July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Do you have emotional wounds that need heart healing?
What makes your heart happy?
Shifting your energy with vagal toning exercises does facilitate healing.
Guided Imagery is a Restore the Heart Journey
What makes your heart happy?
Shifting your energy with vagal toning exercises does facilitate healing.
Guided Imagery is a Restore the Heart Journey
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(00:00):
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.
(00:07):
It is a very lovely day here today.
The sun is shining.
All the livestock's happy, the pets are happy.
Yay!
It's a very good, very good, yay!
Kind of days.
It really is.
(00:28):
And we want to acknowledge those very good, very good, yay!
Kind of days and moments because life is a little bit uncertain.
So, what I'm working on right now is actually a heart healing certification.
(00:51):
So a few years ago when I took that journey in the trauma healing, a certification, it
was a ten month course, and then I needed it immediately, dealing with a very messy,
uncomfortable, I'll never understand it, family situation.
(01:18):
And all the healing that I did, all the classes were so beneficial.
And so, you know, when you go through family situations or friend situations and we end
up with emotional wounds, we have to figure out how to heal them.
(01:42):
And one of the ways is through heart healing.
And I've been doing a ton of research.
I've been doing some classes and some certifications.
And I can say that it's working because of course I'm trying it on myself first.
(02:04):
It's so interesting because with the situation, I have a device and I can think about these
situations.
And the lines are all jagged and messy.
And then I can do the heart techniques and I can focus my breathing and calm my nervous
(02:29):
system and do all the tools that I'm learning and everything smooths out.
I'm totally enchanted with it and fascinated by it.
And I'm working on how I'm going to offer it to all of you so that I can help you and
do what I've done.
(02:52):
So for those of you that don't know about polyvagal theory, I'm just going to give you a little
overview.
It was created by Stephen Porges and he started this in 1994 and he went down a big research
(03:17):
road to figure this all out and developed a polyvagal theory.
And here's what it does.
It offers a way to understand the neuro physiological systems that guide our daily living and has
greatly influenced the practice of psychotherapy.
And so one of the things we learn in polyvagal theory practices is how to regulate our nervous
(03:44):
system.
The vagus nerve, sometimes called the soul nerve which totally delights me and how to, you
know, when we're dysregulated, which life happens and of course we are, we can't expect to
be calm, cool, and collected all the time.
That's just not how it goes.
But when we get dysregulated, instead of staying in that state, we do what we need to do
(04:10):
and then we have tools to bring ourselves back down to grounded calm and to work through
it.
And of course, this is where laughing yoga also happens to come in as a way to get the
energies out of our body.
As I know for myself, again, that I can use the movement to release the energy when it gets
(04:35):
stuck as well as the vagus nerve, regulation, toning, whatever word you want to use for it, tools,
and it's amazing.
Amazing.
So, I have a loving kindness meditation that I want to share with you.
(04:57):
I do share this with clients quite often.
Here's the scoop.
Here's the science parts for all you people that are left brained first and think
why should I even do this.
And all of you right brain people first or who are feeling, I just want to do it, Shannon,
it's fine.
But I'm going to tell you anyway.
(05:19):
So the loving kindness meditation increases ventral energy and has a positive impact on physical
and psychological wellbeing.
The traditional phrases focus on the qualities of happiness, health, safety, and living with
ease.
They are offered first to ourselves, which I didn't know.
I've actually done it the opposite, but I'm going to switch that up.
(05:41):
May I be safe
May I be healthy
May I be happy
May I live life with ease
And then someone you care about, may you be safe
May you be healthy
May you be happy
May you live life with ease
And then finally, we can do it to all beings.
(06:03):
May you all be safe
May you all be healthy
May you all be happy
May you all live life with ease
So we're rephrasing the four qualities of happiness, health, safety, and ease in the
language of our nervous system.
Connect with your ventral energy and find your own words if these ones don't work for you.
(06:25):
These ones work for me, so I do recommend you use them.
Meditate on the words offering them to yourself, to others, and to all beings.
Practice over a period of time and bring awareness to what changes.
So they do give some examples that are different.
(06:49):
So an example for happiness, may I find glimmers every day?
That's cool.
I would probably won't do that one.
But I've also been doing this.
I don't even do it in the same order as they're suggesting.
(07:10):
I say, may you be safe
May you be healthy
May you be happy
May you live life with ease
May I be safe
May I be healthy
May I be happy
May I live life with ease
May all beings be safe
May all beings be happy
May all beings be healthy
May all beings live life with ease
(07:33):
Nice.
So that is the loving kindness meditation.
Oh, okay.
So I jumped around a little.
So another example, like I said, of happiness they use.
And these notes say, Happiness (07:49):
may I find glimmers every day
Health:
May I be nourished by the flow of ventral energy
Safety:
May I be filled with a neuroception of safety
Ease:
May I live in the rhythm of a regulated nervous system
Yeah, there's no chance.
I will ever do it that way.
That's too many words.
(08:11):
And I prefer simple.
So I'm going to say to all of you listening, may you all be safe
May you all be healthy
May you all be happy
May you all live life with ease
Nice.
That guided imagery I have today is a Restore the Heart journey.
(08:34):
I feel or think that with everything that's happened into all of us and in the world
over the last few years, I feel like we've had a lot of heartbreak.
However, that may look in your life.
(08:56):
There's many ways it can happen, of course.
And I feel like if we dig deep into some of our feelings and emotions or why we're
upset, angry, resentful, I bet we can come down to, we've got our heart broken a few times,
by situations, by people, by experiences, however it's happened.
(09:17):
But I feel if we can heal our hearts, then we can move forward and have more happy, have
more joy, have more appreciation, come from a more grounded, safe place.
It's working for me.
(09:39):
And so let's see how this goes.
So I'm going to share with you a hand on the heart exercise that I do often with my clients.
So this exercise, this is also one of the heart math exercises too.
This exercise promotes emotional connection and co-regulation by nurturing a sense of trust
(10:02):
and security within yourself.
Ooh, one of the biggest things I work on with clients is trusting themselves and feeling
secure.
It involves recalling a moment, a feeling safe and cherished in the presence of another.
Now, I'm going to do this one like that and then I'm going to offer you another alternative.
(10:25):
So I invite you to close your eyes or gaze towards the floor.
Place your right hand on your heart, allowing the warmth and gentle touch to connect you
with your heart center.
Breathe deeply, softly and slowly into this heart space.
(10:50):
Just gently and easily.
And I invite you now to focus on a single moment when you felt love, safe and cherished
by another, a partner, a child, a friend, a therapist, a pet, or anyone with whom you've shared
a heartfelt connection.
(11:12):
As you recall this moment, go ahead and bring that up, somebody that made you feel love,
safe and cherished and it could be a pet, could be another person.
As you recall this moment, let the feelings of trust, safety and security wash over you
(11:35):
and just stay in this energy for about 20 to 30 seconds.
I'll time it for you.
And just observe any relaxation and calmness that arises.
Nice.
(11:57):
Feels good, doesn't it?
Now sometimes we can be dysregulated and it's to do with people.
And so I'm going to invite you to do the same thing, place your hand on your heart.
(12:22):
Breathe deeply, softly and slowly into your heart space.
You're doing some heart focused breathing.
And I want you now to visualize or imagine a moment, perhaps the sunshine was on your
face, perhaps you were on a vacation somewhere that's very special to you and it was warm
(12:51):
and perhaps there was a beach, perhaps there was a mountain and you just felt connected to
nature.
You felt safe.
You felt at ease.
You felt peaceful.
Nice.
Just soak that in for about 20 to 30 seconds.
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Just feel it.
Feel What You feel.
Nice.
(13:43):
Great.
I want you to wiggle a little bit.
Give yourself a nice breath in and release.
Nice.
And so I'm going to invite you to pay attention to what helps you invoke calm and peace
(14:10):
and what makes you the opposite. Let's be real.
It happens.
As you all know, my cows, my cats, my dog, my horses, even when they're being bad, they haven't
been bad for a while.
They're all good.
I'm still waiting on my one-highland cow to calf.
(14:33):
She looks so uncomfortable, Nora does.
I'm hoping I just go out one of these days to give them their extra water and she's
got a baby beside her.
That's what I'm hoping for because it's hot and she just looks very uncomfortable.
They're so fun.
A few days this week though, they were all spooky, especially my horses.
(14:57):
So I do horse chores every day because I have an emotional eater and he has to be on a
grass ration because he overindulges and so I have to go out and I give him a special
ration with some medicine and then they go out and they eat grass and then I bring him
in.
Oh my gosh, one of mine.
She does not want to come in.
I basically have to have my hand on her butt and push her in.
(15:21):
She's very desensitized but seriously, yeah, totally entertaining now.
Totally entertaining.
And I feel regulated because I'm calm.
My focus is on them.
It makes me smile.
I have gratitude and appreciation.
(15:43):
Walking through the forest, walking through my cow herd.
Even if I have to be very present to make sure I don't end up between a very protective
mama and her calf, I like it when they're in the forest because then I have lots of escape
routes.
I have very good survival skills.
(16:04):
But everybody's been behaved this week so that's been good.
The grass is doing well.
We've got our hay on order so we can feed them all winter.
I'm still looking for a highland bull to add to my herd but I'm not in a rush because
he's only for backup.
Yeah, things are going well right now.
(16:27):
At the ranch, everybody's calm.
On the weekend, I got to go do a parade with the Seniors.
I helped them decorate and my mom's on the bus and I was going to go watch the parade and
then I realized they didn't have enough help.
I went and gave out candy and freezees and had a very good time doing it because of course
(16:47):
I threw them at people I knew, made them catch them, taunted them.
It was very fun.
I love small towns.
And it lifts your energy.
So make sure you are taking the time and giving yourself the gift during our summer season
here or if you're in a different hemisphere, whatever's happening, make sure you go out in
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the community and do some things.
Try to do it at least every couple of weeks.
Whatever works for you but I'm really going to encourage you to get out there and people.
And if you don't really want to, I'm trying to be less of a hermit.
I even went to a birthday party and have a blast with some friends.
(17:35):
I do tend to hermit just because I love my place though.
Like this is my peaceful place, my happy place.
But we do need to balance that all with being in our community, being in the world because
we need to have those connections, building our communities.
(17:57):
All right, so laughter yoga exercise.
Yeah, I didn't think of one today so maybe we will just skip that because we did all our
soul nerve exercises instead, which are actually also a part of my laughter for well-being program
(18:21):
as well as laughing.
Let's roll our arms into a couple of very good, very good yay.
So roll your arms twice, very good, very good and then shake your hands in the air.
Ready?
Very good, very good.
Yay!
Shake out all the tension.
Very good, very good.
Yay!
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One more time.
Very good. Very Good
Yay!
Nice.
Doing that, I kind of made my ear buds almost fly away.
Whoops.
(19:02):
I also want to talk a little bit about energetically, there's some very good shifts happening.
If you are finding it easier to be more peaceful or if clarity is coming for in your energy
more often embrace it and if it's not happening for everybody then it's the courses I'm taking
(19:28):
and I can't wait to share it with you because I am finding groundedness and peacefulness
that I've been searching for and I wanted to have happened and it's working.
Ooh, another very good, very good.
Yay!
Okay, so that's it for that.
Alright, so our guided meditation today is called Restore the Heart Journey and your
(19:54):
wise guides going to be part of this.
So yay!
So I'm going to go ahead and do that now.
I invite you to go ahead and close your eyes and let's take three big deep breaths.
Three big deep breaths as you begin to release and let go.
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And to focus on the sound of my voice and allow all the other sounds to drift into the background.
They are unimportant to pay attention to.
They can only help you relax even more.
(20:59):
As you bring your attention and awareness to your feet, your legs and from your toes,
to your knees, you become aware of your legs relaxing.
(21:21):
Every breath takes you deeper now as this relaxation moves up into the thighs, the hips
and your stomach muscles relaxing as well and the more relaxed you become, the deeper you
go into the relaxation, the deeper you go into this relaxation, the more relaxed you become.
(21:48):
Giving yourself the gift of this time and space, giving yourself the gift of being here,
being present as you continue breathing and being and being and breathing.
This relaxation now continues moving upward in through the solar plexus across your chest
(22:12):
area, in through your shoulders and moving down through your arms, your hands, your fingers,
and your neck muscles all relaxing.
Each and every breath and you relax even more, letting go of all the tension, all the worries
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just for now, being and breathing, breathing and being.
With every breath you breathe in, you're breathing in this lovely relaxation energy to the
body, the positive energies to your mind.
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With every exhalation, you're releasing any discomfort from the body and any negatives
from your mind.
Breathing in calm, letting go of worry, breathing and being.
(23:29):
Nice.
And now this lovely relaxation energy keeps moving up and through the scalp across your
forehead, down over your eyelids, your facial muscles, your jaw muscles, and your physical
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body relaxes deeply, completely with every breath.
In a moment, I'm going to count backwards from 5 to 0, you'll enter the imagery state
when I reach 0.
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And now 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, deeply, deeply relaxed.
As you begin to settle into an even greater comfort and relaxation, your sensory experience
(24:44):
heightens.
So to appreciate your body and all its wonder becomes very easy.
Your body has been with you all of this time.
Show appreciation.
Give it some love.
Your body is like your home, like your long time good friend.
(25:07):
In a moment, begin to allow yourself to focus on your heart.
Give yourself permission to just put your attention there.
And as you breathe more deeply, visualize and imagine.
(25:30):
Imagine your imagination door and let's also bring in your wise one, your loving wise
guide, your wise one wants to be here with you too.
Allow your wise guide to show up.
(25:52):
And when you are ready, allow your wise one to gently touch your chest.
Notice the sensations of that touch.
And as your heart begins to open, notice what begins to happen.
(26:18):
As the warmth and loving touch of your wise one helps your heart to open, you do remain
secure and comfortable with that healing soft touch which allowed the opening.
(26:38):
You begin to sense the landscape of your heart stretched out in front of you.
Your wise one seconds you to follow encouraging you to take this healing journey together
through the landscape of your heart.
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As you and your wise one explore together, you remember this is for your positive benefit
to restore and heal, mend and repair, rejuvenate and regenerate.
(27:21):
When you enter your heart landscape, discover and notice what you are aware of.
Your wise one helps you to move through, heading you always to the lighter and brighter
experience.
(27:42):
In your heart center, anything can be made whole again.
It is there that you, your wise guide and any other helpers facilitate to heal your heart.
(28:07):
On your journey as you and your wise one find the way to your heart center, notice what
it looks like.
What happens there?
Notice how you feel about it.
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Take a few moments to allow this experience.
And now as you and your wise one prepare to exit your heart landscape.
(28:52):
Get a sense of your accomplishment as you leave the heart center.
Notice what is different.
Notice what feels complete.
And what may need more time to heal.
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Remember that time is not toxic.
Time is on your side.
Time can be your friend in the present as you move forward.
When you have exited your heart landscape and are now back in your own space, your wise
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one reminds you that as your heart continues to heal, any more of what you no longer need
or want will be released in early morning venting dreams.
Now as your wise one gently touches your heart again, you become filled up with goodness,
(30:14):
love and healing energy.
And your heart landscape is your own again and know that whenever you desire, you and
your wise one can visit your heart again if need be for any further restoration and more
(30:38):
healing love.
From this journey then with this glow of healing love, let's drive deeper, deeper and deeper.
Take a few moments to reap the benefits of your journey as you replenish in comfort and
(31:03):
security.
And allow what has been meaningful and important to you to become solidified in this subconscious,
(31:25):
which helps your forward movement and conscious outerer way, light.
Nice.
Anything more need to happen here before we close for now?
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All the images are in appreciation to you for your courage and willingness to take this
journey today.
And as you take that deeply within at zero to reinforce with all the positives, we begin
to come up and out now at one with a deep cleansing breath in and release.
(32:11):
Two, three, four, five eyes open, wide awake.
Nice.
This heart connection work is just so good.
It makes my heart happy.
(32:34):
You can totally roll your eyes at me. lol
That's fine.
I am telling you this stuff's working.
I just want to remind you to go to my Facebook or Instagram page and check out the energy shifting poll.
Our choices this week are a shift and release, stuck energies of self-doubt, invoke energies
(32:59):
of clear thinking and discernment to support decision making, or be shift and release, stuck
energies of anxiety and worry that are not beneficial to you.
We will also invoke confidence and clarity with that.
That did not get posted
(33:19):
Whoops.
Oh well.
We're all human.
Mistakes happen.
It's all good.
Very good.
Very good.
Yay.
Okay.
Well, thank you for listening.
And I hope this all helps you.
And you get to enjoy some good.
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I'm good things coming up, sending you all a big blessing and a big hug and more
kindness.
May you all be healthy.
May you all be happy.
May you all be safe.
And may you all live life with ease.
Bye-bye.
(34:00):
[music]
(34:45):
(gentle music)
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.
(00:07):
It is a very lovely day here today.
The sun is shining.
All the livestock's happy, the pets are happy.
Yay!
It's a very good, very good, yay!
Kind of days.
It really is.
(00:28):
And we want to acknowledge those very good, very good, yay!
Kind of days and moments because life is a little bit uncertain.
So, what I'm working on right now is actually a heart healing certification.
(00:51):
So a few years ago when I took that journey in the trauma healing, a certification, it
was a ten month course, and then I needed it immediately, dealing with a very messy,
uncomfortable, I'll never understand it, family situation.
(01:18):
And all the healing that I did, all the classes were so beneficial.
And so, you know, when you go through family situations or friend situations and we end
up with emotional wounds, we have to figure out how to heal them.
(01:42):
And one of the ways is through heart healing.
And I've been doing a ton of research.
I've been doing some classes and some certifications.
And I can say that it's working because of course I'm trying it on myself first.
(02:04):
It's so interesting because with the situation, I have a device and I can think about these
situations.
And the lines are all jagged and messy.
And then I can do the heart techniques and I can focus my breathing and calm my nervous
(02:29):
system and do all the tools that I'm learning and everything smooths out.
I'm totally enchanted with it and fascinated by it.
And I'm working on how I'm going to offer it to all of you so that I can help you and
do what I've done.
(02:52):
So for those of you that don't know about polyvagal theory, I'm just going to give you a little
overview.
It was created by Stephen Porges and he started this in 1994 and he went down a big research
(03:17):
road to figure this all out and developed a polyvagal theory.
And here's what it does.
It offers a way to understand the neuro physiological systems that guide our daily living and has
greatly influenced the practice of psychotherapy.
And so one of the things we learn in polyvagal theory practices is how to regulate our nervous
(03:44):
system.
The vagus nerve, sometimes called the soul nerve which totally delights me and how to, you
know, when we're dysregulated, which life happens and of course we are, we can't expect to
be calm, cool, and collected all the time.
That's just not how it goes.
But when we get dysregulated, instead of staying in that state, we do what we need to do
(04:10):
and then we have tools to bring ourselves back down to grounded calm and to work through
it.
And of course, this is where laughing yoga also happens to come in as a way to get the
energies out of our body.
As I know for myself, again, that I can use the movement to release the energy when it gets
(04:35):
stuck as well as the vagus nerve, regulation, toning, whatever word you want to use for it, tools,
and it's amazing.
Amazing.
So, I have a loving kindness meditation that I want to share with you.
(04:57):
I do share this with clients quite often.
Here's the scoop.
Here's the science parts for all you people that are left brained first and think
why should I even do this.
And all of you right brain people first or who are feeling, I just want to do it, Shannon,
it's fine.
But I'm going to tell you anyway.
(05:19):
So the loving kindness meditation increases ventral energy and has a positive impact on physical
and psychological wellbeing.
The traditional phrases focus on the qualities of happiness, health, safety, and living with
ease.
They are offered first to ourselves, which I didn't know.
I've actually done it the opposite, but I'm going to switch that up.
(05:41):
May I be safe
May I be healthy
May I be happy
May I live life with ease
And then someone you care about, may you be safe
May you be healthy
May you be happy
May you live life with ease
And then finally, we can do it to all beings.
(06:03):
May you all be safe
May you all be healthy
May you all be happy
May you all live life with ease
So we're rephrasing the four qualities of happiness, health, safety, and ease in the
language of our nervous system.
Connect with your ventral energy and find your own words if these ones don't work for you.
(06:25):
These ones work for me, so I do recommend you use them.
Meditate on the words offering them to yourself, to others, and to all beings.
Practice over a period of time and bring awareness to what changes.
So they do give some examples that are different.
(06:49):
So an example for happiness, may I find glimmers every day?
That's cool.
I would probably won't do that one.
But I've also been doing this.
I don't even do it in the same order as they're suggesting.
(07:10):
I say, may you be safe
May you be healthy
May you be happy
May you live life with ease
May I be safe
May I be healthy
May I be happy
May I live life with ease
May all beings be safe
May all beings be happy
May all beings be healthy
May all beings live life with ease
(07:33):
Nice.
So that is the loving kindness meditation.
Oh, okay.
So I jumped around a little.
So another example, like I said, of happiness they use.
And these notes say, Happiness (07:49):
may I find glimmers every day
Health:
May I be nourished by the flow of ventral energy
Safety:
May I be filled with a neuroception of safety
Ease:
May I live in the rhythm of a regulated nervous system
Yeah, there's no chance.
I will ever do it that way.
That's too many words.
(08:11):
And I prefer simple.
So I'm going to say to all of you listening, may you all be safe
May you all be healthy
May you all be happy
May you all live life with ease
Nice.
That guided imagery I have today is a Restore the Heart journey.
(08:34):
I feel or think that with everything that's happened into all of us and in the world
over the last few years, I feel like we've had a lot of heartbreak.
However, that may look in your life.
(08:56):
There's many ways it can happen, of course.
And I feel like if we dig deep into some of our feelings and emotions or why we're
upset, angry, resentful, I bet we can come down to, we've got our heart broken a few times,
by situations, by people, by experiences, however it's happened.
(09:17):
But I feel if we can heal our hearts, then we can move forward and have more happy, have
more joy, have more appreciation, come from a more grounded, safe place.
It's working for me.
(09:39):
And so let's see how this goes.
So I'm going to share with you a hand on the heart exercise that I do often with my clients.
So this exercise, this is also one of the heart math exercises too.
This exercise promotes emotional connection and co-regulation by nurturing a sense of trust
(10:02):
and security within yourself.
Ooh, one of the biggest things I work on with clients is trusting themselves and feeling
secure.
It involves recalling a moment, a feeling safe and cherished in the presence of another.
Now, I'm going to do this one like that and then I'm going to offer you another alternative.
(10:25):
So I invite you to close your eyes or gaze towards the floor.
Place your right hand on your heart, allowing the warmth and gentle touch to connect you
with your heart center.
Breathe deeply, softly and slowly into this heart space.
(10:50):
Just gently and easily.
And I invite you now to focus on a single moment when you felt love, safe and cherished
by another, a partner, a child, a friend, a therapist, a pet, or anyone with whom you've shared
a heartfelt connection.
(11:12):
As you recall this moment, go ahead and bring that up, somebody that made you feel love,
safe and cherished and it could be a pet, could be another person.
As you recall this moment, let the feelings of trust, safety and security wash over you
(11:35):
and just stay in this energy for about 20 to 30 seconds.
I'll time it for you.
And just observe any relaxation and calmness that arises.
Nice.
(11:57):
Feels good, doesn't it?
Now sometimes we can be dysregulated and it's to do with people.
And so I'm going to invite you to do the same thing, place your hand on your heart.
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Breathe deeply, softly and slowly into your heart space.
You're doing some heart focused breathing.
And I want you now to visualize or imagine a moment, perhaps the sunshine was on your
face, perhaps you were on a vacation somewhere that's very special to you and it was warm
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and perhaps there was a beach, perhaps there was a mountain and you just felt connected to
nature.
You felt safe.
You felt at ease.
You felt peaceful.
Nice.
Just soak that in for about 20 to 30 seconds.
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Just feel it.
Feel What You feel.
Nice.
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Great.
I want you to wiggle a little bit.
Give yourself a nice breath in and release.
Nice.
And so I'm going to invite you to pay attention to what helps you invoke calm and peace
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and what makes you the opposite. Let's be real.
It happens.
As you all know, my cows, my cats, my dog, my horses, even when they're being bad, they haven't
been bad for a while.
They're all good.
I'm still waiting on my one-highland cow to calf.
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She looks so uncomfortable, Nora does.
I'm hoping I just go out one of these days to give them their extra water and she's
got a baby beside her.
That's what I'm hoping for because it's hot and she just looks very uncomfortable.
They're so fun.
A few days this week though, they were all spooky, especially my horses.
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So I do horse chores every day because I have an emotional eater and he has to be on a
grass ration because he overindulges and so I have to go out and I give him a special
ration with some medicine and then they go out and they eat grass and then I bring him
in.
Oh my gosh, one of mine.
She does not want to come in.
I basically have to have my hand on her butt and push her in.
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She's very desensitized but seriously, yeah, totally entertaining now.
Totally entertaining.
And I feel regulated because I'm calm.
My focus is on them.
It makes me smile.
I have gratitude and appreciation.
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Walking through the forest, walking through my cow herd.
Even if I have to be very present to make sure I don't end up between a very protective
mama and her calf, I like it when they're in the forest because then I have lots of escape
routes.
I have very good survival skills.
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But everybody's been behaved this week so that's been good.
The grass is doing well.
We've got our hay on order so we can feed them all winter.
I'm still looking for a highland bull to add to my herd but I'm not in a rush because
he's only for backup.
Yeah, things are going well right now.
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At the ranch, everybody's calm.
On the weekend, I got to go do a parade with the Seniors.
I helped them decorate and my mom's on the bus and I was going to go watch the parade and
then I realized they didn't have enough help.
I went and gave out candy and freezees and had a very good time doing it because of course
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I threw them at people I knew, made them catch them, taunted them.
It was very fun.
I love small towns.
And it lifts your energy.
So make sure you are taking the time and giving yourself the gift during our summer season
here or if you're in a different hemisphere, whatever's happening, make sure you go out in
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the community and do some things.
Try to do it at least every couple of weeks.
Whatever works for you but I'm really going to encourage you to get out there and people.
And if you don't really want to, I'm trying to be less of a hermit.
I even went to a birthday party and have a blast with some friends.
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I do tend to hermit just because I love my place though.
Like this is my peaceful place, my happy place.
But we do need to balance that all with being in our community, being in the world because
we need to have those connections, building our communities.
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All right, so laughter yoga exercise.
Yeah, I didn't think of one today so maybe we will just skip that because we did all our
soul nerve exercises instead, which are actually also a part of my laughter for well-being program
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as well as laughing.
Let's roll our arms into a couple of very good, very good yay.
So roll your arms twice, very good, very good and then shake your hands in the air.
Ready?
Very good, very good.
Yay!
Shake out all the tension.
Very good, very good.
Yay!
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One more time.
Very good. Very Good
Yay!
Nice.
Doing that, I kind of made my ear buds almost fly away.
Whoops.
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I also want to talk a little bit about energetically, there's some very good shifts happening.
If you are finding it easier to be more peaceful or if clarity is coming for in your energy
more often embrace it and if it's not happening for everybody then it's the courses I'm taking
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and I can't wait to share it with you because I am finding groundedness and peacefulness
that I've been searching for and I wanted to have happened and it's working.
Ooh, another very good, very good.
Yay!
Okay, so that's it for that.
Alright, so our guided meditation today is called Restore the Heart Journey and your
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wise guides going to be part of this.
So yay!
So I'm going to go ahead and do that now.
I invite you to go ahead and close your eyes and let's take three big deep breaths.
Three big deep breaths as you begin to release and let go.
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And to focus on the sound of my voice and allow all the other sounds to drift into the background.
They are unimportant to pay attention to.
They can only help you relax even more.
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As you bring your attention and awareness to your feet, your legs and from your toes,
to your knees, you become aware of your legs relaxing.
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Every breath takes you deeper now as this relaxation moves up into the thighs, the hips
and your stomach muscles relaxing as well and the more relaxed you become, the deeper you
go into the relaxation, the deeper you go into this relaxation, the more relaxed you become.
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Giving yourself the gift of this time and space, giving yourself the gift of being here,
being present as you continue breathing and being and being and breathing.
This relaxation now continues moving upward in through the solar plexus across your chest
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area, in through your shoulders and moving down through your arms, your hands, your fingers,
and your neck muscles all relaxing.
Each and every breath and you relax even more, letting go of all the tension, all the worries
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just for now, being and breathing, breathing and being.
With every breath you breathe in, you're breathing in this lovely relaxation energy to the
body, the positive energies to your mind.
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With every exhalation, you're releasing any discomfort from the body and any negatives
from your mind.
Breathing in calm, letting go of worry, breathing and being.
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Nice.
And now this lovely relaxation energy keeps moving up and through the scalp across your
forehead, down over your eyelids, your facial muscles, your jaw muscles, and your physical
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body relaxes deeply, completely with every breath.
In a moment, I'm going to count backwards from 5 to 0, you'll enter the imagery state
when I reach 0.
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And now 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, deeply, deeply relaxed.
As you begin to settle into an even greater comfort and relaxation, your sensory experience
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heightens.
So to appreciate your body and all its wonder becomes very easy.
Your body has been with you all of this time.
Show appreciation.
Give it some love.
Your body is like your home, like your long time good friend.
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In a moment, begin to allow yourself to focus on your heart.
Give yourself permission to just put your attention there.
And as you breathe more deeply, visualize and imagine.
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Imagine your imagination door and let's also bring in your wise one, your loving wise
guide, your wise one wants to be here with you too.
Allow your wise guide to show up.
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And when you are ready, allow your wise one to gently touch your chest.
Notice the sensations of that touch.
And as your heart begins to open, notice what begins to happen.
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As the warmth and loving touch of your wise one helps your heart to open, you do remain
secure and comfortable with that healing soft touch which allowed the opening.
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You begin to sense the landscape of your heart stretched out in front of you.
Your wise one seconds you to follow encouraging you to take this healing journey together
through the landscape of your heart.
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As you and your wise one explore together, you remember this is for your positive benefit
to restore and heal, mend and repair, rejuvenate and regenerate.
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When you enter your heart landscape, discover and notice what you are aware of.
Your wise one helps you to move through, heading you always to the lighter and brighter
experience.
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In your heart center, anything can be made whole again.
It is there that you, your wise guide and any other helpers facilitate to heal your heart.
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On your journey as you and your wise one find the way to your heart center, notice what
it looks like.
What happens there?
Notice how you feel about it.
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Take a few moments to allow this experience.
And now as you and your wise one prepare to exit your heart landscape.
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Get a sense of your accomplishment as you leave the heart center.
Notice what is different.
Notice what feels complete.
And what may need more time to heal.
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Remember that time is not toxic.
Time is on your side.
Time can be your friend in the present as you move forward.
When you have exited your heart landscape and are now back in your own space, your wise
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one reminds you that as your heart continues to heal, any more of what you no longer need
or want will be released in early morning venting dreams.
Now as your wise one gently touches your heart again, you become filled up with goodness,
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love and healing energy.
And your heart landscape is your own again and know that whenever you desire, you and
your wise one can visit your heart again if need be for any further restoration and more
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healing love.
From this journey then with this glow of healing love, let's drive deeper, deeper and deeper.
Take a few moments to reap the benefits of your journey as you replenish in comfort and
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security.
And allow what has been meaningful and important to you to become solidified in this subconscious,
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which helps your forward movement and conscious outerer way, light.
Nice.
Anything more need to happen here before we close for now?
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All the images are in appreciation to you for your courage and willingness to take this
journey today.
And as you take that deeply within at zero to reinforce with all the positives, we begin
to come up and out now at one with a deep cleansing breath in and release.
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Two, three, four, five eyes open, wide awake.
Nice.
This heart connection work is just so good.
It makes my heart happy.
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You can totally roll your eyes at me. lol
That's fine.
I am telling you this stuff's working.
I just want to remind you to go to my Facebook or Instagram page and check out the energy shifting poll.
Our choices this week are a shift and release, stuck energies of self-doubt, invoke energies
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of clear thinking and discernment to support decision making, or be shift and release, stuck
energies of anxiety and worry that are not beneficial to you.
We will also invoke confidence and clarity with that.
That did not get posted
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Whoops.
Oh well.
We're all human.
Mistakes happen.
It's all good.
Very good.
Very good.
Yay.
Okay.
Well, thank you for listening.
And I hope this all helps you.
And you get to enjoy some good.
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I'm good things coming up, sending you all a big blessing and a big hug and more
kindness.
May you all be healthy.
May you all be happy.
May you all be safe.
And may you all live life with ease.
Bye-bye.
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[music]
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(gentle music)
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