An Intrepid Heart

02/18/2025

Just to clarify ... I really haven't used FB recently. I check in every now and then but I find it is not healthy for me to spend too much time in this capacity. No judgement .. I know it is a good way to reach out to communities we want to be part of. I do hope to shine a light through this post during what is a difficult time for many of us. These postings will not be political .. rather, a way to rise above this immediate physical existence and connect in a more heart felt truth of spirit.

02/18/2025

CIRCLE OF LIGHT

March 2, 2025 5:30pm

These are trying times for many of us. I find solace when I connect to my higher self, shine my light for those close to me and to places that need us to intentionally direct our shine.

Calling on anyone interesting in joining me again. Let’s connect through our hearts and light and see how we might gather as a group.

I would also like to provide a training on how to access our energy centers (chakras) and how those centers relate to our mental and physical well being and understand our place on the planet at this time.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88181941266?pwd=5jSShd5Y32FFVYk0rk0nlApHw8XpGX.1

08/24/2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. At 3:43am I entered my 73rd year. I’ve completed 72 trips around the sun. My o my! What a blessed journey I am on. For seventy-two years I have awakened to the sun radiating light onto this planet earth.
As a young person I wondered what it would be like to drive a car, have a job …. Even marry and have children. I was able to experience all of this. Lucky me.. My children are still in my life and on their own journeys of exploration.
I begin this day of gratitude and celebration with such appreciation for the life I am living. There has been lots of joy, many tears – and oh, everything. I’ve been able to experience everything. All of it. Thank you, thank you.
When younger I also wondered what it would feel like to grow old. Now I get to find out. I’m experiencing life in an aging body with the wisdom of so, so much life.
So …. Bring it on. Bring on as many trips around the sun as this body can withstand. I embrace the dance. I embrace this life.

08/23/2021

Small groups are coming together, online, across the world to collectively experience simple but powerful heart-focused meditation practises. These practises improve our personal health and happiness, help us to connect with the hearts of others and to play our part in raising social and global consciousness with the aim of creating greater fairness, understanding and peace between peoples and nations...add more heart to your life
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07/06/2021

I am excited to be presenting at this Southern Oregon University Conference.

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04/22/2021

Good morning beautiful people. A hug going out to the Mother today. With such all-over-the-place energy we pick up from the collective, it seems important to...

02/27/2021

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN ...
CHANGE IS DIFFICULT. Change is exciting. Change is here. We all feel it. The light we share and walk in can make all the difference in how we face this change. I hear all the time ‘just waiting to get back to normal”. Is that really what we want? And just what is that normal? To contribute to the change/shift is a commitment to Feed the Field by connecting with our heart … and radiating the love and light we find, feel there. Radiating this light into the collective, the field and breathing in that connectedness to ALL is the way we can, together, change some of the patterns in our world that no longer serve us.

ANTHEM … Leonard Cohen

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack , a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

You can add up the parts
But you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march
There is no drum (on your little broken drum)
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

So drop from from your mind into your heart … and breathe in … and out. More slowly and deeper than usual. Breathe in light/love .. Breathe out light/love/compassion. Feel the emotion of a time you were that love/light [it’s a common memory we all share] and fill your body and the energy field around it with that same emotion. To your tippy toes, past your beautiful fingers and into the magnetic field that surrounds just you. When people are near and you are feeling that light/love – that is how they will experience you. And when you feel broken or cracked just remember, that’s how the light gets in [and also radiates] out.

12/22/2020

Blessings from SANDRALEE on our way to 2021

Just a note to say Hello and wish you love, light and health as we come to the close of another year. My year has been spent tapping into the energies surrounding us at all times with an effort to add positivity and light.

I’m very excited about the energy shift we are noticing on our planet. It’s not like we will all of a sudden love one another and get along worldwide; ending poverty, pollution, war, inequality or a worldwide pandemic. But with this shift the things that need change are rising to the surface for each of us to examine and determine where our responsibility lies. And yes, I find this exciting. Trying at times, but exciting. Nothing changes without intention.

So, a gift (and request) to you from me, is to spend a few quiet moments in the next week to do the short exercise below.

1) Focus your attention in the area of your heart

2) Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart area

- a little deeper and a bit slower than normal (5 counts in; 5 counts out works well)

3) Bring in a renewing emotion of love, caring, compassion for something or someone near and dear to you.

4) Stay in this place of love and compassion while you listen to the music ( Anders Holte - Lumerian Homecoming https://youtu.be/L9BC_bRZPGU) I have attached. Stay in your heart space. Don’t go to your mind/thoughts.

5) As you do this .. Allow the love and light you feel in your heart to fill you and take you to a place of coherence and peace. As you feel that peace, shower it down on yourself, those you love and around the planet.

6) When the recording ends, open your eyes, come back to where you started and smile.

Anders Holte - Lumerian Homecoming
https://youtu.be/L9BC_bRZPGU

Sandra Johnson Pettigrew

https://www.anintrepidheart.com

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12/08/2020

10/04/2020

I did this Journey on Sept 7 – the night before over 1000 houses were destroyed in my community of Talent Oregon and neighboring Phoenix, Oregon.

I asked to meet fire … a beautiful Bengal tiger came to meet with me. I asked if s/he was here to teach me of the element fire and s/he said yes. I thanked the beautiful animal spirit. I asked if wolf and owl could join, and they were allowed, although I didn’t see much of them through the journey. I know they were both with me. Tiger told me we needed to go to the sun and we held each other (wrapped belly to belly with arms/legs wrapped to hang on). We were suddenly spinning through space heading towards the bright shining sun. I asked Tiger … won’t we burn? I was assured we need to respect but sun won’t burn us on this journey. Tiger held my back towards sun .. not on its surface .. but very close and said ‘you can feel the hot but you will not burn’. We then went to a planet (?) close by and laid face up on the surface (sand, then fields of golden grain) and felt the warm, very warm, caress, strength and energy of the sun. Then we were back on earth in a field of grain beneath the moon, a completely different light. Not hot, but comforting. Then I was told I am part of all the elements because I am a part of everything .. of the ALL.

I asked what I can do to honor them. I was told to honor the directions, create a medicine wheel .. light candles, work with the drum. Recognize their strength as allies.

A second journey .. just tonight (October 3). All elements have huge power .. not always finesse. It seems the collective needs to change to be able to live on the planet with the elements. Many of us are asking for that. The elements are helping us .. our most powerful allies are the most destructive. Fire brings in complete transformation. Fire does not carry emotion. It just is. Fire does not contain itself. When humanity and fire work together there can be more finesse, more containment. We can appreciate it’s power and harness it to benefit our lives. Fire told me we can work with it but not control it. Humanity thinks it can control the elements. Humanity is out of balance …. The earth and humanity are crying out for help. Fire is a fierce ally without a human conscious.

Much love and light …

09/20/2020

plan to do sacred drumming at The Commons Park (Talent) tomorrow, Sunday September 20 at 3pm. I will drum for healing, blessings and unity for our Community as we go forward. May we bring in light and love to transmute the emotions of pain and loss. May we bless the nature beings, plant life and all life lost .. thank them for their time and walk on the earth and wish them safe passage. Feel free to join me in this with your drum, rattle and/or intention and prayer .. I don't expect there will be a crowd (CoVid recognition) and I will be social distancing and respecting the mask requirement. 🙏❤️

09/06/2020

MY MORNING:

We are in such times. There is a worldwide pandemic, with the US not exactly leading the world by example. We have unrest in our towns and cities. We are very divided in the way we see a pathway to our future. We all have personal stressors around many of these issues.

Its time to spend some time in our heart. To slow it all down and connect to the knowing inside. My choice is to do Heart Focused Breathing and Heart Lock-In first thing in the morning. These techniques balance my body systems and energy field with the love and support of my Creative Force. What I call the ‘Creative Force’ or the ‘All’ exists everywhere. The ‘ALL’ that we are all a part of connects everyone/thing to each other. The ‘All” is the part of us that knows that for growth to happen things often need to break. Out of that broken-ness can sprout necessary change. Once I’m breathing that ALL energy in and out through my heart, I settle into appreciation and acceptance in my heart, body and energy field – I like to just ‘be’ and ‘sit’ with that for a few minutes. I let any emotions of fear, discomfort, frustration be transmuted into love for all (that awesome feeling of oneness when overlooking the Grand Canyon for the first time, or experiencing the magnificence of Yosemite, holding a newborn, experiencing the unconditional love of a pet, etc). It’s like a light coming in and shifting the fear, discomfort, frustration into a loving, shining light. I fill my entire body, all the way to the tips of my toes, fingertips, the top of my head and beyond .. filling my energy field with a bright, loving, shining light for myself and emanating to those around me.

When I bring those emotions of love into my being there is a measurable balance happening to my autonomic nervous system. My heart rate changes … my thought processes clear … my sympathetic and parasympathetic systems balance. Now I can greet my family and the day with clear thoughts and calm.

This is my daily wake up practice …