Break Free to Honor Your Unique Wisdom

"Learning to trust our inner stirrings, our inner goodness, and our emotional and psychic impressions is essential if we are to fulfill our life purpose.  We need to muster the courage to step outside of conventional wisdom.  Many or us have been so intimidated or humiliated when we have shared these 'stirrings' or impressions, we carry enormous fear:  fear that we are crazy, fear no one will like us, etc.  Every time we give in to that fear, we move away from being authentic.  Every time we confront our fear and go with our inner truth, we empower ourselves to move closer to becoming the powerful beings we are meant to be."

We have created norms in our dysfunctional society that encourage us to be inauthentic and disconnected from Source; essentially to do the exact opposite from that which nurtures emotional and spiritual health and creates inner peace and well-being. Yet without continuous awareness the belief system behind those norms, which is usually passed down to us in childhood, can hold a powerful, unconscious and ultimately destructive influence in our lives. 

QUESTIONS to PONDER

1.  What signs or symptoms do I get that let me know I am not being true to myself?

2.  What inaccurate beliefs do I still carry from my childhood that tend to inhibit my ability to follow my intuition?

3.  What are my greatest fears of stepping outside of conventional social norms?

4.  What gifts have come my way when I've faced these fears and acted anyway?


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

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, close 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 record this or share with a friend where you each read the visualization to one another.)

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. Send loving energy from your heart to all the cells in your body.  Then focus again on your breathing until you begin to sense that place of utter stillness deep inside.  

Transport yourself to a beautiful meadow.  Take a moment to breathe in the fragrances.  Feel the bright sun warming your hair and skin.   Feast on the beauty of the colors and shapes before you.  Walk around touching tree trunks and stones, grasses and leaves noticing their textures and their energy.  Listen for the sounds in this meadow... birds chirping and cawing and singing, twigs crackling under your feet, perhaps you'll hear water somewhere in the distance.  Fully experience yourself in this beautiful place and then breathe even more deeply.

As you are ready, begin to walk through your meadow until you come across a structure which feels like a temple or sanctuary. It may just be made of logs and branches, or it might be a grove of trees or perhaps it is a more elaborate with walls and doors and beautiful symbols on it.  Just allow this to appear before you.

Spend some time looking at this sanctuary, experiencing it fully, and then when it feels right, enter into it and find a place to sit down.  Know that this is your sacred space and you are fully protected here.  Notice that as you take another deep centering breath, your sense of peacefulness becomes even more profound.

Now spend a few moments going inward.  Notice what you are feeling.  Notice the thoughts that move through your awareness.  Then ask what it is that Spirit would most like you to know or to do next.  Sit quietly and wait for your answer.  

Notice what comes to you and how it comes to you.  Notice too if any thoughts or feelings arise that want to contradict this.  If Spirit wants you to do something specific, notice any fears or concerns that arise.  Remember making fears and beliefs conscious takes some of their power away.

See yourself being able to act or resonate with the information you are being given, and notice how that feels in your heart.  Carry this wisdom back with you through your meadow until you come to the place you began.

As you go through the coming week, keep Spirit's response in your mind.  Do your best to take the actions most aligned with this as well as to notice any blocks and deal with anything that arises to interfere with this process. 
 

Sending you love and blessings on your journey, 

Judith

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Open Your Heart and The Blessings Will Follow

"I have learned that as soon as I am able to shift into a positive and appreciative attitude about whatever I am confronted with, the Universe will work with me to ease my way.  This has happened for me over and over again.  I know in my heart I am no different than anyone else;  this is available to all of us.  When we are living in inner harmony, when we are allowing our Spirit to lead, we continuously and consciously fill our lives with blessings."

It's always challenging to stay in alignment with our Spirit.  Our egos have been conditioned to be very powerful and we have been programmed to believe fulfilling our ego-needs will help us survive (and maybe that used to be true.)  So whenever we're not looking, our egos will jump back in bringing us our old insecurities and new ego-driven goals.  Our egos will do what they do best which is to separate us from Source and interfere with our well-being.  No big deal though.  Just remember to notice.  When you are feeling driven, overwhelmed or unhappy, it's a sure sign your ego has grabbed the steering wheel of your life.  Take it back, put your Spirit in the driver's seat.  Perhaps the following will help.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

1.  When do I notice Spirit is most active in my life?

2.  What conditions do I create that unconsciously invites my ego back in.  (For instance... do I get too busy?  Do I forget to take care of myself... forget even to take deep centering breaths.  Do I stop doing some sort of daily practice?)

3.  What blessings have occurred when I've faced challenging times in my life and have shifted into a positive and appreciative attitude, surrendering to the leadership of my Spirit?

4. What beliefs might I carry that keeps me from doing this more consistently?

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

(You can do this for yourself by reading a few lines at a time, close 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 record this or share with a friend where you each read the visualization to one another.)

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. Send loving energy from your heart to all the cells in your body.  Then focus again on your breathing until you begin to sense that place of utter stillness deep inside.  

Transport yourself to a beautiful spot in nature.  To a place which through its very beauty will put you into a state of deep relaxation.  Spend some time looking at the vibrant colors and the physical beauty before you.  Breathe in the fragrances.  Feel the sun beaming down on you warming your hair, warming you skin.  Listen for all the natural sounds, the birds singing and chirping, the leaves rustling in the breeze, perhaps the sound of water lapping up on the shore.  Take a moment to touch the trees or the rocks or the sand, feeling their texture and their energy.

Find a comfortable place to sit looking out over this spot.  And now, call to you an image of the most difficult challenge you are facing currently in your life.  Let this image come to you in full force bringing whatever feelings it evokes in you.  Take time to honor all these feelings.  If you notice anger, see yourself stomping that challenge and stomping all those you might imagine are connected with it.  If you notice sadness, see yourself crying and honor the grief which is arising.  If you notice fear, take a deep centering breath, go into the fear and know that no matter how scared you may be, Divine protection always surrounds you.  After you honor and see yourself expressing these feelings, allow them to release, to move on for the moment.  

Take another deep centering breath and begin to focus on what is beautiful in your life.  Focus on your loved ones, your friends, your pets.  Focus on your garden or the beauty of the sky.  Focus on your heart and how you can breathe Divine love in and out through it.  Perhaps you will want to rub your hands together, place them over your heart, and notice as the tension begins to melt away.  

Now imagine that you can beam Divine love to those challenges.  Notice what happens to the feeling of challenge as the love arises.  Is it softening?  Is the stress beginning to melt away?  Are you aware that you can hold this current challenge with all the feelings it evokes and hold a joyful heart at the same time? 

Ask for an understanding of why this challenge is in your life right now.  Ask how this experience can help your soul development.  Ask what blessings might be hidden within it.

As you go through the coming week, notice your challenges and do your best to honor your feelings, to beam them with love and to remember to uncover the hidden blessings.

Sending you love and wishes for ease on your journey, 

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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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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