After meeting Yogi Desai in 2003 and discovering Amrit Yoga, I became interested in exploring the more spiritual aspects of yoga and energetic presence. Amrit yoga teaches you how to get in touch with energy and how to stop wasting your own vital life force. (More on Amrit Yoga in another blogpost or see links to AYI for more information) To get deeper into my own practice, I started to work with more than just the postures and explored the breathing exercises (pranayama), yoga nidra (guided meditation) and nada and kirtan (yoga of sound & chanting). I have been incorporating items such as crystals and essential oils and sound (singing bowls & chanting) to work with increasing my vibrational frequency. I have found this to be helpful for healing at deep and profound levels and I continue to discover new ways to work with them.
We are energetic beings and there are many tools that are available to help us to heal and create optimal health, many of which are not recognized in our traditional model of health.
How we use our bodies, how we think and what we think about, who we associate with, what and how we eat are all directly related to the health and well being of our body-mind spirit complex. It is suggested that we use a minimal portion of our brain in our daily life, we repeat the same thoughts over and over (most of them negative) and do not use all of the senses we have on a regular basis. We have the ability to change and to grow and to create new neural pathways in our brain in order to keep learning and using more of our brain and especially in more useful ways. It is our job to learn how to tap into all of the resources that we have available to us, including our under-utilized sense of intuition. This is an area that is not taught to us in traditional ways and I believe we are born with it just as we are born with our other senses. Some people remain tuned into it and learn to live and make decisions from it, while others shut it out or totally ignore it.
I have started to work to engage this sense again and use it as I do my other senses. It takes time and a sense of curiosity to engage with, but I feel like it is the missing piece to my inner intelligence. I believe that my guides and angels have always been there protecting me and guiding me, but I have been at a complete loss how to connect with them. This is slowly changing with my desire and practice.
Over the years my yoga practice has given me the space to develop my spiritual side and contemplation and for creating quiet space in my life. My journey continues to evolve as I discover and become more engaged with my energetic presence, nurturing it and using it in the healing process for myself and others.
The tools and techniques I list in my next post seem like they are many, but they really are just ways to enhance your interaction with your energy body. This has been an exploration over many years for me and one that has been intuitive and internally driven!
I believe that it has been my soul’s journey to remember these tools to help me to become awake and aware in the ways I now am, and to live the life my soul came into existence for. The journey has been a long time in its evolution and has required all of the experiences that I have been through (good and bad) and continue to go through to amass the knowledge and wisdom that I am sharing.
I have had my share of traumas to my body and heart, as we all do, which has created the opportunity to evolve and grow. I do know that love and security has helped me to get to the place where this has been possible. Having a wonderful partner, my best friend and husband Dan, has allowed me to evolve individually as we grow together. He has been a nurturing presence in my life which has allowed me to make this journey to wholeness
I have been fortunate to have people over the years to keep me on my path and to teach me skills and to give me guidance. There is one person in particular, who has always been there to keep me moving in the right direction. He has helped me to recognize how important it is to finally share my journey and share my own personal “Journey To Wholeness”. Without his loving “kick in the pants”, I am not sure I would have finally found the discipline to make the time to densify the information, as he always tells me. When ideas are in thought form, they are not action, as he always tells me I must put it down (on paper or in my blog) to make it happen. So for you Rev. James DeBiasio…. here is the start of sharing my journey. I hope this ongoing process of sharing will help you to start your own inner journey to wholeness.