Trusting your Inner Landscape

"Removing emotional blockages and transforming limited belief systems allows our vibrational field to pulsate at a higher frequency than ever before.  This strengthens our connection to our spiritual and creative abilities because we have cleared the blocks that create dense energy.  We become more able to consciously connect to our energy body and to honor the now freed-up intuitive flow within us."

We all have some emotional blockages and old limited beliefs which interfere with the expression of our full soul potential, but the more inner work we've done, the more in flow we are able to be in our lives.  Still, when it's time for new growth, the old patterns often resurface to get cleared at a deeper level.  Perhaps you are finding that they are "up" for you as you read this.  I've seen a few of mine arise lately and have been amazed how easily they release when I simply "let go" and keep my opening my heart.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER

1. What beliefs or old emotional patterns tend to arise for me when I step out of my comfort zone?

2. What strategies do I have to shift those beliefs and release the old emotions?  Are there places or patterns in me where my strategies are not effective?  If so, what resources do I have (people, books, etc.) to help me change this?

3. How in touch am I with my intuitive flow?  Am I able to trust the inner wisdom within me pretty consistently?  Or do I tend to second guess myself, and talk myself out of following my heart?

4. Take a look back through your life and ask yourself "What unfolded for me when I followed my intuition?"  Ask too, "What outcomes did I create when I ignored my intuitive awareness?"


VISUALIZATION

EXERCISE: 
(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, following the suggestions, closing your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can tape this or do this with a friend where you each read this to one another.)

Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax. 

As you deepen your breath, focus on your body.  Notice where you are tense and ask that those places of tension "let go."  Notice where you are in flow.  Send loving energy from your heart to all the cells in your body.  Then focus more on your breathing until you begin to sense that place of utter stillness within.  

Ask yourself "What does Spirit want from me right now?"  Then quietly wait until your answer comes.  You might hear the answer.  It might come in the form of a symbol.  You might just feel a sensation and have a sense of what that sensation is telling you.  Just pay attention to whatever arises.

Next notice how you are responding to the messages you've received.  Are you excited?  Are you disappointed?  Are you scared?  Are you calm and clear?  Notice if you feel empowered to carry out what is being suggested.  Notice if old beliefs or emotions arise that want to impede your way. Create an intention to attend to whatever healing may have to be done in order to free you to stay in your intuitive flow.  Create an intention to carry out that next step Spirit wants of you.  

As you go through your week keep paying attention.  Notice if you are remembering to follow your intentions.  Periodically focus within and how aligned you feel with your Spirit.  If you are out of alignment, do what you need to in order to reconnect.

Sending you love and encouragement. 

Judith

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As We Go, So Goes the World

"We really are the world.  We are part of the great collective force of existence.  We are the Creators.  The quality of our energy is totally in our hands.  When we beam our loving Spirit-directed energy into the world, we transform our families, our communities and ultimately, our planet."

Because we are human, it is impossible at this point in our development, to always be filled with loving energy.  Still, to realize how the quality of our energy affects not just our own life, but the life of everyone and everything on our planet is important.  This awareness can serve as a strong motivator to help us stay conscious and ultimately to take charge of the energy we are emitting.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

1.  What is the quality of my energy right now?  It is loving and harmonious?  Is it stressed and choppy?  Is it angry or irritable?  Is it anxious?  Is it depressed?

2.  Can I be loving and accepting toward myself when I realize that I'm running negative energy?  Do I realize this is just part of the human journey?

3.  What tools do I have to help shift my energy?  Will music help?  Yoga?  A walk?  A hot bath?  Writing about what I'm feeling?  Being with my children, grandchildren, animals?  (Make a list of the things and activities which help you move back into your heart and therefore into a loving space.)

4.  When I'm in a loving place, what tools do I have available to help keep myself from getting more negative or ego-attached?

VISUALIZATION

EXERCISE: 

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, following the suggestions, closing your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can tape this or do this with a friend where you each read this to one another.)

Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax.

Think of a time when you were feeling wonderful.  It may be right now or it might be a month ago or even longer, but allow an experience to arise in your mind's eye when a feeling of peace and well-being flowed through every cell in your body.  Breathe into this image and notice if the feeling can begin to flow through you now.  If so, put out some gratitude, and if not, do your best to appreciate yourself for trying.  Know that everything changes and what might seem unattainable right now might always be at your fingertips as time goes by.

Do your best to breathe in Divine love whether through your crown or your heart or both.  Just keep breathing and calling in that love and remembering a feeling or image of feeling in harmony with all of life.

If you can feel this love pulsing through you, take time to send it out to your family, friends, pets, to all those you love, and to all those that may be hard to love... just beam them with loving energy.  The begin to send that energy out to your community and your state, your country, your continent and around the entire globe.  Perhaps out to the cosmos and beyond.  Know what a powerful and important act this is.

As you go through your week, pay attention to the quality of your energy.  Be gentle and honest with yourself.  If you find negativity, notice if you go to your list and use your tools to begin to shift it.  Notice you can beam it with love.   Notice if you can beam yourself with love.  When you feel open-hearted and loving, beam that out to all you meet and notice how it feels.

Wishing you a powerful and creative journey until we meet again.

Judith

If you like the quotes and process presented in this blog, be sure to order the kindle edition of Empowering the Spirit from the link below. (It will also be released in a new print edition in late Fall.)

 


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To Be Perfectly Imperfect

"We move toward harmony, not through perfection, but through love.  The more loving our inner and outer talk, the more harmonious our energy field becomes.  This creates the loving resonance which will interact with all beings and truly transform our world."

Our culture holds a belief system that we can only be worthy if we are perfect.  It also holds a belief that we have to be worthy in order to deserve love.  This has kept us in a pretty constant state of dysfunction and dissatisfaction, and certainly has contributed to the insanity of our ego-driven world. As we break through these beliefs, as we learn to open our hearts whenever we see our own imperfections or the imperfections of others, deep healing and transformation occurs.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER

1.  In what areas of my life am I hard on myself?

2.  What do I say to myself when I have made a mistake or in other ways have screwed up?

3.  In what ways do I judge others when I see they are imperfect?  What words do I use?  What feelings arise in me?

4.  What would change in my life if I could hold myself and all others in my heart, in compassion, whenever I saw imperfection of any kind?  What would change if I could send love to myself and others every time I noticed a judgement arising?

EXERCISE: 

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, following the suggestions, closing your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can tape this or do this with a friend where you each read this to one another.)

Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax. 

As you do let an awareness arise of a judgement you've been holding about yourself or about someone else.  Put that judgement into words and notice how that feels in your body.  Ask yourself if there is anything that feels good about keeping that judgement?  And just notice.

Now focus on your heart. You might want to rub your hands together and place them over your heart area so the warmth can help your heart relax and open. Imagine that you can draw Divine Love down through your crown chakra and pull it all the way to your heart.  Notice as your heart becomes more and more relaxed and open.  

Think of someone that you love: a spouse, a sibling, a child, a pet. Place that being in your heart feeling how easy it is to shower them with love.  Spend a few minutes letting your love permeate them.

Now put an image of yourself in your heart, and shower yourself with that love.  Breathe deeply and just feel this.  If this is difficult, love yourself for trying.  Know that you deserve all this love and more, no matter what.

Go back to the judgement you were holding.  If it was about yourself, put a image of yourself doing whatever you are judging into your heart.  Shower that image with love.  Notice if it is easy. Notice if it is hard.  Love yourself either way.

If the judgement was about another, do the same.  Put an image of that person in your heart, and just notice if you can begin to melt that sense of harshness with the warmth of your love.  Notice how good it feels for your heart to be open.  Notice how free it feels to be able to hold yourself or others in compassion no matter what the behavior.  Notice if you can put the entire planet into your heart and just hold it in love.

As you go through your week, do your best to notice when judgement arises.  Love yourself for noticing, and then take a minute and put whoever you are judging in your heart best you can.  

Wishing you love and blessings as you wander through the next several days,

Judith



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Become Yourself to Align with Your Soul

"The more our Spirit leads the more fully we become ourselves, embodying the vibrational frequency of our souls. As we do this each of us becomes free to make our contribution. Still, we are likely to find inner resistance to stepping fully into this power and the role it will bring us."

 Questions to Ponder:

 1. In what areas of my life and with what people in my life, am I fully myself?

 2. In what areas of my life do I still find myself still pretending?

 3. What are my fears or concerns about stepping into the full power of who I truly am?

 4. How will my life change once I do this?
EXERCISE:
(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, following the suggestions, closing your eyes until you can see or feel what is being suggested, and then open your eyes and go through the next few lines, repeating the process. OR, you can tape this or do this with a friend where you each read to each other.)

Find a quiet comfortable place where you know you will not be disturbed.

Begin by taking some deep centering breaths. Breathe until you begin to let go of your day. Breathe until you begin to let go of your thoughts. Breathe until you begin to feel your body relax. And as you do let yourself be in some beautiful place in nature. It might be the mountains or the ocean, a meadow or by a river... whatever appeals to you... allow the image to arise. Notice the vibrant blue sky and feel the warm sun beaming down on your hair and skin. Listen to the birds. Walk around and touch things with the palms of your hands feeling the texture and the energy of anything you touch. Breathe deeply and notice the fragrances in the air. Then find a comfortable spot to sit where you can look out over the beautiful scene before you, and as you do, realize that in front of you hovering in the air, is a screen where you are able to see yourself.

You see you are standing at a podium on a stage in the middle of an large auditorium. The seats are filled with people. There's a person standing next to you waiting to give you an award for the contribution you have made to humanity. Notice how relaxed and confident you look. Notice how easy this is for you. Pay attention to what you are being honored for... Have you accomplished a certain task? Have you helped others in a particular way? Have you shared expertise about relationships or child-rearing or education or gardening? Or any other subject that interests you? Have you helped others improve their health or feel more connected to their creativity and/or their own Spirit? Have you blessed the world and yourself with your open-heart and generous spirit? Notice how the people in the audience are happy, excited for you and appreciative of what you have offered.

Now imagine that you can put yourself in that picture. Breathe yourself into that image of you on the stage. See all those people looking at you. Notice how you feel. Notice there is peacefulness within you. Is this different from how you generally feel? Notice the joy of having lived in alignment with something greater than yourself and having this recognized. Notice what has changed to allow you to make this full contribution with such ease.

Let whatever you would most like be honored for arise in your consciousness... And then allow yourself to accept the honor being bestowed on you. Notice how that feels.
Spend some time thinking about what you are wanting to share with the world, what you feel most passionate about. Think about what changes you would have to make in your life for this to happen. Ask yourself if this would fulfill you at a soul level. Remember how relaxed and peaceful you seemed when you were looking at yourself. What is it that would have to shift in your life for you to bring this sense of well-being and authenticity to all that you do? 

As you go about your week, notice when you are feeling connected to yourself and sharing from your Spirit, and notice when you feel out of sync with yourself. Pay attention to when you are feeling vibrant and when you are feeling bored or disconnected. Notice what tasks or ideas excite you and think about how you can increase this in your life. And, notice when you back off, hide or in other ways avoid operate in the full force of who you truly are. And through all your observations do your very best to send yourself love.


Wishing you love and blessings as you wander through your week,

Judith



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