There are so many reasons why we do not forgive.  Old loves that are gone seem closer if we hold onto the hurt they left us with.  If we forgive them, we let go of them, and sometimes we aren’t ready to do that.

Here in America, our heart is talked about incessantly. However there is a disconnect between the HEATLH of our heart (where the words heart- attack, congestive heart failure, heart disease, and other gems live) and the hearts passions (represented by such terms as my heart’s desire, love of my heart, affairs of the heart, broken hearted). The earth functions on an “action and reaction” plane, yet the connection between the verbal stating of such comments as “I am going to harden my heart “, “I am broken hearted” and the good old “without you I cannot live” and heart disease has not been established.  Both subjects are mentioned, discussed, felt and experienced, but few doctors would admit to a diseased heart being caused by a broken heart.

In my work with people, I find many who are actually dying with congestive heart failure because they have not forgiven someone or something.  The heart is a muscle, and if it isn’t exercised both physically and emotionally, it can get out of shape, harden, and no longer work well enough to sustain our bodies. It is important to remember that here on planet earth we live in a world of duality, where there is good and evil, light and dark, big and small, broken hearts and broken blood vessels, statements that define exact opposites that very well could be different parts of the same elephant. It is comforting to accept this, and realize there is another place higher above, where the very things that seem opposite of each other are parts of the same whole.  We cannot ignore the effects our emotions have on our heart without paying for it down the road.

When we don’t forgive someone, it hardens a part of us. It also ties us to the moment when this incident happened, which is in the past.  Having struggled with the subject of forgiveness for years, it isn’t a popular way to handle things in our present culture.  This is the age of revenge, of getting even.  The number of patients with heart disease correspond with burgeoning accuracy. The heart is a muscle to be exercised, to be worked out just like your bicep muscle. When you don’t forgive, the heart contracts, and stays there. Not forgiving connects the heart to fear, anger, bitterness and revenge. Past eras in the United States have handled forgiving and letting go in more gracefully and healthier way than we do today.

When Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in the 60’s, his family immediately forgave his killer, knowing that if they didn’t, the man would have killed more than just Bobby. The family grieved, openly forgave, and moved into the present moment.  They knew it would be a travesty to Bobby’s life work to go on a revenge hunt. No one had more of a reason to be full of vengeful hatred than the Kennedy’s, yet they forgave, and in that forgiving healed themselves and the nation.

When a horrible thing happens to us, we always have a choice.  Many people think that they don’t, perhaps because the choices are a long shot, or not palatable or they are driven totally by their emotions.  However, you ALWAYS have a choice. That is how why we are here: to experience free will, which means making choices.

Your choice includes how you think, how you feel about the incident. Whether or not to stay in that moment for the next 50 years, or let go of it, cut your losses. Do not allow the incident to take one more drop of time, energy, emotion or future.  For that is absolutely what unforgiveness does, it steals the future from you.

Forgiveness is not about the other person: it is about you.  It is you saying that you care so little about the other person you will never think of them again. Think about that statement. In fact, do what I did, MEMORIZE that statement.

If you are holding a grudge- think about it now. Think of all the time you have spent thinking about the issue, being angry, thinking about getting back at the person, evening the score, what exactly the score entails.  Now, realize that is time you will never get back. It is time you could have used to create something; to take a friend, spouse or child for a walk or to the zoo, time that you could have spent LIVING in the present moment instead of stewing about the past.  Because that is what every unforgiveness is about: THE PAST.  We carry it into the future in our minds.

A newly announced intuitive, I was at a drugstore one day picking up a prescription.  The pharmacy tech was visibly upset, so I asked her what was wrong. She replied that her mother was in the hospital diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and only a few days to live.

I said I was sorry to hear of her woes, and I hoped for the best for her mother.  I then left the pharmacy, and walked towards the store exit.  Halfway down an aisle, I got received a download. All of a sudden I knew about the woman and her mother. I went back to the pharmacy and told the woman to call me, that I had information for her.

We spoke for three hours that night. Debbie’s spirit guides were lively, pushy, and concrete. Her mother needed to forgive someone that was why she was in heart failure.

I then learned that Debbie’s brother had been murdered, and that her mother had never forgiven the murderer.  The guides said this is why her mother’s heart was failing; it had hardened from lack of forgiveness.  Debbie was told she had to go to the hospital and convince her mother to drop all her grievances and forgive everyone in her life, especially the murderer.

Debbie had never stood up to her mother, and was in no hurry to change. The guides blatantly stated that if Debbie did not do this for her mother, she might as well stay at home the rest of her life in the Barrcolounger eating Cheetos.  If she didn’t stand up to her mother now, she would never do anything of consequence.  I felt like an incredibly mean thug, channeling information I myself would never say out loud. Debbie was a crying, sobbing, mess when we got off the phone, and I felt like a heel.  (I always say what the guides say pretty much verbatim, because I don’t KNOW what they are talking about enough to edit it, and the fact that they work with God lets me give them the benefit of the doubt. The exception to this is when I am shown graphic videos: most of the time I see no need to pass them on blow by blow).

For the next two weeks I didn’t see Debbie. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she didn’t talk to me again, the session was that rough. Amazingly, when I did see her, she was beaming.

“My mother went home the day after I talked to her about forgiving” Debbie told me, “and she has gone from death’s door, with congestive heart failure class 4, to a class 2. Her forgiving led the way to a magical recovery”.

Debbie stayed home and cried the whole day after we talked, then she got up her nerve and talked to her mom. The results impacted both of their lives significantly and permanently.

Debbie’s mom is still going strong, seven years later.

Debbie’s mother was my first client saved by forgiving, but not the last.  Many clients have had heart disease, only to see it magically get better when they forgive and turn the evidence of the situation over to God.

This where seeing an intuitive instead of a therapist is a far better choice. An intuitive channels your guides, so knows what your situation is & how you feel about it. The therapist asks to see you for 6 months to find out about your situation, then ASKS you how you feel about it.  A therapist can & will talk about your issues ad nausea.  But a difference in your life is made only when you turn your attitudes, emotions and the situation over to God, asking him to take it from you & replace where it was with the love & light of God.

“You are so powerful, you can chose bondage if you wish” Abraham, as channeled thru Ester Hicks, “Ask & it is Given

This brings up a very important point. We co-create our reality.  So- if we believe we are in charge of our lives, that we are victims and incidents happen TO us instead of THRU us, then that will be what we see. Again, we fragment and disconnect from the true reality, the cause and affect of the universe, and that energy comes back to us seemingly random, like a car accident or being attacked by a mugger.  Now that I have accepted that life is cause & effect, I see it everyday functioning in my life. I know the freedom from turning an incident over to God, and letting go of judgment.  My believe is that we are not here on earth to judge ourselves or others, and that is an action best left to God.  I have had incidents in my life that have effected me greatly, and I turn them over to God, without judging the people involved, only to look at them later and not have the anger or emotion.

Just because animals cannot speak English does not mean they cannot communicate. I get messages from animals in a variety of ways. Younger animals tend to send more pictures, and as they get older around people they send more words. Wild animals will send pictures and feelings.  When I am channeling medical information, I feel the way the animal feels in its body, and will feel the “leg pain” or shoulder pain myself. The animals that live with us have distinct personalities within a species, for example dogs do not lie, and cats tend to “get even” when you upset them, something most dogs are not capable of.

How do you do sessions with cats and dogs over the phone? What should I expect?

With phone sessions, I pick up the vibration of the pet over the phone line.  Many “fear” issues come from the past with animals, and yet they have the ability to have their energy cleared and to live totally in present time. Humans and dolphins are the only animals that cry. Cats & dogs often get their feelings out by peeing. Many of them have what is similar to a posttraumatic stress response–they keep overlaying the past onto the present. When their energy is cleared, this goes away. That takes away the urge, the desire, and then they will give up the behavior. Cats may have a totally different spin on behavior. A client’s cat was peeing on her boyfriend’s clothes because the cat wanted them to break up.  Ann evaluates and treats each unique situation.  Pets see and react to earthbound spirits. This can cause behavior issues. Cats, dogs, horses can manifest emotions and situations repressed by their humans.

Have you always been able to talk to animals?

When I was six, I had a cat meet me in a very obscure place in the barn at precisely 4:30 only on weekdays.  I was hearing “you are to be an animal psychic” for years. In retrospect, this was a gift that had not manifested earlier simply because I didn’t try.

Will I have to make my other pets leave the house when we do a reading?

I have read thousands of dogs and cats at humane society functions, without the pet being present. The physical presence makes no difference. Animals from the other side may come thru also.

Do you need a picture?

Many people ask me if I need pictures. It is not crucial, because I see in my mind what the animals around you look like. If we have limited time, and you are an accomplished animal parent, it does help to give me a picture so I do not go thru the requests of all your other pets before the one you want to focus on steps forward.

Can I talk to my own animals?

Absolutely! As I state in another post, 93% of human communication is non-verbal.  This is a topic that needs to be covered completely, so I will devote another post to this topic.

Below are pictures of my fur family~ hamming it up for the camera~

a little privacy please!

Spike & Elvis whispering amongst themselves"ready for a walk, a treat, an adventure!

Lucy loves rolling on the bed

*What is the normal length of an intuitive session?

They are book ed at half hour and hour sessions. For a first session I would recommend at least an hour. The wildcard is that being a medium, some times beings on the other side come thru. If that happens, you can always book another appointment.

*The RosezellasWay session information was different from what ended up happening. Why?

The very fact that you were given the information you were can create another alternative reality. The simple fact is the future is open to change. If you stay the same as you are when the reading occurs, and do not deviate, the prediction is most likely to occur. We Have free will, the future is open to change because it is co-created by you, other individuals and God. You always have more than one option If you think that isn’t so, you simply aren’t seeing all the full picture

*Why does my love life seem so much ROSIER in psychic readings than in real life?

Angels and guides do not live on our plane, but a higher one in which there is no fear or time. Therefore, the rosier outcome comes easy for them. Plus they believe in you. Therefore, you are going to take the chance for love, i.e. not back down with fear.

*I got really sick and almost died 3 weeks after the reading. Why I get warned?

Because of free will, we only get guidance WHEN WE ASK FOR IT. We also came here to experience certain things, and guides don’t get in the way of free will. If we need to learn a lesson, they don’t interfere.  Angels & guides clamor over each other, trying to get your attention so they can come thru. Sometimes to hear them, you have to let go of the hand of fear. Some lessons we have to experience, just like you have to graduate from forth grade.

*It seemed like Ann talked about herself a lot during the reading. Why?

Like Jesus, spirit uses metaphor and comparison to teach. I am often shown an incident in my life that acts as a metaphor for what you are going thru. This is so you know I am not talking down to you, but sharing an experience. The guides & angels always refer to a scenario for a reason, even though it may not currently be apparent. Guides are with you constantly, and know the best way to describe a situation accurately.

*How does Ann receive information?

(I am clairaudient, clairsentient and clairvoyant) My primary senses are feeling & hearing but I  also see and gets smells. I am empathic, which means I channels the actual feelings of the person she has contacted. Most of the time when I  “see something” – it is a picture in my  mind. I see pictures of what a client is thinking of, describing or making a metaphor about. I  may see a picture of a ring, if the person is talking about leaving a ring for someone behind.

Medical Intuitive

When working with clients, information about their health usually surfaces. I scan the body to see areas of conflict or disease. Information is usually given on what is causing a “dis-ease” and a path or information to get on the path to health. I  believe that issues start in the spiritual and emotional body, then if not resolved manifest in the emotional body. Some issues have spiritual solutions, others physical ones. Having spent two decades in the medical field, I  respect and understands traditional medicine.  If there is a physical cure for a spiritual illness, it will manifest again because the core root of the illness is not resolved. At times knowledge and treatment in both realms are what is optimal.  At the very least, you will know more about what is happening with your body, and why.

*what did Ann learn about the metaphysical connection and her chronic pain?

I am what is called an intuitive empathy, and I often take on other peoples pain without knowing it. Unfortunately, I feel it. I also had a network of etheric connections, chakra issues and energy drains, all causing pain. I currently clear my energy twice a day, have a system of light boundaries, cut etheric cords, take salt soaks and receive Cranal Sacral Massage twice a month. With all that, I am on minimal medication, and still have some pain.  Nowhere near what I had when I first started on this program. The great gift of empathy had been destroying my life because of ignorance.

*Can you help others be free of their pain?

I reduced her pain by 85%, and can give you the tools to lower your pain too, from many different source modalities. While not all pain comes from the source that my pain did, most have a spiritual-emotional component.

I waited till  I was almost debilitated by pain to make changes in my life. Part of the reason for that is that I was taught to “tough it out”, and that you “made a goal” no matter how you felt or what you sacrificed.

By honoring our higher self and our connection with God, we can lead a life of spiritual growth and joy, versus trying to “survive” in this world that can be brutal without a spiritual connection.  However, we were never left a book on how to interact with our guides, spirit, or create our own positive reality, so most of us are stuck running tapes from our family of origin or community. These are soul contracts handed down from one generation to another, that function fully in our lives without us even knowing they exist. These contracts must be uncovered, made null and void, and replaced with another more life affirming positive contract so that the old contract does not come back to fill that space.

Live a life of joy; instantaneous we all have goals and purposes here on this earth that come from our higher selves. We are all meant to be living that purpose, but many times we lose touch of how we feel, what we want, what we feel passionate about. Many of us had it beaten into us that we have to be “responsible”, (doesn’t that equate joyless in some dictionaries?). That we have to carry the responsibilities of others and fill them before our own.

Spirit guides

* How many guides do we have? How do I contact them, and how does it work?

Thirty five to forty spirit guides are with you twenty-four hours a day. There are also  “special teams”. For example, if you are moving, or looking for a job, you can ask for “Relocation guides & angels”.  Guides are on your side. They know how you think, how hard you struggle, and are never negative, because fear and failure do not exist in their world.

Mediumship

How do I get my information?

What made you think of trying to be a medium?

I wanted to learn from Doreen Virtue, and the mediumship class was the only thing she offered in Arizona that year. Imagine my surprise when I could talk expertly to the other side! It was totally be accident that I found out I was a medium. I took the class to try to learn how to meditate. I still am iffy on the meditation skils.

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NEW CONTEST: WHAT DO YOU DO BECAUSE You Love your pet SO MUCH???

Some interesting shifts are happening in the United States. 65% of all households now have pets. The term “furkid” is becoming a household word.  More money is now spent on animal products than is spent on kid’s toys. Even though we are in a recession, the money spent on dogs and cats increased by two million dollars last year.

I am bringing these facts to light because there is a TON of puppy love and cat adoration  going on in this world. I think it is BARELY being reported. As Eckert Tolle states in his book, “they (cats & dogs)keep millions of people SANE”

How much do you love your dog? How much does your cat mean to you? Do you buy the best premium dog food, or feed the disgustingly slimy marrowbones because your dog loves them? Do you leave the TV on when you leave the house each day so your cat won’t be lonely? Do you eat an inexpensive lunch each day so you can afford to have your dog in doggie day care? A majority of travelers have admitted to calling and leaving messages on the answering machine so that their pet could hear their voice!

When I travel, I only stay at hotels that take dogs, so my girls can come along. In fact, that is what the magazine Fido is all about: traveling with your dog & leaving no dog behind! Do you go to the drive thru window at the pharmacy so that your dogs can come along with you on the ride? Do you sleep crunched up on your bed so that your dog can spread out and be comfortable?

What about friends? IF you have friends that don’t have dogs, do you still hang out with them? Do you skip having drinks with your friends to take your dogs to the dog park?  I drive around with Lucy sitting on my lap & the drivers side window down so she can feel the breeze on her face. EVEN in the 100-degree Tucson Arizona weather!

Please finish this simple sentence: “I LOVE MY PET (dog, cat) SO MUCH, that I…

I have given you some examples of my version of puppy love/cat crazy. Give me yours! Each answer will be included in a drawing for the following 5 (yes, count them FIVE) prizes:

1.   Pet charm

2.   Paw print plate

3.   Car crystals

4.   Kind hearted woman cat plate

Shopping, brought forth a major panic. It was palpatable in all of us.  We maxed out our credit cards competing to be the “biggest shopper”: feeding the void. Trouble with it was, I would feel a down the next day, very similar, in fact EXACTLY similar to when I would partake in an illegal substance with a college boyfriend. A football player, we would stay up all night partying and “having fun”. Trouble is, the next day, usually Sunday, would be worthless and not only would I not get anything done, I would feel like I shaved my cat, and killed it with a long lingering death. I would feel lower than worm scum.

I come about hoarding and saving honestly. I grew up on 360 acres, with parents from the depression who never threw anything away, never knew when they may need something that they weren’t currently using.  Farm equipment, worn past the point of being functional, was hauled out to the woods and parked in a row: you never knew when you may need it for parts or have cause to get it running again. Old bread sacks were cleaned and reused instead of buying plastic bags, tissues were too much of a luxury to buy. We would can vegetables in the summer for weeks at a time, and semi-prescribed to the belief that you needed to have five years worth of food available in the house at all times- you know, in case there was a storm.

The house I grew up in is fairly large- 4 bedrooms upstairs and a full apartment on the side with a kitchen, living room, stairs and bedroom. My whole life we never had the number of people to fill each bedroom, so there always was a spare room to store stuff and hide it away, just in case you may need it or use it further down the road.

The other hoarding reason is one you don’t think of when you are younger: That you simply have outgrown the usefulness of some of your stuff. Case in point, the cd tower and cd collection.  I made a point to collect a library of music, and some of these albums-cds- whatever it is we call it now- I have purchased in several formats:  cd, album, 8track (yes I am admitting I had 8 tracks) and cassette. Now, they sit in the corner of the living room, the last time I played them being when I downloaded them into my computer & I pod. Yet, I am hesitant to kick them to the curb. It took time to collect them, and I may need them someday. Same with the wall unit I stretched myself to purchase: it has outgrown its usefulness to hold a TV. Remembering how much I paid for it, I cringe at  wantonly discarding it. Did the same thing happen when civilization transformed from a horse riding population to an automobile culture? Did people sell their carriages or leave them out by the curb for the garbage man? Did they go thru as much angst letting go of THINGS?

Working with clients, the biggest difference I see between people and animals are the human inclination to become their STORY. Humans define themselves by what happened yesterday, the clothes they wear, what they drive and their stuff.  A cat or dog will drop their story easily, walk into a new life like an actor in a play and be totally present in the immediate moment. If we define ourselves by our stuff, what does it mean that we hold onto much more than we need? If we give our stuff away, are we still the same person?
I challenge you to go thru your possessions. Look at each one with a frank, clear perspective. Does this item define who I am today? Am I carrying this thru life with me because it has sentimental value? Is this the way I want to be seen?

As far as the addictive potential for shopping, buying and owning things, I suggest transference of affection.  Creating. We all have the desire to fill the void with something. The great thing about creating is that it brings you into the present moment- you can’t be swamped in memories or worried about the future. If you go within, who knows what you will find.  That is how I became aware of the spirit guides & angels. The void becomes the superhighway to the spirit. It can be a little boring at first, but when you make the connection, a whole new world opens up, and it is available to you without a credit card.

First of all, dogs and cats GO to heaven. I have spoke to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dogs and cats, and not one of them have told me that they were at some “rainbow bridge”. I can’t even imagine wanting your pet to go to a “waiting place” where they wait till you die to go to heaven WITH you. Sounds a lot like catholic purgatory, and even that your relatives can buy your way out of it to heaven. Some of the pets I talk to do stay earthbound, which is another topic for a later date, but most of them can be found, frolicking around a place I call heaven, out of pain, happy and with the ability to be with their human loved ones at the speed of thought.  I am not tied to the name heaven, you could call it Whoville, whatever, the important point is that they are okay there. Believe it or not, that is the main question I get from clients inquiring about their beloved pets that have departed is simply that. “Are they okay?” and they always are.

Many feels like the situation with feral cats and unwanted dogs is getting worse, and maybe it is. I read somewhere this week that the ASPCA said three years ago they killed 12 MILLION unwanted cats and dogs, and this year they have that number down to 5 MILLION.  That sounds like real progress, but it doesn’t make me smile. First of all, I don’t trust those numbers. A company like the humane society of the United States that is so generous as to spend one dollar of EVERY hundred they receive in donations for taking care of shelter cats and dogs, very seldom mentions how many animals they are destroying.  I have heard horror stories of dogs & cats being put down when someone wanted them, but there was a “communication error”.

To the humane society’s credit, the cats and dogs seem to know that it is a temporary stopping point for them, and I never have had an animal tell me of the horrible experience they had in the humane society or County shelter. The animals carry the memory of abuse or unwanted-ness from former owners with them just in case they are put in that situation again, so they can respond with fear. One of the most rewarding services I do is that I clear the energy from these animals, which turns their fear over to the universe, and allows them to drop their “story” and move completely into the present moment. The animals willingly let go of their fears, which allows them to not react in the same negative ways.

The angels have shared that these animals that are on the front lines of being unwanted, getting sick, know exactly what they are getting into. That these animals know they are putting their lives on the line. It is not a pleasant experience for them, but they come with their love on their paw, knowing that human beings need a choice; they need to see what could be, and what is. What could be is that we could have a country filled with happy loving cared-for pets; we could make the choice for love. In fact many of us have made that choice, and live with animals that love and share our lives. Yet there is the other side too, animals that are left out in the cold, homeless and sick. What the angels stated, is that we, humans, world citizens, can make the choice for valuing life above all other choices, including war, weapons, gasoline, and the old men that sign the papers that start these wars.  If we didn’t send weapons to the middle east, we would have an abundance of money to help with all kinds of problems, such as taking care of our animals, educating our children, making sure all beings are not being abused, children and pets alike.

We would no longer have soldiers come back with post traumatic stress syndrome, carrying it with them like a knapsack they are unable to put down, and sometimes spin around knocking out any  loved ones who happen to be near.

“The true measure of a nation is how it treats it’s animals” Gandhi

These animals have come, knowing the cost, yet laying their lives on the line. They know the only way something will change is for someone to be sick of the way things currently are. They also know that the only humans that like change are ones in pain. That is why they have come in painful situations. Making the choice such an urgent one. The choice is critical. We are past the time when we can have little tiffs and nothing much comes of it. We are destroying our planet. Are these wars about fear?  Are they about a large military-corporate complex that makes and uses weapons because the money is immense?  Is it lost on the world that we buy oil from the middle east and they hand the money right back to the US economy to purchase weapons & war machines? There is more corporate commerce and wealth in weapons than saving an animals life.

When I am hired to look for a lost pet, I always give a discount. Somewhere in the search I decide to be a partner in helping the animal find it’s way home, and that the money is secondary. This probably happens because if my dogs were lost I would want someone to help me even if I couldn’t afford to pay them. That somewhere, someone should be kind. So I wonder, with all these dying animals, how can the vets be so cold hearted to say no to medical procedures with animals and let them die.  I couldn’t do it. But I grew up attending to the ailments and diseases of the cats on our dairy farm. My parents would not let me call the vet for a cat being sick, but if a vet was already out at the farm for another livestock animal, I could ask about the cats also. I recall doing pretty well with them, probably because of my constant attention. However we could also order medications from a veterinary wholesaler, and commonly treated infections with ease, low cost and success. Are vets still offering these options? Or are they making money from those of us with open hearts and open pocketbooks, making a profit when we are going bankrupt trying to save the pet population at large?

I don’t know if I have made you feel any better. I hope I have illuminated some of the information on the current unwanted pet population. I myself am totally in awe of these brave and strong creatures, willingly making the choice to come to this planet to open human hearts, allowing us to be aware of another choice besides arming ourselves to the teeth in fear. From my experiences, I know that they are out of pain once they die, and that they go to a vibrationally high place that could be called heaven. It seems reincarnation is true for these animals, so then the most important issue becomes whether or not they suffer. You know the old quote, “grief is mandatory: suffering is optional”. Cats have a wonderful way of disappearing instead of suffering, while dogs stay and put up with incredible abuse from their people at times.  Personally, I have experienced so much love from any and all cats and dogs that I have interacted with, it breaks my heart that there are people in the world who wouldn’t spend any amount of money trying to save them, including staying up all night to see if they need anything.

I leave you with this thought: there has never been a person on death row that had a pet as a child. My belief is if you receive that unconditional love from an animal at a formative age, that love changes you and stays with you.  It is expensive to put a person in jail: at least $50,000 a year right now. There needs to be a way we can connect the children who need the love of an animal with an animal that needs a home. Perhaps qualifying with lessons to capably take care of a pet. Another great place for pets is in the nursing homes. Outstanding research has been done on the effect of cats & dogs on lowering blood pressure, improving health overall. We need each other, cats, dogs and humans. Just so happens that their needs are a little more obvious, and the control of the situation is in human hands.

They allowed my wallet with all my credit cards to be stolen. I had $500 plus in it, plus who knows what. You should never have to be in a strange place with no money and no help, but that is what I experienced at the Westin. To top it off, they never apologized. They said that they would turn it over to their insurance company, AND MAYBE something would happen. They have no control over that. They kept asking me to talk to one person after another, and they parroted that they were “sorry I was a victim”. Logic to me is that they should be responsible. It happened at their very expensive hotel that I was also staying at. If I AM a victim, shouldn’t the Westminster Westin also be a victim? How do I give myself a position of power in this situation?

I had a representative of Westin say; “Well you could have been robbed at Macy’s” they wouldn’t be responsible. That brings up a very important question: are the hotels that you base your life out of while you are on the road responsible for what happens under their roof?”

I had my wallet under the table of my display, in the hallway of the Westin, at the ISSSEEM conference. A man that was somehow allowed into the hotel was sitting at my chair looking under the table when I came out of the bathroom. Intuitive that I am, I knew immediately that he was robbing from me. He looked at me, sat up with something in his hand by his waist, did a three-quarter turn and ran into the room behind me. This in retrospect was the crucial time. I don’t think we ever expect to be robbed, and especially at the highest end hotel during a scientific conference. There have been studies on victims, and supposedly, they all carry themselves as victims. I have never thought of myself as being in that category, since I am a third degree black belt. Also, I chase someone who takes from me.

I always want to be politically correct, and instead of screaming, “Stop!” immediately, I ran over to my purse to see if it was there. It was, but the wallet was gone. I ran after the man, into the room he had run into, and it was empty. I then ran out to the lobby, and I saw him further down the hallway. I screamed, “He stole my wallet – stop him!” and watched as he ran down two hallways filled with people. All I needed was SOMEBODY to trip him or grab him. There were no personnel from Westin in the vicinity, and the few people who registered what was going on started chasing him after he went past. I picked up a crowd of people chasing the man. We chased him thru two hallways and out into the lobby, thru the lobby, out into the entrance, across the entrance and over into the parking lot. A woman standing out in the foyer pointed that he went over the hill into the parking lot. I couldn’t see the parking lot from the hotel entrance, and when we went out there, I no longer knew where he was.

One of the people helping me search said to look in the cars, that perhaps he was hiding in a car or between cars. I got this absurd idea that he would be getting in a car and driving out, and went to stand in the entry way of the lot. I felt he had slipped us. So it surprised me when one of the gang spotted him and yelled. We picked up the chase again, and ran behind the man out into the road. I was not used to such strenuous running, and was getting winded. The volunteer ahead of me, after crossing across the road fell in a hole and hit the sidewalk with both knees and her head. Two cars stopped and two men got out, picking up the chase for the thief. I came over the knoll going into the parking lot of a mall, to see those two men tackle the thief. There was shouting, and I wondered how we were going to delay the thief until the police arrived. Amazingly, I saw the man being handcuffed. The police were already there.

This sounds like it should have a happy ending, doesn’t it? But no. The volunteer, Tracy, was taken to the hospital with a concussion. The thief no longer was in possession of my wallet, and we started the long search of the parking lots and hotel for my wallet. I am fairly famous for finding stuff, especially dogs, but did not get one whisper from St Anthony or the angels on where the wallet was.

I am closing this now, with updates to follow. After 8-10 “I’m sorries” from Westin, they are going to have the general manager call me. Whatever they do, it will be too little too late. I need help today, not tomorrow. The Westin’s answer to my situation is “I’ll get back to you- maybe”. That is like telling a woman who is getting raped I will get help for you- tomorrow or the next day- I called someone who COULD help.  Weigh in on this please- am I at fault somehow? What needs to happen for the Westin to make it right ?

Clarifications: I did not have my wallet stolen from my room. I had that much cash (maybe more) because I was a vendor & was making change out of my wallet. I do not usually carry that much cash. This happened at NOON: it was not dark, or late. I do not expect WESTIN WESTMINISTER TO BE totally at fault, I feel however that they should share in the loss of me being accosted in broad daylight during a convention at their establishment, without any security or actions from the Westin to help me. They have never thanked me for catching the thief,  in fact just the oppossite, the security guard told me “i was stupid to chase the thief & lucky I was alive”

I work for myself & this loss is immense.  I could not work for the rest of the confeerence because everyone there was asking me about the burgulary. Everyone except the WESTIN WESTMINISTER employees- I had to ask numerous times to talk to security and it was not until 2 days later that they even talked to me. Several of the Westin employees I talked to were “gloating ” that they had “caught the theif”  without the knowledge that the WESTIN had nothing to do with the capture, it was me, a few people from the conference and the Westminister police. A volunteer was seriously injured  during the chase,  & it is my belief that would not have happened if the WESTIN had not been asleep at the wheel.   the police shared with me that the Westin Westminister had just installed many new cameras because of an increase in crime.

To this date, the WESTIN WESTMINISTER’s general manager has called my HOME PHONE once, July 7th. As far as I know, they have not turned the claim into their insurance. No one asked me if I needed help with finances getting home, no one did anything but pass me from one manager to the next. I would LOVE to be blogging about the important information I have for the animal world instead of this travesty.  If you work for Westminister, know that I will  not stop asking for justice until I receive it.  All that money for new cameras, and crime still happened.

When I was in corportate life I had my coat stolen at a corporate function. The hotel reimbursed me for it within 2 days, and then the coat also mysteriously reappeared. The hotel told me to keep the money,  for the traumatic experience.   I wonder if I was with a big corporation now, if the WESTIN WOULD be so cavilar as to not even RETURN MY CALLS FOR OVER A WEEK. I waited to see this general manager, for over an hour, only to have them say he was not coming in . He was supposed to CALL ME ON MY DRIVE HOME ON MY CELL PHONE. I just received a MESSAGE ON MY HOME ANSWERING MACHINE on July 7th – almost a full week later. OF course, they had no reason to hurry, the hotel just CHARGED MY ROOM TO MY ROOMMATE”S CREDIT CARD without even asking us if they could do that.

Yes, I was careless. I booked a conference at a hotel that apparently could not possibly offer me a safe venue in which to display. If you have any suggestions on how I should have kept my money  I am open to suggestions. I do conferences almost every weekend and have never experienced the crime that I experienced at the WESTIN WESTMINISTER. I also feel that it is a crime that they are not helping me with the financial loss in any way to date.

The United States is now getting that push.

The United States is also subject to the laws of the Universe, just like any person is. There are consequences, outcomes from every action. There are NO coincidences.  There are many thoughts & beliefs coursing thru the universe, each of which is on it’s way to manifesting. We see but a small section of that cause and affect in our lives, and every once and awhile, a meaning appears out of the fog.

If you have been paying attention to the news these days, you have noticed that the United States has gotten tapped on the shoulder, pushed as Jon Stewart states. Gasoline & oil prices shot thru the roof last year, and Americans bit the bullet and ran up their credit cards to afford the travel in their lives. At this time in our history, this time of I-pods, computers, shipping goods from China to the United States and Universal communication in many ways, to still be using coal & oil seems archaic. I suggest that it is not only archaic; it is not for our highest good.

I visited Raytheon on family day once, was able to hold a STINGER missile on my shoulder and lock it on a plane flying into the airport. A stinger is an amazing piece of equipment. Only a few pounds, it can be carried on the back of a camel then lock it onto and destroy a flying plane. What if the energy spent to create the Stinger was shifted to create a clean source of energy, a renewable source of energy? Have we REALLY tried to do that?

To those naysayers that say solar, wind, water are all too expensive to be used as the main source of our energy, what is the cost of 2 wars and a spill? What will the cost be tomorrow?  The first cell phone sold for $5000, now they are being given away for free.  The first computer took up an entire block of a city, and had nothing “personal” about it.

There was a time in the history of this country when “whale oil” was the main source of energy. People panicked when the source dried up, then made the shift to another fuel.  Many engines, like the diesel engine, were made to run on another fuel besides oil. We have worshipped at the trough of big oil & coal for too many years now. The universe is pushing us, and soon, if we do not listen, we will be pushed off the cliff.  The leaking pipe is but a small taste of the destruction ahead. Buffalo were once the main source of food for American Indians, but some other people got carried away. Now the only place we see Buffalo is in zoos or special parks. Let’s find another source of clean energy, and save oil for making plastics, fabrics and things we actually need it for.

Let’s take the money we are putting into defense, (the war in Afghanistan is about a PIPELINE, really) and spend, let’s say, at least half of it, in research on alternative and new energy sources. For those nayersayers, once again, I remind them: there are already incredible machines that produce CLEAN energy and add to the oxygen, not pollution in our world: they are called PLANTS. The most efficient solar cell in the world today is LEAVES. They are miracles. Meant to balance all the oxygen that people use up and feed us too, what an amazing deal.

If you don’t think we can’t copy nature, may I remind you of the Wright brothers. They took a creature called a bird and copied it.  Of course, we also have those stories of Icarus, how he tried to fly and his wings melted. The same people who are saying that solar is too expensive must have sat there and quoted all the ways flying wouldn’t work. What you FOCUS on expands.  We need to pull together, focusing on a cleaner, more efficient, inexpensive form of energy. We can’t let the “big oil” faction win. It is time  to get off the grid. It is meant to happen. In fact, it WILL happen. The only variable is when. Do we want it to happen on our terms, to be a step forward, or a disaster that we have to live with the aftermath? Do we wait for another trauma, or do we want to get busy creating a different future, an alternative to the grid that is simply amazing. I mean, do you think Icarus would really believe that we went to the moon? That we have flights over the ocean? That the world is round?

According to the Mayans, time speeds up every twenty years. That means that technology, creations, love, are all speeding up too. The technology is out there, in the ether. We need to just allow it to come into our minds, into being, and leave the strangle hold big oil has on this nation to history, where it belongs.

So, if you are letting your dog off the hook for present day behavior that is unwanted, destructive or apathetic, stop it now. If a dog is doing unwanted behavior, it is because its person is either allowing it or causing it in some way (or there is a spirit energy present, but that is a totally new blog). I will take stance with this and say that I have never talked to a dog that was malicious or destructive on purpose.  Most dogs are telepathic to some degree, and can be acting out a behavior caused by their owner’s actions or thoughts.  Dogs know the same amount of words that a 5-6 year old child does.

What comes to mind is a woman I read for a while ago. She said: “All cats bite me.”  A cat would sit on her lap, and she would think that statement. The cat would receive the statement, think, “I can do that” and bite her. She was actually ASKING cats to bite her! So when you are with your dog, working with them, lounging with them, become conscious of the messages going thru your head. They have PROVEN that dogs are telepathic. A study was done last year where they looked at 14 different ways a dog could know his owner was coming home. Sound of the vehicle, time of day, sound of walking, they looked at all possible scenarios. Cameras were on both the owner at work and the dog at home.  Results of the study found that when the owner THOUGHT about going home, the dog got excited. The study proved conclusively that dogs ARE telepathic with their humans, and over distance. That makes sense to me, because when I work with people and their dogs, it can be done over the phone, and the dog doesn’t need to be present. Their energy is all around their person, and the two are connected. I do not understand all the aspects of the connection between canines and humans, but it gives me a respect and love for dogs beyond what I had before. They truly come to love, to serve. Dogs come with a purpose, and they like a job. If you do not give them a job, they will make one up. So I suggest coming up with something, because you do not want your dog’s profession to be “destroyer of shoes”.

Wow. Does that statement fit with some of the Universal truths we have been talking about here on this Blog? Like all FEAR is in the future or the past, not the current moment? And “all creating is done in present time, all the power is in the PRESENT moment.”

Having just had a birthday, and also having a not so secret fear that I too, am heading down hoarders lane, I wane philosophic on this topic. How do we get on that right road, that road that gives us what we need but doesn’t contain clutter?  I have been told many times by the guides that God will not tell us what to do, to be. He gives us talents, passions, opportunities and says, “Surprise me!” I am told that we will be given what we need for the present moment, and each present moment that appears on this path up the mountain of the magnificence we are all meant to be.  it is that single step that means the most to the Universe: if we do all of our single steps each day we show up in a place of mastery.

My mother worried a lot, and I would tease her with the quote, “Worry is an insult to God.” She never got what that statement meant.

Does that quote fit to hoarding? If we trusted the Universe to meet our needs, would we be holding on to so much STUFF?

Americans are “stuff” people. Just walk into a store, a Wal-Mart or Walgreen’s, and see all the “things” available to buy- many trendy “things” made of plastic and cardboard, not meant to even be around for the next year.  What does it say about us as a culture? That we believe that the one with the most stuff wins? Even if it is stuff that is meaningless crap.

“You cannot hold onto the old all the while declaring that you want something new. The old will defy the new; the old will deny the new; the old will decry the new.” Neil Donald Walsh

There is only one way to bring in the new. You must make room for it. Tenderly decide what to take with you, what to recycle, what to give to others. I have found even though I have gotten more spiritual, I still have just as much STUFF, not less. But as a ceramic & Jewelry artist, I VALUE STUFF, or I wouldn’t make it.

I am reminded of sessions done for clients wanting a new lover. Many of them still WERE IN A CURRENT relationship. The guides simply stated that no one new could drive their “car in the garage” or would even try when they drove by the clients’ house & saw a “car in the garage” already.  The ultimate in house cleaning, ridding ourselves of trysts that aren’t what we want in the new.

I leave you with a statement True told me: “butterflies cannot hang out with their caterpillar friends”