This is an excerpt from a post I’ve shared before, but the theme is prevalent and therefore I feel to share it again.
Loving, nurturing, caring for, and supporting you, while also listening to your needs and giving to yourself, as well as being willing to receive are vital.
While I know these are some challenging things to embrace for ourselves…they truly are key. I can’t tell you how instrumental your own love for yourself is.
And while I don’t believe solely in reprogramming through affirmations, reading and reciting these words to ourselves with honest reflection and vulnerability, can help to uncover the energetic, emotional, mental, and physical blocks to them so that we can start to shift back into our most natural selves, one layer at a time. This takes some work and courage, but with dedicated commitment to yourself and to living the life you desire, you CAN get there.
So pay attention to the resistance, tightness, pains, thoughts, feelings, etc. when you read and tell yourself these things. What messages do those pains and areas have to share with you? What does your inner child desire from you to support and nurture? What has she/he longed to hear or receive from you?
What you desire from another, or life itself, is the very thing you hold the key to gifting to yourself right now.
Here’s Louise:
“Be gentle, kind and comforting with your inner child as you uncover and release the old, negative messages within you. Say: All my changes are comfortable, easy and fun.
I love myself totally in the now. Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper than anything. If your childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying, ‘It’s all their fault. I can’t change,’ you stay stuck. Do a lot of mirror work. Love yourself in the mirror from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Dressed and naked. Look into your eyes and love you and your child within.”
“Each one of us is always working with the three-year old child within us. Most of us, unfortunately, spend our time yelling at that child, and then wondering why our lives don’t work.
I embrace my inner child with love.
Take care of your inner child. It is the child who is frightened. It is the child who is hurting. It is the child who does not know what to do. Be there for your child. Embrace it and love it and do what you can to take care of its needs. Be sure to let your child know that no matter what happens, you will always be there for it. You will never turn away or run away. You will always love this child.”
“At least three times a day, stand with your arms open wide and say: I am willing to let the love in. It is safe to let the love in.
I am worth loving.
You don’t have to earn love any more than you have to earn the right to breathe. You have a right to breathe because you exist. You have a right to be loved because you exist. That is all you need to know. You are worthy of your own love. Don’t allow your parents or society’s negative opinions or popular prejudices make you think that you are not good enough. The reality of your being is that you are lovable. Accept this and know this. When you really do, you will find that people treat you as a lovable person.”
My beautiful friend, Kelly/Dove English of Star Compass expressed this simple and powerful share that reflects, and resonates with, my own feelings:
Forgiveness does not mean you have to allow someone back into your sphere of life. It means forgiveness. Boundaries are honored in all choices made. Forgiveness is an activity of release from blame.
Release from blame creates beauty. Forgiving is never required in a reality structure of honor for there is nothing to forgive. Just be. This is peace.
Beautiful….the Sacred Feminine. Thank you Amanda for this powerful share. Love it!
This article came past me again today when someone messaged about it, and it felt like a nudge to share it once more. It’s an article I wrote as a contributing author for http://wild-woman.com/. The title of this article happens to be one of my personal mottos, and the theme heading of my blog. Perhaps it might speak to you in some way.
My life wasn’t always an expression of my heart. Well, not my truest and wildest heart, but rather a tamed one that felt similar to what it might be like receiving a heart transplant – part of me I had accepted, but not naturally of me.
While I did incarnate, as we all do, with my full gifts intact and flowing, it wasn’t long before the naturally expressive, unhindered, and unencumbered me took a back seat in the dark recesses of my human vehicle.
The beautiful innocence we all bask in the glow of from onset tends to diminish, as we soon begin to forget who we are, under the heaviness of all that is not us. These unwelcome, but unquestioned strangers squeeze that little child into the tiniest, deepest part of us we can manage hiding her in, which will prove a courageous journey to recover her from later.
This isn’t always the experience, nor does it have to be. However, the journey of my heart was one that I had chosen to walk in all colorful feeling extremes, in order to come to know my thread of expression within the collective tapestry, and to have a foundation of true understanding and breadth of compassion from which to connect from.
The journey wound through various paths of trials and explorations, as I experimented to find the right balance of elements that when kindled, would ignite the resonant recipe of me.
It hasn’t always been an easy journey, but it has been an invaluable and rich journey – one I wouldn’t change even if you told me I could. I can’t imagine my life any other way and now have only gratitude for every courageous soul that was willing to show up exactly as they did to assist me with my personal evolution.
I believe we contract soul agreements and that the people we have had the most challenge with, are some of the souls who love us enough to know that they may be temporarily resented and despised, as we both move through our journeys.
We have the opportunity in every moment to rigidly close ourselves off like a guarded steel trap, or to gently open ourselves up like wings of a bird taking to flight.
“Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something – more money, security, affection – or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.” ~David Deida
Through the obstacle course of my life I set up to experience, I shared in the wound of fragmentation that we each go through on the journey to unifying the powers of seeing, knowing, feeling, and being. There is a wounded healer in all of us that desires to quench the thirst of self-purification through release of conformity and mediocrity that has held our soul’s true power and magick down.
At every turn we can choose differently. Choose to shift perspective. Choose to feel and believe differently. Choose to take different actions. Choose to be more present. Choose to respond with conscious awareness, unconditional love, and compassion. For we see in others, the shared wounds we both desire freedom from.
It is our sovereign free will that we can exercise to create anew in each now moment. And from this presence of heart, we can activate the powerful vulnerability of our personal integrity to be the voice of change needed, in response to all experiences.
There came a time when I was ready to see, both literally and figuratively. And to be willing to look within is where the journey to wholeness begins.
I actively do my best to practice and remind myself to stand in that wholeness of heart and soul, as I believe it is the bridge that provides the potential for others to do the same. And I gently keep encouraging myself when I move through moments of learning and re-learning, realizing that the journey is more valuable than any idealized destination.
After all, we are here to experience all that life as a human has to offer. We didn’t have a clause going in saying, “Only IF it is exactly like this, will I incarnate.” We chose because of the adventure and the possibilities available. We knew it would come with the ups and downs. And we were celebrated in our courage to come anyway.
As a natural artist of life, I have always danced with healing arts and creative expression as either a childhood tool to escape the pains of the past, or a means to which, as an adult, I could recreate the world I once escaped to, as my now reality. It wasn’t until much later in life, however, that I embraced the gifts that showed up from early on – the arts, imagination, intuition, sensitivity, and connectivity – as the channel for self-expressive service to others.
Yet, everything to me has always been rich in symbolism, which I felt had the power to shift experiences through the potent and fertile doorways they created.
So I developed a knack for the alchemy of transmutation through the vehicle of integrated self-expression from the heart. And I am living more aligned with that true and wild heart of mine and enjoying life more now than ever because of, not in spite of, everything that has been part of my experience.
I invite and welcome others into the dance with self and to align with the way in which speaks to your own heart’s rhythm.
I believe that creativity and heart are not separate. It takes a heart to dream and it takes creativity to love unconditionally. Love and creative energy I believe are the most powerful forces in the Universe. The more creative expression is engaged and supported, the deeper our hearts expand, as they are then also being nurtured to grow.
And it is through love and creativity that we will integrate healing within and without, the more we exercise them.
Everything I share is with intention of supporting an integrated and empowered experience of discovering your own heart wisdom, while activating your creative manifestation abilities that will enhance the quality of your life and in turn, create collective ripple shifts as a reflection of your example of living from that wholeness of you. I hope to inspire and nurture courageous heart explorations that lead to self-empowerment through a return to natural harmony.
You don’t have to be a visionary artist by way of your life’s work, to make your life work as a vision of artistry. Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you started living the wonder? Activate the heart of you by cultivating the art of you and within that state of being uniquely you, you will be free.
This is a fantastic blog by Jennifer Moore on the magickal symbolism of dragonflies. Yesterday, the first full day actually in Alaska, as our journey was detoured/delayed a day due to weather, but ultimately energetic callings where I was needed, I was surrounded by giant dragonflies at the lake here.
The photos you see in my share, are of one of the dragonflies, and of the pair that were in a dance, that I rendezvous’d with yesterday.
Upon arrival to the lakeside cabin home for the next few days, I explored the path by the lake to the row boats when dragonfly medicine was all around me.
These beautiful, giant dragonflies with wingspan of 4-5 inches were flying around me on the dock and two seemed to be in a mating dance.
The dragonflies continued to fly at me while out on the row boat as well, while exploring beaver lodges and listening to the haunting loons.
Jennifer’s share so beautifully expounds on these magickal creatures that are both of the air – symbolizing change – and water – the subconscious, dreaming mind, and mutable nature. When they skitter across the water they demonstrate deeper thoughts surfacing and of our being mindful of our wishes we intend.
One dragonfly I saw seemed to have become water-logged and was stuck on the surface of the water, rather than skittering along, and its wings were unable to lift it up to fly again…so save it I did and off it flew to a tree limb to dry.
These nymph creatures are simply enchanting in every way and everything they are about, as shared in Jennifer’s article, is so perfect in symbolism right now for me.
Last night, the first night here in Talkeetna, as the eerie, but beautiful, calls of the loons echoed across the lake, I dreamed of an adolescent moose I was communicating with on a path in the forest. But that’s a “moose” of another story. 😉
Magick is abound and the creatures of Alaska are making me feel welcome already. I look forward to their continued wisdom and messages.
I had the honor of being interviewed by the beautiful and compassionate, Annabel Ruffell, founder of Journey for Earth, a global awareness company committed to inspiring change for humanity, the environment and animals, one choice at a time. We actually connected back in 2012 and synchronicity through the interview she shared on my friend, Jenny Yemaya of The ARC, brought us full circle.
Annabel is also a fellow artist, and an amazing one at that. I love her passion for focusing on the inspiration to effect change and she does this out of a love for all of life – something we also share in common.
You can learn more about her through her TEDx Change Talk
Annabel also interviews founders of environmental, animal, and humanity organizations, parents, and inspiring public figures – people that are making a difference – as she believes that we can be inspired through other’s passionately living their life journey with commitment to a purpose and desire to make positive impact on our planet. The question she poses to everyone is, “What kind of journey are YOU on?
Here are my answers in the written interview with Annabel.
Recently, I was asked to contribute as a Wild Woman writer for the Wild Woman Community, which I gratefully accepted, as I love the vision behind it. This is my introduction article that has just been posted. For those of you new to it, the Wild Woman Community is a growing (with nearly 25,000 followers) online sacred Wild Woman Circle of healers, artists, creatives, and businesses that promote a holistic approach to life through their shared knowledge, experiences, and services so that women have a safe place where they can seek wisdom, find understanding, feel inspired, and be connected. It is still in the introductory phase, but will continue to expand and offer insightful articles and supportive resources from contributors. Samantha Wilson is the Founder of the Wild Woman Community who shares that the inspiration behind the Community came from the Wild Woman Archetype in the book “Women Who Run With The Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In Samantha’s words, “I see my journey over the last two years as working with the Wild Woman within me and the three most important lessons learned were: the need for creativity and spirituality in a woman’s soul life, how women heal themselves and others through the telling of their stories, and the need for women to collaborate rather than be in competition. From this understanding, the Wild Woman Community was born. I am hoping that it will evolve into a digital platform, a 21st century global women’s circle, where every woman is welcomed and her story honored.” You can read more about Samantha’s personal journey – walking away from being a practicing litigation lawyer into the unknown and freeing self discovery as a Life Coach and Energy Healer with focus on supporting women – and get introduced to the other Wild Women by visiting “Wild Woman Community – Awaken the Wild One Within”
Reverence and use of crystals goes back to the dawning of civilization and have been
used for centuries for their healing powers. Their connection with specific
parts of the body and its organs come from traditional Western and Eastern
Astrology. 5000+ year old ancient text formulas from India’s Ayurvedic records
and traditional Chinese Medicine claim healing with the use of crystals that
are now used in modern medical prescriptions. The Christian Bible refers to
crystals over 200 times, crystalline structures have been found in the ruins of
Babylonia and in the ancient Egyptian and Chinese tombs of rulers, and many of
the early civilizations of the Earth (Mayan, Aztec, American Indian, African,
Celtic) utilized quartz crystals in sacred ceremonies. These electromagnetic
synthesizers that were once only a royal and priestly experience, are now
a gift available to us all.
Joyful Earth Crystals are pendants created in honor
of Mother Earth and our partnership with her. The name
“Joyful Earth” came from my two dear friends, a Mini Lop-Eared Rabbit
named Joy and a Russian Tortoise named Gaia – Gaia being the Goddess and
embodiment of the Earth. They possess the symbolic and meaningful message
of “The Hare and The Tortoise,” conveying that life is about balance
and recognizing the beauty in everything and integrating opposites to create
harmony. Each possess a different kind of strength we can learn much from by
embracing. As a vegan raw foodist and explorer of ancient and cosmic mysteries,
I celebrate all life and unity consciousness, and convey this love of organic
nature fused with the Cosmos in all that I create. It is important to me
to understand our past in order to create the future in the now, which includes
compassion for our Earth and Universal connection. So in honor of these two
very precious and amazing beings in my life and to celebrate and
embrace a return to natural harmony with the Earth, Joyful Earth Crystals were created.
I intuitively hand-select each crystal and stone for its unique elemental properties, its
“essence” and its empowering ability to help the wearer embrace
and integrate deeper connection with that desired energy, cultivating more of
this energy and drawing it more fully into one’s life and experience. The focus
being on the energies of compassionate embracing and empowered regeneration.
Each piece is lovingly crafted and the designs are channeled
inspirations and visions from the Heart and Spirit. No two pieces are alike and
each is intended to embody a specific energy and designed with the individual (crystal’s keeper/steward) in mind.
Joyful Earth Crystals are beautiful embodiments of raw Earth and Cosmos and make extremely memorable and unique gifts, can be used in meditation, worn as beautiful,
stand-out adornments for that special occasion, or simply worn as
energetic support to help cultivate harmonic balance. To the depth of
one’s choosing, they are meditative and supportive tools that can help one to
harness and discover what lies in the heart and step into empowerment and
better clarity while journeying their path.
Each piece is given a name upon it’s creation, embodies an alchemical process that
blends their energies harmoniously with the divine message they each uniquely
have to share through the visions and hands of their designer and will receive an infusion of Reiki, Love and Intentions upon their initiation into being.
Yes, Joyful Earth Crystal Pendants are back! Four new designs are now available. These are the first of 18 total that will be unveiled as they are birthed. Will post each one separately to give them their own featured space. All of the new designs are unique and one-of-a-kind and will use different metals, as well as design techniques. I work with different metal workers to bring about the visions and energies needed. These four that will be featured in their own posts were a magic fusion of my own and Tracy Partridge Johnson’s energies together. So, they are unique from the last batch of pendants created, as will be the next batch. I love to mix up the energies, mirroring what the crystals and the now call for. Some crystals are in their raw form and others polished. I am guided to work with both and to mix them together for that harmonious balance, as well as to bring together unique combinations that enhance and compliment the energies of the crystals. I ask each crystal what partnership they are drawn to and for them to reveal their name once the solidfying of their energy is complete.
Abundant Love and Magic!
There are many different healing methods and modalities, as well as creative and personal growth endeavors, and supportive means to choose from that can all aid in helping one move more gracefully and peacefully through these shifting times. With so much happening and shifting around us and within us, things speeding up and intensifying, and worries and concerns over what the outcomes will be, it’s no wonder so many are experiencing challenges and increased levels of stress, anxiety, confusion, exhaustion, and unhealthiness. Everyone is ready for a new lease on life and perhaps even a total reinvention and revitalization. Things are all coming to a head, as transitions take place.
It can seem similar to a turkey pan at Thanksgiving where you have a really dirty, greasy pan that you try to clean, but in the process of scrubbing, the water becomes ever more murky, dirty, and greasy and it seems like you’re getting nowhere and seemingly worse. Yet once you continue to move through the stirring up phase and loosening up of the grime, the more things come to the surface that were trying to hang on, but inevitably will release and wash away with continued persistence and your trust and knowingness that that is just the process. With each rinse and each scrub, the pan increasingly becomes cleaner and soon you have yourself a bright, shiny, clean pan that looked nothing like it did before, and during, the process of cleaning. Such is the same with changes in life. Things seem to come to a head and get worse before they get better, but it is inevitable they WILL get better.
Reiki is a healing method that can help support people to move through the stress and uncertainty. It is much more than a “coping” mechanism, as it is a supportive tool in self-empowerment, aiding one with making healthy changes and handling things that arise during the transitions. The Universal Life Force energy, which Reiki is, embodies the very essence and consciousness of the new era we have moved into and is extremely supportive in helping to create the planetary shift in consciousness that is unfolding.
Suffering and discomforts one might experience now, and perhaps to come, as things continue to transition, are minimized and peace of being is re-established through the support of Reiki. This is why Reiki is, and has been, spreading its beautiful, loving, and supportive energy at a wider and more rapid scope. It is truly helping to placate and calm the waters, while reducing suffering. We start to recognize through Reiki, how we are not at the mercy of anything and we can really take hold of our lives and create the peace of mind we are yearning for.
Reiki is a safe, gentle, natural, and easy-to-learn healing technique. Once your body has been attuned to connect and to receive it, you have Reiki for life. Reiki is something we all innately have access to and use often without even knowing it. The process of an attunement just supports us in accessing and remembering this gift we have to use. It also helps us to refine that gift for personal use and in our service to others. There is no greater gift one can offer, than the energy of Unconditional Love, which is Reiki.
Reiki is helping us to collectively maneuver with more ease and swiftness into the coming era of increased peace and well-being. It is a beautiful gift we’ve rediscovered that truly has the ability to aid movement towards powerful, co-created changes that are needed in our personal and planetary evolution. As we use Reiki to help ourselves, each other, and the world, we will continue to experience ever-increasing blessings and doorways of opportunities.
Learn to heal animals and people with Reiki (pronounced ray-key), a Japanese
word meaning Universal Life Force Energy, which permeates all living things. The
practice of channeling Reiki is an easy-to-learn, gentle and powerful system of
natural healing that reduces stress, induces relaxation, supports intentions and
provides many other healing benefits. As a very powerful aid to personal growth,
Reiki works on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. It can support
any intention, person or animal you desire to help, while simultaneously
activating self-empowerment. Reiki is based upon a loving, nurturing touch or
channeling of energy, with an intention to heal, and can be refined for personal use and in our service to others. It is a complimentary treatment to any and all
other treatment modalities, improves their effectiveness and benefits and helps
to stimulate the body’s own natural healing abilities. It is not meant to
replace professional medical advice and Reiki practitioners do not diagnose or
prescribe medication.
Reiki helps balance, harmonize and restore your energy systems by using the
energy centers in the palms of the hands, which are placed in varying positions
on, or over, the body. It is not necessary that a client be physically present
for a session, as Reiki can also be administered from a distance. This creates
the same results and helps alleviate the roots of ill-health, while stimulating
a great feeling of general well-being. Full sessions, healing attunements and
initiation attunements coupled with class instruction can be administered to you
regardless of your geographic presence, as your response will not differ in any
way. Not only is it great as a general tune-up or tonic in times of
“unchallenged” health, but since it is drawn through and not from the
practitioner’s body, your energy remains intact and not depleted.
A Reiki Healing Attunement helps to remove blocks and promote growth and
healing for any specific concern or issue you are facing and would like support
with. It also aids in goal achievement by helping you to move past existing,
resistive blocks and limiting patterns. In a Healing Attunement the Higher Self
is allowed more of an “active” role in the process of achieving goals.
I’m currently offering a $99 ONLY special on any class of your choice. Reiki 1, 2, or 3. Regular prices are as follows: Reiki 1: $222, Reiki 2: $333, and Reiki 3 Master Teacher: $666. This special is only good until the 7/15 full moon. Secure this class rate until then and you can schedule your class until 8/15. Class to be held in Costa Mesa, Orange County, CA. Don’t miss out!
This offering is provided with intention to support you to help yourself and
to learn how to heal other people and animals towards compassionate goals,
intentions and worldwide healing and change. Reiki is a perfect antidote to
stress relief, more peace, clarity and overall well being that can transform and
help support your chosen path in life. Reiki can also help to empower your goals
and more efficiently come from a heart-based place in attaining desired,
harmonious results for the highest good.
