Stop Fixing, Start Emerging in 2011
Aacckk! I don’t care much for the “I’ve got to ‘fix’ myself energy” that surrounds the New Year. Most of us know that New Year’s resolutions most often fail, usually by February! My belief is these resolutions come out of some “should’s & oughta’s” and not from inner knowing.
Instead of “I need to fix myself,” consciously aware folks ask, “How might I know myself even better so that I can live a more continuous experience of feeling authentically me?” This question recognizes there is nothing to be fixed, that our core (divine) self is always present, and that our evolvement is about allowing our core self to emerge more and more fully.
Especially at this time of year I tap into the various energy bodies to receive guidance. These 4 portals – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy bodies – provide insights for what aspects of my life are ready to be released and what core strengths are ready to emerge. This type of inquiry is well supported by the energies of the winter solstice, a time for illuminating our inner world.
Do you know how to sense your energy bodies? I’ll guide you through a wonderful metaphor a friend of mine, Michael Nunnally, shared on the Consciousness Playground. Note: as you connect with each energy body in its highest vibrational state, notice the “communication” you receive. This is your guidance about what is ready to be released and what is ready to emerge.
- Imagine yourself as a large glass container.
- To get in touch with your PHYSICAL energy body, imagine large rocks in your container. The density of these rocks correspond with your physical body. Have you ever felt your body as coordinated, graceful, and in flow? This is the higher vibrating physical body and the one you want to communicate with for guidance.
- To get in touch with your MENTAL energy body, imagine pouring small pebbles into your container. Notice that even though the large rocks filled the container there is room for these small pebbles to move down among the larger rocks. You know you are accessing the higher vibrating mental body when you feel “clear headed,” creative and focused.
- Next, in your imagination pour sand into your container. Once again, even though the container appears full, there are still spaces between the pebbles and the rocks and the sand filters down to fill these. This represents your EMOTIONAL energy body and the way emotions affect us both physically and mentally. Shift into your higher vibrating emotional body with feelings of appreciation, peace, joy and love.
- Lastly, pour water into your container and watch as it washes through the rocks, pebbles and sand, coating every piece, visibly changing every thing it touches. This is your SPIRITUAL energy body and is experienced in its highest vibration as a sense of divinity, connection and oneness.
What amazing and profound insights did you experience with this exercise? I would love for you to share them here!
Would you like additional assistance in moving through these energy bodies? Maybe you want some added support in understanding the communication process of these portals?
Join me in Play 4 Guidance in January. I’m offering teleclasses and in person workshops in Austin where I guide participants to use these portals effectively. I also teach several tools to help you harness and better utilize the communication that you receive. Our focus is on receiving individualized guidance directly about 2011. You’ll leave this course with specific “next-steps” to move you purposely forward.
Complimentary Overview Teleclass on Friday, January 7, 1:00 Central Time.
If you want to know the time in your area, check here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Action Steps to Use this Process Now:
- Sit quietly and breath deeply to center yourself. Read the “script” above, one energy body at a time. Notice what you notice with each energy body, then write it down. At the end, let yourself sit with all that you have written, and then distill your guidance down to one or two sentences that create your next steps forward in 2011.
- Register and join me on Friday, January 7 at 1:00 CT to experience a portion of this process with a guide.
I am in Spirit.
“I am in spirit. I see and act like the Creator does.” This is the opening for any exercise of the New Knowledge for the New Age (NKNA) and immediately I drop into this expansive field of energy, fully stepping into my authentic power. There are many exercises for NKNA, each focusing on allowing our physical bodies to return to the state that is in alignment with the perfection of the Creator.
(Check out 5:41 for a patient story.)
Last week I was sick with a stomach virus and running a fever. I tried to reduce the fever with aspirin, Advil and a hot bath. It finally occurred to me to use a NKNA exercise and within minutes the fever broke and I felt tons better! It was a very dramatic response.
These types of experiences (many with much bigger things than fever!) occur on a regular basis for the participants in the Consciousness Playground. Joining now means you get access to all of the recordings about the New Knowledge for the New Age. Additionally, December is devoted to moving even deeper into a true “knowing to the bones” of ourselves to BE the Creator, the One energy. (Check out Wendy’s blog posts at both ConsciousnessPlayground.com and WendyDown.com where some incredible participant stories are showing up.)
If you enjoy cutting edge consciousness experiences, then I encourage you to join this amazing community of like-minded people, all joyously playing in the expansive field of infinite possibility. I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the value I’ve received from being a part of this community. Feel free to send me an email at (celeste@ChannelYourHigherSelf.com) celeste (at) ChannelYourHigherSelf (dot) com.
Also, watch this space for opportunities in January to play with using your energy bodies as portals for receiving guidance as you plan for 2011.
Exercises for Noticing the Creator Energy in You:
1. You can order a free download of my meditation called “Crown Chakra Opening” to experience yourself as your Divine Self using the coupon code “spirit.” (This is Experience J from How to Channel Your Higher Self.)
2. Sit quietly using a centering breath to bring your focus inwards. When your mind and body have stilled, allow the words, “I am in Spirit. I see and act as the Creator does.” to be present in your awareness. Hold your focus on these words, gently bringing your mind back to them when you become aware that you are thinking about something else. (This is normal to have your focus drift, but it becomes easier to retain focus the more you practice.) As you sit with this phrase over time, notice what feels different for you. Can you sense a field of expansiveness? Do you feel calm and peaceful? What other physical or emotional sensations occur for you? All of these feelings can become “portals” for you to access your Higher Self, receive communication and initiate healing.
Medicine Wheel Provides Another Tool for Guidance
I love that there are many ways to connect with your Higher Self. I had the pleasure Thursday afternoon to explore the use of the Native American medicine wheel as such a portal. Marilyn Naylor, a metaphysical counselor who uses this ancient wisdom in her work, shared this powerful approach for accessing guidance that is also totally congruent with our modern life.
The medicine wheel is structured around a North, East, South, and West orientation. Each direction is associated with a particular process of guidance, and once begun, you must always move clockwise in the circle accessing higher/inner guidance in that order. Moving counterclockwise is problematic. That results in feeling stuck, disconnected, and out of synch, causing you to create discontent through bad decisions and poor choices.
The North (Winter) centers on thinking; the East (Spring) is about believing; the South (Summer) opens to your emotions and how you feel and the West (Fall) is what you physically know through your 5 senses and revolves around taking action. Your season of birth indicates where you begin on the wheel.
My birthday is in the Spring and so my process is to consider life’s challenges based first on what I believe, then on how I feel about the challenge. Next I consider how that challenge is impacting me in the “real” world, i.e., what is the impact on my physical body, the people around me, my environment, etc. And the LAST thing is for me to use my intellect, to notice what I’m thinking about the challenge. To move forward I must use the process of believe, feel, know, think.
Guess what the hardest part of this is? We have so much conditioning in our world to THINK it’s easy to get sucked into trying to figure things out using my intellect and that, for me, (and any Spring baby), is going counterclockwise/backwards on the wheel! Uh-oh.
Turns out, however, that no matter where you are supposed to start on the wheel, moving backwards is seductive.
It’s tempting to say it must be easiest to be born in the Winter and start in the North with thinking. But, one look at our culture and you can see we are conditioned to take action (West orientation). So Winter people start with “thinking” then get sucked into “doing” which is backwards! The process that would put them into a flow state is to think, believe, feel, THEN do.
Not any easier for the Fall folks (West) who start taking action, but become afraid of the consequences of their actions ((feelings are South and moving backwards!). Or the Summer people (South) who come from their heart, but feel compelled to justify their feelings based on their beliefs (which is East, backwards!).
Interestingly, even though there is the seduction to move backwards, it doesn’t take a whole lot of experimentation to feel the soothing effects of moving in flow with the correct, clockwise direction. I had an opportunity several years ago to learn about this system of connection and have made it one of my “tools.” When I remember to begin a project founded on my beliefs, feel for direction from my heart, create a prototype of the end result, and then create a plan, this tool invariably smoothes the way for a project to flow with ease and grace.
Want to experiment with this tool? Use the ideas below and then let me hear from you.
How You Might Work with The Season of Birth Medicine Wheel:
1. There is much more to this tool than I have space to write about, so if it interests you, please read more about it in The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality, or Going Where: Ancient Wisdom for People Today or visit with Marilyn Naylor at 406-563-3341.
2. Do a little experimenting of your own. Use a small challenge in your life. Begin the process according to your season of birth (birth months in parenthesis) and fill in the blank after each statement with the first thing that pops into your mind, ie. don’t “try” to come up with an answer, just put your pencil to the paper and write down whatever is present. Notice what new insights show up for you.
Winter (Dec, Jan, Feb)
- I think _________; I believe ___________; I feel __________; I know ___________
Spring (Mar, Apr, May)
- I believe ___________; I feel __________; I know ___________; I think _________
Summer (June, July, Aug)
- I feel __________; I know ___________; I think _________; I believe ___________
Fall (Sept, Oct, Nov)
- I know ___________; I think _________; I believe ___________; I feel ___________
