Which Comes First?

Do I choose to have a good day and so have the experience that my day is pleasant for me?

Or do I experience pleasure and thusly conclude that I am having a good day?

Today, a Sunday, the sky is grey and the rain is falling steadily. I could easily feel discouraged or disappointed by this. Yet, I have chosen to accept what life brings to me and to find the peaceful core of every moment. So, in the dim morning light as the cold rain falls, I think about busying myself in my kitchen, preparing foods for the days to come and warming my home at the same time.

We experience the world around us as a reflection of our vibration, not the other way around. We experience happiness because we choose happiness as our way of being, our frequency of being. It is like tuning ourselves to a particular radio station. We are tuning ourselves to the 'radio station' called happiness, or contentment. And everything that we experience, if we accept it as it is, then becomes our accepting and happy experience of the world.

It is easy to fall back into discontentment and dismay. All we have to do is to be in resistance to something that we are experiencing. In this way, we are saying, "No. I do not accept this situation, feeling or experience." We separate ourselves, in this way, from the divine flow of being and becoming that surrounds us, that lives within us. We become separated, alienated and discontented.

Therefore, acceptance and allowance of all things are the way forward if we wish to experience peace, joy, happiness and the feeling of being part of life's divine and graceful flow.

What You Are to Me

This morning, I realized how much I love to be doing what I am doing, helping others as best I can, being the self I have seen in my most compassionate moments.

I also saw within me what a beautiful tangle I am.

And you are also a beautiful tangle to me.

And I have fallen in love, this morning, with the world and all of its tangles. Once again, I have fallen in love.

All of Your Needs Are Met

Just breathe into that truth for a moment.

We tend to place ourselves in a world where that is decidedly NOT the reality. Yet the world in which we place ourselves is of our own making.

In truth, all of your needs are met.

Where you experience hardship or lack, this is serving you in some way. It is not that you should enjoy it, or that it is easy. It is that the difficulty and the struggle are serving you.

And you are provided for in that difficulty and in that struggle. All that you need to accomplish the realization that you are seeking is there.

This is something that needs to be felt, rather than thought. This is something that needs to be breathed into the body and then allowed to find itself there.

All of your needs are met. You always are exactly where you should be.

You are safe, even as you continue to challenge yourself to realize more and more of the beautiful truth of yourself, the height and breadth and depth of yourself, you are safe. You are provisioned and provided for. The ground beneath your metaphoric feet is steady, even when it appears to be otherwise.

Feel it and breathe. Then go on into the myriad tasks that await you in your busy and challenging life knowing that you are supported by the very Earth upon which you stand.

A New Level of Love for Self

In the past, I have loved my mind, my soul, my heart, my emotions, my process and all of my experiences - the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

I have loved my skin and my muscles too.

Sitting in my comfortable chair the other evening, calm and restful, I suddenly perceived my internal organs.

I began at the base of my torso and could perceive with my mind's eye, very clearly, the organs situated there. I loved them completely, delightedly, passionately and compassionately.

Then, I moved upward and perceived the viscera of my digestive system and felt a huge love for them.

And on it went, up through my lungs and heart, my brain and the whole system of ears, nose, sinuses and throat that processes air, scent and sound.

Suddenly, I was intensely aware of my bones, my skeletal structure, almost as if I were a medically trained professional and could see my body as a series of systems, intricate, complex and perfectly designed as my physical vessel through time and space. The love and joy were total within me and were delightedly spreading through my body, not just at the level of my skin and muscles, as before, but deep into my viscera.

And the level of self-love that now permeates even my liver, my kidneys, my bowels and my bladder feels miraculous to me. This is a whole new level of self-love.

The peace and trust within me are complete, it seems.

Life is easy, joyful and calm.

A New Level of Trust

Throughout all of the interactions and situations of this day, I dwell in a new level of trust, a level which has come into me sweetly and is resonant and consistent, and enduring… (This is the wrong word as it connotates suffering and struggle… long lasting is the sense of it.)

This new trust is not just that nothing terrible or bad will come to me, but that the exquisite perfection of my highest good and the highest good of all is unfolding within my experience in a grace so sweet and serendipitous and melodic that I find myself weeping just to express my gratitude and appreciation for it.

Beautiful Tangle

 

 



I was visiting my mother, aging and somewhat disabled by her lack of fitness and muscle tone and the pain in her knees. Her old dog, Riley, had been my brother Christopher's dog and when Christopher died by suicide in 1996, Riley became my father's dog, and when my father died in 2000, Riley became my mother's dog. So this old dog was our last link to my dear brother who died alone and in despair in ’96. Riley was deaf and blind in 2007, when this picture was taken.

The old dog and I went down the length of the Island where I grew up, an island about one mile long and half a mile wide, in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, which is quite large. We walked slowly to a beach down by the old community dump. It was quiet, out of the way, peppled and reedy. There were ducks swimming out beyond the reeds. The shoreline was weedy and seedy and poplar trees leaned perilously overhead.

So there I was, filled with sadness, thinking about my mother being so dottery and Riley so old and disabled, blind, deaf. I had to touch him on his back to get his attention, to 'tell' him that I was changing activities. No longer walking, now sitting. No longer sitting, now walking. His nose did the rest. Riley who had been so young and filled with enthusiastic, doggy life. Riley, my last living link to Christopher, was dying before my eyes, for a dog with no sight and no hearing cannot live long, and as old and feeble as he was, his days were indeed numbered.

Add to all of this my own emotional tangle. My love for the Island, and knowledge that it had irrevocably changed, would never be again what it once was when I was a child, my life with my husband, the struggles and the fears, and all of the unknowns.

Yet, in that moment on that beach, with the camera, taking photographs as I love to do, I came across this tangle of vegetation. And although I am an avid amateur botanist, I do not know what this plant is. I fell in love instantly with the colours, the form and the texture of the image. I had to get it on film. I lay down among the mosquitos and spiders and pressed my body into the grey stones and pepples to get the image.

When I left the beach, Riley stumbling into things behind me, my heart ready to grieve for him, my eyes near to tears, I felt the perfection of each moment, the perfection of the beautiful tangle. Dead or dying, or newly born, all that we experience is perfect in itself.

 

Offering Sounding as a Therapy

I began to realize that the sounding that I do is deeply and almost mysteriously beneficial for me.

I wondered if it might be beneficial for other people as well and thought that I'd like to try it out on some friends and acquaintances.

So, after I had done this for a few weeks, I began to realize that this 'treatment' really is beneficial for people who receive it.

People report feeling deeply loved, feeling joy, feeling peaceful during the treatment. They report that it feels wonderful to hear these sounds.

People also report that after having received one treatment or two or three treatments, they see changes in their life. They report that blocks to getting things done are removed. It is as if the energy is now unblocked after the sounding session.

Here are some direct quotes from people who have received a therapeutic 'sounding' session with me.

"Lu and I had our first sounding session on Skype on August 2. I enjoyed listening to her singing and toning and the sounds she was making. I knew there were some big blocks in my energetic field, blocks to my creativity, and I was ready for anything that could open things up.

On August 5 I woke up with the idea to create a blog with all those poems I'd written five years ago that were just sitting on my hard drive. For the next 48 hours I created the blog and read through and posted those poems like a madwoman! This was nothing short of miraculous. It had never occurred to me that I could publish them all, or anything I wanted, on a blog! Since then I've been writing daily, a second miracle.
The third miracle was getting over the fear of going global, of finding my voice and speaking my truth. That's happened in a number of different ways, too numerous to recount, all since the beginning of August, and it happened spontaneously and so fast!
The fourth miracle was organization. Since early August I've spent days cleaning out the closet and the garage, weeding the garden, and yes, I've even started tending to my bookkeeping. It's time for me to create a new relationship to money and all things financial.
After our first session I was so amazed and excited, the changes were happening so fast, that Lu and I agreed to do a number of sessions together for a period of time.
All of Lu's sessions are different. Things I've felt during sessions have ranged from feeling like I was wrapped in a pleasant sort of energetic bubble wrap, to feeling like I was lying down somewhere, being fanned off by a medicine man, hearing him chanting over me, to feeling a waterfall of energy bubbling and trickling around me and fizzing, like champagne pouring through my energy field.
It may be later in the day or after a few days that I'll "see" what that session was all about. I don't "know" what's going on intellectually during the sessions. A pattern will develop in my life, a theme will emerge, and that will tell me what was going on.
I very much recommend having a session, or several sessions, with Lu and her miracle-inducing gift of sounding. We still have several more to go and I'm very excited to see where this co-creation of spirit will take us both."

This is a long quotation, but I wanted you to really understand how much more freely the energy is moving and being expressed now for this person. 

Here is another quotation: 

"As the session begins, I feel it bringing me into balance, clearing any distress or emotional turmoil from my being.

From within my center, I am then able to make the choices I feel in my heart, and to know I have the strength and ability to carry them out.

This greatly enhances and accelerates the process I'm going through right now: I feel comfortable taking steps, crossing thresholds, that would otherwise take so much longer to reach and overcome.

For me, the sounding delivers whatever it is I need: a guide that holds my hand, an energy that allows me the rest when I need that, a support that comforts me and gives me strength when I feel doubt or anxiety,...

And I think for all, it will be a blessing, and a gift, in whatever way they need it, as it is for me.

I wholeheartedly thank Lu for sharing her abilities and gifting us with this beautiful gift of healing!"

I do not know why this sounding began to come through me as it did. I am deeply grateful that by using it, I am able to help other people to do what they choose to do.

We are being encouraged, indeed, even pushed now, to grow and change and express ourselves. This sounding helps people to do this. It seems to have great benefits for those who experience it.

A sounding session only takes about 20 or 30 minutes. It can be done for anyone anywhere in the world who has skype or has access to skype, and I can use the telephone in most countries in the world also.

So, I'm really excited about this! I know what it has done for me. And of course, whenever I feel a bit tense or stressed, I can give myself a 'sounding session.' More importantly though, I know now what it has done for other people and I am in awe of this.

Because I value my own energy, sanity and time, I choose to charge a small fee for giving a sounding session, but I have made the fee a small one so that it is affordable for everyone, and I've been told that it is a very reasonable amount: $30.00 Canadian.

I have set up a PayPal invoicing system so that anyone anywhere in the world can pay for a session in their currency using PayPal, which is a secure internet payment system, and PayPal will convert their currency into Canadian dollars.

The technology allows me to provide this truly beneficial therapy to whomever would like to receive it. I am working on a website now which will provide all the details to people who would like to have a session.  If you would like to have a session before the website is up and running, just email me to set up an appointment!

This is really exciting, amazing and it has changed my life in just a matter of weeks.