A Meditation Memory

Rivulets of grace course through me creating

Sparkling brightness within and without

 Luminous streams move out into the air

One continuous web

Intricately woven, all of a piece

Velvet meeting silk

Ease encountering simplicity

Fullness connecting with light 

1. Meditation is a foundation technique for “energy work”.

2. Meditation helps to integrate mind, body and spirit.

3. Meditation helps clear and “reboot” the nervous system.

4. Meditation improves physiological functioning.

5. Meditation clears the mind and balances the emotions.

6. Meditation helps in the development of our connection with Truth, higher consciousness, and the  ground of Being in this experience called life.

Explore the many  different styles of meditation. Choose one that suits your temperment. Set aside time to devote to this most enriching experience. Commit to your practice as you would to Love itself. This practice will reward you with development of inner strength and ability to persist, inner harmony, connection with your personal energy and access to higher worlds.

Teachers enter our lives in all forms. They are the sky in the morning, the bird who comes to sit and sing in the tree outside the window, the hummingbird who visits to drink from the blossoms. Teachers certainly are also the events in life and the people who share our time and space.

I wrote yesterday about finding the perfect assisted living place for my Mom through intention, request and synchronicity. The place is still perfect today! However, my Mom is traveling through some pretty tough emotional spaces as the stress and fear of change create upheaval in her body, mind and spirit. Her age, memory slippage, basic temperment and lack of acquired tools to cope make it difficult for her. Like a child she will have to make this move and live in the experience before she truly knows it will all be okay, before she knows that happiness can still be in her life.

 Change is always difficult. But when you are old, without tools, or have forgotten to use them, it is even more challenging. How fortunate for a lot of us that we were born in a time when there is more information and methods available to help us navigate on our way through this journey in life.

If we work with ourselves, if we grow, develop, practice and open up to new levels of consciousness, energy and awareness, then we can arrive at the difficult junctures in our lives better prepared. We can move through those passages with a broader spiritual perspective that keeps peace, hope, joy and love in our hearts in spite of the challenges. We can stare down fear from a place of acquired balance and strength. We can use our energy/consciousness and soul connection to help steady and balance those caught in fear. We can provide a safe haven, a holding place when they cannot do it or themselves.

Living Energy…the gift that keeps on giving!

Karen

I have been absent from the blog since after the first post since the needs of my aging parents have consumed all spare moments! BUT, it all gave me a great example of the Living Energy work and how it can work in our lives if we allow it.

My Dad is 88 y.o. and in a nursing home as he requires 24/7 skilled nursing care. My Mom is about to turn 90 and until recently lived in her own home. It has become obvious that we (my brother and I) need to make some different living arrangements for them in order to take care of their changing needs. The problem: they each have complex needs that are hard (read impossible!) to accommodate and make all the various aspects work.

After becoming a self made expert in elder services and senior facilities in the state of NH, I had reached an impasse of monumental proportions—in my mind! At that point I remembered what I teach! I went into a meditation, straightened out my energy(this took awhile!), found my lost inner peace and when I had recharged my worn out core energies and felt coherence set in, I released an intention that a living situation that met all the needs to be brought to me. I need to underline that previous practice and experience REALLY came through and helped me reach peace and coherence in spite of the stress ball that my conscious mind had created through all this. 

Anyway, four days went by and I called the only option on my list figuring it was that or nothing. We would have to come up with an elaborate plan to make it all work. Once I got the administrator at that facility on the phone, she kindly told me that she was closing at the end of this month as she was retiring!!! ARGGGHHH….back to the dry, empty and frustrating drawing board! THEN, she said she could refer me to a place that may work. Fat chance I thought, since I knew all there was to know about senior care in the area. HA! Was I surprised when she told me about a brand new place that is opening Sept. 1st. I went and saw the place and it is like a dream come true….it is better than I could have imagined in every possible way! In just two days we toured, chose an apartment and my mother was taking us to dinner to celebrate having a beautiful new place to live that can take care of her present and future needs very nicely, as well as enable her to continue daily visits with my Dad and to be close to both her children.

An equally astonishing piece of this story is that the finances to allow my mother to live out her years in a safe and healthy environment with her family around her appeared quite unexpectedly, from a direction that none of us would ever have imagined and it arrived exactly on the day needed to allow all this to come together and be made a reality.

If I ever doubted that energy works, this would be the last of my doubts!

Forming an intention with your conscious mind, entering an altered state where you simply work at becoming coherent and peaceful and then releasing the intention at the end of the meditation was something I had been practicing already with good results. Applying it to my real life was a little slow in coming this time as my conscious mind really believed this was a computer, telephone and visiting search. Once I put the process in place it became easy, quick and had definitely had the makings of a miracle in my mind.

Somehow the phrase “Physician heal thyself “seems appropriate here! What is also appropriate is the reminder to use the tools (On Everything!), practice and combine the elements in the way that we have been taught that works.

As I was out walking today … on my summer route, along a somewhat rural road … I noticed a few dogs loose and running around.  I was on a road where the dogs on one side of the street are always restrained and are often “yippy.” 

As I was watching the dogs, a car came into view.  The car slowed as it went by the dogs.  then a truck came along in the opposite direction and passed me.  As the car came closer, the driver stopped and we chatted. It was a neighbor I had met a few days ago.  He asked if I brought 2 dogs along today.  I told him “no” and said I was hoping they might be his dogs.  We continued chatting while I also kept my eyes on the dogs.  By the time we said our goodbyes, I decided to continue along.  By that time the dogs had disppeared down a driveway and were out of sight.

 Although this may seem like nothing to many people, the sight of the loose dogs running around surfaced my fear of dogs.  Although I’ve done release work around it, I know that my hestitation about the dogs today means that my fear still exists.  While I was determining what to do, the Universe responded.  The car and the truck gave me some time to consider the situation and to decide what to do.  I could have turned back and taken a different route or take a chance and continue along.  Once I decided to continue along, the situation resolved itself.  The dogs disappeared. I expressed gratitude and tapped my collarbone a few times.  Later,  I  grounded my energy as I continued along.

I am particularly tuned to my surroudings when I am out for a walk.  Usually I notice the ground all around me, I study the sky (which was gorgeous today), listen to the birds and other assorted animals, notice subtle changes in the neighborhood, sort out my activities for the day and set some intentions.  Unfamiliar dogs running loose, however, do stir up a deeply seated fear of being bitten.  (It actually happened one day, many years ago.)  Now that is has surfaced again, I’ll actively continue to release it.

By the way, I never saw the dogs for the remainder of my walk. I did notice a beautiful butterfly moving right along with me.  It reminded me of the bird that acted as a guide in the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe film. 

I know that fear is not real but it feels so real every time it shows up.  Fear is irrational and it surfaces to be released and to be transformed.  It’s a continual reminder of work waiting to be done.

I love how synchronicity unfolds in my life each day.  Lately it’s been happening a lot!  About the time Karen and I expressed our intention to take our Living Energy program into businesses, I began hearing from previous business colleagues.  I know that this is much more than simple coincidence (because there are none!).  A few days ago, shortly after Karen and I refined our intentions, I received an email from a colleague I haven’t heard from for quite a while … and he included many compliments about our website and work.  The next day I heard from another colleague asking if I would contribute to a new magazine, Spiritual Living, that will be circulating in FL.

 Pay attention to your language and your self talk.  Notice what shows up in your life.  Notice if there is a connection between the two. There are no coincidences but synchronicity abounds.  Notice it and flow with it.  It’ll lead you further along your path and it’s much easier than trying to “make” things happen.

Peg

As I was out for a walk this morning I was tuning into the the feel of the wind blowing through the air. I began thinking about how signs of fall were beginning to emerge. The sky was clear blue, the clouds were puffy, a few leaves were beginning to turn color, and the air felt so clean and fresh. 

As a walked along I looked down and noticed a shiny penny in the dirt.  I smiled, picked it up and placed it in my pocket and then expressed gratitude.  I love finding pennies … particularly when I am out walking.  I refer to them as “pennies from heaven.”  After placing the penny in my pocket I thought about how delightful it would be if I found three of them along my walk today … and sure enough, I did!  As I walked along I continued to think about how wonderful the breeze felt and I was noticing all of the changes to the neighborhood.  We’ve been away most of the summer and I just happened to be “home” this weekend. 

Within a half mile of the first penny, I spotted a second one.  I stooped down, picked it up and placed it in my pocket.  Again I expressed gratitude for my double-good luck.  I also thought how cool it would be to find a third penny. Afterall. three is a very powerful number and many things happen in groups of three. 

I continued my walk and to my delight, I spotted a third penny about a quarter mile away from the second penny.  Wow! I was amazed, delighted and extremely grateful.  Again, I quietly expressed my thanks and chuckled at how easy to was to spot these pennies today.

The amazing thing is that today was the first day since late June that I walked my “usual” route.  I was tuning into everything around me. I love to see how environments shift and change after being away for a while.

Pennies have long been a sign of blessings for me.  They are a signal that everything is OK, that I’m on the right track. They are a message of encouragement … to keep doing what I’m doing.  A few years ago my Mom mentioned that she used to find pennies often as a child.  A friend of mine who was visiting that day (and doing a “reading” with my mom) mentioned that those pennies were a gift from her father … that the pennies she often found as a child were a signal that her father was close by, at least in spirit.  The conversation about the pennies was comforting to my mom. She was 85 at the time and this was one of the few times she spoke about growing up.  She never knew her father.

I deposited my three pennies into the ”treasure box” on my desk. They are a constant reminder that life is full of delights, blessing and surprises.  Notice everything around you. Sometimes the most obvious is in the most simple.  As we learn to let go of what holds us back, it often turns out that everything we need is all around us.  We just need to open our hearts and minds to accept what simply IS.

Let today’s breeze blow many blessings your way.  Just let them in.

Peg

We chose the name Living Energy as a play on words that describes what we are at our core, as well as a process we can chose to use to improve our quality and experience of life and living.

As we have said before, the concepts and techniques that we teach and write about have had a profound impact on our lives and we now want to share them with you.

This blog is an ongoing conversation about how we are experiencing the play of energy in our personal and professional lives. In addition we will share interesting and helpful resources as we come across them.

What you see here on the blog, in the website, seminars, manual and CD collection is the result of a conversation that began  in 2001.  This conversation has been about the dance and interweaving of energy between our inner self and outer world.

As we began sharing we realized that although we came from different backgrounds and had had very different life experiences, we literally had arrived at the same place … figuratively and literally! We met “by chance” at a business meeting when Peg filled in as a substitute for an absent member.

That in itself is an energy story, as there are no coincidences, merely lots of synchronicity which comes alive when we notice it and tune in.

Anyway, we realized that we were both working with inner and outer energy.  Karen approached it from the “inside out” and Peg approached it from the “outside in.”  Both of us knew that ultimately it didn’t matter how you began.  What mattered is that if you begin shifting from the inside, before too long you are also shifting the outside and that if you begin by shifting the outside you eventually make fundamental shifts on the inside as well.

The “inside” we refer to is you — your self, your heart, your soul, your mind, etc.  It’s an invisible aspect.  The “outside” includes your physical environment (home and work), as well as your physical body and everyone and everything around you.  It’s the visible aspect.

Our work together began through that chance meeting.  As we continued with our private practices (Karen with Ninth Wave Center for Energy Education www.ninthwaveonline.com) and Peg with Feng Shui Connections (www.fengshuiconnections.com), we also collaborated on a workshop series, writing a “Conscious Health” newspaper column for four years and finally developing the Living Energy Series.

Fast forward to the present.  There is now a deluge of information  confirming what we’ve experienced in our own lives and those of our clients. Energy theory and approaches are now public knowledge … thanks to many scientific studies and advances in quantum physics, popular books and movies such as “The Secret” and “What The Bleep …!,” and an explosion of mind-body-spirit books, products, classes, events and more.

 Our personal and professional experience is that there is magic! This magic is based on the science of consciousness and energy. To harness it we must engage in an internal process of growth that helps shift our energy patterns so that new things can appear in our lives.

The magic generally does not occur as an overnight change brought about simply by being exposed to this new information or from having a a few positive thoughts. The start IS with the the information, but then it is necessary to use that information to create inner shifts tht will help align you with the change you wish to see in your world.

Our Living Energy project evolved out of what we perceived as a need to fill in the gaps in some of the information that abounds on conscious creation theory. Experience has taught us that engaging the magic of conscious creation is more a process of alignment than a matter of applying a formula. Our intention is to help educate and assist people to develop the means to use energy and the power of their minds so that magic can truly come alive in their lives.

We’ll be using this blog to share our current thoughts and experiences.  We invite you to contribute your thoughts and experiences as well. Our intention is to share and support.  We can all help each other learn, grow and enjoy. We hope you will join us in whatever way feels right to you.