Believe

2018: The Year of the "Yang Dog"

We have moved from the year of the Fire Rooster into the year of the Earth Dog, a time of "interrupting the interrupters" with Yang energy to strengthen the earthquake now happening in earth's humanity. 

My wire haired dachshund speaks to me at this point in my essay. Miss Frida was named after the artist Frida Kahlo, she was full of powerful wisdom bursting forth with exactly what she knew was important and needed at any moment. She lived out loud and her nick name was "Frida Buddha" for her big loving eyes full of old soul knowledge.

Dachshunds are also known as "Rat Dogs", they can smell and find a rat in any environment. Miss Frida could always find the cockroach in any room or bug in any yard. I believe this is what is happening now. What used to be just a bad smell gracious people ignored is now a rotten mess that must be raised and removed to no longer infect our next generation. 

Building Community

The #MeToo, #Enough, #TimesUp and 2018 Women's March schedule now in process is powerful. To support each other rise into our highest ambitions and talents, we need to collaborate with all of our voices and play a better game. 

Makers Conference

Women are leading the way and rising to our highest selves. The way to change is to be in charge. Being in charge means setting an example of female leadership for our girls to learn from, we need equality plus knowing how powerful our female energy is as mentors.

"The world is waking up. We all feel it. On every continent, in every industry, at every level, women are raising their voices and taking charge like never before. The 2018 MAKERS Conference will take this movement to the next level. We'll explore new ways to make shock waves, unleash our collective power, and lift each other up as we fight for causes that matter."

Did you know that 1.59 billion people are ready to either stay behind or move forward on the largest interactive platform on the planet, Facebook? 

All this has happened since the movie "Enough" came out in 2002. Technology for the people has had to catch up with the  reality that has only recently been identified and confirmed by the medical community as irrational gaslighting, a narcissistic behavior that does not make sense and never will. 

This behavior is not OK 
We have to own that we allowed this to happen by not supporting our sisters in the workplace and at home. 

ENOUGH:

"Working-class waitress Slim (Jennifer Lopez) finds her life transformed when she marries wealthy contractor Mitch (Billy Campbell). She settles into an idyllic suburban life and seems to have everything she wants. Her dream is shattered when she discovers her husband is anything but perfect. His abusive behavior forces her to go on the run, eluding an increasingly obsessive Mitch and his lethal henchman."

Release date: May 21, 2002 (USA) Director: Michael Apted Featured song: Alive

Music composed by: David Arnold Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan

All Souls Rise

TOGETHER

We honor and celebrate a time of grief and love with a ritual that is historic and special to our souls and united in expanding our hearts together.   

The 28th Annual All Souls Procession Weekend will be November 3-5, 2017!

All Souls Day 

Is celebrated after Halloween on November 2nd and is a ritual of remembering our loved ones who have died. In Tucson we had over 150,000 people participate in our one of a kind parade of the dead. It is a subversive, theatric, tear filled, dance and music extravaganza of spiritual vision and expansion beyond religous beliefs.  

The offerings, face masks, puppets and theater embrace the eclectic and creative nature of Tucson. Our souls who have been drawn to live here are wild and artistic, the ghosts are all around us from from those who came before in our western frontier of magnificent mountains, dancing saguaros and rolling tumbleweeds.

Photo by Jeffrey Scott Brown | ArtbyJilly.com | Artist Mirrored | Designed by Jilly Jesson Smyth

My cowgirl spirit was awakened at The Historic Rialto Theater in Tucson, Arizona to submit my grief for all who have died in my life over many years including almost all family, tons of friends and dozens of pets. I turned in my personal photos to be included in the slide show with everyone who did the same and felt the universe receive the release and celebration. 

Watch the Amazing All Souls Procession 

2013 Grand Finale with Flam Chen

Our Beloved Animals are Also Honored... 

We lost Miss Frida and our cat Mr. Sinatra this year

The meaning of Fall:

"In the Christian calendar, November 1 is the Feast of All Saints, a day honoring not only those who are known and recognized as enlightened souls, but more especially the unknowns, saints who walk beside us unrecognized down the millennia.

In Buddhism, we honor the bodhisattvas - saints - who refuse enlightenment and return willingly to the wheel of karma to help other beings. Similarly, in Judaism, anonymous holy men pray the world from its well-merited destruction. We never know who is walking beside us, who is our spiritual teacher. That one - who annoys you so - pretends for a day that he's the one, your personal Obi Wan Kenobi. The first of November is a splendid, subversive holiday." 

― Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Halloween is the only the beginning of the season based on a commercial commerce business model initiated during the industrial revolution and our grandparents recovery from the depression. I believe we are moving into a shapeshifter time of evolutionary change. We will expand our humanity to an enlightened wisdom out of the current chaos where All Souls Rise.

As our souls rise this season, get in touch with our future together.

Much Moksha Love,

XOXO Jilly

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Why Love?

Is H2H a trending hashtag in your life too? 

I believe taking action by connecting with emotions from the heart has been missing from western civilization for a long time. Living only from the head has not served us well and it shows. 

"Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything."

Eben Alexander, M.D. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife 

Miss Samantha my beloved chihuahua

Many people have never experienced business and a career from a heart centered approach from the corporate environment. It is only recently that I have seen others besides me gravitate to not living their lives and work in a superficial way. It is now no secret in extremely successful organizations that empathy, manners and creativity is valued first and foremost in the workplace. 

Ignoring the important things in life, not really listening and plowing through is now old style with the hashtag #H2H, Heart to Heart, now gaining momentum.

Now when I run across the lack of empathy and grace in networking with others it is like talking to a person made of cardboard.    

  

Wishing you a Happy Valentine Every Day!

I hope when someone say's "bless you" they mean it and when they look at you, to listen or to talk, they see your eyes and feel your soul. This is what is important and I hope we find this buried treasure as we reconnect to restore balance to humanity through conscious communication.

The heart and the empathatic emotions that come from within can be lost in the rush to win before being eaten by a shark. This way of life becomes reinforced every time we suffer, most recently by the 2007-2008 recession.

I propose that this whirlwind stop as each of us begins to look within for answers using the creative heart with the left brain's rational support.

To Be a Better Human here are 10 suggestions to implement:

1) A No Gossip Policy
2) Say Thank you Often 
3) Listen More
4) Put the Phone Away  
5) Look Eye to Eye 
6) Be Respectful
7) Have Integrity First
8) A No Bully Policy
9) Learn Anger Management
10) Speak Kindly First 

Be Different, Be Kind

To begin fresh this year reminds me to start with the heart.
It takes courage to break a habit that doesn't serve you or humanity but the payoff is HUGE... 
I highly recommend it! 
Much Moksha Love, Jilly
@JillyWisdom @JillJessonSmyth    

Transitioning

Download in June

My sacred contract is unfolding during the most ebullient time of the year, June, bursting with color and joy and protected by Danu, a Goddess of class, grace and creativity, a good friend to my mythic Goddess: "Athena of the Desert". 

Here are some June "gems" based on tradition:

The moonstone reflects and receives love and protection, the pearl symbolizes churning out impurities to gain protection and the alexandrite draws in the energy of good fortune.

When I sculpt in wood, I choose oak for it's strength, stability and power. 

Father's Day in June represents the father of all Gods, Zeus, and my father is center to my shift in awareness and growth.  

You are welcome to watch my June story that reflects the above qualities:

"TORII: The Profane to the Sacred" 




A few minutes to Knowledge that Will Help You

I will leave you with a June poem...

Soar with the Eagle and ground yourself with the Bull,

Delight your senses with summer Roses,

Rebirth your life with Honeysuckle. 

Much Moksha Love, Jilly

Make It So!

Happy Valentines Day!

Today, folks should be all about love. Unless you’re old.

- Stephen Colbert

Jilly LIVE with co-host Mr. Einstein

    Did you you know that you make up your own reality in your left brain? 

Did you know the magic of the universe is in your right brain? 

On this special
day, my wish for 
you is that
you fall in love 
with yourself!




Always thinking with your ego, left brain, stops the flow of energy meant for you to find your bliss, which was always there from birth. 

When you let go of survival mode, you will allow all the magic in the universe to flow through your heart and soul. 

Only then will your reality reach beyond your knowing 
and you will love yourself first and foremost.

Make It So!
Love and doggy kisses, Jilly
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Why Magnificence?

You are magnificent, period, no explanation required.

There are angels all around you.
Are your eyes wide shut or are they open to see?

Today, I was reflecting on all the interesting and fascinating people I am blessed to meet. Learning about their gifts and seeing the life glowing from their eyes and smiles. Each person creates something amazing with talents from God.

It makes it all the more heartbreaking to feel the anger that flows through a day.

I pray and meditate for forgiveness and understanding for the dysfunctional infliction of pain and suffering on our fellow beings. It is a vicious cycle. We can help by giving comfort in times of deep pain that there are no words to express. Listening and hearing with tears can express a deep concern for our friends grief and the victims of tragedy.

Praying for all family's who have had a loss, please bring love to flow around each person everywhere. Grieving is a cycle of recovery that takes years and patience.     

The more people we know, the more our hearts open and the more we can experience and feel as those friends transition either in life or death.

When you go to a place of total love there is no fear. 

If you come across someone in your path today who is always reacting in fear, bless them and walk away with compassion.

Fear based reactions are:

Sarcasm
Complaining
Blocking (the hand)
Gossip
Anger
Stuck

Feeling, expressing and experiencing these negative emotions is OK, it means a solution is needed or can be found. The problem comes when the reaction is deep in your inner being and stays stuck for years. Then it is a habit. This is why so many suffer. The suffering ripples out and slams other people unconsciously.

Create a new habit, think before speaking or writing, use manners and graciousness, be compassionate. Stop being mean to others. Say yes to something you can learn.

Magnifence is an attribute that is God given. If you know yours, you will know greatness in your soul.

Dare greatly today because there is only today,
Jilly

Tucson Women of Wisdom

Life is about remembering and forgetting. 

Have you ever stopped and carved out a moment to reflect through meditation? 

Meditation is necessary, vital, to start with a blank slate in order to write a story based on what you really want, not what people tell you to do, not what you need to do to graduate whatever, not to please your parents or bank, or friends and relatives, but what God has put in your body, heart and cells to accomplish.

Do you think that it's an accident that you have desires?

It's not.

When doctors told me in my teens and twenties that I needed to learn breath work and meditation to keep my health and pain level in check, I told them "when will I have time for that?"

Working 24/7 for someone who doesn't care for you and raising $30,000 to a million dollars a month was my first error. I no longer do that because I remembered. 

If you are in survival mode stop. It will never change if you don't release and forget that cellular memory. 

I highly suggest listening to your heart, release the baggage, than remember who and what to focus on that will give you access to the tools you need to achieve your desire.

Remembering is easy after that is accomplished and it's only accomplished after meditation.

Find a place in your home for 5 minutes every morning. No ifs ands or buts, do it. Lock the door of the bathroom if you have to and put out a sign. They will learn by your example.

To summarize, you only have now to do what you wish for and you deserve it. What your desire is will change the world because it is supposed to. 

Don't let life get in the way of living yours, Namaste' Jilly

Meditation

How do you really know what you were meant to accomplish in life? 

How do you access your gifts after a lifetime of responsibilities?

How do you feel? How do you REALLY feel?

Meditation is the way to your heart. It helps guide you to what God and Spirit means for you to BE, by giving you the peace and quiet to listen. It just takes a little practice and patience. Tell those in your life to hang while you invest time in yourself. Meditation is what has brought me the deeper wisdom and opportunities being gifted to me, it has been incredible to meet the people I'm now surrounded by and my business and life has expanded beyond my imagination. 

When you are true to your heart, resentments, judgements, anger, shame, guilt and jealousy go away as you forgive your imperfections and fill your heart with love. It doesn't matter where you are, where you come from or how much you have or have not, anyone can learn. It just takes desire and "master mindfulness" thinking.

The reason most successful people are successful, it is because they meditate.

Join the meditation movement as we bring it to corporations, universities and schools across the world. The new generation has the opportunity to begin on the right foot and be wiser than we are, awareness is key.

Namaste and Love, Jilly

Father's Dream

Hello and Happy Father's Day,

On this very special day of honor, to the man whose seed gave me life, I would like to share a poem that reflects how I feel about about the fact that his soul was released to the heavens. I miss his smile, but it left his face long before he was gone. He wanted to leave and was ready. 

"Don't stand by my grave and weep,
For I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
In the soft hush of the morning light
I am the swift bird in flight.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there,
I did not die.
- unknown Native American Author

He is with me always with a twinkle in his eye,
And he guides me at every moment.

Break open your heart to your soul and you will find greatness,
Love, Jilly

Be Kind, Be Loving.

Hi all Loving Hearts!

I was away for awhile getting some things I am very passionate about completed and wondered what I was going to write about next, I have a long list of good things to share!

But, God gave me the exact right thing in front of my eyes this morning:

LOVE!

"In accepting...

I see that life is not about having it all, but about loving it all."

- Janine Shepherd, The Gift of Acceptance

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Be kinder than you have to be!

MOSHKA!

Hello fellow travelers on the PATH to your heart!

This year has been ZOOMING by even faster than 2012 and it is time to slow down!

I have something special to share that starts TODAY! Remember all my mentions for the past few years how important Oprah and Dr. Deepak Chopra are going to be to the NEW millennium world shift? Well now it is official.

Since Deepak and Oprah traveled to India together last year things have been moving forward at a very fast clip. The wave has begun.

Find Your MOKSHA by going into the Gap!

The Journey to Perfect Health starts TODAY with Oprah and Deepak Chopra! Meditate with us for three weeks! It’s FREE to participate.

Namaste and Love, Jilly

Hanukkah Prayers and Wishes

Hanukkah is a Celebration deeply immersed in a history that includes pain, tragedy and redemption of the spirit.

Today, I found out one of my friends and partners lost a young family member yesterday at the Elementary School Shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and I would like to request a prayer for his family.

Her name was Olivia, only six years old.

Share the gift of a Hug and Smile this Holiday!