Let the Sun Shine Through You Today!

My mind was singing this tune this morning. Do you remember the Fifth Dimension’s song “Aquarius”?  Here are the lyrics (abridged):

When the moon is in the seventh house

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

And peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius

Aquarius, Aquarius

Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding

No more false hoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions

Mystic crystal revelations, and the mind's true liberations

Aquarius, Aquarius

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in

The sunshine in!

Let that tune run through your mind for a while and drink in the words…harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding! We are moving from the Age of Pisces, a world of belief, into the Age of Aquarius, the world of increased spirituality and harmony among our fellow human beings! This is a time where we are called into attendance!  We are meant to be in love and acceptance of each other and be in service to each other.

Not everyone handles change very well. We all like to live our lives and feel the comfort of our rhythms and patterns. It’s not easy to see a “new generation” seem to be OK without the spiritual traditions my generation was raised with. Yet, the children of today are blessed with growing up with the foundation of laws my generation has created that promote openness and acceptance! This is their norm, so they will take it from there to even higher levels of love.

Imagine what it was like living in the world when Columbus was alive. Everyone thought the world was flat and he had a hard time getting people to sail with him, because they thought that they were going to fall off the edge of the earth! The brave few that sailed with him became enlightened first because they were willing to let go of the old and sail into the new. We are all faced with this same process of moving into the new, and it means expanding our belief system to include new discoveries about our beings and the principles that affect us on an energetic level. No one walks off a cliff because we understand the laws of gravity. How many of us walk of “spiritual cliffs” because we are not aware of the laws of energy governing our spiritual selves?

Once we discovered the world was round we let go of fear and were able to make greater discoveries like flying and even going to the moon! It was the daring few that pierced the veil of fear to make new discoveries. Once you have a more clear understanding of the laws of physics that govern our lives you can harness those laws and the potential is limitless!

As we move into the Age of Aquarius, we don’t have to abandon the great lessons of the Age of Pisces. Pisces brought us spiritual evolution and seeking to understand a greater meaning of life and a connection to deep love. Jesus brought us a deeper understanding of love. The symbol of the early Christians is a fish! He spoke of loving each other. This is a truth we build on as we enter the Age of Aquarius. The Age of Aquarius is bringing the energy of unselfish service, group work and self-sacrifice. There is nothing to be afraid of. Building on the principles of love we have learned from the Age of Pisces, we can shoot for the moon in our relationships to each other.

We are becoming aware of toxicities that affect us physically and we are taking steps to protect ourselves from toxins in the air and water. What about toxic energy from negative people? As we serve each other and work together more and more, we need to understand the energy system of our bodies so we can protect ourselves from the negative energy of those around us, and rid ourselves of negative energy. We are meant to be expressions of our higher selves, our true selves. Our true selves manifest as peace, joy and fulfillment guided by love and acceptance. Period.

I wish you only peace, joy and fulfillment today! Let the sun shine into your life! Be your higher self and live a life of love! Do a random act of kindness today! Blessings on your day.

I love you, Kathryn 

Find Your Oasis of Light!

I love mornings! They are the beginning of the first day of the rest of my life! I look forward to my morning meditation because it always brings me into the next chapter of being me! I never know where I will be lead and that is exciting to me.

This morning I woke up and the first thought I had was of Barbara Ann Brennan's book Light Emerging. As you can tell, my tool chest consists of books. Books I've dabbled in and some I've devoured like a hungry lion! They are always sitting there waiting patiently for me. Waiting for the Stream to carry me onto its shores. Well today I arrived at the shore of Barbara Ann Brennan's wisdom. It was like finding an oasis of light beckoning me to lay on the shore and drink in the answers to questions that I've had over the last several days.

Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing is just what it implies. Another answer to the questions I asked the Universe yesterday morning. How to I rid myself of habits that I created because I was paddling upstream using the oars of my trapped emotions. Now that I have gotten rid of the oars, I want to understand how to live my life without them. I will stay on this shore for awhile, basking in the light.

I hope you have a good Sunday. It's a day of rest and retreat, or not. I hope it is a day of coming closer to who you really are.

I love you, Kathryn

Pull In the Oars and Allow Yourself to Be!

Yesterday morning I woke up to a mixture of strong feelings that I knew were not my true self. These were familiar feelings, however. They come up periodically in my life, seemingly out of nowhere and they are feelings that made me feel inadequate and apprehensive. I knew I had to do a session to remove some trapped emotions.

I removed some deeply rooted emotions. The more you do this work, you are able to remove deeper layers of trapped emotions. The trapped emotions I released were: the emotion of Pride that I inherited from seven generations on my dad's side, the emotion of Fear that I inherited from 6 generations on my dad's side, the emotions of Unworthy and Worthless both from 21 generations on my mom's side, all women! (Visit my website wholesomejunction.com to understand how we inherit emotions.) Once I removed them, I felt free of the the feelings that seemed to be haunting me before the session. I was like a new person!

As I meditated, I had to ask the Universe to help me know what it feels like to be worthy and valuable after living my entire life with this backdrop of 21 generations of feeling unworthy and worthless! How do I know what it truly feels like to be humble, modest, and teachable when I've been influenced by 7 generations of the feeling of Pride? What does it feel like to be truly trusting, confident, reassured, and brave after experiencing the way it feels like to be in fear for my entire life from inheriting 6 generations of fear? I always felt these things subconsciously, but now that I've liberated myself from these trapped emotions, I want to feel these positive emotions. I want to have a new frame of reference for my reality. I want to experience these new feelings.

After asking these questions, I suddenly heard Esther Hicks name resound loudly in my mind. I pulled the book, The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Esther and Jerry Hicks, off of my bookshelf and it became very clear why. Esther Hicks talks about the three Universal Laws that help us guide our lives deliberately.

The Law of Attraction will bring things to you to match your vibration. Even if you are ignorant of this law, it works like gravity. It just is. Whatever is happening to you is your perfect vibrational match and the emotions that are present within you indicate your vibrational state of being.

The Law of Deliberate Creation works on the Principle that by deliberately directing your attention, thoughts, and feelings toward the outcome that you desire, you can be, or do, or have anything that you choose.

The Law of Allowing is where all of your personal power lies. The Art of Allowing is "the conscious gentle guiding of your thoughts in the general direction of the things that you desire." As you become convinced that your true work is to simply realign with who-you-really-are the Art of Allowing will become second nature to you.

I Imagined myself paddling upstream against the current, and all of the resistance I feel. Then I imagined that I stopped paddling and just give in to the Stream and let it turn me around and take me downstream, trusting the Stream knowing that it knows more than I do. I will be gently taken by the Stream toward the things I really want. I just need to lie back in my boat and relax to the idea that this Stream is carrying me to my inevitable Well-being and to the fulfillment of my desires…that which is truly me! What a great answer to my prayer!

This is what removing trapped emotions is all about. It's about getting rid of the negative vibrations that we have that are totally outside of our conscious reality. It's a vibration that we have that is real and attracts things into our lives. Did you ever ask yourself, "Why does this keep happening to me?" It's because you are attracting it to yourself. Trapped emotions are real and attract stuff into our lives. We are at a time now that we have all of the tools to make great shifts happen in our lives! By removing the four emotions that I removed this yesterday morning, I removed the negative emotions that kept me paddling upstream! I've pulled in the oars and am allowing myself to be carried by the current of my true emotions.

As I flow with the vibration of my true desires I will discover the true feelings of manifesting trust, confidence, humility, and being teachable! I am part of the Stream of feeling loved, worthy, valuable, important and exceptional! I am a new person, being born anew every moment of every day!

May this day be one of new beginnings for you! Allow yourself to be who you really are!

I love you, Kathryn

Do You Have the Tools You Need to Grow?

I accept that I am what I am! I appreciate the openness and vigor of those younger than I! I’ve learned so much from my children, they have taught, and continue to teach me about loving myself and loving others. Their generation is tomorrow’s leaders and my heart is to love and support them as they bring our world into a higher understanding of heart. The young people of today are naturals at following their hearts. They’ve never been afraid of going with their gut, wherever it may lead!

I am 55 years old and I am not your traditional “energy practitioner”! I only had my second yoga class of my life last night. It was run by the most beautiful young lady who was able to stretch and bend her body in ways I can only hope to do! After class we got to know each other a little and something she said struck me. I told her that I could feel that it had opened up my energy centers and my body felt more limber and energized after my first yoga experience. She told me that normally people use yoga as a gateway into energy work. I did energy work first and that lead me to yoga. Figures…I always take an unconventional route!

My nature is to be a spiritual seeker. I had one dream since I was young and that was to have a loving family; I wanted a big family. I am first and foremost a mom. It is my passion. I wanted to create a family that would be a support system of love. That is and always will be my heart. I was fortunate to have been introduced into energy healing work by a dear friend and that became my hobby as I raised my family. Yes, I am a Certified Life coach and Emotion Code Practitioner, but these are merely the tools I've used and continue to use to bring love and healing into my family and into this world. They don’t define me.

One of the other tools I use to help me keep myself on the path of love is Mastin Kipp’s "The Daily Love"! Mastin has been there every morning for me for the last several years, like a dose of spiritual caffeine! He is a perfect example of the new generation of leaders. He puts himself out there for love, allowing himself to be vulnerable and honest about his own struggles in becoming a loving person. His blog has been instrumental in keeping me on track to follow my dreams to create my website and follow the passion I have for energy work. Raising four teenage daughters and a son and getting them into and through college took a lot of my energy and focus. The Daily Love was my morning treat that gave me a spiritual focus for the day. Thank you Mastin!

At one point in my career I was the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Sales for a real estate development company. At the end of every meeting this Vice President would ask his Sales Associates if they had the tools to do their job. Whenever he did this I felt his heart of caring for his guys!

Do you have the tools you need to do your job? 

You want to be a loving person, but do you have the tools to help you become a better lover? When you are with that person whom you love, and they are just irritating the hell out of you, do you have the tools to remain calm and be in love and acceptance of that person? Or, do you just dump all of the emotions you are feeling in that moment in the lap of the other person, making them be responsible for your feelings? And how does that make you feel afterward? Do you feel good about yourself? Do you feel that you just loved that person? I’ve been there, done that and I can say that I never felt like a loving person afterward! Sure I felt good that I could release my emotions, but I always felt that it was at the expense of the other person! Is that love?

You need the tools to weed your emotional garden of those triggers that cause you to destroy relationships and destroy your health. I have the tools to remove those triggers, those trapped emotions, that undermine your efforts to be a loving and kind person. Can you imagine the freedom you would feel if you didn’t have to fight back that inner negative voice all the time? What if you no longer had to fight that inner negative voice? Those are your trapped emotions talking to you! Take back your power and be responsible for your feelings and your love. You will become that person of loving kindness that you imagine yourself to be, even when life throws you those curve balls!

I love you! Kathryn

Shield yourself from negative energies!

Here is a technique you may use to shield yourself from negative energies! 

Take a magnet off of your refrigerator, and pass the magnet over your governing meridian. If you are alone, start between your eyebrows and pass the magnet up over the center of your forehead, over the center of the top of your head and down the center of the back of your head as far down your back as you can reach. If you have someone there with you, you can ask them pass the magnet over your spine from the base of your head down to your tailbone. (You don't have to do both, either pass the magnet over the top of your head or along your spine.) Keep doing this as you say these words: 

“I’m placing a shield around you.

It covers you completely and is permanent.

It will block all negative energies but will allow

Positive energies in.”

Sometimes the shield gets deactivated at night, so every morning

simply say "Shields up” to restore your shield. (You only need to pass

the magnet over your governing meridian the first time.)

Enjoy your day and feel free to love!

Being Vulnerable is scary, but it's liberating!

This morning I was sharing with my husband how vulnerable I feel because I always kept my truth neatly tucked away where I and only those whom I trusted could know and experience it! I was like a turtle that could go inside my shell! Its like the shell is gone now and I feel naked and vulnerable ever since my website went live! Everything I hold dear and precious is out there for the world to see and to like or not like!

Our subconscious creates a heartwall around our heart that protects our heart just like that turtle shell! Once you remove the trapped emotions that make up your heartwall you feel naked and vulnerable...but the amazing thing is you don't feel afraid! You feel open and calm and ready to love!

We have learned to associate vulnerability with fear! Being vulnerable is an important part of loving another person! It's the first step in trusting another person because by making yourself vulnerable you are actively trusting and believing in yourself! 

Being vulnerable is scary, but its liberating! Being scared is not being in fear. It is simply acknowledging that you are outside your comfort zone and by allowing yourself to be scared, you let the Universe send a true support system of other loving people into your life! Isn't that better than just carrying a shell of fear around with you everywhere!?!

Have a day filled with love and acceptance of yourself and others!

Your heart is your Second Brain

In my study of the Body Code, I've been introduced to the reality that our heart is actually a second brain in our body. Our hearts are filled with the same brain tissue that the brain has! Go to http://madurasinghe.blogspot.com/2008/06/neurocardiology-brain-in-heart.html if you want to know a little more about this. The magnetic fields of the heart and the brain are holographic fields that can be measured. Neuro cardiologists have done fascinating experiments that show that the heart puts out 60 -1000 times more energy than the brain puts out. They also found that when you are giving love to someone you are using your heart brain and that energy can be measured in another person.

This is all very fascinating. Why am I writing about this? Because the last few days I've been thinking a lot about using my heart brain more. The heart is the source of our gut instincts, and as a life coach I'm always talking to people about following their heart. As I think about it, I can find countless examples in my own life where I followed my heart and was met with resistance every step of the way! Have you ever heard any of the following comments directed toward you? You need to think things through more before you act. You're too emotional. Why are you doing that? What's your 10 year plan? You haven't really thought that through...

Yes it is important to have goals. It's important to think things through. It's an art to have powerful thoughts and intentions about your life and to know when the opportunities to make them happen present themselves. It takes knowing yourself and your dreams and goals very clearly in order to respond to that moment when opportunity knocks. Only you will know that it's an opportunity, because you know yourself and your deepest desires and dreams. Others may see it as crazy or irrational. But it makes all too much sense to you so you listen to your gut and go for it! This is how the heart works in our lives.

One reason we may not understand the heart brain very well is because it is so involved in feelings and we build walls around our heart once we get hurt. We stop using it, or paying attention to it because it may have gotten us into crazy situations one too many time. In her book Close to the Bone, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen talks about the short Greek myth about Procrustes and his bed. The story goes that when "traveling to Athens, you had to pass Procrustes and his bed. Procrustes would place you on his bed and see if you fit. Any part of you that did not fit, he cut off: whack! If you were too short for his bed, he would stretch you as if on a medival rack, until you did fit." While Dr. Bolen uses this myth to symbolize how we succumb to others' expectations on our road to success, I see it as also being symbolic of how we cut off our heart from relationships as we encounter hurtful experiences in love. We all want to be loved and love others. As we experience our disappointments in love from childhood on, we begin to stop using our heart and use our brain to maneuver ourselves through life and its myriad of relationships. We are like mice that once they are shocked by an electrical grid, they never will step foot on that grid again, lest they get shocked.

Rather than risk getting hurt, we follow our brain's logical guidance throughout our lives and that steers us in a logical way to an accepted, safe goal. We cut off the parts of us that would hold us back in any way from that goal. What happens when we reach that goal? Suddenly we feel empty and we don't feel whole, because we've gotten rid of so much of who we really are. We ask ourselves if this is really what it's all about? We experience a mid-life crisis and what do we do? We decide that we are going to try listening to our heart! As a life coach, I encourage (notice that the word encourage comes from the latin word "cour" which means "of the heart") people to follow their gut, follow their heart.

I've been good my whole life at listening to my heart when it comes to the big things in my life. I've jumped off many of cliffs! Now I'm working on my daily habits and asking myself whether the small choices I make reflect my deepest heart. I've had a lot of my limbs cut off in my life, only to find that I then needed to be stretched! I'm looking inward and listening to my own heartbeat and moving in the direction my heart leads. When I come to the daily forks in the road, where I am faced with the decision of going to the left or the right, I am now choosing to go straight ahead. I'm taking my own path and seeing where it leads me! I am taking the path of my heart!