August 20, 2010 OF TIME, TWEETS AND SOULS FLYING FREE
With all the Facebook, Tweets and Twits stuff going on, I sometimes feel like it's all too much. Just give me a real live human being with whom to converse while sitting in the shade of the redwood tree in my own front yard. No computers, no cell phones, nothing that needs rebooting or recharging! (Except me!)
Especially this week, I feel deep appreciation for the simple things in life....and for life itself.
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Earlier this week, I spent nearly 72 hours with a dear woman named Jean, a former client. I had the honor of playing the role of "spiritual midwife" as she transitioned from her body. She'd been valiantly dealing with cancer for several years, and at age 74, it was now time to let go, and move on.
After many long hours, during which her body and soul prepared themselves for this transition, I was gifted to be at her side at the moment of release. I was able to witness the look of indescribable joy and awe that shone through her barely opened eyelids in the instant before she left her body.
She'd been unconscious for the better part of three days, so for her to return to awareness just enough to reveal that beauty to me - and to her daughter, Sherrie, who was on her other side - was an unspeakably precious gift.
I don't know precisely what Jean experienced in that moment, but I do know she wanted us to know it was beautiful beyond imagining. A single tear rolled down her parched cheek, and then she was gone.
Sherrie and I sat wide-eyed, feeling an indescribable awe and Lightness of Being, as we both cried and laughed and hugged across her mom's now-uninhabited body. Then, I turned and softly played "Amazing Grace" on my crystal singing bowls, as Jean's soul flew free.
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So, although time marches on at an ever-increasing rate here on this earthly plane, I've been freshly reminded that what truly matters knows not the bounds of time, nor the confines of the body. Who we truly are could never be expressed in a tweet, a twit, a blog, or a book of any kind - Face or otherwise!
As the birds flutter amongst the branches above me, singing their songs with joyful abandon, I find myself joyfully reflecting that each of us has a unique song to sing... and wings with which to fly.
I am blessed with that knowing. I wish for you the same blessing.
Namaste.
Relax Into Healing...
April 19, 2009 REMEMBERING WHO YOU REALLY ARE
Does anyone else feel like things are really “heating up”? And while, yes, the days are indeed getting sunnier and warmer here in the Pacific Northwest, I’m of course speaking more in a metaphorical sense. This is really quite a time we’re living through. I’m finding it necessary to spend more time alone, just to be with the immense amount of energy that’s brewing these days. Days like today, digging in the garden, experiencing the beauty of Nature, and the grounding of Mother Earth, are, for me, hugely important to maintain balance and centeredness in the midst of some pretty crazy stuff.
Individually and collectively, it seems that whatever has been unresolved is now presenting itself, one way or another, for healing.
In my personal experience, the entire gamut of the emotional spectrum is getting more intense, as the Divine Presence orchestrates the deep healing work I continue to invite. When “clear me, heal me, use me” becomes a daily prayer/mantra, it gets to be quite a ride sometimes! (Know what I mean? I’ll bet many of you do!)
Yet, as I say in several of my more recent CDs, in order to experience true healing, we must “become large enough to embrace it all.” We must have the courage to go to those darkest, scariest, loneliest places; we must also have the courage to recognize, “own", and act from the tremendous power of Love that is the true essence of who we are.
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -Marianne Williamson
So why is opening to Love, embracing who we really are, sometimes so scary?
Because it means giving up a whole lot of who we’ve always thought we were. And even if not all aspects of that limited self-definition are who we really want to be, it’s familiar. So letting go can be more than a bit challenging sometimes. It can feel downright life-threatening. So we don’t go there. We retreat to what we know.
By simply recognizing that this is the ego’s way of doing its best to protect us, we can experience a deeper level of compassion, and be gentler with ourselves as we learn to let go and remember who we really are. When you really get that all this old stuff is not “me”, then you can let it go. As we build a more solid knowing of our true essence, we are able, then to more easily let go of those limiting beliefs, the thought and behavior patterns which no longer serve us. We become large enough to embrace it all. We learn to see and celebrate the miraculous in the mundane. And life becomes a whole lot more fun!
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. -Kahlil Gibran
I wish for you the heart-opening compassion and infinite joy that comes with remembering who You really are.
