We are now halfway through this powerful year of 2018 and the word that best captures the energies I feel happening in my own life and here on this planet is "Landing." Landing:
Humanity is made up of over 7 billion individuals, each having our own unique experiences of Life here on this planet. ALL of these individuals, however, make up the Collective energy, the Collective Consciousness that moves through all of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. When an Awakening happens in one area of the world through politics, weather, health, finances... social media now ripples that Awakening through communities virtually. Those who are ready for a shift then become engaged in the activity that caught their attention. I believe the purpose of Awakening at this time on Earth is to help us land more firmly in our own power, our own Awareness, our own Soul-human journey. We are here on Gaia to have a physical experience, to bring the formless into form by embodying Consciousness or Love. And to expand it from one human to another. Becoming more Centered and steady in who we are, knowing what Soul purpose we are here to fulfill, and allowing the beauty and the joy of this journey to move through us... THAT is the delight of being alive in a human body at this time on this planet! Yes, the word "Landing" feels so sweet. Perhaps we can visualize the internal and collective celebration that a community of travelers share when an airplane that has just been through some turbulence lands safely on the ground at the airport! Or the boat that has been a difficult voyage connects its rope to the dock and gets firmly attached to land again. Landing naturally implies safety, security, a sense of Coming Home. And that is the shift in the energies that I feel possible for all of us in this month of July. I believe we learn best through examples and so I bring a few of my own "Landing" stories forward for you here. My Home...My husband, children, and I have been in our physical home in Cincinnati for five years now. After a recent meditation, I drew a sketch of the way I energetically "see" our home and the changes I envision making to our front garden and entrance. Taking the feelings or the energy that I have known to be true about this place where I live and work and landing... bringing into form... grounding onto paper... that vibration allowed me to then share it with my family. My husband and I have spent some time since walking around our property, sharing the ways that we see that sketch of our home being implemented. And so it has created a deeper connection to guide us forward over the next six months to a year. This sketch for our home was the foundation of the Intention Grid from a recent Sunday meditation. If you are also feeling the pull to land more firmly in your own home or transition to your next new home, this meditation provides beautiful guidance. My Morning Routine...I enjoy reading about the routines and practices of those leaders who model fulfilling and successful lives. Committing firmly to a consistent daily practice seems to be a common thread through their stories. Over the years, I have played with different ways to start my day and this summer I have landed in a routine that flows so beautifully for me. I share it in the hopes that it inspires you to stay committed (or begin a commitment!) to your own daily practice. 6:30 - Wake up, take Star (my dog) out for his morning duties, put on my running clothes 6:45 - Unless it is pouring rain, I run / jog for 30 minutes, following the same path through the neighborhood. There is something so powerful for me in feeling the physical strength of my body while listening to music that inspires me and being surrounded by the ever-changing beauty of nature. I clear my mind and remember my connection to Life, all of Life, as I watch the sun rise. 7:15 - When I get home, I change my clothes, get more water to drink, and then go to my Sanctuary room by my office for 45 minutes of Kundalini yoga. More music, deep breathing, and a conscious awareness of how energy is moving through my body. This has been such an important addition to my morning routine! 8:00 - I make a smoothie (THE BEST meal of the day!) and then take a salt-infused bath, where I chant the Kirtan Kriya to the guidance of Nirinjan Kaur's music, allowing the agenda for my day to take form in that meditation time. 9:00 - After getting dressed and ready for the day, I sit in my chair and record the Gaia's Love podcast into my phone. I prioritize any tasks for the day and then scribe (audio record) any copy or content that is needed for the projects I am working on at the time. 10:00 - I am in my home office, creating the podcast and diving into my work for the day... calm, focused, priority to-do list written down in my journal, eagerly anticipating all that the day will bring! It's always a work in progress, but I have made the inner commitment and landed in a sustainable morning practice that helps me flow in alignment with my Soul's Gifts. My Work...When I started My Soul Journey two and a half years ago, I did not have a clear vision for where I was headed. It felt like I was taking one blind step forward into the next, trusting that there was land that would appear under my feet. I knew I was a good coach and that I had lots of ideas to share, but what form that would all take and how it would be expressed in my own unique way... I had no idea! And so I have played with different creations and offerings and forms of sharing my Gifts. I have found the ones that felt good to me and slowly and more firmly let go of the pieces that did not. Over time, the foundational platforms for my business have taken form. In flashes of inspiration in my meditation time, I would see the possibility of how they all connected and what the whole might be. This past April, at the end of a meditation, I scribed the way that Oprah introduces me one day in an interview. The final pieces of that channeled introduction took form this month with the creation of Gaia's Love podcast. I share a couple nuggets of the words I wrote then with you now: "Vivienne is the author of the One Day series of books that are guiding Humanity through our current shift in Consciousness. Her books are written for Soul-humans of ALL ages, from the very young in 'Gaia Grows Up!' to the very ancient in 'My Soul Journey in the Gaia Tribe.' Her next book is titled "Gaia's Gifts'... Viv hosts the monthly Gaia's Love Festivals on the New Moon in locations around the world (coming soon!). Combining music, chanting, meditation, and channeling of energy, these popular gatherings are healing communities. Wherever you live, you can join her virtually on her Sunday meditations or Tuesday video chats, and you can tune into her Scribed Messages daily on the Gaia's Love podcast. ..." When my Soul offers such a clear message, I follow the guidance and bring the formless into form! It has been a beautiful time of coming into alignment with the "future me," as Esther Hicks would say. With all of these pieces in place, my focus is now shifting to Sharing. Sharing my story... sharing my Gifts... sharing the flow of Love and Source energy that moves through me when I am coaching, guiding meditations, and holding space. Fully landed, I am consciously choosing to expand my Circles and be the Guide for many that I came here to be. I am enjoying every moment of this beautiful journey. It is a sweet time in my Life and I feel supported and steady, ready for all that is arriving next. I trust that my examples of these July energies of Landing serve your journey also. Join Me...As you move through the turbulence that can happen as we prepare to land, I am here. You can join me virtually for Sunday meditations to clear some energy or schedule a one-on-one session to receive more support. I am going to be contacting local yoga and dance studios and places where I can offer live meditation groups and workshops. If you have a local favorite place where you feel I could provide value, please let me know! If you have not yet ordered your copy of One Day: Gaia Grows Up!, i invite you to consider doing so today. This beautiful little book is filled with such a powerful vibration of Love and healing. It is a treasure to be shared with children and adults of all ages. And, best of all, you support the gift of more Art With Intention sessions for children with Autism! (This photo is from our book signing party at my home, as one of the Artists creates his first ever Intention Grid with me!) We gather for the New Moon Circle on Friday the 13th of July. If you are local, you can exchange here. And if you are not local but still want to be a part of the collective energy field that I hold during each New Moon, you can claim a 20-minute Intention-Setting session via the phone here. Yesterday's Gaia's Love podcast is a reading from One Day: Gaia Grows Up!, a description of how I experience the energy chakra centers in our bodies, with suggested mantras to activate each chakra. If you have not yet listened to a Gaia's Love episode, I invite you to check out Episode 13 on I-Tunes, Sound Cloud, or YouTube. Enjoy! This weekend is our extended Family Reunion and my children are home from a week of vacation with their father, and so I land in the richness of time spent with those I love for a few beautiful days. (No Sunday meditation this week - I'll be cooking breakfast for a group of hungry teenagers!) May your July be filled with beautiful Light and Love as you land more firmly in your own Soul-human Journey! SO Much Love, One Day Is Here! Vivienne Gerard – Teacher / Scribe / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.
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The collective power of #metoo is profound. A simple statement that carries the weight, the magnitude of so much pain and trauma. It is humbling to witness the courage of so many individuals speaking their truth, bringing their personal stories out to be seen in public forums. As an energy healer, it is also miraculous to feel the vibrational shift happening as a result now within humanity. Awareness is the first step towards change... and this deeper awareness of the imbalance of power and respect between the masculine and feminine is spreading rapidly. It feels important during this emotional time to also continue (or maybe to finally begin) our individual journeys of healing. I know that as each individual heals, there is a matching shift in the collective vibration of all. So now, more than ever, self-love and self-care is a priority. I offer these simple, tangible steps to empower each of us that you can do today: 1. Pause and Exhale: Put your hand gently on your heart and allow yourself to feel compassion for all of these voices and stories of pain. With the exhale, allow the pain to begin releasing from your heart. With the inhale, breathe in peace. Exhale again... Inhale again... Exhale again... With each breath, feel yourself releasing any matches you have to what you have read or seen. With a deeper exhale, release as much as you are able to in in this moment of your own pain from your own stories. As you inhale, allow yourself to breathe in the possibility that greater Love is coming into humanity from this sharing of #metoo. 2. Allow In More Light: Physically, by getting outside into the sunshine, allow the heat of the sun to touch your body and to soothe any heaviness. To warm your body with Pure Love. And energetically, to cast out the shadowy places where these stories have been hiding. Give yourself permission to be in the sunshine, be in the Light more this week than perhaps you normally would. Knowing that absorbing the physical Light creates an energetic healing that then radiates out from each of us. 3. Drink More Water: Our bodies are made up of water and our cells store emotional memories in the physical structures of our bodies. So set the intention that you are going to internally rinse your body of any matches to the pain and suffering of humanity by drinking 8-10 glasses of water each day. Claim in each sip that the water you bring into your body is filled with Light and Love and is healing every cell that makes up your human form. Visualize the healing water moving through your body and releasing out as waste when you go to the bathroom. And then drink more water. 4. Take A Bath: Tonight... each night for the next week. Add a half cup of bath (epsom or Himalayan sea) salts, some essential oils, perhaps rose petals. Saline (salt water) is a cleansing agent that helps to detoxify our bodies. As your emotional body is releasing pain, the physical body can also release toxicity with the support of the salt water. Listen to your favorite soothing music, and at the end of your bath, set the intention that as the water drains out of the tub, it takes with it whatever pain you are willing to release. For the day. For yourself. And for the collective energy field. 5. Meditate, Chant, or Pray: Begin and end each day with a few minutes of inner harmony. Inner peace. Perhaps the beginning of a journey of forgiving. Of feeling compassion. Of BEING Love. Here in this moment. We are already whole, complete Beings of Love. As we unravel the stories and patterns that have limited us, we come into greater alignment with who we are at our Core. And that is Always Love. So as you go to sleep in the evening, connect in to your own Source of Love, in whatever form that takes for you. And as you wake up in the morning, FEEL the Truth of Who You Are. The centered Love that sits inside each of us. And begin your day from your own Knowing that you are whole. And complete. And Love. If you are looking for guidance in your daily meditation practice, the 22-minute Infinite Embodiment meditation teaches you a practice that helps to heal and empower the individual, the collective, and Gaia's energy. We are ALL taking this #metoo journey of greater awareness together. As we do so, let us each allow time and space to continue (or to begin) healing. SO Much Love... One Day Is Here! Vivienne Gerard – Author / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. This has been an intense and difficult week for humanity, as any of the stories listed in the headlines of the news confirm. "Our planet is shaking us awake" and leaders in positions of power are revealing their true characters in ways that are shocking and disappointing to many. It can perhaps feel impossible at times to connect in with the vibration of peace and love, with such resistance in the collective energy field. And so I arrive in your awareness today with a simple message that can powerfully guide us individually and collectively into healing. Let us pause for a moment and FEEL the vibration of an ideal world. One humanity, collaborating with joy, delight, and intelligence. Co-creating solutions that empower individuals. Bringing resources so that everyone always has exactly what they need and more, in every corner of our world. This is a vibration of strength... of unity... of harmony... of love... of abundance. Now my suggestion is to find your individual match to this vibration. And then Hold The Vibration with me. This is the most important part of co-creation. Seeing in your mind's eye what the event, moment, experience looks like in the physical form. Dropping into your body to FEEL the emotions and activations happening in your energy chakras. And then to harness, almost like you are taking a potion and putting it in a bottle, your VIBRATION for that experience. Much like a photograph that is shared on social media, the image that you see holds all of the vibration of that moment. All of the details. It is the same for what you are wanting to manifest. The vibration holds the power of it. Brings the power into the NOW. So that the action steps for that manifestation present themselves naturally. You, individually, can feel your role in the co-creation of that vision for an ideal world, for a new Earth, a new Gaia. Those things that are like the vibration being held in your mind, body, and spirit can now make themselves towards you, with ease and grace. It begins with the vibration being clear, alive, vibrant... and then you Hold The Vibration. As each individual begins to make this shift of empowerment, focus, and intention, the fear and heaviness of this external reality that we see through our screens and our news can be replaced... and the new vibration manifested... co-created in this Now moment. This is a daily practice. Perhaps many times throughout the day! And it can take a second, a minute, or you can devote a half hour. The vibration is a FEELING... a feeling. So join me in clarifying your vision for your ideal world, feeling it, and then holding that feeling. Again and again and again and again. As this new vibration ripples across our world, one person at a time, the Universal Laws of Creation and Attraction support Manifestation. Simple and so, so powerful. And it begins with me. With you. With each of us. As the New Moon in Libra arrives on Thursday, it is a powerful time to clarify your vision for the new world and set your intention of a daily practice to hold the vibration with and for Gaia and humanity. If you are in the Cincinnati area, we gather live at my home for dinner, intention-setting, meditation and play! You can claim your seat here. On Sundays, I guide a group meditation where we harness the potential of all that we are, focusing our attention in the Now moment, allowing the vibration and the next steps to harmonize. It is a joyful and powerful hour and you can learn more here. And just for fun and play, I invite you to join the GuruGanesha Band next Saturday in Indianapolis and next Sunday in Cincinnati as the "People of Love" gather! Guided by this talented band of musicians, we honor our journey of Life and celebrate together with an evening of magic! You can purchase tickets here (100% of profits support children at Ramana's Garden). What a beautiful time to be a Soul in a human body, here on this planet Earth! I delight in the gift of sharing my journey with you and co-creating together. So much love, "Divine Teacher, Beloved Friend, I bow to you Again and Again Lotus sitting on the water, beyond all time and space, this is your way, this is your grace." ~ Ong Namo Vivienne Gerard – Author / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. I am writing to you on a beautiful Saturday in Autumn here in the Midwest, in my home in Cincinnati. We have a kaleidoscope of colors in every direction as far as I can see, as the leaves are changing their colors and falling to the ground. This is a season of change, even though this summer has stretched a bit longer into the fall (much to my delight!). The trees are reminding us that it is time to let go and to begin the regeneration / recycling process that is inherent in humanity and nature. As I have reflected on what to share of my journey for this week, the word that is most present is Conduit. Conduit - "A channel for conveying water or other fluid; a person or organization that acts as a channel for the transmission of something; a tube for protecting electric wiring..." For many of us, the conduit / channel for water is an easy and familiar one to understand and visualize. We can see where the water sits in a reservoir or dam... and then is funneled through pipes, with the support of pumps and compressors into the network underneath the earth... up through the pipes... into our individual homes. And then we control the faucet as we turn the water on and off when we need it. That water supplies us with life. We use it to cook, to clean, to drink, to take care of our bodies. Water is an essential element for our human bodies and so we pay attention to how those conduits are transferring that water into our experience. What we perhaps do not visualize as easily is the process through which energy flows in and out of our daily human experience. The conduits are unseen. The reservoir is not visible. And so many of us do not pay attention to how energy is flowing and moving through our physical bodies and in our human lives. It is my firm belief that our understanding of, and increasing awareness of, our roles as Conduits of Energy is the KEY to healing life as we know it on this planet. And each of us is individually responsible for our own energy flow. Let us go back to the example of water. When we need more water, we turn the faucet on. It's a conscious choice to allow more water to come into our glass or sink. When we are complete or satiated, we close the valve and the water supply remains harnessed, waiting for the next time we open the flow. It is the same for us with our energy. As we develop practices that help us navigate or manage the flow of energy into our physical bodies, we become more efficient with how we use the energy. Meditation is the gateway - the faucet. Some may call it prayer or mindfulness or yoga... there are many ways to meditate, but the foundation through all of them is the same. It is a focused awareness where you harness the potential of your own energy. The more you do it, the more you trust the flow and the faucet... the more you are able to manage the flow of energy through you. The beauty of this is that it's as simple as using a faucet for water. Anyone of any age can do this. It is not the exclusive secret of just a few. It is available to ALL. As we become more comfortable with this process of managing our energy, it is natural to come into alignment with the greater collective energy. We start to understand where the reservoir of energy is coming from, just like the reservoir of water. Staying with this example, we can see what happens when the attention of many is focused on water at a collective level, especially when we have an abundance or a lack of it. When there is flooding, a community will bring their attention on how to support that extra water being directed in ways that serve the greater good. It is the same when we are in lack in a drought. We conserve water as a community and we start to share our resources. Using that imagery, it is easier to see our individual impact on the collective, global energy field of our ONE humanity. As each individual becomes aware of his / her own power to harness energy, we can start to connect this energy into our Earth, much like solar panels harness the power of the sun or wind turbines harness the power of the wind. Humans are able to do that same process. We have an immense individual reservoir of Source energy outside of this planet that is available in every moment to every individual. As we individually start connecting ourselves to that Universal Source of energy and we fill ourselves up first, there is naturally going to be an abundance, an excess that we can then direct and funnel down into our Earth to help power up the energy supply of our planet. We send our extra energy through the ground, into the invisible piping just like the water, creating a new field of excess energy within the foundation of the earth... available for those who need support to draw from in times of need. With this vision, we are able to co-create a reservoir of energy held in the ground, unseen but so, so powerful. We, as humans, become the conduits. Our Source energy flows through our physical form, through our energy chakras, and into Gaia, our planet, through the earth. And then that energy resource, that surplus, brings equilibrium. I call this process Infinite Embodiment and I offer an activation, a portal through which we can ALL create our own ways of being conduits of energy. Mine is just one example. I invite you to explore this 22-minute meditation and then share it with those whom you know. Let us start co-creating this web, this wave of healing that is ready to move around our planet. Let us all step actively into this role of owning our full potential, our full power, our harnessed energy and maximizing it for the good of ALL. These are exciting, yes - chaotic, and also, absolutely beautiful times to be alive on Gaia, Earth! Autumn is a time of much play and delight here in my own journey. The next New Moon Circle is on Thursday, October 19th at my home. I am excited to chat, eat a yummy dinner, and set intentions with all of those who are able to attend, so claim your seat here. On Sunday, October 22nd, the GuruGanesha Band is coming to Cincinnati for the second time and it is going to be a celebration of music, dance, and sacred chanting with the highest vibration possible! It is my hope that you are able to join us for this amazing evening. The link to purchase tickets is here (100% of profits supports children at Ramana's Garden). And each week, we tune in to our own channels or transmission of energy on the Sunday group meditation call. If you have not yet joined this community, I invite you to come and play, expanding your understanding of how you move energy through your physical space. It is one of my favorite hours of the week! Wishing you a beautiful Autumn weekend, filled with magical colors and lights and sounds! So much love from my heart to yours, "Divine Teacher, Beloved Friend, I bow to you Again and Again Lotus sitting on the water, beyond all time and space, this is your way, this is your grace." ~ Ong Namo Vivienne Gerard – Author / Healer / Guide / Lover of Souls and Humanity Clearing Past Patterns to Co-Create an Empowered NOW Join me on My Soul Journey on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. |
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