Did you know that having the right spiritual tools can be just as important as having the right building or cooking tools?

I know that I’ve talked about Divination Tools, but I’ve never really shared until now the other kinds of tools that I personally use to keep me growing on my spiritual path.

Gemstones are probably what I utilize the most of.  Gemstones range in properties from having the ability to increase your intuitive awareness to protecting you from psychic attack.  I meditate with certain gemstones at certain times depending on what I’m seeking.  Every single gemstone has a unique healing property as well as metaphysical energy waves!

Gemstones, being as amazing as they are, are going to be one of the featured discussions on my site.  I’ve written in the past about quartz, turquoise, azurite, and andalusite. I will continue to write about gemstones and their properties, healing and metaphysical.

I create spiritual tools and keep a small shop on Etsy for your shopping convenience.  I would Love to have you stop by!

There are many plant materials that I also use.  Sage & cedar for smudging, sweetgrass to bring in good energies after cleansing, and even houseplants to help heal and cleanse my home’s environment.  Did you know that spider plants cleanse the air in your home?

Herbs, dried and alive, have played an important role in my life since as far back as I can remember.  I remember sitting in front of my mother’s spice cabinet just AMAZED at all the little jars and containers.  Each and every herb had a different smell, taste, (I wasn’t fond of curry powder or alum back then), and I could have sat with them surrounding me for hours just exploring!

Living in the Pacific Northwest has given me the greatest opportunity to work with native plant medicine so far in my life!  The abundance of spiritual tools available here are just amazing!  I can walk outside my door and be greeted by Oregon Grape, Trillium, Lavender, Sages, and Self Heal just to name a few that are literally by my front door!

Of course, books are probably the most utilized spiritual tools available!  You can browse Amazon for hours, adding unique perspectives and voices to your wish list like I do!  Just when I think I’ve fully grasped a subject, I find another perspective and further information that allows my growth to continue!

Did you realize that even the food you eat can be a spiritual tool?  Its true!  When you eat raw vegetables, nuts, and fruits, you are ingesting and digesting the plant energy of that food!  It will be transmuted and will raise your vibration!

Spiritual tools are everywhere!  To learn more about spiritual tools, email me for an upcoming workshop via teleconference at spirituallifedesign@gmail.com!  We will discuss what tools are appropriate for your level and encourage the introduction of new tools!

To browse the spiritual tools I make and create, please visit my Etsy Shop!  You’ll find gemstone creations, herbal bath soaks, cedar for smudging, and even a service or two I don’t list here!  Come by and say hi!

The Intuitive Development Teleconference Workshop is your exciting tool to learning these valuable skills for life!  In this series of teleconference workshops, you can begin to develop your intuitive skills, psychic skills, & decision making skills!  Complicated and elusive text is simplified and made usable in this breakthrough workshop!

How could you benefit today from utilizing your intuition?
How could you have benefited last year from having a more tuned-in intuition?

The truth of intuitive growth is a process that usually takes years of living through bad decisions & learning from those decisions.  How long does it take a person to learn to use their higher communication?  The answer to that question is person and is completely dependent upon an individual’s choices.  We all have a choice on whether to access our higher wisdom or not.  What will you choose today?

In this 4 week teleconference, you will have knowledge and know-how or I will refund your money 100%.  There is nothing to lose and everything to gain by signing up for this workshop teleconference!  Email me at spirituallifedesign@gmail.com with the month you want to enroll and I will send a paypal invoice for $225.  All fees must be paid in advance before invitation to participate will be sent!  (Minors must have parental permission!)

4 Week Teleconference Workshop on Intuitive Development $225

Email Today!  Teleconferences begin on the first Sunday of each month!

Teleconferences Available:
Easy Detox
Dream Journaling & Interpretation
Everyday Herbal
Making Natural Medicines
Learning Meditation
Permaculture
Aromatherapy
Understanding Chakras & Health
Spiritual Approach to Abuse Recovery
Making Healing Teas
Using Gemstones to Heal
Psychic Development
Raising Your Vibration
Learning EFT
Affirmation Ease
Manifesting & Visualizing

In Person Workshops:
Making & Understanding Runes
Making Divination Tools
Making Essential Oil Candles
Acupressure Basics
Reflexology Basics
Hug & Heal
Making Chakra Bracelets

Stay tuned for sumptuous additions!

I personally believe that anyone can achieve healing & higher, divine communication through meditation.  There are studies that show meditation calms a certain area of our brain where fear, doubt, and negativity is stored.  It seems that meditation may have the power to reset negative experiences and help your higher sub-consciousness connect with your waking consciousness!

Through meditation, people have spontaneously healed disease and illness, experienced past lives, healed past lives, & found applicable divine guidance!

Via teleconference (have a headset!) once a week, we will share in a guided meditation.  The intention of the guided meditation will vary.  Email for a determined schedule!  (Don’t be afraid to make suggestions also!)

Intentions for Upcoming Guided Meditations:

Past Life Recollection
Healing Disease
Receiving Divine Guidance
Healing Cancer Meditation

This service is by donation only! Please remember to make your donation so that I can continue to provide this wonderful service to you and others!  Email me today at spirituallifedesign@gmail.com to receive the invite to participate!

Some of the incredible benefits of learning energy healing are:

*Keeps one self centered in spirit
*Helps spiritual growth and emotional clearing
*Raises the vibrational frequency of the body
*Increases vitality
*Postpones the aging process
*Supports the immune system
*Reduces side effects
*Assists in the body’s natural recovery after surgery and chemotherapy
*Assists in toxin removal
*Removes energy blockages
*Relieves pain
*Aids the breaking of addictions
*Reduces blood pressure
*Aids in deeper sleep
*Accelerates the body’s self healing ability
*Creates a deep relaxation

I personally use energy healing every single day.  I use it in gardening, with my kids, pets, and especially when helping clients!

There are three ways in which you can learn to utilize this imperative skill!

In Person:  If you live in my local area, email for a schedule of upcoming energy training & attunement workshops with continuing circles!  This service is By Donation! Please remember to make a donation so I can keep this service available and ongoing!

Via Teleconference:  If you are NOT in my local area and do not have a local resource to learn energy healing from, this is the perfect solution!  Please email for a schedule!  This service is By Donation! Please remember to make a donation so I can keep this service available and ongoing!

Personal Training:  Whether you are local or across the country, I can personally train you in energy healing!  Personal training for energy healing is $225.  All services with Spiritual Life Design will be invoiced via paypal.  All fees must be paid in full before scheduling.

All students, upon completion, will receive a certificate of completion in Energy Healing Basics from Spiritual Life Design!  Email spirituallifedesign@gmail.com today!

The author Dr. Anne Marie Evers, swears by affirmations and has written a few books on how to use affirmations to change your life.  I recently purchased a couple of her books (regretfully), but not because of affirmations themselves.  If you are reading this article, there is no need to purchase her books.  There are numerous resources on the web (for free), of which I’ll share at the end of this post.

So what the heck IS an affirmation and why should you bother?

Affirmations are affirming, positive self talk.  In A Course in Miracles, it states:  thoughts become words become actions.  Affirmations are a way of directing your actions positively!  If you think positively, speak positively, positive actions are the only result that can align!

Let’s take Helen’s situation as an example:

Helen is a woman who was laid off last year from her secretarial job due to cutbacks.  Only 3 years away from collecting social security and retirement, Helen went into a panic and contacted me for spiritual solutions support.  Her panic was full of fear, negative past experiences, frustration with her employer, and confusion as to what to do next!  (It isn’t as though finding a long-term job so close to retirement was going to be easy in a horrible job market!)

By redirecting her fears and negative self talk into positive, affirming opportunity talk, within  2 weeks, Helen was deep in creating her own business with a whole new outlook of:  I Can Do This!

Now maybe your situation isn’t as cut-throat as Helen’s.  Maybe your personal needs for affirmation differ!  Affirmations are good for:  love, abundance, happiness, joy, forgiveness, self esteem, goal setting, conquering addiction, creating balance, and even losing weight!

Whatever your personal need is, there is an affirmation to align with your need!

Some example affirmations:

*My body heals quickly and easily!
*I pay my bills with love as I know abundance flows freely through me!
*I attract only healthy relationships!
*I am at peace.

Now as promised, some of my favorite affirmation resources are:

Daily Affirmations on About.com
Science of Mind Affirmations
Spiritual Life Design on Twitter
Spiritual Life Design on Facebook

Affirmations play an important role in creating change successfully!  Lacking results in using affirmations always track back to the person not believing what they are affirming.  If you cannot believe what you are saying to yourself, universal truth cannot align with the words.  It is important to affirm only What You Can Believe from the place you currently are!

As you grow in self esteem with affirmations, your affirmations can grow!

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Written and compiled to fill a personal need, Easy Everyday Remedies fits nicely in any medicine & spice cabinet.  With home remedies for ailments ranging in alphabetical order from acne to wound healing, these 35 most common ailments are easily accessible when in a hurry!

Five additional appendages list properties of ingredients and foods that are nutrient specific rich.  For example:  Did you know that kiwi has more Vitamin C than oranges?

Easy Everyday Remedies is simple & effective for the family who is health conscious.  With room to expand with your own personal remedies, Easy Everyday Remedies will prove an immediate, indispensable tool for every home and will grow as you do!

Wendy writes in the Preface:  This little guide has been in the back of my mind for over 5 years!  I personally practice herbal medicine for myself and my family.  I strive to provide the best remedies that are effective, timely , and convenient to us.

It has happened in more than one instance, when in a hurried panic to stop slight bleeding, relieve a headache, or help a bruise heal more quickly, I somehow forget all my natural sense!  The remedies I spent so much time researching and practicing, when in a rush, escape my mind!

Never be caught without your wits, again!

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Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be food.  ~Hippocrates

I have been an advocate for food as medicine since I healed the cancer that threatened my well being.  Before the cancer, I had never viewed food as having power.  Pre-cancer, I viewed food as something to fill my stomach.  I will be the first to say that I was foolish to think such a thing.

Even though I am a healer, and practice many healing rituals, my body still exhibits symptoms that’d I’d rather not deal with.  It seems people have a misunderstanding that healers do not fall ill, or are above becoming sick.  That is a misconception in every way.

With fall in full colors, my head and my sinuses have not been happy.  Friends and family insist on me taking allergy pills, pain medicine, even other chemical versions of foods that are readily available to us in the fall.

Perhaps nature’s way of relieving fall pain is by providing us fall foods that will strike us symptom-less.

A friend of mine suggested I use MSM, a chemical grade of sulfur, as it helped her with her allergies, migraines, and other complaints.  I had never even heard of this chemical and started to research sulfur rich foods, which was when I found that many fall vegetables are excellent sources of sulfur.

Some sulfur rich foods include:

• Garlic
• Onions
• Sweet Potatoes
• Parsley
• Swiss Chard
• Cabbage
• Pak Choi
• Watercress
• Broccoli
• Legumes
• Eggs
• Asparagus

On a hunch that if I ate more of these sulfur rich foods my symptoms would be history, I decided to make a sweet potato soup and include many of the ingredients above!  As you can probably guess by now, I am without symptoms, and felt a difference within 30 minutes of eating my medicine.

I know my way around a kitchen, and thought that I would share with you my version of allergy kicking sweet potato soup.  (FYI…. I’m not fond of sweet potatoes and I found it enjoyable!)

Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients:

• Nitrate Free Bacon
• 2 Large Onions (chopped)
• 1/2 head of garlic (chopped)
• 5 stalks of celery (chopped)
• 5 carrots (chopped)
• 4-5 sweet potatoes (peeled and chopped)
• 1 box of broth (any will do)
• 2-3 cups of water
• Shredded cheddar cheese
• Sour cream

First I browned the bacon until crisp in my soup pot and set aside to crumble for the topping.  In the bacon fat, then saute’ the onions, garlic, celery, & carrots.  If more fat is needed, you can add butter or coconut oil, I personally use just a small amount of the stock to bring up the flavors of the bacon in the bottom of the pan.  Adding the rest of the stock and sweet potatoes, the liquid should be just covering the potatoes.  If not, add 2-3 cups of water until just covered.

Let the potatoes cook on medium heat until soft, then remove from heat and use either an immersion blender (my favorite) or a regular blender to slowly blend the soup together.

Top with crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese, & sour cream as one desires.

I have omitted salt and pepper from the recipe, as it is a taste factor.  Some people like salt & pepper, others do not.  Certainly, use salt and pepper as you see fit as well as the toppings for the soup!

Another tip:  I added kale and swiss chard to my soup for added nutrients.  To add a bitter green, boil some water, cook the green for just a minute and remove from water.  Then add to soup before blending!  Cooking the bitter greens this way takes the bitterness out of the green while preserving all the nutrients!

How can I make healthier choices?
How can I heal my illness?
How can I feel better?
How can I live a more actualized life?
How can I live more joyously?
What key components will give me greater balance?
How can I live my purpose?
What is missing from my life?

When these questions resonate with you, you are standing at a crossroads.  You have choices to make!  This is an exciting time full of opportunity!

Success and wellness are not virtues that fall out of the sky or just happen to lucky people.  Success and wellness are made with conscious living and conscious decision making!  How can you be successful without a plan?  How can you grow wellness & balance without knowing what steps to take?  It is important to treat your total wellness as though it were your personal business, building step by step consciously and effectively.

Together, we can create a success and wellness plan to kick start your joy and integrate healthy living into your life!  This one time service is only $150 with full email support!  Further coaching is available!  (Please see Spiritual Solutions Coaching & Mentoring!)

To get started, email me at spirituallifedesign@gmail.com!
Your Joy Is Waiting!