In today’s podcast, I walk you through an introduction to the practice of healing meditation. I invite you to try it out, and then come back here and leave a comment or question.  If something happens during meditation that you don’t understand, or there is a part of the technique that confuses you, drop me a comment here and I will be happy to look at it for you.

Have a blessed (and energetically clear) day!

Alix

In addition, just for fun, if you have a birthday coming up or just passed, and you want your own messages from spirit, drop me a comment and I will go fetch them for you.

Blessings,

Alix

Birthday Gifts

 I give you the gift

Of knowing yourself

Without shame

           Or blame

           Or ego.

I give you the gift of joyous

Exuberance that fills your days

With light.

I give you the gift of the flowers

Of your own soul, to pick or

Savor as you choose.

I give you the gift of passion,

Love, and peace.

With these three,

Humans can live as gods.

I give you the gift of time, which

Flows without ending,

And which is not your enemy.

I give you the gift of ego,

Part of the force of life.

Be well, be at peace

Rejoice!

If these or other patterns of thought run through your mind, if you feel there isn’t enough time or too much to do, if you worry intensely for other people: all of these things can affect the quality of your physical connection to the earth, your groundedness.  When we are not grounded, we are not connected to either the planet or to our godselves.  This connection or disconnection is often played out through our feet.

It’s important to pay attention to the way our feet stand on the earth. Our bodies connect to the planet through our feet.  Therefore, we are more grounded and present when we are conscious about that connection. When we are not aware of the quality of our connection to the earth, then we are less aware of our spirits, of our inner wisdom, of ourselves.

To begin to notice the connection you hold with the earth, try this.  Notice right now where your feet are as you are reading this.  If you are sitting at a desk, where are your feet? Do you have them tucked up under your bottom, or wrapped around you chair legs?  Conscious connection begins with feet flat on the floor.  The more you train your body to sit this way, the more grounded you will be.

So, your feet are probably flat on the floor at this point in your reading. Allow yourself to become aware of the way your feet feel as they rest on the floor.  Are you wearing shoes?  Are the shoes comfortable and in the best interest of your physical body, or are they ego wear? Notice how your feet are flattened.  Do they rest with just the tips of their toes on the floor?  Is your chair too tall? Are your feet so solid on the ground that your whole body can feel the connection? 

Imagine that your feet are resting on warm sand.

Imagine that your feet are deep in warm mud.

Take off your shoes and socks, in reality or in your imagination.

Imagine that the soles of your feet are flowers.  See the flowers blossom, open wide, and then shut for the night.  Practice seeing the flowers open wide and close down.  Leave them open when you are done practicing.

Breathe into your feet. Send them love and appreciation. Then, as you walk, remember to consider your feet and walk mindfully on the ground, whatever ground it is that you are walking on.

Blessings on your path,

Alix

Like hot chocolate on a snowy day.

Having drunk,

Do we chase those molecules on their journey to dirt,

Living the memory of stale happiness?

Or do we remain present and find

Bliss after bliss,

Uninterruptible intoxicants?

To see myself.

Once I thought I did,

Yet clearly

Your vision of me merely

Layered

Illusions upon reality.

When I can look in any mirror

In the absolute absence of shame

Then I will truly know

My own name.

Answers no more to that name.

She is tired of the old dynamic.

Having grown, she tires of waiting

For her little sisters

As one by one we

Come online

Hear the voices of our true spirits,

Receive our secret names.

Earth files the papers at the courtyard

For a legal change.

Earth was too similar to err

And truly, her new name suits her face.

My name is Alixander.

I live on planet Grace.

You know this information.

But you have

Tucked it away,

Neglected to simmer it

Into the broth of daily life.

And so, when the gong of pain

Is sounded,

It is loud

Sudden

Terminal enough

To catch the attention of

Your rabbit mind,

Able to interrupt the running,

The leaving of tracks in tall grass.

Your pain demands

Attention

Like a startled rabbit in

The shadow of a hawk:

Frozen,

Attentive,

Paused.

A new spring on an old planet,

Old spirits in young bodies

Even the wind feels washed!

Oh, what a joyful time this is!

Woodpeckers weave the late winter woods,

Hawks dive in a sea of bliss

Many small families are feeding forth.

Oh, what a joyful time this is!

Sunlight like mead on the cool earth

Worms and buds yawn and stretch,

The future of our race unfurls before us

A future grown from love, and dirt.

Shame

Is that energy that occurs

When we are told

How we are less than adequate

How we are not

Enough

And in compliance

We open the carrier bags of our bodies

And we cry out

Put it in! Put it in!

For I have sworn

To carry it.

And many long roads later

We can no longer tell

Where the burden ends

And we begin

We, with our wings of light

All tarred and tarnished,

We, who have closed our own ears

To the song of god,

We, who have been complicit in

Our own unraveling.

At my own folly.

I embrace my ego,

But do not worship it.

In flow with the divine,

I am light with bliss.

Losing it, I know

It is always mine

To find again.

Singing, I run down

My road,

And all paths are perfect for me.