Healing from the Past Few Years... with Spiritual Guidance

Dear ascending one,

It sure is an interesting time to be alive.

In my life, things are quite busy. Just last week, I had a lovely time with many of you in the Intuition Myth-Busting class. It was a new format of just talking with you and answering your questions, and I really enjoyed it (some of the questions really kept me on my toes)! I hope it was helpful for you as well.

Sometimes there are so many things going on in my head that I wonder how I manage to keep track of it all. (One thing that is new are my updated logo colors! Thank you to my gifted friend Erica Pearl for helping me with them.)

To stay centered, every morning I walk out into the woods with my dog, near a stream and stretch, give thanks and invite in light. It is such a grounding practice that keeps me centered and helps me feel that everything is okay.

I have needed to do this practice more than ever in the past 3 1/2 years. These were some of the most difficult for many of us. 

Like many of you, I went through phases of disbelief, anger, sadness, shock.... all the stages of grief. I spent a lot of time in the Akashic Records trying to understand what was occurring and how I could be and cope with something that was so bewildering. 

Upon reflecting back, I see how much I personally have learned and grown. I have spent a lot of time thinking and talking privately with friends about how to heal and move forward as a collective with such differing opinions at such a high stake as human life. For a while I thought that talking about it and processing it more publicly with a group, even among those who do not feel the same, might help us all. But that approach didn't seem to be right. (Maybe it will someday, I hope.)

I'm honestly not sure of what the path to healing looks like for us humans here on Earth. But I do know that, to me at least, it feels like unconditional love, forgiveness, and compassion for others (and ourselves) and practicing that in as many small moments as possible. This can be difficult to do when we have felt so hurt. And yet, love is the only way out of this - rising above the past and just letting it go. Not waiting for apologies (although offering an apology might be a good idea, even if it's not required) ... just forgiving.

I repeatedly received the guidance to "rise above" in the Akashic Records but at first I didn't understand how to live this way, or what it meant to rise above. I didn't really know what it looked like to let something go in my daily life.

(To help invite in this vibration, I will be doing the free Circle of Light meditation this Wednesday evening, April 24th from 8-8:20 pm on Practicing Unconditional Love, here on Zoom. Come join!)

But I kept asking, and I would receive bits of guidance, mostly from the Masters/Council of Elders. But I also would hear from Jesus, one of my primary guides, and also from my grandfather and other ancestors helping me navigate family dynamics.

Since then, I have helped many clients heal in this way as well. Some of you similarly may be wondering how to navigate all the energies around you, relationships with others and just the intensity of what feels like is coming at us constantly in the world. (Hint: be careful of how much you read the news!) 

If you want to tap into loving forms of higher guidance, but you aren't sure how to connect, you may find it helpful to focus on developing your intuition. There are many ways to do this. Some of these are:

1) meditation to learn to receive Divine information while quieting the conscious mind

2) clear fears/doubts/limiting beliefs with targeted writing exercises, meditations and cognitive approaches

3) learn more about how to align with the vibration of Spirit through light, prayer, intention and yes, even imagination

4) begin to read your own Akashic Records to receive powerful guidance on your soul purpose, life lessons, past lives and even connect with deceased loved ones.

5) learn some quick visualization exercises on how to open your third eye

We will do all of this together in an upcoming 5-week online class I’m offering, called Intuition Development 101.

It’s a class that meets once a week for 2 hours on a Monday evening, live on Zoom. You’ll have a chance to work on writing exercises to tackle the protective Ego, participate in guided meditations to meet various forms of Spirit and even enter your own Akashic Records in the classes.

For this class series, I am happy to offer a "Pay from the Heart" option as a way to make this work more financially accessible to whoever wants to partake. This option is good through this Thursday, April 25th. Please reach out with any questions!

Thank you for walking this journey with me, and for your courage in all that you do each day in your life.

With a deep bow,


Rachel

The Message of I Am

Dear soul on the other side of the screen,

After every retreat, I always spend time just soaking up the energy of the weekend, and really reveling in it.

This past weekend was no different. After having led over a dozen retreats, I feel I have settled into a flow of where I really enjoy them myself too, and can relax in the light of being with others I support.

This retreat was different in a way though, as it was the first I have done at Limina Renewal Center in mid-coast Maine. I took a risk in booking a weekend there even though I had never seen it myself. I trusted.

And I was blown away. The attention to detail, the organization, the little touches like candles, bathrobes and chocolates, helped us all feel so special and pampered. The view is spectacular, and of course the delicious treats of an infrared sauna, amethyst bio-mat, labyrinth, art/music room, reading nooks, chakra tea, and so much more made it that much more special.

In addition to the meditations to meet our angels, spirit guides and an Ascended Master, apparently my higher self visited retreat participants in their dreams at night too! (Yes, a few people told me this, that’s probably why I didn’t sleep much that first night - ha!).

We also cold plunged in the ocean, and shared our personal musings and experiences in meditation with each other. And we felt the deep oneness of the Creator and light of multi-dimensional realities in the didgeridoo/gong bath sound healing we were blessed with.

The sound healing in particular stood out for me. While I loved the gongs undulating around me like waves, and the didgeridoo guiding me through portals into Pleaidian light (the Pleaidians are high-vibration multi-dimensional beings), it was the silence at the end that impacted me the most.

After an hour of the sound bath, the quiet spoke to me in a way that I had truly not experienced before.

It was as if in the silence I could hear the voice of Source/Creator/God.

What came to me was simply the words: "I Am."

Upon hearing those words, I tried to interpret them in the moment, but to no avail.

There was no understanding or interpretation that was needed.

I was simply being guided to just be with the stillness, and with those two words.

It was a profound experience that led me to a new place of spiritual connection.

When we access the energy of the Source, it's often indescribable. Even now, I struggle to put the experience into human words.

It felt as if I were just basking in the feeling of deep connection with all that is, and in the knowing that I was one with all that is. It was quite simple. 

Afterward, I remembered a poem that came to me a few years ago. The poem was about a particle of light that wanted to know itself, and how that particle expanded and then expanded again, into varying expressions of light. It was about the formation of human souls and of the universe (aka, the Big Bang).

The "I Am" experience is one that I feel many of us will have more and more as we remember that we are one with the Source, that we have pieces of God within us; that we are that God-energy.

When I get to be in retreat spaces like this with people who trust in me and who share of themselves with such vulnerability and connect so powerfully with each other,  and when I benefit myself from the energy of connection and healing, I feel so lucky to be able to do this work as my job.

I hope you can feel the energy of peace, connection and union with the Creator as well. I pray that it be so.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Ah, it's March! This is the time of year we always look forward to - when the sap starts flowing and we sit outside by the fire making maple syrup. There's something about this gift from the trees, along with the gifts from our hens collecting eggs in late winter right before spring too. It brings in a sense of flow and joy that life is returning.

I have been spending more time doing my best to rest, to play and to allow. More and more, I've been aware of the innate desire to just slow down in the winter (even though I love to get outside and go cross-country skiing with my family as much as I can). In the past, I'd often been "go, go, go," yet I have found immense benefit in noticing my energy and being careful of where it's being placed.

This has led to a desire to be more quiet, on social media in particular. It's as if, after writing my book and speaking up about the past few years of craziness, that I feel like I have said a lot of what I wanted to say. 

And yet, it is my blessing to share with you my thoughts that may be helpful as we move into higher states of consciousness.

I hope that you are taking time to rest and heal. The past few years have really taken a toll on so many of us. I hope that you are taking time to sit and be with your emotions, especially we all continue to heal from the collective trauma that Covid brought. The pain of division among friends and family is still one that many of us (including myself) are continuing to process and heal from.

Hopefully, we can come to a place of allowing others to be where they are comfortable, without trying to change them (or "wake them up"). Believe me, I have learned this the hard way!

The more we go inward, the more we find answers. There is no one "recipe" or right way to heal, but it's just a sense of innate knowing that we are intuitively doing and being what feels right to us in our hearts and in our bodies.

Trusting in our intuition is the way forward, in my belief. Taking the time to get quiet to tune into our hearts and with the energy we are feeling is how we "know" what's right to do - what to do based in love and what to say or what not to say based in love.

However you start doing this, I hope that you find some peace within. Take some time to quiet your mind, invite light into your body and ask your heart what message it has to share with you (sometimes asking a "how/what/why" question helps bring the answer).

May this be healing in some way.