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- Got Prayer? - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from Adele McDowellRecently, I have been thinking about prayer and, more specifically, the human aspects of prayer. I am of the opinion that there is no right or wrong way to pray. I find prayer to be unique and idiosyncratic because prayer is predicated on our very human, one-to-one relationship with the ...
Views: 2869(1 vote) - Psychic Choices4 - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertHere’s an example of what I ask people to do or consider—whether they are new or long time clients. •Think about the areas of your life you are the most concerned about. This can include relationships, work, spiritual development, friendships, or family issues. I would avoid health ...
Views: 2861(1 vote) - ***Crazed by the holidays? Six steps to avoid overwhelm - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellOMG! The holidays are here. Are you ready? Good God, I’m not -- even though I swore up and down that I would be all wrapped and carded by Thanksgiving. Well, such is the way of my good intentions when life does life. I am guessing you can relate. It’s not too late to find help. Here are six ...
Views: 2860(3 votes) - Psychic Auras - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertBonnie was working with me to develop her psychic talents. She was so fired up when she began to see men and women's auras, but this ability opened up a complete new level of concerns: what did the colors indicate? Did they alter? Why? Had been they correlated with ...
Views: 2844 - Psychic Maya - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertYou’ve most likely heard that it’s greatest to warm up prior to exercising and that you’ll do better with a check in case you analyze beforehand. In our each day life, you can find numerous actions that we get ready for, understandably without the need of even realizing it simply because ...
Views: 2843 - I Wish I Didn't Know - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2012 from Womens Recreation, Inc.I wish I didn’t know what a broken heart felt like. I wish there was no illness. I wish I never knew what homeless meant. I wish there was no such thing as war. I wish I never heard or said an angry word. I wish my heart didn’t know what it was like to ache for someone not with us anymore. ...
Views: 2813(1 vote) - ***Mental health needs a booster shot - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe majority of mental health practices are deeply rooted in the medical model, knee-deep in the latest edition of the DSM to provide diagnostic labels and entrenched with pharmaceutical solutions. And much of this is aided and abetted by the insurance companies who look to quantify and contain ...
Views: 2808(1 vote) - Everyday peace - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2009 from Adele McDowellI’m of the Viet Nam and Kent State generation and can remember the feel of singing “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” The swaying bodies, the deep resonance, the fervent belief that if peace were found – because, oh so, certainly, it had been lost – then the world would be right. I was ...
Views: 2787(1 vote) - ***A lesson in grief - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis summer, I had the opportunity to visit sunny, palm-treed southern California, where it kisses the blue, blue of the Pacific Ocean. It is a beautiful part of the world. I had the great honor and privilege of presenting my new work -- and still in-process book – Making Peace with Suicide at ...
Views: 2765(1 vote) - Tarot Readings 14 - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2017 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertWhile it absolutely was tempting to learn the Ten within the Tarot being a “yes” for staying involved, my intuition warning bells rang at taking the uncomplicated/nice reply. Often this credit card is really a symbol that a circumstance or partnership is certain for being satisfied and ...
Views: 2764 - Are you ready for a life review? - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2011 from Adele McDowellWhen we pass over, we are welcomed by loved ones. We are also given the opportunity -- in the presence of a guardian angel type -- to review our life. I imagine the the angel says something like, "Let's roll the videotape" and every frame of our life unfolds before us. We each get to see ...
Views: 2698(1 vote) - Learning Chinese food culture - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from james tomaLearning Chinese should be established on the basis of in-depth understanding of Chinese culture. China has 5,000 years of history, the formation of extremely rich and deep cultural traditions. To Learn Chinese culture is a very effective way to learn Chinese. In traditional Chinese culture, ...
Views: 2677 - ***This year, I choose surrender - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellMy dear pal, Debbie, passed along this birthday ritual. On your birthday, you choose one word to be your focus for the coming year. Once, I chose the word “sparkle” – just the thought of it made me happy. This year, my word arrived unbidden with cat-like stealth and sure-footed certainty. It ...
Views: 2669(2 votes) - And the signs say, "Don't Push" - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2011 from Adele McDowellI am a woman who believes that there are messages in everything. In other words, everything is symbolic to me. So, what am I to think when 10 days before I head to my long-awaited, greatly-anticipated trip to the UK, I fall into a small well on uneven pavement – a hole, if you will – after ...
Views: 2663(2 votes) - ***Chocolate, tantrums and salvation - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2011 from Adele McDowellMy inner child has run amok. She wants nothing to do with restriction, rules and can’t-have’s. She wants chocolate and French fries and a loaf of toast. She is acting out big-time. On the outside I still look like the grown-up I am, doing my daily adult thing, but on the inside, ...
Views: 2662(2 votes) - The Three Toms - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2009 from Adele McDowellRecently, a very dear friend of mine lost three relatives -- her 30 year old nephew, 96 year old uncle, and 62 year old brother, in that order. They died within a mere six weeks of one another. All were named Tom. The causes of death: murder, the complications of old age, and a sudden heart ...
Views: 2635(1 vote) - ***Packing your cosmic backpack for the Big Shift - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellThe world is changing at break-neck speed as we inch ourselves closer and closer to the planetary shifts of consciousness and being. And, as with any new birth, there will be some pain, contractions, doubt, fear and maybe, even, a bit of panic as we work to bring forth a bouncing new world that ...
Views: 2608(1 vote) - ***Showered with blessings? - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellRob Brezny's book Pronia is the Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings "an extensive array of experiments, games, rituals, and meditations you can use to boost your levels of ingenious happiness." His work is fun, outrageous, provocative, earthy, and will up ...
Views: 2599(1 vote) - My top 12 lessons of 2010 - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2011 from Adele McDowellIn 2010, I moved, attended one symphony, took two cab rides, read 39.5 books, watched 18 movies, visited seven museums, had a banner year with eight Broadway shows as well as eight train trips, travelled by plane 12 times, spent 38 nights in hotels, witnessed the death of a dear friend, mastered ...
Views: 2566(2 votes) - V Is For Vulnerable - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2008 from Adele McDowellToday, my friends, we are spinning, spinning, spinning the alphabet wheel. Can you hear it whinny and whir through its multiple rotations of 26 choices? And after the occasional stutter and stumble, it eventually settles and makes its home on the venerable “V.” Ah … “V”; it’s a letter that ...
Views: 2549 - How To Hang On Through Uncertainty - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2008 from Adele McDowellThe dentist, knowing my profession, teased me this morning and asked if people were ready to jump out of buildings. Yes, it’s scary out there. We, as a nation, are treading unknown territory. We have collectively spent more than we earned. The government is bailing and bailing to the tune of ...
Views: 2545(2 votes) - Preparing for a Psychic Reading2 - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams Brockertour wisdom/intuition: You have a lot of valuable information from your own experience and intuitive knowing. Don’t keep this from your reader. A reading is a co-created experience, and I’d rather discuss issues with my clients than have them listen in complete silence. A ...
Views: 2528 - Hope Quotes - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThese quotations will give you hope and build your faith. Hope is the road, Faith is the victory. Martin Luther – “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Unknown – Don’t worry, the fog will lift. Me – “Hope is the raw material from which faith builds the ...
Views: 2519(2 votes) - Attention: Hell and High Water Ahead - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from Adele McDowellI have recently been working with a wonderful, young woman who has been struggling mightily with her recovery from addictions. She had relapsed after some good, solid sobriety. Relapse is like any kind of breakdown on the path. It is where things fall apart; traction is lost, and chaos ...
Views: 2505(1 vote) - Walking the Walk - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2008 from Adele McDowellThat’s right. It’s time. This is the moment we have been waiting for; there are no more warm-ups. Practice is over. It is time to suit up and get in the game. Our souls have been preparing for this moment for lifetimes. We have arrived at the tipping point of evolutionary consciousness. We have ...
Views: 2505(1 vote) - ***Where can you go when you run from the madness of overwhelm? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellIt’s too much. It’s way too much. You just can’t take one more something to remedy, re-organize, or create anew. You have been chugging right along, working to keep pace with everything that has come your way. There have been moments when you have been breathless. Yet, you have persevered. ...
Views: 2504(2 votes) - How can I improve myself within a month? - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2018 from Kranti GauravIt is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. Presenting ...
Views: 2492(2 votes) - Stormy weather - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2008 from Adele McDowellThis week, the economists agreed we are headed for a long-term recession. No kidding, I think we are all up to speed on that. In other words, this global, economic melt-down is a marathon and not a sprint. As Bette Davis once intoned in some fabulous classic movie whose name I cannot remember, ...
Views: 2456 - Let's Talk Alternative Healing - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Adele McDowellI recently returned from an international conference on shamanism and alternative healing. This particular conference has been going long and strong for 25 years. As with most things these days, it made me think. I wondered why we, and I include myself in that “we,” are so resistant to other ...
Views: 2418 - The Power of Possibility - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2012 from Amy Iverson AdamsFor 10 years I read about and watched compulsive eaters become free from overeating and I continued to be discouraged as I binged and obsessed about food. I would identify with people who felt, thought, and ate the way I did, and when they said they were free I believed them. I knew it must be ...
Views: 2400(1 vote) - Your Cosmic Backpack for 2009 - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2009 from Adele McDowell2008 has been a roller coaster kind of year -- lots of ups and downs, twists and bends, ramped-up runs at full speed, then, fast, breath-taking drops into thin air. Clearly, 2008 has not been dull. And, with that in mind, let’s review: What have we learned – or, at the very least, been ...
Views: 2398 - ***Psychic swamps and camp guru - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellI’m in a strange place these days, nothing feels right. My skin is itchy; my allergies have run amok. On top of that, I am irritable and sensitive and there is not enough chocolate in the contiguous united of states to keep me satisfied. I am cranky. And why, you might ask? I have no real ...
Views: 2383(1 vote) - ***Being a parent during dark times - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2012 from Adele McDowellParents, by definition, have three primary roles. Their first duty is to cover the physical basics for their children. Food, a roof over their heads, shoes on their feet -- the rudimentary physical necessities of shelter, sustenance, and clothing. And under this rubric, there would ...
Views: 2370(1 vote) - ***Redemption in Joplin - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2011 from Adele McDowellHome again, home again, jiggedy jig. I am back in Connecticut after three weeks of Red Cross deployment in Joplin, MO. I arrived in Joplin eight days after the tornado. Everything was still chaotic -- and my repeated response to viewing what was termed “the footprint,” the 6 x 1 mile area of ...
Views: 2365(1 vote) - ***The skinny on mindless eating research - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellAccording to Brian Wansink, Ph.D.’s research, we typically make 200+ food choices a day. Wansink, a professor of marketing at Cornell University and author of Why We Eat More Than We Think: Mindless Eating, has devoted his career to researching why we eat and make the food choices we do. He is ...
Views: 2358(1 vote) - Ode to Martin: Life Lessons From An Old Friend - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2012 from Tommy LandryToday I write this blog post with a heavy heart. Just last night, we returned from a trip back home to visit my family. Normally, a trip like this is filled with joy and laughs, sharing stories, and general goodness. This time was different. You see, 2012 has been a tough year for all of us. ...
Views: 2346 - ***How can you be happy if you are never enough? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis is what I call my riff on happiness and self-acceptance. It came out of a maddening conversation with a client who has struggled with finding happiness and feeling as if he is never enough. How can you be happy if it’s never enough, not ok enough, good enough, successful enough, famous ...
Views: 2342(2 votes) - Creating heaven on earth together as one - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Bram JoostenWhen we look at our current world we see corruption, poverty, greed and separation. The only way to change all that is to create a new world with a system that supports all living beings equally. We need a system that unites all people! That helps people understand that we are all one. We ...
Views: 2310 - Psychic Katie - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertPerhaps you have at any time felt like your associations are cursed? Or probably your vocation path has still left you sensation unfulfilled? These conditions often result from a routine we’ve fallen into unknowingly. If we don’t consider the time to realize how our actions influence our ...
Views: 2304 - ***Six struggles and coping strategies for the motherless and unmothered - by Submitted on May 17, 2013 from Adele McDowellBeing without a mother is special kind of club. Only those that share the experience understand the profound ache for once what was or could have been. Mothers are lost for a myriad of reasons - be it childbirth itself, accident, illness, poverty, circumstances of family, culture, or fate, ...
Views: 2268 - 25 Days: Gifts of Kindness - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2013 from Linda Radford“Kindness is like a snowball that’s rolling down a hill. Each unselfish act or word is another snowflake that greets the others…creating something much larger than itself in the process.” Mac Anderson I am creating a joyful game of giving gifts of kindness every day for 25 days. Will you join ...
Views: 2268 - ***Are you or someone you love going through health hell? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis and you are trying to keep it together for family and friends. There are days you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2243(1 vote) - The Truth is Known - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCOur conscious intelligence is as much of Life as we understand. We have stopped looking for the Spirit, because we have found It; It is what you are and It is what I am; we could not be anything else if we tried. The thing that we look with is the thing that we have been looking for. That is why ...
Views: 2225(1 vote) - Spiritual Advice in Love Life Part 3 - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2016 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertMany clients reach out to psychics for spiritual guidance in love matters. In part 3, we continue to explore more details. But the brief answer only gave short-term reduction. The real truth was that we needed to understand a lot more about why she was perplexed. Over a series of ...
Views: 2184 - Don’t Worry Be Happy; Learn to Replace Worry with Curiosity - by Submitted on May 01, 2012 from JoAnne Ceccarelli-EganYears ago I was locked in a worry habit. Each morning I would wake up and my mind would begin to scan the landscape of my life, the way a hawk scans land for food. I was not looking for food; I was looking for something to worry about. The enormity of this habit became apparent one day when I ...
Views: 2180(1 vote) - What to do while we wait for God’s answer. - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Janet Perez Eckles“How did they get to Paris without me?” my friend said when she got the news from the airline. Has that happened to you? You reach your destination and your luggage ends up in another part of the world. Frustrating. But not as much as missing your connecting flight because the previous ...
Views: 2166 - ***Are you going through health challenges hell? - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis? Are you trying to keep it together for family and friends? There are days when you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2129(2 votes) - It’s Never Too Late With God! Your Best Days Are Still Ahead! - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2017 from Godwin Terhemba IhaghThe story of “Laurre the Elliot” who bagged a master’s degree at the age of 90, says a lot about the fact that – where there is a will, there will always be a way – no matter the trials or pains! “Laurre the Elliot” is a proof to many that it's never too late to fulfil your dreams. She said it ...
Views: 2129 - ***Got hope? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2012 from Adele McDowellHope … it’s a wonderful four-letter word. Hope offers possibilities; hope suggests that the good will prevail. It makes us happy. It fills us with expansiveness and can make our tight, constricted worlds crack open with a little wiggle room for the good stuff to find its way. Hope has us ...
Views: 2127 - HOPE & RESILIENCE When the possible feels impossible - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2012 from Elizabeth McNallyHope, being the flickering light that gleams and brightens the dimmest paths, permitting to grasp at dreams, wholeheartedly, even when circumstances seem to alienate all positive outcome probabilities. You’ve known, I’m sure, people who have made it beyond their dreams. What makes them ...
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