Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it.

So I returned from my annual 6 am Black Friday shopping venture feeling really rotten. In retrospect I have a few observations to share.

I think that the notion that Americans have to spend money in order to “save” our economy is part of the problem.

We are suffering, financially, because people, countries, banks, companies cannot pay back money that they have borrowed.

I have a feeling that a lot of the people making purchases on “Black Friday” or any given day are buying on credit. I have to tell you that that doesn’t make me more comfortable about our future as my money sometimes pays for bailing out individuals who cannot pay back their debt.

How about stay at home and bake cookies with your kids, draw, paint, laugh, play Scrabble, tell someone you love them, be present, call a long lost friend, write a note and paste it on your children’s bathroom mirror. Love is not things. If you think that someone will not think that you love them if you don’t get them an “Easy Bake Oven” you are wrong.

What I remember the most about my parents is the one on one time that they gave me. I don’t really even remember the toys, gifts and/or the money. I remember my mom drawing me stick figures, my dad playing sports with me endlessly, my dad watching me at my swim team practice at 6 am, my grandma making a ribbon box with me, etc.

Spend some quality time with the ones that you love instead of plunging deeper into debt. Spending quality time with your loved ones is a louder expression of love than any material item that you can find on the store shelves this winter season or any season.

I first heard about “Shopping Guides” from several of Sonia Choquette’s books. We all have guides, we all have access to special guides like these “Shopping Guides” that help you find bargains.

Although I learned about “Shopping Guides” from Choquette I have been using the gracious services of these guides for years. I always get the best deals on items because I listen when I am prompted to go to a store and I am usually rewarded by either a great deal or a great find.

Here are a few of my most recent “Shopping Guide” finds:


1. I am constantly hunting for bargains. I wanted new outdoor furniture and knew that the end of the summer was when these items would be on super sale. One Sunday I got the feeling that I should go to Kmart. I went and found a single wicker chair with a matching stool which was discounted 75%. I wanted the matching chair to complete the set. I then got the feeling that I should drive an additional 30 min to check out a local store. I didn't find what I was looking for, and was prompted to travel another 15 min to another store.

At this last Kmart I found a beautiful, vintage, wrought iron Martha Stewart bench which was exactly what I was looking for (discounted 75%). I am glad that I kept listening otherwise I would have missed out on this find.

2. I was then looking for the perfect outdoor pillows to match the cute, red, wrought iron bench and was told to go to Home Depot. I went and the perfect red and tan patterned pillows that I got for 50% off.

3. I was told to go to Walgreens where I found the notebooks that I had been looking for for ½ off.

These shopping excursions are more the norm than the exception in my life. Here are few hints on how to hone in your "Shopping Guides" and find the deals out there; there are a lot of deals especially this time of year and given our economic condition.

1. Decide on what you are looking for (be specific if you can); then ask your guides to help you find this/these items.

2. Be open to any feelings, senses, advice, signs that might be guidance as to where these items might be found. For example, if you get the feeling that you should go into a store go into the store and look for the items that you asked to find.

3. Act immediately.

4. Thank your guides for the advice.

5. Continue with step 1; the more often you follow through, act on and show appreciation the more that your guides will help you find the deals.

This is just a small sampling of all the help that I get from my guides. I have been getting similar deals with the help of my guides for years. I have always been a bargain shopper who knew that the deals were out there if you are willing to search for the bargains. I save a lot of effort by not having to do all of the “looking” for deals myself. Thank you “Shopping Guides;” I love you!

Copyright © 2010 Rhonda O'Brien. All Rights Reserved.

I am seeing that 2009, for many, is a year of getting rid of the old or what is not working and making room for what does work. Once you realize this it tends to make the shedding process a little bit easier. It is much like a snake shedding its old, out-moded skin.

I have included this meditation/cleansing exercise that I have channeled to help you through this process.

Take approximately 15 min/week to do this meditation to ease your transition into a newer, brighter you.
· Notice how you are feeling before and after this meditation.
· While focusing on how you feel create a bubble around yourself.
· Inhale d-e-e-p-l-y and exhale d-e-e-p-l-y into the bubble until you feel “empty.”
· When you feel empty ask yourself to be drawn to a part of the bubble that draws your attention.
· Focus on how you feel when near this area of the bubble. Inhale d-e-e-p-l-y and exhale fully expanding the way you feel (i.e. exaggerate that feeling as much as you can).
· Continue to d-e-e-p-l-y inhale and exhale d-e-e-p-l-y making sure to really exaggerate the way that you feel on the exhale. Do this until you feel empty (a sense of calm, peace or nothingness).
· Fill your bubble with a color, any color. Focus on how it feels to be surrounded by this color or ray of light energy. Throughout the day remember to remind yourself that you are surrounded by this ray of light energy, focusing on the color and how you feel surrounded by this bubble.
Copyright © 2010 Rhonda O'Brien. All Rights Reserved.

I believe that we all have access to intuition and that the more attention you pay to your sixth sense the larger it grows. Here are some tips to help you grow your sixth sense:
1. Give gratitude daily (and as often as possible).
2. Meditate 10 minutes a day.
3. If you get an intuitive nudge act on it. The sooner the better.
4. Breathe. When we don’t breath we are cut off from life.
5. Trust.
6. Psychic information comes from the heart so try to remain open-hearted.
7. Practice. Guess the next commercial, what time it is, what someone is about to say, what mail will be in the mailbox, who the letter is from before you look, etc.
8. Write down your dreams. ~ “Dreams are answers to tomorrow’s questions.” Edgar Cayce
9. Ask for signs.
10. Know that you are constantly surrounded by spirit guides that love you and want to help you. Call on them for help often and be ready to hear their answers.

Supplies:
15” round foam wreath form
~12 yards of 1” ribbon to cover the wreath
~5 yards of accent 1” ribbon
~4 yards of accent ¼” ribbon
~4 yards of accent ¼” ribbon
Cranberry Garland
Sewing Pins




Wrap wreath form with base coat of ribbon then accent the base ribbon with your accent ribbons pinning the ribbon to secure. Wrap the wreath with the cranberry garland using the twist tie that come with the packaging to secure. Hang and enjoy your modern, funky and colorful wreath.

I have been trying to save money lately (aren’t we all?) and I was noticing that I wanted a few items in my home: a bookshelf, some curtains and a holiday wreath. I was thinking about how I was going to purchase these items as I am trying not to spend any money at all.

What I came up with was: I had a bookshelf on my porch that I could paint with paint that I already had, I have some curtains that I could sew together that would make a great shabby chic pair of curtains that would go with the whole floral theme of my bedroom and I made my own holiday wreath. Please see instructions on how to make the wreath (since I used some ribbon and a strand of cranberries that I already had it only cost $13 to make).

This brought up the thought that we have abundance around us all of the time sometimes we to look for it in order to find it. Whenever I think that I need more money I think of a story that my friend told me about how she asked had the universe for more money and then in the middle of the night she remembered that her pay washing machine and dryer probably had quarters from the renters who used it to do their laundry. When she checked it in the morning she found $15 that she had but she didn’t know she had.

My friend was telling me that she needed more money and I told her this story and told her to check her coat pockets. She did and she found $11.

Although $15 or $11 doesn’t really increase our bottom line these stories remind me that I do have abundance I just have to see my abundance. A lot of times I just have to appreciate the abundance that already abounds in my life just like I had to see that I already had what I needed. In this case I already had a perfectly beautiful, green bookshelf, hand-crafted curtains and a $13 modern, funky wreath (that people are already commenting on, by the way).

Looks to me like I had a very successful, inexpensive "shopping" venture and came out with some great finds and had a great time discovering, re-inventing and inventing them.

My focus for this month is on gratitude as we approach two holidays of gratitude, giving and family. The first is Thanksgiving, of course. Take yourself back to the first American Thanksgiving meal. Half of the original New England population died in the winter of 1620. Following this tragedy the pilgrims forged a relationship with the Wampanoag tribe who taught them to fish, plant and hunt. By the autumn of 1621 the community had gathered enough food to get them through the winter. In celebration of their bounty they invited the Wampanoag tribe to feast with them for three days.

How would you feel at that moment as you sat down at the table with your bounty surrounded by friends, family and neighbors who were resonating at that same degree of gratitude? Imagine the magnitude of that first “thanks giving.” (I get chills when I think about it).

Now take yourself back to a moment that you might have had that same level of gratitude. It might have been that moment that you realized that your love relationship was “love,” the moment that your lost puppy was found, or it may have been that moment that you reached a major landmark in your own life.

Feel that gratitude as you inhale and as you exhale exaggerate that feeling of gratitude as far as you can. Imagine it expanding out of your body and beyond. Now inhale that gratitude and exhale the gratitude exaggerating the level of gratitude beyond your body and beyond. Now one more time.

Feel your gratitude. Now inhale that gratitude and imagine exhaling it into a bubble. Inhale that gratitude and exhale it into the bubble two more times. Now send that bubble to someone, something or to some situation.

You can do this as many times as you like; feel free to extend the gratitude bubble to as many people/things/situations as you like.

Remember you are love.

Copyright © 2010 Rhonda O'Brien. All Rights Reserved.

Here I am up at 4 am with a lot on my mind. Without divulging the details of my life let me summarize and say that I probably have a situation, at hand, that I will not know exactly how to react to whatever occurs and some decision making might be involved.

In situations like these I battle between my rational, thinking mind and my intuition. I know enough to pay attention to my “gut,” but then there is the complication of making sure that your desires do not get in the way of your intuition. It is so difficult being psychic sometimes ;).

So I have decided to navigate my way through this situation as follows: I have gotten my intuitive nudge so I am going to ask the universe to tell me if my intuition is right by asking for signs and then I will act accordingly.

The next step is then to listen closely to the world around me and wait patiently for those signs. I have created a short list of what can possibly be construed as a sign. Let me point out two things that might help you in determining what a sign is. Number one: sometimes we expect the signs to be quarters that appear underneath our feet when signs can sometimes be pennies under bushes. In other words, signs are sometimes subtle hints from the universe not loud, screaming and obvious announcements (like we want them to be). Number two: if you think it is a sign it probably is. Believe or not, our spirit guides are constantly trying to communicate with us.

Here is a list of some of the few signs to look for (NOTE: this is not a comprehensive list; please feel free to contribute to my list).
1. If two people tell you the same thing…listen. A lot of times you will hear the exact same phrase repeated over and over again.
2. Do words pop out to you from: license plates, signs on the road, on the internet, emails, etc. If these words have particular meaning to you then they are probably signs.
3. Songs that play in your head: listen and write them down. Often times the lyrics speak directly to your life and/or life situation(s).
4. Look to the clouds and watch for what shapes form out of the clouds. The Hawaiians always looked to the clouds for signs. This works time and time again if you are patient and don’t try to force it.5. Synchronicities occur; for instance:
· You meet a person from a certain place that you are considering moving to and they tell you how great it is.
· You meet someone studying the particular discipline that you were considering studying and they give you positive feedback.
· You run into the same person time and time again.

***The key is to ask the universe for answers and then be willing to see the answers. Look everywhere for the answers, pay attention, listen and act on the response(s) that you are given.

Copyright © 2010 Rhonda O'Brien. All Rights Reserved.

I read the following story after following a link on Twitter (see article). I must admit that I have not stopped thinking about it since.

I have started changing the way that I think about my life and using the principles of healing myself in order to heal the situations in my life. In less than a week this is what has shifted in my life: I have been focusing on mending a relationship with a person and that person texted me this morning after about 7 mos of no communication. I have also been focusing on mending a once good relationship with my boss; we are now getting along better than we have in ~6 mos.

The next part of this story answers one of the long-standing questions that I have had about three of the past life readings that I have done. I have seen three Egyptian past lives in which there was a figure sitting on the side of a cliff above a crowd of people healing the crowd as the crowd sent the healer its problems.

Incidentally one of these readings occured days after I read Joe Vitale's story (see story below). This young lady was female and one of these healers in 3rd century B.C. Egypt (she lived somewhere between the three major monuments-the Sphinx, Great Pyramid, etc). Through her lifetime I saw that she apprenticed to do this job and that in her lifetime she was disappointed because as her career progressed her post healer was not as revered as it had been by previous generations. In fact she was one of the last healers of this kind.

Although I did not get the intimate details of how she healed I think that Ho'oponopono and this form of healing could be linked.

I have studied Hawaiian mysticism and teach a form of Hawaiian energy work (see www.rhondaobrien.com) and know that there was a group of Egyptians that migrated to Molok’ai (one of the Hawaiian islands). It makes perfect sense to me that both Hawaii and Egypt share beliefs and/or practices one of which could be this belief that by healing yourself you can heal others.

I am empowered by this story and see that these once powerful healers could once again set up "shop" and help others, many others to heal. It gives me great hope for the future.

Please enjoy the story below; I certainly did. I think that it will be awhile before I stop thinking about it. Hopefully it will continue to impact me from this day forward:

HO’OPONOPONO by Joe Vitale

Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients--without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate"s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn"t make any sense. It wasn’t logical, so I dismissed the story.

However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho ‘oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn"t let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it’s out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We"re responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does--but that’s wrong.

The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous.

Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal."After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,” he told me. "Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed." I was in awe. "Not only that," he went on, "but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.

Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed."

This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: "What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?"

"I was simply healing the part of me that created them,” he said. I didn’t understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life--simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.

Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don’t like--is up for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho ‘oponopono means loving yourself.If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you.

I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients" files?"I just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again,” he explained.

"That’s it?”

"That’s it.”

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world. Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.This time, I decided to try Dr. Len’s method. I kept silently saying, "I’m sorry" and "I love you," I didn’t say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn’t take any outward action to get that apology. I didn’t even write him back. Yet, by saying "I love you," I somehow healed within me what was creating him.

I later attended a ho ‘oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He’s now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive.He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book’s vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

"What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.

"They aren’t out there," he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. "They are still in you." In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves."

Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there’s only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love.

"The words of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len:" Ho'oponopono is really very simple. For the ancient Hawaiians, all problems begin as thought. But having a thought is not the problem. So what's the problem? The problem is that all our thoughts are imbued with painful memories, memories of persons, places, or things. The intellect working alone can't solve these problems, because the intellect only manages. Managing things is no way to solve problems. You want to let them go! When you do Ho'oponopono, what happens is that the Divinity takes the painful thought and neutralizes or purifies it. You don't purify the person, place, or thing. You neutralize the energy you associate with that person, place, or thing. So the first stage of Ho'oponopono is the purification of that energy. Now something wonderful happens. Not only does that energy get neutralized; it also gets released, so there's a brand new slate. Buddhists call it the Void. The final step is that you allow the Divinity to come in and fill the void with light.

To do Ho'oponopono, you don't have to know what the problem or error is. All you have to do is notice any problem you are experiencing physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever. Once you notice, your responsibility is to immediately begin to clean, to say, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

The holidays are a time of watching my money and my waistline. No matter how much I try I always spend too much and eat too much leaving me with a “over-indulgence” hangover for much of January and February. I found this great, low cost, “clean” recipe for those watching their waist and bottom lines. Enjoy!

Eat Clean Protein Bars
2 cups instant oatmeal
1 cup almond butter (any nut butter would work)
4 scoops whey protein (natural/unflavored)
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
1 cup water
1-2 teaspoons of agave nectar and/or 1-2 small scoops of powdered stevia
*Optional: add dried fruit, chopped nuts, chocolate chips and/or a layer of nut butter to dress it up to your liking.

Mix and knead all of the ingredients. Place in a wax paper lined 8 x 8 pan and place in the freezer for 30 min. Cut and serve.

I believe that we all have access to intuition. I also believe that if we do not practice using it that this gift is not as strong; it is like a muscle the more that you use and stretch it the stronger it becomes.

My life has become a daily practice of using/flexing this muscle. I must admit that I have not worked on it as hard as I have as late. I was, recently, humbled by an experience in which I saw what I wanted to see out of a situation not what was really happening. It made me stop and ask myself why, as a psychic, I couldn’t really see what was going on. Since I have taken greater lengths to stretch and use my intuition as much as possible, as often as possible.

I have included my daily regime* which I think helps me keep my psychic ability strong and agile:
• ~6:30 am: wake up and write down my dreams (if I remember them), then a quick meditation. My favorite meditation tool is the following You Tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrocj_s-wE. It tends to get me into a meditative state very quickly. If I have time I try to channel a few sentences so that I get started with my day with a few words of wisdom.
• ~5:30 pm: Exercise. I try to exercise at least 4 days/week. I have recently become a big fan of exercising outside (weather permitting). I get the best guidance from the animals (especially birds). Sonia Choquette talks about birds being “messengers.” I can truly attest to the fact that birds are great messengers. I even pick up feathers and get messages from them. As a side note Sonia Choquette talks about how some of her “best guidance has occurred to her while biking or walking” (from Trust Your Vibes).
• ~7:00 pm: I try to meditate again for at least 10 minutes. At some point I also try to do an exercise that I borrowed from Sonia Choquette’s Ask Your Guides. I basically ask for my spirit guide to sit next to me and to project useful information on a screen for me to view. This exercise only takes a couple of minutes and provides great insight and an instant way to connect with spirit. It is my new favorite exercise. Thank you Sonia!
• ~10:00 pm: I listen to Kelly Howell’s The Secret Universal Mind Meditation while thinking of all that I have to be grateful for. If I have time and am not too tired I will try to meditate for a few minutes before going to bed.
Throughout the day:
• I ground myself especially before meditating.
• I try to eat as healthy as I can (I eat mostly low fat protein, fruits and vegetables and drink a lot of water) while trying to avoid sugars, flours and anything artificial. I would like to say that I try to avoid caffeine, but I am a caffeine addict (and at this point in my life I know better than to think that I am going to give it up). It is important to keep my energy high; this is a high energy job.
• I have Sonia Choquette to thank again for this great tool that I have recently started using on a regular basis. I have purchased two, small notebooks so that I have a notebook with me at all times to record intuitive thoughts, coincidences, songs that play in my mind, signs and/or anything that can be construed as spirit trying to speak to me through my life. I love this new exercise. It has made me more aware than ever of how we are constantly surrounded by our guidance system if only we listen, pay attention and act on the advice given. I included act on the advice given because it has been my experience that if you do not act on the advice given then your guides tend to be more silent…because you don’t listen. Act on the advice given and you will receive more advice.
• I try to be as positive as possible and focus on appreciating what I do have and creating, through the Law of Attraction, the life of my dreams.
*Please note that this is the ideal day. Sometimes life happens and I deviate from this schedule. I also believe that it is important to have fun and enjoy life so I also go out with friends, eat junk food and drink (sometimes too much).
Feel free to share any of your daily rituals that help you flex and use your intuition.

In retrospect I can see that I have been intuitive all of my life. Of course this is probably like color blindness; you don’t realize that you see things differently because that is how you have always viewed the world. I played guess the next commercial as a kid, I was at the horse races with my grandma and told her the order of the first five placers in a horse race, guessed what gifts people were going to give me, etc.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until I got pretty sick at the age of 21 and couldn’t really eat for a month. People talk about the “cleansing” affects of fasting; I think that my non-voluntary fast opened me up perhaps too fast, who knows.

I remember feeling as though I had walked through a vortex and that my life experience(s) had forever changed. I was instantly aware that there were spirits around me and I could see their energy in a way that I could not describe to others, but I could see that they were around me (it is much like an energy pattern). I was intrigued and, at the same time, scared.

I started to meditate and had visions of all sorts. The most profound vision that I had was of an eagle eating my heart out. This experience was so real: I actually felt the eagle sweep down out of the sky and felt the physical pain of having my heart eaten out by an eagle. Yeah…I was a little bit freaked out about this experience.

Luckily I was taking a Native American Religions class at the time and knew that this was not out of the ordinary for shamans. I immediately checked out about 11 books on shamans just to verify that this was not an experience unique to me.

I don’t know if it calmed my nerves about the situation or not, but at least I knew that I was not the only person to experience this.

At this point I had the choice to accept or reject my experiences and I chose to reject them. I could not overcome the intense fear that I was crazy and/or going crazy.I remember lying awake, in the fetal position, fearing/seeing myself being carried away in a straight jacket. I just did not find the support that I needed at this age to really see that what I was experiencing could be a gift.

To avoid having to deal with the fact that I might be crazy or psychic or both I started smoking a lot of pot in order to mask the influx of intuition and blame it all on being “high.”

They say that when you run from who you your life becomes chaos; mine was chaos at the point that I finally decided to surrender and come to terms with the fact that I was psychic. At the point that I awakened and accepted and started using my gift(s) I was 27 and in a dead-end job, dead-end relationship and high 24/7.

At that point, I had no choice but to surrender; I had no direction to go but up. Thank goodness for the intervention that took place. My parents became Reiki Masters and were anxious to share their new gift with any and all. I was the first (and only) person that they attuned to Reiki (level one). That was the first step of many that I have taken to reclaim who I am and what I came here to do and be.

I continued to become a Reiki Master and embrace my intuition. I use it every day and it has lightened and enlightened my path.
I would never re-take that step or any of the other steps that I have taken in my life. Although I regret the fact that I ran so hard and so fast from being who I am; I do not regret the path that I have taken because although the path was a long and winding road I ended up here.

Please share your story. I feel that the more that people share their stories the more, young (or old) budding psychics will not run in fear (as I have) and, hopefully, embrace their gifts.