One day last week Ana Joy, my almost five year old, asked, “Mom, do angels ever become people?” Based on my experience with having met some Angels in ny Intuitive work over the years, I replied: ”Most stay Angels, Ana, but some decide to put clothes on and become human beings.” She paused and then said, “I know someone who did that.” “Really!” I responded, “Who?” She said “Me.”
Underneath our clothes, inside our skin, who we are is a mystery. I have the privelege of looking into the hearts of clients and what I see is often not apparent in my first conversations with them. Some people feel like saints to me as I get to know them, and then I look intuitively and find that they are quite lonely or depressed inside. Others seem to have little to offer or say, and when I look inside, I see a brilliant light or an extraordinary gift. What is in common in all the Readings I’ve done over the years is that whenever I describe what I see, the client most often grins or nods in a kind of private way that says “I know, but I don’t say.” Clients often respond with some amazement -sometimes about the information they receive that matches their own experience so closely. More often, however, I think it is the miracle that someone sees, acknowledges, and Knows them - recongizes them to their very core - that touches them deeply.
How often have you felt Known? In a world where we have the luxury of waiting in long lines for $4 coffee at any time during the day, we still fail to find truly receive each other. What would it be like if we had the intention to receive everyone we encountered in a day? When I say “receive” I mean that we intend to open up to hear and see the gift that this unique individual is to us and perhaps to others. This is, I believe, in imitation of our Creator, Who I suspect is fascinated with us - with what we choose to do with the gifts we’ve been given and the relationships around us. This Creator can be experienced by some of us as very personal - One who cares as much about helping us find our misplaced keys or our lost purse, as how we are coping with dying loved ones. This Creator must receive us as fully as S/He accepts us. What would like be like if we cared just that much about each other…
When Dr. Oz asked me on his radio show what the connection was between past lives and current work life, I told him a story about one of my clients who is the senior leader of a mid-sized company. I knew the woman’s name, her feeling that she had recently started to like her work less, and that sometimes she felt uncharacteristically tired. She wanted to know what was behind her feelings.
After I closed my eyes and heard her say her full name, I immediately saw a symbol of a very large, firm stick, which had been planted there a long time. This stick was accompanied by a sense of determination and discipline. A vaguer image around the stick was a file cabinet, neatly marked, and infinitely efficient. There were hard edged objects precisely placed, and I noted no sense of softness or even flexibility. Everything in her seemed “fixed.”
It was apparent that she defined herself by her ability to fix almost anything and/or anyone by focus, force, discipline and determination. As I brushed aside this image, I immediately felt a sense of exhaustion. The next thing that appeared was an image of Quan Yin, who is called the female version of the Buddha and represents the heart of compassion. I hesitated a moment, not knowing if this woman was Christian and might be offended by what I was about to say, but I plunged in anyway, committed to being honest about what I saw.
“You are very hard on yourself,” I said. “It is a strategy you have used to earn love and to survive when there was no one to help you. You have perfected this strategy and used it to excel in your field. Now, however, you are being invited onto a kinder path – where the challenge is to befriend and find compassion for yourself. Quan Yin is present with you (I explained who she is). You had another life with her where you were tending her garden – devoted to her. (this story unfolded as Quan Yin’s image lit up) She has returned to you with blessings, wanting to help and guide you toward self-compassion, which will result in more satisfying relationships at work and even change the way you prioritize and focus on work. In addition you will feel less exhaustion when you stop funding this strategy of earning the love you already possess – and that possesses you. I facilitated some energetic shifts that resulted in Sandra saying she suddenly felt calmer. Then she said something quite curious:
“I have a two foot, jade statue of Quan Yin in my garden and I never knew why I was so attracted to her. I never knew anything about her until now. I was just drawn to buy the statue and put her in my garden.”
So, Dr. Oz, that’s one thing that other lifetimes have to do with current work life!