Listening to My Guide
by Sandy Valente

Like so many, who embrace life as a journey, the peace I had been seeking had done a fine job of eluding me, until I learned how to listen. I can recall my young sons eagerly asking what I would like for a Mother's Day or Birthday Gift. Although the words were usually different, the answer was always the same. I would ask for peace in my life. One year they even created a special certificate announcing to all that Mother's Day was hereby declared as an entire day of peace. Their gesture will always be treasured but inside I still felt this longing. It wasn't until years later I realized how my 'prayer' would be answered. My strong desire for peace had been transmitted as an energy signal or wave. And I believe it was this energy that served to create the road map that would guide me as I continued my journey.

Every journey, as it evolves, works in harmony with the aging process. We can relate it to a rock along the ocean shores. The constant movement of the waters, like the continuous motion of life's experience, can create an unpredictable place of beauty, pounded out by time. And time is one our greatest gifts, especially when it teaches us to listen to our inner voice...our Guide!

Each of us has a Guide who speaks to us...who answers our prayer. The key is to stay still and quiet long enough to listen to the answer. Many women, for example, seem to have a need to prove themselves worthy. They take like on by working harder, juggling jobs and family, working longer hours, often for less pay and usually achieving more. But a lifetime at this pace can taken its toll even on the strongest. It's one reason why so many have developed rare physical illnesses and maladies. it seems that illness is sometimes the only way our Guide can get our undivided attention, and time. Quite often we'll discover our Guide during a meditative or focused period of simple listening. It may manifest as a strong inner voice that grows to become our closest friend. This friend teaches us to trust ourselves to make the journey more adventurous and fun. Because we finally learn to let go.

One such adventure with my Guide took place in Egypt, two and a half years ago. My physical and emotional health had reached an all time low. With much resistance and fear I decided to leave my stressful, well paying job. I had been given strong enough warning to understand that I had to choose between living or dying. Choosing to live seems an easy choice, wondering how to survive leaves man questions to be answered.

"Coincidentally" an opportunity to visit Egypt, a long time dream, presented itself. It was just after visiting the deep, inner chambers of the the Great Pyramid of Giza that my inner Guide spoke. It was as I stood alone in front of the Pyramid, at the end of our tour.

He asked, "So what would you like to do with your life now?"

Having had many such encounters through the years I knew my answer needed to come from the spontaneous feeling of my heart and not the logic of my head.

I said, "I want to help people feel physically well so that they can do what they want to do and be all they can be."

The inner voice then asked, "How do you see this happening -- will you go back to school or for medical training?"

My immediate response was "Oh, NO! I don't see any of that happening. I really don't know how to do this -- it seems impossible I know -- but you asked-- and it's really what I want to do." Recalling at that moment the ramifications of such 'conversations' in the past, I quickly added, "and I want to make a darn good living at it too!"

Similar encounters have taught me not to dwell on what took place, or tell anyone. I never knew what would happen or when. It just becomes an adventure to watch how my response would unfold as the answer presented itself.

On my way home to California, from Egypt, I stopped in Florida to visit an old friend and former employee. Ironically, while I was there another friend of hers from new Jersey came down for a visit. my friend had told me of how Barbara had been in a terrible car accident and had difficulty getting around. She had to use a wheelchair and a walker.

I was absolutely stunned when Barbara came walking through the door laughing and joking. Confused was an understatement! But Barbara quickly told me about these magnets she used from a Japanese company that gave her the ability to move as she did.

My skepticism overwhelmed me. Barbara and her husband continued to assure me that what I had been told and what I was seeing were true. Since I had more physical problems than I care to mention something told me to check this out and try it on myself.

I did and soon discovered it was to be how I would achieve what I asked for at the Pyramid. Naturally I tried them first. I experienced a parade of positive changes one after another. For example, a back problem I had for 20 years was no longer holding me down. A jaw and gum problem that desperately needed surgery, I was told, healed in a few months. I watched my mother and uncle's liver take dramatic changes. They both bound their quality of life back and eagerly embraced the activities this [magnets] fostered. And then I started helping anyone open to listen; the results have been phenomenal.

It's been 2 1/2 years now and I never did go back to a JOB. I started my own home-based business sharing the vision and magnets. I have received exactly what I asked for at the Pyramid. The numerous people, which I've helped lead a fuller, more productive life, have been the answer to my prayer. I never cease to be amazed at how exactly what I ask for is given and how much I've learn from my Guide about listening and the inner peace of giving!

Sandy Valente lives in Northern California. She can be reached at 916.991.4748

Issue Two Features
Issue 2 - Page 1
Zen and the Art of a Bad Day
Listening to My Guide
How to Check your Hormonal Levels
Shopping for the Right Calcium Supplements
Food for Thought
Being Human Is Enough
My Dance with Shadow
Teaspoon Del Rio
On the Spot with Anne-Marie Palmer

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