I talk a lot about being grounded in your body. It's one of those terms that a lot of us use, but do we really know what that means? When your spirit is fully activated in your body, you are grounded. The more your spirit is activated in your body, the more alive you feel and the more you are in connection to your divine source, which is limitless in joy and peace and love and health. Knowing that, I am sure some of you are still perplexed.
It's funny, I googled "being grounded" just to get some feedback for writing this blog and all these kids were writing about being grounded by their parents. I had forgotten that the term being grounded has some negative connotations for us as a society. Being grounded really meant for us as children not being able to go out and have fun.
This makes a lot of sense to me, because when I tell clients that it would be useful for them to get grounded, a lot of people look at me like I'm telling them to eat their veggies. It's no fun to hear that you need to be grounded and some of us think of it almost as a punishment.
The other thing that came up in my google search was an entry in Wikepedia about grounding in an electrical circuit, which actually made a lot of sense when I look at the idea metaphorically. The direct quote from Wikepedia : "a "ground" is usually idealized as an infinite source or sink for charge, which can absorb an unlimited amount of current without changing its potential." When a circuit is not grounded, my understanding is that the electricity is on the loose and can scatter and cause shock.
The more grounded we are in our bodies, the more divine energy we can let in without being overwhelmed by that energy. Just like with an electrical circuit, when our spirit is grounded in our bodies we can absorb an unlimited amount of divine "current" which means we are more able channel and therefore manifest all that is divine. So, not only is grounding not a boring and a bad thing, it is one of the most useful and powerful tools to physically create divinity in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
When we are ungrounded, our energy scatters and becomes less affective. It can create mixed signals to the people in our lives and also mixed signals to the divine when it comes to manifesting. We basically become less effective and in extreme cases self-destructive.
We ground ourselves by consciously asking to be. "Divine light move through me and activate every cell of my body and being to live brightly and be inspired by the divinity that is my truth," would be a good affirmation. Getting out in nature is grounding for us, cold water is grounding, rubbing our feet is grounding, holding a rock is grounding. Anything that wakes us up in our bodies and helps us to know that we are here on this earth awake and alive is grounding.
Let's get grounded so we can experience limitless joy, love, peace, health, abundance, wealth, passion, wisdom, and bliss and share that limitlessness with the world around us!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valentine's Day- A day for love
I promised everyone a blog on what it means to be grounded, but I thought I would save that for next week since it was just Valentine's Day and it feels worthy to talk about love.
I know it is a cliche to say that you can't love anyone until you love yourself, but I really feel it is true, and I also feel like we can't receive love if we don't know how to love ourselves. Of course, loving and honoring ourselves is a path and not something that is instantaneous, so loving and honoring the people in our lives and being loved and honored by the people in our lives are equally a paths that we deepen along the journey of life.
So, we talk about loving ourselves and what does that mean? We all know people who love themselves in an ego sort of way, openly loving their bodies and their personality in a way that is obnoxious and uncomfortable to be around. This is not the self-love that I am talking about. This is ego self-love. Ego self love is easy to identify. If you love yourself and think you are better than someone else, that is ego self-love.
Divine self love is loving and honoring yourself to be beautiful and brilliant knowing that everyone else's beauty and brilliance is equal to your own. "I am divine love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. All of the world around me, all of the people around me, are also love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. We are divinely one." As we affirm our divinity and love ourselves for it, we naturally enhance the divinity of those around us. This is Divine Self-love. We do not tell people around us that they are smaller or less than the beauty that we see in ourselves.
A lot of my clients fear loving themselves because they have been taught not to be self-centered and taught that is it selfish to love themselves. Being egocentric is what we truly were taught not to be, and this is a good lesson. When we are egocentric we either feel less than the world around us or more than the world around us and we will be very unhappy. We will compare ourselves to everyone else in our lives and judge ourselves and we will find little joy.
When we are divinely self-centered and in a state of divine self-love, we can access our divine truth in every moment. We know that we are love itself, and we know that everyone around us is also love itself and we find joy within us and joy around us. We love and honor our personalities, but we don't get lost in thinking that our personalities are the whole truth of who we are. We love and honor our strengths and our weaknesses and are constantly open to grow, but we don't judge ourselves. When we don't judge ourselves, we naturally don't judge the people around us and we find harmony.
It is a natural act to love ourselves, or to be love itself, and let the love from within us overflow into our lives and into the lives of everyone that we touch. When we affirm the love that is our truth, then naturally we see love, give love, and receive love in a circle of light. We naturally bring love into our lives in multiple forms and we naturally know how to love and be loved.
When we affirm, "I am love itself," we affirm this for ourselves and for the world around us. Practice this affirmation and report back to me how it changes your life.
Blessings and Happy Valentine's Week.
I know it is a cliche to say that you can't love anyone until you love yourself, but I really feel it is true, and I also feel like we can't receive love if we don't know how to love ourselves. Of course, loving and honoring ourselves is a path and not something that is instantaneous, so loving and honoring the people in our lives and being loved and honored by the people in our lives are equally a paths that we deepen along the journey of life.
So, we talk about loving ourselves and what does that mean? We all know people who love themselves in an ego sort of way, openly loving their bodies and their personality in a way that is obnoxious and uncomfortable to be around. This is not the self-love that I am talking about. This is ego self-love. Ego self love is easy to identify. If you love yourself and think you are better than someone else, that is ego self-love.
Divine self love is loving and honoring yourself to be beautiful and brilliant knowing that everyone else's beauty and brilliance is equal to your own. "I am divine love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. All of the world around me, all of the people around me, are also love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. We are divinely one." As we affirm our divinity and love ourselves for it, we naturally enhance the divinity of those around us. This is Divine Self-love. We do not tell people around us that they are smaller or less than the beauty that we see in ourselves.
A lot of my clients fear loving themselves because they have been taught not to be self-centered and taught that is it selfish to love themselves. Being egocentric is what we truly were taught not to be, and this is a good lesson. When we are egocentric we either feel less than the world around us or more than the world around us and we will be very unhappy. We will compare ourselves to everyone else in our lives and judge ourselves and we will find little joy.
When we are divinely self-centered and in a state of divine self-love, we can access our divine truth in every moment. We know that we are love itself, and we know that everyone around us is also love itself and we find joy within us and joy around us. We love and honor our personalities, but we don't get lost in thinking that our personalities are the whole truth of who we are. We love and honor our strengths and our weaknesses and are constantly open to grow, but we don't judge ourselves. When we don't judge ourselves, we naturally don't judge the people around us and we find harmony.
It is a natural act to love ourselves, or to be love itself, and let the love from within us overflow into our lives and into the lives of everyone that we touch. When we affirm the love that is our truth, then naturally we see love, give love, and receive love in a circle of light. We naturally bring love into our lives in multiple forms and we naturally know how to love and be loved.
When we affirm, "I am love itself," we affirm this for ourselves and for the world around us. Practice this affirmation and report back to me how it changes your life.
Blessings and Happy Valentine's Week.
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Year of the Rabbit!
I know nothing about Chinese astrology, but I do have to say that this year feels so much softer than last year. Last year had an aggressive and rather explosive feel to it, which is a great energy to move through issues and transform them but it's not a great energy to find inner peace. The contrast of last year, the year of the tiger, and this year, the year of the rabbit, is pretty gigantic and well needed for us all. The key is not to feel bored by this new energy, but relaxed and nurtured. There might now be fireworks, but rabbits definitely have energy and verve and great creative powers.
So, here's to a new year everyone. I have always felt that the Chinese new year has more of a feeling of a new year than our western new year. February is a great time for launching all that we want to create. Blessings to you all.
So, here's to a new year everyone. I have always felt that the Chinese new year has more of a feeling of a new year than our western new year. February is a great time for launching all that we want to create. Blessings to you all.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Patience is a Dirty Word
Would you rather have someone swear at you, or would you rather have someone tell you to be patient? I'm sure neither sounds appealing, but I am willing to bet that most people would rather have someone tell them almost anything other than to be patient.
I have often said to clients that I don't feel like patience is innate to human beings. Or, if it is, our culture programs patience out of us so early on that whatever patience we innately have is lost. Practicing patience takes patience, so how do we even begin?!
Patience comes down to trust and faith. We do everything that we physically can to line up what we want to create in our lives. Let's say we are trying to find a relationship. We go out to places that we love, we go on internet dating sites, we get counseling to get through any hang ups we have in our mental or emotional bodies, we practice loving ourselves, and still there is no one in our lives.
At this point, we either give up and say there is no one out there for us, OR we practice patience. We practice trust and faith that all of life happens in divine timing. We are doing nothing wrong in looking for that divine soul mate, we just need to continue on in our lives and have patience that we are creating that relationship in divine timing. We continue on with all that we feel the need to do physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and we practice patience. Patience has a natural receptive energy to it as a word and as a practice. People who are more patient than others are in general more open to life unfolding and are more content with where life is.
So, again you ask how do I practice patience?
"I surrender to divine timing in life. I surrender to trust in myself and trust in the divine. I surrender to deep patience with the unfolding of all that I am creating." This is a great mantra to plug into your daily practice. It will help you get out of your head's version on timing, which is always "I want it, and I want it now" or even "I want it and I want it yesterday" and get into the flow of divine timing. If you are seeking a soul mate and no matter what you do you can't find him or her, then know there is a divine reason. Your mind will want to know the reason, but I find that mystery is one of the most profound gifts that we get in this life.
The example of creating a soul mate can be transferred to anything- creating money, a new job, a healthy relationship in the relationship that we already have, a harmonious work environment, a new home, the list goes on and on. Learning patience in all aspect of our lives brings us great peace and it gives the universe the space to create something even better than we could ever imagine.
Blessings to you all, Liz
I have often said to clients that I don't feel like patience is innate to human beings. Or, if it is, our culture programs patience out of us so early on that whatever patience we innately have is lost. Practicing patience takes patience, so how do we even begin?!
Patience comes down to trust and faith. We do everything that we physically can to line up what we want to create in our lives. Let's say we are trying to find a relationship. We go out to places that we love, we go on internet dating sites, we get counseling to get through any hang ups we have in our mental or emotional bodies, we practice loving ourselves, and still there is no one in our lives.
At this point, we either give up and say there is no one out there for us, OR we practice patience. We practice trust and faith that all of life happens in divine timing. We are doing nothing wrong in looking for that divine soul mate, we just need to continue on in our lives and have patience that we are creating that relationship in divine timing. We continue on with all that we feel the need to do physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and we practice patience. Patience has a natural receptive energy to it as a word and as a practice. People who are more patient than others are in general more open to life unfolding and are more content with where life is.
So, again you ask how do I practice patience?
"I surrender to divine timing in life. I surrender to trust in myself and trust in the divine. I surrender to deep patience with the unfolding of all that I am creating." This is a great mantra to plug into your daily practice. It will help you get out of your head's version on timing, which is always "I want it, and I want it now" or even "I want it and I want it yesterday" and get into the flow of divine timing. If you are seeking a soul mate and no matter what you do you can't find him or her, then know there is a divine reason. Your mind will want to know the reason, but I find that mystery is one of the most profound gifts that we get in this life.
The example of creating a soul mate can be transferred to anything- creating money, a new job, a healthy relationship in the relationship that we already have, a harmonious work environment, a new home, the list goes on and on. Learning patience in all aspect of our lives brings us great peace and it gives the universe the space to create something even better than we could ever imagine.
Blessings to you all, Liz
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