Your Emotions Are Food For The Soul!

We are built with an amazing emotional pallet. There are so many ranges and degrees to the emotions that we feel on a day to day basis, that it is amazing! Almost every minute of every day you are feeling some kind of emotion. It is not something that you think about much unless you are feeling it on a powerful scale, otherwise it is just there, existing silently! When I am doing workshops I actually find it kind of interesting because many times people do not even notice that they are feeling anything...until I ask them to close their eyes and concentrate on what they are feeling in the heart center. People just take it for granted like they walk, talk and breath every day, it is a part of everyday, it is normal. However, this is something that you should definitely be more aware of, because your emotions are food for the Soul! Just like in the physical world, you need to watch what you consume on a spiritual level as well. Now I am sure that you are saying, "Just Great! One more thing to pay attention to!" This is true, however, this one will affect everything in your life so it is ULTRA important. (Knock some other things off of the list if you need to!)

People experience worry, stress, anger, depression, happiness, desire, excitement, boredom just to name a few, many minutes of every single day. The thing that people never pay attention to or seem to notice is that you feel all of these emotions in the body, many times in the heart center. People think that emotions are felt in the head, because they cry and laugh or get angry and it all shows up in the face. It also feels like that is where you control your emotions, so again, it is naturally just viewed as a mind thing or a head thing. It may absolutely start there, because emotions are a result of your perspective on any given situation. However, emotions are clearly tied to the body. There have been multiple studies on this very issue with cardiovascular patients, and type A personalities, but it is not observed nearly enough by people, unless they are having heart trouble. 

As a psychic I see it all of the time and I see these emotions tied to many other things as well, stomach problems, headaches, backaches, intestinal problems, anxiety, breathing, it is incredible! This is something that is SO important to pay attention to if you want to live a healthier life, and doctors all over the country are beginning to recognize this as well. 

Now if you change your perception of this and start paying more attention to the emotions that you are experiencing on a day to day basis and imagining that it is food for the Soul. What are you feeding your Soul?

Take a look at this Soul food chart:

Anger               ~ Candy Bar             

Worry               ~ Soda

Depression        ~ Alcohol

Hate                  ~ Triple Bacon Cheeseburger

Jealousy            ~ Cotton Candy

Unhappiness     ~ Cake & Cookies

Desire               ~ Chicken + Calcium

Excitement        ~ Potatoes + Vitamins A & C

Happiness          ~ Vegetables, Fruits + Vitamin B

Love                  ~ Fish, Fresh Bread + Minerals

Now obviously we are not going to feed our body or our Soul only good foods, that would be almost impossible unless you are incredibly disciplined, and if you are, you probably do not need to read on!

Anyhow, the key is, like with most things to have a good balance. In other words, make sure that you do your best to consume nutrients instead of empty calories. Because if you have tipped the scale mostly toward empty calories you are going to feel tired, hopeless, crappy, and your health is going to suffer. Your Soul can only take so much of the empty calories before it begins to wither. When your Soul begins to wither everything else will be effected, it is the ruler of your Spiritual and Physical existence.

When you take good care of your Soul life becomes amazingly well on many different levels. Your physical existence can become greatly extended and your quality of life is soooooo much better!!! Trials and tribulations can feel easier to overcome and in some cases they will feel fewer and further between. Think of it like this, that you are paying attention to and working on building up your Soul's immune system. Because things do come up and you will have to go through many of the same stressors that other people do, but it is much easier if you start with a solid vessel and weather the storm that way.

So just remember to try and have a mostly good diet, then when the empty calories sneak in, you will bounce back quickly! 

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This is really a fun subject for me because I do not think that people pay enough attention to their thoughts….at all! Hence, my life’s work of trying to explain to everyone that your thoughts do become reality and to pay more attention to what you think about on a day to day basis. Anyhow, my family and I live our life thinking backwards in a sense. When something good or bad happens to someone our first response is always, “What have you been thinking about???” Then comes the fess up of whatever it may be.

Usually I will share stories that happen to me, or my family, so that people can understand better what I mean when I talk about this subject. That just makes it easier for you to relate it to your own life. So here is a funny story of what happened to us recently.


My family and I fly a couple of times a year, back to the mainland. As you can imagine, if you fly at all, that six hour flight across the ocean can be uncomfortable since it is a long time span and sleeping can sometimes be next to impossible. Well, anyway, the kids and me had decided over the last year, that we would like to fly first class sometime since we have never flown first class before. Plus, it really makes you want to try it when you pass through the first class cabin on your way back to those tiny little chairs that my youngest son always reminds me are not made for people that are 6’ tall! As you pass by those big comfortable chairs, which are obviously a marketing teaser, it makes you want to figure out how to sit there.  So we went through some of our options. There is the obvious option of just purchasing first class tickets, which is definitely not an option for us since there are five of us total (not worth the extra $3000). Then there is upgrading, which you cannot do unless you pay for a class T ticket or higher (or something like that, I can’t remember the letter exactly, but we hadn’t done that cause I checked). Lastly there is an upgrade at the gate, if there are seats still available, for $200 a seat if you are flying to or from Hawaii.

Since we have wanted to try this for awhile we thought, well, let’s just save the extra money and upgrade at the gate if there are extra seats available. Now in the back of my mind I kept thinking….”Wouldn’t it be nice if we could fly first class and not have to pay $200 extra a seat?” Because ultimately over the last year I have been imagining that we get upgraded for no extra cost, but since that had not happened yet I had resorted to the idea of paying extra for the big comfy seats.

So on our first flight over to the mainland, there were no extra seats available in first class and we flew in our originally assigned seats. Most of us sat in the middle rows of the airplane, which are the most uncomfortable seats you can get. Except for my son who had a window seat. He was asked, however, to change seats with a woman who was flying with her baby, so that she would not have to get up during the flight if he needed out.

On our return flight, however, we were delayed because of weather. When I checked in with the front desk to see if we were going to miss our connection, they said yes there was no way to make the flight on time. Great! Since we booked a later flight out of our departure city this was definitely not good news, because most flights to Hawaii from the mainland stop about 7pm and resume the next morning. So our attendants tried for about a half hour to find 5 seats available on the same flight since many other people had been delayed as well. After quite sometime our attendant said, “Here is what we are going to do. We are going to book you through LA, but nothing leaves there until 8:50am tomorrow so you will have to spend the night there. However, there is no more room in coach so I am going to upgrade you all to first class tickets.”

“Oh...jeez, well, I guess that makes it a little better,” I thought to myself, “Then my next thoughts immediately went to, I wasn’t very specific with the first class seats in my Universal thought process. Note to self, be more specific with the Universe!” Then I went to tell my family that we were rerouted, finally, and that we were indeed going to be flying first class, with no extra charge, at the expense of staying overnight in LA. My husband said, "First class?" Then he made a slight frown and said to me, "Uh huh! Now I know why this happened!!” I said, “Honey I cannot change the weather in San Francisco! This is not entirely our fault!” Knowing inside that it was a little bit our fault and also knowing that the Universe is powerful beyond belief!

He smiled and said, “Sure it isn’t.”

You Are A Reflection Of Your Choices...

I was driving in town the other day and I was looking around and noticing all of the different people at the cross walk, shopping, and walking down the street when it hit me very clear…you are a reflection of the choices that you make.

Think about it for a minute and think about all of the people that you know. They are clearly a reflection of the choices they have made in their life so far. The wonderful part of this is that we have choices, in fact many choices, every single day. The bad part of this is that we must take responsibility for the choices that we have made and the choices that we make, every single day.

Now think about how this correlates to your own life. Where you a teen mom? Did you finish high school or go to college? Did you pursue what it is that you love doing most in life or did you settle for fast cash? Did you marry for love? Did you stay for the kids? These are all choices that have probably very clearly defined your life.

Everyone has issues that they need to work through and even overcome, no one is immune to problems. It doesn't matter who you are, where you work, or if you work, it is something that all people have in common. How you choose to deal with those issues, however, is what sets people apart, that is the difference. What I think is most interesting is when people are at a place of unhappiness in their life, they blame many other things. They blame the economy, their health, their spouse or significant other, their parents, their childhood, you name it…there is definitely an excuse, because they would not be in their current situation by choice! That would be ridiculous! Or would they?

I know some very successful people who will settle for nothing else then just that, success! So they work and they plan, they fail and they overcome, but they will succeed. I also know some people that seem to never be able to get it together. They self-sabotage, they are broke, unhappy, and they cannot ever (they believe) seem to catch a break. They will make choices over and over that match who they are, it is very much a reflection of their personality. 

How are you a reflection of your choices? What do you think other people see when they look at you? Does it reflect your personality? Does it match who you want to be? What choices have you made to contribute to where you are at currently?  Some of them might have been good choices and some of them might have been bad choices, but that really doesn’t matter anymore...what matter’s is NOW. Take responsibility for the choices you are making from here on out, starting today. If you want to loose weight, stop eating unhealthy. If you are unhappy, figure out what choices that you are making that contribute to this. You can continue on in the same manner, and make choices that do not match who you want to be. You can to take your head out of the sand and realize that you, and you alone, have a tremendous amount of power over who you are. Realize that ultimately you are the final choice maker, in your own life. There is no one to blame; you are the CEO in charge! Or you can choose no longer to read my blog, because I guarantee that there will be more stuff like this in the future! Then go about your day, feeling depressed and hopeless...it's your choice! 

~You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there.

~You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself.

~You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way.

~You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option.

You are powerful beyond belief!!!!!!

~ Jennifer O'Neill

Why Does It Bother Us So Much When Other People Make Bad Decisions?

Have you ever been watching someone make a bed decision and think to yourself, “What on earth are they thinking?” Then you shake your head and go about your day? I know that many of us do this while watching the television show Survivor. You see so clearly the obvious mistakes that they are making, while you watch from your couch usually after eating dinner. “Haven’t these people watched this show before they decided to become a contestant?” You may wonder as they are trying to start fire, again! It irritates you as you look for your blanket and grab your popcorn.

It is so easy to see mistakes that people are making when you are on the outside looking in. When you are not the one making a tough decision, the solution is obvious! Very obvious, because you really have nothing invested in the outcome. Because it affects their life and not yours! Now I am not talking about any situation that you are directly involved in, because that will automatically shift your judgment. When you are involved in making decisions your judgment becomes impaired. Many times your emotions become a determining factor and let’s face it, if you can make a decision more objectively without emotions being involved, piece of cake!

Watching your friends and family make bad decisions is hard. Now let’s define “bad”. From my experience watching someone make a "bad" decision is usually not even that bad. It is usually not something like drunk driving, stealing, or anything like that. I notice when people think that other people are making bad decisions what they mean by that is, “I don’t agree with what you are doing or that is not what I would do!” In other words, if it is not what they would like to see you do, then it is a bad decision. Hmmmmm……interesting isn’t it?

Just like survivor, the people on the show do not necessarily make “bad” decisions on a weekly basis. They just do not make the same decision that you think you would make if you were in the same situation (had you had the courage to make a video, send in an application, and go to some remote island for 30 days with people that you don’t know in order to “Survive”). Judging the actions of the contestants on this show is not really that far fetched from what people do every day back in the real world. You go about your day and many times during the week wonder why other people make such bad decisions. On some occasions you get together and even discuss these bad decisions with friends over lunch. If you think, “No, I would never do that!” Well you might want to think again….let's define the word "gossip". People love to gossip, “Do you know what so and so did! I know, why would they do such a thing?”

So the next time that you find yourself watching someone make a “bad” decision, you might want to stop and think, “Is it really a bad decision or just not the way that I would do it?”