Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So, you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there yousee differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. ~ Terry Pratchett
It’s no longer just about you, but about all who will benefit from your story. In your minds eye, imagine you are delivering a passionate graduation speech to a sea of eager students who are hanging on your every word. You stand at the podium, confidently sharing your story, reflecting upon your journey. You reminisce about lessons and blessings learned and earned along the way. Your words become seeds, planted in fertile soil in the minds and hearts of all those who are destined to be changed by your wisdom. At some point, you notice you are no longer telling a story about how you found the elixir but have embodied it. Between words, when you pause for breath, you continue to radiate a life-affirming message that alchemically alters all who are blessed to be in your sphere of influence.
Mantra :: I’ve graduated from having a story worth telling to embodying the potency of my story, and it emanates through every cell of my being.
Artwork by Rassouli
The Hero’s Journey dream oracle, by Kelly Sullivan Walden
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
“I am so drunk I have lost the way in and the way out. I have lost the earth, the moon, and the sky. Don’t put another cup of wine in my hand, pour it in my mouth …” ~ Rumi
You’ve said yes to becoming all you can be, yes to becoming your best self, and yes to contributing to the world by remembering your dreams, sharing your gifts and talents. It seem the universe heard you and is responding in kind. Instead of panicking at the loss of who you thought you were, celebrate your gain. By releasing who you were, you have created space to explore the infinite possibilities of who you shall become. Your divine disorientation is due to the disappearance of the self you’ve come to know over all these years. Take heart knowing the sacred storm taking place within is part of your apotheosis. You are experiencing elevation – from where you’ve been to the human you were born to be. The rearranging of cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, and quantum material that holds you together is a wild party. Call it good and revel in divine oblivion.
Mantra :: I am high on life, and off my rocker with the overwhelming beauty that surrounds me.
Artwork by Rassouli
The Hero’s Journey dream oracle, by Kelly Sullivan Walden
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
In every creative process, in every birth, in every opening of a new cycle of life, there is a time of vulnerability. This vulnerability is natural and appropriate. It is the foal learning to become steady on its legs. Those legs will become remarkably powerful in time, but the process of growth and maturity has to take place, and that requires some wobbly first attempts. It cannot be any other way.
Within you, perhaps even below the level of your conscious awareness, there is a fresh new life emerging like a vibrant green shoot rising up from the earth. This new life is in need of your attention and your care. This could be a new relationship that needs tending with interest and kindness. It could be a new idea that you need to nurture into fulness, because it is going to hold special purpose for your life path. It might be something within you – a new behavior, a new way of looking at yourself or a new way of being in the world – that you need to tend to until it becomes more natural for you to embody.
The idea that you are currently nurturing, or soon will, is of great importance to your life path.
You must pay attention to the new life emerging for you now, or that you will soon sense. You must not be careless and think it doesn’t matter. It matters greatly. Being careless now is akin to killing off the idea before it has a chance to grow strong enough to withstand the criticism, jealousy or sabotage by dark consciousness in others or yourself. We don’t have to be frightened of destructive energy – it exists in nature and in us, and is part of life. We do however need to be intelligent to its potential power and stay centered in our heart and in our wisdom to avoid its ill effect upon that which we are nurturing into life.
You will not always need to cloak that which is young. Soon enough it will be able to stand up for itself, but for now, your vigilance and care is most certainly required. Hug your ideas to yourself as though they were a new lover you cannot bear to share with another. In time the world will be the lover receiving the love of your idea. For now, it is for you to love, for you to hold and for you to observe. Only allow those proven trustworthy to support you in this – those who can handle the frequency or vibration of what you are seeking to nurture. Some may love you but be frightened of what you are creating. Stay true to yourself and your creative power and be wise as to whom you invite into your inner sanctum to witness this new life emerging.
Keep your inner sanctuary pure. This may be your room, a sacred place you visit, or your own body, into which you retreat in relaxation or meditation. Sometimes you will find that others have taken up residence in your sanctuary. Perhaps an argument that you cannot let go of, has another living in your head. A suffering that has not been acknowledged and released can feel like a big, old dirty suitcase of emotional baggage cluttering up the temple space of your heart. It is time to focus on the purity, light, love and compassion that dwells within you. Everything else will come and go, and that is just fine. But the purity within your sanctuary is eternal. You can come back to it to refresh your spirit and gain resources to help you deal with the rest of the world and even your own darker moments, anew. It will give you the peace and spaciousness of mind you need to recognize the new life, and to compassionately, but firmly, denounce any intrusion upon that new life by doubt, fear or sabotage.
Healing process ::
Close your eyes and relax. Focus on your breath for several moments. Imagine the external world fading away and allow yourself to step into your heart, as though within you there is a silent, vast, open space. That space within is peaceful.
Sense, see or feel that deep within that space, a tender young shoot is rising out of the earth. With tremendous courage and focus, it has summoned the energy to crack through the seed that once contained its life force, and it is reaching directly up towards the light, boldly determined to become a full, mature plant.
Imagine that you are joyfully, lovingly and consciously standing guard over that shoot. From a loving, aware, and strong space you firmly move on any big muddy boots that would step on it, or any devouring insects that look rather interested in that tasty young morsel. You do this easily and effectively, whilst remaining centered in your heart.
Around you and the shoot are many beings of unconditional love. These may be ancestors, spiritual guides, beings of light, or angelic beings.
You may sense darkness rise and fall around you and the circle of light created by your love and the beings supporting you to protect this tender young shoot. You can notice that rise and fall of darkness whilst remaining calm, centered and detached in your heart as you focus your love on the young plant. Watch it respond and grow strong. All is well. You may whisper to it, “You are safe and you will grow strong and thrive! Through unconditional love, so be it!”
In your own time, just open your eyes and you have completed your healing process. At any time you can return to repeat this process, especially if you ever feel anxiety or fear about your new life being able to sustain itself and become strong. There is no need for worry, just treat such feelings as an intuitive sign that this healing process will be helpful for you and repeat it. You can do it daily for a few weeks if you are going through a particularly vulnerable period in your life. It will never do you any harm, it will only ever support you.
You might have been taught that creativity is something you have to work hard to access, or that finding your life purpose is so difficult that you must search high and low for it. Yet what you are is within you and wants to come out at every available opportunity! You don’t have to struggle so much. It is more about allowing space for it to manifest and let the energy flow. The real struggle is not in finding something. It is more about letting go of the idea that you need to search for your path in the first place. You see, the process of activating your life path is a natural one. The effort is in getting out of the way, not in making something happen.
As for being yourself, that is the foundation from which your true life path will reveal itself. Being yourself becomes easier when you give yourself permission to love, honor and accept yourself in all circumstances, especially the ones where you might be more tempted to reject and judge. Give the sacred rebel within the opportunity to decide your values – irrespective of whether they meet with general social acceptance.
What you are dreaming of or seeking to do, create, live or manifest, is actually very natural for you. That is why you want to do it.
If you experienced controlling or manipulative forces as you were growing up, you could have found it hard to access your natural state at the time. You would have been too busy trying to adapt and get through the trials of childhood.
When you finished navigating childhood and started to let go of who you were taught to be in order to become who you really are, you may have found your life path was not easily accessible. That is simply because your true and natural self was covered by layers of shame from the early conditioning that you had to be other than you are in order to win love or be acceptable.
However, the natural self hasn’t gone anywhere. It is still there within you. Now it is just chipping away at the walls of shame, perhaps with a defiant, “Who the hell cares, I am here and I am going to love myself anyway.” This allows you to risk bearing the feeling of any shame that arises as you release old emotional wounds and break away from any restraints to unconditional self love. The scared rebel within can empower you to love yourself no matter what, simply because you want to. You might decide to declare, “I am still loveable – so put that in your pipe and smoke it!” This will send an energetic message to whoever shamed you in the first place, whether they meant to or not. You can be freed to realize that the shame is just an emotion, not a truth, and you can defy any hold it has ever had on you and your ability to love yourself.
You are now powerful enough to break the cycle. It is time to stop the shame and claim yourself with love instead.
What you want to write, sing, dance or become, is you. It is natural. Drop your defenses, get into the grit and confront the power that any old shaming has had over you. It’s finished now. It is time for you to be naked with yourself, acknowledge how gorgeous you are and get on with your work. What you want to create, wants to be created. The world wants to be written. You just need to let go of any remnants of the past that have been in your way. Step firmly over them and on to your path.
Healing process :: Say aloud, “I now choose to forgive and release any person, situation or circumstance that has ever been a source of shame or shaming for me, whether conscious or unconscious. I now release this from my body, mind and heart, through unconditional love. I choose to claim myself instead. I love, accept and claim all of me under the loving protection and wisdom of life. I choose to live as myself. Now. I call on the unconditionally loving assistance that life wishes to send me for this journey now. I honor my creative power and my innate worth. So be it.”
Be kind to yourself. Say this every day for the next few days or however long it takes for you to believe it. You are worth the effort.
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
To the one who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. ~ Ernest Holmes
Step back to find clarity.
Take a breather and honor your yin (feminine) nature. This is not always so easy to do in a culture that honors and celebrates the yang (drive/strive mode), while turning its nose at the virtues of the yin qualities of flow and letting go. In yang mode we get things done. In yin mode we fill our tank and reflect on our larger vision and purpose, so when its time to move, we do so with precision. If we are to live in balance, we need both action and reflection. There are times to do and times for inaction. To know which mode is most appropriate, step back, and practice discernment.
Mantra :: Divine discernment lets me know when to go, when to stop, and when to drop into the space in between.
Artwork by Rassouli
The Hero’s Journey dream oracle, by Kelly Sullivan Walden
I’m no scientist, and I have no Ph.D., but I do have experience with the effects of a properly hydrated and nourished body.
Hydrated cells are more easily flushed of toxins. Proper hydration allows for the cell to flow freely throughout the body system, allowing the cell to function at its optimum.
A well hydrated body makes for a more powerful reception to the energies around us, and in us. The human body is a biological antennae as well as a power source, a generator, which picks up on even the most subtle energetic flow. It is that which connects the heavens and the beings of it, to the earth and those that live here. The bridge between worlds.
As we age the cellular wall becomes hardened, and hydration does not enter in the optimum. The antennae slowly stops receiving ….. receiving what? Energy, life force, support from our unseen team who communicates in vibration … the cells wither, and so does the body, the mind.
Some time ago I was researching DMSO. I experimented with it. I found that the hardening of the cellular wall became more pliable. The cell was able to receive a proper flush with the water I was drinking. The cell became softer, and therefore did not need as much of the medicine I was taking … in fact, I was able to get off a medicine all together! Once the cells softened and were flushed, the inner workings of body began to function better. (If you choose to try this at home, remember to research your product, as there is industrial DMSO, and the type used for healing. Here’s the one I use from amazon – NO ODOR DMSO – Dimethyl sulfoxide liquid (3.4 Oz – 100ml), Pharmaceutical grade, High purity, Heiltropfen).
These days my favorite thing is to be hydrated, and to listen to sound meditations full volume with head phones. I bring my attention to the reverberation of sound as it enters my ears, as it send ripples of movement through my neck, my arms, my torso. Wherever I put my attention, I wait until the vibration arrives in that location, and I feel it for a time.
Sound vibration, in the water of the cells, and in all subtle bodies.
I talk to my cells as they vibrate, “Wake up cells! Wake up!”
We, my body, my chakra system, and my spirit self, my life force essence, my soul, have work to do, and we must function ideally.
These days, it’s not so much physical fitness …. that was for the days of my youth (who knows what the future brings). In these present moments, its all about energy … how healthy the flow is, whether there are any leakages or weak spots. This all ties in with the emotional body, for if one cannot manage their emotional output, they will forever be manipulated by those who will manage it for them …. and the “managers” prefer to feast on fear. (ie: the state of the world right now).
Here is one of my favorite vibrational pieces. I enjoy starting or ending my day with this.
If it is evening, I’ll sometimes listen to the above followed by this one.
There is nothing quite like feeling the cellular structure of the body dance!! I highly recommend it for everyone! It’s amazing for the nervous system and mind.
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate my friends, and get activated!
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
I surrender in my process with trust.
I have committed to this process. My wildest dreams will soon come true.
I remain patient and hopeful.
I align with the universal heartbeat.
I listen to my own heartbeat.
I am passionate for this life.
I allow myself to feel.
My mind serves the truths of my heart.
My innermost self knows what to do and knows what is true. It does not matter if my mind agrees.
I trust my heart.
I rebel against fear.
I let my heart lead me.
My mind surrenders to my heart.
I let go of the old way of doing things.
I relax and allow trust to be reborn in me.
I embrace this moment.
Greater Love is unfolding for me now.
I no longer need to hide my true self.
I trust my intuition.
I move through this world in the most authentic way possible.
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