Exercise in Mindfulness - Dimensions in Stillness and Subtlety

For those of you who have gotten your arses kicked and dragged up and down Life’s thoroughfares (probably all of you, to one degree or another), the following post is Higher Self’s response to questions about learning how to deal with the mind that gets so caught up in distractions and habits of fears and [...]

Overcoming the Restless Mind - Slowing Down the Breath and Heart

If ever you find the mind jumping around restlessly, or dwelling painfully on past events, it’s very simple to just take a deep breath, relax and stop the movements of both body and eyes. When the eyes are perfectly still, the body and mind naturally tend to calm down and come to a point of [...]

Turtle Medicine - Ancient Memories

Turtle Medicine transports us between dimensions, from waking to dreamtime awareness and back. It helps us to slow down our thoughts and the very frequency that keeps the earth drama in play. As you close your eyes and visualize Turtle Medicine, it is so easy to see the form of Turtle as the Earth Mother, [...]

Expanding Consciousness - Using Rhythm and Sound to Entrain the Mind (Part II)

There is power in focused repetition. Can this also be used for expanding consciousness? In learning any new skill, practice and repetition will make the most difficult actions seem natural and second nature. Some of the techniques that you learned in playing the bass guitar at one point seemed beyond your capacity to master, and [...]

Turtle Energy - Ancient Origins

Had dreams about turtles. Dear Higher Self, what is the significance of these dream? They were trying to bite me!
Turtle energy is deeply connected with ancient Earth energies and is “biting” to get your attention. Consider what Turtle energy represents: ancient and long-lived, Turtle represents wisdom of ancient origin. The hard shell of Turtle houses [...]

Higher Self - How to See the Giants

Dear Higher Self, please tell me more about the Giants.
Just start writing. Don’t wait for the right thoughts to come, or think that you need to be in the proper writing mood. Get the energy moving and then get out of the way! As you drop to your center and allow the writing to happen, [...]

Creative Inspiration - Accessing the Dream State

As you learn to keep your attention centered more and more in the moment, greater access to conscious dream states will occur. Observe the symbols and subtle thoughts and feelings that occur as you drift off. You will then find it easier to remain aware of your dreams and will be able to communicate [...]

Creativity - Observing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

Observe the patterns that emerge from your drawings and even your doodlings. Fall to your center. Listen to the overtones and harmonics that emerge from music and even the cacophony of noises around you. It is all a swirling mass of energies that can be shaped and reshaped into forms and matrices that can then [...]

Accessing Higher Creativity

Can you feel all the energies in your environment? They swirl and play and create resonance that can be felt as a particular state of consciousness. Can you feel the subtlety of thoughts, especially the ones on the farthest periphery of your consciousness? Watch the breath. Observe the levels of awareness that are connected to [...]