Fingers to Chest Method

Themes:

• your present is the sum total of your past 
• cleansing, lightening, let go
• honoring and loving self as a way to love others

Now is a good time to fully understand that your current life (i.e. your character, health, energy levels, career, habits, etc.), is the sum total of all of your past experiences. This means that your past experiences, no matter how wonderful or challenging, are the cause behind your decision-making, stress levels, how you view yourself and what you feel you deserve.

You’re getting this reminder today so that you can make decisions in your life, moving forward, to lessen the burden you carry from decisions you made in the past and/or the impact challenging aspects of your past have had on you. One of the greatest powers a human has is to become self aware and present to the current reality of one’s life. Another way to look at this is the power a person has to spiritually evolve one’s spiritual heart. Whether you know it or not life’s been working to wake you up for a while now and you’ve reached a point in which you can start to incorporate, a more detailed and consistent, self awareness spiritual practice. Now’s the time to create a consistent spiritual practice (or make adjustments and additions to the one you have now), that will lovingly lead you to greater levels of heart-led fulfillment as well as improve your ability to impact the world in the way you came here to do.

Rather than hiding or avoiding the inner fears, guilt, shame and grief, how about learning to lovingly approach and hold these parts of you with compassion and understanding. These, along with the rest of your amazing self, are the things who make you who you are. Learning to integrate (i.e. learn to squeeze all there is to learn out of them-with love haha!), all inner parts of us allows us to move forward with a lighter and more comfortable sense of self. From here, life begins to make a little more sense and our next steps show themselves with a little more ease. You fully deserve this healing integration. Through inner growth you increase your ability to impact the world around you. Go for it!

Remedies:

• Heart Based Meditation (see free course offering below)-other options would be to look online for free guided meditations or download a meditation app. The key is consistency.
• Heart “Presence” Centering: (also offered as part of the free course)-In the meantime try the Fingers to Chest method taught by RJ Spina. 5 times a day stop, sit and close your eyes. Take a breath or two. Place your finders on your heart center. Start by feeling the warmth and light pressure of your fingers on your chest. Then, imagine the energy of your loving heart begin to wrap outward and around your fingers and hand. Notice the subtle movement of the energies. While anchored in what you’re feeling, slowly open your eyes and look around. Say to yourself, “I am here now. I am.”
• Journaling: There are many books and websites that could get you started on a daily journal practice. A simple option is to just take a breath and write what’s on your mind.
• Therapy, Counseling or a Spiritual Retreat-Looking for a deeper dive into your inner parts and pieces? Interested in developing your own, personalized daily retreat? Contact me for counseling sessions and we’ll work together to create the perfect plan for you.
• Men’s work-for men look into the Mankind Project or Sacred Sons. If you live in the Traverse City, MI area contact me to join a local group. There are more and more women’s groups popping up as well. In fact, I know of three in Traverse City, Michigan.
• Physical body (diet, exercise)-take on a week long cleanse or make a few simple adjustments to your diet. If you want to dive in deeper through an Ayurvedic Perspective, contact me for a counseling session.
• Clean up home, office, car-freshen up, let go of the past