Showing posts with label attitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attitude. Show all posts

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hello, Goodbye

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get." Remember that quote from Alice in Wonderland?

Considering that my interview for The Displaced Nation's "Wonderlanded" series went live this week on their website, I suppose I've got Alice on the brain.

I'm not certain that I've ever read the entire Alice in Wonderland book. I must have seen the Disney movie years ago. I vividly remember the White Rabbit running along, checking his pocket watch, and muttering, "Hello, goodbye. I'm late. I'm late for a very important date."

I often feel that way, as if I'm meeting myself coming and going. For example, I meant to write this post yesterday, but I was saying goodbye to a friend in the afternoon and having dinner with another in the evening. In between, there was a writing webinar, a sink full of dishes, an unmade bed, and a pile of laundry to fold.

Call me OCD, but in only 550 square feet, clutter can't happen.

How nice it would be to have someone to do all the cleaning and putting away, to pay all my bills, to cook for me and then just call me when it's ready, so that I could write and socialize all day, but I guess that's called a "nursing home."

For now, I'll stick to my mad, frantic juggling.
“Have I gone mad?
I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

~~Sally Rose
Author of Penny Possible & A Million Sticky Kisses
iamsallyrose.com

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Do You Allow Divine Inspiration To Flow Through You? ~~guest post by Catherine Carrigan

Last year, I did a very interesting healing with a painter. She had been depressed for some time.

Although many natural healing remedies had helped her to feel less blue – yoga, nutritional supplements – she was still mildly dissatisfied and unable to break her cycle. She came to me for a medical intuitive reading and healing. I asked for guidance and received the information that she needed to paint a minimum of 1 and a half hours every other day to eliminate her depression for good. Although she had painted in the past, her artistic efforts had been sporadic in a stop-and-go fashion.

“Look at this like your mental health project,” I advised her. “It doesn’t matter whether you paint or draw, whether you sell your artwork or don’t sell your art. Just do something at least 1 and a half hours every day and then you will feel dramatically better.”

She followed my advice and, voila, her depression was gone.

Yesterday, I was doing a healing for a woman who practices energy medicine. Although she is an accomplished practitioner, she had gotten away from energy work and her life has been out of order in several dimensions – especially financially and mentally.

“You have to allow the healing energy to flow through you,” I advised her. “You need to work with at least three clients a week or you won’t feel right. You are blocking the flow and getting all turned around as a result.”

Many of us receive divine inspiration on a regular basis. Your soul could want to paint, heal, write or create in some other way –  in business, for example. If you do not allow this divine inspiration to flow through you, to work through you, to be birthed by you, you may end up feeling not only depressed but the word I would use for this condition is dispirited – out of touch with who you are, not able to put your finger on exactly what is wrong with you, going from one therapist to the other with no result.

You may be coping by drinking too much alcohol, overworking or abusing yourself in many other ways.

Here’s the rub. If you already know you are a naturally creative person, if you don’t create, if you do not allow divine inspiration to flow through you, you will not feel right no matter if you are taking vitamins, exercising, talking to a therapist about your childhood, receiving acupuncture, taking antidepressants, etc. etc. etc.

You need to be living in harmony with your what your soul is longing to do, so you might as well follow your guidance and allow divine inspiration to flow through you.

I had this experience myself. After publishing my first book in 1997, I went through a 15-year dry spell. My soul longed to write more books but nothing was happening, nothing was coming through me until I wrote the rough draft of my second book, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness. 

Even though I had been making money, serving others and growing in many ways as a person and even blogging and writing a monthly newsletter, I didn’t feel quite myself until I finally broke down and allowed divine inspiration to flow through me in the form of a book.

Another friend of mine was given the guidance that if she didn’t start teaching again she would become ill. We all have a special gift – a gift that only YOU can give – that your soul is deeply longing to contribute.

Stop making yourself sick by blocking your soul. Just go do it!

What is healing? Healing happens when we allow divine inspiration to flow through us.

~~Catherine Carrigan
Catherine Carrigan is a medical intuitive healer, a fitness and nutrition expert, a playwright and the Amazon Nº. 1 best-selling author of What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power For Health And Happiness and Unlimited Energy Now. She is currently editing her fourth book, Banish the Blues Now.
www.catherinecarrigan.com
www.unlimitedenergynow.com
678-612-8816

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Chiloé, the Lesser-Known Emerald Isle

I'm still sorting through photos of my magical trip to Chiloé, though this one might be my favorite.

As if its stunning natural beauty weren't reason enough to visit, it is home to sixteen patrimonial wooden churches which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I visited five churches this time, so only eleven more to go next time I'm in Chiloé.

I spent three nights in Ancud, then another four nights in Castro. Janice, at Solo Travel Society, calls herself a solo BoBo. Part Bourgeois, part Bohemian traveler. That description might fit me, too. Being a "princess," I stayed in hotels in both places rather than in hostals, but though I was traveling alone, I had no trouble meeting fellow adventurers.

Along the way, I met a Finnish businessman, a Swiss couple, a French pharmacist, and an ESL teacher from the US who has been living in Saudia Arabia. I also met some good local tour guides and, finally, at the airport I met a teacher, who invited me to return to Chiloé to volunteer in her classes, and on the plane,a young Chilean movie producer.

The allure of the lesser-known emerald isle is difficult to describe. If you visit my Pinterest page, my photos can show you more than I could ever say.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Penny Possible

Coming to Amazon very, very soon. "Penny Possible," the true adventures of a future service dog. The true story of Penny, the Golden Retriever, destined to be a service dog to a wounded veteran. All profits from the sale of "Penny Possible" will be donated to Warrior Canine Connection.

Dog lovers, Golden Retriever fans, supporters of veterans, people with kids and grandkids, this book is for you!

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Courage up

A teacher friend posted this video today on Facebook. I wish I'd seen it last year. I would have loved to have played it for my students. I would have liked to get their reactions, to listen to their comments. It would have made a great springboard for discussions. Do you agree? What do you think about it?