A word that I love is RESONANCE. Its dictionary definition is:
(i) The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating. (ii) The ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions. (iii) Sound produced by a body vibrating in sympathy with a neighbouring source of sound Just those few lines have an immense teaching in them, layers of dreaming that we can each learn from. It makes me ask are we deep, full and reverberating? If not, it’d be a grand time to review our jewels, a grand time to renew our heart connections and bondings and a grand time to rest in the stillness of Being. It also makes me ask what do we evoke in each other? Is it pettiness or love? Syntropy or entropy? And what is my vibration and how does it impact on yours? Resonance is more than a word; it is a natural law, determining precisely WHAT IS attracted based on the resonance or the frequency of energy that is chosen by you through your emotional response system. I came across this on the net: “The simplest way to put it would be to say that The Law of Resonance is the law that assures that all energy continuously vibrates at a given frequency and depending on the vibratory output of this emitted frequency is what the Law of Attraction uses to determine what additional energies are attracted to one another which join together, resulting in a transmutation of the energy from the unseen or spiritual realm, producing outcomes in physical form. To provide more clarity, the Law of Attraction will attract to you every event, condition and circumstance experienced in your life which is determined by the vibrational resonance created based on how you perceive what's going on around you.” So my invitation to you is to be incredibly clear and totally focussed on what it is you are resonating with. Let us be deep and full Rich melodic sounds Reverberating Into a symphony of Love For the GrandMother And all of Her worlds Evoking all that is needed To sustain Her through This quantum leap Let us be deep and full Where Hearts and Dreams Fill the Holy Grail With resonance Echoing, echoing, echoing For the Ancients For the Children For each other. Blessed Be I've been rereading Kahlil Gibran's amazing book The Prophet again of late and wanted to share here the teachings he brought about self-knowledge: that quest we are all on!
1: Accept where you are now
We can spend so much time beating ourselves up for whatever state we are in physically, emotionally or spiritually that we've actually got no energy to even take the first step! This is such an entropic cycle, one that I'm sure has been instilled in us by the shadow side of religion. In my experience, the first step to healing is compassion for self - and accepting completely where you are now. This can then be your starting point. 2: Think about where you'd like to be It's such a great thing to daydream, even though we're pushed to perform, produce, focus, get results etc etc. Just taking some time to muse about where you'd like to be, think about what is needing to shift or change to be more healthy, more happy or more in harmony with your life, can be a big first step on the road to health and wellbeing. 3: Make one small change We humans have a tendency to get overwhelmed by change. We can feel that the journey is way too long or too arduous so we don't even start it. One of my key mottos in life is KEEP IT SIMPLE. I believe that at the source, most things are simple; we just make them complicated to fit the worldview that we have built up over our lives. So just take one small step - it might be cutting out gluten or introducing a walk once a week or treating yourself to a sauna or trying a quiet meditation. 4: Congratulate yourself and measure the impact It's good to take a step back after your one small change and see its impact. We like to achieve things and measuring our progress is a great motivator. So find some way to congratulate yourself and measure the impact of your change (you might write emotions down or have a scale of 1-10 or tell a friend - find what works for you). 5: Make another small change You can see where this is going! Its good to find your own pace and your own rhythm. Taking control of your life is a very empowering thing and it doesn't have to be complicated. Its one small change after another... until at some stage you look back and see how far you have come! 6: Surround yourself with people and things that resonate with you We absorb so much of our surroundings and so much of the people we interact with. So if you surround yourself with negative people, you can see that you will likely be absorbing some of that yourself. Everything in our lives is important - home, hearth, family, friends, work, play - so part of the journey to health and wellbeing is to attract into our lives that which really resonates with our hearts. You might want to draw yourself with a circle around you on a piece of paper. Within the circle, you can write the things you are happy with in your life; and outside the circle you can write the things that you feel do not resonate with you that you wish to clear from your life. Although symbolic, this is a very powerful message to your subconscious about what you will and wont accept in your life. 7: Ask for help We all need help at some stage in our life and that is ok. Vulnerability is the key to deeper connection and understanding. We need to let go of the belief that needing help is a weakness. We are huge hearted relational beings and it is only in the reflection of another that we can see what is needed or what is going on. You might try good friends or even a therapist. There are many therapies available but what is important is the relationship and resonance you feel with the therapist. In my opinion, the modality of healing is not as important as the therapeutic relationship. 8: Keep accepting where you are Life is a journey. It always will be. So it is important to keep accepting who you are and where you are - and resting back into the trust that you are ever changing. Nothing stays static, no matter how hard we try to keep it so. 9: Make time for play Play is as important for adults I believe as it is for children. It brings us fresh energy to face a new day. Laughter heals. Joy lightens our step. So do something just for the hell of it. Often! 10: Share your journey And last but not least, talk about your journey on the road to health and wellbeing. It may help others to unfold and start their own journey and it will help you to know how far you have come. |
May you walk in Beauty
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