In my latest episode of The Healing Sanctuary (the podcast), I discussed the power of surrender and letting go when manifesting and working with the Law of Attraction. During that episode, I shared six tips that you can do right now that will help you to shift out of fear and into the freedom and magic of surrender.

​Below are those tips, and for more about this, you can play the full episode at the end of the post! Or, you can try the 5 minute easy meditation we did during the episode now, and experience your first shift and experience with the power of surrender.

Meditation is well known for its ability to reduce stress and increase focus. Another great benefit of meditation is that it can help with the process of surrendering and letting go! Spending just 10 minutes a day in meditation can help you to return to your ease and trust in the Universe.

If you find it hard to sit and meditate because your thoughts won't quiet down, try a guided meditation. Guided meditation will help to distract your mind and quiet your thoughts. It will also help you to feel into the calming vibration of the person leading the meditation, bringing you an extra dose of ease. If you're ready to try some powerful guided meditations, try The Healing Sanctuary. It has over 100 meditations and is only $5 / month!

I talk about the power of visualization A LOT. I am deeply passionate about it because I have experienced so many incredible results, shifts, and quantum leaps from it! 

I am often asked what the difference between meditation and visualization is. In a nutshell, meditation is a passive experience. It's a clearing away, a release. Visualization is an active experience. It's you consciously creating with the infinite energy of the Universe. Visualization is an effective and expansive way to quickly and effortlessly raise your vibration, which will get you out of lack and into the feeling of knowing your dream is manifesting.

Essentially, visualization will help you to let go of the lack or focus you have on what's not here. It will instead, shift you onto what you want to feel. Surrender and letting go are not about giving up on what you want - they're about letting go of the feelings that block you from energetically aligning with what you want. When you visualize and step into a higher vibration, you naturally let go and shift into a different space.
 
You will also find many visualizations in The Healing Sanctuary, including ones for manifesting and shifting your energy! You may also enjoy my package of 21 guided visualizations, Empowering Visualizations, which includes a workbook and journal for a deeper experience.

This is the tip that can be the hardest to embrace. Often, when we're in a state of lack, fear, or doubt, the last thing we want to do is take our foot off the gas pedal. We want to do everything we can to shift things and get the results we want. We don't want to lose our focus for a single second.

However, until we shift INTERNALLY, until we shift the energy we are emitting (I go much deeper into this and explain it in the podcast episode), nothing will change EXTERNALLY.

This is why taking time to focus on what FEELS GOOD is so powerful. It shifts your energy. It gets you off the low vibrations and onto the high vibrations. This doesn't have to be a big thing. In fact, the smaller and easier, the more likely you will be to feel you can set time aside for it.

For example, one things that makes me feel good is coffee. I love the whole ritual of brewing a cup of espresso. I grind my own beans, I smell the aroma of the coffee as it brews, I steam the milk, and I savor every step. And then I sit with my little espresso, sip slowly, and marinate in how good it feels.

A cup of coffee is not a big thing. In fact, it's a daily thing with no special significance at all. But when I slow down and enjoy my daily espresso, I feel so good and happy. I sip slowly, thinking about what I'm grateful for, what I'm looking forward to, and reflecting on what's going right. It's because this ritual is so small that it allows me to relax, slow down, and just be for a few minutes.

This is perhaps my favorite tip, because I love creativity. I love making art and expressing myself and playing with color and spontaneous activity. 

I also love creativity because it brings you into direct alignment with the Universe. The Universe itself is creative. It is constantly creating and re-creating itself and expanding and evolving. When you get creative, your energy lines up with the ENTIRE infinite potential of the Universe.

The block most people have to doing something creative is feeling that they're not good at anything, so they're not allowed to paint, draw, sew, or do whatever it is they feel drawn to. Listen up, my friend. You do not need permission to be creative. You do not have to make anything perfect. You don't even have to make something remotely good. I can't even tell you how much stuff I've made and thought afterwards, "Wow, that looks like shit!" But it doesn't matter. You're not in it to become the next Picasso.

Your entire purpose for playing with paint, yarn, mosaics, ink, and art supplies is the enjoyment of the process. It's in letting go for a little bit and focusing in on the present moment. And if you like what you make, wonderful! If not, throw it away. You are not obligated to do anything with what you make, because again, it's the process, the feelings you experience while doing it, that matter.

During the episode, I listed three examples of times I let go, forgot about something, and then had it workout better than I had expected. This is a POWERFUL step and one you do not want to skip.

Most often, when things are not working out, we completely block out all the times things DID workout. We forget all about the magic we experienced in the past, and come to believe we are alone and the Universe is not on our side.

When you write down all the past magic, you get back into a state of trust and flow. And when you remember your own personal experiences, you get into that state even deeper and easier. It may be hard to think of anything, especially if you've been stuck in the fear and lack for awhile, but once you start writing, you'll build momentum, and you'll be surprised how much comes to you.

Much like my love of a cup of coffee, this isn't just about the BIG stuff. This is about anything, no matter how small, that delighted or surprised you. In truth, the small stuff is just as important as the big stuff, because it's all energy. 

When I get deep into a spiral of fear and negativity, all of my energy starts to align with feeling helpless and powerless. This in turn builds on itself, bringing me more things that make me feel small, afraid, and alone.

If you're in this space also, you want to restore your feelings of personal power. Once again, this does not have to be big! This does not have to be something like climbing a mountain.

It's anything that makes you feel a sense of capability and trust in yourself. It's anything that reminds you that you are not helpless, but in fact, a strong and purpose filled person.

For me, that can be something as simple as brewing my beloved cup of coffee. Yes, really! When I brew coffee, I get so into it that I treat each cup like it's the most important cup of coffee that's ever been made. I am so interested and passionate about coffee that I feel purposeful and energized by the process.

Making myself a cup of coffee doesn't save the world. It's not something I'll ever get an award for. But for me, when I do it, I feel so good in my mind and body that I forget all my fears, self-doubts, and insecurities, just for that moment. I don't know much. But I know how to make a good espresso. And because energy is energy, when I'm in that good energy, I'm in a space of total alignment.

If you'd like to listen to the full episode, you can play it below, or find me on your favorite podcast app under "The Healing Sanctuary." And if you enjoyed these tips, please share them with a friend!

When I'm spiraling in feelings like self-doubt, fear, doubt, worry, anxiety, and depression, I have found there are two phrases that provide me with the mood boost and energy shift that I need.

​These two phrases have almost a magical effect, and shift me the easiest and fastest of anything I've tried. Not only are they excellent for shifting you when you feel down, but I also use them when I'm in a good place, and I want to raise my vibration as high as possible! I hope these two phrases help you also, no matter where you're at. After I share the two phrases and guide you through some examples and how to use them, I will take you through a powerful relaxation and healing exercise. This exercise is only about 5 minutes long, because if I can share anything with you in this episode, it's that internal shifts don't need to be hard and can be done with a lot less time and energy than we generally think!

If you'd like to join my meditation membership, which is only $5 / month, you can learn more by clicking the button below!

As we move into this beautiful New Year, my friend and I have decided to giveaway an amazing healing and nourishment package to one of our followers. This giveaway is free to enter and open to everyone! All you have to do is follow both of us on Instagram, tag two friends who also love good vibes, and like the post! 

This amazing giveaway includes a 50 minute reading from The Tender Hearted Healer and a FREE month to The Healing Sanctuary! You can learn more about The Healing Sanctuary through the mini-video below. And when you're ready, click the post below to go enter and join the fun! You have until Sunday January 15th, 2023 to enter. Thank you so much and happy New Year!

This episode is jam packed with good stuff! There are three mini-energy shifting exercises included, six tips on how to surrender and let go right now, an exploration of energy and your infinite connection to the Universe, plus a discussion and what surrender ACTUALLY is that you may have never heard before!

Surrender and letting go are two things we often hear in relation to manifesting, the Law of Attraction, and working with the infinite energy of the Universe. Although important and powerful, surrender can also be one of the most challenging things to do. The more we want or need something, the more impossible it can feel to just let it go. In this episode, I'm going to share how you can get into the feelings of surrender and letting go, no matter how much it feels like you're stuck and unable to. I'll share with you what happens when you do let go, with some powerful examples from my own life. I'll discuss various ways to let go, and I'll guide you through some mini exercises so you can start shifting, right here and now! Time stamps below for reference.

Episode links:
Blog post with episode tips written out: bit.ly/3CvRuSB
Manifesting Magic: www.melissa-field.com/manifesting-magic.html
The Healing Sanctuary: www.melissa-field.com/healing.html
My Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/MeditateWithMelissa
Instagram: www.instagram.com/meditate_with_melissa

Timestamps:
3:30 What happens when we're unable to let go
5:20 Working with your Higher Self and the Infinite energy of the Universe
6:36 What surrender actually IS (you may not have heard this before!) and Part 1 of why you want to let go
11:15 Part 2 of why you want to let go and practice surrender
13:42 The importance of self-healing (including inner child work) when trusting the Universe
15:41: Three examples from my own life of manifesting magic after letting go
23:38 Tips on surrendering and letting go
24:11 What does letting go feel like? Energy exercise #1
26:08 Surrender and Letting go Tip #1: Meditation
27:00 Surrender and Letting go Tip #2: Visualization
27:38 Mini visualization for vibration raising - Energy exercise #2
31:17 Surrender and Letting go Tip #3: What makes you happy?
33:05 Surrender and Letting go Tip #4: Get creative!
35:10 Surrender and Letting go Tip #5: Make a list of your own personal examples and experiences
36:16 Surrender and Letting go Tip #6: Personal empowerment
37:48 Relaxation exercise - Energy exercise #3
43:18 Conclusion - About Manifesting Magic and The Healing Sanctuary membership.

When we think of healing, we often think of something that occurs in the present and then carries into our future. If you heal yourself in this moment, then that healing will carry forward into everything you experience in the coming days, weeks, and years. It will NOT heal your past, as that is something that already happened, and came before what's happening now.

This idea that healing is a linear thing is based in our perception of 3-D reality. We experience time as a series of events occurring in a before and after sequence, and so we base all of our concepts of healing around that.

When we view healing in this linear way, healing the past is impossible. It's a fixed thing that happened before, and what's done is done. You can only try to change and undo as much as you can here in the present, and create your future based on what you are doing in the here and now. You have to work with everything that came before, and build upon the experiences that led to this moment.

But what if you didn't have to continue on from what happened before, but you could instead rewrite what happened, and continue on from an entirely different place?

This is the essence of quantum healing, which is you going into your past, changing the thing you want to heal from in the moment it happened, and then finding who you would be from this place. When we revisit a traumatic moment and change the energy that was created in that moment, then we carry an entirely new energetic signature into our present. And we build our present self based off of that, and healing becomes much easier, faster, and more effective.

When we change negative experiences in the past into positive ones, our entire sense of self rebuilds around that and integrates the new energy into our present self. This does not mean we are pretending that what we want to change never happened at all. We aren't ignoring the experiences we did have. Instead, we're lowering their intensity so that we can insert a new story and experience in their place.

This is sort of like when you erase writing written with a pencil. What was written there can still be faintly seen. It's not as if it never existed. It's just been toned down or faded away enough that something new can be written in its place.

Quantum healing is built around the theory that all of time is happening at once.

Your past still exists as an energetic point in the fabric of time. And because everything is energy, working with the energy of your "past" is as profound and effective as working with the energy of your present.

You, right here and now, are both physical and energetic. Your past self no longer exists as physical matter, but it does still exist as energy. And you can work with that energy. You can access it through the quantum field. The easiest way to access the quantum field is through meditation and highly focused visualization.

Imagine if you could, your younger self having an experience that negatively impacted their sense of self. And imagine if you could, YOU stepping back into that very real moment and hugging yourself and holding yourself. Imagine you receiving that love and support and encouragement. And now imagine that, rather than internalizing the negative impact, your younger self internalizes your love and a sense of worthiness. And now imagine that you, as the person you are, receive a new sense of self based around that.

When you heal yourself from the past going forward, rather in the present going forward, you greatly accelerate and increase your healing. You find who you would have been had everything happened in a way that supported you. You find your biggest and brightest potential, and you integrate that self into you and become one with it.

If you'd like to learn more about quantum healing, you can listen to one of my podcast episodes that goes over it in more detail below. I did this episode through the lens of imposter syndrome, which is the inner feeling that we're not good enough and someone else is more deserving or more worthy. There is a guided visualization included in this episode that is also now a part of my monthly meditation membership The Healing Sanctuary.

If you have any questions or comments for a follow up episode,  you can email me at melissafield01@gmail.com or connect with me on Instagram @meditate_with_melissa.

For the last few weeks, we've been working with our lower chakras in my private meditation membership The Healing Sanctuary.

We began working with these energies as a way to engage with the energy of fall. Fall is all about earthy, grounding, and rooted experiences. It's about feeling our connection to the earth and the natural rhythms of the seasons. It's a visceral time when we can smell the pumpkins as we carve them, see the leaves falling, and taste the delicious foods and drinks of this season.

This deep connection to our senses helps us to return our scattered energy to our own body. It  helps us to come home to ourselves, and to root back into ourself as a vibrant, dynamic being alive in this world. It also helps us to come back home in a literal sense, as we prepare for the internal and introspective season of winter. 

All of this rooting, returning to ourselves, and returning to our home, which is our sense of safety and stability in this world, brings us deep into our lower chakras. The energy of the fall season is very conducive to working with and healing these energy centers, which are all about rooting, grounding, stability, and our physical presence in this world.

At this time, we aren't even half way through fall, so there's still plenty of time for you to embrace this energy as well! Winter officially begins December 21st.

Before I dive into discussing the lower chakras, what they represent, and what healing and balancing them can do for us, I'm first going to briefly discuss what chakras are. If you're already familiar with chakras, feel free to skip to the Root Chakra portion.

Chakras are energy centers that reside within our body (except for the crown, which sits a few inches above your heard). They are not visible to our physical eyes, but rather, they are something we see with our intuitive and internal vision. They are also something we feel and sense within ourselves. If you've ever felt a sensation in your stomach, such as a flutter or electricity when you were excited, that was you feeling your sacral chakra. 

You have seven main energy centers, or chakras, in your body. Each of these energy centers corresponds to feelings, emotions, and experiences. Each of your chakras are circular and spin in one direction. Some spin clockwise and some counterclockwise, depending on which way they pass the current of energy within you. Each chakra has its own color, vibration, and purpose. Think of them like swirling spheres of light colored energy, going from your root to your crown.

Although a non-physical energy center, each chakra is intertwined with the physical processes of your body. What each chakra represents and what energy is associated with it is based on how it connects with your body. Your body's nervous system runs throughout you, from your brain all the way to the bottom of your feet. 

Based on what you are thinking and feeling, your body sends electrical pulses throughout your nervous system. This causes your body to react, either positively or negatively. Positive messages sent to your body induce healing and balance in your energy centers. An over abundance of negative messaging overwhelms your nervous system and causes your energy centers to come out of balance.

You also have a series of glands that process hormones that reside in your body. Each chakra is near one of these glands, i.e. the thymus gland is by the heart chakra and the thyroid gland is within the throat chakra. When our glands are over or under active, there is most likely stuck energy in that energy center. Stuck or blocked energy is essentially an emotion that never completed (i.e. an overwhelming sense of grief that never processed through to a full healing).

In order to have a healthy body, one most have a healthy energetic system, and vice versa. Your energetic body works with your physical body, and by healing one, you help to heal the other. This is part of why yoga is so powerful for many people - it moves stuck energy in the physical body, which allows the energetic body to come back into balance.

If you'd like to dive deeper into chakras and what they mean, I highly recommend the book Eastern Body / Western Mind by Anodea Judith. I also have a series of donation based packages that will take you through an introduction and healing to each chakra. 

One aspect of lower chakras that is rarely discussed is how important they are in manifesting. When we manifest we take the non-physical energy of the Universe, channel it down through our Crown chakra, and then turn it into physical reality through our lower chakras.

We often think of manifesting as something that happens primarily through the upper chakras. We see the vision of what we want through our third eye, we call the energy to us through our crown, and we energize it through our heart. But the actual hold it in your hands, it's here and I can see it and hear it and touch, this happens through our lower three chakras.

Healing and balancing our lower chakras can create profound shifts in our abundance, because abundance is all about feeling secure and taken care of. Here is an overview of your lower chakras:

Your root chakra resides at the base of your hips. It's red in color and holds your sense of being allowed to exist in this world. It's the essence of you as a physical being, taking up space and being seen and heard. If you're like me, and you feel safest when you're in the background, then this is a sign of blocks or imbalances in your root chakra.

As the chakra closest to the ground, it's all about rooting down and grounding into this world. When your root chakra is balanced and healthy, you are like a tree with deep, sturdy roots. You are stable and secure. You feel an overall sense of safety and security. You feel you are allowed to plant your roots deep and wide, and you are allowed to receive nourishment.

Without a healthy root chakra, it's almost impossible to find feelings of stability and security in this life. When this chakra is unbalanced, it can be difficult to either manifest abundance or to keep it. It will be a struggle to pay your bills and to feel your basic survival needs are taken care of it.

It will also feel challenging to feel that you have a right to be here. You will feel a need to put everyone before you. You will feel that your needs come last, and the only way you are allowed to exist is if you're a supporting character in the lives of everyone around you.

Where your root chakra is your right to exist, your sacral chakra is your right to feel. This chakra is your source of your emotions and your feelings. It's all about your right to express your feelings, to embrace your full humanity, and to feel safe and supported in this expression.

Many of us grew up in homes that actively discouraged the full expression of emotions. We were shamed for crying or punished for showing anger. When we showed vulnerability and needed comfort, many of us instead had our feelings dismissed, i.e. You don't have to cry about it, it's not a big deal / Toughen up, you're fine / If you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about, or even just outright ignoring and silence.

When we're denied our right to feel, we block up our emotions and they never complete. We also learn to stuff them down and to numb ourselves. When we don't feel our emotions, we don't acknowledge ourselves as beings in this world. As you can see, there is a deep connection between the right to exist and the right to feel.

If our feelings are invalidated, we tend to internalize a sense of not mattering. We feel a deep sense of rejection without being to explain why or how, because we are too young to understand what's happening. All we know is, there is a sense of not being good enough.

When we heal this chakra, we restore our innate sense of worthiness. We allow our emotions to flow freely and in healthy ways. And we connect with people who allow us to be vulnerable and to express our needs without fear or shame.

A sunshine yellow, your Solar Plexus is your source of personal power. It builds on the energy of the two that came before it. When you feel your innate right to exist and your right to feel, then you also feel empowered. You are in touch with yourself as both a physical being and an energetic, divine being.

​In this chakra, we feel our right to be. This chakra is all about your right to exist as the person you are. This sounds a lot like the first chakra, but it is quite different. Your root chakra is your right to exist in a basic and primal sense. It's your right to have your needs met and to feel safe and secure.

Your Solar Plexus is your right to exist as you. It's your freedom to be you, as an individual, separate from all other people. When we have overly controlling parents, who stifle self expression and see us an extension of their own self, rather than as our own person, our Solar Plexus gets thrown out of balance.

Also, if we don't feel it's safe to be who we are, perhaps because we're queer and we live in a family or community that shames this, then this too will impact our Solar Plexus. There are a lot of social pressures and prejudices than can impact this chakra. When we heal this chakra, we reclaim our right to be who we are and to enjoy the freedom of independence.

As with the other chakras, when this chakra is out of balance, we struggle to manifest and to see our dreams realized. We don't see ourselves as a whole person, and because of this, we don't feel worthy of receiving, or perhaps feel afraid to standout and have our inner world exposed.

Blocks and imbalances in our lower chakras can be pretty heavy stuff. It can be connected to deep traumas that we must approach gently and with compassion. If you related to any of what was written above, you are not alone.

I struggle with everything I wrote above, and am neck deep in my own healing and re-balancing. It's a process that has been as painful as it has been beautiful. Restoring my inner self, and nurturing the person that got buried under a thousand layers, has cracked me open in ways I never imagined.

​It's also brought me so much closer to living the life I always envisioned for myself. It's been a wild process, and as someone who feels safer in the upper chakras, journeying through my lower ones has felt like I'm wandering through a dark forest.

I hope this post on the lower chakras and why we're working with them has helped you. If you would like to join us for our lower chakra meditations in The Healing Sanctuary you can become a member for $5 / month! You'll get access to over 100 meditations and visualizations already in there, PLUS each new weekly audio.

Thank you so much! And if you know someone who would benefit from this information, please share it!