Would you put up two roses? Let’s have the one on the left represent how much you ground to money and the one on the right represent how much you ground to the center of the planet. Let me say this another way. When your money supply or source is riddled with questions, do you get anxious? Or does having lots of money relax you? Then you are grounded to your bank account.
No, there is nothing wrong with this other than when your money is threatened you will feel threatened. You will tend to go into what a clairvoyant calls, ‘survival’. If this is how you were taught then you will have this concept or the energy that your survival depends on money in the first layer. For some this is why they have trouble-managing money and for others why they become obsessed with money. money
Money is not a survival concept. If your bank account goes to ‘0’ you will not die. Money is an issue of mobility. Or what a clairvoyant calls the third chakra.
In a meditation imagine taking all of the information you have about money out of your first layer and moving it into your third layer. See if this has any effect on your body. Are you more comfortable?
Now once you have redefined what money is to you, ask this question: “Do I need money to do things / to be active?” OR “Do I just do things and the money takes care of itself?” Ask it another way, “Does my money serve me or govern me?
P.S. Given the current rise of fuel prices, many are wandering around is a semi-state of shock. One of our staff did some figuring and it turns out that in a round trip of 60 miles total, as in coming to Aesclepion, the cost is 2 dollars more than your cost of one year ago. And that if you car-pool you have it down to $1.
Grounding, as both a concept and technique, is central to each of the curriculums taught in the Aesclepion Intuitive Training Programs. We all ground, or “attach” ourselves to someone or something that reassures us during times of survival or trauma. In daily events it is that “friend” who sits there patiently as we review our troubles.
The technique: (read this section and then try it for yourself)
Get comfortable where you sit and with your eyes closed notice your breathing. Imagine an image of a rose. See the stem, the leaves, the flower. Underneath the chair imagine a long, very long rope with an anchor attached to one end. Attach the open end of the rope to the base of your spine. And drop the anchor. Let it fall toward the center of the Earth.Watch it fall. See the rope unravel, being pulled by the anchor. See it falling and now hitting the center of the planet. Take up any slack in the rope making it nice and snug. Notice if your body responds to this.
The concept:
Grounding is to your body like a lightening rod is to a building. Any excess energy that is thrown or that hits the building is ‘grounded’ into the earth with no harm to the structure. If a building does not have a lightening rod attached, and it’s hit, there is damage.
You live in an environment of charges, both negatively and positively charged energy. Imagine each person as a ball of energy. Sometimes there will be an arch of energy from one person thrown into the next. Grounding for you, is like the rod is for the building. Any excess energy that is thrown or picked up by you, but does not belong in your space, is immediately discharged down your grounding cord with no harm done.If you are not grounded, you go home and ‘kick the dog’, so to speak. Or call that friend and discharge the energy into their space.
Concerning Pain:
If we are the ‘friend’ who is called, it is not uncommon to experience after we hang up the phone, a headache or some discomfort. This is the energy that was discharged during the conversation from our friend’s space into ours. Remember we are all ‘grounding’ into something or someone.
Ground yourself and then imagine breathing into the pain. IF the pain is not yours it will leave down the grounding. If the pain remains then it is “your” pain. Remember grounding only removes what does not belong in your space. If the pain is yours it will remain and this calls for the next technique. (next month we’ll take a look at this.)
By way of Hollywood, the impression has been given that the fortune- telling gypsies were relegated to living next to the swamp outside of town because the townspeople didn’t want them any closer - but perhaps there was another reason.
‘Sensitive’ individuals throughout the ages, regardless of culture, have themselves, chosen to isolate from the group. Sages in India have long lived with the image of sitting in a cave or on the mountaintop, while monks isolated themselves behind the high walls of a monastery.
Yes, I know we have been taught that we are not telepathic, but there is no way around this one - you are. You may not acknowledge the event of picking up on the thoughts or the psychic noise around you, but you can acknowledge the affect of doing such.
From what clothes to wear in the morning to life’s larger questions, there are times in which it is a struggle to find an answer, to make up your mind. And this is contrasted against moments in which you experience making a decision with little or no deliberation at all. You simply act. In one experience you are ‘clear’ and in the next you are paralyzed. Psychic noise - this is what drives the gypsy to the swamp, the guru to the mountaintop and the monk behind the high walls of a monastery. There they find ‘emptiness’ – no psychic noise.
How do you calm things down inside? How do you clear that ongoing inner dialog that, more times than not, is something to overcome as opposed to an encouragement?
At Aesclepion it is called “finding your space” and you can learn to find your space without living next to the swamp.
Anxious, nervous, cannot get settled; things seem to be coming undone… is not an uncommon experience. We all have these moments and as long as they remain, just moments we tend to get through. But there are also times when our anxiety occupies not just a moment, but our day, and beyond.
What is happening? What to do?
Consider the body as a recording device. It records the entirety of each moment. Our experience, as information, is stored and then used as reference. As long as this natural process goes uncensored we grow. We feel peace and harmony. We get smarter - ideally.
We mostly work under the notion that it is ‘bad experiences’ that bring on the anxiety, and the unsettled feelings that grow to occupy our day. Consider that we are, by design, able to handle our experiences, to grow, to move on. It is only when the natural process of recording and storing information is disrupted that things begin to fall apart.
So, what disrupts this process? Fear. Fear is what we experience spiritually, contrasted to fright, which is experienced physically. When we as a spiritual being go into fear, we freeze, and this static or non-moving state is what disrupts the body from doing what it is designed to do.
How do we come out of fear? How do we begin to create movement?
Get comfortable and with your eyes closed imagine a movement within the body. There is one there. All you have to do is find it. It will at first appear as a light sensation. Bring more of your awareness onto this movement. Encourage the movement to grow to a point in which your entire body is involved in this experience.
Take a moment each day to sit, sit with your eyes closed, and imagine movement, a light sensation of movement within the body.
You are walking down a path and here in front of you is the fork in the road. Both directions look appealing. Nothing down either fork to suggest one direction has an advantage over the other. You pick one and continue to journey. A bit later the thought, “would the other path been better,” and as you go around the bend you find boulders, not blocking but just lying in the path enough that you have to maneuver your way through. It takes effort. You get through the boulders and after a moment of pride in accomplishment you again question your original decision, “maybe I should have…”, and sure enough as you round the next corner a more difficult obstacle lies in your path.
The pattern continues until you declare, “I wish I had taken the other path!” and around the very next bend you find justification for your wish – difficulties laden with pit falls. Your wish is now validated – your path is blocked.
You could call this a meditation on positive thinking but let us look more at the other side of the coin: self-doubt. What do we do with self-doubt? We all have it. It is in the air and we seem to attract more than our share when we go to make a decision and the greater the decision, seemingly the greater the doubt.
But let us look closer; does the doubt come before or after the bump in the road? Is your doubt shaping your path? Could it be that what is happening inside your head is playing out in front of you? Are your daily challenges the product of your self-doubt?
It is, of course, is easier to say no and learn to point the finger, which many do. But if you look at self-doubt, as the space from which you act against yourself and then consider that doubt turned inward is a shaping force in your path, you now have an answer and a place to start.
The opposite of self-doubt is certainty – personal certainty. How do I walk my path in certainty? “And which comes first, a positive experience or me in certainty?”
Let us agree that our behavior is, ideally, a reflection of how we view ourselves. (Realizing as we say this that our behavior is as often a reflection of how others see us, but either way…) And that if we see ourselves as helpless or insignificant, in relationship to a challenge, we then tend to not act. We become paralyzed or at best remain in familiar patterns, pretending to ignore the issue.
The question then, is how do we become active and/or change our life patterns given a large issue - a world problem. What does one person do in the face of such an overwhelming question – global warming, poverty, or the forewarned world health issues?
See yourself at a family reunion and a puzzle of 1000 pieces has been dumped onto the table. And at first, there you all stand, overwhelmed - 1000 pieces. As some of you turn and leave the room, your Uncle decides to turn all of the pieces face up. As this is happening your brother begins to line up the edges. When all the pieces have been turned up, your Uncle leaves the scene – he is finished, but as he leaves your aunt returns and begins to group colors, while another family member groups patterns.
You see the picture? Not everyone working on the puzzle at the same time. Each coming and going given whatever forces move them but each very clearly being a part of the solution. Your participation is part of the solution.
Your behavior is a reflection of how you see yourself, in all matters.
Imagine a cell - a cell within your body. And within the outer membrane there is a second membrane, not a physical one but one as a vibration. See this inner membrane as a light blue.
Let us call this inner membrane part of your Sympathetic Nervous System. It is through this system that our bodies are always passing information back and forth. We walk up to someone and as we, as personalities exchange pleasantries, our bodies are exchanging information on, we could say, a more primal level.
We see examples of this in other animals. One member of a group, who has developed different survival skills, through experience, will come in contact with a group of animals who do not have the same set of skills. But after some time many of the group will begin to replicate the skills of the new member. Their instincts for survival have been up graded.
This is done on the same level in which tuning forks work. If you strike a tuning fork and then hold it close to another fork set at the same pitch, the second fork will begin to vibrate without being touched. Our bodies match and on a cellular level there is an exchange of information.
During this process your body will be either relaxed or stressed depending on the information. If we resist this process, this download, we then tend to get stuck with information that does not serve us. So the question becomes one of how do we begin to sort the information we are constantly picking up? And the answer is to ground the body. To ground the body is to be continuously releasing information that is not needed or appropriate for you. By doing so you are sharpening your instincts and they now begin to serve you
Back to the meditation: see your body. Imagine this inner layer of each cell vibrating as a light blue. As you come in contact with those around you this glow will remain light blue given the download of information is being sorted as the system is designed. If you go into resistance to the process the light blue will change to a different color. If this happens re-ground the body, note where is it holding the tension and release.
