Baby Boomers are some of the most creative, innovative, get-it-done kind of people I know.
In the 80’s, I lived in the Bitterroot Valley in south west Montana. I moved there to raise a family and get away from the insanity of city life. In case you are not familiar with Montana, here is a picture I took from my daughter’s house in April 2009.
In Montana, people often have multiple professions. I met a guy one day who was working for the garbage company during the day, raised goats, and had a PhD in Biology.
One of the most coveted jobs - when I lived there - was working for the Forest Service. The spring and summer seasons were relatively short which meant the staffers could work about six months a year and collect unemployment and ski throughout the winter.
Not only that, working for the Forest Service they always knew the finest locations for free standing-dead lodge pole pine - which meant they had all the firewood they needed in exchange for a few days work, some chain saw gas and a couple of cases of beer.
A buddy of mine - a Bitterroot native - owns a post pounding (rural fencing) company, raises and sells sheep and chickens, has owned a water well drilling company and worked in the oil rigs in Wyoming.
Everybody raises some of their own food as well as living and flowing with the cycles of nature. Living in Montana is a healthy and powerful lifestyle and produces generations of hearty and capable people who can do just about anything.
And the people are helpful and generous. They enjoy life and live it fully. They take time out to relax and have fun on a regular basis and enjoy the beauty of nature in one of the prettiest places on the planet. When I lived there I learned:
how to be healthy and that
when you chose a place that is in alignment with your truth, you become strong and powerful.
There is a natural power in the mountains.
When you are healthy and powerful, it is easy to be playful.
This morning I got an email from a friend of mine in Montana with a picture of a Baby Boomer Boy Toy that I wanted to share with you. The guy that sent me this is one of the nicest, funniest and smartest guys I know and one heck of a mechanic. He can fabricate anything from a building to a sophisticated mechanical device of any magnitude.
He did not fabricate this real man’s snowmobile, however.
Tell me you don’t want to open that throttle and see what happens?
Although I love this car as a thing of beauty - and as the last model actually designed by Enzo Ferrari before he died - this is a car that I want to purchase for a friend of mine as a gift for his collection.
My friend has been an auto enthusiast as far back as I can remember. He is one of the best drivers I have ever known personally, a top flight professional level mechanic and has owned many amazing cars. In high school, he owned an immaculate VW Bug with a Porsche Super C engine in it that would eat GTO Judges for lunch.
He is in the Shelby Club Book in twice and had one of the cleanest Dino’s I have ever seen, a 98 point concourse car. When I am able, I am going to buy a black Ferrari F40 for his collection because of all the people I know personally, he is the one who appreciates it the most. And he will care for it properly as a legacy for the future.
And one of my favorite Baby Boomer Toys for Boys from:Jay Leno’s collection, a 1930 KJ Henderson 4…
Michael Barrett’s 2009 Year in Review Photostream…
2009 Means smiling faces of little ancient soul grandchildren -
Michael Barrett's Grandchildren...
laughing, loving and shining God through their piercing, radiant eyes…
Year 2009 in review.
Bless my new extended family, all my old dear friends, my lovely children and their children and Alexandra.
Wow…
What a year - change, growth, expansion, tears, joy, pain, love, forgiveness, personal transformation, release, clearing, closure.
The year began in California where times were tough. But something beautiful took place there.
We found Ananda Palo Alto.
Ananda Palo Alto
What an amazing and spiritually pure place.
People walk their talk and God is always present because God is welcomed and acknowledged in every action, every word and every deed - every moment, all the time.
I love Ananda and all the people I met there who accepted me unconditionally for who I am and who I grew to love and appreciate in a deeply profound way that was a new experience for me in my life.
After all my years of training, my heart chakra opened fully for the first time during a Sunday morning service and meditation.
It was a major accomplishment for me and a gift - one that I fully understood and was aware of as it took place.
I found that the spiritual task of practicing ‘forgiving myself’ - as instructed by Asha Praver - was something that I did poorly although I diligently made an effort to do so.
For me it was something much easier said than done. I found that I was both angry at myself and many people in my life.
Over time, it became clear to me that much of that anger I had been carrying in my heart for a long, long time.
It did not serve me yet I did not know what to do about it.
Once again - easy to talk about - and entirely different to resolve and heal within myself in practical application.
Being part of Ananda for 5 months changed my life. Bless you all and bless your kindness, love and beautiful open hearts.
The search for learning how to forgive myself led me to find Pamela Gregory, which and led me to Dr. Ed Carlson, Heart Forgiveness and Core Health in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The next phase was the time I spent in Montana.
This was the first time I lived there in over 20 years.
The view on the west side of the Bitterrot Valley
It was a painful time, yet such a joyful time, spending two wonderful months with my grandchildren and three of my kids.
The Bitterroot Valley is such a beautiful place. The river, the mountains, the sunsets and the sky at night.
And all the 6 little beautiful beings who are my grandchildren - such joy and love and clarity and newness and excitement about life.
And my amazing beautiful daughters Arabella and Tahahlita and my son Lucky.
Arabella and Tahahlita
It was so nice to see them and love them and be in their presence and feel their kindness and their beauty as human beings and young adults.
What a blessed man I am.
I can remember often telling friends of mine (when my son was a little boy) what a cool and kind person he was naturally and how I couldn’t wait until he was older so we could talk and have a beer together because he was such good company and such a fine and considerate human being.
Well in 2009, we had that beer - a few of them actually. We got together in Half Moon Bay and then again in Walnut Creek and then again several times in Montana before I headed east in June.
Lucky at age 11
It’s truly amazing the inherent joy that exists between a father and his children - without words or explanation.
Lucky more recently...
How our DNA creates an extension of us through our children - through the expression of their own individuality and consciousness - is a miracle that never ceases to amaze me.
This aspect of ‘family consciousness’ is even more pronounced with a relationship between a man and his grandchildren - perhaps because
all the emotional trauma, changes and debris between parents and their kids is not there.
Off to see the wizard...
Also as young children the grandchildren are still young and clean and pure and whole without judgment.
Apparently, Halloween was fun this year…
Pamela Gregory
During this time, I met Pamela Gregory online via Facebook and we became close friends. She became my adviser and worked with me closely with EFT to help me heal some deep seated issues in my life.
In many ways Pamela was my angel. She was contacted by a man named Neil Habgood - our connection to Dr. Ed Carlson. BTW, Neil has subsequently become a very close friend and associate.
He is a good man.
The Next Phase Was Heading East…
Dr. Ed Carlson and Michael Barrett
In early June, it was off to North Carolina to meet Dr. Ed Carlson the first time and spend a private intensive weekend with him training in Heart Forgiveness. The setting and the energy was magnificent - flowering trees and fragrances - high atop a ridge in the Blue Ridge mountains.
Wow…
On July 4th, Sarasota, Florida became home. What a change this was for me personally. I had been to Florida on three previous occasions in Jacksonville and Orlando and had absolutely no desire to be there.
In spite of that perspective, suddenly I felt a strong pull to Florida - a deep and intuitive voice calling me to follow my heart and take the risk, let go and that all would be provided for.
I listened to my intuition and without a plan, without resources, without family, connections or friends there, the west coast of Florida was where I landed. I found the energy attractive and clean and expansive for me - and curiously enough, it felt like home almost immediately.
Expansion, Rapid Change and Inner Turmoil…
The remainder of the year has been a period of immense expansion energetically and Spiritually.
And throughout the process of this expansion, rapid change has been the primary ingredient - fueled both by the choice to grow and the desire to change.
It also became clear to me that wanting change is not enough. Acting upon it and being willing to fully accept what happens is another piece of the puzzle and the experience. From a practical standpoint, real concrete change required release of all the old baggage in my life.
If you have ever done a sincere fast, one of the side effects is to release a lot of toxin into the body as you cleanse.
Something else about Spiritual growth and energetic expansion, once you start there is no going back. Once you know, you can never “un-know”.
In many ways, the period of time from July through December 2009 has been a continuous series of Spiritual and energetic fasts and cleansings…
The freeing and clearing process has been comprehensive, accentuated by Qigong, Tibetan Yoga, Meditation, Siesta Key, the Mighty I AM Presence and an active and accelerated training program in Core Health and Heart Forgiveness.
Receiving my certificate...
In December I received my certification as a Core Health Facilitator.
The Universe Is Shifting
That the Universe is shifting to align with the new awareness of mankind that is emerging has magnified the overall experience immensely. In many ways it has been a deeply moving and turbulent year - with highly charged emotion and energy as a by-product of massive cleansing and release.
So much transition…
As I ponder the depth of the love that is expanding within me and throughout my consciousness and energy, I am filled with joy, awe and an unspeakable understanding.
What an honor this experience has been and what a huge blessing and opportunity it is.
Sounds like a mantra from a self development seminar, doesn’t it?
Dr. Ed Carlson (Core Health) and Michael Barrett (Core Health Facilitator) in St Petersburg, Florida - December 2009
Letting go is one of those things that turns out to be a difficult thing to actuate in real life. It sounds simpler than it is.
How many times have you gotten home from an inspiring lecture or seminar all fired up and ready to implement everything you learned into your life just to realize you haven’t got a clue how?
And absolutely a month after the fact you’ve pretty much forgotten that good feeling you had when you were all fired up.
Letting go - or not - is actually part of our identity, the who we are piece deep in our core. A deep aspect of identity health is what Dr Ed Carlson calls, “the root of holding on“.
We hang on to what we habitually are used to doing and to all the subconscious programing - until we don’t. 95% of what we do all the time is automatically being run by the subconscious mind - and the weird part is that we don’t even know it - or at least we are unaware of it consciously.
The subconscious just runs the show day in and day out. And that’s ok, depending on what’s in there. What if the default programs in our subconscious - from the past - are not in alignment with who we are today?
What if most of it is old junk and emotional debris from countless emotional hurts, traumas and external programming that have been accumulating for a lifetime?
What if we found out that we don’t have to do it the way we have been any more and that there is an alternative?
Imagine what you could do in your life if you really could:
Let go
Let God and
Love
Now we really can.
Dr. Bruce Lipton (Biology of Belief) and Dr. Ed Carlson (Founder of Core Health)
Thanks to guys like Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Ed Carlson, Gregg Braden and Dr. David Hawkins there is a way to do this. It’s a method called comprehensive kinesiology, or Core Health.
You can literally change your life in 12 weeks. I did.
And it only took me 35 years to find it, so I could.
You don’t have to wait 35 years and you don’t have to find Core Health, I did that for you.
This tool allows you to literally LET GO by going into your energy with an energy eraser and cleaning out all the junk and debris and confusion and letting go of it once and for all.
Then you can go into the energy and make new energy decisions and begin living in your perfect moment and let God take control again by choosing to relinquish your desire to run the universe and truly letting go.
Dr. Ed Carlson (Core Health) and Gregg Braden (Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age - November 2009 in Tampa)
And during this experience, you learn to love again - love your self, love life and love God.
Pure and simple, effective and permanent. Heal the separation and move on.
Get in touch and find out about events and facilitators in your area. This is about to expand really fast because it is so effective and the word is getting out. There are only 65 certified facilitators in the entire US and I am one of them. It’s a great bunch of dedicated people.
This video is becoming a big part of my life theme.
As co-creators we have so much power within our consciousness. Every act, every visualization, every thought, every intention and every word creates the world around us.
Truly, we have forgotten the power of Blessing. Let us remember exactly what that means.
To Bless is such a simple act. Yet so powerful - it changes the world and brings more Light into the world every time we do it. Bless your life at every moment.
The Gentle and Forgotten Art of Blessings
Quoting from “The Game of Life,”
The enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.
Remember to bless everything.
It is an act of faith upon which the law of attraction is activated.
Bless without expectation or without knowing or trying to figure out what will happen. Bless and allow.
It changes the world and removes the negative from your life, your mind and your emotions.
Blessings of Divine Light, Love, Joy and Prosperity.
In Montana, people often have multiple professions. I met a guy one day who was working for the garbage company during the day, raised goats, and had a PhD in Biology.
Although I love this car as a thing of beauty - and as the last model actually designed by Enzo Ferrari before he died - this is a car that I want to purchase for a friend of mine as a gift for his collection.
