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The Moon Cycles & Mental health awareness meditation blanket
Understanding the Design
This blanket was designed to promote mental health awareness within the spiritual community by calling attention to particular facets of the collective human ego structure that tend to surface with each full moon. Full moons impact our relationships and social life because they are a time of intensified energy and magnification of certain traits and qualities that tend to reside within the cellars of our subconscious. Full moons can make everything feel a bit more intense and emotional than usual and this blanket helps people to be self-aware of what obstacles they may encounter each month and where shadow work is needed.
The front of the blanket helps people to recognize negative patterns in their behavior that coincide with qualities accentuated by the different moon cycles because certain undesirable traits may become magnified during a full moon. Embedded on the front of the blanket are also Green Tara’s simple solutions for the 8 greatest obstacles we face as a collective when it comes to experiencing prosperity, abundance, and harmony in our lives courtesy of The Sophia Code.
The Back
The back of the blanket includes 4 simple steps to work through our shadows should they arise and puts into context why it’s important to practice good mental hygiene when we choose to be spiritual.
Promoting Mental Health Awareness in the spiritual community
Mental Health Matters in the Context of Spirituality
When it comes to spirituality, the goal is to harness our innate gifts and intuitive abilities in a way that contributes to the emotional prosperity of the greatest number of people, and this means learning how to be in a good way with others by practicing good mental hygiene and tending to our mental health by being aware of what obstacles we may face in the near future and anticipate how we intend to overcome them. We can do this by following the moon cycles.
Full Moons Can Magnify Undesirable Qualities
Throughout the year, the position of the moon in space changes in relation to us and so the moon’s gravitational effects upon us change as well, and each full moon presents an opportunity to enhance or magnify particular qualities or traits, some desirable and others not so desirable.
The Power of Meditation
Meditation is a spiritual practice that has been used for centuries in different faiths. It involves quieting the mind and focusing on a particular thought or object. Meditation can help reduce stress, improve concentration, and enhance overall well-being.
Tips for Practicing Good Mental Hygiene with Spirituality
Self-awareness is key. This blanket helps you to recognize patterns in your behavior that coincide with qualities accentuated by the moon cycles. The undesirable personality traits that manifest during full moons are often aspects of our human ego structure shouting for our attention. These are facets of our personality that we have either masked or not yet acknowledged because they lurk in the cellars of our subconscious. When you recognize them, journal about the experience.
Practice Mindfulness
Practice being conscious of what you are thinking and how your thoughts make you feel. Weed out negative thoughts as they arise. The Huberman Lab at Stanford has shown that the average person thinks 60,000 thoughts a day, and 80% of them are negative. Research has shown that there is nothing we can do to stop negative thoughts from arising the same way we cannot keep weeds from sprouting in our gardens. But when we are conscious of our thoughts and how they make us feel by paying attention to the subtle discomfort they may cause in our bodies, we can train ourselves to shift our perspective about certain situations and thereby change the emotions we embody. When we vibrate on a higher frequency, this is reflected in the level of satisfaction we feel in our interactions and correspondences with others.
Intention Setting, Visualization, and Affirmations
Where we place our attention is where we place our energy, and setting the intention to NOT embody the undesirable traits that surface with the different full moons by visualizing a higher vibrational version of ourselves and choosing to adopt the perspective of our Higher Selves when difficult situations arise is important in the practice of good mental hygiene when it comes to spirituality. Creating an action plan should you get triggered during a full moon and fall into the traps of the human ego structure is helpful.
Explore Karuna Compassion
Most importantly, remember to have compassion for yourself as you navigate different levels and areas of healing with each full moon. It is necessary for us to embody lower vibrational states in our individual spiritual journeys such that we can learn to recognize what patterns of behavior manifest at different vibrational states and the psychology associated with them. Also, when we experience different versions of ourselves and grow from them, we then learn to have compassion for others when we recognize the same behavior and we can understand what obstacles and blockages they are experiencing.
Defining Abundance and Prosperity
Abundance is not just the size of our bank accounts! Abundance is anything and everything that brings balance, brightness, and joy into our lives. Abundance is a frequency that attracts the right people and resources to us such that we can experience the freedom of options, love, companionship, health, family, and friends in our lives. Abundance is also being able to co-create and collaborate with others. Prosperity is the frequency at which we manifest abundance repeatedly and consistently into our life experience.
The Importance of Compassion and Service
Compassion and service are at the heart of many spiritual traditions. By helping others and practicing empathy, we can deepen our own spiritual practice and make a positive impact in the world.
Understanding the Science
Moon Cycles Affect our Chakras, Hormone Levels, and Mental Health
Our bodies are 60% water, and as the gravitational pull exerted by the moon in its different phases changes, the fluctuation in energy affects the polarization of water molecules in our body, which in turn affects the electromagnetic field that surrounds us, namely our chakras. And because our chakras connect to 1-2 endocrine glands, when our chakras become disbalanced, we experience fluctuations in hormone and neurotransmitter secretion in our bodies, which in turn can cause us to feel more emotional, fatigued, or excited than usual. An example of the moon’s powerful effects on water can be seen with the high tides present each full moon and the lower tides present with a new moon. When trying to overcome any of these obstacles to abundance in our lives, journaling, self-reflection, honest accountability, and shadow work are key.
Click to learn about research at Cleveland Clinic about lunar cycles and mental health.