When taking a vacation, you don’t have to pause your spiritual practice. By prioritizing your practice, embracing flexibility, and cultivating mindfulness and gratitude, you can infuse your journeys with a deeper sense of purpose and connection. Whether you're exploring new destinations or revisiting familiar ones, remember that the trip itself can be a spiritual teacher, guiding you towards a more profound understanding of yourself and the world around you.
Read moreThe Importance of Meditation in Reiki Practice
Meditation is a fundamental aspect of traditional Japanese Reiki practice, but it isn’t often emphasized in Western Reiki practice. This is unfortunate, as a regular meditation practice can be incredibly beneficial for Reiki practitioners, helping to deepen their connection to Reiki energy, improve their intuition, and enhance their overall wellbeing.
Read morePractice, Practice, Practice
The people I am researching have no more knowledge or ability than me. They just came up with their way of doing things and shared it. I don’t have to listen to their ideas as if they are rules. I need to see what inspires me, act on that inspiration, and see what happens. When I get the urge to act, of course I need to listen!
Read more52 Weeks of Self-Care Challenges for Tweens, Teens, and Families
I have created a list of 52 different self-care challenges for you to work on this year. You can do them on your own or with your family. These challenges are meant to introduce different forms of self-care for your exploration. If you feel a challenge makes your life happier, try to keep up with the activity even after the week has ended. If you don’t feel you have gotten value from the activity, you can let it go and focus on the next challenge. You may want to revisit it again in the future to see if your feelings about it change.
Read moreReturning From the State of Flow
When I return to the full power of my physical senses after being in a state of deep spiritual awareness and connection, it is just not a comfortable transition for me. Maybe I need to learn to stay in my body more during the spiritual connection, but at this point in my development, trying to tether myself to my body inhibits that state of flow for me. I have found ways to make the transition less uncomfortable, though.
Read moreMy Experience Meditating with ADHD
This morning I had an aha moment… perhaps my ADHD diagnosis has something to do with my struggle to stick to a regular meditation routine? I felt a bit silly for not having realized before that the way my brain is wired may well have everything to do with the fact that I find trying to enter stillness for long periods on a schedule next to impossible.
Read moreTake Just One Deep Breath
My favorite practice taught by Eckhart Tolle is that of the One Conscious Breath. Eckhart teaches that practicing mindfulness doesn’t have to be a long and involved process. Just one deep breath is enough to ground us in the present moment and center ourselves in consciousness. One deep breath is enough to interrupt the constant stream of thinking and give our minds a break.
Read moreDo You Ever Stop Thinking?
How often do you take the time to consciously stop the stream of thoughts? It is important to enter a state of no thought often in order to give our minds a break. Some of the benefits of a no-thought practice is that it helps us to ground ourselves in the present, lowers stress, and improves memory and attention span.
Read more3 Steps Towards Finding Peace
Peace is not an external thing that we will be able to locate somewhere. It is a state of mind. Peace is obtained by finding the quiet space within us and focusing on that. It is only through our inner being that true peace is possible. If you are searching for peace, try following these steps.
Read moreMindful Family Walks
Children are by nature very busy and often distracted. Stillness can be hard for them to attain. I find my children do better with moving meditations. I try to guide them in mindful walking by speaking out loud what I am noticing and asking them questions.
Read moreLet Go and Rise Up
The message to let go is a common one during awakening. What I am learning is that it is a continual process. Our ego’s will continuously work to get us to grasp onto the familiar to try to stay in control. We must learn to recognize when we are doing this, when we are drowning ourselves, and remember that if we let go the fight and are quiet and still, we will rise.
Read moreA Prayer for Practitioners of Reiki
An affirmative prayer for Reiki Practitioners based on the affirmative prayer method of Spiritual Mind Treatments by the Science of Mind practice.
Read moreSmall Healthy Changes That Can Have a Big Impact on Mental and Physical Health
Many people believe they are simply too busy to make their physical and mental health and wellness a priority. They often mistakenly think that there isn’t enough time to focus on exercise, cook healthy meals, reduce stress, or practice self-care. If that sounds familiar, here are a few tips to help you start and stick to a head-to-toe health overhaul.
Read moreLook and Feel Great Venturing Out Into the Pandemic by Emma Grace Brown
After so many months of sheltering in place, many of us are coming out of lockdown feeling anxious, tired, and afraid to venture out into public — both for fear of contracting or spreading COVID-19, or because we’ve gotten so used to the protection of our homes. But for those of us who would like to start venturing out post-lockdown — whether for a quick shopping trip or full weekend away from home — there are some things we can do to ease some of the anxiety we may be experiencing.
Read moreFinding Stillness in a Chaotic Mind
Finding stillness in all the chaos of our minds can have great benefits. At the most basic level, it gives us a reprieve and lowers our stress and anxiety. It helps us to get in touch with our bodies and our world. Taking it deeper, according to Eckhart Tolle’s teachings, moments without thought are the key to finding a new dimension of consciousness within ourselves.
Read moreHarmonize Body, Mind, and Heart – Guided Meditation Script
Breath in life force energy.
Up the spine.
To the Third Eye.
Hold.
Out through your Heart with love and light.
Read moreReiki Aided Meditation
I was slow to add meditation to my self-care and spiritual practice. I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder Without Hyperactivity). Sitting still and quieting my mind seemed like an impossible feat. I did not think I would ever be able to get to that sweet spot I had heard of. That place of calm connectedness sounded so good to me but seemed so out of reach.
Read moreFinding Time for Spiritual Practice
Most people know that their spiritual health is important and that they could benefit from a spiritual practice, but just don’t know how to fit it into the day with everything else.
Read moreBedtime Meditation Script
This is a guided meditation I use frequently with my family to help them calm down and get to bed at night after a hard day. It is especially helpful when thoughts of things that seemed to go wrong during the day won’t stop circling in the mind.
Read moreFairy Crystal Message - Meditation Script
You walk until you come a clearing in the woods. There is pond here, filled by a little waterfall, to one side of you. Notice that there is a small opening behind the waterfall. A little cave. Something seems to be glowing there, behind the water. Move closer and you can see the glow is coming from several dancing little lights. One of the lights comes forth from the little cave. It flies through the water and towards you. you have no fear. Just pleasant curiosity about this beautiful little light.
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