Classes Still Available

While there are no classes scheduled, Caring Palms is still willing to teach impromptu classes of two persons or more. If you are interested, please call or email. If you call, and there is no answer, please leave a message. We will get beck to you as soon as we can. 

Also, mediumship sessions are available anytime.

Classes Are Being Taught

Caring Palms held a Reiki 1 class to two people a couple weeks ago. They got to learn Reiki and visit with the dog. It was a fun class with great people. 

We are having a Reiki 2 class November 7^th. If anyone is interested, let me know and I will send a payment link. 

For You Math Nerds

Finding Kindness

by Brian Dean

I believe it was George H.W. Bush that said we should be “a kinder, gentler nation”, or as I like to think a kinder, gentler society. It is something I have strived to become. The older I get, I find that most of the stupidity of youth has gone by the wayside, and I see that the best approach is kindness. But kindness seems to be missing, like we lost it somewhere, and we need to find it again.

I believe the bible teaches that we should treat others as we ourselves wish to be treated, or as Patrick Swayze said in the movie Roadhouse, “Be nice”. (Yes, I get my inspiration from many sources.) Yes, be nice. Admittedly, it is not always easy, especially when you have to deal with some jerk. But in the end, kindness overcomes. 

It should take no effort to smile and put forward a kind attitude. In a time when people are at each other’s throats over thoughts, attitudes, and words, a kind approach is something unexpected. And if you come at someone from a direction they are not expecting (like kindness), it might just distract them from whatever they are going through long enough for them to listen and possibly change their attitude. Yes, here comes something out of left field. It’s kindness. 

If we and others take this kind of approach, then maybe we will become that kinder, gentler society. All it takes is a little effort. Put in that effort. Watch the energies grow. Kindness, love. Let’s let them be predominate for a while.

Thunder and Lightning the Way of Spirit

by Brian Dean

We’ve heard that God moves in mysterious ways. I like to think of it as spirit moves in mysterious ways as spirit is a part of the whole that we call the source of all things.

We talk to spirit all the time, and I’m not just talking those that work as mediums. I’m talking anyone that has lost someone that is now on the other side. We occasionally talk to them just speaking as if they were right in front of this. Or we might use a comment that this person would have loved this thing that just happened. (And how do we know that they didn’t have an astral hand in making it happen?) 

Or we think of them occasionally. Maybe we thought of them because they were there, and our mind going to them was their way of saying hi.

Spirits work in subtle ways. It is not thunder and lightning, at least most of the time. There was a friend that was ignoring her gifts, and spirit wanted her to stop. She was in a bookstore when a book flew off the shelf and opened to a page she needed to read. One could say this action was thunder and lightning, and even so it was subtle.

Usually spirit will make you see something that will remind you of them. Or there is that word or idea that pops into your head out of the blue. (Always wondered where those things come from didn’t you?) 

Most people want to hear from their loved ones, but they are not in the right state of mind to hear. Usually, it is, “If you are here, move this book” or some other physical demonstration. But spirit does not want to perform. They want you to be calm, and open enough to notice changes, changes in temperature, vibration, and others. This way, you can feel a touch on your shoulder. I see this with mediums as well. 

I was recently in a class, giving a reading to a person that has been doing mediumship for a short time. She stated that she talks to the person I had, but never hears him talking back. Suddenly, the spirit I was connected to made me aware of what he wanted to do. This, of course, made me exclaim something like, “ No shtuff.”. I had my sitter close her eyes, and be calm. This spirit appeared behind her, and I could see him. He reached around her and gave her a hug, then kissed her on the top of her head, just as he had many times in life. While she did not feel the actual squeeze, she did feel the warmth and the vibration. 

Subtle. Gentle. This is how spirit approaches us, even if one is a medium. As mediums, we get images, impressions, occasional words. We are not sitting with a spirit and having a conversation like we had in this life.

Be open. Be aware. Look for subtle changes and feelings. And enjoy the fact that they were there.

Burning Bridges

by Brian Dean

I recently bought a t-shirt that has on it… “Will Burn Sage and Bridges as Needed”. 

While it is funny, it is also true. 

Burning sage is a gimme. One burns sage to clear negative energy from areas, people, rooms. I remember burning sage at my first office on a Saturday morning with a friend showing me what I needed to do. I wanted to clear any negative energies from the previous renter. So we filled the place with smoke and let it set a minute. 

Next thing I knew, there was a knock at the door. It was my landlord whose office was right next to mine. I opened the door and she said, “Do you smell…”, and then the curtain of smoke hit her, “smoke?”. I had to convince her that we were not burning down the place and then educate her on what we were doing.

Anther time I was with a group that had cleansed an area using sage (the term is smudging). Then each person would get smudged before they could enter.

But while burning sage is normal, what about burning bridges? Well that is completely normal too. We have people we grew up with that we fell out of touch with, or felt that we just went separate paths. Those bridges are effectively burned.

When you think about it, burning bridges is something one will continue to do as long as one continues to grow. That’s right. 

As we grow, we have certain friends. But when we continue to grow, many of them will not grow with us. They stay where they are, or move off in a different direction. Effectively, we are growing away from them. So, we lose friends. And this is normal. 

But as we grow, we increase our vibration, and find new friends that resonate with the newer us. And at some point, as we still continue to grow, we will leave these new friends and find newer ones that resonate with the newer vibrations. Again, we are burning bridges, and doing it as needed.

The key is that it is better to grow and go through this process than not grow at all.

So yes. Burn sage and bridges as needed.

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