Delight Your Heart

Random Acts of Kindness I do or like to do:

• Leave angel cards in sugar bowls of restaurants
• Volunteer at the Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, reading to toddlers
• Let them interrupt
• Paying sincere compliments
• Donate towels and blankets to the SPCA
• Send handwritten thank you notes in the mail
• Have fresh flowers from my garden in my office and home
• Bring banana bread to the new neighbor
• Ask people their first name and remember them
• Move people's trash cans when they get knocked over
• Leave notes for folks with nice gardens
• Lammas - the unexpected gift 
• Leave love notes
• Give myself the gift of time
• Smile at people
• Make good eye contact
• Chayla videos
• Keep the house/ temple beautiful
• Buying mom the iPad, teaching her to use it
• Driving to Stockton to visit Amber every two weeks for four years
• Be flexible in changing client appointments
• Refer out to my colleagues
• Pick up the tab
• Leave the flotsam and jetsam from past relationships as treasures for others to find
• Cook four quiches at a time to feed me and my family
• Give myself time to read during the day
• Allow space when driving on the freeway
• Slow down
• Stop being mean to myself
• Love my Self more

What are you doing to delight your heart today?

Even Fairy Elves Need Reiki

Fairy Elves love Reiki

You may remember the visit from the Easter Bunny for Reiki last Spring... Well, even Fairy Elves know the importance of self-care and self-love during the busy holiday season, and come in for some Reiki to feel refreshed, revitalized, and rejuvenated!

Reiki taps into Universal energy and is channeled through intrinsic touch. We all know that premies thrive in hospitals when held - and this is the same gentle, loving, healing touch that is safe, soothing, and deeply comforting, allowing the body to do it's own natural healing.

Reiki sessions are done fully dressed, with a gentle laying on of hands or holding energy above key body points, corresponding to the meridians used in acupuncture and acupressure, chakra centers, and trigger points from traditional massage. It is perfect for anyone who can not receive regular massage for any reason - fibromyalgia, cancer, abuse survivor, highly sensitive or deeply shy - but still wants to receive the benefits of deep relaxation, releasing emotional blocks and mental stagnation, as well as experiencing more clarity, balance, and overall resiliency.

So remember to treat yourself this busy season with your own personal retreat at the Rose Sanctuary, and gift yourself the time and space to reflect, recalibrate, and start the New Year listening to your inner voice saying, "Thank you - my needs have been met."

Keys to Success Ritual

Find two keys that have meaning to you. They might be your house keys, car keys, keys to your workplace, or a beautiful antique that you found at the flea market. Maybe it's an old key that you've been hanging onto for years, or has been lying around in the junk drawer, and maybe you don't even know what it goes to anymore, but just go ahead and bring these two keys together with this particular intention particular purpose (and yes, it's okay to make duplicates or use blank keys from the hardware store). 

For the next two weeks (preferably New Moon to Full Moon) keep these two keys underneath your pillow. Every time you go to bed at night hold them in your hands, put them in your armpits, squeeze them between your legs -  anything to really Infuse these keys with your deepest desires, your most heartfelt intentions. Alternatively, wear the keys on a red ribbon around your neck, long enough so they touch your heart chakra. Make a list (in your journal, book of shadows, or a beautiful notecard or piece of stationery) of what is key in your life, i.e., what you truly value on a heartfelt level.

Notice that keys have the capacity to both lock and to unlock. Knowing you are holding the keys to success in your hands, make a list of what you are unlocking/welcoming in/opening up to, on all layers - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Then make another list, of all the loose ends that need to be tied up, any old business/relationships, any closures. Keys can also represent safety, security, etc. What do keys mean to you? The key to success? The key to your heart? Play around in your journal and discover unlocking your own inner secrets.

After 2 weeks (preferably on the Full Moon) take one of the keys and bury it at a crossroads. This could be any intersection: two streets, two paths, a place in your garden, anywhere that you feel there is a sense of multiple opportunities, different steps that could be taken. Bury the key as deep as you want, whatever feels right, notice putting metal into the earth - an act of grounding, like a lightning rod attracting energy to that spot. Visualize of what you want to attract: clients, health, friends, success, love, support, empowerment, right livelihood? Grounding metal into the Earth is a way of establishing a solid feeling of channeling momentum into something that is constructive and productive, like putting in a tent stake and knowing you've taken the steps to protect yourself.

Then, in that particular location, simply notice all of the traffic - cars, pedestrians, or if it is buried out in nature could be ants, deer, the wind - whatever keeps crossing that particular path. Set the intention that any being or energy crossing over the key or near the key is both bringing you all of what you wrote down on your lists. Thus at the crossroads you're bringing in people/energy who will benefit from what you have to offer and you're also releasing those who have been deeply satisfied by your gifts and are happy with your work. 

Every time you go by this particular place (which is why it's good to have it pretty close by to your current home or work space) you can keep affirming happy people seeking you out and happy people referring to you. Then on the New Moon or Full Moon you can also bless that place or wherever you have the second key. 

What to do with the second key? Well, you can bury it in your own garden, put it in a medicine pouch, keep it on the ribbon around your neck , or keep it on your keychain - whatever is right for you. You are creating an energetic resonance between the crossroads and the key that you are holding onto in order to remind your Consciousness that you are in control, you have the key to success in your and you also recognize the key to success is interacting with other people/energy. 

A few years ago, when I learned this ritual up in the mountains, I was blessed to have received two antique keys, one of which I buried at a main cross walk by a church knowing it was Holy Ground.  Every time I go by that place I visualize in my mind the same key which is now hanging in my front window, which in terms of feng shui translates to life path and career. I recognize I have been a helpful person (see helpful people boxes) and I'm inviting in more people who could benefit from what it is I have to offer. This is a win-win situation, which I consider key to personal success.

I hope this is fun, feel free to share your lists with me, and I'll infuse them with good energy. Blessings on this New Moon!

Warmly,
Kayla

Kayla Garnet Rose, PH.D.
(831) 435-5182
www.KaylaGarnetRose.com
   

Using Hypnosis for Attracting and Grounding

I had an insight this morning as I clipped my magnetic name tag to my sweater that I tend to put it on the right side. Today I put it on the left, closer to my heart, with the intention of what would I like to attract of course, but one thing I like about magnets is that they also stabilize, the clicking of the magnet to the steel backing means things are in place. Recently I went to Mount Shasta and bought a few sets of magnetized hematite. Hematite is excellent for grounding, clearing, purifying, and cleansing. I am particularly interested in using it for calming nervous energy.

Then I thought how magnets also repel - I encourage my clients to hold hematite magnets in order to both attract health and to repel disease. Magnets can be used to draw things out of your body. Yesterday I thought about "recharging" the hematite pieces, but really it is about "discharging" them. Stones will absorb energy, so cleansing them periodically increases their natural benefits. Bathing them in sea water is optimum, however epsom salts or kosher salts work fine. Other ways to dispel built up energy are putting your stones/magnets sunshine or moonlight (wanted to say moonshine there), or burying them in a plant container. Often I'll pop crystals in my potted plants to really "ground" the energy. Then next season I rotate them as one of my working tools.

While many people are familiar with the "law of attraction," they do not recognize that it is important to be grounded like an electric pole, letting the energy flow through you at your own pace and use what you need to light up your life rather than overloading and blowing a fuse.

As a holistic healer, I encourage all of my clients to look at various modalities, including gemstones, magnets, aromatherapy, Reiki, and hypnosis. For a personal consultation tailored to your specific needs, call, email, or schedule your appointment online now.