Inspiring New Possibilities, Living From the Soul of Life While Co-creating Well Being of Body, Being, Heart and Planet….One Breath At A Time
Soul Musings is a 31-day practice for the month of December immersed in deep listening to what is emerging and unfolding day by day. Eight sentences with occasional resources to explore more deeply.
Each post, invited by Soul, allows the words to emerge unscathed from prior planning, editing, or censorship. Dwelling in uncertainty and dipping a toe into mystery this union of words is an attempt to resonate within an innate way of Being…. returning “home”.
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The generosity of woman crosses all domains when she accepts that in feeding her Soul she nourishes the life around her. Nature connected we root our toes down into the Earth and feel the pull of energy that constantly feeds us . Essential and sensual nature flowing as the river. As the tree that stretches it’s arms to the sun, the moon, the Universe.
Boundaries provide a container to hold nourishment. We are fed and held in the arms of that which gives us life. Breathe now. Join in the ecstatic union and step into the unfolding dance.
Inspiring New Possibilities, Living From the Soul of Life While Co-creating Well Being of Body, Being, Heart and Planet….One Breath At A Time
Soul Musings is a 31-day practice for the month of December immersed in deep listening to what is emerging and unfolding day by day. Eight sentences with occasional resources to explore more deeply.
Each post, invited by Soul, allows the words to emerge unscathed from prior planning, editing, or censorship. Dwelling in uncertainty and dipping a toe into mystery this union resonates with something deep within.
To receive daily posts simply sign up for this blog and you will be notified through e-mail. In addition there will be daily posts on the blogs below. Thank you for being part of this practice with me!
Earthing the Moon – Reclaiming the Inner Gateways to Feminine Potency, Creativity, Sexuality and Spirituality is a 5 week on-line course where we will literally walk/move/dance around our moon cycles five times to experience and receive the gifts of each different gateway. It’s embodied teaching from the comfort of your own home.
You can read about it here www.earthingthemoon.com Please, please do go see – it’s beautiful.
Our FREE intro talk is this coming Monday Dec 1st at 7pm-8.30pm UK, and you can register on that same link.
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word “risk” I often feel a physical reaction in my body. My stomach clamps down just a little, my breath stops or becomes shallow, and my shoulders and jaw tense.
Upon looking it up in Wikipedia I found there were two definitions that drew my attention:
1) “Risk is the potential of losing something of value. Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well being or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction, foreseen or unforeseen.”
2) “Risk can also be defined as the intentional interaction with uncertainty.”
The first definition puts the emphasis on loss by the very first sentence. It makes up for it in the last sentence, but you are left with the overall feeling of potentially “losing something”.
The second definition makes it an effective action that you take with full attention and letting go, or surrendering, into the relationship with uncertainty. This could also be called trusting what is unfolding.
This last brings more spaciousness in the body, whereas the first one could provoke the reaction of clamping down preparing for “battle with the powers that be”. A relationship with uncertainty seems to exist every moment of our lives no matter how much we might wish to control things. It could be seen as the very nature of existence.
Having dedicated the 66th year of my life to “living fearlessly” during a ritual standing in the waters of the Pacific ocean in July, the ever present “risks” are now seen as a vehicle for opportunity and possibility. That isn’t to say that my old patterns of “security” and “survival” don’t show up, but at least they have a louder voice that I can hear versus the stealth maneuvers they have done in the past.
An example of this showed up this past Sunday morning during my Gentle Yoga with Keith at Dharma Yoga here in Austin. Now this class could be seen as a “risk” unto itself as one never quite knows what the focus of the class will be or what the practice will hold. Rather like life…..thank you Keith!
This day the class was focused on risk and exploring edges…. was definitely not all that gentle, and supplied a multitude of opportunities to choose to move into edges or “stay safe”.
The peak of the class for me was in a two partner assist where we were to choose between two poses to be assisted and supported in. One was something that I knew I could do easily and though may take me into some new territory, was definitely not a “risk”.
The other one was a pose that I hadn’t done for years as it takes upper body strength to push into from the floor, which I have let go of as I have aged. There was no going back and forth between the two in the decision making process.
I knew immediately that the assisted wheel (from standing into a backbend arch coming down with hands on the floor) was to be the one by the energy flow that moved through me when I considered them.
As I felt my two assistants attempt to support me in the best way they knew how I put my total attention on the movement of my spine and the breath. Suddenly there was another pair of hands assisting (my teacher Keith) which created spaciousness for me to celebrate coming into this pose with relative ease and mindful movement.
In those moments a space opened up within. It wasn’t only being in the pose, but the additional after effects from trusting the moment to moment movement of my body, the breath guiding me, and the hands and hearts assisting me.
The joy that I felt and the opening of spaces within spilled over to my assistants who greeted me with brilliant smiles as I came up out of the pose.
Now as some of you know I practice as a yoga teacher/therapist thus in this “risk” I was asked to move out of the “personal” (proving that I know what I am doing, the realm of good/bad, right/wrong, etc..) and instead trust that the unfolding would take me where I was to go.
Let’s just say that is a MUCH LARGER space to play and blossom in!
For those interested in receiving private sessions please contact Gaye at: JoyfulGaye@NaturalPassages.com. Travel to your location in the U.S. or globally is available. Please inquire. Skype: gaye.abbott
“Vulnerability is not weakness. The pretense of invulnerability is remarkably delusional; it is symptomatic of outrageous vanity. To ignore consideration of our own vulnerabilities represents a failure to properly risk ourselves in the world. To turn away from or attempt to exile others who are vulnerable expresses a profound and disturbing loss of humanity. Our relationship to vulnerability is a core element of our authenticity and our identity.”
– Brian Alger
It has been awhile since my last posting, not by design, but instead by neglect in allowing so much time to pass. Starting right out being vulnerable opens a space within me to write something of value for you my readers. How much are we willing to be vulnerable to life’s changes and challenges? Open into new possibilities of expressing ourselves at the very core of our being?
We all have stories of a time when we felt vulnerable. However, do we have experiences where we purposely opened or placed ourselves in situations where being vulnerable put us at risk of exposure? Exposure to being seen – even those parts that we try to keep hidden for fear that we won’t be loved, liked or seen as strong, smart, independent, competent, etc, etc etc.
As the two quotes above reflect – our relationship to, and acceptance of, being in a state of vulnerability opens doorways to expression, innovation, authenticity and knowing more of who we are. Here is a recent example from my own life.
A few days ago I decided it was time that I started exploring the possibility of attracting a loving relationship with a man into my life. Since I have a home business I am often isolated, thus the decision to go to the online dating sites for those over 50 years of age. What a treasure trove of ways in which people hide, practice dishonesty, or at the worst attempt to scam others – mixed in of course with those of us who are openly and honestly representing ourselves – like me.
Yet, it felt that this was the way to go at least for a one month membership to practice my vulnerability skills. The clarity that I have received over the past few days of exploration is that I kept cutting off possibility by assessing that someone just wasn’t a fit because___________ (you fill in the blank). My delete finger was getting a lot of practice!
Going deeper with this I realized that it was the men that had vast differences in their background, education level, interests etc. that had my delete finger hitting the keyboard. Once I realized this I practiced reaching out to someone who had expressed an interest in me first and who’s world was so completely different from mine. Letting go of any preconceived notions I realized that there was room for possibility to expand and learn something new in areas that I had no competency in at all.
Yikes, no competency!…and there rests the risk of savoring the journey that opens doorways to self and other understanding. Perhaps even leading to that “birthplace of innovation, creativity and change” and possibility….where the other feels just as vulnerable as you do!
Gaye Abbott, RYT assists individuals to dissolve the layers that cover the natural innate blueprint we came in with and reveal, through a combination of evolutionary energy work, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki and breath re-patterning, the larger purpose and co-creative expression that we are here for.
For those interested in receiving private sessions please contact Gaye at: JoyfulGaye@NaturalPassages.com. Travel to your location in the U.S. or globally is available. Please inquire. Skype: gaye.abbott
Jane Goodall is one of my favorite and inspirational women elders of this day and age. She just turned 80 years old and is still traveling the world as a very powerful agent for positive change in the world. In this last year I have had the honor of connecting with some very powerful women who are not only older than me, but in some cases decades older.
As I near the age of 66 in July there are moments when I wonder if I have the stamina, energy and yes courage to not walk in the footsteps of these amazing women, but instead create my own path, and as Jane says above “decide what difference I want to make”! This question is most probably in many of your minds and hearts these days as our planet demands that we shift our consciousness and take actions from that place of deep listening and opening to new and authentic places within ourselves.
A couple of weeks ago now I was privileged to listen to Gladys McGarey, MD, MD(H) give an hour long talk here in Austin, Texas filled with stories from her life and demonstrating to me that age only inspires a greater longing to be taking action and serving from that higher purpose that we came in with. Dr. Gladys as she likes to be called was brought up in the Himalayas by American parents and climbed up 1000 feet everyday (from 6,000 to 7,000 feet) after school to be embraced by her amah and taken into her shawl where she was comforted after a challenging day at school (she was severely dyslexic).
Gladys McGarey, MD, MD(H), age 93
From this start Dr. Gladys became the “Mother of Holistic Medicine” here in the United States and now has The Foundation for Living Medicine.The new Living Medicine model recognizes the wholeness of life rather than the absence of disease. Dr. Gladys states that life and love are the aspects that really do the healing. She is still seeing patients and is the director of The Foundation for Living Medicine. Dr. Gladys is 93 years old!!
As I watched her that evening speak of the concerns that she is most passionate about I saw a vital, alive, vibrant, intelligent, beautiful woman standing erect in her flowing clothing from India and not once taking a break in an entire hour of speaking. The inspiration for me came not from her words, which were very wise indeed, but from her presence!
It is women like Dr. Gladys, Jane Goodall, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard (whom I was privileged to study with for 6 months last year), Lynn Twist, elder women in political, economic, creative and social change roles and the thousands of global “grandmothers” that are doing such important service in the world – who have found what making a difference is in their own unique ways.
There is an inquiry that I use in my breathing workshops often. It asks, “if you were to live your life as you breathed, how would you want to be breathing?” My answer of course is fully, naturally and authentically….which can be the foundation for every thought, word, movement, choice and action we take impacting the world around us.
For those interested in receiving private sessions please contact Gaye at: JoyfulGaye@NaturalPassages.com. Travel to your location in the U.S. or globally is available. Please inquire. Skype: gaye.abbott
I’m certain most of you have watched a small child taking their first steps. They fall down often as they get their land legs underneath them. Yet, they always get back up again ready for the next adventure in learning to walk upright and exploration of the world around them.
You did this in fact when you were a baby, but some of us have forgotten this as we fall into the deep holes of life and can’t seem to find our way out….or we avoid, with all of our will power, falling at all!
Fall down/get up could be perceived as one move to a baby. It is a way in which they learn more about life and is fueled by intense curiosity. Perhaps we have something to relearn here!
Living life in a “straight line” never takes us anywhere we have not already been before. As Naomi Newman says in the comic dharma performance video below “nothing natural or interesting goes in a straight line and is the quickest way to a wrong place. If you know where you are going then you have already been there.”
Have you ever purposely surrendered to the possibility of becoming lost? I call “getting lost” a way of inspiring newpossibilities for we travel to a place outside or inside of ourselves that we have never been to before. Then we have a choice. Engage with curiosity and a sense of exploration….or panic because we are “lost” and dwell in all of the fears that can result as we give them life, capturing us in a way that leads us potentially back to a dead end of sameness.
Almost three years ago now I decided to quit a job and four years of residence in Oregon and move to Texas without having any friends there or source of income. What made me do it? Many things actually, but it certainly wasn’t from a place of attempting to live in a straight line, but instead more out of a sense of trusting this leap into the unknown and knowing that I would discover more of who I am and what I have to offer within that journey.
Did I fall at times? Yes. Did I get back up making it one move? Yes, but sometimes with gaps in between as I waited for life and myself to unfold giving time for allowing possibilities to emerge. Did I learn a lot and am I still learning and growing? Oh yes!
Listening to that inner guidance system, which takes us in many and varied directions, and trusting that it will lead to exactly where we need to go next is a life long lesson. Be ready to become intensely curious, nurture a sense of exploration, travel in many and varied directions, fall down/get up, and wait for possibilities to unfold. You were so wise when young…..and it is still there within you!
For those interested in receiving private sessions please contact Gaye at: JoyfulGaye@NaturalPassages.com. Travel to your location in the U.S. or globally is available. Please inquire. Skype: gaye.abbott
“There is a tremendous power that lives deep inside you. It’s fierce – showing a heartfelt and powerful intensity that is brave and untamed – full of preciousness, gentleness, kindness and vulnerability.” Alisa Starkweather
It is when we are truly transparent as a leader and as individuals, to ourselves and those around us, that we provide a container for those that “follow” or “connect” to wake up to themselves and step into their own unique leadership and soul path. It is as if we have given them permission to be themselves – fully and completely – by being ourselves – fully and completely.
This is a style of fierce feminine leadership and being that allows and anoints women to step fully into their power in a
Yantra. The symbol of Feminine energy-strength, power and clarity.
cooperative and collaborative way leading from grace and trust. It is a type of being that lets go of and explores the shadow and sense of survival and internal oppression which has been wired in for eons…and steps out and into what we fear most.
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe
No hiding is present here. We have hidden for way too long. It has taken so much energy to keep under cover the magnificent light, power,courage, creativity, wildness, love, wisdom, intelligence, and compassion that each of us carries.
“Within you, and in nature, is the potent, instinctual, untamable and nourishing force of Wild Wisdom. You need it. I need it. Our world needs us to bring forth our Wild Wisdom “
Lea Bayles, Body and Soul Coach http://leabayles.com/wildwisdom.html
(click on this link for a wild, evocative and seductive narrative spoken by Wildly Wise Woman, Lea Bayles!)
A short time ago I had the opportunity to share the story of a wildly wise and fiercely feminine woman. I facilitated a film afternoon co-sponsored along with Sierra Club and TreeSisters (Clare Dakin, Founder – forming a global network of women with a mission of reforesting the rain forests within 10 years). The film was Taking Root,a story of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Mathaai and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, Africa. There were many things that struck me about this recent history of Kenya and her resources – and even more powerfully the life story of this woman who was bold and committed enough to step into her purpose with clarity and courage even in the midst of an entire government’s ridicule and violent actions taken against her.
And all she wanted to do was plant trees……while empowering Kenyan women and promoting peace and ecological sustainability in her country.
There is no surprise that this dynamic woman came back into my life again for as It turns out I had some unfinished business with her. Seven years ago now when I was in Bali, Indonesia at the Global Healing Conference with Desmond Tutu and others from across the world, Wangari was supposed to have been one of the guests to present. At the last minute she had to cancel. I was very saddened by that as I had learned of what she had done in Kenya and was very excited about meeting her.
Wangari then came back into my life recently through TreeSisters as they were recommending the Taking Root film to show and discuss. As I am active with them in a volunteer capacity I committed to purchasing the film and facilitating an after film discussion.
About a month prior to this film showing I was visiting with a friend and we talked a little about Wangari. She knew about her and loaned me her memoir Unbowed which I finished reading on 9/25/13. That night I had vivid dreams in which Wangari was encouraging me to “continue my work by telling this story” and “step up into your power and expression as a woman”. among other things.
The next morning I became curious about what she had died of (ovarian cancer) and when. When I saw the date I realized why I had been so strongly connected with her that day/night. She transitioned on 9/25/2011…
I remain committed to telling her and Kenya’s story and the relevance to shifting the scarcity/lack and separateness meta-coding that have contributed so greatly to the global challenges we face today – environmental, social justice, health and spiritual well being.
Her story and that of the women of Kenya is relevant to inspiring and empowering women to express from their fullest potential and to support each other in doing so. It can start with one simple act.
Wangari and so many other women today exemplify the fierce feminine which I am speaking to here. The earth and nature based feminine that is arising with a voice that cannot be ignored. The “wild wisdom” feminine that is finally honoring what we have to bring….and bringing it within collaboration and heart based connectivity shifting what Anodea Judith calls the “static masculine” (The Global Heart Awakens: Humanities Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love) foundation upon which so much has been built and co-creating a new myth from awakened hearts into systems based on the power of love and the deep interconnection that sustains all.
Root yourself down dear sisters and explore the stories that you are telling yourself. Are they true? If not, then change them, make friends with your saboteur and become very curious about what would provide the solid foundation for a fully expressed fiercely feminine YOU!
How you breathe is the way in which you live your life. If this statement is true, then how would you like to breathe? Shallow and restricted or full bodied and naturally?
Use a focus each week for the entire year to promote the vibrant aliveness that is your natural birth right!
A few days ago I was kept awake off and on all night after reading the memoir – Unbowed – of Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and mother creator of The Green Belt Movement in Kenya, Africa. Every time I awoke her persistence, commitment and passion for what she stood for was infiltrating into my being.
About six years ago now I missed seeing Wangari at a Global Healing Conference in Bali, Indonesia. I remember clearly that I had been so excited that she was going to be with us as well as Desmond Tutu, Lynn Twist and other Nobel laureates. Unfortunately, at the last minute she could not travel to Bali. I felt a great loss.
I knew that she had passed on in 2011 but did not know why, so the day after this wakefulness happened I found out the cause of her death and the date. She died on 9/25/2011 – the same day/evening that she visited me so intensely!!
She has re-entered my life through a global organization called TreeSisters – birthed into this world by Clare Dakin. Clare follows in Wangari’s footsteps as she passionately upholds the importance of reforesting our planet – and by women!! Part of membership in being a part of this planet Earth is to take a stand as Wangari, Clare, Lynn Twist (Pachamama Alliance), Jane Goodall , Barbara Marx Hubbard and so many other women are doing now as we experience environmental, social justice, economic and deep spiritual crises.
These imbalances have been co-created by splitting off from our true nature – the Earth. We have forgotten our roles as stewards of the Earth and have become dis-eased in the process. The rampant incidence of depression, anxiety, panic and other disease processes mirrors the very split from that which has given us life. Natures cycles are women’s cycles!
We all know the assumptions that have been held in regards to women for so many centuries and now seems the time to upset the apple cart in regards to these very assumptions. The one that has hurt us the most – and one which we have bought into – is “As a woman I am powerless”. There were good reasons to think so down through the ages, but not now, not ever again.
Why do I say that? Because not only are women waking up and coming out in our full embodied expressions, but we are standing with each other to facilitate the changes that so many of us are committed to on behalf of the well being of all life here. We don’t have to step forward without fear, we simply need to be persistent and form alliances with others that are willing to bring their expression to the creative solutions and innovations.
As Wangari says in Unbowed: “What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don’t see danger. Because I don’t see danger, I don’t allow the mind to imagine what might happen to me, which is my definition of fear. If you don’t foresee the danger and see only the solution, then you can defy anyone and appear strong and fearless.”
I love this quote as in her life she faced injury, life threats, imprisonment, gender discrimination, and great opposition from the political powers that were present as she was growing The Green Belt Movement. Today this very movement has been responsible for 51 million trees being planted in Kenya and thousands of women finding their own power and purpose in life thus affecting the quality of life in her country.
She says about those that have walked by her side: “Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking along, through whichever door opens. I have been on a journey and this journey has never stopped. When the journey is acknowledged and sustained by those I work with, they are a source of inspiration, energy, and encouragement. They are the reasons I kept walking, and will keep walking, as long as my knees hold out.”
Now take some time to think about women that inspire you, whether they are present day or from the past. I have chosen those that are working on behalf of our environment and sustainable living and thriving, however yours may be from any walk of life or focus. What qualities did/do they possess? They may have been or are called “heretics” and if they are, take a very careful look at who is naming them. Assumptions are dangerous and at the core are what got us to the place we are today tipping over into imbalances that will and are seriously affecting us all.
I say to each of you – take a stand! At our core we all have the “stuff” that is needed to “take a stand” even if that is simply being absolutely true to our own unique expression and unfailingly trusting it. We are all healers and creators. Let us trust our soul, honor our spirit, open our heart, transform our mind and heal our bodies. ( Heart of the Healer by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Peruvian curandero).
Come into ritual space with each other and co-create Earth centered living from the heart ignited by soul and spirit….We can have a gentle birth to the next stage of evolution by accepting, trusting, and stepping into the innate power that we have been given by simply being born a woman. You are both the midwives and the ones that are giving birth!!
I Am
We Are
Here Now
One Within
The story of the hummingbird by Wangari Maathai:
Taking Root trailer – The story of Wangari Maathai and The Green Belt Movement
**NOTE: If you live in Austin, Texas or near by please join us for a showing of the film Taking Root on 10/27/13 co-sponsored by the local Sierra Club, global TreeSisters, and me – Natural Passages Consulting. A representative from Pachamama Alliance will also be with us!! Go to htt://www.GayeAbbott.com and click on the EVENTS tab.
I am taking a risk here as I have been advised to do so. You shall see Whom has advised me in just a moment.
For a lot of my life I have tethered myself to what culture and my life experience had patterned me to be and do. At, you might say, the tail end of my journey here this lifetime I am finally beginning to wake up. “Wake up” meaning coming into fully being and expressing the loving creative impulse that is arising in me from that deep God source that I am constantly being requested to embrace.
It feels expansive and like “coming home”….and it also feels scary as hell in some moments! Sometimes I turn around and ask the invisible air – who me?!!! And the answer that I always get is – Yes, YOU!! This tends to make those that are around me question my sanity of course….but what the heck!
For the past three weeks I have been doing a practice that has been around for awhile to expand my relationship with money. I have found it fun, creative and a mirror to see my values, dreams, visions, generous spirit, and desires come out to play.
In this exercise you start with $1,000 which you must spend that day. Each day you add $1,000 so that as the days pass (and you get out of debt) you must expand to be more creative and mindful in the spending of your money. I am up to day 24 which means today I spend $24,000!
After doing such things as removing my current debt and paying my house payment for the next year, I have done things such as donated to my favorite causes; sponsored several women for the year program in Women For Women International – plus traveled to Africa to get personally involved with helping to build a center for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (green built of course); started trust funds for my grandchildren; taken trips to visit friends and family; started a Monday ritual of giving $100 randomly (and sometimes anonymously) and in person to 10 people here in my home city of Austin; put money into Socially Responsible Investing; donated to my local food co-op; and even helped to create an arts program for the homeless to channel creative gifts that they may not ever have had the opportunity to explore.
This has been an exercise and practice in tapping into my creativity and taking out all of the “restrictions” and self imposed scarcity around money. It has been absolutely delightful thus far and I look forward to the coming days of spending. I bring all of this because two days ago something else happened after I had asked this question before deciding on how to spend the money – “If I was to have an entire day where I spent this money solely for honoring and nurturing my being, how would I spend this $22,000?”
I won’t go into the details (how would you spend it??!!), but there was a feeling at the end that sparked a process of opening that I will bring here. I wrote after spending this money – “That felt really good as the most important thing to me is connection and sharing love. So what if I live my day to day life right now as if that is already true – that I am always living in sufficiency and money and I are in an incredible partnership. We inspire each other to be and express all that we are. I want to feel this free all the time for the rest of the days of my life.”
And now for the risk part! The following words were channeled through me. My pen could hardly keep up with the stream of what felt like expanded consciousness that was coming through me onto the paper. I have been directed to share this with you and fearlessly publish it. Perhaps you will hear what you need to just at this exact moment. Perhaps you will think I am crazy! Offered with my love. I am calling it:
MESSAGES FROM THE LIGHT
Wake up! For it is so. There are no restrictions. Life is lived now and is only restricted by your own thoughts, patterns and beliefs. What is good in this world is within you. Wake up daily to bring that goodness. Step out of all comfort zones for those places are the jail of your own creation. Take risks daily! Wake up! Wake up!
There are no restrictions. There is only a creative God impulse that is moving in you and dancing in the light. Know this place, for it is you. Wake up! Wake up!
Do not doubt that I am here always for you. The soft, clear, powerful empowered light, passion and holy being that is YOU! Wake up! Wake up!
Now is the time to claim your freedom. Now is the time to claim your freedom. The freedom that has been yours always. Wake up! Wake up!
Do not fall asleep again for these moments are precious wild yearnings that are wanting to manifest in the world. Wake up! Wake up!
Feel me fill you up as a lover entering you, filling up the lower creative chakras and bringing them into your heart. There is no lack. The planet needs you fully expressing at this time. Follow me and TRUST that I am taking you to the places that you need to go to shine the light for others.
You are love. I have let you experience that many times in your life. Remember who I am for that is you. Wake up! Wake up!
Do not fear for I am with you always – always. You are never alone. All of nature speaks through me and reminds you of who you are. Do not doubt your power. I am putting you in touch and connection with others that will guide you to the next steps you need to take. Do not doubt that these are the ones that will help you to continue waking up.
Celebrate the passion, sexuality, creativity and love that you bring. Allow my words to come through you onto this page and fearlessly submit them. You are on the right path. You have already made contact with those that are to walk by your side and others are waiting in the wings to come in in just the right timing. Trust me.
Those that have fallen away let go of. These relationships were created for two reasons. First for you to recognize deeply engrained patterns that needed to come to light and be released. Secondly to teach you how to let go with love and grace. You are doing well in this regard. Keep waking up to what is clear right before you. Do not doubt me. Wake up! Wake up!
I love you more deeply than you have ever been loved. Remember and wake up, wake up!
Lay down your burden of fear on the road and do not look back. I walk beside you always. Trust your knowing for that is me. This is home where separation does not exist. You are the light that you shine for others. Honor and nurture that light. It is so needed now. I am with you. Wake up! Wake up!
I love you. I am you. All that is captured in one light beam or leaves on a tree. Don’t ever lose your faith and trust in me. I am your Mother from where all life begin. I am your father bringing your gifts and light out into the world. Ask me anything and I will be there for you. Embrace the money that moves in and out of your life. It is me.
Do not judge others for they have come to this Earth plane to do their work as you have. Now you are ready to fly. Trust that the wings of your heart will take you into the realms that are needed for this final initiation. Trust me here for fear will attempt to take you into the darkness…..but know that you always have the light. Wake up! Wake up!
Taken by GreenMackenzie@BreathofGreenAir – Scotland
It may seem strange to have such an incredibly beautiful image to grace a post that has this title. However I am finding that when one drops down (or is taken down) into the depth of darkness that at times must be surrendered to there is, on what seems like the other side, the lightness of being and beauty beckoning us back home again.
I know many people right at this particular time that are moving through what is called “a dark night of the soul”. A place where old patterns and beliefs must be laid at the feet of who we have been – who we think that we are – perhaps leaving us without direction, facing the fears that have kept us stuck, and not certain at all about what is emerging.
Some may define this place of intense feeling to be where the slate is wiped clean of any ways of past coping with life challenges. A new way of seeing your life and the relationships within it may emerge and ask you to make choices that don’t seem to have a firm foundation underneath them, but instead demand a risk taking that leaves you rather dizzy and disoriented. For women this is unsettling at best as aren’t we the caretakers of the world?!
As I dwell in this place of darkness I feel the womb of the Earth holding me – a place where you can let it all out and not pretend anymore that you are OK; a place that won’t let you escape until you clearly see what has trapped you in endless patterns of repetition up to this exact moment; a place of deep feeling and embodiment that demands of you no less than recognizing your innate inner value and brilliance.
How many of you are being invited into this place of darkness and great healing? You are not alone. It is a necessary journey that so many of us are taking so that we may arise cleansed and available for the work that has been given to us since the first breath that we took.
For me the last two months have held great darkness and great light. The two seem to be married in such a way that one never presents without the other to balance it. This synergistic mating has taken me into walking out on a “secure” job that was not in alignment with the “me” that was asking to create in the world; losing a very dear friend abruptly and feeling abandoned and wanting to “fix” the situation; beginning a new relationship with a man that had chosen a path that was not mine; and losing the income that I had depended on to support me.
In the fertile wake of each of these challenges came finding that my value rested inside of me and realizing that no person or anything else could define that; acknowledging that my friend was having a “dark night of the soul” herself and needed her healing time in the Earth womb without me, with old patterns of abandonment and wanting to fix everything having to be examined and brought into the light; coming to a deep understanding and recognition of what I want, need and deserve in relationship with a man and saying yes to that and letting go of the “unavailable” pattern that had perpetuated for so long with a deep look at my own unavailability and why; and finally acquiring support and doing the work necessary to have a completely different relationship with money.
A Light From The Darkness by teh-artish
Deeply feeling into these places of dark and light evolve us from victim to awareness; from terror and panic to faith, trust and expectation; from numbness and stagnation into embodiment and a glimpse of recognition into who we are in our fullest expression. Like everything in life this constantly changes – the darkness and light interchanging with each other under the direction of something much larger than we are…..love.
Are you also taking such a journey? You are not alone….
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