Tag: Kyle Gray

  • Holding Space for Yourself: Recharging Your Energy

    Holding Space for Yourself: Recharging Your Energy

    The following is a direct transcript of the video.

    Thank you for joining me for this week’s card reading. This week, it is from Keepers of the Light from Kyle Gray. And the card that I pulled for us is Hilarion, Divine Healing. And I’m sure it’s no coincidence that it is green, which is the color of the heart chakra.

    So as always, just give yourself these few moments to be with yourself. Be here with me, our community. Allow yourself to rest, to relax, to re-energize, to just be here in stillness, connecting to yourself and your breath.

    Hilarion. Divine healing.

    Honor your sensitivity. Retreat to recharge and heal. Your light can support others. The world can seem overwhelming to you. And it’s okay to retreat to a safe space every now and then to cleanse and recharge your energy.

    You may feel called to serve others or share your healing with them. But please ensure that you are filled up with light, love, and energy first so that you are not sacrificing your own development for others. You are surrounded by the healing light of Hilarion and the healing angels of this time so that you can recharge and feel whole.

    So just let yourself take in a deep, full breath. Notice any sort of reaction, whether in thoughts or in your body. Notice any sensations as they swirl around. What words or theme or phrase maybe resonated or maybe felt a little resistance to? Don’t try to judge it or analyze it. Just notice.

    This says, “The world can seem overwhelming to you, and it’s okay to retreat to a safe space every now and then to cleanse and recharge your energy.” I would say that not only is it okay, but it’s really important.

    And when there is a lot going on in your life. No matter what is happening outside of your life, but even when there is just a lot of stress in your own life—it is really important to do this. When there are a lot of things going on around you, whether it’s in your family or your neighborhood, your friend group, your community, your country, or globally, it’s even more important most of the time.

    Because one of the things that we do as survivors is, generally speaking, tend to develop a really deep sense of empathy. And with that, not only do we feel our own stuff on some level, even if not consciously, but we feel so much about the difficulty and the pain of others.

    I’m going to probably, unfortunately, have to continue to say this just as a reminder that we are in a time—not just in one country—but we are in a time where there’s a lot of uncertainty.

    And if you—well, I was going to say if you’re in the U.S., but really, probably anybody watching this—there’s likely some uncertainty, if not some significant turmoil going on. And it is so incredibly important to really try to take in this message that it’s important to honor your sensitivity, and sensitivity is not a negative thing.

    In fact, it’s a really important characteristic and strength. I didn’t always believe that, but I think it is important. Very real.

    And I think what is happening in the U.S. in particular right now—and I’m saying that in part not just because it’s my personal experience, but I know that across the world, people tend to know a lot about what is happening here. And I’ve seen so many people talk about their concerns about what’s happening here.

    But sensitivity is what helps create that sense of empathy. And having a sense of empathy is what helps us create environments—again, within our friend group or in a larger community or in a country or internationally. It is what helps us see and try to understand differences and the needs of people that may not be our needs.

    So the sensitivity that you have is not a weakness. It is really, really important though that we—so I am saying this to myself as well—that we honor that sensitivity, that we both nurture that sensitivity and do what we need to do to make sure that we protect that sensitivity.

    And that could be doing a lot of self-care types of things, recharging as it was spoken in here. It can also be really being mindful of how much you’re taking in.

    Because in order for us to be able to show up for ourselves and show up for other people, it’s not sustainable. It just isn’t. It’s not sustainable if we’re not recharging, if we’re not honoring what we’re doing.

    And that’s both in heart, mind, and body. Because each of those may need some different things. And it’s important to be able to try to pay attention to that so that we can care for it—so that we can take care of ourselves and show up in the ways that we really desire to show up for ourselves and for others.

    I’d love to hear what came up for you. Thank you for sharing this reading with me.

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  • Reconnecting with Your Dreams: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times

    Reconnecting with Your Dreams: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times

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    Welcome to this week’s card reading. This week, we’re using the deck The Keepers of the Light from Kyle Gray. And this week’s card is Isis, Magic Manifesting – Your dreams, visions, and goals are becoming reality. Stay focused.

    I don’t know about you but staying focused on dreams, ideals, and visions…it’s feeling a little harder. It’s a little bit more challenging with all the realities of what is going on in the world and certainly—I’m in the U.S.—what is happening here in the U.S. So whether you’re in a place where things are feeling really kind of uncertain and the idea of holding on to some dream seems impossible or maybe you’re in a place where this is an opportunity to allow yourself to dream bigger and you’re feeling really excited about that.

    Let’s take this time together today to just be together. To notice what feels present and allow the message to resonate in the ways that you feel it. So there might be some resistance. There might be something that just hits in a way that brings up some sort of emotion. You may find your mind wandering. There is no right or wrong. Just notice. Don’t analyze. Don’t try to figure it out. You can journal afterward and process but for now just try to listen, be present, and notice what’s happening within as you listen to this message.

    So I just want to give a little reminder again. I’ve said this before but in various different decks there are things that are talked about in terms of—sometimes it will mention God, it will mention Spirit or different kinds of things like that. And I want to be clear that for my purpose here and my own personal experience in using card decks, I am not a religious person, and I don’t think of any of this in regard to any sort of religion or anything related to that. I just think of it in terms of the universe, Mother Nature, the earth, and good and bad in whatever way that could mean at any given time. So not good and bad in terms of heaven or hell, not certainly in terms of religion—none of that. So I just wanna be clear. So as you listen, if you are a religious person, then you can take it however you want to take it. If you’re not, just know that this is not my intention for that to be the case.

    So if it feels comfortable, just allow yourself to relax into whatever surface you’re on. So really just trying to allow your body to melt, allow your jaw to release, your shoulders, your hips, and just allow your body weight to sink into whatever surface you’re on. And maybe close your eyes, maybe put a hand over your heart or over your belly. Whatever feels like you’re being called to do right now, whatever you might need.

    ISIS

    Magic Manifesting – Your dreams, visions and goals are becoming reality. Stay focused.

    Isis is a strong, smart and focused Egyptian winged goddess. According to legend, she was able to move from darkness to light and between the underworld, heaven and earth. For that reason, whenever she comes to us she will help us move from the hell of own fear into the heaven of our own love. She was also able to revive her lover Osiris- not sure if I’m saying that right- from the dead, and this powerful allegorical story shows how she can help us revive an aspect of our life or a dream that we may have ‘killed off’ with fear or lack of self-belief. With her magical abilities, Isis will guide us to bring our dreams into reality.

    Extended message

    You are moving into a space where your dream reality is becoming your outward reality. This is an extremely powerful time, and it’s vital to keep focused on the highest good of all. You no longer want to relive your own history and/or feel unsupported. Acknowledging where you once were and how you have changed that situation around is a powerful focus of gratitude that will align you with universal abundance. Discipline and commitment are important now. Consider that you are moving between worlds when you daydream or create visions and bring life-enhancing ideas into reality. Magic is manifesting all around you – this is exciting!

    So just take a deep breath, let that energy move through.

    So I actually didn’t read this before reading it to you. And reading just the initial aspect—that your dreams, visions, and goals are becoming reality—knowing what’s happening in the world and with so many people in terms of struggle right now, I was curious and also quite hesitant about trying to just put that idea out there, that your dreams are manifesting and to stay focused. Because I think, for so many people, that’s kind of hard to do. But I have to say, as I read this, I thought, “Okay, I definitely can feel some resonance here.”

    And I think this part here—the idea of reviving an aspect of our life or a dream that we may have killed off with fear or lack of self-belief—I have no doubt that anybody watching this right now can relate. Probably about so many things in your life because of a lack of fear, because of a lack of self-belief…kind of allowing those dreams to fade away or maybe even forcing those dreams to the side. And I think, you know, this could happen for a lot of reasons, but I think right now, because we are just kind of trying to get through day to day, we do feel like any dream is something that has to be put aside or maybe will be unachievable at all. So that really resonated, and I know that I’m going to sit with that idea for a little bit and just notice what comes up. I might even get my journal out and journal a little bit about it.

    You no longer want to relive your own history and/or feel unsupported. It’s all about connection, right? I think this is always important—the idea of allowing ourselves to be supported. It’s such an important part of healing, and I think when there are difficult things going on in our own personal lives or certainly in the broader community and sociocultural experience, being able to recognize and connect to the shared experiences of fear, grief, and struggle so that we know that we’re not alone, so that we can feel the truth of that reality. It is so important.

    So whatever may have resonated or not, I hope that you do allow yourself to consider the dreams that maybe you have put off, pushed to the side, not allowed yourself maybe to dream, and consider the possibility of opening to allowing opportunity and space. For maybe even just parts of those dreams, those hopes even to come to life.

    I’d love to hear what came up for you. Share in the comments.

    Thanks so much for spending this time with me.