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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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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Celebrate Friendships, Life, and Your Community
A gift from your higher power, your friends are the family you choose. Closer than sisters and brothers in many ways, they are defined by connections forged through life experiences.
Cherish, nourish, and celebrate your special support system.
Who are these people?
Your friends are the ones you call for much-appreciated advice.
They are the ones you’d like to spend your time with.
They are the ones that you know and trust. You see your own reflection in their faces.
Celebrate friendship! This means express feelings, cooperation, and give help freely, with love. Friendship can be more than romance.
The happiness of friendship runs deep.
Go have fun!
Life can be easier when you meet with your friends, spiritually preserving relationships. This is a good way to communicate with those you treasure as you build spiritual links.
Journey now with a meditation to celebrate friendship.
Find a quiet place to ground and center. Light a candle. Play some meditative music, Light some incense.
Whatever. The goal is to get comfortable, relax as you sit, or lie flat on a comfortable position.
Using the energy of the Earth, focus on your heart chakra. Visualize a vase of flowers or a small flower garden. However these blooms come through, flowers float in space with your heart.
It is serene here, peaceful. Eternal bliss secures the love you feel.
The area around your heart attracts a variety of flowers. Each is unique with various colors, shapes, leaves, and stems.
Flowers gently move together as you breathe in and breathe out. Toxins leave the area with each exhale. Love, peace, and serenity ground you with each inbreath. Flowers gently come together.
As you observe them, you realize that each flower represents a friend in your life. Some blooms represent friends in past lives. Others are in the present. Yet others represent friends in your future.
As the flowers move closer together, you feel the love energy of each one. Each blossom spins and moves with the others. There is no danger.
As you realize they represent your friends and family, you are excited to come together spiritually.
As the flowers become closer, the energy absorbs and shares healing and forgiveness. Light and love seem to be everywhere.
While you move together in a spiritual dance, the music comes from everywhere, and nowhere, all at once.
As you and your friends join together, the flowers come together to make a beautiful bouquet.
Barriers drop. Everyone joins together – accepting each as you are. Love and acceptance are important here. Breathe in and out this powerful elixir of love, acceptance and forgiveness.
Fear disappears on this spiritual place and time. The music and the colors and the moment heal.
At this healing moment, the flowers and the music and the colors begin to slowly float and connect.
You feel at one with your friends from the past, the present, and the future. Allow this moment to slow – allow everyone to connect with this moment.
Breathe in this moment. Allow it to honor you and all your friends.
Sit with your friends now. It is time to honor your past, your present, and your future. See your friends in the connections as a beautiful, multi-colored, multi-textured arrangement of flowers.
Enjoy this moment.
Honor the events and spirituality of your past, present, and future. You deserve the beauty in this moment.
When you think about it, you and your higher power are reflected in your friends. You give yourself permission to be loved and healed. When this happens, you can feel comfortable knowing that you will never be alone.
Honor your higher power in this moment. It is a special gift for you to enjoy.
When it is time to return to the present, know that you can return to commune with your friends whenever you want.
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2023 – Appreciate the Good!
We’re entering another new year! 2023 is an opportunity to create a better world. Let us all join together energetically as we focus in the coming weeks on ways we can expand and grow this opportunity.
Begin by sending Reiki into your future.
If you don’t know Reiki, send a meditation message to 2023.
BLESSINGS…
Take this spot on the calendar to celebrate the new year by sending blessings to friends, family, and coworkers. Send love and kindness to everyone. Send blessings to the world!
BE GRATEFUL FOR…
Begin your transition into 2023 with a gratitude list. This list offers endless benefits. When you work on a gratitude list, you’re not going to have room in your heart and mind for things like fear and worry. Instead, you’ll find yourself surrounded with abundance, love, grace, awe, and appreciation.
LET GO OF…
Dwell for a few moments on things you are not happy about and then – release them to the universe. Spiritual housecleaning is a good new year activity. Let go of thoughts, dreams, beliefs, or habits which you know are not positive and do not fit in with your goals for success.
Make a list. Write it out. If you need help, ask the universe for guidance and support.
When you release negativity into the universe, you make space for goodness and love and all things positive.
WHAT DO I WANT?
With this question, you bring positivity into your life. Write down: What do you need? What do you really want? What does your soul need? What positive situations and resources do you need to attract? Why do you want these things?
Now, write out your answers. Write out the things with the most meaning for you. Use as much detail as you want. There are no wrong answers when you write what feels good to you and is practical. You are attracting things in your life which will bring about the greatest good for the universe.
MAKE YOUR DREAMS REAL…
Using all of your senses, envision your dreams coming to life. Spend a few (3-5) minutes meditating on them. Begin your visualization with cleansing breaths. You may even want to include some calming meditation music.
This step may not come easy to you at first. Don’t worry. You’ll get better at your visualizations as time passes. Practice will improve your sessions.
PROGRESS TOWARD YOUR GOAL
Take an action each week that moves you toward your goal. This can be something either big or small. The important thing is that it is moving you on your path toward achievement.
SCRIPT YOUR AFFIRMATION
Compose a power statement which is going to keep you focused on your goal. You want an affirmation to keep you pointed in the right direction and moving along.
Examples include:
I trust my inner guidance.
I rely on my inner wisdom.
I have abundant health.
I speak my truth.
When you have chosen an appropriate affirmation, you can rely on it daily. Reciting your affirmation regularly will keep you focused while it quiets negative thoughts.
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You can also find more information in older blog posts.
Two related books which include manifesting, goal setting, and focused action are:
“I Don’t Hang Out in Churches Anymore” and
“Ketchup Sandwich Chronicles”.
These two books are about the spiritual journey of hunger as illustrated by the shoppers in the food pantry line.
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But first, do the spiritual work.
You need spiritual work because your weight loss diet brings change – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual change.
Success is easier when you speak to your inner self and ground your core in the new goals you’ve set for your spiritual work.
Now is a good time to embark on this spiritual journey. Choices, problems, challenges overwhelm us daily with information and current events. Everywhere we turn, people, animals, plants, air, water, and the earth even, cry out for help. We are drowning in all the needs for healing.
Spiritual work looms large.
To understand what is swirling around you, go to your spiritual center. This is the source of your strength, grounding, and peace. Here is where you’ll find your truth, your love and the core of your focus. This is where you’ll find weight loss success in your spiritual work.
This is where you’ll realize how much easier your life will be when your physical body is no longer weighted down with extra pounds. For some of us, there are pounds and pounds of protection to release.
Guided meditations can be a positive experience for you now. I’ve relied on guided meditations for years. My three favorite guided meditation books were edited several years ago by Larry Moen. Entitled “Meditations for Awakening”, “Meditations for Transformation”, and “Meditations for Healing”, these books are available on Amazon.
For me, these guided meditations offer a link between feelings, weight loss, and wellbeing.
Forgiveness is helpful. As forgiveness heals your soul, dieting will be easier because you won’t need to hoard pounds.
When forgiveness happens, some of your protection pounds will evaporate into the ethers.
That doesn’t mean you don’t need to change your eating habits and exercise more. But it does mean that it’s easier to accomplish a weight-loss goal.
Forgiveness can be a path all its own. Begin by forgiving everything past, everything present, and everything future.
Forgive everything and everybody – including people and events you’ve forgotten. Simply forgive everyone. Forgive everyone who even possibly needs forgiveness.
The idea is to clear everything up between you and everyone, now and forever.
Release people to their own lives – now and in peace.
And, last but not least, forgive yourself!
Write a daily forgiveness mantra.
You may find inspiration in some forgiveness prayers by Dr. Catherine Ponder. I didn’t copy them here because I couldn’t find out for sure whether they are copyrighted.
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When you read them, some things will resonate with you. Others will not. But, whether you use some of the guidelines or none, one thing is for sure. You will, day by day, leave the past behind.
Diets are not always easy. But anything worthwhile can have its challenges.
Each of us, on a diet or not, is on a spiritual journey. Each of us is travelling separately. But, we are all together.
It’s time to change old patterns, seek freedoms found in forgiveness, and see beyond the past into an expanded now.
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A Healthy Heart
A healthy heart and circulatory system are necessary to feel and express emotions positively. When you work the circulatory system, you distribute love and healing. This improves your client’s sense of self worth and balances blood flow. When your client’s sense of self worth improves and when the emotions are expressed positively, life improves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
When I begin to address my client partner’s heart health, the first place I go is to the fourth chakra. This means that I work the heart chakra on the reflex points on my client partner’s feet.
I also include an essential oil in the reflexology session when I work the heart and circulatory system. I may choose lavender. If my client partner needs grounding, I’ll reach for geranium. You may have other oils in your tool box which will attract you.
If my client is overweight or underweight or if the skin color is not too good, I’ll offer a list of healing foods that are important for heart/circulatory issues. If I think it’s a good idea, I’ll recommend a visit to a nutritionist.
Heart health issues often take years to show themselves in the body. Lifestyle habits contribute. Heart health issues involve the whole body – the physical, mental, spiritual, emotional layers. Spiritually, heart issues reflect long standing wounds, rejection, and self-criticism.
If I have time, I’ll include a guided meditation in the session. Guided meditations are always good for fourth chakra issues. My favorite fourth chakra guided meditation invites my client partner to go beyond the curtain to a past life because heart health baggage is often past life.
This can be a little challenging if your client partner doesn’t believe in past life issues. When that happens, go to the time right after birth. Some past life issues are still open for you and your client partner in infancy.
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Paper version is on the way!
In the near future I’ll share a guided heart healthy meditation with you and I’ll discuss lifestyle issues affecting heart health.
Thurman Greco
