Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Wearing the earrings I eventually lost from one ear

              If asked the question, who would I like to have dinner with, I would probably say Wayne Dyer. I am currently reading his book “THE POWER OF INTENTION: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way.” From the moment I opened this book I was hooked. No one told me to read it but once I got the book and started telling others about it I got the same response. “Oh, I read it.”  Considering how many books are out there in the world I am awestruck once again as to the way this book found its way into my hands. This is my story.

              I read in the newspaper that Border Books was closing many storefronts here in California and filing for bankruptcy.  I had a store credit I knew had to be used soon so I decided to visit the Glendale location. When I walked in I knew this would be my first and last time here. This was a large store.  Many shelves were already emptied. I went immediately to the second floor to browse. I went through the aisles and found a couple of books maybe I might like to own and held on to them. Then I made my way to the ground floor and felt drawn to a stack of books not far from the stairs I had used to go up and down. Why these books were not on a shelf on the second floor I do not know. But when I looked down I saw THE POWER OF INTENTION. I saw lots of color blue on the cover and in the pages. I had heard of Wayne Dyer but never read his books. Recently I had been thinking that I would like to know more about setting an intention so when I realized here was a book on the subject it was like winning a lottery. I wanted this book and one of the two from upstairs. Now I was ready to go to the cashier.  My credit covered both books and a couple of Sharpie pens. I owed a penny. As the cashier handed me my receipt, he said, there couldn’t be any returns on this purchase.  It is FINAL. I smiled back at him. Fortunately I have no desire to return my lucky finds that day. This is one book I can read and re-read.

DRIVING IN L.A.

USA Forever Postage Stamp w/floral accents CARD by Lynne Dee

One Motorist Story: Justice Denied

I have been driving in L.A. for the last 20 years.

On Saturday January 16^th of 2010, I was stopped and pulled over in my car at 8:30 in the morning by an LAPD traffic cop on a motorcycle. I had one passenger in the car. What I didn’t know then but came to learn was that an undercover LAPD traffic operation sting was being carried out on W. Washington Blvd. at the intersection of Lovelace on that early morning in January. But that’s getting ahead of the story.

On that day, I had just turned onto Washington Blvd. off of Vermont to travel the straight mile and a half to Broadway. As soon as I turned onto Washington Blvd. the road was all torn up and gravelly. All lanes and crosswalks were gone. It appeared that the road was undergoing a prepping for re-paving. I would observe later that some time would pass before the road would be re-paved. Here I was on this January morning worrying that I might blow a tire. I slowed down to less than 25 mph. But there was another problem. Dust from other cars also made driving hazardous. Had I been more familiar with the area I might have turned off the road completely but I had only my directions for where I was going using Washington Blvd, to arrive at Broadway.  I noted a police car to my left traveling in the same direction. When we got the green light, the dust created by that police car to my left made me want to slow down a bit more so as to get a bit more distance between us. The torn up road and the dust together made it such a challenge to drive on this very early Saturday morning.  I had a green light at the point a motorcycle cop stopped me.  Was anyone concerned for driver safety and think to block off this part of Washington or was it only the agenda of the LAPD to “catch” drivers putting pedestrians at risk by not stopping as they crossed? In a culture whereby the LAPD must be questioned on their agenda vs. safety, I want to draw attention to what I feel may be more of an agenda than safety concerns by the LAPD.

Contemplate this: the LAPD, and I don’t know who or at what level, authorized this sting and at that “exact” location on Washington Blvd at Lovelace… to catch drivers not yielding to plain clothes cops. So let’s get this straight… We have a torn up road that poses a danger to drivers and then have at the very first crosswalk after the gravel ends, along w/the dust, undercover cops pretending to be pedestrians crossing the street.

When I asked what I was being cited for I honestly had no idea. When he said failure to yield to peds I was in shock. There were no pedestrians. My passenger said she saw no pedestrians. In hindsight I have to question if the plainclothes cops were on a break… and the cops in uniform were on a roll just to make the quota for JANUARY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MONTH. It took 11 months from the time I got the ticket to face my accuser and a judge. Never having gotten a moving violation before I was new to the procedure in court. But I did have a timeline and some photos for the judge, as I pled NOT GUILTY. Once there we were told to find the cop who ticketed us and show him our defense. That was when I first learned about the sting and the phony peds. What I realized at that point, and I think this is crucial, is that if this was a sting, why weren’t there videos or at least photos of the pedestrians in the crosswalk. How about bringing in the cops who pretended to be peds and have them under oath. Here is an ideal situation where a video would be proof and yet there was none. I asked the cop, well, do you have some proof for me that a sting was ordered. He said no. When I asked where exactly these peds were, he claimed they were in the middle of the crosswalk. I asked him, “so if a car was traveling at the slow speed I was going, they would see these peds clearly and that 2 people in the car would see them” and he said yes. I knew at this point he was telling a lie. The judge doesn’t seem to connect the dots that this sting was conveniently set up so close to a torn up road that these variables would favor the LAPD in their sting. I never had a chance at justice.

I wrote down the name of the judge or at least the name on the plaque on the judge’s bench. Turns out this wasn’t even the right name of the judge. My judge was a light skinned black man. The judge on the plaque, when goggled, was a white man.

The entire experience of traffic court smells rotten. I know I am not alone in my observation. In closing, I have to ask these two questions. 

Why do we tolerate such unfairness in a court of law? Who, if anyone, will care?

ALL ABOUT THE MOON

Greeting Card by Lynne Dee for Spiral Happy

     In honor of the SUPER MOON that occurred on Saturday, March 19^th, 2011, it is a good time to reflect upon what the phases of the moon can mean to us here on Earth. The following information is just an overview. I suggest, for those interested in knowing more, to do some research on their own. Over the years I have kept a journal to include topics I have an interest in and have often included what other people have written as well. The following is from my journal.

The FULL MOON enhances intuition and psychic vision. It is a time of revelation. It is known as the best time for Divination, 3 days before (waxing) and 3 days after (waning) for a total of 7 days. This is a good time to ask about family, love, motivation of others, competition, money, fitness and health, decisions, and self-improvement. Issues are often clear at this time, sometimes painfully so. Dreams of a prophetic nature tend to occur here.

The WAXING MOON is on its way to FULL from NEW MOON. Energy & Strength increase.

The WANING MOON is on its way from FULL MOON to NEW MOON. It starts the 4^th day after the Full Moon and continues for 7 days. It is not the best time for divination.

The NEW MOON is also a good time for divination, 3 days before and 3 days after, for a total of 7 days. It is considered the beginning of a new cycle. It is a good time to begin new endeavors or make changes to existing ones. Questions about relationships or projects recently started or just ending are perfect subjects to bring up at this time. Questions focused on health, beauty, creative endeavors, money, legal matters, jobs, love and romance can be raised at this time. Analyze the significance of certain dreams you have at this time as well. Feel free to read an earlier post entitled “WHY WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAMS?” for some guidance on dreams.

In ending, I want to leave you with this last thought.

Many religions have used the phases of the Moon to determine a “holy day” aka holiday. 

Can you name any?

LIVING IN THE LIGHT

Pink Button & Gold Spirals Greeting Card by Lynne Dee for Spiral Happy

There is darkness until the light enters the room.

Over twenty years ago I came upon a book entitled “Living in the Light”, by Shakti Gawain. I have since passed that book on to the next reader. I kept a journal and in it I copied down the following sentences from that book. I dated the entry Saturday, July 28, 1990, just four months after moving to California. It goes like this: “Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear and control into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world. As she emerges within us and we acknowledge and surrender to her, the old male within us is transformed. He re-emerges, birthed through the female, as the new male, the one who goes all out in his trust and love for her. He must grow to become her equal in power so that they can be the lovers they are meant to be.”

“The birth of the new male is synonymous with the birth of The NEW AGE. The new world is being built within us and mirrored around us as the new male (physical form) emerges in all his glory from the feminine power (spirit).”

Now some twenty years later I have in my possession another book.

“Seat of the Soul” by Gary Zukav. 

I quote from his Foreword: ”Who among us is an expert on the human experience? We have only the gift of sharing perceptions that hopefully can help those on their journey. There is no such thing as an expert on the human experience. The human experience is an experience in movement and thought and form, and, in some cases, an experiment in movement, thought, and form. The most we can do is comment on the movement, the thought, and the form, but those comments are of great value if they can help people to learn to move gracefully, to think clearly, to form--like artists, the matter of their lives.

We are in a time of deep change. We will move through this change more easily if we are able to see the road upon which we are traveling, our destination, and what it is that is in motion.”

As I continued to read through The Seat of the Soul, the author, Gary Zukav, seemed to be saying some very similar things about the shifting from fear into love. I felt an excitement grow within me that I was reading a book that methodically explained this shift going on in the human experience. I found myself wanting to be a part of it.

Besides Gawain and Zukav, there are others who address the shift going on in our human evolution. The important thing is that we continue the work of understanding our connections within and without.

We are all students on this journey of life. It helps to understand how we can transform our everyday lives to live our best lives.

Let us together LIVE in the LIGHT!

CAN WE TALK?

Euphorbia Plant w/Crescent moons

A friend that had passed on many years earlier and then came to visit me in a dream inspired my last post. Upon waking from this dream I thought about how she didn’t look as I remembered her in life but just the same, I knew it was she in the dream. It was at that point I had the thought, we recognize people we have known in our dreams by their energy and not their appearance.

I spoke at her Memorial in Los Angeles as she was laid to rest in her hometown in New York. I had never spoken at anyone’s Memorial before this but I overcame whatever fear I had of speaking in public because I wanted others to know what she meant to me. Having written about this one friend who passed on at the age of 36, it reminded me of another friend that passed on some years later in 2003 but also at the age of 36. Though I was not asked to do so, I found myself writing down a tribute to Lisa in the event her family would ask if anyone wanted to share. I never got the opportunity but now I would like to share what I wrote down about her as I re-visit it now.

July 11, 2003

Lisa was one of the first people I met and befriended when I first moved to Los Angeles from NYC 13 years ago. I remember it was at an industry networking function and from the moment we met, we hit it off. Lisa and I had things in common, in particular, our sense that one didn’t have to exclusively befriend only those in our immediate age range. For us, there were 13 years between us. It didn’t hurt that Lisa was mature for her age and I marveled at how much she accomplished and experienced in so short a time. Lisa was such an easy person to talk to and talk we did. We spent many an hour on the phone just chatting away. I will surely miss our long conversations. Some of those in the last 2 years surrounded her entering the world of lawsuits as she had 3 going on at the same time. She got a crash course in lawsuits. I joked with her that she had gotten so knowledgeable she could go into law. She paid me a compliment when she told me that when she first contemplated the whole lawsuit thing, she thought of me. Don’t get me wrong. I never sued anybody nor been sued, but for some reason when she first entertained the idea of pursuing a lawsuit on principal, I popped into her head. She asked herself the question, what would Lynne do? For some reason this helped give her the motivation to jump in and take charge. She relentlessly hung in there for the 2 years and went to deposition after deposition. In the end she won and got great satisfaction that she had prevailed.  Lisa also got a crash course in health insurance. Anyone who has had the experience of dealing with insurance companies and health providers will tell you it can be frustrating to no end. Lisa became so knowledgeable in that area, I again told her that she could go into that business. When I experienced the frustration first hand of the nonsense health insurance companies put you through, Lisa was the first person I called for help. She was wonderful. She even went as far as offering to be me on the phone and calling up my insurance company to get some answers when I couldn’t.

We became much closer in this last year, discussing things she chose to share with very few, if at all. It’s so hard to say goodbye to a good friend. I am thankful that I have many memories of a happy and smiling Lisa who will remain in my memory forever. Lisa, if you’re up there in spirit looking down on all this, know that you are loved by so many people who have come here today to remember and pay tribute to your zest for life and the goodness you spread around so naturally.

Three days after I wrote this tribute, I attended Lisa’s funeral in Los Angeles. When I got home later that day something strange happened. A thank you card I had received from her, less than a year earlier, that had been placed, along a string, to hold it up with a bunch of other cards from her and others I had saved, went flying as the string came down from where it was attached at 2 ends. This had never happened before to the string. I had used it for years as a way to hang cards in my room. Call me crazy but I took this as a sign from Lisa that she had gotten the message I had called on the day she died. I was hoping for one last talk.

EVER NOTICE WE RECOGNIZE PEOPLE WE'VE KNOWN BY THEIR ENERGY AND NOT THEIR APPEARANCE?

 Box Medley Greeting Card * Design by Spiral Happy

Sometimes people in our lives who have passed on come to visit us in our dreams. Often they don’t look like themselves in the dream. Yet we know exactly who they are.  I came to realize that we recognize people by their energy and not their appearance.

I had a friend, who at the age of 36, died from lung cancer. But before that, she and I shared six years of friendship. I learned a lot from her. When we met she had already lost half a lung to cancer at the early age of 14. She was all for alternative therapies. In all the time I knew her, not once did she go in for traditional treatment. Instead I saw her embrace alternative therapies, including a stay at a clinic in Mexico for experimental drugs.  Perhaps she did extend her life longer than she would have had otherwise. We’d walk through a grocery store and use applied kinesiology to determine if a particular food was good for her. Basically she would stand there in the aisle and hold the food item in one hand while I would push on her other outstretched arm to try to lower it. If she was able to keep her arm up, the food was ok. If I was able to force her arm down, then it was bad for her. This might sound crazy but the practice of applied kinesiology is based on muscle strength. There is a belief that the body has wisdom of its own. We just need to pay attention more. So much of the time we are on automatic pilot.

So although she died at the relatively young age of 36, I had a lot of respect for her doing it all on her terms. She lived a lot in those last six years. I always wrote her address and phone number down in pencil in those days. She moved six times in six years. She wanted to experience as much as she could. She lived each day in gratitude. Up until the very end she was an uplifting force of energy. Never once she did ask why her. She made the most of what time she was given on this earth. That is a lesson I learned from her.

WHAT IS FENG SHUI?

Choker by Lynne Dee

Colors of the Bagua

WHAT IS FENG SHUI?

(Pronounced fung shway)

The ancient Chinese practice of Feng Shui translates into “wind and water”.

Wind and water symbolize the relationship between the seen and unseen forces of nature.

You can see water. You cannot see wind.  Yet both exist. Chi, or energy, exists in everything.

We can see the “effects” of wind on water.

Each interacts and influences the other.

What is the wind to your water in this life?

What are the unseen forces that influence your life?

Those who embrace Feng Shui know that the goal of this practice is achieving harmony & balance in their lives. It can also be defined as the way to arrange your environment to enhance the quality of your life. It is the balance of the chi that determines health.  “Your health is your wealth.” When one’s in balance, they know good health. When one is out of balance, they experience “dis-ease”  aka  disease.

I recommend to anyone interested in bringing more harmony and balance into their lives to learn about Feng Shui. Perhaps you are already using some of the principles behind this practice. It incorporates the tool of using positive affirmations as a way of connecting within to the power of intention, one of those unseen forces of nature.

The Chinese have a saying: “One learns new things by reviewing old things.”

I could not agree more. In writing this post, I re-visited a book I had on Feng Shui. I reflect on how I came to possess this book.  I want to share the story with you. I had planned to meet my friend Kumi at her Tai Chi class one Saturday morning a few years ago. It was located in an area I was not familiar with. I must have gone to the wrong location because when I got there no one else was there. I got back in my car and drove away.  Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a yard sale. I rarely stop at those. I passed it by and then a nagging thought appeared. I turned around and went back and parked. As I approached the house with the yard sale, I saw a table with a stack of books piled high. I could not see the titles of the book but I was drawn there. I had been “thinking” just prior to this day that I would really like to learn more about Feng Shui. When I reached the table of books I looked at the one on top of all the others. It was Feng Shui: Harmony By Design. This was synchronicity. This was a meaningful coincidence. I smiled and asked the lady how much she wanted for that book. As I drove home that day I could not stop myself from smiling.

The following affirmation has since become one of my favorites and goes like this: ‘I attract the perfect people, places, and things into my life everyday. I am always in the right place and meeting the right people at the right time. I welcome you into my life.”

I now welcome you the reader into my life.

WHY WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAMS?

Art Card by Lynne Dee

“Dreams are a conversation with oneself, a dialogue of symbols and images that take place between the unconscious and conscious level of the mind.”

 Quote taken from THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF DREAMS by David Fontana.

 We all dream in our sleep. Quite often, I find myself going through periods of time whereby I cannot remember upon waking any of the dreams I had during that night’s sleep. Then there are those mornings I wake up and cannot shake off the memory of a dream I just had. I am one of those people that believe in writing down a dream when it is remembered. I subscribe to the notion that even if the dream makes no sense to me at the moment, I should describe it as best as possible for later re-visiting. I know that we dream in symbolic terms. Perhaps at a later date, I will understand what the dream was about.

I read somewhere that once you describe a dream you’ve had, give it a title, just as you would a movie. Then write down the theme. Ask yourself then, how did you feel in the dream? And finally write down a question the dream may be asking you to think about?

I also like to date the dream entry with the month, day, and year.

Here is a dream I had on November 29, 2006.

 At the time, this is what I wrote upon waking up from it.

I realized I couldn’t find my packed suitcase and handbag at a hotel I was soon to leave from, to return home from a trip. I was to fly home that night and had 2-3 hours before departure. As I only had a limited time to find my belongings, I felt devastated realizing my loss. But I did meet another girl who had just arrived and we had something in common. She couldn’t find her luggage either. In talking, I discovered we had the same birthday on January 18 though she was younger by 6 years. She was going to help me. We realized that the last we had seen our luggage was in the hallway corridor. I felt she was psychic.

TITLE; Looking for Missing Luggage

THEME: Losing Focus

EFFECT:  I was upset at first, but making a discovery was uplifting.

QUESTION IN THE DREAM: Can a loss lead to good elsewhere?

Now it is some four years since writing down that dream. As I re-visit it now, I can see why I might have this dream. I am reminded that some losses are a blessing in disguise.

I wrote an earlier blog post SOMETIMES LOSING IS WINNING. I can see this theme emerging. Making the connection between loss and gain is what I felt so uplifting in the dream.

WHY ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT?

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WHY ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT?

Because it works!

And Ask OUT LOUD for what you want!!

At birth, you’re given a SPIRITUAL STAFF of Guides.

Call on them as you see fit.

They come in 5 Varieties:

HELPERS: create the SYNCHRONICITY aka “DIVINE COINCIDENCES in your life. In other words, they orchestrate the windows of opportunity. Once presented, it is up to you to see it as an opportunity. This is where attitude and perspective kick in.

TEACHERS: Help you to find your spiritual path and keep you conscious of your spiritual purpose and path. (Some of mine are actually living).

HEALERS: Help to keep you healthy by making you aware of what you need to keep you healthy. Remember that the word “heal” is contained in the word healthy.

JOY GUIDES: Help to make you laugh when you are miserable.

RUNNERS: Will run for things.

 Ex: They help you find that lost set of keys. Or they help you find that open parking spot.  Living in a crowded city of vehicles, I use this often and it works!

                    

WHY YOGA?

Some of my favorite people

WHY YOGA?

Nothing puts me into the present moment better than Yoga.

I have lived just a few blocks from a park for 2 decades and only started taking advantage of it in the last several years. I remember driving in my car on the avenue that faces the park and seeing people with yoga mats going up the hill towards the opening. At that time I was one of those Angelinos who got in a car to drive to a gym. Finally one day as I was walking on the avenue, I stopped someone and asked where they were going with their mat. I had started doing Yoga at the gym a year earlier and was quite curious as to why these people were heading up a hill instead. I got my answer. “Free Yoga by donation” was offered there. I gave it a try. And I loved it. I let the gym membership go and now I had a way to walk to my exercise. I had no idea when I started that new chapter that it would become such an important part of my day. For me, as well as for most who go there, it affords an opportunity to enjoy nature at the same time. I enjoy my practice while being present to the sounds of birds chirping, the smell of jasmine off the bushes that line the street, and seeing the palm trees close up and mountains in the distance. I get to also do one of my favorite things right after practice. Meet new people and greet the old ones. Friendship is a by-product of people coming together to do something wonderful for themselves.

Why the COLOR blue?

Self-Portrait

WHY The Color BLUE?

When asked my favorite color, I have to say the color blue. If asked the shade, I have to say aqua. Give me a choice of items to pick from, and if it comes in aqua blue, then that is the one I am drawn to first.

So I started thinking about why blue?

To start with, it makes me feel good. Then I started asking, why does it make me feel good. That’s when I turned to learning more about COLOR.

 Like everything else in the universe, color has a vibrational frequency. Color is a form of visible light, of electromagnetic energy. We have 7 chakras or energy centers in the body.

The color Red is associated with the first chakra , Root Base of the Spine. The color Orange is associated with the second chakra , just below the naval. The color Yellow is associated with the third chakra or the Solar Plexus, the area below the breastbone. The color Green is associated with the fourth chakra, center of the chest. The color Blue is the fifth chakra, the throat. The color Indigo is associated with the sixth chakra , the third eye, between the eyebrows. The color White (or Violet) is associated with the seventh chakra, the top of the head or crown.

As you start with RED and work up to White (or Violet) in the color spectrum, the vibrational frequency increases.

The history of Color Healing has its roots in ancient Egypt. Of course back then no one knew on a scientific level that what makes RED different from VIOLET is the frequency of vibrations per second. To put this into perspective, Red has a frequency of around 430 trillion vibrations a second. Yes, trillions. Violet has a much higher frequency of vibrations per second. Each color, with it’s specific vibrational frequency, has a healing modality component. Today we call this “Vibrational Medicine”. It incorporates the use of chi energies within living organisms, such as plants, gemstones, crystals, water, sunlight, and sound.

Blue, associated with the throat area, relates to Creativity & Self-Expression.

It stands for “I SPEAK’.

In honor of “ The King’s Speech” winning the Oscar for BEST PICTURE 2011”,

 I am celebrating having a voice too.  And it feels good.