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Check out my Fun New Site - The Purse Pooch

2006-10-14T15:36:00.000-04:00

I've launched another website devoted to fun things.

The Purse Pooch - Purses, Pup Culture and Shopping from a Doggie on the Go.

The Purse Pooch

If you enjoy doggies, purses, pop cultural silliness, and other general fun, you have to check it out!

Check Out My New Blogs

2006-09-29T14:53:00.000-04:00

As mentioned in my last post, my primary Lipstick Mystic Blog is now incorporated into my main website housed at: LipstickMystic.com

But I've also started a new blog about using affirmations and visualizations for healing. Check it out:

Affirmations Today

And I'm updating my Life of 7 Cats blog again with adventures about our house full of cats:

Life of 7 Cats

Yes, I've got blogging fever, and it shows no signs of stopping!

This Blog Has Moved to LipstickMystic.com

2005-08-11T21:55:00.000-04:00

This blog has moved - check out entries from April onwards at my main website:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com.

See ya in the Mystic Zone!

Test Your Psychic Ability - Quiz

2005-04-23T13:16:00.000-04:00

This is a shortie quiz which will help you to see how your psychic abilities rate. There are many other ways of evaluating this ability, but this will give you a quickie glimpse into how some psychic talents operate.

http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychictests/psychiciq.html

Pet Foil Hat Technology - To Stop Government Scanning!

2005-04-16T16:10:00.000-04:00

Viva the Tinfoil Hat Revolution! Here is a seller on eBay selling tin foil hats for pets.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5542646796&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

10 Steps to Clarity and Purpose by Lynn Cohen

2005-04-14T09:50:00.000-04:00

10 simple steps to clarity and purpose - each one of them sensibly laid out. By a writer named Lynn Cohen.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Cohen5.html

Feng Shui Geek Site - Very Cool!

2005-04-12T10:51:00.000-04:00

This is a fun, refreshing site about Feng Shui (the ancient Chinese art of aligning one's physical environment with the Earth's natural energies.) You'll find lots of cool info, a discussion board, and you can also sign up for the Feng Shui Geek's free e-newsletter. Each issue of her newsletter has simple, useful tips on applying feng shui principles to improve the overall flow of your life.

http://www.fengshuigeek.com/index.php

Peak Experiences and Happiness by Eric Armstrong

2005-04-11T11:05:00.000-04:00

I enjoyed this article about ways to generate happiness by a man named Eric Armstrong. He is apparently a student of a teacher named Dr. Tae Yun Kim, and while I'm not familiar with her work, I thought his analysis of some of the hows and whys of generating happiness was right on.

He discusses the trap of the intellect and how it is always micromanaging our emotions, demanding that we only experience happiness in response to things or events in our lives. True emotional mastery comes from being able to summon up a happy energy from within, regardless of what is happening in your exterior world. But even peak experiences of bliss can have their downside, because you can't maintain them indefinitely. So being TOO happy probably isn't a completely authentic state for us down here in the world of
3-D. He quotes one of his teachers as saying that after a while on the spiritual path, you learn to avoid the emotional highs as well as the emotional lows.

I can attest to the wisdom of this. I used to be very polar in my emotionality, a dramatic actress who lived by those peaks and valleys. Much of my twenties was a mad dash from one thing to the next. I changed residences and relationships at the drop of a hat, always chasing joy. It was great when I was "up" because I'd be filled with creative energy and optimism. But I was very dysfunctional during the "down" times.

Through many years of self-clearing and what I hope has been real personal growth, I now have a very different core emotionality. I'm just more - level. While generally optimistic and joyful in my overall outlook, I'm not looking for crazy "highs" because I know that they are an exaggerated state.

For me, feeling appreciative for the little things and giving thanks keeps me in a good place, because gratitude can put you in a spiritually humble place where you are content but not ecstatic.

Anyway, I think Eric Armstrong raises some good ideas in his essay about happiness. Enjoy!

http://www.treelight.com/essays/meditationAndHappiness.html

Mindless Entertainment #11: What Kind of Soul Are You?

2005-04-09T12:30:00.000-04:00

Here's an interesting quiz that rates certain personality qualities and generates an analysis of what type of soul you are. Fun categories and good material to ponder about your core energy.

http://www.blogthings.com/kindsoulquiz.html

Quickie Manifesting Tips to Help You Focus

2005-04-08T11:14:00.000-04:00

The new moon is in Aries today, and while it's Mercury retrograde until the 12th and not the greatest time to start new projects, there's still some good energy floating around. The new moon marks the "new year" for a given month, the time to clear away the debris of old thoughtforms, stale relationships, and unwanted energy.

It's also a good time to focus on manifesting what you really desire in your life, both for yourself and for others.

Some people like to write a new moon abundance check for themselves at this time (see my series of articles at http://www.lipstickmystic.com.) That can be a fun, powerful ritual to help connect you with the energies of abundance.

But this particular new moon carries some volatile energy with it, so I myself am going to sit this one out. I won't write a new moon abundance check. Instead, I'm focusing on tithing and giving good energy and donations to others. What goes around, comes around, you know? :) (I also have a new article posted about the energy of tithing and how it helps put you in the energy stream of abundance.)

As you continue to study the art of manifestation, you might enjoy this simple checklist about creation that I found at a site called Freewebs.com:

http://www.freewebs.com/flowingfree/manifesting.htm

Happy New Moon!

Spirit Release Work and Dr. Shakuntala Modi

2005-04-07T09:55:00.000-04:00

Dr. Shakuntala Modi is a psychiatrist and author of two wonderful books, Remarkable Healings and Memories of God and Creation (Hampton Roads.) I highly recommend Remarkable Healings to anyone who stumbles upon this blog entry and is interested in learning how to keep their auric field clear, reclaim lost energy due to soul fragmentation (or "soul loss"), and to improve their physical and emotional health. Remarkable Healings is simply the most ground-breaking and helpful book I have EVER read in the metaphysical genre, and you'll find it amazing, too.

I'm including a link to an interview with Dr. Modi in which she talks about her work. Basically, through working with hypnosis on her patients, she stumbled across information she hadn't expected to find. People described various entity attachments ranging from the human (discarnate entities, often loved ones!) to the demonic (negative beings who are opposite from angels in vibration and seek to drag a person down, spiritually.) The accumulation of these energies in a person's body and energy field proved to be the sole source of their ailments, both on the physical and the emotional level.

The implications of this work are astonishing. The auric egg or energy envelope surrounding the body can be penetrated by these various entities, if a person's psychic "immunity" isn't strong enough. And this is the number one cause of ailments of every kind - including many conditions modern medicine has never been able to cure, like depression and chronic fatigue. These are usually the by-product of parasitic entity attachments, and, once they are removed, the person's well-being is restored.

Dr. Modi gradually discovered some simple forms of invocation which can clear out these entities and attachments and relieve many physical and emotional ailments in the process. She works with a person's angelic helpers and spiritual guides and, of course, the power of God/Goddess/Great Spirit/The Great Kahuna. :)

This is amazing work. By adapting her techniques in my own healing work (and also through having other complimentary techniques revealed to me by my own higher guidance,) I have been able to help people release core stuff that they didn't even know they were carrying around. Many times, people are so saturated with attachments that what they think of as their "core personality" isn't even their own! It's more of an overlay of all of these entities.

So, through diligent clearing work (which you can learn how to do on yourself with this book,) you'll experience many amazing changes on a physical and emotional level. The more comfortable you are with invoking and working with the angels for healing, the more readily you can incorporate what she teaches in the book.

Here is Modi's intriguing interview:
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue18/18evilspirits.html

If this interview excites you, stay tuned at my website for a forthcoming book which I will be offering that takes these ideas even further.

Some Signs of Spiritual Awakening

2005-04-05T21:30:00.000-04:00

We're truly living in interesting times, and whether you believe in Earth changes, ascension, a dimensional shift, a time shift, or the Four Monkeys of the Apocalypse, it seems that many people are experiencing an "awakening" of sorts. Along the way, psychic senses seem to be popping open for a lot of people, or existing psychic senses may be gaining greater strength and magnitude.

Physical changes are common, too. Some bodily symptoms which are widely reported include feelings of inexplicable vertigo which come and go (as if the very Earth were wobbling beneath your feet, yet it's not a measurable earthquake - more of a "psychic quake;) changes in sleep (needing more sleep or less sleep;) and weight gain or loss.

A lot of people are seeing "sparkies" too - if the responses I'm receiving about my recent article on sparkies are any indication!

This is an interesting list of some symptoms of spiritual awakening on a web forum called Wolf Spirits. It includes some good recommendations about how to handle some of the sensations.

http://groups.msn.com/WolfSpirits/yourwebpage24.msnw

New Articles Up - Have a Look!

2005-04-05T10:36:00.000-04:00

I've been so busy crafting new articles for my main site that this blog has been a little neglected. Please do have a look at some of the new features.

Want Money? Time to Tithe:
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/articles/articles040405.html

and today's piece about the strange union of Charles and Camilla:
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/astro/astro040505.html

Enjoy!

Mindless (or Mindful) Entertainment #10: Online Oracles

2005-04-02T13:17:00.000-05:00

This is a neat site which features several different online card readings, ranging from the "chakra" reading (which reveals energies you're working with now and stuff you need to work on) to the "magic mirror" reading (a more contemporary reinvention of the traditional tarot symbols.)

Just focus on your question or issue beforehand, click on the "My reading" button, and your card reading will be automatically generated.

Enjoy!

http://www.soul-guidance.com/tarotdecks/readings.htm

The Cost of a Miracle - True Story

2005-04-01T09:39:00.000-05:00

Here's an inspiring true story someone sent to me today:

A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. She counted it three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. There was no chance here for mistakes.

Placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was busy speaking with someone and didn't pay her any mind.

Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!

"And what do you want?" the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. "I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages."

"Well, I want to talk to you about my brother," Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. "He's really, really sick... and I want to buy a miracle."

''I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.

"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head, and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?"

"We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you," the pharmacist said, softening a little.

"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I'll get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs."

The well-dressed man who had been standing by the counter talking with the pharmacist looked down and gave her a smile. This was the pharmacist's brother. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does your brother need?"

"I don't know," Tess replied with her eyes welling up. "I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money."

"How much do you have?" asked the man from Chicago.

"One dollar and eleven cents," Tess answered barely audibly. "And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to."

"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents --- the exact price of a miracle for little brothers. " He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the miracle you need."

That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well.

Some months afterwards, the little girl's Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place. "That surgery was a real miracle," her Mom whispered. "I wonder how much it would have cost?"

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost...one dollar and eleven cents .....plus the faith of a little child.

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law.

(End true story.)

Editor's note: I would add that a miracle is what happens when events occur which stand at the outer edge of our belief window, challenging our very notions about what is and isn't possible.

And I'm all for living on that edge. It's where all the magic is.

Stuart Wilde on the Energy of Money

2005-03-31T10:02:00.000-05:00

This is an excerpt from one of author Stuart Wilde's wonderful books. It's called The Little Money Bible: The Ten Laws of Abundance.

If you've ever wondered why money flow is eluding you, you'll find some practical wisdom in this article based in metaphysical truth.

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1998/September/0998-05.htm

Beware Psychic/Astrologer Scams by Anthony Pena

2005-03-30T09:41:00.000-05:00

Anthony Pena is the astrology editor at About.com, and I like his writing. He has a great deal of clarity, cutting through astrological jargon, and his sense of humor is great, too.

This is an article he wrote about how to recognize a psychic or astrology scam, especially the online kind.

http://astrology.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/a/scams5.htm

Wayne Dyer Interview the Power of Intention

2005-03-28T09:15:00.000-05:00

I just found this inspiring interview on Wayne Dyer's website. In it, he talks about the program he did on PBS based on one of his recent books, The Power of Intention. Many good concepts here that will remind you of how powerfully your focus defines your life experience.

http://www.drwaynedyer.com/articles/art8.cfm

Mindless Entertainment #9: Easter Bunny Hip-Hop

2005-03-27T11:21:00.000-05:00

This little cartoon and song will get you into a groovy bunny mood. Happy Easter!

http://www.grayace.com/dex/bunny.html

Interview with Sandra L. Brown: How to Spot a Dangerous Man

2005-03-25T13:52:00.000-05:00

Sandra L. Brown, M.A. is an amazing and brave lady who has worked in the fields of victimology and psychopathology as a psychotherapist, counseling female victims of violence and emotional abuse.

Through her many years of work she has gathered information about the universal "red flags" or warning signs women seem to ignore right at the start of a relationship, or even before a relationship gets going, when they just KNOW that something isn’t right. By ignoring these red flags, they often allow themselves to get immersed in an abusive relationship, sometimes with tragic results.

Sandra has been on a quest to empower women to learn about their own programming and attitudes which can predispose them to getting involved with a Dangerous Man. And she teaches workshops geared toward helping build self-esteem in all women, so they will never have to experience a destructive relationship. Or, if they’ve already been burned by a toxic romance, they are given tools to prevent that from happening ever again.

Her new book is How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved, and it is explosive, amazing, and powerful. Your life will be forever changed by it. Buy this book for the female friends or relatives in your life who seem to always get involved with guys who are bad news so they can break this pattern once and for all. Give a copy to your precocious teenager before she starts testing her sexual power and gets hooked up to an abusive partner, so she'll know exactly what to avoid as she comes into her sexual maturity.

Sandra has also written an accompanying workbook which shapes the ideas in her book into practical exercises. It's a nice compliment to the main book.

Read the Lipstick Mystic's exciting interview with this daring pioneer who is striking out to give women everywhere the tools they need to start experiencing greater self-esteem, personal power, and interpersonal health.

And if you're fired up after reading the interview (as I know you will be!) you can order her books by clicking on the Amazon links at the end of the interview. The books are also shipping out to major bookstores right now.

Go to the Guest Interviews part of my site:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/interviews/interview032505.html

How Our Emotions Affect Our Bodies

2005-03-24T11:08:00.000-05:00

Below, you'll find a link to an eloquent essay about how our emotional state affects our physical bodies. It's so true.

Sometimes, though, when our bodies appear to be misbehaving, it can take a while to tune in and receive the deeper message of our illness. We all have our blind spots, issues we're reluctant to address, and sometimes we're too deeply involved with old patterns to be able to clearly see beyond them.

But it is something you can learn to do, with vigorous self-reflection, meditation, and prayer.

***Warning: personal sharing is about to happen.***

For the past few weeks, I was dealing with this weird, flaky skin that was happening all over my face. I'd never experienced anything like it before. At first, I ignored it and thought it was due to an allergic reaction to some moisturizer or makeup I'd been using. But even when I went without makeup (not that I wear much, anyway, being a country girl these days) it persisted.

It wasn't itchy, it was just like the severely flaky skin you get after you've experienced a sunburn and your skin is starting to heal.

I learned to embrace the world of hypoallergenic moisturizers. Still, even after applying tons of it each day, my skin was just as flaky as ever.

I worried that maybe I was mutating into some alien being, which I didn't want to have happen! But as I meditated and connected with my inner guidance, I got that that wasn't the case. Good.

Then, the humorist in me thought, "Well, I'm used to people calling me a flake, so perhaps my skin took this message a little too literally." But that wasn't it.

There was some redness beneath the flakiness, sort of a strange red floating blotchiness.

I finally started to get that this was all connected to a couple of things that were going on in my life.

My husband/boyfriend/companion-unit has been involved with putting together a workspace for his consultants downstairs in our house, and it's involved a tremendous amount of coordination on both of our parts. For several weeks, we were immersed in setting up computers, coordinating various people from furniture movers to computer network guys coming in to set things up. There was a blur of 10 hour work days and weekends filled with office coordination. Then I was putting together a website for him ASAP, which took a lot of my focus.

I was happy to help with all of that, and since I have my office upstairs, I didn't see any problems with our two businesses getting in the way of each other. But it was stressful getting things going, I had to admit.

So.....my skin was rebelling. There was a lot of anger and anxiousness associated with this rash. I got that part. I worked at trying to release it. I did some healing work on myself, had some healing work done on me, all geared toward acknowledging the anger.

The other part of the equation was interesting. I'm in the process of going much more public about my weird life and my unique perceptions about life, the universe, and everything as I go through some expansion on my website and in my writing work. And I realized that the face is a key component of our public image. We all want to present a good "face" to others. Anxiousness about this more public role and what people's reactions might be to my work was another piece of the puzzle. So I began working to release that.

I did a lot of research online about skin stuff and was relieved that this wasn't any of the bizarre skin diseases that are going around. I didn't have any of those symptoms. No flesh-eating killer bacteria from the Planet Clare, thank God.

Somehow, my intuition was telling me that this was minor, but it also was something I needed to heal for myself.

Finally, I realized that I needed to send a message to my body in a more powerful way that I UNDERSTOOD what it was trying to tell me. I investigated homeopathic treatments for skin rashes and received the guidance that sulphur was the thing I should take for a couple of days.

Sulphur represents fiery stuff, anger, passion, rage, etc. Homeopathic treatments are interesting, because they work in a different way than most Western forms of medicine. Homeopathy works on the principle that you apply treatment by using the SAME THING that the body is experiencing (in my case, the buried rage, which is an energy principle tied to sulphur) and trigger the body into manifesting its OPPOSITE by doing so.

So a homeopathic allergy remedy, if you're allergic to a certain pollen, would contain microscopic amounts of that pollen you're allergic to.....using the principle that the body will now be triggered into an OPPOSITE response.

I'm not a homepathic expert, so forgive my clumsiness with this description. But this is the overall idea, anyway.

So....I started taking the little tablets with microscopic amounts of sulphur in them. With homeopathic remedies, they either work very fast, or you aren't working with the right remedy. Somehow, I knew sulphur was the one. Within two days my rash had subsided 75%. And it's almost gone now. (I only took the homeopathic remedy three days. You're not supposed to take them for very long.)

Lots of lessons learned along the way....about expressing and acknowledging emotional energy.

And, much to my surprise, I discovered that since so much old skin has exfoliated, my skin now has a lovely color to it, and some fine wrinkles are gone. So there you go! The cosmos organized this whole experience perfectly. I can truly put my best face forward now. :)

***End personal sharing***

Okay, you can read below about the energy behind illness and how acknowledging our real emotions and releasing them can be the key to physical health.

http://www.newhopehealthclinic.com/depression_symptoms_emotional_healing_broken_heart.htm

Ken Adachi on the Mind/Body Connection

2005-03-23T12:01:00.000-05:00

Ken Adachi maintains a remarkable website called Educate-Yourself.org. Here you'll find tons of info on alternative health, consciousness raising, and various nefarious agendas of some of the world's organizations which, unfortunately, we often give too much of our power to. I'm not as into the conspiracy theory stuff as some of his article writers are, yet darkness and bad people DO exist, and it can be helpful to learn more about some of the nonsense that our leaders have been up to.

Still, overall his site is an empowering one which gives readers many tools to improve their lives and heal this wonderful planet that we are privileged to be living on at the moment.

This particular article is Ken's views on our spiritual essence, our soul's journey, and I like what he has to say. You might, too.

http://educate-yourself.org/mbc/

The Mind Can Affect the Body's Biochemistry

2005-03-22T10:04:00.000-05:00

Here is a list of fascinating things that are happening IN SPITE of conventional science holding that these things are impossible. Have a glimpse of the happenings which are permanently shifting the way science is viewing the mind, the body, and the universe (short but excellent article.)

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18524911.600

The Heart Has Its Own Nervous System

2005-03-21T10:13:00.000-05:00

Researchers are finding out more and more fascinating things about the heart. Did you know that it has its own energy field? Or did you realize that it contains its own nervous system? This is an article which touches upon some of the exciting biological discoveries which are starting to prove that, indeed, the heart may be the most important organ in the body - physically and energetically.

http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HealingRegeneration/html/HeartBrainConnectedToGod.html

Mindless Entertainment #8: Fluffy Bunny Theater

2005-03-19T13:49:00.000-05:00

A cartoonist from the UK has been posting quirky 30 second animations at her site, http://www.angryalien.com. They are all reenactments of famous movies (It's A Wonderful Life, Jaws, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.) performed by a cast of fluffy bunnies.

You, um, have to see it.

http://www.angryalien.com