Our Precious Lives

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

— Dalai Lama XIV

How often do you wake up and hit the shower without consciously thinking about what you are doing, or what is going to be happening in your day, other than perhaps the tasks you face?

Our lives are precious gifts, not to be wasted.  Time slips through our fingers so quickly.  We spend time at our 8 to 5 jobs and simultaneously raise our children from infancy to late teens.  The entire process seemingly occurs in the blink of an eye, when we look back on it.  Yet it is the process itself that matters most.  

We work towards goals of retirement or much anticipated vacations, all the while missing valuable daily opportunities to reach out to others.  We miss chances to influence the lives of others for the benefit of all. This can be done in very simple ways.  It can be a compliment about someone's smile.  It can be as simple as connecting with someone you come into contact with that is carrying a book you have been thinking about reading.

Make it your goal to smile at everyone you see, even if you don't feel it inside.  Before you know it, you will feel it.  Inspire others with your kindness.  

Try out the ideas in the quote from the Dalai Lama above for just seven days and see how it affects you, who it brings into your circle.  I challenge you to try it for 40 days and see what happens!

The Illusion of Perfection

I’m not perfect.  It feels good to write it down and let it out.  I have a problem admitting that I’m less than perfect, even to myself. 

I have always wanted to do my best, to please my parents, and as I got older to please my teachers and then to please my boss.  But, it has always really been about pleasing myself first. 

Where does the illusion of perfection come from?  We are measured against each other from the beginning.  From our first breath of life to our last, we are measured and charted.  Facts are noted about us, measuring us against others in our demographic grouping. 

We look through magazines, newspapers and reality shows and see examples of life as portrayed by the media.  The only problem with that is when we do not recognize that these are not real life.  They pretend and actually mock real life.  They are made up of pretty people who play act at life, play house and play roles. 

If you use your intuitive skills, you’ll wake up and see right through them.  If you go through life asleep, as many do, it will pass right by you totally unnoticed.  You’ll buy into the illusion and be all the poorer in spirit for having done so.

I invite you to look around and wake up to what is real.  Go outside and take a walk.  Smell the dirt, the freshly mown grass.  Use your imagination if you are completely surrounded by snow, like me.  Take the time to really see the beauty that is the outdoors – there are glorious colors and shapes everywhere you look.  Nature in all her beauty, now that is perfection!

What's Your Sign, Baby?

If you’ve been wondering if your astrology sign has changed, wonder no more – it hasn’t! 

The news circulating that astrologers are off by one sign because they haven’t kept up with the change in the position of the constellations is a failure by one astronomer to understand astrology. 

Parke Kunkle, astronomer, claims that astrologers have failed to keep up with the position of the constellations and thus astrology is bogus and your sign is wrong.

Astrologers are in tune with the Equinox and the Solstice and the progression of the planets.  For astrologers today, it is about the movement of the planets and the timing of the seasons.

Please see Astrologer Rob Breszny’s website at www.freewillastrology.com for a more detailed explanation.  

Contact me via email at GuidedByIntuition@gmail.com or marsha.massino@gmail.com if you are interested in obtaining your natal chart or a natal chart interpretation.  

A one hour intuitive astrology reading with me is a bargain at $125, payable via PayPal to my account at marsha.massino@gmail.com.  

You will receive a copy of your chart and an analysis of the planets and their personal meaning to you, written by me.  We will then get together to discuss the reading, either in person, over the phone or Skype.  You may tape the reading. 

Share Your Love

 The labels that we give each other tend to isolate us from one another.  They divide us and give us reason to separate, rather than to bring us together. 

Why not throw away the labels and relate to each other as brothers and sisters?  Why not relate to one another as people with hearts and minds who think and feel, just like you?

Meeting others as kindred spirits, each having something to offer to the other.  Seeing the light, the spirit, the divine in each other and nourishing that and sharing it with one another.  This is what will bring us peace in the world.

Allow me to share with you this reference from the Dalai Lama…

"At the end of the talk someone from the audience asked the Dalai Lama “Why didn’t you fight back against the Chinese?”

The Dalai Lama looked down, swung his feet just a bit, then looked back up at us and said with a gentle smile, “Well, war is obsolete, you know.”Then, after a few moments, his face grave, he said, “Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back… but the heart, the heart would never understand.  Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war would be inside you.'”

Share your love with all that you meet, especially those who try your patience, for they are your true test of character.  

My Intuitive Quest

I’ve been on an intuitive quest for quite some time now.  I read a book by Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz called, Awakening Intuition, in the late 1990s.  I was fascinated by her story and curious about intuition.  I have had passing sparks of intuition throughout my life.  It came to me when I least expected it, and at times I wanted it to go away.  I brushed it off like an unwelcome spider in my home.  I didn’t want the guidance offered.  I simply wanted to exist and not know what was in store for me, or for others.

Years passed and still no answers were found.  I put it away and laid it to rest in the back of my mind.  I sometimes listened in the corners of my mind to the intuitive messages I got…things like take your umbrella today because you’re going to need it, despite what the weatherman said, or you’d better take that reference tool with you to the meeting, or prepare yourself with these facts, etc.  I cannot tell you how many times I did an analysis prior to my boss needing it, or how many times I brought up factors to be considered when no one else was on to them, and yet they came to fruition. 

Then I changed.  I found that I was not as fearful as before.  I welcomed this gift of intuition.  I embraced the gift and yet when it came to me I still winced in fear of what it would bring to me.  Why was I in fear?  Was it the unknown?  Was it fear of being wrong?  Was it something I carried over from a past life?  All of these questions swirled around in my head and no answers came to me.

I’m pursuing the development of my intuition these days and it has grown so much.  It doesn’t scare me now like it did before.  I welcome it.  I have been working intensely under the guidance of Sonia Choquette.  I will attend level 3 of her Six Sensory™ certification program next weekend, December 2^nd – December 5^th.  

Along the way to developing my intuition something else has happened.  I have discovered precious friendships along the way.  I found other souls whose higher selves have lead them along the same path as mine!  It is such a delight to share in this journey with them.  I look forward to meeting with them and hearing about their achievements.