#61 | January 31, 2022 Aquarius New moon Lunar New Year Reiki Meditation

If you've been wanting for a celestial clean slate, your wait is over. The Aquarius New Moon on January 31/February 1 brings the start of the Lunar New Year, and it's giving us the chance for a fresh start, both personally and in the collective sense. This new moon is also happening on the same day as the Lunar New Year, which is the real start of the year for those who practice Chinese astrology. The "new year, new me" vibes here will be extra powerful. 

New moons always usher in new beginnings, and this particular one is supercharged with optimistic, forward-moving, change-the-world energy thanks to these two retrogrades coming to an end.

The Aquarian lunation asking us "to vibrate at your highest potential,"

In Chinese astrology, the lunar new year represents a turn in the wheel of the zodiac and a shift into the year of the water tiger.

In the year of the water tiger, we are encouraged to follow our instincts and make bold choices. The element of water requires us to go with the flow, and be open to change. You can also use the year of the tiger to connect with your inner feline energy!

The New Moon Can Be a Time to Set Intentions and Plant Seeds For the Future: “What am I ready to invite in?" That’s the big question on the New Moon." 

#60 | January 28, 2022 How to Shift from a Scarcity to an Abundance Mindset

Have you ever paid attention to your thoughts for a day?

Are your thoughts generally fearful, negative, focused on what you don’t have? Or are they generally hopeful, beneficial, inspiring, problem solving, encouraging, focused on the things you do have and fill you with appreciation and gratitude allowing you to feel heart centered and expansive?

Do you feel like everything is working against you? Everyone including the Universe is conspiring against you? Or, do you feel like the Universe is there to help you?

When you can see your life and career from a more abundant place, you’ll create more abundance. It starts with a deep and profound sense of our own inherent worth.

When we believe that we deserve to have enough, and that there is more than enough to go around, this abundance mindset creates more opportunities, more creativity, and more possibilities for us to make an impact and do good in the world.

Learn even more about How to Shift from a Scarcity to an Abundance Mindset when you tune in for this episode!

#59 | January 28, 2022 Mindfulness of the Body Talk part 2

Mindfulness of the body has several benefits. First, cultivating mindfulness of the body increases our familiarity with our bodies and with how the body responds to our inner and outer lives, to our thoughts and emotions, and to events around us.

The awakening of the body from within that comes with mindfulness can help us to discover, not only our repressed emotions, but also, more importantly, a greater capacity to respond to the world with healthy emotions and motivations.

Second, in cultivating mindfulness we are developing non-reactivity, including the ability to be present for our experience without turning away, habitually seeking or resisting change, or clinging to pleasant and avoiding unpleasant experience. All too often, our automatic desires, aversions, preferences, and judgments interfere with our ability to know what is actually happening. Learning to not respond automatically and unconsciously makes possible a deeper understanding of the present moment and our reaction to it, and gives us more freedom to choose our response. Being non-reactively present for our physical experience goes a long way in learning to do so with the rest of our lives.

Last, but not least, mindfulness of physical sensations helps us both to relax tension and to understand its causes.

Learn even more about Mindfulness of Body when you tune in for this episode!

#58 | January 28, 2022 Mindfulness of the Body Meditation

Mindfulness works a lot better if you are connected to your body. So, for many people, it’s a slow training to reawaken the body, to rediscover the body. The ability to sense what exists in the body becomes stronger and more heightened as we do this meditation practice. Becoming present here and now is not just something we do with the mind—it helps a lot if you show up with your body, and to think about that when you sit down to meditate. You’re not just checking out of your body in order to have some kind of strange, mental, spiritual experience. You want to sit down and pay attention, and sit in a way in which you show up with your body. Your body is a tremendous support for the practice of attention and awareness. If you show up in your body you can sense the fullness of being in your body and feel – “Here I am.” You will feel solid, connected, rooted and grounded in the awareness of who you truly are. 

To learn how to become embodied in your body to be present, try out this meditation. 

#57 | January 28, 2022 Mindfulness of the Body

Mindfulness is an embodied practice. By practicing mindfulness, we learn to live in and through our bodies. Learning to be mindful of bodily experiences is one of the most useful aspects of mindfulness. It is much easier have a balanced, healthy awareness of the rest of our lives when we are in touch with our immediate physical experience.

Many people ignore their bodies. The busier a person's life, the easier it is to discount the importance of staying in touch with how the body feels. Many people may be attentive to their body, but it is from the outside in; that is, they are concerned about body image and appearance. Mindfulness of the body is attention from the inside out. We notice what the body is feeling, in and of itself. We give a generous amount to time to be with the felt sense of the body. Not only does this help the body relax, remaining mindful of the body is a safeguard from getting wound up with mental preoccupations.

Today’s subject is the body and embodiment, and paying attention to our physical embodied experience. Now one of the marvelous things about the body is that it is always in the present moment. Our thoughts and our mind might be somewhere else, but the body is always here and now. So part of the task of meditation practice is to bring the body and mind together so they are in the same place at the same time; so they are working together harmoniously; and so they are not at odds with each other, or going at cross purposes. When you meditate, it is not a matter of bringing your body to the mind, it’s a matter of bringing your mind to your body, so the two can be together in harmony. If you are sitting here and thinking about what you are going to do tomorrow, then your body is here but your mind is in tomorrow. If you’re sitting here and thinking about what’s on television tonight at home, then you’re here in the present but your mind is in another place. It’s really important for the purpose of mindfulness meditation to bring the body and mind in harmony. So in meditation we train the mind to come and be in the same place as the body.

The body is an important help in this process because if you are connected to the body you are in the present moment. Now, any time we do mindfulness meditation, which is this very simple practice of noticing, we bring our attention to the experience, living that experience, and registering what’s here.

Learn even more about Mindfulness of Body when you tune in for this episode!

#56 | January 26, 2022 Elevating your Consciousness: Part 3

What is the 3rd Dimension of consciousness? The Third Dimension is locked in a time/space and cause/effect or duality paradigm. 

3rd Dimensional Reality - Physical Realm: You might think that the Third Dimension refers to the things you see, such as the house, the tree, the animal. In this dimensional context, these things are seen as part of form that which has shape, mass, texture and weight. Form is also present in the Fourth Dimension and to some degree in the Fifth. But in these higher dimensions, things are more light-filled, not as dense as they are in the Third.

We can know we’re experiencing the Fourth Dimension when we have moments of spiritual awakening and experiences of heart opening. Other times, it can happen when we’re simply feeling clear and quiet inside. Everything within and around us feels lighter, less rigid. There’s a sense of spaciousness and upliftment.

The Fifth Dimension has been described as the dimension of Love, of living totally from the Heart.

The 6th Dimension of consciousness is pure, impeccable instant manifestation and creation in formless that satiates your senses on every level, and that begins to open up even higher dimensions of consciousness to you. Yet you understand that the level by which that is enjoyable, fulfilling, meaningful, exciting and blissful to you depends on your ability to fully integrate it into your human experience here on Earth at this time in the fullness of all that you are, for your highest good.

Consciousness is the answer to everything. It’s the answer to every problem, every issue. Take a deep breath, and remember you are everything you wish to be, you already are. It is all within you. It always has been.

#55 | January 26, 2022 Elevating your Consciousness: Part 2

Fear, anxiety, pain, suffering, struggle, lack, etc exist in lower dimensions of consciousness of form. One would have to be in a slower, denser rate of vibration to be in that experience. It is understood that is what is part of that experience, which is why from a higher perspective there is not a right and wrong like we think of it. There are different dimensions of consciousness. The things that are going on in our world where there is prejudice and separation and fear and fighting exist in a dimension of consciousness where there is separation and black and white and right or wrong. With free will, you have the ability to clear from an experience to then elevate your consciousness to a higher perspective. This then releases you from the duality of 3D to a higher state of being.

The more conscious a person is the less they have a fixed attitude on any subject. When one is caught in limiting beliefs, subconscious programs and patterns like fear or anxiety then the person may have experiences and relationships that fit within certain parameters of what they are projecting from that lens of perception. When one is in lower consciousness, a person may choose certainty from a place of fear, and be in lack and survival mode. Whereas, the higher one evolves through life circumstances and experiences an awareness begins to bring a shift to begin to allow releasing the fear and need to survive. When this occurs, the more likely they are to shed ideas, limiting beliefs, non-beneficial programs of fear, lack, anxiety, etc. which no longer serve them. The most conscious people are flexible, fluid, and intuitive. They have accepted and mastered change, and perceive life’s challenges as opportunities to grow. In fact, growth is key to ultimate life’s experience, so they embrace uncomfortable change knowing that it will expand them.

Conscious people understand freedom and the vibration of love. They understand that pure love is without condition, and so they don’t impose conditions on their loved ones. An unconscious human might barter love for some peace of mind and security, a conscious person would love even if nothing was being given in return. The unconscious love in order to be provided for, the conscious know that love cannot be traded, and that is absolutely free and unlimited.

As you elevate your vibration and your frequency then you expand your consciousness to allow all that you are to then elevate beyond the struggle, you are released from the pain, you let go of the worry, and you no longer cause harm to yourself or any other because you move through existence consciously moment by moment in full awareness in a higher vibrational experience of love, peace, and abundance.

When you ask authentically, Who am I? That is when you begin to elevate your consciousness into the 4th Dimension.

Learn even more about Elevating your Consciousness when you tune in for this episode!

#54 | January 26, 2022 Elevating your Consciousness: What does that even mean?

Our Consciousness is in constant conversation with the Universe. This is how our reality is formed through us and around us. Today, take a mindful moment to actively check into the conversation with the Universe. If you need to, change the conversation based on what you authentically desire from your heart.

Remember, reality moves through you. What you do daily matters to your creation of reality. It can be shaped by what is imprinting into your energy field. What you watch, what books you read, what music you listen to, the conversations you have, etc. Remember, it is your sacred space, your energy so you can always clear and choose a new experience. But, the key is to become aware so you can choose to shift from lower vibrational aspects to a more beneficial reality.

There are different states of consciousness and what exists within those states of consciousness—the best way I can say it to you: it is your vibration, your vibrational frequency which determines the level of density you are in, the level of heaviness you’re in, which is what entangles you or moves you into whatever is available in that level of consciousness. So, clearing, releasing from non-beneficial energies, and raising your vibration elevates your consciousness thus allowing you a higher vibrational experience.

Learn more about Elevating your Consciousness when you tune in for this episode!

#53 | January 26, 2022 Yes, you do have a Divine Mission!

Yes, you do have a Divine Mission! You are here to help create a new paradigm for yourself and humankind. You are here as love in action to help raise the consciousness levels. 

You are light in physical form here to create your life experience and everything you intended it to be.

So just know that whether you have been on your path your entire life or you’re just beginning to really awaken to all of this and the power within you - this is your time to start living your purpose in the most meaningful and fulfilling way. It’s time to live your destiny and embark on your own personal journey to living in higher dimensions of existence where new possibilities and potentials for your life are waiting for you.

Press play to tune in to hear your Divine Mission!

#52 | January 26, 2022 Introduction to Mindfulness + Short Meditation

Life can get really challenging. I mean, whether it's just dealing with your day at work ,at home, whether it's trying not to react in a negative way when feeling triggered, or to even watching the news or to the larger environment around. It can be difficult sometimes to just be in the present moment, enjoy your life and not get stressed about it. And that's what mindfulness meditation can help you learn how to do.

But what is Mindfulness?

This is how Buddhist meditation teacher and clinical psychologist, Tara Brach defines it,

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention moment-to-moment to what's happening within and around us without judgment. So, said differently, when we attend to the moment-to-moment flow of experience, and recognize what's happening…fully allowing it, not adding judgment or commentary, then we are cultivating a mindful awareness.

And Meditation is the deliberate training of attention. So, when you do a mindfulness meditation, you are deliberately cultivating mindfulness by using strategies to enter the present moment and to let go of judgment and so on.

What drew me to mindfulness was I needed tools to support myself staying embodied and present, no matter what kind of stress was around me. For years, I had been working in TV, 14 to 18 hour days, sometimes 7 days a week. I needed tools to support releasing stress and not be reactive but staying grounded and aligned in mindfulness while managing a high volume job.

But I also wanted to cultivate more tools to support myself in navigating through any challenges. 

I wanted to be able to be in the heart of compassion instead of trigger into woundedness and react from that place. It wasn’t an overnight process to get to this, I had many failed attempts and it has gone sideways many times yet I also had beneficial experiences where I stayed in compassion, loving-kindness, grace and ease. From those experiences, I saw how it was about training my human in terms of mindfulness tools. So, I learned to reach for the mindfulness tools as I need them. Even today, I can always reach for the tools on my tool belt when I need them. 

Press play to tune in to for an Introduction to Mindfulness and for a short meditation!