We all experience a lack of energy now and then, but when it hangs on for too long one important aspect to consider is forgiveness. In the beginning, when you are angry about something, you might feel more energy. But anger is a secondary emotion that covers either pain or fear. So over time, the pain underneath your anger begins to eat away at your energy. Your body uses large amounts of energy keeping you angry, in order to protect you from the deep pain underneath. This can be important in the beginning of an emotional struggle. The anger keeps you strong, protected and gives you the energy to ‘handle’ the situation. Over time however, it becomes essential for you to dig beneath the anger and begin to heal. Why? Because your health and happiness are directly linked to the emotions we stuff and store away. 

Are you holding onto something negative that is draining your energy?  Lack of forgiving causes a negative charge to transmit throughout your body every time you think of the person or incident that you have not forgiven. Letting go means just that – ‘let go!’  The negativity you are carrying is dwindling your stores of energy and contributing to fatigue. The resentment that you carry is eating away at your body and bringing down your health.

Your body runs energy similarly to the way a computer runs programs. Think about your personal computer, the minute you start it up, it begins running several programs - whether you are aware you are using them all or not. The programs continue running on your computer and take up energy. Your body uses your energy the same way. By holding onto resentment your body continues to run a negative program – even when you are not thinking about it. That’s why each time when you do think about it, you get that emotional charge all over again. The emotional charge is the sign that you have not healed the problem within you.

Forgiving does not mean that the other person ‘deserves’ to be forgiven. Nor does it require the other person to ask for forgiveness. Forgiving is something you do for yourself.  You forgive so you can have inner peace.  You forgive for your own mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health.  It means that you choose to let go of something that cannot be fixed or changed. You decide to find a way to let it go, because you no longer want to give your power away to a situation of negativity.

Forgiveness also does not mean that you ever have to go to dinner with the person. Forgiveness means that you begin to look at the situation with a more objective eye – letting go of the need to be right or to blame. Stepping back allows you to begin to see things more clearly. You may discover that you stayed in a relationship for too long, and that this person is not healthy for you. ‘Holding a boundary’ is separate from forgiveness. You might forgive a ‘sick’ individual because they are warped, but that does not mean that you or those you love have any business spending time around that person. People who are not safe to be around, are not safe to be around. Forgiveness does not mean that you ‘forget’ the behavior or personality trait that this individual revealed to you. It means you let go AND make appropriate choices for yourself. When people show you who they are via their actions – believe them! That is not judgment of them, instead that is discernment in making proper choices for your life.

We could obviously write an entire book on forgiveness. What is important is that you let go of your past. Let go of the wrongs that have been done to you. The past is the past and cannot be changed. And if you are holding on to grudges, resentments or wrongs from your past, that energy is not available to you in your present. No matter how justified your feelings are, negative emotions and memories tie up large amounts of your energy. Find ways to forgive and let go, then watch your energy return! I’ve seen it happen both instantaneously and over time.

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Learn what tea herbs to brew together and why each one is important in helping to heal the pain from grief.

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One bag each of Tulsi Tea (also known as Holy Basil), Rosehip Tea, and Burdock Root were the teas used in this video. In addition, Kaliana added 7 drops of her Comfort/Grief Natural Emotional Care Formula.

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Are you wanting to forgive and let go of a situation? Holy Basil and Rosehip Tea are a perfect blend for helping you to be in the space to forgive. This combination aligns your higher mind & spiritual awareness with heart so that forgiveness as a human can become less difficult. This blend helps compensate for difficultly of forgiving as a human, and helps draw on higher awareness of your soul on a journey with opportunities for growth and desire to increase your capacity to love. Heartbreak & forgiveness of the unforgiveable offer us those situations to improve upon ourselves & expand the love within us to increase the divine presence within - in other words to love more & love divinely. 

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Holy Basil (Tulsi Tea): A favorite in Ayurvedic medicine and sacred in Hindu religious tradition. Holy Basil could be perfect for you, if you are seeking an herb that can assist with strengthening and opening up your mind to higher concepts, and expanding your meditative capacity to align with higher awareness.

Rosehip Tea: The core of the rose and therefore focuses you toward the center of your heart center. When we are in conflict it is harder to feel the love inside of us. Love is what creates harmony, so feeling love inside of us during times of conflict is essential to achieve harmony. To increase the love inside of you, you want to get to the core of your heart center. Rosehips help you get to those depths.

Kaliana's HEALING Supplement provides you with 243 Trace Energy Nutrients to help encourage compassion and strength when you don’t know if it’s possible to forgive.

Make your tea with a bag each of Holy Basil & Rosehip, then add 10 drops of HEALING Supplement. Hold your intention for forgiveness, and take a few moments to just sit with the feeling of letting go. Feel the freedom that can come to your mind, body and soul.

Both Holy Basil and Rosehip can be found in tea bag form, sold in most health food stores or online. Kaliana's HEALING Natural Emotional Care Formula can be purchased at www.kaliana.com.

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If you have the desire forgive, but don’t know how – Intention is your first step. Have you had enough of carrying around a grudge? Did you know that holding a grudge can make you both depressed and physically sick? Anger and resentment are destructive energetic patterns – and even if you have buried the emotions so deep you no longer feel them – the destructive patterns are still at work. Those patterns also drain your energy. If you are truly ready to forgive but simply don’t know how, just put forth your intention to forgive.  Intention is your thought and desire being placed for a certain outcome.

Thoughts create feelings; feelings create action; action creates an outcome. So even if you cannot conceive how you could possibly forgive someone, you can consciously say to yourself “I have the desire to let this negative energy go”. Or ask God or your guides to “Show me how to forgive.” Another effective method is to write your intention down on paper.  I’ll give you an example below, but use the words that resonate best for you.

My intention is to forgive this person for the acts that they did against me.  I choose this for myself to be free of the negative pull and drain that it has on me.  I choose to forgive and let go of this experience for myself to be healthy and full of love and energy.  Even though I don’t know how to do this right now, I ask my spirit to guide me and help me to let this go.

You can repeat your intention every am & pm or as often as you need to until you start to feel better.  The next step after your intention is to surrender the situation to your spirit, or God, or whatever higher power resonates with you. Ask if you have learned all that the situation has to teach you – and if not, that those lessons come clearly and gracefully. You can then step back and allow the flow of life to take over. 

Anytime you feel the negative “charge” over this person or situation, realize that you have not yet completed your process. When you have completely forgiven, the charge will disappear. Grudges or lack of forgiveness, steals the love away from within you. It cheats you out of closeness and greater happiness. Repeat this process, whenever you feel the charge come up, until you’ve let it go. Realize that complete forgiveness can take many months or even years.  Don’t judge yourself if it takes you a while. The deeper the pain or charge, the longer it will probably take – and the greater the healing benefit for you once you are complete.  We are all different, and our situations unique. So, be patient with yourself; do the work; and stay committed to restoring the love within you.

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Spiritual Clearings can also happen as our planet evolves and souls advance to hold more light. Progress in our spirituality also happens as we release limiting beliefs, resentments, judgments, or even find ways to forgive the unforgivable.  Shifts in personal awareness, or creating a more constant and tangible connection to source can also increase the light within us.  As we grow forward as souls, it is essential for our bodies to evolve and accommodate the new vibratory rates.

When going through a Spiritual Clearing, your body may also experience a Healing Crisis.  A Healing Crisis is when you become so ill that you are unable to carry on with life as normal (this can be from tiredness, the flu, or even cancer.) Healing Crisis can come before or after a Spiritual Awakening, and can accompany a Spiritual Clearing. The body pushes out the old patterns in our cellular structure the same way that it fights and pushes out a bacteria or virus.  The body has to move the lower vibratory rate out of our cells in order for us to evolve and hold more light.   Your physical symptoms can be from mild to severe and can appear before or after a spiritual bump. Healing symptoms can include congestion, nausea, vomiting, headaches, sore muscles, intestinal issues, and general cold or flu like symptoms. It is important to recognize how spiritual clearings and healing crisis often go hand-in-hand. This is the honoring of the soul's journey.

Perhaps you have been pushing too hard, missing spiritual signals, or are headed too much in the wrong direction (wrong here means incorrect for your soul, not necessarily bad). Your soul will often create a powerful healing crisis to stop you in your tracks, keeping you down for days, weeks, or sometimes even longer.  This is on purpose. The soul holds your journey as the highest priority. For that reason, it will make you 'ill' so that you will slow down, be still, and LISTEN for guidance. Illness allows you the space and time to release past emotions, heal the body and integrate new awareness. Down time allows you the space and time to regroup and get clear before you start back to 'life' again. Pay attention if you are in a healing crisis. Your soul is asking you to make changes in your priorities, your path, or both. The soul wants you to correct the direction you are headed in, so that the journey is easier for you and more fulfilling.

If you become scared about your life or your body, acknowledge your fear but don't buy into it.  Illness is a socially acceptable reason to slow down, introspect and regenerate. This is why the soul often uses it for your benefit. This helps take the pressure off of you in regards to life's commitments so that you can relax and rejuvenate. Be grateful for this time of rest and  introspection. Honor yourself for the growth opportunity your soul is providing.  Take care of yourself properly.  This is how you shift directions and create the life you love. Before you know it, you can be  a new person with a higher vibratory rate, enjoying life more fully. 

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Tip 1: Quiet, Introspection & Journaling

Support yourself spiritually by taking advantage of this 'down' time to be alone, quiet and introspective.  Pray, meditate, take baths, listen to soft instrumental music, or do whatever else helps to relax and be still.  The more you can be in this state, or a state of joy and laughter, the more rapidly you can move through this spiritual rebuilding. Also, spend time journaling.  Don't think too much about what you write, just begin and allow the words to flow.  Write about what you are thinking and feeling as if you were listening to a friend vent or perhaps dream.  You discover feelings you have buried, thoughts you had not acknowledged. Through journaling, you can get to know yourself better, and either discover or define dreams and goals more clearly. Journaling can help you become more enlightened and relaxed as you express your emotions and get them out of your body. If you discover unpleasant things, you might want to hide or destroy your writings afterward. It is also helpful to end your journaling each time by contemplating a few things that you are grateful for...this helps set the tone for further healing and more joy in your life.

Tip 2: Increase Water & FRESH Food

To maximize transitions in your physical body it is important to limit processed foods and eat as much ALIVE food as possible.  Maximizing increased amounts of filtered water, herbal tea, and fresh juices helps plump cells so they can release toxins more easily. Forcing hydration assists in releasing  toxins from the body more rapidly, reducing the duration of illness, headaches and discomfort.  In addition, eating soups, organic broths, raw fruits and veggies, sprouted nuts/ seeds /grains, and limited amounts of wild caught fish provides the body vital enzymes to assist in the shift. The concern with processed carbs (anything white or that is not sprouted) and sugar is that they can clog up the physical body as well as jam the emotional body, which makes it difficult to heal. Positive healing grains include (click to learn)  sprouted rice and yummy porridge recipe.  If you can't live without your morning toast or sandwich bread...try Ezekiel brand sprouted bread (found in health food stores, or frozen in larger grocery stores).

Tip 3: Assist Your Liver 

During a healing crisis of any kind, it is essential to support your liver.  This life-preserving organ filters your blood, moves toxins out of the body, breaks down fats, stores vitamins, and is vital in maintaining energy levels. One of the most important things you can do to support your liver is drink two liters of filtered, room temperature water each day.  Other liver supporting foods include ginger, garlic, green tea, wheat grass juice (or powder), beet juice, dandelion greens, milk thistle and R-alpha lipoic acid.  The liver also tends to hold the emotion of anger. To help release stored anger, practice my anger release technique, see video here.

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As a spiritual being, we know that life on Earth comes with pain. There are many forms of pain and the question becomes – are you living with more pain than necessary? There is pain that we encounter as souls on a journey, and that pain basically includes two categories: loss of loved ones, or personal growth experiences.

One of our greatest challenges is that we are living with excessive levels of pain because we are not hearing or listening to our guidance. Many of us are so disconnected from source that we might not even know how to ‘listen’. That disconnect is not your ‘fault’. It has been a program of the Earth experience for millennia. Now is the time to awaken forms of ‘listening’ within you. Every cell in your body has the ability to hear, because every cell in your body is set in motion by your soul. Your soul triggers the atoms to move. The atoms make up your molecules. Molecules make up your cells, and cells make up your body. Therefore, your soul runs your body and can send you signals in all types of ways. You just need to have your circuitry connected so that you are ‘listening’ to your soul’s signals.

The reason the signals from your soul are important, is that timing is an issue. There are windows of time that are easier for shifts to happen. Doing it when it is easier reduces pain. For instance, let’s say you need to move out of your home and into a new home.  There are timing issues that make it easier or more difficult. Your soul knows what timing is best for you. If you get that guidance from within yourself or from another gifted healer, you can reduce the stress or pain on your journey. This timing is true of every interaction and experience in your life. Timing affects jobs, relationships, moves, travel, and yes, even grocery shopping. You want to ‘hear’ your inner guidance to be in the most harmonious flow you can, so that your journey has greatly reduced stress and pain. I prefer to only go through the two types of pain required on the soul journey, and eliminate the entire extra.

Sometimes we think that we have side-stepped an issue, only to discover later that the same issue raises its ugly head again later in life. This is the soul journey. If we don’t get the lesson, the soul will create another opportunity for us to grow. Personally, I choose to look as deeply at each growth opportunity as I can. Every difficult situation I encounter I ask guidance ‘what is my lesson here and how do I heal?’ If I can’t get the answer, I ask those I trust to help me see what I might be missing. I want to clear the issue as deeply and clearly as I can in this situation, to reduce future pain along my path. I ask for the most gentle and loving path, knowing that sometimes ‘difficult’ can be the most gentle way to clear something – versus struggling for years because I only halfway addressed the underlying source. Personally, I don’t consider struggling for years (even if it is minor struggling) a kind and gentle path.

I choose to live a life that is free of stress and tension. What you might not know is that as a soul on a journey, living on a planet of free will you have that birthright. A kind and gentle life, free of stress and tension is possible. For me, this lifestyle makes living way more enjoyable – plus it is much easier to identify issues when they arise. If there is tension in my life, than that shows me where there is an issue. The rest of the time, I get to enjoy my life. As a person who was born angry and suffered from depression for years, I have worked diligently to create a life where happiness is truly my natural state. And the payoff for the work is worth every minute of it! Join me in creating that life for yourself.

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Both the ancient Egyptians and Romans valued this herb for supporting the liver (the organ where anger is stored), assisting the gall bladder (where resentment is stored), and cleansing the blood. Chicory brought forth life sustaining properties from the Nile river for thousands of years, bringing strength to the populations that revered it. These cultured populations valued art, wisdom, and their souls. For growth in these areas, the ability to go deep within was essential. Cleansing away impurities was critical for evolution and expansion of their civilizations.

Chicory supported their evolution both emotionally and physically. While closely related to lettuce and dandelion, it is actually a member of the sunflower family – which is why it can help you go deep and reveal a more positive disposition. You can consume the greens, or brew tea from the roots. The greens are low in Saturated Fat, and very low in Cholesterol. In addition they are a very good source of fiber, Vitamins A, C, iron, folate, calcium, potassium, copper and manganese. Chicory also contains insulin, which can help regulate blood sugar levels.

Chicory root provides nutrients, and also contains a high amount of an important soluble fiber called inulin. Inulin cannot be digested by the small intestine, so instead the bacteria in the large intestine break down the fibers through fermentation. This fermentation process increases the absorption of calcium and other important nutrients, while promoting the growth of intestinal good bacteria. Chicory supports deep internal health, and deep emotional strength.

If you are looking to balance your life, there is a balance that comes from sitting and movement. Both are essential in listening to your inner guidance and creating the life you love. Chicory with Decaf coffee blended together can help you to sit and move. The blend helps you discover the balance of “I sit and I move. I sit and listen, and then I’m ready to move.” The constant checking back in with source and then moving forward, helps you stay in the proper timing, helps you hear your guidance, and helps you live a life of joy. …and that’s the dance…that’s the balance of life.

Vanilla Chicory Latte
This balanced blend of chicory (sit with me) and coffee (I think I can) with a splash of ‘life is good’ vanilla is delicious, comforting, good for you - and perfect to help you with your timing!

Ingredients:
½ cup brewed roasted chicory
½ cup brewed coffee regular or decaf
½ cup milk of choice
½ teaspoon vanilla extract; Agave or sweetener of choice - to taste

Directions:
Brew equal parts of coffee and chicory together. Heat milk and sweetener together just to a boil and remove from heat. Fill cup with chicory and coffee blend, add vanilla, and then fill your cup with the milk. Sit back with it and enjoy!

Note: Chicory is inexpensive and can be purchased roasted and ground at your local health food store.

Recipe provided by Lydia Marshall

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Before you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in response to any question, take a moment and turn inward. Feel how your body is responding to that question. Your body is a large energetic tuning fork connected by atoms to all that is – past, present and future.  It can give you great information if you trust it. Your goal is to get your mind out of the way and release your need to ‘understand’ the answer. Then you are living by intuition. Tension in your body tells you ‘no’ is the better answer. Relaxation in your body tells you ‘yes’ is the better answer. Trust what your body tells you, and respond from there.

Tension in your body tells you 'no' is the better answer. Relaxation in your body tells you 'yes' is the better answer. Trust what your body tells you, and respond from there. Hearing timing is like listening to your intuition if you feel relaxed then move forward, if you feel tension then that is your signal to wait. And, if you feel tension in all of your choices, choose the one that feels most relaxed...that is your best window.

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