For those that received the newsletter on Monday I am glad I finally got it out. I have been sitting on it for a week because we have had a glitch in the newsletter HTML program and I was waiting for it to be corrected. Finally I needed to just send it out as a text message. I was a little disappointed because it didn’t look as fancy, however, I am now realizing a text-only newsletter, in it’s more simple format, reached more of you. This blog entry is for the writer, the person who knows they have to express messages for the Universe. The following example is how I have continually experienced the creative process since I have become a writer.

As I had sat waiting to get the newsletter out for a week I reviewed it more than once and thought about re-writing it. I started to think maybe it was too preachy, or too intense for people. But I realized it had come through this way and I needed to just stay out of the way and send it out. Below are some reactions to the newsletter, within minutes of it going out this first response came in.

“Please delete me from your mailing list”

My ego wanted me to dislike this person - who I don’t even know! But then my intuition said, “Relax, this is a good sign!” Now, as I have said all along, I do not profess the be the best writer, the most eloquent, artistic, humorous - nevertheless, I KNOW I am supposed to write. So, I relaxed and opened my heart to this person, and moved on with my day. Shortly thereafter messages like these have poured in. I share these with you to encourage you to recognize the positive in the negative. Don’t give up. Persevere. Trust yourself, and the Universe will always cover your back! Love, David

Newsletter replies…

- Thanks, David. Great uplifting letter during these difficult times we are going through. I feel the same way you do about this being an exciting experience we are being challenged with as a nation and as a people. And Obama is the perfect person to be president now. When I say to others that this is an exciting, challenging time to be living, some look at me like I’ve lost it or am being mean to those who are struggling, so I’ve learned to retreat. I don’t want to say anything that can be misconstrued as hurtful. But reading your letter was so helpful because you expressed basically what I have been saying but maybe a tad gentler. Thanks for the example and encouragement to keep going.

- Yay!!! Thanks for writing, David - it’s always such a joy to get these from you.

- Thanks David, it’s about time you included me in the newsletter. Very inspiring.

- Awesome message, so good to hear from you. I too am feeling the path and it’s like the edges have bumpers and keep pushing me back on track. the only time I don’t progress is when I stop. I have been clearing out a lot lately and it’s a good awakening, if a bit weird as always. I request as always a prayer for me as I again put intention towards my businesses, I have just been doing my day job which has been fun yet not very progressive to what I really believe I am meant for. Thanks as always for keeping in touch.

- Love..Ly

- I always enjoy reading your messages, wisdom and teachings! A part of me simply enjoys watching you grow. Tim must be smiling! I continue to wish you much good health, peace and abundance. We are all riding the wave of economic uncertainty. I’m happy to know that you are helping many others prepare for the unknown without going into reaction. The Bach Remedies like Aspen, Mimulus and Walnut can be especially helpful now to those in fear and transition. And for some, Larch will be a valuable addition.

- So true, so abundantly clear… this call to action is my current journey as you described below. Please keep me posted of your trainings in NY. Peace and thanks.

- I get ya!  I very much appreciate receiving the gifts you offer, such as this newsletter.

- Thanks for the newsletter and your ongoing voice of compassion and wisdom.

- Thank you David…this is so beautiful and in alignment with what I know to be true. You have great humor too!!!

There are many things I feel the day after teaching the healer training classes with elation and satisfaction leading the way. I tell people I am trying to create an easy to understand language around healing, energy, intuition, awareness, and spirit. Some parts of it are truly easy, and some are very difficult. I realize it isn’t so much the difficulty with creating the language, it is more around helping people through their blockages to spirituality. Nevertheless, I find it a fascinating process! I thoroughly enjoy the study of human behavior from the spiritual prospective. Why, when, where, and how people choose to let go and heal is so interesting, and even more interesting is when people feel the calling to step into healing work with a desire to help others. That is what truly inspires me to keep doing this work….maybe one day when I feel like I have trained enough folks to do the work….maybe one day I will turn it all over to others. Until that time I will continue my walk up this path sowing seeds as I walk along. It is a good day! Love, David

I am excited to be teaching my healer training - level 1 class this weekend! I have seen so much change, development, and growth from people who have taken this class since I first agreed to teach it in August 2001. The first class began just after 9-11-01, interestingly enough. The class has fine-tuned itself over the years and the thing I like most about it is that it is fun. I like to teach in an easy light-hearted way that isn’t too serious, or significant, nevertheless we deal with life changing information. My main purpose with all of the classes (levels 1-4) is to help people grow confidence in their lives through their: intuition, energy, healing, meditation, breathing meditation, understanding how to become unstuck, healing tools, clarity about other people’s energy, etc…it truly goes on and on.

I am also having a lot of fun teaching people to teach this class for me. I am witnessing that the information can be passed down and the class can flow just as well without me. Kind of humbling, but also a relief. You know, I can pass this on (in the right way) and people can benefit in places around the world and I don’t have to do it all. I have known for a long time now that Spirit has it’s own plan and I’m kind of just along for the ride. People often ask me,”Why the reluctance?” I tell them to read my book that I explain it in there, and for those that persist I tell them that was in the beginning. I wasn’t so sure I wanted my life to go this way. I was reluctant, I know reluctance well! However, I realized the Universe knew more than I did, and that it was a whole lot stronger than me. Once I let go and accepted my journey as a healer many things in my life got easier. It was my purpose to help others. The Universe definitely knew more than I did. One of the things that gave me the most fulfillment in my life so far was doing healing work and writing THE RELUCTNAT HEALER. So, I continue on my path today and I go now to teach the class. Love, David

If you read some of my writing, know me, or know about me you might know that I have a thing for hummingbirds. I am attracted to them. I have been since my daughter was conceived and they became attracted to me at that moment. It could seem strange, or it could not. They have become a very powerful totem/alliance for me. I pay attention to their dance, their timing, their arrival, and their message. I love their energy, and they are very sensitive to the frequency of my thoughts and emotions. When they get in my face I pay attention! When they land in my hand I let them heal me. I love hummingbirds, and they seem to care for me. LOVE, David                                                                         

I am finally back in LA after some rather intense travel and experience with Mother Nature. These times are a changing - on just about every level of experience for me. Not just the physical one talking about the weather, but really even more on an instinctive spiritual level. I am experiencing an intensifying of energy almost exponentially. If you’ve followed the blog I have mentioned preparing yourself, and now I mention it again. I don’t believe there is one way to prepare yourself, or to prepare anyone, or everyone. I believe the preparation is personal to you. What is needed for you is up to you. When I speak about change I am primarily speaking about change of consciousness, change of reality - the change of experience in this 3rd dimension. Currently I keep witnessing how much human reality (at least in the U.S.) is set up to not deal with the energy that is pushing us to evolve. There is much reaching for bigger and bigger distractions - more bizarre entertainment, reality tv, flashier technological hardware, a need for more stimulants, and a need for more suppressants. It’s all pretty crazy! Human behavior never ceases to amaze me. So, if you are reading here - I acknowledge I am preaching to the choir! - nevertheless, I challenge you to reach to the core of your heart, see if you can make a connection to that deep personal place. Feel the truth in there, and ask yourself, “Do I have love in here? Do I love myself?

If you answered, “yes”, and through this love you experience the universal force of consciousness present in all things. If you can make this connection the fun can begin. Without this basic fundamental connection you can not accurately move forward and trust yourself because you will always be looking outside of yourself for this connection. The solution is not outside of yourself. That is the seduction and the distraction. That is the lesson that human reality is being forced to deal with now. If there is a stirring deep inside of you, if you are restless, if you think someone has the answers for you, something can fix you, that there is a shortcut out there somewhere and you are going to find it - well, I will tell you that you won’t find it out there. Someone else is NOT going to make you happy. Something else is not going to fix you. You have to do the work to open yourself up to the flow of love within yourself. Once that is open you can connect to the source whether you call it God, Jesus, Allah, Gaia, Buddha, Krishna, etc. I do not care about what you want to name the flow of Universal Love, I believe there are many names. Opening to the flow within yourself enlightens you to the spirit of the masters, until you have the light within there is no light without. Love, David

WOW! What an experience I had in KY! You may have heard about the huge ice storm that fell just before I headed home. People had not seen anything like it in a 100 years. Needless to say my drive from the Nashville airport Thursday night was an adventure. The last 30 miles were spent dodging trees, downed telephone poles and lines on the Purchase Parkway, and especially on Highway 80, but I made it home to very dark house with what appeared to be one candle burning through the window. It ends up my mom was doing ok w/ lot’s of help from neighbors, including twice a day visits from my nephew, Adam. When I was home last @ Thanksgiving (luckily and fortunately) we had purchased a small Honda generator for her. It kept the refrigerator, freezer, a few lights going, so she was much better off than most. It’s interesting trying to live without water, electricity, heat, phones, tv, and internet. I didn’t get the full force of this because of the generator, however we had very limited water, electricity, one local tv channel for news, no telephone (including cell) for much of the time, and no internet. My point is: it’s hard to know how much we depend on these things until we don’t have them. Nevertheless, I am very glad I was able to be home with my mom during this time. The nostalgia of KY has grown on me more and more in the last few years. I miss my dad, and grandparents more each time I go home. I have realized all of the stories and history that was lost when they passed. I understand how civilizations lose their hertitage when the elder’s are gone, and the stories, folklore, and history that just withers away. I say all of this now because it helps me understand the plight of the indigenous people who were uprooted and moved off the land they loved. I understand the plight of the people who were enslaved and taken from their lands. I guess these winter months bring out my Capricorn nature in a very reflective way. It seems the universe is causing me to stop and take note of all that I am, all that I come from, and all that I have to be grateful for. I have had it good in this life. I have worked hard, I come from people who have worked hard for what they have. I see the ways I have been conditioned to think, feel, and be. They are good. I don’t have regrets about my life, however the more I look at the history of Western KY, the more I study how most of the land in the U.S. was obtained, the more I understand that some of what I have today has come at the expense of others. Yes, this is going back hundreds of years! Yes, this is very nostalgic, but it is worth digging this deep. It helps me understand why I have been driven to be a healer this lifetime. OK…I will take a break now and will return tonight to write some more. I will leave a photo or two with some images from the ice storm…love, David

One of the few trees that did not break apart from all of the hundreds of pounds of frozen moisture clinging to its limbs. If you did not know it ice is very heavy!
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