Inspired by and taken from ‘ The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity ‘

By Catherine Ponder

Three  steps to Creating Prosperity

1. Having a plan, write out your Desires concerning the plan, &     constantly expanding it.

2. Mentally Imaging/ Visualising that plan as Fulfilled.

3. Constantly Affirming its Perfect Fulfillment

True Desire is Intense & Powerful!

Write them down and look at them often.

Take some time to clear a space to meditate on your Plan/Desires

I like to choose Essentials oils that I relate to for a particular Desire.

E.g. For Prosperity and Abundance I may choose

Oak moss, this is a very earthy aroma and helps to fix/ bind

Basil is swift & powerful in its action, to bring forth

Cinnamon, is abundance & prosperity

Vetiver, earthing, grounding & protection

You may use this blend in a burner or as an anointing oil.

End your meditation with ‘ Divine Love Now Produces Perfect Results & All is Well’

For the good of All!

The New Year is almost upon us! Where did the time go? Every year it seems as if time is moving faster. Wasn’t it just yesterday we were celebrating 2009? For me, the week between Christmas and New Years is one of reflection and calling back my energy from the past year. This year with Mercury in Retrograde there is even greater opportunity to revisit  and gain a deeper insight from past experiences. Admittedly I’m no expert on Mercury Retrograde but it definitely effects technology, communication and allows us to reflect on the lessons we might have missed so we can begin to move forward again. Then, of course, it’s time to CELEBRATE AND RING IN THE NEW YEAR! So…let go of the old, call back energy from the past year (or even the past decade ) and ring in the NEW with style!

Now I know you’re planning to be dressed in your finest! Dressed to the 9’s to usher in a new decade!  What if I told you that you can also be cloaked in the most beautiful bright multi colored gold you’ve ever seen?! Like the Kings & Queens of old, you can make your appearance surrounded in gold! Yes, you heard me, the most flattering and beautiful thing you can do is to get a hold of one of these gold bubbles! I’m going to pass along the information as to where to get this…and I can assure you that supplies are NOT limited! Here’s the best part…..IT’S FREE!! Not only that…I suspect you already have one! Yes, my friends, I’m talking about YOUR ENERGY BUBBLE! You guessed didn’t you? Although I’m doing a bit of “musing” here, it’s really true! When you are in a bubble of your own energy there is NOTHING more attractive! With your energy flowing in and around you, you are a vision to behold!

Whether your going out or staying in this New Year’s eve, before you dress, take a moment to turn your attention within and reflect on 2009. I know ringing in a new year is exciting but this only takes a moment! Whatever comes up for you LET IT GO! It’s in the past! No time like the present to lighten your load! As an aside, if you are making a  resolution to lose weight this can be particularly effective. Once you let go, you can bring back all that is YOURS! Your energy is light and bright! Begin to call back any of your energy that may have been left behind and surround yourself in a gold bubble of light. Expand that bubble and see it get brighter! Feel the light around you! If you choose, you can even allow all those gold sparkles to flow through you! Feel the excitement in the air as you prepare to move forward into A BRAND NEW YEAR! Fill up every fiber in your being! The more of your energy you have, the more you will have to CREATE MORE! While you’re doing this, why not have a look at something AMAZING you’d like to create for the year! See it in all its beauty and perfection! Surround that in a gold bubble as well! From your own bright bubble let your creation float off into the universe and see what happens! Wow! Check YOU out…you’re all gold & sparkly AND you’ve already started creating for the New Year!

Happy New Year! May your year be filled with truth, light and an infinite abundance of good health, prosperity, love, peace,  and many blessings! Thank you for reading this blog Shine your light~Debbie

Hey world… I’m home again. Found my grounding somewhere between last night and now.

The last few weeks have proved to be somewhat difficult to swallow as whole as they come. Very fast, and very confusing. In between my clouded memory I’ve been working, making myself get up and go to focus on somthing and someone other than myself. Which in my mind is the best cure to anxiety.

Finally made it to Christmas… And if I can make it to New Years without another night of tears, I know I’m healing enough to move on. These last few days have been pleasant, so many cuddles from my chicken, which during the week I don’t get much of. I’ve had a chance to catch up on sleep too, although this is possibly not the best thing because I know the reasons for feeling the need to sleep. Something which I’m going to have to address sooner or later.

I’ve gotten back in contact with a dear friend, Dale, and although he’ll never see this, I’m pretty sure he know’s how much I appreciate his existence. And randomly, although net only, made a new friend, Josh, who has given me a world of things to think about and helped me through some darkness that I don’t think I’d be able to get through without talking to someone who has been through the same thing. So I’m sending this loved up thankyou out into the universe. xxx

I’m hanging out to see my Christine. Although…. I have to organize a few little prezzies for her first…. my gorgeous girl turned 25 this year.. Amazing. Bring on the 2nd!

Thats all from me at the moment. I’m not going to get too far into my head this morning, because I couldn’t handle the repercussions of how I’ve been feeling these past 2 days. I have pictures to post… but for some reason my background and header have disappeared and all of the photographs ever posted here… hrmm..

.love.

A good combination for grounding/ensuring a restful sleep is to place a mixture of hematite and apache teardrops between the mattress and boxspring.
 Hope this helps.
Starwolf

 12/7/2009

Foresight

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Having an Aromatherapy bath is so healing on many levels. 

Bathing can be used for reducing stress, tension, anxiety and depression. Other conditions that can be treated muscular aches and pains, skin conditions for example very dry skin, a tepid bath can be used to reduce inflammation.

When using essential oils in a bath, 6 – 10 drops of essential oil in total is recommended. Add your chosen essential oils just before hopping in and make sure you agitate the water to break up the oils. If you have sensitive skin,you may choose to use a dispersent. A dispersant can be milk, vegetable oil or a product specifically made for use with essential oils, known as a disper. Always add your oils to the disper, milk or vegetable oil first, then pour into the bath and gently agitate. If vegetable oils used be sure to have a non-slip mat in your bath.

To receive the most benefit you only need to soak for 10 – 15 mins.

When bathing you have 2 methods of absorbtion they are through your skin known as the integumentary system and your olfactory by breathing in the oils.

For some of us, it may not be practical to have a full body bath due to lack of water.  We live in the Hunter Valley and rely on rain water, other areas have water restrictions.

Foot baths are a great alternative and are very enjoyable and relaxing. The temperature of the water depends on what you are treating, the same amount of essential oil is recommended as in a full bath. When you have finished pour the water into your pot plants or garden.

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For some reason, I just can’t finish a blog entry. I have several started and almost finished, including Nepal and the Annapurna circuit, Kathmandu, Tibet (over 6 weeks ago!), and now, India. I’m not sure what it is exactly – I think the knowledge that I will be home in less than a week pressures me to be out doing something rather than sitting with my face in the laptop. My other excuse is that that I’ve found it very difficult to find comfortable, quiet places to write in Nepal and India. A positive to this delay is that completing these entries once home will allow this portion of my trip to live a little longer as I revisit them. OK, enough with the lame excuses, the truth is I haven’t had  clarity to write my more meaningful entries, those involving the self. I have been exploring some very subtle aspects recently around my past and my ego. The simple concept of “To be or Not to be” has been occupying a lot of space – can I exist in this world without the desire to become anything? What does that look like? My ego desires are rooted in this concept of becoming, even when they are directed towards loftier ends. How does one separate ambition from energy or vitality? Questions, questions, questions. A more recent focus has been around my first two chakras, root and sacral, as time and time again, body and energy workers have confirmed that they are disconnected and not functioning as they should. Yesterday I experimented with a Korean method called Su Jok, where the therapist found my sacral chakra blocked. No surprise! In addition to my own psychological and spiritual work around these, how can I exist materially in this world (career, actions, hobbies) to improve the Kundalini flow in my chakras? Kundalini is Hindi for "sacred transformative energy that awakens consciousness".  Examples from self proclaimed Internet Gurus (my most recent Google search) on grounding and opening the root chakra include things like touching the soil every day, having red flowers in the home (red is the color associated with the chakra and mother earth), anything that involves the use of muscles, raw love-making, walking barefoot and eating food that comes from the ground. Let the experimenting begin.

Really, this was just an excuse to connect with everyone, letting people know that I am well, enjoying my final days and am really looking forward to continuing this conversation at home. My next update will likely be from Boulder – Namaste!

Christmas Spirit Oil

Spruce Sprig

Christmas Spirit Tea

Charles Dickens wrote the story of “The Christmas Carole” to help us appreciate the true meaning of Christmas. The main character Scrooge obtained the Christmas Spirit by visiting his past misdeeds, envisioning the future consequences, and then feeling the joy of the here and now to bring happiness to others. He experienced a revelation within a nightmare that changed his life, we assume forever.

Many towns in England still celebrate a Dickens’ Christmas by dressing themselves and their shops in the Old English style of  the Christmas Spirit. Many of us can’t afford to celebrate Christmases past in quaint villages of England; hopefully none us will lose any sleep over our past mistakes; it’s a small price in comparison to buy our own “Christmas Spirit” that we can enjoy over and over.

The aromas of Young Living Essential Oil “Christmas Spirit” carries us back to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Judea, India, Arabia, Egypt and other ancient countries where fragrances were a valued commodity and frequently given as gifts to Royalty and loved ones.  We’ll always have essential oils and perfumes as long as we have an earth and plants and as long as we have Heaven. These mixed oils help us to focus and envision our future possibilities. As with most pleasant aromas, this oil when rubbed on parts of our body can help us more fully enjoy the present. But I think this one especially because it was created for Christmas using the scents of sweet, spicy blends of orange, cinnamon, and spruce essential oils, which are all known to make us feel good about ourselves and therefore we want to do good for others.

There are other essential oil blends that help us be our best: Awaken, Believe, Brain Power, Chivalry, Clarity, Dream Catcher, En-R-Gee, Envision, Forgiveness, Gathering, Gratitude, Grounding, Harmony, Highest Potential, Hope, Humility, Inspiration, Into the Future, Joy, Legacy, Live with Passion, Longevity, Magnify Your Purpose, Motivation, Peace and Calm, Present Time, Purification, Sacred Mountain, Sensation, Transformation, Valor (See Dec 6 posting) and many, many, many more. Go to aromaemporium.com for sale prices. What thoughtful, meaningful stocking stuffers!

My children are grounded from the t.v. for a whole, entire week. The crime? They ate in the playroom. On my new carpet.

Gasp.

After they’d been told not to do so at least three times.

I could see, after I caught them red-handed with a box of Cookie Crisp, a plate of bacon, a cup of milk, a box of Nilla Wafers, a bowl of oatmeal, several candy wrappers, and two very sheepish expressions (what a balanced breakfast), that I was going to have to set a very firm example.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

(Insert Dumb Looks. All children know there is no safe answer for questions of this nature.)

“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?”

(Insert Dumber Looks. Definitely no safe answer. I remember wanting desperately to answer “Duh!” when I was coming up, and knowing how retarded that would be since I was obviously already in trouble.)

“DIDN’T I TELL YOU NO FOOD AND DRINK IN THE PLAYROOM?”

(Here Lawson decided to be brave and speak up instead of just delivering the Dumb Look.) “Well, it was Autumn’s idea.” (Autumn delivers the “I-would-like-to-scoop-your-brains-out-with-a-spoon-Moron” Look.)

“I DON’T CARE WHOSE IDEA IT WAS! DIDN”T I TELL BOTH OF YOU NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE PLAYROOM?!”

(Dumb Look, this time at each other.) Then: “That’s Autumn’s bacon.”

“Well, that’s YOUR Cookie Crisp!”

“Well, I just brought it in because you brought bacon in!” To me: “That’s Autumn’s bacon.”

To me: lots of eye rolling. I-would-like-to-scoop-my-brother’s-brains-out-with-a-spoon. You-know-this-look-because-you-have-brothers. More eye rolling.

“THAT’S IT. YOU’RE GROUNDED. NO T.V. FOR A WEEK.”

That was yesterday morning. I have noticed over the course of the last twenty-four hours that a week is a really long time? I haven’t just grounded my kids; I’ve grounded myself. Autumn’s not too bad, but Lawson is something else.

He doesn’t watch an excessive amount of t.v., I don’t think–just a few minutes in the morning after breakfast before we leave for school and then an hour after homework in the afternoon if there’s any time between that, running to pick up Autumn from tumbling, and supper–but he is pretty much refusing to do anything else. I’m beginning to think it’s a devious attempt to get me to abandon my disciplinary efforts. He would rather be up my butt (literally–he even attempts to follow me to the bathroom) than play the DS, the Wii, Hot Wheels, Legos, action figures, Nerf war, puzzles, or any other number of exciting activities. He will read though, for a short while, so that’s something.

It might not be so bad if he wasn’t chattering incessantly. He’s a magpie. It doesn’t seem to matter if I reply or not…a noncommittal grunt every now and then is sufficient to keep him going. Every so often he’ll lapse into spontaneous song, as  though he’d been singing to himself all along and he just had to share: “…in his underwear!” That, of course, will be punctuated by giggles.

The thought of another five days of this is almost enough to make me cave. He’s plucking that last mommy nerve–the one that twangs discordantly with too much noise, sugar, and snow days. (And new carpet, as it turns out.)

Maybe we can cut a deal involving dishes and alone time with bubbles, hot water, and Norah Jones in exchange for return of hostage t.v. privileges–sounds like a win/win for Mommy.

My cup runs over… I cannot contain all this alone. This is my third state of Grace. Am I ready for this again?

My heart is howling and thundering… I feel like I could wear out my mouth and, yet, I can utter nothing. Once it was said, I couldn’t take it back.

At least I solved my panic attack problem. My husband and Elliott helped talk me through some techniques for centering myself and controlling my fear and shame. And anxiety and nervousness.

I—I won’t be afraid of this again. I can do this. Hasn’t every step of my life prepared me for this day? Everything is a risk. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say…

I took a walk at 3 PM. Streets choked in mist, the lake was a perfectly still black pool with water above and water below. More yellow streetlamps burning through distant trees and the cries of hundreds of night birds around the banks all around me. I could not speak. I was overwhelmed.

I am afraid of walking into the castle hidden in the mist. I am content now, and I worry that I will not be content later and what I saw was just a mirage… I’ve been burned before…

But this… I can be as big as this. I don’t have to be as small as alone. Yes…yesyesyes… everything in me screams “Yes!”

I speak the words of air, fire, and truth… if I will it, I can do it. If i can imagine it, I can make it. I can make my own miracles, nor should I be surprised when the Gods answer my prayers and in triplet!

“Man in innocence was under the blessing of the Law; in a state of nature he was under its curse; in a state of grace he is under its direction and will be in that in glory.” – Thomas Bell

Yessss…

I’m immersing myself in A Perfect Circle right now. The song Gravity, to be exact. I absolutely love the spiritual content of that band, and how lovely and trancing their music is. “I fell again, like a baby unable to stand on my own. Tail in hand, dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go. I am surrendering, to gravity and the unknown. Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the Sun. I choose to live, I choose to live.. .” Absolutely love that song. I think I’ll look for it on YouTube real quick and post it here.

Hopefully that link will work.

I’m in one of those moods. To open all the windows, to feel and take in and fully accept the cold, and lay down in the bed with my headphones on and just listen to this song over and over again, falling either into a deep, peaceful sleep or going deep into a meditation. That’s just not going to happen though, because I do have two kids here, and while one is sleeping, the other can never stand to be away from me too long. If I seem to be in my room laying down for a long time, he’ll come in and tell me it’s time to get up, literally saying ‘you’ve been in here too long.’ So even if I could make myself relax and fall away for awhile, I would undoubtedly be interrupted.

That’s what I want to do today, though. Is just contemplate and meditate and just be ‘quiet.’ I want, need, some of that ‘quiet’ time to refresh myself and work some things out in my head. But mainly to refresh. For a person who is spiritual in the way that I am, it’s a necessity to cleanse one’s self from time to time. To stay close to that which is beyond us and higher than us, it’s essential to take the time to ground and to wash away all the mundane daily situations we go through, from work to home to responsibility in every mundane way, and to focus on the responsiblity of cleansing one’s spiritual self. I feel muddled when I’m not able to do this for a long time. I’m muddled now. I’m irritable, I’m tense. I’m needing to ‘refresh.’ I guess it’s possible to compare what I need to do, to fasting, but that’s not what I do. I don’t starve myself. I simply try to take in everything around me, find contentment in that, and then just let all the worrying and stress fall away from me…I try to open my spiritual eyes and stay atuned to the possibilities of a new path to take, while still keeping things together. I attempt to find happiness in what I have and a way to compromise the two, my mundane life and my spiritual life, so that I may better enjoy both and not neglect either of them. I feel muddled when I’ve been neglecting the latter.

The more I write, and the more I think about this, the more inclined I am to go ahead and lay down for a bit. Just close my eyes, breathe deeply, and relax for a while. With no other agenda but to do just that…relax. I think that’s exactly what I’ll do. So what if I get interrupted a couple of times. I’ll just answer him, send him on his way and continue on. That’s what I have to do. Just put my foot down, make my decision and take advantage of the time I have for a little rejuvenation, no matter how small the window of time. Any little bit is bound to help.

So with that…until next time.

Mindfulness, Acceptance and Values constitute the key principles behind ACT.

Mindfulness is about grounding yourself in the present and being aware. An addicts world becomes very small and we’re only really interested in one thing. Practicing mindfulness helps me see the bigger picture, and allows me the head-space to make better choices. I am more aware and feel more alive  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  and, right now, I also feel more pain.

I have numbed myself for most of my life and recovery is a painful process, but I’m beginning to realize what really matters to me. Mindfulness helps me bring myself back to the here and now whenever my mind goes AWOL. It helps me to accept. I have more choice.

It’s not only addicts who become conditioned to think in a particular way. Unfortunately, most of us spend our lives on auto-pilot. The human brain just hasn’t evolved to keep up with the rapid rate of social change. In many ways we’re still better adapted to hunting and gathering than diplomacy and commercialization.

Many of us are overwhelmed by the complexities of modern society. We turned to drugs as a solution, and others find their own ways to cope; or else, suffer in silence!

Mindfulness increases our awareness; helps us comprehend acceptance and provides the space that allows us to keep moving toward our values.

Here is a nice sleepy time blend, you can use in a burner, foot bath, full bath or mix it in to a little oil and rub into the souls of your feet, just before going to bed.

Bergamot 3/4 drops

Sandalwood 2 drops

Geranium 2 drops

Enjoy!

 RETURN TO JOY!

For the holidays and everday!

Join me for a special meditation teleseminar to call back and access more of your joy to experience the holidays with grace and ease!  The spirit of the holidays is supposed to be light, loving and full of joy, yet for many it can be a very stressful time. Why not take the stress out of it and return to the joy of the season, the joy in your heart and the joy of YOU!

The workshop’s main focus will be on how you can bring back more of your own joy using simple meditation techniques. Grounding and making the body safe is the first step. The next step is accessing and calling back your own unique energy of joy and allowing it to flow through you.  If you do not currently meditate, or have never taken a class, this is a great workshop to learn! If you do meditate daily, whatever method you use, come join us as we create an expanding bubble of joy together!

When you have more joy, those around you will have more joy! So join me to access more of your joy! Having more of your energy can allow you to create limitless possiblities to your experience this holiday season and in your daily life!

WHEN: December 8

TIME: 7:30pm – 9:00pm CST

COST: $25* 

REGISTER NOW!

 *After the workshop you will be emailed a link to a downloadable recording of the class, included in your registration!

Registration is easy! Click any REGISTER NOW link on this page and you will be re-directed to the registration page on my website.  or you can go directly to Spiritlightinsight.com.  There  is a navigation link on the sidebar of the home page that will take you to the workshop registration page. As always, if you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to send me an email. Debra@Spiritlightinsight.com  Shine your light~Debbie

Truly present, the moment of climax shifted and the energy rolled into calm. Not the calm of something missing. It was the sweet calm of being present and perfect.  Shannon, as if she could see the wave wash over us, said “Now let your body move you.  What ever part of your body your minds attention is drawn to, move it”.

This is when it happened. In all of my years dancing in my past, I had moved my body and used it as a tool to do what I want it to do (insert life metaphor here :). With Shannon’s words and an instrumental beat version of amazing grace ringing in my ears, I succumbed to the guidance of my body.

For the whole article click here:

http://synccreation.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/dancing-into-my-body/

            Balance

            Balance

            Balance

       I’m getting gentle reminders of the need to

       regain balance in my life. 

       Grounding with deep breath in, and out, 

       Grounding with quiet meditation and stillness, 

       Stopping to listen to the wind rustle in the trees,

       to see and feel the change of season in the air, 

       To be a witness.

It’s sooo annoying! Why is my high end audio equipment making that constant terrible hum? Why are my speakers making that high pitch rattle? I spent so much money buying the good stuff – this shouldn’t be happening to me! If you are like almost every other newbie to the high end audio world – and even the not too high end world, you will almost certainly suffer through a very common pitfall called “speaker hum.” You will also find that there is almost no information out there on why this plaque is effecting you. You see, most people attribute the problems to defective equipment – or some kind of rogue source, and often the solution is to either live with the background speaker hum, or buy new stuff.

Well, I can help answer what to do. You see the hum is a rogue source… AND, it is possible that if you buy new equipment the hum will go away. BUT, you can also keep your current equipment and just get rid of the rogue source. You see, the problem is not with your equipment at all, its actually to do with your local power grid. The hum you are hearing is actually to do with differences in electrical grounding between your various equipment. The solution is to be sure all your sources and your amp, EVERYTHING, are plugged into the same grounded outlet. Any variation in any component in your system will transfer the hum to everything (so don’t overlook that old VCR that somehow is still attached to your DVD player which, is ultimately attached to your Amp. This problem is a lot of the reason why the “energy cleaning” that Monster power cables, etc… can charge an arm and a leg. Now, I’m a pretty big believer in getting clean power (and plenty of it) into your system, but you don’t need to spend a fortune to solve this problem. If you have the cash, check out some of the high end expensive stuff (north of $299 may have good bang for buck – you may want to go north of $2,999). If you don’t go to Radio Shack and buy a $19 surge protector and then just be sure all of your components can get on that strip. Chances are, your hum will go away, and life will become a little sweeter again.

The article is in the UK Telegraph. (H/T MercatorNet via ECM, Big Blue Wave)

Excerpt:

The leader of Britain’s Jewish community claimed the continent’s population is in decline because people care more about shopping than the sacrifice involved in parenthood.

He blamed atheist “neo-Darwinians” for Europe’s low birth rate and said religious people of all denominations are more likely to have large families.

[...]The Chief Rabbi warned that secular Europe is at risk, however, because its moral relativism can easily be defeated by fundamentalists.

And he claimed that its population is also in decline, compared with every other part of the world, because non-believers lack shared values of family and community that religions have.

Lord Sacks said: “Parenthood involves massive sacrifice of money, attention, time and emotional energy.

“Where today in European culture with its consumerism and instant gratification – because you’re worth it – where will you find space for the concept of sacrifice for the sake of generations not yet born?

“Europe, at least the indigenous population of Europe, is dying.”

“That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

I blogged about the UK’s looming demographic crisis previously.

So the Chief Rabbi seems to be in agreement with my views on atheism and morality. Logically speaking, atheism simply doesn’t meet any of the minimum requirements for rational morality. The problem for atheism is that the decision to commit to a marriage for life and to have children involves massive self-sacrifice. But on atheism, life is just about having happy feelings before you die – so they cannot rationally ground the decision to marry and procreate.

Another Psychic Question Monday with an interesting question for today:

Our emotional well-being is quite important, but how do we know we have a soul, separate from the body? It seems to me that we ARE our bodies.  -Carrie

Carrie is referring to this post on the Los Angeles Examiner, which is also another version of last Monday’s post here, in which I state something that has become true to me after reading it in myself and others for over ten years now, body and spirit = joy.

You are more than a body, you are a spirit too. The wonderful thing about your spirit is that it is unique to you. Nobody else can know you as well as you know yourself, because you are original, one of a kind in all of time. It is the spirit of you that creates first, before you manifest the results.

There is no ‘proving’ spirit, and I will not attempt to do so here. You get to prove it to yourself by having it available to you, and by listening to that part of you. It has nothing to do with religion, or following someone else’s rules about what to believe. It has to do with knowing yourself. There is more to you than you may have allowed yourself to know, and you are bigger than you may know.

Many people need evidence that something actually exists in order to have it be real for them. Scientific proof is a popular thing these days. But what about: music that touches a part of you that is deeper than the body, art that reaches you in a similar fashion, an evening sky that creates a moment of magic within. Any healing practitioner can tell you that if someone wants to heal, they will more likely do so, while those who do not, won’t.

What about the longings deep inside of you to become, to have?  Some of these longings may not make sense to you, but they are there nonetheless. They may not be practical, or accepted by your family or group. But they tug at you. This is your spirit talking.

Music, nature, beauty and art all say hello to the spirit. This is the greatest healing one can experience, the hello to the spirit. When your spirits have been lifted, it translates to healing for the body. Your emotions, which belong to the body, can heal. Heal the spirit, and the spirit can heal the body.

What I have learned from the work I’ve done for the past ten years, is that once someone begins to get his or her spirit back into present time, and into the body, life becomes more joyful and real. Healing begins to happen. Feeling scattered is being scattered: your spirit can be in many places at once. Get yourself back here into the present, which is where your body is, and you heal on every level of yourself. Body + Spirit = Joy.

Please join me on Tuesday, November 10, from 3:00-4:00pm PST on Blog Talk Radio. My show tomorrow is all about having your psychic abilities. Discussion with free live readings to follow. Find it here: Psychic Everyday on Blog Talk Radio.

Website: Kris Cahill, Psychic.

©Kris Cahill 2009  http://PsychicEveryday.wordpress.com

‘Elf’ ©Debi Cates 2009

Go read Hecate’s newest post right now. No seriously. More than any post in recent memory this one epitomizes how I’ve been trying to become a better witch.

Samhain was interesting. There are some very interesting energies at work I feel, hopefully there will be some movement. I can definitely feel myself turning inward though. I’m downsizing in almost all aspects of my life and it feels really good. It’s part of my whole grounding experience. Hopefully I will be able to see clearer with this.

Lastly this is the first place I’m mentioning this but I figure as I’m somewhat incognito it is safe for me to say. I am planning on taking Bellydancing lessons. In my normal haunts I cannot say this because I am afraid (note to self, post about fear) that my friends might see me as a..poseur I guess? Many of my friends bellydance and I don’t want to seem like I’m into it because they are. I’ve loved the art since I saw a Sinbad movie at the age of 6. However as they have been more vocal of their interest (and classes!) and as such I don’t want to seem as I’m jumping on a bandwagon.

I’m still going to do it though

Starhawk’s “Tree of Life” exercise is my favorite way to raise personal energy.  This can be found on page 68 of the 20th anniversary edition and is exercise 5 if you’re looking for it in other editions.  This isn’t to be confused with “earthing power” which is also called grounding sometimes.  This ritual is for raising power.  To earth the power, simple place both hands on the earth or on a tree and visualize excess power being drained back into the earth.

“The Tree of Life” method of raising power

Begin by sitting erect or standing and breathe rhythmically.  Imagine that your spine is the trunk of a tree, and from its base roots extend deep into the center of the earth Herself.

With each breath you can draw up power from the earth.  As you inhale, feel the energy rising like sap rising through a tree trunk.  Feel the power rise up your spine. Feel yourself becoming more alive, more full of energy with each breath.

When you are filled with the energy from the earth, branches form from the crown of your head.  They sweep up and back down to touch the earth.  Feel the power burst from the crown of your head and feel it sweep through the branches until it touches the earth again making a circle.  Making a circuit.  Returning to it’s source.

As you breathe in, energy rises into you from the earth, as you breathe out, it flows out of you through the branches and back into the earth.

Alternatively, You can imagine the branches reaching out to pull in energy from the moon or sun at the same time energy is being pulled up from the earth.

Consider this article from Thinking Matters in New Zealand.

Excerpt:

There is an objection to the moral argument for God’s existence, specifically the premise which states the best explanation for the foundation for objective moral values and duties is God. It is the idea that moral values and duties can be plausibly anchored in some transcendent, non-theistic ground. That moral values and duties exist objectively, but as brute facts, not needing an explanation for their existence. They are sort of eternal unchanging ideas that are necessary features of the universe. This position we shall call Atheistic Moral Platonism, and there are three ways we could respond.

Click here for the three ways to respond.

I actually used to hold to Deistic Platonism before I became a Christian, and that’s all documented in my testimony. To learn more about this topic, here is my series on how morality cannot be rationally grounded by atheism, and the series includes links to lectures and debates for further study. The relationship between a cosmic designer and objective moral values and duties is the easiest topic in the world to discuss with non-Christians. It takes only a little preparation, compared to more difficult issues like scientific evidence and the historicity of the resurrection.