Smudging is a powerful ancient Native American ritual for clearing and blessing the energetic fields of people and spaces. Techniques for using tools such as sage bundles, incense, candles, smokeless smudge sprays, aromatherapy oils, crystals and sound to clear and balance personal space can be easily learned by everyone.
Simply using a smoldering sage stick throughout your home can cleanse the space of spiritual or psychic negativity that has gathered over time. At a subtle and subatomic level, the smoke from this purifying herb captures and removes unwanted negativity or "stuck" energy. Often the space feels lighter and more positive immediately after the smudging ritual.
A personalized clearing may include sound from a bell or drum, the placing about of salt or crystals, and specific affirmations or prayers for balance or to call in more positive energies. The Smudging and Blessings Book is a great resource for designing your ritual and offers specific suggestions including how to clear unhealthy relationships or attract love, bless a new home or baby, and celebrate seasonal changes.
At the Open Mind we offer a wide range of support and resources for your space clearing needs. Staff offers guidance to help you design and choose appropriate products. Mary Faith, Phil and I are also available to come to your home and do a team clearing and blessing with you and your family. Gift certificates are available and a house blessing makes a thoughtful wedding or moving gift.
Now is the time. Smudge, clear, and make room for all the good things that will soon be coming your way!
- Lisa McCormack
(A licensed Social Worker, Lisa does massage, Reiki, and Synergy Therapy at the Open Mind.)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
New Year Message from Debbie Donoghue
Hi Everyone.......Well, I'm starting off 2009 a bit behind schedule. I just can't seem to "catch up" at times!! I would like to share a few words about the energies for the first few months of this New Year.
This New Year has left many of us feeling desperate to get our lives back to normal. We feel the financial markets effect on our investments and savings, the job market looking grim, our spiritual lives feeling empty and our physical and emotional bodies in dire need of a tune up!! Does this about sum things up for you? As I have said before, this is a clearing, one unlike any we have experienced in the past. Things will shift, but it will take a bit more time. Navigating in these higher energies is a challenge. We can no longer live our lives as we have in the past, or should I say as we have been told and taught to do. If you continue to negotiate the challenges you are facing in the manor you always have, you will continue to feel drained and defeated. All of us feel we are on a "Spiritual Path", one that is, I suppose, non traditional and for a higher purpose than many around us. We take workshops, classes, read books that are sure to expand our awareness and we talk, yes, we talk. It is now time to not just talk but to walk our walk!! All of what we have learned, read, heard and truly believe needs to be the way we live our lives daily! We need to believe we are Creators, that all is in Divine Order, and remove all of our doubts and fears that are blocking our growth. Bring your thoughts down to your "heart chakra" and feel what you know on a deeper level. Do this every time you feel out of sorts and trust that you are on a cusp of a great awakening. Many of you are being pushed in uncomfortable ways. You are resisting "change", you are holding onto old thought forms that are causing you to doubt all that you have learned. Each one of you has spent years taking steps to awaken your Soul and now that the energies have be amped up, you step back and say, "Wait, I didn't think it was going to be like this." Hold onto a Mantra, hold onto a thought, do what you need to do that will allow you to live the life you have been preparing for for so long. You can do it!!! When you get out of bed each morning start with a positive thought and then feel it, feel it in every cell of your body and hold that thought. At the end of each day, give thanks for your life and those who crossed your path that day.....an attitude of gratitude!!! Remember....."We are all Creator, each sailing out on a voyage of self discovery. Each one of us is guided by a unique chart, of which there is no duplicate."
Believe......2009!
In Love and Service,Deborah
This New Year has left many of us feeling desperate to get our lives back to normal. We feel the financial markets effect on our investments and savings, the job market looking grim, our spiritual lives feeling empty and our physical and emotional bodies in dire need of a tune up!! Does this about sum things up for you? As I have said before, this is a clearing, one unlike any we have experienced in the past. Things will shift, but it will take a bit more time. Navigating in these higher energies is a challenge. We can no longer live our lives as we have in the past, or should I say as we have been told and taught to do. If you continue to negotiate the challenges you are facing in the manor you always have, you will continue to feel drained and defeated. All of us feel we are on a "Spiritual Path", one that is, I suppose, non traditional and for a higher purpose than many around us. We take workshops, classes, read books that are sure to expand our awareness and we talk, yes, we talk. It is now time to not just talk but to walk our walk!! All of what we have learned, read, heard and truly believe needs to be the way we live our lives daily! We need to believe we are Creators, that all is in Divine Order, and remove all of our doubts and fears that are blocking our growth. Bring your thoughts down to your "heart chakra" and feel what you know on a deeper level. Do this every time you feel out of sorts and trust that you are on a cusp of a great awakening. Many of you are being pushed in uncomfortable ways. You are resisting "change", you are holding onto old thought forms that are causing you to doubt all that you have learned. Each one of you has spent years taking steps to awaken your Soul and now that the energies have be amped up, you step back and say, "Wait, I didn't think it was going to be like this." Hold onto a Mantra, hold onto a thought, do what you need to do that will allow you to live the life you have been preparing for for so long. You can do it!!! When you get out of bed each morning start with a positive thought and then feel it, feel it in every cell of your body and hold that thought. At the end of each day, give thanks for your life and those who crossed your path that day.....an attitude of gratitude!!! Remember....."We are all Creator, each sailing out on a voyage of self discovery. Each one of us is guided by a unique chart, of which there is no duplicate."
Believe......2009!
In Love and Service,Deborah
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Lily Dale 2009
Lily Dale Assembly Lily Dale 2009
The 130th season at Lily Dale will be from June 26, 2009 through September 6, 2009!
Our season will again begin with The Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery. Register early for their Opening ceremony on Saturday, June 27, and their Closing ceremony on Tuesday, June 30, as seating is limited. They will also be doing a special Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing in the evening on Saturday, June 27. If you are unable to attend the ceremonies, be sure to stop in the Assembly Hall between those dates to watch them make the Mandala. The Monks bring wonderful energy, joy and peace with them to help our season get started.
Other season events are:
Victorian Weekend—July 10 - July 12 featuring an Evening with Mike Randall as Mark Twain on July 10 and a Victorian Séance on July 11
Barbara Hand Clow & Gerry Clow—July 17 – July 19
Children’s Week—July 19 - July 24
Robert Peng—July 20 – July 21
The Ghost Hunters: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson—Two Show: July 25 & July 26
Michelle Whitedove—July 31
Canadian Weekend—July 31 – August 3
Sandra Anne Taylor & Colette Baron-Reid—August 1
Rosemary Altea—August 8
Chris Fleming—August 15
Robert Schwartz & Corbie Mitleid—August 22
Sharon Klingler—August 29
John White—September 4 – September 6
Weekly Ghostwalks
Weekly Astrology Roundtables
Also, over 100 workshops with many returning favorites and first time presenters
Be sure to plan on attending the Costume Party to benefit the Lily Dale Endowment Fund on Saturday, August 8. It will be a great time for a great cause!
Workshop brochures will be mailed out in early February.
Visit our website at http://www.lilydaleassembly.com beginning January 26 to check out the complete workshop schedule. We will begin accepting workshop registrations on Monday, February 2, 2009. Be sure to register early for workshops with limited class sizes. You may register online or by phone at (716) 595-8721 between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Monday - Friday
We will also begin taking hotel reservations on February 2, 2009. You may submit a reservation request online or by phone at (716) 595-8721 between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Monday – Friday.
We look forward to seeing all of you this season!
Abundance and blessings,
Sue & Debbie
Our mailing address is:
Lily Dale Assembly
PO Box 248
5 Melrose Park
Lily Dale, NY 14752
Our telephone:
716-595-8721
If you've never been to Lily Dale, you must go. It's not very far from here and the ride is quite pleasant. Maybe we could all go up together in bus?
Phil
The 130th season at Lily Dale will be from June 26, 2009 through September 6, 2009!
Our season will again begin with The Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery. Register early for their Opening ceremony on Saturday, June 27, and their Closing ceremony on Tuesday, June 30, as seating is limited. They will also be doing a special Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing in the evening on Saturday, June 27. If you are unable to attend the ceremonies, be sure to stop in the Assembly Hall between those dates to watch them make the Mandala. The Monks bring wonderful energy, joy and peace with them to help our season get started.
Other season events are:
Victorian Weekend—July 10 - July 12 featuring an Evening with Mike Randall as Mark Twain on July 10 and a Victorian Séance on July 11
Barbara Hand Clow & Gerry Clow—July 17 – July 19
Children’s Week—July 19 - July 24
Robert Peng—July 20 – July 21
The Ghost Hunters: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson—Two Show: July 25 & July 26
Michelle Whitedove—July 31
Canadian Weekend—July 31 – August 3
Sandra Anne Taylor & Colette Baron-Reid—August 1
Rosemary Altea—August 8
Chris Fleming—August 15
Robert Schwartz & Corbie Mitleid—August 22
Sharon Klingler—August 29
John White—September 4 – September 6
Weekly Ghostwalks
Weekly Astrology Roundtables
Also, over 100 workshops with many returning favorites and first time presenters
Be sure to plan on attending the Costume Party to benefit the Lily Dale Endowment Fund on Saturday, August 8. It will be a great time for a great cause!
Workshop brochures will be mailed out in early February.
Visit our website at http://www.lilydaleassembly.com beginning January 26 to check out the complete workshop schedule. We will begin accepting workshop registrations on Monday, February 2, 2009. Be sure to register early for workshops with limited class sizes. You may register online or by phone at (716) 595-8721 between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Monday - Friday
We will also begin taking hotel reservations on February 2, 2009. You may submit a reservation request online or by phone at (716) 595-8721 between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Monday – Friday.
We look forward to seeing all of you this season!
Abundance and blessings,
Sue & Debbie
Our mailing address is:
Lily Dale Assembly
PO Box 248
5 Melrose Park
Lily Dale, NY 14752
Our telephone:
716-595-8721
If you've never been to Lily Dale, you must go. It's not very far from here and the ride is quite pleasant. Maybe we could all go up together in bus?
Phil
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Yinz got bookz?
I sell Action Figures at the Bookstore.
Well, I actually sell a lot of different things at the Bookstore.
People come in and say, "What's all this, I thought you were a bookstore."
Yes, we are a Bookstore but in the age where people come in and look at books and then go and order them online, with nary a feeling towards the future of the Open Mind, we have to sell more than books.
Some people even ask for paper and pencil to write down their choices.
Here is what they say.
"Oh, I'm writing these down:
a) so I don't forget
b) so I can give my daughter and son a list of what I want
c) so I can check and see if I have these at home,
or
d) so I can pick them up next time."
Pretty clever.
For a long time I held my tongue. I even had some 'Christians' come into the store and have me look up some Aramaic translations of the Bible. I even gave a woman the isbn numbers (it was a long time ago). As they left the good 'Christian' woman looked back at me and laughed because she had pulled the wool over my eyes.
And they call 'new age' a cult.
Isn't evil, evil?
If you use evil to fight so called evil, it's still evil.
If you torture people to save other people, you are still committing acts of evil.
Anyway, I also sell actions figures.
Why?
Because the appeal to my sense of irony and because they make people laugh.
The other day, a customer asked, "what do people do with these?"
I just said that they were for fun.
No response.
That they made people laugh?
Nothing.
I used to be that serious all the time. Thank goodness that I'm not anymore.
We can all use a good laugh, especially when we have so many evil 'good' people running around, with no ability to think for themselves or to think beyond themselves.
I love humanity, it's people I can't stand.
Well, I actually sell a lot of different things at the Bookstore.
People come in and say, "What's all this, I thought you were a bookstore."
Yes, we are a Bookstore but in the age where people come in and look at books and then go and order them online, with nary a feeling towards the future of the Open Mind, we have to sell more than books.
Some people even ask for paper and pencil to write down their choices.
Here is what they say.
"Oh, I'm writing these down:
a) so I don't forget
b) so I can give my daughter and son a list of what I want
c) so I can check and see if I have these at home,
or
d) so I can pick them up next time."
Pretty clever.
For a long time I held my tongue. I even had some 'Christians' come into the store and have me look up some Aramaic translations of the Bible. I even gave a woman the isbn numbers (it was a long time ago). As they left the good 'Christian' woman looked back at me and laughed because she had pulled the wool over my eyes.
Isn't evil, evil?
If you use evil to fight so called evil, it's still evil.
If you torture people to save other people, you are still committing acts of evil.
Anyway, I also sell actions figures.
Why?
Because the appeal to my sense of irony and because they make people laugh.
The other day, a customer asked, "what do people do with these?"
I just said that they were for fun.
No response.
That they made people laugh?
Nothing.
I used to be that serious all the time. Thank goodness that I'm not anymore.
We can all use a good laugh, especially when we have so many evil 'good' people running around, with no ability to think for themselves or to think beyond themselves.
I love humanity, it's people I can't stand.
Friday, January 09, 2009
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