JJ Virgin’s Fast Track – Days 13-15

Lot’s of Food info in these days -(first video I mention that it’s day 12 but it’s really day 13 – I got a little confused about my days!! Ended up making 2 videos for Day 13 – but they go together – kind of like “spaghetti”  and “sauce”!!

Starting with Day 13 – I tried something I’d never made before – I cooked Spaghetti Squash – paired it with sauce from a recipe that JJ provided in her Weightloss Resisitance Guidebook as part of the FAST Track to Fitness…..

Day 14 was all about Ritual and Ceremony – enjoying lunch – creating a sacred space for myself to eat and be mindful….

Day 15 – ON THE HUNT for HIGH FRUCTOSE Corn Syrup – a BIG TOSS IT on JJ’s plan – she has a huge  Toss It list that she provided along with a great STOCK IT list too – made it really easy to cleanse the fridge and refill it with foods that will support the fitness goals.

 

Days 16-18 coming right up!! (Got a little behind with traveling) Let me know if you are enjoying this expose’ of my progress through JJ’s program!

 

 

 

 

 

The Calling to EVOLVE

I’ve just returned from a magnificent journey to Phoenix for the EVOLVE Live Event that was created and dreamed into being by Marcia Bench of  Purposeful Entrepreneur.   The gathering of purpose based entrepreneurs in varying stages business creation and operation combined with the energies of the amazing location served to create a magical and alchemical crucible for some profound shifts for all of the participants – presenters included!

Marcia onstage with some of her Success Story Clients (And a BUNCH Of Orbs!)

The Buttes Marriott Resort in Tempe was the setting for our work – nestled into the heart of a butte – the hotel was just extraordinary and truly deserving of it’s 5 star status.  The service by the hotel staff was nothing short of perfection – every detail was attended to with open hearted enthusiasm and a desire to serve.

Our first day was dedicated to personal evolution.  The event was off to an interesting and energy shifting start with the opening of sacred space which I facilitated and which I’m sure was something of a surprise for the attendees what with my rattling and spraying camay all over the room to each of the directions, Mama Earth and Father Sky.  Then we were treated to the musical talents of the spiritually gifted singer songwriter Charlie Thweatt who was accompanied on one song by Marcia herself.  The day proceeded into a series of explorations for the attendees around those stories stored in their bodies that were keeping them from moving forward in their business or life that were facilitated by Dr. Kirk Prine and his partner Donny Lobree

We closed the day out with an evening Despacho ceremony that I had the honor of leading/facilitating which powerfully wove energetic threads of connection between the group and the Earth upon which we were working.  Each attendee was presented with an autumn leaf, a seed, a flower and a branch of evergreen – the leaf symbolizing that which is dying within them or their business, the seed representing that which is unborn and waiting to germinate, the flower representing the beauty and fragrance already created and needing to be acknowledged and celebrated and finally the evergreen to represent that which is eternal.    All the participants prayed into each of their offerings, using the breath to transmit their intentions and the offerings were laid over a circle of sacred sage for purification and then all tied together in a plain paper bundle.   Everyone was cleansed with the bundle and then we were treated to a bedtime story – The Waif Bunny read to us by the author Donny Lobree.

Lovely Lisa!! What a Million Dollar Smile!

Day 2 was all about evolving the business and in addition to the incredibly rich content provided by Marcia we were also treated to the Juicy Lisa Cherney who presented her speech about Magnetic Marketing and her Stand UP and BE JUICY program.  I was so inspired by her words and work that I signed up myself – I’m all about JUICY!!  At lunch time I was called to make the offering of the despacho to the land – we didn’t have permission to have a fire ceremony so I went to the front desk and asked if it was possible to get a shovel (can you imagine that??!! Here I am at a 5 star resort asking for a shovel!!) The front desk staff was incredibly accommodating after I explained that we’d created a blessing bundle to bless the land and all the people who were connected with it.   They called the head of the landscaping department and he came right to my room with me to get the despacho.  After a lovely talk it was clear to me that this man (who’d only been with the hotel 2 weeks) was the perfect steward to take our blessed bundle and find the EXACT perfect spot on the land to bury this gift to the Pachamama – as I handed over the bundle after giving him the burial instructions and a blessing too I noticed his name – How Perfect!! – right there on his breast pocket – Rafael!! (Now if you can’t trust a blessing bundle to the Archangel Raphael – Archangel of Healing – then who can you trust!)

Later that day we were treated to a much too brief presentation by my new friend Michele

Michele PW Doing what she does BEST!! Writing!!

PW – she’s the QUEEN of Copywriting and is the writer who has been responsible for multiple six figure product launches for some of the biggest names in the internet marketing/coaching/transformational training industry.  A lightworker with words she’s almost single handedly shifted the copywriting communications away from the hard sell of old to the new paradigm of selling through connecting rather than commanding.   I had the distinct pleasure of sharing dinner with her that night too!

Day three was our opportunity to contemplate the evolution of our world – Marcia led us on a visionary journey that revealed a path of purposeful entrepreneurship in service to the higher good of all – and with the group gathered there I have NO doubt that the results of our time together will have a significant impact on the new emerging paradigm of conscious entrepreneurship that Marcia (and I) were there to champion.  After lunch and some more musical treats I was granted the opportunity to take the stage – it’s been a long time since I’ve been on a stage to speak – and it was so gratifying to have the opportunity to co-create both a healing experience for the participants as well as financial abundance for myself!

Check out the new POWER NECKLACE the "upstairs team" had waiting for me there!

After getting the peeps up to dance to Drum Sex, a segment of personal story telling, 3 light body sound healings and a group hug I took the last 10 minutes or so to present my new program.  The CORE Path is a small group intensive experience that will commence on December 15 – I was blessed to have several people answer their own CALL to EVOLVE and step forward to engage in the Great Work with me.  I still have a few slots left – I have limited this program to no more than 12 people because the intent is that we are going to go very deep as well as wide with our work – combining energy shifting principals and practices with entrepreneurial/small business operational guidance in order to facilitate the ability for the leaders who commit to this program to LEAP Fearlessly into their next level of service.

What a blessing the entire experience was, for me, for the participants, for the other speakers and presenters and also (of course) for the Spirit of the Land – when I was in the elevator late on the 2nd day – a man got on with me and asked if my bundle was taken care of – I didn’t recognize him and he identified himself as the Director of Sales – I then said yes that the bundle had been well stewarded and the prayers of our whole group were being buried to bless the land – his response??? “That’s great – it’s about time the curse was lifted from this place!”  As I departed I smiled – the ancestors were dancing a happy dance and the land was feeling the love once again.

What are YOU doing for FUN this Weekend??

Cheetah Medicine!

 

 

I’m going to be modeling and raising money for the Sculpture Symposium here in Nashua – There’s an article about the event that was published in the Nashua Telegraph today  – if you are local and looking to do something fun and something that will SUPPORT THE ARTS why don’t you join us – It’s going to be great!

Here’s that Nashua Telegraph Article!

Photo by Daniel J. Splaine – Test of Time Photography

Finding Faith Fellowship Forgiveness and of course "Faeries" at the Fulacht Fia

 

Back in mid October I had the distinct pleasure of sharing a weekend in New York with a dear friend and many members of my "medicine" soul family for Sli An Chroi (Walking the Pathway of the Heart) an Irish Shamanic gathering.

My paternal grandmother – Mary Mahoney was born in Ireland – Inniscarra County Cork to be exact and came over on the boat when she was still in her late teens.   I look like the "spitting image" of her according to family and looking at some of the old photos I’d say that’s pretty accurate.  Mary Mahoney lived to be 99 and was only 4 months shy of her 100th birthday when she passed back in 1981.   She danced with me at my high school graduation the summer before she passed and still had all her own teeth – imagine that!

Anyway back to the weekend gathering – for any of you who’ve been following me and my work for some time you may be aware of the fact that I am the child of an alcoholic and that much of my life and many of the challenges and difficulties that I have worked long and hard to heal were rooted in the pain and the wounds of that upbringing.  I myself wrestled with several addiction issues in my late teens, throughout my 20’s and into my early 30’s, after which my son was born and I cleaned up my act almost completely although I would still drink on occasion and when I did it was often to excess.  Finally at 40  I "received" one of my first messages from the Angels and also from my (at that point deceased) father from the other side.   By then I had begun my spiritual shift in earnest and had been working with yoga and had my first crystal healing – the message was "Alcohol no longer serves you – it causes your vibration to be lowered dramatically and it takes you 3 – 4 times longer to regain your present vibratory rate following drinking".  I took the message seriously – and have not consumed alcohol (except a sip occasionally in sacred ceremony or at a celebration) ever since.   

One of the things that immediately happened for me is that I got 100% (or more) clearer and was able to shift/uplevel my frequency consistently so that over time I’ve been able to manifest a lot of good for my self and for others.  I did however still carry a "charge" around alcohol.  My brother is alcoholic and my husbands both had alcohol issues as well which contributed in some part to the ending of both of those marriages.  This past spring the "charge" showed up for me in a business relationship – I was with someone who I thought was really clear and conscious and discovered at an event we both attended that she was a drinker – more than just a glass of wine at dinner – she drank more than a few drinks of hard alcohol at every meal and evening event – the weird part was that there were other folks there drinking and it didn’t bother me in the least – this person though I just wanted to get as far away from this otherwise brilliant woman as possible – specifically because of her drinking.

So what’s this got to do with my Irish Shamanic gathering weekend you might ask??  Well guess what was on the altar that was laid out in the meeting room when we arrived – that’s right – a bottle of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey.   This was my big invitation – from the Universe -  to finally come into right relationship with alcohol.  To see that like every other blessed thing in the Universe – it is a part of the sacred fabric.    We did a LOT of work that weekend.  Mostly through the Fulacht Fia – a womb/tomb hole that we opened up in Mother Earth (see the picture at the top – isn’t it beautiful – surrounded by our created offerings of beauty from the fields and land where we were working).  Healing the Divine Masculine & Feminine energies within us, some really intense ancestral healing, a communion with our anchor trees, fire ceremony, the Faerie Rites and more – the final evening included a passing round the fire of that bottle of Jameson’s.

I didn’t have a drink – but one of my medicine sistars – in fact she was MY Anam Cara (Soul Friend – the person that I shared my ‘stuff’ with all weekend) – certainly did.  In fact she became so intoxicated that she passed out on the cold field and had to be bodily lifted to her car by her husband and three of the other men who were present.   The following day when it came time to come to closure on the whole event I had digested (and so had the Earth) quite a bit of my own judgment, as well as any remaining “charge” I  was carrying in my luminous energy field around alcohol.  There was a LOT of info that was channeled through to me about it and one of the interesting pieces that came through for me was that at one time in our human history alcohol was one of the ways that we “stored” food energy in the times when we didn’t have all the modern conveniences that we do today.  The dis-ease of Alcoholism (along with many other of our modern diseases) has come out of being out of balance with the earth and with the place that each element has in the creation.  It has been one of the ways of escaping our pain of separation from our true nature and our Mother the Earth – that in the end only creates more pain and suffering because it can not cure that underlying schism – only our choice to heal our own hearts and come back into right relationship can do that.

As we were closing up the Fulacht Fia – I gave a blessing – to my dad, to my Irish Ancestors, to my Anam Cara (who was horribly hung over), to our hosts, to my Irish Shaman Brother John Cantwell and his lovely life partner/wife Karen Ward and finally to the spirit of Spirits – I took a mouthful of that Jameson’s and spit it right into the fire and I brought home the healing too.  On my ancestral altar in a place of honor I have placed a little nippy bottle of Chivas Regal – my dad’s high end favorite and a bottle of Jameson’s in honor of my medicine work and my Irish lineage.  It did not escape me that my dad’s given name is James, the same name I gave to my own son.  The ancestral curse stops with me.

If you are curious and want to find out more about Irish shamanism I’m contemplating the co-creation of a little journey at some point in the future with Karen and John – they are magical beings and I’m incredibly grateful for their presence in my life and for their dedication to doing the Great Work.  All photos are from the weekend and came from John and Karen.  Let me know if you have an interest in perhaps making a trip with me to the Emerald Isle. 

John and Karen can be reached directly at

www.slianchroi.ie

www.pathwayoftheheart.ie

May the road rise up to meet you and the wind always be at your back… Irish Blessing

 

Peace and light,

 

Amethyst

JJ Virgin 21 Day Fast Track to Fitness – Days 10-12

Well I’ve made it to the half way point  in the 21 days and am still incorporating things into my program – JJ has several supplement suggestions for us as base line supplements – I haven’t quite remembered to take them 3 times a day but am working on it!  I’m definitely enjoying experimenting with different smoothie recipes!

I missed my weekly weigh & measure by a day – here’s the results!! Woo Hoo!!

It was pretty interesting what happened when I posted my weigh in on You Tube on Day 3 – I got a comment RIGHT AWAY from someone – here it is:

“i dont believe u…only 135…u look 150-160lbs“

I have to tell you when I got that comment a lot of thoughts went through my head – first was “Wow That’s NICE (NOT!)” – second was – “Why would someone want to do that to another person?” – third was -”Here I am letting it all hang out – why the heck would someone think I was lying??”  and finally after taking a few deep cleansing breaths and getting my self clear, centered and balanced again I realized “This person’s comment has nothing to do with me and so I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing and not get ruffled by someone’s uninformed opinions.”  I also realized it was an opportunity for me to make an alternative choice – to bless the person and to observe how MY OWN MIND got going and started to engage and also to observe that getting caught up in other peoples opinions is a really easy way to waste mental energy and lose focus on what’s best for you.  I was also inspired to take this whole exercise in transparency to the next level and so when I did got on the scale this week I had the camera pointing right at it!  So THANK you johnzz22 for your gifts to me!

Day 12 I went out for some all natural no preservatives added Sunshine provided Vitamin D – am also enjoying getting moving a lot more – after spending a lot of time sitting at the computer it’s been really good for me to get out and move around – since winter is knocking and I’ll be in a lot more very shortly I’ve been trying to get outside walks in whenever possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building On Solid Ground

Years ago, in my “former life” my career was in real estate management, development and sales.  I spent almost 20 years of my life working with the land and with homeowners.  The final few years culminated in my ascension to the top of my trade association as the National Chairperson whilst simultaneously building a multifamily, multiuse development of 51 single family houses, 56 apartments and a three story office building.

 

When someone is putting up a house, an office building, a mall or some other big structure the first thing that must be done is the site selection.  It’s important that the ground is properly compacted and drained and that it will be able to successfully carry and hold the weight of the structure that will be built upon it.  In most areas all kinds of tests are required on the land prior to a building permit being issued, including tests for hazardous waste and environmental impact.

When you are a Passionpreneur, you are building a soul guided business based upon your passionate desire to serve your highest purpose in the world.  It’s vitally important that you start by checking out the ground upon which this business is going to be built – and that dear friends would be your SOUL matrix.  Any unresolved traumas, old stories, wounds, generational or ancestral patterns, past life experiences, and soul contracts that have been made must be surfaced, revealed, cleared, balanced, and replaced by a NEW vision and by a restoration of any lost parts of your soul that may be integral to the successful manifestation of your high vision.

Before embarking or investing in all the practical things that must be done – such as choosing how, whom, and where you will serve, the organizational design of your business, the logos, branding, and back office systems that need to be in place it might be wise to be sure that what you think you are being “called” to do isn’t just your soul setting you up for healing and learning a life lesson.  It’s a heck of a lot easier to learn that lesson BEFORE you make the investment of time, energy and money which is why Energy Medicine and Mastery work can be so powerful.

For those of you who’ve already started your Passionpreneurial journey a big benefit of energy healing/mastery that I’ve seen for the clients that I’ve worked with is the freeing up of huge amounts of energy that has been diverted to keep intact psychic protections, old stories, and patterns of self sabotage that continue to rear their ugly heads, sidetrack the client and cause the emission of energy that “stinks” of something unhealed.  It’s hard to have that Success Vibe when it’s competing with the “I’m not Good Enough” Vibe and let me tell you we are in a time now where ENERGY DOESN’T LIE.  You can FEEL it when someone is desperate.  You can FEEL it when they are hyping you.  You can FEEL it when it’s all fluff and no substance and you can FEEL it when attempts are being made to manipulate you.

So when you think about it – or more importantly intuitively feel into it – doesn’t it make sense that you’d want to work on your ENERGY field – you have control over your own destiny, you have the capacity to dive in deep if you are ready and a skilled facilitator of this work will guide you right in to those blind spots where you have been “unconscious” to help heal, resolve and restore you to your natural birthright, an empowered being of light here to share your gifts, your message, your mission to make our world a better place for all.

Next week I start Energize to Monetize – it’s an opportunity for you to build a SOLID energetic foundation for your spiritually based business! I would love to have you join me.  Here’s the LINK

November 09 Events!

I’m going to be live on News For the Soul Radio on 11/10 at 4 PM ET to talk with Nicole Whitney about entering into the 6th night of the Mayan calendar as well as the 11/11 gateway coming up next week and what that means energetically for all of us – tune in live  on News For the Soul!    While there you might want to check out our co-created product – Wyldly Abundant – are you ready to claim your birthright?  Here’s the LINK!

Please don’t forget that I’ll be speaking on Tuesday 11/10/9 at 8:30 PM on the Menopause Telesummit – this 12 week program has been promoted nationwide to more than 100,000 people and each of the presenters on the speakers roster brings a high level of expertise to the subject.  I’m going to be leading everyone who joins us on the call on a mystical and magical journey in to the Spirit of Menopause for some guidance and illumination for those who join us on the call!  Register for that HERE

On Wednesday 11/11 I invite you to join me for Energize to Monetize – 5 weeks of energy shifting around the flow of money in and through your business – if you are a Healer who is Broke – you might want to consider this – it’s guaranteed to shift you at the deepest of levels and if you haven’t experienced a transformation by the end of the workshop I’ll refund your money – no questions asked!   Sign up HERE

Finally – right after my E2M class I’ll be hopping on a plane and heading to Phoenix for a live event – join me – there’s still time to catch EVOLVE – I believe that the energy that will come out of this event will be a blueprint for the way business is going to be done in the new paradigm!  Led by Purposeful Entrepreneur Marcia Bench this is sure to be a life changing experience!  EVOLVE Details & Registration info can be found HERE There are only 3 spots left….. is one of them yours?

JJ Virgin’s Fast Track Program Days 7-9!

One of the things I’ m realizing about JJ’s Program is how incredibly THOROUGH it is!  She’s included so many things in our starter kit including her “Overcoming Weight Loss Resistance” guidebook – I was fortunate enough to receive my starter kit at Lisa Sasevich’s event where I enrolled so I was ahead of the game because I was able to read the whole guidebook on my plane trip back from San Diego!   One of the things I like about this program is that JJ has an EXTENSIVE scientific (biochemistry) background and she’s also practical as well as passionate about her mission and her message.

Recording our food as well as our thoughts and experiences in a journal is one of the pieces of the puzzle that we are encouraged to start right away. Writing down everything that goes in your mouth certainly raises your consciousness about what’s going in!

“BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY!”  remember Mom telling you that? Well JJ sound’s just like mom when she’s speaking about breakfast – both live and in her book.  One of the recommended breakfast foods is steel cut oatmeal – this oatmeal is kind of funny looking – almost looks like some sort of “pet bedding” that you might put in a gerbil or hamster cage!  It takes quite a while to cook – but when it’s done it’s really good – belly filling and a bit chewy – not at ALL like those little sugar filled packets of rolled oats that have a funny looking guy with a Quaker hat on his head.  I like to put Goji Berries in mine – haven’t checked out Goji’s with JJ yet – she does say raisins (sparingly!) are ok – and she suggests adding vanilla and cinnamon which I haven’t tried yet.  I’ve also picked up some Almond milk – (JJ doesn’t really go for soy or regular dairy) – I put a little of that on top and it’s really quite a yummy bowl of breakfast!

Here we are having breakfast again – when I make my oatmeal I usually go exercise while it’s cooking and I also make enough for 2 bowls so the next morning I have a ready breakfast that I can quickly warm up and eat.  JJ’s BIG on fiber!    Lot’s and lot’s of fiber and along with that lot’s and lot’s of water to help move through all that fiber on a REGULAR basis! One of the many goodies that came for us in the starter kit was a container of Paleofiber.  I added this to the oatmeal both mornings.  Staying Regular is important!!

 

 

JJ Virgin Plan – Days 4-6

Getting enough SLEEP is a cornerstone of JJ’s program – so I allowed myself time to get caught up on Day 4!

 

 

Well I certainly got some good “guidance” before I left for San Diego because the weekend before my trip I went on a cleaning FRENZY – both my son and I dropped things on the floor as we were taking them out of the fridge and there was a HUGE mess that needed to be cleaned up in there – so I took everything out and got rid of a BUNCH of old stuff that I wasn’t using and was going to go bad.  When I returned I had a nice almost empty fridge to fill with fresh veggies and fruits so I was able to easily jump right onto JJ Virgin’ s program.

One of the first things she recommends is to toss out a lot of things that have ingredients that are really not in service to your body – like High Fructose Corn Syrup.  You’d be AMAZED by all the places where that stuff shows up!  I’ve discovered I still have some cleaning to do in both the fridge and the pantry!  She’s got lots of good things to put IN to your body including Thin Stix!

Of course no fitness program would be complete without some exercise – so I made it to the Gym on Day 6 – I haven’t fully incorporated JJ’s weight training exercises into my routine yet but getting in a good hour of POWER yoga was certainly beneficial to my body and my spirit!  A little sweat is a good thing!  Detoxing for the body.

 

I’m going to do my best to keep posting every three days or so – keep checking back on progress!

 

 

 

A Very Special Call with A Very Special Friend!

Dear Friends,

You may have heard me refer to my friend Suzanne Falter Barns more than once over the course of the last year – it’s been an amazing journey that we’ve been on together and I am truly grateful beyond words for her presence in my life.  She has been a guiding light around getting my business together on the internet and more importantly in the act of stepping up to really promoting my self, my work and my business on a much bigger stage.

I’m delighted to have the pleasure of hosting Suzanne this Wednesday night November 4 at 7 PM  ET on a F.R.E.E. Call where she’ll be sharing some of her hottest and hookiest tips with you!

It’s called ‘What’s Your Perfect Hook?’
(And yep, we sure will be recording it if you can’ t make it … but
do try. You might get to be one of the folks that Suzanne picks to coach on the call!)

Here’s the drill on the call details directly from Suzanne:

Please don’t miss this call … cause I’m really on my game right now and dyin’ to share this
stuff with you!
Is the premise of your biz immediately interesting to people? Is it
snappy? Does it have … zing?
That’s what I call a ‘hooky’ business – and it’s pretty much what
makes any successful Net biz hum. AND … it’s a quality any
Internet business can and should have.
(Did you know folks assess your web page in an incredible 1/20th
of a second? That, friend, is why it needs to be hooky!)
In an upcoming freebie call, ‘What’s Your Perfect Hook?’, I’ll be
teaching you how to scan your own niche and offer for that elusive
‘hooky’ quality.
On this utterly and absolutely freebie call, you’re going to:
- Learn what ‘hookiness’ really is and how to get it
- Get fired up by examples of some really hooky businesses that
are thriving
- Analyze several successful hooks with me
- Check out just how hooky YOUR own biz is

>>>>>>>>>> Join us, won’t you? <<<<<<<<<<

Believe it or not, you’ve got a hook that’s just waiting to be born
… you just have to lasso it in and put it to use. Because this is
what
will make your own business truly thrive.
So let’s get yours cranking, shall we?

See you on the call!

Suzanne Falter-Barns

& Amethyst Wyldfyre

PS:  Suzanne would like me to share this little slide show with you too:

www.getknownnow.com/cnn

It goes along with the content of this call so be sure to check it out and/or have it available during our call time!