February 2, 2012

February 2012 News

"The Song" © 2012 Paul Hood

Hi Everyone!

Happy Groundhog Day, Imbolc, Candlemas -- the perfect time for this month's newsletter about going beyond "backwards manifestation." Seeds are germinating under the ground but have you been sowing the right ones?

BREAKING THE PATTERN OF BACKWARDS MANIFESTATION

Frequently in our spiritual counseling and healing practice healing themes emerge. One client, and then two, and sometimes three in a row will complain of the same thing. One of the themes for this month has been backwards manifestation as a result of relatively recent and unhealed trauma.

Backwards manifestation is a label Paul and I have coined for manifesting the opposite of what you so fervently want. “Please, please, please!” goes the inner cry (consciously or not). “I’m SO scared. I’m so afraid of what’s going to happen! Please, God, help me!” Then you intend what you think you need (a new job, a new home, a new relationship) and all hell breaks loose as part of the arrangement. You get the job but the boss is a hellish bastard. Someone takes advantage of you. Maybe two or three jobs of the worst kind appear (something you’d hate but are willing to settle for anyway) and then those jobs fall through. People lose your resume, you send another and they lose it again! More and more hellish things occur, and on it goes. One backwards or insufficient manifestation after another.

You think: this manifestation stuff is a bunch of crap! Who came up with this belief system anyway? I’m intending as hard as I can and nothing goes right for me! This is bulls**t!

And then, little positive manifestations fall in through the cracks. You think “I’d really like a new cabinet to put my art supplies in but I can’t really afford to spend money on that” and like magic someone leaves a perfectly great one out by the dumpster by your apartment building the very next day that just needs some inexpensive hardware to fix. And it’s not the only thing that happens that week. Sometimes Paul and I manifest tiny miracles like that every day with no effort or even specific intent. It’s like a sign from the universe that this stuff really does work if you’d only have your head and heart in the right place!

So then you think: why is it so easy to manifest little things with no effort and we backwards manifest on the stuff that feels big to us? Ummmm... maybe because it feels too BIG?!!! As Paul likes to say: you can’t believe in the power of God, the power of the Universe (however you wish to think of it), and not believe in it at the same time and have manifestation work. If it feels too BIG to do and you believe in that then you’re not believing it could be EASY. So you manifest something less than easy -- if you manifest anything at all -- because that is what you unconsciously accept.

At the beginning of last month I realized I was sick of backwards manifesting on the “big” important stuff while getting ample evidence of the power of easy manifestation on everything else. I wanted to crack the code on this issue and turn it around. And, on cue, the universe supplied three examples of people with unresolved trauma needing help with the same thing. Unresolved trauma. People who had suffered serious accidents, death, financial disasters and loss and had been backwards manifesting on certain things they cared about ever since. And the very biggest pattern I saw was not even being able to believe or even dream about what they wanted instead.

Oh! Of course.

The three asked for and received very different forms of help. Spiritual counseling alone for one, flower essences alone for two others. Paul and I decided to use energy healing, spiritual counseling and flower essences for our own well-being (why not use everything we’ve got?) Within a couple of days dreams of what we had forgotten about flew back in, conditions one or both of us were accepting seemed completely unacceptable, and new choices and ideas spontaneously came to mind. It was FAST! Energizing. And then without us doing ANYTHING extra we received new client calls, made unexpected Mama Love sales, and sold some book downloads and artwork, too.

Coincidence? Or the outward manifestation of unresolved trauma being released?Based on past and current experience, I’d say it was the latter.

I once wanted to be a coach who helped people achieve their deepest hopes and dreams. I do have coaching training as well as a degree in Transpersonal Psychology under my belt. But what Paul and I have seen as spiritual counselors and healers using a broad spectrum of techniques is so remarkable -- especially when people are committed to their development over the long haul -- it feels like a gift whenever we get to do it.

We're taking new clients jointly now mostly on weekends, early evenings and one weekday a week. People wishing to work with Paul alone can arrange sessions on additional weekday afternoons as well.

Sheryl Karas, February 2012


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HAVE A SESSION!
The beginning of the year is always an excellent time to get some clarity on your life and support to create positive directions. Our spiritual counseling practice is up and running in-person in Chico, CA and, as always, by telephone (or Skype) all over the world. Our prices continue to be affordable with bottom of the sliding scale rates available to everyone regardless of income while we're in the process of getting re-established in a new place. http://www.healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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GET A COPY OF OUR LATEST BOOK FOR FREE
In solidarity with the 99% movement we are still offering the PDF download version of "Waking Up in the Great Recession Mormon Desert" FOR FREE to anyone who wants it. The print version and Kindle and Nook versions are still for sale but we want to see the message in this book carried far and wide so get yours by clicking here and send this link to anyone you think might be interested: http://www.healingcommunication.com/WAKING_UP_FILE.html

This book (in print form) and Sheryl's other books are available for sale at http://www.sherylkaras.com.

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WHERE TO FIND OUT VIDEOS

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YOU CAN FIND OUR ARTWORK...

In our joint Etsy shop... http://www.etsy.com/shop/PaulnSherylArt
Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/
Beautiful Photographic Prints and Artwork by Sheryl Karas... http://sherylkaras.imagekind.com
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