The Sweet Spot Within

I've met many capable healers who have no idea how to access their own information. They are highly skilled at listening to guides but cannot hear themselves...yet.

What happens when we go straight to our own source for answers? What is it to move out the middle person?

When we're in our zone of spiritual knowingness, it is blissful.  We know the difference between our voice and others within our space. Our answers flow, the honey pours in. 

Why don't we get there more often?

As a beginner we first have to delicately and powerfully navigate our own healing process: our limits, beliefs, programming. We then learn to discern our voice from others. It can take time to clear the way for our spirit to come home.

And sometimes we delude ourselves as practitioners; we think because we have access to other people's answers, we are somehow above healing our self.  It doesn't work that way. In fact, this is where folks go of course. Healing is for our self.  Healing others is just a natural by product of shining with our light.

So, get your creative energy up and running, clear your day and other people's energies out of your space,  listen within and then ask your soul the questions that are important to you.

I always end my readings with a next step. A next step is a series of ideas that will solidify your ability to heal yourself.

So try this: do what you LOVE. Let your joy be the guide to your truth. When you're doing what you love, you're already in that sweet spot,  so ask for what you want.  Send your wishes out to the universe and let your goals take wing.

This will clear the lines of communication between your conscious self and your soul.  It will also create a natural seniority and ability to recognize your voice and the voices that are not yours.

Bust the great guide caper!  Receiving healing and validation from others is an beautiful way to give to yourself.  Yet try giving your guides and the healers in your life a different role. Empower yourself and let them validate you!

Introducing the Center for Psychic Healing!

BODY ALIVE has changed it's name to the Center for Psychic Healing! And we've changed more than our name. We have a new space too.

 

I did a play at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 95. It was a tremendous role with a fabulous playwright.  It was a great opportunity. But at the same time, I was energetically opening up at a speed I could not understand and I got stuck in pain.  

 

I did not know how to ride the wave of what I was experiencing, I only knew how to sit with one emotion at a time. My emotional life took over instead of me riding my emotions like a wave. 

 
Last month, I bought a surf board. Nope, I don't surf. The board is the new sign for the Center for Psychic Healing.  It's the perfect image for the ride we take when we decide to open to our spiritual information.  And at the Center, you learn how to have your growth in a grounded and healing way. Change always happens, so why not change your relationship to it? 

 

What change are you in the midst of? Are you stepping into the unknown and taking the ride? Or are you resisting your own change? When you sense change is coming you can focus on where you are headed and let the release be, releasing. 

 

Validate yourself. Come for a healing, a reading or step into the training.  We love to see people grow into their truth!

Here are some questions for you to take into your day: What are you ready to outgrow? What old intention are you ready to release? Imagine a new form and give it the blessings of Spring.

 

 

Sacred Sites and our Sacred Home

Happy 2013.

My family and I are in Santa Fe where the desert is timeless and sacred prayers ooze out of the earth.   There are many sanctuaries to visit in this area. I love spending time at sacred sites.  They remind me to bring the sacred into my daily physical life at home.  

When I traveled to Epidaurus in Greece to visit the ancient theatre there, I had an amazing experience with sacred geometry within the structure of the theatre. I stood on the stage, a dirt area beneath 20,000 seats built over 2000 years ago. I stood on one spot, a cement marker, a foot in diameter and I spoke in a normal voice.  

 

As I spoke,  I could feel the weight of the sound of my voice on my whole body.  I could feel my voice as it bounced back toward me from the seats and the immediacy of my words. And as I moved slowly from this spot the pressure from my voice lessened until I became aware of feeling my voice as I normally did in the world, as if the sound did not travel far, as if I was speaking into emptiness instead of fullness. 

 

Then, when I sat in the audience, as each person took this spot the sound of their voice was propelled throughout the 20,000 seats directly to me. It was as if they were sitting next to me casually speaking. The 500 feet between us became non-existent. And I know as an actor in present time theatres, you have to work hard to find the grace of a big voice that is unstrained.  And builders put a lot of money into creating spaces that do not compare to the natural acoustics at this site. 

 
The seats built into the mountain, the spot to speak from, the trees surrounding it all, they each supported the intention of the place. At Epidaurus, I was reminded how we can work with a place instead of against it.

So, do your physical surroundings support your voice and your intention?  What if this is the year you notice these questions:  Where is the experience of your essential self supported by your physical world?  What is sacred about your home or the land you live on?

Here is a simple video of a walk I did through the outdoor sanctuary at Lourdes, a sacred healing site for Mother Mary in France. This place on earth holds a different kind of felt power. A calling to come from your heart.

http://youtu.be/kx-t3O7j3fk

In 2013, may you bring your voice, heart and physical surroundings into union.

Michelle Pelletier
Director of Body Alive
A center for awareness and transformation

 

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The Alchemy of Becoming a Mom

Birthing is a shamanic journey. 

When we want to conceive we're enveloped by love.  In order to make room for more love we need to let go of beliefs about ourselves that do not fit the mother we will become.

Let me give you an example. If we experienced isolation as a child and were unable to bond with a caregiver, as we try to conceive, our psyche can go into battle with our body. Our psyche can rebel and turn the energy of our body off. Because it knows love will bring up these forgotten sensations of our youth. And that can be scary.

The feelings we haven't acknowledged effect our ability to conceive and birth. Most of us who have experienced loss as a child have created a dynamic way of being that overrides our abandonment. It can be devastating to our ego to unearth our emotional truth.

How do we make room for our emotional truth so we can allow for conception and birth? 

One mom-to-be was so engaged in caring for her entire family; mother, sisters, brother and father, that there was no room left for herself. She had been the go to person in her family since she was about 8 years old.  In her session she was able to shift her perception of responsibility for the others back to herself. She could feel this release within her low back. After 8 months of trying to conceive, she became pregnant after her next cycle. She was ready for the change.

Many of the moms I have worked with regarding conception, pregnancy and birth know what is really going on. They know what the challenge is, and it's not usually what the medical diagnoses says.

When we validate what we know is working and what isn't working it's our first step as a parent. As we acknowledge ourselves, no matter what our experience has been, this knowing can create a base of acceptance and fertility. So no matter how we bring our child into our life we have made room for them.

The anxiousness, isolation or rebellion we may have felt as children does not need to take over our ability to create a family now. But we do need to listen to what we know is true. Once we acknowledge our true feelings and give them the light of day, the alchemy begins. This alchemy is our birth, it's our shamanic journey.

I raised my vibration now I want to sleep!

"Could yesterday's class have made me physically exhausted today? I can't get off the couch!," a second year student's text read.

Yes! Sometimes we underestimate the effect energy work has on the body.

As we release past time emotions and beliefs, the weight of these ideas dissipate and our physical body registers the subtle changes. After we release, we can fill in with our essence at gold and we raise our vibration. The body gets tired as it revs itself up to match a higher vibration. Rest is an important component of energy training; when we run energy, our body may need to play catch up to our spirit.

In class yesterday I had the students look at forgiveness- their idea of it, where did the concept originate and how long has it been on the planet.  They began by looking at the energy of the human body 60,000 years ago and slowly made their way through the ages to present time.

These are some questions they asked at each time period:

What was it like to be in the body then?
What was consciousness like?
What was the earth's energy like?
Was forgiveness around as a concept?

Each student had a series of awareness's about the path of humanity, the body's genetic transformations over time, and the role forgiveness played in consciousness.

Here is my question for you: Are you using forgiveness for yourself or are you forcing it upon a situation?  Forgiveness is like grace. It doesn't come through force. When you receive forgiveness from yourself,  as a pebble in a pond, it radiates through the world. Yet it starts with you.  It also raises your vibration. So be prepared to rest.

Listen: an interview

In June I was interviewed on WOMR by Dr. Paula Sperry. We had a sweet time gabbing about energy awareness, training and readings. Take the 25 minutes to hear whether you are intrigued by this work...and if you'd like to train but live far away, I am launching a Monthly training, the first Saturday of the month. You can either make the journey for the day or join us via skype. We will begin on September 8.


More details to be posted on 8/3 at http://www.michellepelletier.org


INTERVIEW 

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=1016927

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An Actor's Prayer

I had a wonderful dialect coach when I played Lady Macbeth. She lived within Shakespeare's world for decades as an actor and dramaturg.   As we sat quietly doing text analysis at her dinner table, she listened patiently when I chewed up the text and spit it out.  The text was bitter, hard to get my mouth around, like eating a mouthful of squid. 

I was nervous.  I was playing the wife to be reckoned with in Shakespeare's Macbeth.  So many actors had left their indelible interpretation of her words and I had to make them my own. I felt the pressure to be good.

My coach leaned across our dinner plates and touched my hand.  I stopped speaking. She pressed me to not talk until I could know and feel exactly what I was saying.  She said, "...read the words silently, see the words in your mind, say the words in your head. Only say them aloud when you mean it."

I had been skimming the words, picking fresh ice off the pond. Her direction was incredibly simple and technical. 
 
As I struggled with my many tentacled lines, my white haired teacher stared at me too deep for comfort.  My lack of commitment to my own words was glaring.  Lady Macbeth was a powerhouse of loss, grief and will.  I had to push to find her outrageous drive. I had to learn to command when I spoke. 

Dinner turned into weeks of rehearsal;  I continually repeated my silent mantra, "Find what you're saying, know it, feel it."

Eventually the focus it took to speak Lady Macbeth's words became a form of prayer.  Moment by moment my attention sank into each syllable and vowel sound.  I found the weight of my character's emotional truth was carried in between consonants. The punctuation held my breath.  The words carried me if I let them.  And I spoke when my soul connected with the archetypal energies of the words.

This is what we do when we pray. 

Each prayer has it's own cadence. We read others words, willingly,  blindly at times uttering the rhythm of another until we sink into the prayer's truth. Or we begin our own prayer and with patience our inner landscape finds it way to the surface. The right words resound on our tongue.  We say what needs to be said. We ask for what we truly want. 

We can change a prayer and make it our own. Being alert to our words brings us into the present moment. Sharing a story or a prayer is a form of communion.

Here is a version of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, Jesus' native tongue.  Make it your own. Rewrite it if you need to. Pray for what you want.  Friendship, sharing kindness, pleasure...

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos,
Focus your light within us- make it useful;
Create your reign of unity now-
Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms,
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight,
Lose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands
we hold of others guilt.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back,
From you in born all ruling will,
the power and the life to do,
the song that beautifies all,
from age to age it renews.
Truly- power to these statements-
may they be the ground from which all my actions grow:
Amen.