Gratitude = Happiness = Awareness

Everyone’s innate intuitive ability naturally gets stronger when we enter into a prayer state, and a sincere “Thank you!” is the most heart-centered prayer there is.  The more we consciously choose to be in that spiritual space, the happier and more powerful we become. Not only are gratitude, happiness and psychic awareness closely linked — they’re all, quite literally, a choice — a conscious decision on your part to make them the focus in your life, your relationships, your work — the whole enchilada. One of the ways this is manifesting is in a whole new branch of mental health, “Positive Psychology,” founded by Dr. Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Seligman respected how traditional psychology studied behavioral problems, but wanted to focus on “the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.” (Positive Psychology Center website)  I participated in some clinical studies Dr. Seligman and his students were doing to measure and nurture a positive, happy state of mind, and one of the exercises was so powerful I have to share it with you. Each night, before you fall asleep, jot down three positive things that happened to you that day. Then, write down what your role was in making those things happen. This little ritual causes some major positive shifts immediately. First of all, instead of ever thinking, “What else can go wrong?” you click into the gear of eagerly anticipating what wonderful things are going to unfold in your day.  This automatically makes you happy.  Since you’re also noting your role in causing these marvelous things to happen, you’re proactively CHOOSING to focus your intent, and your actions, on doing positive, happy things.  As my environmental engineer friend Herb loves to say, “How can it get any better than this?” Give it a try this month, and let me know how things begin to shift for you.  You’ll realize there are a ton of reasons in your life to be happy RIGHT NOW.  As you’re journaling your top three wonderful events of the day, you’ll feel that surge of gratitude for your limitless opportunities. And just choosing to be in that spiritually high place of joy and thankfulness will super-charge your intuitive awareness in ways you can’t begin to imagine yet. Honestly — just try it for a week.  Pretty soon you’ll know that every day is truly a day of thanksgiving.  JonnaRae.com

Break on Through to the Other Side!

A law of physics states that energy can’t be created or destroyed — it merely changes form.

In my experience, this applies to the energy we call life, too.  Since I was a youngster growing up in a circa 1750s Pennsylvania farmhouse, I’ve heard, felt and seen people in the spirit world who didn’t cease to exist when they died — they just changed form.

There was even a particular incident when I was around 9 where I woke up in the middle of a steamy, humid Pennsylvania summer night to see a woman in white standing by my bed. My first impulse was to scream, and my parents were in my room in a matter of seconds.

By that time, the apparition had disappeared, and mom and dad told me I’d imagined it — it was all a dream.  But as dad was leaving my room, he turned around and said, “Man, it’s really cold in here.”  Just like in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” this entity had taken thermal energy from my room and transformed it so she could manifest.  She didn’t want to frighten me; she just wanted to connect.

Since that night decades ago, I’ve had many contacts with the other side, and even visited it myself during a near-death experience from a brain aneurysm in 1989.  What I’ve learned is that as spiritual beings having a human experience, we too frequently get weighed down with denser vibrational energies — fear, anger, guilt, shame, worry.  Basically, anything not coming from a vibration of love.

When we shed our physical form and ‘die,’ the general rule of thumb is we also shed those denser, heavier emotions for feelings of compassion, joy and love to literally become beings of light.

We grieve when loved ones die, and the sorrow is at the heavier end of the energy spectrum.  The loved one who just left wants to connect with us, to let us know they’re fine, but as they’ve become “lighter” energetically, our grief makes us “denser.”  The gap between us can be too wide for a connection to be possible.

That’s why the first step to being able to connect with loved ones in spirit is to consciously choose to focus on the happy memories and the love you shared.  Just transforming your grief into hope — hope that they’re fine, hope you’ll be able to reconnect soon and hope that they still feel your love — will significantly raise your energy, and make that connection happen so much sooner.

Start looking for the little “coincidences” that let you know they’re near — things like flickering lights, a TV switching channels, butterflies or birds flying close to you, a familiar aroma suddenly wafting into the room.  You can also invite them to visit you in your dreams.

I was “told” in an intuitive flash back last year it’s time to start teaching others how to connect with loved ones in spirit, and I’ve been teaching “SpiritTalk: Break on Through to the Other Side” (love you, Jim Morrison!) ever since.  If you’re ready to make that link, please join us, or email me for a private session at info@PSIStudies.com.

It’s definitely time to dissolve that barrier between realms, and know, as a sweet woman on the other side told me, “Love means never having to say you’re leaving.”