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.*
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?
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.
This very short and quick process will help you when you are seeking more joy or happiness, and it just feels good!
It does, it just feels good to be joyful! So why not try this to bring more joy into your life? The more you intentionally feel joy and happiness, the more it will spontaneously appear, and life will feel better and more manageable.
Creating joy is easier than you may think. Once you allow more joy in, the more open you’ll be to receive other great things in life. An open heart and mind accept more ideas, more love, more transformative experiences; so let’s begin.
The meditation can be found here:
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Alchemist. 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.
Asking the right question can change it all. We hear a lot about being grateful, and doing gratitude practices, but sometimes it’s just a little hard to come up with them. However if you’re prompted the right way it can make it so much easier. Being grateful is an easy way to find more things in your life to be grateful for.
This meditation walks you through seven core areas of life to help you find something to be happy about, to be grateful for, in all seven aspects. I encourage you to do this often in order to live more fully in gratitude.
The meditation can be found here:
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Alchemist. 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.
Asking your body is the easiest way to know what’s best for you
Somewhere deep inside us, we know what is right for us; we just don’t always know how to access the information. Or we might be afraid of making a wrong choice. Learning how to tap into that Infinite Wisdom within ourselves is one of the most valuable skills I know; it has led me into some magical events I never thought possible.
That wisdom is given to us through our body, so it’s imperative we know how to read that information.
This meditation will walk you through understanding how your body reacts to good choices and not-so-good choices – a critical skill for an easier life.
The meditation can be found here:
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Alchemist. 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.
We sometimes get confused when wanting to live our dreams or searching for purpose – is that my soul talking or is that just some voice in my head? Taking a leap to move forward in your dreams is a little easier if you feel certain it’s what you should do. But how do you know? You can ask your soul. Yes, you really can. It might take practice to understand what you’re being told or led to do, but eventually you discover you can trust what you hear. Repeat this meditation as often as you need to until you trust yourself.
The meditation can be found here:
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation correlates to my current Inspiring Book Transformation Series featuring The Alchemist. 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.
How to make full use of our senses for our awakening
Eliminating time from our consciousness helps us eliminate ego. This is important as ego doesn’t want us to reach our potential; ego wants us to stay small, safe, comfortable.
One way to eliminate time is to make use of all our senses in order to anchor in the present moment. It is in the present we find peace and stillness, not in the future or past. The past and future is story only, story of what might happen or story of what did happen, neither of which is as important as what is happening now. In this peace and stillness is our window to our soul’s desires.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation coincides with the February Empowerment Class based on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. To be a part of future classes, or to learn more, click here.
Being aware of our inner body – that body which is free from our external view and judgement – is an important step to our overall awareness. There can be no ego in the present moment feeling the life of our body, and it’s this awareness that can help us move forward as we differentiate between feelings that feel good and don’t feel good. Our inner body brings us present, but also is the gauge to move us forward.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy!
This meditation coincides with the February Empowerment Class based on A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. This 4-week empowerment book study will help you awaken to your life’s purpose as we dig deep into ourselves. I will guide you through the wisdom of the book while sharing the insights I’ve learned from it and other places to live my life’s purpose. Each week we will dig into ways to keep your life’s journey strong and inspiring. You will come to experience who you truly are while learning the steps to take to have a more meaningful life, learning to live and breathe freely.
Are you ready to live the experience of freedom? Sign up here.
If you are really ready to move forward in your purpose and passion, you need to learn to differentiate between your ego and your Self, the observer. Your ego wants you to stay safe, be right and be comfortable, to never grow. But moving into your purpose and passion takes growth; it means getting outside of your comfort zone.
This meditation will help you identify ego from Self, an important skill to learn so you don’t listen to ego the rest of your life. As Eckhart Tolle writes in A New Earth, “unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won’t recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying with it again and again”.
Once you identify the ego and take a break from its thoughts, you can feel a peace and stillness, which is the beginning of the journey to a greater you.
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.
