As I sat in my car with a child in meltdown crying and one in an angry huff, I thought; this is my journey to The Jade Buddha of Universal Peace? The Jade Buddha is a Buddha carved from a large boulder of Jade called The Polar Pride that is traveling around the world (to learn more about this statue click here). My family and I have piled in our car, ridden a ferry off our little island, connected up with two other car loads of family and friends, had lunch, and then we went on to see the Buddha. Once we finally arrived I felt like I had trekked up a mountain top and fought off an army to get there. The children had settled (after lots of Reiki and ThetaHealing) and we stepped into the courtyard of the temple. I was struck by the beauty of the whole temple. They have a giant gorgeous Quan Yin statue next to a waterfall and a whole wall of carvings interwoven with planters and fountains that ends in a dragon head. We spent time exploring every intricate statue, carving, and metal work all over the courtyard. First though, we walked straight to the reason we were there, The Jade Buddha. Luckily we were able to go on a Wednesday afternoon and there were very few people in the place. We sit down at its "feet" and all of us "tune in". My message comes almost instantly as I think about my day and journey here. The path to peace can be chaotic. I feel I am sent an energetic knowing of this. It is like when you need to clean, organize, and redecorate a room to make it more peaceful. You first have to dig through everything and pull it all out to sort it. In the middle of the process you can feel like you have made yourself crazy and it is all a big mistake, but you have to move forward because there is no turning back now. Then, eventually everything starts to fall into place and make sense. Once you are all done you are glad you went through the process. I have felt this way many times in my life. So the message I carry from my experience is; if you want to be at peace you have to be willing to move through what is causing the chaos. In the end you will be rewarded by a sense of well being and then you will find another place to start the process all over again. Remember peace is a feeling and a state of being so it will come and go. We are human and this is our experience. If you would like to experience some peace and the Jade Buddha is coming to your town, I suggest you go see it. As my 10 year old son said "Mom, I had a real experience, I don't know how to explain it, but it was good."

I have always had two strong passions. One is spirituality. I don't just mean my own spiritual path. From a very young age I loved going to other people's churches and temples and rituals. I have always been fascinating with the way we, as humans, worship and connect to the Divine. The other is activism. I have always tried to speak out for the "less fortunate", do right by Mother Nature, vote, recycle, and things like that. In the sixth grade I started a petition to make the school recycle the lunch supplies. One of my favorite books has always been The Lorax. You get the idea. Let's fast forward to now and actually the last few months. I have been very active in groups and events lately talking about and dealing with The Gulf disaster and things like that. In this time I have had something that always bothered me become a glaring fact that I could not deny. These two parts of me can be in conflict. I have watched it played out in forums. The activist hold an action oriented view which is very good, but on the downside they often come from a place of feeling victimized or fearful. This leads to the intent and motivation of projects coming from this place. The spiritual group looks for the positive and sees everything as a co-creation and part of the Divine which is very good, but on the downside they are so focused on positive light that they never take physical action. So where does this leave me. I believe that everything is Divine and is happening for a purpose and it is our view point that makes it bad. I also think that because we do create our reality and have great effect on our experience we should be actively changing it both on an inner and outer way. My older brother, Matt, who I do not give enough credit to, gave me the perfect phrase for this: Spiritual Activism. I believe there is a large group of people right now taking part in this movement. It is a movement that brings into balance these two sides of me. Are you a part of this new movement? If so say this:

Lately I feel crazy! I don't know if it's the shifting energy, my shifting self, the stars and cosmos, or 2012. I do know that I feel like I can't keep up with life, overwhelmed, and just flat out crazy at times. This seems to be a theme with clients, friends, and family too. People are cracking up and cracking open. You can give it many reasons both universally and personally, but this is happening. I'm telling you all of this for a reason. I feel it is my job often to let people know they are not crazy. So often we feel, know, and experience things that do not make sense. More to the point, they do not align with a rational explanation that is acceptable to society. This makes us feel crazy. I find that sometimes the most healing thing I can do for someone is tell them they are not crazy. You are not alone. You are not the only who feels this way or has had this experience. You are a part of humanity that is waking up theirs souls. Humanity as a whole is waking up, shifting, expanding, and many other things you could call it. If more people shared what they were really thinking, feeling, and experiencing then maybe people would not feel so alone. We keep waiting for others to share and make it safe for us to share. The truth is, at least my truth is, that we need to share so that others are safe to share.

Everything we encounter in the outer world is a reflection of something that’s within. We have created the Earth as a tangible playground waiting to be explored. Every place has its own energy, its very own feel. Just like our bodies may be tense in certain areas and sensitive in others, the Earth has different zones, too. Depending on where I stand on the Earth grid I can feel different energies. As humans we have the ability to work with these zones, clear them, connect to them and thereby uncover deeper layers of ourselves.

I have been feeling very lethargic lately; almost depressed. I can't seem to find the motivation to get things accomplished. I have spurts of inspiration but even then it seems the details of life block and complicates things. I finally remembered that I can talk to Fairies and get another perspective. I know that when I keep trying to push one way and it does not seem to work then there is something else I should be doing. This was one of those times. I was not surprised to discover that The Fairies had a message for me and everyone else.

It's been 17 days since my last blog, the longest since I started, I think. I can tell you many reasons why I didn't write; my life has been crazy with dentist appointments and having a tooth pulled, I have once again over committed myself, I have been dealing with issues with my children, or I've been uninspired, etc. The reason is I chose not to. I made other choices that made it more difficult and I chose not to make the effort. Why did I choose not to? That is the real question. Intellectually I would say it is about priorities and where I let my attention get directed. Emotionally I can point to many things I have been processing that made me turn more inward. Physically I would say I just didn't have the energy to do it. This is just dissecting the energy behind my choice.

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