Elizabeth Keedy

This post is a transcript of a video I recently released through my MOMENTS OF A MYSTIC YouTube channel. You can watch the video below. If you’d like to receive my newsletter, with special offers and updates to my blog, feel free to subscribe 😊.

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Changing Seasons

Over this last week, autumn is now showing signs of settling in, with the changing colours and the falling leaves. Or rather, as we recently experienced in the UK, strong winds and heavy rains battering the trees into submission to rip off their leaves and hurl them at the ground. 

And with the slower pace, health and wellness come to the front of my mind.

Over the last two years on YouTube, creating pick-a-card readings for spiritual guidance, I was often asked to share my spiritual wisdom, practices and disciplines as a personal mentor. But I was never sure how to condense all my years of spiritual learning into one or even a few sessions.

Recently though, with thoughts of well-being on my mind, I had the idea to make this video about the daily activities I engage in for spiritual well-being. So I hope it helps at least one person.

I’ll start with one of my most important daily practices: meditation.

Meditation is often misunderstood, where it’s believed that inner peace should be achieved, but being human in this challenging world, inner peace can be illusive. 

That used to be me, until one day, I saw so clearly the direction in which I was heading. And I didn’t like it. I knew I needed to change.

I started meditating in 2007, 2 or 3 times a week, when my life was in constant chaos and I lurched from one drama to the next. At first, my busy mind was infuriating, with multiple streams of thought simultaneously vying for attention. 

Binaural beats helped a little, so did repeating mantras, or counting. But what helped me the most back then, was attending Buddhist meditation groups. They taught me to focus on one thing, which was usually a positive inner state of being, such as compassion, forgiveness, or acceptance.

And after a few months of sticking with it, I saw positive results.

As soon as I left my 9 to 5 job in 2012, working as a slave to line someone else’s pockets with gold coins, in a physical job that destroyed my physical health, a new routine began: morning and afternoon meditations, that lasted around 45 minutes each. 

Yes, that was a lot of meditating, but it helped too much for me to stop. 

I then connect with Spirit, ask for protection and grounding, and open up my energy. My healing guides and angels merge with me to channel divine healing light into my body. To create a healing circuit, I place my hands one on top of the other, usually over my sacral chakra. 

I ask for my energy to be cleansed, balanced and aligned, then use my intention to call back my power. Next, I call in Michael, archangel Michael, to cut chords that are no longer needed. 

The shift in my energy is usually quite profound.

Settling in to relaxation, I connect with my spirit family and guardian angel and bask in their love and peace. If I’m lucky, they give me a message. 

For me, meditation has become a positive habit of self-awareness and observation.

Instead of running away from my thoughts, I look at what they’re telling me about myself. I allow space to express my emotions. I face my fears and insecurities, and look at what else needs attention, healing or releasing. 

Meditation helps me de-stress and connect with my physical body to check in with how it’s feeling. 

Sitting, during meditation causes me too much discomfort. My misaligned pelvis is still correcting itself. This physical imbalance, that has affected my spine, neck and jaw, then gradually my entire body, started at a young age, as my body gave me the clear message that I had become seriously out of alignment with my true self. 

Along with years of chiropractic care, meditation and self-awareness, I’ve been doing the inner healing work needed to realign the inner me, which is, by extension, realigning my physical body.

As someone who is recovering from complex PTSD, engaging in meditation, self-awareness and practicing being present has helped me manage the negativity that has followed me around most of my life. And, slowly, steadily, I’ve reprogrammed my mind and released my suppressed emotions. 

Meditation, for me, has been life-changing, which is why, rarely a day goes by when I don’t lie down and be with myself.

Throughout the day, I maintain awareness of my energy and ask Spirit for help with clearing and grounding when needed. As a highly sensitive clairsentient and empath, my energy easily becomes blocked or unbalanced, leading to physical symptoms that escalate and make me ill.

So, the cats, they’re included in my daily activities for spiritual well-being. Spending time with them brings me boundless joy. Their antics make me laugh, and every day I love them more and more. And it’s real love, too, the unconditional kind, which means I still love them even when they’re naughty.

Each day, I’m in awe of these remarkable beings. To me, they are angels in fur coats. But actually, they are my Spirit family, who have incarnated to help me grow and evolve. They have taught me to live from my heart. And as I live alone, with few friends, my spirit family cats are there to offer me support. What could be better?!

Taking care of my spiritual health also includes taking care of my physical health. We can’t have one without the other. So, I eat organic food, simple meals cooked from scratch, and I drink plenty of filtered, energised water – at least 4 litres a day.

After studying various healing modalities over the years, I’ve tried various plant remedies and energy medicines and found huge benefit to my spiritual health, so I regularly use them to help clear and heal my energy.

I go outside every day, regardless of the weather, except for a rare occasion when a chronic migraine has me curled in a ball under the duvet. But the effects of the migraines have been easing recently, thank goodness.

I’ve already mentioned self-awareness and being present. With each passing year, these practices have become more important, because, after years and years of people pleasing and co-dependency, I had no idea of who I was. 

Getting to know myself has been an interesting and exciting journey that has led to me living my life as a modern-day hermit. 

Now that I know who I am and what I like, and I’ve learnt to honour my extremely sensitive nature, I don’t want to get lost in other people’s energy anymore. I’ve found I’m much happier by myself. Although, I’m not really by myself, as the cats are always there, along with my family in Spirit.

Being by myself helps me to really focus on being present and experiencing gratitude for all the wonderful blessings that fill my days. Having gratitude has helped me to open my heart and allow myself to receive – something that has been out of balance for a long time. 

And gratitude is another of my daily activities for spiritual well-being. I’ve practiced gratitude for a long time, but it sometimes felt fake. So I stopped for a while and focused on healing what was blocking me, and now the gratitude I express feels real.

So, meditation, walking in nature, inner healing, self-awareness, being present, taking care of my energy, connecting with Spirit, cherishing the cats, taking care of my body, using plant and energy medicines, and giving gratitude.

Those are my daily activities for spiritual well-being. What practices do you have every day? I’d love to hear from you ☺️.