Attracting Good Stuff
This section will help you work with energy to promote well-being and happiness. It contains tools for keeping our energy light and clear, learning how to blend our energy with nature, and creating a beautiful, magic-filled life.
Energy Hygiene
Everything is made of energy. And whether we are aware of it or not, our energy is always interacting with the energy of everyone and everything around us. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you can feel the energy of a person or a place - even when you’re no longer around them? That’s where good energy hygiene comes in!
It’s a great practice to clear our energy daily - just like brushing your teeth. In fact, why not pair some of these practices with your morning routine so you make it a habit? When you clear your energy, it’s like sweeping the floor of any energy crumbs left behind by others that don’t belong to you. You can also use energy clearing after you’ve worked through dense emotions, like in my Inner Healing resources, so that you can move it out of your body.
There are countless ways to clear your energy, and I’ll list some of my favorites here. But most important of all with any energy work is the power of our intention. You want to invoke a pure, loving energy and clearly and confidently affirm your intention to clear your energy as you’re doing any of these practices. It’s best if you can affirm your intention out loud, multiple times. The vibration of our vocal cords increases the intensity of any energy work. It’s very important to affirm that you are transforming any dense energy for the highest good.
For example, I say something like this: “I am clearing my energy now and in all dimensions and timelines. Any energy that doesn’t belong to me must leave my system immediately, and I transform it for the highest good. I invite any dense energy to return to Source light.” And you’ll always want to wrap up with a powerful affirmation that your energy has been cleared. For example, you can say “it is done” or “and so it is.” It may be a subtle feeling, but you should feel lighter after you clear your energy.
You can always invite your spiritual team in to help you with any of these techniques. And you may choose to use additional tools like music, crystals, or burning incense or sage. It’s important, though, to acknowledge that these tools are only an assist. They are only augmenting our own, natural, built-in heart wisdom and power. We are sovereign beings. The power comes from the divine love that resides in our hearts.
Burn Palo Santo or Sage
I love burning some palo santo and waving it in rings around my body as I say my affirmations. I definitely feel lighter each time after I do this. I like to use palo santo to clear not only my energy, but the energy of a situation or space - especially in between clients. Sage also works, but I prefer the smell of palo santo.
The Lint Brush
You can use your hands to brush off imaginary lint or pet hair as you’re saying your affirmations. I like to start at the top of my head, move to my face, shoulders, etc. all the way down to the bottoms of my feet.
The Car Wash
I got this technique from Suzanne Giesemann. Imagine there is a liquid wall of sparkling light that reaches above your head and below your feet. You’re going to see in your mind’s eye the liquid wall in front of you, and picture it moving toward and through your body. Like you’re passing through a car wash. As it moves through you, feel it swirling around inside you making you squeaky clean! Then it passes from behind you, through your body again, and in front of you. Say your affirmations as the wall moves back and forth through you. Go through the car wash as many times as needed, until you feel done.
Shower it Off
As I’m showering, I will sometimes use the lint brush technique, explained above. There are some extra benefits from clearing your energy in the shower: (1) cleansing your hair and skin also helps clean/clear your energy, (2) water is a great conductor of energy, and (3) you’re being super efficient in doing your skin/hair hygiene at the same time as your energy hygiene!
Bounce to the Beat
This is a technique I learned from Christina Lopes. She puts on a song she likes to dance to and bounces in place or dances as she speaks the affirmations until the song is over. Energy likes to move, so you’re helping it to move by moving your body. Plus dancing is fun. I suggest a song at least 4-5 minutes long. Shamanic drum music is very effective for some, but really just pick any song with a great beat that makes you want to move. Movement is a good tool for daily energy clearing, but it’s also really great immediately following healing work you’ve done where you’ve released some heavy emotions.
Epsom Salt or Sea Salt Bath
Like moving your body, epsom or sea salt baths are good daily energy clearing tools, but also super powerful immediately following any healing work where you’ve released heavy emotions.
Drink Water
Last but not least, drinking extra water can really help clear energy. It flushes things out and water is a very good conductor of energy. Drinking extra water is my number one suggestion immediately after doing any deep healing work where you’ve released heavy emotions. Even better if it’s high quality water (filtered, re-mineralized, structured). I learned so much from Carrie Bennett about quality water and a quantum biology approach to wellness in this video.
Absorbing Good Energy
Have you ever noticed that you feel good in nature? There’s more going on than just nature is beautiful and it’s healthy for you to get fresh air. I believe that the energy offered to us by trees, mountains, ocean, soil, sun, moon and even wind is there by design, as a gift to help us replenish our energy stores. Let’s all protect these precious resources and treat them with honor.
Tree Hugging
Try this experiment - find a large tree, and lean up against it, touch it with your bare hands. Pay attention to any sensations you feel, like a buzzing, tingling, or humming. Or maybe you feel a warmth or a cooling sensation. I tried this and really didn’t think much was happening until I removed my hands, then placed them back on the tree, removed them again, and placed them back on again. I definitely could feel the energy the tree was feeding me, or more correctly I noticed the absence of the energy when I removed my hands.
Earthing
You can absorb good energy by connecting your body to the ground, the sand, the ocean too! My favorite is to absorb energy from the ocean. Many believe that the negatively charged ions helps us to balance the positive charge we pick up from all our electronic devices. And if you’re at the beach you get double benefits of taking in the energy of both sand and ocean!
It’s best if you can touch bare skin to the earth, tree, ocean, etc. This is a bit tougher in colder climates, but some people swear by earthing mats. “Earthing” or “grounding” is the practice of coming in direct contact with the ground for a sustained period. Many believe earthing can heal you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The Earthing Movie features experiments conducted in which people’s inflammation levels were measured before and after about 30 minutes of grounding. The after images revealed significantly less inflammation in the body. So many of our modern diseases are caused or exacerbated by inflammation. Many practice earthing as a way to help heal heal physically; others do it simply to feel more calm and peaceful. I definitely notice I feel better if I’m sitting on the ground - or even sitting in a chair with just my bare feet on the ground - for 20 minutes or more.
Attracting Wonderful Things
When we’re trying to manifest our heart’s desire, it’s important to realize that our vision of what that looks like and how it should unfold is kind of limited. Truly, there is an infinite number of paths to fulfilling your heart’s desire! Have you ever had the experience where you’re wishing, hoping, praying for a certain thing to happen, and…it doesn’t? 😞 But…it works out even better? 😊 Or maybe later you get why it didn’t work out in the first place, and you’re thankful it didn’t?
That’s because our spiritual team, including our own heart wisdom, know more than we do! There’s so much stuff out there about manifestation work that seems to boil down to - just ask for what you want, feel the feeling of having it, believe it already has occurred, and *poof* - it appears! I think it’s a bit more textured than that.
With the Attracting Wonderful Things technique, you’re taking a leap of faith, and surrendering exactly what the outcome looks like. Michael Sandler is one of the spiritual thought leaders I follow, and he likes to ask his angels and guides for a certain thing and then he adds “or even better.” It’s also important to ask for something more general. And I always, always add on “for the highest good of everyone involved.” So, with Attracting Wonderful Things, we still hold the vision of our heart’s desire, but we’re super flexible on the “how” and the details of precisely what it looks like.
Let’s take an example. Let’s say your heart’s desire is to own a beautiful home by the ocean near your friends and family. You could get really specific and envision all kinds of details about what that house looks like, where it’s located, what color and style of home is it, and so forth. But what is your deeper desire? This is a powerful question to ask ourselves - what is it my heart really wants? Is it more time near the ocean? Is it living in a space with beauty? Is it being surrounded by people you love and enjoy? Ask for those things instead, surrender exactly what the outcome looks like, and ask that it’s for the highest good for all involved. Really surrendering what the outcome looks like is perhaps the hardest step. We’re attached to the outcome - we’ve grown very fond of it! But I promise you, this can be where the magic happens! An amazing outcome we couldn’t possibly conceive of often will emerge out of nowhere!
Last, but not least, it’s super important that you go into this with a pure heart and the highest of intentions. Asking to be wealthier than your sibling, for example, might not be the highest of intentions. You get the picture 😉.
To put a bow on this technique, it might look something like this:
Take a few deep, cleansing breaths, and connect with your spiritual team. You can do this by just thinking warm thoughts about your spiritual entity, or simply say hello, or invite them in.
Place your hand on your heart and really feel the purity of the love that your spiritual entity has for you.
Say your version of this - “Universe, it is my heart’s desire to spend more time by the ocean, to live in a beautiful space, full of good energy, and to be surrounded by people I love and enjoy. I ask for this or even better, and I surrender the outcome to you so that it serves the highest good for all involved.”
And then really surrender the outcome…really. (Truly surrendering what the outcome looks like is perhaps the hardest part.)
Express sincere gratitude to your spiritual team.
Go about your day and forget about it, like you have all the confidence in the world that it’s being baked in the oven.
In the days, weeks, months, and sometimes years ahead - pay attention to the signs and synchronicities! When we’re being guided in a certain direction, it sometimes takes time to bake. It can be a gradual, elaborate path to get from point A to point B sometimes. Follow your intuition, the little nudges, the pulls in a certain direction. Your intuition will never steer you wrong.
OMG Method (for miracles and magic)
I’ve been blessed with many wonderful, surreal experiences in my life which I call “mini miracles.” Weird stuff that happens that really can’t be explained and you just know something greater is at play. (💡 Tip: I started keeping track of my mini miracles in the Notes app on my phone. This is a great hack for those dry spells, or ‘dark nights of the soul,’ when we just don’t feel plugged into our spiritual team at all! When we’re feeling lost and forsaken, we can scroll through all the serendipities and beautifully strange coincidences that really aren’t coincidences at all that have happened to us and remember that there are, indeed, miracles and magic.)
The OMG method stands for: Be Open - Acknowledge the Miracle - Express Gratitude.
O: Be Open
Perhaps the fastest way to squash a miracle in the making is not to be looking for one. If you’re open to the existence of miracles, then you’ll notice them. If you’re closed off, they’re much harder to spot.
M: Acknowledge the Miracle
When a mini miracle or serendipity is occurring, acknowledge that ‘yes this is really real! I’m not making this up. It’s really happening!’ By validating it, you’re honoring the experience and signaling to the Universe the value you place on miracles and magic.
G: Express Gratitude
Several years ago I added this step in my own experiences, and it made an enormous difference! If you want more of something good, give sincere thanks and you’ll receive another helping of that deliciousness, for certain!
Let me tell you a story to illustrate the OMG method….
A few years ago I was having an extremely rough time with someone at work who I interacted with regularly. I won’t go into detail about the dynamic, but let’s just say he seemed to enjoy trying to make me feel small. We know that when people are treating others unkindly, it’s almost always because of their own wounding. And I’ve learned how to hold compassion for the person while also setting healthy boundaries and not excusing their behavior. That said, the frequent interactions with him were quite upsetting to me. It really got to me. So I prayed about it, and asked for guidance. I was already in a state of openness so we can check off step one - “Be Open.” Right away, I got the message - “rise above it.” I wondered if that was just my own thought or whether it truly was a message put there by Spirit. It’s not really something I would say, plus I was a little resistant to just rising above it. That felt sort of passive and doormat-ish to me. So I sort of half-acknowledged that yes, it was a divine message. So, let’s put a half-check mark next to step two - “Acknowledge the Miracle.”
As the days passed, I sort of forgot about it, as we sometimes do. Our everyday responsibilities can sometimes sidetrack us from our spiritual practices. One morning about a week later, I was driving into work. As I got closer to the office, a pit of dread began to form in my stomach. And I remembered the message that still didn’t seem like the best approach to my human brain. So I said, out loud (yes, I’m one of those people who talks to herself while driving 😏), “What was that thing I was supposed to do again? Oh yeah, rise above it [scoff/smirk]. OK, God, if I’m really supposed to rise above it, please make it VERY clear to me, and please show me how to do that.”
Literally TWO SECONDS later, a bumper sticker on a car that I was approaching from behind snagged my attention. As I got closer I saw it said, “Rise Above It Or Become It.” I kid you not. I started crying and laughing at the same time. I could not believe such a fast and powerful sign - a literal sign! Most cars don’t even have bumper stickers anymore, and I’ve never seen one that says that! Full check mark, now, for step two “Acknowledge the miracle!” I felt so loved and cared for in that moment. I felt like God was riding along with me to work, saying “I got you, my love.” And I just kept saying “thank you, God, thank you for showing your love for me” over and over as I cry-laughed my way down I-84. Multiple check marks for step three - “Express Gratitude.”
And for those of you that are thinking the car must have passed me earlier in my commute and I subconsciously saw it, I’m 1,000% certain that’s not the case. This car was driving more slowly than I. And that’s another thing - when a mini miracle is happening to you, you feel it, it’s different, you know it’s something more at play. Sometimes re-telling our mini miracle experiences to someone else can diminish them if we’re in a stage where we’re sort of wavering in our belief. Sometimes the powerfulness of the experience just doesn’t translate, but we know it wasn’t an ordinary coincidence. We can feel the difference. Sometimes we need to protect our truth like a treasure, and only share it with others who will get it.
I went on to have more mini miracles with this situation and in my life in general, and I do believe that the OMG method was the catalyst. Especially the gratitude part. I once read that gratitude is one of the highest vibration emotions there is. It’s also the quickest route to peace and joy I know.
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