Suzanne Ragan Lentz

It seems fitting that my LAST blog post was in regard to the Lunar New Year of the Snake in February 2013. To say this past year was a wild ride may be an understatement, I am in the process of deep transition from one who works a day job and sees clients and takes business courses to someone who works for themselves after weeding through 2 1/2 months of burn-out after leaving said day job.

My new year’s commitment encompasses expansion through building community, vulnerability by putting myself out there in the world {hello, blog!}, resilience as we each have a remarkable story to tell of triumph, serving folks in need of creating big shifts in their lives, and re-learning what those things are that make me happy.

So, without further ado…

What makes you happy?

I’d love to read your response in the comments below.

xoxo, s

What skin are you shedding this year? What habits are no longer working in your life that you want to change up? What will you eliminate in order to illuminate the life you want to be living?

Personally, I am reducing time at my day job in order to make space for my life’s work of illuminating clients’ life’s paths and strengthen the connection between a mother and her unborn baby. This possibility has already allowed space for the planning of a Reiki training workshop co-facilitated with a fellow Reiki Master. I can now also see a time when my coffee table (which my spouse refers to as “my island”) is clutter free because I will have two days off per week.

And I will be writing more about this in the coming weeks as I am so fascinated by the story – Ray Lewis announced his retirement from football on January 2, 2013 four days prior to their first play-off game as wildcards and the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl on February 3, 2013. He created the space for opportunity just as the Ravens has lost the last four of five games in regular season play – as my father, a native Baltimorean, was cursing the quarterback’s ability  — possibility happened. Space was freed up. Something new and inspiring occurred.

Last year, I took a leap of faith and signed-up for what I thought at the time was an expensive online marketing program called Rich, Hot, and Happy B-School. It felt right. At the core of my being I knew that this would change things up.  And it did. Over the eight weeks of the course, I met the most amazing group of energetic, supportive, thoughtful women all while learning about profit clarity, customer profiles, websites, newsletters, marketing, and copywriting.

To get a feel of Marie Forleo’s magnificent flair for online business, view her free videos she has produced to launch the upcoming session of B-School. Next week, I’ll share the package I am offering if you sign-up for B-School using my affiliate link.

I am so excited for this year of the snake and to see the possibility that you create in your life.

Tell me what’s not working and how you are going to change things up this year below in the comments.

With all the information coming at us from so many different directions, it’s a wonder we know who we are anymore. And in many ways, we don’t.

Last October, I was in the process of receiving my master level Reiki attunement while my soul (higher self) was on the plane of enlightenment and learned that I had been a practitioner of an auric field healing modality that was used from Mesopotamia to Coptic times in which I had reincarnated three times. I also learned that a dear friend was also a practitioner during that time as well as now. I was blown away by this knowledge. And my immediate reaction after the initial state of bliss had settled was to Google it.

Here I had just had this intense metaphysical experience, learned profound information about my soul’s past experience that I knew to my core to be true, and found the need to Google it so that I could prove that this healing modality existed. A healing modality that I had started using in the here and now because my hand just started moving that way during the most profound healing of my career thus far while at ShamanDome at Burning Man just two months prior. I knew it worked on the layers of the auric field and I still Googled it.

WOW. I am still shocked at myself. Mainly because I was questioning the existence of my personal experience over the internet. The internet which provides false information on a daily basis but somehow feels real as it is tupe on a screen. Most information hasn’t even been vetted on the internet but somehow type equals book equals vetted.

We all get lost sometimes in this technological modern world. Does it make you feel out of sorts too?

A great way to get back in touch with our higher self is to ground in the earth’s energy. And here is a grounding mediation to do just that.

Grounding Meditation (click for audio file)

Imagine that there are roots – energetic roots – growing out of the bottoms of your feet. Theses roots go through the floor, through the foundation of the building you are in, through the Earth’s crust and it’s many layers for miles and miles and miles until these roots reach the Earth’s core. The Earth’s core is a molten mass of energy.

Once there, your energetic roots drink in the Earth’s core energy which travels up your roots through the many layers of Earth for many many miles. The bottoms of your feet can feel this energy coming and then it enters the soles of your feet, and moves to your toes and your ankles, your calves, your knees, your thighs, your hips, your pelvis, up your spine, your intestines, your stomach, your pancreas and lungs. It moves into your heart and liver and kidneys, your chest, your shoulders. It travels down your arms, elbows, forearms, wrists, palms of your hands, fingers, thumbs, fingertips. The Earth’s energy moves into your neck, your throat, your thyroid, your mouth, your sinuses, your nose, your ears, your eyes, your brain.

Take a deep breath and inhale more of the Earth’s energy into your body. Exhale.

Sit within this Earth energy. Luxuriate in her glow.