The Discomfort Zone
In the body — your most powerful, portable divination tool — it can be difficult to distinguish between the discomfort of fear versus excitement. In order to grow, to expand, to develop, to pursue a higher calling or to manifest great change, feeling some discomfort is inevitable. Especially in the context of taking on a Big Goal, being nudged outside your Comfort Zone is more the spirit of Ally than Warning. How can you tell the difference between fear and butterflies? When you start to doubt and wonder: “What if this isn’t intuition…?” “What if the fearful

Archers and Fletchers
You know, all those Archery metaphors… In the archetypal actions of setting intentions, filling your quiver, prepping your missiles, target practice, reaching goals, hitting your marks — do you tend to focus your efforts on engaging your inner Archer, or do you emphasize — even get stuck in — the role of the Fletcher? The Archer can’t shoot without the work of the Fletcher; the Fletcher’s work languishes in obscurity without the actions of the Archer. Ready You can spend an infinite amount of time and energy in the “

Professional Intuitive Training
I’m very excited to announce my new Professional Intuitive Training, Certification and Mentoring program! I’m relaunching the Automatic Intuition site with: My existing Personal Courses in Automatic Intuitive Response™ A Professional Training and Mentoring Program A new Automatic Intuition blog Over the past year, the group of Shift Your Spirits readers, intuitive counseling clients, and marketing/business clients who are also professional intuitives and healing arts practitioners has grown very fast. I wanted to create a separate website specifically dedicated to this topic. In addition to training an

11-11-11
Last week, we talked about entering a powerful new creative period. This month, November 2009, there is an auspicious energy from the stand-point of numerology — elevens everywhere. 2009 can be reduced (2+0+0+9) to 11, rendering the entire month of November an 1111 — a master manifestation number that indicates doorways opening, a creative portal for setting new intentions, and particularly a time of inspiration and illumination. What new ideas are coming in for you right now? What are you inspired to begin? What potential first, decisive, action steps are you b

The New Way Forward
It seems we’ve reached the Edge of Something Big and New. Do you feel like: You’ve outgrown your life? Those Things you’ve been semi-successfully repressing or ignoring in recent years have gone from uncomfortable to unbearable? You’re literally being forced to confront your baggage, once and for all? Some clarity of purpose is required — it’s increasingly urgent, yet elusive? The Clock has run out on your old perceptions? You’ve come to the End of a Chapte