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by a bit of information. Then we weave in and out
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A
New Way of
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How does Your Body want to connect to its own
energy within the Earth?
2. Connecting
to New Aspects of Archangel
Michael
3. SONG:
Healing
Breath
(Norma,
voice and Atmaram Chaitanya, tambura)
I was
joined in this meditation by Atmaram
Chaitanya
playing tambura and harmonium.
HEALING SONGS:
Mourning what has not come to pass (Norma voice
and Tibetan bowl)
For Inner Reflection (Norma, voice and
Atmaram, harmonium)
Healing Breath (Norma, voice and Atmaram,
tambura)
Om Namo Shivaya (Atmaram Chaitanya
voice/harmonium)
Invocation of Sacredness (Norma voice)
Healing Home (Norma, voice and Tibetan
bowl)
More of Norma's healing songs, along with videos,
can be found under Sound
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An edited transcript is given below. This is
not exact, nor is it complete. The audio version is
meant as a healing meditation. The transcript is
provided only for brain candy.
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Meditation #54 from August 4, 2017
When
the Stars Come Out
Meditative
Insights and Healing Songs
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With
this eclipse we have the opportunity to break our
entrainment or enthrallment to the louder mundane
world; especially as we relate to power, strength
and authority. Here are a series of short
meditations and songs to do just that.
MEDITATIONS INCLUDE:
- Sacred Space Invocation of Nature Sphere and
Archangel Michael
- The Earth has only loaned you its atoms in
order for you to create your body
- Clearing Our Newly Emerging Chakras in
Heart and Solar Plexius from past beliefs, guides
and intensities.
- Why and How to Release Beliefs and Behaviors
(and old guides and angels)
- Brain Chatter Release (clearing 6th and 7th
chakras)
- Connecting the two Heart Chakras (knowing
what is yours to do)
- The Quiet Within
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from a live meditation
given on 2017_08_04
Transcript (edited for clarity)
When the Stars Come
Out
Meditative Insights and Healing
Songs
Norma Gentile,
sound shaman
with musical guest Atmaran Chaitanya
(http://www.kashinivas.org)
With this eclipse we have the opportunity to break
our entrainment or enthrallment to the louder
mundane world; especially as we relate to power,
strength and authority. Here are a series of short
meditations and songs to do just that.
Archangel Michael and Mary are the principle
energies that led this meditation. Beforehand,
Michael was reminding me that the process of an
eclipse removes the main source of what allows us
to physically see our outer world when the light
from the sun or moon is obscured. In energy terms,
an eclipse breaks our enthrallment with mundane
activities, especially those that have gotten too
loud, too time consuming or too chaotic. By
temporarily blocking our entrainment with such
energies, people and events, eclipses provide us
the opportunity to reconsider and refocus our
spiritual strength upon what is ours to do now.
During this particular eclipse the enthrallment
related to US politics will be temporarily broken.
People's ability to see beyond the blindingly shiny
surface will be heightened. New choices are
possible.
The eclipse will silence the chaos, just as it
eclipses the sun, allowing the stars to shine
through. Each star that becomes visible during an
eclipse symbolizes a new possibility awakening from
within us
1
Introduction
This meditation was given before a live
audience two weeks before the total solar eclipse
of August 21, 2017, and a day before the lunar
eclipse that preceded it. We tend to think of
eclipses and other astrological events as happening
for a few minutes at a certain point in time.
However, the planets, stars and moon are in steady
constant motion and so the energies of astrological
events tend to begin days, weeks, even months or
years before the actual event. The window of
energies for eclipses is at a minimum a month
before and after the event, and sometimes many
months.
Eclipse often come in groups that are
interconnected. Over the next several years we will
experience a series of lunar eclipses based on
opening our hearts and finding a healthy way of
relating to wielding personal power and
strength.
I think of this series of lunar eclipses as a
series of maritime or water leveling Locks. Living
in Michigan, I have watched boats move from Lake
Superior into Lake Huron through a series of Locks,
which provide controlled water level changes. The
ship enters into a Lock, and as the Lock fills with
more water, the ship is raised to a new water
level. Once the Lock is as full as possible, the
ship moves into the next Lock, which also fills
with water and raises the ship a bit more. This
continues until the ship has reached the water
level of the other lake. The reverse is also
possible; the ship can enter the series of Locks
while they are full of water, and be lowered as the
water is pumped out. The alternative to this slow
but orderly transition from one lake's water level
to another is an extremely rough passage through
the area where the two lakes meet that can twist
and tear ships apart.
Eclipses offer us the same opportunity for slow,
steady change. To the extent that we have released
any unconscious desires for drama (and the people
in our lives that provide it) we can utilize the
energy of astrological events, such as eclipses, to
create real and lasting change in our lives.
With this eclipse we have the opportunity to break
our entrainment or enthrallment to the louder
mundane world; especially as we relate to power,
strength and authority. As the eclipse blots out
our physical ability to see, by obscuring the sun,
so too it turns down the volume of worldly or
profane energies in our world. It is up to us to
not use our own energy to turn the volume back up,
but rather to listen to the quieter promptings of
Spirit that are more easily audible during the
window of the eclipse.
The August 21st eclipse that passes over the US is
about breaking the societal enthrallment with what
is now centered around politics. It is about
breaking the entrainment that is drawing people
away from seeing what else is happening in their
lives. This eclipse opens our heart space and our
own body of integrity, to whatever is true for each
person to express into their lives and hence into
our shared world.
2 Creating Sacred Space
Welcoming the Pure Energy of Nature, the Nature
Spirits (vibrating at their level of unconditional
love) within the room and the land directly beneath
the room to for a sphere, tuned to their level of
unconditional love, around the room we are in
now.
Welcoming Archangel Michael's presence into this
sphere. Recognizing that Archangel Michael (or
Michaela) assists other energies, both light and
dark to go home. We invite Michael to magnify his
presence in all the dimensions of our reality,
providing a means for whatever may desire to travel
elsewhere to do so during this meditation.
3 SONG: Om Namo Shivaya (Atmaram Chaitanya
voice/harmonium)
4 SONG: Invocation (Norma voice)
5 The Quiet Within
As we enter into this time of eclipse, our ability
to find stillness increases. We are more able to
find the space within us that allows for
reflection. This same space also allows for
transmutation.
When we are so busy in the world that we are
constantly engaged in trying to stop something or
make it go a different direction, then we are using
our energy against it. While that may be
appropriate in some cases, it is our own life-force
that we are expelling. When we can pause and find
that space deep within us that is quiet, that inner
place that feels like a breathless space, then we
can tap into the larger picture. This is where the
magic happens.
Our consciousness and focus shift. We no longer
feel the need to worry about transmuting or
transforming something. We recognize we don't need
to do anything. At that point of this quiet
stillness, it is as if there is an eclipse of the
loudness of the issue we are concerned about. And
the stars come out. We start seeing
possibilities.
Each star that comes out in the sky during an
eclipse can be experienced as a new internal
possibility, a new attitude, or direction for our
self. It is amazing what happens when we can see,
and then choose new paths!
What does that feel like to you? How does choosing
something new or different feel? Sometimes it is a
bit scary. And sometimes we anticipate the
possibility of not having to deal with our current
issues, and we jump into what we think is a new
path, but it will not last. Before we can move
forward, we must honor what is now, and mourn that
which will not come to pass in the current reality
of our lives.
What one thing have you been trying and wanting to
create, but it just hasn't happened?
6 SONG: Mourning what has not come to pass (Norma
voice and Tibetan bowl)
Allowing our self to mourn what has not fully come
to pass, and allowing our self to feel where we
have not fully engaged yet in our life.
7 A New Way of Grounding
How does Your Body want to connect to its own
energy within the Earth?
Each of the atoms of our body has been loaned to us
by Earth so that we might use it as part of our
physical form. Each of the atoms of our body
therefore, rightfully belongs to the Earth. Each of
the atoms of our body knows, within its own
intelligence, that it pertains to the Earth. As
each atom within our body finds its own resonance
to its own presence within the Earth, our grounding
opens. Our body remembers itself as both Sacred
Spirit, and Earthly human form.
So often we think we can't let go of something
because we have to fix it. A common thought is that
if it doesn't feel comfortable, then I need to hang
onto it until I can fix it. More often than not
healing something isn't an act we participate in.
Rather, we release the pattern, allowing the
intelligence within the pattern to lead it onward
to wherever else it needs to go to keep learning,
and growing, and healing. Our role is to simply
release, so that the intelligence within a pattern
might find its own way home.
As the Stars emerge out of their black velvet
hiding place, so too do the possibilities that we
each have in life begin to awaken within us. And
they do not awaken first in our mind! Rather, they
awaken first in the space around us. They awaken
within our physical form, our body, because they
are already awake within the Earth energies into
which our body is already and always connected.
Each possibility, each new option for life awakens
first within our soul and within the Earth. Our
brain is the last one to know about it!
Notice how your breath moves through your entire
body
How does your body want to remember its
innate connection into the Earth energy it was born
from? How do the atoms within your body want to
honor that they are merely being loaned to our
soul, by the Earth?
Bringing an awareness, not just of temporality and
mortality, but rather to the infinite of who you
are, and who your soul desires for you to be within
your body.
Bring awareness to the heart and to the lungs.
So much of what has passed in the last 70 or 80
years as been to upend, literally turn upside down,
what appeared to be normality. And as we, the human
race, have upended what was, we are seeking more to
replace it with something that is similar but
better
at least better for us.!
Instead of upending the past pattern we considered
to be normal, looking at it it, and recognizing
that something totally different will now happen,
some within humanity have decided to fix it. But we
have reached the point where what was our normality
can not be turned upright again in order to
continue its functioning. We now must set it aside,
and look to see what else has been laid out for us
by Sprit in our lives.
In a song by St.Hildegard of Bingen (O viridissima
virga) she describes a feast, spread out for
humanity. Where within this banquet are you seated?
How does your heart receive those promptings of
Spirit that are yours to listen to? In the midst of
the chaos now, those voices that clamor for
attention not only want us to be enthralled to
them, or entrained to them, but they don't want us
to look elsewhere. They don't want us to look
anywhere.
Our own unique voice inside often sings in
marvelous harmony with others, and sometimes a
little dissonance too. Seeing whatever you see,
giving voice to whatever you give voice to, allows
for a fuller dynamic and a fuller picture of
creation to ensue.
8 Newly Emerging Chakras - Heart
We have been experiencing new chakras awakening
within the body. Notice the traditional Heart
chakra. This chakra tunes to unconditional love. It
is the pure expression of your soul. All the
energies from this chakra are available to us at
all times.
But in order to be human, it is necessary for us to
choose where to express and how to express our
creativity, our love, and our selves. What is it
that your soul has planned for you to do right now?
That answer comes from the High Heart chakra, based
on the thymus gland lying above the Traditional
Heart chakra. From here we receive those promptings
and urgings from our guides and Higher Self; to
take a walk, to go the store, to sit and write for
a moment or make a very specific phone call. Our
own High Heart chakra tells us and informs us of
what is available in our world and what is needful
in our world. It tells us what is ours to do and
what is not ours to do. In this time of chaos
opening and clearing the energetic bridge between
the unconditional love of the lower Traditional
Heart chakra and that upper Heart chakra helps us
tune into what is ours specifically to do. And,
this is more important, what is not ours to do, no
matter how vociferous it appears to be! It is a
good time to practice our ability of
discernment.
As we learn to listen to what is ours to do, we
become more comfortable allowing things that are
uncomfortable to simply be as they are. We become
more comfortable allowing that which is imperfect
to simply be imperfect. We understand that leaving
something undone, when it is not ours to do, allows
someone else to do it. This allows someone else to
complete some part of their process in life as part
of their spiritual journey.
8 Newly Emerging Chakras &endash; Our two Third
Chakras
Some cultures place the third chakra fairly
low, close to the navel, while others place it as
high as the solar plexus, just below the
Traditional Heart chakra. I have come to believe
that both are accurate, and that we have two Third
Chakras. The emerging prominence of the Lower Third
Chakra also has to do with the navel chakra itself
coming online much more in the Western world.
While my physical gestures indicate, and we may
think of chakras as being in front of our body,
they are also in back. Some people, including
myself, see them as a sphere. The major chakras I
am discussing now emanate from an endocrine gland.
Other chakras emanate from organs, joints and even
cells within the physical body.
The back side of the major endocrine based chakras
are where our guides and angels come and support
us. Not surprisingly, during times of stress and
chaos the lower and middle back can become very
uncomfortable. Guides and angels that were in tune
with us in the past, those who helped us 'push
through' issues, especially as children, may still
be called upon by us, unconsciously, to help us
push through an issue even now. This means we are
accidentally calling in guides that are out-of-time
and out-of-tune with the energy fields or chakras
emanating from our kidneys, adrenals, navel and
Second Chakra.
A whole other way of looking at things is to pause,
rather than push through adversity. In that moment
of paused quiet, allow the stars come out; allow
the possibilities that only Spirit can show you to
be visible.
Let's do that now.
Feel the space behind your back now. The physical
sensation of intensity or density is often our
kinesthetic feeling awareness of old beliefs as
well as the guides or angels related to the beliefs
interacting with our current time chakras and aura.
Thoughts such as 'I should be able to do it', 'It
should look this way', 'this is the way it always
has been, this is the way it should be' are all
thoughts created when we try to make old energies
fit our current life. You hear my use of 'should'
repeatedly? That is always a good clue
find
the intensity that is being magnified as I talk
about it. And ask it if it is reflecting your soul
right now? Is it in current time? Every intensity
has some pattern organizing its energy. We
experience that pattern as a belief, physical
sensation, and/or emotion. Ask whatever you notice,
is this really in tune with you now? Is it really
even yours now?
9 SONG: Healing Breath (Norma, voice and Atmaram,
tambura)
Now feel how your breath feels. How does the
space around you feel? How do your ribs move now?
Your ribs, hips and even knees ideally move with
each breath.
10 Why and How to Release Beliefs and Behaviors
(and old guides and angels)
Possibilities expand. One way to help our
possibilities expand even more is to recognize that
we live in a world that has dramatically changed.
What used to be true isn't necessarily true now.
Not only are things that we traditionally have
thought we should do perhaps no longer useful, but
those guides and angels related to each of these
things are also no longer useful. These are guides
and angels that helped and supported us in the
past. But they are no longer in tune with us
either.
I know back around 30 years ago? when I first
started feeling and noticing energies consciously,
friends within the New Age Movement I was
surrounded by said 'invite in guides and angels,
invite in connections';. No one talked about
letting go of the spiritual connections.
It was the material related to Edgar Cayce that
made me think about the process of releasing
connections to various beings, such as guides and
angels. In the descriptions of Cayce's deep trance
channeling, there is always a trusted person, known
as a conductor, present during his channeling. The
role of the conductor is not to go into a channeled
state, but remain wholly embodied, awake and
present. At the conclusion of the channeling, the
conductor was to assist Cayce in returning to his
own body while the energy being he channeled
returned fully to its own place within Spirit.
Hence, there was a clear distinction between Edgar
Cayce the man, and the spiritual being that entered
into his body during the channeling.
I mention this because I think we have reached a
point where we have graduated from spiritual
kindergarten and are now in 1st grade. Here in
spiritual 1st grade we are beginning to understand
that there are a variety of energies, beings and
angels that surround us. And we have connected to
many of them. There are versions of them that may
be more in tune with us now than the versions we
are used to connecting with. And some have
completed their task with us and are ready to go,
as soon as we let them go.
I had a wonderful experience when I first connected
consciously to Archangel Michael. It happened
through another teacher, which is how such things
usually happen, and during a workshop I was
assisting him in teaching.
I realized that I knew the energy he called
Archangel Michael, but my version of Michael felt
slightly different. It took me awhile to recognize
that the version of Michael that the teacher
connected to served the teacher perfectly in that
moment. But the version I needed to connect to
depended upon what I was doing. The quality of
Michael's energy shifts to accommodate my needs,
and the needs of those involved with me during each
workshop, concert or private healing. Each time I
work with a client and welcome their unique
connection to Archangel Michael, I get to
experience another aspect of Archangel Michael's
energy.
Doesn't it make sense that the quality of energy of
an Archangel is so expansive that no one single
human could ever fully connect to it? We can barely
connect to just the portion of our soul legally
incarnating right now! I invite you to apply this
same thought to all the guides and angels that you
work with. Are each of them up to date? Do they
each reflect you right now, in current time? Are
you connecting with that aspect or version of them
that suits what you are doing now?
By asking these questions, you are giving
permission for those guides and angels that
supported you in childhood, or that you picked up
at last week's workshop, to determine for
themselves if they are still needful and of service
to you. You are giving them permission, if they do
not fit your body or soul's journey now, to either
leave or upgrade themselves.
As much as I loved my first laptop, which strongly
resembled a similar device on the original Star
Trek, I let it go to the local techie recycling
center, assuming someone would love it and be able
to utilize its parts for some creative computer
project. Everything must update or be released.
It's how change happens. It's how life lives
itself.
And so even our guides and angels update, upgrade
and even depart from us. This allows for more space
around our body to reflect who we are now. Our
chakras no longer have to contort or manufacture an
old quality of energy in order for the guides or
angel to remain attached. The moment we allow our
self to let go of the beliefs and related energies
around 'should' and 'what was', the chakra changes
and the guide or angel departs. By asking the
question 'Are you really in tune with me now?' we
are allowing the chakra to change, and allowing the
guide or angel to know that we thank it, and have
enjoyed its journey with us, and recognize that it
can now go onto wherever else it needs to be.
11 MEDITATION: Brain Chatter Release (clearing
heart, throat and head chakras)
(NOTE: some of this section is in the
video/audio recordings but is not here in the
transcription)
Even brain chatter can be caused by out of time
guides and angels. Our energy, and our guides and
angels, are so perfectly in tune with us that it
feels like a placid lake
no breeze,
exceptionally still, when we have only those
energies that are truly ours within and around our
body.
Let's consider releasing guides and angels from the
front side of the Sixth Chakra, the forehead and
Third Eye. And also from the back side of this same
Sixth Chakra, exiting out of the low head, and
sometimes entangled with the back side of the
Throat or Fifth Chakra behind the neck.
Guides and angels accumulate behind the neck and
lower head very easily. Some relate to psychic
pictures we received from our parents and our
society as children. Some relate to psychic
pictures we continue to believe despite their not
being in tune with our level of consciousness.
Releasing these guides and angels reduces the
feeling of density or intensity in our head and
neck. Over time, we are apt to tag and release
numerous belief systems and related psychic
pictures that served us at one point in time, but
do not reflect who we are now or how we related to
our larger world now.
Clearing and resetting the pituitary gland, the
basis of the Sixth Chakra, to reflect the journey
of your soul now. Welcoming the guides and angels
that reflect the new journey of your soul. (only in
the audio meditation)
Clearing the two Heart Chakras
Allowing that which is ready to pass away to
release from the heart. We can feel a bit of sorrow
about that which is leaving. It is appropriate.
Grieving is a lovely way of releasing cords and
connection to what was and what has been. Grieving
allows the energy to dissolve and diminish between
what was in our past life and who we are now.
What one thing are you ready to let go of? Not
sure
Notice if any area of your body begins to feel
tension or an energetic intensity. Or perhaps
looping thoughts are happening, or a constant
memory or emotion is arising. Ask what you notice,
'Is this mine right now?' Allow the related
energies and patterns to move to wherever they need
to be.
12 SONG: Healing Home (Norma, voice and Tibetan
bowl)
13 SONG: For Inner Reflection (Norma, voice and
Atmaram, harmonium)
14 Release of Sacred Space
Offering gratitude towards the Nature Spirits
of the room and land, along with the Pure Energy of
Nature, for their participation in creating sacred
space. Welcoming them to clear energies from this
meditation, and releasing them from holding their
energy sphere around the room, then releasing our
conscious connection to them.
Thanking our unique connection to Archangel
Michael, present during this meditation, and asking
that any and all energies continue to move through
Archangel Michael's 'energy tube' so that they
might go home. Releasing our consciousness
magnified connection to Archangel Michael, and
allowing Michael to continue to connect to you in
whatever way your body and soul desire now.
15 Final Blessing
Thank you for participating in this meditation.
Additional meditations, music and online courses
can be found on my website,
http://www.healingchants.com
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May you carry the
blessings of this time into your own world as
sacred service.
Namaste
Norma
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