V. More in July!

IV- Receiving

In order to receive, we must first empty.  There are so many ways to do this important first step.
Clearing your chakras( a million ways to do this.), grounding, breathing, toning, stretching.

Letting go of your day, getting out the kinks, clearing your mind, releasing all the gunk we have picked up from others and the gunk we make ourselves. 

Purification, if you will.  It is not hard and fun really to see all the stuff go flying off your aura. It is like exercise, which clears toxins and tension, afterward leaving you so relaxed.

The first section of most of the meditations are clearing and relaxation so we can be open enough to go where our souls are leading us.

For an example of one type of clearing, go to http://meditatewithfriends.com  the products page and click on free sample. (After that is a free meditation for students, which anyone could use, really)

I also often clear my chakras at night as I am falling asleep, or even in the middle of the night, and then send prayers and healing to those I think of.

All  of this comes down to working on yourself, becoming more conscious of where your body and mind are, and making  room for your Higher Self to show up.

III. The Story continues

I was meditating with a group of women. We were toning- no words just notes - it was beautiful.  We
had our eyes closed. I felt a presence on my right.  The only way to describe the feeling was bright, joyful, ecstatic.

I sneaked a peek. There was no one there that I could see with my physical eyes.  I closed my eyes again and felt/saw the angelic presence again which stayed with us until we ended our toning.

It was a surprise and a privilege to feel this participation in our group. 

This happened many years ago.  There have been other times, but not exactly like this.  Sometimes, when meditating, the presence might come in the form of a fragrance, a word coming to mind, or a touch on the shoulder.  Others have experienced similiar things at times in their own journey. It is always magical.

Before I lead a group meditation, I ask that our guides and angels of light please be present.  If we go deep, with healing intent, I believe there is an exchange of energy between us.  We receive Llight and we give Llight back. Somehow both sides helping the other. Creating a channel between the worlds

May Spirit bless and protect you on your journey.
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MeditateWithFriends.com: the story continues

II.    After I heard those words and that voice ( which I never heard again in that way) I started waking up in the middle of the night with  meditations flowing through me.  I had to get up and write them down or they would fade.

Then it dawned on me that I was living with two musicians-  they recorded in our home studio all the time.  Aha! we could record these meditations.  They recorded my voice and also got into putting music behind the words and some sound effects.  The result was beautiful, although now they seem almost symphonic- but hey, it was the late 80's so it was fitting.

The meditations all had a theme of a different animal, so I called them Totemic Meditations. I was teaching pre-school and had a young daughter  and so we made some for children with dolphins, unicorns and whales.  We were having alot of fun.

I decided to start a group for women.  I saw so  many new mothers stressed out and I knew this would help. I asked those I thought would be interested.  They were.  We met in a church, then at a community center and finally at my house.

The first group stayed together for about 7 years.  I would lay down to meditate after school, asking for guidance for that evening.  A meditation would come to me, I typed it up and gave it that night.
So often the meditation corresponded to issues one of the women was struggling with.  And of course we all could relate.  We learned so much from each other.

All of  us grew in strength and openness of heart. We took healing methods and techniques home  to use with our families.  We all felt truly blessed with the presence of the Goddess and our angels on our spiritual journey at that time.

The Beginning of MeditateWithFriends.com

Somehow the three of us met- It might have been walking the neighborhood with strollers, I don't really remember.

We decided we would meditate and so we did.  We met at 7:00 at night, after hurriedly throwing some dinner our family's way.  We met at 10:00 in the morning while the kids were in school.  We hiked up into the hills behind our houses, sat on a plateau and meditated while the sun set.

Anyway, we were having a great time while trying to create a calm space inside ourselves to help manage the rest of our busy lives.

Meanwhile, we were having other kooky spiritual adventures with other groups when we could.  Among them:

Receiving an aetherial sword, walking a labyrinth, planting crystals in a circle on a mountain top with good wishes for the Earth, meditating for 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon presided over by an archangel's energy.

We took our 7-year old daughters to a dance and tone gathering designed to open the chakras.  ( They loved it, particularly when one of the guys started speaking to them in dolphin.)

We even gave each other healings while my friend's son and daughter chased each other around the house.

We meditated together in silence, to drumming, to various tapes, Lyn Andrews and one we called reverb woman.  ( She was very good, really.)  We chanted.

Then one day my friend asked me to record a meditation she found in the book,"Ask Your Angels."
I had a small recorder, so I said yes.

When it came time to record, ( I was sitting on the floor of my living room with the recorder in front of me) I thought, " I don't want to record this, I want to record an idea I have."

I wrote out the script, went back to the living room and recorded "Flight."

I finished it and right then, clear as a bell, a voice said  "You Have Come Home."

I am not kidding, it was that clear.  I had not expected it, I had to hear it and right then I knew this was what I was supposed to be doing.