I think one of the draw backs of the LOA movement is that there is a lot of focus on the acquisiton of material objects. Personally, my LOA work is focused on freedom - financial freedom, spiritual freedom etc - being able to draw to me the opportunities and resources I need when I need them.

I’d rather take a taxi than have an expensive sports car that I then have to worry about insuring, fueling, repairing, cleaning etc.

Many LOA teachers and facilitators focus on acquairing money and goods and while this is fine and we certainly need this to get through life comfortably, we need to be conscious consumers - where do the products come from?  Are they made under ethical and fairly paid conditions?  Do I really need another do-hickey in pink when I already have it in blue and orange?

Do you believe that once you get ‘it’ everything will be okay?  I remember listening to a friend tell his wife ‘once we get a new sofa and a plasma tv, everything will be fine’.  I think a lot of people apply that logic to their life and their spending.   Material goods won’t make it all better.  Only spiritual growth and awareness will do that.

You don’t need to spend a lot of money on products or even courses and books designed to teach you the laws of attraction.  Use the library, share resources with friends, start a discussion group.  Read blogs and internet articles on the topic.  Pray is free and you can do that anytime - ask your angels, your guides and the the Universe to guide you and teach you.

Posted: June 4th, 2009 under laws of attraction.
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Emily: I’ve got to work on decluttering. I never seem to have the time to get it done though. Should I be visualizing myself having the time?

Allison: Visualise the lack of clutter I think clutter is best eaten in small mouthfuls. Sort through some paperwork while you’re watching tv and so forth. I like Fly Lady’s 15 mins a day tips. I think most people end up with clutter bec they don’t have a system or a home for things.

Paperwork clutter was always my bane so I brought a second hand three drawer filing cabinets and just set up very simple alphabetical files for everything from take out menus to prescriptions, to bank statements and mortgage documents. It’s just straight A-Z and I throw everything in there once I’m done with it. I never have to look for anything. Except my car keys but that’s another story.

Just take one draw, one cupboard, one shelf at a time.  As you rid yourself of clutter, you free up what I think of as ‘psychic space’.  We are energetically connected to everything we own, clutter included.  If you don’t have a positive relationship with that item, you are being drained of energy.  Get rid of things you don’t need, want or love and your energy will rise accordingly.

Posted: June 4th, 2009 under laws of attraction.
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One of the most common questions I get asked is ‘How can I develop my intuition and psychic abilities?’  The easy answer is ‘Pay attention!’ Your subconscious mind and energy field are like antennaes - they are constantly picking up the subtle energies, thoughts, feelings and emotions of others. Even when you are asleep or your conscious mind is engaged elsewhere.

When you consult your ‘gut’ or your intuition, the answer will come to you, you just have to pay attention because it’s often fleeting and as insubstantial as a breath of wind.

There are a few things I suggest you do.  Firstly, you need to find some quiet time for yourself each day - I call it taking Santuary.  If you don’t have any time to yourself, you need to reconsider your lifestyle.  The way you live is a result of the choices you made in the past.  You can make different choices any time to change the results you are experiencing.

Even if you have six kids and a husband/wife, you can find some time after the kids go to bed.  15 or 20 minutes is enough.  When you take the kids to sport, dance classes or McDonald’s, sit in the car for 15 minutes Sanctuary.  There is always a way.

If you’re still resisting giving yourself 20 minutes a day, what is it that you are really resisting?  What are you distracting yourself from?  What are you hiding from within yourself? What are you scared of?

Look at the way you spend your day.  I bet you spend more than 20 minutes watching tv,  on Facebook, surfing the net or doing something else that is mindless and adds no real value to your life.  If your day is too full, get rid of the mindlessness.

Turn off the tv at dinner time and don’t put it back on.  Tv can suck up a lot of time which can make us think we are busier than we really are.  ‘But it relaxes me!’, I hear you say.  No it doesn’t.  Most evening tv shows are drivel at best and portray violence, crime and other negative visuals at worst.  Stories about murdes and violence are not entertainment.  It’s poisoning you slowly.  It’s drugging you, not relaxing you.  It’s also desensitising you.

When you see someone being murdered or assaulted on tv or in a movie, your conscious mind knows it’s make believe, but your sub-conscious mind doesn’t.  As far as your sub-conscious mind is concerned, it’s witnessing an actual murder and the accompanying low energy.  And don’t get me started on the demeaning, superficial and objectified way women are so often portrayed.  Expose yourself to these images and sounds often enough and your sensitivity has to shut down.  How else would it cope?  It’s ok to be a sensitive person who is disturbed by violent and degrading images.  Do your soul a favour and stop watching them.  Watch mostly comedies, romances, family movies, classic films, non-violent dramas. I love watching classic movies like ‘The Ghost And Mrs Muir’ and ‘The Red Shoes’.  Of course we all want to watch a scary movie occasionally or see a movie starring our favourite actor as a serial killer, just don’t make a daily diet of it.

Everything you do, watch, think, say and experience creates your energy ‘blueprint’ and will either raise or lower your vibration, which is your spiritual energy signature.  Like attracts like so the higher your vibration, the higher the quality of events, opportunities and people you will attract to you.  If you keep experiencing crappy things happening to you, stop allowing yourself to absorb the crap from your environment.  At the risk of sounding harsh, why do you think people who have a lot of problems seem to end up with more problems?  If they focused on working with their energy, limiting their exposure to negativity and became a little more self-aware, a lot of those problems would either find solutions or disappear altogether.  I am well aware that not all problems have solutions, but all problems CAN be managed.

My friend Michelle was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.  A few years ago it would have thrown her into chaos.  Now that she has become aware of her energy and how to work with it, she focuses on changing the way she looks at having cancer, brings positive, light energy into her life and a series of synchronicities have shown her very clearly that there are Angels of healing working with and through her.

So watch a comedy instead of a murder.  Give yourself a break from Facebook for 20 minutes.  Don’t call your boyfriend for the fourth time today.

Take 20 minutes for yourself instead.  Go to a park, sit in your car, sit on a bench in a shopping centre in your lunch hour. Or go to Borders and sit in a chair with a book and pretend you’re reading!

Then, put your iPod on, or the stereo or just listen to the sounds around you.  Pay attention to the sounds.  If you are listening to music, listen to something that has a slow to moderate beat and no lyrics, or at least lyrics that are in a language you don’t understand.  I like spiritual music from all traditions for this purpose - Gregorian chants, African singers like Youssan N’Dour celebrating Sufism and classical music of all kinds.

Just listen to the music.  If your mind wanders and you start thinking about what you have to do that afternoon, how long you have to sit there etc, just turn your attention back to the music. Two seconds later your mind will wander again.  Come back to the music.  You’ll start to think ‘hey I’m not thinking anything!’ Come back to the music.  You’ll start having profound spiritual thoughts about how you can save the world.  Come back to the music. Lather, rinse, repeat. Just pay attention to the music and when you notice your mind has gone for a walk, very gently lead it back.  For how long?  15-20 minutes.

You don’t have to sit like a stone, in an uncomfortable cross legged position. Just sit comfortably with your feet on the floor and your back straight.  Adopt a relaxed but aware posture. Don’t expect to have an empty mind with no thoughts floating through it.  If anything, you will have MORE thoughts, more distractions.  Or more accurately you will become more aware of the constant yakking, moaning, blah blah blahing that your mind does.  Most of the time, your mind is in control of you.  It’s pushing your buttons.  You have a thought.  The thought creates an emotion.  The emotion creates an action.  See what I mean?  It all starts in the mind.  Becoming aware of what is going through your mind is the key to having control over it.  Becoming aware of the spectacular level of rubbish that waltzes through your head on any given day is the key to filtering all that out so you can recognise your intuition and your Higher Self, spirit guides etc. When people say ‘Clear your mind’, what they mean is don’t engage with your thoughts.  When you realise you are thinking about work, sex or your bills or whatever, just bring your attention back to the music.  Or the silence.  Or the candle flame.  Whatever you choose to use as a point of focus.  Trust me - you WILL think.  You WON’T have a mind as clear as a lotus pool.  You WILL have 475,291 thoughts.  That’s ok.  That’s normal.  Just come back to the music.  What matters is coming back, not how often you come back.

If you want to know how long you have been sitting there, just look at your watch, or position a clock where you can see it but where it’s not in your direct line of vision.  Breathe normally. If you’re itchy, scratch.  At the end of your 15 or 20 minutes, just get up and go about your day.  Congratulations.  You have just meditated.

If you can, 20 minutes twice a day is ideal.  Once is sufficient.  Once a week for 3 hours won’t make up for not doing 20 minutes a day.  The average meditator won’t need to do more than 20 minutes 2x a day.  Meditation teachers and those who’s spiritual path is strongly meditational will do more.

If you’d like to do a little more once you have practiced this for a while, find a spiritually inspiring book and either before or after your meditation, read a few pages. Read them slowly.  Don’t rush through it to get to the end to see who dunnit.  Read each word slowly.  Savour them.  Meditate on them.  Absorb them.  You can read the Bible, the Koran, Zen poetry, a book of sayings or motivational quotes.  It doesn’t matter.  Whatever speaks to you.  Changing your energy, raising your vibration so you can tune into a higher spiritual plane is not a long or difficult journey, it just requires persistence and consistency.

It is in the silence of meditation, when you are not talking to anyone or engaging with your thoughts, that your ability to perceive these subtle energies increases.  There are so many forms of meditation that no one can say which is best because that is up to the individual.

Practice mindfulness as you go about your day.  If you are driving, just drive.  Don’t create a shopping list in your head, or call your friend on speaker phone.  Give your friend the grace of your time and attention when you aren’t doing anything else but listening and attending to her.  One of the most profound spiritual teachings is the phrase ‘Be Here Now’.  Be in the present.  Be fully aware and engaged in the moment.  Keep bringing your mind back to what you are doing when it wanders.  If you are walking, just walk.  Observe and absorb your surroundings.  Feel the blood pump through your muscles and the air pulling into your lungs.

Some people are naturally good at being psychic receivers, like David Beckham is naturally good at football.  These natural psychics were born all ready tuned into the spiritual world.  The rest of us can learn to raise your vibration and change our energy patterns so we too can tune into the spiritual realms.  It’s not a special gift kept for the special few.  It’s available to everyone, all the time.

Posted: June 2nd, 2009 under psychic development.
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I recommend that everyone take simple steps to protect their energy, emotions and personal space from psychic disturbances.  Psychic and energetic disturbances can take the form of:

• Being too sensitive to energy of other people.
• Not being able to get clarity about what you want.
• Sleep disturbances.
• Anxiety or depression.
• Lack of energy and motivation.

Any of these things can be relatively recent experiences or chronically long-term.  There are a variety of simple things you can do yourself at home that will help keep your energy clear and protected and stop you picking up on the thoughts, feelings and emotions of others.  Even if you think this isn’t happening to you, try out some of the suggestions below and see if they make a difference.

• Take a heavily salted bath once a week.  Use 1-2 kilos of salt and stay in for at least 20 minutes.  Alternatively, swim in the ocean weekly.  If you don’t have a full bath, use a footbath and soak your feet.
• Take the Bush Flower remedies Angelsword and Fringed Violet.  These can both be found in the ‘Meditation’ essence, readily available at health food stores and some pharmacies.
• Prayer and meditation, affirmations (spoken out loud).
• Use a sage smudge stick on both yourself and your home.

Most personal psychic disturbances are easily addressed, but long-term or more intrusive problems need extra help.  In these instances, I most important thing I can stress is to exclude drugs and alcohol and to implement all of the suggestions above.

Practicing psychic protection and clearing on a regular basis will have you feeling brighter, happier and more connected to your Self and others.

Posted: December 8th, 2008 under psychic protection.
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A: Sometimes getting what you want is like giving lollies to children, or worse, to diabetics.  The thing that you want most may be the very worst thing you could have.  Sometimes your Higher Self has other plans for you and giving you what you think you want may derail your entire spiritual progress.

The most common thing I hear people ask for is more money.  The universe will give you more of what you have already, so how are you managing what you already have?  Do you constantly over spend?  Do you ‘comfort shop’?  DO you wonder where your money goes every month?  Get on top of your spending.  Keep track of what you’re spending and where your money goes.  Chances are, if you get more money, it’s just going to go in the same way and you won’t be any better off.

Start a savings plan - even $20 a week tells the universe you have an abundance.  Racking up your credit card every month tells the universe you have a lack.  It doesn’t matter how much money you have, you can still send a positive message to the universe.  If you’re a single parent on a benefit or someone on a carer’s pension, you probably legitimately have cause to complain about not having enough, but I’ll say the same thing to you - keep track of were your money goes, don’t use credit and give thanks for what you DO have.  Keep affirming that money comes to you easily, that all you expenses are met and so forth.

Posted: October 9th, 2008 under laws of attraction.
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We are all connected to each other.  We pick up an unbelievable amount of information from the people around us and from objects they have used.  We all have the ability to see the future - how many times have you thought of someone you hadn’t seen in a while and run into them a short time later or had them call you?

So is that seeing the future or picking up on their energy?  Both!  You picked up on the energy of that person’s proximity or telepathically picked up their intention to ring you.  Seeing the future is simply picking up on the energy of things coming towards you.

We are born intuitive.  Over time we shut down our conscious awareness of the infomation we receive through our psychic receptors for a number of reasons.  I think that one of the most common reasons for us to shut down as children is that it can be very confronting and frightening to be confronted with the raw, unvarnished truth of the emotion and thoughts of those around us.  You KNOW you don’t always display how you really feel, but on a psychic level, sensitive people can discern this.  Children can often sense this, but lack the life experience and cognitive ability to deal with it.  I think that this a more common reason for psychic blocks than simply being told ‘you’re imagining it’, although that’s certainly one of the causes.

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under psychic development.
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Q:I often worry about not being able to pay the bills on time. I want to be free from all debt & it’s slow going paying down the balances even though I pay extra. I often find myself saying we can’t afford this or that…the fun extra stuff. I have keep an online gratitude journal. I also have the Louise Hay book you mentioned. I guess the thing I have the most problem is with raising my energy & not letting the reality of our situation drag me down. We’re not in dire straits by any means, but we’re not as comfortable as I’d like to be either. Also, we are a one-income family. I’d love to be able to find a way to earn cash and yet still be here to homeschool my children.

Allison:

I often worry about not being able to pay the bills on time.

Has this ever happened? And even if it does, what’s the worst that will happen? A late payment fee? There are no debt police out there to hunt you down. You’re quite safe.

You won’t be in this situation forever - it’s a temporary glitch on your road to financial independence. Just keep paying down your balances and don’t think about it further. Stay AWAY from all forms of credit in future because buying something on credit is a negative affirmation, plus it drains your energy because it keeps you chained to the past while you pay it offf. Only use your cc for emergencies like medical expenses, home or car emergencies.

The Dave Ramsey plan for paying down debt is a good one.

In terms of raising your energy, you can start doing this by:

• Watching what you eat - eliminate low energy processed foods and sugar.
• Be aware of what you are exposing yourself to - late night crime shows with violence, talk back radio where people tawk tawk tawk about thier problems, even shows like Jerry Springer which might be entertaining, but they are certainly low energy.
• Expose yourself to uplifting things like positive or spiritual music, audio books, tv shows and movies with a positive theme etc.
• Every time you catch yourself thinking ‘we can’t afford it’, just be gentle with yourself and affirm something like ‘I’m excited to be getting out of debt’ ‘I’m excited to be building wealth’ and so forth. Getting out of debt and living within your means is a huge personal achievement and try and look at it like that rather than as a chore or a sacrifice. It’s a huge achivement and one to be very proud of.
• Take a walk every day - exercise clears your energy.
• When you have a shower, visualise the water washing away any negative residue of the day.
• Ask your angels and gudes to surround you and uplift you.
• Pray if you are spiritual or religious.
• Declutter. Let me repeat that. Declutter. Having piles of crap around you drags your energy down like no one’s business. You are energetically attached to everything you own. If you are in a good space, that’s fine, but if you cling or hoard through fear or a poverty mentality, you’re having your energy drained daily - it’s like death by millions of paper cuts.
• Love everything you have. You mgihtn’t be able to afford to have exactly what you want at this point in time, but love what you do have - clean it,polish it, display it to it’s best advantage. If you have things you don’t want to get rid of but don’t really need, just tidy them and store them neatly. I have gotten rid of hundreds of books over the years and I kind of wish I had kept them, but part of my knows they are better off at the libraries I donated them to or with the people I gave them to to read.

As you might have noticed, I have a lot to say on this topic. Please just ignore anything that doesn’t work for you or you don’t agree with. LOA and energy work is such a personal thing and there is no such thing as one size fits all.

Oh and another thing I recommend you do, if you want to, is to something symbolic to release all the unhelpful energy cords that are tying you to the past through behaviour or belief, and also those negative cords to your parents and family line that may be causing you to perpetuate a poverty consciousness.

Posted: September 24th, 2008 under laws of attraction.
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Last year I had some health issues - every card I drew about it was a Sword! LOL!  In typical Gemini fashion, I ignored every warning until I fell in a heap with several health issues and compounded it with being hospitalised for back injury which also affected my neck, previously damaged in a car accident!

Do you think the universe was trying to tell me something? LOL!!  Last year was also a ‘3′ year for me numerologically and there were big lessons about self-nurturing, intuition and self-awareness.  This year is a 4 year for me, so I am looking forward to more stability.

Posted: February 11th, 2008 under general tarot stuff.
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I can’t believe it’s mid January already.  I haven’t even written down any new year’s resolutions.  I guess I had better save them for next year!

The first class of the year starts this Sunday.  I’m a little worried because it’s a smaller space than I would like, but there really aren’t too many rooms for hire at reasonable rates, plus I really wanted to be connected with a new age shop and centre again.  So many years in Mysterys’ HUGE workshop space has me spoilt, I think.  There were times we had 40 or more people in there.  So it will be quite strange going to a small, intimate group but it will have it’s benefits too.

Posted: January 15th, 2008 under general tarot stuff.
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Tonight I attended a workshop run by a lovely woman called Kayt Raymond.  In 1998 Kayt made a connection with angesl and eventually began to produce paintings that she believes were ‘channeled’ through her.  This means that the Angels painted the pictures using Kayt’s body and senses to do so.  It’s like us using a paintbrush.  Kayt is the Angel’s paintbrush - simply a tool.

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Posted: December 4th, 2007 under classes & workshops, psychic development.
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