Radio Show, Leaning Into Joy, and Loving the Flow

October 26, 2015October 26, 2015 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

Tonight at 9pm, we’ll be re-launching our online BlogTalk Radio show, “Soul Empowerment Radio”! We took a bit of a hiatus for travel, getting out into the world, and diving a bit into the soul journey. I’m excited to be on air again. Technology often gets a pretty bad rap, but if we can use this platform to connect, to deepen our connection to the journey, and to offer healing to the world then it’s a good thing! My hope is to go LIVE Monday – Friday at 9pm EST. Each episode will start with a discussion and soul centered dialog followed by a guided meditation. I’ll also be opening up the lines for FREE on air mini-readings and healing sessions. We are also working on inviting on guests, doing book reviews, and opening to community in whatever way we can!

Here is a link to join in tonight! Soul Empowerment Radio

Leaning Into Joy

It’s been an incredible few months. Weather changes have bombarded our coasts, upheaval seems to be a constant trend in our media, and life for many has become heavy. It’s okay to feel whatever it is that you are feeling. You are human. It’s okay to feel the pain and the weight of the world. Taking steps toward joy can be difficult in times of global or personal upheaval. Joy is often elusive when we feel the weight of life on our shoulders, but we have to remember that taking steps toward joy gives us a chance to feel freedom, even in our chaos.

Joy isn’t meant to be used as an escape from what we are experiencing. We don’t want to use joy as a mechanism of suppression. Joy gives us access to perspective, balance, and understanding. When we over identify with our suffering, we do so at the risk of excluding other areas of life. Sometimes we have to make leaning into joy a conscious act. Here are a few steps to lean into joy when you might be experiencing upheaval:

Find time to laugh. Laughter really is the best medicine.
Take time to express gratitude. Now, this is different from just writing down the things you’re grateful for (which is also a powerful practice). Expressing gratitude through action allows us to participate in sharing joy. A few ways to express gratitude are: saying thank you to those that serve you in a restaurant, offering to do the daily chores, helping others in need, being in service to those around you in whatever ways feels best.
Journaling. Journaling allows us to detox the mind. Creating a pressure valve for our minds allows us to have a bit more space in our life for joy.
Do something silly. Color in a coloring book, play with play dough, paint, run through the sprinklers, have fun!
Eat delicious food.
Listen to poetry
Talk a walk outside and experience nature (not just on your screen saver).

Loving the Flow

Finding balance in life allows us to move a bit deeper into the flow. It helps us to be in the experience of life, it allows us to feel this moment a bit more deeply. Life is going to come with its up and downs, it may even take you sideways, and that’s okay. It’s part of the flow. Joy is part of the flow. Love is part of the flow. Even if things feel heavy right now, know that you are moving, just as the breath is moving through your lungs. Live deeply, love deeply, be present.

Giving Yourself a Reading

July 20, 2015 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

One way to connect to your intuition and to develop trust in the information that it is giving you, is to get in the daily habit of giving yourself readings. There are a wide variety of techniques and processes out there, but the idea is to keep it simple. I’m going to give you a simple process that I have shared with students and clients of mine over the years.

Write down your questions. I harp on journaling A LOT because it is one of the most powerful spiritual tools in our arsenal of self discovery. One of the reasons so many people have difficulty in doing readings for themselves is that they either aren’t sure of the questions they want to ask, or they aren’t sure they are ready to hear the answers to those questions. Carrying our journals with us gives us a place to write down the questions we may have for our soul.
Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable with yourself. Being open to our questions is as important as being open to the answers, and both require us to be vulnerable enough to show up to our process of self inquiry.
Open to your heart. One simple method of tuning in is to bring your awareness to your heart center. You can do this by simply bringing your hands to the heart. Allow yourself to connect to the simple rise and fall of the chest. Feel the beating heart beneath your hand. Let this act of body awareness be a doorway to deeper listening.
Listen for the answers to your question with your entire body. We often get stuck in our head, and we often feel as if answers to our questions will come with some deep flash of insight, or thundering God force words through our ears. Sometimes the answer comes as a subtle fluttering in our bellies, a breath that goes a bit deeper than all the others, or you may see something in your external space that triggers deeper exploration (a photo, a color, a bird, a tree, etc).
Write down anything you are feeling, seeing, sensing, or hearing (internally or externally). All of it is used in determining the answer to the questions you are asking. Don’t over think things, if something is standing out, write it down.
Take a step back from the session. Let the answers and questions gestate a bit. You might come back with more questions based on the answers you receive – GREAT! This means you are now moving into a soul dialog rather than just a question and answer session.
Sometimes the answer isn’t what you want to hear, but it is always what you need to hear. Be receptive to whatever comes through. One of the most dangerous things we can do it is toss aside an answer just because we don’t like it. I see this often in cases of relationship questions. It’s hard to hear the truth. Sometimes the answer is that it is time to move on, but tossing aside that truth filled answer because it’s not what we want to hear only leads us to more suffering. If we are having trouble with a particular response we have received from our intuition, we can always ask our soul to amply the answer we have received, be open to digging deeper if you feel called to do so:
1. What do I need to know about my relationship at this time?
  1. Beloved, it is time to move forward into your own light as this relationship has come to the end of its course.
  2. What can I do to make the transition one filled with grace?
  3. What areas of this relationship have caused us to arrive at this point of finality?
  4. What is my true teaching from this relationship with (xyz)?
Have fun with giving yourself a reading. Too often we only use this beautiful connection we have to the soul our soul (the intuition) to ask about the stuff that requires heavy lifting. Ask simple things, ask about manifesting, ask about creating abundance, ask about winning the lottery, ask about expanding your connection to your spiritual path, ask for affirmations of love, ask for any number of things you might desire insight on, but ask!
Take action on what your soul is giving you in the reading. If we are asking to improve our lives, and then we don’t follow through, it is only going to prolong the suffering and delay arriving at that place of liberation.

This is just a quick primer, something to have a bit of fun with, and my soul is nudging me to do more with the blog, so here it is. I hope that you find the information useful, and if you have questions you can alway contact me at: michael@michaelbrazell.com

How to Talk to Your Soul

April 16, 2015 / soulinteraction / Leave a comment

We are more powerful than we realize and we have a limitless connection to God within us. The intuition or, the voice of the soul is a powerful way for us to get information about anything we can possibly think of. Learning to become soul conversant is an important part of the spiritual journey. Trust is the key that allows you to open the door to that deeper inner dialog. We over think the process, or feel silly doing it, so we often give up right before we are able to gain access to our deeper aspects. I know I say it a lot, but the journal really is the most powerful tool our spiritual tool box. The journal is an altar to the soul. It is a place where we can reflect, come into presence, and align with the deeper awareness within us. The journal is also a place of quite. The moment we open to a blank page, it feels as if the world begins to slow a bit. We can step into silence within those pages, and each blank page is an affirmation of possibility.

If you don’t want to commit to a journal right away, get some paper a pen, but if possible do not do this on your computer. You want to make the act of opening to your soul current as tangible as possible. Our computers are filled with distractions, and there is an electromagnetic field that in some ways inhibits the flow of information from your higher sense perception. It is also nice to just step away from technology for a bit. The process of longhand writing allows you to be fully involved in the connection to the information that is flowing from the soul, through the hand-, and onto the paper.

Find a quite place in your home, outside, or some place that allows you a bit of peace. I love going outside to do my intuitive tune ins. Being outside allows the crown chakra to fully expand and nature really supports the process of soul connection.

Begin by writing down your questions. They can truly be any question you want. What’s troubling your mind? What do you need guidance on? You can also just remain open and receptive to any messages your soul has for you at the time you sit to write. Sometimes the answers will come quickly, and other times the questions might take some time to come through. Even the silence is a response from out soul. In a world where life and information are happening at break neck speed, sometimes silence is the most needed of all medicines. Write down any images you see in your mind’s eye, emotions that are felt as you ask your questions, any information that is coming through. Do your best not to filter it. Just let it flow. Once you capture the information you can always go back and take a more objective look at it.

To illustrate this process a bit. I am going to share a couple of questions I posed to my soul, and the responses I received from my intuition.

How can I best change my diet at this time to support optimum health and well-being?

Beloved. Trust that we are with you. You must at this time hold steady in your food choices. You must align your intent with the foods that you are feeding your body. When you eat out of anger or fear, that is the energy that you are putting into your body. At this time, it is necessary for you to eliminate things from your diet that do not fully nourish you. You must pay attention to labels. At this time it is advised that you eliminate sugars, processed foods, caffeine, and move towards drinking more water through the day. We are also encouraging you to fast. Fasting is not something that just happens in the area of food, but is something that will need to extend into the other areas of your life. We will transmit appropriate guidance for you in the next couple of days.

What can I do to deepen my connection to my spiritual path?

Beloved. You must trust that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this time. The spiritual path begins with presence, and though presence you are able to stand in power. Take time to come into awareness of any fears that you are holding onto. What resistances are you holding in moving deeper onto the spiritual path? Once you bring your awareness to the anchors that are keeping you moored to old ideas of what the spiritual journey is, you will be able to flow with the current of your path more freely. Daily self-examination through self readings, journal reflection and body movement in the form of yoga will help keep you grounded in the discovery of who you are within the spiritual dynamics of your life.

(Here I could also ask my soul to help me identify the resistance and the source of any blockages)

Are there any messages you’d like to share with me at this time?

Beloved… trust. Know that you are loved. Know that you are not alone on the path. At times it might feel that way, but we are with you. We have never abandoned you, and we never will. Know always that you are embraced in the energy of God.

So, this is just a mini example, and questions that i asked of my soul a bit earlier today. There are times when the answers I get are profound and deep, and there are other times when I just may receive one word that opens me up to deeper reflection and contemplation. Remember, this is a dialog that you are having. You soul is your best friend. It has been with the body since the moment you were birthed into this reality. It wants the best for you. Take time each day to have a chat with your soul.

If you have questions on the process, or need some tips to help you take your practice a bit deeper, never hesitate to contact me at: michael@michaelbrazell.com or contact me via Facebook at: www.facebook.com/mbrazell

If you would like to schedule an intuitive reading with me, you can see what services I offer and my rates at my website:

www.michaelbrazell.com

10 Ways to open to the current of your soul

November 26, 2014 / soulinteraction / 1 Comment

The soul is a powerful part of who we are. It is the breath of God that breathes through us. It is the voice that we hear in times of need. It is the love that radiates from the limitless, into this sometimes limited space of existence. Opening up to the current of your soul is a powerful way to help radiate light into all creation. The more open we are to our soul, its guidance, and it’s presence the more able we will be to stay aligned with our life purpose.

There are many ways to connect to the Soul Current, so this list is by no means the end all be all, but having a place to jump-start the connection is always helpful. The soul is always and in all ways with you. It just takes a moment to connect. Connecting to your soul allows you to engage your life, your health, your work situations, and life with greater clarity. Take a few moments each day to consciously connect to your soul. What messages does it have for you?

Here are a few of the ways to connect to your Soul Current:

Slow down. We are all moving so quickly these days. We run through the day with barely any recollection of the important moments. We extend ourselves so far out into the future, that we lose sight of what is right in front of us. Take a moment to slow down, breathe, sit, and disconnect from the busy energy in your life for 15 min.
Breathe. The breath is our connection to the divine. When we breath we are accepting an invitation to join the present. To be present in our presence allows us to connect to the soul. Conscious breathing nourishes us. When we are present with the breath, we are present with the soul.
Be kind. Extend kindness in all directions. When you are at the grocery store, say thank you to the person ringing up your groceries–use their names (they are wearing name tags for a reason). Call a friend and tell them how much they mean to you. Don’t forget to be kind to yourself. We beat ourselves up all the time for silly things. Take a breath, place your hand on your heart, and say “I Love You” to the beating heart.
Journal. The journal is the most powerful spiritual tool that we have. It is a sacred space for us to have dialogue with our soul. Making time each day to reflect on the various aspects of our life allow us to gain clarity. In your journal you can write questions that you want to ask your soul. You can write letters to God. You can explore emotions and experiences that may be troubling you. The journal is a great place for contemplation.
Meditate. Meditation allows us to come into presence. It allows for mindfulness and stillness, and in the stillness we can find our soul waiting for us. There are many different ways to meditate, so I encourage you to explore and find what works best for you. Inviting stillness into our mind, body and spirit allows us to slow down and rest in our presence. An easy way to connect to your soul in meditation is to: sit, bring attention to the breath, and listen.
Trust. Learning to trust can be difficult. Many of us have been hurt at some point in our lives. This causes us to lock down. The pain is often a doorway that allows us to be softer, it allows us to learn more about who we are at the core of our being. We often blame God or our intuition for taking us into the storm, but often we had the guidance to avoid the storm before we made the journey–hindsight is always 20/20. Journaling and writing down the words of our soul help us to see the words, which in some cases helps us to trust it. The more we engage our soul, the more we step into the current of our being.
Move your body. The body is the temple of the soul. Moving the body allows us to bring all parts of self into communion with the soul. We often store emotions in our body. This can result in muscle pain and tightness. Treat the body to exercise, massage, yoga or some other form of physical activity. When we honor the temple, the soul is able to be more present. Eating foods that nourish you is another way to keep the body’s energy clear and receptive.
Read uplifting books. Read books that take you to a new level of consciousness. Take the information from what you read and apply it to your life. I often see people get these really great spiritual books, but no one does any of the exercises. Taking time to apply what you are learning to your life will help you become part of your evolution. Reading about masters can offer insight into your own journey.
Connect to community. You are not alone on the journey. Connect with like-minded individuals, join meetup groups, and if there isn’t anything in your area start something! Connecting to community allows our soul to flower. By opening up to the light of others, and by sharing our light, we raise the vibration of humanity.
Love yourself unconditionally. Learning to love yourself, without conditions, is the fullest expression of your soul’s light. This is a hard step for many of us, but an important part of the journey. Opening to a deeper sense of love, allows you to also become more receptive to a greater love from those around you. Too often we shut ourselves down through judgement, through fear, or unresolved grief. By doing many of the actions in this list, you are telling the soul that you are ready for a deeper connection to love. Our soul is an expression of God’s love for us. Place on hand on your heart, and the other on your solar plexus. See the word LOVE in your mind’s eye. Inhale and align with LOVE. Exhale and expand LOVE. Continue this cycle of intentional breath until you feel love moving through your being.

These are just a few ways that you can connect to your soul. Opening up a little each day, and setting aside time to begin the process is all it takes. The hardest part about spirituality and life is showing up. Are you ready to show up to your journey?

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

Michael Brazell

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Farewell Washington, DC

February 21, 2014February 20, 2014 / soulinteraction / 3 Comments

Four year ago, I never thought I’d be leaving DC… but here it is. Life changes quickly, and in an instant a new chapter begins in our lives. The past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster, trying to see everyone before I head out, trying to get one last visit to my favorite places, but those all just become reasons to come back.

I often tell my clients that DC is a spiritual training ground. That many of us end up to go through the paces. My time here was not always the easiest, but in the end it helped me to grow into who I am now. We grow through the experience of living a complete life, one that both embraces love and pain fully.

This is one of the first times in my life that I am stepping into complete uncertainty, and I am okay with that. I am okay in the “not knowing”, not having to control the next steps of my life, and this has helped to realize that for the longest time I was not living in the present, and I really missed out on the people and experiences in my life. The past few months have shown me that we have to breathe into each moment deeply, and to just be present. DC has a way of getting you caught in the hustle and bustle. People tend to be movement driven, and I’m not saying that is a bad thing, but when it is not balanced with presence we really miss out. I see so many people tied to their electronics here… how many sunsets do they miss looking at “memes”? I realized I was doing a lot of this as well, but more caught up in my mind’s patterns of worry, doubt, and judgement. When the rug gets pulled out from underneath you, and there is nothing left to cling to, it changes your perspective on things, but closure does that.

Being closer to family, and coming back to my literal roots is going to be a positive thing. I’m going to work on developing my yoga practice, my healing work, and finally write the book I’ve been putting off for so long. My work is far from done, but sometime we need a change of pace, and a chance to gain clarity on our experience.

I will be back to the area to visit, to teach, and to be with friends/soul family.

I will miss many things here in DC, but I am looking forward to the next adventure, the unfolding journey, the next breath.

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

Namaste.

Mike Brazell

The Spiritual Journal

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 / soulinteraction / 1 Comment

I’ve done a few posts on journaling, but I really don’t think it is something that can be overstated… journal are one of the most powerful spiritual tools that we have access to. Journals are places we can catch our thoughts, our moments of gratitude, our struggles, our fears, and whatever else our soul desires. Journaling allows us to engage in self-reflection. There really are not any rules or right/wrong ways to journal, but I would propose on rule- Don’t hold back!

There are times we begin to go beneath the surface. We scratch through one layer of our life experience and then we go a bit deeper, then we become afraid of what we will find when we go all the way through… We become trapped in that middle layer, and that creates stagnation. We have to push deeper, and this can be a lonely process for many of us. Journals are companions that we can access without judgement. We can dive deeper into our psyche and it holds our memories in spaces that allow us to access when we are ready. Diving below the surface of our lives allows us to gain insight.

Many newbie spiritual practitioners always ask me how to hone their psychic skills… Journal your spiritual experiences Too often we have profound moments and we forget to capture them. When we take the time to journal the experience we can go back to it, learn from it, and evolve it. Write down the readings that you are doing for yourself, write down the insights gained in that meditation you just completed, and capture inspirations as they occur to you through the day. Magickal practitioners often create a “Book of Shadows” to capture their spellwork, lessons, and thing relating to their spiritual path work. Many in the new age community could really learn from this. I would encourage everyone to keep an ongoing psychic journal, dream journal and life experience journal. Do a google search for “keeping a book of shadows“, and read up.. add what works, leave what doesn’t.

There are a lot of people who prefer to use electronic journal (online, voice recorder, laptop, etc), but I prefer good ol’ pen and paper. There is something about putting pen to paper. It slows us down, it allows us to be a bit more tangible with our journaling. I also carry a smaller journal in my back pocket for those on the go inspirations that tend to grab me in my randomness.

If you have not started a journal, I would encourage you to start today. Allow it to be a traveling companion, take it through your day. Walk with it. Capture whatever inspires you.

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

Michael Brazell