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Standing In Your Light: Joy Mining
So the heart of Joy Mining is paying attention to moments of happiness, lightness, pleasure, and all-around OK-ness when they happen to us, even if they seem like small pleasures indeed. By paying attention, you are sensitizing yourself to this heightening energy. Further, it helps you realize that for you to pass on joy into the world, you don't have to be in a crazy state of ecstatic happiness yourself. Though I can say from my own experience, as you practice this, the sense of being in the midst of joy gets progressively stronger until it can truly lead to moments of bliss and ecstasy in the midst of ordinary life.
The Whispers of Inner Truth
I trust my body's innate wisdom to guide the way forward. My body knows what is needed. My body knows truth. In each moment of pain or despair, I look for signs of "breaking open" rather than "breaking apart." With tender anticipation, I'm making space for whatever version of myself is about to be born.
This era calls for unprecedented courage — the bravery to feel the truth within us and let it reshape our selves and our world. Let's walk this path of transformation together, guided by the profound wisdom of our sacred bodies.
What Can I Do?
When I tune into the subtle realms, it's like a radio with various frequencies. Some channels overflow with healthy life and blessing. In these frequencies, life flows in service to all beings. Yes, there are also frequencies filled with pain and obstruction, largely emanating from human behavior. It’s not a matter of choosing one over the other but of attuning to one in order to bring healing to the other.
Metanoia Rising
Every leap in consciousness requires a leap in faith. Presumably, some long ago prehistoric ancestors lifted glowing embers from burning trees ignited from lightning strikes or volcanic emissions and carried the torch back to the tribe, creating, in a great leap of consciousness, a hearth, which revolutionized and stabilized the centralization of the home.
The Light Bank
Consciously or unconsciously, we all participate in the subtle dimension of the world. When we are aware of this as a reality in our lives, we discover we have the ability, through thought, feeling, imagination, and embodiment, to create a field of energy around ourselves that can hold a spiritual quality such as love, peace, courage, compassion, and the like
“Sanctuaries of Stillness at Solstice
We are sharing some of the treasures we have experienced in the previous posts in “Sanctuary of Stillness” moments in our lives. Lucinda’s captures the mystery of a winter’s night, and Linda’s the gift of a summer’s day. Freya’s offers us a rich reflection on the quality of “Stillness.”
Twelfth Night - A Winter’s Tale
The forest around me was utterly still. No wind stirred the bare winter branches or rustled the fallen leaves. No bird called; no animal crept through the shadows. I gazed out into the woods surrounding the cabin and was startled to see that the forest was beginning to glow with an unearthly light. I searched for the moon above the treetops, as the logical source of the sylvan glow, but then remembered that the moon was new and dark. I could see a myriad of stars through the trees – sparkling like diamonds in the crystal-clear sky, but their radiance could not account for the growing light around me.
My Dragonfly - A Summer’s Tale
One of my ways of finding stillness is to step into nature, most often my garden, either putting my hands in the soil, snipping a plant here or there, feeling the warm breeze on my skin, or listening to the deafening sounds of cicadas at dusk. These experiences, and more, slow me down - help me to find my center in my busy world.
Stillness
So, at its essence, stillness is connected to co-creativity for me. It is a shared relationship. Co-creativity and stillness have a physical connection in my imagination to an open hand, respectfully available, inviting and willing to partner, ready to be transformed. When I take that position, physically or in my imagination, I am softened, hopeful, strongly present to myself, and attentive to the world around me.
Blessing: An Art to Practice
Blessings call us to breathe and integrate them with our lives. They come with connection – carried by events or relationships in which we are called to come present to meet the world, in which we and the world are both touched and refreshed through our engagement, in which we are sometimes stretched and made new, but always invited to become more whole in ourselves.