The Pineal Gland ~ Third Eye.

The Pineal Gland is located deep in the center of the brain.  It is about the size of a raisin, and is lodged in a tiny cave behind the ocular nerves of the eyes.  The pineal gland was the last gland of the endocrine system to be discovered, and it’s true function has been studied, scrutinized and contemplated for thousands of years.

What is known about it’s physiological function, is that the pineal gland works as a timekeeper for the human body, and it controls many of the body’s biorhythms.  The Pineal Gland is a photosensitive organ, meaning that it reacts to light.  The retinas of the eyes, send information through the sympathetic nerve system to the pineal gland, which then translates these impulses, and controls the release of certain hormones in the brain – like melatonin.   Melatonin is a naturally occurring compound that causes drowsiness and lowers the body temperature.  In humans, this is part of the body’s systems that help to regulate the sleep-wake cycles.  The pineal gland allows production of melatonin at night, or when the eyes are receiving less light, and inhibits melatonin production during the day, when the eyes receive more light.  The pineal gland, along with the hypothalamus gland, also controls the body’s sexual desires, hunger, thirst, and the our biological clock that controls our aging process.  The pineal gland also begins to shrivel, and to calcify starting with the onset of puberty.  Another major factor that affects the pineal gland, and is proven to cause it to atrophy, is the use of fluoride.  Fluoride, when absorbed into the body through the use of toothpaste, fluorinated water, soft drinks, and certain foods, is absorbed directly into the pineal gland, where it accumulates and adds to process of calcification.
The facts of how the pineal gland functions physiologically has only recently been found, while for many centuries, Ancient man has long considered it to be the connecting link between the Spiritual and the physical.  It is the “Third Eye”.  When it is healthy, activated, or awakened it opens up the psychic centers of the individual, allowing them to experience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, telepathic communication, and travel of the astral body through the Higher Dimensions.  When one activates the pineal gland/third eye there is a vibration, tingling, or feeling of pressure at the base of brain, which may cause many sensations throughout the head and body.   It is the organ of high Spiritual communication, Divine knowledge, and inner vision.  It has been called “The God Organ”, “The Seat Of The Soul”, and “The Light In The Head” – All referring to it’s function in supporting humans  in their connection Spirit.
There are many techniques that help to awaken the pineal gland, or third eye.  Some of the best ways to activate the third eye is through meditation, prayer, and caring for the body by avoiding the use of fluoride.   When you practice the different methods of activating the pineal gland, it strengthens your brains ability to hold higher frequencies, and the third eye is opened to a greater degree, allowing you to connect with the Higher Realms, bringing you into a state of peace, as you experience the natural loving flow of the Universe.

Here are some of the benefits of activating the Pineal Gland – Third Eye:

*  Allows you to develop and master your psychic abilities.

*  Strengthens your connection to the Divine Creator, and all life.

*  Raises the frequency, or vibratory rate of the body and the aura, increasing energy, and alleviating the effects of illness, or disease.

*  Energizes all the dormant areas of the brain, allowing for more use of our untapped potential – As we are all Multidimensional Beings in human form.

*  Slows, and possibly reverses the aging process.

*  Cleanses the mind, body, aura, and chakra system of negative energy.

*  Encourages, and assists in directing the healthy flow of the Kundalini.

*  Activates, or awakens dormant DNA strands.

*  Alleviates the fear of death, by strengthening your awareness that you are a Divine Being, and are fully connected to The Source Of All Life.

If you are ready to fully open your Divine gifts, then begin focusing on your Pineal Gland/Third Eye in your meditations and prayers.  This will open the door to your Higher Self, and transform your world!

Blessings,

Karen~

~How To Open Your Psychic Abilities~

If you read my last blog then you learned about psychic abilities and that psychic abilities are inherent in all humans. It’s just a matter of recognizing and allowing your abilities to flow.  Now I am going to give you some basic techniques that may help you to have a better awareness of your abilities, and learn how to strengthen them.  These techniques are easy and can be extremely enjoyable, if you allow yourself to take your time and have fun with them!  You should look at it as a beautiful journey of self discovery, and don’t push to make something come to surface.  Just allow yourself to open as a flower does to sunlight.  Remember that psychic vibrations are very subtle, and flow on a very high wave or frequency of energy.  When you first begin to develope your sensitivity to these vibrations it’s not likely they will hit you as a lightening bolt from the sky.  It will come when you are at peace within, and this state of being will allow you to be the most open and receptive.

Here are some helpful techniques for opening your psychic abilities:

* Set the stage – This means getting your mind wrapped around the idea that you are a Divine being in human form, and are naturally bestowed with amazing gifts.  The more that you focus on this idea and get yourself excited about opening up these gifts, the more open your mind and body will be.  A part of this process is doing some research about psychic abilities, and spiritual gifts.  The more you learn and focus on these gifts, the more you will be able to draw them into your life.

* Practice meditation – Developing your abilities to the fullest requires raising your vibration.  When you raise your own  vibrational frequency, then you are more closely matched to the frequency or energy level that psychic vibrations ride on.  Meditation allows you to raise your vibrational frequency by helping you to find, and hold a state of inner peace and serenity.  From this state you are better able to pick up on the subtle messages from your Angels and Spirit Guides, and this allows you to tap into the highest universal truths.  Journal about your meditation experiences, and it will help you to be more mentally and emotionally connected to receiving, and processing extra sensory information.

* Practice reading energies – You may begin by working on connecting with or reading the energy frequencies of things in nature, like a  plant or a tree.  Focus on how the plant or tree feels, and energetically connect with it.  Allowing yourself to get a sensation or visual image of it’s roots, and how it draws nutrients from the earth, or how it is collecting light from the sun with it’s leaves.  This exercise increases your sensitivity to energy frequencies other than your own. Once you feel like you have successfully connected with a plant or tree, then move on to an animal, or a person.  Pay attention to how all of these different frequencies feel to you. You may start receiving visual images, sounds, and physical sensations attached to the different energy frequencies. Take careful notes, writing down everything that you receive.

* Receive a reading – Make an appointment with Psychic Reader that you feel comfortable with, and pay attention to what they do to receive psychic vibrations.  Ask them questions about how they developed their abilities and what those abilities feel like to them.  As they read for you, allow yourself to feel the energy of the reader and the environment around them, helping you to get acquainted with the energy involved when a person is communicating psychically.

* Read for a friend – Find an open minded friend who will support you in your goals of developing your psychic abilities by allowing you to practice reading for them.  This can be very fun and gives you the opportunity to get some feedback on the information that you are receiving.  It is best to pick someone who will be very comfortable with you, and who will support your efforts with honesty and enthusiasm.

Learning how to open your psychic abilities should be done with the intention to use them in positive ways.  You should always respect other people’s boundaries and not try to snoop around in their heads or give them unsolicited advice. Using your Divine gifts for the highest purpose will bring wonderful blessings to your life!

Blessings to all!

Karen~

~Violet Flame Meditation~

As promised…here is a wonderful meditation that I often use to invoke the violet flame.

Light a few candles and put on some soft, relaxing music. Then sit comfortably either with your feet flat on the floor or sitting cross-legged directly on the floor. Now begin doing some breath work, this helps to cleanse the systems of the body and center the mind. Breathing in for 4 seconds, holding your breath for 2 seconds, then releasing your breath for 4 seconds. Do this 4-2-4 breathing about 5 times, or until you feel complete with it, then allow yourself to flow into a normal, comfortable breathing pattern. This technique adds more oxygen to your blood which carries it through out your body and to your brain. Restoring all of your organs and tissue with pure, clean, ion filled oxygen, bringing clarity to the mind and balance to the body. Now imagine a small flame burning directly in front of you and as you focus on this flame it begins to grow, forming a circle all around your body. The color of flame as it grows turns to many different hues of violet, purple, electric blue and white sparkles within it. Focusing on the beauty of the flame and feeling the loving, peaceful energy emanating from it, you will then feel it spreading through your aura, strengthening and purifying it. Now begin to draw the flame within you by taking some deep breaths, actually breathing it into your lungs and allowing it to spread through you. Say to yourself, and the to the flame, “I am one with the violet flame.” Say this to yourself 7 times, imagining the flame connecting with each chakra, beginning with the root chakra at the base of your tail bone and moving up through each the chakras. The violet flame is then linked with you on every level, purifying, cleansing and aligning you with the Divine. Now say to yourself all the positive messages that come to mind, as the violet flame intensifies your energy,  your intentions, and raises your vibration. This is a good time to think about all the joyful things that you want to manifest in your life. Form follows thought and the violet flame supports you to bring forth the highest, most positive forms for yourself.

Enjoy this beautiful spiritual practice as often as you feel compelled to do so. It is an unlimited, Divine and powerful force! The violet flame is a gift to us all!

Blessings,
Karen

The Spirit World.

I have had many people asking questions after posting my last blog on Spirit Guides. Questions like “Where do my Guides exist and how do my Spirit Guides and Animal Guides connect with me?” So, I thought I should expand on these topics and give more information about the Spirit Realms and Spirit Guides. Also we will explore a bit more about what kinds of gifts they bring to us.

Let me begin by reminding everyone that everything is energy, and we exist in a certain energetic plane or dimension while Spirits exist on another energetic plane/frequency or wave length. The Spirit World is not this far off glorious place in the sky. It is just a few wave lengths above us energetically and is very much an accessible realm to us all. They (Spirit Guides) really are right beside us all the time. We just need to raise our energetic vibration enough to have an awareness of them. One of the best ways to raise your vibration is through the practice of meditation. Take a look at my blog titled The Blessings Of Being A Tree, where you will find a grounding meditation exercise that will help you in getting started. As you feel that wonderful grounded feeling and have successfully “become a tree” just simply ask your Spirit Guides to join you and to give you a message. They will respond to your willingness and intention to connect with them. As they respond to your call, you will begin to have an awareness of them. This can feel like a warm, loving feeling coming over you or you may even get a picture in your minds eye of them. They are very subtle and may speak to you in a very gentle quiet voice, so, you need to quiet your mind in order to open fully to communicating with them. Using meditation helps you to quiet your mind and achieve a heightened state of awareness and greater receptivity.

Once you have connected with the Spirit World you are open to receive divine inspiration, higher knowledge and unconditional love from all the high vibration non-physical beings that reside there. These beings are Ascended Masters, Archangels/Angels, religious figures, loved ones, Ancestors and Animal Guides. These high vibration beings are also referred to as Spirit Helpers, Guardian Spirits, Animal Totems and Divine Teachers. They are as diverse as the people they are connected to. We can have any number of Spirit Guides as we navigate through our various experiences on life’s journey and they walk beside us whether we are aware of them or not.

They are happy to support us with anything and everything, and they do so willingly whenever they are called upon. It is very important to understand that they may offer you wonderful gifts, creative ideas and healing energy at a very high level when you ask them specifically for these gifts. They will not interfere with your free will or take your lessons or karma away from you. They can, and will, however, make going through your experience as a divine soul living a life in this physical realm much smoother and more harmonious.

We are truly blessed to have them!

Love & Light

Karen~

Looking Closer At Karma And Reincarnation.

Recently I have had many people asking questions about karma and reincarnation. This isn’t surprising since these words have made it into our mainstream, on television shows and in everyday conversations. My boys were even toying around with using the word karma for part of their future rock band name. Even with these words being used everywhere, not everyone knows what they really mean or how they are effecting them in their current circumstances. Truly the answers aren’t that easy to explain or to understand. So settle in and read with an open heart and open mind.

The definition of karma as given by Websters Dictionary is: (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person’s actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.

In Western culture we use such colloquialisms as ‘ What goes around comes around’ and ‘ You reap what you sow.’ This is connected to cause and effect and how action has an equal and opposite reaction. Karma is known as a universal law where the energy you send out, from your thoughts, feelings, choices and actions returns to you whether it is beneficial or harmful. Holding on to negative patterns mentally and emotionally results in a ripple effect on everyone and everything in our environment. The law of attraction, which has also become a very popular concept in our modern culture, then draws to us our matching energy. Again this can be good, bad or ugly depending on what we are sending out.

There are ways to break out of negativity and free ourselves from a negative or unpleasant karmic cycle. The most used methods are meditation, prayer or receiving some form of counseling. Incorporating meditation into our life, for example, allows us to enhance our emotional self-awareness and supports us in avoiding negative karma. In having that inner awareness, we are then able to move forward from the perspective of being in charge of our own destiny instead of a victim of circumstance. Choosing to come from a positive place within, we, through our higher vibrational energy, make choices and take action void of negativity. This acts to balance our karma and begins a shift that allows a flow of positive karmic energy to ripple out, negating any negative energy and drawing back to us bliss. Again, going back to the age-old ‘What you reap you will sow’ and ‘What goes around comes around.’

This is a lot to think about. I will continue more about karma and it’s relationship to reincarnation in my next few blogs. Until then…ponder your own karma and what experiences it has brought to your life.

Blessings to all!

Karen~

Gifts Of Creating And Maintaining An Altar.

Creating your own sacred space, or an altar, doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated. An altar is simply a small space, that you create, where you place beautiful and meaningful objects to symbolize your true essence and positive energy. Altars can also focus on manifesting your own personal desires.  For example, in many different cultures and for many centuries, a Wishing Tree or Kissing Tree has commonly been used as a sort of community altar, for manifesting wishes and desires. So going with that magical idea, the newest altar that I am setting up in my home, with my family, is a beautiful indoor tree or plant, surrounded with some of my favorite stones/crystals. Near the tree, is a bowl containing decorative strips of paper and string. The family and anyone who visits our home, will be invited to write down a wish on one of the strips of paper and then gently tie it to a branch of our “Wishing Tree.” The idea being, that as the tree grows all of our wishes are fulfilled! This concept can fill your home with the energy of hope, faith and help to support the belief that a positive frame of mind can produce positive outcomes.

My own personal altar holds flowers, crystals/stones, candles and photos. This represents a sacred space for me to connect to spirit and my higher self. I sometimes write down affirmations for myself and place them on or near my altar to help with reminding me of my own desires and my personal power.

Remember that an altar doesn’t have to be based in any religion or specific set of beliefs or ideas. It should be a special place in your home that displays an expression of you and makes you feel good. An alter is a wonderful way to bring a flow of positive energy to your home and a little bit of magic into your life.

I maintain my altars by spending a few moments every day making sure that they are clean and hold items that are meaningful to me at the present time.  I also spend time everyday near my altars in meditation and prayer. This practice helps me to be grounded, peaceful and serene!

Blessings,

Karen~

The Blessings Of Being A Tree.

Sometimes we can become overwhelmed with feelings of anger, sadness, depression and fear. When we see negative situations going on in our environment or are having our own personal struggles; It can feel like trying to tread water in the midst of a powerful storm. Those waves of negative emotions washing over us, and at times with such force as to really feel as if they are dragging us down.

We all go through these times in our lives and these episodes can seem to go on far too long, or repeat themselves over and over again. While we, in our pursuit to be peaceful and happy, try fighting our way out into the sunshine again. This can become a vicious cycle. As we come up against challenging aspects and go down the path of feeling tumultuous emotions over them and then on top of that we compound the issue by feeling guilty or angry over having the problems in the first place. All of this can leave us worn out on every level. Barely having enough strength to try sort out how to begin to find any answers or solutions.

Well..I am here to tell you that I have been there and I know how hard it can be when you are so caught up in negative emotions, that you feel stuck, frustrated and powerless to really do anything about it. Dragging your vibration down and causing actual physical pain. So here are a few gifts that spirit has given to me, that have made a tremendous difference in my life.

First – You must stop and think about the fact the everything is energy..even your thoughts and emotions. It is very important to realize how very powerful the energy is that is generated by your own thoughts and emotions for you. This energy is yours! You made it and it is YOURS TO COMMAND!! Once you think about it in this way and are able to put it into it’s true perspective, you realize that you are not helpless or a victim. This is a profound moment! When you experience this clarity and then are able to look at any situation knowing fully that you have the power to command your own energy. No one can take this from you! You are in control and if  you feel out of control, somewhere in some way you are giving your power away. So think about that for a moment…

Step two – Now that you have put things into perspective and have that wonderful feeling of hope, from regaining your personal power, you can move on to an amazing exercise. This exercise will allow you to ground and cleanse yourself of all the negative energy in your system; thus putting you solidly back on your own two feet, standing fully in your power. Here is how it goes… First sit comfortably and take some nice, full, deep breaths. Imagine with each breath that your body and mind is becoming more relaxed and ready for a healing experience. Then imagine, either from the bottoms of your feet or tail bone, that there is a root growing down into the Earth. That root keeps on traveling down deep, till it connects at the core of Mother Earth. You will have a nice, warm and nurtured sensation once there, and then with your intention, allow Mother Earth to pull all the negative energy down and out of your body. You will feel a pulling or draining sensation as this takes place and just allow yourself to flow with it, letting Mother take that energy, cleansing it for you and returning it back to a neutral state. Now that your energy is clean and perfectly balanced out, use your intention to allow it to come back up your root and flow beautifully back into your body. This is an amazing and wonderful feeling. You will feel instantly renewed as your vibration rises. As you feel this energy rising up inside of you, you are ready to branch out with it, connecting now upwards to Spirit. Allow these powerful energies to combine within you, filling you with pure, unlimited Source Energy.

Step three – Now that you are full of unlimited  source energy, you can focus this energy in any direction that you desire. It will also fill you with a sense of peace and serenity, knowing that you can always use this gift to help propel you towards your highest good. Remember that where your focus goes, your energy flows. So…focus on your blessings and you’ll be drawing more positive energy into your life!

I guarantee, that when you are feeling anxiety and pain; if you do this exercise, it will empower you, helping to bring you put of negative cycles. Do this exercise daily and reap all the benefits of this powerful Spiritual practice.

Always remember to give thanks to Mother Earth for her Love and support. Care for her as she has always cared for you!

Blessings to you!
Karen~

Mother Nature’s Love.

Do you want to feel rejuvenated? Would you like to raise your vibration and experience a profound feeling of inner peace? If you answered yes to any of these questions, here is an idea for you that will allow you to achieve those wonderful benefits listed above.

Pick a morning in the next few days to wake up early and watch the sunrise. Drink in all the colors and how the light grows and changes the sky, landscape and the feeling of nature waking up. Allow yourself to slow your pace and really take in the exquisite beauty and all the miraculous forms in the world of nature.

We can get so caught up in our daily details of life. Our jobs, cars, computers, friends, families; that we forget that we are connected and a part of the natural world. That world that seems sometimes to only exist outside our windows. We are a part of it and it is a part of us. It enriches our entire being through our senses. When we are tired or sad it lifts our spirits and replenishes our souls.

If you have fallen out of the practice of taking in the healing energy of nature, give yourself the gift of communing with our beautiful Earth. You will be amazed at the flow of loving energy and blessings you will receive.

Warm regards,
Karen~

Revealing Our True Selves.

Most everyone has masks that they wear or certain roles they play in their daily lives. When we are born, we all start out these wonderful authentic little beings. We function for years in our childhood being very pure in our true essence. Then slowly we are conditioned through our environment and society to alter or conform to what pleases others around us. Makings them more comfortable by mirroring their behavior.

Underneath all of that, our true selves still exist, whether we acknowledge this or not. Buried under learned behavior and sometimes fear.

When we allow ourselves to look within, we recognize our divinity, our true power. When we reach the core of our true essence, we then cannot help but live our lives with authenticity. That is when we are fulfilled, grateful, full of potential and grace.

There are many ways to liberate ourselves from the bonds that have compelled us to downplay our uniqueness. Meditation, prayer and communing with nature are all very powerful tools for self-realization and healing. Allow yourself to go within and embrace your true self. Let your light shine, free from the fear of perceived consequences. This is the path to true freedom, inner peace and greatest happiness.

Blessings to all,

Karen~