My Everyday Mystic by Jan Puta: blog for the soul

Spiritual Response Therapy is primarily a spiritual healing process with applications into many day to day experiences such as preparing for a job interview.

When I worked with Shirley, who wanted to be in the best possible energy space for an important event like this, I first did a quick analysis:

• How much was she aligned with the type of work she was interviewing for?
• How much was she subconsciously pushing against doing that type of work without even knowing she had this internal resistance?
• What was the positive potential for this work to be part of her greater good?
• What was the potential for this work to cause suffering, self-sabotage, or self-punishment through subconscious programming that she was unaware of?

From there I worked with her High Self and my High Self to research the 32 chart system used in SRT to discern the Akashic Records and subconscious programming.

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From California to Ireland, British Columbia to Missouri, Colorado to Wisconsin, thank you for donations to the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project in Bukoba, Tanzania.

Back on May 31, I asked if you could help me raise $100 in 22 days for this special cause that I support once a year with a special fund raising effort. On June 23, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a group of very dedicated and hard working volunteers saw the Fourth Annual Tanzanian Trunk Show bloom from days of setup and months of planning.

I was especially thrilled to present a surprise check to Sister Stella Storch who is our USA liaison to the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project in Tanzania. Your donations and contributions from family and friends brought the total up to $500!

Sister Stella commented that she was thrilled and excited to be able to add this tremendous gift to whatever the trunk show was going to make to benefit the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project.

She said she didn’t know how she was ever going to thank all of you, and I said that it’s already taken care of.

In the picture above, from left to right are Carol Smith, Sister Stella Storch, and me. Carol is president of the Board of Directors of the Just Fare Market (www.justfare.org) in Fond du Lac. She partners with Sister Stella Storch in putting on the Tanzanian Trunk Show.

Janice M. Puta
Author of Pathways: Tales for the Spiritual Seeker
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As in the medical field, you energy healers know you put yourselves at great risk in dealing with some of the most aggressive and malicious issues that challenge the body, mind, and spirit of your students and clients.

That’s why the most important thing you can do in helping others is to first practice good self-care and self-protection at the beginning and end of every day.

Some of you may know where you were while your body was sleeping and what you were doing during the night. Some others may not be aware that many souls astral travel and serve in other universes and dimensions while their body is recuperating for another day on the planet Earth.

So one of your primary morning exercises should include two major elements: closing the door behind you and taking a good energy shower. There are several different ways to do this and they all work:

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There is mystery and wisdom in how water refreshes and restores the balance in your mind, body and spirit.

After a vigorous workout or several hours of yard work, you can’t wait to take a shower and feel clean and cooled off. A shower is relaxing and calming. And, a shower can be a mystical experience when you mindfully listen to the sound of the water and feel the sensations on your skin.

Then take it a step further and imagine the energy of the shower washing through your aura and energy field, flushing out the anxiety and any discordant emotions you’re aware of. Allow yourself to be totally present in body, mind and spirit to this experience. This is a very good grounding exercise and an excellent way to recoup your scattered energies.

There are times when you can’t hop into the shower if you need a quick way to come back into balance. So here are some suggestions for other ways to refresh and restore yourself with water:

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Every now and then you might have one of those days when someone misses an appointment or comes in late, doesn’t pay on time or refuses to pay their balance due, drops out of your life and has nothing good to say about you and your services or products.

More than likely you were doing pretty good or just getting by until this difficult or challenging client showed up. From that point on, things seemed to slow down, money started to dry up, or bills and expenses multiplied almost over night.

What happened? Where did that less than perfect client come from? What is the real cause and effect of clients like that on your bottom line?

Those are questions I work out with professionals and practitioners everyday in Spiritual Response Therapy. Sometimes we can easily backtrack to a trigger moment of an argument or misunderstanding, too much stress or too many demands, unreasonable expectations or taking advantage of the situation.

Even when there is no obvious event or reason to set things off into a downward spiral, we look at what these less than perfect clients are mirroring back to you, and we try to understand what part of your stuff is in that information.

That’s the comforting aspect of Spiritual Response Therapy – you get answers to your questions and insights on what you are creating with your energy field and your subconscious beliefs, perceptions, and judgments. You find out if any of your current life experience is a carry over from past lives! Are any of these less than perfect clients here to bring to your awareness some unfinished business between the two of you?

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Nature has many easy and deep lessons to teach us about who we are as communal people – connected to one another in this huge family of humanity.

Right now I’m loving the mysteries of pollination! I’m planting my green peas and bush beans, cucumbers and bell peppers in pots out on my patio. I don’t have a garden plot yet, and I like to grow things organically. My green beans were rather few and far between last year. So this year I planted more of them and gathered around some blooming flowers.

This is where it gets interesting! The flowers are for the pollinators – those insects like butterflies, bees, wasps, flies and beetles that go digging for the pollen or the nectar in the flowers. By having the marigolds and nasturtiums, vinca and salvia near my veggies, I’m hoping those beneficial insects are going to hop on over to the vegetables and do some pollinating for me there too. The wind and the rain help, but more and better pollination means higher yields and more green beans, peas, peppers, and cucumbers on my dinner table.

Just like in nature, each one of us needs helpers and healers, supporters and advocates, friends and buddies to help us bloom. We can’t do this alone! So think about this for a moment: who are the “pollinators” in your life?

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Tossing and turning all night – tired but can’t sleep? Night after night getting little or no sleep at all?

There’s a whole checklist of things going on around this very familiar ailment. Here’s some of the advice and suggestions that I’ve heard:

• Nutritionally, don’t eat any caffeine and refined sugar products like soda, chocolate, or desserts after late afternoon.
• Physically, if you haven’t been up and around getting active or some exercise during the day, your body doesn’t feel the need to sleep and recuperate.
• Medically, check your situation out with your physician. There are numerous sleep abnormalities that can be assessed and worked on.
• Emotionally, repressed anger and an unwillingness to forgive someone can keep the chatter running in your head all night. This fires up your adrenals to the point where you can’t let go and fall asleep.
• Mentally, making a list of all your “to do” for the next day inevitably gets you out of bed to write it down because you’ve come to learn it’s not as clear the next morning
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Summer brings family, friends, and all kinds of people together in everything from trips to the beach to trips to the emergency room. Some people are too much in a hurry to get somewhere and accidents happen.

Others make plans that have to be changed because the weather didn’t cooperate or someone can’t take time off from work. There are those who made a poor choice and now there are consequences that affect a whole lot of other people.

That’s the time to remember this easy and quick remedy – RICE! I don’t mean the rice you throw at the bride and groom, or the rice you fix into a pudding or side dish.

This RICE is a perfect first aid formula for any distress in mind, body, or spirit:

REST the issue. It is what it is. See it, face it, and let it go. Don’t make it bigger than it is and don’t let it ruin the rest of the day, weekend, or vacation.

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Mistakes, arguments, and moving out to get away from it all may seem to work for a few days, months or years. Eventually some of the same people and events show up in your life again, and now you have to deal with them.

That is what Jeremy called about. He wanted to move back to a place where he used to live. He wanted to get back into the network of people he used to work with. He missed the meditation center and the Tai Chi workouts that kept him in shape in body, mind and spirit. And yes, he missed some people that were good friends for a long time.

But, Jeremy also knew that he didn’t leave on the best of terms back then. Now he wants to know if we can clear the discordant energies he created, and figure out if this could work out for him.

That’s the beautiful part about doing Spiritual Response Therapy. It gives you a second chance! Some of the things Jeremy and I worked on with his High Self and my High Self were:

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On Tuesday, June 23, the annual Tanzanian Trunk Show in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin will be raising funds to support the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project in Bukoba, Tanzania.

There are many of you who are reading this post who won’t be able to make it there in person. However, your spirit of caring and compassion for the other members of your universal family are felt and understood with every donation that comes in to support this cause.

I am hoping to raise at least $100 from around the world through PayPal donations in an account designated for the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project. These funds are legally identified for a not-for-profit organization so your donations are 100% tax deductible in the USA.

At the end of Tuesday, June 22nd, I’ll have a cashier draw out the donations received. The next day at the fundraiser, I’ll present that check in your behalf to Sister Stella who is our USA liaison to the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project in Tanzania.

What began as a suggestion for a sewing cooperative evolved into a three-year school called “Empowering Women’s Future: The AIDS Orphan Sewing Project.” The Sewing Project is part of a much larger ministry to AIDS orphans called St. Maria Goretti Organization, which is recognized as a Tanzanian not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization. It provides assistance to AIDS orphans by paying school fees, giving money for food, buying school uniforms, and other services.

Many of the girls who come to the Sewing Project walk one to two hours each way — and one girl walks three hours. The sisters are looking to place her with a family closer and then give money to the family for her upkeep. The girls, most of whom are 15 to 20 years old, are willing to do this for three years in order to learn the basics of sewing, and, ultimately, to become tailors.

They have no work tables for laying out their fabric and learning their beginning stitches or cutting their patterns before using the sewing machines. Students work on the cement floors.During this training program, students are encouraged to bring to class orders from their village customers and to work on the clothing under the supervision of the instructor.

Upon graduation, they are given a sewing machine so they are fully independent. The first three graduates staff a store in town that sells their dresses and nightgowns. Occasionally, they receive a contract from the government to sew uniforms for children going to school.

One of the major motivations for these girls to diligently study in the Sewing Project and to graduate is the prospect of creating an income to buy food for their family and to help educate their siblings.

Through the Sewing Project, more than thirty girls in their teens or early 20s now have a chance for a modest existence.

Here’s how you can help. Follow this link to the secure online PayPal site and make any donation you can afford to give. No amount is too small. Then ask your family and friends to go and make a donation. If 100 people each send $1.00 by June 22nd, we will have reached our goal.

Read the complete story of the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project.

Make a secure donation online through PayPal to the AIDS Orphan Sewing Project. Then come back to this post and check the comments to see how close we are getting to our $100 goal.

Thanks so much for sharing your care, concern, and compassion.

Janice M. Puta
Spiritual Teacher and Energy Practitioner
Author of Pathways: Tales for the Spiritual Seeker