This month we started off with a question I love in the book A Course in Miracles that asks : Are you trying to truth to your illusions, or are you bringing your illusions to the Truth? Most of us wear our stories like they are more real than our Essence and spend way too much time entertaining them, justifying them, thinking about them, feeling our body’s emotional reactions to them… and we rarely remember to de-focus our attention from the stories and actually take the time to enter all that space in which we put them and consciously decide what we want to put in that space. We all get to decide this, but most of us are too busy reacting to the content in the space to realize that that space is ours to inhabit if we so choose. Its like an ‘ultimatum of awakening’ if you really sit with this question long enough : you either bring your Presence into that space and inhabit it, or you let a bunch of stories live there. Some are your own creations, others you’ve been given by others (family, culture, society, past lives, bring it on!). One thing they all share in common is that the keep you confined within them, like bars in a cage.
With this in mind we entered deep into the space of the Sacred Heart, a space devoid of stories yet so full and filling to be in. I guided us along a 45 minute meditation during which we went deeper and deeper into the vast space within us and brought more and more of our presence into that vast space, expanding it evermore as we breathed into it and bathed in it. Spending 45 minutes expanding into the Sacred heart Space and bringing its frequency into all parts of the body is a powerful experience! I look forward to reading what you wish to share about your experience!
The next guided meditation I brought us into was into is a favorite of mine, involving making each chakra into a bowl in which we can go float and feel its frequencies. In this case we were very much there to feel the frequencies of the stories they each carry – each being a very specific psychological state involving its very unique flavors of stories and attachements. Without going into the content per say in the bowls, we took the time to energetically feel that content in our bodies as we floated in each bowl, starting from the root all the way up to the crown, and offering each of them the frequency of the Sacred Heart Space. As we beamed the energy frequency of Presence and Stillness into each of the bowls, they started overflowing and we gently and lovingly offered whatever stories that were ready to be released and no longer served us to overflow out of the bowl and be recycled. At the end we had a set of 7 bowls, with a central line of energy holding them, and we asked Source to amp up the flow even more and we all bathed in the pure love energy of Source as it cascaded from one bow into the other! YUM!!!
These bowls are often so unique to each person, they have different textures, colors, symbols and/or carvings. I so look forward to you sharing with us all that your bowls looked like and what it felt like to ‘float in your bowls’. 🙂
Of course our defense structures that hold the stories of how we need to be and what we to do to be safe react to such meditations. Aches and pains show up, feeling uncomfortable and wishing we could crawl out of our skin is not only completely normal but is literally proof that you’re doing the work. IF all this stuff just feels yummy and soothing all the time, you havn’t really challenged the jail cell of comfort and security that we spend way too much time in! Remember that when you’re in a situation in your daily life that doesn’t feel good and dog deep into it to know the truth of what’s going on in that moment.
Assisting you in Developing Energetic Discernment is my ultimate goal, as it is from here that we can finally decide what we choose to believe and what kind of stories we decide to wear!
Loving you all so much!!!
Julie ♥ Claire, Your Joyful Soul Expansion Companion
P. I will eventually write an article about the psychological states of each chakra ther the typical attachments that form. ♥
When I read this description of the sacred heart meditation, it sounds so beautiful. When we did it the other night, I could hardly stay in my seat. Electricity was shooting through me, my body really wanted me to get up and move, like a wild animal was being held down to do the meditation. It was very uncomfortable, an intensified version of what I feel often when I fall asleep, get relaxed and then 20 minutes later wake up and can’t sit still, with electricity shooting through me. I guess I have a LOT of resistance to love through! I had also already done an emdr session and a class in Quantum Liberation that day. So, I had done a lot of work before we started. I am eager to redo the meditation. I’ll let you know how it goes!
The chakra bowl meditation was awesome, challenging in a different way. This time I experienced discomfort but felt like it was productive discomfort. I cried a lot, as stories or feelings of stories came up. It was like having a deep longing fulfilled and a release of sadness came out. It physically felt like an uncomfortable buzzing through me. Bu tit all felt so worth the discomfort, so much release! I have been pretty tired since then, feeling a lot. I am feeling more uncomfortable with the parts of my life that I want to change-working at a massage factory, washing the freakin dishes again. I didn’t want to get out of bed and do the mundane things of life. But I feel like I am really on my path again and loving the deeper yes even with the superficial annoyances. The deep river feels like me again.
I am truly a newbie to energy healing and am being challenged each session to get out of my head space. This program has been the greatest challenge for me. The Aquarius in me feels the need to analyze everything which has not allowed me to “feel” much of anything in my life. Joining the program was a huge step and I definitely feel like a fish out of water, but I know there is much emerging in me right now. I am embracing all of it because I know this is where I am supposed to be. The rest will fall in place, I will not try to figure it out or analyze it.
Saying that, the Sacred Heart Meditation was very challenging for me. My mind wanders with 99 thoughts a minute. This was my 4th session so it is much better than when I started, but still challenging. I was not able to embrace it fully. I believe it is because my “critter” brain is still fighting. Feeling the need to “protect” me. I will continue to do the work on this one to experience the true essence of the Sacred Heart without my ego intervening.
The Chakra Bowls Meditation kept my full attention. I am fascinated with the chakras and have been working with my chakras for a few years now. It was interesting to see the different type of bowls envisioned during the meditation. My Root and Sacral chakra had a clear, plastic bowl. My Solar Plexus chakra had an orange see through bowl. My Heart chakra was a tall green square shaped glass (not a bowl at all). My Throat chakra was wide and round at the bottom with a bottle neck top and beautiful designs on it. My Third-Eye Chakra was an indigo see through bowl and my Crown Chakra was a purple see through bowl as well. I was very impressed with myself that I did not try to analyze it. I was able to feel the warmth of filling up the spaces where the stories were and it felt sad as I remembered stories that affected me more with certain chakras. As Source amped up the flow even more and we all bathed in the pure love energy of Source cascading from one bowl into the other, I felt cleansed. It truly did feel pure. It felt so good to release some of the old stories. To say, it is okay and actually feel it leaving my body was tranquil. The serenity I felt was surreal.
Although our call was two nights ago, I have used this meditation a couple times already. The warmth of filling up those spaces with a couple of issues I have had to deal with allowed me to sit still, observe the feelings, be one with them and then use the Chakra Bowl meditation to fill up those spaces and let go of the story. This is such an exhilarating meditation. Thank you Julie Claire it was a great call! XOXOXO
I found the chakra meditation very challenging but at the same time, I managed to release a lot of stories I have held on to for a long time and released them in the overflow. I visualised my bowls being made of crystals, matching the colours of the chakras, so there was red agate, orange carnelian, citrine, green aventurine, turquoise, lapis and amethyst. The bowls didn’t have any symbols on them or textures, all were smooth and polished. This is all that came to in my visualisation.
When we got to the sacral and throat bowls, I felt very emotional, tears were steaming down my face and I was releasing a lot of content that I no longer needed. It felt good to overflow these two particular bowls. The other chakras, I felt some densities but not much.
Since starting this Joyful Expansion programme, I have learnt to be in my body more and more each day and less in my head. Visiting my soul landscape was challenging at first, it’s hard to visualise a tree and river flowing but it is slowly improving each day. I also felt that going into my sacred heart space soothes me and if I manage to stay there long enough, I tend to be less judgmental towards others and more loving and less resisting. As an Aquarian, I have always been in my head most of my life, always wondering if there is more to life than this and Julie has certainly opened my eyes, changed my perspective, my awareness and heart to so much more than I could have imagined! I am very grateful for being here and part of this soul expansion group. ♥️