Nature my teacher

Sounds of Waves

kiss the beach

Murmur of exhalation

as our Beloved breathes

Particles gather together

Welled up by love

To make a wave

On a beach far away

Nothing is ever separate

Not seemingly so isolate

In love we eternally fornicate

A copulate to procreate

Breast milk before a babe

Finances before deed

To do before bloom

Is to plant a little seed

Nature my teacher

revealing my essence

allows me to see

Im surrounded by blessings

Abiding In Love With Myself

Had to share. A wonderful Mantra for these times. Thank you Dr. Golden!

"From this moment forward with all the power of my being, I choose to remember the truth about myself. I refuse to indulge in the lies of criticism, inadequacy, guilt, shame, and judgment that others have generated and that I HAVE MADE UP IN MY OWN MIND. I refuse to indulge in that which is not eternally true about me. Today I make the decision to abide in the love that lives in my heart so that it is possible for me to experience true love for myself and all humanity."

Dr. Golden

The new

We all talk about doing it in a “new way" or inviting in "the new” but what does this all mean and is it even possible or are we patterned conditioned beings that just do things in a habitual way? How important is it really to venture out of our comfort zone? I wondered what things are waiting right under my nose for me to potentially discover, so I take the challenge and write to answer this on a full moon in Virgo. This is a day of shedding the old skin to make way for the new and I set out on a mission to live a day in a new way.

I began a lemon juice/cayenne pepper/maple syrup cleanse yesterday morning in preparation for detoxification. Never mind that I ate pizza with my boys and followed up with cookies my mother had baked earlier in the day. What was I thinking? So back on it this morning of new beginnings, attempting to spend the whole day doing new things, cleansing my body, and meeting new people.

I did begin the cleanse again this morning as planned proving that my intentions are good. I didn’t have my usual cup of coffee but instead made my lemonade and took a walk early in the day. I then decided to catch the bus and head downtown to find some new things. I instantly gravitated towards a coffee shop I have been to before in the cozy corner I have sat in before but instead I ordered tea and a vegan power muffin that I know is not part of the cleanse but just sounds well, delicious, and I was hungry! Oops, once again I have slipped into patterns but I can be proud that I made new decisions in the midst of it all and that was to have tea instead of the quad shot caramel mocha and non-vegan raspberry scone I so desperately wanted to have. And well, its nice, light and I didn’t feel anxious or jumpy afterwards which is lovely.

So now I am onto a vintage shop that I have never been to and I’m going to sit with a meditation group I have never gathered with and maybe some other wonderful new thing/place/person will appear before me along my journey. I open myself up to such an experience.

The journey is the destination and it can be whatever we choose. In each moment we get to choose to try things in new ways or in the same patterned way we have done them before. I think the important thing is simply to enjoy it. At times, invite in the new, at others, let the nostalgia of the old rock you to bliss but it seems today in the balance of doing both I personally have found the most joy as of yet.  I invite you to find new experiences by dedicating a day, a week or month to trying something very new to you or to simply enjoy the same choices with a renewed curiosity.

Many blessings to you on your journey and discovering new experiences!

Namaste!

Free to Be

I can handle all consequences

Ive got to know the Truth

Ive got to follow my senses

I need only a little proof

Suffer only in desire

Devoid of the fire

Ambiguity be gone

Off with the head of a liar

I fall into the dark

In order to find the light

I bathe in a sea of mystery

To find all the pieces of me

Blend experience with feeling

Ignore mind’s need to be heard

Wisdom my best friend

Im guided at every turn

What called my name

Into the nothingness I see

A paradox of space

I am free to be

L.O.V.E

I try to write about love and I am left render less as it can not be captured. Can't be described. My fingers cant move fast enough to type it. The pen stops working and the pencil breaks each time I attempt to capture the timeless. I am left with only a feeling. Freedom. Yes. Peace. Definitely. Joy. Certainly. And yet I can’t define it, identify it or place it in a display to be examined. It is beyond the current paradigm, can be tasted in silence, but one must outgrow this paradigm in order to truly experience it of that I am assured.

It can’t be said that it will be easy to change everything you thought you knew about how things are. Which is why most choose to stagnate over growing. Choose to embrace what we can see with the eye over our intuition because it has a foundation. It takes work to walk away from your beliefs and conditioning. It means sacrificing comfort and security. It goes against our deeply ingrained instincts of survival and yet there it is, something more, and we can feel it.

There is an understanding that there must more to all of this than what meets the eye. We dream at night, experience déjà vu and have “feelings” about someone right before they call us. We can feel the wind on our face even though it is invisible. There is so much about the Universe that we don’t understand and yet we are here, living in the perfect environment for life to be sustained. A miracle in itself.

I almost missed it. I have been allowing reality to take precedence over my own true nature. I have been consumed with consumerism and lost in noise but somehow I still knew it wasn’t the whole picture. I needed to know the Truth. When I slowed down from the go go, do do energy field of our current model, to a much calmer, poised pace I could taste it. The more I can taste it the more faith I have in it. The more faith I have in it, the more Love can move through and expand.

I love the sound of crackling in my head, like rice crispies meeting milk, as I am being stretched and expanded in awareness. I can feel God reaching his hands through me and gently pushing me out of limited thinking. I can hear the roar, the fierce harmony playing as background sound growing louder. I surrender over and over again to this presence. A continuous flow of joy guiding each movement.

This is love. An experience. A verb. A way of living. A reason to celebrate. When I finally saw this I knew I could confidently take my hands off of the steering wheel, seeing clearly that I was never driving anyways and get the heck out of it's way. Love is fierce and it is what you are and have always been! This is all we need!

May you love more in 2013!! Many blessings to you and yours!

Namaste

A Rebel Indeed

A rebel

With an important cause

Rising up standing up

Against unjust laws

That favor those with money

Who control it and think its funny

To take away our homes

Because they like playing with phunny money

Greedy, snake like back stabbers

Fake it til they make it; getting farther

Than a hard working single mother

Who only wants to raise her own daughter

Living addicted to fear

Instead of looking at the man in the mirror

Watching the tv intently as they

Raise the level of terror

The news is how they loop you

Raise your anxiety

Fool you; dupe you

A dumbed down society

God lovers gotta wonder

What's in store for them

When they don’t help another

Looking down on fellow men

Treat them instead as brothers

Like Jesus provide for others

Share the deposits made

In illegal accounts over foreign waters

Remember were in it together

There is no way it can get better

Until we learn to love Truth and peace

Only then, on a new life will we take lease

Moving Forward

Moving forward swiftly

Like a river over boulders

Gently smoothing the terrain as I go

Along the way

To play makes everything ok

To swim, to swing;

makes for a fantastic day

To frolic in frenzy

Allows my friends to see

Delight in my eyes

So full of surprise

To move in flow as you go

Getting out of the way

Letting go. Surrender.

Is the order of the day.

Free falling with no clinging

Can make ones head spin

But then again at the end

This is what it means to live