No New Years’ Resolutions in 2024!

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24 Ways to Be in 2024

As we round the last corner of another year, some of you might be thinking about making New Year’s Resolutions. Well, I’m not. We can thank the ancient Babylonians, 4000 years ago for this tradition and I think it’s time to stop the nonsense. How about we don’t give up anything, rather we decide to just be.

Here are 24 suggestions on how you can “be” in 2024.

    1. Be Active. Move your chi every day. Just walk.
    2. Be Adventurous. I can’t wait to trade my first-class luxury for third-class clarity and travel to the acupuncture point on the globe.
    3. Be Compassionate. Find a way to serve something bigger than yourself. It will open your mind and your heart.
    4. Be Creative. Perceive the world in new ways, find hidden patterns, and be innovative.
    5. Be Comfortable with death. We have created societies that satisfy basic needs but eliminate recognizing death as a part of life. Learn your way around death and sadness.
    6. Be Courageous. Everyone has dreams but very few people have the courage to pursue them.
    7. Be Expansive. Don’t hold on too tight to anyone, anything, or any idea.
    8. Be Flexible. If you’re selling water in the desert and it rains, stop selling water and sell umbrellas.
    9. Be Grateful for everything that happens in your life, it’s all a part of the human experience.
    10. Be Grounded. Be the one in the storm that stands strong. Nothing pulls you off your center.
    11. Be Humble. My father used to say people will wish you well, but not too well. Have enough self-esteem to just be humble.
    12. Be Joyful. No matter what you can be joyful.
    13. Be Limitless. Live as if anything is possible because it is.
    14. Be Passionate about whatever you do. Your passion will always point to your purpose.
    15. Be Present. Whatever you are doing, learn to focus completely on doing that one thing.
    16. Be Still. Just stop. This will get your mind to a stage when you stop reacting mindlessly.
    17. Be Truthful mostly with yourself, which will allow you to be truthful to everyone around you.
    18. Be Vulnerable. This will allow you to be open to change.
    19. Be You.
    20. Be Love.
    21. Be One.
    22. Be Healthy.
    23. Be of Service.
    24. Be Curious

If you are not able to gather together physically for New Year’s, perhaps we can all collectively gather in spirit. I hope that the light of inspiration finds you and the warmth of love embraces you. Always. Happy New Year!

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Visiting Sacred Sites and Experiencing Spiritual Pilgrimages

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From the beginning of time, humans have built sites guided by the earth’s life force and the planets meridian lines. I am fascinated as to what their purpose might have been and why they built where they are. I have discovered that the sacred sites I have experienced have served as a repository of wisdom, energy, and illumination that can be accessed by anyone. These places often have intricate designs, yet others are just simple, but all speak to people on a profound level.

Some of the sacred sites that I have visited and pilgrimages I have taken- what I refer to as the acupuncture points on the earth are:

  • I climbed around Machu Pichu and the Inca Trail in Peru and met a Curandeira that predicted my future.
  • I watched people dispose of their dead and drink from the same water at The Ganges River in Delhi, India.
  • I traced my roots to The Artic Circle in Iceland where my ancestors the Vikings lived and after seeing the beauty of that land, I know why they thought they had arrived in Valhalla when they arrived on the shore.
  • I was a pilgrim on El Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain and walked around 20 miles day after day, all the way to the mass at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and felt as if I walked with all the pilgrims that had come before me.
  • I saw petroglyphs from thousands of years ago in Chaco Canyon in Northern, New Mexico that had alien spaceships drawn on them.
  • I prayed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and was healed at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Israel.
  • I felt the energy at Stonehenge in the UK, and I was transported by all the Stone Circles in Scotland.
  • I’ve hiked in Boynton Canyon in Sedona my favorite place on earth and talked to a dead Native American warrior who showed up.
  • I imagined the call the Knights Templars must have had over a thousand years ago as I crawled around in their Castles in Portugal.
  • I’ve put my feet in the healing waters of Lourdes, France, and had a profound experience in the cave where Mary Magdalene taught in Southern, France.
  • I climbed up to the king’s chamber at the top of the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau in Cairo and watched as the ceiling evaporated so I could see the stars.
  • And I prayed with Tibetan Monks in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, when there was still a Tibet.

These past twenty years I have been so honored, blessed, and grateful to have experienced all these things and so much more.

The sacred sites that call to you from afar, capturing your imagination and resonating deep within your soul, will nearly always be those that can help you forge a deeper connection with the divine energy that sustains all life.

Your receptiveness will help you establish lasting relationships with these sites, and you can draw upon their peace and power from wherever you might be. I hope this blog will serve as an inspiration to send you on your own sacred sites journey.

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How to Get Your Power Back

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“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love.” Caroline Myss

My friend Caroline Myss is an expert on power. For decades she has made power the focus of her work. She explains that power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs, positive or negative are all extensions of how we define power.

So, how do you get your power back? Here are a few tips.

  1. Decide to Claim Your Power Back – Develop a statement of being that you can repeat every day. Start with I Am. I am a radiant, beautiful, kind person who expands joy and love in my life and to the lives of those I touch. Memorize it and say it daily.
  2. Daily Visualization and meditationDaily Visualization and Meditation – personal power is metaphysical so getting your power back will require internal work. Take a few minutes each morning to visualize your power returning.
  3. Release old stories and heal old wounds – this could require traditional therapy, journaling, and energy modalities like acupuncture. We can’t change our past, but we can work to heal and release it.
  4. Practice Self-Care – create a list that you can check off each day. I work out every morning, I meditate and pray, I read… do whatever this means to you.
  5. Establish Boundaries – you lose power when you say yes when you really want to say no. And when we allow people to treat us disrespectfully. So, create the boundaries you need to put yourself first.

When you get your power back, not only will it help you create a joyful and fulfilling life, but you help heal the world. The more people who stand in their power, the more space we create for others to do the same.

My hope is that we all reclaim our power and use it to create healing and beauty in the world.

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New Era

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New Ear

Last month– while I was in Egypt, Pluto entered Aquarius for the first time in nearly 250 years.

The next few months are a powerful portal. During this time, you will likely get a taste of what Pluto will bring over the next 20 years. If you are conscious of this energy, it’s possible to co-create with it and manifest some incredible things.

Pluto is a generational planetary object. Pluto is a generational planetary object. In a way, you can track the generation you belong to by the sign Pluto is in. It takes 248 years for it to orbit the Sun, and it can stay in a zodiac sign for between 12 and 30 years.

Since 2008, Pluto has been in Capricorn. Pluto represents transformation by way of death and rebirth, and it reveals the shadow side of whatever it touches.

As we saw with Pluto when it was in Capricorn, it exposed the shadow side of our systems, financial and otherwise. Starting with the 2008 financial collapse, at the exact moment when Pluto first entered Capricorn, this energy has spent the last 16 years basically annihilating many of our hierarchical structures – the old ways, the old paradigms.

Now Pluto will change signs and move into Aquarius, which is a rare event. Aquarius is about consciousness, revolutionary energy, and innovative ideas. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius, the French and American Revolutions were taking place.

Aquarius is about equality and objectivity – it’s a humanitarian archetype. It affects the collective, including the systems and structures that have been in place, but it also works on an individual level. Aquarius is about being different, embodying your most unique self, and living outside the box.

And because Aquarius is all about consciousness, we will be undergoing a transformation of consciousness – it’s a crucial time to get clear about what you’re committed to.

In fact, this is probably the most powerful moment of the year to set intentions, and not just for the month or the next 6 months. It’s about setting intentions for your life. Everything is shifting and changing, which opens the door for a massive surge forward – it’s a chance to envision a new beginning.

Whether you’re pledging yourself to a relationship, your family, an ideology, a career, or a behavior, this energy is about trusting your gut, and being unflinchingly loyal once you’ve made that decision. It’s a time to rise above outdated thinking – like basing your sense of power on how you look, what you own, or what people are saying about you – and commit to a greater mission and purpose.

There are profound energies at play now, so pay attention to signs and synchronicities – they are here to guide you to the right commitments.
If what you’ve chosen feels genuinely right for you, then this is the time to tap into your courage and go for it.

The theme right now is about entering a new era, and about observing the old ways and hierarchies dying – because they can’t stand anymore.
You – and others around you – have reached a time where your energy and power need to be in service to something greater, and they need to be imbued with love and compassion. This is a moment for you – and the world at large – to make a huge leap forward into a new way of thinking.

It’s important to ask yourself now: “Am I going to move along with humanity’s direction, and can I live with it?” and, “If so, what am I going to co-create with it?”

Or are you going to try and hold onto the old ways, and keep yourself small and disempowered? Are you going to keep thinking you’re not enough, because you don’t look a certain way, don’t have a certain amount of money, etc.?

The future is about the growth of your spirit and your soul. How is it evolving? How is it contributing? Are you connected to something deeper and truer to you?

Because if you’re not, you’re likely putting your energy and your commitments into things that are not right for you. And this is the moment to change all that.

When you commit your energy and set your intentions to manifest what is truly authentic for you, you’ll be filled with energy. You won’t be drained or exhausted.

Know that what you contribute to life is directly related to how you use your energy. It’s time to take responsibility for yourself and for what you put in this world.

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The Temple of Isis in Egypt

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Temple of Isis-Egypt

Michelle at the Temple of IsisAfter melanoma skin cancer, and my last facial reconstruction surgery, I promised myself that from now on I was going to live my life by a compass, not a clock. And I made a list of all the places I wanted to experience. Now, almost seven years later, I am almost at the bottom of that list and just returned from a place that was always at the top, Egypt.

The three-week adventure was pure magic. One of my favorite places was in Southern Egypt, the Temple of Isis.

IsisIsis was the Egyptian goddess of love, among other things. So, Isis got me thinking about love, and I don’t mean just any kind of love. I mean the kind of love that allows you to feel safe enough to be vulnerable.

Have you ever known a love so profound that it transcends reason, distance, and time? A love so profound that you are convinced, it was destined before you existed. A love that crawls beneath your skin and into your soul? Or devours you whole and makes sense of your bones? When you find that beautiful depth with someone nothing else will ever do. Nothing else will ever be good enough. Because when you have been awakened to the fact that mere moments in the abyss hold more intimacy than years on the surface – well there’s no going back to sleep.

That’s the mythology of love that Isis shared and that’s why we’re still talking about her 4000 years later.

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