Now (in Chapter 7 of her memoir, Beyond the Great Abyss), there are two men in Becky’s increasingly complicated life, Ricky and Victor. This is not a good idea with a paranoid crocodile, as Victor has been seen symbolically by Becky’s intuitive counselor. Becky’s father however, has now also suddenly become highly intuitive, and he provides wise advice. This sudden transformation occurs because of a medical trauma where Becky’s father loses his logical left brain function, which allows his natural right brain intuitive ability to surface uninhibited by the critical, disbelieving left brain. Dad tells Becky, “There is a very susceptible young girl, but there is also a brilliant 12 year old to take care of her.” These are two sides of Becky, with the older version able to stand back and be more objective. This is a useful skill for all of… [Read More]
Workbook Chapter 6: A Conquering Savior, or a Crocodile?
Becky meets a new man, Victor, in Chapter 6 of her memoir, Beyond the Great Abyss, and she is swept away with excitement and hope. But a consultation with Jeanne, her intuitive counselor, bursts this bubble of hope, as Jeanne has visions of crocodiles and crashing trains. Victor has a devastating trauma in his past that caused intense pain and rage which he eventually buried deep within himself in order to survive and go on. Crocodiles are reptiles, Jeanne explains, and you can never really communicate with a reptile. Is there trauma in your past (or with someone close to you) that was so painful you must close yourself off from it? Does that long ago trauma continue to affect your life and relationships with people today? Most of us do have painful experiences or feelings we have… [Read More]
Workbook Chapter 5: Soul Mates
Searching for your soul mate? Love is the ultimate quest, one that makes life worth living and feeds your soul, but it is also one of the most difficult things to achieve long-term. Love must be satisfying and rewarding for both people, and you must love yourself as much as another to create this mutuality. Boundaries are what we’re talking about here! In Chapter 5 of Becky’s memoir Beyond the Great Abyss, Becky’s relationship with Ricky has become very intense. Her self-destructive behaviors are escalating and her dreams are again warning her potential to “lose herself” in another person. Keith DeOrio, M.D., Becky’s highly intuitive medical doctor, advises her to take the homeopathic remedy Phosphorus, a classic remedy for people with “poor boundaries.” (See Workbook Introduction for how to use this workbook, which… [Read More]
Workbook Chapter 4: Love in a Magical World
It’s summer time in Chapter 4 of the workbook based on Becky’s memoir Beyond the Great Abyss; and this is the best time to meditate on the beach where the sand you are sitting on, which is basically millions of tiny crystals, will amplify your natural intuitive abilities. Find a quiet time or place, bury your feet in the sand, close your eyes and relax, letting your mind drift. If you have one or two larger crystals to hold in your hands, even better. Can you feel the energy of the crystals pulsing and throbbing through your hands? Focus on this, or on the sound of the waves, the feel of the sun on your warm skin, or your own rhythmic breathing, and see what wisdom your intuition… [Read More]
Workbook Chapter 3: The Pied Piper of Men
In Chapter 3 of Becky’s memoir, Beyond the Great Abyss, Becky, now the Pied Piper of Men (as seen in a vision by her intuitive counselor), meets a new and exciting man… Ricky. She also reads the book Awakening Intuition, by Mona Lisa Shultz, M.D., Ph. D., and realizes that her sometimes disturbing dreams are sending her an intuitive message about why she is compulsively overeating. Intuition is the ability to receive information from the energy around you. One of the easiest ways for most people to begin doing that is through their dreams, as this pathway bypasses the logical left brain, which often blocks this inherent ability in all human beings. (See Workbook Introduction post for how to use this workbook).
Workbook Chapter 2: Pippi Longstocking
As Chapter 2 unfolds, Becky is living alone in her house with her new puppy “Sugar.” Jeanne Mayell, her intuitive counselor, has a vision of Becky as Pippi Longstocking: an orphan living alone with her animals but very strong, independent, lovable, friendly, free-spirited, adventurous and joyful. However, Becky is taking risks in her search for romance…. She is advised to take the homeopathic remedy Tuberculinum, famous for romantic longings combined with impulsive, risky behavior. (See Workbook Introduction for how to use this workbook). Intuition Development Exercise: How do you find the deeper inner wisdom of what is right for you that we all possess? Your feelings are one big clue. But sometimes you are not even sure how you feel. Taking the time to sit quietly and meditate on an… [Read More]
Workbook Chapter 1: Beginnings and Endings
As Chapter 1 begins, Becky is one month from the final moment of divorce/separation from her husband of 23 years. She is “petrified” realizing that her greatest fear in life is “being alone.” She is also finishing a course of treatment with the homeopathic remedy Aurum, famous for long-standing, severe, and intractable depression. (See Workbook Introduction, the previous post, for how to use this workbook). Intuition Development Exercise: What are some of your fears, or your greatest fear? How do you feel about being alone? List 5 or more of your fears, then choose one, meditate for a few minutes on the thought and the feelings that come up, and write about it. Try to do your meditation and writing in… [Read More]
Introducing The Workbook
Beyond the Great Abyss is my story of transformation through natural health and energy medicine. What you see in life and what will be drawn to you and stick to you is what is already in your head. That is your energy, and that is why it is so important to let go of negative energy. It clouds your perception and experience of the world and it becomes a self-perpetuating prophesy of your future. An example of how your state of mind determines your perception is the range of reader reactions to my book. One woman found it so “sad and depressing” that she couldn’t finish it. She was convinced that I was being abused by my boyfriend and that I “just kept letting it happen… [Read More]
Our only planet Eaarth
I’ve been reading eaarth, by Bill McKibben, and it’s a very scary read for the first 3/4 of the book, which is why I avoided reading it for the last year or so since it came out. It took some regular and vigorous urging from Jeanne Mayell, the intuitive counselor who helped guide me safely through the wild and crazy last 4 years (see my memoir Beyond the Great Abyss), to get me to read it. I knew it would be upsetting and depressing because it’s about global warming and you’d have to be an ostrich with your head in the sand not to have noticed that our weather is going crazy. Epic rains and floods, droughts and fires, millennial hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, snowstorms, etc., and then the resulting crop… [Read More]
Kindness, Love and Empathy…
… make the world go round. In just the last week, in two separate places, I have seen the same message, and it’s the same message as in my book; nothing matters more than love, kindness, empathy and compassion. A Boston Globe article headlined: How kindness built civilization, (Cook, K10, June 5, 2011) sums up what Duke University scientist and researcher Brian Hare concludes is the “Wisdom of the Dog: to be smart, first play nice.” He goes on to say, civilization developed because of “the ability to tolerate each other, to be kind enough, and patient enough, that we could cooperate more deeply. This led to language, tools, and civilization.”
