If you ever feel any sting, irritation or melancholy around the holiday season that fast approaches, here’s an almost magical Trick to shift your energy: Appreciation.

During our best moments, as Thanks-Giving rolls around, we’re grateful for what we have, for the people in our lives and for our capacity to be of use in the world.

During less-than-stellar moments, holidays can hurt. They might remind you of losses or maybe you feel forced to visit people you haven’t forgiven. Or maybe you’ve forgiven but it’s not wise to forget your energy boundaries.

Wanting to be mature and take the highroad, you might decide to endure a visit and, like someone told me yesterday, “just get through dinner as pleasantly as possible and leave.”

If full-on gratitude-for-everything feels like a stretch, or if you feel yourself going phony in a relationship, remember this quote from a wise fellow being:

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is
excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Anonymous

There are two levels of this trick. On an elementary or external level, pick out something “positive” about the person, focus on that and you’ll probably have a better time.

On a deeper or more intuitive level, try this:
If you find that you want to retreat during the holidays or you want to overindulge, which is another way of retreating or not being present, I encourage you to try this: Pause for Appreciation.

A sense of appreciation is always gentle and immediate. It opens you inwardly into higher quality energy. Soften your eyes/seeing and ears/hearing while you tune into the present moment effortlessly. Vibratory energy exchange automatically expands.

For example: If you’ve been dreading being with Aunt Susie who constantly finds fault with everyone, by softening your perspective you’ll actually notice/sense something to appreciate about her. Maybe she’s a momentary reflection of your own inner critic and a reminder to stop judging yourself so harshly. Maybe you pick up on her loneliness and in a flash your patience renews.

Intuitive Intelligence™ Tip:

Softening perspective means softening your body – literally.
When your shoulders, hands, jaw and eyes soften, new immediate sensory experience becomes available to you. It does NOT mean to analyze her, blame her history or make up another story about why Aunt Susie behaves as she does.

Quality energy exchange, intuition, appreciation, gratitude and great relationships are all inside jobs – we’ll never find them sitting around outside us.

• What is your holiday tip for this year?
• Do you follow your own kind of appreciation, gratitude or specific attitude ritual?

Share with us below! We’d love to hear.

Have a great Holiday week of Appreciation!

Heart to heart,
Karen

Hi everyone!

Lots of growth and change going on here and some of those changes are reflected in the newsletter. You’ve been receiving an article every Monday without fail for almost two years and I know many of you love reading them (thank you for your love and support). And now it’s time to use some of that energy for planning fall/winter courses for Heart of Courage Intuitive Academy.

For now we’ll put out two (rather than four) communications every month. Stay Tuned…much beauty, movement and positive change on the horizon! You’re going to love what’s being created for you and your friends. Have a great two weeks including a happy and safe Labor Day weekend. And please stay connected in any way that’s best for you…blog, Facebook, twitter, e-mail, spreading the word about us or silent blessings.

Heart to Heart, Karen

Wow. I love my job.

As President of the Intuitive Academy I just returned  from an incredibly powerful experience. For four days I sat in council with some of the most brilliant hearts and minds on the planet. Indigenous wisdom keepers and renowned physicists and ecologists from around the world sat and dialogued about Time Travel – the Language of Spirit, exploring practical healing solutions for our world.  Rivers of intelligence and respect streamed through everyone no matter where questions, comments and perspectives flowed. Everyone checked their egos at the door, not an easy task for some of those famous, powerful people, creating an opening space for integrated ways of knowing to lead. I’m humbled and energized to lead our movement forward. Will you help?
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When we attune to certain intuitive bandwidths, our guides/teachers are delighted to speak to us.

Today I’m introducing you to Enigma, because her voice speaks to many others besides just me. Anything said here strike a cord in you?

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Wisdom from Enigma, a visiting guide:

“I come to you from before the beginning, from spiraling grace, where power lies in the turning. Feminine energy spirals in and out, downward and upward simultaneously, constantly, effortlessly. I come to you as the shape of life traveling around itself, creating as She curls.
You look for an end to things – end to violence, end to suffering, end to destruction of wooded forests, wet grasslands, deep canyons, your precious oceans. You look for the end of devastation of wildness in all Her forms.
I come to tell you to stop looking, for seeking has become a way for you to be caught in analysis and strategy. Stopping becomes magic because shifts in momentum occur, allowing you to experience one of my lessons: another circle always begins, slow twirl of unknown seducing you further into your own wildness.
I come from beyond time and space and live within every cell of your Being. Transluscent breath spirals in and out, blood spirals through veins dancing red into life. I am the shape of each universe as it births itself, the chakra-shape that feeds your physicality.
I come to help you stop: slow down enough to begin sideways, looping into a truth that touches everything but must be expressed through YOU ALONE.

And a paradox exists of which you spoke earlier: the more alone you allow yourself to feel, the more open you become to Life, to flow, and the infinitesimal truth you’ve been afraid to know…you enter your Truth through the small…

…slightest sigh, most tender brush of hands, butterfly kisses, “good night” spoken in sweet darkness, rising clouds skipping across the sky, unexpected glimpses of rainbows, whispers of eternity you call “intuitions.”
I came to tell you “more” is not the first way, linear Past-Present-Future, no longer the first way. Round and round, active floating patience yielding to impermanence, opening pathways within your heart of knowing which can prepare you for the days and years ahead.
Clearing the Way is a good start. It is also where you shall return as you grow. Enjoy riding the eye of each storm, eye of the needle, eye of your eye as it opens the roof of the sky.
I came to tell to you Yes, the greatest kindest you offer is the gift of emptying…empty…empty out…only then can fresh new waves of light and freedom truly be yours; these are your deepest gifts.

I leave you in love…

Recently I made a difficult decision based on the truth that I needed to take a hiatus, drop my “oh, so important” day-to-day life for a little while and S.T.O.P., meaning “Still Thoughts, Observe Pauses.”

My dilemma: do I go to a big networking event for my business or do I enter Silence for a few days? As I became more and more honest with myself I realized I wasn’t sleeping very well, my mind raced around more than usual and I was often multi-tasking – an obvious clue that I was feeling the pressure of time. I chose to go into Silence because I know that my health, happiness and sanity depend on clarity, inner peace, and refined energy. And here’s the real bottom line: abundance of every kind always grows in proportion to emptying out so intuition, innovation and creativity can flow in.

How to tell the right TIME to S.T.O.P?

First let’s look at two types of time: Indefinite Time vs. Infinite Time. It’s one thing to trust in your heart you have all the time you need to express your Self, but quite another thing to have time without end.

That’s because there is no joy in the perpetual. If music had no intervals or little stopping places (pauses) all music would be one long noise composed of a single note. There would be no rhythm, no beat. The same goes with breathing. It would be silly to try and hold in breath forever; or hold it out forever. Breathing, heartbeats, music, day and night, nature’s seasons and life and death are cyclic patterns.

Cycles enjoy particular rhythms, however, they do not repeat. When we sing the refrain to a song we never sing exactly the same way twice. Likewise, this morning is unique from all others; never duplicated. We may do something “again,” like making love, but it is not the “same.” The Tao says you cannot step into the same river twice. The river flows onward, therefore each time you step into different water, a different river. Also, you are different moment to moment therefore you as your Self cannot step into the same river twice. Ah, the joys of Indefinite Time.

In contrast, Infinite Time, or perpetual sameness, feels lifeless, boring and provides a kind of numbing existence. Do you remember Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day? Take out the poetic direction and moral of the story and what’s left? Excruciatingly dull replication.

Trick of the Trade: This week play with the idea of two kinds of Time. You can save yourself lots of unnecessary suffering. Where in your life has Indefinite Time begun to morph into Infinite Time? Here are some clues: If your business or important relationships go from feeling happily organized to a bunch of “Heavy Have-to’s” you’re mid switch! Also, if you catch yourself slipping back into an old habit you don’t like, odds are you’re moving into Infinite Time.

Learning to S.T.O.P. is a magical antidote because once you learn how, fresh energy arises on its own. You find yourself going, moving again without drudgery. Awareness (S.T.O.P.) is part of the 1st cycle of Intuitive Intelligence. You may want to read (or re-read)more about it in our free special report.

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Have a Great Blue Heart week. Remember we’re here to help Activate and Transform the World through the Intuitive Heart of Courage.

Before Mark died we spent almost 30 years working and playing in our Love Laboratory™.

We figured marriage was a juicy, erratic, erotic caldron; a laboratory to learn how to love ourselves, each other, the kids, other people and the planet. I thought my Love Laboratory™ was gone, that it died with him. But that’s not true. I still have deep relationships with many people and an ongoing relationship with life. And I’ve been amazed at the ongoing but different relationship with Mark. No, I’m not making it up; it’s mind-blowing to have a partner on the other side.

The dictionary defines a laboratory as, “a place equipped for experimental study…or for testing; a place providing opportunity for experimentation, observation or practice in a field of study.” In this definition, “field” refers to an area of study, like work or relationships or communication. I want to use the concept of field in another way as well; the info-energy atmosphere in which everything swims.

Junior High science classes introduced me to a structured, academic world of “laboratory.” Even if I came up with the wrong answer I learned to give curiosity free reign.

When lab partners work toward solving the same problem but come up with different approaches or results, things get interesting. But that’s what happens in relationships – they’re really laboratories!

Life teaches that repeatable, measureable scientific investigation needs to intertwine with other ways of knowing; non-linear intuitive knowing and non-local experience.

We have fields of study (topics) and we also have “fields” that we can’t see but we know they’re there because we can see their effects. For example, the existence of the gravity field (G-field) becomes evident when a toddler stands and falls a hundred times while she discovers her balance; while she plays in the G-field and discovers her relationship with gravity.

From the moment we are born we learn to navigate and negotiate our relationship to several energy fields such as; gravity (G-field), electro-magnetism (EM-field), and akashic, or zero point field (A-field)which is the background information field that interconnects all things in the universe.

Permit me to add an unscientific yet obvious field we all know about – the love field or what I call the L-field. I’m not talking about sentimental feelings; I’m talking about cohesive energy. Science tells us that heart energy radiates outward 3 to 15 feet depending on our mood, thoughts and well-being. So let’s call this energy radius our L-field.

Trick of the Trade: This week tune into your L-field. Knowing that your field begins deep within your heart, use your sensory awareness to feel the outer edges of your L-field. This takes some practice, and that’s what a Love Laboratory™ is all about. If you can’t actually feel this energy yet, begin by imagining it. For now do not place your attention on analyzing or evaluating the quality of what you are radiating. Instead, be aware that everyone and everything within your L-field is swimming in and being effected by the energy circulating within your body, just as every cell and atom of your body is being bathed by the same energy.

Let me know how your lab experiments go. Sometimes they’re quite surprising! ~ Karen

I often hear people say that things are “intuitive” when they make logical sense,

like when you try to figure out your new cell phone and some buttons and functions seem obvious and others don’t. The obvious functions are labeled “intuitive.” This definition barely scratches the surface of the depth of intuition and how important it can be to your life.

Intuition lives in a field far beyond logic.

It resides in the Akashic Field (A-field), the Zero Point Field, or the Info-Energy Field that passes through and interconnects all life. I would go so far as to say that one of our greatest problems as humans is that we’ve lived in a in a culture of Mind, a culture of Reason for so long that our “Intuitive Factor”™ has become repressed. I define the Intuitive Factor™ as our natural high-sensory capacity to connect with and live from the level of Soul, the level of the A-Field.

Examples:

1. Healing does not occur through logic. Healing becomes triggered when we fall madly in love with Life and know – down to our bones and cells – that everything we feel, say and do counts. Most true healing systems display a lack of dependence on logic while requiring strong intuition and a willingness to recreate our relationship with ourselves and Life.
2. One of our greatest fears is being humiliated. Anger, defensiveness and revenge surge to the surface easily when we feel shamed or embarrassed. This is a prime example why we cannot teach intuition solely through the mind. To forgive someone who humiliates us defies simple logic and lower brain revenge. Instead, forgiveness is the first mystical act; it is not a mental truth but a mystical or soulful experience. Forgiveness is not realized through our mind because the mind is arrogant; it is realized through intuition because our soul derives power from humility.

This week’s Trick of the Trade: Engage the idea of at least beginning the process of forgiving someone you feel has humiliated you. Start where you are, even if you begin to mentally defend your position or have momentary revenge fantasies. That’s just the level of your rehearsed, trained mind. Through this practice you will begin to grow some of the stamina that soulful intuitiveness requires. This is one of many reasons you want to become intuitive!

Be sure to ask if you have any questions, and let me know how your practice goes for you.

Your Intuition Teacher,

Karen