Past lives ripple into now... (past life reading meditation)

Past lives ripple into now...

This is to be read as a guided meditation to bring you to a past life experience.


Now we begin...

Find yourself in a quiet, comfortable place, away from distractions and disruptions which affect your concentration to your now.  Now being this state of consciousness you are now in where you can feel the sensations and stimulations on a physical level, if you permit that, for all reality's perceptions are based on permissions.  You must give yourself permission to relax.  Find your attention on these words as they flow across your mind.  Give your blessing as you feel yourself slowly relax into your now, there may be some slight discomfort, so as you notice discomfort, breath in and out slowly and feel it soften and become easier, just notice the sensations and feelings in your body now. 

Bring your awareness to your toes and feel it begin to slowly fill you up like a ripple begins at your toes and echoes into your feet relaxing and making smooth and easy all the little muscles in your feet as it gently spreads through your ankles and up your calves, with a wave of peace it flows around your knees, unraveling the muscles there as it flows up your thighs into your waist and hips releasing held tension and tightness in these areas, relaxing you more and more.

Now slowly your lower abdomen fills with this liquid ripple of relaxation, flowing through your stomach, unraveling all the muscles around your spine as it moves up your back and into your chest and shoulders, feeling them loosen and begin to melt away tension with each breath that you take moving you further into stillness. This ripple begins through your throat and up your neck into your jaw. You feel your jaw gently release as this flow goes up around your eyes letting all the little muscles around your eyes reading this to get just a little more relaxed and gently focused on the words.

And now follow your imagination as you go down a staircase of ten steps, each step bringing your body and mind into deeper and deeper stillness, ten times deeper with each step that you go down, through the first step to the second. Now feeling the depths of thirty times deeper as you take the third step and on to the fourth. Letting all of the worries and fears clouding your experience to just fade out as you take the fifth and sixth steps. Feeling yourself in that open detached state of peace as you take the seventh and then eighth steps.  As you take the last two steps you feel yourself in this deep rhythmic flow of relaxation, one hundred times more relaxed. 

At the base of the steps you find yourself in a room with a door at the opposite end of it.  This place feels familiar and safe to you as you cross the room and come to the door. There is a sign on the door. It has the words, "Door of Time," written on it.  You open the door and see a swirling mist floating out beyond the doorway, almost like you are looking off a ledge out into a deep space of clouds.

Now before you step out into the mist, I want you to ask your subconscious mind to bring up a current issue you are working on in your life, something you would like help with resolving, and I want you to hold this vision of this situation in your mind.  Now envision that issue flying out of your mind and into the open doorway. This will set up your experience to place you in a former existence where you handled or dealt with a similar issue or problem so that you may learn how it was resolved.

Standing at the doorway now you step out into the mist and feel yourself with the sensation of flying through clouds.  You feel the cool mist flowing through and around you and there is a chill in the air of the swirling air moving around you.  As you are floating there safely you feel the winds move faster and you feel yourself drifting through your timeline back through your past, before your birth, bringing you to another lifetime, another experience of living.  You feel yourself begin to descend back towards the world coming down from the clouds moving into the body of another life that you have lived.

You find yourself a reflection and see what you looked like, smelling the smells of the place, checking in with how this entity feels about their situation and what they are doing.  Noticing your clothing and the decorations of the place you can have an idea of the time period. You know what this person's job or work is, you can feel their family connections and perhaps see similar ones to your own current life.  You can now feel the connection to this entity's life situation and how it corresponds to the life issues you are working on. 

Connecting inside this entity's life record by focusing inside of their body, you ask it to bring you to the point of resolution to the issue or problem so that you may learn and make the connection to your now.  You feel yourself shift through this being's life, flowing into their future which has already happened.  You then find yourself at another point and time in the entity's life where the resolution was brought to a close and you can feel the joy of moving forward in this entity's experience.  You connect with how this will help your current situation understanding how and why things played out the way they did. 

You feel the closure in this being's life and thank it immensely for sharing their experience and learning with you now.  You feel the completion and disconnect as you begin to float up out the body up into the sky and back to the flowing field of clouds.  You feel the coolness and dampness from the clouds move through you clearing attachments to that previous life and you look out through the clouds and notice the doorway still there in the sky out in the distance.  You begin to float towards it and you feel yourself shift forward in time to your present timeline.

As you step back into the room with the stairs, you can feel the understanding of the visit to a previous lifetime echo through your mind.  You feel a deep sense of gratitude for yourself on your healing journey and know that this experience was there to show you how to clarify your experiences in the present world.  You gently make your way back to the steps knowing that you are coming back into the regular world with new insight and focus.

As you come up each of the ten steps you begin to feel yourself fully engage with the room or space you are in as you read this, feeling supported and safe, refreshed and relaxed.  Bringing your attention back to your fingers and toes, your arms and legs, flowing into your body and head, finding yourself behind your eyes as you are alert and refocused, wide awake and wonderful.


Now reflect on what you have gained from this experience.

Please leave some comments or some of your experiences below as you experiment with reading through this past life regression reading meditation and getting different results.  Each time you do it, you will connect with what you are seeking answers to.

Safe travels as we explore the endless boundaries of our consciousness together!


Find your light.


Just be.



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Sound bath? Hmm...

Laying out your experiences in drips of consciousness as the waves of sound echo through your being...  

You feel the timelessness of the vibration as it permeates your cells realigning your space into the harmonious chord of your truth, placing you in your power, in your now...

A sound bath is an experience where you allow the sounds of the crystal healing bowls, pyramids, chanting and toning and other assorted sound healing instruments to shift your body, mind and spirit into balance through the vibrational frequencies that they emit as they are played by the sound healer or musician. 

The intelligent energy of the quartz helps your system to reorganize itself in the most efficient way.  It's like when you are so into your favorite song that you lose yourself into the moment of it.  It frees you from the idea of separation, it opens your awareness to feel just a little more, to be a little more vulnerable, a little more compassionate.  It is as though you are allowing in a little more light as the sounds shift and reconfigure your syntax on reality.  The feeling of a sonic accupuncture session, refreshing revitalization moves into your body filling all of the space that the sound has freed up.

At the beginning, you are led into a peaceful state of acute awareness, noticing all the parts of your body as the sound opens and relaxes your physical pains and stressors.  The focus is then drawn to emotions atttached to those pains and following them even further back to their original source before leading you upward into a floating state above the clouds through the mental imagery and descriptions.  A state of collectivized connectivity is felt as the energy of all of the endless streams of stars overhead is inhaled with the breath bringing the person again back to the presence of the body. 

Then a guide is called forth who leads you into encounters with overcoming blocks and stoppages in your energetic, emotional, physical and mental systems as the sounds from the chanting and toning move through the body freeing those stuck and frozen parts of your being...


And that's not all...

The waves of sound transport you from experiences in the body, to movements of the soul, each person attending with you collectivizing their flame together as one healing force of frequency.  You feel it like electricity fractalating across your being as the sound shatters the resistance that you feel towards the flow as you rediscover that feeling of harmony with the all...

Science tells us that all of matter in the reality is composed of atoms interconnecting and interacting instantaneously, which are composed of subatomic particles, protons, electrons, and the idea of the potentiality of neutrons (see Nassim Haramein's work), which are collections of quarks being created and destroyed in this rhythmic dance becoming real at those points where they interconnect. Sound moves through this space effortlessly, becoming the vibration that you can resonate with to reshape your reality in the best possible configuration...

Just as these atoms are vibrating potentialities, so are we...  The illusion of separation is transcended through sound and intonations.  We are just cosmic riders upon these atoms and cells and sound bath meditations and sound healing can help us realign to harmony each day...

Feel the vibe as is echoes through your life, opening doorways and freeing up this reality so that we can heal and overcome all difficulties.

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Send out the vibe to attract your tribe!

All is in harmony.

Just be.

Push...

Take a deep breath.

Come with me...

Now.

Push to expand...

Push to explore.

Push to express...

To be the flow...

Tantric rantings fill the mind
with contusions of conclusions
splintering off for amusement
as we spin this fire of the mind
and the heart intertwined
we sip of the vein of the infinite
and dive into the falls of consciousness
as the vortex widens to encompass the all
that is now. 

Did you get all that?  
There will be a test at the end, 
please try to keep up 
as the expansion of awareness
and consciousness incorporates
the effervescence of the illumined
as we feel those bubbles
percolating in our chest
and the wellspring of play and joy
take over in this timeless moment of flow
that we pass in and out of
as we meander our trail...

Find the gratitude for all moments, 
for all sides of the story matter
as this rambling of awareness
trickles to a stream
we dig out the vein
to begin again
cyclical spirals
dance through perception
know the ebb,
ride the flow,
be the now,
reap what's sown.

Just be.





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fires of redemption

Deep in the depths of the shallows of the mind 
we find our perceptions awry with visions and misconceptions of the past, 
taking that one last gasping breath before heading into the mire of the pile, 
the masses of misunderstanding and fog of unforgiveness, 
those false notions, or memories distorted, shown through one's filters 
processing out that which you are not ready for...

Ready yet?

So just tilt the filter to the side for just a brief instant and come with me...

Feel the pulsation of the vibrations of energetic light flow 
through the veins of the space 
between the cracks of the veil as the way is made clear
for an instant you can now be self reflective, 
you can now see those patterns of painful perceptions you cloud your perspective with...  

The puzzle of your psyche laid out before you in such as you can actually be objective, 
just for the moment anyway...

Don't look away, this part is important.  

That template of reality you have been playing your movie through is still a bit smudged and needs a good smudging to release those held attachments to those moments of agony, and those moments of joy need a good polish to rediscover the gratitude of each second, the graciousness with which we revere the infinite as we perceive those cracks in the maya of this illusive world.

Did you look away?  

I hope not.  If you did, just go back through it 
It's always there, as it was before.  
The cycle never ends. 
It can evolve, but only if you are ready...

Can you find the joy in agony's pocket, 
or the blessings among the curses?  

This redemption you seek is locked within your own mind, 
the key to your past and future is always within reach and sight, 
just beyond the edges of your view... 

it is always there waiting 
for you to open your eye 
and embrace the now...

Take a deep breath, and release into it...

That layer beyond the past and future, 
where all is possible and can manifest,

a fifth dimensional soup of possibilities, 
not clouded by held remorse or anxieties,

the field where all is able to be,

now...


Just be.

Rev. Brien Egan CHt, CRM, CKRM 2017

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Elect Love and Peace!

What is really on the election ballot this year? 

Is our soul as a country really under this much constant combat that we are lost in the words as we miss the forest for the trees? How can we combat the incessant pull of idiocracy that is marring the image of our system across the world's theater?

What will it take for us to overcome this frightening image of what is to come for our country?  How many more moments of sheer racism and ignorance will we let manifest in our collective consciousness before we finally stand up and say enough is enough?


So what can you do now?  Who are you to be able to make a difference?

How can your voice be heard?  Does the election really matter?  Do we even have a voice?  The answer is yes, we do, and the election does matter, but our voice can only be heard and we can only make a difference if we stand up and stand together in love and peace.

This entire facade of an election process has created more fear, hatred, anger and shame than any of the past elections up until this point.  Just when we think it can't get any worse, it does and we see even more of how fragile this system is and how it is so mismanaged that those in charge most likely shouldn't be.  Yet we don't stand up together with one voice when they have so carefully marginalized our positions and our voices into sound bytes and scripted memes designed to distract us from the truth just behind the curtains...


Love and peace can save us?  


How so?  Are you just some wishy-washy hippy?  Well I am, but that is beside the point...

Love is one of the strongest attractors of the present moment of any of the emotions.  This means that it brings you into the present moment simply by focusing on it.  The heart chakra is the center of the plane of existence we call the present moment where the spiritual plane intermingles and blends with the physical world.  That which we hold in our heart center becomes real that much more quickly...

Peace is just as powerful so long as it is realized as its own process, and not the absence of war which reflects its energy out in a negative way as a polarity, which it need not be.  Peace should be seen as gratitude, or joy for simply being and gratefulness for what is in all its forms.


Stepping into an attitude of gratitude and love isn't the easiest process especially with all of the endless barrage of angry memes and perversions of what we call media and the news.  The easiest start to this process is to think of that which you hold most dear, a loved one, a pet, a happy memory that warms your soul when you think of it.  Calling in such an image evokes that joyful, loving feeling that can help you elevate your intentions and elevate your manifestations towards something more.  It will help you to guide your potential reality towards its highest good even in times such as these.  


How can we be grateful for such a debacle of our political system?  Let us find the silver lining hiding in this very dark and large storm cloud hanging over our country at the moment.  


What did we hope would happen?  Obviously it didn't play out how we liked, so what is the potential good in these developments?  What positivity can come from such horrid defacement of our governmental structure?  Even in the darkest night we can find stars to illumine our path, for light needs darkness to be fully appreciated...

We can let be what is, and send light and love and positive thoughts and energy to those places in the world that need our attention or help so that it can grow and flourish and facilitate new changes in the future.  We can look forward to what may still come in a loving and peaceful world in hopes that we can be catalysts for real change...

Holding our highest good for the universe and higher powers to protect us and keep us away from the negativity and evil that exists knowing that all is as it should be and that all will work out for the betterment of everyone.  Staying with these thought patterns and sending out feelings of gratitude and love for all that is and that all that is will create the highest good for all involved.  


Thoughts are energy and have power! 


Do not play into the fear and anger surrounding our nation. 

Let us "Face Everything And Rise" up as one people, for the future of our world!



Light for your path...


Just be.


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Momentary Illumination

Momentary Illumination

Feel the pulse of the flow as it courses through your veins…

Do you even know your own silence?  Do you appreciate your faults?

Do you want to see how the darkness illuminates the light? 

There is no now without here,

just as there is no dark without light,

this pulsation of truth eminates from the night

just as the light of the stars brings out the depths of the infinite vast void of space

as the galaxies swirl into existence around the destruction of the endlessly swirling black holes we fall into

as we expect an outcome from no effort

or a change without a preceding event to push it into being,

but being of what?

How do we become the nothing contained within the everything giving form to the formless, giving structure to the ethereal? 

How do we embrace the moment of uncertainty with total awareness without giving all of our vulnerability and trust to that which is fleeting, to that which has no shape? 

How can we know that this is it?  Do you?

Now.

This light that bursts forth from the deepest recesses of your soul

brings you back to this ever present moment,

this instant where all things are interconnected,

where the past falls away and the future doesn’t matter,

to the time where you simply are, and that is always enough,

Be in your moment,

it is always fleeting,

yet always there. 

Know that you are the infinity in that grain of sand, and that eternity in an hour and

revel in the chance to embrace the gratitude of all that is.

Just be.

Light for your path...

Visualize, mesmerize, materialize!!!

'Tis the season!

                 Don't wait!  

                             Do this now. 

                                           Let's begin...

Now follow along and visualize this to yourself, picture it in your mind, as you read along with me. First take a deep, full breath in, all the way down to your belly and let it out slowly now, and spend a few moments just focusing on your breath as it comes in and out slowly and calmly.  Now picture the sky up above you with the bright sun high up overhead.  Feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you continue to take deep full centering breaths calming and relaxing you now as you bask in the light of the sun.  Just be still in this moment.
  
Now as you are quiet and still notice as thoughts about your day, worries about deadlines or any of life's difficulties just spill out into your stillness, almost as though you are holding back a levee of thoughts and its slowly seeping out.  Now see in your mind these repetitive thoughts, some negative, some not, these thoughts you have about who you are and what you are, how you feel and what you think of your surroundings.  You know those thoughts that play like a tape recording throughout your day.
  
Watch now as the thoughts transform in your mind into clouds as they fill up the sky and block the warmth from the sun.  So now picture yourself safely rising up into the sky through those clouds of busy and negatively patterned thoughts.  Seeing them separate from oneself now you know in this moment, you are more than your thoughts...

Realize that as you are coming out of the cloud cover up back into the brilliance and warmth of the sun that you are moving beyond these limiting thoughts back to the you that is eternal.  You are transcending to the witness, that infinite part of you that is not attached to any emotions or preconceived notions of what the world is like.  It is being in that childlike innocence.  This is where you are now.  See the clouds below you now as they drift past and feel the powerful connection from the warmth of the sun revitalizing your true self.  Feel the textures of the clouds, realizing again that you are more than these senses.  You are the still small scribe to this infinite sea of experiences.  Know that you are beyond your emotions.  You are connected to your source, aware, alert.  Now slowly bring yourself back into this space, the room you are in, feeling comfortable and relaxed in your body, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this, and it is so...

Are you presently present now?  

If not, take a second to remember who you are, where you are and why you are... 

Do you have goals?  

What is it you truly want?  

What is keeping you from being there now?  

Will you save yourself in time?  

There is only one lifetime we are currently aware of  so we must capitalize on our experience of the present in order to harness the full potentiality in every instant of our perception...

Presence can be experienced in a great number of ways from some deep breaths to simply being in your body.  

Create a mantra consisting of a few things you are working to create for oneself...

Here's how you do it:

Simplify whatever your goal is into a few words and just keep the saying or phrase that you can run in the background noise of your mind, repeating on autopilot while you are mentally focused on the outside world, being aware of one's own body as such is a difficult undertaking...

Create now in this new year whatever it is you can envision with all of your senses.  See yourself presently in perfect awareness of your consciousness, being in the flow.

Happy 2016!!!!

<3

Light for your path...

Just be.

Being...

What is this catch phrase in our society? 

Can we really be in the now?  

What does it mean to just be? 

 "To be, or not to be, that is the question." -Shakespeare, Hamlet

So I have to ask myself, did Shakespeare understand this in the way that we now can view it?  Perhaps to a degree when he thought about it in context with Hamlet's dilemma in the epic play.  It was important for Hamlet to embody his full self and take control over his destiny, so in that sense, be the person he was meant to.  To be in the full expression of yourself is indeed a major undertaking and most definitely a life goal if ever there could be one.  How does one even know what their "fullest" or "highest" expression could be? 

How do we know if we have self actualized?

Looking at our being-ness in this light we can examine Maslow's study of the hierarchy of needs and his analysis of peak experiences marking this point of self actualization.  He described a peak experience as being in a state of bliss, almost effortless joy and success as things happen for you because you are totally aware and awakened to all aspects of oneself.  It is being in that child-like state of wonder and open perception where things flow and happen because you are putting forth the fullness of yourself. 

So...  Where does one go to find such a place anyway? 

And how can we make it so we never leave there once we find it? 

Maslow did say that a person can be on multiple levels of his hierarchy of being simultaneously, which makes sense and also validates the idea that we can experience these euphoric states of oneness and then the next moment be back in the hum-drum banter of life. With so many avenues of experience and dimensions to our interconnection with this world it goes without saying that we can be on multiple levels a the same time.

David Hawkins' work, Power vs. Force, is filled with explanations of the varying levels of experience we are exposed to and how it is never just black and white.  His ranking of awareness he complied through his research breaks up the states of being and what emotional patterns we express the more or less we are conscious or aware.

A popular Buddhist saying goes something like, " Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.  After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."  This just illustrating that even with all of the amazing energy and power one may exude when in that state of all-being, there is still the part of us that chooses to come back to help others out of Plato's cave, or to come back into the cave to pay our bills.  It also acknowledges that we can still revert back away from our enlightened state even when we are at our greatest growth and expression of our energy...

Let's take a journey then and see how we can get ourselves there in an easy, stress-free way...

Noticing our place in the universe is a start, for it gives us our first three dimensions of experience,length, width, and depth. The difficulty lies in finding our awareness of the illusive fourth dimension we all know is a part of our reality.  This dimension I am referring to is time.  We all sense time as it is a driving force in our lives, calling us to action or requiring that we wait. 

Can we access it from a fifth dimensional perspective?

The best way to reword this question more simply would be to ask, "Can I step outside the traditional way we look at the world in order to affect change to all parts of myself in order to free my experience from this dimensional prison we lock ourselves in?"  Well that didn't quite get any more simple did it?  I hope that description helped clarify it a little though at least.  It is a pretty intricately deep idea though which requires that we suspend our understanding of the universe and our entire perception of reality.  So let's try to see what it feels like and maybe we'll revisit this concept again soon in another post in more depth.

P.D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher/mystic and student of G.I. Gurdjieff, defined this feeling with a thought experiment he describes in his book Tertium Organum.  In the book he invites us to visualize what it would be like to be in and to fully perceive that 4th dimensional state.

He has the reader close their eyes and see themselves in a room and to picture a cube floating in the middle of the room.  Now the trick of it is to close your eyes and be there and then to see the cube floating in the air from all sides simultaneously.

This perspective he is trying to get the participant to be a part of is that ubiquitous feeling of being everywhere at once, of being in the moment by being the moment. 

The simple act of noticing and being in a quiet stillness is an easy way we can be in our now without having to become time.  In previous posts I have detailed the practice of noticing as well as a visualization to perceive our stillness away from the clouds of our thoughts from our ego mind.

Stepping away from the controls of our perception periodically other than when asleep can help you to regain that quiet stillness and will help you to be in your true state of being...

A light for your path...



Timeless awareness

To create healing now we must be in this presence to embody our past in order to move through it...

This awareness of now is the key to release, the key to peace and moving away from a life lived in the past or for the future.  So what does that truly mean, being in the now, living for today, or staying fully present? 

Being present isn't just about being aware of where you are physically, although that is a factor. A main secret to it's mastery is in the embodiment of being in the now emotionally as well.  So what does that mean?  It means being beyond the emotions, knowing that they are but passing states caused by events in the past or future oncoming events we are focusing on.  The release of this pent up storage of feeling puts you beyond hurt or worry, to a place where it is easy to see that everything will work out in the right and perfect way.  We will see things as Thom Yorke from Radiohead put it with, "everything in its right place."

So just as I have been bringing back in over and over in these posts, a major part of emotional presence lies in embracing or acknowledging these feelings or emotions so that they can be let go of.  This isn't just referring to the negative feelings either, for good must be released as well.  When we let go of them we do not enter into some emotionless state though, if that is where your thoughts were taking you.  No, rather the opposite takes place really.  We go into a hyper-emotive state where we can more objectively see others emotions clearly as well as understand our own motivations for our feelings as well. 

It's like stepping back and pulling the wool off of our emotional eyes so that we can understand all the "Whys" to our emotive experiences.  

It gives us a clear picture of who we are without all of our emotional baggage that everyone gets buried under whether through suppression or from over expression.  Remember, suppression of emotions doesn't make them go away, they only fester and well up.

So let me give you a shovel so you can start to dig yourself out of this emotional grave...

An easy mental exercise to help you identify these aberrant emotions we are working to be beyond lies in seeing the emotions as detached from your highest self.  So how do we check in with this true self, with our "silent witness," as Deepak Chopra would call it?

Taking about ten minutes each day on your own to do this visualization will help to become more aware of yourself and your emotional states so that you can work to transcend.

Now follow along and visualize this to yourself, picture it in your mind, as you read along with me. First take a deep, full breath in, all the way down to your belly and let it out slowly now, and spend a few moments just focusing on your breath as it comes in and out slowly and calmly.  Now picture the sky up above you with the bright sun high up overhead.  Feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you continue to take deep full centering breaths calming and relaxing you now as you bask in the light of the sun.  Just be still in this moment.  Now as you are quiet and still notice as thoughts about your day, worries about deadlines or any of life's difficulties just spill out into your stillness, almost as though you are holding back a levee of thoughts and its slowly seeping out.  Now see in your mind these repetitive thoughts, some negative, some not, these thoughts you have about who you are and what you are, how you feel and what you think of your surroundings.  You know those thoughts that play like a tape recording throughout your day.  Watch now as the thoughts transform in your mind into clouds as they fill up the sky and block the warmth from the sun.  So now picture yourself safely rising up into the sky through those clouds of busy and negatively patterned thoughts. 

Realize that as you are coming out of the cloud cover up back into the brilliance and warmth of the sun that you are moving beyond these limiting thoughts back to the you that is eternal.  You are transcending to the witness, that infinite part of you that is not attached to any emotions or preconceived notions of what the world is like. It is being in that childlike innocence.  This is where you are now.  See the clouds below you now as they drift past and feel the powerful connection from the warmth of the sun revitalizing your true self.  Know that you are beyond your emotions.  Now slowly bring yourself back into this space, the room you are in feeling comfortable and relaxed in your body, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this, and it is so.

Being beyond is its own state of perception, apart from our normal waking consciousness for the simple yet deeply significant fact that we become self aware and fully conscious in a metaphysically open state.  

In other words, there is nothing binding us to our ego.  This is the hyper-conscious state that athletes describe when they are having their best performance or game and are in the flow state where everything seems effortless.

Keep practicing with the visualization and comment below on how it is helping you move to the timelessness of now.

Light for your path

A dark embrace

Acceptance of what is is an embrace of life in all of its richness of color...  

Be those colors shaded to darker hues or lightened to pastels, all of our experiences in life have enriched it to be the colors we perceive.  The issues that arise in our life, be them physical, emotional or spiritual will remain persistent and continue to fester and injure us more and more if we cannot grasp their value and place in our perception.  This blocking we create from the denial of our true selves is so detrimental to our being that it will even create illness and dis-ease. 

What we run from chases us, and what we hide from searches for us...  

When people cannot embrace all aspects of themselves, they become trapped in the event, time frame or mental state which they are trying to avoid.  Its as though our spirit has a bookmark in the timeline novel that is our life and when we refuse to turn the page or read the whole excerpt, it saves our space until we do.  Unfortunately saving your space causes you to become mentally and often physically stuck there as well.  I have seen many people so stuck in a particular event or time period that they miss the beauty and wonder that is right in front of them. 

Now not all of these shadows are self-inflicted, though a fair amount are...  

No child asks to be abused, and no spouse asks to be cheated on or mistreated.  (On the soul level we all choose our experience, but that is for another discussion) People can overcome these setbacks and devastations if they can find their inner courage to completely face the issue or fears and move through them.  This is by no means a one step easy process, it can take years or lifetimes for some of us, but it can be done.  

The first and most imperative rung on this ladder of healing is accepting what is and what has been... 

It is acknowledging where we have come from in order for us to take those steps forward.  It is not letting ourselves become destroyed by what can best be described as our “acomodador,” as Paulo Coelho describes in his book, The Zahir, that will give us the power to move on and grow from the experiences of our lives in a positive way.  In The Zahir, Coelho quotes from a book called Magical Practices in Northern Mexico which describes the concept:

“The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden up powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occurred.”

Rising up and being with ourselves in our point of accommodating, or point of becoming stuck in our ego into being complacent or stopping to evolve or grow is the best way to let go of that trauma. It is the first leap to overcoming all odds.  This reviewing of ones life is a major aspect of what Jung called, the shadow work.  It is a first step in renewal and rebirth if one is being consumed by their acomodador.

Let us combine our efforts to help embrace our shadows so that we may again become whole.

We will stitch them back to our feet as our hero Peter Pan has done.

Watch Peter chase his shadow down here...

Light for your path...

Can we illumine our shadows?

So what is our shadow self? 

What definition does science give for the natural phenomenon of shadows?

Science tells us that a shadow is created where light is hidden from a space or blocked.  This creates a darker area where it is more difficult to see.  It is perceived as being shaded and less bright.  If an area is completely enveloped in shadow it may be an area of total pitch black darkness.  It will be an area without color or form. 

Light is what gives these objects in the dark their shape and definition.  It illumines those hidden things and gives a meaning and purpose to reality.  As science tells us at the core level, we are all just packets of light quanta reflecting the hologram of the universe back giving consciousness to the matter created in the interconnection of the subatomic realms as space connects with time in all directions at once.  The blocking of the sun from what is being perceived almost makes it disappear in a way.  A shadow will conceal or distort what is truly there.  It will keep what is real masked and in the dark.  And so it is with us...

Carl Jung focused a great deal of his work on revealing and working with one's shadow self.  He was very interested in tearing away at those hidden constructs in our psyche which form negative aspects of the ego self.  The ego being that face which is put on for the public to see and judge with its masks and filters.  These efforts were made to study and know how the subconscious and unconscious mind work were so that he could learn and understand how to free our personality and persona from those negative behaviors and actions which have defined us and caused our reactions to the world. 
His early work with Freud helped him to see how those aspects of ourselves that are imprinted on our subconscious mind at a very early age are able to dictate how we will act and be for our entire lives if attention and work is not done to adjust our behaviors and destinies.  He wanted to help show us how we can free our experience from the difficulties we create for ourselves in our life by becoming more conscious and aware.
His work looked at through the scope of Buddhism or Hindu perspective has us viewing the release of our attachments as a first step to breaking down our ego self to get to the deeper parts of our experience, those parts which are hidden, a.k.a. our shadow selves.  It is those parts which we either can't even see ourselves, or those parts which we desperately try to look away from that form our ego mind and shape the way we interact with and view the world around us. 

Jung recognized, just as the Buddhist, Sufi, Essene and Hindu monks have understood for thousands of years now, that in order to reach those higher states of being and consciousness (some call samadhi, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment, being in the christ-like or buddha state) we must illuminate our shadows in all aspects of the self.  Every great master in history has had to rise above turmoil to achieve their enlightened state.

So how on earth could we possibly do that?

This daunting task which most people shy away from or vehemently fight against will shake a person to the very core of their existence.  That is precisely the process though, to strip away all aspects of the self until we can see what is truly there.  We need to shine a spotlight on every aspect of our selves from the simple flaws we might not see all the way to the deep dark skeletons some keep tucked away from the world.  It is only by examining and revealing all aspects of ourselves that we can work through those difficult shadows. 

The first and most important step though in working through something difficult, as explained by any effective major psychological teaching is to recognize what is there, and owning it.  Embracing our shadows, losing the fears we drown our lives in, will help us to overcome those aspects we can't seem to rise out of.  Admitting and owning ones flaws and struggles us a task for the courageous, for we must have resolve and strength if we are to endure our undoing to be able to give our consciousness the reboot it deserves. Just as Bill W. tells the world with AA, the first step is admitting that there is something to improve.  It is acknowledging that we are imperfect.

Can you see your imperfections?

The hardest part of our journey is recognizing where we are and taking steps to move beyond what we are and what situation we came into on this earthly plane.

Let's work together to rediscover our true selves...

Let's follow Peter Pan's lead as he found his shadow and reattached it to himself, just as he made himself whole again by embracing his shadow, so too can we!

Light for your path...

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Back bay family moments of peace...

Here are some pictures from our adventure at Back Bay national wildlife refuge in Virginia Beach.  

A family journey there to enjoy some nature on Sunday reflected some solace...