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Bringing integrity into present time

9/6/2018

What does it mean to you to be coming from a place of integrity?
The dictionary defines it as “being honest, having strong moral principals, being kind. Doing the right thing.
I think that is wonderful, and good. But, we are really, just cruising along in life, going by what we were taught, and by what we know (or, at least, what we think we know).
Sometimes, those things change. Our beliefs change. Our values do. We become different people. I think the more our spirit comes back to nestle in our bodies, and, the more light we have inside us, help to change what we consider to be the right thing, at the right time.
Integrity.
Is it what you say? Is it what you do? Is it what you think?
Can you close your eyes, and remember when you changed direction, when your integrity caught up with you? Either it was something you were about to say to someone, or a decision, based on a belief that perhaps you suspect is untrue?
Or, perhaps it was true for you at the time, but it changed.
Life gives you plenty of opportunities to bring your integrity into present time.
Changing that status, is never wasted time.

I study, and teach Ascension, which looks at the light of the Supreme Being as rays of light. They are separated, like a rainbow, into 7 basic ones. They do correspond with, and feed into, the chakra system, but they are much more. They are ways of being, and they are like a ladder, of bringing more light into your space, and growing, and evolving.
Our job here is to grow, evolve, lighten up, and work our Karma until past the “tipping point”. Think of the scales, in Egyptian mythology. One's heart was kept within the body during mummification so that it can travel with the deceased into the afterlife. Upon death, one entered the underworld (Duat), where Anubis, the God of the dead, weighed the persons heart on a scale against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of order, truth, and righteousness.
Back to the study of the 7 Ascension Rays. The first three rays are the embodiment of Love, Wisdom, and Power.
Power is the first Ray. It is Blue in color, and correlates to your 5th Chakra, your throat. The teachers here are Master El Morya, and Archangel Michael, and Archaia Faith.

What comes out of your mouth is your power. This is why your integrity, in word, and in action, is so important. You create with this energy of power, and it is contained within you.

The old word we may remember as a child, playing magician, is,
“ABRACADABRA”.
This is actually taken from old Aramaic (the language that Jesus spoke). It is “Abraq Ad Habra”. It means, “As I speak, so shall I create”.

And, being in integrity, and in right relationship, is a power you can rely on. You are in your power.
Yes, it is true. And, many times, once we speak, we cannot take it back; the milk has been spilled.
Keeping your word. Owning your mistakes. Speaking your truth.
Speaking that truth, even if your voice shakes.
This Ray also has to do with will, as in your will to create.
An important part of this, is “my will vs. Thy will”.
Those who believe in a higher power will attest to this.
Those who simply believe in source, will too.

The universe has its will also!
It is good to let go of the reigns sometimes.

Your will may usually have to do with your ego, and be in a place of effort sometimes.
But your integrity is not in that place. Your belief file folder in your mind, may want you to think that. But you and I know, that our beliefs change. Of course, the basic ones of don’t hurt others, and be honest, and be kind, never do. I think that as we grow, and evolve, the place of our integrity does, too.
Being true to our word. Not gossiping, or slandering.
Being kind to ourselves. Speaking kindly to ourselves.
Being honest, yet being kind.
Catching yourself on the snags of ego. Perhaps not saying anything, until you have something of value to say. Not telling lies.

Doing the right thing. Being accountable for what you do, what you didn't do, and for the mistakes you have made. Even with children, animals, the earth.
Many times, I need to check in with myself here, and ask myself,
“What is the right thing here?”
Perhaps it is doing the right thing, with the information that you have.
Perhaps tomorrow, the right thing will be a bit different.
Integrity is being accountable, for the thing you didn’t do, or what you did not say. You held back, and it changed everything.
And oh, how we need to forgive ourselves daily! I think, once we can do that, it will be easier to forgive others, who were speaking from unconsciousness, badmouthing others, lying, because it is easier.
Pissing their power away (excuse my French, but it works in this instance).

The words you speak become the house you live in.
Your words have so much power!
you use your words to bless, and to curse, both others, and yourself.

Maybe a good definition of integrity, is
“Doing your best with what you know at the time, and listening to your inner wisdom”.
And, forgiving yourself, for what you did not know, and trying to be better the next day.
And the next.
And the next.
Have you ever said to someone, “I’m sorry, I said this thing to you, but I didn’t know the truth”.
Has anyone ever said that to you?
Speaking your truth has so much power. It fills your space. It makes you strong, and resilient.
Trustworthy. Courageous. Powerful.
And, to go up the ladder of the Ascension Rays, you need the basics, of love, wisdom, and power.
This is the key that gets you in the door.

Gentle blessings on your day, of strength, power, and the right use of will.

copyright Helena Mazzariello/Spiritinjoy 2018

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Psychic protections, sovereignty, and the chakras

8/1/2018

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There are many things you can use as energetic protection, for your space.
Basics include the use of white light, as a deflector, or golden light, or, electric blue light. You can use mirrors for deflection, like a disco mirror ball, on the outside edge of your aura. Violet flame is a powerful tool also, and should be in your spirit toolbox. If you use it, it will transform, and burn up the heavier energies around you, into love. It is a high vibration, and very good for karma releasing. Certain stones are protective, and also is white sage, Palo Santo, and Frankincense. Keeping your space light, and happy, and neutral, is powerful. It's a deterrent, and protective, and also, part of a good, energetic immune system.

An important part of the world of protecting yourself, is taking a look at the semantics of the words “protection, vs. safety”. The use of the word protection implies that you are weak, and need to be protected from something. It keeps you in a state of defense. It is a state of contained powerlessness. You are always wary, and rechecking your fortress.
The word safety implies a state of being. You are safe. You are ok, you are enough. A state of freedom, it is a pure vibration, a place of empowerment, of expansiveness.
Now, the universe doesn’t care about words. It cares about the feelings. How you vibrate. The feeling of safety, vs. the feeling of protection.
Empowered, vs guarded.
To be in a frequency so high, that it does not include the frequency of danger. To be that. It is like turning your radio dial to that frequency. Many things will raise your frequency, and vibration.
More light, more love, more joy, more gratitude, more compassion. More fun!

Being in a state of sovereignty, and being whole, as opposed to a state of fear, or, a state of guarding your space.

Be radiant! Be grand! Raise your vibration, raise your focus, and even raise the level of what chakra you are coming from.
What I mean by that is which lens are you experiencing the world from?
Which lens are you operating from?
Which lens are you experiencing the energies getting into your space from?

If you are afraid for your life, afraid you may be attacked, you are coming from a place of fear. Or dread. That’s a pretty low vibration. You are exuding that energy, and your first chakra, of fear, and survival, is probably wide open, trying to help you by giving you survival information, and exuding fight or flight hormones.
Even if you were to get angry at it, (the invading energies), and shout your demands that it leave your space, you have, at least, upped your space from the vibration of fear, and you may feel better.
But, it is still, a lower chakra, which involves the body, and involves ego, and judgment, and of course, effort.
In terms of boundaries, good, energetic boundaries, perhaps even physical boundaries, there is nothing like running your anger energy. You can own it, and allow it to course through your veins like hot lava, burning up anything in its path. You can just sit there, in your energy meditation, and run anger energy through your space, chakras, aura, everything, and just kick everything out which isn’t you. You don’t need to aim it at the humans in the room, or, in fact, aim it at anyone. You can just run your anger, like a type of energy, like fire, consuming everything in its path. It can be quite refreshing! Remember your grounding cord, though, it is helpful here, and can release foreign energy.
This is your energy, and you can use it, as a powerful purging tool!
Think of how a mama bear will protect her cubs, from an invader.
Think of how you would spring into action, if someone were to try and take your purse from your grocery cart, or take something important from you. You can do the same with beings, or with energy hanging about.
One of my psychic teachers told me that upon awakening, she checks the state of cleanliness in the room in the center of her head (her 6th chakra, where she keeps her awareness). She leaps into action if she sees a lingering being, and jumps right into his space! “Who are you, and what the f$#k do you want!! THIS IS MY SPACE! Get the F$#k out!!
And, in many ways, this can work! It is your space. No one is going to clean it for you.
But, in the case of an angry entity, filled with rage, it can just start a nasty war in you.
Ok, so let’s slide up a notch.

When you go into the heart space, though, which has a high electromagnetic vibration (this creates your energy field) you are leaving the space of the ego behind.
As you go up the energetic scale, and into the heart, for example, you may see it as coming from a place of loving, and caring for yourself, by having good, healthy boundaries. You may have compassion for the other energy. Perhaps it came from a person that was in such inner pain, that he lashed out at you from his own non-trust and guardedness. You may be in a safe state by knowing how when you are in a state of love, (which is your pure essence, your True Self), that you cannot be wounded.
When you are in a state of pure love, when you are embodying that True Self, you are so powerful, and you just are. You are exuding, and radiating that light, as it moves through you. You are a healing force simply by being.
Be that for a moment or so. Use your breath, to move the energies through, and around you, like a recirculating fountain, or like a torus loop. It showers all through your space, and you pull it back up again, expanding through all your bodies; the mental, etheric, emotional, as well as the physical.
Being this energy is a form of protection. It is sovereignty at it’s finest.
From this space, this space of radiance, this space of radiating your divine essence you may see the energy you need protection from in another light completely.
And you are not in a space of defense.
Nor are you in a space of offense.
You have just reconnected with your true self.
Just feel that for a moment, before we move on.

So we are talking about protections, psychic protections, which may mean energetic protections. It could be from another human being, it could be from a being, which was human, and it could be from a source, which never was human. It could be as intense as a nasty entity set out to harm or cause trauma, or as simple as a person at the grocery store who inadvertently jumped into the center of your head, to have a psychic conversation with you.
Or, perhaps he corded you energetically, which feels like, and is, a drain on your energy, or caused you to become unconscious, perhaps to the point of leaving your body. A good psychic whack can easily kick you out of the body, but so can someone jumping into your space, even if they did not mean harm. Maybe they were just fixated on you, or they could just have lousy boundaries, or perhaps wanted you to heal them, fix them, take away their pain.
You may need to protect yourself from the energies of a space, like a room that has a lot of energetic debris, perhaps a hospital, or a prison, or simply a place where a depressed person, or toxic or very negative person resides. Having to go to a job everyday in a soup of that vibration can make you feel sick.
So if you cannot match the vibration, and get into your 6th chakra, in the center of you head, you can start by noticing what is.

Not feeling everything, for that is a first and second chakra trait. Just look, and notice. It is like taking a step back, and having some space between you, and it.
It’s a bit of a computer mode, void of feeling, although you can notice your feelings, and sensations, without going into them.

So you are not leaving your body, but coming back in and behind your eyes. You are grounded, deep into the earth, and well rooted. That makes your body feel safe. And, what a good, fat, grounding cord does so well, is release. So you are starting to release, letting go of energies like excess fear, or anger. Maybe yours, or maybe someone else’s.
So, for example, you forgot to put up protections as you left the car to go into the small empty office room where you need to work, and you notice an intense angry energy in there. You connect with your body; you notice how your body feels without jumping into the feelings. (Wow, it seemed very dense, even darker, when I walked in here, like the ceiling was a lot lower. My stomach felt knotted. My throat felt blocked. It felt like dread). Wow. Hello energy. I am aware of you.
You are not my energy. You are not my anger.
I am not going to match you.
I am not going to become this vibration.
I am feeling rather amused and neutral.
I would rather vibrate like that.
I will be my gold filled, radiant self, and make a grounding cord for the entire room, while I am here.
You may, if you wish, ask a helper, like a guide, or angel help to clear the air, and put up any type of protection around your aura of your choosing, such as a cocoon of white light.
What I want you to do is notice, and not match it.
Stay present, and continue being your light filled self.
You are now operating from your 6th chakra, which is a neutral place. You may see the energies as a swirling color, or see the face of the person whose energy it is, but for now giving a hello from that space is enough.
Now, you can start to use your crown chakra, which has a sense of knowingness, and a sense of sovereignty, of seniority about it.
In using these upper chakras, you can decide what energy that you wish to use, that you wish to run your space from.
Besides connecting with the divine cosmic energies, The 7th chakra really is about ownership of your space, which is your body, but also your energetic field. You get to choose.
Your 7th chakra is about certainty, and knowingness. It is the opposite of confusion.
We call it "owning our crown"
And that is wonderful. That is where the magic happens.
So, what type of energy do you want to have, while everyone around you is at depression. Or fear, or hate. This is where you own your crown. You may choose to be at loving heart, or amusement, or at curiosity, while the rest of the room vibrates at hate and revenge. You do not have to match the energy of an entity, or of the room, or of the stuff trying to climb in.
You can choose to be safe, by owning your space. You can choose to be safe, by being that feeling, that sense of safety. Being it.

If certain energies seem to be attacking, or bothering, or penetrating your space, your aura, a chakra, or just inside your energetic field, you may want to take a closer look, and work on those energies. Perhaps you are attracting them. It could be karma with that person, or being, it could be cords of energy attached to you (or you to it). It could be that you have a picture that lives in your space, like a belief, with lots, and lots of energy on it. That energy can be superglue to the energies coming at you. Like strong guilt, or an incendiary “bring it on, let’s fight” picture. Maybe in you is a picture, that “I am so vulnerable, I can be attacked at any moment”.
How about the “I am a healer, give me your pain, I can fix you.”
Or, “I feel so guilty. I don’t deserve to be protected from this.”
Becoming aware of, and then neutral to a picture that it gets in on, can stop constant energetic harassment, or, just people getting in your head.
You may need to find the Velcro picture in your space, or your subconscious, and work on it, drain it of energy, neutralize it.

Let’s also realize that everything we continually deal with in this arena can show us a bit about ourselves. Where you continually get whacked, or let others into our space, or, where we lose our neutrality.
Or, where we allow in other beings into our space. Where we are weak. Where we choose a lower vibration, and where we allow ourselves to go unconscious.
You may need to do your homework, and do some shadow work on yourself. Going into your subconscious mind and finding those suppressed parts of you, that have a lot to teach you about yourself. Not a place to be fearful, as this is a part of you, that you rarely give voice to.

This is how we learn. Remember, that, everything is here to help you.
I have learned, through the lessons of protection myself, and of being safe, that I don’t need to hide my light. That it’s ok to shine. I have learned that it’s ok to ask for help. I have also learned to allow others to have their anger. Or their projections. I don’t need to heal everyone, or make it all right. I have learned that it’s ok to be angry, and to have boundaries, and to say no. I have learned that not everyone will like me. and not to take that personally. And that I AM, much greater, and stronger, and wiser, than I think I am.
So, remember to do your shadow work, to find out all the parts of you. You will be wiser for it, stronger (or, softer) for it.

copyright HelenaMazzariello/Spiritinoy 2018

This is part of a longer talk called Psychic Protections 2. It goes into greater detail, and gives you some tools for your spirit toolbox. It has a marvelous, deep clearing and protective meditation, and is available to you as an MP3, for purchase, on the store page. Many blessings, and much freedom on your path!

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Compassionate Depossession, and Spirit Release

6/13/2018

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Scene from "Spirited away", studio Ghibli, Myazaki

We are like portals, or channels for divine light to pass through. As we work on ourselves, and get clearer, more light shines through. I see many young children in that way; their purity, and openness to life is crystal clear, and they are full of light. We sometimes bring our past energy, karma, and considerations with us into this world, and also, this life, and our experiences can start to mold us, in terms of how much, and where we let in that light. Our mind may protect our sanity by covering trauma with scar tissue, which lessons the pain, but lets in no light. Or, we may splinter off pieces of ourselves, our light, to hide and protect it, because it does not seem safe here. Those pieces may not come back. Or, you may forget about them.

Think of it as a screen, as in a window screen. The life force passes through you, and if there are any blocked holes, any closed off places, or resistant places, or stuck places, the divine light will not pass.
After a while, there will be a definite pattern forming; almost the silhouette of something. There is a pattern, of where you will not allow flow. Perhaps you are not ready to shine light there, are afraid to, or even quite unconscious to it.
You may be drawn to others with a similar pattern of light and dark. Other entities, beings, even thought forms, or attachments may be also.
Neutrality helps the flow. Running your light through those stuck places helps. Being aware of what is you, and validating that.

Compassionate depossession, or spirit releasement is one of the healing modalities that I do. Many people are aware of some of the symptoms of it, but the names are foreign to them. They may have feelings of depression, sadness, incessant self-trashing thoughts, intense anger, sexual arousal, or confusion that does not feel like their own, or that has not had any relief from traditional therapies or healing.
It can also be a physical illness that came on out of nowhere, that doesn’t respond to traditional therapies, from headaches, to back pain to kidney infections.
Some people seem to have never ending drama happening in their lives, or long streaks of bad luck. Sometimes there is a “funky” energy around the person, which makes people avoid or stay away from them.
There are others who hear thoughts in their head that are destructive, or demeaning, or apathetic. After a while, people start to believe that this is their own consciousness. Obviously, sharing your space with another entity can be destructive, painful, and exhausting.
It is exhausting because it needs your life force, to stay in your space. Usually, by the time you seek energetic help, you have been in that situation for a while.

The term “compassionate depossession” comes from the spiritist tradition in Brasil. (Allen Kardec (1804-1869), is the pen name of the French educator, translator and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and is the founder of Spiritism).
In other areas it can be known as spirit release, (England) or as spirit removal.

Dr William Baldwin wrote a book in 1995 called, "Spirit Release Therapy", which is the basis for many other works, books, and is an excellent primer on this work. Also, there are differences between an attachment, a possession, and an obsession. There could be some energies, like thought forms, that may need an extraction, a process of removal (done by a guide or helper) and given to an element, such as water, or earth, for release, assimilation, and transmutation.
A shamanic practice known as a”Soul Retrieval” can greatly help. Sometimes it is done before a releasement, sometimes after.
There can also be Soul agreements, or contracts, between spirits, which may make the work difficult, and they can be released, brought into present time, or destroyed. We have free will.

We are free beings. We have the right to choose. That is law in the universe.
Our ability to be cognizant of our sovereignty, even to declare it, is a good protection from evil, and from some of the darker energies that are around us. Control, binding, and slavery are some of the energies of evil. It is an energy on this planet. Even some of the entities caught up in the game of control, and evil, have the ability of declaring their own sovereignty.
One of the things to remember, also, is that you can say hello to, and acknowledge that sovereign spirit that lives in another. Your friend, or the person you are talking to. You can do that from your own space of being sovereign.

In my work I use both terms, Compassionate Depossession, and also Spirit Release. There are times that a releasement is necessary; it may not be aware that it is in another’s body, it may not be human, but an elemental (a basic force of the earth, with a consciousness, like the spirit of a tree, or the spirit of the land).
A depossession may sound frightful to some people, and bring up images of Catholic exorcisms. Well, there are cases where the invading energy is malefic, is there consciously, to cause pain, and destruction, and sometimes it can present itself as dramatic.
The word exorcism can be used, although it reminds us of the Catholic rituals, and of course, the movie. While it can be quite intense, not many people use that phrase, although Wanda Practnika, a powerful Polish practitioner, does. She has also explained her views on the Catholic religion, and its knowledge of, and the history of, it’s use of exorcisms. (At some point, they were not allowed in the church. Then they were, but the priests had nothing to go by. They had to, well, just wing it. In present time, it is used, and allowed, but under strict guidelines.
In the bible, Jesus performed exorcisms. Many other religions have their own versions; Muslims, Jewish. There are writings in the Koran, and in the Kabbalah. Most indigenous cultures have their versions, and their ritual ceremonies. This has been going on for thousands of years. It seems, as humans, we need this practice. It could be a part of our nature.

Through my trainings, with teachers like Betsy Bergstrom, I have learned to use the words compassionate depossession, because it is just that.
In a powerful, contained, protected, sacred space, the practitioner allows the help of guides, and psychopomps (beings whose job it is to help those cross over, go to the light, or into the earth, or finally home, or to their next step. It means guide, or conductor of souls). This is done in a heart centered space, from ones true self, which is, a powerful being of love, and light. You can see the light in the other, and with respect, speak with it, urge out the story of why, and how, to help this "suffering soul", and create an opening for them to move on, and complete.
It is a win-win. It helps the planet as a whole.
This is the work that I do.
I began this lifelong journey of helping others find relief, and wholeness, though, by reading the works of William Baldwin, Dr. Edith Fiore, and Louise Ireland Frey, who use the phrase spirit release, or "spirit release therapy" (coined by William Baldwin).
There is also the phrase “entity removal”, which is true, in terms of what is happening, but for me sounds a bit like a truck that comes to your house, like a Roto-Rooter, with long, vacuum hoses!
A bit of amusement here, because this work can get a bit dense. Always know that you do not need to match the vibration of what is happening, to be of help. It is also a good means of protection, and of clarity, to have some levity. I learned this wonderful tool from all my years at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, to which I am grateful.
There are times that an entity has come into a person’s energy field because of a curse, or a very strong psychic whack. Perhaps this has come down the family line. There are ancestral curses that have been intact for many generations. Sometimes, an entity comes in because of the person’s interest, or participation in occult activities, like Ouija boards, mediumship meetings, or séances. There are attached gurus (not nice beings, full of love and teachings, but control beings, in a religious guise).
Drug use and abuse, alcohol use and abuse, even spending time near people who have a lot of entities in their field, can lead to an attachment. Some people (couples, groups, families) can share a being, or a group of them.
There are some people who are genetically predisposed to allowing another being to enter, and cohabit their space. It can be a family trait. It can be a family being. I see this quite a bit as a psychic.
I also see people who don’t seem to be bothered with them much at all. They live quite comfortable, and happy, in the temple that is their body, with not much drama at all. I see people who have clean chakras, and spaces, who seem to radiate light. They are a beautiful sight to behold, and you can more easily radiate, while in their company. I am happy to say, that I have many friends like this.

It is also true that entities, and humans who have died, but not yet crossed over, can be attracted to people who have a lot of light in their space. Beautiful, clear, clean, sparkly, light infused, loving people are targeted like a moth to a flame. Indeed, it can be mesmerizing, and attractive to something stuck for so long in a grey world, where everything stays the same.
At some point beings that have not gone to the light need an energy source. You may just be that source.
I hope I am informing, and not scaring you at this point. I want to paint a picture for you of how, or why these things happen. They happen to most of us, and to the best of us, at some point. You don’t need to be a bad person, or a weak person, for a being to jump in your field.
But this is why it is so important to have good energy hygiene, not just to meditate, but to clean your energetic field, daily, and also to pull your energy back from wherever you have left it. It is also why you want to stay grounded, and to truly live in your body, to inhabit it. You may need help, with a soul retrieval, a healing where our life force, your soul parts are brought back to you, if you have splintered off at some point, because of trauma, abuse, loss, illness, or sometimes shock.
It’s excellent to be steadfast and clean, and clear your energy field. It’s tantamount to use your psychic protections daily. It’s also ok to ask for help.
Soul loss can be the main event that weakened your field in the first place.

It can also be that you were weak; perhaps an illness, or simply that you had surgery, where you were under anesthesia, and were out of your body for a time. There are so many beings floating around hospitals. You could go in for a tonsillectomy, and come out with much more.
They can be lost, or sad, or in a state of rage. They can have the emotional age of a 3 year old. Or, not be human, but from another dimension. Or put here by the controls of another. Or, simply just lost.

It does seem that it is a part of human nature, though, to have this weakness. For some, the ability may be strength; for protection, as an example. For others, a predisposition, to allow others to co-habitate this body, and, as such, this one precious life. No one needs to suffer, though. There are tools, and there is help.
Knowing yourself is the first step. Be aware of your energetic field, and know what it feels like to be just you, in your space. Keep your light strong, and protections up. Using guides, like Archangel Michael, or your own powerful angels, or guides. Getting regular healings, and tuneups.
Asking for help is a precious tool that we all have.
And knowing, that you are not alone in this, especially if you are human.

If you are wondering what is going on, or are interested in a Soul Retrieval, or a spirit releasement, or just want to know more, here are a couple of blogs, and also a couple of simply explained Youtube videos. (I love the use of the dry erase board!) The second video is quite informative, although does not go into the compassionate aspects of the work, nor does it give you tools to help you. So please stay tuned! I have been writing quite a bit on the subject, and will post more. Please do get a reading from me, if you wish to look at something in more detail.
Blessings, of light, love,
infinite compassion, and amusement,
Helena

copyright helenamazzariello/spiritinjoy 2018

Links:Here are other blog posts of mine on the subject, and below are two short, interesting videos. Enjoy,

https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/soul-retrieval-and-integration

https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/compassionate-depossession-and-the-importance-of-being-heard

Spirit attachment ~Hans Wilhelm
https://youtu.be/fccoaKbRU2A
Spirit and entity removal, soul loss, soul retrieval, and the energy game on earth ~ Peter Michaels
https://youtu.be/o9PC4V_IWtg

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Transfiguration, the art of moving form into radiance

5/7/2018

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Transfiguration, the art of moving form into radiance.

(and, of being that radiance).
Hello.
I was dreaming last night and got a wonderful message on how to do an Angel Healing.
It was to #1: Call in the angel that you wish to work with
#2: Ask, and allow the angel to merge with every cell (either with you, the healee, or, the place)
#3 Allow the angels to lift up the vibration, of every cell. More light. Expansive. Transforming.
#4 Ask to go into all the dense places
#5 Ask to seal, and close, the aura, and energetic field.

How wonderful! It was Archangel Jophiel, who offered it. There are many ways of asking for healing, from an angel or guide. Like prayer, or like an intentional request. It is intention that is so important, so clarifying.
In the Ascension work that I teach, and that I do, we work with many healing masters, guides and Angels. Their energy is so bright, so expansive, that you cannot help but be affected in a beneficial way.
We also use the energy of the Violet Ray, the transmuting flame in the same way. We may speak a fiat, or short prayer, aloud, because of the power of your own voice, in declaring, in calling into being.
In shamanism, in Sandra Ingerman’s teachings, you can sense the light and expand it into your own being, to become light. Or, to recognize, that you are light, expanded light. By becoming light, which is our true form, and seeing another, as their true form of expansive light, amazing healing, and transformation can occur.
Becoming that light, that radiance, is transfiguration.
It is an amazing healing.
It starts from the heart, the higher heart, and radiates outward. I see it as a loop of energy, like a torus loop, around me. When seeing another in their light, it always looks like a loop of energy.
For you, it may look different.
This light feels amazing, and very protective, and quite expansive.
In using the Violet Flame, it feels quite healing, and transformative, as if heavy, dense energies are being burned up in its flames. There is a reaction going on, a consuming, and a cleansing.
That is why I usually do light work first, then Violet Flame work, and then the light work, at the end.
Sometimes, I will use a blue light, as a protector, on the outside edge of my energetic field.
It works quite well, this blue light. It looks light the blue flame of a gas stove, an etheric, moving energy,
I see the Violet flame energy as also moving, and in action. The blue, for me, though, works very well as a protector.
In the Seven Rays (or worlds of being) the Blue Ray energy, is the First Ray. It is about power, will (divine will), and courage. The Archangel Michael works on this ray, and is a wonderful ally for protection.
It is a good energy to use on the outside of your aura, or field, or to protect something.
I do love the idea, though, of asking an Angel for help, in transfiguration, and for healing. Like a jump start for your car, and then you are good to go.

Whether it is white light, or Violet, or Blue, you can radiate it on your own, and SHINE YOUR LIGHT (Here is a past blog post with more on that, and a sweet meditation video), or you can ask for help, from an angel, in bringing your cells into a higher vibration.
The angels are happy to help you, all you need to do is ask, and to be open to it.
Have a blessed and light filled day!

Here is the chart of the I AM Presence, showing the three columns of protective energy you can use. The figure on the bottom is you, and the golden halo your higher self, and the figure above, is your own god consciousness, or I AM presence. The beautiful, and expanding rings of energy around that are your karma. Your good karma, meaning all the good that you have done, through thought, word, or deed. Your job here is to raise the balance of that. You already have a good start! I’ll talk more on that next month, stay tuned.

copyright HelenaMazzariello/Spiritinjoy 2018

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Healing the ancestral lines

4/7/2018

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I have been enjoying a course in Ancestral medicine, getting to know the 4 lineages of my parents.The main jewel in this is to connect with the well ones, the transcended ones, those who are ok, and can bless you, and have wisdom, from their own journey, that they share. Those who have not transcended, or who are not well yet, can undergo a transformation to join them (Elder Malidoma Somé talks about this word "Ancestralization", the community of well ones). One of the processes in the healing is to grieve, or bear witness, to some of their trials, and traumas. Another is to forgive, and yet another, is to know the blessings that they had, and, are passed down through you.
Whether good, bad, or indifferent, is it wasn't for them, you couldn't be here.

Also, the traumas that are not grieved, or expressed, or healed, will be carried in the bones of the descendants, willing or not. It has been an amazing journey, and I highly recommend Daniel Foor's book 'Ancestral Medicine", if you want a step by step workbook, to do this work in a safe space. Your lineage goes back hundreds of thousands of years. Think 1,000 years, is about 20 generations.
At some point, we all meet.

In working class 3, in course 2, (grieving and forgiveness), I've been working with my mothers Polish lineage. In my Grandfathers lineage, which originated in Lublin. When he arrived in the US, his name shortened from Kozlakevich, to Kozlak, to Koslak.

I can see and feel the pain, in a safe space, guided by my well ones.
"Is there something for me to bear witness to?" I asked.
"It was like a Pogram", they said (except it was about the Polish). Russians, or cossacks, or paid soldiers, attacking at night, killing most of the woman and children. The men could do nothing about the slaughter.
"That is why they drank" the well ones prompted. I was also shown the red and white flag, with the eagle, and a bough. A very, very old version. I am shown, they were forced to leave their land, walking in the high snow, with just the things on their back.
I could feel the grief wave through me, I felt it in my bones.
There was also the rape, of a very young girl.
(I had seen known this before, as a psychic, something about the child of a rape from a cossack, who was not loved, who was hated, because of the rape. His spirit caused a lot of grief, subsequently, after his death. But that is another story.)
I was looking at this young girl, possibly 9 or 10, in her nightgown, huddled against the wooden wall, and staring back, with terror.
"That is where the being came in", they showed.
This is nasty, and dark, and the well ones push me back, not to see/feel. But I grieve it on some level. I am not healing it, or them. That is not my job. ( In this context, it is the job of the well ones, in the lineage).

As I am preparing to leave this journey, I see that the well ones are healing my great grandfather. Perhaps this will take a few more of these sessions.
Afterwards, I was in my garden, looking at my new grape sprouts on the woody stems. I felt softened by the grieving process, like I needed some time to care for my self, but otherwise, good.
I then felt a soft presence brush past my right hand, to get my attention. I saw a flash of my great grandfather, thanking me. Now, I have never seen him, but the polish nose I saw on that face was a telltale sign. I felt protected, I knew he was on his way toward ancestralization, but not quite yet. I'm sure there will be more work on that lineage.
Funny, now that I think about it, my mom had grapes in our yard, that came from her dad.

Flag of Lublin, city in Poland

Because I have been working on both lineages of my mother's ancestral line (which are both Polish, Lublin, and Bialystok, both on the Eastern side), I have been studying the history of Poland. I will share a video, which shows the build up of Europe, both in population, and in boundaries.

Some people doing this work can name relatives, going back many generations, and some only know their parents, or in the case of adoptees, may not even know their parents names. Some have taken DNA test to shed more light, and others just rely on their journey, and psychic abilities.
In this case I have only my mother, and a handful of photos of my grandparents, whom I have never met. I am so lucky to have strong psychic abilities, because this is how I am meeting them. When I journeyed to a relative that had crossed, (my aunt Helen, my mothers sister, who I have known half of my life), she took my hands, and placed them in my Grandmothers hands. And then, I looked up. What an unforgettable moment!

My mothers parents had hard lives, many children, and worked hard. They also were able to leave Poland to live the American dream, and own some land, build a house, a home, a garden, some livestock. Most of the stories I remember, have to do with gardening, stories of being poor, but making it work to be happy, and of family. The small town I grew up in, was mostly Polish immigrants, mostly Catholic, living similar lives.

I'll be doing more work, and explorations, on both sides of my lineages. Happy to share more, later.
Doing this work is not all painful. Here's an older post about my Italian lineage...
https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/saying-hello-to-your-ancestors-and-those-who-have-your-back

And here are two videos,
an animation on the history of Poland, (if you like it, here is the link to Pt 2
https://youtu.be/8CwFHH_y2So), and Pt 3 https://youtu.be/8P1y2v0BwnM
and of the population growth in Europe, throughout the aeons.
Gentle blessings,
Helena
copyright 2018 spiritinjoy/HelenaMazzariello

Great quote! Important to have good protections, and tools, and support,
to feel, grieve, and release it.

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Trusting your Process, and your True Self

3/3/2018

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It's all about trusting your process. That helps you to relax into what it is you are doing, and, while doing your best, giving yourself the benefit of the doubt. Also, giving the universe the benefit of the doubt, since the universe knows so much more than you do. Remember also, that you know so much more than you think you do!
This is how I like to think of the process of co-creation. You can see yourself as surfing (or bellyboarding, if you don't know how to surf) in this vast, ocean. You can feel, and sense, the pull of the current, and the waves of the ocean. You have an intention, you have your tools, and you have your energy, your capable spirit, even your past life or past time information, to help you.
Your physical body and it's effort is important. Keeping it strong and happy, or at least motivated, and slightly amused, will help you in your quest.
But it's that sense of trust, and it's ability to keep you both relaxed, and aware, is what we are addressing right now.
I have just come back from a very powerful shamanic training, with one of my teachers, Betsy Bergstrom, in the compassionate depossession of spirits. Some of those "suffering souls" were once human, and some never were. It is an intense, and sacred process. And there are powerful, and yet both sacred, and amazing results, for all parties involved.
It can be quite intense, and you need to be both centered, and protected.
One thing that I will do, in the set up of this process, is to become aware of my "True Self". Whether that is called my I AM Presence, or my God Self, or my True Self. This is the self that is radiant, expansive, that cannot be wounded, corrupted, or changed in any way. And once I have connected to that part of me, and with my higher heart, I start to allow, and trust in the process.
You are that self. You have access to that True Self, too.

It is almost too simple. To be your radiant self, to connect with it, and to become it, connects you to all your tools and resources, with no effort.
It is the smaller you, the ego you, the fear based you, that lacks trust; it wants a guarantee. By stepping into the light of your own being, that clear knowing, or cognizance (it's located in your 7th chakra, one of your tools, one of the "clairs" that you have, like clairvoyance, clear sight, and clairsentience, clear feeling), comes into play.

This is one of the places that I read from, as a psychic. I may "see" things with my clairvoyance, but my "claircognizance" makes sense of it all, makes it whole. I have learned to trust that place, to get answers.
BE STILL, AND KNOW.

When creating something in your life, or, in creating your life, the tool of trust, can help you immensely. Either in trusting the universe, or in your true self. Even in the law of attraction, allowing yourself to feel the vibration of the word "trust" in your being, allows you to relax a bit, take a breath, and allow. It may feel like the opposite of control.
How strange, that most of our life, and our world, we cannot control. Most people see that as a sense of not having power. Power=control. Leaning on another person, or an Angel, or a friend, or guide, or the universe itself, seems the antithesis of creation.
But sometimes to stop struggling, to not know, to allow yourself to be led, to be shown, is the key. There is Grace in that. It is the secret password, of your next step. The previous article speaks on this, on Grace, and on letting go.

Listen to your dreams, for they are smarter than you.

There can be, for us, some wounding surrounding trust, either from people that have abused ours, or from a notion that the universe did not have our back. Many of us have at some point, turned our backs on that place of trusting the universe. In this place, I may interject the word "God'. I have seen so many people turned away from their god, from their own light, because they felt abandoned, or let down, when they trusted.
there can be a lot of pain there. Present time, and past time pain, and past life pain, or possibly ancestral trauma and pain. It is worth doing the healing work if it seems insurmountable, to go back and release or heal the old, old patterns. For now, though, breathing, grounding, centering, relaxing, and saying hello to and accessing your True Self, and going into a place of co-creation, with a loving universe, can be a goal worth reaching. Not only will it bring peace of mind, and immense healing, but you'll be working with the laws of the universe, instead of against them.
Not only will your emotions, and your mind experience the shift, but your body will, too. It's a wonderful, expansive energy, to trust, and to know. The opposite can be a cosmic isolation, that you have to do everything yourself, effort, effort, and the world is out to get you.
Even if there is past trauma, the expression of it can get you out of isolation, and to a place of healing, of being heard, and that you matter.

Gabor Maté, a family physician, and also a medical coordinator of the palliative care unit of the Vancouver Hospital, talks about and has studied clinical cases for years, how a people who can't trust, or express their authentic selves, and go into seclusion about it, has a much greater risk of getting sick, with illnesses such as cancers, and autoimmune diseases. Some people become sick from years of not trusting (that you are safe while sleeping, for example), long after the initial trauma has past. He shows that not the trauma, but the lack of its expression, raises the risk of illness. If you are interested in his findings, I'll post the link of his talk here.

Now, I'm not saying don't participate in creating your amazing reality, with slow and steady effort, hard work, and love, and passion, and (of course),asking for help. What I am saying, is to realize the wisdom of the universe, and to allow it to unfold.
You cannot control everything, and it will break you to try.

I am saying to be curious.
To be open, to allow.
I am saying to trust.
Don't quit, in the middle of what you are creating, when it gets tough,
the struggle will not last.
Trust yourself, hold the vision, trust the process.
Do you remember the last time that you did trust, and it was ok, even better than you could've planned?

Love the process. Be in that place of absolute surrender, once you have set your intention in motion. Don't worry so much about the "how" of it.
Be in certainty. And clear knowing (that place, in your 7th chakra, on the top of your head, where you connect to divine intelligence).
You can feel fear, and you can learn from exploring it, but you don't need to match the energy of it. Same with the energy of isolation, either personal, or cosmic.

Trust in the divine timing of things (that can be hard for me). Trust in the power of love!
Meditation, and mindfulness help you to get to the quiet place where there is little mind chatter. It's a good practice, becoming a clear vessel, to be still, and know.
Trust is a belief, and it is also a tool, as is asking for help. And getting out of your own way, is a part of that. It is allowing.
Trusting the process, tapping in to your True Self, and allowing yourself to be a co-creator in your own life, is like surfing the waves in the ocean; it involves practice. It's the art of knowing when to effort, and when to let go.

HelenaMazzariello/Spiritinjoy copyright 2018

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The gift of Grace, in asking for help

2/6/2018

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There is a grace, and a vulnerability that makes asking for help so powerful and strong. Those words seem opposite, but they are not. Just as giving and receiving are two sides to the same coin, so is the strength in asking for help. Especially, if you are not used to it. You have to loosen the belt of the ego, and admit that you don't know everything, and can't see around corners, and perhaps know (or suspect) your own limits.
I try to write about tools for us to be aware of, and use in both our spirit life, and our everyday life. I think this is a powerful tool, because it precedes all the other stuff that comes up, that can be a waste of time, consciousness, and life force.
When working with angels, as many of you know, the basic rule is, they cannot do anything, until you ask. They cannot intercede. It is the same with your teachers, your friends, and perhaps the universe, or the multiverse. I believe that even practicing the laws of attraction, in your life, is a way of showing the universe that you need to change the energy to something that fits better. You do much of the changing, by using your thoughts, and emotions, and energy to match what you wish to create, or experience, and the universe is a willing partner in the dance.
The same with your friends, and your colleagues. The same with the landscape of your own mind, and heart.
For those of you who work with spirit guides, Power animals, or helping spirits, it is the same.
Some people hand their problems up to Jesus, (or god/goddess/all that is), and ask to be shown the next step.
"Let Go and let God".
"Google it".
"I am in a place of the unknown. I don't have all the answers. I am willing to ask for help, and to receive."
It's a place of not being in control, of not knowing. It's a place of sitting with the mystery of that.
Always having a plan can be good, and feeling that you are in control is great, but sometimes that is not what is. You may need to backtrack, for a bit, and just sit with it all.
Be in the mystery.
Perhaps there is a bigger plan, that you are not aware of.
The void.
You can't manage it alone, you need another way, a different viewpoint, another paradigm, and you can't get there by just pushing, pushing, trying to control, with the old mindset, or the old tools, or the old way.
I think, and have come to understand, that being in the mystery is a holy place. It is an initiation. You perhaps give up from ego exhaustion.
There can be so much energy on "It's a problem".
Maybe you are making your life into a movie of "This is a problem", and have set the stage, the characters, the speeches, etc.
Perhaps you get something out of that.
Perhaps it serves a purpose.
It can make me go unconscious. It can cause a lot of pain, and uncertainty, and I lose energy.
So, let's take a look at that place, of stepping back, and being in the mystery, of not knowing, and having that be ok for a while. Maybe it is a big issue in your life.
Breathe into that place, and relax a bit.
Be vulnerable. Be complete with being incomplete.
Just allow.
Here, in this place, is grace.
It's like a moment of silence, in a crazy, loud, fast paced world.

Just be in the present moment, and be aware of what's around you.
You can drop the ego act, or at least be aware of it in your thoughts, and emotions, and get a little space.
A time out.
Breathe, and be grateful, for what is, and for it all, in this silent space. In your heart.
That's when Grace makes it's appearance. After you've let go.
And grace is wiser than you.
Just continue to be with the great mystery for a moment more, and drop all that other stuff. And breathe into your body.
And now, ask for help. Be open to it, to how it comes. Whether it's an idea, or help from an ally, or nature, or divine intervention. Perhaps it is your own higher Self. Perhaps, you just needed a time out.
You went into neutral, and became quiet, and vulnerable, and grace came.
And that is a splendid tool, indeed.
In a short while, you will feel nudged, into taking action. But it will be inspired action, not grinding action. Listen to your quiet voice, or the nudging of the angels, or helping spirits you have asked. You should have more energy now, tempered energy, to make it happen. In that quiet space, you will feel, or know the correct next step, as an expansion, not a contraction. You will sense it, and know it, even if you don't know why.
Not independant, but interdependant.
Here's to Grace, making it's quiet landing, like a bird, showing up because there is a quiet space for it.
Many blessings, on your day,
Helena

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Where do YOU go when you die?

1/11/2018

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Hello! Another amazing year of Spirit in Joy, as we proceed into our next phase of our journey, our lives. We are shedding the old, and building the new, and our roots are sinking further into this planet of ours, with these beautiful, and finite bodies of ours, and we are nourished by deeper places.
It has been said that, "the secret of life is that it stops". Well, I have seen enough, of spirit to know that it actually doesn't, it just changes form, changes worlds.
In my never ending shamanic studies, I have added to my plate Ancestral Medicine, and healing (Daniel Foor's book, and work are excellent). It has been wonderful to be witness, and say hello to those radiant ancestors, who can guide, and bless, and even heal and help the ones who need healing and help, so you, and your descendants do not take on the burdens, or the dis-ease. I am learning, and meeting, and understanding, and enjoying, and being nourished by this process. My work, and studies will help my clients with their needs, and I can better serve my community.
I have just taken a Death and Dying course, with Sarah Dole, as part of my journey towards a teachers program of shamanic studies (with Sandra Ingerman). I am also embarking on the advanced compassionate depossession course with Betsy Bergstrom, coming up next month. I have been doing this work for two years now, and it will help me go safely deeper, and my abilities will be able to help others.
I must say, I have chosen the best teachers I know of. I am forever grateful for the guidance here, the nudging from my spirit, and my helpers, in the work that I love, and that I do. It has helped my psychic readings and healing enormously, and has even crept silently, into my art.
But then again, this is an art form.
So, on to the page title. We had done a journey on "Where do you go when you die?"
Obviously, it is different, and personal for everyone. Some go to the light, some go into the earth, some stay around, and forget, or don't let go. Some have help. Some need it. Here is my adventure.

I felt myself squeezed through a dark, earthen tunnel, and felt a bit claustrophobic. I felt a weight, or a pressure on my chest. Then I realized, that I was dead. I felt sad. I looked at the people around me, and didn't really know them. I saw family members standing around, in the distance, but they did not contact me, they just stood there. It wasn't really a love fest, at first. I saw my body, in a Catholic mass. It didn't have the result, like I had once witnessed my other relatives experienced. But it was ok. I felt people who loved me praying, or doing energetic work in my behalf, and it was so healing, and good. I did feel the presence of a guide. I saw arms grabbing me, and lifting me up. Ahh... I remember looking down at my body, at my life, like a life review. I thought, how sad that, "bad things can happen to good people". I felt the compassion, and the love, for my earthly body, and giving, funny, creative personality. I truly loved, while I was here.
Now what?
Then, I thought, "Hey, I have all these spirit tools". "I can do whatever I want"!
I started to move energy around. I started to fly around.
I remembered my enthusiasm.
I said hello to my angels, my teachers, the Ascended Masters, my helping spirits. I used the power of the Violet Flame, and I transfigured, and radiated light.
I just became light. It lifted me.
(Boy, I am so glad for these spirit tools while I have a body! In retrospect, I am grateful for my tools, sharpened, ready, and at my disposal. And, yes, you can take them with you when you go!)
So now, the energy is so much lighter. There is so much light. I can see separate places of learning, and places of healing, and can also see beings there, that I know and love. My friends, my family, my guides.
I am feeling like I am a part of everything else, like an interconnected, woven, web of light.
I feel so expanded.
Such light, and love.
I feel like I am finally home.
I was then shown a choice.To go into the cosmos. It looked like stars, and a million amazing choices. It was vast place of many galaxies, and dimensions. It was so beautiful, and I knew, in an instant, I could easily travel to where I wished to go.
My other choice, was to stay around the planet earth, to help hold space, and heal her. I could see the vast planet with a network of light around her; small brilliant points of light where the lines intersected. I could see those intersections were being held by beings, beings of love and light. It was so beautiful. How much love we all have for her.
I could also see some kindred spirits there, and they waved at me to join them. They were my soul family!
So many of them incarnated to Brasil this last time, while I stayed in the north. Oh how happy I was to see them!
When I saw my choices, I thought, "Well, let's go into the galaxies, and other universes first, just to see".
I was stopped by two guides, in the shape of a Peregrin Falcon, and a Blue Heron. No, your job right now is to stay and hold space for the earth.
And I was so happy to be able to do that, and reconnect with my family.

Coming out of a journey like that takes a little time. To squeeze all that expanse of a spirit back into a tiny body, like getting a large parachute into a jacket pocket.
My heart felt very full.
I am glad to have my spirit tools with me.
They are good things to have.
Each person in the class experienced it differently, but all felt the merging, and the love, and the light. And that they were not alone. If I do the journey again, it will probably be different, or show me different things. And your journey will show you different things too. But I do see, that it is about love.
So make sure you do all those things which you love here, and to truly love, here.
That seems like the cosmic plan.
Oh, and compassion. Lots of it.

Helena Mazzariello/Spiritinjoy copyright 2018

Lightwork, by Autumn Skye

I leave you with these beautiful quotes...

"You will lose everything. Your money, your power, your fame, your success, perhaps even your memories. Your looks will go. Loved ones will die. Your body will fall apart. Everything that seems permanent is impermanent and will be smashed. Experience will gradually, or not so gradually, strip away everything that it can strip away. Waking up means facing this reality with open eyes and no longer turning away.
But right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground, for that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realizing this is the key to unspeakable joy. Whoever or whatever is in your life right now has not yet been taken away from you. This may sound trivial, obvious, like nothing, but really it is the key to everything, the why and how and wherefore of existence. Impermanence has already rendered everything and everyone around you so deeply holy and significant and worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude.
Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar."
-Jeff Foster

"Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen

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Being in the center of your head

12/21/2017

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Here is a great energetic tool for your spirit toolbox.

I enjoy writing about psychic or awareness tools, because they really are tools that you get to have, like a drill, or a screwdriver. These are spirit tools, which means you don't need a body to use them. But it's nice to have one.
As spirits who inhabit bodies. it's so easy for us to travel out of them: to the past, into the future. We go and visit other people, and places, and just leave our bodies. Eventually we come back, and sometimes bring that information back with us, but mostly, we just space out, and leave. While that can be innocent enough, some things can happen to us while no one is home minding the store.

If our bodies are not energetically protected, energy can slide in opportunistically. Many marketing strategies are based on that. You can be easily programmed as to which peanut butter is better to buy. If we are not in our bodies, our bodies may not feel safe, and the lower chakras open up to give us that information, and help us. As a psychic, I can see that the spirit of some people resides above their heads, and the body must fend on its own. Some people are so busy, or worried about the future, or in the future, that their spirit live a bit out of the body, in front of themselves. Again, body doesn't feel so safe. Some bodies put on weight, to feel more grounded, or safe. Some bodies take on hitchhikers, beings who take advantage of the fact that you don't really live there much. Some have spirit guides, that try to manage it all for you. All that comes at a cost. At the very least, you stub your toes a bit, and are spaced out, or accident prone. The worst case scenarios can be invading entities, being programmed, or being at the effect of other peoples beliefs and pictures about who you are, and what type of peanut butter you need to buy.

Being in your body allows for choice. You can still travel around, as we all do, but coming back in to a clean, vibrant space that is yours, and is the way you left it is the best. It means you have your power, and your seniority, because this is your vehicle, this beautiful body of yours. It is your temple. It is finite. It depends on you.

There is a spiritual space, in the center of our heads, right behind our eyes. It helps us to filter out all the noise from our daily life experience, and just be. Here, we can focus on consciously creating our experience. Here, it is calm, and clear, and you have access to your intuition, your focus, and concentration, your ability to tell the truth from a lie, and your intuition. I do much of my readings, and my healings, from this space. I do my daily meditations from this place. It is both my refuge, and my place of power.

While I love being in my body, and engaging all my chakras, all parts of me, each has its own place, in my life.
Being in the center of my head is different than being in my heart.
I consider my heart space to be powerful, and expansive, and inclusive. I consider it to be my communion with God/Goddess/All that is, and my deep connection with others, with all of life.
I still have that Source energy communion in the center of my head, but it is much more personal. It is where I can find my own truth. I consider it to be command central, like being behind the wheel of my car. You can think of it as the cockpit of an airplane, or just you, in your favorite cozy room, your workshop.
It is so easy to get distracted in all that is going on around (and within) you, that it usually takes a conscious effort to get back into the center of your head. It is a continuous leaving, and coming back in. That's why I meditate there, and why I discipline myself to keep going back, after I have left. I do this lovingly, and in a space of ease and kindergarten. Simple is best. So is laughing, when I realize I have left. I leave, and come back in, so many times throughout my day. Why, I forget, and remember, so many times, in the course of a half hour psychic energy cleansing meditation! I wonder how many times I have already done that today?
Being in the center of my head is also a way to retrieve my spirit from all the places it has been.
Here, I have access to my intuition, to clear sight.

My 6th chakra is also my perceptions, and my imagination. Knowing that these help to create my reality; it is a powerful place indeed.
It represents the element light. Light, which can travel at speeds beyond our comprehension! Our bodies see the world, and it's objects, as reflected light.
I do my readings from my 6th chakra. I also use my 7th (claircognisence), and my 5th Chakra (communication).
I use my 4th chakra also, when I do shamanic work, and healing. (This is a powerful place also, but that is for another blog post).

Awareness, vs Attention.
When you are clear, and sitting in your command central, which is the center of your head, that is home base. It is where your awareness lies.
You may put your attention on things outside of yourself, but you, the spirit stay here. As if you are in a room, and looking outside through a window.

There are many times that I have been teaching a class, or doing a reading for someone, and I start to space out, or forget what I was saying. I may even feel irritated.
The person wanted to hear me so badly, that they left their own space, and put their energy right in the center of my head! Or, perhaps, they have a live in entity, or over enthusiastic spirit guide, or family being. It may simply be a matter of a being with boundary issues, and not anything with mal intent.
In this case, a simple spirit to spirit Hello, while kindly but firmly backing them out, should do the trick. Let them get back in the center of their own head, and just, simply, pay attention to what I am saying.
Ahhh, instant relief!

You can do a simple meditation, to be aware of, and be in, the center of your head.

Close your eyes, and breathe, and relax.
Be aware of yourself.
Now simply put your first finger on your forehead. Be aware of the place where your finger touches your forehead, and bring your full awareness, to that place. Just notice what you notice.
I sometimes tap gently, reminding myself to gather myself up from wherever I was, and come back here. I may use my breath to bring myself back. Simple.
I teach this in my psychic meditation/ energy tools class. I have them (using the first fingers of their hands) touch both the front of their forehead (like you just did) and also the back of their head, right in the middle, and make an imaginary laser beam line that connects the two points. Then I ask them (they still have their eyes closed) to put one finger about an inch above their left ear, and the other finger about an inch above their right ear, and see another laser beam, connecting them. So now they have an "x" of a bright blue, or red, or green laser light, and I ask them to be right where these two lines intersect. They are right in the center of their head. It's quite a wonderful feeling, both to just be home, and also to command yourself there. Gently, lovingly, and with patience.

At this point, you can start to fill up that space, with you. Use your breath, to breathe yourself back in. Make that a room in the center of your head, instead of just a point of light. You can clearly see now, and even move about. Make a comfy chair for yourself, get to know the walls, windows. Light a candle, or add your favorite flowers. I am able to see out of the windows. I am able to clean out any clutter, or unconscious energy (which I see as white, fuzzy energy, which makes me want to fall asleep, or go into la la land). Kick out anybody else that might be there, taking up space. It is your command central, your drivers seat, only for you.
Breathe. Breathe yourself back in, and fill up the space with your beautiful energy.
Get to know this place, and how you feel when you as spirit, are in there, and aware, and thriving. Then, you will be very aware, when you are not. Perhaps you left on your own accord, and perhaps, you got kicked out of your body. A psychic whack from another, or a trauma, or perceived trauma on the body, might eject you. Drugs, or alcohol may do it too. Even a flirtatious encounter, or an argumentative one, or a room filled with people who are trancemediums. Your partner, your kids, or perhaps your favorite pet can jump in there. Notice who you are, and what happens, when you are not centered, or not in the center of your head.
Be selfish with this space.
No sharing.
Be patient, and loving, and just figure a way to get back in. There are times that I must break a window, and climb back in again. (just kidding, but perhaps not). Sometimes just a deep breath, a chuckle, and the finger test, is all it takes, and you are home. The more you practice, the easier it gets.
Many blessings, and enjoy your space!
Helena
Helena Mazzariello/copyright 2017

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Grief, Gratitude, and the courage that it takes

11/4/2017

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Side by side, grief, and joy. Grief is the price we pay for love. When we lose something that we loved, that was a part of us, it is a long, sometimes lifelong journey of grieving. In most cultures, grieving is a community thing. You are urged to have support. There are people who grieve with you, who hold space for you, so you can be submerged in the waters of emotion, and thrash about, without dying yourself. Grieving hurts. But it is so necessary, not only for you, but for the person or thing lost, and for the ancestors, and also, for your community.

In his talk, "Grief and Praise", Mayan Shaman Martin Prechtel says that they are one in the same thing; they come from the same muscle. If you cannot grieve, you cannot praise. And to him, fully grieving, is where you "look bad" when you are done; your hair is torn out, your clothes are ripped, and you are down in the street.
Your (true) friends and family watch out for you, and allow you to fall apart, but not drown in the ocean. They take care of you, they allow, even encourage.
Your true grief will bring up their own. Your vulnerability allows for others to have theirs. It works like that.
It is because you loved so much, that you grieve. Your praise is there, too, just as in your praise of things, lies a twinge of sadness, because all good things end one day.
Including you.
Some things cannot fully take their next step, until they are fully grieved, fully felt.
Ancestors, and the dead, including.
In my work with helping beings to take their next step, stuck pain, and grief can be the cause of them not leaving, not able to leave.
They, too, need their story heard, and need to release all that pain.
Do you think some of your ancestors died that way? Perhaps we carry some of it, and it is a family trait. Stuck energy can become toxic, no matter where it is.

Grieving is not just about people. It can be about a part of you, a forgotten dream, a powerful incomplete. Perhaps an animal, or not living up to potential.
It can be an exile of sorts. Or a communal pain. A cultural one. An ancestral one.
We can grieve collective pain.
Grief is not depression. That is the absence of it. That creates ghosts. It creates sickness. Unexpressed, held in grief, can solidify; it can become a tumor, a sickness, a toxic stone. It will manifest in the inability to feel joy, to fully praise, to love, to feel alive. When we stop the heart, we become shallow.
It may keep you stuck at that place or time, unable to move on, or to dream a new dream.
There can be a tendency to inflict pain on others, in that closed hearted place. It can be a dangerous thing, indeed, when a person (even unconsciously) tries to invoke that humanity inside themselves, that pain, by hurting those around them, perhaps, because they do not have access to their own, or it is not safe to grieve.
That must be what it is like, in the middle of a war. It can turn into violence.
It can become a burden on the living.

This solidified sorrow can be stuck in our family lines also. Our ancestors who did not grieve, and were not grieved for, unfortunately pass it down the generational line. We hold onto it, as sickness, as burden, as depression, and also as the inability to fully express joy, and praise.
We in turn will pass ours down.

Some cultures make it harder to express their emotions publicly; or to stay in grief, or are not ritually accepted as communal practice. Some are.
In our Western culture, and also in some Christian religions it seems, the habit to be stoic, virtuous, to keep it together, and to hide emotions, (or to anesthetize them), robs us of our ceremony, our ritual, our space to fall apart, to feel all the feelings. Not just alone, but in a connected space with others.
That there are ritual actions, like the cutting of one's hair, or wearing all black. Communities can work together, like one organism, in holding space, or in grieving as well. Symbolic completions, like church ceremonies, or gatherings, help greatly, but that does not happen for a loss like an animal, or a vocation, a deep friendship, or the maiming of the sacred land where you live.
Some people need to be 'provoked" into grieving. The possibilities, of that lost dream need also to be grieved. The stories told, and heard. Let out.
Not necessarily acted upon.
There can be anger, feelings of revenge, the stuff, the stories. This needs to come out of the muscles, out of the body, out of the heart, and be expressed, and be heard.
You may need to keep the fire going for a while, to allow, or, to have others help to do that for you.
Or you may need to do that for another. Ask the questions, and allow what comes up to be heard. Know, and accept that persons limits, also (or your own).
Grieving people do not need to be fixed; they need to be heard. Do not let them drown in the big waves. But let it be felt.

Grieving is active. Wretched grief, is cathartic. It happens in the body, in the muscles. It is necessary, and should not be postponed. It is not a preference, and not a deference.
It may feel overwhelming, like massive turbulent waves, that knock you over, and thrash you about. A smell, a memory, an unsaid word. Some trigger.
It may seem unending. But, after a while, you realize that you did not die, that you made it through. After a while, they come less frequently. After a while, it becomes a scar, that you still feel, on occasion, but has become a part of you. And we are here to love, and to be loved, to experience, and to have scars.

Some people feel that they do not have time to grieve, do not have time to fall apart. But it is a natural process, of the heart, that will leave us feeling more alive. Not happy, necessarily, but real.
Fully grieving is natural, and it takes courage. And like the word "courage", it's root, comes from the heart. It becomes a badge of honor that you wear, on your spirit.
And from that real place, comes growth. The seeds of praise are there, the reasons why you loved what you did. The reasons why it hurts so bad, the good that it was. The good that is there. The love that is there. The praise of what you lost. That is the honey, in the heart.
Some things in life, are just hanging on. You haven't processed them, because you are afraid, or numb, or haven't made a full decision.
You must let them die. Let them fully die, so you can begin to grieve it.
You may need help from community. You may need to use ceremony, or ritual. Ask your angels, and guides for help, if you have no one.
Christina Pratt, in her "Why Shamanism Now" podcast, says about grief:
Be with nature. Cry into the earth, your wretchedness, and let her take it from you. Or let your tears go into the water. Allow. Thank. be gracious. Leave an offering. Or write and write your stories, and your feelings, and burn them, and let the fire consume them, and the air take them. Talk with someone. Moan and wail to the crashing waves, until you are empty.

But until you do, you will cut off, from your heart, the other side of this, which is the praise of the thing you had, or were, or loved. The reasons why. The love.
Sometimes as you give yourself the space to grieve something, like an ended marriage, for example, you can find the lost dream there, and untangle it. After grieving your loss, and knowing the praise, and the love there, you can have the space to dream again.
We do all of this, to be real, to be alive, to be in the present, so we can return to the serious, and awesome business of the intimate relationship with life.
So we can begin again.
Grief can be messy, can be ugly, can be very, very, old, or just yesterday, but the doing of this sacred act, invites in, it's counterpart of praise, of love, and with it, a badge of honor, the ability to start again, and the sweet alchemy of grace.

Helena Mazzariello copyright 2017