My Everyday Mystic by Jan Puta: blog for the soul

Sparrows are small and swift, nothing colorful or fancy, but they flourish! Whenever the sparrows are taking turns in your birdbath or sitting around the rim as companions and buddies, take notice.

In that moment, allow yourself to walk through a spiritual exercise that anyone can do.

• Relax into stillness and allow yourself to enter the sacred space of your soul consciousness.
• Recall the scripture verse that says: “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matthew 6:26)
• Sit in that feeling of trust in a Higher Power and gratitude for the wellbeing you already have.
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Even though Spiritual Response Therapy is primarily a spiritual healing process, you can use SRT to access and clear the core energies creating the physical challenges.

This awareness on the part of the client, and this release of the unresolved discordant energies, speed up the natural healing process.

Sometimes you can’t work with someone in person because of his or her fears or beliefs about channeling, using a pendulum, or working with a healing modality outside of the conventional Western medicine.

And yet, there is usually a very conscious soul in the family or relationship that knows and trusts this work has great value. That is how I was invited to do the clearing work for Randy. His sister asked me to do whatever I could for him after sharing his situation.

Randy’s physical challenges include issues with his hands, wrists, and fingers since he suffered injuries at work. He’s not able to downhill ski, water ski, or handle a sailboat like he used to. Without some of these fun things in his life, Randy resents even more the fact that he was forced to retire early because of his injuries.

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Whenever you see a spider, do you run for the fly swatter, or react to it as something repulsive and terrifying?

Did you know that some mystical traditions assign symbolic messages to insects, including spiders?

One of the messages from the spider is balance – balance in the construction of its web, and balance while walking across it.

It’s mystical significance reminds you to balance your past and future by letting go of what has past, looking forward to but not escaping into the future, and grounding yourself firmly in honoring the present.

As you may have guessed, the second message from the spider is creativity! From the shape of its body to the beauty of its web, the spider awakens creativity. With a body shaped like the number 8, the spider symbolizes the infinite possibilities of creation. With the ethereal web, its message is “you are an infinite being who will continue to weave patterns of life and living throughout time.” (Totems)

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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 Click here to continue reading How Spiritual Response Therapy Works with Sleepless Nights

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

Apathy, skepticism, and spiritual addiction are on opposite ends of the spectrum as indicators that your crown or seventh chakra need healing and balance.

Your seventh chakra is your connection to your spiritual nature. It allows you to integrate spirituality into your physical life, and to achieve a personal relationship with the Divine.

How do you know when this chakra is being blocked and under stress? Watch for these signs of trouble, and then get chakra balancing and healing through conscious intervention.

The central issue of your seventh or crown chakra is awareness and self-knowledge. The goal here is wisdom, knowledge and consciousness. The lessons are about learning your spiritual power and your relation to the Divine. So when you continually balance and harmonize your crown chakra with your chakra system, you experience spiritual enlightenment and union with God.

And when your seventh chakra is unbalanced or blocked, you may experience:

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Achieve balance and personal freedom through the power of self-forgiveness!

I only recommend resources to you that I personally use and appreciate for their mystical experience and ability to help raise spiritual consciousness.

Anna Casper’s guided visualization CD truly meets both of these criteria. Her CD gives you the keys to unlock your personal freedom through the power of self-forgiveness.

Feel with your heart as the magic of forgiveness transforms your life experience from one of inner conflict to one of inner harmony, balance, and peace!

Immerse yourself in this sacred ambient music and tuning forks to cleanse, clarify, and purify your energy system into a state of white light by “Breathing the Magic of Color” (track 2) through your chakra system.

After you’ve created the space for blissful magic to occur in your life experience, relax and revitalize as you take the “Magic Carpet Ride into Forgiveness” (track 3) to a place deep within your heart. There discover freedom, focus, creative flow, and a deeper connection with your inner being.

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When you pay attention to your intuition, engage your imagination in self-reflection, and investigate your psychic perceptions for accuracy, you’re in harmony with the energy center above your eyes known as the sixth chakra or “third eye.”

Located in the center of your forehead, this is your energy center for intuition as well as for intellect and reasoning.

This chakra involves your mental abilities and your psychological skill at evaluating your beliefs and attitudes.

The main lesson of this chakra is to learn wisdom – to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.

If this energy center is traumatized or shut down, you may be experiencing:

• Fears of being inadequate or dumb,
• Fears that someone is going to find out who you really are and that will end your marriage, your relationship, your job, your career because part of you does not believe in your essential goodness,
• Fears of being haunted, possessed, or victimized by beings not in a physical body.

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The right to speak your truth, be who you are, and live your life to the fullest can be compromised if you loose your self-esteem or surrender your personal power.

At first it sees like a trivial thing – giving in and doing whatever someone else wants to keep the peace or to make friends. The more you give in, the more they demand. Eventually you find yourself trapped into doing whatever you have to do to be accepted into the gang, the club, or the clique.

Like the characters in the spiritual allegory, “The City of Chains,” you’ll feel like you’ve got chains around your neck, wrist, and ankles. Chains that keep you from saying the things you’d like to share because you think no one will listen to you. Chains that keep you from offering your skills and talents because you’ve heard that there’s always someone out there who will take advantage of you. Chains that keep you from moving ahead because you’re afraid you’ll make a mistake.

And like them, you’ll go on pretending that this is normal and just something to put up with.

Until you see people showing up around you with such freedom, joy, and happiness that you can’t wait to find out what they know that you don’t. They know how to unlock the chains! They know how to regain their self-esteem and personal power.

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Are You Falling In or Out of Love?
Do You Want to Keep What You Have or Start Over?
Day After Day, How Do You Get This “Love Thing” Right?

No matter which of these questions speaks your language, you’ll find more where that came from in the Love and Relationship class that Janice Puta is teaching.

She’s going to take you inside the psychology and spirituality of love and relationships in a way that is both fun and sacred.

You’ll discover…

• Why love and lovers are running away from you as fast as they can (and how to turn them around and bring them back);
• Why the same people in your family push your hot buttons over and over again (and a great technique for mending fences and patching up relationships);
• A step-by-step process to get unplugged from people who trigger you, use you, abuse you (the better you get at doing this, the quicker you recover, and the less pain and grief you experience);
• If your ex or current partner/spouse has some unfinished business with you from a recent past life (how to wrap it up, get it done, and move ahead);
• What twin flames and soul mates are (ways to keep the ones you want, and gently remove yourself from the ones you don’t);
• How to deal with deception, betrayal, abandonment, and separation in relationships (and how to use those situations to transform yourself and others);
• And much much more!

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Imagine if there was a way to know why things happen the way they do!
Imagine if you could choose how to live the rest of your life!
And if there is a way to heal the past, would you want to know what it is?

Attend a free demonstration of how Spiritual Response Therapy works.

Here is some of what you can discover about SRT:
• How to manage your personal energy,
• What gives beginners a quantum leap forward in energy work,
• What past lives are really all about,
• How to get repeatable results in healing your personal energy centers,
• Diagnose your own psychic wounds and know how to maximize your healing resources,
• Identify and clear subconscious blocks and self-limiting beliefs;
• Get immediate and effective relief in resolving phobias and trauma,
• Speed up the learning curve in your lifetime,
• Give yourself a new lease on life,

… and so much more!

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May 6th is the last day to save 50% on a hot workshop teaching you how to write magnetic goals and eliminate procrastination to work less and earn more in your small business.

Award winning entrepreneur, Cathy Demers, leads a fast-paced four week teleseminar that says it all in the title: Dream to Done – Define Your Vision & Achieve Your Magnetic Goals!

I’ve taken this class and loved the convenience of learning top shelf information in the comfort of my own home. The replays are there anytime I need to review something. Almost 100 pages of study guides and templates walk me through everything I need to know about writing magnetic goals, charging them up, and creating realistic action steps.

But the good stuff doesn’t stop there. Imagine understanding the psychology of procrastination and how to catch it in its nasty little mind games! Imagine getting the inside story about “measure what you treasure” and discovering how your mind naturally attracts more of whatever you focus on!

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