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Toni Reece: Thank you so much, Sherry, for being part of this project.  We are very excited to have you join us.  If you could, could you please tell us a little bit about yourself?

Sherry Green: Yes, sure.  Well I am an American, I live in the UK, I have for many years.  If you want to know what my qualifications are, they are many-fold.  I have a Master’s degree in metaphysics and metaphysics has been a lifelong study for me, so that was really lovely to do.  I am also a qualified hand analyst, recently trained with Beth Davis, and triple-qualified herbalist and I am qualified to work in the UK in that capacity.

Toni: Oh, I see; wow, there is a lot going on!

Sherry: I also spent many years in the corporate world.

Toni: I see.  What part of the States were you from?

Sherry: We started off in Ohio and moved around a bit.

Toni: I see.  Well thank you for the introduction, sounds very interesting.  The essence of the project is to ask 4 questions and try to understand needs and approaches for people in the inspiration business, so the first question is:  Who do you inspire, Sherry, and how do you go about that?

Sherry: Well, I try and inspire just about everybody I talk to.  It is part and parcel of my life purpose, but mainly I love to work with people who are spiritual seekers, people who want to know what life is all about.  I also like to work with people that have the belief that money and spirituality really don’t go together.  I also like to work with my hand analyst clients because it helps people to understand what they are here to do, what their life has imprinted on their fingerprints, to show what they have come to do in this life, and to follow that life purpose.  So that really is the sort of people that I like to inspire, and of course when I work with my private coaching and consulting clients in an inspirational capacity when I am working with spirit, I like to inspire them, too.

Toni: How do you go about that?  It sounds as though your clients, your relationships and so forth, the people with a purpose, those are the people that you seem to inspire on a daily basis, and how might you go about that?

Sherry: Well, I trained for many years to be a medium and also to be an inspirational speaker and in the States you would understand that as somebody who channels.  I have very close contact with my own spirit guides; in fact, I was told recently that I was speaking something that my guide was saying and I was not even aware of it, it is so close now.  I really like to uplift people and my words are, I hope, inspiring and uplifting, and I like to work in such a way that people understand that their problems are temporary and a lot of them are really just misplaced thoughts.

Toni: Misplaced thoughts … that is interesting.  I like that.  I like that saying.  What do you do to help others that you work with, or that you are in contact with on a daily basis?  How do you help them explore their own potential?

Sherry: Well, I do that through coaching techniques, although I am not a qualified life coach, but I have studied it.  I use hand analysis which is very, very useful for that, and I also channel my spirit guides and, you know, just use all the things that I have learned over the years.  I have a vast array of techniques behind me that I can use, and I use the ones that are appropriate at the time.

Toni: Can you give me an example, when you say that you use the hand analysis to explore potential in others, and then as well as using the spirit guides to explore potential, so that we can clarify for those people that will be reading the blog and hearing the audio, what that means exactly?

Sherry: Well, the hand analysis that I do shows that your life purpose is found in your fingerprints.  The other thing that is found in your fingerprints is your life lessons, and the life lessons are the things that you keep bumping up against that stop you from living your life purpose.  And the life purpose will be broad things like family and community, success or failure, artist in the spotlight, healer, those sort of things, you know, all to do with the 10 different digits.  When I am working with a  client, I am always listening to what they say, and I am always listening to the answer in the way that I can to help them from my own inner guidance; and I say my inner guidance because that includes my guides who I consider part of my inner guidance.  It is easier to demonstrate than it is to actually talk about.

Toni: Right.  But you are doing a very good job at describing, so thank you for that.  What do you need to be inspired, Sherry?  Where do you go for inspiration?

Sherry: I like to read uplifting literature.  For the last few years, I have been studying those things that are considered new thought material, science of mind, that sort of thing.  I also like to listen to my devotional material, either tapes or things now, things that you can download onto the computer.  I like to listen to those on a daily basis, because they help to keep me in the space of inspiration that I need to be in to be of use to my people.

Toni: How do you know what that space is?  How do you know when you are there?

Sherry: Oh, I know when I am there because I feel really good myself; I am feeling grateful, I am feeling like life is really worth living.  I feel uplifted within myself, particularly when I am reading things of this kind of a spiritual nature, I get chills up and down my spine, and I’m sure many people can relate to that, when something is really is right for you.

Toni: What do you need, and this goes hand-in-hand with your answer here, but when you are looking for material and different sources of inspiration, what do you need to research or explore in order to uplift your own potential, to keep that where it needs to be?  Not only in the space of inspiration, but to the greatest potential that you can be?

Sherry: I am continuously learning.  I am a continuous learner, and I tend to follow my nose, if you know what I mean.  I have many interests and they interweave with each other, and it might be one thing one day and one thing another day, but I always follow where I am guided to go because I know that is going to be the place that I am going to find my greatest inspiration and the source of my own ability to help people.  Sometimes it takes me in a circular path; sometimes it takes me off in very strange directions, but I have always been a person to follow the synchronicities that life gives me and when something is right I know is right within me, that I need to do.  So it is more difficult, as I say, to explain than it is to actually do.  I need also to be studying things of a metaphysical nature.  I am always studying something of this nature.  I also need to spend a lot of time in my own space and in nature, which are great sources of inspiration for me for meditation.  I am a frequent meditator.  I also need to interact with other people of like mind, because they help me to see more of who I am, the things that I might overlook.

Toni: When you go through this exploration journey and you get into the space you need to be in and you are one with nature and the meditation and finding like-minded people, how does that go back to how you inspire others?  Is there a correlation there?

Sherry: Oh sure.  I can’t be of any use to anybody else unless I am in the places of inspiration and upliftment myself.  If I am feeling really depressed, I can’t help anybody, so it is important to me to be in that sort of, we could call it a spiritual space, where you are feeling at one with the flow of Life, and I say Life with a  capital L.

Toni: Why?

Sherry: Why?  Because that is the space for me where I get the greatest clarity, where I can see more of what I need to see to be able to help somebody else, to be able to inspire and to be able to uplift them, to be able to give them the guidance that they need.  It also puts me in a better place, and you have to clean vibrationally so that I can actually call to me those things that I need to help somebody else.

Toni: That is very, very interesting.  It sounds as though you do a lot of self-awareness, to get into the space that you need to be before you can even help others to explore their potential or inspire others.  That’s what I am hearing.

Sherry: Yes, that is absolutely true.  I think it is vitally important for anybody who does any kind of work like this, that they should be very self-aware.  It is my opinion that you have to be self-aware, and I like really working with clients who are very self-aware as well.

Toni: Sherry, the four questions I have asked, the questions for the project which is who do you inspire and what do you do to explore potential, what do you need to be inspired, and what do you need to explore your own potential — and all of these interviews obviously have other questions that will come out — but where you said that in order for you to get to that place for you to help others, are there techniques that you could share very simply that you would advise others that are looking for ways to inspire themselves or to keep them themselves motivated?  When you say you have to be self-aware, do you know of a way quickly that someone could do that, to get there, to be that productive?

Sherry: Well, self-awareness is a life journey, I am afraid to say, but you can get there more quickly if you are a regular meditator, there is no doubt about it.  That is one of the things that meditation is about.  It is not only about being relaxed, but it is also about turning within and looking at the ways you react and act by how you think about things.  So it is vitally important that we become aware of our thoughts, which is what meditation is good for, and there are many, many different types of meditation, especially now that there are meditation techniques that use the beta-waves and things like that.  A lot of my friends have found those very helpful.  But it is a lifelong journey, because as we become more aware, it is like I am peeling the layers of an onion, and you find more and more things inside of yourself.  It’s a journey, and life is a journey, it isn’t an A to B and you are finished.  Life is a journey, and it is a wonderful exploration.

Toni: By yourself going on that journey and finding your own self-awareness is how you help others to be inspired and how you help others explore their potential; that is what I am hearing in this interview.

Sherry: Yes, that is exactly right.

Toni: Well, I cannot tell you how you have inspired me and my thought process, and I know that others will benefit from hearing your words and also seeing this in the blog, and I thank you so very much for providing this snapshot of your approach and your needs so that others can benefit from them in this Get Inspired! Project; so thank you so very, very much for this interview today.

Sherry: Thank you, Toni.

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For more information about Sherry Green:  www.handanalyst.co.uk

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