In this week's blog, June highlights various divination tools and how they can help when seeking spiritual guidance, but the biggest tools of all come from within.
When I used to teach freshman English classes, one of the biggest and best things I could teach my students was good study habits. It is easy to cram and over study at the last minute only to panic and zone out on the exam the next day. Cramming information into the mind is like waking up late to get to the airport and you haven’t packed yet. It’s a rush job, useless things are packed, and necessary items are left ignored on the floor.
One technique that helps us remember is our sense of smell. Smell, or chemodetection, our oldest sense helps us stay safe in our environments. This is directly connected to our memories so we can remember which areas, foods, or people are safe and which are harmful.
So how does this remotely connect to studying? When we are trying to remember new or difficult information, using smell can help connect new information to old information. For example, lighting a lavender scented candle while studying and then wearing an aromatherapy necklace or bracelet to class with lavender oil in it during the test will trigger the memory which is connected to the lavender aroma. To say that it is truly that easy is an understatement!
We can use smells to change our mood to uplifting (lemongrass), keep us focused (peppermint), or calm us down (lavender). Just thinking of the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven evokes memories – our brains can’t help but take us back to the smell connected to the associated memory.
Practice including your favorite smell during your daily or weekly meditation practice to help you feel calm and centered throughout your day or week. You can also create combination scents that serve dual purposes, like orange and clove for a calming warm feeling or lemon and lime for a peppy get up & go citrus smell.
No matter what you want to recall, using our olfactory-installed sense of smell is an easy way to combine our physiology to help enhance our spirituality.
✨ Blessings ✨ Blessed Be ✨ Namaste ✨
❤️ Sitting out back, enjoying the sun. ❤️
❤️ Cardinals fly by, one by one. ❤️
❤️ Bright red cardinals, reminders so dear. ❤️
❤️ Of departed loves. Remind me “I’m here.” ❤️
💙 Happy Memorial Day, My Kindred Spirits! 💙
💙 To all of the servicemen and servicewomen who have served our country 💙
💙 Thank You ~ One and All 💙
✨ Blessings ✨ Blessed Be ✨ Namaste ✨
With Spring smells in the air, June shares her favorite incense smells and how they connect to her spirit and with other kindred spirits.
What a lovely spring we've been having these past few days. The warm sun. Puffy, white clouds. Opening the windows. Letting air in. Clearing old stagnant air out. And cleaning things out of the house that we no longer need or use.
This Spring, it's not only a great time to clean out the house, but also to clear out the clutter from our minds, spirits, and energy fields. What a great feeling to have clarity in our homes and in our minds.
What are some things that you need to clear out of your home, your mind, or your spirit?
❓June invites other kindred spirits to answer 20 Questions for 2020 and see if your expectations are being met or still need a little work ❓
In this week’s Monday blog, June offers 3 simple steps to help you practice how to be gentle with yourself 🌹
A brief blog about look back with gratitude instead of remorse.
Find out why June chose Thursday to get some down time.
A story seed was planted in my mind during tonight's yoga class while in Savasana pose.
Allowing a vision to unfold itself
A whole year! Let's avoid any cliches about time, flight, and fun, but it is safe to say that time has been relative over this past year.
We opened on Black Friday of 2015, and celebrated our one-year anniversary on Black Friday of 2016. The store received what I like to call "The Big Re-Arrange," as new products were placed on the shelves, additional lighting was added throughout the store, and a fresh coat of purple paint was added to the front door and shutters (which finally made their way back up on the side of the building).
It would take much too long to enumerate all of the things that have happened in the last year, so I'll sum up...
1. Community ~ The store was never about one person; it has always been about giving back to those who support our labor of love.
2. Connection ~ Meeting so many kindred spirits over the past year has got to be the highlight of being a small business owner. Learning about people's challenges and triumphs, their goals and dreams, and lightening the load of their burdens and losses.
3. Caring ~ Every day since we opened, I have been witness to the most caring group of customers ever to grace our space. From pay-it-forwards, to hugs, to laughs, and some tears, the customers who enter Kindred Spirits have brought in their individual and collective caring spirits. They have added love, laughter, and lightness to the shop.
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't give credit to those who have stood by me throughout the past 365 days. To label these days would be unfair to the individual moments of hard work, tireless effort, collaboration, ingenuity, passion, love, kindness, patience, playfulness, and dedication. To my Kindred Crew, you have my eternal thanks and love for all you have each done to make Kindred Spirits Books & Gifts a gem in Hellertown.
So if you have driven by the shop, and have always meant to stop in, we invite you to slow down, turn around, and spend a little time with us to Treat Your Spirit :)
~Blessings~ * ~Blessed Be~ * ~Namaste~