Janice Salmon

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  • Morning Practice

    My morning practice has served me well for a number of years. A little rosary, it takes it’s own unique form (check out The Way of the Rose book for a full energy download). I love crystals, meditation some oracles cards and I am good to go. Sets me up for the day ahead!

    In a discussion group yesterday we touched on how we have been on a long pilgrimage of self healing modalities. It was a surprise to talk about these practices which I identify with as a 10 year process of rock bottom to coming out of the mud. But talking through the journey of life’s adventures of practices we realized we have been searching and uncovering these rituals all our days. From early Sunday schools, childhood group initiations with bobbled hats, to yoga, meditation, light codes, ley lines, yew trees….

    As I look at the list it is like a walk back in time through our ancestors. A stepping further and further back through our DNA, the cellular memory codes to our ancient inner self. After all aren’t we just the inherited codes of our native origins.

    If I continue to follow my memories, the symbolic breadcrumbs, what rituals am I uncovering? They say we lost our heritage as it was an oral tradition and our deep rooted path of our ancestors can never be truly known. But what if we do know, from a memory embedded within us? What if all we need to do is look inward to remember…

  • Transformation

    As the season changes so can you. As your body restarts a new cycle every month this is a great time to give yourself permission to transform. Change when viewed as growth is a positive act of self care and drives us ahead to dream and to reestablish our goals. As the season changes and we enter autumn we can take lessons from the natural world. As the trees shed their leaves we can view this time as our time to release some outdated practices and lighten our load. To take up a new perspective and channel our inner goddess to some well deserved self care routines for the month ahead.

    My head chatter has always got the better of me. So this month I am going to make a conscious effort to push in some gratitude thoughts over the self doubt. My aim is to write down my successes and achievements because when we look, really look, we can achieve new goals every day just by welcoming in a new thought with a positive perspective. Even if that thought is to ask a friend for help or advice, or write a self love note. “You did good today you had that coffee and took 10 minutes to yourself!”

    What can you allow to fall away that no longer served you?

    What transformation will you make that gives you greater joy?

    What new cycle can you set in motion?

  • Menstrual Cycles

    I have cycled for 35 years. What else in life do we repeat this many times? It is still a topic of conversation not mentioned so much. Compare it to films, food or work. This repetitive experience doesn’t get much air time does it!

    We are all aware of the stories of red tents and lodges within our ancestral history. Women gathered, they talked, they shared, they would bleed and be supported . And I imagine they laughed and they cried…..together. These are now just that, stories, the inter-generational support, the experience and wisdom from Grandmothers is no longer passed down. Our ancestral roots and rituals of women gathering as family, community and tribe are lost.

    What does this silence repeat to our younger generations? What does the silence do to our bodies? What patterns get repeated?

    How would visibility around menstruation change the nature of womanhood? Imagine a culture of cycle awareness and respect for women in their bleed time. It would possible look something like this, flexibility in the workplace and receiving space to nurture your body and emotions as you bleed. Imagine a generation of elder women supporting you and answering all your questions about your bleed.

    So my question is, how does our next generation benefit from our silence?

  • And so she shines…

  • Red Tent Journaling

    Do you journal your bleed time? This is when those nuggets of wisdom appear on the pages. I find it is a time of cleansing and resting as I nest myself. Yes, nesting is necessary, an hour or three is good, doesn’t need to be days, although could you imagine?

    Our bleed is a call to the inner cave, to our intuition. It may be a whispering or a shout to come inward. Listening within can be priceless as here is where the treasure lies. As we delve inwards we can start with two questions. What can be cleansed and cleared away from this last cycle? And what can be taken away and seeded for the future?

    Reflecting on the last cycle can bring awareness of where we have been overwhelmed and worn by life’s pressures. Evaluating the last month can be a silent retreat into any tension experienced that can be cleanse away after some analysis. (This isn’t all work by the way! This is also nap time and favourite pjs!).

    What we can take from our last cycle are the seeds, the accomplishments, that celebrate ourselves. By nurturing these seeds and clearing what has past brings in the energy of the new cycle. We start over, cleansed, nourished and insightful. (after a ceremonial nap).

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  • Edge of Summer – FOTD

    Edge of Summer

  • Storm Generator

    This storm was like no other and yes, I keep repeating this, it even rang my doorbell! The electrics tripped out and when they came back on everything rang, alarmed, the lot. The lightning flashes were held in the sky for hours, a display of cosmic electrical dances. This lasted for hours just hanging above our town with occasional bursts of thunder that rattled the windowpanes.

    That’s not the story here. The story is that on this night I was drawn to set a crystal grid! Yes in all this fury I sensed something coming to me, a transmission, I wanted to set up a crystal grid.

    As I worked intuitively the grid took form under this energetic sky and what was created was a generator. So here is what I know about the generator crystals. They are used in the crystal healing community for precision, for specific treatments, often called projectors. They basically amplify frequency to a specific area or intention. So the grid I created with the chakra crystals seemed to be an auric grid having the seven chakra system crystals. But here my intuition was feeding me a new way to look at the chakras and how they amplify. Basically I was being shown that the linear head to root system can now be viewed as a sphere like integration. The chakra points within the light body communicate in a cycle.

    When viewed as a cycle or sphere the chakras interrelate with the usual root to sacral, sacral to solar plexus etc, but also in a crosslink such as third eye to solar plexus, root to heart, sacral to throat. So for example, thoughts to feelings, foundations to love and speech to emotions. If you can imagine this cycling system in a sphere and consider the crown at centre as more of a gateway to our body, our being. The crown runs through all our system and the chakras can even transmit and move. If you image the chakras as a colour, as fluid, expanding and contracting. The generator crystal grid is then a system that creates balance and harmony. It becomes a way to stabilise and project equalibrium in extreme moments. When considered in this way doesn’t the system of our being interconnect deeply, don’t we become less of a linear body of spirit and more of an emotional energetic expression. Don’t our words become choked with emotions, doesn’t the mind run about with our feelings…..all I ask is next time you consider an imbalance to your chakra point look at the interconnected system, look at the crosslink. Don’t we just move as a whole being, with cycling systems and emotions?

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  • Love

    I am the Love that never dies
    I am She who calls to you from whispers, sound, vibrations of the Heart.
    I come in Dark and Light
    In Strength and Fear
    Do not fade at what comes before you
    Do not bluster or storm
    You are always in my Love
    I am carrying your torch of Light
    To guide a way for you to be open
    Be present
    Be in Teaching
    Of the moment
    Nothing evades you
    Nothing withheld from you
    As all love can be received
    All thanks to Love
    In openness
    Of Divine Love
    Be open
    Be gracious
    Of the Love that never dies

  • Open Hearted

    I Am SHE of Sound
    Like waves upon your shore
    I am Here caressing you to awaken
    To seek Within
    As You Love You Open
    As You Open You Love

    The Song of Peace
    Like gentle waves of Love
    To Open your door
    To find your own Sound,
    Your Song, Your Way

    On the Shore of your Emptiness
    There in the Oneness
    You will find Sanctuary
    And it will hold you still

    As You surrender
    To the waves of your Being
    Transcending all that burdens you
    Listen
    I am always found within
    Your Heart

  • White Light

    Our Holy Ones of the
    White Light. I bathe in your surrounding Light
    For my inner health and healing.
    I acknowledge your Divine Presence
    In this time of Now
    And the time to come.
    Gather with me and
    I am truly blessed for your
    Loving Presence
    In Grace and Love
    I thank thee All