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by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  Many of my clients share their challenges, burdens and suffering with me, be it external or internal, from the experiences life throws at them, the internal chattering mind, physical pain, or overwhelming emotions.
Despite the situation, the question is often the same: “When will this end?!!” This might also lead to the question, “It will end right? Things will get better?” While all our challenges are unique, the nature of them is completely different than in the past. We have an opening now, a new reality to step into. In this reality, anything that we do for ourselves, we do for the entire collective on the planet, not just now, but throughout all timelines, past, present and future. How amazing is that? Can you even wrap your mind around it? Taking a traditional perspective on our pain, suffering and challenges works as well as it does. We think, “One day, when I’ve overcome or gotten rid of this problem, then I’ll be happy.” In this day and age, the problems of the world require solutions outside of our traditional thinking. I know you want reassurance that it will get better, and soon. I know it not only can, but will. However, it is you and you alone that has the choice and power to have the experience that it will, and can, get better. Yes, sure, if you’re reading this you’re looking for me to give you the answer. My answer is that YOU have the answer, the power, the strength, the courage, trust, love, breath, the soul and spirit, to have anything that you want. It is your destiny, like it or not! Why wouldn’t you like it? Because your “get better” lies in the present moment of your experience. It’s not one day – some day, when my finances are handled, I have the perfect relationship, vibrant health, ideal weight, unending positive thoughts, everlasting joy, unbridled passion, cool spiritual experiences, superpower intuition, complete freedom to be, clarity of life purpose, or “add your own here.” You were born to thrive, and born to grow, expand and learn from any experience you are having. Can you imagine a world crumbling around you, pain and suffering all around you, death, destruction, even fire and brimstone, and there you stand, in the center of it all, in peace, in trust, with an open heart and truly knowing all is well? It’s time to let go of, or at least soften our grip, on the reins of what we think reality is supposed to be, feel and look like. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is the boss of you. YOU are the master of your reality. You hold the magic wand and elixir of everlasting life. It’s YOU! How do you get to the space of remembering that? By absolutely being committed to remembering and living the truth of who you are. You are not your circumstances, your pain, or your suffering. They call you to remember, just as a nightmare screams at you to get your attention so it can share an important message. If your circumstances don’t equate to your quality of life, what does? It is your consciousness, your state of being, that determines the quality of your life. It’s each choice in action that is aligned with your soul’s calling. Oh, don’t worry, you know your soul’s calling. It calls you to love, enjoy, bless, and appreciate. The other morning, I noticed I felt anxious upon waking. I did my simple practices, such as breathing in peace and breathing out blessings of peace for all. It took just a minute, and there I was, in peace at that moment. Know that things really are intensifying. It’s not just you. Whatever is personally happening for you, you can choose to breathe and know that there is a rapidly increasing intensity of the shift happening. Fighting against it, waiting for the challenge to be over, will not speed up your personal process. Changing the way you view yourself and your life is what is called for in this moment. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. It calls to you again and again to choose a new way of being that transforms any circumstance in your life. That way of being is one of connection, love, abundance, peace and joy. In any moment, you can choose to say, “I am committed to this shift happening inside and around me. I choose to see myself and my life as a gift, as a game, as a opportunity to cultivate a new way of being.” I know, I know, you might be thinking, “How could you possibly see your pain, frustration, financial challenges, illness, anxiety, loss, confusion, or upset in your relationships as a gift?” There are some gifts that we want, and some gifts that we need. Anything that is occurring in this moment is a gift. How can you access the gift in your situation? By ACCEPTING it. Say, “Yes, thank you for this gift!” It doesn’t mean that you have to like it, or that you’re not disappointed, or that you wouldn’t prefer to have a gift you’ve been really wanting. It does mean that you say, “I accept this gift. I know that this is what serves me most right now, as crazy as I think that may be. I trust that this gift is one that serves my absolute highest good and growth, and is more powerful than I could ever imagine.” Once the gift is accepted, it can unfold its magic and miracles. It will call you to take actions that are for your highest good and well being, and the highest good of all people everywhere. The best gifts don’t always come in pretty packages. It is your conscious choosing to see all of your experiences as a gift, with thankfulness and gratitude, with trust, that can have you stand at the center of absolute chaos and destruction and feel centered and peaceful. It’s ok that you find yourself wanting things to be different, to be better. Please take heart that you have the power to do this right now, despite any circumstance. Accepting that this moment is your greatest gift, without trying to get rid of, fix or change it, allows movement in your life. Change occurs most easily when we surrender to what is occurring right now, when we choose to believe that right now is exactly where we are supposed to, how we’re supposed to be, and are divinely destined to be. It allows us to breathe and lighten up! May you be blessed with the joy, laughter, peace, relief and love that is accessible to you at any moment.
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by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  As you grow spiritually, returning to and remembering your true divine nature, you might be finding that you are becoming more sensitive to the energy, emotions and feelings of your loved ones, those around you and the world as a whole.
We are naturally very intuitive, psychic and connected with the world around us. As we step into this New Earth, choosing to consciously be a part of the shift in consciousness occurring on the planet, our intuition and sensitivity are increasing. This is something to celebrate! It can also be quite challenging. Years ago, I was getting the house ready for a party. I was in a great mood, but one of my housemates was very upset. I thought, “How can I have a good time when one of my friends is suffering?” I felt guilty at the thought. Isn’t that funny? We’ve been trained somehow that if others are suffering, we either need to suffer with them (disguised as “compassion”), or we need to save them or help them. I still have a strong pull towards this direction, especially with my husband. How can I feel and be aware of my loved ones upset and not get upset along with them or try to make them feel better? Taking this to a larger worldview, it is a challenge to feel the suffering of others, the anger or upset of others (such as around the presidential primary election), and to know the environmental issues at hand that are impacting our earth itself. The shift that is occurring is unprecedented because it is a shift in the consciousness of the entire planet. It is such an exciting time, and also a very intense time, as in many ways masses of people are experiencing a “dark night of the soul.” As a sensitive soul wanting to contribute to the well being of others, your job isn’t to try to help, fix, change or even uplift others. That might be a hard pill to swallow, yes? Believe it or not, your job is to be in joy and live in the integrity of your values. Whatever it is you think you can help others be, feel or think, your job is to live your truth. If your loved ones are suffering financially, you stand in the abundance that you are, feeling gratitude for all that you have right now. If they are angry or frustrated, you cultivate peace and forgiveness for yourself. If they are doubting themselves and their future, you trust yourself more than ever before. If you see your friend is unhappy with a situation, you choose to do what brings you the most joy. If you want to empower others, stand in your power. I know this is challenging, believe me. My intuition expresses itself most often in feeling, empathically. When my housemate walks into the room and is upset, I can easily find myself upset, agitated, angry or frustrated immediately. With no words exchanged, my energy has completely shifted. From that state, where I feel victim to my emotions, I am unable to be a loving peaceful presence for her, much less myself. My job in that moment is to acknowledge that I am noticing the shift in myself, and to cultivate love and compassion for my experience in that moment. We are not the parents of others, tending to the wounds of our children. Each person has their unique path, filled with the challenges and experiences that they were born to handle and move through. We are here to empower and support each other, not be the authority figure for another person's experience. They are going to suffer and make mistakes only they can grow, learn, heal and transform from. Gift them their path! See them as the amazing powerful souls that they are! How do you change the world? By adding what you are wanting to it. This is very different than fighting against or trying to change what you do not want. Add love. Add abundance. Add joy. Add vibrant well-being. Add passion. The truth is, these are all aspects of your true divine nature. Instead of looking for things to fight, fix or change, why not look for things that express your authentic nature? This is a different way of problem solving. The condition of the earth and all its inhabitants calls for a new way to solve problems, and this solution lies in our own consciousness. What are you wanting more of today? If you are wanting more peace, be peace. Bless all those you see with peace. Say to the cars that pass you by, “May you be blessed with peace.” Expand your light of peace and say to the check-out clerk, the mailman, your loved one, the politicians, the ones suffering, “May you be blessed with peace.” Let your sensitivity to the suffering of others be a reason to celebrate your own spiritual growth. Know that being the light that you are, the joy that you are, living your life in a way that expresses your greatest values, is your divine gift to a planet undergoing rapid transformation. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  The challenges in our own lives are no easier or harder than any other person's. It’s natural to compare our own journey to others. Unfortunately, when we do so, we either come up short or think we’re doing better than someone else. That’s probably one reason people love reality shows. In a reality show, the actors are meant to ramp up the upset, drama, trauma and emotion. We can watch a reality show and feel better about ourselves for a moment.
One way to step out of the comparing, judging and automatic responses to our experiences is by honoring our challenges as initiations. Throughout history, different cultures created initiations for spiritual growth. The most powerful initiations were meant to have a person confront their deepest fears. You might be sent off into the woods alone on a vision quest or put into a sarcophagus or grave for days on end. By confronting your fears, inner “demons” and death itself, you literally die a spiritual death and are reborn. In modern day, initiations aren’t so overt nor respected. Life brings these initiations regardless. Any change, especially sudden, is an initiation. The loss of a loved one, whether by death or simply ending of the relationship, the loss of a job, moving, or struggling financially are some obvious initiations we see in our lives and those of around us. We weren’t trained to embrace change, much less death. Yet this is what life brings us with the cycles of the seasons, with each sunset and each evening we close our eyes to sleep. I never really saw my life as a series of initiations, at least not in a profound way. Why? Because the obvious ones, the ones others would acknowledge as challenges in our culture, are not the ones I personally have had the most difficulty in accepting. Living on the streets pan handling, not knowing where I was going to sleep that night, was fun. Leaving my friends and moving back home with my mother when I was pregnant was scary but felt right. The death of my brother just before the birth of my son, and then the death of my mother soon after, had me step up to care for my loved ones and myself. I loved being a single mom and was proudly grateful for welfare while finishing up college. All those date rapes were par for the course. These examples are things we were trained should be challenging, maybe even wear as a badge of honor for having survived. Yet in those experiences I thrived, not survived. At the same time, the initiations I resist most and suffer over come in the forms that others wouldn’t see as difficult. You see, it’s so important to honor your personal challenges, especially by not comparing them to others. What throws your whole world into a tailspin might be a walk in the park for someone else. What may devastate another may feel like an easy shift for you. Maybe you felt a little sorry for me when I gave you that list, or that I am hiding from my own feelings? No need! My most challenging initiations seem to be those that I don’t think “should” be challenges. For example, I recently realized that I have not had a go-to-the-office 40-hour-work-week kind of job in almost 25 years. Good problem to have, eh? I know how awesome my life is, however, I also like to work hard and be busy. Five years ago, I was living in an amazing community of people and felt a great desire, with no real explanation, to leave. I sensed there was something more than the busy work I was doing within the community, so my husband, son and I moved. I became a stay-at-home housewife and mom. Little did I know I was stepping into the greatest initiation in my life thus far. In the past five years, I’ve tried to “keep busy”. I’ve done volunteer work, assisted friends in need, got my master’s degree and am always immersed in some kind of spiritual training. However, my son has also grown up completely, now age 20, and I’ve had more time on my hands then ever before. My life has been s-l-o-w. It was just after we moved that I was clear that I wanted to live day-by-day by my heart’s desire and guidance. I knew it was time to let my soul take the driver’s seat and put my ego safely and lovingly in the carseat in back. Boy, is this the most challenging thing to do! Keeping busy, responsible and productive is a big goal of my ego. “Doing nothing” equates to laziness, selfishness and feels pointless to my ego. Any of you who have done mindfulness meditation surely know this feeling or others that arise when you simply sit and notice the breath. Ramp that up full volume when you practice life as a mindfulness meditation! Yet it is noticing the breath that brings us to the perfection of now, where all the goodies live, be it in the emptiness or fullness of the outbreath or inbreath. Along your spiritual path, you come across the space between the breath, an initiation of the Great Void. It is here that you confront the intense emptiness mimicked by being in that pitch black space inside a coffin in ancient initiation rituals. You might feel a lack of direction, a lack of passion, boredom, anxiety or depression. If you surrender to it, it offers the opportunity to come to peace and compassion with all your greatest fears and inner demons. If you fight it, it only stays longer. I still discover myself fighting sometimes, using the Western methods of escape like shopping, eating, television, or just unnecessary busy work. I notice when I say, “Yes!” to that emptiness instead of thinking something is wrong, stopping to simply breathe in and out that breath of life that connects us all, everything opens up. When I fight it, any feelings of stress or anxiety only increase as I try to escape. Our personal initiations are uniquely ours alone, yet we go through them for the transformation of the entire planet. No matter how small or insignificant you might think your challenges are, they are to be honored as the powerful life-changing experiences that they truly are. Okay, I’ll share an example of something with you that you might think is silly and insignificant. I’ve got a thing about ants. Not spiders, not bees, not snakes, but ants. We go way back. When my son was almost three, I lived in an apartment that I should have known had an ant problem, as I noticed that ants were literally painted into the counters of the kitchen when I first moved in. One evening, I went over to my adorable son as he slept and noticed a trail of ants going across his pillowcase above his head. That was the straw that broke me, and I laid in a puddle on the floor crying, calling my friend for help. She came over and couldn’t help but start laughing, saying that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. Fast forward to our house now, where we’ve had ants take over the bathroom more than once. This past rainy season, however, I had an honest talk with the scout ants who just started coming out instead of trying to fight them. I let them know that I respect and honor that they need to live, but that if they show themselves to me, I will have to kill their queen, thus their entire colony, which I do not want to do. Did it work? Yep. The next day, the ants were gone, never to return. When it comes to what your greatest personal challenges are, you don’t need to fight yourself or them, tell yourself to toughen up, push through or get over it. Your job is to surrender into what you are experiencing, as challenging as that is to do. It is all coming up for you to bring to light the truth of who you really are and to be inwardly transparent and authentic with your feelings, needs, fears and desires. No other person’s opinion of your personal experience matters. Share when you feel safe to do so. You are not your experiences, nor are you your fears. You are a spark of the divine. You are the gift of the breath that wishes only to serve and remind you to breathe in life and breathe out that gift to others. Within Divine You is a love that transmutes even your greatest fears and challenges into the light. You are being called to slow down, to notice, and to feel your experiences. This includes when your notice yourself fighting, avoiding or escaping. If you hold the intention to simply breath and bring your own compassionate care and love to what your are experiencing, I promise it will shift. Ah, but not if you are doing it with the goal to make it shift, you see? Initiations call us to surrender to them completely. The goal for them to go away as quickly as possible reflects your lack of surrender. Look around you and within you and notice any initiations you are going through right now. Some might be obvious, while others are pretty easy to find if you simply look at what you want to get rid of, fix, fight, change, or avoid at all costs. What are you fighting or what are you feeling victimized by? You have called this experience to you - you powerful soul you, you shaman, you high priestess - to transmute it all with the power of your love and willingness to trust yourself, your process and the universe. It’s all part of the plan for your and the world’s highest and greatest good. Breathe and know that all is truly well, including when you scream that it is not! by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  Time and again I’ve heard it said that humans have free will. No one and nothing can interfere with our free will. That doesn’t mean they won’t try of course! Ok, I’m sure you can think of scenarios where someone wouldn’t seem to have free will. I know I can. I’m not here to convince you otherwise, but consider that maybe there’s more to that story than what we know about reality from a 3rd dimensional perspective.
No matter what seems to be interfering with your free will, your power lies within you, not your outer circumstance. Free will simply means that we always have a choice. The traditional definition of free will focuses on our ability to make choices about our actions, without outside influences like fate or force. It also often comes with judgment attached, such as if your actions are responsible, if you will be acknowledged positively by others, or if your choices might result in guilt or shame. It is time to take a different perspective regarding free will. The power of free will resides not so much in your outer actions, but in your choices about how you view others, yourself, your circumstances and reality itself. It is your conscious dedication and commitment to those choices that fuel and propel the powerful action steps that transform your life. We make millions of choices in our lifetime, and each choice leads to a new choice. We start our mornings by choosing to open our eyes into a conscious state, and the day is then filled with more choices. Many are so “automatic” or habitual that they don’t seem like choices anymore. We are also extremely skilled at making choices and then blaming some person or circumstance for that choice. If something is coming to mind right now in which you think you have no choice in the matter, this might be something to choose to look at in a different way. The way we choose to look at and interpret our reality is the most powerful aspect of our superpower of free will. There is no perspective, opinion or “fact” about reality that you do not have free will in. Yes, there is a collective consciousness comprised on the planet that you are effected by. Yet, even this, once you are aware of it, you have choice about. Whatever you consider as fact, there is at least one other person on the planet who does not. Sure, you could “prove them wrong” within your understanding of reality. Does that actually make you right? How many people need to agree with you in order for you to know you are right? If you watch or read mainstream mass media, does that mean they are reporting the truth? Is it true because the doctor says so, or the research (sponsored by, say, a pharmaceutical company) says so? It’s not that you need to disregard important outside information, it is that it is time to step into your own power. This power stems from your authentic divine nature, filled with love, joy, clarity and peace. How do you access your power? With your superpowers of course, one being free will. This is expressed through your power to choose. No one can take this away from you. If you think someone is more powerful than you, more knowledgeable, more insightful, or you’ll lose their love or respect if you tap into your own power, then that is still your choice. If you think you are limited because of all your past experiences and what you’ve been taught to believe, making you unable to change your mind or habits, that is also your choice. You get to choose if you’re wrong or you’re right. Just remember that free will includes the choice to judge yourself and your experiences. CHOOSE & COMMIT Once you make a choice, the universe shifts in the direction of that choice. Choice opens you to action, meaning action steps naturally arise out of the choices you make. Creating an action plan in itself will not give you the energy that is created from making a choice and committing to it. You don’t need to worry about the how. When you choose and commit to that choice, the actions naturally become clear to you. Synchronicity will occur such that you are in the right place at the right time, and everything you need will show up for you. Our strongest choices stem from a deep commitment to our values. An example is committing to vibrant health. Once you commit, not from fear of illness or being over weight, but from dedication to vibrant health, a friend tells you about a great documentary to watch about health and diet. It inspires you to eat more plant-based whole foods out of your commitment to vibrant health for yourself, others and the planet. You then notice a sign in a window that announces a farmer’s market near you where you can get organic locally grown produce. Continually returning to your commitment to your values, choosing them as most important to you, makes life a whole lot easier, filled with flow and grace. Making a choice opens up anything that goes in the direction of that choice. You don’t need to search for anything, because once your choice is made, you will naturally go in the direction of that choice because of your commitment to that choice. This is why it’s so important to be honest with yourself. If you have chosen to be healthy and find yourself wanting that beloved junk food, it is an opportunity to be honest about what you are committed to right now. This takes a willingness to feel your feelings and notice your thoughts with gentleness and compassionate understanding. You might find you also have a commitment to feeling good, and when you are stressed, habitually eat a certain food for relief. It is wonderful that you are committed to feeling good! Ask yourself, “If I deeply value and am committed to vibrant health, what is the healthiest way for me to feel good right now?” If free will is our superpower, then the choices we make are never wrong. The universe supports our free will, without judgment. We really are all doing the best that we can. Rather than focusing on making yourself wrong for “bad” choices or habits that do not serve you or others in a way you’d like them to, your power lies in continually re-committing to your new choice, moment by moment. Most of us in a long-term relationship know that once the commitment is made, the choice to be with that partner indefinitely, there are times that we question that choice. The questioning of our choices is not a problem. It is an opportunity to deepen into our commitment, to use our free will to say more powerfully than before, “Yes! I want this! I choose this! Count me in!” In relationships, it’s very beneficial to look at your commitment to the other person. Are you committed to hiding out, seeing what is wrong with the other person, worrying about their reaction, losing them or upsetting them? Or are you committed to connecting with them deeply and authentically, enjoying their company, and sharing your life together in a way that brings out the best in both of you? Bringing out the best includes bringing up the “worst” to been seen and transformed by your loving presence. Free will is more powerful than our doubts and fears. These are the only things that get in the way, and yes, they will arise time and again. They do not need to stop you. Use your free will to choose to trust. I trust myself! I trust my choices! YOU get to say if your life is wonderful or horrible. YOU get to say if you can have something you want or if you can’t. All your power lies in your own hands. Consider that if you really stepped into knowing that your choices create worlds, then anything you truly choose to KNOW and DECLARE you can have is destined to be yours, despite any outer proof that says otherwise. You must be willing to admit what you have already chosen to be true about yourself and reality. Are you committed to values like judgment, competition, lack and doubt? These might have been useful for your survival, but do you want to let your actions, your reason for living, be based on these values? These are your only limitations, and ones that can truly be laid to rest at this time on the planet, if you choose. With that self-honesty, you can then simply make a new choice, again and again. Choose to know that you are powerful. Choose to know you are exactly how and where you are supposed to be. Choose clarity. Choose gratitude. Choose to declare that you are joyful. You are creative. You are abundant. You are blessed. You are loved! Now these are values that you can really have fun with, a life of joy, magic and miracles! What are your deepest and most authentic values? By putting these values to the forefront of your consciousness, your choices and action steps that are in alignment with those values will naturally become apparent and energized. When you notice you feel you have no choice in something, choose to say, “I have choice in this situation. I have chosen this situation to come up for my highest and greatest good and growth.” Then declare and choose what you are wanting right now. The “how” will show up for you, when you choose to trust yourself and the universe. You will know which actions to take because they will feel good. They will bring a sense of trust, peace or joy. Even if the action is difficult, like leaving a person or situation, that action step will be calmly apparent and just “feel right.” You do not need to worry about what you need to change. You simply need to choose and declare, and change will naturally occur. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  Some of you are very familiar with the idea of grounding your energy. The concept is used to really get our “feet on the ground,” to be fully in our bodies. When we are grounded, we are better able to handle all of life's challenges as well as fully experience all of life's gifts.
The first time I learned to ground my energy was back in about 1988 at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. I would send a cord from my root chakra, at the base of the spine, down to the center of the Earth. I’ve also grounded by imagining roots like a tree coming out from my feet and grounding down into the earth. When I was a fitness instructor, I would guide my yoga students to ground in this way during "tree" pose, as well as release what no longer served them by giving it to the earth, where it would be composted. After all, it’s the nature of earth to gain rich and fertile soil through dead leaves and creatures. Wouldn’t the same be true with dead thoughts, feelings, habits and memories that no longer serve our highest good now? Over the past few years, I’ve noticed I feel strange about grounding my energy as I used to. I’ve been drawn to more heart-centered practices, sensing that the heart is the place to start in my spiritual practice. In fact, I even feel strange about a tried-and-true method of bringing in light through the top of my head, grounding it down into the earth and filling my body with light. Not that I don’t still use light in many ways including a pillar of light from above and below, but it is different than in the past. Know that I am not talking about “earthing”, a practice of naturally connecting to the earth such as through barefoot feet. We can talk about that another day. As you know, it’s a challenge to trust yourself without anyone else agreeing with your viewpoint, especially when new ways of being and acting in the world are involved. I’m blessed to know the universe is co-conspiring with me (as it is with you!), and because of that, I have noticed that others whom I respect are talking about what I’ve come to find as well. There are two realities afoot, my friends. The first is the one we know so well, that of 3rd dimensional experience. The other is 5th dimensional and beyond. Take a look around you and you’ll see the world is in chaos. While 5th dimensional earth is here, 3D is as well. Which do you want to add to? I don’t want to get too “out there” with you in my blogs, though I do like to sprinkle in new concepts and possibilities that I’m certain you’ll be hearing about more and more. My goal is to serve you in a practical way, a way that brings more love, peace, joy and abundance to your life each day. When we use outdated methods of grounding, as I described I’ve used in the past, we are unintentionally adding to the chaos. Mother earth is going through what we are, so she is not the best being to assist us in grounding into our bodies as spirits. Yes, we can indeed connect to her in 5th dimensional ways, but this does not include using her to recycle our internal waste or ground a body that is stressed, anxious or fearful. So where do we start? How do we come more fully into our bodies, knowing that when we are stressed, our spirits tend to want to be anywhere but in our bodies? Your anchor, your grounding point, is your heart. You start from there. Think of the heart as the new root chakra, the chakras no longer thought of as energetically linear bottom to top as in the past. When we want to remember and live the truth of who we authentically are, when we want relief because we are stressed, overwhelmed, or dizzy with the chaos around and within us, we can anchor and ground into our hearts. This is a practice. No amount of reading or others telling you what’s possible can replace you actually doing the practice. We must practice a different way of being in order to experience change in our lives. I know that you know this, but it’s easy to forget, especially when you are feeling victimized by circumstances you can’t control. When we are in a state of pain, fear and doubt, we naturally want to escape. Know you are doing the best you can, and can also commit to a new way of being. 6 Ways to Ground Into Your Heart 1. Try HeartMath. If you’re a more scientifically-minded person, begin with taking a class with the HeartMath Institute. There are many places to find classes, from Meetups to The Shift Network, to HeartMastery. They also have developed an amazing biofeedback system called the emWave so that you can literally know when you are in a coherent state with your heart and sustain longer periods of this state. When your heart beat rhythm is coherent, meaning have a more consistent pattern, the heart sends a message to the brain and all other systems in the body to become coherent. In coherence, the body’s psychological and physiological state, such as the immune, cardiovascular and nervous systems, become harmonious and highly effective. These are the states of relaxation, peacefulness, and joy. Try their “Quick Coherence” practice. It takes just a minute or so! 2. Add on to the Quick Coherence technique. Place your hands on your heart, and breathe. Imagine your breath is coming into your heart and out from your heart. With your attention in your heart, say a word, such as “peace.” My personal favorite is, “I love you.” What is it that you need in this moment? Other phrases might be, “I am safe,” “I am loved,” “Relax,” “I trust myself,” or “All is well.” Whether you feel different or not right away, you are practicing your ability to move and change energy by calling forth what you are wanting. You are powerful. 3. Expand Light From Your Heart. As you connect to your heart, imagine that there is an eternal flame of light within you. It is who you authentically are. It is your true essence, where all the love, joy, peace and abundance you might tend to seek outside yourself exists. This love is not dependent on any outer circumstance, including when you are feeling pain in your body or thoughts that tell you otherwise. Sense, see or feel this light in your heart, a crystalline diamond white light. If you see or sense another color, trust that. Imagine this light expanding from your heart, filling your entire body. Don’t worry if you don’t experience anything. Just imagine. Imagine this light expanding out in all directions – above, below, in front of and behind you. If you’d like, expand it to your home, your neighbors, your town, your country and around the earth. You can even expand this light into all dimensions and timelines past, present and future. You are divine love and light! 4. Take a walk. This is a way to use our beloved earth for grounding. As you walk, deliberately connect to your heart by placing your hand on your heart, breathing into your heart and allowing yourself to feel, see and smell nature around you. 5. Call For Help. You are never alone. When your emotions, stress and thoughts are so intense that you can’t get yourself to do your own practice, call for support. Ask the universe for support, call on your angels for their love and guidance, call a friend who you know will remind you that you are strong and able to be in your body as you move through your upset, read inspiring words, or listen to a guided meditation or uplifting music. 6. Practice Calling On Your Heart. One of your best practices is to call on the help of your true divine self, that light that expands from your own heart. Practice noticing your connection to your heart when things are going well, when you are in a space of love, gratitude and trusting your process. You are the one that can really be there for yourself in the most loving and powerful way. What does this look like in practice? I’ll explain with a personal example. I’ve found myself time and again noticing that I feel anxious, that I am doubting my abilities, my process, and where I am at in my life. I place my hands on my heart, breathe, and give attention to where in my body I am feeling anxious. I notice the thoughts that go along with my feelings. I say, “It’s ok, I am here for you. Tell me all about it. I love you.” I listen, like a loving mother would to her child. I’ll say, “I love you. I’m not going anywhere and am always here for you. You are safe. It’s ok.” You see, the heart, the root of your true authentic self, is your greatest guide and biggest fan. This is the part of you that loves you for all that you are. Your heart is meant to guide your mind and ego. It’s habitual for us to think it is the other way around: that the mind, filled with fear, doubt and a need to control our experiences and future, is meant to guide our true authentic self. Some of you have practiced meditation, meaning practiced being the “observer”. While this is an excellent practice, know that divine you is not a separate you who observes your experiences. You came here to experience being a human, with human thoughts, feelings and judgments. While I am practiced at observing, when I call on help from my true divine nature, it actually is not separate from “me”. It is the me that remembers that I am not my experiences. I remember that my experiences do not define me nor limit my reality, but I can describe them. Rather, I am having experiences, and honor that what I am experiencing is absolutely real to me. This brings me the light, relief, calmness and love that is ever present if I only remember. You can be like the hawk, flying higher to see this bigger perspective and truth of reality. When you come down from the sky and go to catch your dinner, filled with survival needs like feeding your body, you are bringing with you that bigger perspective of what brings true nourishment to your soul when you were flying above. A hawk is always a hawk. He immerses in his experience, whether from a broader perspective above or hunting on earth below. By deliberately practicing, you can remain conscious of who you really are, even when immersed in any life experience. So go ahead and practice observing during your meditation time, and then come down, grounding into your heart and body here and now, able to fully be there for yourself, even in challenging times. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  Spirituality is something I’ve been passionate about since I was a child. I’ve been most interested in lifting that thin veil between the reality we’ve been taught is “real” and the one that contains magic and miracles, the one where anything is possible and everything is an aspect of the divine. Some people have stories of their spiritual awakening, those sudden profound experiences that changed their world. Others, like me, are slow and steady.
I understand that spirituality is also my “hobby”. Not everyone is an avid researcher and experience seeker like me. Maybe you are passionate about your relationships, career, health, nature, music, art, or sports. Most of us weren’t trained to talk about spirituality, so it’s becomes a bit of a mystery. It’s either enmeshed in religion, a taboo subject at the dinner table like politics is, or considered unrealistic, “woo-woo” or new age thinking. If we do go there, it’s compartmentalized. Today I’ll be spiritual when I meditate in the morning, then I’ll eat, get some exercise, work, be with and take care of my family and friends, and relax in front of the television. The thing is, spirituality isn’t just a form of entertainment or a hobby. It is the nature of who we are. It permeates every aspect of our lives. It is there when you wake and while you are sleeping. Why would you want to consciously separate it out from the rest of your life? That’s an easy one to answer: When we feel separate, or compartmentalize spirituality from other aspects of our lives, it is simply a part of our forgetting. Spirituality is a journey, one of forgetting our true divine nature and then remembering. Truth, deep wisdom, is a felt experience and state of being, so it is difficult to put words to. Once we start to talk about our true nature, there is a natural feeling of separation from it in order to understand and dissect it. What I want you to know is that you cannot separate yourself or your life from your true authentic self. It’s all part of the game, an illusion! It’s not like, “Well, I don’t meditate, I don’t live from my heart, I don’t believe in God, or I don’t go to church. I’m not into spirituality.” Or worse, “I’m not spiritual enough. I’m not aware enough, loving enough, happy enough, or don't practice enough.” Being spiritual can easily become a game of getting to some place, some ideal life or way of being, that you aren’t already at. One day, you’ll arrive. What if you have arrived, right here, right now? What if there’s nothing to do but practice remembering you’re perfect just the way you are, with all your “imperfections”? Yes, it is a practice. We’ve built up a strong wall to have us feel safe and in control of an ever-changing reality. This wall is filled with habits that have us successfully survive this life yet keep in place the veil of illusion between what we were raised to believe reality is and the true nature of ourselves and the universe. Are we doing something wrong if we’re suffering? Absolutely not! Suffering is what propels us toward remembering. Suffering is purposeful and part of our soul’s journey. It is a gift, a teacher and is divine. Whatever screams at you as not divine and spiritual is exactly the thing asking you to remember. There is a reason why you’ll keep hearing about the power of the present moment. It is because your spiritual practice is right now, in this moment. Right now you can choose to remember, despite any circumstance. What could be more important? If you are struggling financially, consciously practicing living a spiritual life makes available the reality that abundance is the nature of the universe. If you notice your home is dirty or you need to take a shower, it could be because you are drawn toward the truth of beauty and the deep care for honoring your body and environment. If you want more love in your life, it could be because you are being called to love yourself more than ever before. If you are upset with someone, it could be a call to listen to and understand others, and yourself, more deeply. If someone is violent toward you or others, it could be a way to alert you to the violence within yourself and to see that you deserve to be honored, respected and loved. If you want to lose weight, it could be a call to love your body, care for it more deeply, and shift your relationship with food from enjoying your food to infusing your food with joy. There is plenty more to list, but you can see that spirituality is a shift in perspective and a state of being that includes every aspect of our lives. Who does not want to feel free to be authentically self-expressed, seen and loved for all that they are? Who does not want to trust themselves, to feel joy, to feel loved, and have a rich and meaningful life? Spirituality gives us an opportunity to be empowered rather than victimized by a dangerous world, filled with rules, limitations, lack and just simply unfair experiences. We do not need to seek out living a spiritual life, for we are already living one. Waking up to this reality is what has the universe be able to support the fulfillment of our dreams in magical and miraculous ways. Most of the world is asleep, and this is also a part of the game afoot. You, my beloved, are waking up. How do I know? Because you’re reading this. Know that it’s not your job to wake others up. It is for you to wake up more fully, experiencing the beauty, perfection, magic and love that permeates every moment of your life when you choose to see it. This includes when you notice you are sleepy, drowsy or asleep. It’s all a part of your waking up to the truth of who you authentically are. It is your offering and service to the world. Is the goal, then, to wake up fully? It would be easy to say yes, but honestly, I’m so done with that goal. Instead, let your goal be to trust your process here and now, infusing your life with joy in all that you are and all that you do. For today you are alive! How cool is it to get to be a multi-dimensional spiritual being able to create and have experiences in a dense physical world? Let it go, just let all that “yadda yadda” talk in your head go, for just this moment. Put your hands on your heart and breathe. Right now, at this very moment, there is so much to be grateful for and appreciate. Truly! Look around you or look within you, seeking out the sparks of beauty, love, care, peacefulness, connection and abundance that are here right now. Right now, move in the direction of your deepest values, your greatest heart’s desires and full self-expression of the wonderful, magical, divine and joyful gift that YOU are. by Julianne Kulosa  I’ve noticed that recently, most of my “re-pins” on Pinterest are number sequences. Pinterest is a site where you can post or “pin” pictures you like and create a “board” of pins, such as a board I have called, “Angels and Divine Guidance.” In fact, over the past 24 hours, 6 people have re-pinned the number sequence 222 from my Angels board. It’s become literally a feedback loop for seeing this number sequence myself, affirming the powerful experience I had with my personal guardian angel about 24 hours ago. If you’re reading this blog, I’m sure you have had the experience of seeing repetitive number sequences or patterns, such as 12:12 on your clock or a bill for $33.33.  Seeing number sequences usually come in clusters, as opposed to just seeing one here and there every month or two.
Of course, we immediately want to know, “What does it mean?” You can look up the meaning of specific sequences, such as in “angel numbers” or numerology. There’s good reason seeing these sequences are being called angel numbers, for they occur in response to a higher vibration. If you’re like most of us, you don’t often immediately connect spiritual experience with the physical body. For example, spirituality might come in the form of meditation in the morning and if you have a physical experience, it is left for your physician to diagnose. Physically, we have something called a vagus nerve, which effects our health and creativity. The vagus nerve is one of 12 cranial nerves, and is intimately connected with the heart, lungs and digestive system. Through the action of electrical impulses, the vagus nerve initiates the relaxation response, translates “gut feelings” in the digestive tract to the brain, and brings information from the heart to the brain. As you go through your awakening into a deeper connection with your higher self and divine guidance, the vagus nerve begins to re-wire and expand, causing various symptoms. One of the most common symptoms is seeing number sequences. Numbers are part of the language of light, of divine guidance and the higher realms of the angels. Seeing number sequences isn’t about the angels trying to communicate you. It is about you shifting your own vibration so that you are more in tune with their ever-present guidance. The way to allow these patterns to assist you is to embrace the knowing that you are, indeed, connecting more and more to your higher self and the divine higher realms. Each time you see a series of numbers, say, “Thank you! Thank you for affirming that I am raising my vibration and receiving divine guidance. I am highly intuitive. I am guided by my heart, Divine Will and the angels.” Celebrate these number sequences as proof that you are doing wonderfully! You can look up those numbers and notice what interpretation feels right to you, or you can simply choose to listen to that quiet voice inside that is nudging you to take a step in a certain direction. Trust that gentle voice and you will receive more and more guidance from it. My angels nudged me while writing this, so below is their message. From the Angels While it is true that seeing numbers is affirmation that you are receiving guidance from the angelic realm and your higher self, specific number sequences are like specific colors. Each number and series of numbers holds a very special energy and vibration that contains specific information. 222 The number sequence 222 pertains to the balance of opposites, the opposing energies of light and dark, masculine and feminine, fear and love. When you embrace these opposites, you stand in the center, in your true divine nature, that of unconditional love. Three 2’s remind you that you are integrating your spirit and soul with your body. When you see 222, let it remind you to breathe and know that all is truly well, that you are ever embraced and pulsing with divine love and light, surrounded by angels and guides who love you just as you are, whether you are peaceful, happy, kind, loving, angry, afraid or resentful. No matter your circumstance, you are loved just as you are for all that you are. Sweet angels, you are not ever alone, and all that you are experiencing is your schooling in remembering your own divinity, your own connection to us and your true nature. Let these numbers you see teach you, for they contain special codes of information that will guide and empower your path. You know how you feel a certain way when you experience a color? How do you feel in the forest, surrounded by green trees? How do you feel in the desert, surrounded by tans and browns? How do you feel when you wear certain colors, or enter a room painted in a specific color? The same is true for numbers. How do you feel when you see these numbers? Do you notice something different when you see the numbers, such as in your environment, thoughts, sensations or feelings? You need not try to see these numbers nor strive to understand their meaning. Instead, we ask that you surrender. Allow your present moment perceptions to inform you, what you notice when you see numbers. When you stop trying to make meaning of things, answers and guidance arise on their own, like the wings of angels lifting you up. Appreciate the experience of seeing them, ask for our guidance, and let go. We are always here for you. You need not search us out, just as you can not search for numbers. Let your now moment experience be your guidance, knowing that we are with you always. Let these numbers be your affirmation that you are receiving guidance from us. We love you. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and WayShower, guiding the way to living a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love.  I woke from a dream in which some were leaving the planet and others were staying. It was my time, and I could leave. I didn’t want to, thinking how much I love the earth and being human.
After writing my dream down in my dream journal, I knew there was a term for a Christian prophecy my dream seemed to represent. Searching on Google, I found it: the rapture. There’s much debate about it, but basically it is a part of the end times prophecies in the New Testament, foreshadowed in the Old Testament. The simplest interpretation of this prophecy is that believers and followers of Christ suddenly leave the planet (to happily ever after) and non-believers remain (to suffer and be punished). The rapture - where those chosen ascend to the sky in their physical bodies or suddenly disappear - is dismissed by most Christian sects. However, it is entangled with more common prophecies like Judgment Day and the Second Coming of Christ. Prophecy is challenging, for it is filled with symbols and fuzzy lines, and subject to many interpretations. At this time on Earth, the shift in consciousness occurring means that we literally are integrating our higher selves, our souls that reside in 5th dimensional consciousness and beyond, with our physical bodies. The term “ascension process” is often used to describe this choice. One way can ascend is by literally leaving our bodies, aka dying a physical death, which is an absolutely fine choice. What is available now is to connect completely and consciously with our souls while in a physical body. Historically, this was available to only the few, now known as ascended masters, such as Buddha or Jesus. I had another dream recently in which I was in a group of people standing in a circle around a spiritual teacher. He wore layers of natural clothing, such as an oatmeal colored linen robe tied with a rope. We had put some kind of mixture on our faces that I knew would give me a tan afterward. It burned a bit. My face was also covered by a cloth whose thick fibers were rough and spread apart. It hurt to speak, as the fibers cut into my face, and I kept my eyes closed, as if to follow protocol. As the teacher walked away, I followed him with a question as I was trying to peel off the mixture on my face painfully, like you would the layer of skin that peels away from a bad sunburn. The teacher looked upset, as if sad, disappointed and confused. He said, “I don’t understand why people think they need to suffer in the name of spirituality.” I woke and had a Buddhist word in my head, recognizing it but needed to look it up to make sure, as my brain is filled with too many years of education. The word was, “bodihisattva.” A bodhisattva is a Sanskrit term and compound word. “Bohi” means spiritual awakening or enlightenment and “sattva” means a being, essence or spirit. A bodhisattva is an ordinary human like you and me, motivated by pure compassion, and committed to enlightenment and the path of awakening for the benefit of all of humanity. My bodhisattva guide clearly reminded me how the path of awakening, of remembering who we truly are, is much different than in the past. Our beloved ancestors provide us blueprints and wisdom along the way, and we no longer need to suffer in the name of spirituality and being contribution to the world. In the past, the path to enlightenment often included renouncement of the body and physical world, whether through fasting, self-torture, vows of poverty or abstaining from sex. The game has changed. It involves, first and foremost, living in and expanding from the heart. The energy or consciousness of divine love is also called Christ consciousness. It is non-religious, devoid of dogma or judgment. The path of enlightenment, of awakening to our divine nature, is now a process of integrating our spirits into our bodies, as opposed to renouncing the body and physical world. The physical structure of our bodies and the earth are literally changing into a crystalline form, a world in which we can live awake and aware of our divine nature. The ascension process is a bit of a misnomer, as ascension implies upward and outward and our process now is integrating inward, consciously living as spirits in bodies. As we consciously unite our spirits with our bodies, we are all also interconnected in an indescribable way called unity consciousness. Once we attempt to describe this unity, we have separated ourselves from it. At the same time, we each literally live in our own unique experience or dimension. No one ever will have the same exact experience as you. That is what makes each of us so unique and important on this Earth. Masses of people, such as in the rapture prophecy, are literally living in different worlds more and more. Yes, some may choose to leave the planet entirely. For those that stay, some may live in a world of chaos, pain, destruction and violence. Others live in a world of unity, love, abundance and joy, despite any experience. In Christian terms, one is hell, the other heaven. In many ways, we must “die” to who we think we are (our minds and egos) as well as what we think reality to be. If you’re reading this, you probably oscillate between those worlds, as we walk the path of integrating and creating New Earth. New Earth is Christ Consciousness, literally the second coming spoke of in the bible. One definition of Christ out of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is, “an ideal type of humanity.” Christed, or crystalline, consciousness is pure love, compassion and light, and is in each of us and in everything. Be aware that as the ease of connecting to your true divine self and vibrations of love, peace and unity increases, so does the energy of doubt, fear, separation and lack. The collective consciousness right now, the group energy or planetary thought body of humanity, resides primarily in the denser energies of fear. This is why if you are choosing to be a part of the shift in consciousness of the planet, you must be dedicated to consciously choosing, moment by moment, where to align your energy and awareness. So, my beloveds, you need not fear. You have choice! You may freely walk any path you choose. I offer this as a way to increase your awareness and choice to love yourself and trust the process amidst anything you are feeling, thinking, experiencing or witnessing. Honor your own experience and bless others, no matter how different their reality may seem from yours. Live from your heart, love fiercely, and trust that All is truly Well. by Julianne Kulosa Julianne is a Spiritual Intuitive and Guide, empowering others to live a life of miracles and magic through trusting the power of love. The clock reads 2:14 AM and my body says it’s time to get up. I whine, “But I don’t wanna, it’s so early! Can’t I just cozy up to my cuddly husband and sleep some more?” Still under the warm covers, I place my hands on my heart and say on this particular morning, “It’s ok, I love you. I love you. May I be more loving and compassionate than ever before. I am love.” Ok, yay, I feel some more enthusiasm now. And hey, I can write my first blog right now! My housemate is still awake and my son is out skateboarding with his friends. My housemate follows me to the kitchen and wants to talk, and I wonder if the “muse” to write will go away if I don’t start now. I notice that fear, and breathe into my heart and notice that it feels so good to be with her right now. I then get to spend some no-distractions very sweet quality time with my good friend in the wee hours, and pet the neighbor’s cute cat who comes by for a visit. My son comes home and I get to see him with his friends having fun. I think about how awesome it is that he’s still friends with one of them he went to middle school with and now they’re both in college. I used to try so hard to sleep like a “normal” person. Yes, I have Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder, but our society sure does have a lot going on sleep, right? Insomnia plagues some of us, and the daytime can be filled with using coffee or other tactics to keep awake. God forbid someone calls you lazy. Have you noticed how people love to show off, or complain, about not getting enough sleep? It’s the cool way to show that you know how to suffer and push through, and are damn proud of it. Hey, believe me, I get it! Poor me, Miss Narcolepsy. Here’s the thing, all the research out there that tries to figure out how much sleep people need and what’s wrong with them that's causing all their sleep problems. Furthermore, word on the research street continuously reflects all the things that are bad about not getting enough sleep. Oh, BTW, if you’re reading this on your phone, those experts say it’s bad for your sleep, too. Isn’t it time to tell a different story? Thinking about how you’re not getting enough sleep, right kind of sleep, or all the things you do that interfere with your sleep, could really keep you up at night! In these crazy times of the shift in consciousness occurring on the planet, things are getting stranger. This includes sleep. Personally, the, “I should sleep more at night and not be sleepy or nap during the day,” monster has been instilling fear and doubt in me for a long time. I’m practicing listening to my heart and soul more, and learning to thank my head for trying to keep me safe and normal within the bounds of how we were taught life is supposed to be lived. I’m getting my best work done in the wee hours of the morning. Besides, I’d be missing the amazing full moon right now if I woke into the daylight. It’s a crystal clear moon, glowing a sweet soft pink color, shooting out rays of light like a magical geometric star. I’ll wake up for that! So what’s a new story we could tell about sleep? Sleep is a time we actually get a lot of work done. Our minds are at rest and our resistance is down, so we can really get into the juicy stuff now. As we lift our vibration, we need our sleep to let our bodies integrate light into our physical form. Furthermore, we download lots of information in our sleep time, accessed more consciously, if we wish, through practicing dream work and putting those dreams into action in our waking life.  It’s important to honor your own cycles in each moment. Sometimes all you’ll want to do is sleep. Other times you’ll have bursts of creative energy. If you put yourself in a box of when and how much sleep to get, you aren’t honoring your unique process.
I know, I know, you’re on a schedule. It’s easy for me to say to sleep when you need to because I don’t have a 9 to 5 job. What if by following your inner guidance, honoring the nudging of your heart and intuition, time would shift such that you’d be able to sleep when you need to? Ok, maybe that’s too much to take on as a new possibility for you right now. But you could consider it. Why is it that my life has been such that I can sleep when I need to, even as a single mom? Am I just lucky? Absolutely not. Can you cultivate being more lucky? Yep. Check out Richard Wiseman’s work on the psychology of luck if you want to find out more about that. I’ve known since my teenage years that I create my own reality. That means not only can I have it how I want it, but I can interpret my experiences however I want to. Sleep is one of my personal areas that I am challenged to interpret in a positive and loving way. Let’s keep supporting each other in choosing to see our sleep patterns as right just the way they are, whether we slept a few hours, can’t sleep, nap, or sleep hours on end. There’s good reason you’re sleeping the way you are. It’s time to look for those good reasons instead of all the bad reasons your patterns of sleep are hurting you! |
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