Self-Mastery Workshop

Saturday, September 11, 10am-1pm, $35

What if you really know that this is a soul’s journey and that every challenge is merely an avenue of self-exploration and awareness? You aren’t a victim to what you see and nothing is outside of you. Reconnect with the knowingness of your soul and heal the sense of separation from your Source.  Taught by Juli Somers.

Breast Health With Bowenwork

Saturday, September 18th, 11am,  FREE

Learn a unique technique that helps preserve healthy breast tissue and aid in the elimination of toxic buildup in the lymph glands under
your breast tissue. Taught by Julie Herman from Bowenworks For Life, this procedure takes only a few minutes to perform on yourself.

Wear a sport’s bra (no underwire bras) under a loose fitting top.  The procedure is performed over clothing and cannot be done if you have
breast implants. The instruction is free.  If you have any questions, please call Julie Herman at 988-1236.

Monday Night Clairvoyant Readings, 7-8pm, By appointment, $25

A psychic reading is a reading of the soul; the different energies, pictures, and beliefs that are affecting the choices you make in life. Get a look at your spiritual growth and what is going on behind the scenes. This reading is with a line of students and graduates of the Advanced Training.

“On the path, you confront things you would prefer to keep in the dark, not just secrets but every sort of negative energy. But hiding from fear, anger, shame, and guilt is pointless. In God’s eyes, everything
has been revealed already. When this truth is taken to heart, it becomes easier to reveal your secrets to yourself and in so doing to release them”.
- From The Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra

When I was a child growing up in rural Wisconsin, we had a root cellar on the side of the house. I had a love/hate relationship with going into it. I was very fearful of the darkness inside of it devoid of even a drop of light. On the other hand, I was always drawn to go into it because I loved the deep earthy smell. That sweet smell seemed to seep into the cells of my soul and bring me great peace and comfort. Again and again, I would get a flashlight and muster up the courage to traipse down into the cellar and just stand and smell the earth.

I have been going down into my internal root cellar lately. I tiptoe into the darkness, those parts of me that bring me pain, and bravely shine the light into that darkness that seems devoid of light. The rich earthy smell that comforted me in childhood is today more like a state of grace I experience when I simply drop into a deep presence with these places. You see, light not only illuminates the darkness but the darkness elucidates the light. When we push away our own darknesses – in whatever form they take – we miss the opportunity to discover that underneath both the light and dark is purely the experience of God.

I find that the deeper I go on my spiritual path, the greater darkness I sometimes encounter. All those unconscious places that have tricked me into believing, maybe for lifetimes, that I am separate from God. I’ve given up the fantasy that life is meant to comfortable. I think instead I am meant to be comfortable with life. To surrender to being present with whatever is showing up – ah, now that has a rich, earthy smell to it.

A compassionate way to dance with the darkness within is to greet it all with love. You can look upon anything that you stumble into – grief, anger, judgment, or negativity as an opportunity to let in more light. That is what darkness does, it simply holds the space for light. That light is love. It is who you are and what you came from, and what you will return to.

Try looking at the painful places and stories that take you out of the present moment and say ‘I love you’. Practice unconditional acceptance of all that you encounter on the path as an important part of the journey. Otherwise it wouldn’t be there. Know that it is the very darkness you may want to push
away or run from that is providing a means for the Light to come through.

It is for all of us then to hold the torch for the beautiful beings that we are, not in spite of the darkness you encounter, but hand in hand with it. Seeing yourself clearly means loving all the parts of you just as God does; loving the dark as well as the light. The depth of any pain arising that you are able to hold with loving presence will create the space for an equal depth of joy and peace. And the beauty is that whatever love you take to your own healing process then ripples out into the collective consciousness.

When you are taking the flashlight into the cellar of your mind, heart, or spirit and it seems like the little light you are carrying can’t possibly penetrate enough of the darkness – stop and smell the richness of that damp, dark space. Feel the breath of God whispering in your ear ‘I love you and am with you always’. The real healing is in just being present with the totality of All That Is. “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good”.

- Much love, Juli

Ps…I want to humbly thank the dear handful of friends I have, near and far, that have so lovingly held the torch for me lately on my journey into the root cellar. I am so blessed.

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth. She can be reached at 920-4418 or revjuli@newmexico.com

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ” - Rainier Maria Rilke

At our healing and meditation service this month, I used the metaphor that focusing on problems outside ourselves is like trying to put out a fire then one day realizing that you are the one lighting the match. Maybe you worry about how to bring in more income, have job concerns, or relationship issues. Your energy goes to the problem and the mind tries to figure out how to solve it. It’s what we are taught to do. But the stone thrown that created that particular ripple in your life came from within. And most likely the mind played a part in the creation of the problem in the first place. A more effective way to heal whatever is happening may be to turn your attention away from what feels like a fire in your life and ask yourself “what inside of me won’t let this go?”

Everything serves a purpose. Nature is a great example of that. Nothing goes to waste. It all gets recycled and creates new life. Same is true in our lives. Any situation or challenge has a purpose. That purpose is to grow our consciousness. There is no problem ‘out there’.  The good news is, if the problem is in me then so is the solution. Each new choice lends an opportunity to believe in and create a greater outcome than you could previously have. The point isn’t to have a problem free life – won’t happen – but to see that each and every one was offered up by your soul and lovingly given to your life as a way to bring in more light. That light will always illuminate where you are not in alignment with truth.

Think of a reel of film and the movie being projected on the screen. It’s the film that is creating the images not the screen. Whatever is showing up in your life was first projected from the pictures in you. So you can sit back, eat some popcorn, and learn about what is in your unconscious by what is showing up as a problem. Back to the question – what in me won’t let this go? The mind will think that is a crazy question because of course you want to make enough money or have a good relationship. Well, then you might need to change the movie that you are unaware of playing in the background. Maybe there is a bit of film that says you aren’t good enough. That invalidating picture will keep playing on your screen – in your life circumstances – until you heal it with a new consciousness.

The first step is to simply be present. It’s simple but not easy because life seems designed to distract us from the moment. To be present means you are aware of what is around you and grounded in your body. If you are doing dishes you are right there with your awareness doing dishes. Not thinking of something else. Next step, reclaim your amusement. It’s okay to lighten up no matter how tough it appears. When you are in a lighter vibration then energy flows and shifts happen naturally. Really, shifts happen. It always helps to notice the beauty that is around you and there is always some beauty to appreciate. It’s a balm for the soul.

Remind yourself that you are an eternal being in this grain of sand of a lifetime. The creative energy of the universe flows through you. You are capable of far greater than your mind can know. Give your thoughts a rest and allow inspiration (in spirit) to chart your course.

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth.  She can be reached at 505-920-4418.

Written by Rev. Juli Somers.

What if we choose what we are going to experience in life? Imagine being pure spirit between lifetimes deciding what you want to create in your next. Assessing the ways that you need to develop, what you want to learn – and then deciding the exact circumstances and challenges to give you the optimum growth. You choose the perfect family to be born into, the perfect body with all its issues, the perfect relationships, etc. Now your only task is to be born and then live your life in awareness. Easy, right? The problem is we take these bodies and with them comes a spiritual amnesia. We forget that we once chose all that we are experiencing to grow our souls. Until one day you commit to a spiritual path to help you wake up or something happens in your life to wake you up. We are always pushed to realize who we are is actually the “I AM”, the healing power of the universe or the basic substance of which we are made.

There is a story of a couple bringing their newborn home from the hospital. Whenever their two-year-old son would hold the smaller child he would ask to be left alone with the baby. A few months go by and still the two-year-old insists that he wanted to be alone with the baby. Finally, the parents agree to leave the room for a few minutes. Standing just outside the door, they hear the two-year-old say to the newborn: “Tell me what God is like, cause I’m starting to forget.”

We not only forget what God is like, we forget what we are like – who we really are.  We forget why we are here and see ourselves as these one dimensional beings. We get lost in believing we are these bodies – I am this pain, I am these emotions and all the roles we play. As Carlos Castenada so brilliantly put it, we need to remove our awareness from the “numbing effects brought about by living at ordinary states of consciousness”. It isn’t easy being in these bodies at times. Daily life gives us our spiritual practice. If we are awake, we are always being encouraged to stretch into more of an authentic beingness. The secret of life has been hidden inside each of us and we only have to look within discover why we are here.

To get in touch with ourselves as a spiritual being within a physical form doesn’t mean denying the body, but seeing the body as a precious vehicle that houses our awareness.  When looking with the eyes of the soul, there is no ‘bad’, only opportunities to grow and expand in consciousness. Greeting all that happens in life with neutrality – or openness – provides the means to surrender to the flow of life. When we resist what is happening, we attach a meaning to the event based on fear. Everything is energy.  It is neither good nor bad. It is only our limited perceptions that put a judgment on what is happening. Research by Danish mathematician Tor Norretranders found we have millions of bits of information floating around our unconscious mind and about 15 bits available in the conscious mind every second. Yet aren’t we convinced that it is our intellect (conscious mind) that controls what we experience in life? We don’t have a clue what is going on. Our ego only wants to be comfortable; to sit on the surfboard and paddle without standing up. Our spirit is saying, ‘Come on, stand up! Let’s ride this wave and see where it will take us”. Going beyond the conscious mind is to live in a state of inner awareness appreciating the rich adventure each of our experiences provides.

Every person I meet provides a mirror to see myself more clearly. Each situation offers me the chance to heal myself if I am just paying attention. If someone makes me angry, I can choose to release blame and be present instead with the love in my heart. Loss has been a wonderful practice for me to trust that everything happens for my highest good. Absolutely everything becomes an opportunity to learn, awaken, and love. Life brings us all we need to grow and evolve spiritually if we only have ‘eyes to see’. What a blessing! Time to stand up on that surfboard and enjoy the ride.

Whatever shows up in our life is our spiritual practice.  It isn’t as if one is exercising their spirituality only when praying or meditating or repeating a mantra and then just a regular person in day to day life. As you become more aligned body and spirit, you see that the experiences you are undergoing, no matter how awful or catastrophic, are the opportunities given to grow you spiritually. It is our spiritual lives that actually bring to us these experiences.

Sometimes, the mind wants to convince us that we are doing something wrong “because otherwise life would be peaceful or only good things would happen.”  If we were always comfortable, we wouldn’t have the impetus to grow – we could sleepwalk through life and believe that we are merely here to enjoy a physical existence.

It is exactly the sand irritating the oyster that creates the most precious pearl. And it is exactly in the handling and transcending of life’s most painful situations that we can surrender to a greater Presence within ourselves. It has been called the ‘peace that passes all understanding’.

I have had my share of painful losses the past couple of years. After repeatedly swimming in the pool of my emotionality from these losses, I am finally reaching the shore and seeing that the pearl is indeed forming. Most of my life, I have struggled to understand why we lose everything in this life and what remains beyond those losses. My mind screams, “What’s the point?” Often I have approached each new loss with that attitude and the limited understanding of a wounded inner child and a seemingly small, small self.

I think the whole time God has been patiently coaxing me to surrender: “Quit trying to control the outer life – just surrender and you will see that there is something greater moving through this”. To get to this Presence, requires a going into the pain. One must face that instinctual avoidance of what can feel like a black hole and quiet the mind of its relentless limited story. You have to walk into the scary room, sit down and say, “Okay, show me what you’ve got. I am willing to be with you”.

When we don’t surrender into the pain and allow our experiences to move through, to change us and deepen us, then they get stuck inside; perhaps showing up later as an illness or a pattern repeated. One’s power is diminished and life can become an experience of just being a body instead of allowing the essence of God to become manifest within our lives.

Last night I had a dream of being with my mom. My mom died over a year ago. In the dream, I was lying on the bed with her as she was dying. I was crying and asking her not to die. I looked down at my feet right next to hers on the bed.  I showed my mom how much my feet looked like her feet. We are both walking our paths. I felt awash in a complete connection to her, completely loving and loved. Though I grieved for the loss of her in this dream, I felt no separation just an acceptance of the cycle of life and death. I woke up feeling light and healed. The pearl is becoming more and more polished.

We are here to know God within us. End of story. To be able to gaze upon the astounding beauty that surrounds you even in the midst of the greatest losses allows you to be filled with what remains. The paradox of the impermanence of this life is the medicine that gives us the experience of what is eternal. There is incredible peace and love at the bottom of that black hole.

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth.  She can be reached at 920-4418 or revjuli@newmexico.com.

Written by Juli Somers

“I’ve had many troubles in my life, most of which never happened” - Mark Twain

At times I slip into the noose of believing that something that is happening in my life is bringing me trouble. My mind will give me a convincing argument that I am powerless to untie this particular Gordian knot. Soon after, my emotions begin to play me as a pawn and move me along their chessboard. Before I sink into the inner quicksand of illusion, I remember that I can choose how to be in relationship to what is happening in my life.

I reestablish myself as merely the observer of the story and consciously reframe the situation as an opportunity instead of a punishment. I am inspired by what Emmett Fox called the ‘golden key’. When the mind gets caught in focusing on what is wrong, he suggests reflecting on all the qualities of God; God is all powerful, always present, all loving, etc. Everything is possible with God. And as importantly, God is within me. When I get there, then I know that all is well.

I recently had to deal with what felt like trouble in my life. My computer started to die just when I sat down to work on this issue of the newsletter. I was quickly and with resistance introduced to the term ‘blue screen of death’. In the past with scary computer issues, I reacted with overwhelm and felt helpless in knowing how to proceed. I would imagine the worst; all the money I would have to spend for a new one, the newsletter would be late, I would lose my work, etc. I watched as my mind was having a field day creating all kinds of negative scenarios. Not once did it think “Wow, this is great, I have to get a new computer”.

This time, I decided that I wanted to do it differently. Instead of walking down the old familiar road, I decided “I can do it”. I chose to change my self perception from one who didn’t know what to do to someone who could handle it. So, I told the negative thinking that it could take a hike, looked fear in the eye and showed it the door, and decided that I would be completely taken care of with my computer problem.

As I shifted my vibration, I spontaneously began to reflect on all the things I felt grateful for in my life, this, too, a golden key and always a good practice. Doing that made me feel better and lighter. I decided that not only could I tackle this problem, but that something good was going to come out of it as well. I decided to expect a miracle. Wow! I was starting to feel really good. And just by changing the thoughts running through my mind!

I was first inspired to call a few people to ask for their ideas. From that move, I received my next step. And the next step flowed from there. I ended that day feeling very loved and supported by the universe. That was a miracle of sorts. As the days go on, I keep getting more – the old computer is hanging in there enough to finish the newsletter, and a beloved friend is unexpectedly making a donation of the new computer. And I know I received these miracles because I consciously decided that whatever was going to happen in this situation would be good.

God works through each one of us. We can’t ever go where God is not because God is everywhere. We are all God experiencing God. I can feel like a victim to what is happening in my life (and sometimes do) or I can see that the bigger part of me is asking me to further wake up to my divinity.

Each of us really does have everything we need to handle whatever shows up on our doorstep. Of course you do because, after all, you created it! There is something in whatever challenge you are facing that your spirit decided would be the perfect circumstance for growth. Sometimes you just have to move out the resistance to change and decide that all change is moving you toward something better – despite any appearances of the contrary.

With so much fear on the planet and all these shifts happening these days, it is a great time to practice what the spirit already knows. Life is an adventure and the light is always there prompting you to open further. It greatly helps to have energetic tools with which to navigate energy and life. I feel profoundly grateful for the tools that I learned and that we teach at the Center. Come learn some tools to help you ride the waves of change!

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth. She can be reached at 920-4418 or revjuli@newmexico.com

Written by Juli Somers

“But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well” Luke 12:31

Grace happens in so many ways.  Recently, it happened for me in the middle of the night.  I was in between waking and sleeping when my mind started to kick in with it’s litany of worries and attachments.

I was detached enough from a typical awake state to consciously observe these thoughts. Eventually, like the sun breaking through the clouds, I watched those limits surrender themselves to a greater awareness.  It was as if God reached down and changed the channel for me.  At that point a wave of inspired, positive thoughts and a pure knowingness of Truth began to move through me.  It was grace.

Where my mind was getting stuck in limits from my past, part of me was aware that I was just replaying the same old story.  And frankly,  I was tired of hearing it.  I had read those chapters too many times. Reminds me of a line I love from a Leonard Cohen song, “there is a crack in everything and that’s how the light gets in”.  And there I was in the middle of the night focusing on the crack when the light finally caught my attention.

What was that incoming message of inspiration in the middle of the night for me you might ask? From this beautiful state of grace, I was shown that I could have anything I wanted.  That I was truly the creator of my experience via my thoughts and emotions and whatever was playing out inside of me would quite simply play out in my life.  I understood that my life was the mirror of my consciousness.

I was shown that the things I struggle with are a result of my perception of myself and life.  Change my perception and my life changes.  And I could also see how part of me knew I was choosing the limits! Perhaps I thought it was the edge that my soul needed to grow from, I don’t know.  I became conscious of my unconsciousness if that makes sense. With that realization, the Light began to shine brighter and I accepted that I could change any and all of these perceptions.

Whatever shows up in front of me in this world of appearance is the effect of what channel I am tuned into inside of me. Limits? Okay, here’s the ‘I Can’t Have This’ drama playing out in my life.  What if I change the inner channel to…Endless Possibilities? Suddenly, I am watching (and living!) an entirely different show.  My choice.  I can create what I want.  I just need to take the responsibility for where I am choosing to focus my energy.

The greatest gift from that glimpse into the eternalness of who I am was being shown that, truly, I need only focus on my connection to Source to be given everything. My focus on the ‘cracks’ in my life or on what my ego is saying isn’t good enough in my life, is a waste of my life force. All this time the Light was just waiting for me to notice it. It’s my ability to have the Allness of life that shifts and hides in proportion to my consciousness.  God doesn’t move.
“…because the kingdom of God is within…”

Reverend Juli Somers is the Executive Director of The Center For Inner Truth. She can be reached at 505-920-4418.

Written by Juli Somers

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway”.  – Mary Kay Ash

What propels us to move out of our comfort zones and take new steps? We are wired to keep evolving and meeting ourselves anew as who we really are; a limitless spirit in a body. To do that, we are constantly asked or pushed and pulled to transform ourselves by creating change within and in what we give to the world.

Recently,  I was awakened to a next step for me to take. I have wanted to write a book since I was a child. I’m not sure why, but it was always a silent goal floating around inside of me to accomplish one day. The thought hadn’t crossed my mind for many a year. And then comes Ralph.

About a month ago, my friend Ralph sent me an email and said that he had an idea – why don’t I write a book? Since being a writer is part of his repertoire, he said he would support me in that process if I wanted to give it a shot. I read his email, questioned his sanity, and became amazed at the many reasons that immediately surfaced as to why I couldn’t possibly write a book. The biggest reason was, of course, that I have nothing to say.

We met, Ralph and I, and he told me a very simple way to go about it. He showed me how a book could be as uncomplicated as a small spiral bound notebook. Okay, I thought, maybe there is some possibility here. How hard can it be to commit to writing at least fifteen minutes a day on whatever comes up for me as he suggested? Surely I can do that!

Initially, it was rather magical. I would simply write what the day seemed to beautifully call forth from me. The next scene, a few weeks later, shows us Juli at her computer staring blankly at the screen…”Let’s see, two minutes have gone by…only thirteen more. Or, maybe those two minutes don’t technically count since I haven’t written anything…oh, there goes another two minutes…maybe I need a snack to get the words flowing”. Sure, an easy process alright.

Growth happens when you are ready to say yes to something new inside of you and take action to bring it into manifestation. Initially that can be exhilarating and generate a lot of enthusiasm. Each word you write is a sacred chalice that comes directly from the gods during this period (if writing is your next step). Then the honeymoon ends.

Suddenly, you may feel like you are pushing a boulder up a mountain. You really want to move forward in this new direction and are excited by the idea, but there at the top of the mountain are all of your past limits and old beliefs trying to stare you back down to the bottom. All the invalidating voices start to speak up and resistance to what you are doing can begin to feel overpowering. As Wayne Dyer states so eloquently in Excuses Begone!, “Simply being cognizant of your excuse making will open you up to vast arenas of new possibilities. You can begin this process by paying attention to the false part of yourself that believes in limitations. Simply observe the thoughts in your mind and feelings in your body and note when they don’t resonate with your authentic self.”

The choice is to turn around and take what appears to be the easy route back to familiar ground or you can decide to focus your energy on what you want to create. Decide that you can be the person you want to be and do the things you want to do. Free yourself of the limiting beliefs that keep you from going forward by choosing new ones.

All you need to do is take the next little step on the road to your goal. Suddenly all those next steps add up and you are holding a book you’ve written or on the job that you were afraid to apply for or having coffee with your future mate. All it takes is a little courage, a lot of perseverance and a good friend named Ralph to get the energy moving.

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth.  She can be reached at 505-920-4418.

Written by Stacia Synnestvedt

A regular practice in my life has been remembering to consciously breathe. Yea, yea I’ve never actually forgotten to take those simple breathes that supply oxygen to my cells – but doing it in a very intentional manner is one of those things that was actually shut down during my childhood.

When I was younger, I clearly remember some of the adults in my life taking big exhales during times of stress, and being the empathic child that I was I quickly absorbed all the “yuck” they were exhaling as if I were an extra absorbant sponge.  As one might guess, it didn’t feel so good.  I remember at one point making a conscious decision that I would try very hard never to make noise when I breathed so as not to affect others around me.

Fast forward 20 years and I quite frequently found myself feeling my body all locked up, headachy, stiff, unenergized, etc. It took me several years to realize part of why I felt so terrible was because my breaths had turned into shallow inhales, and only when absolutely neccessary.  Eventually, I finally made the connection that the decision I had vividly made when I was a child, to take silent breaths, had turned into something so much more.  I had completely pushed any consciousness out of the way I was feeding my body what it needs to support not only my cells, but also my spirits’ ability to connect into my physical being.

When I started my meditation practice and began taking classes at the Center I would frequently hear the teachers taking loud intentional breathes to incite the students to do the same.  This was something I resisted, even then, sitting in meditation giving to no one other than myself.  Once I began thinking about being a teacher I remember thinking “Yea, but I’m not going to take those loud breaths for everyone to hear, I just can’t do that!”

During my clairvoyant training our class was going to have a group breath session led by Juli Somers, and I was in so much resistance to it that I actually, unconsciously, manifested a 102 degree fever and had to miss class.  Once I finally started to put things together I realized how much I dreaded allowing myself to release during intentional breaths,  especially when there were others around, and I decided to schedule a breath session with Juli.  This was an event that changed my life.  These sessions, where one releases whatever they are holding at an unconcious level, via guided and intentional non-stop breathing for an hour, quickly became very addictive for me.  I utilized this form of release throughout my pregnancy and am so thankful for how it helped me to move through things that I was working on during this time.

Even today, as I understand how important the breath is for the mind, body, spirit connection’s health, I still find myself holding on and resisting those glorious lung movements when things get frantic.  So, daily I am trying to catch myself when I feel my chest contracting and take a pause to take a deep breath in and then loudly exhale.

Unlike when I was a child surrounded by those wise adults who knew that they needed to purposely breathe to work through their stress, but unwise in the knowledge that they were blowing it right into my path, I strive to breathe in an intentional manner. I utilize my energy awareness tools, to ensure that I am not expelling what I am releasing to those around me who might unknowingly absorb it, as I did when I was a child.

My intentional breathing has now become something that actually evokes delightful giggles from my son.  Hooray for breaking old patterns.! Ahhhhhh…..

Reverend Stacia Synnestvedt can be reached through her website www.intuitiveavenues.com.

Written by Juli Somers

Here comes the sun and I said, “It’s Alright”. – The Beatles

Someone asked me at a community fair recently if spiritual healings are just for physical problems. The beauty of spiritual healings is they affect change on all levels. Different perhaps then a simple removing of symptoms, this type of healing goes to the core of an issue and affects change in one’s energy, consciousness, and ultimately, one’s life.

My analogy is when you plant a seed it takes root underground before manifesting as a particular plant above ground. Whatever you are experiencing in your life first took root on a deeper level; could be stemming from an old traumatic experience that was never totally released or a belief that came in at a young age that doesn’t serve your well being or even some energy brought in from a past life. This can show up present day on any level. It may appear in your life as a body issue or even an inability to manifest the kind of relationship or career you want. If you just remove the ‘symptoms’ without addressing the root cause, it will return again in the same or different form. Ever pull out a weed but don’t get all the roots? Then you know what I’m talking about – it sprouts right back up.

Picture a buoy. It is designed to float and has a built-in ability that propels it to the surface when it gets submerged. Life is designed to heal us; kind of a cosmic buoy. Whatever you do that doesn’t support your wholeness or isn’t in alignment with your purpose as a spiritual being, will surface as some challenge in your life. In Kabbalah, the term is Tikkun, which means correction. The universe, like any good parent, is directing us back onto our path of greatest transformation.

I was giving a healing to a woman at our weekly healing clinic at the Co-op the other day. She asked for a healing on her lungs and cough. I shared with her that I saw a lot of emotional congestion; regrets and past energies not released or forgiven. During the healing she coughed a lot which was unsettling for her. When we finished, she shared that often she notices with successful healings that she doesn’t cough at all while they are happening.

I responded that things sometimes appear to get worse before they get better. The tendency can be to resist or judge what is happening in that kind of situation, but it might be the means by which the blockage gets released. I don’t know what someone needs to experience before they can fully have a healing, but I trust that whatever is happening is perfect in the moment. As a healer, I know that ultimately the healing is out of my hands.

We can all be healers no matter the profession. The energy behind what you do affects everything and everyone around you. Infuse what you are doing with love. Spontaneously tell someone what you find beautiful about them. Give a smile to the person who looks like they just ate a sour lemon. Be the sun peeking through a cloudy day – maybe they walk away and become the sun to everyone else they encounter that day. Suddenly the world is a brighter place. If you need to be reminded of your sun-giving ability, come to the healing clinic for a tune-up or take a class to learn life changing tools to create a better world inside and out. Be of good cheer.

Reverend Juli Somers is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth.  She can be reached at 505-920-4418.