The first day we were in Greece, we visited a Byzantine Temple, the location of St. Francis’ Tomb.  My husband, Cliff had gotten distracted by something and wandered off while I walked on with other members of the group.  We entered a structure and found several arched alcoves which appeared to be openings of tombs.  They were about two feet from the floor of the chamber, each one about six feet high and six feet deep.  I could easily stand in the opening.  Somebody handed me a shawl and I placed it over my head.  In a holy gesture, I held my hands together in prayer and people took pictures of me.  I imagined myself in an image of Mother Mary, standing in the alcove.

Then, I reached back into the opening and felt the energy.  It felt heavy and prickly, I called to my friends, “Hey, there’s something in here…”  I reached out my hand again and another (etheric) hand grabbed mine.  I called back, “She just grabbed my hand…  It’s a little girl!”  I was in a joyful, playful mood and acknowledged this presence, sending a simple spiritual “hello”.  Just as I said hello to this energy, someone advised “Don’t let it jump in”.  Now, that is something that I hadn’t considered, yet my attention went immediately to my body.  Acknowledging this presence and shifting my attention to my body, I felt a wave of energy from the top of my head to my toes.  Then, I began to cry as I connected with the thoughts of this little girl.  All of a sudden I felt detached  as if I were witnessing the experience– I couldn’t move my body.  Somebody said, “Get her down from there”.  Still I couldn’t move.  Louise, one woman who later became a very close friend, called out “Pull her down from there”.  As they pulled me down, I popped back into my body.

The little girl’s energy stayed in the alcove yet I felt I could still communicate with her.  She appeared to be somehow stuck in limbo and seemed confused and frustrated.   She looked afraid to leave- waiting for her mother or someone who would tell her where to go.  I recognized a familiarity, as if we knew each other.  I imagined myself telling her that she was OK, that she didn’t need to stay there.  I acknowledged her connection with the Divine.  I had learned that If a presence seems stuck, I can show them a stairway ascending up to a “Light” at the top.  I did this and she quickly started up the stairs and waved “goodbye”.  Then, she was gone.

I see, now, I had definitely made “spirit real”.  There is also a video of the whole experience- priceless!

We truly are connected as One…

MIRACLE MAKINGS

HEART CONNECTION MEDITATION:

1. Sit upright in a chair with your back straight.
2. Close your eyes and take a deep breaths.
3. Breathe into the area of your chest, and breath in the love of your heart.
4. Fill yourself up with the love of your heart — fill your body and field around you.
5. As you exhale, send the love from your heart into room where you sit.
6. As you continue to breathe in, bring in more love.
7. As you continue to breathe out, send love out- to your home, to your community, to your city, to your state, to your country…
8. Notice your love “touching” everyone and everything throughout the world!
9. Continue breathing out love further into space– to the far reaches of the Universe.
10. Now, continue to breathe in and out slowly bringing your attention back to the world, to your country, to your state, to your city, to your community, to your home, to the room where you sit, to your body in the chair.
11. Observe and witness how you feel, what you know…

NEXT STEPS:

1. Fill up with Divine Gold Energy daily.
2. Connect with nature- notice your connection to AIR/SPACE at a deeper spiritual level.
3. Dwell on the movement and expansion of your connection in meditation.
4. Acknowledge the heart-centered connection with everyone, everything in nature, every situation…
5. Gaze into space and notice what wisdom you receive.

How do you notice the deeper depths of your connection with air/space.  Have you had any interesting spiritual experiences?  I welcome your comments and shared stories of your experiences!

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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This was a little different…  We were asked to tell our stories of woe- pain, shame, the negative aspects of our lives past and present.   As people in my group shared their stories of dysfunctional families, abuse, suffering, being misunderstood, I felt more and more uncomfortable.  When my turn came, I said “my life is good, I love my family…”  When asked, “Then, why are you here?”, I said “I don’t know, I just want to find out what this work is all about.”  Then, someone said, “Tell us your story, your pain…”  I again said, “My life is good and my family did the best they could…”  I looked to our group facilitator–a holy man, Gurudarshan– for some reprieve since I was feeling more and more trapped.  As I looked at him with his loving eyes, I was shocked by what he said, “That’s bullshit!”  I wasn’t trying to be closed, I thought I was being honest.  Yet as I heard those words, my sweet little world around me shattered.  I was in pain, feeling misunderstood, rejected, alone, “different”… unsafe, all feelings that were quite familiar.  All my thoughts of how things should be- “He should be holy and loving…”, “This circle should be supportive and safe…”, “They don’t understand…”, “Why am I here?”

By this time, everyone was in celebration of this exercise, free to have “vented” their life’s story of pain and sorrow.  Yet I felt numb.  I realized I had a choice.  I could smile and pretend that I was enjoying myself, pretend that I was “one of the crowd”.  That, I’d done many times before.  Or, I could be where I was.  Tears rolling down my cheeks, I walked slowly to the restroom.  I passed an assistant who asked me if I was OK.  To my surprise, I could honestly say that “I’m OK”.  Even though I felt emotional, there was something freeing in just “being” where I was.  I went into the bathroom, and locked myself in a stall.  I thought, “I could stay here the rest of the night.”  Then, the same assistant came in and asked if I was ready to come out.  I said, “No, I’m fine.”  A little later, Justin, a facilitator came in and said, “Loree, I want to make sure you’re alright.”  Before I had a chance to say that I was fine, he said “I’m coming in.”  A moment later, he had slid on his back into my stall.  Here I sat, on the toilet with my pajamas around my knees and he’s lying on the floor staring up at me.

Now, to me, the floor of a public bathroom is disgusting and equates the depths of darkness.  Yet as I stared back at him incredulously, I saw only pure Light shining from his eyes.  I could see the darkness, yet the Light was shining through.  All I could do was laugh, and say “get off the floor, I’ll come out!”  The rest of the night, I felt “spent” and very present to that experience.  I could see the Light in “That’s bullshit” and I thanked Gurudarshan.

After getting in bed and ready to have a deep sleep, I went to turn off the light at my bed stand.  As I reached for the switch, I began to fumble around.  I became a little confused.  I couldn’t see the switch, I couldn’t find it…  It’s so bright, why can’t I see the switch.  Then, I realized, the light was already off. ..  There seemed to be so much light in the room- then I knew.  That Light was coming from me…  As I shut my eyes and drifted off to sleep, I heard, “The Light is in the Dark…”

Light is in, through and around us.  It is everywhere, you need only look through to find it…

MIRACLE MAKINGS

DIVINE GOLD SUNS:

1. Sit upright in a chair with your back straight.
2. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
3. Imagine a big ball of gold energy above your head.
4. Raise your arms above your head and bring that ball of energy through your head and imagine the energy filling your body and field around you.
5. Feel the Gold energy light you up!

NEXT STEPS:

1. Fill up with Divine Gold Energy daily.
2. Connect with nature- notice your connection to LIGHT (FIRE) at a deeper spiritual level.
3. Dwell on transformation and enLIGHTenment in meditation.
4. Acknowledge the light in other’s eyes (window of the soul) and feel the divine connection.
5. Gaze into a candle flame or fire and see what inSIGHTs you receive.

How do you notice the deeper depths of your connection with light.  Have you had any interesting spiritual experiences?  I welcome your comments and shared stories of your experiences!

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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While in Turkey, we set out one morning for a full day of sightseeing.  We all boarded a bus and were on our way.  When we arrived at the ruins of ancient Ephesus, the air felt thick with history and rich with images of the past.  We set off to explore many of the abundantly numerous edifices and structures.  The library, an impressive structure, still had a portion of the elaborately patterned ceiling still intact.  I was enthralled by the intricate system of plumbing in the ancient city, having channels and drains from every home.  In a large circle of  ancient “toilets”, was a meeting place for diplomats.  Apparently, it was felt that they shouldn’t be interrupted by the need to void and would just take care of their needs in the midst of conversation.  No wonder philosophy and wisdom was so rich in these times.  They had a “steady stream” of creative thoughts, no holding back!

While  exploring the sacred grounds, I jumped off a low stone foundation.  As I did so, I felt a sharp pain in my right foot.  As I checked my foot, it appeared that there was nothing to be concerned about.  I continued to walk around with no discomfort.

We then boarded the bus, to go to an ancient healing ground called Pergamon.  With a several hour trip away, the guide suggested we read or take a nap for the rest of the journey.  I began to meditate, then drifted off to sleep and started dreaming.  I dreamed about a man with a lame leg.  This man knew that in order to get in the Healing Center, he had to be in joy.  They had special jesters at the gates, to amuse the people coming in.  This man, although he was quite distraut, pretended to be laughing.  He spent two weeks there unable to break through his negativity, and left invalidated and as lame as he had entered.  I’d never had a dream like that before.  I awoke as we pulled into the parking area of Pergamon.  Coming out of a deep sleep, I became aware of my right foot throbbing.  When I went to stand up and leave the bus, I found I could not put any weight on my foot.  To my surprise, I could hop on one foot without losing my balance.  This didn’t strike me at the time, but I’m not always stable on two feet let alone one.  I hopped all the way to the bathroom and back to where everyone was gathering.  By this time, I was getting a little tired.  Some of the people standing by asked why I was hopping.  I explained that I couldn’t put any weight on the foot, and expressed my concern for getting to see the healing site.  We had been told that it was a bit of a walk.  Then, a couple the guys in the group said “Don’t worry, we will carry you.”  So, they proceeded to clasp hands and I sat across their arms throne style.  Once we got on the grounds, I saw my ankle was beginning to swell.  They brought me to area where water was flowing out of a wall, and was claimed to have healing properties.  I just let the water flow on my foot and told Cliff to take lots of pictures since I would not be able to walk around the grounds with them.  I was disappointed, but the water felt so good on my foot.  I was content to just enjoy the cool flow.

When everyone had finished, I was carried back to the bus.  We had one more stop, to view Turkish rugs.  By the time we arrived, feeling more energized, I hopped around the premises with little difficulty.

Later that evening, one of the members of our group, a chiropractor, checked my foot to see if there were any broken bones.  She said it looked to be a bad sprain.  I knew that typically for a sprain, the peak swelling would be in a couple days.  I had someone give me a healing, iced it and then drifted off to sleep for the night.

I began dreaming again, seeing the same man with the lame foot.  This time, it was different.  The man went to the gate of the healing center and this time, felt genuinely amused as he passed the jesters.  I saw him going through a tunneled path, I watched as he lay for healings, anointment of his feet, and spent time in prayer and reflection.  There in a large arena, people sang, danced and put on productions.  I understood that people usually stayed for two weeks, and I continued to watch little clips of his stay.  Finally, I watched him walk out of the gates.  No pain, no cane, no limp, healed…

The next morning, I awoke well rested.  Without thinking, I sprang out of bed and to my surprise found myself standing on both feet.  Remembering the sprain, I quickly withdrew my foot, and began to test it.  No pain, … no limp!  No swelling!  I proudly walked out, and people were amazed.  I continued the trip with no pain or swelling.  Definitely healed!

Later, Cliff showed me pictures of the grounds.  As I looked at a picture of a long tunnel, I exclaimed, “That’s the tunnel I saw in my dream!”.  Continuing to look at images of the healing site, I recognized them as the “little clips” from my dream.  I hadn’t missed seeing Pergamon afterall…

MIRACLE MAKINGS

RUNNING COSMIC ENERGY:

1. Sit upright in a chair with your back straight.
2. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
3. Imagine drawing clear, clean energy from the cosmos through the top of your head.
4. Bring the sensation of the flow of cosmic energy down the back of your body along the spine.
5. Feel it flow down towards your hips to the base of your spine, the area of your root energy center (your 1st chakra).
6. Imagine the  cosmic energy making a U-turn and flowing from the root energy center up the front of your body.
7. Feel the energy move all the way up through your body and out the top of your head.
8. Imagine the energy fountaining out the top of your head, showering your body and the energy field around you.
9. Feel the cleansing and clearing as the cosmic energy nourishes you.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Run your cosmic energy daily (try running earth and cosmic energy together).
2. Connect with nature- notice your connection to WATER at a deeper spiritual level.
3. Drink warm water before you meditate to bring cleansing inside and out.
4. Drink warm milk and honey to nourish and cleanse your Higher Self.
5. Put therapeutic-grade essentials oils of lavender or peppermint in your bath.
6. Drop a stone in a clear, still body of water and watch the endless ripples- acknowledge the limitless possibilities in your life and the impact you have on others.

How do you notice the deeper depths of your connection with water.  Have you had any interesting spiritual experiences?  I welcome your comments and shared stories of your experiences!

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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Several years later, I was visiting a friend in England.  We were at Windsor Castle and I got the same sense.  We were walking along a pathway in the surrounding gardens.  As I noticed that it felt like I’d been there before, all of a sudden the path appeared to open up to images of many people in front of me enjoying a sunny day.  Children skipping about, some ladies relaxing on a blanket, people along the lawn, as if it were a festival.  Their dress was of the 1500’s.  All of it lay out for a couple of minutes.  Then, it vanished.  Was I looking back in time?  Was it my lifetime?  It may not matter…

One year, Cliff and I were vacationing in Virginia after a conference that I had in Bethesda, Maryland.  We decided to visit the home of Thomas Jefferson.  As we walked through the garden, I got the image of Thomas Jefferson with a little girl about 3-4 years old.  They were holding hands, walking through the garden.  I told Cliff, “she’s somehow related to Thomas Jefferson, and her name is Nelly.  As we came to the family cemetery, I was convinced that I would find a tombstone with “Nelly” carved in it.  I searched every tombstone, and no Nelly…  Inside the house, I looked at every picture and painting, and no Nelly…  The image was so strong, yet nothing revealed the evidence that a Nelly had spent any time there.  After seeing the whole property, Cliff and I went into the gift shop.  I was glancing through some books when something caught my eye.   The book read “Nelly Custis Lewis’s Housekeeping Book”.  I felt a strong vibration move throughout my body, feeling excitement and recognition that this was the little girl I’d seen.

After doing a little research, I found that Eleanor “Nelly” Custis Lewis was born in 1779, and was the youngest of Martha Washington’s three granddaughters.  What some people don’t know is that Martha Washington was widowed with two children when she married George Washington.  Martha and George Washington never had children of their own.  In 1781, Nelly’s father passed away at age 26 and her mother re-married.  It was then that Nelly and brother, George Washington Parke Custis, came to live at Mount Vernon and were adopted by Martha and George Washington.  While her two sisters remained with their mother, visits between the two households were common.  It would be very possible that Nelly also visited Monticello around that time.

We have access to so much information, yet often don’t use these abilities.  As we open ourselves to the possibility, we need only go back to our “roots”.

MIRACLE MAKINGS

Note:  These tools will assist you in becoming more connected using the elements of nature.  Rather than a connection with the elements on an individual (physical) level, these exercises expand into more collective consciousness and spiritual levels of awareness.

RUNNING EARTH ENERGY:

1. Sit upright in a chair with your back straight.
2. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
3. Rub your feet on the floor.
4. Imagine drawing up energy from the earth through the bottoms of your feet.
5. Bring the sensation of the flow of earth energy up through your legs.
6. Feel it flow through your hips to the base of your spine, the area of your root energy center (your 1st chakra). Feel it swirl around in your root energy center.
7. Imagine the energy return to the earth down line of energy (grounding cord) from the base of your spine to the center of the planet to neutralize.  Examples:  Flowing down a beam of light, a tree truck with roots going to center of planet, a waterfall, a vine, etc.
8. Imagine the earth energy moving like a pump up the legs, through the hips, down the grounding cord.
9. Feel the cleansing and clearing as the earth energy stabilizes your foundation.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Run Earth Energy daily. Imagine different colors as you are running the earth energy.
2. Imagine running earth energy while running, or walking.
3. Imagine running earth energy while sitting on the Great Pyramid in Cairo, in Sedona, Arizona… Feel the earth energy moving.  How does it smell, how does it feel?
4. Imagine running earth energy at different times in history- Stonehenge, Machu Pichu, Egypt, etc. Imagine walking barefoot in these places of history.  What do you notice?

What experiences have you had?  I welcome your comments and shared stories of your experiences!

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

(Image of Young Nelly (Custis) Lewis from www.kenmore.org)

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Several years ago, my Healing Touch practice was expanding.  I had several clients with whom I made home visits, and carried my massage table in my car.  I had a drop down passenger seat, so I could slide my massage table into the trunk.  However, my trunk was just about one inch too short to slide in my massage table without putting the back seat down.  Although the situation was working quite smoothly, I had concerns about having my massage table in the car for extended periods of time due to visibility of my table in the car and inconvenience if I had more than one passenger.  With time, I began to think more often as I put my massage table in the car, “I need a bigger trunk…”  One day, as this dialogue was repeating in my head, I heard myself replying in my mind, “I love my car… I would never get a different car…  The only way I would get a different car, is if my car was TOTALED…”  Then seconds later the caveat thought appeared, “But I don’t want to get hurt…”

About two weeks later, after a successful conference that I co-hosted, I made arrangements to bring one of the keynote speakers (one of my long-term mentors) to the airport.  As we were driving from La Jolla to the San Diego Airport, we talked about the success of the conference.  I took the exit off the freeway to go to the airport on a long street parallel to the freeway.  This is a well known exit which I had taken multiple times.  This time, for a split second, there appeared to be a curve in the street that was unfamiliar.  It was like a “blip” in a movie that you’ve seen numerous times.  This momentary shift gave me a start and I slowed down.  When everything appeared “back to normal”, I  continued to drive on.

As I came to my cross street to make a right, the light was turning red.  I stopped at the corner to look for oncoming traffic before I made a right turn.  As I did so, a large Peterbilt truck with a double carrier on the back came barreling along my left side in the second right hand lane, ran the red light and proceeded to make a right onto the cross street.  As he did, I started honking my horn.  He didn’t stop…  The cab passed me, and as I looked to the side, I could see that the double carrier (fortunately, empty) would not clear my car.

My once beautiful car!

As I heard other horns begin to blow, things started to go in slow motion.  As the first carrier began to pass, I prepared for the inevitable.  I found myself moving closer to my colleague.  Then the awful screeching noise began as the driver, still oblivious, barreled by.  The screeching of metal on metal… now, popping noises as the weight and pressure of the moving vehicle became more intense.  The car began to rock as it got shoved against the curb, and we both felt the right front tire blow under the pressure.  As the second carrier completed the turn, it took most of the front bumper with it.  After he passed, I realized the driver was not going to stop.  Somehow, I needed to catch up with him.  I could still drive the car, yet with a hanging front bumper and a flat front tire I knew I couldn’t catch up.  Then, there was traffic and I could see the truck had to slow down and stop.  Could I still reach him?

As I limped along, a mini van passed from behind me.  As I looked ahead , I saw that the truck now had a green light, and was proceeding to make a right turn a couple blocks down.  To my surprise, a passenger from the mini van jumped out of the car and began to run down the street in traffic and head toward the truck.  I inched along and finally made it to the street I’d seen him turn, and made a right.  To my relief, the truck was pulled to the side and the woman who had run down the street was talking with him.  The driver claimed that he never saw me.   The woman who risked her life to flag the truck driver down worked for Wawanesa Insurance, and knew that if the truck driver was not identified, I would be liable for the damage.  I’m so grateful she was there.

Fortunately, I was able to get his information and begin the process with his insurance company.  My car was declared “TOTALED”, since the entire front axle had been bent.  Although the autobody shop said, “We can re-build it…”, my insurance company said they would not take any responsibility if there were any issues following the repair.  After the initial shock of having to look for a new car, I realized my “unconsious intention”.  Finding the message and wisdom in my situation, I made sure I had my massage table to every dealership, until I found my new car.

This experience also gave me an opportunity to look back at other times in my life when I made unconscious intentions.  Oh yeah, there was the time when I decided I was tired of the color of my carpet.  Having purchased a premium quality carpet several years prior, the carpet was indestructible.  Although the rust color was outdated, I couldn’t justify buying new carpet.  So as I reflected on that one day,  I heard myself thinking, “I really need to get new updated carpet before I sell the house… but I don’t want to pay for it…”  Well, about a week later, my hot water heater broke!  Since my insurance covered replacement value, I was able to replace the carpet both upstairs and downstairs for the “value” to  replace the damage downstairs.

Even though I got exactly what I asked for, I was also able to see how “unconscious intentions” often have some consequences.  I’m just grateful, my higher consciousness inserted the “but I don’t want to get hurt…”  before my car was totaled.  With every obstacle, is an opportunity.  I have used all these experiences to become more conscious in my intentions.  And, I’ve even thought about writing a book entitled, “No, not that…”!

MIRACLE MAKINGS

INTENTION  MEDITATION:

1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
2. Focus your awareness of the expansiveness of the Universe. As you focus on your breath, notice the “space” between your breaths.
3. Recognized that your body and field around you is proportionately as void as intergalactic space.
4. As you breath into every cell of your body, notice the gaps (space) between and within each cell through which information flows.
5. Continue observing your breath without judgment, getting more still, more quiet, more relaxed. Feel the natural expansiveness of energy within your body.
6. In that place of inner stillness, bring to mind something you want to experience or create.
   1. Imagine a bubble in front of you and Inside the bubble, begin to imagine what you’d like to create/have/experience (what does it look, feel, sound like). Refine the image, bringing clarity and detail to it.  Put a calendar page inside the bubble representing the date by which you want to have it fulfilled.
   2. Imagine draining out any energy and considerations of others from that bubble.  Consciously choose to release (drain) any attachments you may have as to how this intention must be fulfilled.
   3. Infuse the bubble with all of the positive, powerful creative energies you desire and choose to experience as part of the fulfillment of your intention. Insert into the bubble the thought and intention for highest good.  Fill the bubble with bright, clear gold, divine level energy and the desire for ‘this or better’ to be fulfilled.
   4. Imagine the bubble floating off into the Universe (Space) to be acted upon by the creative process.
   5. As you watch your intention drift off, give thanks in advance, expressing gratitude to the Universe for fulfilling it. Turn the flow of gratitude now to yourself, thanking yourself in advance for accepting and receiving the fulfillment of it.  Allow the gratitude to gradually shift into and combine with feelings of excitement, enthusiasm, joy and all of the other positive emotions you included in your intention.  Sit for a few minutes, basking in the gratitude and the experience of having your intention fulfilled.
   6. Take a few more deep breaths filling in any empty spaces, and open your eyes.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Continue Intention Meditation daily.
2. Connect with Nature- Notice your connection with SPACE.
3. Listen to the space between your breaths.
4. Drop into the gap (space) between your thoughts.
5. Notice the expansiveness of the Universe.
6. Gaze into space- the beauty of the night’s sky.

LISTEN, EXPAND, REVEAL…

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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After we blew up our balloons, the instructor asked us to get up and lay our balloons in our chairs.  She had us move one seat over and feel the energy of the balloon next to us.  All the balloons were about the same size in different colors.  As I felt the balloon, I could feel a vibration and warm.  The instructor asked us to continue moving one seat over and feel the next balloons.  To my amazement, each balloon felt different.  Some cool, some prickly, some lighter, some denser energy.  As I proceeded around, I kept looking from the corner of my eye to see the response to my balloon in the chair.  I saw different reactions, some pulled their hands away and grimaced, others left with a questioning look and shrugged their shoulders.  Although the responses were different, none of the women seemed thrilled to feel “my special balloon”.  I was a bit shaken…

When we had gone around the whole circle, the instructor asked us all to sit back in our chairs and feel the energy of our own balloon that we had filled with the image of the relationship we were seeking.  I had to admit, my balloon didn’t feel great, even to me!

The instructor went on the explain that we often attempt to create relationships of what we think we “should” want based on family and societal expectations rather than what our heart really wants.  She asked us to sit on the balloon in our hands and break it, letting all the energy in that balloon vaporize in the air and neutralize.

This time, she asked us to ask our heart what it wanted in a relationship, and see the image of that in front of us.  At first the image wasn’t real clear, but I had a definite sense that this person needed to be spiritual, with similar values to  mine.  I could feel that he would be light-hearted , with a sense of humor, a deep desire to explore and see the world, intelligent and successful yet in a more inclusive way without sacrificing other aspects of life or limiting others.  As the image became clearer, I saw a man that was good looking, yes had to have dark hair and blue eyes…  tall? No, that’s not really so important… Playful, passion/intimacy.  My heart was showing me a deeper yearning of want I really wanted.  No wonder the men I had dated seemed so shallow!

Shortly after, I met my husband Cliff.  Since each of us had just been in relationships, we decided that we wanted to explore, play, share trust and intimacy for a year.  We knew we would become good friends, yet didn’t feel each other were potential husband/wife material.  At the time, we really didn’t have much in common other than our spiritual connection, having met at the Spiritual/Healing Training Institute.

Since I had never had a brother, I asked Cliff everything.  Personal questions that I would never ask a potential “husband”.   A couple months into our relationship, I even asked Cliff to go with me to pick out china and crystal patterns.  I wanted everything possibly stressful out of the way, before I actually did get engaged to my future husband.  Then, six months after we started “playing”, we both realized at the same time, “Oh, S—- I think I’m in love with you!”.

What I didn’t know is that around the same time that I had taken this Relationship Class, Cliff had written a list of all the qualities he wanted in a woman.  What we realized is that the person we deeply yearned in a relationship was right in front of us.   I’m now see the great wisdom and value in marrying your best friend– through the years he has become my love, my evolutionary partner, my best teacher…

MIRACLE MAKINGS

BREATH AWARENESS  MEDITATION:

1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
2. Focus your awareness on the movement and sound of your breath. Follow and feel your breath through your nose, your lungs, your bronchial, your alveoli, to your small capillaries that bring oxygenated blood to your heart.
3. Feel the breath go deep into your belly. With each inhale, feel your belly expand.  With each exhale, feel your belly contract.
4. With every inhale, feel how the “air” moves through your body and the field around you.
5. With every exhale, feel yourself release whatever doesn’t “move” you. Let go of any energy that doesn’t serve you.
6. Continue observing your breath without judgment, getting more still, more quiet, more relaxed. Feel the natural movement of energy (wind) within your body.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Continue Breath Awareness Meditation daily.
2. Connect with Nature- Notice your connection with AIR
3. Observe the “movement” in your everyday activities.
4. Breathe the breath of plants.
5. Feel a gentle breeze on your face.
6. Blow bubble and watch them float away.
7. Notice the cycles of giving and receiving in nature.

BREATHE, MOVE, FEEL…

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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When we got there, the leader took us through several hours of preparation and emphasized how crucial this part of the process was.  It was a sacred process, and we would be working together to align with the fire.  After the discussion, I felt the energy and enthusiasm lift in the room.  We then went outside to a long strip where the fire was already burning.  We were told that we had to be an active part of this ceremony.  We were each asked to stoke the fire and rake the coals.  As we did that, we danced around the fire singing, chanting and feeling the energy heighten even more.  I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to actually walk across, yet was enjoying preparing it.

As the coals reached readiness, our leader told us how the red coals were the hottest.  Some of the others were cooling and little, yet still hot enough to burn our feet.  He said, “You’re going to want to aim for the red ones.  They’re nice and soft and feel like warm velvet.  The black ones are harder and not so soft.  As I heard this I thought, “Oh great, now I’m actually going to be aiming to step on the hottest coals!”

Our leader kept on saying how important it was to align with each other and to bring our energy in alignment with the fire.  The energy all around was palpable.  We continued to dance.  When it was time, he told us he would let us know when to start walking across the coals.  The energy continued to rise.

All of a sudden, one participant feeling the need to be first started to walk across the coals.  Others quickly followed.  People were ecstatic.  Wait, something had shifted…  Cliff started across the coals a little later.  I knew at this time that I would also be crossing the coals.  I watched the energy.  Something was off.  I sensed that some people carried thoughts of being a victim.  Somehow, they had an intention (unconscious or otherwise) to explore their deep wounds of  “getting burned”…   That wasn’t my intention!  Then I heard a clear message, “align with the fire…”  I was grateful for Divine guidance to align with the fire.  I imagined myself as a flame and felt that Power.  A Divine Spark…I was ready.

I walked across the fire, thankful for hearing about “warm velvet”, and purposefully aimed for the red, hottest coals.  For me, it certainly didn’t feel like cool, green moss.  I not only walked across once, but three times!

Afterwards, we heard that a few people did get burns.  The one person anxious to be “first”, had opened up the space to errored thoughts of pain and victimhood.  This became an opportunity to heal those old emotional wounds.  Even Cliff had felt that competition energy, feeling “I have to get out there…”  Fortunately, he had one or two small blisters that were gone the following morning after he acknowledged and cleared his “wound” from the past.

I didn’t have any redness or blisters, and was grateful for the experience.  A few weeks later, our friend called to say that he had pictures that he’d taken during the fire walk.  He said I have a great one of you ready to cross the coals.   Many of the pictures were hazy due to the multiple “orb” energy thought by many to be spirit guides or angels.

When we visited the next time, our friend was anxious to show the pictures.  He said that he had discovered something else and asked me to look at a picture of me.  I looked at the picture and saw I had just taken my first step.  Somewhat disappointed that I wasn’t in the middle of the fire walk, he said, “Look at your heel!”  The heel that hadn’t yet touched the fire path was “on fire”.  There was a flame shooting out from my heel.  I was the fire!  I am the fire, that Spark of Divinity.  Our mantra that night had been, “I can walk on fire, I can do anything I choose…”

Since then, if I feel challenged, I repeat that mantra.  If I accidently burn myself, I repeat that mantra and surround the area with healing energy.  I’ve not only felt more empowered, I haven’t experienced blisters from a burn since.  Thank you, beautiful angels and our loving God!

MIRACLE MAKINGS 

ENERGIZING MEDITATION:

1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
2. Focus your awareness on the energy in your body. Your digestive tract (the fire in your belly), temperature regulation, your visual perception, your mental discrimination, the metabolism (mitochondria) in every cell of your body…
3. With every inhale, feel your energy lighting up, and penetrating every cell of your body and field around you.
4. With every exhale, imagine draining out any dim, heavy energies that you don’t need or don’t serve you down to the ground beneath your feet.
5. With every breath, feel the natural “lightness” of energy within your body, transforming with vitality and vivacity.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Continue Energizing Meditation daily.
2. Connect with Nature- Notice your connection with FIRE
3. Observe the “transformative power” in your everyday activities.
4. Ignite your digestive fires with good, nourishing foods.
5. Notice the value of fire to clear unwanted energy.
6. Drink warm water with fresh ginger slices.
7. Walk in the sun for 15 minutes.
8. Take a moon bath.
9. Clear clutter…

IGNITE, ENERGIZE, TRANSFORM…

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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I was volunteering my time to make sure that the meals were served on time and to assist people in the kitchen.  As usual, the meal was all organic and fabulous.  The venue was quite large, so we were not at the Chopra Center for Well Being.  We were in the banquet room of a large church.  The energy was quite spectacular.

As we were finishing the last touches all seemed to be running perfectly.  As we neared the time to begin, we only needed to put the pitchers of water on the table.  As I saw the pitchers line up, I asked where the purified water was.  One staff member from the kitchen turned around and said, “We had too much to bring with the meal…  We didn’t have room to bring the purified water.  We will have to use tap water.”  I’m a native of San Diego, and I haven’t had water straight from the tap for years.  My response was, “What do you mean, we have to use tap water??”  I was incredulous.  In my mind, I was thinking, “this beautiful, balanced meal full of nourishing ‘prana’ and we were going to serve it with San Diego water, the dregs of the Colorado River…”  Here I stood with very little time, knowing I had to act quickly.

I turned to someone and asked her to start slicing lemons and put them in each pitcher full of this water and line them up.  Each one that came up, I began to pray over and send healing energy, asking the Divine to bless each pitcher of water.  My thoughts were pure and innocent.  With each pitcher, there was more excitement and enthusiasm as we continued the “blessing brigade”.  I noticed when the lemon slices began to spin, the pitcher was “cooked to perfection”, saying “this one’s complete, you can take it out.”

I didn’t have any grandiose intentions for the water.  It became more of a light, play space.  My hope was that no one would notice that it was regular tap water.

As I sat at dinner with some Chopra Center Staff, who were not aware of the “kitchen caper”, I watched as people ate the glorious meal and check to see if anyone screwed up their nose while drinking the water during an otherwise fabulous evening.  The water tasted pretty good to me, yet I wasn’t sure if it was wishful thinking.  Then, Brent a well respected meditation teacher turned to me and asked, “Where did this water come from?”  My heart skipped a beat.  I had to fess up, and I told him that we had to use tap water.  He said, “No, I mean this water is special, it’s really good!  This isn’t tap water…”  I explained my dilemma and our “blessing brigade”.  That truly was a special event, with “special water”.

Our thoughts and intentions are incredibly powerful.   As Masaru Emoto has shown in “Messages from Water”, water can completely change structure as a result of our thoughts and emotions.  Our bodies are over 90% water; our planet is more water than earth.  Through simple choice and intention, we can transform our life and the lives of others.  Choose now!  Bless our bodies, each other and the World… 

MIRACLE MAKINGS

CLEANSING MEDITATION:

1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.

2. Focus your awareness on the fluidity in your body. Your blood flowing, your lymphatic channels, the lubrication in your joints, the fluids in your sinuses, your saliva, the fluids (cytoplasm) in every cell of your body…

3. With every inhale, feel the fluids flowing easily and effortlessly.

4. With every exhale, imagine draining out any energies that you don’t need or don’t serve you down to the ground beneath your feet.

5. With every breath, feel the natural flow of energy within your body, cleansing, clearing and circulating with ease.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Continue Cleansing Meditation daily.
2. Connect with Nature- Notice your connection with WATER
   • Observe “flow” in your everyday activities.
   • Feel your heart beat/pulse and the flow of your blood.
   • Take a bubble bath or nice shower.
   • Drink water with lemon or cucumber in it.
   • Take a walk along the bay, ocean or river.

CLEANSE, CLEAR… CIRCULATE!

Loree Oberle-Edwards, MS, DD is a licensed minister, an instructor of the Chopra
Center for Well Being, and a Healing Touch Level 1 Instructor with the Healing Touch Program.  A native of San Diego, she enjoys the blessings of life with her husband Cliff and cat, Athena.

For more information, email Loree at loree@empowerpeople.com

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I had to go through several cell phones before I acknowledged that they had their own magnetic energy that I could affect.  I now use imaginary grounding pads between me and my cell phone so I don’t “fry” it  or become affected by the energy emanating from the cell phone.  I even learned about the energetics with computers.  If I was anxious, on a deadline with a document, I would send my computer in the “fritz” faze where it would become unresponsive, or go in various states of disorder.  Honoring our computers, setting healthful boundaries, and calling them by name can bring us more joy and order.

One day when my husband, Cliff and I were still living in a townhome, I acknowledged that even my old dishwasher was energy that needed balancing.  It was getting old, and knowing that we would be selling the home in the next couple years, I didn’t want to replace it.  Besides, I considered it an “old friend”.  My dishwasher worked well, save for occasional occurrence of the drain mechanism failing and water overflowing and spouting out all over the kitchen floor.  I had a repairman come in and show me how to stick a broom handle in a certain place to re-engage the drain.  Well, that was a bit of a pain.

One day, as it was overflowing, I got the idea that it too, needed a healing.  As I began to send healing energy, the dishwasher was still spouting water.  Cliff walked in and saw all the water spouting out over the kitchen floor, as I just stood there waving my hands.  By this time, nothing surprised him, yet he asked, “What are you doing?!”  I just calmly replied, “I’m giving a healing… it’s OK.”  A few moments later, my sweet, old dishwasher kicked in and started draining.  The flooding stopped, and I acknowledged the dishwasher for receiving the healing.  I let it know that I would continue to acknowledge it (him) for working so hard to clean the dishes, and I wouldn’t leave him alone to work.

From that day on, I was the only one who turned on the dishwasher and always when I was home.  Never again, did it misbehave.

Of course when we sold the home, I told the new owners that the dishwasher had been temperamental and may not last long.  This was not an issue with them, since they already planned to replace all the appliances anyway.

More recently, I purchased a new car.  Enjoying the comforts and all the special features of this German car, I hadn’t considered that she might benefit from a healing.  One day, while parking before church, Cliff pulled into a space that we usually didn’t use.  Without thinking, I asked him to go to another space.  Being somewhat in a rush, he asked “Why?”  I said, “I don’t know, I just don’t like this spot…”  He said, “If you don’t like it, you can move the car.”  He had some obligations, and wanted to get inside.  I thought for a moment, and decided I wasn’t attached and could let it go.  We enjoyed the service, talked with friends and then came out to the car.  As we got in the car and started to back out, we both heard a gritting, popping noise.  Cliff and I got out of the car, and saw that a stud was sticking out of the parking block and had ripped a hole in the bumper.  Cliff pushed the bumper back in as much as possible, yet it was still obvious it was damaged.  After letting go of my initial thought of “I told you so…”, I decided to refrain from blaming and look for the gift.  My second thought was, “Always trust your intuition and use your abilities.”

I spent the next week deciding whether to get the bumper fixed, and decided to leave it as a reminder to trust my inner guidance.  As the weeks proceeded, I got the sense that it, too, could heal.  I sent love to my car, the bumper, and thanked God for all the messages and guidance I receive.  I recognize that I receive messages and wisdom every day, every moment.  The world is full of “opportunities”- it’s our choice what we do with them.  Every few days, I would put my hands on the bumper and send healing energy, love, and appreciation.  I began to notice a shift and all of a sudden I couldn’t see the tear.  A couple of days later, I couldn’t feel the tear.

I realized that what happened with my car, was also a lesson in how we can all treat ourselves.  As we love and accept our own challenges and imperfections, we are also healed.

MIRACLE MAKINGS 

GROUNDING:

1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.

2. Focus your awareness on the base of your spine, the area of your root energy center (your 1st chakra).

3. Imagine a line of energy from the base of your spine to the center of the planet.
   • Examples:  A beam of light, a tree truck with roots going to center of planet, a waterfall, a vine, etc.

4. Imagine yourself safe and connected to the earth.

5. Drain out any energies that you don’t need or don’t serve you down your grounding cord.

6. Allow grounding cord to easily release down to the center of the planet to neutralize.

7. Let gravity and natural flow of energy work.

8. As you exhale, continue to release from your body and energy field around you.

9. As you inhale, breath in your own natural life force energy- energy that is total affinity with you right now.

NEXT STEPS:

1.  Play with grounding cord- Different colors, shapes?

2.  Grounding Game-  Ask a friend to (gently!) push you while you are ungrounded, then have them push you while you are grounded.  Let me know what you notice!

3.  Connect to nature EARTH- Walk barefoot in the grass, dirt, sand.

RELEASE, REPLENISH AND ENJOY!

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This is my first blog entry.

I haven’t spent a lot of time in the blog world, yet I’ve been reflecting more about blogging recently, and the possibilities that this vehicle provides.  A connection of so many people from different walks of life through Cyberspace – a reflection of our true nature, connected as One.  Each missive, every message speaking to our Souls, no matter what the subject, and having some calling. Fortunately, I made a commitment in my Feminine Power Community to begin blog posting as part of a Destiny Project.  I chose the title of this post as a reminder – to me and to all those who read this message.  We never fully know what our words, gestures, expressions can do for another.  A simple thought, a beautiful picture may impact someone more than we could ever know. As a child, I was quiet, reserved and introspective.  I was sensitive to others emotions, moods and energy.  At the age of 5, concerned about performance and keeping up with my older sister, I couldn’t remember how to spell “IS”.  I kept on visualizing it phonetically “IZ”, and knew that wasn’t correct.  I still remember the concerned look on my mother’s face as she was quizzing me.  And yet, through the years of finding the gifts and wisdom in my sensitivities and challenges, I have found the beauty and fullness of a Life that is meant to be discovered.  By aligning with nature and opening to our true (Divine) nature, we can all live with passion and love, finding balance and harmony in a life we deserve. For the next 10 weeks, I will be posting stories that break through the limitations of what we only experience with our senses.  According to quantum physics, your world is pliable.  How you perceive the world is based on your own thoughts, concepts, feelings, beliefs.  Just as the act of observing can cause an electron to the be in a state of motion (wave) or a position (particle), your own focus changes what you see in the world.  What you see as solid– the chair you sit in, your car,  your home, your body– is 99.99% void space/energy.  So what would happen if you allowed yourself to be open to all possibilities, opened your own awareness to what is beyond what you feel, see, hear, smell and taste?  Be curious, in a place of wonder– ask “I wonder what is possible…?” With those stories, I will also teach some powerful energetic, tools that will support you in becoming more aware of your subtle energies and how that connects with your nature.  May these inspirational stories, pictures and tools inspire you to step beyond the limitations of your mind and “be” empowered by what their heart knows is their true nature and potential.  There is a world of unlimited possibilities.  I look forward to hearing your stories and successes– and would love to share them with others in the future. Life IZ- I am that.

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