A money essay on how perceived wealth within a neighborhood breeds jealousy and demonization, how wealth becomes a false measure of self-worth, and inviting readers to consider other ways to measure their own goodness and success.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To The Universe Or Divine – Letting Go Of Knowing](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A Stage Seven guided meditation for releasing the need to know the future — visualizing life as a river that delivers exactly what you need when you need it, and dropping your questions in to be answered in perfect time.
A spiritual teaching on the practice of being rather than doing — holding open physical, mental, and present-moment space so the divine can enter and act through us, framed with the idea that we are four-dimensional projections of an eleven-dimensional divine.
A Stage Eight guided meditation for finding the common roots beneath opposing beliefs — choosing a political issue, tracing your view down to its underlying principle and emotion, then doing the same from an opponent’s perspective to reach shared love.
A money essay on how we turn the wealthy into deities or demons rather than seeing them as ordinary people, and how both reactions become excuses that keep us from improving our own financial situation.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To The Infinite Silence Or Divine](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Meditation.png)
A Stage Seven guided meditation for connecting to the infinite silence within — scanning the body, setting down worries and roles, and opening the lower dantian into a boundless inner space of peace where wishes aligned with purpose can be released.
A spiritual teaching essay arguing that rejecting fear, anger, death and other unpleasant aspects of life only lets them grow unchecked, and that seeing them as the divine experiencing existence, met with love, allows their unpleasantness to dissolve.
A relationship teaching on the third-eye chakra: understanding and supporting a partner’s life purpose, creating a shared vision of the future, and encouraging their intuition, with several practical exercises for discovering one’s own gift and mission.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Identifying And Replacing Limiting Beliefs](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/hands-and-candle.png)
A guided meditation for the Stage Seven task of identifying limiting beliefs and installing new ones, speaking directly to the subconscious to release old patterns from the solar plexus and embed two or three chosen replacement beliefs.
A money essay citing FTC fraud statistics to show how scams, fake debt collectors and identity theft affect people of all ages, with practical strategies for skepticism, verification and keeping a backup card against inevitable card compromise.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Healing Your Scars](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Hands-with-daisy.png)
A guided meditation for the Stage Seven task of healing emotional scars: recognizing when old baggage is triggered, detaching from it, exploring its origin, and releasing it from the body so the past no longer tethers the future.
A relationship teaching on the throat chakra and self-expression: the many ways we convey who we are, why authentic expression is always a personal choice, and how to appreciate and encourage a partner’s evolving expression.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Doubt – Questioning Everything](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/422A0FB9-2AC2-4F01-8564-03CC70861791-1080x675.jpeg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Seven task of questioning everything, using a grounding journey down through the chakras and into the earth to stay sane and centered while political views, norms and life choices are thrown into uncertainty.
A money essay examining how people use money to force attachment in relationships — from being loved for wealth to paying family’s expenses out of unworthiness — and how such choices ultimately amplify resentment rather than genuine connection.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Faith Through Questioning](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/7AFF0825-0D2F-44B8-9EA4-6D71AB1AFC0B-1080x675.jpeg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Seven task of questioning one’s faith as a path to deeper connection, framing independent study of sacred texts as a direct, guilt-free conversation with the divine rather than a betrayal of belief.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Body – Setting Goals And Making Progress](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0814-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of setting body goals, building gratitude for the body and guiding the definition of small, achievable nutrition, exercise and wellbeing goals, then visualizing their compound effect for motivation.
A spiritual teaching essay on the law of reciprocity — that whatever we put into the world returns to us like ripples on water — culminating in the idea that ‘being,’ quiet presence in the moment, is where the divine is found.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Forgiving And Accepting Others As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0591-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting others, practicing the recognition that another’s choices say nothing about you, and extending that acceptance to societal norms and groups previously rejected.
An examination of how money becomes a tool of control in intimate relationships — how one partner erodes the other’s financial confidence and seizes sole access — and why financial visibility is inseparable from equality and freedom.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Yourself In Others](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of seeing yourself in others, practicing viewing people’s defining traits as reflections of your own past, present or future self, as a way to connect more easily and read inner messages.
A relationship teaching offering playful practices — eye gazing, sustained touch, flirting, and consciously sending love — that deepen connection and compassion between partners, several of which one person can initiate alone.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Heart – Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0721-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of breaking the trance of unworthiness, guiding the practitioner to distinguish the true self from the self built for others and to feel the divine love that has always been present in the heart.
A money essay describing three forms of financial manipulation in relationships — demanding payment for connection, turning cold once paid, and outright extortion — and tracing them to a lack of empathy and a broken capacity for real trust.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Forgiving And Accepting Yourself As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0733-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting yourself as human, guiding you to revisit a past mistake, offer compassion to your former self, and release the regret so you can move forward wiser.
A relationship teaching redefining compassion not as shared suffering but as seeing another’s humanity as an aspect of yourself, and explaining why compassion for a partner must begin with genuine compassion for oneself.