Linda dropped by yesterday to say happy Easter, and mentioned it was a time of rebirth. It got me thinking, you can't have rebirth without some sort of death, so for our Self Empowering Mondays post today I wanted to share another meditation I wrote. This meditation can be used during the waning moon (now lol), or during the dark of the moon. I think this meditation is fitting.
Because I don't use any tools, this meditation involves visualizing everything. Find a place where you will be alone and in complete darkness. Sit or lie comfortably and take a few deep breaths. Calm your mind, relax every muscle. Once you are completely calm visualize that you are seated at a comfortably used table. Behind you are a couple windows. Depending on the moon phase there may be little or no stars shining through the window. The cottage smells of herbs, burning wood, and incense. On the table in front of you is a black mirror standing on a mirror stand, and a candle placed so that it shines in the mirror but does not take over the entire mirror.
This place feels safe and comfortable to you, you know that nothing can hurt you here. Gaze into the mirror and repeat three times, "I see my darker side." Feel free to reword that if you need to. Stare into the mirror. Watch just above the flame. Images may start to appear. They may show up as a pictures, movie style visions, words, or just ideas. Allow each image to stay as long as it will, do not try to force it to stay longer. Once you get a clear idea on what it means to you, allow yourself to fully and completely accept it. Do this with each image until none appear anymore.
This is where the death part comes in. It is always good to accept your dark side. There is nothing wrong with it. There has to be dark for there to be light, bad for there to be good, etc. But, I'm betting you fear your darker side a little bit. People always fear the unknown. You think you can't understand it, it's socially unacceptable, so you push it to the back of your mind and never think about it. So, because you are sitting down and taking the time to understand and accept your dark side, you will not be afraid of it. It may be scary at first but the more you understand the less scary it will be. The death of your fear brings about the rebirth of you. You will understand yourself better, which in turn, will make you feel more empowered.
After you have assessed all the images, spend a little more time in your cottage and just breathe and feel the new emotions running through you. Come back to yourself by slowly breathing and counting down from 10 to 1 with each number bringing you one step closer to yourself. Once you are fully aware in your real room, write down your meditation and anything you learned from it. Use this meditation a few times until you get a good idea about your dark side, then use it once a month during the dark of the moon. Remember, many people may expect many different things from you, but I want you to be empowered!
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3/22/2010
Self Empowering Mondays: Do Something About It!
Okay, so far in the Self Empowering Mondays, I've talked about positive affirmations, and shared one of my personal meditations with you, so now I want to talk about regular things you can do as well. As I mentioned last week, if you have deeper issues that need to be handled with a professional please seek professional help. We'll discuss ways of handling the darker side later.
As for now, if you're down in a slump it's always good to get out and do something. Are you married with an infant, or a toddler, and have fallen into a romantic slump? Hire a babysitter, put on some makeup, and go out dancing, to dinner, or to a movie, whatever brings the spark back. Are you in school like me, and have fallen into a slump where you roll out of bed ten minutes before class and it takes you five minutes to walk there? Try taking one night where you can go out with friends, put on something drop dead gorgeous, and dance to your hearts content. Or try taking a weekend off where you do absolutely nothing, catch up on sleep, read a book that is unrelated to school work, watch tv until your brain turns to mush, just don't do anything that has to do with school for that weekend (except Sunday if you have homework due on Monday).
Just like when you're doing Spring Cleaning, it's always good to do Spring Cleaning on yourself. So you've been sitting around inside waiting for the warm weather to come back and now things are stuffy and you feel a little down. Take time to clean your house and work on getting the energy back to where it needs to be. Go out for walks and take in the beauty of nature reawakening around you. Maybe consider finding a yoga class to join. I always feel great after a wonderful night of dancing at the cowboy bar with Mr. Cup, Mr. Sci-fi, and whoever else will dance with me. Or try something Miss K does a lot, go out in your vehicle, turn on some of your favorite music and just jam out. Go wild and crazy, it doesn't matter what people are thinking about you, just jump up and down in the seat, scream the words at the top of your lungs, and enjoy it.
You can also set aside time to go outside and meditate. Do you have a favorite place that is comfortable and peaceful to you? Go to it once a day or a few times a week, and breathe in the atmosphere around you. Meditate for a while using one of your favorite meditations, and feel the balancing effect nature has on you. If you are lucky enough to be able to start a garden, work in your garden. There's nothing more fulfilling, calming, and balancing than working with the earth.
You can do spells, positive affirmations, and meditations until you turn blue but nothing is going to change in your life until you decide you want to do something about it. So this week, go out and do something about it. Try some of the things I've mentioned here or find things that make you happy. Until you start to learn that people do love you and that you are a wonderful part of this world, you'll always be down. Remember, many people may expect you do be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
As for now, if you're down in a slump it's always good to get out and do something. Are you married with an infant, or a toddler, and have fallen into a romantic slump? Hire a babysitter, put on some makeup, and go out dancing, to dinner, or to a movie, whatever brings the spark back. Are you in school like me, and have fallen into a slump where you roll out of bed ten minutes before class and it takes you five minutes to walk there? Try taking one night where you can go out with friends, put on something drop dead gorgeous, and dance to your hearts content. Or try taking a weekend off where you do absolutely nothing, catch up on sleep, read a book that is unrelated to school work, watch tv until your brain turns to mush, just don't do anything that has to do with school for that weekend (except Sunday if you have homework due on Monday).
Just like when you're doing Spring Cleaning, it's always good to do Spring Cleaning on yourself. So you've been sitting around inside waiting for the warm weather to come back and now things are stuffy and you feel a little down. Take time to clean your house and work on getting the energy back to where it needs to be. Go out for walks and take in the beauty of nature reawakening around you. Maybe consider finding a yoga class to join. I always feel great after a wonderful night of dancing at the cowboy bar with Mr. Cup, Mr. Sci-fi, and whoever else will dance with me. Or try something Miss K does a lot, go out in your vehicle, turn on some of your favorite music and just jam out. Go wild and crazy, it doesn't matter what people are thinking about you, just jump up and down in the seat, scream the words at the top of your lungs, and enjoy it.
You can also set aside time to go outside and meditate. Do you have a favorite place that is comfortable and peaceful to you? Go to it once a day or a few times a week, and breathe in the atmosphere around you. Meditate for a while using one of your favorite meditations, and feel the balancing effect nature has on you. If you are lucky enough to be able to start a garden, work in your garden. There's nothing more fulfilling, calming, and balancing than working with the earth.
You can do spells, positive affirmations, and meditations until you turn blue but nothing is going to change in your life until you decide you want to do something about it. So this week, go out and do something about it. Try some of the things I've mentioned here or find things that make you happy. Until you start to learn that people do love you and that you are a wonderful part of this world, you'll always be down. Remember, many people may expect you do be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
3/15/2010
Self Empowering Mondays: Happy Thoughts Meditation
This is a meditation I wrote myself. Feel free to make changes to it to fit the way you meditate.
This meditation is not meant to focus on the deeper issues of your negative thoughts, because there are always deeper issues, you don't just come into this world thinking people were out to get you, etc. This meditation kind of plays off last week's post and focuses only on self destructive/negative thoughts. Later I will have a meditation and a couple exercises to work on deeper issues but please remember I am not a psychiatrist/psychologist, and I am definitely not trained to work with you like a counselor. I will gladly listen to you if you need someone to talk to but if you have deeper issues that need to be discussed with a trained professional PLEASE SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP.
Now, on to the meditation:
Take five to ten deep breaths and relax your entire body. Do not focus on clearing your mind yet, just breathe and try to clear out the sounds from the atmosphere around you.
Now imagine you are in the middle of a forest. The leaves from the trees filter the sunlight which casts a green glow on everything. You are seated on a fallen tree that is overgrown with soft moss. You are safe and comfortable. The outside world is far away. You are free from judgment and ridicule.
Once you have the forest firmly in mind, allow your mind to wander a little bit. Bring back to mind every negative thought you've had about yourself in the past couple of days. For each negative thought, balance it out with a positive one. For example, if you called yourself ugly, think of one part of your body that you like, such as "I have pretty eyes." If you called yourself stupid, think of one thing you know you're good at, such as, "I am a good cook, mother, writer, etc." As you balance these negative thoughts out with positive thoughts imagine that with each positive thought a flower springs up around you.
After examining each negative thought, and replacing it with a positive one, and I do mean every single one from the past couple of days, even if you have to use one of the same positive thoughts more than once, sit in the forest a little while longer, taking comfort from the flowers you have planted with your positive thoughts. Now you don't want those negative thoughts to ruin your flowers like pollution does in the mundane world, so imagine that they float up into the leaves of the trees. The leaves absorb the negativity, neutralize it, and release it back to the earth's energies, ready to be used again. Feel the healing energies of the forest and repeat a positive affirmation to yourself a few times. Once you feel comfortable and you feel ready to leave, count backwards from ten and come back to yourself. For this week use this meditation every other day or every two days. After this week, use it once a week or so, or any time you feel like you are out of balance and need to get rid of negative thoughts.
I wrote this meditation myself, so feel free to rearrange it or rewrite it to suit your needs. I hope you come back next week for more fun! Remember, many people may expect you to be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
This meditation is not meant to focus on the deeper issues of your negative thoughts, because there are always deeper issues, you don't just come into this world thinking people were out to get you, etc. This meditation kind of plays off last week's post and focuses only on self destructive/negative thoughts. Later I will have a meditation and a couple exercises to work on deeper issues but please remember I am not a psychiatrist/psychologist, and I am definitely not trained to work with you like a counselor. I will gladly listen to you if you need someone to talk to but if you have deeper issues that need to be discussed with a trained professional PLEASE SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP.
Now, on to the meditation:
Take five to ten deep breaths and relax your entire body. Do not focus on clearing your mind yet, just breathe and try to clear out the sounds from the atmosphere around you.
Now imagine you are in the middle of a forest. The leaves from the trees filter the sunlight which casts a green glow on everything. You are seated on a fallen tree that is overgrown with soft moss. You are safe and comfortable. The outside world is far away. You are free from judgment and ridicule.
Once you have the forest firmly in mind, allow your mind to wander a little bit. Bring back to mind every negative thought you've had about yourself in the past couple of days. For each negative thought, balance it out with a positive one. For example, if you called yourself ugly, think of one part of your body that you like, such as "I have pretty eyes." If you called yourself stupid, think of one thing you know you're good at, such as, "I am a good cook, mother, writer, etc." As you balance these negative thoughts out with positive thoughts imagine that with each positive thought a flower springs up around you.
After examining each negative thought, and replacing it with a positive one, and I do mean every single one from the past couple of days, even if you have to use one of the same positive thoughts more than once, sit in the forest a little while longer, taking comfort from the flowers you have planted with your positive thoughts. Now you don't want those negative thoughts to ruin your flowers like pollution does in the mundane world, so imagine that they float up into the leaves of the trees. The leaves absorb the negativity, neutralize it, and release it back to the earth's energies, ready to be used again. Feel the healing energies of the forest and repeat a positive affirmation to yourself a few times. Once you feel comfortable and you feel ready to leave, count backwards from ten and come back to yourself. For this week use this meditation every other day or every two days. After this week, use it once a week or so, or any time you feel like you are out of balance and need to get rid of negative thoughts.
I wrote this meditation myself, so feel free to rearrange it or rewrite it to suit your needs. I hope you come back next week for more fun! Remember, many people may expect you to be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
3/10/2010
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3/08/2010
Self Empowering Modays: Debut Post
After writing my post about confidence and magick, I decided there was no way that I could include all the techniques for boosting confidence that I wanted to talk about in one post. So, at first I thought about doing a month long or week long confidence theme, and although I am still considering that, I thought Self Empowering Mondays sounded like a better idea because then I could do one technique for each week, giving everyone a chance to work with it for a week before moving on to the next one. So, I hope you guys will join me every Monday for Self Empowering Mondays and leave lots of comments!
For the debut, I want to talk about self-destructive thoughts, and give you guys a couple of positive affirmations to use this week. The first step in any journey for change is always changing the way you think, so let's start this journey by changing those negative thoughts into positive ones!
Everyone has negative/self-destructive thoughts. Even the most confident people will question themselves; however, these questions become destructive when they become facts in your own mind. Thoughts like "I am stupid," "I am ugly," "I am fat," "People hate me," "I'm unlovable," or "I'm incapable of everything," are all self-destructive thoughts. They latch on and dig in like cancer, and like cancer, they multiply and take over your entire being, until you become depressed, possibly hateful (toward yourself and/or others), and almost reclusive.
Many times in the past, I found myself saying things like, "I can't do that because someone will make fun of me because I'm ugly/stupid/fat," and it didn't matter how many people told me otherwise, they couldn't make me believe that I was not stupid or ugly or fat. I had to believe it for myself before I could believe anyone else. Eventually I grew tired of not being part of the crowd, of hiding at home when I really wanted to be having fun and meeting people like all the other people my age.
I bought millions of self-help books thinking I could find an instant cure in one of them. None of them helped, but only because I didn't want to do the work. I wanted to open one of them and instantly be changed. Once I finally realized that the answer came from inside me, I realized that I had the power to change my life. Once you realize that you are in control, and contrary to what you believed, the universe really isn't out to get you, you begin feeling a little more empowered; you're ready to start testing the waters.
As I mentioned, the first step on this journey is changing the way you think. One of the best things I've found to reprogram your thoughts is the use of positive affirmations. You're probably used to those negative affirmations such as, "I am ugly, fat, and stupid, and I have no friends," but we've got to reprogram them so that they empower you instead of beat you down. Instead of the negative affirmations, try changing them up by telling yourself, "I am beautiful, smart, and lovable. I have many friends. I am loved." Even if you don't really believe it at first, just keep telling yourself that you are beautiful, smart, and loved. This will probably be the hardest part of the journey because a mental battle will be surging, but remember, everything that is good is worth fighting for, and you my friend are worth fighting for.
This week, start out by writing your own positive affirmation and repeating it over and over in your mind while you are going to sleep. Each morning, when you wake up, tell yourself that today is going to be a good day. During the day, when those negative thoughts pop up, stop them in their tracks and replace them with a positive thought. Try this for this first week and watch as things start to change. Many people may expect you to be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
For the debut, I want to talk about self-destructive thoughts, and give you guys a couple of positive affirmations to use this week. The first step in any journey for change is always changing the way you think, so let's start this journey by changing those negative thoughts into positive ones!
Everyone has negative/self-destructive thoughts. Even the most confident people will question themselves; however, these questions become destructive when they become facts in your own mind. Thoughts like "I am stupid," "I am ugly," "I am fat," "People hate me," "I'm unlovable," or "I'm incapable of everything," are all self-destructive thoughts. They latch on and dig in like cancer, and like cancer, they multiply and take over your entire being, until you become depressed, possibly hateful (toward yourself and/or others), and almost reclusive.
Many times in the past, I found myself saying things like, "I can't do that because someone will make fun of me because I'm ugly/stupid/fat," and it didn't matter how many people told me otherwise, they couldn't make me believe that I was not stupid or ugly or fat. I had to believe it for myself before I could believe anyone else. Eventually I grew tired of not being part of the crowd, of hiding at home when I really wanted to be having fun and meeting people like all the other people my age.
I bought millions of self-help books thinking I could find an instant cure in one of them. None of them helped, but only because I didn't want to do the work. I wanted to open one of them and instantly be changed. Once I finally realized that the answer came from inside me, I realized that I had the power to change my life. Once you realize that you are in control, and contrary to what you believed, the universe really isn't out to get you, you begin feeling a little more empowered; you're ready to start testing the waters.
As I mentioned, the first step on this journey is changing the way you think. One of the best things I've found to reprogram your thoughts is the use of positive affirmations. You're probably used to those negative affirmations such as, "I am ugly, fat, and stupid, and I have no friends," but we've got to reprogram them so that they empower you instead of beat you down. Instead of the negative affirmations, try changing them up by telling yourself, "I am beautiful, smart, and lovable. I have many friends. I am loved." Even if you don't really believe it at first, just keep telling yourself that you are beautiful, smart, and loved. This will probably be the hardest part of the journey because a mental battle will be surging, but remember, everything that is good is worth fighting for, and you my friend are worth fighting for.
This week, start out by writing your own positive affirmation and repeating it over and over in your mind while you are going to sleep. Each morning, when you wake up, tell yourself that today is going to be a good day. During the day, when those negative thoughts pop up, stop them in their tracks and replace them with a positive thought. Try this for this first week and watch as things start to change. Many people may expect you to be many things, but I want you to be empowered!
3/06/2010
New Ideas For Everyone's Consideration
Ok, so I just want to do a quick post because I'm in town at Burger King using the free internet so I may not be on as much as usual this week. However, I have new ideas to talk with you guys about and that means I expects lots of COMMENTS lol so that I know how you feel about these things. So I have two ideas I wanna talk to you guys about.
The first idea is this: Me, Ahna, and Ahna's friend Jenny over at Agony's Decay have been talking and guess what! We would like to do monthly giveaways here at my little blog. They will begin at my 50th post and happen every month, sometimes featuring Ahna's products, sometimes featuring Jenny's products, and if any of you guys have a shop and want to offer a giveaway email me with your idea! I would love to hear how you guys feel about this idea so leave me lots of comments.
The second idea is this: I have decided I want to do a featured thing every Monday called Self Empowering Mondays where I talk about confidence boosting techniques, finding balance and keeping yourself in balance, etc. I'll talk about positive affirmations, meditations, spells, and other things to help you feel empowered. The first post for Self Empowering Mondays will be on March 8, 2010. So let me know what you think about this too.
Well I'm going to have to leave you guys for now. Daddy's sick and I have to get him some Sprites, that's the whole reason I'm even in town lol. So I hope to see lots of comments when I get back on Monday to post the debut post of Self Empowering Mondays! And I hope everyone has a great weekend. Brightest blessings to everyone!
The first idea is this: Me, Ahna, and Ahna's friend Jenny over at Agony's Decay have been talking and guess what! We would like to do monthly giveaways here at my little blog. They will begin at my 50th post and happen every month, sometimes featuring Ahna's products, sometimes featuring Jenny's products, and if any of you guys have a shop and want to offer a giveaway email me with your idea! I would love to hear how you guys feel about this idea so leave me lots of comments.
The second idea is this: I have decided I want to do a featured thing every Monday called Self Empowering Mondays where I talk about confidence boosting techniques, finding balance and keeping yourself in balance, etc. I'll talk about positive affirmations, meditations, spells, and other things to help you feel empowered. The first post for Self Empowering Mondays will be on March 8, 2010. So let me know what you think about this too.
Well I'm going to have to leave you guys for now. Daddy's sick and I have to get him some Sprites, that's the whole reason I'm even in town lol. So I hope to see lots of comments when I get back on Monday to post the debut post of Self Empowering Mondays! And I hope everyone has a great weekend. Brightest blessings to everyone!
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