We live so much of our lives unconsciously. This 3 sets of 3 weeks will be about being conscious. This first set of 3 weeks will focus on health.

If you think of focus like a beam of light, our normal focus is like an overhead light turned on in a room. Everything gets a little light. If you turn on a flashlight, you can see more clearly in a certain darker area. Another kind of light, the laser, is even more focused. Across a room it is still only as big around as a pencil eraser when it hits something. As the light becomes more focused, it becomes more powerful. A laser can illuminate, but it can also burn a hole in soft tissue. Some lasers are so powerful they can do surgery. That is the power of focus.

In this focus group we want to bring the power of our creative energies to bear on each important area of our lives.

I participated in a Directional Healing focus group last year. I saw first hand how each person in the group made deep and lasting changes in their lives. The outcome was a surprise for each of us, even though we wrote down our goals at the beginning of the process.

Spirit is always so much more than we ever imagined. It is just waiting for us to claim our power.

Ultimately, it is the power of love which transforms our lives. When you focus love on an area of your life, it begins to heal and come into alignment with your spiritual mission. It begins to perform surgery on that area of your life. It burns away what is not needed, and allows the area to heal.

Blessings to all as we focus love on our health this week.

• This week:
  Write a letter to yourself about what you want most in your life in terms of health. Write what your life would be like if you had that health. Then ask yourself if there is anything you can do to make this happen. Think of three things—not big things. Think of three small things you can do that will make a big difference in the long term.
• Each day: Sit in contemplation or non-seeking prayer for fifteen minutes. You are listening, not telling, or ranting. Just listen.
• Each day: Keep a journal of your dreams, signs and spiritual messages, and what happened during the day. It helps to leave yourself text messages or sticky notes during the day.
• At the end of each day: Think about what you learned that day. Feel gratitude for the love focused on your life. Never underestimate the power of appreciation.

If anyone wishes to share their experience, either of a healing or of a dream or insight, please feel free to email me, or to post it for the group.

Last week, I did a hands-on Directional Healing session for a woman. During the session I was conscious of a deep cleansing vibration in the third chakra area around the stomach known as the solar plexus. I thought, "Is there a problem with digestion, or is there a problem with digesting life?" At times, the vibrations would move up to the heart chakra and do some work there.

An understanding came to me about what was happening during this healing. There are healing words associated with each chakra. For the solar plexus one of those words is unselfishness—not exactly in the way you think. Unselfishness can also mean unselfconsciousness. It means we can serve ourselves and others best when we are not focused on our fears.

It is just as selfish to serve others to the point of injuring ourselves, as it is to serve only ourselves. We balance our own lives in order to have a strong base from which to serve all life.

But why were the solar plexus and the heart chakra so closely linked in this particular healing?

In the heart chakra is our trust in life, in a divine pattern to life. It is the place where we believe that everything happens for a reason. I realized that this lovely woman with her sweet smile was having trouble trusting life. Because of her fears she could not find balance between the need to serve herself while serving others.

I always ask on the inner before I share my insights with a client. I never know whether the information was for them or for me. I got a clear message that I should tell her. After the session we talked.

The woman shared with me that her husband was in stage four cancer. She had quit work to stay home and take care of him during this difficult time. She was so focused on serving him, that she was neglecting herself. Today, she had felt the need to get a session for herself while her husband was being helped in the next room.

We each have our Golden Contract for this life. A Directional Healing, or indeed any healing, will help you align yourself with that Golden Contract. In their case, that contract included his colon cancer. No wonder she had trouble trusting life!

In any experience there is always something to give and something to learn.

A Directional Healing aligns the physical, emotional, mental, and causal selves with the spiritual self we call Soul. When all the bodies are aligned, Soul can impart its wisdom and mission. Soul can direct this life It chose. This woman received the healing that she needed to go on with her mission at this time.

This week, focus on balance between serving self and serving others.

It is like breathing in and breathing out. Being stuck in either the in breath or the out breath is painful. You breathe in and focus on your physical needs. Get your balance. Then breathe out the service to others. We need both.

As spiritual beings it is natural for us to think about how we can share.

There is a story about a woman who made a miracle for someone else, but did not know it. This was told a few years later by the one who received the miracle.

The woman who told the story was close to ending her life. She had no money, no job, no family. She was so depressed she could not work, could not find a reason to make a place for herself in this world any longer.

The woman had just enough money left to order something small at the corner take-out place. When she got there it was so crowded she could not get near the counter to order. People were pushing in front of her, eager to get their lunch and return to work.

She was too weak and tired to push at the counter, just as she was too weak and tired to push in her life. She just stood in the back waiting for a chance to spend the last of her money.

One of the harassed clerks behind the counter noticed her. She did not say anything, but gave the sad woman a big smile and handed her a piece of cake wrapped up to go. In spite of her busy job, she must have seen the need in the other woman's face.

That smile and the small gift was the turning point in this woman's life. She no longer felt so alone and helpless. It was just enough love to allow her to take the next step, and then one more step, and then one more, until she gained back her life.

Service to others is best given as part of who we are and what we do best. If we are balanced and loving, we will naturally do exactly what is best for all concerned.

Who knows? We might even make a miracle.