July 14. 2015 | by Brook Still | Ask Brook, Featured Articles
Q. What are some coping strategies when you are heavily immersed in “the Matrix of Illusion”, Sometimes I feel ignorance would be bliss. I am struggling with being fully present with consumerism and overstimulation of owning things after I just cleared and simplified my life. I am now in home ownership way too soon! – Eva A. How amazing is it to allow your self to have the experience of being free from being tied down to a house and certain lifestyle, to allowing yourself to plant roots again. The point is to make the shift from being tied down to planting roots. Allow yourself to enjoy the nature all around your home and the house itself and do it from a relaxed state. You don’t have to have everything perfectly decorated; heck you don’t even have to buy a couch if you don’t want to. It was to show you how much time you spent taking care of everything, instead of being with your soul in the last home. Now that you’ve had that experience, claim this one from...
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July 10. 2015 | by Brook Still | Ask Brook, Featured Articles
Q. I love attending workshops and leave these feeling incredibly inspired and hopeful. However, inevitably the world gets in my way when I get home. How can I re-center myself in the midst of everyday life and help myself move forward as opposed to slipping back to my old ways of coping? – Jessica A. Keeping your vibration at the accelerated rate that you learned from a workshop has been everyone’s challenge at one point or another. A lot of people just run from one workshop to another to get their next “energetic fix” and then in a very short time from getting back into normal life many buy into feeling like they have somehow lost the light they’ve awakened within themselves. So in responding to your question it actually has two energies attached to it and I will address them both the first is around keeping a high vibration and the other is around repeating old patterns. First, keeping your vibration high. The easiest way to do this is by paying attention to your emotions and thoughts. Keeping a...
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July 7. 2015 | by Brook Still | A-Ha! Moments, Featured Articles
We've all been there before, that heart shattering expanding and uncompromising experience that is referred to as the dark night of the soul. Many of us believe this is a one time only type of event and it is challenging to realize that it is not. It is a continuing process that the Divine provides us over and over again, to break us and our patterns, and to annihilate our “negative” ego. After going through this once, the idea of it possibly happening again is not a pleasant one, but it does get easier with experience. It's a bit like childbirth, once you've had your first baby, your body has an idea of what is happening and you are able to surrender into the experience faster, generally making it an easier and less painful event each time. The tricky part with the dark night of the soul is you are actually giving birth to yourself. As you move through the agonizing pains of labor, you are also at the end of the table coaching and hopefully comforting yourself, as you...
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June 18. 2015 | by Brook Still | A-Ha! Moments, Featured Articles
Crazy title I know and yet once you read this you’ll probably be thinking the same thing. Over the past five years, I have been doing a tremendous amount of focused brain work with clients, students, and on myself. In my search to activate, heal and awaken the brain, I’ve studied amazing teachings in sacred geometry, meditation and delved deeply into high-level breath work. I have also been feeding my curiosity and voraciously reading as much as I can on all the latest scientific and medical research for answers and clarity. I love that all of this information is merging so beautifully now. What I have found is that activating the brain allows us to absorb more light into it and through it as well as throughout all of the body. This is a major key in the enlightenment process. The Universe sends us so much energy and most of us cannot absorb even a fraction of what is offered. This has to do with where we are in the awakening process, how we eat, how we speak to ourselves,...
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June 17. 2015 | by Brook Still | Ask Brook, Featured Articles
Q. What is the best way to “tai chi” around negative energy that comes your way? What are some exercises or things that can be done at places like work, the airport, Costco etc.. when you feel negative energy coming your way? What would be a practice to not only deflect negative energy and “psychic attacks” but also transmute it into something that is serving for the good? – Amy A.Yay Amy, you hit the nail on the head as they say by asking a question that goes straight into my favorite way of handling energy that isn’t vibrating at the rate of light that I’d choose to absorb into my system. So, you can start by having a picture of you on your puja/altar and take some crystals that you’ve cleared (wash them in salt water and let the water clear them out for being used. Take them out dry each one individually and ask them to play with you in transmuting energies for you) and build a circle around it with the intention that all energy being...
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June 16. 2015 | by Brook Still | Ask Brook, Featured Articles
Q. What advice would you give to a newcomer to spirituality? As one such neophyte, I am almost like a kid in a candy store, excited by every book in the bookstore, every class offered. But my reality is that teachers offer confusing, and at times contradictory, teachings to one another. In short, there is no delineated university degree program or established blueprint for spiritual study. And, trying to feel your way on your own sometimes can lead to the wrong answer. So, what would you recommend, for a newcomer like me, who is trying to chart a path in developing a spiritual practice and study? - Arianna A.This really is an amazing challenge we have in this day and age. Before we became such a global community it was a journey itself to find a teacher and an even bigger event to have them accept you as a student. Once this occurred you’d usually spend every day with them for years studying. Now with the Internet we have a huge array of teachers to choose from and not...
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