How to STOP beating yourself up
Your weekly dose of mindfulness to help guide you towards a place of inner love, respect, & empowerment. Let’s go!
Hello my friends,
Before we get into this weeks newsletter I want to take a moment to honor the moms who are subscribed to this newsletter — I hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day! I can imagine that being a mom is NO easy task, and so I’m sending you so much love & respect for all that you do for your children. You are recognized my friend!!
This week— The perspective I’m sharing is related to the throat chakra, and is on how to effectively communicate, not only with others but with ourselves, to create a more balanced, positive life.
In this email, you’re getting —
Zen Journal — Throat Chakra Healing: 3 Powerful Healing Practices to Unblock for Better Health
Guided Meditation (Coaching Style) — A short guided throat chakra practice to help you create insight & clarity for healing
The Weekly— Updates to important events/topics for the week + a *special card pull reading* for inspiration + motivation.
let’s get into it —
Chakras play a role in the flow of energy in the body. When one or more of the chakras become blocked/imbalanced, it’s thought to have an impact on our physical, mental, spiritual, & emotional wellbeing.
The throat chakra (our communication center) is the focus of this post & we will look at the role a healthy, or “open” throat chakra plays in your overall wellbeing, how to recognize a blocked/unbalanced throat chakra, & how to heal this energy center.
Read the FULL post —>
In this episode, I share a short guided practice that’s intended to support you in healing & opening the throat chakra.
It’s a mindfulness based practice where we begin our focus on the breath to help ground & cultivate presence. Then continuing on using the breathe, we open up our awareness to all that arises with curiosity and non judgement.
In this way, we can see the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and sounds that arise from moment to moment as observers, noticing without attachment. This allows us to be in power, to be in choice, to decide how we would like to skillfully respond to our present world as it unfolds. We can respond with loving kindness over judgment, criticism, or hate.
The practice begins at 3:30 and the total meditation practice is 15 mins. Hope you enjoy. Namaste.
1. Meditation Circle — This Tuesday (5/11) we move into week 3 of our “beginners mind” meditation circle experience. This weeks session, we introduce another powerful tool to use during meditation — visualization & I will also be guiding us along a body scan/visualization meditation for relaxation, calm, and present moment awareness. Join us this Tuesday (5/11) on ZOOM @ 7pm est.
2. Community Litter Clean Up — To those of you who live local to Naugatuck, and are interested in offering your support, join us May 22nd for our next community clean up date! We will be meeting at Linden Park at 10am. We have several different locations to target and will assign groups the day of the event. For more info —> click here
*Collective Healing— Tarot Reading*
What is tarot? Tarot is divination tool I’ve recently gotten into and because I find it so powerful, I would like to integrate a weekly reading into the newsletter for collective healing.
A tarot card reading is basically a therapeutic practice of using tarot cards to gain insight into the past, present or future by formulating a question, then drawing and interpreting cards.
I have not mastered tarot but I know enough to pull a card with loving intention to then receive a message for all of us to hear.
Below is the card pulled, and the attached message—
Divine Message For the Week:
Five of Wands
(side note— when I pulled this card, it happened to be 5:55pm 👀)
The five of wands says…
”Can you imagine a world of censorship, prohibition, & restriction? Because that’s exactly what happens when you deny others the chance to express their own ideas & opinions. Communication, cooperation, negotiation — these are the keywords when working with the collective. Think outside the box, or else you’re going to get boxed in a tight spot.”
When contemplating the meaning of the Five of Wands, ask yourself:
- Do I always have to be right? Why?
- Can I renegotiate the terms I agreed to?
- Am I open & listening to the opinions of other ppl?
- How can I find common ground with others?