Contemplation & Creativity Counseling

06/10/2026

Donnie says it so well...
"In the age of reason and rational thinking, we face a fundamental problem: we cannot understand God through logic and calculation alone. Reason has its limits. We cannot think our way to God, nor can we arrive at Him through numbers and formulas.

Encountering God requires something different. It demands contemplation—a deliberate turning of attention inward. But contemplation alone is not enough. True encounter with God requires a response, and that response can only emerge from a particular spiritual state called hesychia.

Hesychia is a Greek word meaning “stillness, rest, or silence.” It describes a spiritual practice of complete inner stillness that Eastern Christian Mystics have cultivated for centuries. Within this state of profound quietness, the conditions for genuine encounter with God become possible."

This part of the series will discuss the many ways to naturally stimulate the vagus nerve for reduced stress, inflammation, and disease risk.

06/10/2026

Gene Key 55 Freedom

06/09/2026

05/30/2026

"The calmer you are
the clearer you think.
Let your decisions come
from a place of peace
not from reaction..."

(author - a magic rock I found on a trail)

04/19/2026

New website!
pretty much complete- still debugging...

Using spiritually focused hypnosis attunements, creative writing, and personalized Gene Key readings, Julia provides tools for the inward journey of self-awakening that releases old assumptions that no longer serve the collective and reveals our natural gifts. The more we step into this authentic wa...

03/11/2026

A little more Haiku...
Share yours if you have one!

01/19/2026

Don’t just do something, sit there!’
~ a proverb made popular by Sylvia Boorstein

Let me follow up this concept of non-action with the important 12 Step slogan, Easy Does It…But Do it!

The most important take-home for me in this contemplation is to pause before responding.

Time with inner connection - and listening to my mental commentary until the smoke finally clears - informs my actions much more wisely than my instinctive knee-jerk reactions.
I have learned this the hard way.

This waiting period may be as simple as taking a beat or two to check in with my integrity signal of yes or no. It may be much longer, but the muscle that checks in and recognizes is what I am all about.

The time it takes for clarity to come is something I don’t control. I’ll know when I know. It took practice and patience for me to trust this. It had always been there, I just didn’t trust it.

So once that happens, that knowing, I then have an intuition-informed choice to make and act upon. That’s the But Do It part.
The key here is understanding and recognizing this Channel of Clarity. How do you sense it?

I find it’s revealed when I give myself time to relax enough to be discerning.

A deep dive into Gene Key 57 has been a great support for me in this practice. This is the invitation to feel my unease as part of this discernment.

When I sense it, intuition feels like harmony.

To me, this practice of pausing, contemplating, and using active imagination is the key to opening this channel. Creative writing has helped me shorten the time between intuitive flow, perception, and acting, for certain!

I have also found this practice gently allows courage and trust that give me the strength to act on intuition.

So in these times of turbulence and seeming division, I find waiting for clarity before responding is important for me to maintain critical thinking and spiritual connection.

Having a clear channel that responds in integrity matters.
Here’s to Harmonic Knowing…

01/06/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/juliathie/p/winter-haiku-5

My Heart and Eyes on the Nature Around Me...

01/04/2026

More Winter Haku-ing

01/03/2026