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Thank You For Your Prayers

I’ve been through my share of losses. Death is not a stranger to me.  Yet, yesterday, its visit took me some place entirely different than I’ve ever been before, and it sucked big time.

I’ll tell you right now, that this sharing comes thru swollen eyes and tears of deep sadness. I will not edit, nor attempt to make perfect what just needs to be processed through writing.  I will share, openly, a very human moment and a re-emerging pattern; one that you may relate to, or judge, or have compassion for.  For some, you may be surprised that someone of such incredible faith and deep groundedness in purpose, can still experience a crisis of faith and get messy on occasion. I make no apologies, rather, I just write what comes.

Yesterday morning, I woke up feeling, for lack of a better word, rather “pissy.” I even shared, quite vulnerably, my current foul mood during a monthly call with my fellow Beloved Community Ministers.

During the call, my ministerial mentor, James Twyman, had invited us to share “what we are grateful for.” Although I could have stated a hundred or more things, there was such a sadness in my heart, that I found myself opening up and asking for prayers.

I shared my frustration and deep sadness for having so much that I wish to share with the world and lately, feeling a sense of futility. “Why bother?” was the thought I had woken up with. “Why bother recording our next  music cd when no one ever buys our music? Why bother completing these four damned books, only to be heartbroken to find no one valuing them? Why bother doing what I do at the expense of our security and financial stability? Why work so hard for so little?”

For whatever reason, I woke up threatening to quit. “Look God,” I said, “I can’t do this anymore, not like this. I can’t justify sticking with something that seems to be less and less valued (financially). I’m getting more scholarship requests than registrations. I do what you tell me to do. I’m tired of the struggle. I’m tired of writing music that everyone loves but almost no one wants to buy. I’m tired of writing articles that almost no one reads. I’m tired of wondering, from one month to the next, if the bills will get paid.”

I was not unconscious of the “not enough” theme that was wreaking havoc and causing me to question everything. I was aware of the self-judgment and regret that was stirring underneath the surface. I am ridiculously tough on myself.  I still need to regularly re-wire the “not enough, not good enough” pattern that seems to have been born to me, and aptly reinforced (by me more than any other) for what seems to be multiple lifetimes, and at any moment of perceived failure.

 So, when asked to add to the conversation with my Beloved Ministers, I asked for prayers to support what I saw as a huge need for self gentleness. I said, “I am not practicing gratitude towards myself. I need to forgive myself for making decisions that haven’t worked out so well.”  My fellow ministers thanked me for my vulnerability. As uncomfortable as it was to share my pain, I was glad I did. I needed to, and had needed to for weeks, evidenced by the tears that seemed to come from nowhere. Thirty minutes later, my irritation had not really subsided. I took a hot shower. I prayed some more. I was still feeling angry at myself and was feeling very, very alone.

And, then, in an instant, everything changed focus. 

In a moment of frustration, I ran to the front door (half dressed) to give Brent a check that he had just asked me to sign, yet forgot in the bathroom. I turned and slammed the door, and my sweet and innocent kitten, Kayden, was crushed by the weight of the hurricane resistant door. I fell to the floor and scooped his little body into my bare chest, and heard myself singing a prayer song.  He died in my arms, with Brent by my side. I don’t know that I have ever seen, with my own two eyes, something so devastating.  

This amazing little creature, who spent probably 6 hours a day curled up in my lap and loved pizza, gorgonzola cheese, and salad (he actually was known to dive head first into the salad bowl), was dead. This little guy, who loved to join me while I was drumming (ohhh, he loved it when I drummed), or singing, or meditating, had become a constant companion. Kayden, an amazingly social, playful and adoring kitten had somehow won over 4 of our 5 family pets, including my Belgian Sheppard, who became his instant mother and protector, was gone. And, I killed him.

Brent and I did ceremony, and wrapped him in sacred red cloth. We sang and blew sacred smoke onto him. I held him in my arms for almost an hour before Brent buried him. The worst was telling my 14 years old daughter, Kiera, my animal loving “Kiera Doolittle,” who had sheepishly brought him home just five weeks ago. At first, she said she hated me and would never forgive me. I knew this was the grief and did not take it personally. In some way I felt the same things anyway. I canceled my next appointment and postponed a class I was scheduled to teach. Waves of grief hit me over an over again. I prayed with my friend Lorraine Cohen and one of my treasured clients, Donna Poler, an animal communicator, and gifted healer, called me. It was the only time I picked up the phone, other than when family called. She did some EFT with me and shared some beautiful and much needed sentiments.

I wanted him back, I wanted to erase that moment. I wished I had been more present. I wished I had not been so frustrated and angry that I slammed the door on my innocent friend. I waited to wake up from the nightmare.  Honestly, I probably cried more than I have since my father died 22 years ago. It is awful to lose a loved one, regardless of whether he or she is a two legged or four legged friend, but something about feeling responsible for someone else’s death, even by accident, is exponentially devastating.

A little later, Kiera, my 14 year old, called me and said, “I’m sorry for what I said mommy. I am so sorry this happened to you; I can not imagine how you feel mom. I’m sorry if I made you feel worse, I know you loved him as much as I did and took good care of him. I know it was an awful accident mom. I feel so bad for you and wish this didn’t happen to you.”

She then said to me, “Mom, he’s in a better place and you know that everything happens for a reason. Maybe he was just supposed to be with us for a little while. Now he’ll be able to eat all of the pizza and potato chips he wants!” We actually shared a few moments of smiles and laughter, in between the tears, reflecting on this odd little creature who had blessed us with some wildly un-cat like behavior since he moved in.

Rather than coming home, Kiera decided to go to church with a friend and opted to stay the night. We called each other many times, cried, and each time, she offered such incredible empathy and compassion that I felt as if she was an angel herself. I witnessed my baby sharing messages of faith and wisdom and my husband kept affirming, “Well, she is your daughter…” Over the course of the evening, every single one of our pets came to me as if to console and say, “Its ok mom, we’ll take care of you.” My dog looked for baby Kayden several times, each time coming to me with questioning eyes, as if asking, “Where is he, where’s my baby?”

For hours, every time I closed my eyes, the awful scene replayed in my head and ears. I would feel the rush of sadness and sob, still hoping I would wake up and realize it had all been a bad dream. Then, suddenly, I realized that the grief I was feeling was not just about this loss. I was aware of the synchronicity of prayer request earlier that day. I could feel all of the fractured moments of my life coming up to the surface – to be felt and healed.  I felt deep compassion for others who may feel responsible for someone’s death, even when an innocent accident, and several people actually came to mind as I extended myself into their experience.

All of my regrets and losses flooded into my awareness. I knew that the most important question to ask was not “why did this happen, or how did I attract this (the dreaded law of attraction/metaphysical malpractice approach)?”  Rather, it was “how can I grow from this?” For what purpose was I being offered in this unusual and immensely sad gift? I was being given a grand, albeit awful, opportunity to practice the self gentleness and forgiveness that I requested in prayer just 30 minutes before Kayden died.  

As f%*#!d up as it all was, I knew, somehow, there was something to receive and honor, if I chose to.  At the moment of this thought, I felt an invisible and loving hand touch the top of my head, not unusual for me, yet, incredibly comforting. We went to bed and Brent massaged me as I prayed for some rest and cried myself to sleep.

Sometime, in the middle of the night, I woke up back inside the moment of the tragic accident. I was crying in my sleep and the tears continued in the sanctuary of my bedroom. Then, as I lay there, suddenly, as if guided by my own angel, I was lead into the Wheel (the Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel).  I heard a voice say, “Take the first step, step on the first bridge, just as you guide others to do. Breathe baby, breathe up from the earth and connect to your Source. Allow the light to wash away the darkness.”

I felt myself step into and onto the Bridge of Compassion. I heard, “If you choose compassion towards yourself, what shifts?” I felt the energy of compassion fill me, reminding me of a powerful healing I experienced last summer when it seemed as if all of the compassion of the world entered into the room around me, as I nursed Brent back to health after almost losing him.

Compassion guided me into a reflection of what was true. I adored my little Kayden as my own child (animal people can relate to this sentiment) and he died in an accident. He was well loved and adored and knew it. I had a spectacular five weeks with this amazing dude who was insistent on making everyone his friend and playmate. Even our curmudgeon Old English Sheep dog, Moses, was sweet with him, never minding that Kayden drank out of his “sacred” water bowl or would take a flying leap and land halfway up his leg, looking up at him as if he was saying, “let’s play big guy!”

 I stepped on the second bridge (of The Wheel) of Empathy and felt myself offering comfort to my wounded parts, saying, “I know you feel awful, but it was an accident.” I forgave myself (round one at least) and fell back to sleep. This morning, although still quite teary and sad, I don’t feel the self hatred and judgment I felt yesterday. I am aware that I have some healing to do, and will allow a deeper reflection of what else I need to let go of,  heal, change – or align with – so I am in better harmony and flow with myself. I anticipate making some decisions and changes, but now is not the time.  I work fairly hard to not make decisions from fear and despair. And, quite honestly, I’m in both.

Several months ago, during an Awakening the Healer Within class, I shared the following words:

“Living the life of an awakened healer is an integrated perspective that causes a different level of interaction with life itself.”

You can listen to it at http://powerofourway.blogs.com/power_of_our_way_blog/2009/11/changes-are-in-order-an-integrated-perspective.html  (it’s the first clip) on that page.

I spoke about the need – the call - for UNIFICATION. Unification of our pasts, our woundedness, and our identities. I spoke to the need to integrate what we know to be true, so that we can truly and completely believe what we believe.  I spoke to embodying our truth and faith in such a way that we can consistently practice cultivating the degree of presence and awareness in ourselves so that we can “carry this integrated perspective into all aspects of our lives.”  I spoke of the need for awakened healers to reconcile the parts that are at "war within themselves.” I talked about the need to bring forth the compassion that exists and the need to offer it first and foremost, to ourselves.

And here I was. Living what I teach. Learning from life and the amazing revealing moments that are such teachers to us. I know the heartfelt prayers and Reiki that were being sent to me helped immensely. I thank you for the love, emails and energy many of you sent and am sure it enabled me to get some rest after a difficult day. For now, I remain open to the blessings of such an awful experience. I will give myself the time I need, when I need it and not worry about what I’m not getting done. And, I will practice what I teach and continue to walk the wheel when needed.

I love you, Ani

Asking myself these questions...

What If?

What if part of your purpose was to give Creator an experience of itSelf in physical form?

What if you were here to express the ever-expanding potential of humanity through the evolving application of your consciousness, and through the choices you make in your dance between destiny and free will?

What if the choices you make, in thought and in behavior, formed both your own reality and Creator’s experience of your created reality?

What if healing was as simple as aligning your thoughts and will with that of a Higher Intelligence, one unlimited by physical laws and the interpretations of “reality” that come from our conditioning, and what has come to be widely accepted in the human conversation?

What if your desires were completely aligned with the Original Intention of your incarnation and the purpose you were born to, as opposed to what you have been taught to want, value, and fear? What would you be creating – and un-creating in your life?

What if belief and faith were your primary creative forces, and desire, when aligned with your purpose, was more of a precognitive awareness of what was previously encoded into the naturally occurring potential that manifests when you align your free will with your Divine Destiny?

If all of these what ifs were true, then, it would mean…

You are giving Creator an experience of itSELF in your;

1. Observations – what are you choosing to be fully present to? What are you giving attention and energy to? Are you recognizing and relaying beauty or are you transmitting messages of dissatisfaction and pain? How does this relate to “you get what you give?”

 

2. Thoughts—are the quality and content of your thoughts aligned with the experience you wish to give your Creative force, and the experiences you came here to have? If a total stranger were able to hear your thoughts, what would they learn (and think they know) about you?

 

3. Aligned Choices—are your choices in harmony with the will of the Divine and the pre-chosen plan and purpose for your life? Are you choosing to be in service to your greater reasons for existence? When engaged in thought and behavior, are you supporting expansion and evolution into a higher consciousness – or are you detracting from what is wanting to manifest in your life, through constrictive thoughts and choices?

 

4. Desires—regardless of how healthy or aligned, your core desires will either come from a place of wholeness and spiritual resonance, or they will come from a place of fragmented unwholeness (woundedness and illusion). Are your desires coming from a sense of wholeness and faith or fragmentation and fear? How can you shift so you can create from a higher place within you?

 

5. Creativity and Manifestation - The subtle, yet profound difference between creating from wholeness and faith vs. creating from unwholeness and fear will ultimately shape your life experiences, relationships, and your sense of self. Like does not just attract like (opposites do attract), rather, your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations give birth to the manifestation of the thoughts that are most prevalent and intensified by related emotions and expectations.

Journal on these reflections and receive this reminder with love…

Dear One,

You are created and born of an infinitely creative force, one of pure potentiality, wisdom, and ability. You carry these seeds of creation within your encoding; therefore, you carry these same aspects within you. You are both created and creator, healed and healer, loved and lover, dreamed and dreamer. You are made of the same substance as the sun and the earth, the stars and the planets. You are air, water, fire, and mineral. You are vibration, electricity and sound. You are emotion and thought, reason and logic, intuition and inspiration. 

You are thought and you are form.

You are able and worthy of seeing yourself in the light of this magnificent awareness.

You are a child of an abundant Universal Energy; an energy and presence that we call The Divine Mystery.

Anita Pathik Law, Awakening the Healer Within
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The Gift That TRULY Keeps on Giving

Hello Relatives and Friends!

This blog post is being shared with good intentions and a BIG wish to share our music with you...and the world (and give a little back to our elder, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota)!

By now, I hope you have heard a sampling of the original music, meditations and healing audios from Anita Pathik Law and Brent Law. 

If not, here is a taste...

Core Energies Meditation from Transformation...

Good Medicine from Chosen Road by Brent and Ani

Brent's indigenous sounds and Native American Pan Flute are spectacular...Wouldn’t they make perfect holiday gifts and stocking stuffers?  

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• Healthy and Fit Nighttime Hypnosis (for weight release, body image and self worth), and
• SoulFull Meditations, includes the Original Intention Theta Meditation (for reconnecting to soul and Spirit) and Rebirth into Wholeness, each 23 mins in length

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Happy Holidays from Anita and Brent Law…

Namaste, Ani and Brent

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Changes Are In Order - An Integrated Perspective

I have an important message for you, one that I’ve been challenged to write about. This morning, as I prayed for guidance, I could feel myself getting even more frustrated.

Do you ever believe in and KNOW something to such a HUGE degree, yet can’t seem to put it into words?

This is where I am today – without the words to express what I know to be true – and share what I see as one of the most significantly important things we can each do to transform what is currently undesired in our lives.

See, I’ve been (once again) in deep reflection and contemplation, opening to pathways of service that I may not be seeing – or surrendering to. In this reflection, I am being challenged to step out of my comfort zone and make some tough decisions.

Maybe it is the time of year. Maybe we are wired to reflect upon our lives as we prepare to usher in a New Year. Sometimes, the reflection isn’t easy, because if honest, we know that something needs to change.

What I can say is, as many of you, I am feeling a little forced to evaluate my purpose and take a good hard look at how (and with whom) I am of service, and whether changes are in order.

Changes are in order.  And, I am certain that some will be met with resistance, fear, and all sorts of justifiable reasons why I or we “can’t,” or why “later” is a better idea than “now!”

Rather than attempt to put my thoughts into written words, I was nudged to share a few short and sweet audio clips that will offer a sense of what I believe is going to be important to consider as we move into the New Year – as individuals and as a collective.

In particular, I offer a few perspectives that have been shared with a group of some of the most amazingly courageous people I have come to know and love ( in our current Awakening the Healer Within Group!).

To respect confidentiality, I’m sharing a few short clips from what I see as one of the most transformational opportunities I personally offer in the Awakening the Healer Within program. We begin with an orientation session on December 8 at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and only have 14 spots still open!

I Offer You An Integrated Perspective

 

Returning to Your Original Intention

 

When Forgiveness is Hard

 

You Are the Epicenter For Creating Change in the World

 

Meditation for Cultivating Gratitude (16 mins)

 

Donna Shares Her Thoughts

 

Debbie – I’m Happier Than I’ve Been for So, So Long…

 

Now thru December 1, 2009, you can save $100 off of the full tuition option at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

13 Two Hour Teleclasses, PLUS to private healing sessions are all part of the Awakening the Healer Within Program that begins on December 8th with an important orientation that will enable us to dive in on December 29th.

A Heightened Sense of Emergence is on The Horizon

As I said in an email a few weeks ago, there is a heightened sense of a new emergence on the horizon – a new level of realization that is asking to be welcomed and embraced for yourself and those that you serve.

What is asking to be healed in your mind, body, spirit, and/or life, right now? In other words, what is causing the most pain (frustration, struggle, hopelessness, etc.) for you right now?

And, most importantly, what are you ready to transcend so you may experience true and lasting liberation and embrace the Original Intention of Your Spirit?

I am here today as not just a teacher and healer, but as a receiver of an instant healing from Lupus in 1997.  I know what facing a life in chronic pain (not just physical pain!) is like. I also know the miracle of relief. I know the potential of healing and transcendence that exists. This is part of my frustration of late, to tell you the truth…because I know what is possible!

This knowledge extends into every possible are of needed change…money, relationships, career, and all of the subconscious and conscious thoughts and beliefs that contribute to disharmony on all possible levels.

Foundational to all healing, are The Core Energies of Transformation; Compassion, Empathy, Love, Gratitude, Surrender, Unity, Faith and Trust.

Cultivating these energies is paramount to healing. Think about it. How often are we attempting to heal something we have come to “hate?”

One can not heal absent of love. We can not fully heal absent of faith. And, we must surrender to a will beyond our own, a possibility that may not always be seen or understood, and, above all, we must align our beliefs and perspectives with a power and force beyond our current understandings.

If struggle is present, somewhere, somehow, you have not said yes to something…what are you ready to say yes to?

And, what are you willing to say no to?

You must make a decision, just as I did that fateful day in 1996 when my doctor told me I needed to prepare to die. That’s where I am asking you to begin today – with a decision. Not a desire that comes from fear or lack. Not a longing that conjures up pain or not enoughness.

Right here and now, I am inviting you to make a decision – one that will require you to reconcile all you will need to release, including parts of your identity that are wrapped up in your discomfort or the stories of your limitations, pain or lack.

In the psychology and healing worlds, we talk a great deal of secondary gain. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, what it gets to is the fact that we don’t hold onto anything – not a thought, judgment, or any type of discomfort, unless there is something that we gain from it.  Anything we carry (as a burden) enables us to do, or be, or say, or avoid, or not do, or be, or say something.

This is really important. It is one of the primary reasons people don’t say yes to personal growth or healing, or end up sabotaging themselves when they get closer to wholeness or healing.

They are getting more from staying in the limitation than they are willing to give up to be healthy, strong, or independent of the past patterns that caused them pain.

Like the person who will have to work again if they come off of disability, or the person who will have to let go of the excuses that have been hiding them from their destined purpose – and service in the world.

Do we really have the time to waste on justifying our limitations, pain or lack?

What do you believe you need to believe in order to see this level of healing?

Write some things down. Beliefs exist at multiple levels. Some are conscious and some are not. Some exist as a result of your history, your conditioning, and what is popularly accepted at the societal level or within your social and familial groups.

Did you know that you can hold an imprinted belief at a subconscious level as absolute truth, and not believe you believe it at a conscious level?

Memory and beliefs are also held in your muscles, organs and chakras, so a simple sensation can be misinterpreted and spark a chain reaction that effects you emotionally, mentally, physically, energetically and spiritually and not even no what the heck happened to trigger a reaction.

Some beliefs can be carried in from past lives, or are imprinted at the soul level.

Again, what do you believe you need to believe in order to see this level of healing?

What is asking to be revealed in your mind and life?

How are you currently being challenged to evolve in your consciousness (how you think, and your current level of awareness, faith and trust)?

In what ways are you ready to expand and Awaken to the Healer Within?

Reserve your spot today at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and save $100 on the full tuition when you use the coupon code HEAL (all caps, upon check-out).

We begin with releasing and clearing blocks to evolution and truth.

·     Over-identification with certain belief systems or cultural mores

 

·     Identities formed through our past experiences – I am a person who…I am the type of person who…

 

·     Arrogance – thinking we know it all, tried it all, or that only a quick fix, magic bullet will suffice. The path of the awakened healer is a way of living. It is NOT a temporary fix for a problem that has gotten so painful that you are finally willing to do something different.

 

·     We must release the habit of making decisions from fear and lack, and instead make decisions from faith and an abundant mindset

 

·     Judgments, unforgiveness, and resentments – the awakened healer knows that judgment and resentment are 100% our responsibility to transcend. Our state of harmony is not dependent on others. No one can be to blame for our current state of dissatisfaction – no one and nothing.

 

·     Ignorance or misinformation– being unaware of truth – often this includes the truth that has been passed on by others – by those we seek approval from or see as an authority in our lives. Remember, the entire medical community believed I was heading towards death. No one gave me an option of healing. No one believed it was possible.

 

·     Resistance – of purpose, intimacy, vulnerability, truth, health, wellness, and happiness.

 

·     Limiting expectations and pictures that enable you to hide or deny your gifts and the potential that awaits when you embrace them!

 

·     Withholding – knowledge, love, compassion, and full presence.

 

·     Unworthiness – just as I described the life and death impact of blocking receiving, unworthiness is deeply connected to this. You may not even be aware of why unworthiness exists, but it’s got to go!

 

·     Distractions and Busyness – from stillness, quiet, hearing the voice of soul and Spirit.

 

·     Impossibility thinking, negative expectations – Give thought to what it is you want – today. Now, list your expectations. Are they a match?

 

·     Unbelonging – the mythology of unbelonging has many believing they are alone – in their lives, or their experiences. You may carry a story of not fitting in that is being worn as a badge of honor, as opposed to a beacon to call forth “your people.”

 

·     Separation from the truth of our Oneness – separation from an intimate, friendly, inviting relationship with your Source and the parts of you that have been feeling fractured or fragmented.

 

Release and Expand into a Potential Not Yet Imagined

·     Release the habit of trying to fit everything into a category of good or bad, or right and wrong

·     The Universe is much more creative and imaginative than we are

·     Trust in Divine order, timing and the highest good that is coming in the form of many miracles and manifestations

·     What do you say “no” to

·     What do you say yes to?

If you are saying yes to a new reality – you might consider first saying no to the current expectations and assessments that are tainting you from experiencing a potential that you may not be privy to (yet!) on your soul’s evolutionary path.

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A Personal Letter

I am sharing a letter I wrote a few months ago and ask that you receive it in the reverence from which it was written.  Because I have recently said yes to a few life altering commitments, I can tell you the letter has been added to as my way of honoring the approaching changes I can not possibly foresee over the next year.

I have received the honor of sharing transformational wisdom, including scientific information that provides evidence of why ritual and ceremony, meditation, prayer, energy alchemy, and visualization techniques are so important to add to your unique healing recipes. 

I wish to share an expanded perception of healing to extend beyond the physical realm of experience, as occurred with me in 1997, when I received an instant and Divine healing from Systemic Lupus and Fibromyalgia.  

After my miraculous healing, I became a student to my own inner guidance. I opened to a tangible, spiritual force that was moving through me during meditation, prayer ceremonies, dreams, and while in healing sessions with my clients.

I was given or "shown" specific instructions that I first applied to myself and later shared with others. 

Although formally trained in several healing modalities, the truth is that I became an apprentice to a force and an energy of consciousness that is communicating to us all the time. Over the last two years, as a result of my heightened undertakings on my spiritual path, even more has come.

I just got quiet enough, still enough and willing enough to listen, feel, write, and respond to what I sensed was an untapped wisdom that is alive within each of us. 

As much as I feel honored to receive and bring forth a message of healing, I do not feel any more special than any one else. It is my belief we are encoded with everything we need to access the intuitive guidance that desires to guide us in all aspects of our lives.

Yet, last week, I received a profound initiation of sorts, one that I am able to speak of only the most sacred of circles.  What I can tell you is that I have entered into deep preparation and contemplation to honor a vision I received last July. The gifts I received during these times of spiritual preparation are never for me and me alone. I do know that the person who makes the commitment, is not the person who honors it.

Today, I simply ask you to allow for the opportunity to also receive these gifts into your life and Awaken to the Inner Healer Within. We begin the next 13 week journey with an orientation on December 8, and the program officially begins on December 29.

Get all of the details at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and be aware that there are only 14 spots that remain open. I will be sharing this letter with our entire community later today or first thing tomorrow. For now, it goes out to those of you who were called to join us for Initiating the SHIFT in 2010.

As always, the group that gathers, gathers for a Divine Appointment, one that was set long before today. Your life has been motioning you towards this moment of choice and you’ll know if this is your time to enter into this next level of initiation, healing, and service.

Together, we can co-create a powerful force for transformation, each of us bringing a unique infusion of talents, gifts and experiences that can be leveraged to heal ourselves and serve the collective. 

Evidenced in too many examples to list here, we can all agree that we are alive at an incredible time in an evolving history of humanity- one of both transition and transcendence. 

Many of you are being prepared to play a unique role in the ushering in of a new and elevated consciousness.  For some it is healing that which creates the illusion of separateness, lack, or fragmentation within yourself. For others, it is this and so much more – including opening to a greater awareness of your capacity to be of service to the healing of others.

The form varies. For some it will be through a more authentic sharing of your Divine nature. For others, your art, your music, your voice, coaching, ministering, teaching, or your writing will be your vehicles. For others, your intuition and hands will be instruments through which you serve.

As we continue to transcend perceived limitation within our minds and spirits, we will witness great openings to miracles that our human conditioned mind often blocks from our perceptions, let alone our experiences. 

What was commonly held as TRUTH thousands of years ago became tainted with social, political and religious forms of manipulation and abuse (all the while, enticing people with promises of salvation and freedom). 

Many of us are awakening to ancient wisdom that is resurfacing in a way we are able to better integrate it and apply in daily living. It is for these reasons that I am even more confident that our future generations will see themselves as aspects of the Divine, regardless of the many labels humans used to place upon them (or attempted to).

Just as is reinforced in www.divinitymovie.com, we will find ourselves more able to see the Divine presencing itself in every single person on the planet.

Race, gender, sexual orientation and religion will become irrelevant when assigning worth to the diverse members of our human family. Instead, we will see an insurgence of compassion, empathy, love, gratitude, surrender, faith, and unity within the very fabric of our collective consciousness.

Holy, sacred, and fully integrated, our next generation will better understand their inherent power to create heaven on earth. They won't be fettered by the same insecurities, fears and perceived limitations to what they can create in the world, their bodies, and their relationships.

Mastery will be encouraged by leaders, teachers, and preachers because they won't be afraid of losing power or influence. Equality amongst all peoples will be a reality not a dream.

Peace and service to others will become The Power of Our Way as a global community, and any emerging conflicts or disparity will be seen as an opportunity to come together in CommUNITY - within ourselves and in relationship with others.

War will become a historical and educational reminder of what happens when we lose touch with knowing one another as brother, sister and cousin - as children of a Divine Source of inherent goodness. 

Healing our bodies will begin with healing our hearts, minds and spirits. Energy healing modalities will become the norm and we will learn how to harness our innate abilities as healers and conscious creators for the good of all, beginning with ourselves.

We won't see poverty and homelessness as options for anyone in our human family and no child will ever go to bed hungry or without a family who loves them as God does.

I see this shift happening as a spiritual inevitability. And, intuitively, we know it begins with healing our own internal beliefs and divisions and taking responsibility for our own shifts.

This is why I exist. It is why you exist. It is why we are coming together in such powerful ways and I am honored to be playing my own part in the co-creation of this new reality.

Although not everyone is called to walk the path of an awakened healer, some of us no longer have a choice. You know who you are…in spite of past resistance or denial.

 And, it is these people that I am inviting, officially, to begin this powerful journey with us on December 8.

Go to www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and you can save 100 off of the full registration option by entering coupon code HEAL upon checkout.

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin (all my relations),

Ani (she who lives on and lives for the people)  

Listen to Standing in a New Reality with Ani and Brent Law

 

Watch Divinity by Ani (Anita) Pathik Law

What Does it Mean to Awaken to Your Inner Shaman? Energy Alchemy 101

 

As we prepare for the next Awakening the Healer Within Teleretreat (www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html), I've received a lot of questions, and this article is my attempt to answer them in the most direct way possible.

 

Awakening your Inner Healer or Shaman is a spirit influenced journey of awakening to the ancient wisdom and encoded ability that is crying out for a voice and eyes, and attempting to initiate a more conscious presence in your every day life. What was once reserved for a person who went through years of initiations, near death experiences, and for some, a complete turning over of themselves to a teacher’s specific way of viewing and working with these ways, is now opening to a new generation of healers.  

 

The Doors Are Opening

 

Many people’s abilities are opening spontaneously, and often create some initial disturbances until integrated and understood.  It is an important time to monitor ego and navigate and integrate the life experiences that are forcing (and sourcing) a complete overhaul of belief systems and past conditioning that are non-empowering and self-destructive, as opposed to self-enhancing.

 

Just look at how much we have opened to energy healing modalities in the last decade.  The common conversation is shifting. Science is offering evidence of how consciousness and energy impact one’s ability to heal. At the same time, we are being challenged to believe more deeply, and have faith in (and act upon), the unseen, absent of scientific proof and the external validation that has become so important to so many of us.

 

Healer Heal Thyself – Transcending Archetypal Influence

 

We transcend the archetype of the wounded healer and all that does not give way to the full potential that exists when we heal our own stuff. He have compassion for the archetype of the controlling and hierarchical teacher, whose identity is largely defined by a need for power and control, and who can fall prey to behaviors and teachings that are abusive and disempowering. We give thanks for the example they have given to us, for they have invited us to better define who we want to be - and don't want to be - in this worldly existence.

 

Brent and I believe that we are teachers of masters, not masters of teachers. Our lives are dedicated to sharing our gifts in such a way that offers pathways back to self-empowerment, self-healing and personal accountability. 

 

YOU CAN…

 

You can understand how to translate the often mystical nature of non-traditional healing and shamanism and apply principles and practices to your every day life and the challenges and opportunities that arise.

 

You can learn to expand, at will, into higher levels of consciousness at multiple dimensions within the physical and spiritual worlds.

 

You can better learn to receive, interpret, and work with synchronicities, symbols, dreams, and signs from nature and animal spirits.

 

And, most importantly, you can come into higher relationship with the totality of your life – the experiences and events that have been gifts on your evolutionary journey – many of which hold the mysterious ingredients in your unique recipes for healing at all levels.

 

You can move beyond conventional or conditioned interpretations of experience and learn how to quickly and effectively take responsibility for your own shifts, using tools like The Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel, for example, and The 7 Core Energies of Transformation; Compassion, Empathy, Love, Gratitude, Surrender, Faith, Unity and Trust.

 

Cultivating Oneness and Inter-Connection

 

In order to do so, we must first and foremost, enhance and solidify our awareness of our oneness; our connection to all things in creation, including our Source and others, even those we might have once dismissed or judged as being different, or less than or better than.

 

Integration and Wholeness

 

We must integrate all of the selves within our SELVES; integrate what many traditions label as the “ego” or “personality” with your spirit so all parts of you can come into unified and integrated wholeness, and be of enhanced (and clearer) service to you and others in the world.

 

Letting Go of Conditioning

 

We must be willing to let go of what we think we have come to believe as true, important and required and accept that much of our conditioning had been to serve a world dependent on fear, insecurity and dependency.

 

Directing Core Energies Towards Fulfillment of Your Unique Purpose

 

We need to learn how to direct our core energies towards aligned manifestation and transformation. The invitation is to really look at what you think you want in your life, what you once defined as measures of success, security and fulfillment, and come into better alignment with the reasons you were born – your unique purpose in the world.  

 

Every one of use learns how to brush our teeth but not everyone is called to become a dental hygienist or dentists. Learning how to self-heal does not mean you’ll be called to work as a healer or shaman with others.  It may be that you apply principles and practices to healing your own life and feel more empowered in your ability to navigate challenges, and heal limitations from the past.

 

Develop Your Inherent Intuitive Abilities

 

Regardless of your calling, I am confident in saying that most of us share the incredible opportunity to strengthen our natural abilities and leverage what I call our Core Inherent Modes of Intuitive Interpretation.

 

For example, if you are an empath, sometimes referred to as clairsentient, or a feeler or a senser, and this is how you interpret energy, grow that. If you are a seer (clairvoyant), grow your natural abilities to see and receive visions that will offer incredible guidance and clarity. If naturally clairaudient and “hearing” is your core inherent ability, open to listening on a deeper level and cultivate practices that clear the perceptual and belief filters that talk you out of listening to your inner voice, or potentially block you from receiving guidance from higher realms.

Having these abilities, growing them, honing them and trusting them are very different things and it can only come with commitment, practice and on some level, a willingness to learn from mistakes or misinterpretation.

 

These are your unique love languages with Creator.  I’m, for example, more of a knower and feeler and am highly receptive to metaphysical or symbolic communication and signs from nature.  Yet, recently, I experienced a heightened opening to “sight,” and fortunately have the support, tools and practices that are enabling me to expand and receive this ability without having to experience disturbances or the resistance that I have seen in so many.

 

Become an Energy Alchemist

 

We must also learn to work with different types of energy and find our unique ways to clear, extract, balance, imprint and ground energy. To become an energy alchemist is to learn how to transmute and alter the current (or perceived) form of “an energy,” into something of a higher, more pure quality.

 

Energy Alchmeny can be used to change the quality of the “energetic” of your thoughts, your body, chakras, breath, emotions, and your relationships. Sound, chakra, auric, reiki, and meridian healing, for example, are all various forms of energy healing and not all forms come as easy to some as others. Regardless of where you think you are on this spectacular journey, you will find it even more important to work with a mentor as you open to and cultivate these abilities.

 

We Have the Tools to Cultivate Expansion

 

Many of you have heard and been pondering the guidance to gather for the Awakening the Healer Within Teleretreat, a 13 week experiential training program that deeply opens you to pathways to the Divine, and offers the intermingling of facilitated healing sessions (to release blocks and activate natural abilities), with powerful rituals and practices that enhance your natural abilities, and offer a multitude of tools that will open you to a consciously experienced shift in your natural healing abilities.

 

Learn more at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html (only 16 spots remain open!) and hear about the program from those who have gone through it.

 

One such tool is The Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel, which offers a brilliant progression through 45 distinct “stations” that ultimately bring you back into a consciousness of Embodied Awareness, Oneness, and Original Intention (Soul Encoding), where you more easily access the wisdom of the Divine Mystery and your Higher Self.

 

Deep journey and trance work and that enable you to re-pattern your subconscious mind and the beliefs that dictate, not just influence your experiences, is a major aspect of the training, and provides the space to learn, explore, ask questions, and experiment in a safe space supported by a well respected teacher of teachers.

 

If ready to learn how to enter into the parts of yourself (spiritual, energetic, and mental) that enable you to alter your current reality, and come into your own inherent abilities and spiritual encoding, join us for the orientation session for Awakening the Healer Within on December 8, 2009 so we can all dive in together on December 29^th and open the pathways to a divine 2010!

Reserve your spot today at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

 

Anita Pathik Law (Ani) is a modern day facilitator of healing and a respected

teacher and coach in the fields of spirituality, consciousness, healing, and

conscious business development. Her writing, workshops, teleclasses,

sermons, and speaking engagements offer a self empowering and inspiring

perspective that is often experienced as transformational. 

An interfaith minister who walks an indigenous spiritual path, Ani’s diverse

teachings, guided meditations and healing work have coined her as a

“midwife to the soul.” Many clients have come to her after years of therapy

and medical intervention and find immediate success that can be celebrated

through their commitment and willingness to do their part and see

themselves as the masters in training that they are.

Join her for Awakening the Healer Within at

www.powerofmyway,com/awaken.html

 

23 Techniques for Grounding, Cultivating and Clearing Energy

A visionary receives the inspiration to create a body of work and feels as if he is downloading or channeling information.  Although he receives the information and can feel the aliveness in it, weeks, months, or years later, he has been unable to make any significant progress in bringing his dreams fully into physical form. Frustrated, he feels the pain and frustration of longing and the impulse to create and serve, yet struggles with implementation and follow through. Every time he gets close to taking the big leap, something happens to take him off course, or he gets scared and talks himself out of it. He often withdraws from others and is losing his sense of self respect because he can’t seem to get anything done.

A long time spiritual seeker and meditator, Julie finds it easy to live in the upper chakras (heart, throat, third eye and crown).  She loves big and desires a deeper connection to her Source. Mystical experiences have become more common and she has developed a greater capacity for interpreting and acting on her intuition. She loves meditating and reading the next great spiritual or self-development book, but, she finds living “in the world” to be challenging. Her empathic nature creates severe energetic disturbances in her body and even going to the mall or grocery store is stressful. She struggles with physical illness, sadness, and fatigue and often wonders, “what’s my problem?”

Having survived multiple traumas in childhood, Terry has been “healing” for many years. Although she has seen progress, there is a still a big part of her that “doesn’t want to be here.” Looking back, she can see that from the time she was little, this has been a theme. She often catches herself sounding like a victim and still harbors resentment for people in her past. Although not suicidal, Terry often finds herself fantasizing about what it would be like to face death. She believes she would go willingly if ever given the option. Sensitive to energy and life in general, she often feels depressed and lacks a connection to her value and purpose. She knows she is a healer, but is having challenges making a good living consistently.

Nellie began seeking spiritual answers and connection many years ago. One day, it was as if she experienced a huge psychic opening. Suddenly, she is overwhelmed with heightened empathic and multi-sensory perception. She often feels drained and vertigo and lightheadedness are not uncommon.  Physically, she feels “off,” mentally she feels scattered, and energetically she feels as if she is vibrating at a different rate than those around her. The things that once brought her so much joy now seem to impact her energy in negative ways.  Her view tends to be getting more negative and fearful, and it seems as if she has become more susceptible to illness or “bad luck.”

Shelly was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia after years of trying to figure out why she was in so much pain and chronic fatigue. Although she has had phases of feeling good and has experienced increased bouts of energy and good health, she always seems to fall back into the same pattern. The people in her life don’t seem to be understanding and sometimes she wonders if they think she is making it all up. She doesn’t have faith that she can get better and fears the worst. She has developed a lot of sensitivities to various foods and chemicals and she is constantly focused on her sense of limitation. She is influenced by the next big “crisis” in the news, worries about getting sick with the next pandemic and tends to pass along warnings she receives from the news or the internet. She doesn’t trust “the establishment” but finds herself influenced by it anyway. Right now, the Swine Flu and 2012 are on her mind a lot and she wonders, will I ever be happy and feel safe?

Joel always seems to struggle with the physical and material aspects of human life. He has had failed relationships and professional endeavors and often feels like he is being punished for something. Money and career have not been easy and he is wondering if he’ll ever have the peace of mind that comes from a sense of stability with money and an intimate relationship. He dreams big and although sociable and very likeable, he feels as if something is missing most of the time.  Although he doesn’t say it, he likes animals much more than people and is turned off by a lot of things in human life.

Do You Relate to Any of This?

In truth, as “made up” as these folks are, they are more real than many might imagine. Each of these descriptions are comprised of the themes I have seen (and at times experienced) as a spiritual teacher and mentor.  Some lifelong and others appearing suddenly, these characteristics are commonly experienced by people who seem to have a natural inclination for the healing arts and various creative expressions such as writing, art and music. Learning how to interpret, manage, cultivate, and clear energy in one’s body, chakras and thoughts can make the difference between living fully and barely getting by. Grounding, interestingly enough, is one of the most important things to learn and ritualize into one’s daily practice. Read on to get 23 specific techniques that may help you get started!

Unfortunately (or not) I really had to learn most of this on my own. In 1997, when I experienced my miraculous healing from Lupus, Fibromyalgia and a bunch of other auto-immune diseases, I also opened up on a multi-sensory level. I began having experiences that people couldn’t relate to. The “teachers” I ran across were hyper-dysfunctional and even destructive and possessive. I’d go to a healer and the moment they would put their hands on me, they’d start crying and the session focus would immediately turn to them.  Although obviously sensitive since a child, I began to have trouble with vertigo and often felt effected by certain people and environments. My body temperature would begin to soar every time I was in the room with someone in need of healing. Although physically I felt great, energetically I was on hyper speed.

Driving into the city was hell because I could literally feel every car, person and what I perceived as “dark, desperate energy.” It was as if my aura extended so far out that it felt as if the world was touching me. I painted chakras in perfect balance, wrote an amazing amount of poetry and music and lyrics and my intuition and empathy seemed to explode open. Working in a jail at the time, I found it curious why I could be so comfortable “behind bars” yet found going to the mall so disturbing!

WAKE UP!

In 2001 I had a huge wake-up call. A few months prior to September 11, I began to feel increasingly fatigued, depressed (for no reason) and negative. Six weeks before the towers fell, I fell too, literally and figuratively. One morning, I awoke to symptoms that were “stroke like” and hubbie rushed me to the hospital. Although it turned out my thyroid crashed and my entire endocrine system was in crisis, the contraction, and six weeks of being confined to bed, unable to focus, read, or even be up and about for more than a few minutes at a time, was completely Divine in its order.

I was being forced to get quiet and go within. My soul, energy, whatever you might call it, was privy to the change that was on the horizon. I watched the second plane hit the second tower and I fell to my knees, asking, “What is mine to do?” The next week I woke up to a vision that included the entire outline for my first book. I wrote many of the lyrics to songs you have heard (like Power of My Way, Return to Sane, and others). In effect, I received the vision for what is now the Power of Our Way Community, yet didn’t officially launch until 2005.

Finally surrendering to my natural inclinations was the first step. Learning to work with energy and trust my intuition were life altering. Daily meditation and trance work, working with energy and chakras, being trained as a Hypnotherapist, and for me, the last 8 years of participating in traditional Lakota ceremony and spiritual practice has been core to my own growth – and the work I do with clients and students today.

ARE YOU FULLY IN (and LOVING) YOUR BODY?

One of the things that I find most prevalent in people today is the fact that their lower chakras below the heart are quite deficient and closed.  The third (solar plexus), second (pelvis), first (root)and sixth chakras (at the throat) seem to be the most shut down and the physical manifestations in one’s body, relationships, and creative or professional endeavors seem to be the greatest opportunities. Healing at the energetic and subconscious levels must be cultivated through consistent practice and grounding techniques are imperative. If you hate your body, no wonder you don’t want to be in it!

The body is an amazing tool and quite frankly, we are blessed to have such a fabulous tool, one, that if we choose, will tell us a lot about what and how to heal. Grounding, however, for those of us more spiritually inclined and energetically sensitive, can feel challenging.

23 POWERFUL GROUNDING TECHNIQUES

For years, I could not walk barefoot. Even walking from the coach to the kitchen, I’d slip on my shoes. In hindsight, it was an unconscious resistance to “being grounded in my body.” Being introduced to Lakota ceremonies got me on the earth and I began to go barefoot. I learned to re-ground after meditation or deep trance work and ritualized practices that I engage in before and after every client session or class I teach. I also learned to energetically and psychically “disconnect” from others after our sessions so a part of me wasn’t “still out there.” This is something I teach my clients and healers I mentor.

Personally, today, I can use breath and visualization partnered with intention to do this. However, here are a few techniques that have made huge differences for me and my clients.

1. Stand barefoot on the earth and breath up grounding energy.

2. Rub your feet into the carpet or floor, flexing and pointing your toes

3. Light bouncing, with toes remaining on the ground, lifting your heals up and down for five or more minutes

4. Spend time outside

5. Massage your feet, legs and hands.

6. Use a grounding and clearing, “in your body” meditation such as Energy Clearing or Cultivating Energy (try one below)

7. Engage in some form of water ceremony – salt baths, a hot shower (love using the water to “clean and clear chakras), and drink plenty of water, being conscious of how it feels as it enters your body

8. Sit on the ground, put your hands in the dirt, lay on the earth

9. Smudge with sage, burn incense, use aroma therapy, or essential oils

10. Handle gemstones that are grounding, or correlate with the lower chakras being balanced

11. Meditate with a stone or rock

12. Hug a tree (seriously, it does work!)

13. Eat some red meat

14. Wash dishes and connect to the feeling of the water, suds and dishes, open your physical sensations to how good it actually feels

15. Become aware of how often you close your eyes or unconsciously hold your breath and shift the behavior to become more present to the physical world

16. Make contact with your physical environment. See (the details), touch, name, handle, and smell 5-10 objects in your environment and perceive the weight, texture, and energy of each one.

17. Sing aloud, and dance – be in your body and feel the vibration of creation moving through you

18. Practice body awareness and become more aware of the various communication patterns in your body and chakras that are attempting to guide you back into balance

19. Handle ice, put your feet in an ice bath (briefly), or drink some ice water

20. Peel and eat a fragrant fruit (peach, apple, orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime) and be present to the aroma, taste, and texture, as well as the astringent or sweet quality

21. Cuddle with someone (two legged or four) and feel the sensation of physical contact, noticing the shift in your energy and emotions

22. Take a walk and connect to the sun and the wind and the sounds of nature talking to you

23. Sign up for Awakening the Healer Within beginning in December at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html (Couldn’t resist!) and learn to be a master of your own energy, thoughts and emotions!

Anita Pathik Law (Ani) is a modern day facilitator of healing and a respected

teacher and coach in the fields of spirituality, consciousness, healing, and

conscious business development. Her writing, workshops, teleclasses,

sermons, and speaking engagements offer a self empowering and inspiring

perspective that is often experienced as transformational.  An interfaith

minister who walks an indigenous spiritual path, Ani’s diverse teachings,

guided meditations and healing work have coined her as a “midwife for the

soul.” Many clients have come to her after years of therapy and medical

intervention and find immediate success that can be celebrated through their

commitment and willingness to do their part and see themselves as the

masters in training that they are.

 

Enjoy several inspiring resources from Ani and her husband of 11 years, Brent Law by visiting www.thepowerofmywaymovie.com and www.divinitymovie.com

Receive free meditations and audio downloads from Ani and the Power of Our Way Community at www.powerofmyway.com/newreality.html and www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealerwithin.html

If interesting in hosting a retreat in your area, or booking Anita and Brent for a radio show or at your church or upcoming conference, contact them at inspiration@powerofmyway.com

 Sample a few healing meditations below!

Cultivating Energy (full length, 70 minute healing treatment)

 

Energy Clearing (23 minutes)

 

 

No Travel Required!

No Travel Required! Join us for a Teleretreat in December!

 

Over the last few months I finally opened to an inner calling to gather others together, for Awakening the Healer Within, a tele-retreat I will share powerful practices that have healed me and others.  
 
Whether you are a healer working with clients or you wish to transcend the current circumstances in your life, this program is transformational.

 

And, whether your healing opportunities are health related or not, I have found that even emotional trauma, financial struggles, and relationshipwounds can be transformed in ways beyond what most of us could imagine
 

 

Awakening the Healer Within

 begins December 29, 2009, orientation on December 8!

• You will cultivate a Sacred Awareness of Your Inherent Connection to Your Divine Source.
• You will learn to become more present to your intuition and the still, small voice that has been speaking to you all of your life.
• You will master the art of clearing, cultivating and grounding your energy and become an Energy Alchemist...
• You will learn the powerful tool of self hypnosis and powerful breathing and healing rituals that can help you move pain out of your body and bring harmony to your mind and spirit.
• You will engage in Soul Journeying exercises and be taught how to work with the 7 Core Energies of Transformation to heal any conflict and disharmony in your life.
• You will learn how nature is speaking to you and asking to assist you in your healing
• You will learn to attune to subtle energy in yourself and others and enter into altered states where miracles occur
• You will engage in meditations, healing sessions, massive belief repatterning, toning, energy exchanges, and breathing and movement that will expand your ability to transform just about anything...
• And, you will laugh, drum, and sing songs and chants that have had a healing effect for generations.
• You'll go deeper into the concepts I have shared in the Awakening the Healer Within and Awakening Your Inner Shaman audios (posted at www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealerwithin.html

Please visit http://www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html  

to learn more about 12 session tele-retreat that is being offered in December.

 

 

Reserve your spot at http://www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html  

  

I look forward to meeting you in person!

 

Letter from a Retreat Participant

 

"How does one describe the experience of being born back into the Source of all love? How does one describe the experience of feeling a heavenly bliss while still being in the earthly realm? How does one describe truly healing and still having the time to integrate that healing so that it is reinforced while in the presence of so much love of others?

I don't know that there are words to describe the Heavenly Presence that we all experienced at the last retreat. Both Anita and Brent were phenomenal. While Anita provided so many words of Healing and Love, Brent was able to provide the fluid medium to transport those words into my very soul. Anita exudes a Divine-Consciousness that facilitates an immediate knowledge of safety and love within the group. We all followed into that Divine Consciousness. I was able to "wake up" and feel the beauty of my soul and that of others. I felt courage and passion. I felt, for the first time in my life, how emotions are truly fluid without needing to stay "stuck" in any of them.

I came to the retreat wanting to know the Divine. And while I was there, not only did I come to know the Divine...
I touched the Face of God.

 

It does not end there, however. We have so many tools to stay in the presence of Source. We are challenged to "take responsibility for our own shift". And we are shown, over and over, how we can do this. So the retreat does not last for just a weekend. It is the first day of the rest of our lives, if we so choose."

~ Cindy Kalaf, Niles, Ohio
 

Are you meant to be with us for Awakening the Healer Within?

 

Sign up today at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

Together We Are a Powerful Source for Transformation

Today, I share a vision that was first embodied during a profound spiritual and physical healing I received in April of 1997.

This transformational wisdom has evolved to include scientific information that provides evidence of why ritual, ceremony, meditation, prayer, energy alchemy, and visualization techniques are so important to add to your unique healing and personal/spiritual growth recipes. 

We will expand our perception of healing to extend beyond the physical realm of experience, as I did in 1997, when I received an instant and Divine healing from Lupus.  

Just a few months prior to my own healing, my Rheumatologist (since about age 13) sat me down, and shared some not so great news regarding my prognosis. The long and short of it was that it included a slow, painful death, possibly managed by a ton of drugs (like anti-malarial meds!).

It was in that moment that something shifted.

I said, “That’s not an agreement I am willing to make.”

A few months later, after making some significant changes (like leaving my first marriage with my two babies), I found myself alone in the woods talking to my father (who died when I was 18), and feeling the most impeccable, magnificent presence of the Divine I had ever experienced.

In one swift and certain moment, I healed. Right then and there, standing in a sunbeam of brilliant light, I was healed of a disease that first manifested when I was all of 12 years old.

 After my miraculous healing, I became a student to my own inner guidance and an intelligence that I believe we all have access to. I opened to a tangible, spiritual force that was moving through me during meditation, dreams, and while in healing sessions with my clients.

I was given or "shown" specific instructions that I first applied to myself and later shared with others. 

Although formally trained in several healing modalities, the truth is that I became an apprentice to a force and an energy of consciousness that is communicating to us all the time. 

I just got quiet enough, still enough and willing enough to listen, write, and respond to what I sensed was an untapped wisdom that is alive within each of us. 

As much as I feel honored to receive and bring forth a message of healing, I do not feel any more special than any one else. It is my belief we are encoded with everything we need to access the intuitive guidance that now guides me in all aspects of my life.

Today, I simply ask you to allow for the opportunity to also receive these gifts into your life and Awaken to the Inner Healer Within.

And, join us for the next teleretreat at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

Together, we create a powerful force for transformation, each of us bringing a unique infusion of talents, gifts and experiences that can be leveraged to heal ourselves and serve the collective. Evidenced in too many examples to list here, we can all agree that we are alive at an incredible time in an evolving history of humanity- one of both transition and transcendence. 

As we continue to transcend perceived limitation within our minds and spirits, we will witness great openings to miracles that our human conditioned mind can actually block from our perceptions, let alone our experiences. 

What was commonly held as TRUTH thousands of years ago became tainted with social, political and religious forms of manipulation and abuse (all the while enticing people with promises of salvation and freedom). 

I am confident that our future generations will see themselves as aspects of the Divine, regardless of the many labels humans used to place upon them (or attempted to).

Just as is reinforced in www.divinitymovie.com, we will find ourselves more able to see the Divine presencing itself in every single person on the planet.

Race, gender, sexual orientation and religion will become irrelevant when assigning worth to the diverse members of our human family. Instead, we will see an insurgence of compassion, empathy, love, gratitude, faith, and unity within the very fabric of our collective consciousness.

Holy, sacred, and fully integrated, our next generation will better understand their inherent power to create heaven on earth. They won't be fettered by the same insecurities, fears and perceived limitations to what they can create in the world, their bodies, and their relationships.

Mastery will be encouraged by leaders, teachers and preachers because they won't be afraid of losing power or influence. Equality amongst all peoples will be a reality not a dream.

Peace will become  The Power of Our Way as a global community, and any emerging conflicts or disparity will be seen as an opportunity to come together in CommUNITY - within ourselves and in relationship with others.

War will become a historical and educational reminder of what happens when we lose touch with knowing one another as brother, sister and cousin - as children of a Divine Source of inherent goodness. 

Healing our bodies will begin with healing our hearts, minds and spirits. Energy healing modalities will become the norm and we will learn how to harness our innate abilities as healers and conscious creators for the good of all, beginning with ourselves.

We won't see poverty and homelessness as options for anyone in our human family and no child will ever go to bed hungry or without a family who loves them as God does.

I see this shift happening as a spiritual inevitability. And, intuitively, we know it begins with healing our own internal beliefs and divisions and taking responsibility for our own shifts.

This is why I exist. It is why you exist. It is why we are coming together in such powerful ways and I am honored to be playing my own part in the creation of this new reality.

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin (all my relations),

Ani (she who lives on and lives for the people)  

Only 18 SPOTS OPEN for the December Awakening the Healer Within Teleretreat!

Learn all about it at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html 

Read on to hear what Janis has to say about Awakening the Healer Within.

 

“Ani, You have helped me explore my most authentic self

and with it my place in the world.”

 

  “I wholeheartedly endorse Anita Pathik-Law and her incredible Awakening The Healer Within Tele-retreat Program as the most engaging and transformational course I have ever taken!

   I'm not sure if I can accurately express my appreciation for all that Ani has provided in my life. She has helped me develop a mental, emotional, subconscious and conscious anchor, as well as a framework for future healing and discovery that inspires my soul.

   It doesn’t matter how I dissect the learning, every facet is a doorway to understanding and accepting one’s self. Ani’s unique gifts are many and quite simply - magnificent!  Her level of consciousness, loving warmth, intellect and seasoned facilitation skills easily translate throughout our calls. As a powerful leader and shaman Ani has been able to light the Power of Our Way.

   With ample opportunity to connect inwardly we open easily to outward creativity.  Our group, comprised of people seeking personal and professional development, authenticity and healing inspiration, has come together as a healing collective of sorts.  We support one another as we navigate the changes we desire and with Ani’s guidance, we have become energy alchemists – better able to replenish our body, mind and soul.

   Each week for two plus hours Ani demonstrates incredible healing expertise and holds the space for amazing, life altering transformation.  By the end of each call we are revitalized and reenergized.  In many ways Ani skillfully disables our non-serving beliefs and repetitive patterns often from painful pasts of constraint.  We have truly come together in ways one could never have anticipated.

   Ani is an exceptional mid-wife to the soul. With her gentle encouragement, I have actualized my goal to move forward in establishing new aspects of my business as a soul worker, emotional intuitive, energy and inner child healer.  I am forever grateful to Ani on many levels and specifically for leading me toward my destiny… with courage I now follow my authentic bliss.

   Ani, you have helped me explore my most authentic self and with it my place in the world.   What else can I say other than to give my deepest and most heartfelt gratitude - thank you, thank you, thank you!”

 

With Love, Light, Peace and Blessings, Janis Mansbridge

http://janismansbridge.com   

 

Integrating Expansion

Integrating Change and Expansion

 

Since returning from an incredible spiritual “adventure” in the desert in July, life has been interesting.  As much as it was life-changing, I diminished the intensity of integrating back into “normal.” I certainly discounted the effect my journey would have on my values and how much it would challenge what I believed was important, or priority in my life. I came back in a highly expanded state and within two days found myself vulnerable to a few contrary energies (and people) that impacted me in ways I am just now discovering.

 

Just as we discussed yesterday during Surrendering to the Cycles of Expansion call (listen at http://powerofourway.blogs.com/power_of_our_way_blog/2009/11/surrendering-to-the-cycles-of-expansion-audio-and-meditation.html ) , I am reminded of the natural process of expansion and constriction, in particular, when integrating a new level of consciousness, and what often occurs as we move deeper into new awarenesses about ourselves, our faith, and the world around us. All of a sudden, various aspects of our lives—or our thinking—that are not a match for the new emerging consciousness begin to pop up so they can be healed and released. 

 

Chemicalization

 

For many of us, it can feel like the age old “two steps forward, five steps back.” What was all happy, harmonious and easily working, suddenly (or so it seems) seems to fall apart. I see this in spiritual development and healing all the time. The newly found nirvana is met with an earthquake of contrary energy.  We feel tested in our new level of faith and feel like the honeymoon is over. It’s painful and messy and tests us in huge ways. And, it is normal! In fact, this universal phenomenon actually has a name and is called chemicalization.

 

Emmet Fox says this, “It seems as though everything begins to go wrong at once. This may be disconcerting, but it is really a good sign. Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundation. Hold on steadily, and let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.”

 

The challenge is not giving up five minutes before the miracle. The opportunity is to allow the natural process and not give into the potential doubt that can come when faced with a barrage of “evidence” that is contrary to your faith, and the commitments made from your newly expanded consciousness.

 

New awareness requires a chemicalization of sorts – an integration and re-patterning—that shakes everything up and out of you so you can decide what to keep and what to release.  Our belief bag needs to get dumped so we can truly choose, from this new vibration, what we will continue to carry into the creation of our future reality.

 

Like cleaning out your closets, things tend to get a lot messier before reorganization is complete. The mere thought of the work it will take can stop us from even getting started. Our fears of letting go of things we think we might need or want later, keep us hanging on to a lot of clutter – physically, emotionally, and mentally.

 

Catherine Ponder, in her book The Dynamic Laws of Healing, says “Chemicalization results when an old set of ideas, an old way of life, tries to hold on, while a new and better way of thinking is trying to appear.”

 

Brilliant, huh? An expanded awareness of truth requires a process of chemicalization that can only be “survived” when partnered with faith, trust, patience, and surrender. Our magic bullet, easy button, give up easily mentality makes surrendering even more difficult, and self sabotage more likely.  As I undergo my own chemicalization process, I am aptly aware of the challenges—and temptations—to interrupt the natural shaking up of things and avoid the level of surrender that is needed to fully integrate and unify in my expanded awareness.

 

Think About It!

 

Let’s get you thinking about a few simple examples.  Think about the high of new realization – or a reawakening to a truth that has once escaped you. Or, give thought to a moment when you experienced a big “Ah Ha!” and the genesis of a problematic pattern in your life revealed itself in your awareness.

 

In that moment, something shifted. The unconscious (that which has been unaware) became conscious. What had been unknown became known with a capital “K.” Something you had not previously understood as absolute truth makes perfect sense; finally, wholly, and completely. Maybe you suddenly, without a doubt, came to fully, believe something you had wanted to believe for a very long time – like miracles, love, oneness, or the absolute, undeniable power of prayer and unwavering intention.

 

When belief and faith in something transcends into a state of knowing there is a deep energetic shift that begins to take place. This shift occurs as the totality of who you are and the thoughts you think. Naturally, the new awareness attempts to unify around a single truth as principle. It is a moment (literally sometimes just a fleeting moment) when not one single part of you is in disagreement or doubt as it relates to a thought that is birthed along with the emerging consciousness.

 

For you healers, it is often the first time you witnessed a healing in front of your very eyes (or under your hands). For a musician, it might be finally “getting” your guitar or piano to do what you could hear in your head.  A coach or therapist might experience that moment of extreme celebration when a client achieves a goal and their faith (or hope) in the importance and effectiveness in their work is rewarded with tangible evidence of its worth. Most of us have experienced a “gut feeling” that we acted on and then later were shown the perfection of and higher reasons for following our intuition. We feel a grand coming together and vibrate with new potential that we often want to share with others.

 

These are all examples of awakening moments that need to be chemicalized and integrated before finding a sense of absoluteness in our faith. Some might say awakening is simply waking up to a truth that exists within you but has remained hidden underneath false ideas or identities. I call this a Divine Remembering of TRUTH. Others may say that awakening comes through some sort of Divine Intervention or an external source of information. Both offer an experience of resonance – a feeling of being in harmony with a thought, philosophy, or idea.

 

Post Miracle Let Down (a.k.a constriction)

 

All of these illustrations can create a euphoric high of sorts; one that might be lessened when you share your experience with someone who meets you with their own doubt, skepticism, or disapproval. Or, you grow in excitement and wonderment until you can’t seem to duplicate your experience, for whatever reasons. In any case, it’s as if the “juice” (or juiciness) of the realization is sucked right out of you.

 

The phenomenon of “post miracle let down” can prevent us from truly integrating the experience. Suddenly, you find you are back in doubt, or obstacles start popping up all over the place, messing with the sense of faith that you were so glad (and relieved) to find within yourself.  What felt centered suddenly feels scattered and you lose your spiritual footing, so to speak.

 

In all of these examples, what you once believed (or hoped for) conceptually actually does manifest in physical reality.  Initially, your faith in your belief is deepened greatly as a result. You find yourself in an expanded state of consciousness; one that opens you to new realms of possibility.

 

But as we know, such expanded states tend towards the impermanent, and suddenly you find yourself in constriction. This is when the questions you have always traveled with reappear, and doubt is often the side effect. It’s all part of the chemicalization process.

 

The Law of Opposites

 

The law of opposites says that everything that exists is a combination or unity of opposites. This law alone guarantees contrast in thought and experience. Even as we look into ourselves, we find contrast. Love and hate. Faith and fear. Compassion and judgment. No wonder we feel so unsettled within ourselves. No wonder we doubt!

 

To top it off, we are also dealing with the science of consciousness and don’t realize that there are still subconscious or unconscious beliefs and perspectives that contradict this emerging new level of thinking and further challenge our faith. Just because you are consciously choosing a new way does not mean your subconscious mind won’t fight you every step of the way. It is for these reasons that I often encourage people to support their new commitments with hypnosis and/or theta healing, along with energy work and coaching.  Healing and growth is multidimensional, not linear.

 

How Does it Work? What Do You Do?

 

Recently, I was asked to put my finger on the one thing that helped a client with a severe history of trauma and depression transcend a pattern that had been decades in the making. Even her therapists had all but given up. Suicide was looking like the best option and her will to live was once again being tested.

 

But, Creator saw to it to introduce us and we began working together. Ultimately, although I became her spiritual teacher and facilitator of numerous healing modalities, the credit really goes to her. It was her own choice – her willingness and commitment to stick with it and work with me in a variety of ways for the last two years—that allowed her to heal her past,  begin to enjoy her present, and have new hope for her future.

 

She wasn’t influenced by desires for quick or cheap either, which meant lack consciousness was never part of her healing journey – or our relationship. She didn’t want to be fixed as much as she wanted to come into her own power and wholeness. She knew coming into it that she was here to cultivate her own mastery, do her own part, and that we are equals in the deepest sense.

 

She navigated the healing, chemicalization, and stabilization process with more courage and commitment than most. She never gave up and let me tell you, used every single tool I threw at her. She took responsibility for her own shift™ and never once gave an excuse such as not having the time or forgetting what commitment she had made. Almost two years later, she is not so much a completely different person; rather, she has returned to her most core, authentic nature. I continue to grow enormously through this relationship.  She helped me open to a greater surrendering to guidance and intuition that has helped me further understand my core purpose and how I wish to serve others as a healer and teacher.

 

Why is Faith so Hard to Sustain?

 

I think one of the most painful aspects of being human is the ever-changing landscape of our faith. We can believe in something and not always see that belief manifesting itself in our lives.  Evidence driven, we tend to believe only what we see and directly experience. The mere definition of faith being a belief in something unseen, absent of evidence or factual knowledge, makes for an understandable, albeit uncomfortable dance with doubt. Early conditioning mires our conscious and subconscious minds with inconsistencies, and competing thoughts that can be challenging to untangle and release ourselves from.

 

We grow up with a lot of questions, even when we find ourselves identifying with a particular religion or set of beliefs. Who do I believe? What is God? Is there a primary religion – one that is “right” and officially commissioned by God as the ONE and only? Is God judgmental and punishing or compassionate and loving? Are there evil or dark forces at play or is everything really all good, all God? Does God play favorites? Is there a heaven? And, what are the requirements for getting in? Does belief or deed get rewarded or consequenced? Are we unconditionally loved by God, or do we have to earn it? And, what if, at the end, we find out that we were wrong in what we believed? Will we spend the rest of our lives in eternal damnation?

 

Over the years, in working with recovering Catholics or people who grew up in strict, fear based religions, these questions continue to challenge them. Guilt and shame are so core to their internal relationship and dialogue that it seems to permeate multiple layers of the proverbial onion. In my experience, we also don’t like to be wrong. Faith challenges us to dismiss the possibility of being wrong (often in someone else’s view) – and detach from the need to prove or gather evidence that we are right.  Faith asks us to stand solid in what we believe no matter the contrary evidence that may compete for our acceptance or validation.

 

Taking Responsibility for Your Own Shift

 

Only you know what you want. Peace, relief, happiness, fulfillment, and faith are usually core to whatever surface desire (money, love, etc.) introduces you to the possibility and potential of transformation. The level of work required to change is varied and everyone has their own unique formula for healing. Sticking with it and taking responsibility for your own shift when needed is paramount to being able to navigate the chemicalization process with us much grace as is possible.  Your willingness to release stories and identities that have become familiar (therefore safe and ordinary) is all part of the commitment to continuous evolution.

 

When There’s a Will, There’s a Way

 

You know the saying, “when there’s a will, there’s a way?” I believe this to be true. When we move from desire to decision and partner our will with that of a higher form, the pathways to healing that open up are astounding.  Cultivating the energies of compassion, empathy, love, gratitude, surrender, faith, unity, and trust (the core energies of transformation in the Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel) and becoming an objective and gentle observer of your experience – without succumbing to it - is essential.

 

For me, ceremony and ritual have been core to my evolutionary journey – and supporting the ongoing chemicalization that is a part if it. I use my own hypnosis tools and cd’s, and have a variety of spiritual practices and ancient ceremonies, songs, prayers and methods that are foundational to maintain my sanity and balance in the face of change.  I pray – a lot. I meditate. My spiritual community of friends and close colleagues is also important. I am highly selective of whom to share tender and new growth with. I still get afraid and doubtful and then reach into my toolbox to stay connected – or reconnect with what I know to be true. I avoid making up stories, yet am conscious of the temptation and talk it through.

 

Start Somewhere, Somehow

 

I tend to stay away from the word try, but for goodness sake, you got start somewhere. Try what resonates. And, give it a good chance to do its thing by making a commitment to give a reasonable amount of time and energy before giving up. Become aware of the excuses that keep you imprisoned in a pattern and be willing to let them all go. Below you will find some free download sites that offer some great beginning places!

 

When approached by a prospective healing client, I’ll often ask if they would be open to using one or more of my CD’s, and if so, how often they can commit. As much as sales coaches would gasp at my strategy, I want to know if someone is actually ready to take responsibility for their own part in their healing journey. If someone responds with “I’m too busy, or can you do a 15 minute healing audio?” they might not be a good fit for how I work with folks. 

 

As someone who healed from a deadly disease that no one said was even possible to heal from, I am fully aware of what it took. I can honestly say that I earned every moment of comfort and freedom that came my way. It is a lifestyle and a mindset, not just a solution or quick fix.

 

What commitment are you ready to make today so you can fully partner with your emerging consciousness? The fact that read this very long article and have gotten to this point says something about where you are. It says you are open, curious and interested in moving beyond your current circumstances and patterns.

 

Start somewhere. Here are a few things that might be of interest. If still skeptical and on the fence, sign up for some audio downloads or get a healing audio package. Commit to listening (regularly if a healing audio), taking notes, and completing the exercises. See what emerges for you by giving yourself this gift 0f taking a first step into an unfolding potential.

 

Ready to Awaken Your Inner Healer? Get a few f*r*ee audios at www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealerwithin.html or sign up for an introductory package of three audio classes and five transformational healing and hypnosis audios (sample a few while you are there) at http://www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealer.html 

 

If interested in the formal Awakening the Healer Within Program (invitation only) or you wish to explore private coaching or healing sessions, please contact me directly at inspiration@powerofmyway.com

 

About the Author

 

Rev. Anita Pathik Law (Ani to friends and clients) is the author of The Power of Our Way; A Path to A Collective Consciousness and co-creator and lyricist of www.thepowerofmywaymovie.com and www.divinitymovie.com 

 

Known as a manifestation magnet and midwife to the soul, Ani has leveraged the power of the mind and spirit to create the seemingly impossible. She fosters mastery within others by guiding them back towards their inknown wisdom and truth.

 

Copyright 2009, Anita Pathik Law