Changeable weather

Fighting with the self over what can never be is fruitless.  It only serves to create more inner conflict and a downward spiral begins.  It helps to view your emotions like passing clouds - always changing and moving through the world at different speeds, creating differing weather patterns as they do so.  A holier-than-though approach does not assume responsibility; do not wait for your sky to be so full of clouds that only a major storm can wash them away.  Start again with the blue sky and notice each wisp that wanders across it, and when a bigger cloud comes along and creates a feeling within you, ask your true self how you would like to deal with this in a way that's aligned with your sacred self, so the cloud keeps moving and does not create a blockage for the storm clouds to gather behind.  And when the wind is as soft as a breath, then you must breath more consciously to keep those clouds moving along.

The unison of physical and mental effort keeps your vital force strong enough to have flow in your life.  With this constant steady flow, you will notice that many things that revolve around drama cease to have relevance in your life, and as the observer, you notice there are only choices - choices of what to keep and what to let go of; less resistance, more flow; a gentle meandering between life's obstacles.  Fortunes may change but not nearly as much as energies.  Being discerning about what to hold and what to release makes energy more readily available. 

Do not become attached to outcomes, for that will be your undoing; an expectation is an emotional investment that is difficult to recall once spent, and yet it never had a target beyond that which you imagined or hoped for.  Do not build castles out of dreams that vaporise in a puff of smoke; know instead what your values are, and align your reality with them, because they are the mortar of your foundations and give you the stability you seek.  You do not have to share them with anyone for them to be valid - just knowing them for yourself is enough.  Make friends with yourself; love yourself and create that which you desire from others within your own heart.

Fallibility is a human trait so do not judge harshly for what you yourself have been guilty of.  Just change direction as you need to and allow others to do the same.  One more thing - be at peace within yourself - watch how you talk about yourself so that you nurture your being and neither need nor expect others to do it for you.  Invest in yourself and you will encourage others to do so with good grace.

Seed to Soul ..

From the moment our seed spirit enters the physical form, it seems we become ‘trapped’ and feel as if we are stuck on the inside, always looking out.  The husk takes it’s form, then, after entering into this sometimes harsh world, hardens and becomes cold – perhaps almost dead – to the outside world (depending upon how difficult early life was).

The seed tumbles through it’s environment, looking for somewhere to put down roots.  From the time we reach adulthood, we have a few dalliances with the excitements of living, then move into more sombre depths of life’s machinery.  The frustrations of the spirit begin to make occasional appearances, and in an attempt to listen to these often startling appearances, we make cursory attempts to lull the spirit back to it’s confinement, pursuing whatever appeasement we think fit at the time.  Any of these attempts can become longer term persuits - we may try several over the decades - but none will bear fruit until we have truly wintered and frozen to our very depths. 

So within those frozen depths, as we await germination (probably mid-life),  we reach a point of questioning the very point of our existence, as the bulk of it may have seemed meaningless for those more spiritually advanced beings.  The answers are a long time coming, for time has no place in the bigger picture of the universe, and our resolve to be here is tested yet further.

Eventually, there comes a point when it serves no purpose to put up a fight with our destiny – that only serves to delay our personal epiphany.  No, what eventually must happen is a cessation of all resistance, and if you can catch it out, to duck the ego that insists on keeping us safe within the familiar.  Only then can we reach that state of acceptance where we realise that anything and everything only exists in so far as what we create within our own minds.  Notice the way many physical bodies begin to break down as they dutifully mirror how and what we think or hold onto – as the mind tires of existance, so too does the body reflect.  If we show our vessel (body) the respect it deserves for holding our precious spirit, why would we ever allow it to degenerate or come to harm? 

Reconnecting to our source is all we ever search for, and the blessings found therein are synonymous with the glow of love.  We can really blossom if we allow love to flow to each of us from the source.  If we aspire to make that connection, then we can truly appreciate the way love flows within us – through us – around us. Any limitations we perceive are held in our mind and body and thus restrict the spirit.  Free the mind - free the body - free the spirit.