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They were together in the same room as they had for years, the room they shared their passion, their love for one another and the room their children were conceived. Only this time it was different, he laid she sat, she sat by his side knowing in her heart things were about to change. They looked into one anothers eyes and shared all the memories of all the years they had been together, with no words even being spoken. She tenderly took his hand and him, hers. He turned to her and he said I have loved you from the moment I met you, you have been the reason I breath everyday, you have given me not only love but joy and a life that only others can imagine, as he spoke a single tear rolled down his cheek. She smiled at his words and knew the time was coming swiftly, she took a deep breath, and gathered all her strength and she told him how much he meant to her as well. They squeezed hands, she kissed his frail lips, and replied in a faint whisper to him, it’s alright, I will be alright. She nodded, and said go home my love, ill meet you there in time. With those words he smiled, looked up took a deep breath, and closed his eyes. Her whisper gave him the strength, and courage he needed, and he went home on the wings of his angels…   Angels Bless and Guide every single soul that is living and those that are making that journey home.

Here at readingsbyjody.com I am always trying to teach people that each life experience has a lesson attached to it. No matter the topic or the lesson it is always right there in front of our faces. We just need to take the time to slow down, breathe and try and see what the universe and spirit is trying to tell us.Some of these lessons can be life altering and some can be moments and things that we have been over looking for sometime.

Example: It started out as a wonderful get away labor day weekend to be spent with good friends and family and celebrate my birthday with the people we love, and it was going just that way. The day before we were meant to come home I was awoken by my gf wanting me to come with her as the police had contacted her and my husband was in the emergency room after a car accident. Fortunately he wasn’t seriously  injured but it shook me to the core for several days. As 5 years before that both him and myself has been in another accident and this one had brought me right back to that time and place.

I pulled away from my work at readingsbyjody.com for several days, since I couldn’t seem to get back to my center to help anyone. My focus was lost and I was feeling somewhat distant from all my guides and angels at this time. I needed to know and find the answer to why this seemed to keep happening to us. Days past and no answers came, no matter what i asked silence. I was to find out the answer for myself if what I felt. After much meditation and getting angry at myself for not seeing the clear picture, one day it hit me. I was packing for our up coming move and it hit me, “things”, the things in our life were becoming more important then”we” as a couple were. We were letting our lives and things come between us, In spirits infinite wisdom they were showing us in the only manner the two of us would understand just how important we are to one another and how much we loved one another.It took the loss of our vehicle ( another thing). No matter how busy our lives become, and how many things we have to do, stop, take time to appreciate the loved ones we have in our lives. Enjoy life to the fullest with every single person we love, and have in our lives and dont take one moment for granted. Messages are sent in subtle and sometimes very bold ways, it took me many hard long days to figure this one out but thankfully I did…Now im back helping others and working back on the website again. I love my family, I love my life and mostly I love my husband…..Thanks the Angels for him every single day.

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The following article comes from the website paranormal.about.com. I take no credit for this I just found this very interesting and wanted to share as it has some wonderful points in it.

What You Need to Know About… Remote Viewing

It’s a scientific method of tapping into the “universal mind,” transcending time and space, and bringing the unconscious into the conscious – and YOU can learn to do it.

Are you curious about remote viewing? You have most likely heard about this mysterious practice and understand that is has something to do with ESP. What you may not know is that a person does not have to be a psychic to learn and use remote viewing. In fact, you can learn to become a remote viewer and access incredible mental powers you didn’t even know you have.

What Is Remote Viewing?

Remote viewing is the controlled use of ESP (extrasensory perception) through a specific method. Using a set of protocols (technical rules), the remote viewer can perceive a target – a person, object or event – that is located distantly in time and space. A remote viewer, it is said, can perceive a target in the past or future that is located in the next room, across the country, around the world or, theoretically, across the universe. In remote viewing, time and space are meaningless. What makes remote viewing different than ESP is that, because it uses specific techniques, it can be learned by virtually anyone.

The term “remote viewing” came about in 1971 through experimentation conducted by Ingo Swann (who correctly remote viewed in 1973 that the planet Jupiter has rings, a fact later confirmed by space probes), Janet Mitchell, Karlis Osis and Gertrude Schmeidler.

In the method that they and others developed, there are five components necessary for remote viewing to take place:

• a subject (the remote viewer)
• active ESP abilities
• a distant target
• the subject’s recorded perceptions
• a confirmatory positive feedback

A remote viewing sessions lasts about one hour.

During the Cold War through the 1970s and 1980s, remote viewing was further developed by the US military and the CIA through such programs codenamed Sun Streak, Grill Flame and Star Gate. The government-sponsored remote viewing programs were successful, according to many who participated. Some of the now-declassified examples include the highly accurate and detailed descriptions of buildings and facilities hundred of miles from the remote viewer – including a crane assembly in the Soviet Union.

Although these organizations claim that after 20 years of experimentation their remote viewing programs have been abandoned, some insiders believe that they are being continued secretly. Some well-known remote viewers say they were contacted by the US government after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to help locate other possible terrorist activity.

What It Isn’t

Remote viewing is not an out-of-body experience. A remote viewer does not astrally project to the target, although some remote viewers occasionally report a feeling of bilocating to the site of the target.

It also is not a meditative, dream or trance state. During a remote viewing session, the subject is always fully awake and alert. As Christophe Brunski writes in “Remote Viewing: Conditions and Potentials,” “Whereas one might consider a trance state to be ‘going down’ into the deeper levels of mind, RV might be said to allow information from these deeper levels to ‘come up.’”

How Does It Work?

No one really knows for certain how remote viewing works, only that it does. One theory is that trained remote viewers are able to tap into the “Universal Mind” – a kind of comprehensive storehouse of information about everything, where time and space are irrelevant. The remote viewer can enter a “hyperconscious state” in which he or she can tune in to specific targets within the universal consciousness of which all people and all things are a part. It sounds like a lot of “New Age” jargon, but it’s a good guess as to what’s really taking place.

Ingo Swann calls remote viewing a “form of virtual reality traveling” that is brought under conscious control.

How well does it work? While skeptics contend that it doesn’t work at all and some proponents claim it works 100 percent of the time, the fact is it does work, but not all of the time for all remote viewers. A highly skilled remote viewer may have a success rate that approaches 100 percent; he or she may be able to access a target nearly all of the time, but all of the data obtained may not be completely accurate. There are many factors involved, and some targets may be more complicated to reach and describe than others.

Who Can Learn Remote Viewing?

Virtually anyone can learn remote viewing. You don’t need to be “psychic” to successfully remote view, but it does require training and diligent practice. Some research has shown that left-handed people are more likely to become successful at it. But learning remote viewing has been likened to learning to play a musical instrument. You’re not going to be able to read a book (or website) about it and then be able to do it. You must learn the techniques and then practice. As with a musical instrument, the more you train and practice with it, the better you’ll be able to perform. It takes time, motivation and dedication.

According to Paul H. Smith in his article “Can Remote Viewing Be Trained,” remote viewing “training has been nearly always successful to a greater or lesser degree depending on the level of motivation, preparation and innate ability of a given student viewer.” Remote viewer Joe McMoneagle has compared it to training for the martial arts.

How You Can Learn Remote Viewing

If you’re curious about the potential of remote viewing, there are many resources for learning its methods and techniques. For example, the official Army manual on Coordinate Remote Viewing, written in 1986, is available free online. It provides background, training procedures, how a remote viewing session works and more.

There are commercial courses as well, which can range in cost from free to hundreds of dollars and even thousands of dollars. Be cautious and research a company thoroughly before investing any money in training. Be wary of exaggerated claims and find out exactly what you get for your money. Here are a few sources:

• Academy of Remote Viewing
• The Farsight Institute
• Hawaii Remote Viewers’ Guild
• Western Institute of Remote Viewing
• PSI Tech
• Straightline Remote Sensing (free online exercises)

Why would you want to learn remote viewing? Paul H. Smith answers:

“Within its inherent limitations remote viewing has been used in intelligence collection, crime-solving, finding missing persons, market predictions, and – more controversially – space exploration. Yet most people who learn it do so not because of practical applications so much as the challenge it represents – learning to do something that few other people as yet know how to do; or acquiring a skill deemed impossible under the currently ruling scientific paradigm; or because it provides convincing and satisfying proof that we are, indeed, much more than our physical bodies. While skydivers learn that it is possible to transcend the physical fears and bodily limitations that we normally think we are subject to, remote viewers learn something analogous: that it is possible to transcend not only those limitations, but the boundaries of space and time as well.”

I hope everyone found this article as interesting as I have and you can read more about this on the website:

http://paranormal.about.com

How does one mediate? All of us at readingsbyjody.com get asked daily to help with psychic development and one of the many questions when it comes to psychic development is about meditation. Meditation has more benefits then psychic development as well. It calms the physical body therefore releasing us from day to day stress. A simple 10-15 minute a day meditation can release stress as well as finding inner peace and balance. Meditation can also help us understand our own minds as well. We can learn to transform our mind from negative to positive, from hectic to peaceful, and from unhappy to happy. The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. if the mind is at peace it only makes sense the body and spirit will follow.

Breathing is a very important piece of the meditation process, focus on your breathing, keeping it slow and calm. When starting any meditation by doing a simple breathe in to the count of four through your nose and out to the count of four through your mouth, keep doing this breathing technique, the rest will follow.

Way before you begin your mediation process you should make yourself a personal space, sometimes this is not always possible with families and the size of ones living quarters. By taking time out for a simple ten minutes as stated above to quiet your mind will refresh and rejuvenate you. Now, lets get back to the part if you do have the time and the space to make yourself a meditation place. First you want to pick a quiet calm spot, someplace comfortable ( do not lie down you will fall asleep each and every time) a corner is fine, get pillows and make a sitting spot on the floor for yourself. Just make sure your comfortable, Next scents are also important, something calming like lavender and jasmine, you can pick and candle or scented oil which suits you. Music helps as well. Nothing with words though, I use nature music, sounds of water falls help with my mediation. Again this is a personal choice, some people also like drumming music. Make this your sanctuary, add crystals if you have them, anything that feels calming and personal to you can be added. There is no set number of things to make your own personal space.

Next make yourself as comfortable as possible, sitting up, eyes closed,hands rested on your lap, and do your breathing techniques as discussed earlier. Deep breath in through your nose to the count of four and out to the count of four, you will feel your body relaxing as you do this, If your having a hard time clearing your mind of images of things you need to do, have done during the day, picture in your minds eye a candle flame, stay focused on that. If your mind draws back to daily things, draw it back to the flame but continue on your breathing. Most important don’t force yourself, the more you do this the easier it gets. You do not need to take yourself anywhere, visit other places just relax and breath, clear mind and breath. As time goes on  then you can invite your Angels, Guides and Loved ones to join you, but to begin the important thing is breathing, relaxing the body and the mind.

This is a process and may not happen the first or the tenth time you do this. Meditation is not complicated, dont over think it, allow yourself to be in the moment and listen with your heart. Practice for a few times, even 5-10 minutes a day will show you results.

Enjoy the peacefulness that a meditation can bring you, in the following forums I will show you a few meditations you can use to connect with your angels, guides and even loved ones crossed, but for the moment, take a deep breath and just enjoy the peace.

For any questions about this topic please email me on our website at readingsbyjody.com We are always there to help you….Happy Meditating!!!!

Here at readingsbyjody.com we work with a lot of clients that are just starting out on their own spiritual development, and we realize that not everyone knows some of the terminology used, this is why I have created this post. I have put together some of the terms used so that people know what each one means. This is not only for the beginner but also for the readers who may have forgotten some of them along the way. I hope everyone learns a little something from this blog. Angels bless Jody

AKASHIC RECORDS: Sometimes called the book of life. A record kept by each soul that includes words spoken, deeds, and thoughts. This is an eternal record of every experience and life the soul encounters.

ARCHANGELS: Angels of the highest order, they are the Angels closest to God.

AURA:  The colorful electro-magnetic field that radiates from and around a physical body. Sometimes referred to as the “over-soul”, it is the part of the soul that can be seen with the eye.

CHAKRAS: The human body has seven energy centers called Chakras. A psychic can see the colorful energy centers in a persons aura or spiritual body. The spiritual energy centers are directly linked to the physical health of the human body. When in perfect order they are  seen as bright, vibrant vortexes of energy.

CHANNEL: A person who has the ability to access the universal consciousness and translate information from spirits.

CLAIR AUDIENCE: The ability to hear sounds from the Spirit realm.

CLAIRVOYANCE: The ability to clearly see spirits or symbols and relay the information.

DEJA VU: A soul memory recall of a familiar place or person from a past life. A past life event memory. A current event that evokes a memory of the event happening before. A memory that has taken place in the spiritual plane that is now taking place in the physical realm.

EGO: Our conscious mind that passes judgment and makes decisions based on appearances or intelligence.

GUARDIAN ANGELS: A specific angel that was assigned to each of us. They never leave us from our birth, they help and protect us during our life and continue with us through the transformation we call death and into the afterlife.

KARMA: The Universal Law of cause and effect. What you sow, so you shall reap. Every action causes a reaction.

MEDIUM: A person who has the ability to communicate with the other-side: departed loved ones, Angels, and Spirit guides, and other souls residing in the spirit world.

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE: When the physical body experiences  death and the soul leaves the body, travels to the spirit realm and then returns to the body with the remembrance of the experience.

PSYCHIC: A person who has thei ability to “read” another persons energy or vibrations and relay accurate information about their past, present and future.

PSYCHIC EMPATHY; The ability to feel the emotions and physical sensations of another, either spirit or of a human. ( Interesting enough we talked about just this very topic last week on the radio show, The Psychic Coffee Hour, on themixtalk.com).

PSYCHOMETRY: The ability to “read” objects or photos  by tuning into the vibration or energy field surrounding that object and receiving information about it. ( This ability is used widely when working on missing person cases).

REINCARNATION: The rebirth of a soul into a new body.

SILVER CORD: The etheric cord that attaches the physical body to the spiritual body, the soul.

SOUL: The spirit , the essence, or core of our being that is eternal.

SPIRIT GUIDE: A spirit that helps us with a specific aspect of our spiritual development while on earth. We each have one Spirit Guide that stays with us from birth through death. Other Spirit Guides are assigned to  us for different periods of time to help us through different phases of life.

SPIRITUAL READING: A personal counseling session with a Psychic Medium whom chooses to receive information only from God and his helpers.

SUBCONSCIOUS: A part of the mind that holds all memories. The subconscious mind acts as a filter for the conscious mind.

THE COUNCIL: A highly evolved group of twelve Ascended Masters, sometimes referred to as “The Elders”. They are in charge of humanity”s Karma. The Council is in charge of ” The Book of Life”.

VICTIM SOUL: A person who has chosen to soak up a large amount of Karma for humanity.