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If you are unsure where your chakras are….
For basic chakra clearing and balancing…
I’ll be making a video of all these techniques but until then if you need visual help just contact me and I will be happy to send you a picture or even a quick Skype call to demonstrate…
Chakra Heart Connections
Sometimes our individual chakras may be super strong but they may not be connected to each other and we need them to be. They need to communicate and transmit supportive energy to each other, and to our Auric field, so making sure they are connected is fantastic chakra and healthy energy maintenance!
If you know how to self-test fantastic but in all honesty I always connect them all at the same time – it cares for the entire chakra system and our energy, and chakras, appreciates that.
A beautiful way to connect your chakras is with over-laying hearts. With the palms of your hands trace a heart over your 1st / base chakra and from the bottom of the heart pull the energy up to your 2nd / sacral chakra and trace the heart so that the bottom of it ends within the top of the heart you just made on your 1st / base. From this spot you pull upward to your 3rd / solar plexus chakra and let it end inside the top of the 2nd / sacral chakra. You continue this upward, it’s almost like weaving hearts and over-laying them up your body to just over the top of your head.
More Heart Energy Tools try the Electrical Heart Hook-Up and the 12-Hearts
Figure-8’ing The Chakras
This is super simple yet super powerful. With the palm of your hand, starting at the 1st or base chakra (over the pelvic area) and you make figure-8 motions, slowly, upward towards the sacral or 2nd chakra and then continue this all the way up to and slightly above your head. Take your time, three slow breaths worth of time to connect each chakra to the one above it.
Once you have completed the above finish with a two-handed, crossing over, continuous figure-8 motion up the front of your body. Instead vertical figure-8’s you are now making horizontal figure-8’s with both hands and your hands crossover each other as you harmoniously weave upwards. You are not only connecting each chakra but also creating crossovers within many of your energy systems and it feels amazing!
Waving Into The Chakras
Inspired by Eden Energy Medicines Heaving Rushing In
It’s simple and powerful! I’ve been doing this for long time now and it makes me, and my clients, happy every time! The benefits are limitless bringing joy, radiance and healing into your bodies energy systems. You can also customize this for whatever energy you need at the time. Sometimes we need comfort, other times bravery, just know whatever you need is available through this self-care tool.
1. Quickie Version. Standing, sitting or lying down have your palms upward, arms slightly extended from your body, about 1-2 ft., as this is really one continuous movement where you open your hands upward briefly to bring radiant energy into the palms of your hand and then with a flowing wave motion you scoop that energy into your chakra(s). You start at your 1st / base chakra moving up to the 7th / crown. You may feel the radiance in the form of heat or even a tickle, it will be different for everyone, and some may even see it. I sometimes visualize golden balls of energy in my hands and I connect to all the joy and love in the universe and then scoop that into each chakra. Remember you can call upon any energy you need, such as happiness, confidence, relaxation etc. I usually do this process pretty quickly and because of that as I move up the chakras I am creating crossovers at the same time. It’s like Lacing the Nadis, except you move upwards and are scooping in universal radiance as you go.
2. Shamanic Version. In Tikal Guatemala we were doing a sacred ceremony at night in the middle of a ruin that was an energy portal to the Pleiades star constellation. The energy was out of this world, literally! I wanted this radiant magical energy to become apart of me. I was lying down on the grass and began to make true wave motions. I opened my arms stretching them outward as far as they could go, palms up and slightly higher than my body. Sometimes I turned my palms to touch the ground and then upward because I wanted to get the earth energies as well as the cosmic ones. So with palms up I let them fill with the high frequency energy I was bathing in and I slowly waived that energy into each chakra. It’s not one wave, it’s a few encouraging waves. It was a smooth and gentle gathering of the energies surrounding me and seeding within me. I did this several times to each chakra. Sometimes the waving was continuous and other times I took the time to let my hands sit on the chakra I was feeding, which really allowed that chakra to soak in and root to the radiant energy. This is a very instinctual technique, you want to follow the energy and do what feels right to you. Set the intention for what you want to bring in and affirm that it is very loving, nurturing and radiant.
You don’t need to be in some sacred place to connect to this kind of high frequency energy, you can do it in your backyard or even your floor – intention is everything! Mother earth is wise so you can ask that she connect you with certain energies and / or places anywhere in the world – everything is connected! I often call upon places where I have had profound meditations or experiences; it’s a great tool and a great reminder of our oneness with everything.
3. I have found doing all these radiant chakra techniques in different environments and times of the day can really shift what you bring in. At night you can bring in moon energy and all its femininity, its gentleness and radiance. Do it in the middle of the day and take in the power of the sun energy, which I have found to be energizing, uplifting and joyful.
You can of course always visualize any part of this process – our mind and intentions have great power!
Speaking of intention….
Ellen Meredith teaches us to tap into radiance and let it “drip” into your chakras, or any other place in your body that needs radiance, like an injury or someplace that just feels stuck, blocked or heavy. It’s quite simple, using your intuition and intention to find some radiance – point your left pointer finger up in the air and move it around until you feel radiance and let your finger plug into it. Then hold your right hand / pointer finger over the area you want to fill with radiance and these 2 hand / finger positions will allow radiant energy to flow into you.
Trust yourself and enjoy!
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Summer Recipes
Here a just a few summer favorites
First Practice Conscious cooking
The act of cooking is important unto itself. You must bring your awareness to what you are doing because you are transferring your energy into the food; make sure it’s good energy.
1. Thank your food – hold your hand over it and say thank you and/or imagine the energy of gratitude going from your hand to the food.
2. Do Reiki on the food – even if you are not a Reiki practitioner, intention is everything. Move your hands over the food in a continuous motion, one hand clockwise, and the other counterclockwise.
3. Figure-8s – draw a figure-8 over your food a few times with the left hand. This takes out any bad energy. Then do the same with your right hand, which adds positive healing energy.
4. You can also clear and balance your food by moving your left in a counter-clockwise motions = clearing. Then using your right hand circle clockwise = balancing. I say do it all – after all you are putting this in your body so make it energetically healthy as well as nutritionally.
Sometimes I like to go off into a fantasy while I cook…my ideal self, in my ideal situation. It’s a great opportunity to visualize something positive happening while infusing the food with these positive thoughts.
Morning Smoothie
1 cup of organic pear juice
1 cup of organic blueberries
1 banana – and scrap the rind off the inner skin because that part has many antioxidants
1 tsp. maca powder
1 tbsp. of golden fax seeds
Dash of nutritional yeast
2 tbsp. of protein power and/ or greens (I love the Boku Superfood)
4 almonds and/or brazilin nuts
Add a few cubes of ice, blend and enjoy!
Egg Extravaganza
3 organic egg whites or use one whole egg and 2 just whites or all whole eggs – it really depends on your dietary goals.
1 oz. of organic mozzarella cheese
Some chopped organic spinach – I actually just tear it with my hands to make little pieces.
Dash of cayenne
Pepper, to taste
Himalayan or sea salt to taste
1 tbsp. parsley flakes
Splash of milk – option but I have found it makes eggs fluffier
Olive oil spray
Wisk eggs and spices together in a bowl. Spritz olive oil spray onto pan and add eggs over medium heat. Scramble them or make them omelet style, whatever you prefer.
Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich
I love this – it’s so simple and easy, healthy and light for summer
2 slices whole grain toast
4-5 lettuce leaves (I like the organic red leaf) or spinach. I actually use both.
4 organic tomato slices
2 tsp. Spectrum Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise. (Its vegan) or mustard if you prefer that
1 slice of cheese – optional
Extras: Add a hint of flax seed oil to the mayo; add sprouts, garlic powder and red onion for a zestier sandwich.
Avocado Salad
Box or bag or organic spinach
¼th or ½ chopped red onion
2-3 avocados cut up
Sunflower seeds – a handful should do.
A bit of black sesame seed – less that a teaspoon.
A bit of organic blue cheese crumble up – you can buy it that way
Dressing – make in a separate bowl – cold pressed olive oil – lightly, white oak aged champagne vinegar (I like Napa Valley naturals) and a slight squeeze of lemon. Salt and pepper to taste.
Don’t overdo it on the dressing – put it on lightly and leave some on the side for anyone who would like more.
Mix it all together and enjoy!
Quinoa Magic
2 cups quinoa
3 cups water
1-cup veggie stock
2 chopped bunches of scallion
8 cloves garlic, finely chopped
8-10 finely chopped mushrooms
1-cup parsley (tear it, don’t chop, and add at the last moment)
3 oz. shredded organic cheese (your favorite)
½ cup organic parmesan cheese, grated
Cayenne pepper, shaken liberally
4 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
Himalayan or Celtic sea salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
Eden Sesame and Sea Shake, to taste
3 cups water
1-cup organic veggie stock
Wash the quinoa for at least a minute to get the husk off. Then boil the quinoa in water and veggie stock, stir only once, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes. Check it – you want it dry and fluffy.
Then take all your chopped veggies and put them in a big frying pan with the oil and spices already in, sauté until veggies look done but not overdone. Once quinoa is done simply put it into the pan and mix altogether. Add the cheese and parsley last. I usually do all my chopping while the quinoa is cooking to cut down on time.
Serve at room temperature or even mix into a salad.
Watermelon Soup
As much fresh watermelon as you need depending on how many you need to serve.
A bit of chopped mint
A bit of honey
A very small amount to lemon
This recipe can be very free form – add ginger or any other spices you like
Taste after adding every ingredient so that it’s perfect to your pallet
Begin by blending your watermelon into a puree and then add the other ingredients to your taste. It’s a crowd pleaser!
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A New Year
Begin your new year with radiantly positive and loving energy☺ I feel nothing needs to happen right away just because its January 1st – there is a 1 month grace period as far as I’m concerned so ease into it. Too much pressure could make you say forget the whole thing, and we don’t that☺
This is our time of transformation; we are hard wired for it!
“Feeling” transforms, so feel it all! Feel your happiness, joy, health and love, feel your radiance. Feel your connection to earth, nature and the heavens. When we feel something as if it were true now and not in some abstract future, we create a morphogenic field around us attracting things that support those feelings – law of attraction.
What we believe we create and science now supports this intuitive and innate knowledge. Our biggest limitations can be our thought patterns of self-imposed boundaries. Let the fear of saying yes to life fall by the wayside and feel how amazingly lovable and valuable you are.
These self-care suggestions are good for anytime of year, see which resonates with you!
Find Your Gold
This is anything that brings you joy – painting, writing, dancing, singing – whatever it is make time for it!
Let Go Of The Past
♥ Write down what you want to leave behind and burn it. Burn it over a large bowl, outside or in your kitchen sink, just be mindful when doing this! I’ve done this ritual many times and it’s very powerful. You can also burry it in the earth.
♥ Dr.Sara Allen, once asked me “Who Packed Your Suitcase?”. Meaning what baggage are you carrying around that is not yours. Usually it’s our family, the media, society, etc. She suggests that we all take a look at what’s in our suitcase and how it got there. Then, unpack anything that makes you unhappy, or what is not yours.
Create Space For New and Improved Things
♥ Do the Eden Energy Medicine Blow Out
♥ Rake your hands across your entire body, this is opening energetically but it will also send a signal to your fascia (the connective tissue in your body) to open, which will relax you.
♥ Throw things out! Not only does it create space, literally but figuratively also – it allows the energy in your environment to flow easier. You will truly feel lighter and better.
Dream
Make time to dream beautiful dreams of your ideal life – really go for it! See it, feel it and be in vibration with it as if it already exists. Support your dream everyday by starting each day with a smile and with the intention that in this new day you will do at least one thing that brings you closer to the vision you have of yourself and your life.
Create a Visualization Map
This can be any size, using any materials. You can use drawings, pictures or the written word – or use all of these things, which is what I tend to do. You can find more information on this in the visualization section.
Write Down Your Intentions
This can be in any form – affirmation words or sentences, or full on stories of what you want – create your own world and watch it manifest. The written word is powerful!
Some Basics
♥ Laugh more – it’s medicine! It gets your radiant circuits going☺
♥ Love yourself more deeply – give yourself a hug everyday!
♥ Honor others – if you practice loving compassion with everyone you interact with daily you will be amazed at how your world will change!
♥ See the beauty in all things
♥ Trust your gut instincts
♥ Drink more water
♥ Move your body more – this can be just dancing around the house☺
♥ Be present
♥ Have fun!
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Breadth Is Life
Breath is life. It creates space inside our body, and energy needs space to flow. It keeps us alive on the physical level and it’s amazing how many illnesses, especially disorders associated with stress and anxiety, are affected by our lack of breathing. Think about it… when you’re tense or very focused, you actually hold your breadth, you hold the tension as if that will somehow help the task at hand. Truth is, irregular breathing creates more tension on physical and emotional levels. If you breathe fully you will begin to live harmoniously inside yourself and in the world. Be aware of your breath throughout the day and relax into your life.
The breath increases our connection to the present and it is in the present we find joy and healing. Most of us live in a combination of the past and the future, both of which are easy for us to conceptualize. But the present cannot be conceptualized. It can only be experienced, one breath at a time.
1. Breathe in positive energy and breathe out negativity and tension. You deeply and slowly breathe in your nose and out your mouth. When you do this you create an atmosphere within your energy system that is more receptive to a healthier flow of energy throughout your body on every level. Every cell in your body will thank you for it. You will be opening yourself to radiance.
You can recover from depression, anxiety and pain more readily because your energy will be flowing freely, you will not be holding onto feelings that hold you down or block you. Even if you only have a very short time to it will make a difference. You’ll enter a state of a higher frequency that allows you to rise above your own “stories” that you really do not serve you. Specifics are great but we don’t need them. We just need to release the energy. Release, release, release and keep it flowing. You will feel much better for it, truly.
2. Meditation is fantastic but if it’s daunting to you or just not enough time you can practice self care no matter where you are – walking around, driving, sitting in a meeting etc. just keep reminding yourself to breathe. I find that by literally saying the word helps. I can be very focused on something, and now it’s automatic, I say “breathe” very authoritatively in my mind and instantly my breadths become deeper and slower.
Try these easy meditations
More breath audio guides from CEC
This is a two-part visualization and you can make it as short or as long as you want. Read through it first and then get comfortable and take a few deep slow breadths.
Imagine you are comfortably lying in a shallow river and the water is rushing around your body. Feel yourself letting go of fear, grief and any obstacle that you want to get rid of. Feel the river washing it all away. It’s washing away everything you do not need or want in your life. Whether it is emotions, situations or an unhealthy connection to someone let the river take it and feel it flowing away. Feel the release in your body, the lightness you feel from being letting go and being cleansed. Sit with this as long as you need to.
Now that you have let go and released its time to renew and refill the space you have just created. Step away from the river and walk into the forest. In your minds eye find the perfect place to lie on the ground. Imagine you are a seed and plant yourself into the earth. Feel yourself rooting and grounding. See yourself sprouting from a seed into a sprout and you slowly begin to grow into a tree. Your roots grow deeper and your trunk begins to grow strong and grow branches and leaves. You are growing tall and feel the sun feeding you and the earth strengthening you. Stretch out your branches and take in from the sun, from the heavens what you want. Take in love, strength, hope and everything positive you can imagine. Really let yourself feel power you have – feel it in your mind, body and spirit. Breathe it in and sit in this energy for as long as you like. End by getting up and stretching your physical body and give yourself a big hug.
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Perfect Health
Take a few deep slow breadths and close your eyes. In your minds eye see a beautiful radiant color in the core of your being and see this light spreading through your entire body bathing every part of you with color radiance. You can use different colors for different areas of your body – let your inner physician guide you. Feel yourself being bathed in these illuminated colors and see this radiance spreading though your cells, organs – though your entire body. This light is now spreading beyond your physical body out into your auric field, your non-physical body, and you feel yourself expanding into perfect health. This light is putting your body and your energy into perfect health and harmony. Know that every part of you is in perfect health. Breathe it in.
Get comfortable, close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply and slowly in your nose and out your mouth. Let your minds begin to connect with a color that feels healing to you. In your minds eye begin to imagine this beautiful color showering down from the top of your head, through every part of your body and out your feet.
Now see this color bathing each organ. Start from the top of your body, with your brain and imagine what it looks like and see the color bathing it gently and say to yourself “All of my brain functions are in perfect health and are making healthy connections – thank you brain” and work your way down, eyes, throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, gallbladder, small and large intestine, kidney and bladder. See each organ bathed in a beautiful radiant color (or colors) and affirm it is in perfect health and thank it for doing its job so well. Send gratitude to each and every part of yourself. Once you are done let your hands rub up and down the sides of your arms and tell yourself what a great job you are doing, because you are. Breathe that in.
Helpful Colortherapy hint: A Color Shower Quickie. You can do this with your eyes open if you are, for example, waiting on line. Just imagine the color you feel most drawn to and see it showering down through your entire body or bathing a specific area.
You can never go wrong bathing yourself in colors, affirming your own health and thanking yourself – it goes a long way.
In Eden Energy Medicine the balance and strength of your spleen meridian is essential to your overall health and happiness. Watch my video of the Spleen thump.
Strengthen and Flushing Spleen Benefits:
- Activates the metabolism of food, medication and thoughts
- Increases energy
- If you are under the weather it speeds recovery
- Keeps the body functioning at its best
- Helps you adapt to new situations
- Clears stagnant energy
Tracing Spleen Meridian Forward to Strengthen It
Place your hands on the outside of your big toe and trace up the inside of your foot, the in-side of your leg, out at the hip, up the side of your torso, up to your armpit and down to the bottom of your ribcage.
Flush Spleen Meridian to Clear Blockages
First trace your spleen meridian backwards, so you begin at the bottom of the ribcage, up to your armpit, down the side of your body to your hip, in to the inside of your leg, down the leg, the inner foot and off the big toe. Do this once. Now trace your meridian forward, three times.
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12 Hearts
12 Hearts Benefits:
- Activates your radiant circuits – your pathways of joy and these pathways can send healing to wherever it is needed so it is great to do anytime, for anything. It also greatly supports your Auric Field.
- Helps overcome depression and grief
- Connects you to others and yourself
- Helps you to integrate and process experiences
With your hands, palms facing your body you are going to trace heart shapes all over your body, repeating three times over each area. Start by tracing your face, from top of head to chin. Then trace a hearts from your neck to your hips. Then over the pelvic area and finally trace a hearts around your entire body – from top of head to feet. Four areas = 12 hearts but feel free to create these beautiful heart shapes anywhere on your body.
A deeper version of this is to send this radiant heart energy deep into yourself. Do the above but now you trace the hearts with your hands touching your body and at a slower pace. Set the intention these healing hearts are bringing you love and joy. Imagine the radiant heart and love energy is going down into the deepest parts of your energies and filling every cell in your body. Take your time with this version and really let yourself feel how happy your entire energy system is for the beautiful gift you are giving yourself.
Hearts Everywhere
Our body loves love, it loves hearts! Give yourself hearts wherever you need them. Take a few deep breaths with your eyes closed and ask your body to show or tell you where it needs a heart and then trace it over that area. If you are experiencing any health issues, such a thyroid imbalance – trace small hearts over your throat. Make hearts over the back of your head, just above your spine. Make hearts over your 6th or third eye chakra – this is an energy nervous system point and will send hearts all through your nervous system. I have found making hearts over your knees is very soothing – over any joint is very helpful because joints are easy access points for energy to be received and released. I like to trace hearts over all my organs for energy maintenance and I have found the chakras LOVE hearts! Trace hearts over each chakra and to connect the chakras for deep chakra radiance.
12 Hearts With A Loved One
Exchange tracing hearts!!!!! It’s so loving, beautiful and fun to do with other people and you can ask them to make hearts all over your back, it’s fantastic! Enjoy!
Toe Hearts & Humming
I was helping a friend with some severe toxins in the legs and I was working on drawing out the energy from the feet, through grounding so the earth could pull out the toxins, pain pumping for the pain but I also set the intent that I would be pumping out toxins, counter-clockwise motions, which pulls energy up to release, from a chakra clearing technique that can yruely be used anywhere you need heal something, and as we healers do I followed the energy. He had fallen asleep but his spirit came out to guide me, it was actually amazing! I was guided to make hearts over each toe as I hummed into them. I could feel a harmonic balance between the humming, hearts and his body – it felt beautiful! It was gently nurturing but powerful.
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10 Minute Practice
At the start of each meditation session, light some incense or ring a bell or singing bowl and give thanks to your higher power. Keep these things in your meditation space. Ritual can be a powerful tool.
Now sit in lotus position, with your back straight. Imagine a balloon on a string is gently pulling the crown of your head upward, straightening your spine and allowing an effortless flow of energy that creates balance and strength in the seven chakras that run from the base of your spine up to the crown of your head. Visualize the breath gently washing through your body, calming the nerves and releasing blocks… with every exhale see yourself expanding and opening… you are expanding into your limitless consciousness and every breath is expanding your awareness further away into space and into the serenity that exists there… you are opening to the healing love energy of the universe.
Now visualize your body hollowing out from head to toe. There is a deity called Vijisattva, whose name means emptying out. You can call upon this energy force if you are having a hard time letting go. If you have a busy mind, try relaxing your tongue. When your tongue is relaxed thoughts don’t form in a tangible way… don’t chase it, just be… thoughts come into your mind and effortlessly pass through. Sometimes we have a busy mind and that’s ok, just always come back to your breath.