Earth Shift Intensity

Good Day! I have been inspired to share a bit of information with you about the
energies that are working away on the planet and through us right now. They are
at their most intense phase right now and may be making things extremely challenging
for sensitives. If you or someone you know is feeling very frazzled, emotional, wired, buzzing, tense, etc. try not to be afraid of your experience (easier said than done) and use some of the following tips to assist yourself and others - and please share this information with those you know who will appreciate it.

Sleep - you may be getting little or none - this is "awakening" energy - try to rest in a meditative state if you cannot sleep...the intensity will pass in a few weeks, listen to soothing music, involve yourself in quiet meditative like things like painting, drawing, knitting and other handcrafts that require some creative focus,
and you can email me for other ideas if you sense I have other tips to share with you.

Let Go - if there is work, projects or other things that you think you "have" to do that you can let go of...take a bit of time to reassess and let some of them go until a later time when you are not so challenged. This is a time to be very good to yourself the name of the game is TLC...wrap up in your favourite blanket and watch an uplifting movie instead of cleaning out the garage...

Electronic Equipment - right now whenever I sit in front of a screen it seems to up my intensity factor...I am biting the bullet to write this email to you all, but am doing it because I was asked to help others in this way...sometimes my PC won't function much at all and at work I am delegating the in front of a screen work to others who are less sensitive..I have a few big rocks actually sitting on my
laptop for grounding to help it work right now...

Eating - if you are finding it hard to eat, shift to smoothies and soups and several small meals/snacks throughout the day...I have never been able to drink coffee and other stimulant type things so you may want to stay away from them. Stick with the power foods like berries, greens, clean proteins etc. Again if you need more ideas send me a note and I will share more of my ideas with you.

Drink Drink and Drink - drink lots of good water everyday...shoot for twice as much as your usual...it will help you to cleanse away the old and shift into your new balance and flow with it - water teaches us how to flow!

Time in Nature is Essential right now - I am fortunate that I can regulate my own hours at work and I go in later now and stay later so that I can go for a good walk in the woods and over the rocks to assist me...nature guides me, reminds me what is happening, assures me, comforts me and shows me the way to my newness that is emerging...I just get myself out there for at least an hour and let it all soak into me...then I bring that with me into work and the rest of my life - it acts as my blanket of insulation for the day...

I do suggest if you are having serious challenges if it is at all possible consider taking some time off or working less right now, or at least have a conversation with someone you trust about your challenging situation...yes I know you may not be able to mention earth shift energy etc. but open yourself to understand how to bring the subject up...maybe just the word stress is enough...I do believe that the Divine does carry us through all of these things with Grace if we allow it to work in our lives...if you are approaching a boss or management about a change in
your work say a prayer for assistance and ask that your Divine assistants work through the head, hands and heart of your supervisors to help them have compassion and understand work with you.

Drum gently...I was at a drumming and singing event yesterday and even the energy of it was pushing intensely on me...whew...take it down a notch and drum gently with the new energies of the earth and merge with it all to become the new.

Share your helpful advice and experiences with others...we all came here at this time together to go through this together - you may have found some great ways that are helping you and they may help others...please consider sharing them with others.

One last thing...this morning as lay quietly in the stillness I had a non-ordinary reality visitor - he was showing me that he was leaving my house as the energies here are no longer suitable for him...he was of a lower vibration and had a lot of darkness and destructiveness around him...he could not look me in the eye...the cleansing of lower vibrations is definitely upon us...this experience was an affirmation of that for me...continue to smudge, play spirit lifting music etc. in your places of work and home - it continues to be a message that lower energies are not welcome and it will assist the process. If you are having similar experiences consider sharing them so that we can all receive clarity, understanding of the processes that are at work, and affirmation.

Blessings to you all through this intensely powerful and beautiful time.

Empower Yourself with Simplicity

In these days of increasing information, and the sharing of that information complexity continues to creep into many facets of our lives. I sense it as a wound that is festering and about to suppurate (a pimple about to pop, a volcano about to erupt…get the picture!?).
It is like a giant fungus, that, for the most part, lives under the surface of the earth and pops up in various forms, some of them beautiful, and some of them not. Most people are aware of the above the surface information because they see it and hear it regularly if they are living the average North American life. Many of those people are mostly oblivious to the subsurface roots of the tangled web that has been woven, but their hearts and souls are very aware of the dissipation of our life energy as it attends to all the daily necessities of living the ways that we currently do. Record numbers of people suffer from fatigue, depression, and non-specific ill health syndromes. Is this the manifestation of the draining away of our life energy?
Think about the last time that you shopped for a new appliance or technical device – how much time and energy did this take? And after the shopping and purchase of said item how long did that item actually last, before you had to repeat the process to replace the planned obsolete one? Are you starting to understand that you might be a consumer rat on a wheel?
I guess I am writing this blog entry today to remind you that you can make different choices and you can reject complexity. Learn how to say NO, and look around you and ask yourself regularly do I need it? Many years ago I developed a very simple screening system to help me make decisions. I simply ask myself will this simplify my life or complicate it?
If you are a complexity junkie you may have to work at getting off the stuff
if you come to realize that you do need to live differently. I think the current global economic, environmental, emotional and spiritual situation is crying out for simplicity and I think it is time to stop covering up this wound with bandages and
get to the root of the problem by gathering and reconnecting with the discipline that will allow you to feel your feelings, stay with them, feel them, and say no when you need to.

On the Blog Again...from YK

Yes it has been a while. I have been a bit busy lately. I am writing this post on my giveaway laptop (Thank you giveaway Goddess – you know who you are!)
sitting in my room in a house that I share with other Yellowknifers. As I look out my window I see streams of rain washing through the sky changing the colours of the ancient lichen-laden rock that wraps around this house. It feels and smells like a summer rain. I just came back from walking the girls, Ruby and Bindy, two of my 4 legged housemates, and the air was pumped full of fragrances of the emerging greenery. These smells are a mixture of familiar and new. Oh so familiar I am with the scent of the warming earth dispersed by rain, but here it is mixed with the energies of polar desert and tundra flora – I challenge any perfume maker to bottle this stuff!
So how did I get from Chatham-Kent, one of the most southern communities in Canada (check it out – it is actually at a similar latitude as Northern California) to Yellowknife on the Northern shores of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories? I could be a smart alec and tell you that I flew here, which I did, but I am quite certain that you would be more interested in the process that brought me here. It is yet another step in my journey of letting go, trusting and being who/what I came to this planet to be. When I first heard about this opportunity in January, my first response was a solid “NO” with not a hint of maybe mixed in.
In my way of ordinary thinking, I was not ready to leave home when I still had a daughter and partner there, I was already too tired of the earth life walk right then, I was too involved in life in CK, it would take a huge effort to release my practice, I know what a challenge physical relocation is for me etc. etc. etc. A few weeks later we had yet another snowstorm and I was pulled outside in the evening after the storm had passed to view the stars glittering through the clear crisp winter sky. As I continued communing with my star friends I picked up a shovel to be purposeful and to keep warm, and the rhythmic action and sounds of the shovel on the fresh snow opened me up to hear a good clear message from one of my ancestors. The message was “Don’t shut the door on Yellowknife” – as clear and simple as that I knew that I had indeed shut out possibilities and that right action was to say YES. While continuing to shovel I did that and was presented with an inner visual production of what may lay ahead. In a quick and powerful instant I had come back to all of my senses (some would say I lost them at that moment – it’s all in our perspectives!) and began preparing to move to Yellowknife.
It has been a big job getting here – family discussions, practical planning, interviews, adjustments on many levels…letting go, letting go, letting go. Because of the guiding nudge to come here I knew that I was not doing this alone in any way – non-ordinary assistance is always at hand when a non-ordinary path is followed. I have had great help finding a place to live here, pulling together a great staff team to work with, using non-ordinary resources that I have been trained to use to bring good energy into the co-operative art gallery that I am managing here, connecting with a powerful weekly sweat lodge for my own healing and remaining connected to my healing ways, and the list goes on. I have had non-ordinary visions and guidance to make big life changes before and I have always been rewarded when I find the courage to follow them. These nudges usually push me toward big, hard stretches to move through my fears and believed limitations, and I know that I am being given once in a lifetime opportunities to grow into who I truly am, the person that has been long trained out of me or forgotten. When I left Chatham-Kent the first time just a few weeks after my 18th birthday to gather academic learning in a university environment I had no idea that it would be possible to rediscover family gifts and powers more than nine generations old, I was simply going to learn how to become an architect. Spirit had other plans for me…they were helping me to become the architect for my soul.
Even before I arrived in YK (yes lets keep it simple with CK for Chatham-Kent and YK for Yellowknife) I knew that I was being brought here for a big picture, much of which I may never even become aware of. Being able to let go and let it all unfold has been freeing. I have been able to go to a deeper level of letting go of needing to know what is coming next, and to just be more present. I do not know how long I will be here in YK. I do know that it is a great place for artists to live and that may be one of the reasons that I have been brought here. I also know that the weekly sweat lodge is a big gift of healing for me and others who participate. This lodge was constructed about six months before I arrived. The grandfather stones who allow themselves to be heated in the fire to provide transformation energy for the lodge probably have brought me here. The co-operative gallery that I am putting many of my skills to work for may have brought me here. The ancient rocks may have brought me here. I prefer to think that they all brought me here…
...and true to YK form as I finish off this post the sun is emerging from the clouds,
it doesn’t stay away for long here this time of year.

A Pain in the Neck (and shoulders)

A Pain in the Neck (and shoulders)

So the news is full of reports of the Japanese earthquakes and tsunamis. As many of the ancients predicted big earth changes are happening with greater force and frequency than ever before. As the earth shifts, our bodies shift, as we are part of the earth and the earth is part of us…you really can’t separate them…you can try but you usually run into trouble in the way of chronic illness, disease or death.
As I have been communicating with clients, other practitioners and shamanically minded people many of them are reporting deep neck and shoulder pain that is disrupting their daily life and sleep. If I look at this from a Jin Shin Jyutsu® perspective the neck and shoulders comprise for the most part Safety Energy Lock #s 4, 12, 11 & 3 - so let’s have a closer look at them and the shifting earth.

-Safety Energy Lock #4 is known as the Window, the Measurer of Intelligence, the General Manager, and the Weaving Princess. Right now with many of our old limiting belief systems being stripped away and our consciousness shifting to new enlightened forms these Safety Energy Locks are very busy and can get overloaded. By holding them and letting them open and reset you are helping your general manager to make sense of everything and to open your mind windows wide and let in a fresh breeze to air everything out.
-Safety Energy Lock # 12 is known as the Universal Will, Conscious Immortality instigator and the Overseer of all. By opening these locks you are assisting yourself to LET GO, surrender and begin flowing with your destiny, getting onto your individual path and moving forward on it. Keeping these safety energy locks open also assists one to understand that there is a beautiful and unique purpose for everyone and that happiness and contentment comes from connecting with that purpose and fulfilling it.
-Safety Energy Lock # 11 is known as the Janitor where excess baggage (physical toxins, mental or emotional congestion) is unloaded and the hub where transitions are assisted and justice (right action) is understood. Opening these will help you to get and stay “cleaned out” so that you can stay clear, see your path and make good choices for yourself.
-Safety Energy Lock # 3 is known as the Door to Sacred Intelligence and the Respiratory Specialist (being able to breathe life in and out). These Energy Locks help you to connect with and remember ancient wisdom, leave wounds of the past behind and understand how the pieces of life’s puzzle fit together.

If you are experiencing a pain in the neck and/or shoulders consider using gentle pressure with your fingertips on these Safety Energy Locks - hold them and listen for your pulses to arise in them and then synchronize (beat together) with each other. Breathe deeply while you do this and let your energy and awareness shift to help you find your way in the newly forming world. A quickie flow for the neck and shoulder area can be found here: http://www.flowsforlife.com/jin-shin-jyutsu/shoulder-pain/
Jin Shin Jyutsu® translated into English reads “Divine Expression of a Compassionate Aware Human” - you can help yourself to relieve your pain and become more aware of who you are in the process - good medicine I say!

Winter Help

Wiarton Willie, Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck and other famous groundhogs http://www.netglimse.com/holidays/groundhog_day/celebrity_groundhogs_and_past_predictions.shtml did not see their shadows on February 2 of this year, and since it is unanimous among these celebrities spring is definitely on its way. As I look out my window at the mounds of snow the vernal equinox still seems far away. I am grateful for the crisp cold air that revitalizes me and the snow that squeaks underfoot as I walk about my community, and today for the bright sunshine that bounces off of the snow cover and blasts my pineal gland open to clean out the cobwebs of old beliefs and limiting ways. The recent dramatic earth shift energies have left me feeling like I am turning inside out and I am grateful for the connection and support of my highly sensitive peers who walk this journey with me. I am grateful to be alive at this very interesting time on earth as we watch Egypt’s people work together to make things better for themselves and to demonstrate the power of working together for a common goal. Synergy rules!
In the midst of February not everyone feels lucky to be alive. The long stretches without much sunshine, the propensity for colds and flus, the natural tendency for the body to go into hibernation mode, the continuing unemployment rates and future uncertainties can all make for a challenging time for many. We are so accustomed to distracting ourselves from our pain with all sorts of behaviours and ways so that we don’t have to feel. Elder teachers and wise people understand that the voice and wisdom of our pain will lead us forward on our individual paths, so if you can learn to be with it all (sooooo easy to say) you will find your way. Gather good people around you who will help you to do this. Working with meditation, mindfulness, yoga, tai chi, Jin Shin Jyutsu®, shamanism and other ways that assist you to connect to the energies within and around you can remind you that nothing is permanent and that energy (you) are always transforming and growing.
At the core of Jin Shin Jyutsu® is remembering the ability to just BE with whatever is. If you want to incorporate some of this ancient harmonizing power in your life try out the Main Central Vertical Daily Harmonizing Exercise that I wrote about at the beginning of this year: http://www.jsjinc.net/pagedetails.php?id=maincentral-flow and remember that it is consistent daily use that will yield results - maybe you can challenge a few friends or family members to practice this together wherever they are and you can cheerlead each other on until this becomes a daily habit. Keep in mind that because we are all connected energetically you are not only helping yourself, you are helping your community and the energy of the planet at large (I know you can’t see it happening so it is sometimes hard to believe, but what have you got to lose in trying it out???)
If you happen to be feeling stuck in any part of your life reach out and hold your Safety Energy Lock 1’s, on the inside of each of your knees http://mysite.verizon.net/ron26/art2.html , for 20 minutes a day to really get things moving or for 5 minutes at least 3 times a day to loosen things a bit.
The Spleen Flow is a very simple and very nurturing flow to use this or any time of year. If you are feeling dark from the lack of all kinds of light in your life this is the flow to use, and again it is consistent use and the cumulative effect that will help you to understand its power. This flow is a total body regulator that is known for harmonizing all of the organs, assisting with energy depletion and Vitamin D absorption - its nickname is the Solar Energy Flow! Here is a link to an excellent article written several years ago by Mitzi Adams http://www.merrynjose.com/artman/publish/article_48.shtml and here are the very simple four steps of the spleen flow:

Spleen Flow
Hold each step for at least 5 minutes
Step One: Place Right hand on inside of right ankle below the bone in the hollow
Place Left hand on the tailbone (coccyx)

Step Two: move Right hand to just below your left centre front ribcage
Let Left hand remain on the tailbone (coccyx)

Step Three: Right hand remains just below your left centre front ribcage
Move Left hand to right centre breast

Step Four: Right hand remains just below your left centre front ribcage
Left hand moves to just under Left centre collarbone


Nurture yourself and share these possibilities with others, someday you might
even enjoy winter!

Conscious Grumbling

The long nights and gathering energies that winter brings set a perfect backdrop for getting to know the shadow aspects of ourselves. Many people find ways to distract themselves from the opportunities for growth that this time of year brings because it is simply easier to avoid the darkness than it is to dive into it an explore, feel and heal.
What is the shadow? This is another of those instances when words just don’t cut it to convey full multi-dimensional meaning, but here it goes. Our shadow is those parts of ourselves that usually stay lurking just beneath our conscious awareness. Some aspects are also buried much deeper within. If we can imagine ourselves as marionette puppets, the shadow would be the strings and marionette that control our movements. These movements are usually preceded by beliefs and thoughts also emanating from the marionette. Sometimes we are quite content with this arrangement and how we operate in the world. At other times we struggle to break free from some of the constraints of this arrangement so that we can make positive changes in our lives. The season of winter with its quiet, dark, internal and shadowy energies present a perfect opportunity to call up our skills of introspection and look to see who or what the marionette is made of and how it pulls our strings. The quietness of the natural world around us whispers to us to slow down and go within to listen to the rumblings and grumblings of our soul.
If you want to learn more about yourself and your unseen operating systems you can involve yourself in the practice of what I call “conscious grumbling”. Allow yourself to fall into your well of darkness and shadow. Feel it, its heaviness, secretiveness, elusiveness and often negative and hopeless nature. And when it starts to get very uncomfortable try to stay in it, don’t distract yourself from it by jumping back out of it to eat, drink, watch the latest movie or play the newest video game. Say with it and become the seeker looking for the images that your soul wants you to see, and listen for the sounds need to be expressed and the words to be heard and spoken. Let all of this come to the surface and go ahead and grumble and grouch away to the ethers, your imaginary audience or with pen in hand write them down. Which ever method is most natural for you express these energies and let them surface for the awareness spotlight to shine on them. Speak some of these grumblings out loud into the wind so they can be carried away and heard by unseen ears. Some of these expressions are simply day to day irritations, molehills. Treat the grumblings that are louder and more intense with respect. Take the time to acknowledge them and write them down - get them out of your being and onto paper in front of you, then look at them and listen to them and let them be your teachers. Ask them what they can teach you and apply the Serenity Prayer filter to them - sort them into the “To Be Worked On” and the “To Be Accepted” columns. Use the prayer as a request for assistance if you need it. Sometimes this sorting takes days, weeks and even years, and that is all okay, your schedule is yours and yours alone. Take your “To Be Worked On” list and own it. Be responsible for it and your part in it, it came from you, it is yours. Now that you are conscious of those things that have been itching at your soul, you are less likely to project them onto others. With clear and honest intent ask for the inspiration, motivation and guidance to begin working on them, and most importantly ask to be aware when all of that is being given to you because it usually comes in unexpected ways and from unexpected sources.
This is not easy work, but it is good work. Within the shadow we not only find difficult and unhealed parts of ourselves, we also find skilled and gifted parts that have been long forgotten.
My journeys into this work have provided me with gifts and stories that are more than nine generations old, and they continue to provide me with new perspectives and understandings of myself. Journey on!

An Excerpt from the Serenity Prayer

Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

A New Year, A New Energy Exchange System (Economy)

For many months now I have been walking around with a clear understanding that I have always had issues with money. I used to believe that I was the one that needed to change to fit our mainstream economic model. Recently my awareness shifted to allow me to ask myself “What if it is the system that needs to shift?” As I allowed this question to speak to me and did my best to clean my slate of many long held beliefs and perceptions I realized that:
- I have never been at ease with hierarchical systems and I prefer more cooperative ones
- I feel like the square peg trying to fit itself into the round hole to meet most traditional exchange of money energy ways
- I feel more centred and joyful when I work with and within cooperative systems

Throughout my lifetime I have worked to squeeze my square peggedness into our current round hole economic system and now it is time for me to work with a system that is more in alignment with who I am and what I believe. I have spent the last few months opening to this idea, discussing it with others, researching some of the details, and then integrating all of this information and making some decisions. I don’t even want to call this new-to-me way an economic system – I prefer to call it an energy exchange system, until I come up with a better name. Most of the ways of my new system are not new, many have been around for quite some time, but it is new for me to fully embrace them and put them together in a way that works for me and those who want to work with me.
Sliding scales, time banking, cooperative agreements and donations are the roots of my energy exchange system. I first saw the sliding scale system that is a favourite of mine in 2000 at a unique planet-loving, hemp-loaded retail store called Still Eagle (say it fast 3 times over and you will get the double meaning!) in Nelson, B.C. http://www.stilleagle.com/our_story.html Every item in the store had a maximum and a minimum price and buyers purchased items at the price that worked best for them. I hope that this idea will become the way in many other retail stores. Time banking systems have been active in some communities for many years now http://www.timebanks.org/ Within these systems an hour of one person’s time is worth an hour of another’s regardless of what skills are exchanged. Cooperative agreements leave room for creative ways for individuals to develop win-win ways and donations keep doors open for others who don’t fit into other categories.
So for now, here is how I am offering my services to the community and beyond. I may have to adjust things here and there and I will work with individuals on a case by case basis.


BALANCE POINT ENERGETICS
Energy Exchange System

Sliding Scale Fees
The following scales are guidelines. The actual money based value of these services is represented by the top of the scale fee. If more than one member of a family seeks services discuss your situation with me. I love my work and I want to make it accessible to all those who respect it. Please keep in mind that I do pay money based fees to maintain my office space and all of the requirements to communicate with you, and that I too, am feeding and sheltering myself and my family. Please contact me to discuss how we may work together if time banking or donation basis fees better suit your situation. I am also interested in hearing your ideas for mutually beneficial arrangements.

Jin Shin Jyutsu & Reiki 55 minute Sessions
Total Household Income Level/Cost Per Session
$60,001 and up / $95 + hst
$50,001 to $60,000 / $85 + hst
$40,001 to $50,000 / $75 + hst
$30,001 to $40,000 / $65 + hst
$20,001 to $30,000 / $55 + hst
$15 ,001 to $20,000 / $45 + hst
$15,000 and under / $40 + hst


Shamanic Healing 90 to 120+ minute Sessions
Total Household Income Level/Cost Per Session
$60,001 and up $130 + hst
$50,001 to $60,000 / $120 + hst
$40,001 to $50,000 / $110 + hst
$30,001 to $40,000 / $100 + hst
$20,001 to $30,000 / $90 + hst
$15 ,001 to $20,000 / $80 + hst
$15,000 and under / $75 + hst

Feng Shui Consultations (not including travel fees)
Total Household Income Level/Walk Through Consultations/Full Package
Assessments
$60,001 and up / $185 + hst / $560 + hst
$50,001 to $60,000 / $165 + hst / $540 + hst
$40,001 to $50,000 / $145 + hst / $520 + hst
$30,001 to $40,000 / $125 + hst / $500 + hst
$20,001 to $30,000 / $100 + hst / $475 + hst
$15 ,001 to $20,000 / $75 + hst / $450 + hst
$15,000 and under / $65 + hst / $400 + hst

Workshop Fees
Workshops are of various topics and lengths. Some workshops require more preparation and materials than others so they are have different fees. I will post the true dollar value of each workshop and if you choose to work with the alternative energy exchange system, contact me so that we can work out the details of our exchange.