spiritual practice
Protect Yourself With A Freezing Ritual
Rituals are a wonderful way to invite Spirit in to help you manifest the highest good in your life. When practiced faithfully, they can create deep transformation within you, strengthen your spiritual being, and manifest a shield of protection and power around you.
The ‘freezing’ ritual is one of my personal favorites in my own spiritual practice. It is powerful ritual for deflecting unreasonable people or situations, and protecting yourself from the negative energy they create.
‘Freezing’ the influence of negative people allows you to keep moving authentically and joyfully through your life, without unnecessary drains on your spirit or emotions. It is also an effective way to rebalance your own emotions and restore clarity. You can freeze energy drains, health problems, financial challenges or any outside conflicts that are keeping you stuck.
Seasonal Spiritual Cleaning
Summer is now fast approaching and I know it’s time to get my rubber gloves, dusting cloths and all purpose cleaner out for another good ‘spring cleaning.’ A few weeks back I had to do the whole deep cleaning thing around our cottage, as we opened it up for the summer season. And it wasn’t that long ago that I found myself doing a proper spring cleaning around my house. I actually like to do a ‘spring cleaning’ every few months, usually with the changing of every season.
During the spring cleaning at the house, I was moving furniture, dusting, vacuuming up dust bunnies that were embarrassingly bulky, and clearing out cobwebs from spots on the ceiling. And that was just the living room! My cottage had been closed up all winter, so I understood the layers of undisturbed dust there, but I couldn’t believe that it had only been a few months since my last deep clean at the house, yet somehow it now seemed to be covered with dust, dirt and cobwebs! Worse yet, I hadn’t even really noticed how awful it really was.
Beyond Boundaries
Your evolution and growth never stops. Certain skills need to be learned and practiced. Then, as your energy shifts and changes more rapidly, more profoundly and with greater consciousness, if you have a spiritual practice, you are able to change your skills, enhance them, and learn to handle and use new skills.
Earth plane changes in skills typically start with cognition – left brain learning of new ideas, theories, or skills. This is true in mainstream therapies as well. After you learn an idea, you practice it, and then learn to handle what happens when you use these new ideas, concepts or skills. You learn to handle the energy of your implemented changes. Life does this too. You get a divorce, your spouse cheats, you are fired. This changes your energy, and then you have insights – a rough way to go.
The Power Of Mindful Meditation
You may have heard how great meditation is, but if you don’t try it you’ll never know. Meditation helps us receive intuitive guidance. It puts one in a state where your mind is relaxed and less distracted. It also opens us up to a higher energy source to recharge ourselves. A daily meditation practice of just a few minutes will replenish your mind, body, and spirit.
Few people take the time out of their crazy days to enjoy the pleasures of relaxing meditation. Meditation can reduce stress and anxiety improving your daily life, and as a result improve your health and general well-being.
Meditation can further help you attune your energy to allow spiritual guidance that can help direct you in your daily life. This will assist you with making the right decisions to moving forward in your life.
Are You Experiencing A Spiritual Awakening?
Doing psychic readings, I sometimes talk to someone who thinks they are ‘going crazy,’ but in actuality they are experiencing symptoms of spiritual awakening. But how does one recognize the common symptoms of spiritual awakening?
The term ‘spiritual awakening’ is somewhat overused these days in metaphysical circles. Just about anyone who has a ‘woo-woo’ moment, or gains deeper insight into a situation, or suddenly sees chakra colors, seems to believe they are having a true, full-blown ‘spiritual awakening.’
Spiritual awakening does tend to occur spontaneously, and from what I’ve witnessed, the more open-minded the person is and the less attached to outcomes they are, the more available or ‘ripe’ they are for a spiritual awakening to occur.
Just the other day a client was telling me of her experience while peeling a carrot over the kitchen sink. She said she was looking down at her hands, watching them, and wondering what was animating them? It can be a strange moment when you discover that you are not really who you thought you were. It can be disorienting, to say the least, to see yourself from such an objective position. However, if you know ahead of time that this is perfectly normal, and others have experienced these signs too, it can make your life a lot easier. Continue reading
Measuring The Moment
To be present within the moment is not observable – it is an experience. This has to be done by action. I have had to consciously practice this due to the intensity of my work, which requires me to be entirely mindful. I have to always work on grounding, and direct action.
If you have to work with the intellect a lot, you also have to do something that is physically stimulating, or that requires at least some motion as often as possible. All the senses can been heightened, yet without any type of motion knowledge is not useful. This is what I believe causes lack of motivation and a sense of disaffection.
This being said, many of us are always working on something, perhaps always in motion from, or towards something. But would mindfulness be something one could act on? I would have to say it is vital to do so.
I love every breath of the wind, every whorl in its wake. Within the stillness of its vacuum, there within, there is my motion. And within the step of one’s foot, there beneath my physical frame, there lies the earth… sighing beneath me, ready to crumble as I test its simplest structure. And as I go up into my journey’s sanctum… there upon the skies… there are always the myriad of birds. There I can see the sum of my knowledge. Continue reading
Shamanic Healing For Chronic Illness
When treating chronic illnesses, such as depression or pain, we too often look only at the symptoms, and not the root cause. The fact is, most if not all of these conditions have at their foundation some form of loss: the loss of sensation, loss of control, or the fear of loss. For this reason shamanic medicine can be quite effective as a form of treatment.
Shamanism, the connection between the physical world and the spirit realms, is all about connections. As we look closer at chronic illness, we find that much of it is caused by a lack of connection: to our authentic selves, to our spirit guides, to nature, and to our intuition. This is whey shamanic healing can be of great value.
For thousands of years, before the emergence of modern medical practices, shamans were the healers and diviners of the community. Fortunately, their practice is as strong today as it was then.
A trained shaman is able to determine which type of healing we may need: soul loss or retrieval (often through past-life work), spiritual retrieval (a power animal, angel, or other spirit guide), or reconnection to the earth and spiritual realms. There are shamans with different specialties, just as we have physicians with different areas of practice. Continue reading