We continue with the crown chakra on our Love Your WHOLE Self 2024 chakra journey of the seven main chakras – it’s a wonderful time to find ways of surrendering to your Self* and Highest Good, to truly start co-creating your life
* that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself
I hate the term “manifesting” and a lot of The Law of Attraction stuff because it feels (to me) so icky. Even though I’ve written a good bit about it myself over the decades and was incredibly fortunate to interview The Secret’s Bob Proctor, John Demartini and other world renowned experts.
But my FAVOURITE way of working with it comes from Tosha Silver’s Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead.
It’s the letting the Divine take the lead bit (working with the crown chakra can help) that makes it sooooo much easier and more humble.
3 Simple self care tools to help you connect with your Self and the Divine every day
1) Get out in nature – especially the landscapes that soothe YOUR soul
For decades, the moon and ocean and woods and earth itself (and all its inhabitants) have been my ‘church’es.
Back in my 20s (the last time I felt actively suicidal), they helped me begin my own trauma recovery back when only the fear of being reincarnated and having to survive childhood and teens again stopped me trying again.
Being in the sea at least once a week (especially when it’s not so freezing or I’m in my snorkel gear and I can do a mini meditation while feeling completely held by the ocean and the Divine) helps me so much, I often well up in gratitude as I look at the mountains and down at the seaweed and sea creatures.
It takes energy and effort to get in and out of the water but my daily walks feed my soul, too.
ACTION: How might you get out into nature in a regular, habitual soul soothing and soul saving way? I’d love to hear how you’re going to do this. Feel free to email eve@selfcarecoaching.net and if you’re a Full or Super Moon member, you can complete the reflective feedback form for a deeper dive and some private email coaching around it with me.
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2) Use that imagination of yours for GOOD
The yoga nidras I facilitate all have an element where I guide listeners in connecting with that highest, wisest, truest part of yourself. That limitless expansive part. The part of you that’s SO MUCH MORE than whatever you’ve survived. That’s so much more than whatever challenges you’re facing today and anxious about in the future.
If you’re a Full or Super Moon member of the Sole to Soul Circle: Self care for trauma recovery and ADHD and more you have access to dozens if not hundreds of exclusive yoga nidras. We’re in the process of creating a library to make the older ones easier to find and more accessible for you – in the meantime, many are in the Exclusive Membership Area and below the paywall in your older emails from me. If not, you STILL have access to several you can try and experiment with.
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If you’re not a Full or Super Moon member, you can access other yoga nidras for free HERE Mine are all voice only as they’re trauma informed and ADHD friendly but if you LIKE music and other sounds, experiment with others online.
ACTION: I cannot emphasise how much my nearly 2 year old daily yoga nidra practise has improved SO much in my life. I hope you’ll do the same. You DESERVE deep rest. You deserve to prioritise your actual priorities, the ones that come from your Self. A regular yoga nidra practise and working with the intentions (Sankalpa) can help enormously.
3) Pray!
Maybe being named Eve made me take the whole “banished children of Eve” thing more personally but, from very early childhood I always struggled with many aspects of the religion I was raised in (Catholicism).
As a small child, I answered, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” with “Martyr” because I’d been given so many children’s but still gruesome, looking back, books about the lives of the saints and martyrs.
The whole patriarchal white male thing got me so down that during a powerful meditation on my psychosynthesis training, my “wise being” happened to be a bearded white male descending from the heavens and, at that point, I was so angry and traumatised, I tried to shove the image back up through the imaginary clouds!
Luckily I copped onto myself, took it to therapy and, over the decades have enormously healed my relationship with the Divine Masculine as well as Divine Feminine. I was angry at what had been done in people’s name but can now see the beauty and love connecting everyone.
Full Moon and Super Moon members, in this week’s Deeper Dive, you’ll have received your exclusive recordings of a few of my favourite affirmations and prayers for doing this (available by email and behind the paywall in the Exclusive Membership Benefits Area
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ACTION: Notice how you feel about the concept of prayer – maybe you already KNOW it works (whatever your spiritual and/or religious beliefs) but don’t prioritise it. I’d love to hear from you about this. Prayer and so many religions have been coopted by extremists but Divine Love is behind all of it and it might help you…
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And remember, even if you’re utterly exhausted and don’t have any spare time or energy and think connecting with your Self is a luxury you can’t even fathom, you can start where you are.
Teeny tiny steps add up.
Go easy on yourself.
What are you going to do, THIS WEEK, to work with your crown chakra?
le grá,
