Each morning I spend time in meditation, study and prayer/asking for wisdom. I have nearly a dozen books sitting next to my meditation cushion ranging from biblical devotionals, self-development, “A Course in Miracles” and several different card decks for accessing our own inner wisdom as well as that of Source.
This morning after meditation I did a basic four-card spread with these gorgeous “Goddesses Knowledge Cards”. ✨
The goddesses that I drew were Hera, Medusa as Pegasus) Psyche, and White Shell Woman.
Hera is symbolic of mature power and wisdom, nurturing, beauty, and luxury. For me, I feel the wisdom imparted is in holding my center in a place of strength.
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The second card, Psyche, is the Goddess who fell in love with Eros, god of Love, who flies away when she realizes who he is.
She searches the world for him and is given three “impossible” tasks by Aphrodite, which she completes but over the years of searching and trying to complete these fears, grows from an innocent young girl to a beautiful, mature woman who eventually wins Eros back where they live happily together in their sumptuous castle.
This is a card of transformation, but also of hard work and persistence. Patience has been a constant lesson for me over the past months as I wait for the future I seek to unfold.
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When Medusa was slain the spectacular winged Pegasus sprang from her blood. I especially love this story and symbolism. 💫
Medusa was originally a beautiful young girl and priestess of Athena who was raped by Poseidon – and then punished by Athena for the transgression (or possibly granted the wish for revenge against men).
As most of us know, she killed many men who came to the island where she lived in isolation and was eventually killed by Perseus.
To me, this narrative is about how holding anger and hatred makes us ugly and toxic – but transformation into something beautiful and iconic can happen when that part of us is out to death and we experience “rebirth”.
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White Shell Woman, creator and sustainer of life of the Navajo people, is a gift giver and mother of two important protectors of the People. I love the chant that is related to her – “All things around me are restored to beauty”. The lesson here feels like restoration and blessing.🥰
The overall theme of my spread is clearly letting go of the toxic sh#t I am dealing with right now, holding my center to persevere, and having patience – so not not natural to me – as I move through powerful changes happening to look forward to a beautiful unfolding transformation.
I feel like this is not only a spread that is incredibly pertinent to my life ATM but also the world in general.
This last year and a half has been all about change, right? And a boatload of toxic bullsh💩t that just seems the ongoing narrative of the world.😣
But if we persevere and hold our center, we can use it as powerful fertilizer to transform into something even better. Or we can hold that sh#t and become the gorgon. Always our choice.
For me, the wisdom, comfort and confirmation (same lessons I’ve been receiving pretty much daily) of these cards helps me to move through my days with greater faith and joy.
I know there will be moments of challenge and even grief as I move through these changes but every day also brings so much beauty and grace – and that is what will hold my focus on, letting that bad stuff go. 👀
Today, I hope this spread might bring you a little guidance, comfort and wisdom, too, my love – and maybe help you “let that 💩 go” to become something better. You deserve it, beautiful one.✨
If our thoughts produce emotions and emotions are resonance – and resonance/vibration is the language of the universe, what language are you speaking to Source?
When we ask for the outflow of our best possible life from a place of lack, anger, fear or other negative emotional states, it is impossible for Source to grant that reality because Good can’t be created from the building blocks of lack.
It’s like asking your mom to bake a decadent chocolate cake when all you supply her with is white flour. 👩🍳🧁🤷♀️
This might seem like a simplified metaphor but the idea is exactly the same. Good out, better back.
If you aren’t sure of how to create your highest vibe, start with gratitude – but don’t just list out those things you value.
What’s really important is that you practice feeling the joy of those things. From that place of higher resonance you can begin the process of co-creating the life of your dreams.
The next step is to look at the deeper held beliefs that might be holding you back or creating blocks to your best reality.
It’s estimated that a whopping 70-80% of us experience childhood abuse or trauma that greatly contribute to a negative subconscious state of mind.
What are the subconscious programs of lack of worth and value that may have been running since childhood that contradict what you want to experience in real time?
Here are some questions that can help you to understand whether or not you are asking for chocolate cake but putting out white refined flour, borrowed from Greg Baden’s book “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief”:
These questions target the heart of what we believe we deserve.
In the book, the author goes on to speak of the “Great Question” as our fundamental belief in the contrast of good and evil (good loves us, evil wants our destruction) in the world or the idea that there is One Source (that has our best interest at heart) from which everything stems.
A very interesting question indeed, but regardless of which side of the fence you might stand on, I believe that realizing your essential sense of value and worth is 💯 crucial to the co-creation of an amazing, magical reality.
What you resonate, you draw to you.
Let me repeat that in a different way because this is the most important fundamental law of the universe:
What you vibrate, you create.
This is true of attracting money, a mate, the car of your dreams or a rusted out hulk, a home, health and vibrancy or illness and fatigue… and everything else under the sun.
Let’s say “Josh” wishes to manifest his dream career opening a travel agency but those inner voices (subconscious programs) tell him that it is safer to stay in the soul-sucking corporate job he’s been at for the last ten years, or that he will surely fail if he tries something different. Or maybe he doesn’t deserve to have a career that makes him happy and makes good money too.
Sad, right? 🥺
What do you think the odds are that Josh will ever see his dream become a reality? Probably pretty low unless he begins to re-write those programs to create a better reality.
We can take the same formula to everything in our lives. What partners do we tend to attract over and over? (What did your parents, family and social groups teach you that you deserved?)
How many times have we failed at our diet or getting in shape? (Do you really see yourself as you want to be?)
I know it might be painful to look at these lessons, babe. Change is rarely easy and often hard AF. But believe me, so very worth it.
You are worth it. ✨
Affirmations, vision boards, mantra and meditation are all great ways to begin overwriting those patterns of lack. Therapy can be pretty amazing, too.🥰
There are also many wonderful resources on YouTube for guided meditations that can help facilitate the process, too.
I especially like “Power Thoughts Meditation Club which combines powerful binaural beats with positive affirmations. Here’s one example:
For now, if you haven’t begun a daily gratitude practice, it’s a perfect place to start getting yourself into that higher vibrational state, and there’s no better time than the present to begin.💫
Today I am grateful for so many things – a lovely sunset stroll with a good friend, cold drinks and live music on a Saturday night, good coffee, an amazing meditation and relaxed morning, my happy pups…but family and friends top my list.
What’s on your list today? Are you holding the ingredients for a decadent chocolate cake aka an amazing reality in your field – or dusty white flour? 🤗
She represents fire, lightning, dance, wind, volcanoes and violence. Her poetic name is Ka wahine `ai honua or the woman who devours the land.
She is both a creator and destroyer. She erupts and the world quakes as she pours lava onto land and sea – but from that destruction new life forms.
Soil grows over mineral-rich lava, lush life begins to put roots into that soil and eventually, paradise is created.
As part of my morning time with Source, I read spiritual and self-development books and sometimes consult different “wisdom cards” that nearly always provide the guidance or comfort I need on a particular day.
This card of the Goddess Pele came up in my reading this morning, and wow, did it hit home.
I am in a time of upheaval in nearly every aspect of my life at the moment, and to be honest, it often just feels like chaos.
As I write, I am two thirds or so through a remodel of my home – largely on my own. I’m a handy-with-the-tools kinda gal, but I’ve also been incredibly grateful for the occasional help of good friends along the way.
Right now I have flooring torn up and paint halfway done as I prepare to lay new floors. I have furniture upended and shoved wherever there is room in order to have the spaces cleared that I need to lay the wood and carpets.
My personal life has been in a similar situation for some time too, which means I am feeling a little like Pele dumped a mountain of lava over a few acres of my everything.
“Elements” by Catherine Langwagen
Not a fun place to be.
But this card is the perfect reminder that from chaos and destruction new life is formed. Though aspects of my life have been razed, I know that spectacular new life is forming and growing, just beneath the surface.
When I’m centered in my heart, I can feel that growth, alive and so ready to burst forth into the sun.
But I’m not always there, and there are moments where all that I can see is the chaos. In those moments, I start to panic.
But I keep going back to Source, and I keep getting these wonderful reminders that right here is where I am supposed to be in order for my life to grow fully into where I want and need to be.
These reminders help me to come back into my heart-centered space. That space where I can feel excitement for the process of creation and for all that is to come.
Can you relate? Have you been in that place of destruction, when you look out onto the landscape of your life and just think “oh, sh#t.”?
That sh#t is fertilizer that will feed the new growth.
If you are there right now, babe, you are 💯 not alone. I’ve got your back. We will get through it, together .
I am so excited to stand with you as we look at the glorious dawn of new creation when the chaos is tamed and we are surrounded by light and lush growth, bursting through the fertilizer-rich soil of Pele’s destruction.
Have faith that it’s coming, beauty. I feel it. I know it.
Can you feel it, too?
Whether you are in the midst of a cycle of despair and destruction or feeling your new growth, I see you. You are amazing, capable and you have so got this.
When we are in the midst of a difficult situation, the last thing we want to hear is some well-meaning person telling us “there is a reason for everything”, right?
But what if we just re-framed our suffering a little? What if we looked at those difficulties as a way to bring us closer to the wholeness we might have been missing before?
What if all of life was happening for us, not to us, and that in the karmic/grand scheme of things we are here to learn to re-structure who we are despite our circumstances to become the greatest possible version of ourselves? 🤔
Painting is one of the ways I express my need to create. Probably because of this, I’ve always liked to think of life as a spectacular, massive painting.
Have you ever been in front of an art piece so large that you could only take in small portions when you were up close?
Let’s say that someone puts you right in front of just such a painting.
What you see directly before you is a big stroke of dark grey or even black paint. It makes you feel a little sad.
But when you step back, you realize that that stroke of dark paint was the pupil of the most amazing set of eyes you have ever seen.
You step back even further to realize that the painting is of a beautiful woman reclining beside a still lake, perhaps smiling up at someone she loves. The sun is shining and the sky is blue with small grey clouds behind distant mountains.
Poignant, right? When we are right in front of our adversities it is so very challenging to remember that what we are experiencing is dark but necessary portion of a much larger story, and the overarching story is a breathtaking work of art. Like you.💕✨
If you are one of those people who are in the middle of something challenging or even heartbreaking right now, I see you, and am sending so much love.
Breathe, allow the experience – and whatever emotions might come with it.
But also remember that life is an ever-unfolding painting, and when you are able to create some space between yourself and what you are going through, you will see how your challenges provided contrast to make a truly magnificent piece of art.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where before there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
Community and friendship is so very important for healthy mindset and brain biology.
Spending time with good friends, seeking out fun adventures and enjoying good food (and coffee😎) are just a few ways we can follow our bliss.
Combining all of the above is a great way to watch the walls of our own bullsh#t crumble to be replaced by joy, creation and some epic frickin’ manifestation.
Babe, you might not be quite to the place of believing in your own magic and amazing ability to create a life you are madly in love with, but believe me when I tell you – you ARE a mutherfudding WiZARD – and if you follow those things that bring you bliss, you will see reality unfold around you in ways that can only be described as magical. ✨💫
I see it Every.Single.Day, and no, I’m not exaggerating this.
When I hold myself in a place of high vibrational resonance, miracles happen and all that I ask just flows to me. It is 💯 amazing and still blows my mind on the regular.
This is what I want for you, beautiful one. I want you to feel joy in every fiber of your being – from you head to your toes and every cell in between, and then I want to see you amazed by the way reality bends around you to suit your every need and desire. 🥰
Find your bliss, babe. And if you needed to read this today, I see you, and I’m sending you so much love. 💖
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good morning, gorgeous;
How do you feel about you, today and everyday?
Do you feel gloriously, beautifully, authentically yourself, or do you struggle with self-doubt?
Feeling amazing about who you are is 💯 a vital step in learning to create an inspiring life, but for many, it’s difficult to know how to be ourselves in a world that wants us to conform rather than express, to hide rather than shine.
Wear this not that.
Fit this size not that one.
Wear your long. Wear your hair short. Wear your hair parted in the middle or you’re unstylish and ugly.
Wear Birks. High waisted jeans. No, low waisted pants. Converse.
Go vegan. Paleo. Keto.
And a thousand other trends, fads, and “rules of conformity” that are thrown at us every single day.
It’s frustrating, isn’t it?😕
But babe, here’s a little secret for you, and a hard truth of reality: if you are trying to be cool by being like everyone else, you probably aren’t.
If you are a Lion trying to be a lamb – or a lamb trying to be a Lion – that skin just isn’t going to look right on you no matter how hard you try.🤷♀️
So maybe it’s time to just be what you are and embrace that muthafookin’ Lion-ness – or lamb-ness and be yourself.
You can begin this process by starting to notice what makes you feel excited, happy, or even curious.
Flip through some magazines. Browse Pinterest. Go window shopping for clothing and home decor ideas. This should be an individual process to avoid being influenced by well-meaning friends or family.
Write down what you observe or create a vision board.
In fact, 💯 create a vision board and remember to look at that when you wake and before bed, the times of day that your brain is in an alpha or theta brain state and at its best for creation.
What speaks to you, personally?
What lights you up?
Do you love rainbows and unicorns, boho chic, lit b#tch, nature goddess/god or goth with a moody vibe – or combination of all of the above?
There don’t have to be rules here. It’s all about what feels amazing to you.
Those things and folks that vibe with your soul and resonate on a deep level – whether style, home decor, music, travel, your tribe or anything else under the sun – these are the things that speak of your authentic self just waiting to reveal itself.
These are the lamps that are there to light your way to a happier, inspired – and inspiring – life.
So if you are feeling ready to stop living in the shadows of everyone else and step into the light of your own spectacular authenticity, get out there and start creating, babe.
Tune into your vibe and your tribe and find your most authentic self. And most importantly, have fun!🥳
And just in case you needed to hear it today, you are magnificent – and I love you!💖
We are all looking to feel greater empowerment in our lives. Greater authenticity. Greater individuality.
This is a beautiful thing.
But when individuality becomes separation, this can also disempower us.
When we create labels – or allow others to create labels for us – that create greater separation between us as a society; as a whole, we are also disempowered as a whole.
When birds in a flock fly united in a certain pattern, or a school of fish swims together, they do this in part to appear larger to or escape as a group from predators. This idea translates to humans, as well – as our forefathers understood well: United we stand, Divided we fall.
When we are divided and disempowered as a group, we are also more fear-based and dependent upon the large-scale “parent” institutions such as government, religion, and corporations.
Maybe it’s time that we recognize the damage we are doing to ourselves and our society with these labels and ways to create greater separation and less unity.
Maybe it’s time that we looked at the possibility that all of the labels we are putting so much emphasis on might just be instigated by the parent institutions that benefit the most from our lack of unity.
Maybe it’s time to see the labels that we once used to identify our individuality – “Black.” White”. “Brown.” “Yellow.” “Straight.” “Gay”. “Trans” “Asian-American” African-American” “Native American” have become tools to create greater division between groups of people.
Maybe it’s time to consider that the thousand and one other labels that are used to separate and create damage to our psyche such as “Karen.” “Ken.” “Snowflake” “Boomer”. “Young” “Old” “Vaccinated.” “Unvaccinated” – might just be being used against us rather than for us.
Maybe it’s time to stop looking at those things that separate us and start focusing on those things that unite us. We are one people. One Planet.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t celebrate our uniqueness. Not even slightly.
I geek out hard on things that many wouldn’t such as brain/body biology, quantum physics, spirituality. I also love travel, writing, reading, dancing, cooking, eating, animals, family/framily, coffee, style and a hundred other things that make Me uniquely Me – and I honor and celebrate those traits and qualities that you geek out about and make You uniquely You.
You are magnificent!😍
It’s amazing and beautiful that we each are this incredible amalgamation of genes and environmental factors. Truly.
But when we focus on division between us of those larger aspects such as race, sexual orientation, political division, religious affiliation, age, health preferences or whatever seems to be the current trend dictated by the media and social media – we no longer have ownership of our individual identity and uniqueness.
Rather, we lose sight of honoring and celebrating our own and others individuality in favor of the corporate mentality of a select few.
Here’s a visual to better explain what I’m trying to portray:
Imagine being at a huge music festival. There is a stellar lineup of bands and musicians. The music is just phenomenal. (Kind of like our planet and Source.)
At first, everyone is having an amazing time. It’s a pinnacle experience.
But soon after the festival begins, instead of the thousands of quirky, fun, funny, music-living folks attending being united in enjoying the incredible vibe of the festival, people divide into small groups of forty or fifty people.
Let’s say there are the Boho style groups, the “hippie” groups, the Dave Matthews Band groups, the classical music groups, the rock and rollers, the cowboy boot groups, the beanie hat groups and the floppy hat groups – all huddled up, feeling self-righteous about their group – but also fearful, insecure and angry because everyone else isn’t in their group.
Pretty soon, this insecurity causes a few in each group to start shouting about their way being best because such and such government entities, religious organizations, style experts or health groups said it was the right way. Before you know it, all the groups are screaming at each other, the music and the vibe completely forgotten. 😣
How long do you think it would be before the shouting turns to violence? How long before the musicians stop playing and walk offstage?
How many of us have forgotten the music and the vibe that created us and this amazing planet – as a result of buying into the labels and separation?
But we can bring the music back when we stop using those labels to separate us and begin to celebrate our uniqueness while also honoring those things that unite us. One tribe, one vibe.
In this final part of this series, I’m going to give you the formula – and the practices that will take you from Woe to Wow. From dis-ease to ease.
To begin, let’s go back to our core belief systems for a moment to discuss how it relates to Personality = Personal Reality. Our Personality is created largely through our Personal Belief System, and our Personal Belief System creates our reality.
Here’s the basic formula for how we create our reality each day:
CBS + T + E/F +B + H = E/R
Core Belief System (CBS) = Thoughts = Emotions/Feelings/Frequencies =
Behaviors = Habits = Experience (Results)
Let’s break that down:
Our Core Belief System, those neurological patterns and programs that began to be established in early childhood, tend to keep us running in a subconscious loop that are based upon our past experience.
If as children we lived in a home where lack was the norm, it will be difficult to move past the idea that we live in a reality of lack.
Our Beliefs will perpetuate the thoughts and emotions of lack. (How many times do parents say “we can’t afford this. We are broke” Or “we will buy you the cheaper version of what you really want.” These words create our reality and personal sense of value as children.)
Those thoughts and emotions of lack will create behaviors that reflect our beliefs. The emotions/feelings of our Core Beliefs cause our brain and body to create neurochemicals. These can either create physical dis-ease and dysfunction, lowered immune system and a host of other symptoms or greater health, or increased immune function and energy and well-being, depending on whether our thoughts and emotions are positive or negative.
They also create our behaviors and habits – I have a little extra cash in our pocket. Because I believe I live in a state of lack, I spend it on some trinket – rather than saving and eventually investing in a healthy future. The results of these habits of course just reinforce our initial belief – I spent all of my money and I am in lack again. I will always be in lack. And so we are…
Or another example – My parents taught me that I am clumsy. As an adult, I am constantly falling on stairs, dropping dishes, etc. because I believe I am clumsy. Falling on the stairs or dropping dishes confirms that Core Belief, putting us into vibrational alignment, which creates more similar experiences.
If we grew up in an environment where our personal reality was abundance, our pre-set programming for continuing to thrive in an environment of abundance is greater. We will never feel a sense of lack and our behaviors and habits will reflect that.
Of course, there are different types of lack and abundance beyond the material. If our family was wealthy but lacked emotional intelligence or love, we will still be more likely to live a life of lack as adults. Conversely, if we had parents that were financially lacking but loving and supportive emotionally, our capacity for thriving in an environment of abundance as adults is much greater.
It is important to note that if we experienced childhood or adolescent trauma, our ability to create a life that reflects high personal value will be less, as well.
This being said, we have to look at a new formula for creating the life we wish to see:
Access/Acknowledge CBS + Reprogram thoughts/Shift emotions + Alignment (Establish behaviors & habits to reflect new reality)+ Behaviors/Habits = Results/Reality
In order to create a new reality for ourselves, we have to access and acknowledge the source of our limiting beliefs. What lines have you drawn in the sand without realizing it – where are those boundaries of belief and what is the origin/source? What are the thoughts and feelings that accompany these beliefs?
Once we have accessed those beliefs and memories that are perpetuating our subconscious programming, we can begin to reprogram the mind.
Ask yourself how you would like to expand the boundaries you had previously created for yourself, likely without even realizing you had drawn those lines in the sand? Visualize wiping those lines away.
Write it down! What do you want to see in your future reality? Vision boards are a great way to create greater clarity in visualization.
A vital aspect of beginning to move into that future reality is the emotional vibration of it. Can you imagine yourself there? How does it feel?
For example – If you have a dream of living in the Caribbean, see yourself on the beach.
Feel the warmth of the sand between your toes, cool trade breezes dancing off your skin. See the crystal-clear turquoise of the water before you. Imagine your beautiful plantation-style home behind you, surrounded by tall palms and lush greenery.
I love the feeling of being on a motorcycle. While I don’t currently own one, I often go back to the feeling visualization of racing through long country roads, green trees rushing past. Or the wind buffeting my face as I cruise along the California coastline, tall madronas on towering cliffs above the wild Pacific ocean.
What future reality would you like to see for yourself? It works, believe me. I’ve easily manifested sports cars, homes, amazing vacations around the world, vintage campers… and as just a few examples. Remove your limits and start visualizing!
Clear your mind. Get quiet. Imagine the version of you/reality you wish to see at a distance of say, half a mile away. Now begin to move in a straight line towards that point. Feel into that space. Feel the joy there. Feel the possibility there. Feel the excitement in that space.
Try to remain in this mindstate for as long as possible. The longer and more often we can sustain this higher frequency state, the faster we will notice the fulfillment and manifestation of that reality. But if you can’t quite get there all the time, give yourself love and grace. Go back to that one happy thought that can get you closer to that future self.
Next we need to create habits and behaviors that reflect the personality – personal reality – we want to see.
A habit of presence and gratitude is an essential component in creating a better reality. Remember that heart coherence creates a healthier body and mind and a vibrational resonance that we send out into the world around us and the quantum realm/Source frequency.
Desire/Ask/Believe/Receive – But what is the vibration in which you are asking? Tuning in to where our mind is frequently and keeping a daily gratitude journal will help keep our energetic frequencies and neurochemicals vital, healthy and happy.
Create a daily habit of movement and nourishment. How you move is up to you, but daily exercise keeps both mind and body healthier and in a higher vibrational state.
Find those other habits and behaviors that reflect the reality you are creating.
Do you want to become an artist? Paint! Take classes. Experiment with different forms of media and components.
A writer? Write every damned day, even if it’s only for a few minutes.
Do you want to open a small (or big) business? Look into an LLC and a business plan.
Whatever your dream, try to come back to the state of being that future self (personality) holds as much as possible. Remember that we are looking for alignment with that ideal reality/personal reality. A good mantra is simply the question: Am I aligned?
From this place of alignment and coherence, watch the miracles begin to unfold. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you, beautiful one. You deserve every good thing your imagination can hold, and more!
We talked yesterday about the importance of finding a sense of gratitude in the present moment – in order to become more aligned with the future we wish to see. The more often we can hold ourselves in this state of gratitude and presence, the closer we become to accessing the quantum field of possibility and achieving resonance with Source – putting power behind our prayers.
Another of the beautiful aspects of coming into alignment with our highest selves is that we obtain a sense of peace and gratitude in the moment that causes heart coherence – our heart beats with a steady rhythm. There is no irregularity or arrhythmia; only too common occurrences these days.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, heart coherence reduces cortisol and adrenaline and increases output of Immunoglobulin A which increases immune function by up to 50% (!) and creates greater access to available energy.
Studies have been done on measurable photons in the energy field surrounding the body while in a state of heart coherence. The increase in these light waves – accessible energy – is typically more than doubled.
Wow, right?
But here’s what’s extra cool about achieving heart coherence: When we achieve this state, our bodies produce a chemical hormone called Oxytocin. Oxytocin is the “love hormone” that puts us in a state of bliss and connection. This release of Oxytocin causes the heart to release a chemical called Endofillial Derived Relaxing Factor.(EDRF)
EDRF causes the vessels of the heart to expand, not only creating greater oxygenation and blood flow, but also acting as an amplifier for all of those positive hormones and neurochemicals.
The amplification of these hormones not only causes intense feelings of bliss but can also reset the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for processing fear and holding past trauma. This means achieving heart resonance can literally rewire the brain. Now that is just pretty frickin’ AMAZING.
Stay with me, because here’s where we begin to learn the practice behind all that we have been learning about so far.
It’s important to recognize that we can’t always immediately get into this blissful state when we have been stuck in negative thought patterns – but we can get closer to it.
And just practicing being closer today means eventually, Bingo! You will find yourself heart-centered, healthier, and amazed by the feeling of joy that your brain and body produce.
When we are in this space, we begin to arrange our values, thoughts, habits, and energetic vibration (vibrational frequency) to reflect the person and reality that we want to be and see.
We become a vibrational match for that wonderful reality that we have dreamed of.
So how do we begin to get closer to alignment and coherence when we feel stuck?
We start by leaning into the feeling of any thought that is better than where we currently are.
Here’s an example – If you, like me, are someone that has suffered from Insomnia, you know that when you wake in the middle of the night, the mind tends to start racing.
Often the thought patterns that keep us awake for hours on end aren’t necessarily happy ones. Many years ago, I would find myself awake most nights from midnight to 4 or 5 am. This went on for months.
At first, I called it “doing the work” as I processed through trauma of the past for hours on end, but eventually I realized that I was no longer processing through but was instead stuck in that past pain.
So, on the advice of Wayne Dyer, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Bruce Lipton and other experts and self-development gurus, I began to shift my thoughts to one thing that felt better in my life.
Walking the beach with my beautiful children and happy dogs.
Chatting with my dad over coffee on religion, mechanics, and co-creation.
The brief but meaningful exchange I had with a beautiful stranger at the grocery store or the park that morning.
Time spent with friends.
Teaching classes.
A beautiful bouquet of peonies or Stargazer lilies
Or whatever else I may have recently experienced that made me feel good.
Before I knew it, a sense of peace and gratitude lulled my mind back into relaxation and I was fast asleep.
What is vitally important here is that we don’t just think about those things that make us feel a little better but we feel or lean into the positive emotion of those memories. This changes our neuralchemical output and begins to re-structure the brain.
We don’t have to suffer from insomnia to practice this.
The best time to start this feel-good meditation is in the morning, before any obstacles of the day can influence how easily we are able to access the feeling of gratitude, (I highly recommend beginning a gratitude journal each morning) but we can reach for that next good feeling any time of the day or night, bringing us closer to that place of alignment with our future selves and blissful heart coherence.
Practice:
Find someplace quiet to sit or lie down in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and take your focus to your breath, breathing deeply into your abdomen from your nose.
Allow your mind to quiet, bringing the focus back to the breath each time your mind becomes busy.
Observe thoughts without engaging, like watching clouds float across the sky.
Think of one positive thing from the day, or the day before if you are practicing in the morning – or even something you are excited about that is upcoming. Feel into the gratitude of that thought and space.
Try to notice if that feeling is in your heart center. If not, see if you can bring it closer to the center of the chest, just behind the sternum. Try to stay in that place of feeling good for at least five minutes, or longer if possible.
Each time you feel yourself beginning to cycle downward during the day in your thoughts or emotions, try to come back to that place. Practice makes perfect.😎
Tomorrow – Part 5 in the Anxiety to Alignment series:
Yesterday we spoke about learning to move from being a victim of your environment to achieving a life of living the dream – Your dream, whatever that may be.
And believe me, if you have dreamed it, that future is there for you, waiting in the Realm of Possibility (ROP) – the place that holds possible, probable and definite futures. It’s up to you to decide which future gets sent to the front of the queue.
Maybe up to this point, you have gotten glimpses of what might be in the queue, but haven’t figured out how to make those possibilities into reality.
Maybe you feel stuck in the place you are now, and that place just doesn’t feel good as often as you would like.
Maybe that wonderful reality you are dreaming of feels just out of reach. But it is closer than you think, and you absolutely are capable of achieving all of your dreams. But it will require a few tweaks to current behavior modes and changing up your internal – and possibly external – environment. It also requires us to begin to observe what Core Beliefs set in the past might be influencing our current behavior.
We can begin the process of shifting to a greater reality by asking some vital questions:
What future have you been queuing to the front of the line to this point? Do you feel like a powerful creator or a victim of all the negative things life has brought to you?
If the answer is the latter, it’s time to alter our current trajectory to move from woe is me to WOW is me.
But how do we get from allowing our past pain to dictate our present reality rather than allowing our Truth – our highest self – to create the wonderful reality that is exactly right for us – whether that is a partner, a career/business, the perfect property/home, or whatever else you might dream up?
The answer begins with one word: Alignment.
When our thoughts and emotions become aligned with a new paradigm – the reality we want to see rather than the place we feel stuck in, we can begin to reprogram any dysfunctional Core Beliefs we may have. We shift our negative mindset into a positive.
This is where the “magic” of creation can begin, and where people begin to see healthy new habits formed and their lives begin to shift for the better, oftentimes dramatically.
Tune in tomorrow to learn some methods to begin moving into alignment with your best reality.
This Blessed Sacred Life 