Meditation on Sacral Chakra

This video is about the sacral chakra!

This week, meditate on the sacral chakra and reflect on your relationship to joy, sexuality, creativity and emotional self-expression.

Journal your thoughts on what brings you joy and what might obstruct you from experiencing joy.

What is your relationship to sexuality and sensuality?

What creatively gets you excited?

How do you feel most comfortable expressing your emotions?

These reflections can help shine a light on the energetic balance of your sacral chakra. I hope this information is supportive on your journey of raising your awareness.

Thanks for being here. I’ll see ya in the next video!

-jb

Meditation on Root Chakra

This video is about the root chakra!

This week, meditate on the root chakra and reflect on your relationship to safety, security, health and wellbeing.

Journal your thoughts on what it means to feel safe, secure and stable.

What was your home life like and your connection to your family?

Did you grow up feeling safe?

What is your relationship to money?

How do you care for and show reverence for your body?

Answers to these questions can help uncover energy balance of your root chakra. I appreciate you being here and hope this information serves you on your journey.

See you in the next lesson!

-jb

Introduction to the Chakras

This video is an introduction to the Chakras and the Chakra system. The word Chakra comes from ancient Sanskrit and translates to "wheel". These "wheels" relate to different aspects of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.

They can be approached in ascending order: the root chakra, the sacral chakra, the solar plexus chakra, the heart chakra, the throat chakra, the third eye chakra and the crown chakra.

Take some time now to reflect on the colors you often worked with in the Conscious Release meditation. Which colors came up the most often? Take note of that and consider those colors as you move on and learn about the chakras.

Also, spend an evening in meditation and then journal about the aspects of yourself and your personality that feel stable, balanced and in alignment.

Then, journal about things you feel are maybe out of balance, as well as any chronic pain that may arise in your experience.

This exercise is to help set you up for more consciously engaging with the following chakra section. As you move from chakra to chakra, be prepared to look at this original list and compare it with the information in each section to see if there are any parallels or connections.

Thanks for joining me here and I look forward to continue exploring with you.

-jb

Soul Force Inventory

This video helps us begin the process of becoming more aware of who we are and who we are in relationship to all things around us including diet and fitness, the content we consume, the people, places and things we give our energy to.

First and foremost, please engage with the reflective questions in the book as this is a pivotal step on your journey. Next, let’s tune more consciously into your consumption habits – specifically diet and media for the next week – and start a journal. Write down what you eat, drink and consume in terms of media content on a daily basis.

Then, using your body tuning techniques, get clear about how your body intuitively feels in relation to what you consume for the week. What feels expansive and contractive? Consider asking yourself “Why?”. Journal and reflect on your discoveries.

In the following week, focus your journaling and reflections on your interactions with people as well as your physical environment. Be detailed, specific and really cue into the energy and vibrations you interact with and how they make you intuitively feel.

Use your body tuning awareness to help guide the process and journal your reflections and findings. Look for connections, patterns and correlations between that which feels expansive and what feels like contraction. Notice anything? Journal about it.

Give this a go. Lean into it as an exercise over and over and over again.

Appreciate you being here. See you in the next one!

-jb

Body Tuning Exercise

This video is a practice I refer to as Body Tuning. This exercise is great for connecting to your body's intuitive awareness to help you become more clear and honest about how you feel about things.

Journal what expansion and contraction felt like for you, as well as your yeses and noes. Calibrate and test your newfound awareness with these starter questions:

Are my eyes brown?

Am I sitting down?

Am I indoors?

Am I cold?

Did I sleep last night?

How’d these responses go? Did you get clear responses? Were they consistent with the truth and reality?

Now, for your own exploration, try these more complex exercises and see what arises. Journal about how your body intuitively responds to each question.

Am I happy at work/home?

Do I feel safe and secure?

Am I creatively fulfilled?

Do I tend to take on the suffering of others?

Does my social life serve my highest good?

Is Jeff totally out-of-his-mind whackadoodle?

Don’t tell me the answer to that last question :) I encourage you to sit and reflect on your answers. Dig deeper and see if you can understand why your body might respond the way it did. Engaging in this reflective process can help bring unconscious things into our conscious mind.

Welcome to the process of awakening! I’ll see ya in the next lesson…

-jb

Conscious Release Meditation

This video is about the Conscious Release meditation. This is a great practice for learning how to become the observer and begin consciously working with thoughts, feelings, energy and experiences that you may wish to clear from your field.

I encourage you to continue working with this practice and keeping a journal of your experiences over time. Take note of what was coming up that wanted to be let go. Notice how it felt to work through and release this. Also, pay attention to the color of the ball of energy you worked with.

As you continue this practice look for any patterns arising. Is there a particular kind of emotional experience that is being triggered?

A type of interaction?

A person or environment that leaves you feeling a certain way?

What color energetically comes up the most?

Becoming aware of these patterns can hold a key to unlocking healing and potential as you move forward.

We’ll continue to build on all these ideas moving forward in an effort to know ourselves more deeply.

See you next time!

-jb

Soul Force Field Meditation

This video introduces you to my favorite meditation practice that I do personally use daily. In fact, the meditation itself is a mash up of several different practices and influences that I combined in a way that made sense for my spiritual and wellness needs.

When you first begin working with this meditation, take a couple of minutes to journal about what your initial experiences with this meditation were like.

When is it easiest for you to practice this meditation?

What does it feel like to connect to Mother Earth?

What does it feel like connecting to divine white light, love, and wisdom?

What does it feel like to release negative and unwanted emotions through the grounding cord?

How does practicing this technique shift your thoughts, feelings, and even bodily sensations?

Give yourself some time and space to answer these questions and bring these sensations into your awareness. I appreciate you being here!

See you in the next lesson :)

-jb

Rhythmic Breathing Meditation

This video is about a practice I refer to as Rhythmic Breathing or what is known as Pranic Breathing in ancient yogic traditions. This simple meditation has its roots in ancient Hindu philosophy that is thousands of years old!

Reflect on your rhythmic breathing meditation experience.

How does your body feel before and after? What about the quality of your thoughts?

Where does your emotional state begin and where do you end up?

Try this meditation a few more times to become more aware of how you respond to it. Even doing this simple meditation for a few minutes a day every day can have a positive impact on your wellbeing.

A little bonus practice: the next time you feel like you’re emotionally aroused, see if you can recognize this heightened emotional state. Once you’re aware, try some rhythmic breathing to reconnect to your heart and breath.

Journal about that process for yourself and your own awareness. I hope you find this to be a useful tool in your toolkit!

-jb

Conscious Breathing Meditation

This video introduces you to a meditation practice I simply refer to as Conscious Breathing. This is a great exercise for practicing focus and training your awareness on a simple anchor -- the breath!

As you begin to work with this practice, start a journal and track your conscious breathing experiences. Write down how long you sat for. Not because this is a contest of any kind, but just for your awareness. It’s good to just be aware of where you are at in your practice!

What emotions and thoughts were present before the meditation?

How did your body feel?

What was the quality of your breath when you first began to breathe?

What was the quality of your breath once you spent some time conscious breathing?

And finally, how did your body, thoughts, or emotions shift after spending this time with the breath?

Journal your experiences for yourself and feel free to let the community know in the comments if you have any particular insights you feel called to share...I appreciate you being here!

See you in the next video :)

-jb

Welcome to Awakening Soul Force

This video welcomes you to the Awakening Soul Force Journey where we'll explore meditation, energy healing, creative self-expression, the chakras, dream analysis and all sorts of spiritual goodness!

Follow the prompts from post to post to engage with this process and reflect as you walk your path to awareness...

To begin your journey, please answer these questions for yourself and your own awareness. Maybe you’ve thought about these questions a lot, maybe not at all. Either way, just take a minute to reflect and write what comes from your heart:

Who am I?

What is my loving truth?

More often than not, am I living my life in alignment with my loving truth?

Write your answers out privately or share them in the comments if you feel called.

There’s no right or wrong way to answer here, so don’t worry there isn’t any judgment here either!

Enjoy and see you next time!

-jb

What Is Clairalience?

Are you clairalient?

We'll explore how clairalience works in just a second, but first let's talk some basics!

Clairalience translates as clear smelling. So, this intuitive sense is all about our ability to intuitively smell, which can be helpful for nourishing our bodies, identifying people and environments, or working with food.

Clear smelling is connected to the root chakra. So make sure you check out my other content on that energy center to deepen your understanding.

So, how does it feel to experience the intuitive sense of clairalience?

Take a big deep energy clearing breath in…

Exhale and release…

Then, see if you can imagine the scent of your favorite essential oil or perfume.

Take another energy clearing breath.

Now switch that maybe to the scent of someone you really love.

If you were able to recreate these sensations for yourself, clear smelling may be one of your very strong intuitive senses.

To learn more about clairalience and the intuition, keep exploring this blog and all the content I’ve created on the subject of spiritual awakening and intuition. It is all here to help support you on your spiritual journey!

Thank you so much for being here 😌

-jb

What Is Clairgustance?

Are you clairgustant?

Today, we'll be talking about how clairagustance works, but first let's talk some basics!

Clairagustance translates as clear tasting. Therefore, this intuitive sense is all about our intuitive ability to taste something, which can be really helpful for nourishing our bodies. This has been my long experience and understanding of this center, so I have typically interpreted this clear taste pretty literally and related it to matters of the food and body.

However!

Recently, I was having a dialogue with a friend about this work and she brought up a great point as we discussed clairgustance. She felt that this sense could extended to our taste in aesthetics, art and beauty — which to me felt like a fantastic revelation! And it would completely make sense. as this intuitive sense is connected to our sacral chakra — a field tied to creation, sexuality, sensuality and emotional feels. So, something to consider as you explore this sense on your own.

So, how does it feel to experience the intuitive sense of clairagustance or clear tasting (in the old sense that I teach about)?

Take a big deep breath in….

Exhale, release.

Now, try to imagine what your favorite beverage tastes like.

Okay, now switch that to your favorite food.

Are you hungry yet?

If you are able to recreate these sensations for yourself, clear tasting or clairagustance may be one of your strong intuitive senses.

To learn more about clairagustance and the rest of the intuitive senses, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I have tons of free video resources on there to help guide you on your spiritual journey — although if you have the free version you’ll get lots of ads…womp womp.

Thank you so much for being here!

-jb

What Is Claircognizance?

Are you claircognizant?

I am going to walk you through how claircognizance works in just a moment, but first let's cover some basics!

Claircognizance translates as clear knowing, so this intuitive sense is all about just knowing stuff — basically 😂 It's pretty awesome.

Claircognizance is connected to the crown and the heart chakras. So make sure you check out my other content on these topics to help deepen your understanding.

To me, claircognizance is one is the trickiest of all intuitive senses because it's basically when we know something and we know that we know something, but we don't really know how we know that something. Does that make any sense?

The information is just there.

So, how does it feel to have a clear knowing?

Take a big deep energy clearing breath in…

Exhale and relax.

Now, answer these questions without thinking:

- What is your name?

- Where are you from?

- Are you alive?

You see how those answers just arrive unobstructed? You ask and — boom — they're just there. That's how claircognizance works!

I also like to describe claircognizance as that feeling we get when we know the answer to a game show question or a crossword puzzle. So, next time you’re playing a game with friends or watching Wheel of Fortune, pay attention to that moment that you know that you have the answer.

To learn more about claircognizance and the other intuitive senses, I highly recommend taking my Be Still and Listen video course here. I take you on a deep dive on the chakra system, its connection to the intuitive senses and then walk you through practices that help you sharpen your intuitive self-awareness.

Thanks so much for being here!

-jb

What Is Clairsentience?

Are you clairsentient?

I’m going to walk through how clairsentience might show up for you in just a second, but first let's talk some basics!

Clairsentience translates as clear feeling. So, this intuitive sense is all about feeling the feels. To clarify, we're going to talk about physical sensations and gut feelings, as well as emotional feelings.

Clairsentience in the gut instinct and physical feeling sense is connected to the solar plexus chakra. Emotional feelings on the other hand are related to the field of our sacral chakra. Be sure to check out my other content on these chakra centers as they will really help deepen your understanding of how our intuition communicates with us through physical sensations and subtle (sometimes not so subtle) emotions.

How does it feel to have a clairsentient experience?

Well, try this:
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Take a big deep energy clearing breath in…

Exhale and release.

Turn your awareness to the area surrounding your belly button.

Now, imagine what it feels like when you sit next to someone you don't really like. What does that feel like?

Take about big deep energy clearing breath in…

Exhale and clear that out.

Now, switch to the feeling of what it's like to hug someone you really, really love. Notice the difference?

If so, you might naturally be really tuned into your clairsentience.

Give this a try with other feelings and emotions to help you become more aware of how certain feelings speak to you. This can be a great shortcut to understanding the ways these sensations are speaking to you in the future.

Thanks so much for being here!

-jb

What Is Clairaudience?

Are you clairaudient?

I'm going to walk you through how clairaudience works in just a moment, but first, let's give a little overview on the topic.

Clairaudience translates as clear hearing. So, intuitively speaking, this is our ability to hear words, language, sounds, tones, and music with our inner ear. Clairaudience is connected to the throat chakra, so be sure you check out my other videos and meditations on the throat chakra, and this will make more sense!

Clairaudience may show up as intuitive information that comes through as an inner voice, an inspired melody or rhythm. To tap into your clairaudience take a big deep breath, deep breath…

Exhale.

Now count from one to ten in your head.

When you get to ten, count from eleven to twenty, but in the voice of your favorite cartoon character.

How'd that go? If you can do one or both of those, you are already on the path to tuning into your own clairaudient ability. The sound of that “inner voice” is how clairaudience shows up, and often with a loving, gentle tone or feeling associated with it.

To learn more about clairaudience and the throat chakra, check out the throat chakra video on myYouTube channel and check out all the videos I've created to help guide you through your spiritual awakening.

I appreciate you being here!

-jb

What Is Clairvoyance?

Are you clairvoyant?

I'd like to walk you through how clairvoyance can show up in your experience in just a second, but first, let's just give you a general overview on the topic. The word clairvoyance translates as clear seeing. While folks often refer to clairvoyance as being “psychic” in general, clairvoyance is specifically referring to our ability to receive intuitive information with our mind’s eye.

Clairvoyance is connected to the third eye chakra. Get to studying Hinduism, Buddhism and the resources I’ve created through my direct experience working with chakras — that will definitely help guide you! Intuitive information may come through clairvoyantly as an image, a daydream, a symbol, a picture or even in colors.

So, what’s it like to have a clairvoyant experience? Try this short exercise:

Take a big deep energy clearing breath in through the nose.

Exhale and release all the breath down into the ground beneath your feet.

Do it a few times until you feel clear and relaxed.

Now using your imagination, see if you can create the image of a purple elephant in your mind’s eye.

When you can see that, try switching the image to a red heart.

How bout now a yellow elephant?

If you can easily recall these images in your mind, you are already on the path to understanding how simply and subtly clairvoyance can show up.

Thanks for stopping by!

-jb

What Are The Intuitive Senses?

Let's unpack the intuitive senses by first looking at the physical senses. For example, eyes are organs of the visual system and they give us the physical sense of sight. The skin is an organ and it gives us the sensation of touch. For the sake of analogy, let's think of the chakras as the organs of our energy body and they give rise to the intuitive senses — or our ability to have perceptions that extend beyond the five physical senses.

For example, while our eyes allow us to perceive the world around us, the third eye chakra is the field that gives rise to inner vision, creativity, and insight that we can see with our mind's inner eye. While the ears allow us to perceive sound waves around us, our throat chakra is the field that allows us to experience thoughts, language, and sound with our inner ear. Based on my current understanding, each chakra is connected to both an intuitive and a physical dimension of our experience.

For an in-depth dive into my exploration of the chakras and the intuitive senses, be sure to check out Awakening Soul Force and Be Still and Listen and check out the Be Still and Listen course.

Thank you so much for being here…Hope to see you around soon!

-jb

How To Connect To Your Intuition?

Here are a few simple tips for connecting to your intuition immediately…

Tip one: spend quiet time in nature. Connecting to the natural world is a great way to relax, to ease stress, and to become more sensitive to both nature's way and to who you really are.

Tip number two: start meditating to strengthen your intuition. Meditation helps us soften ourselves, our hearts, and our minds, and the practice helps us learn how to just be. Even if it's for just two minutes a day, allow yourself to just be for a couple minutes a day and just see what comes into your awareness over time as you’re settling in to yourself.

Tip number three: be mindful of your internal experiences. Start to really deeply listen to yourself throughout the day. Notice the ebbs and flows of your own feelings and energy, or how you're responding to the energy and feelings of others. Don't analyze it too much. Just be aware and inside all of your feely feels.

Try these tips and just see how your awareness begins to shift after a few short weeks. If you really want to do the deep dive with your intuition, be sure to stay tuned to more posts and check out my YouTube where I’ve published tons of content to help guide you on your spiritual journey.

Appreciate you being here!

-jb

What Is Intuition?

Intuition is something that everyone has and everyone can develop in their own way. Webster's dictionary defines intuition as the power or faculty of attaining direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. This is just a really fancy way of saying intuition is our ability to just kind of know stuff for no apparent reason. A simple example might be the phone rings and you just know that it's your sibling calling before you even see the caller ID.

I see intuition like this: intuition is the life within and all around us communicating information to us in more subtle ways like through daydreams, thoughts, feelings, and knowings. This is essentially a perception of information that exists beyond the five senses, hence the term extrasensory perception. In my work I’ll be sharing tons of content related to what I've come to know and understand about the intuition through my own direct experience. So be sure to stay tuned, but if and only if your gut instincts are telling you to do so. I'll see you next time!

-jb