Upon Receiving

One of my goals for this year was to accept help when someone offered help to me. I didn't know really how to measure this goal or what it would look like in it's entirety and nor did I realize that the goal I was setting was actually being open to receive. But receive what? A-ha, there in lies the answer because the answer is everything from a breath, to a beautiful morning, to a penny on the ground, to a compliment, to instruction, to a present, and to the fact that Sihing Lowery, despite the fact we travel as a pair, insists on spelling my name with an "a" instead of an "o".

I spent this last weekend at the Everything Is Energy live event in Denver. What an amazing, holy cow weekend!!! We spent the weekend learning how to clear, recharge, and connect energy as well as chakra clearing and alignment. After one exercise my feedback was "whoa, trippy". The feeling as a result of being in a room full of people all learning energy healing work left me with a huge feeling of bliss, gratitude and peace (no we weren't smoking anything). It was elation at it's finest topped with a huge dollop of clarity and direction. The weekend was an introduction to the 4-month Peak Energy Performance course that I will be embarking on starting in January where I will be further (as in much much more and more deeply) learning the skills not only on myself but being able to perform the healing work on others so that they can too perform at their peak. I'm stoked! I received a huge amount of energy healing during the weekend and that prepared me for what was yet to come. After I left the course I was like a kid in wonderment and what a great place to be because what was yet to come was incredible. Every person I met I was meeting for a reason, there was no accident as to the book my eyes latched on to, and I got a huge laugh as to how many times I was asked if my Vibram toe shoes were comfy or not. Ok, time for a story to illustrate my ramblings.

On this trip I had decided to be open to giving up my seat on the plane. Before I left, I scored a travel voucher because I was willing to fly out the next day. For the return trip it was like Christmas. There was a request for a seat on the Denver-Minneapolis leg. I volunteered, made my way off the airplane, however due to circumstance, I was returned to my seat with a stack of beverage coupons because I was "inconvenienced." It turns out that I had an amazing conversation with the fellow beside me who happened to be an expert in Eastern religious philosophies (sure did know about energy, chi, chakras) and who also studied a form of Karate and get this, knew of Olaf Simon and Margite Hilbig (our lineage). Now it gets even better: the Minneaoplis-Edmonton leg was overbooked so I scored another travel voucher, a night in a top floor suite at the Embassy Suites, and a fabulous breakfast. Welcome to Monday and again Minneapolis-Edmonton is overbooked  so I scored (again) another travel voucher and 2 glorious chowdowns of sushi (sushi in Minneapolis airport is pretty decent and so is the shopping). Now I am flying Minneapolis-Winnipeg and then on to Edmonton. It was hysterical to see how many times my package from duty-free was updated with flight info.  (you again??!!)

The airline courtesy gifts are fabulous, however, one of the most memorable gifts I received came free of charge. At the Embassy Suites, I chose to wait on a bench in the foyer instead of the lobby because the foyer was sunny and very pleasant. One pre-occupied fellow came in luggage in tow and on a cell phone. He turned to adjust his luggage straps (while on the phone) and turned back to see the door opening for him. Here's the gift: he turned to me (still on the phone), looked me square in the the eye and said "thank you" with heartfelt gratitude. He got a jumbo smile back. To say the least, the feeling was quite awesome.
Sherri Donohue
Hot Torch, A Room Full of Glass, and a Kung Fu Kwoon