Color Your Love Mandala

A group of us gathered to color this Love Mandala from Arielle Ford's Soulmate Kit and within a year all of us had received the love we were calling in. Here is how you work with it...

"Treat it as a sacred ceremony. Do it at a time when you have an open heart and a clear mind. Color each small area with crayons or colored pencils, use different colors for different qualities, while vocalizing and meditating on the qualities you want in a soul mate."

You can create your own ceremony around it, here is what we did...

To clear our minds, we gathered around a nice meal and took time to catch up, laugh, and chat. To clear our hearts we did a simple clearing meditation. Then we set our intentions and began coloring. We talked as we colored; some of it was light conversation and some of it was clear intention.

When we were finished, we admired the mandalas and took turns speaking the qualities we had colored in. At home, we each hung our Love Mandala in a special place.

Within months, love began manifesting for each of us. We laughed as we remembered the Love Mandalas.

Download the Love Mandala.
Read more about manifesting your soul mate, from Arielle Ford.

(Source: The Soulmate Kit: How To Prepare To Manifest and Meet Your Soulmate, By Arielle Ford)

Law of Abundance Checks

This is a fun practice that will help you shift your focus and energy toward abundance.

Every new moon, write a check to yourself from your checking account for the amount of "paid in full" and sign it "Law of Abundance." There is no need to date the check.

We like to put the check in the Feng Shui wealth (abundance, fortunate blessings, ability to receive) area of the room or house. According to the Intuitive Feng Shui Ba Gua, this is the far left corner when you are standing in the main entry and facing into the room or home. You can also place the check on an altar or other meaningful place.

New moon dates can be found online through any popular search engine.

Enjoy the results.

Prayer for Peace -- St. Francis of Assisi

We've heard it a million times before, that working with prayer can be powerful, so many times that perhaps we forget just how the energy evoked by a prayer said from the heart can move in our lives. Prayer can bring healing, clear blocks within us, help us let go, and transform us. Prayers are essentially our calling out, our opening up, to simultaneously receive and offer assistance.

Try working with prayer, speaking it from your heart twice a day.... starting your day with the prayer and ending your day with the prayer. Give it time and see what happens.

Here is a lovely prayer for peace, the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. There are other prayers on this blog or you may have a favorite prayer of your own.

Prayer for Peace, Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen

Listen to this prayer sung as a duet with James Twyman and Tina Malia.

Energy Building

These energy building practices help you call in love and light, from the sky or earth, to fill yourself up and extend that love and light to other beings.

Energy Building
There are three basic steps to this practice: bringing in the light, arm and body patting, and clapping and chanting. Do each part for a few minutes. (Source: James Twyman)

1. Step 1: Imagine light coming in through your crown and in to your heart. Breathe in and say to yourself "light be in me." Visualize your heart on fire (full of light) while holding your breath for 3 seconds. While exhaling, say out loud "light be as me" and visualize the light going in all directions and blessing everything in its path.
2. Step 2: Hold your arms out, palms down. Start patting from your shoulder down to the hand, then flip your hand over and pat the other side of your arm. Then pat the other arm. You may also pat your body, dance, jump, etc. Be creative.
3. Step 3: Chant "Hi" enthusiastically while clapping. This means "yes" in Japanese. Feel the energy of Yes.
4. Step 4: Repeat steps 1 and 2.
5. Step 5: Chant "Hu". This means the power of God. Feel the power of God within.
6. Step 6: Repeat steps 1 and 2.
7. Step 7: Chant "open", while visualizing three great streams of light coming down into your body.

Ground and Let the Energy of Mother Earth Fill You
When you are full of love and light, it seals and protects your aura and there is no room for negative energies to enter. You are also in a better place to extend this love and light to others.

1. Stand or sit comfortably with your feet flat on the floor.
2. Holding your hands at waist level in front of you, touch your fingertips together with your fingers pointing away from you. This acts as the "third leg of the stool" and helps to ground you.
3. From the bottom of your feet, send your roots down deep into the earth. You may visualize your roots like the roots of a tree.
4. Consciously set your intention on grounding.
5. When you feel grounded, let go and let the energy of Mother Earth rise up through your roots and into your body, filling you up.
   

Call in Your Energies
When we do spiritual practices, especially healing, we are "putting ourselves out there," extending ourselves (including our energetic selves) out into the world. This can sometimes leave us vulnerable and over-extend our energies.

To rebuild your energy core, call in your energies.

1. Visualize (or feel) the extension of your aura, way out there.
2. Quietly to yourself, call in your energies with your intention.
3. Visualize (or feel) your aura coming back in toward you until it is only a foot or so around you.
4. Hold that feeling and hold the energies in around you consciously for a few minutes or as long as you feel comfortable.