The Empowered Lifestyle

You know, I am on record as saying that there is a definitive link between planetary activity happening high in the skies and then what happens down here at stock market ground zero.

I am on record in the past as saying that the market would start to crash in September and would reach new lows in early October.

I've also maintained that there should be a range from Dow 7,500 on the lower end up to 10,000 that the market will fluctuate in before seeing another plunge down in mid August 2009, whereupon, the planets tell us, the market will begin to stabilize.

I am holding steady with this asto analysis. Dow 7,500 to 10,000. Trading range. Until another slide down the slippery slope at the end of next summer.

The stars say so.

You know, sometimes I think it's just so funny how all of sudden my emails will all start to flow in and focus on one same concern or issue even though they are from people who have never met one another or who are not tied together in any way except seeking their own empowerment through the advice I offer. Obviously, when an event happens that impacts the collective consciousness, like, say, a 9-11, then, well, it makes sense to see a series of mails that give voice to a communal concern. But, lately, in my in-box there has been an overwhelming propensity of missives that seem to share the same focus as they all appear to highlight the heart. More specifically, heart disease. Or heart attacks. Healthy hearts and how to get one. Hearts, hearts and more hearts.

Now, if I spend some time wondering why, during these last few weeks, I would get so much mail centered around the one specific ailment, well, obviously I think about what's going down on Wall Street and the aftershocks and effects that are seriously influencing and impacting all of our psyches if not our actual retirement funds, college tuition accounts or even the very job that puts food on the table.

I hear from some of my editors about the layoffs at the magazines and same sort of news from the local paper too. My friends and some of my family members have lost loads in this market and the mail that I get from anyone involved with real estate could fill the inside of a small house.

The continued concerns attached to the current credit crunch stretches across the cities and reaches in the very breadbasket of this country and, so, it's almost no wonder that people's hearts are hurting.

So, today, I want to offer some short advice for anyone who has a heart ailment and for those that thankfully don't. No matter what, we've been forever told that music soothes the savage beast and can bring a symphony of stillness to a restless soul. Better than that though are studies that have been being conducted for years in regards to what specific music can bring health and healing to an overtaxed and stressed out heart. That's right, it's now been proven that musical scores that can approximate the rhythm of a resting heart (seventy beats per minute) can slow a heart that's beating too quickly as well as also being able to IMMEDIATELY quell high anxiety and, get this, even improve blood circulation.

Bach's The Brandenburg Concertos, No. 4,Second Movement should be uploaded to any Ipod that belongs to someone looking to find a healthy heart. The Mother Goose Suite, first movement, by Ravel will do same. Venus, The Bringer of Peace (The Planets) by Horst and, then, back to Bach again wtih his Orchestral Suite, No. 2. This music has miraculous effects. Miraculous.

So, the next time you turn on the tv, or open a newspaper or just stop to get a cup of coffee at the Starbucks down on Water and Wall, and you start to get the heebie jeebies, turn that jumpy knee, toe tapping stress into something productive and, then, no sweatin' to the oldies will be the healthy, happy, harmonious order of the day. Ahhhh, Bach.....he does a heart good.

Next week is Thanksgiving and today I was speaking to a client who was bemoaning the fact that she once again had to travel to a friend's house where that family is always fighting on that holiday. We had a good laugh since, well, we all know that there are dues to be paid when we visit our own families over the holidays (as well as mouths to be zipped and tempers to be tided), but, well, it really is going the extra mile, even if that is over the river and through the woods, to have to go to a friend's house to give great thanks and then to be treated to a double helping of their historical hysterics.

So, I did what any good guru would do and told her to stay home this year and talk turkey instead of listening to everyone else talk smack. But, she's obligated so then I told her next best thing, take a yellow mum as a hostess gift when she goes.

See, not only does the mum bring the bearer lots of good karmic compensation but it also promises to put some mighty good fortune and luck into whatever place it's planted. As well, bringing a fresh, yellow mum to host/hostess will also bring a heaping helping of harmony and happiness as these florals are THE ones that have been recognized through the ages as the flowers that transmit tranquility and peace. Perfect for a family free for all! I mean to augment the family tree. Really, that's what I meant.

Now, you have a week to go out and get a yellow mum to put around your own place in order to bring more blessings to the table as you say your humble grace. Honestly, you can thank me later. Amen.

So, as we know, late last week I finally called a quick quorum together in order to start a Master Minding group that had been calling me to give it a voice for a few years now. It’s not like me not to listen to the intuitive suggestions, unless, of course, they could really manifest something spectacularly really easily, then, well, count me out. If it don’t make me sweat then I’m not all in. This is the Irish (lapsed) Catholic in me, those old tapes that play that say, “it just can’t be that easy, can it?”

The answer to that last question, as I have been witness to too many times to even begin to try and count is a big, HUGE, loud resounding ‘YES!!!!!’ But, for some reason, whenever I come across something I know to be True, with a capital ‘t’, sometimes, just sometimes, I stall enthusiastic efforts of jumping in with both feet because, well, I don’t really know why. Except sometimes I just think it might be too good to be true. With a capital ‘t.’

So late last week, I called on three friends of mine who I know to be legitimate, ‘could charge a fee for it’ manifesting machines. I didn’t hear back from Donna until today so I’m still not sure what we’re going to do together. But I did enlist Barbara and Kath right away and they were in so fast your head would spin…..as much, at least, as the energy was in the vortexes we were fast approaching.

What I decided we would do is “meet” via email twice a month to discuss our hopes and wishes and dreams. The same ones that we would now pledge to envision and pray for and support coming true for each one of us. Because, you know, whenever two or more of us are gathered for a common cause, well, we can (and do!) move mountains.

I thought that since we were novices at this Master Minding thing and since I still had to put together a more formal plan for all of us, but, so as not to lose any valuable collective time, well, I thought I would pick an affirmation from my mentor, Florence Scovill Shinn and I would share it with Barbara and Kath and then, at a specific appointed hour today, knowing what each one of us was intending (we shared email visions over the weekend) we would each pray for the others EXACTLY at that time to be followed by our working our affirmation (“My (our) ships now come in over calm seas, under grace in perfect ways.”)

At precisely 10:59 today, I sent out a clarion call to remind the other two (by the way, cute story, when I went to print out a terrific description of what a Master Mind group should do, my printer just decided to print out three copies instead of one. This was before I knew that Donna wasn’t going to get our emails, so, in fact, there did end up only three of us Master Minding for one another today..make your own Twilight Zone music here…)

Anyway, both Barbara and Kath checked back after 11 to say that they had spent their prayers and their energies visualizing what each one of us wanted, in the order we had previously determined and with the passion we had previously promised.

Now, mind you, what you will hear next was nothing that I consciously asked for but is something that Tammy and I have been bandying about for the last year or so; getting a capital loan for my small business to try and take it to next levels. I won’t go into ALL the reasons right now why I am so reticent to do that, but, suffice to say, I have “been there/done that” before and now, today, hundreds of thousands of dollars later, there are two major internet marketing companies that are deliriously richer for me having done “business” with them, without, however, them ever having the integrity or the honor to, well, honor their commitments and contracts. I now find out this is so common among small businesses that there oughta be a law!

But, back to today. So, late today I am getting ready to run out of the office and am really in a rush. Just as I am heading straight out the door the phone starts ringing and, as usual, I can’t just leave it (my son is in school all day, so, well, you just never know.) Okay, so I jump back into the office and grab the phone one last ring too late. I look at the caller ID and I see that the number calling came from New Jersey, the same sort of graphic I got the last time I spoke with the QVC guy. I waited a few minutes to see if anyone was leaving a message (no) and then decided to do something I’ve never ever ever done before in my life. I called the number back. I just didn’t want to miss any opportunity with that home shopping network, no matter.

But it wasn’t my old pal Tom waiting to tell me that QVC loved my pitch. Rather it was a finance company out of Southern New Jersey who had called me “by mistake.” I almost started to tell the girl on the other end my story when I decided I really needed to cut it short and get going. Before I could hang the line though, she facetiously and kidding-ly asked me if I happened to own a small business? You see, this is what her company does, they lend capital ONLY to small businesses and only to businesses that they deem need it. There is no bait and switch. There isn’t any catch. It’s just a legit small cap company looking for legit small businesses to capitalize. In New Jersey!

I told Laura that I was thinking once upon a recent time of taking another loan to expand my business but got gun shy last minute. She then told me that while we were speaking she had done a peripheral and very quick investigation and that if I wanted to do a deal, they would be willing.

Okay, do you know how hard it is to get ANY loan in the market today? Do the words “credit” and “crunch” strike an economic bell?

I was floored.

And grateful.

And kicking myself in the ass that I waited so long to start this Master Minding group.

Those ships they are a’sailin’ over calm seas, under grace, in perfect ways. And Barbara and Kath and I are apparently all swabbing the decks. Under grace, in perfect ways. And even though some of you might think that I am in that same sea being about as gull-ible as it gets, I believe with every ounce of my being that this was a huge gift that came about from our group efforts of earlier today. And, sincerely, I just cannot wait to see what happens next!!! Because, like I said, it really is just that easy.

The time is now. Get your group together. This stuff really works. Tomorrow we’ll see what Kath and Barb have to report. How fun!

Yes, even around the old Sacred Space, sometimes, just sometimes things seem to come to a stall or a standstill. And, even though I KNOW that when there is a slowdown of ANY sort that usually means that BIG things are lurking just around the proverbial corner, it still is counterintuitive to and for me to just sit around and do the mundane while waiting for whatever unexpected and glorious good is now heading my way.

Usually when there is a lull or a void of any sort I try to fill it with conscious efforts to ramp up media efforts. I’ll reach out to more radio contacts or I’ll try to come up with a brand new astro offering. The one thing I don’t do, more times than not, is just to sit and do my “other” work and be at peace with the, well, peace.

The end of last week began one of these quiet periods. After a whirlwind trip to New York City on Monday and Tuesday, I returned to office as usual on Wednesday and continued to play my usual rounds of “catch up.”

In the midst of all these “hurry up and wait” agendas that have been more the norm lately, I decided to listen to an inner prompting that I’ve had for at least the last two years and finally establish a Master Minding group of my own.

Do you know what Master Minding is?

It really can just best be described as the using the “seeing” power of two or more people coming together in the spirit of agreement and harmony and support for a definitive objective or purpose. See, we’re using the energetic power of two or more people (one of the “rules”) to visualize desired outcomes for one another as we have been told down through the ages that this sort of practice or project can literally move mountains, tear down walls and MOVE BIG ENERGIES if done with sincerity and patience, faith and expectation and, of course, gratitude.

I will write more about how to accomplish and achieve all the results you are looking for by creating a group of your own and will share much more about exactly how to make ALL of your dreams come true by master minding as this week unfolds.

And I will share with you what I am doing, how I am doing it, with whom and what we have asked each other to “see” or visualize for the others. Barbara wants to close some deals on some homes and even though we haven’t heard definitively from Kath, I know she needs a new car and also is thinking about a new job. I want that new book contract with the perfect partner and, of course, the home shopping deal. And we will, the three of us, boil, boil, trouble and toil (or something like that, sorry Will!) to visualize for one another at 11 AM est today. I will be seeing Barb close on those homes and Kath driving those new wheels and me, well, more on that later.

But, for now, for today, just start thinking about who you could get to join you on this remarkable journey. Then, send that email, make that call or text away. It’s time!