Shannon's Journal

[Shannon]

Ok, I’m really sorry to keep going on about this but I have a need (or am being pushed) to say something. I don’t want you to think I’m some sort of quack woman who hears voices or who has recently been beamed up on the newest greatest UFO! haha BUT, my grandmother when alive, was physic and read palms. Her predictions, for the sake of a better word were 90% true and 10% what I think she wanted to see happen.

With that said, I think that she passed to me some of her intuitiveness about the spiritual world in particular. I do not know, like she did, about anything happening in the future and basically don’t look at anyone’s palm but to shake their hand. However, I am very in tune with the looming spirit that passes through my house, many of which I’ve never met in this world. Their presence is always subtle but acknowledged by me none the less.

Things to me always seem to happen for a reason, not that I always know what that is but for this fleeting moment, I think I’ve got it. After I sent you the info about my land, I had my usual over-whelming feeling that I get after I’ve done what someone else (who has passed on) has wanted me to do. I even so much as looked up and said to no one, “there, are you happy now? I’ve done my job!”

Well apparently that’s not true! Today, when I went out to my deck to have a cigarette ( and yes I know I need to stop, have try several hundreds of times but just can’t! And please don’t tell me to listen to your sub to stop smoking forever, because I think you know enough about me by now that I simply won’t continue to listen to it. However, if you have something that will help me to quite, I’m all ears) when I got this, yet again over-whelming feeling that I hadn’t tried hard enough!

So here it is and please take from it what you want. There is someone that is looking over you and your best interest. My belief is that they wanted me to show you my land to get your mind thinking about that area. Because whether you buy my land (pick mine, pick mine lol) buy some other land or buy a house, someone thinks that you will be most contented and happy in that area.

And now my job is done! Or so I hope! Beam me up Scotty, I need a cocktail!

As for your smoking... I learned a long time ago that pushing doesn't help. When you're ready, you'll do what you need to do. I did get a chuckle out of "don't tell me to use the sub to stop smoking,but if you have anything that can help, please let me know." My interest is in helping people. If you aren't ready to quit yet, me talking about it isn't going to help. So... whenever you decide you are ready to quit... I wish you well.

It is interesting to me that you have come to conclude that someone wants me to be in that area. You have piqued my curiosity. Certainly, stranger things have happened in my life. I have never been in that area, and I only know what I have heard about it... but if this person you speak of is really wanting me to buy land there, they're either going to have to wait until I have free funds for it, or they're going to help me get some such funding. Hint hint, whoever you are.

Is there a particular time frame they're pushing for?

Question about the stop smoking sub. You say here, that I'll quit when I'm ready. After reading about it on the store page, I kind of got the feeling that it will help to ready me. Is that not true?

And, lol I'm not sure if you think I can ask someone about their time frame but I can't, so sorry.

Funny thing about all that is we talk all the subliminal scientific blah blah to death and I had a very simple thought that's probably more true than not. I don't know what your grandmother was like or what she wanted for you, but I know what mine was like and how she influenced people. I think they met each other and are in kahoots, yours wanting you to live in a certain area and mine wanting me to quit smoking. I'd even go further to say, given your romantic history, there's someone in that area that yours feels is worthy or you. So, like I said, I don't know about your grandmom but it has mine written all over it! lol And if I'm correct, your money will be provided!

The stop smoking sub is designed to help make you ready to quit, yes. But, if you have strong enough resistance, you may or may not benefit from that. That's why it's important to genuinely want to quit on your own. That's why pushing doesn't help get people to quit. In fact, in my interviews with smokers, I found that the more people come down on them to quit, the more likely they are to continue to smoke as an act of maintaining control. In effect, they respond with "Screw you, I'll do what I damned well please." Not all of them, of course, but a lot of them.

The current mindset of how to get people to quit smoking is based very heavily on ignorance of this fact. Advertising aimed at getting people to stop is 3/4ths based on ignoring this fact. You're only going to make it harder to quit if you trigger resistance to being told what to do by your efforts. I wince every time I see and hear a lot of these commercials. There's even one from a guy who quit, and lost his wife to smoking related cancer at 46. He sounds so damned pompous by the end of the commercial that even though they used all the right words, his pomposity and smug know it all attitude (that's what comes across, anyway) is going to have the exact same effect on a resistant type. While they're starting to get it that it has to be something smokers can relate to, they haven't yet gotten it that a lot of people simply do not respond to being told what to do.

My grandmother used to like the old saying, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. So when you are dealing with someone who resists losing control, you don't try to take it from them!

Anyway, enough rant. I suggest you do some meditation, and truly get to understanding your inner motivations for smoking and for the control issues. Work on coming to terms with the control issues. Actively think about it every time you smoke a cigarette. And work actively towards achieving that "I know it's time" readiness to quit. When you are ready to quit because you genuinely want to - for yourself and your own reasons - then come and get the stop smoking program.

My grandmother has been long gone for years now. I haven't sensed her since my graduation in 2003. But I know that there are those who watch and influence.

As for the money, I know without the slightest shadow of a doubt that I'll have plenty of money eventually. The question is, what's the time frame you're talking about? I know what time frame I'm expecting.