Take the Next Step!
Are you a doer?
Are you a pioneer?
Do you have a drive to succeed?
New beginnings are best accompanied by strong and purposeful energy.
New ideas are coming your way!
Think of adventure, travel, or a new lease on life. Focus on inspirational activities. Look for projects offering both substance and passion. Make sure your new venture can grow in a protective and stable environment.
And, do all this while you stay authentic. Let your curiosity spike your interest and bring excitement into your life. Focus on creation and innovation.
Opportunities coming your way now are gifts of life. As they develop and progress, they will not last forever.
Spiritually, your soul path may reveal itself to you.
However these opportunities manifest, the important thing is to begin – wherever you are.
They may develop into your escape to freedom.
DO THIS
Let new ideas be yours for the taking now. List everything that inspires you. Then, begin with the first step. You’ll probably find it on this list.
MEDITATION
Get comfortable in a relaxing position. Make sure you are in a place where you won’t be interrupted.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply as you allow your body to settle down. It’s time for your imagery and breathing to relax.
Let go. Feel lighter. Breathe deeply – steadily.
As you inhale, you are breathing in relaxation. As you exhale, you release tension.
As you relax and breathe deeply, you open your eyes to see yourself walking on a smooth path in a secluded area of a large park.
It is early summer in this path where you are walking you You see plants with blooms in your favorite colors.
As you walk along this path, you see a small building. You see a door. Your path leads you right up to the door. You touch the doorknob and find that the door is unlocked.
Taking a deep breath, you enter this building. Walking into a room, you feel at home. You feel safe. You notice the room and begin to experience the details of this room. You notice the colors. You see chairs in the room. You notice the lighting,. You experience fresh smells.
You begin to feel happy and harmonious as you explore this space. You realize you are enjoying this time with your inner self.
You take a moment to appreciate yourself, your talents, and your options for your future.
It is time to leave this room now. You walk out of the building and start back on the path. The plants along this path are fresh, inviting, and they are now a part of you.
You begin to feel awake an energetic. You are aware of your body as your breath revitalizes you.
Back in your meditation space now, you gently stretch your muscles as you wake them up to your reality.
You know you can return to this space any time you want. It waits for you.
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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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Peace
Thurman Greco
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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When Winning is All that Counts
Whether it’s ongoing stress, domestic disputes, never-ending challenges, workplace conflicts with managers, or “the system”, it all comes down to this:
What do you gain from the aftermath of the battle?
It’s important to walk away with your self-respect. You can do this if you can exit at the right time.
When all is said and done and the battle degenerates to the point where you want nothing more than to win, you will probably feel broken and humiliated.
After the battle, the words to use are:
Unfair advantage, spitefulness, deception, and resentment.
DO THIS:
Practice energetic protection often, daily, and whenever you feel vulnerable. Allow this protective energy to surround and care for you through support and boundaries.
An easy but effective protective method is to cut the Cords. Spiritually cut the cords surrounding you from conversations, activities, relationships, past lives, etc.
To cut the Cords, close your eyes to visualize where these cords may be located around you. With the outer edge of your hand, reach out and slice the cords so that they fall away.
MEDITATION:
Settle yourself in a quiet, safe place. As you breathe in deeply, a glowing light surrounds your body.
Your inbreaths bring healing, protection, and peace. Your outbreaths release toxins and negativity that are sstuck in your body. This inbreathing and outbreathing brings peace, protection, and soothing properties. As the breath goes, so goes the tension. The inbreaths bring deeper peace and protection.
If you are aware of any place in your body that feels uncomfortable, give it permission to relax. Your breathing soothes stiffness and stress.
Take a couple of special breaths where you send the healing air to those body parts that are still stressed. Remind your body that this is the time to be at peace, at ease, and to heal.
You see a heaing pink light coming toward you. As it floats into your space, it moves and surrounds you. You feel a wave of this healing light relaxing you. You notice your muscles letting go as they become loose and relax. Your mind clears.
You are in a protective space which cancels negativity.
You know that you can return to this space whenever you want. This protection is available for you anytime you call it in.
You feel refreshed now. Your muscles and nerves are relaxed now. Your eyes are refreshed. You know you are protected, healed, and loved.
This space is available to you any time you want to return to it.
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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.
“A Lightbulb Moment”
Are you in a situation where you can’t seem to get to the outcome you seek? The decision you need is just not happening. Your options are not clear enough. You’re questions are muddled. Your thinking is clouded. Judgment is eluding you. The answer you seek is hiding somewhere.
Where is the answer?
A clarity breakthrough (lightbulb moment) is not usually the story’s beginning. Muddled questions, clouded thinking, and elusive judgment begin the story.
While these things happen, your unconscious mind gathers insight and makes information available.
At this point, you are in a situation called “Gift card”. Consider what happens when you receive a gift card. You know that you’re receiving something. You don’t yet know how you might use it.
You don’t see this gift’s size, shape, weight, or anything else. You may not know much about where you’ll spend your currency. You may not yet even know its value. You may not be able to visualize how it will end up.
It’s up to you to create the opportunity you’ve been seeking.
You are in the middle of a life-changing event. Take that elusive opportunity and make it what it will eventually become.
In the middle of the confusion, do not doubt your situation for even one moment. Your conscious mind collects and organizes the information. Meanwhile, the truth of your answer bubbles up. Your unconscious mind is on the job, gathering insight and making the information available.
Take a deep breath. Your lightbulb moment is on the way. Ground yourself so you can make it real.
When you allow yourself to be truthful and authentic, the truth and its timing will bust loose. Clear thinking will tell you what you want to know.
You are inspired, motivated and energized. You see the potential of the outcome.
This can be a spiritual event.
Whether or not you see this as a spiritual event, it is definitely a positive lightbulb moment encouraging new beginnings, and decisions.
You can act on this information.
DO THIS:
Schedule a Reiki session. Actually, it doesn’t matter whether you book an appointment and receive a session or offer yourself Reiki. However you bring Reiki into your life, it is appropriate.
Reiki blends with other bodywork modalities. Incorporate it into your healing sessions.
MEDITATION:
Find a comfortable, safe place to sit quietly or lie down. Do some slow deep breathing. As you inhale and exhale, feel yourself relax. Accept the healing meditation.
As you release all your tensions and worries, allow yourself to embrace this healing moment.
Visualize clouds above you. Notice the clouds now. What do they look like? What are the colors in the clouds? How are they moving across the sky?
Notice the sun now. Observe how it shines its light down on you through the clouds. Feel the sun’s warmth on your body.
You feel the sun’s rays warming your body. You feel the warmth internally.
You notice that the sun’s warming rays are focusing on your heart. This warmth is enlightening.
You want to share this healing energy that you feel now. Encourage it to heal and transform your home, your town, your state, your country, the entire planet. You encourage it to heal all the people and animals and plants throughout the earth.
Sit with this healing and transformational energy for a few moments as you focus and expand your feelings to include gratitude.
As you feel the gratitude in you and around you, you realize that you are surrounded by love and abundance throughout your life.
Enjoy this for a moment.
It is time to return to your day now. You know you can return to this place with its healing and transformational energy whenever you want.
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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.
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