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Golden Sun of Joy

25 May, 2015 — Posted in: All About Chakras, Living In Joy 2 Comments

Living a life on purpose is living a life in joy. It is knowing, deep down in the seat of your soul, what brings you joy. As you focus on that which brings you joy—and as you allow yourself to express this joy through your job, your family, and your relationships—you will attract more and more events and circumstances that are in alignment with your purpose.

Instead of focusing on what brings us joy – we often focus on what brings other people joy! Those of us that are nurturers and caregivers are especially vulnerable to giving away our life force, our prana, to our family and friends. It may be very satisfying to give to others, but if we don’t give to ourselves too, then we may find ourselves depleted, tired and unable to fuel our dreams.

Our third chakra located in the solar plexus region is the storehouse of our internal fuel – both physical and spiritual. By using the energy tool of the golden sun to fill ourselves up with life force energy, we then restore our bodies and our souls to full potential, allowing us to give to our friends and ourselves.

Fueling Your Joy: The Golden Sun

Sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor and your eyes closed. Take a couple of deep breaths. Relax and just be.
Bring all of your awareness into the center of your head. This is your special meditative space. Between your ears, behind your eyes, this is your space. It is for you alone. If you feel that all the thoughts of things to do and places to be start to encroach on this space, just tell those thoughts that you will be with them in a moment or two. Watch them leave your space.
From this space in the center of your head, start to count each breath. On the inhale count one and on the exhale count two. Inhale again and count three, exhale and count four. That’s all. Inhale and count, exhale and count. Breathe. Count each breath.
Take a couple of deep breaths. Imagine that your body is surrounded by a cocoon of energy. It stretches out about eighteen inches around you in all directions. Put your arms out to your sides and imagine this bubble of protective energy reaching out from your body to your fingertips. See this bubble all around you; above your head and below your feet. Know that this cocoon of protective energy is your space. You are safe here.
On each inhale continue to center and on each exhale ground to the earth. Imagine your grounding cord attaching to your hips and dropping to the center of the earth. See this hollow tube of energy reach all the way down through the earth’s crust, attaching solidly into the core of the earth. Feel it draw you deeper in your chair as your body begins to relax.
Intend for your body to be at peace. Feel your jaw relax, and your shoulders fall away from your ears. Ask for any tension you hold in your body to be released down the grounding cord. Feel yourself sink deeper in your chair as you allow yourself to be at peace.
Breathe in and center, bringing all your awareness to the center of your head. Breathe out and ground, allowing all tension and tightness to ease.
Breathe in and center, breathe out and ground. Be in stillness and peace.
Now imagine a giant Golden Sun above your head. See the sun filled with golden light. Imagine that this sun is about three times the size of your body. Place a giant magnet in this sun and ask this magnet to call back your scattered life force energy. Let all your energy return from your job, from your family and friends. Feel all that energy zoom back into the Golden Sun.
Imagine the Golden Sun bringing your scattered energies back to a vibration that will be just right for your body.
Fill this Golden Sun with relaxation, peace, abundance, gentleness, whatever quality would be most beneficial to you today. See those qualities permeate the sun, vibrating in a wonderful harmonic, which will be perfectly attuned to what your physical body needs most right now.
Pop the Golden Sun and let all your energy and all those qualities flow into your body, filling every cell and membrane. Allow the excess to move from your body out into the space around you.
Feel yourself refreshed and vibrating at your optimal frequency, enveloped in a cocoon of energies that are just right for you. The world around you can be full of chaos and turmoil, but you, in the center of your aura, filled up with your energy, can be at peace—free from stress and unease.
Sit in this wonderfully peaceful place of fullness for a moment or two. When you are ready, open your eyes. As you come out of meditation, intend for this stillness, this sense of peace and knowingness to carry forward with you into your day.

Every day I remind myself that I am in charge of my body and my Spirit. I can give to others without depleting my life force energy. Using the golden sun has helped me power my dreams and passions as I also nurture the people that I love.

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My Favorite Mindfulness Tool: A Golden Sun

25 October, 2014 — Posted in: Mindfulness Leave a Comment

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This month we are discussing mindfulness: being fully present in our lives, purposefully and without judgment. Whenever I find that my mind has wandered away from my present moment experience, I realize that it’s time to fill in with a Golden Sun.

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 instead of our own. If our life force is scattered all over, we’re not fully present in our every day, present moment, lives.

By calling our 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.

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 at 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.”

I use this tool constantly. Anytime I feel a little bit depleted or not quite me, I consciously think of a Golden Sun filling me in with self-assurance, peace, tranquility, or whatever quality I would most like to have at that moment.

When you are “full of yourself,” filled to the brim with your own unique life force energy, you are in the state of conscious awareness, mindfulness in motion.

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Filling In With A Golden Sun

21 February, 2014 — Posted in: How To Tame Your Inner Critic Leave a Comment

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Have you listened to your inner dialogue lately? Is it full of phrases of unworthiness and self-doubt? Have you ever wondered how it got to be this way?

This month we are uncovering the mysteries around why we treat ourselves so terribly and what we can do to turn that around, to befriend our inner critic and calm the voice of self-doubt and unworthiness.

You may be discovering that some of your negative self-talk is not even true! It is the product of incidences that have happened to us, and stories other people have told us, about who they think we should be and what they think we should do.

Maybe you’ve even worked with some of the tools (grounding cord, blowing up a rose) to remove the foreign energy from your body and aura. As you remove the shoulds and expectations of others from your energy field, you empty out. And as you know, nature abhors a vacuum. So instead of filling right back in with more of the same nasty inner critic energy, you can consciously “fill up” with energies more in alignment with your own true essence. As you consciously choose to align yourself with energies that feel good to you, there’s less room for foreign energies to reside.

Here’s the past post with the exercise of how to fill in with a golden sun. I use this tool constantly. Anytime I feel a little bit depleted or not quite me, I consciously think of a Golden Sun filling me in with self-assurance, peace, tranquility, or whatever quality I would most like to have at that moment. It’s free – it’s easy – and it’s oh so comforting.

Try it!

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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