Tomorrow, August  31^st is the day I launch my Facebook LIVE Chat.

My Goal remains the same – to offer Everyone, Everywhere a means of learning more about that which I call Embodied Awareness.  My hope is for you to learn, or learn more, about my approach to Embodied Awareness – about how Embodied Awareness is the practice of coming to know yourself – how it is about integrating the wisdom that is transmitted to you via your senses, emotions, thoughts and expanded intuitive perceptions to fully awaken to your spiritual nature and feel fully alive in your body.

Through Facebook LIVE Chat, I will also answer your questions directly, provide guidance, and share in the ways that you can continue to explore Embodied Awareness.

As a reminder, this Chat is Free of Charge and being held on August 31, 2016 at 12:00 noon in Calgary (where I live) which is 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern. 

Please join me, and take some time to reflect and renew your bond with your essential nature and spiritual Self with me and others in our global community.

I love how mainstream ancient wisdom principles are becoming these days!  My online course is just one example of mysticism going mainstream. . .

Another is how even more conventional periodicals like the Farmers Almanac describes the benefits and challenges of a of Mercury Retrograde cycle, which starts August 30th to September 21. . . “Perhaps Mercury’s retrograde periods can cause our plans to go awry. However, this is an excellent time to reflect on the past. Intuition is high during these periods, and coincidences can be extraordinary.”

As an astrologer and psychologist, I understand that Mercury reminds us to take time out for Self care. . . Go inward and practice ‘deep listening’ instead focusing on the constant chatter of our oh so busy-life-distractions.  This is the time to recharge your inner batteries by letting Lord Mercury guide you to communion with your inner source.  Personally, I have learned that the best thing to do during Mercury Retrograde period is reflect, review, meditate, and welcome the extraordinary coincidences that continue to greet you. (Yes, that includes those pesky unexpected delays and ‘plans gone awry’).

That’s why I have decided to launch my very first Embodied Awareness Facebook LIVE Chat, on August 31, 2016 at 12:00 noon in Calgary (where I live) – 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern.

To join in, click here. There is no charge to attend.

My hope is that it will give you the opportunity to learn, or learn more, about my approach to Embodied Awareness, and how it is the practice of coming to know yourself and how it is about integrating the wisdom that is transmitted to you via your senses, emotions, thoughts and expanded intuitive perceptions.  It is the first of 11 Embodied Awareness Facebook LIVE Chats. I will be reviewing each of the Modules in my Online Course, and taking questions and answers.

Take time to reflect and renew your bond with your essential nature and spiritual Self with me and others in our global community—starting THIS MONTH!

I look forward to connecting with you.

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“Many people mistake emotional feelings and personal reactions for intuitions. However, what someone wants to be true, or is afraid might be true, is not the same as ‘perceiving’ what is true. It can be confusing, because both emotional feelings and intuitive feelings are subjective experiences. Both reactive emotional patterns and intuitive perceptions are subtle feeling states. One of the most common mistakes is to assume that a psychological projection is an intuitive perception. A projection is based on seeing the world through the lens of your wishes, wants, fears or desires; and there is most often a strong attachment, bias or self-righteous value judgment that attends a projection.” (Module 6 Embodied Awareness Online)

It is very exciting for me to hear from people who are taking Introduction to Embodied Awareness Online and to read or hear them share their thoughts, feelings and insights.  One of the best things that I am discovering about offering online courses is that I have a chance to connect with people from all over the world, who are passionate about personal healing and spiritual growth.

Putri, who teaches psychology at a local university in Jakarta contacted me. In Indonesia, even though there is one official language and about 700 regional languages, many university class books, including psychology, are in English.

Putri not only reads and studies in English; she speaks and writes English quite well. I have not edited her comments; I am sure you will enjoy them, and I am hoping you will add a few of your own to this blog post!

Putri said, “Its an eyes opener for me regarding (how) as human we failed to differentiate which one is intuition and which one is emotions or cognitive. As for practice, I do self observation and self-talk many times during hardship. Embracing what the heart wanted to say, allowing the feeling to be acknowledge and expressed, are things I had done in the last two years. I prefer quite place like my room and I don’t want to be bothered with other things (household or works) when this process takes place.”

“Many times I cried my own in this process to allow such emotions to be heard and seen even when no one there in the room. I sometimes record my self-talk process. Afterwards I tried to listen again and observed what did I said, how I said it and what clue or hints can I get from it? Many times I understand better about this my emotions dynamics. Few times I can get the ‘aha” moments. And a lot of times I realized that emotions n thoughts wanted to heard, wanted to be appreciated and accepted. After this process done, everything became so quiet, so peaceful and so content. If there’s ‘aha’ insights it usually become my homework for next week to explore again.”

• How do you differentiate emotional feelings and psychological projections from genuine intuitions from cognitions and subtle thoughts?
• How do your emotions or thoughts act as signals?
• Do you have an example of how and embodied intuitive awareness opens for you and leads you to spiritually directed guidance from the “Aha!” place of peace?

Since launching my online course, I have received awe-inspiring feedback regarding not only the course but my website as well.

I recently had the pleasure to engage in a discussion around Family and Child Therapy, and more specifically, what I mean when I refer to having a child who is ‘highly sensitive’ or psychic—an ‘indigo’, ‘crystal’ or ‘rainbow’ child.

We all have needs; and attending to a child’s needs is part of the role of parenting.  Parenting calls for attention to Self-care and care of our family members.  The ability to recognize our child’s unique needs, listening to our child with our whole body and all twelve senses, and then extending care to children is the mark of an embodied approach to parenting.

The 12 senses of embodied awareness are: 1. smelling (nose), 2. Tasting (tongue), 3. Seeing (eyes), 4. Hearing (ears), 5. Touch (via skin), 6. Feeling (energy transmission – a ‘gut feeling’), 7. Transmission of emotions (via the heart), 8. Transmission of ideas (inner voice), 9. Clear seeing (inner eye), 10. Spiritual discernment, 11. Intuition, and 12. Realization. I discuss each sense in detail in Module 8 in my Online Course.

As for Caring for a Psychic Child: If your child is highly sensitive, she or he is very likely an Empath.  An Empath’s brain actually works differently than those who are not Empaths.

Empathy is one of the 12 senses of embodied awareness.  It is also called telepathy or the transmission of emotion.

An Empath is a person who has an acute or highly developed sense of empathy.  Empathy is the capability to share feelings and understand another’s emotion and feelings and is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself into another’s shoes”.  For empaths, everything is alive and has a soul that they can feel—trees, rocks, clouds, the earth and all animals. Help your child develop a vocabulary of feelings.

An Indigo Child (or ‘indigo adult’) is generally high energy, intense, intelligent and independent.  Parapsychologist and psychic Nancy Ann Tappe who had the gift of seeing auras coined the name ‘indigo child’.  She suggests that indigo is the color of the aura for these souls, and that they first started being born in the 1970s or ’80s and they are known to have many psychic gifts (though I challenge those dates as there have been powerful, intelligent, independent psychics in every generation since the beginning of recorded history.)

Indigos are especially skilled at ‘reading’ the intentions of others . . . Transmission of ideas, as when reading an intention, is another of the 12 senses of embodied awareness.  Because of keenly being able to tell the difference between what someone says and what they truly mean, Indigos often are challenged by patience and impatience.  When young they may assume that everybody has the same sensitivities and awareness as they do.  It is often a rude awakening when they realize others do not always understand.  Help your indigo develop patience and compassion for self and others.

The contemporary lore on Crystal children is that they instinctively channel and emit healing energy.  Like a crystal, they often amplify energy.  This makes them acutely sensitive, and they often need solitude to rebalance.  It is important to teach them self-care practices at a very early age, as their ‘crystal’ nature enables them to pick up energy and perceive the aura colors from the people around them. It is also said that they are even more likely to become healers or ‘lightworkers’ than other psychic children are.  Expanding their sense of spiritual discernment will be especially important for these souls.

Finally, ‘Rainbow’ is a new ‘class’ of psychic child.  These children are thought to be otherworldly and are said to be here on earth to help us build bridges between worlds. Encourage your rainbow to be curious and communicative.

Embodied Parenting requires a healthy sense of boundaries, the ability to listen with their whole body (using all 12 senses), extend compassion and clarity in times of stress, and express their own natural playful, curious spirit in times of joy.  These skills help parents to be present, aware and committed to their own and their children’s personal growth and development within one’s role as a parent and caregiver.