Braving the Hot Mess
Check out Braving the Hot Mess on Facebook
  • Blog
  • My Story
  • Documentaries and Videos Worth Your Time
  • Books I Love
  • Vegan Recipes
  • Meditations
  • Affirmations
  • Tracy's Upcoming Events
  • Contact
  • Testimonials

The Power of 1%

2/28/2017

1 Comment

 
Picture
What if 1% could make a difference? That's just 1 out of every 100 people. Wouldn't that be cool and amazing? Would that make you hopeful? Well, bring on the hope then because 1% can make a huge impactful difference! I want to share with you how this is possible and invite you to join in and help make a difference.

Research indicates that when 1% of a population regularly practices meditation (in particular Transcendental Meditation) it produces measurable improvements in the quality of life for the whole population. The collective consciousness is impacted. Crime rates in an area where 1% of a population regularly meditates has been found to significantly decrease. This phenomenon has been termed the Maharishi Effect after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, or simply called the spill-over effect. 

​The Maharishi Effect says that when a certain number of people meditate together the coherence created in the energy field of the group is able to affect the collective consciousness of others in a constructive manner - at a 
local, national and worldwide level. If just 1% of a population's community practices meditation, the unified field or calming energy generated by that group would reach out and influence the rest of that community's population resulting in increased peace, harmony and happiness.

According to Maharishi, when people meditate together with unified good intentions, their alpha brain waves become synchronized or exhibit "coherence." The coherence of the brain waves causes others to receive the same properties in their subconscious mind. 


Meditation not only positively impacts the person meditating, but  its spill-over effect has a positive effect on the community as a whole. It's super cool to think that by meditating I can have a positive impact on not only myself and my immediate family, but also on the community in which I live. There are some awesome studies that demonstrate this amazing findings. In fact, over 600 studies have demonstrated this effect.

I invite and encourage you to be part of the 1%. I invite you to begin a meditation practice, if you don't already have one, and to begin practicing in group meditation. The time is now, it is needed in your community and the world now.

Every Tuesday from 6-7 pm group mediation is offered through Phitness Plus at the Badger Rock Neighborhood Center. It is a drop-in class. Through 
this powerful meditation group, you will discover a new way of thinking and living, a transformation that enriches your life and the lives of those around you. Information is located under both the "Upcoming Events" and the "Meditation" tabs on my website. 

I also invite you to participate in a beautiful group meditation called The Circle of Sacred Activism that will begin on March 27th from 7:00-8:15 pm. It's being hosted by Perennial - Yoga, Wisdom, Community at their beautiful facility at 5500 East Cheryl Pkwy., Fitchburg, WI. The intention of the meditation circle is to 
bring together women and men who are ready to ignite, nurture and transmit their healing energy towards themselves and into a world that desperately needs it. Please join us and be part of the 1%!
1 Comment

Spirit Love

2/21/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Continuing on this month with the theme of LOVE, in this post I would like to focus on our Spirit love. What do I mean by Spirit love? in this post, my reference to Spirit love means the care and nurturing of our love of our own Spirit. 

I firmly believe that our overall health, well-being and happiness is dependent on intentional practices that build a strong body, mind and spirit.  If one of these areas is out of balance, it could limit your ability to thrive and to create an overall state of health and happiness.

Are you feeding your Spirit? What are you currently doing to nourish your Spirit? What does your Spirit long for? Does it long for ease, or connectivity, to expand and grow, to be creative, to be adventuresome, to be inspired, to love deeper, to explore more fully your hopes and dreams? Have you paused to notice?  Is your Spirit starving for attention? 

Here are a few ways to feed your Spirit:

  1. Connect with something bigger than yourself. Ramp up your practice of meditation, prayer and spiritual reading. Practice being present and mindful. Building your spiritual practice will go a long way toward nourishing your Spirit. 
  2. Connect with nature. There is so much beauty in nature at all times of the year. Feel it's energy, bask in it's beauty, breathe in the healing oxygen and delicious smell, soak in the sounds. Allow yourself the time to connect with nature and feel its healing power. While connecting with nature, try practicing gratitude, some deep breathing, or a loving kindness meditation filling your mind, body and spirit with it's wonder and beauty. 
  3. Connect with supportive, positive, caring, growth-minded people. We are only as strong as the company that we keep. Your health and happiness are directly impacted by the 5 people that you most closely associate. Connecting with supportive, positive, caring, growth-minded people will nourish your Spirit and propel it to greater heights. 
  4. Do more of what you love and are passionate about. Knowing what fuels your Spirit, what you are passionate about and love to spend your time doing is not only important, but a deep spiritual practice. Regularly checking in with how you are doing balancing the things that matter most to you is a powerful way to feed your Spirit.
  5. Connect to your breath. Just the act of being still and paying attention to our breath can go a long ways to feeding our Spirit. Jumping off the hamster wheel of life and pausing to breathe. So simple and yet so powerful. 
  6. Practice gratitude. My favorite, and one of the most powerful spiritual practices, is the practice of gratitude. Within it contains the ability to energize and fill your Spirit with hope, abundance and fullness.
  7. Be of service to others. Practicing generosity and being of service to others is a great way to nourish and fill up our Spirit. 

Pausing to notice how we can nourish and love our own Spirit is a wonderful expression of love. A strong and vibrant spiritual practice is a powerful way to maintain wellness. 

I would love to hear your feedback on this post. What do you do to nourish your Spirit? Drop me a comment or send me an email.

Mark 6:31
Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourself to a quiet place and get some rest."
0 Comments

Valentine Love

2/13/2017

6 Comments

 
Picture
Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Valentine's Day invites us to love a little harder, a bit deeper, sweeter, kinder. It's an invitation to express our love more fully. An opportunity to connect with the loves of our life and sweeten their day with gestures of love, to whisper sweet nothings into their ear. 

Valentine's Day is simply a time to pause and love a bit more, hug a little longer, kiss with more meaning, listen more intently, speak more clearly. To love with more intention. 

If you are feeling lonely this Valentine's Day then I encourage you to reach out and to give love to someone else. Giving that of which we desire is a great way to have more of it come back to us. Being of service to others is a sure fire way to boost us up when we are feeling down. 

Please consider this Valentine's Day intentionally extending your love to those who are in need. A random act of kindness, an act of love, can mean the world to someone in need. You never know who might need that gesture of kindness. People in need don't always look like they are in need, so why not go ahead and extend love out to everyone. Acts of kindness create ripples beyond measure. 

May you open your heart wider today to wholehearted love. May you pull down the walls and live and love wholeheartedly.
​
​May you open your heart wider today to Divine Love. May you feel it, embrace it and be inspired by it today. Wishing you love beyond measure this Valentine's Day and everyday. 

"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment...or unlearning...of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning 
of life." Marianne Williamson from A Return to Love.
6 Comments

Miraculous Love

2/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Continuing on this week with focus on the theme of love for the month of February. I want to delve into the topic of love and miracles. I love the quote by Willa Cather, "Where there is great love there are always miracles." What does that mean?

Each week I listen to Marianne Williamson's livestream lecture on A Course in Miracles. I find the teachings to be fascinating. In A Course in Miracles, it says, "Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."
Love is the space that miracles originate from. Which for me then means that the real miracle is God, since God is love. 

According to A Course in Miracles, "Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed." Hmmm that's good stuff. 

This past weekend a friend had a baby. As I was holding the baby in my arms I couldn't help but think how the birth of a baby is such a miracle. Every time, no matter how many I am blessed to witness, the birth of a baby brings forth the wonder that it is such a miracle, such a blessing, such a gift. You too are a miracle, I am a miracle, we are all miracles, all children of God and expressions of love. God's miraculous love.

Feel it, take a moment to soak it in, to bask in its glow. You are loved beyond measure. You are a child of God's miraculous love. Absorb it and at the same time reflect it off of you and out into the world. Always remember that we are all children of God. We are all one. Even when someone is frustrating you, annoying you, or disappointing you. Exercise empathy, be compassionate, be forgiving, be LOVE. 


How are you doing with your 30 acts of love challenge? ​I have been enjoying being intentional about adding acts of love to my days. What I've discovered is that I do many acts of love each day, but this challenge has helped me to focus on extending myself outside of my normal box. It's caused me to do acts of love that I wasn't taking the time to do previously just by looking intentionally for the opportunity.

​My big act of love that I started yesterday is an act of self-love. I have been doing a 3 day juice cleanse as an act of love for myself. Cleansing my liver, my digestive system, detoxing my body, cutting my cravings for 
sugar and processed food, and cleansing my cells with loads of jam-packed nutrition.

Yesterday was rough, I missed chewing food and felt like I was drinking an entire lake of liquid. The juices are amazing, they taste great and I normally love love love my fresh juices, but I was dreading drinking more today. I reminded myself why I was doing it and read a few articles for inspiration and facts on why it was important. I got right to it this morning and the day has gone by with less temptation and more ease. I am looking forward to day 3 and feel good that I treated myself to an act of love :)

As always, I would love to hear from you. What did you think about this week's post? How are you doing with infusing more love into the world this month? Drop me a comment or send me an email.
0 Comments

    RSS Feed

    Archive 

    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    Picture

      Please sign up to receive weekly new blog posts. 

    Submit
Proudly powered by Weebly