Attending my first Inner Diamond class in 2001, I began learning about something called the 24 Quantum Colors of the Universe. I learned that each color had a quality or Universal Principal and when you connect with it and embody it, it creates a stronger connection with both the color and the quality.

It was 2001 and I had been doing a type of meditation for eight years and realized at a certain point, that my life had not changed significantly in those eight years … not the way I had hoped, anyway. I began searching for a meditation that could transform the emotional patterns that I felt were controlling my life. And I wanted a meditation that could quiet my mind for more than 20 minutes a day.

Fifteen years ago, when having a heart-to-heart conversation with my oldest daughter, she confided in me something from her childhood. She told me that she felt like I wasn’t very present for her growing up. And as much as it saddened me, I had to agree with her.

Do you watch your grandchildren at play or engage in play with them?  What do they love to play?  Kids are engaged in a lot of different activities, but is there one that stands out?

My grandchildren are now in their teens and twenties and as I look back on each of their lives, I can now see what they played at a young age was a clue to what they are currently doing in their lives.

Do you remember having an imaginary friend growing up? Many children do and they usually talk about this friend until the age of 6 or 7.

Many children, before the age of 7, are very connected with the non-visible world and just because we cannot see, hear or feel what they are experiencing, doesn’t mean it isn’t real for them.

Grandmothers play a very important role in the family, not only on a physical level, but on an energetic and spiritual level as well.

We all are very familiar with our five physical senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. But do you know that these senses also exist beyond the physical?

You may have heard someone refer to our experience on this planet as multi-dimensional or that we are ourselves multi-dimensional beings. We are, in fact, living in a multi-dimensional world and a multi-dimensional universe.

Years ago, if someone would have asked me what an enlightened person looked like, I would have described someone who lived in a temple or on a mountain top and who prayed or meditated most of the day.

When you think of standing at the top of a mountain, what do you think of?

At the top of the mountain, there is amazing light and prana available for everyone and this is always incredibly uplifting.

Have you ever felt like you were moving through mud? That nothing you did or felt or experienced held any joy or lightness?

Welcome to one of your valleys!

An important aspect of enlightenment is the return to wholeness or oneness.

It makes sense that a part of your journey to enlightenment is finding and reclaiming those pieces of yourself that are part of the oneness or wholeness of who you came here to be. As a soul incarnates into a body, it does not do so all at once.