This week’s self healing tip: if you believe something about yourself that makes you feel like hiding, find a way to let it go. It is not your truth.

Only you can let go of the lies that hold you back, but you will need to first face them directly. What is this lie telling you? Do you know who or where it came from? Does it have a face and/or voice behind it?

Maybe you believed something someone told you a long long time ago, almost out of memory’s reach, and you’re still holding onto it as if it were your present time truth. You might have used it, this lie you are holding onto, as a support or crutch, an excuse.

Trying to achieve or maintain a state of perfection can feel like being locked in a cage – one of your own making.

When you are never enough, or can never give enough, no matter how much you give of yourself, you may be aiming for a widely sought after, popular state of being, known as perfection. Letting go of perfection can be tough, and it's possible to learn how to do it.

A bird in a cage may look perfectly content and beautiful, but while in the cage can never access its greatest ability: flight. Are you the bird who has locked yourself away, thereby preventing yourself from being able to access your own ability to fly?

Your crown chakra contains your ability to communicate with spirit and to know your own answers.

Also known as the 7th chakra, your crown chakra is the part of you that helps you know yourself, and to know your own truth. 

There is a lot of competition for what you know, and for what you get to know. Many people are invested in how and what you know, and whether you are allowed to know. More than a few would prefer that you don't know certain things. 

Many well meaning and compassionate people make the mistake of giving away their healing energy.

Some believe that being a healer means they have to give their healing energy to others. They unconsciously walk through their life healing everyone in sight. They feel responsible for healing or fixing all the pain they come across. They give away their own energy.

There is giving, and then there is giving away.

Being clairvoyant allows you to create pictures.

You can build an entire world around a clairvoyant picture. That’s how your own world was built. You create pictures everyday, effortlessly.

From the time of your birth – and long before then – you worked from a picture. Your body has pictures of how it needs to function, your emotions and feelings include many pictures. You are constantly being reminded, through pictures, of what is ‘real’, and what you should do, be, think, feel, or buy.

In this fast moving world, it's a challenge to find space in which to have silence.

Silence is so rare nowadays that when a city dweller goes somewhere quiet and rural, what is often noticed first is 'how quiet it is here'.

It’s amazing to become aware of the silence, and realize you haven’t heard silence for years. Yes, it is something to hear.

Your inner voice allows you to hear your own wisdom, and can help you navigate your way through life.

Your inner voice is a valuable part of you that can help you create a place of peace and inner knowing within yourself, when you make space for it.

Because life is often complex, sometimes there's so much energy coming at you that it's difficult or confusing to hear your own inner voice clearly.

Grounding is a technique you can use to make yourself feel safe and real.

You can ground yourself by creating a connection from you to the earth, specifically from your body at your 1st chakra, to the earth. This connection is called a grounding cord, and helps your body to relax and feel more at ease.

When you ground yourself to something stable and neutral like the earth itself, you create a sense of peace and wellness throughout your entire being.

I've been asked this question many times: “I want to make a difference and heal the planet. To help others. What are my responsibilities on this planet?”

This is one of my very favorite topics, since I have much in common with those who have taken on a lot of responsibility. I was raised to be responsible, for everything and everyone.

Can you have for yourself the beauty, wealth, health, happiness, peace, freedom, and love that exist in endless quantities in this Universe?

Can you trust in something you don't yet have and perhaps can't see, but know in your heart is possible?

Or do you control the number of gifts you accept, saying to yourself, 'that's enough now, I shouldn't have more, I don't want to be greedy'. So you make bargains with yourself and others, perhaps unconsciously, that you'll only have so much, because you know, fairness.

You might say that each of us is a camera.

The images you carry with you about your body, health, relationships, career, money, power, talents, value – are pictures you captured yourself, often unconsciously.

Some of them were given to you – pictures about culture, society, religion, class, race, gender, are found in every nook and cranny in your daily life. You created your own pictures too, often based on the pictures you were given.

Everything begins with energy. An idea is energy, as is a vision.

A strong image is a powerful thing. If you don’t believe me, go ask the advertising industry. Your vision can create the future.

If you’re interested in influencing and changing the way people see things, and how they might act in return, you’ll need a compelling vision or image to show them. People respond to imagery, and often do so unconsciously, emotionally, or instinctively.