What Soul Lessons Are You Facing?

Karma is better understood not as judgment and punishment, but rather the natural consequence of our actions -- what we put into play, we must fully experience. When we're between lives deciding what kind of circumstances to have next, we choose what we need for better balance. It is not forced on us so if we want to blame someone for our current situation, we need to look in the mirror -- our higher self agreed to it, each and every one of us, for our greater growth and glory!

“How do you know this is the experience you need?

Because this is the experience you are having.”

(Eckhart Tolle)

If you’re experiencing:	You probably chose to strengthen:
Abuse	Self-Determination
Disability	Adaptability
Rejection	Trust
Betrayal	Forgiveness
Injustice	Equality
Intolerance	Dignity
Abandonment	Independence
Addiction	Self-Respect
Failure	Perseverance
Insecurity	Self-Confidence
Restlessness	Acceptance
Instability	Balance
Criticism	Self-worth
Grief	Spiritual Stamina

Me, I’m the kind of person who wants to find out why.

With light hypnosis, you can look back in time and determine the exact circumstances that led up to your experience today, so you can better understand, accept, and manage your lessons - I've never seen a person's subconscious fail to help them.

Authors you may want to read who discuss soul lessons include Ainslie MacLeod, Altheia Luna, Sharon Cheney, Sonia Choquette, James Van Prague, and Louise Hay.

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

https://www.liftdenergy.com

https://www.soul-liberations.com

The Biggest Obstacle to Living the Life Your Soul Intended? WAWOPT!

Living the life your soul intended isn't really about having a particular job or however-much money in the bank or even that special relationship because, while those things are wonderful comforts, they are likely to change over time and as you grow into more awareness and consciousness -- our soul actually deals with things deeper than that.

More significant signs of being in spiritual alignment are:

• You discern your own path from everyone else’s.
• You let go of old wounds and failed relationships.
• You read signs along the way that point in the most worthwhile direction.
• You have a sacred sense of living the life meant for you.

If you're not living that way then you may, like so many people, be making this one huge, colossal, stupendous, mammoth, humongous, gigantic, monstrous, enormous, massive, jumbo, tremendous, whopping, really BIG mistake: you’re probably Worrying About What Other People Think, which is like putting a bowl over a plant and expecting it to grow well.

You can acknowledge other people’s beliefs, which is important because mostly what they want is to feel they’ve been heard, and still choose for yourself what you want to be, do, and have. If they say you’re disrespecting them because you won’t conform, then whose life are you living?

Are their expectations your expectations?

Make no mistake - we do need to meet other people’s expectations if we live in their house, accept their money, or allow ourself to depend on their favor. And we do need to honor obligations that we have incurred until we can pay them off or conclude them with integrity. But other people’s approval and good will? That’s their choice to give or withhold. As is yours.

Most likely you’ve already experienced how you cannot please one person without displeasing another – it usually is a no-win game. And when the person we are displeasing is ourself – well, then our energy backs up our physical and emotional health. Look at what “autoimmune” means – acting against one’s self.

Whose life are you living?

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

https://www.liftdenergy.com

https://www.soul-liberations.com

There Are Benefits to Being Nice to the Part of Yourself You Want to Let Go

Who’s perfect? We all have short-comings; you can even call them faults if you like.

Whether it’s just a bad habit or a deeper aspect of your personality, trying to suppress or deny what you don’t like about yourself doesn’t make it cease or vanish. In fact, resistance usually feeds it more energy!

Rather, face it as being there for a reason – a reason that will give you better insight to yourself. Just like kindness works for dealing with difficult people, give the difficult parts of yourself the same consideration.

#1 You will learn more about yourself.

We’re likely to discover that some of the things we don’t like correlate to things that we do. Procrastinators frequently work better under pressure, people who are over-sensitive may be more understanding, messy people are often highly creative, neurotic people can show remarkable perseverance, shy people are more observant and better listeners – find your particular upside. Accepting all of who you are can give you a bigger picture of how you are wired.

#2 You will have a better chance of managing it.

For example, if traffic makes you angry, find different times or routes to drive where you need to go – an extra 15 minutes to be more calm and balanced may help your co-worker relationships, not to mention your physical health. If there is no other time or route possible, you may be surprised to learn that classical music reduces stress levels, decreases blood pressure, and improves mood. If you hate classical music, consider an audio book so you’ll be distracted and won’t mind the delays as you listen to an interesting plot or discussion. Managing anger in the car will help you manage it elsewhere – work WITH yourself.

#3 You will reap more rewards than overcoming just the one issue.

By knowing our negative tendencies and learning to dance with them, instead of trying to disown them and then being blind-sided when they show up, we will be forearmed and able to make better choices, establish healthier boundaries, and avoid recurring mistakes. These skills will foster more thoughtfulness and help us be more authentic. Best of all, it feels good to give ourselves permission to not be perfect – whew, that makes everything better!

#4 You will relate better to others.

It is well researched that when we understand the reasons for a person’s foibles then we are more forgiving and willing to cut them some slack (just look at your friends!). Owning our negative tendencies as well as positive ones puts us in a strong position to empathize with others – that won’t mean we have to like everything someone else does, but we can better see that no one can always meet the expectations all around us. Accepting and finding compassion for yourself will help you accept and find compassion for other people.

Joanne
Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC

https://www.liftdenergy.com

https://www.soul-liberations.com

What Do You Think You Need To Fly? HINT: You Cannot Think It

Daily life distracts most of us from knowing who we are, as our magnificent selves are squeezed down into a narrow rut. Fearful of losing the tiny identity that we’ve created in response to external responsibilities, we repeat behaviors that prevent seeing ourselves differently. We’re so caught up with minutia today that we’ve lost sight of who we were before we were born and who we’ll be after we die.

Our logical mind has literally become our prison; it keeps us in the rut. While it’s important to have a logical mind, it’s even more important to know that we are more than it. We need to sharpen our intuitive mind and step into the forgotten part of ourselves to remember who we are outside of the rut, even if it’s a comfortable one.

Being in the larger space of who we are boils down to lettings things be the way they are without having resistance to them. Of course we don’t have to like everything; we just have a better chance of making things better if we simply attempt to do so without labeling them as wrong. For example, if you don’t like a wall in your house, you can paint it or take it down, however you don’t need to get mad at the wall. It’s actually the same with people. I know that may be a stretch, but it’s true.

It’s like knowing when your car breaks down and you’re tired, cold, hungry and wet, that you have a huge savings account to get you through it. Resistance keeps us caught in the surface of things, like fish in a net, like birds in a cage.

The first step is we have to realize we’re asleep before we can wake up – take time to step away from the thinking mind’s incessant chatter, be willing to shed old ways of thinking and feeling so we can birth new ones, have the curiosity to explore our grander nature and remember it as a wise friend.

This wise friend that is us beyond who we are in the rut allows us to know ourselves on a bigger scale, be aware of a greater sense of time, and allow things to unfold with less stress. Tapping into the part of ourselves that does not change allows us to be more relaxed, balanced, and peaceful with the part of ourselves that does.

Nothing external has to change. Zen explains it perfectly: before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water – after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. The difference of being able to live without mental resistance is that all of life becomes play instead of work. Then we fly.

If you’re curious about becoming free from struggle,

call me to customize a plan of action.

 If not now, when?

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

If You Can't Let Something Go, Let it in. Yes, IN!

Have you ever noticed that holding on is the effort, whereas letting go is the opposite of actually doing anything? Letting go is like dropping a piece of food for the dog, coins in a tip jar, or seeds in a furrow. Even if it takes a few attempts, we can tell whether or not we’re getting rid of a feeling that keeps us stressed. (This is about everyday feelings, not clinical diagnoses.)

If that’s not working, then consider just being OK with it. To let it in relaxes the emotional charge we have on it because then we’re not working so hard to push it away. That pushing is like not thinking of a pink elephant – it’s the resistance that keeps it right there pushing back at us. And keeps us stuck in repetitive, negative, thought loops.

If you can’t be OK with the feeling you don’t want, can you at least be OK with the resistance that you have to it? This is also a valuable step in gaining some relaxation from the struggle. Just for now; just for a while. Then notice how it frees you up to think and feel more positive things.

Relaxation from being OK with the not-wanting something until we can regain our balance and clarity affords us a few advantages. It calms us down by taking the pressure off, reducing the heat. From there, we may notice aspects we can maybe let go of piece by piece, instead of trying be rid of all at once. The negative feeling may even slip to a back-burner so we carry it with less stress, work around it more easily. Or it may even simply dissipate on its own because we’ve loosened our hold, our attachment, our grip on it – we’re no longer feeding it with our effort and attention.

This is also true with a habit. If you aren’t stopping like you’d hoped, then at least don’t beat yourself up about it, which takes a toll on your immune system because that’s what negative emotions do. Accepting where you are with it will likely bring you to a more relaxed state, which is where you need to be to begin to let it go later, again, when you’re ready.

For help letting things go without the struggle, check out LIFTd Leap.

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

https://www.liftdenergy.com

https://www.soul-liberations.com

The New (for some people) Truth About Cause and Effect

A few basics about manifesting in a cooperative universe:

#1  We’re manifesting 24/7.

All thoughts invested with emotion manifest – some more than others, some sooner than others, but they all manifest. One of my best friends, Lynne Sputhe, told me shortly after she passed away how she sees it from the other side:

Every life is a painting and the brush never stops.

Let that sink in a moment – the brush never stops! We’re constantly signaling the universe, not just in the moments we spend with intentional meditation and affirmations.

Most of you reading this know, but it’s worth remembering: affirm the end result, not how to get there; see the relationship, not who that may be with; imagine being surrounded by people who love and support you, not that your particular family members will change. (Everyone has their own free will and it’s not our place to determine their path.)

#2 We don’t manifest what we consciously want to have; we manifest what we subconsciously believe we deserve.

You don’t even need to go back to your childhood to find your subconscious beliefs because your life reflects them – just look at your results. So yes, personal development to outweigh our buried, self-limiting beliefs pays off. But know that talking to yourself doesn’t change subconscious thinking, because your subconscious mind doesn’t learn from your conscious mind. Your best bet is to engage in some kind of subconscious intervention or conduct highly repetitive mental habits.

#3 Our best tools are integrity, responsibility, and gratitude.

Of course, deception is like spiritual suicide, but integrity means with ourselves as well as with others. If we’re one of those people who frequently says YES when we want to say NO, or vice versa, then we’re still damaging the wholeness, the cohesion, of our energetic field.

Responsibility means owning that where we are in life is what we created – the good and the bad. Simple? Yes. Easy? Well, that depends on the person.

Full accountability is difficult when it’s easier to blame other people and outside forces for our predicaments. Easier to take a pill before we analyze our habits. Easier to keep doing what we’ve been doing than make a change. Don’t you just love the people who want THINGS to change, but THEY don’t want to change – like that’s ever going to happen…

When we don’t immediately see what we want, we sometimes fall back on doubt or despair. And that’s OK as long as we don’t stay there! Every experience has a gift, a message, something we can learn from. Like a signpost that we’re going in the right direction or the wrong one.

A step better than being grateful for the house, the job, the relationship is being grateful for the guidance that helped you manifest those. And for being open to receiving that guidance – yay, you!

Success comes faster when we stay forward-focused on who we are becoming and know reality is wildly unpredictable. Things are not guaranteed to happen the way we anticipate – yet if we stay open, they often turn out better than we had ever imagined.

For help keeping an open heart and mind, check out LIFTd Leap.

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

https://www.liftdenergy.com

https://www.soul-liberations.com

3 Ways to Create Stillness in 5 Minutes

For a quick disconnect from your daily routine, 
try any of these or all three!

#1 - LIKE A MOLECULE OF AIR

Sit, preferably outside, with no friends, phones, computers, etc., and notice everything around you as if you were simply a molecule of air, as if nothing had anything to do with you. I do it as if I’m from another planet and am just curious to see what’s here!

Notice what is around you, just as it is, without any judgment of what you EXPECT to be there, what you WANT to be there, what you think SHOULD be there. Without any ideas of adding or taking away – just be present with what is. 

Let yourself see, hear, smell, notice what’s around you and appreciate it simply for what it is. Without a thought of what things mean, no need to understand them, just observe what’s there. Notice you can be there and realize you are separate from it, not identified with it.

#2 - MORE THAN A BODY

You can feel that your body is alive. Without moving, put your attention on a random spot like your right elbow – let your awareness rest there awhile, observing what it is like to notice the sensation in a place you may not have thought about often. 

Next, say, give a few moments to your left middle toe. After that, maybe behind your right knee. Then the hollow of your neck just above your sternum. (Each time you do this, choose different places.) Now try doing this with places INSIDE your body.

You can put your attention anywhere you like, and become aware of places you had largely been unaware of until you made the effort. Notice your awareness can be in your body and at the same time separate and independent from it, not identified with it.

#3 - BEYOND THOUGHTS

You can be aware of your mind and your thoughts and be separate from them, too. You can observe the mental world like you can observe the physical world, without being dragged around by your thinking.

You can have the same separateness from your thoughts that you had when you noticed your middle toe. Seek the awareness of yourself that is independent of thinking as if you are watching your thoughts go by like cars on the street. Just observe them.

Notice you can find the moment of no-thought between thoughts. There is a YOU beyond your busy mind. This is, as Eckhart Tolle says, becoming conscious of being conscious.

And for a serious upgrade in your awareness, check out LIFTd Leap.

Joanne

Joanne Gartner, PhD

480.370.6345

Mesa, AZ office or Skype

(c) 2018 Soul Liberations LLC dba LIFTd Energy

https://www.liftdenergy.com
https://www.soul-liberations.com