Na-No-Intuit-Mo- Picking Fruit, Finding Parking, and other tricks

Okay, so we’ve talked about intuition for the big things…and intuition for the hard things…let’s talk about intuition for the small things…

This is the most exciting intuition for me, some days, because it is an immediate validation of my mad gifts.

And also… because it makes life that extra 10% better.

 

So, intuition for small things…like picking the best fruit or picking the best thing to eat on a menu (notice all this food stuff), or finding parking…

You are going to use the same technique we’ve used all month:  Take a deep breath, ask the question, feel for an answer.  But you’re going to do it over and over again in a short window of time.

Produce Department Pickings

Let’s start with the celery. Close your eyes and run your hands over the celery, lightly.   When I feel the right celery, it sounds like I hear a little “ding” in my head. But it’s subtle. Just a little “Pick me!”

When you feel it or sense it, put that in your cart.

If you’re not sure where to start in the produce section, close your eyes and ask, “What should I pick?”  Something will spring to mind.

Is it weird that we’re in the produce section, closing our eyes and running our hands over the produce?

Yes.

And it’s awesome.  It’s all kinds of awesome.  If anybody looks sideways at you, you just say “I’m absorbing the nutrients with my mind rays.”

That will shut them right up. And make them move away from you. Hey look! More room to do your shopping. Sweet.

The Inevitable Mind Bump

You might get overly excited. Or upset. Or you might not feel like you’re getting a answer. You might freak out! You might find yourself holding a jicama and wondering, “What is this thing?”

Take another deep breath. And then remember that you are picking vegetables and no one is going to die if you pick the wrong one.

Then trust yourself. Be light with yourself.

Go about your grocery trip (you can also do this with flowers, cheese, whatever. Processed foods, not so much).

Then when you go home and cook up your food, see if it’s not just that little bit better.  Or even a lot better.

At a Restaurant-

Run your index finger over the menu, and see if you sense a ‘ding’. Or you may hear a voice say, “Get the Panini”.  If so, get the panini!

If you hear a voice say, “Get the panini and share it with Bridget,”  I’m sitting behind you.

Parking

If you are looking for parking, listen for a voice saying “Go Right”. or “Go Left”.  Or whisper, “I need Parking.”  Don’t be frantic. Just be light.  The parking will be there.

You can get really good at this if you practice.

Remember to Validate

When you pull into the awesome parking spot, say, “Thank you!” and then say “Good Job” to yourself for intuiting the perfect spot.

When you eat the tasty food you’ve intuitively picked say, “Thank you!” and then of course, think, “I’m so awesome” about yourself.  or “I’m down with my mad intuitive skills” or whatever the cool kids are saying these days.

Maybe instead of Validate, we start saying “Gratidate”- an amalgam of gratitude and validate.

Woot! Yay! You are getting Good at This!

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And that, my friends, is the end of Na-No-Intuit-Mo… Tomorrow we enter the month of Dark and Light.  We go Esoteric. And we tell jokes.  We touch the scary spots.  And Drink some cocoa.

And on Dec. 5th! We have a divine download! Woot! Join Us! $10 to change your attitude on Abundance!

The Aptly Named Black Friday

Nothing says you love me like a flat-screen TV from Wal-mart, honey.

Or those extruded plastic bits that you just spent $40 on and were made by people living in poverty some place where we can’t see them.

Or that you left the house at 4 am to fight crowds to buy stuff for me that I will open on Christmas, have a moment of happiness and then forget about by New Year’s.

Thanks. Wow, I feel so loved by your consumerism.

Instead…

This year, buy local.

Buy from artisans.

Buy what will bring you joy and then take whatever money you don’t buy and spend it on experiences.

Take your kids roller-skating.

Get fancy marshmallows for your cocoa and whip out the board games.

Go out in the snow if you live by snow.

Don’t work hard to spend your money on plastic and electronics that will enable your family to get through another holiday avoiding one another.

That’s all. Lecture Over. I’m off to visit my horse.

Thanksgiving Shows Up for the Sour and Sweet

Today, I am making things with cranberries. I am getting to know this strange little berry.  It gets its name from Cranes. Because it’s a berry that cranes like to eat.

Also,  it’s known as a bog berry, because it grows up ass-deep in cold water.

And yet it’s cheery and red and tart and in a word, mysterious.

Can you explain to me what a cranberry tastes like?

I can’t wrap my head around it. How can I mix it with horseradish and sugar and sour cream and onion and make the best turkey sandwich spread ever?

How can I mix this berry with ginger and cherries and more sugar and turn it into a sublime syrup.

How does this work? How is it so versatile?

Ah- this is a metaphor for Thanksgiving, my friends.

Because Thanksgiving shows up for the sour and the sweet.

You may be surrounded by people you love, having a fun time with the dominos and feeling wonderful.

You may be surrounded by people you love and really really really want to scratch their eyes out and run away.

You may be with a loved one, and think “This is the last time I’ll see them.”

You may be with a loved one and think, “I wonder when the Macy’s Day parade starts, and whether he’ll shut up during it, because oh my god if I have to hear about that fishing/army/time he met the Queen story, I will hurt somebody. “

And at each of these moments,  a good thing to ask is “What is Good?”

I had a professor in college named Hilda Raz. She is FIERCE.  She is also a brilliant writer, someone who turns a wide-open eye on the beauty and pain and quiet confusion and unanswered questions that travel with us.

In the late 80’s, she was diagnosed with cancer. The bad cancer. Not a little case. The odds were not remotely in her favor.

And I am probably telling the story wrong, because this happened over 20 years ago, and I heard about it 17 years ago, and you know how a story can twist and turn in the mind.

But, she was in a lot of pain. A LOT OF PAIN. And it seemed like the end, and she just got to the point where she needed to do something and it was the middle of the night…so she wrote a list called “What is Good.” – That’s all it really was, a list of those things that she could put a little faith in.

And she lived. And her cancer went away. And then she went on to focus on other moments of pain, transformation, wonder and joy.

Thanksgiving is here to remind us, wherever we are that we can make a list of what is good.

And with Gratitude comes deeper living. And that, as Martha Steward says, can be a good thing.

And if you want to read on…

My list- for today-

Hearing the cranberries pop in the simmering sugar syrup.

Living in a house with trees close by, so it feels like I’m in a tree house.

Having a dog that is hilarious when she is trying to sleep and we gently say, “Olive? Olive?” and she tries to lift her head and pay attention and then sleep grabs her and pulls her back under.

Having two other sweet dogs too and 3 cats and a horse named Ed.

Having boys who cleaned my yard this week, and who make me laugh. And who also remind me of the hard parts of growing up and make me so thankful that I am a grown-up even if being a grown-up is sometimes hard.

My friend Cherish who loans me books.

My friend Jill who will tell me the unmincing truth.

My friend Barb who is always telling me very interesting things and cheering me on.

My friend Caz across the ocean.

My friend Lilly who has the best finger waggle.

My friend Melissa who I thought of this morning as a pulled a piece of wet cardboard from a lid in my sink and realized I wasn’t the only one completely icked out by wet cardboard.

My mother, who is incredibly patient and honest and has taught me wonderful attention to detail.

My dad, who is funny and alive and always exploring.

My brothers, and their loved ones, who are interesting and quirky and who accept me.

The list goes on and on and there are so many people that I didn’t list, but could.

Yes. Lots to be grateful for.

A Divine Download Sneak Peak- Love

I’ve been working with Westwind Farm Studio to develop recorded guided meditations on subjects like Love, Abundance, Confidence, and Courage.

We had the idea of taking the personal divine messages that I receive for my clients, and turning them into meditations. Then we thought: what if I just asked for divine information on each subject, and we incorporated it into the meditation?

Spark! Good Idea!

I sat at my desk, cleared my mind, and brought myself into a deep meditative state.

Then I asked, “God, tell me about Love.” and then I just started typing. I started typing so fast that my spelling and words were all over the place.  The universe had so much to say to me about love, about how to feel it. About why we don’t feel it.

 

Love. Love. Love.

 

 

The divine download wasn’t as gooey as I thought it would be. It was deeply practical.

Here’s a snippet:

“When you feel out of the flow of love, it is because you’ve forgetton the joy in which you were created. You’ve not remembered to see the divinity of those around you.”

This was not what I expected. It’s much more useful.  There’s something tangible here to work with.

Remembering to see the divinity of those around you.

I like that. It is hard to see the divine sometimes. It is hard to be in the experience of love when we are seeing behavior that bugs and irritates.

The universe knows that we are distracted by the surface behaviors, by the irritating and sometimes harmful ways we treat one another.  So to hear, “Remember to see”, is a piece of advice that brings us into a moment of clarity.

Remember to See

Remembering to look for the hidden spark of divine within each of us helps us to love one another.

This idea helps put the little problems in perspective, and gives a path to peace through the big ones.

Today- think about someone who bugs you. Then remember to see the divine within them. You may find yourself looking at them differently.

If that’s too hard, think about someone who does not bug you. Remember to see the divine within them.

Then, turn around and look in the mirror.

Hey You!

Do you see your divine spark? Do you remember the joy in which you were created? Not just with your birth here. With your entry into the universe at the beginning. (That’s so woo-woo. And SO AWESOME.)

Let’s go there! Let’s go there in our minds.  Imagine, Spirit cupping his hands and blowing, and a spark appearing. Woo! That’s you! Look at you! Yay! You’re Here! YOU’RE HERE!

(Or, for those agnostics out there,  imagine stars lighting up, glowing, and within the stardust, there you are.  For our bodies are literally made of stars. )

Remember? Remember to see?  Please remember to see.  Seeing is Loving.

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Na-No-Intuit-Mo: how to use your intuition to find your missing fingers if you’re Galileo

Say you’re Galileo, and you’ve been excommunicated by the Catholic church, and branded a Heretic (your mom had a really hard time with that one, huh? I know).

And to make matters worse, you’ve died and been buried, and then somebody dug you up and took a few of your fingers and your tooth.

So, that sucks, Galileo.  That is really a bummer, especially for just agreeing with that Copernicus guy, who is really kind of a self-absorbed jerk.

Where’s the Justice?

Where’s the Justice, Galileo? I mean, especially after you invented the telescope.

Here’s what you do, buddy.

You haunt people. For years. You especially haunt museum curators.  And anonymous people that might have your fingers in a jar.

You use your intuition to ask, “Who’s descendant is going to sell my fingers at auction?”

Then you follow them around, making them speculate on the meaning of life.  Also, get folk duos to sing about you and make videos about reincarnation.

Then, when your fingers are found, and sold to a guy that donates them to a museum, make sure that your middle finger looks extra creepy by itself in that old jar.

 

Galileo's Finger, courtesy of the AP

 

 

Hey, Galileo- You’re welcome. I’m here for you.  And thanks for all your hard work.

GRatatouille -a recipe for gratefulness…

I am a sucker for stews and cassoulets. Really, anything that combines veggies and wine and meat and makes a melange of all things savory.

Ratatouille is a dish that’s made up of coin-sized chunks of eggplant and peppers and zucchini and tomato.

If you are having a day where you need to fill yourself back up, I highly recommend this Gratatouille.

The difference between Ratatouille and Gratatouille is that you count a blessing with every veggie slice. As you add each slice to your skillet, you think of something that you are grateful for. You may start out with big things or small things. Anything you’d like. You will have at least 50 blessings in your pan.

And then, as you eat them, they go back in you, all of these blessings. For as grateful as you are for your life, many people are grateful to you for gracing their lives.

Here’s Julia Child’s Recipe.

I add a layer of braised lamb. Or I sprinkle cheese over the top and broil it.

If it’s late, you can always forego the recipe and just count your blessings instead of sheep.
Here’s how Bing Crosby did it…

Na-No-Intuit-Mo: Using your intuition to face a potential tragedy

I’m sitting here drinking a homemade honey latte with Sumatran coffee beans from World Cup Coffee. A place I hang a lot.

And I’m not feeling any doom. I’m feeling the buzz of busy.

But…the other day, I saw a lot of tragedy, potential tragedy, bad things happening.

And I saw a lot of fear.

And, it’s never easy to deal with tragedy, fear, ugly things looming on the horizon.

But, your intuition can be your friend here, if you can calm down and turn inward.

The question we’re going to ask is twofold: Am I going to experience this and what am I going to learn from it?

So, here’s a good example. Three years ago, my better half left his job and started a company to make biodiesel systems. The future looked very very very bright.

And 18 months later, the economy tanked, but not before we had invested about $80,000 in this endeavor. And, believe me, that wasn’t just money we had laying around. This was everything we had.

All of the available credit for the company’s customers dried up, and his business went with it.

We went from doing all right to really wondering how we were going to make our mortgage in the space of 3 months. Brian couldn’t find a job. I was getting us by on freelance work and being a pet psychic.

I thought we were going to lose our house.

I didn’t have the presence of mind to intuit much for myself.

My intuition said, “You’re going to be fine!”

I found it very hard to believe that voice. I turned to intuitive friends of mine. They, too, said, “Don’t worry. It’s going to work out.”

Then, Brian got a job. Things turned around. We have a new course.

I’m asking the question in hindsight, the question “What did I need to learn from that time of crisis?”

And the intuition is saying “We wanted you to experience the understanding that you are truly safe, even when you feel vulnerable.”

I’m not 100% what that means. Still Intuiting.

Try This:
If you have something looming on the horizon. If you are currently in crisis, go to a quiet place. Get quiet. Turn inward. Get that idea of doom that you’re worried about (am I going to lose my house? Is this cancer diagnosis the end of me? Am I going to be unemployed for much longer?). Put the idea squarely in your head.

Then ask, “Am I going to experience this?”
And if the answer is “Yes.” (And a real “yes” will sound loving, and not like a door slamming in your face), Ask- “What am I supposed to be learning from this?”

Listen closely. Because the answer will come. It will be positive.

It will not be anything about how wrongly you’re living your life or what a bad person you are.

And if the answer is “No.” , Believe it. Move on, with hope.

Much love to you, today.
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It’s coming! The very cool telegroup session we’re having on December 5th? We’re doing a Divine Download on Abundance. I hope you’ll join us!

And of course, over on the Pets are Talking site, I’m doing my epic $25 3-question special!

The Small Potato or, Bridget Freaks Out in Real-Time

So, there are people in the blogosphere whose work I deeply respect, whose blogs I frequent, and frequently comment upon.

And there is no love there for me.

I leave comments, relevant comments.

And the blogger will comment back to his or her other commenters and leave me out.

And of course, they never leave comments on my blog.

I Get Lots of Love

Believe me, I get lots of love. I get lots of love from my readers and clients and colleagues and friends.

Just yesterday, a gal that I really look up to said: In case no one has told you lately, you are a life changer. So glad I met you and your blog!

So I get the love. I get the love from really great people. You’re giving me love right now, taking the time to read my words.

The Curse of the Small Potato

This morning, I am feeling the curse of the small potato. The curse of not being noticed by people you consider your working peers.

I feel like shouting at them, “Hey! My stuff is good stuff! Hey, acknowledge my brilliance!”

Do you get like this?

Picking the Problem Apart

Whenever I am angry, I am compelled to ask the question, “What is This About?”

Most anger is fear, so I thought, “What are you afraid of?”

And then, I intuited on that.

What are you afraid of?

My first fear is that I will never be big. That I will never command the attention of thousands. That people will never clap and cheer at my amazingness.

So that feels like an ego fear, doesn’t it? Where are the people to cheer at me? Where is the paparazzi?

Anytime that the ego is involved, there’s a fear that we don’t want to acknowledge behind it.

Let’s look, shall we?

My second fear, the one that feeds the ego, is the fear that I suck and I’m just too ignorant to know it.

That I really suck. That what I do is puke-sauce. That people feel too sorry for me to tell me to bag it. They’re too polite to say, “Go Home, lame-o.”

Oh that hurts.

Christ on a Cracker!

Yeah. Me too. Yeah. I am not immune to self-doubt. I am not immune to paralyzing attacks of ego.

Listen to this, people tell me every day that they love me. Complete strangers tell me that they love me, and then there are a few people in the blogosphere who don’t read my blog and comment, when I read theirs, and I lose my little mind.

Yeah. That’s fear talking. That’s the little me. That’s the one, separate from everybody else, in my dark little corner.

My Lesson for Little Potato Me

Hey, Bridget? Yeah, okay, quit sniffling. Need a tissue? Okay.

Hey- so what if they don’t read or post on your blog? Maybe they aren’t the ones that need your message.

Maybe instead of crying in the corner, you should go validate your work a little.

Maybe, you should go see what the world needs.

Oh yeah, and also, you know how before the next big shift happens, you go little and cry and carry on a bit? Do you think maybe this is that time?

Sniff. Maybe.

Okay, here’s a hug. Go get busy. You are loved.

And the problem dissolves. And the anger dissipates. Because I remember that not now doesn’t mean never. And also, I remember that I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t needed. And by thinking that I suck, it means that I have stopped valuing the opinions of people that matter to me, and that matter in general.

We potatoes need our pep talks.

Wait! Fear ’rounds the bend one more time.

What if, by admitting to you, dear reader, that I am not invincible and ever-confident and a calm source of wisdom and always super-successful, what if you think that I suck?

Oh, there’s that fear again.

Hey, Hey Bridget. Wait, are you human?

Sniff. Yes.

And, Um, do humans have moments of self-doubt?

Sniff. I guess so.

Do you wear a cape?

Sniff. No.

So stop being a super-hero.

Okay.

Thanks for being here for my freak-out. I feel better.

Na-No-Intuit-Mo: Using your intuition to get clear on your fear

This morning, I woke to find so many stories of fear and heartbreak in my twitter feed. It feels like there is a ripple of loss coursing through the universe.

The worst part of intuition is that when you’re scared, it tends to not be helpful. When something incredibly important is on the line, whether it’s a job, the life of a loved one, a book deal, the future of your children, it’s hard to trust the voice in your head. It’s hard to even hear it.

So,what to do? You need to get clear on your fear.

Get Clear on Your Fear
Don’t let your fears run loose like dogs in your head and heart. They don’t get to do that. Instead, figure out exactly what you are afraid of. EXACTLY.

Let’s say you’re struggling in this uncertain economic time, trying to find a job, wondering where the money for the rent is going to come from, your fear is scattered into a million directions.

Get clear on it. Zero in on exactly the fear that you’ve got. Is it that you’re going to have to move in with your folks? That you’re going to have to ask somebody for help? That people are going to judge you?

You may not need your intuition to do that. But it can help.

Using your Intuition to Get Clear on Your Fear

Go to your intuiting place.

Do you have a place that brings you peace, gets you quiet, lets you feel more deeply? It can be your bed, your bathtub, a park bench. It’s somewhere that feels safe and maybe a little bit magical. You can bring something small and special with you, like a button or a bell.

Then, settle in. Take a few deep, comfortable breaths. And then say,
“Show me something that helps me understand my fear.”

Sometimes our fear is exacerbated by past life experiences, or current life experiences that we haven’t thought about in years. Sometimes our fear resonates because it reminds us so much of a terrible story we’ve heard.

If we get quiet, we can get clear.

You can also ask the very brave question of:
“What am I afraid of?”

I know it’s scary, but it’s a lot easier to handle things if you know what your fear is. Maybe your fear is ridiculous, and not going to happen in a million years. It’s still real to you. Identify it, feel it, and then you can start making peace with it.

Tomorrow- We ask another important question of our intuition. That is, “Am I going to experience this, and why?” Stay tuned…
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You know, right? about the very cool telegroup session we’re having on December 5th? We’re doing a Divine Download on Abundance. I hope you’ll join us!

And of course, over on the Pets are Talking site, I’m doing my epic $25 3-question special!

A special event- Get God’s Downloads on Abundance and Prosperity

I am really excited to announce this new event!

Jennifer Norton and I have decided to provide a direct-from-the-big-guy downloading experience for our friends, readers and clients.

On December 5th, we’ll be working together to present a 60-minute abundance and prosperity telecall. We’ll use the methods we use with our clients on the entire group of people who call in.  That means, we’ll be looking at our money blocks as a whole and facilitating energetic healing of those blocks! And getting divine messages from God about money!

I think you’ll love this experience. It will change how you feel about prosperity.  It’ll unstick the stuck you’ve got around money, and who couldn’t use a little unsticking around abundance?

 

Because once you’re unstuck, the money flows. And once money flows, you feel a LOT BETTER.

We’re doing the call 3 different times, starting at 6 am PT, and then at Noon PT and then at 4:00 pm PT. Each call will be different, depending on the nature of the people callling in.

And the best news? It’s just 10 bucks for 60 minutes with us. $10! That’s just 2 feet of sandwiches!

The $10 rate lasts until November 25th. Then we’re upping the price to $17. We want to reward you early birds.

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