Reflexology For The Spirit

spirituality of one's health

This is what liberation looks like.

Symbolism

The Tower – protection

The Explosion – lightning has struck

22 Drops of Gold – destructive firestorm or grace

Lightening – for good or ill

Flames – destruction

Tilted Crown – loss of self-importance

Black Sky – loss of the horizon

Falling Figures – the fallout disaster can bring

 

Getting to Know the Tower

The Tower is dreaded and often misunderstood.  You’ve been stopped on the spot and are now in the midst of  huge shift. It’s time to change the way you have been living.

When some kind of upheaval or collapse from an outside source occurs, you have a chance to rebuild your life.  This event, while disturbing or even traumatic, is your opportunity to change.  While you cannot avoid the event, you have been given a gift to move on to a better place.

Know this:  The system, building, or relationship that collapsed wasn’t working very well to begin with.

Look at it this way:  The disaster you’re looking at is no longer sustainable.    This event was coming.  For all the confusion and stress, you are at a moment in time of liberation.  Go for it.

Trust this:  Your event is happening for a reason. Bring on the resurrection!

Because this is a moment of awakening, take a few days to figure out the best way to move forward.

It’s time to find your new place – either physically or spiritually or both  – if progress is a goal.

You may think you’ll never recover – but you will.  Think of it this way:  You’ve just been liberated.  Caution have been thrown to the winds and your boundaries are exploded.

This is your time of personal development, happiness, and spiritual growth.

Accept this powerful event.  The benefits are real even though you don’t yet understand them.   It’s time to rebuild!  Align and stay in the present tense.

Story

About the time Nixon plotted Watergate, my husband Tony found, and married a really cute little nineteen-year-old in a whirlwind romance.  When this happened, I was upset.

After a few weeks, I realized I was young and felt my daughters and I would be better off in Texas anyway.  I put Jennette, Michele, and myself and the clothes on our backs aboard a green bus carrying people, chickens, and pigs.  And, actually, it was pretty easy to leave the cook books, the furniture, and china behind.  We headed for San Antonio, Texas, and I never looked back.  In Laredo, we switched to an American bus without the farm animals.

While I packed my daughters off to Texas, my Mexican in-laws rejoiced.  They had a few parties to celebrate my departure.  After all, I just wasn’t the right person for them.  I didn’t drink enough and didn’t gamble at all.

And, in my heart of hearts, I never figured a Mexican divorce to be worth the paper it was printed on.  Why should I even bother?

Decades later, I look back on this phase of my life and believe I did the right thing.  I brought my daughters back to Texas and raised them as Americans.  This was important to me and was probably my primary reason for returning home.

Energetic Balance 

In the midst of a Tower event, check in with yourself.  Ask yourself:  How are you doing?  This is also a good time to practice some slow, relaxing, rejuvenating yoga.  The idea is to keep your muscles calm.  Take yourself outside every day, even for a few short breaths.

Meditation

Go to your safe, private meditation place.  Sit in a comfortable place where you keep your spine straight, and your shoulders relaxed.  Your feet make contact with the earth, and allow the chair to support your body.

Close your eyes.  Focus on your breath. Begin to relax as you breathe in and out.  Observe your breath as you inhale and exhale.

You inhale and exhale more deeply.  As this happens, your breathing becomes deeper, slower.

As you inhale and exhale, move your breath to focus on other body parts.  As your breathing moves to different body parts, you find tension. Wherever you find this tension, exhale the stress.

As your attention moves to your arms and hands, you inhale in appreciation for all they do.

Your arms and hands relax.

As you focus your attention on your shoulders and neck, they relax.  Breathe in appreciation and breathe out stress.

Take a few in-and-out breaths as you enjoy this relaxation.

Focus now on your chest area. Inhale gratitude for your heart and lungs.  Exhale stress, tightness.

Move on to your abdomen.  Encourage it to soften.  Exhale deeply as this happens.

Notice your buttocks now.  Breathe in relaxation.  Allow toxins to release.  .

Send gratitude to your legs, thighs, knees, lower legs, ankles.  Appreciate the work they do today as they carry you where you need to go.

Focus on your feet and toes now.  Send gratitude to the many bones and muscles in your feet and toes.  Acknowledge the support they give and the work they do.

Encourage your breath to scan your body, removing any tension that remains.    Let each breath relax you more and more.

Finally, focus on your mind and emotions.  Notice your burdens:  your activities, your work, your errands, your cares.  As you exhale deeply, allow them to dissipate and disappear.

Send these burdens on their way.

You are in your present moment now.  You are in the here and now.  You feel lighter, refreshed, relaxed.  Your body and mind feel free now.

Take a few inbreaths and outbreaths now.  Move gently now.  Let your body stir.

Open your eyes now.  Look around.

You are now ready to  move on in this day.

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