Cave of the Goddess

I have tried to create these blogs so they are easy to do at work, or anywhere.  Every once in awhile I like to take you deeper, going on a longer meditative journey as we do in our circle. So, fair warning- here we go.


Do you ever feel, at the end of the day, like you are stuck full of little pins and needles of other people's energy?  We are going to go through the chakras and release all of these.


So, breathe and release, starting with your feet and legs, pulling out all these darts of energy. Moving up to your first chakra at the base of your spine, breathe, and on the outflow, blow away these points of energy.  Go to your belly and release.  Be sure to get to the front and sides of your chakras, too.  Solar plexus, heart chakra and throat chakra, release.  Pull out other people's thoughts, ideas, words thrown at you.   Sixth chakra at your forehead, release. 


Yawn, stretch your shoulders, arms and hands, blow it all away until you are free of all these mostly unintentional hurts, all these attentions directed towards you, all these judgments. Relax your face, your eyes, your jaw. Breathe, releasing on the outflow, until you are clean and clear in your own energy.  Take a deep cleansing breath and fill with your own light.  Ahhhh, breath flowing easily now, like clear water running through you. Relax..
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And now, you hear a bird calling, a clear, sweet voice, calling to you.  Follow the sound along a stream. Rising up, the bird is flying ahead of you, urging you on.  You climb higher.  You can hear the bird, the water flowing in the stream.  You feel the sunlight on your skin, you see the light, green and gold.


Climbing further, you see a waterfall now, coming down in a sheet of water, over the rocks and moss.


You climb to the side and step behind the waterfall.


It is dimmer here.  Looking back to where you came from, you can see the world through the sheet of water, but removed from you.


It is not your concern now, you can let go of your world- it will wait for your return.


You turn and follow the passage deeper into the hill.


It is a long journey. The path curves around and around, going deeper into the mountain.


It is not too dark; the walls seem to be changing to a soft gold and red material like sandstone. On you trek and finally you come to a widening of the passage.


There is a room with the sunlight coming from above, high in the rock.  And there is a lady, who greets you.  She offers you a place to rest and hands you a gourd hollowed out for drinking.


You see the golden, shimmering liquid and you drink.


It flows into your body, healing all your cells,


flowing into each molecule, healing, calming, soothing,


and magically, you feel you can release any pattern that doesn't serve you,


any old habits you would like to let go of,  patterns of behaviour, relationship patterns, unease, anything-


you release from your body and aura.


Feel the old patterns being lifted out of your body-


any imbalance is lifted out and taken away to be dissipated into nothing, the structure collapsing into itself, like brittle toothpicks in your hands, turned to dust.


Do this again, and again, until you feel clear- 
*** 


 In their place you set a new grid of energy- into your body and mind- flexible, flowing, full of light and health-


all flowing easily, creatively, powerfully. Sit with this feeling for awhile.


***


And now your guide takes you to a ledge.  You sit together, looking out over a landscape of energy.


You see the flow of energy moving, like muscles, below you- shifting, changing color.


You see the sky above with stars in an orange and rose-colored sky-


Earth and sky communicating.


You see that all is energy


and that you can learn from this energy, work with it, perceive it-


***


you are full of gratitude for this insight.


Standing up now, you embrace your guide,thanking her. She leads you to the passageway, where you journey once again, turning this way and that, til you hear the sound of the waterfall.


Slipping through the veil, you come back


to this green earth, following the stream now, back to this life.
Becoming grounded in your body, gently slipping back into your regular waking consciousness and into this room.


Namaste,  Lia

The Void

Sometimes your creativity seems to come to a halt.  You feel you don't  have any ideas, or at least, nothing worth working on.  During these times it is important to realize you are in the void.


No reason to panic.  It is a resting phase, a dormancy.


Like plants that seem to die off in the winter, it is actually good for them to get a good frost.   They come back even healthier in the Spring.


So, relax, leave your mind blank.  Allow yourself to leave your materials alone.  You are free!  To achieve nothing!


Read, lie around, take naps. 


In the void, you are seeding yourself in ways you are not aware of.  You are paying attention to other things -  other people's work, nature, your own emotions- that you will use later.


If you want to, after awhile, cross- pollinate during this time.  Write, if you are a sculptor,  draw if you are a writer, with no care for the outcome. Just goof around.


One thing you can do, is this.  Visualize a huge golden sun of your own energy above your head.  Start to bring it into your body, beginning with the top of your head.  Slowly bring the golden light  all the way through to your feet, breaking off at your heart chakra to fan out to the ends of your fingertips, until you are like a huge star. 


Do this a few times a day with a clearing and healing intent- it feels good.


Soon, when you least expect it, your creativity will rebound, perhaps in a whole new way, leading you into a new phase.


It always does. The energy of the universe is limitless, as are your ideas and your imagination. 


Namaste,  Lia

Take a break

There is alot of anxiety and fear around lately. Try this one to help yourself feel better.


Imagine yourself tip to toe as a huge sponge.   You know how people say we are like sponges- especially those of us who are sensitive.  We do pick up on other people's energy and on the general mood of the world.


So, as a sponge, wring yourself out- lengthwise, sideways, all ways.
Do it again, and then again.  Do this until you feel empty of thought forms.  You might even cry or laugh it is such a relief.  Empty, empty, empty, get it all out of there.


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Rest awhile.  Take a few deep breaths.  Start to feel your own body again, sitting there.  Empty,  Light,  Breathing.


Gently spin your chakras.


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Feeling quiet, peaceful now, bring in a color of light from above, one you like. It can be anything.  Let the color come to you- don't try to resist or change what comes to you.


This color is the one you feel most comfortable in, the color that is most you.


Let the color come in, filling every cell with  healing.  Feel your body soak it up, like a needed nutrient.


Ah, that feels good, to be in your own healing color, in your own energy.


***


The color begins to glow brighter, then brighter, burning off any residue you don't need or want.


Now let your color merge with white light,  becoming radiant, powerful, confident.  Shining out in all directions from your aura.


May you be protected through the rest of your day and may your presence be a blessing to those you come in contact with. 


 Namaste, Lia


P.S. Go to "Winter Meditation" for a deeper experience honoring this holiday season-that would be December 17, 2013 blog

Gift yourself for the holidays

I almost forgot, if you want to get away from holiday stress, go to meditatewithfriends.com and download my newest meditations.  I think there are six or eight to choose from including The River, The Castle, and Mountain Lake ( one of my favorites).


For those of you using the blog, this is your chance to hear my voice, and experience  what we do in meditation class for a guided journey.


There is also a free meditation for college and/or high school students.


May your holidays be filled with love and magic- Lia

Low Blood Sugar

The other day I was walking.  I felt a little dizzy, but kept on.  I was on a path with no one, without my phone, when my knees buckled, and all of a sudden, I didn't know where I was or who I was.  I was passing out.


I had the feeling that if I passed out, I wouldn't wake up.  I also thought, suddenly, practically,  " No one is going to find you out here for a long while." 


 So I sucked it up, started breathing slowly and took baby steps all the way home.


I made it, then started shaking violently.  My husband finally said, "Why don't you drink one of those sports drinks?"


I did(2) and avoided going to the hospital.  The next morning I went to the doctor.  Diagnosis:  low blood sugar.


Now I have to work with this and find a balance, which I am doing.


What did this teach me?  To eat regularly, protein and whole grains, etc.  But mainly  "Take your phone" and take something sugary to eat along for emergencies. And my brother told me,  If you feel as if you are going to pass out, get down on the ground- prevents worse injury.  Thought I would pass that one along to you.


It's the first time I experienced not knowing who or where I was.  I feel like I have been conscious since before I was born.


Ironic that we all strive to be conscious when we already are.


We just have to realize it and wake up. I really got how good this life is-  had a moment looking around when it was very clear.


Then, in the middle of the night, I also received the insight,  THIS IS Heaven on Earth, right here, right now. 


We create struggles to learn, but  sometimes we really don't have to.


Since this experience I also have entertained the thought that this life is all there might be.  So hold on and live now.


How, then to explain my communication with guides and messages from people no longer here?


I do believe there is a large soup of cosmic consciousness made up of people living now and the consciousness of people who are no longer here, and that there probably are other dimension or planes of existence that don't follow our linear time.


I think we can tap into this consciousness and perhaps tap into our own DNA, memories from other times or dimensions.And, of course, we tap into our own subconscious, too.


Hey, more things on heaven and earth than we can know. But we will be in another form someday, very different from this one.


My mother came to me during this time and said "Your health crisis is over, honey." Actually she called me a nickname I hadn't remembered in years.  The tone of voice was just right, too.
Thanks, Mom.


And thank you, Universe, for this sort of like a near-death experience.  Hey, I only need one, though!


So, in sharing this, I'm thinking there might be some information you need here.  I have spoken to a few other women and men who feel they have had some similiar symptoms when jogging, etc.


So, here's to managing our health and hanging around for awhile!

Disputes

When you are in a dispute with someone, you naturally think you are right.


It is easy to lose the ability to see the other's point of view.


I find, however, that righteous indignation and holding tightly to one's own view doesn't help the situation.  It just creates blockage, hard feelings, and makes me a victim. 


 It may help to think of disagreements as a flow back and forth, with facts and feelings changing all the time within the scenario.


Think fluid, movement, complex corners and motivations that cannot truly be known.


So, take a deep breath, ground and picture yourself flowing out of the situation.


It will change.  This is only a short time in your life- a week, a day, an hour, an instant-  you will be moving out of this.


All situations exist to teach us something, even if we don't really want to learn the lessons that might be there.


So, Bless the situation, put a gentle light between all the participants, and breathe into the calm that is always there.


   Namaste,  Lia

Harvest

Find a place you will not be disturbed for while. Make yourself comfortable.


Ground and center yourself. Let fear and tension go with the outbreath.  Bring in fresh energy on the inbreath.  Continue this for awhile.


Visualize a large flower, rather like a sunflower.  See it go through its life cycle once in your mind. Growing, blooming, then decaying.


Now see the flower at full bloom. Slowly the outside layer of petals begins to shrivel, then falls off.  Then the next layer does the same, then the next, layer upon layer.  Watch the spent blooms release.


To quote a children's book I once read,  "Everything changes, nothing stays the same."  And this is the order, the way things are.  Sometimes it is a relief, a clearing, to let go.


Keep breathing, releasing the many things, people and attitudes you have had to let go of in your life, on your path of growth.


 ***


Breathe.  Finally there is nothing left on the old stalk but the seeds.


Cup your hands. Shake a few seeds into your palms.


Place these seeds in your aura for awhile, perhaps in your heart chakra.  Let them rest, become more potent. Think about them.


When it is time ( you will know ) reach for them and plant them, these seeds of hope.


Plant hopes for the world, hopes for your own life, hope for the future.  Make the soil ( the field of energy ) rich with love and joy and wonder each time you plant a seed.


May your seeds, sprout, grow and flower, magically bringing healing where it is most needed in this world.  Namaste- Lia