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Heart Centered Empowerment, Fairfax, VA (2026)

08/04/2024

We are on for Monday, August 5 at 8 p.m. EST. Let me know that you are IN 🤗!

Preamble…
Well, well, well… guess who got Covid—for the first time. That she knows of, that is. The day before her son’s wedding. She’s nothing if not dramatic and timely 🙄.

It hasn’t been horrible, just surreptitiously inconvenient. Just when I think I’m better, I can’t keep my eyes open… or I nearly faint … or I can’t stop coughing … or I’m nauseous 🤢. Now, after 12 days, I really do think I’m on my way back to normal. I’ll let you know ... if I get through 9 holes of golf on Tuesday, I’m good to go 👍.

But now that I am re-emerging, I am a taken aback by all my “tricks of the trade” that I would have lavished on someone else (whether they asked for it or not, I might add with some chagrin), that I didn’t pull out of my own back pocket. Where have I been??? I’m starting now, but it would REALLY have been helpful if I had done it from the get-go.

But there’s a lesson there as well, I tell myself: rest was probably the best “trick” at the very beginning. And I would likely have snapped at anyone who “suggested” I get up and do a Cross Crawl or Tap 🥴.

So, I’m sharing this for what it is worth: when you are getting a bit of a leg up on whatever you are going through health wise — physically, mentally, emotionally, and dare I say spiritually, here’s something I cobbled together eons ago. Many of you will recognize the modalities, but maybe, like me, you have forgotten to access them! Gentle healing, Friends.

Re-Establishing Cross-Over and Meridian Energy Flow
To facilitate the body’s innate healing capability:

When feeling unwell, here are some steps to take:
1. Marching in place, crossing midline of the body (Cross Crawl): When not feeling well, your body energies are running “parallel” instead of crossing from left brain to right side of body and vice versa.

--First, meet your body “where” it is and march in an exaggerated parallel way: swing left arm and raise left knee; swing right arm and raise right knee. 12 x each leg. Stop and Rest for 10 seconds or so. Repeat.

--Then “show” your body how it’s supposed to flow with an exaggerated cross-over march: swing left arm across midline of the body, raise right knee somewhat angled across body (you could bring left elbow to right knee); repeat with other arm/knee. 12x each leg. Stop. Rest for 10 seconds. Repeat 2 more times.

Repeat this process (and the tapping below) every couple of hours until you can feel your body beginning to regain its strength and flow. Then reinforce the process by marching only in the cross-over method and keeping up the tapping cycles. You’ll naturally taper off as you begin feeling better.

The Cross Crawl can be done sitting and lying down as well!

2. Tap gently on the following areas (about 7 taps per location). Tapping helps to stimulate the meridian system that flows through your body and affects all organs in your body. Chinese medicine states that illness and disruptive emotion are due a disturbance in the body’s energy system. Tapping helps to re-establish the normal energy flow.
Tapping points:
--Top of head
--Eyebrows where they meet the nose
--Sides of eyes (on the bone)
--Under eyes (on the bone)
--Under nose
--In crease of chin
--Collarbone (just below bone on either side of sternum)
—Middle of the sternum (not in picture below, but it stimulates the thymus which boosts the immune system)
--Under arms (on torso, at bra line/hand-width below armpit)

Repeat cycle 3 times, resting about 30 seconds between each cycle to allow for integration.

07/15/2024

Healing Session Summary from 7/1/24 can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138871644987263

07/01/2024

My friends, I offer you this in these oh so mind-boggling times:

“If there weren’t so much Light coming forth, the dark wouldn’t have to work so hard.”

This perspective makes so much sense to me and yet I trip all over myself attempting to explain it. So I won’t. I trust that it will land with you as it is meant to … or not. Even if it makes no sense to you right now, keep it tucked in your back pocket. I promise it will surface when you need it.

Now that I’ve dropped that in your laps, set your intentions and make your appointments with yourselves to be receptive to our time together tomorrow, Monday, July 1 at 8 p.m. EST. If you choose to let me know “please include me”, your name is written down each and every time. Your name and the act of writing it down has your energy to it and there is a direct line to you when the energy begins to flow. Even just your intention does that, so no worries if you miss the window—you are folded in the minute you set your intention.

With blessings and light,
Georgia

06/10/2024

From a friend and colleague. If you’d like to be on her mailing list of wonderful insights/channelings, let her know Georgia sent you 🤗! julie@juliespencerrankin.com

Blessings, Friends 💜

YOU JUST NEED TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

You don't need to change your circumstances. You just need to change your mind.

I see the look on your face. Don't throw something at me. I shall explain what I mean. Remain open, it could change your life.

So here's the deal. You'd like things to be different. You don't like the way they are. That's ok - but you can't start there. You need to change your mind, first.

Difficulties will pass. Challenges will go away. Things will change and CAN be replaced with newer and better. But they won't change until you change. You must BE the change, and change your mind first.

Stop thinking about what you don't want! Work on you, and work on your thoughts. Notice what you think and what you say to yourself, and how it keeps you back. Transformation can occur, but not with the same old thoughts. Change begins in your mind. You must manage it, or it will manage you.

Manage your negative thoughts! Get rid of the ones that wear you down! Stop the battle in your head and refrain from limiting yourself. Positive thoughts FREE you and enable you to succeed. They create the path to your dreams. They get you to where you want to go.

Champions call this the inner game, or the win from within. They know they don't stand a chance of getting anywhere without it. Hmm. Makes you think, doesn't it?

You don't need to change your circumstances. You just need to change your mind.

Have a great day, everyone! Julie.

Julie Spencer Rankin, MA, LPCC, NCC
Psychotherapy and Life Coaching
567 Fallis Run Road
Harrodsburg, KY 40330
(859)734-4100

(©2024jsrankin)

06/01/2024

Dear Friends… I have not fallen off the face of the earth! Thank you to those of you who have peeked in to see where I might be!

Physically I’ve been in England, France, and Germany for almost 3 weeks. Mentally and emotionally I took a little hiatus from our monthly gatherings. The problem with taking one month’s hiatus is that it easily turns into two—maybe 3 😬 ?! I’ll do my best to let you know in the future when I am “pausing” instead of sudden radio silence. If you are still with me, great and I look forward to our session this coming Monday: June 3 at 8 p.m. EST. Lemme know: "Please include me!"

🌠 🌠 🌠
The following is a delightful event I experienced in our travels. I hope it may spur you to be curious and find life’s and spirit’s connections.

🌠 Call them coinkidinks, synchronicities, amazing timing, pure chance, or “God / Spirit Winks” … they happen to me and my family All. The. Time! And while they have become routine and even expected, I never cease to be amazed.

On our train ride from Strasbourg, France to Germany the other day, of all the trains available, all the cars within that train, and all the seats within that car, we landed in seats across from a gentleman who showed a tiny smile when he heard David and me speaking English.

We exchanged pleasantries in a mishmash of “fralemand” (I just made that up—Français/Allemand) that is readily understood in the border town of Strasbourg, especially with persons "d’un certain age" :-). But you could tell he wanted to practice his English. So, with his flawless command of the language, it took about 30 seconds to find the “no way 😮!” connection.

We shared that we are currently from Pennsylvania, and he uttered with knowing and a big smile, “ahhh, Gettysburg!” We thought “wow…he knows his American geography/history!” Well, yes, there was that. But more amazingly, it turns out that 20 years ago he spent 3 years in Gettysburg studying to become a Lutheran minister at the historic Lutheran Seminary that sits overlooking the Battlefield—within 3 miles of where we live!

What are the chances?!? Mathematically they are slim. In the SpiritWink world that I inhabit, it’s a “biensûr!”

As it turns out, due to professional and life events, this pastor is beginning to embrace a less rigidly religious perspective so he and DustyMoose* had tons to discuss, share, and ponder--2 hours worth! Penpal-ing has already begun! He has written me that meeting us reignited a spark of uplift during a somewhat low period in his life. I LOVE being an instrument of SpiritWinks :-).

Make eye contact, smile, and be curious. You never know what coinkidinks are waiting to be revealed.

Happy discovering, Friends!
🫎 🫎 🫎
*DustyMoose = Georgia. In 2017 my son took me to Burning Man (look it up, if you are not familiar 😉). Not unlike other participants of group experiences (trail hikers, team-building groups, sports teams, etc), participants at Burning Man are given monikers that somehow describe them. These monikers are bestowed upon you by others. If you know me just a little bit, you know that I am gaga for moose 🫎! And the area where Burning Man is held is on a dry lake bed in Nevada—dust like you’ve never experienced is part of the package. So, my loving husband (Cabana Boy—I gave him THAT moniker), who conveniently had to stay home to take care of the cat 🙄, sent me off on my adventure with the name "DustyMoose." So now, with any adventure I undertake, the experience is told through the eyes of DustyMoose. And now you know… the rest of the story.

12/04/2023

My apologies for this late reminder sans pre-session musing. I am out of town and forgot my computer 🙈. I’m totally discombobulated!

But I’ll be tuning in tomorrow, Mon, Dec 4 at 8 pm EST, for a Soul Star Clearing: helping you clear the “static” between you and You.

Awaiting your “please include me” 🤗

Blessings,
Georgia

11/08/2023

Summary for Nov 6 Distance Healing Session can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138871644987263

11/06/2023

Please join in for our Group Distance Energy Healing Session—simply reply “I’m in” 🤗

Pre-amble

Hello Hello—Thank you dear Friends, for your gracious understanding of the pause I took last month! . As some of you may know, Hubby (aka Cabana Boy) and I (aka Dusty Moose, when trekking or doing something a bit “out there”) undertook a 110-mile hike through The Cotswolds in England last month.

There is tons of time to think, dig deep, and philosophize on those 12-ish mile daily over hill and dale “walks,” as the British so quaintly call trudging up and down hills. So I came up with a few hiking perspectives that pertain to life as well. Here are a few of those for your contemplation pleasure:

🥾 “Your body (and resolve) will rise to the challenge.” 🥾
This was our eldest son’s encouragement when, prior to setting off, we lamented that we weren’t as physically in shape as would have been wise for our undertaking. His wisdom could apply to any challenging day, to a crisis, to a project undertaken, or to the whole of life in general. Do we realize that we have thus far come through every single challenge we have encountered? And yet we wonder at every new one whether we’ll make it? Not only wonder, but actively convince ourselves that we can’t or won’t! And yet, here we are. We did! What if we gave ourselves the talk that we give our friends, our children, or in this case, our parents?! Why on earth do we “just know” that we can’t? So we can tell ourselves I told you so? What a crummy thing to do to ourselves. How about, “You can dooo it!,” (Waterboy).

🥾 Yes, you still have a ways to go, but pause for a moment and realize/admire how far you’ve already come. 🥾
We humans are an odd bunch. We so often dismiss what we have done, accomplished, or moved through and insist on focusing on “yes, but, look what I haven’t done yet.” Really? I’ve just huffed and puffed and somehow made it up a 40% incline and all I can think about is what I still have to do? No pat on the back, no "wow, girl, you rock", no pause to admire the view. Well, that last part isn’t quite true—the views blew me away at every turn. And it was the views that reminded me how important it is to pause, look back, let the beauty fill me, catch my breath, and resume, knowing that somehow I can dooooo it!

🥾 Take a look at the goal and then bring your focus back to one step at a time. 🥾
It’s good to know where you are going, what you are aiming for, what the ultimate goal is—like getting to the next town, the warm cozy BnB and a pint of cider in a quaint local pub at the end of the day’s hike. Then you’ve got to bring your focus back to putting one foot in front of the other. If we focus only on the end, the whole project, or on what all “needs” to be accomplished by day’s (or project’s) end, it feels overwhelming. Bringing our focus back to the bite-sized steps is actually what get’s the job done. Take a peek at the overall picture every once in a while, but let the major focus be right where you are. It’s the only place from which we can move forward.

🥾 Have fun trying on these concepts with everyday life. And lemme know how it goes!

Looking forward to being back with you at 8 p.m. EST on Mon, Nov 6.

Who’s in?
Georgia

Photo by GFLaCroix, The Cotswolds, 2023

09/04/2023

Group Distance Energy Healing Session: Mon, Sep 4 at 8 p.m. EST. Let me know that you are "in"!

Preamble…
My son, his partner, and another friend are at Burning Man as I write. If you’ve never heard of Burning Man before this week, you likely have now, as it has made national news.

In a nutshell, Burning Man is an amazing art festival, held in a 7-mile radius lakebed (affectionately called the Playa) in the Nevada desert. The event is held every year since it began as a small gathering of introspective individuals in 1986 on a beach in California. During their gathering, they burned The Man—a wooden human-like structure to symbolize the letting go of the old, outdated version of self, and to clear the way for the more authentic self to emerge. A transmutation of Self.

This small gathering in 1986 has morphed into a city of about 75,000 that since the 1990s springs up each year (except for the 2 years of Covid) on the aforementioned lakebed that is now called Black Rock City.

I could write pages about what I learned, not only about Burning Man itself, but about myself. And I wouldn’t be able to scratch the multi-layered surface of what one can discover, create, express, and heal by experiencing this event.

After participating at Burning Man for the first time some 10 years ago, my son told me, “Mama, you MUST go!” Apparently being there reminded him of me! Well, should you google Burning Man and see the extraordinary creativity of dress (or undress!) and the absolutely amazingly inspiring feats of artistic engineering, you’d wonder how on earth he made that connection 🤣. It brings me to tears to realize that it was the love, the positivity, the community coming together, the sharing, the solemnity, the generosity of spirit, the appreciation of beauty, the introspection, the respect, the opportunity for transformation, and ok, the “woo woo” aspect, that made him know that I had to experience this for myself.

I finally agreed that when I turned 60 I would go (pretty much expecting him to forget by then, lol). But no. He remembered. And held me to my word 🙂.

I’m so glad he did. It was extraordinary. One of the best experiences of my life. Among other things, I felt totally and completely accepted as is. I was free to show up figuratively naked. No judgment. Total acceptance. Free to be Me. And how freeing it was/is to enjoy everyone else showing up as themSelves.

I started to write about this tonight because, if you have been listening to the news, you know that these 70,000 festival goers are literally stuck (crazy mud conditions created by rain mixing with the unmistakable dust of the Playa) and cannot leave to go home. The lakebed comes with nothing—no electricity, no water, no facilities (except porta potties that are brought in, thank heavens). As a participant you bring in EVERYthing: 4 gallons of water per person per day (7 days), and food for 7 days. Because participants now have to shelter in place, food and drink are running low. Hearing about this and getting sporadic texts from my son, I just KNEW, that participants are digging deep, finding their inner strength, helping one another, sharing their resources, encouraging each other. Such is the Burning Man way.

After assuring me that all is well in general—he, his partner, and their friend are making do with crackers and canned sardines and have enough water to last 4 days (Boy Scout training to the rescue!) — he shared that some participants are going rogue (my words, not his), are not heeding the directions meant for the good and safety of all, and are attempting to leave the Playa despite the impossible conditions. Only to have their vehicles become stuck in the deep mud and block the exit for thousands of others for when the conditions change and Exodus (as the leaving of the Playa is called) would be physically possible.

Upon hearing this, my indignation (with hands fully on my hips) yelled out “where are their parents? Did no one teach them to be kind, thoughtful, and think of the common good?” Harumph! I immediately assumed these thoughtless individuals were acting out of a sense of privilege, as in ‘the rules don’t apply to me!’ My indignation continued: “Well, the joke’s on you, buddy—now not only can you not get out but neither can anyone else. Happy?” Another Harumph for good measure.

NOW who’s not in the Burning Man spirit? Hmmmm? Maybe they are scared… or have a family member who needs help … or are at the end of their psychological rope after a week in the desert … or are feeling anxious and trapped … or are exhausted and vulnerable after a transformation.

Whether I am deluding myself or not (surely some, if not many, are acting out of a sense of privilege), I am not in integrity with mySelf when I am feeling indignant and thinking the worst of someone else. And I’m not adding to the uplift of the world. I’m bringing myself and the vibration around me down. So, if I am to be true to all I gained from my Burning Man and Life-to-date experience, I’ve got to dig deep and find the compassion and acceptance I am shown when I misstep.

I am not advocating doing nothing when I perceive a wrong. But when a deed is done and one is literally stuck, my feeling of annoyance and resentment is hurting only me. So as soon as I finish writing this, I’m going into the Quiet and giving some virtual hugs to 70,000 Burners who just want to get home. Such is the Burning Man Way.

DustyMoose (my Burner name) signing off

08/09/2023

Summary for 8/7/23 Healing Session can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138871644987263

08/07/2023

"And the day came . . . when the desire to remain the same, was more painful than the risk . . . to grow." --Anaïs Nin

"See" you tomorrow, Monday, Aug 7, 8 p.m. Esther Williams
Let me know you are "in"!

With Blessings,
Georgia

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