September 13th, 2010:  Road Trip Expansion

I’m in love with southeast South Dakota.  It took me three days of farting along to get here but DAMN!  After two nights in motels it was great to camp in the Badlands National Park.  I said to myself, this is BAD ASS land all right.  It’s very severe and amazingly beautiful.  I have continually asked for guidance and have gotten it without fail.  When I tried to set up my tent with the wind blowing it horizontal in my hands, Peter shows up to give me a hand.

Interior, SD down the road about 2 miles was a favorite…population 67 and they put on an amazing hog roast for $5 a plate.  I had to give them 10 because it was just too good.  The woman who works at the Cowboy Corner Gas Station in Interior is rare.  She works from 6a.m. to 9 p.m. every day but one and is the area therapist.  Every time I came in she was hugging someone and clearly was a fixture in Buffalo Grassland.

I can’t say enough about the Badlands.  I am not only a prairie woman by blood but I’m positive I was an Oglala Lakota in more that one past life.  It feels like home to me in this bad ass land.  In the gift shop at the park there was an original warrior head dress and as I touched it I had chills up and down my body.  I imagined me riding my pinto bareback, carrying my spear and chasing buffalo.  And I say about 20o buffalo in the park and got nearly eye to eye with them and they are big suckers.  Damn!

I am having a WONDERFUL time.  I’m using my inner Source as my guide as to where to go and how long to stay and am very comfortable with that.  I’m also consciously upping my energetic connection with Source.  If you can meditate without too much distraction I would recommend this resource.  When you get relaxed and have calmed the thoughts in your mind think of someone with whom you have no conflict at all and with whom you have a loving connection.  I used my bff dog, Dudie.  I think of him…and this is the deal…I think of his energy, what does he feel like to me, what is his personality feel like.  It may take a minute or two to fish around and let that energy come to you but you will recognize it when you feel it.  That’s Dudie! 

I recommend beginning with a pet if you have one because usually you have no issues to get in the way of allowing the loving energy to come through.

After you have this energy ramped up, and it should be feeling pretty good, now try to bring in someone you love.  I thought of my daughter, no ambivalence there, and noticed I had to expand my energy field and feel for her energy at a more expanded space but she came through and I knew I had gone to a higher vibration.

I realize this may sound really off the walls to someone who is not used to meditating and feeling energy but I’m putting it out there anyway.

After calling in the energy of a loved human, then try calling in your own Higher Self.  I found that this takes a still higher energy boost as you think of what it feels like to be you…what does your personality feel like?  And feel your way to that, allow that energy and then allow that feeling to expand.

Now this is pretty much graduate work in meditation and not for a beginner unless you are just a natural.  And the process takes 10 to 20 minutes because the mind wanders and it takes a while to allow yourself to turn down the volume on the reality around you so that you can get into a quiet space.

I’m loving this trip more that I can speak.  I’m in Keystone, SD right outside Mt. Rushmore and I plan to stay in the National Park here for two or three nights as I am guided.  Then on to Wyoming.  I decided that this will definitely not be my last road trip.  There is no better way to get close to yourself than this kind of adventure.

Sending you my love from “The Heads”,  Connie