Author Archives: Sherry Kalei Bumgardner

About Sherry Kalei Bumgardner

Aloha, I am living my Dream! My Hubster and I Retired 2012, moved to Kauai, after planning it for over 15 years. I owned and operated a Beauty Shop for over 40 years, and I'm an Artist of many mediums. My favorites; Painting (Portraits, and Seascapes) and Multi media Journalling. I've been Married to my Best Friend Tom, "Bummie" for 20 years, and it's been the most Amazing part of my life, with the exception of the Birth of my Daughter, who is a mother of 5 and a Grandmother of 6. Yes, that makes me a GREAT G'Ma! I still can't believe that! and Yes, I'm too young to be a Great G'Ma! Me and my Daughter both started very young ☺️ I have a Kitty girl, named "Miracle" I hand fed her at at 8 hours old. She is now 11. (Update: My Miracle passed away last year at 14 💔) I now have 2 kittens both rescues both I bottle fed 💕 “Squirt” & “ Bobbi” 🐾🐾🐾🐾 My definite plans are to make the rest of my life, the Best of my life! I know Amazing things are waiting for me. Wish me well!🌺💕 I Love Nail Art, Makeup, & Line Dancing 🥰

Today I decided to see if I could be accepted as an Ambassador for Maniology.  This would combine my Love for stamping, and nail art. If you haven’t yet heard of Maniology,  it’s an awesome Company located on Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. They make stamping plates with all the tools needed to stamp a huge array of designs, to create creative nail art. They have a ton of stamping plates, stamping nail polishes & Kits that include everything you need to design your own personalized look.  I’ll return shortly with the answer I got from Maniology on becoming an Ambassador, and will be using this blog to spotlight my nail art using their products. If accepted, I’ll be receiving a discount code for all who wants to order these fabulous products. The code will be TBD.

In the meantime, go to http://www.Maniology.com and claim yourself one of the incredible starter kits for FREE! Just pay for Shipping. And trust me it’s well worth it!!

Until the next post, sending you Big Bunches of Aloha🌺

Week 24 ~ The Meaning of Life….

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This week we Graduate from one of the most intense classes I have ever signed up for! Graduate! i-did-it

But the Finish Line is really only the beginning of the promise of a Better, more fulfilling life ahead!

For the past 6 Months, we have been encouraged to become the best person we can be.  We have committed to do the work, and “Work” it was!  Nothing comes for free, and I’m not speaking of money here.  In fact the cost of the course, was a Scholarship given in advance from the previous class of Students, to those who promise to do the work and have faith in the process. The Miracle I started  I promised and I have gained more in this past 6 months than any so called “self-Help” course, or Book has ever shown me.  The Master Key Mastermind Experience was everything it promised, and “easy” wasn’t one of them.  There were times when I thought it was so much to get done, and yet, I did it, and I couldn’t be happier, that I did!   My Husband, said to me today, He was so proud of me, and the changes in me are amazing!  This from a man we needs proof on everything BEFORE doing anything!  He encouraged me daily the moment he saw big changes in my attitude.

I came out on the other end, believing I was one of Nature’s Greatest Miracles!i-am-whole-perfect-strong-powerful-loving-harmonious-and-happy2

It’s so much about Thoughts.

I can’t believe how much my Thoughts were poisoning me, and affecting my Spirit within.

In the process, I found out, the things I wanted, My Bliss, My Dharma, WERE important, and I deserved to have them and I needed to give myself Permission to be Happy!

What?  It’s OK to get the best things out of life?

Hell Yes it is!! In fact, That is exactly what the Universe, God, The Higher Power, wants for us!

Never sell yourself short, you are worth Everything!  You just need to know how, and that You must ask for it!

Your Thoughts are Huge, and Thinking is necessary…

Powerful Thoughts

So why not keep the thoughts positive and nurturing. It takes the same amount of energy to think good thoughts, as it does to think negative thoughts!   I realize now, how much I thought of things that really weren’t a part of my “Circus”!

OK so What is your gift?  I’m so happy to have found mine, and I will continue to learn so much more everyday, from here on.  I’m open to so much more that life has to offer, and my bags are packed!

Many years ago My Hubster and I planned to retire to our Favorite place on Earth.  I already knew so much about the ways of the Islanders,  My Daughter is half “Poly” and all my Grandchildren and My Great Granddaughter are all Pacific Islanders.  Warning: A little bragging here: My oldest Granddaughter is dancing in Merrie Monarch Next week!!!!….Emma 2.

Any who, back to Island life.  I have always believed “God” is Love.   So,  I had that very Quote tattooed on my back. In Hawaiian.IMG_0434

My Point, you ask?

Love is a gift… Kindness is a gift… giving is a gift… Patience is a gift… really the list is long, and the gifts are real!

Take some time tomorrow to find your gift(s).

Trust me, you can never, give more than you’ll get in return.

 “Give More, Get More”

Mahalo to all who have read my Blog, and to all those who shared so much in their’s.  It’s been a  crazy wild journey, but How could it be any different?   It’s the Heroes Journey, and we are all Heros! A force to be reckoned with to be sure!

As Always with Much Aloha!

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Week 23 ~ Self Ownership

This week I am taking ownership of my Thoughts and by doing this I manifest only the good things I let myself think. The Thinker  I will find Peace from owning/controlling my thoughts.  I will be a (am) Student of my own Stress Management.  I will feel comfortable only while thinking positive,  and discomfort reminds me I’m losing control of thoughts that are not of service to me.

Having my Thoughts in check,  I am in a better position to be of service to others. It is said; it is as essential to give as to receive.Tell the Neg. Commitee shut up!

I’m a Creative Thinker

I no longer concentrate on the sorrow, loss, or discord of ever kind. (This will take some practice!)  It will inevitably lead to more of the same.  So it make sense to think of the things that will create more of what I want.  Making the “Direct Connection” when we use our minds in the direction of Creative Thought!

Ask the Universe for exactly what you want.  

Don’t waste time on things that don’t push you toward your Dharma.

Control my Thoughts 23.21 “Spirituality” is quite “practical”, very “practical”, Intensely “practical”.  It teaches that Spirit is the Real Thing, the Whole Thing, and that Matter is but plastic stuff, which Spirit is able to create, mould, manipulate, and fashion to it’s will.  “Spirituality” is the most “practical” thing in the world– the only really and absolutely “practical” thing that there is!     Wow!  I Love that! 

This week I will think Harmonious Thoughts… This week I will set the bar high!

“We have discovered that premeditated, orderly thinking for a purpose matures that purpose into fixed form, so that we may be absolutely sure of the result of our dynamic experiment”           ~Francis Larimer Warner

Always with much Aloha

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Week 22A ~ I Have My Own Approval!

Here we are, back from a break week, and we (are) suppose to continue to make an effort at disconnecting from,… well most of the things you find yourself helplessly, half-consciously, staring at or trolling thru, such as Social Media, TV, radio, etc…  I haven’t spent a full day successfully doing this, but I found that I normally spent several hours doing this most days without even thinking about it.  Really!  I don’t typically watch TV, and although I am a true FB’er I have many days that I only get on before bedtime and then, I admit, I find myself lost in the realm of the World Wide Web.  Yes, it goes from one thought to; “Oh what’s this, get rid of crepey skin?” CLICK!   hum,  “Oh no She Didn’t!”  CLICK!  “Oh yeah I wrote that down on my hand, to Google” CLICK!  You know the drill… Don’t lie!  I look up at the clock and it’s 2am!!

Yes, I get it!  I see the importance of breaking the BONDAGE” of the Almighty Social Media Disease.  It’s Freaking ridiculous!  I Agree!  So,  A Day can sure go by... I have sincere plans to do this…. Don’t roll your eyes.  I will do this.

 

 

 

This week was to learn to be more Self Directed.

“Today I will be Master of my Emotions.”  Is this really possible?

Have Faith!

“All Nature is a circle of moods, and I am part of nature and so, like the tides, my moods, will rise, my moods will fall.”   Yep, this is me.  I do have some random moods at times, but my control of my moods has improved like night and day in the past few years, and more so in the past few months.  I do although give my self approval to embrace my moods if they are truly valid.  But I don’t give myself permission to make anyone around me, uncomfortable if I am having a nose dive for a few minutes.  This is when I will excuse myself, and allow myself to feel what exactly is going on, and I experience it.  I deal with it, or make plans to address it at a more private time.  This was never the case before,  It was to deal with it now, and I didn’t really care (at the moment) who was in my presence, it got addressed right then and there, usually followed by apologies, either from me, or damn straight from whom I challenged.  I still have opinions, I just don’t usually find it to be important enough to be “Right” anymore.

So I am already Mastering my emotions, and  I’m happy for this, as I’m just getting to old to be confrontational, or fighting about who is right or wrong.  Personally, I don’t give a S%*# anymore.

I found this Lesson 22A;  to be harder to understanding what I just read at first, but it’s becoming a bit more clear,  I have been having a harder time retaining the things I read,  I’ve discussed this with my guide, and I will just continue to read my daily reads and usually It comes together at some point.

“When I Master my Moods, I control my Destiny.

I like that!

I know my self worth.  I feel Magnificent!  I don’t allow anyone to make me feel less than Amazing… not even myself!

Today I AM Master of my Emotions!

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Always with much Aloha

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Week 22 ~ Controlling My Mind

My week has been so full of Tools, for me to use in becoming the Future Me!emotional-release-scrabble-1

I have honestly felt all of these Emotions.  Fear, Anger, Unworthiness, Guilt, and Hurt.  Wait!!  This is some of the contents of my Tool Belt! Sometimes, the things you are afraid of...
In week 22 we have found out, Thoughts are Spiritual seeds, when they’re planted in the sub-conscience, they have a tendency to sprout and grow.  Unfortunately, the fruit that grew isn’t necessarily what we hoped for.

Having the knowledge to be able to answer the question; “What am I pretending not to know?” is priceless! When you change the way you look at things... Learning to increase Self Awareness, aids in finding your dharma!

I Love that I Can make the choices in my life, and I give myself Permission to be Happy.

It will take time to perfect using the tools in my tool belt.  I promise to use them daily, to change the negative to the positive.  I make a mental image of the most perfect me.

And I always keep my Promise!

A conscience recognition of this perfection- first intellectually, then emotionally- brings about a manifestation of this perfection.

I will have, and keep only uplifting thoughts to ward off disagreeable outcomes.

I’ve always proven to be an Extreme Empath, so I cannot (or don’t wish to,) change my excessive sensitivity in the world without. So i will continue to tear up easily, and feel the hurt of others,

But I care.

This will always be an opportunity to help others.  Give more, Get more.

With all the heart wrenching pain I was feeling these past few week, I know now, I had to go thru this, to learn to see the beauty in the memories.  I know that I’m going to be alright…………..

I’m growing up!

Always with much Aloha

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Week 21 ~Choices are Consequences!

I Still Choose Miracles!

Never Stop believing in Miracles

 

Today was probably not the best day to sit and post on my Blog, but here it is;

I need to learn to Think BIG!  It’s a process of “Thought Training.”

I find it best in the Silence.  It’s there I keep learning, by accessing my infinite Power, while making room for the person I’ve already intended to be.

This week has been a week where I keep getting in my own way.  I know what I want… I know what it takes… I have the tools.

My mind is tired… I don’t want to think right now. Yes that’s giving in to the Old Blueprint.  But I’m tired, no, I’m exhausted, Mentally exhausted.

Tomorrow I will work on this.

Always with Aloha

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Week 20 ~ The Power of Thought

I Am because, He Is! … If He is Omnipresent, He must be in Me!

How do we become conscience of power?   By Thinking

I’m honing my power of Thought!

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This week was incredibly surreal, and very hazy.

A bit of Fact & Fantasy.

I’m recovering from a  “Slam in the wall” event, and I’m actually doing better than I thought a week ago.  It took a lot of descending to a place inside my head, while trying to silence the chatter of the week gone by.  My spirit is a bit broken, but my Soul is Whole!

Today; I give Blessings to everything.  I am at peace right now, and I’m surprised at how quickly I got here!  Given enough time to think of the hurt, I will be right back down there again.  But staying aware of all the Miracles around me, I am healing myself faster than I ever have in cases of Heart wrenching loss.

Working on the World withIN is a life-long full-time job… But the Pay is Phenomenal!

Always with Much Aloha🌺💕

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Week 19 ~ Train Body to Train brain…My Heart is Shattered!

 

tear This post will be short, as I am not in a good place right now.

Im trying to make my body, make my brain,  tell my heart it’s going to be ok.

My requirement is to post a blog weekly, and I have gladly done so.  Today I’m a Blubbering Mess, and I feel like I have absolutely no control over my heart.  I can’t stop crying, and I know my Husband understands, but I’m hiding away so I don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Our non-verbles govern how others think and feel about us.

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My precious little K.C. (Killer Chihuahua) was put to sleep Wednesday, and I’m so sad! He was 13.   I’ve always been a Certifiable “Empath”   I cry VERY easily, but except for losing my Mom 4 years ago, I haven’t felt this lost for a very long time.  If you’re not an Animal Lover, you wouldn’t understand.

He was in a lot of pain, so I knew I Loved him enough to let him go. Even his little Sister, “Miracle” our Kitty girl in the photo with him, is walking all over the house looking for him.  They have never been apart, for over 11 years,  except 5 hour flight on, our move to Kauai.

Mind Gym, Tears…. Power Poses,…tears.   I totally believe in the Postures we render. I just can’t find one for this.

Tiny Tweaks lead to Big Changes….

Our minds change our bodies….  Where does my Heart pain fit in?

I already know, this is another process…it takes time.  Just couldn’t think of anything but this to write about.

 

Always with much Aloha

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Week 18 ~ A War Within Me

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Today I knew I had to get to writing my Blog for the week.  I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to say, or shall I say (confess) how it went.  I’ve had an uncomfortable time, I mean Whoa!  Talk about my Old Blueprint trying to pull me back!!  There has been a virtual War within me!!  I’ve spent two whole days, in a catfight with my self, which spilled over into the Outside World!  I felt like the Old Me was winning, because I had a total meltdown the 2nd day!  My poor Hubster,  He has always been my Beacon of Hope ❤️ And he didn’t abandon me now either. He “walked me thru it” and I came back to earth, a bit worn out, but ready to talk… rationally.

With all the Magnificent things I have to be so Thankful for, where the Heck does this raving lunatic come from?  Truthfully, what set me off wasn’t anything earth shattering!  Something  Just rubbed me wrong.  This was me from so many years ago, I thought she was dead!  I’m perplexed as to why she’s rearing her ugly head now?  Associative Memory?   Even before MKMMA, I thought I buried her!  I hadn’t seen her for several years.  Why now??   Is this all a part of the transformation?  To now physically wrestle with the past?  I don’t want to go there.  I want to have the Peace we’ve had for the past 4 years.  Why the Hell did she come back?  With reading all the Obits, I keep hoping I might find her ( The Old Me)  somewhere there!

Personal History Alert!  I was a product of too many Prescription drugs, and I didn’t want to take them anymore!   My Dr. couldn’t take me off them until I saw a “Psychiatrist, so I went with the full intention to be taken off the Anti-depressants I had been put on 27 years ago!  Well, after sitting with this “Psyc” for several sessions, of her talking too much about herself, she told me she didn’t want me off the drugs. In fact, if you can believe it, she tried to put me on an additional drug!  That’s when I told her Goodbye.   Now mind you,  I had never had a reason to be put on them in the first place, it was just a “Brown Bag disease” to give anyone who had upsetting issues.  I was in an Abusive Marriage and needed to get out!  I cried a lot!  I was scared!   I never blew up, I never hurt anyone, never broke anything, I was just sad!   So I was diagnosed as Depressed. By the time I finally got out, I had become a wounded, untrusting, Bitch!  Long Story short(er)  I have now been Married to My precious, and final Husband for 16 years this month, and He has seen me come out of the shell of protection and I trust him World Without End!  Now, Let me disclose, My Guide here on Kauai, Lorelei, is also my Friend and more over; My Healer. A couple years ago, I asked her to help me get off all the drugs, and within a couple months of Healing Cleanses, and Spiritual Sessions, I was completely rid of all the Chemical poisons.

Mahalo a bazillion times Lorelei🌺War Within Me

Now I’m 4 Months into The MasterKey Mastermind Experience, and that witch, returns?  WTH!!   This is a struggle the New Me is going to win!  I refuse to go backward.  I know what to do, and I have the tools to Train my Brain.  Oh, and Answers are in the Silence, right!Very little is needed

Concentration; This is MY Transformation!

Exchanging; Old for New-Good for Better!

I truly am Natures Greatest Miracle!

WoW! The power of the Law of Thought!   I don’t refuse to Let Go of the Banana!  I already Love the Future me!   I already have the Tools and the Support.   I know what to do; Let go of the “Known” for the Awesome “Unknown!  The Call to Adventure, and proceed with the Hero’s Journey!  I am Courageous!

Today is a new day, and I get to start all over.   Forget about my encounter with my Old Blueprint, Let the Loser die!  Like Lorelei reminded me yesterday, Be the Observer 😎 I already know, what I know.  It’s already in me!  No more Self Doubt!All Wonderful Days Start Happening

I’m 1st Class! 

Oh wait!  What?  I get it!!  This is all a part of my “Virgin Birth!”  The Fog Lifts!

Question: “What Would the Person I Intend to Become, Do Next?

The World Needs Heroes!!!  And I’m continuing with the Progression. I’m happier because of it. First we get Happy, Then the good stuff Happens, not the other way around! (as per Trish Abeloff)

I Give myself Permission to be Happy!  So I’ll help myself to Happiness..Happiness is Haemony

 

 

 

 

 

Always With Much Aloha

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