One Step Forward And...

One Step Forward And...

Well you know how it goes sometimes, the one step forward and the whole "two steps" dilemma can screw things up sometimes -- turn them on their heads. I spent a lovely lazy Sunday with Jay and we went to the gaming party Open Battlestar and from there my energy levels took a dive again. I'm going to get it all checked out tomorrow so stay posted. Finger's crossed that everything's A-OK. See you on the flip side people.

Healing Energy

Healing Energy

Talk about healing energy! Today was all about it. I could feel my own coming back so much stronger. I have been working with the frequencies of colors both in meditation, chakra healing and in invocation of color energy as well. Today I called upon the spiritual, mind-body-soul connection of the healing purple ray. I've been drawn to it a lot, which has led me to work with lavender essential oil, amethyst crystal, Archangel Uriel and the calming, gentle nature of restoration that it brings with it. I am feeling blessed and grateful.

Crystal Madness

Crystal Madness

So lately I've been pretty engrossed in working with crystal energy. I am exploring the metaphysical properties of shungite and flourite and dreaming up crystal layouts and recipes for crystal elixers. Not surprisingly, I want to create a few for energizing the body and fortifying stamina. I also have ones in mind for immunity and health and vitality. When I create some, I'll post a few layouts and recipes on my blog. It should be a fun summer project to dream up recipes and various crystal healing formations. This is gonna be great fun!

Thoughts On Drishti

Thoughts On Drishti

In yoga we hear a lot about focusing your drishti. I recently read an online article in Yoga Journal's Yoga 101 section of their website that illuminated the phrase that you hear a lot of yoga class quite simply and elegantly and gave me much food for thought, as I contemplated just how and where I focused my eyes while practicing my asanas. https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/the-eye-of-the-beholder. The article made me realize that sometimes my constantly wandering mind (especially susceptible to roaming because of my chronic anxiety) could be stilled by concentrating on my drishti. I see drishti as a way of seeing and also a way of disengaging your monkey mind and tuning into your third eye to access that inner knowing that only each and everyone of use knows is our truest council. Practicing where I place my dristhi ( point of focus) in my daily yoga practice will enhance my energetic flow, soothe my racing thoughts and clear my 6th chakra, the anja point. This is just what I need right now. Clarity.

Working With Crystals

Working With Crystals

I've been working in meditation with crystals a lot. I've been particularly drawn to amethyst, selenite, fluorite and moldavite recently and lately I've been working with the energies of shungite. Shungite is a stone that is reputed for opening up your whole being to receive high vibrations of light body currents to facilitate a healing on the deepest of levels. I had lost a simple shungite pendant suspended from a piece a rope that I purchased recently. I'm hazarding a guess based on working with crystals that I've lost in the past and that have turned up out of the blue when I needed them most, that this time is no different. Shungite's innate intelligence for cleaning the energy field, together with the fluorite crystal I've been working with have had a synergistic effect on my well-being. Maybe the gentler frequencies of the fluorite were needed to work on my energy body for a while before shungite's energetic scrubbers  could go to work -- clearing my aura after a long illness. Once again my crystal allies have come valiantly to my rescue!

Self Reflection

Self Reflection

Today's practice and subsequent daily tasks have me in a thoughtful mood. I am analyzing the emotions I've experienced around loss after reading "The Fable of  Final Sunset" in Tori Hartman's "Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit" where she ask you to consider how you respond to the endings in your life. In reality endings are as inevitable as well... death and taxes. I realize that I often hang on to the nostalgia and the memories at the expense of moving forward. I've lost so much that it's sometimes hard to remember that in new beginnings I have the potential for so much to gain at the other side of new beginnings. Today I'm turning this concept around in my hear and allowing it to be whatever it is, letting feelings come and go, taking it with me into meditation and also allowing for the insights from the meditations from Briana and Dr. Peter Borten's "Rituals For Transformation" to sink into my mind. It has helped me to remember that we are one with Divinity and Divinity is one with me and the Universe. I spent nearly two weeks on this concept because it's just that deep. I'm still pondering it... pondering... life

Moving Bravely Ahead

Moving Bravely Ahead

Today's yoga practice was chock full of warrior poses and sun salutations, making it the perfect practice for me to face the day and get back into things. I started my herbal remedies with Bach's Flower Essences and crystal meditation and I already feel brighter about the coming day! Yesterday was a no-go with the photojournalism assignment and so I'm going to try again today. I'm hoping that I can get some pictures in. Of course there's a late breakfast/brunch and tulsi herbal tea to balance my doshas and my cup of coffee later at the coffee shop. Later on it's more photos and singing at jazz club as I begin to start pursuing my passions again. I am hopeful for the rest of the day. We have a few more days of Mercury Retrograde to go and I am arming myself with lavender, peppermint and melissa essential oils, yoga and letting go what needs to be gone. I got this!