There are some wonderful, deeply inspiring movies that leave us feeling good about life and also teach us something important about ourselves. One such movie is ‘The Kid’. The movie stars Bruce Willis in an untypical role as a man who is about to turn 40. He thinks he is happy until an 8-year-old boy shows up and turns his life upside down. I love movies of transformation where the character starts out one way, goes through some upheaval, and then transforms their life in some big way. This is one of those movies. The movie helps us realize that there may be some childhood trauma that is standing in the way of us living our best and fullest lives. It helps us remember the importance of healing aspects of ourselves that need healing and see childhood events from the perspective of an adult and not a child.

Grandmothers play a very important role in the family, not only on a physical level, but on an energetic and spiritual level as well.

We all are very familiar with our five physical senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. But do you know that these senses also exist beyond the physical?

You may have heard someone refer to our experience on this planet as multi-dimensional or that we are ourselves multi-dimensional beings. We are, in fact, living in a multi-dimensional world and a multi-dimensional universe.

Years ago, if someone would have asked me what an enlightened person looked like, I would have described someone who lived in a temple or on a mountain top and who prayed or meditated most of the day.

When you think of standing at the top of a mountain, what do you think of?

At the top of the mountain, there is amazing light and prana available for everyone and this is always incredibly uplifting.

Have you ever felt like you were moving through mud? That nothing you did or felt or experienced held any joy or lightness?

Welcome to one of your valleys!

An important aspect of enlightenment is the return to wholeness or oneness.

It makes sense that a part of your journey to enlightenment is finding and reclaiming those pieces of yourself that are part of the oneness or wholeness of who you came here to be. As a soul incarnates into a body, it does not do so all at once.

An important aspect of enlightenment is the ability to be present.

The question I ask when talking about presence is not how do you stay present but where do you go when you’re not present?

A large part of Enlightenment and mastery is determining what is your energy and what is someone else’s.

This means that some of the programs operating in your life have not been created by you. You are carrying and responding to emotional patterns and belief systems that have been created by someone else

When I started the Inner Diamond program in 2001, I had no idea what kind of transformation it would offer me.

I just knew I needed help in releasing some really, old stuck patterns in my life. One of the patterns I became aware of once I started my daily meditation was what I call the ‘chameleon pattern’.

When mastering the mind, the most important part is to determine what are your own thoughts and what are the thoughts of others or those of your society. As you do this, you can begin quieting your thoughts and this will allow a connection to your higher self.