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Raised on fear…shifting to joy….

Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

        Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

Through your body, you are feeling happy.  Receive that happiness, revel in your own feeling of happiness.  From within your body, allow yourself to be rooted and grounded in your body and in your happiness.  You have a right to your happiness.  You don’t even have to have a reason  for it.  You have a right to happiness, beloved, an absolute, inalienable right to happiness, in your body, in your Being.  You don’t have to explain or defend it.  It is your birthright to be joyful.  You can be happy in your body; you can feel happiness flowing throughout your body and Being.  

When you have been raised on fear, your first reaction is fear…even to happiness.  If you are in your body, happy and celebratory, experience says someone is going to want something from you; someone is going to want you to physically and emotionally give yourself up to them; you are going to be obligated to move into pain and away from happiness.  Your happiness is someone else’s permission.  When you are happy you no longer have a “No.”  You are supposed to say “Yes” to everything.  

That is not happiness, beloved.  That is unhealthy boundaries.  That is coercion and manipulation.  To make someone believe that if they are happy and expressive and joyful and dancing, in love with their body and Being, that if in their own joy they have “turned on” someone else, then they owe that person something, is profoundly unkind, even cruel.  No.  You never owe.  If you have given joy by your own experience of joy, of happiness and pleasure flowing through your body, that is enough.  That is wonderful.  If in the course of enjoying yourself, another is given pleasure, what a blessing to them…and to you.  You owe nothing.  You don’t owe to continue that.  You don’t owe to expand it.  

Feel happiness and know you deserve to be happy because it is your birthright.  It is your body’s right to feel joy, to feel sensual, to feel sexual, to feel grief, to feel any way you feel.  It is your sovereignty; it is your Being.  You are never therefore required anything.  

For your body, it is important to always know that you have a “No.”  You have every right to go back to being a teenager, and give yourself the right you had, but were not allowed then, the right to say “No.” The fact that others talked you out of it, threatened you out of it, cajoled you out of it, manipulated you out of it, hurt you with the violence of their thoughts, their voices, their words, their manipulations, that is not your fault.  It never ended your right to set your own limits.  It never ended your right to be curious, to say “Well, in this moment that sounds interesting or exciting or attractive,” and to go one inch into it and decide “No, I’ve changed my mind, don’t like it, don’t want to do that,” and say “No.”  Or to go a foot into it “Hmmm, no, feels icky, changed my mind, No.”  Or to go ten feet or a hundred feet or a mile into it, or all the way through it and say “I don’t want to do that again.”  You always have the right to your “No.”   Your body always has the right to her “No.”  Always, always, always. And you have the right, from within that space of choice, to own in every cell of your body, and every fiber and energy of your Being, your “Yes,” your joy and happiness.  

Surrounding your joy and happiness, as expansive and beautiful as it feels, is a sovereign fire, and it has its boundaries, just as a fire within a fire pit has boundaries.  It burns passionately, brightly and hot within itself, but it has a boundary of self.  And so do you.  Even in Creation there is a boundary to energy where it meets another energy.  Tis very different from humans and bodies, but not completely different.  The idea of bodies came from something similar.  And so, your ecstasy, your passion, your joy, your happiness, however high it might rise, however deep it might be, however far it might extend, it is always contained within you; it exists because of you; it is fueled by you, and always you are the sovereign Being to say “Yes” or to say “No”  how you move it, when and where.  You own it.  It’s always coming from the fuel at the base of you, in your soul, in your Being, in your heart, in your passion, just like the logs that fuel the fire are at the base of the fire.  It is you, and so you say where you shall burn, when, with and for whom.  Always for yourself.  

Allow yourself to be happy beloved, to experience happiness fully embodied, to let loose those armors that have kept you from feeling happiness out of fear.  Because anytime you felt happiness, someone took it away from you as though you had no right, and they very often did it by invading you with negative opinions, with criticism, or with manipulation that you had to give up who you are, what you want, and your felt “Yes” in your body.  You never, ever, ever give up the yes in your body, in your soul, in your heart, in your Being; it is the you of you; it is the very core of the essence of your Being; it is your “Yes.”  You surround it with the right to say “No,” and in that way you create the space within which the yes can burn and burn and burn, and ever replenish. 

For private 1-1 time with Stephanie & Our Friends, please email sknp4710@aol.com

All sessions are recorded and emailed to you.

Couple & Group sessions are also available.

Stop by https://innerteacher.net/contact-and-session-information/

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Judgement & Self-Love

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When you judge another you are giving to them what you believe you would deserve in the same situation, in doing the same thing, and in that it is always yourself you attack, your self-perception, your own sense of personal failure or inadequacy or lack of worthiness.  The degree to which a human being attacks another is an expression of that human being’s sense of unworthiness to be loved.  And so, it is always a wise thing to try to remember and stop, not only for another, but for yourself.  To say, I am love and I come from love, and in this moment the only thing real and the only thing that I can give is love to myself or to this other.

For private 1-1 time with Stephanie & Our Friends, please email sknp4710@aol.com

All sessions are recorded and emailed to you.

Couple & Group sessions are also available.

Stop by https://innerteacher.net/contact-and-session-information/

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Is God Only Love? Pt. 2

So close as to touch. Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

So close as to touch.
 Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

Part 2

So when someone says “God is love or God is not love or God is something else,” the very word “God”  or “Goddess” or “Spirit” is encumbered by not knowing — and by the profound need for connection — that there is a great deal of projection, like the child who has never been loved or nurtured grasps for that needed unknown and imagined parent.  

What you call God, we prefer to call Creation (we include in this all that is beyond physical form, beyond time and space.)  We use this word because it differentiates from personality, from the idea that there is a human face of God; the human face of God is in the face of every single human being who has ever been born.  Where you find the worm face of God is in every worm that ever lived.  And where you find the star-light face of God is in every star that has ever been born or burned out.  Everything is the face of God.  And every non-thing is the face of God.  

And so, we use “Creation,” because as we have said, in using words (which are so unclear) the ultimate quality of what you think of as God is that of being creative.  In order to be creative you have to love, because there is nothing, there is no creative impulse, without a much deeper impulse that you would call love.  

We don’t use the word God, because it is such a projection-filled word for human beings.  It carries so much pain, disappointment, so much illusion, so much imagining, so much need.  Instead we say that what you call God is the infinitely, ultimately creative, because this is true of God in action.  Creativity is love in action, and love is an action; it is not a feeling; it is a movement; it is a life-force; it is an expression.  

Love is a living, moving Truth beyond any human ability to fully explain, understand or grasp in words. And so we use “creativity” and “Creation” to speak of God, because we feel it more accurately reflects, with language, a truer understanding, a truer connection; it allows you a more open conduit to experience what is true.

For private 1-1 time with Stephanie & Our Friends, please email sknp4710@aol.com

All sessions are recorded and emailed to you.

Couple & Group sessions are also available.

Stop by https://innerteacher.net/contact-and-session-information/

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As the Light is reborn…

By Stephanie K. Nead

By Stephanie K. Nead

As we move through solstice and into the lengthening light.

In the fall, seeds drop, burrowing into the Earth’s embracing soil, to nestle, be watered by early winter rains, to rot and thus open. As the dark of our northern hemisphere approaches, when all is most fallow, beneath the surface something akin to a miracle is occurring. In the deep dark cold soil, new life is rising. Out of the cracked skin of rotted seed, from within the nourishment at its core — built up, stored light of summer’s sun — new life presses forth and now pushes toward that light which is returning to our skies as the days lengthen. This is such a potent time!

What seed did you drop this fall? What seed needed to rot in cold, wet soil of winter; what needed to compost into new life? And what is being born? What new growth are you feeling under your skin, in your Holy heartbeat, beneath the soil of your life? Can you feel it? Can you speak of it at all? Perhaps not. Let us hold this rebirthing for one another over the next week and a half, during this most powerful time. Let us listen and vision deep within ourselves during this dark time; what is waiting and wanting our attention in order to be born? Listen for its guidance: how and what is the deepest you asking in support of this birthing?

Let us remember that on the other side of our Earth, in the southern hemisphere, we are balanced in our rebirthing by those who are celebrating the fulness and abundance of summer, when all they seeded half a year past is now pouring forth new and vibrant life.

Blessings to you on Solstice, as the Earth is reborn. Blessings on Christmas as so many celebrate a rebirth through a story that speaks to their imagination and soul. Blessings that your soul is always nourishes and held with love…
Stephanie

Our next Our Friends Circle Call will be Sunday, January 5th 2014.  

Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this email to others. 

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  After a short introduction, Our Friends will share a short talk, then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will record the call.  If you would like a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com. 

A suggested donation for the call is $25-$50.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can log in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540. 

 The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  The access code is 363636#.

Call for a private Our Friends’ Circle for you and friends (generally $20/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $100 minimum,) as well as individual and couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390. 

 

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Entering the Dark of the Year: The Journey

We are lit by a light we may struggle to see, yet in the dark we see what cannot otherwise be seen. Walk with eyes closed and inner feeling alive!

We are lit by a light we may struggle to see, yet in the dark we see what cannot otherwise be seen. Walk with eyes closed and inner feeling alive!

This Sunday, December 15th at 4:00 p.m. will be our next Circle call with Our Friends.  Please see the end of this post for details.

Entering the Dark of the Year

First bring yourself, with whatever tension you have, to this very moment.  Breathe it, feel it, accept it, have loving kindness and compassion for yourself in your nervousness, in your tension, in your holding.  Simply love yourself and breathe: naturally, fully, and deeply.  Feel what is there, ask if it can let go a little.  Let yourself be with you in integrity, in honesty, in love, in kindness and gentle accepting presence.  Hold yourself.  This is the path of learning, Being and doing.  It is for you to hold.

Next, leave off the small things, the petty things, leave off your past, leave off your friends, go to the core and stay only with the core that is you with you.

These are the important things: releasing the past, the familial linkages, the lineages, the bindings, the agreements.  You let go.

You can only do this work for yourself.  You cannot do it for others.  Only they can find this place of release for themselves.  They are much more likely to seek it and find it when they see, feel, and experience it in you.  So, your letting go is wholly healing.

Now, open your gates.  Open your inner sanctum of self.  You are asking to step forward into the fullness of your own soul embodied.  You are asking to be en-souled, in voice, in thought, in feeling, in body.  You are asking, in this life, to be fully present in your highest essence, in this body, in each moment.  You are asking to walk in this life fully awakened, aware, in each step finding and creating the true path of your unique essence.  You both offer yourself and invite your Self.

Prepared now, you call upon G-d, G-oddess, life force, essence, Being.  You call upon what is the IS; you call upon your G-d, ultimate essence. You invite, you ask, you call with your whole open heart for the Light of G-d to reside with you, in you, through you, to teach you, to guide you, to protect you, to hold you, to nourish you, to nurture you, to provide for you, to clear the path before you and make your steps strong and firms, to guide your thoughts, your feelings, your voice.  You invite all of this into your body, into your heart, into your life, and you surrender yourself to that Divine flow that all will become true and strong.  You ask G-d into your life fully, completely, embodied in every cell, thought, feeling, moment, and breath.

You hold loving space for yourself.

This Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 4:00p.m PST will be Circle with Our Friends.  Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this email to others, whether or not they already know Our Friends. 

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  You can come on the call as early as you wish.  The line will be available.  I will check in to see who is new to Our Friends, do a short introduction of myself and Our Friends then bring Our Friends in for the bulk of the call.  They will offer a short talk and then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will be recording the call.  If you would like to receive a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com. 

A suggested donation for the call is $25-$50.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can do so by logging in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540. 

 The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  You will be asked for an access code.  It is 363636#.

I am also available to provide private Our Friends’ Circle sessions for you and friends (generally $20/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $100 minimum,) as well as individual and couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390. 

I hope to meet you on the call this Sunday, December 15th at 4:00p.m. PST                

Love, Stephanie

 

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“Tides” Our Friends Circle Call November 10, 2013

Gaia's sky...a marvel of Creation between earth, sky and water...all in the making of Gaia...all held under her dome...

Gaia’s sky…a marvel of Creation between earth, sky and water…all in the making of Gaia…all held under her dome…

Our Friends Circle Talk
November 10, 2013

We will talk about how the energies work within each of you, about tides coming in and going back out within lives that shift and change.

Right now there is a lot of shifting happening in your world. The energetic shifts of your seasons are becoming more profound, more deeply felt inside each of you. Transformations feel more potent and challenges feel more intense. Gifts feel more poignant. It is fine tuning of the energies. Within your world there is a dissonance between the way your society and culture is still going about things, which is clunky — like a bull in a china shop — and the way in which the energies are shifting, working and weaving in your world, growing finer and finer.

There are times when you feel as though you are sitting in an audience where the violin section is playing a divine, blissful symphony, yet somehow the wind section seems to be trying to play by a completely different, chaotic rhythm, while the drum section is off somewhere else altogether. One part of your mind is trying to follow the sublime melody of the violin section, your other side feels wracked by the dissonance and cacophony coming from other parts of the orchestra. You feel this in your body, because your body responds to that very fine quality of energy and to the dissonant energy.

This is a place for breathing. It is a place for being willing to be present. This is a reverse kind of shifting, as the energies create very fine, beautiful melodies of what you would call a high vibration alongside the intensity of what you feel as a disruptive, clunky, unpleasant vibration. The fine vibration goes within and sifts upwards anything in you that is part of the cacophony, that is part of the dissonance. This would be anything that has been put away for a long time. It can be anger or grief. It can even be capped joy, capped loveliness, capped love and laughter. Any way you have been hiding something from yourself. The fine vibration with raise it up, and the intense cacophony will prevent you from covering it over again. So, in a sense, these vibrations are harmonious. Although it does not feel harmonious, these vibrations are acting in harmony to help you come clearer.

The only way to grow clearer is to stand in that experience, which can be at times exquisitely uncomfortable, breathe with it, allow to rise up what is there. Be a compassionate witness to yourself; speak to yourself with love. Speak to whatever is happening in your mind, your body, your emotions, your reactions, what you feel rising up that you might rather not be there. Speak with kindness, compassion and sweetness. Hold it all with loving kindness, even when you are tired and you would rather kick it away from you. Be present and breathe with whatever is. Know that whatever rises up will indeed pass away. It will pass away more fully and more quickly if you are able to not lock down against it, as you are able to breathe through it, as you are able to hold compassionate, loving presence with yourself.

When you are not holding a compassionate response to yourself, a loving response to yourself, you are automatically contracting and constricting. Constriction creates binding, binding creates further dissonance, and dissonance creates all kinds of pain. Breathe and be present.

There is pain that comes up that you can only breathe through, sometimes again and again; receive it as a teacher, listen with loving attention to yourself, to this pain. Let it soften and temper you. It is at your service, though it may not feel so to you in the moment. If you can be loving with yourself, you will begin to be able to inquire of and under the pain to a place where healing and release happen. You have to stay present and breathing to do this.

When you find it hard to bring yourself back to a place of breathing presence, know that resistance happens; there are times when it is very difficult, particularly in physical pain. It can also be very difficult in emotional pain or thought-form pain. All of these are times to wrap yourself in your own love, in your own angelic presence, give yourself profound love and kindness, call yourself whatever words of endearment are meaningful to you, that you can hear from you, that cause you to feel your shoulders relax, to feel that you have a bit more breathing room.

It is all an experience. Remember always that your experience is, in one sense, uniquely your own, so very personal to you. At the same time, your experience is always a human experience. Allow yourself to breathe into the truth that what you experience you share with all human beings. They may not all experience exactly what or as you do, but all human beings share experiences of both joy and pain, of love and fear. You are not personally singled out for either joy or suffering. You are not personally wrong to feel whatever it is you feel or to have whatever experience you are having. You are in the experience of being human, and you share that not only with all other human beings on the planet now, but with all who have ever been. In that there can always be a sense of connection and a sense of support. Remember, in this shared experience there is no blame or shame.

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Q & A with Stephanie about Our Friends

The closer we look, the more beauty we see. Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

The closer we look, the more beauty we see.
Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

This Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 4:00p.m PST will be Circle with Our Friends. Please see the end of this post for details.

Q & A with Stephanie about Our Friends (from a phone conversation)

How do Our Friends answer medical questions?

It varies from person to person.

It’s interesting to me, because when we started in 1989, I was incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of people asking any medical questions. We agreed they would always tell people “talk to your Doctor.” I didn’t want responsibility. I didn’t want people to listen to them and then not talk to their doctor. But what’s interesting to me, what’s impressed me over the years and has given me much more confidence in what they tell people, is they have a very clear delineation in the information they share. Sometimes they’ll say “Here’s what we see. If you’re still concerned, go to your Doctor and ask for the test.” Sometimes they’ll add “But we don’t see anything. It doesn’t look to us like there’s anything there. But if you’re concerned, go have it checked out, because the anxiety alone is not good for you.” At other times, they’ll say to people “Well, we’re not sure, but we see this. We don’t think it’s anything serious, but you might want to go have it checked.” And then there are other times when they say “You need to go to your Doctor and ask for this test and you need to do it now.” In every single one of these cases, there has been something seriously wrong and Our Friends nailed it.

One man came for a session with a primary medical question. I remember the image as Our Friends “read” his body. They looked at him and it was like they were using x-ray vision. They said to him “The woman doesn’t have medical knowledge,” which is true, I don’t, “so the best way we can describe what we’re seeing based on what is in her mind is to use the word ‘osteoporosis.’ Your bones look like Swiss cheese.” Our Friends said “You need to go to your Doctor and you need to ask for an X-ray right now.” He didn’t do it, because he thought “I’m 51 years old and I’m a man, and I couldn’t have osteoporosis.” Well, he had multiple myeloma. It was eating his bones. It leaches calcium out of the bones and so it causes osteoporosis.

With another person, whose sister was ill, the Doctors knew she had cancer, but they couldn’t figure out what kind. She talked to Our Friends and they said “The problem is that she has two or three different kinds of cancer, and they are interweaving. The doctors may never know precisely what’s what.” About a week and a half later this woman called me and said “Oh my God, we just got these reports from the Doctor and they’re saying that my sister has probably two or three different kinds of cancer and they don’t know if they’ll ever know.” It was exactly what Our Friends had told her.

So the evolution in Our Friends medical readings has been in you rather than them? How do they choose whether to focus on the physical or the emotional aspects of illness?

It’s been my ability to just let them say what they say, and over time they say things and they turn out to be right. I have learned to trust them.

Sometimes, with some people, they do focus more on the emotional aspect of illness. It varies for the person, depending on what they’re dealing with. I have a handful of clients who have been dealing with long illnesses over several years. Our Friends have helped them make some choices around their medical care, but also tried to work with them around the emotional aspects of it. Whether that’s emotional aspects that relate to the illness itself or in the case of a couple of people who were reaching the end of their life with their illness, trying to help them to deal with the emotional aspects of when and how do you let go, how do you make peace with that, how do you not judge and blame yourself. There’s just so much. They work with people in a lot of different ways and levels. It depends on the person and the situation, what’s happening, and what they read in the person’s energy and emotions.

How do they do it? Never having had a body, how do they know what’s going on with us and give such good guidance?

I have no idea how they do it either.

There have definitely been times when I’ve gotten mad at them, times when they were working with me on something and I’ve said “Well, you get down here and get a body, and then you talk to me about this!” Yet still, even at these times, their guidance was exactly what I needed. I was not ready to fully integrate it without resistance.

On the other hand, they have given me some absolutely incredible experiences of my body. They’ve come in, then brought me in with them, sharing the body-mind fully, and given me the ability to see, really, really see, not just an Auric field around plants and things, but to see that the physical body is actually an energy body…actually see that.

Sitting with a man I was in love with and doing a session for him. We had a very strong physical connection. We were in the yard, sitting in the sun and fresh breezes. When Our Friends came in, my body surprised them this time. They don’t have any of my history, my personal history, so when they came in and felt this aspect of physicality so fully, their reaction was something like “Whoa!!!” I was very aware of them suddenly really getting it “Oh! This is what being a woman is! And that’s what being a man is!” The incredible charge going back and forth between my body and his was for them a new experience. “Whoa! This is what this is like!” And the part of me that was aware was also amazed, “Oh my God! I haven’t even felt it like that!” And the thing was, my partner got it. When I came back, he said “Oh my God! I was almost feeling like I was cheating on you. The charge was so incredible! I was feeling like I wanted to ask her out!” So it is an amazing, amazing thing. I never know what I’m going to experience and learn.

How do Our Friends choose to begin a session? Is it always the same?

How a session begins depends on the person and the question. I never know. Sometimes they come in and just start talking. They can do that with someone they’ve never talked to before. I know they’re always aware when someone makes a session; I feel like usually they’ve arranged it. I feel like they are saying “This one, that one.” I’ve always said to them “You bring the people. You know who would be best for you to work with. I don’t choose. You choose.” Yet when I make an appointment time with someone, I always have the thought in my head of “OK Our Friends, please be sure you connect with this person.”

I’ve always, from the beginning, had people say to me, either, “I never opened my mouth beyond hello. They just started talking and when they finished, they’d answered most of my questions.” Or, “I asked my first question and 25 minutes later, when they stopped talking, they’d answered all the questions I had.” Other times, they come in and feel the person, feel the energy, but they either need for the person to get more comfortable so they ask them to talk a little, or they’re not sure what is the best way to talk about something. They need to discern what the person is conscious of, not conscious of, and so they’ll ask a person to ask questions, because it’s revealing the way a person asks a question and how they say what they say. Generally, their energy opens in that process, and it seems to help Our Friends recognize “Oh, OK, we need to go through this door rather than that door.”

It seems like you would learn a lot by being a channel?

It’s funny because I don’t remember the personal information of each person and what is shared for them. I choose not to remember for two reasons: I don’t want to carry around that much knowledge of other people’s inner workings (I don’t think it’s any of my business,) and it allows you to know that you are having a confidential session with Our Friends. I believe this allows people to be more open in their energy with Our Friends, and I know the more open a person’s energy, the more fully and deeply Our Friends can help, the more thorough the information they can give. You can only receive what you are open to, so how open you are makes a big difference. Our Friends honor, always, the sovereignty of each of us; this is energetic more than intellectual. People can believe themselves open to information, but if that is only an intellectual openness, not backed up by an energetic and emotional openness, Our Friends will not violate the big “No!” from the energetic/emotional self. There are times when people are not even aware of this “No” and will argue if Our Friends address it with them. How little we know ourselves at times.

Unless someone has had a lot of sessions with me, or if they go a long time between sessions – like a year or two or three – they’ll call me and I’ll think “Have I done a session for this person?” They’ll say “Oh, yes, we’ve done two or three.” For me it’s like “Oh, ok!”

I don’t remember that, but I do remember what I learn for myself. I remember the feeling of the energy. I remember if Our Friends travel to go find a loved one, living or dead, when asked. Images, felt senses, how Our Friends work with people, this I remember. It’s very interesting. Pretty cool. I wish I understood. I always say to people “If you ever meet someone who says they’re a channel and they claim to understand how they’re doing what they’re doing, don’t trust them. “ If they say they know how it works and what’s happening, no. They’re a fake. We don’t know. I know certain things. I’ve learned that who I am matters. I’ve learned that the quality of my heart matters, that how I honor Our Friends matters. I’ve learned that when I come to choices in my life, even some of the really hard choices, my core question has to be “What keeps me in alignment with Our Friends? What keeps me open to their energy and deepens our communion?“ That’s always my choice. It’s really very clear to me; I can always feel it. I don’t always understand it, but I can always feel it very clearly. I know all this matters, but the actual “How” of how it happens or where they come from or what they are, Whoa! You got me! It’s a mystery.

Who are Our Friends?

Some people have asked “Are you Stephanie’s Higher Self?” And Our Friends have said “No, not in any way you would understand that.” But they have said that the essential vibration of my Essence is of the same quality as theirs. They’ve talked about how there are different vibrations of different souls, and that the vibration of my soul is of a like vibration to theirs. And that’s why it’s easy for them to come through me.

One or two people have asked “Could you come through someone else?” Our Friends answer has been “We could, but you wouldn’t recognize us as the same energy, because the vehicle we come through is resonant with how you experience our energy.” And that would be me. They said “You might not recognize us.”

I’m happy to explain it a bit. It’s hard to know where to start in sharing my history with Our Friends, my experiences with them, all I have learned from them.

This Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 4:00p.m PST will be Circle with Our Friends.  Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this email to others, whether or not they already know Our Friends. 

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  You can come on the call as early as you wish.  The line will be available.  I will check in to see who is new to Our Friends, do a short introduction of myself and Our Friends then bring Our Friends in for the bulk of the call.  They will offer a short talk and then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will be recording the call.  If you would like to receive a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com. 

A suggested donation for the call is $25-$50.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can do so by logging in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540. 

 The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  You will be asked for an access code.  It is 363636#.

I am also available to provide private Our Friends’ Circle sessions for you and friends (generally $20/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $100 minimum,) as well as individual and couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390. 

I hope to meet you on the call this Sunday at 4:00p.m. PST                

Love, Stephanie

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On Longing

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An Audio File from Our Friends…”On Longing…” 

Please join us this Sunday, August 11th at 4:00p.m PST will be our next Circle with Our Friends. The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  You will be asked for an access code.  It is 363636#.  

Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this to others, whether or not they already know Our Friends.

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00 PST.  You can come on the call as early as you wish.  The line will be available.  I will check in to see who is new to Our Friends, do a short introduction of myself and Our Friends then bring Our Friends in for the bulk of the call.  They will offer a short talk and then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will be recording the call.  If you would like to receive a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com or the email listed above.

A suggested donation for the call is $15-$35.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can do so by logging in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540.

I am also available to provide private Our Friends’ Circle sessions for you and friends (a 90-minute session, normally $35 per person with a $150 minimum,) as well as individual or couple sessions (generally $125 or $175 for a 60-75 minute session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390.

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Next Our Friends Circle Call Sunday, June 30th 4:00p.m. PST

Sacred Counsel with Stephanie Nead
http://www.innerteacher.net
http://www.stephanieknead.com
stephanieknead@aol.com
541-292-9390

Rogue Valley Sunset in Fall...Nature's layers... By Stephanie K. Nead

By Stephanie K. Nead

Welcome to
Our Friends’ Circle

 Hello Friends,

Sunday, June 30th at 4:00p.m PST will be our next Circle with Our Friends.  Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this to others, whether or not they already know Our Friends.

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  You can come on the call as early as you wish.  The line will be available.  I will check in to see who is new to Our Friends, do a short introduction of myself and Our Friends then bring Our Friends in for the bulk of the call.  They will offer a short talk and then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will be recording the call.  If you would like to receive a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com or the email listed above.

A suggested donation for the call is $15-$35.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can do so by logging in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540.

I am also available to provide private Our Friends’ Circle sessions for you and friends (generally $35/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $150 minimum,) as well as individual or couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390.

The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  You will be asked for an access code.  It is 363636#.

 Many blessings to you,
I hope to meet you on the call Sunday, June 30th at 4:00p.m.!
Love,
Stephanie
 

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Conference Calling for Group Sessions

The closer we look, the more beauty we see.Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

The closer we look, the more beauty we see.
Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

For those of you who have asked about over-the-phone group sessions with Our Friends (or those who have thought about it,) I now have a free conferencing number, which will allow up to 1000 people on a call…so invite away!

I am able to record the call, then give all of you a phone and access number to listen to it at your leisure, with the ability to pause, rewind, fast forward.  It’s really quite amazing!  For those who have a way to record on their phones, you are welcome to record the call.  I will record it on my phone as well, and send it to anyone who wants a permanent copy if they send me their email address.  Off my phone, Our Friends voice will be the most prominent; how well other people’s voices come across will depend on their voice volume and the quality of their connection. 

I recommend that if people have a land line, they use it.  I do not recommend using skype for the call.  I use free conferencing for another group and the skype connections are very unpredictable.  If someone is going to use skype for the call, they should be in a place with the highest possible Internet speed and as many bars as possible.  Cell phones work just fine so long as the person sits in one place with good reception during the call.  Moving around you can hit a dead zone, or go frizzy on the rest of us, or lose the call, tho you can call back in.  I will ask people to mute their end unless they want to speak, otherwise there ends up being a lot of background “air” and sounds on the call.

I don’t need people to send questions in advance.  I’m not the one who’ll be answering.  Our Friends have their own ways of knowing in advance what the energy and needs of people are.  I trust them.

Group sessions generally run 1-1/2 – 2 hours, depending on what’s coming up with the group, the kinds of questions people ask, and how much information Our Friend’s sense the group can receive and integrate.

The number of participants is up to you.  5 – 25 is a good range for everyone getting their question(s) in.  Also, in circle, people find that someone else’s question, which sounds at first like nothing they will relate to, becomes an amazing learning as they listen.  Each question ends up applying in some way to all.  This is one of the most fun and amazing things about group sessions.

I will open with asking everyone’s name, where they are, what they are hoping for or what drew them to the call…this mostly just gives me, personally, a sense of creating the container for the group, allows me to let go knowing there is a space already present and a cohesive connection to the group…much like at a live group when everyone comes in and chats, getting comfortable before we start.  I will give people the opportunity to ask me any questions they might have about myself, my relationship with Our Friend’s, about my experience of channeling. (I will do this at the end as well, as often people’s curiosity is stimulated by their experience with Our Friends. Most people start out skeptical to greater or lesser degrees; it’s only after they’ve experienced Our Friends that they are really open and curious about how we came to be and how I experience them.  I’m happy to answer these questions.)  The opening should run about 15-30 minutes.  Then Our Friends come in.  They will greet you all and go from there.  They will decide whether to speak first…doing a “spiel,” as they do with in-person groups, which often propels the group forward in powerful ways…or simply go to your questions. 

Short form:
Meet and greet, invite questions for me:  15-30 minutes
Our Friends Session:                                   75-90 minutes
Follow-up questions for me:      As long as people have questions, I’ll stay on and answer.
 
Email me at stephanieknead@aol.com.  Let me know what you’re thinking in terms of a date and time, and we’ll coordinate.
I’m looking forward to this!
Love,
Stephanie                    stephanieknead@aol.com