Journey to Creating Harmony

Within

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Journey to Creating Harmony Within

Heather McCabe

Copyright: © 2015 Heather McCabe

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ISBN: 978-3-7375-7141-8

The Flame

In the flame I see light, I feel warmth, I know peace

The flame moves yet I sense stillness

The flame reaches, waves and rests, its alive

Yet in one breath it can be gone

As is life

Too much fuel in life the flame becomes a danger

Too little and it can be lost

Nurtured cared for, it will stay true to life

The flames soothes, calms and is a welcome sight

More so in the darkest of places

Yet still reassuring on a bright day

See this flame as your soul

Recognise it for what it is

…..you

Keep connected with your flame

Nurture it and all will be as it should be.

By Cathy Ferguson

This beautiful poem was written by my lovely friend Cathy. It truly captures the essence of our being, of our soul. Life is all about balance, the dark and the light the yin and the yang, the love and fight for our flame, that’s in our heart. <3<3<3

Earth Star Chakra

This chakra is not based on the body, it's about 6-8 inch below the feet. This chakra is an extension of the root chakra expanding your energies deep into Mother Earth, giving you connection and grounding, which I'll explain a little more in the root chakra.

My intent with this book, is to give you an insight into your own healing system within you and all the tools that you already have, that are just buried inside you. To awaken the spirit and soul and to help you enhance your life, as it has done mine.

The inspiration to divide the chapters by chakra was to allow you to work on yourself from the base up. The Angels were very clear on the delivery of this book. Each chakra chapter gives you an insight into the chakra, a little about me and a meditation.

I wanted to share that you don't have to be a guru or have special gifts. It's all inside you waiting to be tapped into.

I'm just an ordinary person with an ordinary life, just like you. I have a family of two teenage boys and I have my own complementary healthcare clinic where I offer a range of therapies.

In discovering more about me, healing and intuition, I've been able to help many people that come to the clinic and friends.

The question you need to ask is, how much time are you prepared to invest in yourself?

I've been investing time in me for around 10 years now and I still continue to grow - it's a never ending cycle of growth.

It becomes away of life, meditating, just being and letting things go, although somethings take longer to let go of than others and that's just being human.

I had always wanted to be a medium and I was truly under the impression that you actually have a conversation with spirit or angels and that you relayed what you've been told, which is not what happens as you will discover. However, I realised I had already been communicating with spirit, Angels and the universe and now my communications grow and so can yours. My journey revealed so much more than I anticipated.

What I realised is that our learning is individual, there is no set way to do something, apart from what works for you. Courses, workshops, reading are all ways to give you ideas in expanding your awareness and tools.

We are all on a journey, it's up to us how easy we want to make it. What lessons we need to learn or want to keep repeating.

I've discovered so much about me and really being the ‘me’ that I want to be. I understand how to have the universe work with me and not against me. It's when I get off track that I realise how much spirituality and the law of creation is a part of me and a part of this world.

I see life very differently now. I'm much more relaxed about life and understand when things are not to be, at that time. The world looks so different when you see things from another perspective and how much we can influence change around the globe starting with yourself. We don't realise the impact our energies have.

I wrote this book from my heart and with love with my only intent that it would spark something inside you and to see life through new eyes, the eyes of the heart.

My angels guided me along the way writing this book, which a big thanks goes to them for their input and their wisdom. Some parts I had to learn and experience before I wrote about them, which made me appreciate so much more about what I've shared with you in this book.

I was a big skeptic in all the spiritual side of life, thinking it was a lot of nonsense, little did I know that it was going to be a huge part of my life. I was worried and stressed all the time, frazzled trying to juggle life. Now I don't. I'm more laid back, stress free and think what will be will be.

I had my first reading when I was 21 and the information I was given was phenomenal. Accuracy of dates and times, how people passed over, descriptions of things blew my mind. At that reading, she told me how my life would change when I was 27/28 and boy was she right. Since that experience, that's when my curiosity grew and brought me to where I am today.

I had other readings from other people but I never got much from them not like my first reading, which has stuck with me due to the accuracy and detail.

As I mention throughout this book, please take from it what resonates within you. We are all different and what works for some might not for others. I've used what I did, what I felt worked for me and things I've tried but maybe didn't work for me. Keep your mind open to possibilities.

As you journey, you will come across more and more like-minded people that resonate with you. Friends will come and friends will go, such is life. When we understand the bigger picture we let go of fear and of judgement, we let go and we experience a peace that's so deep within us.

I've learned so much about love and self-love, we really under estimate it and its power and how we use it.

I hope you get some inspiration from this book and that it will encourage positive changes in your life.

Root Chakra

For those of you who are new to the chakra system, the root chakra is the first chakra of the major seven chakras. Chakras are energy points that run up the centre of our bodies helping to keep us grounded and balanced. When these are out of balance, illnesses and unexplained emotions can occur.

This book is written about my spiritual journey relating to the chakra points. The root is associated to the beginning, the foundations, grounded-ness, survival instincts, vitality and strength and connection to the earth. The root chakra is based at the very bottom of your spine.

So with this in mind, it seemed a good place to start. So we begin.

Like everything in life, there needs to be good foundations. Once you start on a spiritual and holistic journey, a good place to start is with balancing the chakras and balancing your energy. By doing so, you are giving yourself a good foundation to work from.

When you begin to open up to spirit, it’s always a good idea to start the day by grounding yourself. By grounding yourself, you set yourself up for the day feeling calm and centred. This is a simple exercise to do in the morning time. Closing your eyes, taking three deep breaths right down to your abdomen and visualising roots coming out of your feet, down into the soil into mother earth, giving you a solid connection and strength is a good foundation to start the day. When you are not grounded, you may find that you have a spaced out kind of feeling and daydream a lot, which is ok to be in sometimes however if you are in this state too often, it’s hard to differentiate between spirit and the ego.

Protection is the other visualisation to when you are grounding. The best way to do this is to imagine Archangel Michael’s wings embracing you and to ask in your mind for Michael to protect you throughout the day and to keep you safe and protected in his wings. Archangel Michael is the protector and defends people. Michael means “who is like god”. Some people like to imagine a blue light around them too.

These visualisations are to fix the intent of grounding and protecting - it’s the fixing of the intent that’s the most important. Intent is powerful and one of the spiritual laws.

When we balance the chakra energy it helps to provide clarity and in doing so, it allows the spiritual work and inner healing to begin. Having the chakras in balance is important but does not mean that they are cleared at this time as it can take a period of time to bring back the full harmony especially if emotions have built up over a period of time.

It is now putting this together that has made me realise how far I have come on my journey and what has been interesting is the synchronicities that are occurring, reminding me of my progress in teaching what I have learned and the importance of having good foundations - precisely what the root chakra is about.

My Journey Begins

How many of us really love ourselves, not in the egotistic way, but loving towards ourselves and grateful for the bodies we have. Honestly… not many of us, that’s for sure and I was one of those people.

Once I opened up my heart and began to love myself for me a little more, the more I attracted love to me. Loving people was easy for me as I don’t judge people and see the beauty in all. My learning was to begin to accept love and not push it away as I had done with family and friends, opening up spiritually is how I was able to do this.

Divorce is where my journey truly began. Oddly, divorce is what saved me and led me on a magical path of discovery, discovery of true love, discovery of spirit and the angels, discovery of the true me.

Looking back, I realise I already had a link to spiritual realms and the angels. My first memory being when my father passed away when I was sixteen years old. The week before my father died, my granny visited me (my dad’s mum). She had died some 12 years previous but I could smell the sweet scent of roses and I heard her voice tell me not to worrying that everything will be alright.  I remember feeling confused and thinking what exactly did she mean ‘Everything would be alright’? Did I just imagine what just happened?! I forgot about the incident and never mentioned it to anyone for fear of being ridiculed.

Then the following week on February 16th 1996 at 03.15am, my father collapsed in the bathroom. He had suffered a massive heart attack and passed away. It was strange as I was very much aware of the energy in the house and I knew that he was no longer there - his essence and spirit had gone. The best way to describe it is when you come home from work and the house is empty. You can still feel the essence and spirit of those that live there - they don’t need to physically be there to know they are safe and alive.

I could no longer feel the presence of my father and I knew he had passed away before we were officially told. The hardest part was getting used to the strange feeling he was no longer alive.

A month later I was in my room listening to music, - Robert Myles “Children” to be precise and clear as day, I could hear my father’s voice talk through the music. I remember him saying that he was ok and was at peace. I don’t remember what else he said as the shock of what had happened began to sink in. Thinking back, he was probably telling me to turn my music down!  I tried to reset the music to the start of the track to see if it was on the music or if I really had heard my father’s voice. Needless to say, I never heard the message again when I played it back.

I don’t remember feeling fearful of what happened. I felt privileged that I was able to connect but shocked that it had actually happened to me. I wished too hard for it to happen again and it didn’t until some years later.

As painful as my divorce was, I had the voice of my granny telling me everything would be alright again, which resonated with me as I knew in my heart it was the right thing to do. I later realised that the pain I had experienced wasn’t for the loss of my husband (the then love of my life), but pain from the fear of change. For once, I had no control over my situation or destiny and this was the beginning of my learning to trust in the angels and the divine.

I kept hearing in my head ‘This is for the best, the best is yet to come’. At that time, I couldn’t see it. “Who would want me now?” kept playing over in my mind and it was a battle of the ego and the heart.

As the months rolled on, I slowly began to embrace the changes. My home had changed as well as my direction in life. I began to study Complementary Therapies at college, something I had always had an interest in and curiosity of. From the moment I began my studies, I knew I had finally found my life’s purpose and it opened up a whole new journey for me, one I quite hadn’t planned for.

Studying a full time course, working part time and looking after two children and a home was a tall order but somehow I managed it, along with the loving support of my mother.

As I have sat here and written about what I accomplished, it amazes me how I ever managed it. It’s reflecting now that I realised I had the help and support of the angels guiding me through and I am so glad that they did. They wanted to push me on as I have a lot to offer and also help people, which, I now achieve through my Complementary Healthcare Practice.

One thing I wasn’t prepared for when I began my journey in holistic therapies and healing, was looking at myself!! In order to help others, I needed to help myself. In doing so, I hadn’t realised how disconnected from life I was.

Up until then, life was just going through the motions but not actually feeling the Emotions! But once the power was restored to me, I began to experience true emotion and a connection to myself - I began to see my true self-worth.

Modalities like massage, reflexology and Indian head massage were good places to start and looked at the physical aspects of me and helped to bring my body and energy back into a kind of balance. They helped to reduce my stress levels, even though I hadn’t felt stressed and I began to realise that I had been pushing my emotions down, rather than facing them and dealing with them, hence the disconnection.

I then began the reiki healing training and what a life changing event that was. I remember being told reiki finds you, you don't find it. I had previously been told by a lecturer at college that I should do reiki but at that point, I had no interest in it and I thought it was spooky stuff and a bit weird. However after reading an article at university a year later about a nurse that had used reiki during palliative care, it struck a chord deep inside me that I had to go and learn how to do it and then everything fell into place.  A woman at university knew a reiki master who was willing to teach us and took us all through reiki training, up to master level. I recall my teacher saying ‘Remember things will change and things will happen that will surprise you, but in time it will become confirmation’.

That very night on my way home, I heard a voice clear as day in my head telling me to come off the motorway a junction early. I remember having an argument in my head, wondering where the thought had come from and why I had followed the instruction. As I proceeded to come off the motorway a junction early, on the approach to the roundabout the news on the radio came on - the junction that I would have taken had been closed due to an overturned articulated lorry and I would have had a long diversion! The angels had definitely guided me that night and from then on, my curiosity grew I wanted to know more about the angels and spirituality.

So what is Spirituality?

At the start of my journey, I would have answered something along the lines as follows:

Spirituality is about connecting with beings that have passed, angels and being offered guidance in daily life by tuning into the unique energies of a higher vibration.

We are a soul and our spirit is the energy that surrounds us and nourishes our soul. It is the god’s energy within us that is made up of many layers.

But I realised, Spirituality does not have a definitive answer as everyone is different and has a unique journey to follow.

That was then - now spirituality means so much more. Spirituality is you, the unique individuals that we all are. Being spiritual is becoming aware of you, away from the ego of the brain, working from the heart, connecting with our higher self and being completely in the now, where the past can no longer hurt us and the future is full of wonder and delight. There is no fear, only love. By being in the present moment, we instantly vibrate at a higher level and we are able to connect freely with the angels with clarity, as they are drawn to our love. Even when we begin the process of opening up, the angels know the love is there and waiting to come out in bloom to its fullest potential. By awakening the spirit within, you open up to accepting love in an unconditional capacity, love of everyone and most of all love of yourself. Every cell that creates the uniqueness that is you, with the love comes peace, joy and happiness - true happiness. True happiness comes from a state of being within, not from material possessions or the love of another.

In essence, spirituality is about unconditional love, where judgements and fear have no place to dominate our existence.

We become spiritual when we have found our true self, acceptance and bathe in the love of ourselves.

Take some time and ask yourself these questions, be completely honest with you answers as these are for you to evaluate where you are now on your life journey.

What does spirituality mean to you?
Do I have fears?
Do I recognise when to leave my fears behind?
What does love mean?
What is real love?
Have I experienced real love?
Do I judge people?
Do I hear voices in my head?
Do I follow my gut instinct?
How often has your gut instinct been correct?

So what are Angels?

Angels are heavenly beings that link our world with the spirit world. They work on the 5th plane of existence, the place of love and fear, good and bad, the plane that has high vibrational beings, gods and goddesses, angels, guardian angels, arch angels and our higher consciousness. We humans exist on the 3rd plane, a plane of illusion that creates reality.

Once you open up to working with the angels and your higher self, the messages that you get that you previously hadn’t noticed are remarkable. How often has a white feather fallen at your feet or landed beside you? Have you never wondered why it’s only white feathers!

Most birds that fly around my home or place of work are starlings, sparrows, magpies or crows (not many birds with white feathers) and why do they turn up in unexpected places and at times where you are looking for comfort and reassurance. I believe they are angels, letting us know they are there and can hear us.

There is a roundabout that I have to pass through on my way to and from work. Most times when I am at the roundabout, a white feather falls in front of the car but there are no birds flying about above for it to have fallen. It always makes me smile and feel grateful for all that I have in my life.

Angels are around us all the time and give us subtle messages like the feathers or music (when you turn the radio on at a specific song). These are just some of the ways they get your attention.

Anybody can work with the angels as they are only a thought away. Anytime you need help or encouragement, comfort or joy, then just ask them for some help. When you open up and accept the angels, it really is amazing what they can show you when you pay attention.

Ask the Angels simply by saying, Angels please help me with…………………………, thank you or Angels please guide me to…………………………………. Thank you

A friend that was new to working and communicating with the angels had a magical moment when her daughters came in from being outside playing and found a rose pink heart shaped quartz crystal, out in the cul-de-sac near a field where very few people walk. The girls gave her the crystal and this was confirmation to her the angels had provided the answer to what she was looking for at that time. This strengthened her belief in the angels. She also shared her knowledge of the angels with her children and one of her daughters asked her if she could talk to them too, “Of course” she said, “Just ask Archangel Michael to come and look after you”. As her daughter did so, she started to laugh and giggle as she could feel him tickle her ears, how amazing.

The angels are quite humorous too! Sometimes in our wee group, we can be in fits of laughter for no apparent reason! At the beginning of one meditation in particular, I remember bursting into fits of laughter. This had a knock on effect and all of us started to laugh - mainly laughing at me with my outburst - but it was good and it lightened the mood and reminded us all that we don’t need to be serious all the time.

Beliefs are something that will crop up and this is something you need to ask yourself, ‘What do I believe in?’ You do not have to belong to a religious group to enable you to have beliefs, whether it be god, Buddha, Shiva, Allah, angels, the universe, the divine or whatever.

What I discovered is that god is not a person or being, but the god from within, the god that is you, god is love. Finding that god within allows for you to have beliefs of your own and most importantly the strength and the courage to believe in yourself! When you believe in yourself, miracles will happen.

God for me is source of energy, the deep love that's inside us all.

As I connected with my god within, I had the help of the angels guiding me, people, items and situations came into my life at the right time to help teach me and show me what I needed to know. These were not mere coincidences, these were orchestrated from the divine, teaching me to trust and believe.

Initially I struggled with believing in the angels as I felt silly and I would argue with myself. At our wee circle, I used to struggle with the meditations at first, it was because I thought I was getting something until I realised it was my ego wanting it to be which gave me the sense of being stupid, but as the weeks went on, I could not deny the fact that I was feeling energy and beings around me.  Archangel Michael was one angel I felt. For me, he appears as a blue light with a strong sense of strength and protection. When my father is around me I get a smell of tobacco smoke and I can feel the energy of him of what he was like when he was alive. Also when he is around I see butterflies. When I moved home, I had a butterfly appear in the kitchen and then at the new house a butterfly appeared again. Two in the one day is quiet something as you don’t see many of them about. Also, one of my spirit guides has a distinct smell of turmeric!

Now as my senses have grew I can see Archangel Michael as a flash of light particularly around someone who is needing to call upon him for strength and protection, or sometimes just to let me know he is there. After doing a meditation with my eldest son and we were talking about what he saw, he spoke of someone blue in colour and the name Michael. I knew instantly he was referring to Archangel Michael but I knew I had not mentioned him to my son. As I was telling my son about it being the Archangel Michael, a blue flash appeared at his head and he got a shiver run down his back. That was Michael letting him know it was definitely him.

What I have discovered is that there is no right way or wrong way to develop your senses. Everyone is unique. Some people see, some people sense, some people hear, some people smell, some people just have a knowing, some people get a mixture and that’s ok. We were all born with the senses but lose them along the way as conditioning and social acceptability commence. Up until the age of around seven, our brains operate in the theta brain wave which is much slower and allows us to access much of subconscious mind, then it changes to the beta brainwave which is much faster and more of our conscious mind. This is another reason why much of what happens in our childhood can impact us in our adult life.

Finding a group of liked minded people is always a good idea. That way you can grow and learn from each other, even the teacher is always learning. With spirituality there is no end to the potential of growth. Once you learn so far you go back to the beginning again and you start over. This time you will be learning on a deeper level, then go back and keep going back and the depth to your knowledge will keep growing.

What is remarkable is when you are in a group like our wee spiritual group, when you meditate together and you link in with each other and you get the same messages or images and that is mind blowing. We can all see the same picture or message from different perspectives giving a complete image often filling the missing parts for each other.

One of our recent meditations we all got bliss, we all felt bliss and we had the feeling of bliss for a number of days after the meditation. This was a reminder to us of how far we had actually came in our meditations and excited us all as what else were we then going to uncover.

Meditation is a good practice in helping the chakras and balancing your energy. Meditation is not as out there as you may think, where you have to sit crossed legged and chant OM all the time. Meditation simply means quietening the mind. Switching off the inner dialogue that often fills our minds and causes self-esteem and confidence issues.

By taking time daily even five minutes, it can have a huge impact on your life having true peace and quiet for yourself.

Take five minutes just now, read though the steps first then have a practice:
-       Close your eyes
-       Focus on the breath, breathing in deeply filling your lungs and abdomen and hold for a minute
-       Let it go, out through your mouth
-       Repeat the deep breath in and out through your mouth
keep the focus on your breath
-       Let any thoughts drift in, don’t think about them, let them drift out the same way they drifted in
-       Continue to sit like this until you feel ready to return to the room
-       You may get messages, images, colours that’s ok

Well how did you find this? It’s not as easy as it looks! Probably the first time you tried it and only managed a few minutes. Keep practicing and you will be able to continue longer.

Initially five minutes can seem like a lifetime! You will soon realise the benefits and the impact this can have on you.

It’s a good idea to have a journal to record what happens during your meditation.
Now the basics of meditation are covered, looking back at balancing the chakras we can use meditation to focus on areas. As we go through this book, there will be meditations to look at each chakra in turn there will be other meditations to help also.

Meditation helps you to access the deeper subconscious of our minds. There really is a whole new world in there for you to discover. We only use around 20% of our brain in our waking life and that leaves 80% of your brain that can be accessed particularly the akashic records, where all the imprints of all our lives are said to be stored.

When I first began meditating, I found it difficult to do unless it was a guided meditation. My meditations began after setting up our wee spiritual development group in my clinic. It had three members and now almost three years on we have a solid group of five very strong and powerful women.

Initially for me, the meditations kept providing me with symbols which over time, kept recurring and I had to depict what they meant to me. There would be hearts, butterflies, pyramids and stars either five pointed or eight pointed stars. I’m not going to go into what these symbols mean here as what I discovered was that no matter how much I tried to understand what they meant through interpretations, it actually had a meaning that was more unique to me. When you uncover the meaning it will be a lightbulb moment.

So what I am saying is listen to your own inner dialogue and find the meaning that resonates with you, not someone else’s, be open to the fact that sometimes the symbol has more than one meaning dependant on the situation.

My hearts and butterflies for me were to do with self-love, the fact that I needed to find the love in myself to open up to change the inner me. I kept getting these symbols for weeks, months even a year until I finally listen and accepted what I was getting and making the journey to find me.

Meditation is a good way to find guidance from the heart, the true you.

Below is a meditation for the root chakra, either have someone read the meditation to you or record it and play it back. It’s important to take your time and have pauses during the meditation to gain the full benefit. Allow the feelings, emotions and thoughts to come up to clear.

Root Chakra Mediation

Close your eyes, take a nice long deep breath in, hold and exhale.

Take another deep breath in and feel all the muscles of your body relaxing muscle by muscle, as you exhale let go of all the stresses, worries or cares of the day.

Feel the heaviness of your eyes as they relax, relaxing so much that it’s impossible to open at this time.

In your mind’s eye, imagine the sun above your head, bright and bold. Feel the warmth of the sun on your head. Take the warmth and pull it down through your body, relaxing the muscles as you do, lingering in any areas that you feel any tightness or tension. Let the warmth penetrate deep into the muscle releasing the fears and anxieties that reside there. Feel your body as it melts into the chair that you are sitting on.

Let the warmth of the sun travel down your legs like a gentle river flowing into all the necessary areas. Feel this flow go into mother earth like the roots of a tree, strengthening your being and your soul allowing your body and mind to be in perfect balance. As the beats of mother earth resonate through your existence you bask in this energy.

Take a few minutes and enjoy all that life has to offer, enjoy the beauty of mother earth.

As the magic of mother earth embraces you, nourishes your soul and replenishes your body,
allow your body to go deeper, deeper towards the core of mother earth. Feel the heat and power of the magma, as this washes over you it restores you. Let the energy blend with you and become you absorbing the qualities and properties of mother earth. Feel the connection to mother earth and the abundance of life force that connects your root chakra to mother earth and all that she has. Feel as one with the universe, feel complete and whole.

Take a few minutes to truly absorb this amazing energy, which now you have connected with can reconnect with at any time.

It’s now time to journey back, bringing with you, the energy you have found in mother earth. Your view of mother earth and her uniqueness has changed, your view on life has new meaning of beauty and simplicity.

Begin to feel the room in which you sit and the chair you are on. Feel your toes and fingers, feel the awareness return to your body. When you are ready, open your eyes.

Wow, what a powerful meditation! Your mind will feel so clear and a new sense of clarity and perspective. We often neglect the beauty the power and significance of mother earth and what she has to offer. We don’t pay her as much attention as we should and our world is constantly harming her. As you become more aware pay attention to how she behaves, are the earthquakes that happen and tsunamis that have occurred really a big surprise?! Could it be her way of bringing people back together and our sense of community spirit that has been lost? Is it away of clearing the land getting rid of the old and preparing for the new? Could it be karma being repaid to areas that have really hurt and damaged her, food for thought!!

Being grounded on your journey is important as it helps to keep you focused and provide clarity into your insights. It helps to keep you balanced between spirit and reality, keeping us in the now and the present moment.

Signs when we need grounded are when we begin to daydream, feeling dizzy for no apparent reason, even arguing and not getting your point across, when you recognise any of these then redo the mediation or the visualisation earlier to ground you back to earth.

Tools to help on your journey

Crystals are another tool that you can use to help on your spiritual journey. Crystals linked to the root chakra are ruby, garnet, bloodstone, diamond and hematite. Meditating with crystals can also be beneficial as they can take you on a fascinating journey and tell you a story. Carry the crystals with you and feel the qualities of the stone calm and ground you. These crystals are just suggestions relating to the chakra. What I find when choosing a crystal to work with, go with the crystal you are drawn to as there will be a reason as to why it resonates with you.

A year or two ago, I was at a local body and soul event where local traders of crystals, psychics, mediums and other new age people come together for the occasion. One such time I attended one with my youngest son, he had some money and was dying to spend it, so he had a look around and then when back to the stalls that had the crystals he was drawn to. At that particular time when we attended, he had been suffering from knee and lower back issues after falling from his bike and he was receiving physiotherapy for it. Anyway, all the crystals he picked that day were to do with spinal realignment. I was gobsmacked when I got home and checked them out, red jasper was his favourite and is known as the worry bead which was relevant to him at that time. It also cleanses the blood and the circulatory system which he would have needed to help the damage he had done to the area. The other crystal I remember he bought a few pieces of was selenite, which is good for the calming of the mind and realigning the spinal column and strengthening the skeletal system, which amazed me. He was a young boy of nine years and he had tapped into his intuition and the subtle energies of the crystals and selected the ones that would heal his body.

I do know that after using them he felt much better, the pain subsided quiet substantially and only required a few more sessions of physiotherapy. It’s amazing what happens when we follow our instincts and trust!

Automatic writing is another tool in connecting with spirit, your higher self and the angels. I like to do this and it’s outstanding the messages that come through. Parts of this book have happened this way. Initially similar to meditation, it’s good to quieten the mind and just write the thoughts, words, and phrases that come in. It’s when you read it back and you see you have a perfectly formed conversation and paragraph in front of you, that you don’t recall writing! That’s freaky but rather cool. You may also find that the writing isn’t yours that’s a strange thing to see. Sometimes I have seen my writing change a few times and this to me is indication that there has been more than one angel or spirit working with me.

Here is the first automatic message I received

“Blessed is the light that shines you on your way, be guided. Trust! Believe this is the key. Follow the wind be free, wherever it takes you be free!”

As you practice it, you might ask a question then wait for the answer. I have seen sometimes when I have written a reply to a text message and spirit or the angels have taken over and I read it back, there’s no errors and has perfect flow.  Normally I have fingers and thumbs when typing and make up random words, the curse of predictive text on mobile phones.

Parts of this book came flooding in this way, sometimes when I wasn’t ready and mid treatment with someone - not the perfect timing - and I had to mentally ask for them to wait until I was able to write things down or provide me with a mental dictator phone. The number of notebooks I required was unbelievable, random bits of paper with writing on it took over. Even when typing on the computer sometimes my fingers just took over.

Dowsing is another means of asking yes no questions and receiving answers. Using a pendulum you hold it steady in your fingers and you ask it for a yes and for a no. For me a yes will rotate round in circles and no will rock backwards and forwards. Firstly, I will start by using obvious yes and no questions like is my name Heather “yes” am I 65 years old “no” (thankfully) although sometimes I feel it, but you get my drift of the context. After that, I will ask other questions I am looking for answers to in my life. I even use it at the start of the day to see what clients will turn up and which won’t, usually it is correct. Sometimes if I ask it if a client will turn up and I get a no but it’s only slightly moving, it normally means that no they won’t turn up at 2pm, more likely 2.15pm. It’s useful to give me an idea how my day is going to go.

Tarot cards and oracle cards are good tools to use. You don’t need to read them professionally, you can use them for yourself and I do have to confess here that I love using the cards. I have quite a collection of cards. I find I am drawn to a certain packs for different occasions, sometimes I use two or three packs. Initially, I found I did the cards first and read them, interpreted them and incorporated the meanings into my day. Now I find that I use them as a backup. For example, if I had done a reiki and gave some feedback from what came out during the session, always when I used the cards it just echoed what I had said, which was brilliant confirmation not only, for me but to clients too.

One recently that was remarkable, was prior to the reiki session starting, my friend was telling me that in the morning she heard a really loud noise almost like a bumble bee humming in her ear. She had asked her husband “Can you hear that?”, to which he replied “No”. Instantly, when she said what she heard I had the thought that it was her tuning into the frequencies of spirit. Already I had picked up the fact that the angels were there waiting for her to connect and ask them for help. After the reiki I gave her cards to pick and she selected three. The first one had the words presence and acceptance on it. The picture, I kid you not was of a little girl looking in wonder and a bright bumble bee that radiated light – how uncanny was that? That was precisely the image she had described, the little girl on the card was her. Confirmation that what we had discussed was right.

All these are just some of the ways that you can help to open up and connect with your spiritual side. What is important is that you do what resonates with you and that you feel comfortable with, but also practice practice practice….

Here are some essential oils that can help whilst working on the root chakra these include

Sandalwood

Cinnamon

Myrrh

Ylang ylang

These can be blended in a massage carrier oil and applied to the body or can be used in an oil diffuser.

Crystals for the Root Chakra

Garnet

Ruby

Aragonite

Red jasper

Black tourmaline

Chrysocolla

Message from the angels

Once our inner love for ourselves is found, it creates a strength and a power within. Confidence grows and your body and mind ooze vitality.

When we let go of all the pain and emotions that we choose to carry, our body energy flows freely without blocks. When we let it go our health returns.

The hardest part to understand and accept is when you are on your spiritual path that you have caused your own pains and own health issues and they could have been avoided, if we knew then what we know now. You don’t consciously choose to be in pain but you do chose to hold on to the emotions that keep you stuck in the past. Chose to let them go, choose to be free.

Sacral Chakra

This chakra is found near the base of the spine and just below the naval, the lower part of the abdomen. The colour connected to this chakra is orange. This chakra is connected to sexual energy, emotions, relationships, abundance, wellbeing and healing.

When imbalances occur here, it can cause problems with our sexual energy and how we feel about sex, how we feel about ourselves and how we think and feel about our financial position.

As we get older, the sacral chakra can become blocked, more so for women. The reason I say this as women have more things to adapt and change to that can alter their perception of themselves through marriage and becoming a mother and they often lose sight of who they are. It does also happen to men too what I am saying is that it is more noticeable in women.

My experience happened when I got divorced and I had a real battle with my identity. I was no longer Heather Rankine, wife and mother, but neither was I Heather McCabe, who I was before, being a wife and mother and as my life had changed so much, now I was just Heather. Not that that was a bad thing however I just had to find out who Heather was again out with being Shaun and Callan’s mum and the ex-wife!

This was when it dawned on me that I had really lost me! My self-worth and my true self. I had become absorbed in marriage and trying to be a good wife (which didn’t do me any good!) and being a good mother to my boys and I trundled along in life forgetting all about myself, no wonder I had felt so disconnected!

As I opened up spiritually and accepted who I was, I began to reconnect to who Heather was and is and now after a long process I love who I am, a feeling I had never had before. Our wee spiritual group and using meditation and the going within that allowed for that to happen.

My orchestrated divine moment began during our weekly meditations, as they began to centre on love, the feelings and sensations of what love is - was becoming intense. It made me feel anxious in a good way, as if I wanted it to hurry up. I was going away on a trip to Inverness on holiday to visit family and a long lost friend and I had the thought that I would meet someone when I was away. A few days before I left, I started talking to a guy and we got on really well and a few days after I got back, we met up for dinner and had a really lovely evening and agreed to meet again. I had a mixture of emotions running through me, but at the same time I knew something inside me was different. I was different and my perceptions of a lover/partner or soul mate had changed. I had allowed my heart to open up and for me to allow myself to love, me, a little bit more. By doing so I had attracted someone into my life and I was surprised by the emotions that it stirred up inside me, like was I ready for this but was this really what I wanted?

As I started to date the guy a book called “Loveability” by Robert Holden managed to find its way into my life. The book was amazing, it was like Robert had written the book especially for me and it taught me so much about myself. I started to do the exercises telling myself whilst looking in the mirror that “I loved myself”.

This was very strange and very surreal doing these exercises. I remember going through a range of emotions doing this. At first I found it really difficult to look at myself in the mirror and utter these words to myself it felt very alien at first and then after a few times, I adjusted and it was ok and kept doing it. It is amazing how your body responds to simple caring words, it’s like every cell of your body responds and your mood, your energy completely shifts, I was very impressed. It made me realise how far I had come to even consider doing the exercise and to even carry it out and it taught me how far I still have to go, but equally how far I had come on my journey.

A bolt of lightning hit me during my time dating the guy that he actually saw me for me the unique individual that I am. He hadn’t judged me and the only person judging me was myself. I felt a wave of gratitude for this and I had to tell him. Before I would have held right back and worried about the reaction, but I didn’t. It felt too important not to thank him.

My gratitude to him came from my heart and I felt safe and connected enough to be able to express this to him and my message was delivered to him with an open heart.

The gratitude had raised my kundalini energy and my sensual side began to rise. This wasn’t about “sex”, this was a connection on a much deeper level. The feelings I had, had sparked something inside me and made me feel more connected to my feminine energy, I felt whole and womanly.

Even on a sexual level I am more comfortable and sex is no longer the mechanical mechanism that it is thought of in western ideas, it is so much more!

Never before had I thought or explored the fact that touch and the use of your breath can create heightened sexual sensations, awakening your body bring about a mind body experience.

Loving yourself – truly loving yourself down to each wrinkle and cellulite on your thigh, the extra lb’s of weight you carry, having that deep unconditional love for yourself and others and connection of oneness is what really heightens your sexual experience. Understanding that brought new spiritual growth and completed the part of the jigsaw for me. This connection and sexual and sensual pleasure was what I had thought an intimate encounter should be like.

Although the relationship didn’t last longer than a few months, that was ok. It showed me that it was alright to be myself and express myself on many levels, although at times I felt vulnerable expressing myself on a deeper emotional level in a whole new way. I know that I spoke from my heart and I felt comfortable knowing that I had shared my feelings honestly.

I know that partly the relationship hadn’t worked as I had stepped into my power and I was comfortable with who I was (am). What began to happen was it was highlighting to him that he was lost, he had lost is identity and by focusing on wanting to “fix me” by him feeling needed by me took the attention off of him and his disconnection to his life. He wasn’t ready to face his issues so he went on his own journey.

I am grateful for what the relationship showed me and how far I had come in being Heather again. No way would I bow to someone else again. I had an inner strength and independence that made me ME. I knew this was a trial run and that I will be with someone that connects with me spiritually and allows me to be me and that’s what we all deserve.

The journeys end with this guy taught me that although he allowed me to reconnect with my feminine energies, which I don’t need to have the physical connection of another. By being comfortable with yourself and exploring yourself and your sexual desires, you can keep your femininity alive. It doesn’t have to be lost. If you don’t know who you are sexually and what creates the power to ignite you, how can you connect with another expecting them to achieve it for you?!

So what is kundalini

There is lots written about kundalini and a number of definitions of what it actually is. The definition that resonates with me is that kundalini is a heightened energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine and becomes activated through esoteric and spiritual connections, where we connect with our own enlightenment and experience bliss, true bliss. Although it lies at the bottom of the spine, it connects up to the sacral chakra and it’s believed that the energy flows in a triangular way, flooding the pelvic area. When you harness the power and energy through kundalini awakening, you can train the energy to flow through your whole body, pulling it up through each of the chakras, intensifying your spiritual awakening.

Kundalini yoga is one way that this can be achieved using a systematic approach.

My awakening began through the meditations and my gratitude that this guy had taught me. It was the first awareness of the power of gratitude and the positive effects it has on the body.

As the gratitude filled my head, the angels were with me as I sat in my treatment room, being bombarded with the bones of this book, you hold in your hands. Birthing the idea of a spiritual journey that had taught me how to love myself on a deeper and more complex level than ever before and how the awakened feminine energies allowed me to connect with this guy, in a way I had never experienced before. Being honest and open from the heart. How touch, soft touch can be so electric and orgasmic than sex itself.

That sex itself is underrated, when two souls connect their touch, their synchronicities of their breath heighten their pleasure and that it is felt through every cell of their bodies and their bonds deepen.

By connecting with yourself and being true to yourself, love fills all of your body.

As kundalini begins to awaken there are usually pre awakening symptoms as you could say. These include:-

Changes in the mind and thought processes

Visions

Vivid dreams that appear real

Insights

Synchronistic events

Seeing the world differently

Changes in perspective, how you think and perceive things

Eyes opening wide as the mind quietens and absorbs

As you advance and spiritual awakening begins to happen you may experience the following:-

(These are just guides and my experiences)

Sudden rise of energy and sense of energy

See nature different, seeing the beauty in nature that surrounds us and the vivid colours it has to offer

Sensations of time standing still, losing the sense of time altogether

Experience healing symptoms, rushes of energy and flashes of light, blue, green, yellow

Information being “downloaded” to you

Receiving information about your life purpose

Revelations of past lives coming back, giving a deeper understanding to you

Once we begin on a spiritual path it is hard to turn back. Our minds are open and expanded and life is completely different. Sexual energy is important when raising the kundalini and enhancing our spiritual flow.

Kundalini is achieved by a perfect balance of feminine and masculine energies existing in the body at the same time.

Tantra and Sexual Energy

I feel here I need to touch on tantric sex as sexuality is linked to the sacral chakra and is an important part of life. Tantra means “woven together”, the joining together of energies. It’s important to note that it is not a philosophical or religious however it is a technique to learn, pleasuring right to the soul.

I was in my early twenties when I read about tantric sex and I was impressed by what I read, but at the same time, it sounded familiar. Natural - the way I had expected a loving relationship to be. My husband at the time wasn’t interested as it was “weird” for him.

It wasn’t until years later when I revisited the tantric aspects of sex. Like I mentioned earlier to me this was how sex should be when you connect with yourself and partner. The real orgasmic part is the connection that’s made through touch and exploration of each other, of the scents of each other, the taste of each other, the anticipation of each other all heightens the pleasure effect, the union of two souls connecting. Where sex is not perceived as sinful but sacred and divine, where goal setting is not required just the connection of two souls entwining, releasing the sexual energy that rushes throughout your body.

Honouring your body is paramount and having confidence in yourself with what you like and don’t like sexually, comes with the trust you have in your partner. Having a tantric sexual experience increases your connection and bond with each other. As the energies blend you become more aware of each other and spiritual experiences can begin through these heightened energies that emanate. The spiritual happenings occurs as the souls unite triggering a blissful