We have tools for building, tools for gardening, tools for effective communication, and tools for managing our business. Why? Because it allows us to be in the driver seat, to manage our experiences, and to generate more form our experiences and efforts.

Tools To Live By (TM) offers you simple tools that when used daily can and will change your life. We understand the need to manage externally, now it’s time to understand and gain the benefits of learning to manage internally.

In this class you will learn to manage your energy, your space, your emotions, your experiences and your relationships.

You’ll learn six simple tools that when combined create a powerful space from which you can create positive change in your life.

Tools To Live By (TM) is a six week course that meets once a week. There are two sessions (Mondays at 11 AMT ET or 8 pm ET) making it easier for people with different needs to attend the class that works with their timezone and personal life demands.

This class is experiential, like all of Christine’s work, which means you won’t be simply listening, you will be learning tools and exploring them in each and every class.

This is not a magic potion though. What you gain from this class will be directly connected to your desire to shift and grow, and your commitment to use the tools daily for up to an hour, once we get into the class.

So, if you are ready to learn how to manage from the inside out, ready to get your life flowing and ready to create conscious change in your life sign-up for the next Tools To Live By (TM) course now!

All classes are taught via Tele-Conference.  You can call-in or Skype in.  Cellphones are not recommended.  Your regular long-distance charges will apply. It is highly recommended that you use a headset (not ear buds with the teeny tiny cellphone mic)  for this class.  It enables your hands to be free, your body to be comfortable and your voice to be heard and it tends to eliminate echos on the line.

This class is recommended if you plan on taking Christine’s 12 Month Clairvoyant and Conscious Living Program in the Fall of 2012.

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Thoughts From My Shower: The War on Women – What’s Really Going On

By Christine Agro

As I stepped into the shower today I was contemplating ‘The War on Conservative Women’, a commentary that Michelle Malkin, self-proclaimed conservative syndicated journalist, wrote today.

Ever since I read it early this morning I’ve felt that inner percolation that comes with a major piece of awareness. It isn’t that Ms Malkin is a conservative, or that she herself is a name-caller, what is bothering me is that again, still, women are pitted against each other. In her commentary she explains that she’s been called worse than a ‘slut’, referencing Rush Limbaugh’s outrageous labeling of Georgetown student Sandra Fluke who last week testified before a Democratic hearing on Women’s Health and Contraception.

The implication is ‘get over it’ as she goes on to pull out past degrading remarks made about conservative women. Always nice to add salt to wounds mind you.

So as I stepped into the shower still mulling this commentary over it led me to think about the bigger picture with regard to the current environment women are experiencing. Here’s what I saw: All the uprising around the world, the battle being waged with, for and by women in the United States – all of this is raising the boiling point to where, as Spirit in female bodies, we hopefully will choose to break the collective agreement we have been playing out for centuries. That agreement: to down play our innate power and accept living in a world that is sorely out of balance with the Masculine Principle informing everything from laws to religious edicts to social and cultural mores and worse where we accept what comes from that imbalance.

Many of us have experienced those moments in our lives where it takes the pure inner fire of ‘enough-is-enough’ to create change in our own lives. Whether it’s ending a relationship or taking that step to assert yourself. It is the inner fire of ‘this is not ok’ that burns through the unconscious agreement that had you locked into a certain way of being.

Today I saw that this is what is happening. We are being pushed to the brink of ‘enough-is-enough’ and ‘this-is-not-ok’ and I hope that enough frustration, anger, and outrage will build so that we can and do finally break this unconscious collective agreement.

Let the Feminine Principle rise up and create a healthy balance with the Masculine Principle. Let us be who we truly are, instead of who we agreed to be centuries ago.

Christine Agro is The Metaphysical Feminist. She is the Founder of FEMSocial.com a unique social networking site for women that offers both a community and experiential classes and courses that help empower women. Christine is also curating the on-line project Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment and hosts Fully Empowered – a live talk radio show heard on A2Zen.FM

Thoughts From My Shower: All My Life’s a Spiral

The Harry Chapin song has been running in my head since I started looking at this but instead of “All My Life’s a Circle” I’ve got “All My Life’s a Spiral” playing.

I was in the shower and I was looking at how I create and manifest. I have been aware of a flow and ebb dynamic. It’s a dynamic that I talk about often. (Love the Flow, Embrace the Ebb!) I’ll come up with an idea or a project and begin to bring it to life and then at some point there’s an ebb and the energy seems to stop moving forward. I’ve learned to shift my focus to something else when this happens. Inevitably though, at some point, the project will begin to flow again. When it does, I pick it up where I left off and continue moving forward.

Next I found myself contemplating a dynamic that is made very evident in my conversation space, particularly with women. It’s the Spiral Conversation. We begin talking about one thing, and then move on to something else, then touch on the original thing, then off to something else, then touch on the first and second thing. It’s a communication style that drives my husband crazy because once he leaves a topic, he’s left it.

LEGO  has been in the news a lot since they unveiled LEGO FREINDS at the beginning of 2012. LEGO FRIENDS are made specifically with girls in mind. Many people are saying ‘what’s the big deal? They’re toys.” or “I don’t see anything wrong with them?” I find many things wrong with LEGO FRIENDS, but many of these same things we can find in so many other toys – subtle messages that tell our girls who they are, what they are capable of and what opportunities are available. That’s why some people feel like ‘so what?’ We are so conditioned to accept programming in our lives, that the action of speaking out about something is increasingly foreign to us.

In an opinion piece by David Horsey in the LA Times entitled “Are Lego Friends the Enemy of American Girls?” he basically says – ‘hey they aren’t so bad, I’ve even check with my feminist daughter who doesn’t seem to mind them.’ (I paraphrase) He goes on to say in his opinion, this isn’t one of the things we should be focused on.  I whole-heartedly disagree with him and here’s why.

In all of the discussions about the pros and cons of LEGO FREIDNS, what is missing is one core element, making it both important and necessary to speak out about LEGO’s choices. LEGO has not only failed parents, but is failing girls. LEGO’s own corporate philosophy has been “Only the best is good enough.” With the unveiling of LEGO FRIENDS they have consciously chosen to dumb down the world of girls; giving them a product that requires less creativity, less mental stimulation, less opportunity for the exploration of manual dexterity – things that have been
synonymous with LEGO since the launch of their company.

There are many other problems with LEGO FRIENDS; subtle messages about who girls can be, how they can look, what they can and can’t do, but at the root of this heated debate is a company that has made a choice of profit over retaining corporate philosophy.

Had another company come out with these, there would have been a degree of discussion, I’m sure, but the fact that LEGO has watered down their product specifically for girls and claims that ‘it’s what girls want’ is both offensive and disappointing. As parents, as educators as anyone who has a hand in shaping who our children become, we need to be aware of the messages being given to our children – overtly and subtlety.  It’s our job to teach our children to question the messages that bombard them each and every day.

LEGO Friends may not be the worst toy on the market for girls to play with, but with the creation of this product line, LEGO has lost what made it such a relevant and revered toy for all kids. Worse, LEGO has relinquished its own philosophy of ‘only the best is good enough’.

Christine Agro is the founder of  FEMTalk Series, FEMGlobal and hosts the live radio show Fully Empowered on A2Zen every Wednesday at 12 Noon ET. Christine offers talks, workshops and classes designed to empower women and girls.

Check out these two LEGO commercials - one for LEGO FRIENDS and one for LEGO Star Wars.

You Can Run For Election, You Can Vote…If You Can Get There
By Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

When I read the news that women in Saudi Arabia had been given the right to both run for election and vote without the approval of a male guardian, I was at first excited and then I felt like I was revisiting that famous Seinfeld episode with the rental car. “You know how to take the reservation. You just don’t know how to hold the reservation.”

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has lifted the ban on women being able to run for election as well as the ban on women voting, but women are still not allowed to travel, work, study abroad, marry, get divorced or gain admittance to a public hospital without permission from a male guardian.

Hence my Seinfeldian experience. Unless the woman who runs for office actually has the support of the men in her life she can run, but how will she actually hold office? She can’t drive, travel or work for that matter. And Saudi Arabian women have been given the right to vote, but if voting takes place a step outside their doors, unless a man gives permission to travel, they will not be able to exercise this right.

The King might as well have given women the right to fly to the moon. I’m all for ‘something is better than nothing’ but I just can’t see the silver lining in this. King Abdullah has pushed for changes in women’s right, but this seems like a hollow gesture, unless he has a master-mind plan of easing women’s rights slowly into their culture so that it creates limited friction among the ultra conservative.  Maybe the case as the lifting of the ban doesn’t go into effect until 2015.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime – congratulations to the women of Saudia Arabia for winning the right to run for office as well as winning the right to vote. I hope you can freely exercise both.

Redefining Resolution
By Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

It’s that time of year again – New Year’s Resolution time. Although studies vary, with a range between 75% and 98%, the general consensus is the majority of us fail at fulfilling our New Year’s Resolutions. The same studies lay blame on process, intention, self-help gurus, but maybe the reason we don’t succeed has nothing to do with any of these things. Maybe, our inability to stick with our resolutions has to do with the word itself.

The world resolve has two meanings. As a verb it means to settle or find a solution to a distasteful situation. As a noun it means to have a firm determination to do something. As someone who is always interested in the energy behind words – if you ‘RESOLVE’ (in its verb form) you are sitting in some pretty negative energy. You are resolving to find a solution to an otherwise unpleasant situation. If you have a RESOLVE (in its noun form) to accomplish something – it’s a much more powerful energy. You are committed even determined to manifest what you have set out to do.

So you see, there are two totally different energies for the exact same word. When I hear someone speak of New Year’s Resolutions – almost always what I hear is “I’m resigned that this will always be like this.” Rarely do I hear people speak of resolutions with an impassioned determination to create change in their life. When I do, they undoubtedly succeed.

As with all change in our life, it doesn’t come easy or free. We have to want it and demonstrate that we are willing to do the work to get it. Creating change in our lives is connected to conscious living. If you live unconsciously you eat unconsciously, you speak unconsciously, you work unconsciously and your statements of resolution are words not intentions.  When you live consciously everything you do from the food you choose to the words you use to the friends you surround yourself with, everything, becomes a conscious choice.

As we sit at the brink of a new year, what are you determined to change? What do you have a RESOLVE to do this year?

Set The Stage 

by Christine Agro
The Metaphysical Feminist

As women we can be confronted with many blocks to living a fully empowered life and please remember I’m not just talking about women in North America. This is women around the world. Laws, religion, culture, society and family all offer blocks for women to live their own life. I call these blocks ‘symptoms of our dis-empowerment’. They are the situations, experiences and beliefs that keep us from truly living our life.

Take a woman living in India – her culture, her family even her religion may say her role, her purpose is to marry. Take a woman living in Jerusalem -her society, her religion tells her she must sit at the back of the bus. Take a woman living in Egypt -her society and laws tell her she cannot vote. Take a woman living in Saudi Arabia – her society and laws say she cannot drive.

Yet in each of these countries woman are claiming their right to live their lives. How do I define ‘right’? I define it as our ability to see within ourselves and within others innate personal value. The ability to not buy into a notion of less, lacking or limit based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. To see that laws, rules, guidelines and acceptable mores are subjective based on the influence of those who ultimately benefit by what is established and followed as the truth.

Some women in India are saying ‘no’ to arranged marriages, a woman in Jerusalem refused to move to the back of the bus, women in Egypt are embarking on a suffrage movement, and women in Saudi Arabia challenged the no driving law – driving through the streets this past summer.
But Living Your Life doesn’t come easily or freely. Not for women changing society and laws and not for women who already have certain levels of freedom, yet are still fighting to live their lives.

Take the woman who wants to live life consciously, or the woman who has been in an abusive relationships, or living a life that she has no idea how she got to where she is.
Where the women who are fighting for their rights will undoubtedly face jail, beatings, even loss of life for their decision to Live Their Life; women who want to change their lives, want to live more consciously, want to live as Spirit in a Female body with all the power that comes with that face their own battles. Family members don’t understand, they turn away and feel betrayed, friendships fall apart, life seems to crumble before we can shape it and mold it into what we want.

Living Our Lives as we choose must be a conscious choice as when we step out to create change, for ourselves or for the collective, we upset what has gone before and whether it is a government, a community or our family, we are saying ‘no’ to what has come before.

I believe if we stand in the knowingness that what we choose is our divine right we can navigate the battle with greater ease.

I believe and have seen with clients and students who have made major changes in their own lives, that if we approach our change from a place of neutrality, the ability to ‘not-engage’ the energy and ultimately the ability to validate ourselves for who we are, rather than look to others to validate us, we can navigate our move into Living Our Life.

We will still experience loss as people we love turn their backs on us. We will still experience fear as we let go of that which supported us but to receive that support also demanded that we be less than whole. We will still encounter anger, frustration and sometimes even hatred from those we no longer want to associate with. But if we know our true worth, if we believe in it and embrace it, we will step out into our new life knowing that it is ours to create how we choose, free and clear of all the rules, laws, expectations and needs of society, culture, law, religion and family.

So when we see someone living a life that we deem as ‘less’, before you judge and say “how could she live like that?’ “Why don’t they stand up and fight?” Consider what it means to “Live Your Life”. It doesn’t come easily or free – change requires belief in oneself and the courage to honor that belief inside and out, not matter what the consequences.

Christine Agro, The Metaphysical Feminist, is an internationally recognized Clairvoyant, Inspirational Teacher, Metaphysical Expert and host of the live talk radio show Fully Empowered with Christine Agro which airs on A2ZEN.FM. She is also the founder of the ground-breaking FEMSocial.com – a social network for women, that also offers courses, workshops and video instruction which help empower women. Christine is also the curator of Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment – an on-line project designed to bring awareness to those things women accept as norms, but in reality contribute to our dis-empowerment.

Jennifer Aniston was chosen Hottest Woman of All Time by MensHealth.com. / DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES

Hottest Woman of All Time Perpetuates Measuring Stick Mentality
By Christine Agro

Men’s Health Magazine recently named Jennifer Aniston The Hottest Woman of All Time based on a reader’s poll. That’s quite an…um…honor?
Don’t get me wrong, where I do find Jennifer Aniston a beautiful women; she’s fit, she’s funny, she carries herself with a great deal of confidence and she’s smart; I’m just not so sure about this ‘honor’. Hottest Woman of All Time- it makes me think of that line in Two Weeks Notice where Sandra Bullock tells Hugh Grant that he’s the worst human being on the planet and he responds “Have you met all the human beings on the planet?”

I get it, it’s a subjective poll and I’m not incensed by the poll itself. I’m frustrated by our society’s need to instill in women a measuring stick mentality. By honoring Jennifer Aniston as The Hottest Woman of All Time it perpetuates a dynamic where we – both men and women- measure ourselves and others against the hotness, or richness, or sexiness of someone else. Although we all do it, it’s with women that this dynamic really concerns me. My generation was taught to do this by our mothers, and we teach our daughters to do this and they teach their daughters. . We teach it because whether we actually participate or we fail to address this dynamic we are condoning the measuring stick.

I call this the divide and conquer method of dis-empowerment. It is dis-empowering because it implies that our worth and our value is held by someone outside of our own self. It keeps us striving to be someone we can’t be which feeds into self-image issues. Let’s face it, we can only be who we are. I know it sounds like a ‘one-hand-clapping-in-the-wind’ statement, but it’s true. We are who we are – round, robust, flat, skinny, tall, short – it’s who we are. But this striving to be like ‘The Hottest’ has women in Japan undergoing surgery to make their eyes more round; women in India beaching their skin to make it more white; women in China undergoing painful surgery to implant metal rods so they can be taller and women in the United States changing just about everything and anything about themselves.

We talk about equality for women – in the work place, in the family unit, in government – but as long as we, as women, continue to buy into the measuring stick mentality and then sell it to our daughters, our equality will always be something that someone else has to give to us.
This is my call to all women to drop the measuring stick and instead turn your focus in and begin to recognize how amazing and powerful we each are – in our own right. By all means celebrate the awesomeness of the women around you. I absolutely celebrate Jennifer Aniston, but I don’t need to use her as a measuring stick for what I have and don’t have.

I truly believe that women are powerful beyond what we know. But it is this divide and conquer dynamic that keeps us ever so lightly scratching the surface of how powerful we truly are. Imagine if instead of measuring ourselves against others, each of us embraced who we are, celebrated ourselves and each other and recognized that at the core we, women, come from the same tribe – the Tribe of Woman.

Christine Agro is The Metaphysical Feminist. She is the Founder of FEMSocial.com a unique social networking site for women that offers both a community and experiential classes and courses that help empower women. Christine is also curating the on-line project Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment and hosts Fully Empowered – a live talk radio show heard on A2Zen.FM

Recently I launched a project called “Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment” by posting a YouTube video as an introduction.

Someone with a username “Shmiggen” left this enlightening comment:

The reason why young girls are beginning to fight one another is because they are being told they can be too many things at once: powerful, slutty, ambitious, etc etc. We all know that women’s best attributes are when they are in charge of a small, nuclear family, where they can be home-makers and wives.

I’d like to thank Shmiggen for offering case-in-point the messages of dis-empowerment that exist in this world.  All though it wasn’t his intention – his comment may become a focal point for this project.

If you’d like to contribute to Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment please visit the website, read the “how to contribute” page and register as a contributor. You will then be able to upload your contribution for review.