Oprah, and Deepak spare great messages in their 21 Day meditation to inspire and help open the door for change.
“Shedding the Weight” is their theme and with spring upon us, what better way to energize. Click on the image below to start Day One today!
I was in meditation this weekend and through stillness and deep awareness, I noticed my physical body different or removed from where my consciousness was. This was not an out of body experience and is a very common state for someone who meditates regularly. What this can offer us (me in this case) is a sense of the density or heaviness we might feel or carry in our body. Take away gravity, which is something, everyone on earth encounters and we experience how our body feels to us. This will often reveal patterns of tension and heaviness in our bodies due to limiting or reducing the flow of energy.
Let me roll the clock back just a bit to a warm day last summer. I was walking in a busy area of Ottawa and ahead of me was a young woman possibly in her early twenties. What I notice about her and has stayed with me since was the way her body moved. Every cell in her body from her head to toe was living an individual expression and supporting each other. There were no “needy” cells or groups of cells looking for attention by holding or gripping. Her body floated gracefully, shoulders, arms, and fingers swishing as if completely free. Her torso, hips, legs, and feet moved toward each new step without any regret as if everything was new and exciting. I remember her as “The Breeze” because she moved effortlessly as a physical being.
We have all encountered people like this woman and many of us feel the same way at times. Maybe we have been on holiday and have unwound, stepped back from our daily routine long enough to release our tension and heaviness.
Unwinding the spring and letting every cell in our body dance freely can be a challenge. Becoming “aware” of our distractors and overwhelm is key to stabilize and uplift us in the “now” (our current moment) but also has a cumulative effect on feeling better long-term.
We have all heard the term “go to the breath” or “let the breath be your guide,” and the breath really is a remarkable tool. Once a person masters a few simple breathing exercises they quickly find themselves much more in charge of challenges brought forth in daily life. It becomes easier for us to shift our focus to a state of calm of lightness.
Here is an example you can try on your own. Next time you are waiting in traffic or in a line and your mind focuses on the delay and you start to become impatient, shift your focus to your breath. Breathe in and out mindfully, lengthening your inhale and exhale to allow any tension dissipate. In just a few breath cycles, you should feel more at ease and clear minded. This is a perfect way to flip the switch and step forward to create your life rather than feeling stuck and helpless.
Taking clearly defined and purposeful breaths will lead to awareness, and through awareness, one is able to discover and release tension. Daily life can plant many little-unwanted seeds to clutter our energy. The breath is an opportunity to pull the weeds and allow our physical and energetic garden to flourish!
Look for future posts on how to engage and expand your breath, something vital to living life.
Here is a link to get you started on what is called “equal” or “square” breath.
by Tom Kelly
Blue Kyanite is a beautiful shimmery blue stone that grows in vertically oriented blade-like formations. It is ‘the’ stone of connection and bridge building but is perhaps best known for its ability to rapidly clear energetic blockages and bring one’s chakras into alignment.
Kyanite carries a high vibration and an enormous capacity to draw down light from higher dimensions. It enhances psychic abilities of all kinds, especially those involving communication with higher beings, such as one’s higher self, spirit guides, extraterrestrials, angels and ascended masters. It creates bridges of communication for healing, channeling, mediumship and one’s own inner work.
Kyanite’s powerful receiver-transmitter capacity brings through clear guidance that one can trust and act upon. It keeps us oriented in the direction of our soul purpose by helping us to recognize and gather together gifts, abilities and interests needed to move forward on our soul path in this life. Kyanite helps to clear blocks to spiritual attainment and draw those with whom you have spiritual contracts to you.
Kyanite also works to bridge gaps of human understanding between individuals and groups. It opens the throat chakra, assisting self-expression and the speaking one’s truth. It encourages the release of old, limiting beliefs and brings one into alignment with unknown, untapped potential. It frees people to consider new ideas and come to new understandings and ways to collaborate toward common goals.
Kyanite is a great stone for healers to wear and to place on the body during Crystal healing sessions. It rapidly clears the human energy field and creates a protective shield in which to do energy work. It also increases energy transmission from healer to client and can help to open the third eye of both healer and client during healing sessions. It is absolutely wonderful for restoring energetic flow in the human energetic system, especially along energetic meridians and between chakras. I especially like to use it to bridge energy from the high heart to the throat chakra.
Kyanite is also a great physical healer. It helps to heal bone breaks, surgical incisions and other traumas to the body. It can even create new neural pathways for those who have suffered strokes or other forms of brain damage.
Put simply, Kyanite can be like your own personal bolt of lightning. It is such a powerful channeler of Light that it never requires cleansing. It greatly enhances all forms of energy work and meditation practices. You can even place Kyanite under your pillow to clear blocks in your subconscious mind while you sleep and enhance your ability to dream lucidly.
Kyanite just keeps channeling Light to the one who uses it. It keeps us aligned with our personal truth and clears the decks so we can get on with it.
Keeping with a theme of “love” these guys (John, Paul, George, and Ringo) nail it well with this line from “The End” off Abbey Road. I love the image and have a version of this in my home.
“For me, the word Manifestation needs to be about love. If we have a deep-seated love for ourselves and everything beyond, we have all we need. This is when the light is strongest and we are in our power.”
“Everything becomes easier when the mind is released from the task you struggle with.”
Have you ever wondered about time, asking yourself why we perceive hours and minutes as we do? Have you thought about how time affects us and how might we in turn affect time?
Are there ways to expand our life experience within the limits of time and space?
Can we look at each new moment for its unique footprint, being fully aware of the presence we hold within it, seeing it for what it is?
Is it possible to step from one moment to the next never seeing two moments the same, and be bored, less than excited with its newness?
Another question we might ask is, how “should we” define a unique moment in time? Personally, I do not think a measurement of time matters as much as knowing how to experience each moment as the breath of fresh air it is.
If we sense time passing without honoring it fully, we might say “we have lost track of time” or “that time has forgotten us.” Does this mean we have missed something, given time away or stopped living in these moments? Our hearts will have pumped and our breath continued, but did we fully participate in the act of living?
We can also spend every moment doing something, fill our day with tasks that leave us exhausted. Were these actions any closer to living life fully?
Can we control time or manage our experience by placing ourselves inside the framework we consider “time” to be?
If we look carefully, our experience of time seems connected to our perception of how each moment unfolds.
Knowing as we all do, a moment when “time seems to have stood still.” What is really going on? Are we able to alter time, do our thoughts or actions slow or increase our perception of time?
Have you ever done something and thought, “that is impossible” I just drove 20 miles in 10 minutes! Maybe afterward you noticed how relaxed and intended you were toward achieving the result you just saw happen. I have noticed that we can seemingly affect time if we choose to, and its fun to experiment with this concept.
Next time you are running late or your perception suggests there is not enough time, play with the idea or thought that you have more than enough time and relax with this idea and see what happens. Try it again in a similar situation and notice how stress or the lack of stress along with the thought(s) used, affect your result. Keeping in mind this will be “your” result which others may not see with the same perspective.
In the end, “free will” allows each of us the opportunity to structure our own path as we see fit. To know we have a choice is very important.
To let go and admire “each moment” without needing to change it or understand the totality of what it might or might not be, can offer great insight.
This is where the art of living can become an unstoppable and magnificent treasure. Not looking “at the time” but “through it” to envision a very different life experience.
By Tom Kelly
“One day of conscious living can easily equal a lifetime of unconscious living.” Being aware of the drama we add our lives can change how we live.