I've been only writing about spiritual lessons lately, so I thought I'd give you an update on my band, Scale Model, since we've been working our asses off and almost burning ourselves out the past 3-4 months but it will not be in vain. We just took out a loan to hire a PR firm out of LA for a 4-month campaign to get our new album in the ears of people besides our friends and family. They recommended doing a national release (essentially a re-release) but with added content, so we're soliciting DJs and producers to do a remix of one of four songs from the album. We're paying one well-known DJ out of Chicago to do one. A couple friends around Nashville want to do one too. We're also booking a week tour in October, a weekend tour in early Sep., and a weekend tour in early Nov. We're also doing a new music video in August for the song Plato's Cave. Seth, who did our last one for Live It Up is doing it again. I asked our neighbor who is an actor and does some writing to ask his screenwriter friends for ideas for the new video.
I went to a really cool gong meditation/ gong bath the last weekend where I released some shit. My guides told me to ask this woman who was sitting near me if she was a healer. She was, in fact, or should I say of course because my guides don't steer me wrong, a healer and I just went to her house today. She is a shining example of what it means to live in gratitude and trust the universe has your back and your best interest in mind regarding how your life unfolds. She also helped me see my fears more clearly. Not surprisingly, these are the messages I've been getting this week as I ask my guides for guidance and listen. I also started listening to Carolyn Myss's book (on audible) Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice in the mornings on my way to work. It's a great lesson and reminder to trust your spiritual guidance as well as what it means to harness and live in all of your spiritual power so you can manifest like a motherf*ker. That should be the name of my next song... manifest like a motherf*ker.
Speaking on songs, a catchy melody/line for a chorus of a song that hasn't been written yet came to me tonight and in 30 min., Dave and I wrote a verse and chorus around it. I need to go write lyrics to my new hit song now. ;)
7/31/14
7/22/14
Stress Can Kill
I recently had a health incident that the doctor said has either caused or aggravated IBS. One of the main causes of IBS is stress apparently. This incident has made me realize just how stressed I've been over the past 6 months. I guess I should be thanking my body and spirit for letting me know when I'm unconsciously doing something that's damaging to both body and spirit before it causes serious, irreparable damage such as disease. This is a concept that I first learned after reading Awakening Intuition by Mona Lisa Schultz. She talks about how your body & spirit will tell you when you're not connected with it. It first lets you know by whispering in your ear, then giving you a tap on the shoulder. If you don't pay attention, it will try to let you know again but each time you ignore it, the severity and consequences are greater until you have no choice but to pay attention. I like to think of it as first a tap, then a slap on the face, then a blow to the side of the head with a 2x4, and I hate to imagine any more severe than that, but disease is probable. It's hard to believe that people could be so ignorant that they disregard sign after sign, signal after signal. But it happens all the time, including to myself. We're souls in bodies who need to tend to our souls just like our bodies. If you disregard the soul, the body will suffer.
Paying attention to messages from your spirit is not very easy if you're not consciously connected to it. The thing that separates us from our spirit or any benevolent spirit is ego. The emotions associated with the ego are fear, anger, greed, jealousy, basically any emotion that doesn't sprout from love.
I had a pretty bad day the other day (at least partially aided by my hormone cycle change) and I asked spirit to help me. Shortly after, I felt a wave of gratitude. It wiped away my bad feelings and I may add, stress. I don't know if my spirit is getting more powerful or I'm just realizing the power I've had all along. The power to get help whenever you need it. This is the best kind of advice from the one place in this universe that knows your potential and true desires and has your best interest at heart. The power to receive help and/or guidance as quickly as I ask for it. As long as I don't have anything blocking my connection to spirit, my life is pretty damn awesome and things just flow to me and I'm always grateful and feeling loved and supported.
When you let the ego get between you and spirit a little bit, if you're aware, you'll just get right back on track. I used to think this however, I considered myself an aware person, yet I let my ego in a little bit and before I knew it, I was sucked in and not even aware of it. Now that my connection with my spirit is stronger again, I can see that I haven't felt that wonderful love, gratitude and ultimate support in a while.
I've had the feeling (ego) creap in that I wasn't feeling supported many times over the past year. Ironically, I now see that spirit was trying to give me a message that my not feeling supported was getting in the way of my connection with it. I saw this from an intuitive hit when I was getting energy work from my healer friends. It also makes me realize that my neck problems are related to this not feeling supported.
This confirms yet again that my passion to help people get connected with their spirit, is a worthy one.
Paying attention to messages from your spirit is not very easy if you're not consciously connected to it. The thing that separates us from our spirit or any benevolent spirit is ego. The emotions associated with the ego are fear, anger, greed, jealousy, basically any emotion that doesn't sprout from love.
I had a pretty bad day the other day (at least partially aided by my hormone cycle change) and I asked spirit to help me. Shortly after, I felt a wave of gratitude. It wiped away my bad feelings and I may add, stress. I don't know if my spirit is getting more powerful or I'm just realizing the power I've had all along. The power to get help whenever you need it. This is the best kind of advice from the one place in this universe that knows your potential and true desires and has your best interest at heart. The power to receive help and/or guidance as quickly as I ask for it. As long as I don't have anything blocking my connection to spirit, my life is pretty damn awesome and things just flow to me and I'm always grateful and feeling loved and supported.
When you let the ego get between you and spirit a little bit, if you're aware, you'll just get right back on track. I used to think this however, I considered myself an aware person, yet I let my ego in a little bit and before I knew it, I was sucked in and not even aware of it. Now that my connection with my spirit is stronger again, I can see that I haven't felt that wonderful love, gratitude and ultimate support in a while.
I've had the feeling (ego) creap in that I wasn't feeling supported many times over the past year. Ironically, I now see that spirit was trying to give me a message that my not feeling supported was getting in the way of my connection with it. I saw this from an intuitive hit when I was getting energy work from my healer friends. It also makes me realize that my neck problems are related to this not feeling supported.
This confirms yet again that my passion to help people get connected with their spirit, is a worthy one.
6/8/14
Simplify Your Life by Simplifying Your Thoughts
A friend told me they were planning to simplify their life to minimize stress. After thinking about this great idea, I realized I need to do the same thing but instead focus on simplifying my thoughts. One thing I've done in the past and need to start doing regularly to help with simplifying my thoughts is writing a list of everything on my mind.
For some reason, I tend to avoid writing lists, something I know is beneficial. Writing lists, when I am juggling a lot, would help me to stop juggling all of it in my mind, and instead just think about a couple things at a time because I would know I don't have to keep track of everything since it's all on paper. I'd get to each item when I get to it. There's something about when you put a thought or task on paper, it can safely leave the constant juggling of thoughts in your mind. I didn't realize how much energy and stress juggling so many things in my mind takes up and how much it taxes my mental sanity until I tried writing a list some time ago.
If a task or thought or problem seems too big to handle, try writing it down. Almost every time, it doesn't seem as daunting when it's written on paper. Then, you can make a point to stop the constant mental chatter for every single item on your list and allow yourself to only focus on a couple at a time.
This is such a simple idea, so simple that I usually blow it off and don't do it because I think, aw, I don't need to bother to write a list, I can manage it in my mind. Yet it's so very profound in how much it can improve mental health, and because stress and anxiety negatively affect your physical health, it helps that too!
Thanks friend for unintentionally reminding me, to start writing lists again!
For some reason, I tend to avoid writing lists, something I know is beneficial. Writing lists, when I am juggling a lot, would help me to stop juggling all of it in my mind, and instead just think about a couple things at a time because I would know I don't have to keep track of everything since it's all on paper. I'd get to each item when I get to it. There's something about when you put a thought or task on paper, it can safely leave the constant juggling of thoughts in your mind. I didn't realize how much energy and stress juggling so many things in my mind takes up and how much it taxes my mental sanity until I tried writing a list some time ago.
If a task or thought or problem seems too big to handle, try writing it down. Almost every time, it doesn't seem as daunting when it's written on paper. Then, you can make a point to stop the constant mental chatter for every single item on your list and allow yourself to only focus on a couple at a time.
This is such a simple idea, so simple that I usually blow it off and don't do it because I think, aw, I don't need to bother to write a list, I can manage it in my mind. Yet it's so very profound in how much it can improve mental health, and because stress and anxiety negatively affect your physical health, it helps that too!
Thanks friend for unintentionally reminding me, to start writing lists again!
4/10/14
Documentation of the Law of Attraction in Action
Just wanted to document the law of attraction working...
My band just released our first full-length album (www.scalemodelmusic.com if you want to check it out) and we needed to hire a PR person to send press releases to media around the country/world but after paying for all that goes into recording, mixing, mastering, duplicating, the album, etc... we were broke. I just believed that we would find money somehow and the night before we were going to meet with the PR person, I called my mom who said she just donated $100 to our album - exactly the amount we were short for what we needed to pay the PR person. Shit like this happens all the time. I need to start documenting it more so people can see the law of attraction actually works.
Werk it!
In other news, tonight it became even more clear to me that my purpose in life is to inspire people to follow their dreams.
My band just released our first full-length album (www.scalemodelmusic.com if you want to check it out) and we needed to hire a PR person to send press releases to media around the country/world but after paying for all that goes into recording, mixing, mastering, duplicating, the album, etc... we were broke. I just believed that we would find money somehow and the night before we were going to meet with the PR person, I called my mom who said she just donated $100 to our album - exactly the amount we were short for what we needed to pay the PR person. Shit like this happens all the time. I need to start documenting it more so people can see the law of attraction actually works.
Werk it!
In other news, tonight it became even more clear to me that my purpose in life is to inspire people to follow their dreams.
4/2/14
My path has changed
The topic of my last post became a song. I can't wait to play it live for the first time at our next show! Some exciting news..... my band Scale Model, has finished our first full-length album and will release it this week! Stay tuned on our website: www.ScaleModelmusic.com
I'm enjoying only teaching 3 classes this semester! The plan was to focus more time on developing my life coaching business and writing a book. It sometimes happens as I live my life listening to my higher self, my inner genius, for guidance, that my plans change. I have thought for years now that I wanted to be like Wayne Dyer, a world famous motivational speaker and author. But I guess, for some reason, I had never really entertained the idea or thought I could do it. Well, guess what my divine guidance has led me to? I'm always glad I listen to this guidance because everything flows to me when I do. I've been trying to figure out what my ideal clientele is for my life coach business and it kept coming back to young adults. The problem is, young adults 18-25 don't usually have the interest or money to get a life coach. I would need to reach them in a way that was easy, free and accessible to them. Also, I like teaching and speaking to groups more than one-on-one, so speaking at Colleges/Universities seemed like a good idea. Since I teach college, and thanks to an article my mom's friend sent me, I realized doing seminars/workshops at the University seemed like the perfect path for me. I started reaching out to the people I know at 2 area Universities and one community college. I am talking to all of them about doing a seminar!
I'm enjoying only teaching 3 classes this semester! The plan was to focus more time on developing my life coaching business and writing a book. It sometimes happens as I live my life listening to my higher self, my inner genius, for guidance, that my plans change. I have thought for years now that I wanted to be like Wayne Dyer, a world famous motivational speaker and author. But I guess, for some reason, I had never really entertained the idea or thought I could do it. Well, guess what my divine guidance has led me to? I'm always glad I listen to this guidance because everything flows to me when I do. I've been trying to figure out what my ideal clientele is for my life coach business and it kept coming back to young adults. The problem is, young adults 18-25 don't usually have the interest or money to get a life coach. I would need to reach them in a way that was easy, free and accessible to them. Also, I like teaching and speaking to groups more than one-on-one, so speaking at Colleges/Universities seemed like a good idea. Since I teach college, and thanks to an article my mom's friend sent me, I realized doing seminars/workshops at the University seemed like the perfect path for me. I started reaching out to the people I know at 2 area Universities and one community college. I am talking to all of them about doing a seminar!
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