Gardening with the Fairies, Part I

Do you believe in fairies?

A few years ago when we lived in Michigan, we rented a house several streets from the shores of Lake Michigan. The back yard was nothing more than weeds shaved down to stubs in an effort to mimic a lawn. The landlady even apologized for it. But we loved the house.

So when a friend of ours announced that he was gaining his Fairy Realms Reiki attunement, we immediately asked him to practice on our back yard.

What's a Life Color, Anyway?

I'm often making references to Life Colors these days, so I've been thinking I should explain but hadn't figured out where to start. This week a Facebook friend from Camborne, Cornwall, England, gave me the perfect opening.

I got myself in trouble, you see, by mentioning in a public conversation that someone was an "Indigo Life Color." My friend leaped in and asked to know more. I tried to put her off to another source because I don't do "readings," but she's such a delightful person, I relented. Here's what happened:

Follow Your Passion--or Else!

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Metabolic Healing, Part III

I don't know why I persist in posting these painful personal experiences from my fight to heal my metabolism via the Schwarzbein Program. Especially the photographs! I see those on my blog now and say to myself, Gosh, Lianne, did you have to put those out there? But something in my Violet life color, Chinese Earth rhythm, Aquarian self presses me to share, just in case it might help someone else.

This past week I have felt "terribly terrible," as I kept saying to Joseph. NOTHING would relieve some deep underlying stress and sensation that everything was confused and wrong in my life and I was lost. Nope, not even my attunement with my Cosmic Mentors, which would normally do the trick. Which means that something was indeed terribly terribly wrong.

My first celebrity endorsement!

Remember this photo of me with Donna Eden, world-famous energy healer and author of Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine for Women, after an advanced class we took with her?

See that book in her hand? It's one of my novels, and even though she's incredibly busy, her assistant just emailed a note from her to Joseph & me. It included this about Cosmic Dancer:

"It is a wonderful book!"

Yep, it's going on the cover with her permission. Thank you, Donna!

Do you know other celebrities who might endorse a novel about life after death, reincarnation, ballet, and the challenges of life as a psychic teenager? Suggestions welcome--especially if you know how to reach them! :)

Positive Expectations: An illustrated guide

Positive expectations. This is an energy principle my spiritual mentor, Ruth Norman (aka Uriel), tried really hard to instill in me.

I'm not talking about affirmations or visualizations or pie-in-the-sky. I mean simply holding an attitude in your mind that things will work out, that all will be well. (And I don't have to tell you what the opposite to that is.)

I've been told that children of alcoholics have trouble with this concept. So I've worked on it, and now I generally walk around in a positive state of mind, greeting and grateful for all the good things that happen to me.

But the other day, I had a visual demonstration of this vital principle. (It happened to take place in my "Knowledge and Self-Cultivation Area," for those of you who are into Feng Shui and Bagua maps.)

My Bear Encounters in Sequoia National Park (Part II)

In Part I, "Overcoming My Fear of Bears," you read about my extreme phobia of bears, a fear I’ve had since birth as the result of a past-life, unfortunately deadly encounter with a grizzly. It’s a fear I’ve worked on slowly over the years, preparation for my day of testing: If a bear suddenly emerged from the woods now, would I be able to stay calm and stay alive? Or would I scream? run? faint? vomit? die of heart failure on the spot? all of the above?

You learned about my bear-expert sister’s advice, about my reliving of the past-life death and how it related to my husband, Joseph, as well. You’ve heard me mention my use of the newest, most effective form of post-traumatic stress treatment presently known: energy psychology (acupressure tapping) techniques. And now you’re going to read what happened when the moment came, with pictures and video.

Overcoming My Fear of Bears (Part I)

Rough-housing teenaged Alaskan brown bears, aka grizzlies!
This is why humans and bears can't play together!
[Photo copyright Linda Jo Hunter]

I’ve had a terrifying phobia of bears all my life. The first time I saw one I was three years old and fell deathly ill. Ironically, my older sister is a bear expert, serving three seasons as a grizzly-viewing guide at a lodge in Alaska and writing a popular book about her experiences. She took this picture at close range. (!!)

Karma? You bet! But decades later in life, I still hadn’t overcome my knee-melting, stomach jolting FEAR at the very thought of bears. Until last week.