And hello!
Welcome to In the Flow with Lori Albert.
I hope everybody is great today.
And I want,
Before we start,
I decided I wanted to do a card pull.
I have a really awesome deck,
Which I've probably talked about before.
It's the Archangel Michael Oracle cards,
And they're just so awesome.
And I decided I wanted to pull a card and see what message Archangel Michael has for us today.
Love that,
Right?
Oh wow!
Very interesting.
Considering that Mercury is in retrograde,
So this is what it says.
It's time to leave this unhealthy situation.
Wow!
Okay,
And the prayer is,
Archangel Michael,
What parts of my life do I need to focus on more closely right now?
Thank you for helping me hear your answers and for giving me the courage to make healthy changes in my life.
Isn't that amazing?
Oh my gosh,
Archangel Michael is so awesome.
Always gives the best messages and the best,
You know,
The best protection,
Right?
So how cool is that?
So getting into what I want to talk about today.
You know,
We've heard so often about being careful what we say to kids because they're listening or in front of kids,
I guess I should say.
Be careful what you say in front of kids because they're listening,
Right?
But here's the thing.
So is the universe.
The universe is listening too,
Right?
Even thinking negative or bad thoughts is not great for us,
Right?
It's funny because,
You know,
When I think when I was a kid,
You guys are going to laugh.
When I was a kid,
I was told that God knew my thoughts,
Which I believe that,
You know,
God spirit universe,
Whatever you want to call it,
Knows my thoughts.
But I believed I was going to be punished for those thoughts,
Right?
So anytime I thought anything bad,
Maybe that's how I got such a positive outlook because I was scared,
You know,
But you know,
It was a total guilt trip,
You know,
To force me into being a good person or to think good thoughts,
You know,
All of that stuff.
And it worked to a certain degree.
But you know,
God loves us.
My thought is God's spirit universe,
Whatever you want to call it,
Loves us no matter what our thoughts are.
But here's the thing.
Our thoughts make us make up who we are,
Whether it's good or bad.
So the thought then,
Or the the the idea then to that is,
Is that if we think positive thoughts,
We will have that positive life.
If we think negative thoughts,
We will have that sort of negative life,
Right?
And the reason why I want to talk about this today is because I came across a quote by Maya Angelou,
Which just she is,
Whenever I come across something that she has said,
I always really stop and try to take it in because I mean,
She was just she was absolutely her life was absolutely amazing,
Right?
So okay,
So here's her quote,
You are the sum total of everything you have ever seen,
Heard,
Eaten,
Smelled,
Been told,
Forgot,
It's all there.
Everything influences each of us.
And because of that,
I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
So whether that means that we just have to think better thoughts,
Or whether that means we have to turn off the news,
Or whether that means that we have to be in nature and appreciate the goodness in our life.
Whatever it is,
We are the sum total of everything.
So how cool is that?
And that's,
It's so interesting when you relate it to what I said before about kids.
They start out,
They come out of the womb,
And they are so pure and so perfect.
And then what happens?
They start hearing stuff,
And they start knowing stuff,
And they start learning.
Isn't that amazing?
We have so much.
We have so much control over all of that,
Don't we?
For ourselves.
So be careful the kids are listening.
Be careful you are listening.
Be careful the universe is listening.
So let's get ourselves comfortable to meditate.
I am so weird sometimes.
But you guys love me anyway,
Right?
Okay,
So we're gonna get ourselves comfortable.
Oh boy,
Let's sit back and relax.
Relax our bodies.
Relax our minds.
Close your eyes.
Let's take a nice deep breath in.
And release.
As we start to concentrate on our breath,
Let's think about what we are grateful for today.
What are you grateful for?
We are coming towards the time of the year where we focus on gratitude.
That's why I love this time of year.
So what is it that you are absolutely grateful for today?
I am so grateful,
Believe it or not,
For this sort of quarantine time.
It was like a reset.
I'm so grateful for that.
I'm grateful for this meditation community that we are building.
You can invite your friends to listen in.
Because if we all are meditating at the same time,
Imagine what that does for the Earth's energy.
So our mantra today is based on the perfect life.
Having the perfect life.
Sat-Chit-Ananda.
Sat is truth.
Chit is consciousness.
And Ananda is bliss.
So as we say this mantra,
We come into the space.
We're creating the space around us of truth,
Consciousness,
And bliss.
Bliss is such a beautiful word,
Right?
Sat-Chit-Ananda.
If you lose the mantra in the middle,
That's absolutely okay.
Just come back and gently follow your breath.
Let's take a deep breath in.
And release it.
Very gently.
I will keep the time.
Let's begin.
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