An Idea to Treat Modern Life

An Idea to Treat Modern Life

For centuries, people gathered in circles.

Around fires, in homes, temples, forests, and village gathering places, people came together.

They gathered to share stories, mark rites of passage, celebrate, grieve, pray, listen, teach, and exchange ideas.

In these spaces, no one was rushed. They were witnessed. They spoke candidly. They left feeling part of something larger than themselves.

While you can still find traces of this tradition in cultures that naturally make more room for lingering conversations, we here in the NYC-Metropolitan Area have very much lost this ancient way of gathering.

Perhaps that's why so many people I speak with are longing for deeper connection, meaningful conversation, and places where they can both listen and be heard without judgment. We seem to have forgotten how to gather.

Perhaps what we're longing for isn't something new at all. Perhaps it's something we've forgotten.

I have an idea for us.

Stay tuned...

Book Launch Celebration

Book Launch Celebration

What if something you once jotted down, almost absentmindedly, held the power to become something real?

For me, that moment happened years ago, on a quiet beach in Tulum, while savoring a cup of green tea. What began as a scribbled idea—more channeling than plan—has since taken shape into something I'm deeply honored to share.

My book, "Building a Life: A Journey into Authenticity and Holistic Transformation" is now out in the world.

To mark this milestone, I'm hosting a book launch celebration on Wednesday, June 10th. Details are provided in the image above. I would love for you to be there.

It will be an evening for inspiration and reflection about what can unfold when we create room for what wants to emerge.

Kindly RSVP by June 1st.
You can reply directly to this email or by text to:
917-902-2699.

The book is available for purchase on Amazon as follows:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jasmine+bilali&crid=1BFH79BKXDKYR&sprefix=jasmine+billi%2Caps%2C441&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

A limited number of books will also be available at the celebration.

I hope you'll join me for this special moment.

Book Launch Celebration

YOU’RE INVITED—Meditation for Authenticity

What if being more connected to your authentic self could also be the key to feeling like your best self?

I'd love for you to join me as I return to the Englewood Public Library for a special talk and guided meditation, "Meditation for Authenticity: A Solution for Wellbeing."

In this experiential session, we'll explore how meditation can quiet external noise, reconnect you with your authentic self, and support a deeper sense of balance and wellbeing. You'll also leave with a simple practical tool—and a subtle mindset shift—you can begin applying immediately.

This May 20th event coincides with the upcoming release of my debut book, "Building a Life: A Journey into Authenticity and Holistic Transformation" (out late May) and offers an early introduction to the ideas I share there.

Free to attend. Registration required:

https://bccls.libcal.com/event/16779283

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meditation-for-authenticity-a-solution-for-wellbeing-tickets-1988102191172?aff=oddtdtcreator

I'll be happy to have you attend this experience.

Tame your monkey?

Tame your monkey?

It’s the time of year when many of you are feeling overwhelmed by your obligations, intentional/unintentional review of the past years' lowlights/highlights, and thoughts about what you want to manifest in the new year.

This monkey mind chatter can stir up emotions that can cause you to lose clarity and focus. What if there could be a way to navigate through the chatter so you don’t feel stuck?

There is a very simple way: silence. People go to great lengths to avoid sitting alone in silence. We tend to seek anything that might fill that perceived empty space instead. However, silence is medicine.

I'm not suggesting that you go on a silent retreat, although this is the most powerful solution. But if you’re ready to manage your mind rather than let it manage you, then I suggest you try this easy exercise to begin:

Take yourself to a favorite place, ideally in nature but anywhere you can be alone and undisturbed for 30-minutes. Leave EVERYTHING behind (this means no phone).

Bring something you can use as a timer—or surrender to your own sense of time.

Take a few deep and grounding breaths to release the day’s activities. Begin to watch your thoughts and notice what thoughts stream in and how they fluctuate over the course of your silence.

· What triggers your mind to become activated?
· How long does it take for your mind to become quiet?
· What thoughts, positive and negative, begin to bubble up and dominate?
· If you are working through a particular health or personal challenge, what thoughts arrive related to them?
· Are you judging yourself or others?
· Can you begin to feel emotionally neutral?

At the end of the 30-minutes, try to journal about your experience. What comes up may surprise you.

You take a shower every day. Why not cleanse your mind daily as well? 😉

Ever explore alignment testing?

Ever explore alignment testing?

I’ve been receiving an increased amount of interest in alignment testing. Given this trend, this seems like a good time to bring up the topic of applied kinesiology, aka “muscle testing,” which is the basis of my alignment test.

Research continues to reveal the power of the subconscious mind. Through my studies, I have come to believe that your subconscious mind knows exactly what best serves your energetic body. The challenge is how to communicate with it. Muscle testing is that medium.

As many of you know, I work intuitively. As a way to ensure that I’m not receiving interference from my own filter, I sometimes muscle test in order to obtain confirmation from your subconscious mind that I'm on the right track and that you're aligned with something.

Forewarning
It’s important to state upfront that understanding energy reading requires a paradigm shift in thinking. The universe we perceive is not fundamentally the way it appears. Physical reality doesn’t define all reality. There is also a non-physical component. This contradicts almost all of what you have been taught, so it would be natural for your brain to initially experience resistance to this concept.

How Muscles Speak
Your body has an electrical network both within and surrounding it. This network is made up of pure energy.

Because energy runs through the muscles in your body, if we make a statement that supports your body’s energetic balance, that energy system (as evidenced through your muscles) will continue to flow. This results in the muscles staying strong, meaning that you are in alignment with whatever the statement is. If we make a statement that does not support your body’s balance, your energy system will temporarily stop flowing. This results in weakened muscles, which is your body’s signal that it is not in alignment with a statement.

Benefits
Using muscle testing, I can make statements about things such as thoughts, events, emotions, people, relationships, opportunities, places, foods, and other substances that may impact your electrical system. I then watch how the muscle energy reacts to determine if that thing serves you. This process also enables me to get clear answers to confirm my intuitive hits regarding your mental, physical, and emotional priorities, which modalities in my Integrative Solutions for Modern Life™ toolkit could best rebalance you to your natural state, and what action steps are most aligned with your highest path. The information revealed can be invaluable.

Proxy Muscle Testing
Now I invite you to go one step deeper down this rabbit hole with me. 😉 Much of my sessions are now via Zoom. So how do I muscle test?

Proxy testing is a muscle test that is done on me, for you. It can be done virtually or in-person. This technique works similarly to a cell phone. Through the power of intention, our bodies have a built-in capability to energetically connect to or “call” one another regardless of distance. Once we are connected, I can receive your signal.

Using my fingers, I practice what is referred to as a manual, aka “O,” muscle test on myself. This involves making an “O” with my thumb and pointer fingers, making statements, and observing the muscle reaction to get answers that reveal if something supports your energy system.

O muscle testing works because of what quantum physics refers to as Quantum Entanglement. This theory is greatly researched and documented. However, you don’t need to understand or believe it for it to be accurate. As I alluded to with my reference to the “call” above, Quantum Entanglement implies that at the unconscious level you and your body know everything I know, and I know everything you and your body know. Muscle testing is the vehicle that allows us to communicate.

Many clients have benefited from the guidance available to them from my coaching system. It is designed to elevate you mentally, physically, and/or emotionally with the objective of making your life experience more satisfying. Please feel free to contact me should you wish to explore the progressive modality of my alignment test.

My personal note for 2025 and thoughts on choice and detours

My personal note for 2025 and thoughts on choice and detours

Happy 2025!

Thank you for allowing me to support your intention to elevate yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally in 2024. I look forward to hearing about how our work together will manifest for you in this new year.

A family crisis last year caused me to limit my focus to our 1:1 coaching sessions, publishing articles and blogs related to well-being, and editing the manuscript for my book. Because I needed to spend a good part of the year back in my hometown, I had to keep my rooftop events and private talks to a minimum. I appreciated your flexibility with respect to scheduling sessions during this challenging period.

Spending so much time back in my old neighborhood led me to undergo a life review of sorts. I couldn’t help but think about how our choices shape the course of our lives. We make choices, and they propel us forward.

I’m not a revisionist. I don’t wonder what my life would have been like if I had made different decisions because I always choose with my heart. But the experience of making the choice to leave my home to manage this family crisis made it clear to me that my life today could have been very different.

This situation also made me aware that our choices can, at times, be interrupted by life events that cause us to go on a detour. You have most likely seen this play out in your own life — being diverted from your intended direction in order to attend to someone or something else that you value.

Detours can be bumpy. And without the benefit of a GPS, we can feel lost and incur the anxiety of not knowing when the detour will end nor what we will encounter along the way.

Do we resent this at times painful detour or embrace it as an opportunity for growth?

We are conditioned to view detours as wastes of time. Yet, there is beauty in detours because they are part of the human experience. If we look closely, we will find that detours can deliver gifts, many times in the form of connection or personal growth. I was surprised by some of the people who showed up for me on my detour…and those who didn’t. The suffering that I endured led to a deeper connection with my Self as well as others.

Looking back, I can see that each choice and every detour that I have made in my life has left me with a gift that has contributed to my ability to be present for you today.

How about you? Have ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made a different choice? Ever regret any detours that you’ve taken or become stressed or discouraged by them? Have any yet-to-be realized desires for some type of a change? Ever consider that the decisions you make today will impact the remainder of your life?

As you prepare to make 2025 a year of expansion, I’d like to encourage you with the following:

  • Make a decision today. And remember that not making a decision is also a decision.
  • Honor the detour. Know that going on a detour can result in gifts that are not immediately evident.
If your plans have been diverted in the past, there is no time like now to reaffirm your intentions.
Wishing you a happy and healthy new year brimming with fresh starts and the ability to embrace any detours that may come your way.