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I attended a seminar this weekend where two people upon finding out about my profession asked me to scan their energy. The first person’s scan revealed the common combination of beautiful energy mixed with some congested areas. We chatted about what he was doing right to help his energy flow well and what he could add to his routine. When the second gentleman joined the conversation and asked for a scan, I obliged and immediately began clearing some of the heavier congestion in his heart chakra. When I finished and told him what I had done, he thanked me graciously and the conversation continued. It seemed from the look on the first man’s face that he was wondering why I cleared the second guy and not him. The answer? The first man was not at any risk. He practices yoga, is young and strong, and is of a mindset that will lead him towards constant improvement in his life. And I wasn’t going to say right in front of the second gentleman – this guy is at risk. Not, hey! Let’s head to the emergency room risk. But that part of me that makes me good at this work knew that he needed my help and this was the right time to take care of it. So I did. Intuition is that simple when you get used to following it.

Today, logic is taking the upper hand and I’m reasoning through those events and other related things that come up regularly. The primary issue that comes up amazingly often is that some people think that I should do all healing work for free. A client recently described to me how one of her co-workers was outraged that she was paying me $10 for a healing session saying I should do it out of the goodness of my heart. Did you do a double take just then? Ten bucks isn’t very much to a lot of people yet this woman was ranting about the hugely discounted rate I had given my client.

I met a nurse at the same seminar that cares for patients dying of cancer in their home. Does anyone expect her to work for free? I can guarantee you that she has a loving and gentle heart – a must for a great nurse. Should she work for free because she cares enough about people to help them? Would she have time to help people in the same way if she had to earn her income in another way?

These thoughts lead me to think of my own choices. Healing has never been my only source of income. And although I could do much good in the world if I weren’t working on other projects, most people simply cannot afford to pay me what I’m worth as a healer.

In many of my workshops I share this example from my own life. I learned to do energy healing because I needed to heal. I spent 5-10 hours a day working on myself the first year. Most of the healers I know of charge anywhere from $60 to $400 an hour. Five hours times 365 days at, let’s say, a low average of $80 an hour is over $140,000 for that first year.

Could you afford that? Can people who are truly ill and can’t even get to work to make money afford that? That’s why I teach self-healing workshops. That’s why I have multiple sources of income – so I can afford to charge some people only $10. Other people know they can afford more, so they pay more. Some people even pay my full rate!

But I still feel the dilemma in my heart. Just how much better would the world be if I could spend all my time healing? For now I compromise, I work on my other sources of income, teach people how to do as much themselves as they can, and most importantly to me – I practice. I practice and learn constantly with the thought in mind that if it took me 10 minutes instead of 20 I could heal twice as much or twice as many people.

As always your thoughts and feelings on the subject are welcome. I can assure you my clients who don’t leave comments have expressed how much they enjoy the insight of readers who do.

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This is the first in a new series called Success Stories. Venus graciously agreed to be the first interviewed. Thank you, Venus! In speaking with her, I found she has a vast knowledge base from her two degrees covering cellular biology, microbiology, molecular biology, physiology and applied mathematics. After years of academic study, her “passion is now helping people heal in an applied method rather than in academics.” Her enthusiasm for her subject is unparalleled which is why she fits perfectly into my idea of someone generating the Energy of Success!

My biggest success was when I became awake and found who I really am. Or to say getting past what I was taught and remembering who I really am. It was a process that started about four years ago.

In 2005, I found myself with all this education but with health problems. It became unbearable, so I had to change something. I thought, what is the point of all this education if I’m not using it! Our bodies absorb all of the products we use, many of which are synthetic. The body is organic, not synthetic. There are different names for different diseases, but there is only one disease – toxemia. You cannot throw toxins into yourself while raising your vibration. These toxins lower your vibration.

I had become aware, but was not living the knowledge. The biggest gap in our lives is between what we know and what we do. We have the real truth in us, but we ignore it. We look outside, not inside for answers.

I started a long search for personal care products with healthy ingredients. All day every day for two and half months, I read every label of every product in the stores. Many had ingredients that were not really good. Some were making false claims. Then my search went online. Finally, I decided if I don’t find it I’ll make it. It was time to create this line of products I couldn’t find.

I had in sight very early one morning in March 2006. ‘Try one more time on the computer.’ It was then I found a company and read all about it. It was exactly what I wanted. I turned the computer off and turned it on again to make sure it was real!

I am expert on probiotics and superfoods. I had researched products in the past and had been very disappointed. I was looking for personal care products and found the other! An amazing journey began in which I started to awaken.

Very quickly, from using these products, all of my physical problems went away. My body had been malnourished. My eczema was gone in a week. In two and half weeks everything was gone including a growth I had had on my neck all my life. It disappeared.

My mind started to awaken. We are mind, body, and spirit. Once the body works right the others follow. Literally it was in every part of my life that I awakened. Everything changed from that moment on. My life purpose became to help people, to teach and inspire, to bring forth my boldness for the reason that others see that they have this same power to see who they are and bring it out in themselves. Obviously this feels very important to me.

Venus describes her 6 steps to success

Step 1
Start where you are. The most important thing is to start! Look at yourself. Is there any resistance? Acknowledge those things, even if you don’t know what to do. Accept it. Low energy might be fear, worry, unforgiving, blame, judgment. Don’t deny, suppress, or fight; they make it worse. Accept and acknowledge, then let it go. Release it. Visualize putting them on a cloud and see it going away from you.

Step 2
Set a clear intent. What is it that you want? Want is the desire? Don’t focus on what you don’t want. The universe doesn’t accept negation. It will only bring you more of what you’re thinking about. Sit down and write it. The intent is what starts the creation. All creation starts from the inside out.

Step 3
You have to make a decision. I want this or something better (in case you might be limiting yourself). Be precise, visualize the details. The more precise the description, the faster is can manifest. Don’t put down a smaller desire because you subconsciously think the other might not be possible. It doesn’t help to put down the smaller because it’s not actually a true desire. It’s important to realize that everything is possible for the universe. In a restaurant, you order and they bring you what you want. They don’t bring you something else. You must have that decision made about what you want. As soon as you have a clear decision, this is the moment the energy starts attracting it too you.

Step 4
Visualize what you want. Feel and imagine it as if it is already manifested. I could go into a long explanation of why the brain works using visualization. To make it short, the subconscious does not have the ability to reject ideas and images. It can object, but not reject. It then checks to see if the new idea is perfectly aligned with all previous experience. If not, the subconscious objects and creates fear. Visualization helps because the subconscious does not have the ability to determine what is real and what is imaginary. Using the best and deepest detail and feeling as good as you will feel when this is already accomplished, the subconscious mind takes it as real. Instead of trying to scare you, it becomes the #1 supporter to prove the idea is true. Now when it checks, it finds a positive experience to align with and can allow any further positive experiences without trying to scare you. This is why it’s so important to do step 1 and release all of the negative. The subconscious cannot build over the negative with positive. It has to be removed first.

Step 5
Affirm with absolute faith. Use positive affirmations in the present tense: Perfect health and prosperous abundance are mind right now. No negations should be included. There are two ways to get new programming into the subconscious – sudden shock or conscious repetition. The first is hard to do for yourself, but you can control the repetition. The key here is repetition. You start believing it, and you start living it. It starts to flow with you.

Step 6
Give thanks. Again in the present tense, I am grateful for perfect health and prosperous abundance. Have a constant attitude of gratitude. All of these 6 steps are a matter of practice and habit.

If you or someone you know has any Success Stories to share, send an email to successstories@teresaivory.com.

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We all reach a crossroads, usually many times, in our lives. Decisions have to be made, directions have to be chosen. We all have our favorite method whether it’s logic, intuition or heart based.

My experience with logic is that it’s great if you have all the facts, lousy when you don’t, and even worse when you think you do but you don’t. Intuition is priceless when you don’t have all the facts. It fills in the gaps where your knowledge is lacking and helps you make a better “educated guess.”

Where does the heart come in? Heart based decisions happen when you have an emotional stake in the outcome, and not always, but usually stem from fear. Fear, often called by some of its other names (worry, stress, anxiety, shyness) is so common in our lives we often don’t recognize it for what it is.

What about decisions stemming from love? Hmm…that’s a tough one. Too many times I’ve seen “love” act to cover another emotion like. Control and insecurity are the two most common reasons.

One example: You love your children and don’t want them to get hurt so you make a decision that seems based on love but it’s really based on controlling the situation and your feelings of insecurity that they won’t make the right decision themselves. I’m not saying stop parenting and leave your children to flounder through life on their own. But stop and consider with thoughts like these: At this age, how much of this decision can my children participate in? Will my child experience more personal growth from my help or am I hindering their personal growth? Sometimes we have to step in and take action to protect our children – that’s part of our job as a parent. But often we can find ways to help them grow if we let them share in the process.

Another example: You love your job and you love the people you work with – hey, it does happen! – but you’ve been offered a different opportunity. Your “heart” seems to be telling you to stay, but you’d better check to make sure it’s not your insecurity clinging to the known factors of your current job before you turn down the offer.

So should you listen to your heart in making decisions?

That’s one of those “Yes, but…” kind of answers. Yes you should, but…take the time to figure out what your heart is trying to tell you. When you listen to your heart, you’re open to discovering some of your biggest opportunities for personal growth and awareness.

Let’s look at some possible results from the examples above.

You become aware that you haven’t trained your children to make their own age-appropriate decisions and take steps to improve your parenting skills. You and your children both benefit. Or you bring your child into the decision making process and discover that they’re wiser than you thought.

For that opportunity that was offered? You might sit down to evaluate the situation your current job and discover you’ve been trading growth for comfort and have become stagnant. You can then make a decision about taking the current offer or finding ways within your current job to grow and develop your skills. Either way, your heart has helped open your eyes.

Wrapping up: Remember that even though you have a favorite decision making method, don’t neglect the others. Take advantage of logic, intuition and your heart in making your decisions and you’ll get results that take you where you want to go faster and on a path that is designed just for you.

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