The Heart is to energy work what the brain is to academic work. In school, we fundamentally rely on our brains to memorize, comprehend, solve, and create. In energy work, we use the heart to remember, comprehend, clear, and shift. More and more our global population is shifting into a more heart-centered awareness and action. As humans, we fundamentally feel better when we connect with others at the heart level. We feel a sense of caring, community, and support. The feeling of a full heart is divine, IFYKYK.  

The heart gives us life and personality and literally pumps that essence through our entire bodies. Recently while doing a reading, guidance came through for a woman that delighted me so much I want to share it here and encourage it as a popular practice. The guidance was this: as you settle in for sleep tonight and each night think of 3 things that bring you joy, one at a time. For example, sunshine on your shoulders. Now feel that glorious feeling and bring that joy to your heart and imagine it continuously circulating through your entire body, just as the heart circulates blood and oxygen.  Sit with this joyful essence and without judgment notice what you notice. 

In Yoga Teacher Training I learned three ways to begin a meditation practice: candle-gazing, mantra, and pranayama (breathing). My personal experience with candle gazing was beautiful but not meditative. Meditation instantly regulates the nervous system, but I find that closed eyes are a requirement for my own regulation.

Silent mantra recitation could be very meaningful but doesn’t hold my attention or focus for very long. However, mantra chanting is quite different! Mantra chanting creates a sound vibration that resonates throughout your body and mind. This creates a magnificent feeling physically and spiritually.

Pranayama is the practice of controlling the breath to improve physical and mental well-being. For example, Ujjayi (ocean breath), Nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing), and Kapalabhati (skull shining breath) are a few powerful pranayama practices.

My absolute favorite is Ujjayi, a Sanskrit word that means "victorious". In yoga, Ujjayi is a breathing technique that is also known as "ocean breath". This technique involves inhaling and exhaling through the nose while constricting the back of the throat, creating a sound like ocean waves.

Great ideas come while in the shower, am I right? Recently, in the shower, I received the most amazing explanation of the impact of energy clearings.

Do you remember the order of operations from math? This rule explains the sequence in which we should solve an expression with multiple operations, PEMDAS (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, and division then addition and subtraction). Energy clearings = PEMDAS. When energy is stuck, we are solving the problem in a linear fashion from left to right and not getting the correct answer/desired outcome. Energy Clearings help you change your order of operations without you thinking or knowing it in your daily life. The energy that was previously stuck and forcing you to do something in a way that you didn’t want to do any longer – is cleared and now you can come to the correct answer/ desired outcome using the order of operations naturally and automatically.

Are you reading me?

No, is the answer. I can read you, but I am not reading you at this moment. We can go to coffee and have a “normal” uninterrupted conversation. We can be as deep or as superficial as you like. Intuitive guidance comes from a completely different frequency that takes a little prep work on my part and permission on your part. Once permission to enter your energy is granted, a simple yes from you, then the fun, the woo, the guidance, the soulful conversation can begin. Until then it’s just a normal conversation, without intuitive guidance.