Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Dyan Garris Blog Tour

Thanksgiving is a special time to offer gratitude, today I feel especially grateful to be interviewing Dyan Garris. She is a wonderful healer and a blessing to all the lives she touches through her music, and DVD's. Yesterday I started the first part of our interview and today I will continue. Be sure to read through the complete interview to recieve my favorite Thanksgiving recipe at the end. Many of my readers enjoyed the free Angel card reading from yesterday so if you haven't yet, click the link above.

Children are such blessings. My two grandsons age two and three respond to energy work so quickly, and love music. They respond more quickly and dramatically to music how would you explain this?
Children are more emotionally open than most adults. They are “allowed” to feel things and express those feelings.

What do you want to share about your experience in creating the Chakra Clearing DVD?
“Doors To The Soul” DVD for Automatic Chakra Balance™ is one of the apexes of my Spiritual Toolbox™. For the visuals I used some of the cards from “Voice of the Angels – A Healing Journey Spiritual Cards.” Those were the base and one prong of the foundation of the “toolbox.” So now they’ve moved into this higher realm. It’s representative of transforming lower vibrations into the higher. They are the cards, but not the cards. Transforming the lower into the higher is one of the goals of the spiritually transformational work we’re all doing here on the planet right now as we move forward on the path to ascension.

And for the music I took the song “The Journey” which is a song from my first CD and reworked it into a different or “higher” version. What’s also interesting about this and what makes the whole “journey” or “toolbox” very different from just a bunch of disjointed products is that the song “The Journey” is comprised of the channeled quatrain verses from the original cards. The verses form a story/song. You see, it’s all a very integrated journey. Everything is designed to work together. Everything in my Spiritual Toolbox™ is part of everything else, just as we are.
It has been proven that meditation can affect the expansion of our brain capacity and memory.


Can you share how music can assist us to expand our memory and the “feel good endorphin” chemical production in our brain?

Scientifically, I don’t know that music specifically helps us expand our memory or not. I do know that music works on our “emotional bodies” and that shift in our energy field can definitely produce a shift in our physical bodies. It’s probably a complex scientific process. But to simplify, think about a song you chose to hear at your wedding, for example, or a song that had deep emotional meaning for you in high school. When you hear that song today, you feel transported by your memories right back to that time; and you may even feel as if you’re physically there again. Music is very powerful.

Can this affect people who are suffering from depression? Can it also affect those who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Since music works on the emotional bodies and that in turn produces a physical response, it can definitely lighten a mood in a physiological way. With SAD, which could be characterized by “light withdrawal,” one could listen to music while sitting under their full spectrum light box; and I’m sure they would feel much better with the combination of the two. Any time we can add another dimension or element to something, it’s much more effective.

A lot of people feel very nostalgic during the holidays and get sad and depressed from listening to the normal holiday music. What would you recommend in the way of healing music for them?
Part of the reason people may feel sad when listening to traditional holiday music is that they feel disconnected from their childhood, and perhaps long for a simpler and less stressful time. Another part of it could be that the music conjures up some images from an unhappy childhood. In a lot of ways all of our technology that we’ve created for the purpose of making our lives easier has caused us to have more stressful and hectic lives. Music works on and affects us on our emotional levels, whether we realize it or not, and whether or not we are consciously listening. I recommend that they listen to music that they find soothing and that evokes pleasant times, such as ocean or nature music they might have pleasant associative memories with.

To learn more about Dyan Garris – visit her website, http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/ and view a sample from her Automatic Chakra Balance DVD at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOKZpaU9Z8. For more details about manifest therapy, visit www.voiceoftheangels.com/manifestingtherapy.html. Full details for her virtual tour can be found on the tour home page - http://virtualblogtour.blogspot.com/2008/10/dyan-garris-introduces-her-chakra.html.

Since I grew up in the south in Tennessee I love either a sweet potato soup or Pecan Soup. This year I am serving up Pecan Soup and here is the recipe. Of course it is served along side some of the traditional dishes like turkey, rosted veggies, roasted sweet potatoes, gravy and mashed potatoes. Enjoy the Pecan Soup.

Cream of Pecan Soup

2 tablespoons butter
1 cup diced onion
1/2 cup celery and leaves
4 tablespoon rice flour (to thicken)
6 cups chicken broth (organic if available)
2 teaspoons soy sauce
Dash of ground nutmeg/cinnamon/ginger (to taste)
3 cup pecans, ground fine in the blender (freshly shelled is best)
2-1/2 cups half-and-half
1/4 cup of Maple syrup

Spread the pecans in an ovenproof pan and toast in the oven, stirring frequently, until lightly browned and fragrant, about 15 minutes. Chop coarsely and set aside.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onion and celery leaves and sauté for 5 minutes. Sprinkle in flour and gradually add the chicken broth, stirring to incorporate flour. Add the soy sauce, nutmeg and ground pecans; simmer 10 minutes. Stir in half-and-half and simmer 5 minutes longer. Remove celery leaves and discard. Garnish with mint sprigs. Makes 6 generous servings.

Happy Thanksgiving. I am grateful to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth and would love to be your spiritual guide to Sedona.

Sedona Retreats, Thanksgiving, Dyan Garris and Chakra DVD's

Spiritual Retreats are a wonderful place to spend Thanksgiving to clear and charge your energy chakras. Today I will interview Dyan Garris for her blog tour and have her share with you about her wonderful and powerful new Chakra DVD's. Visit Dyan's website for a free angel card reading. Read to the end for a special Thanksgiving Blessing Ceremony.

Please explain in layman terms what the chakra system is and how does it affect our health?
We have our physical bodies, which we are very aware of because we can see and feel them. Then we have our chakra system, which is not separate from the physical body, but may seem that way to us because we cannot “see” it the way we see our physical body. The chakra system is contained in the auric field - our energy field - which is part of our physical bodies. Our aura is what surrounds our physical bodies. Imbalance, based on our feelings, belief systems, and our thought patterns, begins outside the physical body and filters in through the chakra system and eventually becomes disease in the physical body.

An example of this would be someone who is very afraid of getting cancer. If they get up every morning and think this fearful thought, and they believe it, eventually it’s going to become a physical reality. Our thoughts are very powerful and form definitely follows thought. Our thoughts go up and out into the other realms and return to us as form made manifest.
If a person has been conditioned to be very fearful how does that affect their chakra system?
Our belief systems shape who we are and how we act and what we think. These are our foundations in this life. Combine a fearful underlying belief system with fearful thoughts, send those out to the universe as truth, and they are going to eventually bounce back and return to you. And when they do, they are going to filter in first through the energy field, the chakra system, and then into the physical body as the truth that you firmly believe that they are. This is the basis of “attracting.”

What do you recommend to release fear and learn to trust?
To release fear and learn to trust, it is necessary to first examine why you are fearful in the first place. You have to get to the very root of why. Do you feel abandoned or unsafe? Ask yourself who taught you such things. You didn’t come in here knowing anything about fear. It was taught to you. And then be willing to let go of whatever it is. Fear is an illusion based on a belief system that isn’t the truth.

How does music clear our chakra system?
Every note, every tone, corresponds to a particular chakra and has the ability to open and balance that chakra. When you put certain notes together in a certain sequence that you know is attuned correctly to each chakra, you then have the ability to clear all of the chakras with music. It’s sort of like fine tuning an instrument.

This is part one of Dyan's Interview I will post the second part tomorrow. To learn more about Dyan Garris – visit her website, http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/ and view a sample from her Automatic Chakra Balance DVD at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOKZpaU9Z8. For more details about manifest therapy, visit www.voiceoftheangels.com/manifestingtherapy.html. You can also listen to samples of Dyan’s music at http://www.myspace.com/voiceoftheangelsFull details for her virtual tour can be found on the tour home page - http://virtualblogtour.blogspot.com/2008/10/dyan-garris-introduces-her-chakra.html

Here is a special Thanksgiving Ceremony. Thursday is a new moon and a great time to write your goals. Write down your goals that you want to accomplish by the next full moon. Write a check and make it out to yourself. Fill in the amount that you want. In the area for that says for___ write in work well done, and then sign the check from Your Angels. Now visualize this amount of money in your bank account. On Thanksgiving Day wake up early and spend thirty minutes in meditation. Light a Green candle(for money and abundance) give thanks for everything in your life. Feel excited for the new money and abundance in your life. See yourself happy, healthy, and living the life you want.

May your week be filled with gratitude, love, abundance, and blessings. We would love to be your spiritual guide to Sedona. When making your holiday gift list--give the gift of love through a spiritual retreat.

Sedona Retreats, Angels, and Thanksgiving

Sedona Retreats are a wonderful place to connect with your Angels and Guides. We have people from all over the world travel to Sedona searching for a deeper connection to the Divine, and to connect with their Angels.

The Picture to the right was taken by Jinny. She has several pictures that are similar validating, that the Angels are there hoving over Sedona waiting for permission to connect.

A strong belief I have is that our Angels are always there waiting to be invited to assist us and guide us to our highest path. However, because of free will, Angels will never interfere unless we ivite them.

Tomorrow I will be hosting Dyan Garris during her blog tour with Nikki Leigh. Visit Dyan's Voices of the Angels webiste for a free Angel Card Reading. Dyan is announcing the release of a new DVD set with music to balance your Chakras. Dyan's music is relaxing, beautiful, and will heal,bless your life, and release your stress.

This week I will be blogging about gratitude and Thanksgiving. This is a wonderful time of year to reflect on the year that is almost complete. By spending quiet time reflecting you are able to harvest the best, and complete with the rest. One of the patterns that I find prevelant with our retreat guests, is that most have in place a certain amount of fear and anxiety. This fear and anxiety was put there by a child who didn't feel safe. However, the child who put the fear and anxiety in the subconscious mind as a survival skill is now an adult.

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength"
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Journal about your level of fear and anxiety. How much fear and anxiety do you feel on a daily basis. Perhaps, it has been there so long it feels natural and you would feel too vulnerable without it? On a scate of 0-10 how much fear do you feel? Are you ready to let it go?

Our Sedona Retreats provide a safe place to connect with your patterns, and we provide the tools to leave your fear and anxiety in the past. Gift yourself or a loved one with a speacial healing Sedona Retreat.

Free Self Empowerment CD Giveaway and Blog Interview with Dyan Garris

Did you watch Oprah and Eckhart, and now looking for self empowerment tools? Do you believe in Angel's? Want a free Angel Card Reading? Or want to register for a free Angel Music CD? Please follow this interview with Dyan Garris about Self Empowement, Indigo Children, Crystal Children and how to support self empowerment. If you visit Dyan's website you can recieve a free Angel card reading. I went there and enjoyed my visit. Check back on Wednesday as I interview Dyan about spiritual awakening and self empowement. A free CD will be given away to random comments on the blog both days.

Annie: I am sure that you are aware, or watched Oprah and Eckhart Tolle’s webcasts. What do you feel keeps people in jobs they don’t enjoy, and holds them back from aligning with their purpose?

Dyan: Actually, I may be one of the few people who didn’t watch. I am aware, however, that Oprah was promoting “A New Earth.” More than one person has told me that our books are good companions. When people do things they don’t enjoy, they are usually doing so out of some kind of fear or fear based belief system. Fear and belief systems that were taught to people, keep them from aligning with their true purpose.

Annie: Do you feel that self empowerment is a choice?

Dyan: Yes. Empowerment is a choice. There are no limitations unless you believe there are.

Annie: According to many spiritual sources, there are more spiritually awake children on the planet right now than ever before—would you agree?

Dyan: Yes, I agree.

Annie: I am sure that you have heard about Crystal children and Indigo children (Spiritually awake children). What is your belief about why there are so many on the earth right now?

Dyan: I believe they have come in at this time to help balance the energies. They have come to help people remember who they really are, and what they are really doing here. This can be accomplished through the love, that these children bring with them. They are coming in without “amnesia,” and they are less veiled than others, therefore providing an opportunity for those around them, to feel and remember the truth and the Love. We are moving toward ascension. These souls are here to help with that transition.

Annie: These children are having a hard time being in our schools systems, and dealing with the diet that most are on. What relationship does diet have, to all the ADD and ADHD drugs being given to our children?

Dyan: These children learn differently. They learn in an integrative manner, rather than a linear fashion. This is another reason they are here now. They are trying to teach about integrative learning. In our current system, this would probably be labeled as learning disabled, or attention deficit. Yes, I do believe this has a relationship. Our belief systems need to expand into a more multi-dimensional way of viewing things. There is nothing “wrong” with these children.

Comment on my blog today, and you will be entered in a drawing for one of Dyan's Angel Music CD. Her CD's are made to support our self empowerment and spiritual awakening. Please tell us how you enjoyed your visit to Dyan's website and your Angel Card reading. The drawing will be randomly picked from the comments made here.