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Manifesting Heaven on Earth
Evolving Magazine: October 2009
Copyright © September 2009 - Rev. Maitreya Zohar
Who is manifesting your life?
Often we feel powerless to transform ourselves and thus the circumstances we chose to live in. This month’s Evolving poses the topic of manifestation and I am asking, “Who is manifesting your life?”
On August 20, 2009, I moved from Los Angeles to Kansas City. My daughter and I had moved from New York City to Los Angeles to manifest her dream of attending University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) acting program. Her strong inner calling to move to Santa Monica for her senior year of high school ultimately created our move; a move that for me was temporary – four to six years. She did her part wonderful: SAT’s, graduating high school, essays and entrance exams, auditions, etc. and became one of 70 accepted students out of just over 1000 applicants to the Theatre, Film, and Television program.
This past April, in the spring quarter of her junior year, my daughter expressed her readiness to live in her own apartment. Six months earlier, when moving was my idea, she was adamant about living with me. Now she was fully aligned with taking the next step toward her independence, so much so that within two weeks, she had found the perfect apartment, had a new roommate lined up, and I was giving my notice for the end of May.
So, who is manifesting my life? Sometimes it seems that as my daughter goes, so do I. Then I remind myself that 21 years ago, I chose to be a parent and it was at that time that I made the choice to guide this soul to adulthood.
How is that I could feel emotionally tossed about and victimy in one moment as my daughter made powerful choices for her life and in the next breathe I could feel rooted in the knowing that I had done what I had set out to do, 21 years before.
We are made up of multiple facets and at any one time we may have various inner voices sending us signals. I believe the strongest signal in the moment is the one that becomes our manifest reality. Here is a list of a few of the voices that could be speaking in you right now: adult self, inner child, male self, female self, physical body, emotional body, mental body, spiritual body, or your inner saboteur.
I wear several “hats”, three of which are Healer, Channel, and Intuitive Tarot Reader. During a reading with a single mother, we looked into career matters, as she was unemployed. The reading showed two paths: 1) the path her female self wanted take, which was having time with her young daughter, healing people with Reflexology and Reiki – being self employed and 2) the path her male self wanted to take, which was of job security with a company that had benefits and a steady paycheck. I shared with her that in order to manifest her new fulfilling, well paying career, she would need to get her male and female selves working in partnership. I explained that the energetic fight going on inside her was creating a stalemate and thus she wasn’t manifesting her career but was instead manifesting experiences like procrastination, confusion, indecision, powerlessness, insomnia, excess TV watching, and overeating.
She thought she wasn’t manifesting. I explained to her that we are always manifesting, however, we are not always conscious of what we are manifesting.
Another client, healing cancer, was struggling with the choice of healing herself with allopathic or holistic treatments. The reading showed that her inner child wanted to travel the allopathic route and her adult self wanted to travel the holistic route. The inner conflict between her adult self and her inner child was manifesting itself as extreme stress and complete powerlessness around making a choice that she felt truly at peace with. It was explained to her that either path, allopathic or holistic, taken from the place of true peace – her inner child and adult self working in partnership – would manifest a full healing.
From my own life: I am in the grocery store.
My inner child is calling, “Ice cream, mint chocolate chip, we need some ice cream.”
My mother’s voice echoes, “Not before you finish your veggies.” Off to the vegetable isle I go. My female self chooses something colorful and nurturing and my male self pipes up with, “We need some meat to go with that.”
“Desert, we need desert,” my child self calls again.
Sensing the judgments of my mental body and the denial of sweets for my inner child, my spiritual body councils, “Everything in moderation, balance is key.”
I pass the flowers on my way to the ice cream isle and my mental and emotional bodies feel calmed and relaxed.
I could keep going with this supermarket adventure but I suspect you get the point.
So, who in you; is manifesting your life?
I have chosen one voice to have final say. The lessons of free will verses divine choice have taught me that this voice leads to liberation. This voice is the voice of my Spirit.
Experience has led me to observe that the majority of people have a deep need to be completely gotten by other human beings. I believe the same of our inner world. By fully receiving the aspect of us that is in fear, we reconnect with the love of our Spirit.
I believe in miracles. I personally have seen the unexplainable numerous times and now believe that when we align the various facets or aspects within ourselves on the desire of our Spirit, that intention becomes our reality.
Part of my new reality is the manifestation of Land of OM, LLC – a new spiritual community center in Overland Park, KS.
May you fully align with your Spirit’s desire and may you manifest your dreams, blessings, Maitreya.
Who is manifesting your life?
Often we feel powerless to transform ourselves and thus the circumstances we chose to live in. This month’s Evolving poses the topic of manifestation and I am asking, “Who is manifesting your life?”
On August 20, 2009, I moved from Los Angeles to Kansas City. My daughter and I had moved from New York City to Los Angeles to manifest her dream of attending University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) acting program. Her strong inner calling to move to Santa Monica for her senior year of high school ultimately created our move; a move that for me was temporary – four to six years. She did her part wonderful: SAT’s, graduating high school, essays and entrance exams, auditions, etc. and became one of 70 accepted students out of just over 1000 applicants to the Theatre, Film, and Television program.
This past April, in the spring quarter of her junior year, my daughter expressed her readiness to live in her own apartment. Six months earlier, when moving was my idea, she was adamant about living with me. Now she was fully aligned with taking the next step toward her independence, so much so that within two weeks, she had found the perfect apartment, had a new roommate lined up, and I was giving my notice for the end of May.
So, who is manifesting my life? Sometimes it seems that as my daughter goes, so do I. Then I remind myself that 21 years ago, I chose to be a parent and it was at that time that I made the choice to guide this soul to adulthood.
How is that I could feel emotionally tossed about and victimy in one moment as my daughter made powerful choices for her life and in the next breathe I could feel rooted in the knowing that I had done what I had set out to do, 21 years before.
We are made up of multiple facets and at any one time we may have various inner voices sending us signals. I believe the strongest signal in the moment is the one that becomes our manifest reality. Here is a list of a few of the voices that could be speaking in you right now: adult self, inner child, male self, female self, physical body, emotional body, mental body, spiritual body, or your inner saboteur.
I wear several “hats”, three of which are Healer, Channel, and Intuitive Tarot Reader. During a reading with a single mother, we looked into career matters, as she was unemployed. The reading showed two paths: 1) the path her female self wanted take, which was having time with her young daughter, healing people with Reflexology and Reiki – being self employed and 2) the path her male self wanted to take, which was of job security with a company that had benefits and a steady paycheck. I shared with her that in order to manifest her new fulfilling, well paying career, she would need to get her male and female selves working in partnership. I explained that the energetic fight going on inside her was creating a stalemate and thus she wasn’t manifesting her career but was instead manifesting experiences like procrastination, confusion, indecision, powerlessness, insomnia, excess TV watching, and overeating.
She thought she wasn’t manifesting. I explained to her that we are always manifesting, however, we are not always conscious of what we are manifesting.
Another client, healing cancer, was struggling with the choice of healing herself with allopathic or holistic treatments. The reading showed that her inner child wanted to travel the allopathic route and her adult self wanted to travel the holistic route. The inner conflict between her adult self and her inner child was manifesting itself as extreme stress and complete powerlessness around making a choice that she felt truly at peace with. It was explained to her that either path, allopathic or holistic, taken from the place of true peace – her inner child and adult self working in partnership – would manifest a full healing.
From my own life: I am in the grocery store.
My inner child is calling, “Ice cream, mint chocolate chip, we need some ice cream.”
My mother’s voice echoes, “Not before you finish your veggies.” Off to the vegetable isle I go. My female self chooses something colorful and nurturing and my male self pipes up with, “We need some meat to go with that.”
“Desert, we need desert,” my child self calls again.
Sensing the judgments of my mental body and the denial of sweets for my inner child, my spiritual body councils, “Everything in moderation, balance is key.”
I pass the flowers on my way to the ice cream isle and my mental and emotional bodies feel calmed and relaxed.
I could keep going with this supermarket adventure but I suspect you get the point.
So, who in you; is manifesting your life?
I have chosen one voice to have final say. The lessons of free will verses divine choice have taught me that this voice leads to liberation. This voice is the voice of my Spirit.
Experience has led me to observe that the majority of people have a deep need to be completely gotten by other human beings. I believe the same of our inner world. By fully receiving the aspect of us that is in fear, we reconnect with the love of our Spirit.
I believe in miracles. I personally have seen the unexplainable numerous times and now believe that when we align the various facets or aspects within ourselves on the desire of our Spirit, that intention becomes our reality.
Part of my new reality is the manifestation of Land of OM, LLC – a new spiritual community center in Overland Park, KS.
May you fully align with your Spirit’s desire and may you manifest your dreams, blessings, Maitreya.
One True Healer
Evolving Magazine: March 2010
Copyright © February 2010 Rev. Maitreya Zohar
With my mental body running amok trying to decide what to write regarding alternative healing, I hear the muffled voice of my spirit guides speaking to me in the background. I breathe deeply, centering myself. I take another deep breath expanding myself beyond thought and open to listening. Their voice becomes clearer and it’s saying, “Alternative suggests one has a choice regarding Healers. How can there be a choice when there is only one Healer acting through us all? Even though you have studied and label yourself a healer, the true Healer is and always will be, God.”
On a daily basis, I call this Healer by the names: God, Goddess, Spirit, the Divine, the Source, Great Spirit, and the Universe.
One of the ways I describe my work is to say, “I am a holistic healer.”
I have studied many forms of alternative healing becoming a Reiki Master and Amanohuna practitioner. I have reawakened my inner Native Shaman and realigned myself with the Goddess Energies, of which one is Magnified Healing. I access various energy techniques that I call forth from past lives and experiences; offering a truly unique and personal energy session for each person.
In the sense that alternative healing for many refers to unconventional or nontraditional ways of healing, I work as an alternative healer.
However, am I really the Healer? I believe the answer is both yes and no. It all depends on which “I” is speaking, the big “I” or the little “i”, my Spirit or my ego/ personality.
As a healer I see it as my task to awaken, spark, or ignite your inner eternal flame, your Spirit, and with that flame burning, the healing you experience is generated from deep within yourself rather than from some external source. We are but mere catalysts to support the awakening of the true Healer within you.
Yes, You are 100% responsible for your healing. Societal conditioning may have you giving your power away to allopathic or holistic practitioners in places of authority but it is You that is in charge of your healing. My experience with allopathic medicine is that it does not assist in releasing core issues and most often only treats the client’s symptoms. The holistic practitioner assists in removing causal energies that keep you from realizing your inner Healer, meaning they treat the core issues as well as the symptoms. As balance is restored, you access the Healer within you, thus having the opportunity to create and embrace a miracle.
The holistic practitioner is also there to fan your inner flame, should your amnesia return and you pick up your self-destructive behavior patterns.
In 2003, a client with whiplash came to me about three weeks after a car accident. She had seen other practitioners and doctors and as she lied down cautiously, I was instantly guided to work on her stomach area. She mentioned that the pain was in her neck. I touched her neck, began sending energy, and heard my guides say, “The neck pain is a symptom. The cause lies in her solar plexus.” I returned to her stomach area and again she reminded me that the pain was in her neck. I said, “Your physical pain is a symptom. To heal, we need to work with the cause, which to me, is originating in your solar plexus.”
We spoke about personal power, where she was betraying herself, and about her ability to say, “No!” I suggested that being injured gave her a reason to say no and create boundaries. I gave “homework” suggestions and she left in pain, slightly less, but still in pain.
The next morning she called to share that a miracle had taken place and that she awoke 100% pain free. I suggested she not question a miracle and inwardly gave thanks to the true Healer.
By clearing the energy blockages and embracing her lesson, her inner Healer awakened and She created her own miracle.
So, to the word alternative, we have many choices on who we want to assist us and on what modality would be best for us now.
Of course, I would love everyone reading this article to receive a session from me, that would be very good for my business but it may or may not be good for you.
When people ask me what modality they should choose; which is the best one, which healer is a good one, I say, “Really your questions can only be answered by You. I can give you a few suggestions for choosing if you’d like.”
My suggestions go something like: a top priority is to create a sense of inner safety.
What follows the first thought is: do you feel guided to work with a man or a woman? This can narrow the selection process down significantly. It is very important to follow your inner guidance, as it is likely that it is your inner Healer directing you to a particular modality or person.
Next, I might prompt: do you enjoy being touched? If you desire no touch, then this rules out many modalities.
What about credentials? I find word-of-mouth to be the best credential. Some of the best healers I have worked with did not have a modern day diploma or letters before or after their name.
As a final suggestion, make the choosing process fun, see your visits to this healer as an adventure in self discovery, because after all, that is what will happen, you will discover that You are the only one that can heal you. Healing takes being accountable and means taking ownership. If you are feeling that either path, the allopathic or the holistic, has “failed” you and you’re sitting in a place of judging, this means you have placed your power outside yourself.
Remember, there is only one Healer, God/Goddess, and this Spirit resides within you.
With my mental body running amok trying to decide what to write regarding alternative healing, I hear the muffled voice of my spirit guides speaking to me in the background. I breathe deeply, centering myself. I take another deep breath expanding myself beyond thought and open to listening. Their voice becomes clearer and it’s saying, “Alternative suggests one has a choice regarding Healers. How can there be a choice when there is only one Healer acting through us all? Even though you have studied and label yourself a healer, the true Healer is and always will be, God.”
On a daily basis, I call this Healer by the names: God, Goddess, Spirit, the Divine, the Source, Great Spirit, and the Universe.
One of the ways I describe my work is to say, “I am a holistic healer.”
I have studied many forms of alternative healing becoming a Reiki Master and Amanohuna practitioner. I have reawakened my inner Native Shaman and realigned myself with the Goddess Energies, of which one is Magnified Healing. I access various energy techniques that I call forth from past lives and experiences; offering a truly unique and personal energy session for each person.
In the sense that alternative healing for many refers to unconventional or nontraditional ways of healing, I work as an alternative healer.
However, am I really the Healer? I believe the answer is both yes and no. It all depends on which “I” is speaking, the big “I” or the little “i”, my Spirit or my ego/ personality.
As a healer I see it as my task to awaken, spark, or ignite your inner eternal flame, your Spirit, and with that flame burning, the healing you experience is generated from deep within yourself rather than from some external source. We are but mere catalysts to support the awakening of the true Healer within you.
Yes, You are 100% responsible for your healing. Societal conditioning may have you giving your power away to allopathic or holistic practitioners in places of authority but it is You that is in charge of your healing. My experience with allopathic medicine is that it does not assist in releasing core issues and most often only treats the client’s symptoms. The holistic practitioner assists in removing causal energies that keep you from realizing your inner Healer, meaning they treat the core issues as well as the symptoms. As balance is restored, you access the Healer within you, thus having the opportunity to create and embrace a miracle.
The holistic practitioner is also there to fan your inner flame, should your amnesia return and you pick up your self-destructive behavior patterns.
In 2003, a client with whiplash came to me about three weeks after a car accident. She had seen other practitioners and doctors and as she lied down cautiously, I was instantly guided to work on her stomach area. She mentioned that the pain was in her neck. I touched her neck, began sending energy, and heard my guides say, “The neck pain is a symptom. The cause lies in her solar plexus.” I returned to her stomach area and again she reminded me that the pain was in her neck. I said, “Your physical pain is a symptom. To heal, we need to work with the cause, which to me, is originating in your solar plexus.”
We spoke about personal power, where she was betraying herself, and about her ability to say, “No!” I suggested that being injured gave her a reason to say no and create boundaries. I gave “homework” suggestions and she left in pain, slightly less, but still in pain.
The next morning she called to share that a miracle had taken place and that she awoke 100% pain free. I suggested she not question a miracle and inwardly gave thanks to the true Healer.
By clearing the energy blockages and embracing her lesson, her inner Healer awakened and She created her own miracle.
So, to the word alternative, we have many choices on who we want to assist us and on what modality would be best for us now.
Of course, I would love everyone reading this article to receive a session from me, that would be very good for my business but it may or may not be good for you.
When people ask me what modality they should choose; which is the best one, which healer is a good one, I say, “Really your questions can only be answered by You. I can give you a few suggestions for choosing if you’d like.”
My suggestions go something like: a top priority is to create a sense of inner safety.
What follows the first thought is: do you feel guided to work with a man or a woman? This can narrow the selection process down significantly. It is very important to follow your inner guidance, as it is likely that it is your inner Healer directing you to a particular modality or person.
Next, I might prompt: do you enjoy being touched? If you desire no touch, then this rules out many modalities.
What about credentials? I find word-of-mouth to be the best credential. Some of the best healers I have worked with did not have a modern day diploma or letters before or after their name.
As a final suggestion, make the choosing process fun, see your visits to this healer as an adventure in self discovery, because after all, that is what will happen, you will discover that You are the only one that can heal you. Healing takes being accountable and means taking ownership. If you are feeling that either path, the allopathic or the holistic, has “failed” you and you’re sitting in a place of judging, this means you have placed your power outside yourself.
Remember, there is only one Healer, God/Goddess, and this Spirit resides within you.
The Alchemy of Love
Change~Transform~Transmute
Evolving Magazine: October 2014
Copyright © September 2014 - Rev. Maitreya Zohar
Were you aware: the word change comes from the Latin root: to exchange.
Not always, but more times than not, our desire to change originates from the idea of problem, which in turn invokes our need for a solution. Living in a universe governed by laws, one of which is the law of polarity, our newly created solution will immediately create a future problem, which will lead to a future solution; then to a future problem; a future solution and so on.
One example of change is New York City in the 1800s. It is extremely simplistic to say, and I am sure there are other factors, but it could be said that cars were birthed as a solution to the horse manure problem. Now, centuries later, the vehicles of today are the horses of yesteryear. One type of pollution was exchanged for another, pollution in and of itself was not solved, merely changed.
Those of us with the desire for greater freedom become ever frustrated in the cycle of change, treating symptoms, rather than causes.
Were you aware: the word transform comes from the Latin root: to form.
Here, on our journey of freedom, we have evolved in understanding to forming a new identity and relationship with the world.
An addiction program is a great example of transformation. A conscious identity as an addict is formed as we cease our use of addictive substances. This vital step toward freedom is incomplete however because we are taught to believe that we will always be addicts. We could say we believe ourselves to be clay, formed in a particular shape. Now, in program, we reshape ourselves, take new forms, molding our clay belief; yet clay we remain.
Our desire for greater freedom has taken us further in self discovery yet as long as we continue to play in the paradigm of change and transformation we will continue to suffer.
Were you aware: the word transmute means to alter in nature or substance, especially a higher one.
It is here, on our journey of freedom, our longing calls forth an epiphany, possibly one like, “What is the difference between freedom and liberation?” And with this our inner alchemist awakes.
In days of old, the alchemists spoke of turning lead into gold. We could equate fear with lead and love with gold; judging, controlling thoughts with lead and forgiveness and acceptance with gold; our ego with lead and our Spirit with gold. Ultimately however, separation is the lead and wholeness is the gold.
For this moment, lets accept our true nature as gold, at times masquerading as lead. And on our journey of liberation we get to choose which paradigm we’re living in. Countless opportunities present themselves each day to transmute our separate, lead based existences into thriving, whole, golden realities.
Ask questions of yourself like: “How would love look at this situation?” and “What would love do here?”
These next comments are vital to the journey of shifting paradigms. Love is! If we view love as something conditional or unconditional, then we are in the world of polarity - change and transformation. If we ask these questions with lead colored glasses on we will receive lead based answers. If we ask these questions with gold colored glasses on we will receive golden epiphanies and all of a sudden the world that you didn’t know you didn’t know, enters either the world that you know you don’t know or the world you know that you know.
Were you aware: the word change comes from the Latin root: to exchange.
Not always, but more times than not, our desire to change originates from the idea of problem, which in turn invokes our need for a solution. Living in a universe governed by laws, one of which is the law of polarity, our newly created solution will immediately create a future problem, which will lead to a future solution; then to a future problem; a future solution and so on.
One example of change is New York City in the 1800s. It is extremely simplistic to say, and I am sure there are other factors, but it could be said that cars were birthed as a solution to the horse manure problem. Now, centuries later, the vehicles of today are the horses of yesteryear. One type of pollution was exchanged for another, pollution in and of itself was not solved, merely changed.
Those of us with the desire for greater freedom become ever frustrated in the cycle of change, treating symptoms, rather than causes.
Were you aware: the word transform comes from the Latin root: to form.
Here, on our journey of freedom, we have evolved in understanding to forming a new identity and relationship with the world.
An addiction program is a great example of transformation. A conscious identity as an addict is formed as we cease our use of addictive substances. This vital step toward freedom is incomplete however because we are taught to believe that we will always be addicts. We could say we believe ourselves to be clay, formed in a particular shape. Now, in program, we reshape ourselves, take new forms, molding our clay belief; yet clay we remain.
Our desire for greater freedom has taken us further in self discovery yet as long as we continue to play in the paradigm of change and transformation we will continue to suffer.
Were you aware: the word transmute means to alter in nature or substance, especially a higher one.
It is here, on our journey of freedom, our longing calls forth an epiphany, possibly one like, “What is the difference between freedom and liberation?” And with this our inner alchemist awakes.
In days of old, the alchemists spoke of turning lead into gold. We could equate fear with lead and love with gold; judging, controlling thoughts with lead and forgiveness and acceptance with gold; our ego with lead and our Spirit with gold. Ultimately however, separation is the lead and wholeness is the gold.
For this moment, lets accept our true nature as gold, at times masquerading as lead. And on our journey of liberation we get to choose which paradigm we’re living in. Countless opportunities present themselves each day to transmute our separate, lead based existences into thriving, whole, golden realities.
Ask questions of yourself like: “How would love look at this situation?” and “What would love do here?”
These next comments are vital to the journey of shifting paradigms. Love is! If we view love as something conditional or unconditional, then we are in the world of polarity - change and transformation. If we ask these questions with lead colored glasses on we will receive lead based answers. If we ask these questions with gold colored glasses on we will receive golden epiphanies and all of a sudden the world that you didn’t know you didn’t know, enters either the world that you know you don’t know or the world you know that you know.