Eight,
the number of magic and new beginnings. The new year is here, what are
your choices going to be? Your divine birthright is available to you…NOW!
That's right, it is in the NOW that you can Naturally Operate Wonders.
In the NOW you can get in touch with your spiritual right to know yourself,
to set goals, live in freedom, be serene and prosper.
This issue of InSight begins with the keystone to being in the NOW,
meditation. You will see, in this article, that meditation is the key
to being guided from within. We also feature an article on Ghost
Hunters and the students in the Clairvoyant
Training Program doing psychic
readings on houses that have "visitors" in them.
There is a balancing act happening on our planet. The need for light,
an increase in awareness and compassion is greater than ever. Why not
start this new year off with the man/woman in the mirror? Learn to say
hello to yourself the kindergarten
way, learn to go within and be amused.
The
Meditation Mambo By Ann Savino
I remember when I first started on my path of spiritual
education. I had just graduated from college and was looking for meaningful
work while trying to pay my bills. My family had just moved out of the
area and I was pretty much alone. It was an exciting time, but I also
felt overwhelmed and really didn't have any kind of support around me.
For me, what I struggled with the most was being able
to trust my own information. What was right? What was wrong? Which decision
should I make? What path should I take? I didn't trust my own information
any more than I trusted someone else's. Basically, I was looking for
truth and didn't know where to find it. Intuitively I knew that nobody
could answer these questions for me. I knew the answers were within
me, but I didn't know how to access them.
I clearly remember knowing that meditation
was the answer, but I didn't know how to meditate. The few times I had
done it, it was boring and uncomfortable, more like a chore than getting
in touch with God within. I had tried some eastern meditation that was
offered with yoga classes I was taking. It was relaxing, but I was uncomfortable
with the format of chanting in a foreign tongue and having to sit in
a certain position. Then I took a meditation class at the Academy
for Psychic Studies. It was my first formal meditation class outside
of the yoga classes. The techniques taught were really simple and it
was easy to do. The most difficult part for me was the first few minutes
of squirming, where I was unwinding from everything that had me wound
up all day.
What I loved about the class was I started seeing things change in my
life as a result of doing the exercises. My goal had not been to make
these external changes, my goal had been to be more certain of my own
information so that I didn't experience so much doubt and confusion.
But there were incredible benefits appearing in other areas of my life.
It was like my life was balancing out. One of the big areas that I noticed
a change in was my energy level. Before taking the meditation class,
I would go home after work and just crash for the rest of the night
feeling totally drained. I would also not leave my house much on the
weekends, sleeping a lot or just doing nothing. After meditating for
a few weeks, I noticed that I was no longer drained when I got home
from work. I didn't want to spend my weekends holed up in my house anymore
either. I felt more energetic and more enthused.
What
I realized is that I was taking on a lot of other people's energy in
my work and healing everyone around me. That was what was causing me
to feel so drained. At the time, I was working with troubled kids in
an inner city school. The meditation class taught me to start to be
able to see the difference between what my energy vibration is and what
it feels like when I match somebody else's vibration. I learned techniques
where I could release stress, which is really releasing energy that
does not belong to me. I started having the experience that when I am
at my vibration, I am happy and energized. When I am feeling stressed,
I am really running off of other people's energy. This translates into
matching other people's emotional levels, and physically and emotionally
feeling their expectations on me.
Meditation
1 teaches you how to work on the energy level. You learn about your
energy body; the chakras, energy channels and aura, which is the system
your life-force energy runs in. By working on the energy level, I learned
that I didn't have to analyze or figure things out. By clearing my energy
of what was not at my vibration, I was clearing what was clouding me
from experiencing peace of mind and body. By emptying the cup, so to
speak, I could then receive what was mine and be filled with my own
vibration. Practically, this translates into getting in touch with my
own information. This was the answer I was looking for in my original
quest. My answers were within me and I just needed to clear away what
was blocking me from seeing them. I didn't have to think about them.
I just needed to be able to receive them, which I wasn't able to when
I was out of the range of my own vibration.
What I learned in Meditation
1 is still just as effective and healing in my today as it was 20
years ago when I first learned it. It has made all the difference in
my life, and I can honestly say that I rarely doubt myself anymore.
Ghost
Hunters - Psychics At Work
By Kathy Bibeau
I'm
a big fan of the Scifi channel program "Ghost Hunters”, where
a team of paranormal investigators go to allegedly "haunted"
sites, equipment in hand, with the goal to either debunk or find evidence
of the paranormal. What I love about the show is that they use scientific
evidence to validate the existence of the paranormal,
while at the same time validating the psychic awareness of the people
who are experiencing the activity.
Here at the Academy for Psychic
Studies we teach people how to validate themselves and their experiences
using their intuitive skills and psychic abilities. These psychic abilities
come with the body, they help you "sense" energy, and they
don't require the use of any special equipment. This means you can be
your own "ghost hunter" with just your body.
The students in the Clairvoyant
Training Program recently had an opportunity to do their own "ghost
hunt". We were invited to a home where the owners were experiencing
some unexplained paranormal activity. This included objects moving by
themselves, the volume of the stereo turning up and down, and a general
sense of a "presence" in the home. The owners believed that
their house was being haunted by either the spirit of a young man whose
items were being stored at the home or the spirit of the father of one
of the women who had lived there.
Our approach to this ghost hunt was to do a house
reading using our clairvoyance, which is the ability to read mental
image pictures. The readers validated what the home owners were experiencing
when they tuned into the spirit of the deceased father. They described
qualities this man had and gave feedback about what they perceived were
the reasons why he was in the house. These pictures had to do with unresolved
issues the man had had when he had dropped his body that had left him
in a state of agitation. The man's daughter was present during the reading
and the experience validated for her the strong love connection between
herself and her father.
The readers
also did healing work on the spirit of the deceased father to help him
release the pictures that were making it difficult for him to move on.
After doing healing work on the deceased man, the vibration in the house
was noticeably different. It became peaceful because the energies that
had caused the deceased father to be in a state of agitation had been
cleaned out of his space so that he could be more at rest. The experience
was validating for everyone.
Eight,
the number of magic and new beginnings. The new year is here, what are
your choices going to be? Your divine birthright is available to you…NOW!
That's right, it is in the NOW that you can Naturally Operate Wonders.
In the NOW you can get in touch with your spiritual right to know yourself,
to set goals, live in freedom, be serene and prosper.
The
Meditation Mambo 
What
I realized is that I was taking on a lot of other people's energy in
my work and healing everyone around me. That was what was causing me
to feel so drained. At the time, I was working with troubled kids in
an inner city school. The meditation class taught me to start to be
able to see the difference between what my energy vibration is and what
it feels like when I match somebody else's vibration. I learned techniques
where I could release stress, which is really releasing energy that
does not belong to me. I started having the experience that when I am
at my vibration, I am happy and energized. When I am feeling stressed,
I am really running off of other people's energy. This translates into
matching other people's emotional levels, and physically and emotionally
feeling their expectations on me. 
