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“So, what do you do?”   That question is almost always the first question we are asked upon meeting someone new.   I still have trouble answering that question at times because what I do is not something that I do.   The short answer to this question is: “I’m a healer.”  I usually don’t leave the answer at that, of course, because that leaves a big fat question mark in the mind of my new acquaintance.  I can just hear them saying to themselves, “Oh, right….so, what do you do?”

A healer can do many things; It is their being, however, that makes them a healer.  And this being can be expressed in many ways.   At times, I express my healing in the form of spiritual life readings which coach, guide, awaken and inspire people to find, follow and further their spiritual path.  I help awaken people to Who they truly are, why they are here, and what they are here to do.   I support you in finding your answers, following your heart, hearing and seeing Spirit, and finding unconditional peace and joy in your life and all of its relationships.

So, what I do is part of who I am, but the healing I offer is not limited to private sessions.  Healing is a way of being, a way of seeing the world.   It is not something you do.  It is something you be, something you choose, something you are.   Fortunately for the world, there are many healers incarnated at this time.  Most likely, if you are reading this, you are a healer.

A healer is someone who is naturally compassionate, forgiving and accepting.  Someone who gives people space to be, who offers acceptance rather than judgement.  A healer is always seeking to return to wholeness:  whether they are aware of it or not, they know that what is true is whole, and their very presence helps restore that wholeness.   Healers are also amused:  they don’t take life, others or themselves too seriously.  Their light-hearted presence lifts us up and helps us let go of the stress of seriousness.  Healers are on their return trip home (ie their return to the awareness of perfect wholeness, oneness, “Heaven” or union with God), and they guide and assist us all in this internal process.

Healers are often called “old souls.”  They’ve been around the block many times, so to speak.  They’ve had the whole spectrum of human experience over many lifetimes, and are now ready to wrap things up and complete the cycle of birth and death.  For this reason, healers are also very sensitive/psychic people.  They tend to feel everyone’s emotions, hear everyone’s thoughts, and see more deeply into people than they may be comfortable with or conscious of.  If a healer is not guided or understood as a young child, their abilities and sensitivities often become confusing and challenging.   If they learn, or remember, to see their sensitivities and abilities as strengths, then they are able to guide themselves and others out of the maze of illusion, and return to their true state of wholeness.

A healer is a gift.  If you are a healer, or suspect that you are, or maybe don’t think you are but really you are :)  the world is blessed to have you here.  A healer is anyone who practices forgiveness, because they know that forgiveness is our only true purpose in this world.   When we forgive the dream, we awaken from it, and we realize that all that remains is Love.

May you always remember that healing is forgiving, and forgiving is healing.

Thank you for Being!

There’s a very simple analogy I like to use when I describe the nature of reality and this world to people.  Let’s go on a little journey together for a moment shall we?  I’ll share this analogy with you in the form of a brief visualization.  Of course, since you’ll be reading these words, you need not close your eyes to visualize.  Simply see the images in your mind as you read these words, and allow your awareness to open up and receive the messages meant for you at this time.

You’re at a movie theatre.  A grand complex with many shows of all varieties available to choose from. You’ve just bought tickets to see a fantastic drama-action-thriller-romantic-comedy-mystery movie called “My Life in the World” :)  You enter the theatre, the kind with stadium seating and cushy reclining chairs, and you take your seat right in the center.  You sink comfortable into your seat as the movie begins.

Within just a few moments, your awareness is completely immersed in this movie.  The theatre you’re in is a distant memory:  you are completely identified with the people, events and circumstances occurring in this most dramatic film you are watching.  You feel the emotions and relate intimately to the experiences of the characters: the fear, longing, despair, loneliness, sorrow, excitement, thrill, passion, pleasure, guilt, jealousy, anger, hatred, wanting, elation…  It’s a roller coaster of feelings and sensations and reactions.

As your awareness becomes more and more intoxicated by “My Life in the World,”  you catch yourself now and then thinking to yourself, “Oh yeah, it’s just a movie…” Sometimes this is disappointing, because the character you were identified with the most just got what she/he wanted.  And at other times you’re relieved, because tragedy struck, and it would be horribly devastating if that had actually happened.   Nevertheless, the excitement of drama is overwhelmingly appealing, and again, your awareness immerses in the movie, and you identify with the characters and events.

At one point, during the most intense experience in the action, when the fear, devastation and loss is overwhelming your senses, you take a deep breath and again notice that you are watching a movie, and that you are unharmed by the events you are watching.  You breath a sigh of relief and smile inside.

Now, let’s look around this theatre a bit more and notice how it works.   There are many instances in the movie that you really wanted to change the circumstances:  this person needs to do this, have this, go there, meet that person, feel better, look better, do better, act different, be different.   We know that, in order to change something we’re watching in the movie, we wouldn’t march up to the screen and try to rearrange the picture.  It doesn’t work that way.  We know that, in order to change the movie we see on the screen, we have to change the film: the pictures in the projector at the back of the movie theatre that are being projected onto the screen.   Ah, but we would have to be the film-maker, director and producer in order to do that right?

I’m sure you’re following the analogy, and realize that, in your life in the world, you are the film-maker, director and producer.  Your will and thoughts determine what pictures go into the film.  But what is it that makes those pictures project onto the screen/create the life you experience?  Well, again, it’s You!  The light that shines through the film that projects the pictures onto the screen is Who you are.  You are the Light.  In Truth, God is the Light and you are the extension, the shining emanation, of the Light.   God’s will, as the only producer, director and film-maker of Reality, is perfect peace, perfect stillness, perfect serenity, joy and wholeness.  When your will is God’s will, you have a great movie!  It’s a happy, peaceful, gentle movie for sure!

As you align yourself more with Who you are, the pictures in the film that were made from a will opposed to God’s naturally fall away.  They disappear.   And all that remains is the bright Light.  In the process, as old pictures (ie choices and thoughts) fall away, you may experience their chaos.  However, You will be untouched by the passing pictures when you identify with the Light shining through them.  Identify with the Truth, the Light of God, and all else falls away.  See the Light beyond the form, and all that remains is Love.

This week I’m dog-sitting for a delightfully enthusiastic Border Collie named Bonnie Lass.  What a lovely creature!  So full of Life and fun and play, she communicates with gentleness and peace, and really knows how to play ball!  She’s been very patient with me, too.  For a couple days I wasn’t feeling well enough to run around outside.  But, this morning, we’re back in action.

Bonnie Lass and I went for a long walk-and-play in the park early this morning.  I love morning walks, because this is often the time when I connect the deepest with Truth and stillness, and hear the inspiration that comes from that spaciousness.  As we walked, I was blessed with a sudden and wonderful Thought:  the Holy Spirit’s voice sung clearly in my mind, “You’re Being is cherished and held in the infinite Love of God.”  Aaahhh.  My whole body, mind and being relaxed deeply into the blessed presence of this Thought.  I say Thought because this was not like the meaningless thoughts that run through our mind incessantly: this was not coming from the analyzer–the little “thought machine” in our minds.  And this Thought was not experienced as a thought the mind thinks.  :)  It was felt, sensed, known by my entire Being in an everlasting moment of recognition.  And it had an effect on me similar to the mouth on cotton candy: I melted and dissolved.  My heart burst open even more, and tears of Gratitude washed my face.

As I became aware again that I was walking the dog, that I actually had a body with a leash in one hand and a ball in the other, I sang a mantra of Thank You to God, and to all the Awakened Ones.   I sang in gratitude for how perfectly cared for we are, no matter what appears to be going on in the world.   I sang in gratitude for the Voice that came through so clearly and Blessed me with Remembrance.   And as I looked over the valley, at the rolling green hills and the misty clouds and the snow-tipped mountains and the budding trees, I sang in gratitude for the Beauty that reminds us of Truth.

And now, this gratitude remains.  It will remain always, as long as I remember the Self, the Christ, the Love that we are.

My prayerful intention today is that we all remember this in every moment.  That we allow the Voice, the Holy Spirit to be heard in our minds.  That we allow the stillness to speak to us so that we always know how precious, loved, loving, safe, beautiful, whole, innocent, infinite and perfect We truly are.  May we never forget this, and may this Truth guide our every step as we awaken the dream.

I spent the weekend in deep prayer and union with God.  After such an experience, what is there to say?  Words cannot even begin to convey the beauty of revelation.  Fortunately we have poetry and music.  These wonderful forms of expression bring us closer to communicating/sharing the power of truth.

As I sit resting today, I just picked up The Gift, poems by Hafiz, and of course opened right to the perfect poems to share with you in this moment.  Smile with me as we celebrate truth in peace and joyful laughter.

“I understand the wounds that have not healed in you.   They exist because God and love have yet to become real enough to allow you to forgive the dream.   You still listen to an old alley song that brings your body pain;….My love for your Master is such you can just lean back and I will feed you this truth:  your wounds of love can only heal when you forgive this dream.”

“Children can easily open the drawer that lets the spirit rise up and wear its favorite costume of mirth and laughter.  When our mind is consumed with remembrance of Him, something divine happens to the Heart that shapes the hand and tongue and eye into the word Love.”

“This is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but Grace.”

“And for every reason in existence I begin to eternally, to eternally laugh and love!  When I turn into a leaf and start dancing, I run to kiss our beautiful Friend and I dissolve into the Truth That I Am.”

“Sing because this is a food our starving world needs.  Laugh because that is the purest sound.”

Aaahhh  Thank you Hafiz. 

Enjoy my 2 newest songs, just uploaded a few days ago at www.myspace.com/jeanyes1

Live, Love and Laugh often!

Yesterday I observed myself laughing often.   Those of you who know me might be asking “what’s new?”  I laugh a lot.  It’s something people tend to notice about me pretty quickly, because not only do I laugh often, I tend to laugh pretty loudly as well.  The volume is something I can’t always control.  And the laughter I rarely control in the sense of hold back or limit.   Laughter is always an appropriate response to life.

Another thing I observed as I was laughing a lot yesterday is that, at times, I feel as though I need to explain myself!  Like the inner critic voice says:  what are you laughing at?, what’s so funny?  why are you laughing so much?  And, is laughter really always appropriate…what if someone is hurt, what about all the tragedies if genocide, war, starvation and extinction happening on the planet?  You can’t laugh at that!

We are so used to laughing for a reason: at a joke, at someone or something.  Most of us allow ourselves to laugh only when our intellect or analyzer decides something is funny or humorous.  And, unless we are laughing at another’s “expense”–out of judgment, condemnation or competition–there’s really no harm in intellectual humor.  However, the laughter I speak of when I say “laughter is always an appropriate response to life” is the laughter of the Heart in recognition of Truth and acceptance of Grace.

Aaahh…Grace : )  That ever-present, always giving, energy of divine love, peace, presence and awareness.  Grace is experienced in so many ways, but always as a gift.  It may appear as divine intervention, an epiphany or moment of revelation, an opening in our awareness, a feeling of contentment and gratitude, and a sense of absolute and certain peace.  When we are in acceptance of the all-and-ever-givingness of Grace that is Life, what more natural response is there than Laughter?!

Laughter is the song of grace, singing its celebration of joy, peace and acceptance:love.  This kind of laughter doesn’t always happen out loud.  Sometimes it is the inner smile of our awareness and acceptance of what is.  Sometimes it is a stillness inside in response to outer unrest.  And sometimes it bubbles forth like a song of enthusiasm, gratitude and celebration of Being.  We may laugh inside, in celebration of our infinite immortal Spirit, while we respond compassionately to the worlds pain through whatever form of action we are inspired to take.  Throughout that compassionate action and service, however, if we remember ourSelf, we laugh inside,  allowing Grace to pour through us to enable and strengthen our actions with Love and Peace.

When we laugh, we are in the present moment, our mind is not engaged in past guilt or future fear.  We simply Are.  In laughter, the doorway that allows Grace’s ever givingness to be received is wide open.  Resistance releases when we laugh.  We can not laugh and hold on to fear, anger, resentment, resistance or any other thoughts that hold back Grace.  Laughter says Yes! to Grace.

My favorite poet, Hafiz, says it so well:

“I have a thousand brilliant lies
for the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
for the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
from words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening
called the mouth

O someone should start laughing

Someone should start wildly laughing–

Now!”

May the song of Grace give a smile to your Being and Wholeness to your Mind.

Happy Equinox! What a beautiful time of year it is here in Ashland. The trees are budding, daffodils are smiling, and everything is green, green, green!

I went for a walk last night, as the sun was setting, to enjoy the beauty of spring and the moist, fragrant air. And I received an unexpected and wonderful blessing! As I walked in Lithia Park, right near the playground, I heard the lovely cooing of an owl. Hoo-hooo, Coo-hooo, hoo-hoooo, so gentle, soft and soothing. My son immediately pointed out where the owl was. Hidden in an oak tree, which grows intertwined with a redwood, the small owl sat in its perch, it’s speckled feathers blending in with the color and texture of the tree. “It’s soo cute!” I marveled.

I adored the owl. I stood mesmerized, in love. I had such awe and adoration for this exquisite little creature. I imagined the owl was staring back at me, enjoying the deep meditative silence in our loving gaze. Most likely the owl was looking far past me to the setting sun, simply singing to the coming Spring and the dusk beauty. Either way, we had a nice connection, very tangible peace.

Eventually, heart overflowing with gratitude, I said goodbye to the owl and moved on down the path. The song of the creek was more crisp and playful than ever before. I was even more aware of and in unison with the breathing of life in the forest…the leaves, birds, rocks, soil and clouds, the air itself…We were alive with bubbly, gleeful spring energy. My breath deepened as I received the life force of the spring air, and my being expanded and showered Life with exhilerating appreciation for this Joyful Presence.

The gifts of this evening continued! I meandered through the Japanese gardens, (where I love to giggle with the faeries). Then I come upon the field of Sycamore trees (8×8 to be exact!). And there, frolicking and prancing about, were over a dozen deer! Oh! How amazing! So many deer simply playing together! They dashed about, hiding behind trees, chasing one another, jumping and running back and forth. The energy was pure Play! I just wanted to hug and kiss these deer, they were so yummy! And they were not at all concerned with my “intrusion”. I walked slowly through the playful scene, bursting with joy and laughter, thrilled to be witnessing such merriment.

Sure, it is mating season ..right? So, maybe they’re out there strutting their stuff, showing off their sexy agility, attracting their buff buck. Or maybe they were simply enjoying the lusciousness of spring and the aliveness of all growing things waking up from winter slumber. Either way, they were certainly demonstrating what spring calls forth from us: an unabashed desire to get out, frolic, play, breathe, jump, dance, and celebrate Life with each other!

I smile with gratitude for the gifts of Spring and the Beauty I witnessed on that walk through the park. The Owl reminded me to sing, not for any particular reason, just to sing for the enjoyment of song, and the celebration of Life and Beauty. And the Deer, of course, reminded me to Play: express the dance of Spring in all its gleeful enthusiasm. Nature reminds us to live by allowing Life to move through our breath, voice and bodies. The aliveness of Spring calls you to Awaken…come Alive….Celebrate in Joy!!!

I live in Ashland, OR, a town where the word ‘awakening’ can be heard in spiritual circles daily. Many spiritual concepts, like ‘awakening’ or ‘waking up’ are tossed around spiritual communities, like Ashland, so often that we may overlook what they really mean to us, or to the person we are speaking with.

As you may have noticed, I speak of ‘awakening’ or ‘waking from the dream of separation’ often. It’s one of my favorite subjects really. Living in a town with such a high concentration of spiritually focused people, it’s become quickly apparent that we do not always give the same meaning to the spiritual concepts we toss around. So, today I thought I’d share more about the meaning I give to the word ‘awakening’.

I relate ‘awakening’ to the great advice Jesus gave humanity to be “in the world but not of the world.” For me, waking up/awakening is both recognizing the untrue nature of the reality we perceive through our senses, and living in it fully, with complete presence, passion and power. When we awaken to our true identity and reality, that of absolute oneness that cannot even be put into words or bodies, we do not try to get rid of or run away from the experience of being in the earthly/physical dream reality of bodies, emotions, perception and separation. Indeed, to resist the experience of the physical, no matter how painful, slow or monotonous, would be to give it power, and to deny the truth of who we are.

Heaven does not resist hell; it simply knows the truth, and quickly laughs at untruth.

I often remind myself, friends and clients that ‘what you resist, persists.’ What you feed grows, what you give your attention to manifests. Awakening is about waking into life, not trying to get out of it in search of something better, more heavenly. Its about bringing heaven to earth, seeing it’s already here and always has been. Heaven, our true reality, is not somewhere out there that we have to escape or ascend to. It’s right here, inside of us, all around us. (For everything we see around us is inside us!). And we bring it into our experience by accepting what our experience is with great amusement and unconditional love, recognizing what is a reflection of the truth of heaven, and what is a projection of the thought of separation.

This is awakening: bringing the awareness of truth/what is real, into our experience every moment, and allowing that experience to be what it is. When you’re asleep at night, dreaming while your body lays there in bed, you see and experience all kinds of things–fun, scary, painful, happy, sad, confusing. But when you wake up in that dream, you’re aware that where you really are is safe in bed, untouched by anything your experiencing in the dream. And so, when you wake up in the dream, you know “hey, this is just a dream, so it’s no big deal if I fall of this building, or show up to school naked or meet a scary monster”. You don’t try to fight the dream or run away from it. For, in order to wake up from the dream, you have to bring the truth of who you are into that dream. Bring your bright, joyful, all-giving and forgiving Self into the insanity of your experience and show it what’s real: show it love.

Love is unconditional, infinite, ever-present and unchanging. Love is presence. Love is whole, complete, One.

Waking into life means bringing this Love, this presence, into your life, your every moment experience. This means surrendering to and allowing what is, rather than trying to change, fix, get rid of or solve it.

And, “when you want only love, you will see nothing else.” “Seek first the kingdom of heaven, and all these things will be added to you.” There is no need to put so much effort into manifesting all of the things we would like to have in our experience. We can choose to have all that is fulfilling in our lives simply by choosing God. When we seek first the “kingdom”, the truth of our Being, our true reality of oneness, all “these things”, the desires of our heart, our given us. The desires of our heart manifest in our experience as a natural result of our choosing God, choosing truth.

This is the journey of waking into life. Our experiences do not always match what we want or would choose to have in our life. It’s a journey of becoming aware, and choosing again. When “all of these things” do not seem to be showing up for us, it is apparent that there is a choice, somewhere in our (unconscious) mind, against God, against truth, against That Which IS. And so, we choose again, choose Love, choose God, seek first the kingdom, the oneness that we are. And let the experience be, forgive the experience, allow it, laugh at its absurdity and its beauty. Wake into the life we have always had, and somehow, in an instant, forgot.

And now we are remembering.

(Note: this is the outline for a book I’m writing. Stay tuned for more, I’m filling it in, fleshing it out…Thank you for reading!)

I love to laugh. It’s not something I try to do. It just happens: laughter pours from my heart. And, unless someone asks me “what are you laughing about?”, or “what’s so funny?”, I usually don’t stop to ask myself these questions. There’s nothing to laugh at, literally. Laughter is. It’s truly an expression of the realization that only God is, and everything else that appears to be is just an absolutely laughable and absurd illusion. : )

This past weekend, I had the delightful opportunity to attend a Laughter Yoga leader training in Las Vegas. What a Joy! To laugh and laugh for no reason at all was the entire purpose of this training. How validating that was for me! Yes! my heart responded, there are more happy, laughing-for-no-reason hearts in the world, of course! Excellent!

Laughter really is the perfect exercise. As an aerobic activity that stimulates the heart and lungs while massaging other internal organs, it’s an excellent exercise for those who of us who don’t enjoy jogging or going to the gym. (They say 1 minute of laughter is equal to 10 minutes of jogging or rowing!) Of course, the benefits of laughter go far beyond the physical. When we laugh, we let go…of everything. You can’t hold on the fear, grief, pain, anger…you can’t hold on to anything. In fact, when you really laugh, and keep laughing, you can’t even think. Ha Ha Ha!! It totally clears the mind.

Laughter is an excellent prescription then for any ailment, whether it seems to be of the body or of the mind. Since we know our thoughts create what we see and experience in this world, what better way to experience joy, then to laugh?! Why wait to be happy about something to laugh? Let laughter be the cause, not the effect. And then, aaaaahhhhh….. nothing but a smile of peace and recognition.

My favorite poet, Hafiz, knew the secret of laughter. “What is this love and laughter budding in our hearts? ” he says, “It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!”

Let’s wake up now, shall we!

Yes!  I Love Valentine’s day!  It’s so important to have as many days as possible throughout the year where people give themselves more permission to be Loving and giving and laughing and sharing and playing and being silly, and just really enjoying themselves!

Yes!

So, as an aside, you might notice I now have paragraphs again.  And that it’s a really good thing huh?!  Yep, got that little technical snaffoo resolved.   Yes!

Alright, back to Happy Heart day.  It’s my favorite holiday.  Although you might hear me say that about another holiday when it comes along.  Again, any day that somehow fosters more havingness for Love and play and celebration is a Fantastic day in my book.  Let’s Love more!  Let’s have Happy Hearts every day!

I received a Happy Valentines email from my mother earlier today entitle Happy Hearts Day.  How appropriate.  So I have to credit her with that new fabulous name for today, and every day we give ourselves total permission to Be.  To be Happy, Grateful, Open and Bright in our very happy-grateful-open-bright Hearts.  Thank You Mom. And Thank You All for the Love you give and receive freely today and everyday you allow yourselves to have this ever-present Gift of the Heart.

May we all always have the Joy, Love and Giving that is our heart and our Self.

Thank You St Valentine!

Aah, it’s good to be back!  Where’d I go?  Oh, let’s just say away from computer-land for a while.  I thought about all the lovely posts I could create over the holydays and into the New Year, full of the Joy of Christ and the miracles of that sparkly time of year.  But, instead I chose to take a long break from computer-land, as I love to call it.  Yes, a whole new and seemingly endless world opens up when we surf the web.  So many possibilities!  We can make universes of social circles and inter-connecting networks of communication.  This is great fun, and truly a gift for expanding our horizons in this world!  And yet, it’s easy to dive in and forget to “come up for air”, to join with the stillness, quietness and Truth of our Being.  Balance is key.  This winter has gifted me with opportunities for more balance.  Time for “work” and time for play.  Time to go inward, and time to bring the Light from within “out” to the world.   Time to rest and time to go, go, go!  Time to speak and time to listen.    The balance I’d like to create is the right in-between space of Now.   Now is where I nurture Self while I nurture “others”, give as I receive,  listen as I am being heard, see as I am being seen.  Because in the Now, there is no space and time, there is no separation between us.  In Now, I give to the all, and so I receive.  In Now, I listen to the All, and so I am heard.  In Now, the vision of the All is given, and so I see and am seen.  And so, Now, I choose balance.  I choose again to have the Wholeness I am, from which true balance is recognized, given and received.I am so happy, so grateful, for the many reminders to choose again to have What I Am.  It’s so simple.  When I notice imbalance in my life, I choose again my wholeness, which is absolute balance, completion, fullness.  And so, when I seem to have no time for rest, or not enough time for work, or feel too tired to play with my son, or seem to be traveling too much to stay connected with friends at home…  Whatever it is that appears to be out of balance is really a Reminder, an opportunity to forgive and choose again.  Choose Wholeness, choose Now.  Choose divinity.  Choose Spirit.  Choose That Which Gives, That which is unlimited, That which IS.Yay!!!May you always recognize the gifts in any experience of “imbalance”.  May you always know it as a reminder, a gift that appears, reminding you to choose Wholeness again, and then disappears.Isn’t that great!!Try it!   ; )Namaste