Archive for August, 2009

I’ve started my chakra meditations today.
I’m finding myself very excited about committing to doing this for the next month. I’ve decided to go from today, Monday August 31, 2009 until Sunday September 27, 2009. That’s a 28 day round. One main chakra focus each day and each chakra will end up being the daily focus four separate times.

My main references for this little experiment are 3 books.

I have:

The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing: Energy Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit
The Crystal Chakra Healing book is by Philip Permutt and came with a deck of chakra cards. There’s one card for each chakra that lists the associated crystals, incense, colors and a meditation. I’ll be doing the meditations on each card without using crystals for the first week. I may decide to incorporate the crystals later.

Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and VitalityUpdated and Expanded
This one is by Donna Eden whom I LOVE! You can search for her on youtube and see videos of her energy exercises. It’s a little unconventional, but hey… so am I :) This book goes WAY beyond just chakra energy and covers acupuncture meridians and EFT to name just a bit. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in energy healing or anything related.

The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
This last book is by Cyndi Dale. It goes WAY WAY deeper than the first two. This one is more for someone very interested in the human body’s energetic systems. It covers chakras and pressure points and meridians and so much more I can’t even BEGIN to list it all here. It’s a very large, 500 page reference manual.

I really love all three of these books and am reading the relevant chakra section out of each of them on the appropriate day. My intention over the next 28 days is to not only stimulate and heal my chakras but also to learn and retain the information I read and write about.

Today I started with the root or base chakra. This is the chakra associated with the base of the spine and most commonly, the color red. It can appear, to individuals who can physically SEE energy, in gold tones and purple hues also.

As I walked around all day, I kept my root chakra in the back of my mind. Any time I found myself immobile, I would focus my consciousness into it and allow myself to feel it spinning. I suppose I must have focused directly on it 5 or 6 times throughout the day for maybe 2-3 minutes each time.

I also did a formal meditation. The card said basically to take the standard deep breaths to relax and then visualize a red light glowing from within and growing in intensity. Then see and feel it sink down through your body into your root chakra at the base of your spine…then down your legs and through your feet into the ground and then see it spreading out like red roots. I also took note of the spinning sensation. I love that part.

Tomorrow, I think I’m going to start with my root chakra and move into my sacral chakra. It is said that energy moves into your body through the root chakra and networks up through the others. I figure starting at the bottom and moving upward each day should keep things stimulated and moving.

Hope you all have a great night. See ya tomorrow!

Happy Day Spa Monday!

Well, it sure is HAPPY for ME at least!

Below is an article I found this morning that I really enjoyed. I too try to impress upon people the importance of developing an actual relationship with God or the Universe or whatever your word is. I never really thought about it being key to being able to “let go” to manifest, but now that I’ve read it, it totally makes sense.

Hope you enjoy this. I’ll be back later for the root chakra meditation update! See ya in a while!

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Law Of Attraction – The Vital Manifesting Ingredient Most People Miss

By: Sonia M.

The Missing Ingredient
Most seekers who practice Law of Attraction techniques understand the basics. They understand that we create our reality with our thoughts and emotions. They practice visualization and repeat affirmations. They also cultivate their attitudes of gratitude. However, there are many seekers who, despite their best efforts, find themselves waiting and waiting, growing more and more disillusioned as their goals remain beyond reach. They tend to think that they need to do more of what they’ve been doing, when in fact they need to do less. The most vital Law of Attraction tool escapes them: they need to let go.

Why Let Go?
Why is letting go crucial? Because if you want something really badly and you are NOT letting go, it probably means that you’re attached to the thing you desire. And if you are attached, it means that you are maintaining a “vibration of separation.” In other words you are telling the Universe, “I really want this thing. I want it so badly. And I want it badly because I don’t have it. I’m separate from it.” Since the Law of Attraction tells us that like attracts like, if you tell the Universe that you are separate from something, you will attract more of the same: you being separate from that which you desire.

When you let go, however, you release all of the energy that is fueling the illusion of separation. When you let go, you come into the present moment and become more able to focus on all that you have. When you are present with and grateful for what you have, you attract more of the experience of having.

How to Let Go
So how does one let go? Well, letting go of relatively unimportant things is fairly easy. But when we are holding on to something for dear life because we think we need it, because we can’t imagine life without it – then letting go becomes quite the dilemma. In these circumstances there is essentially only one technique for letting go, and that is Replacement Therapy.

Replacement Therapy is a practice which has you replace the thing you think is your source (i.e. your dream, your desire, the thing you want) with your true Source. When you are attached to something, it is because you think it is the source of your happiness, the source of your wholeness, the source of your well being, etc. But nothing outside of you is your source. Your true source is Source Energy itself. And the fact is that it is already inside of you. It is in you. It expresses as you and through you. It is all around you. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not Source. It is in understanding and contemplating this truth that one becomes more and more able to let go.

You may ask, “What exactly am I letting go of?” Good question. When you let go, you are creating the space for your desire to come to you. You are letting go of all the things you cannot control. You are letting go of how it comes to you and when it comes to you.

You are even letting go of the thing itself because when you harness the power of the Law of Attraction, you are choosing to fly instead of walk toward your dream. And when you fly, you allow a force greater than you to lift you up and carry you. That means you don’t need to know the details.

Source handles that. And even though you may think you know what you want, Source really knows better than you what you want. Source will always give you the best possible version of what you want if you allow it. When you let go of the thing itself, you are allowing it or some¬thing better to come into your experience.

Replacement Therapy
Quite simply Replacement Therapy is the practice of turning your attention away from the external thing you want and placing it fully on Source. It is the practice of contemplating the higher truth of your situation. It is about reminding yourself that there is no scarcity, there is only infinite abundance; that the love you seek does not come from a person outside of you, but rather that you ARE love; and that perfect health can be resurrected when you open your awareness to your true nature as a whole being.

Replacement Therapy is the practice of willingness, where you tell yourself, “I’m willing to perceive the abundance that is here, even if I cannot see it. I’m willing to experience the vibrant health that I already possess even if I can not feel it.”

Replacement Therapy is the practice of surrender where you take a deep breath and talk to Source saying, “Okay Source. I don’t know how to fix this situation. But I’m told you are all loving and all powerful. I’m willing to give you a shot at this. I surrender this whole situation to you. I open my mind and heart to receive new insights, new possibilities, and even miracles into my life.”

Developing Your Own Relationship with Source
All this being said, you may be compelled to ask, “What IS Source, anyway!? What am I surrendering to?!” For Replacement Therapy to work well, you must identify for yourself a concept, a construct, a notion, an idea, of a thing that is more than you, or at least the mere mortal you, which you can turn to when you are letting go. This thing must make you feel good when you think of it. This thing IS your true source. It must be unconditional. It must be all good, all loving, all forgiving, all knowing, all powerful and eternal. Now, some may say that God is this. Some may say that Source is this. Some may say that Infinite Intelligence, Divine Spirit, Goddess (whatever name you prefer) is this.

But until you discover how this could possibly be true for you, it won’t matter what anyone says.

In order to practice Replacement Therapy, you must have and cultivate a very personal relationship with Source, one based in your truth. The tricky thing is, although surveys show that the great majority of people do believe in a higher power, our beliefs or lack thereof about this higher power may very well be based in things above and beyond our own truths. You may have already embarked on the journey of developing this very personal relationship with Source. Or, you may not have done this work yet, in which case, your beliefs may be based in what you have been taught or adopted without further exploration. Your ideas, constructs and notions about God may not be based in your truth at all, but in other people’s truths. And because we as humans all possess limiting filters, we tend to apply those filters to our ideas about God.

But here’s the thing: If you do not have a notion of a higher power that is 100 safe to turn to, you will not be able to practice Replacement Therapy. Your source must be that safe haven you turn to when you let go – over and over and over again – of those things you desire most and the things you cannot control. If your ideas about God scare you, or make you feel bad, how do you expect to let go of the grip the conditions of your humanity have on you and turn your trust over to a conditional higher power?

And the surprising upshot of all of this? In the short term, letting go provides the vital missing ingredient in manifesting that which you desire. But long term, as you cultivate this relationship with the very Source that gives you all that you desire, your life shifts from manifesting abundance, to being the abundance that you are and always were. As you let go of control the details, the events, and the circumstances of your life of your life – you begin to let go of the limitations that keep you small. The practice of letting go, will not only lead you to the dreams you know you have, but they’ll also lead you to a dream that may have been dormant – the opportunity to discover and express your infinite nature as co creator of your life.

(Originally published at GoArticles and reprinted with permission from the author, Sonia M. Miller).

Author Resource:-> International Life Coach, Sonia M. Miller, is author of “The Attraction Distraction: Why the Law of Attraction Isn’t Working for You and How to Get Results Finally!” She has helped countless people activate personal success, healing and transformation since 1983. For more life-changing information, go to: http://www.SuccessForTheSoul.com.

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♥ Happy Spirit Day!! ♥

I keep having the human pineal glad pulled into my awareness via synchronicity, so I decided to do some research today. I found out some pretty awesome things!

1. Fluoride (which is a POISON) accumulates in the pineal glad and can trigger early puberty in children. No wonder there’s so much teen aged pregnancy! They put poison in the water and biology takes care of the rest.

2. DMT is a chemical secreted by the pineal glad that is said to be highly hallucinogenic.
3. The pineal glad is recognized through all major religions as an important link between the human and the spirit. That’s right! Not JUST the eastern religions, but Catholicism too.

The pineal glad is associated with the brow chakra, or third eye. In looking through search results in my research, I ended up on youtube watching videos on the 7 chakras. Focusing on chakra meditation is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time now.

I considered for a moment, the idea that I’d ended up watching videos about chakras from a search about the pineal glad. I’ve been wanting to do that. Maybe I’ll do a month of chakra meditations. OOoo I could blog about it. How convenient that a new month starts in just one day. Then I thought…. If I was going to do it, I’d want to start with the base chakra on a Monday so I’d end up at the crown on Sunday. What a coincidence…. tomorrow is Monday.

SO! That’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to start tomorrow and focus on one chakra each day, starting with the base/root chakra.
I just love synchronicity. It’s always gently suggesting the best ideas.

I’m looking forward to my first official, back to school, Day Spa Monday tomorrow.
I intend to soak and exfoliate and clip and shave and pluck and buff and externally renew and beautify!! I’ve missed having my own time. I’m going to start the day by going for a bike ride with the dogs and then make a quick run to the bank. I’ll stop at the store on my way home and then I won’t have to leave again for the rest of the day.

Then it will just be me, the huge, bubble filled, candle encircled bath tub and all the DIY Day Spa Monday equipment in my arsenal. I think the tub will be the location of my first official chakra meditation. I suppose I’ll have to nail down a guided chakra meditation to start with. I love my MP3 player :)

I hope you all had a fantatic weekend.
When you wake up tomorrow, start the day by listing 10 things that will be GREAT about your day.
It’s a wonderful way to start your day and a phenomenal way to start your week.

I want to share with you a VERY awesome trick I learned from this book. I’ve tried it on myself and my family multiple times and can say, without a doubt, that if done correctly, it ABSOLUTELY works!!

I’m against sunscreen. I believe the sun has been demonized in recent years and that slathering chemicals all over your exposed skin is NOT the answer to preventing sunburn. I believe that the sunscreens are more harmful to our health than the sun is.

In this book, Beth Greer suggests mixing straight ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in a 10% solution with water and spraying exposed skin for sunburn prevention.

It is SO true!

We spent an entire sun filled day at our local amusement/water park and no one was even PINK! We’d all turned a light brown, but there was NO burn anywhere!

Since then, when the kids are getting dressed to go outside in the morning, I lightly mist them with the Vitamin C solution and allow it to soak in. Then I apply another misted layer and once it’s dry, they dress and go outside and we’ve not had a single sunburn this summer season.

It’s totally water proof because the vitamin C actually soaks into your skin. They go in and out of the pool all day and stay protected.

In a pinch, I used several chewable vitamin C tablets in a pint of warm water, but that has pretty big drawbacks. The first of which is that, chewable vitamin C has sugar in it and it’s not fun being sticky and tasty for bugs.

I went on Amazon and purchased sugar free powdered Ascorbic Acid. I dissolve it in water and apply. It’s awesome.

♥ Happy Spirit Day! ♥

Well, we were all ready to rent our rental house to a group of 3 couples. They were in their early 20s. The guys all worked full time and the girls were all in school. While we were waiting for them to call and say they’d take it, we got another call about it.

Scott was a little uncomfortable with the idea of having six young people living in our house anyway. Kids in their twenties aren’t known for being irresponsible partiers for no reason. I’m pretty laid back and was ready to go wherever the flow told me to in spite of his worrying. As it turned out, the flow was sending us somewhere else.

I got a call from a housing corporation. They’re working in conjunction with an insurance company to find temporary housing for a woman and her two teen aged children because theire house burned down and they’re living in a motel room.

My heart immediately went out to this woman. I met with her to show her the house and found out that, just over a year ago, masked men walked into her home in the wee morning hours and shot and killed her husband right in front of her and her kids. Then, over the past year she’s had to have multiple surgeries on her ankle. Now her house has burned down.  This woman has had one rough year.

It has become very important to me to help this woman any way I can. I went out of my way to have the water turned on in the house. It’s her responsibility, but if I did it, it would go on immediately. She’d have had to wait til this coming week when she has the signed rental agreement. So it was easier and faster for me to do it for her.

I also went back over to the house yesterday to open the door for the furniture rental company so they could get in and furnish the house for her. Our standard procedure is to not allow access until the lease is signed and money has been exchanged, but this poor woman is living in a motel. I feel that anything I can do to help her get moved out of there and into a real home is unique unto me and it’s up to me to share this caring and empathy with her and her family.

I have to go back over there at 8am Monday morning to be there so they can turn her gas on. The lease takes effect Monday so once I let them in to turn the gas on, I should be able to turn over the keys so she can move what few things she still has, into her new temporary home.

I feel so grateful that I’m able to help this woman so much. I even have a TON of leftover yard sale stuff from last month’s yard sale. All the women’s clothes I have are HER size, if you can believe that!! I told her I’d bring them all over for her. She can keep and wear what she wants and give or throw away the rest.

The furniture rental company REALLY hooked her up. She even has dishes and sheets and towels. What they DON’T have, however, is simple things like cleaning supplies, toilet paper, feminine products (both teens are girls too), laundry soap, dish soap, cooking utensils, soap and shampoo, etc…

I want to appeal to my readers for help and I’m going to think positive thoughts and expect the best. I’d like to take a collection to help them get these stupid little household things that they don’t have yet.

If only 20 people read this and donate a simple $2, that’d be $40 in household supplies. That’s not a ton, but she doesn’t need too much and just $40 would help her tremendously. I intend to MATCH every donation received so dig deep, be generous and help me go broke please! Let this be your random act of kindness for the week. I can tell you that no one would appreciate it more than this woman.

Thank you all for your attention and empathy.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!!

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Well… it happened again. We went to the shelter yesterday and came home with a dog.
Abby’s been sleeping a lot. She seems bored, lonely and maybe a little depressed. Charlie’s been gone 2 months now. If he comes home, we’ll just have 3 dogs. In the meantime, I believe Abby needs another companion.

We were at the shelter on Thursday and we walked and played with this adorable brown boxer/pitbull mix. He was so docile and calm. No jumping or extreme behavior. I wasn’t sure, so i told the kids that we need to sleep on it and we went home.

Yesterday we went back to get him. I was still a little unsure so I said a brief prayer on the way. “Please give me a sign that this is the right dog or not. I don’t want to have to ever take anyone back to the shelter, so please show me before we leave with him.”

We got there and put a leash on him and went to take him for another little walk, but this time as we entered the front desk area, the boxer suddenly and quite viciously lunged at the big cage full of cats in the corner. It was all I could do to hold him back. That was our deal breaker. He didn’t do that the day before, but with two feline family members at home, whoever I bring home has to respect that.

We were a little sad as we took him back to his cage but when we got there, the dog in the cage NEXT to his was sitting calmly just looking at me. It’s a dog that the kids had been eyeballing the day before but it was on the other side of the building. They must’ve moved him Thursday night after we left or Friday morning.

Kev said, “Mom? Can we pleeease just take him outside for a walk?!” I agreed and he willingly put his head in the loop of the leash and we went outside. We adopted him 15 minutes later.

Here’s the funny part. When I got Charlie back in January, one of my signs was that his name was Copper. Copper was a dog we used to have several years ago.

This dog’s name was Patch. That’s our current cat’s name.

Of course we had to change his name. He’s so beautiful with his longer hair. A good dose of husky has given him 1 1/4 white/blue/icy looking eyes, and he has spots. Abby has stripes. I think it’s TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME that I now have a stripped dog and a spotted dog.

I took immediate leadership the moment I allowed him out of the cage and he responded perfectly. We came home and he and Abby were introduced in the yard because that’s a more neutral territory. She was immediately smitten.

We took a good walk together as a pack to help him blend right into our family and then we came home and did a bit of a psychological workout. It helps him accept discipline and me as his pack leader. He did REALLY super well. Then I fed him a big ol’ scoop of food. Poor thing is all bones.

We had him for 8 entire hours before we went to bed and HE DIDN’T PEE ON THE FLOOR EVEN ONCE!! I think this one actually CAME housebroken. Which is REALLY surprising. He was at the APL for 2 entire weeks and he was brought in by the dog warden. He’s SO skinny. It’s way more than only 2 weeks of being hungry. I don’t imagine he’s been in a home for a month or more.

Usually they forget to pee outside after that much time. Of course, there’s nothing I’ve ever seen a dog respond to so readily as being dominated by a pack leader. So maybe it’s a good dog / good pack leader combo! Either way, a dog that’s pees outside is my favorite kind.

So anyway, I posted some pics of him on my site if you’d like to see him. He has black around his eyes almost like a mask, and from the moment I saw him, I thought his fluffy tail looks like that of a raccoon. We tossed out loads of names and we didn’t all agree on any of them. Then it hit me… “Bandit!” SO… We dub thee, Bandit the Dog.

He’s a Catahoula Leopard Dog/Husky mix.

I’ve been going through some pretty intense self discovery lately. It seems as though it’s been building for about a month now. Looking back I can see a surprising number of thoughts and conversations and examples of my base issue, as though the Universe was bringing it up repeatedly to prepare me for what’s coming now.

I visited a metaphysical store a month ago and was approached out of the blue by a man. He said he was a healer and could see energy and that he’d felt me enter the building from the back room. Then he proceeded to tell me all about myself.

He told me I am an “Indigo Child” and that I am a healer. He also told me that God was telling him to share all his knowledge with me so should I ever have any questions about anything, I should come back to the shop and just ask.

The reason I went to the shop in the first place was to buy a moonstone. I’d been having some second chakra issues and my favorite crystal book said a moonstone was in order for balance. This man gave me an entire 15 stone bracelet of moonstone saying it would help my symptoms.

Then he gave me a 15 stone bracelet of purple amethyst and told me that the reason I was having the symptoms was because I was building up into a release of some pretty heavy duty buried issues. The purple amethyst will help you release the issues and move forward.

Since then it seems like I’ve been being nudged gently in the direction of resolution.

It finally came last Saturday when I spent nearly the first 6 hours of my day in tears.

Since then, I feel as if a weight has been lifted from me. I feel down right euphoric at times. And now, I seem to have a new subject of awareness. Movement.

Suddenly every time I turn around, everything is all about energy and movement and exercise and cell growth. I haven’t been getting regular exercise since summer started and the kids have been home so Wednesday morning I decided, rather abruptly, to go for a run with the Abby Dog. I used to run pretty regularly but haven’t in quite some time. I’m always amazed at how easy it is to go back.

I couldn’t find my headphones so I couldn’t listen to my MP3 player while I was out. No big deal. And we ran.

I sort of zone out when I run. The music provides a hypnotic beat, but when I run without music, the hypnotic beat is provided by my shoes pounding the pavement as I move down the road.

Around the mile one mark I was deep in nowhere, listening to my feet drive me across the asphalt and it suddenly struck me that some of the biggest epiphanies I’ve had and some of the most profound guidance I’ve received was as I was exercising. “Maybe there’s something to that,” I thought.

I finished my run with my mind wandering back to that idea a couple times. Maybe that’s why I get stuck sometimes. I stop exercising. Hmm…

I went in the house and took a shower. After I dried off I went to my room to dress. I walked in and flipped on the TV to see if I could catch a weather forecast. The 700 Club was on. Not something I would normally watch being that it’s a Christian program, but as the TV screen lit up, I immediately heard them talking about cell growth and energy and movement, so I paused to watch.

The man on there was saying that cells don’t age. They either grow or die. When they grow, you thrive. When they die, YOU age. Then he said that exercise is key in cell growth because when you exercise, cells automatically kick into gear and grow and that alone can keep you looking and feeling very young well into “old age”.

Then he said the words that rawked my world. He said:

“Life requires movement to grow. If there is no movement of energy, then creation cannot manifest itself.”

And I thought… WOW! That is SO true! I’ve heard before that if you have a money jar or something for saving, you should pull all the money out of it periodically and move it around. Maybe swap out a few bills. Don’t allow it to be stagnant. If it’s not moving, it’s not growing.

So I decided at that moment that I am going to start running again.

Today is the third day in a row that I’ve run. I also figure that, if creation wants movement to manifest growth, then I’m going to give creation something to grow toward during my morning movement.

I’m going to start using my morning run as time to think about my current intentions. I think I’ll pick maybe two different ones. One for the run out and one for the run back. I feel quite charged with the idea of putting my intentions into LITERAL motion. I enjoy rhythmic chanting. I’ll often say “Thank You” as I walk with one syllable per step. I think I’ll try affirmations. Quick and short affirmations that I can chant in my mind to the rhythm of my movement.

Then I’ll use my shower after for gratitude meditations as usual.

I’ve been manifesting some very surprising things with surprising speed since Saturday. Seems I REALLY freed up some blockages. With things manifesting for me so easily, it seems logical to put a little more discipline into my intentions and focus to manifest in my desired directions.