It is so easy to forget that reality is so much deeper,
More complex,
Often richer,
Fuller,
More interesting than what we see at the surface.
Hello friends.
I've been really contemplating this topic about burning through the illusions for ourselves individually but also for us collectively.
Of course we always were bombarded with the age of social media with disinformation,
Misinformation,
Sound bytes,
Clickbait,
Short headlines,
TikTok videos,
Instagram reels.
It's quick,
Quick,
Quick,
Fast.
And it's made us often a little bit too attention deficient to where we don't look beyond the surface.
We accept a quick sound byte as what must be the reality.
All of this plays into what we're experiencing collectively.
If we just look at the surface of things,
We have no clue what's actually happening.
If we believe what a talking head on a screen told us to believe about something,
We don't really know.
We are totally disempowered.
But when we stop,
Breathe,
Feel into the deeper truths about any situation,
That's where the real power comes from.
You see,
We've been programmed to think we need an external savior,
Be it a politician or celebrity doctor or something along those lines.
That's not what we need.
As we exit the Piscean Age and move into the Aquarian Age,
It is no longer about someone come and save us.
It is all about oh yeah,
The divine spark and the divine power is innate within me.
I was born with it.
I just forgot about it.
When we tune into that power,
That spark that is within us,
That's where we start to access the deeper understanding of truth,
Of reality,
And especially solutions.
Now I want to give just a little illustration briefly to help clear this up,
Maybe give you a little better understanding of what's on my heart and mind and what I want to share.
If you ever took a physics class,
You probably learned about the electromagnetic spectrum.
The electromagnetic spectrum is all the wavelengths,
Different wavelengths of energy that can be perceived or measured,
Either with our physical senses or with the instrumentation that goes beyond the physical senses.
Visible light comprises a tiny,
Tiny percentage of the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
I don't remember the exact percentage,
But it's minuscule.
The entire electromagnetic spectrum contains ultra-light,
Ultraviolet,
Infrared light.
It includes gamma rays,
X-rays,
All these forms of energy,
Wavelengths that we are not able to perceive with our physical senses.
And when we remember that,
It's like oh yeah,
Visible reality is just a tiny bit of what's actually happening.
If we can remember that,
We can remember oh yeah,
I'm being bombarded with little sound bites to try to shape and craft how I think about myself in the world.
The reality is so much richer,
Bigger,
More complex,
And when I kind of put the sound bites on pause,
Stop,
Breathe,
Go within,
That is where the real power is.
That is where the solutions are.
When I go within and remember that divine spark within,
I'm not clamoring for someone else to come and save the day,
I'm remembering that I have a piece of the puzzle to save the day.
And I can combine that with my friends,
My neighbors,
My colleagues.
That's where the real empowerment and solutions come from.
So to help us burn through the fog of illusion,
I want to share a simple,
Classic breathing exercise.
Breath of fire.
Just as the morning sun rises up over the horizon and burns off the fog,
Breath of fire can help us clear out any fog of illusion for ourselves and for our collective view of reality.
It's a very simple breathing exercise and very powerful.
All of our effort and focus is on the exhale.
We make zero effort on the inhale,
We just allow it to happen automatically.
We focus on forcefully pushing the navel towards the spine as we exhale through the nose.
And if you're doing it right,
You might get a little stuff coming out your nose,
But that just means you're doing it right.
You're at home hopefully.
It looks a little like this,
Or sounds a little like this.
I made no effort on my inhale,
I focused all my effort and energy on the exhale,
And the inhale just happened automatically,
Quietly compared to the exhale as well.
Let's go ahead and sit up nice and tall.
As you inhale,
Lengthen the spine,
Shrug the shoulders up towards the ears,
And as you exhale,
Let the shoulders descend down the back and a little closer together behind your heart.
Keep your spine nice and long.
All of our effort is focused on exhaling as we push the navel forcefully towards the spine.
Let's go ahead and empty all the air from your lungs,
And let's do a practice round of nine breaths of fire.
Let's take a 75% breath in to begin through the nose,
And exhale.
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9.
Breathe normally.
It's a little taste of it to kind of help you understand how it feels.
We're going to do that again.
We'll go for 18 breaths,
And I want to invite you to picture that there is a little white flame,
Like a candle flame,
Behind your navel.
And every time you do breath of fire,
You're making that candle flame glow brighter and brighter and brighter.
If it's helpful,
If you'd like to visualize,
I invite you to close your eyes.
Otherwise,
Just join me.
Sitting up nice and tall,
Empty all the air from your lungs.
Let's take a 75% breath in to begin,
And exhale.
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18.
Breathe normally.
You probably are feeling some heat building up some of that inner strength,
Inner fire.
I love this because this is the ultimate empowerment breath.
This time I want you to bring your awareness and your focus into your head.
So we're still going to push the navel towards the spine,
Do the breathing exactly the same,
But our focus is going to be in the head and the brain as we start to clear off fog.
Any fog,
Any illusion,
Anything that has been keeping you from seeing the deeper,
Fuller,
Richer layers of reality.
We are going to burn it off from the mind,
The head,
The thoughts,
The beliefs.
Clearing out programming that no longer serves us.
Maybe we got it from school or family.
Maybe we accepted something that isn't true for us.
We're ready to let it go.
The breath is done at the navel,
But the clearing of the fog is from the mind,
Thoughts,
Beliefs,
The entire mental layer of your being.
Go ahead and sit up nice and tall.
We're gonna do 27 fog-burning breaths of fire.
Empty all the air from your lungs,
Shoulders back,
Chest open,
75% breath in to begin.
And let's go.
Exhale.
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27.
Breathe normally.
Wow,
Just for a moment with your eyes closed.
We just cleared,
We released so much.
Maybe not everything,
But we cleared some stuff that no longer serves us.
False beliefs,
Programming,
Old self-image lies.
Whatever it is you were letting go,
You cleared and released some of that stuff.
So now,
The truer part of you,
Your higher self,
Your soul self,
Can speak some truth.
Replace what you let go of with deep,
Deep,
Empowering truth.
In this moment of stillness,
Take a pause and feel.
Not so much with your physical senses necessarily,
More that inner sense,
That inner knowing.
What does your higher self want you to receive,
Accept,
Believe,
And replace that old stuff with now?
Take a pause to feel.
When you're ready,
I invite you to open your eyes.
Many of us on a spiritual journey,
For the rest of our lives,
We will be uncovering new layers of reality,
Understanding at a deeper level what's actually happening in our universe and beyond,
In ourselves and beyond.
But for now,
You just did something very powerful for yourself.
You cleared off some fog of illusion,
And you replaced it with some oh-so-empowering,
Soulful truth.
I invite you to come back to this and keep going.
Keep digging deeper.
Keep clearing out the old stuff that no longer serves.
Keep replacing it with empowering knowledge and truth.
Keep finding those solutions within yourself rather than clambering,
Begging for someone else to come and save the day.
You came here to be powerful.
It's time.
Let's do this.
