The Dreamtime Council – see you there?

-Norma Gentile   

www.HealingChants.com

I can’t help but recognize the glamorization in American (and Western) culture of not sleeping.  As a result our kidneys and adrenal glands are extremely overworked when they respond to the copious amounts of caffeine we ingest. We have built a societal belief pattern that it is a sign of weakness to want to rest, sleep or have nourishment for our bodies. 

And yet the truth is that rejuvenation through nourishment (food for the body; music, playfulness and art for our emotions) and rest (sleep and times of meditation and deep relaxation while awake) are natural portions of our rest-work cycle in daily living. 

During sleep we know that we enter into different types of rest. I believe that Dreamtime, or Rapid Eye Movement (REM) allows us to process the events of our waking day into patterns that our unconscious mind organizes.  My guides suggest that it is here, within this deepest time of dreams, that our soul is able to commune with all the other beings of consciousness with whom we share this reality. 

Science is reaching the conclusion that shamans have always known: much of the healing of our physical body takes place in Dreamtime.  This is also where I believe that we choose to make major changes in our lives. These major changes are possible only when, during Dreamtime, we are connected into the shared field of consciousness amongst all humans and other beings acting within our reality.  It is only with the support of all beings of consciousness that any one of us can fundamentally change.  And it is because of the support of all beings of consciousness that this depth of change is possible.

The shared field of consciousness we enter into during Dreamtime is like a council meeting.  Our unconscious mind energetically attends it each night during this deepest point of sleep we call Dreamtime. During other portions of our sleep cycle the energetic field of our unconscious mind reports back to our body, emotions and personality on the proceedings of this council of all beings. 

When we are not available to attend this great council during Dreamtime our life experience is not actively participating in the decisions reached by all the other beings in attendance.  So not only are we not represented, but we also don’t know what decisions were reached and what changes were agreed upon. Our unconscious mind is not able to hear the proceedings and pass those proceedings onto us in some fashion such as intuition, personal dreams or insights.

On a physical level, our adrenals and kidneys as well as the webbing on many of our chakras, especially the navel chakra, are impacted by a lack of quality sleep and participation in Dreamtime. When we prioritize the time that we spend with all of the consciousness of humanity and other beings in Dreamtime, that message passes onto all other humans.

Now we just have to be present in the Dreamtime council long enough to share it or hear it!

I am reminded by my guides that the great shifts in consciousness may appear to happen suddenly within our culture, but those shifts in consciousness begin at the great council table in Dreamtime.  It is only there that fundamental changes in consciousness can be agreed upon by all beings.

My blessings to all beings, in waking and Dreamtime,

-Norma

Breathing Stillness / Generating Peace

A series of Meditations to naturally generate Power and Ease by Connecting your Physical Body to your Soul’s Journey

1 Introduction

2 Creating Sacred Space

3 Balancing Body, Soul and Spiritual Helpers

4 Good Brain!    

5 Releasing Emotional Tumult in the Heart

Completion A Sound Healing to release High Heart tumult
  with Gordon Johnston, harp and Jeremy Sills, singing bowls
6 Rededicating your personal High Heart; Sound Healing Ode to Day 

7 Solar Plexus, Kidneys and Adrenals: Your True Power 

8 Breathing Stillness  / Generating Peace
9 Ovaries, Testicles and 2^nd chakra; Deep Patience and Ease: 

  How much ease does your soul want your body to experience now? 

10 Summary
11 Releasing Sacred Space
  

From our heart down to our pelvis lie energy centers that are seldom spoken about, let alone cleared and consciously utilized by those of us in modern Western society.  Here is a meditation that may assist in addressing issues commonly associated with mistunings of these lower energy centers, such as unfulfilling sleep, workaholic tendencies and the inability to breath deeply.  

Your soul embraces your body in both the upper and lower chakras. The 2^nd chakra, just below your physical navel, reflects the natural ease that your soul desires for your body to have in this physical world. When tuned accurately, this allows the depth of stillness that you naturally tap into to be available to you through your first chakra. With each breath you generate prana within your Navel Chakra which nourishes all of your chakras and brings this natural tuning of inner peace from you first or root chakra into all of your physical body.

Two songs, recorded during mediation concerts are included.  For more information on the music or this meditation please see the podcast page of my website, healingchants.com  

The New Age: Welcoming the Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine

This meditation, given on the eve of the Great Shift of the Ages, is applicable for the many years to come in which humanity will be incorporating a new understanding of sacredness in the polarity of male and female. At one point you will hear my vocal quality and vocabulary change a bit – this is where Thoth, an Ascended Master, leaned in and shared his insights through me about our kundalini changing now, and it’s role in transmuting the physical body into a Pillar of Light. 

This recorded version also includes a Song from Spirit, Claritas Inspiravit (Clarity Inspires) sung by Norma accompanied by harpist Gordon Johnston from a live Meditation Concert. This was improvised in the moment, and seems to fit perfectly within the context of this meditation.

After invoking a Sacred Space using Nature, we invoke your unique aspect of the Sacred Masculine from your soul’s essence within the Earth.  Uniting this with the already present Divine Feminine, a meditation then supports you to embody these within you, and emboldens you to act upon your soul’s journey.

We aren’t the only ones changing consciousness.  In fact, of all those beings of consciousness upon the Earth and with whom we share our reality, we lag far behind! Many of us are standing at the doorway with our arms flung wide, grasping onto past wounds or beliefs, and we cannot pass through the narrow door into the new age with these still by our side. Here is a chance to feel the depth of who you are now, and what you truly are here to do.

The soul that we know as Gaia clothed herself long ago as the Earth. Those beings helping to weave her clothing, Nature Spirits and Nature Intelligences, and the principle tailor, Pan, are portions of the many souls journeying with us now. Gaia's journey is our journey.

As we become more fluent to listening to the Nature Spirits and Nature Intelligences of our space and the land beneath our homes, we also become available to steward and give permission for the Nature Spirits and Nature Intelligences of the Earth to release what they need to release now.

1 Introduction
2 Co-creating Sacredness
3 Practicing (and Proving) your ability to clear Yourself and Your Home
4 We get Stuck in Healing (because we are trying to do too much)
5 Grids of Nature's Consciousness
6 Meditation: Releasing Emotional Energies from Your Home and Land
7 Pan
8 Releasing Co-Creative Connections
9 Your New Clarity
10 Conclusion

NOTE:
You may notice a few seconds of missing sound happening a few times in the middle section of the meditation. Be assured the meditation picks up again within a few moments. An essay based on this meditation can be found as the December 2012 newsletter, and may help you more fully understand the concepts and meditations offered here.  www.healingchants.com/newsletter12-12.html 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
     -Robert Frost*
*from his poem “The Road Not Taken”

Uniting the Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine essences of your soul within your Body: 
Ovaries, Testicles and Root Chakra.
Our soul’s essence resides within our root or first chakra. Just as foundational energies of our reality present themselves as polarized (good/bad or dark/light), our own souls divided themselves into male and female in order to incarnate.  Here is a meditation to help you access both aspects of your own soul: Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine. Regardless of the gender of your physical body both essences are 2123qnow available and both actively support your body.  In this meditation the focus is upon your root or first chakra. This is the foundation of your body, and how you engage with this physical world.

1. Introduction
2. Invocation of Nature’s Unconditional Love
3. Archangel Michael: Invoking the Sacred Masculine
4. The Heart of the Sacred Masculine
5. Meditation:  How do You relate to the Heart of the Sacred Masculine?
6. Souls, Gender, Polarity and your Sacred Masculine
7. Turning down an unexpected Street! Coping with a New Unexpected Reality
8a Meditation on the Divine Feminine for Men
8b Meditation on the Divine Feminine for Women
9 Uniting Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine in Your Body
10  Understanding Your Soul’s Choices Now
11 Releasing Spiritual Helpers, the Nature Sphere, and Archangel Michael
12 Final Thoughts and Spiritual Homework   

A Note on Language:
The First Dimension is where The Pure Energy of Nature resides. The Pure Energy of Nature is also known as the Divine Feminine matrix, and it forms the chalice into which the Sacred Masculine is received and safeguarded.  In this manner both the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine energies of our world reside within the First Dimension and the foundation of our reality. 

1. Introduction
We do happen to live in a dualistic world, a world that has its foundation in polarity. We still speak in terms of male and female, inside or outside, good or bad.  During this meditation we are looking at how we nourish ourselves in order to creatively engage with our external world.  That which we naturally receive allows us an equivalent quality of creating out into our world.

2. Invocation of Nature’s Unconditional Love
This invocation is a way of honoring that the physical forms around us are just as spiritual as we are.  We don’t think of a table, a bookcase, the floor or the walls around us as being particularly spiritual.  But they have the capacity to vibrate at their own levels of unconditional love.  And this serves to remind our own bodies of the potential we have to receive and offer love unconditionally.

I honor that everything in our third dimension, whether we think of it as being ‘good’ or ‘bad’, emanates from the world of Spirit.  This world of Spirit exists both above us in the heavenly or upper dimensions, as well as below us, in the lower or supportive dimensions.

For healing purposes, I always ask the room and its contents to show me what their level of unconditional love is.  In the moment that I feel myself able to perceive this energy as they show it to me, my body feels uplifted and supported. In my psychic sight, the energetic chaos that permeates space, even healing spaces, becomes organized. 

Another advantage of taking time to setup Sacred Space is that it is much easier to move into a gentle trance state.  A state where your personality can step back, allowing your body, heart and soul to decide what will happen.  Your brain becomes the great observer, rather than the great decider of it all.

3. Archangel Michael: Invoking the Sacred Masculine
The Pure Energy of Nature contains a drop of the essence of each and everything in form.  Those spiritual beings that support us and work with us have the ability to touch form because they work with and through us.  They exist in all the dimensions.  Including the lower dimensions.  There is, within the first dimensional vibration, which I call The Pure Energy of Nature, a drop of Archangel Michael’s essence that relates to you.  As you acknowledge these lower aspects of our reality, the first and second dimensions, you can engage more fully into the higher dimensions.

Central Sun (aligning with our solar sun) is that point at which that which created our reality becomes accessible to us.

Each and every one of us has a unique way of experiencing energies.  Our brains are wired differently. Don’t force yourself to feel, see or sense what another is experiencing.  Notice what your body is feeling, or what memories or thoughts are coming up for you.

 4. The Heart of the Sacred Masculine
Most of us grew up in a world where the masculine qualities that we experienced were not Sacred. Our planet’s spiritual development has now reached the point where there is enough of the Divine Feminine to create and maintain a chalice to receive Sacred Masculine energies into our world.  Each year starting at the end of July and proceeding until the middle of September our world aligns itself with Sirius in a way that allows us to receive strong Sacred Masculine energies.

As we receive these energies our Divine Feminine chalice becomes so full that it begins to overflow.  When the chalice, built by the consciousness of humanity, is no longer able to contain the incoming Sacred Masculine energies from Sirius, they spill over, exposing violence and anger within humanity.  They expose all those things that non-sacred masculine energies have built in our world.

Ideally each of us is building our own Divine Feminine chalice so that in upcoming years there will be a safe space into which all of the Sacred Masculine energies entering our solar system may come to rest. This allows humanity to quietly hold the Sacred Masculine energies within a safe space, and utilize them when appropriate.

5. Meditation:  How do you relate to the Heart of the Sacred Masculine?
The lower area of our torso is the most common region in which we experience a battle between the Sacred and the habitual.  Our endocrine system expresses itself here as ovaries or testicles. These are always the foundation of our physical body.  Even if we no longer have them within our physical form, their expression still lies in the etheric and other subtle energy bodies that surround and interpenetrate our physical body.

6. Souls, Gender, Polarity and your Sacred Masculine
Each of our souls is created outside of polarity. But we are beings incarnating into a dualistic reality. Therefore our soul has divided itself into Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine qualities of energy.  We can access both the feminine and masculine aspects of our sacredness no matter what gender body was chosen for this lifetime.  Over the years to come we will slowly weave these polarities of gender together.  For now, we each have a unique expression of gender that moves from our soul, through our body and out into the world. How does the Sacred Masculine move through your body, male or female, out into the world?

7. Turning down an unexpected Street! Coping with a New Unexpected Reality
Our planet has entered a cosmic round-about. Suddenly we turned onto a street.  But it is not the one we all had agreed upon exploring. As we are traveling this new area we ourselves are becoming different from whom we thought ourselves to be.  All the choices that we have made need to be remade.  What tools do we need now for this new journey our souls have chosen?

8a Meditation for Men: Divine Feminine
8b Meditation for Women: Divine Feminine
The Divine Feminine provides a surround for the Sacred Masculine energetically in the testicles, while embracing the ovaries of women.  This is an opportunity to release your old stories into the past, and let the male and female qualities of energies express through the male and female bodies in a new, sacred manner.

After a lifetime of non-sacred feminine energies imposing themselves upon men and women, there are many patterns that our bodies are ready to release.  This is the starting point for the Divine Feminine to support both men and women’s bodies in a fitting manner.

9 Uniting Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine in Your Body
Your unique drop of Divine Feminine essence exists within The Pure Energy of Nature.  So too your unique Sacred Masculine essence exists within The Pure Energy of Nature.  And your physical body wants to be nourished by both essences. When the ovaries and testicles reflect both your Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine they inform your root chakra of your new tuning.  And this new tuning moves through every cell of your physical body.

10  Understanding Your Soul’s Choices Now
New aspects of Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine energies are available to us. What does that mean?  How do we each want to bring our masculine and feminine aspects out into the world in a sacred manner?  What is it that your soul can do now, in this new reality, that it could not do before?  What possibility does your soul see now for the expression of your body into your life here on Earth?
Allow yourself to lay the image, symbol or word you sense into the rich warm energies of the Divine Feminine presence of The Pure Energy of Nature.  You have just consciously used your ability to create in a sacred manner. 

 
11 Releasing Spiritual Helpers, the Nature Sphere, and Archangel Michael
With gratitude we release the conscious magnified awareness to our Spiritual helpers.  In this way we also release the energetic cords, built by our own subtle energies, to them.  Leaving these cords in place brings fatigue to our physical body.  We have a natural connection to all of our Spiritual helpers and to Nature.  We are only releasing that consciousness connection that our energy has been magnifying for us during meditation.

Unconditional love can be expressed by all things in form. After this meditation you will never again look at a chair and think ‘it is only a chair’. 

12 Final Thoughts and Spiritual Homework  
Changes have been seeded within you. Now, take your body for a walk out into the world! Trust your perception and intuition.  None of us see the same thing in the same way.  Bring your unique view of the situation to others.

You may also want to read Norma's essay "The New Road Taken" from her October Newsletter based on this podcast meditation.
You can check out Norma's free sound healings, sacred songs and YouTube videos on her website, www.healingchants.com
Donations are always welcome, and can be made to office@healingchants.com

1 Using Sacred Space
2 Entering into Sacred Space
3 Your Two Heart Chakras (and what they do)
4   Meditation on Your High Heart
5 Updating Your Spiritual Support Staff
6 Sound Healing: How does Your Body want to be supported by Your Soul now? (Mother of Eternity)
7 Sound Healing: What are you meant to do now?
8 Let your Soul Lead You
9 Re-Claiming Your Right to Say “No”
10 Your Traditional Heart Chakra
11 Experience Your Unique Quality of Unconditional Love
12 Exiting from Sacred Space

Podcast Meditation #33 from Norma Gentile, www.healingchants.com

1 Using Sacred Space
The invocation and benediction are ways of bookending Sacred Space.  What happens within Sacred Space is very understandable, as long as you are within Sacred Space and the quality of consciousness that your mind has access to during this time. When we share something that has happened to us inside of Sacred Space during a time of being in normal space, outside of the vibration of Sacred Space, it often sounds ludicrous or fantastical and ungrounded to those listening. For this reason it is important to share sacred experiences within sacredness – whether it is a time created by invoking sacred energies, or a time defined by intimate heart connections to others

2 Entering into Sacred Space 
Welcoming Nature Spirits at THEIR level of Unconditional Love and your innate connection to Archangel Michael.

3 The Two Heart Chakras (and what they do)
We try to engage where we do not need to engage.  The High Heart chakra tells us where to engage, who to engage with, even how to engage with those meant to be in our life now.  The Traditional or Lower Heart Chakra supplies the power of unconditional love to do this.

4  Meditation on Your High Heart
Learn to physically locate the High Heart / Thymus Gland Chakra
Release guides and angels that no longer serve your journey
Make space for guides and angels that support you right now

Sometimes when we are uncertain and feel unable to make a decision, it is because those guides and angels that are working with us are no longer in tune with us.  This is particularly true when those guides and angels attached to us through the backside of our High Heart chakra are older and don’t reflect changes that have happened in the world around us or choices we have made ourselves.

5 Updating Your Spiritual Support Staff  
The support staff of Spirit, your guides and angels, usually appear to stand behind you.  From this point they support you and connect into your energy field from the backside of your chakras.  You can usually feel them in the space a few inches or up to a foot behind you.

I am always amazed at how quickly we are all shifting, and how many energies we seem to be either releasing or updating on a daily basis.  The guides and angels you woke up with this morning are probably not the same ones you are going to go to sleep with tonight.

6 Sound Meditation: How does your body want to be supported by your soul now? (Mother of Eternity)

7 Sound Healing: Create Your Life

8 Let your Soul Lead You 
What is it that you want to attain?  Is it possible that just your brain or personality wants to attain it?  Perhaps it is only the experience of walking towards that goal that your soul desires.  And as you walk through the experiences of life that take you towards the goal, the goal itself may change.

9  Re-Claiming Your Right to Say “No”
As that space behind the thymus gland is clarified, it frees up the webbing within the backside of the chakra to be more in tune with how your body and soul want to journey together now.  As the backside of the High Heart chakra (or any chakra) is perfectly tuned to you, it will draw to you those guides and angels that are in tune with you.

Naturally those guides and angels that work with all of us are drawn to us by the principle of resonance. So when something isn’t quite in tune within our chakra system, we draw to ourselves guides and angels that are not quite in tune with us. The most common symptom of this phenomenon is our inability to discern what is ours to do.  We end up saying “yes” when our soul means “no”. Here is an easy way to release those guides and angels that no longer serve us, and welcome in those that do. 

10  Your Traditional Heart Chakra
When the High heart chakra is not fully functioning in its capacity as gatekeeper, then the Traditional Heart Chakra must play that role in addition to its normal function.  For this reason the traditional heart chakra turns itself down, or even off at some points, in order to protect us from being engaged with those people or circumstances that our soul knows we are not meant to engage with in this lifetime.

In order to heighten the experience of unconditional love that wants to pour through the Traditional Heart Chakra, we must open the High Heart chakra, and allow it to be the place where our unconditional love can be transmuted into love for our soul’s journey right here and now.

11 What is your unique quality of unconditional love?
Our brains constantly want to make judgments and tell us something is better than something else.  Unconditional love has a multitude of expressions.  None are better than another.  They are just different.  There are many qualities of healing energy in this universe.  Which will remind you of who you truly are, right now?

12 Exiting from Sacred Space
It is important to let our bodies vibrate at our human, physical level for our own wellbeing.  As wonderful as it feels to be consciously connected to our guides and angels, their vibration is too high for our physical bodies to sustain for long periods of time.  It is appropriate to let them go so that we can engage our own consciousness fully into our body.

I was mulling over how, during intense circumstances, we process and release the emotional energies or physical stress and discomfort we feel related to the intensity.  Sometimes we use healthy methods, like yoga, exercise, talking with trusted mentors or chanting.  Sometimes we indulge in less healthy forms of release. Lately I was looking at blame and similar emotions that tend to throw out of our own space those uncomfortable personal emotional energies that build up within us during difficult times.

I think the hardest part of going through something difficult is thinking that it is just you alone going through it. I don't tend to believe that "misery loves company". But I would say that when you know you are experiencing something, and that there are others who are experiencing something similar, it gives you access to the larger context of your experience. With this sense of ‘you are not alone’ it is easier to step out of self-blame (it's all my fault and I am ashamed) and be open to seeing how you contributed to the situation (without assigning blame).  When any of us understands how we helped create our quandary, we have the potential to make choices that get us out of the situation.

As I see it, blame throws emotional energy out of your space (when you blame others) or overwhelms your ability to process and move forward (when you blame yourself, and feel ashamed). But we each need access to emotional energy in order to change ourselves and our lives. So if any of us is constantly throwing emotional energy away (or inward), we may never accumulate enough energy for true transformational change. 

Emotional energies are some of the most potent energies we have easy access to, as humans.  But only those energies that are actively flowing and in motion are available for us to use.  This is true for all types of energy.  Anything that is moving and flowing we can engage with to create change.  We have a much harder time engaging with hose energies that are stuck or frozen, and so they are prone to remaining unchanged.  

A simplistic model of this is how water moves quickly when it is in its gaseous state as humidity in the air, or its fluid state as a flowing river.  If you have walked on a beach or alongside a stream, you may have noticed that the motion of the water erodes the sharp edges on whatever it has come into contact with.  Pebbles, shells, broken glass and even stones are worn down over time to have silky smooth surfaces and rounded edges. Water in its frozen state, such as ice, cannot interact with these objects in the same way nearly as quickly! 

It is only to the extent that the potential energy within the water is released that it can act to change what it is interacting with.  Ice will smooth the edges of objects, but it takes much longer because there is so much less motion.  The energy potential within water in its liquid state is not bound up, and therefore it acts much more quickly on those things that are in its environment; the stones, pebbles, or pieces of broken glass.

Blame (or shame) is like putting water into ice cube trays and freezing it. When we blame another or shame ourselves we are putting our emotional energy into a sort of storage container.  When we blame another, the energy goes outside of our personal aura.  Psychically it looks like it hangs in the space between the blamer and the blamee. On the other hand, when we blame ourselves the emotional energy of shame is embedded into our physical body. 

Obviously no one wants to hang onto emotional energies of shame, or imagine themselves walking around surrounded by hunks of blame-energy!  But we are all human, and as humans we have developed certain coping behaviors.  Blame is one coping behavior that we probably saw used by our parents and learned to duplicate at a very young age.  How many times have you seen a young child blame another child for something?  Or accuse the family dog of eating his vegetables?

In our power to think about something differently lies our greatest power to make it different.
~ Marianne Williamson


As we are maturing in self-awareness our spiritual abilities are also maturing.  Those patterns of blame which served us before are now ready to change.  Be aware of the flashes of emotion that seem over-the-top.  Here is your experience of your own stored emotional energies flashing up.  Like a little volcano they spurt up and out.  This means they are in motion, nearing the surface, and ready to be released and transformed.  

You may also notice odd body sensations.  Again, this can be a symptom of self-blame energies stirring and rising to the surface.  When you notice something, it means you are just a step away from having conscious access to the energies that are causing whatever you are noticing.  Once you have access to the energies causing a pattern, then you have the ability to change that pattern.  As one of my teachers, John Friedlander used to say, “Whatever you notice you can heal.”

While it is not always comfortable, this a time period of self-exploration and growing self-awareness.  Noticing what fits and doesn’t fit is a daily, probably hourly or even minute-to-minute tool that helps us redefine who we are and how we relate to our world.  Whatever you feel is not comfortable in your life, your body, your thoughts and your emotions is ready to change. 

May each of you be well blessed, as you move into the next step of your soul’s journey.

-Norma
(with Archangel Michael)