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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 01:33 PM
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Please help me, I'm drowning!!!
I can't sit long enough to go into a lot of detail now, but I'm asking for all of you to pray, send light, and any good vibes that you feel. I don't know how much longer I "should" hang in there. Maybe a lot of you with psychic gifts can tune in to my vibe until I can give you more info. I can say it's financial, physical, and spiritual.........and I'm in crisis mode, trying to figure out the best way to go for all involved. Much love to you all! JA
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 01:53 PM
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1. bright blessings
to see you through.
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northernlights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 01:54 PM
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2. sending white light
I sense frantic energy (but that could easily be my reaction to your words). Breathe deep, take one step at a time, focus on what's right in front of you...I'm breathing deep and slow for you. And tears are welling in my eyes....:hug: :hug: :hug: Let calm descend like a mantle...and feel it rise from the ground through your feet and legs...
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:08 PM
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18. Thank you for being so in tune.
Oh, the power on this forum is AMAZING!! Please keep sending, because it's working, and you have lifted my spirits. Love and blessings to you! JA
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 02:33 PM
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3. I'm sending peaceful vibes for clarity and understanding so that your way
becomes clear.
:hug:
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davsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 04:07 PM
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4. We are all stronger than we realize sometimes.
If you need strength and resolve in order to do what you feel you must, take one step at a time. Go from one minute to the next and from one task to the next and you can do what needs to be done.

Seems like many times the worst part is in making the decisions--and once that is made the burden will pass with much less pain.

Peace and courage to you. You are made of much sterner stuff than you know.


:hug:


Laura
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 05:09 PM
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5. When you think you are drowning remember to keep your head above the water
Breathe and try and relax. Don't fight the currents as this will be more difficult to stay calm. I can relate to what you are experiencing and it can oftentimes make things worse, by not keeping focused on what needs to be done. Hang in there. There is always hope and help for what needs to be done. Everyone needs a lifeline from time to time. :hug:

I'm sending you a lifeline of peace and calm during your struggles and hope you can relax enough to see through your crisis and work through them.


Much love :hug:

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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:16 PM
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20. I caught that lifeline!!!
Thank you for sending it! May you be blessed many times over. Know that you are one of my heros, and I LOVE YOU!!JA
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rumpel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 06:23 PM
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6. Some thoughts
I can only provide what I feel may be happening to many of us...
First. I had to completely rethink the matter of money. Money and the system it currently exists on is an illusion, created by a few. The laws are utterly tilting towards those that created, posess the power and control of money.
Contrary to what has been drilled into us, It does not define us as a human being. If you can not make ends meet, it does not make you a criminal, albeit they treat you as such. Likewise, if you happen to be wealthy, it does not mean you are a crook.
I believe, like many things, it is the intent to abuse, which makes it problematic.

Do not worry about credit, it is not a score card of you as a human being, even though, those who seemingly wield the power of money, want to imply it is.
It is a system counting on and built on debt, in order to even "be" someone. It's utter nonsense and should be part of the reform discussion.
The more I learn, the more I understand, how we have been duped and abused to assist in the creation of a phantom system of risk mitigation. Institutions want to make money, and in order to exponentially improve profitability, they automated, created statistical models, but do not want to risk anything. So they create a tier of systems where they pawn off the risk, which tiers then gamble on potentially more profit for themselves. It is no longer a give and take system, it is a give only if you can sell before you have to give system. It is not about you, the person, it is about you, the commodity. So do not feel you are bad, or unworthy, because of this thing, called money and aything related to it. Before I go into a full blown rant, back to your concern.

Ask yourself what problems you confront now would be solved if you had access to a decent amount of money? Say, lotto. In other words, it can be solved overnight. What are the emotions attached to it? Powerless, shame, guilt, anger, posessions. It is important to explore your feelings.

Now, what to do? We are still existing in this old system and energy, and have to survive in it. So then, let's make the best of it. Perhaps we can even assist in creating a change for the better in our own individual way,
Try not to engage in too much, "what if" scenarios. This will paralyze you and blind you. Try to live in the moment.
Do not live in fear (easier said than done) that your car may be reposessed, the home foreclosed, being laid off, debt collectors harassing you etc. Prioritize and tackle one problem at a time, (even though you may have simultanuous fires to douse) do your best with your best intentions. Do not give them more power than you have to. At least you know the truth, you are handling what you can, with the best of your ability and intentions at any given moment. Research all you can, then ask for help. When all those efforts still don't yield the result you desire. Let go. Trust Universe has something better, and in due time you will be working and connecting with new opportunties, you may have overlooked while you "hung on". (also easier said than done) it is a constant battle of what energies you create in your thoughts.
Think of where you really want to be, what you really want to do. Hold that image most of the time and vow to co create it.

I send you light and strength

:grouphug:

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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 02:40 AM
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11. Great post. nt
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:12 PM
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19. You are FULL OF WISDOM !!
It's like the source of all strength is speaking to me through you. "Great post" indeed, and you have my eternal gratitude! Please keep sending, and know I LOVE YOU! JA
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rumpel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 05:01 PM
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25. glad to be of service
:hug:
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 07:43 PM
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7. I'm sending energy your way, JA.
I'll be praying for you. I hope that things get better for you soon.

:hug:

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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:24 PM
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22. Thank you dear Dream.
You are so very special to all on this forum. We couldn't do it without you here holding us all up in prayer and bright light. I LOVE YOU, JA O8)
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Sienna86 Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 07:47 PM
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8. Sending light and healing to you
JanusAscending, I hope you are able to find some peace and relief soon.

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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 07:41 AM
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9. When I tuned in,
I got "headache". It's like the physical manifested the financial headaches you are having.... all is on account of stress. The spiritual is because of uncertainty and being unsure of who you really are and what you can, indeed, manifest. This is a time to go deep within yourself in silent meditation--and if you have trouble getting there, count and watch your breath. If you know chi breathing, you need to go there. Clean out your fifth chakra with light--breathing in through the crown and out through the throat. This will break up blockages and allow communication to flow-allow you to express yourself--I'm sensing rage or outrage here--to get things moving and get things done.

These are my impressions. Hope they help you in some way.
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-04-09 10:04 PM
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10. Just saw this...
I'll be keeping you in my meditations.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 12:04 PM
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12. Of course, JA
Sending light now with the intention that your troubles will be solved easily and with as little pain as possible. :hug:
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:20 PM
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21. Thank you MG!
Do you know the song (it's old like me) "Whispering Hope"??? It's been going through my mind all morning, and giving me the strength to sit here at the computer trying to respond to all my dear ones!! I've about run out of strength for now, but know that I LOVE YOU, and consider you a special spiritual sister. JA
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 03:41 PM
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13. lessons it took me a lifetime to learn:
I don't have to make a decision today that will change my life forever...I can sleep on it.
We live in a world of constant change..NOTHING ever stays the same. This is good news for us as this means even the bad things in our lives will go away.
Checking out of one's life early is a lot like paying your hard earned money to watch a movie,...starring you..and walking out before the end of the movie. You don't know how it's going to turn out until it gets here.
The worst things in my life...have ALL turned out to be the very BEST things..even though at the time I thought I might die or give up or whatever....it all got me to here now and I like my world in the here now very much. I wasn't so sure when I was going through it..but yes..it does get better.
"Thoughts are things and things are thoughts." Our thoughts are prayers and we are always praying. We must be conscious of what we are asking for.
You have gifts and powers you have not even dreamed of yet and you are still blooming little rose.
(We are all roses on the same bush...we all bloom..just at different rates)
Its true..you must go with the Flow sometimes or you will wear yourself out fighting the currents or you will just hold on to the rocks in the stream and weep. Trust the Flow/Spirit and let it carry you to where you need to be.
Know there are people that care.
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 11:12 PM
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14. Thank you dear ones!!!
Please, please keep on praying and sending light. It is helping the physical pain a great deal. Concentrate on my spine, for that's where the problem starts, and had begun to affect the nerves ,leading to incontinence. (blush) If I can FEEL stronger, I can BE stronger. All of my problems hit me at once. Talk about being kicked while you're down. Last week I had to replace the alternator on my piece of crap car, $350.00 that I didn't have. This week I had to replace my electric water heater that sprung a leak in my bathroom. $700.00......also which I didn't have. I get $1,300 a month SS guys...and that's it!! Fortunately I know very kind business people who each accepted half this month, and the balance next. The icing on the cake tho' was thanks to good old Mercury!! Ya know, the mails and communication?? For the past two years, because of my health, I've had a Dr's. certificate signed and sent to Northeast utilities preventing shut off. I have a $4,500. electric bill, and if it gets shut off, I might as well have died without air conditioning this summer. I had been on a budget called NU START two years ago, but because I was a few days late with a payment, they dropped me from the program. The budget they insisted I pay was more then I could afford per month. Well, long story shorter, this year my doctor sent it in for me (hard copy) and in addition he faxed it to them as well, because there is a time constraint. They didn't receive either, so he faxed it again. The day of my meltdown I received a letter from the power Co. stating that they were dropping me from the health protection program because they hadn't received it yet. I called the E Co. and after 20 min on hold got to speak to a person who gave me an alternate fax #, and this time it went through!!! whew, right?? Yesterday I had to call the Co. to verify they received it, and after waiting 45 min. on hold, I GOT TO SPEAK TO AN ANGEL!! an absolute jewel of a man, and he found I was again eligible for NU Start, and he put me on a plan I can afford, and if I pay it on time for a year, they will forgive the balance. I'm still protected by the "no shut off" health plan as well. As many of you have advised "one step at a time" and keep breathing!! All good advice when I'm able to breath! (COPD, bordering on emphysema.) I had to miss my first born granddaughters bridal shower because of the pain I was in, and that bummed me out too. So please, keep on sending to me. You and the Angels are ministering to me, and I still need your strength. Love you all!!! JA :loveya: :grouphug:
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:56 PM
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23. Dear Janus, I want to share some things that will help you with your lungs
Ten years ago, the Dr's sent my husband home to die. They gave him five weeks or so to live and said there was nothing more they could do for him. So I took over.
He was a six foot 1 inch man..down to 91 lbs!..and he had no appetite and even when he could eat he wouldn't eat much. So the first thing I did was make him a batch of magic brownies. He ate his supper..all of it for the first time in a year.
The second thing I did was to start feeding him honey and bananas and NO pre-processed foods. I was trying to clean out his system as much as I could. I also made him a lot of cinnamon and apple teas..as cinnamon is a natural flem reducer so the flem was less in his lungs and apples help the bowels and digestive system.
But the most important thing we did was I bought him a flute. And he had to play it twice a day. A mouth harmonica will work just as good.
He learned to be a great flute player and often spent an hour or so playing toward the end.
I got him the flute because my oldest said swimming had improved his lung capacity so I thought my husband needed some way to exercise his breathing. And it worked great.
Toward the end of the ten years..he actually could sometimes go without his oxygen.
My husband did not die from his advanced copd. He died from a heart attack while in the hospital for a cold. They said it may have been his blood thinning medication that weakened his heart.
We used to take him in when he had a cold just to be safe..or so we thought.
His dr did put him on Spiriva..which also helped him but that took a few months for us to notice the difference.
I hope you can find a way to get a harmonica as something as simple as that can help you a lot.
Best of wishes..
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:02 PM
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24. My Sweet Lord!!!!
You are too good to be true! I have my Dad's harmonica that I gave him towards the end of his journey here on earth, and he taught me how to play it! What a wonderful idea! We two might be spiritual twins!! My husband went into the hospital for gall bladder surgery and ended up with MRSA, which eventually killed him 7 yrs. ago this Aug.8th. I gave Dad the harmonica for his lungs (he had COPD as well as spinal stenosis) Like father, like daughter. I'd rather that, than the Alzheimer's that took my Mom. I am also of NA decent on my Mom's side. (Gr.Gr. Grandmother) Iroquois Nation upstate NY. Onondaga tribe. I know what you mean about the "special brownies," LOL, but I'll pass on that and try the honey, bananas and apples. I am on Spiriva, and Advair and singulair for allergies. I also keep an inhaler with me at all times for emergency. I so enjoy your posts, and thank you for your input!! Much love JA
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:06 PM
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17. I don't "know" you, but my spirit does,..........
and I LOVE YOU! Thank you for knowing mine as well. JA
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 11:16 PM
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15. breathe. remember to ground yourself with the truly necessary "things" of life, i.e. love.
often love relationships are shattered from the discordant energy created from economic stress. but these are the things we most need in our lives -- they are the things we look back upon at the end of our lives and think most fondly of.

so before that next argument over money, between a loved one (including yourself) and yourself, take a count to 10 and breathe deeply. then think, "if i die tomorrow, will i be heartbroken this is no longer in my life." if the answer is yes, you now have a priority for which to fight for and stay level headed about. if no, you are probably scattering much needed energy on something that is not that important.

that's 1. you have now found things of prime importance.

2. how to rebuild, or how to find things of secondary importance.

look back on those things you just judged as not of prime importance and now ask, after breaathing, "if i am forced to live another 20-30 years, and i am responsible for the livelihood and well being of another (include yourself in here), can this be crucial to rebuilding my life and fortunes." this might include a car, or a box of CDs, or even a paint brush or culinary knife set, or even a rolodex of long lost acquaintances. whatever the object, if judged yes, these are now items of secondary importance.

3. since this is a time of crisis, everything else that does not fit in the first quadrant of priorities of things to do will be essentially ignored. judge things that are important in Y-axis, and time as X-axis. divide this graph into 4 sections. that which is most important, and has closest deadline (we'll call this quadrant 1) will be everything to you in the next few days or weeks. please do include personal sanity as a priority; a lot of people do forget...

perfection is the enemy of the good. aim to survive, and survive well -- do not expect perfection. in reality, especially in crisis, expectations of perfection lead to paralysis or self-destruction. discard the ideal, embrace the real, especially the love.

now i'm off to think of sunshine and bubbles and pretty shafts of light... :7 O8) :hug:
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:50 AM
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16. cool heads prevail
hugs to you and prayers for a successful outcome. It'll all work out.
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