Change the Present to Create the Future

This blog is all about change. The insight shared here can influence your health, relationship, workplace or home. Change begins with how we choose to see things, since that is the only thing we really control. Yet, releasing old attachments that allow a new reality can seem complicated.  This is why my posts, as well as my workshops, offer not only a why but, a how  using the tools of shamans or mystics. Every exercise is based on ancient teachings; Universal Principles that form the base for all world philosophies. Today’s tool is the practice of casting.   



Casting is a simple process of throwing familiar 3 dimensional objects onto a table or floor. Part of the Principle of Vibration states that objects held pick up the energy vibration of our thoughts and emotions. When the objects are thrown they will fall in a pattern that reflects our attachment to whatever condition held in the mind. The human mind struggles to separate emotion from thoughts because emotions cloud rational thinking. This is why it is simpler to give effective advice to a friend’s problem than to find a sane solution to our own. Experiences become distorted when seen through a cloud of emotion. Casting offers clarity without judgment. People think they can change others with this process but the only way to change another is to change one’s self. Every given situation is a reflection of us; we are the common denominator. Change the core or hum of a vibration and a ripple begins to spread out.

Start your casting project by collecting 21 small objects. I use 21 because it represents completion, birth, endings and beginnings in many cultures. The objects should not be fragile. They can vary or be the same such as: 21 buttons, stones, coins or keys. As a student of subtle energy, I prefer the collections I design to contain objects from sacred areas of the world. In the end it is only important that each object be no larger than a large coin and able to withstand being tumbled in a container.

The Process: Sitting in front of a table or other flat area, hold the items in your hands while thinking of the circumstances you want to change. Next, close your eyes and gently toss the items out in front of you. When you open your eyes you will be seeing an abstract reflection of your situation. Study it a minute.

What do you want to change? You are the artist and the items before you are your palette. What needs to move or turn over to create an image attractive to your eye? Forget about WHY you are performing this process, just do it because it feels good. Repositioning these 3 dimensional objects sends a ripple through the etheric field creating change. I like to leave my casting lay out for a few hours or a day. It is a thing of beauty I have created and I want to enjoy it. At some point of the day, speak the words “It is done.” and place the articles into a container to store.

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Fertile Seeds of Change

Gems of wisdom and experience are seeds we cast in daily conversations, in interactions with the young as well as our exchanges with peers. Seldom do we see where these seeds land. Many will  fall on barren terrain but hopefully some fertile soil.  One of the greatest thrills I experience is finding that one of my seeds not only set root but also bore fruit that has changed a life. This is a delight. It comes with the understanding that I have been part of a great mystery.

If you follow the Face Book page of my award-winning book: Gringos in Paradise: Our Honduras Odyssey, you know I have a single mother’s project in my area of Honduras. One of the first mothers I helped fishes for a living. While she was pregnant and could not work, I showed her how to make jewelry from broken glass that washes up on the beach. Selling these to tourist shops, she made enough income to feed and support her children and even buy her first overhead light for her house. After she gave birth and the baby had reached the age of 3 months, the doctor released her to go back to fishing.  Our plan was that each of the two occupations would take turns supporting her; fishing in good weather, making jewelry when the rains came.  The state of her economy and activity improved so she even bought a washing machine on credit to free her time from the labor-intensive hand washing for a family of five.

Then the unforeseen happened. The fruit company cleaned their trenches, pushing chemically treated soil into the waterways. The river ran brown driving the fish far out to sea.  As weeks turned to months the water began to clear, then early fall rains began discouraging tourist travel.  This mother told me that she was 3 months behind on her water and 2 months on her electric. The power company had notified her that they would disconnect. As much as I hated to see her caught in this bind, my mission was to help mothers help themselves. To lend her money only added to her debt load, to give her money only weakens her. I chose to buy her a chicken, dried beans and vegetables to feed her family. Her bills were up to her. 

It was a week before I saw her again. She came to my gate with a gift of fresh fish. The weather had cleared and she was back out to sea. When I asked about her situation, her face broke into a smile.  She had made soup from the beans I  gave her, then rode her bicycle around town until she sold it. This brought enough money to pay her utilities with a bit left over.  The extra money bought a bus ride into town and jewelry beads.  She worked all afternoon making necklaces and earrings then mounted her bicycle again. She sold her jewelry all around the barrio and did not return home until she had the money to pay her washing machine installment.  She told me that in the past, when a problem with money arose, she would only look for a way around it. Now she knows that a problem always offers a stairway to overcome it.

Food as Medicine

In my Honduran community, there are families of various incomes. Almost half of my neighbors are still washing their laundry by hand and bathing from a hose or 5 gallon bucket. For people of lower incomes medicine is a great expense. So when they come to my gate with health problems I look to food as their medicine. If a health problem is going to separate people from their money, then let their medicine be  an investment in vitality. 

This belief was driven home this morning as I swept my patio floor. My cat eats a mixed diet that will  include canned tuna. This morning I noticed bits and pieces of tuna drying on the concrete where her plate sat the evening before. There were no ants.

The awareness brought back a lesson learned from a local fisher-woman. She offered to sell us a barracuda she had caught. My husband was suspicious because sometimes this fish can be toxic. When I mentioned my concern to the woman her head nodded in agreement. She then cut off a piece of the fish and placed it on some bark at the base of a tree. She said that if the fish was good the ants would find it in just a minute. Her explanation had barely finished when my gaze returned to the to the meat. It was already becoming covered with ants. Animals (including insects) in the wild will always choose the highest and best. 

Although my cat will eat tuna, she will not eat fish from the grocery store. Yet, she always eats fish I buy from local fishermen. Grocery store fish has invariably been treated with some chemical. Often it is formaldehyde; applied while at sea in an effort to keep fish from spoiling when longer days are necessary to fill the boat.

My rabbits are also keen judges of food. They will often turn up their noses at store-bought produce in preference to tasty morsels growing in my gardens. As maddening as this can be as I view my roses, I understand. It is all about the vitality needed for survival. This is something those living in an economic cultures are not taught. We learn about vitamins not vitality. Without vitality, healing cannot take place. Every level of healing requires vitality. It comes from things of the Earth: clean water, fresh air and minimally processed foods.   

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Applied Energy

When my husband and I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, we bought a house nestled within an acre of jungle. On the edge of the house clearing stood an avocado tree of questionable age. Neither my husband nor I were fans of avocados and this tree was lanky and twisted from fighting for space in the sun. During our first 3 years, it had bore only a handful of fruit so we planned to cut it down sometime in the future.

Our house also had an above ground water catchment tank. It is a common practice in that area to collect rainwater for household cleaning. In times of drought, water must be bought by the truckload to fill the tanks. A truck holds 5,000-gallon or 2,500 gallons. If you order 5,000 gallons and only need 4,000, you pay for all and the driver dumps the remainder on your property. We had this happen once and the avocado tree received the excess gallons.

People familiar with growing avocados know the trees do not like soppy wet soil; it is sure death. Since we had no attachment to the tree, it was not a threat. However, friends that came by a few days later were devastated that we would allow a food-producing tree to die. They wanted to “save” the tree with blessing. Trying to explain our less than positive experience with tiny, hard avocados made no impression so  I gave them the go-ahead. They could have all the future fruit it bore. It seemed easier than trying to explain the fruitless history. 

The two women stood with their hands on the tree’s trunk. They spoke to the tree telling it how beautiful it was and how much they loved it and its fruit. They ended their 2-minute blessing by wishing the tree health and happiness. That year our tree gave us over 2-bushel s of beautiful and perfect avocados. 

I have been a student of subtle energy and energy healing for years before that event. I have used energy to help people and animals regain health. However, I had never thought to apply the idea to the tree. It was a wonderful lesson and I have since saved other trees from trauma, using the same process. It makes me wonder what else I am accepting as normal instead of offering healing. I find myself wondering why we, as a species, are not using the same healing force to shift the planet from hardship into harmony. If a tree can receive and respond, surely others of our own kind can. It only takes making a daily practice of thinking thoughts of kindness toward others; offering prayers of love and sincere wishes for well-being. What a beautiful example to teach and legacy to leave grandchildren and future inhabitants of our planet. 

A change in the way we look and things and applying positive energy will create a healthy planet.

Focus and Intent

What affects the outcome of an action is the thought behind it. Have you ever been bowling, then find yourself trying to pick up a spare? Your first roll of the ball may have taken down half the pins and now you are counting the remaining number, hoping to clean it up for a spare. As you face the pins, the ball balanced at your chest, the success of the outcome will not be luck as much as the focus of your intent.

All of our thoughts, worries, experiences, and awareness along with things we have viewed, heard and been taught whirl and flow, through our mind influencing our views of everyday experiences. This is why police officers will ask for 3-5 witnesses at an accident. No two people will view that accident the same way. Each will see it through their life experiences. One person may swear the driver was drinking because they saw the accident through the scars of losing a loved one to a drunken driver. Another may have seen the driver not wearing the seat belt; a regular point of debate between them and their spouse.

It is in creating quiet time that we begin to realize how busy our minds are. It is in the ability to quiet the mind that creates powerful focus. When the thoughts behind the focus are negative, it produces a force that can be hurtful, but the energy formed is constrictive and will rapidly return to the sender. When  it does, it carries an amplification of its negative message.  When the thoughts behind the focus are optimistic, a flow of positive energy occurs with an expanding ripple that has valuable collateral affects.

The most valuable asset to living is in spending time training the mind to a disciplined quiet. Then feed the mind with positive thoughts and beliefs. When you want the results of a positive focus, it needs no effort to direct it and all around you benefit. By training the mind to hold a positive focus we create the reality we want and a better world for all.  WHAT WE DO TO ANOTHER IN THOUGHT OR DEED, WE ARE DOING TO OURSELVES.