Chris Young

Taken from the eBook I am currently working on called, 10 Tools for Psychic Healing & Empowerment
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Tool # 2
CREATE A MEDITATION & SELF HEALING SPACE

Find a spot in your home or somewhere special that provokes safety, presence, healing and empowerment. Add tools to support connecting with your Psychic ability!

When you first learn to meditate and connect with your psychic healing and empowerment, I always recommend that my students find a place in their home or outdoors to call their meditation space. I have certain areas in my home, in nature and even in other places in the world where I go to “recharge” and heal myself in meditation.

For some people there is no need for a particular mediation space, some just use their living rooms, bedrooms or wherever feels comfortable and safe for them to let go. If you want to create a special place in your home that you can call your own, I would suggest finding a certain area (or room) where you can bring in elements that would ignite the thought of meditation. Create a room or area that beckons you to it!

You can bring in elements that represent meditation to you like certain colors, pictures, your own art pieces, incense, create an altar, add crystals, candles - the list could go on and on. Meditation means different things to everyone so just add anything that reminds you of feeling relaxed, healed and empowered.

I use crystals quite often to raise and uplift my mood while meditating or to heal myself. There are all sorts of crystals out there yet the ones that I find that I am drawn to the most are of the Quartz family. I have many clear and rose quartz crystals that support me with healing myself. If you would like to do more research on these powerful stones, I suggest a book called “Crystals” by Jennie Harding.

There are many books out there on the topic of crystals, all providing some insight as to how they can support you with healing yourself (and others). One crystal in particular that I would like to mention that is specifically good for opening your Psychic senses is the amnethyst. It’s a beautiful and powerful purple crystal that opens the 6th chakra (3rd eye or area in the head near the pineal and pituitary glands). You can use this crystal to support you in opening your ability by sitting with it in meditation. I sometimes hold it in my hands and allow the energy of the crystal to cleanse that area of my energy field or I put it very close or beside me.

I have found that the amnethyst can be a highly “charged” crystal (depending on how big it is) so if you are a sensitive individual, you may not want to hold it for long periods of time. You may notice that you feel somewhat dizzy or “out of it” - that’s just the crystal cleansing your energy, yet if it’s uncomfortable, I suggest that you just lay it next to you instead.

I have been working with crystals for years now and have such fond feelings for them! I have one quartz crystal that I have had for over 10 years that was given to me by a family member. Most of my crystals have become my “friends” - they are there whenever I need them and they also provide healing for me. I have also noticed that crystals seem to “choose” their owners. I have bought many crystals for myself, yet at the end of a session with a client or after seeing a friend, I get the intuitive sense to give them a crystal and usually when I give it to them, they are rejoicing in the gift! It seems to be exactly what they need to move forward in their lives at the time.

I believe that crystals can really be an asset to your growth as a psychic. Crystals have been used by healers, psychics, seers, sages, shamans, etc. for eons. If they have been around that long and have served so many, there must be something to our little friends!

Crystals are one of MANY tools to create and add to your meditation space. I suggest that you find the things that you would like to add that FEEL GOOD, no matter what they are. Bring them into your space and see how it affects you when you are sitting to meditate. If it doesn’t feel good, get rid of it and find something else that does! Pretty simple. Also, you do not have to add anything at all, this is just a fun way to add some attention, focus and intent with opening up your psychic ability. The more you focus on your desire, the more you are able to believe it to be true which, in turn, you will experience it in your physical reality.

You're not going crazy -- you're just a "sensitive", like most of us :)

Love - Chris

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Via Earth Spirit Library

Know that although our evolutionary process is rapidly accelerating, along with the New higher energies, we are all experiencing these changes in our own way and in our own time, according to who we are and according to our coding and plan before birth.

In addition, generally speaking, our ascension process relates to how we each run our own individual energy, and what our beliefs and experiences are. In other words, how we are wired and how we vibrate.

These things can be changed and will also change automatically as we clear and embody more light within ourselves.

For me, all of my interesting and ‘strange’ symptoms disappeared after I completely ‘arrived’ in a higher realm; and they will for you as well. These symptoms seem to occur while we are going through the transition, or what I liken to the ‘tunnel’.

Know that there is an end, and an incredibly beautiful, peaceful and loved filled reality awaiting you. May your evolutionary process be joyous, peaceful and filled with light and wonder.

1. Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. Remember, you are adjusting to a higher vibration and you will eventually adjust. Old patterns, behaviours and beliefs are also being pushed to the surface. There is a lot going on inside of you.

2. A feeling of disorientation; not knowing where you are; a loss of a sense of place. You are not in 3D anymore, as you have moved or in the process of moving into the higher realms.

3. Unusual aches and pains throughout different parts of your body. You are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D, while you are vibrating in a higher dimension.

4. Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can't be there for long lengths of time and need a break. This is also the 'cleansing and releasing' hour.

5. Memory loss. A great abundance of short term memory loss and only vague remembrances of your past. You are in more than one dimension at a time, and going back and forth as part of the transition, you are experiencing a 'disconnect'. Also, your past is part of the Old, and the Old is forever gone. Being in the Now is the way of the New World.

6. 'Seeing' and 'hearing' things. You are experiencing different dimensions as you transition, all according to how sensitive you are and how you are wired.

7. Loss of identity. You try to access the Old you, but it is no longer there. You may not know who you are looking at in the mirror. You have cleared much of your old patterns and are now embodying much more light and a simpler, more purified divine you. All is in order, You are okay.

8. Feeling 'out of body'. You may feel as though someone is talking, but it is not you. This is our natural defence mechanism of survival when we are under acute stress or feeling traumatized or out of control. Your body is going through a lot and you may not want to be in it. My ascension guide told me that this was a way of easing the transition process, and that I did not need to experience what my body was going through. This only lasted a short time. It passes.

9. Periods of deep sleeping. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.

10. Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up. Know that this will eventually pass.

11. You don't feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period, 'rebooting'. Your body knows what it needs. In addition, when you begin reaching the higher realms, 'doing' and 'making things happen' becomes obsolete as the New energies support the feminine of basking, receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to 'bring' you what you want while you are enjoying yourself and having fun.

12. An intolerance for lower vibrational things of the 3D, reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel 'sick' inside. You are in a higher vibration and your energies are no longer in alignment. You are being 'pushed, to move forward; to 'be' and create the New.

13. A loss of desire for food. Your body is adjusting to a new, higher state of being. Also, part of you does not want to be here anymore in the Old.

14. A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.

15. You absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. When you try to do your usual routine and activities, it feels downright awful. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.

16. Days of extreme fatigue. Your body is losing density and going through intense restructuring.

17. A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. Weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. A craving for protein. You are requiring an enormous amount of fuel for this ascension process. Weight gain with an inability to loose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing.

18. Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and we are releasing a lot.

19. A wanting to go Home, as if everything is over and you don't belong here anymore. We are returning to Source. Everything is over, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.

20. Feeling you are going insane, or must be developing a mental illness of some sort. You are rapidly experiencing several dimensions and greatly opening. Much is available to you now. You are just not used to it. Your awareness has been heightened and your barriers are gone. This will pass and you will eventually feel very at Home like you have never felt before, as Home is now here.

21. Anxiety and panic. Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behaviour patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviours you are losing are not needed in the higher realms. This will pass and you will eventually feel so much love, safety and unity. Just wait.

22. Depression. The outer world may not be in alignment with the New, higher vibrational you. It doesn't feel so good out there. You are also releasing lower, darker energies and you are 'seeing' through them. Hang in there.

23. Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. You are releasing many, many lifetimes of lower vibrational

energy. Many are now reporting that they are experiencing beautiful dreams. Your dream state will eventually improve and you will enjoy it again. Some experience this releasing while awake. My mother commented one day that she believed I was having nightmares in the daytime.

24. Night sweats and hot flashes. Your body is 'heating' up as it burns off residue.

25. Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. Your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do. It is breaking your 'rut' choices and vibration.

26. You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many 'worst nightmare' aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into 'stretching' into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into 'toning down' aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is your journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren't ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.

Just read this this morning and it was SO good I had to share it with you all. I hope that this message brings you as much insight, clarity and self-validation as it did for myself.

It's a long message, but SO worth the entire read!

Love you all and HAPPY JOURNEYING :)

Chris

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Mercury Retrograde in Aries

March 30th-April 23rd

As I returned to my astrological roots and started to collect my thoughts for this article, it became all the more apparent to me the enormity of the shifts we are going through right now all over the planet. There are both literal and symbolic tectonic shifts happening both in the Earth and in us. One of the things that continue to fascinate me about using Archetypal Astrology to interpret and perceive the world is just how accurate of a tool it truly is.

I mean, when we track the shifting archetypes of the heavens via astrology they are undeniably and precisely reflected in the events of the world. For example, as we have Uranus (planetary archetype of revolution, humanity, and freedom) transition into the sign of Aries (zodiacal archetype of rebellion, individuality, and tyrannical king) on March 11th we witness the rebellion and revolution against tyrannical dictators happening in the Middle East around the same time!

This might seem unbelievable, but as someone who's tracked the archetypal cycles of time on Earth and how they co-create our Destiny, it's not so much in my world - though it is nonetheless fascinating. What's even more fascinating is that not only are these collective cycles, they are also personal as well meaning that they affect all of us individually in some way or another. Said another way, we each are beginning to stage a rebellion against our 'internal' tyrants, are we not?

How many of you are feeling caged in and ready for a 'rebel to revolutionary' clause to animate in your Soul Contract? Furthermore, it must be acknowledged that we have our own version of external tyrants which may not be as obvious as some Middle East dictator - anyone else see the academy award winning documentary film "Inside Job"? Holy sh*#! If you haven't seen it you must, for then you too will understand that a healthy spirit of rebellion against 'the powers that be' might do all of us some good!

Truly, movies like 'Inside Job' make me realize that it might be good to challenge our 'western illusions' of democracy so we can finally see our own tyrannical kings and their duplicitous leadership. Can't kick someone's ass unless you can see who's ass to kick, you know what I'm sayin'? Dang, hold onto your seats for this newsletter as I'm feeling the revolutionary impulse kicking in baby! Breathe Robert, breathe...lol!

That said, as I continue with this article more exclusively on the current Mercury Retrograde in Aries; please keep in mind that this cycle references all the other cycles that are also occurring in tandem. And I would also say, as Mercury was the 'networker' of the Gods, it connects their independent themes into one harmonic process. Before we get going, how about a little 'refresher'?

Mercury Retrograde Refresher

Essentially astrology is the art and science of intuiting and interpreting the energetic and archetypal cycles of life and your soul's schedule of unfolding into the world via those cycles. All those planets out there in the heavens are mirrors for what's happening in us......as above, so below. So any planetary cycle that we observe in the sky/Zodiac is also occurring within, because (as all mystics have said for ages) the ultimate reality is that there is no separation from what's out there and what's within.

The gift of astrology is born out of learning to work with the cosmic/archetypal cycles of life consciously, as a co-creative act if you will. Working with astrology allows us to see the 'inner' and 'outer' world as one unified field of energy. So if you can learn to understand the inherent function of a planetary astrological cycle, you can use that energy in a more consciously empowered manner, and bring your timing/efforts more in line with Universal Will; which means more in line with your soul. Onto Mercury Retrograde!

What is 'Mercury Retrograde' anyway? When Mercury is direct, which it is 80% of the year, we can look to the sky and see the planet's motion going forward against the backdrop of the Zodiac in the heavens. However, about every 3 1/2 months the planet appears to start going backward for about three weeks. I say "appears" because in reality it's the orbit of the earth in tandem with the planetary orbit of Mercury that makes the planet appear to move backwards, though it is not really moving backwards. Nevertheless, this period of time is called Mercury Retrograde and if we embrace the axiom 'As Above, So Below' then when planets appear to move backward in the sky it means something.

That being said, what does Mercury Retrograde symbolize as a process within each of us? How does it point our ego toward our soul's timing? As a function of consciousness, Mercury represents our thinking and communicative processes, the ways we access and use information, make decisions, pay attention to details, and express ourselves. Perhaps most importantly, Mercury also symbolizes the way we perceive reality via the mind.

Much of this gets reexamined during a Mercury Retrograde cycle via the astrological sign's themes it's retrograde in (Aries this time!). We are asked to retreat within and reevaluate what serves our life with regards to this Mercurial function of consciousness, and what needs to be upgraded, reworked, rethought, refined, and/or let go of in the ways that we think about and experience things. If we resist this, then we invoke the "Trickster" side of Mercury contained in Mercury's function. You all know this too well: miscommunications, missed flights, accidents, computer and other tech breakdowns...need I go on?! All of these are designed to help you realize you're not in control and that a deeper design is trying to emerge into your consciousness by putting your ego-mind in the back seat for a time and function as a sort of 'Adjustment Bureau'.

When Mercury is moving direct, our minds tend to work on a more functional/forward level. Our energy is invested in more assertive decision-making and action with less retrospection and reflection. However, eventually their needs to be a period of re-evaluation and consideration of not only tons of unacknowledged intuitive information, but also all the choices we've been making and their consequences within our 'flow chart of Destiny'. All of this will come to call during the retrograde cycle for further integration.

There needs to be a time of rest and assimilation of all the information that we perceive consciously and unconsciously - much like our need for sleep every day. And a time for our inner wisdom to come forth and guide us to re-organize, rethink, reevaluate, redo, and reboot. This is part of the organic, natural flow of life. Our culture, however, made up of schedules and deadlines, doesn't often accommodate a cycle of introspective reflection and re-evaluation. This is why this cycle can be so brutal for some of us.....and with Mercury currently retrograding in an astrological archetype that likes to go forward, get ready for some show downs!

Even when Mercury is moving direct, it will eventually enter into its retrograde zone (the degrees of the astrological sign it will retrograde over) about two weeks before it goes retrograde. This set up phase began back on March 16th for this current cycle. Around that time signals from the environment would have begun alerting you towards inner and outer situations that are in need of some reflection and reevaluation - which for this retrograde will be connected to themes of Aries.

Take a moment and reflect on what was happening in your life at the beginning of the month and how the themes have been shifting since then in your experience. I like to keep a 'retrograde journal' for each Mercury Retrograde so I can track what's changing both inside and outside of me, and let me tell you with this retrograde change is knocking down my door like a Ram! Did I say 'Ram'? Ahhh, yes...onto

Mercury Retrograde in Aries...

Mercury Retrograde in Aries

This Mercury Retrograde (MR) officially began on March 30th and ends on April 23rd. Yet, as previously mentioned, the set up phase has been in motion since March 16th when Mercury entered into the degree of Aries it will retrogress back to. As this particular retrograde finds its midpoint (when Mercury lines up directly with the Sun) on April 9th. While I describe the archetypal framework for this current cycle, take some time to assess what area of your life is energized by the following Aries themes. Usually the themes are most intense up until the midpoint. Of course, that is unless you keep resisting the Aries message that is trying to get through to you!

The Aries Part of Your Life

The entire zodiac represents an exquisite way of mapping and identifying the primary twelve archetypal patterns that make up who we are. Therefore, each of us has an aspect of our life that the astrological archetype Aries represents. Aries is an archetype that represents the assertion of the ego and the intentions that motivate our will to do so. We need something to fuel our purpose and Aries represents the archetypal energy that advocates for our right to express our individuality. Without Aries energy none of us would get out of bed in the morning and become the individual we were born to be!

That said, from what I've tracked thus far for this particular retrograde, folks are being asked to reconsider and review what does indeed motivate their intentions, what fuels their ambition, and which battles they are engaged in and why. This retrograde energy has heightened a focus on the inner and outer 'tyrants' that are thwarting the rights of individuals. Obviously this is very present in the political process all over the world right now. But I encourage you to look at this from both a collective and personal perspective, as both are connected.

For example, in the USA we are considering how much we want to be involved in the rebellion process of the Middle East, which is very much drawing to the surface what motivates us to get involved in and create wars in the world. Why is that we will wage war in a country that never asked for deliverance from its dictator, yet when other countries are begging for aide, we resist taking action? Obviously we have a lot on our plate with Iraq and Afghanistan and these are indeed complex issues, but what I'm really addressing is our intentions. Intentions always tell the truth.

In the same way take a moment to consider what wars you're willing to start/fight and why - are your battles about fighting for true liberty? Or are you just losing needless power and energy in a quest to 'be right'? Track your own intentions! You might indeed find that your battles are more about trying to have power where you will never have any. For example, are you fighting to change someone else? Make someone finally validate you? What's that costing you?

This past January I taught a workshop in Boulder and was discussing oppression in terms of what true freedom really is. An African American female participant had a powerful shift in perception and then later spoke about it to the entire group stating that the slaves that were captured and brought to America were 'proud' people. They had no concept of being 'less than'. Even as they were taken captive they were still Kings and Queens that could not be conquered because coming from their homeland that was their reality. To be sure the 'slave' was later indoctrinated over the span of generations and remains a legacy that is still being healed. The participant realized that to help heal herself and her 'internalized' sense of slavery she needed to reconnect to the original ancestral sense of worth and sovereignty that slowly gave way to the 'slave' mentality she had been living.

This was such a profound insight and reminded me that authentic power is always an inside job. Whether it's a tyrannical government, religious ideology, or cultural spell of shame -- even as the 'oppressors' of the world conquer us from without, we always have the choice as to whether they conquer us from within.

And if we somehow wake up one day to realize this in some area of our lives and decide that out of our interior sovereignty we must rebel and fight for outer freedom - we'll at least have the power straight and not lose our souls in the fight. If we don't wake up and realize that true liberation is ultimately experiencing a sense of internal freedom, sooner or later we replicate our own oppression by believing the oppressor holds our power to be free. And then we are truly owned by those we believe hold the key to our prison cell.

Chart your own profile with this. Who owns you? Who and what are you a slave to? Are you feeling the need to rebel against someone or something in your life? Can you fight for your freedom without losing your soul? We must realize that in every rebellion there is always a referencing of the oppressor. We must first identify someone or something to rebel against, right? In fact, this is the first step toward freedom. But once you've identified your oppressor, it's time to re-orient your intention and power toward 'revolution'. In revolution we no longer run our reality via the oppressor because we now are ready to create it ourselves - even if we are still fighting the good fight.

Take a moment and consider who or what you currently wire your reality through because of the 'rebel/oppressor' dynamic. Is that paradoxically keeping you stuck in your oppression?

All said, this brings to mind the wise saying of 'Choose your battles wisely'. Yet more accurately perhaps we should choose our battles consciously with awareness that all outer liberation is first inspired by an inner state of freedom that seeks to uniquely express itself in the world. Now that's a fight worth dying for!

Destiny is Risk

I sense another aspect that this MR is bringing up for us to review is whether we have to courage to step out into new freedom. After all these years working with folks as an intuitive, it still astounds me how we as human beings often want things to change in our lives, but somehow believe that we can change our lives without...well, risking any change! Destiny is risk folks! Take a look at what area of your life would be well served by some healthy calculated risk.

This means we have to be willing to set out on a new adventure with some grounded guidance, yet without knowing how everything will turn out. Believe in yourself! Believe in your resiliency to survive and grow! Believe that there is a grace watching out for you when you leave the known for the unknown!

Conversely some of us may be taking a look at some past risks we've taken in various areas of our lives and their current consequences. If we've been engaged in some reckless risk taking perhaps it's time to course correct and learn what we can from the results. The best way to do this is once again to look at our motivations and perceptions. What motivated us to risk what we did? What illusions were we under?

I've found we often can never fully know what motivates everything we do, but most notably we can't know our motivations and illusions without looking deeply at our esteem. Were we unconsciously primarily chasing validation through our risk taking? If so, no worries! Get curious about why you do this, not judgmental. Life is a process and journey, no need to feel ashamed. Forgive yourself, take responsibility, and realign to a new set of goals in line with the expression of your esteem vs. a chasing of it.

The Price of Being a Pioneer

Another aspect of Aries energy that connects with risk is the Pioneer Archetype. Pioneers always blaze the trail to open up new territory, but there is a price that's exacted for such courage. I once heard someone say, "You know how you can spot a true pioneer? By the number of arrows in their back!"

Let's face it, when others challenge our reality by going outside of the known limits we often try to take them down. Just ask Galileo! So this MR asks us if we're willing to deal with the arrows we might get in our back from moving ahead with our Destiny as individuals. Can you take an arrow and yet not take it personally? Or will you let the arrows puncture your esteem and stop you in your newly forged tracks? All of us are going to take some arrows as we become who are meant to be. Pull them out and keep going!

Moving on From the Midpoint...

As we pass the intensity of this midpoint of the current MR cycle on the 9th, we can expect many revelations issue forth. To use this time wisely I would counsel a reorganization and reassessment of your esteem, ambition, and intentions while exploring the Aries' themes I've already mentioned.

Ultimately this retrograde brings a deep review of our courage, willingness to take risks, and need to break from tribal mentality to move forward. There is incredible change in the air and an entirely new cycle kicking in on so many levels I could write a book about it! Presently we are asked by Mercury to receive a new message from our soul regarding what is to come that connects us to our individual and collective Fate and Destiny. Who are you really? Which battles are you willing to fight to fully be that in the world? How have you unconsciously been oppressing yourself? Mercury would like you ponder these deep questions now and act as your own personal 'Adjustment Bureau' if you don't!

If you'd like to hear my latest radio show on this current Mercury Retrograde in Aries for free on-demand to get even more insight into this cycle follow the link below. Finally, if your ego drive can't seem to take a back seat and you invoke the 'trickster' side of Mercury during this retrograde; at the very least remember that 'irritation' is ultimately always a choice. Ouch...I know! : )

Until next time!

Namaste,
Robert Ohotto
Intuitive Life Strategist

www.ohotto.com