Please join me as I guide you through a short meditation to remove obstacles on you path to your most abundant life.Each of us encounters difficulty in life, but only you hold the key to transcend these challenges.This meditation creates the space within to unlock your own truth…Come, discover your answers today.
This is a short guided meditation to manifest abundance in your life. Last week I focused on manifesting abundance through the imagery of a Chalice. This week we will manifest abundance with the now well-known idea of the Law of Attraction - “The Secret.” In this meditation discover manifesting is a full-sensory experience - not just your thoughts!
I have many clients who wish to live a more magical life, but are unclear as to how to make this happen.Somehow this concept of “this is for someone else, I don’t have it” keeps coming to the forefront.Let me just be clear, you do have it – you just have to find a way to access it.Here are some tips to open the door to a more magical life…
1.Look for connection.I firmly believe there is a valid reason for everything, both bad and good.Instead of viewing yourself as being a victim of circumstance – what if you chose to belief things happen for a reason?What if you detached from life and looked for the pattern?If you truly witness your life, you will see patterns emerging.Those patterns are happening for a reason.What are they saying to you?
2.Listen to the words people are speaking to you and also pay more attention to the words coming out of your own mouth.Often the advice we give is really for ourselves.Sometimes virtual strangers offer the most profound opportunities – out of the blue someone says something that hits you just right.Do you listen or dismiss these moments?The more you listen and accept these opportunities – the more often they will happen.
3.Go buy some divination cards or runes and begin playing.Any divination tool takes time to build confidence, but I will tell you a secret – sometimes beginners are more pure and can get awesome insights just because they don’t “know too much.”Angel Cards are a great place to start because they are single words, pick one every morning for a week and discover how this works for you.I bet you will feel more connected.
4.Look outside in nature – animals, plants, etc.Several years ago, I bought the book Animal Speak (go to my resources page to find the review/buy) and was immediately hooked.It speaks of living in a connected universe with animals having specific meanings when they appear…Luckily, I live in a place with lots of natural animals (I just saw a bald eagle a couple days ago…) and I am always on the lookout.Which is a big part of living magically – watching for it.
5.Surround yourself with people who do believe or seem to have “magic.”Being around these people will serve as a model – how do they react to new information in their life?I remember meeting a wonderful mentor years ago and she just sparkled – there was just something special, lighter about her and all I could think was, “I want to feel/live like that.”We worked together for awhile and I discovered that light was in me too, but I had blocked it for years for various reasons.Once I was able to release those stumbling blocks – the magic poured in and I was able to transcend my limiting beliefs unlocking a brand new life – JOY!!!
In the beginning, you consciously need to create opportunities for magic to enter your life (cards, looking to nature…) and then suddenly, you will discover - it is all around.You’ll even be amused to discover it has always been here, just waiting for you.You hold the key, in your mind and in your heart.Come, the magic is waiting for you to step into…
Over the years, both through meditating myself and supporting my clients in their practices, I have discovered some blocks that may be halting your progress with meditation.Here is some guidance to help you through these blocks…
1.“I can’t quiet my mind.”I believe this is the first big hurdle in meditating to overcome.First, try guided meditation instead of attempting to pick meditation up on your own in the silence.This gives you something to guide you out of your incessantly thinking mind.Don’t worry, as your practice develops you will be able to meditate in silence and find peace, but first, you have to open the door to this quiet place inside gently.Berating yourself for “not getting it” fast enough just hurts you and really plays to your ego.Think of it like any hobby or sport you pick up – it takes time and guidance to become comfortable.
2.“I don’t have time.”Almost all my clients in my private practice want to add meditation to their life, but time is a big stumbling block.Even for myself I sometimes run into this problem.That’s partly why I created my Everyday Meditation series – daily ten–minute meditations.I’m not of the school you have to meditate for 20 minutes or more a day.I’m a Mom, wife and business owner…I do not live in an Ashram where I have hours to devote to a meditation practice – I live in the very real, busy world.So if you only have 5 minutes right now, take it – spend five minutes concentrating on your breath.I promise you will feel better and surprisingly, the 5 minutes will stretch longer as you feel more comfortable and relaxed with your practice.
3.“I fall asleep.”During workshops this often comes up because my clients believe they fall asleep during the meditations. Upon ‘waking’ from the meditation they don’t remember anything, except they feel much better. This “falling sleep” response is when your conscious mind goes to sleep because it is not interested in what is going on. For example, maybe you’ve gotten in the car to go to the store and upon arrival you don’t remember driving there? Well, you’ve probably driven there dozens of times and now it has become automatic, your mind is free to think of other things instead of directions. Another reason for this “falling asleep” response is the topic of the meditation may be too upsetting to look at directly and again, your mind is protecting you by falling asleep and allowing the healing to first begin in your sub-conscious.I often intentionally fall asleep to meditations knowing its healing affects on my sub-conscious.If you are feeling better after the meditation, except it, don’t fight it.Again, as you heal your sub-conscious, this ‘falling asleep’ response will just slip away and you will become more present and ‘awake’ during your meditation.
4.“I don’t like the imagery in the guided meditation.”While I was teaching a meditation workshop a student complained that she hated meadows and couldn’t fall into the meditation due to this.The meditation we had just finished was set in a meadow and connecting to safety.She kept saying how barren and dead meadows are…This was surprising to me because meadows are magical places for me full of life.I asked her to look at her language and her life.The meadow she created was in her own mind – she made it barren, without life.The meditation was in fact informing her of this barren view point.I suggested she herself put life into the image in the meditation – adding trees, flowers, birds, etc.This is actually a direct opportunity to heal.This is a gift of meditation to gently heal yourself in your own time.5.“I know I’m not doing it right. I must be missing something.”Maybe you’ve read you can be closer to God or manifest things through meditation, but you are not feeling this.Relax. We live in a society that loves to compare – restrain yourself.Ask yourself this, do you feel better – maybe calmer after meditating?Yes, you are doing it right.Let this practice unfold in your life gently.I promise magic will happen.
I hope this helps you overcome some blocks in your own meditation practice.If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact me.I am here to help.So be it.
Everyday we are bombarded with a noisy world. Something is always buzzing in the background. The so-called soundtrack of your life whether it is the radio, the hum of computers and appliances, planes flying overhead, the voices of others – it is constant. We are ourselves uncomfortable with silence as we fill the quiet spaces in natural conversation with mindless chatter – embarrassed by the silent lapses.
The constant noise around me sometimes draws me into its endless spinning. I become like the sounds around me – constantly vibrating and moving, not listening. I become so fixated on my sound and my moving that I forget to stop. I become so fixated on the “I,” the Ego, that I forget to trust. I become my own God – I am in charge, I can do it all - forsaking my true God in service of my Ego.
This is when I fall. Somehow, something happens and I am reminded to stop and listen. I see the Psalms of the Old Testament, “Be still and know that I am God,” and I remember I am the beloved child of God, and no one shall ever separate me from this knowledge. A certain peace washes over me. I am amused again to see my feet of clay that never do go away, but reappear again and again in new ways teaching me compassion.
In this humbled state, I am able to sit in the silence and know I am not alone. This quiet does not call me to fill it with my own chatter, my own ego, but the silence draws me closer to my own longing to be whole.
When I meditate with this truth, this longing to be connected with a living God, I hear the silence talking to me - inviting me into the fullness of my life with opportunities and people who suddenly materialize as if by magic. God is great and sometimes you need to provide the space, the silence, for a living God to speak directly to you. May you discover the silence is waiting for you too, calling you to peace.
