This year my good friend Kathy assisted me in my InTuition workshop at Omega. We recently talked about the benefits of my work and what I have to teach, something that seems to have been a theme lately in my conversations with others. Some of the most important messages my work has to offer is how to stay grounded, ways to cleanse your energy, and the importance of closing down.

Many people are new to working with their sensitivity and enter into a spiritual practice without an understanding of good groundwork. I believe basic safety requirements are essential to good practice.  Here are some ground rules and sage practice to follow:

1. When your body is tired don’t compromise yourself, stop working – any kind of work can be tiring for the body, but when you work with energy it can drain your circuits even more. If you have difficulty getting your energy back up to optimal level then it is a message that it is time to rest.  Ground Rules: Rest, eat good food, drink plenty of water, take vitamin C (I am also being told to take zinc), have a shower or bath with Epsom salts, walk bare foot in the garden and reconnect with the earth, take 24 hours away from all electromagnetic equipment, meditate just to connect and not to work.
2. If you feel uneasy in someone else’s company, even if it is a friend or relative, protect yourself – protecting yourself doesn’t make you a bad person. It means that you are honoring your boundaries. You can only spend so much time with people who have negative or draining energy. You will know if your boundaries are being breached because you will feel drained in a person’s presence and may pick up their emotions and feelings making you feel depressed. You might also feel aches and pains in your body when you felt perfectly fine before. Ground Rules: People who could potentially drain energy and dump their stuff on you are often called “Energy Vampires.” Try this, imagine yourself in a black cat-suit or just covered from head to toe in shiny black material so that negative energy is either absorbed into the black or bounces off it. Use whichever image feels best for you. Then place a bubble of protective light around you, whatever color feels good for you and make an intention that this light is the light of protection from all negativity. Limit your time with people who drain you, this is probably your best course of action.
3. Know when to open your chakras and when to close them down – Psychics, healers and sensitive people, are often loving people who want to make a difference. They are here to be of service. But serving can take its toll if the psychic body is not cared for appropriately. There is a time and place to work. It is no different from any other job. Keeping clear boundaries will save you energy and allow your ability to flourish. Ground Rules: Keeping a clear boundary means that your guides know when you are at work and when you are at play. They need boundaries as well otherwise they may well just keep you working. They learn with you and do not know everything – although many would have you think that guides are “all-knowing.” Learn to say “NO!” There is a time and place to work, make a boundary for this. When it is not an appropriate setting to work I always say NO! This way my psychic mechanism will remain healthy. Learn to close down. If you are picking up the energy of others when you are not working then you are too open. Check the articles page of my website for more tips on energy, grounding, and meditation. My Chakra Workout CD has a meditation to help you open and close your chakras. The basics of this meditation is also on my articles page.

Wishing won an award! It received the USA Book News sponsored National Best Book award in October for the best book of 2008 in the New Age category. My beautiful website designed by Karen Newell was a finalist for the Best Website. Karen deserves a personal award as she does such great work and brings wonderful energy to my site.

Thank you to everyone who came to my booth at the Mind Body Spirit expo in Philadelphia. You made our time there so much more special. We plan to return next year.

Those who saw my new Anklets will notice they are not yet available on line. You can check them out at the Opal Moon store in Croton on Hudson and next year they will be on line.

I write for a magazine in Australia called Spheres: The Spirit Guide. They are running an excerpt and review of Wishing in their winter edition. As part of this publication they will be honoring the title of this edition “Blessings” by giving away a few of my signed books to their readers. You can get the magazine at http://www.spiritguide.com.au

My friend the psychic artist Melissa Harris has a special on her website – http://www.melissaharris.com

With any order from her CREATRIX product line in the amount of $50 or over as of October 22, you will automatically be entered into a raffle drawing to be held on the next full moon, November 12. This will most likely be a remote portrait (if you don’t live in the area) whereby you will need to send her by email or snail mail a good quality photo of yourself and a list of 5 questions.  She will email the winner after the drawing and announce who they are (if they would like) in her December newsletter.

We make wishes all the time we just don’t call them that. Instead they might be ideas or thoughts or desires. Do be careful what you ask for. Everything is energy and as you ask so you receive and not always in the way you would like.

Do remember that if you like my book and it has helped you in some way then please add a nice comment to Amazon.com. Thank you for supporting my work!

One of my bracelets called “Abracadabra,” reflects the energy of a spiritual teacher and leader. Cathleen O’Connor who runs Opal Moon has one – she is a spiritual teacher, and at the expo two ladies bought one each reflecting their teacher/leader qualities. But this bracelet rarely gets chosen, I feel it has to choose you. 

At the expo I had my laptop open to my website and my Chakra Workout CD playing in the background. On Saturday I tried to get the sound to work on the computer and it just would not have it. Then I looked at the name of my CD on iTunes. It said “Elizabeth Harper and the Technicolor Dreamcoat!” My guides were obviously playing with my computer. Nice to know they have a sense of humor.

November is election month so no doubt someone will be unhappy with the choice of the next president. So let us visualize everyone in the United States filled with the light of companionship and acceptance. Imagine the economy transforming and everyone abundant. In your minds eye see your family, friends, neighbors, your community and yourself as healthy, wealthy, and wise. And remember to say thank you to the universe for all these blessings in advance.

If you are in need of healing and would like to be included in this Healing Circle Book then drop me an email. If you know of an individual who is in need of healing and would like to add their name to this list, then you might like to ask their permission first. The names on the Healing Circle list will be added to my Healing Hearts Book. I focus on the names in the book during my meditations, this is called absent healing.