The Power of Practice and a Rose

Last Sunday, I was invited to an early Thanksgiving, which mainly consisted of my sister-in-law's family. About two weeks before this event, I had a reading done at our Level III Practice Session and the person doing the reading on me picked up on the anxiety I had about this event. In fact, I had just received the email invitation a short while before going to practice.

The reader suggested I put a rose in the center of the room where the event was being held to collect any negative energy between family members (a suggestion she had recently received due to a similar issue.) She suggested I do this the day before the event, change the rose the morning of the event, and change it, again, about 15 minutes before I arrive.

The next morning, after Level III practice, I decided to start early with the Rose Technique. I placed a rose out in the Universe to collect any negative energy between my sister-in-law and myself and I placed another rose out there to collect any negative energy between myself and any of my sister-in-law's family, including her in-laws. Every morning I exploded the old roses and added new ones. I did this faithfully until the event.

As time went on, I asked the rose to collect any negative energy between any of the family members, then I did as the reader suggested for Saturday and Sunday, the day of the dinner. Interestingly, I had a very "neutral" time at this event and enjoyed myself.

Afterwards, I talked with my brother and he said this was the first family event that his brother-in-law had attended in 5 years due to a falling-out with another family member. He had not confirmed his attendance - he just showed up.

What's really cool about this is the way our group, in Cincinnati, share techniques with each other. I will never underestimate the "The Power of Practice or The Power of a Rose!"

-Debi Cain

Saying "Hello" and Getting It

John, about an hour before your conference call, I started typing my notes from the Fall Intensive and immediately I realized a deeper understanding of what it means to say "Hello" to someone. Although I did well at our family dinner on Sunday, afterward I started questioning a few things a family member said and realized this is some old programming and the old thinking process of mine.

It wasn't major, just an irritant, but as soon as I started to type my notes, I thought of saying “Hello” and I got it. In fact, it was somewhat comical when I realized how I thought she should act or what she should say. I felt the Integration starting right before your conference call. That was really cool.

Thanks for the extra help and healing tonight.

-Debi Cain

In the Womb with My Soul

Since John’s Spring Intensive two years ago, I've really grown closer with a connection and communication with my soul. Recently, the term "womb of the soul" has come up for me. In the October Seven Planes Class I felt I was in the womb when John asked us to have our physical body step into our soul at the causal level.

I've only read about the "womb of the soul" and what it might mean and until that night, I felt I truly experienced it. My soul seemed so huge, which brought up questions about the times when my body has felt like a giant or portions of my body seem huge after soul or channeling work. This experience taught me to not try and figure it out - just let it come to me and the meaning will come with the experience.

Since John's Level V Workshop in Cincinnati and his October Level I-II remote session, I've been giving back loads and loads of pictures to others, along with exploding my own. I noticed a difference when venturing out into the 7 planes and coming back. At the Spring Intensive, I had so much bloating and pressure as I came back and I also experienced bloating during the 7 Planes remote sessions. In the October session, I didn't have any bloating at all. It felt very "clean" going out and back (actually , it feels like going out and up for me, then in and down).

We did an exercise called the Field of Roses. One rose represented experiences that happened as I wished, and the other rose represented experiences that did not happen as I wished.

I sensed a great awareness and acceptance of the experiences that didn't happen as I wished, and I felt the same with those experiences that I enjoyed. I didn't feel the pain - I just realized the growth from the lessons taught. My soul seemed consistent with both of the roses.

I'm starting to notice a consistency with what comes up in some of the planes. For instance:
1) Monadic, level 1 - the song and words, "Let it Be and Whisper words of Wisdom."
2) Adi, level 1 - the sound of bees buzzing and a honey comb forming from the sound.

Thanks for doing these sessions, John. I truly appreciate it and absolutely love doing this work and connecting/communicating deeper with my soul (and Mataji).

-Debi Cain

A Revelation in Perfect Pictures

I have been clearing my mom's "perfect pictures" from my 2nd chakra/layer during my daily clearings. During the 1st clearing of John's Level I-II session in September, I questioned if I have my dad's "perfect pictures" in the lower left section of my 3rd chakra.

I saw how a lot of the punishment I do to myself has to do with the "perfect pictures" I have of myself and wanting others to see me as the images I've created. The word "should" kept coming up for me in the exercises. For instance, "this is how I should act based on pictures from others and my own."

The following morning, as I did my clearing, I worked with the symbols of a House in my lower 3rd chakra and a Breaker Box in my upper 3rd chakra. As I turned on the lights in the house with the breaker box, I started bloating or blowing up like a balloon. I was all lit up. Then, it seemed as though the bloating was due to other people's pictures of me in my space. I stamped the pictures "return to sender" and sent them back along with their energy and whacks.

Afterwards, I blew up the rose and all of the lights went out and the bloating was gone. So, here's what came up for me: 1) I'm starting to understand how I run from other's pictures in my space, as well as mine, and I feel/see them in my aura. Until this session, I never really got it at this level.

Now, when I feel punishment (guilt, shame, etc), I know to ask if I'm running from another person's picture vs. my own. Lately, I've been asking "whose energy is this", but now I can relate it more to pictures.

2) What's the difference between a Perfect Picture and a Picture? The word "perfect" came up for me as I thought of my dad's pictures and my own. I questioned if a perfect picture is how you want to be seen or how someone expects you to be/act. Are perfect pictures only associated with my mom's pictures at the ovary level?


John's Response: Perfect pictures can never be satisfied. Both sexes can have them, but every woman comes with a whole set in her reproductive system, and they play a huge part in her every encounter unless she's female grounded.

-Debi Cain

Patience

John would like to share an excerpt from the May 15 Time Magazine article, "The World's Next Top Lama", about the 22 year old Karmapa (perhaps the 2nd most important reincarnate lama).

When a reporter noted that the Kagyu lineage is known for its stress on practice and that his own generation is not known for its patience, the Karmapa delivered some advice that his American followers could no doubt appreciate. "If people have no patience," he said, "they have no patience, and I can't insist that they develop it. But I've observed that human life without patience becomes unworkable. My experience has been that I've been forced to develop patience with unchangeable situations." It is a virtue to recommend as well to those hoping for a solution for Tibet's status.

Fertilizer for the Journey of Your Soul

Debi Cain shares this insight triggered by a passage from Shepherd Hoodwin's book and a recent dream.

Shepherd asked his clients to share their experiences with Michael and their teachings and one (un-named) client wrote the following:
"Thank you for being such a kind and gracious guide on my first journey into my being. You and Michael have planted a seed that no foul weather can uproot or destroy. I know that the path to growth will not be easy, but from now on I will realize that the "shit" I go through is really fertilizer for growing a wiser, more loving me."

Is that last line the BEST! About a month ago, I shared a "poop" dream with John and couldn't resist sending this "discovery" to him. My guides sure have a different sense of humor, but they found what worked to get me to "face my shit!"

I walked into a public ladies restroom and the toilets in all five stalls were full of poop -- I mean towering over the top. As I turned to walk out, totally grossed out, I remembered my dad telling me his grandfather told him if he fears something, he needs to touch it and then he won't fear it anymore.

So, back into the ladies room I went. I went into each stall and flushed each toilet. As I flushed each one, I felt I was showing it I'm not afraid of it versus trying to get rid of it. As I thought about it the next morning, I realized I'm finally ready to "face my shit". So, now I have a new motto: The "shit" I go through is really fertilizer for growing a wiser, more loving me."

Citation: "The Journey of Your Soul" by Shepherd Hoodwin, Page 373, Appendix C -- Comments from Client Letters.

The Space In-Between

By Debi Cain

At times in the Intensive, it felt as though I went in and out of two dimensions but the part I didn't stress, which was really strong, was the feeling of being "in-between" them. I recall saying to myself that I feel like an "In-Between". I thought of a song from an old Patty Duke movie about being a "funny little in-between". For her, it was more about feeling in-between a tom boy and girl, but that feeling and song have always hung with me and was so strong through-out the intensive.

This morning before meditating I read the first chapter of "You are the Answer" and the last paragraph stated: The human soul has one foot in nothingness and the other in everything and IN-BETWEEN lie all the limitless possibilities of experience that bridge the two into one.

Afterwards, as I was meditating, I went into the Space Between the 1st and 2nd chakra and felt that "In-Between" feeling I had at the Intensive. I could totally see and feel the space of creation. I realized this is where I can "change history" with "what's up" between my 1st and 2nd chakra. I FINALLY reached a point where I could work with my mom. People kept popping in for my attention and I just said hello and stayed with the "change history."

The "spiral of wind" took place (another experience from the Intensive) and the affirmation of my mother and I "chose" each other during incarnation was so real and, actually, loving. Somewhere, I popped up to the 5th because of the sensation in my throat. At Gloria's practice recently, that's where I found the "Rules" you helped me to realize on our phone session and a Tape Recorder and Contract came up. After some clearing here, I popped into the space between the 5th & 6th and was able to do more work with my mom in reference to "renegotiating our contract." Most importantly, I really looked at MYSELF and saw / felt / acknowledged my part in all of this. How I've been doing to her what I felt she does to me -- the Petty Tyrant reversal.

I saw my chakras as the clearing and staging area to move into the "in-between" of chakras to create and re-create and what better timing than right when things come up. The pain in my chakras are the "Spring Boards" for diving into the Space In-Between.