With all the graduations going on now, it got me thinking. Aren't we always in a state of graduating? Isn't that the experience we call life? A series of steps that lead to another level of learning, growing, application and awareness. Sure there are specific times that are celebrated and should be like when one completes a level of education or training, but life seems to have its own graduation points. Perhaps if we viewed them this way, we wouldn't see this life thing as such a struggle.

For instance, when people come to see me because they are unsure how to handle this next step of life called retirement, I often suggest that they see it as a graduation. As something to celebrate rather than be nervous about all that time that they will have now that they don't work full time. There is another reason I suggest they see it this way; to retire means to rest or withdraw from and I just don't think this is a good way to go into what could be the most fun time of one's life. Besides, some of the people I know who have graduated are busier now then when they worked!

Think about the steps you have taken in your own life that could be seen as a graduation. What about when you decided to move away from home or when you realized the relationship you were in was not serving either of you and you called it over? Or what about the time you made the commitment to your health and started eating more organically or less chips? These are all places where you grew, learned and committed. Go you!

If we accept the idea of a graduated system, we can also appreciate the fact that we didn't get to graduate high school or an equivalent diploma without going through elementary school. Following this idea, perhaps the first time or two, or three that you attempted to eat healthy were your elementary school experience. Perhaps the friendships with people you realized weren't really friends you would like to hang out with were really the middle school field trip where you learned there was more to this world that you would like to explore.

Maybe not knowing what to do with your life and how you will traverse it is the great graduation point of all times. Accepting that we will never really know what we want to be when we grow up, because we are always growing, and learn to be in whatever experience or grade is happening at the time.

We are proud of graduates. We celebrate them. Even throw parties to commemorate the growth. Why can't we do this for every aspect of our life and learn to be appreciative of the ability to be here in this school playground? I'm not saying we have to get an award for everything we do, or a trophy just for showing up. I'm still a little old school on that one, but we can recognize when we've hit a milestone and be willing to be proud of ourselves.

This past week someone close to me said some pretty hurtful things. I'll admit, I carried it with me for a few days and it hit hard enough to draw tears. Then I remembered I have the say over whether I am hurting about another's actions. They show who they are, not me and I can continue to carry it or I can release it and know that moving forward I will know exactly how she thinks of me and graduate out of that middle school program!

What if this week you took an example from all those moving into new areas of their lives and got brave enough to explore where you are graduating now and do it with celebration?

What if....

Off to play Pomp and Circumstance,
Vicki

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Do you ever want to toss up whatever is going on around and within you to the stars, Gods, angels, guides, person on the side of the road as you realize life is a little bit too much right now and you don't want to carry it at this moment?  I trust if you are human, you have felt this. I hope if you are human, you have done this. I also hope you have felt the relief that can come from surrendering. Realizing the truth that we really have no control over anything except how we carry ourselves, can be so freeing.

The final stage of Belief Re-patterning is called Surrender. Now, the first visual of that may be a suspect who puts their hands up and stops fighting with an official, but how I see it is an "oh, thank goodness, someone else is going to take my worries and carry them away" action. According to Suze Casey, the developer of Belief Re-patterning "the Surrender stage is about accepting a new truth for yourself. It's the declaration: This is the way I create my world! This is who I really am."  I love the way she says it so succinctly because this is what I feel I help people with the most; learning and being who they really are.

Surrendering in this way is not about giving away your power but rather about giving away those beliefs and patterns that are no longer serving you. For me recently, it was about releasing a thought pattern that if I wasn't producing, I wasn't being valuable. I have said so many times to people there is divine timing. I truly believe that too but wasn't applying it to myself in order to allow space to be. Space to surrender to what my newly wired brain wants for me. Peace, accomplishment sure, along with peace. ahhhhhhhhhhh

So, after we travel through the other steps of the process, and a bit of breathing, we arrive in the place of surrender where we cease resisting our true selves. Much like in yoga, if you resist in a pose, you will never be able to deepen it. You've got to be willing to trust in the new muscles and flexibility you have developed to reach a bit further, to deepen the love of self and to relax. One of the best poses in yoga to me is savastana, or corpse pose. One because it signals the end of the practice for that moment and two because it took me a long time to be able to surrender, let go and melt into the floor and allow it to support me. Tense at the end of yoga. Yup, if I can shift that way of being, anyone can!

The act of surrendering opens us up to our true worth. Wouldn't that be so lovely to feel on a consistent, natural basis?  I want that for you. I hope you want that for you too. My dream is to help people realize how much they matter and that they have a value in being themselves. I had to learn that within myself, and it's still growing thankfully, to help others. I hope this walk through the steps of Belief Re-patterning process has intrigued you, got you thinking and perhaps entered an idea that you too would love to live in a peaceful, fun, belief in self, confident, contributory self. You can do it, you know.

Combining all the steps of the technique allows for a supportive subconscious. One that operates from a place of coaching you along, recognizing where a shift in gears could happen, shifts and then supports the new space. We are always growing in this eternal process we agreed to. Wouldn't it be nice to have a system like Belief Re-patterning that grows with you?  You can and now that you know a bit more about it, perhaps you will give it to self. 

I believe in you,

Vicki

P.S.  I am offering a complimentary Belief Re-patterning event on Tuesday, April 12th at 6:00 pm.   Seating is limited, so be sure to call the office (413) 499-9791 or email donna@vickibaird.com to reserve a seat.

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There is a plentiful amount of vibrant energy here tonight. We thank you for inviting us to be part of your learning. Please know that we are here to help, teach and guide yes but also to walk along side you as friends and collaborators of your great incarnation. This is how we refer to the time you are in. It is the great collaboration between realms and we are most excited to be with leaders such as yourselves. Party on!

This was a message that came through when I was doing the Experience the Realms class this week. We were in the Spirit guide realm and they pushed me to send a message along. I thought it was for the group attending but it turns out to be applicable for all beings at this time so I decided to share, with their permission of course, the guides that is!

So, while there was a lot of energy the night of the class, there has been plenty universally as well. It's all going to be relative to where you are on your path and in your vibration but regardless, it has picked up speed and it has been fun!

 The message I have been receiving myself has been along this message as well. Lately, the spirit world, while active, is not as directive as it used to be. There was a time where in four readings a day, three would have messages from the other side, those who had crossed. There would be direct messages about people here and what was going on with them and what happened that helped the one who had crossed to croak (their word, not mine) and other data like that. Lately though the messages have been coming in less and less. I thought it was my antenna and that things were shifting again as there was a time when I wasn't aware I could hear them, so perhaps it can switch back I thought.

I finally decided to have a sit down with the other side, my guides and the energy I refer to as Source. As I settled in I asked, "so, what is going on with the energy communication lately? Where is everyone and why aren't they coming through like they used to if the energy is more open and there is less work the either side has to do?" The response I received I suppose I could have expected as it wasn't news to me but would be to others and maybe I just didn't want to deliver that news, but, here goes.

So, what is happening is we are moving from a place where we interpret the energy from a higher than us resonance to one of next to or inclusive of our being. That is what the guides meant by they can lead or they can walk next to us and we are learning to work in collaboration. We are entering an energy that is conducive to working with all realms very easily. I understood this and accepted it because I have never felt like the other levels of vibration whether they were guides, angels or Ascended Masters have looked down on us but rather over  as they walked next to us and we were the ones who couldn't see that. What I didn't understand is why that was shutting down one of my communication stations!

I further received that the astral realm, where we go when we croak and is one level above us in vibration, those that are in that realm are no longer interested in playing the position of higher authority or energy either. They want to walk along side of us as if they were here in the physical as well (only with a great gig of no limitations and still learning about their life path without resistance.). They know the importance of moving along with life and not dwelling on how long someone was here, what they passed of or what they didn't do when they were here and they want us to learn that too while we are still on this side. Sooooo, being Vicki, I asked ANOTHER question of, ok, that may be so but why aren't they talking to ME? (cause I'm special you know....in my own mind) The response back and it was LOUD as if everyone on the other side wanted me to hear it this time "THEY DON"T NEED YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH US ANYMORE! THEY NEED TO ACCEPT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE AND THEY ARE WHERE THEY ARE AND WE ARE TOGETHER LIKE WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN". Jeez, you don't have to yell, I said.

I then asked so what is my part? To which the reply with loving kindness was, "just let them know we are ok and if they open their hearts they can hear and feel us themselves and if there is a message that has to get through and we need to use you , we will, but for the most part your job as mediator is complete". WHAT? WHAT? It was like I had been fired! The nerve, interrupt my sleep for seven years and then poof, you are complete. blah!

Once I finished my hissyfit, I calmed down and thanked them for their messages and healing over the years and pouted for a bit. It was not my finest hour. Then in true Vicki style I saw the positive side to this (I know my silver lining view can be annoying to others sometimes, but it is how I roll!). It wasn't that there wasn't ever going to be communication again, it was just that we had evolved as we all come here to do and I am proud of us.

The other aspect that occurred to me was more of a personal one, although I LOVE connecting people here to their loved ones, I light up when I can help someone grow and move in their own incarnation and focus on themselves to be the best they know how to be. Thank goodness I am diversified as I don't know that unemployment covers intuitives whose dead people satellite has interference!

Let me be clear that this does not mean there won't be communications from those that have crossed or that they are ditching us for some fun party in heaven. What it means is you will have more access and more fun when you learn to open your heart and listen. I am sure there will always be mediums and those that can be the conduit to those who have crossed because that is part of evolution too. I, however, am going to respect the wishes of the other side and not go poking my psychic nose in where it is not in our best interest to be. Should they decide to make themselves known to me, I will pass the message along but I do believe I am being lead, pushed, guided in another direction. Wheeeeeeeeeee

How can you help yourself connect? Well, you can trust that those that have crossed have been blessed to do so. They have completed their journey on this Earth for this time around, whether they pass in utero or they are one hundred and fifteen years old. They did what they had to do this round and released their physical bodies. We could celebrate their passing and high five them for their time they were here and the completion of that process. Do you know that I have never been to a service or heard of one where the spirit who passed wasn't happy, bouncy and silly? Do they miss us? Sure, but it is not in the hole in the heart way we tend to act out, it is with a wow, I wish they would realize I was here and I can see, hear and speak with them through love. They don't dwell on it because there is way more fun stuff to do on the other side where growing is expected, encouraged and exciting. Wouldn't it be nice if we COULD learn that lesson here?

I say this with all the reverence my heart and soul can hold, I have completely enjoyed being a medium and I know that will always be an aspect of my energy. I have loved more souls that I have not known in the physical then those I have known in the physical and I am so grateful to all of their teachings. I am excited for those that are feeling more, seeing more and connecting more and I will always be here to guide them as they emerge into their own abilities, at least until I croak and then they will have to use those abilities to chat with me. :)

We all have the ability to communicate with Spirit. Be it the astral realm, spirit guides, angels, Archangels, Ascended Masters, Source or those pesky little faeries. We ALL have that. Now, it is time you remembered that part of you and celebrated it like you won the energy lottery!

Be happy, use white light to surround you and be AMAZED at the awesome universe we live in.

Viewing my role a little differently and doing a happy dance as change is good,
Vicki

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