Then the world pulled you down. Pulled you under. It darkened your dream with its own clouds and fog and haze. It holds you down so that you won’t grow above the rest. It holds you down so that the growth of the world will be slow.

But what would happen if you remembered who you were called to be. What would happen if your growth catapulted? What would happen if you became bigger than you thought you would become? As big as the dream of your youth? So many people have forgotten that inner dreamer, let alone her dream!

Meditate, Pray. Tap into it again. Create a quiet space where the Universe can speak to you and remind you why you were put on this planet. You have a job to do. You have a dream. Get to it!

​It took me a while to slow down long enough to not only recognize, but appreciate, the great order to the universe. For a long time, I thought I was unique, apart from, separate, different. I lived my life according to my own rules, controlling and manipulating to have the world work as I thought it should. Of course, it never did, and I’d be left feeling hurt, lost, depressed, and angry. I was either mad or depressed for most of my life. 

 I knew the sun came up every day and set every evening. I was aware of weather patterns and seasons. I recognized there was a high tide and a low tide. I knew the earth and solar system ran on some kind of power to make all these things happen. But I never saw myself as part of it.
 
It was when I had lived in anger and pain long enough, when I had created my own world of chaos and destruction, when I had tried over and over to set things right and was met with continued failure, that I finally started analyzing the Universal order with more curiosity.
 
Somehow, the Universe kept moving forward. The earth kept revolving around the sun. The moon kept revolving around the earth. The Santa Ana winds came every fall. June was always gloomy. The trees always started blooming again. The hummingbirds all started coming out each February. The moon would be full every 28th day. I could count on these things. They were unmovable. I started to appreciate their consistency. I realized that all these things would carry on if I were on this planet or not. I, no matter how hard I had tried to fool myself throughout my life, was not running the show.
 
Even more, I realized this outside force that was taking care of the rest of nature was taking care of me as well. I realized that I AM nature. I am a part of this great tapestry of life. I’m not apart from it at all. My life is woven into the very fabric of the Universe. How assured I could be realizing that to the animals of the air, water, and earth, I belong. I am one with all of it. And whatever is running this whole thing has got me as well.
 
I don’t have to fight anymore. I go with the flow, knowing that nature will take its course. Yes, there is destruction in nature. There is violence. There is brutality. But there is also the unstoppable force of life. With every forest fire, isn’t there a brand new forest that begins to grow from the released seeds? With every hurricane, is there not plant life that thrives from the blowing of seeds and saturation of rain? Even concrete poured to cover the earth still bears dandelions in its cracks. Life is unstoppable.
 
There is the never-ending process of death and life, chaos and order, destruction and benefit. Is it not the same way in our own lives? If we look hard enough we can always see the good that came from the darkest part of our lives. But we must choose life. We can’t actively block it with our own ideas of running the show. We submit to life. We submit to the natural order of things. We accept. We adjust.
 
It’s not the strongest that survive. It’s the most adaptive that survive. Life comes. We let it. We adjust. I stop trying to control life. It is my place to adapt, not control. That is the natural order of things. That is my place in the world. 

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​He also taught us how to 'Kylego', a technique where we talk to each other like the day or week or year has already happened. We say things like, "I remember when..." and then talk about our dreams like they've already in the past. In that way, we trick our mind into believing they have already happened, and therefore we can do them again. Also, the longer the Kylego exercise, the greater and greater the ideas become!

Anyways, it was good stuff for sure. If you ever get a chance to go see him, I'd recommend it.

When they were able to pull the boy's hand out, they saw it was clenched in a fist around something. That was why they could not get it back through the neck of the vase. Curious, they opened the boy's hand to see what had been so important that he wouldn't let go of. They peeled back his fingers to discover a bright shiny penny. The boy had seen the penny at the bottom of the vase and had reached in to pull it out. And because he didn't want to let go of the treasure he thought he found, he lost the priceless treasure meant for him.

Question: What are you holding onto that it's time to let go of? The Universe has a priceless treasure meant just for you. What bright shiny penny have you been desperately holding onto that is preventing you from receiving it?

3) If you are struggling in a situation, brainstorm at least one good thing that might come from the situation. If you can't find one, think of some time in the past when you were in a bad situation, and remember one good thing that came out of it. It will give you hope that there will be something good to come out of this one too.

Remember! Your feelings come from what you focus on. There will always be good and bad; neither lasts forever. It's about what we focus on that creates our mood for the day. Focus on the good!

Here's how:

1. Sit in meditation and ask your higher power to reveal to you the shadow parts of yourself that are ready to be illuminated.
2. Write down a dream you've been carrying. Write down a project you want to start working on or a goal you want to achieve.
3. Write down any shadow parts of your character you are ready to show to the world.
4. Meditate again to ask your higher power to bring your dreams and shadow self into illumination over the next two weeks of the lunar cycle, as the moon becomes whole again.
5. Place your list into the flow of the Universe by planting it in the earth as a seed to grow, or throwing it into the ocean to be impressed upon with the lunar tide.

Happy meditating!

While seeing this girl during my meditation, I was filled with love and compassion for her. I realized how fragile she was, and all the while she had tried to be so strong and brave, trying to convince herself that she couldn't feel the pain. My heart broke, and I cried and cried. I wrapped my arms around myself and told that broken teenager that I was so, so sorry. I told her that it's done; no longer will I neglect myself and my needs. No longer will I treat myself or LET myself be treated badly. I told her I will take care of her now. I will no longer settle for 'less than'.

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I urge you, if you have never done a healing meditation for your inner child, to set aside some time to do it. It is one of the most cleansing, restorative, loving things you can do for yourself. I talk about how to do this in my new book. If you need additional help with it, contact me. Lots of love, friends!

Here's what to do:

1. Wait until dark
2. Write down a list of old beliefs, people you want to break ties with, habits you want to give up, and anything else that is limiting you or holding you back
3. Now, get a glass/ceramic bowl and a lighter
4. Go outside into the moonlight
5. Sit in quiet meditation, thinking over the things you want to release and, one by one, giving them over to your higher power
6. Take the paper with your list, light the corner, place it in the bowl, and watch them burn
7. After the paper has burned, thank your higher power for taking these things from you
8. Meditate in the light of the full moon for as long as you want.

*Remember to dispose of the ashes safely.

Happy Meditating!

Try to let go of them instead of holding onto them. Just acknowledge the thought and let it wash back out into the sea of the subconscious again. For five minutes, sit in this way, observing the thoughts come and go, like the tide. Be an observer without attachment. That's it! If you do this for five minutes, you've meditated for five minutes. Easy!

Have you ever experienced when you need an answer or you’re trying to make a decision, and suddenly the answer just comes? Imagine being able to access this any time you wish. That’s what meditation can do for you.

Now, there are different forms of meditation. But we believe the purest reason for meditation is to receive knowledge and awareness of things in the spirit realm. You may have heard it said that prayer is how we talk to God, and meditation is how God talks to us. It is true! When we cut off our incessant chatter in our heads, we finally create the space, the quiet, necessary to hear what we need to hear.

When you go into meditation, set an intention or ask a question. And then be quiet! Quiet your mind. When you start hearing your own voice in your head, just stop talking. You can think. The point of meditation is not to stop thinking. It’s to stop talking! That is the challenge! But when we practice, bits at a time, this becomes easier. We stop our mind chatter and really wait and listen for the answer to our question or intention. The answers always come. Because you have created the space, you have cut out a space of silence. You have tapped into the stream of knowledge that is always available to you, but that our mind blocks out with its endless talking.