Your Psychic Self

The Power of Clairvoyant Healing

2011-12-12T14:55:00.001-08:00

Every year at this time we revisit Charles Dickens’ story “A Christmas Carol,” in which Scrooge experiences a profound transformation after having a spiritual experience. He changes from an unhappy and stingy man to a joyful and generous, loving soul in one night.

Scrooge, a dark character with a lack of awareness and connections to the people around him, sees the world in a very limited way. He has not brought his past and future into his present choices and experiences. It is hard for him to connect with others and be generous with all that he has created in his life. Marley, the ghost of his business partner, warns him that his negativity is creating a heavy, growing chain that he must bear and experience as the regret of living an unfulfilled life.

For Christmas, Scrooge gets a gift of ghosts who are his spirit guides who show him his true self and ability to connect with others. The ghosts show him how the events and reactions of his past have affected his present way of being. They show him a potential future of “shadows” of things that may be but can be altered through choice and new action.

When Scrooge becomes enlightened to his past, present and future – he sees his true nature and the possibilities for change, growth and connections in his life. He shows enthusiasm, joy and a new perspective. He learns that he can change the course of his life through choice and action. “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” – Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

Scrooge is an example, though extreme, of many of us who have become stuck with the same beliefs and “ba humbug” mentality that is present in the world. “What’s the use?”, “What difference can I make?” Many people feel stuck but don’t know what to do to change. You may hear it in the complaints or negative thoughts and comments to friends and family. We all have the fear that we may not live our lives fully and be left with regrets.

A clairvoyant reading can serve as a gift of an awakening much like Scrooge’s. In a reading, I see your spirit’s calling and what you are here to do in this lifetime. I look at the relationships in your life and see which ones are growing, fulfilling or outgrown. I make you aware of old beliefs from your past, even in past lives, that may be preventing you from moving forward toward a bold and happy life. I can see what you are creating for your future. As a clairvoyant teacher, I can offer tools that can help you move forward and make the changes and life choices to bring you what you want faster and with more joy.

A reading can be combined with your New Year’s Resolutions to serve as a starting point or as a place to see the truth of what you are creating and what to let go of in order to let your new goals manifest.

As Scrooge was enlightened in one night, a clairvoyant reading goes deep in a very short period of time to enlighten you, bring in new answers, levels of awareness and a new perspective from which to move into your future and positively affect your relationships, health and career. Multiple clairvoyant readings can enhance your choices and actions as you grow and take on your new perspective.

Readings for an hour or half hour can take place in person or over the phone. All the readings are recorded allowing you to listen multiple times. Readings make great gifts for friends and family. You can purchase a gift certificate through my website or by contacting me directly.

I wish you a happy, joyous holiday season and an inspired New Year!

Testimonials for Tori's Clairvoyant Readings:

"Tori is a very gifted and humorous healer. The first reading I had with her truly changed my life. She was astoundingly specific. I couldn't believe how clearly and easily she helped me to address and begin healing some very painful issues. She taught me several tools to ground myself and literally shift the energy in my life that I wanted to clear out. I left that first reading very empowered and could actually feel all of the emotional and energetic blockages I had built up breaking down and falling away. Not long after, I signed up to take her class and I am so happy that I did. I'm learning many healing techniques, both for myself and others, but I am also becoming reeducated about the way that energy actually works, which in turn is changing my whole perspective on life. I couldn't recommend her more highly. "
– Julie J. (Professional Actor)

I found my session with Tori to be remarkably helpful and insightful...the effect was utterly illuminating, like seeing plainly what was there all along but had previously been in shadow and somewhat invisible...and of course, like so many things in our lives, once seen, action can be boldly taken...and therein lies the healing...
– Patti Vunk, owner, Dolphin Bookshop, Port Washington, NY

I wasn’t certain what to expect with a reading, much less one occurring over the phone, but I was intrigued by a handful of friends who had positive experiences with Tori in this same format. What I received was completely unexpected. Moving beyond the numerous “Wow!” reactions to insight that Tori provided, I had not anticipated receipt of such a thoughtful and genuine acknowledgment of me. I feel like the experience not only enlightened me, but it also lightened the load of things that I was carrying. It is obvious that Tori has an incredible talent, but it is also matched by her willingness to educate and inform. I feel fortunate that she is able to share her gift, and know that it is only a matter of time before I pick up the phone again!
– Jennifer, Austin, TX

Clairvoyance, Past Lives and Essential OIls

2011-11-09T04:57:00.000-08:00

Our sense of smell is closely related to our emotions and memories. For example, when we smell a certain perfume or food aroma we may think of being five years old in our grandmother's house. A smell will trigger memories and feelings of another time. Our sense of smell is also closely connected with our clairvoyance -- located in the forehead area. This is the area of your imagination and knowledge. You can bring more of your clairvoyance alive in your body when you imagine the smell of a place or situation and even bring forth past life memories.

Imagine the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon. As you visualize this also include the smell. Allow yourself to take in the smell of frankincense, jasmine, neroli orange flowers, and myrrh. Or imagine the smell of sage and sweetgrass in early Native American ceremonies. Perhaps you take in the smell of lavender you inhaled to stay healthy in medieval times during the plague. As a sailor during the 15th Century, you can remember the smell of the ship - the wood and tar that made it.

How keen is your sense of smell? This can be developed through your clairvoyance, or imagination, and experimenting with essential oils. Can you imagine the smell of an ancient place? Your sense of smell is your direct connection to your clairvoyant experience and memories. Your olfactory nerve is located in the same area in your forehead as your clairvoyant center. The first time I smelled the essential oil of neroli, I was transported into ancient Egypt. I learned that this essence, which comes from an orange tree, was the essential oil of the pharaohs. Some essential oils are extremely ancient - spikenard, rose, lavender, frankincense and myrrh. Essential oils were used for protection, healing and grounding in ceremonies and homes. When you smell something as potent as an essential oil, your memories of this lifetime and even past lifetimes can be awakened.

“It reminds me of...”

Essential oils, chemical essences of plants distilled in a very concentrated form, can heal on energetic and emotional levels. Each oil comes from different parts of a plant or tree. When you smell an essential oil, various parts of your body will be triggered and you can intuitively remember or know their use in healing or your experience in a past life.

Match "body" parts

To use essential oils for healing, you can match the part of the plant the essence came from to that part of your body. For example, eucalyptus leaf oil comes from the leaves of the tree which are the respiratory system of the tree. Matching to our bodies, the eucalyptus leaf oil will assist in healing our lungs and respiratory system. For grounding, try a root or wood oil such as vetiver, rosewood, or cedarwood. Wood oils are also great for energy protection since they are the bark that protects the tree. Experiment by smelling different essential oils to know what will work best for what you are feeling in your body. Place a dot of the oil periodically on your wrist during the day. You can also quickly diffuse an essential oil by placing a couple of drops onto a room heater or warm radiator. Use an uplifting essential oil such as orange or lavender. These prevent illness as well. You can create an uplifiting blend by placing 15 drops of grapefruit, 10 drops of rosemary and 5 drops of lavender into a spray bottle filled with warm water. You can shake it up and spray it all around your house or office.

You can learn to tune-in to essential oils, their healing properties and your personal connection with them, in my upcoming Intuitive Aromatherapy Workshop on December 10 with Lisa Bondy, RYT. You will open up your intuition through yoga and meditation . Then you will experience over 60 different essential oils to learn their properties for healing and blending and even trigger memories of past lives. You will make your own signature blend and a body scrub. Just in time for the Holidays. Please see website: www.makingscentsyoga.com.

Magic Spells, Miracles, and Ancient Egypt

2011-10-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

Do you believe in miracles and magic? You can check your heart to find out.

As a clairvoyant I get questions about the future. “Will I do well in the stock market this year?” “Will I get married someday?” To answer, I usually look to the person’s heart – the place of commitment to their dreams.

I notice that many people have unlimited visions and possibilities for their lives but often have a limited amount of space in their heart to receive something they envision. The heart holds our ability to say “yes” when opportunities come along that move us toward our hopes and dreams. If you want something but don’t believe you can really create it or have it, then your heart is not in it often blocking the opportunity. In this way, it takes a long time to manifest your dreams– if at all.

How is your willingness to believe in your heart affect how quickly miracles show up in your life?

The ancient Egyptians deeply understood this relationship with the heart and its effect on receiving (or blocking) miracles of our visions. To protect themselves, they carried a special amulet in the shape of a scarab made especially for the heart. The magic spell “do not be opposed”was inscribed on the scarab as an instruction to the wearer’s heart to stay open and light. The wearer used this magic amulet during their lives and also in death (in the mummy wrappings) to keep their heart light and free of heavy doubt and worry.

The wadjet eye was another popular protective amulet which contained magic to keep the wearer’s vision open.

The two amulets together create the mantra: My heart is open and my vision is clear.

You can use this magic spell or mantra to to open your heart to saying "yes," so that more miracles can manifest in your life.

You can see hundreds of examples of these Ancient Egyptian amulets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Spirituality in the City: Ancient Egypt tour, October 29, 2011. Contact Tori for details on these "instant" pilgrimages: 516-423-1794.

The Power of Spiritual Travel

2011-08-07T20:51:00.000-07:00

Is there a place you have always yearned to visit? This deep feeling could be a past life or a sacred place calling you.

For several years, I had the opportunity to manage Déjà vu Tours, a spiritual tour company within the Berkeley Psychic Institute. I led spiritual pilgrimages of thirty or more people to places all over the world. We traveled to spiritual sites and met with healers in the Philippines and Brazil. On these trips, we used techniques to reclaim our energy from places where we had experienced past lives. We also received healings from healers and sacred sites.

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to England and visit Stonehenge and the Haunted Abbey at Beaulieu. Whenever I travel, I am looking to reclaim energy from places that feel powerful. Even my hometown contains places like my high school or a friend’s house that hold energy I left behind. The more you stay aware and use your intuition; you can retrieve this stuck energy, and have more energy to create what you want today.

What is a spiritual pilgrimage?

Traditionally, in ancient times, a spiritual pilgrimage entailed travel to a holy place. Most people traveled for business or religious reasons rather than pleasure. Today, when we travel for pleasure we can also incorporate spiritual growth and awareness into the trip. You can use intuitive techniques to reclaim your energy from past lives and visit sacred sites that offer healing. When you turn your trip into a spiritual pilgrimage, you return from the trip changed and with more energy and understanding of yourself than when you left.

Where on Earth have you left your energy?

Close your eyes and imagine you are looking at the Earth from outer space. Notice that the world is gently spinning, showing you its surface. See the continents of the Earth and notice if there are feelings in your body – of excitement, familiarity, or yearning as you envision different areas of this globe. Perhaps you notice places you’ve always wanted to visit or have a curiosity about but have not had the chance to go. Notice or think of places on the globe that emit a strong feeling for you. These feelings come from a spiritual sense of knowing or recognizing energy or past experiences you have had in that place. Perhaps there is a sacred site you wished to go to in other lifetimes and now is your chance!

Here are some techniques to turn your travel into a spiritual pilgrimage.

These techniques are fun and energizing as you travel. They work separately or all together. They provide the awareness you need to pull your energy back to you!

Note: It is more fun to use them before an official tour of the area or building. Use your intuition to gather all the ideas first and write them down. Then take the tour and you’ll be surprised how much you already know! These techniques can be used for any area or building you may find that interests you or “lights you up” in some way.

Your body contains sensors in the feet, hands, head and stomach you can use to read the energy around you.

Use your feet to avoid jet lag!

Your feet have energy centers or chakras in the arches to orient you on the planet. They bring in earth energy and the surface attitude of the place where you are. You can find out about the attitudes and history of an entire area just by walking and letting your feet connect with that part of the earth.

With intention, think of your feet bringing in the earth energy from this new place. Let go of thoughts of home, and give your feet permission to bring up the earth energy from deep down in the place you are now visiting. When I traveled to England, I avoided jet lag by simply picturing the color for English soil and imagining what it was like underneath the streets of London. This gave my body the information to match this place and the time zone and attitudes of this place and avoid jet lag.

Use your hands to read the energy of a building, area or an object.

Hold up your hands, turning your palms out. You are directing your intuition to receive information into your body and to feel physical or emotional sensations. Sometimes you will see a vision or have a strong idea come into your mind. By directing the palms of your hand toward an area, holding an object or touching something, (a wall or statue for example), you are opening up your intuition to receive information that is beyond your ordinary experience.

“Tune In” through the crown of your head.

Let yourself wear a “hat” of your favorite color on top of your head. Become aware of the top of your head receiving ideas and answers like an antenna. Let anything come to mind about this place that interests you.

Ask questions:

Have I lived here before?

What do I already know about this place?

How did this place look a hundred years ago? What did it sound like? What did it feel like?

Let the answers come in right after you ask. Trust what you imagine.

While at the Beaulieu Abbey, I sat on a bench in the area of rubble that used to be the center of the building. I tuned in through my crown and thought of rows of men walking two by two. When I watched my vision of these men, I realized they were actively communicating with each other but silently. They had their telepathic powers working so well it was profound. I got the feeling they were not allowed to talk. Later, I found out on the tour that the monks moved around the grounds right on that spot, in lines two-by-two and silence was the strict rule while walking.

What’s Your Gut Feeling?

Sometimes the reaction is purely physical. Do you feel excited or do you feel fear or a sense of dread near the area? Feel it, then move your attention up from the gut (area around the navel and stomach) to the crown of the head to get a more neutral reading.

You can practice on old buildings or sacred sites such as churches or cemeteries where you live now. You can make a spiritual pilgrimage right where you live!

I offer travel readings on the phone or in-person to help you visualize, create and prepare for a trip, giving tips on how to make an ordinary trip into a pilgrimage. Find out about the places you yearn to go, the past lives you may have had in those places. A reading after a trip can also be helpful to confirm or clarify your experiences.

Bon Voyage!

Intuition Games

2011-05-03T07:12:00.000-07:00

Each week my students share “miracle stories,” about how the intuitive techniques they learned in class are changing their lives. They learn to tune in to these subtle and not so subtle changes as they practice using their new intuitive tools at work and in their relationships.

For example, students practice grounding their workspace so that things run more smoothly with less chaos. One student who is a nurse found that when she did this, her days at the hospital were calmer and ended on time, a rare occurrence. Another student had difficulty getting along with a co-worker. She used her new intuitive tools to read and heal the relationship with this woman prior to her workday. After a couple of days, she noticed the co-worker become friendlier, more relaxed and willing to share. There was less stress between them and they even started to become friends.

Usually, students have the most fun playing games with their new intuitive skills. They practice beginning the day using their reading screen to envision or intend events in their day and seeing if they come true. Students learn that intuition works best in amusement and playfulness.

To play with your intuition:

1. Close your eyes with a smile.

2. Imagine a small movie screen out in front of your forehead.

3. Ask a question: “ e.g. What is the easiest way to make _____ happen?”

4. Tune in to the answer in the form of visions and any ideas

5. Trust that it is true and follow the directions.

6. Ask more questions for more clarification.

Where can I find ...?

One student needed a box for a special crystal she was giving her son for graduation. She dislikes shopping and had no idea how to begin. Using her new intuitive tools, she began by asking for a vision of this box – “What does the box look like?”. Rather than details, she just got a feeling for the box and a fuzzy vision on her screen. The idea of looking somewhere in the world for this perfect box was daunting and she had much resistance to starting the project. To reduce her resistance, she asked another question of her intuition: “What is the easiest, most effortless way to accomplish this task?” With her eyes closed, she looked for the answer on her reading screen. She saw a vision of a store in a nearby town. Along with this vision, she had the idea that she was to begin there and only visit three shops. If she didn’t find it at that time, she wasn’t supposed to find it that day. This allowed for her to motivate and release the resistance to starting since it was only three places and then she could come home.

She went to the store in her vision but surprisingly it was out of business. There were other stores open in the neighborhood, so she parked and went to two stores. She found nothing that matched the feeling of the box in her vision. Rather than be disappointed, she felt she had fulfilled the directions of her vision. She had looked at three stores and went to her car to go home. As she got into the car, she noticed another store close to where she parked. She stayed true to her intuitive vision and realized she had only gone into two stores – this was the third. She went into the store and amazingly it was filled with special, hand-carved wooden Tibetan boxes –perfect for her crystal!

Another student in class, after hearing her story, tried it out the following week. She had nothing in her closet to wear to a special occasion. She told herself she would look for a dress in only three shops but she didn’t want to spend much money. When she found nothing she liked in three mall shops, she came home. She was trusting her intuition and ability to make an intention. When she got home, she went into her closet and found the perfect outfit for the occasion. It had been there all along, she just hadn’t been able to see it. She didn’t have to spend any money!

If you are curious about all the miracles your own intuition can work for you, come to my interactive workshops called Intuition Games in Long Island and NYC. I also teach 10 week courses (20 hours) in Intuitive Development. Contact me to sign up or for more questions.

As Within, So Without: Letting Go to Get What You Want

2011-01-23T18:53:00.000-08:00

Recently I’ve been fascinated with watching the TV show Hoarders which documents people who have extraordinarily too much stuff. My mouth hangs open as each room in their house is revealed to be so full of items that they no longer can walk through them, much less sleep or cook in them. They have lost their friends and family over this chaos. Hoarding is defined as a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things even if the items are worthless, hazardous or unsanitary. These people take it to the level where the rooms in their homes can no longer be used for their original function. Clearly, the people being featured have a form of mental illness. They can’t stop collecting stuff from garbage cans, garage sales and have lost all perspective on space. The people seem especially deranged as they display panic and deep loss when items such as an old boot or a rat infested box are taken to the dump truck. They seem to be threatened with their own survival and are deeply connected on a personal level to these unsanitary items that threaten their lives and the lives of their families. As an avid viewer of the show, I am awestruck by their extreme reaction to the situation. They are “sick” because they can’t stop collecting and holding on to useless items – they don’t even know it’s a problem even though they have to use the bathroom in a nearby restaurant or eat from a backyard barbecue stove. Until I realize…

What are you holding onto?

How often do we experience terror and anxiety over the idea of losing things in our lives, including beliefs that are threatening our own survival? We may have a job that has grown toxic, a relationship that is obviously not good for us, an eating or drinking habit, or a belief that we are not good enough cluttering our lives – even threatening it? We may even be unaware of the danger these situations are causing us. Even when alerted by our intuition, friends and family who are seeing the pain it is causing us, we won’t let go. Viewers of our own “hoarders” show cannot understand why we don’t just “dump him,” tell the boss to take a hike, move on to greener pastures, believe in ourselves.

Letting go of what no longer serves you

The truth is that you can’t create something new until you get rid of the old stuff – purge to make room for something new. The same applies to all your creations - situations in life, relationships, energetic thoughts, images and beliefs that crowd your own space.

“Hoarders,” the television show, is cathartic because it ends with the hoarding victims getting help and being completely cleared of the mess, revealing whole living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Their homes and lives are saved; the sick victims, their families and friends are smiling and grateful. They are born again into hope and a bright new future. They will need support, but we believe they are going to be okay. It also makes me reflect on my own mess inside and out.

Letting go is a way to create something new

Many people ask me to look at their future. I look for what they are creating or why are their hopes and desires taking so long to manifest. In these readings, I will often see their aura cluttered with thoughts, people, stories, worries that have been absorbed. Most of which they are unaware of until I mention them. A healing occurs in the readee when their spirit identifies these as no longer serving and with amusement they fall away. A reading clears the clutter and opens one up to bring in new creative ideas and information that has just been waiting to come in.

Spiritual growth is a process of elimination and making room for enlightenment.

Notice the ideas, situations and creations that no longer serve. Let them go.

The need to hold on comes from the fear of not being able to create what you need in the future. “I may need that.” There is a lack of faith in your own creative ability. There is also a clinging to the past and a fear that what you created before was the best you could do. Having faith, or trust in your own creativity is only experienced when you completely let go without having something else or somebody else there. Destroying something you created when it no longer serves you is just as important as the creation process itself.

Creating and Destroying

My clairvoyant development students find the following technique to be most helpful in their lives immediately.

Try This:

Rose Blowing Technique

Close your eyes and imagine a screen out in front of you.

See a beautiful rose on the screen.

Notice the color and state of the rose – open wide or more closed.

Flick your fingers at the image of the rose and watch the rose explode and disappear.

See your screen as clear.

Repeat 5 times.

When you practice creating and destroying images, you increase your faith in your own creative process. You are also letting go of particular clutter at the same time. Each image you see holds energy. When you additionally label the image of the rose as a lover, a problem, or a fearful thought and then blow it up, you gain power over those ideas and eventually amusement.

By clearing your inner space, it’s easier to let go of the outer. The situations and relationships that don’t serve simply get redirected and synchronicity takes over.

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is; just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution. Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

What Do You See in the Mirror?

2010-11-22T08:37:00.000-08:00

I recently watched the Sorcerers Stone and was reminded of all the impressive psychic tools J.K. Rowling employs in her Harry Potter books. In this first story, Harry wanders into a secret room at the Hogwarts School of Magic and finds the beautiful “Mirror of Erised” (Desire spelled backward).

When you peer into it, it magically shows your reflection enjoying your heart’s deepest desire. Harry sees himself standing with his deceased parents and feeling truly loved and accepted. It is so real to him that he reaches for them and speaks with them. They seem to hear him and smile lovingly back at him. His friend Ron sees himself as the class president of Hogwarts, powerful and important. The images in the mirror are so real that many people get mesmerized and cannot pull themselves away from it. They fall in love with this image of their greatest selves.

The head wizard, Dumbledore, explains to Harry that a happy man will stare into the mirror and only see himself as if it is an ordinary mirror. He is seeing himself just as he is. How would this mirror of Erised work for you? What would you see in this mirror?

The concept of this mirror can be used as a clairvoyant tool for manifestation.
In order to manifest what you want such as love, abundance, or success, you must become the person demonstrating the qualities who can receive those things. For example, to manifest love, you must display qualities that allow you to receive love, such as openness, acceptance, and receptivity.

Your imaginative part of the brain is the frontal lobe.
To use this magical mirror, you must use your imagination. Your ability to imagine something beyond the external reality activates a part of your brain called the frontal lobe, which also contains the ability to change your thoughts. The frontal lobe in the center of the forehead corresponds to your sixth chakra or clairvoyant ability. Your changed thoughts create a new attitude, which then changes your way of being in the world.

When activated, the frontal lobe enhances your ability to:
• make dreams, goals, and intent more real than external circumstances.
• concentrate and exclude your surroundings.
• stay present with self and internal thoughts.
It is activated when you visualize and ask new questions. With conscious use of the frontal lobe or sixth chakra, your brain creates new neural networks and a whole new you!

Mental Rehearsing – a technique for manifestation.
Joe Dispenza in his book Evolve Your Brain refers to this conscious rewiring of the brain using visualization and questions as Mental Rehearsing. Your thoughts will naturally go to creating a vision of you that is totally different. This will ultimately create new neural connections in the brain. You will notice that the task of speculation blocks out all other thoughts as your brain uses its imagination to seek new answers.

Steps to Begin:
1. Find a comfortable chair in a quiet place and close your eyes.
2. See your own beautiful Mirror of Erised.
3. In the mirror, see your most ideal vision of yourself smiling back at you.
4. While staring into the mirror, ask yourself the following based on what you desire.

• What if I was…, what would I look like?
• What would my life look like if…?
• Who do I know that exemplifies these qualities? What do they look like?
• What situations in my life did I experience this feeling before? What did I look like then?
• What do I already know about or have just learned that I can apply in the next moment?

5. Continue asking questions and revising this vision of yourself. See yourself talking with people, acting in the world, and encountering your day.
6. Stand up when you feel you are that version of yourself in the mirror.

Become mesmerized with the Mirror of Erised
You can consult the mirror of Erised in the morning to envision and charge your day. Then throughout the day, as situations arise that cause you to be less than your ideal self, you can see yourself in the “mirror” as often as needed. For example, before and after a difficult phone call, see the mirror with your reflection of your ideal self involved in the conversation. It is important in this technique to fall in love with looking at this vision of your ideal self. Be tempted to look into it frequently. Practice a full 30 minutes to one hour each day.

You become an observer of your life.
Using this technique often will allow you to take charge of your imagination to develop new thoughts, new attitudes and then a different way of being in the world. “If the mind and body are aligned, we have the force of the Universe behind us. … When we use mental rehearsal on a regular basis, we become someone else to the point that when we finish, we are a new person with new thoughts and mannerisms.” Joe Dispenza

Like Harry Potter, you can stare into your own magical Mirror of Erised. You can fall in love with this new image and see it whenever you can. Love becomes the only emotion associated with this vision of self. Use this mirror technique to break free of survival and reactivity-based thinking and move into a proactive, playful life. Eventually, you will be like the happy man who sees only himself in the magical mirror. -- Tori Quisling

Whose Thoughts Are You Thinking?

2010-10-21T04:42:00.000-07:00

The Importance of Meditation
Why is it important to meditate everyday? Would you question brushing your teeth or taking a shower daily? Meditation cleans and clears you in the same way.

Meditation allows you to:

•Go beyond the static of your mind’s thoughts and the thoughts of others to what is true.

•Say “hello” to your true self – the part of you that is eternal that joins with the vibration of the Universe that ultimately guides you in your life.

•Clean the lens of your spiritual perception.

•Establish a strong connection with your inner voice, vision and hearing.

Steps for your practice:

1)Be in Kindergarten.
Come to your meditation with a “beginner’s mind.” Spirit is play, joy and non-judgment of yourself and others. It is the ego that wants to tell you “I know this already, I’m bored, I don’t need this, I’m too tired.” Each moment is new and you are becoming more of who you are in each second. The ego holds on to the old paradigm with these distracting or sabotaging thoughts. When these thoughts come up – just see them as separate from you – be amused and “bust “ the game.

2)Listen with deep alertness.
With your eyes closed, see out in front you a beautiful place in nature, such as a mountain meadow, beach, or waterfall scene. Imagine that you are now sitting in that setting. You know that you are waiting for a visit from a very important spirit in the form of an animal – one that is connected to your heart. You sit patiently waiting knowing that this is the meeting place. When you see this animal spirit, take note of the type of animal and how you feel connected. Listen to the message it has for you. Be open to all ways you can receive this vital communication. Thank it for its information and know that is always with you and there to serve you in your practice.

3)Forgive and release resentments.
This is extremely important as a cleansing each day. You are creating worlds with your thoughts. When these are made of judgments and non-forgiveness, they are dark and foreboding. Instead, start to see a vision of a beautiful light – a doorway that is opening up with a piercing light pouring through. Choose to walk through this doorway and, as you pass through, let all resentments dissolve in the doorway to this world of light and truth.

I teach meditation techniques in my Clairvoyant Development classes each week. Students in my classes practice with my guided meditation CD called – “Find Your Space.”

See More, Be More!

2010-09-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein

Fall in New York is an interesting time for someone from California. I am anticipating the great show of leaves – changing colors, dying and then falling resulting in the sad loss of the beautiful green foliage. Instead of the mountains, NY has the glorious green trees. There will be merely “twigs” for 4 or 5 months. By February, I will begin to imagine the leaves coming back and within a few weeks, all the green leaves are miraculously returned in abundance. What in the trees creates the next wave of abundance? The trees have a pattern of creating and destroying and then creating again. There is an organized plan that keeps systems running and then shuts them down. What is the key to getting the system up and running again? I know I am sending pictures to the trees but what is inside the trees that envision their next awakening? Do we also have something in us that takes us to our next higher level?

Imaginal Cells
Lately, there have been new discoveries about these natural processes. A biologist, Bruce Lipton has discussed “Imaginal Cells” as a key in evolutionary processes. He describes these specialized cells as having the ability to imagine and believes they are actually responsible for the natural evolutionary process in nature. He claims this phenomenon is part of “spontaneous evolution” and extends it into an explanation of our own lives and civilization. These Imaginal Cells have the intention to take the organism to its highest potential, to create something that is entirely different from its surroundings or what it has been before. He gives the example of a healthy, hungry caterpillar with its bodily systems highly functioning. Suddenly the caterpillar stops eating which starts the breakdown of its digestive and the circulatory systems. It is at this point that new cells begin to form called “Imaginal Cells.” These cells begin to take over to re-organize the next phase of the butterfly, which is just in its imaginary form. What appears to be dying or shutting down is actually a profound new creation –first found in the Imaginal Cells and then realized as the butterfly.

The Imaginal Cells are already working in our bodies.
In the same way as the caterpillar, our own lives are being transformed. The chaos of our surroundings is a time for the old systems that no longer serve to break down and the Imaginal Cells in our bodies to take over. They are already doing their job – it is our opportunity to have faith in them and to recognize this movement into the next phase. We often have no idea what this next phase in our lives will look like. (The caterpillar looks nothing like the butterfly). Through clairvoyant meditation, we can connect and nurture this new creation or phase of ourselves. We can begin to see and be excited for what is next. Doubt, uncertainty and fear often delay the process. (Imagine if the caterpillar doubted what was happening and resisted!)

Tune-in to these Imaginal Cells
The Imaginal Cells are part of the divine plan to assist the trees and the butterflies in expressing themselves to their highest unique potential and serve the planet by providing oxygen and pollination. I believe these Imaginal Cells work the same way in us, helping to create our ideal selves. We can tune in to our next potential easier through opening up to our clairvoyance in meditation and by consciously releasing old habits, relationships and areas in our lives that no longer serve. Your highest potential self is naturally being created inside you, pulling you to it.

Try this: Imagine Your Ideal Self

*Sit in a comfortable chair with your feet on the floor.

*Close your eyes and imagine a full-length mirror out in front of you.

*Intend to see your ideal self smiling back at you.

*Notice what you are wearing and how you are holding your body with confidence,

*Notice the place behind you in the mirror - a beautiful living room, a hotel lobby in Hawaii…and who is in the scene behind you.

*As you look at yourself in this scene really know and take on the feeling of that vision as you. (It is you – your Imaginal Cells are bringing it forward.)

*Next, see yourself leaving the mirror and going to speak to people as your ideal self.

*What are you saying, how does your voice sound- note the smile in your voice and on your face. You are confident, amused and neutral. You may not know where you are or it just may be a feeling. Continue enjoying this vision, extending it into your ideal day. Walk yourself through your ideal day until you feel you are that person when you stand up from your chair.

The key to change is to imagine yourself a different person from the one you were when you sat down in the chair.
You are nurturing these Imaginal Cells – working with them rather than against them. Throughout the day, you will notice when you are not being your ideal self. The more you do this, the more your actions and feelings resemble your intentions.

You may broaden this concept of the Imaginal Cells to our civilization, which is showing signs of breaking down. Be an Imaginal Cell for the organism of our civilization – holding a vision and ushering in the next evolution of our planet. We are all microcosms of the whole.

Reading is Power!

2010-07-12T20:54:00.000-07:00

Many people learn to do readings in a clairvoyant development class not to become a professional psychic, but to gain benefits in their daily lives.

You Find the Center of Your Head.
The beginning component of clairvoyant development is fostering a new relationship with the center of your head - a magical place of amusement, clarity and neutrality. A Clairvoyant Development class trains you to communicate and experience the world from this special place by performing readings on others.

You take yourself to a higher place.
Once you realize that your spirit has a relationship with your body, moving out of present time and into other people and places, you also learn that your spirit occupies certain parts of your body to interpret the world. Throughout the day, we are being sympathetic in the second chakra (sad and moody), solving a problem from the third chakra (effort and whining) or pleasing others from the fourth chakra (worried and anxious). Clairvoyant Readings allow you to develop a new habit of moving out of the lower chakras to access the world through the center of your head or sixth chakra. This is an unemotional place containing only amusement and neutrality.

You become a better communicator.
Having a clairvoyant perspective allows you to see the truth of any situation and stay neutral and amused. It also allows you to heal others just through your words. Rather than agreeing with someone’s problem or giving advice, you communicate a vision of them as more whole and healed. (“I see you eating healthy food and feeling better.”)You move out of the sympathetic space of seeing them as a victim. Instead you become a witness to them as a capable spirit going through a growth period. The other person is free to see this vision with you and release their emotions without worrying about your feelings.

You experience a powerful meditation space.
For at least one hour, you intend to be in present time, amused and saying hello to another spirit from the center of your head. You are practicing the clairvoyant tools in action. You are not thinking about your own “stuff.” The more you experience this centering and neutrality, the more you become aware of when you are not there during your daily life. You begin to gain the confidence that you can bring yourself back to this center whenever you want, in full certainty and amusement.

You let go of limiting beliefs.
Often, when you are looking at beliefs and situations that create limits in someone else’s life, you realize you have matching “pictures. “ As you communicate to the readee, you can see these limits and beliefs more clearly in your own life and use your clairvoyant tools to move past them with neutrality and amusement. All along, you are gaining certainty that you can use clairvoyance in your own life.

Try this: Find the Center of Your Head
*Sit down and close your eyes.
*Smile and bring your attention inward.
*Place one finger at the center of your forehead just above the eyes and between the eyebrows.
*Place the finger of the other hand on the back of your head parallel to the front finger.
*Postulate that you are now in between these two fingers - in the center of your head.
(Rest your hands)
*Imagine a room in the center of your head that is comfortable and inviting. You want to live in this space of amusement and neutrality.
*You may need to vacuum out the debris of old pictures and thoughts. Just imagine this is happening effortlessly.
*Feel free to decorate the room including a comfortable chair.
* Dance around your room or sit and enjoy this new space, knowing that this is just for you.
*You may return to this place anytime you find yourself worried, sad, confused or serious.
*Make it fresh and new each time you visit.

Is Your Heart As Light As a Feather?

2010-05-24T14:23:00.000-07:00

Is your heart as light as a feather?

Often we don't notice how little we are able to see the people around us.

We may commonly only notice the physical appearance and behavior of the people in our daily lives. We may complain that they are too closed-minded, negative and insensitive. These opinions or judgments create heaviness in our hearts preventing us from seeing and saying hello to others on a spiritual level.

You become more clairvoyant the more you release judgment.

When you are in judgment, it takes away your ability to “see” others clearly and have compassion. Each soul is on an evolutionary journey. Rather than compassion for this person’s challenges, we project thoughts onto or about that person that negates the value of that person’s essence. Compassion is the ability to “see” the other person as a capable, whole being facing challenges on their spiritual path. It is the ability to keep an open, neutral heart and vision of them.

The Ancient Egyptians knew that judgmental thoughts, attitudes and actions created a heavy heart.

The Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the center of the soul’s memory, emotion and thoughts. They knew it grew heavy with negative thoughts. As immortal beings, they knew they would need a light heart to move on to the next level of spiritual awareness. According to The Book of the Dead, upon death, the heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather of Ma’at. They believed that if the heart was heavier than the feather, it would be eaten immediately by Ammut the Devourer, a crocodile-lion monster. Once the heart was eaten, the soul would cease to exist. Thus, heaviness of the heart was greatly feared. Good deeds and positive thoughts kept the heart light and the soul alive.

In order to ensure a light heart, Ancient Egyptians often visualized their heart on a scale with the feather, always in balance.
This picture was painted on tombs to guarantee their soul’s survival. They also used a protective scarab beetle amulet inscribed with a prayer asking the heart to not betray any heaviness to the Keeper of Balance.

For Practice Now:

Close your eyes and visualize your heart being weighed on a scale against a feather.

If it is not balanced, see the color in your heart that represents the heaviness.

Create lightness in your heart with the words “peace” and “love” “forgiveness” and allow any heaviness in the form of that color to release from the heart.

Now see it balanced and notice the color of your heart at its lightest state.

Think about someone and the judgments you have about them. Watch your heart respond.

Watch the scales tip. Sometimes a long way!

See the weight as a color on your heart – that’s the judgment!

Imagine that you can erase that color off the heart with the words “peace” and “harmony” and scales go into balance with that color of balance your first saw.

* You are creating a healing.

*Practice saying words such as love, peace and harmony as you look at your heart.

The Universe does not allow “side” thoughts, every word produces heaviness or lightness in the heart. Your heart is ultra-sensitive and responds to every word. Fear, lack, worry, anger produce heaviness, while non-dual thoughts of love, joy, peace produce lightness.

From this activity, you realize that non-forgiveness and judgment hurt you more than it hurts anyone else. (Scientists have found that these words create actual inflammation in the heart tissue.)

When you stop judging yourself and others, you begin to “see” them for the valuable spirits having a human experience. This allows for compassion, a light heart and a clear vision.

Learn to "See" Again!

2010-03-21T13:48:00.000-07:00

What is it like to "see" clairvoyantly? Actually, you are accessing this powerful ability all the time, just not aware of it as a talent that can affect your life. Clairvoyance is the visualizing or imaging ability we have located in the front of the forehead, just above the eyes. This ability allows us to see truth and clarity because there are no emotions attached.

To use it, you must hold your attention on an image (best with your eyes closed) and be open to whatever you see. Often we see images with our eyes open when we are talking to someone - the other person's load of laundry they are complaining about or their new lover - and sometimes a disturbing idea may come to us about this person's home life. Either way, clairvoyance is activated by conversations, images or ideas that come to our awareness.

The key to begin "seeing" again is to talk about what you experience using visual words. We often feel we don't have permission to say what we see, so it just becomes a feeling we hold onto. When you develop a feeling about something, acknowledge the feeling your body is giving you as if you are a scientist reading a powerful, highly sensitive data collection instrument (which it is). Rather than worrying about the feeling or taking it on as a "problem," locate the feeling in your body (perhaps your stomach area) and with your hand imagine that you are pulling it up to the center of your forehead just above your eyes. With a smile and your eyes closed, imagine that feeling has turned into a colored rose on a screen out in front of you. Now describe what you see - the color and what happens to the rose as you watch it. Describe the feeling with visual words - "I see fear," "I notice heaviness and sadness" "I observe a tightness or it looks trapped or weak." You begin to "see" again when your feelings become observations -using words that keep you in your clairvoyance or neutral space. You can use these visual words in your conversations to keep neutral. Giving advice in this visual form is more effective as well. Rather than "You should take better care of yourself," you can say "I see you taking better care of yourself as you come in contact with healthy people." The first statement comes from the 3rd chakra, solar plexus and the second statement comes from the 6th chakra, clairvoyance. Try it out and you will begin to "see" again.

A clairvoyant class is a place to experiment with your imaging abilities and talk about all that you see from a safe and amused space. You build confidence and certainty to affect your world using your clairvoyance or ability to see and say the truth. Only the truth sets you free - whatever you deny will hold you back from knowing and healing yourself and others.
--Tori Quisling, March 2010

Be Bold! Speak with Vision!

2010-02-17T12:43:00.000-08:00

What kind of pictures do you create when you speak about your life? An easy way to access your clairvoyance is to notice the pictures you see in conversations. When I ask "How's it going?" I am often shocked when I hear someone tell me --"I am udner a pile of bill right now" or " I"m scraping the bottom of the barrel." For relationships I've heard "He left me just like all the others" or "It's a Sahara Desert out there." These are vivid pictures of their experiences that I am being asked to observe and agree with.

You can improve your clairvoyance just be becoming more aware of seeing the pictures created in your daily conversations! We consciously and unconsciously create pictures and feelings with our language. A conversation enlists the other person in your emotions, visions, and advice. Often the other person will sympathize, feel, or see it with you, reinforcing what you are creating (good or bad) in your life. With awareness and training, you can begin to "speak the things you want into existence."

Create bold language that matches the pictures you want people to see about you. Choose to use phrases like: "Opportunities are coming my way" or "I am moving in a new direction right now with so much freedom, anything wonderful can happen!"

You can speak in pictures that match the visions of your life goals and enlist others in seeing this too! Conversations are a tell tale sign of the pictures you are choosing to see and show others. The words we use to describe our lives form pictures for others to see. It takes courage to use the words that match our desires - especially if they have not appeared in the material form yet.

Choose the pictures that are different - not ordinary- but inspired and surprising. Say it and it becomes true.
"You do not describe what you see - you see what you describe. Then you become willing to be it." --Michael Bernard Beckwith

When someone asks you how it's going, be excited for the opportunity to demonstrate and practice being bold and speaking your new world into existence. It's a game! Intend in the conversation to show the other person pictures of your vision, inspirations and dreams: "My schedule is filling up so fast I will have to hire a secretary soon!" You give the chance for your subconscious mind to search for the ways to make this happen. You also enlist the other person in "seeing" this for you as well. It's a new pattern and way of thinking that creates the new opportunities! In this same way, notice the pictures others are showing and make a practice of only validating the ones that promote their dreams.

How Does a Clairvoyant Reading Work?

2009-05-08T07:32:00.000-07:00

A Clairvoyant Reading occurs when a person sits in a chair across from you, goes into a light trance state and tells you about your energy. The person is purposely using their clairvoyance - the ability in the sixth chakra (center of the forehead) to see images and colors on a "screen" inside the head. Clairvoyance means to "see clearly" with amusement and neutrality.

Seeing on a clairvoyant level is the ability to see energy in the form of colors and mental image pictures in the aura, the energy field around the body. The aura is the person's own universe and revealed within it are all of the reasons, history and motivations for their actions. Often the unconscious mind is easily revealed within the aura. By looking at your aura, the clairvoyant can see what is happening with you on an energy level. This, in turn, reflects what is happening with you in your physical environment. An experienced clairvoyant reader can read the colors in your aura and tell you what they mean at the present time. The clairvoyant also reads the mental image pictures you have stored in each of the seven layers of your aura to interpret your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual state of affairs. In addition, she is able to see when someone ( a friend, relative, lover) is influencing your personal reality and help you move them out of the way.

Readings often allow a person to validate their own reality as well as receive new, fascinating and reliable information with which to improve their life. A clairvoyant reader does not solve problems or tell a person what to do, but merely informs them of what they are doing with their energy. This information can allow the person to make a decision or create something new with their energy. Old images and beliefs that were not serving them can be released and healing and spiritual growth can occur instantaneously.

*An aura reading can be performed out of trance using tarot cards, the palm or other visual tool.

What is a psychic reading?

2009-04-30T19:20:00.000-07:00

What is a psychic reading? Often people confuse fortune-telling with clairvoyant readings. Fortune telling perpetuates the concept that some outside force creates your reality and you are helplessly waiting to receive your fate. A clairvoyant reading is a spiritual "hello" - spirit to spirit communication that comes from the sixth chakra (center of the head), a place of amusement and neutrality. You are a capable, creative being of light continuously receiving messages to guide you on your spiritual path. As your body absorbs ideas, beliefs, concerns and interests of others you may experience confusion and often lack of energy and clarity. This is simply because your body does not have room to bring in your own energy and answers when it is stuck with this "foreign energy." When you find yourself in the middle of doubt, fear and uncertainty, a clairvoyant can see through and communicate to your spirit and help you gain clarity. A reading can help you gain a validation of the power of your spirit to create a healing - a shift in energy - and take control of the original vision or spiritual path you intended at birth. Your aura or energetic self surrounding your physical body contains all your answers as well as the obstacles to seeing clearly. As you get communication about these energies in your aura, your spirit begins to release and remove these, creating open spaces in the body for your own highest life force energy and answers to come in. A clairvoyant reading can "enlighten" your body - allow you to open spaces to bring in more of your own light energy and information. A clairvoyant hello can confirm the path you are on and help release obstacles that have arisen from living a life entangled in a variety of relationships and beliefs. When your spirit is spoken to directly, it gains strength above the limiting beliefs, experiencing the ideal self that can manifest the vision and receive messages and steps to lead you on your path.

Your Psychic Self

2009-04-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Why is it important to learn about your psychic self? Because you are experiencing it all the time whether you are aware of it or not. You are a spirit having a human experience. Your body is a fine -tuned instrument of awareness on multiple levels of sensitivity. The body contains intelligent energy centers (chakras) which contain their own spiritual or psychic abilities through which your spirit expresses itself. Each day your body "lights up" with emotions generated through the interactions with others, beginning a steady communication with the spirit. The body sends sensations in the form of emotions up to the spirit and the spirit responds with images or "pictures "to the body. When the spirit sends these images back to the body often they perpetuate the bad feelings rather than reassure or heal. When you learn about your psychic self you can become empowered as a spirit to heal the body of its constant struggle with energy that creates uncomfortable emotions. You realize that you are sensitive to energy on many levels - reading and healing others unconsciously - and can use visual tools that can give the body reassurance and healing.