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Recently, I made amends with a fellow magical person and friend. On my way to see him I suddenly had a very distinct pain in my chest, which moved all the way up to my throat, and felt like a hook gripping the lower part of my throat and pulling downward. I call it the heart hook.

To say that the sensation scared me would be an understatement. But, as a spiritual writer and proponent of understanding spiritual energy, I focused on the pain and tried to understand what was happening. My head swirled with different worst-case-scenarios, but very often these types of pains are related to what is right in front of us. I was going to go see a friend, someone that I cared about, and hadn’t spoken with for months. Everything is connected, so how was this connected?

When I arrived, a different magical person and shaman was able to articulate for me exactly what I was experiencing. My heart chakra was pulling on my throat chakra. Essentially, the meeting was tugging at my heart. Rather than speak out in anger, through my throat chakra, I was being reminded to be compassionate, to speak only through my heart, and the reunion could be successful.

My estranged friend arrived, and it is funny how our fears are always larger than anything that actually happens in reality. As we interacted, and as I was able to only interact from a compassionate space, the energetic pains subsided. What was so powerful about the experience, for me, was how my energy body, my spiritual body, sent me such strong signals to stay aligned and birth the best future possible: a happy reunion.

This is the joy that understanding spiritual energy can bring. It is always there, we just have to turn to it, and recognize how much better our lives can be when we choose to be apart of our own spiritual energy, rather than just ignore it. Sometimes it isn’t as pronounced as specific pain in your chakra centers, but I believe it can manifest in thousands of ways, and we just need to turn toward energy, legitimize it, for it to improve the quality of our lives.

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So you know how to meditate. So you do positive affirmations. You’ve been able to manifest positive change in your life. Maybe you do yoga. Or maybe you work with crystals. There are so many different aspects of magical spirituality that people cultivate in their lives successfully. But too often we schedule these spiritual activities into our lives. We put them on our calendars, and then move into everything else in our lives, and fail to extend that same positive energy field to all other parts of our lives: at work, at a job interview, in our homes, spending time with loved ones, and even making important decisions in our lives.

Why? Why do such spiritual people fail to bring their highest self to the forefront of their lives? It’s so simple that we can tend to forget it. We just need to get out of our heads.

Our minds can be very deceptive and self-serving. Our mind will tend to run a program of survival, of protection, and oftentimes, a program of anxiety and insecurity. It is an illusion of disconnection, of not believing we are connected to the energy of all living things. Also, spiritual pursuits of any kind can be at odds with our very scientific, rational world. We tend to hide how bright our hearts and souls can truly shine. But when we schedule our spiritual pursuits, we flex the energetic muscles of our hearts and souls. And it is crucial to recognize that it is a type of energetic workout. Strengthening the others tools available to us, the tools other than our minds, so that we can be more balanced and secure as we engage with the great, wide world around us. Our hearts are about connection, it is through this energy field that we can become more attuned, more sensitive, and more stable in all other parts of our lives. It is key to get our of our heads, and get into our hearts.

Hold that feeling of connection. To the true part of yourself. When you engage in any spiritual pursuit regularly, be conscious of how different that energy is compared to how your life may typically look and feel. You are exercising a different part of yourself, especially the energy field produced by your heart. Bring that energy to the rest of your life. Consciously. Spirituality isn’t just about making time and scheduling it into your life. It is an exercise, a strengthening, so you can bring more balance and stability to every second of waking reality. Recognize when you are in your head. And move that energy to your heart.

We are light. Sounds simple enough, right? It is central to my first book, and my second book even features a light being on the front cover, but over the last few months, I was getting more and more signs that this was not just an important message to share, it was something that I needed to internalize, at not only an intellectual level, but an emotional and spiritual level as well.

I struggle with positive affirmations. I know how to treat others as I would want to be treated, so I tend not to create negative ripples in the energetic currents of the universe. But it is maintaining a positive energy field, at all times that seemed hopelessly out of reach to me. As a shaman I know all too well that we are comprised of light. That we are light. All things are light in fact. Science has started to document biophotons, and how all living creatures emit a measurable amount of these microscopic lights constantly. I believe the more positive, heart-based, and compassionate our own energy fields are, the more light we emit, and the more love we can bring into the world. It is how we can directly affect reality and create a mor positive reality in our world. But how?

Recently, I came up with what I call the “light affirmation.” I think of it as a super-charged manifestation affirmation. The platinum card of spiritual transactions. Because the more I do it, the more light I visualize, the more positive energy appears be flowing directly into my life. I did not heed messages from guides and angels over the last months, imploring me to just be “light and love.” It is such a pure message, and one that I assumed was incompatible with my own energy. But I was wrong. Being light and love is the key to unlocking a true magical spirituality. It is so simple because it is supposed to be: a user-friendly state of being that connects us to our own energy and the energy of all creation.

I understood intellectually that the true nature of the universe, and ourselves, is light. But I did not feel this intimately. What I have started to do is repeat, “I am light,” and visualize myself glowing. Sometimes this is a green light coming from my heart center. Other times it is a huge starlight, shards of which are huge and extend in all directions. Sometimes I just see myself glowing, emanating light softly. But it all comes back to saying and feeling that I am light.

Saying the affirmation isn’t enough. Feeling the affirmation is required. A little imagination. A little visualization. And a lot of feeling. When feeling this affirmation in myself a genuine feeling of love washes over me, and all the troubles, the worries, and the negative energy seem to have nowhere left to set up residence. The light casts no shadow, forcing negative energy to dissipate.

I’ve shared in previous blog posts that I felt blocked in some ways, that things weren’t moving in my life. Ever since I have found the light affirmation, that has changed. Now things are moving at the speed of light. It is invigorating, but also humbling. No matter where we are on our spiritual paths, there is always more to learn. And our light will always illuminate our path.

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