Standing Out
When members of your group work at odds with one another, they may not appear to be getting anywhere. Take a moment to analyze the disagreement so
You can seek a more proactive approach to overcome the obstacles.
But don’t get worked up for nothing. Frantic energy will get you nowhere.
Could you make an assertion and adapt your motto?
Sometimes, you can find yourself competing with others. Even though there is a struggle, there is no clear winner. This is your chance! This may be a time to step up and prove your worth.
Could you be sure to pick your battles? This is not a good time to argue just to prove your point. Rise to the challenge for the right reasons.
Order can be restored. You can succeed.
Finally, take a deep breath and re-examine your own path.
All this competition can help you become a better version of yourself.
DO THIS
Grounding activities are important now: Yoga, meditation, labyrinth, breathing exercises, mindfulness are some you may find helpful.
MEDITATION
Find a quiet place for this meditation. If you can, find a place away from street sounds or work noises.
Dim the lights a bit. Sit or lie comfortably.
Take a deep breath and hold it for a moment. Now, release this breath. See the tension in your body leave you now. Take a few deep breaths followed by releasing the breath.
As you breathe out, you release tensions. After a few in-and-out breaths, you feel relaxed. Each exhale brings more relaxation and comfort.
Close your eyes gently now. When you open them, you are standing on a path in a large park.
As you walk on this path, you see the trees overhead. Birds sing and a soft breeze blows. You feel it on your arms. The whole place smells like summer. You see the shadows of the trees and bushes as you walk along.
The path leads you to a stream. You see a small boat on the edge of the water. You know this boat is for you. You get in the boat and untie it. As you do this, the boat gently floats down the stream. Sitting in your boat, you drift and float in calm waters.
As you float along, you understand something: You can anticipate spinning and whirling pools of water. You know that streams have quiet times where the water seems to drift along. You know that streams also have swirling times where the water spins along, bubbling.
What you experience with your being is this: The water has its quiet time, with drifting and floating. Then, there is a turbulent time with bubbling water swiftly moving along.
PAUSE
You bid goodbye to the stream now, knowing that you can return to it any time you wish. You gently move your muscles now, shifting, at your time and pace.
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When It’s Over
The ending creates open space for something new.
You’re ready to get ahead of the situation and move forward. While you process the events, look ahead. Your overwhelming feelings are ending. You are stronger now than you were before.
Pick yourself up and dust yourself off. The past is over. Let go of negative thinking.
Consider the beginning and ending in a different light as you become more aware of your opportunities. You’ve seen your illusions for what they are, and now you can cultivate a new level of awareness.
What’s over is over: relationship, job, home town, school – whatever.
It’s time to go it alone. You’re taking a turn for the better.
DO THIS:
You are moving forward now. What’s done is done. It’s time to forgive yourself.
MEDITATION
Begin this meditation when you choose a quiet, safe place.
Choose some healing music, soft lighting, essential oil.
Get comfortable as you take deep relaxing breaths with your eyes gently closed.
With each breath, bring in healing and relaxation. When you release your breath, release toxins, stress, and negativity.
As you inhale deeply, you absorb calm and peace.
With each out breath, your body is cleansed of negative emotions, fear, and confusion. This process purifies and renews.
You enter into a greater sense of awareness and you experience peace.
As you relax, you find yourself stepping onto a beautiful healing balloon. You seat yourself comfortably in the balloon as it rises.
You look down and see roof tops, tree tops, roads and patches of green and yellow.
You drift up through puffy clouds.
Now, when you look down again, you see the earth. It appears as an an orb.
From your space, serenity and beauty, harmony and peace are everywhere.
You are moving: Here it feels like there is no time. All around you is open and free.
You breathe deeply and enjoy this state for a moment.
It is time to decide how much of this space you can take with you on your daily travels. You ask: How much can I take home with me?
It is time to return. As the balloon descends, you have a sense of well-being.
You look around and find yourself in the room you were in before the balloon ride. As you gently move your arms and legs and rotate your wrists and ankles, you feel wonderful. You are at peace, right where you are.
You know you can return to this balloon ride whenever you want.
This was a blissful return. You are grateful for this experience and you look forward to repeating it in the future.
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Are You Having Trouble Sleeping?
You have a long-standing problem that you can no longer ignore.
Is the story finished?
Not Yet.
When will it end?
Until it’s over, you wake up in the middle of the night, haunted.
What is real and what is not?
Are you taking on the world’s troubles? Whether or not this is your case, you are a victim of your thoughts.
If anxiety, depression, trauma, and fear are trying to take control, it’s time to claim your energy. The challenge is to understand it. The goal is to make sense of the situation.
One way is to let go of the familiar and the safe. However life works, there isn’t much comfort here. You are overwhelmed, with too much to do.
Focus on all the ways you’re safe and cared for.
Can you see your worries diminish and disappear? Imagine happy endings.
DO THIS
This is a perfect opportunity to book a Reiki or Reflexology session. Both of these modalities promote homeostasis, something we all need.
MEDITATION
You are preparing for bed and sleep. Feel the pillow under your head. Feel the texture of your favorite sheets on your bed. Your blankets and covers enfold you and make you feel comfortable. Your mattress is perfect.
The air in your room is perfect. You breathe evenly, smoothly, and deeply. Each inbreath encourages you to sink deeper into the covers. You rest more deeply and feel peace surrounding you.
As you relax, you find yourself sitting on a comfortable bench in a secluded park. You notice the sky and see the clouds. A deep evening sky approaches the area.
There is no one around. The evening is coming. Everyone has left this part of the park. A quiet breeze blows around you.
You hear the gentle sounds of evening birds in the area.
You sink into your covers, floating into dreams and a deep restful sleep.
As you drift into sleep, you are aware of sounds in the room around you while, at the same time, you accept sleep.
You are aware of the darkness of your room. You embrace the comfort and safety you experience now.
You release the concerns, cares, and worries of the day. This restores your peace and calm.
You accept a deep and restful sleep. This allows you to wake feeling relaxed, refreshed, alert, and prepared to experience a positive day.
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Set Yourself Free
Our thoughts, to a great extent, dictate our lives and our beliefs. We determine what we believe based on information which we receive and observe and live with and live by. This information begins coming to us even in the womb.
The world, by and large, is a busy place. It’s hard to figure out what is real and what is not. The outside world influences us as it enters our brains and memories.
I have one experience. You have another experience. And, on the long haul, each of us has a sense of reality. Right and wrong are based on our experiences. The bottom line here is this: There are many truths in this world.
One truth I embrace (among many) is this:
When something doesn’t feel right, let it go.
Letting something go is sometimes necessary to save oneself.
Once upon a time in my life, I realized that if I was going to live an authentic life, I was going to have to make some dramatic changes. In order to bring about the things I needed and in order to live the life I needed, I had to do some things for myself and by myself.
No one around me cared or even believed I could do what I did.
Looking back on things now, I realize that my chances of success were small to none. My decision verged on desperation craziness.
Looking back on things now, I send continuing gratitude to my younger self.
My whole plan hinged on clear thinking. I had to reverse some thought patterns to free myself from my limiting beliefs. And, mainly, I silenced the inner melody that continually told me that I was not enough.
This song kept singing that I was not strong enough, brave enough, or clear-thinking enough to get where I needed to go.
All I had was a goal. And, actually, I only had one option. My situation was a disaster but nothing actually fenced me in. My feet were not tied down. In order to get to this place, I had to see my situation for what it was without the many filters that we all experience daily: isolation, oppression, and believing in my own helplessness.
So, one lovely September afternoon, I climbed the stairs in the Woodstock Reformed Church, walked the length of the second floor hallway, and opened the door to the Pastor’s office. I walked into the empty room, put the keys to the food pantry on his desk and quietly walked out.
As I retraced my steps down the hallway and descended the stairs without the keys, I felt different. I experienced physical, mental, emotional, spiritual shifts as I walked down the stairs to the ground floor.
By the time I got to the church parking lot, I was comfortable with this new feeling. I was lighter. I saw things in clear, pure colors.
I had made the right decision. This was something I was supposed to be doing.
The hungry I knew fought a daily battle for survival against all obstacles. Some fought against incredible odds as they struggled with homelessness, mental illness, unemployment, helplessness, and extreme misfortune.
I saw them work to make their dreams (of what might have been) into a reality. These struggles all began with a wound of some kind.
For sure, things improved with the better nutrition offered at the pantry. Their lives were simplified a bit when they were able to put less energy into the struggle against hunger.
Nothing prevented me from leaving. I should have left sooner. I lived for years in my own self-imposed oppression.
My feet were never tied down. But I was blindfolded. I was unaware of my own limits created by my senses, language, and culture.
DO THIS:
Write a letter to your future.
“There are some beliefs that once defined me. I am letting them go now. I trust myself.”
MEDITATION:
Find a quiet, secluded place where you feel safe. Get comfortable. This meditation may benefit from healing music, incense, essential oil, and candlelight.
Remove your shoes. If you remove your socks, you may want to apply a healing lotion.
Begin this meditation by walking around for a minute or two. This will give your feet some freedom and it will improve the blood flow.
Now, stretch your feet in all directions. Move your toes left and right, up and down. Stretch them. Wiggle them.
Rotate your ankles gently in all directions.
Now, hold one foot in one hand while the other hand gently turns each toe separately. Softly pull each toe. Try to spread your toes out. Give each toe separate attention.
Move on to the ball of each of your feet. Press into the metatarsal area gently using your thumb or a knuckle. Make small dime-sized circles along the metatarsal area and then move out to the entire sole of your foot.
Enjoy this experience. Give healing energy to your whole foot. Send positive energy to your feet. They work for you all day.
Now, give attention to the muscles and tendons in your feet. Rub them slowly and gently. Work your feet from the ankles down to your toes. Massage and loosen any tight places. Give equal attention to each foot.
Move your attention to the soles of your feet. Massage your feet as you move your hands up and down the sole of each foot. Apply pressure to the soles using circular motions with your knuckles.
Take a moment to tune into your feet. What feelings and sensations are you experiencing?
How are these sensations and feelings connected to the rest of your body?
It is time to return to your day now. Thank your feet for the job they do for you each day. Touch your feet for a moment as you send nurturing and gratitude to your feet.
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Thurman Greco
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.
Celebrate!
Can you take time today to honor the end of a cycle?. This is your opportunity to acknowledge your achievements. It’s also time to explore the spiritual meaning of your life.
This is your celebration because today’s feelings can come only from the inside out. You won’t get there waiting for someone else to create your happiness for you.
Because happiness comes from within, this is a good time to know and honor a fact of life: You are the one who brings gratitude and generosity into your life every single day.
How?
Focus on those you love. Share your heart energy today and every single day. This is where you find happiness.
you manifested this moment. This is your own success story.
DO THIS:
Journal a conversation with your inner child. Explore something you might not have understood in the past. Offer love and affection to your inner child now. Explain your feelings. You are complete as you are.
What do you expect to happen in the future?
Now, lay your hands on your journal and send it love and peace in the moment.
MEDITATION:
Go to a safe, secluded and comfortable space. Sit in a comfortable chair.
Allow yourself to relax and feel good about your situation and your self.
take several breaths which begin deep within your abdomen. Breathe in gratitude and positive thoughts. Close your eyes now as you inhale. As you exhale, visualize all negativity and toxins leaving your body and your space.
You are relaxing now. As you breathe, feel this calm coming up through your feet and your legs. Feel this deep relaxation as it enters your entire body. In a short time, feel your inbreaths filling your entire body with light and positive energy. All is positive.
After a few moments of in and out breaths, you feel deeply relaxed.
You open your eyes and see that you are sitting in your chair under a large, inflated helium balloon.
You are so relaxed that you feel weightless.
You realize that you, your chair, and your helium balloon are floating up and up and up.
You are are above the trees now. You look around and see this new vista generated by your place above the trees.
Still rising, you float through a cloud. Looking down, you see the earth as a ball of light. You enjoy the love and acceptance coming to you from the earth.
After a few moments, you know that it is time for you to return to your quiet space and your celebration of your self. You begin to float down, down, down.
You return to this space where you began your journey feeling happy and relaxed.
You take a deep breath. You know you can return to this journey any time you want.
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What is the True Meaning of Life?
Take a moment now to review your life. Bring up memories;
Do you ever feel emotionally fulfilled? Do you have that joyful moment when you feel pride and remember moments in your review of A life well-lived?
Call up abundance and happiness. True joy is part of this picture. When did you share yourself and your gifts with others?
As you review your life, review events, relationships, jobs, family, love, and generosity, where you can see things that create your tapestry up to now.
In this review, include the lows and the highs to discover your life’s meaning. Include emotional fulfillment and contentment memories which created a joyful moment.
Contentment.
DO THIS:
Make a gratitude list.
Enjoy this self-care project. You may want to journal it – or design an art project. Whatever and however: Go all out!
MEDITATION
Choose a quiet, safe location for this meditation.
Allow your whole body to relax. Take advantage of this opportunity as you breathe comfortable in through your nose, and then, out through your mouth. Repeat this several times.
Each inbreath brings positivity, health and gratitude. Each outbreath removes toxins and negativity.
Now, send your attention to each of your feet. Feel each bone, muscle, and joint in your feet as they relax. Allow your feet to enjoy the luxury of feeling positive and comfortable.
Release stress, pain, and anything uncomfortable.
Journey to a place where you feel safe, at home, and at peace.
Notice the sounds, smells, charm and beauty here. Encourage this place to nourish your senses. This moment supports and brings you peace.
Reflect on your life now. Bring to the front of your memory those events and people who touched you in some way. Remind yourself of caring, supporting, nurturing, and teaching.
This is time to express gratitude for all the beauty and goodness you have given and received in your life.
It is time to return to your day now. Take a deep breath and bring yourself into the present time. This is something to remember and feel good about.
Remember, you can return to this meditation any time you desire. It waits for you.
Thanks for reading this article. It is here to be a conduit for your own healing.
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Walk Away
Walk away from negativity.
It takes real strength to head out into the unknown.
This can be a huge act of self-love. As you walk away from what is, you may find that your soul feels lighter and freer. After all, shedding outgrown expectations, hopes, people, ideas, beliefs, and ways of living can be a load-lightening experience.
This is a time of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual shifts. They bring in new, lighter feelings. You may see things in new, brighter colors.
The intense shifting may begin a new mystical period for you. The things you just offloaded will help you travel lightly. This shift may lead you in the direction of happiness and greater meaning.
Truthfully, as you walk away, you heal. You’ve outgrown your past, whether it’s your job, a relationship, or your beliefs.
This is an empowering experience.
DO THIS:
Write a letter to your future. Share your expectations as you finally seek long-needed fulfillment.
MEDITATION:
Sit in a comfortable position in a private and safe location.
Close your eyes. Begin deep and regular breathing. Inhale healing strength and energy. Exhale negative and toxic elements in your life. Repeat these healing breaths for a few repetitions and focus your breathing on your feet.
Now, breathe in healing energy through your feet and up your legs. As you breathe in this healing energy, fill both your left and right feet and legs with nourishing, strength.
Empower your legs and feet to support and heal you in your journey to your future.
As you continue your breathing, focus on your feet and their reflex points which in turn send nourishment, healing, and strength to your entire body.
Your toes reflex your head, brain, sinuses, eyes, and ears.
Further down your feet, your metatarsal area reflexes your heart, lungs, and organs.
As you work your feet in circular motions, your foot down to your heel area includes the digestive organs.
After a few minutes of working your feet in circular motions, visualize your feet as healthy, strong and ready to support you as you walk away.
End your meditation as you see yourself as happy, loving, and peaceful. Visualize yourself reaching your goals.
Send blessings to the planet and all life in it.
Return now to healing inbreath and outbreaths. Breathe into your feet. Indulge yourself for a few moments in these luxurious breaths.
It is time for this meditation to end now. Notice how you feel. What do you see? How do you hear the sounds around you?
As you take a final inbreath, know that you can return to this space anytime you need a healing recharge.
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Who am I? What do I really want? Is it Even Real?
Sometimes the question is this: “Who are you in this experience you call your life?”
With all the choices available, how can you turn imagination into action?
Today, you have many opportunities: Money, power, relationships, dreams, aspirations, secrets, solitude, projects, career, love, and secrets.
Are you at a point where your path will continue and be healthy? The challenge is to choose your way.
This can overwhelm you. Do you remember what happened to your early intentions? You are living the experience of being at a crossroads, unable to choose from the many options.
You may feel that if you choose the wrong path, you will detour on your way to your goal. Maybe you shouldn’t even choose from the options you’ve identified so far. Maybe the choices are only going to lead you further astray.
Your potential lies stuck somewhere in the middle between your choices and your intentions.
Underlying all of this is your fear of success which is scarier than failure. You may not know why you don’t allow yourself to express your unlimited potential.
A question for you: Where are you right now?
Then: What is real and what is imaginary?
Finally: Where are you going?
Your heart knows the way.
DO THIS:
Ground yourself with Reiki
MEDITATION:
Go to a quiet, safe place. Choose a space where you can feel comfortable letting go of anything standing in the way of you and your soul.
Take some deep breaths now. Inhale and exhale while you are breathing in healing and exhaling toxins and fatigue.
Begin to let go of everything you no longer need. Let go of what no longer serves you. This includes worn out memories, hurt, fear, negativity and everything you need to get rid of.
Be aware of releasing physical tensions as well as anything standing in the way of knowing who you are and what you stand for.
As you exhale, you are getting rid of old tensions, discomfort, and pain.
As you inhale, you draw in everything positive that you need.
After a few minutes of this breathing, you sit quietly with your feelings and situation. You close your eyes.
After a few moments, you open your eyes and see that you are in a garden. You notice how perfect everything is. The plants are all perfectly chosen and are all in just the right place. You are in the midst of beauty and calm. There is a gentle breeze. You enjoy the aromas of the plants and flowers.
You see a small cleared space in this garden where there is an inviting chair waiting for you to enjoy. The cushions seem to call out to you. You approach the chair and get comfortable in it.
Sitting in the chair, you notice a pathway leading to the edge of the garden.
Somehow, you know that this is a path you are invited to take.
As you walk on the path, you come to a mirror hanging on a branch of a large, beautiful tree.
You look in the mirror and see your own reflection. You feel, as you see yourself in the mirror, connected to your past – your present – your future.
You see yourself as loving and knowing. The answers too all your questions are in your heart.
You take a moment now to feel your connection with all there is. This feeling blends with the air and atmosphere in the garden.
You begin to realize that this moment is blending all you know with a newness. You feel fresh – renewed – and bright.
This garden is helping you connect to all you know as you breathe deeply – exhaling and inhaling.
The feeling is freeing – supporting – knowing.
You know now that it is time for you to return to your day. You can return to this place any time you want. or need refreshing.
Now – after a moment – you slowly move your muscles, open your eyes, and continue on with your day.
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Nostalgia & Past Lives Take You to a Place You’ve Known Before: Today. How do They Connect?
Past is a huge word.
When you think about its meaning, memories of times gone by surface. Your timeline stretches beyond this lifetime to include previous lives. It includes friends, family, love, careers, childhoods, adult events, conquests, and wounds.
Nostalgia reminds you of the wisdom of your past experiences so you see lessons learned and patterns repeated. These memories influence your todays and tomorrows.
Gather the nostalgia of your past, bless your memories, and value the importance of the present. This is where you are now. TODAY
Begin with forgiveness. Each day is an opportunity to use your personal history to help you as you move into the future.
Reminiscing and reconnecting ground you in your timeline of success.
DO THIS
This is a good time for a Reiki therapy session.
MEDITATION
Gently close your eyes and take some deep breaths. You may want to sigh and exhale. Indulge yourself.
Stretch a little.
Yawn.
Breathe in and breathe out. Notice your body adopting a regular pattern of breathing. This is easy for you as you relax. Notice how you relax on the outbreaths.
As you continue to relax with each in and out breath, allow yourself to travel to a meadow. Relax into the atmosphere. Notice the sun as as it shares it warmth for you. Feel a gentle breeze.
You become aware of the meadow where you are resting. Notice the grass, flowers, shrubs, and trees.
Feel the peace of this space.
Feel how you respond to the surroundings in this meadow. Absorb the feelings of safety and peace. Accept the wisdom of this place. Feel your power here.
Most of all, feel safe. You are safe here.
You look around and see a path. You know that this path invites you to journey toward a moment of letting go.
You know that you can let go now. You know that forgiveness means you’re moving on without lugging around so much baggage.
You know that this is a moment of peace of mind and inner calm.
You can experience miracles and blessings along with forgiveness.
At this moment, you forgive yourself as well as the other.
You are being set free.
You sense that you are moving to a new normal. You’re at a new normal.
You are forgiven – now and forever.
You linger with this feeling for a short time.
Now, when you are ready, return to the room. Return feeling lighter than when you left.
You stretch your muscles slowly. And you smile.
You know that you can return to this place whenever you want. This place is always waiting for you to experience more letting-go.
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