Lately, I have been wondering… what is truly important? There are a lot of things we may value…maybe it is our career, our family, our life purpose, and how we add something precious to this world. Or maybe for some of us it is just about living day to day and moment to moment because that is just where we are right now. Sometimes life can be exciting and full of incredible moments of elation and triumph and sometimes life can seem painful and sorrowful.
There are moments in our lives when all we can do is get through to the next day and there are times when we never want the day to end because things are going that well. Still further, sometimes striving to have a balance between the two polarities can be our greatest challenge.
The older I get, the more I realize there is so much that I really don’t understand, nor do I have answers. So many of us go through so many different shades of color in our lives that it is difficult to determine the answers of how to live our best life. For everyone it is different. What I do know for sure is that there are unlimited ways to perceive life and in this web of existence we have choices.
Sometimes, our choices seem limited and sometimes we are elated with the unlimited possibilities. What I have come to understand is that as we look at life and the many ways to experience ourselves it becomes critical to create a partnership with our minds.
I realized this mostly when my children were young. Depending on what was happening in their lives I always wanted to help make something better. I always tried to make the best of experiences and what we were given being there for them in every way I could. Sometimes, my efforts paid off and my children thrived and other times no matter what I did or how I framed the experience it was bound to work out less than I had anticipated. And when things didn’t work out, I tended to blame myself or something else. Eventually, I realized that neither of these two ways of looking at the world was helpful.
I had an inkling within me that what I was doing was not very helpful, but I did not know how to help this pattern. Until one day, I just stumbled on an advertisement for meditation. The people meditating looked happy. They looked peaceful and content. Something I wanted for myself but was ever so difficult to attain. So, I decided to try it out.
I’ll never forget the first time I attempted to meditate. I thought I was supposed to sit and just be… hoping that by staying quiet, sitting quietly, and through shear concentration I could train myself to make my thoughts leave and my mind. Boy was I wrong. I found the opposite to be true. My thoughts became louder, the ‘to do’ list became longer, and the unfinished things that raced in my psyche just went on and on and on… like a freight train that just keeps going and going and going. It was relentless and irritatingly frustrating to say the least.
I gave up many times. Many, many times. I just didn’t understand why people could speak about meditation and how it helped them so much. I felt like such a failure. It just made things worse for me. Then I enrolled in a meditation class. I walked into a studio and paid them cash that day hoping that if I did what they told me it would all just go away, and I would get the answers. And it helped, it didn’t cure my mindless activity, but it did help me begin to understand what was happening. I discovered how our thoughts are an endless culmination of three aspects of the mind. The negative, neutral, and positive mind. That we have a negative mind; useful in protection and alerting us to something that is wrong or a threat. We have a positive mind; useful in expanding a thought into possibilities instead of contrasting it into limitation and lastly, we have a neutral mind; helpful in deciphering the positive and the negative in relation to where we are now and what we choose our experience to become. As we develop ourselves through meditation, we become aware of our positive and negative mind eventually finding the neutrality of it all by becoming aware of what we have been doing. Then we realize we have choices on how we would like to shape our lives within our current states of awareness.
Then I learned about breath work. Practicing control of the breath through meditation. As I learned and practiced more, I found that breath work controlled our life force. The more I learned about breathing and how to control the different states of my breath the more I could control the different states of awareness within my mind. Thus, I could choose the expansiveness of my energy. Through breath awareness I could stimulate and enhance my energy thus adding more control to my thoughts, my energy, my reality.
Then I found mudras and mantras. I discovered that mantras are words or phrases that can be repeated aloud or to oneself with the rhythm of the breath, and mudras are the use of the hands to focus the brain. I was skeptical at first, and the more I practiced I was surprised at how much better I felt, the lasting effects of the practices and the simplicity of it all. I began to understand the helpfulness of my negative and positive minds and the innate ability of my neutral mind to intuitively focus. I was amazed at how a simple practice of strengthening the breath, using mudras to stimulate the brain, and mantras creating a rhythm of internal wisdom within my body could create lasting effects. I was hooked, to say the least.
Limiting beliefs haunting me for ages began to melt away, my energy returned, and my outlook on life improved. What did I learn? Life could change. I had some sort of control and that I could shape my reality. And I never needed to censor my thoughts, I needed to find the right practice for me.
If you are innately curious… I invite you to try a meditation class or practice at some point in your life. I just happen to teach a couple at Trillium Yoga in Antioch, periodically. Here are some dates… 5:45-6:45pm on 4/24, 5/8, & 5/22. OR try the online zoom meditation Wednesdays at lunch time… all you have to do is sign up at eventbrite here. I hope to see you soon!
Lately, I’ve been running through all the scenarios in my head of how I could have, would have, should have done things differently in the past. All the past experiences and decisions that I made that turned out the way they did and happened in the manner they happened.
Some were wonderful outcomes and aligned with my inner truth and some were decisions that I am not so proud about. It’s those decisions that never really turned out the way I had hoped that I live in regret. And I know that living in regret doesn’t really help us to move forward in a positive and uplifting manner. But I have to admit… like many of us… I’ve been doing this to myself again and again.
I approach these scenarios with my mind, and I tune into my heart that longed for a different outcome. I ask myself if there is anything I could have done differently, and I always see it as a, “Yes.” A resounding, “Yes.” Not the kind of ‘yes’ that wants to beat myself up with judgement but the kind of ‘yes’ that sees with new eyes now how there are so many roads to our destination before us that we get to pick and choose which journey we’d like to embark.
Do we want our road to be rocky, deserted, painful and full of regrets? Or do we want our road to be synchronized, effortless and free to fly and be me?
You see… I was thinking… pondering this idea and it occurred to me… every decision I ever made, every idea that ever came to me, and every detail of my life always came down to my internal questions from within…. The big one… the ultimate question that maybe we all struggle with from time to time…. What is my PURPOSE? Why am I here and what is my LIFE MISSION? Related all together… what is my Life Mission and how am I going to live my life through this life mission that I am realizing before me?
Every experience I have ever had, every failure, and every perceived success has come back to this internal question. Am I making decisions in line with my highest potential and highest purpose at the time that I make these decisions or am I experiencing a lower version of me that is covered in fear and doubt?
Well, once I broke that down and realized that… I began to understand… I mean truly understand why I do what I do and all the programs I have that really do work. It’s because, I just believe… I believe so much that anything is possible, and we have a beautiful world of all possibility that is reflected upon us based on our own beliefs and ideas about life that I only live what I completely believe in every moment, every hour, every day, and every year. Doing anything less just doesn’t work anymore. And deciding that I am leading my best life and helping anyone who wants to come along IS MY PURPOSE!
WOW…Does that feel good! The kind of good that we just want to SHOUT FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP OUT TO THE GRAND CANYONS OF THE WORLD!
THIS IS ME!
This is what I want for you TOO!
I have one question I live with daily…. “In all that I AM… Am I living, breathing, and walking my life mission and am I in alignment with this?”
Most times now I can say yes…and when I can’t answer with a resounding ‘yes’ I now know how to shift myself into that alignment, effortlessly.
And I guess… I just want everyone else to know this and feel this and be this as well. I just want the empowerment flame to be passed along form one person to the next and for all, everyone to feel as though they can express themselves to their highest version out into a world that WANTS to receive the beauty of their uniqueness shine through! I believe in this world… I believe it exists. I believe everyone has their version according to where they are and what they came to experience. I believe in you.
MY MISSION?
Is to take you there…
So… If you are innately curious on how to live the highest and best version of yourself according to what you internally know to be true and you want that revealed to yourself on your terms and to be lead guided and directed by someone and a group of people that wants to support and encourage you on this path…then…
PS… don’t forget to sign up for the lunch time meditations…even if you are not going to be a prat of the Sandwich Connection… this is still something you can join!
Ever since I wrote my last blog on gratitude it made me think…how much time do I spend in my head avoiding my heart? I wondered what percentage of my day I spend in the part of my mind that remains negative in just about any situation appearing before me. I also wondered with all the years of reiki yoga, and meditation training if I was allowing complete balance through all the parts of my mental mind and intuitive heart. So, I simply sat down during one of my meditative practices and asked. I didn’t receive an answer right away. Normally, I don’t. Typically, answers come to me through experiences. This time the universe seriously answered me through an experience I will never forget…
I was traveling to Dallas with my daughter. We had an early flight at O’Hare airport in Chicago getting us into Dallas with plenty of time to pick up our prepaid car rental and check in at our host hotel for her AAA hockey tournament. She plays upper level hockey and often has to travel around the country. We had planned everything in advance and all our arrangements were secured.
That morning flight, the universe began answering my request to know if I had improved over the years with my practices.
It first began at airport security. Things seemed unusually tense that morning. Not as many airline agents were helping with bag checks which made check in a bit confusing and the airport seemed to be busier than normal with rushing people. After sifting through the initial confusion, I began to realize that this was going to be an unusually intense morning. We were able to find help in checking my daughter’s rather large hockey bag and made it to security check point. Shocked to find out that security officers were making people line up shoulder to shoulder and walk down a 20 foot long carpeted path reminding us to stay in line and next to the stranger you were paired with. If we unknowingly walked more than 6 inches ahead of the person, we were next to, we were reprimanded to stay orderly. I was separated from my daughter which gave me anxiety and feeling like we were immigrating to a foreign country. As we walked down shoulder to shoulder the 20 foot gray carpeted path we were electronically scanned, recorded on video cameras, and sniffed by police dogs for anything that we could be illegally carrying. The experience was enough to send someone with mild anxiety into a tail spin. Next we were instructed to place all our belongings on the radar belts and walk quickly through the monster Xray scanners. After the initial interrogating 20 foot walk the normal Xray scan seemed a bit heightening in anxiety. Empathically, I feel everything and the amount of energy running through my body was insurmountable at times.
My heart was pounding and my body ached with sorrow as I watched each person receive micro traumas as they passed through something that has become acceptable practice in our society. Children were upset and parents did the best they could to manage a difficult situation. I ached with remorse with what seemed like an enormous dark cloud sweeping across the airport.
Amid what was happening, I reminded myself of the practice. Immediately I silently announced to myself, “Thank you God.” And like I tell my students in yoga and meditation classes… “Keep Up!” And I did just that… I kept up… I kept focused on my breath pattern and focused on all the sensations that were happening within me and all around me. I became completely aware.
I used the breath…
I inhaled deeply through my nose for a count of four…1, 2, 3, 4.
I suspended my breath (held the breath) for a count of four… 1, 2, 3, 4.
I slowly exhaled for a count of four… 1, 2, 3, 4.
I suspended my breath out on the exhale for a count of four… 1, 2, 3, 4.
I repeated this process from the time I was separated from Nora all the way through the cattle shoots and being birthed out to our final airplane gate.
As I kept the breath going, I also silently added the mantra, “Sa Ta Na Ma” to the 4 counts.
It is a kundalini yoga mantra effectively able to bring in transformational energy.
This added depth and strength to the breath pattern able to carry me further into what was happening and allowing everything to pass through. My mind remained focused, my body balanced, and my heart strong. I was one with the process.
Wave after wave of sensation passed through my heart and body. Step after countless step I remained present. Consciously and consistently, I remained separate from the mental sea of judgment, panic, and anxiety surrounding the airport and uniquely within the light. The public faces of shame, discontent, insecurity, and panic were subtle and yet intense. I desired only to be light and help as much as I could. Whether it was a smile to the security officer, a thank you, assisting other’s with their bags, or gathering the numerous large plastic bins to help put them aside.
I consistently leaned into the resistance and allowed everything to become one. The mantra and breath pattern helped me walk through a difficult time untouched.
As we continued our travels… only running into another dilemma requiring more patience and more gratitude. Apparently, when we arrived in Dallas… our prepaid car rental could not be honored for another 4 hours.
Car and employee shortages as well as long wait times filled the airport. Stress was high and waves of trauma coursed through the air.
Wifi was spotty and communications were limited between people. Anger and hostility were rampant. I caught myself beginning to get swept away with the process.
I grabbed onto my advice, after I realized the temptation before me to slip down the slippery slope of blame and desperation being created.
Once again, I picked myself up with a, “Thank you God” and asked for guidance. Instantly, I heard the mantra “Aap Sahaee Hoa” fill my body.
In kundalini yoga, it is a mantra that penetrates the unknown without fear and brings in protection, mental stability, and balance.
Wave after wave of fear and intimidation swept through my body… every emotional instability of every person, place, and thing came through me… I kept up… I sunk into the mantra and I processed the grief. I paused, I breathed. I tuned in. I kept the mantra up… sending light and allowing. Tears came over and through me as I watched the people calm and the energy shift and change all around me. I breathed, I sensed, I remained present. I felt more, sensed more, processed more. Before long, the dark cloud that had consumed the area began to disappear, the desperation flattened, and community began to form. People were striking up conversations, making personable connections, and taking the time to be together with complete strangers. The air was cleared, and lightness began to prevail.
I was grateful.
Thank you…. Thank you…thank you.
Some of my teachers would tell me to keep strong and don’t allow these things to come near you. And here is the problem with that… now more than ever we need people who do what I do in the midst of chaos to hold the light so that the light can come through. It only takes one being to make the initial shift and the others join in as consciously we bring more light to very dark situations. It can be done. It only becomes easier and easier as we all awaken to the clouds of darkness that have had a hold on us for so long and keeping us where we are unconsciously aware of our true powers. We have the power to transmute darkness. We have the capacity to make change softly and with intelligence and wisdom through a lineage of masters that have come before us. It is possible. We first need to awaken.
Hence, the mantras, the breath work, and my reiki training are what made me capable of doing what I did. My prayers were answered though the experiences I was having. I became awakened once more. I needed that to happen. I needed to allow myself to go through that experience and continue to learn what is possible. Light will penetrate the darkest of places just by its presence. It does not need to fight or claim to be right. It just is. It is quiet and powerful all on its own. It is wisdom.
Light brings rest to the unrest, worthiness to the unworthy, and security to the insecure. Light always prevails.
And 4 hours later… we gratefully received the only car available and drove to our hotel.
And I realized once again that the universe continues to amaze me. Through awareness we continue to awaken to our true form and as we do we realize what is possible. I woke up that day, again. As I continue to do every day, never knowing what will come but always having the balance of my mental mind and intuitive heart. And even this is always a continual work in progress.
Why do I share this story with you? Because consciously and unconsciously we encounter these situations daily. At work, in our communities, our homes and our families. On larger or smaller scales. It all adds up. Micro trauma can build up and become a condition associated with post-traumatic stress disorders. We need help, people need help, and support is available.
This is why I teach. Sharing Kundalini Yoga, Meditations & Mantras, Reiki, and Intuitive Readings & Energy Healing Sessions with one purpose; to awaken the power within you. We can fish for others only for so long… the real miracle comes when you give others the tools and help them cultivate the knowledge already within.
Reiki, meditation, mantras, and kundalini yoga are the tools and learning to use them to our advantage will only help us and society transform. As we continue to walk through what is happening around us and within us these techniques add to our life and help us with our current professions. It is as if we are learning the power of ourselves through the offerings and then able to transfer light into our own homes, careers, and communities.
This month I invite you to join me in one of the following classes, events, or sessions. As they are designed to teach how to become lighter and able to shift what may be happening within and all around you in your own unique way. The teachings bring us purposeful true power.
Here are the April offerings…. (click the pictures for more information and sign up links)
10 minutes to inspire your intuitive abilities… this is an excerpt from the ‘Becoming Intuitive’ program accessible as a ‘study on your own’ with 1:1 personal support from me. Enjoy the gift…
Many of us just want to know… “How do we become conscious and intuitive in every moment?”
Only in the awakening, can we become the consciousness that resides intuitively within us.
As we become conscious and intuitive in nature, we recognize that our true power comes from the sensations of the body, which naturally tunes us into this knowing. This is the self-connected internal knowing recognized as the triad of consciousness spoken about earlier. It is not necessary to have all our energy systems in our body perfectly aligned nor must we be well versed in metaphysical concepts. Rather it is more helpful to NOT have any type of metaphysical or spiritual background. When we have studied and become well versed in metaphysical, religious, or spiritual concepts we run the risk of ‘knowing it all’. We run the risk of already knowing everything and having all the answers. We stop believing. This is the mind keeping us limited. This work is not for the mind. The minute we ‘know it all’ we lose our connection with consciousness. In this work we know nothing with the mind and the sensations of our body become the keys to our release.
Through sensation we can resolve and release that which is unknown to us, which keeps us where we are. In essence the key is to sense that things are already ‘taken care of’ because we are tuned into and tapped into something greater than us. Even if we do not know what that is or believe that there is something greater, we still receive help and we still receive our shift in consciousness. Conscious intuition is without the mind. It is guidance felt through the heart and opening us to an expansion unidentified by form. It surprises us with humble confirmation that as we follow our ‘knowing’ we come across answers to dilemmas that are beyond our rational mind.
For example, some very important information came to me for over a month about ‘narcissistic’ personality traits. I did not know why I was receiving this information, nor did I understand the connections at first. I simply found myself very aware that I kept receiving this information from various sources. Simultaneously, there was a certain person in my life I felt was not completely genuine and I understood I did not need to judge. Instead, I remained present with an open heart. Later, I began to realize, before a ‘partnership’ advanced with this person, that I was dealing with a narcissist personality. Throughout this experience, I sat with myself in the not knowing of what was unfolding before me, and allowed the experience to happen. There were many instances that felt confusing during our interactions. Why was it that in some situations this person felt life affirming and in other situations it felt consuming and depleting? Why was it that my ears heard what they were saying but the energy behind their words was of a different intention? I continued to sit with myself, breathe through these confusing moments of fear, and allowed my insecurities and feelings of instability to rise up to the surface of my being. I never asserted myself from a place of needing to be right no matter how I felt. I remained neutral and unreactive. I waited and sensed within what was next before going forward. Through simply confirming the conscious intuitive knowing from within and following through with ‘NO’ action I received answers and found the solutions to my dilemma.
I affirmed ‘no action’ by not going further with a partnership. What this person was promising verbally was not truthful and conscious intuition was clearly guiding me to walk away; no matter what resistance I encountered. My resistance was the clearing that needed to happen of a learned belief stored away in my past and no longer serving my world today. My heart felt contracted and tight. My guides showed me nothing every time I asked for them to show me the next steps to take. I received nothing and therefore was to do nothing. Believe me…this was a true test of my ability to allow the embodied 6th sense to reveal the reality of the situation. This ‘spiritually enlightened person’ was not to be trusted. Things are not always what they appear to be. I later learned that if I had gone forward with a partnership there would have been much deception and financial strain. Our intuition knows the truth behind all actions and senses this through the heart of consciousness. It is sometimes very quiet, and it is always there in truth.
Ultimately, we may begin to understand our outer experiences are a representation of our subconscious beliefs. When we finally realize and wake up to our awareness, we begin to embrace a powerful part of ourselves. As we practice, the illusion of searching falls away. We are no longer unconsciously searching to confirm our old beliefs and conform to the outside. In essence we are being where we are with our truest intentions because we are more in line with our authentic self. We are the being. It is in here that we embrace our soul’s purpose.
The person who is sweeping streets may be more consciously alive and in tune with their purpose than the person who is working the stock market and making millions of dollars. It all depends on where we are and if we are in alignment with our truth. Do we need confirmation and conformity or can we exist in our current relationships with our own awakened connection?
When my child throws a tantrum on the floor of the grocery store is my love for them dependent on their behavior or does it always exist. Am I able to hold myself in that love and come from a place of consciousness to help them or am I troubled and caught up in the situation trying to control their behaviors? We do this in relationships. When there is a discussion between two people. Can we be in our conscious knowing that what is happening within us has nothing to do with the other person but rather something of our own that is bubbling up to be revealed. If we remain conscious, we connect in moments of fear and love without judgment and with invested interest that we are working towards a greater cause. The light of our consciousness never fails. It does not control, and it does not judge. It holds no grudges, nor does it resent and place itself in a form of self-defense. It shines in complete acceptance of itself and the world around.
A flower that grows in the forest does not dwell on the idea that it may be the only flower for miles in a sea of trees and tall grasses. It grows where it is in a state of unconditioned reverence for its existence where it is. We are the experience. Our state of being determines nothing and everything at the same time. Our desire for consciousness determines nothing. When we are being, we realize that all that is happening has nothing to do and no way to control. It just is.
Here is your practice for the day…
With every situation, which arises, and every condition that happens…be. Just be. Offer no advice or try to determine the best outcome to take. Just allow things to unfold on their own with a state of conscious peace. If a business partner is unraveling frustration over a situation and is looking for approval from you to make a decision to go in a direction that is unclear…then just pause.
Pause…breathe…excuse yourself…and take a walk. This is possible. In a moment that one must make a decision because it is a life-threatening situation we need to act without hesitation, for sure. This is NOT what I am referring to. In these cases, our survivor instincts kick in and we are to follow through for sure. I am speaking of the idea that we do not need to make decisions when someone else is pressuring us to do so because of their perceived time frame. We must sense our way and feel what is happening within us. Connect in our triad of super consciousness and become our purpose in every moment. Ask yourself, “Am I living my purpose in this moment? How can I be in this moment and be aligned with my highest purpose? How do I remain aligned right now? How do I become more in tune with the true purpose in my life? Who am I in this moment? Who am I truly? Who am I?”
One may continue to wonder, “Why we ask so many questions directed at the self and our own actions?” Well, the only thing we have control over in our life is ourselves. Even our own self-perceived control is a mystery. When we come to this level of consciousness, we come to the realization we control nothing and the only power we have is in a triad with all that is. We are connecting and being in every moment. No matter what. When we pause to ask ourselves the questions, we also find that our heartbeat slows down, our vision opens up, our ears keenly become aware of our surroundings and our digestion rests where we are. We become one with timelessness and understand that the perception of urgency is not based on anything but human creation. That in the realm of space and time there really is no space and time. It is here that we have access to all possibility. It is in this moment that the connections are happening all around us and our new reality lines up.
When we realize there is a human unconsciousness that is always trying to figure things out, we are in that state, always. We never allow for miracles, and we never allow for any other possibilities because we are energetically sending out the message to the universe that ‘we’ve got this all figured out already’ and ‘we don’t need the help’. Thus, we have intentionally cut off the supply of miracles, which now has no room to show up. When we pause and respond in a new way of being that is heart centered, we detach from the collective unconscious. In that detachment we automatically begin to realign with something greater, conscious, and intuitive.
Imagine unplugging from the collective unconscious of the business entity on purpose. We unplug ourselves so that we can lead in a higher way. When we unplug, we are allowing ourselves to fly above situations and see from the bird’s eye view. If we are so attached to the collective unconscious of that entity we can never actually see from outside the picture. We are always inside the framework of what we perceive to be happening and thus remain in the box full of ideas that are only available where we are. When we unplug and allow ourselves to breathe, walk, tune in, and separate in a way that connects us to our intuitive consciousness, we are tuning into something bigger than all of us. We are aligned with consciousness that has the highest and best interest for everyone and everything and then we allow for the highest and best possible outcome to be available to us. We may not understand ‘how’ or know ‘why’, at first. But this is the process of opening and becoming reconnected. Remember, the journey always unfolds exactly as it is supposed to. As we reconnect to ourselves, we reconnect to allowing flow back into our live. We are guided and directed. We lead others as we are led in a new way. We are that which we seek, as we trust, the path will unfold. It’s in the attempt to find, that we keep searching. When we cease from searching, we finally realize we were already there.
Today. Our mission is to continue to merge with consciousness. Walk amongst nature. Sit with a flower. Be with the Earth. Feel the sensations of consciousness all around. In the wind, the trees, the grass, the flowers, the smells, etc. Be with the aliveness all around. It is in the fish within the fishbowl, the dog near you, and the plant by your bedside table. It is the aliveness that is the living consciousness in everything. If you can take some time to sit with a tree…close your eyes and imagine yourself merging with her. Be in the tree…imagine yourself being the tree trunk and expanding your arms up to the sun and your legs running deep into the Earth. Be. Be the grass. Be a blade of grass… reaching high to the sky and rooted within the dirt below. Wave with the wind. Feel the expansion. The aliveness of nature is the aliveness of consciousness. It is all around us.
Bring nature into your home. Have potted plants in the office to remind you of who you are. Find rocks to place around, these are the elements of this great universe, and decorate the computer screen with mountains, and streams, and organic materials. Be connected to all that is and allow reminders all around the environment. This fosters connection to the world within and subtly fosters the knowing that everything that is in this world is not of this world. You are not of this world and certainly we all will be going to another place when we are gone. Ask yourself, “What is my purpose? Who am I meant to be and am I becoming what I am? What is this? Who am I? How do I know this?” In asking these questions…don’t wait for answers just sense the aliveness within and around you. Continue to ask, ‘Do posing these questions arise any unsatisfied emotions? In posing these questions do I feel a shift in how I relate to others? Has my perception as to what is important and non-important changed? In asking these questions do I feel any different about life? Am I able to connect with the world around me in a new light?’
In posing these fundamental questions of existence we are in essence acknowledging the action in non-action. This is how conscious intuition can help us be more productive than the mind alone. When we merge with consciousness we are disconnecting from the collective unconscious, and we then can lead guide and direct from a far greater evolutionary position than anyone has ever been able to do before.
People begin to look at us differently because they can feel a shift. Those that are beginning waking up to their own consciousness may be very inquisitive. They may ask what we have been doing and how come we look so much better. We may not notice the shifts in ourselves, but they will. Some that are fear based will wonder if we are ok and if we need to talk to someone about what is going on in our life. Just smile and thank them for their concern and assure them you have never felt clearer about your life and the purpose of your work. Most people will be curious of your newfound strength and peace. Your openness to creativity will produce inspired answers to problems that came from something outside of the unconsciousness that was residing in the current institution that you work. Your contributions will be conscious and different. Consciousness is in everyone and everything and when it begins to wake up it spreads easily and fast as if you turned a light on in a room. Remember, you are not shifting anyone, and it is not your job to preach what they should do. Your path is your own and theirs is their path. We spread the inspiration and intuitive consciousness by being this ourselves and connecting at heart-to-heart levels with everyone around us no matter what. We accept everyone for who they are, and we attempt to change no one. This is truly conscious and heart full living. This is living without ego and without the form-based perception that most of humanity is attached to. We are formless. When we leave the Earth, we do not take our bodies with us. The aliveness is no longer in the body that we left but that does not mean we are not alive.
Today, just for now. Be. Merge with your consciousness by purposefully being in nature to merge with nature and practice in the most complex situations that may emerge in relationships throughout your day. Practice many of the techniques we have learned the past 3 weeks. Keep merging with your life as an intuitive tapped in and tuned into ‘being’. IN-Joy life. In-Joy-Ing life is the being of joy. So, In-joy today.
When complex situations emerge… take care of yourself…take a breath, excuse yourself, walk, give yourself space and a moment to allow yourself to merge again with your spirit. Then come back without an answer. There is no need to force, and everyone has the right to moments. It is one of the greatest gifts to give our self and our emergence into a conscious life.
Today is about merging. Tomorrow we will practice how to be one with this newfound awareness and we will practice opening to more enlightened ways of listening and tuning into our connection.
Today’s Mantra
Just for now, in this now moment, I merge with consciousness.
Just for now, in this now moment, I merge with consciousness.
Just for now, in this now moment, I merge with consciousness.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese form of healing for stress reduction & relaxation bringing balance and healing to the entire human energy system in all areas of life. Mental, Emotional, Physical, & Spiritual issues are all addressed and helped with a Reiki practice. It is complete health and healing to the body, mind, and soul.
Reiki is for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imbalances.
Reiki facilitates self-healing, the healing of your business, your life work, & the healing of your family.
Within our hearts we experience a universal love vibration. Here is where we open to feelings of the awareness of a consciousness which supersedes anything we may experience in our daily interactions. There are no lower emotions attached to the heart coming from a dysfunctional solar plexus, low naval, or sacrum area. We have balanced and engaged our lower three chakras in a way that brings complete understanding of who we are and what we are here to experience within our lives. We love ourselves completely which allows us to love others just the same. We place no expectations on others. We do not react to the world around us. Rather we respond in a loving manner comprehending the greater good in all situations. Loving and being loved is a transcendental state of higher awareness opening us to the cosmic law of prosperity. The more we give; the more we receive. The more we love the divine within ourselves; the more we love the divine within others. The more we are able to open to the divine of all. The more the divine is able to show up in ways that seem miraculous to our every day existence. This is the magic of light consciousness, of pure bliss, and oneness with your Creator.
Our hearts, at the center of our chests, feel everything. We are sensations. When we tune into this love force, we can experience it all. Low and high vibrations. As we learn to discern and shed the lower emotions that tend to control and interpret life, we learn to open to the miraculous which has no defined existence and allows for the transcendence of everything in our lives. We learn to love ourselves, opening to true love for all. We can finally see, feel, and sense what it means to love truly. This love is unattached to any person, place, or thing. We share with no strings attached. We feel balanced, clear, and open to both giving and receiving.
Within the lower chakras, if not resolved, is where life can feel messy, confusing, constricted, and unfair. We tend to place blame on the outside world ignorant of the realization that these are reflections of what we must resolve within. This does not mean we stay where we are and become the victim or martyr of the world around us. Love brings us to a new state of awareness allowing us to speak with clarity, claim our power, and shift our lives into a new state of being fully aligned with our desires.
We realize that this life is filled with the opportunities to experience higher awareness in every person, place or thing. As we experience the higher vibrations of love consciousness, we draw more of these experiences to us and we begin to fill our lives with that which we desire and less of which we are willing to endure through obligations.
The old ways of insecurity, distrust, scarcity, isolation, abandonment, rigidity, jealousy, resentment, frustration, and judgement slowly erupt until we just can’t take it anymore. We find it unbearable to live this way and we finally allow ourselves to become more. We shed the struggle of ourselves, our families, and our societies and we realize there is so much more to experience.
Many of our societies are built around these lower dysfunctional emotions. It is rampant. It is engaged within almost every rule, every judgement, every societal decision based on the idea we must keep law and order otherwise we will have a very unsafe and chaotic world full of crime, disease, and scarcity.
When we transcend the lower emotions within ourselves and teach others to do the same, we finally return to the heart. We naturally inspire good, live fully, and unconditionally share with the world. If everyone was able to forgive and release the lower emotions within themselves, they would begin to see a completely new world unfold before them.
It only begins with one, and then as the second person joins them the miraculous journey of prosperity and bliss for the community unfolds before them.
With an open heart, we can bring new meaning to our lives, live unconditionally, and love prosperously.
Mastering the lower realms and understanding the ability to transcend it all can take lifetimes to accomplish. Or it can miraculously happen today. It’s all up to us to desire to believe there is another way and then to seek this new way. We are in a constant state of awareness pressing forward to ascend it all. Sometimes it may feel contracted and gray and other times the expansion cannot be contained. It is a symbiotic process always unfolding before us. It’s the great meaning of Creator… to create, to destroy, and to create again.
Through acceptance, surrender, and the desire for more we begin to understand the importance of Be – ing, see – ing, and sense – ing. We see through all the veils and the illusions within our own lives fall aways. We embrace compassion, detachment, and the gift of our life path.
We come fully into Intuitive Love.
It is truly a state of surrender to a higher love with no containers or boundaries. Even our imaginations cease to comprehend how vast and strong the ocean of awareness can be as we deeply unveil the endless vastness of an all providing universe of limitless prosperity and manifestations present everywhere.
Then we know we have found our true calling; to live unconditionally, to love fully, and let go of it all.
To Become IntuitLove.
If you are looking to experience more love and manifest a life of living through the heart, I encourage you to allow yourself to continue to learn and seek more.
Educate yourself and never stop learning.
Here are some opportunities this week and weeks ahead that may unite this love affair within yourself…
Classes
Thursdays – Kundalini Yoga – tune in this week to the heart chakra… our all-knowing intuitive guidance system. See links for location information.
Reiki I in February – An ancient and effective eastern healing practice powerful enough to help heal practically any issue. Take the time to learn in February. Link here.
Programs
Sandwich Connection – Live your highest potential through your purposefully aligned joy and bliss.
Becoming Intuitive – Engage in this online journey and learn to sense, feel, and know how to live intuitively. How to transform your everyday life to intuitive living. Inquire with Jennifer and contact her today.
Private Sessions
1:1 Energy Healing and Manifestation Sessions are always available. Inquire here.
We are now in the point of light consciousness where it is pivotal to go within. If you are striving towards something you want to bring into your life or wondering how to shift your current state of awareness… NOW is a pivotal time to be focused on just that.
As we transition from the winter solstice… going from the darkest point of the year, coming into a new moon (the darkest sky of the month), and beginning the sacred wise and transformative season of miracles. Thus, it is imperative we decide what we want to bring into our lives. Reading this means you are full of awareness. Thus, it is time to begin the planning and manifesting of your next transformation into spring.
We have an enormous opportunity for change in a positive and light filled direction if we can recognize our ability to shift. We are doing it, consciously & unconsciously all the time. Unfortunately, most of us are reacting to what is showing up around us instead of going within, shifting from the inside and then the world bends and shifts to our conscious, heart filled, integral desires.
This requires commitment to a practice, conscious understanding we are connected to something bigger than us, and confidently pursuing in the direction of our heartfelt dreams…no matter what. ‘No matter what’ is where the work for us comes in. We must be willing to shift. We must be willing to resolve and release for all past karma we have created in order to welcome in our desired destiny. It’s only requirement is the contemplative desire, clear vision, conscious commitment, and connected knowing. Then we create our world, no matter what comes up for us.
In the shadows is where the light shines.
In the shadows of all are doubts, angst, procrastination, hurts, wrongs, failures, and short comings is where the diamonds emerge.
When we gloss over, accept the breadcrumbs as ‘good enough’, or can not even imagine how to shift we are faced with an overbearing OPPORTUNITY. This is the golden moment our soul is calling for us to go deeper. NOT TO GIVE UP.
Digging up the rocks and tilling the fields can be hard work if we do it alone. When we learn of a process that makes it obtainable to grow crops an easier way… we become the way.
Our internal seeds know what needs to be done. Our external world may seem limited. And that is exactly the illusion we are faced with dismantling.
We all have a soul purpose and a spirit’s joy. Let’s uncover this together.
We all have the light that shines from within illuminating the darkest of times. Let’s unify with the all-encompassing sun.
We all have the eye of truth living within us. Let’s discover the lasting relationship with this internal wisdom.
I invite humanity to rediscover the version of light that is truly illuminating right now. Not the version we are told exists and only the version that is experienced and sensed and known by the very experiences of awakening to the eternal powers lay dormant in us all.
Meaning, there is a version of our reality that is already healthy, spiritually connected, prosperous, illuminated, unified, and one.
We can heal and create career visions and dreams. We can heal and create financial prosperity and illuminated abundance. We can heal and create healthy body and mind. We can heal and create spiritual connection and oneness. We can heal and create outstanding relationships. We can heal and create unified families. We can heal and create a personal reconciliation with thyself.
It is all possible. It all happens. It all will shift in this now moment. If we begin now.
I encourage you to allow shifts to happen, allow yourself to create new possibilities, and allow oneness to seep into your blood stream.
Here are some tips I use to create my life.
Every year I rewrite my mission statement. My life mission statement envisions my illuminated self in alignment with my highest purpose and potential. This encompasses all aspects of my life from career and purpose to family and relationships, to health and spirit.
I then redesign my long-term goals in succinct ways and supported by monthly markers that will produce attainment of my goals.
Daily, I create short attainable actions steps to achieve my monthly markers.
Gratitude and recognition of the universe is working for me is a part of this practice.
I consistently work to heal, resolve, and transcend the parts of me that are not aligning with my purpose.
I have a daily ritual of mediation and connection. I speak with my guides daily and receive my next steps towards working with the highest possibility for myself and all those surrounding me.
I am resolved to always function from the heart with the highest integrity for myself and everyone around me. It requires work but the rewards and reduction in karmic relations keeping me from obtaining and becoming lighter are electric.
It takes work, strategy, commitment, confidence, and complete clarity.
I encourage you to create your own and include rituals in the process… of this unfolding.
If you need help and want to know more about a process that could work, my Sandwich Connection program is available.
Sandwich Heartmind Groups will be forming in the beginning of the year for current and past participants. These will help to further along our practice and create the miracles we are seeking.
Access information here… or contact me directly by text or call.
As for now, recognize we all have a clean canvas with the ability to create the life of our design. Sometimes, we just need a little help from our friends.
Have a beautiful and light filled entrance into all the light you can handle.
Bring in opportunities to Transcend Limitations in all aspects of life.
Between now and April light is pouring in. Harness the opportunity.
I’ll never forget when I began my healing journey. I felt so alone for all those years. Like I was floating on this deserted island waiting for someone to recognize what was happening and begin to see things from my perspective. I had so many questions. “Why is it I’m the only one who believes there is another way?” “Why do I feel like everyone is asleep and I am the crazy one who sees what is really going on?” “Am I crazy? Or is everyone else just numb?”
I began to think we were living in a world of institutionalized slavery. One person after another was being programmed into believing healing only happened through medicine and that the ceilings that were available to them was all we could expect and all that we deserved. I speak about this repeatedly in my book, “Transcending Limitations” but more importantly breaking through a matrix of codependent societal behaviors was the secret to my success.
If you are wondering how to shift your life and what to do next at your current crossroads or if you know someone who is standing at the doorway of choices wondering what to do next perhaps contemplate this point of reference when you come to the end of the road you have always known and traveled upon.
Sometimes failure and falling down again can be exactly what we need to live our greatest life… here is something that may help inspire you or someone you know…
Learning to fly…
You must become completely related to what you want in your life.
You must feel the sensations and the knowing’s that live in your heart.
Many of us walk around as if the weight of the world is on our shoulders. Unconsciously stuck in a pattern or repertoire of the things that we don’t want.
How do we become something other than what is happening all around us. Let go of what you know. Let go of the mind and only live through the heart.
We can not create what we want by referencing what is currently happening.
We must intuitively live.
We must keenly taste.
We must passionately feel.
Let the light shine through. No matter what.
You might have the weight of two worlds on your shoulders…. Get related to it… let it crack you… let it open you to desperation. Let yourself fall into the abyss of imperfection. Then watch… just be… stay in the naad of what is happening. Set yourself feel.
Feel it all. The doubts, the fears, the angst, the heartache, the yuck, the imperfection, the everything.
Its darkness… and in the darkness… only light can shine.
In the darkness… only light prevails.
We must be nothing like we were in the past. Awareness never allows anything to stay and always allows change to happen. No matter what.
Awareness that this is happening combined with allowing ourselves to fall and feel again breaks us open to freedom.
No matter what.
What are you afraid of?
What is aching within your heart?
What do you want and why is it not showing up? Why are you stuck…. Why are you caged… why do you remain where you are?
Its right there inside you. Put your attention on it…. Feel it… get related to it… and let it scream. Let it tantrum. Let it feel. Let it feed your body with all the things you are afraid of. Let yourself die.
When you allow your heart to break… when you allow it to fall into the shadow… something brilliant is allowed to happen… it becomes reborn… AGAIN.
It falls apart… it breaks… it scatters… it hurts…. Oh, and it hurts so much. It longs for things to be different. And that is beautiful.
We want that… we want to feel it all.
When we truly feel we finally see the charismatic ache within the heart with gentle eyes smiling at you to just let go.
Then we get to pick up the pieces again. And put it back together better than anything we could have ever expected it to be with our minds. And only fully longed for and felt for with our hearts.
Its greater, than anything you can ever even imagine. It lives through the heart. Only in the heart.
But when there is a cocoon around the heart protecting it… we must break it open and break it free… again.
We need to be more connected, more related, and more in love than ever before… that is what the sadness is calling us to do. Be more, let it out, feel it all. Just be intuit.
Life is full of death.
Birth is full of dying.
Light is full of dark.
We go one direction, and then we bounce back and go the other direction.
We just are.
And we know that we must feel, we must sense, and then we know… what glorious things may come.
But when we hesitate, when we don’t just jump in, we lose our connection to all that is. We miss it… it just passes by and then we are hit with the realizations later of the would haves, should haves, could haves… if only we had done it different.
And what good does that do?
What are you afraid of?
When we allow our hearts to break repeatedly, we all of a sudden wake up to the realization that we are meant to feel deeply, to cry profusely, to weep in longing for everything to be different.
This is waking up.
If we live protected, we become afraid to fly. If we live in safety, we remain caged. Waking up to our failures is one of life’s greatest gifts.
Only in the full awakening is the bliss we are seeking.
We have longings, we have wants, we have so much to experience.
Open your eyes and see, the way our horizons meet, and the way you can match up with all that you desire.
We must dive deep into the shadows, become the shadows, get related to the darkness… before we can truly become the light.
Stop glossing it over, taking breadcrumbs, or allowing things to just remain where they are.
Break open and break yourself free.
Fall and fail again.
Because in the falling… in the failure… WE GET TO CHOOSE AGAIN.
We get to pick up the pieces we want and leave the rest.
Pay attention, listen to your heart…. and you will know… here it is again and this time I’m jumping all in… no matter what.
This time it will be different…
You will get 3 steps further than before…. And you may even take 6 steps backward… but then you will go 9 steps forward. And one day you will leap… one day you will fly.
Do it anyway.
It’s coming… it’s getting closer…
I promise it’s almost here.
It’s times like these, when we fail and fail again that we get to break apart all we have ever known and then have the opportunity to build again. The rebuilding means we get to open ourselves to new life, new people, new places and new things. In the newness of it all is when we come upon partnerships that will attract the miraculous. And only this can occur with ashes and dust.
In the coming new year ahead consider receiving the help you need to learn to fly. Here are some opportunities to help you learn…
28 daily lessons delivered to your inbox with affirmations and audio visualizations + 1:1 coaching Begin today with Becoming Intuitive.Manifest your HEART FULLY driven life… 1:1 coaching and group work meant to shift and transform your life to its highest potential. Become the You that is AWAITING discovery. The Sandwich Connection – A HEART FULLY driven manifestation program
Sometimes we need some personal healing session to shatter the dark and transcend us into the light… our guides show us the path.
So you have a block? Sometimes we need a personal healing session to shatter the dark and transcend us into the light… our guides show us the path. Ignite your light and let’s live your passion. Schedule your 1:1 session today. The best way to change your life is with tools that work… connect with your higher self through a physically challenging, mentally invigorating, and spiritually uplifting practice. Come to Kundalini Yoga Practice at the following locations: Grayslake or LibertyvilleSign up today & connect with your own healing power from within. Learn how to heal your body, mind and spirit through Reiki and join like hearted individuals on a path of transformation.
Have you ever thought of yourself as an extension of energy? Imagine this… Imagine yourself as a tree. A beautiful and bountiful tree full of life. This tree is vibrant and alive. Larger and more expansive than ever seen before. Ever felt before, ever sensed before. This tree is so amazing that we can see and feel it across all space and time in this current reality. This tree has branches that expand, stretch and reach upwards of 100 feet into the air… expanding and lifting and reaching so far out int the sky that its mere presence expands and lifts the life force of the animals, air, water, earth and sky around it. Its prana is unimaginably stable and a source of groundedness for all that come near it. You can’t help but feel limitless and healed as you stand near its presence. Its branches lift us and reach high into the limitless sky as a representation of that which is within each of us…limitless expansion.
Now imagine the mirror version of this same tree and how its roots run deep within the earth plane. The roots reflect the branches. That which you see extended upwards to the sky also runs deep down below the earth you are standing upon. These roots reach so deeply into the mother and advance themselves uncontained around us intertwining with the roots of the forest of trees around you. The earth worms, the moles, the animals and insects that serve the ground all become fed and nurtured by this tree and live vibrantly off its life force. The roots intermingle with other tree roots and they all have light force conversations with each other. They communicate vibrantly together and infuse love and support unto one another. Helping each other live vibrantly and cohesively together all based on their intuitive life force within them that are cohesively connected to the universal life force that feeds and nurtures us all.
Now breathe and listen into you… and hear this statement…
“YOU ARE THAT TREE.”
You have the same limitless capacity within you to reach beyond and transcend above all perceived lower vibrations. To stand clearly and steadfastly within the roots of your strong prana and to shift the energy around you and within you deep into the earth and into the ancestors of your lineage of everyone who has ever come before you, is currently present in your life, and everyone you will meet from this day forward.
I know this. It is truth.
The only requirement is that you learn more about you… you learn what feeds you, what nurtures you, who you are and what powers you contain to shift yourself and this amazing world you are living within.
That’s it. Therefore, this is why you are here.
I see everyone who walks into my/our classes, sessions, or on the ground of Winwood Retreat Center as such. A beautiful limitless tree that intuitively knows how to live vibrantly. They are all tuning into and taping into their superpowers. I am, we are, Winwood is merely providing the uncompromised space for us to become this.
As such, make time to come and experience a class, a session, or a day of retreat from the world out there so that you come to know the world within you.
For once you know thyself you know the world and thus we all win together in this precious life and place that we all inhabit together.
Make time in your schedule for these events happening this weekend and coming regular. They will feed your tree and help you to vibrantly grow. Then we build the new forest together. Limitless, expansive and free to be our super selves with our unlimited superpowers.
