Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~ Richard Wagner

a beautiful secret shared

The secret of making something work in your life is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work, then the faith and belief that it can work, then to hold that clear, definite vision in your consciousness, and see it working out step-by-step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

~ Eileen Caddy

creating a holistic connection

Dearest Readers,

We are currently journeying through one of the most motivating, amazing, inspiring years we are yet to experience; the year of 2012. In Numerology, 2012 is equal to 5 (2+0+1+2), and 5 is the number of change, so this is the year for us to let go of old belief systems, stagnant relationships, and anything that is holding us back from traveling forward on our divinely-created path in the most peaceful and prosperous way.

Holistically, I believe that there is becoming a greater awareness on our earth as to how we can share energy and interact with the life around us to create balance, harmony, and – essentially – a space of love. And rather than it being the end of the world later in the year, those who are sitting in this state of awareness are going to move forward into a space that encourages such balance and harmony even more than we feel it now.

However, we do need to put the effort in this year to connect with our heart’s true desires, and hone in on our gifts and talents so that we are more connected with our self and can travel along our path with purpose and intent. Reflecting on and acknowledging our desires also encourages our life purpose to manifest through the law of attraction; how perfect.

So – consequently – I wanted to create a Post to share with you all some meditative processes you can move through to: let go of imbalanced energies; connect into your heart; and to stay grounded and, therefore, balanced with our beautiful Mother Earth as she continues to vibrate waves of love, inspiration, and light.

This has been inspired by some energy I ran not-so-long-ago on a beautiful, beautiful friend, who I can reflect – with much gratitude – planted the seed in inspiring me to move into this space I now live in of contributing my small piece in spreading love and light throughout the world.

Letting Go

One meditation you can move through to let go is to balance and clear your Feeling Vortex. Your Feeling Vortex is a diamond-shape between your 2nd and 3rd Chakras (Sacral Chakra, which is our orange chakra, and Solar Plexus Chakra, which is our yellow chakra). We hold so much emotion in this vortex, including emotions tied to relationships that you know and feel you need to let go of; take the love you have shared and lessons you have learned and move forward with gratitude. 

And as a side note (I feel this may resonate with some of you), you could also sometimes feel tight in this area, just below your abdomen, which is a further indicator that it's time to focus on this space and let go...

To clear our Feeling Vortex, imagine a silver-white diamond-shape between these two chakras. Then, either physically with your hands, or simply with intent (which means to have an aim or purpose; with intention), imagine yourself pulling out all the cords that are connected within this space, which are attached to anyone and anything that you feel is stopping you from moving forward on your journey in the most balanced and peaceful space you can be in. Once you have felt all of these cords released from any attachment to you, fill your Feeling Vortex with gracious, love-filled white light and close it off (like turning off a tap, I guess you could say).

Do this every morning if possible, Dear Reader x

Opening Your Heart

In many of my energy-running sessions of late, I have had to 'smooth-out' an imbalance within and around the heart, which often suggests that we’re not connecting enough with it - perhaps spending too much time in our head and, therefore, a space of logic and reasoning. This is the part of us that tries to rationalise all of our thoughts to the point of talking our self out of following our heart's true desires and to blend back in with what society has conditioned us to think as the most purposeful way of living. 

As I have previously mentioned, and will continue to mention, you need to connect into your heart a little more, listen to what you feel, and act on this. I will often suggest that it might also be worth you sitting down and writing exactly what you want for yourself (your most perfect, perfect life); even if it is for this year only, or for the next few months.

And to open this glorious space of love, you can imagine a door opening from your heart, and release that beautiful white light that you're currently holding inside, allowing it to radiate out to the world. Shine your beautiful light and share the love.

Get Grounded

Then finally; ground yourself. There are two ways I would like to share with you to move into this space.

The first you can do at any point in time; and I suggest you do as soon as you wake in the morning, lying in bed, and also as you drift to sleep in the evening.

The centre of our earth holds the most powerful, nurturing, radiant white light; picture this light in the centre of the earth, connect in to it, then envisage this light moving up from the centre of the earth, up through the soles of your feet, up through your body, and let this light settle into every cell in your body. I will do this with my breathing, about 5-8 times; or as long as I feel like sitting in this space.  So,

Breathing In - Have this white light come up through your feet and into your body

Hold your breath – And let this light settle into all of your cells

Breathing Out - Open the door of your heart and shine your white light out to the world

(And when you think of it, with intent, you can direct this white light to specific people, places, and situations, too, showering them with love, light, and gratitude)

Another beautiful, beautiful way you can ground yourself is by finding a tree, and standing in front of this tree, place your hands on the trunk, and close your eyes. Imagine roots growing from your feet and into the earth below, and then connecting and intertwining your roots with the roots of the tree. Sit in this space and imagine yourself becoming one with the tree; sharing energy with not only this beautiful, beautiful tree, but Mother Earth, too. 

You will feel so much love from this tree, so be sure to give love back. Sit in this space for as long as you feel is right; it is such a magical experience.

Sending out the most nurturing, grounding love and light; you are all doing so amazingly.

Love, love, love, and light x

love, love, love...

After having shared my reflections of experiences and lessons learned over the Holiday break with you beautiful, beautiful readers, I need to acknowledge how blessed I am to have such a sacred space of inspiration, love, and open-mindedness, which is fuelled and influenced by each and every one of you, to be able to share these thoughts.

I do, however, feel the shifts in energy that many of us are still experiencing and moving through, whether that is simply feeling a little more tired than usual, or perhaps having very limited space for patience and empathy, particularly in current relationships and interactions.

We are gradually moving into a space where it is time for us to begin to reflect on our present situation and acknowledging what is contributing to our greater well-being and what, perhaps, we need to consider letting go of; for some, it may be letting go of current relationships, or it may be your current work situation, your current beliefs, or perhaps even letting go of habits of consumption, whether that be eating habits, or materialism etc.

A beautiful friend of mine has been working through huge barriers for herself throughout this last year in coming to accept that it is time for her to sell her house. Up until just recently, she has felt this desire lingering in her thoughts and intuition, however it is so easy for us to quickly move from our heart’s desires to the thoughts in our head that ‘rationalise’ these desires, usually to the point of deciding against what initially had come through to us intuitively; because our head feels comfort in sitting in the safety of the risk-free known that is now.

And I feel the urge to repeat the words of Anais Nim once again,

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Needless to say, this beautiful, beautiful friend has been spending the last few days slowly (we must still remember to be gentle and nurture ourselves in times of change) taking down old photos, storing away books, and packing away items that she can currently live without, and the excitement and joy that blossoms from her energy is the most beautiful source to share and be a part of. She is letting-go, releasing all fear of the unknown to the Universe, surrendering to the love that the Universe is here to share with us, and has complete faith that – with patience and intent – everything will manifest exactly as it is meant to, and everything will be okay.

Whenever feelings of fear, or sadness, or anger, or guilt (the lowest energy of all) do begin to cast their way into your space, feel the fear, feel sadness, or anger, or guilt. These feelings are here for a reason, so acknowledge them, allow them to move through you, become one with these feelings, and then let them go with love and gratitude (more detail xx). And while this technique may not resonate with you, it is important for you have some form of space that you can go to where you feel safe, loved, and comfortable to sit in a space of vulnerability; you deserve this.

2012 is the year for you to use your intuition more, listen to your heart, and learn to trust yourself. Create and have intent for every practice you move through; whether that is meditatively, spiritually, or simply in your interactions. Be patient, be patient, be patient. Trust, trust, trust. Have faith, have faith, have faith. And I ask for you to be so very gentle on yourself.

Love, love, love, and light to you all. x

nurturing your heart space.

My beautiful, inspiring readers,

First of all, I hope that you have all had a lovely, joyous Holiday break, filled with bucket-loads of love, laughter, and tasty food… x

I was blessed with the most perfect gifts over these last few weeks, particularly between Christmas and New Year’s, through the sharing of conversations and relationships, which has pushed me and challenged me, resulting in filling my soul with knowledge, wisdom, inspiration, gratitude, love, and growth. And I need to use this time now to reflect to you all that these words have been pieced together with so much love and gratitude from the deepest depths of my heart; everything is perfect…

Needless to say that while I am blessed to be able to reflect back on this time as a beautiful, inspirational journey, which, essentially, I had set-up for myself to shift me into an even more loving, gracious, and balanced state, these times can consequently be the most exhausting and challenging spaces to experience and move through. So it is therefore important to be gentle on yourself and set aside any judgement that we so quickly and easily cast upon ourselves when we feel that we are not handling these experiences with the wise, positive, and gracious outlook that we have worked so hard to embody and embrace throughout every step of our journey.

My greatest lesson throughout this time – and I am sure will continue to be evident in this current journey of mine – is to create balance for myself. I need to balance my actions for other people by also setting aside time for doing things for myself that contribute to my well-being. I need to balance being a sensitive soul and taking on board the different energies from those around me by disconnecting myself from their space, meditating, working on my own energy whenever it begins to feel unbalanced, and also learning to say “no” with love and gratitude. I need to acknowledge when it is time to stop giving to others and using my gifts as an inspiring healer, and listen to my heart, nurture my energy, my heart, my mind, and my soul. How can I give love, light, compassion, intuitiveness, and gratitude to others when I have not stopped to give myself time to refuel and reenergise?

Having lost sight of these balancing words of wisdom that I once had, and have now once again reconnected with, I have spent a large amount of my time over the past few weeks – whilst surrounded by beautiful, inspiring souls – feeling fatigued, exhausted, and I am yet to recall the last time that I have had so many tears release their way out from me.

However, we must also take note that on some level we set-up each experience that unfolds for us, and we never create anything for our self that we cannot handle, move through, be inspired by, and grow from.

And while at the time we may feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or angry – and perhaps even light body symptoms such as heart palpitations, ears ringing, and absent-mindedness – you deserve the time to disconnect from the situation at hand, find a sacred space for yourself, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and place your hand over your heart and fill your heart space with a beautiful, green emerald light; imagine this light growing from deep within and pouring out from your heart to as-big-a-space as possible in front of you, sit in this space, and repeat, “I love myself, and I trust that (this) is occurring for the greater good. I send everyone in this situation love and gratitude, and am thankful for the lessons that are currently being learned and embedded within me.”

Balance these situations, too, though, by noticing when you are happy and when you do feel balanced and grounded. Be gentle on yourself; you are a constant inspiration to those around you, so it makes sense to spend some time giving inwardly so that you can feel that love, light, and amazing-ness that you so very much deserve. Release, surrender, let go, and feel whatever feelings come over you, cry whenever you feel the sensation to cry; the more deeply you embrace these feelings, the more quickly you can move forward into that beautiful, nurturing peace-of-mind.

“May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love."

~ Irish Blessing