Recreating Families Blog

Opening Doors

2009-12-03T10:39:00.001-08:00

December 2, 2009

Hello To Each Of You!

"There's always one moment in life when the door opens and lets the future in."

~Graham Greene

There is a powerful way in which we can help life open the door for us and it is perhaps one of the most challenging things we will be asked to do in this lifetime! It is the act of forgiveness. This is also an often misconceived practice. When working with people we often come to the subject of hurt and anger, two natural and common emotions in life and relationships. The challenging part is how to deal effectively with these emotions to process them and not carry them for years. What we know with scientific proof from people such as Dr. Bruce Lipton, The Biology Of Belief, holding onto negative emotions and reinvesting them in our daily lives with thoughts that support anger and pain can begin to create disease in the physical body. This is not to inspire fear around any experience with negative emotions but encouragement for processing emotions and allowing ourselves to gain the lesson of relationship and experiences. They are only here to teach us more about ourselves. If we constantly focus on the other person we miss the knowledge of how we participated, reacted and attracted the experience. We miss the gift which is knowing ourselves more, opening the door to loving ourselves more!

Often we feel if we were hurt or wronged in some way that choosing forgiveness would let that person "off the hook" for what they did. There is a strong part of our own ego that doesn't want to let go of the experience and insists on painting ourselves in the victim role and the other in the villain role. We miss the vital importance of what forgiveness does for Self. It is emotional and physical freedom from the past. It means we are no longer carrying the pain for someone else's actions!   An even bigger challenge can be forgiving self for the things we have done in the past. Holding onto that anger, pain and the judgment that supports the emotion is a costly practice to mind and body. When we see ourselves as victims and hold onto that energy we are more likely to recreate the pattern of victimization with others in our lives. When we practice forgiveness we allow ourselves to experience of lighter emotions such as joy, love, peace and calm. Our physical cells respond to the higher frequency of emotions supporting health and energy while remaining in the lower frequency of anger and pain over longer periods can result in lethargy, depression and loss of health.

One woman was choosing to change her life and open her doors. She was brought up by two alcoholic and abusive parents, coming from that energy she began a journey of drugs and alcohol herself. Feeling unworthy, unsafe and unloved she sunk lower into self abuse and attracted a mate in the same state of experience. He died of a drug overdose and she was left to find herself in a world that still seemed unsafe and now completely alone in her pain. She had become clean of alcohol and drug use and was on anti-depressants and still battling with her emotions, thoughts of her early childhood and loss of her husband, (his death three years earlier). She was referred to breath work and choose to attend to work on her emotional issues. She was highly motivated and knew she had a life waiting for her but couldn't seem to walk through the door. The change she experienced emotionally in one session was tremendously powerful, she realized she was angry with her husband for leaving this plane. She also worked on releasing the anger she had toward her parents and herself. Resolving this anger allowed her to cut her medication in half and after the next session she was able to let go of it altogether. She did this in unison with her doctor's care and was letting that care professional know what she was doing as well as feeling. Together they made the decision to alter her medication and she is able to speak of her past with calm and appreciation of all that it taught her. Her ability to move forward in her life and feel new freedom in letting her mate go is testament to her healing.   She is now remarried and part of a blended family parenting children. She knows that life will have bumps yet she also feels she has an array of tools to deal with life and its lessons! The light radiating from her being is bright and beautiful. She has processed the experience of her past and allowed herself to let go. She is free and present!! She is modeling for the rest of us, it is all possible!!

Healing is completely possible as we choose it. We are more powerful than we know to heal our minds and our bodies!! There is a new book by Caroline Myss called Defy Gravity and I would highly recommend it as it retells the story of many people's spontaneous healing so we can be witness to this knowledge and understand the power we too have within ourselves.

The time is now for us to be well and choosing to let go of the past so we can be fully present now! It might seem challenging to let go and yet even setting the intention to let go of anger and pain will set you on your path and you will find a new freedom opening the doors for you!!

Come Breathe with us and allow yourself to let go of the past and be present and aware to consciously create your present and future!!

Sending love and light,
Karen

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." 

~Mother Teresa

Future Dates:

Breath Classes MWF at 6:30 to 8:30 please call or email to reserve your space!! class is $35

Special Breath Class New Year's eve early at 5:30 so you can still join in any festivities free and joyful beginning your new year space limited to 8 people!!

Second Saturday January and February of 2010 at Mira Costa College, if you know anyone going through the rupture of divorce please share information about this educational class for women! There is also a class for men please inquire if you need information for that class!!   More to follow as the dates get closer

EFT Sessions Tues. Wed. Thurs. private sessions, call for apts.

Loving Self

2009-12-03T10:38:00.001-08:00

November 4, 2009

Hello To Each Of You,

" The answer is and always will be love"              anonymous

Healing work, no matter what type, always leads back to the first relationship and often we think of that powerful relationship with parents. Actually the more important one is the one we have with Self. In our western culture, we are very externally focused and it doesn't help to create a solid foundation of relating to and loving Self. We often worry about others loving us much more. We worry about being accepted by others and having enough, being enough and doing enough to earn that acceptance and love. We often take it so seriously as to think we have a better chance of being loved and accepted if we are more acceptable physically, therefore physical enhancement has become enormously popular. We often think we will be better esteemed if we have more money and more prestige. And yet seeking and getting all these material and physical things have not made us any happier. Why is that?

Even in the booming financial years when money was handed out like candy and mansions were purchased daily why was there not an increase in personal satisfaction and joy? Why was there more stress and anxiety than any other time?

Every time I work with a client no matter what we begin with we always work our way to how we feel about ourselves at our core. This core held belief about ourselves is at the center of creating every other experience in our lives. Interestingly enough, whatever happened in our childhoods there was bound to be a moment, even in the most loving and peaceful of families, when our immediate needs were not met by someone else. This doesn't necessarily mean our parents were doing a "bad" job or abusive (though abuse did/does exist as well) however we usually internalize that experience and make it about ourselves.   We can begin a tape that reads somehow we were not good enough or loved enough to be helped or loved in that moment. This can lead to a core belief about ourselves that is not Truth yet we do begin to believe it just the same. This pattern of thought then begins to be repeated and sends out a level of energy that attracts a level of experience that we co-create because it matches this core belief.

One woman in her seventies realized she had been in three abusive marriages and that the tapes she held about herself were given to her when she was a child. She had abusive, alcoholic parents and back then abuse hardly gained attention.   She went on for years abusing herself with thoughts that she wasn't good enough or intelligent enough (though she had been valedictorian her high school years). The overriding messages from her childhood overshadowed any of her successes. She always held a job and supported her children and yet there was the big secret she held inside about her worth. Today she is working on becoming conscious of her inner tapes and re-recording over them with Truth messages. She is learning to have compassion for herself first as a little girl and then her parents. She is learning to forgive herself and then her parents. She is learning to do something positive and loving for herself everyday just because she exists and is now learning that's all it takes for her to be deserving.

Her energy and health is now changing. The chronic pain in her hands and feet is lessoning and allowing her to be active. Her energy level is rising and she is thinking of taking on volunteer jobs to help others. She is realizing she is deserving and beginning a whole new relationship with herself. This love for herself is healing her mind and her body.   The body can only be as healthy as our minds and our emotions. She is working with EFT to release old negative emotions and breathing to calm the mind and allow her to gain power to redirect thoughts and energies in the direction she chooses!

We cannot let others love us more than we love ourselves, it is too uncomfortable. Yet we continue in our culture to look for romantic relationship to make us feel better about ourselves, to fill ourselves and at the very least to feel less lonely. We overlook the importance of that first relationship with Self to be the foundation for the relationship with another.

We can all do this work! We can choose to create a healthy vibrant relationship with our Self and feel that love which cannot be filled by another!

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey."

~Wendell Berry

FUTURE DATES:

November 14th Second Saturday at Mira Costa College 8:30 a.m Education for women going through divorce. The program was created by Ginita Wall CPA 20 years ago and there will be an attorney, CPA and mediator speaking. I will be speaking on the psychological, emotional and spiritual healing of going through this process. If you know anyone going through divorce this is a good venue for information of the process involved.   It begins at 8:30 am cost is $45 and payable at the door, class goes until 1:30 pm

Monday, Wednesday and Friday Breath Classes held at 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Cost is $35 Value priceless for our health and well being!!
What does Breath Work Do? Opens and clears restricted breathing patterns producing: more energy, increased detoxification, better health, improved respiratory capacity, a strengthened immune system and more balance.
Clears the subconscious mind which allows us to: resolve stress, permanently clear repressed emotions such as: anger, fear, anxiety, guilt and depression. Removes old mental tapes and programs of limitation and lack, which creates more peace, creativity and clarity. It releases past traumas located in the cellular memory. Allows easier access to higher dimensions and levels of consciousness which gives us stronger connection to Higher Self, fuller expression of Spiritual gifts, deeper meditation, opening to the mystical and awareness of unity consciousness
The creator of breath work Judith Kravitz healed herself from throat cancer with this healing modality! Our body needs the breath to support the link between body and soul. This is the link to our health and well being yet one we little utilize when the under oxygenated brain takes over and creates stress and anxiety. Come to breath and allow your body the peace it needs to support health!

Sending love and light,
Karen

The Power To Heal

2009-12-03T10:35:00.000-08:00

October 6, 2009

Hello to Each of You!

"I'm overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal."

~Diana Nyad

There are these wondrous moments in life when we are truly present and feel the glory of what we have done, or how we have participated and what we are capable of doing and there is joy, peace and often exhilaration!

I have a dear friend who experienced something powerful this summer in that her mate faced a big medical procedure that could be life threatening due to a blockage in the body. She stayed strong holding onto the vision, helped him to recuperate and heal with her healing abilities to aid him, not to mention her extremely powerful ability to send the love and support needed to hold him in the space of healing. He was able to move through this experience, heal and come back to his life with exuberance and the ability to move freely and fully. My friend was able to hold a space that held him strong with love, support both emotionally, spiritually and physically with her abilities and the energy of her own being. She remained focused, loving and present throughout her mate’s process. She was the springboard from which he emerged.

The power of her love and energy flowed from her without thought as if a natural stream from her being. There are moments in our lives when we do these things and we see ourselves and we are raised by the power of our beings. We are more knowing of ourselves and what is possible here on this earth when we hold the vision and do not veer from that space.

I don’t know that my friend would ever acknowledge her power in her mate’s life and well being but I could feel it and I am sure her mate could feel it as well. All we are is energy and when we direct that energy in the highest form of love we are more powerful than we could ever imagine. We have the power to transform what exists into higher energy. When we think of someone with love; that energy is sent and received. When we think of someone with something other than love that energy is sent and received and in all cases energy comes back to us. It cannot be otherwise what we send out does come back, whether we call it karma or not. This is taught over again and again in metaphysics that the energy we send out in thought form creates in the physical form all around us.

Another friend realized how he had been holding himself back and broke through that barrier. He let go of the grip fear had and moved into the space beyond. When we choose in this way we create change for ourselves and everyone involved is altered. Everyone is freed in some way from old limitations and without those barriers we are expanded, we know more of ourselves and our own capabilities. We are raised and we feel the power of our being, the power of the love that is all around us and supporting us every moment. It flows through us and we become the love itself.

Try a simple experiment with a house plant and send it loving thoughts twice a day every day for a week and see what its growth level is compared to when this wasn’t sent. You will see what love can do when we choose the action that love sponsors! See physically how love makes things grow, then speak that love to someone close to you for free and for fun and watch the power of that love shared! You will both be raised by sharing the most powerful energy that exists. It heals, it expands, it frees us all!

Jump in and see how good it feels just choosing! See how powerful you are in this world!

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

~Audre Lorde

Sending love and light,
Karen

Breath is a powerful way to unlock the barriers we hold within us! Come join us for breath class!

FUTURE DATES:

November 14th Second Saturday at Mira Costa College, education for Women going through Divorce. Class is $45 and you can pay at the door. There is legal council speaking as well as a CPA Ginita Wall, and a Mediator. I will be speaking on the emotional portion of healing through the process of divorce. If you know anyone going through this process please share this information and have them come!

Breath Classes held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30, a powerful way to heal emotionally, physically and spiritually! The creator of Breath Work Judith Kravitz healed herself from throat cancer with this work!
What does Breath Work Do? Opens and clears restricted breathing patterns producing: more energy, increased detoxification, better health, improved respiratory capacity, a strengthened immune system and more balance.
Clears the subconscious mind which allows us to: resolve stress, permanently clear repressed emotions such as: anger, fear, anxiety, guilt and depression. Removes old mental tapes and programs of limitation and lack, which creates more peace, creativity and clarity. It releases past traumas located in the cellular memory. Allows easier access to higher dimensions and levels of consciousness which gives us stronger connection to Higher Self, fuller expression of Spiritu

Inspiration

2009-12-03T10:30:00.000-08:00

July 20, 2009

Hello To Each Of You!

"If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?"

~Neale Donald Walsch

Inspiration is something we all seek and often believe happens outside ourselves. We will wait until it appears or envelops us to create, sing, paint, write or whatever it is we do with it. And yet what if we didn’t really need to wait for it as though it were a visitor who might not arrive after all?

What if you had only to look within yourself to be inspired? What if it were that easy to think thoughts about yourself and the world around you that instantly lifted your mood and created joy so great you ask yourself why you don’t do this every day? When we look at the quality of our days do we usually spend them with uplifting thoughts or the negative ones for company? When we are with others are we in a hurry to share what is great or what is wrong? Can we look again and see how perfect things are? Can we find the beauty once again in ourselves and all around us?

It is a good practice to look at ourselves and truly see without judgment how we are spending our days our lives as though they were precious things to spend. We often forget we have a great effect on those around us as well. If we are imparting negativity it will affect those we are speaking with as well as our own beings. If we knew that consciously how would we choose to speak to others? Would we focus more on the love and beauty that exists or would we still focus on the negativity, the doubt, fear and lack? This is not to suggest we cannot ask for help when we are feeling down and get perspective on life events however the greater gift is to look at the quality of our thoughts and how they affect our emotions. Just taking note will help us to move into a place of consciousness about what and how we feel everyday.

Our emotions are guiding by our thoughts. We are responsible for how we feel every day by the thoughts we are thinking and playing. Often we are programmed with a level of thought pattern we were gifted with when we were children. Thoughts and messages were constantly being played and we absorbed them unconsciously and now we play them to ourselves with that same unconsciousness. The awareness without judgment is the first step to change.

Spending time with others and giving that gift of conscious light is an amazing way to live. It feels good to become conscious of what we are sending out not only to attract that frequency back to ourselves but to know what we are sending out to those around us.

Would you be pleased with where you took the world around you??
Remember there is no judgment, only experience and consciousness rising.
What if we could get to this place of no judgment and really receive the guidance that is here for us every moment?

I had someone come for breath work that became aware of the negative messages he played to himself in his own mind. He became aware but was not engaging with the messages therefore they had no power over him and he could begin to decide if he wanted to continue in this pattern or do the work to change it and choose different messages to play to himself. The love he felt in breath work, in his connected state fueled him to choose differently even for himself. How he chooses for himself will effect those around him as well! We are all one!

Come breathe and become aware and free to choose again!
The greatest gift we were given was the ability to choose for free and for fun!

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There is no greater investment."

~Stephen Covey

Sending love and light,
Karen

FUTURE DATES:

EFT training for beginners at Stillpoint August 12th at 6:30-8:30 please call to reserve your space for class to learn how to let go of negative emotions immediately! 760.479.9890

Support Group for two home families going through divorce, beginning Tuesday September 15th meeting every other Tuesday. Group rate is $30 per person per session or $25 month paid in advance.
Email karen@recreatingfamilies.com to join group, limited space available please call or email to reserve space.

Second Saturday November 14th at 8:30 Mira Costa College, educational class for women going through divorce. can pay at the door $45 for the day 8:30 to 1:30 pm

Breath Classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 6:30 – 8:30 pm please call or email to reserve your space as it is limited. This powerful work will alter negative emotions, physical ailments as well as processing trauma. We cannot fit into the same old patterns when we do this level of work!! Everything is possible!

Remembering Who We Are

2009-12-03T10:28:00.002-08:00

June 3, 2009

Hello to Each of You,

"When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other."

~Margaret Wheatley

I recently read an account of a woman who was homeless and living her darkest moment of fear and loneliness. She encountered another homeless person and felt such compassion for his plight she began to pray that help come to him and alter his circumstance, she asked to be able to help him herself. She received the guidance, “go to the church and ask for help to feed the homeless”. Immediately she began to feel fear that she would be rejected and cast out and this fear held her back. She then thought of the man in need and somehow her desire to help and her compassion for him strengthened her to move out of her fear for herself and go to the nearest church and ask for the priest and request help to feed the homeless. She was accepted and aided in creating a program to feed many who were in need. She then was given a job as a secretary to this program and found her soul purpose. Her life is forever altered as are others who she touched.

I found this so inspiring not only the desire to be of service to others as this offers indescribable joy, but the ability to overcome the fear that can arise when we are asked to do something bigger that will alter our own lives in order to change other’s lives. This is stepping out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary, believing in something larger than ourselves to guide us to make changes. When there is an answer to our call for help, and that guidance comes it can feel uncomfortable. What will we have to do to help ourselves live something different? What will be asked of us?

Facing fears that arise from change and how that will affect our lives; will we have our same friends, family connections, marriages and jobs? Often the insight that comes can bring enormous changes to our lives and are we ready to have the faith that all will be well if we follow the guidance even if everyone around us believes it is “crazy”. If we let go and never choose the courage to make the changes that come in the guidance we can live forever in that shadow of ourselves always hoping but never truly believing it was possible. This is painful.

What if we knew,(remembered) that we were so loved we would never be without that which we need and stepped off the edge with that knowingness? Would we ever truly be afraid again if we really knew how loved we were? Could we believe in the doubt demons that whispered maybe we weren’t good enough? Would we contract ever again with limitations because “it just doesn’t happen for someone like me”? If we truly remembered how deeply loved we were we couldn’t indulge in these illusions. It is like seeing through a scary movie. It just doesn’t hold any power.

Mediation helps us to see through the illusions. It connects us to something larger than we knew moments before, more loving more powerful than we ever imagined could exist because we forget. Remember again and go inside for the guidance the love and the Truth!

Just because it feels so good to remember again!

"I am so glad you are here. It helps me to realize how beautiful my world is."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Come breathe and remember your Truth again. Letting go of illusions, fears and connecting up again!

Future Classes:

June 17th EFT come learn the technique and create your own program individualized for your life and emotions. Flyer to follow!

Breath Classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 6:30 pm come experience how easy healing can be!

Beginning mediation classes every Tuesday and Thursday at 1-2 pm come begin your practice and learn to connect up every day!

Two-Home Family group support every other Thursday evening at 7 pm come meet others re-creating and choosing to support one another learning new tools to create a positive loving environment for kids and parents!

Sending love and light,
Karen

Happy Month of May!

2009-12-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

May 7, 2009

Happy Month of May!
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures”
Thornton Wilder

Are we really conscious of what we do have?? A beautiful being in my group shared about helping a woman in Africa who had never had a bed to sleep in. Because of the work people are doing to help make life better for many in Africa she now has a bed for the first time in her life.

How often do we really look around us and see all that we do have instead of listing that which we do not? When we look around and see how we have shelter, food, clothing and in actuality so much more than we need we get to see how truly blessed we are. We also begin to realize we need to little to be well. Often we have enormous amounts of things, so much so we rent storage spaces to have more places to put it all. How strange are we to collect so much stuff that we can even forget what is in boxes in the garage or storage. Yet we can still feel we do not have enough.

We are creating the illusion by not being truly present and looking around us. There is abundance all around us. It has always existed and it always will, it is just energy. Gratitude is the door to abundance. When we take time to be in the moment and say thank you more often than I need or I want we are supporting our joy our continued abundance which flows from joy and gratitude. Life can be so simple and as usual it is choice. How can we step into the simplicity? Practice being present for five minutes today and look around you, really look and begin to say thank you for everything you are witnessing around you even if you don’t own it, it doesn’t matter you are getting to witness it. Maybe it is the ocean, the way the sun falls upon the leaves of a tree, the beauty of one single flower on the side of the road. Maybe a person smiling and being kind, maybe your own home your sanctuary and say thank you to it for giving your shelter, for protecting you. Notice all that is around you and say Thank you!

Notice how you begin to feel saying thank you and being completely present. That is the gift you just offered up today to yourself, to others to the world. Where would we be if we said thank you more often?? It would be fun find out! Choose your moment to be present today and begin your chant! Discover how you feel in your new practice, share it with others and they will join you!!

“I believe in everything the heart can stand” Casey Haymes

Future Classes:

EFT Workshop Wednesday May 20th at Stillpoint in Encinitas at 6:30 pm light refreshments offered, come learn how to release negative emotions immediately and effectively! Please call to reserve your space 760.479.9890

Breath Classes Every Monday and Friday at 6:30, come heal your bodies and let go of past traumas and pain. Feel what it is like to be free and in an altered state of consciousness! Call or email to reserve your space in class next class is Monday May 11th come join in the light!!!

Support for two home families every other Thursday evening in Carmel Valley 7-9 pm Next meeting Thursday May 14th Please RSVP for this class as space is limited! Fee $30 come feel the support of group and learn new tools to create the life you choose!

Please visit www.ibeleiveinbreath.com <http://www.ibeleiveinbreath.com/> and learn more about breath work classes!!!

Sending you love and light,
Karen

Happy Beautiful Spring!

2009-12-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

April 18, 2009

Happy Beautiful Spring!

“What happens when the soul takes hold of the eyes?” Casey Haymes

When we live solely from our thoughts our emotions are often whirling and we often wonder why we have good days and bad days. Our thoughts create our emotions and then our behaviors and we often feel like our thoughts are out of our control. There are tapes we have been listening to for so long we don’t even consciously know they are there. We have ways of looking at ourselves and others that are just habit and sometimes those habits make us feel badly.

Have you every noticed how your emotions can be altered by the minute depending on what is happening around you and then layered with judgment of what is going on around you makes it even worse? This is a powerful combination that can lead us out of peace and into reaction. Most of our intimate relationships are lived in reaction to one another because we are playing thoughts and judgments about everything that is going on. This is how we stay in a cycle of behavior that doesn’t feel great to anyone.

What if we were willing to look with new eyes? What if we were willing to look through more loving eyes, more compassionate eyes? How would we feel then? The answer is more love and compassion which feels better than anger, fear and pain. So why don’t we do this more? Working with people on relationships we often focus on loving Self so that we are choosing consciously our path of thought. Choosing the path which supports our own emotional joy and happiness seems so logical but we don’t always do it. It often seems easier to be in reaction losing sight of how we really want to feel to how we are used to feeling. It is the choice of habit over vision.

The work on reprogramming buttons is essential so we are no longer in reaction but in action as in our highest vision of ourselves. When we do the deeper work of understanding our buttons and where they came from we can then step out of the pattern of reactive behavior and into witnessing what is happening and then making more conscious choices. When we choose the action that love sponsors we always look back and love how we showed up and there isn’t anyone or anything that can take that away or diminish it in the least. When we deprogram buttons and step beyond the illusion of not feeling safe or loved in relationship we are able to more freely choose our response in any moment. We are free. Understanding how much of our present life is being dictated by the past is key to moving forward and gaining the ability to make changes.

Our intimate relationships are so powerful to help us gain this deeper knowledge of ourselves. To know ourselves is to love and understand ourselves. The compassion and love begins inside each of us by our willingness to look again with new eyes; the eyes of the soul. The Soul is all knowing, all loving and has no fear. It’s a wonderful place to be and spend time! Meditation helps us be in that connected space along with breath work and suddenly we see clearly in the most beautiful way the Truth.

Come breathe and be free!! visit the new website for breath work www.ibelieveinbreath.com <http://www.ibelieveinbreath.com/>

“I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!” Rilke

Classes:
Breath class this Monday April 20th and Wednesday April 22nd at 6:30 only this week!
If you would like a private please call to schedule your time as I will be gone from April 24th to May 8th
Classes will resume Monday May 11th as usual at 6:30 and Friday May 15th at 6:30

Future Class coming on EFT and the practice you can learn to release negative emotions immediately and feel free of negative pain!

Breathe deeply and consciously every day for ten minutes playing the tape “I am safe and I am loved” and watch your day unfold from that beautiful place!

Sending love and light,
Karen

Change

2009-03-25T15:56:00.000-07:00

March 25, 2009

Hello to Each One of You,

Happy Official Spring!

“The Universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it” Marcus Aurelius Antoinius

Change is always in motion and yet we are not always used to it or comfortable with it. It is the one guaranteed event that we are aware of and even then it can take us by surprise. The question would then be; how do we keep our equilibrium with the mass changes we are experiencing and come to the realization that we are creating them ourselves!

I have had the question posed recently that if this is what I am experiencing is this not reality? The answer is yes and you are creating that reality through your thought process. We will pulse thoughts throughout the day and often we are not even conscious of those thoughts as we have been playing them for years and now we are no longer sensitized to them. It is like watching a movie over and over where it doesn’t hold your attention because you are so familiar with it.

These thoughts we are pulsing are creating an electric energy going out into the world and that energy sent out is also attracting like energy and bringing this back to us in the form of experiences. Depending on the frequency of the thoughts meaning the magnetic impulse of the thought and the frequency as in how often together with the emotions attached to the thoughts will bring the energetic reaction back to us in a more powerful way. For example if I am pulsing thoughts of not enough abundance and a powerful emotion of fear is attached to that thought and I am repeating it constantly I can quickly bring about the experience “reality” of “not enough” in my life. This is how our thoughts create our reality.

If this is true why then do we hold an intention and often times that which we are holding does not come to fruition? The power of intention is based on complete alignment of mind, body, soul connected state to create experience. If we are choosing to experience abundance in monetary form yet our background might be many experiences of lack then we might begin to have the emotion of fear around lack which can then block the manifestation of abundance in the form of money. Looking more closely into the emotions that might be underlying the thought in the intention is key to moving into that experience which might be a new one. If we have emotional barriers to this new experience these barriers need to be released in order to allow ourselves the experience in our “reality”.

The next issue is our understanding of our reality itself. Often people ask if this is what I feel is this not the truth of what is happening? Again the answer is yes and we can see that in this massive change we are going through globally why are some people experiencing tremendous fear and loss and others are experiencing a level of expansion and feeling possibilities even while these changes are occurring.

The answer is that our judgment around what is happening is also affecting our experience. Again back to the issue and quality of our thoughts. If we are perceiving these changes on a global level to be precarious and life threatening as is appears on the news we will be feeling FEAR and the creation of our days will begin from that level. If we are choosing from a level of emotional fear we are not always choosing from our highest level we are choosing from a more contracted state and this will lead to lower level decisions. I have chosen to not watch the news as it has altered tremendously from when I was a child and it was called “straight news” and has now altered into mostly opinion from many people not educated in making these opinions.

As a culture we have become interested and often obsessed with the negative, from fright movies to gore to horror and in that fascination we become addicted to news watching it off and on all day. This is planting some very fear based thoughts into our minds which will feed from this input for days. This leads to sleeplessness, thoughts of fear of lack of abundance even for people who might not be experiencing any lack in their own lives but are now pulsing thoughts about someday soon not having enough!

This is how powerful our thoughts are and how we can lead into judging our experience and then finding it hard to work our way into creating different experiences that might correspond more closely to our intention.

So how do we work our way out of the fear thought process and alter our outer reality? The answer is to cleanse the thought process and release the old negative emotions that block and clog our choice of intention. There are two methods that work powerfully to alter our outer reality by altering our inner quality of experience. Breath Work allows us to break free from the incessant chatter of the mind and have the experience of peace of mind, body and soul.

When our consciousness is altered to this degree we are no longer held hostage by crazy thoughts nor identifying so much with the 1000 or so thoughts a day we might have. We experience freedom that we usually only hear about and imagine. We are in a state of awareness as to receive the answers to questions we may have been asking. These answers have always been within our being and yet without freedom from the overactive mind we cannot always hear the answers that are within. We get to process emotions from the physical body which can sponsor illness and mental turmoil and let go of the past which can have a powerful hold over us.

EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique is another powerful tool to immediately release negative emotions around past experiences and traumas that might bubble up for us at unexpected moments and take us out of our daily life experience thought doubt, fear and worry. EFT releases these emotions and allows us to see the past with equanimity and without pain. When we can see the past calmly we are no longer hostage to the past. We are then able to be fully present and create from that place of joy, and peace which is powerful and key to attracting the experiences we are choosing!

Meditation is another powerful tool to create life from the inside out with consciousness. Over the years as my own practice has grown, I have noticed my ability to choose my response rather than be in instant reaction, has grown. While I still have buttons that get pushed I am able to go inside for direction and still choose the action that love sponsors through meditation rather than reacting from fear. The practice of meditation allows us to feel and be filled with the love that alters our being. Being filled with the love and the peace allows us to respond versus react when things occur. Responding instead of reacting will alter any situation quickly and positively when we are choosing the most loving action.

If we rely on our minds only for guidance we can be turning circles in possibilities of reaction and vying for an outcome. When we come from that loving place the outcome is already within us. We remember we are loved and we are safe and once again everything is calm. Meditation helps us to live from this state and alters our “reality” instantly!

Come breathe and alter your state of consciousness allowing you to create health in your mind, body and soul! Classes are every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30 to 8:30, your will find you release tension stress, old emotional baggage and alter your body’s physical state of health just by breathing in a different pattern! Your body needs you to breathe and in today’s world everyone is holding their breath due to fear and stress. Feel what it feels like to be free of it all!

Come experience EFT and know what it is like to be free of past trauma, old relationship pain and anger, fear and loss. From this point of freedom you will create on a much higher level of peace and calm!

Come begin your own meditation practice, classes are every Tuesday and Thursday at 1-2 pm experience the flow of a short soul talk, learn breath exercises to connect up, diving deep for meditation and then a guided visualization for health and well being. You will feel peaceful, loving and in connection for your day!

“You who want knowledge, seek the Oneness within” Hadewijch II

FUTURE CLASSES:

Stillpoint Body Lounge April 15th a powerful class on relationship with self and others! Learn tools instantly that you can use to alter your experience in relationship and allow the love to be present once again! Class begins at 6:30 – 8:30 and light snacks will be provided. 760.479.9890 come join me for this great empowering class helping us all to move forward in our relationships!!

April 19th Sunday a special breath class for kids and parents. Suggested minimum age is 11 years old for kids. Come experience the power of breath with your child and have this expanded, healing and loving experience together! Please reserve your space for this class as space is limited, 858.204.1876

NEW CLASS
***Every other Thursday group meetings for two home family members choosing to learn how to re-create in a peaceful positive way and allowing ourselves to learn and grow from our past relationships. Freeing ourselves from pain, sadness and anger! We will begin at 7 pm going to 9 pm. Fee is $30 per person We often learn from others sharing their experience of relationship as well as the dispelling of any illusions that we are the only ones to have this experience! We are all One! Please let me know if you are planning to join this group as we will commit to our sessions and bond as a group. Our first class will be April 2nd.

Breath Classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30 pm call or email for your space!
Meditation classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 1-2 pm for beginners and those who love the energy of group meditation!

Please visit www.eamega.com/winterwellness and learn more about amega energy tools for health and well being. Call if you have any questions regarding these amazing tools and how they will alter your health and well being!

Please click on www.recreatingfamilies.blogspot.com for current and past blogs from Re-creating Families!!

Sending love and light,
Karen

Happy March 2009

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Happy March! Spring is almost here!

March 2, 2009

Hello to Each One of You,

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It does take courage to be here. It takes courage to be in relationship and risk it all to be loved. We think we are risking that the other in the relationship may not love us at some point but alas it is our own love that is more elusive! We risk it all to know ourselves in relationship because as much as we think it is about the other person and what they do, it is really about us and our response versus reaction to who they were. No matter where we go there is no escaping the Self. No matter how we try to get away, numb out, escape; drugs, alcohol, tv, food, more relationships, work, there we are in it the whole time!

The amazing thing we get to experience by being present is how much of our present is being dictated by our past programming. Somewhere in the core of our being when we came into these bodies we experienced fear, pain, the illusion of lack; not enough love-attention and the ultimate illusion of separation. That somehow we are alone in our experience and/or separate from the One. The ego is born and magically saves us by creating survival tools that help us move forward and earn the love we need to survive. We will do anything for some of that which we need to continue on, our will to survive is that strong! Then suddenly we are grown and in these adult relationships which require new tools but we are still using the old ones based on the past. We re-create relationships that help us play out the original illusion that somehow we are not good enough, loveable enough, worthy enough etc. and we are again in pain and fear just like before. The past repeating itself. The old moans being moaned again!

How do we move past this? One powerful step is to stop blaming the other for our pain and looking within to see how we co-created these relationships. Who were we in the room? How did we attract this level of relationship? What were we attracted to? How did we expect to be loved in the relationship? How did we see ourselves showing up in that space? Did we want our love to be accepted? Maybe we wanted our love to alter someone else’s life? Save someone? Finally we felt like we would be loved in the space as it wasn’t like that in the past? What were the dynamics? The only way to be free and conscious is to look within. Our journey is about our own consciousness not the other person, (they have their own journey expanding).

One tool that is powerful is to identify and understand our buttons and where they came from. The greatest work I have done has been on my own buttons and I realized I had many all programmed early on in my life experience. My parenting partner helped me to know they existed just by showing up as himself! I am in gratitude that he showed up in my life to help me better understand myself. The work of understanding my buttons has helped me re-program them and I have found new freedom. In that new space the old behaviors of those around me have altered and don’t even show up anymore. Hence it was only there to help me become more aware. Once I was my energy altered, that in my consciousness altered as well.

We work together like dancers. Sometimes it may not seem as graceful as a dance and yet it is. There are movements and reactions to moves and then it builds together to create these elaborate performances which culminate into the dramas of our lives. We ruminate on them, hold onto the pain and discomfort of them and retell them. I have done this. I now know where it has led me which is away from the truth of myself and further into illusion. It is all perfectly choreographed and all we have to do is show up. There is magic and it will always teach us something more, about ourselves!. The goal is to remember to love. Precious little is said about the glory of the most loving!

I invite you to look within and discover your buttons to do the greater work of reprogramming them and finding your own freedom! Your joy is needed in this world and how you live affects those around you. How would you like to touch the world? The answer to that question will lead you to your deeper work and ultimately your joy!!

Breathing alters our being, even though we think other things do it better and faster breath raises our mental, physical and spiritual health by transforming the old negative patterns of the past into positive. We get to cleanse our bodies of negative emotions and illness when we breathe!

Come to breath classes every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30 – 8:30 and find your joy and re-create your health, this is your birthright!
Your Light adds to the world!

“What a world of grace we live in after all” Rilke

Please visit http://www.recreatingfamiliesblogspot.com/
Sending love and light,
Karen

Happy Love Month

2009-02-11T21:28:00.000-08:00

February 11, 2009

Happy Love Month!

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart” John Heywood

In actuality, everything is possible and even more so to the open heart and mind! So how do we open up? We were once so open, we were the masters. We loved unconditionally, we lived in the moment and the moment stretched on forever. We forgave instantly and let go of anger, pain and disappointment and went on to play again. We snuffed and wiped our noses, smiled and went forward letting go. What happened, why did we change and when? It happens slowly over time we are shown a different way and we begin to adopt that way of being as The Way.

We begin to receive messages that we are not unconditionally loved if we don’t act or behave in a certain way therefore we begin to love conditionally as well. We have our first introduction into fear and doubt. These two powerful energies then seem to become our best friends. We invite them in and they stay for a lifetime. Suddenly, they seem to have control, they are in the driver’s seat. We know we cannot live without love and fear sets in when we do not receive the love from those we trust the most to love us. Thus begins the search for that which we believe is outside ourselves.

The most unbearable pain is not that which is denied us by another though we will believe it is. The most torturous pain is the absence of our own love.

How do we change this? Realizing that most of the past has been an illusion. Were these parents loving us? Yes, to the best of their ability for who they were and what they knew to do. Realizing that they were in their own illusion feeling unsafe and unloved and then tried to parent with these limitations of pain, doubt and fear. How do you do the intricate work of taking care of and nurturing someone’s self esteem when you have very little of your own? The answer is and always has been Compassion.

The most enlightened Being on our planet now has had everything imaginable taken from him and yet he chooses compassion in response rather than anger in reaction. How does he do this? He has his practice his connection to One larger than himself and knows the truth. He is safe and he is loved, therefore he is free. His joy does not depend on having anything outside himself. He is practicing knowing Truth it is all within himself. The freedom that compassion offers us is larger than anything we can imagine yet we utilize it so infrequently.

What if we held back from judging and chose compassion for one who is acting out or being aggressive? What if we imagined how they lived, what they might have gone through which has made them angry, frightened or in pain? Could we then take a breath and drop into our hearts and feel that expansion that happens when we live in our hearts rather than the mind which judges constantly and condemns regularly. When we condemn we are in pain as well as the person we judge. We just jumped into the pit. When we choose compassion we are lifted and the energy we flow from our beings lifts the one in pain as well.

Choose the action that love sponsors as you will receive that love and be filled. This is how we break the illusion of the past. This is how we know our Truth once again and love ourselves. This journey is about knowing Self. We begin to know who we are in the quiet going within, meditation is key. All we seek is within each of us. When we live from this space rather than the density of illusion we invite others to live in the space as well. Begin now and others will follow your lead into Light into Truth.

This is our time of change looking within will offer the guidance we seek. Breath calms the mind and heals the body. Suddenly we can see through the illusions of the past and we know what truly happened and we are free!

Come breathe and let the moans of the past be moaned no more!

“What a world of grace we live in after all” Rilke

Breath Class is every Monday and Friday evening at 6:30 – 8:30 please call or email your plan to come!

Dates for the future:
February 14th, I will be speaking at Second Saturday. It is an educational program for people going through the process of divorce. There will be an attorney, a CPA, a mediator and I will be presenting on the emotional/spiritual aspects of becoming a two-home family. The cost for the class is $45 and you can pay at the door. Class begins at 8:30 a.m. please share this information with anyone you know going through this challenging process.

February 24th I will be offering a class on the deeper meaning of sacred relationships, understanding the gifts they bring even though there is pain and challenges. How do we transform the energy into love and gratitude? You will find out in this evening of delving deeper into who we really are! Class is offered at Stillpoint Body Lounge in Encinitas 760.479.9890 fee for class $25 please call to reserve your place!

February 25th I will be offering a class on the deeper meaning of sacred relationships, understanding the gifts they bring even though there is pain and challenges. How do we transform the energy into love and gratitude? You will find out in this evening of delving deeper into who we really are! Class is offered at Soul Shine 1217 Camino Del Mar 858.793.1907 fee for class is $25 please call to reserve your place!

Choose the location nearest you!

Beginning Mediation classes are offered every Tuesday and Thursday at 1-2 pm email if you choose to join class and begin your practice of going within and feeling the peace, calm and love that are truly here for you!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Happy Season Quietly Turning Inward

2009-01-29T21:31:00.000-08:00

January 29, 2009

Happy Season of Quietly Turning Inward,

“And the world that is looked at so deeply wants to flourish in love” Rilke

I believe that each one of us truly wants to experience and live in love, yet why do we often push it away when it is there in our lives? Why do we not offer it to ourselves in even the most quiet moments when no one is looking? Why do we deny ourselves that very succor we need to survive? We came here knowing; we loved unconditionally, we forgave instantly, we lived in the moment and we knew we were perfect; we were the Masters! How did we forget? This is perhaps the most amazing part of this journey! We agreed to forget only to remember again that the only thing that truly exists is love and that we are the love we seek.

When we enter into relationships and we are dashed upon the rocks of despair; somehow the illusion looms strongly we are not safe and we certainly do not feel loved. Sometimes we feel abandoned as the other person is not willing to remain in the circle; there is such a feeling of loss that it can threaten to overcome our very soul. At times we feel this way while we are in relationship in that we don’t feel safe, we don’t feel loved and our very being feels threatened. We begin to build barricades to secure our safety, walls to protect our hearts. It is no longer safe to let another get too close as we might be hurt.

The agreement to forget; why did we make this contract? This is the biggest challenge our beings can face and we have all chosen this experience. Our consciousness is being altered by every experience, by every relationship we enter into with another being. They are holding up the mirror so we can see ourselves. All that we are holding onto the fear, doubt and illusion is reflected back to us. Long ago we agreed to give up the knowledge we had of ourselves to replace it with what others believed of us.

We lovingly offered ourselves up to this experience. We became programmed we developed buttons of sensitivity that we would later experience in intimate relationship as adults so we could re-explore ourselves and know if we choose to continue to hold these sensitized buttons or to re-program our beings and re-member again who we truly are and remember to love again. The challenge is not bigger than we are! It is possible to love truly, deeply and madly and it begins with the Soul Self.

An amazing journey indeed! The best illusion ever created to allow us to engage completely and fully. More emotions could not be explored than on this plane. We have chosen well for ourselves though never to be considered easy. It is simple but it is not easy. It is always choice. Remembering to love ourselves then allows us to love others. Choosing to see value and meaning allows us our gratitude which gives way to joy, peace and health.

The greatest gift we were given was our own free will to choose every moment of every day. We get to choose our thoughts, our actions, our words. We are free! Choose well for yourself remembering you are deserving, it is your birthright to be healthy, joyful, loving and abundant. All it takes is your willingness to surrender and let go! As you remember the love you radiate the Light and you illuminate this plane. It ripples out to everyone you come into contact with.

Breath is the most powerful tool to break through illusion, to see Truth, to remember and be free!
Come Breathe!

“I live my life in widening rings which spread over earth and sky” Rilke

Breath Classes every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30 – 8:30, come experience the power of breath and all that if offers our bodies, minds and souls!

Some future dates and times:

February 10th I will be at Soul Shine in Del Mar at 6:30 collaborating with Cindy Silbert of Bring U to Life for a seminar she is offering on Manifesting Your Mate,
I will be teaching EFT to the group to eliminate negative emotions which are blocking us energetically from allowing our good to flow. Contact Soul Shine at 858.793.1907 or www.soulshine.com

February 14th I will be presenting at Second Saturday at Mira Costa College. Class begins at 8:30 and you can pay at the door that morning, fee is $45 for the class. There will be presenters in the following areas: legal, psychological issues, financial, CPA, and mediation. This class offers a wide range of education for people choosing to divorce on the process and what to expect and how to move through this transition and remain well. I will be presenting on the psychological issues at 9:30 a.m. If you know anyone who might be going through this process please forward this information.

Tuesday February 24th I will be offering a class at the new wellness center Stillpoint in Encinitas on Second Street (formerly Synergy Yoga) at 6:30. The Class will be centered around understanding the deeper meaning of sacred relationship. People will be able to communicate effectively, respond versus react, understand relationships’ sacred teachings and embrace the past to re-create the future in relationship. Call Stillpoint Body Lounge for your space in class 760.479.9890 (Center) There will be a flyer coming soon!

Wednesday February 25th I will be offering the class on relationship as above at Soul Shine in Del Mar beginning at 6:30 – 8:30 Please choose your location and evening for this deeper exploration of sacred relationship to remember again who we are and what experiences we came to co-create with others! Your being will be expanded with new awareness of yourself and others and their role in your life. Please call Soul Shine for your space in class, 1217 Camino del Mar, Del Mar 858.793.1907

Happy New Year!

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“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

The answers, the having, the knowing, we want it all now! We want it so badly now we try to skip over the journey which is actually responsible for getting us there in the end. Where did we lose the ability to ruminate, to contemplate and to sit still and witness what is? When did life start unfolding so rapidly that we have more to do than time to do it? When did we begin to think that keeping our kids occupied every moment was good so they wouldn’t get into trouble? When did we begin to think that life’s experiences were to be controlled and kids should be kept from them? Doesn’t the experience teach us how to make different choices the next time? Didn’t we all have opportunities to make choices to get bruised, to pick ourselves up and be responsible?

We find ourselves in these hurries constantly. Our bellies and our shoulders are tense, we hold our breath denying ourselves life and we rush to add more which supports this state into our every day lives. It is time to find our way back home; back home to the Truth. We have been making all this up. Life is happening now inside and all around us. All we have to do is be willing to sit for moments a day to witness what is here now. Willing to dive inside and connect to that which is greater than ourselves in order to receive the guidance that is here for us. Willing to ask to lay down the struggle and then let ourselves do it.

We rush blindly into the doing and the having and rarely focus on the being. The Truth is that this journey is teaching us so well even right now even with all the pain and discomfort we are experiencing in this global transformation. It is here for a reason. We created it all, the rushing, the outward focus, the egregious desire for more of everything. And now we are having an opportunity to find something else that will fulfill us because the outward focus never truly provided the happiness its lure promised. The pain and discomfort offer us the opportunity to go inside and find the answers. It is perfect. The pain gets our attention more than the joy and we begin to question; what happened? How did I get here? Then slowly but surely and sometimes swiftly the answers come; beacons in the night, whispers in the wind. Answers as to what we have been doing and how we came so far off path.

Breathe, breathe deeply and fully and keep repeating the Truth “I am safe and I am loved” Keep repeating it until your body believes it and health is restored, until your whole being calms down remembering again who you are and where you came from. Breathe until you become the breath itself; Life, Love and Joy!

This is your birthright! Come breathe and see through the illusions that threaten to overcome us! Come breathe until you remember again!

Breath classes are held every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30 to 8:30

“Nothing in the world is usual today. This is the first morning” Izumi Shikibu

Sending love and light,

Karen

Ps there will not be classes from 1/26 to 1/30, they will resume on 2/2! I have beginning Meditation classes on Tuesdays at 1:15 to 2:15 and Thursdays from 1-2 pm. If you are interested in beginning meditation please let me know!

Happy Warm and Cozy Winter!

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December 29th, 2008

Happy Warm and Cozy Winter!

“From within or from behind, a light shines through us and upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing but the light is all” Emerson

Ah the light, something we all want and yet it can be so obscured by our thoughts. These powerful messages sent by the thousands through our minds, unhindered, unbridled thoughts of chaos and mayhem which then lead us down a dreary path! Where did the Light go?
The Light is always present and it is as easy as flicking the switch! The Light can be turned back on by reigning in the thoughts, disciplining them and directing them towards that which supports how we choose to feel. Challenging? Hard? Impossible? Yes, challenging at first, like learning to play the piano or a new language, it takes practice and determination to learn. It requires the willingness to be open to form new sounds with an already formed palate; the willingness to be vulnerable trying and not quite reaching perfection, yet still willing to continue the effort. Why would we do all of this?

The only reason that exists is to reach the Light, to remember we are the Light itself as that is where we came from. How could we be anything else separate from the Light? Yet we forget we play thoughts of unworthiness, of darkness, doubt and fear and suddenly we have forgotten as though we never knew. All it takes to remember again is the choice to redirect the thought to gratitude. When I have entered the darkened domain of fear and doubt through the narrow passageway of my thoughts I choose again and again to redirect with the words “thank you” followed by an absolute list of things I can now flow unreservedly of my truth of experience for which I am grateful. My family, the love I have been able to feel for people who have floated and appeared throughout my life, my home, my work, the joy I feel when I am connected and can feel whenever I choose simply by choosing a thought pattern! Try creating your own pattern of thought towards the Light through GRATITUDE!

This is the ending of one year and the beginning of another. Look at all you have been given in this year both that which created pain and discomfort that brought you to new awareness and that which you have been given that brought the breathlessness of joy and new experiences! Allow yourself to move into this new year of experience by choosing to be connected to your Source by choosing gratitude, love and joy.

This new year is the number 9 which is a number representing completions and/or endings. We are in a time and space to let go of old attachments to come to new understandings of ourselves and life as we have been creating it and allow ourselves to step into a new and deeper connected state of awareness, creating consciously with compassion, love and understanding! This is our time to move forward to a new dimension.

There is a current of energy already in place. What can you do? Just be in flow with what is already. Breathing, meditating, and choosing higher forms of expressions of love is the key to keeping all doors and windows open!

Come breathe and remember again who you are and the Light from which you came!

We will be breathing on New Year’s Eve from 5-7 with a short meditation afterwards. Please let me know if you are choosing to begin your year connected, peaceful and joy filled! Class as usual on Friday 1/2/09 at 6:30! Monday’s class on 1/5 will begin at 5:30 to 7:30!

Sending you love and Light,

Karen

2008-12-15T22:58:00.000-08:00

December 15, 2008,

Flowing into Winter, going inward,

“I swear to you there are Divine things more beautiful than words can tell” Walt Whitman

The holidays often evoke a myriad of emotions, some of which can make us feel badly. The reason that we sometimes feel these emotions is that there are so many expectations placed on the holidays. If we watch television there are thousands of images portrayed that give us the impression of how the holidays should look and feel. Suddenly it is there, expectations and our actuality is not meeting the imagery. When we create the expectations we are no longer in the moment. We miss what is truly there for us. We can show up like children again, having joy just with what is. The beautiful simplicity of being in the moment. Practice letting go of expectations and just show up with your love, your joy and let it unfold knowing the Truth! You are safe and you are loved! Be of service as there is no other faster way to joy than helping another!

The focus of holidays long ago was taken from the simplicity and joy of reverence, gratitude and love to an “ism” which is one of the most powerful, “commercialism”. We are being asked to re-create in a different way because the joy, which is our birthright, has been so diminished. It is easier to live in the simplicity and share moments in the sharing of love, friendship and gratitude than it is to chase the imagery! One family decided to write a loving letter to each member of their family to communicate what that person meant in their lives. What a gift of love to receive! Imagine knowing that your life had touched another so deeply just because of who you are, just because of your presence.

You can share this with others here and now. When I am asked “Do you think this gift is enough”? ( perfect, because in the past I asked this question) I always respond with, your true gift is the love imbibed in the gift, the gift is just an extra. Remember how good it feels to know you are loved. It feels that good to others as well. That is the true gift of this season, it is and always has been the love! So gather those around you and hold them close and tell them how you love them! Because when we leave these bodies the one thing that is so important to us is for those around us to know that we loved them. This I learned from my father when he let go of his body. He wouldn’t leave until he had communicated his love for each of us. So share your love now, make sure it is known for there is no other moment than this moment, now.

This season of Winter is a time to go within, the days are shorter, the nights longer and there is opportunity to go deeper inside and connect to that love that always resides within. Often we are outwardly distracted, there is always something we can be “doing”. Yet taking the time, precious time to be still and go inward offers so much more than we ever dreamed of, all the love we ever wanted is there. This season offers that gift, that brightness, that connected state.

We already have it all, to find it, to receive it, all we have to do is be willing to be still, to turn inward and dive deep! Meditation is the key to receiving it all and breaking through the illusions. We are rich beyond measure and the amazing thing is there is always more! More love, more light, more miracles to appear all around you!

Come dive deep and breathe until you remember who you are and where you came from!
I will be offering a breath class early on new years eve from 5-7 followed by a mediation, to begin the new year connected and with love. If you would like to join us, just send a note with your intention to be here.

Breath classes are every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-26T23:03:00.000-08:00

November 26, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

“This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment’s energy here in your hand” Rumi

How wonderful we have a national day devoted to giving gratitude! We have a wonderful opportunity to go deep inside for just that purpose. Many people consider Thanksgiving to be their favorite holiday as it is not dependent upon any outward display, shopping, gifts, money or imagery but an inward connection to Spirit and coming together in celebration! We celebrate by offering gratitude for our most basic gift of sustanence which supports life, food. We prepare it and share it and enjoy it. We have the opportunity to know what is truly important and realize all the rest is only surface. We have what is truly important and we can share the abundance with those who have less.

This time of change we are going through is offering us the time to go within and see what is truly essential and what we have been seeking outside ourselves to make us happy. It never shows up in the form of “enough” when we seek outside ourselves. The void is always still present and we wonder why. The void is always filled by connecting up and giving gratitude as a way of coming back into Truth. We are safe and we are loved and this under everything else seems to be our biggest fear. This day presents a practice of realizing truth and living in that space rather than the density of fear. We can then practice this every day beginning with gratitude rather than once a year. This practice changes life immediately and deeply.

Choose this day to go inside and see what is truly there for you on this sacred journey. All the people who have come into your life offering the gift of you getting to know yourself better by offering up that mirror image. All the love that has been offered to you, all the opportunity to choose each and every day. We have all been given the greatest gift of Free Will to choose.
Exercise that gift now with choosing gratitude for all that is. Choose gratitude whether you are with others or having a sacred moment to go inside and be with yourself. Choose love whether alone or with others because you can because it feels better than choosing otherwise and you are worthy of the goodness you can feel when you choose higher! This is the gift we give ourself and yet others receive this gift when we shine that energy outward choosing love.

Come breath and connect up choosing health, life and love!

Classes are every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30!

“let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground” Rumi

Sending love, light and gratitude,

Karen

Happy November, the soft beauty of Fall

2008-11-20T23:06:00.000-08:00

Happy November, the soft beauty of Fall,

“Compassionate towards yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world” Lao Tzu

One subject that has come up tremendously lately is the “inner judge”. How often do we put on our heavy black robes and sit up high and reach for the heavy gavel to slap down our judgments upon others? How often does that same inner judge take that action against us?? Whatever is inside us will reflect back outwards to those around us. It cannot be otherwise. This is the moment to understand just how damaging that inner judge can be. How that judge hurts you every day finding you lacking and then finding others lacking, not ok, not worthy, undeserving perhaps even unlovable.

The pain that is created by that inner judge is the pain of separation. Suddenly we feel apart from the love if we judge ourselves. We feel apart from others if we judge them. And then there is the greatest pain, separation from the One. This pain has been experienced by every being at some time or another. It is almost like a death. The pain goes deep and sometimes you find people who have lived a lifetime in this pain. They are closed off, bitter, cold and there are only negative words coming from their lips. The only choice is to fire the inner judge and to choose compassion. When we make this choice we are free, we are in the Unity and we are lifted in that loving choice.

When we retire the judge, come down from our lofty seat up high we are one with everyone. There is no more illusion of being alone. The pain is gone and we are free. This is the time to take off the heavy black robe, set down the gavel and choose the Oneness. The first step is just to notice the judge when he/she pops up and start putting them on notice. They are no longer in charge. You are now directing and choosing from a higher place of connectedness = love, compassion and forgiveness.

One of the most rapid ways of firing the judge and taking back power is to breathe! Once we are in the freed state of breathing fully there is no judgment there is only the soul state of expanded loving consciousness, awake and aware. There is only the journey of the soul to remember again who it is and where it came from. The greatest gift of all is that of free will! We get to exercise this gift every day. We get to choose how we will show up, judging others, criticizing or loving and seeing the beauty joining in the One.

Come breathe and connect to your soul and be free!

Class this Friday will be from 4-6 and normal hours will resume next week for Monday and Friday classes for group at 6:30!

“Returning to the Source is serenity” Lao Tzu

Sending love and light,

Karen

Happy Fall! a time to begin going inside to do the inner work

2008-10-23T23:11:00.000-07:00

October 23, 2008

Happy Fall!, a time to begin going inside to do the inner work

“when the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty” Emerson

Sometimes in the present borage of messaging by the media we are caught in the sharp teeth of fear. When that fear grips us we are frozen and it can take over in our thoughts, our emotions and in our behavior. Everything can take a downward turn. Try something new and different, turn off the television, turn off radio, turn off anything which offers a fearful message and go within to create your own message. Play beautiful music in your sanctuary, fill your space with the beauty and peace you choose to embody and live in every day.

The Truth is that Abundance has always existed and will always exist it is just a current of energy and appears and manifest in all forms as we invite it into our lives with our gratitude and our joy. Tap into what is truly here now. It is an opportunity to alter how we have been living for many years, in fear of not enough. Ego driven, “what is there for me”? When we think this level of thought we can create lack; when we think of gratitude for all that is, all that we already have and have been given we are in abundance and feel the joy, the peace and live in the truth. The truth is we need so little to be well but we have created a mass illusion that we need so much then we struggle to support all that “stuff”. We can come back to the simplicity and the peace of knowing abundance and allow ourselves to receive it.

In order to calm the mind we must breathe. Try breathing for 5-10 minutes slowly and deeply inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth while silently repeating “I am safe and I am loved”. You will feel altered after this exercise for only this amount of time and your being will recognize truth. You can begin to play new tapes all day that support this truth with your gratitude leading. You will be out of the illusion of lack and into abundance of joy, love, health and the flow of money. Just allow it to be here within and around you.

A powerful tool to calm the mind and know Truth and create health is Transformational Breath Work. You will be altered in mind, body and soul when you breathe on this level. There is no going back to the old way of creating. Your health will be raised, your mind calmed and quieted and your soul allowed to be in command. Remember your soul, has no fear, knows no lack and is aligned with love and joy. Remember to join again with your own being through breath and meditation.

These are the keys to well being and connection!

Come breathe and be connected, abundant and free!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Looking Anew

2008-09-26T22:52:00.000-07:00

September 26, 2008

Hello to Each of You,

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust

Can we look again at what is here in our lives? Can we see with new eyes all that we truly have? There is tremendous unrest presently and a feeling of underlying fear of the unknown. But can we look again at what is truly here? Perhaps we can re-examine the idea of enough and play a new tape. “I have enough time, I have enough money, I have an abundance of love”. There is no lack, that is only illusion, yet the more we play that tape in our minds the more we can create what feels like that reality. What are you choosing for your reality?

What if you looked again at love and played the tape I am surrounded by love. Even if it feels like the opposite is true, begin playing this tape and there will be a change. You will begin to feel better, safer, more connected to those around you. You will begin to be more loving and send out that love you seek. The Truth is there is abundance in everything. When we create relationships we often create emotional pain. We begin to fear we are not loved or the love might disappear.

This thought begins to make us contract and we are not fully present in relationship. We don’t trust even those closest to us to love us. We focus on those around us to give us the love we need so we often make ourselves live a certain way to insure we get the love we feel we need. We forget to focus on the first relationship with Self, loving Self and remembering the Truth of our being. We are not these bodies, we are not these thoughts, we are so much more! We are the Light, we come from the Light. How could we be anything less than the Light?

The first relationship begins by going within not seeking outside ourselves. The love is all there. All you ever dreamed of receiving is there within you. Becoming conscious of that love is to go within in the quiet space and reconnect with your Soul-Self. So beautiful, so loving, so perfect, YOU!

Look again with new eyes at you and see all your beauty all your perfection, choose love. I promise there is enough love! Enough of everything all we have to do is begin the practice with our thoughts and it is all there before our eyes!

Come breathe and connect up!!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Ps I will be out of the country until Oct. 5th. Please email in case of important need and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Breath Classes will resume on October 6th at 6:30 pm. I hope to see you here!

Love Is All There Is

2008-09-11T22:54:00.000-07:00

September 11, 2008

“Love is the only thing that truly exists, all the rest we make up” Karen Winter

I painted these words and the canvas hangs in my living room where I teach breath class. It is so beautiful to witness people who breathe and after their journey they view this painting as they have before and suddenly they see the words as if they have risen from the depths of the see and they are now revealed! It is us who can now see clearly. The Truth and the words have always been there it is our consciousness which has been altered so we can see clearly all that is really here before us.

Even that which is invisible or intangible is suddenly before us. Magic!
I have had the honor to breathe couples who are choosing to end their present relationship of marriage and witness them both getting to a clearer understanding of the presence of love between them and then the gratitude which floods their being. There is such softness in the room, such Presence and reverence of the gift of relationship and the love that is present. We have greater clarity in our own lives when we breathe. It does not only raise our level of health physically but mentally as well. We are aware on a much deeper level of how others have participated in our lives to teach us more about ourselves. We then can accept the gift and create life on a deeper level.

I recently had an experience with a loving being. She was offering me a gift and in that moment it felt challenging to receive with just a “thank you” I let her know she was pushing all my buttons. What I know is that she was showing up to be my teacher to let me know I had those buttons and then I could decide what to do with them. She was letting me know how well I was doing with the balance of giving and receiving. I know myself better now and I choose to deprogram my receive button. She showed up in that moment as my greatest teacher. I have better awareness. I am in gratitude.

Know that teachers show up in all forms in life, sometimes making us feel fear, anger, resentment, lack, joy, gratitude and all the other possibilities. Whatever that person evokes in you is the gift of more information about yourself. Often we miss the gift and relentless speak of what the other person is doing yet our emotions are our responsibility. Take a sacred moment to breathe deeply, look inside without judgment or blame and see what you can inside yourself. Always remembering you are safe and you are loved. What button is being pushed and how can you reprogram it? what can you let go of to be present and peaceful, healthy and joyful? Its all right here for us. All we have to do is breathe and we will have more answers more peace and more health!

Come breathe and love yourself enough to dive deep inside. The first relationship is with our very own Self!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Ease Into Fall

2008-08-28T22:56:00.000-07:00

August 28, 2008

As we ease into Fall we begin to go inside …….

“In stillness the world is restored” Lao Tzu

There are tremendous accounts of illness in our present day culture and yet we live in a time when health could be at an optimum level due to the knowledge and resources we have available to us. There are some key factors that are affecting our health greatly in present times and two of them are the foods we eat and our stress levels in daily life. Our food source is tremendously altered with chemicals and genetic altering. This can be easily avoided in our lives by choosing organic foods, mostly fresh fruits and vegetables and drinking more water every day.

There is a new source of drinking water that has tremendous health benefits called alkaline drinking water which is provided by a machine attached to your faucet to oxygenate the water we take in daily. The amount of processed foods we consume in our country has greatly altered our overall health status. The amount of chemical consumption in our bodies by processed foods is truly dangerous to our health. Even in our busy schedules remember that simple is healthier. Fresh is best and more water in your daily diet will make a definite difference in physical well being.

The other culprit in our decline in health is our daily stress. Stress exists and yet we create more stress and fear with our thoughts. The amount of fear based and negative thoughts we have during the day will increase blood pressure and stress our adrenals to the point of ill health. Over prolonged periods the bodies own immune system is impaired and no longer able to sustain the health levels we desire.

One simple antidote for this effect is setting time aside every day 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening to sit still and breathe deeply, in through the nose and out through the mouth. You will find the breath brings you back to the present moment instead of vaulting out into the future where we have imagined things in a negative way. This negative vision (though imagined) feels real to your emotional being and you being to feel fear, stress and or worry. All have a negative effect over time on the body. Dr. Bruce Lipton has done extensive research on our physical DNA to prove that negative thought patterns will actually make our cells deteriorate and die, whereas a positive thought which supports a high vibration will bring those same cells back to life! So thinking positive is not just a feel good moment it is a necessity for a healthy body. Our physical being depends on our emotional well being.

If we have lived traumatic experiences in our past breath work can eliminate that negative frequency from our physical body and our emotional body. EFT will release negative emotions as well from specific traumatic events from physical abuse to emotional traumas. They are two powerful tools to help us be healthy, whole and present in our own bodies.

*As you notice a negative thought passing through experiment on how you can change that thought around into a positive. Begin with gratitude and see something resolving itself positively, or a disagreement being settled, money being received, health being restored and/or a change bringing a positive new experience. Play with this, at first it may feel challenging but look at it like an exercise the more you strengthen this muscle the easier it becomes to do the work!
How would it feel to be energized, present, aware and peaceful all at the same time? When we are living at this level creating the life we choose becomes easy and graceful. All you have to do is allow yourself to receive all your good!

Come breath and choose health and radiance!

“When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of truth, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty” Emerson

Sending love and light,

Karen

Fly High As You Can

2008-08-03T22:59:00.000-07:00

August 3, 2008

Hello To Each Of You,

Happy August!

“Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return” Leonardo da Vinci

When we have had a tremendously uplifting experience we long to return to it or to feel it again. When we feel joy we desire that feeling again in our lives however we often focus on other things in our daily lives which do not feel joyful, challenges in relationships, pressures of career, jobs and finances, and the stress of every day life in our modern day culture. Where can we go to find the peace? Where can we go to create health, and the wisdom to create what we would like to live? The answer is inside! In fact all the answers are inside each one of us.

We have been given an amazing gift and it is right under our noses and that which we often overlook. In fact it is through the nose that we can begin to hear the answers and that is through breathing. We can increase our physical health through breathing more regularly, more deeply and with Transformational Breath Class we can release negative past emotions, increase physical health and energy and feel the joy again!

We often look far outside ourselves for our joy and happiness which creates all kinds of havoc. We look for it in riches, material possessions and even in other people, who we think, will bring us what we want. We all want to be loved, to belong and to be valued. All this is deep within each of us and all we have to do to feel it is breathe and you will feel that connection so deep, so strong so undeniable you will know your truth and know that all you desire you have already within. Your source is not any person, place or circumstance it is the love within your being, your connected state.

When we do not breathe, fear often takes over and we feel alone, isolated, and lack of that which we desire, and the fear takes over. Come breathe and know your truth. Come breathe and create health, energy and feel the love that is so deep so abiding!

“Ever object, every being, is a jar full of delight” Rumi

I look forward to seeing each of you in breath class or in session to create your beautiful life!

Sending you love and light,

Karen

Breaking The Barriers To Love

2008-07-18T23:00:00.000-07:00

July 18, 2008

Hello To Each One Of You,

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” Rumi

Your body is your temple! So now the question is who is in your temple? Who are you letting inside? Whatever we allow in will affect the strength, health, emotional stability and the equanimity of our being. Who is in your temple? When we choose food that isn’t supporting health our temple will be altered. There are tremendous amounts of things in this world that do not support our health. My 13 year old is learning that a donut tastes good and yet it makes her stomach hurt afterward. There is the choice of a moment’s pleasure compared to an hour of pain and is it truly worth that one moment. This is how we grow by understanding we can choose that which supports our well being and as a result we feel much better emotionally when we have truly loved ourselves.

What thoughts are we playing in our temple? Is there beautiful music playing or are there old negative thought patterns repeating themselves? The frequency of what we are playing over and over will affect how we feel. If we let the “old tapes” run unhindered we will stay in the same place of feeling bad about ourselves. The old core belief of “not good enough” or “not deserving” will still pervade our thoughts and then our behaviors. It is time to come back to the truth and recognize the beauty of our being! It is time to remember again who we are and why we are here.

EFT will target any negative emotion and eliminate it in minutes and surround it with a peaceful feeling. Breath Work will help our minds to calm completely and help us be in touch with our true Self. Look inside and find out who is in your temple. Allow only that which you would allow in a Holy place as you are that deserving of love and honor. You must first give it to yourself!

Come breath and clean out your temple, feel what it is like to know yourself and connect!

“Wherever you go, go with all your love” Confucius

Sending love and light,

Karen

2008-07-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

July 6, 2008

Hello to Each of You!

“and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are” Rumi

It is the 4th of July weekend! Celebrating Freedom and Independence for over 200 years! And yet there is always a battle for freedom going on inside ourselves. This is the battle between the ego and the Soul! The way we can tell who is winning is by checking in with how you feel emotionally. When you are feeling negative emotions the ego is ahead when you are feeling loved, safe and in a truly great place, the Soul is in charge and all knowing. So how do we make sure the Soul is in charge all the time?

The key is going within for the answers to all the questions that arise. Breath Class and Meditation are the powerful keys to Freedom!

Our Soul always knows the truth; that we are safe and we are loved and that there is perfection in everything and every moment. When we play this thought of truth over and over we begin to breathe more deeply, and our whole body responds to this higher truth as Universal Law. Over and over I witness clients as we speak of what is happening in their lives and how it makes them feel. When they begin to see perfection in what they have created in their lives and the opportunities they have drawn to themselves they take a deep breath whereas before they were hardly breathing.

Our Souls and our bodies always respond to truth. Just as our intuition always gives us an indication of whether something feels good or not so good, we cannot deny that inner knowing. It is always present within us. When we are confronted with truth we will feel it in our heart area. Undeniable Truth!! The truth is we are free to choose, we are free to experience life here fully.

The battle between the Soul and the ego is fought every day within us. Where will we align ourselves, in fear and doubt about who we are or if we are deserving or good enough? Or will we choose the beauty in each of us the Divinity within each of us and then see it in every Soul with whom we come into contact? See the beauty and the perfection in your own life and then in every one else’s life. We are all here for a purpose, we are ever evolving consciousness, there are no mistakes only opportunities to learn and grow.

Choose your Soul Self and align your self with high frequency thoughts that bring light and love into each moment and day in your life.

A powerful way to align with our Soul Self is through breath. We calm the mind which can run away with us at times and we have “the journey” which is a communion with your higher self in Breath Class. Don’t let the ego take the power. Come have an awakening and be Free of the past and choose your Soul! Lets remember who we are together.

“What happens when the soul takes hold of the eyes?” Casey Haymes

Sending you all love and light,

Karen

Hear Blessings!

2008-06-12T23:03:00.000-07:00

June 12, 2008

Hello To Each One of You,

June, the beginning of summer joy and ease!

“Hear blessings dropping their blossoms all around you” Rumi

Sometimes we think what is there to be grateful for when there is so much stress, tension and worry in our lives? The answer is simple, find one thing one simple thing and focus on it until you see its beauty and say thank you. Focus a bit more and say the words until you feel them. Chant them over and over until you suddenly see more and more in that one thing. Then you will see more and more around you to be grateful for until this is your normal thought. It is the practice.

Gratitude has such a high frequency that it can transform any situation into something of growth, learning and expansion and opportunity. The magic words! Haven’t we always taught children to say the magic words and yet we forget to say them to ourselves for all we have been given for all we have been able to create in our lives; for all the love we give and receive. It is time to remember again the magic that exists in every moment. The simplicity of “thank you” say it to yourself, say it to others and say it to the Universe! You will feel transformed and light. This is our birthright just like coming home.

We’ve always had the key just like Dorothy’s ruby slippers, we have the breath. Breathe more deeply and it will bring you fully to the present moment. Suddenly you will feel peace, calm and the truth; you are safe and you are loved. Come to breath class and you will release all old doubt and fears from the past, old traumas and pain. Your being will be set free and you will remember again who you are and where you came from. There truly is no place like home! come breathe and come home again!

“From within or from behind a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing but the light itself” Emerson

Sending you love and light,

Karen

The Water of The Heart

2008-06-09T23:05:00.000-07:00

June 9, 2008

Hello To Each One Of You,

“There is a way from your heart to mine and my heart knows it, because it is clean and pure like water. When water is still like a mirror, it can behold the moon” Rumi

When we drop from our heads to our hearts things are so simple, so pure, so innocent. Like children, ever notice how uncomplicated they are? They love unconditionally, they live in the moment and they forgive instantly, pain only lasts for a moment and then it is forgotten. Imagine if we were more childlike in our lives and let things go instantly, how would we feel if we didn’t repeat stories? How would we feel if we let go of a thought that made us feel bad? The truth is our thoughts are not always true they are just thoughts driven by the ego which has tremendous fears and challenges. When we are feeling fearful or upset know it is ego thought not soul or heart. The soul and the heart lead to the path of love which is higher all knowing and peaceful.

Imagine what your day would be like if you played the thoughts “ I am loved” “ I belong” “I have value” “There is enough time” “ There is enough money”, over and over again all day. If any are willing to try this experiment let me know your results! I have tried it and it is an amazing way to spend your valuable time because the gifts are so great, greater than anything you could imagine. Its all within you, all you seek is just within your heart! You are magic! Look inside and see the love expand with it and know who you really are.

Come breath and expand with the knowledge of self! Feel what it is like to let go of emotional pain, fear and sadness. You will be amazed at the effects on the physical body and how you will feel when you are willing to let go of pain. Vitality, health, wellness are all there waiting to surface. All you have to do is breath and be free, feel the joy once again that is your birthright! What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

“ Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful” Thich Nhat Hanh

So smile! Make today radiant with your beauty and your joy!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Love and Life

2008-05-19T23:07:00.000-07:00

May 19, 2008

Happy May!

Hello To Each Of You,

“Where there is love there is life” Mahatma Gandhi

I was taking more breath training last week and I am truly grateful for more tools and techniques to help others on their path to health and well being! Classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday were truly amazing to facilitate and witness as people were feeling the effects of Breath Work on an even deeper level of release and emotional freedom. There were immediate effects in the physical body as pain was released and a heightened sense of well being and remembering purpose on a spiritual level.

It is amazing that we don’t have to do work for years to gain results in our lives and feel good, free and happy. It can be a matter of moments and the negativity is lifted. I highly recommend the work of Michael Newton PH.D. His books on life in between lives “Journey of Souls” and “Destiny Of Souls” truly alter consciousness and heighten our awareness of our journey here and give a deeper meaning and peace in the knowledge of our own power in our own lives. Dr. Newton writes that the spiritual realm is sending us tremendous support here on this plane for our well being and to help raise consciousness on a mass level.

There are new modalities of healing that are now available to us to help raise that consciousness as well. This is to balance the amount of addiction we have chosen to drugs to make us feel better emotionally which do work but block our consciousness from evolving due to chemically induced states. This is not to judge right or wrong but simply to offer more to us to break through emotional barriers we might be carrying.

I am thrilled to work with people choosing health and well being and their emotional freedom to then be the powerful beings we are to create the life we truly desire! Everything is possible! It is all waiting for us. All we have to do is be willing to move forward! That willingness is the first step.

Choose yourself and your life right here right now and allow yourself to receive all that is here for you now! Come to breath class and experience the joy of knowing who you are. If you are experiencing old emotions and/or traumas come for EFT and see who you are without the pain. You are worthy and deserving of love and freedom.

I will be speaking at Second Saturday on July 12th at Mira Costa College on Healing for Two-Home Families. Please let anyone you know going through this transition about this class so they can gain the tools they need to be well and peaceful. You can register online or in person that day, the cost is $45 for the day of class. There is a CPA, an attorney and a mediator who will present.

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?” Mahatma Gandhi

Love is and always will be there answer love for self and love for others. Love is the only thing that truly exists all the rest we make up!

Come breath with me and be free once again!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Childlike Love

2008-05-04T23:09:00.000-07:00

May 4, 2008

Hello to Each One of You,

Happy May and extra love to each Mother and the love within each heart!

“ It is when I forget to judge that I remember to live”! Casey Haymes

We can all remember to live right now, right here! All we have to do is be childlike in our presence. Just show up and see the magic again like children do. They are just joyous and smile at whatever shows up. The key to our joy is within our hearts. It is the love within each of us that always exists, it was our original gift! All we have to do is drop from our heads and into our hearts to feel the love again and get away from the jumble of thoughts.

Often we think we are all those thoughts. But that is not who we are. When we step back and don’t judge them they have little to do with who we are. When we engage in each one we get caught up in the illusion of judgment, hurt feelings, pain and then suffering. Drop into the heart and feel the love that truly is who you are. This love is where we come from, how can we be anything else?

We are powerful in making things up. Love is all that truly exists! Come back to the truth of your being. You can experience truth through meditation, breath work and going within. The love and peace is deep inside. When we take the time to remember again who we really are the love radiates from our beings and this truly raises the world. This light we can all send out changes the world. We are the change we seek. It is all right here and now! Join in and see what a difference your love and joy make to those around you!

This is spending your day in a powerful way. Come breath and meditate and find your joy inside you!!

“From within or from behind a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing but the light itself” Emerson

Sending love and light,

Karen

The Master Sees

2008-04-20T23:11:00.000-07:00

April 20, 2008

April, Spring in full Bloom!

“The Master sees things as they are without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way and resides at the center of the circle” Lao Tzu

We can all see the beauty and the perfection in every moment no matter what is actually happening, but it is a choice. The choice is to remember that everything is happening for a reason and it is to bring us to a higher awareness. When we choose to see the perfection we can then transfer the illusion of anything being negative in our lives into a gift of life experience that will bring us a gift.

When we expand ourselves to see with a different perspective how everything fits together in this beautiful tapestry and how we draw experience to us with our thoughts and our emotions we then truly receive and live on a different level of awareness. The saying “it is not about the destination, it is about the journey” takes on new clarity.

When we live on this level we come to completion with the lesson quickly and the illusion dissipates from the roaring lion into a fluffy cat waiting to be stroked! The pain disappears and the joy returns. Our ability to love what is equals our freedom. This might sounds esoteric or like hard work to raise our consciousness to this level yet I watch it unfold every week in breath work. We can suddenly and instantly get to the other side of understanding and pain all we need to do is be willing.

Just by offering up your willingness to let go or to change your being, your consciousness is transformed. We live in a time when we want things instantly, even healing. Now it exists as it doesn’t take ten to twenty years of therapy to understand and heal emotionally there can be change in moments. Emotions released that we have carried for years. We live in that advanced time.

We get there together realizing we are all beautiful facets of the same diamond, brilliant because of our unity and our uniqueness!

Be your brilliant self, shine brightly for all to see and you raise the world! Imagine who you are without all the pain and fear we carry around.

“Come to the edge,” he said, “we are afraid,” they said. “Come to the edge,” he said. They came, he pushed them and they flew. Apollinaire

Come Fly!!

Sending love and light

Karen

Spring Awakening

2008-04-09T23:13:00.000-07:00

April 9, 2008

Hello to each one of you,

Spring, a time of awakening!

"And though we seem to be sleeping there is an inner wakefulness that doubts the dream and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are" Rumi

I love the power of breath work! I watched all the faces in Monday’s class become soft and they were lit from within and I could see all the beauty in each being. Their true self was completely present without fear, open and all knowing, feeling loved and safe and completely expanded. Have you ever seen such beauty in one being? There it was and I was able to be still and enjoy and feel so filled with love and gratitude. This is the way we were meant to live here, but we often forget.

We get caught up in the illusion of the stuff, the job, the relationship, the house the car the kids and we forget our soul is truly here for its own joy so where is that joy? It is in each precious moment we are awake, truly awake and looking around us and witnessing the beauty. Step out of the tornado and appreciate all that is truly there for you right here and now. Look with refreshed eyes and see anew with the wonder of a child! Just show up without expectations and see what happens in that moment, a gift you could not have imagined!

Allow yourself to receive, right here and now be still, breath and chant "thank you" for five minutes and witness how you begin to feel. Remember you are the light, you are the love, it is where you came from. Remember again your truth!

Be free!

look for the schedule of classes for breath and EFT sessions, I am thrilled to share I am having my book What Would Love Do Now? translated into Spanish. I will let you know when it is completed and ready for reading!

Sending light,

Karen

Why is love so hard?

2008-03-27T23:14:00.000-07:00

March 27, 2008

Spring, a beautiful time to renew!

"What barrier is there that love cannot break? Mahatma Gandhi

I speak tremendously on the subject of love in my work with people. Why is it that we often feel so contracted as though the love is really hard to create or give and receive? How did it become so hard to truly create loving relationships? Well the answer is FEAR. We have been living in fear that we are not loved or that our love will not be accepted. This makes us contracted and then we try less and less to really connect with those around us because we are afraid of the reaction we might get. The answer is to realize the truth again. We are the love we seek each and every one of us is. So if we then truly believe this and know we are filled with love, we are loved and we ARE LOVE itself how can we then touch others with this love? What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

Try approaching your mate, parenting partner, kids, friends and co-workers with this approach of being the love rather than expecting the love. Remember that every person you come into contact with needs three things to be well, to be loved, to be valued and to feel like they belong. Imagine what it would be like to know you changed someone's whole day perhaps their whole view of themselves by just touching their hearts in a loving way without any expectation that that love comes back to you, just for free and for fun! See how many you can touch in a day and then notice how your day is the best day you've ever lived!!

Please look for the article in Bellissima Magazine about the breath and how we can direct it for our emotional/physical and spiritual health. www.bellissimasandiego.com a wonderful magazine with great information about health and well being in San Diego, written by San Diegans.
Choose to be your highest self all day and watch how your day unfolds with joy, love, ease and grace. You will find there really is no other way to live. Remember who you are and where you came from!!

Sending light,

Karen

Oh the Pain!

2008-03-17T23:15:00.000-07:00

March 17, 2008

Happy Spring!

"and though we seem to be sleeping there is an inner wakefulness that doubts the dream and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are" Rumi

Sometimes it is the pain that startles us back to who we are. The pain gets our attention and that is the point at which we can begin to be aware and then make changes in our lives. Sometimes we have been living in a way that doesn't feel good to us because it has become a habit, an old learned way of getting love and yet the love we are getting doesn't feel good. How did it become so complicated?

This is the time to make it less complicated and get back to the truth of who we are and that truth of relationships and how they serve us to bring us back to ourselves. Gratitude is the key to receiving the gift of those who help bring us back. Without the gratitude we often get stuck in anger, pain and blame. We can be free of these emotions.

EFT and Breath Class offer immediate freedom from negative emotions that can overwhelm us and take over. Choose freedom and happiness it is your birthright!

"Everything is waiting for you" David Whyte

Please look for Bellissima Magazine, this month's article is on the Breath and how powerful it is in our well being and health. Something that seems so obvious and yet we often deny ourselves breath which is life. Ironic that we do this to ourselves, however we can change this just by becoming conscious of it. Take a deep breath and let go ....

www.bellissimasandiego.com a wonderful magazine about health and well being for San Diegans written by San Diegans!

Choose well for yourself as all you owe anyone else is to be well yourself!

Sending light,
Karen

Create The Vision

2008-03-06T23:17:00.000-08:00

March 6, 2008

Hello to Each of You!

"The soul is the lamp where light is steady, for it burns in a shelter where no winds come" Baghavad Gita

The year of the Rat begins! Higher levels of loving relationships is the energy ushered in by the rat. It is time now to choose love as the direction for thoughts and actions in relationship to those around us. What is your highest vision of yourself? Create your vision and act in alignment with that vision. Then you will truly love yourself. All love stems from self love acting from this connected state!

I will be speaking at Second Saturday at Mira Costa College on March 8th on the psychological, emotional and healing issues of going through divorce. This class offers education for women going through this process on legal, psychological and financial issues. The fee is $45 for a half day educational class. Please share this information with anyone you know going through divorce as nothing challenges us more to show up in our highest vision as going through this process and letting go. You can register at the door that morning!

Please watch for my newest article on Breath and its health and healing benefits in Bellissima Magazine, www.bellissimasandiego.com Do come and breath your way to health and consciousness in breath classes offered every Monday and Friday evening. Your body will feel immediate effects from this work as well as your emotional state. It is a deep healing and cleansing for the mind and body! Words cannot do justice to this experience in life.

Lets create on a higher level of awareness knowing we are all deserving and we are all one!

Sending light,
Karen

The Soul and its Joy

2008-02-20T23:19:00.000-08:00

February 20,2008

Hello To Each of You,

"Everything is waiting for you"
David Whyte

Remember that everything is waiting for you, all we have to do is clear the way. I was serving at a retreat last week and holding the space for others to clear their "sticky stuff" the anger, fear and pain that can be the block to receiving all our good. It was an amazing experience. Often we hold onto negative emotions which can then be the focus of our energy. The happiness is diminished, the joy dimmed and before we know it there is only the negative. We can find our way back to our joy, it is our natural state of being as "the soul is here for its own joy" Rumi

All we have to do is let it happen, clear the road way for joy and light. We do this by letting go of the past. Letting go of fear and pain. Forgiveness, compassion and love are the strongest tools to clear the road. Employ them liberally, for free and for fun because you know you are deserving of your joy it is your birthright!

Come breath deeply in breath class and feel your connected state and bring that into your every day life. Remember again the truth of your being! You are loved and you are safe. Breath classes are every Monday and Friday evening and privates held Tuesday-Thursday evenings.

EFT is a powerful tool to release the negative emotions we have carried for a lifetime. It happens instantly and they are gone from our physical and emotional being. Now is the time for the light. We are the light we are not the body. Let's remember our truth together and live awake and aware right here, right now!

I will be presenting at Second Saturday on March 8th at Mira Costa College at 8:30 am. On the psychological, spiritual and healing issues of divorce. Please let anyone you know who may be going through this challenging transition to come to this class and gain some immediate tools for wellness and healing.

Please look for the next issue of Bellissima as I wrote an article on the Breath and how it can create health and well being in our bodies, minds and souls. Something we do every day and yet we can hold our breath, or breath shallowly and deprive our beings of what they most need to live and remember.

Let's create the light together!

Sending light,
Karen

The Month of Love

2008-02-02T23:21:00.000-08:00

February 2, 2008

Hello and Happy February!

"The soul is a lamp where light is steady, for it burns in a shelter where no winds come" Bhagavad Gita

This is the month of love and yet we have made it commercial with only visions of romantic love. Love is so much more powerful on all levels when we realize we are the love and we radiate it out to others. Often we are fearful that we are not loved, the fear disappears completely when we focus on loving those around us. Make someone's day a true gift by showing them you love them and see their beauty. I promise your day will be the most beautiful as well!

I will be speaking at Second Saturday at Mira Costa College on Sat. February 9th. The class is an educational class for women going through divorce. It is given by Ginita Wall CPA and has been running for 17 years. I will be speaking on the emotional issues faced by women going through this process and focusing on the healing aspects. Please let anyone you know going through this process about this class as it offers helpful information on the legal, financial and psychological issues of becoming a two-home family. Class begins at 8:30 am and you can pay at the door, the fee is $45.

Please read the next issue of Bellissima, my article is on the power of breath and what it can do to keep us healthy and aware in our lives. You can click on www.bellissimasandiego.com and subscribe. This new Magazine offers great information on health and well being in San Diego!!
Please do come to breath class and experience the gift of breath at this level. You will feel lighter, emotionally and physically and release old negative emotions on every level. You will experience an altered state of consciousness which will allow you to see your own life from a more clear perspective! Monday and Friday's classes are open, I will be out of town the following week on retreat.

I look forward to seeing you this month and remember to take a deep breath!

Sending love and light,

Karen

Relationship Challenges

2008-01-24T23:22:00.000-08:00

January 24,2008

Hello to Each of You,

"For one human being to love another being, that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us. This ultimate task the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation"
Ranier Maria Rilke

Relationship can cause the most piercing emotional pain we can experience. The pain can appear so strong that at times we feel we will not survive it. Fear can play a powerful part in the pain as well. We can engage in all kinds of thoughts that are not necessarily true but feed on the fear we feel. Re-creating Families helps to re-create relationships in a healthy, positive way.

Re-creating Families offers powerful tools for existing relationships that need that infusion of healthy energy to sustain the love and depth of relating to one another. Couples choosing to experience Breath Class together are raising the level of their spiritual practice to soul expanded awareness! Experience Breath at this level together!

Please read this months article in Bellissima on EFT and the possibility of healing negative emotions immediately! www.bellissimasandiego.com

I will be speaking at the Second Saturday Class at Mira Costa on February 9th at 9:30 am. This class has been in existence for 17 years, created by Ginita Wall CPA choosing to educate women going through divorce on legal, financial and psychological issues. You can pay at the door the cost is $45 for the class. Please let anyone you know going through this process about this course for knowledge and education on choices.

Create your vision of your highest self and make the choices that support your vision!

Sending light,
Karen

Happy New Year!

2008-01-11T23:23:00.000-08:00

January 11th, 2008

Happy New Year to Each One Of You!

New Year's Eve began with an amazing breath class at 4:30. Those that chose to breath into the new year received the beautiful gift of feeling connected, gratitude and the amazing lightness of being! We followed breath work with a meditation on gratitude and everyone was touched with this high frequency of energy, ready to begin 2008 with joy and knowing their truth. Thank you to all who came!!

I will be speaking at Second Saturday on February 9th on Re-creating Families after divorce in a peaceful, positive way. This class has been conducted for 17 years by Ginita Wall CPA, as an educational class for women going through divorce and I will be speaking on the psychological issues of healing after divorce. Please let anyone you know who might be going through this painful process about this class as it is truly helpful.

The January issue of Bellissima is out and my article is on the healing effects of EFT. Please look for your copy as it is full of pertinent information on health and well being in San Diego. www.bellissimasandiego.com

Come join us for Breath Class and feel your expanded state as we let go of what we "think" we know and step into our soul awareness!

Sending light,
Karen

Choices

2007-12-26T23:24:00.000-08:00

December 26,2007

Hello to Each of You,

We can begin our new year with the utmost joy and freedom! It takes setting the intention of wellness and then all our actions and thoughts are in alignment with supporting that intention.

Know that we live in a universe where EVERYTHING is possible!

All you have to do is choose and allow the universe to line up to support you. You can get back to your inner joy and realize it is not dependent upon another person in your life or even the outward appearance of your life. Your joy is an inside job and it is always there for you. Come breath and reconnect with your inner joy and then let it radiate throughout your days.
Look for the new Bellissima magazine for January already out and my article this month is on the amazing effects of EFT. This issue is filled with information on health and well being to aid us all.

I will be speaking at Second Saturday Program at Mira Costa in February and in March. If you know anyone who is going through this challenging transition please let them know if this educational class for women (men do attend as well) going through divorce. I will be speaking on the healing process after divorce and Re-creating Families in a peaceful, positive way.
Lets begin our new year together with absolute peace and health. We can raise the level of light on this plane by working together to remember and let go of the past! Come join me in breath to powerfully create this new year!

Sending light,
Karen

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-29T23:26:00.000-08:00

November 29,2007

Hello to Each One of You,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving feeling the depth of love that is there for each one of us!

Thank you for supporting the Second Saturday Program with friends and family going through the challenging transition of divorce. I will be presenting again in February and March of the new year in '08.

Bellissima Magazine will be out with their new issue in January of '08 with a new edition full of information on health and well being for San Diegans! My article will be on EFT and its benefits and how we can apply it to every day life for emotional freedom and well being.

Many people are going through emotionally challenging times right now with relationships, health issues and abundance issues. There are answers for us all in how to deal with challenging situations and remain centered and balanced. It begins with time for the self to be connected and not get caught up in the drama that can surround us. Keep in mind that every being is creating life experience that they need to endeavor in some way to allow them to grow. Often we get caught up in other's journeys and don't realize we are then experiencing negative emotions and it isn't even our life.

Sometimes our life experiences are painful and yet the pain can wake us up and help us to make necessary changes in our lives to be well and to let go of that which causes the pain. Life can be a process in learning to let go. When we release our hold on situations or people we can feel the freedom this offers. Often it is the holding on and our attachments that is really causing the pain.
Breath Work can help to release negative emotions and create healing in mind, body and soul. Allow yourself to remain centered and peaceful through the holidays and give yourself the gift of breath!

Sending you all love and light,
Karen