Monday, November 12, 2007

Awakening the Ears: A Meditation

This is a meditation to activate our ears, hearing, and listening with love, and to also bring more love into our lives.

Create a sacred space where you can meditate and feel comfortable. Begin to take a few deep and full whole body breaths. Breathing into your feet, hands, and head. When you're ready imagine breathing up your left leg, up the left side of your body, up from your left arm, up your left neck to the crown of your head, all with one inhale. Then exhaling down from the crown of your head, down the right side of the body, exhaling some breath out the right arm, and the rest down the right side of the body, and out the right leg. Practice this up and down breath a few times....

Now bring your attention and breath to your ears. What would it be like to nourish your ears with love? What sounds, words, and music would make your ears happy? What would it be like to listen to yourself and to others with love? What would it be like to find love for your ears each day in the words you speak and in the music of life? As you journey today on this meditation of the ears, begin to imagine ways you can with your sense of hearing bring more love into your body, your life, and world.


The Ears: A Meditation


Imagine your body becoming very heavy and dropping into the earth, as you become very light, lifting off from your body, and traveling out the crown of your head. When you are above your body, feel the presence of your spirit greet you, and surround you in beautiful love and light. Your spirit wants to take you on a journey to a place in the clouds where you can receive a sound healing for your ears and other blessings. Holding hands with your spirit you both glide upwards towards the sky. Soon you see a large bulbous and fluffy white cloud in the distance that sparkles with rainbow colors. Your spirit guides you in that direction. As you approach the cloud your spirit sings with an angelic voice a verse that parts the clouds and reveals an entrance way. The entrance way leads to a healing room in the center of the cloud. You notice that everything in this room seems to be made of clouds. Even the table you're invited to lie on is really a cloud in the shape of a table. You take a few moments to enjoy the feeling and healing of lying on this cloud.... Your spirit sits at the head of the table, holding your head gently as this healing cloud begins to play music that fills your ears, your mind, and your whole body with a great love. Take a few moments to listen to this ethereal music that is meant to cleanse and fill your ears, your sense of hearing, and your body with seeds of love.... As the music comes to a close, you're invited to set an intention for a way you can use your ears to listen even more with love.... When you have set your intention express gratitude for the healing you have received from this cloud. As you rise from the table, your spirit is there, and begins to guide you out of the cloud and back down towards earth. Your spirit brings you to this very verdant hill, perhaps somewhere in Ireland. There is an ancient oak tree on top of this hill, and you go and sit underneath its canopy of leaves. The air twinkles with magic and electricity. You're told by your spirit that there are two birds in the tree above that have messages for you from your healing session in the clouds. You close your eyes and listen for them. In your left ear you soon hear a bird singing a song for you. In that song there is a message about a way to bring more creativity, joy, and happiness to your life. Take a few moments to listen to the message from this bird.... Soon you hear the song of another bird travel into your right ear. In this bird's song there is a message about an action you can take to bring you closer to one of your dreams. Take a few moments to listen to the message from this bird....It's now time to return to your body, you thank the birds and this magical place for your messages, and holding hands with your spirit you begin heading back. As you arrive near your body, your spirit gives you a gift to remind you of today.... You accept this beautiful spirit gift and embrace your spirit in a warm hug that expresses your deepest gratitude.... You promise to stay connected and guided by your spirit as you return to your body. Now that you're back in your body take a few breaths and remember the places you visited, the healing, the messages, and the gift you received.... The invitation is to awaken your ears and life with new seeds of love and passion that grow and can be found every where and in every moment.

The mantra for the ears: I will speak and listen with love.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Awakening the Breath: A Meditation

This is a part of a meditation series to awaken more love in our body and life.

Awakening the Breath: A Meditation

One of Webster's International Dictionary definitions of BREATH: "SPIRIT, ANIMATION, VITALITY, LIFE."

You have the right to breathe. Not only do you have the right to breathe, you have the right to breathe deeply, fully, and freely. Your breath is your connection to who you are and to your world. The invitation of this meditation is to awaken your breath and to breathe love into your body and life.

Create a sacred space where you can meditate and travel inward. Begin to notice your breath in your body. Are you breathing deeply and fully? Take a few breaths and see how deeply you can breathe.... How deep can you feel your breath? Can you breathe into your abdominal region and the organs there, into the bones of your pelvis/hip region, into your legs, into your feet, and out your toes down into the earth? Just breathing freely, noticing your breath, and feeling your breath as deep as you can into your lower body.... Now bring your attention and breath to your rib cage region. Begin to breathe into your ribs.... Imagine your whole ribcage with each inhale expanding outward and almost touching the sides of the room or if you're outside then reaching surrounding perimeters. Take a few breaths into the back of your ribs, really feeling those ribs with your breath, imagine the ribcage expanding back there.... Breathing into your side ribs, feeling them, expanding them.... Breathing into your front ribs, feeling them, expanding your ribs and chest. Then taking a full breath into the whole rib cage region, your heart and other organs protected by your ribs, holding your breath there a moment, letting your breath flow down your arms and out your hands and fingers with the exhale.... Bringing your attention and breath to your upper chest. Taking a few breaths into the upper chest region, exploring that region with your breath...When you're ready taking a breath into the upper chest region, holding it there a moment, letting your breath flow up into your neck, your brain, your eyes, and out the crown of your head with the exhale.


Now taking a few moments to breathe naturally and fully, noticing any changes in your breath and body.... Soon we will be traveling to one of the most ancient and pristine rain forests on this planet, and breathing some of the purest air in the world. The air in this magical rain forest facilitates health and well being on all levels. Your spirit will be there too, providing the perfect medicines for your whole being.


Imagine your body becoming very heavy, and sinking into the earth. At the same time you, the essence of you, becomes very light, and begins to float from your body. You travel South. South to the land of the heart. Ahead you see a stone archway, and you pass through there to find yourself in a new land. A very beautiful and vibrant place, a rain forest. You inhale deeply the richness of the air here. Birds are singing the most enchanting songs, the vegetation is very lush and alive, wild orchids grow in loveliness around you, and in the distance the sounds of a rushing brook can be heard. You feel very calm here and peaceful. Magically the trees and plants retreat to reveal in opening for you to sit. In the center of this clearing there is a stone chair with symbols carved into its body. You sit down on the stone chair, and immediately feel a sense of warmth, healing energy, and support travel up your body and out the crown of your head. You spend a few moments enjoying the healing powers of this most ancient stone.... Your spirit responds to the lightness of your being, and envelops you in beautiful golden and white lights. You're invited to charge the enchanted air and lights that surround you with your own intentions for health, love, and well being. You hear your spirit chant to the air, to the lights around you, and to the rain forest. The air becomes potent and light with the perfect medicines for you. You're invited to inhale this air of light and perfect medicines as deep as you can into your lower regions, to hold your breath there a moment, and to exhale your breath and the healing energies even deeper into your body and into the earth. Take a few moments to breathe in this way and to feel the lights of love and healing flow to your lower body....Next inhale this healing breath into your rib cage area, hold it there a moment, feel the golden and white lights and the air mingle with the cells of your lungs, your heart, other organs, the bones of your ribs, and when you're ready exhaling the healing energies down your arms, and out your hands and fingers. Take a few moments to breathe in this way and to feel the lights of love and healing flow to your middle region....Again inhaling the potent healing light energies, this time to your upper chest, all the way to the top of your ribs, holding your breath there a moment, letting the healing energies mingle in your body, and exhaling the golden and white lights up to your neck, to your brain, your eyes, and out the crown of your head to the skies. Take a few moments to breathe in this way and to feel the lights of love and healing flow to your upper body and the skies above you.... Your body feels cleansed, vibrant, and full of light. You breathe in the air of this very special and magical place, and with your exhale you express gratitude to your spirit and to this magical rain forest for the healing you have received. It is time to go back to your resting body. Before you depart you are to make a wish and to hold it in your minds eye as you travel back to your body. On your next breath, inhale deeply the medicines of the air and this rain forest, then holding your breath and your wish travel back, back to your body, and when you've returned, exhale out your wish and this magic breath of golden and white lights of love to your life and world.

May you breathe the magic of life and love into your body, your intentions, your wishes, your world everyday. May each breath bring more sweet love into your life. May each breath bring you closer to your dreams, to happiness, and to well being.

Mantra for the breath: I have the right to breath deeply and fully.

Friday, November 02, 2007

A Message About Love

It's time to get aggressive about loving yourself. You seem to dilly-dally too long in thoughts and vibrations that keep you far from feeling good and your dreams. I want you to dedicate yourself to loving yourself every moment of the day. I want you to see what happens, what dreams of yours come true when you align yourself with love. When a thought comes that lowers your vibration, that is negative to who you are, I want you to say right away to those thoughts, "I choose to love myself in this moment." Keep choosing thoughts that are more expansive and in harmony with the larger picture of yourself. Refuse to lie in the muck, any muck, and set your focus to higher grounds, and go there immediately. Commune with your higher self more. Your higher self is more expansive and free of the limits of doubt and fear. Your higher self loves you fully and completely just how you are. Loves you unconditionally. Loves your past, loves your present, and loves your dreams of the future. There is absolutely nothing you could do that would make your higher self, your spirit, the universe, your creator, love you less. Your contribution to this world is invaluable, and we are glad you are here. Love yourself, concentrate on the dreams that make your heart happy, and go to those dreams with your mind. Go there with every ounce of energy you have, and let your heart really smile as it creates worlds that could only be dreamed by you. There is no wrong way, no time, no judgement, nothing keeping you from your dreams but you. The universe is constantly expanding, choose expansiveness of spirit, let your heart be the guide, and be gentle with yourself. Love yourself, we do.