(originally posted 10/29/15)

I’ve immersed myself in the study of my inner-workings, my mind, my spirit, the divine, human potential, healing and the like for the last 5 or so years of my life. When one lives in this world, one hears many phrases over and over again spoken as commonly as the words “the” and “and”. Phrases like, “surrender”, “universe” and “be” are a few. They become somewhat trendy like soy lattes and Uber. You hear them so much that they begin to have an intellectual meaning at first. Then one day after years of marinating in your halo adorned noggin, they hit you on a deeper level and you think, “Ohhhhhh, SURRENDER!” or “Wowwww, UNIVERSE” or “Yeah!!!! I just need to BEEEEEEE.” I recently had one of those moments with the word “nothingness”.

As a young (super young) and curious woman in the Los Angeles spiritual community, my well-meaning self would hear the phrase, “We are everything and nothing at the same time.” I’d then put my fist gently under my chin like a scholar, slowly bobble-doll-nod my head and agree with my peers saying things like, “Yeah, totally, we are all and nothing at the same thing.” (what?!) Until recently, I realized that maybe I actually had no idea of what that might look like. But last week I got a deeper glimpse. One of those aha moments. And I am so very lucky. 

Because I’m aware of many of my judgments and belief systems, I see what goes on in my head a lot. (Yikes, bikes) Sometimes, I don’t know what to do or not to do with them, but I see them nonetheless. In these instances, I bring my bag of Halloween goodies (tis the season) to an outside source to help me see what I can’t see myself. (Like what I do for other people.)

Things trigger us all, but what I like to do is get curious about those pings and pangs I feel. They are just thought in the form of emotion. What is this? Is this thought since it feels like a smelly baby diaper would smell? Do I need to trust this? Sadly, many people aren’t taught to question these feelings. They trust everything in their heads. Schools don’t teach that most of what goes on up there is useless and fleeting and just moving energy. Most thoughts aren’t true because they are coming from fear. My hope for you is to get curious too. When you shed the light on the monsters, you see they were only a shadow. Every. Time. Because, well, simply put, there is only love. And if we aren’t seeing things that way, our mind is just out of control. 

Getting back on track…EARTH to Jamie! 

I used to do a lot of digging around in my beliefs around success and I’d ask myself, “What would it feel like if I had everything I wanted and people judged me but I just didn’t care.” Well, I would feel free. But with that feeling of freedom came this sense of nothingness. Like, there would be nothing else to “achieve”. (Ah, Thank you ‘American Dream’ for that one.) It felt as though in that space things would cease to exist or some how spiral out of control. Or that there would be nothing else to do there and how can you do nothing? It was as if my ego needed to be doing to feel satisfied. 

And then it hit me. Oh my soul! The nothingness I’m describing is peace. Nothingness is who we are! It’s our true nature. It’s the peace people speak of. The nothingness is peace! Our true state is connected to everything at once. It’s the nothingness. Nothingness is peace.

Holy cow, how sneaky the ego is. Peace was right in front of my face and it was making me feel uncomfortable. I was questioning it left and right. Trying hard to stay out of that space when all I desperately wanted was to have that peace. I already am that peace. I just needed to remember it! And feel it and know what it was. So, now I recognize when I feel that and I acknowledge it. When I’m slowed down and not needing to control or ‘do’, I’m just being. Being inspired and taking action from that place. Being in the moment. Just being. Whistling do re me as I walk the dogs. Laughing at myself. Kissing long and hard. Feeling music in my bones. Our mind may come back on line in these moments sometimes and feel a little funny because our mind tries to keep us safe based on past experiences it has associated to something uncomfortable related to that peace. But just noticing that this is what it is doing is usually enough for those thoughts to pass and fade. As I like to shout on the mountaintops, “It’s all about awareness.”
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My wish for you is if you have a sense of this nothingness I speak of, sit with it longer. Let it be your normal. It’s your home base. Let it be uncomfortable and then let it get more comfortable and then let it be so peaceful you become the next trendy guru who rides an Uber while drinking a soy latte. Marinate there as often as possible. No need to force it. Just trust it. It’s you. It’s me. It’s all of us. The all and the nothing. Now, how cool is that?

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(originally posted 3/3/14)

I adore this quote. How much freedom is in that one sentence? I don’t have to go anywhere, do anything, find anything, spend any money, seek answers, or try to fix it all. I already HAVE IT. It’s already mine. All the peace and love and abundance and joy and whatever else you could ever want you already have. 

You can have anything you want by just a shift in perspective. Nothing on the “outside” world matters. Because the “outside world” is subjective. Your view of something out there could be completely different than my view. Which means that my mind is just attaching an idea to an experience based on my past experiences. Our mind just logs things as we grow up. People mean well when they attempt to teach us things and sometimes they don’t. But all of these “things” are logged in our brain. As we experience the world as an adult, our brain looks through the lens of our old experiences. But who says this lens is the best lens for us, the most loving, healing peaceful lens? Our natural state is well being so, I bet if your thoughts don’t feel very good, it’s not. 

The answer to that? Awareness. Be aware of when your thoughts to something feel uncomfortable and back off. Know that the love and peace you were born with as a baby is still in you. It doesn’t die. It’s eternal. It just gets hidden by your judgment of everything. Our mad thoughts can seem so real to us. Remind yourself they are not real. It’s just a thought. It could be different. There has to be another way to see this. And then get out of the way. It’s a passive way of approaching peace. Since we already have the peace, we don’t need to “find it”.  We just need to allow it by calling the bluff on our thoughts, riding it out, having faith that love exists and then letting the love naturally rise to the surface. This is the truth. 

It takes easy practice but it is well worth it to live in peace. You may be similar to me and be saying, “ Well, I’ve lived most of my life not knowing what that peaceful feeling feels like.” That’s ok It’s never too late to start. It’s always available to us matter how sick or depressed or anxious or upset you are. None of that matters since peace is a state of mind.  A God given gift to us.

I’ve spent the last four years of my life not realizing I already had all that I was seeking. I was attempting to “fix” myself. I’ve learned a lot of really amazing techniques, met a huge amount of beautiful people devoted to helping others heal and learned a hell of a lot about myself. While I have no regrets, there is one thing I wish were different. My perspective on the whole thing. I wish I knew I was already that which I was seeking. But I’m grateful to know that now. And I’m adamant in spreading the world to tell you that you are too! I’m leaning now that there is nothing to “fix”. You are perfect as you. And when you can realize this, healing happens. Peace comes from acceptance, not constantly trying to fight who you are and where you are at. I had a beautiful person tell me the other day that sometimes you don’t have to try so hard to figure it all out and fix your ailments, flaws or short comings. When God or the Universe or whatever you believe in wants you to focus on those things for your growth, they will just naturally happen and unfold. There is nothing you have to “do”. I love that view. It takes the struggle out of it. Now you can just live.

So, for your sake and the sake of the world, lets do this together. Let’s stop listening to these horrible thoughts in our head that don’t feel good. Let’s question them. Let’s look them head on and laugh at them. Let’s condescend them. Let’s be open to being completely wrong about EVERYTHING we’ve ever believed in. Let’s be open to learning a new way. Open to the Universe surprising us with love. Will you join me?

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(Originally Posted 4/27/15)

​“I choose to see love instead of this.” 

This is one of my favorite prayers. You can also call it an intention if the word prayer freaks you out. I’m not judging.  

You can use this prayer anytime you feel resistance, fear, or a sense of unease about something. There are many things in our lives that we just can’t see with compassion or love. And that’s ok. We are human. But, when we notice this, it’s a good time to admit to ourselves that somehow we aren’t seeing the truth, the love. 

So, ask to see it differently. Ask to see peace or love instead of the resistant way you are seeing it. It’s only hurting you to see it with angry eyes, no one else. Do yourself a favor next time you are on fire and slow down, take a breath and ask to see love instead of the way you are seeing something.

You don’t have to force a new thought into your head. Let a new, loving one come to you. You’ll know its there because it will feel a little bit better, maybe a lot better.  A new perspective will have come to you. This prayer works with out fail every time. It might not happen right away. But it will always happen when it’s supposed to happen. Just be open to seeing something differently and you will be shown the loving version.  

This is true because we live in an inside out world, not outside in. Inside out meaning that our entire reality is based upon our own thoughts. We project our perception of the world out onto it. The outside world has no meaning. It’s not the other way around like we are mistakenly taught. If you believe in this misperception, you think that something mean someone said to you will make you feel angry.  The truth is that it’s your thoughts about them that make you angry. Crazy huh? This is a wild illusion and one many of us fall for. But the more we realize our thoughts make up our entire reality, the more freedom we have.  

We will begin to question a lot. And that’s a good thing! We can choose not to believe a lot of the junk that goes on up there if it feels fearful in any way. Wait for it to pass. It will. That’s the nature of thought. Since we are born mentally well and we are always mentally well underneath the fearful thoughts, fresh new thought, from that space of well being is always on its way to us if we aren’t gripping so tightly to the fearful thought by believing it. Trust me, it’s going to look real and try to do a good job on convincing us other wise. You are smarter though.

So now that you understand this prayer and why it’s important to ask to see a new perception of something instead of change it on the “outside”, let’s try an experiment.

So, again, because of our perception, we see what we are looking for and maybe not the actual truth of what is right in front of us. If you have a lifetime of personal, subjective opinions build up about a person then they are going to look to you like the picture you have painted about them in your mind. Yet, you aren’t really seeing the person as they are in the present. So, if you perceive your husband or wife or girlfriend to be one way, you are only going to see those traits and miss the other 50% of traits this persons has, that you aren’t even giving yourself the gift of receiving. If you see your husband as a jerk, you are going to only see the “jerk” things, and miss the sweet things he says. They will go unnoticed. 

Experiment with friends and family. Before an interaction with them, intend to see love instead of the way you see them. Be present with them. Listen to them with an open mind. Show up as if you have never met this person before. Give them the benefit of the doubt. I bet you’ll begin to see new things you’ve never seen before. And they have been there all along. Here’s to falling in love all over again.

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(Originally Posted: April 14th, 2015)

Today I want to break it down for the newbies and have a little refresher course for the veterans.  We hear the words ego, intuition and love all the time. But what do they really mean? Let’s dive in.

The word EGO in the spiritual world is different from the word EGO you hear when you grow up. You usually hear it referred to as someone being full of himself, etc.

The spiritual term EGO by definition is, “The part of you that defines itself as a personality, separates itself from the outside world, and considers itself, (you) a separate entity from the rest of nature and the cosmos. Perhaps necessary for survival in some evolutionary bygone, in modern times it leads only to (albeit often disguised) misanthropic beliefs and delusion. In short, ‘I’. Ego is responsible for hate, fear and delusion."

In my own experience as an inward seeker, ego has come to mean, “The part of your mind that is subconscious, the belief systems you acquired from little up caused by family, friends, society, etc. that stuck around because they were given attention over the years and you happen to then see them as true. Ego is all the fearful, unhelpful, constricted thoughts that pass through your mind. It isn’t the divine, intelligent, intuitive part of you. It doesn’t have the capacity to understand your God self, your highest self, your true self, your best self.” An example of an ego thought would be, “I’m fat. I can’t do that. That’s impossible. She’ll never like me.” And the list goes on…

What’s the opposite side of the coin? Your heart, love and intuition. Let’s take a closer look at these. 
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Heart by definition means, “The central, vital or main part; real meaning, essence, core.”

Intuition by definition is, “The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning, proof or evidence. A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feelings rather than conscious reasoning. A feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why. For example, a hunch, feeling in one’s bones, inkling, suspicion, idea, sense, notion, premonition, gut feeling.” I’ve learned in my journeys that intuition doesn’t have to be some crazy aha moment, although it can be. It can just be as simple as a new thought you’ve never had before that came to you when you are feeling settled and not frazzled. Intuition, the truth is always quieter, yet gentle. Thought that comes to you when you are frazzled is most likely from the ego, the mind. Screw taking that as truth.

Love by definition is, “An intense feeling of deep affection, warm attachment, enthusiasm and devotion. To take great pleasure in. To hold dear.” I’ve personally come to find love to mean, “Our true nature, our natural state of well being. Truth. Peace.” But as we all know, love is far too powerful and magical to describe in words.

“So, thanks for explaining these things Jamie, but what the crap am I supposed to do with this now?”. Well, a deeper understanding is always helpful. That way, you can have your own amazing insights about it all. May I suggest beginning to recognize when you are in your heart, in love, in intuition or higher intelligence. And notice when you are in ego. This awareness will be so helpful. Many of us walk around in ego, lost in thought most of the time and don’t even know it. If you are one of these people, don’t worry. I remember the day I realized I’ve spent most of my life living in my mind and not my heart. There were only fleeting heart moments. But realizing it is so much better than going your whole life never knowing that vital piece of information. There is a whole world out there for you to explore. Trust me on that one. When you begin to feel it, you’ll know.

Here’s a helpful tidbit. When you start to notice you are in your ego, you don’t have to fight it. Just know that you are in the wrong part of your brain. If you don’t grip too hard, or try to figure it out or fight it, it will pass and something a little more peaceful will rise up. That is how the system works. Once you let go of the ego stuff, in a gentle way, new thought is on its way to you. That is your well being. That is the place where all your answers are. That is where love lies. Practice makes perfect.  

You don’t have to force it, or say affirmations, etc. This is a more passive approach. It doesn’t require trying so hard to change your mind. Your mind is designed to change for you when you step out of the way.  Change the inside and then watch the outside magically fall into place. Not the other way around like our society likes to teach. That causes disconnection and stress. It’s a big backwards. Let’s un-backwards it shall we?!

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(Originally Posted 5/27/15)


We are living in a WiFi era so I thought it was fitting to inform you how to keep yourself safe in this day and age. EMF is short for Electromagnetic Field. Many devices such as our phones, microwaves, lamps, computers, and many other types of technologies have these fields. They emit harmful EMF’s. Harmful EMF's can change the naturally occurring frequencies in our body to unhealthy frequencies causing unhealthy tissue and disease. The length of time it takes to make this change can be seconds, hours, years or decades based upon strength of the field, the particular frequency, wave length of the frequency, length of exposure, health of your body and more. 


There is so much research out there on this if you’d like to search more. I just wanted to give you the basics because the bottom line is that we know it’s bad for us. 


What are the solutions?


The best solution is distance from EMF.


Don’t use outdated microwaves. 


Turn your wifi devices off at night to give your body a chance to rest. This is super quick and easy to do. Turn off all Ipads, kindles, nooks, computers, etc. and put your cell phone on airplane mode. Your alarm will still work and your life will be fine, I promise. I do it every night. 


Give the TV a rest sometimes. 


Buy protection devices to use on your cell phone and computer, or other EMF radiating devices you use and have around you a lot. There are stickers you can place on your devices and there are beads etc. that you can wear around your neck or wrist or in your pocket. You can also put a bead around your pet’s collar to help them too. There are also devices you can put in your home to protect you as well. Who cares if not many people are doing it. Our society isn’t big on preventative care. Be smart. Protect yourself and your family. Let’s be loud and proud!


Here is the link for the bead you can use for yourself and your pet. It’s inexpensive and has good reviews. But there are a ton of other sources online to research. 


http://emfblues.com/crystal-catalyst-bead/


Crystals and Stones are also helpful. You can wear these in jewelry or in your pocket. Here is the list I found online. 

Use Amazonite to block and absorb all types of EMF emissions and the objects that give off these emissions.  This in turn protects you from having these EMF's enter your energy field.

For cell phones, Aventurine (any color) will help to act as an EMF barrier, absorbing the energy and protecting you from it.  Try taping a piece to your cell phone or wearing Aventurine earrings.

If you are around computers all day, set up a small grid using a combination of Fluorite.  Blue Fluorite and/or Purple Fluorite work very well for this purpose.  Wear a lovely Rainbow Fluorite pendant, necklace or bracelet.

Try sitting a few tumbled Sodalite on top of your desktop computer (or tape to a lap top) to block and clear any EMF emanations.

Place black Tourmaline or Lepidolite under your computer screen (or between you and the screen) to help clear and protect.

Other crystals and stones that can assist in clearing/neutralizing EMF's would be Turquoise, Herkimer Diamonds, Jasper, and/or Unakite.

 A combination of natural Smokey Quartz (not the irradiated kind) and Selenite. Smoky Quartz absorbs all types of electromagnetic smog/pollution when placed between you and the source of EMF's. The Selenite clears the Smoky Quartz, the area, and you--all at the same time!

Diamonds can indeed be your best friend! Diamonds block all types of electromagnetic pollution.

Want to deflect that radiation from your Microwave? Place Yellow Kunzite around the microwave. Malachite is another helpful stone to guard against radiation. It also clears EMF's.

Healers across the globe have also shared how certain crystals work for them and their clients when dealing with EMF's. Cacoxenite has been used with success.  One healer shared her use of Blue Kyanite to balance the electromagnetic fields.  A local healing friend loves to use Smithsonite and/or Ajoite.

I hope this helps you take at least one step in the right direction to protect yourself from EMF’s. Feel free to pass this email along to someone you know who loves technology and may benefit. You’ll be doing them a huge service. 

(Note: Most of this is other people's research that I compiled researching online.)

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(Originally Posted 9/28/15)

I’ve been open these days. Open to having the Divine show me something new. Show me something really, really cool. Something mind-blowing. Something healing. 

I walked into a brand new, nicely put together yoga studio last month.  It was filled with head-wrapped, feather wearing, healthy-eating yogis. We were all there for an ecstatic dance event. There was a sweet woman all in white, tucked in the corner giving out essential oil samples while we waited to enter the main studio. 

Because I had some time to kill, I grabbed my generous serving of an herbal tea sample and headed over to the woman in the corner. “What do you have here?” I politely asked, not really having much interest.  She said she was sampling essential oils. I asked if she had something for the nervous system. She handed me an oil. I smelled and I thought, “Ok, that’s nice but I guess it just smells good. This fun scratch and sniff ordeal will kill a little time while I wait for the big event.” Then I get to talking to her a bit. I explain I’m a healer who has done a lot of my own healing over the past 5 years and I still have a couple symptoms I’m working on healing now. She looked at me like she was gazing at a sunset for a minute. Then she handed me something. “Smell this one,” she said. 

What happened to me in that moment was nothing short of magical. Love filled my body and gratitude filled my eyes. I began to cry. But, it wasn’t me crying you see. It was energy. Moving through. Caused by one little magical bottle of oil. I hugged her, for what seemed like ten minutes, but was probably only shy of one. I proclaimed, “I had no idea they were so powerful.” She replied calmly, “It’s your time.”

So this nay-saying, oil-doubting healer woke up that day. I am forever changed. Essential oils aren’t just these nice things that smell good, that massage therapists sometimes use to cover awkward, accidental smells that may happen behind those closed doors. No, that’s not it at all. Actually, it’s so far from it. 

These oils are magical. They are plants and seeds and barks. The ones she shared with me that night are therapeutic grade and they can literally replace your entire medicine cabinet. 

They heal emotional wounds. They detox your body. They can be used instead of steroids as an anti-inflammatory. They can be used in place of antibiotics. You can clean your house with them. You can meditate with them and help you connect with spirit. You can use as a sleep aid. You can clear your skin or mend your wounds or uplift your moods or even help boost your immune system so much that your tumors begin to shrink. There are countless healing properties and these are only a few examples. 

These oils are nature. Western medicine is synthetic and can’t fuse with your cells. The oils are phyto nutrients so they can actually merge with your cells and heal you on a cellular level. They are “God in a bottle” as I like to say. Natural healing at it’s finest.  There are countless uses for these little blessings. This brand is ingestible because it is so pure. You can even cook with them! 

Most are even safe to use on animals. My dog had gone deaf because of the antibiotics his vet put him on for an ear infection. I was devastated because I didn’t know if his hearing would come back. With a little reiki, time and patience, he ended up getting his hearing back but I was weary of ever doing that to him again.  A few months passed and my sweet boy found a few-day-old salami sub on the side of the road, causing his allergies to act up and yet another ear infection to manifest. This time I had to think outside of the box. I was new to the oils but I grabbed my oil bible and looked in the dog section. Five days later, after a little bottle of an oil called purity rubbed in his ear, my little guy is ear infection free, no deaf side effects. 

I’m hearing numerous stories of people whose lives have changed by using these oils. They allow us the opportunity to heal our bodies naturally, on a cellular level. They support us, repair us, relieve us and love us. And I sure as heck love them too. 

My hope is to bring these oils to those who need them the most. People like me, who have no idea what’s in store. I want to connect them to the people who will appreciate them and benefit from their selfless magic as well.

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(originally posted 8/25/15)

If you are anything like me, you may have forgotten that you are safe. Well you are. Like, super safe. As safe as can be. 

We are pure, 100% love and love is so safe. We were born that way! The only thing not safe is our thinking about things. And when our thinking can get out of control, the world on the outside seems a bit unsafe and overwhelming. 

I want to share a little story with you.

I have this weird aversion to working out. I’ll do it for a while and love it when I’m doing it but then a few weeks will go by and I’ll look back and realize I’ve stopped making a point to be active. Resistance to our greatest selves comes in many forms. This is one of mine. 
Anything that doesn’t come from love comes from fear, so my guess is that in some way shape or form, I’m fearing working out. I’m not 100% sure the root cause, but that doesn’t even matter. My guess is that I may be afraid I’d be hurting my physical body too much if I work out a lot, that I will be wasting time when other things are more important, that if I look good I’ll get too much unwanted attention.  The list could go on, but these are all just thoughts anyway. Untruths. 

How do I remind myself I’m safe? 

We just need to gently re-parent ourselves back to the truth. And this part is easy! 
Here’s how.

When you have an inspired action arise in your mind, then some resistance pops us, try that thing anyway. Fear doesn’t mean you need to stop doing something. It doesn’t mean it’s actually unsafe. It just means you have a lot of thought around it. 

For example, I was in the resisting exercise phase today and I decided to throw my sneakers on late at night and just jog around the block while I took my dog out for his nighttime walk. As I did this, I made myself consciously aware of how safe I was. “See Jamie, this is fun. My body actually feels good! I’m enjoying sweating and moving and I actually do like it. It’s safe.” This awareness made a huge difference. It allowed me to reaffirm the truth, that I am safe while taking an action my mind thought was unsafe. I could see how silly my mind was being and how right on my soul was. The more I do this, the more the fear can take a back seat. It’s just about teaching that little kid inside that she’s ok to go out there and live. Many of us are afraid of little things like this. Nothing is too small to cheer yourself on for. Just keep taking small steps toward new ideas, common sense, things that inspire you or even excite you, and when you are doing them, remind yourself that you are safe there. It seems so simple but it can have a profound impact. Your life will open up. I can promise you that! Join me in my newest course to transform your life (by clicking on the title) Profound Healing Through Self Love to ground these teachings in deeper.