Today I want to share directions for the Color Breathing Exercise featured in Nevill Drury’s book Creative Visualization. To practice this exercise choose the color healing you want to work with from the Healing Colors provided below.
1. Next visualize the color you have selected and continue until it is clear in your inner vision.
2. Imagine your entire body being bathed in this healing color, maintaining a pattern of breathing deeply, while visualizing the color drawn into your heart center with each inward breath.
3. Visualize the healing color spreading throughout your body and to the areas requiring more healing.
Healing Colors
Red Stimulant, increases temperature, heartbeat and circulation, use for colds, anemia, sciatica, rheumatoid arthritis.
Orange Stimulant, activates respiratory system, energizes thyroid gland; use for coughs, colds, cramps, or muscle spasms.
Yellow Stimulant, stimulates the mind, relieves lethargy, acts as a tonic; use to decrease mental sluggishness and revitalize the system as a whole.
Green Relaxant, relieves insomnia and irritability, calms nerves; use to relieve exhaustion and inflamed conditions.
Blue Relaxant, relieves inflammation, lowers blood pressure; use for burns, itching, and pain of any kind.
Indigo Relaxant, intuitive color, sedative and pain-relieving qualities; use for treating infections of the eye, ear, and nose.
Violet Relaxant, spiritual color, sedates the mind and nervous system, use to lower the heart rate and to induce sleep.
Benefits: Pericadium 6 calms the mind and relieves anxiety. It is a popular acupressure point for reducing insomnia. You might want to try it the next time you’re lying awake. This point is also used to help relieve nausea, motion sickness, and headaches.
Location: Between the tendons on the inside of the arm, three finger widths above the wrist crease closest to the palm.
Technique: Apply acupressure using the tip of your thumb, angled downward toward the middle finger, at the same time support your wrist and lower arm with the fingers of the same hand. Move the thumb with a tiny circular pulsing motion, for two to three minutes. Repeat for the other arm.
Dreams, noun – a visionary creation of the imagination.“Hold fast to dreams, for it dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
~ Langston Hughes
“The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
My dreams can open hidden doors leading to
healing and wholeness.
We already know how the trees and plants become revitalized from a lovely rain shower. Melissa Alvaraez writes in her book 365 Ways to Raise Your Frequency, how getting caught in a rain shower can be fun, cleansing, invigorating, and raise one’s energy.
When was the last time you walked or played in the Rain? Maybe it time to return to your youth. Find an opportunity to play in the rain. Raise your hands up in the air, face the sky, spin, or dance, and bathe in the rain. Feel the energy from the rain shower, the grounding energy from the earth and playful energy from the exercise.
Maybe what is more healing for you is to be lulled by the sound followed by the unique fresh, clean fragrance after the rain. We can choose how to connect with rain to bring our energy up or to calm us down.
Create a strong energy connection to the earth and realign the body’s energies by using eight pieces of Black Tourmaline for an energy alignment layout. This energy net help tensions in bones and muscles relax and physical balance improve. This connection to the earth is a prerequisite for effective grounding and protective support. Energy net is also useful after travel because it can reduce effects of jetlag.
ENERGY EARTH NET EXERCISE:
1. Use a green cloth to lie on (white sheet for second choice). It is best to have the layout where your head will be to the north.
2. The eight Black Tourmalines will be aligned to the same imaginary point in the center of the body. Put four tourmalines pointing inwards in a cross – one above the head aligned with one between the feet. The other two on each side outside of arms midway down the body.
3. Place the remaining four tourmalines as shown on the layout in the above picture so all are aligned and cross at the same point in the center of the body.
4. Lie down and rest inside this cross-shaped energy pattern. Remain in the energy net for five to ten minutes, then when you have removed the Black Tourmalines, spend at least 15 minutes resting before returning to normal activity.
Joy™ Therapeutic Essential Oil is a luxuriously exotic blend with uplifting overtones that creates magnetic energy and brings joy to the heart, mind, and soul. When worn as cologne or perfume, Joy exudes an alluring and irresistible fragrance that inspires romance and togetherness. It helps overcome deep seated grief and depression. When diffused, it can be refreshing and uplifting.
The following how to use Joy™ by Young Living Essential Oils:
Directions: Topical: Apply 2-4 drops directly to desired area. Dilution not required, except for the most sensitive skin (1 part EO to 1 part vegetable oil.) Apply over heart, thymus, temples, and wrists.
Aromatic: Diffuse up to 1 hour three times daily or add 2-4 drops to bath water.
Caution: Keep out of reach of children. If pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or have a medical condition, consult a healthcare practitioner prior to use. Avoid direct sunlight or UV rays for up to 24 hours after applying product.
Storage: Keep in a cool dark place.
Courage: The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty, danger, and pain. At times we need courage to accept the truth, and pick ourselves up after a mistake, ready to make amends and try again.
“Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one’s courage.”
~ Anais nin, author 1903-1977
COURAGE AFFIRMATIONS:
I reach beyond my comfort zone, not by becoming fearless, but through the practice of courage.
I am thankful for the gift of courage. It allows me to spread my wings.
I have courage to do the right thing.
I have courage. I listen to my heart.
Sometimes it takes a unique and off-the-wall exercise to help release deeply seated emotional blockages. Alla Svirinskaya in her book Energy Secrets The Ultimate Well-Being Plan, shares the Balloon Exercise to let go of the past. She claims this exercise will help get rid of old matter which helps bring balance. You will need a pack of balloons any size or color and a needle before starting Balloon Exercise below:
3. Take balloon in one hand and the needle in the other. Close your eyes, breathe, and imagine a situation that has burdened you. When your emotional response becomes almost overwhelming, pop the balloon!
4. It is important not to premeditate when to pop the balloon. Let it happen almost spontaneously. If you can manage this, you will have a very powerful reaction. The sudden sound will free up the energy and push the blockage out of the aura. Keep the pack of balloons handy for more emotional release surgery!
On a previous Tuesday’s Healing Word post we looked at forgiveness. Learning to let go and to forgive is to break the bonds with your past and go forward to your future. The secret of forgiving someone is not for them - it is for you! Listed below are several helpful affirmation exercises followed by examples of Forgiveness Affirmations. Remember affirmations are the same as doing any type of repetitive exercise to change or learn a new behavior. I invite you to choose one of the Affirmation Exercises to practice FORGIVENESS!
FORGIVENESS AFFIRMATION EXERCISES
1. Select and recite a forgiveness affirmation in the morning, at midday, in the evening.
2. Write or say a forgiveness affirmation at least 40 times daily 40 days. It takes 40 days to impress upon the unconscious “reacting” mind all that you desire and dream. It then becomes automatic behavior in the conscious “acting” mind. (Helpful Hint – put 40 beads or beans in a cup and take out a bean when you say each affirmation. You will not have to focus on counting your affirmations.)
EXAMPLES OF FORGIVENESS AFFIRMATIONS
I let go and forgive those that have harmed me. I AM free!
I forgive my family and embrace them with Love and compassion.
I forgive everybody and everybody forgives me. I now go forward to live my life.
I am forgiving, loving, gentle and kind and am safe in the knowledge that life loves me.
Forgiveness brings me emotional and mental freedom.
I feel empowered when I forgive myself and others.
I release the past.
