Natural Magic For The Modern Goddess

By Lisa Melbourne

Welcome to you, Beautiful Goddess. This book is written from a place of deep acknowledgement and celebration for the feminine in all of us...

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• Language: English
• Publisher: That Guys House
• Release date: Feb 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781913479756

Lisa Melbourne

Lisa Melbourne is a holistic therapist, spiritual coach and writer living in Lincoln, United Kingdom, with her husband and two young daughters. After joining the Royal Air Force, Lisa specialised as a Medic where she would train to not only look after the physical health of her fellow Airman and Airwomen, but also their mental wellbeing. Having seen active service in Afghanistan while deployed as part of the UK's Aeromed medical evacuation team, Lisa was witness to the devastating physical and psychological injuries that were being sustained by young service men and women. Lisa left the Military after five years' service to raise her family, and use her past experiences, and a sense of holistic care to begin a new career as a Clinical Aroma-Reflexologist. It is through her work with her clients over the past 8 years, as well as her own personal journey through mindful and spiritual health, that the inspiration came to write and share Natural Magic for the Modern Goddess.

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Contents

Welcome – ‘Creating a rich inner world…’

Unleash Your Inner Goddess

Part 1 – Mind Magic

Who are you now?

Key moments

Figure You Out First

Commitment to You – Releasing Core Wounds

Be the Wave

A New Chapter

To Love Is Not to Possess - James Kavanaugh

Stepping Out Of The Spiritual Closet

Note to Self

Unfold the Petals of Your Consciousness -

Interpreting a regular thought from a divine download

Change Your Perspective

Who Are You Doing It For?

Decisions From Trust

Now Is The Perfect Time To Bloom

Trust The Niggle

Faith

Life Is About More Than Just Existing

Over the Edge

Kindness within

Love……..

Releasing Emotions

Be the Change

Breathe, Embrace, Evolve

Jump

The Little Things

Time

Happiness

Present

Butterfly

How Free Do You Feel?

To Be Free

The Universe Wants Us To Create

Just Do It!

What are you going to do about it?

Lost

Longing for Home

Are You Lost?

The Wild Feminine Rising

Stand In Your Light

Standing In Your Light Meditation

Little Steps

Birthing New Creations

Leap!

Space

Trigger

I Was Present

I Don’t Know

Defining Your Divine Soul Purpose

A Practical Guide to Achieving Your Dreams

Add A Little Manifesting Magic

Raise Your Vibration

The Art Of Gratitude

Moments Of Grateful Awareness

Take Your Time

The Abundant Flow State

I Am In The Flow

The Magic of the Moon

Moon Musings

The Triple Goddess

Triple Goddess – Clarity On Your Soul’s Purpose

Part 2 – Body Magic

Self-Perception

Step Out Of The Grind – Give Yourself A Break

Pool of Light

The Sacredness of Breath

Breathe and Flow

Body Scan – Release Tension

Auric Healing

Move

The Power of Music

The Importance of Human Touch

Working With Energy

Using Qi To Release Emotions

De-code Your Body’s Messages

Aroma-Reflex for the Moon Cycles and Seasons

Triple Goddess Womb Healing

Crystal Healing

Part 3 – Spirit Magic

What Is Spirituality Anyway?

With Light There Must Be Darkness

Spark

Let Yourself Fall

Take Me Down

The World Needs You

You are enough

Bringer Of Light

Divinity Is Within You

Awakening Souls

I Am Rising

Wake Up Sleepy Head

Find your Anchor

Finding Your Tribe

Your Spiritual First Aid Team

Us

Remember

When The Magic Is Calling

Your Soul Retreat

Flowers

The Importance Of Connecting With Nature

Directionless

You Are Part Of All Creation

The Rhythm Of Nature

The Energies of the Seasons

She

Elemental Magic

Connection to Mother Earth Prayer

Signs From Spirit

Brigid

Connecting To Your Angels, Guides And Higher Self

Connecting With Your Spirit Guides Meditation

Spirit Animals

The Amygdala and 3rd Eye Reflex for Connecting with Spirit

You Have it All

Read Read Read!

Join the Natural Me Sisterhood

A Final Thought Before I Go

Acknowledgments

Creating a rich inner world, creates a rich outer world

Hello and a warm welcome to you, beautiful Goddess.

This book is written from a place of deep acknowledgment and celebration for the feminine within us all.

This book has risen from the depths of darkness in which my own femininity had been hiding for most of my life.

As an ex serving member of the Royal Air Force, I spent many years dampening Her down, in order to fit the mould in a deeply masculine world. Growing up in a house with two brothers - one a Royal Marine, and a Dad serving in the British Army, my perception of success from a young age was to make it in a man’s world.

It was only when I left the RAF, falling into a deep, dark place of despair and isolation, that I was left with no choice but to turn inward and face who it was that had been hiding underneath the surface of a seemingly bold, strong and fearless woman.

The divine feminine within me who’s voice had been drowned out and who’s light had never been allowed to shine, was ready to rise – with or without my permission, to claim her rightful place in what was to be the start of one major reawakening of my long-forgotten Spirit.

My intention for this book is that it may be inhaled deeply, allowing the words and offerings to be woven like conscious medicine throughout the very fabric of your being. Embrace, nurture and fall in love with the divine feminine Goddess within you.

Allow your mind to unravel years of conditioning placed upon it.

Learn to understand and de-code your body’s messages, strengthen your connection to Spirit whilst allowing your soul to truly soar, in a gentle, safe and conceivable way.

My recommendation is that you read the whole of the book first before using it as a tool for further study. Move through the pages however you are guided to do so, implementing the tools and techniques that your Soul is calling for.

My hope is that this book will become your bible, a spiritual tool-kit for your every need. If this book becomes battered and dog-eared from over-use, then its purpose has been fulfilled.

Open your mind to a different view point, another perspective on this wonderous gift we call ‘life’, love and embrace the body that you call ‘Home’, and create a deeper connection to the Earth and the Cosmos.

Natural Magic for the Modern Goddess is a mindful tool for spiritual empowerment, to help you craft the very best version of yourself as you learn to embody the unique energies of Nature and the Moon, through mindful journaling, energy work and guided meditations, tailored holistically to the three areas of your health – Mind, Body and Spirit.

Along the way, you will learn to weave the gentle support of natural therapies, essential oils, crystals and flowers into your health and wellbeing, discovering a deeper connection between all three aspects, in order to enjoy balanced and harmonious health.

Creating a life that you love, is not a privilege afforded only to the selected few.

Find comfort, rest, rejuvenation, reflection and support within these pages as I guide you towards living a life filled with natural magic, abundance, and spiritual empowerment.

Unleash Your Inner

Goddess

Listen to your intuition.

Let your creativity flow.

Give freedom to your emotions.

Heal the parts of you kept in shadows.

Share your healing with others.

Love yourself unconditionally.

Focus on the certainty of achieving your dreams.

Embrace the every-day, small things.

Part 1

Mind Magic

Who are you now?

I was 27 years old, jobless and without a calling when my life began to crumble. I had left the Military with big plans forged out for a new career in Nursing, but the prospect of this created a swell of panic and anxiety as I became over-whelmed and full of doubt at the prospect of leaving the RAF. It wasn’t just my career, but my security, my independence and in fact my entire way of life.

When I discovered that I was pregnant two weeks after my exit date from the RAF, little did I know that I was at the very beginning of an entirely new and unfamiliar chapter of my life that I was not prepared for. I was about to lose my entire identity and all of the foundations that I had so meticulously laid for my own sense of self-preservation were about to crumble and disintegrate.

During this period of my life (as I will share with you later), I set course on a journey of complete crumbling. I had never felt so lost and yet simultaneously I was also discovering myself and my purpose all over again.

One of the first major reality checks that I discovered in my life was when I hit the BIG 30! Quite literally I was bulldozed into my 30’s at such speed that it took me by complete surprise that I had somehow managed to end up here in this unfamiliar place of no longer being considered young but neither middle-aged or old. It hit me right between the eyes that my 20’s were well and truly behind me and never coming back. This made me consider the reality of arriving at every major milestone birthday in my life from this point forwards, and how each time it would have the same potential for another wave of unexpected and unwanted reality hitting me where it hurt and reminding me of everything that I had not yet achieved with my life. I realised for the first time that I am NOT exempt from growing older and that was scary as hell!

When we hit our 30’s, the realisation that we have spent the last 10 years or so in a career that we haven’t enjoyed or received any fulfilment from is an added cross to bear as we enter this ‘quarter-life crisis’ as the successful life coach Emily Williams describes it.

Our 20’s is a decade committed to self-discovery, trial and error, following our heart’s desires without a thought for the future or whether the outcome is advantageous to our life goals or not. There is a freedom that resides within us in this chapter of our life. For most of us there are no major expectations from other people or of ourselves, other than to hold down our job that we worked so hard to make the grades for at school, to then spend our money on having a really good time and a shed load of life experiences!

The double-edged sword to having a bloody great time is the debilitating nostalgia that comes with wishing that you could go back and do it all again.

The reality is, you hate your job, you are feeling pressured to settle down, buy a house and have kids, and yet you still have no idea what on earth you are doing or what you actually want to do with your life, let alone how to change it.

If you are in your 20’s by the way and feel that this book might only be aimed at the 30’s and over, please, I encourage you to keep reading, for this book is meant for every woman, from every walk of life who wants to lay new foundations for a future that is cultivated around self-love and aligned with nature, her spirit, passion and purpose. In fact, I wrote this book with both of my daughters in mind, in the hope that they will find clarity, nourishment and love within these pages one day when they are older (they are only 9 and 6.)

For a period of about 3 years I spent the majority of my energy focused on torturing myself, wishing that I could go back to a time when my life had meaning, purpose and fun. When I hadn’t a care in the world and life just seemed to flow effortlessly, because at that point, as I turned towards the dreaded 30, I felt like my life was stagnating and hideously boring. I didn’t have the energy or the inclination to get up and decide to consciously change my current reality because I was too busy re-living my past.

This negative cycle was of course amplified with a humungous side order of guilt over the fact that I knew that I should feel grateful for all that I had in my life, a beautiful daughter, a husband and a lovely home that we had created, instead of feeling miserable, lost and ungrateful for the life that on the surface of it all would be classed as ‘perfect’ by any other.

The truth of the matter is that you could have all the money in the world, the biggest house in the county and a top of the range car, but no amount of material things will make you truly happy if you aren’t living your true Soul Purpose – we will delve into this a little further on.

It took me until I was 35 to realise that I am not meant to be who I was 15 years ago. I am meant to be exactly who I am today because who I am right now, in this moment, the trials and tribulations included, will lead the way to who I am continually becoming.

Our life, our mission, our soul is supposed to ever-evolve, change and grow. We are here to constantly re-define ourselves, set new boundaries and aim for new heights. Our life is about the intertwining of our human experiences with our Soul’s continued growth. This is what Life is all about, one big journey of Soul Discovery and that includes the good and the bad. The outcome with both is always positive, and to quote Rebecca Campbell author of ‘Light Is The New Black’, ‘The Universe is always expanding. You are part of the Universe. Expansion is your natural state. If you resist your expansion, you resist who you are. Expand into your bigness now’, -I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Key moments

From a young age I very much remember the inherent knowing that our body was separate from who we were inside. I used to imagine being me, but in a different body – another person or maybe an animal, a plant, a tree or a flower. I came here already knowing this. No one else taught me it. I didn’t know what a Soul was, let alone the word itself or what it meant.There has been a deep level of knowing within me, a knowing that feels almost primal, that we are not of this world. As a child you just know and you don’t even give it much thought because it’s just a normal thought, a piece of knowledge that has always been there. You don’t know how it is that you know, or where you came to learn it, but it’s something that you expect everybody to know too.

All my life I have felt a separateness from everything and everyone else around me. When I search my soul for the answers to this feeling, I believe it comes from the core of knowing that my body has never really felt like home. I have felt like a visitor in it, finding my way around and exploring my senses. While I grappled with my body, feeling heavy and clunky, everyone else around me seemed to be truly at home in theirs.

As I got older and I found my way in life, the feeling of ‘separateness’ really started to become apparent to me. It was no surprise that I joined the Royal Air Force. Coming from a military family, I grew up with some heavy military influence in my life -in fact my entire childhood centred around it. When I focus in on the catalyst for choosing the military path, I realise that under all of the every-day grind and struggles that I faced at the time, there was a deep-rooted need to feel connected to others and to be a part of something bigger than me. I didn’t want to feel alone anymore.

I certainly wasn’t alone throughout my time in the RAF. When you are an unaccompanied, single woman living on camp and working with your room mates in the office, you are never alone, not in the physical sense anyway. Emotionally however, I still very much felt like I was sat on the outside, a feeling of disconnection from my friends and colleagues. It was all so confusing, because as lonely as I was, I craved it too. Being around people all day every day was exhausting so I’d spend the day desperate for the end of the shift to come so that I could go back to my room, lock the door and just be with myself for a few hours.

I used to wonder ‘is this normal? Is this how it really feels to be connected to others because if it is, I’d rather be on my own as I simply don’t feel it.’

I went on to battle with this loneliness for another 10 years, until the penny finally dropped. I hit the depths of despair when I left the RAF, after making the decision to pursue a career in Nursing. I’d returned from a 4 month tour of Afghanistan where I had been deployed on the Aeromed team, in and out of Kandahar. My experience had left me with a longing for more of a patient care role rather than that of a trauma medic, so I decided to put myself through university to get my nursing qualification.

Leaving the RAF wasn’t a decision that I had made lightly. In fact, it was the last thing that I had wanted to do, but if I was to pursue my nursing career, there were no other options.

The first time that I remember being aware of an overwhelming sense of doom and panic washing over me, was about three weeks after leaving the military. I was standing in front of the bathroom mirror one morning and I was completely overcome with anxiety. It felt like it had crept up out of nowhere, all-consuming. This was to be the start of my relationship with anxiety.

I struggle to put into words how it made me feel or why it had chosen to turn up when it did, but I remember standing in front of the mirror that day and feeling completely and utterly lost. A wave of shear panic washed over me and my heart started to hammer hard in my chest. I felt sick and knew that I had made a massive mistake leaving the RAF. My security was gone, my income, my independence, as well as the roof over my head if things didn’t work out with my husband. I felt grief and panic set in at the realisation that I had let go of everything I had built up around me. All of the promises I had made to myself, not to end up lost, alone and dependant on someone else for survival had disintegrated into ashes and now here I had found myself in a life that I had done my best to avoid falling into at all costs.

I felt raw and exposed.

I reassured myself that it was ok. It was ok because I had my Nursing career to start focusing on and eventually that would be the key to my much-needed sense of personal freedom. Nursing was what I decided to keep my focus on.

Until I fell pregnant and I had to let my place go at University.

My husband, Shaun was due to spend the majority of that year (2010) away on his pre-deployment training and then a six -month tour in Afghanistan with the Royal Marines, so it was here that I found myself. Alone. No job or permanent job prospects for a newly pregnant woman. No maternity package, no friends and an absent husband. I felt completely and utterly lost and alone. Again.

I could feel that now familiar flutter starting to rise in my chest along with a sense of inner drowning. There were times when it felt like I couldn’t catch my breath, no matter how hard I gulped a great lung full of air.

It took all of my inner strength to dig deep and push through the paralysing fear that would attempt to take over me but I managed to do what I had learnt to become quite adept at. I squashed these negative and paralysing thoughts and feelings down and concentrated on finding temporary work for the duration of my pregnancy. The rest I would have to figure out later.

As I struggled through the next few years, I began to discover that the constant suppression of my emotions would lead to seemingly unexplained eruptions of anger over the smallest of things. Although I sank every ounce of myself, unequivocally into motherhood with utter devotion, on an equal footing, I would work hard at trying to shut off the other half of me that still felt total despair at the lack of independence and identity I now had. This constant fight for emotional balance would teeter me on a knife edge if the smallest thing pissed me off. I hardly recognised the person that I became when I lost control over the tiniest detail.

My love for my baby daughter (Ava -Rose) was unparalleled to any other feeling or emotion. She became my anchor to everything, to life itself and the love that I felt for her would regularly scare me half to death. I now had somebody that I couldn’t bear to lose and there were days when I worried fiercely that I would lose her.

When I was 20 weeks pregnant with Ava-Rose I was heading into work one morning for a temporary administrative role that I had secured for the interim of my pregnancy, when the strangest thing happened. I would later learn that this was to be the starting point to the spiritual journey that I now find myself on. I was handing my parking money over to the lady in the booth and we were chatting as we usually did each morning, when she