Michael Barrett at Siesta Key - Just for fun…

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

It’s hard to describe the feelings and the energy of Siesta Key. It’s one of those things where you have to be there to get it - firsthand… This is one of our favorite places on the planet and actually a destination point for many Europeans and Canadians travelers anually - as well as East Coast and Midwestern Americans… 

Here is a brief video of me at Siesta Key beach..


Michael Barrett at Siesta Key

Some of the local ‘part time’ residents (snow birds in another dialect) have been coming here for many seasons and often own two separate homes - a Sarasota Florida home and the other one where they liove in the summer time and early fall (Florida’s hottest season).

Come play with us and practice Qigong together or be part of one of our Workshops

I AM Michael Barrett, I AM a Qigong guy and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.

Baby Boomer Boy Toys

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

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?

I do…

There are more pictures and info here: Baby Boomer Toys.

Here are a couple more Baby Boomer Toys:

First, a black on black F40 Ferrari…

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…

I blogged about this about a year or two ago on Healthy Wealthy Boomer - 1931 Henderson KJ

Leno has a huge garage, car and motorcycle collection and fabrication shop. There is a link to a video on his site about the KJ, it’s fun video.

Baby Boomers need to play more to be healthy. We take ourselves too seriously most of the time.

Life is a blast - have a fabulous day.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.


Michael Barrett’s 2009 in Review…

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Michael Barrett’s 2009 Year in Review Photostream…

2009 Means smiling faces of little ancient soul grandchildren -

Michael Barrett's 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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

My heart is filled with the I AM Presence.

Bless you all today, in 2010 and forever.

Michael

Letting Go, Letting God and Love…

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

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

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)

    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)

    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.

    Contact me here.

    Or leave a comment on this blog. I always appreciate you feedback and suggestions.

    I AM Blessings for you and yours in 2010.

    I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator

    How We Learn…

    Friday, July 17th, 2009

    Here is a discussion I recorded entitled, “How We Learn”.

    This is unedited content from a new book that I am writing.

    Get Flash to see this player.

    It’s about an hour long and I will post some text excerpts here as soon as possible.

    Enjoy…

    Michael Barrett
    © copyright 2009 - askmichaelbarrett.com
    all rights reserved

    Michael Barrett - Transformation Central…

    Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

    Michael Barrett - Big Changes

    During 2005-2009, there were so many changes in my life and I met some absolutely amazing people. It was period of real transformation for me. Starting with the dynamic experience traveling as a staffer with Peak Potentials, a self-development seminar company for 18 months. Prior to that, I had only flown occasionally. But with Peak I was on planes in and out of 28 venues all around North America - and it was exciting.

    We met so many people on planes, in airports, riding shuttles to hotels, as well as the 20,000 - or so - people who attended the seminars as participants. I learned how cultures varied in different cities and locations. I worked on events in Orlando, Dallas, Los Angeles (multiple times), Secaucus, Seattle, Morley - Alberta - Canada, Ellenville New York in the catskills, Vancouver - BC, Pemberton - BC, San Diego, Calif, Beaumont, CA (near Palm Springs), Atlanta.

    In addition, I met and got to know staff at the hotel and resort venues, at airports, people riding shuttles, people waiting for planes, eating at restaurants. The High Energy Core Team staffers that worked for Peak Potentials bonded and we became a very close knit extended family. These were high caliber people with brains, a sense of humor, talent and energy. So just being in their presence on a regular basis has a positive impact on our lives.

    Being on staff enabled me to meet and develop personal relationships with some of the top speakers and trainers around in the self development world - what an exciting experience.

    Helping participants grow and break through their personal barriers also added to our own personal transformation because whenever others grow and improve within our presence, we also benefit.

    Not only did I participate on staff for the Peak events, I attended them, met another ~2500 people more intimately as a participant, and had my own personal transformations and breakthroughs.

    I also lived in many places.

    I lived in Seattle, Scranton - PA, Atlantic City - NJ, Wildwood at the Jersey Shores, Goochland - VA, Atlanta - GA, Maidens - VA, Menlo Park - CA and Hamilton - MT.

    Some for several months at a time up to a year and a half.

    Cross country trips

    Beginning in 2006, I made three cross country trips by car - round trip. You learn a lot about yourself and the country you live in when you drive through it. The people you meet, the experiences you have and the beauty you see of this magnificent planet teach us more about who we are and remind us where we came from. You also see the kindness inherent in human nature and this can heal so many things within us. Cross country trips affirmed for me that America is full of kind and generous people.

    Other teachers during that time period include a wonderful personal relationship, major national economic upheaval, a personal financial roller coaster dealing with issues around investments, integrity, self esteem and a fairly comprehensive study of the Law of Attraction.

    Facebook has brought quality tuned-in people into my life - many of them.

    Over the last few months, my extended family has grown immensely through the wonderful friends I have made on Facebook in many countries. I have learned so much, have received so much loving support and created a deep appreciation for the magnitude of technology and it’s impact, not only on social consciousness, but also the collective consciousness.

    A number of my Facebook friends have become as close to me as my friends from Peak Potentials.

    Pamela Gregory and Dr Ed Carlson

    Through Pamela Gregory, one of those rare and amazing people that changes your life when you know them - and part of my new Facebook family - I met a man named Dr. Ed Carlson

    Dr. Carlson founded a healing modality he named “Core Health” that is , in my opinion, revolutionizing how we grow consciously. This system realigns the energy body - kind of like replacing the natural defaults for health and purity we all started with as children.

    In June 2009, I went through my initial training with Dr. Carlson and we have mutually agreed that I am going to accomplish my Core Health Facilitator Certification before the year is out. In addition, I am incorporating this effective method into my own training programs and physical training repertoire. It is an amazing tool to put in your tool belt.

    And I believe it is going to change my life forever adding missing pieces of understanding I have been searching for since 1971.

    Ananda - Palo Alto

    Another huge piece of the puzzle was solved for me when I found Ananda. Through my experience attending services there, meditation classes and many group functions, I met some of the most loving and conscious people in my life.

    Ananda was a big part of finding part of my Soul again. Truly, this part of my extended family really changed my life. This is the first time that I can remember where I have truly experienced unconditional love.

    Another thing happened at Ananda that I have been striving to accomplish most of my adult life. My heart chakra opened up for the first time. Having been blessed with two very powerful teachers in Qigong and martial arts who helped me to open and balance my channel chi meridians, I have been practicing qigong regularly since 1988.

    The meditation, the singing, the chanting and purification practices I studied and practiced at Ananda empowered me to accomplish something that neither qigong master was able to stimulate in me. For the first time, my heart chakra actually opened up during a service one day.

    In February 2009, a friend handed me a little book about a series of 5 exercises called the Tibetan Rites - an ancient Tibetan method of physical rejuvenation through exercise.

    I am convinced that practicing this series of exercises, coupled with the energy from Ananda, daily meditation and qigong practice empowered me to open my heart chakra.

    A Time of Change

    It has been a time of massive change - not just for me personally - but for the country and the world. There are so many other experiences, great books, tele-seminars, blog discussions that contributed significantly to my growth and expansion - too many to mention in this post.

    But the bottom line is I have morphed and am a new man who is learning to be more grateful, more loving and stronger than ever before.

    What I learned:

    • How to cry
    • How to love deeply and truly
    • How to forgive
    • Compassion
    • How it feels like to be invisible and alone
    • What commitment means
    • How to be a good listener
    • Listen to my intuition
    • Everything that happens in our life is a choice
    • I found my soul again
    • You never know what you know until you do.

    Blessings of gratitude, love and light.
    Michael Barrett, Florida, July 2009

    Michael Barrett Affirmation

    Sunday, May 24th, 2009

    I am in alignment with my true purpose in life.
    I live in the present moment,
    In love,
    In awe,
    Seeing once again,
    The innocence of my youth,
    Knowing that I am whole and perfect
    And always have been.
    There is nothing that I lack.
    I live and flow in abundance,
    There is only God and Love.
    All life comes at me with ease, joy and grace.
    I am a beacon of radiant joy and health,
    I am warrior,
    I am lover,
    I am kindness,
    I am compassion,
    I am grandfather,
    I am healer,
    I walk in gratitude,
    With an open heart,
    I live to serve.
    I Am That, I Am,

    How I Think of You
    When I’m Alone…

    Friday, May 8th, 2009

    I think my world is empty
    without you in it.

    anotherangel

    I often hear your voice -
    sometimes a snippet of a recent conversation,
    but mostly just the echo of how you sound,
    not so much the words.
    It is the way I hear your gentle whisper in my ear
    when your lips are very close,
    the sound so quiet,
    a person two feet away
    could not decipher your secret message.
    It is the feeling of your voice.
    The sense of what it feels like when we’re close.
    It is your presence,
    and I can feel your breath.

    lightiam

    Sometimes I get a flash,
    a passing picture of your head
    tilting to the left or right,
    the way you throw your head back gently
    when you’re laughing,
    the fun belly gut laugh
    that gives me so much joy to hear.

    I think of the moments
    when I remember holding you,
    when you have cried and sobbed in my arms,
    and I just held on until the very last drop
    until you fell asleep or
    until the heaves of breath subsided.

    I think of your skin the way it smells.
    the way it wrinkles gently with a certain touch,
    as if in preparation for the next…
    the apprehensive quiver of anticipation of
    electric skin;
    the way my hands can sense the slightest
    ripple of reaction or contraction with almost no physical contact.
    Those hands of mine are pretty smart when it comes to your skin.

    I see you running to me with your arms wide open,
    with your succulent heart and laser eyes,
    I hold you close and smell your hair
    and for half an hour,
    you are my air.

    I hold your fingers in my hands
    and touch every single place
    on every digit with the tip of my index finger
    for an hour…

    How do I think of you when I’m alone?

    I sit and look at you for hours
    from the back when you are reading,
    or scripting at the computer
    or from the side to see your spralling beauty
    as you sleep quietly,
    playing wrap around pillow games with your knees.

    I see the kindness in your eyes when you speak
    and the love in your eyes and heart when you touch
    or when you hold a little Christa
    or an Emma
    or a Lindy

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    I think of walks along the beach
    at Trainer in New Jersey
    and private Wildwood moments.
    walking around the lake at Tarva
    golden memories
    in the master Covey bedroom
    and the kitchen
    enjoying Isagenix shakes and salads
    and working side by side computing
    sharing joy of quiet and aloneness
    And in the master bath
    I feel the shower on my skin
    as I lather your back
    and legs
    and stomach with the soap
    and feel the warmth
    and soothing security
    of water turning Holy in your presence

    I think of eating Sunday breakfast
    on our final day at Long Branch
    the very week we met
    and how easy words could flow between us
    through intermingled comfort in the air

    How do I think of you when I’m alone?

    I hear every word we left unsaid
    each time we went away angry
    without resolution
    and the lingering anguish
    of unforgiven thoughts
    or the unspoken words that needed saying
    how empty it feels
    to not have had the strength
    and sense of present moment
    in the living
    to honor love
    when the chance was there
    and only now
    to think and speak alone
    the unthought and unspoken
    thought and word
    that would have been so easy

    How do I think of you when I’m alone?

    I think of you beside me
    With wonder in the air
    living every moment
    and living every share.
    I see us loving deeper yet
    in realms unknown by most
    I see us letting go
    and letting go again
    walking in alignment
    in the garden of our joy
    until the horizon of our life
    and you and me are one.

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    by Michael Barrett
    (c) Copyright 2009

    The Gentle and Forgotten Art of Blessings

    Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

    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.


    GOD Called This Morning.

    Thursday, April 30th, 2009

    God left a message:

    And this is what He said:

    “Michael, I’ve been trying to get a hold of you.
    Stopped by the other day, but no one was home.
    Guess you didn’t see the note.
    So, I just called to say I LOVE YOU.
    I want you to know there are no limits to my love for you.
    I came to comfort you and open your heart.”

    ” I waved at you yesterday when you were facing west, looking at the Bitterroot
    Mountains. I saw the joy and appreciation in your heart.

    I thought you saw ME when I heard you say,

    “I love these mountains.”

    But I guess you didn’t.

    I keep sending little Teagen over to tell you,

    “I LOVE YOU.”

    And you always smile and hug him back,
    and say,

    “I love you too little buddy.”

    “Michael, every time he looks up at you,
    and you see that sparkle in his eyes,
    that’s ME.

    And each time he reaches up to hug you,
    It’s me reaching out to comfort and give you strength.

    Each time you feel lost, call out MY NAME
    And I will touch your heart and open it a little further and help you release.”

    “And I know you felt how much I loved you
    when you read Kathy’s poem
    And you cried so deeply.
    I know it touched your heart,
    It was ME - loving you.”

    “WE all missed you at Sangha Sunday.
    That loving beautiful energy of yours
    was clearly missing in the meditation.
    Your voice and your love was missing in the songs,
    And your seat was empty.

    So many of your Spiritual family are praying for you.
    They talk to ME about you all the time.
    They all want ME to tell you how much they love you,
    and that you matter and that you’re beautiful,
    and they want me to remind you how much I LOVE YOU.

    Just in case you forgot…

    “I said goodnight to you yesterday
    when you were watching the sunset.
    I was peeking through the clouds and I sparkled MY LOVE FOR YOU.
    When you felt that joy from the shear beauty,
    That was ME.

    I sent you COMPASSION yesterday when you
    were looking at the picture of Divine Mother.
    I know you felt the energy go up your arms and into your heart,
    And then you cried tears of compassion and understanding.

    When you asked ME,

    “How can I learn to forgive and be in the moment and forgive myself?”

    I sent FORGIVENESS to you.

    You asked ME,

    “Father, teach me to be humble and quit living in my head, and start living in my heart?”

    You asked ME,

    “Father, teach me how to quit judging people.”

    You didn’t pay attention, so to get your attention, I made you homeless
    and let you sleep in the car for a while to contemplate the teaching.

    I showed you how it feels to feel invisible and unnoticed and really alone.

    So I taught you humility,
    and taught you compassion.
    I think you got the message.”

    “Michael, I just called to tell you that you’re perfect
    and the universe would not be the same without you.
    You don’t have to change a thing.

    I LOVE YOU unconditionally just the way your are.

    “I remember when you were a little boy, you were
    two years old and you asked me,”

    “What did I do to make my Daddy go away?
    Why doesn’t my Daddy love me GOD?
    Maybe if I were a better person, he would love me.
    Would you make me a better person, GOD?”

    “And I told you then, Michael, you are total and complete
    and perfect and I love you infinitely, you don’t have
    to change a thing.

    But I guess, you didn’t believe me.

    I just want to know that everything you desire and everything you deserve is coming your way.

    Your life is changing because I am finally getting through to you.

    You are expanding into who you really are and nothing can stop you.

    I had to empty your heart - to get the pain and confusion out and refill it with MY LOVE.

    I had to take everything away you owned and everything you loved to make you stop and get your attention.

    But I did this because I love you.

    You asked me over and over again,

    Show me how to be your conduit for your Divine Light from deep within m y heart. Make your light shine through me so that I may shine it into the
    hearts of everyone I meet.”

    Know that you already shine MY LIGHT from your beautiful heart into every
    body you meet - you’ve been doing it for a long time.

    You are a beacon, a bearer of Light, the bringer of the Divine Message that
    there is nothing else but love.

    You are that Love because you are part of me.

    Everything is in Divine order.

    Just be patient.

    When you asked me:

    “How I can learn to love myself the way you love me?” And will you help me release my resistance to fully
    receiving your love and being present with it?

    over and over again - each time I told you the same thing.

    My LOVE for you is eternal.
    My LOVE for you is absolutely infinite.
    It has always been and will always be.

    Michael, whenever you forget, remind yourself that I am always here for you.
    Loving me is easy when you look inside yourself and remember I am here.

    You just need more practice.
    There’s nothing else you need to do or change or learn.

    Just be ALL THAT YOU ARE, just be You.

    So, I just called to say I LOVE YOU.
    I want you to know there are no limits to my love for you.
    I came to comfort you and open your heart.
    Aum, Peace, Amen

    written by: Michael Barrett
    copyright 2009