(NOTE: It’s best to read the contents in order the first time through, then bookmark your favorite sections for future reference.)

Forward by award-winning author, John Harricharan

• Introduction: Part One – The Seven Sacred Steps: A Practical Guide to Peace and Freedom
• Introduction: Part Two – The Seven Sacred Steps: A Practical Guide to Peace and Freedom

Chapter Descriptions and Links

This chapter points to how self-love is the foundation upon which all other spiritual principles are built upon and why it is at the core of finding love and happiness.
Chapter One: The First Sacred Step – Love Yourself

• What Are Your Values, What Allows You to Thrive
• Finding Life Purpose and Love Comes Through Self- Awareness
• The Feelings that Create Our Emotions
• What If? A Journey to Self-Love
• The Soul’s Relationship with Creativity
• Learning to Love From the Inside Out
• An Exercise – “Taking the Self-Love Walk”
• The Nature of Recreating Life Patterns
• The Velocity of Our Thoughts

This chapter acknowledges how respecting others builds a bridge for understanding within ourselves and supports creating meaningful relationships.
Chapter Two: The Second Sacred Step: Respect Others

• Respecting Another Through Acknowledgement
• Respect with Compassion Sends Message That Love Matters
• Universal Perspective on Getting Our Needs Met
• Creating a Mantra – Positive Self-Talk
• Inner Parts Dialogue
• Filling Yourself with Self Love Creates Compassion
• Giving and Receiving When Love Seems Scare
• The Polarizing Effects of Two Needy People
• Relationships with Self Destructive People
• Finding the Deeper Core Intention Behind Our Actions
• Chapter Two Exercise: The Clarity Process

The third chapter explains how connectedness is vital in understanding our relationship to the world and others, and how judgment can keep us feeling separate and alone.
Chapter Three – The Third Sacred Step: We Are One

• How to Find “Oneness”
• Our Minds Ability to Judge, and What Happens When We Get Into Judging our Judgments?

This chapter explains the dynamics of creativity and how to create with the support of the universe.
Chapter Four: The Fourth Sacred Step: All is Co-Creation

• Why Do We Judge and What Can Our Judgments Teach Us
• Co-Creating Together Begins with Discernment and Turning Toward What Nourishes Us
• What is Co-Creation and How do We Create?
• Co-Creation and Cause and Effect
• Gaining Power By Making Others Feel Guilty
• Turning Reaction into Creative Thinking and Action Through Discernment

Chapter five explains why God, Universe, All that Is, or Love supports us and wishes us no harm.
Chapter Five: The Fifth Sacred Step: God is Benevolent

• Communicating with God and All That Is
• Remembering Our Spiritual Gifts
• Breaking Free From Illusion: Allowing Your Mind to Trust Your Heart
• Contemplating the Limits of Religion and Mental Spirituality
• Realizing the Power of Our Egos
• Misinterpretations of Bible Scriptures Cause Pain Rather than Opportunity for Healing
• Experiencing Your Ego in a Benevolent Universe
• With Spiritual Awareness Awaken to Your Full Self Expression
• Self Acceptance Through Self Awareness of Our Inner Parts
• Learning Through Contrast Can Lead to Spiritual Growth
• Releasing Struggle and Making Life Playful and Fun

This chapter offers insight on our creative power that lies within us and how best to utilize it in manifesting our desired reality.
Chapter Six: The Sixth Sacred Step: We Are Also God

• Laughter and Enlightenment
• Connecting to Your Heart
• Balancing Your Heart and Mind
• Expanding Your Consciousness
• Embracing Limitless Love
• Communicating With Love

This chapter explains the intention of consciousness and the probability of many levels of shared existence. Plus, the reader is empowered to learn to trust their heart while gaining a greater understanding of their manifestation ability.
Chapter Seven: The Seventh Sacred Step: All is Illusion, and All is Real

• Heart Combined with Intention is the Fuel Behind Manifestation
• Multi-Dimensionality: Our Relationship with All Planes, Dimensions, and Parallel Realities
• Your Extended Multidimensional Being Connects You to Vast Resources
• Inducing Altered States of Consciousness without Mind-Altering Substances
• A Simple Formula for Manifestation
• Trusting Your Heart Empowers Your Intention

Summary: How the Seven Sacred Steps Came to Be
Summary: First Steps are Love and Respect, for What We Do to Another We Do to Ourselves

 Epilogue: Alana’s Closing Message

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Your energy keeps moving forward; when doubt or questions arise, keep turning toward what you want.

Question: Alana, four months ago, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do in life. I believe we create our own reality, and when we are in alignment with our destiny, doors open smoothly, and opportunities flow our way.

However, now I am confused. It appears all my plans and dreams have fallen apart. How do I know when my fears are obstacles or my dreams need a readjustment? I feel “cut off” from my guides and am unsure if the information I think I am getting is “real.” In addition, I stopped having fun with tapping into my intuition. What insights do you have about how to get back on track?

Alana’s Answer: Dear one, in listening to your question and thoughts, I hear many different parts of you expressing and wondering what to do to bring about your desired reality.

Pretending is a Powerful State

I feel all these different parts of you need direction. How about creating a nonjudgmental space to practice your desired reality? Learn to play and pretend! Just the act of pretending can support shifting your reality. Rekindle that childhood spirit and pretend you are doing what you’d like to be doing.

Then, notice what happens; you’ll gain insight, and parts of your nature will also learn new patterns of possibility.

The parts of your nature that observe gather insight. How you respond becomes like a touchstone, and your essence can begin to understand how your reality can change. Comfort can flow into your being like an imprint that can gain energy to manifest. You can even journal how your perceptions and insights shift and reveal during this life purpose journey.

Asking Questions Leads to Awareness

You can also be an active investigator! Probing questions can offer an opportunity to discern, gather perceptions, and move beyond self-judgment.

Ask:

“How do I discern between a better way and what is occurring when my perceived destiny does not seem to appear before me?”

“Is fear getting in the way of creating clarity or blocking me from recognizing what is possible at this time?”

Another exploration is noticing if you are more attached to waiting than moving forward. Your mind may be thinking, “How can I walk my talk if I am not manifesting what I want yet?”

We are Always Manifesting

This reinforcement can lead to staying in a quandary and waiting for a manifestation to provide some type of evidence. If you find yourself waiting for mental proof, you are telling the universe that you like to wait. Waiting becomes your manifestation. You are still manifesting, but waiting was what you intended.

Creative Manifesting Technique

Practice is another form of pretending, and it can also build evidence and knowledge, offering imprints that your essence can tap into and help get you past the waiting game. Imagine being able to feel different realities or replicas of your desired reality.

Creative manifestation practice can build intention by igniting your senses.

Practice doing what your desired reality could feel like.
Practice doing what your reality might look like.
Practice doing what your reality may sound like.

Connect with all your senses to explore each while noticing what you notice.

You can receive clear evidence and insightful information by creatively taking action that can move you toward your goal. You will also gain insight into where any fear of moving forward or success is holding you back.

Extending Gratefulness

As you pretend and practice sensing what you wish to create, extend gratefulness! When we want something and express that we are grateful, what do you think we get? We get more of that, for which we are grateful!

The Distraction of Preparation

One sign of the fear of manifestation is over-preparation. Now, if you practice your desired destiny with a mental state of what it’s like to only prepare for when change happens, then guess what you get? Just more preparation!

You get to organize more, you get to create more ways in which you can prepare, etc. Therefore, you have expressed your destiny as a desire to prepare.

Another distraction can be busy work. Say you want to create a business and identify many tasks you need to do to get it started. There are printed materials to make; you must work on publicity and contact people by making a list. So check your motivation to sense if you are wasting time or if your intention is building momentum. There is a difference.

Infuse Time with Intention

Also, examine how you fill your day. Ask how much time you spend in front of others doing what you intend and how much time you spend in preparation. By asking this question, you will begin to understand what message you are sending to the universe and what intention the universe may reflect back to you.

Knowing Comes with Building Intent

You may also find another quandary that keeps you in wonderment—the “I wonder when” state of mind!

“How do I find ways to do my business if people do not show up?” Rather than reinforce what you sense you are lacking, try something different!

Let’s pretend and practice again! Ask, “Well, which thought do I choose to serve?” Of course, say, “I choose to serve the thought that people are before me every moment. I can work with these people easily and effortlessly.” Keep imagining and fuel your intention!

Your Thoughts Create Momentum

Now, you’ll begin to notice the ball is rolling forward. Exploring will create a shift in how the universe listens and mirrors back your intent. You are now creating magnetic energy that will set manifestation in motion.

You will draw more people to you, and more people, and more people as you build a velocity of energy. This is how to create the energy for manifestation that continues to bring results from your creative intention.

Your energy keeps moving forward; when doubt or questions arise, keep turning toward what you want.

Remember Where You Dwell Becomes Fuel

So, where your thoughts focus becomes your intention! If you express that you have to wait, you will receive more waiting.

If you hold the thought, I love to create, and I am engaged and extend energy imagining how you will interact with each person that comes before you; if they are so willing, so be it.

Thoughts are like magical elements that we can use and direct to help us build intention and energy follows. Thought combined with imagination is a creative force. Understanding this formula will help you attract more creative interactions and manifest the deepest desires of your heart.

See! Now, you can take your serious and heartfelt question and move out of confusion and doubt into the flow of creative movement.

Through this movement, yes, you will judge, but don’t stay there. Move into a creative exploration using discernment rather than staying in judgment. Create intention, focus on what you want, and then creative energy will direct your manifestations.

–Alana

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If you catch yourself looking back, it will only be to discern what you want with more clarity.

Question: I want to move back home to be with my family and friends, but the opportunities for someone with my background are minimal. I’m also wrestling with a tremendous debt that limits my options. I’m desperate and don’t know what to do.

What advice can you offer?

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one! Alana is happy that you brought this question up. Alana feels that it is essential for you to create a mission statement at this time in your life.

In other words, use this time as a tool to help you clarify your self-definition. Make grand use of this time and learn how to generate your statement starting today.

The Power of Creating a Mission Statement

There are many formats to help you begin. You could take a self-exploratory workshop, find a mission-state self-help book, or any form to assist you in getting very clear about what would bring you joy.

You see, the longer that you put off turning “towards that which would bring you joy,” the harder it becomes to take the first step. So, gather tools that will encourage you to fuel new ideas that align with what you discover when creating a statement that appeals to an inner mission.

You know, nothing in this world is more important than creating a sense of joy within one’s self.

When we surrender to the frequency of joy, doors start to open.

The Power of Joy

The more we surrender to joy, the more doors actually appear. The longer you stay in an unfulfilling pattern, the more messages you send to the universe that say you like to be unfulfilled. Do you sense what I mean?

So, begin today. Begin to get in touch with your grand mission. Turn toward identifying this mission, and don’t look back. If you catch yourself looking back, it will only be to discern what you want with more clarity. Your debt can wait as long as you can stay out of a challenging state.

Your debt can wait a little longer as you take steps to identify what would fill you with more joy. The action of defining your mission statement will help in attracting ways to create abundance that you may not have even thought of before. Then, your debt will dissipate because answers and directions will begin to appear. Creating intention is powerful, as are mission statements.

Synchronicities Appear

Now, you have the first step, which is ultimately empowering. Synchronicities will begin to appear if you take this step and honor what brings you happiness by defining and imagining it.

When you speak of the city you would like to move to, first recognize that you don’t have to figure everything out. If you honor your joy and continue to move in the direction you want, the world and universal love will support you. It is very creative, so what may show up is the perfect job for you, doing something in a new way that you would love.

But YOU must show up before it can show up.

We are so very creative. We are creators, and the universe is creative. If you have to know a situation exists before you go, you are affirming that universal love is not creative enough to follow your lead.

So, trust, dear one. Begin to honor and turn towards that which will make you happy. That is the only way that happiness will find you.

Thank you, dear one, for your question. Alana appreciates that you are now ready to take steps toward bliss.
–Alana

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When we sense we heal another, this happens because we have aligned with the willingness to be a channel, and the other has created the willingness to receive.

Question: Alana, I have a question about developing a life purpose. I have always felt a powerful spiritual and intuitive connection and have seen sporadic manifestations of a wonderful gift that I possess but do not know how to use.

I also feel that I have such an awareness because I intend to use my gifts to heal others. How can I get better in touch with my healing power and make it an affirmation in my life? Is my purpose here really to use the gift for healing?

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for bringing your question to Alana. Alana feels gentleness within you but also intensity. The intensity is the ability to think about a thought, concentrate energy toward it, and bring about an experience.

Healing, Intention, & Manifestation

So, Alana feels that you have the capability to manifest with intention, which is delightful. A healing vibration exists within and wants to be combined with your ability to intend an idea and manifest a result.

It feels like you are gaining a sense that you are a channel or a vehicle for universal energy to move through your intention, creating an external result.

Of course, there is always a co-creative agreement. In other words:

When we sense we heal another, this happens because we have aligned with the willingness to be a channel, and the other has created the willingness to receive.

Dear one, continue to develop your intention, become aware of what lies within, and “just” play with this energy.

Play with Sensing Vibration

Practice and find ideas that excite you or situations where you can easily practice sensing vibration and then “just” continue to channel what feels natural.

Yes, when we are aware of the gifts within, it is time to play and express them. It is time to experience what is possible; otherwise, your consciousness would not direct you to perceive this awareness.

So, Alana feels you are right on track with who you are and what comes next in your life’s journey.

Just keep taking the time to devote energy to self-exploration to continue expanding your sense of possibility. Read what entices you and be with people that interest you.

You will attract experiences to expand the gifts within and serve humanity.

You are also very multi-skilled. You will have more than one interest in your life, and you will probably do several different methodologies as you learn from your insights because people are drawn to you.
–Alana

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Question: Alana, I’m going through a career crisis. I want to quit my corporate job of over ten years and pursue my love, music.

At 41 years old, this is a little frightening. I also believe that I have the power to heal through music and spirituality. I want to explore this full-time, but quitting my job means losing a substantial income.

I realize I should take the “leap of faith” and probably do what my heart is begging me to do; however, I cannot make the break. Any career advice is greatly appreciated.

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one! Like many people, you desire to do something creative that also serves humanity.

When we have an expression within us that wants to expand outward—one that beautifies our nature and brings us joy—it is an expression that wants to be a part of our lives.

Alana also recognizes that there is a need for material success and specific necessities for maintaining a lifestyle. Alana feels you are in a time of transition and beginning to get ready for a transition into the last major cycle of your life.

This last major cycle will extend from the time you make this transition throughout the rest of your life. It is similar to having two lives in one.

Building Energy Prior to a Transition

Right now, you are in a stage of incubation. You are incubating possibilities and expressions and bringing vitality and energy into your body, which will support this transition.

Alana feels you may end up creating two vocations for a little bit. You might slowly bridge into music, moving in two different vocations to support you through this bridge time. Gradually, your music and the healing vibration you hold will become more evident and stronger.

Alana suggests that you take some small steps. Sometimes, when we take a big leap, we forget to honor our nature’s practical aspects. Alana encourages small steps in this direction. You will gain evidence and build momentum and then the big step will happen quite naturally.

Music as a Healing Vibration

Alana agrees that music is an essential expression of your soul and its development and a wonderful gift you give others. Your music has a healing vibration, and many people want to experience it.

You might take time to imagine what form and ways you would like to experience music and healing working in tandem, including settings, audiences, and those who would appreciate your offerings. Then, hold this intention and fuel it with love and vision.

Try imagining daily and creating a dream box where you place your wishes. By identifying what you would like in your future, you draw people who want to support you. You will draw helpers and people who desire to benefit from your creations.

Either, Or is an Illusion

See if you can let go of this feeling of either/or. Recognize that you have more than one path operating simultaneously. You are growing in more than one way. Therefore, thinking of your options as either/or is an illusion.

You are always moving forward. Alana does feel that if you look down the road two or three years from now, your life may look very different (from feeling the vibration within you at this moment).

Linear time is a tool, dear one. It’s a container for setting intentions and holding your vision. Take simple steps first, and watch your life open to better ways.

The harmony within you will find expression.

Thank you, dear one.
–Alana

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“Know your prayer forms within your heart, and your intention extends energy for manifestation on a path that leads from the heart to all knowledge, information, and possibility.”

Question: How can I pray effectively?

Alana’s Answer: Thank you, dear one! Thank you for your question. It is an excellent question because it may help many people connect more deeply with the spiritual realms.

Prayer is a form of beautiful communication. It is a grand way to identify what your heart desires while extending love. When a desire arises to pray, it’s an opportunity to connect with your spiritual self and align your spiritual self with all that is. That is the intention that comes with prayer.

Extending Through Prayer

How can you pray effectively? First, connect to your heart. Next, connect with the intention or message you would like to lovingly acknowledge by sharing a desire for your intention to align with the highest and best good of all. Your intention is a prayer; when aligned with a pure heart, it’s heard by all.

When you wish to send blessings to others, pray by holding a thought or vision of them filled with a loving state. Perceive them as whole, and know they are capable and fully able to receive.

Acknowledge through your senses their higher nature. Ask to connect with their higher nature. Now, perceive their ability to bring that which is of their highest and best good into manifestation.

Empowering Your Prayer

Notice how thought-full prayer includes perceiving who or what you intend to receive a benefit in an able state rather than focusing on a state of hardship. This way, your prayer doesn’t amplify the misfortune but empowers possibility. This emphasis doesn’t mean to say a prayer can harm; it can’t. Notice how aligning with an empowering state amplifies possibility.

Your prayer goes to a space where you know they can receive what aligns with their higher nature. This empowering form of prayer is easily heard and felt by universal love, light, infinite intelligence, God, or the “god” force energy.

Creative Prayer

When you pray for something you wish to create, manifest, or fulfill, imagine your heart like a well that can nurture the perfect state or conditions for your wish to blossom. Create an image in your thoughts or through your senses and drop it into the space in your heart.

Align with each sense that comes to mind to energize an image of your wish fully manifested. Connect with the sense of your higher self and ask for that which aligns with your highest and best good to materialize at the perfect time in a perfect way.

All That Is, is Listening

By connecting with a sense of your higher power, the following acknowledgment is to connect with “all that is.” Therefore, connect with universal love, light, intelligence, God, or the “god force.” Whatever term feels aligned with your spiritual map.

Know your prayer forms within your heart, and your intention extends energy for manifestation on a path that leads from the heart to all knowledge, information, and possibility.

Define with Details

You can fuel your prayer with as many details as you can imagine. Keep noticing what would bring you delight and joy. Use your senses to define your prayer in as much detail as it enters your mind.

Once you feel that you fully formed your prayer, placed it in your heart and have fully connected with intention hold this state while feeling love for a period of time. Maybe a few moments, or a minute, two, three? You will know when to release it.

Trusting Your Prayer

Once you release what you have formed and fueled, you can follow with a declaration! You can say, “So be it,” or “Thank you.” A declaration is like creating a trusting closure to your prayer. It releases it so manifestation can occur.

Throughout the day remember to stay aligned with possibility rather than dwelling on what isn’t. Hold your intention with expectancy. And not the type of expectancy that thinks it has to manifest in the exact way you imagined. Trust the universe and its mastery. Trust your intention was felt and received.

Spirit will bring about a manifestation that aligns with your highest and best good at the perfect time in the perfect way.

What an excellent question! Prayers are intentions that are sent and received. They are always heard. Our thoughts are also like prayers, so holding our intention with attention to love helps fuel our lives with more of the same. Thank you, dear one!

— Alana

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Question: I can feel incredible creativity within my nature. Yet, it is so hard for me to get myself moving and creating in the physical.

It is like it all lives within me and spins. I wish to connect with whatever block inhibits me from unleashing this abundance of creativity I know is there.

Creating art feels terrific, and I am usually happy with the results, but there is still a controlled aspect to what I do. I seem to create art that has to look real rather than flow with my interpretations of what real may look like.

Does this have something to do with me wanting to be safe and fit in?

Thank you, Alana, for being gracious and connecting to my question. I appreciate your presence here in these times.

Alana’s Answer: You are welcome, dear one.

I am feeling three questions. The first seems to be about the ability to begin movement.

The second concerns the quality of the movement.

The third seems to involve the intention and outcome of the movement.

The Circle of Questions

I sense a spinning within that feels like your mind bounces among these three questions. First, it goes to the first question, then it goes to the second question, and then it goes to the third question. Then, it goes back to the first question, then to the second question, and then to the third question.

How you identify with this feeling of limitation may be happening consciously as well as unconsciously. The essence of these questions feels like the spinning of which you speak.

Connecting to a Path

Alana will assist you in breaking free of this internal circle. We will break the confusion into a path to help you feel connected to a path. Your internal nature spins with these questions, and you do not know where to connect or land to engage movement.

Let’s examine the first question, which relates to your overwhelming sense of wanting creative movement and not knowing where to begin.

Improvising the Nature of a Color

Try identifying with a pigment of a color and feeling its vibration and essence. Pretend like you are an expression of that color. Feel its vibration, grab a medium of that color, and make a mark that feels like an interpretation of the vibration of that color.

In other words, go into something conceptual, significant, and expansive and then interpret it. It’s like improvising a color’s personality or quality and acting it out! Play with the movement of a stroke, mark, swish, or whatever feels exciting to your soul.

This exercise breaks the ice. It’s a way to get in motion that doesn’t require much thought or planning. It’s intuitive and natural. It’s about you becoming the moving essence of creativity!

Movement Can Invoke Excitement

After you engage in a motion, excitement can follow next since you have stepped into the energy of initiation. Your inner nature will be free to identify a starting place for creative freedom.

As Alana senses your being by choosing the element of color followed by movement, I feel this is what can ignite internal excitement.

For your nature, blending with the vibration of a color ignites your intention to keep moving. Initiating creativity with this small ritual may be much more exciting than delving into a concept or subject by examining the whole topic first, like the all-encompassing thought of, “Oh, now here is a tree. Reproduce that tree.”

Practice Eventually Leads to an Automatic Response

For your nature to ignite until you develop an automatic response, it may be, “Let’s step into the microscopic element of the bark and feel its qualities. Let’s create an interpretation of that bark by picking three colors that vibrate with its nature.

Enjoy movement that represents the colors, their vibration, blending, and connecting with them. We have addressed the first and second questions by creating a pathway to begin.

Giving the Pathway Purpose

What I find exciting about this first question is that you are creating a way to begin. Your being is conceptual, wildly expansive, and one that wishes to express. However, sometimes, your nature has difficulty finding the finite or grounded sense of purpose to begin moving into a creative process.

By blending with the essential vibration of a given thing, you can channel your creativity in much broader ways.

By feeling the vital qualities of a thing, topic, or concept the second question can now support the third. By channeling the essence of any of these elements, your experience builds to allow the quality of movement to transform. Yes?

Letting the Purpose Also Be Creative

The third question expands your creativity as you find a pathway to let go of exactly how your creation develops to serve your intended purpose (intention, outcome).

Now, I am saying that your nature wants all parts to serve. Yes? So, how about allowing all your senses to continue to serve a purpose and allowing that purpose to be delightful? The outcome will begin to create itself and develop a life or unique expression that may be far greater than you could imagine.

Enjoyment Expands Creativity’s Gifts

The third question also includes a way to move blocked energy related to how you define a realistic work of art. You’ve now learned you can ignite creative movement and channel color and elements as they take on their own life.

Perhaps you and your creation share a type of collective consciousness.

The two of you are blending in the experience. As the art expresses through you, it takes on its “own” form or liveliness. As you flow with creative energy, the artwork becomes like a voice telling you what it wants and needs. And the form may surprise you! You will find you co-create together, and your creation’s idea of reality may differ from what you imagined.

When approaching a work of art as a life force energy yet to form, you become the channel, like an orchestra leader directing a band to create lovely music that is complete once the song is over.

Fitting Into the World

It may take some practice trusting your ability to listen to your artwork as a life force energy that wants to communicate and channel its intent. But, again, play, move into enjoyment, experiment, and listen. You may listen by channeling an emotion, channeling its desire to present itself to the world. How about playing with your senses and wrapping them in enjoyable feelings of creativity?

If this feels like connecting to an artwork before you have created it, could it bring up a block in another way and allow it to be present! Yes? Wonderful! It is because it means something else will shift and transform! The more questions that arise (what you might label as a block), jot the words on a paper beside you.

Get these words, ideas, and concepts out of your body and record them so you can begin to create interpretations of what they may also look like as a color, a brush stroke, or an element.

It doesn’t matter if your interpretations are a simple crosshatch pattern or painting two non-harmonious colors.

Just begin to create movement. Every exercise becomes a type of art therapy. You are a creative explorer experiencing a collective relationship with what is non-visible until the energy becomes visually alive.

All your thoughts that appeared like blocks now have a path to express. They can be released and transformed. The nature in your being that attaches to a sense of a perfect reality that likes to fit in and feel safe reproduces how things externally appear in an “in its likeness” world- will expand and create new fun and playful realities! You will discover an expansive form of creativity and sense your skills in a new way!

Play with this multi-step exercise, engage in a new way of being with your art, and you’ll step into the energy of creative transformation!
–Alana

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Question:

Answer: Dear one, thank you for your question. It is delightful to hear from you. Your question is a very good one that will help create clarity for many wondering what Alana talks about sometimes.

For Alana, beings are personalities. They are natures. They are consciousness within a body. They are living forces. They are vibrational natures. They are entities that co-exist together within all that is. Sometimes, a being will be like you dear one. You are a being. Sometimes it will be like Sandy being or Kirk being. Sometimes it is a physical body on earth that is an expression of individuality. Sometimes a being will be an animal, a bird, or a dog (for example). In addition, sometimes a being is collective consciousness that has a singular expression. Being is a word that Alana uses to describe an intention within a nature.

To answer your questions about other planetary beings, recognize that beings exist in many different dimensions as well. Some have bodies and some do not. As we look within this solar system, Alana can tell you there are beings within all, because a planet within itself is also a being.

Whether or not mankind will fully recognize what you call alien intelligence is an interesting question. In the past we already have, you see. We have engaged with alien intelligence in the past. The question is really, whether or not we will remember this. As we remember this, the question is, will we allow ourselves to sense it and know it again. To answer that, I would say there is a great probability. We are beginning to notice already, here on this planet, that we have new species of animals and plants emerging. In this vibration as well, we have species that we thought were extinct but are being noticed again. It is evident in looking at what is occurring in one’s own planet that the probability is very great that it will occur in vaster ways. We are all connected.

Thank you dear one for your question. It was very delightful to answer.

–Alana

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Fill your life with the kind of attention that invokes energy and that will ignite your mind to pay attention to what could be inspiring.

Question: I’m so desperately bored and depressed with my job, career, and my life.

It’s as though I have nothing to look forward to. I don’t experience joy in my life anymore. I’ve worked for years, and I feel I have gotten nowhere.

Could you please tell me how to redefine or redirect my life to gain joy and abundance? I would appreciate your perspective on transitioning into a more joyful life where I better understand my purpose and mission.

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for bringing your question to Alana. I feel that you are in a time of your life when new possibilities and promises want you to find them. In other words, you are moving into a wonderful time of life but can’t see it yet. Begin to approach each day as a new horizon rather than looking back.

Taking Measurements

As we mature, we look back at what we have accomplished and where we have allowed ourselves to be faithful and loyal to our natures. We also examine where we have settled for things that come easy or settled in routines by doing jobs or skills that serve others more than stimulate our learning.

It’s a perfect time in your life to identify a new kind of life purpose. Remember, a purpose isn’t a single direction; it is a continuum of expressions that involves learning.

Expand Into Learning

You may feel you have accomplished much of what you set out to do at a young age and have now cruised along for a while. Now, you are at a place where your being desires growth, new awareness, and a more profound, fulfilling mission. A life may be like an experience of having multiple lives in one.

Alana suggests you begin by getting in touch with a more profound personal truth beyond self-judgment. In other words, it’s time for some soul-searching and letting your mental perceptions take a rest.

The Adventure of Connecting With Purpose

Tap into an internal reservoir that hasn’t been tapped into for a long time. Tap into a place within while intending to create space for discovery to notice what’s there that has been dormant or suppressed.

Set aside any judgment; just allow feelings, concepts, ideas, and thoughts to surface. Write them down, and let the thoughts flow.

Tapping into an Inner Well

Begin by simply asking:

• What is the mission that resonates with the most excitement?
• What is it that would excite me and bring me delight?
• What is it that would ignite a spark of inspiration?

Next, put some energy into discovery. Begin seeking introductions to subjects, read various materials, and seek out interesting individuals that are examples of what you find intriguing. This type of interest is what ignites a spark that leads to motivation.

Fill your life with the kind of attention that invokes energy and that will ignite your mind to pay attention to what could be inspiring.

You see, creating an intent by focusing energy toward what might excite you or inspire you after gathering evidence is what ignites a spark your inner awareness can align with to begin drawing experiences toward the path that you might wish to join.

Listen to Your Inner Voice

Also, remember to pay more attention to your inner voice that wants to get to know you better than being drawn into the outer world of other people’s dissatisfactions.

Others may begin to tell you what you should do, but pay attention to what you’re feeling and fear not taking some risks. Risk happiness! Risk possibility!

Give yourself the challenge of discovering what else lies within you that seeks promise. You are never too old to turn a corner, open a book, or challenge yourself to grow because you will always exist.

So, why not ignite experiences in this present moment to invoke growth? Ignite experiences to learn, express, and become more authentic by expressing yourself in the outer world and holding what’s dearly close to your heart in your inner world.

Well Done, and There is More to Come

You have served many, done very well, and accomplished much. Alana feels there is still more ahead that will be fulfilling to you in this life.

So, dear one, begin your journey. Create a mission in life that feels delightful to you. Truly ask: What would make me happy?

Questions from the mind assist you in finding answers in your heart. They lead you to sources to tap into this beautiful reservoir of energy that lies within you, and it will begin to express in the phyical world.

Your outer world will follow, bringing you promise and opportunity!

Thank you, dear one. Alana appreciates that you are now in a place where you can experience more of your nature.
–Alana

The content Alana shares answering heart-felt career questions lead to the creation of a free online personal development series.

If you’ve been feeling stuck in any area of your life, check out > Discovering Your Authentic Self eCourse.

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An individual’s presence alone can transfer healing vibration. So, your presence transfers a loving light that ignites energy within others.

Question: Can you share some insight into my career and life’s purpose? I am in a period of transition. After looking after people for years, I have more freedom now.

I love learning, the arts, and nature, and I am interested in energy healing. Are these a part of that purpose? Thanks for your answers to people’s questions. They have helped me a good deal and, I’m sure, positively affected others as well.

Answer: Hello, dear one! Alana is happy to hear from you. Alana senses that wherever you place your presence, you bring along encouragement and light.

Allowing Purpose to Be a Guiding Light

Alana feels that part of what your presence offers is encouraging individuals to surrender to more pleasure in their lives and to lighten their loads.

Now that you have more free time, allowing yourself to pursue your interests feels delightful. Your nature broadens and expands its outreach as you bring knowledge, experience, curiosity, and interest. As you intermingle your vibration with others, they are inspired to sense where they may also develop their identities stimulated by the enthusiasm you extend.

So, Alana feels your presence is making a difference wherever you are. As you socialize and connect with others, you deliver a loving light that is also a form of energy healing.

An individual’s presence alone can transfer healing vibration. So, your presence transfers a loving light that ignites energy within others.

Alana also feels that you can study and learn whatever you wish. You are at a time in your life when imagining different scenarios that make you feel expansive may lead to new paths. You have infinite possibilities open to you. So keep turning towards that which brings you joy, guided by what sparks your interests. Notice what ignites a sense of wonderment.

As you explore, you will attract what will add to your soul’s development. Alana feels you hold a sense of internal peace that you can share with others.

Your life ahead is ready to expand your talents and gifts. Soak up nature, all that is beautiful, and allow these elements to transfer through your presence.

Thank you, dear one, for your beautiful question and willingness to be a beacon of light. The more others fill up their natures; the more light emits onto the planet, which makes a vast difference that others can feel throughout. Thank you, dear one.
–Alana

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Eliminating distractions creates greater self-identity and expands your ideas of what is possible.

Question: Alana, I was laid off in January of this year. This was the eleventh job and the ninth layoff I have experienced in the last sixteen years.

I pray for a new door to open, and not in aircraft or aerospace. I have been praying and meditating in a new direction, but I seem stuck in the mud.

I desperately need a change. I am hoping and praying to find my life’s purpose. What should I do?

Alana’s Answer: Hello! Thank you for bringing your question to Alana, dear one.

Your question sounds like you are at a point where you know it is time to expand your imagination about what is possible. Often, we encounter situations that begin and end because our spirit wants to manifest a more profound desire to make a change.

Repetitive Experiences as a Signal for Change

In situations like you are describing the occurring changes feel repetitive, and you are now at a point where you want to explore new possibilities. Alana senses that you already know this from the way you described your question.

Now, it’s time to stimulate possibility by expanding your belief to include the perception that options are out there. Also, pay greater attention to what already exists within your sphere or environment.

Begin by opening your ears and senses. Pay attention, and you will hear people talk about their activities, interests, and possible vocational ideas. Some may stimulate ideas that can lead to opportunities. Broaden your senses and tune into your nature, what you feel drawn to explore. Notice if anything you hear excites you or invokes an interest within you.

Probe for Limiting Beliefs

You may have a part of your nature that discounts possibilities because you feel you are at a certain age, and learning something new would be difficult.

Alana feels that within you have yet to surrender to your desires that are instinctual and natural and relate to your innate abilities. They are talents that could come quite easily.

So, let go of any limiting thoughts, such as the thought that you are too old to take a new direction, and allow that thought to relax.

Now, Alana feels that as you broaden your belief in possibility, you could also make time to explore.

Connecting with Authenticity and a Mission

Explore a mission statement! What might be a mission in your life that would bring you delight? What if you were to tune into your authentic nature and delve into some exploratory questions that lead to self-discovery?

You might enjoy the experiences and awareness that arise from, click > Discovering Your Authentic Self Series

What might your life be like if you could accomplish something in this life that would bring you great joy?

There are many wonderful books and tools out there to help people identify and connect with their personal mission. You see, what we are best at, what comes easiest for us, and what we have the most success with is what brings us joy.

Perhaps you could take time daily to turn your energy inward and identify a specific mission that would delight you.

Eliminating Distractions

The next thing Alana suggests is to examine where you get distracted. Try eliminating what pulls you off course. Look at distractions where you spend your time and energy.

Notice if you are spending time and energy in areas that pull you off course and keep you from surrendering and finding more joy. Then, begin one by one to say no to these things, take your energy and attention, and redirect it by continuing to turn it inward to explore your authentic self.

Eliminating distractions creates greater self-identity and expands your ideas of what is possible.

Keep this beautiful energy flowing by continuing to turn toward ideas that excite you. Focus on what you want to create rather than on what you don’t have.

Better Ways Are Ahead

Alana feels that these exercises will begin to develop a greater concentration of energy within you, moving towards excitement, and the jobs that have come and gone will no longer be attractive.

In other words, you will no longer find that you are doing something just because you know you can do it, or will you remain in a redundant and unfulfilling field.

It is time, dear one, to expand your wings and your sense of self. Alana knows that with your heart, the kindness within you, and the presence within your nature, many individuals would benefit from being in a relationship with you in many new vocational areas.

So celebrate, dear one. Alana feels you are on a path to the benefits of self-discovery! I also sense you will soon notice there is an ideal job that completely aligns with your core mission.

Thank you, dear one, for your question.
–Alana

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Self-worth is essential to our relationships with not only ourself, but with our family, friends, neighbors, and business associates. When we view ourselves poorly we are ranking ourselves as “not good enough.”

In her book The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth (Little, Brown and Company), Dr. Elaine N. Aron offers a guide for people ready to understand and improve their feelings of self-worth with actions of change.

Emerge From Defeat

The Undervalued Self discusses how self-esteem is a result of love and power: a healthy balance between these two gives way for healthy self-esteem. When this relationship is unbalanced or disturbed, negative feelings of self-worth arise.

People have the habit of “ranking” themselves negatively, so much so that it seems to be an innate response. This book teaches readers how to modify this behavior to determine appropriate self-worth with a healthy balance of love and power. Dr. Aron gives readers the tools that are needed to undertake the essential transformation of self and emerge with confidence.

Stop Insecurities and Struggles

As a guide for emerging as your best self and overcoming negative feelings of shame, depression, defeatism, etc., The Undervalued Self gives lessons on achieving balance by learning about insecurities with love and struggles with power.

With self-questionnaires—there is also a quiz called “Do You Undervalue Yourself? on the book’s website—numerous case studies, and in-depth analytical discussions, The Undervalued Self is a comprehensive book with a strong psychological basis. Readers will uncover endless gems of wisdom, including common self-defense strategies of which we are often unaware. Referring to our inner critic and the timeless protector-persecutor problem, Dr. Aron helps readers connect the dots and dissect their own habits of self ranking and valuing.

The Undervalued Self is a thorough examination of the global epidemic of self-esteem struggles. Readers will appreciate Dr. Aron’s advice of rebuilding one’s confidence by making conscious and deliberate shifts in thinking and reaction to situations and people.

To learn more, please click > The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth by Elaine N. Aron

About the Author

Dr. Elaine N. Aron is a clinical psychologist and leading researcher in the area of the psychology of love and relationships. her ideas have been featured on national television and in popular publications, including the New York Times, Time Magazine, and National Geographic.

Dr. Aron is the author of The Highly Sensitive Person, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, and The Highly Sensitive Child.

To watch Dr. Elaine Aron in this video, click > The Undervalued Self

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Question:

Answer: Dear one, thank you for your question. It is a question that I feel may help many people who are learning how to manage their emotional states, including their anger. It feels ultimately that your question centers on trust and stems from an old belief in separation.

Within the collective consciousness and within you, there is still a lingering belief that we are separate from the source. When going into your spiritual roots, I can feel much peace with your God. However, when I go within your nature and feel the way relationships have been throughout your life, I can feel that there is a desire to heal the sense of where you begin and another ends.

So dear one, I would first begin by allowing yourself to recognize that you have desires, you have needs, you have values, and you have a sense of what is right for you. Celebrate that. Celebrate the things that you feel are right and the things that you feel are wrong. These attributes are what define your identity and can point you to the beauty that is within.

Now once that you really understand your divinity and get that your sense of self wishes to be defined, you can begin to recognize that the way another may respond to you is pointing you towards recognizing what it is within them. Their actions are pointing toward their needs and their values. You will find that we exist in a very colorful world, one in which there are many different identities and expressions, and not all of them are compatible.

Now that you can get a sense that when another responds to you–perhaps in a way that is contrary or one that feels like you are separate or a victim–then you will get a sense that their response is really about them and not you. Their response can point you towards their needs and their desire to define their self and their identity.

We have created an understanding for you to distinguish what is you and what is them. What this will do is help you to heal your sense of separation and give you an understanding of your expectations. Just because someone with whom you are relating holds a different perspective than you, does not mean that you are without connection with that person.

The next aspect I wish to express is the desire to blame or the desire to react. Know that it is our nature to protect ourselves. It is human nature to hold what is sacred to us as important. Therefore, we respond with the tools that we have been given or the tools that we have learned. In other words, we respond with the tools that we now have.

Your question tells me that you have an awareness of how to expand your tool bag. You have a desire to learn how to respect and love yourself and still acknowledge that another has needs. You are learning that perhaps the way they respond is about their own nature. First of all, how one begins to learn how not to react or blame is to recognize that we are one. Secondly, go into yourself and ask what is it that you need. Then go into them and ask them what they need. Then recognize that as a pathway to peace.

Once you know what your need is and what their need is, you will know whether or not you can commingle your energies. There is no blame here. It is just that perhaps your differences are not meant to be he held in the same house, if you know what I mean. If this is so, then bless them. Say, “I bless you and I bless myself. So be it”.

You have now created a pathway to peace for yourself by acknowledging your needs and by respecting the needs of another. You have gained a sense of knowingness that perhaps you’re not meant to play together or that maybe you just do not share the same understanding.

If you find that you still wish to play together, then you may get a sense that you really wish to grow but there is a part of you that is choosing to get something right. Perhaps it is an area in which you hold a truth that no longer serves you. Then look within that truth and see what it is. Perhaps you will find that you desire to have a greater compassion or maybe you will find that you desire to let go of an old belief that you have outgrown. Respect that and say, “I still choose to play with this person and there is something within me that wishes to transform”. Then go into yourself more deeply and ask what need of yours is there. You may find that you have a need for friendship with this person because you feel this person has many good qualities. As long as their qualities do not violate what keeps you well, safe, and within a sense of love, then all is well.

Perhaps this will give you some ideas on how to stay centered and grounded. You can continue to learn how to recognize when your reactions are coming from fear, the past, or the belief in separation. Remember always to go to the intention and you will find truth. Perhaps this will help you create an observor to your anger and the attitudes you develop so that you can manage and sense your emotional state bringing it to a place where you can find peace.

Thank you for your beautiful question.

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Question:

The dependence on alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and even sugar addiction is a horrible way to live.

Thank you for any information you give to help people heal their addictive life patterns.

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for bringing this question forth. Alana feels this is a very important question.

Abuse of substances and most types of addiction can be rooted or caused from the perception and feeling a lack of love and connection.

Somewhere within, a person may have developed a core belief that there is not enough love for them or that they are isolated and alone. The essential intention of both these limiting beliefs is a desire to connect to the feeling of love.

Isn’t it always about love? Aren’t we all striving to recognize love in our lives?

When we have one of these limiting core beliefs we translate it to the physical realms. We begin to find ways to fill the void that exists within us. We want to create a state of euphoria–a state within that emulates the feelings we are seeking–a sensation or feeling that appears to fill this void.

It is interesting how chemicals and substances can create physical energy within the chemistry of our bodies, and how this translates into a sensation that feels similar to love. If we use physical chemicals to substitute for love, trying to recreate this feeling over and over again can addict us.

Alana feels there are other ways to fill this void. An individual that has a strong physical body and a devotion of heart can do this through spiritual directions. They can find spiritual avenues to fill this void by connecting to their heart center, and engaging their higher purpose and power.

An individual with a body that is out of balance from abusing it will have more difficulty devoting themselves to the spiritual realms to fill this void. This is because their body responses really want to control their thoughts. What they need to do as a first step is begin balancing their body. They can seek nutritional support and examine the foods they are eating. They can begin to heal their addictions by taking better care of their body nourishment. Then combine this with some type of addicitons-therapy that aims to heal the root causes with compassion and care.

It is so important to heal ourselves physically, which will also support our emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. We cannot cut off our bodies, since we live within our bodies. It is so important to embrace all that we are.

So, dear one, recognize that all dependency on anything outside of ourselves can be healed. It begins by the addicted person to begin embracing all aspects of their nature as they are able.

Alana suggests when one is addicted, to begin on a physical level with some kind of addictions-therapy that will help them understand why they need support, and then address the spiritual root though some type of spiritual practice that is without judgement. The mental and the emotional will heal as we address the physical by supporting our bodies, and the spiritual by reconnecting to our heart and higher natures which are pure love.

Thank you, dear one, for your question.

— Alana

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Question:

Answer: Celebrate first of all that you are so excited to meet and greet your vastness. Integration of our many aspects–such as inner personalities, parts, and memories–is a grand step towards creating a deeper commitment and focus on love. Your acceptance of all that you are, your embracing of these many parts, and your allowing them a voice, will assist them in integrating and becoming more functional for you.

We have all of our various parts for a reason. Giving them a voice allows them to tell you what their purpose is and how it is they wish to serve you.

Working with your parts is like having many allies that wish to keep you safe and secure. By creating a space for them to express it supports them in aligning with one another. They get to know each other and are more apt to be able to assist you in turning towards love, rather than fueling and fighting with fear. Your inner parts, when allowed to have a voice, will be empowered to serve you more effectively.

So, congratulations and continue recognizing your whole being.

Thank you again.

–Alana

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Question:

Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for bringing forth your question regarding palmistry. Palmistry is a very ancient vehicle for aligning with an individual and learning about their temperament and their nature.

When an individual has a mystic cross in the palm of their hand it often denotes an individual that is intuitive, has psychic abilities within them, and someone who has a strong awareness of their senses. So, what Alana feels in identifying the cross in your hand, is to confirm to you that your spiritual life is one that will have great significance for you throughout your life. The cross is a sign of an ability to expand spiritually in your life with a sense of purpose.

Some individuals have spirituality that is very much a part of their life, but it does not necessarily take the forefront, and other individuals have a sense of spirituality that directs their life in the way, perhaps, of being more humanitarian in their careers or desires. Alana feels that this has something to do with you. As you go through life you may find more humanitarian directions that bring you joy. These are opportunities to serve and also to be rewarded greatly because of your contribution.

When one has a mystic cross it shows an intuitive ability and a compassionate ability as well. Alana also feels that you are going to learn much about the emotions that run through you, too. The intuition meaning is that your emotions are quite strong and that you feel things quite deeply.

So, dear one, thank you for bringing forth this question. It is a very delightful question. Palmistry is a wonderful tool for identifying temperament and for feeling the qualities that exist in one’s nature.

Thank you, dear one.

–Alana

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Question:

Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for your question. It is fun when we play with our name and feel the vibration of tones that come from the sounds within the letters. Alana feels that what you are sensing is that you have a spiritual name as well. Also you are beginning to explore possibilities so you can tap into a name that feels more unique to who your expression is now.

You see, when we are born we have the vibration that we were birthed into. If you view free numerology online you will gain some understanding of what your individual expression is. You can also use numerology as a tool to explore your name and the different vibrations that it beholds. You can find out more information by tuning into your own imagination and creativity. You then can begin to explore names that feel really good to you.

Perhaps you can find yourself one of the books that are used for choosing the name of a baby being. Read the names and feel them, sense them, and see which ones vibrate for you. Sometimes creating a name change is very appropriate to facilitate a new identity and the new expression that one is moving into. You see, dear one! Explore and play some with the vibrations that feel like you. Alana senses that you will come up with a signature and a vibration that feels very good to you.

Nicknames are quite fun as well, because they capture our playfulness and the child within us too. They invoke a lighter sense of our nature. It feels that there is a signature you could use for business. Yes, it could be a representation of you in the business world. But, Alana feels that you are going to discover a fun name that represents the playfulness in you now. So have fun!

It is fun to use numerology as a guiding tool. It will be a fun creative project for you.

Thank you, dear one, for your question.

–Alana

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Question

Answer: Hello, dear one. Your question is definitely one that we could talk about for a long time. There is much information here to share. Alana will create an intention to bring essential information in the short period of time that we have now.

First of all, women are often attracted to men that are sometimes emotionally unavailable because within them they have already established a pattern that represents this kind of dynamic.

It could be that when they were little girls their parental father vibration was not as available as they wished. Perhaps they didn’t feel the bond or as closely bonded as they would have liked. Perhaps their father vibration had a job and worked long hours. Therefore, they did not feel connected at the depths they wished to. It may be because while growing up they did not feel that they were able to communicate fully with both of their parents. This could create an impression within them that a partner is someone that they cannot communicate with fully. Sometimes it may be because in looking at their parents, they saw that their mother and father did not have clear communication. In this case, there was a pattern that came into their awareness because of observing their parental communications.

So, many different things can contribute to finding men that are emotionally unavailable. Usually, it is a pattern that has been established within the self. This pattern represents a way that love is expressed.

Why this occurs within men, and why men sometimes become unavailable, has much to do with the same thing. It is a pattern that they learn. What we are really talking about here is a polarity. It is a polarity within the feminine and the masculine vibrations expressing on opposing ends of the polarity. Do you see? So, yes, dear one, when an individual is emotionally unavailable, it is not much different than when an individual feels that they are unable to receive. It is one and the same.

To begin to heal this pattern is to begin to heal our inner awareness. We begin to heal beliefs that we are separate, beliefs where we feel that we must do things alone. We begin to heal beliefs that say that we are not safe if we fully surrender to another person.

This whole question is all about separation, really. It is all about the fear of losing love or the fear of having love. As we begin to release the dichotomies that exist within us, and begin to heal our own polarities within, the outer world will begin to shift and change. We will begin to attract a different type of dynamic.

Dear one, worry not about men that are not available. Turn your thoughts more to what you would like to receive. Begin to build within you an integration of self. This happens through self-love. As you do this, emotionally unavailable men will melt out of your life. New vibrations will show up that are much more in alignment with what you want to create now.

Thank you for this question, dear one. Through time, many men will begin to heal this aspect within them in much the same way. Men often have had to suppress much within them to be the provider and to be the strong one. (We could talk on and on about this.) As men heal their feminine and masculine natures within, they will become more available to themselves. Then they will be more available to others.

Thank you, dear one.

— Alana

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You see, time brings both possibilities and probabilities.

Question: Alana could you describe the nature of Karma and what it is? Is it something we create from past lives?

Answer: Hello dear one. This is a wonderful question! Thank you for asking it.

Karma is a very interesting creation. It definitely has to do with collective energy.

In other words, is something we co-create. An individual who has karma is thought to be an individual who has leftover business. Or an intention to experience some kind of life lesson, or pay-back because of the leftover residue from previous experiences.

That is the usual interpretation of karma.

The Intention Behind Karma

Alana feels karma is an intention that still exists within the soul’s desire to learn and grow from its experiences. An intention to either learn something, heal something, express something, or experience something and have it become present in current experiences.

Alana also feels that karma is something that can instantly be brought to completion. Just the remembrance, and the awareness about the leftover intention, and coming to peace with it, or coming to an awareness of forgiveness, or understanding can redirect the course of events.

We do not always have to endure a long ordeal of circumstances and life situations to heal from leftover issues. We can become aware, and through this awareness, we can redirect our lives so that we do not have to experience the effects of karmic attraction.

Redirecting Karma

You see, time brings both possibilities and probabilities.

Probabilities come when we have less conscious attention and intention. We have probabilities when we move forward from an energy that was created in our past and have forgotten to pay attention.

Possibilities become more than probabilities when we expand our awareness and begin to redirect our lives from a more conscious intent. As we hold an intention and give that attention by fueling it with desire, we then increase chances for the manifestation of a given outcome.

So, dear one, recognize that karma can be redirected, and that karma can also include experiencing rewards, the delights, the joys and the pleasures from surrendering to bliss rather than being devoted to struggle. Karma does not need to be negative experiences.

Thank you dear one, for your question. That was delightful.

–Alana

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Questioner: Greetings Alana.

Alana: Greetings to you dear one.

Questioner: How are you?

Alana: Delighted to be here with you and all.

Questioner: Wonderful. I’m wondering what the planet seems like to you tonight?

Alana: Well, it is vibrating with much heart-felt energy in many places. You see, in some parts of your beautiful planet, Christmas is just about complete, people around the planet are moving into their hearts. They are feeling their gratefulness, feeling the connection, feeling their losses, and their inspirations. So today is a day we can be assured there is a collective gathering. Also, collectively many joined together to give a prayer for the planet and peace.

Questioner: Then, Alana how would you describe the intention of that prayer?

Alana: As a willingness to recognize that we are a global community engaged in sharing our dreams.

Questioner: Wonderful! So it’s been a great day?

Alana: Yes, it is beginning and will continue to develop into a grand day.

Questioner: You know this day means many things for many different people and I wonder if you could describe from your perspective, from your vantage point, the collective energy of what we call Jesus at this very moment.

Alana: The collective energy of Jesus was about bringing humankind to awareness where we could understand, comprehend, know and find our connection to God through recognizing that we are also co-creators. That our nature is one of light. Recognizing that we are all on the same path, regardless of what it may look like outwardly.

The Jesus vibration came about to turn creation toward a realization of creating heaven on earth.

Questioner: Then Alana, how would you describe the energy that we call Jesus?

Alana: A vast vessel of light that can manifest in many forms in many places simultaneously.

Questioner: So this energy, is it called Jesus now?

Alana: It is called many names. To some, we can only recognize through the name of Jesus therefore this vibration is truly Jesus, yes.

The benevolent being known as Jesus manifests so it’s seen and felt by individuals so they may have a doorway within themselves. So for those who are grounded, rooted in Christianity Jesus’ vibration will show himself as the Son of God while holding the expanded vibration of Jesus.

If you view another part of the world and embrace a face that has a different name to represent this connection of hearts, of love, of God, then Jesus’ vibration will present himself in a way that represents them. So, you see we are all connected. We are all looking toward the same light and we are all wishing to connect it within ourselves and bring it forth.

In turn, this manifestation can elevate our collective and individual consciousness to hold a greater understanding that our divinity and being, as well as our abilities to hold love and be loved, are one with all facets of love.

Questioner: As Alana heart, how do you describe your relationship with this energy we’re calling Jesus?

Alana: Well Alana heart is also the heart of Jesus, you see. So my relationship, (meaning the essence of heart, ok), with Jesus is that Jesus has a heart and that heart is Alana. Alana is just a tonal name given to create a relationship, a way to come forth in a vibrational tone or be able to communicate. In other words, Alana is really not heart’s name it is just a handle you could say, you know.

Questioner: Yes, in the CB world.

Alana: Yes

Questioner: Thank you

Alana: You’re welcome

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Question:

Answer: Alana appreciates your question and the love and sincerity within you. Your life seems that it is at a place in which you are now beginning to really know what your heart-felt priorities are. Along with that there is a great awareness moving into your nature as to what to be grateful for. Gratefulness is a fuel. It is a life force energy that assists the body with healing. Gratefulness in alignment with appreciating those that support and love you, in connection with looking at life’s synchronicities, along with smiling and laughing at what is surrounding you that reflects and mirrors humor and beauty–these are all tools to assist you in getting a greater and clearer sense of your direction.

It feels that these occurrences are here to serve you and to serve you in a grand way. It feels that you will develop a depth of heart and a sense of knowing beyond your expectations. It also feels like you can heal. Healing has much to do with the emotions and collective thought as it does with the body. I already know that you have a good sense of this.

There is another level that your being feels that it wishes to experience so that you will have some first hand knowledge in aligning many parts of your self. By aligning your body, your spirit, your mind, and your emotions, you will gain knowledge on many levels simultaneously around your current situation.

This knowledge will strengthen your soul’s next steps in what feels like a future of grand possibility. This feels like it is a ways away but you will end up gaining much knowledge through this experience. It will add to your individual pattern, meaning your beautiful soul.

So I must congratulate you in moving into this time that feels so critical in many ways. I must acknowledge that within you, you have the strength, you have the power, you have the courage, and you have the heart to guide yourself to attain the greatest amount of wisdom. So keep your faith, keep your heart open, continue to be grateful, bring in humor, and bring in light. And still allow yourself, always, to recognize that your feelings will lead you to new aspects of your self that are wishing to have greater wisdom along with a voice. Thank you dear one so much for the contributions that you have and will continue making.

Thank you.

–Alana

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Question:

I have a lot of resentment, hatred and anger towards my father and a lot of anger and disdain for my mother. I have a lot of problems controlling my emotions, especially when I see them together acting like a perfect couple. They especially put on the “perfect couple” act in front of their relatives and friends. I plan to move out soon so that I don’t have to deal with them.

My question is, how can I learn to manage my anger and hatred towards my parents and be peaceful and happy? I really need this help because the anger is sometimes all-consuming.

Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for this question. Alana appreciates your honesty and the ability to be so in touch with the awareness about what your personal values are. You see, this is essentially what your question is about. Through your anger you are finding a way to create a clear definition of what you feel your values are, what you want to create in your life, and what is important to you. Obviously, your mother and your father have a different set of values.You can be grateful to them for helping you identify what is important to you. The contrasting values between you is helping you create a clear definition of what you want in your life.

Alana suggests you begin by blessing them. This does not mean that you have to condone their actions. It does not mean that you have to necessarily suppress what you want in your life because of what their values are, and what they need. What it does mean, is that you are creating a place in yourself to accept that their values and needs are different from yours. This releases you from trying to change something you can not change on your own. It aligns with whatever their higher purpose is. Bless them, so that they can find greater peace with their own sense of self even though they may never know consciously how to grow through what they are creating.

Blessing them also creates the first step in forgiveness. When you can come to a place of forgiveness within, it helps you move on. It will help you release the anger that exists within you. Remember, forgiveness does not mean that you condone something. All it means is that you accept that it has existed. By doing this, it frees you from being hooked into the connection, or the obsessive thought, that keeps you from being fully expressive in your own life. This will help release some of the anger so you can move forward.

Now, as you do this, Alana acknowledges you for knowing that you want to create your own sense of identity, your own environment, and that you know you want to spin within an environment that feels more healthy for you. So be it, dear. Continue to turn towards which you do want to create and bless what is in your world that is less than you desire.

Also, dear one, if you did not have the parents that you have, you would not be you! It is through their actions that you have learned much about who you are. So, that is another reason to have gratefulness, and another reason to bless them. It is difficult to ever know why someone has to endure what they do. How it is serving them and on what levels they are growing.

I wish we had more time to explore this question. Hopefully, this bit of information will help you begin to recognize that your life is ahead of you. Your happiness is within your power to create. Your life is about the choices you make and what you bring to yourself from these choices. Blame only distracts us from being creative with our lives.

Recognize that not all male vibrations are going to disappoint you in this way. Hold others able around you. Do hold them able to clearly communicate with you, and to be honest. As you have trust and faith that you can attract relationships to bring this honesty and clarity to you, you will find that relationships around you will begin to transform as well.

Thank you for your question. Bless you, dear one as well.

–Alana

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Kirk:

Part 1 (Scroll down the page for Part 2 & 3)

Alana: Greetings.

Kirk: So Alana, the purpose of today’s questions are around what you see as the fundamental energies for the year 2001. Where would you like to begin?

Alana: Well first of all I would like to thank you very much for this opportunity to come forth in this way, and to share the wisdom and knowledge of heart vibration. So thank you for offering this opportunity to come forth and speak.

Kirk: Wonderful.

Alana: Okay, now your question is about this upcoming year, yes; about the year 2001, and the energies that may be encountered during this time?

Kirk: Yes.

Alana: Okay, well first of all, Alana wishes to acknowledge that we have stepped into the vibration of a new millennium. In stepping into this vibration, it brings about a new wave of light, a new ray of vibration, and much promise for a future that is more motivated by wellness, wholeness, peace, wisdom, and of course heart.

So, any time you launch into a new vibration it brings about transformation on many different levels. The year 2000 was kind of like a precursor, so it was the entry way; it was the gateway into stepping into the millennium that we are now in. And when we step into a time like this, there is transformation that takes place on many different levels.

We have our personal areas to look at, we have our cultural levels to look at, then there are also the planetary and global levels, and then there are the universal levels as well. So let us first speak of what could be happening on a personal nature.

Each individual is probably feeling a little bit of unsettling energy inside. It is kind of like looking at where life has been complicated, or where life has had certain distractions, and getting to a place of wanting to find balance in one’s life. When you wish to have more balance it brings about a desire for simplification.

We may find, in our daily lives, a frustration building where things tend to impact us in a way of taking time out of our lives where we would rather spend it with loved ones. Or areas where we recognize that it is now time to learn how to delegate instead of taking on so much responsibility ourselves. So in a sense it is really about getting in touch with our authenticity, more in touch with what our primal goals are, more in touch with what our base nature is, and coming into a new equilibrium and a new balance.

Any time there is an experience of self-examination, like this, there is also an experience of growth. This means there are stages of letting go, which can look like losses, or can look like promises. It depends on the way an individual looks at life.

One of the challenges will be to let go and look forward to a new horizon of opportunity based on an equilibrium, based on balance, based on letting go of responsibilities that are not yours to carry, or burdens, in the way of carrying other peoples responsibilities. So it is about holding others able.

Which brings up the primal energy of control and power. Last year control and power was definitely on the agenda. It was like a flashlight was shining forth bringing about light into areas where control and power existed. It also was an energy that brought about the appearance and illusion of a greater sense of separation.

And the reason I say appearance and illusion is because people are motivated by many of the same things, so therefore there is a thread of commonness between people. But the illusion is that there is separation.

So, now Alana has moved out into the area of looking at things maybe a little bit more cultural, and maybe a little bit more to do with community.

One of the things, when individual transformation takes place and we have individuals seeking balance, seeking peace, then where ever there is a collective energy that is out of balance, it will come to the forefront.

In our communities, in our civilizations, in our governments, we are going to begin to see more and more experiences for transformation, so anytime there are experiences for transformation, those who wish to hold onto control and power will then speak a little louder. We may see some radical shifts in certain ways. And at the same time we may see more people on an individual level stepping into their personal power and communicating forth for what they feel is just and fair for humanity.

So these are some exciting times we are in. You may see the collective that wants to have control and power wanting to look at monetary systems and try to figure our ways to measure where people’s financial power exists. In this way you will see individuals who are moving into their equilibrium or into their personal balance, creating new ways to distribute income; new ways to distribute money. You may find there are more and more resources and opportunities to experience the creative mind and the entrepreneurial spirit. And you might find that individuals are working at home more and finding ways to have this be possible.

So we are stepping into a new type of lifestyle and as this millennium continues into the decade, as this decade furthers, you will see a whole type of life style shift happening with people. Also families are beginning to heal in a new way. You may be sensing that and are probably going to be noticing that more and more people are going to be spending more time with their families, and the families will be building stronger bridges between each other. So there is going to be an emphasis on communication and effective understanding of each other’s motives.

This is also building, and this may be evident in programs that are developing in education. You may see that schools are shifting in the way that they present their programs. There is much happening and these are very exciting times.

Another thing that is bringing this to the forefront is that technology is in an incredible time of advancement. Technology is actually beginning to blend with spirituality, and spirituality is blending with science. We are stepping into a whole new sphere of thinking about what our spirituality is and how it can advance us in the future with technology. As technology advances, you are going to see new types of energies coming forth and possibilities to balance our mother earth as well. You see, all is connected, and so as we start with a simple desire for human equilibrium and balance, this balance will ripple through all systems.

Part 2

Kirk: So Alana, when you talk about control and power it sounds like the opposite of that kind of energy is what you’re calling human or personal equilibrium and empowerment. Can you say a little bit more about control and power, and what the opposite is for people who are not familiar with that concept?

Alana: Well control is when a person or system has a motive and an agenda, and they have an intention to persuade others to see their agenda or step into their system, and choose to color the world in such a way that their system or agenda looks like the favorable direction. So it is definitely an energy that deludes people from recognizing that they have free will and that they have personal power within themselves.

Kirk: So this is a huge change, because control and power has been the way things have worked here on earth for a long time for most cultures.

Alana: Yes.

Kirk: We are in a huge change now.

Alana: Yes. For many religions, that is their root. It is to have control and power. Yet the beauty of religion is the connection that we are all one, that we share a common spirit, a common soul in a way, and that is the force that provides us with the creative energy that exists within us; that builds our faith, builds our trust, relates the truth of who we are, and is the energy that brings us forth. So really spirituality may begin to blossom. We may begin to recognize the beauty that exists within us, and how when you do one thing to another, well it is really something that ripples back to yourself.

Kirk: You know I think a lot of people have been very very confused by religion because the core message in most religions is love, or the golden rule, or helping humankind, and at the same time, on the other hand, most wars of the millennia have been because of different religious beliefs. It doesn’t make any sense, those two things, love and killing each other about different beliefs.

Alana: Correct.

Kirk: So the core intention of many religions has been lost, as it has been blended in with control and power. You are saying that is what is transforming now.

Alana: Yes, and it can take many forms. Sometimes it looks worse before it gets better.

Kirk: Right. When you started with your introduction, you were talking about different levels, from personal to more and more global levels.

Alana: We have stepped from the personal. I communicated some aspects of personal and then of course it just naturally bridged into cultural, into society, and into community. Where would you like to go from here?

Kirk: I guess we could go into more global and universal.

Alana: Well, globally this beautiful planet is coming into a place of seeking balance as well. So yes of course, there could be some planetary shifts and there could be some impacts that happen. But recognize that as we transform internally, it creates much less need for transformation in the physical. You see?

Kirk: Yes.

Alana: And also globally the planet is experiencing more light. I want to say more light… Envision this: You buy a new light, bring it into your living room, and turn it on. You find that the areas where there were shadows or where perhaps a little dust had accumulated, you can now see into those corners. So it is kind of like this. Our planet is seeing more light. There are two particular portals that are opening and bringing in intelligence, bringing in information, bringing in new technologies, all of this for consciousness to connect to. Therefore there is transformation happening globally as well. Many souls that have been prepared to step forward in this time are doing so. And there is a wonderful grid of light being created around the planet. People are weaving information and they are weaving this light to build bridges to create transformation.

Kirk: Could you say a little more about the portals for people that aren’t familiar with that kind of concept?

Alana: Well a portal essentially is like an energy center or like a Chakra in the body. The body has a line of energy centers that move up from the root that connect to planet earth, and then move up all the way into the heavens. So the earth also has these systems and they are waking up the higher Chakras, the ones that are more elevated. They are becoming more actualized and energized. So in a sense, when Alana speaks of portals, I am speaking of systems that enliven the planet earth with new light and new information.

Kirk: I wanted to back track again on another point that you made Alana. About this time last year we recorded some information on Y2K. One of things you were sharing is that we didn’t have to have a Y2K disaster, or millennial disaster. That often intuitives or psychics, or people that do this kind of work, would see, sense, or hear in their intuition that there was going to be some kind of catastrophe. And really that was a possibility, but it didn’t need to be a probability. This is because those potential catastrophes were actually metaphors for personal inner transformation. Can you say a little bit more about that?

Alana: Yes. Again, any time that we draw something to attention, make a choice to turn within, and create balance, resolution, and free ourselves from limitation, then it ceases to manifest in the outer world. It ceases to ripple into the outer world in a negative way. It ripples into the outer world in a positive way.

Imagine if everybody in one city pondered and thought about anger, and thought about fear, and thought about frustration…you would probably find that the weather would be pretty gray that day!

Kirk: So we are a lot better served, I think, instead of these huge dire predictions…we are not saying that is not possible, we are saying that the core intention for earth is…

Alana: …is to come into balance and have heaven on earth. To bring about all of the wonderful creative powers that exists within our spirits, within our souls, within our higher selves and to experience it while we are in body on earth and sharing of love.

Kirk: So we don’t need to have pain to experience pleasure, and we don’t need to have suffering to experience joy.

Alana: However…

Kirk: …that happens!

Alana: Yes, that happens, and the contrast is sometimes how we know what joy is. So there was a purpose in that. However, we are outgrowing that purpose. We are now moving into a place where you could imagine that our future generations may come into an experience where killing and murder is not even an option that has ever been thought of. You see?

Kirk: Yes. An example, on the inside, on a more personal level, would be that we could transcend from judging ourselves, or being out of alignment with our true values, and walking around feeling guilty. You know all that kind of stuff.

Alana: Yes.

Kirk: It is really the same energy. We can transcend that and become more and more of who we actually always have been.

Alana: Yes. Imagine a human being when they experienced pain. They are able to separate from the pain by having an inner observer who recognizes that the pain is just the indicator of a symptom, and to applaud that it exists. The pain then points them in a direction that teaches them about something they wish to embrace and have in their life. In other words, when we look at ourselves so finitely, we then miss the experience to really understand what our beings are wishing to share with us.

Kirk: That is a very practical principal that anyone listening today can use. Even if we do feel ourselves getting stuck in thoughts that are whatever we would consider to be negative, we don’t have to stay stuck. We can acknowledge that those thoughts are wanting to point us to our deepest and most important core values, that which is most important to our beings. With that awareness, we can then release the energy, get the message, and turn towards that which we choose to create.

Alana: Yes. That is an equilibrium and balance, and essentially that is freedom…

Part 3

Kirk: So when you look at 2001 and beyond, but especially 2001, that whole shift from control and power to personal equilibrium, personal freedom, you see that as…

Alana: …the prime core intention that is springing forth in 2001. And what that brings about is more freedom of expression. Universally we are in a year that has much to do with expression, communication, and experimenting with our enthusiasm so we can wake up our senses.

Kirk: Great, so Alana I wonder if you would give just a quick summary and then we will conclude this special audio issue.

Alana: Well in summary there is much that will be happening upon the planet and to recognize that sometimes when you shake things up a little bit appearances can look confusing. It may appear to many people that there is quite a bit of chaos happening. But this is a symptom of a desire to bring about balance and to experience harmony. Also it is about letting go of things that we have been doing for generations, or from time to time, that no longer work for us. So we are looking for new ways of doing things, and ways to bring about simplification, effectiveness, and also moving into a state of balance.

It feels like family values are going to strengthen and more communication is going to be important. And also there could be some transitions with education in a sense. There could be experiences of new vocations. There could be opportunities opening up between countries to trade with each other and to share and barter. The whole Internet as well as other technologies could open up new avenues of healing and bringing about a greater sense of wealth and well-being. Be aware when others wish to project upon you their agenda or what they feel is the right way, because each individual has to go within and find their own truth.

Alana has much more I could say about the coming year, and much more that I could share, but just tune into your hearts, and follow your heart path. Pay attention to others and treat them with dignity and respect, because what you share of yourself with another is also a vibration that will come back and bless you. And know that as you turn towards that which you choose to create with all of your heart, that your future will take care of itself.

Alana is very excited to be apart of your life as heart expresses in this world and more love is shared, so thank you for the opportunity to come forth and express in this way.

Kirk: Well, thank you very much Alana.

Alana: You are very welcome dear one, and thank you.

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Question:

Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for bringing this important question to Alana.

Alana is excited to communicate on this topic.

To be specific and give essential information, Alana wishes to say that the millennium is a grand mixture of many different feelings, intentions, and thoughts coming together in one grand time. Now, recognize, dear one, that the shift from one millennium to another is a gradual energy. In other words, it isn’t like turning on a light and then there it is. It is a gradual energy that happens over many months.

There is some concern with the computer situation throughout the world. But, collectively there has been much progress and much has been accomplished. So, really, what Alana feels is that the more progressive countries will be quite prepared. But, the countries that have the more primitive technologies will have some confusion. But then, their dependency on computers is less. So, in other ways, there will be less confusion.

Alana feels that the most important thing to remember in any change, anytime, or in any possible event, is to focus on one’s own thoughts and intentions. Because, you see, collectively what we think about expands.

So, dear one, what Alana suggests is that you see your family in love, you see your family with light, you see your family with ease, and you see your family with joy. In other words, hold images within your nature of what you would like your future to be like.

When a collective bunch of individuals get caught up in fear it is like predicting an outcome before it has occurred. You see? So, what is important is to keep your vision and keep your sight on what you would like to create. And hold others able. Hold the government able to do what is best. Yes, sometimes the government gets confused, and sometimes the government gives mixed messages. But, it is in the best interest of all to keep our planet stable and healthy.

So, people do not collectively wish to create chaos. It is that individuals begin to think chaos and the thought is passed from one to another to another and then we have a collective confusion. The best way to create simplicity, wholeness, happiness and really move towards the direction that the millennium, on a whole wants, is to hold within yourself good thoughts.

Always follow your heart, dear one. If you do feel like you want to take some steps to prepare for any emergency or crises, then educate yourself. You see? But always hold a thought of the best and that thought will fuel the future.

Alana will talk more on the millennium and different topics in the future. But, this is about all we have time for in our short question and answer period. Alana wished to give you some key essential information.

So, dear one, thank you for your question.

–Alana

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…Behind the initial enthusiasm there are many practical actions needed to assist a business in becoming successful that are actionable at various stages of growth.

Question: After making a long thought out decision, my partner and I made the leap of faith for my partner to follow his dream, leave his secure job, and trust in the universe.

He is a computer wizard, and his dream is to use his skills in a home business career. But so far it has not worked out.

With five kids to feed, we are worse off now than before. Nothing has turned out right, no matter how much positive thinking we do.

This was not a decision we came to lightly. Yet, now we’ve gone back to the same old grind and have no fulfillment to show our efforts.

We could use your spiritual guidance on how to find career satisfaction and monetary gain.

Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for bringing your question to Alana.

You are bringing a question that is very important. This is because we can follow our dreams, follow our hearts, and follow our vision, but unless we are able to take practical actions combined with a supported, educated approach of what our dream entails, day to day reality may challenge us.

Reality of Starting Your Own Business

Alana is delighted you brought this question forth. There are a few comments I can contribute in hopes they may help you and add a greater perspective on this task, as well as help other individuals with similar goals.

There are wonderful tools to support us in realizing our dreams–and it’s true our enthusiasm may not be enough as reality sets in on how the outer world is able to accept and benefit from our creations.

When one begins a new adventure–when we are filled with creative ideas and excited. Our vibration and energy are high. Our enthusiasm can carry us through the birth of a the new project. After a little bit, it may feel as though one is being tested, or challenged while trying to stay committed and focused.

The outer world is still adjusting to this new sense of you, or our new self-image. When external feedback brings this kind of vibration (when the response to our efforts it seems ambiguous), it is very important to still hold a high state of energy and vision. To continue thinking big. This is the time to remain connected to possibility while making smart adjustments along the way.

The Many Players in Self Employment

It is also very important to invite and invoke various components or players within a business structure to ensure its success. What does this mean?

When people start a new business they can become “worker bees”.

They work very, very hard. But sometimes they forget to look up and see their idea in a very objective way. They forget to see the business from the point of view and actions of a manager, and what a manager would do to guide and grow the business.

They forget to look ahead to see the nature of their business as an entrepreneur would (The expanded vision of the business). They sometimes get so task oriented they burn themselves out before reaching an incremental goal.

A sucessful business start-up takes many steps and different levels of activity for it to take off and become sustainable.

Tools To Guide a Start-up Business

A tried and true approach could be beneficial, or may answer some of the problems that you both experienced during your efforts to succeed.

This book is not new, and it is called The E-Myth Revisited. It has basic and actionable information that could greatly help any start-up.

Find this book, dear one, and read it. You may discover what happened in your business to keep it from growing at the pace you wished. Running a business requires a big, broad awareness to help in getting past the first stages. After the initial push the business needs help to grow into the second stages then the third stages.

Behind the initial enthusiasm there are many practical actions needed to assist a business in becoming successful that are actionable at various stages of growth.

It is delightful to have vision, but it is most important to back up the dream it with expanded awareness of the types of knowledge needed to help the business grow. In other words blending additional knowledge you may not have known would help with your enthusiasm.

Blending Enthusiam with Details

Enthusiam and vision are what can also get new entreprenaurs excited about gaining additional knowledge of how to make your business grow and become more visible.

By blending entrepreneurial vision, technical skills, and management abilities, along with delegating what is possible can optimize energy and be a key to sustainability.

Do some research and go and study the foundation detailed in the E-Myth and E-Myth Revisted.

Alana feels the distinctions made in the book could solve some of the dilemmas in your situation and help your business identify areas that needed more attention to help the business grow.

I do sense that you have the knowledge and capability to attain the distinctions needed within you. I sense by expanding your understanding of the many “hats” needed to run a business and then gain a little more education on the different rolls business owners must take in the business to have it run smoothly to create the synergy that is necessary for the long term.

I wish to encourage you both to learn more on a practical level that can be blended with your enthusiasm in actionable ways.

Continue to follow your heart but also build on your dreams by paying attention to all aspects of your business goals. Balance vison with practicality. What you desire and feel is important backed up by actionable steps and knowledge. Also, remember to simplify as you go and delegate to those who have skills to help fuel the success of the entrepreneurial business.d Distinguish the many hats needed and who can best fill them.

Thank you, dear one, for this precious question. I do wish you well. Please know that Alana will be present with you within your heart and continue to guide you.

–Alana

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…At times we must balance our personal energy while also allowing the benefits time can bring to catch up to our efforts.

Question: I am working as a computer specialist. As hard as I try to get out of this field, I am thrown back in it in order to make a living.

I am a Reiki Master and just attended a workshop called “Heal Faster After Surgery.” I would love to have a profession in healing work.

I am told by my spirit guides to stay where I am. I don’t understand why at this point.

Our city is traditional and very slow in accepting alternative medicine. I am on a council for alternative medicine, and my hope is that I will be used by traditional doctors, but it is slow going. I also often seem to feel I need one more credential or one more certificate.

My question is: Should I quit work and go back to school and earn a Master’s Degree, or stay with the Federal Government and slowly continue my healing work on the side?

My job requires that I pursue more technical credentials, and I am torn as to which way to go.

I also need a name for my healing workshop for surgical patients. How about the name “Touched Wing”?

Thank you so much.

Alana’s Answer: Hello dear one! Thank you for your question. There are many questions within this question and let’s start with what is the most essential. At first it may not seem like I am answering all of your questions, but my intention is to provide guidance that will help you answer the complete question.

Creditials for Starting an Alternative Healing Profession

First of all, your vibration is one of much love and much light.

You have a grand purpose within you to spread light wherever you go. So dear one, no matter what field you choose to work, you’ll find ways to share your healing vibration.

Recognize that credentials are created for the mind. Credentials are created to fit into systems to help navigate their structures. To heal and share light a being needs no other credentials than what is imprinted within their soul. You have all that you need, dear one.

Resistance Can Provide Opportunity

Yes, we do live in a physical reality where there are certain structures that we learn to navigate. Alana feels that as you move the resistance from your nature and begin allowing the universe more creative freedom, the universe will be able to give more opportunity back to you.

That is a big statement. Yet it can provide an opening to allow fear and doubt to cease being the navigators. When we have to figure everything out before we take a step this can limit our ability to receive. You do not need to figure it all out first. Just stay in motion and balance your questions with taking action.

Action starts by initially turning toward that which you choose to create. Make your life a living expression of what makes your heart happy. If more schooling makes you happy then embrace it.

Creating Momentum

It is true that you need to maintain your comfort and be supported financially. Bit by bit, each day, as you surrender to what you love, you are going to find that income will find ways to enter your life.

At times we must balance our personal energy while also allowing the benefits time can bring to catch up to our efforts.

Identifying A Business Name

Moving on to the question about of your first choice as a business name. When I heard “Touched Wings,” it translated to “Touching Wings”. The idea of making the name active is it becomes an expression of what someone will receive.

Make the name a benefit of what they can embrace while and after experiencing your healing work.

Play with variations of Touched Wings … you’ll know when you get a big YES, that’s it! 

Self Trust Increases with Time

Assisting in healing others is something that is very natural for you, and your skills do not have to fit within a certain box. You already have everything within you to begin to move forward in the field of assisting others in become more balanced.

Allow your mind to relax and trust that you have innate wisdom to fully guide you in this field. You can express your skills while allowing your intuition and imagination to guide you and people will show up to experience your service. A client will feel your healing vibration and you will attract others as they share their exerpience.

In time you will become more comfortable and trusting in your ability to attract clients as your vibration and trust increases. People will gravitate to you because they will want to experience and reexperience your healing energy.

Loosening Expectations Makes Space for a Shift

Things may seem slow in your mind, but release high expectations because then more of what you do what can show up! Releasing high expectations while staying in motion can create a space to attract more of what you want.

When you make a commitment within to feel your essence fully, the outer world beginbs to mirror that back to you.

So, first of all, dear one, relax. You do not really need to do, do, do to prove you’re worthy. All you need to do, is to be connected to the art of healing within and allow that energy to flow and momentum will build in the outer world.

Day by day, baby step by baby step, relax into the expression of who you are already. You will find your outer world will begin to manifest more and more of what you want.

Thank you for this question, dear one. You are very much appreciated.

–Alana

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…Be the vehicle and the healing will be done through your unique essence.

Question: I am concerned about my true calling. I know I am a healer. I don’t know which way to turn and I need direction, help, or spiritual guidance to move forward.

What can I do to begin the work I feel strongly I am here to do?

Answer: Hello dear one. Thank you for bringing forth your question. Alana is so excited that your nature is awakening to the possibilities that lie within you. Your question shows that your healing skills and energy want to be a part of your life in greater ways.

It is interesting to look throughout the world and see so many different forms of healing that transfer healing energy, including the types that become known vocations.

Learning to Assist in Healing Others

Alana encourages you to just begin practicing. In other words, follow your instincts and your intuition.

Begin to do what feels natural to you. Your mind will step in and ask, “Am I doing it right? Should I do it this way? Should I do it that way?”

Alana suggests you allow your mind to ponder, but then take a nice deep breath and say, “If I could just imagine how to direct my energy, what way would I do it?”

Then begin and follow the instructions you recieve. In other words, you have the knowledge within you to start now. Within, you already know what to do. So just begin doing what feels natural to you.

Recognize that when you have an awareness it is time to devote energy in a healing direction. The “how to answers” will follow. Just keep asking and following your instincts. Follow your intuition.

Learning from Others Can Provide Self Validation

You might also go to your bookstore or library and begin to read about possible ways to gain more knowledge in areas that interest you the most. Follow the education you find as a guideline, and remember to continue to follow your own instincts and nature.

Each person has their own way to transfer light, love, energy and healing vibrations. We are all unique individuals and our abilities may express in different ways.

We can use a model to help us get started.  As we become more comfortable our individual pathway to translate healing will express from within to those we intend to become the receivers.

Recognize dear one, that what you become in conveying healing is really a vessel to allow it to move through you. What you become is a vehicle. By allowing yourself to be this vehicle, the willingness of allowing creates the occurrence.

Therefore, you really do not have to do anything but allow love and light’s presence to be within your heart. Be the vehicle and the healing will be done through your unique essence.

Thank you, so much dear one, for the willingness to allow yourself to be a delightful vessel. Alana appreciates your question and wishes you well.

–Alana

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…Changing a state happens as energy moves and causes a release that allows space for new possibility.

Question: I am about to retire from my career and I got into some trouble which has caused me to become very depressed.

Can you give me some spiritual advice on how to move foreward?

Answer: Hello, dear one! Alana appreciates your question and also feels within you much confusion and quandary.

The Gift Within the Present Moment

What Alana would suggest is for you to recognize that there is nothing more powerful than the present moment. In other words, the future lies ahead of you and the future is not something that you can control from the future.

The past is behind you and it is now gone. Therefore, the only thing that you really have that can be influenced is the present moment. It is what matters the most.

The present moment is what will impact and is an influence that can direct your future. The past is behind you now and you can use it as a catalyst.

Dear one, Alana encourages you to recognize that your thoughts in this present moment and how you identify with them can shape your future and gives you opportunity to grow into a happier life.

Refelection Give Opportunity to Release

To begin to shift your state try spending some time in the present moment reflecting on experiences and subjects that have brought you joy in the past? Use the past instead of fearing that the future will look like what you judge was challenging for you in the past. Use it to change your perception.

What has occurred in the past where you have felt you have made a difference; times you have contributed to others that filled up your own being. Turn toward these remembrances because you can use them to remember what joy feels like.

To shift a unsettled state use the present to validate that which you are grateful for that you can directly contribute to your efforts in the past.

Now take a deep breath, feel both your fear and what you are grateful at the same time as you exhale and create space for the future.

Use this reverie and action to redirect your future from current worries and concerns as you begin to fill up your nature with possibility.

Your Thoughts Become a Mantra

Tell your God, tell the universe, tell the world that what matters are that which you cherish and provide a path to gratefulness.

Dear one, you create an image, or an impression to tell the universe, God vibration what you would like to have in your future. By devoting time to turn your attention and energy to imagining with your senses and feelings what you are grateful for, you begin to redirect possibilities.

This conscious intention influences your future and will help uplift your energy and sense of stagnation. It also helps to bring more light into your body as it helps to balance your emotions as you gain a greater sense of future possibilities.

How Possibilities Grow

Alana feels that in any moment we can redirect possibilities through the attention and intention of our current moment.

Also, dear one, recognize that by communicating with your heart, sharing your intentions, sharing what you feel while tuning into your needs and values others are able to gain a greater understanding of your situation and motivation.

So dear one, communicate openly with your heart. Communicate openly and honestly with you. These actions and awarenesses will lay a delightful foundation to attract love and new possibility. They will help shift what feels stagnent and troublesome.

Changing a state happens as energy moves and causes a release that allows space for new possibility.

Thank you dear one for your question.

–Alana

Please Note: The diagnosis and treatment of depression and other psychiatric disorders requires trained medical professionals. The information provided above is to be used for educational purposes only. It should NOT be used as a substitute for seeking professional care for the diagnosis and treatment of any medical or psychiatric disorder. The potential risks associated with improper diagnosis or treatment can only be minimized by consultations with mental health professionals. If you, or someone you know, is showing the symptoms of clinical depression, make sure to receive qualified help. Here’s one of many web sites on the subject:

http://www.mentalhelp.net

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Question: I am waiting to hear about a job I have applied for and dearly want to get as I make a career change. I am confident of my chances of getting the job, but it is the first time I have made an active choice in my career.

Usually, I coast along and let “fate” step in. I want to control my job, but I still fear being responsible for the results of my choice.

What is the best way to deal with this unproductive energy? I would appreciate some career guidance to help me through this time.

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for bringing this question regarding your fearful energy connected to your career change. Holding fearful energy can be a productive subject.

Misunderstanding Fear’s Signals

Fear is a greatly misunderstood subject. People usually feel fear is something they must overcome, push into the corner, or sweep under the rug. However, turning toward fear can lead to great opportunities.

When we surrender and allow ourselves to feel these uneasy feelings, they become an incredible directional pointer. They can help us better understand what is important to us and find many benefits. As we pay attention to our fear, our values, needs, and desires come forth.

Feeling fearful in your body, emotions, and mind can hold onto many different beliefs.

• It can feel like the fear of rejection.
• It can feel like the fear of success.
• It can feel like the fear of not being successful.
• It can feel like the fear of abandonment or separation.

This blocked energy can be about many facets.  We can ask ourselves:

• “Why am I feeling this fear?”
• “What is this energy trying to tell me?”

Fear as a Reminder

The answers usually point us to something we wish to heal. Experiencing our fear is a grand opportunity. Feeling our fearful energy can provide many opportunities, including recognizing our skills and remembering that we have power and knowledge.

The more we learn to trust ourselves, the fearful energy lessens, and we become more comfortable with our nature.

Alana suggests that while examining your career choices continue to pay attention to your inner feelings. Keep asking and identifying exactly what you want and value.

Keep turning in that direction. As this uneasy energy rises, ask, “What is this fearful energy wishing to teach me?”

By doing this, you will find satisfaction. You will remember that you are very competent and skilled. Fulfillment wants to be a part of your life, an experience that leads to gratitude.

Alana feels that is why you are currently making more choices and you’ll continue to open doors to greater possibilities.

Thank you, dear one, for your question. Alana appreciates this question, which will help others understand the value of sensing into fear’s nature.

— Alana

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Question:

Answer: Hello dear one! Thank you. Your question is very delightful.

Yes, there is much conversation going around the globe and going around the universe about the times to come. Alana feels that there is some definite evidence that more awareness is beginning to happen within the collective of humankind. Some of the alignments and shifts that are happening with the stars, the solar system, the planets, and universal energy is definitely having an impact on the earth. This is because, you see, we are all connected. What happens on one end of the universe also effects the other end of the universe so to speak. Because really it is all happening within a spiral pattern. Therefore, a creative expression ripples through all.

Yes, I feel that consciousness is beginning to shift. If you look at the last 2,000 years in our evolution you will see that our vibrations are becoming more and more aware. You can see that science and spirituality are beginning to co-mingle its energies. As science and spirituality become closer and closer to finding their pure connection and seeing that an awareness of God is also an energy that can be felt, seen, and traced, our senses are going to become expanded, and a greater sense of self will occur.

Alana feels that we are already consciously beginning to see that we are more than a physical body. People are starting to sense their non-physical aspects. Some examples are beginning to see auras, recognizing that we can heal through thought, and sensing that the other side is really only divided by our perceptions. Therefore, we are getting closer and closer to recognizing our grander selves and bringing more resources to us.

As we bring in more resources, our senses become more expanded. Yes, it does seem like the world changes. But really, the world and all that is, is always the same. It does not change. We are elevating our vibrations. Therefore, we are beginning to see more of who we really are. We are beginning to tap into the resources that are present all the time. It is like we’re waking up, dear one. It’s like we are seeing more, we are sensing more, and we are allowing ourselves to be more of who we really are.

Mother Earth is going through a shift too, and Mother Earth is healing the toxicity that exists within her. As Mother Earth heals, we heal. This is because we are all connected. If you want to truly feel your heartbeat, feel your feet upon the Earth and feel your connection with the Mother Earth. You will get a sense of how your heartbeat is connected to Earth and how Earth is connected to all that is. We are all one, no matter where we are, and we are all connected.

Thank you for your question. Alana hopes this has shed a little bit of light, or shall we say, brought more light to the subject.

Thank you, dear one.

–Alana

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