My friend Sequethia McQueen recently called me in a frantic panic.  In an alarmed, tearful voice, I heard her say she had lost her job, lost her home, lost her car and was devastated.  I was amazed because I had just seen her the previous weekend, and none of this seemed imminent. As I helped Sequethia to calm down, I discerned that she hadn’t lost her home, her job or her car, but instead she had lost her thumb drive (that little thing that you stick in the computer to sa

Once Sequethia calmed down, I was able to work with her. She asked me to “intuit” where she left her Thumb Drive.  I saw a never-used, almost hidden pocket in her brief case and saw the drive slipping between the folds of this hidden pocket.  I asked Sequethia if this made any sense to her and it didn’t.  However, she then opened her briefcase, found a “hidden” pocket where the thumb drive had slipped.  After we had a good laugh about the incident we talked about its spiritua

Once the “dust” had settled, Sequethia asked me “What was that all about”?    I shared with her that her experience was actually quite typical.  We often apply meanings to things based on past experiences, and when we interpret the present based on the past, we tend to project  past patterns forward and attract* the same experiences.  In Sequethia’s case, she was so traumatized by unaffirming experiences that she had in the past that she automatically projected the same prosp

As a result of our experience together, Sequethia was happy again. When she lost her thumb drive, she she saw her whole life disintegrate.  Because it contained her Doctoral Dissertation (which was a condition for her continued employment) she feared losing her job, her car, her house and more.  She felt the terror of losing everything she had worked so hard to achieve. This moment felt as if the floor had fallen from beneath her and she felt as if she had fallen into a deep