Peaceful By Nature

Today’s peace practice is to Make a Plan. As you enter into visiting family, friends, traveling, hosting, or being alone, it’s important to make a plan. Plan when and how you will Devote time every day to return to Truth and Love, to come home to yourself. You will be able to navigate relationships and all that arises at the end of the year if you intentionally come back home to your Values everyday.

I would love to know from you, Why do you devote time to your spiritual well being? Your physical wellbeing? Your mental wellbeing? Let me know @wildsacredsage on IG or [email protected] 

Today’s practice is a visualization that gives you an opportunity to reflect on your life and what you are currently navigating. You may know that there is something big in your life that is in transition or change and you need to take time to reflect in stillness and silence, but YOU have to be the one to make it happen. Sometimes we don’t even know that there is something we’ve been lugging around and need to emotionally process until we give ourselves the space to reflect. Pause this recording at anytime. I recommend journaling after this practice.

Today’s Peace Practice is to Do Less. Don’t paddle harder than you need to. Question why you are doing things. Listen, watch, and don’t hurry from task to task. See what can be left not done? Un said? And still everything is OK. Rest. Do Less.

Today’s peace practice is a game! Called, “Light me up!” the Chakra Color Association game. The Holiday decorations you see can be a reminder to tune into yourself. This podcast goes through each Chakra meaning, color and gives you a mantra to associate with the colors when you see them in the world. Take this game anywhere you go, and invite others you are with to play along!

Today's peace practice is the cultivation of Intentional Solitude. There are many reasons to make intentional solitude the core of your spiritual practice. You cannot tune into your True Self and listen to the Truth if you are constantly around others or distracted by social media, activity, or numbing your feelings. Solitude gives us the opportunity to reflect, contemplate, and tune into what we need. It’s the space to feel feelings that need privacy. It is where you can listen to what you need and what will truly nourish you. It is when you will hear the callings of your soul and desires of your body. Solitude is where you welcome all parts of you back home. Where you make amends and repair the relationship with your being, your body, your heart, your soul. It is when and where you can listen to nature and tune into the rhythm of the Earth.

So often we end up hurting ourselves or others because we don’t have solitude built into our daily rhythms. Even if you love those you are with you will burn out if you don’t have the chance to plug back into yourself. It can be really hard because there is a lot of social pressure to be with others around this time of year. Honor, care and respect yourself and need to retreat. You don’t need anyone's permission, and you are not responsible if people take it personally. Your top priority is your health and well being. Be kind and loving to the person you spend the most time with, take time to be just with them.

This is a walking meditation that guides you to shed, layer by layer, the roles that you play. These roles we confuse as our identity, but they are not who you really are. Once you shed the layers of social, cultural and familial conditioning you come home to the truth of who you are. From this place of freedom and love, the roles you play become conscious choices that are of service to those you love and the planet, instead of reactive patterns from the past. 

What roles do you play? 

What did you realize or notice as you shed these layers? 

I encourage you to journal after this practice to integrate your expereince. 

Today's peace practice is a Metta, loving kindness meditation. We begin close to home cultivating love, and spread it though the world, remembering our interconnectedness with all life. There is increasing scientific research about the benefits of a Metta practice: including increased self-compassion, decreased stress and anxiety, reduced physical pain, and increased longevity. I love practicing this meditation as part of my Morning Ritual. It is also a wonderful way to re-center during the day if you feel anxious or stressed. It is also a great way to ease the body into peaceful sleep if practiced before bed as part of your evening ritual.

Sending you all love, joy and peace.

This meditation and guided vizualization is best done lying down, perhaps in supta baddha konasana, with hands over the womb, dantian, right below the belly button, in Yoni Mudra. Connecting to this place of creativity you can trust that you will be able to respond to anything that happens in life. Respond-able. Responsible.

You will hear the forest and water around me in this recording. Enjoy!

Welcome Beloved, 

This peace practice is a gentle meditation and guided vizualization, designed to connect the Earth of your body to Mother Earth, so you feel the grounding, safe and nourishing energy of the planet in every cell of your being. When you connect to Earth energy you are more likely to show up grounded and make choices that are loving for yourself, those around you, and our home. 

Welcome Beloved! This is a Cozy Meditation and guided Visualization. Welcoming you home to the safe, cozy, and still place inside. So you don’t have to coat the world in leather to make it safe, you can make leather shoes that protect yourself and can be in the world, at peace.