Sacred Sedona

 

In this issue I’m going to deviate a little from the usual teaching format of this column as we touch on the subject of personal growth. You’ll hear a lot of mediums say that being a medium is not what I do, it’s who I am. Developing your abilities goes hand in hand with unfolding your spiritual and personal growth as at times you’ll find yourself feeling like your abilities have stifled and not progressed or improved for some time. Well this is usually an indication of a time of personal and emotional growth. Once you come through this challenge, the improvement you’ll see to your abilities will surpass anything you’ve experienced before.

As I share with you a recent personal experience I hope you’ll gain some insight into this aspect of the journey. In doing so, I hope that it will inspire you to look back and not only recognise each personal milestone, but see how each of them, having come at a price, have or can in some way provide understanding of who you are, who you have been and who you will be.

There are times in one’s life that a moment of simplicity results in a moment of magic and profound change, as all the hard work you have put into it finally comes together. 

During my recent trip to the USA, my husband Rod and I visited the town of Sedona which is a couple of hours north of Phoenix, Arizona and is in the heart of Red Rock country. It is sacred land for many ancient Native American tribes, among them the Sinaqua and Hohokam with archaeological evidence dating as far back as 8000BC. Currently there is a thriving metaphysical community, as many, many people find themselves not only drawn to its magnificent beauty but also to the Sedona healing energies for which it is widely known for.  

Sedona is reputed to be a world vortex site, where the Earth’s energetic ley-lines meet, thus creating a zone of powerful, majestic energies. Much like Stonehenge in England, Machu Picchu in Peru and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.  

Visiting Sedona was not initially part of the plan, as to be honest I was completely unaware of its spiritual reputation. However, Spirit certainly had other plans. Leading up to the trip I was encountering a great deal of synchronistic events or coincidences, if you will, regarding Sedona. From people just talking to me about Sedona to quite a few travels shows appearing on TV just at the right time. Being someone who not only believes in synchronicity, but live my life consciously being guided by them, I knew that Sedona was a must to visit.

We opted for an everyday tourist tour as I was feeling a little overdosed on psychic and spiritual energy after the Hay House conference, besides the fact that my husband would find meditating with a medicine wheel in an energy vortex a little ‘out there’. The drive to Sedona was uneventful, although my expectations were high as my intuition had been telling me something special was to take place specifically with regards to how I would feel. Even so, what unfolded still completely took me by surprise.

Our first stop was at Montezuma’s castle, which is the ancient remains of Native cliff dwellers and is about half-an-hour from Sedona. Following this, we moved to the Chapel of the Holy Cross, which gives you a panoramic view of all of Sedona’s Red Rock formations and their corresponding vortex sites: a breathtaking view in itself. Alighting from the tour van and coming in physical contact with the land resulted in this overwhelming feeling of having ‘come home’. This feeling erupted throughout my entire being, right to my very core. There was such a sense of peace and completion that I became quite emotional. Had I been here before? Not in this life time. Was this a past life connection? I don’t think or feel this to be so; it felt much deeper than connecting to one aspect of myself. While I knew how I was feeling, I didn’t fully understand it.

As is my nature, I couldn’t help myself but to immediately try to come to some understanding of what was happening. So firstly, I entered the Chapel questioning if it was the church I felt connected to. No. After lots of photo taking we made our way into town, so still questioning, I was asking myself, “Is it the town I feel connected to?” No. This was all confirming for me, that it was truly the land that I felt connected to. 

In time I was told it was my ‘Spiritual Home’. As grateful for this insight as I was, it then presented a new question. What does that really mean? Was it the place itself or was it the powerful energies providing a healing release bringing me closer to our true home, the world of Spirit, like I have never experienced before? Somehow I sense that it’s a combination of both, which only a return visit will provide more insight and understanding to.

Certainly the experience itself was something for my history books, however, the lasting effects on me personally have been the most intriguing.   Since that moment at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, I feel like a new person and the only way I can describe it is to use the old Cherokee parable of the two wolves. Please click here to read. This parable speaks of an internal struggle we all have, where our Spirit is constantly challenged by our Ego. Well, that struggle was very true for me.

Over the years I have constantly worked with awareness to live from my spirit and not allow my ego self to rule with its self doubt, judgements and lack of love. This at times has regularly felt like hard work and a constant struggle, although until Sedona I was really unaware of how much of a struggle it truly was.

Since that very moment the struggle no longer exists in the same way. No longer is it a daily battle going on within. My sense of Self is much stronger, my Spirit is at the forefront and easily accessible, with the self-doubt no longer being part of my every day internal dialogue. My ego self still exists, however, I now find it to be less powerful and more manageable. As my self-doubt rises, not only is it a lot less often but it feels like I am detached from it in some way. The thoughts are at a distance as I readily remind myself that they are part of the old Kerrie and the new Kerrie can quickly switch that around and return to love.

My understanding of this change within is two fold. Firstly, the energies of Sedona sparked a profound healing and release cementing in place all the self-healing I had worked on over the years. This brought about a feeling of being whole as I’d never felt before. I believe up to this point my soul had been fragmented and disconnected in many ways I may never fully understand. Certainly I believe, that our hurts can accumulate and disconnect us from others, from ourselves and from the Divine.  Over the years I have had many experiences of self-healing and gaining new understandings of who I am as I consistently worked on filling those holes in my soul, whether I was aware of them or not. However, not until such an experience can you fully comprehend the effect of this kind of separation and the effect it has on who we are and our birth-right to be completely connected to our Creator. 

Had I visited last year or before, or had I not worked on myself in the way I have over the years? Would my visit to Sedona have provoked this magnificient healing release ? I think not. It is my understanding that my experience in Sedona is not an isolated case; actually I suspect it could be quite common. It’s God’s way, leading you to a moment in time where you can unfold your capacity to bring about your own healing. Do you need to visit a place like Sedona to achieve that? No, I don’t think so, but it sure makes it so much more spectacular.