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.

Accessing the Space of No Thought

Dear soul braving the elements as I am,

I hope that this finds you warm and cozy where you are. Here in Maine, we have been hunkering down in some cold for the past few days. Whenever I get a chance, I go outside to soak up those beautiful rays of sun, as we did with some friends while cross-country skiing and snowshoeing on a frozen lake the other day.

I have been busy with client sessions, booking out a month in advance these days. It's truly a blessing to be able to support courageous people diving in deep to their inner healing. (Some of you may not know that I receive hypnotherapy regularly myself!)

Each morning I take time to quiet my mind, to connect in with Source energy, the light of All That Is.

This really sets the tone for my day. I highly recommend doing this as a practice.

With this time for stillness, after a few breaths and clearing out of thoughts, we are able settle into openness, into the white space of no thought. In this quiet is consciousness, expansiveness and possibility. We are reuniting with the oneness, the indescribable feeling that everything has been and will always be okay. It's so powerful. Here is a 10-Minute Light meditation that is a version of what I do most mornings and that you might enjoy as well.

This can be especially important when we are finding it hard to get out of the doldrums of winter.

Maybe you're not feeling super optimistic or motivated by much these days.

Sometimes it takes a change of scenery to inspire us and bring in a higher vibration of flow and love.

And, it’s one thing to take some minutes in the morning to go inward. It’s absolutely beneficial, and yet it’s also easy to get distracted. And, if you’re not used to it, it may not feel that deep all the time.

That’s one of the reasons I’m offering this oceanside retreat in Maine. I’m going to help a small group go deep and learn how to better and more reliably access Divine guidance. It’s happening in just a few weeks, away from the distractions of your life, surrounded by beauty, where it’s easy to go deep. In this space of beauty and stillness, it is much easier to connect with the state of "no thought" to connect with the energy of oneness. You'll receive tools to take home so you can integrate new habits into your daily life.

I look forward to seeing you there if this is calling to you! Otherwise, I encourage you to just carve out time for stillness every day (going outdoors too when you can). 

In the spirit of quiet, 

Rachel

P.S. If you can't make the retreat, you can still learn some ways to access altered states of consciousness in an online Akashic Records workshop I'm offering next week, on the evening of February 28th.

P.P.S. If you have my recent book and liked it, it would be truly awesome if you wanted to share some love with a 5-star review for the Tools for the Awakening Soul book on Amazon.