Rev. Heidi Buswell, LLC

09/23/2022

Starting in October I will be offering a meditation class at my home in Toledo. IM me for additional details.

09/08/2022

The Monthly Meditation Workshop is this Sunday at noon at my home in Toledo. All are welcome. IM me for the details if you are interested.

07/30/2022

The Meditation Workshop is all set for Sunday, August 14th. The workshop starts at noon at my home in Toledo. The cost is $30 and all are welcome.

07/02/2022

The Meditation Workshop on Sunday, July 10th will be on Celebrations. The workshop starts at noon at my home in Toledo. The cost is $30 and all are welcome.

06/12/2022

During a recent meditation, I decided to give the planet a healing. When I did, I noticed that the whole world seemed to be grieving.

In general, there are 5 typical ways grief manifests. Some people experience all of them, some skip a few, and some get stuck on one. They are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

We tend to notice grief in response to someone we love passing away – but grief is triggered by any significant loss. Any significant change.

Put simply, grief is the body’s response to change. When you move to something new, you often leave something behind. The leaving behind triggers grief.

Let go of pain and hate in your space that you’ve packed around for 20 or 30 years – something you REALLY want to release – and your body feels like you are preforming an amputation. It was used to that energy – it felt like part of the body. When it moves, the body has a response – and that response is grief.

The vibration on the plant has been gradually increasing since the mid-1990s, however over the past 2 or 3 years the increase is happening much faster. The people who have been paying attention – keeping pace – aren’t really surprised by this. For those not paying attention, the change feels sudden and has come as quite a shock.

So, what does energetic change on a planetary level trigger? It triggers grief on a planetary scale. All those bodies, all over the world, responding to change and grieving – even as many celebrate the shifts.

Remember, grief manifests in a multitude of ways so it is hard to tell if you’re are just in a big growth period, or matching the grief of others all around you¸ How can you tell? Well, it can easily be both – but if you are feeling overwhelmed, at least part of it isn’t yours.

We all have bodies, we are all experiencing this global change, so we all have grief. One easy thing to do is to ask yourself during your meditation how much of the grief you are experiencing within your system is YOUR grief and how much are you matching the grief of the whole planet’s population. Once identified, you can release the part that isn’t yours.

Sunday's Meditation Workshop is on this topic. IM me and I'll send you the details.

05/03/2022

Hope is often seen as something weak or wishy-washy. It isn't.

Consider Hope an "action noun" rather than a verb.

01/19/2022

Back at the start of COVID (April of 2020), I sent out a guided meditation on releasing fear. I decided that it was about time to do another one. This time the focus is on allowing joy into your life.

If you would like a copy of either meditation, IM me and I will email it to you. Once you have the recording, feel free to share generously.

07/11/2021

Well, I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer. Someone simply referenced balancing “Mind, Body, and Spirit” one too many times.

NEWS FLASH: The concept of Mind/Body/Spirit is a big fat lie. It is an attempt by the body to take control of the spiritual healing process. (And a very clever one too – although that’s to be expected as cleverness is also an aspect of the mind.)

Your MIND is, in actuality, your BRAIN, which is an organ in your BODY. The Mind (aka intellect) is part of your body – it is not something separate and it certainly isn’t your spiritual self. In other words, when you do a three-way “balance” of Mind, Body, and Spirit you are actually doing BRAIN, Body, and Spirit which is clearly 2 parts body to 1 part spirit. Not a real balancing at all.

Effort (just try harder – do something more), Over Thinking (gathering “just one more piece of information” before moving forward), and getting stuck on trying to figure out the “Why” in a situation are all examples of the mind taking control. These are all body perspectives; they are just driven by your brain instead of the body’s physical needs.

One of the primary functions of the brain is to analyze, sort and classify information. This is an important function and is necessary to preserve the body. It also works really well until something gets stuck. Then it starts to act like a computer with a glitch – fixating on just one thing. It can also get cluttered up with old gunk – like an old-style computer disc that needs defragmenting. If you don’t pay attention, it can also turn in to HAL – the computer from 2001 Space Odyssey – and take over completely.

Meditation is a way to quiet the mind – not necessarily “turn it off” but redirect it to allow yourself to truly balance body and spirit.

04/10/2021

Meditation Workshop is tomorrow... IM me if interested. Here is a sample from last month:

When people talk about balance, it is usually around getting two specific things – like love and fear or giving and receiving – into balance. We don’t seem to pay much attention to recognizing balance when it arrives however.

The seasons are a great example of balance. I love the summer and winter solstices. Times that mark the return of the light in winter and the turn toward fall in the summer. The longest and the shortest days. They represent opposite ends of the seasonal dichotomy.

There is much less focus on the spring or autumnal equinox. The center points of the year. The exact balance of light and dark giving us 12 hours of each.

This is a great physical representation of the fleeting nature – the rarity – of balance. Like a solstice – the equinox is just one day twice a year. You experience it – even enjoy it – and then the calendar rolls and that exact 12-hour split is gone.

The “and then it’s gone” is an important part of understanding balance.

Hitting the sweet spot is a sports term – usually used in relationship to hitting a baseball or golf ball. It’s that point of contact on the baseball bat or face of the golf club which provides the maximum result (distance) with the least amount of energy expended (force). It is a fleeting moment of balance.

The nice thing about sports though is that there is an acknowledgment that you don’t hit the sweet spot every time – that’s why it’s special; it’s relatively rare. You have the same elements in play – but everything has to align exactly to find the sweet spot. When you do, it is instantly recognizable. Everyone says “Wow! How cool!” and then moves on with the game.

Energetic balance is the same way. A fleeting sense of wonder… of “so that’s how that feels…” and then a shift – which is part of the whole process.

Acknowledging an energetic sweet spot when it arrives does two things. It validates your growth and acts as a motivation to continue in order to create the next fleeting moment of balance.

Energetic balance is not a “static state,” so when you manage to hit that sweet spot, recognize it, celebrate it, enjoy it, and then let it go without regret.

11/07/2020

I do a meditation workshop the 2nd Sunday of every month starting at 2:00 in the afternoon. I pick a topic, provide a brief lecture, and then lead a guided meditation centered around that topic. We finish out with each person receiving a “one question” psychic reading. It’s a lot of fun. Tomorrow’s topic is Gratitude.

All are welcome. The workshop is held at my home in Toledo and costs $30. Let me know if you need directions.

05/14/2020

Thoughts on Compassion

I’ve been thinking lately about some weighty words: Kindness, Community, Family, Friendship.

Wherever we live on this planet: isolated rural area, small town, medium sized city or densely populated metropolis, we are feeling the impact of this pandemic. Our lives have changed and will continue to change.

People are afraid, and the fear is bringing out the best and the worst in us: deliberate and concerted efforts at kindness and actions or speech that are thoughtless, angry, or even hateful.

It is easy to respond to the negativity being expressed with anger and judgement. “How can they be so stupid? Don’t they know they are putting others at risk?” This is a normal reaction. However, another word I’ve been thinking about suggests a different response: Compassion.

Compassion acknowledges that everyone’s experience is not the same. That everyone doesn’t have the same resources – or even the same skills for coping with a difficult situation. Compassion realizes the negative actions of others are flowing from pain or fear.

I am extremely lucky. My employer has arranged for all staff to work from home. I’m in a very small town – mostly individual houses with lots of open space – so it is easy to maintain social distancing. The house is paid for, and there is plenty of money to pay the bills. My family is healthy.

Other than working from home, the direct impact on me due to COVID is slight. I’ve stopped “in person” readings for now but continue them long distance through phone and email. I limit my travel to a weekly trip to the grocery store. There is also no visiting family members, getting a haircut or having my nails done. That’s me. However, here are a few of the things that many people around me ARE experiencing:

Loss of income due to layoff, furlough, reduction in hours, or employer closing

Possible permanent closure of my small business

Death/illness of a family member

Missing out on school activities like graduation, prom, and spring sports

Physical pain due to my “non-essential” surgery being canceled

Mental health issues related to increased stress

Loss of medical coverage or housing

Feelings of loneness and isolation – made worse by the lack of a good phone/internet connection

Frustrations of working from home while trying to cope with a child’s school needs

Compassion reminds me that I need to view a person’s behavior through the lens of their reality, rather than my own. Is the pain of missing all the things related to a student’s senior year of high school as “bad” as the loss of a job or a loved one to this virus? Objectively – to me – the answer is “No.” But that doesn’t diminish the pain of the person coping with the experience. Whatever the circumstance, for the person feeling the pain, it is real, valid, and sometimes overwhelming.

I find that compassion leads me to kindness and that kindness tempers my response. I have a choice. I can succumb to my own fear respond with anger and frustration, or I can follow Compassion’s lead. I can acknowledge the person spiritually, offer them help grounding, and connect them to God instead.

04/12/2020

Because people are experiencing a lot of fear (and other emotions) I've recorded a meditation designed to help process those things. Facebook won't let me post an audio file, so if you would like a copy of the meditation IM me and I will email it to you. You can find more information on my website: www.ofthesoul.com