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Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

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Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

A New Consciousness Exploration 

Everything is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed, only repurposed.  So how do we repurpose or deflect negativity? 

We create a Transformative Energy Shield. We can create a Transformation Energy Shield around ourselves and we can create one around a group. It is a shield of intentional energy that deflects and transforms negative energy. 

It is natural to think in terms of putting up a protective shield for ourselves. When we put up a Transformative Energy shield, it converts, repurposes and raises the vibration of whatever shows up.  What a life-changer that is!

The Transformative Shield transforms energy on both sides of the shield. When we place ourselves in the protection of a Transformative Sphere of Energy, it immediately begins to transform our own negative energy.  If we are fearful or angry, it transforms that energy and reflects it back as centered serenity.  The Transformative Energy Shield also transforms negative energy coming toward us and reflects it back as positive energy to others. It is a two-way transformer of energy.

The Transformative Energy Shield can be erected in seconds. 

You create a Transformative Energy Shied through your breath and your intention.  Take an intentional breath and feel transformative energy surround your heart. On an exhale, feel a shield form and expand to surround your body. It is invisible and invincible. Continue using intentional exhales to expand and thicken your Transformative Energy Shield until you feel secure.

Maintain a positive inner energy

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to clear your own body suit of negative thoughts and energy. Begin at your heart center.   Breath a Transformative Energy Shield into existence and with each exhale extend it further out, feeling it clearing away all negative, non-supportive thoughts and transforming them into a higher vibration.

On each inhale intentionally raise your vibration. From your centered heart energy, feel yourself radiating out positive energy to balance all levels of your body suit. 

Transform the energy around you

When you become aware of negative energy and want to shield yourself from it, create a Transformative Energy Shield with a single exhale and experience it deflecting any negative energy and transforming it into a higher, positive vibration. 

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to balance the world around you

Now that you are balanced, begin to consciously send out healing, transformative  energy to the world to restore balance to all those you come in contact with. You become a walking Transformative Energy Shield, balancing energy wherever you are.

You become an Organic Transformer

Whatever energy comes into your field is changed. This Transformative Energy Shield is not only about protection, it is about transformation.  It radiates the transformative energy of your positive intention. It radiates the transformative ability to intentionally raise energy to a higher, more positive vibration. 

The Transformative Energy Shield is a field of vibration that changes whatever shows up into harmonious, balanced, positive, higher-vibration energy.

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise your vibration

Your life experience manifests form your own vibration and you have the power to raise your vibration at will.

Your awareness, intention, and choices allow you to clear, repurpose and raise the vibration of energy.

Teach yourself to become more aware of levels of energy – not just its existence but its quality, its tone, its impact.  Notice the vibration of a room, of a person, of a situation and use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise that vibration. 

Become more aware of the many levels of vibration you experience in your body suit existence.  Elevate those.

Choose what you want to transform and use the Transformative Energy Shield to do it. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the power of my Transformative Energy Shield and I use it to raise vibration all around me. 

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Center yourself in your heart.
  • With a focused exhale begin to erect your Transformative Energy Shield from your heart to surround your body suit.
  • Notice how it immediately transforms any or your own body suit negativity.  
  • Turn your attention to the world around you and become aware of how the Transformative Energy Shield transforms any outer negativity coming your way.
  • Know that your Transformative Energy Shield is one of transformation and develop your own unique way to use it to raise the vibration of the energy around you. 

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe 

How Vibration Heals

The Transformative Sphere

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

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How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy

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How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy
An Inner-world Exploration

Take a moment to feel yourself safely tucked into a sphere of energy.  It can be any color that shows up. If you’re not certain, try golden or indigo blue. It can be opaque or translucent or transparent.  Just notice what shows up for you. Sit a moment and feel the energy surrounding you.  

This is your protector/reflector and it’s as easy to call upon as it was to imagine it. 

Use it. 

If you’re walking into a room of people you don’t know, you may want to feel that protective ball of energy around you.  If you’re going into a shamanic meditative journey, you wrap yourself in the protective energy of an envisioned sphere. You can expand a sphere to include an entire group of people – for protection or for amplifying the collective energy.  

The protective sphere reflects back to you your own energy

If you’re angry or thinking negative thoughts, those negative responses are reflected right back at you by the shield that’s always around you.  If that’s what you want, have at it, but if you’re not happy receiving back your own negative energy, change your thoughts and words and deeds so that positive thoughts and actions reflect back to you from your protective sphere.  

How to protect yourself from negative energy

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning
An Immer-World Exploration

“If we learn to sense everything from a higher vantage point or vibrational frequency, we may actually see the world as it really is, a construct of our minds and our collective dance. Nothing is what it seems.”  – Raja Choudhury 

When we raise our vibration it affects our world.  How do we do that?  What do we need to do to raise our vibration? The ideas are pouring into my consciousnesses and showing up from many directions.

In my shamanic journeys, I ask for and continue to receive ideas for specific ways to raise my vibration.  I am adding a small ceremony/practice to my daily work that involves raising my vibration.

Raise your vibration through visualization

In a quiet place begin by being aware of your core. The core of you. The strength of you.  The inner world of you. In my practice, I begin there, in my essence.  I experience myself as a container filled with golden light that comes in my crown and slowly fills my body.  That is followed by rainbow light that moves through my body righting what is wrong, working to heal and restore and rebalance all of my body –  the corners, the crevices.  I give it time to do a thorough job of wholing.   

Gradually I allow that pillar of light that is me, to expand until I become and have a feeling of being only pure vibration. Individual/ego“Me” disappears.  I experience myself as light.  I relax into the vibration, the feeling, the experience.  There may be an accompanying sound, there may not be.  In this journey of visualization, as I begin to expand my own vibration I become aware of other expanded vibrations, other light beings who are also expanding their vibrations. We nod in recognition and then join our vibrations together to become a larger vibrational energy.  This continues – coming up next to a vibration of wholeness, merging with it to increase our collective power.  Not absorbing, simply merging to become bigger and broader and more far-reaching.  Our strength grows, our reach expands.  I am still aware of my mind, but no longer sense my body.  We, the collective vibration of those who are aware and who have chosen to be a part of this vibratory expansion, fill the void.  We put our collective, expanded, positive vibration right into the earth, into nature, into all the inhabitants, into the core of the earth itself.  We, as this collective energy, wrap ourselves around the moon and the sun to absorb and share their gifts.  We, as light vibration, move within the core of the earth to heal and balance.  We touch all living things, insects, birds animals, people.  

We begin to merge our thoughts. We spread our light like a calming ray into the harried thoughts of concerned and aware seekers.  They take a deep breath and see life a bit differently.  They recognize their own light and are enhanced.  They begin to explore their own vibration. 

Breathe.  Breathe light, breath the vibration of wholeness. Fold your hands in the mudra prayer position or just put your index fingers together and blow light vibrational energy over the top out into others in the world, to those beings who are raising their vibration. Use your breath like a tuning fork. Others hear, are drawn to it, and begin to resonate.  

Begin your daily ceremony with visualizations of our collective vibration and see where it takes you. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

Each day I become more aware of the energy of my essence
and how I can use it to connect with others. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Experiment with using visualization to raid and expand your core energy.
  • Adjust your visualization until you can experience yourself as pure vibration. 
  • When you are comfortable, expand your vibration to meet up with other expanded vibrations and notice what you experience. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence? 

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness
An Inner-world Exploration

All our work is done on the inner plane.  It happens whenever we think and imagine and choose and formulate plans and ideas.  But to do all that we have to develop the skill of stillness. We need to question our mind and emotions in order to examine, feel, absorb and finally choose.  

Awareness and insight require stillness. Inner stillness follows outer stillness.

Quiet your Body

Pause throughout your day, and notice.  Notice how you feel.  Notice what you have drawn into your experience.  Is this the life experience what you want?  What needs to change?

Quiet your Mind

Take a slow deliberate breath in, hold it a few seconds, then allow that breath to emerge through your nostrils or slightly separated lips.  Pause with empty lungs and notice the serenity that begins to form. Repeat.  With each slow, conscious, deliberate, mindful breath, notice how calm and serene you become. 

Repeat this often throughout your day. 

Cultivate a quiet mind

Stillness means quietening our mind.  First, you have to notice how rampant the mind is, then you have to choose to quiet it. Turn to the window and look at nature. Absorb the gentle unfolding, the deep patience, the simple waiting for the perfect time.   That aware and mindful, focused pause will eliminate your mental chatter.

Let nature be your guide

We are nature and a major lesson of nature is that everything unfolds in cycles. We are always at a beginning, middle or end.  Pausing to look out the window puts you in tune with how the day is unfolding with the grace and serenity that is nature. 

Place yourself in tune with the harmony that nature shares with us. 

Stillness is simply being.  Not doing is being  

Simply “being” takes some practice. We are very busy in our body suit lives. As I pause to look out the window at nature, the changes I see are subtle.  The unfolding is minuscule.  But there’s a pulsation that stills and settles my humanness. The experience of serenity can be found in nature.  

Stillness is about being present

When we are still, we don’t daydream or visualize or even meditate.  We simply sit still and feel and embrace and absorb and become present in that stillness. Let yourself be drawn into the minuscule, the detail. Feel yourself as a part of something larger. 

Simply be with the object you’re contemplating.  As you sit in mindful stillness, let the energy of the object touch you, speak to you, offer you insights.  You will hear and understand. Feel yourself become a part of what you’re embracing as you cultivate the art of stillness.   

Stillness allows you to experience your soul

Only in stillness, only with focused mindfulness, can you become aware of your soul, the core of you, the essence of you, the reason for you, the message of you, the purpose of you. Those answers are in the stillness, the knowing, the acceptance of the call from deep inside you.  

Cultivate Stillness

To know Soul You, to hear your inner voice, to figure out what you want/need to do next, you must cultivate inner stillness.  

In that stillness will arise the guidance you seek for the focus of your attention and actions. 

As you learn to maintain that inner stillness throughout your day you will become aware of a powerful innate inner knowing that guides you in selecting from the choices and opportunities that appear. 

Do you heed the voice within?

My inner voice speaks in both subtle nudges and loud shouts.  I have learned to listen and heed them both. 

Sometimes my inner voice is simply a knowing.  Like an instant decision that you know is exactly right.  Are you aware of those unexpected ideas that pop in, and do you examine them? They’re there to guide you. To open new doors. 

Do you notice the unexpected opportunities?

We have to be prepared for surprises, the unexpected ideas or opportunities that nudge us in a new direction.  New opportunities can be subtle or they can stand in front of you and shout.

Not everything that shows up is for you to act upon.  The better you know yourself, the more accurate will be your choices.  Simply notice.  In your stillness, notice the opportunities that present themselves for our examination.  Let your inner voice guide your choices. 

Do you know your purpose?

This path of inner stillness allows you time to explore and examine and cultivate your illumined purpose. Notice the doors that open.  Check out what they offer.  See if it is aligned with what you need and want to do next. Then choose – or not. 

Cultivate mindfulness

When you’re still and give yourself time to become aware and allow your inner self to offer nudges and messages and guiding insights to your life, you’ll organically move more readily into an understanding of your inner world.  What it is saying.  What you want to unfold next in your life. You will experience your oneness with the greater whole and respond with the knowledge of that support that is within you as you express your soul’s purpose.  

Listen. Look. Interpret.

Deeper Song Affirmation
I cultivate stillness.

Deeper Song Process

  • Notice how busy you are.  How you are pulled to do several things at once.
  • Stop where you are and take a slow, deep breath, hold it a moment and slowly release it.  Then pause to notice the emptiness that is left.
  • Repeat.
  • Sprinkle this simple breathing practice throughout your day, noticing how often you do it and what the circumstances are that remind you to do it.
  • Shift something. Make new choices.  Release what you truly don’t need or want in your life.
  • Breathe again and see how you feel. Then turn and look out  the window and immerse yourself in nature.
  • Repeat until you find stillness.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You Sacred Space?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Tune Into the Calendar of Nature

Life Messages from a Potter

Can You Let Your Life Unfold?

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How to Interpret the Messages from Within

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How to Interpret the Messages from Within
An Inner-world Exploration

We get messages from the unseen world all the time.  We first recognize them as hunches and intuitive nudges.  We either learn to pay attention to them or we don’t.  However, when you pause to listen, your inner voice becomes stronger and clearer. 

Nudges and knowing

How often have you acted on a hunch and been right?  Many times, I’m certain.  Begin to notice the choices you make based on those intuitive insights. See how often they turn out to be right. Learn to trust those inner knowings.

Feel Your Inner Voice

Notice what forms your nudges and knowing comes in.  Certainly, you have experienced a sense of simply knowing. No reason for it, just a certainty about the right choice or the next step to take or what was about to happen.  You FEEL your inner voices. 

Years ago, I remember driving home during a heavy snowstorm. It was a rural landscape and the highway only looked like a larger snow drift while the highway was barely visible.  I had driven that highway many times but it was night and there was freshly falling deep snow. I remember the sensation of putting out my antennae all around me and as I drove, I got flashes and pictures and knowing of where I was on the road.  I drove by instinct.  I drove by feeling. I trusted because I had no other choice. I could barely see.  And I got safely home. The feeling of extending my antennae to the countryside around me was immediate and intense.   I was really vibrating with sensory listening. 

Hear your inner voice

You may hear a loud internal voice. Or a soft one. But the suggestions and information may also come in the form of words.  You HEAR your inner voice.  It speaks to you in phrases and sentences…!

My inner voice often shouts at me.  A word or a phrase will be amplified in my mind – by a book, or the television, or some passing stimulus. My inner voice simply shows up as a very loud thought!  Those words, that specific phrase are loud and immediate.  It’s as if they are saying, ”You need to look at this.  You need to explore this.” So I do.  My inner voice is often very insistent.   

Interpret your inner voice

I was taught to “read” crystals fifty years ago. My friend told me to hold the crystal in my left hand and see what came up.  I got a sensation in a particular part of my body and since I knew the chakra system, I used that as a guidepost for the beginning of my interpretation of the messages of the crystal.  As I worked with crystals, I learned to immediately know if a crystal was for the heart or the crown or the third eye.  Then one day it was clear to me that a particular green calcite crystal was to be used by people who were grieving.  I began to listen more broadly, more deeply. 

Just recently a crystal (I have over 150 of them) called out loudly to me from a shelf I was passing by and told me quite clearly it was to be taken to a certain place on my desk. It has not yet fully explained its reason for being here but it’s nearby and I’m listening. And it’s talking… 

Nature will talk to you

Whether it’s the warmth of your cat who has come to sit beside you, or the call of a bird outside your window, or the wind rustling the leaves of a nearby tree, nature speaks.  We must learn to listen.  

One winter, a very wet, heavy snow fell and the weeping birch tree outside my window bent deeply in response.  I realized there was an important message so I wrote Messages from a Snow Fall and learned a lot.

Nature talks to you when you listen. 

Move when your inner voice tells you

I’ve made some major decisions based on a sudden “knowing.”  When it was time for me to move from California to the Mid-West to be closer to my daughter, I made the decision in three hours.  I got the nudge, did research about the area I wanted to go, found an apartment complex that felt right, and called my daughter to say I was coming.  

In three hours. 

Yes, there were other factors building up to that “sudden” decision.  A roommate had just moved out, a new one was financially imperative and the choices that were appearing were very unappealing.  Was it time for me to move to a more affordable place? It became a major choice made in a small window of time. 

Pay attention to your nudges and knowing. You’ll know when it’s time to take action.  Trust that. And act.

You can “channel” your inner voice any time

If you’re hearing an occasional voice speaking loudly to you, you’re channeling your inner wisdom, your inner voice.  I’ve brought my inner voice more deeply into my writing.  Over the years, I’ve found myself typing in things that I wondered where they came from.  

I was present.  I was typing, but the words seemed to flow from elsewhere.  That is your inner voice and you must listen and learn to interpret its subtle messages.

When I do my shamanic journeys, I set an intention before I begin. I close my eyes go within and type my journey.  Occasionally my fingers get on the wrong keys and I can’t read what I typed, but I periodically peek at the screen to make certain I’m still making sense.  This typing and journeying has allowed me to deeply explore the inner world of my spirit guides and review and thus remember the details. I begin by going to my sacred garden to meet them, each time I journey. 

Dreaming your inner voice

It’s very powerful to set an intention for your sleep.  A lot of good healing and rebalancing occurs there.

Years ago, I was given a green hand-holder stone.  I meditated with it and eventually lay down on the bed and slept while still holding it. I had a very strong dream of being in a group of robed women. We collectively were being called to do spiritual work.  When I awoke I remembered every detail of the dream.  Forty-five years later I have reconnected with what is now the Circle of Light Beings in my shamanic journeys. 

Let your dreams open doors.

You have to trust your inner vision 

I take a shamanic journey every day. I place my mala beads around my neck, ring a ceremonial bell to signal my beginning, sit at my computer and type in my intention, my question for the journey. Then I sit with closed eyes and prepare to feel myself disappear until only my typing fingers are moving and the rest of me is busy in my inner world. I am not very aware of my body but am actively following my thoughts. 

In shamanic journeying, we are offered metaphors that can be in the form of animals, or helping spirits, or elements or plants.  It’s up to us to interpret the metaphor. As I continue this inner world practice, I feel my ability to hear and interpret my inner voice growing stronger, my answers growing clearer, and my calling growing louder. 

If you are beginning to journey, a shamanic drumming track may be useful. 

Hearing your inner voice may take some practice.  You must do it enough so you recognize the signs and whispers you’re given and then more practice and actual experience in order for you to begin to accurately interpret them.  

Just begin by talking to your inner self.  And listening to the soft answers.

You can ask for physical signs of your inner voice

Kinesiology is actually about receiving information through muscle testing and I have been taught to do that. For my first experience, I was told to stand with one arm outstretched and to resist the downward pressure from the other person. I did. I was strong.  Then a packet of sugar was placed in the other hand and all physical resistance whet away.  I had been weakened by the presence of a negative. Pretty amazing.  

I use a version of kinesiology to explore other choices I make.  I may take identical slips of paper and write each choice on one side. I include a paper that says “other” in case I need to make a choice I have not considered.  I place them face down before me and mix them up so I have no idea which is which.  Then I hold my hand over each paper one at a time and feel and listen to what I’m told.  One answer always calls to me. 

Sometimes I use that selection system to narrow down my choices in case two things call to me equally. Just listen to the thoughts that show up. Learn to interpret them out of your deeper self-awareness.  It’s a very powerful tool.  

Pendulum

A pendulum is used for dowsing.  You can make one with a bead on the end of a string. And you can buy some lovely ones. It’s a very fast way to get a “yes”, “no” or “maybe” answer for any question. Each time you begin, hold the pendulum away from your body suspended between your thumb and forefinger. Run the fingers of the other hand down to make the pendulum perfectly still. Then one at a time, ask it to show you a “yes” and see which way it rotates, then a “no”, then a “maybe”. The choices will be circle clockwise, circle counterclockwise and move back and forth, left to right or possibly not move at all. After you have identified the form the answers will take, ask your question which obviously should be phrased with a yes/no/maybe answer in mind.

Allow yourself to channel

Learn to trust your intuition, your  inner words, your inner nudges. 

Begin with your intuition. Learn to trust that.  Do some meditation and perhaps ask for a message to be given at the end.  Then write that message down.  Journey/meditate with a specific intention, looking for a clarifying answer and let your helping spirits guide you. 

Learn to interpret the answers you get.  No one can do that for you.  With practice, you easily learn to do it for yourself. 

Let your inner one-word nudges expand into complete sentences.  Often when I was writing a few years ago, I would have an entire section come in that I was aware of typing but I thought it was too good to come from me.  I pictured a trio of Shakespeare-type writers with feathered pens, dictating to me.  

Now, I just listen and type and know that it’s my inner voice coming through.  It’s a lovely mix of conscious and unconscious thought that shows up on the page.  

Trust what you receive. Learn to interpret it 

If the message or metaphor or symbol isn’t clear to you, ask your helping spirits to clarify it for you.  Then watch for what they give you.  You might also ask, “How am I to use this information?”  And see what you get.  

Keep an eye out for your ego. Interpreting your inner voice is so much fun and you get such great answers that for me it’s never about me doing anything.  It’s about me simply opening up to receive something wonderful.  Don’t judge. Don’t filter.  Listen. Absorb.  Adapt. And maybe you even need to reword your question.

Trust what you find when you speak to your inner voice. 

FOR DEEPER EXPLORATION:

Unleash The Power of Your Inner Garden 

 Live in the Center of Your Being 

Discover Your Spiritual Heart

Join the Circle of Light Beings

The Language of the Stubble Realms 

How to Explore Your Invisible Self

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden?

Does Your Path Have Heart? 

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