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Earth and Cosmic Energies

19 November, 2013 — Posted in: Foundational Energy Tools Leave a Comment

Our grounding cord drains foreign and negative energies out of our system, returning them to Mother Earth. The Golden Sun tool helps us integrate, bringing our own our life force back into our body, fueling our passions, our dreams, and allowing us to manifest the life that we are meant to live. Most people are using their spiritual energy, their life force, to keep their bodies running. It’s difficult to fuel your dreams if your body is expending most of your life energy just to get through your hectic day.

I would like to introduce you to two other energies, earth energy and cosmic energy. You may call upon these at any time to act as your body’s fuel, allowing your life force to be your soul’s fuel, thereby bringing your dreams and desires into reality. Earth and cosmic energies are neutral—free of foreign energy—and available to everyone in unlimited supply. By introducing these two energies into your body, they will do the work of fueling your bodily systems, leaving your life force, your chi, free to fuel your passions, your dreams, and your manifestations. Many cultures around the world draw upon the earth for nourishment and the heavens for inspiration. Follow along in meditation as I explain how to employ these two neutral energies.

Exercise: Mother Earth and Father Sky Meditation

Sit in a comfortable chair, with your feet flat on the floor and your eyes closed.
Take a couple of deep breaths and move your awareness to the center of your head. Be in your inner stillness, your special meditative place, between your ears, behind your eyes, in the seat of your intuition. Be there now.
From this space of internal awareness, look down at your grounding cord. If it looks tattered or worn out, release it from around your hips, and see it fall to the center of the earth. Now imagine a brand-new grounding cord. See it out in front of you, strong and wide. Fasten this grounding cord around your lower body. Feel the anchor drop to the center of the earth and feel it sink into the core. Feel an upward tug, letting you know that your grounding cord is anchored securely into the center of the planet.
Now imagine your aura around you, feel it emanating about eighteen inches out from your body and extending below your feet. Feel its ovoid shape and see it fused to your grounding cord, making an airtight seal. Feel your aura release into your grounding cord and imagine that suction carrying a wisp of someone else’s thought back down to the center of the earth. Feel yourself sink into your chair just a little bit more.
Breathe. Feel relaxed and centered. You are grounded to the earth, sitting in your own aura, your own space. Claim the space from the outer edges of your aura all the way into the interior reaches of your body as your own. This is your space. You are the master of your own universe and you get to be in charge here. If you want to add a color to your aura, do so now. Maybe you want to be surrounded by pink, sky blue, or joy; you decide.
Keeping your eyes closed, bring your attention to the soles of your feet. Intend for some earth energy to come up from the core of the planet and enter the soles of your feet. Visualize the earth energy entering your feet and moving up your legs, to your knees, and then up to your thighs. Feel the energy surge through your legs and enter the front of your first chakra right at the pubic mound. Feel the energy course through your first chakra and waterfall down the back of that chakra, into your grounding cord, returning to the center of the earth. Choose a color or a vibration for your earth energy. Maybe you want to feel the energy of pink or dusty orange. Maybe lime green earth energy is more in tune with your system right now. You get to choose.
Sit with this energy for a moment. Feel it coming up through your soles, your ankles, swooshing around in your knees, traveling up your thighs, and then entering your first chakra. Feel it traveling through your first chakra and cascading out the back. This is a circuit of energy, coming up from the center of the earth, moving through the lower portion of your body, and then falling down your grounding cord to return to Mother Earth.
When this energy is running smoothly, you are ready to add some cosmic energy to the mix. Throughout history we have turned our gaze to the heavens for inspiration. We reach for the stars, reach our outstretched arms above our heads as we seek our connection to All That There Is. Some call this Father Sky energy, others use “cosmic energy,” “etheric energy,” or “Heavenly Blessings.” The name is not as important as the function. As humans it’s important to be connected to both the earth below us and the cosmos above us. We are spiritual beings residing in a physical body. By bringing in some cosmic energy we are balancing our soul’s yearning to be connected to All That There Is with our physical body’s desire to be rooted firmly to the earth.
Imagine reaching above your head and pulling down some cosmic energy, allowing it to enter your seventh chakra at the back of your head. This energy is lighter than the earth’s energy, but it too is neutral and of unlimited supply. Think of a color that you would you like to try. Maybe you want to see what dusty-rose or sky-blue cosmic energy feels like. Maybe you feel adventurous and decide to pick a translucent mixture of orange, green, and purple. Whatever color you choose, intend for the cosmic energy to enter at the back of your crown chakra, travel down your neck, continue down your shoulders, your back, and enter your first chakra at the base of your spine. Feel the energy give you a back massage as it travels from the top of your head and down your back to your first chakra.
Notice how both your earth and cosmic energies are mixing in your first chakra. The earth energy is coming in the front, and the cosmic energy is coming in from the back. They meet and mix together. This mixture travels out the front of the first chakra and up the front of your body. Feel it move up through your belly, your heart, your throat, your face. When it reaches your crown chakra, the mixture then shoots out the top of your head, swirling down through your aura until it meets your grounding cord. Feel that energy as it makes the loop from the top of your body down your back, up your torso, out the top of your head.
Notice that some of the mixture has also flowed from your throat, down your arms, and out through your palms. The arm channels are your creative channels, and the energy that is pulsing like miniature whale spouts from your palms is your creative force.
Become aware of these energies as they run through your body. Imagine them fueling your body. Feel this energy as it revitalizes you. Bring your awareness to being a part of the earth and a part of the cosmos. You are One With All, with your soul and body in balance and harmony.
Know that once you have turned this energy on, it will continue to run, supplying you with fresh fuel for the entire day.
Sit in this incredible energy field for another moment or two.
When you are ready, open your eyes, stand up, and stretch. Know that your grounding cord is still in place, your aura bubble is still around you, and that your earth and cosmic energies are still running.

As you run earth and cosmic energy throughout your system, intend for it to clear the way so that your own thoughts and feelings, your life force, can infuse each of your chakras. Be balanced and in harmony with the heavens and the earth.

Calling Back Our Life Force

9 November, 2013 — Posted in: Foundational Energy Tools 2 Comments

Energy, in the form of thoughts and feelings, has the ability to travel. When we find ourselves thinking of a work project late into the evening hours, our bodies may be home, but some part of us is still hanging around our office, desk or computer. Most people have an inordinate amount of their life force scattered about in the past, in the future, with their sick friend, or anywhere but in the present moment. If we are constantly planning our future life, we’ve sent some of our life force off into the future. When our head is full of the argument we’ve just had with a neighbor, then we may be hanging out in their aura as foreign energy. By calling our own energies back to us, we remove the energy we’ve inadvertently left in our friend’s space, allowing them to become more of who they are—and we do the same for ourselves. We become more potent beings. We do this by using a tool called the Golden Sun.

The Golden Sun has two functions; one is to call back our own life force so that we can function at our full potential. The other is to offer us a way to replace the foreign energy leaving our body via the grounding cord with energies that are more in alignment with who we truly are. When we fill in with energies such as peace, love, and self-acceptance, we dilute the power of the lower vibrational energies (fear, anger, resentment) offering us one more way to tame our inner critic.

The grounding cord and the Golden Sun are what I call “foundational tools”. I use them everyday to help me remove the thoughts and feelings of other people from my body and aura.

Exercise: Filling In Your Aura with a Golden Sun

Sit quietly with your feet on the floor and your eyes closed. Take a couple of deep breaths. Imagine a gigantic Golden Sun, about three times the size of your body, above your head. See the sun filled with golden light. Now place a giant magnet in this sun, and ask the magnet to call back your scattered energy from past events, and from time spent at your job or with family and friends. Feel all that energy zoom back into the Golden Sun.
Imagine that energy being cleansed and restored to the frequency that’s just right for your body. This is your life force energy.
Next, fill this Golden Sun with relaxation, peace, abundance, self-validation, or whatever quality would most benefit you in this moment. See those qualities permeate the sun, vibrating at a frequency that’s just right for your body.
Now imagine reaching up and popping the Golden Sun. Let the deflated sun’s beneficial qualities flow into your aura and fill in every cell and membrane of your body.
Feel yourself refreshed and enveloped in a cocoon of energies that are just right for you today. The world around you can be full of chaos and turmoil, but when you’re filled with your own energy, you can be relaxed, free from stress and turmoil.
Sit in this wonderfully peaceful space of relaxation and fullness for a moment or two. When you’re ready, open your eyes and notice how you feel. Your body may be vibrating a little bit faster or you may feel a bit more focused or “all here”.

When you are “full of yourself”, filled to the brim with your own unique life force energy, there’s less room in your aura for foreign energy. Isn’t that cool?

Grounding Cord: Releasing Foreign Energy

9 November, 2013 — Posted in: Foundational Energy Tools 5 Comments

We are constantly broadcasting our thoughts and feelings into the world. Our thoughts travel outward and may embed in the aura of another person, affecting them in either a positive or negative way. Likewise, the energy, thoughts, feelings, judgments, and criticisms of another person can travel and have an effect on our aura.

In fact, we are bombarded daily with other people’s thoughts and feelings of what they think we should do or who they think we should be. This is called foreign energy. Foreign energy is not “bad”—it is just different (foreign) from our energy.

With all these thoughts and feelings swirling around in our aura, some ours, some our neighbor’s, it can become very difficult to differentiate our hopes, wishes, and dreams from those around us.

Most of our inner critic’s voice is made up of this foreign energy—other people’s “shoulds” of how they think we should behave.

The good news is that we can clean up and remove the foreign energies that have attached to our aura, thereby allowing us to hear more of our true wisdom and internal truths. Cleaning our aura may sound a little funny, yet we brush our teeth every day, removing the foreign particles (food and bacteria) and leaving behind a fresh, clean mouth. The same is true of our aura. Cleaning the aura will remove foreign energy, allowing our unique thoughts and feelings to shine.

We often clean our aura without even realizing it. Maybe you’ve walked away from a particularly offensive conversation by shaking out both hands or shrugging your shoulders to remove the “icky” after-effects of your conversation. On the other hand, you might have felt like rinsing off in the shower or like shaking your body, much like a wet dog coming out of the river. Either way, you were unconsciously removing foreign energy from your aura. Of course, not all encounters with foreign energy are as dramatic. Simply brushing the energy off your arms, legs, head, and back as if you were removing a layer of dust from your skin might be sufficient. Or, you might expel foreign energy from your body by inhaling deeply and then exhaling through your mouth with force.

These methods work well if you’re consciously aware of picking up energies from others and choose to expel the energy right away. However, we’re not always consciously aware of exchanging energies with people in our environment. In this case, it might be helpful to use a tool that, once activated, will continue to work the entire day keeping your energy system free of other people’s thoughts and feelings.

This tool, called a grounding cord, is an energy cable that securely connects you to the center of the earth. Through the force of gravity, it efficiently drains any energy from your body and your aura that is not your own.

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A grounding cord can be visualized as any object. A strong rope with an anchor on the end, a hollow beam of light, or a stretch of silk are all visuals that I use at varying times, depending upon my mood.

The most important thing to remember is that this tube of energy will automatically carry foreign energy out of your body depositing it deep within the earth’s core. Attaching your aura, as well as your body, to this grounding cord, allows your full energetic system to be connected to the earth.

Your aura surrounds your body and extends about eighteen inches out in all directions, including below your feet. When I first started grounding, I found it a little unusual to think about my aura extending below the floor. I had to step out of my three-dimensional view of things and remember that energy is like air, it exists whether I can see it or not.

As I let my mind accept this idea, without trying to analyze it, I could then picture this area below my feet where my grounding cord and aura meet. In fact, as I set the intent for the two to merge, I could “feel” them fusing together, forming an air tight seal. The following exercise may help to cement this visual in place.

Exercise: Releasing Foreign Energy through Your Grounding Cord

Sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor, and your eyes closed. Take a couple of deep breaths and imagine a wide, hollow tube of energy out in front of your closed eyes. Don’t worry if you can’t “see” the grounding cord just yet. Relax into the exercise and imagine what it would look like if you could see it. Now imagine attaching the grounding cord to your body, where your hips and thighs meet. Feel the weight of it around your body as it draws you deeper into your chair.
Imagine this thick heavy cord falling from your hips, below your feet, through the floor, and continuing down to the center of the planet. Visualize it falling below the earth’s crust, below the rocks, the minerals, into the soft, molten core of the earth. Imagine hearing the thud as the grounding cord hits the earth’s center, anchoring in place. Feel a slight upward tug as it lets you know that it is completely anchored and secure.
Picture your aura around your body. See it enveloping your physical body in a cocoon of pulsing, vibrating energy. Imagine this bubble of energy extending above your head and below your feet. Bring your awareness to the area below your feet, where your aura meets your grounding cord. Imagine fusing your aura to your grounding cord, making an airtight seal. Know that any foreign energy in your aura will now be able to drain down your grounding cord.
Bring your awareness to a place in your body where you feel some tension, perhaps your shoulders or your feet. Now intend for the tension to release. As it does so, imagine the energetic tension dropping out of your body and aura and falling down the grounding cord. Give your body permission to release all that stress, all that foreign energy. You don’t need to store it in your system. Release it all. Imagine all that energy returning to the earth. Watch it dissipate.
Take a couple of deep breaths. Slowly open your eyes, get up, and walk around. Notice that your grounding cord is still in place, anchoring you to the planet. Some people immediately feel a little bit more focused and centered. Others notice a more pronounced feeling when seated, rather than standing. Know that your grounding cord is attached whether you “feel” it or not.

This grounding cord stays in place the entire day, continually draining out all the gunk in our aura and returning it to the earth. Anytime you begin to feel tired, scattered, anxious, or annoyed, imagine this grounding cord removing those toxic thoughts and feelings from your body and your aura.

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Blowing Up A Rose

6 November, 2013 — Posted in: Foundational Energy Tools 1 Comment

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Our inner critic’s voice is a mixture of all the foreign energy (the “shoulds,” expectations, judgments, and criticisms) we’ve accepted as our own truth. By cleaning these energies out of our space, we make room for our own Spirit’s voice to be heard. Some of this foreign energy is leaving via our grounding cord, some of it is removed by tapping on our meridian points, and some of it we can call out of our body and explode into tiny bits of energetic dust. Follow along as I demonstrate how to blow up a rose.

Exercise: Blowing Roses

1. Close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths. Imagine a rose floating in front of your closed eyes. It can be any color, any shape, and any size. In fact, if you don’t like roses, then pick another flower or any symbol that feels comfortable to you.

2. Next, visualize a giant magnet in the middle of this rose.

3. Recall one of the phrases on your name web that is no longer true for you. Perhaps it was something like, “I am so stupid,” and you remember a certain subject in school that never made sense to you.

4. Acknowledge that the story, “I’m so stupid,” is false. You may not have understood the subject matter of a certain class, but that doesn’t make you stupid.

5. Ask the magnet in your rose to pull your story toward it. Watch as each piece of your story leaves your body and moves away from you and into the rose. Watch the streams of color as they leave your heart, your throat, and your mind. Watch as the colors move into the rose. See how the rose grows bigger and bigger as the story sticks to the magnet. Feel yourself growing lighter and lighter as all this excess baggage leaves your energy field.

6. When the magnet has removed as much of your negative story or self-talk as you can, then blow up that rose. Watch it disintegrate and feel the story disintegrate too.

7. Now that you’ve removed some foreign energy, you’ll want to fill in the gaps with energies that are in alignment with who you are right now. To do this, visualize a Golden Sun above your head. Ask for this Golden Sun to fill in with all your own life force that you’ve left scattered in past or future events. Visualize bits of energy filling up this Golden Sun. Next, add some self-validation, worthiness, peace, or whatever energy feels good to you at this moment. Let those energies infuse the Golden Sun, and watch it grow in size. When you’re ready, pop the Golden Sun and feel all those warm, validating energies flood into the crown of your head and then cascade throughout your body.

8. Sit with all this wonderful energy for a moment, and then come out of meditation.

You may have noticed that the energy coming into the rose was full of color. All energy (including thoughts and feelings) is continually vibrating and assumes the color belonging to that specific rate of vibration. Different energies vibrate at different rates.

Anger, frustration and resistance vibrate at a lower rate than joy, peace or love. You might be “feeling blue” or “seeing red” which are on the lower end of the vibration spectrum. On the other hand you might see joy as a sunny yellow or love as a soft pink, and you might feel those energies vibrating at a higher rate.

Part of the work we will do in healing your inner critic is ferreting out some of the lower vibrational energies, replacing them with higher vibrations more in alignment with your Spirit. Begin to notice what the energy of peace looks like to you. Maybe it is soft pink, or pale sea-foam green. Check out the color of worthiness. Maybe you see a pale yellow or a light fleck of color reminiscent of a rainbow. Each person interprets this marriage of color to emotion differently, so begin to understand your color palette of emotions and their corresponding energies.

As you move out the lower vibrational energies by blowing up a rose, tapping, or sending the energy down your grounding cord, you defuse the power of a story you’ve been telling yourself. You replace the negative internal dialogue with energies that are more current, more who-you-really-are.

So blow up some roses. Stomp on some negative self-talk. Tap on a story that no longer holds your truth. Spend some time clearing out the negatives that no longer work for you. Nurture yourself.