Category: Spiritual Hygiene

The Spiritual Meaning of Halloween Choosing Light when the Veil is Thin A Pumpkin Illuminated by natural light

The Spiritual Meaning of Halloween: Choosing Light When the Veil Is Thin

The spiritual meaning of Halloween goes far beyond ghosts or discordant energies trapped between worlds. As boundaries soften, we can choose our focus, a sacred act. In the recently published best-selling self-care book, The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Transformation by Anna Pereira, I wrote about my experiences with recurring nightmares in Chapter 10, Face Your Demons, Reclaiming Sacred Power. The more I tried to resist them, the stronger they became — a reminder that what we focus on determines what we align with, especially when spiritual doors are open. Autumn carries a particular magic — an earthy …

Spiritual Hygiene Grounding in Nature

Keep it Clean! 7 Tools for Spiritual Hygiene

Spiritual hygiene practices are like anchors that return you to your baseline energy. Each day, we immerse ourselves in a sea of vacillating vibrations. Some are uplifting, others are neutral, and many are outright toxic! We maintain our energetic integrity best when we practice clearing our energy daily. These tools promote a more conscious way of interacting with the world. With practice and consistency, spiritual hygiene helps us better honor ourselves. Spring, the season of new beginnings, is the perfect time to offer these essential reminders. Make them part of your daily habits, like brushing your teeth, and they will …

Quality Matters Don't For Less

Quality Matters, Don’t Settle For Less!

Quality matters in what you consume and purchase, the thoughts you hold, and the conversations you entertain. Election season challenges our integrity. It presents black-and-white equations that pull us into garbage thinking and low-value conversations. Are you allowing outside chatter to sour your thoughts and emotions? Do you trade quality for convenience? It’s our responsibility to decide that quality matters enough to make high-value choices, especially when presented with very few. Prioritize your personal quality above all else and it will support your highest visions for a better future. You make the greatest contribution, embodying the quality you seek. The …

Path to Freedom More Than Surface Dusting

Spring Clean A Path To Freedom

Where do we begin our path to freedom? While the false front suggests that cleaning up the outside will fix your woes, true liberation is not an external process. Clean the baseboards, wash the walls, and, yes, eliminate the scuzzy food particles that take up residence, and grow between your stovetop and counter to get your inner energy stirring. It will not free you, however, from the self-imposed chains that bind you. No amount of outer tidying purifies the inward contaminants of distorted thinking and harbored emotions. Human nature compels us to set right what we deem disagreeable or foul. …

Your Higher Self For a Simple Meaningful Life

Your Higher Self: Master Your Divining Rod

Your Higher Self is the highest calibrated system to get it right, in real-time, every time! To live a meaningful life and experience fulfillment, learn how to go within and up to receive guidance. Instead of handing the divining rod over to people and entities outside yourself, master the path of connection to your higher self, and this will allow the beauty of your life to flow and unfold with ease. In connection with your higher self, you are less reactive, more grounded, and loving. These are the moments when you feel greater peace, more assured, and look back without …

How to Stay Healthy

How to Stay Healthy ~ (18) Simple Habits

Adopting simple daily habits is how to stay healthy! Make your well-being a priority by committing to a few manageable practices. When you listen to what your body has to say and love yourself enough to set boundaries that respect your need to rest and care for your mind, body, and spirit, your life will transform! Recently, I wrote about ancestral healing and how the energy of the past may affect your life. The habits we adopt, usually stem from our upbringing. For me, this means that any recipe that calls for two cloves of garlic gets a minimum of …

Clearing Ancestral Trauma For Intentional Living

Ancestral Healing for Intentional Living

Ancestral trauma is part of the lineage that we inherit. Ancestral Healing helps us to reflect, forgive, and learn lessons from our past. Even with a desire to know more historically about our families, we may fail to recognize that the roots of our struggles began long before we experienced them. As it happens, you needn’t experience the same traumatic events that your ancestors endured for it to affect your life. Clearing ancestral trauma has the potential to create new attractive patterns moving forward and ensure better outcomes not only for yourself but for future generations. Nudges to Work on …

Therapeutic Cathartic Movement

Guided Boxing For Therapeutic Cathartic Movement

For hundreds of clients who’ve experienced the therapeutic benefit of cathartic movement through boxing with me, there is no doubt about its transformative effects. Still, I’ve grappled with how to define what it is that I actually do for work. How can I explain that boxing is a healing modality? Over the last several years, Somatic therapy or Somatic release has become the new therapy of choice for those seeking relief from PTSD and stress-related “disorders”. Finally, a shift from outdated ineffectual talk therapies and drug pushing to recognizing the importance of the mind-body connection. Sharing personal experiences, especially those …

Live Authentically and Develop Inner Wealth

Live Authentically and Develop Inner Wealth

To live authentically, recognize the external and internal pressures that beckon you to participate in life artificially. When you reflect on early influences, make the unconscious conscious, and practice pausing before engaging you come more fully into your authentic self. Many influences diminish your ability to participate in life honestly. These micro self-betrayals, detected within the truest part of your being, tell you when you are deviating from your authentic expressions and paths. Making choices that reduce these compromises, helps you to develop inner wealth and live a more authentic life. Challenges Presented by Outside Expectations and Measures By the …

Tips For Energy Clearing Objects

9 Tips For Energy Clearing Objects

Energy clearing of the items you own will allow you to take energetic authority over them instead of passively being influenced by questionable or lower vibes within them. There comes a time when you look more closely within your physical world and assess what is supportive of your energetic well-being. Energy Clearing Objects and Furniture: Why Do it? Every “thing” especially ourselves, hold a vibration. That vibration may be fast and high vibrating, or heavy, slow and muddied. The vibrations of everything around us collectively affects our own personal vibration. Therefore, what we are exposed to through our senses or …