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In the northern hemisphere, sunset tonight ushers in the Celtic season of Samhain. (If you want to learn more about Celtic Spirituality and music, by the way, be sure to check out Celtic Soul Experience events coming up the week after Thanksgiving!) www.CelticSoulExperience.com
During this window between Samhain/All Hallow’s Eve and Christmas/Solstice/Midwinter, the veil between the [...]
What Does “Follow Your Bliss” Mean?
So, following your bliss means to do whatever, in this moment, brings you into alignment with your true nature. With your essential Divinity. With the God/dess that lives and moves and breathes and experiences its being-ness through YOU.
It does not mean distracting yourself from what feels uncomfortable.
It means being present and fully alive, even when that hurts. It means knowing yourself as the heroine or hero in a grand story-your life.
Dance While Your Corn Grows
Sometimes, there’s nothing you can “do.” Sometimes, “doing” is a form of resistance. In order to be in the flow of whatever you are growing, you need to learn to dance while the corn grows.
I’m getting ready for a huge, luscious harvest right now—one of the most joy-filled projects I’ve ever played with because it involves supporting the success of people who have been sources of inspiration, enlightenment, laughter, healing, creativity and fun for me. I’m still pinching myself that this dream is coming true (I’ll tell you all about it next week!)
As I wait for this particular harvest, which is going to happen November 28-December 3 of this year, there are lots of things for me to do (the energetic equivalent of watering and nurturing and tending). And yet, I know—I know I know I know—that the MOST important piece of this coming harvest is stepping into the energy of what I am creating right NOW.
When Happy Is How You Look…
Several years ago, when I visited western Ireland for the first time, something interesting happened. After a couple of days spent hiking in the limestone landscape of the Burren, visiting ancient sacred sites, staring at the ocean, peering over cliffs, immersing myself in poetry, music and the elements, I stopped caring how I looked.
I quit applying makeup.
I let my hair be wild.
At the same time, I was laughing more. Dancing. Reflecting. Tapping my toes along with traditional Irish music. Lying on the grass. Singing.
Near the end of the week, a couple of different people commented that I my looks had changed since I arrived.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“You look younger,” one replied.
“You seem freer and happier,” said another.
Step Back into the Magic of Your Life
The green hills, the crumbling ruins, the clean air on my face, the ocean, the dolmens, the rainbows, the laughter, the slowness, the music, the poetry, the quietude, the stories, the ancestral memories, the palpable presence of the Otherworld, the pubs, the fresh seafood, the canopy of stars, the simplicity.
Somehow, I knew who I was again, standing on ground that was new to my feet but achingly familiar to the part that was remembering again what it was to write and sing and dance and laugh.
I was home.
Do you remember what home feels like?
Do you know how to find it?
The Antidote to Exhaustion
I woke up Sunday morning thinking of a David Whyte’s story of his friend and mentor telling him:
“the antidote to exhaustion is not rest. It is wholeheartedness.”
And so, instead of working, or resting, I began the day hiking the foothills of the Ozarks at a park near our home.
Here was my to do list for Sunday:
* sing with the trees
* breathe deeply
* dance with the wind
* expand horizons by gazing out over cliffs
* connect with the flow of the Meramec River
* stop to let the rush of a passing freight train reverberate through my body
* send my soul out flying with the hawks
* kiss the ground with my feet
Not surprisingly, I’m facing this week’s to do list with a renewed spirit and more energy to give my students the best of myself than I would have if I had worked on Sunday (or even just slept in at home).
Call upon Your Future Self
In the Cornucopia Reality, where your Soul, or Essence, lives, there is no such thing as time and space. When you are connecting with your Soul, you can flit around between temporal realities and sprinkle a bit of love here, seek a bit of peace there…it’s all quite fun and magical and a bit like being Tinker Bell…
So, if you happen to be in the middle of a rocky, intense, confusing time right now, you can call upon your Future Self—that part of you who already knows how this all works out, and who has the wisdom to take the long view, and the larger perspective. And you can breathe in that wisdom right here, right now, to guide you and give you peace.
Catch a Falling Star–in Ireland
Facing east, I feel the clean Atlantic air on my face and I breathe in the lavish, luminescent, lusciousness of the rainbow that sprawls across the sky.
Facing south, I feel the sun breaking out of the clouds to warm my face and I look out over thatched cottages and sleepy cows now stirring in the small village on Galway Bay.
Facing west, I stretch my face over the cliffs at Dun Aengus or feel the spray of the sea as I look out over the back of the ferry bringing me home from the Aran Islands.
Facing north I send my consciousness into the ancient limestone of the Burren and I feel the whispers of the ancestors living in my blood and bone.
Facing center I surrender all my ego’s hopes and fears to the wisdom of the Divine Consciousness that moves and breathes in my life.
With Christ before me, behind me, above me, below me, within me and all around me, I begin my day—having awakened that bit of Eire that lives in me.
I love pulling a “shooting star” in the form of Ireland out of my pocket every day—and of course, even more, I love returning in person to replenish my store of land, sea, sky, poetry and music.
Empty Nest
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Is home feeling a bit lonely with the kids off to college?
Here’s my TV spot from Great Day St. Louis about how to thrive in your empty nest!
http://www.kmov.com/great-day-st-louis/Empty-Nesters-127484638.html
Enjoy and let me know what you are doing to make the most of this time in your life.
Blessings,
kimberly schneider
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What Needs to Change Form?
we need that transformational energy to help us release what I call “attachment to form.” Form is one of the 5 Illusions, and attachment to form is a huge obstacle to conscious manifestation.
When you are attached to form, you think that in order to be happy, you have to:
§ hold on to what you have
§ go back to the way things used to be OR
§ make sure things turn out a particular way.
This is a recipe for disaster since our egos actually have no control over the details in our lives (have you noticed?)
If we want to be joyful, we need to surrender the ego’s agenda and get on board with the “energy beyond the form,” whether you want to call that energy “God’s Plan,” “the Universe,” your Essential Self, the Holy Spirit (you get the idea).
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