Madam Barrakissa says

Madam Barrakissa says, “Empaths, Just because you can feel it, see it and experience it, does not mean you have to fix it.”

(my little alter ego filled with wisdom, Madam Barrakissa Bamba. The name is taken from a nigerian spam email. Isn’t it fabulous?)

Contacts vs. Glasses & the Empath

It’s amazing how switching from glasses to contact lenses again has changed my perception in life.

One thing I have noticed is I felt more protected when I had glasses. This seems strange.The glasses created a nice barrier between what I was seeing and the world. Without them, I feel vulnerable and exposed.

Being so empathic, I realize that if indeed, the eyes are a window to the soul, perhaps by seeing eye-to-eye with others I may have the tendency to jump in and read too much of another person. I don’t need to go there! My glasses are usually always dirty in some way so that extra barrier must help also.

I feel more attractive with the contact lenses back in place after the long absence, perhaps after years of brainwashing that girls with glasses don’t get passes? Ha ha. I am not sure. It’s not to the world I want to feel attractive with, but myself. I can see my eyes again and all the emotion behind them.

Seeing clearly has other disadvantages. Did I really want to notice this or that? I already notice too much in my environment. It’s almost another barrier to focusing on myself and my own world–another trap for an empath.

As I write this, my left contact is growing fuzzy. Resistant to the new vision? Do I want to run for the glasses and hide again? Maybe…

Fairy School Classes Start this week

A little reminder…

Fairy Online School classes start this week. (Next session isn’t until October, so sign up now!)

We are running a cool special–sign up with a friend and one of you gets tuition half off! Very cool. Only for August.

• If you are grappling with your increasing sensitivity, and many of us are nowadays, the Care of the Sensitive class offers natural tools to give relief and balance.
• Now is the time to communicate deeper with your animals! What does he want? Need? Help with behavioral or health issues? Be a better animal parent. Take the Animal Communication class.
• Want to connect to animals that have crossed over? You know that bond is still there and they may be trying to connect with you. Take the Animal Mediumship class.
• Want to make flower essences? Take the Fairy Beginner class. A very lighthearted course with info to get you started.
• Life is depressing, hard? Need some Fairy Joy in your life? Fairies 101 is a sampler of our fairies class. Learn about Today’s Fairies and how they can help you heal.

Want to meet the Fairy Online School instructor? Check out this mini commercial here.

Psychic vs. scientist

I am slowly learning:

• I question myself when around someone who is more of a “scientist” and is unbelieving. One of Foxy’s vets looks at me like I am crazy when I tell her what Foxy is feeling or what I “get”. She took xrays of Foxy’s back and showed places where she had problems. She said, “She may or may not have any pain.” I said, “Yes, she has pain. I told you that. Several times. In those exact places.” She just ignored me. The woman only looks at the numbers and doesn’t seem to have the intuition or feeling to see what is happening. Being an empathic/intuitive person, I can’t even understand this. I was furious she would question my abilities or expertise of ten years when I don’t hers. It’s out and out disrespectful! And worse, around that energy,  I begin to question myself.
• Perhaps, she is mirroring my own doubts. My Guides had given me advice about Foxy’s health I questioned because I didn’t see results in front of me. I had to act on blind faith and I haven’t been able to do that. Perhaps I too, am the scientist.
• Trusting even though situations may look bad or hopeless: I remember when we were selling our house a few years back when the market just started to go downhill. At the time, I was getting advice from our departed dog of all things. Talk about faith. But, I wholeheartedly trusted  Lucy and I felt her spirit, and heard her. Lucy said we’d find that buyer and said when- March. There was a bit of a snag. A realtor came in March bringing an interested client and the client fell through–couldn’t get financing! We were then approached by a shady couple to buy our house cheaply. Was this the buyer? This couple felt so horrible, I had a migraine after talking to them. We decided to go with faith, said no, and decided to wait it out. Glad we did. Only two days later, that nice realtor came by again with our buyer. That buyer who picked out our house from a huge list of houses unseen and said, “That one.” What if I hadn’t trusted? I’d have missed the miracle.
• We do need that balance: science balanced with intuition. If I treated Foxy for her kidneys with just faith, I don’t know if I’d see results. We still need the medications for support and the fluids. There is a role for each. I know if I had bacterial pneumonia I sure as hell would want some antibiotics and not just hands-on-healing to wipe it out.  I’d need both. Getting information that is happening is needed from the animals and Guides and then the vet/doctor can come in and do support. We can use natural support–plants, etc., but we still need that. I guess, it’s all balance.
• We are not just test results. You need the full story on all levels what is occuring to a person or animal. Too unbalanced a view doesn’t give the whole picture.

Care of Sensitive excerpt

It’s Friday and time for my new feature: a Fairy School online class excerpt. Big sale right now if you sign up now and start later in January.

From the Care of the Sensitive class, Lesson 5 on Filtering:

Lesson Five.

Filtering

In a prior lesson, we learned from the Fairies about what to do when there is too much energy—emotional, psychic or creative– coming through us. Now we learn about filtering out the energies in our environment we don’t need before they come through us.

As a psychic and sensitive person, the more open you are, the more energies can come in from the environment! And, as you expand, your abilities increase, so, the more “garbage” from others and the environment can be picked up.

The Fairies have taught me the power of filtering! Here’s a sampling of my notes taken while talking with my Fairy Guides:

The Fairies: “You have a big psychic antennae! You pick up on visiting energies and transmissions. The mind is like a computer. It picks up the subtle and the not so subtle, all the incoming facts and stimuli, and breaks it down so you can comprehend. Your psychic antennae is receiving the impressions of the subtle, energetic world and this physical dimension at the same time and it is overwhelming.”
The Fairies: “Learn categorizing–how to sift through incoming information to determine what is negative or unnecessary, from what you need.”

How do we filter? You may have been told to put up a shield of light in your mind’s eye to protect you and filter out what you don’t need. Sometimes you need more protection. The sensitive need exta protection. It is not a weakness. If you tend to burn easily from the sun, you require a higher SPF sunscreen for protection. If your body chills easily, you need to wear an extra sweater for warmth. Essences, Nature & vibrational tools provide that extra protection.

CONTINUED IN LESSON 5.

Headaches and Psychics

Yesterday I had the worst headache. I was able to get rid of it by taking a nap and a dose of Tylenol, but I had a doozy of a time figuring it out what caused it until I had some time to do some healing on my head. Here’s reasons why if you are psychic or sensitive, you may have a headache:

• 1. You’re tired. This was the simplest reason for me. I needed to rest.
• 2. Hormones shifting. That’s for you ladies out there. And even vibrations are shifting (a whole other topic).
  
• 3. My head will ache in my psychic spot if there’s negativity around me in some form.
  
• 4. Sometimes your head aches when there’s a spirit around of a lower or different vibration. I’ve been to “haunted” places and boy, it felt like my head would come off in some.
• 5. Stuck emotions–your own. I was upset yesterday and tried to hold it all in. Boy, can you get a doozy of a headache holding back the stream.
• 6. Stuck emotions–others. If you are empathic, you can take on others’ stuck emotions–the ones they aren’t expressing–and carry it. Ouch. Important to differentiate if it is yours or not. Ask that whatever isn’t yours leaves, and if you feel better, you have evidence.
• 7. For you hypochondriacs–brain tumor. Just don’t go there.  If it’s really bad headache, we’re talking huge, then go there.
• 8. Too much energy in the head–this happens to me often. Best way to take care of this? Ground it out somehow. Go do yoga, hold your feet, walk, take a flower essence, and get out of your head. Doing more head work, or worrying more, makes it worse.
• 9. And last but not least, what did you eat? I had sugar on low blood sugar. Whoops. Ouch. But it tasted really good.
  

So there you have it. The good thing about being a blogger and a teacher, is that even having a headache is good source material.

Radio!

I was just interviewed by Mrs. Claus on the Family Yak channel– an inspirational and spiritual (but not religious) podcast online radio show in Australia. It was wonderful. Will find out soon the url to send everyone too.  I was able to talk about everything I teach–animal communication, working with the Fairies, my Fairy School, helping the Sensitives. So exciting! The funny thing was my ear was ringing most of the time. Lots of helpers assisting me with the interview, I’d say.

Go where it flows

Much, much thanks to my fellow colleagues and blog pals who wrote and commented on my How Not To Manifest. I am never too scared to lay out my vulnerability and mistakes in this blog. I used to think this wasn’t a good thing, perhaps as a teacher, I should be more “professional” and present myself as “all-wise”and “all-knowing, but I am seeing that we all need to share. We need to share, because when we do, we realize we are not alone, and we have the answers for each other.

Here’s a little excerpt from my Psychic Necessities For Sensitives online class:

I am learning in Dream School with my Guides, the lesson of focusing on what is flowing. Too often, being a sensitive, I will focus on the slights and the rejections because I feel them so strongly. Sometimes, I think we are programmed to do this type of vision from when we are very young. As natural healers we want to fix what is broken, so we focus on what doesn’t work to figure out how to make it work! We need to highlight what does feel good, where things ARE flowing, and where we ARE wanted. This flow is an arrow to where we need to go.

For instance, in my own life, the two college classes I wanted to teach, and were very excited about, have overflowed with students. My 15 room capacity class for animal communication now has 17 students! My book class has a wait list. This tells me that both topics are wanted and this is where I need to teach.

When we first moved here, I tried to teach a local fairy class that no one signed up for! I was devastated, hurt, and felt horribly rejected. Naturally, being new, I wanted community in this new town. After the rejection, I wanted to go back into my shell and  was afraid to venture forth again. Of course then, little mind steps in and tells me that what I teach isn’t wanted here! But with the success of an overflowing class for ac this tells that little mind that NO, it IS wanted! I need to focus on that 17 group of students who are eager to learn this subject and what I have to offer, not on the rejected class. My old ways would be to try to do another type of class at the same place that failed. Perhaps if I try harder. Maybe even obsess on that loss. But what we all learned in the Secret, , is that what we focus on expands. I want more of these eager students! And remembering where I need to go is where it is working, I plan more big classes at the college. Then perhaps down the line, when I encounter another class or group that doesn’t work, I know the feeling of a class that does, so I skip the rejection phase and go right for only wanting the class I belong to teach.

Cool empath links I found online

What kind of empath are you?

http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=50392N

Interesting forum and definition about empaths:

http://www.freewebs.com/theempath/

Author of the Highly Sensitive Person has a great online self test.

http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm

Elaine Aron has a newsletter and she wrote this great article on criticism, the sensitive’s killer.

http://www.hsperson.com/pages/2May07.htm

My care of the sensitive class, Dogbunny Zine and coaching:

http://www.ronniannhall.com

Happy reading!

2008 New Fairy Classes

At 3 am I had a little visit with my Guides and had new clarity on my school and direction. I’ve added two new classes: Fairies Intro (A 101 class about today’s fairies and my experiences), and Psychic Basics for Empaths (tools I am learning from my Guides to help regulate, support and control my abilities), along side our regular Animal and Fairy Communication class, Care of the Sensitive and Fairy Beginner Flower Essence course.

We are in the process of adding a forum for all the Fairy School classes as a means for all students to talk with one another. Very cool.

And, I offer my private mentoring/coaching readings for the Sensitive and the Sensitive animals.

Check it all out here.