Secrets Behind The Secret ….
ICEBERG INSIGHT
Un…Ravelling the Secrets To Un…Cover the Gold
Only now am I aware of the reason I have been challenged to write this post. What I needed to say was no secret, pardon the word play; however, I simply baulked each time I faced the page.
Aware of the esoteric truths presented in the book “The Secret”, I understand that spiritual law states what we think about, we bring about, by the Law of Vibration and Attraction. There are in my experience however, many deeper aspects that need to be addressed in shifting consciousness.
I laughed out loud a few years ago, hearing Debbie Ford state that many people hope to just affirm positively and then life will be wonderful. Her words were:
“You can’t put ice cream on top of poop and expect a great sundae!”
How profound.
Virginia Satir’s teachings were the first I found on understanding how ‘we become who we become’ along the way and her wisdom became a light in the darkness for me when I had a young family.
She compared the top of the iceberg, approximately 10% above the water line to the amount of consciousness people may have about themselves and their world. The other 90% of the iceberg, below water is compared to the subconscious or the subtly programmed unconscious messages that societally shape our daily lives.
As I followed my inner wisdom in choosing to write this blog I needed to sketch and paint an iceberg; something I have never done before. I then photographed it and set it up on my blog draft. Every time I walked by my computer for 2 days, it taunted me.
Then last night I dreamed that I was chipping ice ( a theme word playing out here, you may notice ) on the side of an almost clean road. For me the symbolic message of ‘ice’ in my dreams is ‘the need to unthaw emotion’.
This morning I awoke in restlessness, an uneasy gnawing in my being. While dream journalling, the symbolism and ideas coming to me began to release blocked feelings, bashing away at old thinking and beliefs, freeing me to open to a broader perspective of my world. Phewww… What a ride!
From deep within my subconscious, my submerged iceberg part, my Soul had been calling me to unthaw the ice cream and let go of more old ‘poop’, so that I could float more buoyantly in the sea of life. An attractive concept for an astrological water sign, like me!
I have always said:
When I truly follow, spirit has a great sense of humour~~~~~
What might you choose to bring to your awareness?
How might this shift your view of the world?
After all, this is how we begin to seek out our alchemical Gold~!
A Glimpse Of Soul Print Artistry
He discovered…God
in the miraculous beauty
of light, in the harmonious
movement of the planets,
in the intricate arrangement
of muscles and nerves inside
the human body, and in that
inexpressible masterpiece
the human soul.
~ Serge Bramly on Leonardo’s Spirituality
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Grateful thanks Ben, for incredibily gifted photography.
Love Aunt Linda
Summer Solstice 2009: To Know Thyself
Know Thyself, Saith The Oracle
Of Delphi
Today June 21, 2009, is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year; the largest amount of light, solar rays, available to us in the Northern hemisphere. Throughout the ages, people have celebrated this day in reverence, joy, anticipation, according to varied cultural traditions.
The symbolic essence of the Solstice invites one to look toward the play of inner light and darkness. It is said that at this time metaphysically, the veil between the worlds is thinner, more easily allowing the richness of self awareness and self discovery.
Facilitating a workshop yesterday on varied aspects of ‘Soul Talk’ a participant, who knows me well, said: “You are all about self awareness, aren’t you.”
I heard this comment in a new way and easily responded, and now enlarge on my truth, by expressing it thusly: “Yes, since it is my journey, my responsibility, my soul call to deeply know and love me, I am all about self awareness. It is vital to me to honour and get to know all parts of me, since I have been created divinely, as we all have been. This is my soul growth path, my spirit leading me back to my authentic, Higher Self. The more I know, the more I know I have yet to know. And then the more I have to let go… (however I digress~!)
I do know that I can only change myself and through this process my heart opens to more clearly connect to my Self, Source and Others and my life shifts, amazingly.
Solstice is a powerful time for seeding new awareness’s, intentions, paradigms: preparing for new growth and a new harvest, both within oneself, and in ones everyday life.
I offer prose today, from a mentor I have never met in person, who had a profound affect on my life years ago. Her name was Virginia Satir, a family therapist a forerunner in family therapy. I immediately resonated with her book PeopleMaking, and its wisdom helped me through a challenging dissolution and loss in my life.
MY DECLARATION OF SELF-ESTEEM
I AM MEIn all the world there is no one else exactly like me
There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up
Exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me
Is authentically mine, because I alone choose it
I own everything about me: my body, including everything it does
My eyes, including the images of all they behold
I own my feelings: anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement
My mouth and all the words that come out of it
Polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect and my voice, loud or soft
I own all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me
By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts
I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me
And other aspects that I do not know
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
And hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do
And whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me
This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time
When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did
How I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting
I can discard that which is unfitting,
Keep that which proves fitting and invent something new for that which I discarded
I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive
To make sense out of the world of people and things outside of me
I own me and therefore, I can engineer meI AM ME AND I AM OKAY
VIRGINIA SATIR c 1975
What a wonderful day to celebrate the beauty of who you are…
And all that you are becoming~
Solstice Blessings to you~
We Always Have A Choice…..
They may not be the ones our ‘personality’ self wants, however…..
We always have the power of choice from Within.
At many levels now our every day life, our world and our universe are sending out a soul call for change at both the macro and micro level. For me personally, the macro level of life is a large screen projection of what is happening at the micro level, within the ‘collective’ us.
Spiritual law states, what we think about expands, and it is now obviously time to shift our ’stinkin thinking’ of the past into innovative new ways of being and doing in our own lives and in the world community.
Years ago working through my personal growth process, someone asked me a most important question: “When you open your own practice, what is the first thing you want people to know?”
That shocked me, since I was not yet aware that I would be doing such a thing….still in hiding…from myself. I was ~!
I will borrow a profound statement a client shared with me, after she had a huge AHHAA awareness (and I love her words):
WELL, THAT’S NOT A SECRET FROM ME ANYMORE!
So, after taking a deep breath, I answered: “I would want people to know they have a CHOICE since from my youngest years, it seemed like I didn’t.”
The words I offer now are that we always have the POWER OF CHOICE, and this is indeed a gift; whatever our choice, regardless of the outcome, we have then stretched beyond powerlessness, into action: begun the journey, stated what is true for us, and this step is huge.
The truth is that there are many steps along the way, since life is about the journey. I now term the progression of choice, after choice, after choice Soul Growth and each one of these markers, I term Choice Points, as you may notice on my Category Headings.
Although many choices feel really scary and often come from ‘rock bottom places’ as a friend of mine terms it, they always lead us into new territory. This also, is the only way to invite something new into our lives. Each journey begins with the first step…young children model the incremental import and benefits of baby stepping.
What new choice is calling to your soul, today ?
What new possibilities might that create for you ?
Welcome to the journey~
Linda
The World That I See Mirrored Back At Me..
- HAVING FUN
Mirror, Mirror, what do I see reflecting back at me…..?
Annoyance, humour, AHA moments, all full of possibility~
Mirror, Mirror, what do I see reflecting back at me…..?
Annoyance, humour, AHA moments, all full of possibility~
Years ago strolling along a beach crying not good enough tears, I painfully came into the moment as I stubbed my toe on something hidden in the sand. Reaching down, I picked up a small heart shaped rock with a chunk missing from one corner.
Its metaphorical and metaphysical message struck me profoundly.
Since that day, I have been aware that my most important life’s purpose was first, remembering to love myself deeply; then from within, I have much to share and offer in love to others.
In my life, pre-the toe stubbing on the broken hearted rock, the messages blaring through my perceptionary field spoke illusive concepts of always being good, quiet, sweet, pretty, the perfect size, using the right products, trying hard to own the right stuff and above all pleasing the people cared for, to get love. These messages led me deeper and deeper into confusion, self doubt, frustration and depression~ de-pressed energy~ since of course, I had wandered a long way away from the real beauty of me~!
As I began to remember my way back to myself by listening to my soul call, things began shifting deeply within me. AHA’S after AHA continued to drop in; deep understanding of self caring, self responsibility, self forgiveness, the power of conscious choice, healthy boundaries, mind body spirit connection and the true empowerment of shaping my own life were the universal sign posts leading me back.
As I continue to follow my Soul Song, my life responds and mirrors back to me the beauty and love that has always been in the world, when I hold the willingness to see with clear eyes.
The following quote continues to inspire my adventuresome life.
” The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation but the light would have you soar like the eagle of its sacred vision.” Cohen~
” The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation but the light would have you soar like the eagle of its sacred vision.” Cohen~
And the playful part of me just HAD TO TRY the ‘take your own picture in the mirror’ trick I have watched children do for years. I am so glad I had the sense of fun to do this; however, I see that I have photos in TWO places and I can’t seem to delete one of them.
Guess My Inner Child Really Wanted To Play
Guess My Inner Child Really Wanted To Play
- HAVING FUN
