Self-Care For The Soul

Embodying The Goddess: Reclaiming The Sacred In Body And Earth With Cynthia Abulafia

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Modern spirituality often glorifies transcendence—rising above the body and the world. But what if that’s only half the path?

In this illuminating conversation, Cynthia Abulafia—author of Embodying the Goddess—challenges patriarchal spirituality and calls us back to sacred embodiment. Drawing from non-duality and Tantric traditions, she reveals the Divine Feminine as alive in the body, the breath, and the Earth.

You’ll explore:

The Divine Feminine beyond gender—rooted in vibration and embodiment
The hidden cost of “leaving the body” (the Transcendence Hangover)
The true, fierce compassion of Kali
A simple breath-based mantra to reconnect with the sacred

This isn’t about escape—it’s about integration. Divinity lives here, in your body and this Earth.

Brainwashed: Fighting Against A Toxic Culture With Nina Menkes

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Women have been objectified in the media since time immemorial, being treated as mere sex symbols for the satisfaction of the male gaze. Cinematic pioneer Nina Menkes is actively addressing this problem through her groundbreaking documentary, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power. She joins Debra Graugnard to shed light on how A-list directors have been using the film industry to perpetuate a toxic environment where women are harassed, assaulted, and discriminated against, directly attacking their selfhood. Nina also talks about the profound repercussions of being trained to see oneself as an object, as well as why glamour is not about your external appearances. Discover how you are brainwashed by the media and use your dollars to make a real difference.

For more information, visit https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Raising Awareness Against Human Trafficking With Andi Buerger And Teresa Velardi

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:00 GMT

What if everything you thought you knew about human trafficking was just the beginning? Debra Graugnard sits down with survivor, author, and advocate Andi Buerger, founder of Voices Against Trafficking, and publisher Teresa Velardi. Andi shares her powerful story of familial trafficking and survival, redefining the crime to include the sex trade, labor, and debt repayment. They also uncover the terrifying commercial scale of human trafficking, the dangers of online grooming, and the urgent need for adults to speak up, listen to their children, and raise situational awareness around this alarming issue. If you are a victim, this conversation is your reminder that you are not alone in this fight.

You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Emotional Readiness for the Holidays

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:04:14 GMT

Holidays are upon us. Are you emotionally prepared?

According to the results of a [2023] poll by the American Psychological Association:

Nearly nine in 10 (89%) [US adults] say that concerns such as not having enough money, missing loved ones and anticipating family conflict cause them stress at this time of year.

While stress appears to be common at this time of year, 43% said that the stress of the holidays interferes with their ability to enjoy them and 36% said the holidays feel like a competition.

Even if you are the one in 10 who does not stress during the holidays, chances are you will spend time with others who do. Either way, there are tools to help you navigate whatever may come up at this time of year.

Listen to this meditation to practice emotional readiness for the holidays now.

To join us for the upcoming Healing Program, visit https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/program

To join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT - visit https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

Exploring the Sacred Masculine

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:05:37 GMT

Last week’s meditation guided us to lean into the inner feminine, which is the receptor of light and connector with the subtle realms. Living from the feminine is key to living in communion with Source.

This week we explore the sacred nature of the inner masculine and how the inner feminine and masculine can synchronize to bring the light into the world through your actions.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Lean into Your Inner Feminine to Commune with Source

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:13:00 GMT

Last week’s meditation focused on ascension and recognizing ourselves as light beings in bodies being light in the physical realm, rather than physical beings in a dense world trying to find the light.

One key to this is leaning into your inner feminine, which is the receptor of light and connector with the subtle realms. Living from the feminine is key to living in communion with Source – and then the inner feminine and masculine can synchronize to bring the light into the world through your actions. (We’ll focus on the masculine side next week.)

Listen to this healing meditation to tap into the channel of your inner feminine to commune with source energy, receiving divine light and whatever is waiting to infuse into your conscious body.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

We. Must. Ascend.

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:21:13 GMT

This earth plane is a place of great beauty and light, and it also contains immense darkness. The human body is also a vessel of great beauty and light, and it can be dense and contain shadows and blind spots.

As the consciousness of our world rapidly evolves, we are faced with an overwhelming number of choices to make on a daily basis - not just about day-to-day activities, but about where our values and loyalties truly lie.

What do you believe in? Who are you? How do you want to align your consciousness to ascend to a state of unity?

Living in a state of unity means you identify more as a soul/light being with a body than a body that might have a soul or spiritual connection somewhere. It means living with a deep inner knowing of your core light connection with Source above all else.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for a transformative experience. We must ascend.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Accessing Stillness Beneath Turbulent Waters

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:09:27 GMT

These are turbulent times. You might feel helpless or have difficulty knowing what, if anything, you can do.

To access guidance, we need space to connect with the still voice within. This is where the inner wisdom can come through and provide us with the best path forward for the moment.

This is a recording from a webinar held earlier this year. We've removed participant comments to respect privacy. You can still benefit from the host side of the discussion.

Join us for the book launch - Fear, Food, and Feminine Power - on Nov 4: https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com/Launch

Join us for the deep dive healing program: https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/program

See you there!

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Activate Your Inner Radiance

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:14:00 GMT

At the core of your body is your divine light. Deep within the heart lives a spark — the divine flame that is uniquely yours. Your inner radiance is a reflection of your core light and inner spark.

This meditation is a sacred journey inward, to awaken that flame and allow its radiance to fill you and expand beyond the boundaries of the body.

As you connect with this light, you’ll feel the gentle warmth of love as the divine remembrance fills your being. Through the eye of your heart, you see the divine purpose of your life path with more clarity.

Listen to this healing meditation to activate your inner radiance and allow your core light to shine.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Accessing Self-Care - No Matter What!

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:53:29 GMT

I’m not an advocate for disengaging completely or denying the struggles that are in front of you, but I am an advocate for maintaining self-care as you move through even the most stressful times.

There are signs of stress that often go unnoticed and simple techniques to manage the body’s tension and nervous system responses before they take a toll on your health.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to bring awareness to the body’s subtle cues and practice simple tools to settle into your peace.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Women's Rights: The Power They Can't Take Away

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:11:00 GMT

This is a replay of a webinar that was held live earlier this year. The interactive parts that include participant voices have been deleted, so some transitions may sound a little choppy. However, I believe you will still appreciate what is shared.

This webinar series was held to support the release of my new book - Fear, Food, and Feminine Power: A Sacred Pathway of Transformational Healing.

The book is scheduled to be released on November 4th, 2025. If you are seeing this before that date, join us to celebrate the launch on November 4th - live via Zoom. We'll have a few readings, guest speakers, interactive discussions, and special giveaways! https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com/Launch

If you want to get started now, we have a free gift for you: 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back - and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

In this webinar, I held the pole of the angry person who does not want to see our country repeating mistakes of the past, and does not want to see women taken back to the times when struggles were harder than they are now. The overall exploration is around the role of the feminine and masculine to create harmony and peace as we move through these times of transition.

Enjoy the discussion, and be sure to subscribe to hear more from this series.

Learn more about the book and associated live events at https://FearFoodFemininePower.com

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Releasing Fear of Judgment When It Feels Like Everyone Is Watching

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:01:00 GMT

These days, it seems as if every move you make could be watched, weighed, and silently judged. It can feel like life is one long performance, whether for the benefit of others or for your own protection.

It creates a subtle tension in your body, a hesitation before taking action or speaking your truth — it’s the residue of a media-driven world that taught you to earn belonging by being pleasing, careful, or perfect.

This healing meditation invites you to let go of the armor, to breathe into the places that tighten when you feel seen, to release the old, protective patterns that keep you performing instead of simply *being.*

Listen to this episode to dissolve the fear of judgment and return to the quiet safety of your own presence — where authenticity feels natural and self-acceptance becomes effortless.

Here, you are not performing. You are home in yourself.

Mark your calendar to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Embodying A Higher Frequency

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:00:00 GMT

You cannot steer the vehicle if you are not in the driver's seat. And you cannot make the wisest decisions if you are not connected to your higher self.

This Meditation & Healing Circle focuses on a sound healing practice to connect with your highest self, elevate your energy, and embody your higher frequency.

NOTE: I'm changing the post schedule for these episodes. I'll be posting the recordings of the weekly Sunday Meditation & Healing Circle on Tuesdays - a full week later than the live call. (I have been posting on Sundays right after the call. I'm choosing to give more time for processing and posting the calls.)

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Receiving Divine Forgiveness: Key to Restoring a Devastated Heart

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:03:00 GMT

Do you ever find yourself caught in the trap of trying to get things right, asking, “Why aren’t things working out for me? I’ve tried and prayed and even begged. What am I doing wrong?”

I believe we all have at some point. It’s devasting!

But what we often find is that we get so caught up in believing we need to do something to earn the outcome or reward or grace that we seek.

And then when we look deeper, we find the voice inside that says, “You could never do enough to earn it, because you are not worthy of it. You are not enough.”

But the heart still yearns, so we send out stronger pleas! We work harder to prove that we are not that defective, broken persona we are trying to overcome. We are more than that! We’ve put in the personal work to improve ourselves. Shouldn’t we be seeing better results by now?

But what about that defective persona? Has she truly healed? Have you forgiven her, and has she received forgiveness? I mean the ultimate healing of divine forgiveness?

Divine forgiveness is always present, waiting for us to receive it and ultimately forgive ourselves. This is a key to true healing – a healing which restores a devastated heart and lifts us to higher vibrations.

This is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen for a restorative healing at the cellular level.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Finding Reasons to Hold onto Hope

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:39:00 GMT

In today’s divided world, it seems unlikely that we can work out our differences. We’re up against an extensive, sophisticated machine that seeks to separate people into opposing factions, while sparking hatred, anger, and blame.

When violence escalates and fires rage, it can be hard to hold onto hope. But we must. Each of us has some reason to believe in a brighter future – a world of love, compassion, and mutual respect.

I used to work with a woman who said she had made a list of all the things she loved about her husband, and when things got tough, she would pull out that list.

She would recite these things in her mind until she reconnected with her heart’s desire to keep going. These were her reasons to hold onto hope until they could work out their differences.

The first reasons on my list are my great-nieces and great-nephews. I want nothing more than to see them live healthy and fulfilling lives, to develop their gifts, to find love, and to explore the beauty of this planet.

When I feel myself losing hope, I start listing their names, the hopes I have for them, and specific ways I wish to be a guiding force in their lives.

This is the beginning, and I know there are even more reasons I can discover when I look within.

What are your reasons? Have you made a list? It's a valuable tool, becoming ever more necessary to have at the ready.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for a guided introspection into the depths of your heart to discover your reasons to hold onto hope.

Get a pen and paper so you can make a list.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Calling on Angels for Healing Your Heart: A Guided Meditation

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:49:00 GMT

Humans have free will, so when we need help, we must ask. There is power in calling on angels for healing your heart, asking for support, and seeking guidance.

In this guided healing meditation, we clear blocks to connect with the sincere yearning in our hearts and call on our unseen support team for help.

Listen for a powerful guided healing to receive and transform on the cellular level.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Finding Secure Footing amidst Shifting Sands

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:36:00 GMT

When your world is profoundly shifting, it can be difficult to trust that a supportive and stable foundation will emerge.

On one hand, spiritually, a seeker aspires to surrender to the impermanence of life and trust in divine flow. On the other, she strives to hold strong to values and convictions and to stand for what is in the highest and for the greater good of all.

What is moving around you and within you? Are you faced with choices, feeling called to make a splash or guided to surrender to the flow?

The journey of life is a dance that we are dancing together. We are here to support each other through the full range of experiences.

Listen to this healing meditation to explore the effects of the shifting sands beneath your feet, to find your inner guidance, your balance of conviction and surrender, new rhythms, new foundations, or whatever you are guided to in these changing times.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Accessing Inner Stability: Be the Mountain

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:48:00 GMT

There is a saying in the Qur’an that says that when God created the Earth, she was shaking, so He set down the mountains to make her stable.

Geologically speaking, when the tectonic plates of the Earth were moving, they crashed against each other, edges crumbling and lifting each other up until the movement stopped, forming the marvelous, majestic mountains.

Our hearts are wired to sense the awe and majesty of the mountain ranges, to be swept away and inspired by their beauty. We feel the calming nature of stability when we sit at their base.

It begs the question, when the foundations of your world are shaking, and instability appears to set the pieces on a collision course, do you too have the power to become the mountain?

Can you sense the qualities of the mountains inside yourself and stabilize the forces that move through you as you witness instability around you?

Can you be like the mountains to the Earth, firm and stable squelching her fears?

Listen for a guided meditation to access your inner stability and be the mountain for the earth of your own existence.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Permission to be Awesome - Especially Now!

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:05:00 GMT

Are you wrestling with the paralysis of fear? Almost everyone I talk to lately seems to be stifled by the uncertainty of the current situation and what the future holds. We’re in challenging times.

This is all the more reason to bring forth your brilliance, vibrance, and your best self. You need the presence of your inner light, and so does the world.

Even when the fears are justified, you can still rise above. It doesn’t mean denying what is happening or abandoning those who are suffering. It means being in the highest vibration of your authenticity and sincerity. This is the spiritual weapon to counter the forces that seek to weaken, divide, and conquer.

As Maya Angelou said, “You may not control all the events that happens to you, but you can refuse to be reduced by them.”

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for a guided process to access and embody your brilliant light. Let your inner awesome shine and lift the vibration of your world.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Setting Boundaries to Protect Your Heart, Not Suppress Your Voice

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:09:00 GMT

Sometimes we need to set boundaries to protect our hearts. Many of my friends are needing to turn off the news and disconnect from what is happening in our country. It’s a lot to process. It hurts the tender places inside. And if we are losing friends and disagreeing with family members in the process, it hurts even more. So many of us are retreating and shutting down so we don’t have to feel.

The purpose of setting boundaries is to create a safe space where we can be true to ourselves and flourish. How can we protect ourselves without suppressing ourselves? Without closing our hearts, suppressing our voices, and stifling our self-expression.

Today we are going to begin with giving some love and compassion to the place inside that hurts. Listen to this episode to tap into the inner wisdom and guidance, and allow stability to grow from within, forming a pillar of strength and trust.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Intention Setting for the Lion's Gate Opening

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:05:00 GMT

We're coming up on Lion's Gate - August 8th is this coming Friday. Now is a good time for tapping into guidance and getting clear on intentions.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we bring some deep introspection and tap into the vibrations of the 6th and 7th heavens.

This is where we can assess between many possibilities and get clarity on what aligns with the inspiration of the deep heart. Then you can spend the week refining your goals and intentions as we approach the powerful gateway of the Lion's Gate.

Note that this process is good to use any time, not just for Lion's Gate.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Finding Your Heartsong

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:45:00 GMT

Every heart has a song. The heartsong is a deeply intimate, heartfelt expression that speaks from your inner essence. It calls you to discover your unique purpose, to live into your authentic being, to reach the fulfillment you are here to realize.

What is the song of your heart?

My friend Camela Widad leads this Meditation & Healing Circle, guiding you on an exploration of your heartsong.

Join us for a moment of sound and other healing exercises to help you find the song inside your heart.

The Courage to Evolve

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:31:13 GMT

What does it mean to evolve? Our modern-day meaning is "to develop gradually from a simple to a more complex form." But we are complex creatures living totally convoluted lives!

Perhaps we need to take this term back to it's Latin origin: "volvere" which means "to roll" with the "e" meaning "out of" -- to roll out of the complex chaotic states that make our bodies and our planet sick and return to a more simplistic life-generating existence.

But that would mean letting go of many of the constructs we've created that give us a sense of safety - and some fulfillment - and returning to the earth for sustenance and nurturance.

It would mean letting go of grudges and resentments we hold and embracing love and compassion.

It would mean that we stop morphing ourselves to meet the expectations of the world and live and BE true to our nature. We are nature - not separate.

It takes a lot of courage to let go into true evolution. This is what explore in this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to connect with your inner wisdom to align with your steps toward harmony and unity.

Finding Your Deeper Insights

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:26:00 GMT

My teacher used to say, "Don't stop with the outside pictures. Go behind and behind and behind... until you reach the truth." But what can we do in this time when we are bombarded with so many messages and it is hard to know what is real?

Our best resource is to search within and find our deeper insights. How can we use the conflicting messages to help us find what is true for us in our hearts?

That is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for an inner exploration to find your deeper insights and get clarity around you core values and convictions.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Connecting with Ancestral Wisdom

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:39:00 GMT

We, along with our ancestors, are a part of a collective stream of consciousness that is ever-evolving. Our ancestors have knowledge and wisdom they learned in their earth lifetimes that they passed to us.

Our ancestors that have passed from the body have moved beyond the constrictions of the realm. So, they have the benefit of a broader view that we cannot see - and they are here to support us in the times we are moving through.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to connect with your ancestors and the wisdom and support they are here to impart on you to help you in your role at this time of evolution.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Sacred Pause: A Healing Break to Reset Your Nervous System

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:05:00 GMT

Is constant exposure to distressing news keeping you in fight, flight, or freeze mode? It's hard not to get overwhelmed. We need to take regular breaks to intentionally reset our nervous systems and allow our bodies space to regulate and heal.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for some soothing breathwork and a guided body scan - to bring healing love, peace, and nourishment to all parts of you and create conditions for healing and rejuvenation.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Prayers for Peace and Wisdom

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:29:00 GMT

Today, we gather with our deepest prayers and intentions for peace for our planet. We call on the Divine Powers of Peace and Wisdom to surround our planet and infuse into all her inhabitants, to penetrate the hearts of our leaders, to steer the actions of all people, including each of us.

Please join us, bring your heart, mind, soul, and the Divine Powers that manifest through you.

Healing through the Elements: Earth's Grounding Wisdom

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:14:11 GMT

This week we wrap up our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Earth: The Grounding Wisdom. We will use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to connect with the Sacred Mother Earth that provides us with stability and grounding.

We tap into the sustenance and feel the deep wisdom of the innate knowledge our earthly bodies carry. We are not on the Earth, we are in the Earth and of the Earth. We carry an innate existential force that imbues us with her wisdom.

Healing through the Elements: Water - the Cleansing Rain of Mercy

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:06:00 GMT

Experience yourself as a being of water, an open cup floating in an ocean of living consciousness, one with all life. Allow the water to flow through you, cleansing and purifying your vessel, restoring and rejuvenating you, and healing you with the gentle rain of Mercy.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we dive into the Element of Water: The Cleansing Rain of Mercy. We use the Sacred Sounds and Divine Names associated with the Elemental Globes to cleanse our bodies, hearts, and souls with the gentle rain of Mercy - to receive nourishment and healing, and to restore our vessels to health and fulfillment.

I apologize for posting this off-schedule from the usual Sunday post. I had an emergency to attend to. All is well now. Please enjoy...

Healing through the Elements: Air - The Breath of Life

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:16:00 GMT

Feel yourself as an instrument in Earth's symphony that is playing now. Tap into the winds that create harmonic melodies, that bring everything upon the planet to play beautiful love songs that bring us all to fall madly in love with Life itself.

This week our deep dive through the Elements continues with the element of Air: The Breath of Life. We use the Sacred Sounds and Divine Attributes of the Elemental Globe of Air to connect with the Breath that breathes you and the universal life force that energize your being.

Experience the breath that breathes through you as one with the breath that breathes our Mother Earth and all that exists on our planet.

Healing through the Elements: Fire - The Flame of Purification

Sun, 25 May 2025 18:02:00 GMT

This week we continue our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Fire: The Flame of Purification. This is where you find the sweetness when you call on your Source in times of constriction.

We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to invoke the purifying sounds and frequencies so that the imprints on your psyche that are incongruent with who you are can be released and the flame of your core light remains.

This episode guides you to find strength in the embrace of Divine Compassion. It guides you to feel this strength to the core of your bones, and to merge strength of spirit with strength of body.

It then guides you to travel to the center of your heart to commune with your Source, especially when the world is in constriction -- the answers you seek and the place of peace can be found within when you call to your Source. This is where you find the sweetness, and when the constriction has lifted and your being expands, this sweetness fills your body of consciousness.

Healing through the Elements: Ether - the Light of Truth

Sun, 18 May 2025 19:07:40 GMT

This week we embark on a 5-week deep dive through the Elements. Contrary to my nature – we are not going to cover all of the elements in one session. We’ll dive into one each week.

We begin this week with Part 1 - Ether: The Light of Truth. We tap into the inner light that is your core consciousness - the Higher Light within you.

We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes to feel the radiance and immerse into the light of truth that anchors you, that you are here to BE.

As a microcosm of the macrocosm, we call on the Light of God, An-Nur Illahi, to connect with the divine light within at the center of the heart.

I share readings from a book written by my spiritual teacher: Music of the Soul, by Sufi master and guide, Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rafa’i as-Shadhuli. (Sidi Muhammad Press, 1994, 1997, 2002)

Listen to this episode to connect with your inner divine light and BE the light you are here to be in the world.

Nurturing the Nurturer: How to Receive Divine Nurturing

Sun, 11 May 2025 21:04:00 GMT

This is a perfect Mother’s Day message – it’s about nurturing the nurturer. Receiving the Nurturing from the infinite, eternal, ever-present Source.

You're probably in the habit of nurturing others. It's what we do. But when times get tough, we need our own nurturing. We need to be nurtured. We need space to be present, to allow it in, and to feel it.

Just like unconditional love, nurturing is a divine force that we can call on and receive. It comforts and heals us. It restores our strength. It is transformative.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we invoke the Divine Power of the Nurturer (Ya Rabb) and receive the healing love from the Ultimate Healer.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

The Feminine Connection with our Bodies and Earth

Mon, 05 May 2025 06:11:00 GMT

As women, we are somatic creatures. We are meant to be connected with our bodies and with the earth. When we are not present in our bodies and connected to our senses, our programmed conditioned not-self behaviors take over. In other words, when we are not in our vehicles, in the driver's seat with hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road, we cannot navigate the twists and turns of our path. The car will likely crash.

So, what does it mean to be a somatic creature? When we are not in an embodied experience, what happens? We rely on the crutches that bring comfort for the discontent - emotional eating, buying things we don't need, seeking unhealthy relationships, or we have difficulty expressing ourselves. We are not seen or perceived as the powerful creative beings that we are, because we are not grounded in our true selves.

In this episode, I'm joined by Camela Widad, a musician and performing songwriter, powerful intuitive healer and coach, for a revealing and enlightening conversation.

Listen to this episode to gain perspectives on your own challenges and receive insights to support your healing journey.

To connect with Camela Widad, visit her website: https://creativesoulstudios.net

To schedule a breakthrough session with either of us, Camela Widad, Debra Graugnard, or Habiba Miller: https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com/consult

To learn more about the book and upcoming programs, Fear, Food, and Feminine Power: https://fearfoodfemininepower.com

NOTE: If you are looking for the replay of yesterday's Meditation & Healing Circle - Sunday, May 4 - the recording was distorted and not suitable for publishing. This recording is a recent conversation that has been in the queue for editing, and I'm very excited to share it with you. I apologize for not providing the replay of today's healing. I hope you will find this valuable in its place - it stands on it own.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Anger, Righteousness, and Conscious Action

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:11:00 GMT

There is a lot happening right now for which anger is a natural response. Anger is a motivator; it can inspire us to take much-needed action. However, anger is not always the best place to act from.

If you are uncomfortable with anger, you might find yourself stifling the emotion and abandoning the needed action altogether. You might feel that it's safer to do nothing than risk the danger that might come from anger.

But what if there is a valid reason for the anger, a righteous cause that you want to defend? What if there is an action you are inspired to take that can contribute to change that can have a positive impact? Something that will make a difference for you and those you care about?

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we sit with those things that are sparking anger and allow the inner voices to unfold so we can hear what the heart most desires - the divine inspiration that is calling from within you. Is there a conscious action you are called to take? How can you move with it in the most authentic and effective way for you?

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Breaking Free from Gender-based Expectations

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:36:00 GMT

As a young mathematician, I was told over and over again that women were not good at math. Yet my test scores proved otherwise. In my high-tech career, my achievements were diminished and uncompensated as I was told repeatedly that "women do not make it here." And yet I held my own and then some.

Where do our gender expectations come from? More importantly, are they accurate for you? At some level, we are all imprinted with societal expectations of gender and pressured to conform to the "norms."

While some traits may be of feminine or masculine archetypes, our gifts and talents are not confined to gender. And regardless of physical body, there is no such thing as 100% female or 100% male.

We each have many aspects of ourselves, some of which lean toward a feminine archetype and some toward a masculine. No two humans are identical; we all land somewhere along a spectrum. The important thing is to find your unique blend and be YOU - regardless of what kind of body you live in or what anyone has told you is acceptable for you.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to cleanse yourself of the pressures to conform to societal norms that do not fit and give yourself the freedom to land into the synthesis of your unique innate blend.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Could you be eating to cover shame?

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:29:00 GMT

Do you eat when you are not hungry? Could you be eating to cover shame? The nature of shame is to hide - it doesn't want to be seen. When we are still and things get quiet, that old hidden shame from the past starts to surface and we feel agitated. It could be from our past, it could be ancestral, or it could be that innate programming that so many of us are born with - listen for more about the innate programming.

Most times, we don't even understand the source of our feelings - it just happens. Shame is challenging to recognize because it is good at remaining concealed. It can be tricky,

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we are going to gently, lovingly, bring some witnessing to this master hider so it can no longer control us from behind the curtain and we can regain control over our eating habits and choices. And we can reclaim the inner beauty that has been stifled underneath.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Working Hard to Prove Your Worth

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:38:00 GMT

When something comes up 3 times in the same week, I take that as a sign to address it with the group. The issue is feeling undervalued at work and working so hard to prove yourself that you are near collapse, and you are still overlooked.

You are not getting support you need because you feel like asking for help would be admitting you are not capable, even though you are often doing the work of three people. Or if you are in your own business, you might be giving too much away and not getting the sales you need to sustain the business. So you work harder and give away more!

I thought of this as historically a women's issue, because when I was in corporate, I was one of 3-6 women in a department of 80, and it was very much a good ol' boys club where women were clearly not welcomed. However, one of the people I spoke with this week was a man.

When you have been classified as not fitting the mold, or maybe it’s the budget, no amount of effort is going to prove them wrong because there is no lack of proof, it's a misperception of truth.

Well, here's another truth. You are not defined by the rules of their club. Your value cannot be diminished by their non-acceptance. No one can take away your inner power and strength.

Listen to this episode to bring healing to this wound of being undervalued and rejected after trying so hard to prove yourself. Connect with the inner truth and allow it to emerge.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Let Your Inner Power Emerge

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:22:00 GMT

There is a divine force of Power itself that runs through all of existence and manifests in many ways. And there is a place where that Divine Power penetrates you to live, express, and manifest through you.

This Power meets and merges with your ego nature to become your inner power. This is where you have choice and responsibility for how you engage with Divine Power and use it hopefully for the greater good.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we tap into the force of Divine Power that moves through all things, receive it, and allow it to be activated within our beings – it is already there. Where this power meets the lower ego nature, we bring purification and witness the emerging of the Divine Power from within.

Divine Names used in this meditation:

Al-Qadir: The Powerful, The Capable; The Divine Power that runs through all things.
Al-Muqtadir: The One Who has power; The One Who determines everything; The divine power that is integrated into the human being.

Listen to this episode for a powerful transformative practice based on ancient wisdom.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Spring Equinox Reiki Healing: The Power of Air

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:30:34 GMT

In this Meditation, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on a Holy Fire Reiki Journey to explore and integrate the healing power of Air. Air is the quality associated with the direction East, the rising sun, and the Spring Equinox.

The Spring Equinox is the beginning of the agricultural year and the time when the Earth awakens. It is an excellent time for us to initiate and celebrate new beginnings. This year, the Spring Equinox was March 20, 2025, so we are a few days past the actual day light and dark were in perfect balance. The energy is still available for us to use and so we will!

Our Journey of discovery brings the quality of Air into full focus – we take flight with the Golden Eagle, the highest flying of all birds, and visit each of the cardinal directions and be gifted the quality most representative of that direction.

In the North, the gift of KNOW; in the West, the gift of WISDOM; in the South, the gift of CHOICES; and returning to the East, the gift of ILLUMINATION. We will meditate on integrating each of these qualities as revealed in the following affirmation: We KNOW the WISDOM of our CHOICES enhances the ILLUMINATION of our soul.

If possible, before your journey, collect a few feathers – they can be collected from the ground outside, a birdcage, or even purchased at the store. We will be empowering the feathers with our intention, and after our journey is complete, we will take our feathers outside and attach them to a low-hanging branch or other structure as an offering to the Spirit of Air.

If you are not able to collect some feathers, this is OK – you can use your mind’s eye to do the process for you.

You can reach Cathy Delwiche for private sessions through her email: cathy@cathydelwiche.com

7 Practices to Decompress Fear & Frustration

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:27:11 GMT

Fears, frustrations, anger, stress - they can build up inside us and act like the steam inside a pressure cooker. We need to regularly decompress - to let the steam out. These days it needs to be a daily self-care practice. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I share 7 practices that you can use, and we’ll do four of them together.

Finding Strength through Resilience

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:03:00 GMT

Difficult times present us with opportunities to discover who we are. We have a chance to push through our limitations and discover our strengths and values, but we have to dig deep. We have to find courage and hold tight to our convictions. We all have it within us, often more than we know.

In today's Meditation and Healing Circle, we support each other to reach beyond our inner depths to discover, own, and embody the divine powers we hold inside. What is within you that you are called to be? Join us to explore and transform.

For info about my new book - and to order - visit https://fearfoodfemininepower.com

Mark your calendar and set your reminder to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Embodying Your Inner Power

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:56:00 GMT

I have a book that is set to launch in the next month, pre-launch opens this week. It is called Fear, Food, and Feminine Power. I started writing it 8 years ago which feels like a long time, but it turns out the timing is perfect.

Women have long held a generalized vibration of fear, feeling unsafe in their bodies. Many of us use food as a crutch to self-soothe, and we wrestle with a body that portrays the struggle inside and out. The book offers step-by-step guidance to heal old wounds and access the sacred feminine power and strength from within. It is a guide to embody a deep transformation.

It turns out the current political and social situation is bringing up the same issues, and the answer is the same. We have a sacred inner power that no one can take away from us, and it reaches into every aspect of our lives.

It is time for us to rise, own this power, embody it, and live it. It is what will turn this story around. And our time is now!

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we will call forth the sacred power from within and embody this strength that is needed now.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Healing from Victim Blaming

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:35:00 GMT

Have you ever been a victim of an attack or abuse and then been blamed for your own attack? Or unjustly scrutinized? Victim blaming is something many of us, especially women, have been conditioned to hold.

Now we are seeing this in the firing of government employees given a justification of performance or lack when this is not the reason for their termination. We're seeing it in the way DEI hires are blamed for government waste and overspending. We are seeing this in the blaming of wars. And we are seeing it in the way women's rights are being stripped.

If you have not experienced or are not experiencing it yourself, you have undoubtedly witnessed it happening to others, and the impact of that witnessing affects all of us and our choices.

Victim blaming stifles our voices, keeps us from speaking up, keeps us in hiding and disconnected from our own truth and light. It puts a heavy energetic burden on the person who is the subject of blame.

But, no matter what ever happens to any of us, we still have a power inside of us that cannot be snuffed out, one that no one can take away from us. We can reclaim it and embody it. We can live our sacred strengths.

This is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for an empowering healing experience.

Mark your calendar and set your reminder - You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Moving Beyond Constriction: Elevating Your Consciousness in Times of Turmoil

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:04:00 GMT

With all of the turmoil we are in right now, it’s important to remember what we do have, what we can do, and to focus on elevating our frequencies so we can stay aligned with our truth. We have been talking for a while now about ascension into a world of peace.

Meanwhile, we’re in the storm. So how can we weather the storm while staying focused on evolution and elevation? This is the focus of this Meditation & Healing Circle.

We call on Divine Powers of Contraction and Release to help us release the trauma responses from the body and use the constriction to turn to Source to draw us into the love, compassion, and healing, and reach the higher frequencies we desire to embody.

We call on the Divine Power of Elevation to elevate our consciousness to a new state that encompasses the variations of contraction and expansion so we can contain the highs and lows as we continue to move forward into higher elevations of consciousness.

Listen to this meditation for a healing experience.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Recovering from Cultural Conditioning

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:57:00 GMT

How much of your persona and habitual behaviors are influenced by cultural conditioning? How much of this conditioning is counter to your true essence?

Society imprints so many expectations on us – what we believe, how we speak, how we dress and wear our hair, who we hang out with, what we eat, and the social and political ideologies we identify with. The influences can be so subtle that we don’t even realize we are losing ourselves.

But suddenly, we find we have lost our connection with our hearts, our sincerity, our love and compassion for others, our caring for the creatures of the earth, and our stewardship of the planet that is our source of sustenance – of life-breath.

It is challenging to unhook from cultural conditioning and embody our true selves. We must heal our wounds, release limiting beliefs, and embrace our inherent worth beyond external validation. This means dismantling internalized narratives that keep us small and reclaiming our authentic sincerity.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we sit in self-inquiry, listening with self-compassion and self-acceptance, to break free from cultural programming that is not our truth and embrace the full expression of who we truly are.

See you there!

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Releasing Unexplained Fears

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:21:00 GMT

This meditation targets the underlying generalized sense of fear. It focuses on releasing unexplained fear so we can be more present with current life events and make clearer judgments and decisions.

There is a lot of fear in the air waves right now, and much of it can be explained and justified. However, there is an underlying fear that resides in the nervous system that gets amped up when the present dangers arise.

These fears come from our own past or from our ancestors or from the general vibration of the cosmic soup we swim in. The more nebulous, unexplained fear makes it difficult to access clarity and determine the best path forward in the moment.

If we are not careful, we will internalize the present fear, allowing it to seep into our nervous systems and compound the baseline fear energies we carry. This drags down the general vibration at a time when we need to uplift our frequencies as much as we can.

Listen to this meditation to target the underlying generalized sense of fear and focus on releasing unexplained fear so you can be more present with current life events and make clearer judgments and decisions.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Breathwork for Reducing Overwhelm

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:22:00 GMT

Have you been feeling a bit overwhelmed or anxious, feeling uncertain, finding it difficult to ground or connect with your true self? You are not alone. Here are some tools for your toolkit!

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, my dear friend and colleague Camela Widad leads us through breathwork to regulate the nervous system and help us connect with our hearts, our natural rhythms, and our truth.

To connect with Camela Widad, visit her websites:

https://creativesoulstudios.net/

https://camelawidad.com/

Your Body is Your Best Life Partner: 7 Keys to a Healthy Relationship with Your Body

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:42:00 GMT

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk wrote the brilliant book The Body Keeps the Score. Your body holds the story of your life journey and gives you keys to healing. But your body is not limited to the effects of your past. It is still evolving with you as you write the next pages and chapters of your life.

If you have ever looked in a mirror and not like what you've seen, or if you disconnect from your body in order to push through day-to-day, or you disregard your physical self-care, it's time to reconnect and acknowledge your body as your friend - your best friend - traveling this journey with you, experiencing this life alongside you in partnership, learning, evolving, and growing with you.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we make our way home to ourselves to reconnect with our bodies in friendship, kindness, love, and partnership and set a course to evolve and grow together, strengthening the relationship along the way.

Listen to this episode to travel through 7 keys to develop a healthy relationship between your conscious body and your physical body.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Finding Your Way through Society's Mixed Messages

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:44:00 GMT

Our culture pushes us to identify with labels that tell us how we’re supposed to believe, look, and act: What does it mean to be a woman? A man? Nonbinary? A teenager? An adult? A parent? A liberal? A conservative? Independent? A professional [fill in the blank]?

What’s your stereotype? What pictures do you fit in?

The messages are full of double standards that are impossible to meet. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don't fit the pictures. This is society’s double bind.

It can be challenging in any role or stage of life to stay true to your heart and your integrity and honor your truth. And if it's hard for us adults, just think about how it must be for our children.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on gaining clarity around the identities we fall into and the messages that condition us. We seek to release the imprints that do not fit for us and find our own way that aligns with our personal integrity.

This meditation is for us personally, and also for us to get clarity on how to speak with our younger folks about the conundrums they face so we can help them find and honor what is true for them.

Our younger adults and children have strong truth meters and highly attuned BS detectors. We want to support them to honor what is real for them so they can be equipped as our future leaders that will guide us into an era of peace and sustainability.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

A Virtual Burning Bowl Ritual

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:04:00 GMT

In the Q&A after last Sunday's Meditation & Healing Circle, I had a request to do a Virtual Burning Bowl ritual. So that is what we are going to do today. Get a pen, paper, and a bowl, then press play. You do not need to use real fire - I personally like ripping up the papers by hand.

A burning bowl ritual is where you write onto scraps of paper the things you want to release – unhealthy habits, beliefs, emotional patterns, relationships, jobs, financial situations – and then you ceremoniously cleanse them from your being, burning them in a safe bowl or tearing them up or shredding them, letting them release into the ethers to be transmuted or returned to their rightful place.

In this meditation, we purge out what we do not want to carry forward from 2024 into 2025, and then we take it a step further. We connect with the bright and powerful parts of ourselves that we've disconnected from, cleanse them, and welcome them back in to integrate into our embodied selves. To heal means to make whole.

Bring a pen, paper, and a bowl or trash bin where you can safely dispose of the papers – you do not need to use actual fire – and press play on this week's Meditation & Healing Circle.

You can get your copy of the workbook, Bridging the Gaps: A Journey to the Center of Your Self, at http://bridgingthegapsworkbook.com

Hint - this recording came from a request from a live participant. Join us live and your request may become the next episode.

We record the Meditation & Healing Circle LIVE every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recording ends for Q&A, support, and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com See you there!

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

When to Hold On to Intentions (and when to let them go)

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:00:00 GMT

Did you have intentions for 2024 that were not manifested? Maybe obstacles kept getting in your way, or maybe you just didn't get to it yet, or maybe you changed your mind. But the question inevitably comes up: should I hold onto this intention and keep trying or should I let it go and move on?

It's not always easy to know if it's meant to be, but we have two Divine Names, divine powers that can help us determine when something needs a bit more time for gestation and when it is ready to move forward.

I explain in the meditation why we use these names as mantras. I’ll list them here so you reference them during the meditation:

Al-Mu’akhkhir, The One Who holds back, to hold back and let it gestate before acting on it
Al-Muqaddim, The One Who moves forward

We also call on two other Divine Names which represent the cycle of death and birth or rebirth:

Al-Mumit, The Bringer of Death, ending, closure
Al-Muhyi, The Giver of Life, regenerative life force

Listen to this episode to seek insights into what is best to carry forward, what is best to let rest for a while longer, and what is best to let go of altogether.

Winter Solstice Reiki Journey: Whole Body Listening

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:00:00 GMT

Yesterday was our Winter Solstice, and today, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche will be leading us on a Holy Fire Karuna Reiki journey called "Whole Body Listening."

This is the time of darkness – we will experience the shortest period of daylight and the longest period of darkness. This is a time of release and transformation – we use the available energies to release old habits, negative thought forms, and limiting beliefs.

And just as the darkness must give way and change into the Light, we too can be ‘reborn’ into the new Light and experience the rebirth of our Soul as the Great Wheel turns. We replace outdated ideas with new patterns of feelings, new ways of being – seeds carefully planted to manifest themselves at the proper time.

Ruha Cathy's Reiki journeys are always super healing and transformative. Enjoy your journey!

Celebrating Successes & Gratitude for 2024 - A Deep Healing

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:58:05 GMT

This one turned out to be a deep healing, more than I had originally expected. Sometimes in order to fully receive and integrate the gifts, we need to forgive ourselves for our perceived mistakes or shortcomings. That happened.

Then we can receive the knowledge, intellect, and wisdom from our experiences, elevating our frequencies and expanding consciousness. That happened too.

As we lift our vibrations, we stand on the new elevation as we look toward the new year.

Enjoy this healing meditation, and consider joining us live this coming Sunday.

Reflecting on Personal Growth in 2024

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:40:48 GMT

Can you believe it is already December? Again? It's a good time to reflect on this past year to take into account what you have accomplished and what you have received.

We are all in a time of immense personal growth whether we realize it or not. What growth has developed within you? What has changed for you over the past year?

The Great Sufi Shaykh, Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi said:

"Intention gives meaning to your actions."

"Interpretation gives meaning to your life."

What interpretation can you give to your experiences? What meaning does that give to your life? There is always something to be grateful for - and when we take the time, we can see it, feel it, and flourish in the grace of it.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we reflect on this past year, our intentions and personal experiences, and we follow the journey to the center of your self to discover what this tells you about who you are. We follow the CARITAS Healing Process to assimilate this inner knowing to all layers of your being.

Righteousness as a Feminine Strength

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:11:00 GMT

Have you ever spoken up in a powerful way about something you believe to be true that does not agree with popular opinion and been called bitchy, whiny, complaining? Most women know what I'm talking about, but this may apply to men too – in fact, I hope you will all benefit from this healing.

As I've been preparing to publish my book, Fear, Food, and Feminine Power, I've received a message to lean into righteousness as a feminine strength. Righteousness means morally correct, justifiable, upright, and virtuous. It is standing strong for what we feel is the right thing to do, often in the face of injustice.

We have the hormone vasopressin, the mama tiger hormone, that gives us the power to defend those we love against threats. We need to embrace that power, stand strong, and not be silenced by gaslighting.

This is the focus of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for an empowering healing experience.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Keeping Your Faith Regardless of Outcome

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:34:19 GMT

Sometimes when we want something really bad, we say, “I trust... I trust… I trust…” when what we really mean is “I hope… I hope… I hope…” We are praying for a specific outcome that we want, and then if that outcome does not come to pass, we lose trust.

Then we find ourselves saying, “How can I trust in a God that would allow this…?” And then we lose hope, and if we’re not careful, we find ourselves spiraling in negativity that reinforces our fears.

We say to ourselves, “See, I was right!” We love to be validated. But to validate fears and visions of doom is counterproductive if we truly care about our future and the future of our planet.

We must find our faith, muster our positive energy, and see a way forward that uplifts our frequency and the frequency of the planet.

This is the focus of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for an experiential healing.

Harvesting Inner Peace: Discovering Strength & Wisdom through Mother Earth's Energy

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:24:00 GMT

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, now is the time of harvest and preparing for the winter months. This is a period of reflection and beginning to turn inward to explore our inner landscape. It is the perfect time of year to experience the divine attributes of the Earth as reflected in our own divinity.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche will guide you on a Reiki journey, where you can experience the life force of the earth – the primal life energy, providing sustenance and vitality to all living beings. You can immerse yourself in remembering your interconnectedness – everything on earth is interconnected and every element is related to and influences one another.

Embrace the divine within, and recognize that the divine qualities revealed by Mother Earth are already present within you. As your true nature is revealed, you cultivate greater peace, love, and purpose in life. By embracing this inner divinity, you access a source of strength, wisdom, and peace that enriches every aspect of your life.

There will be periods of silence for you to write about your experience as you reflect upon what your energies are currently focused on. Within this area of focus, you ask yourself the question: what is the one thing that you can do, that if you do it, everything else becomes easier or unnecessary? Get your pen and paper and enjoy your journey...

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Feminine-Masculine Synergy for the Future of Humanity

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:39:00 GMT

One thing our US election showed clearly is that the feminine and masculine dynamics are really skewed. The truth of feminine and masculine power is not understood. Until we recognize the highest potential of the feminine and masculine, we cannot have a world of peace or unity.

In this powerful Meditation & Healing Circle, we purge the old conditioning that has us still agreeing to live in archaic behaviors and beliefs, tap into the highest potential of feminine and masculine, and bring our energies into a synergistic relationship that can create true strength that can move our humanity and our planet forward into living in harmony, unity, and peace.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Prayers for a Peaceful Election: Raise the Vibration, Be the Change

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:44:18 GMT

In honor/anticipation of election week in the US, this Meditation & Healing Circle offers prayers and intentions for a peaceful election - calling on the purest light and highest vibrations to surround the entire process. We begin with elevating our vibration to one of pure divine light, unconditional love, boundless compassion, and existential peace - a state where hatred and violence cannot exist. We ask first for ourselves, then for our planet, our country, and our country's leaders.

Listen to this episode to add your prayers for protection to surround our country and all people of this nation. We pray that, whatever the outcome, we move forward in unity, working for the greater good of all.

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Restoring Self-Trust

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:22:51 GMT

When we make mistakes, we can lose faith in ourselves, but self-trust can be restored. Mistakes are inevitable, but when they are accompanied by embarrassment, humiliation, shame, or guilt, they can install this roadblock and warning sign that says "Don't ever go down this road again!" We're left feeling like we can't trust ourselves, and we drive through life with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at all times.

That passion we once felt for life dampens. The inner spark gets dimmed by all the walls we put around it. But that spark is still there, and it can be revived as you restore trust in yourself.

Restoring self-trust is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a personal healing experience.

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Purging Identification with Food Habits & Customs

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:37:00 GMT

We all have those life-defining moments. They lodge images, feelings, and beliefs into our cellular consciousness that we identify with until we do enough healing to dislodge. We also have similar identifications with food, most of which are deeply embedded into the psyche, and many of which cause disharmony and disease in the body and the planet.

We are imprinted with cultural beliefs, customs, traditions, and habits with food that become a part of our identity - and these often times do not align with the laws of nature in which our bodies and our planet are designed to thrive.

Our relationship with food is the most important thing we can shift to foster healing and sustainability for our planet and peace in our world.

In last Sunday's Meditation & Healing Circle, we did a process where we purged from our cellular consciousness the identifications with old wounds and anchored into that connection with our core light so that our core light becomes what we identify with.

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we do a similar process around our relationship with food and those cultural and familial identities with food that keep us from living according to the laws of nature that sustain us and the planet.

Listen to this episode to realign your consciousness so together we can create a sustainable environment and a peaceful world. Please share this with others - it takes a mass effort to effect this much-needed change.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Purging Identification with Old Wounds

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:42:00 GMT

Do you feel like you've done a lot of work to leave your past hurts behind, but there is still a part of you that can't break free from your identification with the old traumas?

Your past does not make you who you are. It just helps you discover the truth at the core of your being.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the divine power of The Invincible, a power within your life force that anchors you to your core light no matter what happens to you in this earth journey. It purges out the old wounds and connects you to your primordial nature.

Listen to this episode to purge identification with old wounds from your cellular consciousness and be embodied with your core light.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Who would you be if...?

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:57:00 GMT

Do you ever find yourself wondering who you would be if... if you were born to different parents, in a different place, encouraged to pursue certain gifts and talents, or perhaps if something hadn't happened that created a roadblock?

Well, the spark that inspired that dream in the first place is still inside you, and you can tap into it now. You might not be able to express it in the way you could have when you were in a younger body, but there are certain qualities and characteristics that it wants to bring forth from within you that can give you a sense of fulfillment.

It's not too late for that creative spark to light up and live through you, to be expressed through you. In this meditation, we explore the essence and qualities at the center of that spark and activate it so you can still be who you are called to be.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

The Mycelial Network and Our Connection with All That Is

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:08:31 GMT

There is an amazing underground network that connects all plant life. It is the mycelial network, the communications system through which plants support each other, warn each other, and collaborate.

As we walk this earth, we connect with the incredible wisdom of this interwoven support system. As Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi said, we are not on this earth, we are in this earth. Our bodies are from the earth, and we are an integral part of the earth ecosystem, not separate from anything. We can tap into our connection with all of nature and the All That Is.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we tap into this network energetically to feel our oneness with everything on this sacred Earth. Connecting in vibrationally with prayer and intention, we glean the wisdom of an interconnected supportive system, to entrain our nervous systems and subconscious programming to harmonize with compassion and collaboration to create a sustainable environment and a peaceful world.

This is healing, and it is key to aligning our subconscious with our oneness with all. This is a beautiful way to increase our conscious connection and inform our subconscious patterns and programming so we can live in greater harmony with the planet.

Listen to this episode for an enlightening meditation to connect with and learn from the wisdom of nature.

A Return to Balance: Reiki Journey with Ruha Cathy Delwiche

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:44:00 GMT

Sunday, September 22, is our Fall Equinox of 2024. This is the time of perfect balance – day and night are equal. As we connect in with the cycles of time, we are given the opportunity to go within and give thought to the balance and flow within our daily lives.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, our friend, Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on an inner journey, a Reiki Journey to experience a ‘Return to Balance’ as reflected within our human energy body, specifically our chakra system. We are guided through balancing our chakra system for clear access to guidance, observing our ‘human guidance,’ ‘inner guidance,’ and ’divine guidance.’

Get your journal and be ready to release limiting beliefs and layers around any voices or stuck energy found within your chakras and equally important, bring in the gifts and talents that support your Next Step in your journey towards Balance and connectedness with All That Is.

Healing Intergenerational Patterns: Wisdom of the Monarch Butterfly

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:03:00 GMT

You've probably heard of the theory: "When you heal an ancestral pattern, you heal seven generations back and seven generations forward." Well, I was talking to someone the other day who said, "It bothers me to heal for the ones who hurt me." I so get that. When you're angry at someone for the pain they caused you, why would you want to do them any favors?

However, there is another way to look at this, and it's based on the intergenerational life cycle of the monarch butterfly. We have so much to learn from the mysteries of this incredible specimen of nature.

Listen to this episode for an exploration of the life cycle of your collective ancestral healing journey, based on the awe-inspiring intergenerational life journey of the monarch butterflies.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Establishing Boundaries to Protect Your Inner Child

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:43:00 GMT

Did you ever have those times as a child when you wished someone would have been there to protect you, to take up for you when someone was hurting you or making fun of you or bullying you?

This child and her needs still live inside you, and you can give that to her now. You can give her the protection she needed and be her advocate to bring healing to the memories and energies that are stored with her inside you.

Listen to this experiential healing to bring her the momma tiger energy and let her know she is protected. Instill a sense of safety and worthiness in her, and in yourself.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Integration with Your Younger Self

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:25:00 GMT

Integration of all parts of ourselves is key to healing, wholeness, and success. Last week in our Meditation & Healing Circle, we journeyed forward to connect with our future selves to receive insights about how our present-day decisions and lifestyle choices affect the future world we want to live in.

In this week's meditation, we go back to our younger self to integrate lost parts of ourselves so that we can move smoothly and seamlessly toward a world of peace, love, compassion, and sustainability.

#imaginepeace #bethepeace

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

If you could speak with your future self...

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:32:00 GMT

If you could speak with your future self, what conversation would you want to have? What do you want to say about the world you helped to create that your future self is living in? What do you want to hear from your future self about the impact your decisions and lifestyle choices made?

This is a critical time in our history in the making. Not just politically, but culturally, morally, spiritually. What side of history do you want to be on?

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we journey forward to connect with our future selves to listen to what wants to be revealed.

Listen to this episode to receive guidance for choices you can make today to create a peaceful, compassionate, and sustainable future that your future self will want to live in.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Release the Masks to Reveal Your Authentic Self

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:46:26 GMT

We all wear many masks throughout the course of our lives. When we step into unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations, it's natural to fall into a persona that we've been conditioned to believe we need to be to be accepted and successful.

Think about the mask you put on when you first went into middle school, or a new relationship, or your first job. Those masks help us get through the awkwardness, but even after we don't need them anymore, parts of them stick. They keep us from being our authentic selves.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we're going to bring awareness to some of the masks we have worn and explore - how are they supporting us? How are they masking our authenticity and sincerity? Do we need to keep them or are we ready to release them?

Listen to this episode for self-exploration, deep cleansing, and coming back to wholeness with your authentic self.

Strengthen Your Inner Compass

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:40:32 GMT

Everyone has an inner compass, that inner guidance system that tells us when we are aligned with our highest truth and our most authentic selves.

When we perceive the world from that aligned and connected place, we can make choices and decisions that support the highest good for ourselves and the planet. We can speak up for the things we care about, take action to bring about the changes we wish to see, and move in a way that uplifts our vibration and the vibration of the planet.

In this episode, we tap into that inner compass and get a visceral feeling of when we are aligned and not aligned. We invoke specific divine powers to strengthen our connection with the inner compass and develop a greater trust in ourselves.

Align with the Natural Order of the Universe

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 16:39:16 GMT

No matter how chaotic life gets, there is a natural order to the universe. You are a microcosm of the macrocosm. You can align with the natural order and find harmony and balance in your life.

We tend to focus on our healing and transformation, our earth journey, our cycle of growth and evolution, and our purpose. In the twenty-eight step-levels of creation, our journey is the final step (and there is no end) within the seventh stage of creation – and it is an ongoing process.

Set in place before the human’s path, we are experiencing another 6 stages of creation, including 27 layers of creation which establish:

Your vision and plan, and the laws of nature that govern the substance and flow of the universe,
The universal container - from unity to multiplicity,
The guiding principles of your inner compass,
The lifecycle of this universe,
Your role of stewardship,
Your influencers and guides,
Then humanity and the ever-evolving human journey of elevation.

All of these stages and layers of creation give us immense support. When you get a glimpse of what is supporting you, you can develop greater trust and live with more ease and joy.

In fact, these teachings are so inspiring, you can live with awe and amazement of the incredible life you’ve been given and the beauty that exists all around you.

In this episode of the Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore the order of the universe and tap into our connection with this divine support structure. Join us to find support, guidance, trust, and inner peace.

How Guilt Affects Your Relationship with Money

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:42:48 GMT

What internal conversations do you have with yourself around money? What beliefs guide your financial decisions? Discover the role GUILT plays in your financial health, and how loyalty to your family and friends can be holding back your wealth creation.

Our special guest, Jean Border, guides us through the fascinating world of the Emotional Freedom Technique, a gentle technique to help you move easily from experiences of the past into a calmer, exciting life.

Experience for yourself these powerful protocols to help you discover and let go of baggage (and beliefs) from your past that has been weighing you down, and keeping you stuck in old patterns.

Jean Border is a holistic intuitive healer who loves helping small business owners break through the limiting beliefs that hold them back in their businesses. However, you do not need to be a business owner of any kind to benefit from this one! Guilt is an equal opportunity employer!

Free Will vs Divine Plan

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:34:42 GMT

Do you struggle with wanting to live your life aligned with the divine plan for you, yet you question the role of your own will? It's a common conundrum. Yet the two are not mutually exclusive. They actually have a beautiful relationship that can guide us through our journey.

So where does free will intersect with the divine plan? How can we navigate our choices to align with greater spiritual truths and ensure a sustainable future?

This is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a healing meditation to gain clarity and guidance.

Prayers for Peace & Unity (through the lens of a classic rock song)

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:45:00 GMT

Earlier in the week one of our beautiful Sufi teachers, Kabir Helminski, shared the lyrics of the classic rock song Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell and more famously sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.

"We are stardust,

We are golden,

We are billion-year-old carbon,

And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."

From the time I read the post, the song continued to loop in my heart. The song is a remembrance of who we are and a prayer for peace.

Later in the song it says:

"And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes

Riding shotgun in the sky

Turning into butterflies

Above our nation."

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to contemplate and reconnect with who we are - cosmic beings as conduits for consciousness to explore this earth journey and to come to know itself and return. Join in a prayer for peace - a visualization of all bomber jets and all weapons turning to butterflies, all hatred turning to love and compassion throughout our world.

Does Fear Influence Your Eating Habits?

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 22:11:33 GMT

By now we know that uncomfortable emotions influence our food choices, eating habits, and ability to digest and absorb nutrients. In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we will look specifically at how fear might be influencing our eating habits.

By fear I mean a disruption in your base chakra and belly energy centers that disturbs your primal sense of safety and security. Whether the disruption was caused by something in this lifetime or something from a past life you brought with you to heal, we want to bring healing to those underlying agitations so you can feel more trust, security, and peace.

Listen to this episode for a gentle, compassionate healing experience.

Lessons & Blessings from Living with My Father - Part 4: Why are our souls traveling this journey together?

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:19:00 GMT

As we close out the month of June and this series on Lessons and Blessings from Living with My Father, today we tap into compassionate listening with an inquiry into the questions: "Why have our souls traveled this earth together at this time? What are we here to learn from each other, to give and receive. to share?"

Listen to this episode to explore heart-centered connection with a deep desire to learn about your own personal soul journey.

Journey through the Blessings Fields

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:28:53 GMT

We have a special treat today - a journey through the Blessings Fields with Ruha Cathy Delwiche, Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher and incredible healer.

Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) have just passed bringing their unique blend of energies. As we celebrate these times with our families and friends, remembering the sacred truth: even Father Sun on the longest day at the height of their brilliance, yields to the Light and begins the long descent into Winter’s embrace only to be reborn as the cycle must ever repeat. We too are part of this cycle – riding the rhythm of time.

In our daily lives, we often lose sight of our blessings and see only what needs to be fixed or healed. So often we focus only on the healing aspects of our spiritual journey. Reiki is an excellent modality to assist with healing whether on the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels. AND Reiki can also be used to reveal our gifts, talents, innovations, inspirations, dreams and blessings.

In this episode, Cathy guides us on a Reiki Journey to the Blessings Fields, a beautiful garden-like meadow filled with flowers and tall grasses and butterflies and birds and all things alive and vibrating. As we sit in the Blessings Field, we will be given the opportunity to receive Blessings from all the elements of our creation. And as the ‘remembering of these blessings’ comes flooding in, we will ask to see and be shown lifetimes of exceptional mastery, lifetime of abundance, excellent health, contentment.

We will be shown, and we will know all these gifts and talents exist within our DNA, our cellular memory, our culture, our thought forms and beliefs. We are it and it is us. Just a slight shift in awareness will allow you to express all your gifts and talents in this lifetime right now. And so it is.

Get a pen and paper for a journaling exercise and be ready to experience your inner knowingness and let those blessings express!

Lessons & Blessings from Living with My Father - Part 3: Patience with Lesser-Abled Loved Ones

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:24:00 GMT

Life gets busy. When our aging loved ones are slowing down, it can be challenging to dial back our pace to be present with them.

The same is true when a spouse or friend becomes ill, or with our children, and especially with our parents – the folks that were yelling at us to hurry up when we were younger. Our minds might not be able to grasp what is happening when their bodies and minds are losing functionality.

One thing that is super important is to meet them where they are, support them without taking over for them, and celebrate what they are able to do.

They still have things that bring them joy and fulfillment. They just need a little assistance with the activities they like to do. But this doesn't mean they need us to do everything for them. If we do, we take away their autonomy and sense of accomplishment.

As hard as it might be when our time is limited, it helps if we can resist the desire to take over and do for them the things they still want to be able to do - even if we can do it better or faster or with the latest tools and technology that is going to make it super cool.

They still have value and capability, and if we can slow down and have patience with them, we can learn a lot from them – which helps them feel they are still valued as well.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we are working with our patience – slowing down our energy during the times we spend together. We open our hearts to see wisdom, beauty, and lessons in the old ways that may seem obsolete. We embrace the value in accepting and appreciating our elders and all the wisdom they have gained in their lives.

By the way, Happy Father’s Day! This is the 3rd in a series of Blessings and Lessons from Living with My Father - keys to help us in our relationships with our parents, honoring our elderly, and in our personal growth.

Lessons & Blessings from Living with my Father - Part 2: Keys to a Sharp Mind & Joyful Spirit

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:49:00 GMT

Do you wonder what keeps some people sharp, active, and happy into their elder years? When I first moved in with my dad (now 101), I was surprised at some of the habits he had developed that filled his time. But then as I observed how he was living his life, I realized how he had masterfully embraced what he was still physically and mentally able to do. He was aging gracefully in his own way, keeping his mind sharp and his spirit joyful.

It was a beautiful teaching. I soon dropped my judgments and found that when I joined him in this stream, my life became more joyful as well.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we'll do a healing process that I hope will help us see, appreciate, and embrace some supportive changes for our aging loved ones - and our aging selves - for a more peaceful and joyful longevity.

Lessons & Blessings from Living with my Father - Part 1: Letting Go of Attachment to Outcome & Time

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:58:00 GMT

I've been living with my father for 7 years now. He is 101 years young, nearing 102. This has been the most special time of my life. I've received many blessings and learned many lessons that can help us in our relationships with our parents, honoring our elderly, and in our personal growth.

In this episode, Part 1, we explore:

Letting Go of our Attachment to Outcome, and
Finding a New Relationship with Time

In recognition of Father’s Day, throughout the month of June I’ll be sharing keys that help us heal our hearts and find more peace in our daily lives.

Join us for inner exploration and heart-centered healing.

Leaving a Safe Planet for Our Children

Sun, 26 May 2024 17:05:00 GMT

If there’s anything you have been putting off or been on the fence about, now if the time. It's time for us to get into alignment and strengthen our commitments so we can leave a safe and healthy planet for our children.

Right now, we're on track to destroy the whole thing before the end of our average lifespan. We've got to make the changes to turn things around.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we come together for prayers, guidance, support, strength, faith, and a commitment to take action to ensure that we leave a safe and healthy planet for our children and ourselves.

Listen to this episode for an inner exploration, and to align and commit to follow through on your inner guidance.

Supporting Our Young Adults: Future Leaders & Caretakers of Our Planet

Sun, 19 May 2024 16:56:00 GMT

Today’s children and young adults are the future leaders and caretakers of the planet. As our planet’s environment and human consciousness are simultaneously rapidly evolving, our youth are coming in encoded with what they need to survive and thrive in an evolved world.

Our current leaders and most adults are set in the old ways which have been destroying our planet, and we like to pressure the children to conform to these detrimental habits and continue the harmful systems.

For the children to break from their encoding and conform to our unsustainable ways would crush our collective soul and destroy the planet.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, join us to pray for our children to have strength, wisdom, integrity, perseverance, patience, and all that is needed to transform our lifestyle and culture and hold the vibration that will bring about sustainability and peace. And for us, we ask to receive what we need to have the clarity and wisdom to understand, support, and guide them to do what they are here to do.

Listen to this episode for a healing unifying meditation.

Healing Guilt from the Mother-Child Relationship

Sun, 12 May 2024 17:22:21 GMT

Inherent in every mother-child relationship is guilt. As a parent, we worry if we did what was needed to give our children the best chance at living a successful and fulfilling life. As a child, we wonder if we did enough to make our parents proud and give them fulfillment as parents.

When I was 24 years old, my mother passed away from cancer. I was a gifted child with enormous potential, yet I had wild rebellious streak. I know I fell short of her hopes and dreams for me, and I caused her heartache and grief in the process. When she became ill, I blamed myself for making her life so difficult. I was sure I had played a significant role in causing her illness.

Years later, I heard one of my spiritual teachers speak of the Mother’s Guilt – a pain that every mother carries, always wondering if she did the right things for her children, or if she could have done better.

The struggle goes both ways. This Sunday is Mother’s Day in the US, a perfect day to bring some gentle loving kindness and healing to these places of guilt for both mother and child, to release the patterns of guilt in the Mother-Child relationship.

Listen to this episode for a compassionate, heart-centered healing opportunity.

Compassionate Listening for Healing Relationships

Sun, 05 May 2024 16:42:42 GMT

Effective communications can make or break a relationship. This doesn't always mean effectively proving our points or being right or even perfect. I'm talking about listening with an open compassionate heart and a desire to mend your relationships. This authentically deepens the heart connection. It's more than a band-aid, it heals core wounds.

If we truly care about our connection with someone, truly listening, as my teacher used to say, "with the ear of your heart" is most healing for both of you.

This is our topic of this week's Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen in to release your defenses, center yourself, and communicate with an open heart to truly mend the relationships that are most important to you.

Sound Healing for Softening the Heart

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:18:43 GMT

How about a spa day for your heart? Gentle healing sounds to soften the heart, release the blocks and barriers, and rest into the beauty and peace deep inside.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, I’m going to share a sequence I did as a practicum when I was in Continuum Movement Teacher Training, and it got a high mark! It was very well received and people had deeply moving healing experiences.

We've been working with healing trauma for the past few weeks – connecting with the earth, settling the nervous system, dropping in to embody your physical vessel – and now resting into the beauty at the depth of your heart.

Sacred Sound for Getting Back into Your Body

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:29:44 GMT

The traumas of life can disconnect us from our bodies. When we experience a shock, we rebound out. We live from our heads, or we retreat inward or hide behind ourselves. We have trouble being our authentic selves in relationships or expressing our thoughts clearly in work environments.

Sound vibration is really helpful for breaking up stuck energies to release old patterning and blocks from the body, and it's also helpful for getting yourself back into your body, connected with your core authentic self.

There are specific sounds which can help us reconnect and anchor into our bodies, regardless of how long ago the traumas occurred.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we work with a sequence of Sacred Sounds to ground into our bodies and become the solid powerful presence that feels natural and on point with who we are meant to be.

Release Effects of Trauma using Sacred Sound

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:21:31 GMT

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on releasing the effects of trauma from the body. We use Sacred Sounds to open the throat and reclaim the voice. We release constriction from the upper chest, throat, jaw, face, and head, returning us to our original knowing of ourselves as beings of light.

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Whether you have experienced traumas directly related to these topics or not, we all hold trauma responses in our nervous systems.

With a national focus on such abuses, this is a good time to tap into the collective intentions and bring release and healing to those places that are wanting to let go.

For the remainder of April, we'll be using Sacred Sound to release and heal old traumas and restore our hearts and nervous systems, so mark your calendar to join us each Sunday.

Next week, April 21, we focus on coming back into the body, centering and grounding. Then on April 28, we focus on healing for the heart. So be sure to join us live on Sundays.

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See you there!

What Sacred Sound Tells Us about Our Role on this Planet

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 17:00:00 GMT

What is our role on this planet in relation to other species? Answers are encoded within us, and Sacred Sound can awaken the inner knowledge.

Humans are one of four main species, different from the others because we are caretakers of the planet. We are here to take care of this world and the other species that are also, like us, a part of this world.

Of course, we know this in our bones – and we have a deep knowledge and wisdom that is encoded in our subtle energy bodies. Using Sacred Sound, we can connect with this inherent instinct and feel it within us, to help us embody and BE what we are here to bring to this planet.

This is a really powerful exercise for us to consciously experience, especially at this crucial time for our planet – when so many species are dying off and the health of our planet is in question.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi's Cosmology of Sound and the Emanation of Creation to help us tap into the vibrations that help us viscerally know our place and live into our role - in harmony - on this planet, our Mother Earth.

Listen to this episode to feel and embody your connection to all species, yourself as a human, and the planet.

Embodied Wisdom: The Quantum Field Of Healing And Movement With Elizabeth Dare Andes

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:00:00 GMT

Embark on a journey of discovery and healing with Elizabeth Dare Andes—a Somatic Movement Therapist, Energy Healer, Educator and Founder of Evolutionary Somatics. As we delve into the depths of somatic movement therapy, energy healing, and the quantum field, Elizabeth shares her transformative odyssey, ignited in 1980 under the vibrant lights of New York City. Join us as we uncover the profound potential of energy within the body through the art of dance. Prepare to be mesmerized as we explore the intricate world of fascia, the body's largest sensory organ, and its role as a living liquid crystal matrix essential for communication and movement. From the significance of easy water to the impact of modern lifestyles and trauma on our energy potential, Elizabeth illuminates pathways to vitality and well-being through practices like wave movement and sound therapy. With poignant anecdotes and insightful reflections, witness the transformative power of somatic therapy in healing from trauma and restoring harmony to the body and mind. Join us on this enlightening journey where mindful movement becomes a catalyst for inner transformation and holistic wellness.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Is Moving beyond Old Wounds a Spiritual Bypass?

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:24:48 GMT

Some people say that moving beyond old wounds before they are healed is a spiritual bypass. They believe you cannot move beyond until you have healed. Yet, the life journey is a continual process of healing. So how can you be your authentic self while you're in the process?

We change our relationship to our past, our old wounds, and the pain they cause. Our movement is more of a dance - we learn to express ourselves and be ourselves as we are moving through the divine choreography. This is not inauthentic. It's real.

To heal means to make whole. With awareness and ever-evolving consciousness, we can continue to heal as we move. The important thing is that we accept ourselves in our perfect imperfections as we grow. We do not live from our old wounds, but we have awareness of our relationship to them as we evolve into more and more authentic and fulfilling aspects our ourselves.

So how do we dance this dance that allows us to move beyond old wounds with authenticity and wisdom? Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle for a transformative healing experience.

Release Beliefs of "Not Enough"

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:14:00 GMT

We carry layers and layers of subconscious self-talk and emotional wounding that feeds into our sense of "not enough." Not tall enough, not thin enough, not pretty enough, not enough training or education, not enough money, not enough time, not enough... not enough... enough of that!

These beliefs build a wall around us that keeps us from pursuing the passions we feel inside which will lead us to true fulfillment. They keep us from feeling safe and confident in our bodies. They steer us away from feeding our bodies in a way that cares for our sacred temples.

But-- You ARE Enough! In this today's Meditation & Healing Circle, my dear friend and our special guest, Ruha Cathy Delwiche, will be guiding us on a healing journey using Holy Fire Reiki to clear those layers and free ourselves so we can experience the contentment we long to BE in our lives.

Listen to this episode to clear each of your major 7 chakras of limiting beliefs, judgments, and not enoughness from your current life, past lives, cultural imprints, and more.

Emotional Healing for Your Belly

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:23:00 GMT

Does stress get your belly tied up in knots? Your belly needs support to decompress just like any other part of you. In fact, it needs special attention because that's where we tend to store our most intense emotions - shame, guilt, worry, fear, anger, vulnerability - and then we disconnect from it so we don't have to deal with those unpleasantries.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we invite our bellies to our Circle. We give it love and attention and the space it needs to release pent up stress and emotional constriction that it's been holding onto, and we allow it to settle into a peaceful presence.

Fasting: The Gift of Slowing Down

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:33:00 GMT

Fasting is the ultimate Gift of Slowing Down. It is not an action or a ritual, but a non-doing, a state of being that allows your presence to be one with your divine essence. In this state you find many truths and extraordinary healing.

The Divine Design of your physical body gives it the intelligence to heal itself. Our role is to choose the wisdom that gives it the necessary conditions and the space. Fasting is one of the most powerful gifts we've been given to create these conditions.

March is National Colorectal Cancer awareness month. We are at the start of Ramadan, and we're in the midst of Lent. All of these observations can use fasting as a practice of personal healing, spiritual growth, and transformation.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we discuss the gifts of fasting, and we immerse into a meditation practice to realize the mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of fasting.

Listen to this episode to travel inward, to settle in and be present, to quiet yourself, to listen in the stillness with love and acceptance, and to receive the nourishment and provision that is supporting you.

Choosing Self-Love When You're Feeling Stressed

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:51:47 GMT

Do you ever wonder why when we're feeling stressed, we want to eat foods and do things that end up making us feel even worse? What if we could remember that our bodies are vessels of light that just need a little support on this day and give our body the nurturing and nourishment that it truly needs?

In every Meditation & Healing Circle, I follow guidance. I don't always know where we're going. This episode led us on a journey to connect and establish trust in our body's connection with earth. It led us to connect the part of us that gets disconnected, ungrounded, and uncentered to the part that remembers and connects and receives nourishment through its connection with earth.

Listen to this episode for a powerful rewiring of your nervous system and underlying energy patterns to remember and trust its connection with your body and earth. Reconnect with gentle loving kindness and give yourself what you need to feel healthy, vibrant, alive, and at peace.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and National Nutrition Month. In our Meditation & Healing Circles this month, we are going to focus on connecting with our bodies so that we can recognize and remember what they need to truly be supported whether we're having a gentle day or a rough day.

How to Evolve in Our Changing World

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:15:11 GMT

How do we evolve in our changing world? In this age of multiple crises that are accelerating and converging, it's very challenging to not fall back into old patterns stemming from unprocessed trauma. How do we move through these patterns so that we can create consciously and thrive?

As it happens, one of the best models for regeneration is found in nature. Like all organic life, our bodies share the same architecture and cardinal principles for life flourishing. The portals to unlocking these can be found in our bodies, specifically in our largest sense organ, the fascia.

I'm very excited to have a special guest, Elizabeth Dare Andes, to take us on a journey to discover how simple somatic practices using breath, sound and movement can reconnect us with our body's signature wave and restore our coherence so that we can face the challenges ahead with clarity, intention and a deep devotion to the sacred in all life.

I met Elizabeth in the Continuum Movement world. Her incredible knowledge and masterful ways of articulating the mysteries of fascia and somatic healing continues to blow my mind. I know you're going to love her!!

Elizabeth is founder of Evolutionary Somatics, and she's an international presenter on fascia, an incredible healer and teacher, and much more. I can't wait for you to meet her!!

Listen to this episode for a transformational experience with a somatic practice involving sound, breath, and subtle movement.

Find more info about Elizabeth Dare Andes at https://evolutionarysomatics.org

You can connect with her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.andesbell

Developing Sacred Intimacy

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:20:27 GMT

Would you like to have deeper intimacy in your relationships? The secret to deepening intimacy is presence – being deeply present and attentive to one another. It begins by being present in your own being and allowing your heart to open to the heart of another – without losing yourself.

To have sacred intimacy means to invoke the Divine Essence, to see through the lens of the holiness within you to witness the sacred essence of another, to be in awe of the light and to bring deep honoring of the sacred beauty.

This is a practice you can develop with your Source, yourself, and with a partner. Listen to this episode for a healing experience.

Are you your partner's dumping ground?

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:10:28 GMT

One of my exes used to treat me as a human dumping ground. I get it, he had a lot of stress he needed to release… but no matter how understanding and loving you are, it gets old. After a while, I was done with it and decided it needed to change.

I talked with a friend who helped me realize it wasn’t about me, it was just that I was the safe space he needed to be able to let everything go. Maybe a compliment in a way, but still not ok on an everyday basis.

However, it did give me a different lens to look through so I could communicate more effectively with him and take the steps to change this relationship dynamic.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I want to help you take the steps you need to take, regardless of whether you are the dumper or the dumpee, to connect with your authentic self and speak the truth in love.

Is yesterday's anger determining today's reality?

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 19:15:53 GMT

Do you find yourself angry, frustrated, barking at people for things that are outside of your control and even out of their control? What if you could find a way to peacefully express yourself and bring about a desirable resolution without raising your blood pressure or hurting people around you?

The truth is, most of our responses are learned behaviors. They might be patterns we learned from our parents, or we might be reacting to a memory of something we experienced in childhood that never got resolved.

With a little Awareness and Discernment, we can determine whether we are reacting to the past or being present with the current situation. We have to be present with what is in front of us if we want to change the outcomes.

If you want to stop letting yesterday’s anger determine today’s reality, listen to this episode of the Meditation & Healing Circle.

Sacred Sounds Of The Medicine Woman: The Power Of Sound Healing With Leonor Murciano Luna

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT

The power of sound has been woven into the fabric of human cultures for entertainment, healing, and transformation. The invisible symphony of sound weaves its magic within. The sacred sounds hold the key to unlocking deep states of consciousness and facilitating healing. In this episode, Leonor Murciano Luna, the Author of Birth of the Conscious Feminine: A New Era of Feminine Sovereignty, brings us the power of the sacred sounds of the medicine woman. Frequencies, like whispered spells, coax your brainwaves into a harmonious ballet, where focus pirouettes, mood waltzes, and pain tiptoes away on silent feet. She explains that you don’t always need a drum to let the divine flow within you, but humming can also be your tool to bring the primordial essence into your heart. In this episode, Leonor will also play medicine songs, so tune up the volume, feel the sounds, and tune down the pain in this healing episode.

Go from Self-Soothing to Self-Love: Uncover 5 Subconscious Beliefs that Hold You Back and keep you looping in patterns of discontent. https://FearFoodFemininePower.com/5Beliefs

Medicine of the Feminine - with Dr. Leonor Murciano-Luna

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:32:00 GMT

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, Dr. Leonor Murciano-Luna leads us on an exploration of the Medicine of the Feminine and an Activation of the 7 Portals of our Feminine Soul: WISDOM- CREATRIX- HEALER- LOVE- TRUTH- MYSTERY & JOY.

Dr. Leonor is the Founder of Conscious Feminine Medicine and The Feminine Path. She is the author of Birth of the Conscious Feminine, Evolution of the Feminine Soul, and Out of Darkness She Speaks

Listen to this episode to experience a powerful healing through a Conscious Feminine Medicine Activation.

Self-Love vs Self-Like

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:58:46 GMT

Do you ever feel like you wished the people closest to you liked you? Like, you know your family loves you, but you feel like they do not LIKE you. Chances are you heard things growing up that made you feel you were not enough or you were defective or you never got it right. This leaves an imprint on the developing psyche that says "I'm not likable" or "People don't like me."

I have a very personal experience with this lingering subconscious belief pattern. After several years of healing, I became aware of this voice and how it was shaping my experiences. Of course, I brought it into healing and the evolution was exquisite.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I guide you through a process of healing layers of your subconscious template and filling the space with the person you were created to be and like. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Self-Soothe without Comfort Food

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:51:53 GMT

Do you have a tendency to soothe your nerves with comfort food? Then you eat a bunch of junk and feel sluggish or just plain yucky? Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to learn techniques to settle your nervous system and soothe yourself without using food.

I dove into the Spiritual Healing right away. Please absorb that. And stay on until the end for tips on how to divert your attention and release your energy when the urges come up and you can't drop into a healing session in the moment.

That said, use these meditations regularly and repeatedly to retrain your nervous system and reestablish neurological pathways and habits.

From Inspiration to Vision to Creative Life Force using Sacred Sound

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:46:00 GMT

Do you have a vision for 2024? In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we use Sacred Sound to connect Inspiration to Vision to the Creative Life Force energy.

In this Meditation, I was inspired to offer a mini-workshop to take this process farther so you can realize and record what is coming through. The workshop is Saturday, January 13th. From Inspired to Expressed. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://joyfully-living.mykajabi.com/from-inspired-to-expressed-masterclass.

Listen to this episode to connect with the Breath that breathes you, that breathes divine inspiration into your heart. From silent breath to a vocalized sound, we connect inspiration to thought and then to the creative centers that give birth to your inspirations and ideas.

We clear the channels and stimulate the flow for the divine inspiration to become tangible and experienced in your world.

A Ceremony of Reflection with Cathy Delwiche

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:47:57 GMT

In this episode, special guest Cathy Delwiche guide us on a journey to enlightened realms to receive guidance, healing, and empowerment. The Ceremony of Reflection gives you an opportunity to look back to your moment of conception and remember ‘who you are’.

We pause and reflect on our gifts and talents as expressed in our human nature. We reflect on possibilities, resources, and actions. We release old thoughtforms and embrace choices that lead us into the future. We ask, ‘what is my next step?’, and state with certainty ‘who I am’.

Have a pen, paper, and an open heart, and prepare to receive insights and guidance. We're both excited to see what shows up for you.

Ruha Cathy Delwiche is a beautiful and powerful healer, a Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher and a Professional Member of the International Center for Reiki Training. She is now a regular quarterly guest on our show, so be sure to subscribe for more journeys with Cathy.

BioGeometry: Measuring The Life Force Of The Earth With Dr. Ibrahim Karim

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT

In our final episode from the Ocean of Sound Summit, Dr. Ibrahim Karim discusses the concepts of BioGeometry. Dr. Karim brings so many aspects together in this theory of BioGeometry – sacred geometry, sacred sound, vibrations, consciousness, realms of creation, the physical well-being of our societies and our bodies, and so much more.

Imagine how the shapes of buildings that you live in might affect your ability to connect with higher dimensions! Imagine how you might be able to shape your environment – literally – to connect with the natural world and the spiritual realms! Imagine how this might impact your immune system function and your overall health and well-being.

BioGeometry is the study of how shapes interact with Earth's energy to produce a balancing effect on all energy levels of biological systems – and it's absolutely fascinating!

Words from Jesus on Peace

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 20:18:53 GMT

Jesus was known as the Prince of Peace. On this day as people around the world acknowledge and celebrate his birth, we call on his spirit and welcome into our hearts his message of peace.

Listen to this episode for a deep meditation on peace to pray for peace in our lives and our world.

Ho'Oponopono Prayers for Peace & Healing

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:39:00 GMT

If you are a lover of peace, please listen and add your intentions to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We pray from the deepest, most sincere place in our hearts for healing for the people who are suffering and to bring peace to our planet. The force of your prayers is needed. Plus, please listen to this reason to stop taking sides and think for yourself.

What holds you back from reaching your dreams?

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:44:42 GMT

Do you have a quiet voice in your head telling you "You can't"? Maybe someone who held authority over you - a teacher, boss, or parent - told you long ago that you could not because of some limitation they perceived to be true. Those things can stick with us, leaving us fighting against an invisible wall or arguing with an invisible figure of someone who is long gone from our lives.

This happened to me and it left a powerful imprint on me for many years -- until one day I recognized the voice and realized that the only person still holding me back was ME! At that moment I decided to let that go and give myself the opportunities that had been right there waiting for me for a long time. It was a game-changer.

This is the focus of this week's Meditation & Healing Circle. If you have some lingering voices hanging out in your mental field telling you "You can't," listen in and let's clear it out.

Do you have a hard time receiving compliments? (It's time to stop denying your gifts)

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:02:31 GMT

How are you at receiving compliments? Do you find yourself shying away or deflecting, laughing, shrugging it off, changing the subject? Maybe you instantly counter with a compliment before you can receive the acknowledgement you've been given.

I get it. No one wants to be arrogant or prideful. But if the praise is for a God-given gift that you have been so fortunate to develop, then it's not about you. My teacher, Sidi Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal, used to say, "This life is for you, but not about you."

It is for you, and it moves through you. So how can you allow your gifts to manifest and your light to shine and receive compliments without making it about you? This is actually a profound and healing practice which you can receive in this Meditation & Healing Circle.

Openings in Makkah: What Lies Beyond The World Of Our Senses With Dr. Shu'ayb Eric Winkel

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMT

The Sufi mystic and scholar, the great shaykh, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, received amazing revelations that allowed him to gain insights beyond this realm. He wrote over 10,000 pages of teachings about what lies beyond our three-dimensional world. These teachings are known as The Openings in Makkah. In this episode, Dr. Shu'ayb Eric Winkel shares insights from his translation of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi's Openings in Makkah. Dr. Winkel is translating over 10,000 pages of teachings from Ibn 'Arabi – the largest English translation of this work. This interview is from the Ocean of Sound Summit, hosted by Amany Shalaby and Debra Mastura Graugnard. Join in as Dr. Winkel takes us on a journey inside Ibn 'Arabi’s mind and learn how his body of work can help guide us and future generations in navigating the path forward.

Gratitude: a Pathway to Create a Season of Meaning

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:23:18 GMT

What does the Holiday Season mean for you? What would you like your season to be this year? Holidays can bring a lot of stress - pressure to consume more, spend more, travel more. It can stir up a lot of emotions that feel counter to the holiday spirit.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, Teresa Velardi, author of The Daily Gift of Gratitude, shares how Gratitude can be a pathway to connect with our hearts and create a season we can be grateful for.

Listen to this episode for an exploration of what your heart and soul desire to make this season meaningful and fulfilling.

How to Make Gratitude Work for You

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:37:00 GMT

Muhyiddin Ibn Al-‘Arabi said, “You don’t receive your blessings until you have counted them.” This means to truly take account of the blessings, to acknowledge the positive signs that the Universe is conspiring to support you in your efforts to be the person you came here to be.

This means to really allow the blessings into all layers of your consciousness, to receive deeply into your cellular consciousness so that you become – the blessings carry you and transform you to be and to actualize the gifts in your life.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for a journey to Make Gratitude Work for You – to embody the blessings and gifts that you receive every day.

Three Simple Steps to Add Meaning to Your Life

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:31:24 GMT

It might seem hard to think about living with meaning when there is so much unrest in the world. However, consciously or subconsciously, we are all trying to understand what's going on. Why is this happening? What are we supposed to do about it? What happens to our lives meanwhile? What can we do to stay positive and hold hope?

The truth is, we are not alone. This world is an illusion. There is a higher reality that we are a part of. And the veils are not that thick. Our guides are right with us. They are accessible. They can help us get through this and understand. They can help us live with meaning and contribute to the greater good.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, I share Three Simple Steps to Give Meaning to Your Life. We focus on aligning with our hearts and asking for help from our guides and Source. We practice setting an aligned intention, and then reflecting on events to glean a higher meaning. And a third step not to be forgotten...

Listen to this episode to learn Three Steps to Add Meaning to Your Life and stay aligned with your highest connection and deepest integrity.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: What does it mean to you?

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:19:00 GMT

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. What does it mean to you? What does it mean for our Mother Earth?

My spiritual teacher had a saying, "Do not let them eat your meat and then throw you!" This was his way of trying to teach me about commanding respect for myself. It was a long road for me, but I finally GOT IT!

For me, commanding respect means expecting to be treated fairly and kindly, and also commanding respect for my values and my rights to live in a way that I feel is fair for the planet and her inhabitants. This often means going against the grain of the mainstream practices.

I know a number of people who feel a strong passion to live their lives in ways that are outside of the norm. They/We continually meet challenges from people who do not want to change, and sometimes it's difficult to stand your ground. We end up compromising and living in a way that feels unkind to ourselves, others, and the planet.

Can you relate? This Meditation & Healing Circle can help you unhook from the hold that others have on you and let go of your own need to conform to the pressures of the mainstream world.

Listen for a deep healing to help you break free from the pressure to choose a side in the current war and help you choose your authentic position for peace.

Music, Mood, & Healing with guest Camela Widad

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:47:36 GMT

It's hard to think about singing songs of joy when the world is on fire. We're all in a bit of trauma freeze. But music is incredibly healing, and producing sound from your own voice, even simple tones, can help unlock your body from freeze mode and open your heart and mind to greater clarity.

Though it's hard not to feel the pain, we don't do anyone any favors by holding the pain for them. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we set an intention to free up the constriction in our own bodies - our voices and our throats - and send that power of healing, freedom, and peace out to reverberate around the planet.

To guide us today, I have a SPECIAL GUEST!! My former roommate, dear friend, and professional musician and vocal coach, Camela Widad. We've had so much fun over the years, and the vocal coaching I've received from her has been incredibly healing.

Camela Widad guides us through activities to unlock the throat and vocal cords, free up the constriction we hold that affects our voices and our whole bodies, and we intend a message of healing to resonate around the globe.

Sufi Mindfulness Yoga With Dr. Brian McPherson

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Have you ever noticed that certain sounds have an impact on you, even the basic sounds that do not form words? Today, our special guest, Brian McPherson, Ph.D. shares with us the inherent emotional impact of sound and words on the body, and their healing effects when used in meditation. He shares the unique approaches and Sufi practices that help promote mindfulness and spiritual growth. Based on his book entitled “Sufi Mindfulness Yoga,” Dr. Brian shares the best ways to approach your situations and how mindfulness practices can shift your mood and energy. He also shares his insights on these practices and how they can help us cultivate inner peace and deepen our connection to the present moment. Join us as we explore the fascinating world of Sufi Mindfulness Yoga with Dr. Brian McPherson and learn how this practice can help you grow spiritual growth, inner peace, and greater mindfulness.

Increasing Your Sense of Security

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:51:53 GMT

It seems everyone I talk to lately expresses a feeling of general agitation and fear. There's a good reason for that. It's what is flowing through our cosmic soup right now. There is a lot of uncertainty about what is to come.

And even with that, not denying it, you have an innate knowing of connection and safety and trust at the core of your being.

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we travel back to the fundamental development of our physical bodies to reconnect with our innate knowing of connection, safety, security, provision, and trust.

God willing, we attune our awareness and cellular consciousness to this knowing so our nervous systems can rest into a state of calm, peace, and trust as we traverse the terrain we are currently crossing.

Listen to this episode to increase your core sense of security and trust.

Healing Generations of Trauma from our Planetary Body

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:55:00 GMT

Our prayers are needed in full force. I just returned from 2 back-to-back trips relating to war and peace.

The first was with a group of 17 WWII veterans who were honored for their service at the WWII museum in New Orleans. The 2nd was a Buddhist retreat where Rabjam Rinpoche taught about compassion, love, kindness, and wisdom. Both of these groups pray for peace. Neither wants to see a 3rd world war.

I emerged from these 2 trips to learn of the latest eruption in the Israeli-Palestinian war, a heart-breaking conflict which has been going on since the end of World War 2.

The body of collective consciousness which surrounds our earth is filled with generations of trauma. The collective shock waves ripple around the planet. Whether we sense it or not, it fills the air we breathe. It flavors the soup we are marinating in.

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we continue our Prayers for Planetary Peace with a lineage healing for the generational trauma contained in our planetary body. Listen to this episode for personal and collective healing.

Lessons on Longevity from a Centenarian: Staying Engaged in Life

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:05:19 GMT

Do you ever wonder what keeps some people going strong into their golden years? I've learned a lot living with my father for the past 6 & 1/2 years. He'll be 101 years old this month. In his honor, and in keeping with our Prayers for Planetary Peace & Sustainability, throughout this month I'll be incorporating lessons I've learned from him on staying healthy, happy, sustainably, and radiating positivity into the world around us.

In this episode, you'll learn lessons on staying engaged in life even when your physical capacity decreases. He's a master of the positive pivot, and he continues to live the PMA - the Positive Mental Attitude!

In the healing portion, we offer our negativity and judgments to the angels to be transmuted as we allow ourselves to become infused with unconditional love and divine light. We offer our hearts to be mirrors of the divine spark that radiates from within and from everyone around us.

Achieving Perfect Harmony Through Sonic Geometry With Eric Rankin

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:00:00 GMT

People are innately attuned to music, either to the sounds of nature or the songs of the most popular artists. Author, researcher, and speaker Eric Rankin dug deeper into this art form to discover a new connection in the form of sonic geometry. Joining Debra Graugnard and her co-host Amany Shalaby, he shares his exploration of the harmonics of sacred geometry that make up the shapes found in creation. Citing the works of other scholars, Eric explains how shapes, numbers, music coming together in various cultures can help us understand the universe and its many mysteries. He also talks about the possible role of extraterrestrials or higher beings in deciphering this complex subject while navigating vibrations and frequencies that harmoniously flow around us.

Healing Our Wounds of Separation

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:29:16 GMT

From the time we are born, we begin forgetting our beautiful sacred connected self. We begin to perceive ourselves as separate from Source, and a lot of pain and wounding follows as a result. We live the lie of the individual in survival mode.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, my friend and our community member, Cathy Delwiche, leads us through a process to heal our wounds of separation. Her process guides us to realize our True Self as reflected in our Oneness with All That Is.

I've been receiving healings from Cathy for a while now. She is a beautiful and powerful healer. Her healing modality is called Holy Fire Karuna Reiki (R). I'm excited to share this experience with you.

Prayers for Planetary Peace

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:10:03 GMT

Join us in prayers for peace for our planet, the uplift the vibration of the cosmic soup, if it is in the Divine will. Our intention is to infuse the vibration of the planetary energy body with unconditional love and compassion, to pray for illumination for our world leaders, to pray for protection, and if it is in the Divine Plan to prevent potential wars. Our prayers and intentions matter. We cannot repeat this enough.

Listen to this episode to add your intention and voice, and to be brought further into alignment with the natural rhythms of the earthly body.

Stop Getting Sucked into Drama!

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:06:15 GMT

Do you ever feel like your life has too much drama? Like you keep getting sucked into a drama vortex - it's controlling you and it's exhausting!

What if you could flip a switch and turn off the energy to the drama? What if you could step through a door and get out of that vortex? No more drama!

Could it be that simple?

Listen to this week's Meditation & Healing Circle where you can clear the old patterning that has been hooking you and reeling you into the old vortex, then step out of that chaos and into a new spacious energy field.

Balancing Desire for Change with Acceptance of What Is

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:40:27 GMT

Do you ever feel so passionate about your beliefs that you want everyone to understand - and then when they don't get how important your message is, you want to beat them over the head with your knowledge!

It's really hard to see people living in ways that cause harm to themselves, each other, the animals, the earth. Why can't they see???

But then you remember, the basis of your beliefs includes compassion, love, and acceptance. But how can you have acceptance for those who are so blind to the ways of peace and love?

As a person of love and compassion, you’ve probably ridden the teeter totter of your desire for change versus the acceptance of what is. Is there a way to hold these two sides in balance?

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we tease out our passions, purpose, and feelings so we can find a way forward through the frustrations to hold ALL of our values as we desire to make the world a more peaceful and sustainable home for all.

Heart Diving: Healing And Awakening The Divinity Within With Chandler Yorkhall

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:00:00 GMT

“When you move in the heart, all the barriers go away.” This is what Chandler Yorkhall has been passionately working on people with. As a Minneapolis-based healer, bodyworker, and Sufi teacher, he has been helping others find deep healing just as he had done for himself. Now, he has created a new method for healing and awakening to the divinity within called Heart Diving of sacred movement and sound. In this episode, he joins Debra Gaugnard and co-host Amany Shalaby to tell us all about it. Chandler takes us across his healing and teaching journey, from finding Qigong and Sufism to using music and movement in his classes. He also talks about trauma, healing beyond the body to the heart and soul, as well as talking about religion. There is so much wisdom shared in this conversation that will help you see healing in a new way. Follow along with Chandler to learn more!

Awakening to Oneness - An Integrative Approach

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:12:02 GMT

Today our Meditation & Healing Circle is led by my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Anthousa Helena of Sollite Integrative Medicine. Her Integrative Medicine practice consciously bridges the gap between Medicine and Spirituality, utilizing a Holistic Approach that ensures the highest potential for your most desirable outcome to assist yourself, your clients, and humanity as a whole.

Here's a message from Dr. Anthousa about today’s Meditation & Healing:

Experiencing yourself as something separated is a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. it creates an Illusion of Separation.

There is only One Pure Energy appearing as Multiplicity. The truth is you need to look inward, to get to know and love yourself.

You live in a Mirror-Verse - what you see outside is a reflection of your inner world and vice-versa. When you develop awareness of what's woven deep inside your tapestry, you find healing.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we use Mother Earth as our Mirror to explore what’s eating us up inside and at the same time consuming Her. Is this an experience from trauma and/or is this part of a new paradigm shift?

We take a journey through the Paradox of Duality discovering reflections of disturbed bio-energetic patterns of Mother Earth and of Ourselves individually.

Utilizing your body as a roadmap, you will tune into inner Wisdom with Comprehensive Energy techniques of Dr. Anthousa Helena’s Sollite Integrative Medicine to rewire and integrate events that have been trapped and unresolved.

The Awareness of Truth shall set you Free.

Listen to this episode for a special treat!

Emotions & Food

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:56:24 GMT

They say, when you know better, you do better. But why is that not true with food? We know what we need to eat to be healthy, yet how often do we abandon our knowledge for comfort or for other emotional reasons? How often do we eat when we are not hungry just to satisfy a craving that has little to do with physical nourishment?

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we'll look at the emotional attachments and triggers around food, and bring some gentle loving healing energy to the places that need it.

We use a five-part process to release ourselves from emotional holds and return to our core truth.

Food & Simplicity

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:16:51 GMT

When it comes to food, our culture loves excess and complexity. Our bodies, however, do not thrive on those philosophies. Our bodies cannot optimize digestion when the stomach is overfilled or when we eat too many different types of foods that do not digest well together.

Excessive and elaborate eating are forms of waste. We are taking from the planet beyond what we can use, and using what we take in ways that our bodies can’t use – it makes our bodies sick.

It’s a conditioned misalignment and disharmony between mind and body.

Embracing a mindset of simplicity and sufficiency – simple combinations and knowing when we’ve had enough – can have transformative effects on our bodies, and also our minds, hearts, and spirits.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we call into consciousness our conditioned food choices and eating habits and seek to release the conditioning that does not serve the health of the body, heart, spirit, and the planet.

Listen to this episode for a meditation to simplify your food lifestyle, transform your personal well-being, and contribute to a more sustainable planet.

What Does it Take to Be Happy?

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:39:03 GMT

What does it take to be happy? Do you look for things to make you happy? Or maybe you seek happiness to abate sadness.

When we rely on things to make us happy – people, places, events, material goods, food, alcohol, drugs – we associate happiness with feelings of elation, which are temporary.

To have true lasting happiness, we must find contentment. In the Sufi teachings, contentment is a high station. It is learning to be content with what life brings – the highs, the lows, the mundane, and everything in between.

This is the topic of today's Meditation & Healing Circle. Is there something in your life that you can re-interpret to release yourself from the roller coaster of discontent? Is there something you can simplify to find contentment and live a more harmonious life?

Listen to this episode to release yourself from the roller coaster and discover the beauty in simplicity.

When it feels like there is no hope...

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:26:09 GMT

Have you ever had those days or weeks when everything sucks?!? That's the kind of week I just had. It feels like every system in our entire society is so broken, like there is no hope and we'd be better off obliterated from this planet. End the experiment already!

But we all have tough times. If you are going through challenging times or you question whether we'll get through the self-destructive patterns our humanity insists on perpetuating, I feel you! And whether we make it through or not, we can still live with hope. And we can get through this together.

Holistic Structures Of Existence With Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi ar-Rifa'I

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Everyone thirsts for a sense of belongingness, but what does it take to achieve true unity in a modern society? In this episode, Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi ar-Rifa'i speaks on holistic structures of existence, self-knowledge through conscious embedding to life, the inner and outer nature of the cosmos, and the oneness of all beings. Rosina has a PhD in Islamic studies, allowing her to share unique and never-before-seen insights into the world as seen in the lens of Islam and Arab culture. Join us in today’s episode as we explore the world through her eyes.

Non-judgment for our Younger Generations

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:37:07 GMT

I hear people of my generation criticizing the younger generations. In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we come together to release our judgments and pray for them to emerge as the leaders our future world needs.

I was speaking with a young friend the other day about the number of young people struggling with severe depression and suicidal tendencies.

In the US, we think of the fear of mass shootings as a main factor. This is a contributing factor, and yet the young woman I was speaking with is from another country where they do not experience mass shootings.

So what is happening with our youth?

Our world is evolving and the youth are coming into this realm equipped to thrive in the world of the future. If our future is one of love and compassion, living more closely aligned to the soul and connection with Source, then our children are going to struggle in fundamental ways with the cruelty and density of this plane.

Those who try to force archaic beliefs and structures onto our children are making it difficult for them to know their value and bring forth the gifts they have been given to govern an evolved planet.

The moving parts need to come together in harmony so they can survive the effects of today’s world and grow into their adulthood with the gifts and beauty they are here to bring.

Our future world cannot be governed as our past world has been.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to offer prayers and support for our future leaders and the future of our planet. We also seek to release our own misunderstandings and judgments so we may see more clearly the path forward.

As an instrument of Divine Will, how do you want to be used?

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 18:13:43 GMT

If you could be an instrument of pure divine will, what kind of instrument would you be? Most importantly, how would you want to be used in this world?

We are all instruments of divine will, and we have free will so we can choose what we do and be.

As an instrument of divine will, how do you want your life to be used?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle to lean in to your divine connection and explore how the instrument of your soul longs to be used.

Healing Feelings of Inadequacy

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:35:38 GMT

Do you question whether you have what it takes to do what you really want to do?

Or do you hesitate to speak up when you know the answers or have viable solutions to a problem?

I certainly did for much of my life. I had been shut down so many times by parents, siblings, teachers, managers, coworkers, and people who had influence over me, and I had internalized their words.

I lived with deep insecurity. Was I really that inadequate?

I knew I was intelligent and capable, but I was afraid to speak up in meetings at work. I was afraid to advocate for what I needed with my family and intimate relationships. I hesitated to share my opinions and insights in groups.

Until I realized those thoughts and beliefs are not mine. They do not define me and never have.

The same is true for you. The words of others that have told you your opinions did not matter, that you were inadequate or ineffective, or that your voice did not deserve to be heard - those are their words, not your truth.

Your truth is still inside you. It has endured and it is waiting for you to return to it - and you can!

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode Circle to release the voices and judgements of others and allow your powerful truth to emerge.

Fulfilling Your Soul Purpose

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:23:26 GMT

What emanates through your soul to be manifest upon this earth realm? You might not know what it is, but you can feel there is something there. And you can certainly feel when you're not aligned with it.

You are a conduit for Divine Manifestation. When your soul was breathed into your body, your life lessons, experiences, wisdom gained, and soul purpose were all written into your book, your Akashic record, scribed by the Archangel Metatron.

Your life has been preparing you for that purpose. The breath that breathes you and the life force that beats your heart pulsates a rhythm into this realm to bring through unique gifts that will bring fulfillment to your heart.

These gifts are here for you to embrace, to say yes to, to surf the waves of this grand ocean of living consciousness.

"If you give birth to what is within you,

the voices you redeem will redeem you.

If you fail to find and give birth to them,

they become a part of what is destroying you.”

~from the Gospel of Thomas,

as quoted in The Sufi Book of Life, by Neil Douglas-Klotz

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode to explore what fulfills your soul purpose.

The Written World Of God With Dr. Dunja Rasic

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Ibn ʿArabī is a celebrated Muslim scholar in the Islamic community, primarily on the cosmic script of the Arabic alphabet. His magnum opus, The Meccan Revelations, inspired Dr. Dunja Rasic to study how basic letters can unleash their own spirits and consciousness. She joins Debra Graugnard and her co-host Amany Shalaby to discuss her work around Arian cosmology, philosophical sophism, and language guided by Ibn ʿArabī’s works. Dr. Dunja explains how every Arabic letter has its own properties that go beyond forming words but also impacts emotions, spirituality, and the entire flow of the universe on every individual. She also talks about the right approach in addressing contradictions happening between science, religion, and art that lead to a more meaningful path of understanding.

Healing through Service to Others

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:53:00 GMT

If you've been on a healing journey, you know that when you are able to help someone else through their struggles, magic happens for both of you.

I’ve been in the healing field for almost 30 years now. Most people who come to be healers and coaches have been through trauma, abuse, addiction, or made dreadful mistakes, and they’ve found a way through.

To serve others is an expression of gratitude and compassion, and it’s also a continuation of your personal healing journey. The Universe will always bring you what you need to see yourself more clearly through the eyes of another, to show you your next steps, to help you have more acceptance of yourself and the choices you’ve made, and to love yourself more completely.

And the service gives us a sense of purpose, value, accomplishment, usefulness.

Everyone needs to feel they have something of value to contribute to the world – our children, elderly, and everyone in between. To be of service is rewarding for the giver and the receiver.

How has your life prepared you to serve? Where has your journey led you? What fulfills your heart?

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore opportunities for healing and fulfillment through service to others.

Healing Trust Issues with Masculine Energies

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:04:16 GMT

We’ve all had negative experiences of the masculine brought on by imbalanced expressions of strength and power and the domination and control of the patriarchy. These events leave us feeling uneasy, unsafe, and even angry.

We hesitate to express our own strength, power, and control because we’ve had so many experiences of the “wrong way” to use them, so we label them as “bad” and shut ourselves down.

Yet we all carry these energies inside of us. Just like all of our human traits, these energies have a higher expression and a lower expression.

These traits in their higher expression are not “bad.” So what is the sacred role of the Masculine? We cannot have a healthy Divine Feminine and ignore or demonize the masculine.

We need to understand the highest expression of the sacred Masculine energy and bring our relationship with both masculine and feminine into harmony, into a unifying connection.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for an experiential healing of the inner feminine and inner masculine, a key to healing the dynamics of the collective consciousness.

Developing a Healthy Relationship with Your Emotions

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

We have been conditioned to control our emotions out of fear and judgment, as if showing emotions makes you seem out of control or weak. We shame ourselves for feeling what we feel before we have a chance to express our truth. We end up apologizing and rationalizing instead of simply expressing our authentic selves.

But emotions are not bad. In fact, they are a vital to understanding your core truths and knowing your connection to your highest self. Only when we develop a healthy relationship with our emotions can we glean the information they give us.

This is key to living more authentically and sincerely expressing our true selves, which is necessary for developing healthy relationships with ourselves and others.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Connecting with the Earth Elements to Heal the Body

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:26:19 GMT

I used to think that when the spirit left the body, the body dies. Then I heard Eric Winkel of The Futuhat project explain how the decaying process of the body is a continuation of its life force that returns it to the earth.

This makes so much sense to me. We are creatures of the earth. Our bodies are made of the same elements as the earth, and the body carries the same intelligence as the earth's minerals.

While the life force of the spirit is still in the body, we can connect to the wisdom within the earth's elements and minerals to "remember" the innate wisdom and bring healing to the physical and energy body.

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Middle Eastern Spirituality: Finding Meaning In Translations Of Ancient Semitic Languages With Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D.

Wed, 31 May 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Part of practicing spirituality is finding that connection. For most, you can only do that by understanding the religion or philosophy, especially when they go back to ancient languages. This episode’s guest, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D., is someone known for the translation and interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. He is also a renowned writer, teacher and artist in the fields of Middle Eastern spirituality. In this interview from the Ocean of Sound Summit, Neil speaks on Middle Eastern Spirituality. He helps us gain a deeper understanding of spiritual teachings through the interpretation of ancient Semitic languages. Follow along to this insightful conversation and learn more about Sufism, what is often lost in translation, and the connection with sounds and breath work.

Release Yourself from Others Expectations of You

Sun, 28 May 2023 16:37:30 GMT

Do you ever feel nervous about seeing people you grew up with, people from your past? Do you worry about the memories of who you were? Do the old friends and family still expect you to show up as that old self?

The hooks that tie you to your past can be strong. However, they can be released and the old patterns can be transformed.

You've grown and evolved. You don't have to regress to that old version of yourself. You have the power to be YOU in any circumstance.

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Finding Truth beneath Anger

Sun, 21 May 2023 16:36:36 GMT

You’ve heard it before: Anger is bad. Anger is one letter away from Danger. Whatever you do, don’t show your anger.

So, if we can’t express it, what are we supposed to do with it? Well, most of us just shove it down and clinch our jaws shut. Then the anger festers inside along with whatever truth we needed to express.

But anger, just like every other emotion, holds information that is vital to understanding ourselves and knowing our core truths. The important thing is to not lash out at others often causing further harm, but to listen inwardly to hear what needs to be expressed.

In many years of working with clients, I’ve found understanding the truth beneath anger to be one of the most self-empowering things we can do. Because anger often stems from a place inside that has felt disempowered, overpowered, powerless over your current circumstances.

What if there were an approach to anger that could lead you to peaceful self-empowerment and inner strength? That is the focus of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

Listen to this episode for a compassion-centered healing.

Honoring Mom & the Sacred Feminine

Sun, 14 May 2023 21:14:51 GMT

You, my beautiful friend, are a bridge between the worlds, a bridge to Source. You are worthy of love, honor, and respect - no less than that - from anyone, including yourself!

In this episode of the Meditation & Healing Circle, we honor all things MOM and Sacred Feminine. We offer perspectives on the story of Adam & Eve that are more honoring of the feminine.

We clear away false beliefs about what it means to be a mom or a feminine being, and welcome in the truths of just how sacred and powerful the female presence is.

Whether you are a mom or not, listen to this episode to be honored for the beautiful, creative, sacred being that you are.

Healing Family Dynamics

Sun, 07 May 2023 16:04:41 GMT

Ram Dass said, “If you think you’re enlightened, go home to your family.”

Mother’s Day is next week in the US, and many of us will be gathering with our families to honor and celebrate our moms – or to be celebrated as a mom.

But sometimes our family celebrations can become a trigger-fest!

Because sometimes, no matter how much you love the person you’ve grown into, when you get around your family, suddenly you’re that kid again and you’re getting triggered and you’re spiraling down a rabbit hole into a place you don’t want to be, becoming a person you don’t like to be.

Well, it’s not just you. This is common.

The family unit has a body just like the individual body. Just like the individual body, it has neurological pathways that we, the group consciousness, travel along when we come together. We follow the same old patterns because that’s what is ingrained in the body, in the family unit.

But we can learn to recognize our triggers. Then the next time they come up, we can make a different choice as to which pathway to travel. You can shift the family dynamic by forging new neurological pathways.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we bring compassionate witnessing to our family triggers, unhook from the familiar pathways, and explore new choices.

Setting Your Loved Ones Free

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:54:33 GMT

When we hold grudges against the people we love - mother, father, brother, sister, spouse - we are holding ourselves in a pattern of discontent, but we're also holding them in a box. We’re holding them in an image of the person they were when they did whatever they did that hurt us or made us angry.

The best thing we can do is to release them from that box, give them space to evolve and grow into the people we want them to be and always wished they would be.

Everyone deserves a chance to evolve and grow. And for better or worse, we are here to do that together.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we go through a process of releasing others so they are free to heal. We also release ourselves from the person we were when we got hurt. You can set your loved ones free, and yourself too.

Overcoming Resistance to Personal Growth

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:12:06 GMT

If you’re on a path of personal growth, at some point you inevitably question yourself: “What the heck am I doing? Is this really worth it?”

The brakes go on. You’re ready to forget about any complaints you had or that desire for change and retreat back to your comfort zone! This is resistance!

But if you do find yourself retreating, this doesn’t mean you’re a failure or not meant for greatness. Because resistance comes when something is changing. Those old coping strategies are being challenged, and this brings up fear.

What you thought was keeping you safe and in your comfort zone is being dismantled. Then you realize: “Wow, this resistance has been helping me for a long time." It's like the old friend who protected you when you were growing up.

So maybe if you just meet it and listen to it, you can find the heart-felt truth beneath the brake pedal and set yourself free.

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode with your old friend, Resistance. We’ll meet with compassion and listen with sincerity to find understanding and heart-felt truths.

Meditation to Improve Focus

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:29:00 GMT

Our world is so full of distractions that it makes it increasingly difficult to focus. When we do settle in to focus on something, it is often a powerful distraction, like a television series or scrolling through social media. These distractions keep us from focusing on the things that are truly important to us – that which brings us to wholeness, fulfillment, and an inner sense of peace and joy.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we use Sacred Sound and breath to call all the parts of ourselves into alignment to enhance our ability to focus.

We call on the Divine Names:

Al-Mutakabbir: Concentration
Al-‘Ahad: Uniquely One

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing meditation to exercise the mental muscle of focus.

Self-Honesty

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:22:07 GMT

Beyond the descriptions, analyses, reasons, and rationalization, what do you feel? What does it mean to you? What does it say about who you really are?

I watched the movie, The Whale, last night. A dear friend who has lived with obesity recommended it, saying it gave her great insights into her struggles with food. I have also struggled a great deal with food, so I welcome the insights.

The main character is a reclusive English teacher who teaches online courses. He encourages honesty from his students – not just the typical descriptions and analyses, but he wants them to write what they really feel, their raw honest thoughts and feelings beyond political correctness or an attempt to conform to educational standards that might typically get them a good grade.

He begs of them, “Tell me something honest.”

How often are we asked, “How are you?” and we instantly reply, “Fine.” without a thought. Is it because we do not have time for the truth, or because we are just giving answers we think the other personal wants to hear? Or are we just going through the motions of a dialog that was scripted and taught to us before we were born?

I honestly believe it’s okay to give rote answers at times. You get to choose when and with whom you share your honest feelings and opinions.

What is most important is that we take time to be honest with ourselves. Because even though we don’t want to show all of ourselves to everyone, we are our own most intimate partners, and the quality of our relationship with self is the one that determines our true happiness and fulfillment.

My spiritual teacher used to say, “Don’t stop with the outside pictures. Go behind and behind and behind and behind… until you reach the truth.” What is the truth within you?

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we make the time for self-honesty. We hold ourselves in loving acceptance and travel behind and behind and behind… until we realize a truth that is rooted in love and beauty.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing meditation.

Peace, Not Polarization

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:47:00 GMT

With the increasing divisiveness in our society, how can we choose peace, not polarization, and still stand for what we believe in?

I watched a docuseries this past week about the many forces that have worked together to create the amplified level of polarization we are experiencing here is the US over the recent years.

In the many interviews, I could observe which of the people seemed to be getting energized off the power they could conjure by preaching a divisive message - and also how it energized the crowd. I could also feel the peace that emanated when someone shared a message of unity.

The most interesting thing was that the basic values and needs that were being expressed were pretty much the same, and a large percentage of even the phrases were similar to what we talk about in our community and in our meditations.

None of us want to be deceived and manipulated by a corrupt government. No one wants to see evil and darkness perpetuated. And there is truth and value in standing up to that which causes harm to ourselves and others.

The difference is in how we do it and to what end, and how we view the earth and spirit realms.

Remember, Gandhi said:

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

What is your vision for change? Who does it call you to be?

And Buckminster Fuller said:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

What is the new model you would like to put your energy into? Does it exist? How can you begin to live according to that model here and now?

These are the topics we are exploring in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered exploration into divine inspiration.

The Difference You Have Made

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:29:51 GMT

Sometimes we sit around wondering “What can I do to make a difference in the world?” Or “How can I help this situation?” Or “What is my purpose in this lifetime?”

But how often do you reflect on the difference you have made? You have no doubt been utilized as an instrument of Divine will in some way, as a form of expression or service. And as long as your body has breath, you will continue to be inspired toward some purpose.

It is through divinely-inspired expression and service that we come to know ourselves and our Source and evolve our souls.

Taking time to acknowledge how you have served and where you have made a difference helps us to more fully integrate what we are taught through the experience – what we are to learn of ourselves and our Source – and to integrate the teaching for the soul.

This integration strengthens the building blocks that are being constructed within you so that you can be better equipped to meet the next calling.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we take time to:

acknowledge the purpose you have service and the difference your service has made,
consciously open and receive the teachings and gifts,
integrate the soul-level teachings, and
solidify the building blocks that strengthen your vessel.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered transformational healing.

Your Umbilical Cord to God

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:14:21 GMT

We have life because there is a living consciousness that flows through us. We have breath because there is a cosmic breath that breathes us. We have a heartbeat because there is a divine rhythm that pulsates through our bodies.

We are most at peace when we are in connection and flow with this divine essence of our existence. And there is a place in the body that we can lean into to feel this connection and flow. This is your umbilical cord to God.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we lean into this space and feel the divine breath – the inspiration of Source. We tap into our heart’s sincere desire for a healthier life and healthier planet and offer prayers for peace and healing.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing meditation.

The Inner Traits of Loyalty

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:43:00 GMT

What cultivates a sense of loyalty? What makes someone a loyal friend?

Yesterday was my nephew’s funeral – a heart-wrenching time. As I reflected on what I want his children to remember about their father, what stood out the most was his sense of loyalty. When others would turn away in judgment or anger, he would stick with you and support you through the tough times.

I took this into meditation, and today I’d like to share the insights that could help us all stick together and support each other with compassion as we weather the storms of this life journey.

Listen to this episode of the Community for Conscious Living Meditation & Healing Circle for an exploration and deepening of the traits that cultivate unwavering loyalty.

Hu Breath Meditation

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:49:18 GMT

The Hu breath is a significant breath for connecting with the Divine, the cosmic realms, the regenerative life forces of creation, an inner awakening to the truth of your existence, and more.

In this episode, we anchor in the body for an embodied grounded experience of the Hu breath meditation, as you are created to be a marriage of heaven and earth in form, on a journey of evolution of the soul and elevation of consciousness.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing, awakening, aligning experience.

Replenishing the Life Force of Your Body's Fluid Systems

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:03:00 GMT

Water is the carrier of life force, and your body is composed of mostly water in a structured fluid state. The water within you is alive!

When inundated in modern manmade physical structures, water can become stagnant and murky. When immersed in the ego-based culture, it can become infused with vibrations that disconnect it from the resonance of the natural world and the spiritual realms.

In these states, life force is depleted and our whole system loses its immune functions and takes on disease.

But the water has intelligence and the life force can be restored. We must use our intention to connect with the higher realms of consciousness and the basic rhythms of the natural world to restore life force and return to health.

This is the focus and practice of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We use some of the Divine Names to invoke the life force from the higher realms, the Divine Powers, to rejuvenate the life and flow of the water within our bodies.

For reference, the Divine Names include:

Al-Muhyi: the Giver of Life
Al-Mumit: the Giver of Death
Al-Hayy: the One Who Lives Forever

Listen to this episode for a rejuvenating healing experience.

Meditation for Peace on Earth

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:49:00 GMT

If our planet were human – a body with a spirit traveling a pathway of evolution – we could easily recognize that it has experienced severe trauma and is in deep need of healing.

Effects of trauma leave the body’s nervous system on alert, hyperarousal, waiting for the next proverbial shoe to drop.

The body’s electrical pathways are overstimulated, in need of settling into its natural rhythms, in need of returning to peace.

Our planet’s environment is covered in systemic trauma – social, political, financial, food system, communication systems (radio waves, satellites, 5G) soil, plants, animals, water, air – all out of harmony and in need of balancing.

For the wars, natural disasters, effects of climate change, effects of human “progress”, we offer special prayers for peace today to help settle the energetic pathways on our planet, to release patterns of fear and distrust, to relax into natural rhythms, to connect with love and compassion and kindness – to prepare for the restoration of peace on earth.

This is the topic and practice of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We set our intention to surround the earth and its environment with peace, to calm its electrical pathways and nervous system, and to reconnect with the inherent love and beauty of our planet.

God willing, it will bring healing to you individually as well, as to bring healing to the whole is to bring wholeness to all of its parts.

Listen to this episode for a much-needed collective healing experience.

New Day, New Opportunity for...

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:24:00 GMT

What if you could walk across a threshold and close the door on all the fears and limitations that keep us looping in the dysfunction and pain of the past… even if the past was just yesterday?

I’m not suggesting we adopt an attitude of oblivious denial. I recognize things are pretty crazy out there right now.

But as long as we have breath moving through us, we can use our life force for good. We can raise our vibration and step out of the old bubble and into a realm of love. We can hold the vision for what is possible and continue to actively take steps to hold the higher vibration and move into the realm of peace and universal harmony. It is closer than it seems.

That is the focus of today's Meditation & Healing Circle. Together we will step through the doorway to the ocean of love. We close the door on the past and swim in the waters of Universal Harmony.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

The Sound of Beauty

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:28:21 GMT

There is a holy saying, a Hadith Qudsi, that says:

God said,

“I was a Hidden Treasure and I desired to be known,

so I created the creation and made them to know Me.”

Do you every wonder why when you see signs of beauty, your heart expands or softens or melts, and you feel a sense of euphoria or awe or wonder? The signs of beauty bring about an instant response of “WOW!”

Today we will elevate our spirits by recalling signs of beauty and exploring the mysteries of sound, vibration, and beauty. We tap into the teaching on Cosmology of Letters and Sound from the Sufi mystic and scholar, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, particularly the hidden meanings within the sound of “wow” and the Arabic letter, Waw.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we swim in the Ocean of Sound to explore the connections and meanings within the body, heart, spirit, and nature.

Listen to this episode for a transformational awakening experience.

Feeling Safe in Your Skin

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:26:00 GMT

An integral part of the human journey is to experience events and circumstances that seem to separate us from our true selves. These are the mini-traumas and major-traumas that leave us feeling on edge, unable to settle in and relax for very long, feeling unsafe in our own skin.

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, if we want to experience fulfillment and know ourselves as one with All That Is, we must first have our basic needs met – and we must first feel safe in our bodies.

If we want to live a life of Oneness, Unconditional Love and Compassion, and Universal Harmony, it helps to feel ourselves as one with Nature and experience the wisdom of earth within us - the nature that our bodies are made of.

In this limited lifespan we have in these bodies, we have an incredible opportunity to experience this world through our senses and basic instincts. We have a gift of learning about love and connection in ways that evolve the collective soul.

We are led to believe that we are individual beings out for survival in competition with each other and nature. What we are is cells of one body having a collective experience to evolve a collective consciousness.

The existence is bigger than our selves and the journey is beyond our individual experiences. Yet our experiences are important to the whole, and our choices and states matter. Our sense of safety and oneness matters.

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle – feeling safe in the body and trusting in the One Body that is the Rhythm of the breath and the beating of the heart.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Their Opinions do NOT determine Your Worth

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:40:00 GMT

Have you ever had the experience of

Knowing you’ve done a good job, but then receiving criticism?
Showing up to be a good friend, and then being rejected?
Doing you best to get along, but it wasn’t quite enough?

This one has been a big life/soul lesson for me, and it has come up with clients 3 times in the past week. Going through it with clients reminds me of how far I’ve come, and seeing it 3 times in one week is a sign to bring it to you.

The disapproval can leave you deflated, questioning your own value, wondering what you did wrong.

But you are still the same person before and after another person’s approval or disapproval. You are the same regardless of recognition or reward.

No one else’s opinions of you can change who you are.

You might have been left with a few wounds and scars, and that is where we will bring healing in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

In today’s practice, you will

Unhook from the cords that have tied you to someone else’s approval.
Reclaim your own authority and self-worth.
Acknowledge your value and anchor the knowledge within you.
Use powerful healing prayers to transform your inner patterning and vibration to align with your core truth.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

This healing process is outlined in my book, Bridging the Gaps: A Journey to the Center of Your Self. Find it at http://bridgingthegapsworkbook.com

When you see yourself, do you see beauty?

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:03:00 GMT

When you see yourself, do you see beauty? Or do you judge yourself? What does your self-talk say?

Listen to this episode for a self-talk check and some words that I hope will change your perspective so you see yourself as a reflection of Pure Light that radiates beauty, no matter what.

Mercy: A Key to Oneness with All That Is

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:47:00 GMT

The day-to-day of the world with its many conflicts and dichotomies can confuse the heart. Most of us respond by shutting down the heart, blocking our feelings to protect us from the overwhelming emotions that are stirred by the pain of humankind and all that we afflict upon each other, the earth's creatures, and the planet herself.

The protective hardening creates isolation, leaving us feeling separated even when we do care deeply.

Mercy is a divine gift that is present and available and within all things. Mercy returns us to our origin and the truths that weave the seemingly separate pieces into an exquisite tapestry painted by love.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the divine forces of Mercy, Compassion, and Grace to fill our hearts and return us to the knowledge of our existence and the reasons we are here.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Body-Spirit Integration to Prepare for the New Year

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:39:58 GMT

We have been in the midst of an evolution into an era of Peace, Unconditional Love and Universal Harmony. In this episode we seek to bring our perception of spirit and body into a unified state within us.

This evolution of consciousness has moved us away from clinging to the past for our identities, even for healing. That wave crested, we are now on the other side of it rolling forward onto a new shore.

We can now embrace that momentum and move toward who we are called to be in a new era of Universal Harmony. We can receive the vibrational templates of this cosmological evolution and say yes to the shifts.

We are all cells of One Body. The One Body is shifting whether our individually-minded selves like it or not. We can choose to say yes and proactively evolve with it, or we can resist and fight it and remain in disharmony and discontent.

This time thru March 2023 is a time to choose. Our world has been illuminating long-held stark contrasts in belief systems and lifestyles. We can see more clearly and no longer deny the effects of these growing dichotomies. We can examine our values and choose how to align ourselves moving forward.

Which path of evolution do you want to take? What values do you align with? What is the Spirit consciousness wanting to BE and express through your human existence?

Are you ready to fully merge with Spirit consciousness that exists within you to BE the expression of Spirit in your human existence?

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on merging of the Spirit that lives through you – to merge with the physical body so you know Who breathes you and you breathe in synch with total trust.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

What Does it Mean to Honor Jesus?

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:01:18 GMT

Today is the day that Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus, known as the Prince of Peace. Jesus lived on this earth as a pure representative of Spirit in form. His life gives us examples of how to live among this earth as a healer who embodies peace and faith.

Jesus healed the sick, fed the poor, stood strong in the face of injustice, and loved unconditionally. He looked beyond outer appearances to the sincerity within the hearts of the people.

He told us that “…if you have faith the size of a mustard seed… nothing will be impossible for you.” ~Matthew 17:20-21

The most sincere way to honor Jesus is to embody the examples he set. My spiritual teacher used to say to us, “Be Jesus of your time.”

Carry the message of the Prophets. Be honest. Be sincere. Walk a straight path. Care about your body, your heart, your spirit. Care about your family. Be polite with one another. Help each other.

This is some of what it means to honor Jesus and to live in Peace and Faith.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the Divine Powers of Peace (As-Salaam) and open our hearts for the embodiment of peace – to be the peace, to be Jesus of our time to the best of our ability.

Listen to this episode for a transformation healing experience.

Can Personal Healing Change the World?

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 18:48:00 GMT

The byline of the Community for Conscious Living is “Personal Transformation for Universal Harmony.” If you’ve attended a Sunday morning Meditation & Healing Circle or listened to a replay, you’ve heard this at the beginning of each call.

Can our Personal Healing work really change the world? What is needed to really make a difference? There are some laws of Nature that are common to this created world. And yet each manifested creature reflects a unique facet of a Greater Jewel.

When every facet of the jewel is polished, can it reflect the full magnificence of the Hidden Treasure? As your mirror is polished, your truth can be seen more clearly, and the Treasure comes into a clearer view.

And the lens through which you view the Treasure and experience the magnificence generates a force field of energy that contributes to the collective ocean of living consciousness.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, I want to share a story of my personal journey which I hope will serve as an example. And then together we can drop into inner reflection to see more clearly where our mirrors can be polished so we reflect the change we wish to see in the world.

Listen to this episode for a transformation healing experience.

Your Soul Identity

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:24:58 GMT

How do you describe yourself? What is your identity?

Typically we answer based on the bodies we are in, family, relationships, the purpose we serve. I am a single American female, daughter, sister, youngest of six children, spiritual healing practitioner, transformational program facilitator, teacher, student.

Thomas Aquinas said, “The things we love tell us who we are.”

The things we love and do not love, our life experiences and chosen paths all give us clues as to who we are. They point to an identity. The true identity goes deeper.

Deep within your heart, your soul, your spirit, who are you? How do you identify?

We are moving into an era of Universal Harmony where we will identify less with the physical body or familial and social constructs. We have the opportunity to identify based on the heart, soul, and spirit. Only then can we truly live in unconditional love and compassion.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we travel deeper into the heart where the outer constructs that define us melt away and we can see ourselves beyond body, age, family, career, money, home, location – and know ourselves as heart and soul.

Listen to this episode for a healing exploration.

What is Healing?

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:01:54 GMT

Have you ever had an awakening or epiphany that opened up new insights for you, that shifted your perceptions or elevated your consciousness? It may have brought you healing for a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Or it may have set you on a spiritual quest.

My healing journey began with an “out of this world” epiphany that included all of the above. It put me on a pathway of seeking and a strong desire to heal.

Many times I wanted to find that epiphany experience again. I wanted another WOW moment. I have had many WOW moments along the path, but the WOW moments are the door openers. They swing open a door and flash a neon sign that says “Go this way!” The healing then happens with each step along the path.

There are many modalities of healing, but at the core they have common goals or results, We are representations of spirit in human bodies who have forgotten why we are here, and we have an innate desire to know our truths.

In this week’s Meditation and Healing Circle, we tap into the seeking heart that guides the pathway to discover truths. This is the one that calls us home – individually and collectively - to be the representative of spirit in form.

Listen to this episode for a healing exploration.

Get Back on Track after the Holiday: Reclaim Your Natural Rhythm

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:36:00 GMT

The Holidays are a time that can really knock us out of synch with our natural rhythms. I proved it in this episode! But I got back on track quickly with tools of meditation and intention, clearing out frenetic energies we take on from people, places, and foods that are not aligned with our natural rhythms and returning to pure peace.

In the US, we just celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving. Schedules and routines get out of synch. It’s the heaviest travel time of the year. We spend time with people we do not usually see. We eat foods we do not always eat. There is a chaotic frenetic energy that permeates the air.

It is imperative for our health and sanity to realign regularly throughout this time period and beyond.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we reset energetically, emotionally, and physically. We purge out the frenetic energy and reclaim your natural rhythm to get you on track. We tune in to what it means to honor your body temple as well.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Embryonic Healing: Repatterning Cellular Consciousness for Love, Safety, & Provision

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:59:00 GMT

In today's episode, we travel back to the womb and invite the developing embryo to rest into the security of the sacred womb space and receive the nourishment and provision that is transferred through the umbilical cord - on the physiological and spiritual levels.

The question of “Enoughness” - will there ever be enough, will I ever have enough, am I enough? Enough money, enough food, enough love, enough work. Can I do enough to earn enough to have enough to be secure?

This is a stream of consciousness that plagues our societies. It flavors the soup we have been marinating in for most of our lives.

Yet the nourishment is available, the sustenance is available, the provision is available. Where does our sense of nourishment begin? Where does our relationship to enoughness and security begin to develop?

Today we are traveling way back to the embryonic stage to connect with the nourishment that is available in utero on the physiological and spiritual levels.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we’ll go on a journey to focus on the security of sustenance that we receive in the womb.

Even if your actual experience was “not enough”, this meditation will invite your developing nervous system and somatic memory to receive and rest into a sense of safety and nourishment that your being seeks.

Listen to this episode for this nurturing healing experience.

Letting Go of the Old You

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:59:00 GMT

Growing up is hard. Trying to find who you are. Trying to fit in. Wanting to be loved and accepted. Wanting to belong to a tribe that wants us to belong.

We take on personas and engage in activities that we hope will give us what we need. Undoubtedly, we later regret some of those actions. We feel embarrassed of who we tried to be and all the ways we were not true to ourselves.

This was my path, and I know I was not alone. In this episode I get emotional, something I don't do often on the podcast, in sharing a story from my past and present that came up for more clearing...

When we begin the journey of healing, it’s common to close the door on the old you as you uncover the truth that has been waiting inside you.

I’m not a huge fan of re-living the past, but I do believe in purging the old energies and energetic templates that once defined you. The old identities that you once clung to just to get along and be accepted can still hang out in certain parts of your body, and they need to be released.

The old patterns affect your physical posture and structure, your body’s functioning, and your subconscious behaviors and thought patterns, and what continues to show up in your life through others.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Those old personas that tried to be cool back in the day – we’re going to clean up and purge the residual energies so your total environment can be a reflection of the truth you carry now.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

The Healing Power of Emotions

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:35:46 GMT

Our society has taught us to squelch our emotions – it’s not okay to feel, or at least it’s not okay to show your emotions. But the emotions have the power to heal beyond what the mind can reach.

Emotions play an important role in the human journey. They provide a doorway to understand what is most important to you – your core values and your deepest inner knowing. They are vital to healing and returning to wholeness.

This is the focus of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Today’s meditation provides you a safe space to be present with what is in your heart, to listen to its messages and embrace your core truth.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Healing the Effects of Inconsistent Parenting

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:11:00 GMT

One of the most effective things we can do to increase confidence is to release mixed programming from inconsistent parenting.

As children, we come into the world as blank slates. Yes, we have an inner knowing and compass, our own personalities and constitutions, we have inherited some programming from ancestral experiences, and we carry our own patterns developed before this birth.

And all that said, for the most part we are dependent on our parents, siblings, teachers, and caretakers in this lifetime to teach us what behaviors give us love, acceptance, connection, and safety we seek.

In an ideal world, we would receive consistent responses and guidance based solely on actions. For instance, when a stove is hot and we touch it, we get burned. Pretty simple. We can safely base actions on the knowledge that if we do not want to get burned, we will avoid touching the hot stove, and we can feel confident about the actions we take.

But we do not live in a ideal world as such. We are all emotional beings, and parenting and care-taking can tax emotions on even the best days. As a parent, what we love and adore one day might cause us to erupt the next day.

For the child, this can produce uncertainty, low self-confidence, low self-esteem. You know that feeling of. “I just can’t do anything right!” It may be a matter of trying to succeed at something or trying to get approval from those you are in relationship with.

The inconsistent messaging can leave you feeling fearful, hesitant, uncertain, self-loathing, unwilling to learn new things or make new friends or go for what you want in life.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on clearing the programming from inconsistent messaging and connect you with your inner knowledge and connection to love.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

What are your dreams telling you?

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:26:22 GMT

This week’s Meditation & Healing Circle is a special treat from one of our community members, Gabrielle Hass, aka Gaby. If you’ve joined us live, you may have heard Gaby share many insights, tidbits of wisdom, and always gratitude.

Gaby gave me a DreamTending session last week that blew my mind. We inquired into a recurring dream from my past, and I expected to learn a little more about what I already knew – what had already transpired. It turned out that the exploration revealed messages that are relevant and timely today – no doubt divinely-orchestrated!

I feel like this will have messages for you too and offer you guidance for uncovering messages that may be hidden within your dreams.

Listen to this episode for an enlightening experience.

Gabrielle Hass, aka Gaby, fell in love with DreamTending in 2015, when she met Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, when she was graduating from her master’s program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the area of Humanities, with an emphasis in depth psychology and living the creative life. She immediately embarked on studying with Dr. Aizenstat for the next three years, which led her to practice DreamTending as an elder. It encompasses all her life experience, spiritual, as a healer, teacher, mother and grandmother. Gaby invites us to come dream with her!

You can reach Gaby through her website: www.OCSoulExpressions.com

Gaby's book recommendations:

For the Love of Dreams, Marilyn O Brien available on Amazon
DreamTending, Awakening to the Healing Power of Dreams, Stephen Aizenstat

When Spite becomes Self-Destructive

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:10:51 GMT

You might be older, wiser, and a bit more mature than this, but you can probably recognize it as the battle cry of the teenager:

“You cannot tell me what to do, and more you try, the harder I will fight to do what I want, and if you push I’ll do the opposite just to spite you!”

I might not have been aware of it at the time, but my teenage self certainly sang that song a time or twenty. And “the opposite” was not always in my best interests. OK, maybe it was never in my best interest. And the mistakes that followed became the fodder for many of the healing sessions I’ve needed as I got older.

No one wants to feel controlled or dominated. We all need autonomy. But we also need to understand our needs and our strengths so that the rebellion against what feels like a controlling authority actually honors our true needs and does not lead us into potentially harmful situations.

As parents, when our children make choices that frighten us, we end up blaming ourselves and questioning what we did wrong to create this situation. Yet, this is a part of the dance of the souls, as painful as it may be.

Whether you are in the parent role, or you are or once were in the young adult role, this dance leaves scars that need love, understanding, and forgiveness to heal.

This is the topic of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Balancing Self-Improvement & Self-Acceptance

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 15:38:46 GMT

The desire for self-improvement is innate. We are born with a desire to advance. Without it, a baby would never crawl or stand or walk.

When a baby is learning to walk, he will inevitably fall down, not just once but many times before he masters the skill of walking. And then he will want to run.

When a baby falls down, we don’t think twice about acceptance. The falling down is a necessary part of learning to stand up and move forward.

And as we progress through life, we will fall down many more times as we learn and grow.

But at some point we stop getting excited about the falling down. We become self-critical, embarrassed, ashamed. We hide the parts of ourselves that we judge as “imperfect.” We stop trying. And life becomes a struggle.

I work with many people on the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. The same questions come up: “But if I accept this ‘failure,’ am I doomed to live with it forever?” “Does accepting myself where I am mean I will settle here and not improve?”

Maybe what we need is a reframe. What if we looked at every step in life like we look at learning to walk?

Winston Churchill said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

And with no loss of self-respect or self-love. And if the self-respect, self-esteem, or self-love have been lost, they can be redeemed.

This is the topic of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

Forgiving Your Past

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:44:56 GMT

A friend once said to me, “A leopard doesn’t change his spots.” He was making the point that people do not change who they are.

It may be true that we are who we are and that does not change. However, it is also true that we do not always know who we are and are therefore not always living true to ourselves – and this can make us look like spotted leopards when we are not.

I’ve seen many who once looked like leopards lose their spots altogether. It takes embarking on the intentional journey to discover who you truly are and align your thoughts, beliefs, habits, and inner conviction to your truth. AND it takes forgiving the mistakes of your past.

This is the topic of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Join us at the top of the hour for a transformational healing experience.

Deepening Your Meditation

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:50:00 GMT

It’s been a while since we focused on the meditation itself, going deeper into the still point in the heart to connect, listen, receive, rest, awaken, rejuvenate, pray, give thanks, or however you are guided. This week’s Meditation & Healing Circle is just that – to deepen and follow what unfolds, however you are guided.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered transformational healing experience.

Taking Action from Divine Flow

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:47:59 GMT

It helps to get quiet and meditative in order to connect with Divine Flow. Our world keeps us so busy that we need to take time out to meditate and connect with Natural Rhythms in order to reset, listen for guidance or receive divine inspiration.

But do you ever experience a disconnect when it’s time to move from the connected meditative flow state into action? Like you have to enter the “real world” to get things done?

It’s difficult to stay in flow state for very long once you get up and get moving. But the “flow” is moving. It is in action and it can carry you.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We explore maintaining the focal point as we move into inspired action.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Clearing the Clouds of Disapproval

Sun, 11 Sep 2022 16:48:00 GMT

That disapproving parent or sibling or spouse or teacher or boss or child – after enough of trying to please, your nervous system becomes poised for the attack. You know as soon as you come into their view, they are going to find something wrong with you – and they’ll let you know it.

The repetitive experiences create a cloud that follows you and darkens your pathway. You are waiting for the storm, carrying the umbrella, wearing the raincoat, hip waders, goggles, snorkel, and the shield.

It’s confining – impossible to freely express yourself, to be seen, heard, valued, understood.

And you deserve to be free, to be seen, heard, valued, understood, fully expressed. All of these are basic human needs – your birthright. Your pathway to knowing your authentic sacred self.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we are clearing the cloud of disapproval and allowing the sun to shine on the brilliant light of your being – to set you free to be your divine self.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Healing the Wounds of Hypocrisy

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:33:00 GMT

We’ve all experienced hypocrisy – from religious institutions, governments, schools, the justice system, the legal system, from our parents and families . It’s impossible to avoid, and its effects can be detrimental.

While working with a client this week, we uncovered a root cause of a long-held wound. It was the experience of hypocrisy. The wound was protected by a hard wall. What surfaced from it was anger, bitterness, and hostility. There was a refusal to hear anything that came from certain sources, even a rebellion against any suggestion they made, regardless of its validity. Sometimes this even meant depriving himself, even hurting himself.

But how is it that when one person makes a suggestion, we can evaluate it and if we disagree, we simply say, “No thank you.”

Yet when another makes perhaps even the same suggestion, we reinforce the walls, or go into a rage and want to burn their house down.

And still others, we put the blinders on and pretend everything is okay. We accept it as just the way this is, and we live with it.

In this case, we discovered what made the difference was the experience of hypocrisy. What gives the experience of hypocrisy so much power over us?

This is the exploration of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We seek to heal the wounds from hypocrisy so that we can be with the present moment, evaluate and discern what is best for us, and open to the love that is present behind our faults.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Returning to the Mother

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:25:14 GMT

When we want to heal the family, we need to care for the mother, to be the mother, to be the earth – the stable, grounding, healing, nurturing, loving force of compassion.

On a larger scale, when we want to heal the world, we need to return to care for the Mother Earth – to support her and reinforce her qualities of stability, grounding, healing, nurturing, love, and compassion.

And we need to call all our earthly family home – through the attractive forces of love and compassion – to this family nucleus to care for our Mother Earth and for each other as one family.

Given the strife in our global family, this return is our pathway of healing. We learn our most powerful tools for healing through our relationships with our family of origin. One is a mirror for the other, and of course they are not separate.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we connect inwardly to be the mother and connect our inner mother with the Mother Earth to, God willing, illuminate and radiate the attractive forces that draw people home to the global family to care for our Mother Earth and care for each other.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

Cosmic Outlook with Guest Amina Deborah Lewis

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:33:03 GMT

My dear friend and spiritual traveler, Amina Deborah Lewis, joins us today. She put on her astrologer hat to bring us an outlook on what is happening in the cosmos over the next few months and how it supports our transition to living in peace, compassion, and harmony.

We seize the opportunity that is opening today with a healing exercise to help us let go of attachments and agendas as we explore choices that align with our highest truths.

Listen to this episode for an informative and transformational healing experience.

The Answer is Love: 5 Core Lessons for Living in Peace

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:53:05 GMT

We did it! We have just completed all 37 questions in all 5 sections from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Each of the 5 sections outlined a core teaching to living in Peace and Universal Harmony. Together they form a beautiful pathway of the human journey to return from our perceived separation to the reality of Truth and Unity. Today we review the 5 Core teachings and the overview of the pathway of return.

Ram Dass said, “We’re all just walking each other home.”

Listen to this episode to explore the pathway home and receive guided healing and inspiration for your journey.

4 Keys to Strengthen Your Divine Connection

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:35:38 GMT

We have just completed the section on “Spirituality” from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Today we recap this section with 4 Keys to Strengthen Your Divine Connection – to letting go of what you think you know and who you think you are in order to find Truth which your heart truly seeks.

The poet Rumi wrote:

“Knock, And He’ll open the door.

Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun.

Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens.

Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

~ Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

Listen to this episode for today’s Meditation & Healing Circle for an inquiry into your deepest heart and an opening to the vastness of existence.

How Can We Know God?

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:56:00 GMT

My spiritual teacher used to say, “Do not stop with any outside pictures. See the Face of God in everything.”

"Everything?" "Yes, everything." "But what about..."

This includes everything outside ourselves and everything inside ourselves. And everything is One.

This means no separation, no you versus me, no judgment of better-worse, higher-lower, worthy-unworthy, right-wrong.

The poet Rumi wrote:

“Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about

ideas and language.

Even the phrase ‘each other’

doesn’t make any sense.”

One key to the question, “How can I know You?” is to never assume you do, to approach everything with the eye of wonder which originates in the heart of the seeker – and then ask, “Who seeks? Who sees? What is here to be revealed?”

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore this question which is perhaps unanswerable in any complete form, but a beautiful guide for the Life journey.

In a world that values presence, certainty, courage, and confidence, where is the place for humility and surrender? We will include this delicate dance in our exploration as well.

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation.

Surrendering into Unity Consciousness

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 18:50:09 GMT

What is Unity? And what does it mean to surrender into Unity Consciousness?

Unity means the state of being one. It means not making any separation between any parts of the whole, recognizing all parts of the All That Is as Only One.

Surrendering into Unity Consciousness means letting go of your separateness and dissolving into the Real. It means allowing your drop to become the Ocean.

This means letting go of judgments of yourself and others, forgiving yourself and others, seeing the Pure Light in yourself and others.

We are one, and in our heart of hearts we desire to return our conscious state to the realization of Oneness. This is the desire of the seeker.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on this deepest desire of the heart. We focus on dissolving into the Pure Mercy and Compassion, the Unconditional Love, the Ocean of Living Consciousness – letting go of separateness and any judgments of “other” and experiencing the Love of the Whole.

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation.

Help from the Unseen Realms

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:15:00 GMT

Existence is vast; it is infinite. Our seeing and hearing only perceive a small fraction of what exists all around us.

We are surrounded by angels, helpers, healers, guides, and jinn. They are here to help, and because we have free will, they have to wait for us to ask them to help.

In this episode we direct our focus to connect directly with our helpers and guides and we ask directly for the help and support we need – for healing, guidance, strength, forgiveness, justice, to illuminate truth, and whatever your heart is inspired to ask for.

This meditation has 2 parts –

the asking for support from the unseen helpers, and
opening subtle perceptions and integrating subtle perceptions with physical sensory perceptions.

This is from Section 5: Spirituality, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is “Are there more colors beyond what we can see?”

It sounds like a simple question, but it is quite profound.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation to

ask for what your heart seeks,
to open your sensory perception to perceive the gifts you are receiving,
to develop a knowing that you are supported.

Spirituality & Unconditional Love

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 16:53:14 GMT

Today we begin Section 5: Spirituality, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question for today is “How do I know when I’ve found/reached Unconditional Love?”

Life is a journey. Do we ever reach the state of Unconditional Love? Of course, we get glimpses and experience epiphanies, but can we maintain the ultimate freedom of subsisting in pure Unconditional Love?

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore practices to help us release our own conditioning and surrender into unconditional love. Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation to help your whole being rest into Compassion and Unconditional Love.

6 Keys to Living Your Passion & Purpose

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:42:54 GMT

Over the past 6 weeks, we explored the 6 questions in Section 4: Passion & Purpose, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Today we recap the bottom-line takeaways from this section and find 6 Keys to Living Your Passion & Purpose to bring perspective to your life journey, and increase trust and capacity for joy.

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation to help you align with your life journey of transformation, fulfillment, and joy.

Accessing Inner Joy

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:11:00 GMT

Life can get really heavy and intense sometimes – much of the time – and we can forget to have fun and feel the joy along the way.

If you are a person whose Passion and Purpose involves caring for those experiencing hardship or oppression, speaking for those whose voices are not heard, righting the wrongs in the world, or protecting the planet, your pursuit though fulfilling can take a toll on your life force.

Just like love, compassion, acceptance, passion, and purpose – joy is an inside job. Fun is a necessary component of self-care.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we access the inner joy and focus on building that muscle. We explore where you can incorporate more fun into your life journey.

Of course, there are real life concerns and responsibilities that we cannot disregard. For this we give attention to releasing blocks by alleviating guilt, shame, worries, fears, perfectionism, and other burdens that weigh on the spirit, and we focus on increasing faith and trust in the Divine Orchestration of life on Earth.

This is from Part 4: Passion & Purpose, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: “I feel like I take life too seriously, always working and trying to do things right. Where is the place for fun and play?”

Listen to this episode for a meditation practice to alleviate the heaviness of burdens and access more joy and fun.

Inner Strength & Confidence: Trust in Your Value

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:21:00 GMT

Do you ever feel like people don’t see you or value who you are and what you have to give? You were created on purpose with a purpose for a purpose. You are meant to be here and fulfill that purpose. The human journey includes learning to trust in your value and hold it with inner strength and confidence.

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We do a recitation practice to strengthen and integrate the inner spirit and the physical vessel. The recitation is "Ya Qawiyy, Ya Matin". You'll learn more in this episode.

This is from Part 4: Passion & Purpose, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: “I feel like no one sees me or values what I have to give? How can I make a difference when I feel devalued and disregarded?”

Listen to this episode for a meditation practice to build inner strength and confidence in your value and purpose.

Living Aligned with Your Heart's Longing

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:11:22 GMT

My initial Spiritual Awakening came as a totally unexpected spontaneous event. Not drug induced or intentional in any conscious way, it lasted a full week. It changed my life from that day forward, but after that week of epiphany, I was re-immersed in the same daily life I had been living for the previous decades.

I had been changed inside, filled with insights and passion. However, the life I was living was the same. The job was the same, my friends were the same, my routine was the same, my habits were the same, my obligations and commitments were the same.

Much of what I was living was totally out of synch from what I had come to realize about the world and the passion I felt in my heart.

My deep prayer became a call for help:

How can I live every minute of every day, every habit, every choice, every word, every breath aligned with what I now knew to be true about the world?

How could I live in service to the longing I felt in my heart?

These are questions we explore in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. I share with you more about my personal awakening and the guidance that followed, and tools I still use to help me clear layers of old patterning and habits so I can honor my heart’s desire to live aligned with its inner truth.

I also share the reading from the next question in Part 4: Passion & Purpose from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Listen to this episode for a guided meditation and transformational healing experience.

How do you know if you are pursuing the right purpose?

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 23:37:00 GMT

For many of us, we have a deep desire to be of service in the highest way. Yet, with so much need in the world, it’s hard to know what that right way is.

What is the best way? What is the highest way? What is the way that will serve the most pressing purpose? What is the way that God wants you to serve?

These are questions we explore in this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

This is from Section 4: Passion and Purpose from the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Join us at the top of the hour to relax the fears and worries and tap into certainty and joy.

Is It Possible to Awaken Others?

Sun, 29 May 2022 16:02:00 GMT

For many of us, the Passion and Purpose we feel called to serve is to awaken others as we have been awakened. Is this possible? To what extent can we influence people or guide them? How can we best align with this burning passion to serve?

These are questions we explore in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

This is from Section 4: Passion and Purpose from the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Listen to this episode to tap into your purpose and align with your passion in a way that holds space for those you are here to serve and for those who are in your life but not yet ready for your message.

How Can I Follow My Purpose when Others Don't Want Me to Change?

Sun, 22 May 2022 16:45:00 GMT

This week we begin Section 4: Passion & Purpose! This section included 6 questions on accessing your Passion and Purpose, serving in the way you are called to serve, allowing the expression of the Divine Life Force energy to move through you freely.

This section contains secrets to fulfillment - getting to the end of your days knowing that your life was well-lived - which means living each day as an expression of your true divine nature.

But do you ever sense the people closest to you will think you're crazy if you make changes? The ones who are supposed to love you and support you are the ones who want you to stay the same?

Of course they do. It's all about keeping it safe. This is where we begin this section. "How can you feel supported to follow your Purpose when your loved ones do not want you to change?"

Listen to this episode of the Meditation & Healing Circle to tap into that inner passion, to feel it and let it fill you, to allow it to be you before you ever have to change a thing!

Key Takeaways on Body-Mind-Heart Healing

Sun, 15 May 2022 15:33:22 GMT

We just completed Section 3 of the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. This section included 8 questions about healing for the body-mind-heart.

Looking back at the 8 questions in this section, they tell a story of how we can return from the chaos of our hectic lives to heal the hardened heart that shields itself from past and future pain.

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we’ll outline this progression as we review the key takeaways from this section, the pathway of healing for your body-mind-heart and for the evolution of your soul.

Can we eradicate disease?

Sun, 08 May 2022 15:57:00 GMT

We know that disease has components in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers of our bodies. We know that many times, disease offers us the opportunity to see where the layers of our existence are out of sync with each other so we can bring them into harmony if we choose.

As we transition into the era of Peace and Universal Harmony where we will be living primarily aligned with our spiritual essence, what will be the role of disease? As we gain clearer sight into the inner working of our multi-dimensional selves, will we still need to experience disease?

This is the question for today’s Meditation & Healing Circle: “Can we eradicate disease?” This is from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace.

Listen to this episode to explore the question of disease – what does a look into the future tell us about what we can do now to reduce the occurrence and impact of disease? The healing will guide you to align all the parts of yourself with the inner knowing you uncover.

Fear of dying in these troubled times

Sun, 01 May 2022 15:39:00 GMT

We are traversing a pivotal time in our earthly evolution. Many people are exiting the material plane – dying from the physical body. You may have lost people close to you. It can feel scary. “What if… Please, not me. I’m not ready to go.”

None of us knows when our time will come, or the time of those closest to us. The most important thing is how we spend our time here. It’s important to communicate with those we care most about so we have no regrets.

This week’s Meditation & Healing Circle addresses the fear of dying and the importance of living with clear and open communications with those we love.

What are the words you want to leave with those you care most about?
What is the legacy of wisdom you want to leave behind?
What blocks do you need to clear from within yourself so you can allow the love to flow between you?

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing to help you get clear on who and what are most important to you so you can relate to them with an open and loving heart.

When you feel like you don't belong on this planet...

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:59:00 GMT

Do you ever feel like you do not belong on this planet? You don’t fit in with the status quo, the hustle and bustle, the insensitivities, the harmful common practices that are accepted, and even expected, at the foundations of our societies.

I invite you to reframe your questioning: “What does belong on this planet? Who belongs?” The planet cannot survive the insensitivities much longer. Humanity must evolve before we completely destroy that which sustains life for us and all the inhabitants of this beautiful world.

Our planet needs people like you who desire to live in harmony and peace. You are the hope.

The focus of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle is to help those of us who have felt out of synch with the human-altered reality to align with the innate wisdom and strengthen our ability to uphold the inner truths amidst the evolving world.

And to hold on to hope – we are evolving into an era of Peace and Universal Harmony.

This is from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. This is the question for today is “No one understands me. I feel like I don’t fit anywhere. Am I really supposed to be here?”

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing to help you align with your innate wisdom and a clearer perspective on the True Reality.

Healing from Humiliation and Shame

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:48:00 GMT

There are parts of ourselves we innately hide – the parts that have been humiliated and shamed. They covertly direct our paths to avoid repeating a humiliating shaming experience, while also avoiding being seen and heard even when we have something vitally important to express.

These parts of us need Light and Love to be healed. The Light illuminates truth, which illuminates the underlying need of the heart and soul. The Love fills the need and heals at the deepest layers of your being. The Love restores you to the truth of who you are created to be.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We continue with the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. This is the question for today is “How can I recover from humiliation and shame?”

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing that reaches to the deep heart and soul.

Forgiving Someone Who Shows No Remorse

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 16:31:00 GMT

We can’t escape it. It’s a part of the journey. But we do not need to allow ourselves to be held hostage by the pain of old wounds.

Someone in your life who has betrayed your trust, who has taken advantage of your innocence. Or someone whose ways are so different from yours, they seem oblivious to your needs. They may seem insensitive, cruel, even evil.

Even if they know they’ve hurt you, they have shown no remorse, taken no responsibility. Maybe they’ve even blamed you. Or maybe they do not realize the extent of the pain they’ve caused you.

You need to be done with this old lingering pain. Not just shove it down and ignore it, but really clear it from your psyche for good. But, how can you forgive someone who shows no remorse?

This is the question for today: “How can I forgive someone who shows no remorse?” This is the next question from The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace.

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation that goes far beyond what the mind can conceive.

Too Busy to Meditate? Shortcuts to Center, Ground & Reconnect

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 16:36:00 GMT

Do you ever feel like you’re too busy for meditation? Or too stressed? In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, I’ll share with you some shortcuts to drop out of the frenzy and ground in your body, center in your heart, and rest into the Universal Love that provides for you and rejuvenates you.

This is a continuation from The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. The question for today is “How can I connect with Love when life is so hectic? I’m busy working hard to make ends meet, and I can barely keep up.”

Listen to this episode to learn simple shortcuts you can use any time, any place, when you need to center, ground, and reconnect.

Healing the Pain of Loneliness

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:25:00 GMT

In the Meditation & Healing Circle, we address the pain of Loneliness. The question for today is “Sometimes I feel so lonely, the pain is unbearable. I want someone to love who loves me. Is this possible?”

The response offers a deeper understanding of loneliness and the pain it produces. Today’s meditation offers a spring of Love to fill the emptiness and free us from the unhealthy coping strategies that we have relied on in the past to bring relief.

Healing for a Hardened Heart

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 18:51:00 GMT

When the heart becomes hardened by life’s experiences and world events, how can we be open to love? How can we release constriction around the heart to experience the Divine Ocean of Living Consciousness, which is Unconditional Love and Compassion?

That is the focus of this week's experiential Meditation and Healing Circle. We are beginning Section 3: Disease, Pain & Healing: Physical, Mental, & Emotional, from The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question for today is “Why does love hurt? Why does my heart ache so?”

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7 Key Takeaways on Gender Identity, Relationship, Family, Parenting, & Children

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:45:00 GMT

Over the past 10 weeks, we covered Section 2: Gender Identity, Gender Roles, Parenting, Family, & Children, from the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

This week's Meditation & Healing Circle offers a recap with 7 Key takeaways – themes for knowing yourself and living in harmony in the era of Peace, Unconditional Love, and Universal Harmony.

In the era of Peace, we live more closely identified with spirit/consciousness, less identified with body. We are letting go of what has defined us based on our bodies, gender, social or cultural “norms”, race, class, religion, education level, profession, economic status, even past wounds and successes.

The biggest key is to know yourself deeply as an expression of Divine life energy living through you – and through everything else that you experience.

Listen in for a deepening of this experience today, and more...

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Sacred Sexual Intimacy in the Era of Peace

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:32:00 GMT

This week's Meditation & Healing Circle focuses on the topic of Sexual Intimacy in the Era of Peace and Unconditional Love. What is a healthy sex life in the realm where we identify primarily with consciousness and secondarily with the physical/material? And how can we have that soul-level experience now?

This is the next question in the series, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: How can I have a healthy sex life that honors the sacredness of my body and spirit?

In this meditation practice, we call on 2 Divine Names to help us awaken to the Divine forces of Sacredness (Al-Quddus) and Divine Intimacy (Al-Waliy).

The Meditation & Healing Circle is LIVE every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're invited to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the recording ends for Q&A, support, and discussion.

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On Divorce: Healing, Guidance, Self-Compassion

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:41:00 GMT

Today's Meditation & Healing Circle focuses on Divorce - love, attachment, commitment, obligation. How do we know when to stay or go? How can we find healing and wholeness in the midst of the turmoil? How can we come to know love even when we feel like we're losing it?

Today's meditation offers you compassion and illuminated insight. This is the next question in the series, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: What about divorce?

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Abortion: Controversies, Compassion, Collective Responsibility

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:28:00 GMT

Abortion is an issue that pulls on my heart strings. It’s not a choice I’ve had to make personally, and I’m grateful for that, but I have held space for many as they shared their stories of the choices they faced after abuse, especially incest.

I’ve been present with young girls – children who do not know their bodies well enough to determine pregnancy at early stages – who are paralyzed in fear because no choice feels like a “good” choice.

And now I live in Texas whose lawmakers have recently passed the strictest abortion law in this country – no abortion after 6 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. And several states are following suit.

Note: this topic is the next question from “The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.” The Texas law was passed after this chapter was written, but the Answer is relevant.

There is a lack of integrity, an incongruence between what we display as social norms and what we expect of the developing members of our society. The resultant situation is heart-breaking, and as a collective, we all hold some level of responsibility.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we offer prayers for the collective of humanity, for our culture, and for the individuals who struggle with difficult choices currently or from the past.

If abortion has been a choice you made and struggled with, you will find compassion and healing here. If you struggle to understand the dilemmas of others, I hope you gain clarity and understanding here. In any case, I hope you will join us in praying for the soul of humanity. We will also discuss changes we can expect in the Era of Peace and Universal Harmony.

Listen to this experiential heart-centered meditation for love, compassion, understand, and universal harmony.

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Healing a Grieving Heart

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:23:00 GMT

Sometimes the pain of grief can be so excruciating, it feels like it will never go away, especially if we are plagued with regrets of lost time or missed opportunities.

Yet those we love are always a part of us. A part of them lives in our hearts and another part of them walks beside us and supports us from the unseen realms.

Can the grief in the heart ever be healed?

Today’s meditation brings compassion and soothing to the heart while calling in the Divine knowledge of the continuation of life with and without form.

We call on the Divine Names and Sacred Sound Codes:

* Al-Muhyi: The One Who Gives Life

* Al-Mumit: The One Who Gives Death

* Al-Hayy: The One Who Lives Forever

This is from Question 16 in the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The full question is: “My grief is so great – will it ever go away? Can I ever make up for lost time and missed opportunities now that my loved on is gone?”

Listen to this episode for an experiential heart-healing meditation and an exploration of how we relate to life embodied and disembodied in the era of Peace and Unconditional Love.

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When my child hurts, I hurt... (heart healing)

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:26:00 GMT

Our children and the children we bond with and love are in our hearts. They are a part of us. When they hurt, we hurt. And yet, they are God’s children just like we are. They have their own paths. They have free will.

So how can we be with the pain we feel when they are hurting, or when we fear for them and we can't be with them, or when they make choices we don’t agree with?

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. It's Question 15 in the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Here’s the full question as it came through: “My children feel like a part of me. When they hurt, I hurt. When someone hurts them, I die inside. When they choose a path of pain, I feel I have failed. How can I cope with this pain?”

Listen to this week's replay for an experiential heart-healing meditation.

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Helping Our Children Walk a Conscious Path

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:26:00 GMT

In these times leading up to the Era of Peace, energies are polarizing, opposite extremes are intensifying, options are becoming more distinct. Hopefully, we are able to see more clearly and make clearer choices, but this is not always the case.

There are strong worldly influences and pressures today, especially on our children. There are also many fears. When I was a child, there was fear of nuclear attack. We even practiced those drills in school where we took shelter under our desks. Really???

Now children face fears of school shootings, pandemics, and facing their own extinction as the climate crisis looms. These fears along with the need for security, belonging, and pleasing others can steer them onto challenging paths.

Yet, our children are innately wired for this time. Our role is to help them maintain connection to their inner knowing, to know themselves, and to trust themselves. When they are clear and strong in their inner knowing, they can make better choices for themselves.

So how do we help them connect with their inner knowing, trust it, and stay strong in it?

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. It's Question 14 in the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Children learn through the example we set, so we’ll begin with a healing meditation for our inner children, and we’ll offer an invitation for all the children in our sphere of influence.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation.

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Balancing Self-Care & Caring for Others

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:29:00 GMT

Life is demanding. Often, our lives revolve around responding to the needs of others and we don’t have time to take care of ourselves. We run out of time. We run out of juice. We get depleted.

The cup is emptied, and you cannot give from an empty cup.

Yet, we are meant to be in relationship. We are meant to help each other. And we are meant to have needs. So how can we balance caring for others and caring for our own needs?

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. This is a continuation of the series, "The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace"

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Is feminine energy the weaker energy?

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:48:00 GMT

An old, almost archaic, belief has centered around the female as the weaker sex. I’d like to believe this idea is in the past, but in reality, it is one we are still recovering from, and many of us are still suffering from. In any case, the old patterning still lurks in the layers of subconscious.

Regardless of what body you were born in or what gender you identify with, everyone has feminine and masculine energies, and there are stigmas associated with both genders.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on the question: Was the female (or the feminine energies) created as the weaker gender (energy)? We will clear old patterning and belief systems, and call forth the truth from within.

You are powerful beyond measure. You are worthy of Love, Honor, and Respect.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation.

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Gender Roles in the Era of Peace

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:35:00 GMT

Last week we focused on Gender Identity in the Era of Peace. This week we focus on Gender Roles.

I recall seeing the Wonder Woman movie that came out in 2017. Diana, the Amazonian Princess raised on an isolated island of all female warriors, was not conditioned to any of the beliefs we hold about females. Her knowledge of men came from what she had read in books.

I was delighted to watch how she moved through our cultures as if she were an alien from another planet. Our gender-informed structures just did not apply. They were not relevant to her soul mission, and in fact, they would have hindered her effectiveness if she allowed them to.

Can you imagine releasing your gender-informed programming that has inhibited you from being all of who you were created to be and doing all that you were created to do?

Imagine an opportunity to live in an Era of Peace and Unconditional Love, where we are not defined by collective ego-based systems, but we are completely unburdened, unconstrained - where we know ourselves as beings of Light and we live it - because it is what is!

Imagine looking back at your life and saying, "I can't believe I ever accepted those old ideas or lived that way. I'm so grateful for this freedom!"

Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle to let go of old ideas, judgments, and wounds of the past, to release the old belief systems, and to open to the reality of the new era. The future is Unconditional Love.

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Gender Identity in the Era of Peace

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:08:00 GMT

This week we begin Part 2: Gender Identity, Gender Roles, Family, Parenting, & Children. The question for today is: "What is unfolding with gender identities and sexual orientation? How can we understand, guide, and support our children with all they are faced with?"

I remember a few years ago, I was out walking with a friend. Her 12-year-old daughter had had told her there were 19 specified gender identities. Now my great niece and nephew, ages 12 and 10 respectively, talk to me about their questions of gender identity and sexual orientation. I ask them what it means to them, wanting to understand where their questions come from. I'm not sure to what extent they understand sex and relationships at their age, but who to be and who to love are prominent questions.

I admit, I still do not know the 19 designations, or even how many there are today. But the question of how to help and guide the children through the questions of their own identities and roles is one that has remained in my heart. I imagine that is what brought through the questions in this section, and I'm so grateful for what I learned from this download.

As we transition into an Era of Peace, everything is changing. If we want to transition peacefully, we need to let go of old ideas, judgments, and wounds of the past. The future is Unconditional Love.

Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle to hear the response of where we're headed, to release the old belief systems, and to open to the new.

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7 Keys to Sustainability & World Peace

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:04:47 GMT

Last week we completed the section on Sustainability & World Peace. Before we move on to Part 2, I want to recap with 7 Key Takeaways from this section, and also offer a heart-centered meditation to deepen, expand, and strengthen the heart.

It’s okay if you missed any or all of the first section. You can still receive benefit from today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

Please join us for an experiential healing meditation to release us from the confines of the ego-driven cultures and expand our consciousness to harmonize with Peace.

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Is It Possible to Have World Peace?

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:59:40 GMT

Peace exists when we open our perceptions and awareness beyond this 3D time-space reality. This realm is cloaked in many veils of illusion that will have us believe we are integrally tied to the systems that feed us. clothe us, shelter us, and pay us.

It's hard to see beyond this way of life when we are standing in the middle of it and embroiled in it - and dependent upon it.

This leads us to this week's question, Question #9 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: “Is it possible to have world peace?”

Can we exist in peace while living in this 3D realm? It helps to know that the vibrations of our planet - this realm - are increasing in frequency. We have a choice to increase our frequencies and move into the higher realms.

To prepare for Peace - or to live in Peace now - we must shift our perceptions and open to an existence that extends beyond this one, beyond the time-space, beyond the 3-dimensional, beyond the mind.

Today we use Divine Names and sounds codes, offering higher frequencies to resonate into the brain and pineal gland, to help the mind open to Peace that exists beyond what the mind has become dependent upon.

Of course we will involve the heart portal and and embodiment practice to integrate the concepts of Peace and existence of Peace into conscious awareness and being - to BE the change we wish to see in the world - the change that is near for all our world.

Divine Names we may use today:

Al-Latif, the Subtle
Al-Khabir, the Conscious, Perceptive
Al-Hadi, the Guide
Al-Fattah, the Opener

Please join us for an experiential healing meditation to lift the veils and prepare for Peace.

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Are Humans Capable of Creating a Sustainable Environment?

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:17:00 GMT

This week, we address Question #8 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “Are humans capable of creating a sustainable environment where all elements of creation can thrive?”

My teacher used to say, “You think you are a small star, when in fact you contain the whole universe.”

Rumi said, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop.”

Everything we see outside of ourselves is a reflection of what we contain within us. Likewise, everything contained within us is reflected in how we relate to what is outside of us.

We cannot separate ourselves from the rest of creation – AND the inner work we do to bring inner peace and wholeness does affect the collective consciousness as well as the global and cosmic vibrations.

As I sat in meditation reflecting on this question/answer today, I see how evident this is. There are many pathways we can travel to approach this topic:

* Healing our own bodies,

* Healing our relationships with others,

* Praying for healing of the collective consciousness,

* Praying for healing for the planet, all her inhabitants and her environment,

* Healing mantras to bring all vibrations closer to the vibrations of Divine Peace and Unity.

The approach we take today will depend on who shows up and what is needed. All the doorways are open.

Are we capable of living in sustainability and peace? Yes. Will we? It depends on us – each one of us.

Listen to this meditation to bring healing and alignment for yourself, your relationships, the collectives, our planet, our environment.

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Can We Survive Climate Change?

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 17:46:00 GMT

This morning as I sat in reflection and meditation around this chapter, the process that unfolded was deeply healing, revealing, and transformative. I want to share this with you today in hope that it will be for you too.

This is Question #7 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “Can we survive Climate Change?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

* What are the greatest shifts we can make within ourselves?

* What shifts can we make in our daily lives to become part of the solution?

* Prayers for awakening of humanity and protection of the planet and all life she sustains?

In our meditation today, we release our personal sense of separation and unworthiness for the knowing of “enoughness.” You have enough, you ARE enough, and you are worthy of the deepest, purest Love – True LOVE.

On the global scale, we explore the Divine Unity that can be found in what appears as opposites – evil and good, harmful and beneficial, etc.

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Prayers for the Planet: Overpopulation, Sustainability, Provision

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:34:00 GMT

Is overpopulation a cause of the climate crisis? Do we need to reduce our population in order to sustain life here? What will happen as we transition into an era of Peace?

This week, we address Question #6 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: “Is the planet over-populated? Do we need to reduce our population in order to sustain life here?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

* Is the world over-populated? Is there enough to sustain all living creatures?

* How can we increase trust in provision and sufficiency?

* How can we prepare for the transition into the Era of Peace?

We offer prayers for healing and provision on a global scale, for homeostasis of the global body. We call on the Divine Attribute of Provision, ar-Razzaq, to help us receive the provision in the ways it is needed to support our transition into the Era of Peace. Ar-Razzaq is the One Who looks after all beings, the Provider, the Nurturer.

Listen for an experiential healing meditation - healing for the individuals (all life), the collective consciousness/systems, and the planet.

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Humans & Animals in the Era of Peace

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:19:43 GMT

This week, we address Question #5 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “What is our role with animals in the new era of peace?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

What was our intended relationship with animals?
How has our role with animals changed?
How can we open to higher forms of mercy as a guide to shift us into relationship based on peace, love and compassion?

Mercy takes many forms. There is mercy in everything. And when it is time for us to make a change, the form of mercy changes.

Now is the time for change in our relationship with animals. The planet can no longer sustain our heedlessness. We can no longer turn a blind eye to the cruelty that has been so dominant in the status quo. Cruelty and heedlessness cannot coexist with Peace.

Today, we call on higher forms of Mercy to guide the transformation of humanity as we transition into the Era of Peace.

Listen to and enjoy this experiential healing meditation.

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World Hunger & World Peace - Is there really enough?

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:29:41 GMT

This week, we continue with Question #4 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Today's question is: “Is It Possible to End World Hunger? Can the planet support the population?”

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

Are there enough food and resources to sustain everyone on the planet?
What attitudes and behaviors does our humanity need to shift in order for everyone to have enough?
Is the global situation mirroring something inside ourselves? What do we need to shift internally to align with “enoughness” and World Peace?

We are one body, and our body cannot be healed until we are all equally and sufficiently healthy and whole.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, our self-healing is around Sufficiency and Trust. Our global prayers are for the planet and all affected by hunger, poverty and lack.

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Lifting Us Out of Prolonged Suffering & Injustice

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 16:19:00 GMT

This week, we continue with Question #3 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Question #3 is: “Why do You allow so much prolonged suffering? How can I see this and still believe in Love?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

How can we keep our hearts open and not turn away from those in need?
How can we keep ourselves from getting stuck in the pain and despair?
How can we direct our prayers to lift us out of suffering and shift the vibration of the collective consciousness and the planet?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle to pray for those who are experiencing prolonged suffering - individuals, collectives, and the planet - to lift the vibration and help us transition into the Era of Peace.

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Domination, Greed, & Unconditional Love

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:05:06 GMT

Domination & Greed & Unconditional Love... Hmmmm.... One of these things is not like the other... or is it?

This week, we are continuing with the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question for this week is: “How can we embrace love when the world appears to be dominated by people who enslave others – human and non-human – for domination, control, and money?”

How has this power structure grown out of Unconditional Love?
How can we find and embrace Unconditional Love within it?
As the world is evolving into an Era of Peace, what will happen to the attributes of domination, control, and greed?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle for a heart-centered inquiry into these questions. Release the conditioning from your subconscious that keeps you locked in the patterns established by these old structures. Bring healing and peace to your heart.

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If God is Love, Why is there Cruelty in the World?

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:02:42 GMT

Last week, I shared with you an overview of a book that came through in a writing retreat I attended earlier this year. The book is about Love and questions to explore as we transition into an era of peace.

Today we’re going to explore the first question: “If God is a god of love, why is there so much cruelty in the world? Why the pain, hatred, and fighting?”

How can cruelty co-exist with unconditional love?
What can we expect as the frequencies on our planet are increasing and we are moving into an era of peace?
How can we be the change NOW and help to usher in the era of peace?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle for a heart-centered inquiry and healing meditation.

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What is Needed to Live in an Era of Peace?

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:55:00 GMT

Earlier this year, I attended a writing retreat. We spent time in meditation, then asked what book wanted to be written and what it wanted to say. Then we opened the flood gates and let it flow.

What came through for me was a book about love and questions to explore as we move into the new era of peace. It’s a series of 37 questions and answers exploring topics in which our typical worldly belief systems must evolve.

We contain many energetic patterns and beliefs that are defined by the cultural and human systems we live in. As long as we hold onto those patterns, we perpetuate the systems that created them.

But our world is changing. The cosmic evolution is underway. The world is shifting into a new era of peace, compassion, love and unity. It calls for new ways of thinking, believing and understanding love.

Many of the old patterns and beliefs cannot coexist within the era of peace. The frequencies are increasing, and the frequencies of the old patterns cannot exist with the higher vibrations of the evolving world. We must let them go.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, I want to share with you some of the general topics. Then in the coming weeks, I hope to get into specifics on various categories.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation that will help us to be the change now so we can move in harmony with the cosmic evolution we've been longing for.

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Setting Boundaries without Creating Barriers

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:48:00 GMT

We all have situations in our lives where we need to establish healthy boundaries. Have you ever felt like setting a boundary required you to put up walls around yourself and seal the doors and windows? I hear you. Yet in this case, the boundary can become a barrier.

And then what happens to the relationship? It’s true, sometimes it is better to sever a relationship all together, but most times we want the boundaries to improve the relationship or save the relationship, not destroy it.

And carrying an energetic barrier around yourself can transfer to other areas of your life, blocking out potential new healthy relationships and opportunities.

But it is possible to establish healthy boundaries without creating blocks and barriers, so you can stop hiding or deflecting - and start thriving!

That is the focus of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen in for an experiential healing meditation.

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Blessing of the Animals

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:13:00 GMT

They are our companions, fellow earthlings, and most of all - our Teachers. Our animal friends teach us about love and living in harmony with Nature and our Source.

Please join us for this special celebration for ALL our non-human animals with whom we share this earth - the land, soil, sea, and air.

The Blessing of the Animals is a tradition of the Catholic church honoring St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. It is celebrated annually on October 4th. This year we will honor that tradition with our own celebration - Community for Conscious Living style - with a Special Celebration honoring our human-nonhuman animal connection.

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Visualizing World Peace

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 18:43:00 GMT

Do you long to live in a world of peace? Most of us do, but visualizing world peace is near impossible. We have been so far from it for so long, it takes some intentional practice to conjure up an all-encompassing vision of what that actually looks and feels like.

And - if we truly want to live consciously and align our thoughts, habits and practices with a world that is loving, compassionate and sustainable for all life, we need to continually focus on the vision and bring it to the forefront of our minds and hearts.

This is the focus of this week's Meditation & Healing Circle. Bring pen and paper – a journal if you have one.

In this episode, we use a Sufi practice, calling on Divine Names of creation and manifestation, to open our vision to a Divine reality that can fashion a harmonious creation. Once the vision comes into the mind’s eye, we will call on the Divine attributes that bring vision into form and ignite the life force within the forms to bring them into manifestation.

The Divine Names we use today are:

Al-Khaliq, the Creator
Al-Bari’, the Creator of harmony, the One Who brings into existence
Al-Musawwir, the One Who gives shape
Al-Qadir, the Capable, the Powerful

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation.

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The Ultimate Soul Purpose

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:33:00 GMT

I received a call from a beloved of our community the other day. He and his father were both ill with the virus. He was recovering, while his father appeared to be physically declining.

There were a lot of questions, and one particular area that comes up for many of us - questions about the this existence and afterlife. Why are we here, and what happens after this? What is the Ultimate Purpose of the Soul?

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, I want to share with you the Sufi perspectives and my beliefs about this existence and the afterlife. I share with you my favorite meditation, which is designed to lift the veils of separation now to experience what we can of the Ultimate Reality while we are present in body in this material realm.

Listen to the replay for an experiential healing meditation.

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Are You Multi-Passionate?

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 19:03:00 GMT

If you are a person who feels a sense of passion and purpose, you probably care deeply for many things in your life. When you desire to make the world a better place, it’s challenging to pick just one area of service, especially when there are so many needs. And then there are your personal needs and the needs of your family and loved ones.

I know this challenge personally. Since I moved in with my father 4 years ago, I’ve walked the line every day between caring for his needs and the needs of other family members, serving my clients and the Joyfully Living community, and caring for my own well-being.

All are important to me. I started this business because I am passionate about helping people heal, deepen their connection with Source, and live their lives in service to that connection. And a part of living my life in service to my connection is to be in service to my family and loved ones. I care deeply about this as I care deeply about the many areas of need in the world.

I was given a rare gift of studying with a Sufi Guide and Master Healer from Jerusalem, Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal, for almost 20 years before his passing in 2015. I have a deep desire to pass on the many gifts I have received. And there are many ways to do this. Sometimes the navigation seems confusing.

Yet, as I put my head down in service to my deep heart, which ultimately desires to serve the Highest, the pathway becomes clear – and there’s usually an intersection, a place where it all comes together.

It might not make sense from a purely logical perspective or one that our worldly view would choose, but perhaps that too is a part of the personal learning opportunity – to follow the heart even when it doesn’t match what the “world” would advise.

Can you relate to this struggle? I believe anyone with a deep passion for Truth and Compassion can.

This is the focus of today’s Meditation and Healing Circle. Please join us to connect deeply to your passion and desire to be in service, to learn tools to find the place inside where your passions intersect and align.

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Clearing the Mind of Misleading Messages

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 15:50:00 GMT

Do you know that you are being marketed to constantly? The average person sees between 4,000 and 10,000 marketing messages per day!

Everyone is trying to influence what you believe, what you think you need, who you want to be, even your deepest desires. They play on your emotions, influence your beliefs, and redirect your actions.

Some of the messages are blatant. You can see and hear them, and you can decide whether they appeal to you. Others are more subtle. They sneak in when you’re not paying close attention and play in the background in your subconscious thoughts.

You know those jingles that play in your head, and then suddenly you realize what you are humming and say, “What? Stop! Get out of my head!”

And then there are those messages that induce fear and put your nervous system into survival mode. Certainly you must take action right away if your life depends on it! There are lots of these everywhere now, and they are all trying to influence your beliefs and behaviors.

It’s hard to know who or what to believe. And when your mind is confused or on high alert survival mode, it’s difficult to your access own guidance, your own inner knowing, let alone your creativity or your passion for life.

Enough already! You're not here just to survive. You're here to thrive!

Let’s come together to clear out the gunk from our minds and reconnect our minds with the seat of our inner truths – our hearts.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:25:00 GMT

Yesterday a group of us kids who went to elementary school together – yes, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – got together for a reunion along with our 6^th grade teacher! It's been a while - 45 years!

One of our classmates brought along a collection of photos, booklets, and newspaper clippings that his mother had perfectly preserved – and the classic graduation booklet which contained the answers to the questions:

What do you aspire to be when you grow up?
What will you be most remembered for?

Oh boy! It was a hoot! Only one person was actually somewhat aligned with her 6^th grade aspirations. We talked about what influenced us and led us to where we’ve ended up at this point – and also, what’s next?

This past 2 years has changed much about our world and the way we perceive and relate to our world. Many of my classmates have retired or semi-retired. Personally, I’m on my 3^rd career, and it continues to evolve.

We change. Life changes. The questions come around again and again:

What do you want to be when you grow up?
What do you want to be most remembered for?

So, I thought this would be a great topic for us all to revisit today – especially as our world is evolving so rapidly at this time. Who do you want to be in the next phase of your life? What role do you want to play as we evolve into a new era of peace?

Join us today for an experiential healing meditation as we explore and open to what’s next.

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The Healing Power of Love

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:20:10 GMT

Love has the power to heal on every level - the physical body, the mental, emotional, etheric, and spiritual.

Are you experiencing...

Physical aches and pains?
Nagging thoughts that occupy your mind?
Emotional turmoil that keeps you from experiencing joy or peace?
Something in your system that energetically feels off?
Or perhaps you have a deep desire to surrender into or deepen your spiritual connection?

All of these are related, and all can be healed by the presence of Love.

In today’s Meditation and Healing Circle, we wrap these parts of ourselves in the vibration of Unconditional Love and allow them to be seen, heard, witnessed, and to receive unconditionally.

Please join us and experience the healing power of Love.

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A COVID Response: Healing for the Lungs & Breath

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:37:03 GMT

Whether you’ve had it, lost someone to it, fear it, or question the validity of it, the COVID conversation is dominating the collective airwaves, constricting the lungs and breath.

Physically, COVID attacks the lungs. Physiologically, constriction in the lungs is a natural response to trauma. Emotionally and energetically, the lungs are where we hold and process grief.

Today’s Meditation & Healing Circle is focused on healing for the lungs, expanding the breath, and receiving more Divine nutrients into the bloodstream and cells of the body.

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Lion's Gate New Moon in Leo: Rebirth, Authenticity, Courage, Manifestation

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:04:04 GMT

Today, 8-8, marks the opening of the Lion’s Gate portal and the New Moon in Leo. While I’m not an expert in Astrology, I know enough to say this brings three cosmic powerhouses into alignment to offer us an opportunity to break free from the status quo, move into an inspired authentic expression of ourselves, and open for Divine manifestations to come through – and that IS my area of expertise!

The 3 Cosmic Powerhouses are:

Star of Sirius: Rebirth, Breakthroughs, Abundance, Elevated Consciousness

New Moon: Aligned Intention-setting & Manifestation

Leo: Authenticity & Courage & Heart

This combination offers us Universal support for potent shifts in consciousness and living out our purpose. Our part is to rest into our sincere hearts, align with Divine connection, and courageously trust and say YES to what wants to come through. That's what today's Meditation & Healing Circle is designed to do.

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Get Unstuck with these Pattern Interrupts

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:05:00 GMT

Sometimes we become so established in our ways that we do not even realize it is possible to live a better life. But when we stop to rest, we can recognize the toll life is taking – the subtle dissatisfactions, the questioning.

We ask ourselves, “Is this all there is?” “Is this what I’m meant to be/do/have?” “Is it too late to find happiness?”

If we don’t slow down to listen, life will usually give us something to stop us in our tracks so we can hear. But you don’t have to wait for a tragic event. You can listen now.

Today’s Meditation & Healing Circle will help you

let go of your internalized doubts - and stand in Faith,
release internalized weaknesses, unworthiness, and not-enoughness - and stand in Strength and Confidence,
release internalized tired, worn down, broken, despair, giving up - and infuse with New Life and New Expression.

We will use the following Divine Names, which contain sacred sound codes to interrupt subconscious patterning and return you to your Original Light within you.

Al-Mu’min, the One Who makes secure
Al-Mu’izz, the One Who grants honor
Al-Mu’id, the One Who restores

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Strengthen Your Inner Light

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:14:00 GMT

No matter what has ever happened to you in your life, you are a being of light. No matter what identities you’ve taken on from what you’ve learned or experienced, your first identity is the light breathed into you that gives life force and consciousness to your physical body.

But as we take on beliefs and strategies that help us navigate the earth journey, we lose sight of the light. As we focus on survival, we accumulate stress and tension and fears that suppress the inner radiance. But the Light is still there!

In today’s Meditation and Healing Circle, we turn our focus to the Inner Light and allow it to shine. We’ll call on sacred sound codes to strengthen the inner light and allow the light to burn away the unwanted energies so it can have freedom to shine.

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Wouldn't It Be Heavenly If...

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:38:28 GMT

What would heaven on earth look like for you? What would it feel like to live in heaven in the here and now? In today’s Meditation and Healing Circle, we explore these questions. We call on the power of imagination and connection with Source to give your body, mind and heart a taste of what you aspire to – the peace, the love, the authenticity, the sincerity, the beauty…

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Cultivating In Ourselves What We Want for Our Children

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 15:01:53 GMT

This past week, I’ve spent a fair amount of time with parents and their children. Though the words were not explicitly spoken, the sentiment was there in abundance: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

It got me thinking, when do we stop wanting for ourselves what we want for our children? When does it become okay to do otherwise?

We want our children to be kind, compassionate, caring, respectful, and accepting of others’ differences. We want them to communicate their needs clearly and to have patience.

We do not want them to curse, drink, smoke, gossip, backbite, or be mean to each other. We correct them when they act in these ways. Why? Is it because a societal pattern was set that we mindlessly adhere to? Or is it because we care about them and want them to be their best selves?

I hope it is the latter – that we care about them and want to guide them to be their best selves. And if so, would you not hold yourself to the same standards?

I realize most of the people who come for our weekly Meditation and Healing Circle are pretty self-aware and aligned with their authentic selves. And yet, there is always room for improvement.

So, the question for today is: what do you strive to cultivate for the children in your life that you have forgotten for yourself?

In today’s Meditation and Healing Circle, we will explore this question and offer ourselves the same loving support we would want to give to our children – bridging the gap between “do as I say” and “do as I do.”

As always, this will be an experiential meditation and healing practice.

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Preparing for Ascension: Raising the Vibration of the Body

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 16:55:00 GMT

This series we’ve been in for the past 6 weeks has been about preparing for the ascension of consciousness as we transition into an era of peace. If we want to elevate our consciousness while still alive in body on the planet, we cannot overlook the daily habits and practices that affect the frequencies of the physical body.

Today we will talk about some do’s and don’ts of caring for the physical body, and we’ll explore some practices that can raise the vibration of the physical. If you believe the frequency of our world is increasing and consciousness is elevating, these steps will prepare you for an easier transition into the era of peace. As always, this will be an experiential meditation and healing practice.

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What Would You Do if You Had Only 2 Weeks to Live?

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 16:58:08 GMT

What would you do if you had only 2 weeks to live? This morning I dreamt that a dear friend was telling me I would be transitioning in the next 2 weeks. I’m not sure if she was referring to death or ascension, but I realized that the preparation is the same. What is death but a transition in consciousness?

In my dream I was excited as the preparations began to align themselves:

What are the affairs I need to get in order to make things easier on my family?
Who are the people I love and what do I want to say to them? How would I spend my final time with them?
How do I need to prepare my own heart?
What do I want to leave behind of my work and message for the world?

There is no need to wait for a message of death before you begin to prepare. To truly live is to live each day as it is your last. This is living with no regrets. Can you feel the freedom this would bring to your heart?

If you believe the frequency of our world is increasing and consciousness is elevating, these steps will prepare you for an easier transition into the era of peace.

Get a pen and paper – a journal if you have one - and press play. We’ll do a guided meditation and you’ll have an opportunity to write down what comes through.

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Knowing God in Your Heart

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:59:32 GMT

Last week we explored the metaphysical meaning of "human" and explored the breath of spirit and divine existence within the heart. This is your true essence - your deepest inner truth that you ultimately feel brings you into harmony and fulfillment.

Today, we'll explore how to bring your thoughts and habits into alignment with the divine essence within your heart - how to know God in your heart.

When you are in alignment with your deepest knowledge and truth, you are raising your vibration. As we are nearing the time of ascension, this becomes increasingly important to help you make a smooth transition. So please tune in today and join us in preparing for the transition into the era of peace!

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Explore the Metaphysics of Being Human

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:55:03 GMT

Your living, breathing human body is a home of divine light. This divine light contains the knowledge and wisdom you seek. Yes, the answers are within you.

Your heart is the seat of the light of this knowledge. You can find the knowledge through connecting with the love in your heart.

There are many divine secrets waiting to be explored. In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we use the sacred sound codes that make up the word “human” (Hu-M-N) as we travel through the helical heart and explore the secrets of what it means to be divinely human.

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Embracing the "Not Knowing" in a Time of Change

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:55:19 GMT

Does the caterpillar know what it will feel like to fly? I don't know, but we are in a time of transition, moving into an era of peace. It will look different from now in many ways, beyond what our minds can imagine. Much of our current existence and dependencies will fall away.

We can visualize what life will be like. We can take steps to make ourselves ready. But for this change, it will be challenging to manage every detail using our logical planning minds.

What can we do to make ourselves ready? That is the topic and practice of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

These same principles can be used for individual changes you may be going through as well as the collective changes we are going through as our humanity and world are evolving.

Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle for an exploration and building of faith and trust for the transition into the new era.

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Letting Go of Attachments

Mon, 31 May 2021 12:54:00 GMT

Attachments are those ideas we hold onto that give us a sense of security, but they also keep us locked into old patterns that don’t necessarily give us the highest result.

We are evolving into a new era of peace. Our old world has been based on surviving separation and conflict. The new world is based on compassion and unity.

There are a lot of old ways that do not fit into the new world. What are the attachments that are keeping you secure in the old world of separation? What might they look like in a world of compassion, peace and unity?

Listen in for an exploration and releasing of old attachments, and a welcoming of new ideals for a new era.

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Healing the Cosmic Body - Aligning with Nature

Sun, 23 May 2021 16:23:59 GMT

When a physical body is sick, it attempts to restore itself through homeostasis - using its internal systems to maintain a stable environment, keeping its vital functions within the normal ranges necessary to sustain life.

The cosmic body is the same. The systems within the cosmic body must function within a range consistent with the natural rhythms. When the cosmic body is sick, it attempts to regulate itself.

We are all cells within the cosmic body whose natural rhythm is Compassion. Most of creation aligns with the rhythms of the natural existence. But humans have free will. By our nature, we deviate from the natural rhythms and test the waters. We must choose to use our will to align with the natural rhythms.

Our cosmic body is sick and is seeking to regulate itself for its survival. Our choices matter in the cosmic body’s restoration to health. Every choice must be a conscious choice for compassion.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we ask for revelation in areas we need to bring into rhythm – compassion. We ask for guidance & support to live with compassion – for the good of our bodies and the greater cosmic body.

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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Need Guidance? Revealing Your Illuminated Path Forward

Sun, 16 May 2021 16:01:00 GMT

Do you ever wish you had a crystal ball that would clearly guide you at each step along your life journey, and then rally all your inner voices to hop on the faith-and-trust train to follow the guidance?

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the Divine Name, ar-Rashid – the One Who Illuminates the Path of Growth – to light the path forward and help us align all the inner selves to join us on the path of growth.

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Honoring Our Moms & Mother Figures

Sun, 09 May 2021 16:17:29 GMT

Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of this special day, I’ll be sharing some Sufi teachings about honoring moms as well as a reading from my upcoming book.

Bring the mom in you and all your intentions and prayers for the moms in your life as we honor the truth and sacredness of the feminine soul. This episode includes an ancestral lineage healing for all the moms who have come before you.

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Releasing Anger, Reclaiming Power

Sun, 02 May 2021 16:35:21 GMT

We are often warned about the danger of anger. Yet, every emotion serves an important function – even anger. But what do we typically associate with anger? It’s a sign of losing control, being irrational, unreasonable – and yes, dangerous. So we suppress it, and along with it we suppress the voice that needs to be heard, the actions that need to be taken, and the passions that desire to be lived.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we create a safe space to explore what is under the anger, and to reclaim the power that wants to be expressed.

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Your Prayers for Healing

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:25:07 GMT

Today's Circle offers you a space to pray for healing for yourself, others, human, animal, planet – wherever your heart feels called to bring healing and harmony.

"A body that has fallen into disharmony becomes susceptible to disharmonious influences." ~ Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi, Divine Names: The 99 Healing Names of the One Love

Same is true of the mind and heart.

I invite you to bring your intentions and prayers, and join us for today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

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Holding Yourself in Love...

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:06:46 GMT

Last week we focused on holding others in love even when they might be challenging our patience or hurting our hearts. This week it’s your turn to receive the love you need for your heart.

Do you notice places of constriction in your body? This meditation will help you to receive love – as you are. Just be, witness and open to receive.

You’ll be guided to use your breath to breathe into spaces on constriction in your body. Invite the healing love energy to penetrate into the places that have been closed or shut down.

You’ll be guided to use sound to create vibration to ripple through your fluid body and release stuck energies so the love energy can flow through you more freely.

Allow yourself to receive, release the energies of constriction and fill with love.

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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Holding People in Love...

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:11:23 GMT

That person in your life who can’t quite get it together. Everybody has one. It might even be you. They frustrate the heck out of you. You try to reason with them, plead with them, support them, challenge them, and maybe even enable them. To no avail.

But what do they really need? Deep down? What does the soul need? What do you need to be holding people in love? In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we offer a special prayer and hold them (and all who are enfolded in their life circumstances) in love and compassion.

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Clearing Guilt and Shame: What if it wasn't your fault?

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:22:12 GMT

Today millions of people celebrate the Easter holiday. It’s a time of rejoicing, and it also carries some pretty heavy messages that template our collective consciousness and create an unhealthy society. As I sat in meditation asking for guidance for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, a deluge of voices rained down – messages and misconceptions that surround the life and death of Jesus and the events that surround the Easter holiday. A number of these voices carry a heavy burden of guilt and shame.

In today’s circle, we’ll call out some of these beliefs and clear the negative programming that has been operating for centuries. We’ll explore the deeper meanings and bring light, truth and love to your consciousness and your heart and, God willing, to the collective.

Manifesting Your Artistic Creativity

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:49:07 GMT

Everyone has an inner artistic creativity that is waiting to be unveiled and expressed. The art that is manifested is an expression of the Ultimate Artist and an opportunity for us to know our Source as well as the beauty of the Creation.

The beauty exists within us and is us, and it is reflected in the natural world around us. The beauty yearns to be expressed through us.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we use two Divine Names and their sacred sound codes to activate the inner artistic creativity and manifest its expression.

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Finding Your Ship of Safety in Turbulent Times

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:14:00 GMT

How can you find and feel safety in turbulent times? How can you hold to your purpose in the midst of distractions? How can you stay the course when the going gets tough?

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. I'll be sharing a deep teaching from my teacher on deepening faith, insight, knowledge and wisdom. Join us for a guided meditation and experiential healing process.

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Energy Center Clearing & Alignment Tune-up

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:26:28 GMT

If you are living on planet earth, you likely could use a tune-up. And if your body is here but you’re not living in it, you could likely use a clearing and embodiment practice. In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we’ll call on an ancient Sufi practice I learned from one of my teachers. We’ll be using Sacred Sound Codes and Divine Names to

clear the body’s energy centers,
align your core,
presence you into your body, and
ground you to the earth.

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation.

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Healing the Inner Mom: Forgiving Mistakes of Motherhood

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 16:44:58 GMT

You’re likely familiar with healing the inner child, but what about the inner mom? Every mother I know carries guilt around the inevitable imperfections of motherhood.

Mothers are human too, yet they are the child’s first connection with the material realm, a connection with love and compassion that was constant and unconditional in the pre-existence realm that the soul comes from.

Yet no human can sustain the expectation of unconditional love, and the disappointment experienced by both parents and children is a necessary element of the human journey – a journey of forgetting our oneness with love, experiencing the pain of separation, and eventually returning to rediscover our true nature.

It’s hard to be the catalyst for someone’s separation from their true self, yet this too is a part of the human experience, one that can teach us much about love.

Listen to this episode for a release of guilt and acceptance and forgiveness of self. This is relevant for moms, dads and for those who have not had children of their own. We all contain the inner mom and inner dad inside ourselves.

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Sacred Sound Codes to Invoke a Sense of Security

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:27:16 GMT

It’s hard to be effective or have much impact in our lives if we do not feel a sense of security and safety. And with all that's moving in our world right now, it's easy to feel thrown off balance by the instability in the collective field.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore Sacred Sound Codes that invoke security and create a sense of safety in the body.

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Support for Overwhelm

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:53:05 GMT

Do you ever find yourself listing in your head all the things that are causing you stress? Recent events that had a strong impact on you, situations you need to deal with, people who need your help, projects you are behind on, all the little things that just aren’t getting done, fears and what-ifs about our unpredictable changing world.

Recently I have. The list looping in my head – work, home, caretaking, political and health issues, climate change, all the compromises I’m tolerating right now that keep me from living aligned with my core values. Grief, loss, heartache and fear are all in there too.

Our past week in Texas literally put us all into freeze mode! It’s left most everyone I know with big messes and compromised living spaces.

In meditation I got a download for how to turn the overwhelm into an opportunity to increase self-compassion, and receive mercy and healing for my heart, mind and body.

Today I want to share that with you. Get a pen and paper with you and join me for this experiential healing meditation.

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10 Steps to Fill Your Heart with Love

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:43:00 GMT

Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of this Day of Love, I have a special treat for you. Today we will follow 10 simple steps to clear the heart of clutter, release its constriction, rest into the heart and bathe in a waterfall of love. Join us for an experiential healing meditation.

Sacred Sounds & Breath to Put the Heart at Ease

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 16:50:39 GMT

You know the feeling - Heart? What heart? When we get so caught up in all the life events that are pulling our attention in fifty different directions at once.

How can you settle your mind? How can you connect with your center? How can you return to rest in your heart and find peace?

In today's Prayer & Healing Circle, we'll use some of the Sacred Sound Codes and breaths to connect with the place of stillness in the heart and rest into your inner sanctuary.

You're invited to join us live on Sundays at 10am US Eastern time.

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The Role of the Mind to Support Healing

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:50:17 GMT

For years I’ve taught that the mind is not the healer – it does not have the power to heal you. Yesterday I sat through a presentation that offered evidence for the mind’s power to heal. It was a good presentation, and I understand why this is so widely believed. Yet there's still something missing - at least for those seeking true lasting transformation.

In this episode I explain the role of the mind in healing and where the healing comes from. Enjoy this replay for an experiential healing meditation to align the mind with the wisdom and source of true healing so you can realize transformation.

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Beyond the Breakthrough

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:28:00 GMT

Can you think of a time when you had a breakthrough, but still didn't really feel at ease with the situation - like it just is what is without any explanation or justification, nothing to prove? Would you like to move beyond breakthrough into mastery?

In today's Prayer & Healing Circle, we talk about the difference between a breakthrough and healing. I can think of several times in the past when I had a breakthrough and considered myself healed. I made a lot of mistakes I later regretted.

A breakthrough is a significant step in the healing process, but often it's a place where the true healing can begin. Healing comes when there is transformation and that transformation is embodied, integrated and becomes a part of daily living.

I like to say, "The grass is green. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. You are you." No apology necessary. Nothing to prove. Just you authentically being your awesome self.

Join us for an experiential healing meditation. If you'd like to join us live, we're on Sundays at 10am US ET.

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Fill Your Cup with Mercy

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:30:17 GMT

Sometimes we just need to stop, take a deep breath and allow ourselves to be filled with Mercy. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we empty our cups and expand our capacity to receive, and fill the cup with the healing power of the love of the Divine. Join us in this healing meditation.

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Healing, Transformation, Manifestation. What’s the Difference?

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:30:57 GMT

What is the difference between Healing and Transformation? And how do we get there from here? Listen in to today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to find out…

After last week’s session on Setting Inspired Intentions and Affirmations, I thought we’d talk about 7 Steps to Manifestation today. However, guidance came in and directed me to talk about 7 Steps to Transformation instead.

Manifestation, Healing, Transformation. While there are similarities and parallels, transformation penetrates deeper and is more complete. Ultimately, this is what we seek. So transformation it is.

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Setting Inspired Intentions & Affirmations

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:51:26 GMT

Happy 2021! It’s a great time to set Inspired Intentions. Inspiration is how Source guides and directs us. Intention is how we align with the inspiration and say yes.

Inspiration comes through the heart. It’s the Breath of Spirit that breathes you – inspires. Unfortunately, the heart can become cluttered and guarded, making it challenging to feel or hear the inspiration clearly.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we focus on clearing the heart of its clutter and tapping into the inspiration that wants to come through.

Then we set an intention to align us to the inspiration and say yes to it. We developed a personal affirmation statement. We added an embodiment practice to help us bring it all the way in from a state of believing to a state of knowing to a state of being – to be the change we wish to see.

Join us via replay for an experiential healing meditation where we tap into inspiration, set an inspired intention, develop a personal affirmation and integrate it into the body, mind, heart and core spirit.

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The Power of Dignity

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:46:35 GMT

When you think of powerful role models, ones with qualities you would most like to emulate, what do you think of? A quality that tops the list for me is Dignity.

If you’ve been following the past few weeks, I’ve been on a theme of restoring dignity, specifically in the entertainment industry and female sexual empowerment. My chief concern is the model we set for our youth. Each of us is a role model, like it or not. How we carry ourselves, the beliefs and images and words we align ourselves with matters.

I thought we could continue today with the theme of dignity. What is dignity? How can we connect with and strengthen our dignity? How can we align dignity with the inner core Truth to really ignite the power of our presence?

This is what we focus on in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle.

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Female Empowerment: Reclaiming Sexual Dignity

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:02:00 GMT

Today’s topic comes in response to learning that the song “WAP” was named 2020 Song of the Year by several media outlets and reading reviews calling it a “sex-positive expression of feminine power.” Today we're exploring what Female Empowerment is in terms of sexual expression.

When I was a young teen, I was aware that song lyrics shaped what was expected of the girls and boys in my small town. I didn’t like it, but as someone who wanted to fit in, I conformed. And I ended up carrying a lot of regret and shame into my adulthood.

My main concern now is for the audience this music reaches. What does it do to the minds of our youth and how does it shape the culture they are living in? What do they believe they have to do to fit in and be accepted?

Please join us (via replay) for a personal exploration – males and females welcomed. We’ll use a healing mantra to wash sexual shame and recover the beauty and dignity of a sexually empowered life.

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Purification of the Heart

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:50:33 GMT

Purification of the Heart means keeping the heart clean and clear of clutter. Polished even. If your body is a temple (and it is), your heart is the alter of that temple.

The heart is a gateway between the material realm with all it’s conflicting and contrasting ideas and value systems and the realm of Unity – the world of Unconditional Love and Pure Mercy. If you want to live in Love and Unity, you must keep the alter clean and clear.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we call on ancient wisdom and practices for cleansing and purification of the heart so we can live in Truth and honor the masterpiece of the complete beauty which Source has created within each of us.

Join us, via replay, for this powerful experiential meditation and healing.

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Heart-Centered Meditation

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:14:00 GMT

Several people have asked me to create a simple 15-minute meditation. I got it in 16! No intro or outro. You're welcome to download it and use it as a daily meditation practice.

Gratitude as a Catalyst for Transformation

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:50:50 GMT

Gratitude is a gift that opens you to the gifts the Universe wants to bring through you and carries you from the particular gifts back to the Source of all giving.

Gratitude is…

A vibe-raiser
A muscle-relaxer
A heart-deepener
A soul-expander
A spirit-unifier

Join us for an experiential meditation and healing circle to experience all that this practice has to offer. Receive the beauty of this gift into your life. Be grateful for the gift of Gratitude itself as we fall in love with Love itself.

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See you there!

Navigating Holidays: Family, Food & Self-Care

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:27:09 GMT

This is the week of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Last week I held a webinar on Optimizing Your Food Lifestyle during the Holidays. Some questions came in on navigating holidays with family, food & self-care. They are relevant to the struggles we all go through, so I want to address them here.

Here are the questions. We’ll center our healing meditation around these topics:

1. Sometimes I do great with my food and self-care, then sometimes I go totally off. How can I keep from going off?

2. My eating habits are always a reflection of what’s going on with me. How can I keep my eating under control when I'm not feeling in control on the inside?

3. With family that are very meat and alcohol centric, and I struggle to maintain my habits. I end up feeling sick and emotionally exhausted. How can I make peace with my family? With my body and mind?

4. I’ll be alone during the holiday. I’m afraid I’ll end up getting bored and lonely, and then I’ll binge eat. What can I do to maintain control?

We end with a prayer of Gratitude and Offering/Receiving that helps you align your food choices with your values, and also sets your digestive system into a state of receiving.

Click through to the blog post for a copy of the Gratitude Offering Prayer.

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Permission to be Awesome

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:07:00 GMT

You are AWESOME! You were born awesome! And - the human journey includes the process of separating from our awesome selves. Somewhere along the way, some experience tells us that it’s not okay or not safe to let the light shine, and that innate permission to be awesome gets taken away or buried deep inside.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we reclaim that permission, let go of concerns about what others think or fears about what they might say or do. Permission granted to BE AWESOME!

Listen for an experiential meditation and healing circle to tap into and embody your innate awesome self. Join us live on Sundays at 10am US ET / 7am US PT at http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com/the-community-calls

Fortitude with an Open Heart

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:14:58 GMT

The topic of Fortitude came to me a earlier this week as we in the US were going into our elections for president and other representatives. The outcomes very uncertain. A time of division like we have not seen for a very long time.

I decided no matter what the outcome, I would use this time as an opportunity to strengthen my convictions, hold firm to my purpose and move forward with fortitude, perseverance, and an open heart.

Join us (via replay) for an experiential meditation and healing circle to tap into your own heart and strengthen your connection and convictions – fortitude with an open heart.

Join us LIVE on Sundays at 10am US ET at http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com/the-community-calls

When You’re Feeling Lost… Not in Control…

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:12:14 GMT

You know that feeling? Feeling a bit lost, uncertain? Not knowing what’s coming next? Not knowing where to put your time and attention? Not knowing where you fit in? Sometimes life takes twists and turns we are not expecting. For instance, 2020. It can derail the train and change the course of the whole track and the landscape along which the tracks are laid. How can we regain presence and tap into Divine Guidance? That’s what we’ll be exploring in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. Join us (via replay) for an experiential meditation and healing circle to settle in, listen and receive. Join us live on Sundays at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com

Transcending Differences: Where Yes and No Become ONE

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:56:53 GMT

There are so many issues dividing our people right now. So many hot buttons all being pushed at once, it can be dizzying. I care about each of these issues – I have my own heartfelt passionate beliefs. I care about our planet and all her inhabitants. I care about what you believe and what is important to you. I care much more that we do not allow our differences to divide us.

What are we doing with all the strong differences that are before us right now? Do we hate each other because of our differences? Or can we reach a level of love and acceptance for each other even though we disagree?

Who is the enemy? Where is the enemy? The one on the other side of the dividing line or that which divides us? In the higher realms, what is being asked of us? Regardless of our beliefs, at the core we are all beings of light. You are a being of light. I am a being of light. We cannot lose sight of this. We cannot let ourselves be drawn into divisiveness – not fight against each other or ourselves internally.

In the spiritual realms, everything we see before us is a mirror for something inside – a Higher Intelligence that is calling us to know a higher truth. In each of us, there is a place where the Yes and No of creation becomes One – where we can bring together opposites and the divisions within ourselves.

It doesn’t mean we give up our passion for right and wrong, equality and justice. It means we find peace and passion inside. We can find truth, and perhaps learn to stand up for right action without condemning the people who may believe or express differently from us. Perhaps in a way that unites?

In today’s Prayer and Healing Circle, we explore the place inside where the Yes and No of Creation becomes One. Please join us via replay for this experiential meditation and healing circle to explore and unite the differences that live inside our own hearts, and God willing find ways to be more accepting of the differences around us.

Join us LIVE on Sundays at http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com

Increase Your Sense of Safety

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 15:23:29 GMT

Even in times of uncertainty and fear, we can take measures to increase our inner sense of safety and security. When we feel fear, we separate from ourselves. The chest tightens, the breath gets shallow, and our bellies turn upside down. We become divided from the deep heart of love and connection to the ultimate Source of Love.

There is a lot of fear moving through the masses right now. It’s palpable and hard to escape the influences of it. In today’s Prayer and Healing Circle, we’re going to use some practices to bring us back home – into wholeness within ourselves – and increase our sense of safety. Use this experiential meditation and healing circle to increase the sense of safety and peace for yourself, our communities and the planet.

Join us live on Sundays at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. http://JoyfullyLiving.com

Prayers for Mercy, Healing & Restoration

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:23:02 GMT

Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle will focus on prayers for Mercy, Healing and Restoration for all who are suffering around the world – the people, animals, plants, water, air and earth – all of existence. We invite prayers for all who are suffering from fires or storms, from illness, from loss of loved ones, from loss of jobs or homes, from violence, for all who are hungry, from all who are in shock or in grief. Please join us and help to lift the hearts, anchor in trust and open to the knowledge of what the Divine is bringing into being.

Clearing Your Energy Field, Releasing What’s Not Yours

Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:31:13 GMT

Last week we talked about 7 Practices to Raise Your Vibration. This week I want to focus on one in particular – Clearing Your Energy Field – AT LEAST DAILY! There is so much negative chatter right now floating around in our airwaves, reverberating through the collective field, hitting us through every form of media. It’s conflicting and confusing and overwhelming.

There’s enough truth in each one to hook us and then we get carried on the waves of sensationalism. No source is completely honest and unbiased. And when we allow ourselves to be led by someone’s drama, we lose our own center and connection. It’s really important right now to maintain our own center and connection and keep our own personal energy fields as clean as possible.

Please join in on this episode for a powerful practice to release what is not yours to carry – this works for current day energies, things you’ve carried since childhood, ancestral memories, collective field – whatever needs to go. We follow the releasing with a practice for reclaiming your own lost selves, centering, grounding and embodying your personal power.

Daily Habits to Raise Your Vibration

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:15:04 GMT

Woke up this morning and it’s still 2020! The challenges continue. But that doesn’t mean we have to internalize the challenges and let the stress infiltrate our bodies. There are simple practices we can do every day to lift our vibrations and help to lift the vibration of the planet.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we practice 7 steps to raise your vibration. At the end, I offer suggestions to support the physical body in maintaining the vibration. This is not a cop-out, denial or a spiritual bypass. Our world need us to help keep the vibration high as we move through the trying times. Get a pen and paper and enjoy the replay.

The Divine Attributes of The Judge and Justice

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:44:38 GMT

Reflecting on the work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has inspired me to look at the Divine Attributes of The Judge and Justice. In a world that seems unfair and unjust, we are compelled to strive for justice and equality. And yet, we each have unique viewpoints of what is just and equitable. At the same time, most of us want to believe there is Divine Perfection in a Divine Orchestration of events that play out in this earth realm for a Divine Purpose that encompasses all of our lives. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll look at the teachings on the Divine Names of The Judge (Al-Hakam) and The Just (Al-Adl), and how they can help us make sense and order from the information that can otherwise overwhelm us and put us into a tailspin. These Attributes can help us find the place inside where the pain of injustice meets the knowing of Divine Mercy.

Seeing through the Heart

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:22:20 GMT

Some of what we see in this world invokes beauty, others not so much. Yet, if everything is from One Source of Unconditional Love, how can we see that Truth in everything? When we learn to see through the Eye of the Heart. Today, I want to share a passage from my teacher’s first book – still my favorite book – Music of the Soul, by Sufi Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rafa’i ash-Shadhuli. The passage is about seeing through the eye of the heart and understanding with the hearing of God. In this short passage he talks about how to clean the seeing and the hearing and to empty yourself of everything but the presence of God. Please join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle for a practice to cleanse the heart and bathe in the beauty of Love.

Bringing Heaven to Earth

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:32:39 GMT

How can we make the world a place we can feel safe to live in? What can we do when the world around us seems to be in turmoil? How can we bring a little more heaven onto earth? By aligning our reality with the Divine Knowing within and practicing kindness… In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we will bring presence and witnessing to the heart and the core of the body. Our focus is to bring more alignment between the pure Existence and our daily interactions in the world – to bring more Heaven to Earth.

Deciding from the Heart

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 15:51:02 GMT

With the world becoming more and more polarized, how do we decide what is right? The mind can get confused, but the heart knows what the mind does not. Deciding from the Heart brings you to an inner truth you can feel. The nature of the heart is to turn. The heart is constantly turning between the inner knowing of Divine Essence and Truth and the outer manifestations of the material world, which offer many contrasts to Divine Love. The nature of the human being is to feel and sense when the heart is turned toward the contrasts or toward Truth itself. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we will focus on the turning of the heart, witnessing the heart and purifying the heart of its alignment with ego – of fear, arrogance, jealousy, victimhood – and returning to witness the Divine Truth within.

When God Wants to Lift Us Up

Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:53:57 GMT

This past week, I was in a City Council meeting defending my father’s home from encroachment of a new development – the home where I grew up and lived my entire childhood. At the same time, my spiritual home – the spiritual retreat center and community center where I lived and worked for many years, where I grew up spiritually – was burning to the ground.

I had to ask, “What is the message You are sending” As I sat in meditation with this question, I felt a deep letting go – a release. I felt a sense of detachment and was filled with a sense of expansion as if I could fly.

When God wants to elevate us, we have to let go of the things we cling to for security. True security is only found in God. Everything else is only temporary, and the security it provides can be fleeting.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we offer prayers for all who have lost their possessions and dear loved ones in the fires; we pray for all who have lost loved ones and their means of security through the virus pandemic; we pray for all who are facing storms and disasters of any kind whose security on this planet are at risk.

We pray for their hearts to be healed, for their physical and materials needs to be met, for their memories to be cherished, their trust to be strengthened, and for them to soar higher than before into the future that awaits.

Healing Shame: Preserving That Which Is Sacred Within You

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:08:23 GMT

This past week, I witnessed an extremely painful childhood experience – one of those shaming moments that separates a child from his own light. As painful as it is, we all have these experiences in childhood. It’s part of the human heroine’s journey, and the healing of the scars is a part of the return to unity with the Sacred Self. These experiences leave scars, but they can be healed, and you do not have to wait for any certain age or length of time. If you know a child who experiences shame, by all means extend loving support as soon as you are able. And your own inner child still resides within you. If that child could use healing, you can extend loving support to your child within. What is needed for healing? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’re going to offer healing for the hiding energies of shame that linger in the body – for yourself and/or others.

You Are Enough

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 15:03:32 GMT

How do you recognize when you feel you are “not enough?” It’s a big reason we buy things we don’t need and accumilate unnecessary debt. It makes us easily manipulated by people who prey on desires for abundance, which are often the flip side of fears of scarcity. It also leads to overconsumption and waste which is a huge contributor to consumerism and the destruction of our planet. Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle features a healing for the “Not Enoughness” that so many of us feel. You are enough!

The Power Of Social Connection In Healing Trauma With Janet Bentley

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:00:00 GMT

Survivors of sexual abuse have a need for social connection to give them the support to heal – something that has become more elusive as we all hunker down in our homes in the midst of a pandemic. In this interview with Debra Graugnard, Janet Bentley, talks about the power of connection in healing from sexual abuse and complex PTSD, the challenge of maintaining social connection in these times of isolation and the additional support that survivors need. Janet is the creator of the foundation, Courageous Survivors and author of Don’t Expect Me to Cry, a compelling memoir of her struggle as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. If you or anyone you know is a survivor of abuse or struggles with Complex PTSD, you should definitely join in this conversation.

Healing Shame that Stifles Truth

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:12:48 GMT

Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle features a healing for the shame that can stop us in our tracks when we want to show up and speak and be our true authentice selves. Bring your prayers & intentions and join us for this healing process.

Accelerating Healing And Growth By Integrating Touch Into Online Sessions With Joan Brooks, CRS

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:00:00 GMT

The words “touch” and “online” might sound like two very incompatible terms for obvious reasons. They may not be that incompatible, though, as this episode shows. Are you a healer or bodyworker? Has your business been affected by the pandemic? It turns out you do not have to give up your purpose or passion for serving. Join Debra Graugnard in this interview with Joan Brooks, CRS (Certified Rubenfeld Synergist), as she talks about how to integrate touch and dialog into online sessions to accelerate your clients’ growth. Joan serves as Training Director and Faculty at Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute.

Compassionate Healthcare For True Transformation With Dr. Rabia J. Goodban

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:00:00 GMT

In these challenging times, your health and well-being need extra attention and support. In this interview with Debra Graugnard, Compassionate Healthcare specialist, Dr. Rabia J. Goodban, teaches you how to allow compassion to flow through your systems and carry you to a true transformation journey. Offering transformative healing for almost two decades, Dr. Rabia combines different alternative healing modalities in her practice, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, Sufi healing, shiatsu, Chinese medicine, and environmental medicine. With these tips that she shares to us, learn how to stay connected, grounded, and keep your breath and heart rate flowing steadily and fully to support your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

The Words of Love

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:55:48 GMT

For the past week, the song “Oh Very Young” by Yusuf Cat Stevens has been playing in my head.

“Oh very young, what will you leave us this time?
You’re only dancing on this earth for a short while…

And if you want the world to see a better day,
Will you carry the words of love with you…”

It got me thinking about purpose. What is most important about the purpose we are here to fulfill? The purpose you fulfill may be to heal the hearts, feed the poor, save the animals or the planet or… The purpose of the purpose is to carry the words of Love and to share them. To make the world a better place is to lift the spirits and leave behind an atmosphere of Love wherever you go.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll focus on embodying the vibrations of the words of Love – to infuse them into our cells and anchor them into our core – so we may carry the words of Love for the short while we are dancing on this earth.

Thank you Yusuf Cat Stevens for your inspirational message.

Releasing The Effects Of Trauma With Continuum Movement With Donnalea Goelz, Ph.D.

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:00:00 GMT

Movement is not just something that we normally do; it is what we are. In this crazy world, bringing fluid movement back into our bodies can help us release the trauma and stress we have accumulated over years of shackled existence. Do you want to learn tools for releasing trauma and stress? Debra Debra Graugnard shares this wonderful conversation with her teacher, Donnalea Goelz, Ph.D., executive director of the worldwide Continuum Movement organization. Join them in an enlightening experience and learn tools for releasing the effects of trauma on the nervous system and physical body.

Remembrance of the Unity Within

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:09:29 GMT

Sometimes life feels like a big conflicting mess. The inner voices chattering, arguing amongst themselves. What is right? What is wrong? Why do the horrors of the world exist and plague us so? Yet what if this questioning could lead us to a place within ourselves where all of these questions unite us with the One Love?

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we use the Remembrance meditation and ruminate on the Name of the One that encompasses All Names and that which is beyond the human comprehension of existence. We breathe the sound vibrations into our bodies to unite our consciousness with the Oneness within, the place where conflict disappears and questions answer themselves. Please join us.

Forgiveness of Self & Others: Does it let injustice off the hook?

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:31:18 GMT

There’s been a common theme coming up in my classes over the past couple of weeks. In uncovering deeper needs, several people have identified the need for forgiveness – forgiveness of self and others. Forgiveness is not always easy because we think we’re letting injustice off the hook. But forgiveness is more about removing the hooks of injustice from yourself – setting yourself free to be a true conduit for love and compassion, and to set clear boundaries when needed. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll be calling on Divine Attributes of Forgiveness to wash away our attachments to past mistakes and gain clarity on lessons learned for the daily human life and for the soul. Get more info on the blog post: http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/?p=10895

The Healing Powers of Gratitude

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 15:22:25 GMT

Gratitude is a powerful act. It affects every layer of your being – the conscious mind, the subconscious programming, the nervous system, your energy body, your emotional state, your spiritual self and your connection with the All That Is. Gratitude can be felt and expressed in many ways as well. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll begin with a meditation to tap into the gratitude innate in every layer of ourselves. Together we can bring out the expression of gratitude, each in whatever ways want to move through us. Bring your pen and paper, your art supplies, your singing voice, your dancing body, your soaring spirit. Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle and let’s connect with that union of the worlds and the wonders it brings.

Clearing Fear & Hatred from Earth’s Atmosphere with Ho’Oponopono Prayers

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:40:34 GMT

The unrest is necessary for us to evolve, and clearing fear and hatred from the atmosphere helps us break through and get to unity and peace with more ease. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’re using the Ho’Oponopono Prayer practice to bring healing, light, forgiveness and love to the environment that surrounds our planet, clearing the air for the Earth and all her inhabitants to live more peacefully.

Inspiring Seeds of Change

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:03:38 GMT

Could you imagine surviving an abusive living situation only to live with a portrait of your abuser hanging in your room? Certainly you’d take it down the first chance you got and probably rip it to shreds or burn it. Would this not be an inspiring change? This would mark a turning point – stepping out of victimhood and onto a path of healing and hope. As our world is moving through the protests following the murder of George Floyd and so many others, we are finally seeing Seeds of Change that inspire hope. This episode acknowledges some of the events that are inspiring hope. We offer prayers of gratitude and hope, prayers for discernment and acceptance, and prayers for continued healing for individuals, the collective consciousness and for all of our planet.

Proactive Evolution of Consciousness

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:49:15 GMT

The vibration of our planet is increasing in frequency. We’ve all been feeling it for quite some time now, whether we recognize it or not. As the vibration gets higher, all the lower density behaviors and beliefs cannot exist here. They have to evolve in order for the whole to evolve. That means heavy changes in our core existence – for each of us and for the collective. We can resist or we can be proactive in the evolution of consciousness. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we offer prayers to lift the veils on our unconscious behaviors and align us with habits that serve the highest good of all and honor Unity.

Purging Fear from the Heart

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 16:51:26 GMT

To say it’s been tense lately is an understatement. Confrontation, even when it’s for the highest good, stirs up fear. Whether you’re directly involved, in a support role or an outside observer, as a compassionate human being, it’s natural to fear for the safety of all others. Compassion is our core, and we do not want to see any other get hurt.

When the heart gets filled with fear, it becomes tense. Breathing gets shallow, the chest is tightened, the diaphragm gets frozen, circulation feels constricted, energy becomes stagnant. It’s hard to function at your best and be productive in this constricted state. Yet, this is all part of the collective evolution we are moving through. The vibration of our planet is increasing in frequency. We’ve all been feeling it for quite some time now, whether we recognize it or not….

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we offer prayers to clear our hearts of fear and tension, to clear the collective field of the lower vibe energies, and to lift the vibration for us all. Bring your prayers and intentions and whatever is on your heart.

Join us LIVE on Sundays at 10am US ET. http://CommunityForConsciousLiving.com

Stepping Into Your Purpose With Kerri Hummingbird

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:00:00 GMT

Humans, by nature, are creature of comforts. But sometimes we get so set in our beliefs that we just accept life as it is. However, everything that you personally go through is a gift for other people eventually when you master it. When you step into your perfect purpose, you are able to help more people with that. Joining Debra Graugnard on the show today is Kerri Hummingbird, a soul guide who inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with an authenticity, passion, and purpose that positively impacts others. Don’t miss their interesting conversation to discover how you can work through your wounds and take inspired actions to step into your purpose.

Accessing Inner Wisdom in Frightening Tiimes

Sun, 31 May 2020 16:32:14 GMT

What do you stand for? I believe most of us can agree that we stand for love, compassion, equality, justice, peace and freedom. And we need safety! When we are faced with life and death situations like in the midst of pandemics, injustice and riots, we can lose connection with the ideals and inner states. Fears escalate, hormones rage, we get flooded with conflicting messages. Even if we remember what we stand for, it’s hard to know what to do. The body thinks it’s in survival mode and the mind becomes confused. When the rubber meets the road, when it’s time to put our values into action, when we need them the most, we have to make the extra effort to connect to inner wisdom and higher guidance. That’s what we’ll be doing in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll connect to the inner – clear the mind space, settle the nervous system, access peace from within and tap into the inner guidance system.

How Pain And Suffering Can Be Transformed Into Gifts For Your Soul With Rev. Dr. Anthousa Helena

Tue, 26 May 2020 10:00:00 GMT

There will be times of pain, but suffering is optional. This is what Rev. Dr. Anthousa Helena believes. Dr. Helena is a holistic psychotherapist and the Founder of SOLLITE Integrative Medicine, a holistic medical approach that addresses the entire being on physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual realms for healing and conscious awakening. Today, she joins Debra Graugnard to share a presentation and experiential healing process to transform your pain into gifts for the evolution of your soul and the realization of your purpose. Remember, your gifts and talents are needed and essential to humanity. Don’t miss this episode so you can start to come out and offer yourself and your gifts to the world.

The Anti-Christ & End Times: Is this it?

Sun, 24 May 2020 15:42:09 GMT

OK, I realize this isn’t the most uplifting topic, but this is where guidance has directed me today. And I believe many people are wondering if these times are upon us. It seems every few years we have a crisis somewhere in the world that causes us to question whether we’re in the end times, or if this new leader is the Anti-Christ we’ve been warned about. The answer is basically yes, but the Anti-Christ is not a single human figure that will come to destroy the world. The Anti-Christ is here and has been here for a very long time. It is interwoven into our collective consciousness and appears through every aspect of life on earth. AND – so does the Christ consciousness, the Prophetic Light. In every moment we have a choice. Our task is to open our eyes to see and purify our hearts to know.

Are we in the end times? Is that answer even the same for every person? For every form of life? What is affected by destiny? What is affected by the choices we make? As we’ve seen lately, anything can change in an instant. Divine Law and the Laws of Nature can intervene at any time. Life and death are beyond our control. The question comes down to today, this moment, what we witness and how we choose to align our hearts and actions. Can you let the deeper exploration inform a broader perspective and influence daily actions?

Any day can be your last day, our last day. Any day can be a day of judgment if we lift the veils of illusion and seek the highest truth for yourself. This is the topic of exploration for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. What are you witnessing? With what do you align your heart and your actions? What is the higher truth you seek? “What you seek is seeking you.” ~the Sufi poet, Jalal id-Din Rumi

Building Confidence in Times of Hardship

Sun, 17 May 2020 15:24:44 GMT

Sometimes when there is so much negativity and hardship in the collective energy field, we need to dig deep into the inner tool kit and pull out the tools for building confidence and inner strength. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we focus on Releasing the fears based on past experience and unfounded expectations of the future, Calling forth the cosmis “I Can” power from within, Aligning the physical body structure to embody the “I Can” strength, and Reinforcing the “YES!” sense of accomplishment and success. Bring your prayers and intentions and whatever is on your heart.

Happy Mother’s Day: Celebrating Moms

Sun, 10 May 2020 15:04:06 GMT

A Mother’s Day Prayer & Healing Circle celebrating your Mom, the Mom in you and all the Mom’s who have brought love into your life. Align your energy and connect with the Sacred Feminine Essence. Honor and hold this space for all the women in our world.

Decompressing from the Collective Trauma

Sun, 03 May 2020 15:10:21 GMT

When so many people around our world are simultaneously experiencing trauma, we all feel it. It’s important to take time to check in with your body and decompress – to free your body to breathe fully and move freely. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll use some techniques from Continuum Movement and use sound, breath and movement to settle the nervous system, decompress the tension from the body, restore motility and mobility and of course expand the heart.

Ho’Oponopono Prayers for Healing

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:10:24 GMT

Please join us for our weekly Prayer & Healing Circle. You’re welcome to bring any and all of your prayers & intentions. We’ll make an invocation and offering and perform the Ho’Oponopono healing practice.

The Ho’Oponopono practice is very simple. It’s a 4-part recitation:
1. I’m sorry.
2. Please forgive me.
3. I love you.
4. Thank you.

We will make this an experiential healing practice so you receive healing for yourself and for those you pray for. As the month of April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month and also Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I will be offering prayers for all who are sequestered in their homes this month for whom the home is not a safe space. You are welcome to bring whatever is on your heart for yourself, your loved ones, the planet.

Soul Evolution: Becoming the Butterfly

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:52:03 GMT

Do you ever wonder how a wormy-looking caterpillar becomes a beautiful winged butterfly? It’s a mysterious process that even scientists don’t understand fully – a mystical experience with many analogies that help us understand and appreciate our human journey and soul evolution. Join me in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to explore the journey of the monarch butterfly and presence yourself to your own evolution. How might your current life circumstances be supporting your evolution?

Rise Up! Opening to New Beginnings

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:33:12 GMT

Happy Easter Sunday! Today is a day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus three days after he was crucified and buried in a tomb. It represents rebirth, renewal and restored faith.

Truly we are opening to a new time, to new beginnings – and every day is a new beginning. It’s a time to break free from the tomb we’ve been living in and step into a life beyond our illusions. It’s a time for awakening and for realizing an even brighter future.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together to celebrate a time of rebirth and to strengthen and renew faith in the expansion that follows constriction and in the awakening that follows deep sleep.

Healing Grief from Our Earth’s Lungs

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:01:31 GMT

COVID-19 is a disease that attacks the lungs. In severe cases, the lungs are unable to get oxygen into the blood stream and release carbon dioxide. This is the same disease of our planet right now. It’s a disease many of us have been ignoring or denying or feeling like we don’t have the power to correct. Just like in our human lives, when we ignore worsening conditions, the body will throw up a flag or create a crisis that forces us to stop and pay attention. Now, our Earth has thrown up a flag that has caused us to stop and pay attention. We’ve been forced to make changes that are finally enough to begin to reduce CO2 levels and restore clean air and fresh waters. We cannot go back to the way things were and expect to continue as a species. We need to heal our lungs – collective humanity and the planet – and we need to adjust our lifestyles so that we stop doing what has been creating conditions for disease…

Patience. Perseverance. Protection.

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:06:31 GMT

“Nothing prolongs life more than patience, and patience makes us beautiful, for patience is pure and purifies all things.” ~ Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi. If there were ever a time to strengthen our Patience and Perseverance muscles, that time is now. That will be the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – increasing the patience and perseverance to align ourselves with protective measures, along with calling on our Source for Protection. Please bring your intentions and prayers and join us.

Are We Sex-Trafficking Our Planet

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:26:42 GMT

The relationship between humankind and our planet is beyond dysfunctional, producing disease and chaos, even the coronavirus pandemic. Our planet is a living breathing conscious body. Yet we speak of her as a resource for commodities that we can endlessly take from – consume, consume, consume – for the sake of our own comforts and pleasures. We seek to own her and sell parts of her body for profit. It’s like we’re sex-trafficking our own planet. And we’ve got to stop. Enter coronavirus. Is this the victim’s way of fighting back against her abusers? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we connect with her heart and soul. On behalf of our individual selves and collective of our humanity, we use the Ho’Oponopono Prayer to make amends and listen for her messages. Please join us.

Building Immunity through Tapping, Resting, Boundaries and Self-Love with Nancy Kern

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:11:00 GMT

In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, Nancy Kern guides this tapping circle to help us through the freeze/fight/flight response and transform thoughts and beliefs to feeling peaceful, grounded, centered and empowered. Fear is as contagious as any pathogen. When we’re frozen in fear, we’re also broadcasting fear, adding to the collective fear. Having emotional and energetic boundaries with collective emotions can be challenging. This tap will help us get centered and rooted in our connection to stabilizing earth energies, and our protective helpers in the spirit realms. This tap will help you down-regulate your nervous system without numbing or disassociating. Nancy recommends you do this tap once a day until the crisis has passed or you feel strong, centered, grounded and peaceful. If you can, allow yourself 15 minutes to half an hour to rest or journal after the tap.

Coronavirus: Cleansing, Purification, Alignment, Strengthening & Trust

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:05:00 GMT

The coronavirus has come as a powerful force. Our bodies need healing and protection, and we are being called to make drastic changes in the way we are living right now. We’ve been living for a long time on a trajectory that is not sustainable, that is killing our planet. We have needed to make drastic changes for some time, but we have been conditioned for our conveniences – they are part of a larger system that has been near impossible to unravel. Now we have an opportunity to unplug and examine what is working and what is not, as well as what is in alignment with our highest values. Meanwhile, our bodies need healing, strengthening and protection. Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle will be a healing session to cleanse and purify our minds, energy bodies, hearts and spirits. We will be addressing symptoms of disease, cleansing and strengthening ourselves energetically and spiritually. We’ll also examine some of the changes we are being asked to make and the messages and teachings this brings so we can bring ourselves into alignment with our inner wisdom and hearts, and with what Source is asking of us through this challenge. We’ll call on Source to increase our trust, give us protection and align us with truth.

In Honor of International Women’s Day

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:47:45 GMT

Happy International Women’s Day! Today is a day to celebrate the achievements of women – social, economic, cultural and political. It’s a time to celebrate the beautiful powerful feminine energy in each of us and the significance of this energy in bringing balance, harmony and unity to our planet. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote, “The world of humanity has two wings—one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible.” And the whole bird must recognize and acknowledge the balance in order for the bird to take flight. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we will talk about the synergistic relationship between feminine and masculine energies both internally and in the collective of humanity. I hope that we can find forgiveness for the mistakes and pains experienced along the evolution of this journey, and each celebrate the progress we have made.

Healing Circle: Bring Your Personal Prayers & Intentions

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:34:58 GMT

We’re two months into the New Year. Some of us set intentions for the year. For some of us, this year started off like a roller coaster ride. Some of us are feeling immense grace and gratitude. Whatever is on your heart, bring it with you today to our Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll gather for Peace, Healing and Gratitude.

Building Self-Esteem

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:06:26 GMT

Life is full of situations that build us up and knock us down, building self-esteem and dropping us to our knees. And regardless of what life brings, we each have an internal compass that knows our truth. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we call forth all the energies and beliefs that we’ve given power to, that we’ve put in front of our inner knowing, and we call on Divine Attributes to help us cleanse them from our bodies, minds and hearts. We call on Source, Divine Names and our cosmic support team to help us reset the internal compass to align with truth.

The Divine Attributes we work with include:
Al-Mudhil, the One Who Humiliates, Low Self-Esteem
Al-Mu’izz, the One Who Honors, High Self-Esteem
Al-Haqq, the Truth

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Self-Compassion & Self-Love with Svava Brooks

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:18:38 GMT

Join Svava Brooks and Debra Graugnard for a an exploration into the meanings of Self-Compassion and Self-Love and tools to put them into practice. Specific tools for those who suffer from effects of trauma, abuse and PTSD. Interactive discussion with Q&A.

A Journey through the Heart

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:12:36 GMT

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we use a combination of practices to take a journey into and through the anatomical heart, but with a Spiritual medium and intention. We combine Continuum Movement practices with ancient Sufi practices. Continuum Movement uses sound, breath and movement to activate the fluid systems of the body. Sufi practices affect the emotional and spiritual systems, softening the heart which can be guarded and hold tension, and traveling through the heart as a portal to the Divine realms. It’s an exquisite journey!

Vegan Values in Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Traditions

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:36:16 GMT

Lisa Levinson and Judy Carman, co-founders on Interfaith Vegan Coalition, share about the work they are doing to help activists and spiritual leaders bring vegan values to spiritual, ethical, and religious communities. Lisa & Judy will be sharing about exciting new faith-based vegan advocacy projects including a Vegan Spirituality Forum & Retreat, workshops, rituals, and their variety of religion-specific Advocacy Kits to promote interfaith vegan advocacy.

Power & Kindness. Are They Mutually Exclusive?

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:16:51 GMT

Who doesn’t want to stand strong and powerfully in the truth of who they are? But what about gentle loving kindness and compassion? Are power and kindness mutually exclusive?

Do You See Your Shadow?

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 16:31:16 GMT

Happy Groundhog Day! February 2nd is the day when the groundhog emerges from his den and if it’s a sunny day and he sees his shadow, he retreats back to his den and we get another six weeks of winter. But why does he retreat when he sees his shadow? This is a question we could each ask ourselves. We all have shadows, and we’ve all experienced those times when the light shines on us and we see our shadows clearly. It can be startling, embarrassing, uncomfortable. It can make us want to retreat to our dens like the groundhog. What casts the shadows are the protective barriers that guard the most vulnerable parts of our inner selves. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we invite the light into those inner parts, what lies within the protective boundaries and yearns to be seen and understood. We offer permission for all the parts of the self to come together and receive love.

The Significance of the Sacred Feminine in the Healing of Our World Now

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:39:43 GMT

The Sacred Feminine energy is paramount in guiding the collective back to the Light of Peace and Unity. Archetypically speaking, the feminine is the state of being, that which contains all the parts of the whole in a unified state. The masculine is the state of moving out and doing. We have lived for centuries in a primarily masculine state – the state of going out and doing. The patriarchal societies have valued doing, accomplishments, competition, acquisitions, hierarchy. In and of themselves, these are not bad things. However, they must be balanced with the equally valuable feminine state of being. In the current cultural state, the feminine has not been valued for its true nature, for what it contains and provides, or for its vital role in personal and spiritual evolution. The Sacred Feminine is the Sacred Temple to which we return to reconnect and commune with Source. As women, we can access a powerful state of being – a beingness of power and strength that has no opponent – that just IS. We need to do this en masse in order to hold the space for the evolution of our collective. This is the Journey to the Center of Yourself. This is the way home to access, hold and operate from the Sacred Feminine Essence.
This webinar offers guided exercises to help you access and experience the power of the Sacred Feminine state of being. To read more and access the video, click here: the-significance-of-the-sacred-feminine-in-healing-our-world-now

Opening to the Flow of Life’s Blessings

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:22:02 GMT

Sometimes I feel like we humans are running around in a shower trying to not get wet, all the while praying for rain. We feel lack, we want, we need, we yearn, we seek… and that which we truly seek is closer than we realize.

The poet Rumi said:
“What you seek is seeking you.”

In last week’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we tapped into our hearts and made intentions for the kind of world we want to live in. We aligned our energies, bodies, hearts, souls and potential actions with the yearning in the heart – to align with and be the change we wish to see in the world. This week we call forth the yearning in the heart, we recall our intentions (or be with what presents itself in the moment) and open our hearts to receive the flow of blessings that are waiting at the heart’s door.

The Power of Telling Your Story with Daria Anne DiGiovanni

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:13:10 GMT

Do you have a story to tell? Do you wonder if your story is worth telling? Do you question whether anyone would read it? Wondering where to begin? Then please listen to this inspiring interview with Daria Anne DiGiovanni, author, ghostwriter, editor, copywriter and independent publishing consultant.

What impresses me most about Daria is how she connects with her clients to draw out their stories, how she creates safety for them, how passionate she becomes about the story she is telling and the characters. I could feel how deeply heard and held her clients were. Her methods are healing. Her practice is a healing art.

I’m excited for you to hear her stories and learn about how she has helped others. If you have a story to tell, even if you decide not to publish or only to share it with your closest friends, consider Daria Anne Media for your projects. http://dariaannemedia.com.

Intentions for the Evolution of Our World

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:27:37 GMT

We’re going through intense times on a global scale right now. At the same time, astrologically and cosmically there is great potential for healing, transformation and transcendence. It’s a good time to center in on the heart’s desires for the kind of world we want to live in. Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, as we come together in peaceful meditation to listen to the heart and allow the deep heart’s yearning to come forth. We make our intentions and allow our minds, bodies and actions to align with what Source calls the heart to bring into manifestation. As Gandhi said, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Prayers for Peace, Healing & Protection

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:48:33 GMT

Please join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to pray for Peace, Healing & Protection for all the people, animals and the earth. Specifically, we call for healing and peace for the conflict with Iran and for the fires in Australia. This session uses Divine Names for healing, for forgiveness, creating sacred space and protection. To find details, visit the blog at http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/prayers-for-peace-healing-protection/

Accelerated Collective Evolution with Dharmendra Gordon

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:12:32 GMT

We move into the new decade faced with many problems that threaten the collective of our humanity and the planet. AND this is a time when we can make powerful changes that will tip the scales for the higher good. To help us understand how to access our own inner wisdom and participate in evolution for the higher good of the collective, Dharmendra Gordon offered us a LIVE webinar event.

Dharmendra Gordon is creator of Accelerated Collective Evolution. He teaches and guides us through a process for reaching higher solutions to problems facing our collective as we move forward into this new decade – which brings with it opportunity for positive unifying change in the midst of our divided world. Join us to expand the potential of the collective superconsciousness to discover innovative solutions to any and all of the problems that humanity is facing at this time.

2019: Moving Forward with Clarity & Strength

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:49:02 GMT

There are only a few days left in 2019. It’s time to anchor in and integrate the gifts from the past year so you can move forward into a new year and new decade with clarity and strength. Today is part 4 of the 2019 Finish Strong series, Moving Forward with Clarity & Strength. Don’t worry if you missed any of the first 3 parts. You can still benefit from this episode. To catch the other episodes, visit http://selfcareforthesoul.com/

Here’s a recap of where we’ve been this month:

1. Fulfilling a few remaining goals for a strong finish to 2019. (12/8)
2. Reviewing and celebrating successes of the past year. (12/15)
3. Putting closure on what is complete and releasing what we want to leave behind. (12/22)
4. Anchoring in what we want to carry forward so we move into 2020 with more spaciousness, clarity and strength. (12/29 – today)

Some of the Divine Attributes we might work with today include:
Al-Halim, the Gentle, the Tolerant, Dissolving Chains
Al-Ghaniy, the Rich, the Self-Sufficient, Tending Your Garden
Al-Mughni, the One Who makes rich, the Enriching, Life’s Larger Garden

2019: Closure & Letting Go

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:16:56 GMT

When you move from one home to another, you don’t pack up your garbage to take with you to the new space. You throw away the trash and take of old stuff you don’t need any more to the thrift shop. When you are leaving, ideally you clean out the old space, turn out the lights, close the doors on your way out and say goodbye.

Similarly, when we want to move into a new phase, time or space in life, we need to let go of what we no longer need and have closure with what has transpired that we won’t be carrying with us.

This is what we’ll be working with in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. In recalling the goals and activities of 2019:
1. What has been completed? We’ll integrate the gifts and put closure on it.
2. What is no longer relevant? We’ll let it go.
3. What is the trash? We’ll throw it away.

Join us LIVE on Sundays at 10am US ET. http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com

2019: Acknowledging, Celebrating & Integrating Successes

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:08:22 GMT

Do you ever get that feeling like you’ve been working away and yet you got nothing accomplished? Next thing you know it’s the end of the year and you’re wondering where the time went? However, if you take time to look back, even if things didn’t go exactly as planned, you can find successes. We tend to check things off the to-do list and focus only on what is left to do. But it’s just as important to acknowledge and celebrate successes.

We want to give the successes space and expansion within ourselves and allow them to integrate into our state of being so that the qualities of success can anchor into the core of who we are. When we embody success, we carry that forward and draw more success to ourselves.

Some of the Divine Attributes we call on in this episode include:
• Al-‘Alim, the All-Knowing, Understanding Names and Forms
• Al-Basir, the All-Seeing, Awakened Sight
• As-Sami’, the All-Hearing, Awakened Hearing
• Al-Muta’ali, the Highest, Inhabiting an Expanded Consciousness
• Ash-Shakur, the Grateful, Gratitude

This is Part 2 in a 4-Part series to Make the Most of What’s Left of the Year. Find series in blog posts: http://joyfullylivingwellness.com/2019-integration-acknowledging-celebrating-successes

2019: It’s Not Over. Let’s Finish Strong!

Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:07:05 GMT

2019 seems to have flown by, but it’s not over yet! There’s still time to fulfill a few more of the goals you set for this year and finish stronger and more fulfilled.

If you’re not one to set New Year’s resolutions or annual goals, that’s okay. Just bring with you a goal you have for yourself. Is there a relationship you want to mend? Or something you want for yourself or others? Or something you’ve been wanting to do? We all have goals and desires. It’s how we’re made.

If you do set annual goals, think back to the beginning of this year. What did you want to make of 2019? What goals did you set? What dreams did you have?

Bring this info along with pen and paper, get comfortable and press play.

One way we receive gifts into our live is through inspired goals. The breath of Spirit breathes inspiration into our hearts. When we say yes to the inspiration and follow it with inspired action, we allow Source to express and manifest through us, bringing gifts into our lives.

This is what we’ll be working with in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle:
1. Reflecting and reconnecting with the passion in your heart.
2. Setting a realistic goal or two for the next few weeks.
3. Aligning your desires with the drive that puts inspiration into action.
4. Scheduling time to complete actions. (What’s one step you can take today?)

You’re invited to join us. We’re live every Sunday at 7am US PT / 10am US ET. To join us live, go to http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com.

Forgiveness: A Daily Elixir

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:04:40 GMT

Forgiveness is best used as a daily elixir. It can be subtle like a multi-vitamin or strong like a powerful healing tonic, depending on the needs of the day. Even if you don’t know what your needs are, forgiveness knows how to heal your discomfort and return you to connection with your true self.

You don’t always need to analyze why you feel uncomfortable. You don’t have to know whom to ask forgiveness from or who to forgive. This is a time to call on your Source, your angels and guides, and ask them for help to forgive your separations and return you to unity with yourself and the One Universal Love. That’s what we’ll be working with in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll call on some of the Divine Attributes for forgiveness:

Al-Ghaffar, the One Who forgives again and again
Al-Ghafur, for forgiveness that heals the deep hurts
Astagfiru’llah, to return from the separation back to Unity

You’re welcome to join us live Sundays. http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com.

A Thanksgiving Gift for Your Body, Heart & Spirit

Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:48:27 GMT

Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle offers you a practice to connect with your body and your belly, calm your nervous system and honor your heart and spirit. This is an awesome practice for any time, and it’s especially important during holidays.

Here’s the Thanksgiving prayer included in today’s call. You can keep this to use during holiday meals. It’s a good one to use at any meal – every day!

We give thanks for this food that You have given from Your earth.
Please bless this food and make it holy to nourish our bodies, minds, hearts, souls and spirits.
We offer this food to our bodies as a gift of nourishment, to our hearts as a gift of love, and to our spirits as a gift of reverence.

Letting the Light In through the Witness State

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:35:17 GMT

The poet Rumi wrote: “The crack is the place where the light gets in.” This is also quoted as “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Yet when the outer surface of a wound heals, it is covered over with scar tissue, which tends to be tougher and harder to penetrate than the surrounding area. We tend to favor the parts of ourselves that have been hurt, guarding and protecting them from further harm. And in protecting them from harm, we build walls and barriers so tight that they also keep the light out. But letting the light in through these well-protected barricades can bring the most profound healing. This is what we’re exploring in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We use the Divine Attribute, Ash-Shahid, the Witness to penetrate the scar tissue and bring self-awareness and light to the innate truth inside ourselves. You’re invited to join us.

Awakening the Light of Unity in Your Heart

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:15:45 GMT

We’re in a time of increasing polarization. Current events have been separating us into us-vs-them camps – “he said, she said, which side are you on?’ It’s time for awakening the light of unity and wholeness, as difficult as it may seem from that place. At the depths of our existence, we are all one. This is what we’re exploring in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We will call on the Divine Life Force, al-Hayy, to feel the connection to our hearts, awaken the Light of Unity from within, increase self-awareness, welcome in knowledge and allow peace to spread through us. You’re invited to join us. We’re live Sundays at 10am US ET. http://joyfullylivingwellness.com/the-community-calls

Success or Fulfillment?

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:14:28 GMT

What is the success you seek in your life? Does it bring you fulfillment? Are you looking forward to a fulfillment success might bring when you reach it? Or are you fulfilled in the pathway you are traveling to reach the success you seek? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll explore the relationship between seeking success and finding fulfillment. We’ll invite balance and harmony between them and look at how you might increase your personal sustainability in the process.

What Role Models Tell Us About Our Healing Paths

Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:07:25 GMT

The people we admire and statuses we aspire to tell us a lot about our core beliefs and values. They also tell us about our struggles and give us insights into how we might overcome them. Life presents us many potential role models, positive and negative. Some we are drawn toward and some we are repelled from. Others we may be indifferent to. We are drawn to those who hold up a mirror to our personal life events and circumstances. We find a similarity and then begin to compare ourselves with those people and their lives. “They’ve been through this and came out thriving – what can I learn and what do I need to do to thrive in spite of my situation?” We may also compare ourselves and find the “not enough” beliefs. I could never break through as they did because I don’t have…” or “…because I’m not willing to…” All of these reactions give us information about our beliefs, feelings and core values that can help us to have the breakthrough we need to overcome challenges. They lead us to uncover our core truths, which may be a little different from the personas we admire – because each of us is unique and must find our own way to healing, to wholeness, to living our truths.

Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to examine your connection to your role models and what this tells you about your pathway.

Resolving Differences: Hate versus Misunderstanding

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:25:28 GMT

We all have things that trigger us – a word or phrase, or a concept or a person that sparks a fire in us or shuts us down. What are your triggers? Words? Concepts? People? Groups? What reactions come up in you when you encounter them? Have your triggers cut you off from people you care about? Have they stopped you from opening your mind and heart to what may be a way forward toward your personal fulfillment and growth?

That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll take a look at the frames that house our triggers and seek to understand – to understand them by understanding our own inner reactions, and thereby more clearly understanding ourselves. You’re invited to join us.

Surfing the Shock Waves of the Collective Consciousness

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:22:45 GMT

We are all energy – all connected as one fabric that blankets the earth – and the impacts that ruffle the fabric ripple through the whole cloth. To stay with the surfing analogy, an impact into the ocean of the collective consciousness energy will ripple throughout the entire ocean, sending waves around the globe.

We, as a part of the collective, are all affected by the impacts that hit around our planet. Of course this makes sense. We know that when we heal, we are helping to heal the collective. And when parts of our planet and populations experience traumatic events, we all feel it, even if on a subconscious level, and we respond to the impacts, even when we do not realize it.

There is so much trauma on our planet powerful enough to send shock waves around the globe that move through all of us and impact our health – we need this healing! That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. Often we focus on healing the individual and the effects on the collective. Today we focus on healing the effects of the collective on individuals as we bring healing to the shock waves of the collective. Please join us.

Being Seen & Valued, Especially within Your Family

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 16:13:58 GMT

The holiday season is here – already! Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Ney Year. L’shanah tovah, a blessed new year, for all who celebrate this day. Most of us are preparing to spend time with family for the holiday season. It’s a time when stress levels can soar. Old family dynamics can fall back into their old grooves and all that work you’ve done to be the authentic powerful version of yourself can seem to vaporize.

Before we head to the family gatherings, let’s take some time to drop into our own hearts. Let’s smooth out the old pathways and create new ones that allow the truths from within to emerge and withstand the energetic pathways of the past. It is possible to move beyond and have meaningful, respectful and productive relationships with the ones you love the most.

That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. Thanks for joining us.

If you have or have had a relationship where you felt unseen or unvalued, take a minute to reflect on it. On today’s call. we’ll bring sight to those places. We’ll continue the healing process to hear and be heard, see and be seen, love and be loved.

Breaking through Barriers When You Want to Be Heard

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:26:15 GMT

When we speak and feel we’re not heard, it hurts. These are among our basic need of human beings – to be heard, understood, respected, validated. If you have a pattern of speaking and not being heard, you likely have a filter that says, “no matter how hard I try to speak my truth, I’m not going to be heard.” We each have our own filters through which we experience life and through which we relate to each other. Filters are based on what we’ve learned from past experiences. We use our filters to make sense of the future and to be prepared for what may come. The person you are speaking to has their own filters that affect the way they are hearing or not hearing you. So how can you penetrate through the filters to have meaningful and productive communications? That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle.

If you have or have had a relationship where you felt unheard or unseen, take a minute to reflect on it. Make some notes. On today’s call. we’ll explore what is behind the filters and how to speak to the place where we can hear and be heard, see and be seen, love and be loved. You’re invited to join us.

Your Mind – King Ruler or Servant Leader?

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:54:12 GMT

A King Ruler is one who commands and rules over the people. A Servant Leader is one who serves the people and acts in the highest good for all. In your kingdom or queendom, your body temple, your mind is typically the leader. What kind of leader is your mind?

This is what we’ll be exploring in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll offer an exploration and experience for your mind to tune in to the heart and body, and to bow in service for the highest good for all. You’re invited to join us.

Prayers for those affected by Hurricane Dorian & Amazon fires

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:05:30 GMT

This past week, hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Cat 5, claiming the lives of 43 people and leaving 70,000 people homeless. Fires burning in the Amazon continue to threaten the lives and homes of indigenous tribes who have been defenders of this precious land against deforestation for logging, gold mining, farming and cattle ranching.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle as we offer prayers for those who have been affected by these recent disasters, natural and human-made. We also offer prayers for our planet and all that affects the conditions that increase severity and frequency of storms, flooding, fires and drought. You’re invited to join us.

Sufficiency, the Key to Sustainability

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:30:35 GMT

The Abundance mentality is killing our planet, and we need to stop it. Yet, it’s all we hear about. “Live a life of abundance!” “Live the life of your dreams!” Each of us is given a course to travel on this planet – lessons to learn and purpose to fulfill. There is a Divine orchestration that provides exactly what we need to traverse that course. If we can really get this and trust that God provides us exactly what we need to have and be what we are here for, we can receive the sufficiency of what God provides without the fear that propels us into tail-spinning over-work, and without over-consuming and over-taxing the resources of the planet. This is the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – increasing trust in God’s plan and provision and resting into the Sufficiency of what the Divine orchestration brings us, and RECEIVING what is waiting for us to open up and say YES. You’re invited to join us.

Listening to Your Pain

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 16:15:52 GMT

Pain, pain, go away! And don’t come back another day! Isn’t that how we speak to our pain? “I can’t wait until this pain goes away!” “Why won’t you just go away?” Whether it’s physical, mental or emotional pain, we just want to be out of the pain.

As a bodyworker, I was trained to tune in to the pain, to be present with it, to listen to it and allow it to direct me to what it needed to be able to open and unfold and release. It’s a very effective technique for restoring the body to a pain-free functional state. The same process works for healing the energy body and the emotions. It’s not comfortable to be present with the discomfort, but great benefit can come from it.

Our bodies are speaking to us all the time. When we don’t listen, it speaks louder. Something inside wants to be heard, to be known, to be understood. Just like us. This will be the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – to take the time to be present with the discomfort, to listen to what it has to say, to make space for it to unfold, to unify the disconnected parts of ourselves with the whole. This is a key to loving and accepting ourselves completely.

You’re invited to join us.

Ancestral Healing: The Inner Child of Humanity

Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:18:49 GMT

It is said that when we heal ourselves, we heal seven generations back and seven generations forward. Yet when we pass on from this life, we return to a state of expansive consciousness and connection that does not carry the same constrictions and limitations that we hold while in body. So when we heal our past generations, what are we healing? Do our individual ancestors need our healing? Perhaps. But more effectively we are healing our relationships with the past. We are healing and releasing the cords that are woven through our family lineage that affect our current belief systems and behavior patterns. And our ancestors are a product of the culture of their time, a part of the past collective consciousness. With ancestral healing, we are healing the younger years of the collective – an inner child healing for the collective consciousness of humanity.

What are the patterns that have shown up in your life that you would like to change?
What have you and your family gone through that you are ready to heal?

Chances are, you can find the same patterns in the collective of humanity. Look at the dynamics that play out in our world leadership. Between countries, in politics, in corporations, in religious organizations, in social services, in communities. We are all part of one tapestry. The healing path of the collective is the same as the path of the individual. This will be the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – to heal the family lineage and the inner child of the collective consciousness – to unify the splintered parts of ourselves and humanity so that we may return to wholeness, to oneness with a core light.

As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Accessing Guidance with Amina Deb Lewis

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:47:49 GMT

Amina Deb Lewis, founder of Transforming to Essence, shares a transmission and deep spiritual teaching about what dance lessons have taught her about Accessing Guidance! Yes, everything in life has messages for us about how to deepen knowledge and evolve the soul as we travel this life journey. All the answers are with you, and you can tap into them. Amina discusses how enlightenment & expansion of consciousness IS NOT the same thing as evolution. One doesn’t actually evolve until they bring the information that comes from enlightenment & expansion of consciousness into their actions of every day life. That’s where embodiment comes in, but how does one actually DO that?!? Join us for this enlivening discussion and healing experience to learn more.

Ho’Oponopono: Prayers to End Hatred & Violence in Our World

Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:52:59 GMT

Two mass shootings in the US since our last weekly Prayer & Healing Circle – in less than one week! 23 killed, 42 wounded, and countless injured by trauma that will impact their lives forever.

The news anchors are asking, “Is this the new normal?” I refuse to accept that! My mind has locked up – it cannot compute such a thing. However, my heart breaks for the victims and their families, and for the sickness that plagues our world. I imagine yours does too.

The sickness behind these mass shootings seems so deeply ingrained in our fabric, as many contributing factors collide to create a disastrous storm. It’s multidimensional, not a simple fix.

I know we need more than prayer, yet the prayer is still important – and right now that’s something we can all do. We can pray for healing for the victims and the perpetrators – for anyone who may be struggling with the evil forces that guide them into this storm – anyone considering taking the lives of others or on a course that could lead them there.

Join us this morning to pray the Ho’Oponopono prayer and an Arabic recitation of Prayers for Peace and Healing. You can download the prayers at http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/hooponopono-prayers-to-end-hatred-and-violence/.

Releasing Projections around Success so You Can Live Your Ideal Life

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:27:29 GMT

Success can feel scary. Letting our light shine can feel unsafe. But why? One reason as adults we can hold ourselves back from fully stepping into the life we are meant to live. Pictures and Projections. To fully live your intended life is called “Success.” When you think of Success, what words come to mind? Money? Notoriety? Fame? Importance? Being the boss? What ideas do you associate with people who have success? In the spotlight? No privacy? Working long hours? Held responsible for the problems? Criticism? Greed? Taking advantage of those less fortunate? You might not even consciously think of your personal success as fame and fortune. However, our subconscious minds make associations that keep us from following through on the ideals of the conscious mind.

The good news is, you can unravel the threads that tie your subconscious mind to the pictures and projections society has painted of Success, and align with what Success is for you – the ideal life design that will bring you joy, contentment and fulfillment. That is what we will practice in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, and you’re invited to join us. Make some notes – what are the pictures and projections you have about Success and Successful people. We’ll do a process to release these in today’s call.

Food and the Need for Nourishment, Nurturing & Connection

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:00:00 GMT

When we are in the womb, we are firmly cradled in a nurturing container. We are attached to our mothers through a physical umbilical cord that delivers nourishment to our developing bodies. We also know ourselves as expansive souls connected to our Source.

When we are born, we leave the safe container. The physical source of nutrition is cut. We begin to forget our connection to Source. The knowing of ourselves as expansive souls gives way to a presence of being viewing the world from within a small physical body. We feel ourselves as separate, dependent individuals.

Naturally, we look to food as a source that provides what we are missing. Yet food cannot give us the connection and nurturing we are seeking at this level. That’s why many of us can eat beyond capacity and still not feel satisfied.

The transition from mother’s womb to earth’s womb is not a smooth one. But when we realize what we’ve been missing and what we need, we can complete the transition for ourselves – connecting ourselves to the provision and nourishment of earth and connection with Source in a conscious way to bring healing to our feelings of disconnection and scarcity.

That’s what we will practice on this Live healing call.

Unlocking Your Potential through Presence

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:32:12 GMT

Are you seeking purpose and fulfillment? It doesn’t help to look for the world to bring it to you. You can find it inside yourself. – this is the key to unlocking your potential and living your purpose. To be true to yourself, you must be present in yourself. To utilize your gifts, you must be grounded in your gifts. To fulfill your passion, you must be filled with your passion. This is what we practice in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – being Present inside ourselves to access the inner spark and ground into our gifts and fill ourselves up with the passion for what we have to bring to the world.

Finding Your Personal Power Amidst Old Family Dynamics

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:27:24 GMT

We’re at the end of a holiday weekend, and I received this request: “Do you have any quick tips for finding your personal power while encountering old family dynamics?”

The 4th of July is a time when sparks fly in the sky, and they can also fly on the ground as the old family dynamics are reignited. No matter how much work we’ve done on ourselves or how much we’ve changed, when we get around the people we grew up with, we can become the old version of ourselves in an instant. Dang it!

The first step is to recognize when old patterns are triggered. Who are we becoming? It this being true to our most authentic selves? Fear not, the authentic you is still in there. You can call yourself back to center and reassign control to the command central – the you that knows your Truth and witnesses and discerns all the other versions of you.

That is what we will practice in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – accessing the Knowing You and bringing the versions of you back to center so you can be in your personal power – witnessing and discerning, choosing your responses, maintaining your integrity, being in your Truth. What old dynamics have taken you off-center recently? We’ll offer these old patterns as a sacrifice in our Prayer & Healing Circle today.

Self-Acceptance: Managing Expectations of Yourself

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:23:54 GMT

This world is filled with expectations – perceived conditions for acceptance and love. If we want to have friends, to be included by others and avoid their criticism and rejection, we must conform to ways that are important to them. When we don’t, they’ll begin to talk. “What’s wrong with you? You are going to have problems in your life if you don’t stick with the tribe.”

For the seeker, this is inevitable. You are moving through life on a different path at a different pace. You will move through circles of friends. Your biological family may not feel like your true heart family anymore. Your old friends may now feel like strangers. Yet your heart and soul pull you to move at a pace that honors the awakening of an inner light. The awakening shifts your seeing from the eyes of your face to the eye of your heart.

Are the expectations you have of yourself hinging on the values and constructs of this material realm of linear time and space? It’s a slippery slope, and it can get confusing. Be patient and merciful with yourself. Remember that you are in this world and yet at the same time you are not.

If you could use help with discernment, patience and mercy with yourself and others, please join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll dive a little deeper into this topic and call the patience, mercy and love into the depths of the heart. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Everything Is From You and For You but Not About You

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:03:35 GMT

There’s a Sufi saying: “Everything in your life is from you and for you, but it’s not about you.” This was a topic of discussion in today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle (episode 55). A caller requested further explanation, and I thought you might appreciate the response too.

Life’s Debris: What’s In the Way IS the Way

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:54:00 GMT

Today’s call is another request from the Facebook community: How can we not let life’s debris get in the way of transformation and life purpose? There is a Sufi saying: “Everything in your life is from you and it is for you, but it’s not about you.” Everything is a part of your Divinely orchestrated plan. It is a part of your path. The question is: what are you to do with it and what are you to learn from it?

Aaaahhhh, the Universe is generous when it comes to opportunity to find our way! Some events arise to help us learn how to embrace ourselves and others in times of struggle. Some teach us how to set boundaries. Some teach us compassion and forgiveness. Some teach us strength and responsibility. How do you know which ones to embrace and which to cast aside? How do you recognize the Divine gifts in life’s debris, especially the mundane stuff? That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle.

Our mantra for today is: La illaha illa‘llah, which means There is no other, there is only The One.

You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Moving Beyond Trauma – Resources to Help You through the Healing

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 16:44:37 GMT

The healing journey can get pretty intense at times. If your nervous system becomes too highly activated or you become uncomfortable and need a reprieve, call on your resources to provide a sense of comfort and help you come to a resting place. Today we are going to explore the resources we have available to us as we are moving through the healing process. Again, this is relevant to anyone on a healing path, not only for those who have experienced severe trauma.

Moving Beyond Trauma – Releasing Identity of the Past

Sun, 09 Jun 2019 16:31:52 GMT

Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle focuses on Moving Beyond Trauma in a way that honors the wisdom of your body and respects the needs of your nervous system, muscle memory, cellular consciousness and of course your heart. Regardless of whether you consider your life events to be trauma, we all have past events that have shaped our self-identity. However, our past does not define us. Past events do not make us who we are. They give us pathways to discover who we are – the resilience, strength, love and all the beautiful attributes we find inside ourselves in challenging times. But the past does not create these qualities. They are in you now and have been in you all along. Your first life-defining event was when your pure spirit was breathed into your physical existence. This is the truth of who you are. Please join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll practice some practical techniques for settling the nervous system and grounding into your body. We’ll call on the light of your pure existence to hold you and remind you of your Divine truth. Our Divine Attribute for today is Al-Mu’id, The Restorer.

Letting Go of Attachments that Keep You Stuck in the Past

Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:21:37 GMT

The role of the mind is to keep you safe. It is hard-wired for survival. Your mind does this by cataloguing the events of your life, ascribing meanings to them, rationalizing and reasoning, and developing belief patterns that become the basis of your operating system. This becomes the foundation for how you’re going to survive and stay safe throughout your life. No wonder we become attached. No wonder it’s hard to let go. However, beliefs can be changed by truth. There is a way to change the programming of the mind, no matter how solid its ideas have become. Because inside you is the truth of who and what you really are – the truths of the Light inside you and the Unconditional Love that energizes the life force of this entire world. This is the subject of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll come together to bring healing to the imprinting and programming of the past, and to restore the knowing of Divine Light, Unconditional Love and Eternal Compassion. We’ll invite the mind to be in service to the Sacred Truths of the heart and soul. You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Learning to Love Again

Sun, 26 May 2019 16:02:19 GMT

How is your heart today? Does it feel like a Sacred Garden or more like a sack of heavy rocks? I have to admit, mine was feeling more like a sack of rocks this morning. Very heavy from busy, hectic, crowded events of the past few weeks. Yet the memory of the garden and the yearning to feel it again is still in there, and very strong. The heart is a garden, and like every garden, it needs constant tending or else the weeds will overtake it and choke out the fruit-bearing plants.

As I was weeding my heart-garden with my morning meditation practice, the song “Just Give Me a Reason” by Pink came to mind.

“Just give me a reason
Just a little bit’s enough
Just a second we’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

It’s in the stars
It’s been written in the scars on our hearts
We’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again”

It’s in the stars, and we are literally stardust. The pathway we travel leaves the scars on our hearts and these can lead us home. We’re not broken, just best. The love is still inside us. We just need to clear the pathways to find the way back home – home to the garden of love inside. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together to tend our gardens and clear the pathway to the love inside. We’ll open the passageway for the love to flow again. You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Healing Trauma, Reclaiming Your Voice with Licia Sky

Mon, 20 May 2019 22:16:29 GMT

Join Licia Sky for this interactive Webinar on Healing Trauma & Reclaiming Your Voice Recorded live: May 18, 2019.
Licia is the partner of Bessel Van Der Kolk, author of the book, Your Body Keeps the Score. Licia co-facilitates workshops with Bessel around the world on Embodied Awareness and Self-Experience; Trauma, Memory and the Restoration of One’s Self, and much more. Licia Sky leads songwriting retreats for self-discovery and embodied voice. She guides awareness experiences for building safety, community and therapeutic attunement. Her dynamic observational exercises integrate music, movement, vocalizing, enhanced noticing, listening and touch to foster safe, transformative inner and interpersonal connection. Her methods are informed by over 25 years as an artist, musician, bodywork therapist, yoga practitioner and dancer, and integrate poly-vagal theory, parts work and the latest research on trauma and the body.

http://LiciaSky.com
http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com

Drowning in a Sea of To-Do’s?

Sun, 19 May 2019 16:53:53 GMT

Is it just me or is this time of year overwhelming, to say the least? It’s graduation time, from Kindergarteners to Ph.D.’s… and end-of-school programs… and parties… and making arrangements for the young ones during the summer… and the normal daily grind… This past 2 years I’ve spent living in the midst of my family – my father and sisters and all their tribes – has taught me some valuable lessons about trust and patience, especially in my business.

This time of overwhelm has taught me to turn to patience, reliance and trust in ways I hadn’t needed them before. And the outcomes have been revealing – my business has gotten into a rhythm that is actually healthier than before. I’m not producing as much, but it is more consumable. And the income level has stayed consistent even though I’m not working near the number of hours I worked before. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together with all of life’s demands and overwhelm and call upon the Divine Name of As-Sabur for help. We’ll invoke the sound code to receive the energies of Patience and Trust into our hearts, bodies, cells and our minds. You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Healing the Wounds between Mother & Child

Sun, 12 May 2019 16:52:51 GMT

Happy Mother’s Day! In the US, this is the day we celebrate and honor our Mothers. For some it’s a day of joy, and it can also be a day of pain. Our mothers are our greatest joy and strongest connection to love. Yet when we do not experience the love and protection we expect from our mothers, they can also represent the greatest disappointment – the loneliness of feeling separated from love, the pain of being abandoned by love, the grief of missing the love we expect to find. In one sense we can tell ourselves we are all characters in each other’s plays. Together we are playing out the purposes and lessons of life. Our mothers are playing out their roles in our lives, and they have purposes and lessons of their own – they too are perfectly imperfect souls traveling their own paths. Metaphysically and spiritually, mothers have a very special role. We come into this world through the womb of our mothers. The womb is the bridge between the worlds. The womb is the passageway which brings forth life from the realm of Infinite Compassion. It is through this passageway we enter this world. When the umbilical cord is cut, we separate from our source of connection, compassion, love and nourishment. We are dependent beings with a desire to individuate and find our autonomy. We want to separate, yet we do not want to lose the love – not in the material realm nor in the Divine realms. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together for healing the wounds of this sacred relationship, to connect with the Divine purpose and gifts of the connections between mother and child in the material world and the spirit realms. Divine attributes for today are Ar-Rahman, Divine Compassion, and Ar-Rahim, Infinite Mercy.

Breathe. Receive. Let it land.

Sun, 05 May 2019 15:28:09 GMT

Stress is a natural part of the rhythm of life, but has it become a way of life? We are designed to go through times of stress and times of calm. Our nervous systems are built to fluctuate so we can manage a variety of situations. This is going with the rhythms of life. However, when stress becomes a way of life instead of a point along the natural rhythm and flow, we lose our balance. Peace? What is peace but a concept, or perhaps a distant memory? The mind is racing, the heart is constricted, the belly is in knots – that is, if you can feel your belly at all. The adrenals are on hyper-drive. You’re moving as fast as you can to keep up with the demands of life. How long can you keep buzzing around at this pace without coming in for a landing? You have to cool your jets, refuel your tanks and give the pilot a rest now and then. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll visit the parts of ourselves that get stuck in hyper-drive and establish a safe runway where they can land into a gentle ocean of peace. We’ll give them time and space to cool, refuel and rest. Join us?

Tips for Healing from Trauma with Emile Combe

Fri, 03 May 2019 15:44:46 GMT

It was 2am. Emile Combe and his family were sleeping, when suddenly a loud explosion rang out. Instantly the whole house was engulfed in flames. Emile was just 5 years old at the time. He was covered in severe burns on the outside. On the inside, he was devastated – he had lost his closest loved one. His traumatized body remained in shock and in pain. This initiated what would become a lifetime of physical and emotional recovery for Emile and the surviving members of his family. Yet, today, Emile Combe leads a beautiful, peaceful, spiritually-aligned life as a husband, father, practitioner and more. He is a living example of the power of healing. His message is one of hope – it IS possible to heal from severe trauma. Emile shares tips and tools to enhance your journey to heal from trauma.

Declutter Your Heart. Be Love.

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:13:16 GMT

What does a cluttered heart look like? A mind racing with thoughts and to-dos. Losing patience with people you care about. Harsh judgments of those who don’t see things your way. Negative self-talk. Giving up on your dreams. These are all signs that your heart could use a decluttering session. At the core of every heart is pure love and compassion. The heart in this state of being knows patience and endless possibilities. It even recognizes the pure beauty of your existence. Could you use a declutter session? You’re invited to join us. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, you’ll learn a simple breathing exercise to settle you into your body to be present with your heart. Then we’ll use a chanting breath to clear the clutter from the heart and be present with the love, peace and wisdom inside. The breathing exercise is called the Lunar breath from Continuum Movement. The chanting breath is from Sufism: Allahu Allah Haqq, meaning The One, The Truth. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Rising Up after Persecution

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:38:20 GMT

This weekend is the celebration of Passover, Easter and Mid-Sha’ban. The holy days of three traditions signify the beginning of new life after difficulties.

Passover is the celebration of the liberation of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb after being persecuted and crucified. Mid-Sha’ban is the night when Muslims ask for forgiveness for past mistakes and for help with difficulties to begin a new life of virtue for the coming year. This weekend also brought us a spectacular full moon. Astrologically this moon signifies an opening for exploring our values and aligning with what is most important for us in our deep hearts.

Now is a time for rising up, a time to release ourselves from the past, and a time to reflect on what is most significant for beginning a new life. What would you like to release from your past? What are the values you hold most dear in your heart? How do you want to live out the coming year and beyond?

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll explore these questions. We’ll do a practice to release ourselves from the bonds of past oppression, hardship and mistakes. We’ll touch into the deep heart to feel and align with what we most value. And we’ll make prayers and intentions for the life we want to live.

Acts of Kindness for Your Heart

Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:02:10 GMT

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

In addition to its service, extending kindness to others brings joy to the heart. Yet sometimes the heart of the giver needs kindness for itself. Otherwise, the heart can grow tired and resentful, and become barricaded behind a wall of protection.
The barricade protects the heart from pain, but also restricts the heart’s capacity for joy. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll practice not-so-random acts of kindness for our own hearts to release the barricades and restore and expand the capacity for joy.

Acknowledging People Who Have Made a Difference in Your Life

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:58:14 GMT

Every human being has the basic need of purpose – to matter, to have meaning. One of the best things we can do for someone is to reinforce when they truly are making a difference, even in the simplest of ways. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll take the opportunity to reflect on that which has made a difference for us. We’ll access the sincere gratitude in our hearts and feel it, and we’ll take the opportunity to send our gratitude to the people and to our Source. We’ll ask for guidance. Are there things you are guided to do to express the appreciation and let people know they matter? You’re invited to join us today.

Sound, Breath & Movement to Release Trauma from the Body

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:40:52 GMT

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Child Abuse Prevention Month. With eruption of the #MeToo Movement and all the ripples that have followed, people are coming together to support each other and heal like never before.

This podcast is from a webinar that demonstrates 3 healing modalities that combine to help you:

– Understand yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, know yourself, love yourself – from Sufi Spirituality & Energetic Healing;

– Release stuck energy patterns using Sound, Breath & Movement techniques – from Continuum Movement;

– Access and activate your core personal power using techniques from the Art of Feminine Presence – it works for men, too!

These are all experiential modalities that cannot be conveyed in words alone, and together they facilitate powerful transformation! You’ll feel it in your body, heart and soul!

Releasing Guidance from Misguided People

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:17:06 GMT

When a pure beautiful spirit is born into this world, ideally it is delivered into the hands of parents who love and care for it, who want the best life possible. The love is immense, as is the innate drive to guide and protect.

However, as we travel through life and grow into adults, we become wounded, tough and/or fragile, and we take on beliefs about the world that are not always based in the Divine Reality of the pure spirit. The lenses through which we view the world are colored by our experiences and wounds, and by the beliefs and personas we’ve adopted that help us survive. The guidance that gets passed on from generation to generation – even with the intention to protect and prosper – carries shades of the lives we’ve lived. We all do our best, and as long as we are in physical bodies, we are human.

Have you recognized a word of wisdom that was passed to you that is now holding you back from living your most fulfilling life? No doubt by now you have. It may have been well-intentioned, expressed with extreme passion as if life-threatening, and you probably took it to heart. But the advice is the warning based on the advisor’s deep wound. For you, it only serves to constrict your breath and keep you from living into some part of life that is destined to be a part of your journey.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll take the opportunity to release these words of misguided guidance with all the energies we’ve embodied and beliefs we’ve incorporated that are now holding us back.

Sovereignty! Over What?

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:10:17 GMT

The human ego struggles with sovereignty, power and authority. We need to have power and authority over that which is ours to protect and provide for in this world. Yet, we struggle to claim rights to make our own decisions. We either grab for too much power, or we abdicate our own knowing to those who we perceive to be in positions of power and authority over us, or those who have influence over our beliefs.

One example that baffles the mind is that of the food and health industries. Look at the commercials on television. If you don’t watch television, as I did not for many years, peek in for a few minutes and check out the advertisements.

First, they want you to consume meals of heavy meats and processed foods with sugary sodas or diet sodas. The next commercial is for beer or liquor. The next commercial is for antacids or pain relievers. Next, the prescription drugs you can ask your doctor to prescribe – for your physical health and mental health. Oh yea, and don’t forget the health insurance – and the life insurance so your loved ones can bury you.

It lays out the path of influence clearly. If it didn’t have so much power over the masses, it would be comical.

We need to U-N-P-L-U-G! At least unplug our minds from the machine. We have the right and authority to make decisions for the good of our own lives. We need – and must have – sovereignty over our own domains!

But what is within your domain? Your body, health, heart and soul. It’s not hard to claim your right to care for yourself. And what about the things in your life that you have committed to care for? What part of your relationships and family fall within your domain? What part of your job responsibilities, life purpose, commitments to others?

Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to explore what belongs in your domain, and how you can release the ego struggles with power and authority and stand in sovereignty over what is yours to love and care for.

Being Heard. Being Understood. Being Valued.

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:28:28 GMT

Have you ever tried to express your viewpoints and needs only to have them dismissed? You try again, rationally and a little firmer, only to have them devalued and negated.

Next time, your voice is raised, the anger is flying. “Why can’t you hear me? Why don’t you listen to me?” Oh, so now you’re labeled hormonal, moody, hysterical. You’ll get over it and life will be “back to normal.”

You get the label, and nothing changes. You’re known for your moods, not for your values.

It’s a relationship dynamic that has been coming up for healing over the past few weeks. It’s a dynamic that is up for healing in the collective as well, as the power dynamics in our country are shifting and more and more historically marginalized voices are being heard. For each of us individually and to help the collective shift, this episode focuses on healing and clearing this dynamic, from the present and from our lineage.

Loving Your Guts – Presence. Connection. Acceptance. Love.

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:04:05 GMT

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and as most of my programs have centered around the Food-Body-Spirit Connection, I like to acknowledge this month in a special way.

Our guts, and the whole abdominal area that contains the guts, hold incredible wisdom – vital to the health of the body, emotions, mental health, and yes, the spirit too. Yet, we tend to be totally disconnected from this part of the body. In fact, we only hear it when it complains loudly and causes us discomfort or pain, or when we’re judging it for being too big or too little or not looking like the picture in the (online) magazine.

But just like every human being, our guts are worthy of love and respect no matter how they look or feel. So in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll take time to acknowledge our bellies – to connect and be present with this often disregarded part of ourselves. We’ll offer acceptance “as is” and love that fosters partnership and wholeness.

Please join us. You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Prayers for Healing the Body, Mind, Heart & Soul

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 16:07:49 GMT

Feeling into the group this morning, it feels like we could use a general Prayer & Healing Circle, offering our prayers for healing from life’s challenges – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Please Join us for today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle. You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Unlock More Joy & Freedom in Your Body, Mind & Heart

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:53:55 GMT

Do you find that sometimes the spiritual and healing work can be a bit intense? By its nature, it sometimes stirs up the pain in order to crack open the heart and facilitate the breakthrough that ultimately brings relief. But sometimes we need a practice that can simply put us in a good mood – that takes us out of the stress and worry mode so common for us human beings living on planet earth.

Join us for today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle to learn this simple practice you can do today and every day to activate your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest mode), release more oxytocin (the love hormone), and unlock bodily paralysis from stress and fear to live with more freedom and joy in your body.

Rising Above the Insurmountable

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:11:00 GMT

Do you have something in your life that is weighing you down? Do you feel buried under piles of debt? Do you feel tied to someone or something that has more control over your life than you do?

Join us for today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle to explore how you can change your relationship with these things. Climb out from under that which holds you down so that you can be the manager of your own worldly affairs and not be managed by them. You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive and grow.

There will be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Meditation Quality: Al-Aziz, Divine Strength

The Nature of Being Human

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:43:56 GMT

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You’ve probably heard this quote before, but what does it mean? Perhaps it is meant to encourage us to view our lives through the eyes of the spirit rather than the eyes of humanity.

Through the eyes of humanity, we can view this life as what is real, with all its ups and downs, while the unseen spirit world is distant – something we may or may not know after we die.

Through the eyes of the spirit, we can view this life as a journey through a divinely orchestrated illusion that is intentioned for our souls to learn and evolve – the human experience insignificant while the spiritual experience is the goal.

I tend toward the second vantage point – I prefer to view life through the eyes of the spirit. Yet, the human experience plays significant roles in the spiritual experience, and we cannot bypass the human experiences. In fact, we can have a lot of fun here. Nor can we discount the wisdom that comes from the Nature of Being Human.

Is there a way to have both the humanity eyes and spiritual eyes open and integrate life’s experiences into a comprehensive harmonious event? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll engage in a practice to integrate the human and spirit experience – to bring more harmony and joy to life.

Ho’Oponopono for the Inner Children

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 16:17:45 GMT

Every pain or block that we carry today can be traced to an earlier time – an experience of a younger self that is still present inside, still holding on to the experience, still unsure what to do with it.

Sometimes we are that person, and sometimes we barely recognize or relate to him/her because we’ve buried the past and moved on.

However, what is held inside is still with us, and in subconscious and conscious ways, we’re navigating around it.

The poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers you have built against it.”

The Love is inside at your core. When we find and release the barriers, you are left with Love. You are the Love.

One way we release the barriers is through the Ho’Oponopono practice, which brings acknowledgement, forgiveness and gratitude.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll invite the inner children to join us. We’ll offer them acknowledgement, forgiveness and gratitude to release their blocks and barriers and return to love.

You’re invited to join us. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are and receive.

There will be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Finding Calm in the Center of the Storm

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:00:00 GMT

Could your heart use a little peace today? Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle is for you and for all you pray for, whether it is for yourself or for others.

Please bring your struggles, heartaches, hopes and dreams. Whatever is on your heart. We will do an experiential practice to bring healing to the turmoil and witnessing to the deep inner peace that is in Unity with the Divine Reality shared by all beings. We’ll be using the Divine attribute, ash-Shahid, the Witness.

You’re invited to join us. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are and receive. There will be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Manifesting Your Dreams and Ideas

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:48:24 GMT

Do you wonder how the Divine creates? How an intention moves from concept into physical reality? Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, and bring your intentions and resolutions, your hopes, dreams and ideas with you.

Regardless of whether you made any New Year’s Resolutions, you were created to have hopes and dreams. It’s ingrained into our humanity. Our hopes and dreams keep us moving through life’s obstacle course to discover purpose in this world and realize fulfillment in our hearts and souls.

Everything in creation begins as an idea – a thought form. It moves through many layers as it comes into being – from an idea into physical manifestation or a manifestation that has impact in the material realm.

Sometimes our hopes and dreams are for survival – for health, provision and peace. Sometimes they are born from ideas – something we would like to create. Other times they are to realize soul purpose and fulfillment.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll focus on the Divine attributes for manifestation – from idea to impact:
Al-Khaliq – the Creator (imagination/thought form)
Al-Bari’ – the One who brings into existence (energy/vibration/frequency)
Al-Musawwir – the One who gives shape (moving into physical/actuality)
Al-Qadir – the Divine Power (igniting into action/impact)

You’re invited to join us. Bring your resolutions and intentions, and your hopes, dreams and desires with you.

There will also be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

To be in the world, not of the world

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:25:08 GMT

One of the teachings that has been most helpful for my spiritual journey is summed up in the phrase, “Be in the world, not of the world.” It’s meaning is simple, yet far-reaching.

What does it mean? We are spirit beings traveling in dense bodies on planet earth – spiritual beings having a human experience. The spiritual experience is lofty – it sounds holier and higher than the humanity.

Yet, we cannot deny or discount the significance of the human experience. The human experience is what gives us the information we need to learn about the soul lessons. It is through the human experience that we learn about the Wisdom of Source.

We just need to keep it in perspective. These bodies and these earth experiences are where Breath of Spirit meets Wisdom of Earth. The ego-centric nature of the human being would have us believe that what happens in our lives is about us.

We are born with an innate desire for autonomy, independence, a need to be valued and respected, a need to be right. This naturally causes us to take on responsibility for things far beyond our control. We tend to blame ourselves, or others. We make things about us.

Additionally, our need for survival and safety skews our sense of loyalty. We become reliant on people and worldly influences. We deny our own inner knowings to remain safe and accepted amongst our tribes. This is all natural too.

However, this life is not about you – your ego-centric self. Another favorite saying is, “This life is from you and it is for you, but it is not about you.”

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll focus on two specific Divine attributes that help us to clean our perspectives on Knowledge and Wisdom. They help us to understand how intellectual reflective knowledge combines with Divine wisdom to make our human experiences in the world a pathway to proximity with Source.

You’re invited to join us. There will be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Is it Spiritual to make New Year’s Resolutions?

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 20:44:24 GMT

To resolve or not to resolve? This is the question that we ask ourselves – especially at this time of year.

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Or have you given up on such nonsense? Do you feel like it’s not practical or not spiritual to make resolutions?

Perhaps you’re of this mindset – Shouldn’t I just love myself the way I am? If I’m on a journey to know Love, I’m here to surrender to the Source of Unconditional Love, not to create resolutions from my ego self.

There is a common belief that the ego self is separate from the Divine Self, and we should not listen to it, we should dismiss it and listen only for the voice of Spirit. But this is not entirely true.

So how does “I want to lose 20 pounds this year” have anything to do with the voice of Spirit?

It’s really simple. Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll draw the pathway between the common resolutions and our human journey to live aligned with our purpose and our Source – which is also the pathway to lasting transformation and not just temporary band-aids.

Healing From The Wounds Of Patriarchy with Peter Berry

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:00:00 GMT

So much has come up with the Me Too Movement and women speaking up. More and more men are also speaking up about their own wounds and their own experiences with sexual violation and the things that they’ve gone through as well. In the healing process, we don’t make each other male and female villains, victims or victimizers, and create a further divide. We heal in a way that can bring us back together in partnership and equality. Peter is passionate about supporting women to heal from the wounds of patriarchy. He is the co-founder and partner at Juicy Sacred Living along with his wife, Licia, and focuses on creating partnership and equality and creating sacred union on earth. That means supporting people to practice partnership both internally and in relationships by taking those seemingly opposing energies, or feminine and masculine energy, and bringing them into a connection.

The Healing Power Of Purpose: Setting You On Course For Manifesting Your Divine Destiny with Mary Halima Fleming

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:00:00 GMT

When you start hitting those roadblocks in life, you may be asking yourself the question, “Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing? Should I be going in this direction and put this much energy into this?” Knowing your gift marks, your soul purpose, and what your life lessons are can give you that motivation and that encouragement to keep going and to stay on course. Mary Halima Fleming is a soul purpose acceleration coach. She left a successful corporate career in 2001 to live her soul purpose as a leader, healer, and growth catalyst through love. Mary Halima has offered thousands an opportunity to discover their purpose, passion, and power. Her purpose and passion is helping you know the healing power of purpose and embrace your soul’s purpose and gifts. Learn how you can stay on course and hold the highest vision of your purpose and your soul’s divine destiny.

Tackling Food Addiction Recovery with Carolyn Coker Ross, MD

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Food can be used to numb feelings. Many people who binge eat or restrict use it as a way to disconnect from the body. Food addiction specialist Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, thinks we don’t talk a lot about how we use food in our culture to help us deal with stress. That’s why we have the term “stress eating” to help us deal with the emotions that are uncomfortable. Carolyn says food is a regulator in a way because it helps you. Physiologically, eating comfort foods has a direct impact on the brain and they give a temporary sense of happiness, reward, peace, or comfort. Carolyn is a consultant for treatment centers around the US who want to include her unique integrative medicine approach to help clients recovering from eating disorders and addictions. She delves into the subject of food addiction and body image issues, and using integrative medicine for treating them.

Grief Beyond The Shadows In My Heart with Mary Havens

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Not knowing what grief was, Mary Havens, author of The Shadows in My Heart, suffered a long history of silence from when she was sexually molested at the age of five. It was not until her mid-twenties that she found her voice and broke that silence. Triggered by the confession of her five-year-old sister and her daughter who were molested by her then husband, Mary’s story began and has since inspired many people to speak out. Recounting the hurdles she met along the way, from having people dismissing her experiences to the uneasiness she still feels about her children’s safety, she bravely pushed through and confronted her past. She also shares her visits at Oprah and the attempts that have been made at reconciling her family. Mary reveals her experiences beyond the pages of her book.

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Prayers to Heal the Heart

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:00:00 GMT

If your heart is hurting from the pain and struggles of this human journey, you are not alone. We are in tough times, and many people are hurting. Our planet is hurting too.

Yet, we are contained in an ocean of love and compassion. We have the ability to adjust the dial on our receivers to open to the flow of compassion that relieves us from doubt and worry and fills us with love and kindness, a medicine that is needed to heal our hearts and our planet.

Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to call on the Attributes that heal the hearts and replace fear with love. We’ll also make a special prayer for guidance toward actions that will serve the highest good.
You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

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Expanding Awareness Through Hypnotherapy with Rena Greenberg

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:00:00 GMT

How do habits begin? For many of us, it’s way back in childhood. For some of us, it’s as simple as being taught to finish everything on the plate or have some cookies and milk and you’ll feel better. For a lot of people, it’s a way of self-soothing and comforting when we’ve had trauma that we don’t know how to process and we can’t talk about and we don’t have anyone to tell. It’s the whole shame and guilt and everything that goes with it. All of a sudden, food becomes our best friend. It’s something that we can go to the cookie cabinet at night and the cookies are there for us. Weight loss hypnotherapist Rena Greenberg says we’re already hypnotized by the food industry, the media, and the advertising. We’ve already been conditioned to do the behaviors that we don’t even want to do and they often lead to undesirable outcomes. Rena talks about hypnotherapy as a way to take back your power and do what you consciously want to do to get the results that you want in your life.

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Releasing The Veils That Keep Our Light From Shining

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

What is it that keeps us from releasing the veils that keep our light from shining? Human beings were given freewill. In order to exercise freewill, we have to forget our connection with that all that is that is so much greater than what we are. We are one with that all that is, but we forget that as we get squeezed into this bodysuit of consciousness that we live in. We’ve squeezed ourselves into this constrictive body and forget that we are one with that all that is and that we are so expansive and so bright. Yet the consciousness is so much bigger. Human beings exist in the atmosphere of this planet earth. We know what we know based on what we’re able to reach and experience from here. What do we know of what’s outside of our ocean? Discover how you can explore beyond the atmosphere of planet earth and into the greater depths of the universe while still living in an ocean.

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While We Were Silent: Surviving Trauma And Taking The Next Step with Anthousa Helena

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Overachievement is something that some victims of abuse do as a way of surviving trauma. They either go one way to the pendulum or to the other. For Rev. Dr. Anthousa Helena, that overachievement was working to fill that void in her. She thought that having all these learning credentials would give her value and self-worth. Anthousa is the founder of SOLLITE Integrative Medicine, a holistic medical approach that addresses the entire being on a physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual realms for healing and conscious awakening. Anthousa is also a licensed mental health counselor, massage therapist, Doctorate in Divinity specialized in Spiritual and Energy Psychology. Her story begins at an early age when she went through physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abuse. She feels that the biggest injurious effect was a spiritual break, the connection that broke within her spirit. Anthousa shares some insights and wisdom from her personal experience as well as the wealth of knowledge she has amassed from her many training and certifications.

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Who Am I?: Manifesting Our Divine Expression

Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Do you ever feel that spark of passion inside of yourself where you feel that there is something you’re here in this world to do, to create, and to give, or somehow that you’re here to affect change for some part of this population that is in turmoil and suffering in pain? Do you feel that passion inside your heart? What happens with so many of us is we feel that passion and then we say, “But who am I to effect this change? Who am I to bring this into the world?” When obstacles get in the way, we then say, “Maybe this is just from myself. I’m being full of myself here. Let me just go back to being small because again, who am I?” Maybe the question should be, “Who am I to block that flow of manifestation for moving into this realm?” It’s a lot easier when we align and say yes.

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Harnessing The Power Within with Amina Deb Lewis

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

A famous picture in the Sistine Chapel is of God in the heavenly realm reaching down to Adam’s extended index finger. Looking at it now, Amina Deb Lewis realized that they’re not in contact anymore. Amina Deb Lewis has been a seeker and student in esoteric, spiritual and scientific studies for over 40 years. She saw that God is no longer is reaching down towards Adam, and Adam is no longer striving and struggling to reach. God is just there and open in a receiving type of way. Whenever we have major shifts, whenever we have crossed a point in our collective consciousness, what is available to us has changed and we see that picture in the outer realms somewhere. For Amina, this is a sign that we are no longer reaching outside of ourselves to find fulfillment, to define God, and to look for something that is beyond. We have collectively reached a point where we’re connecting with God through the power within us, within our hearts.

While We Were Silent: Creative Self-Expression For Ultimate Freedom with Dalzenia Sams

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

People who have suffered trauma at such young ages put up this frozen wall of trauma and hide behind their silence. Dalzenia Sams, author, painter and artist for peace, had suffered such trauma as well, having been a victim of sexual violation. Dalzenia’s story of abuse includes three separate cases of rape. After the third instance, she felt completely broken and was ready to take her life. Fortunately, Dalzenia was in a program with a few women who were therapists of trauma release work. They recognized she was in shock and were able to support her until she was able to open up. In Dalzenia’s words, “They saved my life.” As her healing journey continued, Dalzenia found it was her artwork that brought through her healing power. The first painting she ever did for herself was called Ultimate Freedom, symbolizing a prayer for world peace, a prayer for personal peace, attaining absolute happiness, and connecting to the mystic law of the universe.

Embodying Truth With Confidence and Strength

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Sometimes, even when you know you’re right, it can be difficult to stand in your truth in the face of your adversaries. Sometimes your adversaries live in your own head. We second guess ourselves. It’s what humans do. A documentary of Maya Angelou’s life is called And Still I Rise. Dr. Angelou was a living example of embodying truth, courage, confidence, and strength no matter what life brings. What are the qualities she carried that gave her this powerful presence? We’ll be calling on some of these qualities as divine attributes to awaken the presence within ourselves. If you find yourself needing a confidence boost, wanting to cut through the voices and the what-if’s to present yourself and your ideas in a way that commands more respect, join us for a practice that will help you own your truth with more certainty and inner strength.

While We Were Silent: Healing Trauma Through Somatic Healing with Donnalea Goelz

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Having your world shaken up and become so unsafe at a very early age completely changes your whole world view, that what you mostly do in this lifetime is to try to find safety and a way to feel safe on this earth. Registered Somatic Movement therapist and educator Donnalea Goelz was molested twice, at the age of three and then at the age of five, which made her gravitate toward studying things that will help the issue of trauma. She brings together a lifetime of training in various healing modalities and therapies and is currently involved in research projects about somatic healing which is healing through movement and understanding the brain. Donnalea marries her love of understanding the scientific aspects through research with experiential somatic work. As a dancer, movement has always been a significant part of her life and her healing. Donnalea says movement is how she came to safety. She would go out and dance her prayers. When the world became really horrible when I was very young, she could go out and dance and would literally tell her mother she was going out and dancing for God.

While We Were Silent: Breaking The Silencing Of Truth To Bring Healing To Heart And Soul with Lilian Warman

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

When you put away your problem and don’t talk about it, silencing of truth would make your problem go away. Or so that’s what yoga instructor and intuitive coach Lilian Warman thought. When she started training for yoga and went through meditation, that’s when she realized she had to confront the core of her problem when her soul was shaking her to heal and kept bringing her back to when she was twelve. At that tender age, a bunch of pirates took away her innocence and her joy when they attacked the boat that was smuggling her and her family out of Vietnam. Yoga training helped her get in touch with herself to heal her childhood trauma and awaken her soul. Lilian talks about how cultural beliefs play into the silencing of truth, and what she found on her journey to bring healing to her heart and soul.

Reset & Recharge from the Adverse Experiences of Daily Life

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Do you ever feel like daily life is an adverse experience? We often discuss childhood trauma and the ACE study that was done to track the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences. The study showed a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, suicide, high-risk sexual behaviors, disease and early death rate in people who had experienced childhood trauma. But what about the stresses of everyday life? These days they can be pretty intense, too.

Here’s the inconvenient truth. Oftentimes, it feels like daily life is an adverse experience, especially if you’re a person who has experienced trauma and is still under the effects of the ordeal. If you’re a caretaker of children who have experienced trauma, in which the patterns can play out on a daily basis, then buckle up for brand-new ways to reset and recharge effectively.

The experiences of daily life for parents and children can be quite trying. Everything from the foods we eat, the jobs, the finances, the relationships, the parenting struggles, bullying and harassment, the news of world events, the pressures of video games and movies. Let’s take a breath…

While We Were Silent: How To Unlock That Frozen Energy with Marta Luzim

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

When we encounter a trauma or a shock, the fight, flight or freeze is very common. That is where trauma can get locked in the body and holds everything tight in place. Unless we’re willing to go back in the body and feel it, we can’t unlock that frozen energy. Psychospiritual healer and creative coach Marta Luzim grew up in a home that, in her words, looked pretty from the outside, but was repressive, filled with rage and denied terror. She missed out on a happy childhood and her teenage years, although she was very rebellious. A therapist once said to her, “You rebel, but you don’t leave,” and that has stuck in her brain her whole entire life. Marta shares her unique perspective of how the chakras and energy systems in the body need to be healed in order to release the energies of frozen trauma held in the body. She says we’re in a really traumatized time in our culture. Women are the ones who are going to heal that, but they have to heal themselves first. They have to tell their stories. They have to go into their bodies. They have to step away, individuate, be brave, courageous and ferocious to have this voice, and let it be gritty, gutsy and raw. Instead of saying, “I can’t say this, I can’t say that,” no. Say it all.

While We Were Silent: How To Find True Inner Freedom with ALANI

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

A quote from Virginia Satir goes, “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is, but how you cope with it is what makes the difference.” ALANI struggled with abuse at home at a young age and with divorce from her best friend after 22 years of courtship and marriage. Her healing from both of these very tragic events in her life and her life work came through a strong spiritual connection. ALANI is called the Freedom Igniter as her passion and her work are designed to help people find and live in true inner freedom. ALANI says when we get to a place where we really and truly understand what love is all about, and we truly begin to operate in love, something releases on the inside of us. When we can operate in love, then compassion is easy. Find an opening for true inner freedom from within yourself as ALANI takes us through her story of tragedy to triumphancy.

Ho’oponopono Prayers For The Children

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Watching the news about the children detained separately from their parents has been difficult. One cannot begin to feel how painful and terrifying that must be. What would be the effects of experiencing that kind of trauma? A study called the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study shows the long-term effects on health and social problems in people who experienced childhood trauma. It showed a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, suicide, high-risk sexual behaviors, disease and early death rate. For every child who experiences trauma, the effects ripple into their lives and into the lives of all the people they relate to. This creates a huge ripple into our societal health. We’ve got to understand the impacts of our actions for children everywhere. It’s heart-breaking and our world is suffering from the impact of the ripples. In a prayer and healing circle, we’re going to offer the Ho’oponopono prayers for the children detained at the border and for the children suffering from the effects of childhood trauma everywhere. The Ho’oponopono is a simple yet profound prayer of love, forgiveness and gratitude.

Working With Your Own Body To Find Transformational Healing with Joan Brooks

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Seeking her own healing from past traumas as well as issues of abandonment made Joan Brooks realize she wanted to get into the healing arts. Joan is a training director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Program of Philadelphia, a practitioner of Rubenfeld Synergy, and a body wisdom and trauma healing master. She’s an amazing woman with an incredible heart and an incredible passion for helping others to heal with eight years of training and almost twenty years of experience working with the person’s own body to find transformational healing.

Joan offers a reality check on the language we use to describe sexual assault and how important it is for victims of assault to use the proper phrases when talking about their situations. Joan shares her story of what was most important and impactful for her healing. She says when women take their rightful place in the world, they change the world.

Overcoming Life Challenges Through Healing And Transformation with Lisa Hare

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Lisa’s story of abuse began when she was ten years old as a family friend gained her trust. At fourteen, when the situation was discovered, she ended up in court. Lisa expresses beautifully what a child goes through. She said, “All I knew of court was Perry Mason from TV. I just knew they were going to make me look like a liar. I really thought I was going to go to jail.” She is now a psychologist, kinesiologist, energy healing practitioner, a trainer, and author with over 25 years of experience in helping others overcome life challenges.

Having a passionate interest in teaching the techniques that supported her own growth, Lisa has created a number of training courses that support others in their journeys of healing and transformation. Lisa tells a beautiful story of how this abuse rippled into all the relationships in her life, and how she found healing for herself and her relationships.

Sound, Breath And Movement To Release Stress And Heal Trauma

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

While our practices usually focus on heart-centered healing practices, it’s also very important to bring the physical and physiological body into the healing process. The body holds the subconscious patterning which controls 97% of our beliefs, thoughts, habits and behavior patterns. The patterning we take on which forms the subconscious is purposed in keeping us as safe and as close to love and connection as we can get on this 3D material planet earth journey. It’s about survival and it tends to cover over the reality of the spirit, the original knowing of safety, love and connection. To return us to the original knowing of love, connection and safety, we need to release the patterning from the physical body and reset the nervous system from fight, flight or freeze state to its rest and digest state. Learn the combinations of sound, breath and movement to release stress and tension from the body, mobilize places that traditionally get frozen with trauma, stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest and digest system, and release oxytocin, the feel-good love hormone.

While We Were Silent: Healing From An Abusive Home With Robyn McTague, Master Holistic Healer

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

We all have different lenses we use to look at the world. For survivors of abuse, however, still to this day there’s places where that victim dynamic can resurface. Robyn McTague, Master Holistic Healer and a survivor of abuse herself, opens up about how despite her training, she herself can sometimes wander into that helplessness. Robyn says that it has been so ingrained in us, that we can’t really fathom a different way of being. Fortunately, there’s a way to help people feel safe and build that rapport: energetic healing and some meditation. There’s a hurt inner child in there that needs to be heard, accepted, loved, and told that she didn’t do anything wrong. There is still hope for redemption. Robyn McTague, Master Holistic Healer and creator of A Life of Choice Coaching, was raised in an abusive home – raised to be silent, to not question authority, to not rock the boat. A diagnosis of breast cancer in her 40s plucked her out of her busy professional life and landed her on her sofa, where she began a journey of silent introspection, truth-seeking and healing. Robyn felt that disconnect with Spirit, where the 4-year-old child couldn’t understand that she was protected. Robyn didn’t die, but in her inner child had thought that the Source had abandoned her. Discover Robyn’s incredible journey of finding back her connection with Spirit – and receiving true healing for her body, mind, heart and soul.

While We Were Silent: Creating Awareness And Confidence with Svava Brooks

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Today’s interview features Svava Brooks. Having suffered sexual abuse, Svava’s early response to childhood sexual abuse was to become “Little Miss Perfect,” feeling responsible for everything happening in her environment, and attempting to hide any evidence that something could be wrong. She struggled as a young person to make sense of becoming a grown up while feeling so much self-loathing and shame. About 10 years into her healing journey, she realized that if someone had given her the words and language to speak up and ask for help, she probably would not have suffered into her adulthood. Now Svava is Abuse Survivor Coach, a Certified TRE® Provider, blogger & Author of best seller Journey to the Heart, 365-Day Guide to Thriving after Trauma. She is passionate about helping responsible adults learn how to talk about child sexual abuse in a direct and empowering way that creates awareness and confidence for adults that there is something they can do to keep kids safe.

Heart-Centered Healing Meditation For The Soul

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Every Sunday morning, our Community for Conscious Living come together virtually for Prayer and Healing Circle. As an intro for our new podcast listeners, this meditation covers the basics of heart-centered healing meditation – what it is, how it works, why we do it, and why it is a fundamental practice in Self-Care for the Soul. It’s an experiential practice that helps us align the mind with what the body, heart and soul innately know so we can reduce resistance and receive even more of the beauty that comes in with this process. You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Please invite your friends to join us, too. Thank you for joining us.

While We Were Silent: Accessing The Resilience Toolkit To Heal Trauma with Nkem Ndefo

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

As a child of an African immigrant married to a Jewish Holocaust survivor, it has been a survival of two streams of very oppressed people for Nkem Ndefo. Nkem shares that her whole life has been fertile soil for transgenerational trauma, survival and resilience. Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is working with organizations and social service in healthcare and education around trauma. Nkem addresses what is important to do before you embark on the journey of healing trauma. Listen to Nkem’s enlightening interview to gain perspective on healing for different types of trauma.

While We Were Silent: Becoming An Agent For Change with Licia Berry

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:05:00 GMT

In the wake of the events that fueled the Me Too movement, a lot of questions have been coming up. Why would someone stay silent about abuse and then speak up twenty years after the event happened? What we may not know is that silence is actually the norm, not the exception. Licia Berry, known as the Guide to the Frontier Inside, experienced abuse in her childhood home. She remained silent for many years. In adulthood, as she grappled with how to confront her past, she feared losing her connection to the only family she knew. This ignited a passion in her to become an agent for change. Licia shares how she began to examine her life and realize the things she needed to heal from which then led her into actually being of service to other people.

Welcome To Self-Care For The Soul

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

We are all connected. There is no separation. If you’re ever confused about what’s best for you, then look at what’s best for the planet because be assured it’s the same thing. The intelligence of the universal oneness would have it no other way. This is Self-Care For the Soul and we’ll be sharing with you a passion for exploring how our belief systems and our daily habits affect our physical health, mental health, emotional health, as well as our connection with spirit and are caring for the planet. We’ll also be exploring approaches to personal growth through changing your outer habits like food and lifestyle.