Welcome to Healgracefully

This is the month of the neutral mind. It is the month of this year to sit back and contemplate our lives and the world around us with compassion.
In yogic tradition we have three minds; negative, positive and neutral.

The negative mind is not bad but instead protective. It is the first go-to place in our thoughts for our protection every time. Some stay in this mind longer than others.
The positive mind is not good or bad but the analyzing mind. It is the place to rationalize what we have perceived and put a spin on the incidents that we are attaching to, sometimes to find joy, but more often to soothe our fearful worries.
Then with a truly conscious look at our world with its triggers, we have the opportunity for discernment and the ability to step back using the neutral mind for a more complete and better observation.

This is the true place of compassion. A place in ourselves that is free of judgement and criticism. It is a place of “just is”.
This neutral place is not intended to be our all the time home, but it is the highest frequency of soulful living. It is a place where we can be at peace, even for a moment in time. The longer we can be in this place of neutrality, the more we can expand that peace beyond our own personal lives.

The best place to find this moment is in observing the breath.
Maybe a box breath meditation: inhale slowly to the count of 4, hold the breath to the count of 4, exhale to the count of 4, hold breath out for the count of 4…. Repeat.

Free yourself of the burden of right and wrong of others for just a minute, it does help calm, and has a great side effect of ensuring a longer, and more importantly, expansive life to ourselves and others energetically.

Notice the tree for this month’s blog, gracefully carrying a share of a surprise snow just this week, in the neutral month of April. It held it’s charge just for a moment in time, before the warmth of the day let it melt.
Be of highest vibration in this holy month of compassion in the neutral mind.

Feeling the density of this month? March offers a very fast sense of enormous swings of creative knowing. It is said that our collective sense of intuition will actually be heightened beginning this month and onward.

We have so many potential options right now to choose from as long as the focus is broader than the trauma we see and feel especially on a personal level. It is valuable to acknowledge that there have been many roller coaster ride events, bringing anxiety and more of the old triggers to release.

As we grow in consciousness, we also swing in multiple dimensions of emotion that are brought up for us to personally heal. By healing the individual self, we weather the storm of the fluctuations in energy better and better, thus better empowering ourselves in our higher vibration in order to heal ourselves and others.

This gift of March comes with an opportunity to dabble in amazingly opportunities. This is an important time to observe and try out ideas in creative ventures for our future, believing the potential of fertile times ahead.

But do not allow the self to be pushed. It is this feeling of being pushed that leaves us feeling overwhelmed or confused.

So, this month of 3 is a month of community connections, and yet also a time to step back and let go of two out of three amazing ideas and projects that seem like the right thing to do right now. Why? Because everything about this month requires observation and self-care first.

This month of swinging emotions will naturally ask us to first address our personal connections to anger, anxiety, depression, isolation, persecution. From this vantage point, step back, pull in some powerful self-compassion, and develop a stillness process of taking time for quiet and authentic self compassion.

It is in the stillness that we find the resilience and boundaries to persevere and prepare to act as our inner guidance dictates. Like the cactus growing in rock, our strength cannot be stopped as long as we pause and observe for a minute.

Have happy planning in the month of March!

This month is sooooo full of triggers, it is difficult to see or feel anything but at least a bit of trepidation, even while this month is actually intended to be full of great potential and hope.

This month challenges us to learn and make transparent how money and power works. Is this energy about divine inspiration? Or a fearful tool of the fanatic?

And what role do we choose in this game of life? Is it time for this paradigm of lust and fear to be obsolete? While we manifest true prosperity (which also does include money), we can proceed in a profound way and NOT be limited by fear. Confused?

The power of the 11 month of miracles is about remembering what we want to represent through our vision and practice of prosperity. With everything being scrambled right now, we have an amazing opportunity to stand in our own divinity and with grace. From our vantage of divine right during this time, it is possible to see clearly what is best for the highest good, and ACT in accordance.

What is your passion? Is it time to stand for your health? Or environment? Your commitment to community in some way? With focus and light both in the self and in the spark of the person / place/ thing that feels most important, it is possible to find a way to uplift and improve our world.

Slow, steady determination seems to be key to these times. It is our birth right to be empowered, happy and at peace, at least inner peace even with turmoil surrounding all of us.

Have a powerful, miraculous rest of the month of February.

P.S.
I am just now reading a great book by one of my favorite mentors who recently passed at 103 after writing this, her final book: The Well-Lived Life. Gladys McGarey. I worked as a student with her, went to many of her lectures, and am still in awe at her approach to life, medicine and most importantly, energy as the root of it all.
I very much recommend this book to bring back the memory of why we were all born to these times. Included are tips on navigating a wild world with our powerful and personal sense of potential.

This year of 2025 is called a nine year implying completion and letting go according to the world of numbers. It is the year for taking the time to really center and access inner peace toward raising personal vibrations. This vastly expands the universal energy toward the highest vibration and highest good for all. We absolutely DO have that power.

Outward appearances can lend itself to an enormous sense of overwhelm and will continue for this year. That is because of our attachments to the old “right and wrong” paradigms. No matter what you see during this year, step back a minute, maintain flexibility, and set sights on the very highest good: Demand the highest vibrations for all humans, the planet, and all living things, starting with the self.

It is so important right now to concentrate on the breath, physical wellbeing and daily meditative practices, however they present. It is imperative to find and maintain a glimpse of hope every day, knowing we are closing out old junk to replace with a new and amazing way of being. Consider literally clearing your closets, your own junk pile, making space for new and advanced ideas and thoughts.

This month of January is a 10 month of new beginnings. It starts with our own minds and spirits. Use this month to dabble in what you DO want for the next Aquarian 1000 years. Stand in your leadership and your will to see strength in the feminine and intuition. It is very much our divine right for males and females now. Be still and know.

This is the time to learn about this inspiration, understanding that this year will be rocky and bumpy as we close out old gunk. Try on new ideas, see what fits. And know that there is no competition about this, just simply the strong expectation for highest good and best for all. All else is obsolete moving forward., if we choose.

Refuse to see this time in a victim perspective of powerlessness. We who are conscious are indeed also all powerful. Hold this firmly in your spirit every day.
Blessings!!!!

As this year completes its cycle, I waited to write about this month, for solstice and the shift from the longest night to that celebration by most humans on the planet in an honor of the days again growing longer than the night. With that shift in the wake of the Aquarian times, I looked forward to feeling a sense of relief somehow, or calm, or peace. Instead I woke to a sense of agitation, nervousness, lack of ease… darn!

I expected that this month would be providing signs of our Aquarian years of peace and wellbeing to come??? Maybe that can be true as I observe so many good things happening in the world, that certainly media is not interested in sharing.

Well, now I am reminded that my work will always begin with me. And I need to give myself a break knowing that inner turbulence reflects that which I don’t think is good. And the outer world still has many more layers to surface and let go, just as I have more work to do within. And I will continue to alternate that frustration with passion. The key is to make time to be still and be…

So, in that inner quiet that all is going along as it should after all, I then can find peace. And I can feel better in this emotional game of life.

I hope you can find enough inner peace to appreciate that positive emotions do spread to others and change the world. Please have a wonder-full rest of December and find time to celebrate!

This has been a turbulent jump and jump start into new and uncharted waters. In this month of new beginnings (a ten month), we find ourselves delving into a most complex energetic shift. How do we navigate when opposing sides of universal thought are swirling in what might be disastrous to some and forward momentum to others.

Passion, true caring, and Compassion are characteristics of most folks on both sides, and both sides are weary of the fight if they are living with the vibration of the Aquarian times. Also, those who are in it for fighting alone at this point, are of lower vibration and dwindling in numbers very rapidly.

This is the time for all who strive to carry that higher vibration, and you know who you are, to step back when overwhelmed and just pause. That means, if needed, do nothing!! And observe.
It is important to know that those holding the higher vibration can learn to simply observe the lower vibration as acting out behavior. Notice these times, recognize the triggers that feel bad within us, and spend this time exposing our own internal insecurities with others’ behaviors, thus shedding the darkness within ourselves. Compassion for self, helps us allow compassion for others…

This by no means giving up. Far from that. We strongly, with strength and clarity, are in the most paradigm shaking times ever. That means old junk is surfacing to be cleared. So be ready to fill in that cleared out space of junk with powerful, futuristic energy like never before known. Not a matter of competition now, just noting that the old ways of pretty much everything are obsolete.

So embrace the shakeup of everything as we are setting our sites on the new world. Don’t be affected by the low vibration, stand strong like royalty, and insist that the highest good prevail.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, or like a friend of mine likes to call it: Happy Thanks-Living…

October is one of the more magical months of the year, showing the beauty and depth of closure. Ahead of future rebirth once again… The trees drop leaves, plants pause in their growth process, animals find shelter and food stores.
And while the sun has been so very active this month, infusing us with power and sometimes frankly very nervous energy, the universe plays a game of hide and seek requiring us to be mindful and quietly alert.

This month is particularly intense in the closure department. This month, we are representing a 9th month from a numbers perspective, showing us a peek at the upcoming year of 9 (2+0+2+5=9).

How well have we been practicing our intuition and manifestation skills in this year of infinite possibilities (2024) in order to prepare us for next year’s challenges of living in gratitude and grace, let go-let God…. no matter what!

Have we practiced just enough regarding our ability to let go of life’s triggers so that we can now play out our intuitive talents. Can we trust in the universe? Or will we see the world as undependable, becoming confused with the mysteries that surround us?

It is perspective really, and sometimes with a sense of stillness every day, we can find peace in the subtle, the ability to close out old and outdated patterns, observe all the amazing skills we have honed, prepare for the new beginnings that lay just ahead after our month/year of pause and prepare…

I hope you find time for quiet compassion and kindness for 2025 and all those opportunities begin with a glimpse seen this month of October, 2024.

Over the last 7 years I have committed to monthly blogs for whomever was drawn to read them, every month. This August, it was simply impossible for me to write. August was a 7 month that draws on self-doubt and boundaries as well as self-defining moments.
I found August to be a phenomenal challenge in that EVERYTHING was a priority. Everything was on equal ground in my mind for attention right now. Everything on the list carried equal weight. It was difficult to determine how to juggle the monumental tasks at hand for August.
And with that, insight was lost for the month. And before I knew it, we entered September, an eight month of infinite possibilities with lots of potential action plans …

At the very end of August, when I knew I had no new thoughts to offer for the month for the first in a long time, I was gifted, from a very dear friend, a reminder of a note that I wrote and gave to her in 2018. These words of wisdom were from many healers and sages, including from Bruce Lipton. I compiled this letter including thoughts from all, and perhaps a few words of my own as well.

I share this today as a powerful reminder of how valuable we all are on this planet at this time. I hope you enjoy the following note, thank you Susan for reminding me about this one. Have a blessed September and keep the energy flowing.

What to Do Now: Wisdom of Bruce Lipton
Kathleen Rickard, 2018
Each of us is living in a field of energy - and each of us contributes to that energy through our consciousness. Each human is like a tuning fork whose brain is vibrating at a specific frequency. Therefore, a whole community can vibrate in harmony. By definition, the collective community manifests an energy field that is powerful and palpable enough to support the individuals sharing that field. When you experience this energy, it has reassuring and calming effects that will make you want to stay in this field for your safety and security. And increasing the size of the field is clearly the evolutionary path toward a sustainable new humanity.

Fear and fighting and protest cannot build the field.

The Don’ts and Do's of Evolution
BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ENERGY FIELD...

1. Don’t try to change other people
If you go in to change negative energy with your positive energy, it’s called destructive interference. You lose your energy, they lose their energy, and nobody gains anything in the process.
Do: Focus on yourself and finding like-minded people to create a community in which all your energies are enhanced.

2. Don’t try to change the system
If you charge in with your wonderful energy to try to change it, your energy will be canceled. You’ll come out with your tail between your legs, asking, “What the hell was that all about?”
Do: Put your energy into constructing a new system. If you build a better system, people in the old one will gravitate to the new one.

3. Don’t spend your life protesting
Your life is energy. Too much protesting will cost you your life, because the system is not going to feed the energy you need for your protests.
Do: Find out who’s protesting with you. Gather them together and step out of the system and rebuild. Use your energy for construction rather than destruction, and find other compatible communities. That’s constructive interference; when energies come together and multiply each other.

4. Don’t become frightened or angry or burned out
These responses create walls that block your evolution and everyone else’s.
Do: Create the best and healthiest and happiest experience for yourself—and share it with the community.

July has been a game of mental intrigue. Or perhaps better, a month of emotional intrigue. Wait, these are connected.

In yoga, this month represents the arc line. In ancient texts it is said that we have one arc line that surrounds our heads like a halo, and another that goes from shoulder to shoulder, surrounding our hearts.

So, are we able to get out of our heads, and use our heart brains to continue our process of healing? Can we be more neutral to the ongoing challenges of our triggers this month?

It is important to be able to put these triggers of our emotional heart into mental words, in order to break old patterns and let them go. And it requires us to authentically embrace our lessons, gifts and challenges in order to move forward.

What dreams have you been wanting to manifest? What part of the journey of this life is yet to become a reality? What do you want to create? And what in your mind is holding you back?

Remember to trust in the now, releasing worry in a neutral and observant way. This requires us to pause and observe.

Be at peace in the moment and if your desires are not moving fast enough, then know this means to wait a bit more sometimes.
So be still and listen in a different way in order to break the monkey mind spin of thought.

This is so important to be prepared for the divine timing of self-healing and the healing of others.

Magical and Flexible June, 2024
Welcome to the end of June! Where did it go?
This has been the month for choosing flexibility or choosing to hold on to the past. Neither answer is for right or for wrong, but the magic is in the curious newness and lots more fun as we move along, even as we remember the past.

So healing morphs into magic for this month. The magic of BE. As I joined family at Disneyland to experience once more the past experience of my childhood, my childrens’ joy and laughter decades ago, and now my grandchildren’ magical awe… I remember that this is a fantastic example of how to feel the pause, let go, have fun, and live in magic if just for a little while.

As healers we have recently been learning that our work is more about presence and less direct action, but that is a tough one with all the energetic work needed in the past for healing. Just for now we wait, accepting a job well done for now, even if we are itchy to get into action again...

Yet this month has been filled with a definite sense of pause as we observe with kindness how so many very difficult scenarios must play out. And in that sense of waiting, breathing, being patient, we are very much adapting to day to day shifts, changes, and flexible thoughts. This fluid thinking that changes at any moment is so important for our own mastery.

Enjoy the last few moments of June as we slide into the month of the heart and all that brings. So, for now, imagine the magic of quantum healing as we remain present for our next piece of growth on this journey.

Best to all,
Kathleen

This May has been full of amazing and extremely fast-moving life events that continue to unfold even as the month comes to a close.
It is with a sense of stillness in our lives that we allow ourselves to be open to interpreting the potential gifts as well as challenges that weave in and out of our lives. This has been a month of fast flowing abundance when that internal still small voice has a moment to speak its truth, and then we listen before we act!

I am reminded for this month: a story of a gypsy I met who was a special guest at an energy healing conference I attended years ago. She had a lovely perpetual bad hair day look, wearing simple clothes, quiet, and looking like she would rather be back on the beach than speaking with me.
I asked her simply, “What is one thing you could advise to help heal the world?” Her reply was just as simple and continues to have huge implications for me. She pointed to my forehead and said, “See the spark, see that spark at the forehead of each human you encounter, no matter what”.

I have learned that seeing one speck of kindness where it is most difficult to see, can change the world around me. It teaches me to remember to be compassionate, and that helps me to be less reactive and boxed into my own thoughts and beliefs of what I think ought to be.

Energetically too, whatever we choose to project out to the world, will come back into our own field to be processed again... That is called vibrational coherence.

I hope this month offered some peace and abundance for you as we leave the spring season of 2024 behind, and enter the heat of summer.

This April is a great time to explore our creative adventures and potential, which can be especially challenging as we notice that this is a month of real roller coaster emotions as everything seems to be moving so fast… Then we have planetary alignments, including our sun-moon-earth, retrogrades and conjunctions of planets, extreme sun flares… not to mention the crazy stuff the tv and media provides.

I am a pretty strong swimmer. Back in the day I ran rivers like the Colorado River, the Upper Green, the Lower Green, the Upper Salt, and the San Juan River.
As I was considering the energy of this month, I got a very clear picture of that time of exciting and wild rapids, mixed with slow meandering motion of the water for days and sometimes weeks at a time.

The anticipation of the upcoming rapid was so exhilarating. Then came the most challenging and sometimes scary part consisting of negotiating boulders, big waves, whirlpools, and strong waterflow reversing upstream, back eddies. And then the calm, regrouping and recovering, preparing for the next rapid a bit downstream.

That is a perfect story of life itself right now. The thing about running rivers is that I could not wait for that next adventure, the next turn in the river, the thrill of negotiating and then the stories that live on in my memory to this day…

And so, our world is always full of polarity and swings in events, moods, beliefs, gifts, challenges, like big rapids and gentle flow. Both aspects by the way, are always going downstream.

It seems today, that a key to life is to embrace the duality as an adventure. the next bend in the river of life with curiosity. Trust in yourself just enough to appreciate the adventure and ride it through…

I know this to be particularly important for me right now. Maybe it is for you too… Have a curious rest of the month!

Here we are at the end of March, a very active and energizing kind of month. I write at the last day, last hour of the month, why? This month has been in some ways quite turbulent. But not necessarily from the outside but instead from a deep voice of knowing within.

I understand that these times are empowering and transformational. I am very fortunate to be alive now to witness what I believe is the threshold of an entirely fresh and upgraded side of humanity. I feel that I have spent much of my life teaching, learning, being a mirror for the best forms of the human experience. Not always succeeding of course, not without kicking and screaming through the frustrations and challenges…

And now it is time to pause, step back to see the miracles of life unfold. The beginning of awakening to what the world is morphing into, the awareness of humanity to the unnecessary destruction of nature, water, air, each other, and knowing that those old patterns are not necessary to thrive moving forward.

So here has been my stall on this month’s blog. What do I do now? If am to be the observer, what do I do? The answer is to do nothing just yet. To wait, to hold energy, to see the spark in every living thing, to embrace the silence of the mind.

This month has been a month of divinely determined miracles along with the calling to act just as this whole year is about action. There is the conflict. What do I do? I be.

I hope you had a powerfully thoughtful month of March, and ready to lighten your burdens a bit for April coming right up.
Blessings to all in this month of miracles and divine empowerment.

Alrighty then! We have entered a new energy of awareness. Ready?

This month is packed full of potential with all the tsunami waves of world events, weather patterns, sun flares, star alignments, all bouncing our thoughts, our triggers, and also our intuitive skills. Are you better able to step back and be the curious observer?

The key for this month is to try to see both sides of a polarity, of whatever your attention is attracted to, all at the same time. Breathe in this challenge to see all sides simultaneously. As the triggering feelings lessen, then the balance of the neutral mind is enhanced.

From there we start new and fresh: New Beginnings. When this exercise is practiced for a bit, it becomes easier to feel the best course of self-empowerment within that previously viewed trigger. What?

The point is that this is a powerful month for embracing a new way of being by forging on with a new way of thinking. Seeing all sides evenly first, allows for true healing for unwavering inner strength, new adventures, more opportunities, faster manifestations.

What do you want with your new clarity? What does this new time in the universe offer for your best self yet? Let this month blend ideas in with your breath: in nose, out nose, with shoulders not raising, not moving, and only the belly moving to the breath.

Be still and know!

Welcome to this powerful and healing year of 8, providing infinite potential paths, opportunities, and amazing possibilities. This is an action year, with lots of energy to help guide us forward.

No matter where we choose to concentrate our mental, emotional energy, we will be seeing confirmation for those particular beliefs more often this year. Remember, be careful what you ask for though, mind your wishes and thoughts, and look for what you DO want, not what you do not want. This theme will be playing out often this year.

Problem is that although it is a great manifestation year for strong and sometimes fiery ideas, powerful plans, critical thinking opportunities, and entrepreneurial endeavors, it can also be a time that could drop us back into isolationism, one-sided discussions, and competitive arguments. This could stall our growth toward the continued self-empowerment work that has been done so far.

The key to evolving and growing into a best bridging year ever, is to first begin by evaluating what our work last year has taught us moving forward into 2024. Remember the tasks and assignments from last year? How well have we learned from observing and identifying behaviors that caused trigger reactions? How well can we process our own low vibration type emotions in light of these triggers from the past? Were we able to recognize these past emotions that do not serve us or others…as outdated and obsolete now?

It is time to step back from engaging and feeding our own negative emotions based on our attempt to control others’ behaviors. Instead, build in compassion and curiosity while practicing presence. Acknowledge that the boat we are navigating in might be too small for the upcoming waves. Perhaps decide that if the waves are too rocky, then it is time to choose a bigger boat with bigger, more flexible ideas to steer along in our individual game of life.

The best news is that we have a chance to be the observer this Month, as we begin our journey of 2024 with a quiet, contemplative month of January, a nine month. This is typically known as the time of closure, completion. Taking pause, regrouping our thoughts and plans, gathering our manifestations and hopes are all very important for this month. Preparing, then, is the theme for this month.

Please enjoy this month, giving yourself lots of space for a peaceful pause, taking time out for personal health, focus, journaling, and imagining with a compassionate heart.