Elianne El-Amyouni
Spiritualist
Elianne El-Amyouni is a spiritualist, writer, reader, speaker, content creator, and doctor of philosophy based in Canada. She has expertise in tarot, historical literature, object symbolism, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy, and jungian analysis. She has a following of over 1.5 million subscribers across platforms, and shares independent content in both video and text form. Her work is informed by her personal experiences as the child of immigrants in Canada, the lessons she has been taught by spiritual mentors along the way, and her formal education. Her MA study, completed at the University of Balamand, Lebanon, involved tracing variations of symbolic tradition in Jungian dream analysis, alchemical literature, and occult poetry. Her PhD, completed at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, explores narratives of resistance and political identity expression in Palestinian hip-hop. She is also a columnist for the Arabic newspaper Al-Akhbar and the literary magazine Rehla. Her work has been published in a num
Education
- BA in English Literature and Philosophy
- Master's in Occult and Alchemical Symbolism
- PhD in Palestinian Political Identity and Youth Cultures
Professional Achievements
- Offers mentorships and one on one coaching sessions, tarot readings, dream interpretation sessions, and psycho-spiritual consultations
- Created a variety of educational resources, including journals and personal workbooks to guide students on their alchemical journeys
- Offers courses on spiritual teachings, including Alchemy 101, Alchemy 101: Practical Applications, and Tarology, her self-paced course on learning tarot
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How do you meditate spiritually?
To meditate spiritually, the first thing is to know that the most spiritual thing that we have is our breath. That's actually all that we are: inhale and exhale. It’s also something that shows up in all the ancient traditions—the God's breath, the source's breath, the breath and spirit being the same word in many languages. So first, keep in mind that as long as you breathe, you are meditating spiritually.
If you want to take that deeper, you can use meditation to actually find your breath. Rather than trying to silence your mind or sit completely still or sit completely upright or breathe deeply, just let yourself breathe and practice finding that very delicate attachment where you are breathing involuntarily, but you are also allowing yourself to become conscious and aware of exactly how your breathing is going and where it stops, when it feels like it needs to come out and when it feels like it needs to go back in. And then, try little by little to push it a little bit deeper than it wants to go so that you start having a co-creative process between you and your breath. You’re essentially acknowledging your breath and its role in bringing you to be here. That's one way to meditate.
Also, remember that meditating is not about silencing the mind, which is a big misconception in a lot of spiritual circles. You are not supposed to silence your mind. Your mind is not supposed to be silent. Your mind will be silent when you're dead. You are alive. The idea is to be able to sit with the mind and watch it have thoughts without having to get embroiled and caught up in every single thought and become attached to every single thought. You can try deepening the breath or alternatively, imagining or thinking of the mind as a spot in the forest, like you’re watching a stream go by but you're not jumping into the stream. The stream is just all of the thoughts that you're having and you're listening to but they're just going by. You do not jump in the river. You just watch it go by and breathe and that's it. That's all you need. Five minutes in the morning of this and that's more than enough.
If you want to take that deeper, you can use meditation to actually find your breath. Rather than trying to silence your mind or sit completely still or sit completely upright or breathe deeply, just let yourself breathe and practice finding that very delicate attachment where you are breathing involuntarily, but you are also allowing yourself to become conscious and aware of exactly how your breathing is going and where it stops, when it feels like it needs to come out and when it feels like it needs to go back in. And then, try little by little to push it a little bit deeper than it wants to go so that you start having a co-creative process between you and your breath. You’re essentially acknowledging your breath and its role in bringing you to be here. That's one way to meditate.
Also, remember that meditating is not about silencing the mind, which is a big misconception in a lot of spiritual circles. You are not supposed to silence your mind. Your mind is not supposed to be silent. Your mind will be silent when you're dead. You are alive. The idea is to be able to sit with the mind and watch it have thoughts without having to get embroiled and caught up in every single thought and become attached to every single thought. You can try deepening the breath or alternatively, imagining or thinking of the mind as a spot in the forest, like you’re watching a stream go by but you're not jumping into the stream. The stream is just all of the thoughts that you're having and you're listening to but they're just going by. You do not jump in the river. You just watch it go by and breathe and that's it. That's all you need. Five minutes in the morning of this and that's more than enough.
How can you do a spiritual cleanse?
To do a spiritual cleanse, you first want to have an idea of what you are personally trying to cleanse. Then, in almost every tradition throughout history, every spiritual and religious tradition has some form of fasting ritual to cleanse the spirit, whether that's for three days or seven days or 40 days, but how long you fast and what you fast from is generally up to you.
Personally, when I fast, it's three days of a juice fast—a fast from solids—to re-stabilize and realign my awareness with how genuinely lucky we are to have the most basic things, like solid food. Hunger is the most basic need. In the evolutionary sense, we were filling our stomachs before we were building homes, and if you can bring yourself back to that awareness, that's going to be a fantastic spiritual cleanse because it's going to shed a lot of all of the immediate things that your awareness is bothered with, like what your ex said, what your friend said, what happened yesterday, what you did or didn't do, whether or not you're cool, your toxic relationship, or whatever it is that you're trying to cleanse away.
A ritual is another way that you can think of spiritual cleanses, by setting an intention and really bringing your willpower to execute that intention. But I don't think that we are necessarily ever dirty in spirit or that we need cleansing, and actually, we don't allow our spiritual life to be alive. Many of us, if not most of us or all of us, are very sensitive, very tender souls who just want to connect and live good lives and love and be loved. And we do so much every day all of the time to avoid letting that part of ourselves exist and express itself. You cleanse spiritually when you let yourself choose love, when you would rather choose dismissal or avoidance, when you let yourself have compassion for someone who you disagree with or who you don't like, and so on and so forth. And the more that you practice and embody your compassionate, loving, and love-thirsting humanity, the more you cleanse, really.
Personally, when I fast, it's three days of a juice fast—a fast from solids—to re-stabilize and realign my awareness with how genuinely lucky we are to have the most basic things, like solid food. Hunger is the most basic need. In the evolutionary sense, we were filling our stomachs before we were building homes, and if you can bring yourself back to that awareness, that's going to be a fantastic spiritual cleanse because it's going to shed a lot of all of the immediate things that your awareness is bothered with, like what your ex said, what your friend said, what happened yesterday, what you did or didn't do, whether or not you're cool, your toxic relationship, or whatever it is that you're trying to cleanse away.
A ritual is another way that you can think of spiritual cleanses, by setting an intention and really bringing your willpower to execute that intention. But I don't think that we are necessarily ever dirty in spirit or that we need cleansing, and actually, we don't allow our spiritual life to be alive. Many of us, if not most of us or all of us, are very sensitive, very tender souls who just want to connect and live good lives and love and be loved. And we do so much every day all of the time to avoid letting that part of ourselves exist and express itself. You cleanse spiritually when you let yourself choose love, when you would rather choose dismissal or avoidance, when you let yourself have compassion for someone who you disagree with or who you don't like, and so on and so forth. And the more that you practice and embody your compassionate, loving, and love-thirsting humanity, the more you cleanse, really.
How can I cleanse myself of bad luck??
Here's what you do: convince yourself that it's a good luck streak!
Find any way possible to say “I'm so lucky this happened”, even if you have to lie to yourself a little bit. And before you completely have to lie to yourself, try to find any positives that can come out the experience. For example, if you're feeling like, “I'm so unlucky, I dropped my Pepsi. Just before I reached my mouth, I spilled it all over myself". But then, try to think about it this way: "I'm so grateful that that happened because honestly, Pepsi is so bad for me and I shouldn't be drinking it. My body doesn't need it. My body clearly doesn't want it. I'm so grateful I dropped it”. Try tricking your mind, because the more you tell yourself you have bad luck, the more bad luck is going to come to you. Instead, take steps to develop your reality...just tell yourself, “These things that are happening to me are just my life”.
I want to learn how to astral project
First off, you want to be able to have the ability to lucid dream. If you can lucid dream, then you can astral project.
There are some different techniques for approaching it; some people try to do it from a waking state, where they lie down and literally try to separate the consciousness from the body. Personally, I've never experienced that. In my experience, I've found that lucid dreaming and training myself to wake up from the unconscious state to the conscious state was a lot gentler and a more natural transition. Waking up in your dream and then not immediately waking yourself up takes getting used to, but once you get the hang of feeling like “Okay, I'm awake in the dream. That's okay. Now, I can just roam around and hopefully not wake myself up”, then it’s cool, and it's just a fun thing to do!
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