White Stone Ceremony - New Year's Intention Setting

In this podcast, participate in the White Stone Ceremony, a meditative process to: Align with the Spirit into peace, clarity and love. Release old year 'stuff.' Go upstairs to the Higher Self, and do self-inquiry, asking yourself questions to get your deepest soul desires, then allowing that to distill as to what that will give you, what energy and qualities you need to BE and asking the presence for those qualities. You will be given one word to guide your year and 'engrave it' in stone.

Transcript

All right,

Welcome to Soul Soup.

I'm Dr.

Jeanette Freeman,

And so glad that you could join us for our beginning of the year Whitestone ceremony and the process of aligning with our deepest holiest intentions so that we can go into the new year in really a lot of clarity and clarity and in alignment with the higher self.

So settle in if you've got paper and pencil or if you've got a Whitestone in order to do this process with us.

But more than that,

We're going to have a process,

A deep meditative process,

Which will start in a little bit.

But I wanted to talk to you about what is this Whitestone ceremony?

Where did this start?

What does it mean?

It's a symbology of a Whitestone.

And this is a ceremony you may have done or participated in.

I believe that it started within one of the Unity churches and many of the churches in the New Thought tradition practices in January.

And I've done it many,

Many times when I was a minister in spiritual communities.

And every year it's a favorite.

Every year it's something that many of us look forward to in order to deepen into the intention.

And as we look back,

Sometimes we're surprised by what Spirit gave us and the Word.

Last year,

I remember I was very surprised by the Word that kept coming to me.

It was fun.

And that didn't seem normal.

I mean,

It just seemed odd and that just fun wanted to be expressed inside of me last year.

And as I look back,

And I thought of it so many times and looked at my stone on my altar,

I was like,

I want to have fun.

I'm having fun.

And I ended up having actually a lot of fun.

It was a good break for me,

Truthfully.

Lots of traveling,

Lots of trips,

And lots of fun.

So I say that to really welcome you into allowing the Spirit that is you to guide you tonight and to be really authentic and real as you listen and connect to the deepest heart,

Your deepest heart,

As we move into this process.

So it started,

I want to share a scripture from the New Testament,

Which is where this idea came from,

Or it's at least the scriptural inspiration for this process.

And it's from Revelations chapter 2 verse 17,

Where it says,

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying.

To everyone who overcomes,

I will give some of the hidden manna.

And I will give you a white stone.

And on this white stone will be written a new name.

And the only one who will know it and know what it is,

Is the one who received it.

So we look at this first of all,

To everyone who overcomes,

I will give some of the hidden manna.

We know that in order to reveal something new,

Manifest something new,

Unfold or express something new,

We have to be willing to let go,

We have to transform,

We have to overcome,

We have to see something in a new way.

Because of the conditioned nature of our minds,

It's very easy to see things and do things in an old conditioned repetitive way,

Unconsciously.

And if we want to have a new experience,

It's helpful to align our intentions in the Higher Self and with the Higher Self.

And it's helpful to up level our belief systems,

Our energy,

Our spiritual vibration,

The way we perceive things,

And clear.

And we do processes like overcoming old limiting conditions,

Limiting beliefs for example.

When we see these limiting beliefs,

They no longer have as much power,

We can begin to choose new beliefs.

That is this overcoming.

To everyone that overcomes,

I will give hidden manna.

Now manna is the word for spiritual substance,

Nourishment,

Right?

We remember in the Old Testament story of how the slaves were in the desert for 40 years and how they didn't have anything to eat and the Lord gave them manna.

They go out in the morning and collect the manna and there was only enough for that one day.

So that's very symbolic of there was only enough,

They could only gather what they could eat for that day and they had to trust that in the next day the manna would be delivered.

And so I will give some of the hidden manna.

It's like as we align with this Higher Self and as we are willing to overcome,

To let go of that which no longer serves us,

It's like the presence is saying,

I will give you of the hidden manna.

I will give you of the hidden nourishment,

The substance and the supply,

That which you need.

That hidden represents that which you cannot see in the material realm right now,

But it is hidden.

That means you can't see it now.

It's coming from being birthed from within.

So when we listen and when we overcome,

We will get the hidden manna.

Then it says this,

I will give you a white stone and on this white stone will be written a new name.

So name means nature.

If your name in the old times,

You know,

Your name was your nature,

Your name might have been blacksmith,

Your name might have been the smith,

It might have been the,

You know,

For whatever career you did.

Your name is your nature and when we see name,

We can think of nature.

So as we align with the higher vision,

Align with the higher self and align with getting ideas of what wants to be expressed,

What we're really saying is what is my new nature?

What is the nature that I am here to express and reveal more deeply?

What is my new nature?

So I'm going to,

So the other thing that's interesting about the symbology of the white stone is that in ancient days,

In ancient days when a prisoner was let out of prison,

They were given a white stone that would prove,

And it was something particular,

I guess,

That would prove if they were stopped that they had this white stone to prove that they were set free,

That they were set free correctly.

They didn't escape,

Right?

So this is the symbol of the white stone to recognize that you are free and to write a new aspect of your freedom on your white stone.

So we're going to align and create from the higher realms,

The higher self.

And we're going to,

I'm going to lead you into a bit of a meditation in a moment.

Going to lead you into your I am nature,

Into your line,

Into your energetic connection with your higher self to calm down the busy mind.

We're going to calm down the busy mind so that you can begin to feel and hear the language of the higher self rather than the conditioned mind.

And then we're going to just,

I'm going to ask questions and you ask questions too of yourself and just allow the listening to start to take place.

You're not trying to think anything.

You're just open.

Whatever happens,

Happens and nothing happens if you don't hear,

If you can't shut your mind up,

Don't worry about it.

Something within your intention to listen begins to reveal what you need to hear.

Good.

So we'll ask questions to help you go into your deep soul and let your soul begin to start answering this.

We're going to ask you about your desires.

It's okay for you to have desires,

Your desires and your deeper desires,

Deeper and deeper will start to give you a clue to your truest desires and the essence of what your soul wants.

And also asking the kind of questions of how do you really want to feel?

How do you want to feel?

Because that is the clue to the energy that you will need to align with in your waking life.

So settle in right now as we prepare to go into a meditation.

That's right.

And so right here,

Right where you are,

I invite you to connect to your breath.

Just notice the gentle inflow and outflow of the breath.

Right at the nose.

And as you focus just right there on the nose and right there on the breath,

You begin to relax.

So gently and peacefully starting to relax.

Allow yourself to be fully embodied right now in your body.

Feeling the ground underneath your feet,

Wherever your feet are right now,

Noticing them.

Feeling what you feel.

Noticing your legs.

Noticing the chair that you're sitting on or if you're laying down.

Notice your sitting bones,

Your hips,

Feel the chair,

Feel the seat that is underneath you.

Deepening into that sense of being grounded and safe and secure.

That's right.

And allowing your awareness to move up into the abdomen and feel the gentle flow as the breath expands your abdomen on the in-breath.

And it goes in on the out-breath.

Expanding that abdomen on the inhale.

And just releasing all the air from the deep abdomen.

Maybe another deep breath deep into the abdomen,

Expanding that abdomen with that breath.

Letting it all go.

That's right.

Allowing your breath to find its perfect right rhythm.

The rhythm that your body wants to do as it breathes.

Allowing your attention to rest right now in your heart.

Almost like you could breathe directly from your chest,

Right directly into your heart.

With every breath expanding the heart.

Good.

Now I want you to just simply notice your interior world of feelings and how they are experienced in your body.

Not needing to change anything at all.

Just aware maybe the throat,

The heart,

The stomach,

Or the hips.

Just noticing if there's any residual fear,

Worry,

Anxiousness,

Sadness.

Just breathing into the body and noticing.

And as we begin,

We're going to just invite the higher self to pour a beautiful healing waterfall now over the top of your head.

Imagining a beautiful violet light in a violet waterfall of light just pouring forth over the top of your head.

Pouring forth over your head down through your facial muscles,

Down through your brain,

The back of your head,

The shoulders,

Down through the mouth and the jaw and the throat.

Calling upon the higher self to call in this violet light of purifying fire to just clear and cleanse away.

All the past year and all the concerns and everything,

Just all the residual leftover energy,

We ask the higher self and we ask the violet light to clean and cleanse and release.

Moving now through the throat,

Any ways that you've locked in your throat,

Your voice,

Your words,

Your truth,

Your creativity,

Just allowing the higher self to do that cleansing.

Moving through the throat.

Moving now down through the chest,

Down through the heart,

Any place in the heart that's been hurting,

Any part of that at all,

Just washing,

Washing,

Washing that violet light coming down through the heart and now through the abdomen,

Just washing all through all the old residual energy,

The fear,

The worry that gets stuck in the body,

Resentments,

All of that,

Just releasing that,

Letting it go,

Just releasing,

Letting it go,

Moving it down,

Moving down through the hips now,

Any energy that gets stuck in the hips,

Anything around security,

Just letting that go,

Asking the higher self to bring in that violet light and to bring in that flame and burning that flame.

Moving down through the hips,

Down through the legs and down through the feet and washing,

Washing,

Washing,

Right down into the earth,

Just draining out of the bottom of your feet,

All residual energy,

Just,

We just know that it is the higher self that is doing this work,

Just cleansing and purifying and letting all of that go.

We can let the past go.

That our future is not defined by the past,

Nor is it defined by the old energy that can sneak in,

So just let that go and imagine the beautiful healing waterfall of violet light began to change to white light and just washing over you with white beautiful crystal,

Light white and just washing away like a shower of light.

That's right.

Ah,

So good,

And now just bring your attention and awareness right into your heart.

Be aware now this beautiful golden line,

This river of light,

A golden core that comes from high above your head,

From the heart of source or your own I am presence,

Touching at the crown of the head,

Moving through the crown chakra and moving through.

Just imagine the whole spinal area moving down all the way through that spinal area and out the base of the spine and going down into the earth.

As you align with this golden light,

Golden line,

Get a sense how this is your line,

This is your home,

This is your highway to your higher self.

Let's take a moment and do a few I am mantras.

I am to get online.

I on the in breath moving up your line and on the out breath moving down your line.

I on the in breath moving up your line and on the out breath moving down your line,

Allowing your breath to find it slow and steady and natural pace,

Vertically breathing up and down with every vertical breath,

Pulling in and bringing your awareness into the center of you,

Pulling away from all the ways that we're looking external to ourselves,

All the lack of focus,

Everything we're looking outside,

We're bringing it into this beautiful line at the center of our being.

I am.

Just a few of these internal mantras,

I am.

Noticing your breath,

Breathing up and down.

That's right.

Now you are online,

You're in the center of you,

Connected as we invoke and call upon the I am presence of each one listening to this now.

Each one is tapped in and tuned in and guided and directed in every way.

That's right.

I invite you just to rest in your heart right now as you breathe,

Connecting to your breath.

I am here right in your heart,

Right in the heart of divine love,

Trusting your heart,

Trusting what you love,

Feeling what love feels like deep within you.

That's right.

Now I want you to just simply contemplate your year ahead,

2020.

So many of us talking about 2020 vision,

Seeing clearly 2020,

The number of physical manifestation,

2020 is a for the number of manifesting for the number of solidity,

Like four legs on a table.

And as you contemplate your year ahead with a feeling of possibility and a feeling of hopefulness and with no,

With absolutely no need to think about planning or how to just want to contemplate what are some of the things that you dearly and deeply desire to feel,

To have,

To be,

Maybe even something you've given up hope on and just allow things to,

Anything to just come into your mind without judgment.

Just what else?

What else?

Just stimulate that openheartedness,

That open hope,

The hope,

Just the hopes,

Just listening to your deepest heart right now.

What really stands out as something,

Some experience that your soul deeply wants,

The real part of you.

Listening to your deepest heart and staying connected to your heart,

Staying connected to the breath right in your heart.

What really stands out as some experience your soul deeply wants.

Just trusting maybe it's right now,

Just as you're priming this pump,

Maybe it's something you really want to do.

Maybe it's something you really want to have.

Or maybe it's something you really want to be.

Listening is fine for right now,

Tapping into your heart of hearts.

What is calling you?

What wants to be expressed through you?

What might you be doing?

What might you be having or being?

What are you feeling?

What do you most want to feel?

Really who are you being?

What does that help you to feel?

And when you're feeling that,

What will that give you?

What's the essence of that which you deeply,

Soulfully desire?

What is that that wants to guide you and inform you this year?

What does it want you to be,

Experience or express?

Just listening and trusting anything that comes to you.

What is the Divine's intention for you?

What does she want for you?

Who are you meant to be?

What is the energy?

What is the energy that you are and that wants to be more fully embodied in you?

What is the quality that wants to be birthed and expressed as you?

And if you have a certain desire,

You can ask yourself,

What will that desire give me?

How will that make me feel?

You can start to distill that desire into really getting a sense of what is the energy that you will have and be when you are living that desire.

When you're living that desire even more,

How will you feel?

What will you really have?

How will you feel?

What energy will you be?

What quality is being birthed,

What wants to be expressed through you?

Now that quality,

We're just going to invite your own higher self,

Your own I am nature to access that quality even more deeply in the higher realms and to pour forth that quality in you now in a deeper way.

Listen to what your spirit is telling you.

What are you hearing,

Feeling and knowing?

Is there a one word or phrase that is the essence of you?

Is there a energy or phrase or word that is the I am of you,

The identity of you,

The new name of you,

The nature of you,

For you to embody and express and to live from more deeply now?

Listen,

Listen to what the spirit is telling you.

What are you hearing,

Feeling or knowing?

Is there a word or phrase that is this essence for you,

That spirit is calling you to?

Perhaps you could say I am this word.

I'm going to invite you to if you have a stone to hold the stone right now or a piece of paper or a symbol of something to just begin to allow the essence of this new name,

The essence of this quality,

The essence of this expression that is there for you to embody deeply this year,

To hold your stone and just to imagine your stone.

And as you hold it,

Allowing this spirit to infuse this with your essence that the spirit is calling you to in order to express it and embody that essence more fully this year.

That's right.

Allow the spirit to infuse it with a quality that wants to be birthed in and as you.

We invoke the higher self,

Which is all power,

All wisdom,

All joy,

All love.

We invite the higher self,

Which activates the magical life.

It's not through our own mind.

We call upon the higher self,

Which activates deep alchemical magic to infuse these qualities into our very being,

Into our heart,

Into our cell,

Into every cell of the body,

Into the repatterning and the reprogramming from the I am nature,

From the I am,

Which is writing the new source code for your new awakened consciousness.

That's right.

So holding that paper,

That stone and infusing it with the quality that wants to be birthed,

I am this.

And then imagine the spirit.

What if it were truly the spirit's finger that was writing and engraving this word or phrase on your stone?

Imagine that this golden light,

This finger of the divine is writing right in the stone.

What is it that the spirit will write?

Imagine the finger of the divine burning the word into your stone now.

If you're not sure,

Just stay with it.

If you see it,

Let it happen.

Sometimes a word doesn't make sense.

God says,

I'll reveal everything in its time.

Just stay with it.

What is this new nature,

This new name,

This identity,

This energy,

This essence,

However it's for you?

What is this that you will write on your stone?

Infuse it into your stone.

Stay it carved into the stone and allow the energy of this new name to be infused solidly into the stone.

And as you hold this stone or paper or symbol or even just imagine it in your mind,

Know that it is very personal word or important to you,

Even if you don't understand it yet.

And affirm with me silently,

I am this.

This word,

This quality,

This name shall be my bridge into the new year.

My awakening.

This shall be my bridge into the new year.

It is my awakening.

This is my bridge into the new year.

It is my awakening.

I am so grateful and I trust the spirit to guide me in every way.

I simply say yes.

I say yes.

I don't say how.

I don't worry.

I simply say I am willing.

Yes.

Yes,

God.

Yes,

Spirit.

Yes,

Life.

Yes,

I am presence.

I give thanks and I say yes and I say and so it is.

It is done.

It is written in stone.

Bam.

And so it is.

So taking a few deep breaths as you slowly,

So very slowly start to bring your attention back to the present and back to this room.

Reviews

Thank you for this wonderful meditation! I am FREEDOM is my bridge to 2024. 🙏🙌

Thank you it is The second year New Zealand has had a Maori new year 2023 Matariki and this white stone offers me a word purpose 🦋

So glad I tried something that sounded unfamiliar and "out there". It was grounding and meaningful. Will continue to listen to this meditation on a regular basis.

Thank you for a wonderful meditation

Thank you,💐💐💐 I felt so light and felt Nothingness during this meditation
At first I want to get white stone as a sighn that I am free from the prison of habbitual patterns and energy after that I will write on my stone , my desire is to be free of the prison of this country I Wanst to be free

Thank you so much. It was a very powerful, meaningful and emotional practice for me. I do see my word, and your guidance allowed it to happen. I thank you. Namaste.

Yes!!!! Thanks for the guidance 💐

Interesting and productive.Thank you.
Namaste 🙏💛