earthing

{Free Meditation} For Anxiety + Stress!

by Nicole's Blog

Have you ever felt anxious, groundless, scattered, mistrusting or fearful?  Do you have trouble with money?

Are you fearful that there is not enough?   Are you in a state of overwhelm?

How connected are you to your body?    Do you get stuck in your head and spin out? Is it hard to make decisions?

These are the qualities of a root chakra energy imbalance.  

This can be caused by things like:  
1) Disconnection with the Earth
2) Early core wounds in your childhood experience
3) Societal programming and trends around scarcity and lack
4) Fear of disease and illness

What can you do to balance your energy system and heal your root?

In  ancient wisdom teachings we understand that Nature is our reflection.

Thus, we learn about our human energy centers through the qualities of the master energies/frequencies of Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Ether/Space/Center (depending on the traditions) and we heal through connecting with them.

I am offering you a very simple practice today that can help bring you into connection to the Earth and recharge your energy body.

Qualities of the 1st Chakra:
Earth Element/Pachamama – Roots, Density, Physical
Relates to your physical body and our health
Imbalances relate to issues with mother, basic needs being met (root relationship, shelter, food, water, money)
Safety/Trust

How do these qualities relate to you?

The foundation of the trees are the roots.

The roots make the trees stable and provide firm footing and connection to the Earth.

When you are healthy in this center you feel grounded.  You feel safe and connected. You understand that your basic needs are being met at a foundational level (food, water, shelter). You don’t need to hoard.

The earth energy relates to your physical body, specifically your feet and legs.

The 1st chakra reflects your core relationship with the Mother (earth & human).

When your foundation is solid and anchored you can trust in life. When you trust, you understand that life is always giving to itself. Life is prosperous and abundant and revealing the highest potential of all things.  Even in the unexpected.

An imbalance in this chakra is fear, overwhelm, lack and scarcity.

When you feel, see and connect to the unconditionally loving presence that is the Earth who constantly offers herself without asking anything in return, you will begin to release your fear and anxiety.

You can start to feel supported and loved.  Here is a great practice to get connected!

Earthing + Grounding Meditation Practice (15 minutes).

1.  Download this FREE meditation on my dropbox HERE and put it on your headphones!

2.  Go outside with bare feet and stand on the earth (not the concrete) in Tadasana or Mountain Pose.

3. Charge your body with real vital energy – prana.

4. Stay there for 15 minutes and you will receive 350 volts of energy into your body.

This will take energy away from the mind, get you grounded in your body and give you life giving prana and energy for healthy habits!

If you want to go deeper, I take my clients through a highly customized 3 month 1:1 healing and coaching journey through each of their energy centers. With this knowledge you can re-balance all your energy centers for a better overall life balance.

You will do this through an extensive tool box of coaching, remote intuitive healings, somatic and embodiment journeying, meditations, affirmations, yoga, breathwork, sound healing, and tantra mirror connection work.

If you are interested in learning more about the “Unleash the Priestess” program, book a free call to find out more.

P.S. Join my free, private Facebook group #unleashthepriestess to connect with other women who are empowering each other to evolve and thrive by sharing their deep healing processes!

Infinite blessings on the path to awaken to the Divinity in all,

Nicole
Http://nicoledoherty.com

“Our power to manifest is equal to our power to generate our own evolution.”
– Claire Zammit

spiritual gifts

How can we be “earth-minded” holiday gifters?

by Nicole's Blog

For a while I’ve been grappling with the traditional holidays, mainly the amount of money we spend as a culture on material goods. I’m currently navigating how to celebrate the holidays and discussing with Lloyd what our traditions will be as a family, especially with our two year old son.

What do we want to teach Yeshua?

How do we want to be more earth-minded gift givers?

Do we want to continue giving our money to big corporate monopolies that are not helping the planet?

I would love to hear from my community about this and if this is something that you struggle with as well. The deeper I’ve gone into my Shamanic studies, the more I’ve been practicing rituals to the Earth and the Moon.  I’m understanding more of the role I play as a human within the cosmos. I’m realizing how much more important it is to be of service to the Earth. Thus, wanting to buy less things and in replacement, exchange more healing energy with people and the planet.

How can I be of better service vs a better consumer?

The other day I went to a store and realized that I was in the mad rush of holiday shopping. Lately, around the holidays I go into a state of overwhelm and feel like I want to hide. There is all this activity going around outside of me and inside I am screaming,”What are we doing to our planet?”. I look in these big stores and see so much crap that will just end up in the garbage.  I see so much plastic.  Even as I look around my own house, we made a pledge to only use wood toys and I don’t see more than a handful of them.

How can we change our holiday gift giving to have less negative impact on the earth and more positive impact on each other?

Here are a few suggestions that I’ve come up with today:

  • As a healer, I love gifting energetic exchanges that don’t impact the planet negatively and create landfill, but impact a person’s soul.  Gift a healing session to someone. Put your money into the hands of people who are really changing lives!  I know countless healers, breathers, yogis, intuits, and therapists that could offer so much love for less than $200!!! Even over Skype! Could it be any easier?  Let me know if you need recommendations.

  • My family and I decided moving forward to only send electronic gift cards to stores that we regularly use for purchases like food, music or books.

  • Another earth-giving gift idea is to create an experience that you could share with someone like a picnic on a hiking trail with a dinner at the end of the road at a nice place you love.

  • Gift educational experiences that will help someone process things in their life and help them heal like workshops or classes. There are thousands of extraordinary teachers out there that are offering brilliant teachings!  And websites like Sounds True and the Shift Network and countless others offering brave new information.

  • You could offer earth gifts like crystals, stones, incense, and items that are beautiful, meaningful, have healing qualities and are from the earth.

  • Donate to charity on behalf of someone.  Our teacher trainees did this for myself and Jocelyn as a teacher’s gift for our last yoga teacher training. It was so incredibly touching. With the fires that have recently happened my community has been able to offer this gift to our dear friends. {Link to fundraiser. Receive a tax deduction by donating to our 501c3 non-profit at: ElevateFoundation.org – Simply click the yellow DONATE button at the bottom of the page)

  • On that note, perhaps offer clothing and empty your closets of anything you haven’t worn in a 2 years. Someone else could use them.

  • Trade.  What service to you offer the world and what service do you want to receive?  Reach out and touch someone.

  • Volunteer for an earth project. Ecotopia, (Ojai Hot Springs) is always looking for people to clean the land.

In my humble opinion, I believe its time to re-evaluate what we are consuming.

Do we want to continue to put our money into the places that are causing so much grief to this planet and not to mention, perpetuating the lack story of “I don’t have enough money.”? How many times a day do you hear that ridiculous story.

It’s time to take our power back.

It’s time to create a barter system based on love and healing energy.

It’s time to cure the mind’s distractions.

It’s time to give our money to each other, the people that are changing lives.

It’s time to help the planet.

As my community, I’d love to hear from you.  What are some of your awesome ideas that don’t negatively impact the planet? What types of gifts are you giving this year?  I’d love to hear your creative stories 😉

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What would you do if you had permission?

by Nicole's Blog

What would you do if you had permission?

This is an interesting question that I find is coming up lately with my clients and my own personal work.

I have a client who is on her healing path and stuck in an old familial story of “I am different” or “weird”.  This story actually stems from way back in her lineage. Passed down from generations of people who came to the U.S. from overseas and looked different.

Even though she was born here, the need her parents had to ‘fit in’ continued as a pattern in the way she was parented.  She was told how to act, how to be, what she “should” do and how she “should” operate in this culture.

What’s interesting is that this exacerbated the Ego’s original story and created pressure to become an identity that is even more separate because its not authentic to her.

Now, she doesn’t even “know” who she is. (Her Higher Self does, or she wouldn’t be in my program.)

To me, this is awesome!  Truly, a beginner in life, as my intuitive healer James Stellar would say. To her, a bit scary.

In doing somatic body sensing meditations, Shamanic lineage deprogramming meditations and Shamanic Resourcing, we started to see a shift in her perspective.  Then I asked her, “What would you do if you had permission to do and be whomever you wanted?”.

That nearly shot her to the moon.

It was a revelation.  In that moment, she gave herself permission to be herself.

Recently, when I was on the phone with my life coach, I was having a lot of confusion around something in my business.  I had an intuitive hit that I needed something to shift, but I wasn’t taking action.  After a quick brainstorm with her, I received permission to make the shift.

Sometimes in life we just need to give ourselves permission. That simple word, can create a massive shift.

We get very caught up in comparison, contrast, perfection or the ‘shoulds’ that we are given.  We forget, or we weren’t taught, that we can actually change our perspective.  Permission overrides the Ego and helps us to drop in and trust ourselves.

Having the reflection of trusted mentors, coaches, teachers and community groups are wonderful for this reason.  When we can see ourselves in others and hear our desires reflected back to us through relationship, we actually see and understand things differently. It widens our perceptions.

If you need to navigate how to give yourself permission or learn other empowerment tools — sign up for your FREE Shamanic Priestess discovery call. In an hour, we can find out what support you need on your healing journey. Click Here

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Do you really love yourself?

by Nicole's Blog

What’s wrong with me?

Not a question most people like answering.

It’s really uncomfortable and very telling.  I have my clients answer this question for themselves when we start working together.

One of my favorite authors and healers, Louise Hay, offers the Mirror exercise to her clients.  She will ask the client to pick up a mirror, look into their own eyes, say their name, and then repeat “I love and accept you exactly as you are.”

I’ve done this with clients and this can be extremely difficult. Some people cry, some nervously laugh, and some get angry.

When I first did this exercise a long time ago, I balled my eyes out.  Honestly, I couldn’t say it. I was so angry at myself. I had recognized how far away I had gotten in the practice of loving myself and how all my behaviors, relationships and systems in my life were falling apart as a result.

My story of “I’m not good enough” was staring me in the face.

In my last blog I talked about self-love and self-care.

Do you really love yourself?

As a culture, I believe we are staring to do a lot more in terms of self-love and awareness with the rise of meditation and yoga in the West.

Yet I find “what’s wrong with me?” is still very prevalent in the way we dialogue using phrases like “should”, “have to”, “I can’t”, and “I don’t believe”.  Or “I’m too this”, “I’m too that.”  This are very disempowering and controlling ways to speak.

These phrases are limiting beliefs versus empowered beliefs.  These phrases are an extension of the old stories of judgement and criticism and are socially programmed.

I have a chart that I offer at workshops that I found online from a woman named
Barbara M Moreau. In essence it says this:

What you think is energy.
What you speak is vibration.
Energy +  vibration = matter

What you think + what you speak = your reality

I have this on my refrigerator as a reminder to watch my thoughts and words. As I’ve worked on this over the years, I have completely seen my reality shift. I am living the life that I want. I love my work. I’m living my purpose. And I can now say that I love myself in the mirror.

 
In what ways do you think and speak about yourself that are limiting? How do you plan to change this behavior? If you need support, I’m here to help — sign up for your FREE Shamanic Priestess call. We can find out how you are limiting yourself and get you on a healing journey. Click Here
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Do you deny yourself love?

by Nicole's Blog

Do you deny yourself love?
 
I always ask my clients what their self-care practices are.
 
Often I get a nervous laugh. And then a ton of excuses.
 
Why do we deny ourselves love?
 
Recently, I had to look at some of the ways that I deny myself love.
 
I criticize myself. Sometimes I’m afraid to charge a decent price for my services. I don’t schedule myself a lunch. I procrastinate about things. I opt out of yoga because I let client sessions run over.
 
These are the ways I take myself out of self-love. How about you?
 
When I recently talked to a client of mine about love, she said, “I never wanted to love myself because I was told it was arrogant.”
 
Arrogance is not love. It’s fear – imposing your ideas of superiority because you have to prove your worth. Love is knowing everyone is equal under the eyes of God.
 
What I’ve learned from the Shamanic indigenous ways and Yoga, is that everything is connected and it’s imperative that we respect all, including the Earth. In loving and having incredible respect for all of God’s creations, we must love this body-mind system to its fullest.
Love is appreciation, value and self-worth.  Love is what you are offering the world in service to the whole of humanity, the Earth and ultimately the Universe.

How could your life be different if you really loved all of you?
Can you imagine into what it would be like if that’s the way we all lived?
 
The more I value and love myself, the happier I am. I don’t need to do anything to prove myself, I have so much less pressure to perform, I feel in flow with life, the less I need, and I can offer so much more to the world.
 
If you want to learn more about self-care, self-love practices — sign up for your FREE Shamanic Priestess session. We can talk about ways you can love yourself more.  Ping me.
 
P.S. Join my free, private Facebook group Shamanic Healing Arts Academy #ShamanicPriestess to connect with other women who are empowering each other to evolve and thrive by sharing their deep healing processes!

Infinite blessings on the path to awaken to the Divinity in all,
Nicole

Http://nicoledoherty.com
“Our power to manifest is equal to our power to generate our own evolution.”
– Claire Zammit