We have arrived at the final week of this Mind Body Meditation. Hopefully you have begun to shed the weighted burdens with new perspectives on habits. This week we will create space and a new narrative within to crystalize positive change. We are all living a personal story, and every story has ups and downs,…
Author: Alchemy Maiden
Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit – Day 14 – Many Breakthroughs, One Victory
You make a breakthrough every time you break out of a habitual response. Habit may veil our awareness, but awareness has the real power. At any given moment, if you notice how you really feel and what you really want, old habits begin to dissolve. People can break as many habits as they want by…
Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit – Day 13 – The Present Moment Is Your Magnet and Your Compass
The highest most whole state of being is to be present in each moment. There is a magnitude that pulls us into the present if we allow it to guide us. Mind and body only live in the present. And in today’s meditation, we discover that the present moment holds tremendous organizing power in life,…
Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit – Day 12 – You Are the Healer and the Healed
In today’s meditation, we learn that recovery is a healing process. As we enter into the process, we act as both the healer and the healed simultaneously. Your mind and body want to be restored to a state of dynamic balance. So if you begin any kind of healing, the inherent intelligence of the mind-body…
Mindfully Eating Chocolate – Chocolate Meditation
We have focused quite a bit on mindful cooking and preparing food mindfully. It’s time to focus a bit more on mindful eating. In mindful eating the key is connecting with your senses. Many traditions use nuts or fruit as the focus for a meditation on the senses of taste, smell and touch. But you…
“Moonstruck” Eggs In Purgatory
For this month’s Fork and Flick, it’s back to the 80’s and the charm of Italian American families of the time. “The moon is a little like love…sometimes it makes you act a little crazy” and Moonstruck tells this story like no other. Set in Brooklyn “where the full moon makes the night like day…
Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit – Day 11 – Healing Your Hidden Issues
All feelings are a part of us, even the feelings we wish we didn’t have and keep at bay are a part of us and affect us. In stillness we can recognize the negative feeling without being attached to them and open up to healing. In today’s meditation, we become more aware of what’s really…
Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit – Day 10 – All Fulfillment Comes from Peace
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. With the peace within you, you achieve peace – free of hunger and heaviness. We all know the peaceful, settled contentment that comes from being fulfilled. Today we learn that peace comes first. It isn’t the result of fulfillment, it’s the source of fulfillment. In meditation we…