April 2012

Soul Abundance Presents….

“An Evening with Bert McCarthy”

Come and enjoy an exhilarating evening listening to Bert’s amazing stories and experiences.

Transformational Life Coach, Shamanic Practitioner and Psychic Intuitive. 

www.transformation-lifecoach.com

Thursday April 19^th @ 7.30pm

Doors open 7.15pm.

Kardinya Community Centre Function Room

Cnr Prescott Dr & Williamson Rd, Kardinya.

For further information, phone Catherine on 0408563746 or

email: catherine@soulabundance.com

Readings & Healings

Bert will be in Kardinya Perth Western Australia from the 10th of April until the 22^nd and will be conducting…..

• Readings
• Half Day & Full Day Healing Sessions including Insights, Spiritual Teachings, and Life Coaching.       

For bookings  please contact Catherine on 0408563746

This is the kind of story you need when it seems like the world is spiraling out of control…..

Not many people get a picture of this proud bird snuggled up next to them.

Freedom and Jeff

Freedom and I have been together 11 years this summer. 
She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings.
Her left wing doesn’t open all the way even after surgery, it was broken in 4 places.
She’s my baby.

When Freedom came in she could not stand and both wings were broken.

She was emaciated and covered in lice. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vet’s office. From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off. I it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lie in. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks.

This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn’t stand. It got to the point where the decision was made to euthanize her if she couldn’t stand in a week. You know you don’t want to cross that line between torture and rehab, and it looked like death was winning.

She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon. I didn’t want to go to the center that Thursday, because I couldn’t bear the thought of her being euthanized; 
but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. I went immediately back to her cage; and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle.

She was ready to live. I was just about in tears by then. That was a very good day. 
We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her. 
I got her used to the glove, and then to jesses.  We started doing education programs for schools in western Washington . 
We wound up in the newspapers, radio (believe it or not) and some TV. Miracle Pets even did a show about us.

In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of chemo. Lost the hair – the whole bit. I missed a lot of work.

When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer.

This happened time and time again. Fast forward to November 2000; the day after Thanksgiving,
I went in for my last checkup. 
I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, so my last option was a stem cell transplant.

Anyway, they did the tests; and I had to come back Monday for the results. I went in Monday, and I was told that all the cancer was gone.

So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill.

I hadn’t said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me and wrapped both
her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back 
(I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she 
touched my nose with her beak and stared into my 
eyes, and we just stood there like that 
for I don’t know how long.

That was a magic moment. We have been soul mates ever since she came in. This is a very special bird.

On a side note: I have had people who were sick come up to us when we are out, its like Freedom has some kind of hold on them. I once had a guy who was terminal come up to us and I let him hold her.
His knees just about buckled and he swore he could feel her power course through his body.

 I have so many stories like that..

I never forget the honor I have of being so close to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom.  Jeff Guidry

Author

Catherine May Smith, Soul Abundance Life Coach.

I h
ope you enjoyed this story as much as I have! It is these stories which remind us how powerful nature is.

www.soulabundance.com

Love is an amazing energy. It is something that is felt through emotions and exists in everything and is everywhere around us. Love is the food for the soul. It is the most important ingredient to life itself, and without it we can’t survive. Our children are drawn towards love, they thrive on it and need love to grow. There is no one aspect to our lives that doesn’t involve love, even in the darkest of experiences. You can find love in abundance if you choose to open your heart and feel it.

The truth is that we, as children, experience love within the environment with whom we live. Through this experience it influences:

• the world around us
• our actions and behaviours
• our emotions our thoughts
• our relationships with friends, family and animals, including the closest of those whom we become most deeply intimate with.

Many have experienced a lack of love from a young age from parents who did not show their love for us, or themselves for that matter.  You can be assured that we have inherited this force from the environment from which they came which, in turn, was inherited from their parents, and so on.

This lack of love we have inherited has, in many ways, conditioned us to re-create these same experiences in our relationships, like gravity or magnetism.  It is not until we recognise these repeated cycles that we realise that something is not right, or is missing in our lives which is yet to be addressed.  And if we do not find the courage to look within and resolve this, we will find ourselves repeating the same experience over and over again until we make the decision to change our beliefs and break the cycle.

The Fear of Losing Someone

The fear of loss of love is overwhelming, especially if you are not consciously aware of the inherited influences that cause the loss in the first place.  If we clearly knew what the problem was, we could fix it, right? Well, it may be easier said than done, since we are more likely to blame the other person rather than taking responsibility for what we have created for ourselves unintentionally, or perhaps, in some cases, intentionally.

When you have felt suppression and dominance in a relationship, your ability to trust has gone, and your ability to feel that others will treat you with respect and equality becomes seriously diminished.  It becomes harder to believe there is anyone out there who can really love and accept you for who you are.  You hide your authenticity, instead presenting to the world what you think others will accept.  You lose your voice and can even create behaviours that will stop others from getting to know the real you.

In our minds, we create the same scenarios and feel the same painful emotions we felt in our previous relationships.  The next unsuspecting new love in our life has no idea what they are up against, until the mask we have been wearing to cover up our hurts from our previous breakups has fallen away.  Seeing the changes, their energy falls as they become fearful about this and have no idea what to do.  They start to distance themselves as they feel your fear and before you know it, another love is lost and you don’t know how it’s happened.  Sound familiar?

When you’re aware of your repeated patterns in your love life and other relationships, you have taken the first step to healing your past.  Really look at yourself and find the negative belief systems you are sending out to the universe, along with the fearful emotions attached to them.

Surrendering Your Heart to Receive Love

Rarely in our lifetimes do we come across other people with whom you feel an amazing energetic connection to; someone you feel you already know whom you feel completely comfortable with and trust.  So, when that opportunity comes along,

and in your past you have suffered the hurts and heart scars without healing them, you will start to reject the new love for fear it will hurt you as you have been hurt before.  Releasing and accepting these experiences is part of your soul contract. It can also be difficult to know if this person is a future love or an amazing connection far greater than that, a love so complete and unconditional, there is no need for physical interaction.

To look into someone’s eyes and know you have seen them before is an amazing experience.  To enter into someone’s presence and feel that warmth and safety is a lovely, comforting feeling.  But is this what you need, or is this what your heart desires?  If it’s a needy energy then you will drain the other person’s energy and they will find it hard to be in your presence.

Being Open to Receive Love

If you have been asking for more love in your life free of fear and knowing this is what you heart desires, then you can be assured the energy will be a positive exchange and an easy interaction.  If you can be honest and aware of yourself and realise that if you’re projecting out into the universe a needy energy, then now is the time to seek the help, the guidance and the insight to help you heal this before losing another Love.  There are many powerful healing modalities which can help you to locate the low beliefs and fears which are blocking you from having a beautiful, harmonious relationship full of unconditional love.  We all deserve unconditional love; if you have been asking for love…you can be assured the universe will bring it to you, however you must be open in your heart, mind and body to receive it with gratitude.

What Love is and What Love isn’t

Love is Kind & Caring. It knows how to adjust to the needs and desires of others without being unkind to one self.

Love is Happy For Others Success’s. It is never jealous or envious. If you feel these emotions, you can be certain you are lacking love for yourself and others.

Love is Empowering & Peaceful. It is not boastful or proud.  If you find yourself boasting or acting proud; it may mean your needing to place yourself and others above all else, rather than being humble in the presence of others who are less fortunate than yourself.

Love is Considerate & Respectful. It is never selfish or rude.  It not demanding of its own way and if it is, then nothing good will come from this.

Love is very Patient. If you are a person that lacks patience your behaviours are being compelled by your internal fears.  A strong fear associated with impatience is a deep seeded feeling of lack love in your life.

Love is Tolerant & Accepting. It is not irritable, hold grudges or critical of others whom you perceive acted wrongfully. Neither is it happy about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.

Unconditional love means when you love someone you will be loyal to them no matter what the cost.You will always believe in them, see the best in them and stand by them no matter what.

Author

Catherine May Smith, Soul Abundance Life Coach, Angel Intuitive & Bert McCarthy, Life Transformation Coach, Shamanic Practitioner

www.soulabundance.com

I was appalled to hear a news announcement on the Australian Television during November 2011, stating “The National Health and Medical Research Council is considering controversial draft guidelines that could refer parents who fail to medicate their children to child protection authorities.  Parents, with ADD/ADHD diagnosed children, could be forced to medicate their children with prescribed drugs”.

I believe 50% or more of children being diagnosed with ADD/ADHD do not have it.  They simply cannot cope with the negative energy surrounding them and do not feel loved.  Instead they are fearful for their wellbeing and have deep seated fear for their safety and security amongst other negative emotions.

I appeal to parents & other family members to start becoming more aware of your own emotions and how you are projecting your negative energy upon your children.  Take the steps to heal yourself so your children can feel safe, secure, accepted and free of behavioral issues “diagnosed as ADD/ADHD”.

The same applies to anti-depressants, which are also being prescribed to children.  These drugs have terrible side effects and are in many cases making people sick, not better.   Many adults are being prescribed these drugs as quick fixes when all they do is help you suppress and hold onto the negative emotion causing the chaos in your lives.  The only winners in that game are these pharmaceutical companies.  You have the power to heal yourself, drug free.

The first step is to look at your belief systems around many of your lifestyle desires and work out which ones have negative impacts upon your wellbeing, and the wellbeing of you family.

Want to make the change?  Step out of the blame game, accept your past and start changing your own internal thoughts to positive loving beliefs; the positive effects can then come into play.  There is so much help out there.  Trust and take the first step to change.

Power of the Mind, Meditation & Healing

Meditation

There are far better ways of healing these issues.  With self-discipline and mind control, many of these difficulties can fade.  Start rejecting any negative information or behavior you experience, and chose only positive words and thoughts.  The more you practice this, the more you will notice an increase in positive energy within and around you.

Meditation is a wonderful practice that helps clear the mind of negative thoughts and reconnects you to your inner soul, which is pure love.  Refer to “Guided Meditations“  for more understanding around the power of meditation.  Refer also to  “Energy Healing”

How to Show Your Children Love

Simple ways to allow your children to feel loved is to hear them, no matter what emotional state they are displaying.  Children do not make up emotions, they learn them.   If they are feeling bad emotions then something in their mind & beliefs is creating this emotion.  Listen to your children and observe their behaviors.  Talk to them with the love and respect they deserve.  Your children mirror yourselves; if you’re not being respectful to them then I ask you “How can you expect any respect in return?”  Your children learn from you, so if you desire love from your children then feel & show your love for them completely and unconditionally first.

Make the decision to give them a better life by focusing on loving them.  Do not try to buy their love with material possessions.  All you do then is create another negative belief system around money, possessions and relationships.

Tell your children everyday you love them; be affectionate with true unconditional love.  There is nothing sweeter for any child than the warm, loving hug from their Mum or Dad.  Spend time with them showing them how to be independent.  Show them, both boys and girls, how to cook, clean, prepare their lunches for school, dishes, vacuuming, dusting, sweeping, cleaning their toys, cleaning their rooms and any other activities which will help them learn how to take care of themselves.

Spend time relaxing with them reading a book, swimming, playing in the park, throwing the ball, kicking the footy, playing cricket.  All this is easy to do, and doesn’t have to cost a lot.  Teach them a simple and relaxing way to live their lives.  Help them pack a picnic and take them to a special place for them to sit in nature and enjoy the food they have prepared.

Set Boundaries  but Allow Freedom of Choice

If you say no, mean no.  How can your children believe what you say when you change your mind or go back on what you say?  It’s imperative to follow through with your decisions.  But do not make decisions when you are upset or angry, wait until you can see the bigger picture.  It is also important you do not try to control your child’s destiny.  Your children need to be given the freedom to make choices for themselves. This builds their self esteem & trust.  Your role as a parent is to provide moral guidance, routines and boundaries for your children and to keep them safe.  If your guidance comes from the heart and with good intention your children will know the right choices to make in their lives.

Healing Powers of Nature.

Nature is very important to young children.  The best way to teach your children the art of relaxation is to lie on the grass and watch the clouds or stars.  This connection to the earth energies helps balance and releases any heavy energy they may have absorbed during the day.   It also opens their minds to the wonders of the earth.  Children love watching the clouds or stars.

Water will also cleanse us of negative emotions and is wonderful to play in.  Take your children for regular swims and ask the water to cleanse yourselves of any absorbed negative energies.  Prepare a bath with salt water for your children and light a candle.  Ask the water and the flame to absorb any negative energy.  Great practice for yourself too.

Exercise 1 – Negative Emotional Release -Breathing

Breathing deeply is also another way to release negative emotions.  When you notice your child is becoming upset, give them time to overcome the initial heavy emotion they are feeling and then show them how to deep breathe by breathing in deeply through the nose and blowing out heavily through the mouth.  Have your child do this for a minute or two and they will start to feel better.  And if your feeling the same way, breathe with them and with intention ask that any negative emotions you are feeling be released from you and ask to be transmuted into the universal light of love.

Exercise 2 – Negative Emotion Release – Visualisation

If you are having difficult times with your children then use the power of your mind to find that love for them within you.  If there are any difficult circumstances you are experiencing around your child, use the power of your mind to create the

Babies are Love

outcome that will be best for everyone’s highest good.  Spend time alone with yourself and intentionally focus on rejecting all the frustration and annoyance you feel for your child.  Then focus on the love you have for your child, see them as that beautiful baby smiling so happily at you sending you all the love in their heart.  Babies are born full of unconditional love.  They learn fearful emotions and behavior from their earth plane experiences.  Your children will sense the difference in you, so become aware of the positive changes in their behavior as you feel more love towards them.

Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow Children

Many children are far more sensitive to the heavy earth bound energies created by man’s negative thoughts, beliefs, emotions and actions.  They sense they do not belong.  My own highly intuitive child came to me after a particularly difficult time with another little girl who, sadly is already a very angry little girl created from heavy family life experiences and holds strong beliefs around rejection.  My little daughter cried in my arms telling me she doesn’t belong in this world.   But I do not fear for her wellbeing, for I new I was hearing her inner soul crying out in pain for the connected suffering she was feeling for mankind itself.

Your children are feeling this same depth of emotion.  They are the new race, the race born with higher “psychic” gifts and they possess what was always in man’s grasp.  These are the Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children.  For more information follow this link  ”Angel Therapy“.

Light workers like myself also possess these abilities and understand the challenges your children are facing on this earth plane.

Your children, are telepathic, they feel your emotions and hear your thoughts so again I appeal to all the parents out there, heal yourself so your children can live the life they are born to live, with love.

Just as we need to feel love, so do our children.   If you have children and they seem difficult, they may not be feeling loving emotions.

These are all wonderful empowering practice to teach your children and to practise yourself.

With love comes peace & harmony.