The Time is Nigh for The Entirety of Us To Claim Our Kuleana
This morning's Mana'o is something that came to me over the last few days, through all the emotional weight that we have all been carrying singly and collectively. This is a message from the Ancients as they speak through me with these words. Please pay attention, please auhea wale ana 'oe - pay attention! Ukali Au! Follow Me !
All of us has Ancient roots. There is not one person reading this, not one person living anywhere on the planet, not one person who does not have an Ancient Past which is pregnant with magic, is filled with the Grace and the Light of the Heart and Soul of Humanity. We are all readied, waiting for the things which have thrilled us and scared us at the same time. We are all hungry for the Power that is within each of our Souls, even as we are fearful of that Power. We are all a jumbled mix of confusion, a jumbled mix of elation and terror, and all of us are very, very tired to the point of emotional exhaustion...all of us.
We come from the 'Aumakua. We are the 'Aumakua
At this moment we are all being called to relinquish our fears to the Heavens, to let Akua show us how, but in our prideful manner we humans seem to think that there is no other way than our way, and if we would look around us and see the mess that we have made from doing things our way, we would also see that the time is right now that we need to, once again, and hopefully for the last time for a long time, pick up the Shield of Light, the Sword of Truth, and to call upon the 'Aumakua Who are always with us at all times, and move forward, not looking at our fear, not looking at our pain, but only looking at ourselves as a whole Soul. We are meant to be here with each other, meant to bring to the surface of things the Truth by cutting away that which is no longer the truth of us, no longer that which serves us or our burgeoning graceful nature.
Humankind is weary from the fights that we ourselves have caused. It seems that for many generations we have bothered only to see the truth of us that hurts us, that makes us believe that we are not good enough for the things that have manifested in our lives, and this is not the truth. If it were the truth, all that we each see in our own lives at this present moment would not be ours to claim, and it is a mighty birthright in and of itself. To be who we are at this time in our history as humans is a special time indeed. We must rise to the occasion, because for so many generations we have bothered only with that which was not us, which was not ours, which insulted the very Soul within us all. We have only seen that which we want to see, and still, we insult our Souls. Still we continue to look to the past that hurt us instead of the past which has always empowered us. We look back to the insults, but not the power, and this is the thing that we keep doing, much like a dog returns to its own vomit.
We have barely scratched the surface of our Selves, have barely thought for one moment that these times are the very moments of truth that we all so dearly wished for, and here it is, right before us, and we are a muddled mess, are afraid of our greatness, are scared to death by it, in fact. It should not be this way. We were given the birthright to greatness, given the very keys to the kingdom of Heaven, and we have only tried for that which was the easiest, never thinking that perhaps the thing which is right in front of us is the very thing that was the very wish of the Soul...and for the life of us, we are clueless about what to do with it.
We do with it what we 'Know' to, what it is that the 'Aumakua who came before us did with it, as if it were not meant that we would do something with this all, we would not have it poised and ready. And we need to take it, all of it, because these are the very tools of the beginnings of this time in history, where we will need to be able to see things differently, because just as humankind has evolved, so, too, will those things that we have no idea what to do with. We asked for these things to come to us, and now we look at them as though they are supposed to tell us what we are to do, but that is not giving us proper credit for already knowing what to do with what we have been given, and what we have been given is quite a lot.
We asked for higher knowing, and since Knowledge is limited, we were given Wisdom, for it is Eternal. We asked for the soothing of the broken hearted mess that we have collectively become, and rather than a temporary salve that takes away the pain of our losses, we were given the tools with which also come the words "Physician, Heal Thy Self." We have been placed with the Tribes, the Ohanas, that we have wished for through the entirety of our own personal eternities and at this time are afraid to look at them because embodied in each other are the very seeds, the very core of the Soul which is us, singly and collectively, and our human brains cannot wrap themselves around the idea that we are who created all of this and that now is when we are meant to employ each of these Soul Granted Wishes to the very best and highest good that we can possibly.
We want so much, and we do not realize and cannot see that all that we asked for is here, is Now, and is ours.
Grab tightly, hold on to your birthright, but allow your heart, soul and your Self their wings. Let go of the things that hurt you, that scare you, that keep you afraid of the monsters which no longer have to exist, not even in your mind. Be One with the Collective Soul of the Universe, and be at peace with your own Soul, with your own Self, for these things which are before you are the very culmination of all the pain, all the heart ache, all the anger, all the messes that were left behind. You are meant as the greatness that you have always been, and together we are meant to be the Soul of the Collective Divinity, the Sacred Nature created by the Sacred Nature of the Collective Wish of the Soul for Peace, for Joy, for Love and for Lokahi, or unity. We have cried and have lost all that we thought we were, but in reality, we did not lose a thing.
We Gained Our Very Selves, and it is now time that we Live Up to the very Greatness which we are all calling our Selves into Being.
Be at Peace. Be, In Love. Be with one another. Be gentle, rather than harsh, and be careful with the choices that you make, for in those choices are the very seeds of the future and the very kuleana which will be the footprints which those who follow our lead will be guided by. Take heed to the inclinations that you should be ready to act on, and ponder the wonder that you are, for there is only one You, and You are decidedly important and a big part of the Grander Scheme of Things to Be.
"AUHEA WALE ANA 'OE!" is what they are screaming at me, reminding us all of the Kuleana that we each desired.
It is here. It is Now. This is what you asked for.
Remember your Kuleana....remember your Ancient Roots...
The 'Aumakua are with you...
Me Ke Aloha Pumehana
I Love You All !
ROX
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
'Tis the Season - For Na Mamo...Connecticut, 2012
Collectively...
I cannot say enough about the children in our lives. At this moment there is not a mother, step-mother, auntie, Grandmother, Father, brother, uncle, cousin...there is not one person on this planet who is not at this time in mourning over the loss that we all suffered this week of those beautiful Souls in Connecticut. Yet, rather than remind us all of that loss, instead I will simply give you all the message that has been heavy within me, like a child awaiting to takes it first breath of life, like the excited scariness that I assume is part of becoming a father, like the wavering between worlds that every first time mother experiences when those first signs of life that tell her that her own childhood is officially over with, and that she now will be gifted, through her children, a second opportunity to show those beautiful parts of her Self that perhaps her own mother was too afraid to let the world see. This is for all those parents who, like I did, placed themselves into the soul of every single one of those parents, into the heart of all of those children, and tried dearly to relate to the loss.
No one can relate to the loss of a child. When a child is temporarily taken from his mother's side, it is torturous. It is torturous to think, and this is only from what I have been told in the past, that someone else is caring for your child, the gift that you were granted by God, and that for an unspecified amount of time, you will worry and wonder, be angry and filled with doubts. You will needlessly question your abilities, and eventually you will begin to sink into a place where nothing else matters than having those little versions of your self back in your awareness. No, this did not happen to me, but it happened to someone with whom I held very close counsel with for a long time (and who is, by my own witness, a stellar parent - one of the very best alive), and while I can only describe what was told to me by that person, I still cannot fathom the idea that anyone else would do this - namely not a parent, and namely not at this time of year, a time which is, no matter who says what, a staple of the joy called "Childhood."
We can sit in a collective energy of hatred for the person whose shadow life was so big that they would feel the need to spread that darkness through this horror that he caused. We can sit here and grow an energy of anger for the perpetrator, or we can collectively and as a whole bring light and healing to us all through our effort toward healing at this time in our lives.
Rather than giving that person and that person's karmic debt more of our attention, let's think about other things, shall we?
This holiday season, when you think about your own children, place also your light and your heart and soul into the collective energy of Aloha that we all need to give to the entire world right now, as we are all hurting from this action brought by the darkness that we collectively are healing at this moment. Let us choose to learn from the hurt, from the messiness caused by this all, and most of all, let us be grateful for the people who are still with us, who hurt with us and who lift up those families at this time. Let us pray for the Light of God and for the soothing gentleness that is the Angelic Realm and all its Own Glory, and let us ask that we can see this in a different way. Let us each know now that those babies are cradled in the arms of Heaven, and let us believe that together we can send our Love and our prayers to those parents whose lives have been markedly affected by this.
Let us never forget that in all of this, there were others who went Home to Akua, others who chose to walk the way of the Warrior, who chose to give their Artemis Selves a chance to shine and to be the one who, in a most Christ like manner, hid the babies who she could and gave her life so that those children would live. Let us not forget, in the fracas that is caused by the grief, by the deepness of this sadness, that we must recall the smiles and the tears, not of just those who have gone Home, but of those who were left here, left with the memory that no child should ever have. We must pray that those children will live each day of their own little lives knowing that God loves them, that they are precious, that life is not truly like this, and we ourselves must also believe that in this lifetime people are of a good and kind nature, and that the monsters in our lives are not as big as this all is.
We can never forget that in this all, we cannot impart the lesson of angry hatred, of only the loss, of only the people who are no longer of this awareness. We must continue to teach these little ones that Love is the highest of all honor, and that through Love the healing of their little lives will be.
We must remember to send our Love, our Collective Light, and most of all, our own collective measures of our combined singular Soul of Aloha, to Connecticut, to those Children whose lives were changed in a gigantic way.
May Your Path be Lit With the Light of Alo'ha...many Blessings to you All
I Love You All...Fly to the Angels, Little Ones....
Me ke Aloha Pumehana....
ROX
I cannot say enough about the children in our lives. At this moment there is not a mother, step-mother, auntie, Grandmother, Father, brother, uncle, cousin...there is not one person on this planet who is not at this time in mourning over the loss that we all suffered this week of those beautiful Souls in Connecticut. Yet, rather than remind us all of that loss, instead I will simply give you all the message that has been heavy within me, like a child awaiting to takes it first breath of life, like the excited scariness that I assume is part of becoming a father, like the wavering between worlds that every first time mother experiences when those first signs of life that tell her that her own childhood is officially over with, and that she now will be gifted, through her children, a second opportunity to show those beautiful parts of her Self that perhaps her own mother was too afraid to let the world see. This is for all those parents who, like I did, placed themselves into the soul of every single one of those parents, into the heart of all of those children, and tried dearly to relate to the loss.
No one can relate to the loss of a child. When a child is temporarily taken from his mother's side, it is torturous. It is torturous to think, and this is only from what I have been told in the past, that someone else is caring for your child, the gift that you were granted by God, and that for an unspecified amount of time, you will worry and wonder, be angry and filled with doubts. You will needlessly question your abilities, and eventually you will begin to sink into a place where nothing else matters than having those little versions of your self back in your awareness. No, this did not happen to me, but it happened to someone with whom I held very close counsel with for a long time (and who is, by my own witness, a stellar parent - one of the very best alive), and while I can only describe what was told to me by that person, I still cannot fathom the idea that anyone else would do this - namely not a parent, and namely not at this time of year, a time which is, no matter who says what, a staple of the joy called "Childhood."
We can sit in a collective energy of hatred for the person whose shadow life was so big that they would feel the need to spread that darkness through this horror that he caused. We can sit here and grow an energy of anger for the perpetrator, or we can collectively and as a whole bring light and healing to us all through our effort toward healing at this time in our lives.
Rather than giving that person and that person's karmic debt more of our attention, let's think about other things, shall we?
This holiday season, when you think about your own children, place also your light and your heart and soul into the collective energy of Aloha that we all need to give to the entire world right now, as we are all hurting from this action brought by the darkness that we collectively are healing at this moment. Let us choose to learn from the hurt, from the messiness caused by this all, and most of all, let us be grateful for the people who are still with us, who hurt with us and who lift up those families at this time. Let us pray for the Light of God and for the soothing gentleness that is the Angelic Realm and all its Own Glory, and let us ask that we can see this in a different way. Let us each know now that those babies are cradled in the arms of Heaven, and let us believe that together we can send our Love and our prayers to those parents whose lives have been markedly affected by this.
Let us never forget that in all of this, there were others who went Home to Akua, others who chose to walk the way of the Warrior, who chose to give their Artemis Selves a chance to shine and to be the one who, in a most Christ like manner, hid the babies who she could and gave her life so that those children would live. Let us not forget, in the fracas that is caused by the grief, by the deepness of this sadness, that we must recall the smiles and the tears, not of just those who have gone Home, but of those who were left here, left with the memory that no child should ever have. We must pray that those children will live each day of their own little lives knowing that God loves them, that they are precious, that life is not truly like this, and we ourselves must also believe that in this lifetime people are of a good and kind nature, and that the monsters in our lives are not as big as this all is.
We can never forget that in this all, we cannot impart the lesson of angry hatred, of only the loss, of only the people who are no longer of this awareness. We must continue to teach these little ones that Love is the highest of all honor, and that through Love the healing of their little lives will be.
We must remember to send our Love, our Collective Light, and most of all, our own collective measures of our combined singular Soul of Aloha, to Connecticut, to those Children whose lives were changed in a gigantic way.
May Your Path be Lit With the Light of Alo'ha...many Blessings to you All
I Love You All...Fly to the Angels, Little Ones....
Me ke Aloha Pumehana....
ROX
Sunday, December 9, 2012
'Tis the Season - The Gift of Divine Guidance
There is not one of us who has never been Divinely Guided
...yet, there are a whole lot of us who do not know that this is what is happening when it seems that the thing that does not appear to have any resolution ends up being the thing that comes with its very own brand of clarity.
There are not a lot of people on the planet who have not felt the need at one time or another to call into being the assistance brought by Angels. Yes, Angels exist. If you do not believe me, then think back to a time when you really needed some help and out of nowhere there was help. Think about those times when it seemed like there was no end in sight to the things that hurt you, that broke your heart, and again, through your own direction and from the guidance of the Soul within you, help arrived, and it was not just any kind of help. In fact, the last time that you needed the help with something, if you looked back at that time and took it apart and studied all the pieces of the entirety of the situation, you would find that truly, there was Divine Guidance.
Divine Guidance
I have a habit of seeing things that make no sense to anyone at the onset of things as being Divinely Timed and Planned. What this means is that all of us have what I refer to as being "The Wishes of the Soul." The Soul knows very well what it needs, even as our physical selves want to tell the Soul what it needs. When the Ego, which is manifested through our physical selves, cannot come up with a good enough, self-serving reason as to why certain things happen in our lives or why certain people show up when they do and sometimes at seemingly the most inopportune of times is when we are not realizing that our Soul is in a unified effort with the Angels to bring to us the thing that we need the most through the most simple means and through the most obvious manner. Sometimes we are not able to deal with what is brought to us, and when we cannot deal with what has been brought to us is when the Guidance of the Angels and those who are known in some circles as being The Ascended Masters I won't go on in great length about who these Beings all are, just know that whether it is the Angels or the Masters, either way, you are in the greatest position of all to receive not only those lessons which bring the Soul to the level it needs to be at the time it is meant, but also to bring comfort in times of uncertainty.
I refer to events that make no sense at the onset, again, as being "Divinely Timed and Planned." When a thing is Divinely Timed and Planned, and when it seems that the energies which surround it are somehow just falling into place without any help from anyone in the human arena, this is when we know for sure that we are not alone. When we ask from our Soul for the things that we need to bring to the rest of the world our own brand of Aloha and when truly we can Know and Believe and trust that really, God has us, this is when clarity is formed within us. This is when we have that Divine connection, and this is when the journey has taken on a completely different energy.
Trust in the things and events which are Divinely Timed and Planned
Trust that the harsh feel of some events is just that - that is what it feels like. There is not one of us who does not recall at least one time in our lives when we literally felt our bodies growing. This growth pain can be likened to that harsh feeling we end up having when certain things in our lives evolve into what they are supposed to. Things that are meant to happen always happen - there is no getting around them or away from them, and most of the time the things and events and people who show up make no kind of sense at all to our human brains, but our Soul knows that what lies before us, no matter what it is, and it is our Soul and the prodding brought by it that compels us to a level of curiosity that makes us want to know more.
When we want to know more we find yet more clarity about other situations and suddenly we can see the pattern, the ties between events, and very shortly thereafter all that has occurred to that point becomes the collective entirety of our own Knowing at that very special, very Divinely Timed and Planned thing. These times and the components contained within them is what makes the things which made no sense suddenly make all kinds of sense. When we ask for components to be removed, we do not know how they will be, only THAT they will be. We cannot control how they evolve, because the "how" of anything at all is not ours. When we release the idea that we have to control how a thing happens - THIS is when we have experienced the Divine Nature of Absolute Surrender.
The Divine Nature of Absolute Surrender
Human beings have a hard time relinquishing control of anything at all, namely when it is that what we are seeing in our lives has the flavor of our not having absolute control.
Controlling our own outcome to meet our ego's wants has nothing to do with the things that we need. When we surrender to our own knowing that we are here for a Divine Purpose, we also surrender to the idea that no matter what we think is supposed to happen, no matter how we want something to end up being, and no matter how many things and people we hang on to from the past and how many lessons we are more willing to forget having learned just to have that one thing happen for us through our own manipulation of a thing is what trips us up. We can never do better for ourselves than to ask for the habit of surrendering ourselves to our Higher Purpose, and part of this is being able to understand that what we want is in manifest, that what we need is contained in the outcome that is not ours but that we are, with the guidance and help of the Angels and God, well on our way to seeing EXACTLY what we want, or something even better and more applicable to our Higher Purpose.
It is our lower energy tendencies that cause us to not trust the things that we have no explanation for, and it is the ego which prods us to worry, to stay corded to those whose purpose in our lives have been met. When we choose to surrender to the Divine Guidance and we do so with the absolute trust that when we have left our issues and our worries and the things that we have no idea what to do with, this is called Absolute Surrender. When we experience the energy of truly letting go, of truly accepting that what we need and is in our best interest is being met and in manifest, this is when we are primed and ready for the things we so dearly want to become more than what our human minds can even begin to think is real, let alone deal with. This is why it takes so long sometimes, the manifestation of the lives we are collectively creating - because we need to learn patience, we need to learn what we have asked to have as part of our way of being, and most of all, we need to be able to evolve to a point where our brain can process these wonderful things coming into being in our lives.
We are taught to not trust in events and things and people who seem to be way too amazing for us to have called into our lives. We are taught to believe that we are not good enough to have what we have, to have what we want and can see in our minds. We are taught to think that we have to compete with others in this awareness for our own Gifts and Treasures. We are taught there is not enough of what we want and that other people are more lucky or more deserved than we are. We are taught all these non-truths about who we are and we just volunteer to believe it all. Then one day, when we seem to be at our very lowest point, when we are crying with a broken heart and seething with the anger and the disbelief that we have again been able to worry ourselves into a situation that we cannot possibly believe is ours, we finally do what we need to and we surrender.
We are not giving anything up - quite the opposite, in fact. We are opening up, making room for the thing that we want to see happen in our lives, clearing out first that which does not serve our higher purpose, and feeling what it is to have "lost" something that more often than not, we are hanging on to because we humans hate giving up what we think of as being "ours". We do this a lot with the pain we feel and we do it through hanging on to the people who made us hurt. I went through this for many years, and yesterday all those years and all that time finally came to the very loud, very calamitous eventuality that it was meant to. I do not like confrontation, but sometimes it is needed because it is that very confrontation that brings about the awareness of what really needs to happen. While I can see that the thing that I was manifesting at first is still very much in manifest, what I did not see was the lesson in strength, the lesson that apparently I needed to regain not only my intuitive edge, but more, the edge I'd created for myself which allows me to see more clearly the issues which my clients bring to me.
Had I not gone through everything that I have up to this very point in time, I would not be where I am today, and more important than that, I would not be WHO I am today, and who I am today is far removed from who I was yesterday. Yesterday I was a seething mess of vitriol, ready to take on anyone who was any size and yesterday I was just not who I really am, but who I really am totally depended on yesterday happening for me. If yesterday did not happen for me, and if yesterday I did not just accept that what I was going through was meant specifically for me, I would not know just exactly how Divinely Timed and Planned all the events that happened prior to yesterday really were if I did not see the me that needed to be here yesterday to grow into the exquisite warrior that truly I have become. An exquisite warrior is one who can choose their battle and can see clearly when the fight has been won. An exquisite warrior is one who uses all the Love contained within the reason why anyone would take on an issue just one last time, and this time, I know that this was the battle royale that truly needed to happen.
Where once there was confusion, now there is clarity. Where once there was reason to believe that this was not the truth, that I was done battling this one thing, one last time, there now is the feeling of completion.
Where once there was complete fear, there is now the mellowing of those energies which could be called a Monster in the closet of my mind. Where once there was the endlessness brought by impatience, now there is but the relief which comes with knowing that the very wishes and desires of my own Soul in accordance to what my own visions tell me are very truly, very quickly manifesting, and had I not gone through what I had gone through, I might not have this heightened Gift of Greater Spiritual Sight....and yes, I asked for it.
Now, it is mine....
You must ask yourself if what it is that makes you afraid is somehow not Divinely Guided to you and made especially for you. You must be willing to see what is before you for what it all truly is, and what it All Truly Is will make absolutely, Divinely Timed and Planned Sense, no matter what !!
Next time you hear a song you have not heard in ages, or perhaps experience coincidences that happen just exactly at the right time, do not be afraid to ask your own Soul what it means. You will know if the signs and coincidences are yours personally, because always we are being Divinely Guided by the Angels!!
I Love You All !!
ROX
Reverend Roxanne Cottell is the Kumu Hula and Creator of the Spiritual Hula Program for Women and the Co-Founder of Na Hula O Ka Wahine 'Ui. She is a blogger, book author, choreographer and Spiritual Adviser. If you would like information about "ROCK your NUPTIALS" Weddings or simply just to contact Roxanne for information about the Spiritual Hula Program for Women or information regarding private hula or Spiritual Guidance sessions with her feel free to send her an email.
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...yet, there are a whole lot of us who do not know that this is what is happening when it seems that the thing that does not appear to have any resolution ends up being the thing that comes with its very own brand of clarity.
There are not a lot of people on the planet who have not felt the need at one time or another to call into being the assistance brought by Angels. Yes, Angels exist. If you do not believe me, then think back to a time when you really needed some help and out of nowhere there was help. Think about those times when it seemed like there was no end in sight to the things that hurt you, that broke your heart, and again, through your own direction and from the guidance of the Soul within you, help arrived, and it was not just any kind of help. In fact, the last time that you needed the help with something, if you looked back at that time and took it apart and studied all the pieces of the entirety of the situation, you would find that truly, there was Divine Guidance.
Divine Guidance
I have a habit of seeing things that make no sense to anyone at the onset of things as being Divinely Timed and Planned. What this means is that all of us have what I refer to as being "The Wishes of the Soul." The Soul knows very well what it needs, even as our physical selves want to tell the Soul what it needs. When the Ego, which is manifested through our physical selves, cannot come up with a good enough, self-serving reason as to why certain things happen in our lives or why certain people show up when they do and sometimes at seemingly the most inopportune of times is when we are not realizing that our Soul is in a unified effort with the Angels to bring to us the thing that we need the most through the most simple means and through the most obvious manner. Sometimes we are not able to deal with what is brought to us, and when we cannot deal with what has been brought to us is when the Guidance of the Angels and those who are known in some circles as being The Ascended Masters I won't go on in great length about who these Beings all are, just know that whether it is the Angels or the Masters, either way, you are in the greatest position of all to receive not only those lessons which bring the Soul to the level it needs to be at the time it is meant, but also to bring comfort in times of uncertainty.
I refer to events that make no sense at the onset, again, as being "Divinely Timed and Planned." When a thing is Divinely Timed and Planned, and when it seems that the energies which surround it are somehow just falling into place without any help from anyone in the human arena, this is when we know for sure that we are not alone. When we ask from our Soul for the things that we need to bring to the rest of the world our own brand of Aloha and when truly we can Know and Believe and trust that really, God has us, this is when clarity is formed within us. This is when we have that Divine connection, and this is when the journey has taken on a completely different energy.
Trust in the things and events which are Divinely Timed and Planned
Trust that the harsh feel of some events is just that - that is what it feels like. There is not one of us who does not recall at least one time in our lives when we literally felt our bodies growing. This growth pain can be likened to that harsh feeling we end up having when certain things in our lives evolve into what they are supposed to. Things that are meant to happen always happen - there is no getting around them or away from them, and most of the time the things and events and people who show up make no kind of sense at all to our human brains, but our Soul knows that what lies before us, no matter what it is, and it is our Soul and the prodding brought by it that compels us to a level of curiosity that makes us want to know more.
When we want to know more we find yet more clarity about other situations and suddenly we can see the pattern, the ties between events, and very shortly thereafter all that has occurred to that point becomes the collective entirety of our own Knowing at that very special, very Divinely Timed and Planned thing. These times and the components contained within them is what makes the things which made no sense suddenly make all kinds of sense. When we ask for components to be removed, we do not know how they will be, only THAT they will be. We cannot control how they evolve, because the "how" of anything at all is not ours. When we release the idea that we have to control how a thing happens - THIS is when we have experienced the Divine Nature of Absolute Surrender.
The Divine Nature of Absolute Surrender
Human beings have a hard time relinquishing control of anything at all, namely when it is that what we are seeing in our lives has the flavor of our not having absolute control.
Controlling our own outcome to meet our ego's wants has nothing to do with the things that we need. When we surrender to our own knowing that we are here for a Divine Purpose, we also surrender to the idea that no matter what we think is supposed to happen, no matter how we want something to end up being, and no matter how many things and people we hang on to from the past and how many lessons we are more willing to forget having learned just to have that one thing happen for us through our own manipulation of a thing is what trips us up. We can never do better for ourselves than to ask for the habit of surrendering ourselves to our Higher Purpose, and part of this is being able to understand that what we want is in manifest, that what we need is contained in the outcome that is not ours but that we are, with the guidance and help of the Angels and God, well on our way to seeing EXACTLY what we want, or something even better and more applicable to our Higher Purpose.
It is our lower energy tendencies that cause us to not trust the things that we have no explanation for, and it is the ego which prods us to worry, to stay corded to those whose purpose in our lives have been met. When we choose to surrender to the Divine Guidance and we do so with the absolute trust that when we have left our issues and our worries and the things that we have no idea what to do with, this is called Absolute Surrender. When we experience the energy of truly letting go, of truly accepting that what we need and is in our best interest is being met and in manifest, this is when we are primed and ready for the things we so dearly want to become more than what our human minds can even begin to think is real, let alone deal with. This is why it takes so long sometimes, the manifestation of the lives we are collectively creating - because we need to learn patience, we need to learn what we have asked to have as part of our way of being, and most of all, we need to be able to evolve to a point where our brain can process these wonderful things coming into being in our lives.
We are taught to not trust in events and things and people who seem to be way too amazing for us to have called into our lives. We are taught to believe that we are not good enough to have what we have, to have what we want and can see in our minds. We are taught to think that we have to compete with others in this awareness for our own Gifts and Treasures. We are taught there is not enough of what we want and that other people are more lucky or more deserved than we are. We are taught all these non-truths about who we are and we just volunteer to believe it all. Then one day, when we seem to be at our very lowest point, when we are crying with a broken heart and seething with the anger and the disbelief that we have again been able to worry ourselves into a situation that we cannot possibly believe is ours, we finally do what we need to and we surrender.
We are not giving anything up - quite the opposite, in fact. We are opening up, making room for the thing that we want to see happen in our lives, clearing out first that which does not serve our higher purpose, and feeling what it is to have "lost" something that more often than not, we are hanging on to because we humans hate giving up what we think of as being "ours". We do this a lot with the pain we feel and we do it through hanging on to the people who made us hurt. I went through this for many years, and yesterday all those years and all that time finally came to the very loud, very calamitous eventuality that it was meant to. I do not like confrontation, but sometimes it is needed because it is that very confrontation that brings about the awareness of what really needs to happen. While I can see that the thing that I was manifesting at first is still very much in manifest, what I did not see was the lesson in strength, the lesson that apparently I needed to regain not only my intuitive edge, but more, the edge I'd created for myself which allows me to see more clearly the issues which my clients bring to me.
Had I not gone through everything that I have up to this very point in time, I would not be where I am today, and more important than that, I would not be WHO I am today, and who I am today is far removed from who I was yesterday. Yesterday I was a seething mess of vitriol, ready to take on anyone who was any size and yesterday I was just not who I really am, but who I really am totally depended on yesterday happening for me. If yesterday did not happen for me, and if yesterday I did not just accept that what I was going through was meant specifically for me, I would not know just exactly how Divinely Timed and Planned all the events that happened prior to yesterday really were if I did not see the me that needed to be here yesterday to grow into the exquisite warrior that truly I have become. An exquisite warrior is one who can choose their battle and can see clearly when the fight has been won. An exquisite warrior is one who uses all the Love contained within the reason why anyone would take on an issue just one last time, and this time, I know that this was the battle royale that truly needed to happen.
Where once there was confusion, now there is clarity. Where once there was reason to believe that this was not the truth, that I was done battling this one thing, one last time, there now is the feeling of completion.
Where once there was complete fear, there is now the mellowing of those energies which could be called a Monster in the closet of my mind. Where once there was the endlessness brought by impatience, now there is but the relief which comes with knowing that the very wishes and desires of my own Soul in accordance to what my own visions tell me are very truly, very quickly manifesting, and had I not gone through what I had gone through, I might not have this heightened Gift of Greater Spiritual Sight....and yes, I asked for it.
Now, it is mine....
You must ask yourself if what it is that makes you afraid is somehow not Divinely Guided to you and made especially for you. You must be willing to see what is before you for what it all truly is, and what it All Truly Is will make absolutely, Divinely Timed and Planned Sense, no matter what !!
Next time you hear a song you have not heard in ages, or perhaps experience coincidences that happen just exactly at the right time, do not be afraid to ask your own Soul what it means. You will know if the signs and coincidences are yours personally, because always we are being Divinely Guided by the Angels!!
I Love You All !!
ROX
Reverend Roxanne Cottell is the Kumu Hula and Creator of the Spiritual Hula Program for Women and the Co-Founder of Na Hula O Ka Wahine 'Ui. She is a blogger, book author, choreographer and Spiritual Adviser. If you would like information about "ROCK your NUPTIALS" Weddings or simply just to contact Roxanne for information about the Spiritual Hula Program for Women or information regarding private hula or Spiritual Guidance sessions with her feel free to send her an email.
(c) 2012 Roxanne K. Cottell. All Rights Reserved
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Things I found out along the trek on The Scenic Route
I won't call it learning the hard way. I will just call it learning
I won't call it a harsh lesson, but I will call it a very good one and one which was well worth learning. We can never be too sure of the truth of other people unless and until we are willing to see in ourselves the thing in us which they reveal for us and about us.
I found out that...I have no reason for all the insecurities and that what I felt all these years was the insecurities of other people projected onto me, that when I want something I have to go through stuff with people so that I also know what I do not want...and I find that the things that I do not want are the very things that have taught me much. The most important of those things is that I now know that I will not do things with or for anyone whose measure of Soul is no where near mine. I cannot. I will not. I will no longer be giving away the best of me...no no no...I can't. I have been giving away the part of me that was for me, and I am no longer willing to allow the buffalo to trample my Tahitian Black Pearls of wisdom, of sense of self, of all that I am , all that I have ever been...
It isn't that I saw in myself things in these other people that I wanted to see there, but that I saw what I wanted to deny in myself. When I thought about it all more, I found out about me and I found out that yes, indeed, I am worth so much to myself, to anyone, than to be just one of the crowd. Where I thought I would be broken up the most I was not, and where I thought and believed about myself that this is what anyone deserves to be and more, that I believed that in a round about way, the things and events and people and ways of being that came to me just in these last 5 months alone have been harrowing, to say the least, but now that I am standing on this side of the road, so to speak, and seeing where I have been and knowing where I am going...well, it ain't so bad.
I see things in myself now, not that I look at and say "Well, I was okay with it so that must make it okay, period," but more now than ever in my lifetime I am prone to saying "Oh hell no!" I learned that I am not willing to take less than I deserve, and if what I deserve is to learn well, then that much I know I did. And I know that I am a great student - Dean's List 8 times in college - and by that alone I am told that I am somehow as brilliant as no one else will tell me I am but that I know, for real, for sure, that I have always been. Call me Vain, Egotistical, Arrogant, but it sure doesn't feel that way to know these things about me, and it is no one's place to judge me on it. I know these things about me, and I know that I needed to go through what I did so that I would know these things...ahhhh...Loveliness is formed in the most ugliest ways sometimes, but it is worth it...I was worth it...
The things that we see in others are very much alive in us. Whether we want to look at those things or not is our option, but whether or not we choose to change the way that we see who we are is up to us. I was shown, quite blatantly, in fact, and even though I didn't want to look at it, my very own fears of inadequacy, of those ways of being that scream at the world that I am somehow not good enough to have what I am most deserved of, what I am most desirous of, and it isn't what I thought it was, those things that I want and desire.
I say much of things Divinely Timed and Planned, and in my case lately, I am being shown those things which have been brought to me in the most Divinely Timed and Planned way and more than that, it seems, overnight I have also been granted the pass, if you will, to see that indeed, if this were a test, of anything at all, I passed. In fact, I passed with flying colors. I, overnight, figured out that there are things about me that used to be true, but those things are not the truth of me anymore, and while it took me a trek on the Scenic Route, the fact remains that I learned something of value for myself and that anymore now the world in which I live seems to be a bit brighter for me now. That is what this New Moon in Libra was about, at least for me, to bring about the balance that I was so very desirous of, and here it is.
I can "See" my Self, finally, and it is a brilliant Self, and it only took me 42 years to get here, but here I am -bright, shiny, maybe not new, but I feel that way. I feel that way because throughout the night I was given insights as to who I am for real, and who I am for real is so far removed from the thing that I thought I was, that I thought I wanted, than I thought, period. I was told that once I got here, which is where I needed to be, that I would be not so well inclined to move in a backward motion, because, in short, I am no longer needed where I am no longer needed, and in that manner, I am alive.
I am alive in the idea that I am not now nor shall I ever be and neither have I been willing to be, the one person who people can come to anymore when they are seeking energetic renewal without the idea that there needs to be some sort of exchange in that manner - no longer, I find, is my Soul willing to be convenient, and no longer is it okay for the walking-the-crust-of-the-earth-me to be, either. You see, there are only so many times in life that we are given to learning, and this one was a good learning experience for me, even though it was painful from time to time. None the less, with a little help from my friends and even more from my Guides, here I am...
Here I am, having been through a whole lot in a relatively short period of time, and here I am, completely new and feeling as though I came through this unscathed. And I say it this way because the choices made by me in these last 8 hours have been the kind that the Universe has been waiting for me to make and while She waited I learned, like the good little student that I am and have always been, that not only am I worth way more than I am giving Me credit for, but that I am way more than only what meets the eyes, and that alone is worth what little itty bitty bit of pain it was that I had to experience. When I think about it a bit more, it wasn't really pain as much as it was a lesson.
I found out that while I may be who I am, who I am does not fit all of the people, all of the time. I am obscure in the way that I see things, abstract in my thoughts, and while that might not be okay for a lot of people, it is the only way that I am able to be for me and I'll tell you this much - I won't apologize for it. I won't be wrong for who I am or wanting what I want and Desire and I learned in these last few hours the beauty that is moving forward.
We cannot make other people see us for who we truly are, warts and all, and it is especially the truth in my case, gigantic Soul, and all. When the question was asked of me as to the reason why I tend to give off the impression of being "intimidating," it was at that point that I needed to ask one of my Spirit Teachers why it is that people seem to turn away from me right when they are beginning to see their own Light. His answer was brilliant and right and hoped for and confirming...he told me that it was not me, not my issue to deal with and not for me to hang on to anymore. He told me that I would be doing myself no favors by continuing to see to it that other people see what is so blatantly there. It isn't my responsibility to be the Light in the darkness of those who are preferring the comfort of what they believe is the way for them because of one reason or another. It isn't my bag to carry if someone else just cannot see me for who I really am, and more, if they are seeing me for who I really am and cannot figure out the reason why they are both drawn and repelled.
Whatever it is that they are feeling, that part no longer matters, because I woke up knowing for sure that this is the right Path, that I have learned, and that yay me...the best is yet to come!!
When you wake up ...I mean really wake up to Who You Are and Your Own Truths...the world is a much, much kinder place to be in...
I Love You All !!
ROX
Reverend Roxanne Cottell is the Kumu Hula and Creator of the Spiritual Hula Program for Women and the Co-Founder of Na Hula O Ka Wahine 'Ui. She is a blogger, book author, choreographer and Spiritual Adviser. To contact Roxanne for information about the Spiritual Hula Program for Women or information regarding private hula or Spiritual Guidance sessions with her feel free to send her an email.
(c) 2012 Roxanne K. Cottell. All Rights Reserved.
I won't call it a harsh lesson, but I will call it a very good one and one which was well worth learning. We can never be too sure of the truth of other people unless and until we are willing to see in ourselves the thing in us which they reveal for us and about us.
I found out that...I have no reason for all the insecurities and that what I felt all these years was the insecurities of other people projected onto me, that when I want something I have to go through stuff with people so that I also know what I do not want...and I find that the things that I do not want are the very things that have taught me much. The most important of those things is that I now know that I will not do things with or for anyone whose measure of Soul is no where near mine. I cannot. I will not. I will no longer be giving away the best of me...no no no...I can't. I have been giving away the part of me that was for me, and I am no longer willing to allow the buffalo to trample my Tahitian Black Pearls of wisdom, of sense of self, of all that I am , all that I have ever been...
It isn't that I saw in myself things in these other people that I wanted to see there, but that I saw what I wanted to deny in myself. When I thought about it all more, I found out about me and I found out that yes, indeed, I am worth so much to myself, to anyone, than to be just one of the crowd. Where I thought I would be broken up the most I was not, and where I thought and believed about myself that this is what anyone deserves to be and more, that I believed that in a round about way, the things and events and people and ways of being that came to me just in these last 5 months alone have been harrowing, to say the least, but now that I am standing on this side of the road, so to speak, and seeing where I have been and knowing where I am going...well, it ain't so bad.
I see things in myself now, not that I look at and say "Well, I was okay with it so that must make it okay, period," but more now than ever in my lifetime I am prone to saying "Oh hell no!" I learned that I am not willing to take less than I deserve, and if what I deserve is to learn well, then that much I know I did. And I know that I am a great student - Dean's List 8 times in college - and by that alone I am told that I am somehow as brilliant as no one else will tell me I am but that I know, for real, for sure, that I have always been. Call me Vain, Egotistical, Arrogant, but it sure doesn't feel that way to know these things about me, and it is no one's place to judge me on it. I know these things about me, and I know that I needed to go through what I did so that I would know these things...ahhhh...Loveliness is formed in the most ugliest ways sometimes, but it is worth it...I was worth it...
The things that we see in others are very much alive in us. Whether we want to look at those things or not is our option, but whether or not we choose to change the way that we see who we are is up to us. I was shown, quite blatantly, in fact, and even though I didn't want to look at it, my very own fears of inadequacy, of those ways of being that scream at the world that I am somehow not good enough to have what I am most deserved of, what I am most desirous of, and it isn't what I thought it was, those things that I want and desire.
I say much of things Divinely Timed and Planned, and in my case lately, I am being shown those things which have been brought to me in the most Divinely Timed and Planned way and more than that, it seems, overnight I have also been granted the pass, if you will, to see that indeed, if this were a test, of anything at all, I passed. In fact, I passed with flying colors. I, overnight, figured out that there are things about me that used to be true, but those things are not the truth of me anymore, and while it took me a trek on the Scenic Route, the fact remains that I learned something of value for myself and that anymore now the world in which I live seems to be a bit brighter for me now. That is what this New Moon in Libra was about, at least for me, to bring about the balance that I was so very desirous of, and here it is.
I can "See" my Self, finally, and it is a brilliant Self, and it only took me 42 years to get here, but here I am -bright, shiny, maybe not new, but I feel that way. I feel that way because throughout the night I was given insights as to who I am for real, and who I am for real is so far removed from the thing that I thought I was, that I thought I wanted, than I thought, period. I was told that once I got here, which is where I needed to be, that I would be not so well inclined to move in a backward motion, because, in short, I am no longer needed where I am no longer needed, and in that manner, I am alive.
I am alive in the idea that I am not now nor shall I ever be and neither have I been willing to be, the one person who people can come to anymore when they are seeking energetic renewal without the idea that there needs to be some sort of exchange in that manner - no longer, I find, is my Soul willing to be convenient, and no longer is it okay for the walking-the-crust-of-the-earth-me to be, either. You see, there are only so many times in life that we are given to learning, and this one was a good learning experience for me, even though it was painful from time to time. None the less, with a little help from my friends and even more from my Guides, here I am...
Here I am, having been through a whole lot in a relatively short period of time, and here I am, completely new and feeling as though I came through this unscathed. And I say it this way because the choices made by me in these last 8 hours have been the kind that the Universe has been waiting for me to make and while She waited I learned, like the good little student that I am and have always been, that not only am I worth way more than I am giving Me credit for, but that I am way more than only what meets the eyes, and that alone is worth what little itty bitty bit of pain it was that I had to experience. When I think about it a bit more, it wasn't really pain as much as it was a lesson.
I found out that while I may be who I am, who I am does not fit all of the people, all of the time. I am obscure in the way that I see things, abstract in my thoughts, and while that might not be okay for a lot of people, it is the only way that I am able to be for me and I'll tell you this much - I won't apologize for it. I won't be wrong for who I am or wanting what I want and Desire and I learned in these last few hours the beauty that is moving forward.
We cannot make other people see us for who we truly are, warts and all, and it is especially the truth in my case, gigantic Soul, and all. When the question was asked of me as to the reason why I tend to give off the impression of being "intimidating," it was at that point that I needed to ask one of my Spirit Teachers why it is that people seem to turn away from me right when they are beginning to see their own Light. His answer was brilliant and right and hoped for and confirming...he told me that it was not me, not my issue to deal with and not for me to hang on to anymore. He told me that I would be doing myself no favors by continuing to see to it that other people see what is so blatantly there. It isn't my responsibility to be the Light in the darkness of those who are preferring the comfort of what they believe is the way for them because of one reason or another. It isn't my bag to carry if someone else just cannot see me for who I really am, and more, if they are seeing me for who I really am and cannot figure out the reason why they are both drawn and repelled.
Whatever it is that they are feeling, that part no longer matters, because I woke up knowing for sure that this is the right Path, that I have learned, and that yay me...the best is yet to come!!
When you wake up ...I mean really wake up to Who You Are and Your Own Truths...the world is a much, much kinder place to be in...
I Love You All !!
ROX
Reverend Roxanne Cottell is the Kumu Hula and Creator of the Spiritual Hula Program for Women and the Co-Founder of Na Hula O Ka Wahine 'Ui. She is a blogger, book author, choreographer and Spiritual Adviser. To contact Roxanne for information about the Spiritual Hula Program for Women or information regarding private hula or Spiritual Guidance sessions with her feel free to send her an email.
(c) 2012 Roxanne K. Cottell. All Rights Reserved.
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