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. …
Tag: Healing
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 …
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 Finally, a shift from outdated ineffectual talk therapies and drug pushing to recognizing the importance of the mind-body connection.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
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 …
The Power of Belief – How Healthcare Harms 101
Your mind and body are intricately linked. The power of belief is so strikingly significant to your wellness that it will be the catalyst for healing or the force that feeds cellular discord. Modern healthcare harms by focusing on diagnostic labeling, pathologizing, pill pushing, and fear-driven approaches to prevention and wellness. There are many empowered ways to care for oneself that honor your energetic contribution to your good health. Sadly, greedy industries have steered the vast majority astray. People’s identities have become attached to specific diagnoses, and much of their energy is given away to conversations and attention to topics …
Transmute Energy With a Burning Ritual
Burning items with intention will transmute energy connected to them. To live more intentionally, increase your awareness of how things impact your life energetically. This process is done more easily by clearly identifying your main life objectives. You will likely come up with goals in health, career, relationships, family, and abundance. Knowing how you’d like to grow moving forward is key to assessing which items energetically support or hinder that growth. What to Burn? Intentionally Transmute Energy of Items That Block Your Growth. Begin by making a list of your general desires, goals, and intentions. Gently reflect on how you …
New Beginnings: The Battle with a Bureau
An anecdotal story that illustrates how our inner world is reflected in the things and environments around us. New beginnings, new perspectives, a new life can be sparked by slight external adjustments. Changes made externally are catalysts for shifts inwardly and vice versa. I’ve capitalized the word Bureau here because it doesn’t have a proper name. Doing so may add to its impish pride. The arrival A few years ago, I responded to a ‘free-cycle’ listing for an antique Bureau. There was an outpouring of interest; however, the elderly owner had chosen only me to look at the vintage item. …
Ho’oponopono Adapted Prayer: An Effective Spiritual Practice
This adapted Ho’oponopono prayer adopts an energetic perspective to healing. It allows for all that is to be as it is without needing to analyze it or make it right through intellect or force. All that is required is understanding and accepting our powerful interconnected thread. Within this surrender, we may make the most effective use of our energetic powers. Practices for Transmutation (Excerpt taken from Blog: Personal Responsibility for Healing and Service to the Planet). A few effective practices transmute personal and collective energies for healing and “making right” imbalances within yourself, your relationships and the world around you. …
Mind Body Wellness: Beware of Illness Energy
The mind body wellness connection is always at work and too often in the direction of what is not desired. Just as everything created outside oneself has been fed energetically by thought and emotion, so has every ailment of the mind and body. To experience wellness, one must conjure the feelings associated with health and a pain-free existence. Yet, for many, their life experiences have been wired in an expectation of physical compromise and ill health. Whatever we focus on expands (Where Focus Goes Energy Flows! Focus & Create). For most, shifting focus toward one’s desired outcomes outside oneself feels …
Personal Responsibility for Healing Self and the Planet
Isn’t it time that we recognize and appreciate that all humanity is bonded together by source energy?! Healing self and beyond requires you to take ownership of your source power. As we rest our thoughts upon our wishes of peace for ourselves, our families, and beyond, the truth of our innate interconnectedness is revealed. Any disruption of peace brought forth by outside influence is connected to aspects within us. Attending to and healing the conflict within is the single most effective way to bring greater harmony to all that exists outside of us. Ownership of Your Source Power “I’m part of this.” …