Category Archives: Healing & Holistic Health

Getting to the Heart of the Matter

December 7, 2011

Published in Stressfree Living, April 2009

Reconnecting to your heart’s desires and honoring the heart of your home are complementary. Both hearts nourish a deep inner need for connection and balance. Ancient homes were built around a central hearth to provide a focal point for family life. Still today, your heart and your home serve as an interconnected energetic core, around which all life revolves. Optimum physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health lies within aligning your home with your heart.

The physical center of your home is the perfect place for a home altar, or you may wish to create sacred space in a more intimate private area. We create altars often unconsciously as we intuitively arrange photographs, flowers, candles, books, art objects and mementos on coffee tables, fireplace mantles, dresser tops, window sills, desks, and even next to our computers.  This practice of deliberately grouping valued objects is an outer manifestation of whom and what your heart holds dear.

Each holy space created at home or work can serve as oasis of gratitude where the important aspects of your life come into focus. It is a place where you can pause in stillness to sort through your values and desires, and get to the heart of what you really want in your life. Allow yourself to reflect on your deepest dreams every time you pass by these sacred spots. When you gratefully honor and align your inner and outer heart centers, you unify and balance all things within you, your home or workplace, and your life. This alignment creates a serene, peaceful field of energy that nurtures all residents to feel less stressed, more balanced and be blessed with infinite healthy energy.

Gratitude is the highest vibration that we can live within. To live in a state of gratitude, despite what your world currently looks like, will indeed start to rearrange all that is around you. The loving energy of gratitude will clear and purify all that is within you and surrounding you. Anything less will not find you. Feel gratitude for even the hardest of life lessons or the most challenging person in your life right now. Every experience comes in the service of soul learning and clearing all that no longer serves you. Stubbornly holding onto feelings of loss or deprivation will prevent the flowering of all new life that is continually being offered. Your mind may argue with who or what is knocking at your door, but your heart will recognize its teachers and graciously invite them in. Practice noticing all that is infused with healthy energy ─ within yourself, family, friends, animals, plants, flowers, trees, nature, and the earth ─ even the spring winds that are gracefully bringing life and love towards you.

Our hearts beat in unison with those we love and your home is the container for this love and gratitude. Honor your home and all those you love as you honor yourself. All that is of love and light will flourish and all that is no longer needed will not be sustained. Unlike humans, nature does not judge what is being offered nor do flowers hesitate to bloom in the world. Your heart is your ever-loyal guide towards creating a healthy home and life. Allow yourself to open fully to the rewarding richness of loving energy that surrounds you. Drink deeply and often from all that life desires to give and to receive ─ to your heart’s delight.

As a holistic health coach and energy healer, I am passionate about creating healthy soulful spaces for personal, community and planetary sustainability. I artfully reconnect you with your intuitive wisdom and your heart’s desires to align you and your home with your own brilliant radiance. Together we explore visionary ideas, processes, tools, and resources to reclaim a healthy body, mind, home, and life – one empowering step at a time.

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Your True Source of Nourishment

January 5, 2011

Bare Feet Taking Steps in WaterYou are grounding fully and definitively into the earth as your true source of nourishment and life. You are birthing yourself into the Earth Mother as your Mother and Mother of all life. You are birthing the small frightened part of you into trust and faith in all beings and all that is. You are releasing long held contractions and beliefs. You are releasing the need for extra weight as protection for yourself. Pain brings you into the present moment and into your present body as it is. The time is NOW for full clear alignment with all that is of life and love and it is time to release all that does not support life on this earth. Relax into all that is, all that is supporting and surrounding you at each moment of each day. You are healed and healing with every breath in every moment. You do not need to “hold tight” or control anything within your body or soul. All is perfectly divinely orchestrated and timed for your ultimate healing and health.

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Divine Orchestration

December 3, 2009

smoky-mountains-autumnAll pain, restrictions and holding back are self-imposed according to your soul path and destiny. The timing for releasing pain and constrictions is divinely orchestrated with your soul and higher self and not solely determined by your mind or smaller parts of yourself. Fully feel and express all that is yours to experience in the present moment and do not fear or worry about what is next.

Release “What if?” or “Why me?” All is perfectly divinely orchestrated with perfect timing and perfect outcome for ultimate healing of yourself, the earth, and all before you. Rest within perfect yin and act in the world when you are inspired to act. Listen and feel the field around you that is a constant source of support for all that you are destined to do and become. Guidance and support surrounds those who are ready and able to listen with an open heart. Relax into all that is. There is nothing else to experience right now.

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Try on Your Wings

June 1, 2009

green-black-butterfly-on-white-flowersYou are a child of God. You are God with unlimited power. You have the power within and around you to do whatever you choose and desire. There are no limitations, only within your mind. We on the other side are waiting for everyone to try on their wings and fly as only their heart knows how to fly. The elements and all of nature support your flight and your path. There are no failures; no wrong path in life…all is in Divine order in each and every life that exists on earth.

You are supported by all that is true and pure. Release all that does not feel right to you. You are destined for all that you desire and all that you desire will be yours. What is yours comes to you with delight and gratitude. Open your body to receive all nourishment that life is offering.

Do not live from a place of lack or wallow in what does not appear to be currently present in your life. All life energy exists without creation or destruction and all that you need is already present. As you open more fully to all that is around you and as you give to the world, more can be and will be naturally received by your body and your soul.

Energy is efficient. Creating more space allows for more energy flow. Constriction restricts energy flow.  Consider what is decaying, dying or dead in your life, all that no longer brings you joy or lights your soulful heart. Why do you cling to that which is no longer provides energy? New pure life energy can only flow into open clear space, within your body, your home, your community, and your world. How can you create space? How can you open to all that is waiting to be given and received? Are you ready to release all that no longer supports joy and love within your own wild precious life?

“Every night as you sleep, you have the option to let go of what has hurt you, what has lessened your light, what has landed in your heart, and fly to the stars and dance in the heavens, and be birthed anew on the sunrise.” Gillian MacBeth-Louthan (May 2009, http://tinyurl.com/6hj73c)

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter

March 26, 2009

sleeping-beauty-with-candlesIn this time of great transformation, are you protecting your most valuable asset? Are you nourishing and honoring what is truly keeping you alive? Our beating, ever-loyal hearts are designed to be fully open, to be fully operational, and to radiantly support the life and the love that envelopes and is within each one of us. Both our hearts and our brains receive and respond to intuitive information. However our hearts are the first to receive and process the emotions and essence of any experience. Our hearts are our personal intelligent historians, recording pleasant and not so pleasant experiences and feelings across the unique richness of our lives.

These trying times are asking us to feel and to release all that is held within and around us that is not pure, beautiful, life-enhancing energy. As with all stuck and stagnant energy, we are being asking to recognize, to feel, and to clear all that no longer serves us. Sometimes we believe that we need to hold onto our painful experiences as a sort of hero’s “survivor” badge. However, find yourself continuing to defend or to argue for your limitations and they are yours. Just as we might naturally take time with a child that needs their “hurt” acknowledged, our pain—past and present─needs to be recognized and acknowledged for the gifts brought to our lives. Continually living with our pain and unfelt emotions keeps us from realizing our true radiance that is waiting to reflect back to us abundantly.

Each person has his or her own timing and sequence for clearing all that does not support life. The best processes and resources to use are also unique to each. However, our journey towards optimum radiance may be quickened by taking daily time to listen within. Our hearts─our life force─thirst for deep rest and reflection. It is essential to your health to take time to feel what has not been felt and to recognize and honor aspects of yourself that have been long forgotten, ignored, or pushed aside in haste or in fear. Energetically clearing all that no longer serves you within can be a matter of minutes. Getting to the heart of what you really need and desire for full sustenance and nourishment is an ongoing practice.

The people, experiences, and things that are the most precious in our lives touch our hearts the deepest. Listen to your heart without judgment to know when and how to move forward in your life, perhaps closer to another sweet heart or towards a fresh adventure. Your wise heart always knows when you are finished with unfulfilling relationships, jobs, routines, places or things. Your heart’s desires are often subtle and will not necessarily be encouraged or be initially in alignment with your thoughts. Practice honoring your soulful heart, without unnecessary constraints created by past experiences and beliefs that no longer serve you. Your heart is beating right now, patiently waiting to be felt and to be heard. Listen closely and often to the small, often timid, whispers that are always nudging you towards true heart fulfillment.

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The Invisible is Essential

February 7, 2009

peach-brown-nautilus-shell1Is it possible to get our heads around energy or qi (pronounced “chee”)? What could be more familiar than the breath of life? We know the difference between a living being and a corpse. We know the difference between feeling truly alive and feeling like we’ve been hit by a truck. And we know the difference between a place where we love to be and a place we’re eager to escape. Our body is doing energy work or qigong every night as we sleep. We intimately know qi and the invisible energy that flows, interconnects and informs our bodies, our spaces and our universe.

Perhaps the real problem is that we’ve been asked for centuries to ignore what we know in every cell of our bodies. Our culture is about speed and excess. We’re too busy to know how we feel or how profoundly we are affected by our surroundings. The measure of our success–and the predictor of our ability to thrive on Earth–is in the vitality of the whole. If we can perceive qi and understand how our environments affect our lives, that’s the essence of what we need to know. The breath of life is present and available to us all. Observing the seen and the unseen world within and around us, trusting our gut feelings and caring about the continuum of all life are our most important tools.

Our state of our lives and our health is often an inside job. Inner quiet and balance is the place from which healing can occur, when we pause and listen to our inner healer, and act upon those messages and life choices that emanate from the inside out. We each hold the keys to our own healing and can reconnect to our own mind, body and spirit medicine. The more we explore the outer realms of the cosmos, the more we are inspired to explore our inner imaginal realms. Science and spirit are bound together in one paradigm of expansion. Our imaginations and moving into the sometimes unfamiliar spaces of inner authority are the new frontiers of personal and planetary health.

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