![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Intellect – Building Skills For Your Purpose](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/16055058-CB7E-42F8-B4DA-FA99CDB3329C.png)
A Stage Nine guided meditation for identifying the skills and knowledge your life purpose requires — visualizing living that purpose, meeting the inner voice of doubt, and breaking large learning goals into small daily steps.
A money essay explaining how governments use taxation to discourage behavior — higher taxes on cigarettes, gasoline, income, or property steer people’s choices — and inviting readers to notice which of their own decisions were shaped by tax policy.
![[Guided Meditation] The Big Bang And The One Consciousness (A Thought Experiment)](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Space-and-Stars.png)
A Stage Nine contemplative meditation presenting a thought experiment: drawing on quantum observation and wave-function collapse to argue that a single sentient consciousness has always existed, and that all people are extensions of that one consciousness.
A practical yoga essay on Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, explaining why the twelve-posture sequence balances the whole body, regulates breath through built-in alternate-nostril effects, and benefits both serious athletes and spiritual practitioners through daily repetition.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To The One Consciousness](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/C7A62D50-E811-490F-875D-CEEDA44EC03B.png)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Nine task of realizing one shared consciousness, moving the practitioner from present-moment mindfulness into energetically feeling other people and objects, and using the river-and-sea metaphor to convey interconnected oneness.
A money essay describing how governments use low-interest loans, grants, and tax breaks to encourage specific behaviors — starting certain businesses, buying property, or marketing more — and how the absence of a tax break quietly discourages activity.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting Completely To Your Partner](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/903148C4-00DF-4CAB-BA0F-D2492162E971-1080x675.jpeg)
A Stage Nine guided meditation for deepening couple connection — revisiting how you met, feeling awe, joy, and gratitude for your partner, envisioning a connected future together, and recognizing the divine light in one another.
A reflective essay posing a thought experiment: that the stages of human development are the divine detaching to observe its own evolution, and that what we call our humanity — our striving, fear, and love — may actually be our divinity.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To This Moment – Presence, Mindfulness And Intuition](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/93F9423F-179B-4371-BBC2-40274CB3F8D7.png)
A guided meditation for the Stage Nine work of presence, mindfulness and intuition — practiced in a public place to observe surroundings in detached focus and reduce worry and regret by anchoring in the present.
A money essay explaining how government spending creates entire industries and shapes careers — buying ships or equipment drives hiring and education toward those fields — and how such spending can both encourage production and deter conflict.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Their Truth](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0678-1080x675.jpg)
A Stage Eight guided meditation for perceiving the truth in others — energetically connecting with a loved one and then someone disliked to sense their feelings, intentions, and stage, then grounding and protecting yourself afterward.
A reflective essay questioning whether receiving is an activity or a state of being — arguing that intention, not the specific act, determines whether we give or receive, and that balance between the two is essential to wellbeing.
A teaching on the final stage of couple connection — the crown chakra qualities of wisdom, oneness, and transcendence — covering how to share wisdom without becoming a know-it-all, discuss life and the divine together, and feel deep sameness with your partner.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Reality – Designing Your Future](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A Stage Eight guided meditation for designing an ideal life aligned with your purpose — vividly imagining your ideal day, work, relationships, and relationship to money, and being brutally honest about what your soul actually wants.
A money essay on why many wealthy people hide their wealth — to avoid becoming targets and because building net worth means investing rather than spending — and asking readers what they are doing with their own income to build wealth.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Purpose – Methods For Finding It](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0721-1080x675.jpg)
A Stage Eight guided meditation offering three inward methods for finding your life purpose — examining what you always did as a child, what you wanted to be at each age, and what the silence answers — then finding the pattern among them.
A teaching on building a shared future as a couple — creating a joint vision that honors both partners’ purposes and differences, encouraging each other’s intuition, and learning to see and treat one another as the divine light incarnate.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To The Silent Observer](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0733-1080x675.jpg)
A Stage Eight guided meditation for connecting to the silent observer — the higher self that speaks and sees without body or voice — distinguishing the true self from body, mind, and energy, and learning to operate them like an avatar.
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.