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Within this blog all I can do is offer guidance and plant a seed the rest is up to you… I know we all have different ways of interpreting what is told to us, some we accept others we discard. But in the end we choose what we will do. The following article by Keith Varnum is powerful and insightful, it reminds me of The Titus Concept, perhaps it may open your eyes and Heart even more so.

The Secret of the Dream Catcher By Keith Varnum

A Dream Catcher is a hoop—a circle of life—on which is woven a web. Adorning the hoop are feathers, bones, crystals and other sacred items that represent your dreams. The web acts as a filter. Good dreams are captured in the web, sliding down the feathers and into your life. Nightmares pass through the web.

A Dream Catcher can be a unique wall hanging. A good luck charm. … Or an effective manifestation tool!

Using a Dream Catcher as a tool can bring you what you want in life.

The difference in the power of your Dream Catcher lies in knowing the secret.

The Secret

The secret of the Dream Catcher is like all profound spiritual truths—it’s not really a secret at all!

Metaphysical truth is truth that’s beyond (meta) physical. It’s hidden from sight—that is, hidden from ordinary physical sight. Not concealed deliberately, but effectively.

 Hidden by what? By the perceptual filters of our social upbringing. Our cultural programming. The beliefs passed on to us through parents, schooling and mainstream media.

The Good News

The Good News is that since all spiritual truth is only truth hidden from ordinary view, all you have to do is change your ordinary point of view to find it!

If you alter your perspective on the journey of life, you can easily discover all the “secret” truths that will make your life happy, healthy and abundant. A change in your perspective changes your perception.

That is, if you vary what you’re looking for—and therefore, how or where you’re looking for it—you’re more likely to find it.

For example, if you’ve been told that the secret to life is out there somewhere, you’ll look out there for it. If you’ve been taught that the power you seek is in a thing, or another human being, or organization, or belief—you’ll be searching for it in an object, person, group or concept.

Switch Your Viewpoint

You may or may not have found what you are looking for. If you haven’t, try modifying the perspective of your search.

For example, if you switch your viewpoint to seeking the secret within yourself, you may quickly find the gold you’ve been longing for.

Where Is the Dream Catcher?

Where is the Dream Catcher? … in the hoop and string of the spider’s web you have woven? … or in the weaver?

Who (what) is the Dream Catcher? … is it the physical Dream Catcher … or the maker of the physical Dream Catcher?

You Are the Dream Catcher

You are the Dream Catcher! You are the One you have been waiting for. You are the One you’ve been searching for.

Yes, I know, you’ve heard this before. You’ve read it countless times. You totally believe it. I understand.

Go Beyond Just Believing

It’s one thing to believe this. Yet, it’s another to experience it.

This is where making a physical Dream Catcher enters in.

This is where the “secret” of the true Dream Catcher comes to the rescue!

When you construct a traditional Native American Dream Catcher out of reed, yarn, leather and feathers, you’re actually only creating a physical representation of the metaphysical Dream Catcher—you!

Here’s the Magic

With the right conditions and attitude, the physical Dream Catcher becomes you-the-metaphysical Dream Catcher. The result is that all your dreams show up in your life … on earth … in this “Dimension of Manifestation.”

When you build a physical Dream Catcher with the viewpoint that you are revealing the actual Dream Catcher, you then experience becoming the powerful Catcher of Dreams that you truly are.

When you make a Dream Catcher with the perspective of uncovering the hidden power in the Universe, you discover the truth—you are the source of the power behind the holy object, behind the group leader, behind the trappings of tradition, behind the sacred belief. You are the Holy Grail!

Go for the Proof

It’s one thing to know this. It’s another to do it. It’s still another to create the personal direct evidence of the enormous creative power of being the Dream Catcher in a real and tangible, provable way.

What’s the proof of this approach? … the love, prosperity, health and peace you’ll attract immediately into your life!

When you realize (make real) that you are the true Dream Catcher, you can re-dream your financial life. Love life. Body. Age. Relationships. Livelihood. … anything you want! Your life immediately changes in front of your eyes.

 Don’t Take My Word for It

Make a Dream Catcher yourself. Make your self into a Dream Catcher! Catch Your Dreams Create your own unique Dream Catcher—a power object that will help you “catch” your dreams

It’s easy: Make a hoop (circle of life) out of a flexible tree branch or thick vine. Weave string into a web (of life) within the hoop.

For pointers, watch a spider spin its web. Go on a Vision Quest outside to find natural objects that represent the dreams you intent to attract with your personal power. Weave these symbols into your dream-catching web with love, intention and appreciation. Viola! Within minutes or days, your heartful wishes will come to you.

Dream, design and construct your Dream Catcher with the intention of “catching” what you really want in your life.

As you catch “Bright Energies”—love, health, happiness, peace, joy, wealth—you’ll weave these Energies into your personal Dream Catcher … and your everyday life.

Each person’s Dream Catcher will be unique to each person’s unique desires and intentions.

Native Magic

In Native American lore, the spirit medicine of the spider is to remind us that we are the source of our life adventures. The spider’s message is that we are the weavers of our own web of life experiences. We are the creator of our own reality—the authors of our own karma.

If we want to change the life experiences that we’re attracting, we need to change the web of thoughts, feelings and actions that we’re sending out into our world. By the Law of Attraction, the vibration at which we’re vibrating will attract people and events vibrating at that same vibrational frequency. This is the magic of you being the Dream Catcher.

Heaven Is a Here&Now Vibration The vibration of your Dream Catcher creates the reality of your dreams. The energy you’re in when you make the Dream Catcher attracts your dreams into manifestation.

Catch a Native American Catch a Native American (or a student of one) to show you how to create the physical and metaphysical Dream Catcher. … Or catch the knack from your own Higher Knowing!

Learn how to weave a web that brings all your heart’s desires—and catches your life purpose and passion.

Catch Up with Your Destiny!

Grab an opportunity. Release the patterns that attract people and situations you don’t prefer. Catch a Glimpse!

Catch a glimpse of how bountiful your life can be! Seize the day. Catch true love, a heartful livelihood, lasting health and wealth. Catch a Ride!

Catch a ride on your own Magical Mystery Tour! Discover the revitalizing force of “Bright Energies.”

Catch Your Youth!

Grab another chance. Seize the moment. Feel, look and be young and vital again.

Catch the Past!

You’ve lived here many times. Retrieve the value from those lifetimes … the wisdom, clarity, hints, tools, discoveries. awareness, learning, knowing. Mine the treasures of your past to update your awareness, learning and knowing in this lifetime.

Catch Your Future!

You’re the one who creates your dreams coming true. It’s your energy! The vibration that you generate from inside yourself. Your energy is a magnet. The high quality of energy you’re putting out attracts quality people, situations and a physical experience to match.

Catch the dreams that will make your heart and soul soar. Dream Catching is playful, practical and powerful! It works!

Weave a New Web of Joy Spiders build new webs at dawn to catch the dew that catches the early morning sunlight.

You build a Dream Catcher at the dawn of your new awareness to catch the Spirit that catches the “Bright Energies” of joy, compassion, peace, delight, innocence and passion.

As with the spider’s web, your Dream Catcher captures the Bright Energies of life and filters out the Dark Energies of doom and gloom.

As the first rays of sunlight hit the dew in the web, the “bad” dreams dissolve. As the first rays of Your True Spirit hit the Bright Energies of your Dream Catcher, the nightmares of life dissolve.

Make a Dream Catcher

This Manifestation Magnet will remind you how to continue to Catch Your Dreams! Use this ancient tool of transformation. Live your life to the fullest. Share your beauty, compassion and inner talents to transforms the world.

As the Song Goes…

Catch a falling star (light, a piece of heaven) Put it in your pocket (embody it, become it) Never ever let it fade away (don’t allow it to diminish) For love may come an’ tap you on the shoulder Some star-less night! Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her (the joy) You’ll have a pocketful of starlight!

For our best and highest good all ways…

In every moment.

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

There was a time when I only concentrated being on the spiritual path, because I thought then that there would be more peace and joy in my Life. To some degree that did occur… But in the overall scheme of Life I was leaving other aspects of my Life out of the equation and realized that all areas and levels of my Life are just as equally important. Read this excellent and insightful article by Shakti Gawain, it addresses Loving your Self unconditionally in every area and every level.

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Judgment Is As Judgment Does
by Shakti Gawain

It has been tremendously helpful for me to understand the difference between consciousness and spirituality. Spirituality is one type of energy — the energy that links us to our deepest essential nature and to the universal source. Consciousness is the awareness of all of the energies within us. Thus, it is quite possible to follow a spiritual path that is not necessarily a consciousness path. That is, we could work on developing the spiritual dimension of our being, without necessarily developing the other aspects. We can become spiritually developed and totally identified with our “spiritual self”. In this case, we would usually disown many other energies, especially the physical and emotional ones. That’s why we see so many people who are very highly attuned spiritually, but may be completely out of balance in their physical and emotional lives.

Consciousness, on the other hand, involves developing and integrating all the many aspects of our being, including, but not limited to, the spiritual.

The path of transcendence is a spiritual path, while the path of transformation is a consciousness path. Contacting and developing our spiritual nature is an important part of the consciousness journey, but there are many other important parts as well. The path of transformation involves a powerful commitment to every level of growth.

One of my concerns about the New Age movement is its focus on transcendence rather than transformation. Many are hoping that by developing spiritually, they can rise above their problems and not have to face the challenge of integrating their spiritual and human natures. They feel comfortable and safe exploring the spiritual and mental realms, but hope to avoid the more painful or difficult emotional healing work. Of course, it is a perfectly legitimate option to choose a transcendent path, but it will not bring about profound healing and wholeness for the individual or for the world. And ironically, the peace of mind that so many people seek on the transcendent path cannot be fully achieved by focusing exclusively on that reality.

Feel The Feeling

In New Age circles there is much talk about unconditional love. Many teachers urge their followers to practice forgiveness, be non-judgmental, and love fully without conditions, and many sincere seekers are earnestly trying to follow these teachings. I have a problem with the way these ideas are often presented. Of course, judgments are unpleasant, separating, and uncomfortable for all concerned. Forgiveness is a powerful and healing force for both the giver and the recipient. And there’s nothing more blissful than giving and/or receiving unconditional love. However, there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about these processes, and much of what is being taught is coming from the transcendent rather than the transformative approach.

Again, we must recognize the difference between our spiritual essence and human personality. As spiritual beings, we are always at one with universal love, which is always unconditional and non-judgmental. The personality, however, has the goal of learning to live in the physical world and get our emotional needs met. On the personality level, we are fundamentally concerned with protecting and caring for the vulnerable child within us; our feelings of love are entwined with our needs for safety, trust, and intimacy. We have powerful defense mechanisms in our personalities that can close off our feelings of love when we don’t feel safe.

Rather than denying or trying to suppress these feelings and reactions, we need to respect and appreciate the function of our human personality. It is not by nature unconditionally loving. Much healing can take place when we recognize this as a given and are able to honor both our spiritual and our human nature.

When we feel judgmental, rather than denying those feelings, we need to look deeply into them to discover what is triggering them. Usually, we feel judgmental when we are frustrated because we have not followed our own truth in some way, or because we are having to confront another person who is reflecting one of our disowned selves back to us. So, instead of simply blocking ourselves from experiencing our judgmental feelings, we need to be attentive to the fact that our judgments can provide us with clues for what we need to look at in ourselves; ultimately, they are healing gifts. If we try to suppress or ignore the feelings, we miss the opportunity for learning and consciousness. Condemning ourselves for being judgmental is simply judging ourselves for being judgmental!

Obtaining Knowledge

What stops people from embarking on the transformational path? For many, it is simply a lack of knowledge. They aren’t aware that such an opportunity exists, or perhaps they aren’t sure how to go about finding it. Lack of knowledge is not the only roadblock on the consciousness path. Another one is fear. We all fear the unknown, of course, and this particular journey certainly is unpredictable in many ways. That’s why it is so important to cultivate a personal relationship with our inner guidance. Unless we feel some sense of a higher force working with us, it is simply too frightening to leave our familiar territory.

Many people are afraid of emotional healing work. There are so many misunderstandings and stereotypes about psychotherapy. Unfortunately, there are also many less than adequate or downright harmful therapists and healers, and many people who have had negative, disappointing or downright traumatic experiences with them. So it is extremely important to choose your helpers wisely and carefully.

I have found that most people are afraid that if they begin exploring deep feelings, they will get stuck there and never emerge. When feelings have been repressed and disowned, they feel very intense and powerful, and it is easy to feel that they might overwhelm us forever if we ever give them the opportunity.

However, the facts are quite different. If we move into our healing process at our own pace, without pushing ourselves and with the right support, it is not nearly as difficult as we might fear. Each of us has an internal mechanism that guides the pace of our journey. Once we allow ourselves to experience an emotion freely, we discover that rather than washing us away, the wave of feeling gradually subsides and leaves us with a deep sense of wonderful peace.

Tap Into Love

The key to unconditional love is found in the love our spirit has for our personality. When we can tap into spirit, we can unconditionally love ourselves — including the parts of us that are angry, judgmental, needy, and selfish. Then we naturally feel compassion and acceptance toward others as well. We recognize in them the same human attributes that we have learned to love in ourselves. By loving and honoring our own personality in this way, we gain clear vision about other people’s development on the personality level. We can maintain appropriate boundaries, making wise choices about who it’s appropriate to get close to. At the same time, through our connection with our own divine essence, we naturally recognize and acknowledge the spiritual being in everyone else, even those with whom we know we must maintain some distance.

Remember that it doesn’t really work to try to feel love, or any other feeling. Our feelings are not controlled by our will, and most attempts to assert this kind of power over them leads to denial, repression, and disowning parts of ourselves, or to an expression of feeling that is not authentic.
By acknowledging and honoring any feeling — no matter how “unacceptable” we might have previously judged it to be — we create space for its opposite. So trying to love unconditionally is a contradiction. Unconditional love is some thing that arises naturally when we can accept all our feelings and love all parts of us, including the parts that aren’t unconditionally loving.

For our best and highest good all ways… In every moment.

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Al Diaz and co-host Nanice Ellis

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Nanice Ellis is a Global Facilitator of Peaceful Awakening, Founder and Facilitator of ECKO Coaching Institute, Theta Healer, Master NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, International Life Coach, Author of 7 Transformational Books, Radio Host of “Chai with Nanice” and Voice for World Oneness. This year, put spirituality back into your holi-days! Maintain your spiritual center when life around you is chaotic and your friends and family are pushing ALL YOUR BUTTONS!  www.nanice.com

Al Diaz and co-host Paula Shaw

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Paula Shaw C.A.D.C. , DCEP counsels within a private practice, and lectures, writes and teaches a variety of workshops within her fields of expertise. She is a graduate of Long Beach State University with post-graduate training in counseling for Addictive Disorders, as well as specialty training in Grief Counseling from Loyola Marymount University. A visionary and innovator, Paula works with a variety of healing modalities, to provide her clients with the most effective processes for their specific needs. She uses breakthrough Energy Psychology techniques, to identify core issues, then works with the chakras, meridians, bio-field and the subconscious mind to dissolve and eliminate these unwanted energetic patterns. Measurable change quickly occurs and concrete results manifest in far less time than with traditional therapies. One of the pioneers in the field, Paula developed an Energy Psychology system called CONSCIOUS HEALING AND REPATTERNING THERAPY (CHART). Her book Chakras, The Magnificent Seven, introduces the reader to the unique aspects of the Chakras and explains simple yet effective ways to work with them on a daily basis to clear the effects of traumatic experience and to create and maintain optimum health. Paula’s latest book is called From Tears To Triumph. It is a step-by-step program for getting out of pain, feeling normal again, and transforming grief into growth. www.paulashaw.net

What is your relationship with money? Is it loving? Is it sexy? Is it caring?

Read this excellent article by Morgana Rae regarding the relationship you have with money, you just may find your Self having money to be caring enough for what you desire and require in your Life. Read the article. You deserve it…

For our best and highest good all ways… In every moment.

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
Financial Alchemy: Create a New Relationship with Money – By Morgana Rae

Your current financial situation is a direct reflection of your inner relationship with Money. If you don’t like your finances, something needs to change in your relationship. This is where Alchemy comes in.

Alchemy is the art of transformation. With roots in ancient Egypt and classical Greece, Alchemy comes from a time when there was no distinction between science and magic. The mysteries of matter and consciousness were inextricably linked (as they are again, in today’s quantum physics). These ancient studies gave birth to modern medicine, psychology, chemistry, and even Sir Isaac Newton’s work on gravity.

The ultimate pursuit of Alchemy was the “Philosophers’ Stone,” a substance believed to turn worthless metals into gold. While Alchemists through the ages slaved in the laboratory, their metalwork concealed a spiritual process, a Philosophers’ Stone which had to be kept hidden from the Church: this was the process of inner transformation. Two principles are involved here: 1) turning lead into gold was an outer demonstration of inner transformation, and 2) the seed of the solution (the gold) was hidden in the problem (the lead).

I invite you to use this article to discover your own Philosophers’ Stone — your key to wealth and inner transformation — hidden in your relationship with Money.

Before we proceed, let’s review some guidelines I adapted from Alchemist tradition:

Rule #1: As it is above, so it is below.
What shows up in your head is going to show up in your life. This article will be using fundamental Relationship Coaching skills to help you transform your relationship with Money from a dead seed into a flowering garden. A seed comes to life as a living, thriving, fruit-flowering plant…in the right environment. So, too, your own prosperity. Your potential for financial abundance is there, waiting for the necessary environment within you. Your relationship with Money is like the soil that feeds or starves your economic growth. As long as you have hidden beliefs that cause you to unconsciously repel Money, perhaps “protect” yourself from wealth, your garden will not grow.

Rule #2: There is no scarcity.
A wealthy client once explained to me how he had overcome poverty. “The amount of Money out there in play every day is limitless, beyond our comprehension. Money is everywhere,” he explained. And it’s available in proportion to “how big your funnel is to take it in.” He had learned to tap into the Source. This relationship supported him.

Rule #3: Consciousness gives you choice.
I assert even a small change in your relationship consciousness can have a huge impact on your material life. You get what you choose, but first you need to know what you’re choosing.

How do I know this? I experienced this transformation myself.

My story:
For years I was struggling as a life coach. I had trouble attracting clients who would pay the fee I wanted. I found myself avoiding discussions of Money as long as I could. The whole subject embarrassed me, and my discomfort translated into making clients uncomfortable too. I was “doing” all the right marketing things — networking, newsletters, sample sessions — and getting nowhere. I was not making a “grown-up” living.

What was in my way, I wondered? My coach and I took a look at my relationship with Money. What were my stories about Money? What is this entity I’m in relationship with? What’s going on with this relationship?

Two discoveries popped out: Money didn’t feel safe or reliable, and Money caused separation. (My family would swing between being rich and poor over and over again, and Money was a “reason” for family members not to talk to each other for decades.) If my experience of Money were given personhood, he’d look like a tall, scary, dirty biker who caused fights at parties. This is the kind of guy I’d be watching carefully, always making sure to keep a safe distance. No wonder I wasn’t bringing Money into my life!

This was not the relationship with Money I wanted to have. (And it wasn’t the relationship I wanted to model for my clients either.) So I created a new paradigm. I fired the biker persona and put a tall, dark, handsome, and romantic suitor in his place. He wore tails and carried a bouquet of red flowers. He wanted to woo me. Can you imagine what it would be like to be wooed by Money? I related to him in a whole new way. This was the guy I wanted to have a relationship with. He loved me. I would do anything to make him happy.

I asked my new Money what he wanted from me so he could stay with me.

Money responded, “Appreciate me. Love me. Stop treating me like a monster.”

I immediately saw how I had been treating him like a monster every time I hesitated to state my fee or didn’t demand payment. My behavior changed immediately. Over the next week, four people called me out of the blue to hire me as their coach. I could feel my mouth wanting to move in the familiar patterns that would talk them out of the sale. I had to literally bite my tongue and shut up and let them hire me. You don’t say no to gifts from your beloved.

Whenever I received a check, signed a new client, came across some unexpected income, I graciously thanked Money for the gift. I wasn’t just thanking an abstract concept of abundance — I was thanking a person who was real to me. And this version of Money was valued and invited into my life.

From then on my business and income kept growing. Within six months I had accrued such a waiting list of clients that I had to add group coaching to my services. I didn’t have to look for my new clients; they were finding me. And all I had changed was my inner dialogue with Money.

Now it’s your turn:
If you want to improve your financial situation, you must first uncover the negative beliefs that shaped your relationship with Money. Get out some paper and respond to these questions. (Writing creates clarity and speeds your change.)

* What negative things have you heard about Money?

* What are some of the negative ways Money has shown up in your life and in the lives of those around you?

* What beliefs get between you and prosperity?

* Dig deeper and deeper. You may hit several blank spots before you find the deepest beliefs that have truly driven your relationship with Money.

Give Money personhood in relationship to you. If these darkest experiences of Money were a person, what would your version of this Money “person” be like?

Make Money real. Who is this Money villain? Is it male or female? Tall or short? How is Money dressed? How do you feel about this Money?

How does Money feel about you?

Can you imagine that the way you relate to this Money villain could be impacting the way Money is showing up in your life?

End that relationship, baby!

Create a new relationship with Money. What kind of Money person could you open your heart to? Is this a person who lights you up — who you’d want a relationship with even if he weren’t Money?

Negotiate with this new Money:

What does your new Money want from you to make this relationship better? What action are you going to take to demonstrate to Money that you take his request seriously? Make this new relationship real.

Money is like any other relationship; it comes where it’s invited and appreciated. It rarely comes when it is chased. It can be your partner if you listen to it. The more you care for this relationship, the more Money you will attract. Here are three final tips:

1) Appreciate Money! When a penny shows up on the sidewalk, thank Money for the gift. Don’t worry about denomination; appreciate everything. Think of how good you feel when you are valued for even a small gesture. It’s the same for Money. Every time you practice receiving and appreciating, you train the universe to send you more. Show the universe what you value.

2) By now your capacity to receive is growing. You’ll notice other stuff creeps in to limit the flow through your funnel to abundance. This stuff may look like clutter, broken appliances, old e-mails, toxic people, time wasters, or other energy drains. Clean house! Make space for what you want by having the courage to release what you don’t want. You teach the universe how you want to be treated with every choice you make. And nothing gets the universe’s attention like saying “No.” It’s your quickest ticket to miracles.

3) The most important place to make space for what you want is in your head. Clean out fear and pessimism. Plant love and trust instead. Your thoughts are your seeds, and you can grow flowers or weeds. What do you choose to grow?