2024 is a new beginning! Every new year is, but the potential for new is greater this year. The world is ripe for co-creating a better reality, and you can be a part of that if you choose! To write this article, I have to presume that most of you understand the ideas of ascension, old world, and new world. But if you need clarification on what I mean, this website will introduce you to my book and my award-winning blog, both of which teach about this passage our world is undergoing. I am a leader in world healing and ascension. For 25 years, I have been training healing and ascension workers, and we have been working diligently. We’ve been breaking down the old-world limitations and barriers to unity between eternal spiritual selves and earthly bodies, emotions, and minds for all life forms, especially humankind. We’ve been healing the wounds from the long experience of separation during the journey of evolution, which has led us to this point. Now, we are ready to claim unity between spirit and earth! In that unity, we will uplift life into an experience far greater than has been possible in the past. This year

Here is a wonderful way to lift spirit and soul in the cold months when daylight is low…turn up your chakra lights! Chakras link our human limitations with our spiritual limitlessness. They bring light into our darkness and enlighten our hearts and minds. As essential to our lives as our beating hearts, these spiritual organs are how we eternal spirits can live within human bodies. Tuning your chakras is even better than stringing Christmas lights to bring joy! It may be a solution to seasonal depression. It can help you to see your way through and beyond stuck situations, release other people’s negativity, and work through grief. Tuning your chakras helps your body and soul to heal. It reunites you with your true self when you have given yourself away to jobs or relationships. Don’t be surprised if it makes you smile more often! I like to combine chakra tuning with Chakra exercising. The way I teach that expels the energy you are carrying from other people, strengthens your Inner Wisdom, and anchors your Higher Self strongly into your aura. It makes you feel fresh, focused, and ready for your life. I am offering you my Quick Chakra Tuning MP3

I grew up thinking that peace was quiet, calm, undisturbed time, and I valued it highly, living as I did in a home run by a rageaholic. For all my single life, I sought peace in nature and avoided noise and conflict as much as I could. My search for peace led me to write, play, sing, and perform original music; it taught me to be a healer and helped me find God within myself. For my childhood non-peace, I am grateful because it led me to seek peace in my life. Then came marriage and motherhood, and I discovered that maintaining the fragile peace I had learned in my early life was impossible as a working mother. I had to build a peace that was strong enough to handle the stresses of adult life in all its forms. Over the subsequent years, I have been gaining the strength to hold my center and protect the integrity of my inner peace while contending with the chaos of life. For all this, I am also grateful because it taught me that peace isn’t dependent on the environment around you but is something you can create within your own heart, mind, and

Our bodies have been created by our Higher Selves with the intention that one day, they will ascend into unity with our eternal spirit, and together, they can co-create a beautiful life and world. As the eternal spiritual beings that we are, we often find our bodies to be heavy homes to bear or like a poorly fitting shoe that rubs. But the only way to have the experience that we want on earth is to learn to wear our bodies with love and commitment. Through that, we build a relationship that brings fulfillment of our purpose and satisfaction. Toward that goal, grounding is needed. But not at the expense of our spiritual energy and joy. To bring them together, we need to find a way to lift the body into unity with spirit while holding ourselves strongly within the physical world. A heart open to love overcomes the differences between our spirit and our physical form. It accepts the uniqueness of each and finds the common purpose and complementary ways we fit together. We can live like a rainbow – bringing our many different levels of self into harmony and unity with our eternal, true nature. Trees are perfect

Sing with your life a new song A song that is resonant and true Every day and every moment new Sing with your life a song of patient unwavering strength Of harmony and grace Dear friend, You are the song, you are the singer You are the creator and the receiver Give thanks for each day that life has made Give birth to a world of love We are both the creators and the receivers of our lives. The little self – the receiver – is the temporary part of ourselves, which lives the cycle of highs and lows of experience in the journey of this lifetime. It plays out its role in life according to the “script” that our Higher Self, the creator part of us, wrote to fulfill a definite purpose in our own evolution and the life of our world. All the players in our lives have similarly scripted roles to play in our drama. The scripts are general, but the roles are distinct. I have written many times about the “theater of life .”How in the theater of the old world, which is built on illusions of separation and limitation, the “play” has run its course,

A quality of light, a complex scent, sun heating while breezes cool, a bird’s call, a voice, the taste of picnic foods, something glimpsed from the corner of your eye…any of these and so much more may spark a memory that brings feelings of safety, of the beauty of love – memories of home. Summer is full of these memories, and as we go deeper into these ripe days of August, our hearts open, our breathing becomes deeper; we feel a sense of comfort that reminds us of our youth and the freedom and peace of long vacations. As adults, we may rarely experience those feelings as fully as we did as children, but the memories stay with us and help carry our spirits through the greater responsibilities we bear. It is good to immerse into the feelings of summer and the memories they bring, to release our burdens and lighten our hearts and minds. All souls carry the memory of our eternal spiritual home, of unity, wholeness, and joy that we knew there. These subliminal soul memories carry even greater innocence and beauty than our memories of youthful summers. Yet, the youthful memories may spark within us the deeper

Everything is undergoing change in rapid succession. Whether personal, political, economic, relationship, or planetary — change has become the new norm. It is common for things we used to rely on to now be unreliable, even our own mind and body. You may find yourself wondering, “Who will I be today? How will I feel today? What can I rely on today?”. Sometimes it feels like our world is broken or dying. But it is not! It is ascending, which is a wonderful thing that leads to a better world. Ascension lifts us out of our limitations and into the strength of our eternal true selves. The world has been asleep and dreaming a dream that there is never enough. Never enough love, money, food, joy, or fulfillment. This dream has run its course. Like many dreams, it has been a learning dream. We dreamed we were separate; through this, we have learned to individuate out of the vastness of the One from which all life springs. Now we are awakening, ascending back into unity with that one, but keeping our individual identities. As many individuals who are unified through the Oneness of All That Is, we are ready to

The incredibly wise and unconditionally loving spirit of Sea Turtle has been teaching me about acceptance and its essential role in healing and ascension – see my blog post on 3/17/23 for more about Sea Turtle’s Gift. Ascension takes us from the belief and experience of being limited and faulty to the experience of unity with the Higher Self and the state of Mastery. Sea Turtle is an Ascended Master Being, and I am grateful to be learning from this gentle friend. In my meditations with Sea Turtle, I have been learning that to become whole, all parts of myself need to participate in unity with my Higher Self. I’ve been shown how things we judge within ourselves and our world as not enlightened enough, faulty, or diseased are ready now to step into a new identity. But for that to happen, we need to accept and include those in our wholeness. Getting whole: Most people spend much of their time in their heads. Some are more in their bodies or their emotions. Rarely someone is mostly in their spiritual nature, and even more rarely in their wholeness. There are parts of us that are in good shape, parts that

Who are you when you let go of what is not true of you? This question came as I meditated on what to write this month. Who you are is an eternal and unique spiritual being, a part of the One which is indispensable and whole. Anything other than that is not who you are; it is what you have in this world. All living things are eternal spiritual beings living within temporary bodies. Imagine living each moment of your life with the awareness that you are not your body, your personality, your emotions, your thoughts, your finances, or even your behaviors. That these are the clothes, you wear within the world. Whatever you have, whether it’s something you love or something you’re not so crazy about, the eternal spiritual you has created it for a purpose. In the past, our outer selves have defined us within the world and within our own sense of self. But in 2023, it is time to own that you are more than what you have. That everything you have beyond your spiritual Oneness was created by you to focus your true purpose within this lifetime in the created world. I know! You are

As we travel the home stretch of the year, it’s an excellent time to consider what we have accomplished to lay a foundation for continued growth and success in 2023. Even our most minor accomplishments need to be recognized so they can help us grow. I love the period between Winter Solstice, which is the longest night of the year on December 21st, and New Year’s Eve for creating a ritual of inner reflection to do this. It’s most important to focus on all areas of success. Looking back, we may remember where we felt things went wrong and overlook important gifts we have earned. But it is beneficial and fun to uncover and harvest our success from all experiences! Even circumstances that didn’t work out as desired hold successes to be harvested, including wisdom and strength gained. Claiming those helps heal wounds and build a successful future. Acknowledging even incidental accomplishments turns judgments about what happened into positive attitudes that support your continued growth in the new year. The most successful people failed multiple times before succeeding fabulously! That’s hard to remember when you feel you have failed. During a year’s review, you can enjoy the absolute successes and

I usually write spiritual articles, but this month I was drawn to write an article about diet. This surprised me because I feel that every body is different and people need to figure out what works for them. I’m a Virgo with almost all my major planets in that sign, so diet has always played a big role in my life. At 18, I was sure I wanted to become a breatharian! Toward that goal, I became mostly fruitarian while living in Marin County, California where fruit grew free and fully ignored on every city street! Gradually as I matured, I learned what my body needed and what it really couldn’t handle. It’s kind of a fussy body and I take pretty good care of it. So, I was very surprised when my genetic makeup threw some bad test results at me a couple of years ago. My cholesterol was high – both good and bad. And my blood sugar was just creeping over the edge of high – I always tended to be low before! My Holistic MD told me, “You need to eat beans and rice,” and informed me that “Beano works” in response to my complaint that

The change of seasons is mirrored in the changes of our lives. The longer seasons of civilizations are also mirrored there. There is a time and a season for everything. Here in Northern Michigan, summer turns to fall overnight – swimming gives way to ferns turned golden and patches of color in the trees. There is both comfort and sadness in these changes for me now as the beautiful leaves carpet the ground and the trees enter hibernation. The Eagles have flown south, and the yard is quiet without all the blue jays. It’s getting cold. Soon there will be the first snow with suddenly slippery roads making it safer to stay home. I, too, will enter a mini-hibernation when I surrender the pleasure of another warm season up north to head south to Ann Arbor. Returning to Ann Arbor, I will surrender my expanded sense of nature and tuck my energy into the smaller environment of my townhome. Sometimes it feels like I’m a bear crawling back into her cave. But here in my winter home, I will spend more time with kids and grandkids and enjoy having stores a safe and convenient distance away. Winter puts a large