Amethyst Afternoon. (Support. Y' Know "You're Not Alone"? It's True.)
May was a tumultuous, stressful month for me, and eventually, I will tell that story because it's full of juicy pieces of information for people who could relate, or get answers about things happening to one of their loved ones, and those who need my experience to be their wake-up call about boundaries. Today, though, I'm going to praise the sense of community* I get from some of the people in the wellness/ intuitive world. I so appreciate how much we benefit from collective consciousness, how these things allow us to empower ourselves and address a concern, and over time, there are people I come across who are in the wellness industry and labeling themselves as psychic because they authentically care about the highest good of themselves and others. They have a passion for empowerment. I'm going to focus on the fact that my 'aha' moment involved two women I respect very much whom I reached out to once I declared a readiness to have clarity and take more action in rectifying my situation.
For a time, I was putting a lot of effort into ignoring the verbal abuse being hurled my way, and felt safer having changed physical location. I then contacted people who are highly intelligent, loving and intuitive, people who are big on sharing personal experiences, compassion and practically upholding boundaries. I needed help regarding a stalker - an entity attack - and they were the ones I turned to. One of them was the amazing Joanne Jahnke, the other, the incredible Christine Pavlina.
One quote that I think helps me further explain May and June and what made me susceptible is from this video made by Shaman Durek: "It's a form of neglecting the soul, neglecting the responsibility of stepping up to the fear or the shame or the worry or any of these things we are masking through judgment...The underworld or the beings in the lower dimensions, who are going through their own self-flagellation continuously...they are hoping that your judgment turns into you using your powers to project...into a power source that they can use to create more chaos". In the same video, he added, "When you're tied to the past, either through memory or emotion, or sometimes you're just reacting 'cause you still haven't upgraded your timeline...all that energy that caused you pain in the past is still attacking you".
I've been leaning on advice from Ms Pavlina for years, benefitting so much from her point of view. I once sent her a question on her website once that prompted a whole video! She's great at and courageous about sharing deeply personal things as a compassionate way of helping others to open their minds, get answers, change their own lives. I'm inspired by the emphasis she puts on personal power. I had my first reading with her years ago, regarding life goals, and her points led to this blog! Because of that reading, I share my experiences with you guys just as Christine leaves up her dozens of helpful YouTube videos and continues to this day with her intuitive readings.
Joanne has a fantastic ability with mediumship and guiding a client through some key truths about themselves, even if the client's intention may have been to simply find out what marks to hit on their way to achieving certain goals. When someone decides to dig deep into discussion with her, they must know that it's important to face facts like, for example, if they're perhaps too rigid in a certain belief, or not assertive enough, that way Joanne could help them see what their big roadblocks are. In my case personally, just one example of how she has helped me empower myself is that during our emergency call, she encouraged me to ground through both my root chakra and with a little bare skin on the grass in the yard. I needed the reminder that of course, of course I was safe to ground, to consciously remind myself that I am part of nature (since, duh, I live in a biological form). I quickly acted on her instruction and sat down in the backyard, multiple bare limbs on the grass, and I visualized, I did some deep breathing, and suddenly felt so much better that I was tempted to spend a few straight hours right there in that spot. This memory is an opportunity for me to remind you, reader, about this aspect of self-care.
My apologies for making this post an advertisement. Thing is, I'm still putting together notes for the piece about my month of May. It's not yet time for me to give more details. I wanted to write today because doing so is such a passion of mine, and I'm inspired by the amount of relief and insight that I got from each of these women in order to come up with my game plan for a better life, stronger sense of self and renewed frequency! Their words have been such a balm! I took notes by hand during my phone calls with each of them. By the way, they each further supported me with a Reiki session from Christine and two cord-cuttings from Joanne. I'm so grateful for their help that I wanted the world to know.
In an interview, Darryl Anka** discussed, among other things, what he had learned up to that point from channeling a being known as Bashar, and I remember him referring to five principles*, two of them being that you act on your highest passion, your highest excitement to the best you can, take it as far as you can, until you can take it no further, then you look for the next thing and work on that". I chose to use that as inspiration today, and this has been a good day! Successsss! After all, attention is our strongest currency, and this is part of my turnaround, putting a lot of focus on choosing what feels more applicable to my life purpose. Yesterday, I did multiple rounds of smudging myself, followed by getting my dinner ready while singing along with "Bare Necessities". I am serious about handling myself differently now.
Regarding what's next, I had a second session with Joanne this afternoon, during which she told me, "This is an end and a restart". For over two weeks, I've reminded myself of how genuinely enthusiastic I am about my life, considering all that I have and what's coming up, so imagine how I felt upon hearing Joanne also say, "Your mind is in alignment with what will be happening".
I'm so pleased - so thankful for my Higher Self and so pleased. I feel connected to those who have the authentic desire and the skills to assist others with different questions and concerns. Furthermore, I love reminiscing on moments when someone was kind and jokey as they checked my hearing, or they helped me gain clarity on a particular relationship, perhaps providing some hard truths, or prayed for me when they knew I had an emergency. Each of us technically has this level of support and belongingness. I want each of us to have those kinds of networks, and this post is my way of publicly saying how grateful I am for mine.
*Interdisciplinary artist Harry Dodge once said something about artistic collaboration that I find fitting: "The fact is, kinship and collegiality—and it’s messy sometimes—that’s why we’re there. We’re not there to simply impart information to one another. We’re there to think together, to be in the vulnerability of figuring stuff out together, the vulnerability of uncertainty, the vulnerability of exertion and yearning. Making By Hook or by Crook was so difficult! But the energetic spoils of being in that complex community were worth it a thousand times over."
* *Here's a clip from another occasion where Darryl Anka spoke about the 5 principles formula.
