Meeting Aesclepius

I became very emotional when I did the Aesclepius meditation.  I choose to use a dear friend of mine as the person of wisdom in the meditation.  Maryann has not only my dear friend but has been my spiritual mentor for the past couple of years.  I have a wonderful connection with her and our connection is one on a level of mother and daughter to a degree, I am grateful for her every day of my life.  Even the connection in the meditation was a powerful one.  Practicing meditation not only gives me much clarity in my life but I can also connect within and to my higher self.  By making it a point every day to meditate, even if it’s just for 10 or 15 minutes will raise our consciousness to foster health and wellness.  A clear mind is a sharp mind!

The saying “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" means that we need to experience and have knowledge in order to pay it forward and teach the next person.  For example, if a holistic nutritionist is not eating and practicing holistically, how could they possibly teach someone else to live this lifestyle?  As wellness professionals we absolutely have an obligation to develop our mind, body, and spirit, it keeps us grounded and connected.  As a Reiki practitioner, if I did not self Reiki every day and only practiced when I had a client, I feel that I would be cheating myself first off and I value my clients to much not to stay grounded and connected to the energy. 
~Michelle

Universal Loving Kindness

The loving kindness exercise is a very powerful tool.  After reciting this for ten minutes, I was brought to a very peaceful place.  When my spiritual journey started several years ago, one of the first things that I learned is loving kindness, although this isn't what I called it, and I now have a name for it!  I found that when I realized that we are all the same and that we are all souls, forgiving comes so much easier, as well as health, happiness, and wholeness.  Because once you really want those things for yourself it is what you want for everyone else because in fact we are all one.  

After taking the assessment it was no surprise to me that I was lacking in biological flourishing.  I have struggled with my weight for most of my life and I have a hard time sticking with any kind of exercise regimen for long, and I can never seem to figure out why I fall off, I mean it isn’t brain surgery, its 30 minutes per day.  I once had chalked it up to boredom, but there are so many fun activities out there, I can’t see how that could be the case.  But I refuse to give up.  Maybe this is something that I need to tackle deeper with hypnosis or past life regression.  It isn’t a matter of not knowing what to do as far as eating because I do eat healthy and don’t buy processed foods or eat any kind of fast foods.   Just today I created an exercise regimen with strength training and a walking regimen.  I made this regimen a short term goal of 8 weeks and plan to reassess at the end to see where I am and how much better shape I am in!

Loving Kindness

I enjoyed this exercise, thinking of my daughters made me feel warm and fuzzy.  To love ourselves can be a difficult task.  It took me many years to love myself, not only to love myself but to accept myself; I feel that these two things go hand in hand.  We must have love for ourselves to love others, just as we must take care of ourselves to take care of others.  The second and third part of this exercise helped me immensely, I take in others feelings, hurt, sadness, and happiness and sometimes putting a bubble around me to keep out these energies doesn’t always protect me fully, but by learning to breathe a little more and sending light on the outbreath will be a new way for me to deal with this type of thing.  This type of exercise would definitely be beneficial to anyone who does it, our world needs more love, positive energy, and “loving kindness”!  If even half of our population made this a practice, consciousness would grow tenfold.  This in itself is a mental workout, it is a way of training our minds and by doing exercises like this we grow and flourish, do it for 21 days and see how you feel!  So love, love, love, and forgive with all you have.

Love on

~Michelle