Insights – Melannie Thomas

Archive for the ‘Intuitive Guidance’ Category

I recently came across this quote from Duke Ellington, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

This is a good example and great inspiration for re-directing the negative energy that we all feel and experience at times. We do have a choice. We can choose to entertain negative thinking or we can switch gears and re-frame our thinking along more positive paths.

In the quote above Mr. Ellington didn’t try to push his pout away or try to force himself to get over it. Instead, he used the creative, energetic process to give voice to his negative feelings thereby transforming them into a beautiful, powerful expression of feeling. He used his energy in a positive rather than negative manner.

“What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.” Sam Keen

One of the books I am currently reading is Entering the Castle by Carolyn Myss.  One short sentence is having an enormous impact:

‘Intention without discipline is useless.’

In my personal struggle to secure my daily bread, incorporating the spiritual component has precedence for me.  Yet, the daily demands of the mundane clatter ceaselessly for my attention.  Discipline is the heart of my effort.  Discipline is a word that for me means can’t; can’t have, can’t do, can’t become, can’t, can’t, can’t.  The favorite chant of my negative chatter-box. 

As part of my personal growth work,  I am focusing on countering that definition of discipline.  So following definitions (discipline as teaching; teaching as guidance; guidance as nurturing) I am now working to change the negative impact of discipline to a positive, supportive self-nurturing.

My intention is to grow in spirit, to mature wisely, to live a disciplined life.  I am having great success in some places and not so great in others.  And discipline is becoming the well-worn path of self-nurturing as I seek my daily bread.

Seasonal change is upon us. Spring brings renewal. As we prepare for spring-cleaning and yard sprucing, I invite you to look into ‘spring-cleaning’ your mind and renewing your spirit at this most sacred time of year.

Take a day. Honor the gift of life in all it’s myriad forms and all it’s magical beauty.

Make your intuition work for you!  Your intuitive mind is a vast storehouse of knowledge and information. Learn how you can tap into and benefit from this remarkable system.

Classes cannot be taken out of sequence without prior permission from the Instructor.)

Class I:  (Saturday, May 7)

• Overview of the Intuitive Arts
• Energy & Energetic Boundaries
• Intuition, Literal & Symbolic
• Beginning Excercises: 
  • Breathwork & Meditation  
  • Protection &  Grounding

 Class II:  (Saturday, May 21)

• Intuition & Your Belief System
• Intuition & Your Emotions
• Blockages
• Techniques, Guides & Tools
• Intuitive Excercises

Class III:   (Saturday, June 4)

• Your Dominant Intuitive Style
• Hits, Misses & Time Lines
• The Work of Interpretation
• Ethics
• Keys To Ongoing Development
• Perspective & Practice

All classes are held at 2050 West Steele Lane in Santa Rosa from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm.

Cost:  $50.00 per class;  10% discount when all three classes are purchased at once.  All major credit cards accepted.

I recently read an excellent article in Spirituality & Health by Thomas Moore in which he stated what is to me a basic spiritual truth.  It is not what you believe that reflects your spirituality, but rather, “…the way you live.”

There are many times in life that we are left feeling helpless.  Certainly the situation in Japan is one of those fateful moments.  Yet, we are not powerless.  Beyond the rescue efforts in myriad forms, there is the power of prayer.  I invite you to prayers of comfort and healing for our fellow man.

This quote  from a book I read yesterday really stuck with me and I wanted to share it with you: 

“Look to this day!  For it is life,  the very life of life… For yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision;  But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

Pussywillow  by Mama San Ra-Ab Rampa

As we stealthily move into 2011, I invite you to seize everyday however it comes to you.  Everyday presenting the opportunity to put your best foot forward.