Guided Meditation • Visualization • Mindfulness

Saturday’s workshop was wonderful. I am always amazed and humbled by the authenticity and innate wisdom of the participants, and this workshop was no exception. We spent most of our time discussing how to get focused, deepening our understanding of the Law of Cause and Effect and how our beliefs affect what we experience, (which will be the topic of my February newsletter). We did two brief meditations but not as much visualizing our highest good as I would have liked. The hours flew by and I feel that we were just beginning to scratch the surface. If I decide to teach this workshop again, I will do it over the course of a few days. I may introduce some of the concepts from this workshop into the Women’s Wisdom Workshop on January 19th, but I really don’t know what’s going to happen until I get there. May you be safe, may you be happy and may you live a life of ease.

2008 reduces to the number 1 (2+0+0+8=10; 1+0=1) which is the number of new beginnings, inventiveness, pioneering.  The energy of 2008 presents us with a wonderful and unique opportunity to leave the past behind and  begin anew.  Whatever you’ve done or didn’t do no longer matters; what matters is who you are right now and to allow that Beingness and the Allness of who you are to flow forth from you and live as your experience.  If you’ve harmed someone, then make amends.  If you’ve been harmed then forgive.  Not tomorrow but today.  There’s no use taking yesterday’s mental garbage into this pristine moment.   It’s beautiful.  You’re here.  You’re in it.  So be in It consciously.  Be the love you’ve been seeking, be the forgiveness you’ve been seeking, be the blessing that the world has been seeking. 

Saturday’s Wisdom workshop was amazing!  There were 15 women ranging from their early twenties to women who were in their sixties and maybe even seventies in attendance.  Our main focus was on aligning our desires with our beliefs, in other words how to get the most out of life.  We channeled this energy into how we can improve and heal our relationships.  Because this workshop is so new, I am spending most of the three hours teaching the principles of better living, giving the class brief yet insightful journaling exercises and leading the meditation.  Again, I had a couple of women ask if I could extend the class to an entire afternoon rather than just a few hours…which I am considering.  I am considering it because there isn’t enough time for any meaningful discussion of the topics by the participants.  In any case I am knowing that the subsequent women’s wisdom workshops are going to be even more spiritually enlightening and fun.

Have you ever had the experience of turning onto your street or pulling into your driveway and not remembering the drive home? Or walking into another room only to forget why you went in there? It’s as if there’s an autopilot switch in your brain that mysteriously goes on and then just as mysteriously shuts off, “ding you’re here.” Don’t worry, being on autopilot isn’t a sign of a chemical imbalance you’re probably just not grounded.

A terrific way to become more grounded is to balance what’s called your root chakra. Chakra means “wheel” in the ancient Hindu language of Sanskrit, and just as the name indicates chakras are wheels of energy found within the energy field of your body.

Imagine a gently flowing mountain river. Along the flow of the river imagine that there are small plateaus where the water pools before continuing down the mountain. This is what your energy body is like; a gently flowing river with seven beautiful pools of energy. These pools of energy start at the base of the spine and continue up along the spine to the crown of the head. Your thoughts, feelings, genetic make-up and life situation will affect the flow of energy in any given pool of energy or chakra, either in the positive or the negative.

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