Your Personal Space is Your Sacred Space

Sacred, as define by  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary:
1a: dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity
1b: devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose)
2a: worthy of religious venerations: holy
2b: entitled to reverence and respect
3a: unassailable, inviolable
3b: highly valued and important

The first point of the Merriam-Webster definition above is "dedicated or set apart fro the service or worship of a deity." Your life-force energy which animates your body is your divinity, a part of God, Goddess, All-There-Is, Cosmic Consciousness.  You, the Spirit who resides in your body, are divine.

So is your personal space sacred to you? Do you use it in service of yourself?  This means keeping your aura and your body clear so that you can communicate with yourself and know yourself.  It means having a well-define boundary that is "unassailable and inviolable." In addition, it is necessary to keep yourself healthy and whole (i.e., holy).  Doing these things is what connects you into your personal power.  As a Spirit, you can be, do and have everything you desire.  One of the games on this planet is to bring your spiritual information into your body and learn how to be, do and have in the physical world.

To truly know yourself and your own truth, opinions and values, it is necessary to release everyone else's truths, opinions and values out of your space.  The first time that you do this, you may feel empty and lonely. This happened to me during a break-up of my first relationship. I walked for hours thinking over and over, "I have to start thinking for myself. I don't know what to think, but I have to start thinking for myself."

Your personal space is the sacred center of your own universe. You create and interpret your reality from your personal space. It is your birthright to set the rules of your space: who gets to enter and who is denied access.  Many people are unconscious of this and allow their space to be invaded by other people.  They also allow their energy to be scattered or siphoned off.

There are several things you can do to make your space sacred. Meditation, introspection, care of the body, self-nurturing, and learning tools for making energetic separations. Use these activities to fulfill your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. Making these activities into meaningful rituals can help you through your spiritual growth as you turn your personal space into your sacred space.

Divinely yours,                                                        

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Who's In Control Around Here Anyway?

When you think about your life, do you see yourself as having to be in control, or as the one who is always being controlled by others?  Do you always have all the details carefully worked and explained to everyone why it is so important to do things your way?  Or are you at the other end of the spectrum and afraid to speak up for yourself?  Of course, most of us are somewhere in between.  Sometimes you need for things to be done your way, and sometimes how it’s done just isn’t important.

Control is a major game on this planet.  If you wish to feel more in control of your life events, or to lessen your need to be so controlling, you can start by looking at how much you are able to control your personal energy and space.  Do you throw your energy around blasting people?  Is it scattered among all of your activities, which leaves you feeling drained?  Do you get angry when someone more controlling than you walks into the room?

How does your level of personal control impact the greater picture of your life?  Your activities and experiences are a direct reflection of your inner world.  How can it be otherwise?!  For example, think of someone you know who leads a very hectic life (it’s always so much easier to see these things in other people!).  This person might believe that all of these overwhelming events are happening to him or her, and therefore he or she responds by feeling frantic and overwhelmed.  But, actually, the reverse is true.  This person thinks and acts frantically, thus sending out frantic energy, which then attracts the experiences to validate his or her feelings and beliefs.  The spiritual lesson here is to first be aware of your thoughts and beliefs which affect the energy that you send out into the universe.

One of the most basic, effective psychic tools for starting to control your energy and space, which you probably have heard about, is grounding.  Sitting down in a comfortable chair with your feet flat on the floor, imagine dropping a giant anchor on a very thick rope or chain all the way down to the center of the earth.  The other end of the rope is attached very firmly to the base of your spine.  You can deliberately send any emotional energy down this grounding cord instead of throwing it around at people.  Grounding also helps to pull you in closer to your body.  It is that first step to learning how to be more spiritually aware in your body.

Your ways of being in control of your life were probably developed as coping mechanisms and have served you in that function. There is no judgment here. This isn't about making yourself change.  But you can increase your awareness of how you operate in the world.  With increased awareness you can make different decisions which will better serve you and the people around you.

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In gratitude,

Madeline

Can You Relate...to Yourself?

Many people are unaware of their psychic and spiritual abilities because they just don’t know and understand themselves very well. Does the question “Who are you?” provoke a sense of self or a feeling of confusion? There are many obstacles to developing a genuine relationship with and understanding of yourself. Your life is busy with responsibilities and obligations (mostly to other people). You probably had very poor role models consisting of people who constantly berated themselves and made decisions that were not in their own best interest. Many of us are raised without recognition and validation of our true spiritual nature. So you were probably not taught how to see yourself as the invaluable spirit that you are your, much less even how to relate to yourself as an infinite being with unique gifts. In addition to not being able to use their psychic gifts, the lack of this most basic relationship causes many people much confusion, grieve and unhappiness.


Relationships take work. Getting to know someone entails giving and taking equitably, appreciating each other’s strong points, and having compassion for any weaknesses. You make time to spend with your friends doing the things that you enjoy doing together. As the result of sharing quality time with friends and family, you develop a deeper bonder and a stronger sense of the person they really are beneath the various roles that they are playing in their life.

Living with one or more other people has its own special challenges. Everyone has to share the living spaces, and hopefully everyone has some private space that they can retreat to when necessary. Sometimes you just need to get away from everyone and find your own space. The one person you can never get away from is yourself. How is your relationship with yourself? Do you appreciate your strong points and have compassion for your weaknesses? Are you able to spend quality time with yourself, developing a deeper bond with and sense of yourself and your intuitive abilities?

Creating a relationship with yourself is not something you can analyze into happening. It comes through experiencing it. Just like relating to good friends, it can come quite naturally with a little planning. You have to create a consistent, regular time and space to do the things you enjoy doing with yourself. You have to appreciate your strengths and have compassion for the parts of you that you wish were different. On an energy level, you have to move everyone else’s energy (i.e., opinions, expectations and demands) out of the space reserved for communicating with yourself. To this end, here are a few exercises with which you can experiment:


Exercise #1: Look in a mirror. Make eye contact with yourself and say, “You know, I really am a pretty cool person!”


Exercise #2: Do whatever you usually do to move everyone out of your space. Jumping into a pool of cold water is good for this. That clear-headed feeling you get is the result of everyone else jumping ship, so to speak. Everyone is psychic. When you jump into the pool, they unconsciously experience it as a drowning feeling!


Exercise #3: After doing exercise #2, spend a few minutes appreciating your uniqueness. This awareness will probably not last very long, but it is necessary to balance out the energy you put into wishing you were different.

Take Good Care of Yourself,
Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

From Wishful Thinking to Manifestation

There is a very well established school of thought supporting the idea that you can manifest anything and everything you desire and bring it into your life. Another corollary of this is that one can always be happy, and that happiness should be your ultimate goal. In seemingly equal force are the critics and nay-sayers of this kind of thinking. They say that we believers are naïve and narcissistic, refusing to see the limits of the physical laws that govern physical life. We need to grow up and stop being so self-centered.

So are we being self-centered and juvenile with our wishful thinking? On a spiritual level, this isn’t an issue of “he who dies with the most toys wins.” It’s about learning that what you have in life is a result of how and where you direct your attention and intention. On a deeper level, it’s about growing from a space where you create things to satisfy your shallow ego needs to a space of creating with authenticity and meaning.

This shift happens when you receive validation. You need validation for being a spirit in order to feel real. In fact, it’s the only thing you need. If you are not getting this need met, it is reflected in your ego becoming needy. You (your ego) will need attention and things. But things will never resolve your neediness. When you receive the right kind of attention in the form of recognition and connection, then you mature psychologically and spiritually. You learn how to validate yourself. Life is no longer about creating things to make you happy. You realize that “unhappiness” is just another fleeting emotion that’s part of the growth process, usually indicating the layer of the onion that you get to work on next.

Mastering being able to manifest your desires is a life-long process (actually extending through several lives!). Part of the process is in not getting everything you think you want, and figuring out what that means to you. Another part of the process is increasing your awareness of how your creations affect the well-being of other people around you and the whole planet. You realize that mastery and responsibility are intertwined.

I would like to leave you with one of my favorite little ditties that I remember from childhood: May you live as long as you Wish, and have all you Wish as long as you live.
Manifestation Exercise:Sit in a straight-backed chair at a table, with paper and a pen. Put your feet flat on the floor and close your eyes. Send a beam of energy down into the center of the earth, and take a deep breath. Feel deep into your heart and pick one thing you would really, really like to bring into your life. Write a very clear, detailed description of your chosen item. Think about color, size, function and the feelings having this thing will give you. Draw a picture of it. While you are doing this, feel yourself enthusiastically really, really, really wanting the item. When you are done, you can do one of several things with the paper: burn it, sleep with it under your pillow, put it in a family bible, tear it into tiny bits and scatter them in the wind, or bury them in your garden. You can even make copies of the paper and do all of the above! Now here is the key part: Be sure to let go of all the feelings you were generating and your attachment to having the item. Totally forget all about it. Then when it appears in your life, you can be delighted and amazed.

Peace Begins With Each of Us,

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com

Developing Your Psychic Abilities

Hello! Psychic Awakenings is a safe haven for sensitive souls to explore their own psychic abilities. You already are psychic. If you have a body, then you are psychic. Your body very sensitively perceives energy. It's your body that feels how different a library is from a grocery store. It's your body that feels the difference between when a friend is angry or happy. Learning to be conscious of how your whole body feels in different locations and situations is one of the first steps to developing your psychic abilities. By learning to use your different chakras (energy vortices within your body - much more about chakras in later posts), you can become conscious of the more subtler energies around you, such as someone's feelings, beliefs and emotions . At Psychic Awakenings, we focus on using the ability of the sixth chakra to read energy. The sixth chakra is located in the center of your head, and this ability is called clairvoyance, which is French for clear seeing.

Now that I've gotten the basics out of the way, the intent of this blog is to give you a variety of short lessons on using your clairvoyance in your daily life. It might be in the form of simple meditations, energy exercises or tips of the trade. Some posts will be geared towards beginners, other posts will be quite esoteric. There may be days when I just offer some ideas to mull over regarding my take on the nature of reality. I always share with the intent of furthering spiritual awareness and peace on planet earth.

Today's lesson: The Space Around You Is Not Empty - Your Personal Space

Before you look at other people's auras, it's a good idea to have a good sense of what is going on in your own space. Sit down, put your feet flat on the floor, close your eyes and take a few deep breaths to relax. First get a sense of the size of your space. Is it dense and in close to your body, or is it scattered and open wide? I'm sure you know people who can fill up a whole room with their energy! Some of them you might admire, or some of them you might find obnoxious. Whatever size your aura is, imagine that it has a well-defined border all the way around you. Now you can experiment with pulling it in closer, or making it larger. Which makes you feel more comfortable? If you are a visual person, do you see colors or symbols? Does your energy feel chaotic, or peaceful? It is important to know what is going on in your own space because you have to know yourself well before you are able to be helpful to others. Also, other people are already psychic too! They can tell when you are feeling peaceful or chaotic. Healing your aura's energy is a lesson for another day.

Bless You! and Pray for Peace!

Madeline

www.PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com