Embrace What is Coming
Symbolism
The Rising Sun signifies rebirth.
The Dead lying on the ground emphasize renewal and reincarnation.
The Holy Figure symbolizes the sacredness of the death transformation.
The black rider brings a conclusion on the white horse which symbolizes strength and vitality.
The flag announces harvest time.
The king without a crown respects the laws of life and death.
The bishop without a staff announces the coming ending.
Children accept death as normal.
The ship stands for the moment of death.
The gate is the heaven’s gate.
The city is paradise.
The gray sky warns against indifference.
Getting to Know the Death Card
People sometimes get upset when they see Death in a reading. I think every tarot client fears the Death Card.
Every Tarot reader knows this: Something important in your life is about to come to an end to clear the way for a new beginning.
Our opinions, beliefs, and fears about death encourage us to misunderstand this card.
Death is all about transformation for the better. It has a distinct message: Something is going away to make room in your life for something else new.
This card influences us all – regardless of age, station in life, education, beliefs. This is a break with the past – manifesting changes in home, relationships, or career.
However Death plays out, new opportunities are on the horizon. They may surface as an opportunity: relocate, connect, financial changes. This is transformation in action. One thing for sure: transformation cannot happen without an ending.
Transformations are sacred. They work for the greater good.
Embrace what is coming. There are things you can do.
First, remember past transformations, how they affected you, and how you benefitted from them.
You have an opportunity to do things you never thought you could do. You will survive. You will flourish. This is how transformation works!
Move on from what you are leaving behind now. Acknowledge what you lost and appreciate how you moved on in the past. Offer gratitude to your successes.
Is something toxic in your life to release? If so, you can add a new beginning.
What needs to go? What comes next? Embrace the change!
Story
Several years ago, right after Christmas, my oldest daughter, who lived in California, was ready to retire from her teaching job. She searched for a place to retire and begin her new life.
Jennette came to visit us over the holidays and house-hunt.
At the end of her holiday visit, two vehicles in the parking lot at the Albany Airport crushed her. In an instant, her life totally changed forever.
Bang! Her 20+ year teaching career evaporated.
This moment in time was a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual event not only for her but for the rest of us in the family that afternoon.
Everything was broken.
Thirty-five days in the Albany Medical Center Hospital followed three days in the ICU at Albany Med. A year of visits in various Albany Medical Center clinics in and around Albany came after the ICU and the hospital stay.
None of us gave up – not Jennette, not the physicians, not the therapists and not anyone in the family gave up.
Michele, my younger daughter and hospice nurse, flew in from Phoenix and taught Zoe Darwin, Jennette’s youngest child, how to care for Jennette in the hospital.
After a week, Michele returned to Phoenix and Zoe Darwin stayed in a nearby hotel and helped care for her mother the next two weeks. Then Zoe Darwin moved into her mother’s new home.
I drove Sophia and Zoe into Albany daily. Because Jennette’s visitors were limited, I sat in the Panera across from the hospital for several hours and waited for them to come out and then I got to visit for a few minutes before our time was up and we returned to New Baltimore.
This daily routine continued until she was discharged. When I sat at the Panera in the afternoons, the place was always full. Staff members were kind and sensitive to the reality that everyone there in the afternoons was connected to an ill person in the Albany Medical Center Hospital across the street.
After a couple of weeks, I got discouraged, wrote a healing ceremony for Jennette, and we held it in a quiet corner of the hospital lobby. I wrote prayers to Archangel Michael and called in all the healing beings I could think of.
Zoe Darwin, Sophia, Michele, and I gathered in a quiet corner of the hospital entrance lobby. Jennette’s real estate agent and her husband attended the ceremony. Everyone got a silver angel charm I ordered from Breakell to commemorate the ceremony. I felt better after this ceremony but each day was a challenge. I was acutely aware that I needed the healing ceremony as much as anyone else there that afternoon.
One day, when I went in to see Jennette, she was waiting for a meal to be served to her. With both hands and arms broken, she could not feed her self or anything else. She was getting tired of being fed hospital food.
I took that as a positive sign.
One day I went in to see Jennette and learned that the orthopedic team operated on her left wrist at 1:30 am the night before.
Then, thankfully, one afternoon a discharge nurse came into the room and told us it was time for Jennette to go home! We were grateful but, really, we were shocked! Jennette couldn’t even walk yet.
The next day, a man came to her room, packed up all the things that had collected themselves during the month, and wheeled Jennette out of the hospital and loaded her in the car.
That Prius was stuffed with wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and boxes of smaller items we needed to care for her bandaged and casted arms and legs. Jennette now functioned daily with a brace on her back and medical boots on her feet.
But Jennette’s bones weren’t the only injured body parts. Her liver was damaged and her spleen was not missing in action. She was in a back brace full-time.
We were grateful for our trip home but I was scared too. Jennette couldn’t even walk a step. How was I going to manage?
When we drove up, I called on several hefty neighbors to help us get her in the house.
Jennette camped out on the sofa in the living room for several weeks until she felt adventurous enough to go to her new home in New Baltimore. It was a good thing, too, because she collected scads of support equipment: walkers, crutches, wheel chairs, grabbers, and other things I don’t even remember.
Jennette has a new life now. So do Zoe Darwin and Sophia. So do Barry and I. That afternoon in the parking lot of the Albany airport was definitely the Death Card in action
Energetic Balance Activity
Go all out here: Sort through your things and donate your unwanted things to a shelter. Give up everything old, outgrown, or worn out. Ditch everything you don’t use anymore. Release everything to make way for the new beginning.
Follow this up with a medical checkup appointment.
Finally, do you have a crystal or other stone that you are attracted to? Wear it or carry it as you go into your future.
Meditation
Go to a comfortable, safe, and private place to sit or lie down. Get comfortable. Play some quiet music if it feels right for you at this time. Light a candle if it fits.
Begin slow deep breathing. Feel yourself relaxing. When you inhale, visualize that you are inhaling light. As you exhale, release tensions and worries. Encourage yourself to relax.
As you breathe slow deep breaths, visualize clouds. As they slowly drift by, feel your muscles and nerves relaxing. As you inhale, breathe in calm and positivity. As you exhale, release toxicity and negativity.
When you feel relaxed, pause for a moment to relax. In this moment, you are not searching for something outside yourself. Focus, instead, on reconnecting to your inner strength. This is the inner strength that has always ben with you.
Focus on how you feel in this moment. Notice how your body feels. Observe how the chair you are sitting in supports you. Do you feel connected to your surroundings? How does your inner strength supports you?
Connect to the inner core which supports you every day, even if you’re not aware of it.
Pause for a moment now.
Call up a moment when you discovered a strength you didn’t realize you had.
Perhaps this was a time of challenge or a time of change. What did you learn about yourself in that experience?
What inner resources did you rely on?
Call in that strength now. It is a force that has always been a part of your inner core. Let it rise up within you.
Pause again for a few moments.
Continuing to breathe deeply, consider challenges you might be facing now. Or, think about challenges you may encounter in the future.
See these as opportunities for growth. See how you can manage your way through each one.
Breathe in slowly now. As you inhale, breathe in confidence to manage your way. As you exhale, release any doubts or concerns you may have. Continue to inhale confidence and exhale doubts.
Pause now to reflect.
Continue inhales and exhales. Your breathing now is the breath of capability. Each breath grounds you. Continue to breathe the breath of capability as you become more aware of your inner strength.
You know it is time to return to your day now. You know you can return to this meditation whenever you want.
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Major Transformation
Symbolism
The Halo symbolizes enlightenment and soul involvement.
The tree – The World Tree – connects reality to other realms.
The grey background shows he is pausing in a neutral state.
The greenery hanging above him represents the potential growth he will survive.
The Hanged Man’s Expression – He does not appear to be distressed.
The red leggings symbolize devotion.
The blue shirt stands for spiritual royalty.
The nimbus surrounding the Hanged Man’s head signifies a sanit-like status.
The Hanged Man’s eyes are open so he can learn what he can.
Getting to Know The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man is not afraid to be different. The Hanged Man represents an uncomfortable situation because he sees his situation from different angles and he asks us to see things from his perspective. The Hanged Man speaks to a deeper wisdom, a greater peace, and an expanded sense of self. He breaks free. His wisdom comes from his higher self.
Have you ever needed a time-out? The Hanged Man asks us to step outside our view of reality and see things through a different lens. It is time to consider possibilities. This is an opportunity to learn truths that lay outside the accepted norms of our times.
Embrace change in your consciousness now. Release those things that are no longer necessary. Lean into the intermission.
The Hanged Man experiences major transformations. In doing so, he operates beneath the surface for a long time – maybe decades.
When the transition finally happens, friends, family, fellow workers, and the community can be shocked at the final result: marriage, divorce, getting sober, sex change, quitting church, going to college, growing up, quitting college, adopting children, etc.
Seeking a more spiritual way of life and investing in the future is a major transformation. The whole experience can be a time of hanging in limbo – the place between the past and the future. There are all kinds of things we can do to understand the unseen, internal, unconscious parts of our lives. Words that come to mind are perspective, anger, acceptance, discomfort-comfort, validation.
And, at some point, the word “embrace” is front and center. It goes along with ending shame, and risking rejection. All these words include the recreation of your physical, intellectual, and spiritual self.
Finally, all these changes are authentic. When you experience the Hanged Man, three things come to mind. The first is to wait for the situation to unfold. Focusing on the bigger picture helps make the journey smoother. Finally, it’s important to know what can and cannot be controlled.
Story
Locally famous, semi-famous, and unknown talented people in the arts visited the food pantry regularly. Because Woodstock attracted artists, musicians, poets, and writers, many owned first or second homes in the area. Some of these creative and talented people saw their incomes evaporate when the economy tanked in 2008.
These talented people came to make a place and build their lives. They were happy in their Woodstock and Bearsville homes and times were tough.
A person would have a home in the Woodstock area in addition to a place, someplace else. As the economy tanked and the income dwindled, the person would look around, assess the situation, and try to unload the most expensive place, usually in the someplace else location. They cam to Woodstock to live in the cheaper second home only to find zero opportunity to earn money out of the city environment. Some sublet, others sold, and still others underwent foreclosure. They found themselves stranded because their support system was not what it should have been.
So here they were, down and out in Woodstock in Bearsville. Some even lost their Upstate New York home.
Eventually, some established new lifelines. A few ended up homeless. It was gut-wrenching to see the effect of foreclosures on them. It was difficult for them to leave Woodstock. For some, foreclosure impacted their physical, spiritual, emotional health.
A famous poet was the hub of the group in the food pantry line each week. He made himself a place in the pantry. Fellow creatives gathered around him. Intelligent, well-educated people, all. They made the best of it. What else could they do?
A published poet, his positive attitude and smile offered strength. Described by many as a Tantric Buddhist-Hindu yogi, he lives what he studied. Each moment is a spiritual experience for him. He describes himself as an artist, photographer, and poet.
Personally, I always felt his attitude toward life made him the grounding leader of the group. He never got caught up in material possessions so he had little to lose. His lifestyle and attitude set a spiritual example for us all.
He was one of the first people I met when I moved to Woodstock. About two weeks after moving in, I abandoned the unopened boxes in my new home and walked over to the Colony Cafe for an evening poetry reading.
The room was crowded with about 30 writers and poets. Actually, I was the only bona fide audience member in the room. Virtually everyone else was in the writer/poet category.
When he entered the Colony Cafe, everyone greeted him with friendship and respect.
Years later, I was happy to see him standing in the hallway. If it was okay for him to be in the pantry line, then it was okay for the rest of us who shopped and worked in the pantry, too. His positive attitude and smile strengthened others in the line and dignified everyone in the building and the parking lot.
It seemed he knew everyone. He had been coming to Woodstock since he was a young man and was accepted as part of the community.
His attitude was that life should be about compassion for all beings, helping others, and maintaining a positive mental and spiritual attitude. His core beliefs supported the line for the other creatives.
Somehow, I felt these talented people deserve better than a one-hour wait in a line to shop for food. Most people never imagined they would be in a food line.
He uplifted us all – whether we shopped or volunteered.
Energetic Balance
Embrace change: Try out new recipes! Enjoy fun new food. Take a different route to work. Study something you don’t know anything about.
Meditation
Go to a private, safe location. Get comfortable in a seated or reclining position. Begin deep, cleansing breathing. With each inbreath, your body softens. Release tension. Outbreaths release toxins and negativity. Within each inbreath and outbreath, you sink deeper into relaxation.
Gently become aware of your body now. Acknowledge whatever you feel.
Pause now for a few moments.
Now, notice your thoughts. Allow them to be whatever they are. Accept your feelings and thoughts as they come.
Recognize the challenges, and successes you have experienced in your life.
Pause again for a few moments.
Now, acknowledge a time when you were critical of yourself. See these moments with caring and compassion.
Pause for a few moments.
Now, remember yourself as a child. Speak to yourself as you embrace your strengths and imperfections. Accept yourself as a child.
When you inhale, feel acceptance.
When you exhale, release negativity and toxicity.
Positive feelings feel your mind, your body, your soul.
Accept yourself now. Trust yourself. You know that you are enough.
You return to your day now. You know that you can return whenever you need.
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The Courage of Your Convictions
SYMBOLISM
The bright yellow background stands for vitality and acting with conscious awareness.
The woman with the lion wears white to signify her purity and kindness.
The lemniscate (infinity symbol) above the woman’s head symbolizes her ability to call upon her higher self. This is the energy of the universe. Has she experienced this before in a prior lifetime?
The green landscape indicates her success.
The blue mountains in the background indicate a peak experience.
The position of the woman’s hands demonstrates hands-on healing.
The woman and the lion show the ability of the meek to overcome the mighty.
The red lion stands for power and fire.
GETTING TO KNOW STRENGTH.
Are you making your way through a risky situation? Are you overcoming fear?
For me, the Strength Card is a feminine card showing that intuition and gentle responses are more effective than sledgehammer tactics. Negotiation and balanced calm win over a seemingly impossible challenge. Call on focus, patience, and stillness when you tune into your intuition to really understand the situation.
With the Strength Card, your inner strength and courage guide you to stand firm because you are grounded. When you are steady and calm, you can win. This is better than running, hiding, or denying the situation.
Important! The Strength Card tackles anything and everything operating destructively in your life – from within or without. This includes anger, anxiety, despair, laziness, lust, and loneliness.
Patience and courage are important. With determination you live up to your potential. Self-control and faith in yourself strengthen your intuition.
Strength is an inner spiritual trait, overcoming ignorance and oppression as it solves your problems. With the Strength Card in control, tact and diplomacy work better than aggression and confrontation.
Even in the thick of things, you can stand up for yourself. The change you fight for is worth the effort.
In the end, it all comes down to forgiveness.
A STORY
One October afternoon, in 1976, I called on the Strength Card for help. I married Barry, my second husband only weeks before. Barry, myself, my two children, and a Keeshond puppy ived in an apartment near the Air Force base where Barry was stationed.
With only two days’ notice, I learned my new in-laws were coming to visit. They arrived with a list of rules and conditions. One, my new mother-in-law was a chain smoker and they were trying to wean her off cigarettes. So, “Please, no smoking.” Two, they were staying a couple of weeks. And, on and on and on. The smoking prohibition impacted us strongly because both Barry and I were smokers. What were we going to do?
We gave up the tobacco.
It wasn’t easy but, when they left, I was no longer a smoker. During their visit, I gave up a habit of a decade. And, it stuck with me for life.
With the Strength Card in my life, I overcame obstacles. I had the courage and resolve to cope with the challenges.
The Strength Card responds to loneliness, grief, anger, depression, and anxiety. Channeling the inner beast and unruly passions positively is effective. This is a time to reconcile with the negativity in your life to win the battle. In fact, negativity teaches you how strong you are.
When the weapon of choice is Strength, the potential is infinite.
FOCUS IN
Heal your own mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and mythical wellbeing. Enrich your relationship with yourself. This is definitely a time to call in Reiki.
Include complementary medicine healthcare with your self-care. Lifestyle adjustments will support your improvement. This applies to things like fatigue, feeling down, or not coping.
Throughout my life and career as a healer, I’ve seen healthcare and self-care turn people’s lives around. Miracles can happen when you care for yourself and include the Strength Card. For starters, your hair, skin, and nails improve. With sufficient sleep, yo wake up skills you didn’t even know you have.
Never forget how forgiveness fits into the picture.
MEDITATION
Go to a private, safe meditation place. Get in your most comfortable position – either on a chair or a mat.
Gently close your eyes as you begin your deep breathing pattern. Take several deep sighs of relief and relaxation. You may even have an urge to yawn.
Begin your inbreaths as you relax. Each inbreath increases your relaxation level. Each outbreath releases toxins and negativity. As you breathe, and bring more relaxation, move into your calm posture of a warm golden sun and sky. You feel a gentle breeze as it rustles white clothing.
Pay attention to the luscious green lawn beneath your feet. You see bountiful trees and shrubs in the distant meadow. You notice trees, flowers, grass. Birds, butterflies, and other insects seem to be abundantly happy.
You are in a special place.
Settling in your safe and secret space, you look down a path toward challenges and experiences. You see that you are at a place in life where you will know what is best for your future. It’s time to learn about yourself.
Find the place of greatest comfort and forgiveness.
Use your strength to feel safe now. Open your heart – both for yourself and the other. You are ready to take responsibility for your actions. You are ready to accept and forgive imperfections.
It’s time to return to your day now. You know that you can return whenever you are ready.
You are forgiven, for now and forever.
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Truth Matters.
Does someone you know seem to be inauthentic? Maybe that’s not the right word. Perhaps you feel something is just a little “off”.
First, ask yourself this: Are you being honest with yourself? Because, truth is, dishonesty happens all the time.
When I find myself asking, “What’s happening here?” it’s time to look at myself in the mirror. I’m thinking about actions, words, and whatever is going on.
After all, sneaky underhanded behavior, lying, and cheating are universal among humans.
When you suspect that something is a little “off”, it’s time to be honest and face the truth. OR watch your back.
Either way, you are being blamed for their actions or your mistake.
Are you making things better or worse for yourself? Are you being honest about it all?
Be alert and trust your instincts. You don’t want to be the victim of someone else’s deceit. Align yourself with your highest morality.
The truth matters.
DO THIS:
Discuss the issue with yourself. Be honest and face the truth to make sense of the situation. Whatever you need to discuss, say it to yourself.
MEDITATION:
Sit down and get comfortable. Take a few minutes to close your eyes while you let your attention focus on your breath. Breathe in and out… in and out. Let each breath relax you more.
Opening your eyes, you find yourself in a forested park, walking along on a smooth path. You come upon a group of trees. This area is secluded, protective, and rich with birds, butterflies, and the perfect temperature. You enjoy seeing the birds flying among the trees. You see the blue sky and the clouds through the branches.
Beneath one of the trees you see an inviting bench. You know this bench is waiting for you to sit, enjoy the scene, and become more calm and relaxed.
After sitting on the bench for a moment, a being walks up and sits down beside you. This wise and gentle person is here to help you by answering a question.
To help you focus on your question, this being hands you a small gift to hold while you focus in.
Meanwhile, as you meditate on your question, you hold the small stone.
You give thanks to the wise one. You know that the answer you seek is coming to you soon.
It is time for you to leave now. You set the stone down on the bench, send gratitude to the universe, and leave the area. You are walking away on the path.
You know that the answer you seek will come to you soon. Maybe today or maybe this evening. It will come to you.
You also know that you can return to this place any time you need. The trees, the bench, the stone, and the path are here waiting for you.
The wise person will share the wisdom you need whenever you ask.
Take some time now to focus on your breathing once again. You are aware of air as you breathe in and breathe out. You become aware of your surroundings. You feel the chair beneath you. You hear the sounds of the room. You open your eyes and return to your normal waking state, feeling refreshed, relaxed, and comfortable.
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Moving Forward? Journey On!
When the time comes to walk away from something that no longer serves its purpose, you may feel a bit reluctant.
On the other hand, maybe you’re running for the door.
Either way, begin the next leg of the journey by setting boundaries. Rites of passage are always easier when you mentally prepare for the future.
When you set boundaries, you focus on things you want to leave behind. This is a way to streamline your transition.
Sometimes, when the moment to move on arrives, you know in your heart you’re not ready. Journey beginnings are easier when you are open-minded. Accepting help from others and leaving old baggage at the curb will make your passage much, much easier.
A move means you’re changing yourself totally: your mind, body, emotions, spirit. But it doesn’t stop with you. Your family, friends, and everyone you interact with will experience the fallout.
Truth seeking can be contagious. And, when your journey begins to change you…some close to you will join in your venture. Some will go in a different direction. Yet others will remain the same, unaffected by the changes moving you, your beliefs, and your activities forward.
Wish them all well and don’t forget to forgive yourself.
DO THIS
Whether your journey is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or a combination…now is a really good time to journal or chronicle its unfolding. Write for yourself. Express from your soul what is going on with you. Write what flashes into your consciousness.
MEDITATION
Make yourself comfortable – in a chair or on the floor. You want quiet and safety.
Breathe from deep within your abdomen. Breathe in calm. Breathe out negativity. Focus on this deep breathing for a few minutes as you breathe deeply in and out.
After a short time open your eyes and look around. You are in a room carrying baggage. You are carrying bags in your hands. You carry a large backpack on your shoulders and upper back. They are all full and heavy.
The room gives way to a relaxing beach. You are at the water’s edge. You set down your bags and your backpack. And you lie flat on the beach.
You look at the sky and see a gentle sunrise as the sun comes up on a new day.
As you pause to enjoy this morning, you gently move your legs and arms. You move your wrists. Your spine feels stiff. Your body is sore from carrying all this baggage.
You gently move the muscles and joints throughout your body. You take in much needed oxygen for your body. On an exhale, you send gentle relaxation throughout your body. The stiffness and soreness disappear.
You close your eyes and relax . After a few moments, you are ready to return to the room and the activities waiting for you.
You treat yourself to a glass of refreshing water.
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Sorrow: Is There a Storm in Your Heart?
When someone inflicts pain, it changes you deeply. It creates a cellular memory.
At times, your body responds to this memory as if the event were happening now.
Knowing sorrow is to experience it. The more experience you have with it, the more you know it – inside and out. Some of this is internal.
When you know it, you are getting to the heart of the matter.
What to do?
Now is a time to grow. Evolution does not come skating in.
No sirree. It rides in on despair and loneliness.
It’s time to go in another direction so you can be stronger – more resilient. You are transformed.
You will evolve!
How?
Dance – Scream – Roll around on the floor – Write – Beat Drums – Journal – Draw pictures – Run – Change jobs – Move away – Apologize
DO THIS:
Move on
MEDITATION:
This meditation focuses on making your coping easier and more effective if you are under severe stress.
Find a comfortable and safe place to sit. Select a place where you will not be disturbed. When you are in this safety zone, settle into the quiet where you can feel positive and relaxed. This is your sanctuary.
Turn on some healing music. Light a candle. Fire up some incense. Do whatever makes you feel calmer. You may enjoy lighting a Himalayan salt lamp.
Now get comfortable. You may prefer a chair or a mat on the floor; whatever works best for you.
Breathe slowly, calmly and deeply. Breathe deeply – into your heart. Breathe into those places needing healing. Breathe healing and positive energies into your deepest self.
As you exhale, release negativity, stress, fear, and anything that needs to go.
Develop a pattern: breathe out to release negativity and pain.
Breathe in deeply as you receive the wisdom of your heart and your light. Breathe the wisdom of your being.
Let this breath pattern lead you to an inner sanctuary.
Open your eyes to find yourself in a tranquil place where you feel secure and strong. Your surroundings make you feel comfortable. Notice the details of this space.
Notice what this space is like. What does it look like? What is the temperature in this space?
Notice everything. Include the smells, noises, colors, textures, and shapes of this space. Examine everything about this space.
Possibly this space is from your past. Possibly it is one you are creating for your own special healing needs.
Whatever this space, you are in control of this sanctuary. Take time now to create this place just for you and your healing needs.
Notice the areas and objects that represent safety, security, and peace. This space is your refuge. Explore it now. Immerse yourself in this sanctuary, feeling its protection and beauty.
Feel the protection this space offers you.
It is time for you to return to your day now. As your breathing brings you to now, carry the safety and calm of your sanctuary with you.
Know that you can return to this space whenever you choose.
Tune into your breathing now.
Peace be with you.
Are you Searching for a Life-Changing Boost? – Try This!
Every once in a while, you may need a life-changing boost.
You find yourself in a situation where you need access to some extra power to change your life. You know you need this because your emotions and reason are conflicted. They are telling you so.
You may even be at a point where you feel there are two truths in your situation. There is the truth which works for you and there is the truth which also works for someone else.
When this happens, consider the discrepancies in the truths in your life. Listen to them. Meditate on them. Study the reality. Maybe both options are bad.
You know you have the skills and resources to make a decision. Something is holding you down so that you cannot get to the outcome.
Pause for a moment. You know you have everything you need. What should you do?
Do these three things:
First, set aside your frustrations. This sounds easy but it can be challenging.
Second, clean your glasses so that you can see the problem for what it actually is. Consider your wants, needs, and loves. Write a list of the pros and cons of the situation.
Listen to your internal guidance and close your eyes. Trust your inner self to know the answer. It can be that the best advice you’re going to get comes from within..
At this point, you know you have everything you need to reach the conclusion you need. You are seeing the issue for what it actually is.
Finally – do you see an outcome? NO?
Well, if you do not see the solution and you are, indeed, seeing the problem for what it is …then there is one last and final step. Trust your judgement.
Get up and walk away.
Walking away from the problem is a viable and realistic option when you do not see any other way.
Many people stay in a situation with an unacceptable outcome because they don’t realize that they can leave.
Leaving the problem behind is a viable and realistic option. There are times when walking away is the best option.
DO THIS:
This is the time for a self-care activity. Reflexology and/or Reiki are soo good for you at this moment. Indulge yourself. This is not a luxury.
MEDITATION:
Begin this meditation by settling yourself in a private and safe space.
Get comfortable.
If it’s appropriate and comfortable, you may want to light a candle, burn incense, or play healing music.
Close your eyes to begin your meditation.
Begin slow, even breathing from deep in your abdomen. Breathe in clean, healing air. Breathe out toxins and negativity. The regularity of this slow, deep, breathing will guide you to get in touch with your inner power and knowing.
After a few breaths, you realize you are walking along a path in a gentle forest area. As you walk along, you notice the aromas and sounds of this place. The flowers and birds in the area call out to you. You begin to feel that you are in a private park.
Walking along, you see a beautiful little clearing with a bench. You know that you are being invited to sit on this bench. As you sit on the bench, you see light coming down from above. It is directed at where you are. Slowly and gently, the light gets brighter and you feel yourself becoming filled with light and healing energy.
You feel that you are in this space at this time to allow you to ponder your question. You understand that your question has prevented you from feeling the oneness you share with the universe.
You ask yourself if you feel unworthy of the answer. Maybe you are experiencing guilt. Maybe you fear the earth. Or, maybe it is several things combined. You allow these feelings to come forward.
Now, you see them leaving you. You are letting them go. You see the light becoming brighter now. It is filled with healing for you and your situation. You feel yourself being absorbed by the light as it’s healing allows you to just BE.
This is a heart-expanding moment. You feel at one with the energy. You want this energy to be in your life.
You enjoy this experience for a few more moments.
It is time to return your awareness back into your area. Slowly and gently bring yourself back.
Know that you can return to this space whenever you want.
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