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Clearing your Energetic Body

In my forays into healing, and more recently into mediumship, learning how to clear my energetic body has become an important part of my daily practice. When I first started healing, I was trying to simply sleep through the night and stop having anxiety. Healing now has taken on a broader meaning, as I am healing myself not only for me, but also so I can heal and help others more effectively. Lately this has meant having a clear and shining energetic body. The importance of having a clear light body really hit home for me this weekend, when I went to Suzanne Giesemann's Serving Spirit Level 2 training in Savannah, GA. It was an amazing training and I'm so thankful she is my teacher. While...

Staying the Course

The past month has been a lot for us as a family. If I'm being honest, the past two years have been a lot. Some days it feels as if we've been charting a ship through fog. We know there is sun up ahead, clear skies, and beautiful days, and we just have to trust and have faith that we'll get to the other side, even when we can't always see it. I know I'm not alone in these sentiments - was January a tough month for a lot of us? From the cold, to the grey days, to seemingly never-ending Omicron and kids too young to be vaccinated, our plates have been full. At least, ours has felt that way. And yet, there are good...

Taking Time to Connect

Every morning when I wake up, I usually (if I'm awake before my family) have a choice - spend a few minutes meditating and connecting to God/Source, or get out of bed and drink a bunch of coffee. On my best days, I manage to squeeze in both of these things, with meditating coming first (!). I have seen in my own life how much of a difference it makes for the rest of my day. When I forget to meditate, or I get too busy to meditate, my days feel off-kilter, as they often did before I ever learned about a spiritual side of life. Then I never fully connect to myself or something higher, and I am scrambling about for the rest of the...

Sunrise

Be the Love

I would love to say that I sit down to meditate for an hour a day. I hope someday when life is calmer I'll have time to do that! But for now, with a young(ish) daughter and a job, I am only able to catch a meditation here and there. It's not always every day, and sometimes it's just a few minutes, but those moments help me recalibrate and awaken in ways no other practice in my life does. Last month I shared one of my favorite meditations, a light and color meditation from one of my teachers, Suzanne Giesemann. In it, we're guided through sending color and light to each chakra. Red for the root, orange for the sacral, and so on up to the...

light in the trees

Finding Love Wherever You Are

When the world seems to be falling apart, it can help to remember that this is not all there is. I don't mean to ignore problems and issues in our world, but to see them from a higher perspective. At our core, we are all Love and we are all created from Love. When we get out of alignment with the Love that created us (and how many ways there are to do that!), we may lose touch with that Love, but the Love never goes away. It is always there at your center. It is always there beneath everything in our world. We just need to connect with it. I believe this in large part because of my Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) - something I've only...

Practice

As the weeks of the shutdown amass and the days blend together, I'm reminded this morning of the importance of sacred practices to connect to love, God, and peace. They are beacons of light. Your sacred practices do not have to be the same ones you preferred last year. They do not have to be the same ones your friends do. They can be the ones that best fit you and your heart. How will you know if it's a sacred practice? It will remind you of the love that you come from and the love that you are. It will have a quality of ineffability, and it will bring you some amount of peace. It's easy to put a practice on the back burner when life...

Peace in the Face of Fear

My past week has been inundated with stories and worries about Coronavirus. It's a scary situation and I've definitely binged on reading and listening to news about it. It's ok to go down those paths, and I have, but eventually that gets exhausting. I can feel a dip in my energy and in my sense of peace. When I start to notice that I'm getting off balance, I spend time getting centered in my heart, clearing my mind, and connecting to Source. Some ways I do this in practice include: self-Reiki this chakra clearing meditation from Suzanne Giesemann (scroll to Ten Minute Transformation) limiting exposure to media spending time with supportive friends and family reading uplifting and fun books and of course, making necessary preparations According to...

Hope in Things Unseen

In times of sadness or confusion, it helps me to remember that we are part of a greater, Godly reality. This week I've felt the pressure of parenting, career, finances, marriage, and holiday stress. It's easy to get lost in the tangible world and lose the tether to our greater reason for being here. While I love the bliss I experienced when I initially had my encounter with the Divine, and I attempt to connect to that peace regularly through prayer and meditation, I'm just not always going to feel that connected, joyful, and peaceful. This week was one of those times. I have felt stress. I have worried. I have wished for peace. When that happens, as it does, it helps me to get still, breathe,...

I am Not my Body

Well, here I am. I am sorry for being so out of touch for the past week. After some prayer and contemplation I decided to begin blogging once a week while I focus on writing my book and studying for the GREs. I was planning to blog weekly on Wednesdays, which would have been yesterday. However, I ended up in the hospital, where I’m writing to you now. “Heal with Rebecca” indeed! While I have navigated psychological recovery very deeply, I haven’t had very extreme physical illnesses. The physical ailments I suffered from in my early twenties were, I believe, deeply related to my psychological and energetic state, and I was able to heal them with nutrition, meditation, and alternative healing modalities. Primarily, I used to...

Keeping a Clear Connection

Finding and keeping a clear connection to God and your heart is such a huge part of living an awakened life. Having a clear connection means you are able to feel and sense your heart and God. Just like we get dirty from living our lives and have to bathe, our spiritual connection needs to be maintained if we are to live lives that are whole.  There have been times in my life when I thought God had left me, especially after my beautiful experience. When I had to learn to life in the world again, it felt like God and my angels took a step back to help me learn to stand on my own two feet. I used to cry and feel completely abandoned....