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Marie will answer questions that are written into the energyintutive.com web site in her quarterly news letter. As an intuitive, Marie will be able to read the energy of the author and gain intuitive information to answer the questions regardless if she has ever met the person. Only first names will be used and other identifying qualifiers will be changed to create unanimity. Please qualify your question to be answered in the newsletter.

Hello Marie,
I have an almost-12-year-old daughter who is pretty unhappy and often hostile at home. She is a great student, but has a lot of anxiety and a hard time making friends. This anxiety often comes out in the form of obsessive cleanliness and anger at me. Any help you could give me in handling her and myself would be much appreciated. Laura

Dear Laura,
Thank you for writing in with your question. I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's upsets at home. My first sense is that you are a very sensitive mother, feeling your daughter's emotions deeply. Part of her reaction is connected to your ability to deeply feel her. She is taking advantage of your gift and reacting to your fear that you're not doing enough. In this situation, I would recommend that you do your best not to react emotionally to your daughter's emotions. She is a loved child; maybe even a little bit spoiled... a good thing! So she really is in no distress per my perception. You will not lose your intuitive empathic abilities by lessening your response to her but you will decrease her over active emotional response to your need to nurture. You should notice a change right away. The action I'm asking you to take will not be easy for you. You may feel like you're not being a great mom. In fact, you will be showing your daughter that it's not all about her. After a while I would ask her to lessen drama outbursts in the home. She will comply and be surprised by your new found power.

Dear Marie,
In my past, I have had a lot of surgeries on my legs (mostly knees). I started yoga about 2-1/2 years ago and it significantly improved the pain in my legs. However, about 2 months ago, I started to have pain in my groin area which feels like a tendon/ligament strain. About a week later, my right knee started to have a unique pain in the back of the knee which is not the typical pain I usually have. I have been trying to understand what the universe is trying to get me to change and to understand what is going on. Is there any insight that you can provide? Dick

Dear Dick,
Thank you for writing. I'm very sorry for all your lower extremity pain and health issues. I wish you quick and wonderful healing! Pain at the back of the knee could be related to circulation so I hope you have been to your doctor since you wrote me in December. When I read your energy, I'm definitely in circulation problems mostly related to unhealed issues regarding you and your mom.

The first chakra anatomically governs the hips to the toes every bone, muscle and tendon. The first chakra has secondary responsibility to all the bone, blood and bone marrow in your body and this chakra is also the foundation of your entire energetic system while you live in a human body. This chakra emotionally is about our first family: how you felt growing up, your connection to the homes you lived in, schools you attended and the relationships you formed with family members prior to 18 or before you left home. Knees are about searching. Searching for a relationship, money, a great career or something equally important like peace of mind. Chronic problems with the knees are energetically about not being able to find what you're looking for. What you have been searching needs to be released. It would be great if you could surrender... just let go and not think about it. This is the best way I know to start letting go!!! Eventually, embrace your wonderful life without what you're wanting. This is the true essence of letting go. Generally when we let go we move into a state of allowing and what we want arrives!

You seem to be a visual person so here is a homework assignment to bring more energy into your lower extremities which may alleviate the health problems there. Visualize roots of a tree or healthy luscious vines growing out of your feet. These vines or roots grow into the earth and deep into the many layers of our spinning planet. Once you visualize the roots merging into the core of the earth visualize them extending out wide into this body of earth. Then imagine the roots or vines become like straws and begin pulling up earth energy all the way up the root system and into body. The groin area is home to the tip of the root chakra. The tip portion of all chakras is profound. Awareness to this part of the vortex means that deep healing is occurring. Feel great that you are doing deep healing work regarding your first family and feeling it!!!

Dear Marie,
Every time I take a shower or bath I get tons of itchy hives all over my back, chest, arms, and stomach. It's happened on and off since I was a teenager and I've ruled out an allergy to particular soaps. I've been doing acupuncture to treat this but nothing has changed. What could this possibly be about? Thank you so much for your help. Meredith

Dear Meredith,
I'm so sorry that you have had to deal with this itchy problem for such a long time. I can tell you're a very strong person and don't let many things get in your way. The seventh chakra governs the skin all over your body. This chakra on top of your head is emotionally about letting creation, God, source or whatever you believe in to love you unconditionally! UNCONDITIONAL love means exactly that. There is nothing you can do that would cause creation to not love you. Letting this marvelous loving energy into your body could greatly heal your skin problems. Most people who block unconditional loving energy from entering their body are generally powerful individuals who are connected to source energy but are afraid of their power and generally have no idea of their natural connectives. I'm not sure if you have children? Generally this is the best way I know to understand unconditional love. Loving a pet can also be very unconditional! Focus on what you love unconditionally and then transfer this loving energy into your body for you while visualizing warm bright light flowing into your body via the seventh chakra. Do this exercise everyday for 3 to 5 minutes or longer if you wish. The exercise may make you cry but this will be ok as you will be releasing barriers to your true self and grieving who you thought you were!

Dear Marie,
A friend and I attended your class at East West books on "Past Lives". Is the integration of past lives into our current life accomplished more readily when we are younger than when we are older? I ask because we noticed that many of the people with whom you did readings on seemed to be in their 30's. It seems that by the time we reach our midlife, many of us have done "inner work" with a counselor or body worker and seem to be at a place of contentment. Contentment might be accepting what is rather than being integrated. BJ

Dear BJ,
What a great question. Actually most people don't enter their inner work until mid life or closer to their 40's. I think past life integration occurs when we are content and at peace with life the way it is, this usually happens after much inner work has been accomplished. Past life integration is when a person allows the incorporation of a life that was painful into their soul's awareness with healing and appreciation of the life time. Most of the time the pain was so difficult that the soul splinters off, continuing the agonizing event over and over again in some sort of hologram in another dimension, as if the life time never ended. The lessons that were gained from this experience are hence not integrated and cannot be used, including gifts and abilities. Major life themes in a being's current experience are keys to the lost but still hurting lifetime. The continuation of the pain haunts all life times until there is integration. Integration takes courage and a strong since of inner truth, usually occurring later in life.

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