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The Adventure of Following a Thread -- About Relationships

“Relationships begin at home.”  So goes the line I heard in my head as I was walking through the living room to the front porch to begin my time of writing this morning.  Sometimes the universe gives me a sentence like the one above.  And then, waits to see what I will do with it.  If I grab it, it is often a doorway to an adventure in imagination or thought.  If I do nothing with it, it will fade. 

Julia Cameron, author of The Artist Way, told a story in one of her Creativity Camps about hearing a one liner while driving on a trip. She pulled over and began to write and this one liner led to a whole series of stories. Today, I’m grabbing the thread and following.  Come along and let’s see where it leads. 

Once I wrote the above sentence in my journal I heard “We source our relationships from home.”   Hummm!

Who is/Where is home?  We are home.  Within us.  In diverse personal growth experiences I’ve heard it said, “There’s no one out there.”  What we believe within us so colors the outside world that a change within totally changes the way our external reality responds.  I had this happen a while back.  I was getting ready for a meeting with a client on a web site I was designing and the whole while I had a negative voice in my head that sounded just like this client.  And, this version of the client within me was criticizing everything I was doing – “You are going to slow.  That’s not big enough. The type is too small. The design is off.  I want it another way.”  And, I started arguing with the voice.  After about an hour of this I began to plot how I could fire the client. 

The meeting with this client was imminent.  My interior environment did not bode well as an indicator of the outcome of the meeting.  The negativity continued as I drove to the appointment.  About a block from the meeting place it finally occurred to me that the voice was mine.  The judgments were mine.  Duh!  And so, too, must be the beliefs about what the client thought about me. (I did have some proof for these judgments that included phone calls and past meetings with the client, none of which had been very pleasant.)  In this flash of clarity, I realized that with ThetaHealing I could change my own beliefs about what the client felt about me. (You can’t change someone else, but you can change your own beliefs about what someone else thinks about you – and if there’s no one out there anyway, then maybe how they feel about you might change as well.)

I pulled over and began to change my beliefs about how this client felt – using the negativity I’d been through that morning as a gift to let me know what those beliefs were – that I was too slow, my design work wasn’t what he wanted, etc.  Using theta I installed beliefs that he really liked what I was doing, was very pleased with the speed and design work and was very happy about the progress of the web site.  Mind you, I wasn’t really sure this would have any result, but it was worth a shot given that my other scenario of how the meeting would go had me blowing up and firing the client. 

Right from the start I could feel that the atmosphere in the client’s office was different.  The client had everything set up and told me how happy he was with everything so far.  I was so surprised.  He continued on that he really appreciated my coming to him and the timeliness and design work I was doing. What a turnaround!  It really brought home to me just how much power we possess in all of our relationships. We had a productive meeting and the newfound ease in our relationship continued until I completed the project.

The inner is the key.  Our relationship with ourselves is the key.  How do you feel about yourself?  How loving are you?  How critical are you?  One thing I know is that the more critical I am, the more I attract criticism to me from the outside.  The more loving I am the more I attract love and appreciation.  What is your internal relationship with yourself?  Would you like to change it? 

A Teleclass on Relationships is starting. It’s a 5-part series with class number one on our relationship with ourselves, then our relationship with source, relationship with love, life and money/abundance.  I know from the organic nature of my previous classes that we’ll cover some unexpected territory.  It will be an adventure.  If this is something that interests you, let me know via email thetahealingblog@gmail.com or phone - 818-590-0062.  This one is scheduled to start the second week of August on a Wednesday night. The number of participants will be limited. Are you interested? Let me know.  

Don't forget my one-day class -- Attracting Love and Money.  I still have a few spaces. 

 

Attracting More of What you Want

When asked “what do you want more of in your life?” most of us will include in our answers more love or money.  If you are a ThetaHealer you’ve probably worked on some version of these areas more than once.  If you are like me you’ve probably worked on them a lot.  ThetaHealing^TM teachers often do intro classes on getting more of what you want, more abundance or love or better relationships because it’s a general draw.  Why? Because most of us want more in those areas. 

So if we’ve cleared and cleared, why do we not have the more that we want?  Or why did we only get part of what we wanted?  Or why do the same situations keep coming up over and over and over again? The Secret has shown us how.  Abraham Hicks seminars have show us what to feel and how to achieve that.  Napoleon Hill.  Wallace Wattles.  And on and on.  Way too numerous for me to cite here. 

What if the place where we desire the most, or feel the greatest lack is the driving force to receive our greatest gifts?  What if it's that the way because we’ve set it up that way or learned that it had to be, should be or is pre-ordained to be that way.  Often, that need or desire drives us to explore our greatest fears, to look at our ugliest issues, to find and clear answers to having that more of what we want.  How do we learn to do it another way?

And speaking from my personal experience, I do find oh so much every time I go there.  I am thankful and grateful for the experience, however difficult.  For me it’s a motivator, an “ass kicker” so to speak.  The more I look, the more I find.  And sometimes the situation changes, gets better, then it comes up all over again.  Sometimes it gets worse.  Undaunted and even more determined, I look more deeply, explore more fully. 

I know a woman whose need to have love, marriage and a child, whose need to find an available man and thus to find the places in herself where she was unavailable led to a brilliant book on the subject. There are teachers of abundance who got started because they wanted to discover how to have more abundance in their own lives.  Some of our greatest teachers started from what they wanted to learn or  to heal.  Vianna Stibal, the founder of ThetaHealing^tm discovered and developed ThetaHealing^tm out of her own need to go beyond a life challenging situation.  Since then she had continued to further enhance and develop Theta from other life challenging situations.

So my next question is, can we motivate ourselves or be motivated without these lacks, pains, difficulties, obstacles?  Will we reach, can we reach, can we learn to reach our greatest potential, our greatest creativity, actualize our greatest gifts without them?  And if so, what is it we need to learn in order to live our potential without the daily drama our pains, lacks and obstacles create?

I do not pretend to have the answers.  I do have a few of the questions. And I feel that you have more of the questions. With each question I learn more.  You have different questions than I do.  Different obstacles.  Together, we can transform our lives.  That’s my point of view about coming together to do Theta in a class or group setting. 

Just in the course of writing this piece, and talking with my Theta buddy about it, I’ve learned a great deal about my lacks and where the focus of my desire is absent in my life.  And I know there’s a great deal more to learn.  Which is why I’m doing the one-day class called Attracting Love and Money.  Actually you can fill in the blank and make the title “Attracting ___________ and ___________.  And that's what this class will be about for you.

One of my greatest joys is working spontaneously, in the moment with a group of people.  The synergy of the group exponentially expands the learning for each person. 

And that's what I think happens in my classes, what I desire to have in my classes.  Exponential learning.  Exponential transformation.

Here's what one member of  several of my classes says about being in one of them.

I've been to many kinds of Theta workshops and practice groups and Suzanne is creating some of the most extraordinary classes available. Instead of telling us what she thinks we ought to have as downloads, she works organically with her students to discover what each one needs (and of course in the process, the entire class always discovers they have the same belief to be cleared). It is an incredible experience to work as a group to clear some of our most painful and vulnerable areas and then to be enveloped within the energy that is created when we do just that. I invite everyone to come and play with us and I guarantee you will find your life transformed. Her classes certainly have done so for mine.

If you feel a yen or simpatico with anything in this article, come play with us on August 2 in West L.A. from 9:30 to 4:30. at the Attracting Love and Money one-day Class.

Whether or not you want to play in a group, below are some downloads to get you started. 

Downloads:

I have the Source Energy’s/Universe’s/Creator’s perspective, understanding and definition of what motivates me now.  (If you want this just say YES out loud and allow that awareness to come to you.)

My perspective, understanding and definition of what motivates me now is the same as the Source energy’s/Universe’s/Creator’s.  Say YES to receive it. 

I know how to be motivated without ______________________.  (Again YES will download.)

I know what it feels like to be motivated without _______________________.  ( Say YES, out loud if you want it.)

If you want to explore this issue in a private session, you can call me  818-590-0062 or click here to learn more about private coaching sessions and/or my coaching packages. 

 

What are you hiding in your Earthbound closet called your body?

We are divine magnificent beings.  Most of us agree with that.  And we are using this body to be able to hang out here on Earth.  It is the receptacle, the container, the space suit for planet Earth.  An intricate miracle that operates, often under great duress, in the limitations of this planet and those imposed by the owner of the body – heat, cold, gravity, weather, disease, abuse, misuse, judgement, criticism and on and on.  I’m sure you can think of many more ways we disuse, overuse and abuse our bodies. 

Today I was talking with someone on the phone about my teleclass on The Body. And out of my mouth popped the phrase "our Earthbound closet" and the woman I was talking with started talking about the clutter we put in that closet.  It started me thinking. 

What kind of clutter are we hiding in our bodies?  What is it we stuff in there, suppress in there, hide in there and just never clear or clean out?  When I was a kid my parents used to listen to a radio show called Fibber McGee’s Closet – at least that’s what I remember it was called – I was really small.  Any time anyone would open the closet door you could hear all this stuff tumbling out – crash, bang, crash, crash, bang, clunk, thunk and always one final crash. Getting everything back in and getting that door closed again was always a feat.

Some of us treat our bodies like Fibber McGee's closet.

We do physical cleanses to physically clean out the body.  But do we do emotional cleanses and mental cleanses.  I’ve been finding that we stash all sorts of emotions in this wonderful miracle of a body – guilt, shame, hate, defeat, disappointment, etc.  And we stash it in all sorts of areas – there’s the “fat” closet, and the “joint” closet, and the “muscle” closet and the “blood” closet.  In my work with people on their aches and pains, I often find that the body is attempting to communicate with them about something that’s not working as well as it could.  That “something” is often in the emotions, or programmings and beliefs that are in direct conflict with the current direction the person is attempting to go.   When those are found and changed, the pain often goes away.

Part of my Teleclass on The Body is going to be a closet cleaning on the mental and emotional levels of the body.  And for right now, here are some “downloads” that might make things a bit clearer and maybe clean out some clutter. 

Downloads:

If you’d like the Universal Energy Source of All that is/Creator of ALL that is’s perspective, definition and understanding of body clutter, and of the clutter your are currently stashing in the closet of your body say YES out loud right now.
 
And if you’d like your perspective, definition and understanding to be the same as the Universal Energy Source/Creator’s, say YES right now.

 
If you get a sense you’d like to do more work in this area, sign up for my Teleclass on The Body, or for one or a series of private theta coaching sessions. 

What is Your Relationship to Your Body? More about the Teleclass

What we resist persists - or so goes the quote.  (Author, Sonia Johnson, American feminist activist and writer. )  This idea has been repeated in many different ways.  I used to say, "Where you look, you drive."  And, it is true, that if while driving you continuously look to the right or left, you will automatically turn the wheel in that direction.  So, if you are resisting something about your body, and it is in your thoughts, it is likely that you will receive more of that.  The age-old question is how do we change our thoughts?

Thoughts are generated from our beliefs and with ThetaHealing we can find and change our beliefs -- thus changing the thoughts.  That's what this teleclass will be about -- changing the beliefs so that our attention and thoughts go in the direction we want it to go. 

What are you resisting about your body?  Is it your weight, your thighs, it's need for exercise, what? 

How happy are you with  your body? 

How much do you love it? 

How much judgment and criticism does your body receive from you?

Where could you take better care of it? 

What is it that your body wants from you in order to function more effectively and efficiently? 

What is really going on with your body versus what you think is going on? 

What are you hiding in your body? 

Our bodies are marvelous miracles that function under amazing circumstances.  This 4 week class is an exploration of our relationship to our bodies and what we can do to enhance it.  It is limited to 8 people.  There will be interaction between the members of the group.  There's a workbook you can fill out ahead of time or during or after -- your choice.  Changes in our beliefs about our body will be made, with permission, using ThetaHealing.   Each class will be recorded. 

I've been working with this for a while now with my Thetahealing synergy groups and now it's time to take it to the telephone with a 4-part series.  Each class will be 2-hours.

Part I- - The body - Our Hiding Place
Part 2 -- Loving our Bodies Just the Way they Are
Part 3 -- Clearing the Body to Open Up Our Divinity and Divine Power
Part 4 -- Food and Our bodies

Individually, the teleclasses will be $22.00.  Purchased as a series they will be $62.00 and will include a 30-minute personal consultation with me sometime time during the series. 

Classes will begin on June 25 and be held on Wednesday evenings at 7 for 4 consecutive Wednesdays.  Each class will be recorded so if you've signed up for the series,  you will receive an email link for the recording should you miss the class or just so you can listen to it again. 

Just before the class you'll receive an email questionnaire/workbook that I'll use during the class to make sure your needs are met. 

Prerequisite:  Basic ThetaHealing DNA 2

Exceptions will be made on an individual basis.  If you've done a lot of private theta work and know how to muscle test yourself, you'll probably be allowed to take the class.  Call me to discuss this. 

Email me to learn more and for a link to pay for the class -- thetahealingblog@gmail.com
Or Call me, Suzanne Peters  818-590-0062

Once you've signed up and paid, I'll email the conference call info.

The Hero’s Journey – Is this archetype running your life?

If you are writing fiction, then the “hero’s journey” makes for great drama and conflict.  Our hero goes through trial after trial before he finally makes a breakthrough to that next level or to achieving the goal or finding and bringing home the treasure.  As an archetype this “belief system” has been around for a long time, and Joseph Campbell has brought it front and center in his books.

Recently the success of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cystal Skull shows us just how much we love watching a hero make that journey. In fact, the success of many a blockbuster can be attributed to our love of the Hero's Journey, at least in part. 

So why am I writing about this?  What do I know about the Hero’s Journey?  Short Answer:  I’ve been living it over and over again all my life.

Now for the longer answer to my own questions. 

My guidance from the Universe for the West LA Theta Synergy group was that it was to be about the body and what we think is going on versus what is really going on.  I opened my West LA Theta Synergy group with the story about how I had created my own cold, and laryngitis from the fear of catching someone else’s cold.  I had been able to clear the first part of the sore throat completely with Theta, and then, it came back and I heard to just let it go.  So I did.  The day I’d cleared my throat, tons of business started coming in.  And then, the sore throat came back and I realized that I had a tough weekend of photography ahead of me – and I decided that I was going to do it – no matter what – voice or not, cold or not.  Whatever it took, I was going to take advantage of this business.  And I did.  I had the energy required to do it, thanks to Theta.  At this point I also need to admit I’d have much rather been on the couch resting. 

Someone who knows me said to me, “You certainly are being required to go through a trial by fire.”  I didn’t think much about this comment until my friend Lora spoke up at the synergy group.  

What she said goes something like this. “I know something of your health history, including the time you did major surgery awake, and it seems that you create a Hero’s Journey with respect to your health in order to go to the next level.”  Almost immediately I saw it.  “Yes.”  That’s what happened.  So we began to explore how “having to go through trails in order to have what we want” affects our lives not only in our bodies and health, but in every area of our life.    Each person in the group found different places where they needed a Hero’s journey scenario in order to get to the “next” level in their growth/success/transformation.

Does the Hero's Journey get played out in your life, over and over again? Does it require some great drama to catapult you to the next level?

 

Downloads: 

If you’d like the Universal Source’s/Creator's perspective, definition and understanding of The Hero’s Journey and make yours the same, say YES out loud now.

If your like the Universal Source's/Creator's perspective, definition and understanding of The Hero's Journey in your life, and make yours the same, say YES out loud now.

If you'd like the Universal Source's/Creator's perspective of how to go to the next level with joy, say YES right now. 

For some of us this is a major piece, and certainly will not be solved with these downloads.  If you'd like to explore private work, you can go to my Private Session page and see the special packages that are available.

Advanced Theta Healing -- June 27, 28 and 29 in Pasadena, CA.  Call or email me for more info.

Teleclass on the Body -- Starting June 18.  Call or email to receive more info or to register.

What is it with this Body? - A Teleclass

What is it with our bodies?  Are we ever satisfied?  If it's smaller we want it bigger, and if it's bigger we want it smaller.  Over the last few weeks I've come across some interesting revelations about the body.  To summarize it briefly, which is almost impossible, I've found we keep the residue of most of our negativity in our bodies.  We think to clear it from the different belief levels in the subconscious  the genes and the soul, but not the many storing places in the body. So even though we clear guilt about an incident using Thetahealing, and it tests clear of all the belief levels, sometimes I still find it in places in the body.  And it seems that one command won't always totally clear it.  Just depends on what's connected. 

I keep looking for the right analogy.  If all the areas of the body clear in one command that's great.  But if they don't, the area(s) that don't clear act as a treasure map, taking us deeper to much more powerful clearings. 

I've heard a lot about putting on fat to increase safety and indeed found that in some cases.  Clearing the safety issues doesn't necessarily lead to weight loss,though.  Maybe that's because there's more to do.  I'm also finding that we store a lot more things in our fat -- including guilt, resentment, anger, fear, defeat, disappointment, etc. 

I've been working with this for a while now with my thetahealing synergy groups and now I'm going to take it to the telephone with a 4-part series.  Each class will be 2-hours and there will be a lot of time for interaction.  I intend to limit the first one to 8 people and see how that goes. 

Part I- - The body - Our Hiding Place
Part 2 -- Loving our Bodies Just the Way they are
Part 3 -- Clearing the Body to Open Up Our Divinity and Divine Power
Part 4 -- Food and Our bodies

Individually, the teleclasses will be $22.00.  Purchased as a series they will be $62.00 and will include a 30-minute personal consultation with me sometime time during the class. 

Classes will be held on Wednesday evening at 7.  I'll repeat the first class on the following Tuesday. Classes will be recorded so if you've signed up for the series, I can send you the recording should you miss the class.

Just before the class you'll receive an email questionnaire that I'll use during the class to make sure your needs are met. 

Prerequisite:  Basic ThetaHealing DNA 2

Exceptions will be made on an individual basis.

Email me to learn more and for a link to pay for the class -- thetahealingblog@gmail.com
Or Call me, Suzanne Peters  818-590-0062

Once you've signed up and paid, I'll email the conference call info.

What about weight and our bodies?

I realize I have not posted in a while.  Sometimes one takes breaks without knowing why.  I'm just allowing myself that break with love and understanding -- whatever my mind may think.  It's like I allowed the break until I had something so compelling to write about, that I had to write about it. 

That event was my Pasadena Belief Change Group last Friday night.  Wow!  In putting out the email announcing it I heard that it was to be about the body.  Wasn't given much more information than that in the guidance I received, so I just let it be, thinking that the day of the event I'd get more info. Only I didn't.  I really didn't even expect anyone to come.  Maybe it was that expectation or resistance that had almost everyone arrive late. 

Yes, as I look back on it I see that I had my own resistance to this evening and probably it would have been my preference to skip it.  The Universe had other plans.  And so as I took stock of the group, and how each one felt about their bodies, I noticed we had folks who felt like they were happy with their bodies, people who felt they were underweight and very much wanted to change that, and people who felt they were overweight and wanted to change that.  I personally am in the "a few extra pounds" that I'd be happy to part with category. 

Each person present seemed to add to the whole of what we were exploring -- each one bringing a different piece of the puzzle to the table.  Holding hate in your body was one of the issues brought to the table.  One person who felt they definitely had hate stored in their body, muscle tested "no" for it.  Which opened us up to finding other layers and places where it might be stored.  Seems like even when we clear beliefs about hate from our beingness, from our different levels, it is still possible for it to be stored in places in the body -- or at least the residue of it.  As we dug deeper and deeper, we discovered seven different and apparently separate -- because they all demanded that we look at them separately -- stashing places for the emotion of hate.  Then, of course we looked at fear, anger, resentment and revenge energy residues and one, some or all of us found these as well. 

Here's how one participant put it.

Last nights session was really great!  I actually feel “cleaner” today!  My body is just dropping the unnecessary programming it has carried around for all these years. Thank you for being there for me….actually for all of us!  It was a great group last night – the interaction was amazing!  It seemed like we were “gathered” last night to help each other!

This is how it felt to me too, so I decided to include it. 

For a while now I've been asking myself questions about what is causing my body to hold onto the weight it has?  I know other ThetaHealing Teachers have said that one can't solve weight problems with Theta -- and I believe you can.  Now, I just have to discover how. 

I always include myself in all the downloads and learning, because I truly approach these classes from the point of view that I am as much the student as the facilitator.  And what I feel now in my body is a willingness and joy in embracing and finding satisfaction with healthier choices.  Over time these choices will lead to letting go of weight.  And for me, the willingness to follow this path on an ongoing basis is key.  What I want in my life is the desire to and willingness to follow a healthy lifestyle on an ongoing basis, not a diet, or an expensive fast, or pills to keep me from overindulging. 

While not a nutritionist, the amount I've read and studied on the subject would probably qualify me for some accreditation or other.  That is to say I know what to do to let go of weight, I know how to do it, and I've tried a lot of things -- from fasting, to calorie counting, to Isagenix, to Brain Garden, to vegetarian liver cleansing regimens, to appetite suppressants and much, much more.  And they've all worked to a point.  And then I gained it back. 

The question for me was why was my body feeling compelled to pull this weight back to me.  And, I think the class the other night has begun to unravel the mystery. 

I'm doing another Breakthrough group in West LA this Thursday, May 1 at 7:30. We are going to explore this issue more.  In the future I'm going to explore at a deeper level our beliefs about food and eating.  For sure this exploration is going to have several parts.  Another will be about movement and the body.  As I get going on this I'll going to offer it as a 2 or 3 part teleclass, so let me know if you have an interest in participating in the Teleclass if you are too far away for the in-person groups.

To RSVP for West LA Theta Breakthru Group, call me at 818-590-0062  May 1, 7:30 p.m. I'll send you directions.  Cost $17.00.  Spaces are limited because of all the individual work we do. 

To be notified about the Teleclass, email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com. I also welcome your comments and questions about this post.

Thetahealing Basic class on May 2, 3, 4 (in Pasadena).  If you've done the class and want to do it again, I'm offering a special price of $100.00.

Dissolving Fear -- Loving Yourself - Theta Thought for Today

Wow! What a night. Last Thursday night I facilitated a Theta Support Group on the Westside of Los Angeles. The evening was set to be about fears. I call this group the Theta Breakthrough Group because it’s changed from the normal “practice group” where people change up and work on each other to this high-powered energy filled evening of making deep core changes. We do this as a group with myself facilitating the changes, and everyone contributing to the digging and to what will be changed. When we do the work as a group it seems to build a synergy among us that goes beyond working one on one. We encourage each other to go deeper and deeper to the basic underlying issues and beliefs. (This group has people who have participated in numerous practice groups, most have done the Advanced Training and some of the participants have completed the Theta Teacher Certification and Intuitive Anatomy. To come you must have completed at least the Basic Theta Healing Class. As a side note, I do a practice group in Pasadena where we do divide up and work with each other one on one so that the participants get practice at doing Theta with each other.)

On Thursday night we started the evening just looking at what were our greatest fears. And then we got to one person who started to tell a story. (I usually keep stories to a minimum, but this one seemed important to all of us and it was.) The story was about a series of Laurel K. Hamilton’s vampire books where the main character suffers even greater degradation in each book for 15 books.

As this participant put it, “I kept getting so angry at what the author was doing to the main character that I stopped reading the books for a while. And then in book 15, I got it. The theme of the books was: If the character became everything that she feared, would she still love herself. Knowing that this practice group was coming up and that it was about fear, I asked myself what I feared most and realized that it was becoming a bag lady. So then I muscle tested ‘Could I love myself as a bag lady’ and, of course, I got a ‘no’.”

"If I become the thing I fear the most, can I still love myself?" The magnitude of this question becomes apparent when we realize that most of us don’t love ourselves the way we are right now in perfectly acceptable lives. The thought that we could become something we are terrified of paralyzes us and makes us even more afraid. Using ThetaHealing you can clear yourself of fears all day long. Unless you dig deeper to the underlying problem of loving oneself in every situation, the subconscious will keep creating fears because we think the fear will keep the “bad thing” from happening. But what we really need to do is to love ourselves in all possible circumstances.

This story opened a path to looking at what were those roles we might play or situations in which we might find ourselves where we muscle tested “no” for loving ourselves. One of the participants was taking notes and she had 7 pages. These included loving oneself as a failure, a success, a homeless person, a millionaire, a billionaire, when feeling judged and criticized and when feeling acclaimed and recognized. The list went on and on with each of us digging for more and more of those little places within each of our beings where we withheld self love. (I've excluded some of the darker things we came up with.) Each time someone would conquer their reluctance and mention one that seemed like it was their own deepest darkest place, at least one or two others in the group -- if not all of us -- would have the same one.

We didn’t clear these beliefs one by one. We asked the Creator for Creator’s perspective, definition and understanding of loving oneself and to make ours the same and then we asked Creator to teach us how to love ourselves fully and deeply in all situations. As we pulled the guilt, shame, trauma and cell trauma from our beingness around these situations, the amazing part is that most of the fears cleared as well. My take is that we fear those places we don’t want to tread. And those are the places where we are withholding love of ourselves.

A lot of teachings say that the fear is the absence of love. Often they are talking about love for others or love for God. On this night we discovered that our most powerful fears lie in the lack of love for ourselves.

No matter what we do, no matter what we say, we are still a spark of the divine. What if that’s our job here on Earth – to learn to love ourselves in all situations, to love and acknowledge our divinity whatever role we may be playing in the moment. What if, through loving ourselves, comes the path to love all that is around us. What would happen to this Earth, if each individual on it truly, fully and deeply loved themselves. What we found was that the more we loved those unmentionable parts of ourselves the more our fears dissolved. And it is fear that creates war and hate and the ugly that man has done to one another. Most of what we don't like on this Earth is sourced from fear. What if we learned to love it?

Downloads:

Would you like God’s/Source/Creator's/All that is's perspective, definition and understanding of loving yourself fully and deeply in all situations? If so, say YES out loud right now.

And if you’d like your perspective, definition and understanding of this to be the same as God’s, Source’s/Creator’s then say YES right now.

We did a lot more downloads to clear these issues and if you'd like to know more about this, you can contact me. 818-590-0062.

If there are specific issues where you feel you are not able to love yourself and you want to, call me for a private session. Sessions are now $125.00 for 60 to 75 minutes and $80.00 for 30 to 40 minutes. 818-590-0062.

Watch for soon to be announced Theta Coaching Packages.

Better yet, learn to do ThetaHealing for yourself. Sign up for my Basic ThetaHealing Class

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Making ours a world with more Joy, Love, Happiness -- Disciplining our Focus

Turn on the TV and you hear about the economy, about war and killing, about one bad thing after another. Talk to your neighbor and often you hear the same thing. Maybe you even speak about the same things. What we focus on we get more of. If that’s true the more we focus on the lower emotions, the more we pull that energy to us.

I’m not going into that further, because what I really want you to do right now, is to redirect your focus to joy, happiness, beauty.

Yes! Switch your focus right NOW! What is it that brings a smile to your face? What is it that lights up your heart? When you see the first violets of spring smiling their indigo smiles from the edge of a walkway or wall, how do you feel? When a child laughs, its face alight with the joy of right now, do you join in? Whatever it is that sparks a smile on your face, go there right now. Make a list of all the things that bring you joy, love, happiness. Make it a long, long list. 100, 200, a thousand. Keep that list handy. So that every time another lower emotion starts to take hold, you pick up that list and find the one thing that opens a fuller light in your heart.

The joy that nature brings me is one of the reasons that I do my nature and flower photography. If you’d like to see more of that sort of beauty visit www.lifewishes.com. I’m including a recent tulip photo. The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce gave these out for Valentine's day. It will continue to give me joy for a while.

If this assignment seems difficult, ThetaHealing can be of assistance to you. It’s a fabulous way to let go of negative thought patterns that persist. One valuable use of ThetaHealing is that it is a Life Tool you can use to have more love, joy, happiness and abundance in your life, right now.

Call me for a private session. Sessions are now $125.00 for 60 to 70 minutes and $80.00 for 30 to 40 minutes. Yes, prices went up March 15. However, there’s a package – 3 sessions for the price of 4 that’s available through April 15. Call now for more information 818-590-0062.

Learn to do ThetaHealing for yourself in the Basic ThetaHealing 3-day class. Call for more information about dates in Pasadena and on the West Side of Los Angeles.

A New Path?

I often walk in Eaton Canyon, a natural area about 10 minutes from my home. Yesterday on my walk I found myself wandering new or less trod paths and realized that I often take the same route. What is it about us that makes our walk through our days into a routine? I know I often find safety and comfort in the familiar. Sometimes it’s good to have the safe and familiar and sometimes it’s inspiring to walk a new way. What about today? Where’s a new path you can take? Drive where you are going in a different way. Walk down a different street. Listen to a different radio station. Do something you wouldn’t ordinarily do? See what happens when you do.

If you’d like the Universal Energy/Creator/God’s perspective of a new direction for you, just say YES now.

Enjoy your New Day!

What’s Guilt Got to Do With it?

Guilty Feet have got no rhythm. Or so goes the George Michael song, Careless Whisper. Guilt does a lot more to our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health than just cancel our rhythm. Recently I’ve found in both my private sessions, intro evenings and practice groups, that guilt can be a major block to clearing an issue that is limiting. Many times we feel the penance we must do for commiting a “wrong” is to hold onto the guilt or “remorse” for it. And hold on we do. For centuries. It seems to be passed from one ancestor to another via DNA. Scientifically we know that our DNA goes back 7 generations. And from my experience we can hold onto guilt for at least that long. I know from many years of past belief work that guilt is an energy that closes the heart chakra, blocks expression, and intuitive knowing. It can also be a block to healing on many different levels.

Are you ready to release some of the guilt you are carrying?

Downloads:
If you’d like the Universal Energy/Creator/God’s perspective, definition and understanding of Guilt, say YES out loud now.

And if you want your perspective, definition and understanding of guilt to be the same as the Universal energy/Creator/God’s then say YES again right now.

And, if you would like the Universal Energy/Creator/God to pull and cancel any guilt you may be carrying from past ancestors in the highest and best way for you with ease and grace, say YES, out loud right now.

Private appointments are available for $80.00 an hour (this price goes up to $125.00 on March 15. (I have a 4 session package -- 4 sessions for the price of 3 sessions.)

New Basic ThetaHealing Class coming up on March 28, 29, 30.
Advanced Theta Healing is scheduled for May 30, 31 and June 1.

You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com or call me a 818-590-0062 to make appointments or discuss the classes.

Practice groups available in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Call for more info. 818-590-0062

Enjoy your day!

Negative Thought Patterns – Are they habits?

As I just wrote the header I realized that tackling “negative thought patterns” is like climbing a very high mountain for some of us. So, how about taking a step. One step. Developing an awareness about one persistent negative thought pattern you have. Just one. What is it? The one I’ve decided to tackle right now, as I write this, is about my weight. Thoughts about what I don’t like just pull more of the same to me, so now that I’m aware of the negative thoughts I have about my weight, I’m going to work to replace it.

There are several ways to do this. One is every time you think the thought, or say it out loud, say cancel or delete. The other is to replace it. Find, write, ask Creator for a positive statement to replace it with. The universe will bring you one. In my Basic ThetaHealing Class recently one of my students came in with something she’s using that has worked for her. She’d let go of 20 lbs in just a few weeks with asking the Universal Source/Creator/God to make her body the best weight for her so that she can be the best she can be. I really like this because it moves beyond our beliefs and images and says okay, I just want my body to be the best it can be from the creator’s perspective, definition and understanding. If you’ve done the ThetaHealing class you can change this any way you’d like. If you’ve not done the ThetaHealing class but would like assistance with this call me.

Downloads:

If you’d like the Creator’s/Universal Source’s/God’s perspective definition and understanding of a negative habit that’s ready for your awareness and change now, just say YES (out loud).

And if you’d like your perspective, definition and understanding to be the same, say Yes again.

If you’d like the Creator’s/Universal Source’s/God’s input on what a positive change statement might be for this habit, again just say Yes now.

I’ve noticed that sometimes the universe answers us in different ways. I think my student’s coming to my class and delivering the above statement to me and the rest of the class was an answer from the universe.

Some guidelines – shorter is better. Quick. Easy to remember. Another way to put the example we are working with is My body weight is the best for me to be the best I can be.

If you have thoughts about this, I welcome your comments. If it's an issue you'd like to work on, private appointments are available.

Private appointments are available for $80.00 an hour (this price goes up to $125.00 on March 15. (I have a 4 session package -- for the price of 3 sessions.)

New Basic ThetaHealing Class coming up on March 28, 29, 30.
Advanced Theta Healing is scheduled for May 30, 31 and June 1.

You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com or call me a 818-590-0062 to make appointments or discuss the classes.

Practice groups available in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Call for more info.

Enjoy your day!

Criticism -- A Merry Go-Round - Theta Thought for Today 2-28-08

How is criticism a merry-go-round? It goes something like this. If I grew up around folks who where critical, and I wanted to "get it right" to get their love, then I probably adopted habits of self-criticism thinking that was the way to get myself to perform better, achieve more or just get the love I wanted. And, not only did I criticize myself, but I then probably did these critical comparisons -- well my body looks slimmer than hers, or not as slim as hers or I got the answer right more times than he did. If we are doing something like this, then we create an energy of criticism around us, attracting more of that energy to us from the universe. And it truly is a merry-go-round that we have difficulty stepping away from.

One place I've noticed that criticism seems to abound is looking in the mirror. If you are going to work on changing one habit in your life that will have an impact on how you treat yourself and how you feel about yourself -- it's criticizing yourself in the mirror. Yes, I know you are probably saying right at this moment, but, "If I don't tell myself what needs to be changed how will it ever change."

What you focus on you get more of. And if you are focusing on what's wrong, then you'll get more of that. Studies have shown that children in schools who get praised for certain behaviors show more of those behaviors. How many times today did you praise yourself? Have many times today, did you praise someone else?

So, this is the exercise. The next time you look in a mirror, start talking to yourself, and what you talk about is what you appreciate about what you've accomplished today or something you are proud you did, or just that you got out of bed and fed your family. If you need to think about this first, make a list. Then, face yourself with some praise. I've built in the habit of smiling at myself and saying "Hi Pretty" or "Hi Honey". When I treat myself better, I find others treat me better as well. This energy attracts more of the same, too.

You can also do this at other times as well. I have been known to leave the house, get many blocks down the street and have forgotten something crucial I need to have with me -- like my cell phone for instance. I used to criticize myself for this -- why can't you get everything together, etc. Now, I thank myself for remembering that I forgot it. And you know what, it's rare that I get more than out the driveway before I remember and lately I've been remembering in the house or just as I go out the door. Each time I remember I tell myself how proud of myself I am that I remembered. The more I praise myself for the little things the more I find that my own habits are changing. Yes, I also use Theta on them, and so the combination makes change much faster.

Downloads:

Would you like Creator's perspective on criticism? Say YES if you want it.

And would you like yours to be be the same? Again, say YES, out loud.

Would you like to creator to show you how to praise yourself, and what that feels like, that you are worthy and deserving, that it's safe and how to live your life praising yourself? YES, is the magic word.

Private appointments for releasing self-criticism and having more quiet within are available for $80.00 an hour (this price goes up to $125.00 on March 15. (I have a 4 session package -- for the price of 3 sessions.)

New Basic ThetaHealing Class coming up on March 28, 29, 30.
Advanced Theta Healing is scheduled for May 30, 31 and June 1.

You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com or call me a 818-590-0062 to make appointments or discuss the classes.

Practice groups available in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Call for more info.

Enjoy your day!

Negative Self Talk – Part 1 Theta Thought for the Day, 2-27-008

This is the beginning of a series on Negative Self Talk.

There’s a whole section in the Basic Theta Healing Class about the consequences of negative self talk and the use of ThetaHealing to slow down, erase or eliminate it. Quantum Physics now tells us that we create our reality with our thoughts. Other references are the movies "What the Bleep" and "The Secret."

So what are you doing to change yours so that you create the reality you consciously desire? Destructive self talk can occur in a number of guises – judgment, criticism, comparison, resentment, rejection, disparaging thoughts about ourselves and others. In each post of this series I’m going to focus on a different area of self talk and offer some suggestions and downloads for change.

Are you aware of the “conversation” that is going on in the background of your consciousness? Awareness is the first step. Without awareness, the tapes just keep repeating in your subconscious or as conscious habits. I’ll give you an example, recently I noticed a man I was attracted to and almost immediately I heard the self talk in the back ground, “Oh he wouldn’t be attracted to me because I’m too __________.” With that echoing in my consciousness and out to the universe, he certainly would not be attracted to me.

There are two ways I know to change habits of negative self talk like this. One is becoming aware of what you are doing, and consciously changing the statement to a positive one each time you begin to go in that direction. “That’s an attractive man and I’m sure he’ll find me attractive, too.”

The second is to find the underlying belief using ThetaHealing and change that. Because I live in the Los Angeles area, the first place I would check are my beliefs about image. If your negative self talk has become a conscious habit, then you will probably need to employ both methods. If I muscle tested “men find me attractive.” I might get a “Yes.” But if I test, “I'm the type of woman handsome men find attractive.” I might get a “no.” So it does matter what you muscle test. (If you don’t know how to do this, call me I’ll show you how to do muscle testing over the phone and give you a 10 minute free ThetaHealing consultation.)

The magical thing I find with ThetaHealing is that once I’ve changed the belief, sometimes I forget that I even had the pattern. It does just change. Certainly, it’s much, much easier for me to focus on the direction I desire myself to go. Before ThetaHealing I lived with massive amounts of negative self-talk around each action I was thinking of taking. Often, it paralyzed me. Now I have positive self-talk that's encourages me.

Downloads:

If you would like the Universal perspective, definition and understand of negative self talk, say YES now.

And if you’d like the universe to make your perspective, definition and understanding the same, say YES now.

I know what it feels like from the Universal perspective to have positive, encouraging self talk. Say YES, now.

Private appointments for taming the negative self-talk and having more quiet within are available for $80.00 an hour (this price goes up to $125.00 on March 15. (I have a 4 session package -- for the price of 3 sessions.)

New Basic ThetaHealing Class coming up on March 28, 29, 30.
Advanced Theta Healing is scheduled for May 30, 31 and June 1.

You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com or call me a 818-590-0062 to make appointments or discuss the classes.

Enjoy your day!

February 26--ThetaThought for the Day, Life's Adventure

It's Tuesday, and no you didn't miss the yesterday's Theta Thought. I taught a ThetaHealing class in Pasadena, California this past weekend that included folks from all over the Los Angeles area. So I took yesterday off from writing Theta Thoughts.

Today I'm taking an easy approach. I received the following in a forward from a friend who had received it from someone else. The timing of it seemed just right for both of us, and I kept hearing it might be for you too. Let me know what you think.

OK, OK, time out! Time out!

Whattaya mean, it doesn't seem like it's working? You don't see your life turning around? It's hard?

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course it doesn't seem like it! Of course it seems hard!

This is an adventure!!!

Hello?

You’re a cosmic adventurer here in space and time, and uncertainty and setbacks "happen".

D-uhhh!

Besides, "easy" has never been your style; and setbacks are only ever and always stepping-stones to grander places. Aw geez, c'mon....you KNOW this stuff already!!!

The day your ship arrives, (and it swiftly approaches verily as you read this), your journey's uncertainties and your setbacks will be among your fondest memories. Trust me.

Stay the course!

Resume play!

Challenges? Problems? Gimme a break!

Love,

GUS* *God's Universal Spirit

Downloads:

If you'd like the Creator's perspective on Life as an Adventure, say YES.

And, if you'd like your perspective to be the same, say YES, again.

If you'd like Creator's Definition of Ease and yours to be the same, say YES.

For me one of the reasons I love ThetaHealing is that I still have the challenges and the thrill of the adventure, and I have a lot more ease within myself navigating these challenges.

Private appointments for continuing your adventue with more ease are available for $80.00 an hour. (I have a 4 session package -- for the price of 3 sessions.)

New Basic ThetaHealing Class coming up on March 28, 29, 30.
Advanced Theta Healing is scheduled for May 30, 31 and June 1.

You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com or call me a 818-590-0062 to make appointments or discuss the classes.

Enjoy your day!

Thought for Today February 21, 2008

Taking Action!?

Do you have all kinds of ideas? Even make lists of all the steps to take to bring your ideas into reality? And then, somehow never get to the essential step – taking the actions. I have two businesses - my ThetaHealing Business and my Photography Business and while I know that in marketing, follow-up is essential – it’s one of those things that often falls through the cracks. Events in my day today have reminded me of just how important taking action is, so I’m writing about it. I also know and want to point out that not taking action can be the most effective action. Remember, not to judge yourself in this area, this is just an inquiry a look from another perspective.

Are there situations or places where over and over you don’t take action? What’s blocking you? Is there a fear? I don’t intend to deal with fears in this Theta Thought. Working with fears is one of the places that ThetaHealing excells, but that kind of work is for either a private session or in a ThetaHealing class. Here, we can assist with developing a great awareness of what’s stopping you or holding you back so you have a clearer idea. And maybe the awareness that will come to you, is that inaction is just the right thing in this moment.

Downloads:

If you’d like the Universal/Creator’s perspective, definition and understanding of taking action and taking action in your life say YES right now?

If you’d like your perspective, definition and understanding of taking action and taking action in your life to be the same as the Universal/Creator’s perspective.

Would you like a greater awareness from the Universal/Creator’s perspective about the places of action and in-action in your life? Again, YES, is the magic word.

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Theta Thought for Today - February 20

About Mistakes

What are mistakes? Dictionary.com defines mistakes as "An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness." How do we define the mistakes in our lives? As children we make mistakes all the time, it’s how we learn to walk. We get up, fall down, get up again, each time becoming a little steadier, a little stronger, walking a little further until we’ve learned to walk easily – and even in that process we begin to make all the mistakes that allow us to walk, run, jump, dance, etc.. We don’t even call falling down a mistake. It’s a natural part of the process.

Somewhere between being a little kid who’s clear that the learning process includes falling down and getting up and becoming an adult, we start defining falling down, start defining that part of learning as making a mistake. Maybe a feeling of having to be right takes over, having to get it right or not do it at all. We begin to want to do it perfectly the first time and so when our action isn’t “perfect” according to our standards or the standards we’ve allowed someone else to set for us, then we stop the whole process. Maybe we develop a belief that getting it right is the way to get love.

I know for myself, I’ve allowed myself to become "fenced in” by only being willing to step in directions that are comfortable. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. And, I found that before my ThetaHealing work, I was often reluctant to accept that, and instead placed heavy judgments on myself for “being wrong” or making mistakes. Where are you with your ability to make what you call mistakes and still love yourself in the process? How easy is learning something new for you? How judgmental are you in your process? Are there ever really any mistakes? What I've learned in ThetaHealing is that I can love myself whatever I do, and that love flows to me from the Universal Source whatever I do.

Downloads:

Would you like the Creator’s perspective, definition and understanding of mistakes? If so, say YES, out loud right now.

Would you like your perspective, definition and understanding to be the same? Again, saying YES brings this to you.

Would you like the Creator/Universal perspective, definition and understanding of loving yourself in the process of learning? The magic work is YES.

And if this is something you’d like to pursue further, private appointments are available. Also, I’m conducting a ThetaHealing Basic class this weekend, Feb. 22, 23, 24 and there’s still a spot available.

You can call me at 818-590-0062 or email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com

Theta Thought for Today – February 19, 2008

Self-Care – Rest

Are you a “Type-A” personality – driven to accomplish and achieve. Are you one of those givers that just keep on doing for others even when you know you should stop and rest? Do you push your body to its limits and beyond? I ask these questions from experience – I do push myself often. And I’ve also found that rest is important – important to my overall functioning, my problem solving, my creativity, my ability to love myself and others.

One of the things that I love about ThetaHealing is that I can use it to get to sleep at night, and another is that I can use it to just relax and refresh myself in the middle of a full and busy day. If you know how to do ThetaHealing already, remember to take the time to just relax and refresh yourself. If you want to know how to do ThetaHealing for yourself, I’m conducting a 3-day class this weekend. There’s 2 spots still available. Call me at 818-590-0062 to learn more. Private Sessions also available.

Downloads:
Would you like the Universal Energy/Creator’s perspective, definition and understanding of Rest? If so, say YES.

And would you like yours to be the same? Say YES out loud, if so.

Would you like to know the most important step for you to take right now with respect to rest? Again, say YES, if you want this.

Theta Thought for Today, February 18, 2008

Self-Care -- Loving and Appreciating Your Body

Do you love your body or criticize it? What is the first thing that comes to mind if you are looking in a mirror? If it is critical, change it. Look at the body reflected in the mirror and let it know what you appreciate about it. Take 30 seconds and spend that time appreciating what your body does for you. Here's what Oprah said about her body in O Magazine.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. Oprah Winfrey O Magazine

Downloads

Would you like to know from the Creator's perspective how to love your body more? If so, say the magic word, YES out loud right now.

Would you like to know what's the next step in loving your body? Again, if so, say YES.

Would you like to know that it is safe to stop criticizing your body? And how you can make the changes you want without criticism? Again, Yes is the magic word.

Theta Thought for Today -- It Begins

For the next few months, I'm going to start something called "Theta Thought for Today". My intention is to share with you whatever it is that I'm working on with ThetaHealing each day. Yes, I use ThetaHealing every day of my life. There just isn't a day I don't connect in with the Universal Source of Energy -- whatever you may want to call it -- God, Creator, The All, The All Powerful Source, The Universe, and on and on. In Theta we often call it Creator. I think of Creator as the Universal Source of Energy -- The All, that which I am a part of. I do, also use the term Creator and will in this blog. It is my intention to publish one of these Theta Thoughts each day for about 5 days out of 7 each week. And, if you want to receive it in your email, you can email me and it will be sent to you when it is written.

Each Theta Thought will have a download. What is a download you ask -- is this some crazy computer program you're going to be sending? Well, sort of, but not the way you might think. In ThetaHealingTM we use the term "Downloads" to refer to the installation of new beliefs in our subconscious that allow us to view the world in a different way, either by being taught what is feels like to have something new, or by knowing that it is safe or that we are worthy and deserving. Sometimes a download is just the Creator's perspective, definition and understanding of a quality, situation, word, etc. An additional part of this, may be making your perspective, definition and understanding the same as the Universal Energy Source or Creator's.

Now, you may ask, if I read this, do I get these downloads automatically. No, absolutely not. The Universal Energy Source/Creator/God never interferes with our free will. So, even though I publish downloads in this blog, the only way you will receive them is to say "Yes" out loud after you read it. In ThetaHealing whether in the classroom or in a private appointment, nothing and I mean Nothing is ever done without your permission. If you read my Theta Thought for Today, say "Yes" to the downloads, you are getting some ThetaHealing each day. It is now available online, just for you, if you want it.

So, all this said, so begins my Theta Thought for Today.

Self-care -- The Body

For a while now, self-care has been on my radar screen. I'm going to divide it into several parts. The first is this amazing body I have -- we all have if we're human and on this plane of existence. How am I taking care of it? What are my beliefs about self-care. Is it something that comes first, or last? Do I take care of myself first, or do I always "put off" my self-care to get other things done? What is it that comes before my self-care? Family, friends, work? What is it that comes before your self-care? And is self-care like the oxygen mask in airplanes? Take care of yourself before you take care of others?

I have a coach, and recently during a bad patch in my life, my coach suggested that the most important thing was my self-care, taking care of and soothing myself during challenging times.

In Theta Thought for Today it is not my intention to do a long post, though this one is turning out that way. Instead, I want it to instigate interaction and comment as well as bring to you some downloads that will assist you to focus on your self-care -- what that means to you and where you might want to do more of that.

Downloads:

Do you want The Universal Energy's/Creator's perspective, definition and understanding of Self-Care? (If so, say Yes, out loud right now.) And for yours to be the same? (Again, Yes if you want it.)

Would you like to know what is feels like to really take care of yourself?

That you are worthy and deserving of this, that it's safe and possible? And how to live each moment of your life taking care of yourself? (Again, the magic word is "Yes".)

These downloads should get you started. Should you want to work more on these issues, private sessions are available by phone. You can email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com. and I'll respond.

Also if you want the Theta Thought of the Day delivered to your email box, also email me at thetahealingblog@gmail.com. and put in the subject line email Theta Thought.