could be the one conversation that would inspire you to a fuller exploration of your personal life path. It might be that idea that would help you find your personal passion and joy.

I urge you to engage fully with your life. DON’T HOLD BACK WITH YOUR LIGHT OR YOUR LOVE. Each one of you has so many special talents and creative abilities. You are an original. You are unique. You are precious. Your days are valuable.

Use every day, every hour, with enthusiasm and intention. You will be a blessing to our earth and every living thing.

You have within you the deep desire to be all that you can be. You yearn to actuate your life. Let me help you with any of your personal questions or challenges. Make your appointment with me for your personal and completely private psychic counseling.

I can work with you over the telephone or in my Florida studio. In either case you will receive a tape cassette of your reading for your later review.

I am your Florida Psychic, Reverend Lois Cheney, (941) 961-2783. E-Mail RevLois@gmail.com.

I AM EXCITED!

2009-03-30T06:23:00.000-07:00

April is almost here and it is Convention time! The 24th Annual Dowsing and Healing Energies Convention in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is April 24th through the 28th. The convention is sponsored by the Ozark Research Institute where I have been a member for some years.

I am so excited about the convention in Fayetteville for a number of reasons. I am looking forward to seeing many of my old friends as well as making interesting new ones. In fact people attend the convention from a number of countries around the world as well as from the United States. They come from a myriad of backgrounds and practices bringing enormous enthusiasm with them.

It is the diversity of offerings at the convention that make it so stimulating. The wide range of practices and systems that are offered are mind expanding!

Oh, the choices! Here are just a few: Bach Flower Remedies, Dream Interpretation, Heal Your Life, Numerology and Kabbalah, Bend Spoons and See Auras, Using Vision Boards, Palmistry, and, of course my own: Using the Road Less Traveled is NOT Taking a Detour!

Guaranteed: there are no two presenters or no two presentations alike. Attending is always a learning experience.

I am happily anticipating my own time lecturing on Saturday, April, 25th, and Monday, the 27th. I will be offering ways to involve more deeply in your own life path by developing your personal extra sensory perception. I feel a strong desire to get more people interested in their own intuitive development. If I can spark anyone’s interest in accessing and developing their natural abilities, I see that it adds so much to the quality and ease of life.

Through my counseling practice I have seen that one of the major challenges in our lives today is communication. We seem to have problems in our relationships simply because we continue to misunderstand the other person’s thoughts and point of view. Because we can’t totally know their past experiences or why they interpret our words the way they do, we find ourselves at odds.

It is in these interactions with others that our personal intuition can be a great tool. If we are able to understand another person’s feelings at a greater depth, if we are able to connect with them on a deeper level, so much misunderstanding can be circumvented.

If you cannot join me at the convention, let me offer you a private appointment time for your personal psychic consultation. I can help you in person at my study in Florida or over the telephone. I always provide a cassette recording of our work together for your later review. I also offer a series of four individually designed one-on-one intuitive development lesson at my studio.

I would love to help you. Call me today, Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

How Much JOY?

2009-03-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

How much joy do you have in your life? How much room will you make for joy in your life? What brings you joy?

Many times when I am counseling with clients I will ask them to make a “happy list”: “I am happy when I…” Writing the list, making it solid on paper, is hopefully giving them a view of the positive aspects of their life. In truth, the happy list is just one small step toward identifying what brings them to a state of pure joy.

Why would I want them to identify joy in their lives? Joy is much greater than mere happiness. It is an elevated effervescent energy than emanates from the heart. When joy is in control of you, you also have accessed a state of unconditional love and gratitude.

The combination of Joy, Love and Gratitude is absolutely power filled.

Real joy allows you to see the source of everything and everyone as Spirit. When you are afloat in the heavenly aspects of joy, when you allow yourself to see from that higher perspective, your soul shines!

At that moment of intense joy, your soul is offering you deep understanding and seemingly miraculous possibilities.

In the experience of joy, heart and soul wisdom is always completely available. You are receptive to the highest and best information and direction without any coloring or disruption from ego.

If you know that hosting increased amounts of joy in your life will bring you greater ability to see and access your own perfect path, are you willing to deliberately entertain more joy? Will you decide to make more time for joy by eliminating time spent in useless worry and fretting?

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING "FRIVOLOUS" ABOUT JOY! It is an important part of living and experiencing. It deserves to be cultivated and allowed to flow freely in your life.

Decide today, to look for whatever brings you to that elevated energy of joy. Find it. Repeat it. Increase its’ presence until it becomes a strong energy muscle in your life. The rewards will show themselves by illuminating your own higher purpose and understanding.

Your life path and purpose are important. My work is helping you to identify ways of actuating your very best life now. Call me today for a confidential reading appointment or to learn about my private intuitive lessons.

I am your Sarasota Florida Psychic, Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

Embrace the Road Less Traveled

2009-03-13T03:36:00.000-07:00

Before you arrived here on earth the soul that you are made plans. You decided on your appearance, your personality, your goals, your lessons and overall purpose. Then you were born and BOOM!...you forgot all the details.

So began the process of finding your way to your life path. Many times that road to remembering your direction was painful. You grew up filled with other people’s ideas about how you should behave and what you should do. You struggled between wanting to please others and pleasing yourself.

The survival necessity of being part of a family or a group as you grew may have left you struggling for your own individuality. That can be a struggle merely because your personal uniqueness always demands expression.

Now you are a grownup and every day seems more precious than the last. You do not want to waste even one of these days. Your hearts are full of searching for your highest and best endeavors. With Spirit calling to you and guiding you, the need to be your authentic self has become the number one priority.

I remember in one of the Carlos Castaneda books Don Juan tells Castaneda, “you must lose your personal history.” I understand that more today than ever. You simply cannot be who you were yesterday nor can you be who others have decided you are. You have to be who you are this minute, this day.

Yes your experiences of the past have brought you to today but those experiences are not you, they are simply the catalysts to that you that you are now.

Without a doubt your nearest and dearest friends and family have put each of you in a frame or box. They have decided who you are and assigned various labels. They do this for their own comfort. I am not saying that they are doing anything wrong but problems arise between you when they realize their ideas are no longer the way you really are, they may feel upset or even betrayed.

In more extreme cases, merely by being who you are today can cause loss of various relationships. Your closest friends may not be able to accept your new values.

The good news is that as you access your personal wisdom and begin living your truth, you will attract new and more suitable life affirming relationships. Being able to let go and embrace change is paramount to a successful life.

When you are on the life path that is uniquely yours, you are one with the values and goals of your soul. You are in a state of soul resonance. How can you tell if you are following your own intended path?

Fortunately, you have an accurate indicator to tell you if your choices are originating from soul direction powered with heart wisdom. When your chosen way and activities lead you into a space of no-time, the hours pass by without notice and fill you with the feeling that you could work that way forever, you have found it. YOU ARE IN THAT MARVELOUS STATE OF SOUL RESONANCE.

The sense of deep fulfillment will always accompany a soul decision. When you make a soul decision no matter what challenges arise it will seem as if any impediment is simply one more step to achieving the goal.

The important thing is to keep your fledgling ideas close to you until they are completely formed and ready to fly. It is all too easy in your enthusiasm to share your new plans before they are ready. Input from friends, family or fellow workers can crush your drive to succeed and sidetrack your desires.

There can be resentment or even unconscious jealousy when acquaintances see you change and begin to move forward. It takes courage to stick with your beliefs in the face of nay-sayers. When you feel in your heart that what you are doing is right for you, stay firm, don’t waver.

As I was growing up, it didn’t take me long to realize that completely pleasing my mother was not going to happen. Not that I ever quit trying. I remember one Easter when as a grownup I was doing a solo in the church program. I invited my mother and my new step father to come and enjoy.

Afterwards I asked mother how she liked the overall program. Her response? “You hit a few good notes”. No, I still have not forgotten, but fortunately by that time in my life I was immune to her inability to give any appreciation or complement! The important thing for me was that I knew I had enjoyed and loved my work with the group. I also knew I had given my very best because I could feel my heart singing with me.

No matter what your are doing when your heart sings, go with it! That is your heaven on earth. Do not let anyone or anything stop you from giving your best. You have found your most personal and unique way of expressing. This is your personal "road less traveled". It belongs to you.

Your creativity, your gifts are inspired. Shine the light that you are. You are valuable and important for the contributions you will make to this earth and her people.

Today, perhaps more than ever, we all have questions about our personal progress and the changes that we see happening around us. If you will allow me, I would be pleased to bring answers to you from your guides and teachers.

Call today for your personal life path reading. I encourage you to bring all your questions so that I can channel the highest and best Spirit-led information for you. When you call be sure to ask about my private four-part intuitive development instruction that I offer to suit your own unique needs and desires.

Call Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783 or E-Mail RevLois@gmail.com. Your personal, private counseling session can be in my Florida studio or over the telephone. Either way I will give you a cassette recording of our time together for your later review. I am your Sarasota Psychic.

“SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD”

2009-03-08T06:47:00.000-07:00

In my earlier years, when I was so active in the Unity Church, there was one song that always played in my heart: “Spirit of the living God come alive in me. Spirit of the living God come alive in me now. Melt me, mold me, fill me use me.” That song resonated so deeply within me that it carried me through more than one rough patch.

Those words could have been, just as rightly, "SPIRIT OF LIGHT come alive in me”, “SPIRIT OF LOVE come alive in me”, or even “ALMIGHTY COSMIC I AM come alive in me now”. All of those names for the wonderful supportive energy that gives us life ring true. Any action taken by one of us in the essence of Love, Light or I Am that I Am is surely a blessing to all those touched.

Now is the most exciting of times to be alive on this earth. Whatever your religion, your occupation, your endeavors, you have the opportunity to shine so brightly as to enhance the world and all those people and creatures who occupy it.

You and I are Love’s creation. You and I can truly be Emissaries of the Light. That is our design. Together we are a mighty force for the highest good if we choose to be so.

As a counselor I have had more than one person come to me talking about “the end times”. Some of my clients come filled with fear because of what others have said to them regarding the disastrous events foretold in the coming year 2012.

Yes, the three years between now and that year will be filled with many changes. We have already seen the tumult in the economy and other social structures. MY BELIEF IS THAT THIS IS NOT A TIME OF DISASTER BUT RATHER A TIME OF MIRACULOUS OPPORTUNITIES.

I see the discomfort caused by these changes as leading to multiple opportunities for creating a greatly enhanced life for us and our earth. Yes, these changes can feel uncomfortable but sometimes it takes discomfort for humans to decide to take action. Sometimes it takes an imbalance to cause us to actively seek harmony and balance.

You and I together can help Mother Nature to heal. You and I together can help all people to recognize their divinity and to raise their humanness to Spirit-lead heights.

I suggest each of us begin our day accessing our innate abilities to shine the light we are. We can be the peace, the light and the love in whatever situation we find ourselves. Individually and collectively we can be the ones who bring the changes for the highest and best, the most positive directions and possibilities.

This is my best day yet! Why? Because I choose to be flowing, glowing, radiating Light. I choose to shine and be a blessing wherever I go, wherever I find myself. I invite you to choose along with me.

May the blessing that you are radiate and shine on all.

My work is my joy. I love to help through my counseling and teaching. If you would like a confidential appointment for a life path enhancing reading or if you wish to contact a departed loved one, call me today. Bring all your questions. I will access your personal guides and teachers for life affirming answers.

Your private reading is available either in person in my studio or by telephone. It is your voice and your energy combined with that of your guides, that allow me to bring the best information to you.

Call Reverend Lois Cheney: (941)961-2783 or E-mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

LISTS AND LABELS

2009-03-02T07:36:00.000-08:00

Lists and labels, labels and lists. In the late 70’s I worked with a fellow in a research facility who always kept a small notebook and pen in his pocket. He would stop right in mid step while we walked together on one of the long corridors where we worked. Without voicing a word aloud, he would whip out that notebook, write intently and pocket it once again.

More than once I thought how compulsive he must be. Doesn’t he ever just relax? Then I realized this was the way he was able to relax. Putting his current idea on paper allowed him to set it aside until he could take appropriate action.

Further, in defense of his habit, I have to say this was a man who got things done! For him the lists proved to be the guideline to appropriate action. As I reflect on all his writing in his special notebook, I now believe he was being given ideas direct from Spirit. It seems he could not bear to waste even one divine direction.

Unfortunately, at the time I still wasn’t convinced of the need to keep everything so neatly categorized and organized. I thought my memory surely was enough. Then my dear mother passed. When I took over at what had been her home for several years, I was amazed at the way she had labeled absolutely everything.

When I went to the linen closet, I found everything in plastic bags with neat labels attached. There were towels for the guest bath, linens for the pull out sofa bed and much, much more. I immediately removed the labels and threw out all that plastic.

Do I need to tell you that was a mistake? I couldn’t figure out what fit what and where this and that belonged. I believe she had surely done all of that labeling for my benefit.

I am not suggesting that you begin an immediate labeling project. What I am saying is this: putting ideas on paper, writing things down, brings a certain feeling of solidness to your intentions and your life. Being grounded, knowing where you are going and why is comforting. That sense of direction produces faith and peace.

Often I have spoken of the way our continually repeated thoughts, words and emotions are designing our lives. If you have plans, intentions, desires or just ideas, going a step further and placing them on paper gives you a chance to revise, to adapt, to adjust and sometimes to toss them.

What you want in your life today may not be what you need or want tomorrow. Know that it is o.k. to revise your ideas offers flexibility. Realize that you life is enlarging and changing. Be willing to be flexible.

Writing itself carries a special creative energy that brings more force than resides in an idle daydream or a wish. Even when you are convinced of what you want, what your heart tells you that you should have or do, putting it on paper allows a much better chance of manifestation.

In addition I now offer you two words which will immediately enlarge your ability and power to create the life you should have, the life that you are entitled to enjoy. These words have been used for untold numbers of years. They bring force to anything that follows them. Your intentions will spring to light-filled life when you commit to using these words wisely.

The words are simply “I AM”. Whether you say the words, write them or simply meditate on them, you will access the power that is your Spirit. You will access the creative force within your being. This force is always with you simply waiting for your call.

These words are used today in so many places of faith and worship. I AM light. I AM love. I AM patience. I AM provides every good thing for you and me now.Try using these positive words and just watch the wonderful changes that come into your life.

My work is helping others to find the most productive and joyous ways of following their life path. Call or e-mail me today for your personal and very confidential psychic counseling appointment.

I am ready to answer any of your challenging questions. If you wish, I can use my mediumship abilities to connect you with your friends and relatives on the other side. I will access information from your own guides and teachers.

Your reading is available over the telephone or in person in the privacy of my study in Florida. Call 941-961-2783 or E-mail RevLois@gmail.com. In addition, I offer a number of lectures and workshops throughout the year.

Spiritual Light, Perfect Peace and Endless Love

2009-01-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

Energy is a strange thing isn’t it? We all have it. Through our metaphysical abilities we have access to even more of it than we are accustomed to using. While it is true you cannot see your personal energy you can certainly see its creation. You can see what your energy has drawn to you through your thoughts, your beliefs, your words, your fears, your intentions. You can easily view your personal energy's "handiwork" in the life situations you are experiencing day to day.

A few days ago I was in my home in Arkansas preparing for my upcoming move to Florida while simultaneously working with ideas for a lecture at my home church, the Church of the Angels in Venice, Florida. My hands were busy with packing materials. My mind was full of the topics of peace, spiritual light and unconditional love. My intentions were all focused on sending light and love where ever I felt it was most needed in the world. And that is when I found myself in a curious and an interesting little scenario.

Many of you are familiar with the topic of trash pickup. Once or twice a week the big truck comes, someone jumps out empties your garbage cans, throws the cans and lids in the general direction of your home and leaves. Most of the time those cans end up rolling around in the street depending on the wind velocity of the day.On some occasions those cans then get flattened by another passing vehicle.

So, it happened that this particular day I heard the big truck come. It was really cold outside (below freezing) but nevertheless I decided to run out immediately with no coat and to get that garbage can back in the garage. To my surprise as I opened the front door, up my very steep driveway came a new trash collector, one I had not seen before, with my empty garbage can in his hand. I didn’t know what to think. He smiled a big smile and said, “Isn’t it a beautiful day?” I said, “Well, yes it is. It’s wonderful to have such sunshine even though it’s cold.”

We continued chatting that way for a while. I mention that I was moving out of state and then he noticed I was wearing wrist braces. “Oh how did you hurt your wrists?”

I was quick to tell him: “They’re really not hurt it’s just that I have been packing and moving heavy boxes. I’m being protective of my wrists.”

“Oh, well, I’m here now, can I move something for you?” he said.

“Thank you very much but I believe I have it under control for the moment.” I replied.

“Well, now, anytime you see the truck, you just wave me down. I have a muscle or two, I’ll be glad to help.” And with that he was gone.

I am sure my mouth was just hanging open for several minutes afterward. A trash man returning my empty can? Astonishing! Offering to help move heavy boxes? Unbelievable!Then I began to understand what had just happened. He was simply ”mirroring” what I had been working with previously: Unconditional love, spiritual light, unending peace and gratitude. The result of my energized thoughts was so quick and so unexpected it caught me off guard.

That is how energy works, isn't it? We send it out, it touches others and it comes back to us. I sincerely hope the energy he "caught" from me stayed with him throughout his day. He seemed to know how to make great use of it!

Tuesday January 20th, 2009. It is THE day, isn’t it? The day that sees the leadership of our country change. Whatever our feeling about the past 8 years or our feeling about what the future holds, we owe each of these two men and their helpers exactly the same thing. All of our judgments are of no help to either one and certainly no help to us individually. Judgment is of no help to the state of affairs existing in our country.

So what is this obligation of ours? What do we owe these men? It is the sending of Spiritual Light with a capital “L”. Light and more light into the situations that currently seem insurmountable. Light to each of the leaders and each of the past leaders.

We may not understand the perfect plan that will bring resolution to some of the problems that exist, but we can know how to help.

It is only through holding the Light that we can be of help.

You and I have incarnated at a pivotal time in earth’s history. I am excited about the roles we agreed to play. We agreed to come here with an important mission. We came to play our part in this earth’s ascension. We are the Light Bearers. You and I are the Emissaries of the Light. Fortunately, individually we are each well equipped to be exactly that.

We can all see and feel the changes that are already here. There are many more wonderful shifts in the earth's energy to come. We are here now to help birth these changes. It is our privilege and obligation.

From my point of view I see there are three steps to carrying out our duty.

Number 1: We need to access and utilize our personal peace. Whatever task you are doing, do it from an inner core of calm and peace. Do it from loving heart wisdom.

When I teach workshops I always feel the need to coalesce a group as the first step toward learning. Particularly when I teach psychic development I use peace as a tool to bring people into unity. I encourage the participants to do a kind of chant with me.“I am at Peace. I am at Peace. I am at Peace.”

That repetition has never failed me. It unites people and brings them together in a common purpose. When we work from a center of peace, Light casting is a snap. No criticism, no judgment just Light casting into whatever arena it appears to be needed.

Number 2: Acknowledge the fact that you are composed of nothing less than a total package of light and love. Oh, yes, you are wearing an interesting disguise as a human but the reality is you are an energy completely composed of light and love. Knowing this you are able to magnify your own essence and pass light and love to others.

If you have any doubt about either the true basis, or the probable result of an action you are anticipating taking, I offer you a little trick a friend of mine taught me. It requires accessing loves’ wisdom from the depth of your heart and soul through the building of a heart scale. That mental creation can be as fancy are as plain as you wish. In your imagination that scale is placed in the area of your heart chakra and is similar in appearance to a postal scale. My own heart scale is made of gold and has a digital read out for convenience sake!

But here is the process. The scale is equipped to read a number between 1 and 10, the number 10 being the highest and best option. The number 1 is the reflection of little or no value and 10 is a big winner or great “go for it”. So you frame your intended action as clearly as possible in mind and then drop it on your personal heart scale to get an immediate reading. If the reading takes more than 3 seconds you are probably cheating to get the result you want. But, of course, none of you would do that!

Number 3: Begin today to totally encompass your Divine Spirit in this body that is yours. Stop reaching outside somewhere to find your Spirit. Stop looking somewhere up there. Bring that Spirit where it belongs inside you. Become one with the beautiful loving Spirit that you are. Every action and thought needs to come through your humanness but directly from your Spirit. That is our goal this time around. Be the Spirit!

Fortunately you have been given one sure way to know if your actions are placing you squarely on your life path and heading you toward success. This key, this measurement is your emotion. When you are feeling so light that you are certain you could fly, you are on track. In the course of the day when you are filled with the feeling of accomplishment, great joy and gratitude, you can be sure that you are on track!

You have all the tools to create your highest and best life while lifting all those around you. Never allow yourself to settle for less! You are important to your own growth and the growth of those you touch.

I am your Sarasota Psychic. Call today for your personal reading appointment. I will gladly answer all your questions utilizing the wisdom of your own guides and masters. If you desire, I can also contact your loved ones in spirit for information and comfort. Should you wish to know of your past lives that can be revealed. Your reading will be recorded for you to review in the privacy of your home and all readings are kept strictly confidential.

Telephone Reverend Lois Cheney (941)961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

FINDING YOUR PERSONAL PEACE

2008-12-11T08:53:00.000-08:00

To live our lives peacefully is a desire born in all of us. We feel a deep inner need to experience our personal world from the calm of our own loving heart. As every day brings new challenges, the serenity we seek often seems difficult to find.

Fortunately, many of us are successful in calming our thoughts and emotions through meditation. Meditation takes many different forms. We may repeat in the manner of a mantra “I am at peace, I am at peace, I am at peace.”

Some of us may choose from the hundreds of possible affirmations which are designed to calm our soul and ground our energies.

I know of one serene soul who regularly writes to her angels as a way of accessing peace for herself and her family.

In our need to relax and recoup our vitality, some of us pray to that high energy we see as an all powerful cosmic force or to our idea of god. Every religion or spiritual group has its prescribed way of accessing the state of peace, the stillness.

WE LONG FOR THE PEACE OF THE STILLNESS THAT WE MAY CLEARLY HEAR THE VOICE OF SPIRIT. We want guidance, direction, wisdom. When our own worries are occupying every thought of ours, peace becomes just a wish or a dream. The need to step away from our own turmoil is not only necessary but from moment to moment it can become urgent.

Thinking on all of these things, I began to wonder if there might be one, just one, sure fire method of becoming peaceful at any given moment. And, yes, I do believe there is one specific, effective and easy way to bring peace to yourself now, this minute.

That method is pure and simple gratitude. It is thankfulness for everyone and everything in your life. If ever you find yourself whirling in the proverbial life stew, stop! Begin to look at every good and bad thing in your life and be grateful.

Of course it is obvious that you appreciate the “good” for the pleasure it brings, but know also that your experience of the “bad” is offering you a wonderfully powerful way to learn and to grow. EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE IS THERE TO TEACH AND INSPIRE YOU!

Be assured that you cannot experience stress, worry and fear at the same time that you are mentally and emotionally entertaining a state of pure gratitude. Decide today to make thankfulness a daily part of your spiritual practice. GRATITUDE IS LOVE EXPRESSED.

Express your gratitude and thankfulness often. Express that emotion to your spirit and soul. Express it to yourself, to your loved ones, to your friends as well as to your difficult acquaintances! Speak the words and write notes of thankfulness. Gratitude is a dynamic powerful tool that always brings peace and joy to your life.

I am grateful that my gift of service is expressed through my counseling and teaching. If I can answer any life questions for you, please call for your private appointment. Using your guides and teachers as well as my own, you will receive the guidance and direction you want for your journey.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, Sarasota Florida Psychic. Call me at (941)961-2783 or E-Mail RevLois@gmail.com for your channeled reading.

PEACE

2008-12-11T05:17:00.000-08:00

Peace! The word has been my focus for many days now. The word seems to be engraved on my mind and heart.

My tendency to yearn for a return to peace does not seem to be because of the unrest and combative attitude of the world’s countries at large. It seems that I am more concerned with the number of clients I see daily who are worried about the unsettled quality of their personal lives.

I counsel with one person after another who expresses concern over relationships that seem to be increasingly combative. They tell me that arguments appear to be more frequent. It troubles many clients that these disagreements are arising from the shallowest differences of opinion and escalating to unbelievable heights!

It is obvious that if you or I cannot access our own calm, peaceful center, we cannot be at peace with ourselves. When we are not centered, when we are not grounded, it is most assuredly impossible to improve our relationships.

Furthermore when we are not centered and at peace with ourselves and our lives, it becomes increasingly difficult to hear the direction of Spirit. No matter how earnestly our guides and teachers would desire to help us, the din of our own confusion and unrest drown their gentle voices.

I stated earlier that my need to see more peace did not seem to come directly from the current world difficulties. However, I believe that the unrest I have seen in my clients is being stirred by the energies that are circling our globe.

While all of us, including myself, yearn for peace in our world, the creation of peace must start with each of us individually. It must begin with allowing our uniqueness to simply “be” without insisting that our friends and neighbors be our clones.

As long as our disagreements are simply verbal and of no physical hurtfulness, let us decide to have our differences of opinions without fear or without retaliating.

As I use my psychic skills to read for people, it is obvious that each of us operate our lives from the very best that we know. It becomes clear, regardless of the nature and quality of our actions, that we are each endowed with the Creator’s spirit and energy, a truly beautiful spark of life and individuality.

As we begin to honor the divine spark of life in each other every day and in every situation, we will all find the Peace that passes understanding.

It is my joy to help you with your life path and relationships. Call me with any of your personal challenges. Each appointment is kept in strictest confidence. Your channeled reading is recorded for you to review in the privacy of your home.

Telephone Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

GO AHEAD. TAKE CHARGE!

2008-12-07T04:51:00.000-08:00

How much control are you willing to exert over your own life? It is your life and it should be the very best life you can imagine or design.

Lately we have all heard, read or seen a lot about “The Secret” or the basics of the law of attraction. If you own that book or saw the movie you may be familiar with the work of Charles Haanel who was mentioned.

Twice I read Mr. Haanel’s book “The Master Key”. Later a generous friend of mine later gave me the audio book of the same work. At first I wondered why he would give me the audio version of a book I had already read twice.

The unexpected effect of having the book read to me was a surprise! It was many times more powerful. It really penetrated my thinking. It gave me the feeling that I could do more effective work with my life programming!

The book is divided into 24 parts and is a series of mental exercises each building on the last. It gives specific directions for entering the meditative state, affirming, visualizing, etc. It is not brand new information but it is so well presented.

I am grateful to my friend for his gift because it reminded me of a method I had not used in quite a while. Many people do “treasure mapping” or the use of a story board with words and pictures to keep their goals in mind. I use that technique but in a slightly different way.

Taking one particular area of desire, I write what I intend to have in my life in as much detail as I can. That intention may have to do with anything from business, to physical health, or relationships. Next, I begin to really analyze what I have written and adjust my ideas.

Thoughts have power by themselves, particularly repetitive thoughts, but I feel the written word carries a stronger more exacting and pointed energy. So, when I am satisfied that my intention is as clear as I can make it, I record it on a cassette in my own voice. In other words, I create a recording telling myself my ultimate goal in as much detail as I can imagine.

By playing that tape in private morning and evening, I saturate my thinking with positive direction. It works for me. It might work for you as well.

I am ready to help you with any life questions you may have. Your guides, masters and teachers will speak through me with clear answers to any challenge you are confronting. Call for your confidential psychic reading appointment today.

Reverend Lois Cheney, Sarasota Florida (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail RevLois@gmail.com

DAYDREAM IT!

2008-12-01T04:31:00.000-08:00

As some of you may know, I plan to offer a Dream Workshop this February. I have given workshops on dreams previously but this time I especially want to freshen my ideas, given them a little more shine. After all my home church, the Church of the Angels, in Venice, Florida deserves the very best.

As I thought about what I might do to make the work more relevant, exciting or compelling, I realized that I have totally ignored one valuable aspect of dreams. I have always spoken of dream interpretation, compiling a personal dream dictionary, creating a resolution dream, inviting a lucid dream and more, but I never before touched on the inherent value, importance and effect of daydreams

Had you ever thought about your day dreams? Perhaps they are not strictly dreams in the usual sense but they do have some of the same characteristics. They seem to tell stories without our specific guidance or control. They feel as if they wander in without our invitation similar to the arrival of our night time dreams.

WHAT MIGHT WE EXPECT IF WE TOOK THE TIME TO REALLY LOOK AT OUR DAYDREAMS AS THEY ARE HAPPENING?

What if we did not allow them the freedom to proceed willy-nilly without supervision but took charge of their content in a positive way? For example, my daughter and I have very different ideas about everything. More than once during a conversation with her, I have found myself biting my tongue, holding back some pretty harsh words. Then later I would find myself mentally changing what had just happened and saying exactly what I really thought!

Do you ever do that? Do you keep replaying an unhappy encounter and adding fuel to the fire until your stomach knots up? What kind of results come from that kind of daydream or replay and redesign of a situation? What kind of results come from amplifying the worst?

If redesign is on the negative side, it can bring into the physical round two of the same problem with the same players. Our minds when fueled with emotions can be mighty creators.

On the other hand, if you or I can catch ourselves in that kind of ongoing daydream and change it, some much more positive results may be forthcoming. Certainly we can be much more peaceful.

In the situation I recounted could I allow my daughter to hold different opinions without making her wrong? Perhaps just my own thought of how much I love my daughter and how much I know she loves me, could head off the next episode.

We hear a lot about how powerful our words, thoughts and emotions are, about how important it is to see the direction that they are going. I feel it would profit us to apply similar control to those daydreams that flit in and out of our consciousness all day long.

Look closely at the subject of your daydreams and decide if that is what you really want to appear in your life! CONSIDER THAT YOUR OFTEN REPEATED DAYDREAM SCENARIO MAY BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER WAITING TO GREET YOU.

All your personal life plans can be clarified and adjusted through the channeling of the wise help of your guides and angels. If you have questions today concerning any impending decisions or simply want a comforting word or thought from a departed loved one, call me for your confidential counseling appointment.You will receive a complete recording of your confidential session for your later review.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney, Sarasota, Florida Psychic. For your appointment call Reverend Lois (941) 961-2783 or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com

DAYDREAMS

2008-11-23T09:22:00.000-08:00

Daydreams, we all have them. Throughout our waking day our minds wander the landscape of possibilities. We daydream about glorious escapes to faraway places. We imagine frightening outcomes to real-world situations currently affecting our lives. We think about winning the lottery and see all the following excitement with the media.

It is true that our minds rarely give us a rest. It does not seem to matter what we are doing, if that activity fails to require our full attention, we are daydreaming. In the middle of driving the car or riding the bicycle, we still daydream. I suspect this “automatic piloting” has caused more than one accident.

I believe that learning to control our daydreams can be of great benefit. Corrected daydreaming can do much more than prevent accidents! Why is this so?

Think of this: YOUR DAYDREAM CARRIES POTENT CREATIVE ENERGY! As you repeat a particular daydream over and over again, you are sending that energy directly to your subconscious which always obeys.

Your subconscious does not question whether your daydream is good or bad. It simply sets about to bring your feelings and your ideas to life! Considering the content of your personal daydreams, you can readily believe that this manifested scenario is sometimes a very good thing and sometimes the worst of things.

If you will take responsibility for the content of your daydreams, you will put yourself in charge of more positive outcomes. You no longer will allow yourself the luxury of imagining the worst, those wakeful “nightmares,” but instead will begin envisioning only the happiest and most fruitful pictures. You will begin to see outcomes that are of real benefit to yourself and any others who may be involved.

After all, you are creating your life one minute at a time! Just as your repeated spoken or written words will create after their kind, so your repeated daydreams will bring the effects of mind and imagination to you and your experience. Remember: when any particular daydream carries strong emotion, it becomes even more likely to manifest and appear in your life.

Each time you become aware that you are in the midst of a daydream, ask yourself if this particular experience is what you truly desire. If it is what you can enjoy and appreciate, by all means add more energy to it. If it would only bring pain and unhappiness to you, make a change immediately!

YOU ARE IN CONTROL! You are in charge of your every thought and feeling if you will decide to take the reins! Seeing only happy outcomes may seem like fabrication or lies at first but it is the very best kind of programming. It is up to you to become a joyous programmer of your own life and experience.

If you are looking to make changes in your life or if you would appreciate some additional progress with your spiritual growth, call me for a psychic consultation. I can help you by accessing your guides and teachers to answer any of your questions.

If you have any unresolved issues with loved ones who have passed, I am able to contact their spirits for you. You will be given a complete recording of your session with me for your later review. All appointments are completely confidential.

Call today for your private psychic reading and spiritual consultation. Reverend Lois Cheney (941) 641-2783 Sarasota, Florida or E-Mail: RevLois@gmail.com.

MAGIC WORDS

2008-11-14T16:34:00.000-08:00

Do you believe that there are words so powerful, so energized that they can create, manifest or simply change anything to which they are spoken? Could it be that there exist words that contain the power to reverse a negative into a positive?

In my counseling work I talk to clients from diverse backgrounds with equally diverse challenges. However, there are some attributes or characteristics in common that I have observed in people who are obviously feeling a deep gratitude for their lives and all of their experiences either good or bad.

I see these thankful people move through life’s obstacles with ease. They even seem to have fewer problems, encounter less difficulty and enjoy more delights. The people who are living lives of gratitude for every aspect of life with all its inherent challenges are happier, more peaceful and calmer. They treasure and enjoy deeper friendships, and in many instances they also seem much more prosperous or wealthy.

If grateful people are living more enriched and gratifying lives, how can we inculcate a practice of gratitude into our days? How can we make thankfulness part of our nature? Could we place enough energy and intent into the words “THANK YOU” that the words could become magic for us? Could we speak those words at times and in ways that they would send forth the desired magnetism and magic?

To whom or what should we practice sending our “thank you”s? We might begin by privately thanking ourselves when we get it right or correct a misstep. Certainly we need to thank our loved ones for every kind and thoughtful thing they do.

We might begin writing notes to thank a new friend for his visit. We perhaps could write a note of appreciation for ideas offered to us or special accommodations made.

The written “thank you” carries even a stronger charge than just the spoken word. Many times the recipient of such a note will read that note several times, even saving it to look back and remember the kindness that caused it to be written.

Sailing a loud “THANK YOU” into the ethers with honesty, earnestness and generous love for our universe might create just the attracting pathway for the personal miracles we desire for our lives. When we are truly grateful, we open ourselves to be a vessel. We make ourselves available for the in filling of Spirit. We accept and receive the bounty that is our birthright.

“Thank you” can be a way of expressing and sending forth the love that is the true essence of each of us. As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, please join me in creating a week of gratitude and love for each other, for all that we have, for all that we are and especially for our blessed, bountiful earth, let us say “THANK YOU”.

It is my delight to give you the benefit of answers to your life questions from your guides, teachers and angels. Call today for you private reading appointment. I will read for you in my studio or by telephone. Always you will be given a complete recording of your counseling session to review at your leisure.

Call Reverend Lois in Sarasota, Florida, (941) 961-2783.

RELATING OR BOWING OUT?

2008-11-07T05:16:00.000-08:00

How do you relate to your world? Do you give it and its occupants kisses? Happy loving thoughts? Appreciation for each situation and experience? Perhaps you lend your world some constructive criticism or occasionally harsh judgment? Are you sending peace to all those around you or busy being an irritant?

How does your world relate to you? Do you feel that it surrounds you with abundance and joyful support? Or are you sure that something, someone, out there is plotting to get you? Are you full of fear, feeling that everything is about to crash down around your ears?

Either way you can be sure there is an EQUAL GIVE AND TAKE happening between you and your world. You and your world are busy working out a BALANCE according to your words, thoughts, and emotions.

Just to assure you that I am not pointing an accusing finger at anyone; let me tell you a story of my own. It was a short time ago, just about the 12th of this past October when I was in to my second day of driving from the farthest point of Arkansas to my home church in Florida.

I was bored. Driving, driving, and driving the back roads in Tennessee with not a lot of freeway progress. It must have been around 9 in the morning when I couldn’t stand the repetitiveness and the mist on the windshield anymore and decided to stop at fast food Hardee’s. Some of you may be familiar with their sugar and raisin biscuits. Nothing like a little sugar to give me that temporary lift!

When I entered the restaurant I realized the energy of the customers pretty much matched mine and the energy created by the gray weather. It was low! Not many words being spoken there. So I went to the far corner of the place and sat at a tiny little table in silence.

After eating I suddenly realized what I was doing. I said to myself: “Lois, you’re being silly. You like people, what are you doing way over here?” I was about to leave when I got up with my tray but then I stopped right in the center of the restaurant.

Using as smiling and loud a voice as I could muster, I looked around the room and I said “Do you know what’s good about this weather? There’s very little chance of sunburn!” Well that broke the energy. People were laughing. Asking me which direction I was headed. Wishing me a safe journey.

How little effort on my part or yours to bring a little giggle, some joy to one person or a roomful. I intend to do it more often.

As long as I am reminiscing, I might as well tell one more story. One of my favorite stores is The Dollar Tree and why not? There is always some new exciting trinket for a buck. But this particular day I arrived in the store searching for a black marker. As I stood in the pen and paper aisle, I wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on around me.

Then I realized the little lady next to me was having quite a struggle trying to replace a manila envelope on the top most shelf. She was obviously a peppy person, quite full of energy but way too short to do what she was trying to do. I guessed her to be no more than 4’8” tall and perhaps 85 years of age.

I was just getting ready to offer to help her reach that top shelf when she managed to wedge the envelope between some others. I smiled and said “Congratulations, that was quite a reach! I was laughing a little when I added: “I really didn’t think you could make it!”

She immediately smiled back and chuckled. “You know, stretching is what makes you grow!” I didn’t think much about that exchange until about an hour later. A wave of understanding mixed with some warm emotion washed over me. You know, she was right on target!

She wasn’t talking about being short. She didn’t expect to grow another physical inch she was expressing something much more important. STRETCHING IS WHAT MAKES US GROW. Reaching beyond our self imposed limits. Trying for that metaphorical extra inch or foot or mile.

Athletes know that. They have to believe in that second wind. They don’t stop because temporarily they can go no further. They keep on, keeping on. How else would that 4 minute mile have been broken over and over again?

If you ever observed someone trying to control their weight, there comes a time when they seem to hit a plateau. They get so far but become stuck. But if they keep applying the basic principles of weight loss or gain, if they keep the goal in mind, they eventually break through that barrier.

Metaphysicians know to attain that desired level of enlightenment they must keep meditating, reading, searching, practicing their personal awareness until the light breaks through.

What are limits really? LIMITS ARE IMAGINARY BARRIERS we have erected for ourselves or, in some cases, limits we have accepted as truth from others. Our thoughts may tell us we have gone this far but the next step is way too much.

Our closest friends and relatives mean well but may give us the idea that our personal goal is too impossible to attempt. We love these people and so we accept their erroneous ideas.

I believe that all of us can decide to accept the reality that WE ARE TRULY UNLIMITED. There are no chains that bind us unless we want them to. We are free; yes we are free, totally free in the most dynamic way we can imagine. There are no limits to what you and I can do. None at all.

Throw away any limits you may have accepted. Truly, you were born to be an “over-comer”. If you cannot go through that seeming obstacle, go around it. Find your way with confidence. Move ahead.

There is unlimited energy within you and offered to you. The universe is ready to fill your desire. Accept the reality of your own endless ability. Whatever your heart is asking of you, believe you can do it because you can!

Let me offer you a private appointment for your personal counseling session. Any life questions you may have will be answered with the help of your angels and guides. Write out all your questions, all your current challenges.

I will read for you either in my studio or by telephone. In either case, you will receive a cassette tape of your psychic reading for your later review.

Call Reverend Lois (941) 961-2783 or e-mail RevLois@gmail.com.

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

2008-11-06T05:50:00.000-08:00

Spirit is always trying to lead you. Your inner goals are continuingly illumined by Spirit. Unfortunately, that bright light that points the way can be dimmed by your old thoughts and fears.

Day to day your soul wants to protect you and speed you forward to greater accomplishment. The desires planted in your heart push for expression. Your angels watch and wait for your call.

With all of this assistance standing in readiness, why do we as humans often times seem to remain stuck in worn out but familiar ways?

Could it be that dynamic change is frightening to us? Is it possible that any deviation from what we have viewed as the norm is too unsettling to contemplate? Perhaps the unknown is simply too foreboding.

If any one of us would be willing with the guidance of Spirit to take the “road less traveled”, we might well open the way for our own enlightenment while widening the path for others.

Students ask me how much they should meditate in order to hear that quiet voice point the way. They ask if that inner work should occupy minutes, hours or days. My reply is that meditation is good, positive and elevating and I heartily recommend it. However,to spend all our time, or most of our time in meditation would be to ignore our day to day work with our fellow humans and the earth.

My personal experience has been that 15 minutes three times each day, a total of 45 minutes, is enough time in meditation to bring me the peace, calm and direction I require. Admittedly all of us are different. I just do not want to remove myself too much from the outward expression and accomplishment of my inner work!

I am sure there will be times when healing work for yourself or others will require you to step away and utilize more time. Each situation you encounter may call for a different approach.

We are needed in all our human physicality to help each other move forward. We are needed to express our love to the earth and all of its inhabitants through our actions. To accomplish that goal we need to practice our moment to moment awareness of what is happening around us.

As you become more skilled to intuit and assess situations, your questions more often will be addressed by Spirit in your awake and alert state as opposed to answers coming only from deep meditation.

Learning to be more adept at accessing Spirit’s Truth you will find yourself with appropriate answers as you wait in line at the checkout counter of the supermarket or planting flowers in the backyard! Living in and understanding the NOW moment is the way it should be.

Knowledge in partnership with the wisdom to use it can arrive in intriguing ways. A book title may catch your eye and lead you to a totally unexpected direction or into a new solution. A stranger may ask a question that ignites a potent idea within you.
Being completely alive to each moment will bring you amazing help in the form of hints, quiet or occasionally, hints that are quite loud and insistent!

Your personal questions are important. A private psychic reading can be of great benefit. I would like to help you with your life challenges. The desires of your heart and soul are important to me. Call for your trance reading today. All sessions are completely confidential. I provide you with a cassette recording of your reading for your review at a later time.

Call Reverend Lois (941) 961-2783 to schedule your time for a phone or in person reading in my studio.

SET YOUR SPIRIT FREE!

2008-11-01T08:42:00.000-07:00

When I think about Tucson, Arizona, I remember all the spiritualist groups I had the privilege to work with in that city. The members of those groups were so coalesced and exuded so much dynamic energy. Teaching workshops, lecturing and learning there brought me much joy and fulfillment. I am grateful for all the time I spent working in Tucson.

Among the experiences that come to mind is the singing of a many times requested and particularly energized song. Here are the uplifting words: "I am free. I am unlimited. There are no chains that bind me. I am free. I am unlimited today."

If only we could all realize how absolutely unlimited and empowered we are. That realization would allow us to break through all kinds of boundaries and sprint over seeming road blocks. Some of those apparent limits we see only have the strength to bind us or hold us back because we imagine them to hold that power.

At any given moment you and I can reach out and receive all the information, all the energy and direction we could ever want. Your soul, your spirit and all of your guides and angels are standing in wait for your call. Ask and it is given!

Each of you own unique talents and abilities that are eager to express today. Do not allow anyone to tell you that you must accept any limit large or small on your expression, on your ability to be completely who you are.

TAKE THE PATH AND DIRECTION THAT ARE CALLING TO YOUR HEART!

You arrived on the earth plain with purpose and direction. You have a dynamic plan and are imbued with the responsibility and desire to fulfill it. Believe that you are unlimited. Know that you are free to be your unique self. The world needs that energized, light filled, loving you.

When you decide to follow your inner most guidance, you will find it will not only benefit you but all of those who are close to you. Your Sprit directed path will always be a blessing to everyone and everything. Spirit direction will cause no harm.

Take clear note of your emotions. Those are your built in guidance system that will allow you to know when you are on your own royal road to success. If a decision causes you to bubble with joy and bounce with happiness, you have found the way!

REMEMBER: TODAY IS YOUR BEST DAY YET! AND TOMORROW PROMISES TO BE EVEN BETTER!

I salute you today and your unlimited freedom to choose. Call me at any time that you could benefit from a private counseling appointment. I will answer any questions you have on any subject.

Your masters, guides and teachers will channel through me to help with your life challenges. Your loved ones in spirit will many times come through with their input and wishes for you. Know that all readings are completely confidential.

You always receive a cassette recording of your appointment for your later review. Your reading is available by telephone or in person in my studio. Call today: Reverend Lois, (941) 961-2783 or (479) 657-6491.

PATHWAY TO GROWTH

2008-10-27T14:37:00.000-07:00

I am pretty much irrepressible when it comes to talking to strangers anywhere I find them. It doesn’t matter if I’m standing on the curb waiting for a ride, waiting in line at the bank or sitting on the beach, I just have to find out what people are thinking, what they are all about.

You certainly cannot tell what important bit of wisdom you can pick up just by being friendly or in my case a little nosey! On that note, today I found myself in the pen and paper aisle of one of our local dollar stores. I was looking for markers.

Standing directly next to me in the aisle was a lively little lady. She seemed to exude a lot of vigor. I guessed her age to be somewhere between 80 and 85. I thought of her as “little” because I am sure she could not have been more than 4’8” tall.

I noticed she, on her tiptoes, was trying to put a manila envelope back with some others on the top shelf. I was just about to ask her if I could help (I am at least a foot taller), when she maneuvered the envelope back into place.

“Congratulations!” I said, half laughing and smiling at her. “That was quite a reach for you!” She smiled back. Then with a twinkle in her eye she replied, “Stretching, that’s the way you grow you know.”

It was fully an hour later as I waited for my car to washed and waxed that I began to recall the wisdom of her words. She was right on target. It does not matter whether you desire growth in the physical, the mental or the metaphysical/spiritual, STRETCHING IS THE ANSWER.

To attain measurable growth in any area involves reaching beyond what we have accepted as our current limits. To be more, we need to break our self imposed barriers. From time to time we all tend to believe that we can go this far but not the extra distance that would allows access to soul satisfying achievement. Metaphorically, we believe we can speed walk but run.

Athletes know this. They believe in getting that “second wind” to reach their goal. Spiritual seekers know this. They work in meditation to the break-through that takes them to the next level of understanding and personal truth. Ask anyone who is trying to lose weight, there is always a plateau but if they persist, success comes and the pounds fall away.

Whatever limits you may have set for yourself, look at them carefully. Are they necessary? Are they perhaps not real but imaginary? Are they your own limits or someone else’s idea of your limits?

Whatever it is that you personally wish for, whatever your desire, do not accept any limit at all. There are so many and varied ways to accomplish that which may now seem remote, even impossible. Believe in yourself. Believe in your abilities and talents, even those that are now lying dormant.

Remember the little lady who was able to stretch that extra inch just to reach the top shelf. You can achieve your goals. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KEEP REACHING!

Call today for your private psychic consultation and reading. All of your questions deserve answers. Your spirit guides and angels will accompany you and offer their help. All appointments are strictly confidential.

Telephone Reverend Lois (941) 961-2783. Your reading can be over the telephone or in person. Your personal reading will be saved on a cassette tape and given to you for your later review in your home.

THE PATH

2008-10-24T03:39:00.000-07:00

As I counsel or read for clients there is one question that is asked more often than any other. That question is phrased in different ways but it is basically the same.

The question may be “am I doing what I came to earth to do?” or “how can I tell if I am on my path?” or perhaps that all encompassing question “what is my life’s purpose?”

I am never surprised by those questions because I know it is true we each have deep within us the desire to be of service. We may give that urge different names but it is still that need to be as much as we can be, to use all of our abilities. It is that drive to succeed in a way that gives to our planet, to our personal selves and to each other.

We continually strive to feel that we are living fully. We simply cannot access our own completeness unless we are working from our hearts, from the depth of our soul. We yearn to make that important difference!

So you say to me “what is the answer?” “Where is my life path?” “Am I there?” “Have I found my path?”

I can offer you direction. I can give you insight. However, the real search is always up to you. The pursuit of purpose can occupy the major portion of this lifetime or it may be realized in one tremendous flash of inspiration. In either case it is well worth the effort.

The largest clue to knowing if your there, on point and following you purpose is emotion. When you feel so uplifted, completely immersed in and thrilled with your “work” that you could float with the ease of a helium filled balloon, you are there!

When the most difficult and arduous task is a joy to fulfill, you are there! When you cannot wait for the next challenge, you are there! When you leap out of bed in the morning with a grateful heart eager to give and to learn, you are on target and in the flow!

Nothing in this entire world is as delightful as doing what you were born to do. It gives a glow to every moment. It feels as if your heart overflows with love for everyone and everything.

The most amazing thing to me is that each one of you is entirely and completely unique. Each one of you is filled with talent and purpose and yet not one of you carries the same imprint. Each of you has a direction and purpose as unique as your fingerprints! Not one of you is expected to work out your destiny in exactly the same way.

My thought is this: Enjoy the search! Every experience you have puts you one step closer to accessing all that you can be. Life is a wondrous exploration. Be determined to live your life fully and with complete awareness. Your life journey is meant to elevate your soul and it will.

This is also a time of tremendous opportunity for uplifting the planet. People are coming together in a way that they never have before. There is an elevation of understanding within the human community and a working of Spirit that is exciting and holds great promise.

Determine to become part of this uplifting of our planet, this ascension. You are important and capable. Bless all of you for your Spirit led work and loving actions.

For your personal life direction and psychic reading, call today. Bring all your questions in person to my new home in Sarasota, Florida or over the telephone for a private consultation. I encourage you to ask all the questions that challenge you.

Call Reverend Lois (941) 961-2783. You will be given a recording of your personal session to review at home.

WHO’S IDEA?

2008-10-21T04:15:00.000-07:00

Who’s idea are you following today? Is that thought yours? Is that feeling one you can believe or did it arise from some past situation? Are you listening in this NOW moment to your soul and your heart?

If you will analyze some of your thoughts and actions you may be surprised to realize that they have not originated totally from you. Your currently accepted course or direction may have come from ideas planted by your friends, coworkers, family and others. WHAT DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE? Does that belief make you happy?

As our hours, days and weeks on earth seem to slip by faster than ever before, it is increasingly important to be Spirit aware. Taking only the personal action as offered by your own soul as well as those suggested by your personal guides and teachers will elevate your life experience and learning. That is the path to true understanding and wisdom.

Spirit directed action has the additional benefit of enriching the lives of all those that you touch. You must realize that every thought you think, every word you speak, everything you do has an effect. You are always creating with your power filled energy!

This time you and I are living is a time of tremendous change and enlightenment. The earth and its people need each of us to assist. You and I can do our part to make this moment a time of great peace and true prosperity.

We each need to be more aware of our own ability to help. We need to offer our unique talents in ways that uplift each other and our planet. Each one of us is valuable. Each one of us is capable of giving more love and positive direction to our world.

As you go through your day, speak words of hope and encouragement to all those people you encounter. You can be a force for positive change. Your capabilities are without limit. You have the power. It is all up to you.

I bless you and give thanks for each and every one of you.

I currently have private counseling available for you in my new home in Sarasota, Florida as well as telephone appointments. Call today to schedule your personal psychic reading. You will be given a cassette recording of your reading for your later review.

Call Reverend Lois (941) 641-2783.

WRITE!

2008-10-16T04:05:00.000-07:00

Write in the early morning. Write in the late evening. Write any time of day or night. Why is it important? Because it is one of the many and various ways that Spirit can help you to know all the deeper aspects of yourself.

What should you write about? Write about your thoughts. Write about your feelings. Write for yourself and about yourself in uncensored ways. This writing is for your benefit. This is your secret.

All people are born with an inner yearning to accomplish, an inner desire to feel that we are “on the path”. This ongoing activity of putting your thoughts and feelings on paper is one way to gain clarity, insight into both the inner and outer you.

Call it a journal if that seems appropriate. The title is unimportant. The activity can be a wonderful stepping stone to living life fully as a physically balanced and spirit-integrated soul.

As you pursue this self research, you will find that all of your senses become more acute. You will begin to be aware of life in a way that was previously closed to you. In particular you will find that your intuitive abilities become heightened.

In time, the writing becomes a way to release and dissolve the thoughts and feelings that may have blocked your progress in any area. You will become more spiritually evolved, more faith filled and less apprehensive.

Your relationships will take on different, more positive energy vibrations or you will simply move away from some of the more uncomfortable liaisons. In other words, you will begin to see situations with greater clarity and correspondingly, your will make better decisions.

Your writing need not consume huge amounts of time. Occasionally you may write only a sentence or two. At times of greater inspiration, you may write so steadily that an hour will pass without your notice. The important thing is to be consistent in allowing yourself to express.

Your guides, your masters, your teachers and angels are always close at hand. As you write, you will notice you have greater input from all of your spirit friends. They want you to succeed and delight in your forward motion. Ask for their inspiration, ask for their help, and you will have it!

Never forget that you are talented and special. I wish you all the love, joy and fulfillment your heart can hold!

If you would like answers to any of your life questions, I will schedule a private reading/counseling appointment for you. We can meet in person or over the telephone.
All sessions are tape recorded for you to review privately at a later time.

Call Reverend Lois today. Telephone (479)657-6491 to schedule your personal appointment. Currently I am also accepting counseling appointments in Sarasota, Florida. Please call (941) 961-2783.

SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS

2008-10-07T11:27:00.000-07:00

You and I relate to others in hundreds of different ways. We can have friends, enemies, spouses, family, lovers, bosses, employees.

Relationships come and relationships go but all of our various relationships, whether we label them good or bad, contain important messages from Spirit. ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE SPIRIT DRIVEN LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

Likewise all relationships at their heart, their root, are relationships forged by Spirit. Spirit working through each of us creates unique learning opportunities from relationships.

To truly hear the message from each experience, the caveat is this: we must be willing to listen to, and search for, the deeper truths contained in each long or short encounter. The problem we sometimes find in gaining the truth from any relationship is that we have a tendency to only think of the interaction in terms of what THEY did or THEY did not do.

We need to look at the feelings and thoughts issuing from within us that these joinings brought to our attention. What belief did WE hold that caused a strong reaction, positive or negative, to come forth from deep within ourselves? Why did we act or react the way we did? Could there be something we need to clear from our consciousness?

A one-sided analysis of any situation does not reveal the learning tools that can be gained through exploring that relationship. To extract the very best lessons from any beautiful and peaceful or harsh and demanding give-and-take between individuals, we must be willing to see and understand our own part in the exchange.

The goal of our journey here on earth is an all pervasive, Spirit-revealed education. We are here to learn. To gain the greatest benefit from our lives as humans we need to stop believing that we are “going solo”. Yes, it is true that we appear to be individual in one sense but we are definitely not separate. We are all interconnected and joined in a myriad of ways.

Every act that you and I take has an effect on someone else whether we are aware of it or not. Any thought we think, any word we say, is important because it will create a ripple, a color, a sound, a feeling. As we accept and acknowledge the basic truth of this, our intent and desire become much purer, more consciously directed. We earnestly want to be an instrument of positive change!

It is important to realize that many times when we are in the midst of a relationship we do not have the ability to step back and see what the lesson may be. It can take days, months, or even years to truly gain all that is available in that “coming together” for our enlightenment. That passage of time however long it may be does not have to mean loss of the wisdom offered.

The basic lesson and understanding, the possibility for genuine advancement of our soul, is still available regardless of the amount of time that has lapsed.

Each of us should be concerned enough with our own spiritual development to take the time to extract the fundamental gains from any relationship no matter how brief that particular joining may have been. By looking deeply at the interactions produced by each of us, we can elevate our spiritual “platform”. Our inner vision becomes clearer and more acute.

Caring enough to gaze backward in an analytical way seeking that enlightenment, will help each of us to move forward with greater ease and accomplishment.

Appreciate the helpful, gracious people in your life. But particularly be grateful for every harsh and upsetting situation you have encountered. Through gratitude for all your life’s experiences you will attain measureable growth of soul. Those unpleasant times and the accompanying emotional hurts can point you toward the greatest understanding of your life path!

I wish for each of you the blessing of deeper experiences, great caring and much learning.

If I can be of service to you through a private counseling appointment, please call Reverend Lois, (479) 657-6491.

BANISHING FEAR

2008-09-25T04:23:00.000-07:00

There is no question that Fear can be the most daunting of enemies. Fear can control your every move. It can completely immobilize any desired forward motion.

Fear can step in and effectively send you back into memories of past failures. It can lead you to expect only the worst. Those fears then become a self fulfilling prophecy.

When we allow ourselves to be in the grip of fear based thoughts, we hesitate to make any decision large or small. Our Spirit struggles to reach us but we do not hear.

Somehow standing in an aura of fear, we forget that this universe of ours is a loving and forgiving place if we will only allow it to be so. We forget that it is only our thinking that can fill us with sorrow, apprehension, or regret and not love.

Consider the marvelous ally we have when we call upon the Archangel Michael. He comes to us with his glowing sword to cut through all our fear and replace that fear with pure love. Call on him. He will come.

Fear arrives in so many insidious forms. Fear of loss as in the fear of losing a loved one, a job, investments, money etc. Fear of failure: I need a better education, I do not understand all of this, my attention span is way too short, I should not even start! And of course that fear of disease when every little pain could be the Big One.

The one real component in all of these fearful thoughts is an overwhelming dread of any change large or small. We can label any change good or bad but the one thing it definitely is, is inevitable! Remember that with change of any kind comes an enormous potential for personal growth.

When we are willing to embrace change as a fact of life and approach it with positive expectations instead of apprehension, we are rewarded. The truth is that this life is a learning platform. We are here to experience all of the beautiful and not so beautiful. It is through our experiences that we learn!

The great poet laureate of Unity, Emmet Fox, wrote “There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open…If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”

Let us begin to love our current situation. Let us begin to love ourselves with all of our flaws as well as our talents. When we love who and what we are, we allow others to love us as well.

When we can love all that is whole heartedly, we will have invited our spirit to join totally with our physical body. We will have the ability to hear the whisperings of our inner most soul and highest guardians.

May I extend my unconditional love to those of you who read this today? I know that you are powerful souls with earth and heaven changing abilities. I bless each of you and give thanks for you.

Call me if I can help you with an in depth psychic counseling session. I am pleased to offer you a reading in my studio in Bella Vista, Arkansas or over the telephone. I will also be available to you for a few of the winter months in Florida.

I am Reverend Lois (479) 657-6491. Call today for your confidential appointment.

JUST BEGIN!

2008-08-28T07:43:00.000-07:00

You have talent. You have innate abilities. You have heartfelt desires. Why not begin to use these wonderful attributes and abilities with which you were born?

When I consul with my clients, often I hear words like: “Yes, that is what I would like to do, but I need more training”, "But I can’t afford to use my time that way”, “But I have to do other things”, “But, my husband (or wife) wouldn’t like it”, “But, money is too short now", "It's just too late", "I'm too old".

If any one of these reasons sounds similar to something you have told yourself, remember all of those words are nothing but excuses for not beginning. My advice to you is simple: START!

Make an effort now, today. Begin with what you have. Do not put off that one highly energized thing you arrived on the earth plain to do. You came here with purpose. Tomorrow or next year will never get here. Your power is NOW.

I have a friend who needs to be writing. Her talent is lying there quite dormant and untouched. She says she has no idea what to write. I tell her BEGIN. Write about the fact that you do not know what to write. Write about writers block. Write about your feelings. Just write and you will feel the creative energy that is you start your engine, rev up and carry you away in the perfect direction!

If you know in your heart you should be working with children and have no credentials or degree in the field, volunteer! There are many organizations you could help. They are looking for someone like you. You are needed. Use what you have and your efforts will give you the energy push, the extra thrust to go further. Ideas will come.

If you are drawn to music in any way, vocal, piano, instrument: now is the moment---Sing, Play, Compose! If it is at a casual social club, if it is at your church or just in the shower, work up your courage and start. LET YOUR SPECIAL MUSIC RING!

When you take the first step, when you make the first effort, the clouds will part and the way will open! Toss fear out the window. You can do what you were meant to do. Try it!

You can be sure that when you first make changes in your life there will be plenty of people to tell you can’t. They will say that it has been tried before or it will not work. You may be told it isn’t logical or your talent is insufficient and you “don’t know the ropes”.

It certainly would not be unusual to encounter some jealousy even from close friends just because you have the bravado to try a new path.

Please do not give in or give up. The world will present as many “naysayers” as you are willing to hear. The only words or advice you need to acknowledge are the words you heart is saying. If your personal inner feeling nature says “this is the way”, then it is! NOW is your time!

You were sent here to express the Love and the Light that are you. Your soul will support your efforts. Call on you angels, your own high self, you guides. All these energetic spirits want to help. Ask them and they will be there for you. You have gifts that are uniquely yours. Believe in them and believe in yourself.

I want to help you clarify your goals and opportunities. If you are encountering challenges or have questions on any topic, call for your private appointment. All intuitive readings are completely confidential. I will provide you with a cassette tape of your reading to be reviewed at your leisure.

Call today for your appointment. I can meet with you in my Bella Vista Arkansas studio or speak with you by telephone.

Call Reverend Lois (479)657-6491.

IS IT TIME TO LET GO?

2008-08-26T04:39:00.000-07:00

Is your life humming along in the direction of your choice or just moving by default? Have those methods of forward motion that used to work for you seemed to fail? Do you feel just plain stuck?

Sometimes everything that used to make you happy suddenly rings empty or without meaning. The job that you were excited about goes stale. Your friends grow in different directions and you have little in common. Even your living space lacks energy or vibrancy.

All of these signs and symptoms of distress are very positive indicators of your inner desire for a dynamic life shift. Use this momentary stagnation as a motivator. Spirit is telling you it is time to MOVE UP!

How do you begin? It is much simpler than you might imagine. Decide today to let go of worn out ideas. Admit that you need to release the old over used concepts and methods, and ask for new Spirit-filled directions.

Step out of your Past. Just let go of what was yesterday or last year or last decade. Today is your day! Now is your time!

Help is there for you in the very moment you are open and ask for it from your own guides, your teachers and angels.

You may find that it is necessary to do a much larger “house cleaning” than you ever imagined. In addition to discarding previous ideas, you may need to let go of worn out things, worn out relationships and worn out situations.

The pots, pans, clothes and other things you have carried around for years can be recycled for others. Toss those items you intended to repair and never did. Put some newness and color in your everyday living.

If your closest relationships are not working, gently release them and begin to move in different social circles.

If your employment is no longer your joy, begin to experiment, read, listen to your inner voice until you find the work that makes the hours fly and your heart sing.

It may even be that your place in this world is not where you currently live. If that is the case, feel free to make the move! Find that new location that welcomes you.

Yes, you have the right as well as the obligation to remove anyone or anything from your life that is holding you back from achieving your full potential. When you are in sync with your own highest desires, everything comes together for you. All the pieces fit!

You have a life purpose that is too important to ignore. The temporary discomfort you may experience in releasing the familiar is a small price to pay for the gains that will evolve.

Believe in yourself and your heart’s vision. Take a risk to better your life. You are definitely worth it!

My work as a psychic counselor covers the gamut of human challenges. Clients come wanting closure with a friend or relative in spirit. Some look for answers to current relationship problems. Others need answers from their guides concerning the path of their spiritual growth. No questions are off limits.

Call today for your private appointment. I can meet with you in my Bella Vista, Arkansas studio or help you by telephone. In either case, I provide you with a cassette recording of your personal reading for your later review.

All readings are completely confidential. Call Reverend Lois, (479)657-6491.

IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

2008-08-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

Your dreams are important. Your heartfelt desires deserve fulfillment. Your joyous and abundant living is your birthright. Why then do so many of us put off until tomorrow those actions or adventures that call to us so vibrantly? Why do we try to ignore the promptings of our heart and soul?

Have you ever heard someone say “I’ll try that when the children are grown”? How about “As soon as I get into shape, I’ll give that one a go”? Here is a typical one: “Maybe if I make more money”? Or “As soon as I get the promotion or a better offer”? “No, not today, maybe next year. My parents need me here.”

If you typically ignore your personal need to try something new and grow, if it has become your habit to deny yourself, decide to STOP IT. When you put off until tomorrow what your soul would have you do today, you cut off your spiritual and physical expansion. Remember that your purpose in being here on earth is for EXPERIENCE, for LEARNING!

When you allow yourself more experiences, more diversity, you are not only being a blessing to yourself, but you become a blessing to others. The broader your experiences, the more inspiration and help you can be to the other people you touch.

My dear husband Jim has been in spirit for many years. I do not think he would mind if I told you one of his experiences which he put off far too long. One of his friends had spent part of his military service in Australia. His friend always spoke of how truly wonderful the people and the country were!

My Jim was always saying “I want to visit Australia before I die.” Through the years I must have offered a dozen different dates and ways that we could go together to explore Australia.

His responses were always pretty much the same: “No, that trip isn’t quite long enough. We don’t have the money now. The weather won’t be good then. I should wait until…. But I want to visit Australia before I die.”

I became so disgusted with his putting the trip off until some unknown time that I finally just said, “If you will just tell me when you intend to die, we can get this scheduled!” Yes, it was awfully mean on my part.

By this time in my story you probably have guessed that he never did get to make his trip to Australia.

Do not do the same thing to your most cherished desires. Do not put off the fulfillment of your heart’s wishes. Start making your plan today.

Whether your special desire is for a certain trip, an important vision quest, starting a business of your own, initiating a support group or any kind of goal whatsoever that captures your heart and your mind, begin right now. Do not put off your life.

Your life path is of great importance. Be steadfast, be enthused. Live in joy and gratitude. You are building your roadway to your unique destination one brick at a time and each bit of pavement matters.

I believe you can accomplish anything that you desire, if only you will begin now. Embrace your life fully and the rewards will be great.

I am Reverend Lois Cheney. I look forward to helping you with any of your life’s challenges or goals. Your concerns can be addressed in “trance” with the help of your guides, masters, teachers and angels.

If your need is to contact a loved one in spirit be assured that also can be done. Health issues, relationship questions, nothing is “off limits”.

Call for your private appointment today. We can meet in my studio in Bella Vista, Arkansas or by telephone. You will receive a cassette recording of your personal counseling session for your later review. All sessions are completely confidential.

Call Reverend Lois, (479) 657-6491