Narcissists, sociopaths, and energy vampires in general are very toxic to us: they always try to latch onto us energetically, often by eliciting an emotional reaction.  They are basically cut off from the Source and have to survive by feeding on the energy of other people.

In the form of goofy cartoons, I’m offering some real and in-jest techniques for dealing with those pesky energy leeches. :)

What normal people see in the sky versus what *I* see in the sky. :)

Is there something in your past that you wish you could change?  

While it may sound like magical, there actually IS a way to go back and rewrite the past, and thus change our current experience. 

Let’s do a "change your timeline" practice!

In the heat of the moment, we take another person's negative /hateful /manipulative /abusive actions towards us quite literally.  ("He/she is a jerk!")

However, when we dig a little deeper, we can uncover some not-so-obvious reasons for why someone is such a negative presence in our life…

Most of us have been there: banging our head against the wall, working so hard to achieve a goal... and facing a brick wall.  No results.

What's happening?  Are we cursed?  Are we just not meant to have that thing we want?

Here are common reasons why we at times fail to produce desired results and achieve our goals despite all our efforts.

Some considerations when it comes to searching for our life purpose, a few common traps we can fall into in the process, and my suggestions on how to go about discovering your purpose.

The Law of Attraction helps us manifest what we want in life, from new jobs to better relationships to greater abundance. How do we use this principle, and what step do many folks miss?

Besides being a busy, happy, exciting time, for sensitive souls holidays can also be a very overwhelming time.  Here are a few tips on how we can manage our energy during this time to avoid getting drained and overwhelmed.

We all know the many wonderful benefits of Reiki: it helps us relax, relieves stress, provides an emotional release, boosts immunity and the body's natural self-healing mechanisms, balances and nourishes our energy field, and so on.

However, if you're dealing with major emotional or health issues, benefits of Reiki are only temporary at best.  Reiki doesn't really "fix" anything. Why?

A discussion of some of the methods we can use to protect our energy from being drained or affected by other folks.

One of the major reasons folks seek energy healing is fatigue, or feeling energetically drained.  Of course there are plenty of physical, psychological, and lifestyle reasons for that.  When none of these are at play and an otherwise healthy person still constantly feels like a deflated balloon, sometimes there's an energetic reason behind that.  Let's look at some of the causes of energy drain, some obvious, others surprising.

How to use a pendulum for dowsing or divination, communicating with Guides, checking chakras for healing, and other, more unusual purposes.

Before we start using a brand new pendulum, it’s very important to cleanse it of any energies it may have absorbed before it got to us, and to program it so we can use it to receive clear answers.

How to choose a pendulum that would be responsive and easy to work with for your purposes. In store vs online, choice of crystals, and how to test for responsiveness.