The Spirited Life with Ashley Strong

What type of meditation should you be doing?

I have a confession: I wasn't always a fan of mediation. In fact, I didn't know a thing about it or why I needed to do it! I finally gave it a try when I hit a point in my life where my intuitive gifts were taking over, and I could no longer control them. I was also severely depressed and had no idea that depression and unmanaged gifts often go hand in hand! 

Once I decided that I was no longer available to feel the way I did, I went all in on figuring out how to become a happier and more intuned version of myself. 

That's when "the work" began, and I started to dabble with the thought of meditation! 

That "self-work" led me deep down the spiritual rabbit hole, and within six months, I became a totally different person—someone unrecognizable. Someone I finally loved and adored for the first time in my life. 

The thing is, whether it was personal work or my intuitive work, I still had to sit with myself, be with my emotions, feel my body, and look at the sh*t I didn't want to look at. 

In other words, I had to meditate. I had to be still. 

I had no clue what I was doing when it came to meditating! What kinds of meditations should I do for each thing? 

Here's the thing: It is all interconnected! Your intuition will guide you deeper into the self, and as you self-reflect, your intuition will open up. Either way, you will be raising your vibration! 

What kinds of meditations should you be doing? 

In this week's podcast, I give suggestions on how to meditate for which thing and provide a few examples of meditations that can help you achieve different goals such as:

So listen to this week's podcast to see what kind of meditation you should be doing! 

And remember I take private clients to help you connect with your spirit team, intuition, happiest version, and highest self

And if you're ready to dive in but need more time before private coaching start here! 

With so much love,

Ashley 

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"Why isn't my intuition working? How do I know if I can trust it? Is my intuition strong enough? I'm not getting anywhere with my meditations..."

Does any of this sound familiar to you? It's something I used to ask myself and now I hear it from clients almost daily! Here's the thing, your intuition is always on, but to be able to hear it at will, understand the subtle messages, and get clarity on life's direction, you're going to need to finess it a little bit! 

Your intuition is your natural and God-given ability to connect with your internal guidance system! Listen to the latest episode of The Spirited Life to see how to put the above into practice today and start accessing your intuition on a daily basis! 

Why isn't your intuition working?The reasons why your intuition isn't working have nothing to do with whether you have a strong intuition or not but more with the fact that you have been conditioned out of it! My job is to help you recognize your intuition and make it easy for you to connect with it again!

How To Find Yourself Again 

How well do you know yourself? You might think you know yourself better than anyone or that, of course, you know you….you ARE YOU. I want to challenge this belief and tell you that with every season of life, a new you is born while integrated patterns and versions of the past still play a significant role. 

In my 20s, I realized I never knew who I was and that I was always living life as a version of myself that I thought would make other people more comfortable. 

I chose to get to know myself through inner work, meditation, healing my inner child, and forgiveness of myself and others. I was and still am so proud of that work because, at the time, I didn’t have a mentor and had no clue what I was doing or where it would take me. 

The day I realized that I couldn’t even say “I love you” to myself in the mirror broke my heart, but opened it up at the same time. I realized at that moment that I had a significant amount of work to do, so I went all in. 

Since then, I have become a mother and a business owner and have had many life successes, challenges, and failures. It is said that every seven years, we become a new version of ourselves and reawaken (hopefully at a higher level). Fun fact: Did you know that you are, in fact, an entirely new body every seven years? It’s nerdy but pretty cool if you’re interested! 

All of this to say I’ve been awakening, shedding layers, healing, and rediscovering myself over the past year. It’s been just as hard, if not harder than it was the first time, but still, the goal remains the same. Do the work and find my best version again so I can help others do the same. 

A common theme with myself and clients lately has been deep inner child work, specifically with the teenage/adolescent versions of ourselves. As we all know….teenagers aren’t for the weak…, and neither is this phase of healing. 

It’s about lasting growth, discipline, rebellion, and fully becoming the you that you were meant to be UNAPOLOGETICALLY so that those who are meant to connect with you can find and be with your most authentic version. 

When you show up authentically and know and love who you are, there is a big mental weight that is lifted when you aren’t playing a character in your own life anymore! 

Enjoy this podcast episode on Finding Yourself again and what true healing looks and feels like! 

And don’t forget to join us in my 6 week group coaching program Elevate Your Fate starting on March 26th at 2:00 PM EST. 

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We will cover:

Who's in your energy field?

What are the signs someone is hanging out in your energy field, and how do you identify who is pulling at your energy? A few signs are a specific person constantly popping in your head, dreaming of them, their name randomly coming up in conversation, and a heaviness that you just can't shake!

You see, we are all energy, and energy knows no space or time. If you're thinking of someone often, they will feel it and vice versa!

In this episode, pulled from my Youtube channel, I will teach you how to identify if someone is in your energy field and see who is tugging at your energy!

We will go over who you have not released from your energy and how withholding forgiveness will keep them stuck there! I will describe a practice on how to find out who is still in your energy; how to release and heal; and how to ground, clear, connect and protect your energy.

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There are multiple reasons why you’re afraid of your intuition! Some obvious some not so obvious! Listen to this episode to hear how to take control of your intuition and allow it to help you FLOURISH!

I was afraid of being a medium. I was fearful of my intuition, the things I felt, and the fact that I was possibly a crazy person. When you're a strong and unmanaged intuitive, your gifts can feel more like a curse than a blessing! Throughout my life, my dreams were petrifying. No really, I had sleep paralysis from "energetic vampires!" In my waking hours, I constantly felt watched, listened to, stood over, and more. Even when home alone, I would hear noises, music, and voices. Talk about overwhelming! The older I got, the better I got at ignoring it (or so I thought). My intuition scared me because I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if ghosts were real or if I was crazy. I didn't understand why I had such vivid dreams, and others didn't. I didn't understand why I was obsessed with scary movies, psychics, and creepy stories. It wasn't for the entertainment, but something drew me to them! Combine all this and the constant feeling of anxiety that comes with unmanaged intuitive gifts, and you've got yourself a pretty good recipe for depression! You're not alone; mediumship, giving readings, intuitive hits - all of it can be scary when you don't know what you're doing or dealing with! Here's what I can promise you when you get a grip on it - when you learn to manage it - when you control it, and it doesn't control you - it is THE MOST MAGICAL EXPERIENCE THIS LIFE HAS TO OFFER! Synchronicities happen, life flows, you love deeper, you trust more, you're simply guided, and you know you're not alone. So, listen to this episode and find out why you're afraid of stepping into all that you are! Listen Here! Don't forget, I have a course that will help even seasoned psychic mediums overcome fear and adopt practices that will preserve their energy and keep them connected only to who they WANT to connect to during readings! Enroll Now! The Intuitive Development Course is for beginners to seasoned practitioners! The MEdiumship Diving Deeper Course teaches you to give safe and accurate readings and should be taken AFTER the Intuitive Development Course!

How do we truly begin to heal and let go of the past? Over the years, I have learned that to truly heal; we must release. Releasing in order to heal means forgiving, setting ourselves free, calling our energy back, and letting go of trauma bonds. One main way to access this level of healing is through the Inner Child and the Higher Self! What is the inner child, and why is it important?“Essentially, our inner child is the forgiving, free-spirited part of us that still feels and experiences life as a child. But, just as it carries the positive aspects of being a child (like innocence, joy and creativity), it also carries the wounding of our past.” - Vas Touranis Therapists will often guide you to look at and work with your inner child however, Spirit guides us to truly heal and release. Our higher self will guide the inner child to visit the moments the subconscious still clings to and then call those pieces back to our physical body and Spirit. This process is also known in shamanic practices as a soul retrieval! When you work with your inner child from a spiritual perspective, you actually collect and call back missing pieces of you. As humans, we don’t realize that we leave energy everywhere we go. When we have traumatic or painful experiences, we often leave pieces of our energy/spirit in those moments. We are still (spiritually speaking) in those moments, which is why they become so hard to let go of and affect us subtly throughout life. When we journey back to them through our inner child healing, we can

The process is heavy, but the release is impeccable. It’s life-changing - I would say it will give you your life back! There is so much that comes up when working with the inner child that we don’t consciously even realize we are holding on to! Listen to today’s episode and learn to connect with your inner child! Listen To Heal Your Inner Child Here! If you’re ready to work with your inner child, meet me on May 3rd at 2:00 PM For Becoming Whole With Your Inner Child! A 5 week journey to reconnecting, healing, and getting to know your inner child and higher self! Becoming Whole With Your Inner Child is a group coaching program where you will learnThis program is $299 for the full 5 weeks for early birds! After April 10th, the price will increase to $399! Grab your seat, as spots are limited! All sessions will be recorded for playback if you can not attend the program live!

How to create more mental space? Mental fatigue can be physically paralyzing. It feels like you're tired, but you know you slept. It's like you can faceplant on a tiled floor and sleep for days like you are thinking of everything, yet nothing all at once.

Mental fatigue can have you feeling like you're stuck yet spinning out of control. So much of our mental fatigue is created by the massive amounts of "invisible labor" that we do all day, every day.

What is invisible labor, you ask? It's ruminating on all the things you have to do and carrying that mental load with you daily. Invisible labor is thinking of everything you must do, like "I need to go grocery shopping; what did my son say he needs for school? What about that birthday party, did I get a gift? I should reach out to the mom and see what he likes. Ok, kid 1 has this karate, and kid 2 has dance class at the same time; how do I be in two places at once? The husband said he would make dinner tonight, but what will everyone want to eat? I have to go to the store and get XYZ. If I go here at this time, I can make it back to finish work at this time. Oh, I need to make the doctor's appointments, and I still need to send those emails."The consistent replaying of thoughts such as these is invisible labor and takes a MASSIVE amount of cognitive energy every. single. day.

It always leads to mental fatigue, which can look like:

Many of my clients come to me feeling this way, wanting to connect more deeply with themselves and their intuition or spirit team but feel that they can't find a second in the day for it! They feel overwhelmed by the already neverending list of to-do's and can't see how they could possibly add one more thing, much less something that is "not productive."Let me tell you a secret I learned a long time ago; meditation is productive because it clears and creates mental space to focus on what needs to come next and allows for creative solutions to FIND YOU! I help my clients identify where their burnout is coming from, and how to do a "brain dump" to get things off of their mental plate and create more mental space. After this, we work through their schedule together to find space for self-care and spiritual development. It can be done, but first we need to learn how to create the mental space to allow us to receive! In today's Spirited Life Podcast Episode, I talk about how to create a "results list" instead of a to-do list and how to create an effective "brain dump" to create more mental space and eliminate mental fatigue and spiritual burnout!

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