active blogs are at Luna Wellness & Working with your Angels

Just a note to anyone who is still hitting this blog and looking for more recent information --- my active blogs are Luna Wellness and Working with your Angels. You can also visit the Luna Wellness Center website if you're in need of spiritual healing or coaching.

The first book was published this year, Working with your Angels: Clearing and Blessing your Home and is available on Amazon (and other book outlets) in both electronic or paperback format. We've kept the price points low so everyone who needs to access the information can, and if you're an Amazon Prime Member, it's also in the Kindle Lending Library.

The second book in the series, Working with your Angels: Meditations with Archangels and Ascended Masters, is under way. And you can bet your butt that it will contain some rather large sections on Magdalene, Isis, and Mother Mary. This year, 2012, is the rebirth of that Divine Feminine Energy in our world, and that Divine Feminine Energy will become stronger and stronger. :) 

When we allow the Divine Feminine to take her place as equal next to the Divine Male, the world enters a Golden Age that lasts for thousands of years. Ancient Egypt was one of the ages, Lemuria was another, and Atlantis before it went dark was the third. It is all about cycles and circles, and we've already started into that up-cycle again. 

The third book will be simply: Angels over Colorado. This one will talk in some form about events here in Colorado this summer, but it is really too soon for me to look at it in any depth. As an empath, the emotions and energies are far too raw still. 

However, you can rest assured that there were indeed many angels over Colorado that day. In fact, some captured images of the giant cloud angel below. 

Be well & be at peace, 

melodie

Reincarnation on Luna Wellness blog

http://lunawellnesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/01/reincarnation-is-it-real.html


My Luna Wellness blog talks about past lives and hypnosis and other tidbits this week.

Spring Cleaning & House Clearings

I just finished writing up the instructions for a DIY house clearing and blessing that I'm offering as a free premium when you sign up for my newsletter on the wellenss center site.

I'd been meaning to get this written up for some time, but between the day job, the websites, the blogs, not to mention the house chores it just got put on hold until today.

So, just in time (at least in Colorado) for spring cleaning,  the house clearing and blessing instructions are now available. Yea!

Cutting the Cords that Bind Us

Recently, there's been an increase in the number of folks that I find myself talking to about cutting energetic and emotional cords that are connected to them (and sometimes sucking the life out of them) from other people, past relationships (often unhealthy relationships), and even vows (like vows of silence or poverty) taken in past lives.

Sometimes, I forget that not everyone is as familiar with some of the newer energy techniques (including cutting cords) that we now use routinely. The first time the concept is introduced, it's not unusual  for there to be a lot of questions or misunderstandings. For example, one friend was afraid she wouldn't be able to check in on another friend intuitively if these cords were cut from their past relationship.

Cutting these cords of energy and emotion will NOT prevent you from intuitively checking in on someone. And in fact, removing these cords of attachment can provide you with a clearer, more objective view of what is actually going on with that person when you do check on them intuitively.

These cords are not a normal or natural part of your energy field. In fact, it's better to think of them as "invaders" of your space, and even possibly "energy vampire" cords. When these cords are formed, especially during a "lover" relationship, they usually attach near the heart and sacral chakras. This is especially true of intense relationships and karmic relationships, even after the karma has been balanced.

What happens is the other person has "plugged in" to you, most often subconsciously, and they've been literally sucking away some of your energy body .... Feeding on you, so to speak. And yes, it can go the other way around as well, with you attaching to them and feeding on them as well as sharing your energy with them.

When these energy cords exist between lives it is often because we've been passionate about something in the time period when the vows making the cords were made. For example, I've had several past lives as nuns and healers and artisans. The vows of silence have been especially difficult for me to break in this life, and it's something I've had to work on so that I could "speak my truth" this time (a fifth / throat chakra issue). Granted, there were other things at work there as well (too many times being burned, beaten, or killed for speaking my truth in past lives) and those other related issues had to be dealt with in both hypnosis sessions and bioenergy healing sessions.  But the point is, it can be done and cutting those cords is a necessary part of it.

How To Cut These Cords
You can cut these cords yourself during a meditation with the Angels (they will cut them at both ends with love and heal and seal your energy body afterward) OR you can have a guided imagery or healing session where someone else cuts these cords (often with assistance of the Angels) and heals and seals your energy field.

When I cut these cords, I do it with the intention that they are cut in this time and all times, in this time and space, and all time and space, now and forever. Afterwards I usually allow time for absorbing healing energies to replace any "missing" feelings for the recipient.

Leaving the cords in place is not really a good option; however, you have to want to severe these ties. Think of it this way:  these cords can and often do weaken your energy field where they've attached. The weakened part of your energy system, for example the heart chakra, could later manifest physically as some sort of heart problem if the energy imbalance is not corrected. Correcting the weakened energy field is preventative medicine of the first degree. :)

New Year's Resolutions & How Hypnosis can Help

It's that time of the year again....when most of us swear to lose weight, stop smoking, work out more, and be healthier. Sadly, most New Year's resolutions are short lived and disappear once the subconscious starts saying it wants to "Sleep In" (no workout), "Eat Sweets," and "Have Fun!"

Lifestyle changes can be So Much EASIER when you get your subconscious on your side instead of fighting against you. There are ways to do this, with and without hypnosis; however, with hypnosis is a lot faster.

To get your subconscious on your side without booking a few hypnosis sessions, you have to make the effort slowly and steadily for at least 21 days (or 3 weeks) before the new habits start seeping into your subconscious. Repetition is one way to influence the subconscious, but it does take a while.  That's why the conventional wisdom on "it takes 21 days to make a new habit or break an old habit" really does work.

To get your subconscious working on your side a lot faster, just book a few hypnosis sessions. This time of the year you can usually find a weight management group running for several weeks or you can book individual sessions. Typically only 3 to 5 sessions are needed to speed you on your way to better weight control, stopping smoking, or even better stress management. Your hypnotist can guide you, but you still have to do the work.

Remember, all hypnosis is SELF HYPNOSIS so you have to make the effort to want to change.

Good luck to you all who are breaking and adapting new habits in 2011!

Trance states and spiritual practices

Trance states have been around as long as humans have sat at fires and told stories or danced to the drums or chanted to invoke the presence of a god or goddess or both.

Trance states are what others refer to as "altered states of consciousness," In the 60s, an altered state was achieved using LSD or acid. In some American Indian traditions, the altered state is achieved using peyote. In some Eastern traditions, the altered state is achieved via meditation. In other American Indian traditions, the altered state is achieved during fasting and sleep deprivation while on a vision quest. (We now know that going without sleep for 72 hours or more will induce hallucinations by itself.) In hypnosis, the altered state is achieved using self-hypnosis or guided hypnosis.

What's the difference in all of these ways to achieve expanded consciousness? And do they all visit the same place or different places?

First, any practitioner of modern "magick" will tell you that intention means everything before and during a ritual. And in that sense, each of those practices may indeed take you to a different place based on the intention you had when you entered the state. While at the same time, many of the different states are indeed the same brainwave frequency (theta). The chemical means have their own different impacts on the brain and its chemistry.

How can intention make such a difference in the place we visit during an altered state?

Ahhhh, that's where the magick comes in. :) Early on, I used to think that all places were the same if they all exhibited the same brainwave pattern (theta state). However, in my own practice and experience with both hypnosis and meditation (we won't talk about indiscretions as a youngster!), the intention does indeed press the elevator button for whichever floor you wish to visit.

Hypnosis by itself can be quite useful for many things, including breaking old habits or starting and reinforcing new ones. But combining the spiritual aspect with a meditative state can be as powerful and often more so.

Rituals can often help achieve the altered state --- think about your own meditation practice or rituals you engage in alone or with others. Much like any other skill, practice makes it easier and faster to achieve the altered state and any rituals you have associated with it tell your body and your mind, "hey! get ready...here we go again" so that achieving the desired altered state becomes easier and easier each time. The same is true for self-hypnosis or guided hypnosis.

Until next time, enjoy your rituals, meditations, and self-hypnosis!

Addictions: physical vs psychological and can hypnosis help?

The last month has just FLOWN by with barely a minute to breath, let alone blog. :)  But I guess that's what summers are made for, right?

Lately, the old Nature / Nurture or Genetics / Environment controversy has been rattling around in my brain. How much of each controls WHO we are? And the reason this has been rattling around my brain is because my older sister's youngest has made some really BAD decisions lately that have landed him in a heap of trouble. Decisions that I wonder if he had known the full extent of the biological history on his mother's side of the family he might have avoided (if he was smart).

You see, our grandfather was an alcoholic when our mother was growing up. Mom (born in 1931) was the eldest of 5 kids, and as such she ended up taking care of the others. She used to tell me how the post master mistook her youngest sister for her baby because of the age difference. (Mom's youngest sister wasn't much older than her first daughter, my sister.) Anyway, so yea, Mom had the whole "children of alcoholics" thing going on. (There were some other things going on too, but we'll get to those it other posts. :>)

On that side of the family, several uncles had alcohol problems and then several cousins (not even those of alcoholic uncles) had problems with drugs.  So you can see where the "physical addiction" part of the post is coming from.

There has been a lot of research done that established a genetic predisposition for addictions. Physical addictions. What they've found is that those with this genetic predisposition have a much higher tolerance for alcohol (or drugs) than those who do not develop a physical addiction as readily. That means they have to use more to get off on whatever it is. So, if there's that wild hair gene in your family history (however buried people may have tried to make it) then you definitely need to be aware of it and certainly keep that in mind when you're imbibing in whatever vice of your choice because if you do become physically addicted, you will have to work harder to break it and stay away from it than someone who did not have that genetic predisposition for addictions to begin with. And just to make things interesting, there's a tie between that alcoholic addiction gene and craving sweets.   And yea, some of my aunts weren't alcoholics, but there was definitely something going on with the sweet tooth. ;>

Then there's the psychological side of addictions. Even without a "physical" addiction, those with addictive personalities can become addicted to ANYTHING. These are the folks you're hearing about becoming addicted to sex, addicted to the Internet, addicted to Internet sex, addicted to whatever, you name it. And those type of "addictions" we seem to hear more and more about these days.

Most addictions that we commonly think of (smoking, alcohol, drugs) are a combination of a physical addiction and a psychological (or behavioral) one. And I can attest to that from a first had basis because before stopping smoking with hypnosis, I had both problems. But I also knew that once I managed to get my smoke count to 10 or below a day, then I was just dealing with the psychological addiction because the nicotine addiction was gone (or close to gone) by that point. And I did it using my own stop smoking CD. :)

Can hypnosis help with addictions? Yes. That's why the AMA has endorsed hypnosis as a treatment to stop smoking since 1958. Hypnosis can help remove the psychological addiction and support you as you break the physical addiction. But, like any type of therapy, YOU have to be the one who decides to change your life. It won't work if your mom wants you to, or your dad, or your grandparents, or your spouse, or whoever. You have to want to do it for YOURSELF first and foremost.  And that goes for any therapy no matter what the therapy is for.  The only person who can change you is YOU. Therapists can help, but in the end you have to do the heavy lifting.

Hypnosis can help put you back in the driver's seat, and I have known hypnotists that have treated much worse addictions than smoking with hypnosis. That type of work takes intense DAILY sessions and a huge commitment from both the client and the hypnotist.  I also know that there are hypnotists out there selling CDs for other types of addictions. Those tapes may help you and that's great if they do. But I would also suggest obtaining additional help from addiction counselors, 12-step programs, and other therapists. Addictions are a form of escape (at least it started out that way) and they can help you process and work through whatever it was or is that you were escaping from to begin with.

be well... and addiction free... until next time