7 Ways to Renew Your Spirit!
Susan Apollon, author of Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two: Healing Stories of Love, Loss and Hope, offers a spring bouquet of healing choices!
Intuitive psychologist Susan Apollon says spiritual healing means learning how to focus on what makes you feel good or better. It’s all about choices—choosing to release the old “stuff” that attracts undesirable energetic consequences and to replace it with positive thoughts, images, and activities. When you clarify your intentions and make the following choices, you’ll create an internal positive energetic shift that leaves you feeling lighter, more peaceful, and more content.
Create Harmony and Balance through Breath Meditation. Choose to start each day by practicing the breath meditation technique for 15 minutes: Visualize your breath coming in from God or the Universe, merging with you (your body, thoughts, feelings), and filling you with healing energy. On your out breath, visualize your breath gently nudging out all your negative or painful thoughts or images. Do this for a few minutes while waiting for an appointment, in the car, in your office, or in school. Feel your breath shifting you energetically, leaving you feeling greater warmth, relaxation, and peace.
Become Conscious of Your Power through Journaling. Choose to journal for 15 minutes a day about situations, times, and incidents when you could feel and/or were aware at some level of your power and how great it felt. Then note your fears, insecurities, their roots, whether they make sense or are completely irrational, and how they have stolen your power. Finally, write of ways in which you can begin to reclaim your power (via actions, self-dialogue, affirmations, breath, meditation, taking courses, getting counseling assistance, etc.).
Affirm Your Power throughout the Day. Write affirmations and both visualize and feel the power within you as you daily make these high-vibrational statements to your cells: I Am worthy, I Am wise, I Am beautiful, I Am intelligent, I Am compassionate, I Am loving, I Am forgiving, I Am strong, I Am lovable, As I breathe in, I Am a part of God, I Am always protected and watched over, I Am that I Am. I Am, I Am, I Am! Write them on sticky notes and place them all around to remind you of your power, with I Am … everywhere.
Choose Forgiveness. Choose to consciously detach from and surrender to the Universe any attachments to old hurts, resentments, betrayals, and so on. Bring to mind the person or issue that creates pain for you, then Face it, Embrace it, Breathe it out, and Choose to say I forgive you or I surrender you to God, Source, or the Universe, because I choose to move on with my life. Remember to forgive another for you and not for him or her. “Visualize a cord between you and the person with whom you have issues and see yourself cutting the cord,” suggests Apollon. “Feel the relief. Visualize your power returning to you.”
Practice the Art of Visualization. Envisioning what you want is a tremendously powerful technique. Because we think visually, picturing what we want in our mind’s eye—good health, Divine protection for ourselves or our children, and so forth—helps us co-create that outcome. “When you create a mental image of, for example, angels holding up the airplane that your son is traveling on, it helps you feel a sense of confidence instead of a sense of worry and fear,” explains Apollon. “Obviously, you feel better. And when you feel better, you vibrate at a higher level, which attracts good things to you.”
Perform an Act of Compassion, Caring, Kindness, and Service Daily. Choose to Make a Difference. Choose any activity in which you do something for another person or group of people with authentic feelings of compassion and love. This needs to be more than signing a check. Do a physical deed that impacts on the quality of life of another person or being, whether it’s bringing dinner to one who is shut in or helping the elderly, blind, or others in need of assistance.
Choose to Be Inspired. Choose to read or listen to materials that inform, soothe, entertain, and connect you with your own soul. “It’s amazing how reading and listening to inspirational works can keep you on track with your spiritual practice,” reflects Apollon. “It’s good maintenance and it can yield all sorts of insights you’d never gain otherwise.”
To purchase Touched by the Extraordinary, or to learn more about Susan, visit her website, at www.touchedbytheextraordinary.com or www.healingstoriesoflovelossandhope.com.
