A time to write...

Hi once again,

I hope you have been enjoying using the meditation from the previous blog entry. I know I have. I love to meditate. When I teach meditation I often talk about and get students to experience dancing meditations and walking meditations. I have come across something new – well new to me. 'Writing meditations!'

For years I have been writing into a journal – sometimes daily sometimes a little more sporadically. At most of my workshops I talk about journaling and often get students to spend time noting down how they felt during particular sessions. In my one to ones I encourage journaling as it helps in the healing and transformation process. Why..? Well in my view it helps to ANCHOR experiences. This means it can help to ground your experience. If you have had some revelations about yourself, situation, work, life purpose, emotional state etc. it is good to bring them into your life and to record your insights. Work with them, allow them to grow and flow into your life. However in the magic way the journal also helps to PURGE and RELEASE things. It enables things to be completed and/or released. The sheer act of writing them can resolve your experience of them, it is like your own magic companion! It cannot act in the opposite way that it needs to as it is bound by some Universal magic and a secret formulae that it only shares with other journals! – Okay sounds slightly off the wall, but you need to experience the joy of journaling in order to understand how mystical the experience can be.

I have recently picked up a book by Julia Cameron – The Artist’s Way (see on the right hand side if you are interested in your own copy!) Well in this work book part of the process is what Julia calls the ‘morning pages.’ This involves setting ones alarm earlier than usual (aaargh…I am going to find that a challenge to sustain) and to write 3 pages in your journal no matter what and on anything. The thing is to not read it back not try and analyse it, share it or edit it! It is simply about the process. Having done this only for a few days, I am finding it really liberating. My normal journal pattern has been in the evening, but in the morning, done in this way it feels like an ‘energy shower.’ I feel energetically clean and I have to say my solar plexus chakra seems to be shedding pent up angst, fear, resistance etc. It simply sets me up for the day. Do you not think it is amazing that you can change something already so powerful into something so awesome by making what appears to be a small change….? This is a specific type of journaling where you write about anything it does not have to be about ones psyche, emotions, deep thoughts it can be frivolous, fun, as well as serious and deep. Unlike other journaling experiences Julia says that you should not read them – although I have to say I rarely seem to re-read my journals, I just write them! I write them for me not for anyone else.

Julia in her book compares this morning practice to a meditation and at first I thought ‘hmm…possibly.’ Well let me tell you it is. It is a wonderful way to focus ones mind, release things that don’t serve, gain clarity and remove the blocks that we have on our path. I always feel so excited when I am able to add either a new tool, or a new level of understanding to a tool I already have “in my spiritual tool box.” Those of you who have worked with me will now that I have always said that meditation is not a separate practice it is a way of life, as is the true essence of Yoga in my belief.

If you are not already journaling why don’t you try it? You don’t have to spend money on a fancy journal yet (of course you can if you want to.) Why not just use some A4 paper and create your own book, see how you feel with it. For me, fancy books have always been a must, but then I have a big thing for stationary.

Well I am so thankful that I am able to recapture my journaling habit and take it to the next level. I hope that you are able to join the journaling revolution.

Until the next time, keep on journaling while enjoy the glorious sunshine.

Wishing you all much love, growth, creativity and transformation.

Sarupa XXX

Guardian Angel Meditation

This meditation is intended to help you connect to your Guardian Angel. The more you use this meditation the stronger your connection will be.

The Heavenly Spaces May 2007 newsletter was dedicated to each of your Guardian Angels. If you would like to sign up for a free monthly newsletter then please email: info@heavenlyspaces.co.uk

As a new offering this month you can here the FULL meditation as a .MP3 file. If you click on Heavenly Spaces and click through to the channellings page you will find the file there. From here you can listen to it, save it, transfer it to your MP3 player etc. If you are going to share it please note that a 'creative commons copyright notice exists - see below.

As ever feedback is welcome. Wishing you joyous reunions with your Guardian Angel.

Sarupa XXX

(Please note that this is a cut down version of the full meditation which is available FREE from www.heavenlyspaces.co.uk .)

"Find yourself sitting or lying comfortably. Make sure you will not be disturbed for about 15 minutes or so. Turn off phones and if need be put a do not disturb notice outside the room you are in.

Start by focusing on your breathing. Just notice it for now. It has its own rhythm. Then take some deliberate deep breaths, in through the nose and out through the mouth. Still ensure that you are breathing gently, we are not pushing breath out we are just taking a longer in and out breath. Imagine that you are breathing from your toes. Each in-breath taking in more light, more transformational energy and calling back to you all aspects of you that have been displaced for whatever reason. Every out breath for now is releasing all that does not serve you. As this happens you are automatically filling up with more light. Experience yourself as a being of cosmic light. Feel yourself expanding through this focus on your breathing. Do this for a few moments and as you expand experience the joy and serenity. The beauty, love and light.

Now as you are connecting to your energy, start to become aware of your own energy field. Your aura. Perhaps see the colours in it or give a colour to your aura. See how healthy it looks and how bright it shines. See how it is sealed around you, protecting you and storing you within.

Excellent.

As you are in this state of heightened energy you are ready to float up to the the higher planes of light. Let your light energy float you up, above the earth and into the cosmic Universe. Experience yourself moving up through the dimensions of light, higher and higher until you find yourself stopping on a star. This is your star, the place where you often come to in your sleep state. A place where you are able to connect to the essence of you really are and to those who are supporting, guiding and loving you from the celestial realms.

Find your feet firmly on your star. Let the scenery unfold, create it. Is it day or is it night? Are there trees or are you by a beach. This is your place and you create the imagery that you choose.

You see a path and you start to walk on this path. You have a deep sense of knowing that this is the path for you. As you walk on this path absorb where you are. See how the scenery may change or the colours get more vivid. Feel the sense of connection that you have here, this is part of your spiritual home. This is place you have been to and a place where you will return many times still.

Eventually you get to a place where you can sit. Perhaps a bench, a rock, a clearing in the grass, it matters not. You sit and look around, far, far into the distance. Each breath you take deepens your connection to where you are. In the distance you see a bright and magnificent light coming towards you. You feel know anxiety as every step closer that this light takes you feel an overwhelming sense of love surrounding you.

As this being of light approaches you, you see there wings and know that you are in the presence of an Angelic being. This is your Guardian Angel. Your Guardian Angel approaches you and sits in front of you, takes your hand and looks directly into your eyes. As they look at you they are transmitting love to you and strengthening the connection that you have with them. Allow this to happen for a few moments. There are no need for words, just allow the connection and transmission of love to occur. Feel your heart space opening, feel your self expanding even further for with the love and connection to your Guardian Angel you can get a glimpse of how boundless you really are.

When this transmission is over, your Guardian Angel gets up to leave. Feel no sorrow, as you can return here as often as you like. The more you return here, the more you are able to enliven this connection and anchor it into the 3rd dimension. So as this magnificent being goes back into the distance, you return back to the path where you started this journey. Retrace your steps and as you do see how the scenery has perhaps changed. Nothing can stay the same, everything is dynamic.

Now connect back to your personal energy field, and allow yourself to float back through the dimensions of light and love. Coming all the way back to the place where you started this journey. Start to become aware of your body, the environment where you are. Gently rub your body to connect it back to Mother Earth, put your feet firmly on the ground. Stretch and feel yourself fully back to continue about your day, knowing that you have taken great steps in your spiritual development."

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