“Breath” - An Empowerment Approach
A good indicator that something plays a huge part in our emotional and physical well being is if we need to do it to live. Breathing is one of those easily ignored activities we do that has a major impact on our overall well being. How we breathe is a good indication of how self-empowered we feel.
Energy Affirmation
“When I hold my breath -intentionally- for as long as my body can stand, I can think of nothing else but taking that next breath. Denying myself this ‘need’ -to breathe- goes against every natural reflex in my mind, in my body, in my spirit.
May I remember that the essence of who and what I am (self) is as desperate to ‘breathe’ and live as this body, and these lungs. May each full breath I take connect me to this essence Self ; and bring ‘my’ life to me….”
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Grief - The Unwanted Guest
“My eye grows dim because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.” Psalm 6:7
My mother passed away in 1985, and I haven’t seen life the same since. The grief that entered my life that year made me a different person as of the moment she left this earth. My eye did indeed grow dim because of grief…
… but I don’t think grief stops there. It rather spiders out into areas of life -of living- without our knowledge of it doing so, and without our intent.
As of 1985, my life became a series of head-on collisions with people -in relationships, with friends, with strangers and jobs. I’ve always seen myself as a peaceful and complacent person, and yet somehow I managed to make more enemies, and burn more bridges than I ever even thought I was capable of doing.
After a decade or so of this, I did begin to feel very old. At the age of forty, I felt as if I’d lived multiple lifetimes; and yet none of them felt like my own.
I think grief takes on “lives” of it’s own when we’re unable, or unwilling to accept and deal with circumstances as they are. My mother’s death was sudden, and by no means natural. I could not accept it as a fair and just reality in my life. And yet still, the person I became in the aftermath was the embodiment of this same injustice; this same injustice that I couldn’t accept as part of my life.
The good news is, life does go on with or without our acceptance. And it is right there, on the path, waiting for us -looking us square in the eye- when we finally and eventually turn around to face it.
Life takes no prisoners. She takes no hostages. So if you’re waiting, or needing to be swept off your feet by some man, or woman, or place, or job, you better take a good look in the mirror and make sure it’s really “You” going through those motions, and not some lost character from your past.
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Energy Healing Affirmation #3 - Anger’s Timid Mask
“My anger is a deceptive and menacing disguise; a mask that covers my genuine passion and love for the only justice I know.
Bearing in mind that justice does hold many truths, some which I may not as yet understand. So whoever happens to step in the shoes of one who angers me today may abide by a justice that is foreign to me; yet still, it’s their passion and love for the only justice they know.
If I can take off this deceptive and menacing disguise, perhaps I can step inside the gap where all passion and love resides.”
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“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, he who rules his own spirit that he who takes a city.”
Proverbs 16:32
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