THE BLESSING OF A SOUL

A boy is standing in front of an elder. He is being blessed: blessed for stepping into a circle of men, young men, and other boys with courage, honesty, and a sincere desire to find a path to a healthy manhood.

He has spent several days in a space where he is unconditionally accepted for who he is. Accepted as a human being with both gold and shadow. Held in a space where he can begin to release the shadow and lay claim to his gold.

He has shown great courage to dare to open and be himself.

As he looks up at the elder blessing him, his face is open, full of light and wonder. He is being given full permission to be who he deeply is, in his soul. There is no mask, no need for him to hide in any way, and he has responded to that. I am seeing the beauty of his soul directly in his upturned face.

The boy, a journeyman now, turns and is blessed by the whole group, tumultuously and with great joy and love. He is claiming his right to be golden.

The look on the face of this boy is one of the most amazing and inspiring things I have ever seen. And there is more than one boy, there are many.

When I witness this there is no doubt left in my being that we are children of love and light. That our natural inclinations are to shine our light in the world, that this is what we desperately desire and when we are shown a way we will walk through any sort of pain or fear as mighty warriors to claim our souls.

While I have witnessed this with boys and men, it is clearly about all human beings, female as well as male. We need to do this for all our children. And when we do, the world will be changed.

This weekend I have looked at the future and it is glorious.

(© 8/09)

WELCOME HOME

Earlier this week I was working with a friend to check in and clear some emotions running through my space. At one point I was invited to open up to my essential self which was floating over my head. Given permission I did so, just by setting the intention, and shortly could feel it dropping in. This was confirmed by my friend. It was actually quite simple and easy.

Over the last few weeks I've been practicing this, when I need to, or when I remember. Remembering is actually the tough part it seems. Remembering that our essential self is always there, and that opening to it, shifting our awareness a little we are there. There isn't really anything to learn, to discover, to go to. Unless it is learning to relax into this place of openness inside so that our essential self has room to be felt and experienced.

Once you have experienced this a couple times and know that its there, its a matter of remembering and practicing. Building a new muscle.

When I was working with my friend this week, I had the sense of some resistance to connecting to myself. Asking what this was, I got the clear answer that I was scared. Now there are various fears that can come between our experience and our Self, corollaries to what happens if we are large and powerful and bright. How will the world react to us? But this week I felt something else. Part of my lower self was scared of this internal light shining into the dark spaces where I have hidden things I am scared of. The belief seemed to be, that if I turn on the light in these dark "storage rooms" I'll see nasty things and so I'm afraid of being afraid, and resist connecting to my essential self as a result.

Makes sense. However, it was also quite clear that there was a piece missing. The belief ignores the very fact that this light is coming from my higher self. When this light of my soul enters, it doesn't just expose the things in the dark corners, but also brings a great healing power to allow them to resolve, dissolve, and complete. I may feel some of the emotional content while this happens, but from a place of safety and strength, connected to my higher, essential self.

So I can lay to rest these fears that coming home to my Self will only result in more pain, because the very light that reveals my old pains also gives them space to safely be and heal. I am not alone with them anymore, but am fully resourced to allow them to complete.

As your Self drops in, you will no longer be at the same level as when you stored these old things, you will have the resources to unpack and resolve them with compassion and love.

Go forward in joy and faith in Yourself, welcoming yourself home without fear.

(© 07/09)[read the full version @ http://www.wholebeingexplorations.com/spirit/writings.html ]