Please join me for my first teleseminar

An Evening of Healing and Angelic Guidance on Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:00 – 9:00pm central

Exchange:  US$20

My angels and a few of you earth-angels have been encouraging me to put together a teleseminar … and after a lot of dragging my feet, I’m doing it!  And, I’m really excited about it!  It’s been nearly a year since my leaving Memphis and many lessons and learnings have come to me along the way.  I’m so happy to be reconnecting with my Memphis friends — and friends from many other parts of the country … and world.

I’ve been consulting with my angels about what we’ll talk about during our phone time and they say they just want to fill you with the joy of living and being.  To remind you how loved you are and how amazing you are!  To fill you with hope and certainty that everything is working out in your favor and to help you find that place where your positive thoughts and intentions become miracles in your life.  They want to remind you that your life / soul purpose is important and they want to help you find a way to express it and live it!  They say your work is much needed and there’s no reason to delay any longer — the time is now to feel full of fire and passion for living your best life!

I hope you can join me on the 26th — we’ll have a lot of fun!  I’ll deliver angel messages and answer questions — and depending on the size of the group, will offer mini angel readings.  We’ll finish with a guided meditation.  (Just like the group gatherings in my Memphis living room!)

If you’re interested, please email me at lightworkerlaura444@wi.rr.com and I will send you a PayPal invoice.  Once I receive payment, I’ll email you the conference call phone number and password and then at 7:00pm central on Thursday, April 26, we’ll all call into the toll-free phone number and begin our time together.

Truly, it’s a privilege to do this work … to feel all the love of heaven that surrounds you and to see the magnificent beauty that is within you.  Thank you for your trust and your support.

Sending love your way!  Blessings to surround you.  -Laura

Lately I’ve worked with a couple of amazing people and the imagery and messages that their angels pass along are truly breath-taking!  I’m so lucky to be able to see what the angels see in you.

You’re amazing!  You’re beautiful!

Please begin to see that within yourself.  Own your greatness so that you can share it and help other people unlock their own greatness.

Don’t you love being around people who are in the flow of life?  Who are full of joy and who make you feel better just by being in the same room?

Me too!

Sometimes the angels show up so softly — so sweetly.  Like a whisper and a gentle embrace.

Sometimes they come in like a spotlight or a geyser — full of power and effect.  Sometimes they pull in the edges of the universe and wrap it all around us like a parachute.  The stuff they show me … the magnificence of it all is utterly beyond words.  And, it’s SO COOL!

YOU are so cool!

The other day I was remembering one of the very first angel experiences I had.  It was back in Colorado not too long before I moved.  I had recently learned some big truths — and integrating them was really hard work.  I had to overcome limiting beliefs, I had to challenge myself and I had to persevere.  It’s hard to change a habit, isn’t it?

Anyway, during one meditation I was climbing a steep mountain.  I was working hard, being mindful of each step and hand placement.  I was getting exhausted by the ascent.  But, I was also exhilerated that I was able to make it so far up!  At last, I made it to the very top and was greeted by Sophia in the form of Quan Yin and she welcomed me with open arms and a full smile.  She was the image of love and support.  I was amazed to see her — and I was so proud of myself for reaching the very top of the mountain!  I had arrived!  I was finished!  I climbed to the very top!  And here was Sophia to welcome me and congratulate me!  It was the coolest moment.

Until I looked beyond her and saw that the climb wasn’t just this one peak — it was a whole mountain RANGE!  In the distance I could see a glimmery castle, which looked like it was made of polished stone or crystal.  Magnificent.

Yet, I had only climbed my very first mountain.  I had so much further to go.  In that instant, I felt like I really had accomplished nothing.  There was nothing to celebrate at all.

But then, Quan Yin/Sophia took me into her lap and held me like a little child.  She stroked my face and my hair and I felt so loved, so cared for.  It ocurred to me that I was sitting in the lap of Wisdom herself and I could ask her anything!  I wanted to know everything!  I looked up into her eyes and in that moment of connection, I realized that there was nothing I needed to know — everything would be shared with me when the time was right, but at that moment I needed rest more than anything.

And, I drifted off to sleep.

I think I’ve climbed a few more peaks since then.  They’ve all been hard work and I haven’t always been met by Sophia or Quan Yin, but I’ve always been met with a truly significant experience.  And, I keep going.  I’m not stopping … no way.  I’m going to make it all the way to the castle, my friends! 

And, so will you!  No matter where you are on the climb, you’ll get there.  Just stay focused, just stay strong.  Remember to meditate or pray — whatever you like to call it.  However you like to do it.  Connect with your source — God, Universe, Higher Self, whatever.  Just remember that heaven wants you to succeed!  Heaven is your greatest fan! 

You can do it — you’re awesome!

We look for the lesson, the growth opportunity.  We work to love it and forgive it.  We work to feel patience and submission.  We strive to find the beauty in it all.

And we do.

And yet … we still want to know: WHY???

Maybe we’ll find out someday, why this happened.  Maybe we won’t.  Maybe some mysteries are never solved in this lifetime (at least not to our satisfaction).  I’m sure there’s a very good reason for that … but still …

I’ve had a few of these things over the last few months and it’s all very uncomfortable and sometimes distressing.  (Of course, that’s probably because I’m trying to control things and I don’t fully trust that the Universe is going to deliver my greatest life to me.)

I’m working to allow what is, to be and what it to be, to be.  I’ve said before and I repeat: this is all like a very uncomfortable yin yoga posture.  I’m holding this space of release and surrender and it’s not always fun (it’s not always even satisfying…), but I know in my heart-of-hearts that this too shall pass and that my best life will unfold.

I’m doing what I can do:  I meditate, I do yoga, I ask for help when I need it and I look for messages from my guides.  The other day I saw 777 all day long!  (The message was that I’m on the right track, which is encouraging to hear.)  I also see a red-tailed hawk messenger whenever I need one most, and that helps ground me and center me.

So, I’m doing fine, I’m doing the right things, but I still want to know WHY???

Maybe once I stop asking why, the answers will come…  hmmm…

Whew!  It’s easy to get caught up in other people’s ick.

And, isn’t an election year the perfect time to see people at their worst?  All that rivalry and hate?  Spite and fear?  Sheesh!

Do your best to remember that you’re at your best when your actions and words spring from love and wisdom, not fear and attack.

Yes, if you want to do good in the world, do it!  Do it with all of yourself!  Do it with your heart and your hands.  Do it with wisdom and compassion.  Don’t fight about it — just do it.  If you need to stand tall, stand tall!  Your tallest!

If your motivation is to beat someone or to be more right than someone else, that’s probably only going to get you so far.  That’s not a solid foundation.  It would be like building scaffolding out of popsicle sticks.  It’s just not going to hold weight for very long.

Be motivated by your inner north star — let wisdom guide you.  Not fear.  Not drama.  Not hate.  Not anger.

Love, my friends.  Blessings surround you.

That’s what’s so cool about it all — we’re always evolving.  Always expanding.

It’s funny, though.  Sometimes when a new layer of growth appears, I reject it at first.  It seems foreign, or it requires giving up something that I like.  It seems painful, this new growth.

But, growth is inevitable, when you choose to live in the light.  Just like the little green shoots coming up from the dark soil in spring time.  If they’re in the sun, they’ll grow.  If they’re under a box, they’ll eventually die.

I encountered a surprising thing about myself the other day.  As it turns out, I’ve been lying to myself about something.  Hmmm…  I didn’t *think* I was lying.  In fact, I thought I was doing something good for myself.

To be specific, I have a favorite yoga practice that I love to do.  I feel so great when I practice this way.  It balances my body, calms my mind and lifts my spirit.  After I’m done practicing, I feel really connected to myself — all parts of myself.  I feel *great*!

Ah… how sneaky this all is…  As it turns out, I’ve been hiding in this great-feeling yoga practice!  I’ve been hiding from part of myself!  I felt I was taking good care of myself by doing yoga — and I was, believe me!  But, instead of allowing the grounding aspect of the practice to work, I by-passed that in favor of the upper-chakra lift and flight.  I was avoiding the message from my lower chakras in favor of the upper chakras.

So… God, the universe (and I) decided that it was time to address those things I was failing to look at.  So… I find myself with little aches and pains — that have arrived out of nowhere.  I did not hurt myself.  I did not strain myself (well, maybe a little shoveling all that snow we got the other day but nothing this bad).  And, yet, here I am, hurt — unable to do the very basic yoga postures in the practice without distracting discomfort.

And, God, the universe (and I) know how annoyed I get by this.  I don’t like this at all — I want my yoga!  But, I’ve *got* to sit still and be with myself and these things that I’d rather not look at.  I wish I could say that I act with patience and grace about this, but I don’t.  I get angry and disappointed.  And, I feel afraid of that “stuff” that I’ve ignored for too long.

But, I also know courage.  And, I *will* address these layers.  I *will* heal them energetically by being honest with myself and taking care of myself, setting boundaries and speaking truth.  And, my wrist and shoulder will eventually be comfortable again and I’ll practice again.

So … you too!  Try not to hide from yourself — you can’t hide forever and you’ll eventually find yourself.  You’re growing and evolving and reaching ever higher for the light… your light.  Don’t be afraid — it’s all good!  You’re loved and supported!  It’s all taken care of and you’re headed for great things.  Don’t worry if things surprise you once in a while — you’ll get where you’re headed.  Just keep going!  Just keep taking cues from your inner guidance and keep moving upward and onward!

Blessings on each foot fall!  Blessings on each in-breath and out-breath!  Love, love, love to you!

I’ve been doing this “working on myself” thing for quite a while, and I’ve had times like this when my inner work takes me down rabbit holes, through fun-house mirror rooms, and bumping and tumbling around.  But, I’m good.  I know it’s part of the process and although I don’t *love* it, I accept it.  I’m working to be patient with it — the discomfort of it.  I think I wrote that before — the yin-yoga of it all.  Sitting still and breathing through the discomfort.

Just like with yin yoga, I know this discomfort is purposeful.  At the end of this will be ease and bliss (heehee — I just corrected a typo:  bless instead of bliss.  True, huh?)

Anyway… I can feel the end is coming, though I don’t know what that looks like.  And, we don’t sometimes.  We know *something* is going to happen — it *has* to.  But we don’t know what.  And, I suppose at the end of our lives, or from a very high perspective, the not-knowing is the fun part.  The excitement.  The sizzle of life.   (I try to keep that in mind as I sit still and breathe through the discomfort.)

The other night I was playing The Game of Life with my family and it was fun — I love boards games, I always have.  It was funny to see which of us took it all so seriously — who got stressed about being “poor”.  I couldn’t care less what happens in the game — it’s just a game.  There’s always next time, or last time, so who cares?  Just spin the numbers, move your car and see what happens.  I remember noticing that the last time we played my daughter won the game by suing me a half a dozen times and by winning the lottery almost as often.  Huh?  What a weird “life”.  This time there were still a fair number of law suits, but no one won the lottery — but two people found a buried treasure (really?).  Strange.

But, you guys, maybe that’s the thing.  It’s sometimes just simply “weird”, this life.  It’s just stuff.  Good to just move through it step by step.

As a novice student of A Course In Miracles, I do try to see life like that — like a game or a dream.  Not all the way real (even though it sure feels real, doesn’t it?).  It can provide some perspective and can ease some stress when you see it like that.  Maybe this time we’re “poor”, or we’re “lucky”, or we’re “in harmony” or we’re “tumbling”.

But, just do what you’re called to do in this moment — and it’s always love and forgive, grow and learn — and then the game changes, doesn’t it.  Loving and forgiving are enormously powerful forces — and if you do them right here, right now, about this thing — the situation *will* change.

It’ll seem miraculous — like finding a buried treasure.

Have fun … try not to take it all so seriously.  But, seriously forgive and love and keep stepping forward.

Love, love, love!

For many reasons, I guess.  A little writer’s block.  A little feeling unsure.  A little feeling shy.  A little feeling confused.  A little something that I can’t quite express in words.

I’ve been tumbling around a bit lately.  Like a tumbleweed.

It hasn’t been so comfortable, this tumbling.  It’s hard to know which way is up sometimes.  It’s hard to feel grounded, or even connected when the energy is bouncing all over the place and pressures and sensations are coming at you from all angles.

Because when I write my blog, I write from the inside, not the outside.

If I wrote about the outside, I’d write about how great everything is!  And it is!  I work at an awesome, beautiful yoga studio with fantastic colleagues and inspiring students.  I’m part of a wellness team with other really talented and gifted practitioners.  And, my clients are pretty-much the coolest people on the planet.  I love them and it’s a joy and an honor to work with them all.  I’ve done a few angel circles lately and working in group energy again is really fun.  So invigorating!  (So much so, I really can’t sleep after one…but it’s all good, so worth it!)  My angels love me and I have sweet, wonderful friends surrounding me.

But, I don’t write about the outside.  I write about the inside.  My journey.  My work.  I do it because I think that’s most real, I guess.

So… I’ve had a couple of cool thoughts lately that I thought I’d share.  Like about how sometimes we really welcome change and sometimes we resist it and fight it … even when we think we want it.  It can be tricky, can’t it?  Like at a traffic light.  If you’re in a hurry and the light changes red, it irritates you.  But, if you want to send a quick text to someone (safely), you welcome the red light.  Same event, very different reactions and feelings.  And, what about when you’re in a hurry, but you drop something on the floor — you really don’t want the red light, but you’re sort of glad it showed up…  You know, complicated feelings like that.  But, then later it seemed sort of obvious, so I didn’t share it.

Anyway, I tumble.

But, then the angels remind me that when you put an ordinary stone into a rock tumbler it comes out looking extraordinary — you can see all the beauty and uniqueness of the inner qualities of the stone where you couldn’t see it when it was dusty and rough.  [shrug]  So I get it.  We tumble sometimes to reveal what’s within us that can really shine the most beautifully.  I trust that they’re right — I know they are.  But, being in the tumbling still isn’t fun, is it?

If you’re tumbling too, I reach out my hand and heart to you.  If you’re already shining brilliantly, then I bask in your light. 

Within you, wherever you seem to be on the outside, is beauty beyond imagination.  Wisdom and brilliance.  Have courage to tumble, if you need to.  It’ll be worth it (the angels assure me — and I, in turn, assure you)!

Blessings and love today!  -Laura

And, of course, I’ve got places I’m trying to get to — yoga class, picking up my kids, running Christmas errands … you know.  So, I feel antsy and annoyed when someone else is forcing me to move slower than I want to.  I feel powerless (maybe even a little (gasp!) like a victim).

So, last night I was on my way to the yoga studio and was tied up behind car after car that was not driving my preferred speed and I lamented at my angels, “WHY???  What’s going on here?”

I’m sure you can guess what they said… “Laura, dear one, we ask that you slow down.  Have patience.”

I say back, “I just want to get THERE — I don’t want to be HERE!”

To which they replied, “It’s not the time for you to be there right now — now it’s time for you to be here.  You will get there in time, but not at this moment.  Accept where you are.  Notice where you are.  Don’t miss this opportunity by looking too far into the future or wishing to be somewhere other than where you are right now.”

I understood what they meant — in fact, I’m sure I’ve delivered the same message to clients I’ve worked with.  I understand that they’re not talking about traffic and the yoga studio.  I understand.

And, then I realized it’s an uncomfortable place to be, isn’t it?  We just want to get where we want to be — sometimes when we’re in the middle of change or transformation, it’s uncomfortable and chaotic.  We just want what we want and it’s hard to be patient.  The angels encourage us to have faith in the present and in the future and not try to force anything.  When we force things, we alter the energy of it — we distort the energy.  When we allow the natural unfolding of our lives, we experience it with more clarity and truth.

So, I do my best to relax.  You know what I mean?  Have you tried yin yoga?  Sometimes we’re asked to do yin yoga in our lives.  Relax into the discomfort.  Breathe.  Trust that this too shall pass.

Blessings!

Sheesh…

Hi!  Thank you, sweet, gentle readers, for the nudge to come back.

I sit here now not knowing what to say.  In a way I have books and volumes to write.  And, in a way I have nothing to say.  Funny…

But, I’ll tell you that I’m well and I’m walking my talk right now.  I’m working on myself.  Shedding some old skin, some old layers.  Going deep into some dark, swampy places.

I’m learning (well, not learning, since I already knew it, but I’m experiencing) that I am not a victim, no matter what my mind and my ego would have me believe.  I’m not a victim.  I’m very powerful — I’ve created everything in my experience.  Yes, even the stuff I don’t like.  Even the stuff that hurts me.

I’m working to remove that stuff I don’t want.  And, it’s not always easy because those things have complicated root systems and I want to get it all up and out.  I planted that stuff a while ago and I had my reasons for planting it.  Some reasons were deliberate, some were unconscious.  But, it was me and my reasons and now I’m revisiting the layers and consciously discerning what stays and what goes.

Yeah, it’s cleaning out the basement, I guess.  [giggle]

I encourage you to keep up the great work.  Keep cleaning.  Keep forgiving, keep looking.  You’re making progress — don’t judge yourself.  Love yourself.  Be kind to yourself.

Live and love on purpose, my friends!  I love you!  You are Light.

Blessings today!  I won’t be away so long this time.

I just asked my husband today when I’d be getting a new local phone number (and even a new smart phone?) so that I could plan to announce it and buy new business cards.  Well, never a guy to stand around, he immeditately got me a new phone number and shut off my old one!   When I said to him, “Whoah, I needed some time to communicate that to people,”  he immediately then reinstated my Memphis number and planned to have the switch-over happen on Friday.  So, a lot of manifestation happening pretty quickly around here!

So, as of Friday this week, my new phone number will be 262/225-3779.   Until then, you may reach me at my 901-area-code number. 

Okay, so now to manifest a smart phone . . . 

Blessings and love to you today!  -Laura