Countdown to Bermuda: Taper Time - A Time for Reflection

I had a most remarkable day yesterday. Since I decided to immerse myself in my healing journey during the 2nd half of 2017 and for 2018, I joined Dr. Joe Dispenza's Teleclass Calls. It was supposed to happen last Thursday. There was technical difficulty and the call had to be rescheduled. Last Thursday right before the call I discovered a leak in my basement so my full attention wasn't focused on the call. I decided that I would wait to ask my question of Dr. Joe since it was a full hour of Q & A. When the call was rescheduled I went about addressing the leak.

Side bar - The leak was a result of our dishwasher. The old linoleum floor that I'd been wanting to replace is now going to need to be replaced and the insurance money will pay for it. We probably won't even have a deductible since our insurance company will ask the maker of the dishwasher to reimburse them for damages. That's how I co-created kitchen renovations with the Divine.

I began to imagine connecting with Dr. Joe and asking about what was happening to me in my recent meditations using Blessing of the Energy Centers wondering if other students experienced it and what might account for the phenomenon.

This morning on Facebook, this blog post came up in my memory feed from 2 years ago.

One of my favorite quotes is a part of this blog:


It took me back to taper time for Bermuda Half Marathon 2016 which was my first endurance race after the 2009 Boston Marathon.

It reflected on how I came to know the work of Dr. Joe and how, despite all outward appearances, I would not quit on my healing journey.

I had thought a lot about asking Dr. Joe my question and then just turning it over to the Universe.

I was on several calls yesterday with contractors and the insurance adjuster, one of which took me right up to the time of the teleclass. I dialed in and took a deep breath settling down to focus my attention on the call.

After Adam welcomed us to the call I hit "1" signaling I had a question for Dr. Joe.

I was the first person he called on.

What followed was a mystical experience for me as Dr. Joe talked about what he's seen through the years when his students meditate but more important than the phenomenon is my intention during the meditation. His compassion warmed my heart and soul. He made some suggestions for me that I took with me into my evening meditation.

After our Blessing of the Energy Centers meditation, I tried to fall asleep but instead fell into another meditation. It was life changing for me. I have no idea of the sequence of events because I was in the quantum field but I found myself crying, I'm free. I'm free. I'm free. Energy shifted, awareness came pouring through me. I felt a powerful connection to Dr. Joe healing his spinal cord after his accident.

I tried to fall asleep but I was too energized and exhilarated by what had happened. I journaled about the experience.

Suddenly the fact that I am running the Bermuda Half Marathon a week from Sunday paled in comparison to who I am becoming in my life. I am breaking free from my past, co-creating healing with the Divine Mind and opening up to so many possibilities for the highest good. I am letting people know what's possible when you open your heart and your mind and surrender. I've lived through horrific conditions and I've learned from Dr. Joe that it is more important to invest in your future than continue to relive your past.

I'm enjoying this taper time to reflect on my journey healing the effects of paralytic polio and trauma. It's a lot of work and takes dedication, commitment and passion. The results are so worth it as I get myself together mind, body and soul for Team McManus' triumphant comeback endurance race, the Bermuda Half Marathon on 1/14/18.

To going the distance with strength and courage!
From my heart to yours,
Mary

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Feel the Heal: An Anthology of Poems to Heal Your Life


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Remember to Remember & Live As If Your Prayers Are Already Answered

During this morning's meditation, the phrase "Remember to remember" came to me. Remember who we are at our very essence and to remember to tap into that connection when things look like the wheels may be falling off the wagon.

There is going to be a replay of Project Coherence next Sunday and I'm looking forward to tapping into the Divine and the feelings of expansiveness that I was able to access during the meditation feeling the beauty, wonder and awe of being connected to 4000 souls across the globe. Whenever I meditate and whenever I meditate with Tom or a community I remember something far greater than myself yet that is the Force that is right inside of myself and each of us that we can all tap into when we step aside and allow the magic to happen.

During my meditation I remembered an incredible moment with Dr. Ryan Means or Dr. Ryan as he likes to be called. He was helping me recover from my knee injury earlier this year and was using the Graston Technique on my feet. I made a strong nonverbal comment and he asked me if he was using too much pressure.

"No," I said emphatically. "I just remembered how it felt to train for and run a marathon."

Ryan smiled and his eyes sparkled.

His hands reignited the spark within me to set goals not limits.

I remembered!

And here I am steadily moving forward to the Bermuda Marathon Weekend in January.

By all appearances I should have hung up my running shoes or capped my distance at a 5K. After working with Ryan and now Ryan sending me positive energy from across the miles in China, meditating with gratitude and runner affirmations, the love and support of my village along with me reminding myself to remember to remember, I will soon be in double digits in miles.

It's easy to get swept up in the fear and the nay sayers of the medical community. It's easy to forget the power that we have inside of us.

But when we remember to remember, all things are possible despite outward appearances.

Through my poetry, through my unconscious speaking through the power of my pen - my divining rod of healing - I was creating health, wholeness, running unencumbered and free and reclaiming my life. I did not know the who,how, when, what or where it was going to happen but I lived as if my prayers were already answered - and now they are!

I was searching on YouTube for the song It's Possible from Cinderella and instead this clip from a talk by Dr. Joe Dispenza popped up:



Remember to remember! The Universe is always speaking to us especially when we live as if our prayers are already answered.