Healing exercises

What should I do if I consistently have negative thoughts or criticisms toward others, and I really want to change that?

Written by Razhiel, posted on 7 Sep 2023 also on theearthforce.tumblr.com and Instagram.

1) Self-compassion
First of all, please forgive yourself. Many view themselves negatively upon recognizing their own critical thoughts. However, your desire to improve indicates that deep within, you possess kindness and love. Your mind has just developed certain habitual thought patterns, but these patterns can be altered.

2) Identify the Root Causes

Negative thought patterns can stem from various causes. Perhaps someone has projected their malicious thoughts and emotions, such as jealousy, onto you. Consequently, this negative energy might attract similar thoughts to your mind. You might also feel a sense of inadequacy, leading to negative emotions that generate unhealthy thoughts. Past experiences, such as traumas and excessive criticism during childhood, could also create deep-seated patterns. You can identify the root causes by paying attention to your triggers. What scenarios individuals evoke the most negativity? What aspects of them irritate you? What exact emotions and thoughts go through your head? Delving into these triggers can help you trace back to the root of the issue.

3) Embrace and Release

After you have dug out the root causes, experience the emotions that come from them. It may be useful to find meanings in them to facilitate your recovery. Afterward, tell yourself that you have grown from this experience, and you are ready to forgive anyone involved, let it go, and move on.

4) Affirmative Practice

Regularly practicing positive affirmations, such as “I am safe and loved now,” is beneficial. Such practices strengthen positive thought processes.

Best of luck on your journey toward self-healing and achieving mental serenity!

4 ways to uplift your vibration and keep it high

Written by Razhiel, posted on 8 Dec 2022 also on theearthforce.tumblr.com and Instagram.

1) Control where you put your focus
Focus on and think about things and people that make you happy to uplift your mood and keep that good mood. Since your mood is tied to your vibration, you can maintain your vibration at a higher frequency by doing so.

2) Try to perceive an issue from a different angle

If an issue triggers you emotionally, you can try to figure out what beliefs generate these emotions, then shift your beliefs related to the issue. For example, you feel angry because a storekeeper is rude to you. You realize that you are angry because you believe that person is disrespectful to you. You can change your mood by thinking that perhaps s/he just has a bad day, and his/her behavior has nothing to do with you as a person but is a reflection of his/her emotional state.

Often you can trace your beliefs or deep feelings back to your past in the current life, or even in your past lives, and it could be tricky to deal with these karmic knots alone. In that case, you could consider Auriel's card reading for guidance or Razhiel's Spiritual Response Therapy.

3) Improve self-worth and self-esteem

One who is comfortable and confident with him/herself does not usually get upset easily. You can find out beliefs that generate negative beliefs about yourself by observing your thoughts and emotions closely. In addition, there are many exercises that can help you with this, such as the exercise of Go Deeper Into Knowing and Loving Yourself.

4) Have gratitude and appreciate the beauty in things and people around you, regardless of how big or small they are

By practicing gratitude and appreciation, you train yourself to focus more on the beauty of the world. Indeed there are many things to appreciate in this world, such as all the units in your body functioning miraculously in harmony for you, the beautiful stars in the sky, and the many people – e.g. farmers, truck drivers, janitors – working tirelessly to support your life directly or indirectly.

"First Step to Attracting What You Want: Emptying the Mind" meditation exercise (audio)

Created by Aurial on 24 March 2022

The first step to attracting what you want into your life is to empty your mind.

Grounding meditation exercise (audio)

Created by Aurial on 24 Feb 2022

This grounding exercise is designed to help you connect to the earth. As we live our lives, we could experience many pulls and pushes that de-centre ourselves from the Source. Grounding helps us retrieve that balance--the force that holds and supports us so that we feel clear, centred, and focused.

Go Deeper into Knowing and Loving Yourself

Written by Razhiel, published in the Winter (December) 2021 issue of Spiritual Response Association (SRA) Ascension Journal. Razhiel would like to thank the Publication Team of SRA for their editorial efforts to improve this article. If you would like to try this exercise but you don't practice Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT), you can read the non-SRT-specific version here.

Once while doing Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT), a simple exercise entered my mind. I imagined myself standing in front of me and then hugged that image. Through this exercise, unrealized feelings about myself and previous decisions I hadn’t made peace with were revealed. I would like to take this opportunity to share this exercise with you.

If you feel energetically blocked at the moment, please first prep yourself to work and do an SRT clearing. This exercise needs to be done with positive energy while you are in a meditative state. When you are ready, put yourself in a meditative state by following the meditation method taught by your SRT Teacher or use another approach that works for you. At this stage you can choose to prep yourself to work by following the standard SRT procedures, but it is not mandatory.

Once you are in a meditative state, imagine yourself standing in front of you. Then, hug yourself just as you would hug another person and monitor your own feelings. This part of the exercise will tell you how you truly feel about yourself.

Are you happy to hug yourself or do you feel repulsed?
Do you find yourself beautiful and unblemished?
Do you feel love?

After the hug, remember how you were at different ages and initiate a conversation with your childhood or teenage self. Those different versions of yourself may ask you questions about particular events or past decisions you made. Through these conversations, regrets, doubts, and wounds from the past may surface, particularly if there are decisions or past events you feel you didn't handle correctly. Ask yourself:

Do you feel at peace when asked these questions?
Do you have regret or have you forgiven yourself?
Are there decisions you made that you regret?
Are there past events that you don’t feel you managed well?
Are the energies of these situations still bothering you?

After answering the above questions, do a clearing with your High Self to release the energies that don’t serve you. You can use the standard SRT procedures to locate and release these energies. Ask your High Self to help you accept the past and move on from it, understanding that no one can make decisions perfectly all the time. Replace negative self-images and beliefs with positive affirmations. Lastly, fill yourself with love, then mop up.