Meditate with Alice

A guided meditation for setting intentions, letting go and co-creating with life

I have a lovely guided meditation for you this week, one inspired by a few different thoughts and musings I’ve been reflecting on. The first thread of inspiration is this weekend’s new moon in Taurus. New moons are a time of planting seeds and setting intentions. And Taurus is of course a sign associated with the physical… the physical body and the physical world. And this is important, and you’ll notice this thread woven into this meditation. Because I see this new moon is not just asking you to set an intention, but to bring it down from the ether and into the physical world. To take a grounded step towards what you desire. Taurus is earthy and tactile, and this new moon asks for this same energy over a purely mental approach. And then of course Taurus also brings themes of patience, of understanding timing, of being willing to work towards a dream with slow, steady and consistent dedication. Taurus reminds us that the most sustainable things are rarely built overnight. They are cultivated slowly, patiently, lovingly over time. Taurus shows us the wisdom and beauty of tending to our dreams with love and devotion. This new moon in Taurus is asking for something different than a set and forget intention which is thrown into the hands of the Universe with an attitude of “it’s up to you now.” This is essentially planting a seed and then dusting off your hands, walking away and saying it’s up to the Universe, or fate, to make sure it grows. And perhaps sometimes, the conditions are just right, and it so happens that your seed does take root and sprout into life. But what if you tended to your seed with love and care? What if you watered it, gave it fertiliser, made sure it got sunlight and good soil? This is co-creation. And this is what this new moon in Taurus is asking of us. And this is not about chasing or forcing your dreams into existence. It’s about becoming an active participant in what you desire, rather than waiting passively for it to arrive. There is a difference between planting a seed, walking away and handing it to the Universe to take care of…….and frantically forcing a seed to bloom, digging it up each day to check its progress and feeling frustrated that it’s not happening on your timeline. Co-creation exists somewhere in the middle…. neither passivity or force. It is tending to the conditions that allow something to flourish. You plant the seed. You set the intention. You tend to it with patience and care. You trust that something magical is unfolding beneath the darkness of the soil. You keep coming back even when there is no visible proof or evidence of growth. You, your dream, the Universe…. all dancing together under the light of the moon to create something beautiful. So with that being said, I invite you to carve out a little time today. Pop on this meditation, and once you have moved through this journey, come back and reflect, or perhaps journal on the following questions because there are intuitive clues within your meditation experience that offer incredible insight and wisdom. The experience you have in this meditation journey is not random. Not just another newsletter. A space to remember who you already are. Human Design. Self-discovery. Alignment. Meditations. In depth. In honesty. In your inbox. What did your body of water look like? For your consideration: Water represents the subconscious, the unknown, the unseen, intuition, emotion. The state of the water in your meditation experience could give you insight into your inner world. Was your water calm, still, gentle, crashing, turbulent, choppy, flowing, murky…. What does this mean to you and how does it relate to your dream or intention? What did the object you picked up look or feel like? What could this symbolise about your dream or desire? For your consideration: Was the object heavy or light? Smooth or jagged? Easy to hold or uncomfortable? Small and subtle or large and impossible to ignore? Ancient-looking? Fragile? Beautiful? Ordinary? Perhaps this symbolises the emotional weight of the dream you are casting, or your relationship to it, or the fears attached to it. What is your object telling you about your dream? What dream or intention are you currently being invited to nurture? For your consideration: This may not be new, it may be a returning or remembering. Almost as if something has been knocking on the door of your heart for awhile and now you are finally ready to welcome it in. What ripples might this dream create in your life, and in the lives of others? For your consideration: In this meditation you were invited to notice the ripples in the water after casting your object. This is symbolic of the ripples your dream or intention could have in your life because of course nothing exists in isolation. Every action sends ripples, for you and others. What are the ripples of your dream? What is one grounded action you could take to anchor this intention into the physical world and meet the universe halfway? For your consideration: It doesn’t have to be big, in fact I’d encourage it to be small. What’s important is the intention behind the action. What would it look like to tend this dream patiently, rather than forcing it to happen more quickly? For your consideration: Seeds do not sprout as soon as they are planted. You don’t dig them up every day to check if they are growing. You trust. You tend in what you can’t yet see. Can you bring the same approach to your dream? Can you trust its timing rather than rush its growth? As always, if you would like to share your experience, I’d love to hear from you. Until next time, Alice x P.S. If you’re looking for an easy and simple way to tune in, my meditations are available on a dedicated podcast feed on Apple and Spotify. Just follow the podcast and they’ll be waiting for you whenever you need a moment of connection. If you’re looking for some 1:1 support in creating your aligned life, you may be interested in booking a Human Design Deep Dive….a deep, spacious experience for those seeking answers, clarity and meaningful direction through the lens of Human Design. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/] And you may also like to explore my free resources: The Align with Alice podcast…. Listen HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/20zhTwagd4KGHOhGLud07E?si=e8d88c8e627e4cf1] on Spotify and HERE on Apple. [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/align-with-alice-human-design-podcast/id1780044814] Generate your Human Design chart for free HERE [https://www.alignwithalice.com/free-human-design-chart]…all you need is your place, date and time of birth. 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The Dreaming Heart: Guided Meditation

Hi loves, I have another meditation for you this week. I was initially planning on writing about Human Design but then when it came to sit down and write, what came to me was the idea for this meditation, so here we are. This meditation is designed to help you tap into your heart’s true desires, wishes, wants and dreams. This is the space where you can ask, and answer, the question….. “What would I be doing if nothing were impossible? What would I be doing if I could do anything? What does my dreaming heart want to share with me?” And it’s funny because it wasn’t until after I had this idea that I realised what a beautiful time of year it is to be tapping into this energy. If this resonated with you and you’d like to support my work, you’re welcome to become a subscriber or buy me a coffee….both help me continue creating reflections and meditations like this. We are coming into the final week of Pisces season which brings energies of dreams, spiritual connection, mysticism, intuition, idealism, creativity. Pisces is also the last sign of the zodiac symbolising a time of endings and closing out cycles. Pisces is less about logic and more about feeling into what is possible. This is a time when the edges soften…when the boundaries between what is and what could be begin to blur. A time when the dreaming heart has a little more space to speak. And then of course we have mercury in Pisces at the moment. Which lends to the mercurial themes of communication, thinking, cognition and expression becoming symbolic, intuitive and emotional. And then when you add to the mix the fact that Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, this is asking us to revisit, review, reflect, remember (all the r words!). I’ve heard it said that this is a time when the veil is thin which feels fitting…a time when intuition is heightened, emotional clarity strong, creative inspiration flowing, dreams vivid…in other words, a beautiful time to dream the big dream. We also have the upcoming new moon in Pisces on the 19th of March here in Australia, perhaps the 18th for you depending on where you are in the world. New moons are a time for setting intentions, planting energetic seeds and dreaming of the next chapter. And then shortly after on the 20th/21st of March we have the equinox, the beginning of the astrological new year with the sun entering Aries and the end of Mercury retrograde. If you were feeling hopeful about the Year of the Fire Horse, and perhaps a little disillusioned in feeling as if you’re off to a slow start…this could be the moment when the energies really shift and the horse is let out of the stables. But this isn’t to say this time should be overlooked or wished away. This is the dreaming phase before the new beginning. A time to imagine, dissolve limitations, reconnect with your heart’s true desires and set the trajectory of your heart so that when the energies shift, you have know where you are going…. not where you think you should go, not where others are going….where YOU want to go. So with that being said, I invite you to make yourself comfy, settle in, listen to this meditation and carve out a little time to listen to your dreaming heart. With love, Alice x P.S. If you’re looking for an easy and simple way to tune in, my meditations are available on a dedicated podcast feed on Apple and Spotify. Just follow the podcast and they’ll be waiting for you whenever you need a moment of stillness. If you’re looking for some 1:1 support in creating your aligned life, you may be interested in booking a Human Design reading….your opportunity to dive deep into all things Human Design and uncover the insights that matter most for where you are right now. 1:1, Mother:Child and Family readings available. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/human-design-reading] And you may also like to explore my free resources: The Align with Alice podcast…. Listen HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/20zhTwagd4KGHOhGLud07E?si=e8d88c8e627e4cf1] on Spotify and HERE on Apple. [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/align-with-alice-human-design-podcast/id1780044814] Generate your Human Design chart for free HERE [https://www.alignwithalice.com/free-human-design-chart]…all you need is your place, date and time of birth. Submit your question to Ask Alice HERE [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfu7x1e9PbPBKzGkkNBE_S2Wx3cmIO5haZQLYHO8s0AVXjNcg/viewform?usp=dialog]….. a space where I share guidance for real-life questions through the lens of Human Design. Subscribe to my Substack where I share guided meditations and musings on life, spirituality, Human Design and more. Get full access to Align with Alice at alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe [https://alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Recalibration with nature: a guided meditation

I have a lovely meditation practice to share with you today, one that offers an invitation to tune into your energetic state and then allow nature to support a gentle recalibration….either meeting you exactly where you are, or reminding you of what else is possible. This week’s meditation supports you to: * Notice and connect with your energetic state without judgement * Reconnect with the natural world as a source of wisdom and balance * Allow your energy to gently recalibrate through presence and awareness * Remember that nature can both mirror how we feel and show us new possibilities As always, if there is anything on your mind, or heart, you would like to share, I’m always more than happy to hear from you. You are welcome to leave a comment below or send me a message. And if there is someone who you think might also enjoy this meditation, you are welcome to share it with them. With love, and happy listening, Alice x If you’re looking for some 1:1 support in creating your aligned life, you may be interested in booking a Human Design reading….your opportunity to dive deep into all things Human Design and uncover the insights that matter most for where you are right now. Expect to walk away breathing a sigh of relief feeling deeply seen, validated, understood and with clarity on who you are and how to create more ease, flow and alignment in your life. 1:1, Mother:Child and Family readings available. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/human-design-reading] And you may also like to explore my free resources: The Align with Alice podcast…. Listen HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/20zhTwagd4KGHOhGLud07E?si=e8d88c8e627e4cf1] on Spotify and HERE on Apple. [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/align-with-alice-human-design-podcast/id1780044814] Generate your Human Design chart for free HERE [https://www.alignwithalice.com/free-human-design-chart]…all you need is your place, date and time of birth. Submit your question to Ask Alice HERE [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfu7x1e9PbPBKzGkkNBE_S2Wx3cmIO5haZQLYHO8s0AVXjNcg/viewform?usp=dialog]….. a space where I share guidance for real-life questions through the lens of Human Design. Subscribe to my Substack where I share guided meditations and musings on life, spirituality, Human Design and more. Get full access to Align with Alice at alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe [https://alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Letting go before the year turns

As we come towards the final week or so of the Year of the Snake, I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve shed, released, transformed and let go of in the last year. Labels, identities, patterns, layers of myself that no longer fit. And alongside these reflections on shedding, I’ve also been thinking about capacity. Long before I found out I was a Projector in Human Design, I had this feeling that there was something wrong with me for being unable to cope with life, particularly work, in the way others could. Working as a midwife I saw my colleagues doing overtime, double shifts, permanent night shift, and even going out after work (I feel my fellow Projectors will understand when I say this has always been unbelievable to me.) And something you hear often in the wellness and personal development space is the sentiment of needing to expand your capacity. But for me, this didn’t feel expansive or supportive. It quietly fed the sense that I was under-resourced, falling short and lacking the ability to cope. But as many Projectors do, I pushed myself to keep up. I tried to prove my worth through doing, I overworked and forced myself to keep going when every part of me wanted to stop. And of course this led me to fall into a period of physical, emotional and mental burnout, an unfortunately common life experience for Projectors. When I learned I was a Projector and what this means, suddenly everything made sense. It reframed my entire relationship with capacity as not something I lacked, but something I had been overfilling and viewing from the wrong perspective. I could see that I wasn’t incapable of coping with life but had been pushing myself to live and work in a way that I’m not designed for. I experimented with my design, understood my patterns of conditioning and made choices to live in alignment with my true nature. But in the last few weeks I’ve felt the pressure, conditioning and old patterns creep in. Working more. Saying yes when I want to say no. Taking on too much. Overfilling my days. Too much doing. Not enough space. And I won’t lie, there is part of me that feels guilt for this. A sense that I should know better by now. But what I’ve come to realise is that sometimes you need to go back to what you let go of, shed and said no to. Not because the no was wrong but because returning confirms why it was necessary. The first no protected you while you were still inside the experience. But time and distance change the lens. And when you revisit something from this changed place, you’re not undoing a decision or failing, you’re meeting it again as a different version of yourself. And my experience of falling back into old patterns, while humbling, has also been deeply validating. It’s confirmed my intuition wasn’t wrong. It’s confirmed my Projector nature. It’s confirmed the value of Human Design and why I love it so much. It showed me that returning to what we once said no to isn’t failure but part of the shedding process itself. It showed me that sometimes we don’t truly understand what we’ve shed until we try to carry it again. And it showed me that this isn’t actually a problem of me not having enough capacity. I don’t need more capacity. We are all already holding plenty. The last couple of weeks especially have shown me that I can hold a lot. But it has also shown me…. I don’t want to. And that feels scary, but important, to say. And it’s not that I don’t want a big, beautiful, full life, but it’s more that I don’t want my life to be full of what drains me. I want spacious days, free time, slow mornings and expansiveness. So what if the issue isn’t that we need to stretch ourselves further, widen our nervous systems, optimise our resilience and expand our capacity so that we can hold more? What if the issue is that we are all holding far too much? What if your capacity doesn’t need to change? But what’s inside it does. What if this is less about becoming someone who can hold more and more like becoming someone who holds only what is essential? What if instead of expanding your capacity, you let go of what is no longer serving you? But as I say this, I don’t want you to mistake this for an invitation to let go of what doesn’t matter so you can add more of what does. No. Let go of the noise. Let go of the clutter. Let go of what is weighing you down. And keep the spaciousness you’ve created free. And I think you’ll find that this is when your nervous system will finally soften and quietly thank you. With that being said, I have created this meditation to support you in these final days of shedding, releasing and letting go before we cross the threshold into the Year of the Horse. And if you feel called to, you might like to journal on these questions to deepen your reflections: * What does your capacity feel like at the moment? Spacious, overfilled, cluttered, noisy, free, balanced? * What have you shed and released this year? * What are you still holding onto but feel ready to let go of? * Where have you returned to something you once said no to? And what did that return teach you? * How can you create more spaciousness in your life? With love, Alice x If you’re looking for some 1:1 support in creating your aligned life, you may be interested in booking a Human Design reading….your opportunity to dive deep into all things Human Design and uncover the insights that matter most for where you are right now. Expect to walk away breathing a sigh of relief feeling deeply seen, validated, understood and with clarity on who you are and how to create more ease, flow and alignment in your life. 1:1, Mother:Child and Family readings available. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/human-design-reading] And you may also like to explore my free resources: The Align with Alice podcast…. Listen HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/20zhTwagd4KGHOhGLud07E?si=e8d88c8e627e4cf1] on Spotify and HERE on Apple. [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/align-with-alice-human-design-podcast/id1780044814] Generate your Human Design chart for free HERE [https://www.alignwithalice.com/free-human-design-chart]…all you need is your place, date and time of birth. Subscribe to my Substack where I share guided meditations and musings on life, spirituality, Human Design and more. Get full access to Align with Alice at alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe [https://alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Loving Kindness Meditation (Metta)

This meditation practice is called Loving-Kindness meditation, also known as Metta. And this is a beautiful Buddhist mindfulness practice which I was introduced to at a yoga class last year and instantly resonated with. And so this week, I felt called to share it with you. And as you’ll see in this meditation, this practice involves extending love and compassion first towards ourselves, then to someone in particular, and then to all. And what I love about this practice is that it starts with you. There is recognition and understanding that before we can extend love, compassion, kindness and be of service to others, we first need to do the same for ourselves. We come first. And in many ways this is opposite to what so many of us are conditioned to believe. For women, and mothers especially, there is such strong conditioning and societal expectations to be self-sacrificing, to look after others at the expense of ourselves, to put others first, to do what will please and what will make others happy. But I can’t help but see this contradiction here because on one hand this is what society expects from us. But then on the other hand, we hear surface level sentiments and platitudes about putting on your own oxygen mask before others or the importance of filling your cup first. And these platitudes can almost be like water off a duck’s back and have very little impact when trying to go against the grain of deep societal and subconscious conditioning, across many generations, that says otherwise. And of course while there is a much bigger societal conversation to be had here, I also see that this is where it starts at a grass roots individual level…..with practices like this meditation where you embody and remind yourself that it is not only okay to be loving and kind to yourself, but it is necessary. And it comes first. And this is ultimately at the crux of the work I do when supporting women with hypnotherapy and Human Design….. it is a reclamation of self. An exploration of who you are beneath the conditioning, labels and layers and a reconnection to what you truly desire. A journey of cultivating the self-worth to put yourself first and build a life that is authentic to the core essence of who you are. So I hope you enjoy this practice and as always if you’d like to share your thoughts or experience, I’d love to hear from you. And if there is someone who you think would enjoy this meditation, you are welcome to share it with them. With love, Alice x Hypnotherapist | Human Design Guide | Midwife www.alignwithalice.com [https://www.alignwithalice.com/] | @align.with.alice [https://www.instagram.com/align.with.alice/] | hello@alignwithalice.com If you’re looking for some 1:1 support in creating your aligned life, you may be interested in booking a session with me. Human Design readings….your opportunity to dive deep into all things Human Design and uncover the insights that matter most for where you are right now. Expect to walk away breathing a sigh of relief feeling deeply seen, validated, understood and with clarity on who you are and how to create more ease, flow and alignment in your life. 1:1, Mother:Child and Family readings available. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/human-design-reading] Untangled… Untangled is for the times when you catch yourself thinking, “I wish someone would just tell me what to do.” Not because you need someone else’s answer, but because you need support finding your own. Untangled it a deep, powerful 2 hour session designed to move you from confusion to clarity. Human Design provides understanding of your innate way of decision-making and energetic flow while conversational hypnotherapy helps untangle the mental loops, emotional charge and resistance that keep you stuck so that you can reconnect with your own inner knowing. Find out more and book HERE. [https://www.alignwithalice.com/work-with-me] Get full access to Align with Alice at alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe [https://alignwithalice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]