✨ Cultivating Mental Wellbeing ✨

 Life on Earth can be hard, but facing our journey is much easier with a strong and healthy mind. 

To create physical health most of us know that we need to combine a number of strategies. For example, we need to get regular sleep, eat a healthy and nutritious diet, and move our body. We know which actions build physical health, but are we aware of the things that contribute to our mental health? 

To find out what's best for you, try asking:

"What am I currently doing that is contributing to my well being?"

"What am I currently doing that is detracting from my well being?" 

 

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is stop (or reduce) a behavior that is harming or stressing us, while keeping everything else the same.  

 

In my recent 3-part video series, I discuss my own journey of discovery and the specific habits that help promote my mental well being.

Inside of you is a powerful instinct about what is good for you. Let this instinct guide you. 

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The Journey of Life

Before our souls set off for an Earthly life, we are filled with promise and hope for the journey ahead. We understand that there will be many challenges, many triumphs, and many glimmers from The Spirit World to guide us on our way. Then we emerge from our mother, and the journey begins. 

In youth, our Guides are near and our hope and faith in the magic of creation lives within our heart and soul. With time, our memory of home begins to fade as we blend with the customs of the Earth plane. As the years pass by, we may forget our true home all together. This is a sign of full integration. 

Although full integration is often the goal, earthly success rarely satisfies us for long. The empty feeling begins in a subtle way, a gentle sense that something is missing. With time that feeling grows, and the search begins. Some search out in the world, and others within themselves. Some don't search at all, simply filling the void with temporary earthly delights. 

The lucky among us do search and we discover some remanence - some reflection, however small, - of the love that flows forth from our true home. This is when our awakening begins. Awakening, though often sought, is afforded only to those souls who are truly ready. For in remembering, there is longing, and in longing there is often pain...pain with hope, and hope with faith. 

If we are lucky, there is faith - an everlasting knowing that we are, and will always be, an eternal soul, untouched, undamaged, by the density of incarnation itself —and always and forever, loved, supported, guided and encouraged as we journey through life. 

May we be, forever blessed. 

"5 Things I Know for Sure" - Maya's Insights from 5,000 Psychic Readings

Throughout life we are faced with times of great uncertainty. During these times life can feel random, unordered, unfair, and lacking in meaning and purpose.

"What is going on down here," we can think to ourselves.

What I've learned from 5,000 readings is that things are not nearly as random as they seem.


Although it can be very difficult for our mind to make sense of what is taking place, there is an awareness within us (our heart, our soul) that is always at peace in the understanding that our life is unfolding perfectly.

Earth is a strange place with customs that run opposite to the values of our Higher Selves. Luckily we come here with a clear plan, a purpose,  a team of allies, a built-in compass, and the love and support of Divine Beings who are fully committed to our growth and evolution!

Thank goodness!

Curious to learn more about this topic? Check out Maya's Recent talk "5 Things I Know for Sure," which she delivered last Saturday at Coyote Wisdom Bookstore in Lansing, MI. 

Some Thoughts on True Healing...

My spiritual journey has taught me more about healing than I ever thought possible.

I used to think of healing as a simple, linear, process. I thought that healing the body was as simple as diagnosing an illness and then taking the right drug. After all, this is how society teaches us to "heal."

It took me a quarter of a century to learn the truth... that healing is often complex — that the healing process is rarely linear — and that when we put our focus on treating symptoms, we almost never heal the source of our disease.

I went to many doctors throughout my childhood, but I was almost 25 years-old before I ever sat down with a true healer. When I finally met my first spiritual healer I explained my symptoms and then immediately asked what I believed to be thoughtful question at the time.

I took a deep breath and said, "do you think this is a physical illness, or a spiritual illness?"

When the healer replied saying, "all illnesses are spiritual illnesses," my heart sank.

It wasn't easy for me to face the truth...I didn't want to face the fact that I wasn't sick because my body betrayed me, I was sick because I had ignored the longings of my soul. 

I actively resisted this realization. In fact, it took me almost a year to accept that there is no such thing as a purely physical illness...that all illnesses are manifestations of mental and emotional imbalances. I have since embraced the fact that dis-ease originates at the mental/emotional level and works its way down. 

I have also come to embrace the truth that our body is a system intentionally designed to heal itself in totality and that, because of this, it is impossible to heal one ailment completely without healing every ailment completely. This has proven true with the body, and I believe it is true within our emotional sphere as well.

Have you ever gotten emotionally upset about one thing...say a bad break up, or the death of a loved one...only to realize that, when you attempt to explore and heal your sadness, you seem to revisit sadness and upset from all throughout your life? It seems to me that the heart doesn't discriminate...it seems that our heart holds on to every experience that needs healing and then patiently waits for us to initiate the healing process. 

I suspect that, like physical pains, subtle emotional pains are an early warning sign from our etheric body that healing is needed. How many of us enthusiastically take these signs to heart?

What I have realized recently is that — whether it is in the realm of the body, or the realm of the heart —many of us never initiate the healing process. Most people get through life by treating the symptoms without ever inviting true healing to occur. This, to me, is deeply saddening.

I wish every person who has ever experienced dis-ease could also experience true healing. I wish this because I know that healing is an important part of the human experience and I sense that we are all meant to be awed by the miraculous nature of true healing.

My first true healing experience happened by accident. After a year of tests, surgeries, and "treatments" I was so fed-up with the failure of Western medicine that I decided to do my own research. This research led me into a three-month detoxification regiment of coffee enemas and raw food.

What happened next shocked me. For the first three days I felt incredible. On day four I began to feel worse than I ever had before... my lymph nodes became painful and swollen; I got a fever; I had a massive headache; and every bone and muscle in body ached with terrible pain. I could hardly muster the energy to walk and I sweat so much during the night that I could wring-out my sheets.

My symptoms were so bad that I thought I might be dying... but after a couple of days it became clear that I wasn't dying, I was healing!! I was experiencing a phenomenon that experts call a "healing crisis," which is a profound experience that occurs when your body gathers enough strength to activate powerful healing channels and to move from managing day-to-day maintenance to eradicating long standing traumas.

What surprised me most was that my healing crisis wasn't just physical, it was also emotional. I found myself releasing almost as much emotional toxicity as physical toxicity... It is a toss up whether I was sweating more, or crying more. This was all the confirmation I needed to know that the healer was right..."all illness is spiritual illness." Releasing the physical illness required me to release the spiritual and emotional pain that created it. 

Although it was scary, I quickly learned that the more I trusted the process and allowed the emotional pain and physical illness to move through me, the better I felt. I emerged from that healing crisis, ten days later, with a profound respect for the built-in healing mechanisms of the body and mind.

I also emerged with the understanding that my being had been waiting for me to initiate my healing for a very long time. I suspect that many of us have bodies and hearts that are patiently waiting for us to take some action that will activate our miraculous inner-healing mechanisms.

It seems that our healing mechanisms can be activated by physical detoxification, by a willingness to face our emotional pain, and by many other means... But, no matter which route we take, it seems pertinent that we invite true healing.

Looking back, my only regret about my path to true healing is that I waited so long to start it. I wish I would have spent less time running from my own pain more time letting my pain be my guide.

If you desire true healing (I hope you do) my best advice is this...embrace your pain and let it serve as your inspiration to ignite your miraculous healing power. Your body, your heart, mind, and your soul will thank you.

With Great Love,
Maya

What Are You Waiting For?

"What am I waiting for?" If you haven't asked yourself this question recently, you should ask it now.

So many of us are coming into awareness of ourselves. We are waking up to the truth of our souls; we are seeing our gifts, our truths, and our purpose.

We have visions of "who we want to be," and we place those visions at some point in the near (or distant) future.

While I fully support the process of dreaming, of stretching ourselves, and of growing into our power, I've noticed that something is lost when we reserve our highest calling for anytime other than now.

What if you started your mission right now? What if you launched your business, wrote your book, or spoke your truth TODAY?

Throughout the past year I've observed myself waiting for the "perfect moment" to take my next leap. If I would have made all the videos that I did not make because I was not in perfect energy or perfect health than you would be looking at about 300 videos on my channel right now (instead of 20).

So here's my reminder to you....You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to arrive at a higher state of consciousness. You don't have to reach a certain stage in your union. You don't have to achieve full mastery of your gifts.

If you wait to achieve these things, you will be waiting forever...The truth is, no one ever "arrives." We are all growing with each passing moment; that's just part of life on Earth (and it is a cool part, if you ask me).

And, I dare say, projecting an illusion of "having it all figured out" isn't helping anyone. We don't need more gurus. We need more people, more real people...people willing to step out there with an open heart, to be vulnerable, to be imperfect, and to accept, and embrace, the fact that they are still learning, still discovering, and still growing into their soul.

If that sounds like you then delay no more. You have everything it takes. ♡ 

So the next time you get excited about a vision of who you want to be, or how you want to help, make a choice to place that vision, not in the future, but in the now.

They say "if you can dream it, you can do it."

I say, "if you can dream it, it is already done."

So take your first step knowing that what you've visualized already exists. The planet will thank you.