Mana
Gardening

The SoundCloud audio files below were recorded live in April 2020 with a group of daily meditators/co-creators, so you will hear group introductions, gratitude, comments and questions at the beginning and end of each guided meditation (which you can skip if you’d like). Sweet group magic is here!

There is also a YouTube Playlist with guided meditation only, produced without any audience.

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As you listen and participate in these guided meditations, you will be adding your personal intent and heart’s desires to the Heaven on Earth reality that is undergoing its dance into manifestation NOW.

KNOW that your participation is NEEDED and is KEY to the manifestation of a loving, peaceful, sustainable world of beauty and joy for ALL.

Guided by Dr. Michelle Shine of Mind Gardening / Mana Gardening, listen in as often as you wish.  THANK YOU for contributing to a harmonious planet for ALL!

Feel the positive vibrations in your body as you create Heaven on Earth in 7 days:

Day 1: Relationship between Gaia (Earth) and Humans

We are taking this incredible opportunity to Envision the New Earth, an Earth in which WE want to live in going forward. As we imagine it and feel into it, we create it. The focus of Day 1 is the creation of a heavenly relationship between Humans and Gaia.

Day 2: Relationships between Humans

Co-create New Earthly relationships, the ones between ourselves and others. Imagine the highest timeline for relating to one another one-on-one, in families, tribes, and communities in Heaven on Earth.

Day 3: Divine Human Systems (healthcare, finances, education transportation, etc.)

Guided meditation to envision and co-create how human systems work (or are no longer needed) in the New Earth reality timeline. Sustainable and healthy transportation, communication, education and healthcare are highlighted.

Day 4: Your Personal Relationship with the Divine

In a meditation guided by Dr. Michelle Shine, envision the New Earth timeline, one of the highest potential for all, and imagine and feel the creation of your own personal relationship with the Divine. You will feel a potent connection with the Divine and be able to call it forth more deeply from here forth.

Day 5: Personal Growth and Evolution

Day 5 of this guided meditation series of Envisioning the New Earth reality involves imagining how our own personal evolution will flow. We also dive into how we might be of service and help others in their conscious evolution process in the Golden Age. Facilitated by Dr. Michelle Shine of Mana Gardening Institute.

Day 6: Envisioning Healthy Communities

Day 6 of Envision the New Earth guided meditation series focuses on Communities. Visualize and feel how you want experience community/tribe in the new earth timeline. Yum!

Day 7: Basking in Completion

Envision the New Earth guided meditation Day 7 is the day of rest and completion. Bask and feel the fruits of the previous days of creation as you are blessed and appreciated. Favorite images from participants are visualized by all to give more energy to those creations.

WE are what we’ve been waiting for. WE are more powerful than we know. And WE are more powerful and creative together!

Namaste.

So here is how my inner garden guidance works:

Me: Should I drive to Atlanta tonight or tomorrow?
Inner garden: Go tonight.

And interestingly, the ONLY time she has to meet with me is today at noon! And what a harmonious meeting of kindred spirits it was!

The inner garden guided me to drive to Atlanta when I did (presumably)so that I would be able to meet this beautiful person with whom I will likely work with and share many future experiences.

If I had not asked the question and had used my “logical” mind to decide, I would have driven the next night and I would have missed this opportunity to meet her. And if I had decided it was too late to drive after 9pm, and just left the next morning, I would have missed it too (because I would have taken my sweet time getting out the house).

Within the inner garden, you have access to a higher level of information than normal and that information can be conveyed to you through your higher self as guidance.

And that guidance can help your heart’s desires and manifestations move quicker into being!

So tune in whenever you can and allow the wisdom of the inner garden into your life.

#managardening #mindgardening #innerguidance #empowermefree

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My grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, shared with me today that she used a mana gardening technique of replacing memories. She didn’t put it like that of course, but as she told the story, I realized that’s exactly what she did.

Nanny lives in a place with many other elders. The elders get together and share their stories of the past quite frequently. Instead of telling her story of her traumatic upbringing along with divorces and illnesses etc., she shared that she had a very loving, caring mother and father and had a very fun and loving childhood. She also shared that she had a wonderful husband who died young and they had a loving daughter who was very well cared for and nurtured.

In mana gardening, there’s a technique where you replace a non-empowering story with an empowering story—one that makes you feel good instead of one that makes you feel traumatized.

So without knowing it, Nanny gave herself the gift of feeling good instead of putting yourself through the memories of her tragic childhood and marriage! She shared with me that the purpose was so that she wouldn’t have to go through those emotions again. Some may consider that being untruthful,  however, I see it as a gift to herself and her wellbeing. Had she told the dramatic stories, she would’ve felt the negative emotion again and likely would have had to share many more details that would enhance the negative emotions. She just did not want to put herself through that again.

Every time we re-tell the story of a traumatic event, we inadvertently live it again. We experience all the emotions as if it just happened (like right now) as opposed to many years ago. That is how your mind sees it and that is how your body reacts.  Neurologically speaking, she created a new neurological pathway that, if she re-tells the new empowering story a few times or perhaps many times, has the opportunity to become part of her memories and enhance her well-being by leaving her feeling fulfilled with her life, rather than like a victim of a crazy life.

Such techniques, shared in the book Mana Gardening, Empower Yourself and Live a Better Life, have the power to help you replace memories that are potentially harmful to your wellbeing, with memories that benefit you and keep you happier. These are also excellent topics for the fields of Mana Psychology™ and Mana Sciences™.

And as you know, being happy is paramount to healthy vibrant living!

Get your copy of the book and to learn Mana Gardening happiness techniques.

Namaste,

Michelle

Decision Making Can be Super Simple if you Use and Rely on Inner Guidance.

How do you normally make decisions? What is your process?

Do you make a list of pros and cons? Do you play out each outcome and see how each might feel? Do you waver back-and-forth not knowing what choice to make? When you have an important decision to make does it keep you up at night? Does it leave you feeling flustered and doubting yourself?

I used to do all of this.
After Mana Gardening came to me (rather, after it came through me), I stopped all that and began to rely solely my inner guidance for making important (and not so important) decisions.

Mana Gardening is an inner technique using your creative imagination that allows you to quickly and easily access the inner voice that lies within. Everyone has an inner voice specifically designed to assist in everything from what food to eat, to where to relocate. Your guidance is personal to you and directs you towards actions that are consistent your best interests.

As an example, recently I was offered an adjunct teaching position at a local college and had to decide whether to take the position. It was for teaching a single class, as opposed to multiple sections of the same class. I was excited for the opportunity to teach at this college as I had applied for full time opportunities there before and was not selected. At this point in time however, my mental mind was saying, “No way!” It was not worth my time, not enough money, and would take way too long to prepare for each class.

I took this decision straight to my inner garden. After relaxing in that space for a bit and asking whether or not to take the position, interestingly, my inner guidance said, “Yes, do it.”
I did it. I agreed to teach the class, reluctantly.
I did this because I have learned to trust my inner voice even when my mind conjures up many good reasons to not listen to it.

Who knew that my consulting jobs would start to dwindle? Who knew that I would love my students so much? Who knew that I would adore the opportunity to inspire the students and let them know how amazing and immensely intricate their bodies (and hence they) are?

My mental mind was not aware that I would enjoy the material so much that it would be inspire me to serve others on the health and well-being path.

My mental mind was not aware that the connections I would make with the students and colleagues at the college would be so beautiful. And that the opportunity to serve others would also serve me. My inner voice knew all of this, yet my mental mind did not have access to that information.

Inner wisdom is available to all, yet many do not know how to access it. Learning how to quickly access inner guidance and getting to that place where you listen, trust it, and take the appropriate actions can serve you to your great delight! It is kind of like listening to your heart or a higher power speak. Sometimes you get information that is not what you’d expect, yet it is inconceivably brilliant!

Plus, using your inner guidance to help you with choices and decisions saves you the time and energy of going back and forth, creating lists, and doubting yourself. Your inner voice knows what you want. Allowing yourself to trust and follow your inner voice helps you stay at peace within, creates strength and leaves you empowered.

If you would like to learn how to use this ancient Hawaiian technique we call Mana Gardening to empower yourself and your life, register for our training course starting Aug 2o17 here.

Namaste,

Michelle

Do you notice your mind making complaints that make you unhappy?
I notice these things, too.

After feeling pretty good for a while, do you suddenly not feel that good anymore? If so, then take a look at what was just going on in your head and you may see why. I bet your mind has been busy complaining, resisting, and/or procrastinating. (Like my mind does…)

This morning on the way to the gym, I was feeling in good spirits. I had already done my morning mana gardening meditation. Then in the gym,  I caught my head saying things like,

“I don’t want to be here…”
“Ugh. How fast can I get outta here?”
“Why do I always have to move the squat bar holders up a few notches?”
“Why can’t people put the bar cushion away in the right place?”

 

Felt my energy going downhill and my mood going south.

Noticing my complaining mind,  I decided to do something different.

My intention was to switch my thoughts to change my focus from complaining to something higher that would feel better. The answer I recieved was really helpful, so I was guided to share it.

Asking Questions

First off, let me explain about questions. Many of us know this, yet our minds keep playing this game and we don’t always catch it as quickly as we would like.

If you ask a question, the universe works to answer it.

With that said, always (or at least as much as possible) ask questions you really want an answer to. Questions, that when you learn the answer, you feel good about.

Do NOT ask questions like:

• Why is there so much traffic?
• Why are people so huffy today?
• What is my problem?
• What is wrong with me?
• Why does this always happen to me?

Because you will get the answer at some point and it won’t feel good and it likely won’t serve you to know it anyway. Ok, so that’s the deal with questions. On with how to stop the complaining mind.

Here’s the Trick

Here’s a great trick when you notice complaints flowing.

Ask a NEW question.

Ask,  “What do I LOVE about this?”

When I asked that question in the gym, my mind was flooded with positive, feel good answers!

—I loved that it’s summer and I rode my bike to the gym and simply took off my helmet and started working out. Loved that I didn’t have to wear 4 layers and head to the locker room to de-garb before working out. Loved that today, that part of my life felt easy.

—I loved that my muscles were building strength and I could feel it.

—I loved that my body could even do what I was asking of it, that I was healthy and feeling powerful.

—I loved that I could drink great tasting filtered water and not chlorinated water there.

—I loved that I was there and that others who were taking care of their bodies were there as well.

 

Then my mood/energy started to shift back up into the positive realm. This is because, instead of focusing on the answers to my complaints and negative questions, I was now focused on a really healthy plethora of awesome answers!

What a great question to ask!

The monkey mind is bananas (well actually it’s nuts!) and works hard to keep us in a negative space, so we have to have some tricks up our sleeves to help us stay true to highest nature. We have a right to be happy! Hope this trick helps you!

Next time you notice the mind complaining about something, just ask,

“What do I love about this?”

Or ask questions you really want the answers to and see what you get. Bet you will feel much better!

Namaste,
Michelle

Losing my Job

Interesting times. In January, out of blue, my full time job—the one that paid well and got me back on my feet financially after a divorce, the one that I did not love, but allowed me to work from home, the one that I was pretty good at, but didn’t inspire me—just vaporized.

The week before, while Mana Gardening, I had been asking some questions to Universe/God/Spirit/Divine Consciousness about this.

Questions like:
• What would it take to live an inspired life?
• Do I need to quit my job to focus on my heart’s desire so that I may love my work?

I had been feeling unfulfilled and knew I truly wanted finish and publish the creative project I had been working on for 8 years in order to bring it to fruition.

And suddenly this happened.

Interestingly, I had an awareness that, as my boss was “letting me go” on a Friday at 4:30 pm, that this was perhaps the gift I had been asking for.

The Space of Choice

There was a moment of choice that I clearly felt.

Viktor Frankl, author of A Man’s Search for Meaning, said, “Between the situation and the response, there is a space. And in that space you can decide how you are going to respond.”

In that moment, I had a choice: to see this as a set back, as a “bad” event that was happening to me, or to see this as the gift I had been asking for.

I could have chosen to feel bad that I had been let go of, that I no longer had financial stability, felt mad, and allowed worry and lack consciousness start to take its hold. I could have chosen the victim perspective, that this just happened to me and it’s not fair.

Yet in that moment, I chose something different.

I chose to believe that this is the gift from the universe I had been asking for, that instead of this happening to me, this must be happening for me! I chose to believe that the universe had been listening to my questions and had provided an answer. And as my boss continued to explain the reasons why she no longer wanted my full time service, I had a glimmer in my eye! I was excited for the new opportunity!

The point I want to make is one of trajectory.

You have choice—that is what this world is built on—the freedom of choice. You have free will and can make your own choices. And there is a moment when life is happening, that you get to choose your reaction or perspective. Sometimes we react, because emotion overtakes us, and we feel like there was no choice. I have been there too.

The Mantra

But, if you can keep an open mind about life, and if you can adopt the phrase,

“Whatever happens to me is actually happening for me,”

and use it as a mantra, and believe it, then you are on a path of grace.

You are on the path of allowing life in all of its expression, to serve you. You are in the flow of life and you have peace. You are in possession of Mana. I believe this is the peace that passes all understanding that Jesus spoke about. Well, part of it anyway.

And when you make that choice in that mere moment when something happens that you could judge as bad, or a mistake, and you DECIDE to just allow for the possibility that this is happening FOR you, then the entire trajectory of the experience changes.

Instead of being bogged down in worry, which I certainly could have gone into, as that pattern was well established in my life, I was instead in a space of ease and intrigue.

What a beautiful energy to experience.

What is more, choosing that perspective has empowered me to stay on the peace and grace trajectory.

The Universe Steps in to Help…

For example, as soon as I made that choice, the choice of ease with being “let go of”, immediately the universe stepped in to help me out.

One of my best friends called while the call with my boss was ending. I had already chosen the path of grace, and my friend called. I told her what had just happened and she wisely said in that exact moment, that her calling right now was absolutely no mistake—that she was here right now to help me hold onto this perspective. She gave me more fuel to keep this fire of ease and intrigue going!

This universe of love completely amazes me! How magnificent that as soon as I make a choice of peace, God is there, in the form of a dear friend (who doesn’t call very often I might add) to help me stay on the path? (Crying as I write this. I feel so grateful).

After that, the trajectory seemed set. I was strong enough in my decision to not go the other way into fear or victimhood. That is not to say my mind did not repeatedly try to take me into worry, because it did and it was persistent—I had to stay the course, remain firm in my decision for peace and say no to those thoughts at least 10 times a day for a few weeks.

My choice is/was to view losing my job as a perfect opportunity to get my creative project completed, published and out to the world, and I had to keep reminding myself of this.

A month and a half later, the peace and grace trajectory continues and those nagging thoughts of worry and lack are more at bay and are not so intrusive. And my book is oh so close to being finally published!

On the other hand, lets consider what may have happened if, in that moment of choice in that space between getting laid off and my response to it I had chosen a path of fear? What if I had resisted life and allowed myself to feel the fear vibrations, yet again. I would have suffered through some pretty nasty emotions and probably would have not slept well for many days, and may have even made myself sick. I may have expressed my anger to my former employer and eliminated any possibility for consulting for her.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, at some point I would have had to stop all the madness and pull myself out of it—which once you get down deep—is harder and harder to do. Pulling yourself out of negativity is extremely difficult work. Believe me, I have been there, done that, don’t want to keep doing that.

What Can You Do in that Space of Choice?

With all this said, try to notice those little moments when you have a choice about how to feel about, or how to respond to something. In those moments, you actually have 3 choices:

1. Resist what is happening, go into negative emotion, and at some point do the hard work to get yourself back into the flow of positivity.
2. Have no opinion whatsoever. Be neutral. It is what it is.
3. Embrace the situation.

Choices 2 and 3 can serve you well, and empower you to keep a positive perspective and thus feeling happier about life. Making these choices can at least prevent you from doing a deep dive into the negative zone that takes days, weeks or longer to pull yourself out of.

I must say that making the choice to look at my job loss in a positive light, as something that is happening for me, and as an answer to my prayers, feels completely delightful! I feel like a kid in a candy store wondering what is the next awesome thing that is going to happen. How does it get even better? What else is possible?

If you make choices toward your own happiness, flow with life instead of resisting it, who knows? God might step in and help you along that path.

Namaste,
Dr. Shine