If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Rachel Carson
Are you interested in exploring the map of your soul through past life regression or between lives regresstion? At Harvest of the Heart, we have the tools to help you safely and comfortably visit past lives and the interdimentional consciousness between lives to uncover your soul purpose and answer many of life's puzzling questions.
Please go to Kathy Baxter or Kathie Brodie for more information.
Wednesday May 21 at 7pm Playing Around With Singing Bowls We will bring our fantastic collection of bowls. You bring your drums, rattles, and assorted noisemakers. This will be an evening of music and merrymaking with the deeply healing tones of the bowls.
May 28 at 7pm Fun With Tarot We have found a great new Tarot deck created by Seattle's own Ross Taylor. The Circle Deck is a wonderfully simple, straightforward, yet powerful tool for evaluating life questions. We will assist you in doing your own reading. He's only making a limited edition of these great cards, so this might be a rare chance to try this deck out.
Letting Go
Listening to Messages from The Universe
Kathie Brodie
The Universe is sending messages. What matters is how well we listen, and that sometimes depends on who is in control. When we insist on being in control, we don't always hear what Universe is saying to us. So Universe, or Spirit or however you want to label a higher power, will send gentle nudges. When the nudges are ignored, the nudges become stronger hits. When the hits are ignored, they become socks, which become blows, and so on. Escalation. Sometimes the messages are clear, other times you have to figure it out using metaphors. In December Kathy Baxter had a major health issue. She tried to control the situation and she eventually ended up in the hospital with emergency surgery. What's the message there? You aren't in control. My message was different, it was more physical than metaphorical. (I think Universe knows I don't "get it" so I need a clear demonstration.) I had water damage in the house. Once I could step back I realized it was again about control I let go, stopped trying to control. What do I need to do? Clear out "stuff", lighten up. So this water incident literally washed out the old. Be done with the old energy and be ready for the new energy.
A colleague just told me about a Tarot reading she had received the night before. It was a long reading finishing with a three card Past/Present/Future spread. The past and present cards made all kinds of sense to her. When the future card was turned over, it was blank. No image at all. So how is that for a message that she just has to let go of control and trust in the majestically unfolding Universe? The energy is changing, as many of us realize. How we embrace that change is the key to an easy transition. It happens in different ways for different people, but it is happening.
If you start paying attention to synchronicity, or your gut feelings or intuition, you will begin to see that messages come in all forms. When you let go of control it is so much easier to notice the messages. I'm not talking about letting go of control by abdicating responsibility. There is still a place for mindful action. Shirking your responsibility isn't a healthy balance of control. Points off for that attitude!
If you don't think there is synchronicity going on, keep an empty book and start filling it up with examples. These are just little things, like getting a sudden "hit" to take my vitamins one morning while on vacation. I had to go into my bedroom to get my vitamins and there on the bed was my cell phone, which I needed that particular day. Universe was guiding, giving me nudges, showing me that I could let go of control and simply trust. Yes, perhaps I would have remembered to check for my cell phone before I left, but by having the universe whisper in my ear to take my vitamins I was led to a place where my cell phone was in plain sight, so taking the vitamins was just a little segue to my cell phone. That seems trivial, yes, but after I thanked Universe I thought about it and realized I could have ignored the whisper to take my vitamins. After all, I hadn't taken them for a week by then. But by paying attention I came upon my cell phone, which made my vacation much more enjoyable that day. If I were in my usual busy-ness mode, busy controlling my day, I wouldn't have heard the nudge from Spirit, I wouldn't' have trusted my intuition.
Lots of people are having experiences that, in the big scheme of things, are very similar. The shift is happening. The energy is changing. Relationships, business associates, careers, marriages, goals, attitudes are all changing. Aren't you curious about what is happening? Aren't you excited about where it is all leading us? What a ride! Is it easy to let go of control? Absolutely not. Is it essential that we learn to go with the flow? Probably not. We can fight it, but...for what? We are being set up to be a part of the big plan, whatever that is, and I, for one, am finally ready to let go of control and just hang on for the ride. And coming from a former Type A business person, that is saying something!
| Give the Very Best You Have to Give Kathy Baxter |
Two months ago I wrote about having left the solid ground of cause and effect for the mysterious flow of the river. (Into the River) I'm still working on the "how" of being in this flow, but am being supported by an abiding presence that keeps saying to me "Give the very best that you have to give, and take what you need." So, being a literal type, I ask, "What am I supposed to be giving?" I'm coping with the enigmatic answer. "You are to give whatever you are asked. You see, you don't need to plan this." Suspend all of your self-judgments. Let go of your conditions. Open your heart to your greatest inspirations and give your best - all the time. Whatever might be called for. As you do, you will touch more people with your example than you can possibly imagine. And as you drop your protective guard, you will be saying to the Universe that you trust that you are ready for excellent opportunities. |
Everything Fits Together
By Kathie Brodie
Are you struggling with describing yourself to others? What do you do? How do you do it? What makes you unique? The more I learn about all the different healing modalities, the more I realize that we are all struggling to find a way to describe ourselves and give validity to our chosen label of Healer.
As I sit here watching the beautiful snow dance in front of my window, I am struck by the realization that the things that happen to us on our journey along "the path" are just gentle nudges to get us where we need to go. Did you ever think about the choices you have made along the way? Like for instance, why did you take that class 15 years ago? What attracted you? Then why did you take a different class 5 years later that interested you? Have you had one of those ah-ha moments when you suddenly realized that even though the classes might have been out of order and not designed to be connected, they actually all fit together like pieces of the same puzzle? Wow, what a moment! And we think we are in control of our thoughts and our destiny!
My journey started years ago with Reiki. It was a wonderful healing technique that I used often. Then I happened upon The Reconnection and Reconnective Healing. That superseded Reiki for me. Through a series of serendipitous circumstances I became interested in Hypnotherapy so I took training in that.
I went from one modality to another modality and used the part from each that seemed to work best for my clients. No particular destination was planned, I just took seminars that interested me at the moment and never really thought about the classes as being on a linear journey. Without realizing it, I was beginning to find some edge pieces to my puzzle and the border was beginning to take shape.
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One day I noticed that when I had a conversation with the client's subconscious during hypnotherapy, thereby having some interaction, whatever we were focusing on would become much more clear and the client always had a better result. It was almost as if they stepped outside of themselves and were able to hear themselves discuss the problem or issue or habit logically and without judgment. So, I found that if I negotiated a solution with the client's subconscious, the client was better able to substitute a positive behavior for a negative one. One more big piece of the puzzle is discovered.
I continued skipping along my path very happily thinking: “talk to the subconscious during hypnotherapy and that really helps”. Then along came the Inverse Wave Therapy. Now, this really works! So I'm thinking wow, this is it, the edges and border are all filled in and this is the last piece of the puzzle.
Inverse Wave Therapy sets up a neutral vibrational frequency to act as a pathway for conducting work with traumas or life issues. Within this neutral field a negative experience is transformed to a positive vibration through rescripting.
This IWT works to get at really deep-seated negative emotions, and bang, I suddenly find another edge piece of the puzzle! I realized that what appear on the surface to be unrelated negative emotions often stem from exactly the same initial negative experience that is repeated over and over again in different lifetimes until we understand the lesson and can see the gift in the experience and release it. This is a big piece of the puzzle, realizing that it is the same thing over and over again.
What I noticed is that my path went from Reiki to Reconnective Healing (hands off therapy) to Hypnotherapy (talk therapy) to Inverse Wave Therapy (a combination of both) and each modality plays a part in the ultimate healing. What seems to be the most effective for me is to help the client trace back to the origins of the negative "issue", explore it, then replace it with a positive behavior. Hence, you invert the wave from negative to positive.
All these seemingly unrelated classes and seminars all blended together to become a single focus, a useful healing modality, my healing modality. And in the same way, the seemingly unrelated emotional issues in a particular client all boiled down to the same issue. Diversity became unity. Wandering around aimlessly became a focused journey. A huge piece of the puzzle suddenly fit into place. We think we have so many problems, but in actuality it can all be one problem! Isn't that great news!
We all know that a puzzle is made up of a lot of pieces, and it is a wonderful exercise to sit still for a moment and realize that much of the puzzle has been completed. It is even more exciting and rewarding to realize that we are all putting together unique sets of diverse puzzle pieces and coming up with our own personal picture of effective energetic healing for ourselves and our clients.
Although there may still be more pieces to come for me as a healer, I can now see the portrait of myself as a practitioner of many complimentary modalities that join to create my own unique gift. I can choose from my diverse set of tools to give my clients the best possible healing and growth experience.
to be healers in order to help clients and each other. I sincerely believe that we are all heading down the same path; some of us take side roads and some of us take the main road, but the ultimate destination is the same. We are all looking for our edge pieces of the puzzle we picked. The game is to guess how they all fit together!
As published in the New Spirit Journal, March 2007
