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It Doesn’t Last Forever

Death is the Right Partner to Greatly Live Our Lives

Since my husband of 18 years died suddenly of undiagnosed coronary artery disease in 1989, I have felt death peering over my shoulder.  It feels quite right as a partner in how I choose to live my life, and oddly comforting, like a missing piece making a circle complete. 

That being said, when death literally comes knocking at the doorstep of my daily life, it remains profoundly rattling.  I have been close to death, dancing with death day by day these recent weeks through my extended family, doing energy work, both hands-on and telepathic to support and smooth the innate transition while riding the tidal emotional wave of my own intense grief and continuing to surprisingly live all the rest of my life in exquisite paradoxical order.

Only Love Matters

I am struck again how only love matters as I witness children, grandchildren, cousins, in-laws say their final good-byes and simply stay to be fully present to witness and support the life that is slipping away, moment by moment, day by day.  Of course, this is true for all our lives, subtly, relentlessly slipping away.  Only love lasts, unperturbed about physical endings and about the infinite void of sadness and fear surrounding them. 

When we’re really, really pushed, all we come to is our desire to share and express and be with love, to pass love on as the greatest of gifts, as all we have and are.  We are gentle, full of compassion and simplicity in these times, uncaring as to outcomes – they don’t matter – with no expectations.

You Can Release Attachment to More Greatly Be

We really do know how to live our lives and how to relate to each other.  We really do know how to be fully present in each and every moment, and to release attachment in order to more greatly be.

How can we stretch this greatest of gifts of awareness and spiritual power to most highly choose responses into the more mundane events of our lives?  We must create space to do this, and that requires spacing our lives, honoring our basic rhythm of participation, both within and outside of ourselves, and breathe.

Receive the Simple Gift of Transcending for Greater Wholeness

It is a simple gift and a simple answer to spend a brief time every day meditating to regain greater capacity to let go and let be, and access the miraculous power to transform our lives by being fully willing to be fully present.  Here is how I define meditating in this context:  Moving your full focus to letting go of external reality, synchronize completely with the open, flowing rhythm of your even, full breath, and being in the space of no-thing.

Give yourself a break from all that breaks up your ability to respond – “response-ability”.  Allow your body, mind and spirit to quite easily and naturally and integratively come together to support your greater emerging wholeness.  How else can you truly live your life?

Love Extends Its Own Shining Hand

It doesn’t last forever, but paradoxically, the love extends beyond and beyond.  It offers us its own shining hand so we can recover our great power to transcend and touch further than we are, in order to more greatly come together. 

So . . . breathe in, breathe out . .  Count five full, deep, easy breaths to yourself, and then say “receive . . . release . . . receive . . . release” to experience the gift of perfect balance and extend the high resurrected light wave of this Spring Equinox.

Renewing Your Self

We Choose Our Lifetimes

Yes, it’s been awhile since my last blog entry.  A lot has happened (what else is new?) in my life, well synchronizing with all that is happening in the world.  And you?????

I think it’s a safe spiritual assumption that, as I believe we choose the date, time and place of our particular earthly incarnations to best meet our own particular choices for central healing and development through the course of a well-lived life, so have we all volunteered at a soul level to be present at this particular time of great shifting, challenges, and opportunities to restructure ourselves along better and higher lines on the earth plane now.

Renewal Through the Myth of the Phoenix

So we are correspondingly experiencing national and global crises.  How about personal ones?

I saw in the January 17-23, 2009 issue of The Economist, above President Obama’s face, the headline, “Renewing America”.  That headline for me described a personal vision that extended to a national one.  What about the personal translation of that, however meaningful to you, as “Renewing Yourself”?  Does that now resonate with you?

The spiritual vision of renewal is metaphorically presented through the flight and significant stages of the mythical bird, the phoenix, said to rise from the ashes of its own death for the purpose of renewal.  This theme figures prominently with the celebratory stories of Judeo-Christian holidays that, it is said, emerge from the roots of the Spring Equinox, the marking of perfect balance between light and dark in the world.  Both Passover, as the story of the emancipation of slavery and the return of they who were called by God as The Chosen Ones to the Promised Land, played out as well as The Last Supper; and Easter, as the story of the resurrection of God descended as man, who dies and reappears as the personal, perfect union with the divine, describe the availability to us of spiritual renewal. 

Ask Yourself These Questions

So in this season of renewal against the backdrop, like these two great spiritual myths, of current global crises, what is your unfolding path of renewal?  I’ll share mine.  It includes the impending death of my elderly aunt and the circle of unending love her four grown children, their spouses and her grandchildren so staunchly and unendingly continue to create, to sustain her and them through this profound rite of passage.  It includes the impending birth of my twin grandchildren against the backdrop of family crises, new faith, and taking each day as it comes.  And more, so much more, related stories . . .

Do you think this too is your time of renewal in this brilliant spring?  If you could ride the wave of birthing light as a metaphor for healing and development, how would you wish to experience this journey?  And to what end?

We Can Be Response-able in the Unfolding Present as Our Place of Personal Power

The great paradox is, of course, we really don’t know the end of our life’s journeys.  We really don’t even know what’s around the next bend.  But that doesn’t stop us from ascertaining our innate sense of how to respond – otherwise known as taking response-ability – in the unfolding present.  That is the only way we can access our spiritual power to create and well participate in the world in which we find ourselves.

Daring to express and, through expressing, more greatly know your feelings is the key to accessing this power.  So settle back, take several deep, cleansing breaths, and, as you so naturally and progressively enter this deeper meditative space you have now created for yourself, ask yourself how you feel.

Your Body Can Well Speak to You from Its Places of Great Wisdom

Imagine asking yourself how your heart feels?  As you listen and receive whatever comes up inside you by way of response, record it.

Then ask yourself how your stomach feels?  Listen, receive, and record as described and directed above.

Now note whatever your mind is saying in as much detail as you can.  Then read through all you have written. 

You Can Discover, as the Roots Reveal Themselves to You, Your Core Faulty Belief Systems

Consider whether it all “matches up”, or seems to integrate and well-synchronize together.  If it doesn’t, you have just revealed to yourself the script of faulty believe systems stemming from unhealed inner woundedness.

You have the power to free yourself from this place of resultant slavery, and then to return to the promised land of spiritual belonging, called in the Bible the “land of milk and honey”.  We can only experience abundance as an external reflection of the abundant, loving and safe space we can create for ourselves.

Returning to Our Center Becomes Our Space of Renewal

This is our space of renewal, our center.  It truly is but a breath or two away, fully available as we let go of whatever, for whatever reason, we have found ourselves attached to, dictated by core fears.

Core fears are in and of themselves delusional.  Because they are delusional, we don’t have the power, and it never works anyway, to argue ourselves out of our core fears.

These Guided of Self-Help and Rebirth

Courageously admitting our deepest fears to ourselves and describing them fully, including all related sensations to them, and most importantly, body sensations, moves us into a direct healing cycle.  If we can allow whatever is released to simply run its organic course and carry our consciousness right along with it, we will experience the healing gifts that are offered.

That is my heartfelt wish for you in this season of renewal.  It is most primarily and extensively what I focus on as I work with clients, offering the transformational self-help and healing tools of relaxation, meditation, visualization, guided meditation, hypnotherapy, regression, and journaling as caring, indestructible, self-renewing guides.

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Valentine's Day Magic

How to Return to Love and Being Loved

We are only capable of truly loving when we unconditionally love ourselves and all others as being part of the same divine union.  On this Valentine’s Day 2009, when the world is full of peaking global crises, can we dare return to an inviolate space to love and be loved?

Love has to be balanced, which means giving and receiving.  Love can only be of itself as itself, which presents as a circle without end in which all things are equally held.

A Short List to Bring Love

Here are my top 10 keys to endlessly, magically returning yourself and your experience to a circle of love:

1.  Go to (in this weather, perhaps!) an indoor playground that appeals to you, and play there.

2.  (of course) Eat chocolate – anything.

3.  Write yourself a love letter.

4.  Write whoever you’ve loved in your life – pick one person, or see who comes to mind! – a love letter.

5.  Commune with your body for a few focused moments to communicate to any and all parts how much you love and appreciate it – remember, love is unconditional or it’s not love.

6.  Spend fifteen minutes fantasizing how it would be for you to exist without your ego, and record what happens.

7.  Spend fifteen minutes fantasizing picking three wishes that completely come true – then journal about how you more greatly come to love through experiencing each of these three wishes.

8.  Make a list of twenty things you have wanted to do for a long time but haven’t, and then pick one thing and make a plan to do that – AND DO IT.

9.  Go stuffed animal shopping and buy yourself your top pick – then sleep with it.

10. Spend a full twenty minutes listing everything you’ve ever had and experienced in your life that you’re grateful for, and another ten minutes slowly reading through and savoring the list – then say, “I received all of this, and much more”, to allow the universe to give you even more in the days ahead.

It Lasts Forever

Happy – lifelong – experimenting!  Remember, this list lasts forever, and can be endlessly worked and reworked, for more and greater results.

Valentine’s Day is the only real day we are meant to experience in reality, whether we call that perpetual day by that title or not, in which we can be fully present to love and be loved, as is our right and divine directive.  As spiritual beings of multidimensional consciousness, we open in that inviolate universe, spread our light wings and soar, free and whole again.

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