Healing: my understanding of it. What is healing really? I have found a lot of confusion with regards to this and would like to offer my humble view on it.
For me, healing occurs when I return to alignment with myself, my High Self or the self which is One with All. Re-connection to me, is what healing treatments brings about. We can do this for ourselves and its effectiveness depends on how deeply we are ingrained in our fear and survival state at that time. In Alchemical terms, it brings people from the state of Negredo to the state of Albedo. Generally speaking, Negredo describes the ego state, the fear-based restricted survival viewpoint. Albedo is the High Self, or the state of the Genius, Magician/Alchemist or Super-consciousness. Healing can occur through meditation, focus, dance, music, moments of repose, being in nature, being with people of a vibration of unconditional love and acceptance or when we are joyful. This can occur spontaneously, when the fear based ego has loosened its grip on our psyche and in that instance, reconnection is made to the fountain of knowledge and wisdom within us, which has also been described as the small voice within. And we find ourselves in a state of Albedo. What we do with it is another thing and another article! When I receive “healing” or a healing treatment, it does not mean that I was broken prior to receiving the healing, or I had done something wrong to require help in this way. It also does not mean that once I am connected within myself, that I am healed. It means that I am in that moment, creating from my soul instead of from my fear. I do believe that none of us are imperfect in any way and the word or act of healing does not mean that we need fixing or correcting. A disconnection with self does bring many symptoms in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states and bodies: perhaps this is where the notion of imperfection is identified, especially nowadays where there are so many “prescriptions” for living well with nutrition, exercise and life-style and many medical cures and procedures for illnesses. But I feel that this then exposes us to criticism, which creates guilt and a whole plethora of other self-hating emotions which do not help to maintain a strong connection to our beautiful and true selves. A balanced and good diet, exercise and fresh air are important but these are no guarantee at all, for a completely healthy, illness -free life. I hope this short piece helps to clarify my interpretation of what healing can do and what it is. Do write me to comment on this if you like!
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September 2016, a month of Eclipses!How was September for you?
Did you enjoy the Solar and Lunar Eclipses and the Mercury Retrograde? Even though at times these events may be trying and challenging and downright painful, you are well equipped to ride the storms with panache, joy and brilliance! Because you are a Divine Being, magnificent, amazing and beautiful! Our ego or identity (which is not the sum total of who we are) may like to polarise and create stories about our lives and the situations we find ourselves in but only the still small voice within, your inner master, High Self or Genius as some call it, is truthful about all and knows who we are. Our ego may believe that we are not indeed Divine Beings capable of brilliance and great works but the High Self knows that this is a lie. I learnt this month that it is so important to have a time to myself preferably in the morning where I can centre myself and bring myself into the present moment, letting go of all worries about the past and projections into the future, so that I can connect and be that still voice within and embody peace and love, even if it is only for a short period of time. It is sufficient to point me towards what I would really like to achieve on that day. Short breathing meditations are so helpful in connecting our consciousness to our still centre or High Self and can be done practically anywhere, at any time. All you have to do is stop. Stop everything and just breathe, slowly, savouring each in-breath and out-breath. And with that, you can build in some gratitude too and find good in areas which you might not even have been aware of. Miracles occur when we just take the time for such a simple exercise. The Angels and other Light Beings have been whispering how much we are loved and cherished: all this unconditional! And I forward this message for you all: you are so loved and accepted for who you are as a human and also who you are as a Divine Being. No judgement at all, this means all of you all the time! All it takes is acceptance of that love and an opening of the heart to receive. Here’s to a beautiful October, as we gear down for Autumn and the darkness of winter. A time of reflection and going deep within. May this bring you deep love for yourself and joy as you open up to more recognition of your amazing self! Thank you for allowing me to reflect this back to you! Thank you for being my friend on this journey as we head home, home towards Source/Spirit, home towards ourselves. Preparation for meditations and connecting with others in remote, group meditations. DO NOT listen to any meditation recordings whilst driving a vehicle or if you need to use your full attention! Most meditation recordings will tend to work like a guided meditation where you have to close your eyes and you may fall asleep, not good if you are behind the wheel of a car or need to operate machinery!
It is important to prepare yourself and the space you will meditate in to create the most perfect conducive state for you so that it is an easy and fun process and not a pain in the butt and something you just want to avoid until you feel you have no choice and you just have to do it!!! A lot of people find meditation or taking time out in quietness for themselves a challenge and the preparation helps to create a safe, beautiful and calm space so that you are not easily distracted. It will also begin the process of calming your mind and body, which is essential for these practices. Preparation will also charge your space with the energies of love which will help your experience be a beautiful and joyful one. So I have created this document with a simple list of suggestions which you can use or ignore or take parts of so that it is an easy and fun for you. You could even use this to begin clearing out old things you do not want in your room or home so that you can create a “sacred” or beautiful place or altar where you can place pictures of family or friends, flowers, crystals or a table top which you can use to remind you of positive thoughts or a gratitude corner, plant corner or even a food and yummies’ corner (why not!). In short it is a space or place in your home you dedicate to you, family, friends, work, love, joy and fun. It can be as creative as you like or simple like a Japanese painting with just a few well-placed and elegant items which you hold dear. You can arrange multiple corners, table tops, have a dedicated altar or have angel pictures or crystals of special significance in each of your rooms if you like. I tend to meditate and to create meditations in my dining room and my lounge and both these rooms have their crystals and angel pictures permanently there. You can also have a meditation backpack or travel bag handy so that if you go outside in nature to meditate in parks or sacred lands you have your pictures, scarves, crystals, incense, sage, matches, waterproof rug and jacket ready. Here we go then….PREPARATION: 1 Please choose your space where you will meditate or listen to a meditation recording and ensure you will not be disturbed throughout this time. Turn off all mobile phones and take the landline phone off the hook (I know some people have more than one phone and have iPads etc..). 2 You can choose to prepare your space by lighting a candle, using crystals, flowers and arrange them in any way which feels good for you, Angel or Tarot cards of your choice or by burning incense too: it is completely up to you! Place your items on a table or on the floor, just decide and go with it. It is also a good idea to invoke Angels to clear and transmute your space of all discordant and negative energies and play chimes or clap around all the corners of your room: this will help break up stagnant energies. Ask Angel Michael to create a golden sphere of transmutation all around you and your space to release and transmute any negative energies there may be and this will also help to transmute any feelings or thoughts you release during this time. 3 Please keep warm or cool during this period of time wherever you may be, so have a blanket handy if you need to, or turn your fan or air conditioning on if you like. Physical comfort is important as it could be a great distraction. 4 Please have a glass of water close by for the end of the recording or meditation. 5 Lie down or sit down, set the intent, whether you are giving or receiving, that it is from a place of unconditional love and acceptance of yourself or the person or place you are sending healing to. In reality when we “give” healing, we are actually holding the space or allowing the person to be surrounded and hugged by the energy of love and complete acceptance with absolutely no expectation of the outcome. The recipient is actually the one who heals themselves. 6 You can listen to some meditation music or reiki music whilst you are meditating or doing this work. 7 Start to take your attention to your breath, slow it down to a comfortable rhythm for you and begin to notice how your body is affected by this. 8 If at any time you feel uncomfortable in your body or mind during the meditation, just imagine this area of your body suffused in pinkish purple light. Forgive your mind for running on full steam when it is supposed to be resting: getting worked up about it will not make it any easier. Just continue to breath. 9 With all healing, whether you give or receive, we start with our hearts. So begin breathing into the centre of your chest where your heart and heart chakra are. Imagine pinkish purple colour or any colour you feel drawn to entering your heart through your in breath and on the outbreath, the light goes from your heart into all parts of your body, flooding it with the energy you need at this time. 10 Continue with this visualisation and just love and accept any thoughts or feelings which arise during this time. 11 If you are sending to someone, something or somewhere, ensure you are fully connected with your heart and just imagine the person, place, animal as perfect, even if you know they are very ill or the place is very polluted. Surround them with love, appreciation and complete acceptance and respect for whatever situation they are in. By doing this and not going into the worry and fear for them, you send the highest love vibration to them and they will use it in the best way possible for them. If you are worried for them, deal with this first, help yourself and only then can you truly help others. If you are still worried and fearful, it may be better to receive healing yourself so that you can come to terms with the root of your fears and release them. 12 When you feel that it is time to stop and this may come to you as a knowing or you may feel that the energy has changed, whichever it is, thank yourself and the receiver for accepting the healing. Disconnect from the person or place by taking all your attention back to yourself and also withdrawing your energy and bringing it back into yourself fully. You can also ask Angel Micheal to sever all ties, connections through all dimensions, space and time. You can also do this for yourself by affirming it out loud or in your mind. Say it or think it three times. 13 Take a few more deep breaths, ground yourself if you need to and gradually open your eyes. Drink some water and ensure you are completely present and grounded before you rush off to complete other things especially before you drive! I would also recommend that you burn some more incense, white sage or Palo Santo, a sacred wood from South America to further cleanse your aura and space. Using chimes like the Tibetan Ting-Sha’s will help clear your space at any time too. Yes, even your Home!I am always amazed how alive and conscious everything is, and when I write “everything” I do mean it.
Our world and everything within it has a consciousness, the mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, deserts, sky, rocks, soil, fauna, flora and humans too. Here are some definitions of Anima Mundi which seems to underpin this concept of consciousness in all: The world soul (Greek: ψυχὴ κόσμου, Latin: anima mundi) is, according to several systems of thought, an intrinsic connection between all living things on the planet, which relates to our world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body. From Wikipedia The world is a living spiritual being. This was understood by the ancient philosophers and the alchemists who referred to the spiritual essence of the world as the anima mundi, the “Soul of the World.” They regarded the World Soul as a pure ethereal spirit diffused throughout all nature, the divine essence that embraces and energizes all life in the universe. From www.goldensufi.org I think our ancestors held this belief for a long time and honoured Earth and Nature for millennia, however as a friend has suggested, since the coming of the Industrial Age, the sacredness of all life and nature has been relegated below everything derived from human thought or feeling. The reason I bring this up is because today I decided to clear and transmute my home of all negative and discordant energy. Since December 2015 I had been wrestling with some difficult issues and relationships in my life and I knew that they had radiated from me into my home. I had performed an energetic wash down of my house a couple of months ago but when I returned yesterday after some release and resolution of a lot of these challenges, I felt them seep into me once again in the form of thoughts and feelings both conscious and subconscious. The way I energetically wash out my home is through working firstly on the land as it too absorbs my vibration and energy through my thoughts and feelings and especially as I have spent more time in my garden with the warming of the weather. I then work on the built form itself and Lo and Behold! The negative energies, blocked Soul qualities and other discordant vibrations matched the process I was working through these past few months!! So I am not surprised at all with the results of this morning’s work. I released and transmuted these energies and I am so much happier now that my home and garden have returned to a beautifully balanced and joyful state! We can enjoy each other and be happy together once again! Most people do not realise that all our thought forms and feelings have a vibration and a life of their own: we can either sow love and kindness or anger, hate and revenge. Sometimes when we face our shadow sides these emotions and feelings come to the surface and it is ok, we all go through times of change which require honesty and healing. However, all these are vibrations and are carried through our speech, actions and our feelings and affect everything within our vicinity. It is so important especially if we are on path of self-realisation and spirit that we inhabit space which supports all our processes, but like our minds, bodies’, emotions and expressions who all require nurture, love and care, our dwellings also require this level of care as they are extensions of us. Take care of your home, like you it too deserves it. Nothing great in having to share space in and with an unhappy, angry or discontented house! Not to mention the elementals in your garden if you have been venting your spleen there! Time for merging of Light and Dark To all who are suffering,
May all your angels and family of light bring balms Of love, peace and sustenance to you. As the Moon prepares Her Fullness Many of us may feel Pain, separation, anger, hurt and despair. Here is my heart, united and whole with the Universal Heart To surround you with love In this time. That you may feel the succour from your own Soul Moving and merging with you from within Always here Never far Never apart Never not Shift your eyes Extend your ears Open your heart There is the distant music Calling calling calling For you "For do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you." (this excerpt is by John Donne) Happy Full Moon, much love xxx Ananda Starangel The Energies of Love Can you feel the energies getting ready for the Equinox!!
Lots of movement, lots of the Feminine and also the Masculine energies as they are never really separate, just spiralling constantly together in their dance! Sometimes one aspect takes centre stage.. Yesterday through my transmission, the energies of the female goddesses and deities came through but they were surrounded in a circle, a sphere, of their male counterparts, holding the space for us as the feminine danced their love, grace and appreciation of us, all around us. It is indeed a circle upon a circle upon more circles, sphere upon sphere upon spheres, there is no more hierarchy, just blessed be-ing. Just all the Families of Light encircling us in their love, just us awakening, remembering and reconnecting... Blessed may we all Be At this time of the return of the Sun We shine our faces to the stars as our Sun shines its face towards us Together we are in movement Together we are in sound Together we are in love Together we also are in stillness Together we are creating creating creating Together we are Creators Life so full of magic and wonder and grace! Let us all meet and be in the garden of stars and starlight Within my heart Within your heart Where all universes and life be My brothers and sisters As we return to the light together After so much time, After this cycle of dread and darkness Of weight and suffering We turn to the light Return to what we are Return to Light Return to Love Return to who we truly are! So be it, so be it, so be it It is done and it is now. What am I? I Am and all the possibilities which this brings, all the opportunities which are vast and infinite.
I was very tempted to define what I am but I realised that this was just too restrictive for me. Terms like Lightworker do not feel right or Light Warrior or Light Bearer, because I am all of these and more. I keep changing every day: each day with the new morning sun, I am reborn anew, a new babe cradled by the arms and love of Source. I learn new things every day too, sometimes I don't like what I see especially when I look into the mirror and this requires more love, acceptance and integration. It is a journey and I flow like a river, sometimes there are rapids and large boulders and human made barriers and pollution, but I will continue to flow and flow towards the great Ocean of Source, ever learning that I am part of it and that I am never alone. I hope that you too awaken to your unlimited potential, that you too remember who you really are and that you reconnect to yourself once again, so that together we can all play, dance and sing in this amazing world of creation! The Way of The Sacred Warrior (not Scared! :)) Today, as I walked home from Oxleas meadow, I allowed the pain in my heart to surface.
It had been there for a couple of days and I was ready to let it rise up, so that I could really feel it instead of stuffing it out of the way, burying it deep in my subconscious to only emerge at another time when triggered. I felt so sad and in pain because I realised that for many many years, I had never felt safe to be myself and had not really respected my role as a mother, partner and career person. The pain came mainly from feeling that all my efforts as a mother to my 10 year old daughter were as dust, insignificant, nothing. It came from a place of disrespect for the role of mothers and a greater respect for the role of fathers and a fear of those in power, especially men but also women. My kind angels and guides brought my mind to mighty Isis who succesfully juggled Motherhood, Sacred Partnership and Career and to invoke her presence to help me to understand and realise that it is possible to be all, to be powerful, loving and balanced simultaneously and to draw upon her energy to heal these dark painful parts of myself. All of life is experience and all of mine certainly is, with choices made to experiece pain and suffering so that the karma of past times is balanced and so that I can show others who also suffer the way towards liberation, happiness and joy. So I say, don't be afraid to feel, don't be afraid to delve deep into yourself, to feel the rage, anger, hurt, despair, confusion because if you avoid these, you will never really feel and access the feelings of love, kindness, generosity, joy, bliss, ecstacy and all the positive energies of being in 3D. Some of us choose a lighter path towards enlightenment and rememberance and it is good and proper that they do. Some of us choose a more convoluted way but both are equal, one is not better than the other. So as I let the tears flow, I bless the experiences and the people who have given me this great gift of experience, without them, I would not now be as a Phoenix, rising from the ashes of my pain, transmuting the negative into the positive, the sorrow into joy. So my brothers and sisters, I honour you and your journeys, for we all make this world rich with our myriad colours, tones and dances and I bless all our lives with the love and power of Source, that we may all become Magicians, choosing life and joy as we burn our pain in the flames of gold, rainbow and silver light and release all which hinders us from ecstacy, liberation and mercy. The time has come to turn your heart Into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in the dust, To reveal its splendour You need to burn in the fire of love. Rumi Mercury Retrograde 5th to 25th January 2016Here is a code which I was guided to create and a picture of the evening sun yesterday to help you with this time which most of us find challenging. I was guided to create this little doodle this morning whilst I was meditating. It has been a long time since I have done any sketching, so it was a little worrying what would emerge and I had to try a few times to get it "right".
It is a gift for all of us who are finding this Mercury Retrograde a little taxing: sometimes re-membering the past and especially the feelings of the past is a hard path, it is the path of the Sacred Warrior, facing his or her Shadow Self and putting the pieces back together again so that he/she can be whole once again. As I was walking home from the shops, the sun was so golden yellow, it was even more golden than the picture and the rays were much larger: they seemed to envelope me completely, the picture does not pay homage to it at all! But the doodle/code and the evening sun go together, bringing in the energies of Solaris our sun for you and I hope they both bring energy and love for you to complete this cycle coming up to the Full Moon so that you may experience more freedom, liberation and joy. Angel Jophiel and winter Jasmine which is yellow also comes to mind. |
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