PREFACE  

I decided to revisit each of my blog posts many years after I originally posted them to update and revise as needed. I’m finding two things, I wish I had an editor and I want to soften the tone of the information I’m sharing. To be honest, the last thing I want to sound is preachy or righteous because I am forever learning the depths of my soul. I think when I first wrote the posts, I was excited to share a practice that worked for me so it may have come across that way. I want to revise a few things so it’s more about sharing my personal experience and what I’ve learned on my journey. 

I’m a firm believer in experiencing all aspects of self, even the darkness, and the darkest part of self. I’m learning that experiencing this darkness, which I like to refer to as the ebb in the soul’s current, does take strength and lots of compassion as you care for your soul wounds. The soul healing practices are skills and practices I’ve developed during my journey that helped in navigating through the darkness, and assisted in shifting from ebb to flow with rest and integration in between. 

The practices are psychospiritual in nature, and are a mix of my personal experience and prior professional mental health background (as a licensed clinical social worker). All of my practices involve connecting with the elevated mind and sacred heart through awareness, imagination, visualization, and meditation. These soul healing practices continue to evolve and change just as my soul is growing and expanding.

There is of course no guarantee that the practices will work for you, but if you do try any of the practices, I encourage you to experiment in order to make it your own. Listen to your inner wisdom and change or refine the practice as needed so it completely resonates with your soul. Also, all of my practices need to be at your pace, so again listen to your inner knowing and honor it.

My sacred journey is not less or more significant than anyone else’s, my only motivation for sharing is to inspire self-transformation and to offer support for your unique and sacred journey. Please forgive any editorial mistakes for this is as good as it will get without an editor ;). This is what I’ve learned along the way. 

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE BACKGROUND 

The smothering effects of excessive worry can sabotage internal stability, peace, and happiness for hours, days, or even longer. I know this well because the act of worrying has been my companion for a very long time. In my journey, I’ve found the type of thoughts associated with worry are typically rooted in fear: the fear of change, the unknown, the uncertainty of future events or outcomes, making mistakes, fearing for one’s safety or stability, and so on.

Worrying isn’t bad in itself. In my opinion, it is an effort from the mind to resolve the fear energy by providing a sense of control with its influx of thoughts to aid in planning or thoughts that persist in warning us something has to change. I also like to think of the anxiety as an energy source that I can draw upon to generate its opposite such as excitement, motivation, and creation. It’s just a matter of learning how to transform the anxiety into this type of energy. My soul healing practices may assist in this transformation. 

Excessive worry becomes “bad” or problematic when the energy is persistent, stuck, and cyclical as we ruminate in the worry thoughts. In my experience, excessive worrying is like a freight train running out of control and derailing me from the magic and opportunities of the present moment. I’ve found it clouds my perception creating more fear and confusion. If you are like me and mastered the art of worrying, then you most likely formed a habitual neural pathway contributing to the reason worrying is frequent and difficult to interrupt.  

It is important to explore how and when we excessively worry to gain a better understanding of our mind and heart. This awareness is a form of empowerment that provides an opportunity to regain control and mastery of our derailed mind. Sometimes we may notice certain physical sensations, tension or pain, and/or distressing feelings (anxiety, fear, anger, dread) prior to becoming aware of specific worry thoughts.

Personally, I’ve come to realize when I begin to worry about my or my daughter’s safety or stability, even though there is nothing in the external to warrant such thoughts, it is typically a cue I’m in a place of change and transition. The change and transition is triggering a fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of an outcome which leads to excessive concern and anxiety about my stability and basic needs.

Another example is when I worry about someone close to me unexpectedly dying which is another cue that I’m in a place of transition or change. The most devastating change that happened to me was the death of my husband in the early Iraq war which led to my daughter and I figuring out how to pick up the pieces, and then try to build a life without him. This event imprinted a heavy dose of fear upon my heart and mind, and when change and transition are on the horizon my mind wants to take me to the worst case scenario, as I experienced in the past.

Through my soul work I’ve gained more compassion for the mind and recognize this default setting is only a protection mechanism that is also signaling change is near. I now know that I have a choice to slow the mental merry-go-round or completely get off to where I don’t have to interpret or expect the coming change and transition to be traumatic, painful, or devastating. As mentioned earlier, I also have a choice to perceive the excessive anxiety and worry as an energy source to generate empowering energy such as excitement or motivation. The more I use the energy source in this way along with the soul healing practices, I noticed excessive worrying has significantly lessened, and my mind doesn’t always default to the worst case scenario. 

I would like to warn that habitual worrying may initiate a fight due to its stable home in our mind, but it just takes matched persistence to evict its power and strength. It is absolutely possible to master a new way of thinking just as we mastered worrying. It is a matter of refocusing our thoughts and elevating our energy with determined practice in order to retrain our brain, and to strengthen a more adaptive neural pathway (a new way of thinking and perceiving).

With all that said and with full transparency, I’ve found during my journey I do tend to default to a worry mindset from time to time especially when I feel significant change is on the horizon. Good news though is that its strength and frequency has reduced, and I can shift and tame my mind easier. When I confront its presence, the worry and fear thoughts tend to resolve fairly quickly in the moment. However, pending the type of worry, I do notice I have to address its presence several times during the day, again matching its persistence. It is my hope that the following soul healing practices will offer some peace for you as well.

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE

The soul healing practices are a way to begin interrupting habitual worry, and to eventually establish new ways of thinking and perceiving in order to create more peace and harmony in your life. These are tools to help vacate the mental chaos and confusion so that you may respond to the worry and fear with a clearer, quieter mind and with a more peaceful energetic state, and to transform the burdensome energy into uplifting and empowering energy.

I‘ve separated the soul healing practice into six practices which can be used one at a time, together, or creatively integrated to meet your needs. The practice includes the following: 1) acknowledge the fear, 2) release the worry with intentional breathing, 3) neutralize the worry energy, 4) visualize goodness, 5) repeat an intention and surrender, and 6) challenge the validity of the worry thoughts. I encourage you to experiment with the practice and to adjust, change, or refine as needed so the practice becomes your own, and truly resonates with you and your soul’s growth and expansion.

I also found it to be beneficial to incorporate some type of diaphragmatic or deep breathing, grounding, mindfulness, meditation, and/or physical exercise when applying the soul healing practices. These centering practices cue the brain and body to calm the nervous system so the soul becomes more open to healing and expanding. I enjoy a grounding practice using my five senses which centers my energy into the present moment. I also like to do a four-count breath technique.

The grounding and breathing practices are convenient and simple, and can be done anywhere, anytime. For the grounding practice, you simply shift your focus to one of your five senses. For example, you may tune into a pleasant background noise, feel the weight of your body while standing or sitting, notice the visual details of an object or person, notice a pleasant smell, or tune into the taste of something enjoyable. Note, you want to focus on or tune into a sense that is pleasant or delightful and not unpleasant or pungent because the goal is to calm the nervous system and not to activate it. I suggest experimenting with your five senses to learn what makes you feel more calm and centered in the moment. For the four-count breath, you slowly count to four as you inhale while expanding the lower belly (1, 2, 3, 4) and slowly exhale as you count four backwards (4, 3, 2, 1), repeating as needed until you feel calmer and more relaxed. I also recommend sound healing with singing bowls or tuning forks, there are plenty of options on YouTube.

1) ACKNOWLEDGE THE FEAR

A way to acknowledge the fear is to simply ask yourself: what am I afraid of? As simple as this question may be, it can be very powerful in bringing more awareness of the type of thoughts that are causing the anxiety and worry. You may notice when you ask this question that one or even a plethora of fear-based thoughts may surface from your subconscious to conscious mind. I like to imagine it as turning a light on in a very dark room or a closet where the light makes the darkness less scary. In my experience, the act of acknowledging the thoughts emerging from the dark corners of the mind begins to reduce its power due to the thoughts being illuminated and seen. 

If you would like to turn this practice into a written practice, then write the question, what am I afraid of, in the center of a piece of paper or journal and circle it. As you contemplate the question write down anything that comes to mind related to the stressor, writing the responses all around the circle. Allow your mind to be uncensored and unfiltered as you automatic write. It could consist of a combination of feelings, thoughts, phrases, and/or words. Then review the responses and circle the one that feels the most distressing and/or triggering. 

As you begin to illuminate the fear energy, it is helpful to view the thoughts and feelings as objectively as possible like you are a mere observer of the workings of your mind and heart. I find verbalizing the thoughts out loud or doing the written exercise as described helps to dispel some of its power. You can incorporate some releasing rituals such as writing the most distressing thought as discovered earlier on a piece of paper and then ripping it up or burning it as a symbol of reducing its power over you. Another effective practice of releasing is described in Practice 2. For deeper processing of a specific thought or belief, then proceed to Practice 6. 

You may experience emotional and/or physical distress (excessive fear, anger, guilt, physical tension and pain, etc.) when these thoughts are seen, but gently calm your nervous system again with a deep breathing practice and/or grounding/mindfulness practice as described above or any of your choosing. By doing so, you are comforting a part of you that is afraid, as you would comfort a child, pet, or loved-one who is scared.

2) RELEASE THE WORRY WITH INTENTIONAL BREATHING 

Once a thought or belief associated with the worry energy is identified and seen, I like to take it a step further by reducing its power even more to a point of eventually releasing it. This practice involves deep belly breathing with intentions and a bit of visualization.

The breath not only gives life to the intention, but also helps to anchor it into your soul’s vibration. I’ve included a version of this breathing practice in my other posts because I absolutely love it and find it powerful, but in this soul healing practice I modified it just a little. Please do the same so it truly resonates with you.

Basically as you take a slow deep breath in, you say to yourself, I am, and as you slowly exhale, you say an intention. As you are doing this practice, remember to bring the breath down to your lower belly and not just to your chest.

The following is an example of intentional breathing that I’ve designed to ascend up the energy centers or chakras (most of them), but please experiment with the intentions if it doesn’t quite resonate with you. As you slowly inhale say to yourself I am and on the exhale say calm, continuing the practice on the inhale saying I am and on the exhale saying safe, breathing in I am and breathing out empowered, breathing in I am and breathing out love, breathing in I am and breathing out light, and finally breathing in I am and breathing out free. Take another slow deep breath and say I am and on the exhale say free of (the specific worry thought/belief) while visualizing the thought/belief burning into golden ash, then blowing away into the void or sacred whole which includes your sacred oneness or soul’s harmony.

If I don’t identify a specific thought or belief, then I also use this practice with an area of worry such as worry about finances, stability, and so on. For example, I say I am on the inhale and say free of the worry about my finances on the exhale, and visualize it burning into golden ash, then blowing away into the sacred whole and my sacred oneness. 

The visualization helps to release the worry energy from your soul in order to provide more clarity, objectivity, and altitude with the goal of freeing yourself of excessive fear so that you can address the worry fairly. Typically, I feel a sense of relief and ease when I do this visualization as if the burden of worry is a heavy cloak that I drop to my feet and push aside to be free of it. I hope it offers a similar effect for you. If the fire doesn’t resonate, then experiment with any other elemental power or force that would produce the same effects. For example, sometimes I visualize the thought/belief is washed away by a waterfall or a powerful wave, or blown away by a strong wind. 

Examples of worry energy or thoughts/beliefs that I’ve released recently with this practice include: I am free of the fear of rejection, I am free of self-punishment of how I handle my finances, and I am free of self-doubt. Pending the strength of the worry energy, you may have to repeat this practice several times if you notice it seeping back into your conscious awareness or you notice anxiety or physical symptoms.

I’ve also found physical exercise or spending time in nature to be an excellent compliment to this practice because it is an extra way to ground energy and to clear the mind. I typically enjoy going for a walk or a run with my dog, or just lying in the grass while I implement this practice.

3) NEUTRALIZE THE WORRY ENERGY

Neutralizing the worry energy involves integrating two poles of energy, the dark and light, the negative and positive, denser and higher vibrational energy within your soul. This practice also includes a visualization. 

Imagine a dark or denser energy is rising up from below you and a pure, white light or higher vibrational energy is descending down from above you. The energies meet in your mind, specifically at the worry or fear thought(s). Once the two energies collide, they are completely neutralized at the point of junction creating an energetic ripple of relief, peace, and harmony that extends all around you. Breathe in the neutralized energy and visualize it extending further and further as you exhale. When the neutralization is felt, you may offer an intention for optimal functioning to be restored by saying something similar to: optimal vibration, peace, and harmony is now restored. Take a moment to feel this energy filling your mind, your heart, and your soul. Again, experiment with the intention so it truly resonates with you.

Sometimes I like to use a hand motion when doing this practice. For me, the addition of the physical motion amplifies the practice. For example, my left hand acts as the lower energy (palm up) and my right hand acts as the higher energy (palm down) and when my hands come together to a clap, I then spread my hands apart horizontally signifying the neutralizing energy. By the way, it doesn’t matter which hand is palm up or down, whichever feels more natural to you. 

As I repeatedly encourage to make these practices your own, I have done the same with this neutralization practice so it resonates with my soul. A more detailed version of this practice can be found in the book, The Temples of Light: An Initiatory Journey into the Heart Teachings of the Egyptian Mystery Schools, by Danielle Rama Hoffman.

4) VISUALIZE GOODNESS

This visualization technique is about interrupting the worry energy with its opposite energy by imagining your life as absolutely perfect, where your life feels sweet and good. It does require you to go to an internal space where you feel all your desires have been met and your dreams have come to fruition, even though it hasn’t actually done so or it feels impossible. It’s more about generating the opposite feelings than fear, doubt, or dissatisfaction that often accompanies worry in order to balance your soul’s vibration with more elevating energy.  

With your eyes closed or at a soft gaze, imagine your life as absolutely perfect and good in this very moment: what would you see, how would you feel, what type of thoughts would you have, how you would act, and so on. Staying with the visualization, deeply breathe in all the feelings of this goodness such as complete stability, deep satisfaction, freedom, gratitude, and fulfillment, and slowly exhale the same energy. Repeat the practice several times until the worry and fear energy begins to subside and lessen.

These feelings help generate mental clarity, peace, and harmony as they are anchored into your sacred heart with the help of your breath creating an elevated soul vibration. The visualization of goodness will obviously vary amongst all of us, but ensure it serves your highest potential and is not harmful to others. You may call upon this visualization often and as needed in order to interrupt any disturbing worry thoughts and anxiety, and to rebalance your current state to a clearer and more harmonious state.

5) REPEAT AN INTENTION AND SURRENDER

This practice is a way to energetically surrender the worry or fear with the goal of restoring peace and harmony from within by redirecting the mind. The type of intention is the key to the act of surrendering because the intention is directed to and given to whatever higher power or belief that resonates with you. For example, the intention may sound like: the universe or source creator or God or gods and goddesses or star beings always provide(s) for me; my spirit team or the angels or my sacred divine self always provide(s) for me; I release the future to (your higher power) knowing all my needs and desires are met; I give this worry (specific worry) to (your higher power) knowing I am taken care of; or I manifest peace and harmony, and not fear and doubt.

As you repeat the intention either from within or out loud, it is helpful to include deep relaxing breaths, a grounding or mindfulness practice, or even physical exercise with the intention as way to calm and clear the mind and nervous system so that you are more open to surrendering and expanding. Also, as mentioned previously the breath helps anchor the vibration of the intention into your heart and mind. Hopefully, as you practice you begin to experience more internal peace from a quieter mind.   

As always, experiment with the surrender intention so it resonates with you as it is sacred to you. The goal of the intention is to promote more feelings of empowerment and self-worth to counteract the self-deprecating effects of excessive worry. It is a way to rebalance the scales of the mind and to lessen the tension of anxiety so that you retune your soul’s frequency in order to manifest what you actually desire, rather than more fear-based outcomes and mental confusion.

It is probable you will need to be just as persistent with the intentions as the worry thoughts for they may want to thwart the intentions. I suggest beginning again by first calming your nervous system with the breathing or grounding practices mentioned earlier (or any of your choosing), and to realign yourself in the present moment. I have also found my choice of intentions change as my soul grows and expands.  

6) CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OF WORRY THOUGHTS

If the worry energy remains unyielding in its grip on your soul, then you may want to further explore the thoughts deeper and to challenge their validity. Challenging the validity of worry thought(s) is a way to gain increased altitude and objectivity to understand if the thoughts are actually based in truth and reality. For a detailed explanation of how to apply this soul healing practice, visit my post, “The Art of Empowering Your Mind” (15 March 2016).

After conducting the thought challenge as described in the post, you will identify a more realistic and empowering thought. Most likely, you will need to be just as persistent in practicing the new thought. The continual practice will eventually strengthen a more conducive neural pathway to restore peace and harmony in your mind and heart. As repeatedly stated, it is beneficial to include a practice of deep breathing or grounding/mindfulness to open the door for the new thought to enter and for it to make its new home.  

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE CLOSING

I like to close each soul healing practice with another visualization, especially if the practice doesn’t include an energetic shield/boundary. If the practice does include a protective sphere of light, then adjust this closing visualization to complement the practice. The closing visualization may also be a stand alone practice. The intent is to further cleanse any residual blocks or burdens, calm the soul, restore optimal functioning, and realign the soul as above, so below.  

Visualize a disk of purifying, white light that is above you and is large enough to fit both your body and energetic field. The purpose of the disk is to scan your body and energetic field while it simultaneously moves any residual mental, emotional, physical, and energetic blocks or burdens. The energy will be moved out and drained like an energetic faucet as it disappears into the void. The intention of the energy as it disappears is to be transmuted and transcended into the sacred whole which includes your soul’s oneness or harmony. 

As you continue the visualization, imagine the purifying disk of light descending down towards you and begins to scan your upper energetic field and extends outward to capture your entire energetic field as it moves down your body, starting with your head, down your shoulders, down each arm, and out each hand. Visualize any blocks or burdens draining out of your hands (like a faucet). You can imagine the energy as darker energy flowing out. Once you feel it is complete or see the energy begin to trickle stop the flow from your hands. Bring your attention back to your shoulders and continue the scan down your chest, your abdomen to the pelvic area, down each leg, and out each foot. Again visualize any blocks or burdens draining out from your feet, once you feel it is complete or see the energy begin to trickle then stop the flow. Now take a moment to visualize your entire body and energetic field are now cleansed and cleaned.  

Next say to yourself, CALM, and visualize and feel every cell of your body and particle of your energetic field is calming like a pristine, quiet mountain lake with no movement. Just calm and quiet. Take a few deep belly breaths to savor this feeling of calmness. Next, say to yourself, HEAL, followed by optimal health and functioning, and golden light are restored, visualize every cell of your body and particle of your energetic field is now filled with sparkling golden light as you are glowing and vibrating with this golden energy. Visualize the golden energy extends outward to form a sphere of light that now surrounds you. The sphere of light may change colors, any color of your choosing. Again, take a few deep belly breaths to savor this energy of renewal, strength, and empowerment. 

Lastly, visualize a column of golden threads above you descending down through you and exiting out your feet, continuing down into the earth to be deeply anchored into the earth’s core so you feel secured, stable, and grounded (you can add imagery of golden roots or similar extending from your feet to be anchored into the earth’s core). Next see a violet light doing the same, and finally a pure white light doing the same. The intent of the columns are to align you above and below, so you feel both grounded and elevated. You may close the visualization by saying to yourself three intentions, for example I say: I am powerful, I am magical, I am healing, and as I say each intention I visualize myself growing taller, stronger, and feeling more empowered.

As a last note and most likely suggested in the description of the soul healing practice, do experiment with, change, refine the practice as needed so it truly resonates with your soul, becomes your personal practice, and evolves and changes with you. By making the practice your own, you are listening to your inner guidance, are connecting with your sacred divine self, and aligning with your unique wisdom and soul’s vibration.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE SOUL HEALING PRACTICE

There I was tumbling down the familiar rabbit hole of worry…

Excessive worry has plagued my life for as long as I can remember. Now a days as alluded to, it shows up as worry about my or my daughter’s safety, finances, achieving success, and/or someone close to me unexpectedly dying. All of which is definitely rooted in fear and self-doubt. Typically with the worry, beliefs of unworthiness come along for the ride. It can consume me to where I feel wound up with a cluttered mind, emotional angst, and a tense body like I’m dragging a heavy weight of dread, confusion, and internal chaos.

I will describe how I’ve used a couple of the soul healing practices on different occasions to de-escalate and transform the worry energy. I did have to repeat some of these practices often throughout the day to counter the worry, but I noticed it became weaker in its attempt to dominate my mind and heart. Like I’ve mentioned earlier, with practice my default worry mindset has lessened in both strength and frequency.

ACKNOWLEDGE THE FEAR

The excessive worrying was quite persistent on this night. I tried the intention, I release the future to my sacred divine self knowing all my needs and desires are met, which resulted in some relief, but I knew I needed to go deeper because my attachment to the worry was a bit tight and unrelenting. I explored the worry thoughts by asking myself: what am I afraid of? Almost immediately several thoughts flooded in: I’m afraid of missing an opportunity; I’m afraid of being alone the rest of my life; I’m afraid to wait; and I’m afraid of being left behind. I knew the origins of all these thoughts. Some were rooted in my childhood, and some were imprinted on my mind and heart from the tragic loss of my beloved husband when he was killed in the early Iraq war. 

This time it was enough to just bring the thoughts and its origins from the shadowy corners of my mind into the light (from my subconscious to conscious mind). As I acknowledged the thoughts, their power began to dispel along with the chaotic, heavy and dense energy associated with them. I felt lighter with a clearer mind and a heart more at ease. I then followed with the four-count breath and I was able to drift into a deep sleep.  

If I was still tightly attached to the thoughts along with the associated negative feelings/behaviors, I would then try neutralizing the energy as described in Practice 3 followed by intentional breathing from Practice 2. If it still persisted, I would challenge the validity of the thoughts as described in Practice 6.

NEUTRALIZE THE WORRY ENERGY and REPEAT AN INTENTION AND SURRENDER

I awoke with a familiar sense of dread and fear, knowing I was definitely in my worry energy. So I decided to take a long walk with my dog to aid in clearing my mind and to loosen my tense muscles from the anxiety. As I was walking, listening to the sounds around me, and giggling at my goofy dog, I was ready to try a soul healing practice. I was worrying about my finances and a desire to relocate to another state. I decided to implement the neutralization practice, visualizing two polar energies one above me and one below me, coming together until they met in my mind and collided at the point of the worry thoughts. The collision created a ripple of neutralizing energy, and I felt a sense of relief, peace, and quiet that was extending all around me.

I then followed the neutralization practice with the four-count breath and the intentional breathing from Practice 2 to further calm my nervous system and to open the door for the surrendering intentions. I took another deep belly breath in and out, and upon the exhale, I repeated the intention: optimal vibration, peace, and harmony is now restored. I also added the intentions: source creator always provides for me, my sacred divine self always provides for me, my spirit team always provides for me. I felt more empowered and actually happy, and continued to anchor the elevated energy into my soul’s vibration with more deep breathing. I noticed my mind was settling down and becoming clearer which was allowing more positive and objective thoughts to surface on how to plan for the potential move.

VISUALIZE GOODNESS and RELEASE THE WORRY WITH INTENTIONAL BREATHING 

On this particular morning the specific worry thoughts were not identified, but I felt an overall feeling of dissatisfaction, irritation, and fear. I went for a run. For me retreating outside and doing something physical helps to ground my energy and clear my mind. Typically after the runs, I stretch, do a few yoga poses, and meditate. I decided to try something different after my alignment meditation. I chose to visualize that my life was absolutely perfect in the moment. Immediately, the power of negativity wanted to refute the idea by bringing the thought: but it’s not perfect, how can I even pretend it to be. I knew perseverance was needed and the challenge was on.

So I countered the resistance with the four-count breath and intentional breathing to loosen its grip from my mind and heart. I then gave myself permission to connect with the innocence of my inner child so I could remember how magical it felt to pretend and imagine as I did as a kid. I prompted myself to see, feel, and think what it would be like for my life to be absolutely perfect in the moment. I visualized all my desires were met and all my dreams came true.

The word “free” surfaced in my mind and I saw myself rising and flying with grace. Then the word “organized” came forward of being free of internal and external clutter, and having financial freedom. I felt an ascension in my heart with overwhelming feelings of abundance, love, warmth, and joy. I saw myself encased in a golden cloud of completeness and peace. I couldn’t help, but smile. I felt protected and guided, and then the phrase, “don’t be afraid to teach”, echoed in my sacred heart. Empowered and now vibrating on a harmonious frequency, I was able to interrupt the worry energy several times during the day by recalling this elevated energy resulting in continued resonance of confidence and peace.  

POEM

MERRY-GO-ROUND

Hello worry, how you sprang forward once again,
like a jack-in-the-box taunting me to indulge
in your endless game,
ride on your merry-go-round.

I did hop on,
spinning round and round, a few revolutions,
asking to go faster and faster,
until the turning of my stomach awakened me to the torture,
that was masked by seemingly innocent fun—
the false sense of control I believe you provided
and thought to be so “fun.”

The pillar of truth grounded in the core of my being,
refuses to spin no more.
Choice.
To dig my foot into the sand of peace surrounding your ride,
stop the persistent momentum of limiting storylines,
anchored in thick, mucky fear
and to halt the merry-go-round of relentless
thoughts of lack.

At first, the stillness
brought a subtle queasiness of resistance:
Who am I without my beloved worry?

I don’t know yet,
but experiencing inspired thoughts aligned
in stillness, in love,
embracing my heart’s expansive desires,
rather than succumbing to the centrifugal force of fear,
is worth finding out.
No more,
round and round we go.  

— Stacy L. Pintor ©

Thank you for visiting my blog, I truly hope some or all of the soul healing practices do help you along your sacred journey and provide you some relief and ease. 

Visit my website if you want to learn more about me and to check out my poetry, especially if you liked the poem above which is included in my poetry book, Alchemy of the Soul.

https://www.baresoulworks.com

Thanks again for visiting and for your support. Stacy 💚 

PLEASE BE ADVISED

The soul healing practices provided in this blog are meant as a tool to aid in healing, for improving mental and emotional health, and for inspiring self-transformation. The practices are not meant to be a form of psychotherapy or social work practice requiring a contractual, professional relationship. If you need consistent therapeutic care and/or crisis intervention due to being at risk of harming yourself or others, then seek professional and/or emergency services immediately.

The purpose of this blog is to share with you how I integrate my personal experience, spiritual growth and expansion, and past professional mental health experience in the form of soul healing practices. By sharing my experience, it is my hope it will provide a practical example of how to interrupt and lessen the cyclical energy of suffering and to elevate your soul.   

These practices work best when you are ready to heal and expand. It is okay if you are not quite ready. Please be gentle and patient with yourself, seek outside help both professionally and personally as needed. You will heal and expand when you are ready. Sending you so much love, warmth, and compassion. Stacy 💚

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Revised and updated in 2025 by Stacy L. Pintor ©.

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