October 2022

Brene’ Brown says, “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”

Compassion is a relationship between equals. 

We are not here to fix one another. If every reaction we have is based on our own life experiences and those tapes, healed and unhealed, that play in the back of our minds as a frame of reference for each new experience we have, then no one other than ourselves could “fix us.” I would go a step further and claim, we are not broken. We have forgotten who we are. We have allowed LIFE to get in the way, the challenges, and our reactions to them. We have stopped returning to Center to listen to our Inner Guidance. Instead, we have allowed the world view to dictate how we are supposed to react, not even how we are supposed to feel because so many of us shut down “feeling” a long time ago. We were hurt. We learned how to build emotional walls. We learned how to protect ourselves, or at the very least, not allow the full armory of outsiders to penetrate our soft, tender, vulnerable under-bellies. Are we building our emotional muscles up or tearing them down? Are we building our spiritual muscles up or tearing them down?

It is said that God does not give us more than we can handle. 

Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much, they will demand more. Luke 12:48

It may feel like a heavy load, our shoulders are over-burdened and yet, we have signed up for this ebb and flow, for this energetic cycle that we call our lifetime, for this human experience we are having as spiritual beings. We must not forget that we are Spirit-filled Beings and return to center for our guidance. 

We know. When we let go of all outer circumstances and enter the Stillness, just you and your connection to the Universal Source, you know.

It sometimes comes as a whisper. It sometimes comes as an occurrence. It sometimes appears as something you witness and are not directly involved in. It sometimes comes as a dream. 

It is up to you to provide the space in which it can enter your consciousness. Strengthen your spiritual muscles. Practice times of silence. Practice times of no outside communication. Put down the cell phone. Turn off the T.V. Disconnect from all media platforms. Sip your tea. Have a coffee. Be still. B-r-e-a-t-h-e.

Then let go of the physical. Let form be resistance-less. Feel your mind and body commune with the unseen, the force behind all forces. Let images form in your mind’s imagination and let them go. Do not hold onto them. Enter that chasm that is only permitted for you. Be still. B-r-e-a-t-h-e. Allow. Reconnect to your true Divine Nature. 

Do not rush the process. If time were eternal, you would have no place to be. Just in the present moment. B-r-e-a-t-h-e. Allow whatever wants to come through, to come through. No agenda. Not today. Just be in the presence of Spirit, yours and the Eternal. 

Rest. Relax. In and through you, God’s got this, and you are a part of it ALL. Allow yourself to travel through the far reaches of the galaxy and back again. Allow your sight to be restored. Allow your knowledge to be returned. Allow that Spirit within you to connect to all there is, the seen and the unseen. Stay in this state until you feel complete.

Return to center. Awaken. Refreshed. Renewed. Purpose-filled. 

How do I know when I am in the Universal Flow? My path aligns with ease and grace. I don’t have to “force” something to happen. There is an Inner Knowing that what is mine to do is already in formation, the worldly details are in process. There is no fear. There is no objection – well, that part is not entirely true. I have been Internally Guided to make sacrifices I did not think I was prepared to make. And when I entered that subsurface of fear, I was assured that what I clung to was only temporary in the Big Picture. It was ok to let go. In my human form, there was resistance. I liked what I had created. And again, that Inner Voice said, “There is so much more. Come. See what I have waiting for you.”

You and I both know it is not material things. It is that opportunity for Soul Growth. It is that Knowing Beyond All Things – That which is Good and Right. Not right vs wrong but that which is right and ripe for growth. 

It is that planted seed that is now breaking through limited-thinking ground and expanding into the Light. 

For truly, I say to you, if you have faith the grain of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move hence to yonder place,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20

We are the healer and the wounded. How would it feel to know compassion for yourself? How courageous would we have to be to sit in the discomfort and just be fully present, not try to fix whatever is ahead of us, but to sit and listen to that small, still voice inside? 

Say not, “I have found the truth; but rather, “I have found a truth.” 

Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

                         Khahlil Gibran