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Meet Angie Lord
A is for Awesome Angie Lord, one of the people who continue to teach me about "Who's Helping Who?" Read about her generosity and courage!
Angie Lord, a strong, resilient and brilliant woman whose generous heart nurtures and inspires all around her.
4:30 am, I sit in my safe warm bed in the home of Angie. I am filled with gratitude for God’s infinite grace to bring me here. I met Angie nine months ago. These nine months have revealed: God moves to inspire purpose, hope and love.
I met Angie through a friend. Looking for a new home after I had spent several months with friends becoming healthy after a hospital visit, I was ready to move forward with my life. Angie had recently divorced and open to sharing her home.
We set a time to meet. We shared what had brought us both to this moment. We found a connection: hope and a desire to create anew.
When I went to pick up the key and make moving arrangements, we shared a bit more. It turned out we share many experiences that are similar, namely divorce and the desire to know what our purpose is. We both recently overcame illness and the darkness of depression that came with it. We are both on the mend physically, emotionally and spiritually.
These months have been filled with a gentle healing for both of us. We laugh, cry, work, play and often collapse in weariness. I have witnessed a woman whos love of life fills a room, yet is recreating herself, with the courage of a lion. She opens herself to the world and is exploring herself with a new sense of worthiness and wonder.
As I financially struggle to launch my book, her unbounded generosity has taught me that I matter. We continue to struggle with our purpose, yet we both instincually know we are here in this moment to love each other to newness.
"Who's Helping Who?" Commitment
This blog will primarily profile people who have helped me do something, learn something or affected my beliefs.I’m in the process of launching a book called “Who’s Helping Who?” It is a book about the cycle of giving and receiving. I have worked on it for over four years. I have learned about myself, the world and my sense of the divine.Through my work, I explore the affect of receiving and giving help and how people feel about their sense of self worth through it. I have interviewed over 200 people to come to this sense of clarity.I asked three questions to every participant.Who do you give help to?Who do you ask for help from?What is the hardest thing you ever asked for help with?Amazing conversations revealed the depths of spirit. It was an honor to bear witness to the truth of lives. I had the opportunity to see and feel such a vast range of emotions with each person. During each and every conversation, the topic of worthiness arose. We experienced the joy of giving, the shame of asking and the surrender to feeling their own sense of worth.This journey has brought a vast range of adventures. I’ve had the chance to fully experience the cycle in ways I could’ve never anticipated. I have been helped to live through massive weight loss, an abusive marriage, a life threatening illness, suicidal depression, the death of a loved one and financial havoc.Through this, I have helped save marriages, bring businesses to the next level, supported recovery from addiction and watched people blossom because they saw me asking for help as I gave it.The stories I shall tell will reveal creativity, love, courage, compassion and joy!
Allowing Your Intuition to Flow
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Submitted by OM-Times Magazine on June 23, 2010 – 8:00 amNo Comment
by Wellington Rodrigues
Wellington Rodrigues
In my early teens I was both fascinated and disappointed to discover that we humans do not use even a small fraction of our full mental and “spiritual” potential. I was fascinated because I wondered what we could do if we increased those odds in our favor, and disappointed because I thought it was unfair for us to be born without this potential already fully developed.
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I did believe, back then, that we came to this world to learn how to harness our potential and to evolve to higher levels of consciousness. I envisaged this reality to be a big classroom with lessons to be learned each and every day. It was just many years later that I realized that we do not have to necessarily learn anything new.
We are already born with all our capacities in place, and ready to be used. We don’t have to “become spiritual” because we are already spirits inhabiting a physical body. We don’t have to make any effort to master the so-called “law of attraction” because we are already using it in our lives every single day. And we don’t have to become intuitive because this capacity is already built-in our energy system.
My experience with native Brazilians in the late eighties, when I had the opportunity to live right on the Amazon area, made me see clearly into the true human nature. The natives are not exposed to most of the social conditioning that we, “civilized” people go through as we grow up. They represent very well the concept of “being like children”, a state which we should never abandon. Therefore, they have their inner abilities more developed than us. They are in harmony with nature and universal laws just by being what they were meant to be; humans. No metaphysical training, no effort to become something.
One lesson that I learned from the natives was that intuition is a very natural phenomenon, not something to be learned or acquired. We can definitely train to improve it, especially if we have been polluted by modern society’s matrix of limiting beliefs, but it is important to realize that we already have this built-in capacity.
Knowing that you’re already intuitive then, is the first step. Once that fact is established, you must retrain yourself to allow for intuition to work.
Start by reprogramming your mental codes. This can be accomplished with the use of a very simple affirmation, such as: “I allow for my built-in intuition to flow, and I can easily tap into it”. Repeat this affirmation like a mantra for a few weeks just to program this new belief.
As with every skill, practice is what makes perfect. So I would advise you to start playing with your intuition by trusting your inner voice and your “gut feelings”. The term gut feeling is not wrong per se, we actually have to use the solar plexus or emotional center to tap into our intuition. It does not come from our heads, as some people mistakenly believe, but from our belly. The “inner voice” or the thoughts that come with the feelings are just a form of decoding those feelings into understandable mental patterns of inner communication.
Start recovering this inner communication by using it on simple, non-important situations. As you watch TV, for example, try to “guess” what the actor will do next. Try intuiting someone’s mood or energy state. See if you can feel what the result of a football or baseball game will be at the beginning of the game. As you leave home to work, try intuiting the best road to take or if there will be heavy or normal traffic ahead.
Use any opportunity to try your intuition. Will it rain later today? Is your boss going to be in a good mood? Will the teacher approve your term paper? Is this the right person for a date? Is this the right book for me at the moment? Will I find a good parking lot in the mall?
Observe your feelings at a gut level first, feel it at your solar-plexus area, and then allow for them to be translated by your mind. Each person has a way of recognizing and differentiating from negative and positive hunches. Just develop your own. That will be the right one for you.
Just play with it for a few weeks. Yes, it is ok to be playful, that’s actually the best way to recover our inner abilities. As time goes by you will notice that your “hunches” are getting more accurate and your trust will gradually increase. Then it will be the time to use this capacity for more important decisions in your life, such as where to move, or which job offer to accept. The bottom line is this: make it simple and fun. You will be surprised at how easy it is to reclaim your forgotten capacities.
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A little used resource we all have is our intuition! I believe the more we tap into it, in the right way, in the right time, tha happier we will be....
