4/3/2014 0 Comments The AwakeningThis article was originally written in 2010... A time comes in your life when you finally get…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out…ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening. You realize it’s time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next horizon. You realize that in the real world there aren’t always fairy tale endings, and that any guarantee of “happily ever after” must begin with you…and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance. You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are…and that’s OK. They are entitled to their own views and opinions. You learn the importance of loving and championing yourself…and in the process a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval. You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you – or didn’t do for you – and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. You learn that people don’t always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and everything isn’t always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself…and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance. You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties…and in the process a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness. You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. You begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you’ve outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with. You learn that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a “consumer” looking for your next fix. You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era, but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life. You learn that you don’t know everything, it’s not your job to save the world and that you can’t teach a pig to sing. You learn the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake. Then you learn about love. You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You learn that alone does not mean lonely. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that your body really is your temple. You begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin to eat a balanced diet, drinking more water, and take more time to exercise. You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear, and uncertainty and so you take more time to rest. And, just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul. So you take more time to laugh and to play. You learn that, for the most part, you get in life what you deserve, and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different than working toward making it happen. More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You learn that no one can do it all alone, and that it’s OK to risk asking for help. You learn the only thing you must truly fear is fear itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to live life on your own terms. You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. You learn that life isn’t always fair, you don’t always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people…and you learn not to always take it personally. You learn that nobody’s punishing you and everything isn’t always somebody’s fault. It’s just life happening. You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls. You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower. Then, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never, ever settle for less than you heart’s desire. You make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind. Finally, with courage in your heart, you take a stand, you take a deep breath, and you begin to design the life you want to live as best as you can. 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4/3/2014 0 Comments Life Begins... Fear is nothing more than an obstacle that stands in the way of progress. In overcoming our fears we can move forward stronger and wiser in ourselves. Releasing the fear that holds us back is releasing the constraints that we have imposed upon ourselves to the point where we become immobilsed... paralysed.. unable to move... Fear is nothing more than your imagination creating things to appear more frightening than they really are... when action is taken to face these fears they become diminished... the restraints quickly fade away and you become free to express and live life the way you want it to be... Of course some fear is a must to survive... the ones that are there to protect you from danger and being severely hurt... But the fears that stagnate your life and stunt your growth… the ones that begin to interfere in your ability to really live and put limitations on you... ask yourself what would you be doing if you just let them go... This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 17/2/2014 0 Comments To Love a Woman... If you want to change the world…
Love a woman-really Love her. Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense. Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen. Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing - every winged one, every furry and scaled one, every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one, every not yet born and dying one… Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life. If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough. If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet, you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her. If you want to change the world… love a woman-one woman beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason, beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety and all your superficial concepts of freedom. We have given ourselves so many choices we have forgotten that true liberation comes from standing in the middle of the Soul’s fire and burning through our resistance to Love. There is only One Goddess. Look into Her eyes and see, really See! if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.. If not, walk away. Right now! Don’t waste time “trying.” Know that your decision has nothing to do with her because ultimately it’s not with who, but 'when' we choose to surrender. If you want to change the world… Love a woman. Love her for life-beyond your fear of death, beyond your fear of being manipulated by the Mother inside your head. Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her. Say you’re willing to LIVE with her, plant trees with her and watch them grow. Be her hero by telling her how Beautiful she is in her vulnerable Majesty, by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess through your adoration and devotion. If you want to change the world… Love a woman in all her faces, through all her seasons and she will Heal you of your schizophrenia- your double-mindedness and half-heartedness which keeps your Spirit and body separate- which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self for something to make your life worth living. There will always be another woman.. Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars, trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire. Man doesn’t need any more choices. What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine, of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing, of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots strong enough to hold the Earth together while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin. If you want to change the world… love a woman, just One woman. Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel. Love her through her fear of abandonment which she has been holding for all of humanity. No, the wound is not hers to heal alone. No, she is not weak in her codependence. If you want to change the world… Love a woman all the way through until she believes you, until her instincts, her Visions, her Voice, her Art, her Passion, her Wildness have returned to her. Until she is a force of Love -more powerful than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her. If you want to change the world, lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs. Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger and Love a woman…beyond all of your striving for greatness, beyond your tenacious quest for Enlightenment. The holy grail stands before you if you would only take her in your arms and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy. What if peace is a dream which can only be re-membered through the heart of Woman? What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine is the key to opening Her heart? If you want to change the world…Love a woman to the depths of your shadow, to the highest reaches of your Being, back to the Garden where you first met her, to the gateway of the Rainbow realm where you walk through together as Light as One, to the point of no return, to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth. ~ Lisa Citore ~ 17/2/2014 0 Comments To Love a Man... If you want to change the world Love a man; really love him
Choose the one whose Soul calls to yours clearly who sees you; who is brave enough to be afraid Accept his hand and guide him gently to your hearts blood Where he can feel your warmth upon him and rest there And burn his heavy load in your fires Look into his eyes look deep within and see what lies dormant or awake or shy or expectant there Look into his eyes and see there his fathers and grandfathers and all the wars and madness their Spirits fought in some distant land, some distant time Look upon their pains and struggles and torments and guilt; without judgment And let it all go Feel into his ancestral burden And know that what he seeks is safe refuge in you Let him melt in your steady gaze And know that you need not mirror that rage Because you have a womb, a sweet, deep gateway to wash and renew old wounds If you want to change the world Love a man, really Love him Sit before him, in the full majesty of your woman in the breath of your vulnerability In the play of your child innocence in the depths of your death Flowering invitation, softly yielding, allowing his power as a man To step forward towards you…and swim in the Earth’s womb, in silent knowing, together And when he retreats…because he will…flees in fear to his cave… Gather your grandmothers around you…envelope in their wisdoms Hear their gentle shusshhhed whispers, calm your frightened girls’ heart Urging you to be still…and wait patiently for his return Sit and sing by his door, a song of remembrance, that he may be soothed, once more If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him Do not coax out his little boy With guiles and wiles and seduction and trickery Only to lure him…to a web of destruction To a place of chaos and hatred More terrible than any war fought by his brothers This is not feminine this is revenge This is the poison of the twisted lines Of the abuse of the ages, the rape of our world And this gives no power to woman it reduces her as she cuts off his balls And it kills us all And whether his mother held him or could not Show him the true mother now Hold him and guide him in your grace and your depth Smoldering in the center of the Earth’s core Do not punish him for his wounds that you think don’t meet your needs or criteria Cry for him sweet rivers Bleed it all back home If you want to change the world love a man, really love him Love him enough to be naked and free Love him enough to open your body and soul to the cycle of birth and of death And thank him for the opportunity As you dance together through the raging winds and silent woods Be brave enough to be fragile and let him drink in the soft, heady petals of your being Let him know he can hold you stand up and protect you Fall back into his arms and trust him to catch you Even if you’ve been dropped a thousand times before Teach him how to surrender by surrendering yourself And merge into the sweet nothing, of this worlds’ heart If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him Encourage him, feed him, allow him, hear him, hold him, heal him And you, in turn, will be nourished and supported and protected By strong arms and clear thoughts and focused arrows Because he can, if you let him, be all that you dream ~ Anon ~ 17/1/2014 0 Comments Deep Within Deep within the realms of an unknown world there is a place that exists a place that is waiting to show the rewards of your travels a place that is full of many surprises it is a world that is a part of you but one that you have forsaken it is a place that many have feared due to its darkness it is a place of solitude of separateness it is a place of rebirth and renewal it is a place of untold beauty and deep emotion only you can travel here no one else but you it is your realm your dream your journey it is hypnotic it is desire it is all that you have once feared in your self this unknown place appears as a portal you dare not enter for fear you may lose yourself to this dark world but within this world is a seed of dreams your dreams your hope your wishes your purpose in life if you are only but willing to help it grow deep within the darkness for in this place you have control you have the capacity to make it anything you want within this world is everything you will ever need it is fertile alive breathing moving dancing sensual once you enter this realm you will never again be able to look away as you will know of its existence you will never again be able to ignore the dreams that dwell within as they have been called forth they are known deep within this unknown world is a part of you that has been forgotten but never disappeared it is time for you to reach into this world and find the seed of your dreams it is time to nurture and caress this part of you that has been hidden and never seen it is time to come alive it is time to release the shackles that have been placed on you it is time be who you are allow yourself to be vulnerable to be free to love to be loved to just be enter the darkness and you will see a world of so many possibilities explore it feel it breath it love it nurture it gather your dreams and hold them close then bring them into the light so they may grow and blossom it is in the darkness that your deepest desires come alive in a world of endless possibilities of which only you hold the key... This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 17/1/2014 0 Comments A Tiny Ember Within the darkness an ember rests waiting for a time to be awakened patiently calmly with no expectations it just knows that an awakening will happen it knows when this time will be approaching it can feel the energy is near it starts to glow just a little brighter to become a tiny light within the darkness I am here it says I am here soon the tiny ember feels the softest caress like fingers slowly gliding over gently... gently... a tiny flicker a small flame starts to emerge from within the tiny ember it wants to emerge to become so much more the tiny ember is caressed is fed more energy slowly carefully joyfully ever so slowly it grows brighter stronger bigger while it is being coaxed to awaken feelings emerge and blend into one power is felt from deep within a surge of energy is on the rise climbing higher and higher soon so very soon the gates open the tidal of heat explodes it is no longer the tiny ember it is now a burning fire being fully awakened and feeling every part of its known self expanding it's consciousness feeling beyond that which it knows reaching flickers of flame outward reaching higher higher no more will it be contained this once tiny ember no more will it wait in the darkness it is passionate it is alive it is dancing it is sensual the flame within has been awakened from what was once a tiny ember... This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 17/1/2014 0 Comments Becoming Open a new beginning as the day shines brightly through the trees thoughts of what has occurred fill me not of dread but of ecstacy of bliss of joyfullness a breath on the cool morning air stands in stillness the morning so quiet but full of sounds as the birds slowly sing in the new dawn it is a new dawn one of many mysteries as I become open to what lies ahead quietly I listen to what is around me listening for a voice, a sound, a whisper my eyes close as I feel the small glimmer of heat touch my face still remembering the touch that filled me still feeling the sensations that swallowed me allowing myself to become one with the moment allowing my heart to open to the energy allowing my senses to be carried away on the wave that carries me when I open my eyes I realise without fear that I am now becoming open... This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 17/1/2014 0 Comments Flow Like WaterThis post was originally on Jupiter's Animal Healing... It has been some time since I last posted here... I will not go into reasons or explanations but I will say that the majority of my daily life is lived 'in the flow' and it wasn't until recently that I had realised that there were actually some areas where this was not the case... I was reminded of this recently with walks in amongst nature.... it was at these points in time of sharing sacred space with an equal that I understood that for all areas of my life to flow this ideal must be applied to every aspect of it... not just some of it... these moments of precious reflection and connection are vital and an essential part of who I am... in those moments I am exactly where I want to be... My life has many moments of sheer joy and exhilaration... it is in these moments that I know I am in the flow of life... allowing things to come and go as the tide on a sandy beach... experiencing emotions in their fullness and not feel guilty or ashamed for doing so... allowing my external self to be an expression of who I am on the inside... When I am with animals I do not put any judgement on the way things should go... how long a healing session should be... or what time I am meant to be with another client.... no, all I do is be still and be swallowed by the moment... I have learned to be in the 'now' of things and from that point whatever happens comes in as a flowing energy... Many years ago I would write from my heart on a daily basis... it was a powerful healing experience for me and also one that allowed me to connect with higher sources to bring in information.. Yesterday I went for a wonderful walk in amongst nature in a beautiful mountain region... it was raining and the mists were surrounding the mountain side... it reminded me so much of a time when I once lived in the mountains... it also reminded me of how much I miss them and how they feel like home to me... Along the walk I came to an area where I was above a thundering waterfall... it was a beautiful, magical feeling to be there and feeling the power coming down from the mountain and falling over the edge to the valley below... watching the water cascading over the rocks and varied surfaces to get to its destination... it was in that very moment the writing came alive again.... People struggle on a daily basis of how they think things should be, their own attachments to how their goals should be, even relationships have something attached to them in regards to how they are perceived. In doing this people become disconnected to who they really are, their true power and creative flow that exists within. It becomes tiresome and exhausting... When people are trying too hard to make something happen or something just doesn't feel right or good it creates a sense of struggle inside.. a struggle of going against the current... But when you allow things to flow... you know it because it feels so good... there is no struggling... it creates a “YES” within your entire body system... everything starts to feel right... the right time... the right people... the right places... everything starts to move as you are propelled forward on your path.... By allowing ourselves to go with the flow we become like water... this is a philosophy of Tao... to be like water... When watching water you can see it does not resist... it has no goals to conquer... it does not try to press its intention of anything of how it should act or be... it has no plans on what should or should not be happening... it just 'is'... It is flexible and soft... just as we can be if we chose to stop the struggle within ourselves... to treat everyone as equal... to allow people to be guided by their own path... And just like water our life can take a change in direction in an unexpected way... it can confuse us and unsettle us when this happens... in these times we battle the change of events as we don't feel they will serve us or what we want... however when water has a change of direction it calmly finds the path of least resistance... one that carries it over obstacles that have presented themselves to the flowing water... the ability of water is to not be affected by the external situations that are around it but instead to be in constant movement... it shows us that sometimes we have no control over our journey's direction but our destination will still be arrived at... Water is free... it does not hold thoughts of fear or expectations.. it just is... there are no pressures of societal conditioning... it does not have an agenda of being something it is not... instead it soothes and caresses the surfaces it goes over... it changes with the landscape and does so in a way that is like a dance of effortlessness... however with the gentleness contained in water it is also powerful... water can create great things by its constant flow... Our own intuitiveness tries to guide us so that we do not have to constantly struggle... we do not have to travel a path full of many obstacles... that there is a much smoother path waiting for us to travel that will take us to our goal.. our destination that is part of our purpose in life... our inner guide, our soul, wants us to be free so that we can experience everything that is offered us in a more fully lived way... We often block this inner knowingness by bringing into our thoughts ones of rationality... many of which are based on past experiences... past events... past learning... even our own upbringing can play a role in the way we think or perceive how things should be going... we become fixated on the outcome and the way it is meant to happen that life sometimes just slips by us as we continue to struggle up a hill that has no end... By allowing ourselves to be as water we give ourselves permission... we open ourselves to new experiences.. new directions... new information... new paradigms that we did not know we could attain or reach... we become more of what we were destined to be... we no longer stagnate and become free... Life is a sensual dance that brings us closer to our other self... it is a path that takes us on many journeys and often times one that is full of many lessons if we are willing to but learn from them so that our destination becomes closer to us... if not the lessons are repeated over until we reach the point of realisation of what it contained for us... Our lessons can be be gentle or hard it is all based on our willingness to be subtle and gentle as the water or hard and rigid like a rock... Life is sensual... it is a dance... it is passion... it is the water that flows gently over rocks ... “Live as water lives, since you are water. Become as contented as is the fluid that animates and supports you. Let your thoughts and behaviors move smoothly in accordance with the nature of all things. It is natural for you to be gentle, to allow others to be free to go where they are inclined to go and to be as they need to be, without interference from you. It is natural to trust in the eternal flow. Be true to your inner intentions.” ~ Wayne Dyer This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
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