Mindfulness is not only an extremely therapeutic way of functioning in the world, but it can also turn into an actual way of life.
Recently, I treated myself to pomegranate seeds, blueberries, and raspberries. They are expensive! I now eat a ton more fresh fruits and vegetables in an effort to help my body stay healthy.
One afternoon I was eating my fruit snack so quickly that I realized I wasn’t savoring it. I wasn’t TASTING the food! I stopped, and make a concerted effort to fully appreciate the flavors and bounty of the berries. Suddenly I was flooded with gratitude!!! And they tasted SO GOOD!
Mindful eating not only heals your body (eating in a rush is never a good thing!). It also helps with appreciation, and with slowing down and savoring the goodness of life. It is wonderful!
In this video, I discuss the benefits of mindful eating, gratitude, and actually TASTING your food. It’s hard to do when we’re always in a hurry, but if you can, the practice of mindful eating will change your life. ✨🙏🏼✨
Thanks so much for watching! I’d love to hear your experiences with mindful eating, so if you are watching on YouTube, please share in the comments!
As someone who tends to think a lot, I’ve found mindfulness to be very helpful! But it’s not just a powerful and healing meditative practice. Mindfulness is also great as a grounding technique and coping mechanism.
As you know, I am very sensitive. That trait is great for an intuitive and healer, but not always so good in everyday life, as I can get easily affected by other people’s emotions and energy. Practicing mindfulness is very helpful with this.
In fact, I’ve come to realize that I go into mindfulness mode quite naturally as a way to cope with certain situations, like…
When something really upsetting happens, i.e. I find out someone has cancer, or there has been a shocking accident, or someone dies suddenly, I immediately start cleaning. I will get a cloth and start dusting, cleaning, and organizing while on the phone, or just after getting off the phone, or while being with the person I’m with at home.
Do you every find yourself doing things like this?
The act is, essentially, a practice in mindfulness. Maybe not in the typical Buddhist sense, but it is modern mindfulness: being involved and absorbed in doing something that fully captivates your attention and helps you release energy.
As I have progressed with my practice and channeling work, I have noticed that I tend to become very ungrounded. As an intuitive who likes to play in the higher realms with angels, light beings, and ascended masters, I can get spacey and distracted. I can bi-locate, which in remote viewing terminology means being in two places at once. Essentially, with bilocation, your consciousness is here, but a part of you is somewhere else. So when I go into these higher realms, my consciousness really is there and I enjoy being there. It’s really nice!!! So coming back down to the earth plane and busy crowded LA can be difficult, to say the least.
I recently took up Jiu Jitsu as a grounding technique. I have always been interested in martial arts, but I have a shoulder injury and didn’t think it would be a good idea. But my son Ivan started taking jiu jitsu and it looked like so much fun that I decided to try it. And it was terrifying!
The thing is, if you are not completely grounded and fully in your body, you will get hurt and/or you won’t be able to do the techniques!
Here’s a snapshot of how it goes in class: the instructor will show a technique 3 times on his partner, and then the partner will do it on the instructor 3 times, so you are watching the technique 6 times at least. Everybody watches it. But then when I go to do it with my partner, I tend to blank out and completely forget what I’m supposed to do. For me, remembering the steps and saying them out loud is a practice in mindfulness. It gets me fully engaged in the present moment.
Martial arts is a wonderful training for the mind and body, marrying mindfulness with being in the face of danger. I mean it’s self defense; protection against danger. Circling back to the original idea I started out with, mindful action (even if it’s just cleaning) in the face of danger is extremely therapeutic!
If you are doing this sort of work and/or are interested in the psychic and healing arts, I advise you to make sure you do something every day to connect to your body. I work out every day, weights, cardio, etc, but that alone isn’t quite enough. Nowadays, the martial arts practice is helping.
For many people yoga is very grounding. I have a friend that finds it extremely healing and helpful. Different things work for different people. Once you find the thing that works for you, just make sure you do it consistently.
If you are naturally ungrounded, no worries! If you find your mind wandering (as I often do), or you are feeling spacey and scattered, you can draw yourself back right away. It’s easy!
Let’s say, for example, that you’re driving and you go on auto pilot. Once you notice this, just put your hands on the steering wheel and start paying attention. In other situations, you can also practice being mindful and notice someone without any thoughts or judgments. Just observe, very practically. You’re not being intuitive here, so you don’t have to worry about getting impressions or anything. Just see what is before you and be really grounded in the reality around you!Thanks for reading and watching. And remember, if there’s anything in your life that you would like assistance with, I’m here to help with readings, energy healings, on-demand meditations and my psychic development training program. So just reach out!
P.S.I teamed up with an online learning organization called OfCourse, based in the UK, to create a couple of mindfulness courses. The first is an introduction to mindfulness. Click here to get it.
With the holidays fast approaching – I know, I know, right!?!? – my mind is as busy as ever. It reminds me of a funny thing I once heard Esther Hicks/Abraham say – “it’s like your thoughts are thinking themselves!”
Do you ever feel like that?
The thing is, we are trained to be so alert and focused on a million different things at one time, that to clear your mind completely and not think about ANYTHING AT ALL is shocking and feels almost sinful!
However, and I can wholeheartedly attest to this, when you are able to clear your mind, amazing things can happen. For one thing, you can become much more intuitive and psychic. Take it from me!
There is so much noise around us – just general background noise, electromagnetic frequencies, the energies of others, as well as our own thoughts, that it can really deplete your energy.
Tuning all of this noise out is not only therapeutic for your body and your mind, it’s also incredibly healing for your spirit and soul. While it’s difficult to just sit there and not think about anything (which is what a lot of people think meditation is about), guided meditations help shut out the noise of the world just the same. Even just 10 minutes a day can help soothe your soul!
Once you get a meditation practice going, you can bring this new awareness into your everyday life by practicing mindfulness, which is about extreme focus. For example, if you’re chopping an onion (which I need to do after this for the lentils I’m making for dinner tonight), just focus on chopping that onion. If you’re driving, just focus, be in the zone, pay attention to the cars around you, feel the steering wheel. If you’re listening to music, focus on the sound, the notes, the harmony, the lyrics, and how the music makes you feel. You can even multi-task by listening to music while you drive, and still be practicing mindfulness. 😉
Remote Viewing, a methodology which helps you to gather impressions about a distant or unseen target, is all about focus. Practicing it trains your mind to really notice what you might otherwise have thought was mundane, like something on the wall, or the lines and structure and architecture of where you are. You can spend a great deal of time just studying a chair, for example, and this practice not only keeps you occupied if your phone battery is dead or you are phone-free for a change, but also helps you get more grounded, centered, and intuitive because you are fully engaged in the present moment, to the exclusion of all else.
By doing this, you are experiencing each moment as it unfolds, rather than letting your thoughts circle around your consciousness like a runaway train. You see, thoughts aren’t necessarily real, whereas your physical body is. So try and make your thoughts take the back stage and don’t let them run the show. Christmas cookies and tins to put them in – I’ll put you on the to-do list and forget about that for now!
At some point or another, ideally in your meditation space, you will be able to get to that place of thinking about nothing. It’s not going to happen for long periods of time – but even just 5-10 seconds is progress – and it’s an amazing feeling!!!!!
Doing this will ultimately help you to cultivate a strength and power that extends into your moment-to-moment experience of life. It’s about focus, really. Think about those pro athletes who are successful. They are in the zone, fully and totally in the zone, to the exclusion of all else. And when you are in the zone you are VERY POWERFUL!! It’s actually quite incredible. That’s why I love clairvoyance. Your literally have to focus on the pictures that are coming up, and monitor the energy of the person or situation you are reading, as well as your own. You are fully present in every way. And it’s awesome!
Well, I’m off to chop onions mindfully now. Fun note – when you cook mindfully and/or with love and gratitude, the food you make actually tastes better, and can generate healing properties too!
Thanks for reading and watching. And remember, if there’s anything in your life that you would like assistance with, I’m here to help with readings, energy healings, on-demand meditations and my psychic development training program. So just reach out!
Let me be honest with you: I love cosmetics and beauty products. Always have, always will. While I am merely a Sephora “Beauty Insider” and not “VIB” or “Rouge” status, I must admit, these things delight me. And, as you know, the things that delight you are good for your spirit. 😉
I recently purchased an eyelash primer, which you coat on your lashes before applying mascara. It’s interesting and not wholly necessary, but my point with this story is this: I was having one of those “thinking too much” moments. I was prepping to do videos, and thinking too much about nothing concerning videos, and I decided enough was enough. I gathered all of my energy and focused ONLY on coating my East Indian eyelashes (thanks Dad) with the eyelash primer. And then, coating them with mascara. That was all that I focused on.
And it worked.
While I felt a tad ditzy focusing ONLY on doing this, I reminded myself that this is the essence of mindfulness, a practice that is extremely therapeutic. By focusing only on the task at hand, you make your entire life a meditation. You are in the present moment, the now, the only thing that really exists.
All else is extraneous.
We are trained to be completely on top of everything at all times. To multi-task. To be doing and thinking of many things at once, for if we do not, something will surely slip through the cracks.
But all of this doing-ness can be over taxing to our minds and bodies, not to mention our spirits. We forget to breathe, to really experience the moment as it’s happening, to literally BE HERE NOW. Too much doing-ness amounts to distraction, which weakens our energy.
One of the most beautiful things about clairvoyance is that when you are doing a clairvoyant reading, in order to be good, you must focus. Your attention cannot wander. Your entire consciousness is completely focused on delivering a reading and energy healing to the person you are working with. And there have been many times in my life where I have found this to be a complete relief, for it allows me to take my mind off of myself and focus on another soul. It really is a gift.
You might not be able to master mindfulness immediately, but what I have noticed is that if you allow for clear moments to come in, you will feel relief. A classic example for me is trying to not be on my phone while with my son at the park. I watch him play. He likes this, because he’s one of those kids who’s always looking to see if I’m watching him. I notice the trees and the sky and the other children. I simply pay attention, and it does feel very good. Sometimes I feel guilty – like I should be checking emails and reading the news and monitoring the stock market – but that doesn’t need to be done 24/7.
Life is to be lived, and to do so, simply calm your thoughts, observe, see, and feel. It really is OK to do this…and not only is it OK, it’s marvelously good for your mind, body, and spirit.
That’s all for today. I am going to now try and be mindful! But remember, if there’s anything in your life that you need assistance with, I’m here to help with readings, energy healings, on-demand meditations and my psychic development training program. So just reach out! 🙂
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