by Lori | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog
Many Lightworkers or other spiritual people look forward to the day that they have transcended the human body. That transcendence may look different for people based on their belief system. However, it usually includes no longer being in a physical body or no longer being on the planet.
What if instead of looking to transcend the body, we focus on healing our beliefs around being in a physical body and embrace the joy of our physical bodies?
Our cultures, societies, religions and philosophies have definite beliefs regarding what the physical body should look like and what actions and feelings are appropriate for the human body. In contrast to these more mainstream beliefs, there are many books, movement practices and ways of being that focus on finding the core beliefs (false beliefs) that might be holding us back from realizing how divine and perfect the human body is as a vehicle for this experience.
In Standing in the Light®, we use the meditation called “Invocation to the Unified Chakra” to help us open up and merge with all the different aspects of our multidimensional self. This invocation was first channeled from Archangel Ariel through Tashira Tachi-ren in the book What is Lightbody? It is a very powerful meditation.
We are guided to use it in the Standing in the Light® classes and private sessions because it focuses on expansion of the energy within us and a merging of the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies with the physical body. It does not ask us to leave the physical body behind nor to lift our energy off the planet. It focuses on knowing and being the Light here in a physical body.
In one of the stanzas the Invocation to the Unified Chakra states:
I breathe in Light
Through the center of my heart,
Allowing the Light to expand,
Encompassing my eighth chakra
(Above my head)
And my upper thighs
In one unified field of Light
Within, through, and around my body.
I allow my emotional body to merge
With my physical body.
I AM a unity of Light.
In order to truly heal all aspects of ourselves, we need to recognize and love the full experience of being human which means recognizing and loving our physical body. What action steps do you need to take to start to enjoy and love your body? Is it to dance more, laugh more, walk more, luxuriate more, and sleep more? What about judging less, criticizing less and comparing less?
What do you need to believe or do to help you know the joy of being human? Find your joy and be your joy. Let us seize the day and be grateful for being in a human body.
Thanks to pixabay.com for the image.
by Lori | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Many spiritual traditions talk about the power, wisdom and love we feel as the oneness with everything and everyone. For many of us this seems like a pie in the sky, a dream that we will never manage to create or reach. What if we focus on a step that might be easier, a half step on the way to oneness? What if we look at the power, wisdom and love of the We, instead?
Let us all look at how we would feel and the energy we would create if we no longer looked at situations from a them vs. me perspective. If we take a problem in our life, whether it is a micro problem within our family or local community or if it is a macro problem with our state or a county, and stop assuming that “the other side” is trying to take advantage of me. Instead, what would happen if we were on the same side, the same side of trying to get to the same goal regardless of which direction each of us is coming at the problem. Wouldn’t that make it possible for people who had opposite views on a topic to pool their ideas and resources to see what might be achieved when pulling in the same direction? This is not about compromising our ideals and what we believe as our purpose or truth. It is about seeing the We-ness, the things we have in common, the common goals and working towards those.
I recently thought about an episode from the TV series Boston Legal which aired between 2004 and 2008. One year, the Halloween episode had James Spader’s character defending a local elementary school who was being sued to cancel its Halloween parade. The two families bringing the suit were coming at the situation from opposite directions. One family was self-described as conservative Christians who believed that the portrayal of demons and witches in the parade would encourage devilish behavior instead of godly behavior. The second family joining in the suit were Wiccans who believed the parade would demonize and stereotype witches as bad people. The two families, philosophically, couldn’t agree less on the topic. But, for the common goal of canceling the parade, they were in sync.
What areas of your life can you find some common ground and be in sync with another so that you can work on the issue from a We perspective instead of from an adversarial perspective? We have talked in this blog many times before about the concept of “It’s not the what, It’s the why.”
If you are a parent, what areas can you agree with your child so that you can work toward them being fully sovereign beings living healthily on their own? If you are the child, what areas can you agree with your parents so that you will be a fully sovereign being and able to enjoy your life as you see fit? The why here, the common ground here, is the child being a fully sovereign being. That is the goal. It is now up to both parties to figure out how that works.
As humans who still require food and water, what goals can we focus on that we have in common no matter whether we are the producers of food and clean water or the consumers of food and clean water? Try not to let the politics of whether someone believes or does not believe in the science of climate change to determine whether you are willing to seek common ground. The “why” here is sufficient food and water for humans and animals to thrive. What do we need to do to make that happen? We need to look at others through the “We lens” instead of the “Us v. Them lens”.
Ultimately, our navigation through this life is about us healing the issues and judgments that make us feel like we are separate from each other, separate from Mother Earth and separate from Source. Taking this step to seeing ourselves and others through the “We Lens” will help us move forward into the We-ness and toward the understanding of ourselves as the oneness with everything and everyone. “It’s not the what, it is the why.”
As you might suspect in the Boston Legal episode, James Spader’s character won the day with the Halloween law suit because he could argue that “the why” for the parade was not about lionizing or demonizing witches. It was about the candy.
Thanks to Pixabay.com for the great images.
by Lori | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog
Many of us are doubting our self-worth. Try as we may, we can’t seem to unlock the experience of unconditional worthiness that would be the first step to manifesting self-love, true peace and sense of our authentic self. In addition, since self-love is necessary to manifest in the 3D world (along with the energies of trust, surrender, detachment and gratitude), a lack of self-worth may keep us from manifesting the new job opportunity, the friends or partner that we would like or the abundance of worldly experiences to help us feel joy and contentment.
Sometimes when we focus so much on our perceived lack of worthiness, we create a downward spiral where we beat ourselves up about not feeling worthy and we start to convince ourselves that the unworthiness is justified. It is not. But, as much as I can say to you and myself that the self-worth is unconditional and comes from the wisdom within, many of us aren’t willing to believe it.
The recommendation for today is to spend your meditation time and self care time allowing yourself to come into alignment with your higher self / soul, with the multidimensional self that you are. Allow yourself to commune with and align with yourself from the physical, emotional and mental aspects of who you feel yourself to be in this experience with the aspects you believe to be more spiritual. You really are you, the totality of you, from the physical level to the metaphysical levels of your being, but it just may not feel that way most of the time.
Start to allow yourself to be in the energy of the divine aspects of yourself regardless if this is you in physical body, you in the emotional body, you in the mental body or you in the spiritual bodies. Feel the divinity at every level. Align yourself at every level. When you know yourself as aligned, you will not judge yourself at any particular consensuses level. Your self-worth will start to take hold more and more. Your self-worth and self-confidence will build. Then, according to the Law of Attraction, the things, feelings and experiences you are trying to manifest will start to build as well.
The following is just one idea for helping to allow in the energy of alignment in order to allow in the energy of self-worth.
I first read about the exercise of the Microcosmic Orbit from the Essential Reiki Handbook by Diane Stein. We teach the Microcosmic Orbit in the Eminent Reiki™ classes. Here is a modified version that can be practiced using any resonance or energy.
Microcosmic Orbit – Torso
The Microcosmic Orbit exercise is used to allow or guide energy throughout the entire physical body. In allowing the physical chi / ki to flow, it helps the energy of the other bodies (emotional, mental and spiritual) bodies to flow.
- Start the Microcosmic Orbit by feeling or visualizing the energy of alignment to build at the navel.
- Then, with your intention, guide the energy down and backward to the base of the spine / root chakra.
- At the base of the spine/ root chakra, allow / guide the alignment energy to flow up the spine. As guided, allow the energy to stop and build, healing blocks.
- When the alignment energy reaches the back side of the heart chakra, between the shoulder blades, allow the energy to split into two. Guide the alignment energy down the inside of the arms, to the middle of the palms, to the middle finger and up over the hands to the outside of the arms. Allow the alignment energy to build anywhere along the way that feels appropriate.
- At the shoulders, allow the energy to flow back into one stream of energy and flow up over the head and down the crown, over the face.
- Allow the alignment energy to flow down the front of the body until it reached the naval center again.
- Allow this circulation of energy throughout the body as many times as you are guided. You may feel it building and flowing more quickly as blocks are released.
- After you guide alignment energy around the microcosmic orbit, you may want to guide self-worth energy and self-love energy around the microcosmic orbit. As guided, chose any other energy to guide around the microcosmic orbit, too.
- You may want to allow the energy to integrate when you are done. No special technique is required to feel grounded afterward. Simply allow for full grounding into your body, as necessary.
Try this exercise for three or four days in a row and see if you start to feel more aligned and feel more self-worth. If you like, repeat the practice more than one time a day. Modify as necessary and allow yourself to know and feel fully aligned and fully worthy of your true self.
Gratitude to John Hain and Pixabay.com
by Lori | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog
Exploring the topic of 4th Dimensional Love: The Gateway to Unconditional Love, the topic for the Standing in the Light® Gathering and Potluck on July 13, has allowed me to muse about some of the resonances that are included in LOVE. One of them is kindness.
To demonstrate the energy of this kindness, I am sharing with you a song by a friend of mine and favorite songwriter. Let me introduce you to Andrew McKnight, a folk singer from the Middleburg area of Virginia. It would take much longer than a blog entry to tell you all the joy that Drew and his crew have created for me and my family. Suffice to say that a chance meeting in a Border’s book store (that no longer exists) on Pearl Street in Boulder, where I first heard Drew playing live, has led to a two decade love affair with Drew and his music and my family. Besides, what happens around a camp fire stays around the camp fire, yes?
Drew wrote the song Good Things Matter to help encourage us to remember that the small things make a difference in other people’s lives and in our own. Here is the second verse, the chorus and the call to kindness in Good Things Matter.
Tear-streaked boy behind the playground fence, teams picked, game in full swing
his braces hold him back from what his glasses show, he is not good at this thing,
but the bigger boy who plays the game with natural skill and grace,
says “here’s my bat, take my place”
he knows the final score is more than runs across the plate
by the pinch hitter’s smiling face
Chorus
Good things matter, long after they’re done
good things matter, each and every one
good things matter, no matter how small
good things matter to us all
Linger for the old one’s words, let a child know she’s been heard
ask a wallflower to dance, give mistakes a second chance
smile at strangers on the street, share the table where you eat
leave the extra change behind, fight fear, be colorblind
a kind word to chase the grey, when things are hard find a way,
it all comes back someday
Margret Mead, the anthropologist, said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”. If Margret had formed music and lyrics to her thoughts, I bet it would sound like this song. Thank you, Drew, for your inspiration.
Chorus
Good things matter, long after they’re done
good things matter, each and every one
good things matter, no matter how small
good things matter to us all
For the YouTube video of Andrew preforming the song, follow this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJoP21AFWg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0u7jfJHXYCHps1WKXkw-UKuecjZXQoOhKyuh-WvwhDW-ocXrgT9oHYO6M
For Digital download of the song, follow this link. https://andrewmcknight.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-matter?fbclid=IwAR0u7jfJHXYCHps1WKXkw-UKuecjZXQoOhKyuh-WvwhDW-ocXrgT9oHYO6M
Thanks to geralt Pixabay.com for the image
by Lori | May 29, 2019 | Blog
(Note: For those who were not able to join us for a recent Energy Transmission, please enjoy this transcript of the energy of The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance.)
Welcome to everyone!
We are gathered to expand our understanding and energy with The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance.
When Kris Duffy channeled the Mastery Groups, she would sometimes start with describing what the energy is and sometimes she would start with describing what the energy isn’t! Tonight, we are being guided to start with what The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance is not!
The third dimensional version of tolerance and acceptance is sometimes viewed or feels like wariness. We are told what we should be willing to tolerate and what to accept. Sometimes the energy feels like we are being asked to tolerate and accept begrudgingly or against our will. Sometimes, it feels like there is the energy of “in your face” or that our concerns and what we believe to be true is wrong; that we are wrong.
Many people are only tolerant and accepting of other people who tolerate and accept what they tolerate and accept. It is similar to the situation where someone judges another for not being less judgmental. “I wouldn’t judge you if you were more nonjudgmental like me!”
Ultimately, if feels like those who are trying to ensure that everyone is tolerant and accepting of each other in the 3D world are trying to control the outcome of the situation vs. truly hoping that everyone will be tolerant and accepting of each other, tolerant and accepting of where they are in their evolution and where they are in their understanding of divine truth.
For tonight, The Christ knows that ultimately we have to experience the energy of The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance and that is why we will have an energy transmission to help download these higher frequencies. Having said that, The Christ would like to offer these concepts to help us understand the higher version of tolerance and acceptance.
The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance will feel peaceful and comfortable. When you are feeling it, you will not feel ashamed nor guilty that you might be judgmental of yourself and others. You will feel divinely allowed and detached from other people’s actions. Others get to be who they are; you get to be who you are. You will be able to stand in your power without making other people wrong. You will have the wisdom that even in our differences, love is within all of us, even when the love may not be easily seen in the outer world. Knowing yourself as peace, power, wisdom and love will be the foundation to know yourself as The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance.
Meditation:
In order to experience the energy of The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance, consider this exercise. Allow yourself to get centered and quiet. Take slow cleansing breaths. If you enjoy soft music or chanting, allow yourself to listen or chant along to help get you in a meditative state. Focus on the image that accompanies this blog entry, the lovely image of diverse animals cuddling with each other modeling the unconditional acceptance of each other. Set the intention to know and understand The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance. Try to allow this energy to flow within you for 15 minutes or longer. Consider doing this exercise every day for a week to really allow the energy to integrate. Be at peace and in the grace of The Christ Consciousness version of Tolerance and Acceptance.
