Princess, the boss around here, watches my bags go in and out of the closet A LOT these days. She loves playing in these bags hiding, and trying to surprise me when I go to pack - she is definitely a rascal! I wonder where she gets that? This is one of my favorite photo’s of her as a kitten. She is four now, no longer a a kitten, but you could never tell because she loves to play as much as ever. I think of her right now and I realize I am a lot like her, I like to play and have fun too. I think about my second trip to Italy. I am very excited to go there and see my friends. I’m not looking forward to the flight so much, but if I think about Princess and if I remember to play through the flight and exchange with the air, food, seat, plane and people I will be just fine!

I will be arriving in Rome late Friday night, if I get bored I can go down to the Coliseum for a workout! I have an old buddy down there. Ciao, David

Love, exchange, and being alive

Love, exchange, and being a human

Love, exchange, and being an artist

Love, exchange, and being on purpose

Love, exchange, and loving what you do

Love, exchange, and giving and receiving

Love, exchange, and expressing your heart

Love, exchange, and knowing your value

Love, exchange, and having fun

Love, exchange, and helping the children

Love, exchange, and giving freely

Love, exchange, and receiving abundance

Love, exchange, and knowing who you are

Love, exchange, and having faith

Love, exchange, and caring for the earth

Love, exchange, and you carry on from here…
A healer is anyone who is alive and choosing to be conscious with their actions. A healer is someone who is willing to be a mirror or flashlight for others. A healer is not a person of exceptional power or gift, rather a healer is you and me. A healer is everyman who stops to pick up a cigarette butt on a mountain trail. A healer is a person who reaches out to give their neighbor a hand. A healer is a person who chooses to help a stranger find their way. A healer is you and me. Nothing special, nothing more.

A healer is a person willing to love and exchange. A healer heals themselves when they understand the bigger picture that the power of love resides inside their heart and the gardens they grow from there sets them free.

Off to teach another day of Healer Training - Level 2 with Love and Exchange as the center piece. Love, David

I am resting now and will share more about the concept of self-love, exchange, value, worth, and money. There are many connections in all of this and I will continue with the explanation early in the morning. Love, David

Hi Everyone!

I often times say I am preaching to the choir with some of my messages to my readers and students, nevertheless in this moment I do not feel like I am preaching to you. I feel like I am sharing some of the most simple but profound aspects of my work. I have studied people for most of my life and have consciously done this with every part of my being for the last 12 years. I have looked at why so much of the time people don’t change and heal, and why people choose to stay the same. I have looked at why people are negative, sick, and stuck. If you can venture deeply into self-love I can promise you healing on all levels.

Of course these are diagrams without the full description provided in HEALING. I will provide a brief explanation here. If you think about the contentment you feel with self-love you know exactly what this diagram is building on, and if you have not felt this you know exactly what no self-love feels like, too. (If you are in the second example do not worry, it’s not a bad thing. You are here because you want to learn about healing through self-love). In this diagram I am showing how the lack of love for self creates all the external ways people seek that connection, it’s endless really. Within the context of seeking love I have witnessed all of the illness, disease, and maladies affecting man. Below the seeking love box are the negative behavioral characteristics that people act out. Again, this is a very brief summary of the text…nevertheless, being extreme, aggressive, addicted, stubborn, and driven by ego are some of the traits of people seeking love.

In the healing work these examples are played out time and time again, and I raise the question, can healing be distilled down to such a simple premise of self-love? I am here to tell you it comes down to this simple idea, and the real question is, “Where do you stand in your relationship to self-love?”

Let me know if this topic and idea speaks to you. I am willing to keep sharing about this. SELF-LOVE, David

I have had some interesting conversations with people recently about love. I keep talking about self-love and the healing that comes from that and how this connection is the keystone to health and well-being. AND most people I am having this conversation with keep wanting to talk about intimate relationship. The fixation is on love coming in from someone else to stimulate the love inside of oneself, and I keep reinforcing that this kind of love may not be love without self-love. It may be temporary distraction and infatuation. I made this statement to a good friend the other day and she said, “Don’t burst my bubble!” I replied, “OK!” And started talking about the weather. I staked this next book on this concept and I know most people will experience a lot of healing if they learn about self-love. There is a huge resistance for many to put in the work of learning to love themselves. Where are you in relationship with you? Below is a diagram from HEALING where I talk about self-love as the starting point for everything. Take a look and think about this diagram. Notice how self-love spirals out of the heart chakra, notice how no self-love runs as a straight line from you to something or someone…think about the simplicity this diagram shows, and think about how good love feels when you feel good about yourself. Many other diagrams build on this first one, and if you’d like to see more let me know and I will share a few more…love, David

This past Labor Day weekend was the coolest I have ever spent in Sedona and I am happy to be returning to a cooler and slightly less smoky Los Angeles. I normally would have stayed on in Sedona for a day or two more to rest up but I needed to return to LA to get my daughter back to school. She starts a new school today and is very excited, and I am excited for her and the new friendships awaiting Miss Ruby Louise Elliott!

Now that I am back in LA, I will be working diligently to put the finishing touches on my book, HEALING. It’s all in the details now, as well as dealing with the business side of getting this book out into the world. Much like my daughter, who I wake up in the mornings and help get to school - and knowing this process will continue for many more years - and one day waving goodbye as she goes off to college. Finally, another day, I will walk her down the aisle and wave goodbye as I give her hand to another. It’s kind of the same feeling with books. I put energy into them to help them grow. I watch over and support them as they mature and one day I release them to have a life of their own. I’m watching this book grow and soon I will be releasing it to have a life of its own.

I am glad to be back in LA for a short stay working and teaching, and then on to another adventure in Italy where a great group of people await my Healer Training Level 2 class. I am very excited to be taking some new material there about the work and specifically with exchange. I am witnessing these ideas about Love, Exchange, and Universal Energy Flow transform people’s lives and I am ready to bring it to all those wanting to work with these principles. Just prior to Italy I will be offering some of this new material to a healing group @ the Hub in West LA on Sept 18th, and to the HT-2 class on Sept 19th-20th. Join in the fun if you have the appetite! Love, David

This is one of my favorite caves in Sedona and even though it is not a deep dark cave it is an amazing place…more iPhone photo’s to come…de

No matter how Sedona has changed and grown over the years, it is still one of my favorite places on the planet. Besides its red rock beauty I find it is one of the best locations to do healing work. The energy here is amazing and stuff starts coming up in people before they even arrive; therefore, the energy of Sedona is an activator and helps people in their healing process. We’re going to have a lot of fun this weekend! I’ll send more photo’s later…

There is a lot of energy movin’ and shakin’ in people right now - and of course - there are those determined to hold on for dear life. Not to move and shake, or rattle and roll. I don’t want to be on that ride. It is important to let go, open to the fire, and embrace the smoke. If you fight it, you will get sick. I am speaking in terms beyond the fires in CA. Nevertheless, inclusive of the big smudge CA is getting right now - what do I mean by open open to the fire and embrace the smoke? What do I mean by movin’ and shakin’?

More as a witness than a prognosticator - change is in the air, the water, the earth, and in the fire. Labor Day always brings big confluences of energy together, and this time in ‘09 is no different. Throw in the energy of the full moon, and additional pulls from Mercury, and we end up with a highly charged moment. For personal security and a sense of freedom it is important to be able to rise with the energy and surf the waves, as opposed to being beaten down by them. So, what do I mean by movin’ and shakin’? Let me see if I can get there…I suggest deepening your spiritual practice now by breathing, meditating, and using your creativity to its fullest - this week, weekend, month, and through the end of the year. I’m not hinting that earthquakes are upon us literally, but I intuit there are many elemental forces movin’ and shakin’ things as I write - bringing change and ultimately balance to this time. The one constant in the eye of change is you! If you can open to a feeling of love and exchange with the Universal energies it will be an enjoyable ride.

The time to ground your roots into Mother Earth through your spiritual practice is now. Core issues are rising to the surface in people globally, it’s not just Sou. CA that’s on fire. If you are reading here, it is my job to suggest spiritual discipline and encourage you to face the fire that has been burning in you. I say lovingly, “Get off your butt and start creating, expressing and playing today! Write your music, play your harmonica, paint with your fingers. Express yourself!” You will develop spiritual truth if you use your creativity. You will become your own therapist, guide, and teacher if you do because the Universe will be flooding you with energy, intuition, and spirit.

Let go of the old compass - past experience and expectation - it is a new time of greater HEALING and awakening. Trying to control your experience of life and everything around you through the past will not work. Love as a Universal Energy Flow cannot be defined through fears and insecurities. Open your imagination to the expanse of your spirit, use your creativity to find the tone, color, and language of your soul. AND HAVE A GREAT PLAYFUL (labor) DAY WEEKEND! LOVE, David

ps…have a look @ the cover of my new book!