Covid - 19. Spirit Talk Cafe - Self Care/ Health Care

Spirit Talk Cafe - Self Care

Where the Wise Women of Bella Luce Healing Center discuss real issues through the lens of Spirit. 

I would like to share this discussion with you. The practitioners at my healing center had been getting together to support each other while we were sheltering in place. We have all had to stop working and like our clients, we had been struggling with our situations. During these discussions we realized that our conversations would help our clients. So we decided to record them. Here is one of our discussions. Enjoy

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The Path to Visualization

The Path to Visualization

A big part of my life has been spent visualizing what I would like to manifest. There is a long list of goals that have been met by doing so. But one of the earliest times I can remember using this technique was when I was a young girl. My figure skating coach used to have us visualize our routines before a competition.

The very first time she had me do this was during figure skating camp in Squaw Valley, California. We were at a training camp in preparation for a figure skating competition that was held there every year. This particular time we were sitting in the stands waiting our turn for practice ice time. Back then we used small portable tape recorders and sometimes a walk man. She had us put our headphones on, play our music and close our eyes. We were to visualize our programs skated perfectly.

As I recount this experience, I realize that this can also go in a direction that is unwanted. During that time I was having trouble with one of my jumps. I was also having trouble visualizing it perfectly. Our minds are powerful microphones that have a direct connection to the divine.

Over the years I have learned from this that whatever you think, good or unwanted, that is the thing you will manifest. So now, I clear my mind of negative thoughts and bring my awareness to what I am grateful for. That is the first step. Then you visualize what you want. Even if it is currently out of reach. Especially if it is out of reach. This sets up the energy around me for the path to begin to pave itself.

Since those times as a young girl I have managed to manifest many things in my life. Not all of them exactly how I hoped, often times it turned out to be better. More of what I needed at that time.

Visualization can also be used as a form of meditation. You may have heard of guided meditation. Visualization is self guided meditation or self guided imagery. I decided, after watching for a lifetime, to learn how to surf. This was about 10 years ago. I used this technique to assist in muscle memory while I was learning. I would lay down or recline, close my eyes and go through the whole process in my mind. Driving to the beach, suiting up, waxing my board, carrying my board to the waters edge. Warming up on the beach, paddling out, finding the right spot, paddling, popping up and riding the wave, kicking out and starting the process all over.

Now, 10 years later, when I am feeling stressed and unable to get to the beach I will do this process.  I have used visualization to find a place to live, find a job and manifest my healing center and many more. Some people feel they are not good with imagination. But you can surprise yourself. Give it a try.

Antoinette Cresci de la Torre
Shamanism
Guided Imagery
Reiki
Bodywork

Prayer to our Home and Mother

This poem/prayer was written by me last year during the Santa Rosa fires. To ask mother earth to please give a reprieve. Unfortunately California is on fire again.

With Love and Light, 

Antoinette

Grand-Mother Full of Life

Beautiful connector of beings

Shape shifter

Way maker

Nourisher of Cells

Rain down your love

Nourish the skin of our mother

Gently Gently

Heavenly energy

Breath of life

Dancing with leaves

Giver of flight

Rest

Lay down and be still

Your time will come again

Heat of Passion

Giver of light

Burning heart

Your warmth brings joy

Calm your rage

Hunger appeased 

Sleep 

Deep moist nourishing

Roots of the ancestors

Branches of knowing

Mountains of memory

Bring forth your bounty

Still your body

Gently breathe

Grand-Father Strength

Give us power to protect

Help us stand in solidarity

Fist in Hand

Heart Open

Grand-Mother full of life

Let your birth waters flow

Your breath calm

Your passion gently nourish

Your abundant body bloom

Always giving 

Always supporting

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On Manifesting

On Manifesting

You have this wish thats out of reach. You try meditation mindfulness, affirmations... you try planning, praying, wishing...you try healers and gurus. Yet still this thing never comes to fruition. You ask yourself why? Why can't I make this happen? What is wrong with me? I deserve this! No matter what you do it won't happen.  Then one day you say " Well I guess this isn't in the cards for me" You turn your back and move on. And just around the corner there it is. Just when you resolve yourself to move on.  The path of least resistance. Just let it happen. You can't make anything happen. That would put you in the place of resistance. In order to manifest there can not be any resistance. Which means there must be gratitude for where you are right this minute. If you are in gratitude for where you are right now you are in a state of allowing. And, you are positively attracting. This place of allowing is also known as Law of Attraction.

What is law of attraction? Ever hear the saying " The worse it gets and worse it gets" or "The better it gets the better it gets" That is law of attraction. Law of attraction isn't just saying ok I'm going to think good thoughts and attract this or that. It is actually living what you want. Ahhh, easier said than done. So lets start with words. As Don Miguel Ruiz teaches in the The Four Agreements. "Be impeccable with your word". If you have negative vibrations in your words you will attract people and relationships that will vibrate at that same frequency. Gossiping is a great way to get exactly what you don't want. So lets take it a step further. Your thoughts must match that which you are wanting to attract. Being mindful of of the broken record player in your head. When you start going over and over in your head worries and thoughts that don't serve you, it is like praying for something you don't want. This brings us back to being in gratitude. If you are being challenged with thoughts of worry. Try to remember to think thoughts of gratitude. Find something no matter how small and focus on that.

When a person concentrates putting attention on the possibilities, they are vibrating at the same frequency of that thing that that they are wanting.  If that thing is positive and more is wanted, then your are on the right track. If that thing is negative then you are going to attract more of what you don't want. So how can you actually manifest that which you don't already have. When you are in the vortex of creativity and manifestation manifesting what you do want can be instantaneous. But you have to be in gratitude for what you want before you have it. That means being ok with the process. So here is a little story. I had a friend, and every time I saw her and asked how are you she would respond with a big smile and say "I'm great!" I knew she wasn't great. She had health problems, was out of work and was having a hard time in life. But she never complained. I on the other hand had my health and had a job. Not one I wanted at the time but I had one. And I had a tendency to complain. I could never understand how she could be so positive and yet seem to be struggling. Then one day I asked her. Her response, "You get what you ask for. Eventually the universe hears you and it comes" Her life apparently was much worse before I met her. She eventually resolved her health problems, got a great job and started traveling. I can say that this may sound trivial or unremarkable but this is a good example of how we can attract what we want by living as if we are already there and being grateful for the journey. Much of what happens in our lives, happen because we needed to learn a lesson. Be thankful for those lessons. We need them to grow and evolve. It takes time to develop this skill. Don't give up.