celebration

we are planning a celebration of millie next wednesday at 12:30pm.  please feel free to join us if you are so moved.  directions can be found on the clinic website at harmonyanimalwellness.com.

in other news, she is not done with us, and there will be more millie wisdom forthcoming.

peace & harmony to you.

lifetimes

millie shows me telescoping shapes, like the folded paper people cut outs we did as kids, all the same rough shape and linked together by the hands and feet.  only she showed me telescoping cat shapes first, shaped like her, unfolding from somewhere inside her and then collapsing back into her, glowing gold and becoming one thing, becoming a whole, becoming her.  I didn't understand it until she showed me the same thing with human shapes, unfolding then collapsing into one glowing gold form.

"these are lifetimes.  each one is distinct, each one is unique, but all of your lifetimes, past and future, come together in you. you are a product of all of your lifetimes, inseparable from them."

she then shows me a tapestry with two threads highlighted in gold, coming from different directions and then twirling around each other for a span.

"this is you and I.  we are meant to be.  we wove ourselves together in order to create this connection, this magic."

there is an overwhelming sense of freedom about the tapestry, not a feeling I usually associate with weavings, frankly.  but each thread in this one is completely free to choose its path, to weave alongside another or not, to travel horizontally or not, even to end.  she showed me some that have ended.

"we are all completely free to do whatever we choose.  our destiny is our own.  our path is up to us.  the tapestry just is, encompassing all, with room for any and every choice that has ever or will ever be made."

millie, I cannot express in words how much I love you and what a gift your presence in my life is.

millie

millie left her body today around lunchtime.  she was herself this morning, hanging out in her favorite spots, supervising us as we went about our day.  she didn't eat yesterday or this morning, and she didn't greet us at the door when we came in this morning, so we had an inkling that something was amiss, but we weren't expecting this.  we aren't sure exactly what happened, perhaps a stroke, perhaps a blood clot.  the end came quickly.

I was in the office a lot this past weekend, and I did talk to millie on both days.  last night I posted what she told me on saturday.  this next post is what she told me last night.  how prophetic it was.

I have no idea what will happen now.  I have spoken to animals who have passed, so I know it is possible. if millie continues to speak to me, I will continue to share it with you.

peace and harmony to you all.

christi

fireworks

millie shows me a human facing a wall.  all they can see is a big white wall.  then she zooms out a little and the human is standing at the base of a very tall cone, so close that they can't see around it in any direction.  the base is wide and the cone is about ten times the height of the human.  from their position, it looks like an insurmountable wall.  she zooms out some more and there are many of these cones, all with humans pressing their noses against the base.

"remember?"

yes.  this is about flow.  right now, there isn't any water in sight, no flow at all.  but I remember her lesson about the mountains in the river...  as the flow increases, the resistance decreases exponentially, because the mountains (and the cones) are narrower at the top.  you get a lot of pay-off for increasing flow even a little bit.  I remember.  I just don't know how to put it on command.

then the picture shifts to one of those fireworks that have the curly spiral that shoots upward.  the firework explodes, sparks fly and the spiral just takes off, whistling like crazy as it zooms through the air.  she keeps showing me the same firework exploding over and over.

"you all have your personal fireworks.  things that set you off.  things that send you spiraling out of control, emotionally, energetically.  you don't have to ignite them.  you can turn your attention, your energy away from the fireworks that you set off repeatedly in yourself.  your focus is the match.  take your focus away from your personal fireworks *before* they ignite, before they explode, before they go spiraling out of control."

wow.  that is a powerful idea.  I think I can do that.

thank you, millie.

creativity

millie shows me a human figure with beautiful flowers bursting out of the chest, flowing from the ears, appearing from what seems to be nowhere and filling the space all around the person.

"you need to let your creativity flow.  it wants to be free.  it wants to be manifest."


how do I let it flow?

she shows me the same human figure, carefully and methodically setting a brick on top of each flower as it appears, crushing it.

"all you need to do is stop stifling it.  you are all amazingly creative creatures.  you are powerful.  get out of  your own way.  unleash your creative powers.  the bricks are all of the things you block yourself with, all of the ways you tell yourself no, shouldn't, mustn't, can't.  allow yourself, free yourself, create your world and let it flow.  it takes more effort to block your creativity than to release it and allow it to move freely."


she shows me the human figure again, now resting on the ground, totally at ease.  flowers are growing from the figure, sprouting up from every surface, without any effort, just growing like crazy.

"it doesn't have to be hard.  let it be easy."


thank you, millie.

lighten your load

I was feeling kind of low, so I asked millie for some advice.  she showed me a canoe, sitting very low in the water.  I was sitting in the canoe and there was a feeling of heaviness that came with the picture.

"look in the boat.  do you see all the dark, heavy objects?"

yes.

"that is what is weighing you down.  start to fill your boat with love and light and it will displace the darkness."

but what are the dark objects?  don't I need to know what they are before I get rid of them?

"no.  just pour golden light into the canoe, let it lift the dark objects out and they will float away on the current.  you don't need to know what is weighing you down to let it go.  obsessing about your troubles only makes them more pronounced.  your focus and energy are better spent in filling your space with love and light."

thank you, millie.

jump off the boat

I am still feeling somewhat overwhelmed by life these days, by the demands on my time and my apparent inability to make time for me.  I asked millie for help.  she shows me a small sailboat being tossed and buffeted by large white-capped waves in a somewhat stormy sea.  it's a pretty accurate portrayal of how I'm feeling.

the boat is me?

"you are on the boat."

why is the water so rough?

"because you are fighting it.  the boat represents the 'stuff' that humans construct around them to separate themselves from the flow.  the water is flow.  it can be gentle and easy or it can be rough, your choice."

she shows me dashing about on the sailboat, trimming sails, tying off lines, turning the rudder this way and that way, frantically trying to stay afloat and keep the boat headed where I want to go, as the waves crash into it and push it off course.  

all of the tasks, all of the things that I think I must do on the boat, those are all an illusion?

"yes."

what do I do?  if I stop sailing, won't I drown?

"you can't drown.  you and the water are the same.  you are part of the flow."

so what do I do?

"jump off the boat.  jump into the water."

she shows me swimming underwater with no apparent need to breathe, and then floating on the surface, completely relaxed.  


I am afraid of the water, I am afraid to leave the boat.  how do I overcome that fear?

"live in the moment.  stop living for the next.  be present now.  keep your focus now.  the flow will happen."

and I won't need the boat?

"correct."

thank you, millie.