I’m obsessed with this! (+ this month's 9D Breathwork Journey)

Uncategorized Oct 08, 2024

We’ll get to my obsession in a moment. But first, I have a conundrum that I’m going to share with you.

I keep all my supplements in a very handy supplement briefcase of sorts. (Because, yes, I’m a nerd. Of the ultra-health variety.)

Anyways, last week there was a mishap in my briefcase. One of the pungent fish oil capsules burst and coated many (if not most) of my L-Lysine capsules.

My question is this: can we wash supplements???

PS - I already know the answer is no because they will melt/disintegrate but I just had to put it out there because now they all taste like fish oil. Ewww!

Lunchtime has become a game of camouflaging L-Lysine capsules that taste like fish. At least someday they’ll be gone. There are an awful lot of them though…


Alrighty, now that I’ve shared my first-world problem (is that expression still okay to use? I'm not sure...) with you, let’s move on to my current obsession.

My Fall-Flavoured Current Obsession (and it's not pumpkin spice)

I was on a spectacular fall sunrise walk recently when I was absolutely captivated by a tree that was mid-transformation. 

It was going from green to yellow and as I walked toward it across a bridge over the not-really-rushing-anymore-more-of-a-trickling-river, I thought to myself, “What is that?” 

Something was niggling at my mind. 

“Is it lemon-lime?” I wondered. No, that wasn’t it, I decided. The niggling continued but I decided to let it go and just marinate in the splendour.

The next day, I was walking on a different route with many more green-to-yellow trees. The answer dropped in like a giant satisfying aha.

“Aha!” I cried out loud (because that’s what you do when an aha appears). But because I aim to appear mostly normal, I stopped being out loud after the exclamation and started using my internal voice. 

The Background Info

Before proceeding with the aha, here’s a little bit of necessary info to understand the context. 

The heart chakra is in the heart (which you already knew) and it represents love, among other things. The corresponding colour of the heart chakra is green.

The solar plexus chakra is just under the ribs. It represents the fact that we have access to the power of a thousand suns. It’s also associated with the mind-body. The corresponding colour of the solar plexus chakra is yellow. 

It is said that the most important thing we could focus on for an entire lifetime is building the connection between the heart and the mind so that we understand on an embodied level that love and power are synonymous. 

If the mind and heart were connected, we would no longer derive power from external sources (such as trying to get power over others). Instead, we would equate love with power and power with love. 

So, the connection between the heart and solar plexus is of the utmost importance. 

Back to the trees

Right now, they are the perfect blend of green and yellow. Get it?!?

They are demonstrating the ultimate union between heart and mind! Between power and love!

In a visual! 

Is your mind blown?

I’m totally obsessed with this realization (that has never occurred to me during any other autumn). Just this one. So magical. 

I consciously breathe through the chakras a multitude of times every day. The added bonus right now that feels so good is this:

When I go between the heart and solar plexus, I imagine an autumn tree there. It’s illustrating exactly what it looks like to blend the two.

I can feel the difference in my body and I’m so thrilled!

Here are some photos of my obsession. I took many more because I was so excited, but this curated selection will probably do. 

I realize my enthusiasm may be a bit mystifying but trust me when I say: It’s a big deal!

You’re encouraged to play with the fall trees inside your body too (if you want to - we could be weird together!).

When the love of the heart melts the solar plexus and thereby the mind, you’ll notice a softening of the mind, which on a practical level means:

>less ruminating

>less over-thinking

>less self-doubt

>more confidence

>more self-love

>more graceful and easeful manifesting

Et voilà! You don’t have to work hard at creating a mind-heart connection. Just breathe in the fall trees and it will unfold like magic. 

As an aside, guess what gets in the way of the heart and solar plexus connection? Anger for one thing. But never fear, this month’s 9D breathwork journey is all about melting and dissolving anger and it’s epic!

See the Christina Recommends section below for more details. 

May you have a sacred week combining great love with great power.

With vibrant love and vivid courage, 

Christina

>Creator of Courageous Self-Care

>President of the roasted yam fan club

>descended from Gypsies - for real! (but the romantic kind like in Chocolat, not the pickpocket kind like in Rome… because - yes - I get to choose)

PS - The Self-Care Sunday Series is off to a great start. If you’re in Calgary and would like to immerse yourself in the best kind of self-care, the embodied kind that changes your life in the best way possible, click here to view the upcoming events featuring slow-flow yoga and 9D Breathwork. It’s so amazing to be in person.

PPS - Our next complimentary Remote Group Healing Open House is happening lickety-split - on Wed Oct 9. Get your body out of fight or flight, balance your entire system and experience healing on all levels. Click here to sign up. Can’t attend live? A replay will be available for 48 hours. 

There’s no way I can express how awesome this journey was. It would be like trying to tell you how good a massage feels. You would get some idea but not really until you went and got the massage. 

This journey was the same thing. (Although, of course, it was not relaxing like a massage. It was much more intense.)

That’s because it’s called From Fury to Freedom: A Journey through Sacred Rage

If you’re thinking it’s not for the faint of heart, you’re right. But man-oh-man… on the other side, it was all that I ever wanted and more.

Even in the middle of the journey, I remember thinking (amidst the intense releases and general brouhaha going on in my body) “This is one of my top 10 favourite experiences of my WHOLE LIFE!”

It felt that good. 

Although you might not think it to look at me or read my musings, anger has been a thing for me. I’ve done a great deal to work through it and had good success with that (although it’s taken years and years and years). 

With this journey, in just 90 minutes, I felt a huge difference. Like a release of generations. Maybe even eons. I was able to let go on so many levels.

Over the journey, the breath builds and builds and eventually gets released with a scream (for which I like to put a pillow over my mouth so as not to scare any neighbours who might be home). 

I have to say that the sounds that came out of me were so cathartic. At one point I thought I sounded an awful lot like a tortoise in heat (and yes - I’ve had the pleasure of hearing such a thing at the Lisbon zoo) but it didn’t matter because I could tell so much was being released. 

It was like I’d been waiting for this journey for decades. Maybe even my whole life. 

Now, I was under no grand illusions that I would never get angry again and here’s what I noticed. A few days after the journey, I felt anger rising up. The difference was that I was able to do something about it immediately - namely some specific breathing - with no resistance whatsoever. 

That was super different. In the past, if I felt angry, I knew what would help but I didn’t always do it because either I was too angry to take action or the resistance got in the way.

Since the journey, I’ve been able to use a variety of solutions when I feel angry immediately, meaning I suffer less and feel better right away. 

Amazing! Something melted and I feel so grateful. 

Is anger a thing for you too? It could be that you let your anger out on other people. Or maybe you keep it internal. You might even turn it toward yourself.

Whatever the case may be, I highly recommend this journey because once anger gets integrated, it turns into passion and has lots of energy that you can finally use because it’s no longer bound up in fury.

All the details are here. Scroll down to the section that says this month’s virtual sessions and you’ll see the date options. 

I hope to see you there!

In honour of the 9D Journey of the month, I’m sharing this song. It’s super powerful and has the vibe of how you feel when you accomplish something that’s a big deal (like a breathwork journey for instance).

It’s called Believer by the Imagine Dragons.  I love the Imagine Dragons. They have such a huge range of styles that I never get bored of them or think “Their songs all sound the same.”

If you could use some energy or need a little boost to get something done that you don’t feel like doing, turn on this song and dance. You’ll be able to take action in no time!

Copy and paste: Believer by Imagine Dragons into your favourite streaming site and have a listen. And then go do great things.

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