With the holidays upon us there are  increased demands on our time, energy, and pocketbook. It can become overwhelming resulting in short tempers and slipping into default mode of what is expected of me. There is a disconnect from your true north and the things that really matter to you.

When giving becomes a chore, a should, a ‘have to’ , it drains the joy out of giving.   The true spirit of giving comes from a full heart. It’s harder to access that if your feeling tired, drained, and unappreciated. It’s a good time  to take a minute and connect with your heart. Move some energy to recharge and refill your cup so you can enjoy the holidays in a way that feels good to you.  Here’s a quick  way to connect below. (and really a minute does make a difference but you can do it longer if you want )

• Close your eyes, put your hand to your chest.
• Take a deep breath directing the breath to your heart, allow the breath to fill your heart
• On the exhale imagine water washing away all the grit….tension, stress,
• With each inhale imagine love, compassion, peace, energy whatever feels depleted to flow into your heart from the breath and from your hand.
• Each exhale washes away  as above.

Connecting with your heart is a beautiful way to stay grounded in your truth and keep your energy flowing. Hoping you have a joy filled holiday.

Stuck in a rut with the same old, same old. The spark and sizzle has fizzled out. Whether it’s your love life or the creative spark your looking for paying some attention to your sacral chakra can put the zing back into your game.

A fun way to get the energy moving is to try some hip swinging, move your hips in a figure 8 pattern starting out slowly and picking up speed. You can add some sass with a snap of the hip or a shrug of the shoulders to boost the energy a little more.

Taking a couple of minutes to swing those hips will stimulate your sacral chakra, where your creativity, sensuality, and pleasure resides, and there’s no telling where that might lead……

Here’s a video to show you how, this ones for you Sarah

We are all faced with hundreds of choices each day, yet there are some that just get under our skin. You know the decision that feels so big or important that you find yourself questioning everything about it. Then just when you think you’ve got it down 3 more possibilities pop into your head and your back at square one.

Making a major decision triggers 3 things in the subconscious: the fear of the unknown, loss of control, and unworthiness. This shows up differently for each of us both in intensity and the actual way that it feels. Everyone has a hot spot that triggers their decision archetype more intensely, be it relationships, finances, or business.

There are 5 major decision archetypes. Most of have a blend of types depending on the situation and a highly charged situation will activate the primary archetype. Here are the core mindset, thought patterns and choice set points.

Tortoise

Mindset: choosing is overwhelming

Thinks: I just can’t make up my mind.;  Why is this happening to me?;  I just don’t know.

The choice is not to choose

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Hare

Mindset: speed = success

Thinks: Just get it over with already.;     Never mind over thinking it.:     Move on.

The choice is made fast without full exploration.

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Sparrow

Mindset: change is scary

Thinks: The devil you know is better than the one you don’t.;     I’ll stick with what I know.;     Don’t disrupt the apple cart.

The choice is the familiar, no change.

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Porcupine

Mindset: conforming gives up all freedom

Thinks: I’m not following the crowd;     No one tells me what to do.;     I’ll do my own thing; don’t tell me what to do.

The choice is whatever is different, regardless of what they really want.

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To change it’s important to interrupt the pattern. Each of our bodies contains its own set of energetic vortexes, lines and points that facilitate communication between the mind and body. This communication gets disrupted, sometimes completely disconnected, and we lose the fullness of our inherent well-being. It is difficult to access your best decision making ability with this disconnection.

Using tools to tune in to body’s subtle energy system to interrupt the long-standing patterns of neurotransmissions that we’ve established creates a pattern interrupt, allowing you to see things from a different perspective and choose differently. When you’re faced with a choice, deciding which path to take triggers your decision archetype, because the mind likes to categorize you go to what is familiar.   Energy work like chakra cleansing, EFT, conscious connection, can  create new neuro-pathways for decision making. This allows you to disconnect from the emotional baggage you may have around making a decision and change in general. The result is a more balanced, worry-free decision making process that allows you to be open to opportunity and the many possibilities that life offers.

In my conversations every day I talk with many people who deny that they work with energy. It makes  me smile because; if  everything is energy(and it is) then everything we do involves working with  energy. For many it is not a conscious thing and for some they simply don’t see that what they are doing is working with energy.

After all energy is this invisible force that is somewhat mysterious. You can’t see it, or touch it, but it’s there none the less. With current scientific advances we are just beginning to be able to measure it. It’s hard to claim something we can’t see. Yet we feel the effects of it all the time. Having a stressful day….feel the dull headache, tense shoulders, upset stomach? You can’t see stress( well okay maybe the crabby boss you can see, but not the actual stress he is causing) but you sure can feel it.

For those  whose work  focusing on stress relief, definitely energy work. How about about mind set; so often shifting a mind set  is part of the work someone does. Can you see it in customer relations, the receptionist at the dentist, a coach,  or a salesman?  It’s all about shifting the energy. The energy fuels our actions.

If we are doing it any way, why not hone  our skill and do it deliberately. It’s not magic, there is a cause and effect relationship with energy.  Focusing where you want your energy to flow and how you receive energy can be  a conscious  choice, one that is not all consuming.  A little bit of attention and awareness can create noticeable changes.

So, in what ways do you work with energy in your work, relationships, or everyday situations? What would be possible if you claimed the energy work you are doing?

The Seven major chakras are our primary system for energy processing. Each chakra processes a different frequency of energy and relates to a different area of the body.

What most don’t know or pay attention to is the different frequency in the front and back of the chakras. Tuning in o this can make a big difference  when working with blocks in your  energy system.

The front vortex of each chakra relates to the conscious self and our immediate reality while the backside relates to our unconscious self and our ancestral , past life energy.

When working with the chakras, the front side is where we access the energy from this current life experience.

The back side is where we access the energy to connect with our past life experiences, higher dimensions, as well as hidden knowledge, feelings, and secrets.

Here is a handy chart showing what is held where.

We are all spiritual energetic beings yet so often we forget the energy of being. The day to day routines, busyness, and ‘shoulds’  keep us disconnected. In day to day life with all that we do how do we keep the connection to our essence?

When we are in meditation or removed in some way from our day to day life we can often connect with our inner stillness, the essence of who we are and allow it to permeate our energy field.  Once we mix in the husband, children, job, life in general the connection fades.  As our energy field absorbs the energy around us; the roles we’ve defined for ourselves, the beliefs we hold, and the energy of others it’s easy to slip into the state of doing without conscious awareness of being.

We forget that as spiritual energetic beings we can experience the external without becoming it. We become attached to outcomes, circumstances, and ways of doing. When we become attached we limit the possibilities, narrow the field of vision. By attached I mean needing it to be just so, and excluding other possibilities.

There is an old parable floating around that goes something like this: There is a great flood and a man prays to God be saved from certain death, a row boat comes by and the man says “No, I’m waiting for God”, same thing happens with the rescue boat, and then a helicopter. The man drowns and when he gets to the pearly gates says “God why didn’t you rescue me?” God replies “I sent a row boat, a rescue boat, and a helicopter what else did you want?”

Having a preference for something is not attachment .The man in the parable was attached to how he would be rescued.  A preference for say, yellow flowers does not mean all flowers need to be yellow, simply that you like them better.

When we step into the energy of being we open the door to possibilities that we may never have even dreamed of.  When we are in the energy of being we are tuned in to the essence of who we are.  This essence does not have the constraints of limiting beliefs, attachments, or preconceived roles to play.

Awareness is the first step to staying in the energy of being.  Becoming aware you can bring your conscious attention back to the present moment, and step out of doing and into being. Using your breath is a great tool to stay in the energy of being.  Taking the time to focus on your breathing brings your attention back to the present moment and energy of being.  Consciously taking three deep breaths, inhaling and exhaling through your nose, periodically throughout the day will help you stay in the energy of being.

This at first seems to be a narrowing of focus, what it does is expand the possibility in ways that doing alone cannot access. Expressing the essence of who you are is a powerful and inspiring act, one that has a ripple effect. Will you add your ripple to the pond of life?

It’s in there somewhere covered with piles of paper, the desk, the one you’ve not seen so for so long forgotten what it looks like.  The folder you need is nowhere to be found.  You’re sure you have an appointment today if you could just find in the hundreds of emails in your inbox so you can check the time.  The phone rings and as you reach for it, your coffee spills, not the way you intended to start your day.

We all know how hard it is to work with a cluttered workspace.  You can’t find things, it feels chaotic, and you just don’t work very efficiently.   What’s happening here in the physical is a reflection of your energetic space as well.

The external is often a mirror for the internal, so all that external clutter very likely means you’ve got a whole bunch of internal clutter, energetic resistance that’s interrupting your flow.  But how do you know?  And really, what can you do about it anyway?

Try this:

• Take a look at an area in your life where you’re feeling stuck or struggling.  That’s the external clutter.

• Then set aside 15 minutes to write out all of your frustrations, fears, and desires for the area that you kept.  Anything and everything that comes up for you.

• Then take a deep breath and allow all of those emotions removed for you.  Just imagine them as if they are floating down a river that flows right down your spine and allow them to flow right out into the sea where they’re neutralized.  {An alternative to this would be to use a whiteboard and write all your frustrations there and then erase them.}

• Now, allow back into your mind what it is that you truly desire.  Notice if there are any fears or limiting beliefs or self-sabotaging habits that pop up.  And if they do, just let them flow out like in the step before this.  And keep doing this until you’ve got a nice, clear stream flowing.

What you’ve just done is clear up some energetic ‘clutter’. Very often when you finish this exercise, you’ll find that you really want to get that clutter cleared out of the way in the physical as well.

Choices, everywhere you turn, hundreds to thousands a day,  we value our ability to choose so highly that when we feel that it’s threatened in some way we voice our dismay loudly,  yet most choices are made  by default. Sometimes they seem so mundane as to not really matter when they really do have a significant impact.

A client of mine  a few years ago was having some pain issues in her hips she was getting  no real relief from traditional medicine. Through our work together she discovered that she operated primarily  from her 6th chakra. With this info we were able to see how she processed her individual choices and isolated the choice to get out of bed each morning with the thought of  ‘I wish I could be doing something fun instead of being stuck working’ and a feeling of missing out on something. This had created a stronghold in her energy field, specifically her 2nd chakra , over time it had become a block and was manifesting as physical pain. She consciously shifted her thoughts when getting out of bed, actively planned ‘fun’ time,  and added some visual cues as well  to utilize her 6th chakra operating preference, and  within 2 weeks was feeling better the pain had disappeared in a months’ time.

Choices feed the chakras. The mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual energy of the choice is processed through the chakras. Over time repeated thoughts, feelings and actions can create a strong hold that  disrupts the flow of energy. This disruption  informs the physical, emotional, and mental bodies  of a change in frequency. Over time this can manifest as a physical symptom, an emotional response, or a mental thought pattern.

Being conscious of your choices and working with you energy can resolve or prevent many of these strongholds  long before they show up as a physical symptom. Things as simple as  deep breathing, chakra cleansing, or exercise are great ways to get started.

Money evokes a myriad of reactions,  especially when connected to spiritual or  healing work. It is consistently in the top 3 concerns for most  people( health and relationships are the other two).

There are universal concerns about ‘enough’ regardless of income level, as well as a swirling mix  of  judgment and shame.

Each of us  has an energetic ‘DNA’  encoded in our energy system  this energetic blueprint supports  our  perceptions in all areas of  our life including money and its meaning to us.

Money is an area that, even though all of us  interact with it regularly, is not openly discussed.   There is a cloak of secrecy that surrounds it . This secrecy provides  fertile  ground for old programming encoded in our energy print to continue to run. Even if the old programming is  not congruent with our current reality, hopes, and dreams. In order to create new  experiences  new  patterns must be created and old ones released.

There are many ways to do this, the  key is in identifying the old programming then anchoring the new  while releasing the old. Understanding your unique dynamic comes into play here, a cookie cutter approach will not have lasting effects. Any technique that is used must be  fine tuned to your specific money consciousness.

I would love to have you join the conversation on the Energy of Money call.

I can hear the sweet melody of your brilliance calling to you

Beckoning you to bring forward your light, shining brightly to illuminate the darkness

Allowing your gifts to be a beacon for those who come after, to light their way

Listen to the sweet call of awakening beckoning you forward

Embrace all that you are, Stand in the power of your true essence

Come, come play in this enchanted journey of evolution

Fear not for this is your true calling

What will take dear One to step out from the shadow and shine your light expansive and free

To play in the infinite playground of possibility

Come , come play