Set An Intention To Connect And Listen

How might you invite more spaciousness into your day and evening? Set an intention to connect and listen. Activate the flower essence by tapping eight times. Place a drop in the palm of the left hand, then dip the index and middle fingers of the right hand into the drop. With steady pressure, press the index and middle fingers of the right hand into the acupressure point. Continue at your own pace for a minimum of three minutes. When you are ready to end, take a gentle breath in and out. Bring the hand down to rest and just listen quietly to your body and your breath. Bring your hands to prayer and close with gratitude. Know that each time you do this ritual, you are learning to listen on a deeper level of being and consciousness. The lyrics were quite simple. It was a repetition of the word infinity, very much like the repetition of a mantra. It was as if the repetition of this word acted as a resource and a remembrance and a key.

Say Something Nice

Infinity is the quality of being infinite and boundless. These words repeated in a singsong melody. I woke from the dream with the notes dancing in my head. In my dream, I woke up from sleep and made the bed, singing this infinity song, and I was told that it would be how to heal my maternal grandfather’s pattern of fear, or why he stopped himself from pursuing his ideas and dreams. In real life, I had a sense of a revelation after all these years. Perhaps my grandfather was held back by fear because of his father’s death. His father was a successful businessman, an owner of several pottery factories who was aligned with the French colonial government. He was taken away and killed when the communists took over Viet Nam. Because of what had happened to his father, I sensed that my grandfather felt that it could have easily been him, since he was supposed to be at the pottery factory that day. Instead, my grandfather didn’t make it in that day and was able to escape. It never occurred to me that maybe fear and guilt held him back from leading a full life. At the time of his father’s death, my grandfather was a newlywed and had just started a family.

Human Nature

He was the oldest son and would take over the family business one day. Perhaps on an unconscious level, my grandfather felt that success equaled death. According to my grandmother, he had a lot of fear, which is why he could be a bully and a control freak. In my dream, as I was making the bed, I was told that the infinity song was like the movie Back to the Future and would enable me to go back to the past in order to produce an outcome that would create a different present. I was shown this through an actual fold in the blanket on the bed I was making. When my sister was young, my grandfather told her that had I not been an English major but rather something more practical, I could have been president of the United States. That’s how much he believed in me. And in that dream within the dream, I woke singing the infinity song to create a timeline of healing. Trauma is held in the body. Trauma can be passed down through our gene expression. Trauma can also be held in our energy fields. But if we hold trauma, then we also hold resilience.

Looking For Changes

When we get intentional about healing ancestral trauma, we tap into ancestral resilience. I am healing at the deepest cellular level by integrating and honoring my ancestral line. They also help you reconnect to destiny and purpose. The points are on both sides of the head. With both hands, from the middle of your eyes, trace directly up to the top of the head and then measure about a hand’s width behind. The points are located on both sides. Hold with your fingers. Star of essence can comfort, console, and heal traumas big and small, old or new, known or unknown. Activate the flower essence and apply it to your fingers, then lightly press and hold the acupressure point. If you don’t have the essence, visualize the Star of flower or its name as you press for a minute or two on those points. Breathe long and deep. Then, when it feels right, keep lightly holding and repeat the mantra out loud or silently to yourself. Or simply think, I am healing at the deepest cellular level. I am healing the layers of ancestral trauma. When you are ready to end, take a deep breath in and out. Release the hands down to rest and just sit quietly. You have created the space for healing within your body and your mind. Allow yourself to sit and breathe and rest in this space for as long as you like. To end, bring your hands to prayer and offer up a prayer for yourself and your ancestral lineage. Honor all that they have gone through so that you could be here today. Close out in the deepest gratitude. Our culture of busyness does not value rest or restoration. It’s time to make that collective shift, and that shift begins with all of us. What does spaciousness feel like for you? If you were to imagine spaciousness having a color or texture, what might that be? What emotions might you associate with spaciousness? Take a gentle breath in and a long breath out. Tuning into the weight of your body. Feeling supported in all the ways, allowing your body to sink into that support. Gently bring your attention to your breath, the natural flow of breath moving in and breath moving out. And as we begin to tune in to breath, notice the effortless effort of breath happening on its own without you having to do anything at all.