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Fri, 25 November 2011
READ ONLINE http://www.healingchants.com/newsletter11-11.html PRINT http://www.healingchuyants.com/NormaGentile_nov11.pdf Updating Your Soul's Journey What you came here to do has probably chnaged
Dear Friends, Below is an essay and a note to let you know that the new audio meditation, Healing Meditations for Notable Days (such as Solstice, Equinox, Eclipses, Full and New Moons) is now available as a free mp3 or at cost CD. This is from the 11/11/11 meditation, and it applies to current energies nicely.
In case you didn't know, we are on the verge of a set of eclipses. The first begins late Thursday eve into Friday morning (US time). These are drawing out of us emotions that we usually can put away, or at least hide from others. These emotions provide the impetus we need for yielding ourselves to new opportunities.
The magnification of energies during the window between these eclipses (Nov 24-25 and Dec 10) lets us not hide what we otherwise hide, even from ourselves. Astrologer Mark Dodich says "Those dreams and ideals that come from your soul mission want to come to the surface now." If you feel so drawn, there is more information on the new Healing Meditations for Notable Days below. Please also consider joining me for an event, and letting others know about the concerts/workshops I offer in various locations.
UPCOMING EVENTS Dec 12 Ann Arbor MI Meditation Concert in Candlelight
Updating Your Soul's Journey What you came here to do has probably chnaged
First, A Note On Psychic Learning For most people psychic gifts need to be relearned in each lifetime. The world is vibrationally distinct in each lifetime and so is your physical body. It is only natural that you would have to relearn how to be energetically in relationship to yourself and to the world. This is particularly true about how we relate to our soul's journey and foreknowing future aspects of it. Whatever your soul planned to do here before you incarnated on Earth has probably changed. Especially if you incarnated before 1972. Humanity changed. The planet changed. Whatever your soul decided to do here on Earth before you incarnated has probably changed.
During the past fifty or so hears there have been multiple shifts in our reality that our souls did not anticipate. Depending on when in our linear time line your soul decided upon this lifetime's goals and challenges, you may be experiencing yourself as disconnected from your own life. Isolation is one symptom I commonly hear from clients, as well as the sensation of floating away from the physical life you are living. From my experience, this simply means that what your mind may think is your soul's journey is no longer your soul's journey.
Most of us have been told by someone at some point either what our soul's journey is, or have figured it out for ourselves. For me, I feel that no one can fully understand or know the journey of anyone's soul. Not even our own. But we can have senses about what we are drawn to do in this lifetime, and how we are to do it.
Because of the dramatic changes that have already taken place and the increasing pace of future changes, I find it useful to revisit the trajectory of the journey of one's soul on a regular basis. The soul's journey is more apt, at this point in time, to be revealed first to your body, then to your heart, and finally to your brain. Once entered into, your new soul's journey will continue to weave and shift throughout your lifetime. Learning how to monitor and adapt to changes in your soul's journey is most useful.
As you explore your journey, it is your mind that is able to look backwards and tell you where you have been. It is the heart and body that can look into the present moment and tell you where you are. Together, the mind, heart and body can chart a potential path for your future. But this is usually the near future, as your external world continues to shift and change.
I am emphasizing here that the brain can only look back at what has already happened. Most of us use our minds as the determiner of what to do. This leads us to repeat old patterns and repeat the same unwanted results. When this happens it is easy to assume that we are not in touch with our inner spiritual life or outer world.
But perhaps there is another reason. We experience the present moment most strongly not as thoughts but as kinesthetic sensations in our body. Simply put, the body lives only in the present moment. The mind remembers the past and can anticipate the future. Our minds therefore live without being anchored in the present moment. This can be very helpful, but not if you are trying to understand your soul's journey right here and right now.
Big Picture Information from Thoth: About 1997 our system of creating linear time changed. Because of this our psychic ability no longer sees the future with the ease it once did. This is because we are no longer creating our future probabilities in the same way as we were before.
Our new system of psychic perception of the future looks more like this: Our body sees where we are in the present moment. That information rises to our heart center. The heart feels our relationship to this present moment. Do we like it and want to extend our experience or are we ready to move onto some other experience? Our heart answers this question and sends the information onto our brain. Our brain collects the information from our body and heart, adds its own ability to see the past and comes up with the most likely potential future.
Remember that our brains do have the ability to live in the past, present and future. We as humans are stepping into an exploration of creating outside of linear time. The first step in this exploration is comprehending how linear time functions. We must first understand time in order to understand how not to be subject to time.
In geometry (and I promise this will be easy, so please keep reading) there is a basic concept that if you have one point and then decide on a second point, you can draw a line between them. That line can extend beyond those two points into infinity in both directions. So you only need two points in space to define linear time. Where you have been and where you are.
What we are now able to do is change the point that exists in our past. By looking back and clearing past patterns the point behind us changes its location. That means the line drawn between our past and our present naturally changes. Our potential future changes every time we address, clear and release issues from our past.
I'm not talking past lives here. My guides are clearly stating that by addressing this life's issues we change this life's future. When we make changes in this lifetime those changes echo out to all of our other lifetimes and offer healing changes into those lifetimes. Since our bodies exist in the here and now, making changes in the here and now will get you the biggest results.
The head has to have the other partners, the body and heart, in order to see where it is going. If it is just looking backwards all that it can tell you is where you have been, which means you are going to create more of the past rather than utilize the new elements that are available to you now to create a different future.
How to get in touch with your body &endash; a simple meditation Lie down on your back. Bend your knees so your feet are flat on the floor or surface you are lying on. This naturally pressed your lower back against the surface you are on, and opens up the pelvic region to increased energy flow.
Feel the breath in your body. Feel the breath in your lower body. Breath as if you could breathe from your feet up through your knees and into your belly. Your hips move and your lower back expands every time you breathe. Take normal size breaths. How easy can that quality of breath be in your body? Follow that quality of breath as you imagine the breath entering from your lower body. Let it exit wherever it wants to exit. At some point you may fall asleep, go into a light trance or meditation state. You might also notice that the direction of the breath seems to change. Just notice whatever you notice. Let your body's wisdom tell your mind something that your mind cannot know on its own. This is a time of exploration. What has your body been wanting to tell you?
SOUND HEALINGS (hosted on the SpiritofMaat.com website) Caught by Spirit with schruti box Weaving Compassion (a choir of Tibetan Bowls accompanies my improvised chant inspired by my Hathor guide Atamira)
MEDITATION CD / mp3 - - Norma Gentile - - Nov 11, 2011 meditation Meditation CD #31 from November 11,,2011 Healing Meditations for Notable Days Full and New Moons, Solstice, Equinox, Eclipses and December 21, 2011. *includes the sound healing "Caught by Spirit", similar to those on Norma's CD Songs of Spirit Purchase as standard CD download or stream FREE mp3 On days which are considered to be sacred it is useful to take a moment to feel the old cycle which is fading away. Letting ourselves feel the grief and sorrow over old patterns departing lets there truly be space to receive the new patterns. This meditation includes: - releasing cords to processes that no longer serve your body - a sound healing "Caught by Spirit" and spoken meditations releasing energies corresponding to: - cycles that you have already completed - tasks that you have already done - lessons that you have already learned All of these energetic connections can be released out of your body. Your release of these connections will be reflected in the collective consciousness of humanity. This one way we take advantage of the heightened energies present during Full and New Moons, eclipses, Solstice, Equinox and other notable days. LINKS to people mentioned in meditation: Caroline Casey Constance Demby 1 Introduction 2 Invoking Sacred Space Archangel Michael, the Pure Energy of Nature, Nature Spirits and Intelligences join you. 3 Inviting Your Angel/Guide into Your Awareness Most of us have a sphere or portal of energy into our hearts that lies behind our physical bodies. This is where our Guardian Angel, Higher Self and connections to other healing energies most often occurs. Here is a meditation to open this portal, cleanse it, and then invite in the Angel or Guide most suitable to support you now. 4 Understanding what you are already sensing in your body Besides picking up on other people's physical body issues, the telepathic ability of our lower chakras can also pick up disturbances and changes in the electromagnetic field of the planet. These are the sorts of changes that many people anticipate will be happening over the next few years. For this reason it is particularly useful to be able to distinguish when the signals your body is sending to you relates to your own body, someone else's body or the planet. 5 Spiritually Significant Days Many people are already directing their attention, and so therefore their energy, into the date of December 21, 2011. I wonder if the various days preceding this that have interesting numerical combinations serve as practice days for us. How do we energize days that are defined by someone as spiritually significant? How well do we create sacredness afterward the hoopla of a spiritually significant day has passed? Especially when we are receiving the energetic results of what was done? These practice days give us the opportunity to work with the larger energetic patterns that arise in ceremony and return to humanity when many people focus on one thing. 6 Collective Consciousness and Polarity Outside of our reality there is no polarity. When the energies that we are creating in ceremony move out to the other realms or dimensions, the other realms perceive the energies in their entirety. They do not perceive someone wanting good. They simply perceive someone as wanting. It is we who divide an energy into its good and bad aspects. The other realms do not perceive just the good, the calming or the joyful aspects of our ceremonies. They perceive the entire consciousness within ourselves, which includes those unconscious elements of fear, shame and all that we may not yet be aware of within our own selves. For this reason we often feel "out of sorts" in the days following a sacred ceremony. 7 Meditation: What is the will of your Soul? Our soul has its journey upon the earth within our physical form. It comes through our entire body, not just our head. In fact, our soul wants to embrace our entire physical body, every cell and every atom, from our toes through our navel and into our hearts. Here is a meditation to do just this. 8 Sound Healing: Caught by Spirit Norma sings a Song from Spirit accompanying herself with a schruti box. 9 Cycles of Change The connection explored in this meditation between Our soul has its journey upon the earth within our physical form. It comes through our entire body, not just our head. In fact, our soul wants to embrace our entire physical body, every cell and every atom, from our toes through our navel and into our hearts. Here is a meditation to do just this. 8 Sound Healing: Caught by Spirit Norma sings a Song from Spirit accompanying herself with a schruti box. 9 Cycles of Change The connection explored in this meditation between your soul and body simply helps you understand that no matter what happens external to yourself that there is always a still quiet center. There is always a place where Spirit and form meet within you. This place can never be changed, altered, or taken away from you. 10 Meditation: Releasing cords, processes, tasks and old lessons Your release of these connections can be reflected in the collective consciousness of humanity. As you release, this serves as the slightest reminder to others that they too can release. As you change, the message of change expands out to everyone in your life. It is up to their soul and their body to determine what, if any, of this change they may want to consider. You need not wait for them. You can make changes now. 11 Releasing Sacred Space A Note on Phone Meditations and CDs of Meditations and Teachings: As of today, I have 30 Meditations and Teachings recordings available. They cover all on different subjects, some are direct channelings from my guides, most often Archangel Michael, Mary, the Hathor Atamira, Thoth, Shesat or a group of Ascended Masters. Most of them invoke Sacred Space and then focus on an issue and provide time for your guides and angels to work with you energetically. Many are drawn from the live Phone Meditations that I offer each month. About half contain healing songs or chants. All are offered freely as podcasts (you can subscribe directly on iTunes > Podcasts > Norma Gentile) or at cost CDs. At this time donations provide the funding for the free monthly (or so) Phone Meditations, the recording and editing process, posting them online and paying the monthly fee to maintain them online for free download. As of today, more than 40,000 downloads of these meditations has occurred. And chances are you have participated. Thank you! I know it is your energy that shapes each meditation and newsletter, and helps pull the information and insights that I share through me from Spirit. I look forward to many more meditations, and many more downloads! And yes, please share these newsletters, podcasts and phone meditations with your friends, your email circle and others. If you have to wear clothes... why not wear something that reflects your inner attitude as well as your outer need? Wearable & Usable Sacred Art - bring your Inner Attitude to the Outer World. Designs based on Hildegards own poetry and art -------- NEW - iPhone & iPad goodies / outerwear jackets / organic / cotton / plus-sizes / children / notecards / tote bags mugs iPhone cover ceramic travel mug raglan hoodie reusable ~ ~ ~ N O R M A' S E V E N T S ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~(complete list here) PLEASE JOIN ME (and let your friends know too!) AT AN EVENT November, TBA FREE PHONE MEDITATION local phone numbers for many countries. More info Here FLORIDA (near Tampa) Fri Oct 21 Meditation Concert (Sun City) Sat Oct 22 Magnifying Healing with Intentional Use of Sound Workshop Sat-Sun Oct 22-23 Private Healing Sessions Ann Arbor, MI Sunday, Dec 12 at 4pm Meditation Concert Private Healing Sessions (offered in person or by phone) I am very good at helping to lift off heavy energies and get chronic issues to begin to move. Any energy released goes home, to follow its own growth and evolution. This means that what is released does not return. And it means that those energies with awareness know that I mean to help them. In this way your agreement to "keep them safe" is brought to completion, because they are released with honor and respect onto their next step. This is true of all energies, big or small, that your soul and body are ready to release. Remember that any energy in your body or aura that is not in time or in tune with you will cause a slow, steady draining of your vitality. This leads to larger issues arising in the physical body, emotional overwhelm, and psychic cloudiness. A complete "deep cleaning" regularly can help you find, address, and release what is no longer yours to carry. This frees you up to engage fully with your own life's issues. (and yes, we can address life issues as well in the session). A recording is made of the session. When you listen to the recording your guides and the healing angels will return to continue to help your personal inner understanding and release continue. Sessions are $185 and last about an hour. Please be in touch with me to secure an appointment time. norma@healingchants.com or 734-330-3997. Read more about private healing sessions here Norma's other offerings --- RECORDINGS OF HEALING MUSIC AND CHANT (sacred chants from Hildegard, improvisations from Spirit and healing songs from the Hathors, available as a CD or download) SPOKEN MEDITATION CDs and PODCASTS (meditations and information, available as a CD or download) WATCH HEALING CHANTS ONLINE www.youtube.com/normagentile MONTHLY FREE ONLINE SOUND HEALINGS: sponsored by Spirit of Maat http://www.spiritofmaat.com My monthly articles and free sound healings are now available in English, German and Spanish online through www.spiritofmaat.com This is different from the newsletter, which you are reading now. This newsletter is available in Spanish and English (subscribe here) Do you buy stuff from amazon.com or amazon.ca? United States Canada When you order anything from amazon (my music, someone else's books or music, suppliments or even a new kitchen sink) through this site 5% of your purchase price goes to support my newsletter.. To ensure that your purchases are properly credited, be sure to click on the amazon.com or amazon.ca logo to the left. All purchases made when you enter amazon.through this page are credited. So go ahead, do some gift-shopping while you are here. Thank you! Norma Gentile, Healing Chants PO Box 971020, Ypsilanti, MI 48198 USA 734-330-3997, www.healingchants.com info@healingchants.com YES please pass this email onto anyone you think would be interested. Just be sure to include my contact info. Click here to see other Newsletters
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Wed, 23 November 2011
(Full and New Moons, Solstice, Equinox, Eclipses and 12.21.2012)
On days which are considered to be sacred it is useful to take a moment to feel the old cycle which is fading away. Letting ourselves feel the grief and sorrow over old patterns departing lets there truly be space to receive the new patterns.
This meditation includes - releasing cords to processes that no longer serve your body and spoken meditations releasing energies corresponding to: - cycles that you have already completed - tasks that you have already done - lessons that you have already learned
All of these energetic connections can be released out of your body. Your release of these connections will be reflected in the collective consciousness of humanity. This one way we take advantage of the heightened energies present during Full and New Moons, eclipses, Solstice, Equinox and other notable days.
1 Introduction
Archangel Michael, the Pure Energy of Nature, Nature Spirits and Intelligences join us.
3 Inviting Your Angel/Guide into Your Awareness
4 Understanding what you are already sensing in your body Besides picking up on other people’s physical body issues, the telepathic ability of our lower chakras can also pick up disturbances and changes in the electro-magnetic field of the planet. These are the sorts of changes that many people anticipate will be happening over the next few years. For this reason it is particularly useful to be able to distinguish when the signals your body is sending to you relates to your own body, someone else’s body or the planet.
5 Spiritually Significant Days Many people are already directing their attention, and so therefore their energy, into the date of December 21, 2011. I wonder if the various days preceding this that have interesting numerical combinations serve as practice days for us. How do we energize days that are defined by someone as spiritually significant? How well do we create sacredness afterward the hoopla of a spiritually significant day has passed? Especially when we are receiving the energetic results of what was done? These practice days give us the opportunity to work with the larger energetic patterns that arise in ceremony and return to humanity when many people focus on one thing.
6 Collective Consciousness and Polarity Outside of our reality there is no polarity. When the energies that we are creating in ceremony move out to the other realms or dimensions, the other realms perceive the energies in their entirety. They do not perceive someone wanting good. They simply perceive someone as wanting. It is we who divide an energy into its good and bad aspects. The other realms do not perceive just the good, the calming or the joyful aspects of our ceremonies. They perceive the entire consciousness within ourselves, which includes those unconscious elements of fear, shame and all that we may not yet be aware of within our own selves. For this reason we often feel “out of sorts” in the days following a sacred ceremony.
7 Meditation: What is the will of your Soul? Our soul has its journey upon the earth within our physical form. It comes through our entire body, not just our head. In fact, our soul wants to embrace our entire physical body, every cell and every atom, from our toes through our navel and into our hearts. Here is a meditation to do just this.
8 Sound Healing: Caught by Spirit Norma sings a Song from Spirit accompanying herself with a schruti box.
9 Cycles of Change The connection explored in this meditation between your soul and body simply helps you understand that no matter what happens external to yourself that there is always a still quiet center. There is always a place where Spirit and form meet within you. This place can never be changed, altered, or taken away from you.
10 Meditation: Releasing cords, processes, tasks and old lessons Your release of these connections can be reflected in the collective consciousness of humanity. As you release, this serves as the slightest reminder to others that they too can release. As you change, the message of change expands out to everyone in your life. It is up to their soul and their body to determine what, if any, of this change they may want to consider. You need not wait for them. You can make changes now.
11 Releasing Sacred Space
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Wed, 19 October 2011
Time and Creation
Below is an article inspired by Mary and Archangel Michael. I can’t say I totally understand it myself, but I feel my mind being ‘re-wired’ and my body come alive in a new way each time that I have read it. And so I share it with you.
I did not know as I was channeling this essay that we are entering in to a phase described by the Mayans as "The Time of No Time”. This, according to astrologer and author Cal Garrison, is a period where future, past and present times collapse into each other. I experience this as a brief moment that feels like a timeless eternity opening inside of my own body. And it is happening in the oddest of places and seemingly random moments - a parking lot, standing in line in a store, on hold during a phone call, waiting for my computer to update a file or just sitting in the sunshine. Time stands still while gazing into the face of eternity.
I sat down to write and asked what one message would be most useful to share. I had asked this after inviting Archangel Michael into the room. To my surprise it was Mary Magdalene who identified herself to me and who then began to help me form thoughts. Below is a transcript of what was shared. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - -
What if time were not just linear or non-linear, but capable of existing in different forms within each dimension? Time is not unique to your third dimension, but its expression within your dimension is unique. What if time were an expression of the consciousness of each Being?
You have been told that Time is an illusion. Some of you have had the experience of stepping beyond humanity’s agreed upon definition of time as linear. If you consider that time may bend itself, much as you can turn your face to one side and allow your body to remain stationary, facing forward, so too can time be at once both linear and non-linear.
Why is this important?
Because at this point in time your ability to utilize many other ways of reasoning that include other aspects of who you are (your heart, your soul, your spiritual network of helpers and your physical body) are being called upon. They are being called by the changes of the cosmic winds to step into your awareness and offer their own unique counsel.
You are not alone. But for thousands of years you have let your brain function as if it were all alone. You have believed that your very consciousness resided in that lovely round globe which rests upon the upper portion of your torso. But what of the remainder of your body? If indeed it were only your brain that held your consciousness, then there would be no need to animate your body. However, it is the loving presence of your consciousness that brings life-force into your entire body.
The bucket is empty without water. So too your body is a vessel waiting to be filled by you. Thinking merely identifies that the bucket exists. Actively engaging in your body fills it with water.
Let us address the issue of linear and non-linear time.
Consider this metaphor: Time is the action of moving the bucket to fill it with water. In order to fill a bucket with water one usually must turn the bucket to dip it into water. Turning the bucket on its side and filling it with water means allowing the bucket to enter the water. Here the water is linear time, and the bucket represents your ability to bend time and let the bending of time enter into and pass through linear time.
This metaphor represents how linear and non-linear time interpenetrate each other and co-exist within your reality. In this moment those of us who are Spiritual Teachers place a great importance upon your understanding of time as a result of where your thoughts originate from. Not just the thoughts of your head, but the reasoning process and resulting thoughts that travel through your entire physical body create your experience of time.
Thinking with aspects of yourself that include your body, your soul, your spiritual support network and your heart allow you to access the multitude of software programs within you that create non-linear time. Thinking as you have been taught to think, with your head, limits you to experiencing time only in its linear form.
When you exist in linear time you are limited to creating within linear time and in a linear fashion. When you think using all of who you are, you access the possibilities of creating outside of linear creation. This means engaging the thought process with your heart, your soul, your spiritual network of helpers and your physical body.
And it is not we of the Spiritual Realms who hold the key to how you experience time. You alone are the guardians of your own time. When you choose to follow the principles of time in its linear form, you continue to think within the limitations of the physical brain. The bucket is defined but empty of water.
As you explore your entire body, and how thought moves through your body as well as your soul and those Beings of Consciousness who comprise your spiritual support team, you open yourself to experiencing the other manners in which time expresses itself in your dimension.
For now, notice when time seems to stand still. And when it passes quickly. Notice how your body feels and how you experience yourself in relationship to your Spiritual support team and your soul. All these give subtle clues about what you are doing and what you are not doing
Why is learning to experience non-linear time important?
And these moments of non-linear time and creation, like the bucket, have been dipped into the water of your ongoing linear creation. Those things which were created in a non-linear fashion were brought into your linear reality and filled with your linear reality. Much like the bucket was filled with water.
We said at the start that your thought identifies the bucket. And your active engagement in the world fills it with water. Now we would add that the quality of your thought is now able to change the water in the bucket from reflecting linear creation principles to reflecting non-linear creation possibilities. You are now a participant in the generation of non-linear reality and hence creation.
-Mary and Michael through Norma Gentile www.HealingChants.com
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Fri, 9 September 2011
How your body receives grounding within the changing electromagnetic field of Earth As we have changed in consciousness, so too Gaia’s consciousness and therefore the Earth has changed. The electromagnetic field of the Earth is constantly shifting and changing. More so now. This meditation is one way of helping our own electromagnetic field (our aura) listen and respond to the changes in the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the consciousness of Gaia. Here is a meditation inviting your body to remember its innate connection to your soul. Deeply relaxing, this meditation includes segments of releasing energies within your body and your aura. By inviting those energies that match your soul from within the lower dimensions to reestablish their natural connection to you, a fluid and ongoing energetic dialogue is created between your soul, your body, and the Earth. This is a new style of grounding which serves us well as we move into a new era of consciousness. Our Western culture has cultivated such a dependence on our heads and our ability to think that it has also cultivated a disconnection with our bodies. We have ended up with lovely bodies that walk our heads around. Fear has become an intrinsic way of life. It has become our daily companion. This is because we as humans can not access our own body’s knowing and telepathic experience of the world which lies within our navel chakra and within our enteric nervous system. As we recover this lost skill, we will get better at feeling what is and isn’t actually a danger to our body. As this happens, our level of fear decreases. My guides during this meditation included Thoth, Shesat, Mary and Archangel Michael.
1 Introduction 3 Invoking Sacred Space 5 Meditation: What our energies feel like to us 9 Releasing Sacred Space 10 Gaia and Earth and Us 11 For more information This meditation is offered free of charge, but donations are always welcome.
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Wed, 1 June 2011
I have never thought of springtime as a time of inner or outer death. But this year, at least for me, it has been a journey through chaos into an ever deepening stillness within. I suspect that I am not the only one who has been called, over and over again, to be present with extremes of grief and joy in these past weeks and months. Or to hold in loving compassion those who are undergoing severe and drastic life changes. Each time I think to myself “this has to be the last change, the last huge political uprising, the last death, the last flood or earthquake or tornado.” But it hasn’t been. Celebrating life is associated with springtime. Especially here in the northern climate of the US it is clear that the land is verdant once again. What was hidden, in terms of the life force of Nature, is now clearly visible as lush green fields (and lawns) host brilliantly colorful flowers. As I look out into my wonderful blooming garden, I wonder, does this obvious beauty mean it is over? Has the repeated cycle of being called to be present for death and illness and the world’s political changes ended now that spring has past and summer is nearly upon us? Or perhaps, because I am human, that very human part of me asks Spirit if there can be an intermission, a pause, between the incessant acts of human violence and Nature’s ever increasingly dramatic storms? Probably not. Because with each external change, we are called to reassess who we are, and how we want to express ourselves as Spiritual Beings into our ever shifting world. Living in a constant state of overwhelm is becoming an acceptable permanent condition for many people that I see in healing sessions nowadays. Consider, even a few years ago, would you be doing all that you are doing now in a normal day? With each act of external change we are being called into a state of being that exists only when we are silently and firmly living from that place of “home” within our body. Within this place there is usually no sense of rushing urgency, and no sense of being pushed or pulled by outer events. This is the spiritual and energetic antidote to overwhelm. As the cycles of change move, they create an opportunistic chaos. Within this chaos are all the parts and pieces we need to create an entirely new world. I wonder if our ability to be present deep within our bodies isn’t a part of creating a deepening sense of “home” for ourselves that over time might resonate to others in our world. I know from deep within my own “home” in my body that the continuing cycles of violence, whether from Nature or Humanity, are opportunities to let go of what we cannot carry through our personal spiritual and physical storms. Deciding what we treasure helps us recognize who we are now. We are then free to release into the chaos of the storms that encircle us those things, including relationships with others, that are no longer a part of our soul’s journey. Trying to do it all, or carry it all, or care for everything that is moving into a chaotic state leads to overwhelm. Find that still center point within yourself that is home. Here you already are.
If you would like to explore this further, please join me on Wednesday, June 15 at 9pm EDT (New York City time) for a free Phone Meditation. The focus of this meditation is an exploration of where “home” is within your physical body, how to get there and how to remain there.
This hour will includes a series of silent and spoken meditations from my guides Atamira (a Hathor), Mary and Archangel Michael. Plan on finding a quiet space where you can lie down and be deeply at rest and undisturbed for the duration of the meditation. This will be recorded and posted as a free podcast or at-cost CD. at www.normagentile.libsyn.com and on iTunes under podasts.
Some Additional Thoughts Of the many observations I and others have made about the past few months, here are three ideas that my guides shared with me which may be useful to consider. I do not believe that any one person, no matter how spiritually or psychically gifted, knows all and sees all. I offer these ideas merely as possible ways of framing for our human minds what is happening in dimensional realms that is far beyond the comprehension of our human minds. Even though we like to think we can know it all!
Shredding Yourself into Multiple Realities If it was possible to put all of what you define yourself as being and doing (a mother, a teacher, a healer…) into a container, mix it well, and then shred each role and definition of yourself into the tiniest fragment, you would see all of who you are accumulated into one big pile. But the pieces that make up each of your roles in life would no longer be connected, one to another. We are pulling apart each aspect of who we are. Each role that we play, (mother, daughter, good friend) or thing that we do (teach, heal, work, drive a carpool) is being shredded into its tiniest portion. And these portions are being mixed together. Their relationship to other portions of what we do in that same job or role in our life is not clear. Sort of like finely shredded cabbage in cole slaw before you add the dressing. All the parts of who we are still exist, but they are not connected. There is no spiritual equivalent of mayonnaise or vinegar to bind the various pieces together. This began last winter. In late January of 2011 up until early May we began experiencing ourselves in multiple realities. That is a fancy way of saying that decisions we make in one moment are remade in the next moment due to quickly changing external circumstances. Many people are experiencing a type of “sea-sickness” when their physical body is not fully engaged with and stable in one reality. In the western culture we have seldom focused on feeling our navel chakra. And yet it is within this chakra that our unique tone or energy signature lies that tells our soul where its home is. Again, this feeling of “home” being within the body.
Choosing One Reality (and living in it) For years I and others have mentioned that the changes we make here in the third dimension move out to other dimensions. Naturally, changes that are made in other dimensions affect us here as well. Not all the changes or choices we make in our lives are reflected in the other dimensions. Some choices are, and some are not, at least not in this one single reality in which our physical body lives right now. My guides suggest that our physical bodies are designed to exist in only one reality at a time. We shift realities as we change our minds and make new choices. When we do not commit entirely to a new choice we straddle realities, becoming ungrounded, fuzzy, and unable to function well. The solution is to commit to a choice, following through with whatever that would mean in daily life, and allow your body to ground into that choice and the resulting reality. Later on if you decide to choose differently, you can. But first you must feel in your body the results of your choice. Our Galactic Tennis Game Recently the consciousness of our planet as arisen to the point where we are now receiving back from other dimensions the equivalent of energetic “tennis balls” that we launched out hundreds of years ago. When our planet began to awaken, hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago, our actions began to quietly be whispered to the dimensions above and below us. As our awakening increased, so did the volume of our actions increase within the other dimensions. Our actions became more and more audible to all the other dimensions. And as those beings of consciousness that reside in other dimensions listened, they began to respond to our activity. It is their response to our choices that is now being felt by us. Each of Humanity’s choices moved not just through our own lives, but also out into other dimensions. Those beings of consciousness in other dimensions are now sending back to us tides of energies that reflect the changes they have made, based on our initial choices. Think of it as a huge Galatic tennis game between friends. No winners will be announced. As anyone of us chooses to do something differently, the energy of our choice is broadcast to beings in other dimensions ,who may then also choose to do something differently. And they let us know the changes they have made, so that we can respond to their choices with additional changes on our part. Does that mean that every choice any human has ever made is being echoed back to us now? No. As with an overly chatty friend, much of our energetic activity was ignored by the other dimensions. Or perhaps we have moved so quickly through various realities that we are no longer aware of the repercussions of our actions upon realities we left long ago. Starting in the fall of 2010 and intensifying into the Spring of 2011 more and more of our choices and activities are being heard and responded to by beings of consciousness in other dimensions. Which means that the changes they make as a result of our choices echo back to us in our lives and in our larger world. It is a tennis game across dimensions and time. Which brings me to the topic of time speeding up and events happening in a non-stop mode. This is one result of our new inter-dimensional energetic tennis game. It is also a reflection of how quickly we are moving through realities. With each choice a new reality emerges, and we step into it. And while my human self longs for a summer break from all of the change, I know that will not happen. As we head into June with three eclipses and a number of notable astrological events, I can’t help but think that we are all headed for a “new normal”. Slow days used to mean a day of reflection and meditation with a few small items to do on my agenda. Now, at least for me, those times of quiet are less frequent and more cherished. And yet I find that deepening sense of home is carried within me at all times. My blessings to each of you,
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Wed, 16 March 2011
It wasn’t just an Earthquake. Nor was it just a tsunami. Nor is it even the ongoing nuclear meltdowns. The electromagnetic field of the planet shifted. It happened in the hours just before the Earthquake and for several hours after the Earthquake. And because of that, our brains and the way we think have changed too.
What does that mean? Simply put; you can’t think the same thoughts this week that you thought last week. The physical shift of the Earth made more concrete within our own bodies whatever change was necessary so that our thought patterns will not regress. That is a gift to all of humanity from those now enduring hardship and loss in Japan. There are thoughts that are very hard for us to entertain now, after the quake. These same thoughts were ones we considered normal to have before the quake. There is a deeper quality of compassion and less judgment. A deeper reflection and stillness that we either yearn for or are taking steps to find and cultivate now. Our brain’s function has shifted. We have lost some of our memory. The kind of memory that tells our computer where we were the last time we opened a web browser. We can no longer access it. There is no going back. We are not who we were. The electromagnetic field that surrounds the Earth is both generated by the Earth as well as all the living beings who are present upon and within the Earth. As my definition of living beings I’m including plants, animals, minerals and all that humanity has created. Including nuclear power plants. These power plants emit electromagnetic fields. To a lesser extent the electrical lines in my backyard that bring electricity into my house, along with my phone lines and even cable TV lines, also generate small electromagnetic fields. As a result, the larger EM field of the planet is impacted by these smaller EM fields. My guides were suggesting I think of this like acupuncture. If the planet is the body of the patient, then the planetary electromagnetic field is the energetic body of the patient. The nuclear reactors are needles being inserted into the patient’s body; in this case the Earth. If someone randomly inserts needles into someone’s body, chances are they won’t hit any major acupuncture points, or hit enough minor points that relate to each other in a way to disturb the flow of energy in any given meridian. Any disruption in the meridians or chi of the patient that does occur due to needles being inserted randomly the patient’s own body will restore within a few hours or days, once the needles are removed. In the case of our planet, the nuclear reactors and similarly large producers of electromagnetic fields have been plunked down upon the planet. But they are not spread out evenly. They are clustered into certain regions and in lines up and down the coasts of Japan and the east coast of the US. Where the reactors exist in these lines, it is possible that they are forming secondary energy meridians, with each reactor functioning as a potent nodal point. These secondary energy meridians exist alongside the natural energy meridians of the Earth. Where they are clustered, they are creating secondary nodal points. My wondering goes perhaps a bit differently here than what you might expect. I wonder if Earth’s energies and Gaia’s consciousness feels these secondary meridians and might be incorporating them to catapult the change in human consciousness? That is to say, what humanity has built is not wrong. It is being used in a manner we didn’t anticipate to help us spring more quickly into a new way of viewing and interacting with our Earth. And we may not find this comfortable. Perhaps this discomfort will motivate us to seek within ourselves that still center point. Or plant a garden. Or call a dear friend.
from Mary, Tension and Release Tension and release are the acts by which you as humans move forward or backward – as to which direction, that is your choice. You may choose to see disaster as a step backward for humanity. Or as an opportunity to receive new learning tools. Your heart opens, and what pours forth nourishes your world.
A Note from Norma: At about the some moment the Earth shrugged her shoulder under the island of Japan, my own body sighed deeply. Months of a tension which had slowly built up inside of my core released as I turned from my computer screen to reach some papers behind me. It was an emotional energy and a sigh and a question mark, all pulsing up and out and into the space around me. It was also a surprise. Before I gathered my thoughts, the energy had gone from the room. And the uneasiness I had been feeling inside of my body was gone. Completely. It was not mine. It had grown so slowly that I had not even thought to ask the tension if it was mine. Like most of us who feel things going on inside of us, I assumed that the sensation was mine. But it wasn’t. It was the Earth’s. Our bodies are resonant to the physical Earth. Although we may have blocked it, we have the ability to be telepathic with the Earth. Many people find it easier to be telepathic in their emotions. They know they are resonant with the grief, fear and pain they see on the television. Others are now resonant with the Earth, as she builds up tension and then releases it. Just as we are on a journey, so is Gaia, whose body is the physical Earth. My blessing to all who read this, -Norma Gentile
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Tue, 15 February 2011
An hour of experiential healing meditations from Archangel Michael and Mary through Norma Gentile based on her essay Micromanaging God: How We Pray Matters *includes the sound healing "O Creation of God" (O factura Dei, available on the CDs Songs of Spirit and Healing Chants of Hildegard) composed and sung by Norma to the poetry of Hildegard of Bingen. Manifestation is an energetic process within our throat or 5th chakra working in tandem with our navel chakra and knee chakras. The quality at which our skin rubs against our physical reality is largely determined by our soul. Sometimes it is our expectation that it will be difficult to release something that actually makes it difficult. Most of the time, the old is really uncomfortable, and we have simply grown used to the discomfort. The more we let go, the more ease we have in our lives. Spiritual energetic waves are always coming towards us. But the new can't arrive until we have let go of the old. In the ocean of life, you can't surf two waves at once! What if we were to shift healing and prayer away from the idea of needing help and giving help? What if we saw healing as being a situation where a person's soul and body are recognizing a potential for strengthening their connection? Together the soul and body have identified a weak link that they are ready to change. It is only the personality that is holding us back from moving easily along that path of change. |
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Sat, 29 January 2011
(Free Phone Meditation Sun, Feb 6 at 2pm EDT. See www.healingchants.com>Calendar for call in information) I find that the lessons my guides like to share with me are often brought to my attention in my normal waking life. Recently, I noticed that not only is the media reporting on the events they usually cover, such as natural disasters and political upheavals, but they are also covering the resulting prayer gatherings and peace rallies. Likewise, with each unfolding situation, my email box fills with announcements of group meditations and prayers. I’m betting yours does too. The invitations for most meditation events I receive include notes that the intention is to “heal” or “bring peace” to a person or situation on the planet. Other emails request me to “send light and love” or good thoughts, prayer and energy towards curing illness for someone or helping with a difficult family matter. Certainly I feel a sense of compassion for those who are suffering. Yet the underlying intention of this sort of goal-oriented prayer has never felt accurate to me. This morning as I was wrestling with how to address another round of these emails, I heard a sentence being formed out loud in my head. “The more unencumbered by personal intentions your prayers are, the more effective they are.” While I attributed the sentence to one of my guides, the idea was not new to me. Growing up as the eldest granddaughter of a minister, I heard again every Easter the Bible story of Jesus’ overheard prayer “…Not my will, but Thine, be done.” As a mystically inclined seeker of the Divine, I know it from passages in the Bhagavad Gita, the Emissaries of Divine Light, and the teachings of Yogananda. And in the world of energy healing, I immediately recalled the ways in which several teachers have shared this same philosophy with me. Spiritual healer and teacher Ken Page points out that whenever we send energy, even “love and light”, we are opening ourselves to an energy exchange. Something will come back to us from the person or situation we are targeting with our prayers. I would add that the more our intention is to change a person or situation, the more the energy that comes back to us will also try to change us! Drunvalo Melchizedek, author and originator of the MerKaBa Meditation, points out that we live in a polarized world. In this world where there is both good and evil, right and wrong, we create both aspects of whatever we wish for, even though our intention is to create only one aspect. When our prayers are formed “for the good” by our mental capacity, an equal amount of our energy is also creating the opposite effect. I find that Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” applies to how we pray. If we indeed pray for what would appear to be a “good” outcome to any situation, then we are also unconsciously putting an equal amount of energy into praying for a “bad” outcome. How can this be? My metaphysical answer is this: Because we live in a world that is based on Free Will, we as a group of souls decided to create polarity. On a practical level this means that what appears to me as “bad” might actually be the catalyst for a much larger movement of Spiritual growth. In our human form, we are not able to see the larger picture of events that are working themselves out. It is only natural for us to pray for that which makes one more comfortable, happier, and healthier. But our soul’s journey is to explore how we, while in human form, create comfort and ease, generate joy and find balance in our physical bodies. While our personality would prefer to jump to the end of our soul’s learning process and enter into a life of perfect comfort, our soul want to learn all that is possible while here in human form. And sometimes that includes the experience of discomfort in order to motivate useful changes in our lives. In a study done in the 1990s, hospitalized cardiac patients were prayed for in directed and non-directed prayer, and compared to a group that received no prayers. (this was a small study, probably funded as part of the Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Studies, and most likely related to a university hospital. If you know this exact study please let me know as I have lost the original published article) Unlike many similar studies which divided patients into only two groups, this particular study divided patients into three groups. The group that received no prayers did the least well in terms of their physical recovery. The second group received prayers of directed healing: “Please heal the heart of _______,” for example. The third group of patients received non-directed healing. “May God’s will be done in the life of ________.” Not surprisingly the third group of patients had the highest recovery rate. As their report states: “With non goal-directed prayer, the group of over-soaked beans gave off water and moved down toward normal, and the under-soaked beans took on water and moved up toward normal. The different needs [of the soybeans] were met.” The group of soybeans receiving directed goal prayers remained either over saturated with water as well as too dry. The potential within the soybeans receiving non-directed, non-goal oriented prayer to bring themselves into balance was activated by the energy of the prayers. This same inner potential to achieve balance was not successfully accessed by those soybeans receiving directed or goal-oriented prayers. This is a strong lesson for all of us, whether or not we consider ourselves to be healers. Letting ourselves honor, especially during times of great need, the innate intelligence of God that lies within each person or situation allows the power of Spirit that is already present within each person or situation to shine more brightly. Telling God how to heal a person, bring peace to a situation or fix a perceived problem actually constricts the movement of Spirit, and thus the potential healing that God would desire to bring through that person or situation. I have no doubt that it is easier to pray for a soybean to follow its own inner intelligence than to find within ourselves a space of neutrality and compassion from which we can pray without a fixed goal for those we know or for painful world situations. This is perhaps one of the most difficult lessons we, as humans, have decided to learn. Healing and prayer are not about results. Healing and prayer happen when we allow our own compassionate heart to open and simply be with another’s pain. In this way God is awakened from within, and Love is remembered.
Norma Gentile www.HealingChants.com
Norma Gentile, sound shaman, is an intuitive healer and channeler. She incorporates her training as a professional musician into her meditation albums and recordings of healing music. Many songs, meditations and group consultations are offered freely through her website’s newsletter. www.HealingChants.com
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Mon, 10 January 2011
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Sun, 2 January 2011
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Sun, 2 January 2011
(Eclipses, Velcro and Spiritual Magnificence) We are sitting in the midst of two energetic motions. One is pulling away habitual comfortable surroundings, while the other is inviting us to peer into the unknown darkness. And this darkness can be unnerving to view, particularly if we also feel unsteady in our body. It is as if the upcoming eclipse (Jan 4) is the doorway into what we have always wanted in our life, but have not let ourselves give any substantive energy towards manifesting. We have believed what our family, our society and our neighbors have told us about ourselves. In the eyes of others, we could not rise to spiritual magnificence. So how could we possibly be worthy of even imagining our inner dream, let alone manifesting it? The full moon lunar eclipse on the Winter Solstice (Dec 21) is now ripping away the facades of habit, belief and behavior we have developed in relation to the outer world. My guides are explaining that it is like the magic trick of pulling the tablecloth off of an exquisitely set table. The wine glasses, plates, cups and silverware remain. They are now resting on the bare table. Only the tablecloth is gone. In our current scenario the tablecloth represents the underpinning beliefs that we have used to create external circumstances of our life. The bare table represents our new foundation. The wobbling wine glasses represent that off-balance feeling we might experience during these weeks of quick change. And being that we are still practicing our ability to co-create with Spirit, a wine glass might topple over and need an external hand to steady it. On January 4 the second in a series of eclipses spanning several years will occur. You probably remember the intensity of the first of these eclipses, which occurred early last week during the Winter Solstice December 21, 2010. This first eclipse is pulling the tablecloth out from underneath us. The upcoming eclipse offers us the opportunity to step into manifestation in a new way. But only if we let the tablecloth be completely pulled out from underneath us. Like many of the eclipses coming up in the next few years, the pair of eclipses (December 21, 2010 and January 4, 2011) is bringing up into our awareness those emotional patterns that we have taken upon us which are not our own. During the weeks before and after each eclipse we will be very aware of these patterns so that we might release them back to wherever or whenever they belong. These emotional patterns are attached to underlying emotions and beliefs that we are ready to change. In order to get to our issues in this lifetime we must release the emotional patterns we have taken on that do not actually belong to us. My guides suggested thinking of how we take on energies, emotions and patterns from other people a bit like how Velcro works There are two halves to every Velcro – one half (the side with the hooks) is the side that contains a personal issue that our soul wishes to address and learn about in this lifetime now. This hook side has attracted to itself bits and pieces of the fuzzy side, the other half of Velcro, from other people, other lifetimes, and even other realities. Each time we feel the emotion or think about the issue related to our hook side of the Velcro we feel overwhelmed. Because we are! Our own portion of the issue lies underneath this pile of emotional fuzzy Velcros that belong to others. We have no way of addressing, healing or changing all these energies that aren’t ours. In the moment we realize that we can’t change something, we are free to release it. In fact, we become of service to all of humanity when we release a pattern or energy onto its next step. We don’t need to know where an energy is going or how it might move. The energy has its own consciousness and its own evolutionary plan. It knows where to go and how to get there. We just need to honor that somehow fuzzy Velcro pieces became attached to one of our hook Velcro pieces. We can thank the fuzzy Velcro pieces for being heavy enough or numerous enough or painful enough that we have looked and seen our own hook Velcro side of an issue that we need to address. As we thank it for showing us our own Velcro piece, the pieces of fuzzy Velcro depart. Over time our own Velcro piece releases all the other pieces that had become attached to it. Our personal issue related to that particular Velcro hook becomes manageable. The emotional pattern no longer overwhelms us. We can consider the issue that the Velcro represents in our life, and it feels like something we can indeed do something about. Most of the time just asking “is this emotion, thought, or physical sensation really mine?” will assist the energy of a fuzzy Velcro to move enough so that you notice it has changed. That is how you know when a pattern is ready to leave. Most of the time we have already received whatever lesson or message the emotion, thought or physical sensation relates to. If there is still a bit of information or an insight that we need to receive, it will either flash into your mind as the energy moves out, or it may come to you during a dream or meditation later on. A friend called me as I was writing this. He had just returned from a trip to work in his field of healing within a spiritual community. He had thoroughly enjoyed being with the community and sharing his healing gifts with them. He had already been invited back for a return visit. When I asked internally if there was a lesson here, the guides mentioned this was in part about his body being nourished accurately. He was learning about the importance of self-care. He felt obligated to follow the diet that the community observed. But it was not a diet that accurately nourished his body. I passed that thought onto him, and he agreed. It had already occurred to him that he needed to address this, and so it was validating for him to hear from an outside source such as my guides and myself that this was indeed an important point. As it became clear to him that he would need to speak with someone in the community about his own nutritional needs, he reported feeling better. But I could see at least one pattern, which was fairly large, persisted. I tossed out a few ideas to see if I could help him figure out what else his soul wanted him to know. “Maybe it is about your previous trip to the ocean?” “Or something unresolved from last month?” No reaction. He said he didn’t think so. My thoughts returned to the community he had just returned from. “What is the relationship of the energy above his head and the community?” I asked my guides internally. In a fraction of a second I saw how tightly knit the community was, and how protective its spiritual leader and founder was of all those living within the community. He had died years ago, and yet something of his energy was leaning into my friend’s 7th chakra just above his head. I framed what I was sensing into a question, and posed it aloud to my friend. “I wonder if it has to do with the original founder of the spiritual community?” My own head suddenly ached. The dark energy was now in my crown chakra too. At the same time I saw the energy pattern darken and grow more prominent above my friend’s head. I asked the guides to share with me what was going on. They suggested that my friend “talk” to the discomfort he was experiencing, respecting it as if it were the community’s founder. My friend went along with the idea. He let the founder know that his healing work with community members was to assist the members in their spiritual path. The treatments were only offered to people when it was appropriate for them. He was not inflicting any treatments upon those who would not benefit from the treatment. As he communed in silence for a moment with the founder’s energies, my headache released. The dark energy above my friend’s head appeared to dissolve. “That is much better,” my friend reported. All it took was noticing the pattern of discomfort, giving it permission to step forward into awareness, and then communicating with it. Sometimes we can do this ourselves. Sometimes it is easier to have someone else there to point out the obvious things we miss. I am fond of saying that this process is like cutting hair. While we can trim the hair around our face, we can’t see accurately or easily enough to give ourselves a good haircut in the back of our heads. So too we can’t see all the energies that interact with us from the inside of our aura and the inside of our own lives.
My best to each of you, -Norma
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