Self Care and Why it Matters

Posted on December 3, 2018 by admin

When you serve the public as a healer or psychic taking care of yourself is tantamount in importance.

Even if you are not a service provider, self love as self nurturance and self care is part of the picture if not the main attraction. I am not talking about the egoic self love but the self love that does not call attention to itself or put itself above others; also in the realm of self care is being able to say no and taking time out.

This has been a steep learning curve for me as I went into the life so quickly; all the different forms of self care I learned through experience and from the people I see on a daily basis, as a result of what I have learned from other’s mistakes. I am surprised every year at the amount of “reiki masters” or energy healers of some other type of modality who come to me for healing or who become so gravely ill they are beyond the scope of energy healing helping them; energy healing tends to work best when sickness is still in the energy field of the individual and has not yet manifested as disease which is sticking to ones bones. This has put me against reiki. The healing I do for example is completely self-taught as that is how I was instructed to learn by my teachers and my own spiritual guides.

My guidance has instructed me repeatedly that Creator/God/Universal Mind; chooses who to bestow gifts upon, we do not choose this life and to pursue gifts can cause great imbalance in the soul if one is not fit for it. Even myself working as an energy healer was not something I chose, it chose me. I had been working as a clairvoyant for seven years before dreams, illness and certain guides and messages pushed me literally toward working with the energy. I was dragged kicking and screaming to the work. Now I love it because of all that I see and experience, the profound messages and information from the spirits is fascinating and that is how they got me in the end. I love to learn and I have a curious mind.

If you are one of the chosen to carry this burden of healing others, resting and having a hobby is important for self care, a lot of time in nature always restores me. Find your little corner of happiness, laughter and having fun is always a great way to regenerate your spirit. Find what works for you!

© Lorraine Hughes 2018

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Things are not as they seem

Posted on July 22, 2018 by admin

We live in a holographic universe, because of my profession as a psychic and energy healer I receive proof of this every day. My partner (who is used to living with me in my strange world) not only sees a little of what I see but believes me because of the little miracles that happen around here everyday. A wise healer/teacher told me that when I began to work as an energy healer I would understand the events that happened when I was a younger, these events were paranormal in nature that I buried due to childhood trauma. Because we live in a world where we are surrounded by trauma and chaos we block out the little miracles and synchronicities that happen all the time, or minimize phenomena with our logic brain and put it down to coincidence.

However these events that happen illustrate that we are all energetically connected and at this important time in Earth’s history it is time to join together in love and compassion for one and other and heal together collectively and individually.

The reason I brought up my healing journey and my childhood is when the energy of healing began to flow through me from Creator I began to see myself better, my mind was given the gift of emotional distance so I could understand events that previously terrified me was the spirit world trying to reach out and educate me. Sometimes the other side got so desperate to get my attention it had to scream. Not all of us have psychic gifts but we are all born with the ability to connect to God and our goodness deep inside which heals us all, whereby we can aid planet Earth and all her beings in their healing too.

Our prayers and thoughts reach out into this holographic universe and resonate, I have psychic heard this space also known as the mental field of energy. I communicate with beings who exist in other dimensions and energy fields so I know to the depth of my being that these spaces and places exist as well. In the branch of science called Nuclear physics and Particle physics tiny particles are studied, they have funny names like quarks and are smaller than an atom. They race around; disappear and reappear in a totally different places, the scientists don’t know exactly where they go but some scientists believe this proves the existence of other dimensions. Beings appear and disappear into thin air, I have the gift of seeing and sensing them; not just in nature but all kinds of places like in the subway underground or city streets; these are not always ghosts but residents of the many layered and mysterious spirit world.

So be careful of your thoughts and what you say because it is being recorded and I don’t mean always by humans who might be spying on you but the greater powers that be.   Have you noticed sometimes when something becomes a trend in our human experience its teaching us of a greater truth in the great beyond, what is the internet anyway but a clumsy tool of what we already do naturally but have forgotten is in our true nature, telepathic communication. Since your already transmitting anyway, why not put out positive prayers and intentions to help in the healing and helping of us all, bringing us together in love.

© Lorraine Hughes 2018

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Healing and Our Animal Companions

Posted on February 16, 2018 by admin

I find animals fascinating (especially our pets) for they are incredibly sensitive,  perceptive and often mirror our spiritual development back to us, because they understand unconditional love they will frequently take on our emotional troubles and our stuck parts in order to “lighten” our load. They also through love try to mirror us back to ourselves, so seldom do we get the message. Some of us treat animals with terrible disrespect and because we do that, the negativity comes back to us in some way, science has even proven fish exhibit emotional responses. More and more people are becoming conscious and aware, this awareness must include that each animal (including animals in the forest) have individual needs, awarenesses and emotions just like us. Just like us they are part of creation and have a right to be here unmolested by us and understood as an important part of the greater whole.

Animals have communicated with me telepathically and you would be “surprised’ at the complexity of these communications. I was a person (although I never abused animals) who didn’t understand them. When I became a psychic my whole world opened up. Everything (even the rocks and trees) around us is alive and sentient. One of the reasons I now offer animal healings is I have had good results (with my guides) working with pets.

Our animals so often take on far to much out of love for us, they deserve to have the same healing of their minds, bodies and souls that we do; is why I have thought to offer this service.

© Lorraine Hughes 2018

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Are We Going Back to Where Life Began

Posted on September 7, 2017 by admin

Once and a while I get passionate about a topic and feel I have to write or sound the alarm. Often I hear someone speak or have read something and for some reason it sticks. For me clairvoyance in part has been the numerous ideas and bits of information stored away in the unconscious mind that gets triggered later, surfaces and becomes a moment of revelation.
Many years ago I was helping on a film (in the mid 1980s) documenting an environmental conference in Toronto. Not too many people were in attendance because everyone thought environmentalists were wackos and that global warming was psuedo science even though at that time people like David Suzuki were sounding the alarm bells.
A man spoke who very much affected me, he was a pilot and of Native American descent; he was part of a project to measure ozone holes in the upper ionosphere (I am not sure if people are even doing that right now). He said if the holes get any bigger then watch out there is going to be a lot of problems with microbes, the Ozone layer is part of the Earth’s immune system and an important barrier to keeping out microbes (some of these are harmful to our health). He claimed this would be the most serious problem facing humanity in the future. I remember pondering this information and it remained with me over the decades.
One of the most persistent health problems that comes up in my readings with clients is to take care of their blood. The best way to be disease resistant is to take care of your immune system, eliminate sugars of all kinds, eat less meat, grow your own food and live stress free by meditating and living mindfully. My father used to say the way to grow healthy plants in your garden is not to use pesticides but to look after and build up the soil. When you look after your blood, you are looking after your soil.

Today I read an article and I have copied the section which caught my attention verbatim;

“Researchers studying ways to detect early rejection of transplants in humans have uncovered a vast array of microbes in the human body previously unknown to science.
Stanford University’s professor of bioengineering and applied physics Stephen Quake and colleagues made the discovery by looking at the cell-free DNA circulating in blood plasma.
Of all the non-human DNA fragments the team gathered, 99 percent of them failed to match anything in existing genetic databases the researchers examined.
Quake says most of the DNA fragments were from proteobacteria, which includes such pathogens as E. coli and Salmonella. Previously unknown viruses were also found.”

One of the best things you can do for your health and the health of Mother Earth is to take care of the her and be an ambassador for positive change; take that on for yourself and for those seven generations.

© Lorraine Hughes 2017

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Why Engage in Meditation and Prayer

Posted on June 8, 2017 by admin

I use the photograph of the crow and the raven because they are known to be amongst the most intelligent animals on our planet. They have highly developed powers of observation. I believe this is why they are up at the top for smarts. To me that is why it is important to still your mind and be aware of the messages you send out into the universe. The power of prayer along with developing your powers of observation will expand your mind and intuition. Being smart is not about your SAT score or an IQ test its about developing what you already have.

This article is a prelude to classes I will be holding this fall in Toronto. The dates and location are not firm but I will have that information by the end of June, 2017 (check back here to to my website if interested under ‘classes’). The location will be in the downtown core and I hope to begin after Labour Day in September, 2017 over the course of 8 weeks meeting one evening per week for 2 hours.

I am excited and honoured to be teaching classes again and lead you on a journey to developing your intuition. One of the topics we will cover is prayer and meditation.

Meditation and prayer are like the opposite ends of a pole when working with energy. Meditation is about receiving or getting ‘ready’ to receive messages and prayer is kind of like sending out the desire or posing the question. Both are important to developing your intuition.

Think of yourself as a farmer. Meditation or stilling the mind is like tilling the soil and preparing the ground for something to grow. If we have busy minds or we don’t know how to practice mindfulness how will we ever hear spirit or be able to discriminate from the myriad of messages being processed by the brain. Engaging in prayer or sending out a request or question is a process in itself for as meditation gives us a window to the unconscious and mirrors back to us messages that might not be in our awareness, good prayers (or clear requests) are being precise about what we ask for and the having knowledge about negative messages we might unconsciously give ourselves (and send out into the ethers) everyday, which result in a garbled message from spirit if we are not still or clear in the sending out.

That is why we must work together with these two principles.

These concepts and more will be explained and simplified in the classes I will teach over an eight week period, all methods I have used and tested myself in my work. These classes will be conducted with your safety being paramount, and not necessarily how to be a psychic (but would help you if you are one or have that gift) but geared to help people with their intuition in their everyday lives. Through this course I hope to help your gain clarity where there may have been confusion in these matters.

© Lorraine Hughes 2017

 

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The February Blahs

Posted on February 8, 2017 by admin

What is it about this time of year.  Why do we get the February blahs; or any blahs or downers at all for that matter. I believe our ancient forefathers and mothers from a different era would use the winter as a time of song, merriment, community, storytelling, recharging our batteries and perhaps mending our clothing or whatever needed to be done during the seasonal downtime. One of the problems with our modern society is we don’t take downtime at all. We are constantly busy and on the go, we are over worked, under paid and in debt up to our chins. We don’t know how to take a break from the stresses of our daily life, it builds up and hence “the blahs”. I believe in the past our ancestors lived their lives closer to to the seasonal changes and tried to be more in harmony with Mother Nature’s ups and downs, energy highs and lows. During winter (at least in Canada) all the energy has gone inside the Earth, waiting to be awakened by the shift that happens during spring.

Perhaps we should admit to ourselves (for our bodies and moods try to) that no matter how much we try to shelter ourselves from this fact we are indeed affected by the weather and the seasons. No matter how much we reassure ourselves by picking up our cellphones or iPads or logging into our Facebook cave; whether we like it or not Mother Earth reaches out to us and its usually in these subtle deep longings.  Notice no matter how much we connect to these virtual worlds and shield ourselves from the world outside we don’t feel better. In fact sometimes we feel worse.

Mid-winter doldrums can make you feel down and can be a sign that we need community, creativity or nature. Even though the energies are very low at this time there is a subtle majesty about the land covered with freshly fallen snow and the hush of silence that seems to abide the magic of sparkling whiteness.

When I used to live in the Beaches area of Toronto, I would get in the doldrums in February or early March, I used to go for long walks along the boardwalk and look out at the slate grey plateau of Lake Ontario. By the time I got to the end of the walk or too cold to walk any further I would briskly walk to the closest coffee shop on Queen Street and read the paper. Grateful for all the other ruddy faced individuals coming in from the cold and taking a load off. Some how the lake seemed more mystical and special on those days. I would be all alone with the lake, no crowds and felt somehow the lake was mine.

I think its helpful in these stressful modern times to have a place in ourselves and outside of ourselves that inspires us, gives us solace or absorbs us so completely that we forget about our problems. I believe our early ancestors knew how to do this through community, creativity and by allowing nature to heal and restore them.

© Lorraine Hughes 2017

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Animal Perfection as Teachers

Posted on October 19, 2016 by admin

raven2img_20140204_091914Hello everyone. I love to write about what I learn from the many people I meet with and work with, also my philosophical musings along the “path” my own path of spirituality and getting closer to Creator, or God as you may call him/her. One of my biggest spiritual teachers have been my pets.

This summer I lost a good friend. It so pains me to write about him and as grief takes it toll it has taken me a few months to write these words, I wanted so much to share with you his story.  I know our beloved pets know us so well, all our concerns and worries because either in my work other’s pets have telepathically communicated with me in sessions or my own pets have talked to me and shared. Even after death.

My cat Raven (pictured left) had been having health issued for about a year. He died on July 8th this past summer. I guess I was in denial about him, but he was in pretty bad shape near the end, even though the vet tried to gently tell me, I didn’t want to hear it. I was at his side constantly administering to his every need. He seemed to perk up bit so I thought I’ll run off to yoga. Just before I left I looked in on him and he seemed very alert. He’s going to rally I thought! In the middle of my yoga class Raven visited me spiritually and he was floating around the ceiling, he was free!!! He told me that he loved me so much and all I could feel was love pouring from his every being, he said he was worried about me and that I needed to lighten up bit, enjoy life more. He also advised me to paint and play my guitar. Then he left. I jumped up and left the room in tears mid-class thinking he had died. He died the next day in my arms.

The reason I share this with you is because I know from the deepest part of my soul that animals, trees, stones, the sky that opens before us, the sun and moon that looks down on us, all of it has a consciousness. It has an awareness of itself and of us.  It knows what we are thinking and those that love us know what we truly need to live in our magnificence. We really are surrounded by a loving embrace even though we might think we are alone. We are not alone.

© Lorraine Hughes 2016

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Rebirth and the Art of Transformation

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

rebirthroseYou cannot tell a rose when to bloom.

Whether we remember it or not, our birth was a difficult process for us. For before our birth and while we were in our mother’s womb; our consciousness, the ‘us’ we identify with, was safely wrapped up in our ancestral womb, we were ‘home’ with God or Creator, the Universal life force, how ever you see that energy. When we are “birthed” into this dimension we are taken from that nurturing environment, to which someday we will return after our soul’s journey of learning here on this spaceship we call “Earth”.  We came here to learn or heal, I consider these two concepts to be one and the same.

Often when we are growing spiritually or healing our mind, body, emotions or spirit we are surprised how painful it might be or may shy away from the pain. It is our darkest moments when we are healing ourselves the most and very closely interacting with our soul’s purpose, our divinity. Not only to do we grapple with our unconscious material (whatever it may be we have stowed away in our proverbial closet), but we are here to reach great heights and develop our highest potential.

It is for this reason why, if you are here to heal your soul and learn its not going to always be a fun, up or easy time.  Healing is actually the disintegration of the ego and the illusion that we are all separated in our own little compartments.  We are all connected to each other, and that is becoming increasing apparent as time moves us forward. The earth is going through a great cleansing, a great evolution. Since we are all connected to each other, the Earth and all the beings upon it we are going through this cleansing and transformation ourselves. The Earth is re-birthing herself; and birth is a difficult process, its messy, arduous and hard to control.

A wise healer said to me, the road to peace is a difficult one. It gets easier the longer you are on it but its fraught with diversions, monsters and impasses. The funny thing about it is its all coming from inside you so really blaming others when confronted with something that’s not going your way is futile because the finger is pointing right back at you.

Any kind of pursuit of money or accumulation of material wealth at this time will take you further from your own healing process, if you increase, disperse the wealth; and you will always grow! The way ahead will clarify itself and be less foggy and unclear. Healing and growth is a process and as we are all timeless and limitless beings, we are each individually in a different state of development; no one is any greater or less than another. Therefore we should embrace each other as fellow students, no matter how much someone may not understand you or have hurt you with their unconsciousness. Look for the fellow traveler who may be sympathetic to your cause.

Even myself, with all that I know, with all that I see and hear; alas I am full of warts and barnacles just like you. I have my own confusion, quandaries and inner chaos to overcome. Just as many, many people do. That is why I try to practice daily mindfulness; in order to gently take care as much of this as I can. One day at a time.

Transformation is the breaking down of all we hold true here in this material dimension, especially if we are looking for more wealth or for life to get easier.  The only way to peace is to realize God is within us and we are to express God’s love and forgiveness in all ways and toward all life. Even mosquitoes have a purpose here on this spaceship called Earth.

© Lorraine Hughes 2016

 

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Writers Block and the Creative Process

Posted on June 3, 2016 by admin

brendUHello all. Yes I know what your thinking, where has Lorraine been? Well this might sound silly to you but I’m intensely focused on finishing my first book, so much so that whenever I write I feel as though I should be working on my manuscript not on my blog! Here’s the rub, sometimes I am just sitting here stuck in writer’s block hell! Which for me is just a self imposed hellish place. I wish I was one of those people that could just sit down and bang away at the keyboard and get a book out in a month, or two. But alas I am not!

However one thing I do know about the creative process is that if you do hang in through all the blackness, self doubt and self flagellation. Thrust it all aside, barrel through; great things arrive as if from nowhere. A friend and I were on the phone once and I was talking about some paintings I was working on, I believe I referred to my creative process as ‘mudbowling’.

“I’m just rolling around in the mud.” I told my friend David.

“You got to hang in there Lorraine because heaven is on the other side.” He laughed!

I always remember that advice I got from David, especially when I am having a hard time. I also have on a handy shelf just to the right of my writing space a selection of books to cheer me on when the going gets tough and I might pick one up, read a passage and barrel on! Here are a few of my favorites: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland (cover pictured above), Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield,  On Writing by Stephen King and The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

So creatives I leave you with this nugget from Brenda Ueland’s book.

“The creative power and imagination is in everyone and so is the need to express it, i.e. to share it with others. So what happens to it?

It is very tender and sensitive, and is usually drummed out of people early in life by criticism (so called “helpful criticism” is often the worst kind), by teasing, jeering, rules, prissy teachers, critics, and all those unloving people who forget the letter killeth and the spirit give life. Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.”

Read her book, its simply a work of art, so inspiring and healing!

© Lorraine Hughes 2016

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The Hermit’s Life

Posted on February 12, 2016 by admin

purplefinchHey folks my apologies I haven’t been on here for a while but I am becoming a writing, reading hermit, truly. If I could go off and live on a deserted island just with books and my MacBook I would probably be doing that but alas I am here in rural Ontario feeding my bird friends and looking out the window at the snow on the ground. My mind is definately off visiting distant lands and often I wish my spouse would read more so we could deeply discuss topics and books I am reading and thinking about. Instead he is a news junkie and deep soul who helps to interprets my dreams. Well we can’t have everything can we.

So instead of writing about some spiritual truth I am pondering at the moment I thought I would share some books and ideas here that have inspired me as of late. I am a library nerd girl. There I’ve said it. Always had a library card and usually have up to 10 books on the go piled beside my bed, now that my beloved bought me an e-reader, I have about 8 books I am reading piled up there on my library bookshelf! Uh really?! How can you read so many books you say. Well I go from book to book and there is something reassuring almost security blanket-like if you will about these book piles in actuality and virtually. I am not some weird cat lady who coughs behind a dusty book pile while your visiting, at which you might exclaim oh hey there you are Lorraine I thought I lost you there for a minute!  No these books are constantly being flipped through and referred to.

I’m reading “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” by Dr. Gabor Mate; a very enlightening and sensitively written book about Dr. Mate’s encounters with addiction, I found fascinating the chapters on brain development and how the addictive brain develops. It was difficult to read of lab testing done on animals. There is great humanity is this book though.

I remember years ago when I started to do sessions and healing with clients it was shared with me by a fellow seer that I would read about something or become fascinated with some topic and clients would magically appear needing that information. Lately sad to say more and more people are suffering from various forms of trouble with the brain. Personally I believe its because of the society we live in, all the electrical devices we own and unnatural energy waves out there milling about affecting our thinking in adverse ways.

On the plus side and unrelated here are some books I have read and enjoyed over the past year; The Orenda by Joseph Boyden; The Reason you Walk by Wab Kinew (loved this book, I cried alot reading this);  I read all the Harry Potter books again (3rd time); Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda (still reading); The Chrysalids by John Windham; So Much Blood and Star Trap by Simon Brett; The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and If you want to Write by Brenda Ueland. This is just to name a few books I have on the go, and have just read recently. Once I get on to a new author I have to read all their books, this is my first Barbara Kingsolver book and am going to read Prodigal Summer next!

So to all you book-loving writerish types out there, I celebrate you! Read, think and express yourself creatively, there is nothing better for the brain.

© Lorraine Hughes 2016

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