A Spiritually Enlightening Online Magazine. November's Theme: "Gifts"
Volume 8 Issue 1 ISSN# 1708-3265

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Illuminations Aleesha Stephenson About the Cover Orna Ben-Shoshan Green Gifting David Suzuki PhD A Spiritual Perspective On 'A Reason, A Season, Or A Lifetime' Chris Cade Embracing Challenges as Gifts Julie Hoyle Keep the Gifts Circulating Rev. Cheryl Jewett Finding The Gift David Reber The Night Side of Twilight Dj Brown Surrender as a Gift Alegria Imperial Walk Your Talk Aleesha Stephenson Po and the Stones Phil Kotofskie Wiccan Voices Crystal Blanton, HPs Let's Talk Tarot Marcia McCord Lifetalks Dawn Baumann Brunke Pet-sense Jean Hofve DVM Meditate a Moment Featuring: Aleesha Stephenson Cards & Curios Tarot Deck Reviews: with Dan Pelletier Archived Reviews All of T.S.M.'s Reviews

Meditate a Moment featuring: Aleesha Stephenson Grounding ourselves whenever we meditate is so important. It assists us to stay connected while we travel to other dimensions within our mind, or other worlds. When we meditate and are not grounded, we feel light-headed and have a hard time as our mind will often wander rather than opening to the meditation. Then when we are finished meditating it can be hard to walk or even finish a sentence! So please remember to ground yourself before beginning any meditation. Let's begin. Take three deep cleansing breaths, in ease and exhale all the dis-ease of your day. Now for our second breath, IN-spiration and releasing any tension in your body and one more… IN-spiration and exhale any residual negativity. Feel your in-breath beginning deep in your base chakra and moving up towards your crown chakra. Allow your out-breath to be a whisper down your spine, returning to your base, ready for your in-breath. Visualize a star in a nearby galaxy; this is the Heaven Star. A beam of light is coming out of the Heaven Star, feel yourself begin to draw this energy down, through the galaxy, towards Earth. Down through our atmosphere and down down down towards your crown chakra (top of your head). This light moves very slowly into your head, past your eyes, your cheeks, your jaw and into your neck. Then vertebra by vertebra it moves down your spine towards the base of your spine (1st chakra). As this energy touches the base of your spine you feel it change. Roots begin to develop and weave their way down your legs, past your knees, slowly pushing their way down your calves and into your ankles. You feel them filling your feet and gently reaching out of the soles of your feet and pushing their way into the ground beneath you. Deep into the Earth they glide, down down down until the roots touch the Earth Star. Winding themselves around the Earth Star they meld with this Star and begin to feed. The energy of the Earth Star pulsates up the roots, up up up through the ground until you feel it entering your feet. Your roots continue to draw this wonderful grounding energy up, feeding on it, feeling its weight as you begin to feel ever more connected to the Earth. Visualize yourself in the middle of a field of flowers. The sun is bright in the sky and you see a trail winding down the hill into a grove of trees. As the path enters the trees you notice all the life around you. Butterflies resting on branches, birds singing, a squirrel gathering nuts for his dinner… You continue on this path until you reach the Crystal Pool. Remove your clothing and dive into the pool. You can breath under water in this magical pool. Spend a few minutes exploring the depths of this pool. You see the waterfall off to one side as you enjoy how beautiful the sun is shining on the water. Rainbows are within the mist! Swim to the bottom of the pool. There is a chest in the bottom. Open the chest and remove the gift from within. Swim back up to the surface and sit beside the waterfall. Look at the gift you hold in your hands. Don't analyze it, just allow it to be. This is a gift from your Guides. It is what you need to continue on your life-path. As you look at your gift you realize your Guide has joined you and is sitting beside you. If you don't understand the purpose of your gift, you can ask your Guide to explain it to you in a way that you will understand. If you have any questions or thoughts you want to share with your Guide, spend some time chatting with him/her. Otherwise, thank them for the gift and walk back to your clothes. They are folded and clean waiting for you. Make your way back up the path to the field of flowers. Lay in the field, relaxing and enjoying the moment. When you are ready, return to your day feeling refreshed and enlightened. namaste' Aleesha Aleesha Stephenson is the Publisher, Editor, Graphic and Web Designer as well as a Regular Columnist for Timeless Spirit Magazine. A Raw Foodist, Reiki Master Teacher, who lives her Buddhist, Shamanic, with many eclectic Pagan beliefs, she home-schools two of her three spiritually enlightened children as her eldest has graduated and moved on to the school of life. Friend (and mother) to them, she is also a life-partner to her husband David. Her life truly is filled with light. Author of the "Pathways Series," a series of workbooks created for 28 consecutive nights of spellwork for Magi's Magick Spells. Aleesha teaches classes in Tarot, Meditation and Reiki. She is also a Raw Food and Fasting Coach. For more information, please contact Aleesha via email or visit her personal web page.

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