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This Month's Newsletter's
Theme is
BELIEF
My Monthly Affirmation
My Monthly Affirmation
from “Self-Love Affirmations” by Jenna
“Forgiveness Frees Me”
I forgive myself and those around me…Forgiveness releases all heaviness from my shoulders and fills me with peace. I am willing to see mistakes as lessons and set myself and others free.
Oracle Card of the Month
This month’s card is from
Crystal Mandala Oracle
by Alana Fairchild
9. Archon Barbelo and Picture Jasper
The Universe has great power to assist you now. As you ask for help and allow yourself to be assisted, synchronicity and grace increase in your life. Believe that you are worthy of assistance and support.
Tarot Card of the Month
The Star
There is hope for the future! You are leaving behind the ghosts of the past and feeling more positive about the way forward. As your mindset improves, so do the possibilities. Reach for the stars!
Spiritual Reflections
Fun fact: I didn’t like my name until I was 51 years old!
Christened “Victoria Margaret Hackett” and living in Melbourne, Victoria, I was
called The State Savings Bank, Hackbomb, Queen Victoria… as children do. My
parents, though, called me Tor or Toria, which I liked and, to this day, is my
nickname.
I always felt that Victoria Margaret was always far too
regal, so I called myself Vicky, which my parents disliked intently. As I grew
older, I found it hard to make friends and to feel like I belonged, and always
seemed to hang out with the ‘nerdy’ girls. I was, however, quite good
looking and boy mad!
I became a teacher, got married, had children and eventually
moved to Tasmania. Making friends in my married life came much easier, and both
Rich and I have made some lifetime friendships throughout our married life that
we treasure.
I came into my spiritual gifts in 2008 and then got a job as
a Literacy Advisor in the Christian education system. All went well until it
was discovered that I was a psychic. However, what saved (and surprised) me was
the belief in me that the teachers I had helped showed in me and my husband,
who had to get used to a psychic wife 22 years after he married me!) That is
when I started to really believe in myself. Now when people call me Vicky, I
cringe!
It is said that we are named before we are born and that our
angels whisper our name to our parents. I now feel that I fit my name, despite
it taking me until middle age to accept it.
Why didn’t I accept my name? Because I didn’t accept myself.
For a girl who was so in love with love, I was always desperate to be
loved (which I always was by my family, in spades.) I now know that,
subconsciously, I didn’t feel worthy.
The way we feel about ourselves is always mirrored by those
we interact with, which is why I think I never felt accepted by others. I was
always very sensitive to other people’s reactions and it has taken a lot of
self-awareness and work on my part, plus cheer-leading from my husband, to not
take things so personally and to stand up for myself.
My name means Victory, and I have my spiritual evolvement and
my beautiful family and friends to thank for where I am today—happy and
confident in myself and totally accepting of who I am (apart from needing to
lose a few kilos!!) I believe in myself and the power of helping others through
my work.
So, what’s in a name? What does your name mean and say about
who you truly are? Have you accepted yourself or do you have work to do?
I am so in your corner! VC
The Biology of Belief
Mindset isn’t just a
motivational buzzword. It’s biology.
What you believe about your
health—how you interpret your symptoms, your progress, your future—has
measurable effects on your physiology. This isn’t about wishful thinking. It’s
about how beliefs shape stress responses, immune signaling, and hormone regulation.
Especially in complex chronic conditions like CIRS, ME/CFS, and autoimmunity,
mindset plays an essential role in either propelling or stalling healing.
But mindset doesn’t live in a
vacuum. It’s influenced by the people around you. And when your beliefs about
health differ from those of your family, friends, or medical providers, it can
create tension that affects more than your mood—it can impact your biology.
This blog explores both sides
of that coin:
1. How your own
mindset influences healing.
How clashing health beliefs
can create stress that interferes with recovery.
The goal? To help you protect
the mental clarity and emotional resilience that root cause healing requires.
The Biology
of Belief
Your brain doesn’t just
passively record your reality—it helps create it. Every moment, it filters,
predicts, and interprets based on prior experience and expectation. This is
especially true with chronic illness, where symptoms are often invisible, variable,
and difficult to validate externally.
But this process isn’t just
mental. It’s biochemical. The way you perceive your symptoms—whether as
dangerous, improving, confusing, or hopeless—triggers downstream signaling in
your nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system. One of the key mediators
of this is interleukin-6 (IL-6),
a cytokine that increases with perceived stress and contributes to
inflammation, hormone disruption, and circadian imbalance.
In other words:
· Fear and helplessness raise IL-6.
Hope and agency help reduce
it.
This means the stories you
tell yourself—about your body, your illness, your trajectory—matter. Not
because you’re making anything up, but because your nervous system listens to
your beliefs. And it responds accordingly.
The biology of belief creates
a feedback loop:
Belief shapes biology. Biology
reinforces belief.
This loop can move you toward
healing or away from it. The good news is that it’s interruptible. Tools like
limbic retraining, somatic therapies, cognitive reframing, and nervous system
support aren’t just emotional band-aids. They’re physiological interventions.
Why They
Don’t Get It
You’ve seen progress. You’ve
uncovered root causes. You’re making choices that support your recovery.
Naturally, you want to share what you’ve learned with people you care about.
But when you explain your
path—whether it involves detox, mould avoidance, vagus nerve exercises, or
functional testing—you’re often met with blank stares, skepticism, or even
criticism.
Why? Because strongly held
health beliefs function like political or religious beliefs. They’re not just
opinions. They’re tied to identity.
When someone hears an idea
that challenges their belief system, it activates the brain’s threat response.
The result is a cascade of unconscious defences:
· Confirmation bias:
Favouring information that supports what they already believe
· Motivated reasoning:
Interpreting new evidence to reinforce prior assumptions
Cognitive
dissonance: Avoiding ideas that create psychological discomfort
This doesn’t mean people are
closed-minded. It means they’re human.
But here’s the catch: the same
psychological forces that make it hard for others to hear your truth…
can make it hard for you to hold onto it.
When a loved one repeatedly
questions your path—or worse, implies it’s all in your head—it can shake your
confidence. That doubt isn’t just cognitive. It raises stress hormones,
dysregulates your nervous system, and reactivates inflammation.
The more you try to convince
them, the more tense things become. And the more you second-guess yourself, the
more your physiology suffers.
When Mindsets
Clash, Healing Slows
Clashing belief systems don’t
just create intellectual friction. They create physiological stress—for
everyone involved.
If you feel the need to
justify your choices over and over, or if conversations about your healing turn
into debates, your body stays in fight-or-flight. That stress response—however
subtle or habitual—can stall detox, impair sleep, reduce vagal tone, and keep
the inflammatory loop going.
And for those questioning your
path, the same stress loop applies. Pushing a worldview they don’t share forces
them to defend their position, which raises their stress too.
You’re not wrong for wanting
to be understood. But defending your healing to someone who’s not ready to hear
it can take a measurable toll on your body.
Save Your
Energy for What Heals
Healing takes energy. Don’t
spend it where it doesn’t help.
If root cause medicine is
working for you—stay the course. You don’t have to prove it. You just have to
keep doing what’s moving you forward.
Let your progress speak for
itself. When others notice you’re functioning better, feeling steadier, or
experiencing fewer flares, they may ask questions. That’s your moment. Share
from a place of grounded confidence—not urgency or defensiveness.
Until then, treat your beliefs
the way you’d treat sensitive spiritual or political convictions. Talk about
them with those who are open. Otherwise, protect your peace.
Final
Thoughts
Root cause healing is more
than a protocol. It’s a shift in worldview. It requires rethinking what
symptoms mean, what causes illness, and what creates lasting recovery.
That mindset shift can
strengthen your biology—or be undermined by external doubt.
So here’s your reminder:
· Your mindset matters. Feed it with
support, not resistance.
· Your biology listens. Speak to it
with clarity and hope.
Your energy is limited. Use it
to heal, not to convince.
Healing doesn’t always need an
audience. It just needs consistency, belief, and space to unfold.
Let others find their path when they’re ready. And trust yourself to stay on yours.
The Biology of Belief: How Mindset
Shapes Healing in Chronic Illness - Restorative Medicine Center
Believe in Your Dreams
Dreams are seen as messages of the subconscious; to dream is
also to imagine something that seems totally distant and unachievable. Dreaming
is a state of detachment where the person is not mentally present, and this
state is the perfect state for manifestation!
Life, for many people, may not have turned out as they have
planned. The human world, on the whole, has become a jungle where people exist
rather than enjoy. While some see God, or for Christians, Jesus, as their only
hope, many more feel abandoned by them because the world has become a prison of
extreme hardship. For many, death seems like the easiest option.
There are leaders across the world making decisions for their
countries and companies that often do not align with the beliefs or needs of
many of their constituents or companies. Many agree with them while many oppose
them. Their will always be those who rule for profit and gain, while others try
to do their best for the majority. Many suffer while others prosper – that is
the way of the world, no matter how unjust it is.
If hope only lies in dreams, then, how can they be turned
into reality? If life is hard, how can it become easier? If people are
suffering, what can they do? You may think, “I am but one person, I have no
power for change when the problems are so great.” However, you can change your
life and the lives of others, if you believe you can!
Belief is the key to being able to make a stand and to create
a platform for change. Some of the most successful leaders have achieved their
wildest dreams because they believed that they could. They believed in the
dream, in the product, in the service or the ideal. They believed in themselves
to create a program, to build a company or to challenge the status quo. Without
belief, every thought, action or creation is undermined because it has no firm
foundation – belief that it is the right course of action and that it can
succeed. Belief is the foundation of thought which then creates form. What you
believe, you create!
What comes after belief? Belief, surely, is as abstract as a
dream?
After belief comes action – research, planning, sourcing
materials and selling your dream to others. Because visions are built on
belief, selling your dream or vision to others will be more compelling the more
you believe in it and its potential to improve the lives of others.
There will always be those who doubt, undermine and attack
what you are creating. Do not let them! Be your own master and believe in
yourself. Do it for yourself, however, not to show others. This journey is
yours and yours alone, but as you become more positive, purposeful and
successful, others will follow.
Allow yourself to dream, Dear Hearts, and allow yourself to
believe that dreams do come true. The only person stopping you is you, because
there is always a way, if you believe it to be so,
I AM yours in service.
I AM Lord Melkizedek.
VC
The Violet Flame
As
Mother Earth continues to weather the storm of Ascension in the duality of the
3rd Dimension, the Human Collective Consciousness continues to
fluctuate wildly between the darkest negativity and the highest vibration of
unconditional love. Humans who are sensitive to the energy of others are
finding that they can be joyous in mood one day then desperately depressed the
other. For many, finding an equilibrium in the disorganised and unpredictable
mix of discordant/violent/love energy circling the globe is an impossible task.
For the awakening and enlightened, the powers of the Violet Flame of
Transmutation are an absolute necessity, if they are to continue their work of
helping others to raise their vibrations and consciousness out of the mire that
is the 3rd Dimension.
Amongst
the masses, the Violet Flame is unknown and untouched, yet in Wayshowers’ and
Lightworkers’ circles the Violet Flame is an important tool for the survival of
Humanity. When the Violet Flame is called upon, it will instantly transmute any
negative emotions, feelings and vibrations into love. The sparks of golden
light signalling the transmutation are automatically sent out to the world,
creating a love vibration that resonates with that of Mother Earth. Because the
Flame comes from and is one with the Earth, the effects upon Mother Earth are
immediate, causing a ripple effect that goes far beyond the area where
transmutation occurred.
The
Violet Flame is of the Seventh Ray, which is the overlighting ray of the Age of
Aquarius and is radiated by Archangel Zadkiel and his Archeia Holy Amethyst. As
the name suggests, the amethyst crystal is associated with the Violet Flame and
is used by crystal healers to absorb and transmute negative energies in the
home and in personal or sacred spaces. The colour violet is that of the crown
chakra and the seventh ray and is therefore the highest healing colour in the
spectrum. When used consciously by humans to transmute toxic feelings of
hatred, anger, resentment, jealousy, depression and spite, the positive effects
on personal relationships, on negative workspaces and on collective or group
consciousness are noticeable and far-reaching.
As
the attempts of those who wish to rule the masses with fear, terror and
violence drastically increases, the daily use by lightworkers and the
spiritually aware to transmute their own negative energies as well as that in
the collective consciousness is critical to the ongoing ascension of the
planet. Archangel Zadkiel/Holy Amethyst, Saint Germain and any of the Masters
of Light can be called upon at any time to assist you to call up the Violet
Flame whenever the need arises. WE urge you to be proactive in this cause.
WE
ARE Archangel Michael and Saint Germain.
VC
2023.
Absolving Fear from the
Third Dimension
Close your eyes and make yourself
comfortable. Take a few, slow breaths in and out and become mindful of how your
body is feeling. On each outbreath, feel your shoulders relaxing and your body
becoming heavier in the chair. Begin to focus on your breath, counting four
breaths in and four breaths out, until you have a regular rhythm. Breathe in,
two, three, four and out, two, three, four. Breathe in, two, three, four and
out, two, three, four. Focus entirely on your breath and on relaxing your body.
Now see, feel or imagine a
beautiful white light with golden flecks descending around you as you breathe,
cleansing, grounding and protecting you. This is the light of Creation and will
keep you safely protected throughout this meditation.
As you continue breathing regularly
in and out on a slow count of four, see, feel or imagine a light entering your
crown and descending through your chakras, anchoring you into Mother Earth. As
you focus on this light, see an Angel appear in front of you as a beautiful
beam of golden light. As the Angel becomes more visible, you are drawn into you
his/her energy, which immediately gives you the most beautiful feeling of being
loved and safe.
In this energy the angel now begins
to gently draw any fear, anxiety, negativity and anger that has been blocking
your chakras and energy fields from healing the past from your chakras, aura
and bodies. As you watch, the Violet Flame of Transmutation enters your aura
and transmutes all of this energy into golden rays of light, which are absorbed
by the Golden Angel. You can contribute
to this healing by willingly letting go of any resentment, grudges, guilt,
grief or blame for yourself and others and releasing them into the flame, which
will subside when all of the discordant energy has been healed.
The Golden Angel now invites you to
breathe in the sparkly white Adamantine Particles of Creation while allowing
him/her to align and balance your chakras. When they have become more centred,
each chakra begins to glow more brightly as the Angel aligns them to your
Higher Self and to the Divine. Continue to see, feel or imagine the beautiful
particles of creation filling your lungs and thus your entire Being with love
and light, leaving you in a state of bliss while the healing is completed.
See now in your mind’s eye a staff
being placed into your hands by the Golden Angel. This gift represents strength
through connection to the love and light of Source and is to remind you that
only love is real. Any time you feel yourself being drawn into the lower
vibrations of fear, anger and negativity, call upon the Staff of Strength to
appear. It will emit the Violet Flame and absorb all of your worries, fears and
anxieties, allowing you to remain calm and to keep your consciousness above the
drama of the Third Dimension.
Place your staff in your heart
space; it can be used any time as a way of connecting to your higher knowing
and to Divine Love.
As the light of the Golden Angel
recedes, thank him/her for their presence, for their healing and gift today.
Write down some affirmations to help you to remain positive and make meditation
with your staff a daily or weekly practice.
I AM The Creator of All That Is.
Meditation from Chapter 21 “The
Book of Life; Lessons from Mother Earth.”
Cochrane, 2020.
The Last Word
What is Belief?
What is belief, if we cannot understand,
That the course of our lives is held in our hands?
How can we know that what we believe
Shapes our thoughts, feelings and helps us to take a stand?
A lifetime of failure, of not having enough,
Can make us think life will only be tough.
To stay in this mindset is easy by far,
But believe in yourself, you’re made of stronger stuff!
If life is hard and at the end of each day
There is nowhere to turn and nothing to say,
Belief in ourselves won’t come from another,
Unless we take charge and find our own way.
VC
Owl Spirit Animal
The owl spirit animal is emblematic of a deep
connection with wisdom and intuitive knowledge. If you have the owl as totem or
power animal, you’re likely to have the ability to see what’s usually hidden to
most. When the spirit of this animal guides you, you can see the true reality,
beyond illusion and deceit. The owl also offers for those who have it a
personal totem the inspiration and guidance necessary to deeply explore the
unknown and the magic of life.
Owl Symbolism
The owl is a powerful and
symbolic animal in many cultures and traditions worldwide.
Positive symbolism associated
with the owl includes:
· Wisdom
· Clear vision
· Insight
· Guidance in the unknown
· Independence
· Discernment
Connection to the mysterious
and magical aspects of life
Negative
symbolism associated with the owl includes:
· Radical transition
· Ominousness, endings
· Over-intellectuality
· Isolation
· Lack of sense of humor
Negative
occult connotations
With its piercing gaze and
silent flight, it embodies the essence of wisdom and knowledge, guiding us
through the darkness of the unknown and illuminating the truths that lie
beneath the surface.
In its solitary and silent
presence, it reminds us that true understanding can be only achieved through
introspection and self-reflection. And yet, there is also an eerie quality to
the owl, a sense of ominousness and death that reflects our own fleeting
existence and the transience of all things.
By embracing the owl’s
symbolism – both light and dark – we can learn to navigate life’s twists and
turns with confidence, purpose, and a deeper understanding of our own nature
and the world we live in.
https://www.spiritanimal.info/owl-spirit-animal/
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Hi Victoria,
I came upon
your website today through the website Medium. I've read a number of your
channeled messages today and have found all to be resonant with what I've been
told, in addition to much that I knew immediately to be true when
reading it. Thank you for the work that you're doing.
I am in a
transformational time in my life (isn't everyone on Earth at this time?)
and started consistently channeling about 8-9 months ago. At first it
was only during medicine work, but now I can pretty reliably make that
connection without it. Initially, it was my guides, then occasionally a
group called "the council", and recently I received a
powerful message from Archangel Michael. I have been told many times
recently that I am meant to be a channel. And I have been struggling to
get my head around it. I've thought why me? This isn't a job. Etc, etc. I read
this on your website today and I really felt the Truth in it -
All angelic
and higher realm frequencies MUST be grounded through a human body in order to
make a positive impact on Earth. Accordingly, only those people who have begun
the process of awakening or whose soul has achieved a level of mastery in a
previous lifetime (and agreed to assist humanity as part of their soul
evolvement) can withstand the energy of etheric beings without becoming
frightened, unwell or misled.
I felt
something shift energetically in me. There was more of an acceptance of what
is, what I am. So I thought I would reach out and see what comes of that
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Received 5-9-2024
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