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Living From Oneness

“The essential issue we face in life is being connected – not being in control” Margaret Wheatley

Isn’t it when we develop the capacity to meet whatever life serves up, to truly connect with the moment to moment experience of it, that we fall into allowing life to expand and enrich us? Each of us knows what that feels like as women. Whether it be giving birth to a child, preparing and serving food with love, standing on the front lines of something we strongly believe in and taking action, or even the simple act of breathing in the beauty of nature.

Our present global awakening is the first time in the history of humans that we are aware we can cause our own extinction. Along with that come the opportunities to be part of the shift to change into sustainable systems that have interconnection and global well being at the forefront.

It is women who will contribute greatly to this global evolution bringing the feminine principles back into activation. We shall also be partnered with the millions of men globally who will remember that it is not control and power that will sustain us, but instead collaboration, co-creation and cooperation.

“Aliveness is the sense of really being present; sensory awareness, emotional awareness, conscious awareness. The more aliveness we can handle, the more available we are to the flow of life within us.” Victoria Castle from The Trance of Scarcity

It is when we remember and live from our oneness that we can enter into co-creation from a Source level. What does that feel like and look like? Here are some A,B,C’s…

*Absolute awareness and acceptance of our purpose in life

*Belonging – Remembering that we are born with an inseparable experience of innately belonging

*Collaboration and co-creation with others. This is about connection – not having to do it alone! Courage!

*Daring – To be yourself outrageously and wildly. There is no box! This is all a creation from the river that flows within you connected with points in the evolutionary unified field.

Find yourself in all of this and don’t be afraid. This evolution needs you as a embodied whole woman who does not ever need to stand alone. Beautiful one you are always helped and supported by the unseen but tenderly felt sources of deep interconnection. Remember….

Love After Love
The time will come  when, with elation  you will greet yourself arriving  at your own door, in your own mirror  and each will smile at the other’s welcome,   and say, sit here. Eat.  You will love again the stranger who was your self.  Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart  to itself, to the stranger who has loved you   all your life, whom you ignored  for another, who knows you by heart.  Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,   the photographs, the desperate notes,  peel your own image from the mirror.  Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

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If Not Now, When?

For a long time now the title of this post had a certain meaning to me. Don’t hesitate. Seize the moment. Take action on what you have been secretly yearning for so long now. Life is very short and if not lived in the moment it seems even shorter. What do I really want to do with the time left to me?

All of this still holds true, but recently I have discovered that is just the surface of what happens when you pose this question to yourself and action is taken. Perhaps this question arises from a place deep inside when a pattern that has run your life is asking to be dissolved. Perhaps it is time to free yourself.

Imagine a young girl of 14 who has just lost her mother very suddenly. Her father is devastated by her death and goes into a place of depression leaving this young girl to take care of her brother who is 4 years younger, the household, and continue to do the dance of Junior High School, all without any grief counseling or emotional support. Consider what pattern this must have created.

Each of us has a story, a set of life circumstances that laid down a pattern(s) from which we have lived our lives in order to survive, belong and feel loved and seen. Many of us have deeply buried the sense of wholeness of who we are, and instead have lived life through the filter of this pattern. Then we are presented with “If not now, when?

In my case, and yes I was that young girl of 14, I learned to make others needs a priority making certain everyone was taken care of before my own needs so that I might feel love, appreciation, importance, and a sense of safety in my world. Over and over I played the part of selfless martyr to my patterns demand – until I woke up.

Life usually hands us circumstances in which we can pick apart our patterns a bit at a time. Then perhaps comes a more expansive awakening when all the threads that have held it together can no longer stay entangled. An awakening where we cannot blame outside circumstances or others for the traumatic or toxic places/relationships we have placed ourselves in, or give excuses for not being all that we were meant to be – but instead take responsibility for freeing ourselves from the patterns that have run our lives.

It is not comfortable to be so honest with yourself and bring the pattern out of the dark closet so that it can be seen – but it is indeed our job to simply do the work sacredly and silently into our own new awareness. Our life then has the potential to change and open to allow a connection to the wholeness of who we are….and those with “eyes to see and ears to hear” will respond.

No dragging kicking and screaming necessary…..

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The Yearning

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now. – David Whyte

Today I sat with two beautiful women friends and we leaped from one deep discussion to the next often with laughter and humility. What kept breaking through every topic, whether it was about profession, creativity, men or patterns that seemed to have kept us stuck….was that deep yearning which we jointly decided every human on this planet has within.

The seemingly elusive “missing” piece to the puzzle that makes up our life. Is it love, the Divine, the person or child that we wish to shower our love on and have it returned, being at the peak of our profession, or any number of things that we are chasing after. Kahlil Gibran says, “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course”.

Is it not enough that we open to the life that we have this very moment and find within that moment a glimmer of the missing piece that will “complete us”. In the very act of chasing after this piece we miss that it is always right here – beyond the “refusing” to open, the refusing that this may be the only breath that we will ever take, the refusing to deeply understand that only in this moment are we complete and that there is nothing else beyond it.

I, like you, have been caught up in this eternal chase powered by the deep yearning that resides within, something seemingly deliciously greater than life in the moment. The inability to accept that this single moment is not, as our mind would tell us, lacking in anything at all.

Can we ever know for certain what will reveal itself in the next inhale and exhale? We confront….and then we must surrender. We create….. and then we must rest within that creation.

Simply opening to the life that has been refused again and again…..there rests the missing piece called yearning. Coming home over and over and over…..

“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu

A meditation in yearning, beauty, sensuality, and creativity…..

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You Are More Beautiful Than You Think

How does the title of this blog post make you feel? What are the feelings that arise when you consider your own beauty?

As women we are so often self critical about many things in our appearance. If it isn’t the media or our culture that is demanding we look a certain way in order to be loved, get the job, get the man, or even get the attention….it is our own inability to accept the features and bodies that we have been given.

Beauty is considered in so many different ways by people all over the world. But isn’t real beauty that which shines through the features? The features that are a pathway to all of the experiences that have made up this one precious life! The soul of who we are!

It is the deepest parts of our being that shine forth if we but allow the open and whole expression of who we really are. Accepting the natural beauty that resides within and reflects on the outside – even the wrinkles, lines and flaws – encourages us as women to express fully without holding back anything!

Can we really be open to how others see us and realize that we are much more beautiful than we think? Watch this short video and reflect. Perhaps it will lead you to come out of hiding…

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The Return of Wild Wisdom

Domesticated. Is that a word that describes you or the life you are leading? Are you “settling” for less than your heart desires? Taking a look at the rote ways in which we live the moments of our lives can be painful to that wild creature that lives, breathes and moves inside of us. You know the one!

“We are here to fall in love with a lot more than just our mate… trees, stones, rivers, animals, birds, planets, galaxies, poems, music….”
~ Rev Matthew Fox

The creature inside that yearns to paint on the walls way outside the lines, dance outside at midnight (maybe in the nude!) to celebrate the universe inside and out, dig in the earth and come away with bits of dirt and leaves all over our clothes, speak out loudly and with conviction when a tree is cut down that doesn’t need to be cut except for some other humans profit, go out of our way not to “follow the rules” and instead find a path and a way that creates more life for ourself and others, and…..you speak more here!

Our planet and all life on it, as well as our individual aliveness, depends not only on engaging that Wild Wisdom, but embodying it with fearless grace and passion. What is it that you desire? Desire is not bad…it is a passionate means to access the gifts that we have to bring and the full life we have to live this time around. It is the fuel which feeds the Wild Wisdom that is within all of us.

I invite you to listen to my dear friend Lea Bayles speak to Wild Wisdom that sought her out to remind us to commit to and honor this intelligence whose time has come to return once again into our global consciousness and actions…NOW.

This piece is eloquent, intelligent, grounded, irreverent, deliciously sensual, and a call to all women and men to not ever dare again to shut away Wild Wisdom in a closet somewhere whimpering low sounds of mournful abandonment.

We were born with Wild Wisdom. It is all around us in nature and the interconnection of life that never ceases to evolve opportunity and change. It lives and breathes innately within us. Are we ready to listen??

“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

Wild Wisdom

….and some Wild Wisdom words from Allan Watts..

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A Lesson On Aging

This beautiful woman named Rose has a lesson to teach all of us who find that we are slightly, or greatly, discouraged by the aging process. Although Rose is no longer with us her story is below and I think will give you some inspiration as to the preciousness of each moment of this incredible life we have been given.

As I come to the turning of 65 this coming July I keep thinking (and feeling!) that I am so much younger. What it seems to be to me is the timelessness of our indomitable spirit which is ageless and craves living full tilt, though the body at times fails to cooperate much to our dismay! There is always another opportunity to live our passions!! For Rose it was going to college and getting her degree…for me it is returning to doing energy bodywork, teaching, and starting a new book just for women!

These days I find all around me examples of “older women” stepping right into their passions and staunchly refusing to crumple under the youth crazed culture. They are real, aware, wise, healthy, courageous, creative, beautiful….and very, very sexy! I will include myself in there, as well as many women that I know!

As Rose so wisely said, “REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.” What will you fill the “optional” with?? …in this one wild and precious life?! Oh, so many things to choose from! Yummm!!

Roses Story:

An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”
I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.
She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”
“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.
“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was
introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell
you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.” She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be .When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!”

TIP: Watch the wonderful film: My Afternoons With Margueritte (Available on Netflix)

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Women As A Pathway To The Sacred

This picture along with the words caught my attention. There has been so much written about the Divine Feminine, Goddess traditions and women’s empowerment. It is not my purpose here to delve into these important and very extensive areas as this post would be very, very long!

However, I was taken by the simplicity and power of this picture as well as the words. Masculine acknowledging feminine awareness which is different from his. His understanding that women do have “another system of knowledge” that a man may not possess in the same way. An honoring if you will, and an invitation to bring this understanding and intuitive wisdom to the “counsel table” for all to benefit from.

It is time that this honoring and acknowledgement take place once again. Our global, national, community and family well being depends on it! We as women also need to accept the gifts that we posses, and be willing to use them in powerful, insightful, and compassionate ways

Below you will find a video done by the BBC that takes us on a journey into ancient times. This video explores a little-known ‘golden age’ for women, when historical characters such as the Empress Theodora in Byzantium, Wu Zetien in China (the Empress who called herself Emperor), the early women of Islam (2 of Mohammed’s wives) and Anglo-Saxon Hilda of Whitby, used the power of ancient traditions and new ideas about religion and philosophy to wield influence in what appeared to be a man’s world.

Women wielding their *power* in deepest human connection with/in the Divine.

We can gain understanding and inspiration from these women who were not willing to back down on using their innate sense of the much larger picture to create positive changes in a mostly male dominated world. It was a pleasure to be introduced to these women who paved the way to the sacred of their times!

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Realize Your Own Magnificence

Many, many years ago now when I was a Neurosurgical Assistant and Neuroaugmentation Technician in Southern California I was privileged to go to a Conference on Laughter and Play on the Queen Mary docked in Long Beach. We actually spent two entire days learning about all the ways that one can bring laughter and play into daily life moments.

I attended such events as learning to juggle with marshmellows, how to tell jokes, watching comedy in action on the stage and discovering how improv is created from within…..to the other end of the spectrum – a class on laughter in the death and dying process. At one point I remember asking a man sitting next to me at the end of a simply hilarious comedy routine what he was writing about so seriously in his notebook. He proceeded to tell me that he was a comedian and was taking notes on timing, jokes, etc. Wow! A seriously committed comedian.

I remember clearly how shifted I felt after bathing in laughter and play for two solid days. Once I returned to my job at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, back in “real life” so to speak, I was broadsided by the observation of the seriousness of everyone around me! I placed joke books in my exam rooms for patients to bring some lightness into their visit, and found that they disappeared pretty quickly. To this day I hope that it was patients taking off with them to lend some laughter medicine in dealing with a diagnosis of a brain tumor.

My point here is that we do take life way too seriously and our culture seems addicted to drama fed veraciously by our FEARS! The fact that we are amazing and magnificent human beings housed in these beautiful (but very small compared to who we are) bodies seems often to take a back seat to our current fears or feelings of being less than.

Below you will find a video which I encourage you to watch in its entirety. It is an interview with Anita Moorjani who has written the book “Dying To Be Me”. This is not only a story of a woman who discovers she has cancer and comes to death and back again….but a “resurrection” story of sorts as she recommits to a life lived fearlessly, making choices from what brings her joy – and supported from a vast awareness of the magnificent, amazing and loving beings we truly are.

Remember who you are….live that…and watch your life and that of others around you shift and change.

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From A Place of Value

Here we are at the turning of another year once again. If we are not mindful of the importance of living this next year within the precious moments given to us, then we may feel as many do today. A sense that “time” is moving too fast and that our own life is winding down much too quickly for all that we would like to experience and create.

Do we look back at what we did not accomplish? Berate ourselves for not losing that 10 pounds, not asking for a raise, or even not loving enough? Or, do we applaud the moments that had meaning and purpose during the year.

Each New Year’s Eve for me is spent in the ritual of silence with all electronic devices turned off and candles lit. Reflection over this past year and what I am grateful for is a large part of this year end meditation. In fact I have started what Dewitt Jones and Lynette Sheppard call the “Ta Da” list. This is a list, a remembrance if you will, of accomplishments, travels, completed goals, insights, new knowledge and self realizations from the year that is just passing.

From this place comes the cracking open to allow a focus for the New Year to seep into consciousness….one word that represents the place from which inner and outer actions will be taken that will expand awareness and support every action and goal. From this focus will come intentions for the New Year.

Many women, myself included, have taken a stand for empowerment for women. This past year I have found that I have often felt empowered, but the deep place from which this feeling is birthed from is not always present. The statement in the picture above is filled with the promise and inspiration of stepping forward into our dreams and making them happen in 2013 and beyond. Yet, for me there is somewhere else that these actions, and yes even the dreams, must be birthed from.

This was very evident as I wrote a proposal last evening for a salary in the job that I am presently doing. Although having done the research on what others were making in my area for this particular position and writing up a job description, I found myself thinking of what this start up business may be able to afford….instead of aligning with my inherent value and worth in all that I am doing and the impact that my very presence has on this growing business.

Thankfully a dear friend assisted me to “see the light” and stay in line with the original salary number I had come up with. I have to admit that I felt the uncomfortableness of staying present to who I am and the value I have to bring as I am so used to putting the emphasis on “other” than myself.

This place of self value rests within the deep purpose of our life here this time around. It is in every word, action, relationship, job we undertake, environment that we surround our self with, food we put in our mouth, our deepest self care. As women I believe we are still learning about this, for our lives are often taken up with the deep self care of others and their needs. Can we give to ourselves that which we give to others?

It is not selfish to have a deep sense of value about ourselves. It is instead the only place from which to live life. I am not talking here about what we have done to bring value, but more of the intrinsic beauty and sacredness of our very being. The openness, curiosity, honesty, beauty, creativity, integrity and loving presence from which we live our lives. And yes, even the fears, the mistakes, the challenges, the darkness and the pain which weave through each life. Even there….. finding value within and resting there.

Take this new fresh year and begin it with Ta Da…here I am world! …..and live this wild, sacred and passionate life from the value that is your innate being…

P.S. It is not too late to make your “Ta Da” list whenever you read this post!

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Feminine Values and Leadership

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

The planet needs women now! We are needed to step up and into our feminine values that are grounded and relational. We are needed to let go of our fears and step into the power that being a woman innately gives us. We bring life into this world and know how powerful it is to nurture that life and see it grow and change.

What greater undertaking than to give life back to this planet in the ways that align with our unique passions and interests. There are many paths and projects to give our energy to. Here is just one that I have joined out of a deep love for the trees that give us so much life and pleasure. TreeSisters is a global network of women working together through feminine values and leadership to reforest the tropics.

Did you know that every 5th breath you take comes from the trees in the Amazon? How much more life energy can be generated by helping to reforest this vital area rebuilding natures template for a healthy environment. I invite you to watch this short film from TreeSisters and see if this is something that you want to become a part of. If not this, then direct that passionate energy to where your heart tells you!

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Living From Oneness

If Not Now, When?

Thank you for your response. ✨

The Yearning

You Are More Beautiful Than You Think

The Return of Wild Wisdom

A Lesson On Aging

Women As A Pathway To The Sacred

Realize Your Own Magnificence

From A Place of Value

Feminine Values and Leadership

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