New Modality: Soul Realignment

[serenac]

P.S.

Forgot to say, Happy Birthday Lena's son!

Yes we really do live downtown. Once upon a time that was just so perfect for me it was what I'd always wanted, to live right in the centre of the city. I had everything at my fingertips, I could go out whenever I liked and return home whenever I wanted, didn't have to bother about taxis or whatever.

But lately I find that that isn't so important to me anymore. I don't go out at night anymore, I find that boring. People just sit around drinking, smoking and talking about football or politics (mostly politics), I find that so boring, I don't find it enriching at all to sit around and talk about politics.

And if you go out at night there are always those men who are looking for a hot date. I'm not interested in being their hot date. I mean, I know some men who frequent discotheques and I find that they're people who don't have much interest in enriching their minds, only looking at sexy ladies. Now there's nothing wrong with being a sexy lady or looking at sexy ladies, but there is also more to life than that. And these male acquaintances that I know, just simply aren't interested in anything else in life. Now I'm not saying that people who frequent discotheques are all like that, only the ones that I know!

I used to find it thrilling to be able to just hop over to the shopping centre or the major department stores in a minute. But now I find that I go to the department store like once a month, when I just simply can't go on any longer without something that I can only get over there (like vitamins, I know that's strange but I only like a certain American brand of vitamins and I can only get them at the department store, funny, just that Spanish vitamins are super expensive (like 20€ for one little package, can you believe that??!) whereas these American vitamins only cost me 5€. Why is it that European things have to be SO super expensive when the Americans know how to make the same things sooo much cheaper??!

Maybe I'm just getting jaded haha! When you're not interested in going out to the discotheque anymore or having nice dresses and looking sexy, when all you want to do is sit around out in the countryside and go for walks in the woods or in a field and that is what makes ya happy.

I'm just not interested in acquiring things anymore, which is the main reason why you'd go to a department store anyways, right? I'd muuuch rather prefer to acquire EXPERIENCES, preferably with the kids of course!

[Lena]

Perfect beautiful evening for some Soul Realignment and super Mintaka celebration out near the pool with a perfect glass of something cold and yummy. So refreshing and relaxing and profitable too. Oops, kids are demanding for me to take them on a swing ha ha My older one, who just turned four, he goes to bed so late! I'm always ready to go to bed before him and my one-year-old wakes up early, and I'm not ready to be awake yet lol But kids won't be kids for long. It goes by so fast!

The way my schedule works out is that I'm with kids the whole time from Sunday to Wednesday. I take them to their swimming lessons, to the park, play with them, etc. On those days I rarely get much business done, although sometimes I manage to sneak out for a little bit because my husband's younger sister agrees to watch them for a couple of hours. I also clear and organize my house and the usual household stuff. Then my husband has three days off cause he works from morning to late night on other days. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are my work days or put more correctly my grown-up play days because I really look forward to them! As much as I love my kids, I crave independence and privacy. I'm not sure if I made myself clear, but I work at a local holistic healing center one day a week and sometimes I go there to get some work done, when I'm not working too. I actually started my healing business before I got into Soul Realignment, but a month later I felt like something was missing for me, and Soul Realignment was exactly what I needed and how I wanted to serve my clients. Trust me, my first practice client was my psychic development teacher and she worked in the field for fifteen years. She loved her soul profile session, loved it! Anyhow, I started doing mini readings very fast, which was kind of rule breaking, since Andrea said not to do that until later on. Well, I felt like these people could really benefit from the information, and I felt confident enough to give little bites of tasty Soul Realignment information like their soul group, which people LOVE to hear about. So yeah, I had a few paying clients with one of them becoming my full client, with a huge discount for him. I hope there will be more to come. I hope there will be paying clients for you, Serena too! My plan is that I will clear my time as much as possible, including maybe renting a room at the center for an extra day and then I will FILL my time with clients. If I have to get more practice client, I will because people will LOVE their readings and then they will refer friends to get it done too. If they don't LOVE it then that probably means I can use some time to hone my skills or I should do something else entirely (I don't believe that that's the case though). I want to do the kind of work people LOVE

[Ayurved]

Fabulous, Loved my reading from Selena!!!

I have to say I LOVED my reading from Selena!!! I'm so honored I got to be one of your lucky practice clients!

I wrote a quick post on your blog...and say that I got a lot out of our conversation about my blockages. My whole life I've had a heavy feeling like I've done something bad...maybe I'm a bad person...although nothing in my current life warrants such a fear. When I heard what was my BIG BAD block....I was very relieved and was like....is that all?? I know its right on...because I mirrored this same scenario with my significant other....who I broke up with!

I don't know what exact date you did the reading...only when we 'met' on skype, but I've felt some churning going on inside, and feel lighter and more solid at the same time. I've had some revelations about things that have bugged me forever.

I feel like, in the peeling away of 'our onions'...Soul Realignment works on the very core. Things that no matter what spiritual/self help work you do...it still remains.

I was so happy to hear about my solid 'support' group lol...and understood I could have more angels...this goes with a pattern of being afraid to ask for too much in life...even things I want deeply. I feel freed from that limitation!

Thanks so much Serena! Keep up the good work! I got a lot out of our session. I wouldn't mind some time asking a specific question...although I'd be nervous about the answer! lol.

Lots of love,
Nancy

[serenac]

What Is Impossible?

Hi all! When I've got some time I'd looove to answer you Nancy and Lena!

But right now I'm just sooo pressed for time and I really wanted to jot down this quick note.

I wanted to say that I just feel so much as if I had a fairy godmother hanging over my shoulder now heehee! That's just the way it feels, it's as if all I need to do is think of something that I want or need and poof! it falls right into my lap!

Because I was pondering how the blog just doesn't seem to work. I mean I get some really really really nice visitors and a good number of them. But no one has signed up for any Soul Realignment sessions (probably people who don't feel like they need one, it isn't the right time for them to get one, etc.). In fact on the contrary many of my friends (mostly Spanish ones) who read the blog then wrote to me to say things like they really aren't very much into the New Agey-energy-pangy sort of nonsense, they don't believe in alternative healing, they don't believe in psychics, etc. They liked the blog but they really couldn't care less about intuitive healing or any other kind of healing for that matter (except what you can buy in the pharmacy, that is, of course).

So that tells me that the blog is nice but it isn't the right sort of venue to attract people who would be interested in receiving a Soul Realignment (or any other kind of energy/alternative healing type of) session. So I decided I needed a real, professional webpage. In addition all the other Soul Realignment practitioners who are doing well have professionally done up websites.

And at the same time blogging with WordPress was really turning out to be a very frustrating experience. If you haven't tried it yet, I can tell you that WordPress will really clip your wings. There are soooo many things you're not allowed to do on a WordPress blogspot. I can understand the reason for these rules, they are there to keep the blogging world a safe, secure environment where people can write their thoughts or read those of other people without having to worry about being bombarded with demands from people to pay for this or buy that.

But you do have to think that one of the reasons why people blog is so that they can talk a little bit about, if for example they make arts or handicrafts, or they know someone else who does do things like art or other things that are a little out of the usual, they like to let the world know about this thru a blogspot. But if you can't advertise anything on a blogspot, it's pretty much useless. We don't just want to read about your day, we like to see the things that you do, too!

But WordPress won't let you: talk a lot about the things that you produce or your services, put on a PayPal button unless it's to ask for a free and voluntary donation (a donate button), put on affiliate links or banners, not even if these links are to people that you know and like and trust, and not to some strange theoretical multi-national floating around out there. So I can't for example go around blogging all the time about Soul Realignment, because that would be considered advertising, which is forbidden on a WordPress blog. I can put a discrete little page which explains Soul Realignment, and I can put on a widget with a link to that page so people who are interested in knowing more can click on the link and read the page. But I can't go on and on on the blog about Soul Realignment. And I can't put on a PayPal or any other kind of pay button so that people who are interested can book a reading with me. If people think they might be interested they must fill out a contact form. So do you think people reading the blog are even going to know I do Soul Realignment readings, if I have to hide them on a little page in the back? And those who do accidentally discover that page, when they see that there is no option to order a reading right there, of course they'll just scurry off to someone else's webpage which DOES offer them the opportunity to order a reading whenever they want.

Although, as I said before, in general doesn't seem that people who are into New Agey-energy-alternative world types of things don't seem to be too attracted by my blog.

Well I got off topic ranting and raving about WordPress, well they do give me a lot to rant and rave about! Anyways so what does this have to do with fairy godmothers?

Just that I was just thinking that I probably needed to get a professional webpage done by some pro, but I had no idea where to begin at all. I don't know a thing about web designs, nothing, I don't even know what software or programs exist out there that web designers use. So I started doodling away on Google and bam! The perfect web host fell out of cyberspace and into my living-room. It gives me everything that a web dummy like me, who had never even heard of HTML before and still has no idea how to make an HTML or what program to use to make one, could need. So now I won't need to hire a pro and I won't need to depend on unprofessional blogs either. (Not saying that WordPress isn't professional, they certainly are, I mean that blogs aren't supposed to be professional.)

So now it's as if all I need to do is wish for something and boom! It magically appears! I wished to have more clients so I could save up some money and take the kids on holiday somewhere! I put out only a couple of ads on the internet and abracadabra! I now have so many clients I just can't stop working! I'd never be able to keep up this pace the whole year round, I work from 11 in the morning till 10 at night! But I agreed (with myself? with the universe?) to do this over the summer so the kids could have a tremendous summer where I could take them to all the best places (which of course cost money).

Then I thought I needed a professional webpage and kaboom! the perfect web host fell into my living-room.

So I was just thinking that I want to do something I've always wanted to do more than anything, but I never did it because I was so ABSOLUTELY UNMISTAKABLY IRREFUTABLY CONVINCED that it could NEVER work out, that it was IMPOSSIBLE! Then I realized, well I thought it was impossible I would ever be able to earn a living for myself and I'm doing that. I thought making a webpage would be impossible for me (I'm not a techie after all) and I'm doing that too. So what is impossible?

[Lena]

You wished that you were a master manifester and then you turned into one. ****PPPOOOOOFFFFFFF******* Magic dust all around.

I want my website more professional as well, Serena! I studied some web design and so I made mine, but it could definitely use an improvement, that and some more blogs too. I have been so busy though delivering readings to my practice clients and I just got done with my third paying full Soul Realignment client. I'm tired now because it takes me 2-3 hours to prepare for a reading, but I'm also blown away by the feedback. I really love delving into those soul stories! I have a few more wait list clients scheduled, but now I raised my price from $75 to $115 for locals and to $155 for Internet clients. I have to practice saying that it costs $115 ha ha. I do feel like $115-155 for 3 hours of work and an amazing life transforming experience is worth it on so many levels. Andrea said to charge what you would feel comfortable paying for a similar service and I feel comfortable paying that, and have paid that in the past. In fact, I'll be scheduling a reading with Andrea too as more a of business reading at some point, which is a lot more than that!

I'm so grateful for having this amazing experience with Soul Realignment. All my clients have been AMAZING and I completely appreciated every one of them letting me get their soul story for them.

I forgot to mention why I raised the price. I'm officially certified! WOOOHOOO!!! Wanna go out for light refreshments now? I might take my husband out to celebrate

[serenac]

Congratulations Lena!!

I got Certified too about a week ago.

But as I told Andrea I think it will be a while before I send her a blurb so she can put me onto her Practitioners' Directory. Because I'm quite displeased with the blog that I have and I want to wait till I have a professional webpage set up and send it to her. Cuz I've noticed that when people change their websites Andrea doesn't update the new info into her directory.

That doesn't mean that I'm going to abandon the blog, I'll keep it on sort of on the side as a hobby, to spout out spiels about whatever I feel like. But I've noticed that it doesn't attract people who are into New Age stuff or alternative stuff.

If you were here we could go out to celebrate together. Well we'll just have to drink a virtual champagne over the internet or something haha!

I'm very very tired of doing practice clients, I had 11 so I am really tired of drawing out soul stories right now. Some are quite interesting, but it does get tiring because it takes so long. Also got lots of negative feedback – by Spanish people who have never heard of Soul Realignment or alternative therapies/alternative healing in general and who, of course, never had a Soul Realignment done for them and probably never will. I'm really quite sick and tired of the general culture here in Spain. I mean I like Spain, that's why I live here and it's probably still a better place to live than most other places that there are to live out there. But I'm really tired of the closed-mindedness around here:

1. A friend of mine, who is very opinionated, not that I mind because everyone is the way they are and she would probably be opinionated no matter where she was from, because that's just her character. But anyways she screamed at me: I can't believe you've become a con artist! Because that's what all alternative healers are, they're all con artists, swindlers and scam artists! I thought you were a nice, honest person! I can't BELIEVE you've decided to get dishonest and join them and become a con artist too! I thought you were too smart for that.

2. Along the same vein here you can't be vegetarian because stores won't carry vegetarian food. Stores won't carry any food that isn't made in Spain for that matter. Which wouldn't be a problem if Spanish companies would make their own vegetarian foods, like American companies do. But they won't. Spanish companies have no interest in creating vegetarian food, and Spanish stores have no interest in importing them from foreign companies that do make them, either. So you can't get tofu, soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, seitan, etc. Although on the other hand it's also frustrating that you can't find any vegetarian recipe books that focus their recipes on dishes that can be made with normal, traditional, Western ingredients either. They all have to use exotic Asian imported stuff like tofu, seitan, algae, miho, soy milk, etc.

3. Here you can't use natural cosmetics because they don't exist either. For a time I was into mineral makeup and I always had to order it online from the States, I couldn't just go out to a shop or department store and get it. Spanish people aren't interested in new things from other countries, like mineral makeup from the States. They aren't interested in anything from other countries, new or old, for that matter.

4. Here the only thing people are into is tradition tradition tradition. The only motivation people need to do anything is because it's "always been done" or because "that's the way it's always been done", or because it's what their fathers did and what their grandfather's did. So why does everyone have to do something just because their fathers, grandfathers and all their ancestors did it? All our ancestors ate raw meat, that doesn't mean that we have to do it too, just because they did!

5. Here everyone goes crazy about the tried-and-true traditions like Holy Week processions, which are very picturesque I do admit, I myself like them, however my life doesn't revolve around them. But people's lives here revolve around the tried-and-true traditions. Which wouldn't be a problem, but it means that they don't like ideas or traditions or customs from outside, from other lands. Another tradition people go crazy over is bull-fighting. Now, people here generally are against cruelty to animals, like normal people everywhere, however they don't consider bullfighting cruel. The reason: it's TRADITIONAL! It's ALWAYS been done! So since it's always been done that makes it okay.

And now on to ideological things that Spanish people are close-minded about:

1. Spain has always been Catholic, it's been this way for centuries and it will probably continue to be this way for a few more centuries. Now that's not a problem, the problem is that they are hostile towards other religions. So woe be it for you if you happen to be: Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Bahai, pagan, Wiccan, Hindu, etc. And even worse if you happen to be: New Age, into meditation, into (God forbid!) psychic development. Strangely enough 2 ideologies that are well accepted here are Buddhism and atheism. A bit quirky maybe?

2. Stemming from this, of course, is the fact that you pretty much can't talk to people about spiritual ideals outside of what the Catholic church teaches. People here either believe that when people die they go to heaven hell or purgatory (like my friend who was a practice client), or they believe that you just disappear, you're extinguished like a flame or a CG monster that's been zapped by a laser, in the case that you belong to the ever growing collective of atheists, most of whom are atheist because they want to rebel against the Catholic church, but they don't rebel by joining other religions they rebel by becoming a-religious.

3. So you can't talk to people about: the afterlife and the spiritual world, reincarnation, spirits and other invisible beings. I do find that most people are open to angels however. I guess people are open to what the Catholic church endorsed, like angels, but hostile to ideas that the church is against, like reincarnation or spirit guides.

So most of my friends here belong to one of the 2 categories, they're either devoutly Catholic, like my friend, then you can talk to them about angels but not about spirit guides, reincarnation or the spirit world. Or they are atheists, in which case they are quite openly hostile to any kind of spiritual talk.

So seemingly most of my friends are atheists. Most young people today in Spain are atheists, they were raised by devout Catholic parents and now they are disillusioned by Catholicism and that makes them hostile to any religion, cuz they think all religions are like Catholicism.

So my friends say to me things like, I don't believe in alternative healing, it doesn't work, auras don't exist, chakras don't exist, I'll believe it when I see it and I don't believe in anything I can't see, etc.

When you come to think of it I think that sounds a lot like the kind of thinking that was going on, was it maybe 2 or 3 centuries ago, in the Age of Reason, in the rest of the Western world? Well considering that Spanish thought and culture are always like about 2 or 3 centuries behind the rest of the western world, I guess you could say Spanish people are now going through their Age of Reason. So maybe in about 3 centuries Spanish people will be ready for Soul Realignment?

Well why do I keep on? Probably I've lost everyone about 50 paragraphs ago and no one is reading this anymore.

Well Andrea always says that you attract the people that you do for a reason and the people around you reflect you. But I don't agree with her, because I also attract a lot of people who give me very positive feedback too. The thing is that the people who give me positive feedback are all from North America or England.

So then I guess Andrea would ask me, so what is it about Spain and Spanish culture that attracts ME, then? Why am I here? Why aren't I someplace where people would share in what I believe in?

[serenac]

Well. Continuing on with boring spiel about many different subjects.

Yes, I've realized that maybe one of the reasons how come (like you said, master manifesting heehee! ) so many things that I want to happen just come to pass, maybe it's because I've discovered that the right thing for me to do at any given moment is whatever excites me and feels good to me at that moment. When something feels like it has become a chore, it's time to leave it, or take a break from it and come back another day.

So I've discovered that keeping up a Spanish blog has just become a real tiresome, cumbersome chore. So, well I won't eliminate it (if anyone is interested in reading it it is here: Los Mares de Mintaka. You won't find anything in it that you can't find in the original, English blog (The Seas of Mintaka) though, it's just a translation of the English one). I mean after all it's free and I can keep it as long as I want. But I won't work much on it.

I find that the Spanish blog just doesn't attract any readers, not even my Spanish friends who got bored with it. (And as I said before it's the same as the English one.) The English one, on the other hand, is jumping (over 200 visits already! ). I found that in addition to people I know who look into it it also gets visits from Google from people who google things like, Natural Skincare, or Natural Cosmetics. No one googled such terms in Spanish however.

I had harboured really high hopes to be able to teach Spanish people to look beyond their borders, their horizons and their noses and to realize that they're not the belly button of the world (Spanish expression), that really exciting developments are going on in other parts of the world, in fields like spiritual development and self-help techniques, but I find that the Spanish (European Spanish) world just isn't interested. Now Spanish national things are really high quality, you can't beat that. They have the best milk I've ever tasted, the best beaches, the best yogurt........... But of course, like every country in the world, they have their limitations. That's why other countries import. Spain doesn't.

So I've decided that if Spanish people prefer to just keep on railing against foreign ideas and any kind of ideology or spiritual idea that comes from beyond the border or falls outside of Catholic training, well then I haven't got much to teach them. If they're not interested in/very hostile towards or against learning, then I'm not interested in teaching either.

Just getting off track for a minute. Did anyone ever see that movie Good Will Hunting? You know where Will Hunting is a genius that this math whiz tries to help, but Will kept kicking him out, he didn't want to change, he just wanted to bum around as a poor janitor for the rest of his life. But the math whiz insisted and in the end Will decided to learn math and get out of his rut. Well when I was watching the movie I thought, I'd never do that! If I were the math whiz I wouldn't STAND to hang around Will Hunting! I'd tell him, if you like rolling around in the mud then stay there and keep rolling around in the mud. Then I'd leave. No, really, I have no patience for people who don't want to learn.

Well I know finishing the Soul Realignment course was something I was looking forward to, but now I've done it it feels anti-climatic to me. I feel like it wasn't a big accomplishment at all.

Maybe I'm just tired, I mean 11 practice clients are a lot. You end up wishing you were only doing for example maybe 6, and then that the other 5 would be paying clients.

And then there's the fact that the blog doesn't attract any paying clients. So now I've learned this wonderful new thing that I could do, but no one even knows about it!

But I realize that it's the fault of the format that I (maybe unfortunately) chose to have the blog in. As I wrote earlier, a free WordPress blog is NOT the right venue to promote a business or service with. I had a nice PayPal button positioned, I was going to write a ton of pages about Soul Realignment and other New Agey-type related subjects........ and then I discovered that WordPress DELETES and removes any blog that it discovers with: affiliate links, affiliate banners, PayPal buttons, obvious sales spiels, etc. So I had to hide the Soul Realignment page in the back (so any casual WordPress employees who happened to be haphazardly skimming over blogs wouldn't see it and its $$ !), remove the PayPal button (so now if someone wants a session with me they can't even book it through my blog anyways)............

Which is why now I'm working on a new, professional real website.

And I think I'm going to take a short break from doing sessions, till the kids go back to school (and my free-lance clients go back to school or work or wherever too heehee, because they occupy my whole days right now, I mean I'm really really happy to have so much work and so many clients, I really do need them right now, but I don't like the work that I do).

So you say I can manifest things (well I said that, well I said that things just fall into my life), but the only thing I want isn't to celebrate, because after all what's the point of getting a Certificate if you can't work? (Here in Spain that is a major problem for everyone because there are no jobs, so people are coming out of schools in droves with big academic titles and certificates and there is no work for any of them, so there wasn't really any point in them studying at all. But getting off topic, this doesn't really have much relationship to me or what I do.)

I only want to chase after new goals. Like getting up a pro webpage so I can attract real paying clients and get real WORK. Because that is why you study and learn how to do something, so you can get work doing it.

And do something I've always wanted to do and it seems that now is the perfect time to do it, now that I'm earning a good living and how I'm going to pay the rent each month or feed the kids their next meal is no longer an issue in my life anymore. (Keeping my fingers crossed hoping it will never ever become an issue in my life ever again! ) However this like everything else is just going to have to wait until the kids go back to school again, I fear.

Just like last summer being able to start the Soul Realignment course also had to wait until the kids returned to school. I should learn by now, if there is one thing that IS impossible for me it's to do anything when the kids are here on vacation.

And finally I want to move (again! ). I'm just tired of living here. I don't know where I want to live, but somewhere else. Of course I also know where I DON'T want to live. But there are lots of places in the world, and one of them has got to be a good place to go to now.

[Lena]

Serena, if nobody else reads all the way through what you write, you can always count on me! I love reading everything you are talking about. I can see myself in your ramblings, both things that I'm going through now and what I went through in the past. Believe it or not, Spaniards are not the only close minded people around. Our main culture here, including all of my husband's family, is very Christian and conservative. I wouldn't dream of offering them Soul Realignment ha ha I feel so blessed to have my friends and the Celestine Center of Healing, who are very much a subculture here. We are also close to a very high vibrating place called Mount Shasta. It's a major vortex and also where Lemurians used to live. It's a high vibrating spiritual place, where all of the spiritual folks live and it's an hour away, so some of their high vibes rub off on us. But like I said majority of people are very mainstream and Christian, although there is definitely a huge movement towards all natural going on right now. Not sure if it's just in California or in other places in the U.S. too. My next step as I suspect it is for you too might be to start introducing some of these ideas into the main culture one step at a time. You never know when a person is ready to wake up to their true spiritual identity and when they do, those seeds that you planted with your words might begin sprouting. You never know! Even if it's going to take a few more lifetimes, I believe every little movement makes a difference. However, I definitely don't believe you need to spend your precious time and energy trying to change their minds. Tell them about it from a place of joy and leave it at that. Just curious, do you find that your practice clients souls vibrate mostly in the 4th dimension or 5th?

Congratulations on finishing Soul Realignment. That is huge, my fellow Mintakan, really really big, even if sometimes we won't give ourselves credit and won't hear encouragements from other people! We will someday meet and celebrate because we are both master manifesters! YES!

I think it's great that you have a blog, where you feel free to write about whatever, but I'm also excited to see how your professional blog is going to turn out! And I am sure you will start attracting some paying clients as well. You are probably right on the verge of that breakthrough, so keep on knowing things will unfold.

I hope everyone, who is reading his thread is also having fun out there. Well, I decided to keep my price at $115 for everyone right now until I feel more comfortable with that price point, so don't know if it's going to be a week or a month. Whoever is reading this thread, you don't want to miss out on Soul Realignment session. It's absolutely life changing, so run not walk to your nearest practitioner or the furthest practitioner lol Serena and I are both offering tremendous value right now. The feedback I have received has been 100% positive. How can it get better than that? Now, how's that for a shameless plug! We are so worth it!

[serenac]

Hi Lena! I'm soooo happy to talk with you!

Right now I just feel so depressed and bit**y. I feel like bi**hing at everyone.

Well not people on this forum. But at people in general.

I feel like bi**hing at life, and that is so strange and paradoxical because we're better off now this year than we've ever been before. I have more clients than ever, I'm earning more money than ever before. I'm getting along with everyone in my life.

But I feel so unhappy and unfulfilled.

I feel as if I haven't moved at all from where we were last year, as if I were at the same place and haven't advanced at all since last year. I'm still living at this tiresome ground floor place in da inna big city and if you've ever lived on the ground floor of a lower class apartment building in an inna big city where you have no privacy at all, or at least not in the summer where our 36-degree nights don't let us close our windows cuz if we did we'd spontaneously combust or something, so all anyone has to do to know everything about your life is to just walk down the street and look in your window at you.

I'm still working at the same boring senseless job – albeit a free-lance job where I more or less get to pick the hours that I work, but even so still even that is just an illusion, because I really don't have that much choice in how many hours I work, I have to work as many hours as I need to survive and if I haven't worked enough hours yet I have to keep on working, or we won't survive.

I don't get any paid vacations. If I take some time off I don't get paid, so that means I can take a break only on the condition of experiencing some hardships due to not earning any money. If I don't want to experience these hardships I must work 12 months a year 52 weeks a year and not have even one day or week of holiday.

I have to work all morning afternoon and evening all week long so that means I don't get to see my kids at all or spend any time with them, and the poor little beings have to spend their whole summer vacation locked up in a stuffy 1-bedroom-with-a-walk-in-closet in da inna big city, where they can't jump around or run or play. So all they do is hang around on the bed or the sofa playing with the Nintendo. They don't get to go out. They don't get any exercise. We don't get to go places together or do things together.

And even though I know I have a lot to be thankful for – after all last summer I didn't have many clients, so even though I also worked less we also had less money to do things with, and even if it's tiny and stuffy and there's no room to jump or run or play at least we have a nice apartment that's all our own, and even though I know that we create our own reality and that everything that's in our life we attracted it, I still feel like it's so unfair!

I feel like it's so unfair because other people have partners to share the burden of bringing in money, so they can take some time for themselves or for their kids. Like my ex-sister-in-law, who's married to a lawyer who's so successful she doesn't ever need to work if she didn't want to. However she's a proud professional so she works free-lance and she gets to take time off whenever she wants so she doesn't work the whole summer long, just takes her kids to their summer home and spends the whole summer there relaxing with them. Every day they go to the beach, they go to the swimming pool, they go out to eat at restaurants or to have an after-dinner stroll in the cooler (note: cooler, not cool) (but this I do love! ) night air and a drink.

And I feel like bi**hing because I don't have any friends anymore. I don't know where all my friends have gone, they all seem to have somehow wandered off to another land and maybe I took a wrong turn somewhere because they used to be there and now when I look around they're all gone.

Of course I imagine that if I keep on bi**hing that's the last thing that would attract any new friends into my life (or bring old ones back, from, wherever). But I don't know how they've all just disappeared.

Or maybe it's me who just gets bored around them now and so I avoid them or don't ask them to go out anymore. But I also don't find anyone else to take their place!

Or maybe it's just cuz I don't have any time to myself and I need time to myself, but I have to work because we need the money. Kinda wishing I could earn more money per hour so I could work less hours, or even attract some Soul Realignment clients so I could work even less hours in order to survive.

But none of that is happening. I don't feel like I can charge more because here the marketplace is really competitive and there are lots and lots of people who can do what I do, and they charge the same as me. It's the going rate here.

Andrea says the clients you attract have nothing to do with how much you charge, it's how good you think you are and how much you think your work is worth. But I don't agree with her, what a person charges really DOES influence who you choose to work with and that to a VERY BIG EXTENT!!

Or why does she think I've never taken a session with her? It certainly isn't because I don't think she's any good! Why does she think I had a session with David Topi here in Spain? It isn't because I felt particularly attracted to David at that time, the fact is I didn't know David at all at the time, I'd never heard of him before and the only thing I knew about him was that: a) he was in Spain and it's always good to support someone in your own country, b) he wasn't yet an Advanced Practitioner (Level II) so I imagined he wouldn't charge as high a rate as an Advanced Practitioner (I didn't even look at the Advanced Practitioner directory, I imagined that they'd all charge something way beyond my reach), and c) turned out he did indeed have a really good rate, a rate adapted to the economic conditions of the country that we live in, which even Andrea can't deny is not as rich as the US.

Fortunately David turned out to be a super great super awesome guy. But since I didn't know what kind of a guy he was at that time, I probably would've booked a session with any person in Spain offering the prices that David offered back then (he's since raised his fees, but not much heehee! ).

Not that Spain is poor, it's just a normal developed western country, but then again how many normal developed western countries in the world are as rich as the US or have American salaries, taking into consideration that the US is probably one of the, if not the, richest countries in the world. Very few people outside of the US can boast salaries equivalent to American ones and therefore afford American anythings at American prices.

Not that I mean to rant against the US, well okay I'm Canadian myself and you know, Canadians always seem to have a bone to knaw against Americans haha! Just kidding. Just the friendly ole neighbourly rivalry.

But I was saying that I don't agree that what you charge has nothing to do with whether or not you attract clients. If your fee didn't make any difference, I might have had a session with Andrea!

[Lena]

Hi Serena and everyone, well this past week has been insane! First on personal stuff, our beloved ten-year-old Boston Terrier had to be taken to the emergency hospital late at night because he started bleeding from his eyeball. Long story short, he had to be taken in to surgery to get his eyeball removed because it was at risk for bursting and it was very painful for him. He is healing now, but still needs very close care, so it took me away from my work in some ways, but I'm ready to jump back in! It's also costing us $1500+ so we are in a survival mode. The fact that this past month, I started getting some paid customers helped A LOT! It made me wonder though, since all the money I made so far went to unexpected bills if I'm still putting up a barrier to receiving in some way. I guess that's the question for my guides today.

Now on to Soul Realignment, if there is someone, who is reading this thread, if you all have questions that you'd like to ask about Soul Realignment, please feel free to ask either on here or through PM or through website. I'm planning to build a pretty extensive Q&A section, but I just put it up and it's empty right now. I sort of have a sales page now, but it might still need additional information and more lengthy descriptions. I welcome any suggestions: Soul Guidance | navigateintojoy.com

I wanted to share something that happened to me a couple of days ago very briefly. For the first time since starting doing Soul Realignment, I had a soul decline to get the work done. This was very hard for me because I know this person personally and I could hear disappointment in her voice, when I told her, but I could not go on with the reading after her soul told me that it wasn't seeking assistance. I've heard a Soul Realignment practitioner say that it never happened to them and they have been doing it for a while, so it's very rare. I guess my point here is that it's not all unicorns and butterflies. It's serious life changing work, even if it is meant to lighten up your life


Well, I definitely have some work to get done this month as far as letting people know more about Soul Realignment and I also hope to fill up my schedule FULL to the brim this month. I'm getting better at not feeling drained by giving readings, so that I can serve as many people as possible, and still feel great and have energy for my other responsibilities. I might actually clean the house this week

[serenac]

Hello everyone! Hi Lena!

I'm back and I do feel better now. Had some really stressful holidays which I knew weren't going to be much fun. But we're back now and I did what I wanted to do these holidays, so that's okay.

Well I'm fortunately still on vacation, just not travelling anymore.

I went on a trip with a friend that, before we made plans to travel together, I didn't know her too well. However she warned me that she was hard to live with (I wonder how she figured that out? ) and that she had no intention of changing her ways because she liked being the way that she was and she was at an age where she preferred to just be her anyways, rather than be what other people wanted her to be. But we decided that if we could both accept the way the other one was and adapt ourselves and be flexible, we could still have a good time.

However, from the trip, I expect that what she really meant was: "If SERENA can adapt, accept me and be flexible, because I have NO intention of doing anything, adapting or being flexible in any way!!"

Her justification was that it was her holiday and she wanted to enjoy it. If she had to spend all her time worrying about how her actions could affect me, she wouldn't enjoy herself.

Okay, fair enough. But what about me?? Whenever you do something with someone else, you expect to do a bit of adapting too. Not everyone is going to, nor should have to, adapt themselves to you all the time! You are not the centre of the universe nor are your ways perfect.

So I spent the whole trip adapting, accepting and being flexible with her. She spent the whole trip criticizing me and telling me that I should be more like her and do this thing and that thing like her. THAT IS ADAPTING AND BEING FLEXIBLE???

Before we started on the trip we already talked about many things that experience has shown me usually get to other people. I told her I use makeup (believe it or not maaany prickly people do NOT like it when their travelling companion spends – or rather, in their opinion, wastes – time putting on makeup. And that includes women, many of whom, apparently (at least here in Spain, in spite of the reputation that Spanish women apparently have of using too much makeup), feel that women who use makeup are vain and frivolous. But my friend was okay with that.

I told her we like to take a shower every day. Here in Spain you'd be amazed at the numbers of people, especially people of a certain age raised during the war, who think it's absolutely sinful and unforgivable to take a shower every day. Bathing every day, in their opinion, wastes water and electricity/gas used to heat up all that water. So they only wash themselves once a week, even in the very hot summer. And you can easily tell who follows this philosophy of life around here just simply by using your nose. Didn't anyone ever teach them that deodorant and splash cologne won't make up for a lack of basic hygiene??

But my friend had no problems with a daily shower. In fact, she said, she also showers every day. She didn't grow up during the war!

She's vegetarian and she didn't want me tempting her son by feeding meat to my kids in front of him. That was no problem with me, we all ate vegetarian during the trip and had a great time and I've decided to be as vegetarian as possible. I say as possible, because I live in a rather backwards city with values from 2 centuries ago, where it's impossible to find items like tofu, seitan or vegetarian burgers. (My friend doesn't live here.) I mean, where I live, people still fall on their knees before the Virgin, go all out crazy during Holy Week with its 250 religious processions and freak out when they hear that some statue of the Virgin has been crying blood.

So it seemed that we had covered all the bases and were either in agreement about everything or willing to adapt our preferences. But later on it turns out that there were many things that we hadn't talked about, and which caused a lot of conflict (on her part at least), because they were things that I considered normal and basic. But apparently she didn't agree with me.

For example, I like to close the door when I use the bathroom. I've learned that many people even get mad if you brush your teeth with the door open, they consider it a lack of respect towards them. And of course I definitely do not shower with the door open.

Well you just can't imagine the TREMENDOUS, ALL-OUT RAGE attack that my friend suffered because I closed the door to take a shower! She said she didn't want me ever closing any doors and leaving her out of anything, lest I do something she wouldn't like or approve of behind closed doors. (Yeah, like what, steal from her bank account using the shower head??)

Now I'm quite flexible (if I weren't I would've kicked my friend to kingdom come the first day, you can be sure!), but not to the point that I would shower in front of her! Maybe I'm a prude, but I'm not into nudism. She is actually very very very conservative, so I am quite surprised that she IS into such modern, avant-garde trends such as nudism. Her son walks around (in private of course not out on the street) in his birthday suit the whole day long.

So these are the sorts of things that you would never in a million years imagine that someone would take issue with them.

So now I'm happy to be back and enjoying the rest of my vacation in peace and happiness doing whatever I please however I please.

I have discovered, however, that I'm not as adaptable or flexible as before. I'd always prided myself about being the most flexible, adaptable, tolerant, accepting feller (well chick) on the block (or in the company). But after getting a Soul Realignment session something in me won't let me adapt all that much to other people anymore.

I still adapt, but not to the point that I let people boss me around all the time anymore or pressure me to do things that go against what I believe to be best anymore. Now I do draw a line. And when people try to cross that line, well now we do have trouble!! Before I would've just "grinned and bore it".

[serenac]

Hi Lena! So sorry about your dog but I hope that he is doing great and much better now and getting well!

I used to have that financial problem too, but after getting a Soul Realignment that hasn't happened to me anymore. And I did NOT go out and do anything to try to uncover hidden, unknown-to-me, unconscious limiting beliefs about money or anything like that. I just got a Soul Realignment session.

However I haven't gotten any paying clients for Soul Realignment yet. Digging around inside myself to try and figure out why. Maybe it's because I'm sort of unavailable, I mean I do have to work all day so I have no time to do any sessions right now. And at the moment I'm still on vacation, in fact I have that written on my Contact Form on my blog, so I can't really nor want to do any sessions right now. It is really really really hard for me to ever take any vacations, because as I mentioned before, I think I did anyways, since I work free-lance I don't get any paid vacations, when I don't work I don't earn money, period! So in order to take any holidays at all I have to earn enough money to live on until the holidays are over. And that does not include also earning enough money so we can do things, go travelling, etc., while on holiday.

And then I also have a free blog with a blog host which doesn't permit selling or advertising on its blogs (what it calls e-commerce), so I can't make a big deal about Soul Realignment sessions on that blog. For example I don't even want to put up a "Testimonials" page, because that makes it quite obvious that I am trying to "sell" something through the blog.

So I must still hide the "Soul Realignment" page in the back, hoping that the detectives of WordPress don't discover it but readers DO!!

I am indeed working on a real, professional, full-blown website (and which yes does indeed do "e-commerce", as they like to call it) where I can offer Soul Realignment sessions and readers who are interested in getting one can actually order and pay for it through the page itself. But it is going quite slowly and even more so since I'm on holiday. I've got the computer with me now, but I don't spend too much time on it. Sometimes we go out the whole day long and I don't even see the computer. After all, that is what holidays are for, right?

Then again I think that the other issue I have at this moment is questioning just how much Soul Realignment can really be of use to the people in my milieu. I mean, I don't move around in a particularly spiritual, New Age, woo-woo circle at all.

I imagine, or at least I hope, that when I get the website up it can reach lots and lots of English-speaking readers all around the globe, who will be interested in these sorts of topics. However, on the other hand, I find that the English-speaking world is already quite woken up and quite used to reading stuff about alternative healing, psychic readings and other woo-woo stuff already. So it's the Spanish speakers I find drawn to trying to reach. But they are very very very very resistant. Very traditional. Very doggedly clinging on to "that-which-has-always-been". To what their fathers and their grandfathers before them did.

And a lot of them are also very anti-American and anti anything that comes out of the States. And New Age is one of those "things" that came out of the States. Well they think so anyways.

To give an example, I have the blog up in English and in Spanish. I sent info about it to both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking friends. It's also out there for Google to pick it up whenever anyone is interested in googling it. The Spanish blog is only 1 week (hence only 1 post) behind the English one, cuz I do get bored translating it. But even so very few people have read the Spanish blog. Probably not even all my Spanish friends!

On the contrary, the English blog is really jumping! Yipee! I found that all the time I was away on vacation people were reading it every day! So I can publish a post, leave it for a whole week or 2 while I go out travelling and when I come back I can find that there has been movement on it, even without me having to hang around and check up on it and work on it all the time!

Anyways, as I was saying, the people in my milieu. Well I guess the 2 friends I've been talking about here pretty much summarize the typical people I have in my milieu around here. They are both great people. But spiritual development and spiritual development techniques aren't too high up on their agenda.

For example, I know that Soul Realignment will help everyone. But I can also see that it helps some kinds of people more than others. For example, my friend, practice client no.1. Her life has definitely improved 200% since she got her Realignment. Everything is going groovy in her life now, as she herself calls it, a series of miracles. However, getting a Soul Realignment session didn't change her thinking. It helped her by changing her vibrations, so she didn't have the blocks that were keeping the good things out of her life anymore. And it helped her to think more clearly and get better ideas, so she could attract better results into her life. And it also helped her to just instinctively know the right choices to make in situations in her life, so she could make the right choices that would bring the results that she desired into her life.

However, it didn't change the way she thinks. So she still continues to believe that the marvellous novelties in her life have nothing to do with Soul Realignment, that alternative healing techniques don't work and are nothing but hocus-pocus. She still doesn't believe that all the great changes in her life have anything to do with her or her vibrations, she thinks that they are all just inexplicable miracles. (Maybe the Virgin Mary had something to do with it?)

So the result is that she still doesn't do any introspection to see what she is doing well to bring desired results into her life, and where she could still improve. And if she were ever interested in improving anything in herself or in her life, she will not look to spirituality, therapy, alternative healing, etc., in order to try and effect these improvements. She will probably more likely go to her Social Security doctor and pop a pill that he prescribes.

So it really makes me wonder just how effective was Soul Realignment for her?? I mean, I did want her life to improve and I'm real happy her life improved. However, I was also hoping that getting a session would help her to learn to "help herself" so to speak. So that she would learn to question herself and the things in her life. So the next time she is in a bind, instead of trotting off to the local Tarot-reader or Social Security doctor, she would first learn to look at herself, see what she's doing that isn't working and is attracting bad things into her life, so she can change it.

But that doesn't seem to be working. So the next time she finds herself in a rut the most likely thing is that she will probably run off to find an amulet, or a doctor's prescription. Or get into an argument with her boyfriend or her parents, because that would help her to blow off steam. Anything except changing herself, which is the only thing that makes changes permanent in the long run. Because what is on the outside always reflects what is inside you.

And then my second friend, that I wrote about in the previous post. She is the opposite. She is a hardened atheist. She doesn't believe in G'd, reincarnation, the spirit world, spirit guides, angels, etc. She doesn't believe in alternative healing and thinks that all alternative healers and spiritual teachers are quacks. In fact her library and her night-table are currently filled up with books with titles like "G'd Doesn't Exist". At this moment these are her real bibles.

So how can I possibly help people like my friend the hardened atheist, who doesn't believe in anything spiritual or invisible, using Soul Realignment?

I had been having a conversation with Andrea Hess during our coaching session about just precisely the same, well a similar, subject. I was wondering why we couldn't just go in and use Soul Realignment to help a certain collective that is out there. She said that, in her personal point of view, at the moment Soul Realignment is really a sort of exclusive, elite sort of healing technique. It isn't for everybody. And unlike me she was veeery happy to keep it that way.

She went on to explain. The sort of people who can be helped by and benefit from Soul Realignment. It isn't for everyone. Not everyone would get a great deal out of it. If you are looking for a cheap amulet or a magic wand that will solve all your problems in a flash, then Soul Realignment is not for you.

If you want someone else to do something and all your problems will be magically removed, then Soul Realignment is not for you.

If you want instantaneous gratification, then Soul Realignment is not for you.

And if what you are looking for is freebies and getting something for nothing, then Soul Realignment is not for you.

Soul Realignment IS for people who are willing and ready to take responsibility for their own lives and for themselves. Who are not in blaming mode anymore. Who already admit the possibility that their lives and their selves can be improved, and are willing to actually do something to bring about that improvement.

Andrea's reasoning for why she charges such a high fee for her sessions, is that she is only interested in helping people who are willing to put in the effort to earn the money necessary to pay for her services. The higher the price that you have to pay, the greater your own personal investment and therefore the more you will get out of something. She isn't interested in giving anything away for free, because free things end up in the garbage.

Anyways, so, after dealing with so many people who are only interested in freebies, in getting something for nothing or in having a magic wand waved about for them, I can see the sense in her logic.

So maybe I should do the same thing as she does, charge a higher (but still reasonable, of course! ) fee and keep Soul Realignment also only for the elite. For people who are actually interested enough to actually make the effort to go out and earn the money necessary to pay for a session by themselves, through their own work and effort.

But then again, I find that that would make Soul Realignment out of reach for the great majority of Spaniards. Because I find that, in general, compared to North American society and standards, Spanish people are very, very reluctant to take responsibility for themselves and very, very resistant to working hard.

In Spain the average adult lives with (and off of!) his parents until the age of thirty-something or forty-something. It's very normal to find a 30-something-year-old who has never worked or held a job in his life. Whose parents still make his meals and do his laundry for him.

Do you expect people like that to be capable of, or willing to, make the effort to earn enough money to pay for a Soul Realignment session?

Well anyways, for anyone reading this post and who has not been following this thread, the name of my blog is this: The Seas of Mintaka. And in Spanish (for any of you Spanish readers, or who like reading in Spanish, out there, and always one post behind the English version but with local information only relevant to people who live in Spain, like the names of stores where I buy stuff and things like that): Los Mares de Mintaka

[serenac]

Complementary Joke

Just couldn't resist adding a complementary joke to go with the last post (and take note, I didn't invent this, so whoever did apparently made the same observations I did):

"Jimmy! Little Jimmy! Time to get up and go to school."

"Aw, Mammy, do I have to?"

"Come on little Jimmy! Time to get out of bed."

"Aw Mammy! Can't I sleep just 5 minutes more?"

"Jimmy! Little Jimmy! You'd better get going already! You mustn't be late for school."

"Aw Mammy! I'm so tired! I hate school. Tell me one good reason why I have to go?"

"Because you're 40 years old and you're the principal. So get going!"

[Lena]

Hi Serena, sorry you had a hard time with your friend! I just had a fall-out with my best friend. I think we need to be master manifesting some new friends, who share our interests, love having fun together, easy-going, and most of all willing to be open-minded and learn from each other. I think I'm ready! Do you get a sense that we Mintakans had those kinds of really close relationships? Kind of like mermaids, splashing around holding hands and having fun together, almost sister like. I mean I don't have sisters so I wouldn't know what sister relationships look like.

I have some thoughts for you, if you don't mind. First one is that you are where you are to bring light to those people. Sure, they may not be open to it now, but like I said, we plant seeds and we never know when they will start sprouting. I know others' attitudes can be discouraging. All we really can do is act with compassion and lead by example.

Interesting about your session with Andrea. I generally agree with what she said about it not being for everyone, however I do also wonder because I have friends, who work hard, but don't make much income :-( Of course, as you said somewhere in this thread, that if you found a way to afford it, then anyone who wants it can do it as well. I feel the same way, like I spent money on spiritual things and healing things, when money was tight before because I knew that they would benefit me very much. Having said that, I wouldn't choose it over food for me and my family. I do also believe in infinite abundance because we are Divine beings. That can be a hard concept in grasp in the "real world." Now by my own logic, I'd like enough money to get SR 2 now, which would mean a few more appointments this month. Actually, I'm working on manifesting a lot bigger things now, but I better keep them to myself for now.

Well, I just wrote a short review for Soul Realignment as a course: Soul Realignment As Professional Psychic Training | navigateintojoy.com

[serenac]

Wasting time on holidays?

Hi Lena! Hello all!

Well not much movement on this thread if we don't hang around on it, Lena, I must say!

Well we just had some...... well I could say wild and crazy vacations, but I guess that would conjur up images of wild drinking every night, hanging out around foreign bars and dancing up the night in a different discotheque every day, and that's certainly not what we did. (The most we did was get drunk on mojitos one night, but that's not really getting drunk anyways, as I'm quite past the days where getting drunk has any appeal to me anymore, and at any rate it's not that easy to watch over a bunch of kids running savagely around in the streeets if you're drunk, so we didn't really get drunk)(who can get drunk on a mojito anyways? love em though, great drink! )

Anyways, I'll be posting up a series about our latest travels on my blogspot (The Seas of Mintaka) so if anyone is interested, do drop by and take a look, and if you don't find my kid-and-family-friendly hols to be too inspiring, well that's okay too!

However, what I really felt like blabbing on a bit about here right now was precisely, the opposite of holidays. (Sorry to those who are still delighting in your annual hols, don't want to dampen your good times with reminders that holidays do end some day, but for me I think it will almost be a relief when the holidays end. For precisely the reasons I was about to go into right now.)

And that is, that for me, I conceive of holidays sort of as a reward for when you've finished your job. Something that you give to yourself as something that you've deserved very well after working hard for something, going after something and achieving it. But I don't feel like that is my case at all.

In my case, I feel like I'm doing it all backwards. And that is never a good thing, in my books. Like I'm going on holiday BEFORE doing the work or accomplishing anything. And that, to tell the truth, quite frankly sucks.

Because I really don't feel like I've done anything or accomplished anything.

Well I finished the Soul Realignment course. But I really don't feel like celebrating it. I think I'd feel more inclined to celebrating getting a first paid reading, more than finishing the course. Because, for me at least, the point in studying something at all is so that afterwards you can work in it, do something with it. If the Certificate is just going to sit on your shelf getting dusty, I don't really see what was the point of getting it at all.

So in truth, right now the last thing I'm in the mood for is holidays. I'm really restless and impatient and raring to go on the projects I've got lined up right now.

One project, of course, is what I'd mentioned before, getting a website up and running offering Soul Realignment and other types of readings and sessions. (In case anyone is interested, I already registered the site, http://www.seasofmintaka.com/, but if you go there right now you will find that there is nothing on it, because I haven't put anything up yet.)

And then the other project I am working on is a new one, well I won't say anything more about it now. It's too brand new.

But what happens with new projects, especially ones you are really interested in having them be successful, is that you just get oh so nervous wanting so much and wanting so much for them to take off and be successful, that you get scared that they won't be!

So instead of enjoying your holidays, you just spend all the days fretting and being impatient because you'd much rather be hanging around your home working on your new projects, than "wasting" time lolling lazily around on a beach in Gibraltar.