What is your real life? 

Is is the life you spend in the "real" world, doing things, working jobs, thinking thoughts?
Or is it the life you spend in the inner world, being in touch with yourself as a soul?

Mainstream society teaches us that the "real" world is real, and the inner world doesn't really count for much—it's just emotions and feelings that aren't "real". 

But the spiritual perspective says that the inner world—the world you inhabit as a soul, the portals you visit, the dreams you inhabit, the dimensions you are continually sliding between—that this world is the true world. 

The truth is, you get to choose. You can live in the logical, rational, mainstream "real" world that society tells you is real. Or you can live from your soul, understanding yourself as a multiimensional, infinite part of the Universe. 

Whichever perspective you choose—that will be your reality. 

If you identify as a psychic, intuitive, shaman, healer or mystic, you are aware that your way of experiencing life is different than most.

The  word "identify" means to claim as yours, to know yourself as. 

When you identify as a psychic, intutive, shaman and so on, you step into your true self, even if the mainstream world tells you that this self is not possible, or it's not correct, or there's something wrong with it. 

You accept this is who you are: 
You sense everything. 
You read everything. 
You know things deeply.
You receive visions, messages and dreams.
You exist in all dimensions. 
You receive and follow guidance.

To identify this way also means to let go of mainstream ideas: that being psychic isn't real,
​Of course it's real.

We are created as souls, and as souls we are part of One, and as part of One we are intimately connected to all that is. 

There can be a sense of resignation before winter in the northern hemisphere—how can we manage the longer nights and the shorter days? 

Especially if we live in places where the seasons are pronounced, we become so wistful about the greenness of spring, the heat of summer, the absolute glory of autumn. 

The thing to remember, is that all seasons have beauty.
Even winter. 
Especially winter. 

If you tend to stay indoors from now until March, you might rethink that strategy this season. 

Many people have beautiful outdoor practices in winter, that include walking, running, biking, hiking, skiing and skating.

I myself know that a winter's bike ride is just as  fun as a summer one—just muddier. 
A walk in the  park in winter is just as beautiful in summer—just colder. 
Stargazing is actually better in winter—such blazing white on an inky midnight ground. 

Even just getting outside daily—to feel the expanse of the sky, to visit  the trees—helps us remember we are part of nature, we are part of the season, we are part of the cycle, we are part of the planet. 

We all want to  be rock stars. 
We all want to be cowboys.
We all want to be super cool. 
We all want to be totally strange. 

If you haven't got your costume yet—or horrors, if you've been thinking "bah humbug" this Halloween—it's time to rethink that. 

That's because whenever you put on a costume—you try on another identity for a little while.
And this is incredibly useful for your soul. 

Even if you wear a costume just for  "fun", you let your stronger or bossy personality rest for a while, and you give the controls to a different part of yourself, 

Maybe you're strict in your "real" life, and a costume lets you relax.
Maybe you're quiet in your "real" life and a costume lets you get wild. 
Maybe you're responsible in your "real" life, and a costume lets you shake loose. 

As we journey on the road of adulting and all the way into eldering, we sometimes forget  parts of ourselves.Entire parts of our personality—especially the fun, wild, creative, joyful, adventurous parts—can get left by the wayside. 

So when a holiday like Halloween comes, it's great to brush the cobwebs off.

It's a great chance to remember all of yourself—not just the grown up version who's pretending to run the show. 

Nature teaches us some beautiful lessons. 

One is that everything changes.
Another is that everything dies.
Another is that everythign renews.

Many of you have the clear  sense that change is coming into your life very soon. 

You might know exactly what this change is.
You might just have a sense that something is shifting. 
You might be excited.
You might be anxious. 

What is good to remember, is that everything changes, dies, renews. 

It's a cycle. 
We're always in one part of it or another: beginning, ending, beginning again. 

This lasts for infinity, because we are souls. 

There is a lot of misinformation out there about what mediumship is and isn't. 

Some of most common myths include:
• It's not safe
• It's dark
• Entities might attach to you
• You have to be born that way
• Only some people can do it

All of these are untrue.

​Mediumship—connecting with the departed—is not only easy to do, but it is a very safe and light-filled experience. Especially if you want to contact loved ones—friends and family members who have passed on—the experience can be a source of amazing spiritual joy. 

When we experience love beyond the veil, we have the deep comfort of knowing that we always continue together in spirit—we are always with each other as souls. 

We can connect with our departed family and friends in this way, because the body dies, but the soul does not.

Souls can't be contained in finite or linear time.
Our consciousness never dies. 

Thus, we can always connect—we can use our spirit self as a bridge to the dimension where the departed loved one exists—and we can communicate in many different ways, using telepathy, symbolism, emotion and energy.