Coming through us. From Source. Our mutual origin.

I always marvel at how, even with our connection and oneness in that source, we’re so individual in our expression.

Yet Source is always part of our awareness. Of ourselves. One another. And the world around us.

And isn’t winter a fine time for rekindling fires of creativity

Even nature knows this.

The seedling sleeps in the cold earth beneath a crust of snow.

More babies are conceived during cold solstice nights.

Stories, paintings, music – even poems – come to mind while the body is more still. Conserving heat and energy.

Many times this creativity hides. Under the surface. Yet those who think they aren’t artists or creative are still part of the Dream Creative.

So you can decide that, from today on, your creativity is going to flow.

From Source. In the center of all creation. Through you.

Begin with your breath. Imagine it merging now. With a sound like crystals. Singing songs of angels. Healing sounds. Soothing. Yet also awakening.

Bringing you to this moment and its power.

You can feel it as a humming or thrumming energy in your own body.

Sense it now: an invisible suffusion of un-whispered thought.

Seed-germ ideas. Dividing and multiplying into cells of substance. Substance that is alive with the same oneness you sense.

Now, in your mind’s eye, reach with your hands spread open, palms up. And receive that aliveness.

Let it spread through your arms. Let it meet the vibrating river of life already inside you.

Let each cascading flow of energy merge. Activating in you together. As one renewed source of inspiration.

And when you are ready, come up. And out of your reverie. Taking with you this sense of aliveness. This tender energy. Of creation.

And let it guide your hands. Let it fill your mind with its ideas. Allow it to flow from your mouth. As healing sound. Mantra. Prayer. Intention.

And then let it flow with you. Into your day. As your individual impression upon the Light that is All.

I’m thinking of you with love, this Thanksgiving Week, and always.

Kind thoughts ~

Donna

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Although the ego (when used to describe the negative part of our psyche) can seem to play a large role in our lives when out of control, it is really only a small part of who we are (or surmise we are).

Sometimes I receive phone calls from people concerned about their experience with a teacher who appears to be lost in the ego. Each situation of course is unique, and each individual is responsible for taking care that they are not permitting another to abuse them, whether that other be a revered teacher or not.

Haven’t we all faced the decision whether to sacrifice a teaching or spiritual experience just because the teacher appears to have fallen from a pedestal? It’s how you respond to any circumstance, no matter how provocative, that can show you where you may need to shore up your inner reserves or make stronger connections with your inner teacher.

Your true teacher can safely guide you through any strange or treacherous emotions and thinking.

The inner teacher is always there to remind you to develop your own spiritual discernment.

If you have been developing yourself through your meditation practice and spiritual life, you may already know a deep bond that comes with your connections with the inner master. If not, it is never to late to start.

And you can find the simple truths in all the world’s traditions and philosophies to help you measure what is going on in your own heart even in response to any negative treatment by another.

The key is to first build your trust in and with your inner relationship to your own Higher Self or whatever name you have for the Source or God. Otherwise you are in danger of being hurt when that trust is placed in anyone, gifted or revered spiritual teacher, friend or loved one.

So what are tests for, after all, if not to cause you to ask where or with whom you have been placing your trust? They can give you important clues about how deeply connected you are to your own inner master.

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In this video, Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath gives an engaging talk on the pitfalls and snares of the human ego. His message is about how a person’s spiritual practice (in his school, this is Krya Yoga) can help them rise above any traps set by the ego in self or another.

I agree. To go within first no matter what is going on without is to then masterfully and effectively get on with what is really important in life.

Music heals – sound heals; this has been well documented. Recent studies have been done in Post Operative Care Units during patent’s early postoperative care. Fascinating footage exists on the the beautiful patterns some sound makes on sand and on water.

Healers have long used song or bells, or even Tibetan singing bowls. I often turn to exotic sound and chant to enter deep healing meditation, or to classical music especially in preparation for healing sessions.

What are your favorite pieces of music to heal or soothe? I’d love to know if you’ve found a favorite multimedia presentation that incorporates the best of imagery and sound to heal.

One of my favorite pieces of classical music is by Franz Schubert, Ave Maria. In this YouTube video, Franz Schubert’s classical masterpiece is sung by Chloe Agnew with Celtic Woman:

Other articles on sound:

• How Sound Heals
• Apollo Giver of Music & Medicine
• Music Heals the Soul

Breathing appreciation changes energy

After you apply some of the techniques I provided, you may immediately notice changes in your personal power as you gently wrap your energy around the word ‘appreciation’. If at any time you are not feeling quite the same sweetness you did when you first explored the sensation of appreciation, stop for a moment and just breathe.

Inside your heart’s feeling

Take a peek inside your heart of feeling. Notice what if anything may be in the way. You might want use my guided breathing exercise to assist you to clear any unwanted energy. The meditation is posted as an MP3 at my TeleMeditations podcast site.

Breathing and checking in with compassion for your feelings can be valuable for strengthening a habit of appreciation.

Among other benefits, breathing with compassion can help you discover what might still need weeding or pruning whenever you are building new habits. It can also help naturally clear you, then assist you with the planting of your own seeds of inspiration, and with adding the nutrients and water of your lavish yet sincere appreciation.

Breathing meditation on appreciation

Breathing while absorbing the higher meaning of the word ‘appreciation’ is a refinement that can lift your whole being into a higher frequency. A simplified pranayama meditation can help you form the habit of easily being in a state of almost constant appreciation.

You can try just breathing and mentally allowing the word ‘appreciation’ to flow in and out. You can start by breathing simply this way for two minutes, gradually working up to about five minutes. With regular practice you can extend that time as long as it is comfortable to do so.

Begin any meditation only when you are in a safe and relaxed environment. The appreciation meditation that I have recorded at TeleMeditations helps you notice how your breath attunes you to the natural rhythm of your subtle body. The subtle body is the energy that animates you through your breath.

Notice  any feelings that might come up as you practice imbibing  and releasing appreciation with the breath. If you experience any uneasiness, just keep breathing through it until it releases, and you truly feel the lighter state of appreciation.

After you try out the combination of breathing and accepting appreciation, let me know about your results. I’d also enjoy hearing specifically how it helps you tune into subtle changes. You can post them in the comment section, below.

If you’ve been practicing refining the words you choose, let me know how the energy of the mental, written or spoken word empowers you.

Studying breathing meditation techniques

If you are looking for further assistance with your breathing practice, I recommend the latest CD program on breath-work that I’ve recently tried. I like it so much I wish I had developed it myself.

Since I don’t have anything in such depth (yet), you can use my affiliate link to look over the product page to see if it’s  for you. The program comes with a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee from the maker, and there are no restocking fees.

Related articles:

• Appreciating yourself as you are
• Breathing meditation on appreciation (podcast)

Use it anytime you want a quick break to ease yourself into a quiet, peaceful state within. You may want to also use it to extend into a longer, quiet meditation session.

Look for a message here next Monday for a special holiday treat.

Joy and peace be yours,
Donna

Have you ever met someone who tells you they can read palms and then proceeds to look yours over? Sometimes they will tell you, “Oh, you’re a new soul. I don’t see a lot of patterns that show karma from past lives…”

But the deep understandings and beliefs about souls are personal. Maybe you know you’re an old soul and this person happens to be reading your palm after you’ve cleared a lot of old energy.

I’ve seen the lines on the palms of people’s hands change over the years, to have less and less lines, even if they develop wrinkles on other areas of the skin. You would think it would be the opposite, unless you realize how much energy healing can effect even a palm reading from one decade to another.

Do I read palms? Not in the traditional sense, though I do notice these changes. And I see them in relation to the changes people have undergone when they really work on healing their inner soul.

During a healing session I don’t necessarily tell you how old your soul is. But sometimes your reading can contain information from ages that are not recorded in mainstream culture, or even part of the world’s collective mythologies.

Dreams are the Soul’s Mysthology

Why is that? It’s because your soul records its own mythology. It is the repository of your future dreams as well as those of your past or alternate existences.

Why do I call these records “dreams”? It’s a way of looking at things we might not fully know except through a steady practice of deep meditation.

Someone once said that time and space as we experience it in our physical bodies are really just an illusion. They said that we are living in a dream. This theory forms the basis of some world traditions.

If that’s so, then “Who” is the Dreamer? And why are you in it, and why are there so many others around you in this dream? A good thought to ponder until my next post…

How do black holes, consciousness and the evolution of the human brain help us understand our need to seek the meaning of life?

Can a guru or system answer the ultimate questions of life like, ‘where did we come from’, or ‘where do we go after death’? Does anyone really know for a certainty ‘who’ we are and ‘why’ we are here? Questions like these are often what initially prompt us to go on a spiritual or healing journey.

My own interest in the evolution of the human brain lead me closer to the spiritual path. Initially, the information I found was purely Western theory. As I began to explore how the brain and consciousness are related, I also began meditating and studying Eastern philosophies.

In my search I’ve met students and teachers who feel that the original quantum theorist was The Buddha. And others who pointed out how even before the Buddha, the ancient yogis of India and Tibet had also penetrated the secrets that quantum physicists are only beginning to explore in the last couple of centuries. Other masters, including The Christ, have also taught from metaphysical levels that can only be explained, if at all, by quantum theory.

Are quantum theory and metaphysics related?  Perhaps, yet metaphysics is vaster than systems you can find in one of its components, Law of Attraction, and especially as it is taught today. It’s easy enough to find any number of watered down theories of quantum mechanics that Western Law of Attraction gurus use to explain their concepts. But I hope you don’t stop there without also taking a holistic look by including mythology, psychology and physiology in your search.

There are many ideas postulated on the evolution of the brain itself. Any may help explain how this magnificent organ may relate to the potential for realization or divine consciousness in man. But rarely have I found a blending of Eastern thought with physiology that induces me to search further, more inwardly that is.

I’ve found this fascinating idea of the physiology of spirit explained in part in this video documentary (my affiliate link). In one section it addresses this philosophy from the point of view of a Himalayan Master of our own time, Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath, of the ancient Nath yogic lineage. He lyrically explains the ancient teachings on, among other things, the physiology of yogic experiences, or how spiritual phenomena relates to physical areas in the human brain.

Brahma’s Cave in Outer and Inner Space

For example, he says that the ancient sages believed that a miniature cave of Brahma resides in the 3rd ventricle, which is in the center of the human brain. In Vedic culture, ‘Brahma’ is the Father aspect of supreme or ultimate Divinity. And Gurunath explains that this is the replica of the black hole in space called ‘Brahma’s Cave ‘.

Gurunath also explains the role of the corpus callosum, a physical area found deep within the human brain. For eons the ancients reported having seen the corpus callosum in meditation, calling called it ‘the Hamsa swan’.

Most spiritual teachings and healing philosophies agree that the pineal gland, residing between both hemispheres of the brain, closely associated with the 3rd eye or ajna chakra. Science has obserbed that the pineal is a partially dormant gland. However, founder of Theosophy, H. P. Blavatsky, and psychopharmacology researcher, Rick Strassman, have each suggested that the third eye is actually the pineal gland.

This concept may be supported by the evidence of cells in the pineal that are called pinealocytes, closely resembling the photoreceptors of the eye. Also, some scientists believe that the pineal excretes trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine or DMT. DMT is theorized to be a factor in unexplained phenomena like dreaming, the near-death experience, meditation, or hallucination. It is also present in some plants, and is synthesized and ingested for its psychodelic properties.

The ancients call this 3rd eye center the “shiva netra”, or eye of shiva. In deep meditation, the Hamsanath yogi sees the shiva netra, which is just in front of the black hole of the human brain known as the cave of Brahma. Gurunath explains that there is a ‘scintillatiing white star” within the center of the “shiva netra”. The ancients called this spiritual star the “kutastha chaitanya”.

From ancient times, yogis who practiced meditation have penetrated this star, the “kutastha chaitanya”. In that ‘no-mind’ state, the yogi enters the “unmani avasta”, also known as the state of “bhav samadhi”, “sabikalpa samadhi” or “nirvikalpa samadhi”.  In this consciousness, the soul is raised in vibration to rest with pranic or spiritual energy in the Hamsa swan, the lateral ventricles in the brain.

Gurunath teaches that as human consciousness evolves into divine consciousness, and as the human brain itself develops, this divine physiology becomes vaster. He says that as the brain’s texture refines, consciousness becomes more and more beautiful. He believes that spirituality is important in that the 100 billion cells in the human brain are in process of uniting with the 100 billion stars in our galactic system.

Gurunath teaches that as these go beyond the galactic system, the yogi merges into “the wonderful state of supernal splendor of niranjan nirvana, kaivalya samadhi, the Nirvana.” Could this be the science of yoga’s explanation for ‘going to heaven’ or ‘ascending’?

Gurunath says that while the yogi’s physical brain and body can not stay long in an expansion of Nirvana, he does eventually enter its ultimate stage. That is when, he says, the corona radiates in his brain cells and their subtle fibers, or tubes, light up with “divine effulgence”. This is how its radiant splendor goes on to spread its aura “far beyond the earth system, way into the galaxies”.

The clip is from the full length documentary DVD featuringYogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath; the teaching is also available as a book (my affiliate links).

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I received interesting responses to my message to the old Yahoo subscribers list yesterday. Here’s one from a client who’s graciously agreed to have this posted:

“I feel much peace and serenity”

Hi Donna,

I would be happy to subscribe to your email service.  I had a session with you a few months ago.  You cleared my tidal wave dreams!!  I have not had one since.  Although I have many dreams with beautiful clear ocean waters.

I almost contacted you recently because of something that happened during an early morning meditation. Last month on Sept 10th at about 4:00 am I was sitting and tuned into your voice coming through.  It was very strong and clear healing prayer.  It didn’t last very long.  I thought maybe the clearing you helped me with was still locked in my subconscious somehow.

Anyway, despite so much turmoil flooding the planet right now, I feel much peace and serenity not only inside, but also in my physical feeling body.  I try to walk everyday with Love and Gratitude in my heart.

Thank you for the important work you are doing.  There is healing going on all around us. I would love to have another session with you sometime soon!

Much Peace and Love to you,
~R.L., California