Trust... Don't Stop the Flow of Energy!

When I left on the 2016 Summer of Hope Tour, I had someone going to rent my house for three months. Within two weeks, she had changed her mind. I could have contracted from fear, canceled my tour and stayed at my job. But when a friend offered that as an option, I could see really clearly, "Oh, hell no! I'm not going backwards!"

So I continued along with the plans that I had started. While the renter in the main house decided not to stay the little casita rented instead for the entire tour. I certainly didn't see that coming! I say that

God uses the backdoor and gives 11th hour information. 

I have learned to not stop the flow of energy, just because I don't understand how something will work out. My first lesson in this trusting was when I was remodeling the bath of the little miner's shack my dad gave me. I had stripped the bathroom down to the studs and it needed drywalled. I was working very part-time for $10 an hour, which certainly wasn't allocated for any extras.

One day a friend of a friend said that he was coming the next day to do the work. I said, "Well, what I know is that if you're coming, the money will show up." And it did. Had I contracted from fear, it never would have gotten done.

That was what I knew about this tour. It felt like I was to go and the first renter came along to get me started.  I am very grateful to her. Then, as things shifted and changed, I got many opportunities to practice trusting. And because I said yes, and was willing to trust,  I experienced many magical people and experiences!

YOUR LIFE: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

Recently, I drove 10,000 miles in 1 month in my little Sentra. I had an outline of where I was going, but let God/The Universe support my desires as they surfaced. 

I started near the Mexican border, headed west to So Cal; drove up to Oakland and then Grass Valley, where I picked up a friend. We headed east to New Hampshire, where I dropped her off and continued to Toronto, Canada, where I picked up my friend from Ireland. He and I continued on to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. I had previously decided that I needed to go to Nova Scotia, with no idea why. One morning on the TV someone was being interviewed and said that he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia twice a year. So we headed east and found an Irish Pub where we discovered there was a car ferry to Portland, Maine. We continued on to Niagara Falls and the journey eventually took me through Canada and down through Upper Peninsula, Michigan and down through Wisconsin where we attended an Indian Pow Wow for July 4th. We continued south through Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and ended up in Arizona. 

A Magical Mystery Tour; that is our life! We are the co-creators/bus drivers of our life and we get to decide how we want it to look and where we want to go. This first step is simply to  

Get Clear with your desires. What will you create? What brings you joy? What makes you smile?  Don't make excuses or block the flow of energy because you can't understand how it could possibly happen. 

Then, set back, let go and trust… You can't make a mistake! There are no wrong turns. Whichever road you choose will lead you to adventure and growth.

Get Clear… Be Clear with your intention…. write it down… and watch the Magic Happen!!! 

Happy Creating! 

Just Do It!

I recently participated in the High Ropes Challenge Course at Canyon Ranch. As one might imagine, 

I came away with some new awareness of lessons that I've already practiced many times in life. 

In order to move forward in life, you have to let go of perceived security.

In regards to the course, in order to move across the two levels of sixteen elements, between 25 and 50 feet high,  you have to let of of whatever rope or pole you're holding onto, in order to move forward. 

But what I did notice this time was that I was holding back. Why? And when it came to swinging off the big swing at the end, I talked myself out of it. Why? Because I thought about it too long. I was in my head, rather than in my body. Scary? For me? You bet! That first step off the platform, has always been a problem for me, even when I was a young swimmer, jumping off the platform into deep water was something I could never do alone. You have to Just Do It! Commit and Go for it! 

What made this jumping off, different than the time I did the zip line in Hawaii or the Paragliding in Peru or swinging from a roped tire into water? It's all simply about trusting you're safe, letting go of perceived security and receiving the support that God/The Universe has to offer. Next time, I'll JUST DO IT! 

My Shamanic Journey Continues...

Learning to move through life consciously is shamanic in the sense that we learn to see and experience Spirit in all creation, with a knowing that we are all one, were are all intertwined and we all matter! After all, we were all created by the Creator, whatever name you use!

Just a reminder, a shamanic journey is one where you follow the flow of energy. It takes being conscious and awake to know when the energy is shifting and then you need TRUST yourself and  be free to follow the flow.

I had an amazing three weeks in So Cal...Huntington Beach to be exact. I still had 10 more days that were available to me. An offer to housesit in No. Cal came to me and while I felt like I was complete in So Cal, my head said "STAY, ARE YOU CRAZY?" But when a few things that were scheduled to happen in So Cal fell away it further verified for me, what I was feeling... it was time to shift.  

I left Monday morning, after an energy treatment for bladder (emotions, not sex:(! ). The traffic was beyond belief on Hwy 5. (A holiday for many). I arrived to a very chilly Nevada City and woke to snow falling which continued throughout the day, totally supporting a day of rest.

Yesterday I had an appointment with my shaman (you can't do bodywork without receiving it for yourself), which put me in the bath and bed (clearing and releasing) for the rest of the day. 

Today...I'm up and alert, trying to figure out a plan to stay balanced on this leg of the journey. My plan...LOL...is to be here until March 12, when I plan to head towards Kansas....You've heard the saying....We Plan and God Laughs!!

I may be traveling through your town. Let me know! We can do a playshop, small get together, pamper party or healing session! What I guarantee...WE WILL HAVE FUN! Happy Trails!

THE ANSWERS....ARE WITHIN YOU!

Like all of us, at one time or another, in this life, Simba from the Lion King Movie was struggling to find his own path in life. And like all of us, Simba had tons of support from this side and the other side trying to help him connect the dots of who he is and why he is here on this earth. 

Remember Who You Are...Mufassa reminds his son from the other side.

The movie happens to be on cable the night I arrive at my friend's house in AZ. The statement plays over and over in my mind...Remember Who You Are, as I continually look for someone to tell me what to do! 

I found myself at a Physic Fair on Sunday. I've been invited to be a presenter there but it hasn't worked out in my schedule thus far and I didn't really know what I would present! So before I leave the area I wanted to see what it was all about. 

Looking around, I decided to experience a couple of sessions. I sat in the chair and told the first physic about my trying to decide between several job possibilities. She gave me her take on situations. Then I went for a Shamanic Healing. What I came away with was the fact, (something that I already know but don't trust) is that the answers are inside of me. I need to stop looking for someone else to tell me what to do.

Certainly we have support and guidance in this life from a myriad of places and the fair just confirmed some things that I already knew. Intuitively I know what is right for me all I have to do is to stop, breathe, trust and Remember who I am and where I want to go...achieve in this life! 

HAKUNA MATATA - NO WORRIES!

Watching the movie The Lion King, I'm reminded: Hakuna Matata, a Swahili phrase literally translated meaning "There are no worries!" 

Since I left AZ at the end of October, I have been in survival mode, major transition. I haven't been doing any writing or movement to move ETL forward. I never knew what each day would bring and it's been a major opportunity to continue practicing trusting, letting go and receiving. (Read more about this in either of my books, GPS for Living or Everybody Wants to go to Heaven).

My journey has taken me from AZ for a month of house sitting in Northern California. The day that job was complete, I did a job for two weeks of helping an artist pack and getting ready to move. When that was over, I drove and spent several days in Oakland with one of my daughters and then headed down to Orange County on the Winter Solstice. We stopped in Malibu and hiked The Solstice Canyon where we sat in a cave, Jim Morrison of The Doors, used to write his songs in. (Amazing day) Arriving in the great OC, I spent a couple of nights there and I then left for a house sitting job back in AZ, where I am now and will continue to be until Jan. 5.

Still working on trusting that my needs are being provided for, I began applying for jobs all along the way. I'm not sure where the doors will open after Jan. 5, but I'm going to make Hakuna Matata my motto for the new year!! No Worries!! 

FREE FROM TECHNOLOGY FOR 3 FULL WEEKS!

My new post is about technology, once again. However, it wasn't until just now that I remembered that I was having such an issue with electronics. 

I got up at 2:30AM on Friday to leave for LA. (My new car has transmission issues, it doesn't like the heat! I forgot to tell it that we lived in AZ and traveled over passes whichever direction we were heading in!) I drove 4 hours, half way to my destination when I realized that I couldn't find my phone! It must be in my backpack. So next stop, I checked the back of my car. Couldn't find it easily on the top of my massage table where everything was sitting! HOLY SHIT! My phone, computer and all the journals for my next book, A Year in a Suitcase....they're all missing! OMG! Drive back 4 hours or not....that is the question! 

I started rationalizing. I'm going to be away for 3 weeks! My computer is my business. How can I get by without it? I wanted to finish journal entries, now what? And no cell phone? How can I manage? There are no pay phones anywhere! I can't even call my phone to see if it is in the car! CRAP! 

Ready to leave, spinning in chaos....I decide, I can't live for 3 weeks without technology so I get on the interstate, heading east, back to Tucson. Man, if I drive back for four hours, I'll hit the passes in the heat of the day. (Last time it took 2 extra hours to get home because my car went so slow).  I'll eat 8 more hours of crap food and I wondered if I would even start out again as I didn't have to be there until Saturday evening, I was just going to the beach to play with my daughter and her friends. 

A lightbulb went on: (I always gain clarity in my car!) Pati, why don't you practice what you talk about? Trusting, trusting you and in a Higher Power. Trusting that everything is always in Divine Order. Oh, yeah! I began to think. If I need a phone and computer while I'm away, it will appear. I can go to the Apple store, they can help me put a message of my phone that I'm away for 3 weeks. I can go to the library and use their computer. I know, I can pretend like the library is my office and I keep office hours, which may help to keep me focused! 

I look for the next off ramp to turn around (10 miles away).....10....new beginnings! A huge sense of peace came over me....On the road again.....free this time!  No technology!! No frustration! A real vacation! 

I head back west and when it's time to get gas I decide to really search the car from top to bottom......(to be continued:) 

LIFE’S A BEACH

I had the good fortune of having a wonderful friend who lives at Huntington Beach CA. Each year when she takes a vacation, It’s been my pleasure to housesit....I grew up at the beach and so I love this opportunity.

Usually, I have a critter or two to care for, but this year, there was quite the group. A lovely dog, 2 long haired guinea pigs,(one died while I was there and of course, I tried to use the wand on him:) to revive him! A little gecko who dined on crickets, 2 little turtles, who can climb out of their tub on the leaves of the plants, a beta fish who eats one worm at a time and has to be hand fed, a tank with a couple of fish, a frog and a big fish who wants to eat every time he sees you!

The alarm on her car would go off randomly and the little buttons on the key were all worn out and so there was no way to turn it off. I had lovely visits from my daughters, son in law and met some great people. One daughter had a pretty bad encounter with a wave (which we wanded!) To say the least the 10 days were filled with excitement.

Lying on the beach with one of my daughters, thinking about the projects, our finances etc, we take a moment to look at each other, realizing the blessings that we have. While our life styles are not ‘regular’ we’re staying at a beautiful home with a top deck, high above the other homes, we’re playing at the beach in the middle of the day and we’re flying in a helicopter with some of my daughter’s friends who work for the sheriff’s department....and we’re complaining about....what? We don’t have a ‘job?’ We’ve never missed a meal nor not had a place to lie our heads at night.

Living a kind of 'vision quest’ life style....never knowing what’s next....comes with it’s panty twists and life lessons of learning to let go, trust and receive. And now and then I long for security and a pay check....but it quickly passes! Actually that’s not true, it doesn’t pass quickly, but it does pass. HAVE A LOVELY HOLIDAY....TRY TO DO SOMETHING FUN!

WE PLAN AND GOD LAUGHS!

Recently I talked about how on the road to achieving our dreams, something happens, we’ve been let go or our house falls out of escrow, shattering our plans and that we just need to stay vigilant to reach our final outcome.

What becomes hard in these apparent adverse situations is to trust that they have been orchestrated for our highest good. Timing seems to a major factor in the final outcome of our plans. You may remember the old saying, WE PLAN AND GOD LAUGHS!

Changing up the energy of where you are physically, can help with staying in a place of expansion rather than reverting to contraction, which is what many of us are familiar with. Like when the stock market goes down, the first thing that we are advised to do is to ‘stop spending,’ which stops the flow of prosperity. When a whole country does this you can imagine the final outcome.

It is a friend of mine who has modeled for me over the years what expansion during apparent adverse times looks like. She tells one story where she and her husband were down to their last $5,000 and there were no jobs offers coming in for him. (He is a consultant.) She suggested, much to his dismay, that they take their last financial resources and go on vacation. “I promise you, honey, when we return, you have have many offers to choose from!” she assured him. So they flew first class and went for 2 weeks to Europe. True to her promise, when they returned, he did have several offers to choose from.

It’s been my experience that when we can change up the energy, physically, thinking in an expanding mode becomes easier and makes the space for things to move. The challenge for me continues to be, can I stay in expansion even when I can’t see how things will manifest, when life doesn’t follow Plan A, B and C?

In the recent sell of my house, I just found out that the buyers changed their minds (because of health issues). This brings with it for me, another round of unwinding trust issues. Rather than clamping down the lid on the plans that I have made to move ETL forward, can I continue my movements towards expansion even when I don’t know exactly how they will be able to manifest? Can I move forward trusting that God sees the bigger picture? We don’t know how things all fit together. Most times we are on a ‘need to know’ basis. We know what we know, when we need to know it.

What I do know is that it isn’t about selling the house, it’s the journey along the way of selling the house. Not getting stuck or hung up on any one issue.....for instance the price....but to simply go inside, check in with myself and see if it ‘feels’ right every step of the way. If I have questions or doubts, to address them with those whom I’ve hired to represent me.

The practice in all of this for me is to go inside in each moment and see what is the correct thing for me, letting go of any well laid out plans that I may have conjured up and to trust that I will know what the next step is when I pay attention to my inner knowing. That I need not be discouraged and that I only need to feel into expansion and not remain stuck in contraction.
HAPPY FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS.....

Pushing through closed doors...once again

I've been doing personal work long enough to know when a door is closed...leave it that way! But it was only several days into this 3 weeks trip with my friend in her motor home across the U.S., and I began to fret about my returning to the West Coast....just exactly how was this going to happen?

And so I began to become obsessed every time we had an internet connection to search for some sort of a "deal" to get me back. This particular night, we were camped in a Walmart:) parking lot and I realized that it was only 2 weeks until I was to leave her and so I had to book a plane ticket home TONIGHT! (God began laughing!)

As I begin gathering my computer and flashlight, I announce that I am going to walk to the Starbucks on the corner, so I can get an internet connection. I knew my computer battery was low and so I put my cord in in the bag, as well...

I walked to Starbuck's and of course it's closed (little town). So I proceed to stand in the parking lot trying to get a connection. I began feeling a little unsafe and well, frankly, stupid...I decided to hike to the McDonald's up the street. I arrived. sat down to connect, and it cost $2.95 for 2 hours. I went to the counter and asked how late were they going to be open. Great, another hour! I should certainly be able to find a flight home in an hour! I entered my credit card number for my 2 hours and guess what, yep, my battery died! No worries, I had even found a plug...but as I searched my computer bag, there was no cord.

You've got to flippin' be kidding me!

Totally deflated, with tears beginning to well up in my eyes, I began the long walk back to the motor home when suddenly a sense of peace came over me as I realized, "You are pushing, Pati girl! Let it go!"

As I opened the door I said to my friend, "I think I'm supposed to go with you to your reunion, everything I tried was blocked tonight." She began laughing and was happy to hear I was going to the reunion, as that was the original plan, I had just taken it upon myself to do it my way! (By the way, it is a Dreyer Family Reunion and I was going to be Pati Dreyer...the inventor of the Dreyer ice cream!

Believe me, this was not the last time, I tried to push my way home.....but read tomorrow and see what unfolded as I waited! Sleep with the angels!