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How to Fix the “Glitches” in Your Life

February 13, 2023 by admin

This post was part of an email sent out last year.  Since that time I have been doing the techniques Margaret suggests below, especially Tapping, and other techniques based on behavior and neuroscience, which have really helped. But I recently had someone write about how that email changed their life and I wanted to include it in an updated  blog. 

Hi My Good Friends,

So I learned something really important about myself this past weekend. I am a fretter!  For the past month or more I have wanted to send out an email but I fretted over what it should cover. I fretted over world events, the economy, the environment, Covid concerns and what was the most important thing to talk about to bring some peace.  I would ask Margaret and she would say – “it will become clear in the perfect time” – and then I fretted that maybe I had somehow missed that perfect time in all of my busy-ness. But it turned out that Margaret was right! This past Sunday, as I drove in the early morning  to do some errands, I had the pleasure of listening to “On Being,” one of my favorite Radio Programs. If you are not familiar with it please check it out at its named link above.

The host, Krista Tippett was interviewing a wonderful guest, Sylvia Boorstein, who taught something from Buddhist Teachings that was so enlightening  – I was shocked I had never heard it before. Sylvia described herself as a “fretter.” One who might find themselves worrying even when the circumstances may not really completely call for it. She stated that “…the Buddha said we have one of five genetic fallback glitches when we’re challenged. He said some people fret. Some people get angry. Some people lose heart, and all their energy goes, and they don’t know what to do with themselves. Some people think, Uh-oh, it’s me. I didn’t do things right. It’s always my fault. I messed things up. And some people need to be sensually soothed. They think, Where’s a donut shop? Where’s a pizza?”

I would imagine then that this soothing could also refer to alcohol or drugs or sex.

I realized that, depending on the circumstances, I had all five glitches! And I would hazard a guess that at times you do as well.  But the one that hits me most frequently is fretting – which really comes down to feeling a lack of control of the unknown and feeling that there is always something I should be doing to make things better. (Which I guess can then eventually lead to the Uh-oh its me – I messed up glitch.)

She stated that once we come to a realization of what our particular “glitch” is – then we can more easily recognize it when it is happening – and rather than getting mad at ourselves for feeling it – we can lean into it and realize that this is our “humanness” in the situation and that this feeling is showing us that something is out of balance.  We can let look at the situation with a little more distance and clarity and compassion.  That last part is especially true when we are looking at the reactions of others as well!

I confirmed this information with Margaret, who said that these “glitches” were, in her words, the cellular wiring that we receive through physically “inherited” cells and the “nurturing” cellular memory of all of our current lifetime experiences.  But since we have chosen this family and this situation – we desire these “glitches” so that we can reprogram them with love and compassion – for ourselves and others.  How we do that is what she speaks about below.  She also pointed out that when you have the feeling of losing heart and all of your energy going – is also called Soul Loss – and why she so encourages reclamation of that energy! 

Margaret said that there are many voices speaking about these cellular “glitches” that exist between our physical humanity and the wisdom of our soul consciousness – although they may not phrase it in such an easy to understand manner as Sylvia did and it is no accident that we see in our world of electronics that a simple “glitch” can cripple that system – just as it cripples ours.

But here is the great thing that we have all come to learn about “glitches.” THEY CAN BE FIXED! There is always a way to patch, to re-write, or to repair the code that causes what is no longer working. That is why we don’t refer to them as complete destruction – we have created the term GLITCH. Even when you say the word it has a light feel of a temporary mishap – like it could be replaced by the word “whoops!”

 

For a deeper understanding of how the soul works and how learning how to work with your glitch(s) expands your soul’s energy you can go  to gerrygavin.com/soulreclamation page to watch the “Care and Maintenance of the Soul” videos at the top of the page.  It talks about how your brain and soul work in concert – and sometimes against each other and how sometimes you can actually loose your personal soul energy in times of trauma, illness, surgery – or even at times when you literally gave your soul away for acceptance.

I had to laugh when the radio program ended and felt like a light bulb had just turned on over my head!  I knew what we would be taking about today – I stopped fretting – took a deep breath and felt this glitch recede.  Now if I could just take care of unlimited abundance, climate change, and world peace… LOL!

Be happy and be well and live in compassion and peace!

With Great Love,

Gerry

Margaret’s message follows below:

Hello Dear Ones and Welcome,

First of all, I have come to really appreciate Gerry’s candid nature about the challenges he faces in his life that he shares in these emails.  I guess after all these years of my sharing the intricacies of his personal life in readings and on stage that he has now come to understand that like energy attracts like energy – so what he is going through – many of you are going through as well!

So he was very excited to hear the concept that to worry, anger, despair, blame, and self soothing were actually human functions that are rooted in responses to dominant internal cellular energy.  He loves the world in which physical science and spirituality collide – although I have explained that they do not really collide – they coexist constantly.  But sometimes it feels good for human beings to be aware that their knee-jerk reactions, might in fact be triggered by their cellular disposition. 

So the question becomes, how do I change or modify my reactions when I begin to see that they are happening – and is there any way to help to create more permanent solutions and to this I say yes and yes! 

Let’s begin with what I will call “In the Moment Modification.”  To change this we begin with breathing and a Pivot Thought. 

First lets start with breathing! I’m not asking you to do any deep meditation here. Just some simple breath and counting. While I know that the current society loves to believe that it is multi-tasking, or thinking of many things at the same time – the truth is that you only can focus on one thing at a time.  So if you breathe and you focus on counting at the same time – then you are totally pre-occupying your thought process. 

Gerry teaches what he refers to as the “Lucky-7” breathing technique – which involves counting to 7 while you inhale, hold your breath to the count of 7 and then exhale to the count of 7 – and repeat.  If you cannot do 7 then hold your breath to the count of 6 or 5 or even 4.  Whatever is comfortable.  This might seem very simplistic, but if you try it today and do this for 3 consecutive times you will find that in that short 63 seconds you have become greatly relaxed. I suggest you do this for 3 minutes and you will feel even more greatly relaxed and 5 if you really want to feel a huge shift. You can do this almost anywhere. 

Now, when you find yourself a little more relaxed, take your mind off the thought that is troubling you by thinking of a thought that brings you joy.  I would suggest that you prepare for this “de-glitching” moment by taking a some time one night to sit down and write a list of your happiest memories. Or things that make you happy now.  I think the memories from the past can sometimes be stronger because they are more rooted. Think of those memories, smile and physically LOOK UP.  Looking up will release hormones of joy. Trust me on this. It is hard to smile and look up – especially when thinking a happy thought – and not be moved to joy and even laughter!

This is like an instant self-fix, or what might be the equivalent of rebooting your computer, or phone, when you experience a glitch. But what happens when you need more help with your electronics? You call for IT help.  In this case of human behavioral glitches, I would suggest you so the same.  But in this case I am talking about calling upon a different IT person. We might refer to this person as your “Internal Technician,” who are experts in assisting you in de-bugging your system, assisting in removing any malware and sorting out all of the cellular “cookies” and mental “cache” that causes your personal system to “glitch” with greater frequency.  Or maybe your “Integrative Technician,” who assists in bringing together the functions of the brain and the soul consciousness that are interrupted by the “glitch.” Maybe you work with an “Intuitive Techncian,” who connects you with your higher self or some form of higher vibrational energy who can advise you as to how to repair your situations. Or, in truth, they could also still serve in the same role as the traditional “Information Technician,” since they are helping you to share cellular information between all of your operating systems.  Whatever you might call them, can you see now how similar this is to the things you already know in your everyday life that are fixable?

“But how can I find these technicians” you ask?  They are all around you. They offer pastoral care at your churches; you find them in places that offer Massage and Reiki and Myofascial Release; you find them teaching or guiding you in Tapping and Guided Meditations. You find them instructing you in methods to increase your Intuitive Abilities and in ways to use products, like essential oils and other remedies to lift your vibration and repair your cells. Finally, you find the greatest of all technicians – nature – in sunsets and sunrises and forests and mountains and beaches

The more you avail yourself of those who have come to specialize in assisting others to heal their “glitches,” the easier it becomes to step back and focus when something triggers that behavior. And more so, the more you do these things, the higher your personal vibration becomes – and you will find your “glitches” are patching themselves or re-circuiting more easily and you are not attracting the same people, or situations, to create that “glitch” again.

And finally there is prayer. The simple words, “Creator, send me a legion of angels, to surround me and raise my vibration to its highest possible frequency,” will assist in surrounding you with angelic energy – lifting your soul and re-booting your soul servers! 

You have this dear ones!  And the ability for all of you to do these things is what lifts not only your energy, but the energy of those around you as well.  This has a chain reaction that vibrates outward and will bring about the other changes that you so desire in the world.  And say the same prayer for not only yourself and your family and your friends – but for those whom you disagree with and even hate.  For if all of you were at your highest vibration, you would heal all of the world’s “glitches” and peace would prevail.

Go in that peace and love and highest vibrational space.

With infinite love,

Margaret

It’s a matter of trust

July 18, 2017 by gerry

Hi My Fellow Learners,

When I refer to you as my fellow learners it is not just a different way of beginning a weekly newsletter. We really are all learning from day to day and it doesn’t matter if you are on the writing end of this message – or the reading end – there is always so very much to be learned.

Often times when you are in the position of being an author, or a teacher, the concept that many people have is that we have reached the point in our lives where we have it all together and we just move through life in a constant state of bliss! Personally, I have never met anyone in this field; myself definitely included, who experiences life in this manner.

We are all human and whenever your life brings you through one set of challenges there is always another one around the corner. The other night, Margaret stated an example of that, when she spoke of our evolution of experiences like being that of a musician. The same could be said of so many disciplines, but in this scenario Margaret used the example of a piano player.

If one were to listen to them playing in concert they would think, “Wow, this person is amazing – they make it look so easy – they are so good at what they do – I don’t know if I could ever be that good!”  But if they were to be there when the pianist was first learning the piece, and they did not know how skilled they were, they would hear them start and stop and make errors in the process – and their reaction might be to say, “I heard so much about this person – but they really don’t seem that good!”

That’s because when we are in the midst of learning something we don’t have it down. We stumble with things that are new – until we figure things out and get our balance – and then suddenly we are able to do that thing almost without thinking. For those of you who drive, can you remember how hard it was when you were learning? We learned how to gauge the right pressure on the pedals – how to properly judge the turns – and how to watch out for and react to other drivers. But as time goes on you begin to do these things without having to really focus on doing them. They become an extension of you – something as natural as walking.

There are so many other situations in which we have done this and proven to ourselves that we are so capable of expansion in so many ways. But what can cause us to struggle with new things that come before us is that we forget to have TRUST!

TRUST – Trust is what you need in order to live your passion, to overcome curve balls, break through patterns that don’t serve you and let go of things that drag you down. You have to enter new paths and therefore you need trust in your core inner self and inner beliefs.

Trust that your soul is simply perfect love and truth and that you can connect to this trust-filled state.

On today’s radio program Margaret discusses the quandary of maintaining trust and ways to cultivate it. I am looking forward to this show as there have been many things in my life of late that have caused me to question some of my deep inner beliefs – and when that happens I know it is time for a reminder of all the miracles that have already happened in my life..!

This week and in the weeks to come, the radio program is moving to 6:30PM Eastern and 3:30PM Pacific for its live airing!  If you could use some help from Margaret in jump starting your internal trust –please don’t miss this program and please feel free to call in! We love your calls and they help so many people!

I wanted to share one last thing with all of you about helping other people and the 50/50 Partnership Program that I instituted a couple of weeks back. I decided to extend this program and please know that in your becoming a part of this it is not just about my helping you with a 50% discount on all of our services. You are helping me as well! You are confirming in me the trust that if we can make services more affordable that more of you will be able to take advantage of them more easily and quickly. And you are also helping me to be able to support my family and to continue to be able to do this kind of work! 

So we are supporting each other and we truly are 50/50 partners in helping each other to keep on trusting that we can change the world – we can expand the love and the care and the healing – and we can make a difference!

So I thank all of you who join this partnership for you are helping me to keep Margaret’s Messages flowing and bringing Soul’s home all over the world. You also reaffirm my trust that we are all in this together – and that together we can do anything!!! The box below has all the details and links. Let’s help each other to be all that we can be!

With great love and gratitude!

Gerry

What to do when your life is falling apart?

July 11, 2017 by gerry

 

Hello Dear Ones and Welcome,

My message this week is a little different – for it comes in two parts – one now and one later! I want to begin with the topic of what to do when you feel like your life is falling apart around you! I know that you have all experienced this feeling in one way or another and that many of you have experienced it more than once! It comes when the situations that you had been expecting turn out to be not what you had expected – so you continue to struggle to bring that which you desire into fruition and as you are doing this you are not paying attention to other parts of your life – that are slowly unraveling. It is like that small crack in the windshield of your car that happens at a time when you might not be able to afford to fix it – because you are focused on spending your money in a different direction – but then it grows larger and larger until you can no longer ignore the problem.  The issue is being able to move your focus to those things that are most important and trusting that the other things will fall into place – or maybe were not intended to fall into place after all.

Now here is the different part of this week’s message – I ask you please to join me on the radio program – live this evening at 6pm Eastern – or in a replay later in the week – where I can share my advice on how you can best address this and more importantly, why it may keep happening! I long tonight to also hear your questions about this and to help you to move forward! And I will also answer it on the blog after the show as well. I just wish so much to bring you into a community of other like minded individuals who have come here to help each other. The truth is, your lives are not falling apart, they are actually coming together in a different direction and I would love to help you to see how you can identify that direction!

Speak to you more tonight on the radio show!

Love,

Margaret

When Enough is Enough!

June 27, 2017 by gerry


Hello My Fellow Travelers,

 

This past weekend I had the great pleasure of facilitating the Living Room Tour, at the home of Eric Belair and Courtney Ramm, on the campus of Unity of Dallas. My thanks to both of them because I think the weekend was as powerful for me as it was for the attendees. I got to participate in a Sound and Meditation healing session, that Eric coordinated and performed in, the night before the workshop and beautiful services the day after. The weekend clearly had a theme – that came out in the words Margaret spoke and even in the homily that Sr. Minister James Buchanan shared with the congregation on Sunday.  That theme was about finding missing pieces in us and one of those pieces was our individual ability to grasp the understanding that I AM ENOUGH!

Those are three really powerful words! They are also words that elude almost all of us. The word enough is in itself such an interesting word. The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes it as: occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, needs, or expectations. From the time that we are young children we begin to realize that our life is going to be a constant process of trying to meet the demands, needs and expectations of others. And we develop within our self a need to be able to do these things in order to feel good about us. But since every individual is constantly changing – and their needs are constantly evolving through the needs, wants and desires of others – our ability to keep up with those needs in them is almost impossible. 

So we begin to fail in meeting their expectations of us – or they fail in meeting our expectations and we all begin to develop the belief that we are not enough. We are not thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or tall enough. We are not rich enough, powerful enough, fun enough, or sexy enough.  For every human trait, belief or characteristic, there is someone feeling that they do not have enough of that! And when we feel this way then we are feeling inherently less than others. The most amazing part of this equation, however, is that this is something that EVERYONE on this planet feels to some degree.  There is always some quality that we wish that we had – and even when others might express to us their appreciation of how much we are – we may still not be able to take that in because we are focused on all that we are not!

So how do we lift our self out of the trap of feeling that we are NOT ENOUGH?  Margaret suggests that it begins by looking outside of your-self and seeing the “enough-ness” of others. If we begin with the basic understanding that everyone feels like they are not enough, then we can understand the actions that other’s take. We can appreciate their insecurities – we can feel compassionate for their weaknesses – we can better understand their prejudices and we can love them not despite these things but because we come to realize that they are just like us – and though our thoughts and struggles may be different, we are all involved in the same struggle to be “enough!” And if they then are enough – and we are all the same – then we have to be enough too!

From your soul’s perspective, you are not only enough, but in the words that Rev. James said this past weekend, “you are ‘off the charts’ enough and you just keep getting better!” Your soul does not judge you for your height, or your singing voice, or your ability to feel confident in groups – it loves you for being just who you are – this amazing being who had the courage to incarnate into a situation where it does not realize that it already is enough and that all of these experiences are about expanding your soul energy and becoming more than enough!

That is why we are here, not to help ourselves to feel as though maybe if I do this, or buy this, or take this, then I might feel like enough. But to realize that we start out as enough – and that every experience of self love and love for others; every experience of compassion and kindness; every experience of expanding limited beliefs; all lead you to moving beyond enough, the feeling of completion and wholeness – to limitless the state of who you really are! 

This week we celebrate our enough-ness and the fact that we are already “off the charts” in our being enough and that every day we are becoming even more!

Please make sure to tune into this week’s radio program as  Margaret will expand on this even more and if you would like to learn more about how we lose pieces of ourselves and sometimes get stuck in the feeling of being less than, or powerless, please check out the special video series that I recently made about the “Care and Maintenance of your Soul.”  Those who sign up for the series are eligible for a $100 discount on Soul Reclamation – just to say thank you for taking the time to learn more about your brain and your soul and helping us to help you, and others, to become more than you might have ever imagined!

 

You are “Off the Charts” Wonderful!

Love Gerry

It’s All Elemental

June 6, 2017 by gerry

 

Margaret’s Message June 6th

 

Last week I hinted at what I wanted to share as my message for the month of June. I wanted to speak about the three things that were held in common by the three most popular observances of the month. Those three things are Father’s Day, Graduations and Weddings – as June is one of – if not the most popular wedding month of the year. What they share in common is something very basic – they are all celebrations of new beginnings and all involve elemental shifts!

Graduation marks a milestone of movement from one form of learning to another form – whether it be from Kindergarten to Grade School – Grade School to Middle School – Middle School to High School and then on to College, Graduate Schools, Doctoral Programs – or off to different forms of employment and the graduations that they often experience through the upward movement of promotions! These new beginnings are very singular in their nature as they are the direct result of your individual accomplishments and are all about your evolution as an individual. What is interesting however is that as you are progressing as an individual you are also moving along as a “class.” And part of the success you will encounter is not only about your individual achievements, but how you also stack up against the people in your class. I bring this up only to help you to see that the very groups that give you some sense of connection, acceptance and belonging, are also the groups that are giving you a sense of separation from other groups – and a sense of lack. Regardless of all of the amazing talent that might be in a particular class there will always be just one – or maybe two – Valedictorians. These are the individuals who have set themselves apart from the rest of the group by seemingly showing the most outstanding achievements. I am not speaking poorly of these individuals – because their achievements are great – but often there are other great achievers who lose their momentum for achieving their dreams when they do not seem as important as the top GPA or attendance record.

If I were to be speaking to the Graduates of a High School Class I would urge them to not compare themselves to others – for everyone is so very different – and many different voices make for a beautiful chorus! Rather, I would advise them to do those things that will help you to progress in society – but always look for the thing that brings them the greatest joy! There are many young people who have come into this incarnation with the skills to create vast new possibilities for this planet – that will never be realized if they settle their desires to the “status quo.”

A single person can change the course of the planet and if you look through history you will see that it is the actions of singular people who are changing it all the time. You are not “graduating” and leaving behind the knowledge of the past. You are evolving to the next level of your being and your schooling is just a part of that learning. It is interesting that many modern societies have come to the belief that learning is so important that you actually require it! Your soul always desires to grow. It desires new experiences, greater knowledge and you are always seeking a deeper understanding of yourself. Regardless of your current place in life, use this month of June to graduate to your newer level of evolution and know that all of you are in a class all by yourself and have come here to be the greatest expression of yourselves that you can possibly be!

Sometimes in that desire to become the greatest expression of yourself you come across another being that helps you to reach those heights – and often you do the same for them. When this takes place it allows you to feel safer to allow a greater opening of your heart centerwhich enables you to feel a pure connection to your soul – your higher self. This feeling of your own soul’s essential energy of pure love causes you to want to continue the connection to this person, who has triggered your feeling safe to do this, and you desire to prolong your contact with them. This usually evolves into relationships and some of these relationships will evolve into a joining of permanence that you have come to call Marriage. Relationships are a “graduation” in their own right. You graduate from thinking solely of your own needs and happiness and begin to desire to spread that love and joy to others. In the healthiest of relationships you do not give up your own self-care, but you expand that caring to include others and you derive joy from doing this – just as your beloved experiences the same with you. I mentioned earlier that so many marriages take place in the month of June because it provides, in many cases, the optimal weather conditions – allowing for the most auspicious beginning to this union of two souls that have come together to form something “bigger than the both of them!

Marriage is about joining two people together as a collective unit of energy. It is like when you combine two other elements of nature – for example – hydrogen and oxygen. Either one, on their own, provides a powerful and useful purpose, but combined they create water – which is the key to the existence of the entire planet. When you begin to see yourself as energetic beings, you come to realize that it is the combination of your individual energies that often leads to magnificent new energies that allow you to create other new possibilities. One’s energy brings to the other certain elements that may be lacking in their structure. The key, if you will, to human relationships, and especially marriage, as you have created it to be a lifelong joining, is to respect the structure of each individual’s makeup – supporting them to grow that expression of their energy – while respecting your unique energy as well. You then allow those energies to blend and see what develops through this blending. As with other elements – different blends work in different ways. Some blends will produce explosive results, while others are gentle transformations and some will not blend – seeking instead to just hold onto their original structure. I hope you can see how well this applies to people in relationships as well. Some blends are so easy and produce more joy and expansion than in their original forms. In other cases, the combinations are explosive and result in constant conflicts as each form seeks to retain their unique identity – while at the same time wanting to be in this mix of energies. And finally there are those relationships in which the elements just do not blend at all. But when these energies do blend, the result is an amazing new creation – an expression of combined soul energy that allows for a far greater expansion then the two individual souls could create – because their blending was based in the expansion of love – and a new and wonderful beginning takes place.

And sometimes when two souls join together – through marriage or just through the expression of a sexual union – this blending of energies actually gives birth to an entirely new human form – and that form becomes the container for an entirely new soul. And this new soul gives the two elements that joined together another new identity – that of a father and a mother. We honor Mothers during the month of May – but it is in June that we honor the energies of Fathers. In today’s times the roles of mothers and fathers have greatly blended – especially in the case of single parents. Father’s traditionally took on the role of the provider and protector. Today that may expand to being the coach, transporter, meal maker, laundry facilitator, homework helper and emotional support. What makes this such an amazing new beginning is that – like the marriage you desire to help this new being to be the greatest expression of itself that it can – and like with graduation – you watch them develop all of the skills they will need in life – from learning to feed themselves – to walking – to learning to read and so very much more. You support their growth – but you also try to protect them! The desire to protect their young is hard wired into the brains of almost all parents of all species – but it is most complicated as it refers to humans. You desire to protect – which comes from the brain – but you also desire to help your young ones to expand – which comes from the soul – so you then seek to find that perfect blend of energies that is called balance.

So you see dear ones, what Graduation and Marriage and Father’s Day have in common is that all three speak to new beginnings and all three are best accomplished through seeking balance of your personal elements in all things. When you cook, or eat the perfect meal, it is generally because all of the elements of that dish are balanced in such a way as to compliment the other. Balance work with fun… balance learning with sharing… balance your needs with other’s needs… balance teaching your children with learning from them…balance protecting with encouraging independence… and balance every struggle with love.

You drink water, or something made with water every day. You shower with it and you cook with it. Use water as your daily reminder of how perfectly two very different elements can come together to form something so wonderful. The one part of oxygen does not become upset that there are two parts of hydrogen – the blend works. Look for what works in your life and when it does celebrate it – like you would a graduation, or a wedding – or Father’s Day! And just as all of the elements complement each other – take some time to complement yourself on those blends that you have created in this lifetime, for however long they have lasted, for all of them have helped your soul to grow its energy and for you to grow in your humanity!

Go in peace, love and elemental balance,

Margaret

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