In Memory of Easy

I originally wrote this a couple of months ago when Easy first started showing signs of illness.  Today Easy took her next step, unfolding into the tremendous spirit that she has always been.  She now has the space to truly fly.

Dear Mary,
I never met you but I have come to know you through the most amazing bird.  Your bird, Easy.  She has come into my life and brightened my days in the short time we have known each other.
Easy is silly and funny and full of energy.  Always ready to make me laugh. Always ready to drive me crazy chewing on my necklace an earrings.  Yelling when she wants to come out and flying around to make sure she doesn’t miss anything.  Always trying to get away with eating whatever she has on my shoulder.
Sadly Easy is coming to her own end.  She has congestive heart failure and is getting weaker everyday.  It saddens me that I will not have more time with her but the time we have had had been of such high quality it is as if we have jammed years into these few months.  We have become friends who have known each other for years, for lifetimes.
Mary you raised an incredible little bird.  Her manners are her own but she would never hurt anyone.  Never peck harder than a small pinch to let you know that she did not like what you were doing.  Easy will always step up and give kisses really no matter how she is feeling. 
I have loved watching her eat beans and popcorn, her absolute favorite food out there.  She has tried to hop into the bowl on several occasions.  We have sat together with a dishtowel on my lap to help keep her joyful mess contained.

I cannot thank you enough for the time we have shared and I know that where you are Mary you have a bird ready to see you again.  There is so much that I understand about death and taking next steps but when it all comes to pass it is still hard to make that separation seem truly unreal. 
I don’t know when Easy is going to leave this world but I know that there is a place that will be complete upon her arrival.  I see her fading into all that is whole and one creating a light so beautiful it is hard to focus and sustain.  Knowing that that true beauty is within me (within all of us).
May I be able to participate in this amazing next step with ease and grace and wholeness that has always been part of me and follow Easy’s gentle lead.
Thank you Mary for sharing this precious gift.  I see you happy and complete after a difficult time here.  May I share in your completeness and wholeness.
Love,
Alicia
                   
I received Easy from my friend Lisa who took her in from her terminally ill neighbor, Mary, just a month before she died. That is who the letter is to.  I have had the pleasure of living with Easy for the past 11 months.  She has been there through my transition from a job I had for 10 years and into my first home purchase and move.  Easy has been a part of my readings and healings and has helped me and all of my animals, bringing amusement and fun throughout all of our changes and adjustments.  Easy always lived in the moment.
She died in my hands today and I am glad that she is no longer struggling to breathe. 
All is well now.  xoxo All my Love to you, Easy.

There is no suffering in Love

 There is no suffering in love.  There is no suffering in love.  It seems that statement needs to be repeated each time it is expressed.  There is no suffering in love.  Where do we find that feeling?  How to we experience this idea?  How do we have this truth in our lives?  This is the essence of animal communication to me.  This is what animals.... all animals…are trying to tell us.  Are telling us.  There isn’t any trying involved.  It is the constant frequency they are broadcasting.  What does it take for us to hear that frequency?  Do they need to be lost? Broken? Mean? Abused?  Where is it that we need to see that there is no suffering in love?
2 of my cats are disabled.  One was hit by a car and the other attacked by a dog.  The first, Francy, lost all the nerve function in her face, her ears don’t move, she doesn’t blink and her whiskers don’t move.
The second, Ralfie, lost an eye, lost sight in the other eye and broke her jaw, so her tongue sticks out all the time.  I met them at a time when I felt like they looked. Broken.  When I went to meet them they were considered unadoptable.  Just like me.  When I decided to adopt them in my enthusiasm I asked the adoption coordinator if I needed to do anything to make sure that no one else adopted them before I got back, He laughed and said that no one else was going to take them and not to worry.  I was a puzzled until I remembered that they we were broken. 

They were great contributors to me becoming an animal communicator.  And through all of my training and practice it took years to finally hear how their injuries came about.  How did it all happen?  How did it all go down?  They each answered in the same way at different times.  They both said “I got the call”.  “I was having my life and I knew I had to get to you but I didn’t know how.  Then I got the call that you were ready.  So I found the road and stepped in front of a car because that is how you could see me”, said Francy.  Ralfie told a similar story.  She got the call and found a neighborhood dog and asked for a favor, injure but do not kill.  The dog obliged and Ralfie was brought to Treehouse in a plastic storage container.  I would not have seen her any other way.  She is a beautiful cat and if she were not injured I would have passed her by.  But they found each other and then found me.  They found me 3 weeks after I moved to Chicago.  It was a miracle.
The story of Francy and Ralfie is completely about no suffering in love.  They have not suffered in their injuries, they have loved.  They knew where they were going and chose to love through what others may call hardship or grievous injury. 

I live with these 2 beautiful girls who now show very few signs that there is anything wrong with them but who love with great abandon anyone who comes through the door.  They are my light and truth that there is no suffering in love.  They show me everyday that animals are telling us that all the time. 
There is no suffering in love.

So next time you are out in the world, with people or with animals, as you gaze into thier eyes simply say to yourself there is no suffering in love and see how the world changes.

Special Events

Animal Healing Circle
Tuesday, July 19, 8:00 - 9:15 PM EDT
This special event is $45 and takes place over the phone.

Join me for an Animal Healing Circle Tuesday, July 19 where I  will look at the spirit of animals as they are working in the world and the energy of how animals are impacted and effecting all of our lives. I will touch on the messages being communicated to us by animals around the world and talk about how we can listen more closely to hear the messages yourself. In addition, I will address questions about your animals or animals in general. This is a special group presentation tele-seminar where individual and universal messages will be shared. Register at www.sevenlevelscoaching.com or call 978-475-7747 to reserve your spot. Upon registration, you will receive information on how to phone in for the session.

I can't wait to "see" you there!

 

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To help you stay in tune with yourself and not get lost in all that is going on around you, I am offering Biomat healings. My Biomat is made of Jade and Tourmaline. When heated my Biomat produces Far Infrared Rays, which penetrate the body 5"-7" into muscle fiber and every body system. The stimulates healing on a cellular level.

Here are some of the ways a Biomat will benefit you:
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•    Relieves body pains
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•    Relieves all forms of nerve conditions

The Biomat healing takes place on an energetic as well as physical level, leaving you refreshed and rejuvenated. You will be energized and ready to blossom!

I am offering 45-minute healings for $75.

Piggy Pick Up from the Pound!

 Today I began one of my favorite pastimes. Driving animals to one destination or another. I spent about a year doing spay/neuter shuttling for Red Door Shelter . That is where I met my beloved Hazel.

Hazel

Strangely how after I met her I felt I didn't need to do it any more....Now don't getting any ideas that I am getting another pig...I am enjoying the energy of another little being passing through. 


Well, today I am volunteering for Critter Corral. I received an email yesterday that there was guinea pig at the Anti-Cruelty Society (that is where Five came from)

(Five newly home from Anti Cruelty Society, tiny boy...big ears!! He still cuddles with Francy, too!)

and if I could pick him up. Well, of course!! How could I turn down such a fabulous opportunity to hang with a pig! So, I have him now happily munching on greens and hay in my healing sanctuary. Off we go to Hinsdale tomorrow to drop him off with the Critter Corral team who will make sure he is as perfect as he is and adopt him out to his new fabulous people! I love to be part of the travel of an animal to their final destination, a leg on the journey.

So, welcome and so long to the adorable little piggy boy who I am affectionately calling Bow in honor of my sister's amazing new dog, Bo (he is getting a reading tonight so I thought it appropriate!).

Bo

update on the rose colored glasses…a visitation.

I am always amazed at what happens when I ask for something.  I have been asking for a long time for a sign, or a message.  Why does everyone else see God, but I struggle seeing anything?  Well, I realized that what I am looking for and am given is very real.  A visitation that happens out in the world with seeming regular people...or so I think!  Here is my latest visitation experience.

While I was at the Morton Arboretum
fair 2 weeks ago I noticed there was a service dog. He was only wearing a vest so he was not for the blind. He was a companion for a young boy who I had the pleasure and honor of chatting with. We were both enjoying some hand made soaps and he told me very excitedly that he had tasted everything and smelled and touched everything and that he loved it all. Anything he could get his hands on. He said, smiling "my problem is too much pleasure". I put my hand on his arms and said that is not a problem. We chatted some more and as he began walking away I said I like your rose colored glasses (which he was actually wearing)! He came back and stood right in front of me and said "you know that these are glasses, right? They are not sun glasses!" I said "I know, they are rose colored glasses". and as he turned to go I said "You know the only time they don’t work is when you take them off"…he turned and gave me a thumbs up and said "Exactly".  Seriously? Really?
Wow. Who could have planned that! It seems that I might have gotten the lesson! I was and still am floored by that experience; enjoying it so much. I guess its like butterflies, when you ask to see them they show up!

I have been greatly inspired and have since purchased a pair of rose colored glasses for myself to keep reminding me that the only time they don't work is when I take them off.

Enjoy seeing the world anew!

I'm nuts, Your nuts, We're all nuts for Soap Nuts!

What a great slogan! I am now nuts for Yoreganics Soap Nuts !

I have washed 3 loads of laundry with them and they are fabulous! Thank you Kim for showing me what these little guys are and how they work. Soap Nuts are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree (Sapindus 
mukorrosi), similar to the lychee. A long time ago, people in 
South East Asia figured out that when the nuts get wet, they release 
saponin, a natural cleaner, making them great for washing clothes!

I think that my clothes were cleaner and softer than with regular detergent. And the pig fleece does not stink! (my guinea pigs live on fleece instead of litter. It wicks away any moisture and dries super fast. Easy to clean up, too. Just shake and wash!).

That was my main worry. I usually wash it with a cup of vinegar to get any smell out. No need with Yoreganics Soap Nuts! Also, soap nuts don't leave a residue build up so the fleece is more absorbant.
Fermi’s favorite bed was washed with the Yoreganics Soap Nuts and usually he takes a day or two to reacquaint himself with his clean bed but today he hopped right in! Probably no fragrance needed to be aired out.

(Fermi and his favorite bed)

(Agape wante dto get in on the action, too)

So, if you find yourself looking for an organic alternative to laundry detergent or have very sensitive skin give them a try! They are reusable up to 5 loads of laundry, too! Feel free to ask any questions or check out the Yoreganics website.