MEDITATION

If you put too many rules on mediation and think too much about how you need to do it: with your eyes close or open, sitting or laying down, breathing in a certain way, or expecting to visualize, feel, hear, or see something or someone specific, you take the simplicity out of the whole concept.

Meditation simply means that you need to quiet your mind from its constant thinking in order to enjoya true relaxation and serenity!
I understand that trying to quiet the mind is something that is easier said than done! However it is important to understand that in order for you to successfully meditate you must practice and stay consistent! Do not give up, be impatient, or get frustrated! Expecting a successful meditation without practice is like expecting a toned body without the gym…

As to how you meditate depends on finding out what works best for you! The trick is to stay simple and not to try too hard! Music, following a guided meditation, listening to nature, observing nature, feeling the energy within the physical body, praying, or simply reflecting on your life in a positive way, are all effective and simple techniques that will anchor you to the present moment and help you to successfully meditate!

Now just do it and enjoy
XO

THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCING OUR MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

On Earth, one of our most important spiritual tasks, is to align ourselves with the beautiful nature of our soul and allow it to govern our daily lives! In life, the concept of Mind-Body-Spirit balance, helps us to achieve this task.

The first aspect of our existence we must control is the Mind/Ego. It is our inner thoughts and dialogue. It has a negative energy and effect on our journey.
When left unobserved and without discipline, it tends toward the negative, operating out of fear and doubt. Furthermore, when left unchecked, it will grow with negativity, gathering strength and size with its negative achievements in our lives, like a snowball that is rolling downhill. During our lives, the longer we leave this aspect of our existence to freely impact us, the more difficult it becomes to bring it under control and steer it on a positive path. The Ego affects us negatively in a number of ways. It creates negative beliefs in our life that cause us to operate in fear like the fear of death, or the fear of GOD, fear of the future and the past, fear of the unknown and others that are not like us. It is noisy, distracting, and loves to judge other people and things based on its flawed beliefs. It creates drama and conflict in our lives and feeds on this negativity. Finally, The Ego, the negative aspect of the mind, depends on the five sense reality and so works against any spiritual growth. So then, in order to bring this first part of the mind-body-spirit trio into balance, we must calm our thoughts and bring our awareness out of the past and future and focus on the now. We must observe and be aware of our thoughts, at every moment of every day of our lives, and identify and challenge those thoughts that are based in fear, doubt, and judgment. From a mindfulness based in the moment, we are able to replace this negativity with its opposite every time. Serenity, love, trust, acceptance, avoidance of conflict and drama, will melt away the snowball of the mind and allow us to bring it into a state of balance and positivity.

The second aspect we must bring into balance is the Body. This is the vehicle that we use to house the soul during our physical incarnation. The body is an amazing machine and can be our enemy or our friend if cared for, but either way, it will affect our quality of life and is an equal influence on our soul journey. In order to bring it toward the positive effect, we must love and accept our bodies. No matter how it looks, it’s age, shape, size, color, strengths and weaknesses! We must be one with our body for it will retaliate if not loved, nurtured or cared for. There is a limit to the body being out of balance after which it will begin to self destruct.
The way we avoid this is to establish a positive self image. We must exercise and drink plenty of clean, natural water. In spirituality, water and exercise consider to be medicine for the body. We must be mindful of our Chakras and our Chi/ life force, and bring these into balance within our bodies so the energy can flow through us unobstructed for the body to be in a positive balance. And finally, clean, natural, healthy food and plenty of rest will also promote the positive within the physical body.

And finally, we come to the Spirit. Spirit refer to Three important spiritual concepts.
First, we must understand that we do indeed have a soul. Our soul is the essence of what we are, our true nature! Our Spirit/Soul is a powerful, fearless, multidimensional, light being, that is having this experience on planet Earth and is the core of our being. Our soul uses the Earthly incarnation to grow and become closer to GOD. Secondly, we also must understand that the soul’s perspective is completely opposite from the mind’s. The soul approaches challenges in life as opportunities for it’s growth like loneliness, illnesses, poverty, handicaps, and others. How we handle these challenges will determine the level of growth we achieve for our soul in any given incarnation. In life, one of our important spiritual task, is to align our mind with the soul’s perspective. We must observe and challenge the mind when it reacts to an illness with fear and frustration, for example, and instead re-orient this reaction to that of the soul. The soul will view it as a challenge to be overcome with a positive result, no matter the outcome of the challenge. For the soul, all that matters is how the challenge was dealt with. This is with the intention of strength, positivity, dignity, and without allowing the inner negative mind to have any effect. This will clear a path for the soul and allow the higher, self-wisdom, positive power, to guide the life. And Thirdly, the Spirit represents spiritual truth. we must act in a spiritual manner consistently throughout our daily lives.
We must be real and authentic, kind and loving. We must practice what we preach!

Good Luck!
XO
Miki

DEATH AND GRIEF

When we lose someone that we love, grief is a normal process that every person will go through. It is also normal for people to go through the grieving process in different ways and at their own pace.

However, while grieving, we can either let our mind with its negative tendencies drag us deeper into the negative emotions such as guilt, anger, regret, and depression, or become more spiritual, and understand death from the perspective of the soul!

When we die, our soul will depart to the spirit world and we will be able to regain our memory of our true nature as an immortal energy being! We will also recall that the entire life that we just lived, with all its challenges and experiences, as well as, when we died, and how we died, were a pre-designed plan by our soul!

There are many different reasons why a soul chooses to leave planet Earth at a certain age and in a certain manner. Some of those reasons might be a karmic obligation, a specific learning experience, or for teaching lessons to other souls, for example, and all act as a contributors for the spiritual growth of the souls involved. Having said that, it is also important to know that accidents, although rare on our planet, do happen, and that even a true” accident has a deeper spiritual meaning/lesson that is valuable for the all souls involved.

And so, in so far as the bigger picture” plan of our souls is concerned, the passing of ANY human being, regardless of how tragic, premature, or senseless it appears, is never in vain!

So, in regard to each of our incarnations on Earth, both life as well as death, are vital parts of our soul’s evolution!
XO
Miki

“WOULD YOU KNOW MY NAME IF I SAW YOU IN HEAVEN…?”

This question, that is a part of the lyrics from a song written and performed by Eric Clapton, is a common question that I am often asked by people in readings over the years.

A woman came to see me. She lost her only son at the age of nineteen to a tragic car crash. She wanted to know if when she dies, will she meet her son? Will he recognize her as his mom. She wanted to know if her son in spirit is still her son…?
My answer for her was that yes, she will meet her son when she crosses over. Yes, he will recognize her when they meet, and no, in spirit he is NOT her son and she is NOT the mom.
In the spirit world, those two souls have agreed to incarnate together and played a roll of a mother and a son in order to contribute to the blueprint of the incarnation, the pre-designed plan of both souls.
My client’s son on Earth was part of the agreement, or the contract, that her soul and his soul created and decided to incarnate into that lifetime as a mother and a son. The agreement was mutual, and was based on certain challenges, lessons, experiences, or balance of Karma that BOTH souls needed in order to grow, and the roles of mother and son was the best way for the souls to achieve that.

When we die, when we cross over to the spirit world, we meet all the people that we have lost. We will recognize them and they will recognize us. In that meeting, regardless of the relationship that we had with them in life. This is regardless of the challenges, the misunderstandings, the disagreements, the love, or lack of love; the souls will share the immense love and appreciation we have for one another, in relation to the contribution each makes to the soul’s growth. Any negative characteristics from the incarnation will fall away at crossing and give way to an immense love that will be shared by the souls. Pure love. A love without boundaries, without ego, and without limitation.
A divine love!

XO
Miki

Ego Alert: Election and Ego

In the last few weeks I came across so many people that allowed the election to create for themselves unnecessary life drama. Couples are fighting, friends are arguing, and people expressing anger toward one another. The Ego is all over the place…

In these last few days of the election, try your best to rise above the tendencies of your Ego to lash out, judge, mock, or be angry with people that do not agree with your choice of candidate. Do not repeat, mimic, or mirror any negative behaviors of others, but rather use the election process as a spiritual exercise of disciplining the negative aspects of your personality.

Use a non-judgmental attitude toward people who think differently than you, and practice the powerful concepts of SURRENDER and ACCEPTANCE during and after the election’s outcome!

Remember, that from the perspective of our soul, there is no “good” or “bad” choice!
The next person to lead this great nation will present us, and the world, with new sets of opportunities for growth. It is how we CHOOSE to use those opportunities that will determine the way we grow: through love and kindness or through pain and suffering.

Claim your power away from your Ego and allow the beautiful nature of your soul to shine through! ?

Good luck!
XO
Miki