Horizons Magazine

Soul Centered Astrology Report s
by
Andrea
de Michaelis

January 2007

Hello and welcome to the January 2007 edition of Horizons Magazine. I keep getting great feedback from suggesting The Secret Movie ( www.thesecret.tv ) and this email is a popular reader response: Hi Andrea! I recently moved to California but read your magazine every single month online. I’ll be living here for a while but plan to move back to Florida, my adopted home, in a few years. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your recommendation of the movie “The Secret.” Based on your enjoyment of the video, I ordered it and it arrived in two days! I just finished watching it and, before writing this email to you, I went back online and ordered it for my son in Milwaukee and my daughter in Naples. It was absolutely wonderful! Even though the information is what you’ve been saying for years, Abraham Hicks has been saying for years, Wayne Dyer has been saying, Sonia Choquette has been saying . . . . but it was in a beautiful visual and easy to understand format. I’m sending it to my children who have never heard this message and probably think their dear old mom is a bit of a flake - having “experts” say the same thing may let them hear it in a new way. When they’re ready, they’ll hear it (I know, I know - I can hear you telling me already!! *smile*). Anyway, thanks again. I absolutely adore you and the work you do.

And a final email I received as we went to press; Andrea, your magazine means so much to so many people. I hope you hear that as much as you should. I prefer it to any other metaphysical, or holistic magazine that I have ever read. There is a selfless truth and innocent beauty in it that tells me that it’s essence is truly to serve.

I know how hard it is to balance service with the need to make a living, and I really pray that your magazine does that for you. My life has been amazing, and I am looking forward to the next phase. Bring it on, I say. I may be weary, and have to put down my sword and rest, but I will surely come back another day, ready for the gifts that fully engaging in my human life with my divine knowledge can bring. What else is there?

What else, indeed? I really enjoy the feedback I get with Horizons and actually, Horizons Magazine is not designed to produce income although I am grateful it has paid for itself these past dozen years. I like being able to say that with Horizons, we are in it for the outcome, not for the income. The Andrea bills get paid with my reading/counseling practice and the sale of my self hypnosis cds. I get a lot of email “testimonials” and am later asked why they didn’t appear in the magazine. I generally print in Horizons what I like to read, and I don’t like to read a lot of fluff and puff. I am turned off by overt self promotion, and since I don’t like to read it, I don’t include it in my publication. If someone is an incredible healer/reader/practitioner of any metaphysical sort, I will hear about it from someone. I will hear others singing their praises. If my first introduction to them is via a press release, it’s often a challenge to weed through the marketing story to find the person behind the hype. When I read a “spiritual” magazine, I’m looking to be inspired and uplifted. I’m looking for personal stories I can relate to, about people like me who are going through the same life changes I am going through. I want to read entertaining stories of how others react to things, how they handle their daily life. I want to learn about activities that interest me and what resources and groups are locally available. I don’t need to read an entire page of why Horizons is the best publication on the planet. Reading it will tell me if it’s relevant for me. Only for 3-D marketing purposes is it important to sing your own praises. When you realize your source is beyond the physical, beyond this 3-D word, it’s a whole new ball game. New rules apply. I’m living proof, and it’s not just me. And it’s not just me and “my gang”. Because heaven knows that not everyone in my gang gets it hahaha! A lot of people are waking up - some via watching The Secret Movie - and taking active part in the creation of a future they want to experience. And they are making things happen in visible ways. So I feel like, if I have to publish testimonials in the magazine, I am not only taking away from more interesting content , I am basically saying that I don’t trust the law of attraction to bring to me the resources to continue making Horizons available each month if it’s so all fired important to anyone.

It’s not easy to think inspiring thoughts and say inspiring words if the money isn’t flowing consistently, so I have learned to explore every creative impulse and idea that comes my way in my quest to keep a variety of fun incoming producing projects in the works. If it’s to be, it’s up to me. Pursue every thought that comes up. I let these ideas slide the first 20-30 years of life, so by pursuing them now, I’m often tickled with where it leads me. My buddy Magical Mary Seid is in her 40’s and inventing new health devices all the time.

In my twenties, I thought you grew up and married the man who was the good provider. I soon realized it was easier to just make the money myself. I learned that even with just a high school education, I could do things and go places. The idea of being independent invoked my creative spirit, since I had to be creative if I wanted to create a career to make money doing something I had fun doing. Trial and error through dozens of years taught me that if you link your mission with genuine service, even if no one knows you’re doing it, that’s a key ingredient for success. And the fulfillment comes from your own knowing that you have done something that mattered for someone, that helped another along their path, that made the way a little easier for your fellow man. Yes, I’m an Aries with 4 of my Aries planets in the secretive 12th house, the behind-the-scenes-house. That makes it easy for me to be satisfied working behind the scenes, to not need a lot of recognition to feel valued. I think I’m lucky that way. Or maybe because I feel so recognized and acknowledged on the inner planes of consciousness, that I don’t require outer confirmation. I feel sufficient inner response that outer expression is unnecessary. And that just comes from putting my time in, spending time in meditation and contemplative thought on the nature of reality. When you put your time in, you get a response, then it becomes a two way guidance system, available on demand. So that’s why you won’t read testimonials about Horizons in Horizons Magazine. And If you want to read Andrea’s personal promotional material, go to the website at www.horizonsmagazine.com and under “Spiritual Solutions” click on “Andrea’s CV”.

One thing I will do is give an honest testimonial for something that I am jazzed about. Master Stephen Co is one such and he is coming to Melbourne and Orlando in February. See his ad on the back cover of this January magazine. After I took his workshop last winter, I emailed a friend the following: I just finished pranic healing training with Master Stephen Co ( http://www.yourhandscanhealyou.com/ ) this weekend and he is a powerful teacher. The whole entire time we did the exercises, it was not just sitting and listening to a talk. We sat maybe 2 hours worth each day only. It was invigorating and intensive. He gives many of the techniques in his book Your Hands Can Heal You Now.

I have taken Reiki and Therapeutic Touch and Biomagnetic Touch and they are all very similar. This seems to be simpler, although you may do more hand movements, since most of the work is in clearing away etheric congestion rather than sending healing in. And it seems to be much more powerful. You basically clear, energize, then stabilize. These are all hand motions you perform over specific body parts (although you never touch the body) while at the same time you are using creative visualization to focus on the energy field and the stream of energy you learn to bring down your arm and project out your palms.

As you do the clearing, most problems begin to resolve themselves, even before the energizing. We tend to think we need to “send energy” to heal our friends, without realizing that the problem is partially caused by overstimulation and just needs a good clearing and rebooting of the system. So it’s important to state your intention at each step, and hold the visualization, and you totally know when you’ve become distracted and broken the connection.

Part of a clearing techique is similar to Therapeutic Touch’s unruffling process, where you imagine (via creative visualization) there is a tangled aura of the subject extending about 2 feet from the body, and use your hands to rhythmically comb the tangles free while holding in mind the vision of what you are doing. You can even work on yourself, and you can work on your own back or on others for distance healing by imagining the form before you and just hold the focused intent while you perform the sequence of motions.

A good example is if someone has stiff joints like a knee or shoulder, you would imagine (via creative viz) something like seeing into their joints and - using cupping motions with your closed hands about 2-4 inches away from the body part - kind of dig the mud out of the joints in a dog paddling motion. You would have on hand before the session began, a bowl of about a gallon of water with a cup of salt in it (not epsom salt, but pool salt is good.) After every 10 or so sweeps of the dog paddling motion, you would flick your hands toward the bowl of salt water, and change it out every hour. You’d then spray your hands with a spray of essential lavendar oil and alcohol or witch hazel to keep your own hand chakras clean. You keep yourself recharged and full of usable prana by a series of daily deep breathing and energy field clearing exercises.

It’s very powerful! And even if you only do for friends what I just told you above, you will begin to get more sensitive. If you don’t see auras or chakras yet, this will help train you. Master Co said he didn’t feel anything for the first 4 years he did the work, but that is typical, so don’t feel discouraged just because you don’t feel like you are making it happen. Every time you practice, it serves to build your training. I can vouch for this. I also witnessed several seemingly miraculous healings. One was a woman with macular degeneration, whom he worked on for about 25 minutes. Not once, might I add, did Stephen Co touch her. She had significant enough improvement after that one session to read a page of text without assistance.

I’m not giving away any secrets in printing the above, there is a format and formula for all energy work, and I’m one that likes to keep it simple. I don’t need to know dozens of methods or techniques, no matter what traemarked name they go by. Very little of the work I do requires the certifications I have. I’d just like to know enough to be able to help keep energy flowing in a healthy way for me and my friends and anyone who asks my assistance.

I want to find something that works easily for me, with my effort and time spent most efficiently and productively. And for me, pranic healing is all that and more. It has made me more sensitive to the energetic field around me. So come see Stephen Co for his free introduction classes, which are loads of fun.

And if you or anyone you knows could use some personal healing, take the weekend Pranic Healing Workshop in Orlando and I’ll see you there. This is another way you can be of service to others, even from behind the scenes. Also, during the weekend workshop, Co delights the attendees with personal stories of celebrity encounters, which alone is worth the class fee. Our spiritual community continues to grow and radiant ever outward!

On the topic of working with the energy field, we have articles this month by Barbara Brennan and by Donna Eden. See Donna January 2, 2007 in St. Petersburg and January 10, 2007 and March 15-20, 2007 in Orlando.

Enjoy our offering this month.
Life is good! Hari Om.

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