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— Akasha Searcey (@akashasearcey) August 23, 2022

Self care awareness is something that we all must culitvate daily. Especially if we are choosing to live a Soul fed life. Taking care of and loving yourself is much beyond pedicures and manicures which many have been taught to believe is real self care. 

Truthfully, self care awareness requires strong boundaries and a willingness to integrate your own personal shadows. This is a practice of not only loving yourself and others but also of trusting yourself. 

When you begin to trust that you know what is best for you then you will begin to see your life truly change because you are being led by your Soul. Do not let others tell you who YOU are. Do not take on other people's baggage and please do not spend your precious life energy trying to convince other's that you are worthy of their time and love.

To be clear, I am not talking about cutting people out of your life or judging others for how they want to live and then saying that these things are just "not in alignment" with you. No I am dicussing radical acceptance here. Acceptance of what you cannot change in life as well as knowing that you have the power to decide what you can and cannot navigate with your current consciousness. 

Which, ultimately, will come down to what you want on a Soul level. You see, your ego will tell you stories so that you can justify your actions. Your Soul will ask you to feel into that story with your heart so that you can move beyond your mind and the constant trap of fear.

Your mind is the great illusionist and fear is its best trick. Your emotions are your compass and it is up to you to decide if you are going to allow yourself to take a journey into the depths of you and see past the narrative of the mind to the shores of connection.

Only you can captain the inner sea of Self. Only you can trust yourself enough to see your true value. 

Enjoy the journey and remember your worth. 

Much love, Akasha

Recently we did a powerful practice for the bandhas. 

These are spaces in the body where energy can escape according Tantra. There are three spaces that are often referred to as the main bandhas and when practiced all simultaneously this is known as Maha Band or the Great Seal.

The word Banda translates as gale, or seal but when deeply studied in context we translate it as “coming together”. In this practice we bring the energy together by focusing on each lock and then lastly on the Great Seal. 

Enjoy!

Like many around the world, my life has changed immensely since the Pandemic began and there have been several lessons from Covid on my spiritual path. I believe that we are still inside the Pandemic experience will continue to be so for several more years. 

I also know that nothing will ever be the same again. Our lives as a collective are not ever going back to “the way we were”. In the last few months I have had workshops cancelled and have, by proxy, had a bit more time to reflect and contemplate and this is what has inspired this blog.

I want to hold space for all of us to come together and note the changes, losses, benefits and so much more. I also want to share with you my story and therefore I hope you will feel safe to share yours here or with others. The more we raise our voice and step into our Truth, the more we raise the vibrations of the entire cosmos.

Our Inner Cosmos is a reflection of the external and vice versa. You could say that most of my life I have had a philosophical mind and a heart full of so much love that all I seem to ever want to do is give. Needless to say, a big part of my journey has been learning to receive. This is the ultimate balance of male and female energies or better yet the conscious and the subconscious minds. When we find harmony within we are able to tap into the superconscious or the Total.

Prior to Covid I had a yoga center and a very awesome yoga community. I kept the studio open for almost a year (using my life savings) as I watched members never return to the studio in lieu of taking free yoga online. I continued to give everything I had and started to realize that this outpouring of thought, energy, time, my dwindling life savings was doing nothing for anyone especially myself.

This was the first time I had the paradigm shift on a cellular level that true community starts with ME being United in all States. 

You see, until I show up authentically, vulnerably courageous, no one else is going to show up. I was so damn mind blow at the levels of fear, judgement  and criticism that I saw happening that I did not listen to my gut to just close the studio and be done with it. Instead I just kept giving hoping that others would be willing to receive in also willing to give to me in return. 

If I cannot receive, why would they be willing to receive my offering. All truths lie within us and I must own this 100%. After a year, I hit a financial wall, and closed the studio. It has been the best decision I have made on a personal level.

My lesson here: Do not operate from fear. Operate from truth. To get to the truth do not look outside of yourself, look within. Ultimately, I felt abandoned by the community that I had spent almost 9 years of my life cultivating 7 days a week however the truth was somewhere along the way I had abandoned myself and thus one was simply the reflection of the other. 

This was a huge lesson considering that only one year before my spouse of 15 years died. It was like a double whammy. Death of husband, death of business and death of my little dog. 1, 2, 3 boom pretty much a whole life-gone-talk about humbling!

This brings me to lesson 2: Focus on the love not the loss. As I mentioned I have had tons of time to reflect these days and what I have learned from my journey is that your focus is your super power. I write and speak about this all the time. I even mention it in my Affirmation Course. Focus is how we direct our energy.

When we focus on the external experience first we will almost always experience a limit. If we can orient ourself towards the internal landscape first the external will naturally manifest in a different way. 

For me, grief is something that I know well. It is an intimate part of my everyday existence since Covid. I believe this to be true for all of us in some way. Buddhist teachings say that all of life is composed of this grief. I choose to use my free will to focus on the love of myself, my life experiences, my little dog Teddy TBear, my friends etc…

By focusing on the love, I am not avoiding the grief, I am simply asking grief to sit with me, stay with me in the frequency of love. All things end, our attachments to them facilitates the greatest pain. There are not stages for this loss, there is no organized path, not every tool works for everyone. 

What you focus on will be what you experience. I choose love, not loss.

Lastly, but not final I want to share another lesson from the last two years as I think I see the entire scope of humanity experiencing this. The third lesson for me has been the power of transformation. 

Prior to Covid I worked an average 80 hours per week, had many private coaching and yoga clients and was pouring all of my energy into supporting them in living the life they said they wanted. Now I spend that time and much more pouring energy into myself by meditating, creating content, writing books and living simply. 

You see, I use to make 12K per month and now I barely cover my expenses, especially when workshops get cancelled. I do know this will eventually level out and I am immensely grateful that I had assets to sell. Right now I am rich in time. I am rich in presence and this is priceless. 

My entire life has transformed in a way that I would not have thought would happen. I used to rush around doing this and that. I used to be so busy that I could only sleep 4-6 hours. I was so FOCUSED on everyone else and as my life shifted from being so focused on giving to others to being willing to receive everything has changed. 

Needless to say, things are still changing and there are many other lessons for me and for you I am sure. In order for us to truly affect the entire whole I believe that we need more transparency, vulnerability and inclusivity.

I believe that we must recognize that the deeper we can dive into ourselves the easier the external reality becomes as we are no longer thinking our way into our emotions or emoting our way into our thoughts but instead we are aligning ourselves and integrating each experience as we walk our path daily. 

The unintegrated experience is that which causes great harm mentally, physically and emotionally. Until we accept the deepest level of responsibility for ourselves it is going to be challenging to show up unconditionally. 

My journey over the last two years has been intense, however the gifts continue to show themselves. I hope that you reflect upon what I have all shared here as well as remember that the only way out is in and if you allow love to be that upon which you focus, your path will be paved with grace. 

In love and service to your Highest Self,

Akasha

xoxo

Check out yesterdays video on the elements within and understanding how to shift your awareness from physical to energy! See you today LIVE 4pm

Consciousness is: the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself. 

I gave a talk this week on Insight Timer about cultivating consciousness daily. There are many ways we can cultivate this awareness of self throughout our daily life. So let's dive in and get you some tangible tools for your path. 

1. Awaken: like literally. Every day when you awaken you are going from the subconscious/unconscious to the conscious therefore the morning time upon awakening is the perfect time to drop in some gratitude or a purposeful pause that allows you to just become aware of how you are feeling and what you are sensing within the internal landscape. Note: you can take that purposeful pause throughout your entire day anytime you need to tune in:)

2. Breath: well you are already breathing! When we take the time to tap into our breath consciously we can begin to self regulate. Rapid breath is directly linked to the stress response in the body/mind paradigm. Taking a few moments to focus on slowing and evening out your breath is immensely powerful and helpful. Note: here is a link to a breath practice I love.

3. Intention: A lot of times when people set intention it is oriented toward a desire that results in a physical manifestation. I want to invite you to set an intention in how you are going to show up to an experience, conversation, meeting with the boss or HOA etc... As we cultivate consciousness we can raise our awareness of who we are and how we are showing up to what is showing up in our world.

4. Act Consciously: as our awareness expands and we are living consciously we can begin to be accountable to not only our emotions but also to how we are responding to our world. Taking responsibility for our reactions is a potent and powerful way to stay present with ourself as we navigate our daily life. Consciously choosing to respond from a higher frequency will take so much more awareness than just doing the habituated pattern of reaction. Try this one with little things like not slamming cabinets in your kitchen or mindfully setting the dishes on the table. Take the rush out of life and you will notice you have a lot more time!

This is a summation of what I shared in my online talk and if you are interested in learning more about these subjects in relation to your vibration and how to create your own reality then visit my Youtube channel to see a 5 day video series on this subject. 

As always....

Stay Illuminated, 

Akasha

xo

POETIC AWAKENINGS: MYSTICAL MUSINGS OF A COURAGEOUSLY LIVED LIFE

I came up with this idea of Spiritual Donuts. These were really born from a conversation a few years ago with my friend Geoff (aka Geoffie). 

You see, at that time I was navigating my husband dying as well as learning to run his art business, traveling back and forth across the country weekly (he wanted to be with family) as well as complex family cords, needless to say I was tired and overwhelmed and Geoffie was on the other end of the phone doing what good friends do: holding space for me to breathe and giving me whatever support he could and he said the following:

"Girl, you are doing okay. F$@& the haters and give yourself some scooby snacks."

As you can imagine this made me laugh out loud. You see, with all that stuff going on in my life I still had people judging, critiquing and telling me that I wasn't doing things "right." 

I am not even sure if Geoffie knows how pivotal this conversation was for me. I was so focused on my #fofu (i describe this in my book) that it was hard to imagine being "good enough" to support my late husband on his journey to his last breath, not lose my shit on meaningless drama and at the same time keep remembering that I wasn't dying, just my entire life, friend group and so much more was dying and shifting.

It was a real "phoenix" moment to say the least. 

Now, almost four years later ,I am still processing some of the crazy stuff I navigated, including insurance, medical drama and inane conversations about $4 perscription fees. Needless to say, I will save the details for the book about my life with the late and amazing Grant Searcey but I am still rising from the ashes of what was my old life.

Anyhow, the whole point of this little post is to share with you this idea of #spiritualdonuts and that every now and then you need to stop, take a moment and just recognize how freaking amazing you are. I know my friend certainly helped buoy me at one of my lowest moments. (Thank you Geoffie.)

Remember, to quote Jen Sincero, "You are a badass. Keep that shit up!" 

Life, death and loss are all part of the ride here on Earth and when you can approach all of this with the awareness that this is the beauty of the human experience I can promise you that when that last breath comes it's going to be a lot easier to let go and celebrate the moment with full presence.

This human experience is a painfully beautiful ride and you derserve to be reminded from time to time that you are doing great. Keep it up. 

With love and devotion on your journey, 

Akasha

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