are something that will crop up and this is something you need to ask yourself, ‘What do I believe in?’ You do not have to belong to a religious group to enable you to have beliefs, whether it be god, Buddha, Shiva, Allah, angels, the universe, the divine or whatever.
What I discovered is that god is not a person or being, but the god from within, the god that is you, god is love. Finding that god within allows for you to have beliefs of your own and most importantly the strength and the courage to believe in yourself! When you believe in yourself, miracles will happen.
God for me is source of energy, the deep love that's inside us all.
As I connected with my god within, I had the help of the angels guiding me, people, items and situations came into my life at the right time to help teach me and show me what I needed to know. These were not mere coincidences, these were orchestrated from the divine, teaching me to trust and believe.
Initially I struggled with believing in the angels as I felt silly and I would argue with myself. At our wee circle, I used to struggle with the meditations at first, it was because I thought I was getting something until I realised it was my ego wanting it to be which gave me the sense of being stupid, but as the weeks went on, I could not deny the fact that I was feeling energy and beings around me. Archangel Michael was one angel I felt. For me, he appears as a blue light with a strong sense of strength and protection. When my father is around me I get a smell of tobacco smoke and I can feel the energy of him of what he was like when he was alive. Also when he is around I see butterflies. When I moved home, I had a butterfly appear in the kitchen and then at the new house a butterfly appeared again. Two in the one day is quiet something as you don’t see many of them about. Also, one of my spirit guides has a distinct smell of turmeric!
Now as my senses have grew I can see Archangel Michael as a flash of light particularly around someone who is needing to call upon him for strength and protection, or sometimes just to let me know he is there. After doing a meditation with my eldest son and we were talking about what he saw, he spoke of someone blue in colour and the name Michael. I knew instantly he was referring to Archangel Michael but I knew I had not mentioned him to my son. As I was telling my son about it being the Archangel Michael, a blue flash appeared at his head and he got a shiver run down his back. That was Michael letting him know it was definitely him.
What I have discovered is that there is no right way or wrong way to develop your senses. Everyone is unique. Some people see, some people sense, some people hear, some people smell, some people just have a knowing, some people get a mixture and that’s ok. We were all born with the senses but lose them along the way as conditioning and social acceptability commence. Up until the age of around seven, our brains operate in the theta brain wave which is much slower and allows us to access much of subconscious mind, then it changes to the beta brainwave which is much faster and more of our conscious mind. This is another reason why much of what happens in our childhood can impact us in our adult life.
Finding a group of liked minded people is always a good idea. That way you can grow and learn from each other, even the teacher is always learning. With spirituality there is no end to the potential of growth. Once you learn so far you go back to the beginning again and you start over. This time you will be learning on a deeper level, then go back and keep going back and the depth to your knowledge will keep growing.
What is remarkable is when you are in a group like our wee spiritual group, when you meditate together and you link in with each other and you get the same messages or images and that is mind blowing. We can all see the same picture or message from different perspectives giving a complete image often filling the missing parts for each other.
One of our recent meditations we all got bliss, we all felt bliss and we had the feeling of bliss for a number of days after the meditation. This was a reminder to us of how far we had actually came in our meditations and excited us all as what else were we then going to uncover.
Meditation is a good practice in helping the chakras and balancing your energy. Meditation is not as out there as you may think, where you have to sit crossed legged and chant OM all the time. Meditation simply means quietening the mind. Switching off the inner dialogue that often fills our minds and causes self-esteem and confidence issues.
By taking time daily even five minutes, it can have a huge impact on your life having true peace and quiet for yourself.
Take five minutes just now, read though the steps first then have a practice:
- Close your eyes
- Focus on the breath, breathing in deeply filling your lungs and abdomen and hold for a minute
- Let it go, out through your mouth
- Repeat the deep breath in and out through your mouth
keep the focus on your breath
- Let any thoughts drift in, don’t think about them, let them drift out the same way they drifted in
- Continue to sit like this until you feel ready to return to the room
- You may get messages, images, colours that’s ok
Well how did you find this? It’s not as easy as it looks! Probably the first time you tried it and only managed a few minutes. Keep practicing and you will be able to continue longer.
Initially five minutes can seem like a lifetime! You will soon realise the benefits and the impact this can have on you.
It’s a good idea to have a journal to record what happens during your meditation.
Now the basics of meditation are covered, looking back at balancing the chakras we can use meditation to focus on areas. As we go through this book, there will be meditations to look at each chakra in turn there will be other meditations to help also.
Meditation helps you to access the deeper subconscious of our minds. There really is a whole new world in there for you to discover. We only use around 20% of our brain in our waking life and that leaves 80% of your brain that can be accessed particularly the akashic records, where all the imprints of all our lives are said to be stored.
When I first began meditating, I found it difficult to do unless it was a guided meditation. My meditations began after setting up our wee spiritual development group in my clinic. It had three members and now almost three years on we have a solid group of five very strong and powerful women.
Initially for me, the meditations kept providing me with symbols which over time, kept recurring and I had to depict what they meant to me. There would be hearts, butterflies, pyramids and stars either five pointed or eight pointed stars. I’m not going to go into what these symbols mean here as what I discovered was that no matter how much I tried to understand what they meant through interpretations, it actually had a meaning that was more unique to me. When you uncover the meaning it will be a lightbulb moment.
So what I am saying is listen to your own inner dialogue and find the meaning that resonates with you, not someone else’s, be open to the fact that sometimes the symbol has more than one meaning dependant on the situation.
My hearts and butterflies for me were to do with self-love, the fact that I needed to find the love in myself to open up to change the inner me. I kept getting these symbols for weeks, months even a year until I finally listen and accepted what I was getting and making the journey to find me.
Meditation is a good way to find guidance from the heart, the true you.
Below is a meditation for
