Dialoging with Inner, True Self for the Answers Part 5

This series of questions began a few weeks ago. #5 is the last and the the first four are also listed here. Take time alone to answer these questions. Speak from inner core, not your mind.

1. "What do I want in my life?"
2. "What am I afraid of?"
3. "What obstacles do I avoid?"
4. "What obstacles have I created?"
5. "What prevents me from developing a deeper connection with my Self?”

Dialoging with Inner, True Self for the Answers Part 4

This is the forth in a series of questions that will be posted over the next weeks. Do this at a time when you are alone and can open to the silence from which the truth flows... read earlier blogs for earlier questions.


Read the question below, put pen to paper and letter your Inner Self write....

"What obstacles do I create for myself?"

Which Do You Feed?

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grand son thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

The Image is the Language of the Soul

Working with an image is a direct channel to your unconscious and the many apsects of self that dwell within. In a recent Sunday Creativity Circle, we called for images during a guided meditation. The image Lisa Calhoun got was that of light and she thought, at first, that she really hadn't gotten much. But once the message of the image began flowing through her pen, she found out she was sorely mistaken!

Here is what Lisa's light image told her:

I am the light within you

and I am shining brightly.

I am strong and growing stronger

each day

Stay with me

Don't let me fade

This is who you are

who you have always been

I am coming back to you now

strong as ever

Maybe even stronger.

You asked for me and I am here

Nurture me

Stand strong with me

Speak your convictions

and my light will grow stronger within you

You are at the beginning of a new path

one that will lead you to self reliance

to a person who can stand alone

apart from your family

who have been your identity for so long

No longer will you only be known

as someone's wife or mother

You can be you again

Just you

who is many things to many people.

There is a new you emerging

Part of it is the old you,

the younger you

only older and wiser

and stronger

because now you know what you want

and how to go about getting it

You know how to ask for what you need

and how to tell people

when you don't like what they have done

The light is strong inside you

Keep following your heart

and your desires

and it will continue to fill you

with peace and warmth.

If you are looking for inner wisdom, formulate a question and ask for the answer to come to you in the form of an image. Then, regardless of whether the image makes sense, ask the image what information it has for you, put pen to paper and write ... without thinking, judging or evaluating.

Dialoging with Inner, True Self for the Answers Part 3

This is the third in a series of questions that will be posted over the next weeks. Do this at a time when you are alone and can open to the silence from which the truth flows...


Read the question below, put pen to paper and letter your Inner Self write....

"What obstacles do I avoid?"

Dialoging with Inner, True Self for the Answers Part 2

This is the second in a series of questions that will be posted over the next weeks. Do this at a time when you are alone and can open to the silence from which the truth flows...


Read the question below, put pen to paper and letter your Inner Self write....

"What do I want in my life?"


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Dialoging with Inner, True Self for the Answers

This is the first in a series of questions that will be posted over the next week. Do this at a time when you are alone and can open to the silence from which the truth flows...

You are your own best teacher!!!


Read the question below, put pen to paper and letter your Inner Self write....

"What holds me back from achieving my passion?"

SHE TOUCHED ME IN SILENCE by Doris Russell

Writings from the Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul: Embracing the Gift of the Shadow in August 2007

She touched me in silence
Shock, Reverence, Awe
It was the waves hurtling their
strength at me
It was the drowning in the water
Sputtering, gasping for air
The sheer joy of doing it

Here comes the next wave
I'm going to ride in it,
dive in it, swim in it, feel the wetness,
the sun and the sand - hitting bottom.
Oh, my god - I'm going to die
No, you're not - get up -
struggling -- yes ---
Up, Up - there's the sunlight

Oh my God that was great!
I love it, love it, love it
It is so much fun
So much joy
So much sheer exhilaration.
I want to do it again
And I will ----

What I was thinking of or feeling at the time when I wrote that was when I was a kid of about 8 years of age and riding the waves at Rockaway Beach in Queens. Later that day I wrote what follows downstairs at the Country Place, sitting in that little patio they have in the back. I like what I wrote. Or I guess my ego likes it (ha ha that's a joke I'm making.)

The breath in the air
The dew on the leaves
The crack in the cement
I am surrounded by a forest of living things.
The grass is growing
The trees - they stretch ever so tall and strong
The leaves they shimmer and ever-ever so slightly move.
There - the soft chirping of a bird breaking the silence.
I am wrapped in a cloak of warmth and stillness.
Oh, the solitude of it
The quietness of it.
What is that?
Ah, man comes and the tractor purrs with the noises
of daily chores.

This came from the same place as the top poem but - the feeling was a little different - i don't think i was thinking. What does it matter anyway - whether I think or am? It all comes from the same place!!

She Touched Me In Silence by Kari Kilgore

From the Recent August Retreat, Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul: Reclaiming the Gift of the Shadow

She touched me in silence

As gentle as the summer wind

Cooling, refreshing, transforming.

The seed that lay within me

Sheltered nearly to extinction

Revived, enlivened, fired into life.

Such colors have never existed

Such shapes never seen

Such scents no one has ever imagined.

My journey as the potential

The possibility

The maybe is ending.

My journey into the full, lush, rich reality

Begun at long last.

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She Touched Me In Silence by Janet King

From the August 2007 Retreat: Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul, Embracing the Gift of the Shadow

She touched me in silence,

And I followed her with my arm on her shoulder,

Feeling her heavy, hard, solid shoulder bone,

Like a pelvis

I put my arm through her socket,

Reached through to the gooey, juicy

Mass of veins and capillaries

And squeezed,

As if hugging and holding a tiny robin’s egg,

Without breaking it

One crack.

Mother, I said, oh, Mommie

Mommie, Mommie, I want

My Mommy, I want my

Mommy!

Only I didn’t say it in

Words, I said it with my

Unsung, true singing voice,

In silence.

The breaking of a heart

And that was the most powerful

Cry

The cry without tears, blood, or words:

Mother, here

I am, I’m home.

Thank God, Thank God, Thank God, I’m

Home.

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She Touched Me In Silence by Cathy Rakov

Writings from the Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul: Embracing the Gift of the Shadow in August 2007

She touched me in silence

Then I heard a whisper

Shhhh

Do not speak

Listen to you

Gather your power

That is your silence

She touched me with out a word

Her embrace warm

Caught with expectancy

Lingering toward letting go

Dare to let the wild mind

Run free

Howl atop a mountain

Loved and strong

Returning from the Retreat: The Descent of Inanna....

I feel so inspired and energized by the August retreat, Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul, Embracing the Gift of the Shadow. Just returned a week ago.

In trying to express what happened on the retreat, a word and an image come to mind.

The word is "co-creation." More than my leading the retreat, we journeyed together. Every woman in the circle was an integral part of the magnificent unfolding that felt choreographed by unseen hands! And although we descended to the underworld with Inanna, we also played as only women who love and trust can play together. Intense work, but our laughter resonates like a song.

The image that comes to mind is a flower opening. As I was writing this, the flower took the form of a lotus. "Why?" I wondered. True, lotus holds spiritual significance, but I never gave thought as to why. So I went online and googled "lotus." This is what I found:

"Lotus flowers are amazing and have strong symbolic ties to many Asian religions especially throughout India. The lotus flower starts as a small flower down at the bottom of a pond in the mud and muck. It slowly grows up towards the waters surface continually moving towards the light. Once it comes to the surface of the water, the lotus flower begins to blossom and turns into a beautiful flower." And this: "The lotus flower or 'Lien Hua' in Chinese, is regarded as a spiritual flower, with elegant beauty, a mystery that inspires a person taking root in muddy, murky water, the darkest of places, where he or she rises above to bloom beautiful, powerful on the surface. The lotus inspires the person, that whenever faced with trouble, no matter how dark the waters may get, he or she will rise above and let the beautiful flower in them bloom as long as they have a pure and sincere heart." What perfect descriptions for our journeys!