Expanding the Universe

Become still, letting go  of your day.  Begin to quiet yourself.  Breathe, watching your breath rise and fall, rise and fall.


Imagine that your energy is as wide as the universe.  Expand your aura out as far as you can to feel this.


Expand to feel the winds of creation,  outer space,  energy,
Llight, and Power surging and rippling through the universe. Be in that.


***


(and while you are doing this, observe the witness that is your consciousness. Notice your witnessing while you are in this storm of energy.)


***


Now,coming closer to Earth, feel the silver cord that connects you to Earth.  You are way out there, but the cord is still there.


Reel yourself in.  See your globe,  your continent, your country and your particular place on Earth.


Come home to your body, sitting here.  Breathe.  Just Be.
Begin to ride the rise and fall of your breath like a wave washing up on the shore.  Release yourself into that rhythm.


***


Feel your blood flowing through your body,  your lungs filling, your heart pumping, rising, falling, expanding, coming back.


Come inward to your heart.  Watch it pump the blood.  See it send the oxygenated blood out to every cell of your body-  red, alive, healthy.  Breathe, and get lost in that ocean.


***


And now come back to your heart as a witness to your expansion and contraction in your life-


to your joys and sorrows


your hopes and dreams


Witness your life, your emotions and know  your heart is connected to your consciousness- together you walk through this life.


And the beat goes on, and on and on and on


                     ***


YOU are the winds of change, the surge of power and the witness to all of life.


Meeting other hearts, creating it all, giving thanks for it all


With guidance and the intention of love, you can create more love, love that expands through the limitless universe.


***


Slowly now, come back to your body, wiggling your toes, and fingers, taking a deep breath, thanking  our guides for our journey on this night.   Namaste,  Lia

A Chance to Llive Again

Just to let you know, I received a pacemaker the other day.  My heart was stopping for 7 seconds at at time, throughout the day.


I had a wonderful surgical team and staff at the hospital.  Goddess bless them for the work they do every day.


Consider this, also, that when a doctor says to you " Did your husband see you pass out?" and " Maybe you should take a look at what else is happening in your life", and sends you home, you could die.


Women, Stand up for yourselves, even if you feel foolish, and men too.


I had to persevere- my brothers at a distance encouraged me and so did my friends.


I have a second chance, now, to teach, to live, and be with my beautiful family.


I have been given lots of techniques from my guides to heal after surgery and am happily using them.


So, next time, new meditations and sending you love and courage to live your life.


Namaste,   Lia

A F**k you attitude

Going through a series of medical tests lately.


I was analyzing what it could be, going on the internet to look things up, trying to logic it out.


Obviously, you need tests- it would be foolish not to check some things out.


But then, I thought, there is always somewhat of a psychological factor to symptoms and illness.  I will research myself by going inward.


Everything in my life is good.  I love my jobs, my relationships are wonderful, I am grateful to have a roof over my head and food to eat.


Then came the answer.  Fear. What??


Fear is underneath all problems.  Maybe just general fear you are not aware of. Or fear you develop from the health situation.


I decided I would do what I could to deal with this.  I got out my trusty Louise Hay's  " You can heal your life."


I looked in the back at the list of problems, causes, and new thought patterns to instill.  It came up with two great affirmations which I am  going to use throughout the next days and maybe long after that.  They are:


" I have the Power and the Strength and the Knowledge to handle   
   Everything in my Life." (and , I add, with Joy!)


and


"  It is my birthright to live life fully and freely."




So,  Fuck You, Fear!  Get outta here!


I can heal myself. ( With help, of course.)  I can do it.  So there you go. 


I hope this helps someone else out there.  Looking forward to posting new meditations again soon.  It is entirely possible I can meditate this away, or at least help the situation with attitude!


Yeah!


P.S.  I realize this sounds like the guy in Saturday Nite Live saying, "Gosh darnit, I'm worth it!  LOL!

Time and memory

Been thinking so much about time and consciousness lately.


I have all these memories of my parents, childhood, being a young parent.


Memories are specific.  You let most of them fall away.  Only the ones that are somehow meaningful to you rise to the surface.


They are sensory, like a candy you roll around in your mouth, tasting each subtle flavor, making it last.


Others cause pain and regret,  "coming back to haunt you."


But I realize, when I am gone, these will be gone, too.


These incidents in consciousness that I think have a huge solidity, a life of their own, will simply no longer be.  There will be no one to return to them.


The only way to pass them on is to tell someone who more or less cares and might then share them with someone else and even then, it is only an approximation.


Or to write, paint, sculpt, write a song about what that moment in time was for you.


Several months before he died, a friend of mine described lying in a hotel room in Hawaii, quite a few floors up, the tradewinds blowing over him through both of the windows.


He said it was so beautiful, that he was so peaceful.


I put myself in his place for a moment and knew, by his tone of voice, that he was experiencing bliss and no-time, wonder and joy, the sweetness of existence.


I think of this often.  It comforts me, and I share a little of his existence again, the sweet part, and I am so glad he felt this way and shared it with me.


I have no conclusion to this piece, just the ephemeral nature of life and memory-


sweet, painful, grateful and sad all at once.

Healing colds and viruses

Once in a awhile, we catch a virus or cold.  I have been working on curing mine.  Before you go to sleep, or while lying around, try this visualization-


Close your eyes and begin to breathe.  Notice the symptoms of your illness.  Now, go into your body and push the symptoms and the virus out of your body and into your aura.


Picture it leaving your body and going into the 2 or 3 feet around your body.   Do this with the front of your body, the sides, the back, above your head to below your feet.


This can be pretty instantaneous or take some time.  Next push the symptoms and virus out of your aura in the same way. Visualize the membrane of your aura and push the virus out of your aura with a pop!   Do this at the back of your body, sides, front and above your head and below your feet.  Do both processes a few times.


Now, bring in golden healing from above your head and begin to fill your body with it.  Let it fill your feet, your legs, your lower body.  Bring in more light and fill your lungs, picturing them clean and clear,  the area around your heart, your bronchial area, clean and clear.  Move on up and fill your throat, your glands, your nose  and sinuses with the golden, honey- colored light.  Let every cell absorb the light, every cell becoming full with perfect health.


Then let the light fill your aura with health and strengthen the membrane around you so it is impervious to any other imbalance out there.


You can do this numerous times.  You might fall asleep while doing it- that's good.


Of course, take your various remedies or doctor- prescribed antidotes, too.


If you have a fever, become one with the fever and visualize it burning out the imbalance.  But don't let it get too high.


So, this will hopefully speed up the process of getting well and returning to good health. 


Til next time,   Lia  

Free Meditations to Stream

I am pleased to announce there are two meditations up on my website, http://www.meditatewithfriends.com.  They are free to stream.


The first one, Journey to Healing, is 25 minutes of deep body healing, co-written by yoga instructor Paul Vasquez.


The second one, The Temple, is 18 minutes, allowing you to release fear, further enhancing your healing.


Feel free to comment on them!  Wishing you peace- Lia


Streaming now, I will figure out the download Monday-


Oops! Cannot get the download feature on the hosting site.  The college student meditation is available for download on the products page.  I had to hire an expert to get that on, so for now, the streaming is it- 

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..
***


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