Feeding Life Through Acts of Grace ~ How Simple Acts of Care become Nourishment for All Beings

By Alisa Battaglia

As I sit in the quiet moment of now, the crisp air awakens my spirit to the early morning hours before the buzz of the technosphere. I just sit—breathing, being, feeling grateful for my life, my mother, and my beautiful home. My heart holds a desire for deeper connection with my neighbors and the greater stream of life moving all around me.

Yesterday, I learned that another neighbor has fallen ill—sudden and unexplained. I offered what I could: knowledge of healing steps and support. In conversation, we discovered a shared secret—we’ve both been feeding and sheltering a small feline family that has become the neighborhood’s gentle strays.

As I sip delicious hot tea, I look into my autumn garden and wonder where my dove flock is. Maybe they sense the felines about. I take notice that the bird seed cake holder needs a refill. I feel a sense of concern to assure the cats and birds are fed. It’s cold and most of their favorite flowers are gone and wonder about the bees. Then my thoughts wander to my new and endearing friend who feeds the homeless and the hungry. He said he fed 50 people yesterday, more than usual. No one should be left in the cold and without at least meal a day. I eat two.

Hardship moves through every layer of life, yet so can grace. We do what we can with what we have—planting flowers for a dying species of pollinator bees and butterflies, leaving food for strays and wild animals displaced by rapid encroachment to lending a hand to those in need in ways we can. To offer warmth to another soul with a kind word or gesture. For instance, a sweater that does not fit will fit someone who never had the luxury of feeling warm in one.  These small acts of kindness, born from the impulse of love, are the healing balm that lifts life to a higher order.

Strive to always be better and more loving than the day before, until you realize—we are not separate, but actually all one. While this sounds fanciful on paper and ideology, it is love in action that beats the true heart of the human family. As stewards of nature, this knowing is inborn, yet outbred by a pseudo way of living detached from the very origins upon whom we live, move and have our being. Nature shows us when we are still enough to observe the cooperative link. Everything lives through cooperation.

Ask yourself: What am I grateful for in my life today that fills my heart and overflows me with tears of reverence in recognition of this moment of Grace?  Then Pay it forward!

I AM
In Excelsis Deo

Alisa Battaglia, November 1, 2025

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Where I’ve Been: A Note from My Heart to Yours

Dear Readers,

You may have noticed it’s been quiet here for the past two months—and I want to take a moment to explain why.

Sometimes, the most important work happens off the page—deep within. These past two months have been a season of recalibration for me: emotionally, energetically, and spiritually. As someone who teaches about Body Balance and conscious living, I found myself embodying those very teachings more deeply.

I stepped back to realign—to nourish my own nervous system, plant a Spring garden, create and listen to spiritual guidance on what was truly needed next. This included launching Urban Yoga Wear pop up store. I’ve designed unique collections. I can customize something special for you, too. See them here:  https://urban-yoga-wear.printify.me/

I also reworked some of my offerings, refined my wellness manuals and guides, and grounded new ideas that will serve you more powerfully. I re-envisioned my book (“BODY BALANCE: Simple Chef Creations Healthy Life Recipes for Cellular Detox, Immune Building, Weight Release & Lifestyle Maintenance) into a group to serve more deeply. I launched a sacred online space—my new Facebook group, Body Balance: The Nourished Self Collective—where we explore emotional nourishment, food energetics, detox, and spiritual embodiment. If you’re seeking aligned community and deeper support, I warmly invite you to join us there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodybalancecollective

And for those ready for deeper healing, I’m reopening space for 2–3 private clients who feel called to begin a Regenerative Detox Journey with me. This is deep, personal work—tailored for those who are ready to release old layers and restore balance at the root.

If that resonates with you, I encourage you to reach out. The body knows when it’s time.

Thank you for your patience, your trust, and for walking this path with me.

New posts, tools, and teachings are on their way—rooted in integrity and the same multidimensional wellness you come here for.

In Lighted Companionship
Alisa Battaglia
Founder, Integral Life Wellness

THE CHAKRAS: Basic Overview

By Alisa Battaglia

Spiritual energy travels along the spinal pathway. Therein lays the secret art and science that contains the “Keys of Life” to bring personal well-being and enlightenment (peace) translated into a collective enlightenment or Unity Consciousness.

The chakras are the veils that cloak the soul. As transducers of spiritual energy, the chakras generate etheric matter that the Soul uses to weave reality and to achieve enlightenment. Each chakra is a level or eye of consciousness in how we perceive, live and move in the world and the spine is the channel to each gateway (chakra) of progress. Each is an expression of varying levels of love and wisdom.

On an etheric level the seven chakras are seen as spinning wheels of light with each situated in a vertical alignment from the base of the spine to the top of the head. From the front and back of the body the chakras look like funnels as they receive and assimilate Kosmic energy currents for output of expression of the personality.The energetic ascent of primal life force originating at the base of the spine, or the descent of heavenly energies at the crown flows in a double helix configuration, that of a DNA-molecule, which contains the genetic code of life. Such circulation between the crown and the base chakra consummates Spirit with matter, or unites lower consciousness with that of the Soul.

Each of the seven centers relates to the health of the body and correlates to one of the seven endocrine glands. The endocrines are glands that secrete hormones (chemical substances) directly into the blood stream that affects our states of being. While DNA contains the genetic code of life and the blood carries its blueprint, the endocrine system acts as a conduit for spiritual information. The energetic composition of the human body and the endocrines (hormones of life) translates the frequency or vibration of the encoded via the language of Light.

This is important because as a conduit between interdimensional realms, the proper functioning of the endocrines relates to our development and progress and thus, assists in closing the gaps in consciousness. Imagine seven steps that compose a ladder and that between each step is a gap – a gap in consciousness. Each gap in consciousness is closed by reaching to the next successive step. The higher step encompasses all those steps below it and thus integrated, creates the whole ladder as a connective bridge of understanding from one level of perception to another. The seven chakras are like steps in connecting the seven eyes of consciousness and the seven attributes of heart into greater Love and Wisdom-Unity Consciousness.

Emotional purification of the chakras from disharmonious energy blocks (resistance to flow) enables them to open and flow freely. Clearing resistance raises our vibrations to higher levels attuning us to the higher stream of Unity consciousness. Integrating any misalignments between masculine and feminine spiritual energies is necessary in order to harmoniously express the creative use of generative force.

We can purify the chakras through vibration using the voice by toning, chanting, Tibetan Singing bowls, Crystal bowls, and tuning forks for their ability to balance energies within the body using sound vibration. Clearing the chakras through meditative mudras is also effective as are many different energy healing modalities.

Uniting of heaven and Earth through consciousness into the One Life, is called the “Opus”- The Great Work.

AlisaBattaglia©2010-2024

When Information Creates Ripples of Confusion

When Information creates within us ripples of confusion about who we are, we move into self doubt. Doubt produces fear in the unknowing and fear is the great self-abnegator. It is the very illusion placed before us that cuts us off at the knees in surrendering our identity to something other, which denies the truth of our authentic Self – our Self-conscious Spirit.

While, it is not always so easy to do the inner work to arrive at this fact or to think wholly for ourselves without others opinions or intrusions that guide us away from our inner knowing’s. We must however, begin to monitor our thoughts and apply common sense logic to them, question them and the philosophies that perpetuate imbalanced living before they are as readily embraced as our own.  When we step back to review the picture we must use discernment as to what is real and of that which is psychologically imagined. Sometimes what we think is actually imagined is real and what appears real is a projection of the imagination or of mind shaping technologies. We live in a time where realities merge through technologies invisible in everyday life and where the information from those channels creates ripples of confusion.

We must take note that psychological imaginings are implanted by external injections of fear – terror variegated by external interests in keeping the collective mind “free to roam in a box” of a particular systems template or manufactured psychological paradigm. For some the box is entirely cozy with no thought to venture beyond its confines. Others attempt to think outside the box, but hurts the head to stretch intellect at times where it is easier to just attach our attention to others ideas, to the latest spiritual fad out there or superficial impulse. To clutch to the one that sounds terrific enough to stimulate the lethargic mental body, but really it is not so much the quickening of the mental body we must be concerned with, but the feeling intuitive heart faculty.

The world illusions are many, fear produced realities and the miasms of our social conditioning keep us in fright more than fight or flight. Fear and self-doubt produces a strong hold on the psyche literally immobilizing the mind into “learned helplessness.” Subverting humanity into sheeple, into learned helplessness, has not been entirely difficult. Simply create a system of ideologies, religious and political dogmas, occult distortions to truth and accepted social norms that when deviated from through any form of self thought, produces a backlash that ostracizes the individual or groups in public domain.  Beware! When one discovers and liberates from a fear bracket, there is always another boogie man to take its place in the necessity of keeping the motor of the fear machine running.

In a world of conflicting realities and equivalent states of being, puppeteering agendas and ideologies induced on a global scale, superficial value systems and social norms with their derived life purposes of occult imaginings, we must hold the courage to face the truth of what is both in the world and inside our selves and then to step aside from the fear mongering that produces the vicious cycle of addictive consciousness.

The antidote to a grounded and centered existence in love with life is to understand the machinations of the fear machine and to UNPLUG from its vampirism – its life sucking tentacles! Fear with all its correlates feeds and strengthens the Beast that seeks to control us!

How do we salvage ourselves from the hungry Beast –the tentacles of the Sycophant? At some point in our life’s journey, the hard knocks of trial and error or perhaps we are lead through a series of synchronicities or instant revelation that we come to oblige our feelings and choose to listen to the unease that points us towards better feeling states in the direction of the true north of our Being. Our feelings if we listen will always show us how far we have deviated from our alignment with Source – our true North. Since we dwell in a physical body, all information must engage the feeling intuitive heart, which is the language of co-creation in fifth dimensional manifestation. The intuitive feeling heart consists of a very different quality of essence. This essence is actually who we are in truth.

Our intuitive feeling heart is our guidance system, our infallible barometer for truth. Truth garnered through our intuitive feeling faculty emanates from the heart throughout the entire fabric of our being in effulgent effortless flow like a hollow bone, while untruths, doubts and fears contract within us and get lodged in the body as miasms. These miasms of interrupted or suppressed thought and feeling produces the dis-ease states we feel as the inner pressure of confusion, anxiety and  fear in our lack of natural discernment of our feeling faculty. Such effects always occur when we are out of alignment with our feeling integrity…of our soul’s truth as the living God within us.

We learn what we must do to bring ourselves back into integrity. The product of our lives and what and whom we draw into it also show us. Our feelings tell us how close or far we are from our center alignment with soul/Source connection.  Loving ourselves and self care with appropriate boundaries that serve the highest & best self in us can keep us essentially close to center.  Always move towards better feeling states….when we feel fabulous we are aligned and in sync. When we feel out of sorts we have some feeling work to do to move through obstruction in order to help us get clear and make space to reach center.  The question always remains, how crappy must we feel and do we even care enough that we feel like crap to adjust our lives towards our greater potential? So we must be concerned with enough self love to not allow ourselves to feel like crap and move back toward a better feeling state that leads to alignment with Source – our great sustainer.

My motto is “ground, center & expand” to maintain a modicum of equilibrium on a daily basis. We can do this through a simple meditation that grounds us into the natural Earthen timeline by connecting us to our heart centered self, as soul essence – the nexus of our true expression. It is upon this octave of being that we seek to express while in our earth bodies. From this centering vantage point, we interface our personality with Soul and spiritual lineage to God head. We produce an alignment…a direct connection, an umbilical cord to sustenance…and we FEEL fantastic. It is from this feeling alignment that if we deviate in ordinary life through negative thought, word and action, that we feel out of sorts from our interruption with Source connection.

Grounding into the Natural Earth Timeline

Focus your energy into the Heart and breathe deeply. Know that your consciousness is anchored in your Heart. Experience that reality as a deep sense of Unconditional Love and Connection to All That Is. Feel also the deep Peace that is part of that Consciousness. Then, allow that energy to move downwards through the solar plexus, the sacral and the base chakras and down into the Earth Star Chakra, located within the Earth just beneath your feet. Feel how you are now anchoring your energy into the Earth into her inner matrix as you connect with your Earth Star Chakra. Now, let that energy move further down to connect with the Crystal Heart at the center of the Earth. Here you feel the deep and unconditional Love of the Earth Mother coming up to you, through the Earth Star Chakra and into your Heart. Hold that Love in your Heart, and know that you are deeply Loved and Nurtured by the Earth Mother, and that you are in Alignment with the Divine Will for the Earth, as expressed through the evolution of the Planet into Multi-dimensional Reality.

The glow of Love expands from your heart and enfolds you in a translucent pillar of light. Continue to move the energy up your body, through the Throat, Brow and Crown chakras, and up into the Soul Star Chakra that is located just above the head. Here, you connect with your Soul and your “I AM” presence, as it anchors into your Physical Form. Here you can also connect with your Purpose for being here now, and with your Divine Essence. Feel the Unconditional Love and Beauty of your Soul as you align with your Higher Purpose for this lifetime.

It feels wonderful and filled with brilliant and radiant light. Now, let that energy move upwards through the Dimensions of Light to your Spiritual Lineage aligning with the Great Cosmic Heart of All That Is. Here you feel the Infinite Love of the Source for All that Is. Draw that pulsating and radiant light back down into your Heart and hold it there to ground Spirit into matter. You are now aligned with Divine Will, for yourself and for the Earth. When you are in this alignment, mediating between Heaven and Earth, you will find it a simple matter to be grounded into Earths natural Timeline and to experience the energies of Peace, Calm and Abundance. Life will shift into Simplicity and Clarity as you follow the Divine Guidance or impulse that will come to you on this new Timeline of Grace and Love.

 Alisa Battaglia©2011