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A lot of people wonder if their palm/hand changes over time. For most people the answer is yes. Generally there is something going on in your life that will cause the features of your hand to change.

The changes may not be huge changes, and they often are not noticeable from just looking at your hand.

Luckily, with our technology today it is easy to keep track of how our palms may change.

As an exercise Lay your palm out face down on a flat surface. Do it naturally, don’t be self conscious, just let the hand and fingers come to a natural rest.

Then with a digital camera take a snap shot of your hand. You should be able to get a fairly detailed picture of all the lines in your palm, and the hand itself.
You can also use a scanner to capture the lines in your hand, however a scanner does not give you the colors of your hand at this time.

Take the picture and file it away on your hard drive, with the date.
Take a similar picture every month and compare them. You may catch your lines in the middle of developing or fading.

It’s really cool.

Also, these pictures can act as valuable reference points when determining what patterns you have been working on, and what your progress has been.

If you are interested, you can send me the picture, with some basic information, and I can mark it up with an analysis and give you a baseline of where you are, and what patterns you are currently working on.

However the main benefit of doing this is for yourself. You can see how your hand changes in relation to what is going on in your life, or perhaps how it does not change.

So today, find a camera, maybe a friend (it makes it easier), and take a couple of snapshots of your hands. Make sure you get both, and in the file name label which ones is your dominate hand.

I am really tired. I am starting to think about wrapping up the day and going to bed.

It was a really long day. I woke up early, but I chose to rest just a few minutes longer. That choice put me a little later than I wanted to getting to work today.

I was able to deal with it. Then this morning I had to work on updating a system configuration that needed to be done “right away”. It is important but in the grand scheme of things I am not sure how important.
But I chose to work on that this morning as requested.

This afternoon I had meetings scheduled from 12 – 1, 1 – 2, 2 – 3, 3 -4. So my how afternoon was spent in meetings. I did not have to go to each meeting, but I did, it was another choice I made.

Tonight I have been working on various administrative tasks that need to be done. I chose to set up a new printer, create some new templates, and pull some documentation together.

My list indicates that I should have been doing taxes tonight. However I chose not to do that.

This is just a brief, and somewhat boring, over view of my day today.
I made a lot of choices today. Choices about activities, choices about food, choices about interpersonal interactions. In each moment I had a choice.

Now it is here. I am tired and wanting to go to bed. However I wanted to write a entry today. I could have chosen not to. However I missed Friday and over the weekend.
It feels inspired for me to write in this blog. It is a choice I want to make.

So I am creating an entry. I am looking at the choices that I made today that brought me here, right now, at this time typing this.

The day was fine, it was full of activity. However this is the first time I have felt inspired, I have felt creative, and I have felt that I am doing what I want to do.

This is something worth staying up for, and working on this article makes me feel energized.

There are so many things I want to write about, so many ideas. It seems overwhelming. But when I am doing it, it is not over whelming, it just is.

So I just do, and I realize that this choice may be my first authentic choice of the day.

What have you done today to be inspired?

I urge everyone to find at least one thing a day that inspires them, energizes them, and feels right.

Today I am going to start the discussion about the hand shape.

When we first meet a person we notice their facial features, and there style of dress. Perhaps we may notice some personality in their choice of glasses, or a piece of apparel.

Another aspect we can look at right away is their hand. The hand is right there in view, and often it is proffered for us to shake.

Taking stock of the hand gives can give us a good basis for determining the personality and best approaches to the person. It can also help us establish a base pattern that they most likely express.

There are 2 parts to the shape of the hand. There is the shape of the fingers, and how the fingers are display, and then there is the shape of the palm.

Today I am going to have a brief overview of the fingers.

Generally fingers length is measured against the width of the palm. If the finger crosses the width of the palm it is regular, if it is slightly longer than the palm, it is long, and if it is slightly shorter than the palm it is short.

The length of the fingers is relative, and it is measured in 1/8ths of an inch, very small increments. Many palmistry books have you start learning by using a ruler and protractor to make measurements.

You can use the tools if you would like, however many people just have an sense if the finger are longer, shorter, or normal.
If you have a sense, go it it, you are most likely correct.

In general the longer the fingers are, the more of a thinker/planner the person is, the shorter the fingers are, the more impulsive/doer the person is.

The thumb is also a very important indicator. I will go into each finger in more detail in a later post.

I really enjoy the teachings of Dr. Wayne Dyer. His latest book “Excuses Begone!” is a wonderful work.
I was watching him in a televised seminar once. He was talking about how he used to ice skate when he was younger. He said he had not skated in years. But one day he decided to ice skate again. He put on the skate and went out onto the pond. He said he was a little shaky, but he quickly recovered his equilibrium and was able to skate like he used to do when he was younger.
The part that struck me, profoundly was next. He went on to say that not one single cell in his body was the same as the person who knew how to skate so many years before. Not one cell. Yet they skill survives. It is more than muscle memory, cells transmitting there patterns to the new cells that replace them. It was the “is” inside that recalled.

That has stayed with me.

I like the work of Byron Katie in “Loving What Is”, it is excellent work, easy to grasp, difficult to master (at least for me).

Gregg Braden has vastly increased my understanding of the power of prayer and our intention on the universe. Bruce Lipton has an excellent book also.

One of the biggest influences for me has been Abraham-Hicks (Jerry and Ester), I love their work, and have been reading everything they do for years.
Someday I intend to review many of these books.

But the point today is that I have read and studied all of these teachers and many more. I have read the vast majority of books each of these people have written. Sometimes I can tell what they were working on, what they were clearing as they wrote their material.
I know some of Dr. Dyers material is not right for me, or wasn’t at the time. However most of it was a good fit.

I am attracted to certain teaching styles, messages, and modalities. That is ok. I hear the same message many times, and eventually, it clicks. I read the materials and I decide what is right for me. What fits for me.
I internalize what fits, and I put what doesn’t fit aside, perhaps for later contemplation, or perhaps not.
No one has had the answer for me, however many people have helped me form the picture of how I fit into the universe and my place in it.

Diane Mickelson has a great blog entry today about being the pie, or not being the pie as the case may be. I encourage anyone to check it out at htt://www.drsmick.com/blog.

The intuitive journey is one of self discovery and self knowledge. Everyone is going to have their own perceptions, their own understandings. No one is going to be able to intuit exactly the same way.
This is a journey about learning to trust and value yourself.

Reclaim your power, or keep it if you have it.
Read, take classes, gather information. Integrate what feels right to you, let go of what does not.

I offer classes and intuitive sessions. If you would like to schedule one, please feel free to contact me. I am happy to share what I have learned, and discuss it. But like everything, take what feels right to you.

I wish you good exploring.

Everyone has heard about questionable physics. The ones that prey on peoples needs and feed them the information they want to hear, or convince them of the validity of their messages through non-intuitive means.

I have heard of these people, and I have always been shocked by it. It is one of the reasons I took so long to accept my intuitive skills. I worried that I would be “making it up” or “getting it wrong” or people would assume I am taking advantage of them.

Recently I found out that there is a practice called “cold reading”. I did not know the term for it until very recently. However I heard about it being featured in 2 tv shows in the past month.

Cold reading is when someone gives you a reading and closely watches your involuntary responses when they are talking. A widening of eyes, a gasp, a smile, a clenching of fists, these signs tell the person they have hit an emotional core with you. Once they have hit a “core” they can refine their questions and drill in deeper and deeper, taking cues from your responses.
These readings can seem intuitive, because you are feeding them your information. This is generally used in medium-ship (communicating with the deceased or spirits), or for certain forms of fortune tellings.
Some of the people who start out doing cold reading can truly develop intuitive skills and receive messages, if they are open to it.
Often, intuitive people can also turn to this form of reading when they are blocked from their intuition, or can’t get connected to a particular energy.
A problem many physics have is that the start from a grounded and intuitive space. However as they become a “big name” the ego takes over a little bit and blocks the intuitive messages.
Eventually the person gets over ego and lets the energy flow. I think this is the reason so many teachers start strong, falter, then either crash and burn in ego, or recover and really shine.

There is also “warm readings”. Warm readings is when the reader already knows something about the person. Generally they have gathered the information without the client knowing, and their inner knowledge gives them an impression of being very accurate.
However that advanced knowledge can also taint the very messages they are trying to convey.

This is also why it is so hard to give an accurate intuitive reading to yourself, or a close friend. The closer you are to someone the harder it can be to separate your ego from your intuition. Ego is the biggest block to intuition.

I don’t think cold reading is truly “wrong”. I think that often cold reading is the very start of intuition. Generally to get an intuitive message you have to tap into the persons energy. When you tap into the energy, you become very aware of the person, at least I do. Cold reading can give guidance to the intuitive messages. Cold reading can also be a place to start if you are having trouble connecting to the energy.
However I do feel that cold reading as the basis of the reading is wrong. An intuitive reading should be from intuition/channeling and should have it’s basis in the unified field.

I think warm reading is just plain unacceptable in any fashion.

Palmistry could be considered a form of cold reading. In Palmistry you start by using the physical aspects of the hand, the mechanical aspects of the hand to determine information about the person. However this information has to be interpreted via the context of the entire hand, and merged with the intuitive messages.
Analyzing the palm gives you a good basis to start, and allows a person to tap into the energy, and get the reading started, with a firm basis to start from.

However there are a couple of things that causes Palmistry to stand out from a cold reading scam.
First, palmistry is an established practice with commonly held ideas of what certain shapes and marks mean. The person looking at the mechanical marks should have training in that.
Second, palmistry is something that you can learn to do yourself. You can learn to identify your own patterns, and dispostitions.
Third, a palmistry reading does not have to take into account your other involuntary signals.

A person who is truly intuitive and connected will give you a valid reading. I would look for someone who is willing to do a reading over the web, phone, in person.
For myself, if you send me a picture of your palm, your name and birth date, I can give you an accurate reading of your patterns. If you include a question I can address that.
I won’t see you, I won’t need to see you, or hear you. If you want to consult in person, or over the phone, that is fine also. I am comfortable with all of those modalities.
A intuitive who insists on meeting only in person is someone I would be more questionable of.

However most intuitives do need your name, birth date, and a question to accurately pick up on your energy. It can be done with just the name, or just the palm print, but it is more difficult.

I truly believe in intuition and intuitive messages. I think they can be great resources for people to identify and overcome their patterns.
However they are not magic bullets, and you need to do your work to over come your patterns.

Often times it helps to talk to an intuitive and get your questions answered.
However, using palmistry, you can answer your own questions, and identify your own patterns.

Tomorrow I will be talking about hand shapes. What’s your shape?

Palmistry? People often look at me and say “Palmistry? Can you really tell anything from a persons hand?”

I believe you can. As I mentioned earlier there are both mechanical and intutive aspects to reading a palm.

The mechanical aspects are the visible traits everyone can see. How long are the fingers, how wide is the palm, how bulbous is the thumb? These are questions that can be answered by observation.

A well grounded practicle person will have a square palm with middle length fingers. A studious person will have a longer palm and longer, tapered fingers.

These are genearl observations about a persons innate nature. People can overcome their nature, but these are indicators of their base nature.

Why would someone with a sqaure palm be more practical, and a person with conical/fingers more studious. It is easy to explain it away by there habits.
A person who works the land, gains an understanding of nature and has common sense works at tasks that lend to the development of a broad square palm with a lot of surface area.
A person who works with book and studies may grow their palm to be longer.

These are reasonable explanations. However no one has scientifically proven anything.
However, in my observations, the mechanical aspects are very accurate. There are many, many people who have also found this to be the case.

So I am content to say, it works. I don’t trust my observations 100%, but I will go with them unless my intuition really goes counter to it.

The lines in the hand are another mechanical aspect of the palm. The hand is one of the nerve centers of the body. It is also one of the energy centers. Energy comes in and leaves through the palms.

Our senses take in everything that happens to us, even things we are not consciously aware of. Everything is written somewhere in our body. The palm being a nerve center, gets written to a lot.
The lines in the hands do change, and they can reflect things that we are not aware of.

I see evidence of this all the time.

Many people dismiss Palmistry (and other forms of intuition) as cold reading.

Tomorrow I am going to discuss cold reading, warm reading, intuitive readings, and where palmistry fits.

Palmistry has many different components. However at the top most level there are 2 forms of palm reading. There is the mechanical aspect, and the intuitive aspect.

The mechanical aspect comes from Chiromancy. This is the study of the hands components. The size and shape of the hand and fingers, the texture of the skin, the swelling of the joints, and the lines.

People have been observing the hand for thousands of years, noting commonalities between people with similar hands.

Many people have a hard time accepting that you can determine anything about a person from the shape of their hand. I believe you can. The shape of the hand suggests a persons underlying nature. Some people are able to overcome the tendencies shown in the palm, but the majority of people stay in the patterns suggested by their hands.

This is similar to astrology. When a person is born at a certain time, there are energies that are at work that lead them to a particular reaction to life’s events. A person can choose to overcome these tendencies, but most people don’t, until their chart progresses. Even then many people stay in their normal patterns.

The most basic mechanical indicator in Palmistry is your dominate hand. Your dominate hand is the hand you use most frequently, the hand you write with. Their are some people who are ambidextrous, or write with there non-dominate hand. These people need to think about which hand feels more natural to do things with. What hand would you catch a ball with?
Many left-hand dominate people have been taught to use their right hand, so this is a question that deserves some consideration.

Once you have decided what your dominate hand is compare it to your non-dominate hand. Do they look similar, are they very different?

At first glance they generally look pretty much the same. However there are differences in the lines, and texture. Sometimes even the shape can be different.

The dominate hand reflects who you are, and what patterns you are experiencing and expressing in your life, right now.

The non-dominate hand reflects your abilities, your potentials, the skills you were born with, and sometimes your life’s path.
If you want to know what you would be happiest doing, or what innate skills you have to bring to a project, your non-dominate hand is the place to go.

If you want to know how you are currently expressing your skills, what types of blocks and opportunities you have in your current energy, your dominate hand is the place to go.

Why?

People always ask me why? Why would these energetic patterns, blockages, opportunities, show up in the hand?

Tomorrow I will be discussing some of the theories about palmistry and why it works, along with my personal opinion.

I have a 2002 Ford conversion van. It is a big van, and I often transport a lot of stuff in it. Over the weekend one of my friends needed to borrow the van.
That is not a problem with me, it’s a working van, and I was more than happy to help.
She left with the van on her errand. About 20 minutes later she called.

She had hit a pot hole and thought the van was driving poorly afterward. She pulled off the highway, on an exit ramp and came to a stop. As she stopped she saw the rear passenger tire roll past her.

Somehow the tire had come off the van and just kept going (only for a few feet).

We are not sure what happened. The bolts that hold the tire to the hub sheered off.

Things happen, they do. But this is not exactly a common occurrence. In all my years of driving I have never had a wheel come off before.

It is very metaphorical. The wheels came of. How many times do you hear someone referring to their life as the wheels came off. I have heard it before.

My friend is in overwhelm right now. There are a lot of changes going on in her life. This experience accurately represents what she feels.

It’s a wake up call, a hint from the universe that something is going on, and that attention needs to be paid. That she needs to get her stuff together and start doing.

These hints come at us from all directions. Sometimes they are very subtle. Sometimes they are very blatant. The question is, do we pay attention to them?

It is up to us to understand the message and to take action to break the pattern.

Everyone goes through life in patterns.
I get up every morning. I get ready for work. I grab my lunch. I drive to work, I work, I eat lunch, I go home. These are all patterns that I am in. I can coast through most of these patterns without really having to experience them.
There are larger patterns with our relationships, with others and with ourselves.

The key to the patterns is being aware of them. Not to just coast through the patterns on autopilot, but to experience the patterns we find joy in, and transcend, or change the ones that we don’t.

This moment. Right now. The next moment, the previous moment. Each moment we are refining our preferences and forging the future.

We can choose what we want to forge.

When the wheel falls off. Take a deep breath, grab it, and put it back on.
Sometimes you have to make adjustments, and that is ok. Just do.

People often wonder how to tap into their intution. People ask me how to identify energtic patterns that are playing out in their lives.
There is a tool available that I use to help people answer these questions.

When someone wants to know what’s up, I ask them if I can see their hand. The hand is the tool that I reach for. It’s the tool that we carry with us wherever we go, and it lets us know exactly what is going on in our lives.

As many of the most common tools we often don’t even notice it.

What does your hand look like today? Have you developed callouses, is it redder than normal. Are you fingers standing up straight when you open your hand.

The hand is a road map of our lives, the energtic patterns we are playing out, our inate skills. and some guidelines on how we could best find happiness.

Palmistry is not forutne telling and sayings of doom as often depicted in the movies. In the middle ages palmistry was a required course at the most respected schools. As technology advanced and people could not describe how palmistry works it fell out of fashion. There are also people who dislike us owning our own power to determine our patterns and take actions. They would prefer we rely on other external methods to make sense of the world.

However all we really need is in the palm of our hand. We can own our power, we can determine what is going on. All we have to do is learn to dechiper what our hands are telling us.

Palmistry evolved from Chiromancy, the study of the palm.

Palmistry can enlighten us to what is going on in our lives. What short of jobs we may want to persue, where we may want to live, how our thinking process works, how our emotional state is, and much much more.

However a general knowledge of palmistry can also help us in our interpersonal relationships. I often work on group projects. By glancing at peoples hands as they come in I can help determine what tasks people are most suited to.

For example, if I am have a person in the group with fingers that are shorter than there palm is wide, I know at heart this person is a doer. They will take a task and see it through to completion. By contrast, if a person has longer fingers, than their palm is wide, I know their nature is a thinker. They will be better at planning and arranging, however they probably will not follow through as well to complete a project.
I can avoid potential problems by suggesting tasks that fit each person personality better.

There is a great deal of information about ourselves, and others that can be learned through the study of the hand.

Tomorrow I will be posting about one of the most basic elements of palmistry. Which hand means what. Please check back for this exciting series.

There is a lot of stuff to do.
I am a very busy person. Often I get overwhelmed with all the demands on my time.
People tell me I am super busy all the time. I tell myself I am super busy all the time.
I do a lot of stuff. However I also have a lot of free time I don’t use effectively. I call this “down time”.
On Mondays I will watch Chuck in my down time. On Tuesdays I watch NCIS. However I often work on the computer while the tv is on, those shows often capture my attention more than the computer.

It’s ok. Everyone needs “down time”, but somtimes I feel that I should be using my time better, doing more.

My problem is I have a whole lot of great ideas. At least I think they are great ideas. I see the finished product I want to create.
However I have a hard time getting it out into the real world. I have a hard time going from nothing to the completed product.

I don’t see the steps or the path, sometimes I just don’t want to do the work.

The problem is that I am looking at the large completed picture and expecting it to appear in front of me. Ta Da!

That does not work well. I need to take it step by step. I need to focus on one little action I can easily take, today, in the now, and take that step.

Writing a blog post is one little step I can take to improve this site. I am taking it in the now.

I am working on my palmistry course. Today I am going to work on just the very first part. I am going to start it.
Step by step.

Then I question myself, how do I know I am taking the right steps?

I know I am taking the right steps because it feels good. The work flows, it is fun to do, and I enjoy myself.

If it is fun, if it flows, if it seems natural, then it is an inspired step.

Inspired steps flow naturally from a place inside you. Inspired steps feel good and joyful as you are taking them.
It is not so much about the result, as it is about the working.

Today I am going to work on my big picture, which is a little fuzzy. I am going to bring that picture into focus, and I am going to take an inspired step.

This is something that has struck me fully today after reading Dianes blog on wake up calls.

She talked about having the polar blanket over the head, and how you need to have a clear picture. These are things that I “know” but don’t practice enough.

Today is a day to bring some focus into the picture.

I hope your picture focuses as well