THE JOURNEY OF ALLOWING
“How will I get through this?”
“Where can I find safety?”
“This is beginning to feel like it might never end!”
This reflects much of what I am hearing when I tap into our global cultural zeitgeist . Old structures are being peeled away as the competition for power, influence and resources heats up with devastating consequences for the environment and our well being.
When the structures in our lives fail us, we are disconnected from EARTH energy. These structures are the constants that we have been taught to rely on for our nurturance, protection and safety. This might be the community of the church you grew up in, the capacity of our family to love and guide and the rule of law. When these structures atrophy, the result is a sense of homelessness and chaos that runs in counterpoint to our DESIRE for safety, stability, belonging, order, grounding and care.
Currently with the threatened diminishment of world ordering systems we are being invited to relive earth shattering moments from our past. Yet, times like these are also an opportunity to RISE in greater awareness of who we are and our ability to choose to let and allow our lives to BLOOM in new and surprising ways.
Sadly, as we fail to do this we wander around adopting self-martyrdom and self-sacrifice in an attempt to right the world; our addictions become even more powerful havens of escape for our fragmented Souls; we adopt the tools of our oppressors and become cynical or authoritarian only adding to the chaos; we ignore our own Soulful presence as we run away in search of safe havens in other lands.
Today, the choice to be more aware of your Soul— its presence and human journey as you, is available.
Consider that this is a moment for us to each honor our Spirit—the Soul that we each uniquely are— that remembers, guides, reflects, fills and nourishes our unique human incarnation.
It is time to RISE into deeper awareness of our essential nature. This is what I call “the essential Journey to BLOOMING.”
The safety that you are seeking is in your Soulful presence. It has waited for you.
As we return and go deeper into its open arms, we return home to ourselves.
This week, for our RISE JOURNEY, we take a five step elemental journey into deeper honoring of Soul— by exploring the nature and embodied experience of ALLOWING.
The Journey of ALLOWING activates the activity of EARTH. EARTH is the container, the holder, the shaper of all the elements. In Dagara cosmology as taught to me by Malidoma Some EARTH sits at the center of this worldview.
It is the maintainer of BALANCE.
It is realized and activated by complete surrender, acceptance, trust, and stillness–
- by one’s self realization of spiritual being-ness,
- by attention and curiosity beyond the space of the body and known world;
- by one’s imaginative choices,
- by letting go and letting flow,
- and ultimately by ALLOWING.
On Saturday join me in conversation with the BLOOM Guides and our members, as we take this journey. Together we will reflect, move, mediate, share and support each other and we build our beloved community of BLOOMERS.
In preparation for this journey begin to notice and reflect on the following:
We all desire and need to experience being held.
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- Where do you go to experience safety and belonging?
- What support structures have failed or are failing you now? What new structures are arising?
- What / Who do you want to run away from?
- What are you running towards and why?
- In the process of running, who / what might you be ignoring?
The promised results of this journey are the tools and practices to support you as you enjoy…
- A more profound relationship to your presence
- A bigger capacity to hold without attachment what is
- A greater experience of balance, safety and belonging..
BLOOM JOURNEYS PROMISE A MASSIVE EXPANSION OF YOUR ABILITY TO EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISH YOUR HEARTS DESIRES.
