The silence extended out into the night.  Not an uncomfortable silence, rather, a soothing silence of acceptance and belonging.
Eventually she felt the time had come to share her newest insight which had been germinating for a long time. Something she'd mentioned to others in passing.  Something she'd been ruminating over for ages. She smiled, contentedly.  "You know what I'm about to share, don't you?"
"I do." S-H-E smiled in return, with great love and joy.  "You did well to sit with it until you felt comfortable with the concept.  Bigger issues need an extended gestation period in order to feel into them effectively."
"It's difficult to know just how to express what I feel, so I'll dive right in.  It's all about my current realization regarding enlightenment and ascension.  And I've given it a lot of time to think it through and especially feel into it, due to it being rather controversial.  I truly have been feeling and getting a sense that even our fixation on reaching enlightenment and ascension has become another crutch and 3rd dimensional goal driven yearning which, rather than taking us closer to our authentic selves and Source connection is actually steering us away."  She stated, grateful to finally be able to voice her feelings in a way that felt right.
In an outpouring of deep affection, S-H-E answered.  "I understand your reluctance to voice this, as not so long ago you too, were drawn into the old beliefs around this topic.  It takes great courage to let go of beliefs and be open to new."
"Thank you." She continued.  "It just seems that striving to reach either or both of these states is a contradiction.  For me enlightenment and ascension are both pure states of expression of the Soul.  However, I truly feel that there is no way we can reach either through a class or workshop, a book or even a healing session.  Rather I feel both are states the Soul returns to when all aspects of itself, on all dimensional levels are fully aligned to it's true Essence.  I'm actually still finding it difficult to put all this in words.  It's actually more a feeling, which our current language doesn't quite have the right words through which to express it."
S-H-E remained quiet, allowing her time and space for her feelings and thoughts to settle down again.  And after another long pause, S-H-E encouraged her to continue. "You're expressing it just fine. Please go ahead in your own pace."
"I feel we need to let go of all these 'fancy' concepts that some even carry around as a badge of honour.  It's time to just be real.  Real in every sense of the word.  To own, accept and face our lives.  To live in a way in which ascension and enlightenment is simply a 'side effect' of our existence rather than a goal to achieve.  I feel too that these terms have also become 'marketing tools', as do so many esoteric concepts and beliefs.  The true meaning of them being lost in a chase for something we don't even understand and often leave to others interpretations of them to guide us along.  Our spirituality has become commercial and goal orientated.  And we're all allowing ourselves to be drawn into it in this way.  It's also very easy to be duped into following a trend, because we are all desperately searching for something - for joy, happiness, peace, purpose, love."
"This is a biggie for you, dear soul.  I know you've been anguishing over this for a long time."
"Yes, I have." She answered.  "I also get a sense that these states are not states that are attained in a physical reality.  Ultimately, the physical plane is to experience the physical aspects of life through higher and higher states of spiritual consciousness.
We say we're conscious, but we're not.  We have to return to basics.  To bring consciousness into even the smallest most insignificant aspect of our lives."
"This is the direction that is needed for humanity to move forwards. " S-H-E said quietly. "Existence on the physical plane has a tendency to hook one in to the consumer, goal driven society that has evolved here.  You are right, it is time to change, to become real, to unplug from this current way of life."
"We need to simplify and personalise our own spirituality.  We need to share with and guide others in new ways, ways that are not keeping us all tied to this big hungry machine that has driven us all to the edge of the cliff of over-consumption, over-thinking, over-doing and over-production."  She continued passionately.  "And we need to let go of the spiritual indulgences and pretentiousness that has crept in to what should be a simple, sacred and selfless practice."
There was nothing more she could really say for the time being.  She knew that these concepts too would continue to evolve and gain clarity.  But for the time being, she'd expressed what she'd been guided to express and was ready to share it with others.
 
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My 'Conversations with S-H-E' take mostly two specific forms.  A dialogue between the two of us or a very specific 'channeled' message.  The following post is the latter:

Great shifts are happening on the micro and macro level; on the physical and metaphysical level this year.  Don't be alarmed if you feel uncomfortable, confused or lost at times. Your feeling of connection may at one moment feel strong, the next, completely missing. But this sense of being lost or disconnected is a temporary state. It's the flux state of change. A new perspective is manifesting itself for each of us on an individual level as well as on a collective level.  However the effects and direction of these changes are taking some time to become clearly visible.  We're in the 'fog' of change and will continue to feel as if we are adrift in unchartered waters at times.  Don't try to cling on to anything specific, simply allow each moment to show itself as it needs to.  You may experience an 'aha' moment but don't try to attach to it, simply allow it to evolve and take form in its own time and way. See it, then let it go. It will return as, when and how it needs to.  We've been conditioned to grab an idea and forge straight ahead with it.  This is not how things are happening for many now. An incubation period is required to allow that which is to be made manifest to fully align to the new energetics of our time. Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!  Forcing or over thinking it simply pushes that which we are seeking to attain further away.  In the obscurity of the 'fog' simply allow the simplicity and ease of flow to direct your actions or inactions. Intersperse each day with moments of quiet being. Journal! Journal! Journal! Insights, visions and intuition will be at a high.  Allow yourself to drift on the current of change - receptive to the wisdom flowing through you. You will know just when the moment of clarity occurs.  Though great patience is required until then.
There is no longer a 'one-size-fits-all'.  In fact there never has been.  Each of us is 'tuning in' to a slightly different dimensional frequency. Your soul aspect has a unique energy signature.  As you align more fully to this energy signature, you are also attracting around you an energy field that is more resonant to this.  This is why people, places and/or situations will no longer 'feel' the way they did before.  Why it will seem to you that everything in your life is shifting. When you plug in to the realm of energy your life is changed in unexpected ways.  Things don't quite work the same as they used to, nor as you may expect them to. It'll almost seem as if the laws of physics have changed but this is not the case.  What is actually happening is you are seeing the true manner of the functioning of the Universe.  For instance, if you try to grab hold of something in this new energy, what you reach for could seem to be moving further away from you each time you reach for it.  This is because when you reach out you are creating a field of pressure ahead of you which energetically translates to resistance. However, if instead, you willingly open yourself to that which you seek, in a receptive way, then your energetic frequency will invite that which you require towards you and the Universe will respond in a reciprocal manner.
The 'usual way' of going about things is no longer going to work. Trust that during this transition you will be shown the way. Just don't try to force it.  For in so doing, you will be pushing it away.  Sit with it and allow it to settle and integrate as, how and when it needs to.  For those who constantly resist change, things are going to feel extremely uncomfortable.  For as the new energies are anchoring themselves into our physical reality, they will be amplifying whatever energies one is clinging on to.  Heavy and dense or light and uplifting - all is being amplified!  The Universe is no longer whispering to us, it is shouting, loud and clear.  Change or struggle.  It's up to each of us to choose.  And whatever choice anyone makes, remember, it's their choice.  And what about 'tools' for this time to assist us through these changes?  Those are simple - meditation or quiet introspective time combined with time connecting to Nature, God, Source, guides, ancestors or simply Love.  Just being and feeling.  Just allowing and receiving.  Just being grateful!
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"This letting go of things keeps on showing up." She said smiling acceptingly.  "We really are beings of 'hanging on' to things, aren't we.'
"Yes.  But it's all part of the learning." S-H-E smiled kindly.  "Letting go, creates space in one's life.  But that space can be a double-edged sword.  The space created by letting go can sometimes be too much and one's mind simply re-attaches to the thing you let go of in order to fill the void letting go created."
"No wonder it can be so difficult." She replied.  "And not surprising then that when we think we've let go, that very same thing crops up again.  So how does one overcome that 'void?"
"An effective way is to fill, at least part of that void, with something new."  S-H-E answered. "It's the same as when one gives up a bad habit.  It's easier when one replaces the bad habit with a good habit.  So too will replacing the thing you let go of with something motivating, new and uplifting.  When you let go of one thing, you are broadcasting to the Universe that you are open and receptive to something new.  Stating and aligning to that fact is a key to opening to the new.  However, if you do not at least set an intention of receiving that which is new and more beneficially aligned to your Soul path, that which you let go of will pop back up and fill the gap instead."
"But we don't always know what that new thing or direction is." She said.
"True." S-H-E replied. "But even a simple statement of intent can make the difference.  Giving your mind something new to grab onto to replace that which you let go of. For example, say you're letting go of a bad relationship or an old wounding around self-worth.  Your statement of intent could be 'I am now open and receptive of new, uplifting, mutually beneficial relationships' or 'What I have to offer the world is of importance and I willingly accept new challenges and ways of expressing my confident, unique self.'  You live in a realm of duality and opposites.  So even simply being open to the opposite of what you're letting go of will help. This allows for space for something new to still flow into your life, but gives your mind a point of focus from which new expression and experience can evolve."
"That makes so much sense." She said. "We do that with the obvious bad habits but don't always consider doing that for all the other baggage we've attached to."
"That's quite true." S-H-E replied. "At the end of the day, all baggage is merely a different form of 'bad habits' that one has attached to."
"They say that bad habits or behaviours take on average 66 days to change." She observed.  "We need to be more patient enough with ourselves, don't we."
"Yes, you do." S-H-E answered with a gently loving smile.
 
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'Two weeks into 2020 and I feel as if I've been put through the ringer." She exclaimed.
"It's to be expected dear one." S-H-E replied with great tenderness. "A lot of expectation, anxiety and pressure is created by humans around the beginning of a new year.  All this intense focus, especially with traumatic happenings around the world creates an energetic field which, whether you are aware of or not, can really hammer the individual human energy field.  And each person, depending on what they are personally going through, will feel this energy 'hit' in subtly different ways.  Personal triggers and woundings being re-opened by it."
"Thankfully, I am starting to feel stronger." She replied.  "But it can be quite unnerving at the time."
"Life is all about tides and currents within cycles - forwards and backwards, round and round.  Experiencing constantly, from different states of being and awareness.  The way up a mountain is never straight.  It consists of winding paths, rocky outcrops, resting, refuelling places and changes in the weather.  At times a path will lead you down again in order to traverse a hurdle or blockage.  At other times the view of where you started may seem clear and then not visible at all.  So too the view of the top, the destination - one minute visible, the next not.  But when you reach the top, realize that it's not being at the top that makes you feel euphoric, or gives you a sense of accomplishment and new found courage, although it may seem this way.  It is actually the achievement of the journey up, the climb, which makes you feel like this.  The top only gives you a new view - a view of what you have just accomplished and the knowing that you can accomplish anything you set your heart and mind on.  The view is the external, visual reward of the inner knowing and sense of accomplishment that you feel.  Had you landed on the top with the aid of a helicopter, the view would be as striking, but that inner feeling of having made it up the mountain yourself would be missing.  That's what the experience of life is about.  The doing and the being, the challenges and the victories - all experienced in your own unique way." S-H-E said.
"When did you start to feel stronger?" S-H-E continued.
"After I'd given myself time to rest and re-centre myself.  Also after gentle and compassionate inner reflection." She replied.
"Wonderful!" S-H-E answered, "Recognizing the need to just Be, be with Self, is invaluable.  I know I repeat this often.  But it is important.  Doing is necessary, but Being is vital!  The mountain of life is huge and it'll require many stops and starts en-route in order for you to rest your body and catch your breath in order to take another step forward.  Sometimes it's simply about making a start; other times merely taking two steps more than you did yesterday is enough.  The secret is to pace yourself according to your abilities in each moment.  And some days you'll feel strong, yet others exhausted, but that is simply the nature of the 'climb'."
 
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'My, but we really do become attached to our beliefs.' She exclaimed in amazement. 'They seem to hide behind each other.  Not wanting to be discovered, just in case we evict them.  Or do I beliefs become attached to us?'
S-H-E nodded her head kindly, in heartfelt knowing. 'It can seem that way.  When we attach to a belief we give it energy, power and then that energy attaches to us.  So, yes it works both ways.  This is why it can seem almost impossible to release certain very strongly ingrained beliefs.  The smaller 'I' really can struggle with letting go of its attachments.  Even when it hears the encouraging voice of the larger 'I AM'.  But the years and lifetimes of conditioning take immense patience and courage to relinquish.  And it can be a painful experience at times. For it's a form of necessary self-destruction through transformation.  And it can be especially challenging if one finally lets go only to discover another layer buried deeper beneath.  It's at these times that trust, trust in the Self and commitment play enormous roles.  And it's ok, in fact vital, to take a rest and assimilate the transformation at each stage or you will wear yourself out.  Total destruction happens when the work on self is so incessant that the spirit eventually withers.  This is not the aim.  The aim is metamorphic transformation through dissolving (deep inner action); renewing (instilling new life affirming beliefs); and re-emerging (gracefully and confidently expressing your true essence, truth and light).'
'I've seen that by listening to the voice of the 'I AM', yet discerning the story and then the lesson within the voice of the 'I', I can find encouragement from within to choose a new way.  Inspired by the strides I've made at each step, renews my sense of determination.  Once I've tasted the freedom of the 'I AM', I am ready for even more.'
S-H-E beams in joyful love, knowing that what is unfolding is deep nourishment for her too.  'I love you', she says quietly.
'I feel it.' She smiles with tears in her eyes. 'I love you too.'
 
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'Change is so often a difficult choice for people.' She commented. 'But refusing to change is still a choice, not so?'
'Yes, in the broader sense of the word, it is still a choice.' S-H-E agreed. 'But refusal is also a prison; a prison that through fear of change people place themselves in.  There are very subtle differences at play here.  Choice, in my understanding, presents one with opportunities.  However, refusal closes the door to opportunities, and hence to choice.'
'So, refusing to look at one's choices; refusing to change actually blocks opportunity.' She responded.
'It does.'  S-H-E stated.  'For instance, if one is in a job or relationship that makes one unhappy, refusing to make a change imprisons one in that situation.  Offering no obvious way out, hence no choice.  However, if one chooses to stay for the time being, with the commitment to explore other alternatives at the same time - one then opens up opportunities for change.  This then is a choice as it offers a way out.'
'I see what you mean.' She replied.
'Similarly, when one allows ones responsibilities to become a ball and chain, one closes the door on ones life, blocking opportunities.  And ironically, often what's actually playing out is a lack of responsibility.' S-H-E continued.  'In other words, by using ones supposed responsibilities as an excuse for not changing, one is in fact avoiding taking responsibility for ones own life.  The wounding is around responsibility and it is then playing itself out in distortions of true responsibility.  For only when one takes full responsibility for ones own life, is it possible to act in a responsible manner to others.'
'That makes so much sense.' She answered. 'Refusing to change when things are not beneficial to the self also blocks one to ones potential.'
'Exactly! S-H-E smiled.  'Everyone has limitless potential.  But if one chooses to stay stuck in a limiting 'place' through fear of change, one will never realize ones true abilities, nor experience the fullness of life.'
'Why are humans so fearful of change?' she asked.
'It's your programming.' S-H-E answered with kindness. 'The fight or flight response is over-active in your society today.  For you see your world as a hostile place.  Yet one is constantly attempting to suppress ones fears.  And the more one suppresses them, the stronger they become.  Facing a fear is the only way of conquering it.'
'I've noticed that in my own life.' She admitted.  'When I finally face something I've been fearful of and have resisted until that moment, it seems to lose it's power.  I am then often astounded at how quickly the fear dissipates.'
'Precisely.' S-H-E added. 'Much of the fear is perceived fear.  A mind-based construct one has created around the issue.  When one faces it - truly faces it - those constructs fall away and one is then left with only the core, which in itself is not as great a hurdle as the mind seduced you into believing.'
'Change is freeing - liberating!' She stated confidently.
'It most definitely is.' S-H-E answered encouragingly. 'It is the key to an extraordinary life!'
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"At times, especially over the past month, it's felt as if the flow has become a turbulent series of rapids." She exclaimed.
"That is so." S-H-E said with great compassion. "Many are feeling this in varying degrees and on various levels.  These are times of immense change, and immense change often expresses itself in turbulent ways.  As the law of perpetual transmutation of energy states, everything is in a state of constant flux.  These changes exist on all levels, some seen, some unseen.  What may seem like 'negative' experiences on the physical level is often beneficial on another level."
"I do feel as if it's all part of the healing process, but it's really challenging at times."  She replied.
"Let go of the need for outcome."  S-H-E suggested lovingly.  Knowing the energy of these changing times can be quite harsh on the sensitive human energy field.  "Releasing, integrating and healing does not have a finite end.  As you go deeper into the process, the intensity will increase.  As you commit to each level of processing and healing and you align more to the energies coming through, you're going to need time to acclimatize.  Think of the water flowing in a river.  You may enter the flow at a calm, shallow spot.  There may be gentle curves, clear expanses and the occasional sand bank.  The going is fairly easy.  But further along the river are rapids and eventually a waterfall.  As you get closer to the rapids, the flow of the water speeds up.  In the rapids you may find areas where you have chosen the right passage and although it's intense and fast, you flow through with relative grace.  However, you may at times simply be tossed and turned through a really rocky section, surfacing on the other side with a few bumps and bruises. Unsure of how you got through or where you are.  Still, the closer you get to the waterfall, the faster everything happens.  You begin to feel out of control.  But there is no way of controlling things, for you've passed the point of no return.  You reach the waterfall and all you can do is trust.  Trust that your landing will be in a calm, peaceful pool at the base of the waterfall.  And as you tumble over the edge, you surrender.  And in that surrendering, you become someone bigger, braver, newer!  And the person who finally splashes into the deep, cool, peaceful pool at the base of the waterfall is not the same person who stepped into the quiet stream at the start of the journey."
"That truly is how it feels at times." She replied with some relief.  "Though I don't think I've reached the next waterfall yet.  That analogy really helps put things in perspective."
"In life, there are many rapids and waterfalls, as are there many quiet, meandering streams."  S-H-E said.  "If you look back at your life, you may just recall some of them.  But that is the experience you call life.  You will traverse many rivers, each offering a gift of healing, learning and growing - evolving. When things get really tough, it's ok to swim to the bank of the river, or a rock and take a short time out to catch your breath.  But you will need to return to the river and continue with it's course downstream.  For trying to swim upstream again will get you nowhere."
"Thank you." She said quietly.  "I think I'll just sit on the grassy bank for a while and catch my breath."
"You do that dear soul." S-H-E replied lovingly.  "I am here with you, now and always."
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'There is so much information out there, in this, the digital age.' she observed. 'It can be confusing to determine within it all, what aligns to each of our own personal paths. And as more and more people share their experiences and journeys, it can become very easy to be more overcritical of oneself. Especially if one perceives other peoples journeys as having 'progressed more' than one's own.'
'That is definitely the case.' S-H-E agreed. 'But there is a way of turning the inner critic into something more beneficial. I know you are discovering this way and implementing it more.'
'It's all about embodiment. Isn't it?' she answered.
'Yes.' S-H-E continued. 'Your body can be used as a finely tuned gauge when you are more fully tuned in to it and trust it. The inner critic becomes the outer critic if not attended to. But even then, the outer critic isn't necessarily all that bad if one brings awareness to it. The key is to bring awareness to the criticism through sensing it in the body when it happens; recognize how it makes you feel; accept and acknowledge the ways it's inhibited your true expression of self through feeling these ways in the body; and then begin to re-train it into accepting a new belief that is more in alignment with your true essence until this new belief is felt within the body. Old non-beneficial beliefs are often born of fear. And when one senses even a small energy of fear within a belief, one knows that it is not in alignment with your Soul essence.'
'I've definitely found this with certain aspects of self.' She replied. 'The inner critic flows out into the world and becomes the outer critic of what one sees and experiences. When I am aware of this, I bring that which I am criticizing back into self and then look at aspects of the self that bring about those criticisms. For instance. I'm really hard on myself when it comes to my skills as an artist. Always believing that I'm not good enough yet. When I see myself beginning to criticize others in the same way I look back into myself and try to see where those feelings for self arose from. I've had many teachers in the past whose teaching methods used negative criticism in order to try to get their students to do better. Perhaps some of that rubbed off the wrong way. In other ways I believed that being abandoned at birth also made me feel that I wasn't good enough. Even times when I've looked back on a situation and criticized myself for not being loving enough, patient enough, or whatever it might be - through the inner work I understand that those feelings are at times lacking for self. I then look at ways to adjust those inner beliefs so that I may show more love or patience to myself in order to express it to others.'
'And what have you found?' S-H-E asked with great compassion.
'That it's all merely a strong belief I've attached to, which can be believed 'real' or 'false' - experienced or simply imagined. Either way it's perceived as true.' She continued. 'When I see it as that, I then begin to build and strengthen the opposite belief in myself. Though first I draw out all the ways that that particular belief has played out in my life - without criticism, only with love and compassion. Then I begin to re-program it. Usually through the same voice that is the critic - my inner voice. I coach it to say that I am good enough in this moment - in every moment until I can feel it in my body. Sometimes it takes longer than other times. It often needs days, even weeks of repeating this exercise before I truly feel it in my body. Until I em-body it fully!! When I can feel it, then I can believe it.'
'The em-bodiment of a belief is what anchors it into your energy field.' S-H-E replied. 'Whether it is a thought, a belief or an emotion, when we feel it strongly rooted within our body, that physical feeling evolves into knowing and then it becomes your reality.'
'It's becoming so clear to me, to see how the inner reality becomes our outer reality.' She replied. 'But it does require great awareness, patience and self love to shift the non-beneficial inner beliefs in order to alter our outer reality. The simplicity of it is incredible - embody self love and you will be able to express love to others in the world; embody confidence and that confidence will touch others, inviting them to express confidence within themselves too.'
'It is simple, yet the complexity of it must not be underestimated.' S-H-E answered with gentleness. 'It is the nature of the physical world. That which one em-bodies is that which one experiences. And through each experience, the em-bodiment of it is anchored deeper still within your entire being. Therefore, the importance of inner work cannot be underestimated.'
'It's a constant re-checking in.' She replied. 'For it is so easy to em-body non-beneficial beliefs without being aware of it at the time.'
'It is.' S-H-E agreed. 'But things are changing and the more aware one is of these inner mechanisms and the more one practices the inner work, the easier it becomes to re-adjust before they become entrenched within the physical and energetic being.'
'The inner work brings us closer to our Soul consciousness too, doesn't it.' She answered with joy.
'It most definitely does.' S-H-E smiled lovingly.
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'We're doing too much when we're out in Nature, aren't we.' She exclaimed.
'You most definitely are.' S-H-E replied in agreement. 'Humans have become so Doing oriented, that most are unable to simply Be, to become fully present in Nature. Many feel they are connecting to Nature during their times of Doing in Nature, but in actual fact it is often a very tenuous, short-lived connection which can often be based on judging and intellectualizing the environment they're in. There is still a strong mental drive to know, understand and label things when people are out in Nature. And while this is fine in an academic situation, to fully connect to Nature on a metaphysical level one has to simply Be One with Nature! Be in a non-doing state of stillness. Not name, assess, analyze or understand; not do, think or expect. Simply see, feel and experience! Though action is also vital to reverse damage create by humans, even those involved in these necessary tasks in Nature also need to take time out to simply be still with the environments they are so diligently working with.'
'I noticed on a recent retreat.' she commented. 'Those who were the quietest and most present, made the deepest connections. Nature doesn't hurry - She takes the necessary time needed for everything. When we're hurrying or constantly doing in Nature, we are unable to connect to Her completely. We aren't able to flow with Nature.'
'Precisely.' S-H-E continued, 'To connect to Nature you have to connect in Her time, on Her terms. There is no other way. Nature's frequency is 'Being'. Humans cannot find resonance with this frequency when they are in the frequency of doing. One has to submit to the frequency of Being to align to Mother Nature. Be one with your Soul and you'll be one with Nature. A tree does not think about how it should be a tree, or what it is called or what it needs to do next. It is simply Being a tree.'
'I don't like the word 'mindful'. So I prefer to say we need to be 'consciously open' when we're in Nature.' She stated. 'By this I mean that we need to have no preconceived ideas, expectations or beliefs, other than to open ourselves up to fully integrate our energy, our essence to that of Nature's.'
'That is the way.' S-H-E agreed. 'It is humans who have to return to Nature, not Nature return to humans. For She has never left you, it is you who have left Her. You have to return home to her in order to find peace, harmony, balance and love and in so doing find the healing you all seek.'
'Every step we take in re-awakening this connection to ourselves and in assisting others to do the same, opens us to the beauty and wonder within Nature and within ourselves!' she exclaimed eagerly. "I've experienced this and had further glimpses of this and it's exhilarating!'
'Yes!' S-H-E replied joyfully. 'You cannot begin to understand the beauty and wonders awaiting you! For through this deep connection, the full, true experience of life in all it's abundance and miracles awaits you! When you are fully connected to Nature, you are fully connected to Life!'
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'Do you think I'm being insensitive?' she ask during one of their conversations.
'What do you feel?' S-H-E replied.
'I think some people might perceive it as insensitivity.' She continued. 'But it really isn't. If I know or have heard someone's story and they keep repeating it, to me, to others, I can actually see the energy loop they're tying themselves up in. It becomes a persona they take on. Each time it becomes more tightly bound, strangling their energy field.'
'Many can't see or sense this. If they could they wouldn't do this.' S-H-E stated with compassion. 'People are told they need to talk about their problems. And there is a time and place for that. But there is a fine line between talking about them to accept and recognize in order to release, versus reattaching and reinforcing the story deeper into your energy field. What would you feel is a more helpful approach?'
'I want to find, to get to know the person beyond the story.' she said. 'The story is not them! Not who they truly are. The story hides their true selves. We've become so engulfed in our stories that we loose sight of who we really are. When we can see ourselves and others past those stories, we find the key to releasing all that masks that deeper Self. I truly believe if we can guide each other to catch even a small glimpse of that true Self, we'll begin to uncover our own answers to self-healing.'
'That is a far more beneficial approach.' S-H-E smiled. 'For it is a persons deeper, true Self who is the catalyst to healing, to growth and to awakening. Not the healer or 'guru'. A true 'healer' simply awakens one to one's own inner medicine man/woman. Show a person even just a fraction of their true selves and that Self will assist in bringing about great transformation and rebirth within the individual.'
'All we need really is within!' She commented.
'It is,' S-H-E replied, 'and so much more!'
- Kim Dreyer
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