This virtual pilgrimage follows St. Francis to the location of one of his mystical experiences, the church San Damiano near Assisi.
In Science and Spiritual Practices, Rupert Sheldrake says, “Pilgrimage connects us to holy places, where heaven and earth are joined…We connect our ordinary, everyday lives with places that link us to a transcendent world.”
As we walk the steps of St. Francis into San Damiano, through the Italian countryside, we have the opportunity to connect with our Divine in this place where Heaven and Earth have met for centuries. Our own mystical experience is enhanced through the energetic connection we establish with all the pilgrims walking this path for hundreds of years before us, helping us connect with our own God
*Please note this meditation is part of a series based on the book Science and Spiritual Practices: Reconnecting Through Direct Experience by Rupert Sheldrake. The meditation is effective with our without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.*
This is a great go-to meditation for calm and relaxation
Sometimes called a “body scan,” this meditation will lead you through relaxing your body from your toes up to your head. This is a great way to release tension you may be holding in your body. When our body is relaxed, our mind can be more clear, and our spirit can be more free to commune with oneness, love, and peace.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
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The power of Two is strong in the spiritual realm, mentioned often in the Bible and in many important books to create a deep connection and call in the Power of Spirit, so today we take advantage of that Power in connecting with a Spiritual Partner of your choosing.
Who would you love to meditate with?
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes.
If you are determined to move forward into a greater life for yourself, but you are harboring grudges or resentments towards another, forgiving is essential. I know it’s not easy. I know you may not want to do it; I didn’t. I had heard people promoting the value of forgiveness for many years before I decided to take a serious stab at it.
After all, “He did it to me; why should I forgive him?” He needed to suffer, and I wasn’t going to let him off the hook, no way; he needed to pay! The problem is, he wasn’t paying for it. I was. In reality, he probably had no idea the series of events still played over and over in my head and he’d long forgotten them, so it certainly didn’t torture him at all.
I was the one paying for it, wrapping up good energy on past events that truly had no significance in my current or future life. And that’s why we need to forgive; we need that valuable, awesome energy to help us move forward, not hold us back. It doesn’t make the person’s actions okay or acceptable; it’s a matter of taking back our energy and our Power. Take your Power back and get rid of that icky energy.
There are many ways to start a forgiveness practice. What I’ll share here are three possibilities using prayer beads or malas. There is no magic number of times you need to do it; you just do it until you feel you’re done. It might take one day, two weeks or two months, but eventually the charged energy goes away when you recall the person. None of these three practices is any better than the other. Do the one that feels best for the situation.
First Option: This is particularly useful when you really wanted someone to change. Imagine the person in front of you, as if you are speaking directly to them. Speak sincerely. “Joe, I forgive you for not being the person I wanted you to be.” It allows for a space of letting them be them, and not someone they’re not. Repeat it over and over until you feel a shift.
It is also sometimes useful to combine it with the second option.
Second option: Again, imagine the person in front of you, as if you are speaking to them. Speak sincerely. “Joe. I love you, I bless you, I forgive you, I release you.” That’s it, over and over.
Combined it is even more powerful: “Joe, I forgive you for not being the person I wanted you to be. I love you, I bless you, I release you.”
The third option is my personal favorite as it helps me recognize that the faults I see in others are also my own, which helps me come around quickly to compassion or understanding for that person. Again, imagine talking directly to them. “Joe, I forgive you and myself for being ignorant (Choose appropriate quality). I love you as I love myself, for God is the love I am.” This also turns the situation over to the Divine Source that allows love to flow to and from all without judgement.
I’d challenge you to just try one for a week if there is someone that really triggers you. You don’t have to fully forgive them, but just see if it frees anything up in you to be open to starting the process.
Are you willing to be open to moving toward your greater life?
Setting goals is something most of us do throughout our lives, and realizing them brings great satisfaction, for a while. But do you know how to set meaningful goals that will fulfill you long term? Or how to easily reach them?
Goals that originate in our heart and soul are purpose-driven and will bring us lasting satisfaction. Because these come from a place of Divine Love, they are created for our personal happiness. Couple that with the technique scientifically proven to reach your goal 5x faster – this is a meditation you’ll want to do over and over.
Have a pen and paper ready so you can start on that purposeful goal setting right now!
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity by Edwene Gaines. Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes. You can buy your copy of the book here.
Our first experiences with money are powerful; they shape our money relationship for the rest of our lives – if we let them. If you don’t have a healthy relationship with money, then it’s time to shift it. You are here to thrive, not to struggle.
This meditation will help reveal first, important experiences; look at how they affect you today, and what you can do to shift them.
This is a great meditation to listen to often, as there is usually more than one contributing factor to current experience, so digging in layer by layer is the best way to heal it permanently.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity by Edwene Gaines. Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes. You can buy your copy of the book here.
It can feel as if life is out of control if we lose our grounding or our connection with our Divine Source. These connections move through our body’s energy system by way of chakras. Though there are many of them in our body, this meditation focuses on two of the primary ones: the root and the crown chakra.
I wanted to keep the meditation length within 10 minutes, so I’ll give a little more information here:
The Root energy system has to do with our foundation and support, being grounded, financial and personal support; it’s the base from which you grow; it’s about survival and meeting your basic needs.
The Crown energy system is your connection with the Divine and reaching higher states of consciousness or bliss, your confidence and inner beauty.
I am not suggesting these chakras are any more important than the others, but they are a good starting point!
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
Could you use a little help going deeper or getting unstuck? Karen works with people that are ready to move forward in their lives. Karen learned the power, joy and magic of committed spiritual practice and now helps others to as well. If you’d like to talk about it, sign up for a Spiritual Strategy Session with Karen here.
If we don’t know, and we assume something, we can be way off base, losing opportunity and wasting energy in the process.
If we are a little confused by what someone has told us we should ask for clarification, but instead we often make an assumption. When we assume incorrectly, while at work for example, we can waste much time doing the wrong job or gathering worthless information. If we had asked for clarification, we would have known up front what the intent of the conversation was. So why don’t we ask?
Our brain is quick to fill in missing information; we do it about others, and others do it about us. Have you ever given someone else instruction only to find they didn’t do what you wanted at all? We make assumptions that we know what others want, and we also assume they know what we want. Not only is this unproductive, it can sometimes be hurtful as well.
The simple fix is to be open, be curious and ask questions. Ask for clarification!
In this week’s meditation we are encouraged to watch for this in our life, and to be open to a different possibility.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Four Agreements. Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes.
To be a part of future classes, or to learn more, click here.
As a professional Animal Communicator and Spiritual Practitioner and Minister, I use the wisdom I have learned from all life to create a life I love through deep spiritual practices. This did not happen quickly; I had a lot of rough years being financially broke and in dysfunctional relationships before I was able to understand the wisdom presented in Spirit and Nature and how to connect it to my own life. Then, finally, life started shifting.
Now it’s my mission to help others do the same. I engage the wisdom of ALL life to help people create a life they love using spiritual practices and tools; to guide people into deep spiritual connection with the Divine for a richer, more rewarding life.
If you have the urge to seek something better in your life, if life feels hard and deep down you know it doesn’t have to be, but you don’t know how to make it better; if you are ready to make a change, please reach out to me.
I offer classes, videos, blogs, one-on-one coaching, and appointments.
“She makes me so mad!” Is that a familiar thought to you? It was for me; it took a long time to begin to see that someone else’s behavior was their problem and not mine. Because we all live our life through our own collection of unique experiences, we all react differently to people and events. Even though it feels like they are attacking us personally, it’s a combination of their past wounds and our past wounds meeting up.
Explore these in this meditation and begin to shift out of taking things personally.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Four Agreements. Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes.
To be a part of future classes, or to learn more, click here.
As a professional Animal Communicator and Spiritual Practitioner and Minister, I use the wisdom I have learned from all life to create a life I love through deep spiritual practices. This did not happen quickly; I had a lot of rough years being financially broke and in dysfunctional relationships before I was able to understand the wisdom presented in Spirit and Nature and how to connect it to my own life. Then, finally, life started shifting.
Now it’s my mission to help others do the same. I engage the wisdom of ALL life to help people create a life they love using spiritual practices and tools; to guide people into deep spiritual connection with the Divine for a richer, more rewarding life.
If you have the urge to seek something better in your life, if life feels hard and deep down you know it doesn’t have to be, but you don’t know how to make it better; if you are ready to make a change, please reach out to me.
I offer classes, videos, blogs, one-on-one coaching, and appointments.
Being impeccable with your word means living in integrity, being honest with yourself and others. Sometimes it’s hard to speak what’s truly on our mind, but if we don’t do that, we give away our power, we diminish our needs for fear of how another person may feel or react. We have to stop that, or we’ll never get free from our ruts.
This meditation will help empower you to stay impeccable with your word, to stay true to yours.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Four Agreements. Each month I feature an inspiring and transformative book to guide us in digging deeper into our selves and change our lives. These are all books that have changed my life and I know they can change yours. Find out more about the current book here or sign up to receive emails on upcoming Inspiring Book Transformation Classes.
To be a part of future classes, or to learn more, click here.
As a professional Animal Communicator and Spiritual Practitioner and Minister, I use the wisdom I have learned from all life to create a life I love through deep spiritual practices. This did not happen quickly; I had a lot of rough years being financially broke and in dysfunctional relationships before I was able to understand the wisdom presented in Spirit and Nature and how to connect it to my own life. Then, finally, life started shifting.
Now it’s my mission to help others do the same. I engage the wisdom of ALL life to help people create a life they love using spiritual practices and tools; to guide people into deep spiritual connection with the Divine for a richer, more rewarding life.
If you have the urge to seek something better in your life, if life feels hard and deep down you know it doesn’t have to be, but you don’t know how to make it better; if you are ready to make a change, please reach out to me.
I offer classes, videos, blogs, one-on-one coaching, and appointments.
