Monday, February 22, 2010

Daily Practice

Great group at my house last night. It was fun to see you all!

I was contemplating what to write today and when I sat with it, the words "daily practice" came to me. In the Gratitude CD that I just created, I talk quite a bit about a daily practice of gratitude. When you wake up in the morning, think of what you are grateful for and you will affirm with yourself and with the divine what you love in your life. When you affirm what you love, you naturally create more of it in your life. When you go to sleep, again give thanks to the day, and you will sleep soundly and feel more content when you wake up in the morning.

A gratitude practice is vital, but I also want to cover the full picture of what a daily practice of connecting with the divine within yourself looks like. Here are some important elements to include.

1. Morning gratitude prayer. Sitting for an moment before you get up and and being consciously grateful.
2. Set an intention to do something that you love to do for yourself at least once a day. This can be dancing around your living room to your favorite song, this can be taking a hot bath, this can be reading a chapter of a good book, or this can be anything that brings you joy. This is your own moment, whatever your own moment looks like for you, so live it fully. For those of you who are caretakers and love to help others, you can help others as much as you want in a day, but the moment I'm talking about here is totally for you. Give to yourself as well.
3. Affirming daily that you are divine, body, mind, heart, and spirit. No matter what your mind says about who you are, you are divine.
4. Daily movement- whatever movement that is possible. Consciously feeling your body and knowing that you are alive.We see the miracle of life when we know we are here. Even if our body is sick, even if it hurts, we are here and we are alive in this moment and that is a miracle.

Make sure you have some form of daily practice that honors your divine self. Without honoring the divinity within you and around you, life can be mundane or overwhelming. The more that you connect with the divine point of it all, the more you will feel inspired in life.

Many Blessings to you all,
Liz

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Love

Happy belated Valentine's Day everyone! I find that Valentine's Day is a great day to reflect on love. There's so much focused on the commercialism and the romantic element on Valentine's Day that it can be a slightly depressing holiday unless we remember truly what love is. Love is the essence of who we are. We can't escape it, nor would we want to since it is so good to feel the experience of the truth of our being. We can be in and out of love in relationship, but we can't be in and out of love as the truth of our being.

We "fall in love" because we are able to open our hearts and experience and express the truth of our being with someone. All of us have someone that we love, even if it's a plant :), even if it is the planet, or if it is with a friend or a pet or a romantic partner. The more we open our hearts in a state of love for whoever or whatever we love in this world, the more we experience the truth of our being, which is love itself.

So, as a Valentine's exercise, picture something or someone that you love. Take a deep breath and ask for a full and complete experience of deep and unconditional love. Take another deep breath and affirm, "I am love itself. The love I feel in this moment expands into my entire being so that I feel not only love for this person or thing, but that I feel love for myself and for all that is. Love is all around me, love is within me, love is me."

Blessings and deep love to you all.

Liz

Friday, February 5, 2010

The Volcano

The Wednesday night group (http://intuitiveliz.com/groupreadings.html) had some interference again and when we looked into why we discovered that there is a grand energy of transformation going on on the planet right now. This transformation is deeply cleansing and it is an intense healing, not a gentle one. I would compare it to a volcano erupting within each of us. All of us are healing at a deep level, body, mind, heart and spirit. When a energetic volcano erupts, there is a healing ash that comes out of our energy field and if we are all healing at the some time with the same amount of intensity then the world feels a little "ashy". Make sure you cleanse and clear throughout the day so that you don't get bogged down by this energy.

The good news is that this "volcanic" time is a powerful time for us all to reflect on what we most want to release. Do you want to heal feeling of a lack of abundance? Do you want to deepen a state of love and joy and transform what stands in your way of your divine truth? Do you want to heal your body? Now is the time to throw anything you want to heal into the fire and let it transform. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you are healing core belief systems and so is everyone around you. The more conscious you are of intentionally healing, the better you will feel in this moment. Be gentle with yourself, and be patient with your loved ones. We are all in this together.

Here's a prayer... "Dear God, Goddess, Divine Spirit, help me to heal and transform at the core of my being anything that stands in my way of feeling, experiencing, and knowing my divinity. I am divine abundance, divine love, divine joy, divine power, divine passion, divine peace, divine bliss. I ask for a cleansing and clearing, body, mind, heart, and spirit, as I heal so that I can feel clear and centered and grounded as this transformation happens. I ask for a waterfall of light to pour through me and to clean out my energy and the energy that surrounds me. I send light to the world and gratitude for this healing, and so it is, Amen."