By Bart Sharp

Stay as present as you can in the moment.

If something bothers you, find it, resolve it and feel complete. Creativity bounds in the attitude of wholeness.

Nothing stops the flow more than emotional obstacles.

Listen with more than your ears as the world is ready to give you the inspirations that you are ready to receive.

Stay curious.

Nothing is good or bad but it may have a message for you.

Cats, animals, nature, children and anything else are our teachers.

We never know it all; give up being the authority.

Creativity has an energetic feeling, when you fine tune into it you will find writing has a different energy than painting or gardening or socializing or dancing.  Follow the energy to your activity as it comes up or create the energy to the activity you desire.

If you dread something do not postpone it, procrastination is a killer of creativity spreading to all areas of living.

By Bart Sharp

I was visiting a fellow intuitive healer at a metaphysical fair that we were both vending.  As I listened to his stories of how life has been a struggle it seemed so odd because he is such a powerful man. It was hard to believe that everyday challenges would be such a weight for him.

This is such a common perspective for so many people in that they never feel they have enough.  Almost always the feeling there is something lacking in their life looms in their mind.  It is so ironic that the richest nation in history has a large part of its population believing in a prosperity deficiency.  This feeling of lack has nothing to do with financial security but has a base in emotional insecurity with its roots in toxic shame.

What my friend suffers from originates in childhood when he was emotionally neglected by his parents who did not know how to nurture and love their children.  Instead their negativity created a perspective of lesser self worth as the family was enmeshed in a toxic shame family setting.  The entire family dynamics was demeaning to everyone and became one of the main if not the main reference point to how they saw themselves and created their life from.  The toxic shame family reinforced the idea in all of what they did.   They could not create as well as others, or receive all that they deserved.

Whenever the shamed family member had failures in their life the shamed perspective was reinforced again with the unconscious message they deserved such mishaps in their life.  Just as my friend had manifested this negating weight it directed his mindset to the belief that life was such a struggle.  This unconscious presence subtly dominated his life.

The mindset that life is a struggle redirects the shame based person to a familiar construct or belief of: “that is how my life works”.  Each failure or struggle reinforces the belief and attracts more of the same limiting outcome.

Trying harder to create more prosperity works and break out of our ongoing struggles works better if we begin the process of healing shame.  When we can release shame and come to grace with our selves, family, we begin building more self love and create a new power or reality for our unconsciousness around shame and self-worth.  Receiving prosperity has a new perspective.

By Bart Sharp

At he end of a weekly session with one of my clients, who insisted that I go outside and see his new car.  Carried by his enthusiasm I went outside to see his new automobile.  Being that I am not a ‘car person’ this was not an event for me.  But I wanted to support this man so off I went.

Outside under a heavily shaded tree in my front yard sat a bright cerulean blue Corvette Stingray.  My jaw dropped in amazement.  It was beautiful.  I was never a fan of Stingrays but I immediately fell in love with this beautiful machine as my client proudly showed off his pride and joy.

As I marveled at my first close-up experience with a Corvette I was at the crossroads of a choice.  Should I be envious of someone who had something that I had suddenly wanted or do I join my friend in his gain.

I received a tremendous gift by joining in with the new ‘vette’ owner.  I got to be a part of his excitement.  If I had judged him there would have been a separation with me from myself and with my client’s joy.  In essence I would have missed out.

By joining my client’s excitement I opened the opportunity to receive the gift of the joy that owning something you love can create.  All I had to do was join in with my client’s excitement.  I was happy to get to take that energy he possessed into my life and apply to what I create. Each time he comes over I get to see the Corvette and share in that excitement again.

Joy and receiving are a reciprocal process.  We can decide to have it, share it and give it out; the cycle that creates the opportunity for us to receive more of it.  We can be a part of that gathering wave that never ends into a shore.

By Bart Sharp

If you build it, they will come.  Still a popular quote, even today twenty years later, from the motion picture “Field Of Dreams”.   It is a very valid principal with varieties of applications.

For example in business when someone builds a type of new business it may seem foreign to most people at first.  But the more the concept grows people do come.  The consciousness is created and the more it is nourished the power of the attraction builds.

In the conservative town of Bryan, Texas a woman opened an eclectic style art gallery.  At first it struggled but the owner strongly believed in her store, she continued to build it.  Her passion was infectious and within months she had a steady customer base.  It even caught on bigger when a second eclectic art gallery open.  They did not split the customers in fact it brought in more people to the first store, the second store grew as well.  A taste in alternative art was fostered in an unexpected place because someone believed, had passion and persistency.

In the area of becoming more conscious we need to believe we can change, keep doing the things that make it grow and be passionate about ourselves.  Our willingness to love us is the seed that makes us desire to create more in our lives.  Self-love is our natural resource to pull from in creating our dreams.  If we love us we intrinsically know we deserve the happiness of our dreams fulfilled.  That is the impetus of power for making a dream.  Then we need to do the things to make it happen.

By Bart Sharp

I was cleaning my kitchen the other day and my thoughts drifted while working. I am an intuitive healer and have spent the last year teaching various classes on releasing suppressed anger and rage. I wondered if I should continue to focus on the issues of anger as powerful as the classes had been, it had been over a year of various classes on the same topic. In a relaxed state of mind not expecting any response I asked, “God, is it time for me to move on?” I continued to clean and my thoughts wondered.

About three minutes passed and the phone rang. It was a new client who wanted to work on suppressed issues of anger. The answer was pretty clear, keep doing what I am doing. God does work in mysterious ways. I do not know exactly the answer. Does god exist beyond me, or in everything around me, within me, or all of the above? All I know is god or goddess works for me.

As an intuitive I can perceive energy in almost anything from plants, to people, to written words, to computers and homes. Everything is energy. We all have this innate ability to perceive energy. Through the years I have been able to hone this tool to a very fine skill. 

One day I asked to perceive the energy of god. Not knowing what to expect I found that there was no energetic response, surprising there was nothing to perceive for something that is overwhelmingly potent. As I observed closer I saw it was not a flat energy but felt so tiny that I could only perceive the smallest fluxuation of energy. So subtle but at the same time flowing into everything, everywhere. In my interesting point of view I was only getting of glimpse of what was really there.

I have been in the presence of a few evolved people and their energy is very light. It is powerful but so minute with so little resistance and such a dynamic vibration at the same time.

I know that I am only feeling a hint of what god’s presence is. This is a process that is developing for me and for everyone else. It is quiet and hidden yet interwoven into everything. Or this is what I suspect.

When I perceive the energy of the forest is the closest that I can perceive god. It is a lighter energy that has no resistance that travels through all living matter. Since it all of the living including the rocks, it is everywhere. It is like a blueprint of life that exists at a particulate level. 

I do not know if god is that, nature. Maybe god has a thousand different faces? I wonder what the saints of various religions and cultures perceived god as? Were they once common people just like me that evolved? Did people like Saint Francis of Assisi or other saints tune into the subtle energy of god? Or were they oblivious and totally mental with it? Were the perceptions of what god’s energy is, inconsequential? 

Do any of our past holy people feel a presence so subtle yet overpoweringly present? I wonder. Maybe the relationship with god is constantly changing with the consciousness of the people on the planet? As we evolve, god’s communications change.

When I contemplate this I am humbled. At the same time it is an exciting that consciousness of people on the planet is growing. If I can perceive energies of the fabric of particulate energies that is the god-like energy I know that thousands to maybe millions of others are doing the same in their own way around the world. More importantly there are millions of others who are turning the corner to be able to perceive it. Then they are thousands of others who are far beyond me. The important message is that whatever we are aware of, we create that consciousness into the world. A lighter vibration is here and getting stronger.

For now I will stay with simpler terms. I believe. I ask. I deserve to receive. I remain clear as I can. I grow. God works in my life.

By Bart Sharp

As adults we often have a different perspective than children do with the world of play.  We adults use play as forms of exercise, sports, competition, self-improvement and the most popular stress relief.     In the strategy of play as stress relief we have fun and/or are entertained as a way to escape our adult world.  It also serves us in that we adjust out of the tensions that our body is locked in to soothe us, relax.  It creates excitement within us that is energizing.  We need to play.

There is much that adults can expand upon in the ways a child plays.  Children play in a more creative way.  They are open to experience playful fun in a wider variety of ways.  They relish it.  A child has a more concentric point of view towards play in that they do it in 360 degree perspective where as adults lean to a more linear perspective, “I play when I bicycle and meet-up with my friends.  When I work I only work.”

A normal child can find play in almost any situation.  They crave it and intrinsically know that it is very important.

What we can learn from children is how creativity is an integral part of play.  It is an important vehicle to explore, imagine, build and be sensual.  We forget the creative side of play by doing things like painting, photography, building a decorative garden or writing a story for pleasure.  It ignites something inside of us that turns us on to living.  When we are turned on in such ways we become more opened, curious and less predictable.

How many adults do you know that do not play well are frightfully boring?   How many adults do not seek play intrinsically but wish to be entertained?  We often misidentify that we need to seek entertainment outside of us instead of activating our creativity within and as a result our selves to find something better than entertainment, joyful satisfaction.

Sometimes it feels good to do sensual playful things, to simply rub our bare feet on the warm earth.  Walk in the rain or snow. Sensuality is an important part of play.  How many adults would relish walking barefoot in the mud and enjoy the squishy sensations between out toes.  Yet if we had that attitude would lovemaking be different.

As adults we would be more whole persons if we sought play and relaxation too not only fulfill our adult needs but the child within us as well.

By Bart Sharp

Sometimes relationship teaches us lessons that we would never imagine, it is the beauty of it.  To receive the gifts that relationship may offer generally requires us to listen beyond our ears.  To listen with our heart may be one of our best tools to perceive what is occurring with the one we are relating to.

I was once in relationship with a woman who was quick to become angry and would often verbally confront me for a variety of reasons. It was often for the smallest things. Although I cared for this person it was painful relating in such an aggressive way. Of course I would not have attracted such a person in my life if I did not wish to confront this.

When my girlfriend would become angry my immediate reaction was to defend myself. My mind would start to beginning trying to find reasons why it wasn’t my fault. I would go into my head and a process of insulation would occur while I planned my response. My body seemed to lock up and what arguments that I could present were never that powerful.  It became a force vs force situation.

A friend suggested that I try to let down my defenses when someone attacks. Ultimately no one can really hurt you with aggressions. If we look at our selves from the perspective within our soul is someone who is truly expanded in an infinite great way no one can really harm that within. Yes they may physically hurt your body or bruise your ego but the spirit within can never be damaged. All of us have this kind of greatness deep within us as our core being.

The next time that my girlfriend became angry I was fortunate enough to remember what my friend said. I stopped my calculating mind from reacting. I paid attention to what my body habitually was doing around aggressive people. I perceived energy like a wall that was around me that was building up in reacting to her.

I simply asked my body to let the wall down.  Immediately the defensive energy dissipated. Next I sat and listened to my girlfriend express her anger. My mind was not plotting my rebuttle but focused on her. I listened but what I heard was beyond my own personal references. What I heard was her feelings beyond the story she was expressing. I was hearing her pain, her fears and insights of how they came to be.

I was actually listening with my heart and not my head.

When I finally spoke it from a different perspective. I said, “It sounds like you are in a lot of pain with this?” 

She felt heard and suddenly a potential argument was transformed to us being on the same side.  It was a huge lesson for me. It showed me how my own defensive posturing shut so much out of my life. I could be aware of and receive so much more.

There are three aspects in listening with your heart:

It begins as a cognitive recognition that you wish to let down your defenses. In addition, to tell your body to let down your defenses in each stressful situation.

Secondly pay attention to the sensations in your body. When your defenses go up you may feel the focus go straight up into your head and/or your body tense in some way. When we let our defenses down the focus goes out of our head into a more relaxed whole body awareness. We are more open in perceiving our environment.

Thirdly feel the energy around, outside your body. When I ask my body to let down my defenses I perceive the space surrounding my body get lighter.

As an experiment.  Think of an experience or situation that is stressful. Pay attention of the sensations that occur inside of you and surrounding you. This gives you an ideal of where you tense, how your mind feels when defensive and see if you can be aware of the sensations outside of your body. This gives you an ideal of what you experience in real stressful situations. Of course it is probably more intense in the present moment of the conflict. Then simply ask your defenses to come down, relax your mind and allow the body to follow. Practicing can be very helpful if you have difficulty feeling your body processing.

When we fall into those conflicts when our defenses go up those situations most likely has occurred many times before. We have trained our body to go into fight or flight. It takes real presence in your self to begin to break the habit. Reliving old conflicts or requesting your body to do it differently may be a good way to begin reorienting our selves.

I like to live my life in the non-defensive perspective. It is supporting the reality that I am truly infinite and nothing can truly hurt me so I do not need to defensive systems to protect me. The thing about defensiveness is that it is an automatic system that turns on to begin a chain reaction of events that narrows us into a thinking and attacking mentality. It diverts us from being aware of what is really going on in a situation. We stop listening with our heart and begin thinking in a defensive reaction.

A good practice is to let down our defenses where ever we go. You will enjoy the relaxed posture instead of the stress that most others function in. The more that we stay non-defensive we find that we receive more.  Obviously so because the defensive barriers that we create also do not let other energies inside of us.  When we are defensive we block our selves from all.  Everything on the planet emanates some kind of energy so we are not receiving all of what we can have. We are disconnecting ourselves from the world around us by being defensive. When we do open ourselves we see our generous the world really is which opens us to the same state of being.

When we are in a non-defensive frame of awareness we are opened to receive.  We see situations and life in a different way.  It seems like less bothers us. Opportunities may arise that were not there before because we are energetically pulling them to us instead of blocking them out with a defensive attitude.  Staying opened and staying opening in our heart can change our life.

By Bart Sharp

When I talk to people about what they would like to create in their life so many begin to talk about things that they would like to have.  It sometimes comes from a perspective of becoming more aware, having more inner freedom and it should bring more money in their life.  So many people say, “If I am creating a magical life why not create more money?”

It is a good question but being rich has many judgments about it from the individual standpoint, from people around the world and through out history.  Due to its place of significant importance around the planet it can be difficult to make big changes in short amounts of time.

Instead of making money our measuring stick to determine if we are more aware or successful; what if we look to various areas of our life instead.  Wealth is a holistic way of being.  To begin it might be good to look at some of the attitudes we have that prevent us from receiving more of life.

To change our perspectives around wealth it may be wiser to look at how much of our life do we feel happy and complete about.  How much of the time are we satisfied with our selves?  How much of the time are we doubtful that we are good enough for others?  How much of the time do we spend blaming others for our struggles?  How much of our time are we resenting others?  Just to name a few considerations of where our energy may be going instead of creating transformation in our life.

If we are recreating negativity in our life we are sending our life force to those self-defeating endeavors.  They could be used as an energy to generate something of a more productive intention.  It is one of the keys in creating our dreams.  Directing where our intention is going in every single moment of the day in a way that creates growth for us.  One of our true life goals.

If we learn to grow within ourselves, to be able to center our intentions to our dreams we will create more of what we desire.  It might come in the ways of wealth or it may be something else.  Every individual is different so there is no set formula or procedure.

I bring the focus to becoming more aware.  It is generally a process of identification of my limitations, processing them and allowing them to transform.  It brings in a new space for something to grow in my life.  Then I like to follow what is exciting for me and develop it with a passion.  It is funny but I seem to receive more of everything in life when I am true to this formula and am guided by my bliss.  It is like a message to a greater source that I am whole and deserve everything in life that wholeness has to offer.  It comes in a variety of ways and money is one of them.

It all begins by listening within and the wide variety of riches follows.

By Bart Sharp

Our essence is an energetic being. When our body is dead and dust the energy of us lives on as an etheric or soul self.  I once grappled with this concept of what a soul is and how it benefits me in this reality.  A soul is an energetic being of us and it creates an effect in this reality, positive or negative.

Our essence is energy and we take that energy wherever we place our intention.  For example it is a proven fact that those who think good thoughts to their plants have a more pronounced growth in the plant.  A friend of mine sends loving thoughts to her clients and they call her for appointment more regularly.  If we judge others negatively creates that energy to the other person.

A friend, who is a sensitive, feels when ever I am distressed or judging as a discomfort in her heart of stomach.  At first she thought that I was angry at her but I was reliving past resentments that I had yet to resolve.  It really opened my eyes how my unresolved past angers and abuses effect the world around me on an energetic level.  In addition I used to work as a teacher for handicapped students whom many had histories of abuse, the unresolved trauma was absorbed in my body and no wonder why everybody termed it as a stressful job.  Of course my friend wondered why my body was in such stress while I was at work until she met my students.

The point is energies of other people are abound in our lives, they can be a conscious or unconscious influence in our life.  I had recently taught a communion with nature class and for most of the class I felt a discomfort in my heart, like the feeling that I experienced in my our heart as a kid when I was in trouble.  I knew this energy was not mine but one of my students as she had a history of trauma or abuse.  When I was aware of it and allowed it to be it felt more comfortable.  The traumas that we have not resolved are still in us and vibrate an energy, we may not feel it because we have suppressed it and have acclimated to it.

Almost everyone on the planet has personal issues that are suppressed that they carry in their everyday lives.  It unconsciously influences their lives and others around them.  Carl Jung said that people resolving their conflicts was the only hope that we having in saving this world.  I agree wholeheartedly.

The spiritual path is being aware and resolving what is within us.  That is the core of empowerment.  You being free of your anger, rage, grief and fears to live in the present in a whole self.  In that level of consciousness we are an expanded energy that creates change of everything around us.

Of course changing you completely is quite a tall order.  It is an ongoing process.  But just for today I invite you to be open to change.  To stop everyday and reflect about what distresses you.  Ask yourself is the stress that I am experiencing today have an origin from my past?  While doing this feel the tension, distress, heaviness in your body.  If you feel it while you are reliving these experiences it is how your body is telling you where the energetic memory of this stress lives in you.  Explore the heavy spot, be present with it and allow it to be in you with no judgment of it.  Give it the attention that it needs as that is part of the healing process.  You may find the origins of your pains beginning in infancy, treat that heaviness like a infant would need to be treated, with nurturance.

For this week I invite you to sit everyday and process you for a short period.  Process what occurred in your life.  Do not judge it as bad or wrong but as an energy.  Give it your full nurturing attention.

These energies will begin to release its hold on you when you mentally and energetically process them.

When you release your fears a new freedom shows up for you.  A new energy and more of it as your body is not having to fuel the old fear anymore.  Wholeness is a gift for you that everyone benefits from.

By Bart Sharp

What if making money and fun were commonly known as going together instead of hardship, work and prosperity?  What paradigms would we have to shift?

What hardships would we have to reconfigure and/or let go of to have a world where fun, prosperity and all went together easily?  For one thing we would have to give up a lot of judgments we have made about work and look at every moment of our life with lightness and curiosity.

Curiosity is a funny thing.  We lose it when we make assumptions about our mundane world.  Instead could we enjoy doing the same things everyday?  If we did it that what before we knew it we would have curiosity and openness back in the moment?

One aspect of maintaining curiosity is, always be willing to maintain a keen sense of observation.  It keeps you open to seeing things you never seen before.

I see observation as a muscle that we build.

As children if we are allowed to explore, create and adore for it we will have a stronger power of observation.

If we use all of our senses and perceive beyond our senses as much as we can to perceive our surroundings we open to something greater.  It is a message to our own body we desire much more input. Our body will respond  by showing us more abilities that we already innately have. It is a process of asking, listening within, and observing resulting in more intuitive abilities.  The world can be a very exciting place.

It all begins with curiosity, willingness to be more and building the muscles of perception.  Turn on, Tune into a expanded reality, drop into a great adventure.