Adventure! The Journey Begins
GETTING TO KNOW THE FOOL
For me, The Fool is not a here-today-gone-tomorrow event in your life. When The Fool invites you to come along on this path, you have an opportunity to live and learn from all the other Major arcana as you travel from the Magician to The World. This is your one-way ticket to your spiritual journey.
The Fool is the most powerful card in the deck. To the Fool, what can be and what actually is, are the same.
The Fool mentors the Tarot as he journeys through all the experiences of life, changed by each experience. As The Fool Journeys through the major arcana, he journeys through the experiences of life, changed by each event.
We experience these challenges as we travel through our own life journeys, adapting and reawakening. The presence of The Fool shows up in every spread.
The Fool lives in the moment. His journeys are unintentional. This life story does not limit him.
The Fool’s appearance tells you that something new has just entered in your life. This is the new beginning you’ve been needing: opportunity, adventure, and escape.
Experiences reveal your true potential. Your new life journey with The Fool is exciting!
New challenges and projects empower you to find yourself. You now move toward spiritual self-enlightenment. Enjoy the truth right in front of you!
Because you are connected to something bitter than yourself, you feel protected. Your special, telltale attitude tells everyone you’re connected to something bitter than yourself.
STORY
Back in the 90’s I took a massage class. I’d already graduated from PMTI a decade before. Marge D’Urso, my reflexology guru, taught a new kind of massage.
Our class was small, only about 8 students. Including Elizabeth. While the rest of us were trying to learn new massage strokes and more about the body systems, Elizabeth flew through the class. It seemed the information went from Marge’s mouth straight to her brain. She absorbed the information through the pores of her skin. Elizabeth was on a path.
Elizabeth somehow found a source of untapped potential and was making a new start in life. She jumped into the unknown with both feet!
After a while, Marge had us each gathering our list of people for our clinicals. While we scrounged around looking for people, Elizabeth had lists of names and phone numbers of people who seemingly appeared out of nowhere to be on her list to receive a massage.
A couple of people in the class began to get a little jealous.
I didn’t. I saw her situation for what it was: Marge’s massage class was a new beginning for Elizabeth. She was on a path. More specifically, Elizabeth was a modern-day personification of the age-old Tarot card “The Fool”.
While the rest of us word comfortable student clothing (jeans or sweatpants), Elizabeth came to every class dressed richly, celebrating her total openness to life and anything on the curriculum that day. More importantly, Elizabeth wore gorgeous shoes. She wore sandals with 4-inch heels, or wedge-soled pumps. Elizabeth’s shoes celebrated life, love, and reflexology.
Each class was a new opportunity for her to learn whatever new thing Marge set out for us. Elizabeth was fearless!. .
Elizabeth was an innocent student absorbing the wisdom of the class. This set her apart. She was a separate category all by herself. When I saw this, I realized that this “separateness” meant she fit anywhere and everywhere.
She was a totally free spirit.
How did this happen? She saw through the illusions and took a chance on knowledge, peace, and, finally, liberation!
But Elizabeth didn’t travel alone. Her companions and friends supported her. Her experiences supported her without controlling her. Her healing skills became symbols of power.
When the rest of us were afraid to move forward using our new skills, Elizabeth saw that the new things she learned represented possibilities and opportunities, even in new learning territory and difficult chapters.
Elizabeth’s fool energy stood for her inner spiritual freedom that allowed her to enjoy her new skills, accomplishments, and avoid entrapment.
If Elizabeth was afraid of unexpected surprises along the way, she never let any of us know. Her confidence and idealism seemed to allow her to be ready for everything.
When the class ended, Elizabeth embarked on the next leg of her journey. She danced along to her career unafraid of surprises which might be on their way. She went job hunting, carrying her ubiquitous bag which I felt was certainly filled with magical opportunities.
Time passed.
The last time I spoke with Elizabeth, she admitted that she had had several jobs before she found the best opportunity. Her confidence and idealism carried her through to the best place waiting for her.
Elizabeth and her healing embraced the world and all it had to offer. For sure Elizabeth is still out there, living the “Fool” life. She calls on us to listen to the child inside, to follow our instincts.
Was Elizabeth always right? Of course not. Do we think we understand what leads her on? No. Her “fool”ish inner core led us on.
Thank you Elizabeth, for your inspiration. Sometimes, I think you were never real. But, in the end, I know you were. All of us have a “fool” in our lives. We just need to recognize this when we see it.
You have a one-way ticket to a long-term spiritual journey which guides you a you travel from The Magician to The World.
Along the way, you will ask the big questions here: What is the meaning of life? What is your purpose?
Whatever happens or doesn’t happen, you can feel as if the answers are waiting for you. All you have to do is find them.
Celebrate this new normal.
FOCUS IN
When you meet up with The Fool, he invites you on a journey of a lifetime and for a lifetime. This experience calls for a celebration. You are embarking on your own personal spiritual journey which unlocks spiritual secrets for you.
Pick up the phone and schedule an appointment with a food reflexologist!
MEDITATION
Find a quiet, safe, and comfortable space for your meditation.
If you want, light a candle, burn incense, or turn on healing music.
Get comfortable now. Sit or lie with your spine straight. Your goal is to be comfortable enough to be unaware of your body.
Begin breathing comfortably now. Take a deep breath. Hold it for a moment. Release it. See and feel tension leave you with each in or out breath.
Take a deep breath – Hold it for a moment. Release it. See the tension leave.
Your inbreaths bring positive feelings, calm, and peace. Your outbreaths release tension, stress, negativity. Continue this breathing pattern for a few moments until you feel calm.
You notice now that you are in a parklike setting surrounded by trees, shrubbery, and plants. You see a rose bush nearby. It has a white rose bloom.
You are seated on a bench with a small dog curled up at your feet.
You look around and see that the sun is shining. The sky is a clear blue. The temperature feels comfortable.
You see snow capped mountains off in the distance.
Looking closely around the bench, you see that you are in a clearing in a forest. You see several paths leading around your bench. You realize that they are each an invitation for you.
You know that it is time for you to choose the path most attractive for you. You know that each of these paths offers a success.
You walk now to the path which you know is the one waiting for you. You know that this path is yours.
You look around and know it is time to return to your day now. You return to your bench, take a last look at the scene and return to your breathing.
You return now to the space where you found your comfortable meditation space. You know you can return to the bench, the white rose, the snow-capped mountain, and the path whenever you want.
You may decide to journal this moment to take notes for future notes.
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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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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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A Sacred Second Chakra Meditation: Inner Peace, Security, and Self-Acceptance
This meditation is ideal for relaxation because it supports inner peace, security, and self-acceptance.
Relax and get comfortable in a calm location where you will not be disturbed for a few moments.
Take several slow, deep breaths.
With each inhale, imagine your breath energizing the area two inches below your navel. Gently massage this point with two fingers.
With each exhale, imagine a small orange ball carrying fears, stress, and pain away.
Now, inhale deeply twice. Breathe into a point about two inches below your navel. Release this breath through your mouth.
Imagine you are lying on a beautiful, quiet boat which is just big enough for you. There is no room for anyone or anything but yourself.
While you are lying on this boat in the middle of a beautiful pond, things are still and peaceful. The pond has many flowers along the beach. As you focus on them, you see they are various shades of orange, and coral.
Let your body become heavy and relaxed as you get more comfortable on this tiny boat.
You feel the space, the peace, stillness. Breathe into the stillness and the abundance of the flowers and the water in the pond.
The overhead sky has a warm, glowing light allowing you to feel beauty, peace, energy.
A gentle breeze moves your small boat along the edge of the pond into a gently flowing stream.. As you look above, you see billowing clouds with a faint orange and gold tint. They move lazily overhead.
The flowers and clouds protect you so you feel safe.
You feel warm and at peace.
Breathe into the peace and gentle energy of just being yourself. Drifting down the stream, you relax even more and appreciate the energy, the peace, the flowers and the clouds.
You realize you don’t have to do anything, just breathe and enjoy yourself. As your boat gently drifts along, you feel warm. This warmth is healing. You feel quiet, peaceful. You breathe in peace, health, relaxation.
As you breathe out, exhale anything you want to release.
It’s time to return to your body and become conscious of yourself. Gently you move your fingers and toes to become more aware of returning to your location.
When you open your eyes, you remember the peace and energy you felt in the orange flowers and the orange-tinged clouds.
You know you can return to this place any time you want.
When you are ready, continue on with your activities.
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Your Sleep Sanctuary
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Better sleep includes getting enough sleep at night and waking gently in the morning. That’s what alarm clocks and cell phone alarms are for. Use them to remind you to begin to calm down in the evening and to gently wake you in the morning.
Sleep Encouraging Techniques for you
As you journey down the path toward a better night’s sleep, don’t think of your bedroom as just a bedroom. Think of it as your sleep sanctuary.
Some people report they get to sleep easier if they use a diffuser with a lavender essential oil. You may want to try this. Lavender is one of the most popular and calming essential oils out there but not everyone likes it.
If you like lavender, you can use it knowing that studies find lavender essential oil improves your mood, decreases the heart rate, lowers the skin temperature and blood pressure a bit.
A bonus here is that lavender is not one of the most expensive essential oils. So, this may be an economical solution for you.
Do you have any plants in your bedroom? If not, you may want to add one or two. They purify the air as they reduce mold, filter toxins, release oxygen at night. And, plants are fun to look at.
Lower Lighting is Important for a Good Night’s Rest.
As you prepare for sleep each night, lower the lights in your sleep sanctuary. Bright lights just before getting into bed can trick you into wakefulness. You need light as you get ready for bed, but you just don’t need so much.
When You are Ready to go to Sleep, Turn out the Lights.
Then, when you get into your bed, set your intention. My intention is always for a deep, healing, relaxing sleep so that I will wake up refreshed in the morning when it is time to get up.
Follow your intention with a short breathing exercise .
Begin this sleep breathing by getting comfortable in your bed. Take a deep breath and hold it for an extra moment. When you release this breath, focus on releasing all tension and worries. Blow them far away. With the next breath, let go of any discomfort your body is holding. With every exhale, focus on the word “relax”.
Breathe in peace…breathe out relax.
Hold your breath for a moment and then repeat: Breathe in peace…breathe out relax.
Now, breathe in peace…breathe out relax.
Finally, enjoy your final peace breath and then breathe out relax.
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The Sixth Chakra and Reflexology
The sixth Chakra reflex point is located on the lower parts of the toe pads. This is where the pituitary gland, eyes, and ears are located.
Sixth Chakra issues include
insight/denial
intuition
illusion/delusion
trust
visualization
psychic abilities
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN ABOUT SIXTH CHAKRA ISSUES WITHOUT QUESTIONING.
Am I able to see the bigger picture?
Can I see when my ego is in charge?
How can my life be better?
Can I make this happen?
Can I set aside time for self-reflection?
Do I know myself?
Am I blocking my creative ideas?
Are those around me blocking my creative thoughts?
Am I holding onto emotions which I should be releasing?
Am I gaining insight into myself?
Am I working to increase intuition?
Does my heart agree with my mind?
Am I working to make life better?
Can I see the “bigger picture”?
Am I able to encourage intuitive dreams?
Am I able to encourage and manifest realities from visions?
Tuning into the conscious and subconscious mind is a sixth Chakra issue. There is a balance which needs to be achieved. At one end of the line, we have a person whose mind functions on the rational level only. When this happens, the person has difficulty visualizing things mentally and subtle communication is difficult to understand. This person also has trouble seeing opportunities offered by dreams or intuitive thoughts. The other end of the line is a person who lives in a fantasy and may be delusional. When the sixth Chakra is is healthy, the person is able to balance the rational and the intuitive.
A balanced sixth Chakra is in tune with our senses as well as both the conscious and subconscious mind. The sixth Chakra is then able to regulate the energy channels of the other Chakras.
As with the other Chakras, Reflexology for the Spirit Sessions offer homeostasis which balance all of the body systems.
Reiki therapy sessions balance the Chakras. People with 6th Chakra issues respond positively to distant healing Reiki therapy sessions.
To help balance your sixth Chakra, take time to meditate on the ocean. As you do this, you will be able to calm an overactive mind. This encourages
peace
perception
understanding
concentration.
It will also encourage insight. As people gain insight into themselves, they invite spiritual growth and development.
It’s easy to tell how centered the 6th Chakra is by observing a person’s eyes and ears. Sight and hearing issues are related to 6th Chakra imbalances. Other issues related to 6th Chakra imbalances include
insomnia and other sleep problems
frequent nightmares
feelings of despair
depression
When you work with your client partner’s 6th Chakra, you offer the opporunity to help him/her clear out past issues and problems to make way for the new life which is waiting.
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