The Cleanse: Hitting the Spiritual Reset Button

March 27, 2014 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

I want to start off this post by saying that the cleanse I am posting here is my journey. Some of you may like it, others may not. I only share it because we can all learn from each others trip along the soul highway. I often find myself called to do a cleanse when I feel it is time to do a reset. My spirituality is my life, my profession, and my passion. Having come through a big transition, I feel that I am still carrying some old resistance, habits, and patterns. Doing deep, and honest self inquiry allows us to go into a cleanse with clear intention. I am also feeling that things are shifting for me spiritually. I am starting to work deeper in the intuitive space, communing with my guides, my angels, and higher vibration beings. When engaging these higher energies, I find it of value to detox and purify the body as much as possible. It is also important to have a plan of action in place for going into your cleanse. This helps keep you focused and aligned with your intention. I am hoping to do a daily video post for this as well, and you can check out my YouTube page here. If I do the videos I’ll also try to post them here as well.

So, for this cleanse and detox I am starting with 10 days. I am starting with a 3 day master cleanse and then going into 7 days of water only. Each water day is going to be dedicated to a particular chakra. I bought 7 jugs of distilled water. On each of the jugs I am going to draw the sacred symbols associated with each chakra, and will charge the water by chanting/toning the chakra sounds into the water. I also have some wonderful chakra incense that I’ll be using for my morning meditations. This cleanse is a bit more intensive than other things I have done in the past, but I feel that this is what I need to do right now to clear out some stagnation. I am also structuring my reading time, online time, and yoga practice to support this adventure. I’ll end the 10 days by doing 3 days of green/raw protein shakes, and I’ll allow my intuition to tell me what comes after that. I am cutting gluten, sugar, soy, and processed foods out of my diet moving forward. I have been receiving a lot of clear messages from my guides to start doing this, so I am.

When stepping off the ledge and into something like a cleanse, or detox be sure that you allow yourself time to prepare to go into it, but also be kind and gentle with yourself as you exit the cycle. The most important part of a cleanse is your journal. What emotions are coming up? What body reactions are you having to the cleanse? Write down your weight at the start, and track it throughout to be sure you are not losing too quickly. What are your dreams telling you during this time? I find that a cleanse usually brings up much more than our dependence on certain foods and additives. Remember also, that cleanses and detoxes do not need to be food centered. Taking a break from the computer, TV, the bar scene, clubs, or even pulling away from certain people might be a good thing.

For me, this is also a chance to reset parts of my life. To come back to center, to bring my power home. I do lots of energy work, self-healing, self-reflection, readings on myself, and this allows me to also be of service to my clients, friends, and soul family. It also allows me to work more closely with this new and wonderful energy that is coming in. I’ve had a lot of resistance stepping more deeply onto my path, and this process helps to clear away some of that muck. I am also going to be working on cleansing and balancing the energies in my physical space. Lots of work ahead, and lots of great things that I’ll be sharing here in the next few days.

What in you is calling you forward? What in you needs to be cleansed right now? Are you able to pause now for a moment, and bring awareness to that area of your being?

You are Loved. You are Beautiful. You are Divine.

Mike Brazell CFT CSN MAT PAT

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108 Day Challenge

February 24, 2014 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

I finally made it down to South Carolina.

New starts, new changes, and coming into new alignments can always bring struggle. One of the things that I like to do when I get to a new area is a cleanse and detox. Upheaval can bring a lot of stress thorough our entire system. For me, cleansing the body, mind and spirit helps to harmonize me into my new experience. Since this time I am also in a process of building a new life, I thought I would take this cleanse a bit deeper and also offer myself some challenges. The challenges help to re-align my system, and well… keeps things from getting stagnant. Getting into a new routine is always a good thing when leaving an old one.

I’ll post the details here, and will do a daily post as I move through the cleanse. This is my personal challenge, but if you are finding yourself in a rut, why not do something to help move you deeper into your experience. Before I start a cleanse, detox or challenge like this

My challenge:

Food and nutritional detox: no sugar, gluten, processed foods
Reading 1-2 books/week.
Writing, writing, writing…. one blog post a day, one poem a day, and daily journaling
Daily mediation and yoga practice
and some other things that I am keeping personal 😉

The challenge should be something that is out of the ordinary for you, it should allow you the opportunity to step into something “new” as far as a routine, or spiritual experience. Taking you a bit out of the norm, or bringing deeper awareness to something that is more routine. If you meditate already, challenge yourself to shift it up a bit. Do something a bit differently. Breaking up stagnation helps us to keep our practice fresh, and we also get to take a deeper look at ourselves in the process. The path is about learning to grow through engaging the process, rather than just going through the motions.

Do you have questions on setting up a cleanse, detox, or personal challenge? Feel free to write them in the comments section below and I’ll answer them.

You are Loved.

You are Beautiful.

You are Divine.

Michael A Brazell CFT CSN MAT PAT

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Finding inspiration, moving deeper into practice

October 17, 2013 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

There has been a LOT going on over the past few months. It seems that life is shifting us in a multitude of directions. We are learning to swim the hard way. When we go through the struggles, we get a chance to see where we need to place extra plaster, we get to test the seams of our experience.

I’m personally feeling the call to dive deeper into my own spirituality. Recently a good friend of mine Pheonyx Roldan Smith passed away. I believe when a soul like his leaves the body a sonic boom of energy occurs. He lived his life in the deep spiritual planes, but also reached out to many of us to dive deeper into our own experience. I have found myself sifting through things on his blog www.thocgproject.com. I felt inspired by what I was reading, his journey, the trusting, and the opening of experience, and moving through the fear. I see a lot of my own path in his work. I am also aware of where I am holding back, where I need to trust more, and there is a lot of new energy that I will be bringing through in the next couple of weeks.

“If not now, when?”

That becomes the mantra that plays in the back of our minds when we place that “thing” spirit is giving us, that “thing” that is begging to come in and shift the world. We have to start trusting our intuition. We have to start asking the deeper questions. We have to start honoring our bodies by giving them proper nutrition and exercise. We have to get away from our technology and BE part of the world around us.

I am starting a fast. When I start I tend to go deep into the experience of fasting. I go for an all water fast for a few days as a reset. Starting next week, I am going to do a chakra specific cleanse. Engaging and dedicating a charka per day. This will be a week-long ritual of clearing the energy so that soul conversation and guidance can be more clear. Journaling is becoming more direct. I usually keep two journals. One that I capture my personal moments throughout the day, my personal insights, growth points, moments of reflection/contemplation and planning. In the second journal I focus my intuition into the space around me. I am making it a point to pay closer attention to the news (alternative and mainstream), predictions that intuition is giving me/ and those I am seeing others present, engaging discernment and tuning into the TRUE narrative.

I am also going to be doing a better job of capturing and dialogue my experience here. Videos are coming (yoga, QiGong, meditations and teaching). I need to do deeper, more specific meditations as well. I’m feeling the call to connect to others doing this work. I am also going to be doing a few community projects as well.

The journey is more than just what we as individuals are going through. When we as individuals show up to the work, dig deep, work through the process of ascension we elevate all those around us. We elevate humanity.

You are Loved. You are Beautiful. You are Divine.

Michael A. Brazell CFT CSN MAT PAT

Fasting and Detoxing: Day 1

May 13, 2013 / soulinteraction / 1 Comment

Life is a fantastic journey.

The past few weeks have been interesting to say the least. I feel more connected to my own journey and experience but feel that it is time to pull out one of my favorite techniques for going a bit deeper. We imprint, and we are imprinted constantly by living the human condition. What we eat, what we think, what we choose to let in, and what we let out imprints on us on many levels. When we fast we are taking time to let go of distractions, and detoxing is polishing up the pieces that need a bit of attention.

I’ve done a few posts in the past on this topic, and this one is going to be a bit different. I typically share the details of my fast and detoxing plan, but I am going to hold that part sacred and just for me. Fasting on many levels is a very sacred action. We are communing with the soul, and allowing space for growth…. as a teacher, it is also my purpose to help show others that they too have access to these tools and they are there when you need them.

When many people hear the words “fast” or “detox” they immediately jump to food. This is one aspect of fasting, but in a time and age where distractions are a plenty you can really choose to start anywhere. You can fast and detox from facebook, from your cell phone, from speaking, from food, from sugar, from candy, from smoking, and the list can really go on and on.

Things change when you begin the process of letting go of distractions, emotions come up, resistance starts barking at you…. have a plan.

Going into a fast or detox without a plan is a good way to set yourself up to not complete your goals.. on, and have some goals or milestones you want to move toward.

Write your plans in a journal and keep that journal with you. The fast should challenge you, it should not be something that is too easy, but something that is not going to harm you. Fasting allows us to see what power we have given away to the distractions in our life… are we mindlessly eating? are we addicted to being online? how much power does texting have over you? can you go without tv for a few days?

When we create space by removing distractions we often begin to see we have more time… we might have more energy… we might find we have more awareness of our surroundings, etc… awareness begins to shift a bit… and this is powerful.

What holds you, and what are you holding onto?

If you are doing a dietary cleanse/detox or fast… Do your research. Do not jump into it without knowing what you are doing to the body, what you are feeding yourself and the effects of what you are removing can have on your body. Ex… removing caffeine can often cause headaches, etc. Allowing your body to detox slowing, doing 1/2 caf, reducing, shifting to teas, etc. can assist with helping you make the transition away.

When you detox you are resetting the body. Not just the physical body, but we also notice our patterns and habits that might be bound to the food/action. “I must have that morning cigarette/cup of coffee”… we hold affirmations that can at times bind us to the actions, not always are those affirmations positive as you can see above… Keeping a journal of the emotions that come up in the absence of the cup of morning java, can show you a lot about yourself and your patterns.

Fasts can be as short or as long as you want. Some people can go up to 40 days, others do a 3-7 day experience… One thing that I always like to point out is that there is no such thing as a failed fast. You start, then you stop. If you stop before your goal is reached, what caused you to terminate the fast… journaling this will help you to do the internal dialogue necessary to help you the next time you decided to fast/detox.

This is a bit of a ramble post…. and in the future fasting check in, I’ll be posting more of a journal style entry to give you a bit of insight into my process (internal and external) when taking on this sacred practice.

You are Loved.

You are Beautiful.

You are Divine!

Michael A. Brazell CFT CSN MAT PAT