Chrisshana's Blog

If you knew who walked beside you, you’d never be alone again.

chrisshana — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:18:23 +0000

So who are the Souls that walk beside you? Have you met them yet? These are your Angels, Guides, loved ones in Spirit and so many more. These are the souls that surround you and yearn to work with you every day. These are the souls that long for your asking, so they can assist, help and participate in your life.

Each of us has a team of Guides and Angels that walk beside us and are available to us. They will appear to us in many ways; Angels, Fairies, Masters, Teachers, or even Cosmic Star Beings. They come in may shapes and sizes as well as nationalities, personalities, backgrounds and religions. However they appear, they touch our lives in many ways.

Most people find that while they have many Guides throughout their life time, they will have one Guide that stays with them throughout their entire life. We also have Guides we call in for specific reasons and support with particular things. I sort of think it is like a specialty Guide. It is just like you would not call an electrician if you needed a haircut.

When you connect with your Guide, you will more than likely connect with the one that is most appropriate and prevalent to you at the time. They will often communicate with you and are excited to be invited to assist you.

You can connect with your Guides and Angels in a number of ways; Meditation, Automatic Writing, and Dreams are just a few ways. However, having your Spirit Guide drawn for you is a visual and beautiful way to connect to these precious souls.

It is quite common to feel a tangible and even emotional connection to your Guide as it appears on the paper before you and in fact some people feel a familiarity with there Guide immediately. Your Guide drawing can be used then in connecting with your Guide or Angel and can make the process simpler.

Have your Spirit Guide drawn just for you.

from my Soul to yours

with love

Chris Shana

We’re On the Move

chrisshana — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:50:30 +0000

Yep, here we go again. We are very grateful for the beautiful home we have had for the past two years but it is time for us to move on. Although this is not without its challenges. I think finding a new home is one of the best opportunities to trust.

Our journey to our new home began a few months ago, we searched the internet with an idea in our minds about what we would like. Most of the properties we found were not suitable, not available at the right time, would not take animals, were too expensive and just too small. But we continued to trust the ideal home would arrive for us.

Time went by and we had a few places that looked like they may work, but one went before we had time to apply, another was given to someone else, but in all this we were getting clearer and clearer on what we wanted. 6 bedrooms, 2 living areas, 2 bathrooms, a shed, nice yard, great landlords and a pool would be nice. All this for less than what we pay now. Not too much to ask really. Then, with 3 weeks to go, late on a Sunday afternoon, we see it. We drove by and would you believe it, the owner is standing out the front and invites us in. The funny thing is the first thing we noticed is the “OM” symbol tattooed on his arm as he calmly says “we believe in Karma”. This had to be our house. 5 bedrooms, we could make 6, maybe we could make another lounge, 2 bathrooms, tiny kitchen, but the pool was awesome. “You can put in a veggie patch if you like” says the owner so matter of factly. This had to be it, so why didn’t it feel right?

We phoned a friend, which is always a good thing to do, and these were the wise words we received… “If you found the perfect dress, the ideal colour, it matched your shoes and bag perfectly, you hair looked great with it, and the diamantes sparkled just right, but it was too small, would you still buy it?” Hmmmm, guess this wasn‘t our house. Oh there must be something better right? Right?

Well time was getting close and another weekend was upon us, still no house, not anything close. What else could we do? We have asked, we have thanked often, we have started packing (Rach had anyway), we have looked and searched… where is it. I had had enough. We both had at this point. It was Friday afternoon and I looked again through the local paper… there it is, our home, only problem was it was for sale, not rent. Hgrr, I give up. That night I went to bed going through everything, making sure there is nothing more we could do, and there wasn’t. “OK God, I’m done, it is up to you now, there is nothing else I can do, it is a God job now” were my final words before sleep, I am sure Rach had a few of her own.

The next morning we went about preparing to move and I had to go out for a bit, on the way home I had the urge to drive past the house I had seen in the paper. And what should happen, the owner was out the front and invited us in. I thanked him very much and explained that at this time we did not have the funds to purchase the house, but if he was interested in renting it we would definitely be interested. These were his words “If it does not sell today that is what we are going to do”. So with 13 days to moving day, we found our home, 6 bedrooms, a study, 2 living areas, 2 bathrooms, a shed, nice yard, great landlords and a beautiful pool. It was a God job and she did a awesome job too. So moving date is Tuesday/ Wednesday 6th/7th of April. Send us your love so we move with grace and ease and if you are not able to reach us by email over that time, please text, our mobiles are charged.

From our souls to yours

With love

Chris Shana

How does your Garden grow?

chrisshana — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:54:56 +0000

Imagine for a moment, your Soul, is just like a garden? What would it look like? Would it be weedy, would it be barren, maybe overgrown? What would happen if you weeded your Soul Garden? Took out all the overgrown stuff, tilled the soil, and really got your hands into it? Smell the soil, feel its dampness… Now the soil is ready and you can plant the seeds you choose! The seeds of all your dreams and desires, the seeds of peace, joy and love, the seeds of gratitude. What if you took a few minutes every day to nurture those seeds, sprinkle them with light, water them and sing to them? How would your Soul Garden begin to look? What if by giving your love and nurturing to these seeds, they grew?

What if your… Seeds of the Soul blossomed and bloomed into the most glorious garden in your life?

What if your Soul Garden sprang into the life you have always dreamed of and wanted?

What are these seeds?

Miracle – this is how we describe a seed. Henry David Thoreau.

This is what a seed is. A seed is every thought we have and every word we say. The seeds are the things we most want in our lives. The question is always – What seeds are we planting by giving our attention to them? Begin to notice your seeds. What seeds are you planting again and again? What seeds are sprouting? Are they the seeds you would like to see sprouting? Do you need to replant your garden? So how do we grow the seeds we want? The best advice I have every received when it comes to seeds is this… “Seedlings are like children and puppies, they need constant attention.” This is so true. If you do not continue to nurture your seeds with love and light, they will wither and die. They will be taken over by weeds or be left barren.

The secret of growing your seedlings is light. Lack of light is the no.1 reason that seedlings become week and souls become discouraged. Bring light to your seeds often. And remember, nature has designed your seed to grow; you and your seed have the same goal.

What do we do about the weeds?

Weed ‘em and reap!

You are starting to see the flowers bloom, now is not the time to let the weeds take over. The thoughts that will try and bring you back, the old habits and self sabotage are the weeds in your Soul Garden. Whatever it is we don’t love becomes a weed. So bring more light and more love to the weed, they will either disappear, as the light will not serve them, or they will become a flower. Every weed is simply a flower that has not found its purpose or potential yet

. Would you like to become the Gardener of your own Soul? The Master of your Destiny? Because whether you choose it or not, each Soul is the Creator of their own Universe. Is it hard? No! Gardening is simply about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and quiet.

May all the seeds you plant in your Soul, be planted in love and light, and may your garden always blossom in abundance.

Oh and… When the sh*t hits the fan…. It’s just fertilizer.

Give it a try, I think you’ll be surprised

from my soul to yours

with love

Chris Shana

Pull Yourself Together

chrisshana — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:42:27 +0000

You know there is a really awesome book called “Eat, Love, Pray” , one I highly recommend, and in it the author says, “just because you can fall apart, doesn’t mean you should.” Don’t you just love it? It is so true. It would be so easy to fall apart and drop your bundle at the first sign of trouble, but it really doesn’t always serve us. Sometimes we just need to pull ourselves together and get on with it. At other times we feel so scattered and all over the place that we can’t focus on anything, we can’t concentrate and we are just disjointed and disorientated. I’m sure you have felt like that too. You know the days when you’re not in your body. It often occurs when you still have your energy stuck in something that happened yesterday or worried about something that is yet to come but one thing is for sure, you are not here, where you are needed. You are just all over the shop.

So how do we pull ourselves together? Well this is one of my favourite ways and it is easy and it works.

Take yourself outside and put your feet on the grass
Feel a channel of energy running up your spine and up and out the top of your head, connecting you with source.
See this same energy run down your spine, down out the soles of your feet and down into mother earth.
Allow this energy to travel up and down along your spine, from source to mother earth and back again until you feel connected.
Now simple stretch your arms and ask… “ may all the pieces of me, scattered throughout the universe, in this lifetime or any other, come back to me now.”
Feel yourself pulling together, reconnecting and being whole again.

Use this exercise as often as you like and whenever you feel you need to pull yourself together.

Give it a go; I think you will be surprised.

From my soul to yours

With love

Chris Shana

Meditate! It’s Better than Sitting Around All Day

chrisshana — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:51:37 +0000

I love this quote. I found it sitting at the doctors of all places. I had been waiting for at least 30min and have a very irritable child by my side, sickly and miserable surrounded me in the waiting room and when the doctors did appear they seemed hassled and harassed. So when I read this quote I just laughed. Do you think that if a few people in that surgery knew how to meditate, things may have felt a little different?

Meditation is one of those things that is sooooo, simple and yet most of us don’t think to use it. It is one of those things that can be easily added into our daily life and can make a massive different. I know most people think that meditation means sitting around with our legs crossed chanting om. Although it can be this if you like, it does not need be. In fact, meditation is very easy and simple and you may already be doing it without knowing. The dictionary describes meditation as “continued or extended thought”, but I prefer the understanding, that “praying is asking and meditation is listening.” I believe that meditation is truly about quietening the mind chatter, ceasing the incessant thoughts and being still. In this space you leave room for spirit to step in, for guidance to arrive and your soul to soar. So how do you get to this place, what is the best way to meditate? Well it is different for everyone, but most techniques are so simple we miss them. I bet you have found yourself doing something quiet, that you love to do, and found that time has just slipped away. I would even bet that during that time, all your cares and worries just disappeared. It is also highly likely that you had some great ideas or inspirations that would make your life better. This is what meditation is; a quiet mind, where spirit steps in.

While I am a big fan of meditation groups and circles, as they offer great techniques and tools as well as a sacred space, I also believe that it is so important to take time everyday to meditate. And let’s face it, most of don’t have or take the time to meditate for an hour every day, but we could fit in five minutes. If five minutes is too much, take one minute, five times a day. The purpose of all of this is to connect to our soulful self, the God spark within, our heart and basically get out of our head. And the secret, the truly easiest way to do this, the very first step… sigh. Yes, you read right, sigh. Just let out a deep, heavy, sigh. You see you cannot worry, cannot be in your head and sigh at the same time. Sighing is the ideal way of letting go, handing it all over and dropping into your heart. So begin every meditation with a beautiful sigh, and then sigh whenever you want to get out of your head and connect with all that is.

Give it a go; I think you’ll be surprised

from my soul to yours

with love

Chris Shana

It’s Birthday Month

chrisshana — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:07:40 +0000

Do you find that with your family and friends? I am sure you do, it seems you have a certain month, months or time of the year that is just inundated with birthdays. This month alone, between Rach and I, we have about 7 or 8 birthdays. That is a lot of cake. I have been wondering why this is. Do you think it has to do with astrology? Maybe it’s just a fluke? I don’t know, but I think it might have to do with our Soul Family. What is our Soul Family? These are the people who strengthen and witness the authentic you. This may be your bloodline or it may be your soul line. It really doesn’t matter. As long are they are kindred spirits who energetically see you. You know the people who just “get” you. When you are with your soul family you instantly feel comfortable and at ease. You forget about how you should act, the masks fall away, the story disappears and you just “are”. Now this is not to say you don’t have your disagreements, arguments, issues, complaints etc. Of course you do, but they only exist on a surface level, where the ego resides. We are talking here about an energetic connection, about feeling renewed and re-spirited from this connection. These people allow you to be you. Now sometimes it may feel like your family doesn’t “get” you, and that is ok. Usually there is someone in our bloodline who does and it would be unfortunate to cut everyone off in our family. Be sure you give everyone a chance to see the real you, sometimes it is just that due to the roles we play, our family does not get to see all of who we are. The thing is, soul connection is possible, but each soul needs to want it, create it and see it. Your soul family connections do not have to be spiritually based either. Sometimes the strongest soul connections come from someone you share a common interest with. It could be your scrapbooking buddy, your running mate or just someone you work with. Whoever it is, you will know, because your soul is fed when you are together, you feel renewed, and are simply happy being you. Connect with your soul family this month. Renew your spirit, find joy in who you are and be good to you. By the way, Rach’s birthday is Thursday 11th March. You may like to send her your love.

DID SOMEONE YELL “FIRE”

chrisshana — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:22:56 +0000

Sometimes I feel like a fire fighter. There are just so many little dramas, issues, problems and basically fires to put out. Some days I feel like I need a siren and a big red truck.

Doesn’t life get like that though? You just run around putting out fire after fire and there is no time to do the things you had planned or that really matter. I think Steven Covey talks about it in his book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” It is something like – urgent/ important, urgent/not important, not urgent/important and not urgent/not important… but you know how it is, everyone, especially the kids, think it is all desperately urgent and desperately important.

Someone call the fire brigade!!!

So what do you do? Run around like a frantic fire fighter putting them all out, solving problems, deflating drama and managing mayhem? How do we get off this circus roundabout?

You know, when my kids were at kindy, they had the fire truck visit and each child was given a sticker and a very clear message…

If you are on fire,

STOP. DROP. ROLL

Pretty good advice I reckon. Think about it, in the middle of the “fire”, if the first thing you do is STOP, not only will you just jump into the fire, but you will not re-act. This will give you time to choose your action. Sometime the best advice is “don’t just do something, sit there”.

So then what? DROP. This means, get out of your head, your ego self and drop into your heart. By doing this the next thing you choose, will be chosen by your wise and soulful self, not a re-acting, menacing ego. Your choice will then be more authentic and serve everyone better. The simplest and most effective way to do this is to exhale. Like a huge sigh. Ahhh. Just let it out and find yourself in your heart space.

And then, ROLL. Roll with the punches, let the chips fall where they may and know you have done what you could. The outcome is what it is and it is because it is exactly how it should be. It may not be how YOU think it should be, but it is. So roll with it and see what miracles it brings.

So when “fire” breaks out in your life again, and it will, remember…

STOP. DROP. ROLL

Give it a go; I think you will be surprised.

From my soul to yours

With love

Chris Shana

What’s in the Room?

chrisshana — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:27:23 +0000

A few years back, a close friend of mine was going through some major changes and trauma in her life, and while I believe she coped beautifully, like all of us there were times where she too needed the love and support of others. This is partly what led her to visit a social worker for a chat. The thing I remembered most from what she told me of the conversation where the words, “What’s in the room.” You see, my friend, like most of us, got caught up in the drama; the “he said, she saids” and the, “I don’t know what to do next”. It is normal for most people to get so lost in their heads and try to make sense of things when there is no sense to be made and it is so overwhelming. This feeling of being overwhelmed fries our brain to the point where true logical thought is not even possible. The best thing we can often do is stop thinking and bring ourselves back to the here and now. How do we do that? Well, we notice “what’s in the room”.

This simple yet effective process brings our scattered mind back to where it can do the most good and slows us down. How do we do this???

Sit in a quiet place, have a big glass of water and just stop.
Ask yourself, “What can I see?” and begin to notice. I see a table, a chair, a lounge, a window etc, etc.
Stay there and just allow this slowness to permeate through your entire being. If you mind gets busy again, just once again notice “What’s in the room?”

Practice this simple technique when your hassled and waiting in a queue, when you are driving (simply noticing the road and traffic around will probably make you a better driver), when the kids get too much, when you are at work. Whenever you feeling like you can’t cope or are not in your body ask yourself “What’s in the room?” Give it a go; I think you will be surprised.

From my soul to yours

With love

Chris Shana

5 Valentines Treats for You

chrisshana — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:03:24 +0000

I can’t tell you how many times in my life I have waited for the big truck to arrive with my thousands of red roses, just so I would know how much I was loved. Hmmm, reckon now I don’t need it. You see, what I have learnt, and what I am sure you at least have an inkling of, is that love, real love, doesn’t come from out there. Not from flowers, presents, not from words or stuff. Real love, the kind that lasts forever is right where it has always been, within us. It is the God Spark, the light within each of us, it is the gift we give ourselves. And the truth is, this love is only amplified when we find it in someone else.

Your task this Valentines day is to truly get in touch with the love in your heart. Who says Valentines day is all about romantic love anyway? Without the love of self, all else is diminished, so why not be your own Valentine this year and truly show yourself how much you care.

Valentine treats for you

1. Take a long relaxing bubble bath, and truly enjoy it. You can do this on your own or with someone you love, the choice is yours.

2. Book a healing session. Do something to show your spirit that you care. Raise your vibration, shift that old heavy baggage ad treat yourself to the light.

3. Indulge your senses. Burn some beautiful oils, put on that silky nighty, buy those special chocolates, play your favourite chill out tunes and just sit back and enjoy. Allow your senses to indulge.

4. Give yourself the gift of nature. Go outside. If you can do this at sunset or sunrise even better. Take the time to see the beauty around you, breath the air, feel the earth under your feet and the heavens above. Connect to all that is. Just go outside and appreciate nature.

5. Be still. Allow yourself the pleasure of being still. Not doing anything, not thinking anything, not being anything but you. You can do this in your bath, outside or any quiet place you can find. (I have been known to hide in my built in robe). Just do this for you.

Find the love inside that you truly deserve and you will open to the love that is all around you. Happy Valentines day and enjoy your month.

From our souls to yours

With love

Chris and Rach

Radical Shift in Consciousness

chrisshana — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:16:23 +0000

There is a famous quote that says, “You can’t change a problem with the same consciousness that created it.” So how do you change your consciousness? Well there are many ways you can do this, but one of the simplest, least painful and easiest is Pellowah. Pellowah is an Angelic word that means just that; “Radical Shift in Consciousness.” The growth and change bought about by this form of healing will help you build on your old framework without trauma. This will leave you with a new perspective, therefore enabling you to make better choices. Pellowah expands your consciousness helping you to become more objective.

Many forms of healing produce positive feelings that generally last 2 days to a week. Pellowah provides a feeling of well-being that seems to last, and in fact gets stronger as time goes by.

Pellowah healings can be done in person and absentee and most people feel they need between 1 and 4. You may also be interested in Pellowah as a healing tool for your friends and family. Pellowah workshops level one and two are available and with each workshop you will receive attunements equal to 10 – 100 healings.

For more information please call or see out website.

From my soul to yours

with love

Chris Shana

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