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Introducing meditation into your life is one of the single most important step you can take towards the elimination of stress and a true understanding of reality. It helps you to know yourself and understand your actions. You can start with as little as five minutes a day and slowly build to fifteen and then thirty. Sit in silence, back straight. Concentrate on relaxing your tongue, keeping your jaw open and your lips together. Slowly breathe in and out through your nose, from deep within your belly. Gently release thoughts as they come to mind; live an eternity in the increasing gap between them. It is in this open space that you will know your true nature, and your true nature is divine.

One of my first memories is of waking to find my father meditating in my bedroom. It felt like a special father and daughter moment and so began my fascination with meditation. It gives me a sense of space and it’s only within that space that I find serenity. For the rest of the day I am less affected by the mayhem of life. Meditation is essential to managing my life and it can do the same for you, and to begin all you need is an intention. Intentionality is everything. It’s what puts us in vibration with what we want. Our thoughts create our reality. Our thoughts are energy and energy is magnetic to itself, so whatever you think, you attract.

Try these simple steps once a day for three weeks and you will feel a significant difference in your emotional balance and a general feeling of well-being. Don’t feel overwhelmed with how much time this could take because remember, everything counts, even 30 seconds.

Some basics

One: Pick your meditation space. It’s helpful to keep returning to the same place because the area will build up a specific energy that will deepen your practice. Sit in this place, breathe deeply in and out through your nose and state your intention to have and benefit from a meditation practice.

Two: The key to meditation is the breath. Most of us forget to breathe. We’re concentrating so hard on the task at hand that we neglect the breath, which adds lots of unnecessary tension to our bodies. So sit in your meditation space, close your eyes and breathe slowly and continuously in and out through your nose, from your diaphragm. Imagine a balloon is above your head gently pulling your head upward, straightening your spine. You can start with 1-5 minutes a day. Essentially, you trick your mind into meditation because deep breathing promotes a natural state of relaxation. When thoughts pop up, just see and accept them, but always bring your attention back to your breath.

Three: Maintain your connection with your breath all day. Be aware if you hold your breath and correct it. If you’re in a problematic or stressful situation, bring your awareness to your breath and you will see and feel an immediate release of tension.

Four: As a ritual I always do what I call The Three Gratitude’s before and after my meditation. I bow three times with my hands in the prayer position, once touching my forehead and I thank the heavens and all the powers that be, then in front of my heart and I thank all my selves (all aspects of who I am & my guides) and then palms facing down or even on the ground and I thank the earth. Sometimes just doing that on it’s own can be a great ritual!

This will start you on your journey. Honestly, this is all I did for a very long time and I could feel a significant difference. I felt more centered. Before this I usually put my attention outside myself. I would look to other people for approval and end up giving away my power in the process, but that quickly began to change as I built up my breathing practice from 5 to 15 minutes a day. I wouldn’t do it any longer than that because I think it can become too much and then you end up not doing it. It gave me a new awareness that my world and reality resides inside myself, not outside. But as I said before, intentionality is everything and most people I meet want to conquer the stresses of modern day living and meditation is the way to go. This is an accelerated time and the illusion is that we have more to worry about with less time to solve the problem. The reality is that meditation creates time. Plus, when you’re in a relaxed state of mind you can get things done effortlessly.

You will also experience long-term benefits such as lower blood pressure and the ease of many physical discomforts and it’s anti-aging! On a spiritual level, you will feel a deeper connection with yourself and have a sense of happiness, calm and personal power.

Meditating under a tree is magical as well (that’s how the Buddha did it). If you have a tree you can befriend keep going to that one tree and whether you are conscious of it or not an energetic relationship will begin and strengthen over time. Trees are smart! Just read this and watch this. But in general when you sit up against a tree it grounds you deeply which increases a strong sense of self and life purpose.

Try these: The gratitude Meditations and also our guided meditations from our sister site.

Breath is life so try our Three Minute Slow Down and Om Ha Hum breathing.

Learn more about breath on our sister site. This short article about breath is worth reading.

Meditation Add-On’s

Mudras

A Mudra is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. It is a
Sanskrit word meaning “seal”. They are used during mediation and pranayama (breathing exercises), to direct the flow of energy in the body with a specific intention. By applying light pressure to certain areas in the hand, you can “activate’ the brain.

Hand mudras also symbolize various feelings, emotions and states of being. While practicing the Mudra’s below, use a light touch, don’t press hard, you want to be able to feel and encourage the flow of energy, gently.

There are many interpretations of each Mudra and also Mudras are not only hand gestures – in Yoga they can be entire body movements…there is a Mudra for every chakra…for every element and it goes on…I don’t think anyone is right or wrong…that said certain gestures, from any modality, become a ritual through our intent and consistency…

I have been to many Tibetan teachings, initiation’s and meditations and honestly I’m that side glancer looking at my neighbor and I do my best – in these situations I feel intention is everything but as I do not know everything, clearly, it is on my list of things I will learn properly because I can feel the energy in the room change when they are doing them – I love that…when we can tune into the collective energy of what we are learning or practicing and I reply on that as well in those situations…and of course as I learn, I share with you.

Through study with different teachers these are my three favorites and as I mentioned others have different meanings for these but this is how I have been taught and it feels right to me…

Insiders Tip: I do all these even when I am not meditating…if I want to call for this energy I just do it anywhere, anytime…

Gyan Mudra – Calming: Place the pads of your thumb and pointer finger together
This is also said to increase focus and intellect… and grounds you.

Shuni Mudra – Opening The Heart: Place the pads of your thumb and middle finger together. Helps being aware of the moment, and thereby makes one more patient.

Prithvi Mudra – Increasing your energy: Place the pads of your thumb and ring finger together. It will also foster a sense of inner stability and self-assurance.

Grounding

Post author By tina
Post date March 25, 2021

Earth’s healing energies are a vital part of our over-all health.

Just Some of the Benefits of Grounding:
 Helps to polarize and balance your bodies’ energy
 Promotes feeling centered
 Encourages feeling confident
 Re-vitalizes chi/core energy
 If you feel like your head is in the clouds, grounding will help you focus

Grounding Suggestions:

1. Earthing
My favorite way to stay grounded is to walk barefoot on our beautiful earth, preferably on lush grass but anyplace you love is perfect. Walk, run, dance or stand still – whatever feels good is good for you. I would just suggest taking a moment to stand still with hands on your thighs and take a few slow deep breadths in your nose and out your mouth. With each breadth let the roots in your feet gently go down deep into the earth and allow earths energies to flow into your roots and up into your body – it can feel very strengthening to your soul but there is a gentleness also.
Make sure to wiggle your feet and toes around and even down into the ground if you can, it feels fun and inspires a childlike openness.

2. Earthling Hands
Just as we walk barefoot in in the grass to ground ourselves we can also place the palms of our hands firmly onto the earth and this feeds us earths healing powers. It empowers us with its strength and love and it feels deeply comforting.

Stand barefoot, taking deep slow breathes for a moment or two and center your intention within and from within kneel down and place the palms of your hands firmly on mother earth. Let your hands move around and find the perfect a spot that feels right and let them be open and spread wide physically and non-physically. Let the energy of your hands become receptors for earths beautiful healing force, to it’s life-force, and let it fill you. Do this as long as it feels right to you.

At the end of this you can change your intention and send thanks / gratitude back to earth. When I have done this in the past I feel the earth gratitude for my gratitude and it makes me smile and laugh every time. It’s all subtle energy but beautifully powerful energy!

3. Getting And Giving A Hug From Mother Earth
Stand on the earth as mentioned above, in #1, but this time hold the palms of your hands facing downward and set the intention that nature’s energies are lovingly reaching up and into your hands, take some deep breathes, open your energies and you will feel it!

*** I have also stood in this position with one slight variation – my hands / palms were facing outward as if I was getting ready to hug someone – in this case the earth and I have felt waves of energy that seemingly come from all directions to meet me gently and it feels like the earths energies are hugging me and I hug back. It is one of the most joyful experiences of oneness you can have as the earth and your energies meet through your hands, feet and through every cell in your body – this one is beyond grounding, it’s profoundly spiritual. You can really feel the earth’s incredible power. The earth is hugging your soul!

*** Another suggestion is trying to lay flat on the earth with the side of your face on the earth, palms on the earth, with the intention you are telling the earth how much you love her and how sorry you are we are hurting her. I have found this to be very powerful. Just allow yourself time to energetically join the earths energies in love and gratitude.

4. Sitting or Standing Up Against A Tree
This will ground you for sure, and it will absorb any energy you need / want to release.
Try closing your eyes and feel yourself connect with the tree and its deep roots. Your roots reach out to connect deep into the earth and to wrap around a large stone or to the trees roots itself – whatever feels right to you. In this position, up against the tree, you can send not only the roots from your feet but also from a cord that stems out of the base of your spine – let it reach down into the earth and / or the tree itself to release and receive.
Now set your intent about what you want to release and / or receive – this could be getting rid of negativity in general, excess energy or something specific. There are no rules. Then take a few deep slow breathes and affirm you are letting go and feel energy pour out your feet and / or cord – it can be a subtle feeling at first but with mindfulness and by listening to your internal landscape you will begin to feel the flow of your energies. Empowering. Then ask the tree to send you the energies you need, like grounding, confidence, security and whatever you need through its deep roots and it happily will. Trees are very friendly and smart, check out this incredible video by Professor Suzanne Simard! And this is a great article as well!

5. Figure-8ing With Tress
I discovered this – if anyone really discovers anything – at the Omega Institute the last day I was assisting Donna Eden on one of her amazing 5-day trainings. I felt some release surfacing and went outside and sat up against a tree, as I do, and suddenly I lost it – sobbing. The waves of emotion began to match the waves I felt between another tree directly in from of me about 100 feet away? It was across a clearing and there were other trees but I knew this one was the one sending me energy too. I closed my eyes and clearly saw and felt a radiant figure-8 going between the trees and I was inside one of the 8’s. It was transcending and the happy tears of release streamed away and I felt my energy deepen into the earth and intertwine with these two trees. It was profound. I felt amazing after!

6. Spooning The Feet, And Hands
Our physical body has polarities – our head is the north polarity and our feet the south. Sometimes due to life or shifting earth energies they get reversed and using a stainless steal spoon to correct your polarities is wonderful! This is very important for grounding because our feet are where you take in the earth’s yin and healing energy.

With a stainless steel spoon, use the round side; rub all over the bottoms of your feet. Rub every-where, even the sides. Try doing figure-8’s with the spoon too. You can actually use the front side of the spoon, or even a fork but not too hard, if the other way isn’t working or you may want to just try a new variation. It’s an option but just be careful of how hard you press – it should feel firm but gentle.

Spooning the feet will correct the polarity on your head but to make sure your head is correctly polarized you can use your hand – flip your hand back and forth so that the palm is down and flip it over so the back of your hand is flat on the head – you can do this quickly and it corrects any imbalances…speaking of hands…

Our hands have polarities too so spooning them is very helpful. If your polarities are not correct you will not be able to connect with someone when you shake their hand – let alone if you are using your hands for healing work. An interesting note about shaking hands – if you want to really connect with someone use both your hands when shaking them. One hand is shaking and the other is gently placed on the back of the other persons hand and this creates a complete energetic connection. Bill Clinton always did this and is perhaps why so many people reported feeling an instant connection with him. Basically carry a spoon with you at all times, joking, but do remember your hands have electromagnetic energy so if there is no spoon in sight just use them to correct all your polarities by flipping them facing up and down.

Our non physical body has polarities too – about a foot over our head, over our heart and between our legs, this is best to energy test for but I see no harm in gently using your hands over these areas just in case.

These are a great Eden energy Medicine Technique.

7. Grounding With A Hematite Crystal
Hematite is a very grounding stone and when all else fails I always put a tumble hematite stone on the side of each pinky toe and I just sit there for a few minutes – you usually can feel it when you’ve grounded – trust your intuition! But, it’s a great quick fix.

Try this Grounding Visualization.
Learn more about Earth Energies.
Learn what The Legendary Kogi Tribe of Colombia teach us about earth.

Healers note:
Healing energy travels faster through earth than air so if you are doing long distance healing for someone try and lay on the ground palms facing down and send out the healing! When I do Skype sessions I have a small square of green grass (you can buy them at a plant store / nursery / farmers market) and I place my feet on it to increase the energy transmission – and it is helpful in releasing energy for you and your client.

And, being barefoot in the grass, as mentioned above, is very grounding.

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Aromatherapy Chakras Colortherapy

Colortherapy & Aromatherapy & Crystals: A Quick Guide

Post author By tina
Post date March 23, 2018

Red Colortherapy: Focus on this chakra when you need to feel grounded. When you want your charisma shine and when you want to connect with your tribe / family / to everything. If you feel “pent-up” work on this and the Crown chakra at the same time
Aromatherapy: Cedarwood, Jasmine, Benzoin, Sage, Camphor (white),
Myrrh, Rose, Thyme (red)
Crystal: Bloodstone is centering and grounding. It helps to give you a sense of security and has been called the stone of courage. It balances the body and relieves the anxiety of change in such a way that you accept change and turmoil with ease. It helps you to be present and to revitalize your state of mind and your relationships.

Orange Cothertherapy: Focus on this chakra to bring more joy and creativity into your life, and to find inspiration. This is where we get out “gut” feelings so it’s always a great one to support. It’s also helpful in creating a healthy balance of power in any relationship.
Aromatherapy: Bergamot, Pine, Mandarin, Marigold, Neroli, Orange, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cardamom, Benzoin, Cedarwood, Cinnamon, ylang ylang, geranium, jasmine, patchouli
Crystal: Carnelian is orange in color and it helps to stimulate joy, creativity, compassion and love. It will clear negativity from other stones, which makes to idea for use in conjunction with other stones.

Yellow Colortherapy: Focus on this chakra to increase your self-esteem and sense of self-worth. It is where our inner child tends to live. It also greatly supports mental clarity and intellectual thought.
Aromatherapy: Bergamot, Birch, Cardamom, Citronella, Cumin, Lemon, Lemongrass, Marigold, Grapefruit, Vetiver, Cinnamon, Camphor (yellow), Angelica, Cedarwood, Carrot Seed, Tea-Tree, Petitgrain, Tangerine.
Crystal Citrine is considered the money stone. It helps to attract wealth and maintain it. It enhances creativity, optimism in the face of conflict and aids in decision-making. Hold this stone when you are making important decisions and keep it in your pocket when in business meetings or having any difficult conversation.

Green & Pink Colortherapy: Focus on this chakra when you need to heal any kind of wound. This chakra supports us giving and receiving love. It is where we find our compassion. Sometimes we have to work with other chakras to really get the heart feeling good, the base and solar plexus are great for this!
Aromatherapy: Eucalyptus, Geranium, Silver Fir, Lime, Linden Blossom, Peppermint, Petitgrain, Star Anise, spruce, pine, lilac, Verbena, Rosewood, Palmarosa, Melissa, Bergamot, Marigold & Violet.
Crystal: Rose quartz is the stone of love energy. It helps to clear negativity, allowing you to love yourself and accept love from others. Its love is gentle and has a calming effect on you and your environment. Try bathing with it and sleeping with it under your pillow and bathe in its loving life-force.

Blue Colortherapy: Focus on this chakra for healthy and clear communication. Just remember communication goes both ways. It also encourages confidence, will power and a sense of comfort.
Aromatherapy: German Chamomile, Roman Chamomile, Myrtle, Marjoram, Cypress, Pine, Eucalyptus (some varieties), jasmine, myrrh, tuberose, ylang ylang
Crystal: Aquamarine aids communication and reason. It encourages you react/respond quickly and it stimulates your intellect. It promotes self-awareness and helps you to be compassionate and non-judgmental.

Purple or Violet Colortherapy: This chakra will broaden your perspective and worldview, allowing you to see the larger picture. It also is our main intuitive center. Working with this one and the sacral chakra together is powerful.
Aromatherapy: Juniper, Lavender, Frankincense, Sage (Spanish), Violet, Peppermint, Birch, Patchouli, Sandalwood, clary sage.
Crystal: Amethyst balances your energy and helps connect you to earth and cosmic energy. It transmutes negativity into more positive energy and protects you from psychic attacks. It aids meditation and helps open your third eye.

White Colortherapy: This chakra connects us to our source. It opens us to spirit and to a sense of oneness with all that is. It is also a great chakra to focus on if you feel “pent-up” and working with the base chakra at the same time is powerful. The Base and Crown are where most of our energies flow in and out and by keeping them open you avoid holding on to things or feelings of disconnection.
Aromatherapy: Carnation, Narcissus, Gardenia, Angelica, Jasmine, Ylang Ylang, and Clary Sage.
Crystal: Clear quartz is an amazing all-purpose crystal and can be used in any way you need it to serve you. There are so many different kinds of crystals that have specific therapeutic qualities but you can’t go wrong with basic quartz.

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Tony&Tina Are Better Than Ever…So Says…

Post author By tina@tonyandtina.net
Post date May 2, 2017

We are thrilled and grateful for the love PopSugar has given us! It nice to be remembered and then honored for our new evolution. Check it out. Thanks!!!

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WWD / Beauty’s Magic Act

Post author By tina@tonyandtina.net
Post date February 5, 2017

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Aromatherapy Colortherapy Healing Mindful Self-Care

Healing Bath

Post author By tina
Post date November 30, 2016

I take bathing very seriously; it’s seriously deep Self-Care and a Self-Soothing activity that will activate your pathways of joy…your Radiant Circuits. It’s an important part of a Positive Energy Home Lifestyle.

Fill the tub to the top; you want to be submerged up to your neck area, even if you have to have your feet popping out the other side. We have an amazing formulation but have hit some hiccups that we are working out but until then it’s easy to do it yourself! My bathing formulation is stress relieving, toxin-extracting blend of Epson Salt, Himalayan salt crystals, and Baking Soda. Epsom Salt to release energy blockages, extract toxins and ease sore tired muscles. It’s also great to use after a plane ride because helps rid your body of radiation. Himalayan Rock Salt to energetically ground you and to soften the skin. Finally baking soda to extract toxins and cleanse and strengthen and heal your auric field. This is a very healing combination – A Energy Healing Trifecta.

Add Aromatherapy
Any essential oil you like / have is perfect but try and make it as pure as possible; because I tend to need the support that lavender and bergamot offer I pour in some of my Healthy Aura Spray. You can also try my single note oils and / or chakra oils. Smell is the most powerful sense we have and therefore it truly shifts our mood and energy.

Add Colortherapy
Bed, Bath and Beyond sell these amazing inexpensive under water lights, AquaLuxe, that change through the spectrum of the rainbow gently feeding your body some color energy and also creates a soothing ethereal atmosphere if you turn all other lights out. I also have one in my bedroom too and it’s very relaxing to lie in bed watching the colors transform, a nice way to gently fall into a happy dreamland.

Add Soundtherapy To Create A Calm Mood
Have music on as the backdrop to your beautiful dreams and harmonious environment. I have some nice CD’s and this article on soundtherapy is very interesting.

Have A Great Daydream
See yourself happy, beautiful and loved. Imagine your in your ideal situation…really get into it, to the point where you know what you are wearing. What we think we create, Law Of Attraction, so be in vibration with positively wonderful fantastic beautiful things.

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Chakras Energy Medicine Environment / Shamanism Healing Mindful Self-Care

Chakra Radiance

Post author By tina
Post date May 10, 2016

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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Finding Deep Self-Love

Post author By tina
Post date March 4, 2016

Finding Deep Self-Love
A Portal To Pleiades: Mayan Journey: Part 4
Also see Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Five

Tina’s Note:
This experience was so powerful and sacred I am having a hard time capturing it on paper, it may still be processing and it’s extremely esoteric, so I will continue to work on it but I wanted to share as much of it as I could in this moment. I have broken it up into sections so you can skip parts you may not be interested in. This photo by Rick Maitri is inside the ruin while the following story was happening – pure magic!

The Story Leading Up To The Story
In Tikal, Guatemala, we were encouraged to have alone time to explore and commune with whatever our energies needed. I was walking around on my own and not a person in sight – most tourists come in the morning so the park after lunch it is practically empty, which was amazing. Mysterious feeling too because I was thinking wow I am walking though an ancient Mayan city! It was thrilling and because I was very connected to the love energy of this land (not the brutality). I was taking it all in…and then a truck full of men with machine guns pass me by. This is not unusual for this area so I wasn’t worried but when they stopped way up the road (and I use the word road loosely) I thought do I just keep going to where I know, which means I would have to pass the men with guns, or do I go off road which I was warmed to be careful of because getting lost is a real possibility. Clear choice, the road less traveled.

The path became very narrow and I heard bustling in the dense jungle I was walking through. I stopped, it stopped. I walked, it began to walk again. I stopped. It stopped. Jaguars are nocturnal so I wasn’t worried about them but there were many other exotic and possibly territorial animals. So I said out loud, hello I’m friendly! Silence from us both for a few minutes and then I heard the bustling going away from me, I guess he was just checking me out but now I wanted to see him. I did try! It was thrilling pushing back huge leaves and branches as I tried to find him. Unfortunately I never got to see my jungle friend.

A Ruin Found
When the path became too dense to follow anymore I didn’t want to get lost, which I felt I already was. I turned around and the path lead me into a different direction than I had come strangely, I couldn’t find the main road but I was loving my adventure and just went where energy guided me. I came upon a ruin with a very dark tunnel on the side of it. I wanted to go in and immediately went towards it and then I felt strongly I wasn’t supposed to go so I began to walk away and then I felt called to go in. Into the pitch-blackness of the tunnel I went. It didn’t even occur to me I could use my phone as a flashlight, crazy. The tunnel was narrow so I was brushing my hands against the walls, which were moist with moss, and walking very carefully. I could feel a change on the wall, it began to curve slightly and I saw a glimmer of light. I followed the turn and saw the exist about 20 feet ahead of me – it was beautiful and exciting – I felt like a real explorer☺

I walk in and immediately my heart jumped with joy and I gasped with delight. I looked around, sat around, did some energy moves and began to look for stones – I asked the land to give me a stone but I couldn’t find one that stood out to me so I figured it had nothing for me. The energy began to feel very intense as if it was saying time to go so I went. Some of this sounds very whoo whoo but I promise these energies were so palpable that they could not be dismissed.

The Loving Experience
Later that night we were having a sacred ceremony in a very special place they told us, an energy portal to the Pleiades constellation. When we arrived I was stunned it was the place I had found earlier. The Pleiades had called me to this place for some reason, asked me to go and now welcomed me back with all it’s love and power. The shaman (Tata) went in first blissing the “birth cannel” (the tunnel I had gone through earlier) and we then had to bow and kiss the earth humbly asking if we could enter. As I walked through again and reentered the ruin it felt different – the power had increased but it wasn’t intense, it was powerfully gentle.

I positioned myself in the middle of the grounds, right under the Pleiades constellation and the moon was lighting up the ruin, stunningly magical and mysterious. You could feel its life. I was lying on the earth looking up and feeling everything – I could feel the entirety of patchamama. I laid there on my journey staring up at the sky, at the stars and moon and I would turn my body slowly to stay aligned in the center of the portal and one of the times I moved my hand which was laying face up but somehow the earth seemed to be reaching up to give me a stone. It felt like an earth hand literally put it into my hands – what a gift, what an experience. All of the sudden this stone was in my hand and I knew it was a sacred gift from the portal. I put it on my heart center under my cloths and felt it helped deepen my connection with everything. It’s a powerful stone and I am thankful for it. I keep it with my special wakka stones / crystals next to my bed and I travel with them too. But this Pleiades portal stone still retains it’s full power – when I touch it I can feel the energy of the place running through me, feeding me, empowering me with love and earth and cosmic energies.

The earth was hugging me, I seriously felt it around me and the heavens were bathing me and I felt it showering through and in me that in itself is incredible. But, it was even more glorious when I felt true deep sold self-love light up inside me. Never have I felt love that deeply and it’s still with me – I transformed. I sat up and began to hug myself and what a feeling! I have never hugged myself that way before in the physical sense but also energetically. The land and the energy portal was wrapping me with so much love and radiance I felt connected to all the love in the world but mostly it was the love inside of me that opened wide.

I began to do the Waving Into The Chakras. This is inspired from Donna Eden’s Heaven Rushing In. I opened my arms wide, palms up and let them fill up with this magical power energy and I scooped it into each chakra – it was indescribably beautiful. And I can feel the difference in the foundation of my chakras and all my energy systems really. This energy integrated into every level of who I am physically and non-physically. It felt liberating, sacred and opening in everyway.

You Can Create This At Home
The energy of any land has it’s own unique energetic vibration and if you are a traveler you will know what I mean when I say some places just encourage your energy to transform into something deeply wonderful and lasting. That said where you live could be your radiant power source. It might be that already and if so you just have to tap into it and if not you might need to do some energy work to create it by using sage, crystals and set clear intentions all over your home and land.

You can also call for energy from a place you had an amazing spiritual experience – energy from the entire planet is ready to connect with you and be in service to you, just ask and you shall receive.

I have found it is rare to find any land that does not respond to love and gratitude. Everything is connected! Try it out – lie flat on any land near you and send it love, gratitude and tell it you are so grateful for its beauty and strength and see what happens! I have asked friends to do this in the past and they were amazed they could feel love being given to them.

Tags adventure, chakras, cosmos, earth, earthing, energy, Guatemala, healing stones, john perkins, mayans, Pleiades, spirits, spiritual journey, tony and tina, tony and tina vibrational remedies

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Waving Into The Chakras

Post author By tina
Post date March 4, 2016

Waving Into The Chakras
Inspired by Eden Energy Medicines Heaving Rushing In

It’s simple and powerful! I’ve been doing this for about 3-4 years now and it makes me 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 are needing at the time. Sometimes we need comfort, other times bravery, just know wherever you need is available through this self-care tool.

1. Basic Quickie Version. Standing, sitting or lying down extend your palms upward, arms slightly extended but not much (no more than 1 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 base chakra moving up to the crown. You may feel the radiance in the form of heat or even a tickle, it will be different for everyone, and some may see it, I sometimes see golden balls of energy in my hands and I connect to all the joy and love in the universe and then scoop it 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 are scooping in universal radiance as you go. I’ll make a video one of these days. Contact me if you have questions, this is really worth having in your self-care tool bag!

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 laying down on the grass and began to do Waving Into The Chakras but the energy and my instincts were guiding me differently. Guiding me to make true wave motions. I opened my arms stretching them outward as far as they could go, palms up but my arms pretty much stayed parallel to my body, maybe slightly higher at times. This felt right because I wanted to get the earth energies as well as the cosmic ones. My palms were up and I let it fill with the high frequency energy I was bathing in and I slowly waived it into each chakra. It was a smooth and gentle gathering of the energies surrounding me and seeding within me. I did this several times, taking the time to lay my hands on the chakra I was feeding, and sometimes I didn’t do that, I was following the energy. Sometimes once the energy was waived into one chakra, in a continuous motion I let my hands / arms crossover to open my arms once more and repeat the process. I might say it felt profound but that seems cliché because the energy was like nothing I have ever felt. It was very loving, nurturing and radiant.

Please know you don’t need to be in some sacred place like this to connect to this kind of high frequency energy, you can do it in your backyard – 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!

3. I have found doing this 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 its 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 minds and intentions have great power!

Hope you enjoy!

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Getting What You Need

Post author By tina
Post date February 19, 2016

Mayan Shamanic Journeys: Part 3
Also see Part One, Part Two, Part Four, Part Five

I admit I have had a tendency in the past to worry that I will not get what I need. Whether it be from a relationship, a class, work, trip, etc. and so on. The 2nd evening of our journey my roomie and I were randomly talking about wishing we’d see jaguars on our night walk to the fire ceremony. One of our guides, Daniel Koupermann, looked deeply into my eyes, held the sides of my arms and very slowly said, and I do paraphrase a bit, “Cristina quiet your mind…It will all happen. Just let yourself enjoy the experience…and don’t think of what you want”. I got it right away and took it to heart immediately because it resonated deeply.

This may not be breaking news but it was the way he said it, meant it and the abundance of energies in the land supported the idea. This one idea of letting go of the worry of “not getting” was such a relief. It was taking up valuable space inside my mind and energy. I’ve studied Abraham and others like her / them but this felt different. It wasn’t about me being in a certain vibration to attract what I want, it was about not being in vibration with feeling I won’t get what I need. The difference in the perspectives may be slight but I find it powerful.

With this new energy I went forward in a blank sort of way. I actually had a moment of thinking wait, what, I can’t think, I can’t take anything in etc. and now I look back and I see I was allowing myself to just “be” to just “experience”, without my internal dialogue, and from that blank space incredible revelations and experiences blossomed within me. If a worry began to come up of me not getting something or saying something or being apart of something I just let it go and amazingly I received everything I wanted and more.

Big lesson for me. Amazing lesson in general – you will always get what you need once you let go of it – let all options be possibilities for you – you may just get something better than you even wished for. Decide to love and have gratitude for what you do have and are doing.

We never did see a Jaguar. And I never felt I missed a thing.

Tags being open, Daniel Koupermann, experienceing, fire cerimony, good energy, gratitude, Guatemala, lessons, letting go, mayans, positive energy, satisfaction, tony and tina, tony and tina vibrational remedies

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Opening Your Heart

Post author By tina
Post date February 17, 2016

Mayan Shamanic Journeys: Part 2
Also see Part One, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five

The Set Up
On the second day of our trip – on the way to Tikal – we stopped at Iximche for our first fire ceremony. Our Tata and Nana were late plus another family was in the middle of their own fire ceremony on this sacred alter so we had a wait. The ceremony takes place on a typical round stone platform, about ½ a foot off the ground and roughly 5-6 feet in circumference – they all vary. A few feet away from that was a small pyramid alter ruin where candles were dipping – past offerings still adding to the magic of the place.

I found myself walking around this alter to the back where a tree was growing out of the rocks – I didn’t realize at the time that this tree was actually growing out of the alter and had actually become apart of the alter. How I didn’t notice that I have no clue. The heart of the tree, as I call it, had three different trunks meeting to create the perfect seat and there was also a hollow on the side that to me looked like the trees hands forming a large cup. I was up there over an hour and it was unbelievably comfortable, as if I was lying on moss. I was very comfortable physically and energetically.

The Lesson
I was mediating and it felt really beautiful. I was using my own techniques plus the latest one I learned from Phelgye at Do Kham. I was slightly self-conscious in the beginning because everyone could see me but if you can’t meditate out in the open on a spiritual journey with spiritual warriors where can you ☺! Then something changed. The trees energy seemed to wrap all around me as if to hug me and I felt myself sink into this blissful feeling. I noticed how strong and grounded I felt and I was very aware of this trees life – of its consciousness. You could not deny this tree was alive and this life being in the form of a tree began to speak to me. It was as if information was downloaded or translated by one of my energy systems – this may sound strange to some but I would encourage you to give it a try with a local tree of yours and see if anything happens. If you quiet your mind and sit in stillness for a while you might be very surprised at what you hear and / or feel.

For the purpose of writing this I will write it as a conversation, which it was but these non-verbal conversations are hard to describe. There I am deep within myself and I hear the tree say “Do you see how safe and protected you are”, “Yes” I replied with a soft happiness. The tree continues, “It’s safe for you to open your heart, I’ve got you” and I energetically opened my heart and smiled and felt the lovingness of just that action – opening. I sat soaking up this energy for a while and a tear or two was shed but very gently. Then the tree says, “You can feel this way all the time” Silence from me. “You are always this protected” the tree continued and I must have thrown a million questions at it, such as what do you mean, is it because I’m grounded, do I have to be connected to be protected, am I really safe etc. and the tree in a very gently powerful way said “It is safe for you to open your heart because we will never stop protecting you, we are connected to you always and you can call on this strength anytime”.

I sat with this energetic truth and was feeling what it felt like to have my heart completely open while feeling completely protected. New feeling. Life changing. I’m protected? My heart is safe no mater what? The trees point was made and it had nothing else to say, neither did I. It just kept feeding me this beautiful energy and I sat there taking it in.

What’s The Take Away?
When I was ready to come down I laid two crystals in the hollow of the tree as my offering of thanks to it. I learned on this trip the importance and power of offerings – this isn’t breaking news but the way it was presented was new and my perspective of its implications broadened greatly. I make offerings everyday now in various forms; even smiling at a stranger is an offering of kindness to the collective conscious and universe.

This was almost a month ago and I can still feel that trees connection and message. Thank you tree. I will honor this tree with trust and by keeping my heart open. I am protected and I can feel that. Keeping our hearts open can be a hard thing in today’s world. Finding an anchor, a place of strength for your heart to feel protected by can really be a life changer. When you feel safe and share your heart beautiful things happen – internally and externally.

The earth has amazing healing and supportive powers and we all have access to it. All we have to do is connect and ask. Earth, trees and many other elements are happy to give you helpful energy, or to take away unhelpful energy – it’s their nature. Pun intended:)

I do have a picture of myself in the tree and will have to post it on FB as I have not learned how to add pictures to posts – yet!

Tags energy, feeling safe, healing, heart opening, heart protection, love, meditation, nature, tony and tina, tony and tina vibrational remedies, trees

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A Very Vegetarian Holiday Dinner

Post author By tina
Post date November 24, 2015

First and most importantly enjoy the holidays and being with the people you love! Be grateful, don’t sweat the small stuff and of course practice conscious cooking!

I cook free form and encourage you to do the same – cooking is creative, meditative and fun! Make every dish your own!

All quantities depend on how many you are cooking for but that said I always make more than needed because left overs are amazingly tasty and it’s nice to give your friends and family a little leftover goodie bag to go home with.

Foturkey It’s completely delicious!!! It comes with gravy and stuffing inside so your fine if that’s all the effort you want to put in but personally I make my own gravy and stuffing.

This is soy based so you might want to have some grilled tofu as another protein option. Here is a great recipe.

Alternative to Soy
Try getting a Quorn Turkey Roast, it is made from corn and is a very very tasty!

Gravy:
Here is a link to a recipe to make it from scratch but I personally use the vegitarian powder packets, about 2-3, and just add an entire box of vegetable broth, nutritional yeast, onion powder, salt, pepper and garlic powder. You can add scallions and parsley as well. Stir regularly and let it thicken if it thickens too much, or to freshen a left over batch, just add some vegetable broth.

Stuffing:
This is my most requested dish! When I cook this I purposely make more than needed so my friends get to leave with some leftovers and I put some in the freezer to enjoy later. Get any bread stuffing you like, I prefer the organic multi-grain pre seasoned with herbs but there is every kind under the sun these days, even gluten free. I spray some olive olive oil into a large pan and make the dish right in it and this makes it super easy to make, throw it in the oven and then straight onto the table if you like – but I do think putting it in a nice big bowl is nicer.
I use three bags of stuffing and add chopped up scallion x2, onion x2, watercress x2, spinach x3 bags, kale x1 and garlic x 3-5 cloves. Add salt and pepper x 1 teaspoon or to taste. Add two cans of organic split pea, cream of celery and cream of broccoli soup. Fake sausage can really add that something special, to me it’s not the same without it! I like Gimme Lean you can pre cook it and crumble it into main stuffing pan but sometimes if I cannot find that brand any veggie sausage brand is fine, and if you like spicy you can get them spicy version…yuuummmmy – which ever you use make sure it’s in small pieces. I mix it all together and cook at 450 degrees. I have to pull it out of the oven a few times to stir it and turn it over so that every bit of it gets a chance to get a bit crispy.

Sweet Potato Mash
Leave the skins on – tons of great nutrients in them! Chop into small pieces, boil, drain water, and put potatoes back in pot and mash. Add butter, salt and pepper to taste.

Woman’s health has more than one great recipe for this tasty and super healthy food.

Veggie Potato Bake:
Chop up potatoes – the petite small and colorful ones are fun! Lots of root vegetables like carrots, parsnips, turnips’, onion and garlic. Sprinkle olive oil liberally and add salt and pepper – to taste can vary for many people so go light to medium and let everyone add what they like once it’s done. That said remember you always need more salt and pepper than you think! Bake in the oven at 450 degrees until crispy. You will have to stir it a few times to make sure all of it is crispy on all sides and you may need to add a bit more olive oil when you stir it up.

Veggie Polenta
You can’t go wrong with this! Depending on how many you are serving you will have to gage how much you need but let’s say you have 6-10 people…
2-3 tubes of polenta – I like the garlic basil – you want to chop it up and it will become a mash once you begin to cook it.
Chop up all the veggies you love – I use 4-5 squash, 3 bags of spinach, 1 bag of kale, 1 onion, 1 scallion, 6 garlic cloves, a handful of parsley
Spice it up – I use nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, garlic, a bit of cayenne if your people like spice (if you are unsure it’s best to just have it on the table) and whatever else you love.

Get out a big pan or wok – that’s what I use, pour in a bit of olive oil, you do not need much! And throw it all in and begin to stir, stir, stir and as you do keep adding water and that will turn the polenta into a mash as you stir. It’s a constant repeat of add water, sir and repeat. Do this until you achieve the texture you want. I would say I add half a cup of water about 5-6 times while I am stirring it all up, sometimes more.

I actually make this for myself all the time and keep it in the freezer so I can have it whenever I like without having to do it all from scratch every time.

Broccoli Casserole:
I have had many versions of this and they are all great! This is how I do it. In a large pan I layer from the bottom up 4-6 cups of cooked brown rice, 4-6 bags of chopped broccoli with 2 cans / boxes of cream of celery soup mixed in (I sauté the broccoli in the cream of celery soup for just a few minutes before I put it on top of the rice so it’s a bit soft) and 4-6 bags of shredded cheddar cheese on top. Bake at 450 degrees until golden brown.

I also found this broccoli quinoa casserole recipe that looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it! The woman who wrote it did it for Easter but I’ve always eaten this during the end of year holidays – I pretty much think it’s amazing anytime of the year!

Garlic String Beans:
They are easy to over cook so I do a three-minute boil. Add just a bit of olive oil if you want but it’s not needed honestly. Light salt, pepper and very finely chopped garlic. Sprinkle some shaved pine nuts on top (or have on the side in case anyone is allergic to nuts) and room temperature is perfect for this dish!

Spinach pie:
Chopped spinach x 4-6 bags, eggs / egg whites x4, shredded mozzarella cheese x3 bags, chopped garlic x3 or 4 cloves, salt and pepper to taste. You can also add some parmesan cheese, about 1 cup and it adds a little something extra. Mix all ingredients very well! Butter or olive oil your pan very well and bake in the oven at 400 degrees until lightly brown on top.

Here is a tasty looking spinach and Gruyere quiche recipe. Personally I would loose the piecrust and just make it as above but it’s your meal, your choice.

Brussel sprouts:
Use at least three pounds but if more than 12 people go for 4-6 pounds. Cut into half’s, sprinkle with some olive oil and add salt, pepper and garlic powder and bake at 450 degrees until well done – I even like it when some are close to being burnt! In general crispy is a crowd favorite.

Vegetarian Times has some good options as well!

Here are some other great holiday meal ideas from Eating Well, enjoy!

Tags broccoli, brussel sprouts, cooking, cristina bornstein, healthy cooking, holiday food, polenta, Quinoa, root vegetables, spinach, string beans, thanksgiving, tony and tina, vegetarian

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Finding Your Inner Wisdom

Post author By tina
Post date November 5, 2015

Our inner wisdom is the best guide we have in life. Only we know what is truly right for us or not – it’s your unique path. Our inner wisdom, or intuition, can help us with small daily decisions or with life-changing ones.
A great starting place is to ask yourself do you trust yourself for real?

1. If you have a crystal or glass pendulum you spin it in front of your 3rd eye – bet. Your eyebrows and that helps to activate intuition. This is an Eden Energy Medicine technique.

2. With your middle fingers or pointer – whichever feels right to you – put them on the top of your nose and firmly press and you slide your fingers upward through your third eye, up to the center of your forehead and then spread them apart – each finger spread and moving towards your temple – do this a few times. This is an Eden Energy Medicine technique.

3. Sit and ground yourself either by rooting your feet into the earth or imagine a cord from the bottom of your spine that extends in to the earth – which ever you choose you let your roots or cord ground to a crystal or stone in the middle of the earth – once you are dimly grounded you rub and squeeze each pinky finger from the bottom all the way up and really give it a pull as if you are opening and pulling energy out – do this a few time – this pinky rubbing begins to open your intuition and the deeper you ground the farther out you can reach into the heavens / universe to ask your questions and search for what you want to know. This is an Eden Energy Medicine Technique.

4. Almost the opposite to the above is to sit quietly – do the grounding and pinky rub but you then tune inward instead of outward and you ask yourself a question and go into a no thought space and allow the answer to come up – most of the time if you set the intent to trust what comes up and you have given yourself some time to get into a meditative state you get the right answer right away and sometimes it’s so simple it’s surprising. This is a Shakti Gawain technique from various workshops.

5. Sort of a longer way is a shamanic technique which again includes centering yourself and really knowing what you want to know – you need to be very clear with what you want to know and you then ask “patchamama” (Mother Earth / father universe) which is essentially putting your question out to nature and then it will give you an answer but it’s usually in very off hand ways – like you will pass someone having a conversation and part of it will apply to you or you will notice a sign / billboard that applies to your question – it really can come in any form – even a ray of light shining through the clouds or a bird singing just as you are thinking a specific way about what you want to know.
I did this once asking why I wasn’t getting something I wanted and on my walk to work I saw a huge billboard with my name on it and I stopped walking in shock b/c I took that walk everyday and I never had seen it and then boom the day after I asked my question it went up and I new in my gut it was the answer – it was saying I was getting in my own way.
So this shamanic technique takes some trust and being very open to everything and everyone around you – you have to be open to accepting that you are indeed being sent this message. This is a John Perkins Technique from his Shapeshifting Audio tapes. We sell these so just email us for them and you can find a detailed description of the tapes here, scroll to #4.

A note: You have to give yourself time and space with all these options – sometimes when we allow ourselves space and don’t rush to the first thing that comes to mind or try to analyze other deeper truths surface

And remember slow deep breathing with no thoughts really calms us and allows you to have a blank canvas where answers can appear:)

Your 2nd, or Sacral Chakra, is our first intuitive center in our bodies and our 6th, or 3rd eye, chakra is our main intuitive center so clearing and balancing these chakras will help clear the way for you to be your own best guide in life!

Tags Donna Eden, energy medicine, inner wisdom, intuition, john perkins, shakti gawain, shamanism, tony and tina, visualization

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What Is Energy Medicine?

Post author By tina
Post date January 18, 2022

Energy medicine is both a complement to traditional medical care and a complete self-care system. In energy medicine “energy” is the medicine. We use non-invasive electromagnetic frequencies to restore the energies that have become weak, disturbed, blocked or out of balance. The basic principles are that energy needs space to flow freely and through certain exercises and treatments you will be able to achieve a new freedom of energy and through that a new sense of well being and optimal health. The body is intelligent and will respond to any opportunity to attain radiant health and to be harmoniously connected to all our energy systems, we have many.

Long term conditions/patterns can cause bad energy habits to form and through energy medicine we can re-pattern that energy. Of course lifestyle changes will have to be made otherwise you’d slip back into the old negative habits and its consequences. So a big part of energy medicine is; how long can you hold the corrected energy? We are all so affected by the people and environments we surround ourselves with, as they are by ours.

We balances the body’s energies to relieve stress, overcome depression, increase energy and confidence, boost the immune system and increase your enthusiasm for life. She believes that by releasing what does not serve you, you will be able to achieve your greatest potential. Long distance healing can be very powerful, every Skype session leaves Tina in awe of the intelligence our bodies and energies have. Here what some of my clients have to say in my testimonials.

In Eden Energy Medicine we work with 9 basic energy systems = Meridians, Chakras, Aura, Radiant Circuits, Triple Warmer, Celtic weave, The 5-rhythms, The Electrics and the Basic Grid.

We also work with secondary energy systems such as the Lymphatic Reflex Points, Neurovasculars and Vortexes.

For a private session with Tina email me or click here
Also check out Cristina’s Energy Center on sessions

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Summer Recipes

Post author By tina
Post date June 22, 2015

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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Night of Beauty & Relaxation

Post author By tina
Post date March 13, 2015

It’s important to set aside a night of beauty each week. Let this be your time to nourish and pamper yourself, you absolutely deserve that. Take at least one or two hours to cleanse, steam, deep clean, replenish and moisturize yourself from head to toe. Set the intention this will be a relaxing night of releasing all negativity and blocks that get in the way of your most radiant self. Dream about the ideal you. Create a new reality, Law of Attraction. It’s good for your body, soul and mind.

One basic: Please, please everyone wash your face morning and night no matter how tired you are. It really makes a significant difference in how you look and age; and in how you feel. You can affirm you are washing away your worries, or hurt, or angry, or whatever you want to wash out of your energy field. It’s a great opportunity you get twice a day to make a positive affirmation!

Environment is everything!
Set the stage for your night! Make sure you have some great lighting, meaning dim lights and candles. Relaxation CDs, and of course some healthy snacks and lemon water…

Steam
This is pure luxury, seriously! Our Facial Steam is pretty heavenly if I do say so myself. If you don’t have the right herbs or oils it’s fine; you can buy herbs that are specifically meant for steaming at your local health food store. Just boil some water and pour it into a large bowl and let it simmer down. (Please use common sense, don’t scald your face.) With a large towel, cover your head as you hold your head over the bowl, about 6 to 8 inches above the steaming water. Steam your face for about 10 minutes. It will really open the pores and brighten your complexion. Breath deeply if you can. I like to intend I am breathing in earth’s purity and breathing out toxins, physical and emotional.

Cleanse
Immediately after steaming, while your pores are still open, apply a mud or clay mask (a mixture of both is best) to your entire face and neck. Make sure the mask is as pure as possible, meaning you don’t need fancy fragrances in it. I’m playing with a new T&T formulation now and will keep you updated on that. Until then, Ahave Dead Sea Mask is a good one and you can probably find an all-natural mud mask at your local health food store. Follow the instructions. But in case they don’t mention it – don’t let it completely dry, meaning look crackly on your face, that can really dry you out. One more insiders tip: Using a wet washcloth scrub the mud off in circular motions to exfoliate and wash away the toxins that the mask brought to the surface. Scrub with gentle to medium pressure – never hard! And, of course be mindful of your eyes, you don’t want to get any in there so I always wash the area off first.

Moisturize
Apply a moisturizing mask (again, your local health food store should have one) and I’m playing with a few formulations but they will be bespoke only probably. You can make your own! Readers Digest has some easy suggestions as does Livestrong.

Bath time!
I take bathing very seriously so this will be the longest section, ha ☺ First of all fill the tub to the top, you want to be submerged up to your shoulders. We have an amazing formulation but have hit some hiccups that we are working out but until then it’s easy to do it yourself! Our bathing formulation is stress relieving, toxin-extracting blend of Epson Salt, Himalayan salt crystals, and Baking Soda. Epsom Salt to release energy blockages, extract toxins and ease any sore tired muscles. It also helps rid your body of radiation, great to use after a plane ride. Himalayan Rock Salt to energetically ground you and to soften the skin. Finally baking soda to extract toxins and cleanse and strengthen your auric field. This is a very healing combination – A Healing Trifecta.

Add some aromatherapy
Try our single note oils, chakra oils, or whatever else you like or have on hand, but try and make it as pure as possible. Smell is the most powerful sense we have and therefore truly shifts our mood / energy.

Add some audio therapy to create a calm & mood
Have music on as the backdrop to your beautiful dreams and harmonious environment. We have some nice CD’s and this article on sound therapy is very interesting.

Add some colortherapy
Bed, Bath and Beyond sell these amazing inexpensive under water lights, AquaLuxe, that change through the spectrum of the rainbow gently feeding your body some color energy and also creates a soothing ethereal atmosphere if you turn all other lights out. I also have one in my bedroom too and it’s very relaxing to lie in bed watching the colors transform, a nice way to gently fall into a happy dreamland.

Have a great daydream
See yourself happy, beautiful and loved. Imagine your in your ideal situation…really get into it, to the point where you know what you are wearing ☺ What we think we create, law of attraction, so be in vibration with positively wonderful fantastic beautiful things.

Self-Care time
While bathing it is the perfect time to do some self-care. I always hold my neurovasculars (holding head gently) and do lots of deep breathing.

Get your sleep!
Get into bed early and get good night’s sleep. Maybe do a meditation or visualization for radiant beauty before bedtime. Remember that whatever you go to sleep thinking about is what you will energetically keep with you all night, so even if it was a bad day, or night, think positive thoughts before bed; visualize yourself or your situation, as you want it, not what it necessarily is. Really see it, believe it and totally get into the positive thoughts / stories you create.
If you don’t believe me believe about the benefits of sleep believe Harvard and this one from WebMD

For people who think pampering only isn’t enough (Whaaaaat?) Here are some Night of Beauty Add-On’s

1. Meditation can and will change your life, if you so choose ☺
This can take only three minutes if you want it too. Any amount of time given to mindful breathing creates relaxation and many other benefits.

2. A few yoga moves never hurt anyone
Just enough to release and expand your energy, not to have a workout! Here is a nice bedtime yoga video.

3. Stretching – release some energy & create some space
Here are some gentle ones from our sister site, Cristina’s Energy Center – and this stretching video is so calming and gentle – very basic & only upper body but still – all openings are great openings!

Enjoy Your Night!!!!!

Beauty

Winter Health and Beauty Tips

Post author By tina
Post date January 2, 2015

Stay hydrated!
But here are some tips
♥ Drink lots of water. There are so many ways to make water exciting and even healthier by adding fruit. I make an herbal fruit tea out of 5 kinds of tea – famously known as Tina’s Tea. You can also keep it simple – hot or cold water with lemon is a trusted favorite. I have to share I have purchased a Zero Water Filter and am very impressed with it. Most of our water is unfortunately not as clean as we would expect so I highly recommend this.
♥ Keep a humidifier in your bedroom and at work keep a mini one near your desk.
♥ Use a water based facial spray – our healthy aura sprays can be used in this way, especially the Rose. This is specifically important in highly heated rooms or in an airplane.

stay moisturized!
♥ Our skin needs constant TLC so carry a small moisturizer with you at all times. Our rosehip seed oil is the perfect skin solution for all ages and types. What I do is pour part of the bottle into a smaller bottle so it can easily fit into any size purse or pocket, don’t leave home without it, really. Our stock is very limited this year because of last year’s bad harvest and we are all eagerly awaiting a high quality harvest. This is a great article about how Rosehip Seed Oil is the new Coconut Oil – sort of hilarious to us as we’ve been promoting it for over 15 years!
♥ Moisturize your body and face morning and night, and in-between. We tend to only think about moisturizing after a shower but our skin craves moisture all the time so be kind to yourself and give your skin moisturizing touch-ups throughout the day. If you have dry skin definitely be mindful of this and apply 2-3 times a day for sure!
♥ Don’t forget your hands and feet! A great time to do this is right before bed. I always keep a bottle of our Rosehip Seed Oil next to my bed. And I take advantage of this time to give myself a mini foot massage and open my gaits. Also right before you put your socks on in the morning is a great time to put moisturizer on you feet – again massage your feet especially on the part of your foot that is between the big and 2nd toe, down to the bottom of the top pad – before it dips into the soft underbelly of your food. Massage there with a wave motion – this will energize your K1 (Kidney Meridian), which will jump-start your energy for the day.

stay healthy
♥ Sit in the sun for 10-15 minutes everyday.
♥ Do the thymus thump daily to keep your immune system strong. For this and other great ways to stay healthy check out immune boosters.
♥ Keep your body moving for at least 30-40 minutes a day – doesn’t matter how, just keep it moving.
♥ Do your 5-minute Eden Energy Medicine routine – especially the zip-up, Celtic weave and connecting heaven and earth.

be in harmony with what you eat
♥ Eat seasonally, our bodies want that. Tony has a famous vegetable bake – it is amazing! He does it all year round and the ingredients change with the seasons. He just buys (or gets it from his garden in the summer) a bunch of different veggies, cuts them up, throws them in a glass cooking pan, adds olive oil, salt, pepper and that’s it – this is a highly requested dish amongst his friends!
♥ Winter vegetables – this is a general list, some of these are ready beginning of winter others later: Asparagus, Beets, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Collards, Endive, Green onions, Kale, Kohlrabi, Garlic, Leeks, Winter Lettuce, Onions, Parsnips, Sugersnap Peas and peashoots, Radishes, Rutabaga, Spinach, Swiss Chard and Turnips.
♥ Practice conscious cooking and be a respectful eater. 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.
See the mood foods below
♥ Beat the heat – Beyond sleeping with your humidifier on they have great small ones now you can put on your desk at work – both places need it! This is a great time of year to steam in every form possible! If you are not near hot springs or have a steam room or shower we will take care of you. Our flowering facial steam is euphorically cleansing and moisturizing! The experience itself is blissful but steaming your face will really help with the harsh elements our skin must endure cold winds and drying heat.
♥ Get natural – My most naturalist friend, skincare wise, is Ashley Hudson and she turned me onto cleaning with honey! Use raw honey and rub in circular motions. Add a bit of baking soda – maybe a bit of water if it’s too textured but beyond cleansing this is a great nature exfoliant.
♥ Mindful shaving
Male or female we all have run into shaving challenges. My friend Ashley Hudson says, “If I can’t eat it, it doesn’t go on my skin”. We were discussing shaving and she told me she uses raw coconut oil as a shaving oil / cream and then uses our Coconut Bliss to moisturize her skin afterward and she has no bumps or ingrown hairs so give it a try everyone!
I was getting some bumps after shaving my legs as it got cold because I would get goose bumps in the shower which lead to a harder shave and I have been using out Rewilding Aftershave – so it’s not just for men anymore!
♥ Pamper Yourself This time of year it’s especially important to nurturer and nourish our body and soul. Do as many self-soothing behaviors as you can and this will activate and energize your pathways of joy in your body called Radiant Circuit’s.
We suggest enjoying a night of beauty!And, check out Natural Beauty.

Be in harmony with the elements
Check out the 5-Elements and specifically how to balance them. Every season has specific elemental emotions that are heightened during that time of the year. We are in winter, which is the metal element. Winter is a time of reflection – it is not uncommon for grief to come up, but it comes up to go out, this is the time to let it go. When this element is balanced you feel the awe and wonder in life. This is also a great time to plant the seeds you want to sow in the spring. It’s a time to dream beautiful dreams and visualize who you want to be and align your energies and actions to be in vibration with that.

be in harmony with yourself
We are always evolving so during this time of reflection get to know you again. Think about who your true self is, your higher self, and ask is your life in vibration with what you want and who you want to be. It’s also a good time to look and see if the vision you have of yourself is the reality. Now is the perfect time to figure it out and metaphorically plant the seeds of manifestation for what you want. Also be open to shedding what isn’t working in your life – honor it and then let it go.

It’s time to find your truth, find your gold and to connect with what feeds your soul. To laugh more, love more and allow life to unfold into an unknown but trusted path. This is also the perfect time of year to make sure your Radiant Circuits – your pathways of joy – are activated. This can really help if you have the seasonal blues.

Food Moods
♥Nature is amazing – it’s in the winter we can feel “blue” more often and that is the time of year the dark green leafy vegetables are in season – and these food help our mood – I LOVE that. I will be adding more detailed information about this post but for now…..
♥ Always test before you ingest! Like energy our bodies’ chemistry is always changing meaning so our nutritional needs. Learning to test what your body wants in the present moment is empowering, everyday can be different. Eden Energy Medicine has a great protocol and I would check out how to use a pendulum too because I know so many people who successfully use that to decide if a food is right for them at that moment.
♥ Always eat seasonally

on the menu
♥ Dark leafy greens.
♥ Lots of protein and fermented foods.
♥ Fruits like Cherry’s and oranges, and it’s jam season! So put some jam on any kind of complex carb and you feed your body happy and relaxing food. The best for you is any type of grain that is “sprouted” and you usually find that in the freezer section of your local health food store.
♥ Take your daily vitamin and if it ok with your body, you can energy test, take Vitamin B, C and Omgea-3’s and blue/green algae is amazing!
♥ Herbs of St. Johns Wort, ginseng and ginkgo biloba.

off the menu
♥ Anything “diet” – your body just doesn’t know what to do with it so it doesn’t process in a healthy way. Especially stay away from aspartame because not only is straight out harmful but it is also believed to block the production of serotonin – the feel good chemical!
♥ Anything white and processed – it just turns to sugar once it’s in your body!
♥ NoGMO!!!!
♥ If you eat meat do it ethically. If you eat fish stay away from “farmed” fish. Know your source.

Check out Natural Immune Boosters

Great resources: Food as Medicine by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
And an article on the Oprah site called “What to eat when you are feeling blue”. Eating Seasonally.

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A New Year

Post author By tina
Post date December 31, 2014

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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The Power Of The Crossover

Post author By tina
Post date December 10, 2014

All of our bodies energy systems need to crossover in order to act and interact harmoniously and create optimal health and energy in our body on all levels – physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritually and of course energetically. This is the natural pattern of almost all our energies. Even right down to our DNA – which is a spiraling double helix crossing over and our right brain controls the left side of our body and right brain controls the left side – crossovers everywhere on every level of our being, even into our auric field – our body’s wisdom and need for crossovers is infinite!

When you are Homolateral it can stop all your other systems from operating in an optimal way so by making sure your energies are crossing over it allows your inner-physician to shine. I have listed various versions of how to incorporate crossovers into your life so scroll down. The goal of Eden Energy Medicine is to offer you as many alternative versions of any given self-care tool so that you can find just the right one for you!

If some of the self-care exercises on my site are not working for you try this exercise everyday or twice a day – sometimes our triple warmer will be on alert and this can cause you to be Homolateral thus hindering the harmonious interweaving of all your energy systems, which is how you can live a high vibration life where you are your healthiest self. So calm triple warmer and that will open up space for you to become a magnificent symphony of health, love and joy.

Much of this information is based on Eden Energy Medicine – if you are not familiar with it or her it’s a must! It’s the future of medicine and the future is now!

The Regular Cross Crawl

Benefits:
✴ Increases energy and helps if you chronic fatigue
✴ Enhances balance and co-ordination
✴ Balances right and left brain functioning allowing for optimum performance of your entire body and mind

How to:
Marching in place – or sitting, cross one hand to meet the opposite leg/knee. If you can it’s a good idea to let the arm crossing over to pass over your third eye as it moves to meet the knee on your opposite side. Do this as much as feels right to you but at least for about 30 seconds.

Homolateral Repatterning
Again feel free to watch our video version of this. Also see the how to from the source, our teacher and mentor Donna Eden.

I would do it this way all the time honestly. It can’t hurt and ordinary daily tasks can throw our energies into a Homolateral pattern (moving parallel) and that is just not what our energy wants or needs.
I would add that if you know you are Homolateral do this exercise at least 3-4 times a day. When I was severely Homolateral I had to do this every 30 minutes because my body would not “hold” the correct energy pattern.

Benefits: The Benefits Are For All Alternative Versions Too.
✴ Re-patterns your energy to crossover – the natural state our energy wants to flow
✴ Increases energy and helps if you chronic fatigue
✴ Helps you overcome depression
✴ In-creases your ability to heal
✴ Enhances balance and co-ordination
✴ Balances right and left brain functioning allowing for optimum  performance of your entire body and mind

How to:
Standing up, you are going to “march” in place in two ways – the wrong way and then the right way. The wrong way is lifting the same leg and same arm. The right way is lifting one leg to meet the opposite hand. If you can it’s a good idea to let the arm crossing over to pass over your third eye, this deepens the correction.  12 wrong/12 right, 12-wrong/12 rights and then 12-wrong/24 right.  You double the correct crossover the last time because this is how you want your energy to stay.

If you are physically not able to do this standing up or if you can’t reach your knee to elbow, don’t worry, just do what you can.  Do it sitting or lying down. Even the slightest intention of this movement will help, as will visualization. If you want to help a disabled friend, you can actually do this for another person by lifting her arms and legs for her and for anyone you cannot move / Paraplegics Donna Eden has great information.

Alternate Version #1
Using Figure-8’s.
Janie Chandler and Laurel Camden present in this video a fantastic way for anyone in who was in the military or for anyone who just doesn’t respond to the other corrections or if you want a quick and simple tool when you have limited time. I do it lying in bed sometimes and I can really feel my body responding!

It uses the power of the Figure-8 to create the crossover energy in our bodies. All you have to do is trace or lightly massage a figue-8 over your eyes. It doesn’t matter which way you go but you are creating horizontal 8’s over your eyes. Start in the middle / on your 3rd eye and then from there you choose which way feels most natural to you, moving lets say down below the right eye, moving to follow the outside of your eye to the top of your right eye and you land on your 3rd eye but you pass it by and continue to down under your left eye and again follow the outside of your eye to the top of the left eye and again you land on the 3rd eye and keep repeating this patterns, breathing deeply for at least 4-5 times.

Alternative version #1.1
Using Figure-8’s.
Dr. Melanie Smith has an incredible video of how to use figure-8’s to create crossovers in many powerful ways!

Alternative Version #2
Lacing the Nadis.
Stephanie Eldringhoff, Ph.D., first introduced me to this technique and I am aware that other modalities may teach this in a slightly different way – it’s all great stuff! Be on the lookout for a post only focusing on this – Stephanie has generiously given permission for us to reveal a sneak peek of her upcoming book so we will show Lacing the Nadis and it’s protocol in depth very soon!

I don’t have a video for this one but it is so simple, yet so powerful! The exciting news is I will soon be posting a chart of how to do this with a detailed explaination straight from the source Stephanie Eldringhoff, ph.D – Coming soon!

How too:
All you have to do is place your hands on the top of your head, palms crossing over each other and take a few slow deep breadths. Then you are going to cross-over or better worded weave all the way down your body and note in some positions your hand / harms will not be crossed over, remember you are weaving down your body. You really cannot do this wrong. I would use your intuition but as a guide take 2-3 deep breadths in each position.

Cross over to your temples
Then to your cheeks
Then to shoulders
Then to under your arm pits
Then to under your breasts
Then to the sides of your waist
Then to your hips
Then to the top or side of your upper thighs
Then to right above your knees, on the outer side of your legs
Then to between your knees
Then to the outer upper calf
Then to the inner angle
And then with your hands crossed over sweep them off your feet

Alternative version #3
The Hook Crossover.
This is a relatively new technique Donna Eden has presented and it’s super easy!

How to:
You put your left hand on your right shoulder and take a deep breadth and then with a very very firm touch pull with your fingers over your shoulder and slide your hand down your body diagonally / towards and down the entire left side of your body. Now you this on the opposite side the same way. Put your right hand over your left shoulder, deep breadth and then stringing pull your fingers over your left shoulder and let your hand slide down diagonally the right side of your body.
Always make sure to let your hands fully go from should to off the feet – it’s like you sweep it off your feet.
Do this a few times and you’re all set!

Maintain Your Healthy Crossover Energy Habit
Very firmly drag your fingers from your right shoulder to your left hip (or to left foot) and then drag fingers from left shoulder to right hip (or to right foot). You can do this in a very quick and flowing fashion…it can even look and feel like a dance.

For fun try using Poi Balls – they are a super fun way to fix and maintain your crossover energy.

What beautiful self-care tools to have to help yourself and others! Enjoy!

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Healing Intuition Mindful Self-Care Positive Thought Visualizations

A Harmonic Journey

Post author By tina
Post date August 29, 2014

I use “journey’s” which you can say is a guided meditation / interactive visualization to help me connect with my highest self, my harmonic self, which is the me that is in loving vibration and in harmony with all that is. The intention is to let go of energy that weighs you down and to feel the expansion of how radiant you are. This is only a guideline so read it through and then lie down and guide yourself into the magical world of manifestation. Let your imagination create the most beautiful things because everything is possible and you deserve everything.

Sit in a quite space and breadth slowly and deeply. Turn your attention inward and let each breadth bring you deeper within yourself. Your like a feather floating down to the deepest levels of who you are. Let yourself spend time in this sacred space.

Next connect to the earth and its willingness to feed you. You might imagine yourself in a meadow, forest or beach. Take time and allow yourself to relax and feel the energy of life. You may want to wrap yourself in a plant, climb a tree or sit in the water – all these things will cleanse and heal you. Give yourself the freedom to explore the healing energies all around you. Let the sun warm your skin and soul. Let natures energies put you in harmony with everything beautiful and wonderful.

Now connect to the cosmos and feel how everything you want is there waiting for you. When you connect to it you are in vibration with it, and that is what attracts it to you. It can be helpful to ask a spirit guide to help you fly through the cosmos to find the energies you are looking for. Just ask for what you want and your guide will happily lead you to wondrous places. I have a beautiful owl that guides me and shows me amazing realities to connect with.

Connect to your guides, helpers and your higher self – feel surrounded with their love and comfort. Talk to them and ask for what you want help with. Answers come in many forms – seeing, hearing, feeling and a knowing. This is your journey and it can be whatever you want. When you speak to your higher self notice how healthy, happy and radiant he/she is and connect to that. Let the radiance of all these energies fill you, feeding and healing every level of who you are. Once you are in vibration with all this feel how bright your inner light shines. It’s blooming with radiance and joy.

Take a moment to feel gratitude towards yourself and your life. Slowly begin to come back to your conscious reality. As you come back you notice the radiance, comfort, love, joy and clarity that is now apart of your being. You have new information of how beautiful you are and about the limitless possibilities that exist for you. You are in harmony with every part of yourself, and with everything around you. You’re ready to dance happily through your day.

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Calming Your Fight, Flight or Freeze Response

Post author By tina
Post date July 1, 2014

In todays world our primal survival energy system has many triggers, which if an “alert” state for too long can cause havoc to your well-being. Our energies have not evolved as fast as our culture so we have to help it adapt, which greatly enhances our well-being, health and happiness. Sometimes being able to step back, take a breadth and calm down is the answer to most disagreements. Calming triple warmer will help you accomplish this. Important Side Note: Strengthening spleen will greatly help you adept to your world and to everything you feel and ingest. These are fantastic Eden Energy Medicine techniques.

Triple Warmer Soothers
Benefits: This is our fight or flight response system. Sedating it will reduce stress and anxiety. It perceives anything foreign as an invader it must fight against, for which it uses energy from other “non-essential” energy systems. It’s important to reprogram our Triple Warmer to not respond to certain things like chemicals, fear and even watching a violent TV show. It’s deeply related to the strength of your spleen. Triple Warmer can become overactive if you are under too much pressure so sedating it is very important. The benefits to keeping it balanced are far beyond what I have here…as always my posts are evolutions.

The TW Smoothie
Place the palms of your hands on your temples and take a deep breath. Then, move both hands, palms down, around the ears, down the sides of your neck, onto your shoulders and hold. Take another deep breath, dig your fingers into your shoulders, drag across your shoulders and shake it off. Repeat three times. Do this whenever you feel stress or fear.

Trace TW meridian backwards
With your right palm, trace from your left temple, around your ear, down your neck, a slight dip below the shoulder and follow top of your arm towards and off your ring finger. Repeat with left hand on right side.

You can try my relaxation Self-care Moment which uses Neurovasculars and Breadth to calm our stress.

You may also like 3 Breaths to Changing Behaviors

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Give Good Energy

Post author By tina
Post date June 28, 2014

The law of attraction tells us that energy, is attracted to like energy so if you are a loving person you will receive love back. With this in mind, it is important that you take responsibility for your thoughts and emotions and use them for good. Sounds a bit superhero-ish but it’s true.

The more positive energy you give the more you will get. So send someone a positive intention, affirmation, visualization, a color or any positive thought. Do this not only for friends and family but for strangers, too. If you’re passing someone and you get the sense they could use a positive energy boost, send them one. I live in NYC and do it all the time when I’m walking around. It feels good. One caveat, always send healing energy with the intention that you are not forcing it, that you are just making it available for them if they choose to accept it. As we begin to have a greater awareness of our energy, and others, I think being mindful of some basic energy ethics is a good idea.

When you decide to send healing / positive energy and are not sure how or what to send, just think of love and offer that. Generating love helps you, everyone and everything…love has the power to heal on every level. Great for long distance healing.

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Breadth Is Life

Post author By tina
Post date June 25, 2014

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

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The Biology of Belief

Post author By tina
Post date January 12, 2014

The post title is a great book by Bruce Lipton exploring how our thoughts and fundamental beliefs help to create our realities. Throughout time we have discussed the power and potential of “energy” and we are still getting to know the art and nature of this powerful force that is both elusive and crystal clear all at the same time.

Energy and its interconnectedness to us, and everything is extraordinary. To stop and think about the vastness of that concept is where the magic happens. When we are present within “everything” we can choose anything. We just have to believe. I admit I need reminding at times but that’s life and that’s ok.

Some ways to activate the power of your beliefs:

1. Be Grateful. Gratitude is a powerful energy. Keep a gratitude journal or less formally write down one thing a day you are grateful for on a scrape of paper and begin a gratitude wall in your home. Get artistic and have fun with it. Don’t judge and think oh this is too small to write down, such as “I am grateful I got the mail today” – we’ve all had those days. Just laugh at yourself and at know how loveable you are because you are.

2. Live in love. Love can change everything if you allow it to live in and around you. This one can be tricky – whether subconscious or not, we can be our own worst enemy. We think we don’t deserve love, or we create roadblocks for ourselves and that can trigger triple warmer to “freeze” us in those unhelpful emotions. Push through and fake it until you make it. An Eden technique I find very helpful is to put your hands over the center of your chest and “rake” your fingers outward and upward as if you were opening your chest / heart center.

If it’s all about our thoughts affirmations are a powerful tool. Tony and I have been saying a variation of this for over 15 years and we always feel better after, “I am an open channel to the love and light of the universe…(take a breadth)…I am love” and repeat as necessary. What you think you create – so think about and dream about love. Tell yourself everyday that you love yourself and give yourself a hug.

3. Choose happiness. No matter what is going on in your life (almost) you have a choice about how to feel. When I am out of balance I can make things into a bigger deal because I am “looping” a story in my head. Many things can distract us from happiness but recently if these old habits come up I mentally dissolve then through visualization or I just make a strong affirmation that I do not accept the negative emotion I might be feeling and I affirm to myself that happiness really is a choice and that is what I choose. So be it.

A few things to be aware of:

We are really living in a time of accelerated energy and that means we are all feeling things on a deeper level and it is seemingly one thing after another but we can change the story to focus on great things happening one thing after another – even if in the beginning its only in our dreams. Dreams are a powerful tool to put us in vibration with what we are wanting, so dream on.

The collective unconscious greatly affect us – all this energy floating around waiting to be pulled towards energy that is like itself, whether it be positive or negative – its a precarious place if you are not in a great mind set – the law of attraction is powerful. The fantastic thing is you are powerful and in control of you. You can choose what you allow into your energy field. You can choose how you feel through your thought patterns.

The Bottom Line:

You are brave, strong and loved. Deep happiness is yours for the taking!
YOU ARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

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Renewal Visualization

Post author By tina
Post date January 4, 2014

This is a two-part visualization is inspired by John Perkins who led a group of us through this in the Ecuadorian Rainforest 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 naked 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. Now let your inner light, your hearts light, shine out through your branches / arms just like real leaves and branches do. Really let yourself feel power and connection 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. And if you are near a tree give it a hug as well:)

Learn more about Grounding

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Intention Candles

Post author By tina
Post date October 29, 2013

Intention Candles are great to do anytime of year but especially holidays and during special celestial events, such as a Supermoon, New Moon, Full Moon and any Solstice. It’s a great opportunity to focus your energy on affirming what you want to attract into your life and to show your gratitude for the people and things you already have in your life.

Intention candles can be super simple or super stars – both are just as powerful as intention is everything!!!

Making Your Candle

When To Make Your Candle
If you want to bring things into your life it is best to create and light your candle when the moon is waxing (getting larger) – I especially like doing this during the new moon. If you want to get rid of things in your life create your candle when the moon is waning (getting smaller). If you are just making a general blessing candle or are not specifically trying to bring in or usher out specific energy you can make your candle anytime but I do prefer to make those kind of candles on the full moon. The full moon represents everything – it encompasses whatever energy you call upon with your intentions.

Every time you light your candle sit quietly and re-affirm what your intentions are. This is a very powerful way to stay in vibration with what you want in your life. The vibration you create in and around yourself is what you will attract into your life – the law of attraction. The law of attraction states that energy is attracted to like energy so if you are in vibration with love you will attract more love, if you are in vibration with worry you will attract more worry so be mindful – even when not making candles – about the kind of energy you are living in and creating.

If you choose to use all the bells and whistles here is list of what to have in front of you before you make your candle.

Be comfortable! When carving you will get wax shavings on you, and oil, glitter – so beyond being comfortable you want to make sure you are not wearing anything precious. I actually have specific candle making shirts I wear because I get pretty messy.
The candle – out of the glass (if you are using a pull-out candle) but any tall candle will do. Some people like to pull the wick out so it doesn’t get oils on it – I do it both ways honestly.
Newspaper to work on so you don’t mess up your floor – candle making creates a fun mess
Carving stick – this can be anything but I have found that wood nail cleaners work very well.
Either specifically charged oil or any kind of oil
Incense, if you plan to use that
Glitter, again if you plan to use that
Honey – as an offering to the gods / universal energies
5 pennies – you use these to make 5 specific intentions, or wishes
A spoon – only if you are using incense
Wet and dry paper towels – your hands will get pretty messy, but a beautiful mess

The Most Basic Way

Sit with your candle (any size or shape) in front of you and really tune into what your intentions are. Close your eyes and take deep and slow breaths in and out your nose. Tune inward and ask yourself “What is it I really want” and give yourself the space / time to really listen to your inner voice. If making it for someone else ask yourself what it is you are wishing for him or her. And sometimes it’s nice to make a pure gratitude candle. Gratitude is powerful energy!
Carve your name and date of birth towards the top of the candle – this ensures the universal energies know that it is YOU bring these energies into your life.
Carve intention words with a thin wooden stick or something with a sharp end (be very mindful – no rushing). Some of our favorite words are Love, Happiness, Gratitude, Abundance and Health and Blessings. Those are sort of general words but you can get specific, “I have a loving relationship” or “Great new job”, “I’m Inspired”, etc. You can also carve in shapes, like hearts, the sun, a money symbol, a figure-8 or whatever you are instinctually drawn to draw.

Going All The Way

Place a newspaper on the floor and all your candle supplies on top of it because candle carving can get messy, even if you are only carving in words and not using oil and glitter. You want everything laid out for you because if possible you really do not want to interrupt the process – you want to stay with your intentions, focus and flow.
Sit with your candle in front of you and really tune into what your intentions are. Close your eyes and take deep and slow breaths in and out your nose. Tune inward and ask yourself “What is it I really want” and give yourself the space / time to really listen to your inner voice. If making it for someone else ask yourself what it is you are wishing for him or her. And sometimes it’s nice to make a pure gratitude candle. Gratitude is powerful energy! If you are going to use incense you might want to put in on your spoon before you begin making your candle because when you use it towards the end your hands will be messy so it’s nice to have it ready to use.
Carve your name and date of birth towards the top of the candle – this ensures the universal energies know that it is YOU.
Carve intention words with a thin wooden stick or something with a sharp end (be very mindful – no rushing). Some of our favorite words are Love, Happiness, Gratitude, Abundance and Health and Blessings. Those are sort of general words but you can get specific, “I have a loving relationship” or “Great new job”, “I’m Inspired”, etc. Or you might choose to use a symbol, see below.
After carving go for the bling, it’s fun and beautiful. You rub a bit of any oil you have in the house, plain, with essential oils or buy some magical oils and then add glitter. You can make shapes with the glitter, like a heart, a sacred symbol (see below) or just sprinkle it everywhere to create shimmering beauty. The oil will hold the glitter to the candle.
Now put a drop of honey into the glass and if you can a drop on one of your fingers, and lick it off, as an offering to the “Gods” and/or source energy.
Now take your 5 pennies and make a wish or intention with each one – taking your time to really infuse the copper (which is a great transmitter of energy) with what you want. This is yet another powerful way to clarify what you want. You hold one penny at a time, put your intentions / desires into it and drop it into the glass so that it lands on top of the honey.
Put some incense into your spoon and light it up and make a star shape over the glass, then a circle and then put the incense into the glass, over the pennies and honey.
If you have the candle that slides in and out of glass you now put it back into the glass, if you are using a regular candle make sure you put it on a wide a sturdy candle holder.
Take some time to meditate over the candle, putting the energy of what you want into it, really see and feel it. Make some figure-8 motions over it to seal in your intentions and you are now ready to light it. If you have a personal ritual to offer thanks to your source you would do that now.
Sometimes it’s nice to light it with a loved one. You can make this a bonding group activity or a sacred ritual for yourself – or both, as you will light it more than once.
Every time you light the candle always take a moment to reaffirm what your intentions are. It’s a great manifestation tool and intention ritual.

Now That You Have Completed Your Candle

No matter the method you choose to create your candle you want to light it with the intention of what you want. Sit and watch it for a few minutes and visualize your intentions manifesting. Watch the way it burns over time – there are messages in that. If part of the candle is not burning properly it might mean you have to be patient or it might burn perfectly down to the bottom showing you the path to what you want is clear. There will always be residue on the glass and when the candle has finished observe it and see if there are any messages for you – the way a candle burns and what it leaves behind can be great guidance – trust your internal wisdom for the answers you seek.

For example, Tony and I made a candle together, not in glass, and with the intention of creating joyful abundance for the re-launch of our company Tony&Tina and as it burned it turned into a wave. This wave symbolized a wave of activity, which has actually begun. For a Solstice candle I put in the energy of my life blooming in every way and from the beginning it actually looked like a flower spreading it’s petals.

Intention Candles As A Gift

For any holiday or special event it’s a thoughtful, and affordable, gift. You can make it yourself now that you have learned how to make them. We also offer a Bespoke option – where you tell us exactly what you want for the person receiving it and we will make it and ship it. Just contact us.

BE MINDFUL: Never leave your candle lit when you are not in the house or by anyplace where there is a breeze.

Supply Reference:

To buy pull out candles, incense and oils contact Other Worldly Waxes – they are Wiccan based but I’ve known the owner for over 20 years and she’s very normal and cool – and she’s actually a therapist. https://www.otherworldlywaxesandwhatever.com or you can contact me and I will get you whatever you need.
Glitter from Michaels or your local crafts store.

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Conscious Cooking

Post author By tina
Post date October 3, 2013

I should start with the Eden Energy Medicine motto – “Test before you Ingest“, you can watch Tony and I demonstrating this on our sister site. You want to try energy test anything you ingest to make sure your body wants it at that time, but that aside for now here are some tools we both have used for a long time to increase the healthy energy of anything we eat.

Tags conscious cooking, cooking, Donna Eden, energy medicine, figure-8, gratitude, intention, love, positive energy, tony and tina

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Caring For The Practitioner

Post author By tina
Post date September 4, 2013

Practice Good Energy

It has now become essential to know how to maintain healthy energy in yourself and to protect yourself against the energetically cluttered world we live in. All this information will be helpful whether you are a practioner, of any sort or not, because these exercises will help anyone maintain health and balance.

Energetic hygiene is incredibly crucial to everyone working with people, especially if you are practicing any hands on treatments. Learning to ground, hook and protect yourself will fundamentally change your experience and the people you work with. I hope to share with you how to optimize your energy allowing for a deeper and more fulfilling healing session for your client and for you.

I am a complementary care practioner myself and have a deep understanding of the practioner / client relationship through my own clients, the Eden Energy Medicine Community and because at Tony&Tina I have spent countless hours with make-up artists and estheticians and I know how draining and challenging the work can be.

This information is great if you practice some form of healing modality and especially helpful if you are new to this field and work with clients in any hands on experience. Most of this is based on Eden Energy Medicine which is simple, effective and easy to incorporate into any traditional spa service. My intent is to give you tools to bring a deeper, healthier, experience to your clients and a more rewarding experience for yourself.

The below suggestions are all written out in detail (if they are not yet they will be as this post will be evolving as time goes on) at the end making this a quick reference if you are already versed in these techniques. Plus you can find video and audio of many of these on our sister site – Cristinas Energy Center.

Before your client:

Increase energy – the three thumps
Increase intuition – forehead soothing
Create a healing space (holding space and intention, aromatherapy and cross-over’s)
Ground yourself
Hook up
Protect yourself (Celtic weave, weaving the outer aura, trace governing and central, and zip-up)
Make sure your flow of energy is complete (Celtic weave, connecting heaven and earth)
Project happy balanced energy (Wayne cook and intent)
Hold your client in love

Watch videos here for most of the above suggestions with this link. If you have any questions for anything that has been left out email us. All the information in our posts will constantly be evolving.

After your client:

Maintain energy hygiene between clients (expelling the venom, auric fluff, Celtic weave and zip-up)
Disconnecting your energies after a session / treatment
Pull the energy off your hands
Wash your hands from the elbow down
Stretching is a great way to release energy – do any stretch you feel drawn to and then connect heaven and earth
If you feel like you are having a hard time letting go of energy thump your spleen lymphatic and/or flush spleen

In Your Workspace:

Feng Shui your space – there are some very simple things you can do for your space such as inviting in good chi and abundance.
Holding space – this sets an energetic intention for your environment.
Aromatherapy – smell is the most powerful and effective sense we have. Smell is registered in the amygdala, we feel a smell before we think about it. Our sense of smell is deeply tied to our emotional state of mind casting aromatherapy as a staring role in any healing session. You want to spend the extra few dollars and have real essential oils in every treatment room. Use either a candle or a diffuser. Lavender and bergamot are especially relaxing and lift the spirits. You may want to offer your client a choice.
Audiotherapy – the right music can transform your space and every session. There are specific CD’s that evoke healing and meditative states. See our CD’s. Note – when giving a facial and having to move around the room to prepare treatments be very aware of yourself. Do not make any loud abrupt sounds. Setting a soft environment keeps the client relaxed and happy.
Lighting. Bad lighting can ruin a session. Soft low lighting sets the mood and invites relaxation.

Helpful hints

Your clothes absorb energy so change them when you can
Clear and cleanse your environment – sage your environment, use rose spray to cleanse environment, spin a pendulum counter clockwise / clockwise, singing bowl and visualization
Lay flat on the ground letting the energy absorb into the earth – if you can’t get outside lay on a natural fiber or just use your intention. Let the roots of your feet sink deep into the earth to find a solid stone or tree to wrap around and allow earths strength to flow up into you.
Tapping fresh cold water on the back of your neck, feet and top of head is a good quick refresher, mentally and energetically
Always shower at the end of the day to really sweep all the energy off you that you collected during the day

Some helpful visualizations

Cleanse and Ground
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.

Protection
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and turn your attention inward. In your mind’s eye see the person, situation or aspect of yourself that is causing you distress…and now see beautiful shimmering white light showering down around and through this object of distress. This light is clearing away all negativity…you can see shimmering light gently flowing through and clearing away any darkness, effortlessly creating harmony and love. You have let go of all unnecessary emotions…you feel positive and cleansed…you have created a positive change within yourself. Breathe that in.

Gratitude
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and turn your attention inward. See your life, the people who have touched it, good or bad, and be grateful, see their faces…your family, friends, the people you work with – and send them thanks. See our planet and send it love and gratitude. Connect with the truth that we are all one…people, animals, earth, the universe…that everything is connected and you honor that…you are sending everyone and everything deep love and gratitude…and that is what is being sent right back to you. Breathe that in.

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10 Minute Practice

Post author By tina@tonyandtina.net
Post date August 28, 2013

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.

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