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Is it your intention to deny yourself of your birthright?

Last week I experienced a profound "waking up moment" that left me with a question...and began the process of writing a new book (which I'm sharing a portion of below)...

"Is it your intention to deny yourself of your birthright?"

"Of course it is not my intention!" I responded.

"Then why are you ignoring your guidance?"

Whoa! The conversation got my attention and I sat in the mire of my own resistance for a few days, wanting to be honest in my response.

Maybe I was afraid. Maybe I was allowing lack consciousness to influence me...regardless, on Friday, I began writing and this morning, realized a book was being birthed...

Here is a small portion of the introduction...

"This is your story; one of an accessible potential that isn’t as far out of reach as you have previously imagined. It is a story that is already in the process of manifesting, if you allow it, partner with it, and surrender to the reality that truly wishes to paint the details of your life. It requires greater participation on your part, and a willingness to have some things within you released, some things reactivated, and other things recalibrated to be in better harmony with your Divinity and the purpose and potential you were born to.

In order for the vision detailed in these pages to manifest in your experienced reality, you may need to liberate aspects of your thinking that have masqueraded as “truth.” This is not always easy, but it is possible when you fully participate in the re-creation of thought that will usher in grace, beauty and a level of Divine perfection that at times is beyond your current capacity to imagine.

Each step forward will reveal courage you didn’t know you had. Each step backward will offer teaching and reminders. All will be experienced as movement towards your highest good. This is not a story of “how.” Rather, this is a story of “what” is possible in principle. The thing about principle is that nothing can change it or alter it, even when it is ignored, denied or fought against. One does not have to believe in something for it to be true. Conversely, something does not have to be true in order to be strengthened by our beliefs.

You are so much more than you realize. You are so much more loved than you know. And, you are far more supported than you’ve ever felt. Life is meant to serve you and you are meant to serve the lives of others. This story—this vision—is an invitation to surrender to the emergence of a Divinely timed NEW REALITY and an elevated way of interacting with life and the world around you. As you change your interactions, you will come into greater contact with your own Divinity and the destiny that is efforting hard to unfold in the reality of your experience.

You just need to stop resisting the Divinely inevitable. Of this, I am sure…

Mitakuye Oyasin, Ani"

That is just two of the 80 pages written thus far...and trust me, it gets better...

Without going into the entire story and how it has been unfolding, I wish to ask the same question for those of you who have been feeling the nudge to go deeper with us and join Awakening the Healer Within, but are ignoring, or fighting with yourselves!

"Is it your intention to deny yourself of your birthright?"

Hopefully, you've attended or listened to the preview calls we posted at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html

And, hopefully, you've perused the website, details and testimonials at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

We even extended a coupon and are offering a four part tuition due to requests that came in last week... (use NEW coupon code INTENTION to save $200 on the full tuition option!)

We begin next Monday, December 6th...at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and the group that is forming is spectacular!

Check it out...and I'll be in touch, Love, Ani

Use coupon code INTENTION (all caps) to save $200 on the full tuition!

 

 

 

Why I Exist

Last evening, we gathered for the final of three powerful teleclasses (download them at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html) focusing on Awakening the Healer Within.

They've all been posted at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html  and you will also find some links to movies and meditations that support where we have traveled thus far… 

There is a powerful, unmistakable pull happening for many of us and it is this “pull” that I will address…I sincerely hope you are able to join us and be fully present to what is yours to receive. 

WHY I EXIST

I awoke this morning feeling both gratitude and sadness.  I was grateful for my life and the ingenious ways Spirit introduced me to an unquestionably challenging and rewarding path of spiritual growth and of service. I was grateful for several radical yes’s and for the unquestionable, and heavenly orchestrated support that was already in place…just waiting for me to surrender! 

The sadness has come through my observation of how difficult it can be for many to say yes to what is so clearly right for them.  I’ve been there. I’ve rejected my own resonance and in short I have told God “No way!”(and have even declared that the guidance I’ve been given is outright crazy!).  I’ve reasoned my way out of a clearly destined path and ultimately, just delayed the divinely inevitable by essentially demanding more discomfort and pain before I was finally willing to surrender. 

A few years ago, after a seemingly tragic event (it was so filled with miracles and confirmations, I know it to be a blessing), I found myself finally accepting what I had denied for so long. Within a few days, I received an unexpected invitation that has forever changed my life.  The timing was clearly right. I received my instructions and within 24 hours had everything I needed.  In spite of a very specific list of materials I didn’t have and tasks I never had done, somehow, even the most random things came into my possession. 

What for many can take a full year to complete, I effortlessly completed in a full weekend. Each time I was tempted to “give up” or put it down and come back to it later, something more powerful than I whispered, “Keep going Anita!” When I completed the tasks, I had blisters and cuts on my hands but something had forever changed in my heart and Spirit.  I had no doubts and no fears. I knew all was in the hands of something beyond me and yet, a part of me. 

The next set of instructions came and once again, everything fell into place. I had completely surrendered to what was simply my Divine Plan and the ease at which it was all coming together was both spectacular and humbling. I had accepted a responsibility and honor to step on a particular path and since have undergone several initiations, none of them easy, and none without lots of opportunities to back out. 

Yet, as I have found is true in life, each time I recommitted, the way was made clear. Each time I made a shift from wishy washy, excuse laden thoughts into a firm committed decision, I was immediately rewarded.  Since then, I’ve had the most profound validations of my life and I’ve experienced and witnessed miracles that bust through some major cultural, medical and religious paradigms.

I know you have a lot of questions. I know you, at times, don’t believe in yourself or the possibility of that which you most desire actually manifesting in your reality. I know you have secret doubts and fears, hopes and dreams.  And, I know I have a reference point for my faith that reminds me, constantly, that you are so much more powerful and supported than you can possibly imagine. 

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of the Awakening the Healer Within Program at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html 

Throughout this 13 week journey together, we will share in the receiving of 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. 

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.  

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, dreams, visions, 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, many ancient indigenous in origin, the truth is that I became an apprentice to a force and an energy of consciousness that is communicating to all of 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 anyone 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.

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. When it happens, and the grace and support we experience, relies on our choices of today. 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.

Because of the level of work we will be doing together, this program includes two private sessions with me (this is a $300 value alone). 

The first session would ideally occur prior to the first group session and the second will occur during the program. 

I am sensing a level of urgency that is usually connected to the readiness of the people who, in my firm belief are scheduled for a divine appointment to gather and expand in this capacity. You can get all of the details at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html 

Through November 23, there is a 100 discount as a reward for early registration. AND, because you attended one or more of the Awakening the Healer Within mini-classes, or have been working with the healing audios, or are a recent Soul Journey program participant, I am also giving you a coupon that will save you an additional $40.  

Simply enter coupon code HEAL at check out! 

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin (all my relations),

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

 

God Knows the Sound of Your Voice-Awaken the Healer Within

Before we gather for the second teleclass in the Beyond Awakening Series (www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html ), please watch this movie!

Respond to the calling of your soul and join us for Awakening the Healer Within!

Visit www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and reserve your spot in this transformational 13 week journey beginning Monday, November 22, 2010 with an important orientation! 

Here is a recent testimonial...

“I am taking advantage of AWTHW for the second time to continue even more deeply to actualize my healer within. And indeed, the Medicine Wheel is my constant companion each day to keep me on track with who my highest self is and wants to be and is my destiny to be. Even though I cannot participate live on this second round of teleclasses, even just listening to the audios is so powerful and keeps me in the energy of aligning with my truest and deepest values and self so that I go out into life each day as the best version of myself that I can be. 

I intend to continue regular course work with Ani (Anita Pathik Law) because she is an amazingly conscious and brilliant healer and facilitator for all who want to rise to the best version of who they are and were meant to be. Ani's energy is so loving and accepting and provides a space for all peoples of the Earth, regardless of religion, ethnicity, and culture. 

The only bounds to what one can learn and how far one can grow is our own limiting thoughts, which Ani helps us to push far beyond any limitations we previously may have had. One can take AWTHW over and over again and each time have it be a totally new experience. Life is dynamic, constantly evolving, and we along with it in AWTHW.

I have come to trust my own healing abilities and to take ever greater responsibility for making the choices and shifts required each and every moment of every day to become the love and joy and positive energy of which I am genuinely capable.

It's not that life is suddenly easy, but I know what to do to make it more fulfilling and exciting and how to use the Medicine Wheel to help me make the shifts that my soul is calling me to make. AWTHW is unlike any other experience or course or teleclass and you need to experience the process in order to fully appreciate what I am sharing. This course will transform you, whether you expect it to or not. And you will never settle for less again.” 

~Karen Arbel, Tel Aviv, Israel

Begin today... www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

Have a great week...love, Ani

This is spiritually monumental, universally interconnected, and collectively imperative

This is both a message and an invitation to join me for a series of three F*R*E*E teleclasses, and can also be received at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html

Each and every day, regardless of current situations or circumstances, we face endless…countless opportunities.

It may be an opportunity to apply the wisdom we’ve learned, to go deeper into healing or forgiveness, to lighten up, tighten up, to become more present, and/or to simply show up for ourselves and others in a good way.

I’ve been fairly silent the last two weeks, but it doesn’t mean life has been silent, or that Source has been silent.  I’ve just bundled up my energy (for good reasons) and attended to what has been most important.

During this time, I’ve witnessed some pretty intense and beautiful things…some invitations, others confirmations. 

Absent of any distractions and diversions, and feeling immense gratitude for having said yes to a life steeped in prayer and spiritual community, I wish to share what I sense will be a thought provoking message that will provide both insights and inspiration.

Join me for a series of three teleclasses, each building upon the other, beginning THURSDAY, November 18^th at 12:00 Noon EST!

Here is a brief outline of this three part series:

Thursday, November 18^th, 12:00 Noon EST:  Moving Beyond Your Own Resistance, The Ego’s Surrendering to a Higher Plan

Sunday, November 21, 10:30 AM EST: Staying Awake to the Brilliance of You, Your Life and Emergence

Monday, November 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST: Awakening the Healer Within (open orientation call for the general public).

Listen to this audio...Awakening...

Then, Register at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html to get the bridge line info and a few audios resources that will help you prepare.

Although each class will be available for replay, if able to attend live, this is highly recommended!

***IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve been guided to open the orientation session for the next round of the Awakening the Healer Within Program to the general public, something that has never been done before!

You can get the details at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and for those of you who already KNOW the time is right and you are ready, register now to save BIG and begin to work with the preparation materials and downloads.

I am certain of this;

• You are more ready than you give yourself credit for…
• You possess, inherently, a wealth of abilities that you are not using consistently and not always for the right reasons!
• As you cultivate The 8 Core Energies of Transformation, you will immediately see and experience the difference
• When we create the conditions, internal environments and support that is aligned, welcoming and inviting, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN…
• Healing goes beyond the body or a life pattern – true healing always alters one’s consciousness, beliefs, and behaviors
• Resistance and justifiable excuses are the ego’s way of maintaining more of the same, even if it is not desired or feeling good.
• Every life experience has been in service to something that is spiritually monumental,  universally interconnected, and collectively imperative
• Some, not all people, are being called to initiate radical transformations in their consciousness, bodies, their service, and their relationships…this “some” may include YOU, and deep down you know it and can’t and don’t want to hide from it any longer!

Join us for this F*R*E*E three part series at www.powerofmyway.com/beyondawakening.html

And, for those of you whom can only imagine the extraordinary changes you will experience when you join us for the 13 week Awakening the Healer Within Experiential Teleretreat, sign up today at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

Hope to see you for both the F*R*E*E series and Awakening the Healer Within!

Blessings, Ani

Wednesday Evening Services in Jacksonville!

Unity Church for Creative Living is pleased to announce that Anita Pathik Law & Brent Law will begin sharing their time with us on Wednesday Evenings to offer our community a special mid-week spiritual opportunity.

Beginning this week, on Wednesday evenings from 7:00-8:30pm, Anita and Brent will provide us with Inspiring Messages, Music, and Meditations at:

Unity Church for Creative Living, 2777 Race Track Road, St. Johns, FL 32259 , 904.287.1505

Visit the website at www.unityinjax.com   

 
 

Wednesday Evening Schedule:

November 17th:  Who Are We and Why Are We Here?

November 24th: Special Thanksgiving Celebration Service

December 1st: The Mountain and the Molehill

December 8th: Returning to Your Original Intention, Embracing Your Own Becoming

December 15th: Surrendering to the Cycles of Expansion

December 22nd: Winter Solstice Service-Moving into the Season of Breath

December 29th: Dream, Dare, Do-Living a Higher Vision of an Extraordinary Life

We'd like to offer you the following meditation available for immediate download:

www.powerofmyway.com/newreality.html

There is no cost to you and it will provide you with a great example of our spiritual work in the event you are not yet familiar with the space we love to co-create! 

Activate Your Innate Power to Heal Anything!

“Dissatisfaction is a sign of the soul unexpressed…”

“I want to create the freedom to love, expressing my hearts joy…”

“I’m ready to release the remnants of victim identity…and the habitual pattern of creating disappointment.”

These are just a few of the powerful quotes from a recent teleclass on The Functions of Belief, Faith and Energy in Activating Your Innate Ability to Self Heal (grab the audios with Anita Pathik Law, Dr. Norm Shealy and Dr. Bernie Siegel at www.powerofmyway.com/heal.html ).

Anything that is currently held in an energy of conflict (constriction) restrains you from experiencing the potential of expansion, healing, resolution and celebration that is wanting to occur in your life!

What’s Your Biggest Healing Opportunity?

Your healing opportunity may pertain to your body, your past, a relationship, a self destructive thought pattern, forgiveness, or even the annoying resistance you are experiencing regarding taking that next big step towards a desired future reality.

Begin by giving thought to a yet to be actualized dream or desire, or any area of struggle or conflict that is causing pain or draining you energetically.  

Is love leading you towards resolution and a sense of accomplishment…or is fear and negative expectation dominating your thoughts and actions?

Listen to this clip to explore the bridges to healing and actualization…

Longing

Longing tends to enter into the picture (with both dreaming and struggle) and eventually it can become painful, especially when we are not aligning our behaviors or thinking with the desire to see true change.

Give thought to a situation in your life (current, recent, or past) that has been challenging to forgive or transcend.

If you were able to move from your humanness to the perspective of your soul, and ultimately to the perspective of the Divine, what would be revealed? What would exist as the higher reason for that experience?

And, what sounds better; perpetual and infectious victimhood or spiritual responsibility?

Let’s do a little exercise. Grab a pen and paper and listen to this clip from last evening’s call…

Download the audio from this entire class (and two others) by going to www.powerofmyway.com/heal.html

Contribute to the discussion (everyone left with an assignment for this week) by joining our open forum at www.powerofourway.ning.com

Awakening the Healer Within begins on November 22 at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html

Standing in the Center

I’ve been offline for several days and have just a few moments to contemplate and share a message before re-entering the sacred space of compassion and healing I’ve been honored to hold for the last several days (well, months) with our family.

For the last few days I’ve been blessed to have a traditional Lakota prayer song looping deep within my consciousness. It has been present in my waking moments and in my dreams. It is a song I “do not know,” yet one that is being sung to me, through me, and thus not just for me, but for all.

This prayer speaks to the ancestors, the sacred ones of wisdom and strength...the grandmothers and grandfathers who manifest in physical form as the stone and rock nation, the “Íŋyaŋ.”

It reminds us to stand tall, strong (nawajin) and in a way that is sacred (wakan) and calls to the entire nation of creation (the oyate) to hear our voices and the prayers of our hearts. And, it reminds me...us...that when we look to our Creator, in all directions, we are seen, heard and recognized.

The things I imagined to be the most difficult have not been. Yet, I’ve been aware that it takes a lot of energy, dedication, and discipline to walk through challenges in a good and sacred way. Yesterday, as I collapsed on the couch at my mom’s house I heard myself exclaim, “It takes a lot of energy to be conscious!”

I had just returned from a self-imposed time out, one I took because I could feel myself on the verge of an emotional implosion or explosion, the early signs for me typically being irritability. You know the kind of irritability where everything and everyone is grating on your last little already compromised nerve? That is where I was, and thankfully was noticing, before anything sparked a tantrum or breakdown.

As I got in the car, with nowhere to go, and no one to see, I found myself driving (alone) across the bay bridge, towards the eastern shore of Maryland. I drove into a nearly vacant marina and walked out onto a dock outstretched beyond the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Two seagulls stood sleeping nearby, their beaks tucked behind their wings, protecting them from the cold winds blowing against the water. As I sat with my legs dangling over the water, a part of me wished to jump in and just wash away all the stress I was carrying. Not a good idea when it’s 40 degrees, I asked the winds (tate´) to cleanse me instead.

My breath became one with the tate and I did experience moments of deep peace, intermingled with an understandable level of sadness. My ego poked its head up a few times saying things like, “Why aren’t you pissed? How can you be so compassionate? You should be feeling awful!” Of course, all of these statements have been heard by others, each time a blessed opportunity to really notice and acknowledge my own growth, which includes less pressure to be, think and feel “perfect” all the time.

Each time I heard these statements and questions, whether from others or myself, I honestly checked in. Yes, I was tired. Yes, I was feeling sad. Yes, a part of me wished none of this was happening, or had happened, but the compassion I was feeling was strong, solid and consistent and I felt a level of embodiment that was almost surprising and unimaginably effortless.

I saw myself in the wheel (The Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel) and could see exactly where I was. I was standing in the center, yet not quite embodying the final of the Eight Core Energies of Transformation, TRUST, and I was able to identify the source of my irritation.  I saw an image of doubt and trust playing tug-o-war with a rope that was being rubbed against a sharp stone, the friction wearing away at the solitary threads that are woven together to enhance strength and durability.

The individual threads that formed the rope were symbolically represented by each of the Eight Core Energies of Transformation (compassion, Divine empathy, love, gratitude, surrender, faith, unity and trust) and the Five Dimensions of Evolutionary Transformation (truth, forgiveness, healing, peace and power).

That one piece of doubt was threatening to wear down all of the other threads and I was feeling the irritation in my own thoughts and emotions. I noticed that as I entertained my first doubt (that we’d be taken care of during more than full week of being unable to work), other doubts were being born, like offspring to a small giant, or like a single cell organism that divides and grows without any assistance other than to effortlessly surrender to its own encoding. It was so clear that doubt both grows and divides, especially if fed by our own negative expectations, doubts and fears. The phrase “hanging on by a thread” opened to new meaning. At least I was hanging on by 12 threads, but the 13^th that was torn was threatening the strength of all the others.

The Power of Prayer and Ritual

I feel humbled that I have been taught and supported by ancient ways of praying from the Lakota people and that the majority of my friends and confidants walk this path. More than one occasion over the last decade has been supported by my tiospayes (extended families). The elder and the medicine man, who is one of many amazing teachers and intercessors I’ve been honored to pray and practice with over the last decade, is constantly reminding us to practice and cultivate two core principles; compassion and awareness, towards self and others. 

If ever a challenge arises or an answer to a question is sought, we are brought back to five main things; Azilya (burning sage, cedar, or another sacred), the sacred mni’ (water that we bless, pray, and drink), prayer (often in the forms of ancient songs), ceremony and community.

On the occasions that I’ve reached out for personal support, rarely have I been given a direct answer, just instruction to engage in the ways of our Lakota ancestors. Each time, whether in canunpa ceremony (praying with the sacred pipe) or in an inipi (prayer and purification ceremony in a lodge), or in others to sacred to mention here, I have experienced true transcendence. Each time, regardless of the ceremony or ritual, we “azilya,” sanctify and elevate ourselves by burning cedar or sage (each for different purposes).

Many people call this “smudging,” however we are refraining from the use of this term. The act of azilya actually raises our consciousness (which includes our energy and physical being) to a higher, elevated level, thus enables us to see, know and hear from a higher perspective.

I realized that because of where I am staying, I had not been engaging in this daily ritual  I’ve been honored to carry and share some of these ancient ways and honestly, don’t think I’d be alive if they had not come into my life.

There is a saying in Lakota that goes like this: “woihanble wanji sica ca luha hantans, peji hota un azilic'iyin na wacekiya yo! Hecel tunkasila woihanble un he he yuheyab icu ktelo.”

Translated, it means, “When you have a bad dream, azilya (elevate and sanctify yourself) yourself with sage and pray, so that "tunkasila" (Grandfather God) will take it away.o

My question to you today is what do you do to elevate yourself in moments of struggle?

How do you bring an energy and intention of sanctification to thoughts and urges not coming from wholeness and trust?

And, how do you bring yourself back into alignment with a perspective that is resonating at the level of Divinity?

In other words, how do you re-awaken to the healer and master within?

I spoke to much of this in a set of classes that you can download today at www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealerwithin.html

Listen to these audios with a sacred (wakan) intention of being fully present to what is spoken on your behalf…and post your reflections here!

Join me for Awakening the Healer Within, on Nov. 22 at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.hml

Much love, Ani

"Oh, Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me, I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my Spirit may come to you without shame."

(Translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)

An Integrated Perspective of Transcendence

"I come to you in love and a desire to walk in the way of beauty. Human in form, I seek to be that which I came to be - the who that transcends the mind of man and is untouched by doubt or illusion. Who is it that speaks to and through me, giggling in wonderment of this breathtaking miracle? I am alive and witnessing a magnificent moment. An evolving consciousness guides me home and I know that claiming my inherent wholeness is the only way. The sacred way. The beauty way. Division only an illusion of forgetting, I find my way back into the truth of our oneness. Knowing that all conflict is sourced in my mind and the thoughts I entertain, I breathe a higher intelligence into me and once again, I come together, unified in the awareness of love and fully aware of my Divinity."

Dear Friends,

Join me in the spaciousness of infinite wisdom - an intelligence that seeks to be felt, heard and expressed through you. It does not matter what you call IT. God, Universe, Great Mystery, Source, It is all the same and knows of Itself by no name.

You are here to give presence to this consciousness within your Self and to transcend the human mind that says you are limited.

It is time to claim your Divine inheritance and know the truth of your existence.

You are the bridge to all healing.  In Lakota, my favorite words used to describe God are Taku Wakan Skan Skan, which essentially translates into "something sacred is in motion."

The sacredness of this "something" in motion is a moving presence that exists in all things material, non-material, living and inanimate.

This awareness is asking to be felt, known and demonstrated in your life. You are being asked to actively participate in your own evolution, healing and growth.

And, as you know, it's not always comfortable or timed to fit into your busy schedules, nor is it willed away when you seek the illusionary solace of convenience or comfort.

You are receiving an invitation to move towards embodiment. Conceptual understanding is not nearly as meaningful, nor potent, in the ways of co-creation and healing.

But, you already know this and intuitively, you are aware that you are being nudged to integrate the wisdom that has traveled with you since your inception.

You do not lack capacity or ability and worthiness is just a given. You can argue against all of this, but to what end? Denial of your birthright? A dismissing of the sacred encoding that was born to you?

Enough! It is time to say yes to a reality that exists whether or not you see or believe it. It's not personal. It is simply a universal truth that is not capped or hindered by your self-limiting beliefs or the parts of you that resist or are unconscious of it.

 Seek communion in your breath, your thoughts, and in the moments of silence that reveal the still voice of infinite wisdom and possibility.                                                                               

And if wondering today, "What is mine to do and be?" Ask in the silence and receive the wisdom that is in motion within you. Taku Wakan Skan Skan...and remember, the something sacred in motion is also you.

Be love, be peace, be hope, be faith. Be in the allness of the everythingness and rest in the grace of your Divine nature. 

These are the words that wished to be spoken today and effortlessly, they have typed themselves into existence. As much as I sat down to write something entirely different, I've long ago learned that getting out of the way is my number one job in the roles I have come here to play.

Recently, I was cajoled by many of you to consider something that I resisted for many months - almost a full year, to tell the truth. I had become attached to a picture of what things needed to look like and in my awareness of this attachment, surrendered it.

Or, so I thought. Recently, through the grace of conflict, I saw how I had been holding back. I saw how I had denied my own self and allowed an "other" to dictate my worth. Of course, since there is no "other" in the highest of spiritual contexts, I had chosen my own denial.

You would think that a person, such as myself, (so my inner conversation goes) would know better! Alas, the hilarious nature of spiritual amnesia and divine forgetting.

To Truth, I reawaken. As I come out of my own hiding, I say yes to that which I have resisted and now fully rejoice in all of my humanness.

Want to join me?

It begins with a question. What is it within you, your thoughts, your past, and your life that is asking to be transcended, released and healed?

Healing is what delivers us into the gratitude of peace. Healing, not just in physical form, but in consciousness, so that you - we - may be all delivered into infinite potential.

Clearing the field for infinite possibilities requires a deeper exploration of what we hold as TRUTH, and in doing so we identify the many illusionary beliefs that have created the many worlds we live in.

Compassion enables this exploration, just as empathy enables forgiveness. To create from higher intention requires us to release anything tethered to judgments, resentments or unforgiveness. Releasing such constrictive energies will clear you of spiritual, mental, physical and emotional clutter that blocks a deeper dialogue with spirit and soul.

As you well know, gratitude is clouded by the many constrictive thoughts we carry about ourselves, others and the world. Releasing or healing that which fosters a constrictive energy (such as judgment, regret, doubt, etc.) creates an immediate and expansive opening to new realizations, creations and inspirations. It actually expands your vision and opens up that part of you that once saw from a different level of consciousness.

This is the path of the awakened healer.

Yet, to know and embody are not the same. This is why, now, after all of this time, I am opening the Awakening the Healer Within experience on a larger scale and am inviting you to participate in what I see as a movement, more so than a training.

Once again, we'll be offering this dynamic curriculum, along with amazing original music, recorded meditations and healing prayers, chants, exercises, and mantras in teleclass form.

To learn more, please visit www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html and open to your own resonance.

Download several free audios to get a deeper sense of what this life changing journey is all about by signing up at www.powerofmyway.com/awakeningthehealerwithin.html

 Awakening the Healer Within is a 13 week journey that will guide you:

• To reawaken and remember that you have a direct relationship and connection to the Divine Mystery. 

 

• To learn powerful ways to pray effectively - with yourself and others.                 

                 

• To become more conscious and present to your innate abilities to heal at the conscious, unconscious, emotional, cognitive, energetic, spiritual and physical levels.

 

• To rewire the connections that have been compromised by your conditioning; your human experiences, religious, familial, spiritual upbringing, and the busyness and constant mind chatter that distances you from your original intention and inherent power to heal

 

• To become more aware of your own thoughts, energy and emotions and learn how to become more of an observer and alchemist in your own life

 

• To work with energy in various ways, through various exercises and activities

 

• To have an experiential awareness of what resonates and works for you and learn tools that you can continue to use, develop and practice for ongoing self-healing

 

• To learn how sound, vibration, breath, hypnosis, theta, prayer, meditation, shamanic healing, touch, or other forms of energy healing modalities may be calling to you to go deeper and engage in consistent practice

 

• To experience a variety of group and partnered healing sessions and release and expand in the ways you are ready

 

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

~Phyllis McGinley

 Join us at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html We have an Orientation on November 22, and the formal program begins on December 6^th!

 Aho Mitakuye Oyasin, Ani

 

Anita Pathik Law

What Are You Programmed to Experience?

Did you know that if your non-conscious mind is programmed to believe it will always be sick, or in debt, or single, or overweight, (or whatever has become programmed as a primary reality in your life) no matter what decisions and actions you take, it will feverishly work against you until you come back to the reality it most believes in?

When Dr. Norm Shealy, Dr. Bernie Siegel and I gathered for a series of dialogues last year, they both emphasized the incredibly underutilized art of hypnosis to facilitate lasting change. (you can get them at http://www.powerofmyway.com/heal.html)

Well, what about free will, you ask?

Free will and choice are controlled and governed by the conscious mind, which is both finite in terms of is memory and relatively weak as compared to the subconscious mind, which is where all memories, beliefs and perceptions are held.

But, the conscious mind is controlled by the subconscious, which is likely filled with tons of non-serving beliefs, perceptions and negative expectations!

In fact, the parts of the brain that are active in conscious thought processes make up approximately 17 percent of your total brain mass and ultimately control about 2 to 4 percent of your actual perceptions and behavior. Your nonconscious brain, however, makes up about 83 percent of total brain mass and controls 96 to 98 percent of perceptions and behavior.

We like familiarity. Or rather, our subconscious mind likes familiarity…and predictability…and certainty…even when what we have become familiar with causes pain.

Although we can support desired changes with consciously directed behavioral activities, such as repeating affirmations and vision boarding, the information that is being processed and relayed in the subconscious is much more potent and requires a systematic approach to re-patterning and creating new neural pathways while “unwiring” the old ones.

BELIEF CREATES THE CHARGE

Belief creates emotion and emotion is the charge that truly begins the internal series of brain responses that then influence biochemistry and physical reality. The adage “what you think you become” would be more accurate if it was stated as “what your subconscious believes you will experience and become.”…and what your subconscious does not believe will not become reality.

 Did you know that conscious impulses and thoughts travel at speeds of 120 to 140 MPH, while nonconscious impulses and thoughts travel at more than 100,000 MPH!

What is your subconscious communicating? What nonconscious beliefs and fears are sending messages out to the Universe…to yourself?

Now, I find this bit of information exceptionally profound…Did you know that the conscious brain processes about 2,000 bits of information per second, while the nonconscious brain processes about 400,000,000,000 bit of information per second?

THIS IS WHY WE MUST WORK AT THE SUBCONSCIOUS LEVELS!

The conscious mind is volitional, meaning it is the part of our mind that makes conscious choices and decisions and acts on will. It is the part of your mind that sets goals and then it assesses and judges the results.

The nonconscious mind is servile, which essentially means it is obedient to the beliefs that are already implanted at the subconscious level, regardless of whether they are true or false. The subconscious mind sets no goals of its own, other than to maintain the status quo, regardless of whether it is serving you or not.

It also does not operate in a past, present, future context, so whatever it is thinking seems to be happening in present time. It does not discern between what is true or false, just accepts what it believes and works to support those believes by creating reinforcements (it is the part of us that says, “see, I told you so…told you wouldn’t be able to do it, or that no one will ever love you, or that you are too dumb for this, not capable of that…”

Here is an example of what is happening between your conscious and unconscious minds when you repeat affirmations in a conscious, waking state. We’ll call the conscious mind CM and the unconscious mind UM.

CM: I am prosperous and money flows to me easily and abundantly.

UM: I am broke and will never get out of debt.

CM: I am my ideal and perfect weight.

UM: You are a fat slob and no one will ever want you.

CM: I know, you are right...so, why bother?

Here’s what happens when you are in a hypnotic, trance, or theta wave brain state.

Hypnotherapist: You are prosperous and money flows to me easily and abundantly.

UM: Yes, I am prosperous and money flows to me easily and abundantly.

Hypnotherapist: You are worthy of receiving abundance and blessings.

UM: I am worthy of receiving abundance and blessings.

Here are some other interesting tidbits!!!

The conscious brain has a very short term memory span, about 20 seconds for most. Now, when you think about making affirmative statements, in a conscious, waking state, the charged, emotional, vibrational memory isn’t just hitting up against your subconscious arguments and denials…

IT IS ALSO BATTLINGS ITS OWN FINITE MEMORY!

The nonconscious brain remembers everything it experiences, forever. The experience doesn’t even have to be real or true for it to hold on as a memory!

BELIEFS CAUSE CHEMICAL REACTIONS

Did you know that when you think of or state a belief (that is truly a belief) it excites Dopamine production, the pleasure neurotransmitter? It is released when we experience a true BELIEF. We feel a surge of joy and happiness with each new belief.  It is not just the words, but the emotions and resonance attached to these ideas that create the chemical reaction.

Now what happens when you believe more in impossibility and negative projections than you believe in the potential of your desired changes and manifestations? You may already have imprinted an addictive belief pattern that isn’t working for you and is counter-productive to the changes and healings you desire.

In other words, in some bizarre way, your non-serving beliefs may make you feel good chemically, creating an actual pleasure response at a non-conscious level.

You Can Re-Wire it All

Right now, we have several opportunities coming up, some of which you can take advantage of today…

Our hypnosis and healing audios have an amazing track record and for those not interested in working with me one-on-one or in a formal program you can get them and work through them on your own.

Sign up to receive a series of three telelcasses with me, Dr. Norm Shealy and Dr. Bernie Siegel at www.powerofmyway.com/heal.html and receive the replays for Leveraging the Power of Your Mind...

Here is a Money Breakthrough Package: www.powerofmyway.com/opentheflow.html

Awakening the Healer Within is a formal training program that includes all of the resources for re-patterning at the subconscious level plus SO MUCH MORE! We are beginning this life changing program on Nov. 22!

Visit www.powerofmyway.com/awaken,html and reserve your spot today!

Here is a recent testimonial...

“I am taking advantage of AWTHW for the second time to continue even more deeply to actualize my healer within. And indeed, the Medicine Wheel is my constant companion each day to keep me on track with who my highest self is and wants to be and is my destiny to be. Even though I cannot participate live on this second round of teleclasses, even just listening to the audios is so powerful and keeps me in the energy of aligning with my truest and deepest values and self so that I go out into life each day as the best version of myself that I can be. 

I intend to continue regular course work with Ani (Anita Pathik Law) because she is an amazingly conscious and brilliant healer and facilitator for all who want to rise to the best version of who they are and were meant to be. Ani's energy is so loving and accepting and provides a space for all peoples of the Earth, regardless of religion, ethnicity, and culture. 

The only bounds to what one can learn and how far one can grow is our own limiting thoughts, which Ani helps us to push far beyond any limitations we previously may have had. One can take AWTHW over and over again and each time have it be a totally new experience. Life is dynamic, constantly evolving, and we along with it in AWTHW.

I have come to trust my own healing abilities and to take ever greater responsibility for making the choices and shifts required each and every moment of every day to become the love and joy and positive energy of which I am genuinely capable. It's not that life is suddenly easy, but I know what to do to make it more fulfilling and exciting and how to use the Medicine Wheel to help me make the shifts that my soul is calling me to make. AWTHW is unlike any other experience or course or teleclass and you need to experience the process in order to fully appreciate what I am sharing. This course will transform you, whether you expect it to or not. And you will never settle for less again.” 

Karen Arbel, Tel Aviv, Israel

Your Past Does Not Have to Be Your Story!

I am getting ready to go out of town for a week for a sensitive family  “opportunity” (note I’m intentionally not typing other words that are typically used when we face a perceived challenge…).

I ask that you read this post, watch the movies included, and receive a few nudges to contemplate some important, and usually life altering questions...

Parts of me wish to share more detail, however, in my desire to honor others, I will not. This is someone else’s story to share and is yet to be complete.  I will share that many have shown incredible bravery and courage and for that I am thankful and humbled. If we truly “sign up” to serve through various life experiences, many people involved signed up for some heavily intensive training and modeling. God love them!

We need not always know “what happened” to offer the powerfully alchemical prayers of wholeness, happiness and healing. Just seeing someone happy and free is enough to activate the magic and blessings of the Divine and bring comfort to those in need.  In fact, I long ago realized that I may not be the best judge of what will ultimately bring me and others resolution, healing, joy and fulfillment.

I have enough experience with sad or frustrating events leading to good to know that our preferred routes may not always be the best ones (from a spiritual and evolutionary perspective). So, often I simply imagine a person happy, singing, laughing, and free, trusting that the way to get there is something spectacular being constructed by an Intelligence much more ingenious and creative than me.

The Power of Surrender and Trust

Surrendering to “what is” and trusting that blessings will be received even in the most challenging situations are powerful acts that allow for a flow into the Divine currents of change and transformation.  I can look back over my life and see enough evidence to know that if things always worked out the way I wanted them to, things wouldn’t have worked out as well as they did!  And, as I write this, I am certain you know what I’m talking about, tapping into several examples in your own life!

I will tell you that this summer, “normal” appeared to have returned in several extended time frames, much earlier than one would anticipate. We went to both the woods and the water for healing and received much needed reminders of the grace and beauty that surrounds us.

Your Past Does Not Have to Become Your Story

This has been a mantra I’ve repeated at least a thousand times over the last few months. Rather than become victims of the situations that have caused pain and broken us wide open, we can instead choose to become empowered students.

If we TRULY believe that everything happens for a reason, and that all reasons are in service to our highest good, and the growth and evolution that is primed to be experienced, we can collapse into our faith and trust in the unfolding.

The power of your story is always in “how you tell it.” Are the details of “what happened” more important than the growth that only became imminent as a result of the situation?

 Does the story you tell fight more for your limitations or is the focus on connecting to the good (and God) that came from the divinely undesired?

Are you playing the role of victim or hero, and consciously aware that each moment is an opportunity to choose from love or hate, faith or fear?

One of the opportunities we are all facing right now, regardless of our pasts and what’s coming in the future, is to choose who we want to be in the world.

As much as life doles out challenging moments, in reality that is all they are…moments. What matters most are the times in between the moments, and how we show up, either in alignment with our true natures and God-given potentials, or not. 

Simply put, sucky moments do not need to become the proof or justification of a sucky life. Rather, we can approach each moment as an opportunity to co-create a future reality grounded in strength, faith, courage and grace.

Contemplate This! You Choose What to Infuse…

If you were offered the opportunity to infuse the world with one or two things, what would they be? And, what if, regardless of situation or circumstance, what you choose to infuse, is the most important influence of life and others?

For me, I wish to infuse the world with compassion, inspiration and healing. Given that, I often must ask, especially when challenged, “What would compassion look like, what would it say, and what would it not look like?” I’m also reminded of the wisdom of my elders who continue to remind us, “Forgiveness is the most powerful medicine the Creator has given us.”

This morning, as I awoke to feeling a bit out of control, wanting to KNOW the answers to many questions, hasten resolution, and figure out how to shift gears and take care of so much that we’ve had to put off over the last week, I addressed my impatience from a spiritual perspective, again, turning it over to the powers at work.

I must trust that the Universe will take care of us. At some point the laundry will get done, we'll get packed and arrive to the airport on time, the pets will be taken care of while we are gone, my creativity will return, and the house will get cleaned.

If I had a clone I’d assign it the responsibilities of getting back on track with the letting people know about Aligning With Destiny beginning on Nov. 9^th at www.aligningwithdestiny.com and Awakening the Healer Within, beginning on Nov. 22 at www.powerofmyway.com/awaken.html because so much of what I had planned to be doing just hasn’t been able to get done.

I’d assign it the worry about so much lost time that does not get paid when you are a solo-entrepreneur and I’d give myself permission to just take a nap, a swim, or watch movies with my kids all day. 

I would give up any worries and concerns without giving in. I turn it over and agree to “not care” about where the money will come from to pay for the last minute expenses (all investments in long term healing) and lost time at work.  So, as all things go back to the beginning, I surrender and choose what to infuse into the rest of this day, knowing that in the long run, it will all work out. 

PERFECTION IS CONTINUOUSLY UNFOLDING...

Please take a few minutes to receive this message, even if you've received it before...and help us elevate the collective energy and resilience of this truth...that perfection is always unfolding, even when it doesn't feel like it!

 

“You surrender to love, in spite of your fear,

unwrapped and vulnerable; it is as it must be.”

~excerpt from www.divinitymovie.com by Anita Pathik Law and Brent Law