A Brief Lesson In Non-Duality: Those Nasty Shoulds..

From my own assortment of personal life lessons...

Whenever we say, "I should.." or "I should have.." it's an invitation for the ego mind to create a backdrop of guilt.  The hidden translation is, "I feel guilty for not doing..."  Guilt always requires punishment which equals some form of duality, or separation from love.

Ever notice that?  Exercising, taking solitary time for yourself, looking for the work you secretly desire, taking that art or cooking class you've always wanted to take, or that weekend road trip, etc..

The response for myself and others is, "Should I/you really?" or "Only if you want to."  So, stop creating the illusion of guilt that requires punishment for wanting something good or secretly NOT wanting what someone else thinks you should want.. Instead, be courageous!  Be true!  Announce, "I want to.. and "I will..." or "I don't" or "I won't."

This lesson in non-duality is removing the illusion of guilt and getting to truth - will or won't without guilt interference.  Then you won't be unconsciously moved by your pesky ego to punish yourself.  Being true is love and not separation!

Go for it!


Live in beauty and be well ~  Triza  Schultz


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Profile Of An Empath: Part II - Life Practices For The Empowered Empath

In this Profile Of An Empath: Part II – Life Practices For The Empowered Empath, we’ll discuss daily practices that we can use to develop new patterns of behavior in reclaiming our personal energy territory with a strong self identity awareness in order to positively use our psychic gift.

It’s a good idea to review Major Traits of an Empath in Part I - Self-Identification – Are You An Empath? in the first article of Profile Of An Empath, as a refresher of the challenges we empaths are faced with. That being said, the essential inquiry every empath must ask regarding emotional or electromagnetic energy flows is, “Whose energy does this belong to?” Let’s begin.

Awareness Of Emotional Energy Flows – Is It Mine, Yours Or That?

There are two major areas of protective practice an empath must be fully aware of that include behavioral steps we learn to use and master as a daily way of living. The first area of awareness is identifying the difference between internal and external emotional energies, and having the knowledge and expertise to move that energy beyond us without holding onto it.

The second area of protective practice is an understanding for establishing clear, positive flowing energy in our external environment and incorporating external boundaries to maintain a harmonious living space.

Internal Protection-Boundary Practices

The primary dysfunctional behavior that triggers an empath is the unconscious urge to get involved in a family, friend, neighbor, or co-worker’s personal emotional laundry, wanting to make peace and help make everyone okay by way of fixing the problem for them because we just “know” what to do. What we don’t realize is that this reaction is really about us wanting to feel okay and not feel their emotions, which most likely began in childhood, taking on people’s problems so when they feel okay, we can feel okay too – a way of adapting to and coping with the psychic gift we had no idea we had.

We unconsciously believe that feeling someone else’s emotions meant we were responsible for them in some way, even propelled by guilt for knowing what could be done to help resolve something.

What we never realized, and no one taught us, is that we begin to essentially take away another person’s need to learn to resolve their own problems for their own spiritual growth. We become interference in another’s spiritual path by jumping in and either volunteering to participate in resolving or almost forcibly getting involved through unsolicited counseling and judgments – not to mention endlessly dispensing tea and cookies, allowing our home to become a revolving door, while people are talking all about their problems with us.

That’s why we walk away emotionally drained, and others sometimes leave confused or temporarily obliging to turn their problems over to us! And when it doesn’t work out, they can rightfully blame us, and no one has learned anything. We become easy scapegoats.

This cycle must be stopped for an empath to begin to regain some balanced footing in the world. That’s why it’s so critical to ask whether the emotional energies we are feeling belong to a personal situation and experience of our own only, or are we feeling someone else’s emotions/situation that have nothing to do with us?

The practice of inquiry can be challenging. Being aware of the “trigger” of instantly wanting others to feel okay so we can feel okay too, needs to be understood. This reactive behavior needs to be recognized and calmed. Once we get clarity about this, we can let go of automatically reacting to resolve, begin to practice positive new behaviors that will strengthen and empower us as individuals, and will also automatically help empower others to deal with their own emotional situations.

Inquiry greatly assists us in developing a strong self-identity in knowing who we are and what our needs are for positive emotional self-mastery.

Again, in feeling someone else’s emotions, we never learned to consciously ask ourselves who’s energy belonged to whom. We just automatically reacted to the emotions by trying to fix it as if it were ours to fix. We are not responsible and must not interfere in other people’s life problems that do not personally involve us – even when we know, because people have their own life lessons and spiritual path.

Positive daily prayer and affirmations stating what we’re grateful for is a nurturing spiritual ritual to ground ourselves in positive light and love energy.

Here are “4 Steps For Empowering Communication” to practice and develop as our new pattern of internal behavior awareness and response with the world around us:

4 Steps For Empowering Communication

Listen: Give ourselves the space to relax, be quiet, and really listen without that automatic desire to outwardly react and take on someone’s story as ours. It never does belong to us unless we’re actually named as part of the problem. Breathe and relax!

Observe: While we are listening, we are inwardly aware of and watching of our own behavior and feelings as well as other’s without attachment, as if curiously observing a movie. This is a calming and clarity exercise.

Discern: While we are with someone, a group of people, wherever we are, and doing whatever involves communication exchange, we ask ourselves “Whose energy is this?” Do these feelings belong to me personally, or do they belong to the person or group I am with? This also includes buildings and locations we find ourselves in or objects or things that give off strong emotional or electromagnetic energy. When this inquiry of identification is mastered, we can pretty quickly call it like it is. This is my energy. This is not my energy.

Respond: Responding is the opposite of impulsive reaction. We’ve determined at this point through listening and observation, and come to a conclusion (discerned) about whose energy belongs to whom. Now we’re poised to respond.

Someone else’s emotional energy: We remind ourselves that although we feel someone’s emotions, they do not belong to us at all, so therefore, we do nothing about it. We can relax and let it pass beyond us. We can respond by acknowledging, such as, “I understand that you’re feeling angry, “Yes, I empathize that you are feeling worried right now, “or “I’m so sorry for your loss. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you,” or “What do you want to do about that?” All anyone really wants is for someone to listen and acknowledge what they just shared. We never jump in to take over and fix anymore just because we psychically know something, unless we are specifically asked for an opinion, etc... BEWARE of going beyond answering what was asked!

Our personal emotional energy: Acknowledge that the emotional energy belongs to us and allow ourselves to feel it and let it move through us. If all that is needed is to honor our feelings, we do that. If we are feeling angry, overwhelmed, or frustration that involves someone else, then it’s important to discern if we need to take positive right action with the individual to resolve the situation or just cool off and calm ourselves to get our bearings, which includes using the 4 Steps of Empowering Communication, helping us to confidently act from a place of self-identity and empowerment. We need to remember we aren’t responsible for how someone else reacts or responds in receiving our communication as long as we know we have communicated with self-integrity and respect, using the 4 Steps For Empowered Communication.

External Protection-Boundary Practices

Take charge of our environment by creating a clean, clear flowing harmonious space. Our home, however humble, is our personal sanctuary. The external energy of our space is equally important in supporting an empowered, peaceful feeling. Emotional energy can hang in the air. We can purify and cleanse that space regularly.

• Use the purifying/cleansing smoke of sage or sweetgrass to eliminate residual emotional energy in the environment – use it in the car, garage, every room of the home and “sage” our body aura from any attached emotional energy too
• Bring sunlight into our environment – open all drapes/blinds every day
• Use and carry gemstone/mineral energy protection/grounding ( See Resources below)
• Place herbs such as mugwort, rosemary, and lavender, etc. in the home and vehicle
• Let go of people, places, and things that hold negative/disruptive energies
• A clean home, vehicle, and work environment – eliminating dirt/clutter/confusion
• Eliminating objects/material things that do not hold a positive energy or no longer serve and support who we are now
• Stop the revolving door syndrome that allows anyone to drop in on our private space by declaring boundaries, such as call first and by invitation only. That includes boundaries when people can phone us, such as not before 8am or after 9pm

What’s the positive side of this challenging gift in being an empath? The main gift I can think of is being an example for others about what it is to practice living a life of compassion, acceptance, and understanding. After all, we empaths feel the world, and emotionally walk in the shoes of others from that spiritual emotional plane of existence. Can we not offer the deepest understanding and kindness which helps dissolve separation that is sorely needed in the world? We Empaths are natural healers and teachers for others in whatever endeavors we take on as long as we truly practice the ways of the empowered empath.

Excellent Resources:
Book:“Emotional Freedom,” by Judith Orloff, MD
Book:“Positive Energy,” by Judith Orloff, MD
Book:“The Complete Empath Toolkit,”by Michael R. Smith, PhD www.empathconnection.com
Book :“Love Is In The Earth – A Kaleidoscope of Crystals” by Melody
Book: "Empath Intuition," by Michael R. Smith, PhD
Book: “Whose Stuff Is This?” by Yvonne Perry http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com


Live in Beauty and be well ~ Triza Schultz


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Profile Of An Empath: Part I - Self-Identification

Part I – Self Identification – Are you an Empath?

An empath has the ability to feel the emotions of others which is an intuitive gift one is born with. They have a highly tuned emotional and spiritual sensitivity, able to experience exactly what another is emotionally experiencing. It’s one of the most difficult psychic abilities to have in our world, and those who don’t know what’s happening to them. They often find a peace they long for by being alone.

There are different types of empaths. Many empaths also have the ability to feel the emotional energy of animals. Some feel the pain of other people’s and animal’s ailments. Some can also feel oncoming weather/environment disturbances and electromagnetic waves – some may know the source where others can’t. Some empaths can feel residual emotions of places and things that left a strong imprint, both past and present. Past battles are an example.

Being an empath is one type of psychic ability, and tends to become problematic and even debilitating until awareness, education and positive practices are applied. There is a maturity that needs to be developed, responsibility accepted, and a discipline of practice that must become habit to create harmony with the gift, and just as importantly, to be able to use the gift for the highest good.

Major Traits Of An Empath:   (combined list from fellow empaths) 

• You need to make everyone feel better/happier and do what it takes to accomplish that
• You feel compelled to do something for someone in pain – it doesn’t matter who they are or what they’ve done to you
• You feel the physical pain or ailments of other people and or animals
• People seek you out to confide in you and reveal things you may not want to hear
• You somehow just “know” what people need to hear in order to feel better and you “know” what someone really means beyond what they tell you
• You can feel earthquake tremors and other weather disturbances before they happen
• You are highly sensitive to electromagnetic energy and can feel it in waves, or in physical upset like slight headache, nausea, or electric-like pulses, etc.
• You can feel significant emotional energy connected to places and objects
• You feel extremely sensitive to and overwhelmed when watching something horrible on TV or in a real life situation
• You search for possible reasons why you may be feeling the way you do and attach labels that don’t really fit you
• You often ignore people’s bad treatment of you, explaining it away because they need you, and on some level, you’d like to believe that’s enough for you
• You feel constantly overwhelmed around a lot of noise and large crowds, experiencing a variety of emotions and can’t define specific reasons why. You may want to go to that concert, but every time you do, you end up feeling tired, not knowing you’ve run the gamut of all the different emotions you were exposed to
• You have difficulty expressing your own emotions and prefer to focus on someone else, taking care of others, ignoring your own needs and feelings
• You are a magnet and a vessel for negative energy. It’s not because you were personally feeling negative, but because others need a place to put their negative energy and you were there to receive it
• You are the natural healer and helper, and you always sacrifice for others
• You have difficulty in and feel guilty in establishing territorial boundaries for yourself because you feel others need you more
• You don’t like feeling bad, down, negative, or sad, but you feel resigned and believe it to be part of your lot in life
• You are the natural animal lover! You love animals. They make you feel happy and exude a love that feels like pure innocence, and you sense they want nothing from you except love, which is an elixir for you
• You are “nature’s child.” Being in the country, by rivers and streams, at the beach, the rain and fog, tending a garden, etc. – anything to do with nature brings you a sense of peace and calm that you crave and MUST have to feel grounded

I was labeled “too sensitive” growing up which in the eyes of an unknowing family, meant a form of weakness, and was certainly a curiosity.

As a child, I once saw a cat that had been hit, attempting to get up and get off the road. Our family was taking a trip and drove past the cat. I felt it was not only in pain, but desperate to get off the road, fighting for its life. No one else felt what I felt, except a form of sympathy that the cat must be dead. I recall my mother telling my father to hurry and drive by so I wouldn’t see it, as if I hadn’t already! Only I seemed to know that the cat wanted to live. I sobbed because I couldn’t help it, feeling it might survive if someone just cared enough to stop and help, but no one in my family could sense anything beyond that. They didn’t feel the terror and fight for life that I felt from the cat. If they would have, they would have stopped I believe, without question. So there I was again, appearing to overreact to what my family believed was simply a death, unaware of what more that poor cat was experiencing.

Growing older, people began coming to me with their problems. I also created the habit of offering to help, getting involved without being directly asked to do so, as if it were my personal responsibility. I made friends easily. I seemed to be a ready-made fixer of problems, counselor for the confused, recipient of secrets and information to help about anyone through a tough spot. I had an ability to easily console people and help them feel everything was going to be okay, knowing just what to say to help. I could feel what they wanted before they asked.

The problem was that I wasn’t always okay myself. I frequently felt overwhelmed, anxious, and especially confused about my own boundaries and identity, and spent a lot of time by myself to rejuvenate and find peace and quiet. It was very difficult for me to admit that I was allowing people to take advantage of me. Frankly, I felt better around animals than I did people.

Without proper understanding and training, it can be debilitating – emotionally and physically draining. We feel other’s emotions and confuse them as our own, being tossed around at any time by the emotional currents of people, not knowing where other people’s emotions end and ours begin. Empaths often have mood swings, overwhelmed by the feelings of others, resulting in not being grounded to the earth and instead stuck in the emotional realm, appearing as if we were plugged into an electrical outlet, and at others times falling exhausted by those experiences of absorbing the world, not knowing what is happening or how to move that energy away and reclaim the awareness of our separate self.

An empath is usually compelled to “do” something to help which means crossing the line and getting personally involved. We tend to go beyond listening, being supportive and reflective to taking on people’s issues at any time, trying to resolve, fix, and counsel. See where this is heading? No one can do this without becoming confused, overwhelmed, and finally short circuiting their own vital energy, which could eventually lead to illness.

We can end up being the revolving door for everyone’s stuff when we have no territorial boundaries, and without a sense of self, people take advantage and often expect us to give them the time to lay their latest burden on our lap. Picture friends, neighbors, and associates carrying their emotional laundry to our house for us to sort through. We become magnets for other people’s problems. But let’s be fair, it’s as if we carry a go ahead sign that says, “OPEN For Business – Unload Your Problems Here.”

The beautiful news is that this can all turn around and the gift of being an empath can become that which it was always meant to be!

In Profile Of An Empath: Part II – Life Practices For The Empowered Empath, we will address practices to develop new patterns of behavior to reclaim our personal energy territory and develop a stronger awareness of self identity in order to positively use our psychic gift.

Excellent Resources:
Book:“Emotional Freedom,” by Judith Orloff, MD
Book:“Positive Energy,” by Judith Orloff, MD
Book:“The Complete Empath Toolkit,” by Michael R. Smith, PhD www.empathconnection.com
Book:"Empath Intuition," by Michael R. Smith, PhD
Book:“Whose Stuff Is This?” by Yvonne Perry http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com


Live in Beauty and be well ~ Triza Schultz

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Secrets Of The Magical Life

The Magician ~ Connolly Tarot Deck

Living the magical life is a positive practice and mastery of manifesting

through the infinite nature of the Divine universe using the gifts we’re endowed with.

The magical approach to life is anything but humdrum. I like to think of it as “directed spontaneous synchronicity.”

We who consciously live the magical life engage the spiritual support and guidance of angels, spirit guides, teachers, and helpers to work with us in every aspect of our life events. It’s not like they’re not with us all the time anyway, it’s just that we know they are and our channel to receive their guidance through our inner resources of varied intuition are purposely set on high volume.

Being receptive is all about listening and observing with the expectation and explicit trust that we will receive. Tuning our intuition into reception quality involves asking questions, meditative and reflective periods in order to receive, patience – waiting for the answers, dream journaling, and absolutely trusting that what comes through us is pure, having set aside our fear based ego mind’s tendency to over-analyze and dilute everything.

My experience has been that it doesn’t matter how quickly it takes to create something, like a business, any work of art, a garden, rebuild a car, or perfect a mouthwatering savory pie. That’s not the point. Each positive step we take that falls into synch with our vision is most easily supported by unseen forces to help us take the next positive step of action, and soon enough we will have spontaneously brought a part of our dream into physical reality. Directed spontaneous synchronicity!

Directed spontaneous synchronicity is about being present for the love of each moment within the experience of the creative journey without concern only for destination outcome. If the destination is the only concern, count on falling short somewhere along the line.

The result of our conscious efforts to orchestrate birthing something into the world involves the process of first beginning with our vision or dream. Then we focus our intentions and thoughts on it along with our deepest desires and emotions. The final ingredient is to propel all that fiery internal or spiritual energy into action on the physical plane. There are no short cuts.

The process of creating ranges from the simple to the epoch. Something may take a few hours, days or weeks. Something big can take months or even years. It doesn’t matter. When we’re really in the creative groove, it’s all about the journey – the delight, the twists and turns and the ultimate triumph of the process of creation. It’s about truly being alive!

Being born to create is our divine birthright and that’s where free will comes to play. If we didn’t have free will, we wouldn’t be able to create.

Essential Tools – A Study of The Magician
(Reference Book: Excerpts from Seventy Degrees of Wisdom, by Rachel Pollack)

The symbols represented in The Magician Tarot card contain the secrets of the 4 emblems or elements required to consciously engage and master the art of our creative individuality. It also represents the willpower and strength that is directed toward a goal.

See the Magician raising his wand to bring into reality the spirit force – the vital energy of life which is the first step of creation. This is symbolic of the vision/dream that takes place inside of us within the nature of the divine universe. He symbolizes the inspiration or idea of manifestation which is making something real out of life’s possibilities. The 4 emblems on a table in front of him are the tools he consciously uses in the physical world as he creates.

The 4 emblems are:

Pentacle – The pentacle represents the physical or earth element, the five senses that help us perceive the physical world of touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste, the physical world and all we do in the physical world such as work, school, money, family, etc., the appreciation of the beauty of nature and joy of satisfying work, health, wealth, abundance.

Sword – Swords belong to the element of air or wind. Swords represent the mind. Just as air/wind is in continuous motion, the mind is always in motion and experiences calm, unrest, confusion/conflict, clarity and focus, and the problems of sorrow, anger, pain. It can be gentle as a breeze or turbulent as a strong gale. Our mental struggles therefore, are the realm of the sword. Swords define emotional energy and give it direction.

Wand – Wand or rod is the element of fire. Fire is the life essence and energy of existence. Heard of the saying, “on fire with an idea,” “divine spark,”or “burning with the desire to?” That is the essence of fire. It represents optimism, hope, movement, and confidence. Because this first comes from within, it is spiritually derived. Wands also stands for competition and commerce – the great energy of ideas, struggles, and active steps it takes from the spiritual realm of ideas toward bringing that into physical existence in some fashion. Remember movement. It shows up in romance and the emotion of love in winning a lover or a proposal. Fire symbolizes what we do. Wands energize and transmute.

Cup - Cups symbolize the element of water. Water is more a formless fluid. Water symbolizes what we essentially are. It can remind us of the greater truth of our inner harmony – the opposite of separation. Cups represent love, joy, peace, imagination, harmony, wonder. They show us that love is the way to spirit in giving and receiving. All forms of love through companionship and friendship are in the realm of Cup.

Positive Side of The Magician

One hand receives the power from heaven and one directs it to the earth for manifestation.

This is not about manipulating the spirit or for personal gain. We instead seek to become a positive channel for not only ourselves in using this creative energy of our gifts and abilities, but to be of service in our community – for humanity and the earth.

The Magician is surrounded by flowers. A reminder that the emotional and creative power we feel in love and purpose in our lives also needs to be grounded in physical reality for us to get any value from it. Unless we make something of our potentials they don’t really exist.

He has developed his will to the point where he can direct the creative fire that fills him. At the same time he remains open, he allows his ego to dissolve so that he can receive the energy and communion with spirit without being blocked by fear.

The Magician represents an awareness of power in our lives, of spirit or creative excitement. It refers to the first steps of the beginning of something creative – not only the inspiration to begin some new project or phase of life. There is the excitement that sustains us through the actual hard work to reach our goal.

Negative Side of The Magician

From the negative or dysfunctional side of The Magician, the creative energy becomes blocked or interrupted in some way. It can mean a weakness, lack of will, or confusion of purpose that leads to nothing. It isn’t that the power isn’t there. We just cannot access it. It can mean apathy, lethargy or even depression. Another aspect of the negative side of The Magician is where power is abused and becomes a destructive influence on others. Problems arise when a person doesn’t know how to direct his creative energy into outer reality. If we don’t ground or bring into manifestation the creative fire using our gifts and talents, it can become trapped in the body and compel itself on our awareness as fear and sometimes severe anxiety.



The secrets to the magical life are revealed in The Magician of the Tarot. They are the secrets that have always been right in front of us, but together not utilized with conscious awareness and understanding. Once we understand and practice the secrets of The Magician, we begin to harness the greatest joys of being alive in actualizing our purpose and of being in service to humanity.

Affirmation For The Month - Creativity
The art of creation cannot be forced. Today, I allow my spiritual imaginative process the space to open itself up to the Divine. I allow this process to develop in its own time.

Live in beauty and be well ~ Triza Schultz


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Feb 10, 2013 ~ Chinese New Year of the "Water Snake"

The deeply intuitive and feeling snake energy is here.  The last time the element of Water with Snake alignment was 1953!

"The Snake feels and senses its way through life and represents spiritual rebirth, elusiveness and exploration of life's mysteries.

The nature of the deeply feeling Snake year is "gradual and gathered strength," bringing a more moderate than radical year. During Snake years, our concerns turn toward inner-growth, spirituality and discovering the reasons behind things.

Sensual Snakes are sensitive to changes in weather, dislike the cold, and accordingly during Snake years warmer climates are preferred. A creative, artistic year, filled with pleasure, enlightenment and beauty. Music, dance, art galleries and museums thrive. 2013 brings a slower paced, quiet, behind-the-scenes lifestyle.

A deep-thinking, philosophical year, where intuition and all things middle-of-the-road reign supreme."

Chinese Astrology by Shelly Wu  (Excerpt above - read more about 2013 Water Snake at link below)
http://www.chineseastrology.com/2013snakeyear.html

Learn what your Chinese astrological sign is if you don't know at here site, and and read what the year of the Water Snake has in store for your sign. I've been reading shelly's work for years, and I love her wise, insightful and practical work.

Keynote for 2013: Service and Joyful Giving

Sincerity and integrity are essential ingredients for selfless service…

The whirlwind of dramatic change and transition at the heart of 2012 now shifts course in this number 6 year of 2013. One word seems to sum it up this year: Unselfishness. Unselfishness to others for the love of humanity and the desire for unity within our friendships, family, and community are a driving force.

Words that describe 2013 are: harmony, balance, health, time, duty, charity, humanity, truth, justice, creation, marriage, evolution, service, cooperation, warmth, union

The desire to “settle” into our domestic and work affairs is a central focus. Considering the good of others as well as ourselves is important this year. Creating harmony is essentially on our minds. We’ll have a desire to communicate with all involved, talking things over with others to create good will and harmony. Think along the lines of the higher good for all, not just for ourselves, focusing on the ultimate good.

This is not a year to rush through everything, but to think through and talk things out. This falls into the realms of health, friends, family, money, and love. This year’s energy supports all health focused efforts, including health issues that need taking care of. Take the time needed to create healthy practices and harmonious relationships that are sustainable in the long run.

Let the moral fable of the “Tortoise and the Hare” be a personal guide this year. The tortoise took his time, and remembered his journey to the finish line. The hare tried taking short cuts and couldn’t even remember how he arrived in his predicament!

The feeling of action and time this year is of a slower pace than 2012. Just remember that something essential is being built here for balance and harmony. Rome wasn’t built in a day like many of our modern pre-fab houses are! We know how well-built those are not…

The symbol for the house and all that works and lives within the house essentially represents the “Self.” Think along those lines. Even in a work environment, when we bring ourselves to our work, we bring an extension of ourselves – we bring a part of who we are. And if those areas of work and associates, family and friends, need our attention to assist in supporting a harmonic environment, then selfless duty calls.

The flip side of this is, of course, where a relationship or situation cannot sustain efforts for harmony and positive mutual communion, it’s time to resolve to leave those and return our focus back on creating our sense of balance and harmony.

Keep an eagle eye on balance. We can never be all things to all people at all times. That falls backwards into victim energy. Look to the higher good in all things, and we will all find ourselves creating a better world of unity and harmony by the end of this year in our personal reality and place in the world.

This is an important year for us to practice true service and dedication to ourselves so we can serve others with sincerity and integrity. As we talk about unselfish service to others, let’s get clear about what true service is not. Let’s clear out a little mud.

The action of true service, a helping presence, and joyful giving, just can’t happen when that action is muddied with false agreements and feelings of resentful obligations. In order to be of service in any way, we must appreciate ourselves first! Giving and service should not be done with the sole need to receive approval and appreciation from others – that’s a form of victimhood, looking for someone outside of ourselves to measure out our self-worth. And that behavior is a set-up that never achieves lasting satisfaction and joy.

Taking care of ourselves in all the basic ways must come first before we can sustain being of service and feel the joy of giving.

Let’s recognize all that we sincerely do for ourselves and for others, and thank ourselves for this, so we’re not dependent on others for our sense of worth. When we can be of service and give for the joy and love of it because we intimately know what a full open heart feels like, then we also know the additional reward is a loving unity with others and with humanity.

We all desire and appreciate that others recognize our time, dedication, and efforts for being of service. We all want to know that we make a difference, but don’t we need to know that within ourselves first? Don’t we need to know what our real intentions are and our core worth is?

In the true spirit of giving and receiving, a loving appreciation always flows abundantly forth. That’s the nature of real free-flowing selflessness and the nature of a benevolent universe.

Wear bright colors this year! For those who love their black, add a vibrant touch of color to harmonize and uplift your aura energy field.

Let the fragrance and spiritual energy of 2013 guide us with this beautiful poem:

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941)


Live in beauty and be well ~ Triza Schultz


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December 12, 2012: A Gift of Triples

December 12, 2012: A Gift of Triples

12/12/12 holds some unique potential energy, whether you are directing this or simply going with the flow. Read on:

12 represents spiritual strength and divine perfection. It's a time symbol, representing cycles as in the signs of the zodiac, and being the number that turns the wheel of destiny and the cosmic order of things (example: Mayan Calendar, and the Tarot "Wheel of Fortune" Card). 12 is then, a number of endings and new beginnings.

12 is also a magnified higher aspect of the number 4 (3 x 4 =12). 4 represents wholeness and completeness as is also represented by the square, having 4 sides that symbolize the foundation of anything, especially into the physical world of tangible achievement and just as importantly, completion of spiritual evolution/achievement.

We have 3 12's and 3 3's! (1+ 2=3) We see "triples" everywhere here, which makes this uniquely powerful and mystical! 3 is the number of creative power and that which moves forward, striving toward 4 (wholeness/completion). 3 stands for the past/present/ future, the mother/father/child, and the trinity of mind/body/spirit exploration and experience.

The energy of today lingers throughout the month as it is a part of the 2012 cycle of endings, new beginnings, and higher spiritual awareness.  How have these energies been supporting and affecting you personally within your relationships of family/friends, work/play, education in the seeking of higher knowledge and experience both spiritually and intellectually?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments!


Live in beauty and be well ~ Triza

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