What are you grateful for today?

It's a question I try to ask myself at least once a day. Usually I end up doing the asking when I get to a certain point just before the closest main street in my neighbourhood.

Well, here's my list for today...

I'm grateful that I just got pretty much a free website hosting upgrade right when I'm working on redesigning my website.

I'm grateful that I won a free marketing course for musicians recently. Through that course, I'm taking a good hard look at my fears and doubts, how I'm holding back, where I'm doing great, where I need to focus, etc. It's an eye-opening exercise to work on a 5 year vision!

Gee, I see a cool pattern. What else will the Universe gift to me?? What blessings! I'm going to intend that the Universe will give me a beautiful surprise tomorrow :)

I'm grateful that tomorrow I'm taking my daughter for back to school shopping.

I'm grateful for the healing I had today.

I'm grateful that I accomplished all I wanted to and more, today.

I'm grateful that now I'm going to bed after a long day, so that my body can adjust to the healing.

Sooo.... what are YOU grateful for today??

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda

08/08/08 Awakening Preparation Videos

Hi!

Since I've gotten such an overwhelming response to the videos I posted about how to prepare for the 08/08/08 Awakening event, I'm posting the videos here. You can do the guided meditation any time.

If you want the live audio recording of the actual Back to Your Blueprint Energy Activation, you just need to sign up for my free newsletter and backstage members area: http://brendamacintyre.com/backstage/backstagepass.html

*PLEASE WATCH VIDEO PART 1 before you listen to the live recording. Video Part 1 gives you valuable instructions on how to prepare to get the most out of the energy activation (recording). Even though the event has passed, the 888 energy is still here plus the live recording is encoded with the actual energy activation. So you'll still get the benefits even if you weren't there.

AWAKENING PART 1 - BACKGROUND & PREPARATION


AWAKENING PART 2 - PRE-RECORDED GUIDED MEDITATION

Water Medicine

WOW!!! I was just sitting here typing and saw something in the sky from my window in front of me here in my home office. I could not believe my eyes! It was a Great Blue Heron soaring gracefully.

That's a first! I've seen them down by the water but only once been surprised by a visit, and that was on Thunder Mountain when my friend, my daughter and I were on our way to a very special lake up on the mountain. The heron was right in our path, confirming for me that it was good medicine, the ceremony we were about to do.

Today though, seeing that blue heron brings me back into the studio last night, with percussionist Derek Thorne and bass player Dennis Mohammed. Derek was using a beautiful set of congas. I asked him what the hide was on top and he said probably steer for one of them. But then he pointed to the other, and he said it was from a Water Buffalo.

If you know me personally, or you've come to a performance or workshop of mine, you'll know that water is very important to me. I have a song "Water From the Sky" that brings rain for healing, that I channeled instantly as I stood in the pouring rain on purpose to heal my headache just before I left for Thunder Mountain. I have another water song called "Crystal Clear" that will be on my next album and it also came instantly when I was performing at a spiritual gathering.

I always talk about being thankful for your water, how that feeling of gratitude can actually change the physical properties of the water, and even create healing water.

Well, last night when Derek was drumming his heart out on those congas, I felt tears of gratitude welling up in my eyes at the thought of having water medicine - that water buffalo spirit - on this album. And now this blue heron shows up. What are the odds that I'd be sitting here at my desk at the exact time that waterbird flew over my rooftop?

Nothing is a coincidence. And I can see a crystalline thread weaving together several occurrences, a sudden spontaneous chain of insights this afternoon that I felt driven to share with you here.

It also brings me back to think about how as soon as I left the studio yesterday to get us lunch, it began to rain and continued even as the sun shone the entire way to my destination. And that lead me to think about how we've had perhaps the most rain and thunder ever in a summer here in Toronto.

Do you see? Ever since I started to work on this CD after a5 month hiatus, I've been surrounded by water medicine. In the Anishnabe (Ojibwe) culture, the elders are always saying that water is the first medicine. During childbirth, the water comes first. At our full moon ceremonies, water is honoured.

We know water is a direct representation of the divine feminine principle. Water is about receptivity, flowing emotion, movement and giving birth. It's about finding clarity, being refreshed with new energy, allowing yourself to receive the blessings you give birth to - not just babies, but new desires, creations, manifesfations.

Right now I'm feeling overwhelming gratitude for the medicine of water, and I'm realizing that this CD called Medicine Song that I'm working on is going to be overflowing with water medicine. Even the location of the studio... right down by the waterfront. What a blessing.

Another insight occurs to me. Of course we would need more rain, more snow, more water right now. Mother Earth is in a healing and cleansing time. Water naturally moves energy. And we all need to be drinking more water as a result of these new energies flowing into and around our Mother Earth.

So this is what that great blue heron reminds me of today, and as I type this, I can see we are indeed going to get more water again today, as blue-grey clouds move together above me and the dance of the maple leaves shifts and changes every few moments.

Do you know what I'm going to say next?

Drink some water... but before you do, please feel gratitude in your heart and offer that gratitude to your water. And guess what? It has just started to rain.

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda

Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman
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:: Nominee, Best Hand Drum CD, Aboriginal People's Choice Awards 2007
:: 2007 Aboriginal Businesswoman of the Year
:: #1 Canadian Artist in Neo Soul, MySpace.com
:: Author of the forthcoming book "Medicine Song"

Now you can share my music

Hi,

I'm experimenting with this lovely new feature that allows you to view my videos, listen to my music and connect with me in different ways. Feel free to check it out. If you sign up for my mailing list, that also includes access to my Backstage Website for members only, and it's FREE.

That's where I'll be posting the 08/08/08 live global energy activation mp3 in a few days.

See you then!

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda

Clarity is Coming

Greetings!

Today is a day of further clearing for me, after the intense energies of yesterday and the day before flooding my whole being with so much light. So I'm sitting here drinking cedar water to help me release whatever might come up. I encourage you to drink an abundance of water in the following week to help you move this energy through you.

I'm excited. Really excited. And yet I can't even bring to mind what I'm excited about... it's a feeling of anticipation. Whenever I feel like this, something really big and really good is about to happen.

And my mind is saying "What could possibly top the past 2 days?!?" Well, I'll get back to that...

Last night's 08/08/08 Awakening event was truly amazing. I had been feeling the energy cresting all week. I felt like I was in the middle of an expanding bubble that was about to burst and spread positive energy everywhere. I think instead of bursting, that bubble just kept on expanding all night. In my sleep, I kept having cold and hot flashes, which is - well it never happens, this is the first time!

Today - for me - that bubble burst. All day it's been thunderstorming. And I LOVE it. Rain and thunder are very healing when you have respect and gratitude for them. The rain and thunder together come to cleanse Mother Earth and release built up pressure... in the air but also in us. And yesterday was one big build-up of energy!

One of the last songs I sang last night was Water From the Sky, upon request. That song brings rain when I sing it in ceremony, so I sang it a bit different and intended for it to rain today and not last night. Who knows if that song was responsible for today's rain or not, but either way, I am grateful for it.

Preparing for 080808

I don't know about you, but when I take in and begin to generate high levels of positive energy, emotions can come up to be released. Have you ever laughed so hard you cried? Or felt so happy or proud that tears came up? Those are healing tears. In my preparation for 08/08/08 Awakening, I had been doing meditation and other activities to raise my frequency and release what I no longer needed. And I released a lot of healing tears.

On August 7th, I went for a massage and ended up getting a miraculous energy activation. When I saw light coming out of what appeared to be holes all over my body, space was being made for me to receive light of a higher frequency (see blog post of August 7, 2008), and to make my body a clearer channel for the song and other energy to flow through.

One of the things I was doing was reading high vibration material on the Internet. I had just been looking at my friend Kiernan's blog when she called me on the phone. We'd been emailing back and forth about similar spiritual experiences in relation to this new energy.

Ever since we met in relation to a mutual television appearance and event we both presented at in the spring, I've had a feeling of spiritual synergy between Kiernan and me. We've recently had conversations about possibly working together in some way. And last night that synergy was taken to a whole new level through our healing work.

When Kiernan said she'd be coming to the 08/08/08 Awakening event, I invited her to share if and how she felt moved to. When she arrived, we didn't even need words to communicate how charged the energy was - not that we could find the words anyway! We were just buzzing with positive energy.

How the event unfolded

The (spiritual) light and energy in the room were so intense that my eyes were almost watering. As Kiernan and I spoke it came clear how we would work together using our gifts.

My role was to do a global Back to Your Blueprint Energy Activation. That means doing a smudging ceremony, traditional Aboriginal welcome song, guided meditation and then channeling a Medicine Song as I connect to Source, my spirit, the universal energy field and the group. I usually do other energy work afterward with my hands and medicine rattle as well, but not this time.

When Kiernan suggested that she act as a conduit of light to do what she calls a Divine Blueprint Activation for the group and globally, I got chills and it just felt right for both of us.

As I read the meditation, I could feel the energy in the room changing from fizzy to a slow motion flow of energy and a sense of everything being in its place. Once the song came through me, I could feel the familiar connection and flow of energies. Kiernan flowed light through her as I sang, and then I led a grounding meditation. It was very moving.

I held a sharing circle afterwards and it was fascinating to hear some of the results of our work together, complemented by this new energy. One woman had been doing Reiki during the activation, someone got an instant connection back to her true purpose, another person had been feeling angry beforehand and now felt at peace, and one of the cafe staff said she had a sudden dizzy spell as she walked by me and a friend before we had even begun. A friend of mine in Manitoba called me to say she felt the connection when she did the meditation from her place.

The local event in Toronto had a great turnout and positive results, and I am excited to hear what some of you experienced globally! Please comment me here or on myspace with your own experiences with tapping into this energy. And don't forget I'll be posting the mp3 of the live activation some time this week.

I almost forgot! What could top the last 2 days?

What's coming... clarity. It may feel for many of us like we're in a fog for a bit but soon our inner sun will be shining and our minds will be clear. And with clarity will come inspiration. When inspiration strikes, just remember to dive in!

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda, Medicine Song Woman

Being Open Brings Amazing Gifts

August 7/08

I just got back from an incredible massage – well it was more, it was a healing and activation. A local Aboriginal shiatsu therapist worked on me using not just her shiatsu training, but traditional Aboriginal medicine. She’s very gifted. And the thunder and rain happened during my session, just to add to my healing.

In case you've never met me, I'm the one who stands outside in the middle of my street to get the most rain on me when it pours around here. The rain heals me! It takes away my headaches, but I have to stand in it to get the benefits. That's how my song Water From the Sky came to me. I was standing in the rain and suddenly I heard the words, started singing and there was the song. And that song actually brings rain when I sing it in ceremony.

Anyway... so I was blessed by the thunder and rain during my healing today.

But the amazing stuff…

I felt a blanket of white light that I know was a grandmother spirit, flowing over my body for quite a while, in different areas that the massage therapist wasn't working on. It was so obviously a spirit… I even checked for open windows afterward and there were none and yet, I could feel the coolness of a fresh breeze whenever I saw the white light in my mind’s eye, and I had the distinct intuitive impression of a grandmother - quite possibly the one who works with me ever since I went to Thunder Mountain.

I don’t know if it was her or one of the healer's spirit helpers, but I kept saying thank you in my mind. At one point, that grandmother or another spirit actually physically touched me – again, I checked to make sure it wasn’t the healer, but she had both her hands engaged in working with another area of my body.

After this, I saw my body with what looked like holes in it, emitting bright columns of light right out to the sky, and the colours I remember are sky blue (luminescent, like a blue aura), and I think magenta and green, and a few more colours I don't remember. I saw and sensed that they (whoever ‘they’ are it had something to do with a Lemurian crystal friend of mine) were putting something into those 'holes' in my body. It looked like clear crystals, soft-edged rectangular containers filled with light of the same colours as the light beams coming out of me. Wherever those holes were in my body, where the colourful lights were coming out of me, they were putting those light-filled crystals inside. I also had the sensations and image of more than one being working on some intricate parts of my energy system. It's hard to describe. I feel this may have been the massage therapist's helpers working on me.

And then they were done. And I was teary-eyed and filled with such love and appreciation.

I knew I was being prepared for 08/08/08. That grandmother was taking out what I needed to release, calming me and somehow balancing my energy. Every time I felt that cool sensation flow over my skin, my whole body relaxed and I felt like I was floating. And these lights inside me, I don't know what exactly that's about but I'm sure to find out soon. Something was given to me to help me do this energy activation tomorrow and perhaps to help me with my healing work from here on. I don’t know what it was exactly but it was amazing, and I know had I not been open and allowing it, I wouldn't have been able to receive these gifts.

And the thunder beings at one point, I could feel them come in and help too. I know their energy - they've appeared to me before. Maybe it was when I had a warm sensation on my back, but it was definitely when I was on my stomach and the sensation was to do with my back. And every time I would feel a certain sensation and wonder about who was helping me, the thunder would sound as if on cue. Glad I laid that tobacco offering down before I left today. With all the thunderstorms recently, I've been regularly putting down tobacco to ask for safe passage and thank the thunders and rain for my healing.

I could feel my energy changing and shifting throughout the entire session. At various points I felt dizzy and like I wasn’t even physically there, even though I could feel the physical sensations of the massage. It was very powerful, the whole experience. I feel so blessed. My physical body got a really intense healing and my energy system got a total makeover!

I'm still quite blown away by what's been happening to me since this spring and it keeps getting more and more intense. But as I welcome what feels right, and follow through on inspiration or when I am called to do something, my life keeps on getting more and more amazing. And I know being open is the key.

I'm excited and even mystified by what will happen at 8pm on 08/08/08. I have no idea how it will all unfold because I am staying very open to guidance through Spirit as I did today. All I can say is, it feels like a giant bubble expanding and expanding and when it bursts tomorrow, healing, high vibration energy will spread throughout the universal energy field for everyone to access for the highest good of each individual as well as the whole.

Miigwech, Thank you for listening.

Peace, Love & Light,

Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman

Inspiration is like Lightning

Inspiration is like lightning. It strikes quickly and powerfully, lights up your world and motivates you to take quick action.

I just wrote this quote after being inspired. A task I had to do turned into an inspiration and then turned into another inspiration to write this blog... it's a chain reaction and I love it!

I was invited to co-facilitate a workshop in November and had to send the organizer a bio and summary. I looked up my old workshop on Creating Confidence from Within, which was what they're interested in me presenting. After reading over a few files I had on my previous presentations on this subject, I started writing up a summary. I had a small inspiration about what I was putting together when I was struck with a sudden realization.

What I realized was that I had just found the doorway to an answer I needed that I had just asked my spirit helpers for a couple of days ago!

A couple of weeks ago, I was told by an elder I saw that I will be working with gifted children, and adults, but my first step would be teaching in the school system, for students 10-13 years old. That blew my mind because I had been doing just that recently, with great success, and I have had recent requests to get into what I really love to talk about with youth - how be your true self.

Anyway, back to this sudden realization... The elder had also told me I need to find a way to teach what I do. In my head, I was thinking "Are you nuts?" What a tall order! At the time, I didn't even know how to fully describe the healing work I do, let alone teach it! And it's not like someone taught it to me. It just came to me spontaneously. So I decided to ask my spirit helpers for the solution.

So just moments ago, as I was writing up the summary for this other workshop, I was suddenly flooded with the exact information I needed to start creating a teaching package to send to schools in the Fall... not only that but I was also shown how to teach what I know.

I am so blown away right now! This has come to me just like the songs do... spontaneously and in the form of pure energy. It's like the words are there, and some kind of communication I can't even describe. But I know I don't need to understand the communication or where it's coming from at the moment. I just have to write it down. As soon as my hands touch the keyboard and I look at what I've already written (it was almost like automatic writing), it will just flow.

Now this is what I'm talking about! When inspiration strikes, and you act on it right away, what comes out of that is amazing! It's like a chain reaction, like when you hear thunder and then you see a series of flashes of lightning that just lights up the whole sky and at the same time it lights up different parts of the Earth.

Inspiration lights up different parts of us... the brain, our spirit, our need and ability to self-express, and following that is an urge to take action. If we don't take action on that, we're missing a great opportunity. If we do take action, who knows how huge a chain reaction we will create?

Now I've got to get back to that teaching plan!

Peace, Love & Light,

Brenda

Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman
416.519.SONG (7664)
www.BrendaMacIntyre.com

Listen to music: www.MySpace.com/brendamacintyre
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Native Singer/Drummer | Artist| Healer | Speaker
:: Nominee, Best Hand Drum CD, Aboriginal People's Choice Awards 2007
:: 2007 Aboriginal Businesswoman of the Year
:: #1 Canadian Artist in Neo Soul, MySpace.com
:: Author of the forthcoming book "Medicine Song"