Demystifying Illusions

My family is winding down on a great week of "spring break" activities...complete with a quick local travel jaunt to Las Vegas.  We lounged the pool and lazy river at the MGM Grand hotel, rode the roller coaster at New York, visited an indoor skatepark that we found while scouring "family friendly" web pages and even took in the David Copperfield magic show. 

David was incredibly funny, and his illusions were fantastic!  Energetically, he seemed a bit tired and worn down, but overall it was a great show.  He walked through a giant industrial fan, make a 1950's Chevy appear from nowhere, had a cute duck appear in and out of a box and made 13 live people disappear and reappear in a different part of the arena.  Amazing, as my family and I kept asking incredulously "how did he do that?!"  Although we knew we were being put on, it was awesome to just sit back and watch the spectacle.  By the way, there were LOTS of energies and ghosts hanging out in Vegas, especially at the bar and casino areas.  I found myself doing alot of praying, space clearing and aura cleansing of our family members.  Surprisingly, we did alot of family bonding and came together like we haven't in along time.  More about that in another blog post at a later time.

We U.S. citizens have survived the first lawmaker (Democrats vs. Republicans) standoff in 15 years that would have shut down our esteemed government.  The "richest" and most powerful government in the world, would have closed up shop. 
As I look at the bills I need to send payment to for this month, I half-laugh at the fact that if I tried the same approach, I would be labeled an unfit mother and a debt beat.  It's been interesting to witness the crumbling of the old, outdated, ass-backwards systems all around us. 

As global citizens, we've allowed so much abuse too go on for much too long.  Government, political tyranny, abuse of power, financial ruin, educational under-service to our youth, abuse and deceit by religious powers...the list goes on and on.  But the veil of illusion (which we put into place ourselves for "safety") is thinning.  As we awaken to our true power and worth, what once served as placeholder for self-oppression, decayed and self-destructing, it is all falling away.

We can watch in victimhood and fear...or as I choose, be infused with hope, faith and self-empowerment.  We will never again go back to what was.  We can embrace and observe the performance as it is...a show, illusions, a relic from times past.  As we move forward into uncharted territory...we can hold tight to one another and walk bravely into our new, enlightened future together.

Michelle Jeneen
Energy Skills Educator
www.spiritrefreshed.blogspot.com

Psychic Self ♥ Mental Wellness - Pt. 1

This is Mental Health Awareness Week, and today is National Depression Screening Day. Today, Shine publication posted an interesting article called "6 Surprising Signs of Depression." Sadly, many people who are dealing with undiagnosed depression suffer the sadness, hopeless and despair and blame the economy, joblessness, ongoing war and the bleak plight of the world means we should all be sad. Unfortunately, the little joys in life that can be celebrated daily go unappreciated. Gratitude, hope and connectedness are major components of living well, regardless of our outward circumstances.

It is so important that we women cease waiting to be rescued (and completed) and commit to rescuing ourselves. Yesterday, on the Monique Show, Terry McMillan, author of "Getting to Happy" said "...if you are always responding to stimuli, you are always at somebody else's mercy. You must take responsibility for your own well being, your own happiness and your own joy."



When I got married and became pregnant with my first child, I decided I would do my best, from that point forward, to really LIVE and be in-joy, regardless of what else is going on around me. In my thirties, I began healing a very deep case of clinical depression. Upon working with several healers, it was discovered that I was carrying around about a dozen spirit attachments. As an empath, I had collected, gathered and been attacked by disembodied spirits, thought forms, projected anger and had many of my own soul fragments missing due to trauma in my early childhood. During the healing process, my soul parts were returned to me, I became whole via meditation, Reiki, soul retrieval and shamanic healing. Only as I became whole again, did I notice those random "crazy" thoughts and actions that made me feel so sad, isolated and bad about myself---were never me at all.

Licensed therapist in Los Angeles Dr. Goldberg wrote a great article called "Just Say No to Entities,"
Over a decade ago, I "accidentally found" his book, "Protected by the Light" which gives a great illustration of how depression and other mental illnesses can be caused or exacerbated by entity attachments.


Dr. William Baldwin, author of "Healing Lost Souls,"
also speaks from experience when he shares how Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) is a common phenomenon for people with aggressive entities attached to them. His wife and healing partner, Judith Baldwin speaks eloquently on how important it is to maintain a strong ""spiritual immune system" to prevent attachments in the first place. Being mindful of my thoughts, meditating and self-healing regularly have become second nature for me, like washing my hands and taking vitamin c to keep from getting a cold in the Winter. Even the National Institute of Health are beginning to recommend meditation as a supplement to mental wellness care in adjunct to traditional medicine. Today, please take a few minutes to ask yourself to take one of the many online depression mini-tests to see if you might benefit from additional assistance through these tough times.