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How To Meditate Anywhere

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You know that old saying “give a woman a fish, feed her for a day, teach a woman to fish, fuel her mission to overthrow the patriarchy for life?”

…..ok so I may have adapted that a little. It’s 2019, forgive me if I’m all out of fucks to give for peer pressure from dead people (aka tradition 😂)

Anyway, this is what I want to teach you about meditation today. 

How to use it to overthrow the patriarchy.

Hahah ok not specifically, but please do use it for that. 

Today I want to give you the skills to turn any moment, or any activity into a meditation that can refresh, rejuvenate, reinspire, and tune you the fuck back in if you’re ever feeling out of sorts. 

This past week, I noticed myself feeling “out of sorts” a bunch of times during my days.

Just like…janky energy. Like my head was full, and I needed to drain it before there was any hope of moving on with clarity or a clear intention.

I’m sure you know the feeling. Call it overwhelm, confusion, being busy, blocked, stuck, whatever…not a fun place to be, and one that can come up for a variety of reasons and make us feel like we’re just barely holding on.

There are two things I want you to know about this:

  1. Bad days will always happen, and it’s ok. Even though I’ve been meditating regularly for a decade, and daily for about 5 of those years…yes, I still get janky moods, overwhelm, and shit still happens. And that’s ok. Wherever you’re at in your journey, it’s totally ok and human to have off days (or weeks.) 
  2. Having a quicker bounce-back time is really what we’re practicing for. What is important, is that you get better at recognizing it’s a temporary state that won’t last forever, and that you have the necessary tools to help you bounce back to your badass self quick.

How To Meditate Anywhere (and on anything)

This is where being able to “meditate” anywhere, at any time, becomes the best superpower you can have to keep your shit together.

Meditation is a “practice” because we are practicing skills, in a controlled way, that help us get “better” at life. This is the “bounce-back” I mentioned above. The more time you do spend jsut observing your thoughts and not getting all hung up and twisted around about them, the easier it is for you to notice when you start getting all twisted about a thought you had in the middle of Wednesday afternoon.

And here’s what you do when you notice yourself getting all twisted up on Wednesday afternoon (or whenever lol, I’m just pickin’ on Weds for fun):

  1. You take a moment.
  2. You breathe. You close your eyes for a moment if you can, and if you can’t you just breathe and notice what’s happening. 
  3. You ask yourself, “what is happening right now?” and “what story am I telling myself about what is happening right now?”
  4. You scan your body for a moment and notice if you’re holding any tension anywhere (jaw, shoulders, eyes, stomach are all common areas) and you intentionally relax it.
  5. And then you just breathe for a few moments, or minutes. Be honest about how much time is available to you – if you’re alone, or you can excuse yourself take 5 minutes to just sit quietly, inhale and exhale, and observe the contents of your mind without getting all tangled up in it. Let things just pass by. Let the dust settle. 

Think of yourself like a shook snow globe settling out. This will act like a quick reset, release any weird, overwhelmed, or busy energy you’ve been tangling with.

A Buddhist teacher I practice with sometimes calls these “quickies” 😂

Here’s the thing: meditation doesn’t have to be a big deal. It doesn’t have to take you an hour every day, or be an albatross hanging around on your to-do or “should-do” list every day making you feel guilty when you don’t get to it.

The cool thing about this is that you can truly do it anywhere – sitting at your desk, walking down the street, in the car, etc. Just, y’know, don’t close your eyes if you’re in the car. But you can absolutely still bring your attention to your breath, and let go of any “stories” or extra layers you’ve piled on your experience in any situation.

This is all meditation truly is, btw. Letting go of the layers, bringing your experience back to it’s truth.

Meditation is a useful and practical tool that you can whip out whenever you need to settle the chaos of life (and let’s be real, that can be OFTEN.)

That’s what I want you to remember. Try this out a few times this week, get familiar with it, and know it’s always in your pocket when you need a chill pill.

And if you’d like more help customizing the superpowers of meditation to fit into your life in ways that benefits you – that’s exactly why I’ve created my new program Meditation IRL. 

I’ve got space for 3 people at a special launch price (available until Sept 1st)…and we will worth together to customize a meditation practice PLUS, with exercises like this and so much more, geared to getting you to the top of your game in your life. 

All the details are here.

Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to work with you to make your life easier, more fun, more fulfilling, and more magical.

Either way, I love you!

Full Moon Releasing Ritual + Prayer (cleanse + move forward)

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Full Moon Releasing Ritual + Prayer

Honesty time: I’ve been feeling a little bit funky this week. I’m sure there’s some astrological something or other I could “blame” it on, or use to explain it away…but tbh I’m not in the mood for that right now.

I’m in the mood to look at the contents of my mind objectively, take ownership of whatever has been going on up in there, and turn this ship around.

Because here’s how I see it: our thoughts and beliefs determine our actions, and our actions determine the course of our lives.

And you always, always, ALWAYS have control over your thoughts and beliefs, and thus actions and life, even when it might feel like you don’t.

You get to decide where you’re going, and whether or not you get there based on all of the above. You may not get to choose exactly when or how you arrive at your destination, but I 100% believe you’ll get there if you can keep your focus on it.

But it’s not always “easy.”

I’ve been letting a lot of “noise” get to me this week. The opinions of others on what is possible, on how the world works, on what the best ways to do things are. I’ve been indulging in a general over-consumption of the ideas, opinions, perspectives, and content of others and it’s been making me doubt what I know and believe to be true. What I want, and how I want to do what I want to do.

I took my eyes (physical, metaphorical, and metaphysical lol) off my ultimate goal, and let them linger on “reality” as it is right now, and outside opinion about what that reality means…and it caused a lot of doubt, confusion, and funky vibes.

It didn’t feel good.

For a couple of days I could see this happening, but couldn’t 100% pull myself out of it. I just did my best to not make a big thing of it (um, not always perfectly), trusting it was part of the process and would work itself out in time.

And then finallyyyyy something shifted. I listened to some inspiring podcasts in the gym late last night. I came home to have a drink and catch up on some Queer Eye episodes with a friend who was celebrating finishing her summer school semester.

Somewhere in all of that, I decided to just let the noise go.

I was distracted from my funky thought loops long enough to remember that I know what’s best for me, and when it feels like I’ve forgotten who I am I don’t need to seek OUTSIDE guidance, but instead turn inwards and ask myself what I know to be true. Where I know I’m headed. What I want. And let that be my guide.

Even if the gap seems huge, and a lot less clear than I would like it to be right now (ok, than my thinking monkey mind would like it to be lol.)

My “higher self” has patience, and doesn’t believe the noise. It’s only the ego and the thinking mind that gets all tangled up in that nonsense.

Now that I’ve remembered this, and more intentionally cut the energetic ties that were keeping me in that funky-vibes-loop I am feeling REFRESHED and honestly like a different human than even just yesterday afternoon.

And so today I wanted to share my favourite Full Moon Releasing Ritual with you, in case there’s anything that’s been weighing you down recently, and swaying you from any big visions you have for your life (I hope you have them!)

I actually do a version of this “ritual” almost every night before bed, though this week I think I’ve only done it once – which could explain some of the previously mentioned funk.

Full Moon Releasing Ritual

The time around a full moon is a great time to cut cords and release anything that’s not serving you right now. (Conversely, under a new moon we can focus on planting seeds of what we desire to create and grow in our lives.)

My favourite mini cord-cutting/energy-clearing/releasing “ritual” that I actually perform almost every evening before bed is a simple prayer asking that anything no longer serving me be released for my highest good. If you have a specific situation, thought, or something that’s been weighing on you recently (or even for a long time, from the past) you can get super specific and ask that the energetic ties to that situation be cut.

We tend to get allllll energetically messed up and connected to all manner of situations, people, beliefs, etc in our lives – and it drains our energy. It’s like having too many tabs, programs, or apps open on your computer or phone. After a while shit starts to lag and you’ve gotta x out, and reboot.

You gotta do that with your own energy too!!

For this ritual, I like to call on Archangel Michael who wields a big, badass sword and carries the energy of protection, to help with the ritual/prayer but you can ask your guides/spirit/god/the universe/anything you believe in to assist – it adds a bit of power to the ritual, imo so even if including an angel feels waaaay too woo (trust me, I get it – that was me very recently too) find something you can call in for support, even if it’s just a future version of you who has her shit more together. Chances are she’s released these ties already and can help you do so rn!

Say it like this, hand on your heart:

“Thank you Archangel Michael, guides, and universal energy for clearing all energetic ties to any people, places, situations, thoughts, and beliefs that may have attached themselves to me but no longer serve my highest good at this time.

My heart, mind, body, and spirit are my own and I choose to live from a place of love.

Thank you for releasing these unneeded energies, and recharging me to move forward with freedom and clarity.

Thank you for your protection and support.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza talks a lot about how “gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership,” and that’s why I like to frame this prayer/ritual with “thank you.”

Think about it: when we say thank you, it’s generally because we have received something. In this case, we’re receiving and allowing in help and support in releasing these energetic ties that may be holding us back, tying us to old situations or beliefs that aren’t helpful in how we truly want to live moving forward.

In essence, we’re saying “it’s done.” It’s a vibe of surety and confidence in our words and ritual.

If you wanna take this a bit next-level for the full moon, you can write down whatever you’re wanting to release and either burn the paper safely, or rip it up into little shreds and put it in the recycle bin! (#ecofriendlyritual)

Your “Blocks” Are Actually BS (but not for the reason you may think)

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This is why your blocks are actually total BS

The personal and spiritual development world likes to talk about “blocks” a lot.

You know, all the shit that holds you back from having what you want, or being who you really want to be.

The things that “block” you from having better relationships or more abundance or doing work you love or even just getting through the damn week without feeling like it’s too hard or there’s too much to do to get where you wanna go.

You have to “get past this block” or “let go of a limiting belief” to move forward and into your next level.

Which can itself feel like a lot of damn work when you just want to enjoy your life a little bit more right now.

And so I’ve got a perspective shift for you that will help you do exactly that.

Stop looking at “blocks” as something that is BLOCKING your path.

Start looking at these things that feel challenging, the things that trip you up (maybe again and again) as the path itself.

Because here’s the thing: you won’t move forward until you find a different way to deal with your “blocks” or challenges in life than what you have been doing.

That doesn’t mean they are some insurmountable obstacle that has to be dramatically removed or cleared from your path so you can get on with your life’s work without this nonsense yapping at your heels.

There’s nothing wrong with you. Nothing that needs to be removed, or repaired because it isn’t supposed to be there.

These “blocks” are the lessons you need to learn, the wounds you need to heal, and the dark corners you need to shine a light into so you can make friends with your own personal boogey-persons (we don’t gender profile around here, mmkay.)

When you go IN instead of trying to go around, or remove, you’ll learn the valuable lessons and experience the growth you need to truly go beyond these challenges and become the next-level version of you you probably feel like you’ve been searching for.

It might feel like a fine line, but I believe we need to integrate our shadows, and treat them with some kindness and compassion to truly move beyond them.

The last thing we need is another reason to think there is something wrong with us, or the life experience we’re having right now.

So if you feel like you’re struggling over something (or a variety of somethings) that are keeping you from experiencing the fullness of your life that you desire to, know this: the lessons you will learn when you embrace your “blocks” or “limits” as part of your life’s journey and get curious about it instead of trying to smash through it, are the lessons that will get you to the next level. To a new way of being, and feeling.

Your challenges are yours for a reason. They’re for you to heal for your own growth and expansion, and perhaps so you can guide someone else through those same lessons at a later date. Or perhaps just to burn off that particular energy from its existence in the universe (hellooooo, karma.)

I have no doubt you have what it takes to embrace, and work through, whatever is challenging you right now. And if you’re feeling some resistance to doing so, make sure you check out the new free guided meditation I dropped on Monday all about how to release resistance quickly. It’s a sweet little practice based in compassion and kindness, and I think you’ll love it!

Meditation To Quantum Leap Into Your Future

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I’m sure you’ve heard the term “manifesting,” which is more or less interchangeable with the “law of attraction” in terms of it being a practice, process or “law of the universe.”

On the most basic level, “manifesting” just means to bring something into existence. The way I see it is we are all always manifesting everything in our lives. It simply means that you are creating your experience of life based on the thoughts you think, beliefs you hold, and feelings you feel. 

For the most part, you have taken on, learned or perhaps arrived into this life with (if you wanna get into karma-like ideas) all of that stuff. That is, until you get on an intentional growth or awareness path and begin to choose what you think, believe, and feel on purpose (hi, that’s what you’re here doing right now 😀)

The teacher Joe Dispenza always says “your personality creates your personal reality,” which is a fantastic way to think about how we “manifest” our lives. You create what you expect to see, what you think you deserve/are worthy of, and desire to experience in your lifetime based on the thoughts and beliefs which make up your “personality.”

Basically, as we go about our lives, unless we are actively intending to live a certain way, to reach a certain goal, set certain intentions, we end up “creating by default” more of the same over and over.

Enter intentional manifesting, which is what most mean when they speak about “manifesting.”

The Quantum Model of Reality

Quantum physics teaches us that there is an energy field that connects all things (you, me, every piece of matter in the universe, the energy of our thoughts and feelings, etc.) and in this energy field, there is no time, and no space. Every possibility exists simultaneously, until it is observed into existence. (If you want to go a bit more in-depth and nerd out on this, google the “double slit experiment” and the “observer effect.”)

Based on this model, you are constantly observing your life experiences into reality. If you don’t set any particular intentions, with the right level of belief and energy behind them, you just keep observing more and more of the same into reality.

But when you focus your sights on something new, work on getting your subconscious beliefs, thoughts, and your energy on board you can create beyond your wildest dreams.

Literally, “whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve,” as Napoleon Hill said.

And to bring it all back to feeling, the quantum field also deals in this energy.

When we think a certain thought, it brings up a certain feeling (and the other way around), and that sends a particular energy out into the field, which draws more of the same back to us.


So in a quantum sense, we shift and create something new by sending out a new thought and feeling. We close the gap between us “now” and a “future” version of us by intentionally creating the feelings of our future right now – essentially collapsing time and jumping into this new reality.

In this week’s meditation, we’ll be using this principle of feeling what our intended future feels like, while connecting to the quantum energy field that connects all things.

In this way, you’re closing the gap between now-you and a future-you, and essentially quantum leaping right into that new reality!

Whoa.

Haha. This is one of my favourite practices of all time, and I’ve made you a short and sweet 5 minute version to make tapping into those quantum vibes super easy and accessible.

If you like this, in the More Than A Meatsuit membership we’re spending an entire month going super in-depth on this topic, with a longer meditation to really embody your new vibe, and weekly exercises to lock in a specific manifestation and remove subconscious blocks stand in your way. If you feel called, all the info to join us is here.

Otherwise, enjoy the going quantum for the next five minutes, and let me know how your future is when you get back!


What To Do When You Think “Manifesting” Doesn’t Work

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Do you think “manifesting” is a bunch of hocus pocus woo woo crap?

Do you WANT to believe, but find your skeptical mind getting all up in the way?

Or maybe you think it’s some white girl pseudo science privilege nonsense and you’d rather never hear about it eeeeeeever again?!

I get it, I do.

It’s a total buzzword, cure-all, spiritual and cultural phenomenon right now and you can’t look at the internet without tripping over someone manifesting their dream life blah blah etc.

It can seem too good to be true, or too woo woo to be true, depending on where you’re coming from.

But in my experience, when you get it right it fucking WORKS.

You may have noticed that a lot of “successful” people, business people, and entrepreneurs believe in the “law of attraction.” (And just as many wouldn’t call it that, but do use these same prinicples to create success and meet their goals.)

And here’s the thing:

“Manifesting” is really just “goal setting” that we really, really 100% profoundly believe in the outcome of, and get our subconscious minds and energy behind as much as we do our “work” in the material world.

I like to explain it to the non-woo woo folks as “confirmation bias,” which can be a good or unhelpful phenomenon, but says that whatever we expect to see is exactly what we will see.

And so, if you EXPECT your “manifestation” or “goal” to come to be that is what will happen. And just as equally, if you expect that you can’t achieve or have what you want….well, you likely will half ass things, sabotage yourself, and not get where you’re going.

“Manifesting” is really just about getting your subconscious mind on board with what you desire.

The thing about that is the subconscious mind has a lifetime of existing programming behind it backing up your beliefs in a certain way, and if your desired outcome goes against that…shit gets tricky.

The other thing about the subconscious mind is that “changing” it to align with a new goal or belief takes some particular effort. It takes a strong emotion, and it takes repetition, and it takes proof.

Which are all generally things that will be applied in a successful “manifesting” process. You may visualize, spend time in meditation bringing up specific feelings you want to feel when you have your manfiestation in your life, and you may write or repeat specific affirmations (with feeling!)

And you may collect “proof” along the way that all of this is working.

It’s about focus, repetition, and belief in an outcome before it has come to pass.

It’s about choosing the direction of your life, instead of just coasting along getting more of the same old same old.

We are all always “manifesting” everything in our lives.

What we talk about as a manifesting process is simply choosing to do that with intention, and direct the course of our lives where we want it to go.

There are also some pretty miraculous things that can occur along the way, but this is the most pracitcal way I can break it all down for you!

Personally, I’ve “manifested” several different living situations, money, trips, jobs, and adventures – some of which I was actively trying to “manifest” and some that I can now see looking back on I intuitively followed this same process and had a strong desire and decision before the fact that it had to happen, and so it did.

If you need proof to believe this works, look back on your own life.

What are some significant things you’ve done (really anything that stands out in your mind) where you can say “oh yeah, that had to happen because I decided beforehand that it would.”

That’s “manifesting” a specific outcome in action, even if you didn’t call it that at the time.

And you can do it again, on purpose, and move towards specific things in your life!

This is what we’re going to be practicing and learning for the month of August inside the More Than A Meatsuit membership. I’m going to be sharing SO MANY resources, exercises, and practical tools as well as the theory behind how this all works so you can understnd – an import step in the process to get your subconscious mind on board!

We begin on Monday, and the doors are currently open to join us!

Get on in there and let’s create some cool shit in your life this month!!

How To “Go Quantum” + Manifest Your Desires

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Have you tried “going quantum” yet? 

I don’t know about you, but it seems like everywhere I look lately someone is talking about “going quantum” to manifest whatever they’re wanting into their life. 

We’ve definitely moved beyond the days of creating a vision board and calling it done when you want to attract a new experience to you.

Manifesting is actually all about the feeling you create, and with good reason. It’s not actually anything new. 

Way back in 1944 a dude named Neville Goddard published a book called “Feeling Is The Secret” which sums up this whole “quantum manifesting” practice incredibly well (you can actually read a PDF of the book for free here, if that’s your jam!) 

Because feeling really is the secret.  

Of “manifesting”your desires. And of making any change or growth you desire in your life really stick around. 

You have to feel the feelings of it being done, and of you now embodying a new version of you who is changed. Who acts, believes, feels, and has different experiences than “now” or “past” you had. 

The quantum manifesting principle goes like this: any and all potential you can imagine (and then some) exists as a possibility in the quantum field, aka the energy field that surrounds and connects all things (including you now, a future you, a past you, and any number of possible yous.) 

From one moment to the next you’re essentially hopping between all those version of you as things change.

If you’re not actively choosing or directing which potential you comes next, you basically just get more of the same – because it’s what you expect to see. (This is called the “observer effect” in quantum physics, wherein the observer will see whatever they expect to see out of all the potential options.) 

Because the quantum field is energy, it responds to your energy.  

Which is why “feeling is the secret,” because your feelings are kind of like the human wifi signal you’re constantly emitting. Which connects you with a compatible wifi signal in the field.

So you see, if you keep feeling how you’ve always felt – you keep creating more of the same life experiences that align with and perpetuate that feeling. And on, and on, and on. 

But if you can learn to manage those feeling states, to feel a very specific way, to imagine a new way (other than your habitual same-old) you can draw new potential experiences to you that align with that feeling state. 

And that, my friend, is “going quantum” or quantum manifesting.

The best way to practice this is, of course, in meditation. It can just be a few quiet moments, even, where you are still and practice bringing up a specific feeling state that you want to experience more of. A feeling state that you expect to experience when you have a certain life experience, or situation come to pass. 

Practice it now, and you’ll be moving in the direction of that thing you’re wanting to manfiest in no time (….that was definitely a quantum pun, because as we know there is “no time” in the quantum field 😂) 

Next week we’re going to begin “quantum manifesting” month in the More Than A Meatsuit membership community, where I’ll be leading you through a quantum, feeling-based meditation and visualization, and providing weekly exercises to really focus in on quantum leaping into whatever next-level version of you that you’re wanting to meet right now.

You can work on healing yourself, healing a relationship, you can work on your work, creating prosperity, or really any perspective shift you can imagine. 

 Doors to the community are open if you’d like to join us ahead of next week. 

This is one of my favourite topics to practice, share, and teach about so I know it’s going to be a good time. 

I’ll share more about these quantum principles in the coming week, but in the meantime, remember – feeling how you want to feel right now is the secret to having the life you want to have in the “future.” 

If you want to practice going quantum right now and stepping into your future, make sure you check out my free guided meditation to quantum leap into your future!