Experience More Love With Rose Quartz

Love is one thing we can all use more of – good to know you can become a magnet to love, with a little help from the Law of Attraction and crystals! By combining the power of crystals with your focus and intention, you can create the kind of relationships you truly desire!
 
Rose Quartz is my favorite stone for love. Not only does it encourage self love, it helps draw new love to you, or deepen existing relationships. A piece of Rose Quartz under your bed will attract new love or renew existing love relationships, depending on your intention. You can also place a piece in the Relationship corner of your home, the farthest right rear corner from the front door.
 
It’s also a great idea to wear rose quartz as a pendant – especially a heart shaped one – so your heart chakra is continually bathed with the beautiful energy of this loving stone. Speaking of bathing, you can place a few Rose Quartz stones in your bath and literally submerge yourself in this loving gentle energy.

 
Rose Quartz is also my favorite stone for healing and balancing the Heart Chakra. It’s considered to be the most important stone for both the physical heart and the heart chakra.
 
The Heart Chakra, located at the center of your chest, is the chakra of love, compassion, devotion and generosity. A healthy heart chakra enables you to love deeply. It fills you with gratitude for the opportunity to live life and the desire to give back. The more open your heart chakra is, the greater your capacity for love.
 
Rose Quartz is the crystal of peace and unconditional love. It opens the heart, teaching the true meaning of love, and brings deep healing and self love. This lovely pink stone has a calming, reassuring quality that also makes it ideal to use for traumas or crisis.
 
From a Law of Attraction perspective, Rose Quartz is a great stone to work with because it promotes self love. This is very important, because without self acceptance you won’t have much success attracting the things you really want — you won’t think you deserve them!
 
It’s also a wonderful stone to hold while doing your affirmations. Carry or wear it throughout your day to remind you of your intentions.
Before you begin working with your rose quartz, it’s important to take time to cleanse it of any negative energy. No matter where you obtained your stone, you have no way of knowing the degree of negative energy it may have absorbed from the time it was mined to the time you bought it. However, cleansing and purifying your stone is easy do do.
Simply hold the stone in your left (receiving) hand and cover it with your right hand. Imagine the space you’re in being filled with white healing light from the Universe. Ask that the Rose Quartz be cleansed with Universal Love and Universal Light.
When you feel this is complete, it’s time to really get to know your stone. When holding it in the palm of your hand, ask to be connected with it’s highest energy. Ask it to work with you for your highest good and the highest good of all concerned, for whatever purpose you choose ( such as attracting self-love, a new mate, or renewed love with your present partner).
Once you connect with one piece of Rose Quartz this way, you will automatically have the same connection with all Rose Quartz you come into contact with (though they will still need to be cleansed and purified.)

 
Is it any wonder it’s my favorite stone for love? Try these tips and your love life will soar – starting with your love of self.
If you like this, you’ll love my Wishful Manifestation System in which we explore your rainbow chakra body and how to heal it, enabling the Law of Attraction to bring your desires to you!
 
 

Guided Metta Meditation


Today I was inspired to share my guided metta meditation video. While meditation is always valuable, some are better for certain situations than others. If you tend to worry about things, this is a great one for you! Use it anytime the urge to worry comes over you.
Metta is Sanskrit for ‘loving kindness’. This guided metta meditation is the perfect antidote to worry, and will help you break the worry habit once and for all! Even though we have been conditioned to worry, it’s such a bad habit! It doesn’t solve anything, and in fact makes the situation worse!
This Metta Meditation will help you stop feeding energy to what is not wanted, so you can gently redirect your thoughts back to being helpful and supportive. Then, with a clear and focused mind, the solutions may well become aparant!
In this meditation you send this loving kindness to yourself first, then extend it out to any individual or group you feel would benefit from some extra positive energy.
Then we take it a little further, extending love to everyone on the planet and the Earth herself. I draw on this meditation often, at the end of every yoga class I teach, and while I’m doing a reiki or distant reiki healing session.
I hope you enjoy this guided meditation! Please drop me a line and let me know!
Love & Light, Alexandria
 
 
 

Attitude Of Gratitude

It’s so easy to have an Attitude of Gratitude in October! 
I’ve always thought of October as the month of abundance and gratitude. It’s long been a Thanksgiving family tradition of ours to go around the table and have each person say one thing they’re grateful for. Invariably the dinner table laden with beautiful holiday food is among them!
This month I invite you to look around and marvel at all the beauty, splendor and sheer ABUNDANCE that sets October apart from all other months. Drink in the beauty of the changing leaves, the colors and scents of the farmers’ markets, the intense blue sky, and spend some time being GRATEFUL to be apart of it all!
I believe an attitude of gratitude is the most important thing we can nurture within ourselves, and also teach our children. It’s a natural antidote to stress – feelings of anger, sorrow or worry simply cannot exist alongside gratitude, the vibrations are too different. Gratitude and appreciation are of a high-flying vibration, like love. In fact, Abraham-Hicks says if we all bask in this beautiful feeling instead of worrying about the future, our future happiness would be guaranteed!
To cultivate this beautiful feeling all year, why not start a family gratitude journal? Encourage each member of the family to make daily entries, which can then be shared with the entire family on a weekly basis. You may also want to begin writing a daily gratitude list. Keep it in a separate journal so you can easily refer back when you need a lift! Taking a gratitude walk is also a wonderful way to consciously generate this lovely feeling –  focus on all the things you’re grateful for, or simply make ‘thank-you’ your mantra as you stroll. I hope this article has inspired you to develop an attitude of gratitude! I’d personally be very grateful if you’re also inspired to share it!
 
 
 
 

The Benefits of Dry Brushing Your Skin

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The benefits of dry brushing your skin are numerous. Want soft clear skin? Better muscle tone? Healthy immune system? Try Dry brushing! Dry skin brushing is part of Ayurveda’s cleansing techniques. Ayurveda is a 5000-year-old science originating in India, so this technique has definitely stood the test of time!
 

Benefits of dry skin brushing

  • Removes dead skin
  • Stimulates blood circulation
  • Helps release fatty deposits under skin’s surface.
  • Rejuvenates your cells
  • Strengthens your immune system
  • Increases muscle tone
  • Improves skin texture
  • Helps prevent premature ageing
  • Helps the flow of lymph fluid throughout the body

How to Dry Brush

  • Dry brush your skin before you shower. Be easy on your skin till you get used to it, then gradually increase the pressure
  • Use a natural bristled brush, as nylon brushes can damage your skin. A long handled one will make it easier to brush your back
  • Beginning with the soles of your feet, brush upwards toward your heart
  • When you’ve dry brushed your legs, dry brush your hands and arms, again working toward your heart
  • Now brush your back
  • Brush your belly in clockwise, then gently brush chest and neck
  • The entire process should take about five minutes. Now you’re ready to shower! For an extra treat, indulge in a self-massage using warm olive oil (I like to add a few drops of Lavender Oil) to nurture your skin

I hope this article has encouraged you to try dry brushing! Drop me a line and let me know how it works for you!
 
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Freeze Out the February Blahs With My Top 3 Tips!

indexGot the February Blahs? As I write this the sun is shining in, the snow glistening, but I’m very glad I don’t have to be out in it!
So how do you stay in a positive mind set even when it seems there’s no end to the freezing, sniffling and sneezing? Well many people opt to escape for a week or two, but for those of us who choose not to, here are a few suggestions to get you through to spring! (more…)

Powerful Practices to Kick-Start Your Day – And Your Life

thYour happiness is the ultimate DIY project. A happy life is largely the result of choice – making the decision to be happy from moment to moment. Abraham Lincoln once said: “We’re just about as happy as we make up our minds to be,” and that is so true!
Happiness is the ultimate goal of everything you think you want. The real reason you desire anything is because of the way you anticipate feeling once you have it. So why not skip the middle man and go directly to happy?
That delicious feeling is easiest to capture first thing in the morning, before reading the newspaper or catching up on your emails or social media. Every morning really is a new beginning. Your vibrational attraction is neutral when you first wake up, so the new day is literally a fresh new slate. Those first few moments when you wake are the perfect time to set your tone for the day.
If your morning routine is usually hectic you may have to set your alarm a few minutes earlier, but the time you invest in yourself will pay high dividends, worthy even of a few minutes sleep.
When you first wake up,  snuggled in your bed, all warm and relaxed and cosy, picture yourself happy, and express gratitude for your comfortable surroundings. Say “thank you” as you make your way to the bathroom. Then set a timer for 5 minutes, imagine you’ve just received a phone call giving you the best news, and allow elation to sweep over you. (I learned this technique from Mike Dooley in my Infinite Possibilities training)
Maybe you’ve just been told you won $60 million dollars. How would you react? Or maybe it was the clean bill of health you’ve been hoping for. You don’t even have to imagine specifically what this call is about– just let those fabulous feelings course through you.
Sound simple? That’s the beauty of it. Who says happiness has to be hard? Try it now. Picture yourself beaming, see the smiles of your loved ones as you share the big news, and hear their congratulations. Feel the gratitude and appreciation beginning to rise? Milk it! Fist-bump the air! Grin from ear to ear! Let these feelings grow until it seems your heart will burst.
 Isn’t it interesting that you were able to generate so much joy, when nothing in your life has changed? You just demonstrated to yourself that you can be as happy as you choose with life exactly as it is.
This practice is fun, and puts you in a great mood, but you’re accomplishing much more than just feeling good in the moment. Those good feelings and happy thoughts are radiating out from you and finding friends to bring back home and party with.  Simply by pretending to be happy you are actually creating things to be happy about. Your mind doesn’t know the difference between something you imagine and something that has actually occurred.
Our thoughts and feelings are always attracting more of the same as they match up with similar thoughts, people and life situations. So it follows that the more positive we think, speak and act, the more positive our lives will be. Focusing on any feeling will result in the circumstances of your life rearranging to replicate those feelings, so it makes sense to deliberately feel happiness as much as possible
For best results, keep that positive vibe flowing by following that initial burst of happy up with some simple gratitude and appreciation exercises you  can do while you eat your breakfast. To really amp things up, take it further than just a mental or verbal thanks. Write it down. Keep a special journal to list your gratitudes each day.
Anything you wouldn’t want to be without can go on the list. You may want to begin by simply being grateful to be alive. Give thanks for your health, the roof over your head, the food in your belly. Write what you’re grateful for and why you are. You can be grateful for your job, the people in your life, your furry friends.
 I’ve personally had very good results with writing 10 gratitudes each day. I write 5 things I’m grateful for now, and 5 ‘future gratitudes’ for things I want to have happen. I like to mix them up on the list because it makes them feel like a done deal. I know the power of gratitude, and that by feeling it in advance it is setting wheels in motion. In fact, my online program Wishful Thanking is all about the power of being grateful in advance for the things and experiences you want in all areas of your life.
Now let’s take it a step further, with visualization. What is your burning desire? More love, health, wealth, fulfilling work? Perhaps a specific event you want to go really well? Set your timer again and this time, imagine it already is exactly as you wish it to be. Really feel the gratitude and appreciation. They’re among the highest vibration emotions we can experience, so the more time you spend feeling these emotions the stronger your attraction power for fabulous things becomes.
So if you want to really kick-start 2020 and turn the life you have into the one you really want in just minutes a day, try these few simple techniques. You’ll be happy you did!